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THE TIMES-RECORDER
■BTABLIBHED 1879
fl! TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY,
(Incorporated.)
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t March «. 1879.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN i>_R
rtfy of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
Ualiroad Commission of Georgia Fo<
Third Congressional District
U. 8. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, June 19, 1918.
W. S, S. SLOGANS"!
Thrive by thrift.
Make thrift your buy-word.
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Save for the country’s sake.
—...
A war saver is a life-saver.
After all saving is not sacrificing.
/
Give up your luxuries that the Kai
He also serves who stays and saves
ser may be made to give up his ambi
tions.
Thrift and patriotism are synony-
mous.
Join the army behind the Array —be
a war saver.
Business as usual now may mean no
business later.
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“ National War Savings Day is the
stay-at-home’s day.
Serve abroad or serve at home.
Buy War Savings Stamps.
Labor and materials are essential to
victory; use both sparingly.
When you buy War Savings Stamps
you do not give—you receive. *
Many are giving their lives; you are
asked only to loan your money.
Back up those who are offering their
all—buy War Savings Stamps.
Become a stockholder in the United
States—buy War Savings Stamps.
Unusual business now means re
sumption of business as usual later.
You may not be able to fight,
you can save and buy War Savings
Stamps. ? ?
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Help your Government and yourself
at the same time—buv War Savings
Stamps.
Luxuries as usual means a victori
ous Germany. Save and buy War
Savings Stamps.
Don’t wait to be urged to join the
W. S. S. army. What if our men in the
trenches waited to be urged?
National War Savings Day is only
one day; our men in the Army and
Navy have their day every day.
Every time you buy anything peo
ple work for you. Save labor and ma
terials for the use of the Government.
Hartley Withers, the editor of the 1
Economist, of London, says: “Money
spent in war time on things not needed;
is money given to the enemy.”
Remember that National War Sav
ings Day is June 28. Pledge yourself
on or before that day to save,to the
utmost of your ability and to buy War.
Savings Stamps that there may be
more money, labor and materials to
back up those who fight and die for
you. ? ? ? |
THE ICE SITUATION
The value of Georgia’s fruit crop i
approximately twelve million dollars.
There are also the plums and cantel-'
oupes to be marketed, and later on
the melons will be shipped.
These fruits require ice and lots of
it. Without sufficient icing for
cars, indeed, the crops will be a totaL
loss, and thousands of farmers will
be disastrously affected.
Because there is a temporary short
age in ice, the state food administra
tion has directed a conservation of
this product for four or five weeks, and!
anyone who does not ungrudgingly)
comply with the order does not have
the material interests of his state at
heart.
Regarding the situation, the Albany
Herald says:
“The Georgia peach crop alone is
worth approximately $12,000,000. Only
a fourth of it has been gathered and
shipped. That yet, to go forward is
worth approximately $9,000,000. Th
cars in which these hundreds of thous
ands of crates are to be shipped will
require 60,000 tons of ice for safe re-:
frigeration, and only 28,000 tons isj
now held in storage by the ice plants.
The rest. 32,000 tons, must be saved'
out of the regular output of ice plants
in the state, as the shortage of am
monia has prevented the construction
of new plants or the enlargement of
those already in operation. .
“The ice conservation order of the
state food administrator will inevita-'
i
bly inconvenience a considerable part
of the public, and particularly those
families living in the larger communi
ties. The people of Georgia have been!
accustomed to have all the ice they
wanted, and it is not a pleasant hot
weather experience to find consump
tion materially cut down.
“But in view of the explanation Dr
Soule has given to the public, protest
cannot be gracefully made. The Geor
gia peach industry represents the in
vestment of millions of dollars and is
a source of great wealth to the state.;
To sacrifice the present crop would,
not only be criminal waste, but would
involve indefensible injustice to the.
owners of peach orchards. Dr. Soule
did the sensible thing, and public sen- 1
timent will uphold him.”
However, there is in reality the
menace of an ice famine confronting!
the entire country, and the prime rea-'
son for this likelihood is the shortage
of ammonia. This situation has been
known to the chemists for a year or
i
more. Ammonia is in limited supply,
and its production cannot be increased'
rapidly enough to meet the needs of
th® country. The war department was'
advised of this, so we are told, a year
or more ago, and the serious danger
of an ice famine pressed upon its at-<
tention. but it took apparently no
necessary action to increase the sup-j
ply of ammonia needed for war pur-,
poses, until it was so late in the
that now the entire country is in
danger of an ice famine as a result of
i 1
the delay, so that ammonia may be
supplied for war needs.
Scarcity of labor and lack of fuel
. are also contributory' reasons, this
' being especially true in our section
of the country.
Whatever the reasons, the situation
i is one the public will appreciate, once (
it is informed, and we apprehend no
further objections and complaints.
I The “back-to-the-farm’ movement
gained a lot of ground this year.
►IENDISH GERMAN CRUELTY.
President Wilson, while reviewin
the Red Cross parade in New York
was greeted by a Canadian soldier,
! invalided home from the front, who
1 had been taken into the Canadian
j Army despite the fact that he w’as
!54 years old when the authorities
, learned that his son was one of those
! that German soldiers crucified on a
barn door. What would you do to stop
such fiendish things? Do you think
, it much of a sacrifice to pledge your
self to save and to buy War Savings
I Stamps?
I
The fellow who complains loudest
about the hot day s is the very one
v, he complained most last winter when
it was so cold.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
FEDERALIZIN' RAILROAD MANAGE
MENT.
Director General McAdoo will place
I
I in direct charge of each railroad for
. operating purposes a representative to
be known as a federal manager.
'lhese federal managers will be
I chosen, so far as practicable, from the
I operating officers of their respective
railroads.
The federal manager of each rail-
■ road will endeavor to avail himself
Ito the fullest extent of his railroad
, organization. This, it is believed, will
; secure the best results during govern
| ment control, and reassure the officers
and employees of railroads and the
stockholders of the protection of the
just interest of all.
The responsibility for the operation
of the roads will be directly upon the
regional directors, to whom the fed
eral managers reprt, and not upon
the railroad board of directors, though
the latter will be consulted and ac
corded the fullest opportunity tot keep
I advised of the operation of the prop
: erty.
i The regional directors and federal
I managers will be required to sever
I their official relations with their re
. spective companies and become ex-
I clusively representatives of the United
I States Railroad Administration.
The effect of this order will be to
dents of the respective railroads, but
jit is thought that in many cases the
presidents of the railroads will be
made federal managers. It will
largely be a change of status and au
thority rather than of personnel, and
I while not militating against the wel
i fare of the various roads will secure
. the fullest co-operation and unity in
, the government administration of
transprtation. It is simply a fed
eralization of railroad management.
With this change will come a large
reduction in salaries, though it is be
lieved that most of the regional di
rectors will receive a greater salary
than Secretary McAdoo himself.
Director General McAdoo states that
the policy adopted will be applied with
the greatest possible regard for all*the
interests affected, and with a view to
perserving intact, so far as reason
ably practical, the operating organiza
tions of the railroads.
AIRMAN’S NECESSARY STUNTS
It is a paradox of preparedness that
a man risks his life over the aviation !
training field that he may stand a !
1 better chance of saving it in scenes of i
1 actual combat. And this is something 1
to be borne in mind by those thought-!
* less ones, who confuse the doers of!
“stunts” in the air, say at Mineola or
at Nashville, with such reckless flyers
( as in the earlier days of the aero
-1 plane were wont to loop-the-loop above
1 the skyscrapers of New York.
■ The young flyers in training are ed-
I
ucating their heads, their hands and
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their hearts to a perilous business.
They are learning lessons of coolness
1 and control. They are schooling
> themselves to quick thought and agil
ity in circumstances making of vital
importance the ability to think quickly
1 and dodge unexpectedly. “Sad as are
| the continual reports of deaths by ac
cident at our aviation training camps,”
? writes Edwin Bidwell Wilson in the
1 Yale Review, “we may rest assured
that for an undertrained pilot to go
overseas to the front is almost cer
tainly fatal, and that for every life
lost in training, many are saved in
fighting.”
Along with quickness, the student in
military aviation acquires confidence,
too, and confidence is a marvellous
multiplier of resources. Since flying
in war began, many movements, such
as nose-diving and tail-spinning, have
been added to the old list of exhibi
tion tricks. Impromptu moves, made
in emergencies have later become regu
lar parts of th game. They hav mad’
impossible in the first instance to the'
average mana who had never been'
brought to sge what he could do in the:
air Training for the flying service
takes its toll; there is no doubt that in
the larger terms it pays for its own
thoroughness.—New York World.
A restaurant is a place there days'
where they serve you anything but
what you really want.
BEST INVESTMENT IN THE WORLD
1
From whatever angle it may be con
sidered, an investment by an Ameri-j
can citizen in Liberty Bonds or War
Savings Stamps is the best investment
in the world. I
The money so invested goes to the
government, which loans some of it
to our allies; all of it is used in one
way or another to maintain, support,
arm. equip and make victorious our
armies and our allies in Europe.
Surely no American money could be
put to a better purpose. Here is an J
investment in the power and success,
of our country, an investment in the
efficiency, strength, safety and sue-'
cess of our fighting men on sea and
land
We do not know what commercial
and industrial conditions are tot be
when the war closes, but we do know)
that a Liberty Bond and other United)
States government securities will be
sound an secure. Every dollar
loaned the government by our eople
now is a dollar saved for the time
when peace comes. With their sav
ings invested in these sound securities,
the American people will be well pre
pared to meet the problems that peace
will bring. It is a species of insurance
for that day.
GERMANS WAR ON WOUNDED.
German airplanes recently bombed
a large American hospital. Hovering
at low altitudes, every effort was made
to hit the main building, which was
conspicuously marked with the Red
Cross emblem. Doctors and nurses
removed our wounded boys to trenches
previously dug for such emergencies.
National War Savings Day gives an
opportunity to register in a practical
way your vow that such things must
end. ? ?
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inter ler Decorating.
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JOE FITZGERALD.
109 E. Lamar St
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Leave Americus for Abbeville, Hel
■u Coilino. Savannah. Columbia
iiiehmond, Portsmouth aud points
•£ast and South
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Leave Americas for Helena and in
rermediate points
5:1.* p m
Leave Ameer 1 for Columbus,
Montgomery and pointe West and
virthwetL
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Dental Surgeon.
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Allison Building.
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OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night W
rung Sove-Xigns Invited to meet with
Fraternal Hall, Lam: street. All vis
ors welcot.e. C. J. CLARKE. C C
MAT LeMASTER. Clerk.
F. and A. M.
ft AMERICUS LODGB
Jgf. F. & A. M., meets
every second and
' fourth Friday night
at 8 o'clock.
B B. SCHNEIDER, W. M.
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M B COUNCIL
LODGE F. and A. M
’ meets every First and
‘ Third Friday nights.
Visiting brothers are
tinted to attend.
DR. J. R. STATHAM. W M
NAT LeMASTER, Secretary.
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Americus Undertaking Company
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1918-