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WOULD THIS MAKE YOU CUSS?
( Profane men, fat men and above all, married /
< men, are considered best risks by surety companies. J
J Frederick N. Withey, National Surety Co., New (
? York.
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 131.
SIMS ‘CALLED’ BY DENBY FOR LONDON SPEECH
MOTHERS ACT
TO STOP EVILS
OF CITY DANCES
Drastic Resolutions En
acted At Atlanta
Mass Meeting
ATLANTA, June B.—Drastic reso
lutions designed to eradicate drinking
at dances in Atlanta, to nut an end
to all night dances and late suppers
and to eliminate automobile rides
after entertainments were adopted
at a mass meeting of Atlanta moth
ers held at 4 o'clock Tuesday after
noon at the Atlanta Woman’s club.
Among the regulations were the
foilowing:
All dances must close promptly at
12 o’clock midnight.
Adequate chaperons must Ire pro
vided and must remain in the hall
until the dance is over.
Allow no person on the floor who
has indulged in liquor.
Provide a traffic policeman at the
door of the hall to sec that all
young people arc started home safe
ly.
The concurrence of all colleges,
fraternities, dance hall managel’s and
clubs in the enforcement of the
regulations was asked.
Parents were asked to refuse to
permit their sons and daughters to
attend dances where the regulations
outlined were not observed.
Between 500 and 600 Atlanta
women were present at the meeting.
Mrs. B. M. Boykin presided and
speeches were made on the subject
of improving dancing conditions in
Atlanta by many women and some
men. Mayor James L. Key was pres
ent and offered his co-operation.
A representative of the Pan Hel
lenic society of Georgia Tech said
steps are being taken at that institu
tion to eliminate liquor drinking
during the commencement dances.
He declared the society has employed
a private detective to prevent boot
leggers from operating on the cam
pus. He told the mothers that if the
girls would come to the dances early
that they would close early.
R. R. Union To Hold
Memorial Sunday
Four Americus railroad labor or
ganizations will participate in joint
memorial exercises to be held Sun
day morning, June 12. Rev. Henry
T. Brookshire, pastor of the congre
gation, has been invited by the
brotherhoods to deliver a special
message to the members composing
the orders.
The members will gather Sunday
morning in the I. 0. O. F. hall, cor
ner of Forsyth street and Windsor
avenue, at k0:30 o’clock, from which
place they will march to the church,
where special seats will be reserved.
The orders represented will be the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers, Brotherhood of Locomotivfe
Firemen, the Order of Railway Con
ductors. and the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen.
Special music will be rendered by
the full choir. A cordial invitation
is extended to the public to be pres
ent and join in the exerejr es.
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CORRECTION
In an advertisement yesterday for
Rylander Shoe company, a typo
graphical error appeared. The adver
tisement should have read “Shoe Sale,
Thursday Morning—Five Lots of La
dies Slippers, in brown, black and
white.”
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OR TICKETS
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HOPE DEAD, HATE LIVES;
PEOPLETALK NEXT WAR-
THAT’S GERMANY AS IT IS
A ful| month’s study of -,|Ger
many in 1921” has just been com- i
pletcd for readers o fthis news
paper by Milton Bronner. its Eu
ropean correspondent. Bronner
has traveled the length and breadth
of the country, using his eyes and
his cars and asking questions of
all classes of citizens. His first
hand investigation has covered ev
ery subject from national finances
to national amusements, from pol
itical bickerings to the airplane
industry, from living conditions to
preparations for the next war—•
for Bronner finds 7 defeated Ger
many demands bloody revenge on
France. Brenner’s first article is
printed herewith; others will fol
low.
BY .MILTON BRONNER
BERLIN, June B.—The Germany I
of today is a bankrupt nation.
It is bankrupt in more ways than I
the mere matter of an inability to
make its income match its ,expenses.
Other European nations are bank
rupt in that particular way—France
| and Italy, for instance.
But Germany is bankrupt in hope
and endeavor. It is bankrupt in vim
and zest of living. It is bankrupt .es
faith in the future.
The average Germany of today-- !
, the fellow like you and me and I
I Neighbor Smith—can hardly see a 1
i gleam yf hope ahead. He is rid of ;
I his expensive kaiser and the other
| minor kings and grand dukes and
! princes. He is rid of a great cx-
■ pensive army and navy. He is rid
!of conscription. He has a republic
instead of a monarchy. But nowhere
does he see unity or peace or satis
faction.
Politically Germany is a house not !
only divided against itself, but many 1
times sub-divided.
There are politicians who dream
■ of the restoration of the monarchy.
! There are political parties which
I dream of bolshevism. Even the So-
I eialists are subdivided into various
j parties with their various represent-
I atives in the Reichstag.
I Class consciousness has not been,
i abolished. It has been intensified,
j It is not now the proletariat against
I the aristocrat, but the worker against
| the war profiteer and, in another
I sense, the town dweller against the
i farmer.
Everybody Hit
If the German is fairly well off
I the state takes much of his estate and i
|of his income in taxes. If he is a I
I worker, it grabs 10 per cent of his I
j wage. If he succeeds in getting his ■
I earnings increased, he finds that the |
cost of food, clothes and housing has I
more than kept pace with the extra i
money he has earned.
He pays six times as much for his ■
daily paper as before the war. 11 |
costs him eight times as much to
ride in the street car. His food, coal, ,
I gas and rent have gone up from five !
I to eight times.
He earns, perhaps. .300 to 500
marks per week, and the cheapest
suit of clothes is 1500 marks. Shoes
cost from 90 marks up; shirts 65 j
marks, socks 11 marks.
| His glass of been, which tastes to I
I him near, beer, costs 1 mark. ,
Everything he smokes costs much I
more. His wife tomplains that she i
can’t run the household and clothe I
the children on what he allows her. ;
If he seeks consolation in his news ;
paper the chances are that he reads i
of the fresh taxation the government |
will have to assess in order to meet I
the Allied demands for reparation ,
payments.
I have heard many people in Wash- ■
ington, London. Paris and Brussels i
bewail the fact that Foch agreed to i
an armistice before the Allied armies •
marched into Berlin. They argued I
that only in this way could the Ger- i
mans have been thoroughly convinced
that they were beaten in the war. But
after a month in Germany, I think
every German knows he was licked.
Evidence Everywhere
Everything the German reads, ;
hears and sees reminds him of it:
| Bremen a dead seaport,
i Allied troops on the Rhine.
Saxon textile factories on part
time.
Ruhr steel mills closing.
Munich’s famous gaiety all gone.
German money low-rated.
German army a mere police force. :
German navy at the bottom of the
sea.
German merchant marine in pos
session of the Allies.
Allied commissions all over the
country.
Germany’s fixture mortgaged to !
Allies.
Men like Walter Rathenau, head j
of the great electrical trust, or Hugo
Stinnes, with his finger in a hundred i
industrial pies, or Arthur Von Gwin
ner, the great banker and shipping
magnate, have their own thoughts
and theoroes, but the future is so
uncertain that they prefer not to
discuss things.
Big business does not know What
may happen in Germany itself. It
faces not only huge taxes and great
increases in its payroll, but an in
creasing difficulty in getting raw ma
terials. not to speak of the difficulty
of finding markets which will accept
German goods.
The result of all this pessimism and '
depression and even hopelessness is i
a slowing down in the national life, i
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thetWEsS«£Eorder
IN THE HEART OF
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MILTON BRONNER
The trains are slower and fewer.
The street cars run at longer inter
vals. The cities are not as brightly
! lighted. The gas is not of as high
■ quality. The shops arc not as well
I stocked.
Great Stores Empty.
■ Y\>u wander into the great de
partment stores of Essen, Hamburg.
Berlin, Dresden and Leipsic and are
struck by the comparative emptiness
and silence. Only the theaters and
movies and restaurants and beer gar
dens are filled.
And there are many things you
! miss in this after-the-war Germany.
! You never run into the parades of
I troops that you used to see. You
miss the military bands which used
to give daily concerts in the parks.
You don’t see richly dressed women
going around with expensive toy
dogs. -
One thing you do see everywhere
is the gray-green coat of the German
soldier. But the men who are wear
ing them are not soldiers now. They
are plain citizens who are wealing
the old army jacket because it is
made of serviceable cloth and they
can’t afford a new coat.
One thing is as it was before "the
war. I don’t know how they manage
it, but German cities are still the
, most spotless in the world. The
| streets are clean and the parks and
j open places are in beautiful trim.
I The lawns are perfect and the pan-
■ sies are a riot of color.
Doubtless you wonder how things
|go on at all if Germany is really
| bankrupt, its assets are seized and
; sold for the creditors an* the firm
i ceases to be.
j But. you can’t do that when the
. government of sixty-five million peo
' pie can’t meet its debts. You can’t
j sell them out and bundle them out.
i The sixty-five millions with their in
dustry, theig- productive capacity,
their wants still remain.
And a nation of that size can keep
j a great many hands busy satisfying
, its own internal needs and trading
i with itself.
Land of Paradoxes
I Germany is today a land of para-
I doxes.
I Its government is "busted”—but
(Continued on Page Eight.)
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 8, 1921.
ABOUT THIS TIME O’ YEAR
) \COOPL 1 £ OE WEEKS/ ■'
( OUT OH My I m
'Mi \' o. rd
1
METHVIN HEADS
SUMTER COUNTY
FARM BUREAU
Seven Con^nunity Couii-i
ci Is Completed And
County Organized
The Sumter county farm bureau
formally organized Tuesday at a
meeting of delegates from the vari
ous community i’ouncjs. held at the
Chamber of Commerce. The last of
the seven community councils was or
ganized a few day: ago, and the of
ficers of these councils constitute the
advisory board of the county bureau.
It was these members of the advis
ory hoard who met Tuesday and or :
ganized. John T. Methvin was chos-1
en chairman, Mrs. A. F. Hodges, vice I
chairman, George O. Marshall,
secretary, and B. E. Thrasher, Jr.,
treasurer.
This election completes the or
ganization of the Suinter County j
Farm Bureau, which will be affiliated!
with the Georgia Farm Bureau Fed
eration. The enrolled membership at
the start is about 120. The canvass
by outside organizers has been dis
continued and the membership work;
iftw will he carried forward by the
membership committees of the vari
ous community councils. C. C. Shep
pard, of Huntington, county manager
during tfae preliminitry campaign,:
has completed his work and been re
lieved by the permanent organiza-,
lion which, it is understood, will
shortly embark upon a fixed program'
of work.
Community councils are located at
Leslie. Plains, Shiloh, Pleasant. Grove.,
Americus, Thalean and Concord
communities. The officers of all:
these councils are:
Leslie Council
W T. Anderson, chairman.
Mrs. F. A. Wilson, vice chairman. '
B. A. Bradlev, secretary- treasurer, j
Plains Ccuncil
F. E. Matthews, chairman.
Mrs. Claude Logan, vice chairman. J
J. W. Murray, secretary-treasurer, t
Shiloh Council.
W. W. Wilson, chairman.
Mrs. J. D. Moore, vice chairman.
M. O. Colston, secretary-treasurer, j
Pleasant Gr/>ve Council.
J. T. Methvin. chairman.
Mrs. W. L.-Chambliss, vice chair
man.
Claude S. Braswell, secretary
treasurer.
' Americus Council.
W. E. Brown, chairman.
Mrs. A. F. Hodges, vice chairman. I
R. E. Cato, secretary-treasurer.
Thalean Council.
J. E. 1). Ship", chairman.
Mrs. T. M. A. Finch, vice chair-j
man.
S. E. Mitchell, secretary-treasurer, i
Concord Council.
Eugene Drane, chairman.
Mrs. C. J. Dupree, vice chairman, i
M. H. Guest, secretary-treasurer. :
PUEBLO S DEAD
FOUND IN MIRE
DENVER, Colo., June B.—Ten mil
lion dollars worth of Pueblo goods
and scores of bodies of Pueblo citi
zens lie strewn in the mire and
quicksands of inundated farm lands j
south of both sides of .the raging Ar- ’
kansas river below Pueblo, according '
to a dispatch today to the Denver
Times. I
AWAITS HIS SECOND TRIAL FOR MURDER
Si
f
Disagreement of the jury means a second trial for 11-year-old Cecil
Burkett, of Knox. Ind., on the charge of killing a playmate. Cecil is con
fident of acquittal.
M’LENDON NEW
HEADOFLEGIONI
Delegates To Columbus j
Convention Also
Elected
- i
The regular meeting of the John!
1). Mathis Post No. 2, of the Ameri-i
can Legion, was held at the Carne-|
gie library Monday night, June 6, atj
which time the following delegates!
tip-, the state convention to be held]
in Columbus, July 4,5, and 6, were!
elected :
F. P. Anderson and J. E. B. Mc-j
London, delegates; J. G. Holst and;
Robert ('. Lane, alternates.
At this meeting the regular elec
tion of officers was hold'and the !
following elected: Commander, J. I
E. B. McLendon; vice-commander, I
F. P. Anderson; adjutant, R. L. I
Crawford; finance officer, S. Li
Saunders; chaplain, C. W. Waters;
historian. Robert C. Lane. These of
ficers will take office at the regular
meeting to be held the first Monday
in July, for terms of one year.
Motion was carried that a vote of
thanks be drawn and presented to
th ■ Times-Recorder in appreciation
of its l.eln and co-operation in the
membershin campaign that has just
cone to a successful close. Motion
was also made and carried t hat reso
lutions be drawn endorsing the Boy
Scout movement, and published in
the Times-Recorder.
France is the greatest snuff tak- j
ing country in Europe. ,
BIC BSBHAUL
AT MH
500
Cellars Near Fiver
% i
i COLUMBUS, June 8.t —The .seizure
' by county officers Tuesday of more
than 500 gallons of corn whisky in
nearly 100 kegs, constitutes one of 1
the largest captures of liquor since
the noted Girard, Ala., round up sev- <
eral years ago. The liquor was seiz
ed on the Robert Gilbert Place, sev
en miles north of Columbus, Gilbert
was placed under arrest.
The liquor was hidden in two big
cellars, the doors of which were cov
ered with cordwood. The liquor was I
in kegs, the hoops of which were
lusty, and had evidently been stor
ed there for some time. While it
was all corn liquor, some of it was
colored so as to resemble rye. Gil
bert was placed under SI,OOO bond.
Shortly after he was brought to Co
lumbus, the whisky was turned into
a sewer near the court house. The
raid was made by five county offi-f
cers.
Five gallons of whisky buried in 1
ti e ground, 18 half pints founds con- 1
cealed about the person of two young
men, and a still full o f beer con- '
stituted the total haul Monday of 10,
, al prohibition enforcement officers, 1
city and county. The active cam
paign that has been conducted
against the liquor traffic recently
has brought about a great scarcity
in the available supply and a con
sequent rise in the price to the con
sumer.
BABE RUTH GETS
ONE DAY IN JAIL
' ,
NEW YORK. June 8. —“Babe ;
Ruth, home run king, today was sen i
tcnced to one day in prison and fined;
SIOO for automobile speeding. Os 1
ficially the day in jail ends at 41
o’clock this afternoon.
British Freighter Hits
Iceburg Off Halifax
HALIFAX. JUNE B.—The British
freighter Seapool struck an iceberg
off the Newfoundland coast today
and is slowly making for St. Johns
with her forefront broken and fore
I peak full of water. Advices to the ■
I Canadian naval staff said the steamer I
■ was not S-n need of immediate assist- |
ance. ' •
NEW YORK, June B.—-Reports
here ami at Halifax that the unnam- i
led steamer which crashed into an I
icebirg was the British freighter Sea-1
pool set at rest fears entertained I
in shipping circles for the safety of I
several large passenger liners near,
the ice field. Rumors flew thick and
i fast concerning the French liner .
, Rochambeau and several erroneous
reports were circulated that she had
I met trouble. The Associated Press,
however, did not circulate them.
DUBLIN BULLET-SWEPT.
DUBLIN. June B.—(By Associat-
led Press.) —Dublin streets were
swept with bullets for twenty minutes
this morning following an attack with
II revolvers and bombs on a police loy
ry. Five constables and .some civil-,
‘ ians were-wounded.
. '-a.,
TRY THIS WORD PUZZLE
Can you make one word of these letters, using
each letter but once: EDORNOW?
Answer to yesterday’s: Lay either board across
a corner section of surrounding land and the other
from this board to the island.
SENATOR URGES ;
ACTION; CALLS '
IT DISGUSTING
McCormick Complains
To Naval Secretary
For Discipline
WASHINGTON. June B.—Secre
tary Denby instructed Rear Admiral
Sims today to advise the navy depart
ment immediately by cable whd.her
he was correctly quoted in press dis
patches of the address he made at a
luncheon in London yesterday. j
Senator McCormick complained
formally today to President HardjDS
and Secretary Denby about the ad
dress in which Admiral Sims discuss
ed the Irish question. Senator Mc-
Cormick termed Sims’ address’* dis
gusting and un-American, lie ask
ed Secretary Denby to take disciplin
ary measures against the admiral.
SIMS TELLS BRITISH
OF U. S. "JACKASS VOTE.”
LONDON, June B.—(By Assbciat
ed Press.) —Rear Admiral Williarft S.
Sims. U. S. N.. advised Britons and
American;, to disregard “dangerous
propaganda circulated in America by
your enemies and ours,” in address
ing a luncheon of the English-Speak
ing union hero Tuesday.
In denouncing “American hyphe- i
nates,” Admiral Sims said: 1
“I do not want Io touch on the 1
Irish question, for I know nothing ’
about it and I haven’t found any
Englishman who does. But there arc
many in our country who technically
arc Americans, some of them natural
ized and some born there, but none
of them Americans at all. ' .
“They are Americans when they
want money, but Sinn Feiners when
on the platform. They are making
war on America today. ■ J
“The simple truth • of it is that
they have the blood of British and
Americans on their hands from ob
'structicns they placed in the way
of the most effective operation of
the Allied naval forces during Ina
-—(vnu-. -i-ke “ either
black horses with white stripes, or
white horses with black stripes, but
we know they are not horses— thfiy
are asses. But tach of those asses
has a vote and there lots of tteirt.
The admiral advised the
to ignore any resolution forced by
these jackass votes.”
He deplored the fact that there
was a section of the press on both
sides of the Atlantic which put
false news on the wires which caus
es questions to be asked.”
G.O.PJAYCUT
DIXIE DELEGATES
WASHINGTON, June B.—The
next. Republican national convention
would be composed of 1.037 dele
gate. under a new basis of party icp
resentation submitted to the na
tional committee today hy-the sub
committee after lengthy investiga
tions. A cut of 23 votes in the rep
resentation of Southern states is*
proposed.
Thousand Expected
Sunday School Picnic
A sudden dearth of frying size
chickens both in tlm market and on
the countrv-side was geportpd today
on the eve of the First Methodist
Suudav school picnic, which will
take place Thursday at Myrtle
Springs. Fully one thousand persons
are expected to attend. V. M. Hol
loway, chairman of the transporta
tion committee reports he still can
u:c volunteer automobiles. Curs
will tart from the churchß a, m.
Chairman W. E. Taylor, of the
basket committee advises everybody
to have their baskets at the church
by 8 o’clock sharp, when trucks will
leave. j .
Buckshot Ready For
Peeping Tom Here
Americus has a Peeping Tom. He
has been seen about houses in Brown
street in the 200-block, it has heen
reported to the police. An officer
has been assigned several nights to
the neighborhood to trap the prowl
er, but so far he has not been suc
cessful. The miscreant is reported
to have been observed about homes
them which the heads of the families
are gone much of time, because Os
! duties elsewhere. It has been stated
j that if the mysterious person shows
un in that neighborhood again hd is
I likely to receive a load of buckshot.
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Democrat Elected In
4th Alabama District
i SELMA. Ala.. June. 8.-—luimar
! Jebbers. Democrat, was elected yes
; terdav by a maiority of about 5,11(10
over Judge A. W. Longshore. Repub
lican. to succeed the late Represent
ative Fred Blackmon, of the Fourth
Alabama district, according to unof-
I filial returns. ’
WEATHER. n .
. I Forecast for Georgia Generally
1 fair tonight and Thursday; 'little
change in temperature. / „
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
