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THE AMERICUS TIME3-REC0RDER.
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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
CETTIMi IIYSTEIIlt U,.
A good deal of pure hysteria lias de
veloped over real and Imaginary op
position to the selective draft law un
der which millions of young men art-
now being examined for service in the
army.
One thing should be clearly under
stood. Thomas E. Watsou or any other
citizen of Georgia. or of any other
state, has a perfect ritht to seek to
test the constitutionality of the selec-
| five draft law in the courts of the
'land, it is the right of any citizen to
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|be passed upon by tribunal
With authority to so determine.
But neither Thomas E. Watson nor
any other citizen has the shadow of
right to stir up opposition to the gov
ernment's military activities as that
oj position is finding expression in
some parts of the country. It is one
thing to secure interpretation of a law
by orderly process in the courts. It is
quite another to tell credulous people
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G. II. EI.LIS,
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City of Amerlcus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
■adiroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional DustricL
U. 8. Court. Southern District of
Georgia.
Amerlcus, (la, August », 1917
Even the Increased price of automo
biles will not cut much of a figure this
fall if cotton stays around 23 cents, as
la now indicated.
Floridians residing In ’dry” towns
are having their liquor shipped to them
disguised as fish on the express bills
o' lading. Florida always was noted
for Its big fish and big fish stories.
There is Just enough ground
hopefulness in the Russian situation to
keep us folks on this side of the Atlan
tic In a state of uncertainty as to Just
what development we may next expect.
The American troops over In France
are being given Intensive training in
the art of withstanding gas attacks, hut
It occurs to a man up a tree that some
Instruction along this line would he
welcomed by us poor mortals who are
bombarded with verbal bombs almost
as deadly as those on the western
front.
A Waycross dispatch under yester
day's date says there Is prospect of
armed resistance to the draft law in
Pierce county. The dispatch sets
forth that—
Four farmers who have boys within
the draft age, and whose boys are
among those to appear for examination
cither tomorrow or Tuesday, arc alleg-
1 to have purchased arms and am
munition for the express purpose of
resisting any attempt to force their
sons to serve In the new army. The
farmers reside In a community where
it Is said Tom Watson has always had
staunch followers and their attitude is
almost wholly blamed Oh Ills articles
declaring the draft law was unconsti
tutional and that the citizens did not
haev to obey It.”
The man who is responsible for any
such spirit of lawlessness as that
which this Waycross dispatch Indicates
a' existing In Pierce county deserves
the unsparing condemnation of all
good citizens. Not on any ground is
the encouragement ol a spirit of open
rebellion to governmental authority to
he Justified, and particularly in times
like the present are such activities to
b- unsparingly condemned.
But we think the federal authorities
are making the mistake of unduly ex
aggerating the importance of anti
draft sentiment save in widely scatter
ed localities. In Oklahoma, for In
stance, and in certain states where the
hateful influence of the I. W. W. has
made itself felt, it has been necessary
to employ force In compelling respect
for governmental authority. In such
cases force Is Justified.
But ii Is poor policy, we think, to at
tach much Importance to the wild talk
of a few Individuals who wave Tom
THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN
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A JUDAS AMONG NATIONS. criminal policy. Certainly, none other
— jvould boast of it. Here we see Ger
A recently published official list of.maHy's vaunted “kultur” in its true
neutral ships sunk by the Germans light and posture, sinking neutral ships
from August S, 19H, to April 2C, 1917, a" 1 * slaughtering neutral seamen
reveals the Hohenzollern Government
as the enemy of all the world. Every
nation with a flag upon the high seas
has suffered at the hands of the Prus
sian buccaneers. In all, eight hun-
order to drive a brisker and more gain-
iul business when peace returns. Here
we have a glimpse into the black soul
of an empire which while claiming to
be made up of supermen, betrays and
crucifies humanity for thirty pieces of
dred and forty-nine vessels represent-1 . _ .
I silver.—Atlanta Journal.
ing a total of more tlian one and a half
Our neighboring city of Albany has
decided that it is a wise plan to organ-
Jxe a military company to afford protec
tion In the absence of the regular na-
tional guard unit ordinarily located ] Wa taon's Jeffersonian tu the face or!
tbere. The Sumter Light Guard* 'h (lie p U bn e sentiment and predict the 1
Amerlcus have been organized for sev- fa |i ure of the draft. Even an anti-draft
eral weeks and are gaining In efficiency I eet j ng j s no t a particularly menacing
with each semi-weekly drill. ^ affair', and If all such convocations had
jbeen completely ignored by the public
The official announcement from, wjj W0U |<| ^ hearing nothing of them
million tons have been destroyed—neu
tral vessels whose sinking was as un
warranted under the law of nations as
the invasion of neutral territory or the
killing of non-combatants would be.
Those very crimes, it is true, have
been perpetrated by Germany on such
an enormous scale and with such cyn
ical abandon that her piracy seems al
most a trifle in comparison. But that
piracy, It should be remembered, has
been carried on for three years against
the whole world’s commerce, in savage
defiance of law and in brutal disregard
honor and humanity. Commenting
on the black record, Prof. W. Macneile
Dixon, of the University of Glasgow,
truly observes:
“The ships and lives destroyed
are the ships and lives of friends,
of nations with whom Germany
professes to have no quarrel, some
of whom have assisted, and assist
ed valiantly, in relieving her dis
tress. Engaged in peaceful com
merce, guilty of no belligerent act,
protected by international law,
they were none the Ibss destroyed.
Behind these melancholy official
columns lie the tragedies.! The
imagination, and that only in a
dim and distant fashion, can paint
the full picture of this modern
Slaughter of the Innocents, the
death and suffering and misery of
which this colorless record is the
merest index."
Seventy-six Dutch vessels, one bun
dred and one Swedish, one hundred
THAT FOOD CONTROL BILL.
Within a very short time—unless
Jim Reed, Gore and other Senators
once more spill floods of words—Con
gross will adopt some sort of food con
servation measure.
The sole question is whether in its
finality it will do the work the Presl
dent has promised the consumer ii
will do.
Food conservation and control have
met resistance every step through the
Senate. More than in the house,
gray wolves of special privilege have
flaunted their power.
They secured long weeks of delay
absolutely priceless to them and ex
ceedingly costly to the people. They
emasculated sections of the bill.
They were battling in the last ditch
for their continued control of wheat,
flour, meat and other foodstuffs which
the people need and for which the
prices have mounted sky high.
That is why the President should
scrutinize the bill with a microscope
when it coerns to him—to find out not
whether it has some little technical
flaw, but whcthen in its lar?er provis
ions, it is anything like what is needed
to meet the situation.
The people have looked to Washing
ton for relief, to lighten their burdens.
Food comes closest. They know they
are being victimized and they demand
the pillage be stopped. They are con
vinced that if the right kind of bill Is
MIL LANSING KNOWS NOW .
Secretary Lansing, in his Madisoi
Barracks speech, said:
• The evil character of the German-
gvernment is laid before the world.
We now know that that government is
inspired with ambitions which menace
human liberty, and that to gain its end
it does not hesitate to break faith, to
iolate the most sacred rights, or to
; etrate intolerable acts of inhuman
ity.
“It needed but the words reported
have been uttered by the German
chancellor to complete the picture of
the character of his government when
lie announced that the only reason
why the intensified submarine cam
paign was delayed until February last
that sufficient submarines could
not be built before that time to make
the attacks on commerce efficient.
ou realize that this means, if it means
anything, that the promises to refrain
from brutal submarine warfare, which
Germany had made to the United States
were never intended to be kept, that
they were only made in order to gain
time in which to build more submar-
ies, and that when the time came to
act, the German promises wer* unhesi
tatingly torn to pieces like other
scraps of paper?"
It is this disclosure of the character
of the imperial German government
which is the underlying cause of
entry into the war."
That is all true. But it is truth
which Secretary Lansing and the ad
ministration of which he is a part were
s'; tardy in acknowledging that their
patience became a world wonder. What
Secretary Lansing realizes; from the
German chancellor’s confession—that
the delay in Germany’s resumption of
barbaric U-boat warfare was for the
purpose of building a sufficient number
of submarines—was apparent long be
fore Germany openly proclaimed that
she intended to break her word and re
turn to this warfare, and in the days
when Washington was relying on Ger
many’s good faith and pluming Itself
on its bloodless victory over the Kaiser
piracy the CourleV-Journal time and
again warned it that Germany did not
intend to keep her word and had only
given it for the purpose which Chan
cellor Michaelis now confesses.
Mr. Lansing at last understands the
character o£ the government against
which we have taken up arms and It is
no longer necessary for it to confess
its turpitude before he will believe that
the devil is really black.—Louisville
Ccurier-Journal.
>1 0. COUNCIL, Pres’t.
C. M. COUNCIL, Vice-Pres,
INC. 1891
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Day Phones 88 and 231 Night 661
Thomas Wilhelm Hardwick is delud
ing south Georgia with copies of his
• speech in the United States Senate
{against the aviation bill. Thomas is
j merely wasting white paper, printers’
ink and space in mail pouches, for
his constituents are fully informed a«
to his inexcusable conduct regarding
the nation’s preparations for war. The
time is not far distant whei this
friend of the German Kaiser will or
shorn of the privilege of spouting anti-
American sentiments on the floor of
the Senate, and of loading the mails
with franked matter of a seditious
character.
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clothed with authority, results will be
and fourteen Danish and four hundred quickly obtained. Results are what are
Berlin that "the Kaiser has consulted
his heart and again decorated Hlnden-j ut the followers of Mr. Watson
hrrg" Is Intended to confirm the Amer '| ra | se a , (,| K an attorney's fee as they
lean opinion that the All Highest la |. | eaae Aa i ong as the contributions
thp ana lourieen uanisn ana lour nunareu i “*'■**• * — -
” ?°. e wh „ n nart , 10 c0 ” le in . the 1Ut r ®' and thirty-six Norwegian were sunk (wanted, not apologies or explanations
by German mines and submarines up I An d that is where the President can
to April 26 last. AH those nations are'and should come in strong. If the bill
Germany’s neighbors, all have been a* finally laid before him is a mere
irigidly neutral, all have done much to shell, if it gives him the mere color of
pectorlal organ only whan particul- |naln open ^ , hc te3t case
arty bloodthirsty deeds have been l>er- j brouglu It wtll b e decided in duo
formed by his savage chieftains. season. and the fellows who are mak-
— *j n g a(J muC h n o(se over the selective
Only seven days left and the Georgia 'd ra ft will be no worse off than they are
legislature Is buried under a sea of now excep t for what they gave to pay-
keep her from starving. Yet. not with-'f°o<l control without the real power, if
bills which threaten an Inundation that
will prevent the enaction of much
needed legislation. The doleful lack of
business-like methods In the operation
at Georgia's legislative machinery
seems to continue In spite of spasmodic
their lawyers.
The draft Is gotnj to stick. It ts
constitutional. It is right. It Is fair, and
It has behind It the moral sentiment of
the nation. Those who oppose It are
! standing her debt to them, she has de
stroyed their ships and slain their sall
ies as pitlessly as though they had been
her foes. That Is the Prussian way of
showing gratitude. That Is the Kais-
It is aimed merely to make a noise
without accomplishing definite results,
the chief executive should promptly
veto It.
In plain language, calling a spade a
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A. D. WILLIAMS, Director
Day Phone 253 Night Phones 657-!
It Is rather amusing to notice the
manner in which several of the state
papers are taking up the cudgel in be
half of Hoke Smith, while at the same
time they belabor Hardwick for his
obstructionist tactics. The only dif
ference between the senior and the
junior senator is that Hoke tries to
cover up his tracks by two-faced deal
ings which would put e*.cn Janus to
shame, while Thomas Wilhelm makes
no attempt to hide his antipathy for
anything and everything the leaders
o the nation propose in time of war.
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er’s idea of honor and fair play. The, 8 P a de, he should tell why he vetoes it | Tj, e 5m introduced in the state leg-
efforts to Inject a little up-to-date-ness. laekinj? In patrotlsra. The one class
either honestl> mistaken or uhol > fact Is, of course, Germany has set out ft,1 d place the responsibility directly | fs<a.ture to pay for the silver service
will learn the truth In due season, and
deliberately to destroy as much ocean 'where it belongs.
t mnage as she can with a view to herj He should then insist that Congress
own commercial interests after thej&'i to work honestly and speedily and
war. Her newspapers boast that aj a ^°P^ a measure that he can sign,
great merchant fleet, lying safe in her! The American people have been vlc-
The fair one who plies her journal-^ Jie ol j ier w m have Its ‘streak of yal-
Istic pen over the next page, pitched aj ler „ clearly revealed —Albany Herald
double handful of consternation IntOj ______
our oerturbed midst yesterday by an-J 1 j .
ncunclng that the anniversary of her With the Senate dilly-dallying in Us,heritors, is being augmented contln-jtimlzed long enough. They are in no
nata> day had arrived but upon cross'consideration of the food control bill, "ally by ship, now building and that rood for trifling. They want relief and
examination took refuge behlud the President Wilson has taken bis coat off the moment peace Is declared this fleet they want It now.
Btatntue of limitations, or some such and is hot In behind the upper house, will dart forth to capture trade from
legal technicality and (Irmly declined That body will stand a lot of prodding the Impoverished neutrals and enemy
(ogive any informaUon as to how many [with a good sharp stick before It makes .countries alike.
of these gladsome occasions she has at-'up Its mind to accomplish something of
It is doubtful that any other nation
Rad7 enjoyed.
merit.
would have couctived such a sordidly
They will back up tbelr President.
And they will make their voices hear*
ii so unmistakable a manner that even
i.e Senate marplots will heed.—Colum
bus Ledger.
donated 10 years ago by the state to
the battleship "Georgia" has been laid
aside for "future action." How much
longer shall Georgia he placed in the
position of "dead beat"?
Be protected against THE
FIRE by carrying our insui
your car. Reasonable rat e -
Call 186
With the boll weevil beaten, a good
price for cotton assured, plen’y of
hog and hominy about "ripe." and
farm products generally ou the up
ward trend. 'umter county has in
prospect one of the most prosperous
fall seasons in its histor:
Herbert Haw
HOGS! HOGS!! HOGS
Attention Farmers:—The Government Experts s
will win the war:” It is the duty of our Georg
to raise all the hogs tor market he possibly can.
write me when you have fat hogs for sale.
JAMES G. COWAN
Phone 374
P. O. Box 288, Americus, Ga.
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