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f}UT in the corn and wheat state of Nebraska, the native state of
the writer, is located a county which bears the name of Dawes-
It was named many years ago for a young man who achieved some
local fame as a financier after trying his hand at engineering. Early
in life he went to the city of Chicago, where he soon won national
prominence in the financial world. During his days in Nebraska as
a young man he became a close personal friend and associate of
Lieut. John Pershing, the young commandant of the state university
cadet battalion. That man was Chas. G. Dawes, who went to France
at the head of the Seventeenth Engineers, recruited at Atlanta, and
after reaching there virtually became business manager of the Ameri
can expedition under General Pershing.
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YESTERDAY General Dawes shocked his hearers testifying before
the House war investigating committee in Washington when he
denounced with all the vehemence at his command those who are
now attempting to discredit the handling of the war.
General Dawes is a Republican, as is General Pershing. But
he is an American first. He has been prominently mentioned as the
probable choice of Harding tor the portfolio of secretary of the
treasury in the next cabinet, and in some circles his selection was re
garded as certain. But General Dawes yesterday removed his name
from such consideration, because he dared to put partisanship aside
for Americanism and refused to line up with the bitter detractors of
the administration. General Dawes told the committee that he was
not in politics and that he would not be; in the latter statement he
appears eminently correct.
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ATO WONDER the Republicans are sore. Gen. Dawes was called by
* ’ Democratic members of the committee to rebut testimony relat
ing to waste and extravagance and particularly with reference to
liquidation of American accounts in France and sale of surplus stocks
to the French government. Answering charges that food and cloth
ing supplies might have brought more than the $400,000,000 paid
by France, Gen. Dawes turned sharply upon one of his questioners,
Representative Bland, Republican, Indiana, and shouted:
‘lt is just that sort of fool argument that forcced Great Britain
to hold on to its stock and attempt to drive a hard bargain. The stuff
is there today, rotting. You cannot discuss an ex-parte question
'5,000 miles away. There is no use to try and throw mud when you
were not there to know conditions- England lost billions of dollars
by listening to that sort of talk —listening to a lot of people who
were afraid of muck-rakers at home. They are raising the devil in
England now because England did not sell its supplies when we
sold.” , , , . r
Gen- Dawes, as a matter of fact, said ne thought Francs was
charged too much. t .
“Here you come now and charge, he said, that we should not
have sold sugar. The War Department ordered the sale. The sugai
went in a lump lot with the junk. Everything was second-hand. We
got four hundred million dollars for it. We liquidated every account
and we did it because a lot of big men quit their jobs and went
over there to help. We cleaned the slate and Congress today still has
claims dating back to the Revolutionary war. It was a big job, and
we are proud of it. In finding fault and hunting responsibility you
don’t have far to go. Pershing was the commander-in-chief and his
shoulders are big enough, thank God, to bear it.
BLAND questioned Gen. Dawes about excessive prices paid
for equipment and material.
“Sure we paid,” he said. ‘We didn’t stop to dicker. Why,
man alive, we had to win the war. It was a man's job. We would
have paid horse prices for sheep, if the sheep could have pulled ar
tillery to the front.”
Quite a lot of the questioning, says the Associated Press, re
lated to Great Britain. ”1 am no more ashamed to stand up here foi
England than for the United States,” said Mr. Dawes, jumping from
his chair. “It seems to be fashionable in American politics to attack
England. lam not in politics, and lam not going to be, but 1 thank
God that in a crisis like we had there were no bickerings between En
glish-speaking people. England took over 40 per cent of our troops.
Os course Pershing gave them five divisions, but it had to be done
to save the Allied line."
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/COUNTRIES have been named for men less American and less
worthy than Chas. G- Dawes.
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Would a disarmament law rob the movies of the rolling pin
and custard pie?
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If the anti-tobacco fans succeed, renew youth with cornsilk
cigarettes.
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Beneath an assumed indifference, many men are flattered to see
their names posted on the postoffice wall among the income tax
./ers.
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New York dudes are all het up because Chicagoans call a dinnei
jacket a tuxedo. What dis does it make what you call the thing?
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They may cut out the dancing, scenery and chorus, but Mr.
Harding will positively appear as the star in the inaugural piece.
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Church-dodgers welcome the news of the Illinois preacher who
robbed the mail as a fresh alibi.
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Mrs. Vanderbilt has sold her Fifth avenue palace; maybe to
avoid the inroads of the climbing profiteers.
THE OLD HOME TOWN BY STANLEY
B!H IU>M pynoA
** BRUNO! I WASAYIN.'J
SCOTT TRUMPS TEAM RAN AWAY AGAIN TO
THREE BARRELS OF VWNP FALL APPLES WERE SlTghtly BRUISEP
The Creation
Os A Self
By DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON
The first of duties is the creation of
a self. This is the more easy and
the more difficult because every man
fe®
starts with the
work already far
advanced. H i s
height and form
and the color of
his eyes and hair
are determined by
the convergence in
him of lines of an
cestry that reach
back to Adam, and
he cannot by tak
ing thought work
any material
change in these
BARTON parts of himself.
We are what we are, in part, be
cause of hereditary influences which
we cannot trace, or can trace in part
only.
The jnfant knows no boundary of
division between ihsmself and the
world. It is a great day for him
when he learns that the little pink
hand waving before his face is under
his control, and another great day
when he discovers that the little
pink toe which he has succeeded in
getting into his mouth responds to
his advances with a sensation differ
ent from that which he feels when j
he chews a corner of his blanket. •
He has begun to discover himself.
This wonderful thing which we call j
a self is not wholly a matter of;
heredity, nor does environment add
the only necessary component. There
is in every man a something which
makes him not only like every other
man, but something which makes
him individually unlike other men.
He who seeks to ignore the element
of likeness will find himself an Ish-j
mael with his hand against the hand i
of every other man: but he
who seeks to ignore that in himself
which makes him a self has commit-i
ted the unpardonable sin. For him i
there is no hope: he has become a
suicide of his own personality.
The late German kaiser could not
hire or bribe or compel any other
man to sit in a dentist’s chair while
an American dentist filled the kais
er’s teeth by proxy. Every man
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THE AMERICUS
Confessionsof a Bride
<-TWie'<sWng£>/.£>2z AISOCJAT/OV
THE BOOK OF MARTHA.
Ingenue Smugness.
<I_IOW did Ann happen to be in
** jail?”
Inevitably the Lorimer men put
this question when they saw the pic
tures of the charming society woman
and the workhouse derelict, side by
side, in the papers. That evening we
discussed, en famille, before the blaz
ing log in the famous medieval fire
place of the Lorimer mansion. It was
utterly impossible to conceal Ann’s
shoplifting escapade from her bus
band as Martha and I had planned
to do.
Jim didn’t find the story amusing,
but Daddy Lorimer roared with glee
and my husband laughed with him.
And Ann accepted their merriment
as so much well-earned applause.
Jim didn’t get angry about the
questionable fame his child-wife had
achieved, as he surely would have
done had he been well. He seemed
to be disappointed rather than vexed
with her.
Sometimes, Jim acts as if he had
a matter of mysterious importance
on his mind; sometimes I think he
guesses that he may not get well and
then half the things which human
beings do appear to him to be with
out purpose or for a purpose quite
unworthy of human intelligence.
“Now I’d like to know what you’re
doing here, young lady!” Daddy Lor
imer shook an accusing finger at his
son’s child-wife and addressed her in
the gruff tone he assumes in his jok-
must suffer the filling or extraction
of or aching of his own teeth. ?'o
man can be born for another man;
and no man can live forever by get
ting other men to die for him.
Each man must make love for him
self. The most intimate and sacred
experiences of life gre personal. Each
man must decide for himself whether
he will be a wise or foolish man,
a good man or a bad man.
God never made another man or
woman precis°ly like you. The slight
margin of difference between you
and all other human beings is one
of the experiments of God, endeavdr
ing to discover whether in you may
be acomplished some fine thing which
no previous man or generation has
been able to produce. It would be
ing moods. “You haven’t been bailed
out of jail, you know! You’re an
escaped prisoner—hobnobbing with
respectable people! I suppose it’s
my duty to turn you over to the
law—and let it take its -course!”
When there was a pause in the en
suing laughter, 1 explained:
“Dear old Morrison helped Ann
to break jail! In the confusion due
to the fire, it was easy—it was nat
ural for him to put -Ann neo my
auto!”
( “My goodness! I’m a jail-bird!
I’m an escaped prisoner! But 1
should worry—you know I’m down
on the jail register as ‘Pearl Blan
chard!’’ Ann finished with a ggi
gle
At the name, our men groaned in
chorus.
“You might have spared the family
that disgrace,” I said.
“It’s a perfectly lovely name! I
like it!” retorted Ann.
“But. a false name, be it ever so
lovely, will not save you from jus
tice, Anna Bella!” This from Bob.
“Now you women have the fran
chise privilege, why don’t you take a
little intelligent interest in your le
gal status?” Daddy sccolded. “An
alias will not keep a criminal out of
jail, my dears! It’s the body, and
not the name, that the law wants!”
Ann assumed her perfect pose of
ingenue ignorance and innocence,
and by that sign I knew that she was
plotting more mischief.
(To Be Continued.)
a thousand pities for you, and an
irretrievable loss to the moral uni
verse, if you failed to realize the
glory of your selfhood. Some list of
precious and permanent qualities is
entered opposite your name in God’s
great book of life.
Live your own life, heedful ever
of the lives -of other men, and say
with proud |ieart, “Bv the grace of
God I am what I am.”
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One-Third Cut Price
Sale Continues In All
Departments.
We believe that you can buy
furniture at our stops now for
less than you can for several
years to come. Would appre
ciate a call—no trouble to show
goods. You are under no obliga-
•
tion to buy, unless convinced
that we are offering goods for
less than you can buy them else
where. Phone 253 when ir need
of household information.
ALLISON
FURNITURE CO.
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
From the Times-Recorder
(Friday morning, Feb. 3, 1911.)
Mr. L. Bell bought five building
lots at the corner of Lee and Dod
son streets. The lots were owned
by Col. F. A. Cooper, of Atlanta,
and this closes out all his interests
in Americus.
The Dawson High school will be
the next to/try conclusions with the
local Y. M. C. A. five at basketball
here tonight. -
Clerk Dave Robinson, of the Am
ericus postoffice, was out again yes
terday for the first time since Sun
day night when he sustained a brok
en collar bone in a fall from a Cen
tral of Georgia train.
Cliff Clay, whose Muckalee cigar
is making Americus famous, return
ed here yesterday from Augusta
where he established an agency.
Sheriff Feagin yesterday received
the-first authentic news of Britt and
Hightower, the two convicts who es
caped from the jail here Monday,
when he and Deputy Sheriff Fuller
captured George Clarke, negro, who
e=caned from the Lee county gang
Sunday. Clarke met Britt and
Hightower in Muckalee swamp and
spent the night with them.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
From the Americu* Times-Recorder
(Sunday morning, Feb. 3, 1901.)
The first session of the City court
of Americus will be held tomorrow
morning with Judge C. R. Crisp pre
siding. At the last session rs the
legis’ature the County court of Sum
ter was abolished and the City court
of Americus established in its stead.
Dr. C. M. Shivers is still confined
to' his home by a severe attack of
la grappe. His genial presence at
Hudson’s drug store is greatly miss
ed.
At the home of the bride near
Americus this afternoon, Mr. T. R.
Murphoy and Miss Julia Riley will
be united in marriage in the pres
ence of numerous friends and rela
tives. The marriage rites will be
solemnized by the Rev. Mr. Neace,
pastor of St. Paul’s church.
The six room house on the Joe
Battle place six miles of Americus,
burned a day or two ago. The
property was owned by Mr. N. A.
Ray.
Judge J. B. Pilsbury, inspector of
fertilizers for this section has just
returned from Schley county where
he went to assist Mr. T. G. Hudson,
recently appointed inspector in that
district, in beginning the work.
At chambers yesterday Judge
I ittlejchn heard the prayer of E. L.
Murray. W. I. Murray, Mr. Bran
nen, Mr. Hampton and other resi
dents of Elm avenue for an injunc
tion restraining J. H. Garfield and
Automobile Tops
Americus Trimming Co.
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Times-Recorder Want Ads are Result Getters.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1921 ,
D. T. Lane from building a planing
mill on the Furlow lawn property.
R. L. McLeod has accepted a posi
tion with the Americus Grocery com
pany and will travel the territory
east of Americus for that well known
house.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Americus Daily Times.
Tuesday morning, Feb. 3, 1891.)
W. C. Coup and his railroad show
were in town.
Robt. Downing, great tragedian,
after taking a carriage ride, sa(id he
had never seen a city with such
pluck. “She has a reputation the
country over,” said he, “as the city
that constructed the only really in
dependent railroad in Georgia.”
The Superior court convened with
Judge Allen Fort presiding.
The Knights of Pythias gave Robt.
Downing and his company a grand
welcome, Downing being a member
of the order. Albany attended the
evening spread of the lodge at 7:15
and at 8:30 at the Opera House a
great crowd saw the company
play “Damon and Pythias.”
Walton Calloway and Frank Rus
sey, “two of Americus’ brightest
boys,” the item says, have grown
tired of working for others and have
established the Americus News com
pany.
Three tie ballots on city engineer
were taken by the city council. May
or Felder being absent and thus not
voting.
The members of council included
J. E. Bivins, J. J. Williford, P. H.
Williams, C. M. Wheatley, James
Smith, George G. Earl, W. K. Wheat
ley, G. W. Glover, T. F. Logan and
J. A. Davenport.
Richard and Stewart Jordan, old
Americus boys, were up from Al
bany.
The gas plant was shut down and
people were clamoring, threatening
to build another. •
“Jay Gould is to be in Atlanta to
morrow and the Gate City is trying
to fortify itself so that Jay may not
scoop the town unawares, as he oft
en does the Wall Street fellows.”
Montgomery Moses and Co., gen
eral merchandise brokers, was a new
firm.
George D. Wheatley burst into
rhyme advertising his store on Cot
ton avenue and Lamar streets as
follows :
“Beautiful snow, beautiful snow,”
Those who like bargains always go
To George D. Wheatley’s elegant
store
Because for their money they can
get more.
Cordele was reported completing
a $50,000 hotel, a $20,000 opera
| house and a $50,000 acid plant.
