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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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FAIRPLAY AND ACCURACY—The Times-Recorder
strives always for fair play and accuracy. Any injustice
in the news or editorial columns or any inaccuracy will be
rectified gladly, and anyone calling our attention to un
just, injurious or inaccurate statements in this newspa
per will have our sincere thanks.
H ATCH FOR THE LIES.
The last minute campaign lie has always been the
weapon of the man who was on the wrong side, and who
would wouldn’t carry on a decent fight in the open The
people of Sumter county are going to vote bonds Wednes
day for paving the rural highways of the county, with the
government paying half the bill. The people cf Sumter
county can be given credit with intelligence enough to
know, after a moment's thought, that the commissioners
MUST build the roads designated in their election call,
for if they did not the bonds would be worthless, would
be invalidated. Before the paving program, a.- set forth
in the call, could be changed this election would nave to
be cancelled and a new call issued. The money MUST
abe spent just as the call specifies.
The people of Sumter county want pave.l highways.
They have faith in the commissioners they liava elected.
They know this is their chance to bring SSOO 000 into
Sumter county from the federal treasury, and that it can
be brought in by no other method.
Let every man who BELIEVES in his home county, in
his county board, in his state in his country, vote
early Wednesday for bonds.
POSTMASTER GENERAL REPLIES.
In answer to the critics of his administration of the
postoffice department, Postmaster General Burleson has
issued a statement that, of all the postal establishments of
belligerent countries, “America’s and hers alone is the
one that did not break down to a certain extent. We or
ganized an efficient force in France," he also declared.
In regard to the enforcement of the espionage act, he
said:
“To exclude from the mails treasonable and seditious
matter, it became necessary for postmasters to read not
only the English papers, but to acquaint themselves with
the contents of newspapers regardless of whether they
were printed in Hungarian, Polish, Italian, French, Yid
idsh, or what not. That was the most undesirable task
ever imposed upon the postal establishment. But we got
away with it! Notwithstanding the postmaster general
was denounced from one end of the country to the other
as an autocrat, a tyrant, and a person who was constant
ly practicing arbitrary acts, we enforced the law with
moderation, with justice and with fairness.”
The matter of the readjustment of parcel post, and
•space basis for mail was also revieewd by the postmaster
general. Alluding to the latter change in practice, he
said:
“Immediately the sluice gates of criticism and de
nunciation, not to use stronger terms, were opened and
directed against the head of the postal department, as
being a man lacking in vision and business qualifications.
That seems to be the chord on which they delight to play,
that lam lacking in business qualifications. So success
ful were they in resisting what the department was con
tending for, that they strangled the great appropriation
bills for the postal establishment that year, and for the
first time in its history the department was operated un
der a continuing resolution.”
With reference to his abandonment of the use of
pneumatic tubes and increase in second class mail rates,
he said:
“It is just and fair, and I stand for it, and it will not
be repealed because of any action on my part, regardless
of how widespread the criticism may be or how denun
ciatory its terms.”
WAR DECLARED ON CITY DUMP.
The Department of Commerce has declared war on
the city dump. The chief consumer of the waste material
of this country is the city dump, but the Waste Reclama
tion Service has formulated a plan which will lessen the
annual loss through this channel. In conjunction with the
National “Clean Lip and Paint Up" Campaign Bureau
aud Savings Division of the United States Treasury, the
Department has established a new competitor for the
waste material of this country. The War Savings Stamp
and the Thrift Stamp will now compete with the city
dump for the thousands of tons of valuable waste ma
terial which are now lost through our present method
of disposal.
This is “Clean Up and Paint Up” time, and the ac
cumulation of the winter will shortly be moving to the
dump. In our urban communities we annually sent to
the dump 13 tons of valuable waste material for every
1,000 persons living in a community. Twenty per cent,
of this tonnage is made up of as this is the
first item that is destroyed. Based upon the present ap
proximation of the population of our urban centers, about,
150,000 tons of paper are sent to the dump annually.
Great Britain, under the stress of war, increased her
collection of waste paper from 1,000 tons to about 6,000!
tons of paper a week. America annually sends to the
dump about twice as much paper as was collected in all
of Great Britain in 1914. Great Britain in
creased her total collection of waste paper ap
proximately 500 per cent, in four years. This tremendous
increase in volume was effected through the efforts of the
controller of paper. The War Savings and Thrift Stamp 1
can become the paper controller for this country. The
Wsate Reclamation Service has requested the local
waste reclamation councils in centers advantageously sit-'
uated to the markets to utilize the stamp in an effort to
check the movement of waste material dumpward. The !
councils have been advised to district their communities, !
assign a waste dealer to each district, and to have the
housewife sell her waste for Thrift Stamps.
This plan will solve one of the problems of the local
“Clean Up and Paint Up” Campaign Bureau program,'
which is receiving the support of the Department of Com
merce and the Council of National Defense, as a means
of stimulating local industries and intensifying the de
mand for skilled labor in all centers, will include the
waste saving feature in order to develop the waste trade
in the community and to assist the Department of Com
merce in its war on the city dump.
THE NA TIONAL PRESS. j
The Saar Valley.
The demands of France for the Saar Valley and its
rich coal mines are based less upon an ancient historic
title than upon claims for the damage done by the Ger
mans in their military occupation of the mineral dis
tricts of northeastern France and their destruction of the
works and mines of the region at the time of their retreat.
That France should receive reparation for the loss which
she has sustained is apparently settled by the Peace
Conference; but the point upon which that body has not
yet agreed and which is making the Saar Valley one oi its (
most intricate problems, is shall France have her repara-' -
tion in a mere temporary or in a permanent occupation of! 1
this German territory.
I
The Saar Valley is one of the richest coal regions of i
western Europe. The Germans in the past half century
have developed it to the highest point of productiveness'
and have taken from the region about 15,000,000 tons of!
coal annually. This is the fuel that has fed the furnaces
of the Rhineland, and which has been a strong factor in
the great industrial development of the Rhine towns and
cities. The ease with which this fuel has been obtained
furnishes an explanation of the restoration of the manu
factories of the Rhine to an activity that has called forth
so many comparisons with the devastated regions of the
once prosperous industrial district of northeastern'
France.
The French coal district, which before the war might
be compared in productiveness with the Saar Valley, was
in the Pas-de-Calais region, of which Lens was the cen-'
ter In the early advance of the German army this re
gion was occupied. The mines were worked by the in
vaders, and the manufactories which could not be turned
to their advantage, were stripped of machinery or de
stroyed. In the devastation preceding the Greman re
tirement the mines were flooded, their shafts aud works
wrecked. The damages were such, French anl Ameri
can engineers reported, that it will take many years to
repair. The loss of these mines fell especially heavy
upon France, for they represented almost the only pro
ductive coal fields of the nation.
The region in dispute lies outside the proviace of
Lorraine; it is, perhaps, peopled largely by Germans. It
is for this reason that Lloyd George, according to a state
ment attributed to him, opposed its annexation to France.
Even the treaty of Vienna in 1814, which has been fre
quently referred to as sustaining an ancient title for
France, seems not to have included this particular region
in an award to that nation. France has apparently rest
ed her demands entirely upon a matter of reparation. In
the possession of the Saar Valley she sees a solution of
her great problem of the reconstruction of her industrial
life.
The French foreign office declares that Clemenceau
will insist upon the territory in dispute, and although he
has not definitely stated his position the belief that he
will not depart from this contention has had the effect of
strengthening his position as premier. France has un
questionably set her mind upon the acquisition of the
Saar Valley, and she has made it one of her strongest
points of contention. While she may not add this coveted
region to French territory, it appears evident that she
> will at least have its use until full amends have been
> made for her own great industrial losses. —New York
i Sun.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
“WE ARE DOUBLY
THANKFUL” SAYS
MR. & MRS. WARD
Watkinsville, Couple very happy
for what Dreeo, the root and herb
remedy, did for them.
“It is simply grand what this medi
cine, Dreco, has done for my wife and
me” are the words of that well known
and highly respected farmer, Mr. H.
1 B. Ward, of Route 2, Watkinsville, Ga.
i “My wife has suffered a long time
[ from constipation, and a female dis
order. At one time her bowels be
came locked and I thought she would
die. Her syestm became poisoned from
' auto-intoxication and she suffered ter
ribly; really she has not been just
light since the son was born, but it is
different now. Dreco has improved
her general health so much and re
lieved the constipation, that the other
troubles have passed away. She
sleeps fine and her nerves are steady
again.
1 “As for my part. Dreco has got my
Kidneys in good shape, and they are
performing just as a pair of stray,
healthy kidneys should. So you see
i we are doubly thankful for Dreco, and
you surely deserve the great success
you are meeting with.”
| Dreco is known as a great recon
j structive tonic for all the vital organs.
It strengthens them so that they per
form in a natural manner, as Nature
l intends. That is why the results from
Dreco are lasting. It does not just
boost you up while you take it ( but
, it actually gives strength and tone to
the organs and results are permanent.
Dreco is fine for children who need a
good tonic and blood builder.
All good druggists now sell Dreco
and it is highly recommended in
Americus by.
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grow their smocks and frocks, their
playthings, their childish ways, and—
most of all—their photographs.
Only photographs will keep them as
they are.
Make the appointment today.
THE WK IN ST RY STUDIO.
"A SPLENDID TONIC ”
Says Hixson Lady Who, On Doc
tor’s Advice, Took Cardni
And Is Now Well.
Hixson, Tenn.—“About 10 years ago
I was...” says Mrs. J. B. Gadd, of
this place. “I suffered with a pain in
my left side, could not sleep at night
with this pain, always in the left
side...
My doctor told me to use Cardui. I
took one bottle, which helped me and
after my baby came, I was stronger
and better, but the pain was still
there.
I at first let it go, but began to get
weak and in a run-down condition,
so I decided to try some more Cardui,
which I did.
This last Cardui which I took made
me much better, In fact, cured me. It
has been a number of years, still I
have no return of this trouble.
I feel It was Cardui that cured me,
and I recommend It as a splendid fe
male tonic.”
Don’t allow yourself to become
weak and run-down from womanly
troubles. Take Cardui. It should sure
ly help you, as it has so many thou
sands of other women In the past 40
years. Headache, backache, sideache,
nervousness, sleeplessness, tlred-out
feeling, are all signs of womanly trou
ble. Other women g»t relief by taking
Cardui. Why not y>u? All druggists.
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