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FORTY-FIRST YEAR— No. 183.
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A. L I. IS BEING
RE-ORGANIZED
UNDERNEW LAW
Announcement that the Americus
Light Infantry is to be re-organized
has created widespread interest over
the whole county, and those at the
head of the movement are greatly
encouraged. They are especially
pleased with the attitude of the la
dies of Americus and Sumter county,
all of these being heartily in favor
of having a military company here.
Th e re-organization plans are now
in hand, and a letter from Major
General J. Mcl. Carter, chief of the
militia bureau at Washington, writ
ten July 16, 1919, urges the reor
ganization of the national guard, as
follows:
“The National Guard, after per
forming its duty with great honor
and fidelity, has been discharged
from its obligation. The time has
now arrived for its reorganization
under the laws by which it has been
established.”
In accordance with this letter the
Americus Light Infantry is now in
process of re-organization, with all
white men betwe'en the ages of 18
and 45 eligible.
Those men who served as enlisted
men in the United States army or
organised militia since April 6, 1917,
and have been honorably discharged,
may, within six months after July
11, 1919, or if discharged subse
quently to July 11, 1919, within six
months after such discharge, enlist
in the National Guard for a period
of one year, and may re-enlist for
like periods.
All other qualified men shall b e en
listed for a period of one year, or
for a period of thre'e years. In each
organization the proportion of one
year enlistments to three-year enlist
ments shall be in the proportion of
one to two, and in determining this
proportion all men who served as en
listed men in the United States army
or organized militia since April 6,
LH7, excluded.
The enlistment in the National
Guard for periods of one and three
years carries with it no obligation
to serve in. the National Guard re
serve.
The minimum enlisted strength
proscribed by the president for a let
tered infantry company is 100 men,
with the maximum fixed at 150 men.
T he officers of all lettered company
are elected by the men composing
the command.
Th n revised laws under which the
Americus Light Infantry is now be
ing re-organized provide many ad-
AMERICUS FANS TO
VISIT LESLIE TUESDAY
Tomorrow afternoon at 4:3 0
o’clock will be called the first
gam e of baseball between Americus
and Albany that has been played in
a good, long time. And Americus
folks will go there in crowds to at
tend the event. Jupiter Pluvius is
due to be kind and permit the event
to come off in grand style. All you
fans be not afraid, if a little rain
should fall in the forenoon, for the
Leslie diamond is one that will drink
water, and the gam e can easily be
played an hour after a heavy down
pour.
It is hoped that the servicess of
Jno. Wagnon can be procured to han
dle the umpire’s indicator. This as
sures the game to be a fast and . crap
py contest, with little, if any quar
reling, because we all can remember
just how much Jawn expected of the
umpire, and w e will expect just as
much from him.
The latest addition to the Ameri
cus nine is “Little Neal” Ray, who
will hold down the position of mascot.
He will appear tomorrow afternoon
in comic costume and will have en
tire charge of th e stick work when
they are not in active use. “Little
Boy” has not had much experience
I along this line, but he shows signs of
j a marked success. He will attend a
practice this afternoon in order to
learn which, of the two sticks to give
each batter" as he approaches the
plate, with the avowed purpose of
swatting the old pill.
The team has had two practices
and the third will tak e place this
afternoon at 5 o’clock. Pantone,
who is with the Richland club at pres
ent, will return to Americus Tuesday
to pitch th e game. Pantone is in
fine shape, as he has been pitching
for the fast Eastman club, which
recently has disbanded. Barney Ball
will also be, on hand and will pitch
Thursday’s game in Albany.
Albany beat Leslie two games last
week and Americus realizes that a
hard fight is ahead of them. They
will look likg a ball club at least, and
i if you Z want to see more pepper than
i has ever been displayed around thes e
parts, drive down to Leslie. The
crowd will leave here about 3:30
o’clock.
Mrs. S. B. Dobbins, of Atlanta, is
visiting in Americus this week.
Miss Augusta Harper, of Forsyth,
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vantages and privileges for those who
enlist, and it is urged by prominent
citizens in all walks of life that the
young men of th P county enlist, so
that flirt community may have that
adeoun+ A protection the presence of
a miliary unit here will always af
ford. _
E RIC U S
THE TIMESBRECORDER
IN THE 7O"Ote HEART OF DIXIE
BIG CORPORATION
IS FORMED TO
FINANCE COTTON
I ATLANTA, August 11.—An ac-
• cepted corporation, capitalized at $2,-
1 000,000 formed in the South for the
i benefit of the Southern farmers in
i marketing or holding their cotton,
] is now in process of formation in
i Altanta, under the patronage of the
: Federal Reserve Bank, and with the
■ endorsement of th e newly formed
[ American Cotton Association.
The capital of the new concern will
•b e drawn from bankers, merchants
and farmers. A committee is now
| being organized to forward the move
' ment, and complete plans are looked
• for during th e present week.
If such an acceptance corporation
“• becomes a reality it will be of the
• greatest aid in financing the cotton
■ crop. It will relieve the banks of
much of the strain put upon them
i in the midst of the cotton marketing
■ season, and will provide for large ad
-1 ditions of credit in the South which
' will be provided by Southern men
and Southern money.
In this way, the pressure on dis
tressed cotton in thg fall would be
relieved, and th e small farmer would
be allowed to get money on his cot
ton and hold it the same time for
a more favorable market, while the
fall slump in cotton prices would al
so be done away with which has al
ways resulted from the dumping of
distress cotton on the market as soon
as the crop was gathered.
With this and the effective or
ganization of cotton growers into an
association of their own, the Ameri
can Cotton Association the destiny
of cotton will in the near future
j shift from New York to the place
where it is grown, and the money
: spent for cotton will go into the pock-
I ets of the growers rather than to the
speculators. *
J WEATHER !
For Georgia.—Local showers and
thunderstorms probably tonight and
Tuesday.
Forecast for the period August 11
i to August 16, 1919, inclusive.—For
i the South Atlantic and East Gulf
i States: Normal temperatures will
• prevail, with generally fair weather
i but occasional rains are indicated
along the apast. A tropical disturb
j ance is central over the eastern Car-
■ ribbean Sea, which will advance west
warp into the Gulf of Mexico by the
middle of the week. The intensity
!of th e disturbance is not yet known.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 11, 1919.
POMERENE OPEN
IN OPPOSITION TO
PLUMB PLAN FOR
OPERATING LINES
Nothing Akin To It Out
side of Bolshevik Rus
sia, He Says
PLAN IS “WORSE
THAN SOCIALISM”
American People Don’t
Want To Be “Skin
ned’ Senator Says
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—(By
Associated Press.) —“The Plumb
plan for tri-partite control of the
railroads is vicious,” and there is
nothing akin to it outside of Bol
sh'evik russia, Senator Powerene, of
Ohio, declares in a letter sent to
officials of the railroad brother
hoods in his home state, which was
made public here today.
Declaring the plan “worse than
socialism,” Senator Pomerene said
that the American pepple w6uld
! never approve it “or anything akin
•to it.” He added that the public
! doesn’t want to be skinned, but if it
j must be skinned, it will make little
| difference whether they are skinned
ny wall street, or by methods pro
vided for in the Plumb plan.
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CONVENTION OF
STRIKERS CALLED.
ATLANTA, Aug. 11.—(By Asso
i dated Press.)' —A convention of all
I striking shopmen in«-the Southeast-
I ern district is to be held within the
, next few days. __
Americus machinists, boiler-mak-
I era, car repairers, yardmen and other
I mechanics who had been on strike
I during just a returned this
I morning to their tasks at the Sea-
I board Air Line shops here.
The action of th e men followed a
meeting of union men Sunday after
noon, when, according to th e best in
formation obtainable today, a res
olution was adopted providing that
they would return to work upon a
plan similar in some respects to that
adopted by the striking shopmen at
Macon.
At the Seaboard shops today it was
stated that the men had reurned
and that activity here was again in
evidence, but officials of th e company
issued no statement touching the sit
uation. The embargo on freight, ex
cept on foodstuuffs suitable for hu
man consumption, had not been call
ed off early this afternoon, though it
wa s anticipated this would come at
: any time.
I Efforts made to communicate with
j A. M. Thayer, financial secretary of
I the shopmen’s union, and also with
•V. C. Milton, corresponding secre
tary of th e workmen’s organization
i here, elicited the response from the
j Thayer home that h e had gone to the
I shops, but Milton’s phorie remained
! unanswered. Other union men, how-
I ever, confirmed the report that the
men had returned to their tasks, and
citizens generally expressed satis
faction that men had agreed to
the principle laid down by President
Wilson, believing that the resulting
negotiations will soon result in a
complete and agreeable settlement of
the points at issue between the com
pany and the men.
THOUSANDS OF COMMUTERS
FORCED TO WALK TODAY.
NEW YORK, Aug. 11 (By Ass
ciated Press). —Thousands of New
York commuters were today forced to
use other means of transportation
than trains on the New Haven road.
Service which was altogether sus
pended yesterday on account of the
shopmen’s strike, resulted today in
' 25 trains each way being discontin
' ued, with the trhffice situation be
coming more serious than herefore,
it is stated.
MACON MEN RETURN
MACON, Aug. 11 (By Associated
| Press) —Shopmen who returned to
I work Saturday afternoon, a few min-
I utes after the adoption of a resolu
: tion terminating the strike for the
j time being in the local shons, con
> tinued at their posts all nifht and
i during Sunday at a time and a half
| pav. Thev were the running r°nair
i men at work on locomotives that had
I broken down during the week’s
BAPTISTS’ OPEN
BIG CAMPAIGN
FOR HUGE SUM
HERE SUNDAY
Meeting at First Baptist
Church Last Night
Well Attended
BIG GATHERING
AT MACON SOON
Chaplain Smith Interest
ing and Entertaining
Speaker
Americus Baptist, members of
First Baptist and Central Baptist
church, along with anumber of citi
zens, members of other denomina
tions heard th e Rev. Jack Smith at
First Baptist church last night fire
the opening gun of th e $75,000,000
campaign, soon to be waged among
Sumter Baptists-to raise the sum for
missionary purpases. The' service
last night was wholly information
and inspirational and was in charge
of Rev. Carl W. Minoor, though Dr.
Smith and Dr. Lansing Burrows
were the principal speakers. A
splendid musical program was great
ly enjoyed by the large number who
attended, despite the inclement
weather.
The Baptist - of Georgia, and the
friends of the denomination through
out the state, will be delighted to
know that the organization for the
big 75 million campaign is rapidly
I materializing, and that' by the time
this paper is in the hand of th e sub
scribers, the entire state will have
been covered by the district erganiz
ers with the result that there will be
and associational organizer, associa
tional publicity director and associ
ational W. M. U. director.
The state has been divided into
j twelve districts with a. well known
Baptist leader over each district. Am
-1 ericus is in District 1, and the work
here will be directed by Rev. A. J.
- Smith, whose headquarters will be in
Macon.
The next outstanding stage of the
big campaign will be a meeting at
Mercer University in Macon on Aug
ust 13 and 14, when th e associational
workers will meet with the state of
ficals and the district organizers for
a two-day conference.
At this conference Dr. L. R.
Scarborough, director general for the
South, will deliver an address and
will discuss with Georgia workers the
big aspects of the campaign. It is
expected that there will b e two hun
dred and fifty leading men and wom
en at this Mercer meeting.
After that meeting th e association
al workers will go back and set up
the campaign in each association of
the state. This will amount in real
ity to the county unity of the war
drives.
DESTITUTE FAMILY
NEEDS ASSISTANCE
I “We have located here in Americus,”
Captain Knox of the Salvation Army
said Monday morning, “a family oi
four boys, the mother and father, who
are in destitute circumstances. 1 he,
father is working for ~25 or .S3O a
month. They haven’t a bed, nor a
chairs, stove, cooking utensils and
are badly in ne<*d of clothing.
“They came here from another
town. Before leaving all of their
personal effects were taken for debt
“If the good people of Americus
have anything that will help these
people out, ask them to phone the
Salvation Army, Phone 138. They
need clothes, an old stove, a chair or
two, an old bed—anything will help
us bridge them over the pressing need
that now exists. This is a very dis
tressing case, or we would not make
this call,” Captain Knox said to The
Times-Recorder.
Just Phone the S. A.— No. 138.
strike.
The entire force of men at the
Central of Georgia; Southern; Ma
con, Dublin and Savannah, and the
Georgia Southern and Florida shops,
will be back in their places this
morning, it was stated by union of
ficials Sunday. A strike vote Is re
turnable on August 24, calling for a
strike on September 2 if the demands
•of the men are not satified.
FAMILY GATHER
TO DO HONOR TO
AGED RESIDENT OF
THIS COMMUNITY
Has Resided For Three-
Quarters of Century
At Present Home
I
CAME TO SUMTER
WITH FIRST WHITES
Three Generations At
tended Celebration
Near Plains
Surrounded by his children, grand
children and great-grandchildren, Mr.
J W. F. Murray Saturday celebrated
his eighty-sixth birthday, at his: plan
tation home down below Plains' m
Sumter county.
Since he was eighteen months old
MY. Murray 'has resided there. All of
his eight children were born there:
it was from the same- old home that
he told his mother/father and wife
good-bye, back in IJB6T, “when he of
fered his life to the great cause of
the civil war.
“The night before father left sot
the front,” one of the children said,
“my grandfather carried father out
over thqxe to the yard. They
sat under that same bld tree you can
see from here. Grandfather said for
him to go and do his full duty as a
man and a Southerner.”
The old log smokehouse was visit
ed. where for generations now th"
home-raised and cured meats have
hung in an abundance. “Always
there is a year’s supply of meat ir
there and as far back as I can remem
ber there has been plenty there,”
said one of the-ehildrgn.
A rose bush that has stood in one
place for more than ’ 60 years was
pointed out. One land mark after
another was visited.
During the afternoon stories of
bygone days were told and old and
very dear remembrances again came
into being. “When piy granefrather
came here,” Mr. Nathan Murray said,
“this was a wilderness. Often my
father has told us of the deer, wild
turkey, bears and panthers that were
Ito be seen from the house. Game
j was plentiful.”
Among those gathered about the
table were Mrs. Willie Godwin, Mrs.
i Lizzy Anderson, Mr. and .Mrs. I. L.
Balkcom, Mr. and tyrs, 1%. T. -Mac
key, Mr. and Mrs D. P. Mufi-ay, Mr.
and Mrs. A. C. Murray and Mr.
Nathan Murray, the children of Mr.
J. W. F. Murray; there were abou?
. thirty grandchildren and five or six
great-grandchildren, besides fifteen '
or twenty friends.
The long table was piled high with
fried chicken, barbecued pork, pies,
cakes, jellies, preserves and every
other good thing that this country of
abundance affords.
The Rev. R. H. Jennings, of Daw
son, offered*.a most appropriate
prayer, asking God’s continued bless
.ings on the happy gathering of kins
folk and friends.
Eighty-six years have passed light
ly over the head of Mr. Murray. He
is hale and hearty, and as one of his
guests expressed it—“l’m not mar
ried yet; haven’t even found the girl
—but you 11 live to see me come here
each 9th of August, bringing the old
lady and five or six bovs.”
And he expressed the wish that was
in <h<- hearts of every on.> present.
These birthday celebrations out on
the Murray plantation are a- vearlv
affair, and eaah 9th of August the
children, grandchildren and the great
era nd children and friends of Mr. J
| V F Murray gather to ag.vn cclo
: brat, his birthday.
PROTEST MEXICAN LAWS
WASHINGTON. Aug. 11.—(By
Associated Press)—Repeated pro
: tests against the agrarian law of
: the Mexican State of Sonora, which
| are regarded as inimical to American
• interests have been made to the Mex
j ican Government by the State De
partment. the Senate was informed
today by the President.
ppnrr thtion LAW ADVANCES.
WacwingtON. Aug 11 (By As-
I coeiated Prcssl—Prohibition jn
forcoment legislation was advanced
; another step in Congress today when
' the Senate judiciary committe e be-
HOME
EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS
‘ANDY’ CARNEGIE
DEAD AT HOME IN
MASSACHUSETTS;
ILL FEW HOURS
Steel King Passed Away
After Brief Illness Os
Pneumonia
SECRETARY AND
WIFE AT BEDSIDE
Daughter Who Was Sent
For Arrived After
Death Ensued
LENNOX, Mass., Aug. II.—(By
Associated Press.) —Andrew Carne
gie died at his summer home “Sha
dow Brook” her e a t 7 o’clock this
morning from bronchial pneumonia.
His death was so sudden that his
daughter, Mrs. Roswell Miller, was
unable to reach his bedside. His
wife and private secretary were the
only persons with him whfen the end
came.
Andrew Carnegie, who was one of
the early steel kings, amassing a tre
mendous fortune in the steel indus
try, was a native of Scotland, and a
most unique character. His benefac- •
tions were widespread, and today
thousands of American cities enjoy
splendid fre e public libraries due to
his munifiicence. He was liberal in
his gifts to the littl e town where he
was born in Scotland, and wa s re
garded a s one of the greatest public
benefactors America has yet produc
ed. Although he had frequently ex
pressed the wish that he might “lie
poor,” his fortune at his death to
talled many millions.
COUNT ISHII DECEIVED
LANSING, LATTER SAYS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—(By
Associated Press.) —The existence of
th e secret treaty between Japan,
and Great Britain regarding Shan
tung was’ ’.‘concealed” from Secre
tary Lansing by Viscount Ishii, the
' Japanese ambassador to Washington.
! Lansing testified today before the
• senate foreign relations committee.
| The secretary of state said he first
heard of the secret treaties between
I Japhn and Great Britain, France,
( Russia and Italy in February at Ver
. sailles. He said he had investigated
Very thoroughly and was satisfied the
i treaties had never been published
i in Russia.
WILSON REFUSES
SENATE REQUEST.
! WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—(By
• Associated Press.) —President Wil
son today refused to send the senate
a copy of General Bliss' letter con
cerning the Shantung settlement, on
the ground that it contains confiden
tial references to other governments.
NEW REGULATIONS
IN REHABILITATION
WASHINGTON, August 11.—Rep
ra-entatives from the Federal Board
| of Vocational Education have been
' sent to each of the district offices
to explain new regulations in the ad
ministration of the vocational reh.ab
i ilitation law. These regulations were
revised to meet the requirements cf
recent changes in the law as amend
ed by Congress.
By thi s recent legislation the bene
fits of the rehabilitation act are ex
tended to all persons disabled in the
: service—— this, of course, includes
thos e suffering with tuberculosis. The
Federal Board is given the entire
responsibility of determining the
i right to and need for vocational
training of those persons whose dis
ablity prohibits a return to former
occupations, and who are unable
without training to carry on in a
gainful one.
The supvort of the disabled man,
with that of his dependent, is en
' tirfely the responsibility of the Fed-
I eral Board during his period of train
i ing. The scale of payments made to
men in training range from SBO a
' month, for the man with no depend
j ents, to $l5O for the married man
i with six or more children.
I A schedule of graduated payments
• is also made for the widower with
[ children and for the man with de
pendent father and motiier. ,
gan consideration of a bill passed by
the house last June as amended and
liberalized by the judiciary sub-corm
mittee.