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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. MARKETS AMERICUS SPOT COTTON (»ood Middling ... 11 l-4c NEW YORK FUTURES July Oct. Dec. Jan. Prev. Close 12.58 13.34 13.78 13.87 Open 12.60 13.33 13. i t 13.84 H am 12.52 13.20 13.73 13.82 1 pm 12’54 13.33 13.83 13.92 Close .12.60 13.44 13.95 14.05 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.” 45.00 TREE OR \ BATHING SUIT OR TICKETS HOW about trying for that $5.00 prize, or the new bathing suit. > or the week of free movie passes ( to be given away next week by j S Manager Emory Rylander of the 1 ’ Rylander Theater, through the < Times-Recorder? All you have to <’ do is to see Jackie Coogan at the 5 Rylander Friday or Saturday of ( this week then write a 250 word ? or less paper on “Why Peck’s Boy A ' Was Bad.’’ and mail or bring it to ? The Times-Recorder. Here are the rules: } I—Story must not exceed 250 j words. > 2 -Must be written on only, one ( \ side of the paper. t J 3—Must be in the hands of the > editor of The Times-Recorder by > Wednesday. June 15. at 6 p. m. 4 —Address your story to < Peck’s Bad Boy, care Times-Re- > $ corder. The stories written by the prize S ' winners vfill be published in Thurs- < day’s edition of the Times-Re- > corder, announcing the winners. $ 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 * r thetWEsS«£Eorder IN THE HEART OF i I 0 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. - 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.
