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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879
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PEACE WITH MOTHER COUN 1 Kt
Delegates from the American colonies, then being transforme
into th. United Slate., and from Great Briti.t, agreed upon peace
term, between the two nation. Sept. 3. 1783. >u.l 137 year, ago
,O<la Thia was the Treaty of Ver.aille., and officially ended the Rev
olutionary War. On Sept. 9 the treaty was formally . good y
of Great Britian, France and the United states.
Since that treaty was signed many mysteries have been unveil
b kTasiTetprovTthat many Englishmen sympathized.withi the
colonies, and hoped they would win their independence. Such grea
leaders in Parliament as Burke and Pitt stood staunchly with the col
onies and against the British king George 111. America It
It wasn’t, then, really a war between England and America,
was a war between the transplanted sons of Briton and the German
king of England. Engli.hmen refu.ed to enlist m the war against
th" colonies and th. German king. George 111. went to Germany and
hired Hessians to fight the colonists. , <- i .
Time and time again it was shown what little heart for the fight
was exhibited by the British generals, who obstinately refused to so
low up victories over Revolutionary armies giving the colonists ev
erv chance to get together and strengthen for another stand.
The Revolutionary insist many American historians, was
won for the colonists in England, through
war, almost as much as it was won here through the indomitable
Washington and the help of France.
On that memorable third of September British representatives
were eager to grant Franklin and his colleagues al they asked, even
more than the French king, who, as America s ally, was a party to
tHe gave the whole northwest territory and the basin of
the Ohio. This was opposed by the French king. But Eng and stood
with the colonists, here recent foemen, against their royal ally.
The Americans who signed that Treaty of Versailles were frank
lin, Jay, Adams and Laurens. Richard Oswell, who had placed his
fortune at the disposal of the Americans during the war. was the
British commissioner.
ADVICE TO LOVERS
Women’s suffrage seemingly being ratified, it behooves a young
man in love to gain a thorough knowledge of the political issues of
the day. . .
Fancy him calling on his girl on a Wednesday evening—isn t
thaft the evening for calling?—and saying to her: Where will you go
tonight?” , , ■ ■ j
And she replies: "Let’s stay in the parlor this evening and you
tell me all about the League of Nations, and especially about that
Article X. 1 don't know a thing about them and you know the elec
tion is coming on.” .
Ah, young man, that will be the hour of . augment for vou.
She will discover quickly whether her hero is but a man with feet
of clay and head of bone.
How will you get by, young man? What will you say?
“Now let's begin with Article X, ' she will go on. Just what is
Glibly you have answered her questions at baseball games, and
have won a reputation with her as a fellow who seems to know ev-,
erything, but here is where ignorance at length intrigues and betrays
you.
Better study up. young man.
If woman's suffrage thus will promote political education among
young men who desire to be well thought of by their girls, that will
be another feather in the cap of the good cause.
HONEST JOURNALISM
The Times-Recorder is reprinting comment rather freely just
now from the Albany Herald and the Moultrie Observer, because
these two estimable South Georgia dailies are standing firmly and
staunchly for a new deal in journalism, in Georgia, for which the
Times-Recorder prides itself it also stands. These papers, while
cleanly and inoffensively expressing their own choices in the bitter
campaign now afflicting Georgia— to no good to anyone —are tot
ing fair with all factions, regardless of the consequences. This has
been the earnest aim, of the Times-Recorder during this campaign;
and it intends it shall be through other campaigns to come. The
Times-Recorder attempts to be impartial in its news columns; it be
lieves they belong to no one faction or following, but fill their full
function only when they serve for the fair and impartial dissemina
tion of information. We want the Times-Recorder to be believed in
because of its fairness and its genuine service to all; we want it to be
invaluable in the homes and to the lives of all the people of the com
munity which it seeks to serve well.
HARVEY APPLAUDS
At last it has been possible for President Wilson to do something
which pleases Colonel George Harvey.
The recent note to Russian Bolshevism was in Colonel Har
vey’s mind when he said: “In this the president and his advisers are
exactly right and are deserving of the hearty support of every Am
erican citizen."
Mexico still seems to be a garden spot for plots.
Theatrical people complain that some companies can't travel
now because of the increased railroad rates. That'll be a relief.
The maids in King George’s palaces have been granted an eight
hour day. The king will have to learn to wind the clock and put the
cat out.
“Russians Hurl Fresh Columns -on Poles,” says a headline.
That’s nothing to the columns newspapers are hurling on both sides.
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CREMATE YOUR
GLOOM
BY
DR. JAMES I. VANCE
’T’HE market is overstocked with
gloom. It is an article for which
there is never a great demand. Yet
with life already more than supplied
we keep the gloom shops running
over-time.
The world does not need your
gloom. Cremate it.
I do not mean that life should be
turned into a vaudeville. I am not
urging that duty be treated as a joke.
I am not bidding for a generation
of gigglers or a race of clowns. The
exhortation to reduce your gloom
to ashes is not meant to encourage
anyone to be flippant or frivolous in
the presence of life’s verities.
Humor is a good thing, if not ov
erdone; but it can be easily over
done There is some humor in the
Bible enough to light up eternal
theme?, but not enough to cheapen
them.
It is nice to exercise the laugh
ing muscles occasionally, but the
thing becomes painful if unduly pro
longed. A smile that won’t come off
is the ghastly sign of a wooden-faced
professional.
Life is a serious business, not a
joke. The deepest moods are not fun
provoking, but thought-provoking.
I know a preacher who is i scream
for three sernions, then ‘the tumult
and the shouting dies.” He has
! crowds for awhile, and they roar
with laughter. Then they get bored.
He never lasts more than two years
in a charge. For life is a serious busi
ness, and religion was meant not to
; play in the ‘ shallows, but to sound
the depths.
But one does not need to be sol
emn in order to be serious. He does
not need to throw off chunks of
gloom in order to certify that he has
a heavenly frame of mind.
One should live so that life is a
joy, not a joy-killer.
Joy may show itself in a smile,
in roars of laughter, in a prayer of
thanksgiving, in a deed of mercy, in
an act of forgiveness, ih stifling hate
and suspicion. These are the things
which wage war on gloom. They make
us happy, so happy that suicide ceas
es to have any charms, so happy that
we want other people to be happy
too.
Os course sad times come, and
when they come, smiles change to
tears; but if the sun still shines, even
tears may be transfigured and chang
ed into prisms through which hope
casts its bow of promise on the
sky.
Gloom has no bow of promise. Why
cultivate a mood that is without as
sets? We send garbage to the cre
matory. That is where gloom be
longs.
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WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING
SOME CURRENT COMMENT ON TIMELY TOPICS
FOR A CLEANER JOURNALISM
(Albanj- Herald) »
IN an editorial which is reproduced
* on this page (quoting a recent
Times-Recorder editorial) the Moul
trie Observer discusses a matter in !
which, we feel sure, thousands of i
Georgians have a deep interest.
If we are not badly mistaken, 1
there is a wide and growing disgust,
with some of the political methods ■
and practiced which afflict the state..
We say “afflict” because that is the
word which seems best to describe
the condition our Moultrie contern-,
porary discusses.
Political issues should be passed
upon as deliberately as are business i
questions. Candidates should be'
compared as dispassionately as a man |
compares the apparent value of a ■
tract of land he thinks of buying I
with the price he is a«ked to pay,
for it. Selecting a man for an im- .
portant office is, as a matter of fact,,
business of the greatest importance, I
and the man who seeks to decide
wisely will refuse to be ruled by
anything that appeals to passion or
prejudice.
The public looks to the newspa
pers for an impartial report of what
goes on in the world. A newspaper
therefore has no more right to color
the news it prints than a man has to
color the testimony he gives when on
the witness stand in a court room.
For that is really what a newspaper
is—a witness before the people of
what the world is doing, what men
iare saying, what the political issues
|are, what rival parties and candi-
I dates stand for, what progress is be
! ing made and what the whole trend
of the times appears to be.
Newspapers are entitled to their
| opinions just as individuals. But no
' newspaper can be honest with itself
I and its readers when it distorts the
j news it prints in the interest of
i she candidate it supports or the is
i sues it favors.
And just as surely as a man who
I takes liberties with the truth loses
I the confidence of his acquaintances,
j so docs a newspaper forfeit the res
pect and confidence of the public it
serves when it refuses to be fair to
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those who do not agree with its
opinions or to candidates it opposes.
The Herald long ago foreswore
factionalism which was ruling so
many of the leading newspapers of
the state and bringing reproach on
I Georgia journalism as a whole. We
' have told the truth in our own news
' reports of political events in the
state, and have consistently excluded
, from our news columns the preju
i diced reports, many of them slan
derous, which have been widely print
ed in the partisan organs of candi
i dates and factions. The advertise
' ments of politicians .have appeared
as advertising matter and been paid
; for at space rates, but The Herald’s
news has not been colored.
And in its editorial policy Th>
j Herald has endeavored to be fair to
| those who have not agreed with it.
|We h•.-.•e pre 'ontcd our own views as
; vigorously as we were able, but have
i not substituted abuse for reason and
i argument. In the present heated
| senatorial campaign The Herald has
had its motives and even
; its integrity impugned by some who
| sought space in our columns for the
1 airing of their views. All such have
j found the door open and unfriendly
, criticisms have been given the same
, publicity as have our own opinions.
|We have relied on argument instead
| of abuse, and have endeavored to be
fair to those who were manifestly
j unfair to us.
These things are not said in any
spirit of self-praise which ris cheaper
i even than the hollowest flattery, but
because we agree with the Moultrie
Observer that it is high time the self
respecting newspapers of the state
were taking a definite stand for a
cleaner and fairer political journal
ism. The Herald is no less desirous
of the respect of thoes who do not
agree with it than it is of the confi
dence and appreciation of those who
do and while we shall always vigor
ously support in our editorial columns
the men and issues commending
themselves to us, we shall be fair to
all for one and only one reason—
■ because that is clearly the duty of a
! newspaper with a serious regard for
i 1 its mission in life.
As America Freed Cuba So
Great Britain Frees Egypt
INTERNATIONAL EXPERT ANALYZES PROBABLE BRIT
ISH COURSE ON THE NILE
By J. W. T. MASON,
. Noted international Expert.
JF it is true that Great Britain in
tends to give independence to
Egypt, the white man’s burden will
have been carried to another suc
cess. As America freed Cuba, es
tablished a stable government in 'the
island and then let the Cubans work
out their own destiny, so is Great
Britain doing in Egypt.
Egypt won self-determination from
Turkey under Mehemet Ali, who was
chosen leader of the Egyptian peo
ple in 1805 who died in 1849
with his task accomplished. The con
struction of the Suez canal in 1869
by de Lesseps for a private
was the turning point of Egypt’s rela
tions with Europe.
In 1875, Khedive Ismail ruled at
Cairo. He was a typical Oriental
despot, extravagant and warlike. He
imposed enormous taxes on the peo
ple. He sent armies to the Sudan
and Abyssinia on conquering mis
sions. He governed without thought
of his country’s revenues. His treas
«ury finally became empty, and he
offered his Suez canal shares for
sale.
England Buys Canal.
Disraeli., then premier of Great
Britain, heard of the offer and paid
$20,000,000 for the stock. The Brit
ish government, thereafter, became
the majority shareholder in the canal
company. Thus, British interest in
Egypt was made similar in importance
to America’s present interest in the
Republic of Panama. X
Thenceforth, Egyptian reforms
wede rapidly effected. Domestic
peace was restored. The khedive’s
absolutist government was replaced
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by ministerial control, local self-gov
ernment was organized, schools were
opened, taxes were reduced, national
bankruptcy was prevented, the Nile
was dammed so that irrigation could
be scientifically controlled and the
poorer classes could gathers, more
crops. The Egyptians became more
evenly prosperous and more Demo
cratically governed than ever before
in their history.
But the British did not disturb
Turkey’s status as the suzerain power
over Egypt. British control was di
rected by a financial adviser, who
was also consul-general at Cairo.
Lord Cromer was the most illustrious
statesman who occupier! 'this posi
tion.
Clung to Turkish Side.
When the European war broke out,
'However, and Turkey sided With
Germany, the situation changed.
Khedive Abbas Hilmi went with
Turkey and the Central empires.
This was an act of war. Great Brit
ain thereupon declared a protectorate
over Egypt and deposed Abbas Hil
mi in favor of the eldest member
of the royal family, Hussen Kamil,
who ruled for four years as khedive
of Egypt. He was succeded by Ah
med Fuad the present ruler.
Since the establishment of peace
Egyptians have conducted a persistent
agitation for independence. An
Egyptian nationalist delegation has
visited England, and a British com
mission headed by Lord Milner has
conducted a long inquiry in Egypt.
The result of the exchanges between
the Egyptians and the British is be
einnig to be seen in reports that
Egypt is to have its freedom. But,
if independence comes, it will neces
sarily be in a qualified form.