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PAGE TWO THE TIMES-RECORDER ■BTABUSHED 1878. m TIMES-RECORDKR COMPANY. (Incorporated.) Publisher. Published every arternoon, except Saturday, every Sunday morning, and a Weekly (every Thursday). Kntered as second class matter at ,oetoffice at Americus, Ga., under act ' March 8. 1879. FRANC MANGUM, Editor and Manager. L. H. KIMBROUGH. Assistant Business Manager. Subscription Rates. Gaily and Sunday, Five Dollars a «»*ar (In advance). Weekly, One Dollar a year (in ad vance). OFFICIAL ORGaN City of Americus Sumter County Webster County • a'.lroad Commission of Georgia For Third Congressional District C. 8. Court, Southern District of Georgia. Americus, Ga- May 16, 1918. PIRIGBAPHICILLI SPEAKING | There are a great many wet eyes over Jacksonvlle’s going dry. The boys are going across. The government asks you to come across. Whenever a man builds himself a castle in the air he invariably puts a woman in it. A man ought not to let his prejudice against preachers extend beyond the one who married him. One of the prettiest front yard flower gardens in the city is on Furlow street. It is planted in vegetables! Prohibition is effective in this way: It makes the quality of likker so bad no self-respecting man will drink it. The ballot should be the partner o /the bullet. Vote against the man who is not doing all he can to help the boys over there. “Don’t hoard clothing,” urges the War Industries Board. Thanks for the tip. The ladies who wear short skirts took your advice some time ago. The fellow who brags about being a “good shot” in the poolrooms ought to be given a chance to demonstrate ifi he is a good shot on the weste front. ; Is Mary Pickford's husband suing Douglas Fairbanks for a quarter of a million dollars because he thinks Mary is worth that much, or because Dou glas is? As deserving as any battlefield martyr is the man who has to hook up his wife’s evening dress; especially if it is fitted with invisible eyes and im perceptible eyes. After telephoning his wife that he is coming, a man has all the way home to think up an excuse for being late And if he doesn’t do it in that time it is his own fault. It is charged that the American sol diers in camps in this country are re ceiving too many attentions from the ladies. We have never heard the sol diers complain, however. When a man sits at home of an evening and doesn’t hear his wife utter a single complaint or fuss even one time he thinks there is something wrong with his hearing. The fellow who persisted in leaving the front door open when the ther mometer was down to freezing is the one who shuts it so carefully when it is a hundred in the shade. To get a vacation trip in Germany now you must have a card approved by the authorites If Hndenburg ever gets his oft-planned trip to Paris, it will have to be ok’d by the Allies A Pittsburg couple, celebrating their 30th anniversary, who informed the guests that up to and including that night they had had 10,588 fusses, were to say the least, refreshingly candid The ordinary couple would have sworn that they had never had a quarrel. GEORGIA GOES DRY. No surprise is occasioned by Jack sonville voting a prohibition ticket. The vote was hardly close, the “drys” wnning by more than 1,100 votes and carrying every precinct in (the country, with nine of the eleven city precincts. The election was the climax of an intensely bitter cam paign. * For more than a year Jacksonvlle has been the whisky distribution cen ter for several Southern states, sen ing in partcular an enormous stream of liquor into Georgia. The dealer there very frankly stated that t sales to Georgia were larger than dur ing the period when there were no re strictions on the traffic. The nearest “oases" to Georgia now are New Orleans, Louisville, Cincin nati and Baltimore, but the dfficulty and expense of brnging contraband liquor from those points will make the handling of it quite limited, and the prices prohibitive. Prohibition is marching on to vic- 1 tory the world, and the closng of Jack-] I sonville is merely an incident in the. progress of the movement. It is of' interest and importance to Georgia, however, for it means that for the first t me unce this state decla'ed for ronibiticn it will hive an oppoitun oty to give prohibition an honest, thorough tr.al. Heretofore, Ja kson ville has been the bole in the d/ke, and there was no chance for Georgia to be a normal prohibition state so long! i as thousands of gallons of intoxicants 1 crossed the Florida line every month.' Not even the co-operation of the fed-J eral officials could altogether prevent the traffic. But now Georgia will have' I a fair opportunity to practice prohi bition as well as preach it. It is going to be a fact, rather than a theory—and glad will be the hearts of many women 1 and children, and richer will be the pockets of many men. Col. Roosevelt says that Mr. Hearst is not altogether patriotic, and Mr.; Hearst says that Col. Roosevelt’s pa-‘ triotism is far from perfect. There’s no argument. They’re both right. HE HASN’T THE COURAGE. W. J. Harris has resigned the chair manship of one of the most important bodies of the country, namely, the, chairmanship of the great federal trade commission, because he believes he can render his state a patriotic ser-' vice in offering himself as the instru ment with which to defeat and repud iate Senator Hardwick. William S. Howard, of Atlanta, the Atlanta candidate, whose candidacy is' supported chiefly by Atlanta profess-j ional politicians and profiteering con tractors, still holds on to his rere-j sentative’s place. He, apparently, has J neither the courage nor the sincerity to publish his correspondence withj President Wilson, in which he is re buked soy misrepresenting facts about the president’s pocition in the Georgia senatorial race. Howard, so far as his limited ability enables him, is a grandstand performer, a four-flusher, a compound of conceit, a demagogue, and a political blather skite. We admit it’s somewhat early in the campaign to indulge in adjec tives, but the spectacle of a man like Howard making the race for the Unit ed States Senate is sufficient to pro voke a few expressions of disgust. There were comparatively few peo ple outside of his own district who knew Howard at all. Now they know him entirely too well for his own good. They know him as one who employed downright deceit in his dealings with the president of the United States— 1 and no man who does that can expect much consideration from the good citi zens of Georgia. Howard betrayed his weakness when he asked for a leave of absence, in stead of resigning, as Harris has done. He showed his weakness then, and every act of his since then has dem onstrated him to be weaker still. Not Short on Skirts. The Americus Times-Recorder has not failed a single day to say some thing about the short skirts. The edi tor is never '‘short" on this subject, it seems.—Griffin News and Sun AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. A GOOD EXAMPLE. Secretary Baker’s confidential sec retary has resigned his job to join the army. He has been one of the most capable secretaries in Washing ton. He expects to enter the enter the army as a private. It seems wasteful, on first thought. A good secretary for a man in a big, responsble position is beyond price. Good soldier stuff is common. And yet, broadly speaking, such a man may really serve his country better in the army. Even though he should never rise beyond rank of private, even though his life should be snuffed out early in the game, he has set an ex ! ample that is worth the sacrifice. | There hasn’t been a great deal of shirking in this country, but there has been too much. Washington espe cially is full of able-bodied young men who have sought safe govern ment berths in order to dodge the draff. Their particular services may not be needed at the front, but they represent a spirit and a viewpoint that ought to be discouraged. There ought to be no dodging anywhere in the ■ country. And the war work at Wash i ington would be better done than it is if every eligible man there were straining at the leash to get to the front instead of so many congratu lating themselves on their, comfort able berths. Keeping a Liberty Bond after you have bought it is just as important as buying it. The Issue Made Plain. Several significant happenings have marked the progress of the Georgia senatorial campaign during the la t few days. Among them is the expo sure by the Macon Telegraph of du plicity and attempted deception of the epople of Georgia by Congressman Howard. The congressman attempted to make the people believe that Pres ident Wilson and the administration looked with as much favor upon his candidacy as it did upon the candidacy of Hon. Wm. J. Harris, who had been in the race several months. The Tele graph proved this was a false repre sentation and Congresman Howard has admitted that the President preferre I Mr. Harris, and urged him not to rir It should be remembered that t issue was brought into the campaign by Mr. Howard and his press agents Both President Wilson and Mr. Har ris observed the proprieties, indeed, the niceties of the Occasion It was Mr. Howard who brought up the ques tion, and tried to “put over’’ some thing, and who got caught. But the issue having been raised and the President’s attitude having been made lain there would appear to be but one course for loyal Georgia demo crats to follow and that is to sustain the administration and carry out its wishes by voting for Mr. Harris. There is no getting away from the fact that a vote for Howard or Dean is a vote against the administration, just the same as a vote for Hardwick is a vote against theiPresident. In or dinary times this might nto be a mat ter of much imortance, but just now America is at war. Georgia must stand by the President and help win the war.—Rome Tribune-Tribune. Never Lie. Unless Necessary. The Times-Recorder thinks on gen eral principles a man should never tell his wife a lie Still, if the necessty should arise and he is dead certain she will never catch up with him, Ell tor Mangum thinks a lie might be ex cusable.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun. Yes, We’ll Except That! “There’s may not be anything as sweet in Hfe as Love’s young dream, hut we’re M illing to back a dish of peaches and cream against anything in the wide world,” says The Americus Timesßecorder. Won’t you even ex cept a mess of delicious young spring onions?—Columbus Enquirer-Sun. We Surely Would! Food Administrator Mangum has al lowed ’em to raise the price of meat at Americus. Bet if they want to! raise the prices on grandoldbutter milk and beautiful young onions, he’ll resign.—Savannah Press. When in Leslie, 6a. Call Do J. W. BAHWICK For Coldest Brinks, Ice and Coal, Fresh Fish Every Friday and Saturday FINE PHOTOGRAPHS made on Postal Cards, Cabinets, Large Groups, Residences, Schools, and Churches. Pictures Copied, Pictures Enlarged. DON’T FORGET THE PLACE J. V. BARWICK “The Ise Man” LESLIE, GEORGIA C J*. DAVIS Dental Surgeon. Orthodontia, Pyorrhea. Residence Phore 316 Office Phone 818 Allison Building. . ■ MX' M. H. WHEELER, Dental Surgeon. 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To Those Who Subscribed to Th Ird Liberty Loan Bond Terms of Payment: 5 per cent, with application on or before May 4, 1918. 20 per cent, on or May 28,1918. 35 per cent, on July 18, 1918. 40 percent, on August 15, 1918 (with accrued interest from May 9, 1918, on the three deferred installments). Sumter County has subscribed its quota to each issue of Liberty Bonds Our quota to the War Saving H Stamps for the year 1918 amount lo $623,840.00; sales in the county to March 31st amounted to 123,078.00. If we are to raise our quota of War iSavngs Stamps for this year, we must sell $600,762.00 worth between now and December 31st, 1918. ARE YOU DOING YOUR BEST ON THIS QUOTA.’ Bank of Commerce Americus Undertaking Company Funeral Directors and Embalmers Nat LeMaster, Manager Day Phones 88 ano 231 Night 661 and 13. OLEN BUCHANAN Funeral Director And Embalmer [Allison Undertaking Co. Uay'Phone 253. Night Phones 106, 657 and 3BI|T" THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1918.