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The Americus Times-Recorder.
ESTABLISHED 1879.
Published by THE TIMES-RECORDER CO., (Inc.) Arthur Lucas,
President; Lovelace Eve. Secretary; W. S. Kirkpatrick, Treasurer.
WM. S KIRKPATRICK, Editor; LOVELACE EVE, Business Manager.
Published every afternoon, except Saturday; every Sunday morn
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road Commission of Georgia for Third Congressional Districct, U. S.
Court. Southern District of Georgia.
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H’TROTZKY OFFERS Five Million Rubles For Rebel Chief a
* Head,” reads a Saturday headline.. Lets see. I hat s about
a dollar and eighty-five cents in real money, isn tit ? No, we missed
our guess; it is $25. It must be easy to be a spendthrift in Russia.
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A MOST UNFORTUNATE situation has ( arisen in the A., B. & A.
dispute. President Bugg, who is the receiver for the road, has
refused mediation and the hope of an early amicable settlement is
off. Colonel Rugg, in his letter of refusal of the offices of the federal
agents, says that he cannot bind the road to accept any wage set
tlement beyond the powers of the road to pay, inferring that if the
arbitrators or mediators found in favor of the men retaining theii
present scale of pay the road would be unable to meet the obliga
On the face of it this may seem a reasonable and just posi
tion for Colonel Bugg to take. However, there is more than one
way to look at it. We believe Colonel Bugg made a big tactical
blunder right there in the controversy. We believe that if the facts
and figures are really as he has contended, he could safely accept
mediation and lay all his cards on the table, trusting to the good
sense of the men and the fairness and impartiality of the media
tors to rule in accordance with the facts as shown; we do not be
lieve it possible that any decision could result finding that the road
should pay more than it could earn.
But, assuming such a decision were rendered, of course it
could never be enforced, for the men could not be paid with money
that did not exist, and no decision could force, or even enable, the
road to borrow the money and increase its ever increasing deficit
Colonel Bugg has destroyed some of the public confidence
which he has had back of him up to this time; he has indicated
whether he so intended it or not, that he is not seeking an abso
lutely fair decision.
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WILLIAM E. BARTON, one of the best Ipvcd and most pa
triotic writers, urges each state to have its own song. Ide wants
Georgia to have a Georgia song, one that may be sung, whistled
or played on any musical instrument from one end of the state to
the other.
Dr. Barton's suggestion is one we who love Georgia well may
consider. A state song will do much to increase our love for the
state, for our home, for our neighbors. It will make us better
Americans. It will increase our love for music, wi; .out which the
world would be a drab and dreary thing.
What do you think about a state song for Georgia?
Can YOU write one?
Do YOU know who can?
• If you are interested in giving this state a song all its own, will
you not come down and talk it over with the editor of The Times-
Recorder? Or write him, if you’re too busy for a visit.
This state has law’s enough. It needs an officially adopted,
and unanimously approved state song.
The Legislature can write laws aplenty, and doubtless will
continue writing laws.
Let us write songs, choosing from among them all that one
thg majority of us like best. Then we can ask the Legislature to
stop writing other laws long enpugh to write our state song into
the statute books.
Shall we sing our own state's song?
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PRISON BARS clarify the vision!
' How many tragedies would be averted if only men and wo
men were given to see from the outside as they see from the in
side?
A moment of anger; a fit of jealousy; a passion for revenge;
the flash of a pistol, then prison bars.
And, with the prison bars, time to think. Time to recall the
days of innocence before the glare of the bright lights dazzled the
vision and the hectic night life seared the moral sense.
Time to think of the simple life lived back in the old home
where the homely virtues satisfied and contentment reigned.
Yes, time is to thin kof these and a thousand other things that
have been driven out of mind in the convivial grill room when se
rious thought dared to intrude.
Time to weigh values and see with the horror of despair how
the fleeting joys whose pursuit has them brought into a felon’s cell
shrink arid fade out of sight when compared with the solid vir
tues they have ignored in their mad chase for exciting pleasures.
Ihe solitude of a cell brings men and women face to face
with the tragedy of wasted opportunity and causes the things they
have left behind to assume astounding proportions.
Liberty was never so sweet; self-control was never so admir
able; honor was never so glorious, as when viewed from behind the
bars of a prison cell.
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Nothing interests new’ly-weds less than advice on how to b<
happy though married.
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No man doubts nature until he sows garden seeds that nevei
come up.
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i A President has his Congress on his hands or under his thumb
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i Foo much bayonet prodding may bring Russia to the Rhine
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German President Ebert urges dignity, says a cable; how
about urging payment?
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Costa Rico has called off its war; couldn't stand the competi
tion of the American baseball season.
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THE MAN WHO PAID THE CHURCH DEBT.
THERE was a certain church and it
had fi Debt of Four Thousand
Shekels. And the Minister spaKe un
to his Congregation upon a Sunday
when he had a Full House, and he
said:
Brethren, this Debt is a Burden.
It might be paid if Twenty Men
would give each of them an Hundred
Shekels and other twenty Fifty Shek
els, and the rest every man accord
ing to his several ability.
Then up rose John Perry, and said,
I will be one of Twenty Men to give
an Hundr.ed Shekels.
Now every one knew John Perry
that he was a Poor Man, and of No
Great Ability, but of Good and
Honest Heart. And they were Deep
ly Moved by his Generosity. And
Nineteen other men came across with
Hundred Shekels each, and other
twenty at Fifty Shekels per, and the
lest, each according to his ability, or ■
what he pretEnded was his ability ;
and within a week the money was i
all pledged, to be paid Spot Cash on i
the next Sabbath Day.
And on that day John Perry called |
at the Parsonage and handed the
Minister his contribution. Ajid after
he had gone, the minister looked, and ,
behold, it was Five Shekels.
And the Minister called unto him ,
the Nineteen men. and he said, Our
dear friend John Perry hath misun- ;
derstood. When he promised to be i
one of an hundred he meant to give
the twentieth part of on hundred.
And the nineteen men roared with
lauehted. And they said. Tell it not'
in Gath. Behold, it inspired us to |
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
ILN YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From The Time’-Recorder, March
12 and 13, 1911.)
The Americas Bar Association, in
a meeting assembled yesterday
morning, adopted resolutions ex
pressive of the regret of that body
at the resignation of Judge Chas. R.
Crisp, as Judge of the city court of
Americus to accept the office of
aouse parliamentarian in the na
■.iunal congress.
At a very pretty party on Wed
nesday afternoon Mrs. Ira Lowe
■ a' home to the young ladies of
the Bridge Club. Mrs. Lowe was
assisted in receiving by her sister,
Mir. Dudley Gatewood and Mrs. Bar
ww (. ouncil. Those present were
M:.- Kate Wheatley, Marie Hous
eii, Elizabeth Hollis, Mattie Lewis
Dodson, Rebecca Mathis, Florence
Niles, Mattie Rylander, Emma El
dridge, Lynn Mathis, Callie Bell,
Emma May Borum, Virginia Gunn,
Nannie Sue Bell, Josephine Turpin,
Emma Lee, Hazel Tower and Mary
Hawke:.
’1 he fire department is still hoping
the city council will buy that need
ed automobile truck. Progress and
public safety demands it.
Mrs Sujette Lanier, of West
Point, is the admired guest of Mi s
Elizabeth Hollis for some time at
her home on Lee street.
James Fort, private secretary to
1 ongressman Dudley Hughes, came
to his home here yesterday to spend
he short congressional vacation.
Col. Edward J. Willingham, of
Macon, is the guest today of Mr. and
Mrs. C. M. Council, coming down ir
his touring car.
Mrs. ?4. T. Elam returned yester
lay from New York, where as usual
she selected latest novelties in
spring millinery.
The largest delegation from South
Georgia, that from Americus, head
d by Mayor Mathis ami Presideri
•I. W. Shiver, of the Americus Board
of Trade, swooped down on Atlanta
on Thursday to attend the South
ern Commercial Congress and to
< xtend an invitation to delegates to
visit their city and county, says The
Atlanta Georgian. Among those in
the delegation were: Mayor J. E
Mathis, Senator J. E. Sheppard, Ald
erman C. J. White and wife, Presi-
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t come across, and that is well. Now
I then, let us pay each of us Five Shek
els more and make up the share of
John Perry, and we will tell no man.
And they had a Great Banquet that
Burning of tne Mortgage, and
i they might make merry over. They,
■ set John Perry on high; and he smil
ed and was happy. And they called
on him for a Speech.
And John Perry said. It »s not my
doings, but it is of the Lord; and I
am humbly thankful. And now, be
hold, the Church needeth a New Fur
nace, and the walls need to be re
decorated, and the Minister should
have a larger salary. Let us raise
Four Thousand Shekels more, and I
will start it with the Same Sum that
j I gave before.
And the Ninteen Men whispered
I one to another and said, Art Thou
I game? And they answered, We
Are No Quitters. We stay in the
! game and play it like Little Men.
And behold they raised Four
| Thousand Shekels more.
And that Church took on New Life,
■and was happy from that day for
; ward.
And the Nineteen Men and the
Minister bound themselves with a
; Great Oath that they would never tell
I this little joke.
I But this is a True Story; and it
■ showeth how it sometimes cometh to
pass that Very Humble Instruments
‘ are chosen for the beginning of
Great Tasks. And I would there were
I many Churches and some other In.
[ stitutions with men as unworldly and
as generous as John Perry.
WILLIAM E. BURTON.
dent J. W. Shiver of the Americus
Board of Trade, Aiderman L. G
Council and wife, Mrs. C. C. Clay.
Thomas' Harrold, Aiderman G. W
Riley, W. M. Harper, W. E. Hamii
ton, E. E. Bell, W. H. Estes, Dr. J
R. Hair, Mrs. E. B. Everett, and O
M. Chester.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From The Times-Recorder, March
12 and 13, 1901.)
The session of the city council
was rather brief last night, though
of course, this was not due to hyp
notic influences even if two of three
of the members did show up at the
opera house later in the’ evening.
Chas. L. Ansley has returned from
flew York, whe:e for the past two
weeks he has been nurch-i.’ing goods
for his house her.?, Wheatley and
Ansley.
Americus certainly has a number
of “rocky” sidewalks. Some of
those along Cotton avenue would n< t
be tolerated in a country village.
Let them be repaired.
A Lee street lady, after looking
intently at the hynotized subject in
Duncan’s window yesterday, remark
ed to her companion, “That’s noth
ing, John does that tie whole year
round.”
Dr. J. C. Fields has returned to
Americus from New Orleans, where
for six weeks he has been attending
lectures and taking a post-graduate
course in one of the great hospitals
of the Crescent City. The doctor’s
many friends in Americus are as
glad to see him back again as he is
to return, for he thinks Americus
is the greatest place after all.
Carroll J. Clark left yesterday for
Chattanooga and Murphreesboro on
a business trip.
Messrs. J. A. Davenport and J. C
Roney have formed a business co
partnership and will write fire and
life insurance.
A marriage of interest to many in
Americus occurred on Monday aft
ernoon at Plains, the high contract
ing parties being Miss Jennie Tinet
and Rufus U. Morrell. The mar
riage rites were solemnized by Rev.
J. G. Harrison, pastor of the Meth
odist Church there, and was wit
nessed by numerous friends and
relatives.
Cbnfessionsof a Bride
A NXLETY about Jim and Aar
Martha and me for
several weeks, but we kept in toucn
.by phone. Martha was not depress
ed by the recent scandal, but She
depressed me.
She was too passive. She was
accepting her disappointments ami
disiliusionments wnn Oriental phil
osophy.
‘ Since we cannot be happy, why
give ourseives so much trouoie about
nappiness?” she asked one morn
ing. This philosophy did not enliven
me; nevertheless, it attracted me
and I tried to live by it, and suc
ceeded for about a day.
Few philosophies ot living endure
for longer than 24 hours with me.
I know a doftn different cults, any
one of which would lead me into
peaceful pastures. Sometimes 1
meander complacently by the aid of
one or another of them through
some confused moments, am uplift
ed by some popular credo and then,
overnight, 1 slump back into my own
restless self.
When 1 next’’saw Martha her in
difference to happiness had been put
to a test. I hurried to her in re
sponse to an unexpected summons
from her by phone.
“Evan has disappeared! He has
not been at home for three days!”
I hung up the receiver and turn
ed to Bob with this sensational in
formation.
“Cherchez la. femme!” murmured
my husband, with. a shrug. “Is
Marte worried?”-
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i “Not at all —unfortunately!” 1
replied. ,
“ And truly, Martha was not at all
, distressed about her husband in the
sense that she feared murder or sud
i den death for him. For another
reason the pink had faded from her
cheeks, her lovely hair was neglect
ed, her lids were red.
“He has gone with Elsie Demai
son!” So Martha greeted me at her
office.
“Elsie Demaison! That young girl
whom you had taken into your of
fice The—the ungrateful little
thief!” I stormed.
“Don’t rave, Jane!”
“Why, she was only with you twu
months!”
“And she has upset my life. I’m
stunned! 1 felt- so‘sure that I was
getting a hold upon Evan again, that
I was remaking him to the pattern
of the man I first loved. Lately he
has clung to me so. Ever since the
Marion Sprague affair. He was
often up here in my office—to be
near me, I fancied! I flattered my
self! Elsie was very demure. 1 never
suspected!”
“The—the ingrate!” I repeated.
“I haven't words to denounce her!”
“Don’t try. Feel Sorry for her!
Remember that the girl who helps a
married man to lie to his wife is
teaching him how to lie to herself,
,in her turn. She is undermining his
! character. She will herself go
I down in the debacle!”
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BANK OF COMMERCE
Organized, Oct. 13, 1891.
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