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SHALL WE LIFT THE BOXING LID?
During the next few days—or weeks—Americus
will be filled with whispers and gossip, advice and com
ment upon the subject of prize fights and boxing, not as
a result of the recent Toledo affair, but as a result of
the attempt of a number of our young citizens to stage
a private non-admission affair of their own Wednesday
night, being prevented from doing so only by the po
lice. .
Mayor Sheppard, in discussing the subject in the
city council last night, ventured the assertion that he
had never known of any good to come from boxing
matches. And today lovers of the sport are recalling the
fact that boxing played one of the biggest parts in the
training of Uncle Sam’s great army and putting it in
shape to finish the war quickly; also the fact that
boxing is part of the course in physical training in all
gymnasiums.
However, there is a difference between gymnasium
boxing and matches staged primarily for the entertain
ment of spectators. As Mayor Sheppard pointed out, “w e
all know that it would be impossible to have these affairs
at all if there were no money in it somewhere, whether
it comes from gate admissions, betting or elsewhere.”
After all, it is a question of cleanness of the sport
and whether the influences the letting down of the bars
would create would be detrimental or beneficial to our
youth; give them a vehicle for the gambling spirit which
exists in most men, young or old, to exercise itself, or
merely supply a wholesome form of entertainment, of
which the young people of Americus and community
are badly in need.
THE WORLD STRUGGLE FOR AERIAL
SUPREMACY
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The coming of the R-34 marked the opening of an
international conflict for the control of the air. Already
two nations (England and Germany) are actively en
gaged in the struggle. Within a few days the R-33
sister ship to the R-34—is to start on a trip to India
as a preliminary to the establishment of regular airship
transportation lines between England, France, Switz
erland, Italy, Egypt, and India. Moreover other and
larger vessels of a similar type are being rapidly built
by England, including one dirigible which, it is stated
will be 1,100 feet long, 137 feet in diameter and have
a lifting capacity five times as great as the R-34. This
monster, which will require 10,000,000 cubic feet of
gas, will have a cruising radius of 16,000 miles, or near
ly two-thirds of the circumference of the earth, and will
be able easily to travel, without stop, from England
to even the most remote parts of the world within a
comparatively few hours.
While England is making rapid progress in airship
construction, U .? world will find, as soon as the facts
become known, that Germany is in this matter far in
advance of even England. The Germans have had the
advantage, by a number of years, of careful study and
experimentation in connection with the construction
and operation of the type of airship, and she has already
a large fleet of these big vessels, some of which are
reported to be several times as big as the R-34. Their
exact size is not stated but it is said that they have a
cargo capacity of at leajt 360 tons. Then too Germany
has a special incentive of activity upon, an aerial fleet
for possible use in case of war as well as peace because
of the fact that her marine war and merchant fleets
have been so depleted as a result of the war, that she
cannot for years compete successfully with other large
countries in ocean commerce and must therefore turn
to th e airship for relief.
In the realm of aerial transportation Germany now
leads the world, and she can and evidently intends to
maintain that lead for at least a considerable period.
England is undertaking with considerable success to imi
tate the Zeppelin type of airship, but as yet England 'is
only an imitator. Germany leads the way. Moreover she
is able to construct these giants of th e air very rapidly.
She is now in a position to rush German salesmen and
samples of German goods to all parts of the world; and
will lose no time in doing it now that trade barriers
have been removed. Indeed it is now being definitely
announced that German Zeppelin international passen
ger and freight transportation lines will be established
early in the fall; and in New York and other cities
THE SALESMAN
IF a salesman is lukewarm when he boosts the
goods he sells, you will never see his form wear
ing hanasome silver bells. Now and then a languid
guy comes to sell me books or trees, or a strip of
azure sky or a swarm of bumble bees. But his com
ing is in vain, for his manners don’t convince; and ]
I tell him, speaking plain, he’s a lemon or a quince.
Then there comes a sprightly skate who is brim
ming o’er with zeal; he will burble and orate and
put up a noble spiel. This enthusiastic gink, this*
inspired and gaudy jay, ere he’s finished, makes
me think that his goods are all O. K. He is talking
through his fez, dealing bunk I later guess, but
believes in what he says—that’s the secret of suc
cess. So I buy his duplex chairs, or a large revolv
ing churn, or a span of polar bears, or a lamp that
will not burn. If a salesman cannot talk in a fine
impassioned vein of his tall self-winding clock
or his patent logging chain, if he cannot make us
think that his wares are all sky high, he had better
take a drink of formaldehyde and die. Earnestness
a man must have if as salesman he would win,
whether he is peddling salve or an auto built of tin.
consignments of freight are being solicited, which will
be received for transportation commencing September
18. Following is a translation of an advertisement which
is now appearing in German language newspapers
throughout the country.
“Advance Notice; Commencing Oct. 18, Over-Ocean
Zep Passenger and Freight Service between Dusseldorf-
Berlin-Hamburg-New York-Boston-Chicago. Booking on
and after Sept. 18.”
It is high time for America to wake up. There has
recently been some talk of commencing experiments
here in rigid airship construction, but there must be
something more than mere talk. At the least calculation
we are two years behind time, even though we immedi
ately take up and rush airship construction work. It
will not do for our merchants and manufacturers to
depend upon the government to take the lead in this
matter. While the government should, of course act
promptly for purposes of national defense, the present
principal need for airships is for commercial purposes,
and consequently the problem of supplying the big air
fleet is one which must be dealt with by the financiers,
manufacturers, merchants, and other business men of
the country. They must awake and act quickly or it
will be too late to prevent a huge and irreparable ca
lamity to the commerce and industries of this coun
try.
What Oth°r Ed’to’”* S’* - ”
AS MACON SEES IT
The vote in the house to table the resolution to
submit the Macon offer of $4,000,000 if the capital
is removed, to the people of the state may be claimed
by either side as victory. The Atlanta claim that the 78
votes polled against tabling the bill, polled to put it
on its passage, finally ends the issue, is of course all
bosh and balderdash. In the first place it does not in
dicate the Atlanta strength because there are in that
list enough men who always vote against tabling any
bill, even those they favor, to cut the Atlanta strength
down below the constitutional minority mark. At the
same time with those who voted to table all unques
tioningly for the removal resolution ninety-seven votes
were shown, thirty-two votes short of a constitutional
majority; with nineteen absentees and an uncertain but
sizeable number who were against tabling who will vote
for the bill when it comes to its passage.
The fight is still around a narrow margin of votes
in the house this session, and with the parliamentary
processes and machinery absolutely in the hands of the
removalists. And that frankly is all there is in the
“test” vote to table, no more no less —nothing for either
side to claim victory on. The only real test vote is the
vote on passage of the bill, when every man who votes
must record himself one way or the other on the issue
itself.
Reports from Atlanta indicate the solid South Geor
gia strength is unbroken and standing with a determin
ination and enthusiasm that found its expression in the
debate when leaders in their sections warned Atlanta
and the minority element of the state that their obstruc
tion tactics would avail nothing, that the unquestioned
majority of representation in both houses stood behind
the measure and would stand until the people were sub
mitted the final decision as to whether the State of Geor
gia should accept or turn down a cold four million dol
lars donation from Bibb toward the solution of the
present admittedly inadequate and relief-crying state
housing conditions. And it will stand. The battle is
on the field: victory is certain and not to be gainsaid.
Not only Macon stands foursquare and unyielding
carrying on the fight, but a full one hundred counties
stand with her, their sentiment unequivocal in clear
majority sentiment that the people and not the legis
lative minority shall settle the capital issue. And there ’
we all stand and from there the fight goes on vjith
j fresh strength and higher courage.—Macon Telegraph.
MAN A RANK OUTSIDER
“No Man’s Land” is defined now as being where
the bride-elect is being given a linen shower. —Savan-
nah Press.
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