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THE TIMES-RECORDER
■BTABLIBHED 1879.
m TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY,
(Incorporated.)
Publisher.
Published every afternoon, except
Saturday, every Sunday morning, and
as a Weekly (every Thursday).
entered as second class matter at
at Americus, Ga., under act
f March 3, 1879.
FRANC MANGUM,
Editor and Manager.
' L. H. KIMBROUGH,
Assistant Business Manager.
Subscription Bates.
Dally and Sunday, Five Dollars a
>tr (in advance).
Weekly, One Dollar a year (In ad
vance).
OFFICIAL ORGAN
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
gaflroad Commission of Georgia For
Tnlrd Congressional District
U. 8. Court, Southern District of
Georgia
Americus .Georgia, May 19, 1918,
PARAGRAPHICftLLY SPEAKING
Paste the Kaiser with a Thrift
Stamp!
A cow is one of the few things that
cannot blow its own horn
Sometimes it takes us as long to
write these paragraphs as it does a
woman to dress.
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A woman never cares how short her
shirt is if she only has silk stock
ings to wear with it.
'the dual monarchy .nv teems to
have resolved itself into rubstance and
shadow, Austria playing he role of the
latter.
When a woman wears a skirt built
eighteen inches above ground, would
you say that she was dressed in the
helghth of fashion?
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If we could write a paragraph as
■quick as some women can cast a
meaning glance, then we’d think
titles were better.
If this war keep on another year,
v.e are of the opinion that the women
will wear short skirts longer than
they do now.
If second lieutenants were a food
crop we are of the opinion there’d
be little reason to worry about next
year’s provender.
There are still a few’ women in Am
ericus who refuse to w r ear short
skirts. They are the short, stout,
and the —good good girls.
I I I I——>
Some of the women at Saturday s
early morning fire appeared perfectly
natural, but with the most of them it
wa s a case of “dress as usual.”
Some women are born flirts, some
acquire flirting and some have flirt
ing thrust upon them—but these lat
ter are few and far between.
The most exclusive organization in
the world is the Alimony club, and to
tall you the truth we are powerful
glad w’e’ve never been elected to
membership.
Whenever a man’s wife begins to
tell him how a man should behave him
self, etc., that is when he finds some
thing very interesting in the paper and
doesn’t hear.
These new fangled sweaters the la
dies wear are evidently slipped on with
a shoe-horn. For if the wearer of one
of ’em ever takes a good, deep breath
there is going to be a rip!
• Whenever a woman comes home and
holds up Mr. So-and-So as an example
and says, “He is so nice to his wife,”
you can just bet that Mr. and Mrs. So
an-So are the very couple who quarrel
longest and loudest as soon as they get
behind their own doors.
We don’t think it patriotic a bit for
a Georgia ex-saloon keeper to give his
walnut bar fixtures to the government
to use in the manufacture of gun
stocks. There is nothing patriotic in
giving aw’ay somethng you don’t want,
and nobody else can use.
ARE YOU AMONGST THIS CLASS?
“God pity the man who in the
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years to come has to face the real
ization that he was slacker in such
a time as this!”
That is the closing sentence in a
tremendously earnest appeal recent
ly issued by the Advertising Associa
tion of Chicago to awaken its mem
bers to their individual responsibility
in this momentous hour.
Through the centuries to come the
men who go out from this land to
stand between American women and
children and the ruthless carbarism of
Germany, to stand between the liberty,
of American life and the hell of Ger
man damnation, will be regarded as
the heroes of the world.
Perchance the individual naihes of
all of them may not be written in big
letters across the pages of American
history, but the spirit of these men
will live and breathe in human his
tory for all time to come as men of
immortal and undying spirit, who
caught the vision of a larger life and
the supreme nobility which sacrifices
that others may be saved. No duty
to which mankind was ever called was
more sublime than that which calls
the American soldier to the battle
front.
All that those of us who arc left
behind can possibly do to honor these'
men and to stand behind them is but
as a breath compared with the su
preme sacrifice they are making.
The proudest emblem which any
American father or mother will ever
be able to claim is that ot -.he service
flag, which tell that some lo.’ed one
flag, which tells that some loved one
is in the fight for civilization. Through
the years to come these soldiers will
be the heroes to whom every honest
hearted man and woman will gladly
(give tribute of profound respect and
love. The narrow-visioned, small
souled men and women in America
who prefer personal pleasure or per
sonal comfort to duty, when duty calls
more loudly than ever before in hu
man history, will be slackers, who
should be spurned with the utmost
contempt by every right-thinking man
and woman. These slackers will be
those w’ho failed in this hour of
world war in subscribing to Liberty
aonds, in helping the Red Cross or the
Y. M. C. A., or in personal extrava-l
gance, or of outright giving of all.
that is in them to the great task to
which we have been called.
And then there is that class of luke-.
warm people, with whom we would in-!
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dude the so-called pacifists and “con-|
I
scßntious objectors.’’ It is of tlie
lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, of
whom God himself has said that He
will spew them out of His mouth, an
expression that would indicate aj
'aathing and contempt even greater,
than that against the outright sinner
Indeed ,one can almost have more re
spect lor the active, aggressive Ger
man than he can have for the slacker
or the lukewarm man or woman of|
this country. However great may be
the loathing and contempt or hatred i
for Germany and the murderous can?
paign of German soldiers, there must
be a still greater loathing and con
tempt and hatred of men and women !
living in America who arc lukeworm
in these times which should call forth
all that is good and noble in Ameri
can life
Are you physically, mentally, moral
ly or financially an outright slacker or
a lukewarm American? If so, read
again ihe opening senten-e of this edi
torial —Manufacturers’ Record.
The Mar. and The Corset
The Americus Times-Recorder says
a well known Americus man has gone
to wearing a corset. Maybe his other
half has decided to wear the trousers.
—Walton Tribune.
“Pretty Baby” is the name of a new'
farcical comedy. What the Times-Re
corder will probably want to know is:
“Is she a blond or brunette?’’—Colum
bus Enquirer-Sun •
Americus profiteers, taking advant-'
age of the location of the aviation i
camp there, are making a magnificent/
record as gougers, and the Times-Re
corder has given them a timely re
buk'j.—Dawson News.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
GEORGIA CAN DO IT, TOO.
If North Carolina can do it, so can
Georgia. And the report of the de
partment of agriculture shows that
the farmers of North Carolina last
. year porduced more than eighty per
cent of the foodstuffs used on their
tables and by their stock.
In Georgia, the diversification pro
gram hag produced between fifty and
sixty per cent of the products used
I in the kitchen and the barn.
With all respect to North Carolina,
that state does not possess Georgia’s
productive possibilities, lacking the
same area of fertile and cultivated
I land and as equable a climate. If
North Carolina farmers arc able to
raise more than eighty per cent of
their foodstuffs, there is every reason
why the farmers of this state should
mjke their farms entire!/ self-sus
taining.
In view of the present economic
crisis in 'lie South this fact is re
garded as of particular s gnificance
since it demonstrates the extent to
which a proper system of agri
culture, southern farms can be made
self-sustaining, says the department’s
report. “Concentration upon one cash
crop, cotton, has proved disastro-.-.
and agricultural authorities are nc
j trying in every way to Induce the peo
ple to adopt a system which will lead
to conditions similar to those now pre
vailing in this particula r area of
North Carolina.
The fact that Congress will be in
session all summer is not at all dis
pleasing. There are some members
who would give great satisfaction if
they never returned home.
MORE MINIMUM WAGES.
Speaking of minimum wages for
working girls, what about minimum
salaries for preachers?
Likewise, we might suggest mini
mum wages for new’spaper men, bank
clerks, street car conductors and
motormen, and so on.
But a minimum wage for ministers
has been seriously proposed by the
Laymen’s Association of the New
York East Conference of the Method
ist Episcopal church, with the plan to
pay at least eight hundred dollars a
year if single and not less than one
thousand dollars per annum if married
to all clergymen, regardless of de
nomination.
This suggestion is timely, and would
that there was some practicable way*
to put it universally into effect.
xPreachers are underpaid, considering
the qualifications they must possess
for their calling and the demands
made upon them. Think of the ye
and money a preacher spends in ac
quiring his education, and then think
of the,demands made upon him for
books and charity, to say nothing of
the far greater demand made for the
necessaries of life.
Why not establish a minimum wage
for preachers? The question is large
ly up to the ministers themselves.
A FEW WORDS ON SOCIETY.
In an address recently President
Wilson spoke of “society” in away
which recalls what Byron said. The
president declared:
“It is amusing sometimes to see the
airs which high society gives itself-
The world could dispense with high
society and never miss it. High so
ciety is for those who have stopped
w’orking and no longer have anything
important to do.”
And Byron wrote: -
“Society is now one polished
horde.
Formed of two migh'v tribes,
the Bores and the Bored.”
One very readily understands how
this may be among people who “have
stopped working and no longer have
anything to do,” and thus the presi
dent’s observation is only a corrobora
tion of Byron’s keen and cynical judg
ment.
That’s t Exactly.
As we figure it Franc Mangum
deonl care who the next junio- sen
aioi Lorn Ceort’a is. so it is W'ili'm
J Hairis. —Dalior. Citizen.
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OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in
cmg Sovereigns invited to meet with
-Tk ter rial Hall, Lam: street. All vls
>rs welcome. C J. WILLIAMS. C. J.
WAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
F. and A. M.
AMERICUS LODGE
F. & A. M., meets
every second and
fourth Friday night
at 8 o’clock.
E. E. SCHNEIDER, W. M.
« L. HAMMOND, Secy.
3* M. B. COUNCIL
LODGE F. and A. M.
- s • meets every First and
, Third Friday nights.
Visiting brothers are
Tsvited to attend.
DR. J. R. STATHAM, W. M.
NAT LeMASTER, Secretary.
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OUR NATIONAL PROBLEM
“Our problem," says the Federal Reserve Board, “is to con-
mt eSSeDtial Credit and to invert less
Tni r ' lore eSS ® ntia! production and distribution of
th7tvi The ; a 7 g ° f CredU and money S° es hai * * with
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Funeral Directors and Embalmers
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Funeral Director
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