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THRACE AGAIN IN CONTROVERSY. -..
Ancient Thrace, one of the morning lands of the
world’s history, for parts of which Greece has present
ed claims to the peace conference, affords a paralled
to the difficulties of self determination already experi
' enced along the eastern shores of the Adriatic.
It will be recalled that the spirited dispute between
Jugo-Slavia and Italy arose from the fact that Italians
were predominant in coastal cities while the hinterland
was undeniably Slavic. The Latin peoples of Italy had
gone across the Adriatic in past centuries, settled along
the east Adriatic shores but were pushed well out to
islands and peninsulas by the influx o’ Slavic tribes
In much the same way this phenomenon was dup
licated in the earlier age on th e eastern side of the Bal
kan peninsula, where lay the extremely mobile Thrace.
The Greeks colonized the coast cities of Thrace, on
what now are the Marmora, Black and Aegean Seas,
not for settlement so much as for trading stations. They
did not seek to impinge upon the Thracians of the in
terior. -
Thus Constantinople was founded, and thus Greece !
came into possession of a peninsula now called Galli-,
poli, building a wall across the five mile neck of the isth-'
mus to keep the Thracians -within bounds.
Shrinking and expanding, and changing its con-,
formation time and tfm. e -again as Darius invaded it,
Xerxes abandoned it, Philip 11 united part of it with
Macedonia and garrisoned the rest, the Romans organiz
ed it as a province, Thrace dropped at last into the
‘capacious maw of the Turks with the fall of Constanti
nople in 145*?, that-historic date from which some his
torians mark the-, beginnings of modern histroy.
Later the western part, that Philip joined to Mace
donia, fell within the limits of” pre-war Serbia, and the
northern part became eastern Rumelia, which was given
to Bulgaria at the London settlement of 1913. The
rest remained with European Turkey until th e World
War exploded that domain and left the pieces to be the
step children of the Allied nations.
Adrianople, once the Paris of Thrace, and later the
Versailles of the Turkish- sultans, is a picturesque, if
somewhat unkempt, reminder of the ancient days. But
more familiar, perhaps, is the nam e of Philippi, in the
center of the rich gold mine district of Thrice and near
the hill of Dionysius, which owes its fame to neither
of those facts so much as to th e visits of Paul, who
wrote letters to the converts that were incorporated in
the Bible as the book of Philippians,
Dionysius, or Bacchus, or the Romans call the god,
typified the loose morality of the wild and barbarous
inhabitants of Thrace originally, for the Thracians of
historic times already were a composite people.
Every girl passed through a period when she was
the common property of th e male community before she
married one of them. Even in Grecian days the worship
of Dionysius consisted of wild nocturnal ogies. There
is the story that three women who declined to join
in the revelries were translated into doves, and a k’ng
of Thrace was reputed to have resistd a visit of Diony
sius to his domain. The god escaped by a plunge into
‘ne sea, but the king was stricken with a blindness
r nd a frenzy, so the myth relates, that caused him to
hew down his own son, believing him to be a tree.
At one period Thrace had an alliance with Greece;
but the relations of the two nations at other periods is
a moot question. Certain it is that the cultured Greeks
regarded the Thracians as a nigged and semi-barbarous
>eople, just as they regarded the climate of Thrace
■s severe, and believed it to be the home of Boreas,
the north wind.
ABOUT PRESENT DISTURBED CONDITIONS.
It is the history of all nations that at th e end of
: ’ich wars as that in which this country recently engaged
industrial and business conditions following th e cul-'
nination of the struggle are unusually shaken and dis-'
jrbed. This condition should, and doubtless does, urge
oon the people generally the important duty of cherish- j
g respect for civil government and the spirit of obed-,
nee to existing laws. All of us can but be sensible j
the fact that in each comunity must be found those
no called upon to oppose certain measures now pro-j
>sed by governmental leaders. It is but right that this
’position should manifest itself as a proper leaven, but
1 t this opposition breathe nothing of insubordination,
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EMPTINESS.
THE things I yearned for in my youth have
come to me, they all are mine; more than I
hoped I’ve won, in truth, and still I languish and
repine; I yearned for fame like other skates, and
wide renowm has come to me; my nam e is known in
thirteen states—but I’v e rheumatics in my knee.
My picture oftentimes appears in daily prints and
magazines; but I look back, through mists of tears,
to when I barely earned my beans; my laurel
.wreaths seems wreaths of crape they do not soothe
my jaded soul; my teeth are in such beastly shape
I have to bolt my victuals whole. I have a state
ly limousine, upholstered in green velvet-plush;
therein I ride, with pompous mien, while toilng
legions round me rush. No doubt they think my
life’s a snap, a stretch of roses and of wine; they
look upon my kingly map, and wish they had such
luck as mine. But I must eat the food of cows,
the tasteless prune, the humble leek; if for an hour
on pie I browse, I have dyspesia for a week. The
golden dreams I dreamed of old hav e been fulfilled
in every way; but I don’t value what I hold, for I’m
weary, fat and gray. I sit beneath the sunset tree,
or slowly limp along the lawn; one thing alone
looks good to me, and this is youth—and it is gone,
the good of mankind.
impatience of authority or love of change. It becomes
all of us to remember that government is an institution
essential to the improvement to our nature, the spring
of industry and enterprise, the shield of property and
life, and the refuge of weak or oppressed. It is to
the security which laws afford that w e owe success
ful application of human powers.
It was the Rev. William E. Shanning, a Unitarian
minister, residing in Massachusetts in 1812, who wrote:
“It is impossible that all the regulations of the wisest
government could equally benefit each individual; and
sometimes the general good will demand arrangements
which will interfere with the interest of particular mem
bers or classes of the nation.” In such circumstances
every individual is bound to regard the inconveniences
under which he suffers as inseparable from a social,
connected state, as th e result of a condition which €od
has appointed, and not as the fault of those who direct
the government. In latter year s it has become alto
gether too common a practice to place the blame for
every calamity upon the party in power at Washington.
Individuals should bear this in mind, and should cheer
, fully submit to seeming inequalities, recollecting how
much more all of us receive from the community than
' we resign to it.
Let us not despair of our country. If all that we
i wish cannot be done by the state, still something may
,b e done. The high cost of living, long a problem of
the individual, the state now seeks to solve. Press' dis
patches printed yesterday announced President Wilson
would devote all of his time to the seeking of a solution
of this vexing problem. Therefore, in good principles,
in the order of love and liberty, by which so many of
our citizens ar e distinguished; in th e tried virtue, de
liberate prudence and unshaken firmness of the chief
magistrate, whom God in His great goodness has given
. to this commonwealth; in the value of the blessings
j which are at stake; in the peculiar kindness which God
has manifested toward our fathers and ourselves, we
have motives, encouragements and solemn obligations
to resolute, persevering exertion in our different
j spheres, and according to our different capacities for the
public good. Thus, faithful to ourselves and our coun
try, and using vigorously every righteous means for at
taining the end now so generally sought, w e may con
fidently leave the issue to Holy Providence, to Him who
cannot err, and who, we are assured, will accept and re
ward every conscientious effort for His own glory and
the good of mankind.
Man created in th e image of God, was foreordain
ed to earn his I red through the sweat of his brow, but
an Almighty Providence will not permit a great nation
to ffil in a properly directed effort to solve even suck
. a momentous question as is now presented in the
mounting cost of living in America.
JUDGE SAM SIBLEY
Generally the appointment of Sam H. Sibley of
Union Point as federal judge to assist Judge William
T. Newman in the Northern district of Georgia will be
received by Georgia people with full approval. Hardly
a lawyer in Georgia but will say he will make a first
class judge—and that is sufficient. Many of them say
he is the first scholar and exponent of the law in nis
state.
It is, however, by no means a political appoirttment.
There were too many other men of sufficiently equal
ability who had far stronger call on both senators who
would have liked but didn’t get tho appointment to
admit of the Sibley appointment being in the slightest
degree political. Alexander King, solicitor general of
the United States, and the fact that nothing could be
said against Sibley by anybody had more to do with it
than anything else.
The main thing is what sort of a judge he will be
for the peopl e over whose affairs he will rule. As every
body admits he will be a good one that should end all
further discussion. And that matter’s settled for a good
many years to come, because Mr. Sibley is still a young
man.—Macon Telegraph.
AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER.
JUST RECEIVED
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FARM WAGONS
One Carload Os
BUGGIES
Buggy and Wagon
HARNESS
All At Very Attractive Prices.
~, G. A. &W. G. TURPIN.
East Lamar Street Phone 24
HERBERT W. MOON
Real Estate and Insurance.
Real Estate. City and Country Property. Insurance. Life, Fire
and Casualty. Phone 714. 36 Planters’ Bank Bldg.
When in Need of Insurance Just Phone 849.
J. G HOLST
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SPEND YOUR SUMMER AT
The New Rabun Hotel
Located at Mountain City, Ga., in the famous Rabun Gap, in the Blue Ridge
Mountains which divide the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of
Mexico. The highest railroad point east of the Rocky Mountains. Twenty
three hundred feet above sea level. Eighty-six feet higher than Asheville,
N. C., and seven hundred feet higher than Mt. Airy, Ga.
Bragg’s Market Asks?
1- • Ti are yOU going to do about tbe hi § h cost of liv
living. 1 his question concerns our whole country today.
We have had on an advertising campaign for the past
two months, telling the public of our stock of goods, and
advantageous prices. We believe our trade has doubled in
that time. We want to give the lowest prices, consistent
with the quality of goods, that can be had in Americus
Our motto is, to reduce the cost of living. It is Up to the
dealer to buy cheaper, in order to sell cheaper. It is up to
the consumer to know where they can buy for less. Some
people are buying things on the street and paying more for
same than they have to pay in the store. Just because they
are asked the price. Buy a dollars wort hfor your dollar.
Be economical. Save money. You might need it later.
Cash and carry will help wonderfully to solve the problem.
Delivery service is bad at its best.
Now remember, we are tryin gto have just what you
want. . 50c stew beef, or 75*c rOast, is worth more than a
dollar’s worth of steak. Phone us. Let us tell you what
we have. We will do our best to please you.
BRAGG’S MARKET.
PHONE 1S 1 .
farmers! We want your beef cattle and hogs, at a reason
able price to you and to the consumer. We are in the market
for green peas, butter beans, roasting ears, chickens, eggs
and butter.
CRYSTAL CAFE
FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
1 10 Jackson Street Telephone 584
SPECIAL REGULAR DINNER
EVERY DAY-12 to 2 P. M.
SOUPS, VEGETABLES, MEATS, PASTRIES
AND DESSERTS.
Western Steak Every Day
Spring Chicken and Roast Chicken
FRESH FISH ANY STYLE
And All Kinds Fruits and Pies.
Anything you try is sweet—just like the fruit that comes
from the tree Come once and you’ll come again.
CRYSTAL CAFE
i MONEY sPjo j
* Mnnpv I nqnpr] on farm lands al 5 12 per cent - ißler - ?
« IVIUIICy L<(JctIlC(J e«t and borrowers have privilege., of v
* paying part or all of principal at any interest period, stopping in- J
St terest on amounts paid. We always have best rates and easiest *
* terms and give quickest service. Save money by seeing or writing *
| G. R. ELLIS or G. C. WEBB
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. J
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Asst Cashier
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashier J. M. BRYAN, Asst
INCORPORATED 1891.
The Planters Bank of Americus.
Resources Over One and Quarter Million Dollars.
1 ——————
With an unbroken record
jg 7 28 years of conservative
IMJ]■IM IM m I and successfu l banking, we
OS W® respectfully solicit your
’business. We especia.’:/ call
QU -IfP Wa* :your attention to our Sav-
I k .jaajjlpLW ’yyjjg S? mgs Department. We pay 4
» per cent ‘ com P oun( kd semi-
HgCT oannually.oannually. Why not begin to
jgglßJßglßl PH fljb I I day and lay the foundation
j|for future independence?
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING.
No Account Too Large, None Too Small.
J. W. SHEFFIELD, Pres. FRANK SHEFFIELD, V.-P.
LEE HUDSON, Cashier.
DATE OF CHARTER:
Oct. 13, 1891.
Ihe ample capital, surplus and conservative business
methods of this bank constitute its strongest claim for
new business.
Its directorate is composed cimen accustomed to solv
ing important financial problems; men who realize the
caution demanded in handling large sums of money.
If you bank here you will receive courteous consideration
and careful attention.
BANK OF COMMERCE.
Commercial City Bank
Corner Lamar and Forrest Streets
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
Crawford Wheatley E. T. Murray, Sam’l Harrison,
President V.- Pres. Cashier
Now that VICTORY is won we must all look ahead to th<
requirements and opportunitie s of the future.
Why not open an account with us today?
Whether large or small your business is respectfully so
licited.
AMERICUS UNDERTAKING COMPANY
Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
Nat LeMaster, Manager
Day Phones 88 and 231. Night 661 and 167
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j ESTABLISHED 1908 3
I FonersJ Directors and Embalmers |
I OLFN BUCHANAN, tDiiector I
Day Pho 253, Night Phones 381 106
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Country Dwellings, Barns, Mules and Feedstuffs.
Fire, Life, Accident & Health, Tornado, Plate Glass, Bonds Autos.
All Companies Represented Are The Very Best.
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CONTRACTING, BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURAL
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TURNER ELECT RIC CO
Electrical Supplies and Contractors.
Estimates’ Cheerfully Furnished. Lamps, Fans, Motors, Telephone Bat
teries. House Wiring and Repairs a Specialty. Combination Bas and Elec
trical Fixtures. Phone 809. Windsor Avenue.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1919