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THURSDAY, 1HE AMERICUS T1MES-KECORDER. ABE YOU A SLACKEBI L G. COUNCIL, Pres’l. INC. 1891 B. S. COtiu" C. N. COUNCIL, VIce-Pres. * T. L BOLTON & J Planters Bank of America CAPITAL* SURPLUS & PROFITS $225,000.00 Don’t Throw Away THE TIMES-RECORDF.R ESTABLISHED .1879. . Resources Over One Million Dollars A NAT,0N w thrive mi THROUtiB THE THRIFT R mMKk people 1 wmte&mi ana Not ony must we save to n. mm illi s I t war. but we must save it iiMlwll I® to survive. wEadiil'Bi SiIl Tde next Government lib Loan Bond Issue will be mQiM.n'ffiaH' sa,e during the manlh olDrii nNffiBlv tfn 9pn alurauo nl*wi " SggjUMiiS-gik Wc are alwajs glad to friends and customers. Prompt, Conservative, Accommodating We Want Your Business J. A. DAVENPORT ..... INSURES ....' EMMETT S. HOBSLEY, CItU Engineer. DAWSON, GA. SURVEYING A SPECIALTY RITE FOR REFERENCE. SYSTEM GINS, COTTON. COUNTRY PROPERTY, DWELLINGS, {HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. PLATE CLASS, AUTOMO- BILES. - A. D. WILLIAMS FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Night Phones 730-106 IN DESPERATE STRAITS THE TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY! (Incorporated.) Publisher. Published every afternoon, except Saturday, every Sunday morning, ana w a Weekly (every Thursday). Entered as second class matter at ostoffice at Amerlcus, Ga., under act 'f March 3. 1879. FRANC MANGUM. Editor and Manager. L. H. KIMBROUGH. Assistant Business Manager. Subscription Rates. Dally and Sunday, Five Dollars a Year (In advance). . Weekly, One Dollar a year (In ad vance). . Mr. W. Thomas Lane, Jr., circulation manager. Is the only authorized travel ing representative of The Times Recorder. Member of Tho Associated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republicatlon of all news credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the lo cal news published herein. OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR: City of Amerlcus Sumter County Webster County Railroad Commission of'Georgia For Third Congressional District _ U S. Court, Southern District of Georgia. 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. Your old Automobile Tires and Tubes. Bring them to us for repairs. — Our Steam Vulcanizing Plant is at your service. Every job we turn out is completed by an expert workman. Time will demonstrate the wisdom of bringing your vulcanizing to us. G. A. & W. G. TURPIN 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 Abstracts and Loans Americus, Ga. J. LEWIS ELLIS Attorney at Law Planter’a Bank Building Phone 830. Americus, Gd. F. G. OLVER • LOCKSMITH. Sewing machines and Supplies; Key and Lock Fitting, Umbrellaj Repaired and Covered. Phone ISO. Lee STREET. NEAR WELL C. P. DAYIS Dental Surgeon. Orthodontia, Pyorrhea. Residence Phone S16. Office Phone 811, Allison Bldg, MISS BESSIE WINDSOR, , Insurance, Bends. office Forsyth St LAND WRITE FOR tHERICUS LAMP, so:, OP THE WORLD. Meets every Wednesday night Fraternal Hall. Ldmar street All (ting Sovereigns Invited to meet US. STEPHEN PACE. C. C. NAT LeMASTER. Clerk. V, and A. M. AMERICUS LODGE F. & A. M„ meets ery second and fourth Friday night at 7 o’clock. 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. M. B. COUNCIL LODGE 7. and A. M. meets every First and Third Friday nights. Visiting brothers are invited to attend. DR. J. R. STATHAM, W. a NAT LeMASTER. Secretary. WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. U, P. 0. S. OF A. * Meets every first and third Monday eights in P. O. 8. of A. Hall, No. Sit Lamar St. All members In good stand ing Invited fb attend. Beneficiary certi ficates from $250.00 to $2,000.00 Issued to members of this camp. T. E. CASTLEBERRY, President O. D. REESE, Recd'g. Sec’y. -THE— UNION CENTRAL LIFE INS COMPANY Cincinnati, Ohio The beSt Life Insurance The loweft coft good . Insurance Ask any of our many pol icy holders here LEE H. HANSFORD Ag’t., Planter’s Bank Building, Americus, Ga. 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