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I HE TIMES-RECORDER
■BTABLISHED 1878.
TIMES-RECORDER COMPANT.
(Incorporated.)
Publisher.
Published every arte moon, except
Saturday, every Sunday morning, and
«• a Weekly (every Thursday)
■ntered as second class matter at
jOatoSce at Americus, Gsu, under act
f March 8, 1878.
FRANC MANGUM,
Editor and Manager.
R. C. MORAN.
Assistant Manager.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
u. Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District
U. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia
Americus, Georgia, August 22, 191 s.
Girls throw themselves at a man
if they think that he is a good catch.
The only reason some men tell the
truth is that they are afraid to do
otherwise.
What has become of the old-fash
ioned woman who powdered her nose
with prepared chalk?
When a man begins to lie to some
other man’s wife it. soon follows that
he lies to his own wife.
The reason why some women blush
al? the time is that they rub it on
thi< k before they leave home.
If form-fitting stockings ever go
out of style we think we will go into
the country to live the balance of our
days.
We see an advertisement for “a
handy man about the house.” All
wives will agree that there is no such
thing.
This little cool snap has given some
of the ladies sufficient confidence to
wear the same furs they wore last
summer.
Whenever your visitor is treated
like she was one of the family that is
when she gets ready to return to her
own homo.
Men would not lie so much to their
wives if their wives didn’t ask them
■so many impertinent and ambarras
sing questions.
The man who is generally most
particular about keeping his auto out
of the rain will let his horse stand
out in it for hours.
Some people think it is their con
science hurting when they simply
have a headache from staying up too
late and eating too much.
They’ll have the chicken baked for
dinner, and serve the skeleton for
supper, and the next day what’s lef
will go in the chicken salad.
The German 75-mile gun is a ail
ure, the Germans think, for the rea
son that it cannot kill as many wo
men and children as one small bottle
of typhoid germs thrown in a well.
A BAD YE AR.
1918 seems to be a bad year for the
I. W. W.’c. the Bolsheviki, and Sinn
Feiners, the Defeatists, the Varda
mans, and the Hardwicks!
NAKED AS A JAYBIRD.
When the senatorial race is over,
William Schley Howard will not only
be without a job and without pros
pects.
He will have also forfeied the re
spect of President Wilson and have
lost the respect of all fair-minded,
decent-thinking, patriotic Georgians.
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY!
Ihistory REPEATS.
FreqiJent reference is made to ‘‘his
tory repeating itself,” but could there
be a more perfect repetition of his
tory than is shown by the following
extracts concerning Caesar taken
from Phutach’s Lives?
‘‘His (Caesar’s) second war was in
defense of the Gauls against the Ger
mans., hough some time before he
bad made Ai’ovistus. their (the Ger
mans’) Kin 1 -. recognized at Rome as
ar. ally. But they (the Germans)
were very iu.o.tferable neighbors to
those under bis government, and it
was probable when occasion offered
they w old reroar.ee the present ar
rangements i-.nd narch to occupy
Caul.”
Did not the Germans in 1914 re
nounce their “present arrangements”
(the neutrality of Belgium, for in
stance) ‘‘and march on to occupy
Gaul” —namely Belgium and France?
“Ariovistus’ courage to some extent
was cooled upon this very approach;
for never expecting the Romans would
attack the Germans, whom he had
thought it more likely they would
not venture to withstand even in de
fense of their own subjects.”
Nor did the Kaiser in 1914 expect
that the Belgians would attack the
Germans “whom he had thought it
more likely they would not venture
te withstand even in defense of their
own subjects.”
“They wer e still more discouraged
by the prophecies of their holy wo
men. who foretell the future by ob
serving the eddies of rivers, and tak
ing signs from the windness and noise
of streams, and who now warned them
not to engage before the next new
moon appeared.”
Have not the Germans within the
list few weeks seen the “hunger
stone” rearing its terrible pate from
beneath the waves, which, they say,
is an unfailing harbinger of hunger
and distress?
“Caesar * * * made his ap-
proaches to the strongholds and hills
on which they lay encamped, and so
galled and fretted them that at last
they came down with great fr> to
engage.”
Oh, you polip, Tommy Atkins, An
zac and Yank, why didn’t you read
your history to better advantage?
Didn't you know that if you galled and
fretted them they would attack? Per
haps you did, for listen:
“But he (Caesar) gained a signal
victory and pursued them for 400 fur
longs, as far as the Rhine, all which
space was covered with spoils and
bodies of the slain. Ariovistus made
shift to pass the Rhine with the small
remains of an army, for it is said
the number of the slain amounted to
80,(00.”
It will be observed that the Ger
mans attacked and that Caesar coun
ter attacked, and that the latter did I
not thereafter lose the initiative. Does
any one seriously doubt that very
soon ’litre vi’l be helter-skelter re
treat across the Rhine Not will it
be necessary at that point for Fochj
to stop pursuit “in order to attend to
affairs at Rome.”
DEMOCRACY TO THE RESCUE
It may be difficult for President
Wilson to withstand the pressure for
Allied assistance in Russia, especially
if Gen. Foch should urge it as essen
tial to success in the war and the
salvation of the country itself. etY
the indispensable condition of our go
ing is the invitation.
In Russia, as elsewhere, educated I
men know that we could" intervene)
only to aid them in escaping German
tyranny; to protect whatever nucleus
of popular institutions there may be
about which honest men might rally
t 0 win order out of anarchy, victory
out of defeat and progress out of ruin.
Nor need such men be told that the
conduct of Japan in this delicate mat
ter has been marked by the utmost
tact, courtesy and good-will toward
the Russian people.
There are dangers born quite as
often of folly as of malice. Ten thous
and howling dervishes of disorder,
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY!
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
not all bought with German gold and
not a few returned from the New
World to curse the Old. will do their
worst to besmirch the motives of the
Allies and to block the work of sal
vage. Famine, arson and murder will
most forcibyt ®£ u,( * them and teach
the need of, pl® ration through law
and order.
In the end only Russia can save
Russia, but intervention may shorten
the painful process.
As neighbors ,as friends as allies,
seeking nothing, we should go to
Russia if at all. The first condition
o fgoing should be an assurance that
some substantial element in Russia it
self which is willing to fight for the
country- stands ready with our help
to organize, to perfect and extend
"self-determination” into a democrat
is government.
AN UNUSUAL COMPLIMENT.
Seldom do newspapers pay any at
tention to the candidates for the
smaller statehouse offices.
For that matter, the people them
sejves hardly know who is running
and apparently care less. The ma
jority vote in the blind, without ever
having heard of the men whose names
are on the official ballots. They vote
by whim, by chance, and by indif
ference.
However, in at least one race this
year that condition will not obtain.
As regards the contest for a vacancy
on the railroad commission, it appears
that Volney Williams, of Waycross,
is going to be elected because the peo
ple really want him elected.
Mr. Williams 'has been paid the re
cent compliment of receiving endorse
ment from many Georgia daily news
papers, which for the first time in
The T’mes-Recorder’s knowledge have
taker cognizance of a race of this
character to the extent of endorsing
one of the candidates. Such papers
as th ■ Macon News, the Savannah
Press, the Albany Herald, and the
Dalton Citizen, among others, are
strongly urging the election of Mr.
V'tlliams, who is a man excellently
er.nipped for the office. He is editor
of the Waycross Journal, a member
of the legislature, and a man of ex
perience in public affairs. He es
pecially appeals to south Georgians
because he lives in south Georgia,
which has not a representative on the
railroad commission.
The Times-R’ecorder hopes, and oe
beves, Mr. Williams will be elected.
THE NEW LIBERTY LOAN
Secretary McAdoo has definitely an
nounced that the Fourth iberty Loan
bonds will bear 4 1-4 per cent interest.
<
r ihe Secretary has been insistent
that the Government interest rate
should be stabilized at 4 1-4 per cent.
He points out that a raise in the rate
of interest of only one-fourth of 1
per cent o n $10,000,000,000 of Govern
ment bonds would mean an annual in
crease of $25,000,000 in interest
charges, and that this money would
have to be raised by increased taxa
tion and paid by the people of the
country. It would not be paid by one
class only, because there are con
sumption as well as other kinds of
taxes, and the consumption taxes
reach every class of people.
"As an intelligent people,” said Sec
retary McAdoo during the Third Lib
erty Loan campaign, "we should now
make a stand for the financing of our
Government during the period of this
war at a stabilized rate of interest, say
I at 4 1-4 per cent per annum, so that
I all business and all investments may
be adjusted to that basis, and so that
we ourselves may protect ourselves
against successively increased rates of
| interest on Government loans.”
Neither our patriotism nor our sup
port of the Liberty Loans are meas-
I ured in fractions of per cent.
There is one time when all wives
look alike and that is when you look
at ’em from the rear of a picture show
and try to remember just how yout
own wife’s hair is fixed so you can
pick her out.
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY!
DR. N. S. EVANS, Dentist
Esabllshed 16 Years
Jackson St. —Near Kress. Americus,
No Better equlp
ped offices in i he
mßSlh ß . South. The place
where you get
results.
I have engaged the services of Dr.
E. E. Parsons, a dentist of many years
experience, who will be with me ’n
the future.
We Are Prepared t« Do Anything
and Everything in Deaistry and at
the Right Prices.
EXAMINATIONS AND ESTIMATAS
FREE!
PROMPT SERVICE!
COURTEOUS TREATMENT!
PAINLESS METHODS!
TAKE AN OUTING
In the pine mountains where
cool breezes blow you can swim
in the finest pools in America
and drink the purest and most
health-giving water. These are
at
Warm Springs, Ga.
Twelve hundred feet above the
sea. Modern hotel; moderate
rates and easily accessible by
train or good auto roads from
every direction For full Infor
mation write
CHAS L. DAVIS, Proprietor.
Kimball Heuse
ATLANTA, GA.
400 ROOMS
MODERATE PRICES
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Entirely Remoueled and Redecoratec
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
i„ J. DINKLER C. L. DINKLEK
Prop, and Min*. AbbL Mgr.
RAILROAD SCHEDULES.
Arrival and departure of passenger
trains, Americus, Ga.
Central of Georgia Railway.
Trains Arrive
From Columbus
(Seminole) *12:10 a n
From Jacksonville
(Seminole) *1:40 a ■
From Atlanta-Macon * 5:22 a r
From Albany 6:40 a m
From Columbus !! 10:00 a in
From Columbus !11:45 a n
From Attlanta-Macon * 2:17 p
From Montgomery-Albany *.2; 17 p.m
From Columbus ! 7:15p m
From Macon *7:85 p n
From Montgomery-Albany *10:52 p m
Trains Depart.
”ur Jacks.invine
(Seminole) *12:10 a n
For Chicago (Seminole) ..* 8:10 a m
For Montgomery-Albany * 5:22 a m
For Macon-Atlanta ♦ 6:40 a m
For Columbus ! 7:10 a m
For Macon and Atlanta ...*2:17 p m
For Montgomery Albany ..♦ 2:17 pm
For Columbus _.! !8:00 p m
For Columbus ! 2:30 p m
For Albany * 7:85 p m
For Macon- Atlanta *10:52 p nr
•Dally. !Except Sunday. !! Sunday
only.
Seaboard Air Line.
Leave Americus for Savannah and
intermediate station s and points east:
12:31 P. tn. 1:20 a m.
Leave Americus for Helena and in
cermedlate points
5:1.' p m
Leave Ameer’ns for Colu tbu«,
Montgomery and points West
3:08 p. m.
G. S. & F. RY-
Effectin' May 12th 1818.
Trains >eav. Cordele:
2:00 P M.—For Jacksonville ano
Palatka, via Valdosta.
6:35 P. M. —Local for Tlftcn.
3:08 A. M.—Jacksonville and Palat
ka, via Valdosta cr Tifton.
4:50 A. M.—For Jacksonville, vis
Tifton, connecting at Tifton for Vai
dosta.
2:10 P. M. —For Macon, connecting
for points North..
8:50 A. M.—Local for Macon, con
necting for points North
2:2b A .M.—For Macon and points
North. "Dixie Flyer.”
2:08 A SC—For Macon and point
North, “The Southland ”
Schedule shown as information to
the public; not guaranteed.
JW. JAMISON, C. 3. RHODES,
Agt.. F. T. D. Macon, G P A
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY!
I. G. COUNCIL, Pres. T. E BOLTON, Asst. Cashier.
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cubic J. M. BRYAN. Asst. Cash’r.
INCORPOR ATED 1891.
THE PLANTERS BANK OF AMERICUS
Resources over one and quarter million dollars
a With more than * quar
ter of a century experience In
commercial banking, with
large resources, and close
personal attention to details,
we feel that we can render
our customers the beat of
We solicit your patronage
both commercial and savings
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large, None Too Small
400 reasons I
for using our
“King Bee”
Oil Cooking Stoves
WHY?
Because they are equipped 'with Jthe*famous
KEROGAS BURNERS and consume 400 gallons
of air to one of kerosene oil— they make fuel cheap.
Williams-Niles Company
HARDWARE
Telephone 706
I
I MONEY 51%
MfIMFY I DINFR on farm lands at 512 cenl
llluitLl LU ill ILU interest and borrowers have priv- j
ilege of paying part or all of principal at any interest
period, stopping inlerest on amounts paid. We always
i have best rates and easiest terms and give quickest ser
vice. Save money by seeing or writing'us.
■ G. R. ELLIS or G. C. WEBB
j AMERICUS, GEORGIA;
J. W. SHEFFIELD, President E D. SHEFFIELD, Cashier.
FRANK SHEFFIELD, Vice Pree’t. LEE HUDSON, As«t. Ca»hler.
Bank of Commerce
A Commercial Banking Business
High Grade Bonds and Investment Securities. Traveler’s
Checks for Sale
The Accounts of Individuals, Firms and Corporations
Invited.
BANKING HOURS 9 A. M TO 2 P. M.
Americus Undertaking Company
funeral Directors and Embalmers
Nat LeMaster, Manager
Day Phones 88 ano’23l ®Night 661 and 13«
ALLISONUNDERTAKINGCO.
ESTABLISHED 1908
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
Auto and Horse Drawn Funeral Cars
OLIN BUCHANAN, Director
Day Phone 253, Night Phones 38LJ, 106, 657
THURSDAY AUGUST 22, IMS.