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Americas, Ga, October IS, 1917.
j~PARMMPHlCftllY
SPEAKING
The citizen who shirks military duty
is not the only slacker.
There are at least two other kinds
of slackers.
One Ig the man whose money
needed to assist the government In
financing the war, and who keeps H
selfishly to himself.
The other la the person, man or wo
man, who Is extravagant In the use of
food, at a time when every- such
resource should be rigidly conserved.
The special significance of the word
••Moet -of the newspapers of
Georgia that are not corrupt are
worse. Tho time has come, the
hour struck, when the people of
the United States must know—
the truth Is, theee arrogant peo
ple are common grafters.”
Can you Imagine a member of the
United States Senate making this
statement, that bald accusation,
against nearly two hundred news
papers of Georgiy? Isn’t It even more
dlfilcult to believe that a senator from
• slacker” Is of recent English origin. Georgia would thus malign the nsws.
Webster say’s it means one who ia re- papers of Ills own state?
miss In the performance of aervlce or We print the following editorial
duty. But now It means more than!front the American Preas-a weekly
that-thero is a shade of contempt, of, newspaper published for circulation
opproblum, of shame, attached to ft
That new French minister of foreign
affairs Is named Bouillon. Beef or
tomato;
When the world la made, safe for
Democracy, won’t there a lot of
Democratic office-seekers?
Fortunately, Congress adjourned ill
time for the members to go home an.l
do their fall fence repairing.
We understand now why Bernatorit
cried when he left this country,
bad an unlimited expense account.
The women are now being called nit
on to use less material In their dresaes,
For heaven’s sake, what are we com
ing to?
The imperial chancellor says tba
Germany knows what It wants. Ye-t
and the balance of the world knows
what it needs.
that makes It an epithet.
There are several words In the Eng
llsh language that one ought to Lo
slow In applying, and slacker la one
of them.
But the truth Is, there are so many
stackers In this country that it is dim
cult to refrain from giving vent to
the expression.
The military slacker Is In the minor
Ity. The appeal to the manhood of
the country has not been In vain.
From the cities and from the farms the
young men have responded, and while
oeeaa'onally there Is a laggard In the
lira ft ho Is not so for long. For in ev
ery self-respecting community, the
decker becomes ns ono tainted and
u.-.elean, a pariah among patriots,
lli:ng to be despised.
Equally deserving of public con
tumely are those other types of slack
ers—und that there arc some nobody
can deny.
The government has employed the
bonding system us the best means of
financing the war. United States treas
ury bonds are now probably the safest
Investment In the world. Those that
do not bear taxes cannot be excelled.
So when one buys Liberty Bonds
doe a not make a draft on hla charity
or philanthropy. .He la not oven par
ticularly patriotic. He ia simply doing
his duty, and it is the duty of every
man with the money at hla command
to help his nation In Its hour of need
by assisting In taking up this bond
Issue. Tho man who can and doesn't
Is a slacker. Just as certainly as the
man who seeks to evade the military
service for which he Is liable.
The other class of slackers is more
numorous—and the pity of It Is that
they do not realize they are slackers.
It will take men, money an$ food to
win this war—food alone will contr 1
Those Kentucky farmers doubtless
wonder why anybody should plant corn''» ‘he end, cays Herbert Hoover. In
and rye, now that the breweries and consequence, there must be a strict
distilleries are closed.
A candidate for mayor In Canton
Ohio, has mysteriously disappeared
Dut the strange feature Is that he
disappeared before, instead of after
the election.
Now that the Czar has been conslfn-
conservatton of foodstuffs, of food for
man and food for beast. To feed the
armies who are battling to make the
among other newspapers:
Senator Thomas W. Hardwick
of Georgia, explaining to the Sen
ate his feeling of contempt and dis
dain for certain unnamed news
papers in Ills state, says:
“Most of them that are not cor
rupt aro worse. The time has
come, the hour struck when tho
people of the United States must'
know the truth, la these arrogant
people are common grafters.*
This Is a serious charge com
ing from-the mouth of a Senator
of the United States. If it Is true,
then there Is need of a general
newspaper house-cleaning in the
state of Georgia. If if be untrue,
such monstrous words are Inex
cusable.
Frankly we are not inclined to
accept off-hand, as a fact, even
from so distinguished a citizen
aa Senator Hardwick the bald as
sertion that any Georgia news
paper publisher Is a common
grafter, and we would like the
Senator to name hla men. No
doubt Georgia publishers feel
much the same way.
If there he a newspaper pub
lisher In Goorgla or elsewhere
who is worse than corrupt then
such a man should be driven from
his profession. The Fourth Es
tate needs none of him, and Sen
ator Hardwick will find the ma
jority of the newspaper publish
ers In Georgia and out of It only
too willing to help him bring about
the quick extinction of such a
man. Senator Hardwick has a
public duty of first Importance
to perform. We hope he will per
form it fearlessly. Let him prove
his case. It he cannot prove It,
then let him retract ao scandal-
0118 a charge on the floor of the
Senate where he made it. This
clearly Is the part of a man of
gentle breeding—a Senator.
Coming from anybody else, this
Well Print His Picture.
The first fellow that brings us inj
some backbone and spareribs Is golsg
to get ihv sv. ellest write-up you ever
heard of.—Thomasvllle Tlmcs-Enter-
prlre
Just Guessing.
Would you say that a woman in a
short skirt was all dressed UP?—
Amerlcus Tlmes-Recorder. We would
say she is not dressed all up.—Cordele
Dispatch.
Are Chaperones immune!
A chaperone Is a woman who Is
supposed to be immune.—Amerlcus
Tlmes-Recorder. She Is the first one
to fall for flattery.—Balnbridge Post-
Searchlight.
Goes Us One Better.
Thq^Amerlcus Tlmes-Recorder
fers a year’s subscription "to the man
who will step up and say that he is go
ing to vole for Senator Hardwick on
the strength of the latter’s record.”
Here Is an opportunity for some fel
low to become suddenly famous ni
the best known man In the country.—
Hawklnsville News and Dispatch. The
Herald-Journal will give a two-years'
subscription to the first Greene county
white man who will step up and tell
use he is going to vote for Herr Hard
wick on his record.—Greensboro Her
ald-Journal.
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Drawing The Line.
There is on thing we cannot under
stand and that Is why an old, gray
headed woman wants to wear short
skirts. It la bad enough for young
women to wear ’em, but we draw the
line on old women with dresses above
their shoe fops.—Greensboro Herald-
Journal.
Stlil America’s First Weapon of War.
It l 8 stated from Camp upton that
tbe men of the assembling 77th Di
vision of the National Army will do
more sharpshooting than bayoneting
or bombing. While rifles for the mo
ment are scarce, the men are given
turns In practice and work on the
riflo ranies-ls btlng ruched, This is
doubtless the response to Gen. Persh
ing's recent message from France,
that the rifle la still a weapon .to be
counted on even In trench warfare,
and that the first work for the Amer
ican soldier in training is to learn
how to shoot.
The musket with the grooved bore
la of Swiss or'gln but of practical
American development and use. It
was first made known to tbe world
as tbe then most formidable weapon
ROBT. E. WHITE
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FRANK J. PAYNE, W. 1L
world safe for Democracy is going to | etatement b r Senator Hardwick would war bjr Morgan . g r l ieincn in the' j RESCUE PARKER. Sec*,
require an enormous quantity of foo l, be an Insult. I Revolution, and it Is here interesting
more than the world has been raising
heretofore. To meet this demand there
must be a'saving. Them must be an
end of extravagance and a limitation
ed to live In an apartment house, lie on waste.
will appreciate how about three mtt-| Don’t think that because you are not
lion American prisoners feel in regard subject to military Bervlce that you
to living that way.
Now that It la announced that th
late czarina of Russia Is a good cook
However, any public servant who
hca betrayed tbe confidence of his
constituents a* Hardwick has done,
and any senator who has been as dis
loyal to his government as Hardwick
has been, cannot insult any newB-
paper. We are unable to iptaglne anv
we are no longer worried about ho>r^ an( ] search your heart If you don t
■be will make a living. Good cooks lnqulre ot yourself, others will.
cannot be a slacker—that you won’t be: paper, dally or weekly or yearly, that
known as a slacker. Take an Invet:-. could feel Hardwick's scorn or cou-
tory of yourself. Ask yourself If you tempt,
have doue your duty Sift your soul
are always la demand.
It Is announced that Russia la reduc
ing the size of Its army. And It might
be added that in this endeavor Russ's
is receiving the hearty co-operation of.
tbe ■Kaiser and his crew.
Are you a slacker?
| to note that few makers of rifles
known to the Continental Congress
had tbelr whole product commandeer
ed at prices fixed by the Congress.
The world's next great lesson from
the rifle was given by Jackson’s Ken
tuckians and Tennesseeans at New
Orleans, whose straight shooting
mowed down the massed columns of
British Just at fast as they came for-
The junior senator from thl. State aad , c(t httrdly B BrlUlh offlc „
-God save the mark-1, certainly, >tand , ng , n ^ who , o fl9ld
in desperate str.lt. if he must accuse # „ not tfcat the rlfle „ lta fir)t
the newspapers of Georgia of being
corrupt and grafters and arrogant
WHAT IS IIE DOING!
With Girard just across tbe river
For many weary months now tho, and the bridge open at both ends, both
use alone which has made it pre
eminently the American weapon in
war. It la the man trained to its
anterior use that baa ao associated the
rifle with the American soldier and
I world-has been asking ltaelf the ques- night and day. and on Sunday, too, we. nlarlne Euro p can armies for near a
Alon, ‘‘What la Edltson Doing?” and as j cannot understand why anybody in cctltury bave used t ’ bl , wfaDon but
Tbo president calls on everybody to tbere haa boen n0 do#nl,e answer,I Columbus should be heard to com-
mobillze their gold. No wwe want Mr
Wilson to understand that we’re thor
oughly patriotic, but there are som
thing! we cannot do. Mobilising goli
Jg one of ’em.
We certainly think that, while he Is
We are assured in vague terms that be plain about the prohibition law.—
la perfecting some device or devices Amerlcus TImee-Recorder. So far as
century have used this weapon, but
they have never known how to shoot
U with the old American precision.
terminating the conflict, but the complaint about prohibition; the com-
months drag on and we are ae much plaint Is about tbe high cost of liquor,
in the dark as ever. We are mystcr- And, Insofar as Columbus people hav-
lcusly informed that he has discovered! log to go to Girard for what is con-
Tegulatlng the other lndqstries of the'e Isolated or Invented some kind of
■world, the president ought to take) "ray" that will burn up a battleship
charge of the millinery business. And or e town at a distance of many mile?,
- but that "ray” has not yet Illuminated
tf be ever gets a look at his wife's bills
for tell hate, we believe be will!
our darkness. It may be that one or
more of hla discoveries are already In
A preacher says that the war wilt! use. Is so, why not let the public
continue until the devn Is chained. We know? Surely the bare knowledge
with him. And we not only think that our faith in him is not mlsplaqert.
corned, we have heard It rumored that
there Isn’t any necessity (or them do
ing that, as they can get all they
want on thia side, If they have the
price. Pertonally r we don't know
anything about It, since we try to be
a law-abiding citizen, and haven’t the
price.—Columbue Enquirer-Sun.
the .Kaiser should be chained, but lio, could work no harm. Seriously, the that .are before them, and If Mr. EM!-
onght to be pat In stone cell, and American people need all the en- son’s genius l< st'U working full time
made to read the Hearet comic sheets.! couragement they can get In the days.lt would help us to know 1L
; breech-loading and repeating equip
ment a large American army that
could shoot like Jackson's old front
iersmen might have (topped the Gor
man Invasion In 191-4 long before it
rreached the Marne.
It I. encouraging news from Persh
ing that the ride has not yet been
sidetracked In the great, war. Other
weapons and agendas hare come into
new or greater prominence than ever
before, but for tbe United Stated sol
dier at least the rifle remains the
fundamental weapon along with tba
old condition of knowing how to shoot
it straight.—New York World.
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