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FORTY-FIRST YEAR—NO. 75.
FRANCE ASKS BOUNDARIES OF 1814
REYNOLDS WILL
AID BONDS HERE;
ELECTION DRIVE
MAKES HEADWAY
Good Progress Reported in Campaign
to Carry Sumter for Paved
Highways
i DISTRESS CALL. >
' "I must have five men with auto- >
! mobiles Monday morning, March >
31, at 9 o’clock, at the Chamber >
of Commerce. This is a distress )
] call. The bond campaign must >
' send out five cars and I am asking >
' for volunteers. I know there are >
! five men who can devote part of >
Ithe day to this service. Please re- >
port promptly at 9 (new time.) ?
J. A. HIXON, Chmn. >
S'umter County Bond Committee. ’
A telegram was received Saturday
by Neill Ray, chairman of the board
of county commissioners, from Frank
T. Reynolds, of Atlanta, secretary of
the Georgia State Automobile asso
ciation, which is fathering the good
roads movement in Georgia, stating
that he had accepted the invitation to
speak on paved highways at the big
three-county barbecue at the new
Flint river bridge next Wednesday,
April 2. Mr. Reynolds is an author
ity on paved highways and an ex
cellent speaker, and will prove a big
feature for the barbecue.
Following the receipt of the tele
gram, Mr. Ray named the following
reception committee to meet Mr. Rey
nolds at the Windsor hotel at 10
o’clock Wednesday morning to escort
him to the barbecue: Mayor J. E.
Sheppard, Judge J. A. Hixon, chair
man of the Sumter county bond cam
paign committee; J> E. Hightower,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce; Joseph Perkins, secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce; J. E.
Poole, of the county board and city
council; R. P. Stackhouse, W. E. Tay
lor, J. E. Johnson and Lovelace Eve.
The bringing of Mr. Reynolds here
is but one of the many things the
Sumter county bond campaign com
mittee it doing to carry the $500,000
paved highways bond election Wednes
day, April 9, and indications Satur
day were that the campaign was
bringing results. A number of the
members of the advisory board met
with Chairman Hixon at the court
house Saturday afternoon for the pur
pose of making and hearing reports
from all parts of the county. W’hile
the outlook appeared most encourag
ing, several of the members reported
individuals who had not yet signed
pledge cards, but who, they believed,
might still be induced to sign if the
proposal is better explained to them.
A 100 per cent, vote for the bonds
was the mark set,
Mr. Wiggins, representing DeSoto
was present and made a talk
upon invitation in which he declared
that the DeSoto citizens we n dissatis
fied that the election was for a small
er sum than $750,000, explaining that
they feared in that locality that the
amount to be made available would
be insufficient to complete the job. He
was assured by a number of men that
this bond issue was only the begin
ning; that it had been the experience
of every community where permanent
roads had been laid that they did not
stop until they had gone far beyone
their original programs after having
seen and received the benefits of pav
ed roads. Chairman Hixon pointed
out that the pledge of the county
board was for the completion of the
project, “if the people give them the
money.” Mr. Wiggins suggested that
the election be changed to provide for
the larger sum advocated by him, if
possible, which brought the reply that
to change now would be to invalidate
the election call and force the county
to start all over again, and that be
fore this could be done the July ap
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THE TIMESSRECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OR
18 PRIZE BALLOTS GIVEN
THIS WEEK TO WORKERS
Ist Prize Ballot 900,000 Votes
2nd Prize Ballot 800,000 Votes
3rd Prize 8a110t700,000 Votes
4th Prize 8a110t600,000 Votes
sth Prize Ballot 500.000 Votes
6th Prize 8a110t400,000 Votes
7th Prize Ballot 300,000 Votes
Bth Prize 8a110t200,000 Votes
9th Prize Ballotloo,ooo Votes
AT INE Prize Ballots of the above denomination will be given
* " to nine ladies in each of the two districts, District One (the
City of Americus) and District Two (points outside of Ameri
cus.) The nine contestants who get to their credit for the week,
Monday to Saturday, March 31 to April 5, inclusive, the largest
amount in paid subscriptions will be awarded the nine Prize Bab
lots in each of he two districts, making a total of 18 Prize Bal
lots for the week, besides the regular vote and the special vote of
300,000 extra votes for a club of $20.00. A three months sub
scription to the daily, $1.75, gets regular 3,500 votes, six months,
$3.25, 12.500 regular votes, and one year, $6.00, 30,000 regu
lar votes. All subscriptions oaid in go to build up the club, and
a club of $20.00 secures the 300,000 extra votes. Every one gets
this amount of votes on all that is turned in and the nine who
have the largest amount to their credit after 10 o’clock Saturday
night, April 5, will be awarded the nine prize ballots in each dis
trict.
The contestants who reside in District Two may mail their
3 ubscriptions up to 10 o’clock Saturday night, and those who re
side on Rural Routes mav rive them to the mail man when he
.omes along Monday, with a statement that the subscriptions were
ecured Saturday night or before. 1
OPPORTUNITYIIS
GIVEN JO‘CATCH
UP’ THIS WEEK
Tlie offering of the eighteen Prize
Ballots, nine in each of the two dis
tricts, over and above the regular and
special vote, is to give those who have
made a late start an opportunity to
“catch up” with those who have, per
haps, had a longer time to secure sub
scriptions. However, those who feel
that they are in the lead at this time
will still have a decided advantage if
they can secure enough subscriptions
to take off some of the prize ballot?.
It is usually presumed that those
who have about “collected up” all the
subscriptions they seemingly can get
at this time from their circle of friends
would find it almost impossible to
secure enough subscriptions to get one
of the Prize Ballots. However, those
who have secured only a few subscrip
tions have the advantage that they
have not as yet seen all their friends.
In many instances, too, there are la
dies who have not gotten nearly all of
their friends to pay their subscriptions
who think they have about gotten all
they can. There are hundreds of sub
scribers who have not paid their sub
scriptions as yet and who have been
voting only with the coupons from the
paper.
There are five hundred homes in
Americus and as many if not more in
the country surrounding that do not
take The Times-Recorder who should
have it, and the drive for the next
few days will be made to secure those
who are not taking the paper and to
have those who have not paid to do so
this week. The advantage offered this
week is great and a club of $20.00
might take off the biggest prize ballot.
If it did, the regular vote, the special
(Continued jn Page Two)
ScreenDoorsOrdered
Where Food is Sold
Fly time having arrived, O. C. John
son, inspector for the public health
office here, Saturday made the follow
ing announcement:
“All hotels, restaurants and busi
ness houses selling foodstuffs must
have screen doors in place by Tues
day, April 1. This order will be rig
idly enforced.”
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1919
SET YOUR CLOCK?
ENTIRE NATION
AHEAD AN HOUR
If you forgot to set your clock an
houc rbead —do it now. For if von
diun t move it up an hour :ou are
t:rs n mute that muc-j Genin! the re
mainder of the whole country. At
2 o'clock this morning the daylight
saving law went into effect, to stick
until October 26. Everywhere stand
ard time moved up one hour.
Attention is called by all of the
ministers of the city to the fact that,
the hours of services announced in
the Church Announcements column to
day are by the new time.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany, which operates a number of
electrically controlled clocks through
out the city—and thousands of them
throughout the nation—in order to ob
viate a difficulty encountered last year
by the change of time, yesterday dis
tributed keys to their clock patrons
which will unlock the dials and allow
anyone to adjust the hands. The
mechanism of the clock allows for a
correction of only 3 minutes by wire,
but the adjustment of mori than that
mn«t be made by hand.
Crew of Big Plane
Unhurt in Landing
ANDALUSIA, Ala., March 29.—The
Handley-Page bombing plane, en route
| from Elizabeth, N. J., an Ellington
Field, Texas, which left Souther Field
Friday morning, made a forced land
ing at Gantt, 9 miles from here, and
as a insult of damage sustained the
flight will be delayed ten days or two
weeks.
The occupants of the plane, ten in
number, were not injured when it nos
ed over after striking soft ground.
LOCAL SPOT.
Good Middling 26 cents.
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14 DIVISIONS TO
BE PERPETUATED;
82D TO BE BASED
AT CAMPGORDON
Famed Rainbow Division to Become
Cavalry Unit, to be Reorganized
in South
WASHINGTON, March 29.—(8y As
sociated Press.)—The retention of the
names of fourteen National Guard and
all National Army divisions with bril
liant war records in the permanent
military establishment in order to pre
serve their traditions, was announced
today by Chief of Staff General March.
The Forty-Second (Rainbow) will be a
cavalry division in the new organiza
tion, to be organized in the Southern
department, and men will be drawn
from all states.
Others of the fourteen divisions to
be retained are the Thirtieth, to be
based at Camp Jackson, S. C.; the
Eighty-Second, to be based at Camp
Gordon, Ga.; the Thirty-Second, to be
based at Camp Custer, Meh., and the
Third division, to be based at Camp
Lee, Va.
General March announced that he
had ordered all soldiers discharged
within 48 hours after their arrival at
the demobilization camps, unless spec
ial conditions made it impossible. He
said the demobilization total had now
passed the million and a half mark.
The recent events in Hungary Will
result in no change in the military
policy of the United States, so far as
the war department has been advised.
General March announced. Tlfe re
turn of troops from France is pro
ceeding even faster than originally
scheduled, he said.
U. S. Engineers
Reach Archangel
WASHINGTON, March 29.—(8y As
sociated Press.) —The arrival of the
168th Engineering company at Mur
mansk, Archangel, on March 25, was
announced today. It consists of fif
teen officers and 133 men. The 16t7th
Company, also ordered to tha- sector,
is en route.
ALLIED ARTILLERY AT
ARCHANGEL BUST.
ARCHANGEL, March 28.—(Friday.)
—(By Associated Press.) —Allied ar
tillery was active today in the vicin
ity of the village of Bolshoia Ozera,
but cloudy weather hindered the work
of aviators. In the meantime the Al
lied forces holding the road on both
sides of the town were engaged in
strengthening their positions.
The Bolsheviki made a small in
fantry attack on the Allied positions
on the Vega front Wednesday, but
were repulsed.
Ex-Aggie Student,
Hero, Visits Here
Lionel Williams, of Atlanta, a for
mer student at Ibc agrP i tural school
lue is in Americus visiting Mr ana
Mrs. W. H. Estes for a few da/«. He
li.it just returned from F r tnce, wh-re
he was wouniid twice, anl i.: spend
ing a leave of abs nee of thirty days
t cm the army hospital at dtimptun
r< t da.
Private Williams, who Is only 19
yt.'.rs of age, was a memiw if the sth
Marines, Second division, and was in
the thick o the fighting at Chauteau
Thierry, where the last German drive
was checked and in other hot
battles following. He was a runner
and was shot through the knee at the
battle of Chauteau Thierry. He has a
thrilling story to tell in the recital of
the experiences of the famous Second
i division.
Nearly Two-Thirds
of Rural Pupils in
Sumter Defective
A total of 408 rural school chil
dren out of 682 examined by Dr.
B. F. Bond, public health officer,
were found to be defective physic
ally in some respect, according to
ihe figures made public oy him
Saturday. These figures, he
pointed out, however, are not as
serious as they sound, for many of
the defects or deficiencies are
slight and he. pointed out that they
may be quickly and easily cor
rected. They embrace, besides
the more serious ailments, such
defects as teeth, tonsils and vis
ion And the white pupils were
somewhat in the majority among
the defectives, the whites num
-11 ring 246 and the colored 162
cut of 380 white and 302 colored
examined.
Dr. Bond is visiting all of the
schools in the county. He had
thus far called at twenty schools,
tut expects to reach all of the
ethers shortly. Whenever a de
fective child is found a record is
made and sent to the parent, sug
gesting attention to correct the
delect. He also is co-operating
with the teachers and school
1 cards in promoting better sani
tary conditions for the schools,
and is giving anti-typho'd inocu
lations where they are wanted.
Lieut. Rylander is
Home, Discharged
Lieut. Walter Rylander, of the Motor
Transport corps, who has been in
France for many months, arrived home
Saturday morning from Washington,
where he received his discharge fol
lowing his arrival from France last
Monday. He was greeted by many of
his old friends during the day at the
Americus Auto Company’s plant, of
which he was manager prior to hi
enlistment, and to which he returns.
Lieut. Rylander was fortunately con
nected in the army, his branch of ser
vice permitting him to see much of
Germany, and practically all of Bel
gium, France and Luxemburg. Since
the armistice his unit has been sta
tioned at Coblenz, and from there he
was sent se r eral times into interior
Germany tc inspect auto trucks col
lected and turned over to the Allies
by the Germans under the terms of
the armistice.
“I was very much impressed with
the Germans’ method of life and with
their cities,” said he. "The German
is thrifty and makes everything count.
The cities are spick and span, and ev
erything is developed and utilized to
the limit.
"Fraternizing with the German peo
ple or contact with them In any way,
except in the shops and on business of
absolute necessity, is forbidden the
soldiers, and they are not allowed to
go into unoccupied territory at all.”
Lieut. Rylander stated that the men
in the army of occupation are rapid
ly being replaced with soldiers who
have been re-enlisted in the regular
army for the 3-year period, which will
allow the men enlisted for the period
of the war all to return home soon.
24 More Drawn for
City Court Juror
A new panel of 24 jurors for the
third week of City Court, to convene
Monday, were being served Saturday
by Sheriff Harvey and Deputy Sum
mers. The men drawn were:
R. D. Winchester, C. A. Pope, R. P.
Israel. E. R. Lane, E. W. Wilder, F. F.
Timmerman, H. A. Battle, W. 8. An
drews, G. N. Jordan, J. A. Mills, Jr.,
T. J. Robbins, J. T. Ratliff, W. H.
Summerford, W. E. Kinnington, J. H.
Dodson. Crisp Wilkinson, E. E. Wil
liams. W. M. English. D. V. Smith, O.
W. Lloyd, G. M. Slappey, G. M.
Poole, G. C. Dupree, W. F. Darden.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
DEMANDS RHINE
PROVINCE SERVE
UNFORTIFIED AS
SAFETY BARRIER
Saar Basin, as Well as Alsace-Lorr
aine, Sought in Claims
Submitted
SUSPENSION OF ARMISTICE
POSSIBLE, BERLIN HEARS
Final League of Nations Commission
to Be Held April 4, is
Report
PARIS, March 29. —(By Associated
Press.) —The peace conference com
mission on the League of Nations
probably will hold its final session
April 4, it was Indicated today. At
that meeting the foundations of the
league will be definitely announced.
SUSPENSION OF ARMISTICE
POSSIBLE, SAY GERMANS.
BERLIN, March. 28.—(Friday.)
(By Associated Press.) —The Lokal
Anzeiger publishes the statement that
it understands a suspension of the
armistice with the Entente Allies is
possible.
FRANCE ASKS RESTORATION
OOF BOUNDARIES OF 1814.
PARIS, March 28.—(Friday.)—(By
Associated Press.) —In laying her
clakns before the Council of Four to
dar, France asked first that her boun
daries as fixed by the treaty of Paris
in 1814, be restored to her, together
the Saar basin.
In the Rhine province on the left
bank of the Rhine it was stipulated
that the Germans should have polit
ical autonomy, but should not be per
mitted to establish fortifications, oc
supy territory with armed forces m»r
control the railways. Thus the Rhine
would serve France as a natural fron
tier.
ALLIES TO INSIST ON
LANDING AT DANZIG.
PARIS, March 29.—(8y Associated
Press.) —The recent note sent by the
Allies to the German armistice com
mission at Spa regarding the landing
of General Haller’s forces at Danzig
did not take the form of an ultima
tum, as stated by the Berlin papers,
according to Marcel Hutin in the Eche
de Paris. The paper, however, de
clares that the Allies will insist upon
the landing of Hiller’s troops at
Danzig.
Albany Restored to
Central Time Zone
WASHINGTON, March 29—(By As
sociated Press.) —The request of Al
bany, Ga., for vacation of that part of
the Interstate Commerce commission’s
order defining time zones under the
daylight saving law, by which that
city was placed, in the eastern tims
zone, was granted today by the com
mission.
At the time Albany and Americus
petitioned for Eastern time the Inter
state Commerce commission asserted
that the Daylight Saving Law, effect
ive today, would be repealed. This
was not the disposition of the law,
however, and Albany people decided
they did not want to move up their
clocks still another hour, and the pe
tition asking a restoration of Central
time resulted. The petition of Ameri
cus, which went in after Albany’s, waa
never acted upon.
jyEATHER FORECAST]
For Georgia—Fair Sunday with ris
ing temperature.