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SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1920
In CONGRESS, July 4, 177#
States -
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HARDING AND COOLIDGE
‘CAN’ CAMPAIGN TALKS
Standard Bearers TeH Phonograph
Their Conception of Needs of Country
At This Time
WASHINTGON, July 3.—Senator
Harding this w sek launched his first!
public attack since his nomination on:
the League of Nations as proposed ;
by President Wilson.
His speech was delivered to a
phonograph record of the Republi
can National Committee and is ex
pected ultimately to reach the ears
of several million persons. This
time it was heard only by the op
erator who prepared the record. Sen
ator Harding spoke on “American
ism.” A few days ago his team
mate, Gov. Calvin Coolidge, spoke
on “Law and Order.”
The records are to be prepared for
distribution July 4 through local Re
publican committees and committee
men, and also will be available at
music and phonograph stores. 1 his
is said to be the first time the phono
graph has been employed for a na
tional political campaign.
Harding’s Speech.
Senator Harding in his speech said :
“The first flaming torch of Ameri
canism was lighted in framing the
federal constitution in I<B7. ihe l
Pilgrims signed their simple and ma
jestic covenant a full century and a
half before, and set aflame their bea-;
con of liberty on the coast of Massa-,
chusetts. Other pioneers of New
World freedom were rearing their
standards of liberty from Jamestown
in Plymouth for five generations be
fore Lexington and Concord herald
ed a new era. It was all American
in the destined result, yet all of it
lacked the soul of nationality in
/ Uple truth. There was no thought
MT nationality in the revolution for
American independence. The ,rol- ;
onists were resisting a wrong, and
freedom was their solace. Once it
was achieved, nationality was the
only agency suited to its preserva
tion. - , I
“Americanism really began when,
robed in nationality. The American
republic began the blazed trail of
representative popular government
Representative Democracy was pro-;
claimed the safe agency of highest;
human freedom. America headed I
the • forward procession of civil.;
human and religious liberty, whjfh
ultimately will effect the liberation
of all mankind. The federal con-,
stitution is the very base of all Am-;
ericanism, the ark of the covenant;
of American liberty, the very temple
of equal rights. The constitution
does abide, and ever will so long as
the republic survives.
“Let us hesitate before we sur
render the nationality which is the;
very soul of highest Americanism. |
This Republic has never failed hu-'
manity nor endangered civilization. ;
On the League of Nations.
“We have been tardy sometimes
like when we were proclaiming de
mocracy and neutrality while we ig
nored our national rights, but the
ultimate and helpful "art we played
in the great war will be the pridel
of America so long as the world re- !
cites the story.
• “We do not mean to hold aloof, we;
choose no isolation; we shun no duty,]
I like to rejoice in an American con-!
science, and in a big conception of
our obligations to liberty, justice je
and civilization. Aye,, and more, I
like to think of Columbia’s helping*
hand to new republics which arc
seeking the blessings portrayed in
our example, Ifut I have a confi
dence in our America that requires
DR. F. L. CATO
Phones: 531 Office; 55 Residence
DR. WILBUR C.SMITH
Phones: 531 Office; 657 Residence
Physician and Surgeon
Office Hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 4
' RAILROAD SCHEDULES ~ )
(Central Time)
Arrival and Departure of Passenge
Trains, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figure
published as information and not I
guaranteed:
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY. |
Arrive Leaves
1:59 pm Columbus-Chgo 3:40 am
10:38 pm Albany-Montgy 5:18 am
7:35 pm Macon-Atlanta 6:37 am
*7:15 pm Columbus *7:10 am
*2:07 pm Albany-Montgy 2:07 pi
2:07 pm Macon-Atlanta 2:07 pm
•11:45 am Columbus ' *2:30 pm
10:00 am Columbus 13:00 pm
6:37 am Albany 7:35 pm
5:18 am Macon-Atlanta 10:38 pm
8:40 am Albany-Jaxville 11:50 pm
s *Daily, except Sunday
ISunday only.
SEABOARD AIR LINE
Arrives Leaves
10:59 pm Cordele-Savannah 1:20 am
5:15 pm Richland 10:00 am
3:lopir Cordele-Savannah 12:31 pn
12:31pm Richland-Montgy 3:10 pm
10:00 am Cordele-Helena 5:15 pm
I
no council of foreign powers to point
! the way of American duty. We wish
I to counsel, co-operate and contribute,
i but we arrogate to ourselves the
keeping of the American continent
and every concept of our obligation.
It is fine to idealize, but it is very
practical to make sure our own house
is in perfect order before we at
tempt the miracle of old world stab
ilization.
“Call it the selfishness of nation
ality if you will; I think it an inspira
tion to patriotic devoti?n.
“To safeguard America first.
“To stabilize America first.
“To prosper America first.
“To think of America first.
“To exalt America first.
“To live for and revere America.
“Let the Internationalist dream
and the Bolshevist destroy. God pity
him for “whom no- minstrel raptures
shall swell.’ In the spirit of the Re
public, we proclaim Americanism and
acclaim .America.”
Coolidge’s Address
Gov. Coolidge said:
“The first duty of government is
to be true to itself. This does not
mean perfection. It means a plan to
strive for perfection. It means loyal
ty to ideals. The ideals of America
were set out in the ©eclaration of In
dependence and adopted in the Con
stitution. They did not represent per
fection attained, but perfection plan
ned- The fundamental principle was
freedom. The fathers knew this was
not yet apprehended. They formed a
government firm in the faith that it i
was ever to press forward this high !
mark.
“In selfishness, in greed, in lust for
gain, it turned aside. Enslaving oth
ers, it became itself- enslaved. Bond
age in one part consumed freedom
in all parts. The government of the
fathers ceasing to be true to itself
was perishing.
Five score and ten years ago that
Divine Providence, which infinite
repetitions has made only the more a
miracle, sent into the world a new
life, destined to save a nation. No
star, no sign, foretold his coming.
About his cradle all was poor and
mean, save only the great source of
all great men, the love of a wonder
ful woman. When she had faded away
in his tender years from her death
bed in humble poverty, she dowered
her son with greatness. There can be
no proper observance of a birthday
which forgets the mother. Into his
origin sjs into his life men long have
looked and wondered. In wisdom
great, but in humanity greater, in
justice (strong, but in compassion
stronger, he overcame evil with .good.
His presence filled the nation. He
broke the' might of oppression. He
restored a race to its birthright. His
mortal frame has vanished but his
spirit increases with the increasing
years, the richest legacy of the great
est century.
Equal Honor For Equal Work
“Men show by what they worship,
what they are it is no accident that
before the great example of Ameri
can manhood our people stand with
respect and reverence. In Abraham
Lincoln is revealed our ideal, the hope
of our country fulfilled. He was the
incarnation of what America was to
be. Through him the Almighty be
stowed upjn the Nation a new birth
of a freedom, that this day land of
ours might be returned to the house
of its fathers. We are the o-nefieiar
ies of a life of surpassing service,
wise in freedom and gentle in gentle
ness.
“Freedom has many sides and an
g'es. Human slavery has been swept
away. With security of personal
rights has come security of property
rights The freedom of ‘he human
speech and free press. The public
school has made education possible
for all, and ignorance is a disgrace.
In political affairs, the vote of the
humblest has long counted for as
much as the most exalted. We are
working toward the day, when our
industrial life, equal duty is collect
ive, as well as personal.
“Law must rest on the eternal
foundation of righteousness, industry
thrift, character, are not conferred
by act or reserve. Government cannot
relieve from toll. Do the day’s work
if ipotebtertotcifine ored sfi-wfniDj
if it be to protect the rights of the
weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be
to help a powerful corporation better
to serve the people, however, the op
position, do that. Expect to be called
a demagogue, but don’t be a dema
gogue.
“We need a broader, firmer, deep
er faith in people—a faith that man
desire to do right, that the govern
ment is founded upon a righteousness
which will endure.”
Nigftit Flying, Big Dance and
Vaudeville Souther Field, July 5.
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No American Baby Is Guarded More Carefully
Than The Sacred Declaration of Independence
By GEORGE B. WATERS.
WASHINGTON, July 3.—No baby
in America is tucked away in his
crib with more tender care than is
acorded the Child of Freedom of the
eighteenth century—the American
Delcaration of Independence.
The original parchment of that
wonderful document, in honor of
which all Americans are celebrating,
faded and worn by time, is literally,
to be given anew the breath of life.
For years it has been locked in a
safe, kept from the sunlight. Three
experts on “preserving famous docu
ments and archives,” recently em
ployed by Secretary of State Colby,
recommended that the Declaration of
Independence be taken from the dark
safe and placed in shaded light
where the air can pass over it gently.
This is no pipe-dream, but a real
ity. The famous document in honor
of which we are all taking a holiday
Monday, is just as much alive today
as it was on July 4, 1776, when the
president of the Continental Con
gress put his John Hancock on it,
and it needs oxygen, literally and
figuratively.
John A. Tonner, librarian at the
state department, is nurse and keep
er to the Declaration of Independ
ence.
Tonner’s job now is to see that
the Declaration stays in the steel
safe, and that it (is always there
when he locks the door to the fire
proof vault at night. When arrange
ments are made to give the docu
ment more oxygen and shaded light,
it will be his duty to keep a guarded
eye upon it.
The Declaration of Independence
has taken but one trip in the 144
years of its life, from Philadelphia to
Washington.
“That steel safe was built espe-j
cUlly to take the Declaration of In
dependence to the Chicago World’s
Fair in 1892,” said Tonner. “But
after it was finished the secretary of
state decided not to take a chance
on sending it.”
The worst thing that ever hap
pened to the document was in 1823,
when President Monroe authorized
W. J. Stone to make sac-simile copies
of it by a water stamp process, to
be sent to each of the original sign
ers or their heirs.
Stone made a copper plate that the
state department still preserves, but
the chemicals used took tie life out
of the ink in the signatures. As a
result most of the signatures have
faded off and scarcely a trace of
John Hancock’s name can •be seen.
But the department has many fac
simile copies of both the declaration
and the names that are as plain as
the day they were written.
Ji’our months ago, for patriotic
reasons, the famous document was
taken from the safe to bfe' viewed by
eiNGKIt ALE
ONE keen-fought set after an
other — then a sparkling,
frosty glass of Clicquot Club Gin-
ger Ale. And you can come off ' W
the tennis court or golf links and
drink the whole bottle without
harm, since the real ginger con- p'***
tent safeguards the overheated • jflK V\ fin ! I
body from the sudden shock of J
an ice-cold drink. Jr.
No wonder Clicquot Club
is so good—and so good for p—» '4
you. You drink only pure •* T iLy Jill
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juice of lemon and lime,
clean cane sugar, and ~ lufl
crystal-clear spring water, 107
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your grocer or druggist,
Xp. and make Clicquot the
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School children viewing the original
copy of the Decaration of Inde'-
pendence, and, inset, a picture of
John A, Tonner, official custodian
of the famous document of Ameri
can liberties.
the school children of the capital.
Two months ago the Daughters of
the Revolution viewed it on invita
tion of Secretary Colby. Both occa
sions were since experts told Colby
the document should have air, and
those were the first times the parch
ment has seen light since 1911, when
former Secretary Knox invited news
papermen to take a peep at it.
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Lamar St Opp. Postoffice
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Give Your New Car a Fair Start
WHEN you drive out of the age to the battery if allowed to run
salesroom, f drive in here for a any considerable length of time.
battery test and a freshening charge
at no cost to you. ' We will check this up for you, give
Manv batterv troubles are started yOU the COrrect chargmg rate for
Many battery troubles are started vour generator and start you off
in the early days of the car s active right
life. Batteries often lose some of
their power in transit, owing to It is the aim of Prest-O-Lite Service
traffic delays and other causes. to provide such storage battery ser-
Sometimes, too, the car starts out vice that there need not be a stalled
with its generator sufficiently out or dimly lighted car from coast
of adjustment to cause serious dam- to coast.
CHAPPELL MACHINERY CO.
Phone 234 Americus. Cotton Ave.
PB MS
MORE TO CLOSE
STORES MONDAY
Additional List of Busi
ness Houses, Omitted
by Error Friday
When the list of business houses
which had signed up to close all or a
part of Monday in observance of In
dependence Day, was published Fri
day more than one-third of the names
were inadvertantly omitted, having
Been written on the reverse side of
the paper, which the printers failed
to see. Following are those addi
tional names, all agreeing to close
their doors all day Monday, except as
otherwise noted:
W. H. C. Dudley, Standard Dry
Goods Co., L. L. Lester, tailor, the
Mitchell Grocery Co. (noon), W. A.
Joyner, J. W. Harris, M. N. Edwards
(noon), G. E. Buchanan, Ruben
Hoffman, U. S. Woolen Mills Co., J.
W. Macey, H. E. Dunaway Co., the
Sheffield Co., M. Bukantz, Gatewood-
Cogdell Hardware Co., Mize Grocery
Co. (noon), S. H. Kress & Co., Mor
gan & Co. (1. p. m.), Bragg’s Mar
ket 1 p. m.), J. H. Poole & Sons
(noon), Lee Street Market (1 p. m.),
E. C. Parker & Co.
Miss Emma Jo Jolly, of Croxton’s
was among a number of shoppers
coming from that community to Am
ericus yesterday.
FIRE INSURANCE
MISS ANNIE PICKETT
114 Bell Building Phone 136
(Opposite Postoffice)
PAGE THREE
Clark Howell Remains
State Committeeman
SAN FRANCISCO, July 3—Clark
Howell was re-elected by the conven
tion'national committeeman frvm
Georgia and Mrs. Frank P. Mclntyre
of Savannah was elected committee
woman from Georgia. Both were con
firmed by the convention.
PLANK’S
BLOOD
MEDICINE
Affords Permanent Relief From
or in
RHEUMATISM
NEURALGIA
DIZZINESS
CONSTIPATION
MALARIA
SLEEPLESSNESS
and all troubles of
BLOOD, STOMACH,
LIVER and KIDNEYS.
$1.20 at Nathan Murray's Drug
Store and ah drug st.ves.