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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 35.
JAPAN WARLIKE; ALLIES ARE WORRIED
LIFTING OF FLU
BAN NOW SAFE,
SAYS DR. BOND;
TO SEABOARD
Haalth Commissioner Calls It Per
missible, But Would Close
Again if Necessary.
Dr. B. F. Bond, public health com
missioner, after attending a meeting
of public health officials in Macon yes
terday, which had been called for the
discussion of influenza and how to
combat it, announced today, in a state
ment prepared for the Times-Recor
der, that he considered it now “permis
sible” to lift the ban on gatherings in
Americus.
At the same time he served notice
that, should the city board of health
decide to re-open, he would not hes
itate or consider it childish, should
the disease re-appear, to order a fur
ther period of closing to combat it. He
declared in his statement that it con
stituted notice to city health author
ities of his stand. He declared, sup
plementing the statement, that he
considered it safe to re-open and that
he would consult with the various
members of the board of health on the
subject. He made it plain that he
had no authority to remove the ban,
even with the repeal of the health or
dinance. He has authority to invoke
the ban, however.
Dr. Bond’s statement follows:
“Several days ago J received an in*
vitation to attend a called conference
of the physicians and health officers of
Georgia to meet at Macon, Feb. 10th
to discuss influenza; and eager to as
certain ,if possible, and definite in
formation, I accepted the invitation
and it was a pleasure to be present
and hear the presentation of the dif
ferent theories as presented by the
different speakers, but after all that
was said and the pay past, I returned
home to find in our esteemed home pa
per an editorial under the caption:
“Have We Been All Wrong," carrying
parctically the same sentiment as was |
disclosed at the conference, viz.: Noth- I
ing definite.
“I have never been very theoretical
and sometimes hardly practical, but
in an emergency have tried to apply
common sense and oftimes it appears
foolish, but from the best information
I could gather at the conference at
Macon, influenza is an infectious and
contagious disease and persons so af
fected should be isolated, but the ‘ban’
proposition was something different
Its advocates claim benefits per se,
while some of those objecting admitted
that ‘probably the physicians would
not be swamped under, by closing and
that the invasion would be more slow,
though the same number would ulti
mately be infected.’
"In some places where it was not
deemed advisable to put on the ‘ban’
their experiences were related. We
were told how nurses and physicians
were summoned to help care for the
distressed and how hospitals were
improvised to meet the emergency and
that great good was done through
the Red Cross with ambulance at
taches.
"We may ‘Have Been All Wrong,’
but who showeth a better practical
way? I tried to ‘theorize’ that cli
matic conditions predominated and
for several days hoped against doubt
till we, too, were nearly swamped and
■ hardly able to properly care for our
sick after waiting from Jan. IS to
Jan. 22 for the wave to pass, but it
did not pass till after we had been
closed for two days. It may have been
a co-Incidence, but we were after re
sults that had been obtained two times
before. I will not contend that our
closing affects other localities per se.
but I do believe that with the pub
licity of the recrudescent periods and
certain localities putting on the ’ban’
the public generally is more careful
and such a condition is calculated to
produce a ‘co-incidence.’
“At present we are merely groptng
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THE TIMESSREWRDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE"
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WILSON NOT TO
TARRY IN U. $.,
BUTHURRYBACK
PARIS, Feb. 11. — (By Associated
Press.) —Evidence that it is President
Wilson’s intention not to abandon the
peace conference upon ratification of
the Society of Nations plan is found
in the disclosure today that he plans
to return to Paris by March 15.
This will give him such a brief stay
in Washington that it will permit only
the signing of bills during the closing
of congress.
Delay Armistice Decision.
PARIS. Feb. 11.—(By Associated
Press.) —In view of the complexity and
diversity of the problems raised by the
armistice, says a Havas report, the
supreme war council has appointed a
committee of eight members to which
will be entrusted the task of studying
those questions. The council, there-'
fore, lias postponed for a few days'
adoption of the conditions to be im
posed upon Germany so as to be bet
ter prepared for insuring their adop
tion. Norman H. Davis and General
Tasker H, Bliss are the American
members of the committee.
New Constitution of
Germany Approved
WEIMAR, Feb. 10.—(Monday.) —(By
Associated Press.) —The German Na
tional Assembly adopted the provis
ional constitution today with little
amendment.
More Strikes in
England Ended
LONDON, Feb. I.—(By Associated
Press.—All strikers in the Clyde dis
trict have been instructed by their
leaders to return to work tomorrow
Instructions were issued today by a
joint committee of the strikers.
i rHEco'froN market' l
LOCAL SPOT.
Good Middling. 24 cents.
NEW YORK i’OTTON FUTURES.
Close Open High Low Close
Prov. 2:45pm 10:15am
Mar. .21.63 21.75 22.08 21.53 21.85
May .20.52 20.60 21.20 20.55 20.89
July .20.12 20.25 20.78 19.97 20.40
Oct. .19.10 19.15 19.55 19.98 19.05
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTER NOU N. FEBRUARY 11, 1919
Sumier’s Peanut Crop Finds
Fame Abroad; item in Paris
Paper Thrills Lt. Timmerman
Sumter county’s peanut crop has j
been heralded abroad, and the sight of
the name of his home county in
foreign print has brought a thrill to
the breast of Ernest W. Timmerman,
lieutenant of the 103 d Field Artillery.
26th division, now in France.
It was in the American Paris edi
tion of the London Daily Mail that
Lieut. Timmerman spied a paragraph
about Sumter’s peanut crop. The item
did not say the county named was in
Georgia, but the first line mentioned
peanuts and the last line Americus, so
there was no mistaking. And Lieut.
Timmerman just had to sit down and
write a note to The Times-Recorder,
to accompany a copy of the Daily Mail,
so the folks at home would know how
truly world-wide was the fame of
Sumter county. Here is the item>
published in a column compiled from
American newspapers:
“News for Circus Fans. The pea
nut crop of Sumter county last fell
was one of the largest ever produced,
and indications are that this source
of revenue will add something like
$250,000 to the income of farmers
about Americus.”
Mr. Timmerman’s letter, accompa
nying the paper, follows:
’‘lO3D. Field Artillery, American E.
F.. 26th Division.
“Rouconnienes, France,
“January 12, 1918.
“Dear Editor: Guess the old home
county must be booming to get free
advertising in France from an English
daily. Regardless of this, even the
mention of peanuts warmed one South
Georgia lad’s heart. I know they were
good peanuts. I thought this might in
terest you, so am forwarding The
Mail with this. Best wishes from
“E. W. TIMMERMAN.
2d Lieut. F. A.”
Lieut.. Timmerman’s letter was
written on stationery bearing the
“crest" “of the 103 d Field Artillery,
which consists of a drawing of a hel
meted daschund, running at full speed,
with a whizzing American shell clip-
P'ng him fairly in the back. Under
neath is the motto, “Accuracy and
speed.”
The Daily Mail’s Paris edition, which
is distributed free to American sold
iers by the Red Cross, is a four-page
paper, with news closely condensed.
The front page is made up almost en
tirely of news cabled from America
the inside pages of the paper, which
following are typical items found on
covers the world news in a manner
different from American newspapers:
Three thousand tons o' honey are
awaiting export from Australia.
Stropg ale, uescribed aS “barley
wine,” is being sold in Reading at 8d
a halt-pint.
The King has sent his annual sub
scription of $5,000 to King Edward’s
Hospital Fund for London.
Ben Hindle Benson (41) a soldier,
was hanged at Leeds for the murder
of Annie Mayne, a married woman.
The British Shipping Controller of
fers to consider proposals for the
sale to foreigners of British ships over
15 years old.
Mr. Jesse Collings, founder and
president of the English Rural
League, was 83 yesterday and is keep
ing faißy well.
On what is understood to be the site
of George Eliot’s “Mill on the Floss,”
at Gainsborough, Lincs, new mills have
been built.
The farmers who refused to supply
milk at Bd. a quart to Bolton, I anca
shire, have been awarded 9d. by the
local food committee.
Mr. William Allard, a Liberal or
ganizer and a former Mayor of King
ston, died on Tuesday, aged 58, at his
house at Kingston Hill, Surrey.
“The bulk of the money made in this
war has gone to the working classes,"
Lord Burnham at the Mile End Philan
thropic Society, London.
Two loaves which Thomas Sidney
Todd (45) a baker’s delivery man,
supplied to a German prisoner cost
him a fine of $25 at Saffron Walden.
A fresh epidemic of Spanish influ
enza has broken out and is raging vio
lently in Trondhjem and in the Hard
anger and the Gudbrand Valley, Nor
way.
A woman who asked for a summons
against her hnsbanad was told by the
Tottenham (London) magistrate to
wait till her husband assaulted her
again.
The Essex County Council has re
solved to buy 366 acres, with farm
buildings and 64 cottages, at Box ted
for the settlement of ex-Service men,
the price being $90,000.
Breaking his leg in a fall Mr. Ar
thur Lampidge (50) acted as pianist
until the end of a soldiers’ ball at
Fenny Stratford, when he was taken
to hospital, where he died on Tuesday.
A tramway-car ran into a loaded
woodcart on the Qua! du Ixiuvre,
Paris, yesterday, and drove it through
the railings of the Louvre Palace,
k Ping the horse and injuring the
driver.
S3O A WEEK GIRL GIVING AWAY
GOLD IN LONDON STATION.
Aged 17. a girl named Lillian Rich
ards, who had earned S3O a week on
munitions, was sent to a home at Pon
typridd on Wednesday for stealing
$555, including S2OO in gold from her
father. The money was locked up in
a chest of drawers.
The money was stolen while her
parents were at the kimena. The girl
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AGITATORS GO
TO ELLIS ISLE;
FIGHTON BOAT
NEW YORK, Feb. 11.— (By Associat
ed Press.)-Fifty-four radicals —alien-
born anarchists, Industrial Workers
of the World and others—arrived at
Hoboken today from the West, en
route to Ellis Island, where they will
remain pending deportation. They
were heavily guarded, and when the
police separated the Industrial Work
ers of the World from the others on
the boat en route to the island, a
fight started, in which the police had
to use their clubs.
Special Rule to Save
Big Naval Program
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—(By Asso
ciated Press.) —To save the new three
year naval building program from de
feat through a parliamentary coup,
the house rules committee today or
dered reported a rule making legisla
tion authorizing the construction of
ten battleships and ten cruisers in or
der for house consideration as a part
of the $722,000,000 naval appropriation
bill.
The program was sidetracked yes
terday on a point of order by Senator
Mann, republican leader.
World Labor Sets
Child Age at 16
PARIS, Feb.| 10.—(Monday.)—(By
Associated Press.) Prohibition of
child labor under 16 years and uni
formity of seamen's wages are two im
portant features of the American and
British labor program adopted today
by the commission on international la
bor legislation.
Bolsheviki Fail in
Attack on Allies
LONDON, Feb. 10.—(Monday.)—(By
Associated Press.) —The Bolshevik!
launched an infantry attack Saturday
against the Allied positions near
Sredmakrenga, southeast of Archan
gel, but were repulsed, it was officially
| announced by the war department to
night.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TELLS WORLD
SHE WILL KEEP
ISLANDS TAKEN
FROM GERMANY
Will Also Insist on Execution of
Agreement Reached With China
on Shantung
THREATENS TO FIGHT CHINA IF
SECRET TREATIES ARE BARED
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Demands Full Rights, Property and •
Concessions as Successor to
Kaiser in East
PARIS, Feb. 11.—(By Associated
Press.) —Japan his reiterated her in
tention to hold the Marshall and Caro
line Islands in the Pacific, which she
took from Germany during the war,
as well as to insist upon the execution
of her agreement, reached in Septem
ber last, with China regarding Shan
tung.
A formal statement to this effect by
the Japanese representatives has been
made public here.
Allied Envoys Worried.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—(By Asso
ciated Press.) —Japan’s attitude to
ward China in the peace conference is
causing grave apprehension among the
representatives of the associated pow
ers.
According to official diplomatic in
formation reaching here, Japan has
virtually threatened war if China
makes public the secret treaties, be
tween the two countries and fails to
carry out her agreement to make Ja
pan the successor to Germany in the
rights, property and concessions held
by Germany at the outbreak of the
war.
Officials of the state department to
day declined to make formal comment
on the situation.
According to reports here the
threats against China were convey
ed to the Chinese foreign minister by
the Japanese minister at Peking in
thinly veiled terms is said to have
pointed out that Japan has an army
of a million men idle at home and
fully equipped for a long war and
more than a million tons of shipping,
with the intimation that this would
be ready on short notice for active
work.
When the Chinese delegates arrived
at Paris, the information now availa
ble discloses, they reported that their
copies of the secret teraties were
stolen from their baggage while they
were passing through Japan and con
sequently they are unable to make
them public.
Suffrage Defeat
Bitter to Leaders
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—(By Asso
ciated Press.) —Woman suffrage by
federal constitutional amendment was
beaten again late yesterday in the
senate.
Thus ended what leading suffrage
champions had said in advance would
be the final test in this session of con
gress. The suffrage advocates went
into the test knowing that they lacked
one vote, but hoping to the last ft
would be won over. The vote was 55
to 29.
The vote proved a bitter disappoint
ment to suffragists who had counted
on President Wilson and other demo
cratic leaders to swing Southern dem
ocrats into line.
For Georgia: Partly cloudy to
night and Wednesday; probably rain
in central and north portions; warmer
tonight; fanner Wednesday in ast
portion.