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THE AMERIOJS TIME3-REC0RDER
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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
OCR PART IN TIIE FIOIIT.
t'ac war work Savannah women
cofng or will do. These women
do
ERMA XT’ PLANNED TO ATTACK US
It will be readily
James W. Gerard.
conceded that
during the four
A few days ago a special committee no t think they have the full right to
from the Georgia legislature made *i stand on the outside of things and pay
trip to Thomasvllle and Valdosta for no attention to the war and do nothing years he spent in (Germany as ambas-
tbe purpose of making a personal in- to help bring victory to their nation; jsedor of the United States, had vastly
estigation of the operations being noi a t a ll. They know there Is much better opportunities to inform himself
carried on at the experiment stations v , 0 rk which women can do and which ar to what was going on and what
there by the experts who have charge therefore they ought to do—which it is would be the future attitude of Germ-
!of the work of making cotton culture t j, e j r duty to do. jany toward this country than the av
nore efficient. j If an American woman can do work^erage man.
The State Hoard of Entomology, un-’, v hich will release a man for more' And he has written the story of
der authority of which the experiment strenuous war work, if she can do those four years in order, he says, to
stations are conducted, has for many something which otherw ise would not J arouse the American people to a
Published every Sunday morning and jearB cont *nued its scientific investiga- be done to soothe a wounded soldier sense of the gravity of the situation,
erery afternoon except Saturday, and tions along the lines indicated and make the fighting man’s trench life: He wisely warns us that the might
Weekly, by the Times-Recorder Co. hen the legislative committee had pleasanter, it is not alone her privilege'of Germany is not yet broken, and that
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- thoroughly Inspected the two stations but her absolute duty to do It. Now', there is much for this country to do.
Entered as second class matter J^‘j n g G uth Georgia, there existed no'there is a great number of women, no But perhaps the most impressive fea-
oostoffice at Americus, Ga.. under act , }
. .. - - -— doubt in their minds of its members as doubt, who are anxious to work for.turq of the introduction to his book is
to the efficacy of the work accom- the cause of the nation but who do not the statement that, in his opinion, “we
plished. The report made by the know just how and when to take hold, are not only justly in the war, but
committee indicates its entire satisfac- jg understood that one object of the prudently in the war.”
tion and pays a glowing tribute to the formation of the Savannah Unit is toj It is a point which cannot be empha-
practical methods that have been util- systematize the work women may do.sized too frequently. We are pledged
ized in rendering such valuable ser- so as to get the very best results in to the high purpose of ridding thi
ice to cotton farmers In Georgia. jboth quantity and quality by bringing ] world of a nation of baby-killers and
While the experiments at these sta- together the women who are willing to pirates; we are committed to the pro-
NO TIME FOR HYSTERIA.
cf March 3. 1879.
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tions have resulted in enormous good work and the work that should be position of making the world safe for
Mr. L. H. Kimbrough to the only
authorized traveling representative of
the Americus Times-Recorder.
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City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional Dustrict
CL S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Am^lniN, Ga- August 10, 1917
There are some fellow’s up there in
Washington who have the art of find
ing things to tax down to a fine point.
Germany first admits and then denies
that the violation of Belgian neutrality
-was a ‘strategic necessity,” but the
world has been sufficiently Informed
as to the facts in the case to make any
further explanation by the Teutons
unnecessary.
to the planters of this state, it to done. When the story of America’s democracy. We owe It to England for
nevertheless true that the results ac- par t in the great war is fully told the the protection her fleet has given us
complished at Thomasvllle and Val-'women of America will not be asham- and to France for the aid she gave us
dosta have been made possible by ex-* e d of their share in it.—Savannah 1 > winning our independence to sup-
pert them in their hour of need.
utB we must not lose sight of the
fact that we are in this war to save
ourselves from the deadly, definite and
perlments In cotton propagation and Morning News.
development in Sumter county. Prob-j —
ably on a comparative few persons TO SUPPRESS PROFITING,
know that for the past 8 years experi-.
ments have been conducted by the The announcement from Washington j unwavering purpose of the Prussians
State Board of Entomology on the that the American public will be pro-j to fall upon us and destroy us.
farms of Senator M. B. Council in this tected against profiteering and that the So it is not without significance
county. There has been no active pub. J Allies will get their war supplies at when a man of Mr. Gerard's character
licity campaign on the subject, but the the same prices as the United States is say
tests have steadily progressed
many invaluable results have
accomplished.
and important, and it is to be hoped that it
been to true.
Price levels generally are far above
"Lewis 63.” a variety of cotton that the point of reasonable profits and they
Kemesky is said to be physically
'weak, but judging from his operations
since assuming general charge of
-things in the land where Nicholas
formelry ruled with absolute power,
the deficiency has not affected his ac
tivities to any great extent.
Michaelis, the new German chan
cellor, rises to remark that there will
never be another war. His prophecy
may be fulfilled, but there is one
thing fairly certain; there will never
be another war in which Germany fig
ures as one of the belligerents.
is becoming popular throughout the indicate that the spirit of grab is
boll weevil territory, was developed in niore pronounced in the United States
the experiment farms In Sumter coun-jthan the spirit of self-sacrifice, which
ty, while other excellent varieties have J to the spirit that must win victory for
also been propagated until they have us if w'e win at all.
reached their present stage of perfec
tion.
Sumter county farmers may obtain
It would profit us very little if every
mother’s son of us should get as rich
a» Croesus if we lost the war, for the
valuable assistance In cotton culture victors would take every cent of it
"If we had stayed out and the
war had been drawn or won by
Germany, WE WOULD HAVE
BEEN ATTACKED—and while
Europe stood grinning by—not dir
ectly at first, but through an at
tack on some Central or South
American state to which it would
be at least as difficult for us to
send troops as for Germany. And
what if this powerful nation (Ger
many). vowed to war, were once
firmly established in South or
Central America? What of our
boasted Isolation then?
What indeed!
Every intelligent man knows more
by giving a little more attention to away from us.
the experimentation work going on at! When Washington announces that
our very door and with the weevil in -1 “prices now charged for materials
festation threatening more serious necessary to the industrial life of the
consequences each year, the benefits nation are out of proportion to the 1 or less clearly that Germany meditat.
accruing from such development work cost of production,” it means that we ed this attack upon us. The plans for
are deluding ourselves with the notion
that our wealth Is piling up.
Such profits are more imaginary
than real. They are not the character
cannot be overestimated
THE WOMEN HELPING.
an invasion of this country were
drawn up by the German general staff.
Time after time Germany made at
tempts to secure a foothold in this
hemisphere, in defiance of the Monroe
In other wars it may have been that^of increasement that sticks, but such
the work of women was not great—al- rroflts do hamper industry, confound'Doctrine. She tried It in Venezuela
though Southern women who remem-^ labor and inflict upon us a train of
her the days of the War Between the prblems and difficulties that are well
States know that in that conflict it nigh bafTling.
waj great indeed—but in this world] Every family In this country that
when Roosevelt was President. She*
was in the very act of attempting it at
Haiti when the present war broke out |
The announcement that on Saturday,
August 18, a mass meeting will he
held in Americus for the purpose of
•djfcutfeing the conscription act, has
rought home to the citizens of Sum
ter the realization of the fact that a
movement which has been more or,
less sporadic in its outbreaks, has
cained at least a modisura of support
in this immediate section. The press
of the state has for several weeks past
carried stories of attempts on the port
of opponents of the draft law to or
ganize a concerted effort nullify its
previsions, but the people of Sumter
county have regarded the incidents as
of little effect as far as this immed
iate section is concerned.
The fact that enough open opposi
tion to the draft act has developed in
Sumter county to precipitate a climax
such as is indicated in the present in
stance, is a matter of vital interest to
every citizen who has at heart the
good name of the community with
which the affairs of his daily existence'
have become identified. \
It is to be sincerely hoped that no'
meeting of the Jdnd be held. This is
no time for hysteria; no time for fan- (
atical outbursts which avail not at
all, and which lead to consequences]
the seriousness of which cannot be
questioned. j
The draft act has become the law of j
the land, and the whole power of the
government is committed to the en
forcement of its provisions. It was
(enacted by the governing body of the
nation, composed of representatives of
the people, duly elected and clothed
with the authority of the Constitution
ci the United States. Its constitution
ality is unquestioned, except by a few
individuals whose opposlion to the
principles involves causes them to seize
upon every detail wiiich offers even the
most remote possibility of furnishing
support for their contentions.
The time for efforts to stir up organ
ized oposition to the draft has passed;
before the measure was enacted into
l?w, there was no question as to every
man’s rl?ht to exert every ounce of
his power against the proposition. But
now that the act has been written upon
the statute books of the nation, it be
comes the duty of every citizen worthy
of the name to uphold the law* and to
render obedience to Its duly constitut
ed authority.
America, as a nation, has no insa
tiable appetite for war. Americans
are not possessed of an inordinate de-l
sire for bloodshed and the thought of
marching to battle, with the possibil
ity of Being left on the battlefield, to
soldier’s grave is not our
L 0. [flCMIL, Pres’f. ISC. 1891 H. j.
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i.i Europe, and had it not been for j highest ambition. None of us are
var there seems no limit, in either must subsist upon moderate incomes j the turn of affairs abroad w f e would to particularly taken with the idea of fur-
amount or variety, to the work direct- has learned that price levels are so^ day bo at war with Germany, single nlshing cannon-fodder.
1) connected with the war which wo- hiih that instead of having "war pros- handed and alone But there comes a time
men may do, and much of which they perity” it is increasingly difficult to | These thin?s are well known, but
must do It is not expected that any procure adequate food, clothing and naturally Germany’s designs are much
American women will follow the ex- fuel. better known to Mr. Gerard than
And now* comes the sensational j
news that a professional burglar oc
cupied a seat In the Russian Duma
£r two years. If we wanted to bei
real nasty about it. we might :f orm a "Command of Death’’ to charge! with price increases, but taxes make'us that he is compelled “to hold for
something about representative bodies) 1 '
on this side of the Atlantic, but what’s
the use of making invidious compar
and die on the battlefield, but there is increasing drafts upon tho incomes. future disclosure many things which
Jsons?
Tlte sudden and not entirely regret
table news of the death of Salazar, the
Mexican bandit chieftain, Indicates that
one
revolution-torn republic to the south
of us Tidings of the passing of his
co-partner Villa would be conductive
to considerable rejoicing on this side
of the line
much more in the war than charg The Government in its war upon 1 now would perhaps increase bitter
ing and dying that the hands of profiteering ought to know that it must ness.”
thousands of women, elsewhere than act resolutely and promptly, otherwise just how far Germany has gone
on the field of battle, may be busy for'with the waning of the summer the her infamous designs upon us we will
the cause of democracy. country must approach difficulties that]not know until after the war, but we
This is by way of preface to com-."ill greatly embarrass it later on have it upon the word of the American
less element of strife exists in the! mendlng the formatl °n of the Savan j Especially will this prove true* in ambassador to Berlin that we "would
nah Unit of the Women’s Committee or the matter of food and fuel, for the have been attacked,
the Georgia Division of the Council of great labor centers will have some
National Defense. There Is a vast serious winter problems to solve at
amount of work for the nation’s de- best, and this problem will be easy orjbf no tolerance of the slacker and the
fenso which may well fall to the lot of difficult according as the passion for' pacifist.—Macon News.
American women to do, and which can profiteering Is kept in leash. _ .. —, —
Let’s hope that the Dixie Highway
What more should we wish to know ?
In the face of which fact there mus*
With the food control law in opera-
■Quitman is having a little touch of.be "ell done by them. Its range is^
civic indigestion, complications having » v «ry wide, going all the way from ac- tion, the food question ought not to be officials will not make their fbur of
nfisen over the demand by the W. C. T.' tuaI nursing of wounded soldiers to]difficult. It will depend upon the inspection of the Western Division un-
U to close up certain business estab-^ the rolling of bandages in the peace and measures of efficiency Mr. Hoover and HI the Sumter county link has been
lishments on Sunday. The business * quiet of the American home, from the his assistants show, but if the Indus- P«t into better shape than at present,
inen countered by stopping the sale of'planting of gardens to the collecting trial activities of the country are to be Considerable sulphurous conversation
every commodity on Sunday and even'd magazines and tobacco to make the hampered by excessive prices of raw,"111 be avoided if the count> # commls-
the telephone exchanze may be closed.* 11 f e of the soldier in France more materials and fuel, even food control sioners are given time to get the road
Another case in which the extremist'tkasant. Much work for the nation j "’ill not safeguard the w-ell being oMu fair condition. ,
• has been done by Savannah women labor. — —■ -
hen even
the most peaceful citizen realizes the |
necessity of using brute force to make
the "pursuit of happiness" and even
existence itself possible. Such crises
occur in the life of the nation as well
a that of the individual. The present
situation in which the United States
finds itself is unquestionably one of
these cricical junctures.
No matter how repugnant the idea
cf enforced military service; no mat
ter how great our personal antagon
ism to the principles involved in the
draft act it becomes our plain duty
as loyal citizens to put aside all self
ish considerations In view of the tre
mendous and overshadowing need of
the nation.
It is to be devoutly hoped that no
unti-draft meeting will be held in
Americus, making it possible for the
finger of scorn to be pointed at a com
munity whose past history includes
such glorious memories and whose
rons have inscribed her name high on
(he roll of fame.
A. D. WILLIAMI
FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER
Allison Undertaking Co.
Day Phone 253 Night Phones 730 -106
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Of yourself in your favorite nook, of baby,or your pail
in or out doors.
Let us demonstrate for you.
L. A. McPheeters Forsyth StrtJ
stirs up an undesirable "rookus. 1
If. as now seem, apparent. Russia
has succeeded In quelling the internal
since the beginning of American par | The government and the people must. D >' appointing Judge Beverly Evans jdifturbances which have menaqed the
They are passing out some pretty ^lldialion In the war. and the dally ^ense the vital fact that none of our c t the federat bench as success or to very uf e ot t | le new - government, and
•ally remarks concerning our old amount of It may be expected to In-^ national problems Is simple, an I ll e late W. W. Lambdtn, the Persldent j ha9 actually brought the Invading
friend Cole Blease, he of pardon famejereaso until the day of victory dawns, those who see in the national crisis bas P ut 11 squarely up to Georgia’s Teuton columns to a halt, the dawn of
and some of his critics are even going j It may be that some men have the | cnly an era of profiteering must have Senators to put a stop to the disgrace- a new epoch in the world war has ar-
so far as to put him In the same cate-Idea that American women who do any P-hammered ln.o their heads that war f »l series of Incidents which have rived. With the Muscovite armies
gory with Thomas Wilhelm Hardwick sort of war work or defense work or li not In reality an occasion for any- harked the efforts of the ndministra-1 gradually .ssumlng their old form and
We have never had any great and con-[relief work do it as If nothing was re- thing but an exhibition ot the highest ll '-n to dll the vacancy. They must (the eastern front held strongly from
naming affection for the ex-governor of qulred of them but as If they were devotion and a spirit of sacrldce that either acquiesce In the appointment of the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Allies
Sonth Caroltnla, but classing him with working as a favor to Uncle Sam. No holds the preservation of liberty as a tills unquestionably able Jurist or ab-jean once more resume their opera-
Tom Billy Is "’cruel and unusual treat 'savannah man should have any such cause above and beyond all other con ‘ clutel y renlg on their previously an- f; cn of grinding the Kaiser between the
oplLlon of the motive which la behind slderationa.—Houston (Tex.) Post. licenced list of eligibles.
upper and the nether millstones.
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HOGS! HOGS!! HOGS!!
Attention Farmers:—The Government Experts say
will win the war:” It is the duty of our Georgia
Jty o!
to raise all the hogs tor market he possibly can.
write me when you have fat hogs for sale.
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JAMES G. COWAN
P. O. Box 288, Americus, Ga.