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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 208.
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TREATY GOES TO
SENATE iVITH 45
AMENDMENTS
NASHINGTON, eJept. 10.—(By
Associated Press.) —Characterized as
an alliance and not a league, which
would “breed wars, Instead of secur
ing peace,” the German peace treaty
and covenant of the, League of Na
tions were formally reported to the
senate today by the foreign relations
committee with forty-five amend
ments and four reservations. The re
port was accompanied by a minority
report.
The majority report was signed by
every republican member of the com
mittee, except Serlator McCumber,
and explained the amendment and
reservations. All of the signers, it
was declared, were “governed by a
single purpose, and that is to guard
American rights and sovereignty, the
invasion of which would stimulate
breaches of faith, encourage conflicts
and generate wars.”
NEW VETERINARIAN HERE
TO WORK WITH FARMERS
Dr. Homer Wise, veterinarian
working under Dr. Bahnsen. state
veterinarian, has arrived in Ameri
cus to succeed Dr. J. H. Coffman,
who recently was recalled to Atlanta.
He will make his headquarters at the
Chamber of Commerce, where Dr.
Coffman was frdmerly located. Dr.
Wise will co-opetate with the stock
growers of the community in fighting
cholera and other ailments of hogS
and all kinds of stock.
REV. T. E. DAVENPORT
HERE FOR WEDDING
Rev. T. E. Dvaenport, of Ashburn,
brother of J. A. and D. F. Daven
port of Americus and himself a form
er Americus citizen, he having been
reared here, was in Americus today,
coming to perform the Davenport-
Melton wedding ceremony this ev
ening.
Rev. Mr. Davenport is a member
of the South Georgia coneference,
and pastor of the Ashburn Meth
odist church. He was fondly greet
ed by a number of old friends and
acquaintances about the streets to
day. ,
WILSON AT BISMARK
ON WAY INTO WEST
j ON PRESIDENT’S SPECIAL,
iSept. 10.— (By Associated Press.—-
! President Wilson is heading due west
I today on one of the longest legs of
his country-wide speaking tour. Near
ly the whole day was given to travel,
the only stop on his schedule being
a short one at Bismarck. N. D.
BISMARCK, N. D., Sept. 10.—(By
Associated Press.)—The president’s
special arrived from St. Paul at 11
o’clock this morning. After short
welcoming ceremonies, the president
was driven to the auditorium.
NEGRO BURNED
AT STAKE FOR
ATHENS KILLING
ATHENS, Sept. 10.—(By Asso
ciated Press.)—Obe Cox, negro slay
er of a farmer’s wife, who was cap
tured this morning by a posse of
11,000 men, was taken to the scene
of the crime and riddled with bullets
and burned at the stake.
NUMEROUS BIDDERS
FOR SCHOOL BONDS
Bids for the bonds of the Union
High school district at Leslie, and the
new Thalean district, west of Ameri
cus, were opened this morning in the
office of Shipp & Sheppard, but up
to a late hour this afternoon no an
nouncement had been made as to the
successful biddets.
It was reported that a number of
bids had been r?ceived, one bidder
I offering par for the Leslie issue
bearing 5 per cent.
NEW CHAMBER MEMBER.
The Schneider Marble company, of
Americus was elected to membership
in the Americus and Sumter County
(Chamber of Commerce at the regu
lar meeting of the commissioners of
the chamber yesterday afternoon.
II The Cotton Market
Markets closed for Pershing cele
bration.
ERIC
THE TIMESpRECORDER
tfrftfl PUBLISHED IN THE~><>/k HEART OF
MACADAM NOT
ROAD WE WANT
SAYS CHAMBER
It appearing to be the concensus
of opinion of the men present that
asphalted macadam was not satisfac
i ory for building permanent roads in
Sumter county, action was taken by
( the commissioners of the Chamber of
! Commerce at their meeting yesterday
afternoon, asking the county com
[ missioners that, inasmuch as the per
[ paving material until there had been
[sufficient time to investigate the ex
periences of other localities with this
material. It was felt by the com-
I misisoners that, inasmuch as the per
manent road campaign was initiated
by the Chamber of Commerce and
[sponsored all the way through by it,
[the request was entirely in order.
[Letters to all of the county commis
sioners asking delay in deciding on
paving material were mailed this
morning.
It was pointed out by some of the
commisisoners that the voters were
given to understand during the bond
campaign that the roads were to be
paved with concrete, and that there
should be no substitution. Others
told of macadamized highways which
they were familiar ahd not stood
up. •
W, R. Neel, state highway engi
neer, on his visit here recently told
ithe commissioners that the asphalted
' macadam was the best type of road
;that could be laid here, giving it his
j unqualified endorsement, and pointed
[to several examples of the proper
i laying of it.
MRS. IVEY CALLED BY
DEATH OF HER MOTHER
Mrs| W. D. Ivey is in Cedartown,
I having been called there the first of
[ the week by the death of her mother,
, Mrs. J. O. Waddell, who was also
I grandmother of T. O. Marshall, of
A<nericus.
Mrs. Waddell, who was 75 years of
age, had been living with Mrs. Ivey
here for some time until June, when
she went to Atlanta to visit another
daughter, and from there went to
her old home at Cedartown, where
she was residing with Mr. Marshall’s
mother. The funeral was held at
Cedartown this afternoon.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1919.
PERSHING LEADS
FAMOUS FIRST
DOWNSTH AVE,
THRONG-LINED
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Vast Numbers See Goth
am’s Most Notable
Military Spectacle
PICKED REGIMENTS
HEAD PROCESSION
Troops In Line Repre-
sent 47 States of The
Union
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—(By Asso
ciated Press.) —Countless thousands
of Americans, flashed with the pride
of victory, paid tribute here today,
in what probably was the city’s most
impressive military spectacle to the
nation’s leader in the world war. Gen
leral John J. Pershing, coffimander-in
' chief of the American Expeditionary
[Force, and to the far famed First
division.
The sun-burned MissAirian, look
ing as fit as a youthful Iridian despite
! his 59 years—the soldielj who said to
■ the shade of Lafayette ? at his tomb
in Piepus “Lafayette, we are here!”
and whose army of 1,250,000, the
1 largest force of Americans ever to
1 fight on foreign soil, turned the tide
of possible Allied defeat into victory
j today led down Fifth Ave. 22,000
1 men of the First Division in a proces
sion which stirred the blood of every
spectator.
Pershing’s Own At Lead.
Ahead of the bronzed veterans,
mostly “regulars” who been
i abroad nearly two years and a quar-
I ter. and whose fighting was th e ad
miration of every poilu and British
I Tommy, was General Pershing s
i guard of honor, a regiment of 3,000
‘ I men picked from all seven of the
! American reguar army divisions in
j France. This unique contingent,
1 i known as “Pershing’s Own,” and
i composed of two companies from
I each regiment of the division rep
j resented, the companies in turn be
( ing formed of one squad from each
company in the regiment, was a spe
cial feature of the par. de.
Accompanying General Pershing at
j the head of the division rode Major
j General Edward F. McGlachlin,
I commanding, and with him two oth
i er former commanders of the I* irst
Major General William L. Sibert,
who took the troops to France and
Lieutenant General Robert L. Bul
lard who took them into action and
later relinquished command to take
a higher post. With them were a
host of officers, including Brigadier
General Frank Parker, of Charleston,
S. C., and other commanders some
of whom saw their first active serv-
I ice with the division in I' rance.
> , 47 States Represented.
; The troops in line represented 47
■ | states of the Union and several of
1 ■ the insular possessions, and among
I I the marchers were more than 4,000
1 ! old time doughboys whose only ie
-1 } corded home is the United States ar-
! my. Trudging along under the
■ 1 weight of full combat equipment, ev-
I [ ery pack in place, rifles clean and
1 ‘ bayonets gleaming in the sun, the
■ fighters presented a picture of ag
' gressiveness and force. From 110
Street, where the parade started, to
’ the Washington Arch, where it dis
[ banded, the throngs along the curbs
! kept up almost tumultuosu cheering.
“There come the Sixth Field Ar
i tillery!” someone shouted. A few
; moments later this famous orgamza
. ' tion, Battery C of which on October
• 23 1917, fired the first shot at the
, Germans, came and was
i I wildly acclaimed. >
' j An epitome of America's fighting
machine in Europe, the First Divis
' ion present what millitary men say
was the first parade of its kind in
the country’s history. That is. not
only were the doughboys equipped
with rifles, bayonets, jacks, helmets,
canteens, belts and ammunition, but
every piece of the Division’s artillery
‘was in line, as well as the American
(Continued on Page 5)
Here’s a Real Chance for Six
\ Sumter Lads to Be Partners
. In Operating Sheffield Farm
WANTED —Five or six young
men who believe in themselves
and have faith in Sumter county
along with their brawn: who love
soil; who know that hard work
is the basis of wealth; who have
brains and want to use them
along with their brawn and love
the farm and are looking for
their “chance.”
That is the way John Sheffield
might have worded a want ad, had
it occurred to him to use one. But
it hadn’t occurred to him to use
one. Besides, he didn’t know ex
actly what he wanted. He had
the idea, but he hadn’t worked it
out yet to the point of getting in
touch with the right lads.
Mr. Sheffield confided his idea
yesterday to several of his friends.
He thought he was on the right
track, but wanted to be sure of
it, so he asked several of them
how it sounded. They all liked it.
And they decided Mr. Sheffield had
the biggest idea that had come to
any man in Dixie in many a day.
But let him tell it:
A Farmer’s Plan.
“1 was reading the other day
of the experiences of a farmer who
had three sons,” he said. He was
a poor farmer, and the boys were
getting ready to leave home, as so
many boys do on the farms. Ru
ral home life is utterly unattrac
tive in so many cases. But this
farmer devised a plan. He* took
his three boys into partnership
with him. He told them that they
would all operate the farm as a
business enterprise; each would
have his line of work; he would
supervise and do certain tasks, an
other would keep the machinery in
good repair at all times and be
head mechanic for the farm, anoth
er would look after the live stock,
and so on. At the end of the
year, after deducting expenses of
every sort, they were to divide
the profits. This man summed up
the success of his undertaking by
making the statementthat he was
becoming wealthy, whereas before
he had been barely making a liv
ing. And besides he kept his boys
at home and made successful men
of all c? them.
“I think this ilTustration embod
ies a princ ple that this country
and the world are .rapidly cominfe
to —I mean profit-sharing by the
employes—the men who do the
work. It is coming because it is
right, and when it comes I some
how believe we shall be better off.
Wants to Try It.
“If I can find the right kind of
young men—and the success of
the whole undertaking is depend
ent upon finding the right young
men—l think I shall undertake to
operate my farm south of Ameri
cus on the profit-sharing plan the
coming year. Down there I have a
farm of something over 200 acres
under cultivation, now operating
eight plows, with an overseer, Mr.
M’Garah, I have taken a great deal
of pride in this farm; it is tight
ly fenced, well improved in every
respect, with good tenant houses
nearly new on it, and plenty of
modern machinery, good stock,
and every thing needed.
“My scheme is to get a half
dc j n husky, ambitious young men,
who have at least a high school
education so as to able to study
scientific farming, and understand
what they read or are told, and
make them my partners in operat
ing that farm next year. I say
half a dozen because $ am sure that
many industrious young fellows,
working in their own interests,
would easily do the work of eight
hired negroes.
A Farm Club, Too.
“I.would take these young men
under some such contract as this:
I would renovate the present ten
ant houses, which are nearly new,
and turn them into comfortable
and pleasant living quarters for
them. I would arrange for them
to board at the home of the over
seer. I would build an addition to
the overseer’s home for a sort
of a club or headquarters for the
men, where they could have books
and magazines and all the impor
tant farm journals and other ma
terial of benefit to them in their
occupation. This room would be
well lighted, comfortable and at
tractive,' and would be so arrang
ed that a frequent intervals, as
they chose, they could have friends
I out from the city for a dance or
a frolic, letting them keep in touch
with social life.
“I would board and lodge these
young men all the season, and in
additon pay them a nominal wage,
enough to buy clothing and other
necessities and incidentals. I
would stock the farm with good
live stock of all kinds—as at pres
! ent —and all kinds of modern ma
chinery in whatever quantity they
i could make use of, such as trac
[ tors, plows, etc., would be at their
disposal. They would merely form
the crew of the farm and carry
on its operation, under the direc
tion of the overseer, who would
be a sort of foreman.
Would Split Profit*.
“At the end of the season we
would check up. T would deduct
the expenses of the farm and we
would split the profits, half going
to me as owner and financer of the
project and the other to the men
in a common fund. From this
common fund I would deduct the
amount of wage they had ‘been
paid during the season. This farm
represents an investment of some
$55,000. A profit of SB,OOO to i
slo,ooo' per year can reasonably
be expected from it. Assuming
it is only SB,OOO, this would mean
$4,000 to the men. Deduct SI,OOO
i for wages paid to the six during
the year, and we have $3,000 or
SSOO net for each man at the end
j of the year over and above his
’ living expenses. Which wouldn’t
[ be bad for any young man, and
[ it wouldn’t take make years like
that to enable every one of them
to get out and buy farms gs their
own.
“A profit not to be calculated in
dollars and cents would be the
knowledge of scientific and up-to
l date farming which would be ac
i quired by actiyil practice and un
i der every advantageous condition.
“I know this idea sounds Utop
’ ian, and is, but I have faith in
folks—and I believe it can be
made a profitable venture from my
[ own standpoint, for I know a man
will do a great deal more conscien
i tious work when he is sharing the !
profits from his labors than other
; wise—it’s only human nature. Un- .
; der such a plan the actual farm
operators would be making a dol
lar for themselves every time they
made a dollar for me; they would
take care that the stock was prop-
I erly attended to; that the land was
| properly cultivated and kept built
up instead of being scratched and
allowed to run down. ,
Old Order Changing.
“Finally, we’ve got to realize that
that the old order is changing, ■
i and the South no longer is able
i to rely upon the negro labor; the
white man, with the aid of power
machinery, must learn that the bur
den will fall largely upon his own
shoulders. And when he does ful
ly realize the South has taken a
: long step forward.
Mr. Sheffield asks that any young
man interested in going into farm
ing partnership with him on such a
‘ plan for the coming season call
at his office at the Sheffield Hard
ware company and talk it over with
■ him. Or they may consult George
O. Marshall, farm demonstration
j agent of Sumter county, if the
prefer, he says. Mr. Marshall says
the plans is great, and has volun
teered to assist in finding the right
! young men to carry it through.
And here’s a tip: If Mr. Shes-
I field finds the right six he’s going
! to set the pace in farming in this
i community. And, while it will be
only the beginning of farming on
[ the profit-sharing basis, it will not
’ be ths end of it, by any means.
Mr. Sheffield is right. The old
i order is changing .
I |!
; The Weather Forecast
X • I
For Georgia.—Fair tonight and
(Thursday, except probably showers
iThursday in southwest portion.
HOME
JEDiTiOM
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TROOPS CALLED
OUT TO CHECK i
WILD REIGN OF
LAWLESSNESS
Ihree Hundred Stores
Reported Robbed
First Night
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MANY ATTACKS
MADE ON WOMEN
Situation Appears Grow
ing Worse—Crowds
Throng Streets
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BOSTON, Sept. 10.— (By Asso
ciated Press.)—Governor Coolidge
this afternoon called out three regi
nents and a machine gun company of
state troops, and ordered them to re
port at once to Mayor Peters.
BOSTON, Sept. 10.—-(By Asso
ciated Press.) —Lawlessness was ram
pant in'Boston today as a result of
the police strike which started late
.yesterday. The situation which last
night approached anarchy, today ap
peared to grow more serious.
Orders were given to troops to be
prepared to be called out. The
mayor announced at noon he had
taken over control of the police de
partment from Commissioner Curtis,
a state appointee.
It is estimated at least three hun
dred stores were robbed during last
night. Reports that sailors were
rominent in the disturbances brought
armed guards from trie navy yard.
Attacks on women throughout the
light were frequent. The atrocious,
! vicious element suffered most, but ac
cording to reports, no woman was
afe in little frequenetd districts.
Today crowds surged through the
down town streets, but generally had
he spirit of merry makers.
RECRUITS SOUGHT HERE
FOR ARMY HOSPITAL
A special army recruiting party ar
rived in Americus Tuesday and will
remain until Sept. 14.
The partv is desirous of obtaining
applicants for one year’s service at
(the U. S. A. General Hospital No
6, Fort McPherson, Ga., to help re
lieve men of the draft army who will
be ieleased shortly. There are now
over eighteen hundred wounded sol
diers at the fort who require constant
[attention. Any man. regardless of
experience, will prove valuable in re
-I'eving the situation, and aside from
;g : “ing patriotic service to the wound
ed heroes they would gain valuable
knowledge of hospital work and
would become better fitted to fill good
paying position after their year of
armv life.
While desirous of obtaining appli
cants for the medical department, ap
plicants for other branches will be
received, it is announced. The re
cruiting party can be found at the
W’ar Camp Community Service build
ing, Forsyth street.
TROPICAL HURRICANE
DOES LITTLE DAMAGE
JACKSONVILLE, Fla , Sent. 10.
can hurricane apparently had littfe
. —(By Associated Press)— The tropi
effect on southern Florida. Advices
state that trains are running to Key
West over the overseas extension and
comparatively little damage was done •
anywhere.
MISS CORR GOES TO
HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY
| It was announced today that Miss
I Martha Cobb, who had been elected
Ito the faculty of t’-e Third Di=tricfr
I Agricultural school, had resigned
and accented a similar position in the
[faculty of the Amorims High sehxwtt.
ilf wm stfl+ed that thoro iv«>ro •ewal'
i applicants for the nosition vacated by
Miss Cobb, and that no announce
ment could be made at this time.