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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR
City of Americ.s.
Sumter County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For Third Congressional
District
U. S. Court, Southern District of Georgia
Entered as Second-Class Mat;er at the Postoffice at
Americus. Georgia, according to the Act of Congress.
National Advertising Representatives:
FROST, LANDIS & KOHN
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New York Chicago Atlanjta
“THE GREATEST MOTHER.”
They called it "the greatest mother in the
world,” and never was title more richly deserved,
for no small boy, sobbing for the parental arms I
because he had cut his thumb, turned to his mother
more instinctively than did the American soldier
turn to the Red Cross in his hour of pain and suf
fering.
Such is the unanimous testimony of every:
man returned from overseas, and we at home may
well believe it, for we, too, have sought instinctive
ly the Red Cross when disasters have overwhelmed
our communities and whole cities have been ravag
ed by fire and flood.
Mother always made that cut thumb well.
She bound it up, she wiped away the tears and, (
perhaps, if it hurt particularly much, she kissed the
place—which always seemed to help most of all. |
"The greatest mother in the world" has been:
no less successful. No soldier ever came to her
I
in agony that was not cured, were curing possible;
no community ever lacked for her assistance. She
was there at the first cry.
What would we do without her? We would
be as lost and lonely as those who have cut
thumbs with none to cure and comfort.
For two years she has been away and we
have missed her—ministering to the needs of our
own unfortunates and the unfortunates of other
countries. Now she has come back—the "Mother
of America”—and it is for us to strengthen her
arms for that great work for others that only
mothers do.
We salute her and we pledge our best—
Mother of America, the greatest in the world.
AVIATION APPROPRIATION FAILS.
Owing to the refusal of the House members
of the Conference Committee to agree to the ap
propriation of $15,000,000 for the army aviation
service that item has been dropped from the gen
era] deficiency bill.
In commenting on this rpatter in the Senate,
Senator Wadsworth, of New York, chairman of
the Militarj* Affairs Committee, made a plea for a
separate department of aeronautics to lift avia
tion in the United States out of what he called
the ‘shameful position” it has fallen into since the
armistice. He asserted that the United States could
r.ot put three squadrons of airplanes into the air
now should necesisty demand them, and that if;
existing conditions are allowed to continue it will
take twenty-five years to catch up with other
powers. Continuing, he said:
"The British and French governments have
created new government departments of air ser
vice. They recognize that aviation has a tremen
dous commercial value, that it is a new department
cf transportation, as important in *ts element as is
maritime transportation in another element.. It is
cbsolutely necessary that Congress establish a sep
arate department in charge of aviation.
Before the armistice, although it is true there
was great waste, we had nevertheless established
a huge industry and were at a very high point of
production of planes and engines. Immediately
all contracts were cancelled, establishments closed,
and nothing has since been done to keep this
producing capacity organized. Congress has not |
appropriated the money necessary to keep the
plants running. Why, in July of this year just
fourteen airplanes were made in the whole United
States, while in the same month Great Britain I
produced 2.000. That shows how we are stand-!
mg still while others are going ahead.
There has been extravagance and waste, but
it should be said that responsible men are now in
charge. The men who perpetrated the extrava
gances and waste have been retired. I have all
confidence in the present director of air service and
his lieutenants.”
S' PALMER’S NOVEL MOVE. **’
Apparently all the reporters "covering" the
injunction proceedings against the coal miners’
•union heads in Indianapolis Friday missed the
whole point of the government’s contention. It
now develops from a Statement issued by
ney General Palmer in Washington, that the gov-*
=-ament s injunction was brought not against the*
strike, but against the union heads to prevent their
encouragement and leadership of the strike. In
other words, the government does not dispute the
right of anv to r--.--'*- rvc.’ w’ ’ e rhoese- ’
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THE CHEERFUL GROCER.
QROCER Johnson is a peach, and he should
be hired to teach optimism to his kind; he's
a man of hopeful mind. In the thronging marts
of trade optimism seems decayed; nearly every
merchant prince seems to think that life's a
quince, and he tells me tales of tears, and of
doleful doubts and fears. Every day’, 1 hear a
spiel from the dealers as they deal, hear a
narrative of woe, and of commerce lying low,
lying profitless and dead, and of frightful times
ahead. Every day I hear such bunk when Igo
to spend a plunk in the thronging marts of
trade, where the hams and spuds are weighed.
But in Johnson s moral shop 1 have heard no
doleful yawp. Johnson skips around his store,
leaving smoke along the floor, and he murmurs
cheerful tunes as he weighs his boneless prunes
Tired of hearing people beef, it’s to me a great
relief, to encounter, then and now. one who has
unfurrowed brow, and who chortles as he sells
hard boiled eggs and oyster shells. Far too
many people whine in this little grad of mine,
putting up a doleful wheeze, when they should
be on their knees, thanking Providence all day
for the good that comes their way.
and asked no injunction against the miners to pre
vent them from doing 30. But the government
does dispute the right of any men to organize
and lead a conspiracy against the welfare of the
country—against the people at large—and conse
quently proceeded to protect itself in its own courts,
as the attorney general put it. If the dispute had
been a matter concerning only the miners and
operators, of course, the government would not
have acted at all. Or, had the public been con
cerned only incidentally or even to the extent of
being inconvenienced, it is probable the govern
ment would have taken no cognizance of the strike.
But in this case it is the public which is vitally and
most interested and affected—and the government
has acted.
The attorney general, in choosing to follow
the unusual course he has adopted, has proceeded
on the theory that no strike can last long without
leadership, which explains his reason for enjoining
the leaders.
If Mr. Palmer s plan brings early peace in the
dispute, it will be a most happy solution. Not
only labor, but the whole world will be the loser
if this unhappy struggle cannot be settled quickly
and peaceably.
Wbat Other Editors Say
THE REBEL YELL.
■A fakir, in New York, remembering Barnum’s
famous remark that the world loved to be hum
bugged, is advertising to teach the “rebel yell”
in three lessons for the modest consideration of
three dollars.
Speaking of the rebel yell, the battle cry of
the bravest army that ever went down in defeat,
th Norfolk Leader says:
“A hard school was that in which that ‘yell’
■ was born and it closed when the storm was ended
that beat with such pitiless fury upon these golden
shores. The last echoes of the yell’ died among
the foothills beyond Appomattox, passed with the
last rattle of musketry. It was a ‘yell’ of fierce
conflict, a shout of defiance, a cry
with emotions as incomprehensible to the Staten
Island peddler as the mysteries of the universe to
1 ( a drowsy child.
“That ‘yell’ is gone forever. It was the school
boy’s shout of mirth or shout of exuberance, no
melody of happy days that linger to regale the lag
ging hours of age. Upon even the resolute lips of
i other years that once sounded it, ‘when the grapes
| were of iron and the vintage of blood,’ there
■comes now a reminiscent smile when noisy fakirs
{talk it. There was no graphophone that caught it
and for its reproduction, in these days of frater
; nity and peace, the shepherd boy with his lute
might as well be summoned to sound the defiant
i cry of the stormy petrel that swells only above the
j raging waters."—Montezuma Georgian.
A Bit of This and That }
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A NERVE-SHOCKED NATION.
This may offer a real diagnosis of our present
acute national ills:
The American people, individually and col
lectively, figuratively and literally, are suffering
from a bad case of nerve shock, in the opinion of
the most noted surgical and medical men of the
country, now attending the American College of
Surgeons’ Clinic, at New Yotk.
The war, high living as shown by the unpre
cedented business being done by restaurants, cab
’arets and dance halls—and general nervous tension
are exacting their toll, the doctors declare.
Nervous disorders, arising from conditions
growing out of the war, have affected thousands of
men and women. In some cases, as with returnee
soldiers, it manifests itself in what is called “rest
m:ss”or "ware •’ " other doctors say.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
J. W. SHEFFIELD, Pres. FRANK SHEFFIELD, V.-P.
LEE HUDSON, Cashier.
DATE OF CHARTER: ■ i
Oct. 13, 1891.
P O W ■ E. R
Men of strength move the world. Power is given to
some men by Nature; with a far greater number of men.
Power is developed by thought—by consistently laying
out their lives along the line of Wisdom.
F ortunate is the individual who, early in lift,, takes thought
of his future, and plans for it deliberately. Such a man
almost seems to overcome Fate, for he is prepared.
In business, the man who is financially on a sound basis,
is the man who invariably succeeds.
We have may such as depositors, and we are always
glad to welcome new ones.
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20 YEAR AMORTISEMENT LOANS—
On the plan of the Federal Land Banka. No Joint liability and
without red tape.
10 YEAR LOANS—
interest payable annually. Privilege of paying part or all of \
principal at any interest period.
5 YEAR LOANS
Written option furnished permitting payment in full at any
‘ interest period.
Money is available as soon as title to land is approved.
We will be glad to explain the various kinds of farm loans.
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(Established 1908,)
Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
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Day Phone 253 Night Phones 381 or 106
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Day Phones 88 and 231 Night 661 and 167
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Winter Lawn
Grass
We have plenty of Grass Seed for planting your lawn.
Now is the time. Our Winter Lawn Grass will beautify
your lawn. •
ONION SETS should be put out now. We have all
kinds.
PHONE US YOUR ORDERS
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PHONE 502
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The Planters Bank of Americus.
RESOURCES OVER $1,500,000.
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mercial and savings. Ob
time certificates and savings
accounts, we pay 4 per cent
interest, compounded. Our
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Prompt Conservative Accommodating.
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week.
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ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES AND CONTRACTORS.
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Have Arrived
Seed Rye,
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Dwarf Essex Rape.
PUT IN YOUR FALL GARDEN NOW.
Turnips Onion Sets
Rutabagas Multipliers.
We Have Them and Will Appreciate Your Orders.
We have selected and will have on hand in a short time a full
and complete stock of carefully selected garden and flower seeds
bought from thoroughly reliable and well known growers of
national repute, and it is our intention to sell you only GOOD
Seed; Seed that will come up and GROW.
AMERICUS SEED & SUPPLY CO.
121 West Forsyth Street Phone 150 Next to Bragg’s Market
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