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■IMST. TWO.
fHL AMERICUS TIMliS-RECORDER.
Thursday,
'OVtMBt,
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A THANKSGIVING FAST
A COLUMN OF CLIPPINGS
delivered a quarter of a century ago
that all of hl 9 life he had been under;
A day of fast. Instead of feasting. 1 the Influence of five men—Julius Cae-
may be urged upon {he nation by sar , Tbeodoric, Alexander, Frederick Augusta’s Chance.
President Wilson, at the sugges’lo.i the Great, and Napoleon—all men who It Is estimated that the population
of Food Controller Hoover. I dreamed of world empires. "I, toi.'cf Augusta was one hundred and fif-
The President will shortly issue bis have a dream of world empire," he'teen thousand Tuesday. Why didnt
annual Thanksgiving proclamation, | declared, "and I shall succeed!" (they get the census bureau to author-
and until it Is announced it Is not
known whether this idea will be ex-
polited or not
For that matter, the distinguishing
feature of Thanksgiving originally wan
fasting, and it remained for the Pil
grims to inaugurate the custom of
heaping the table with more than can
be eaten.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are
two occasions when a reckless ex
travagance in food is indulged, but
this year, in tJie practise of food con
servation and war economies, the
menu will probably be reduced to a
considerable extent.
Thanksgiving is now substantially a
The maps that the Kaiser prepared! ize a revised census for that day and
at that time have the word *‘Ger-{and get it written in the records.—
mania" across France and England, Moultrie Observer,
and almost written over the entire
world. The date the Kaiser fixed aa
the ultimate period for the the ful
fillment of this dream was 1920.
The time still has more than two
years t 0 run, and across over half of
Europe '‘Germania” might appropri
ately he written.
Will it be extended? Wijl l ever
be written across the face of the west
ern hemisphere?
The answer is “No!”—a loud-ring
ing “No”—and “No” it is because, and
solely because, the United States is
harvest festival, fixed by proclamation now in the war, throwing its powerful
<•1 news published herein.
I to the use for republlcatlon of
.11 news credited to It or not otherwise
credited In this paper, and also the lo- 0 / ( i, e president and the Governors of bulk against this greatest menace to
the states, and ranks as a legal holl-^ universal happiness and to civilization
day. Its primary purpose Is that ltj itself!
shall bo a festival of thanksgiving for
the mercies of the closing year. | RE.PBIXTED—BY REQUEST.
In 1789 the Episcopal church formal- -
L recognized the civil government’s' The following editorial appeared In ledgevllle News
OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR
City of Amerlcus
Sumter County
Webster County
Ssflroad Commission of Georgia b r
. Third Congressional District
jrj s. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Amorims, Ga* November 1, H>1<
| PARAGE APH1C ALLY
SPEAKING
Should Ken^'U.
Hardwick claims intense loyalty and
iLtlmateB that he would do anything
for his country. Wonder if he would
not oblige h*a state by leaving it and
also the government by resigning as
senator. More Georgians have to ban 1 ?
their heads in shame and blush for
this man than ever have in the history
of the state.—Bainbridge Post-Search-
light.
Don’t Throw
Away
Your old Automobile Tires
and Tubes. Bring them
to us for repairs.
Our Steam Vulcanizing
Plant is at vour 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
Permanent Paving.
Talking about permanent; paved
Highways, the time is coming in Geor
gia when such a thing will be com
mon, and so long as Baldwin county
hasn't any bonded indebtedness why
not so ahead and put down a few
miles of improved highways?—Mil-
authority to appoint such a feast, and The Times-Recorder on OAober IS,
in 1888 the Roman Catholic church land is being re-published today by
also decided to honor a festival that! special request, as an aid to the lo-
had long been nearly universally oh- cal food conservation campaign
Sending Smokes Abroad.'
The Georgia W. C. T. U. wants to
put an end to tobacco funds being
'Cool, windy days such as today al- the cus tom
served.
The Pilgrims had the first Thanks
giving in thi 8 country in 1621, and j were printed by the Atlanta Liberty
In this connection, it may be stated] ra * set * over countr y* I* P eo "
that 100,000 copies of this editorial P' e °* tho United States feel Rko the
then only locally and • Loan compaign workers and distrib-
fcring out the laest styles in silk jjjetrmittently followed. Congress uted throughout the state and sent *n-
recommendcd days of thanksgiving! | to other states,
during the Revolution, and in 1784 for —
With some people there s 1 | the return of peace—as did President
food conversation than there is food
.conservation.
What has become the old-fashioned
who used to wear her skirts
enough.
A. Thanksgiving last won’t be much
change from the feast heretofore
[.on that occasion.
The full dlnnor pall slogan we used
to ao much about, has probably
degenerated lato the doctrine of the
dean plate.
We like to see the ladles busy with
their knitting needles, but It’s a puz
zle to us, as well as to them, to tell
whether they're working on sweaters
•m eoeka
ARE YOCr A SLACKER?
Madison in 1815. Washington a;>-| The citizen who shirks military du-
polntod such a day In 1789, aftor the ty is not the only slacker,
adoption of the Constitution, and In I There are at least two other kinds
1795 for the general benefits and wol-'of slackers.
fare of the nation. Since 1817, the One Is tho man whose money is
festival has been observed annually in needed to assist the government In fi-
New York, and since 1863, the PresI- nanclng the war, and who keepB It
dents without variation have dcslgnat- selfishly to himself,
ed the last Thursday in November for
the holiday.
The United States may give thanks
this year for an era of unprecedented
prosperity, and we should feel grate
ful also that the war has not Imposed
the hardships on us that other na
tions aro enduring. There is much to
i regret, but even more for which
bp truly thankful.
soldiers need tobacco and want to
furnish It, we think they should be
given the privilege of sending all to
bacco they want to to the fighters.
They aro not making the men smoko,
and the money so used Is the money
they have the right to dispose of as
they see fl.t—Waycross Journal-
Herald.
RO.BT. E. WHITE
Abstracts and Loans
Americus, Ga.
J. LEWIS ELLIS
Attorney at Law
Planter’s Bank Building
Phone 830.
Americas, Ga.
F. G. OLVER
A Fine Thanksgiving.
The principality of Grady has every
reason for Tliankszlving this year.
Besides a fair crop of cotton and a
LOCKSMITH.
Sewing machines and Supplies; Key
and Lock Fitting, UmbrellKl Repaired
and Covered. Phone 420.
Lee STREET. NEAR WELL
V. P. DAYIS
Denial Surgeon.
Orthodontia, Pyorrhea.
Residence Phone 316. Office Phone 111,
■ Allison Uldg.
The other is the person, man or wo- bumper crop of corn, velvet beans,
man, who is extravagant in the use of peanuts, pecans, potatoes and pig9,
food, at a time when every such re
source should be rigidly conserved.
The special significance of the word
MYSS BESSIE WINDSOR,
Insurance.
Bonds,
OBce Forsyth SL Phoie (81
EMMETT S. HORSLEY,
CIvR Engineer.
DAWSON, GA.
When wo see one of these very
abort skirts going about tho streets
wo aro undecided whether the lady
fa trying to disguise herself as a milk
maid or a chorus girl..
HOW AND WHEN IT STARTED.
we are now beginning to grind about
the best cane crop that wo have ever
had. And that too, right when there
’’slacker" is of recent English origin.' Is about to be a sugar famine. A LAND SURVEY’ING A SPECIALTY
Webster says It means one who Is re-1 barrel of "long swcctnln’” cooked to WRITE FOR REFERENCE,
miss In tho performance of service or, grain and hung up In a tsrong bag
to drip, will keep the bug-a-boo away
from our Grady county fnnns for
quite a spell.—Grady County nro-
gress.
duty. But now It moans more than
that—there is a shade of contempt, of
opprobrium, of shame, attached to It
that makes It an epithet.
Thero are several words In tho En-
The war did not start when th,( gHsh .nnguage that one ought to be " *’>' Stockings Bulge,
halt-crazed Serbian youth fired tho'slow In applying, and slacker Is one' Secretary Daniels says: "Money is
shot that killed the Austrian arch-j of them. j plentiful In America. Stockings arc
duke—the shot that was heard Tourd But the truth la, there are so many bulg’ng out with It." This goes to
AMERICUS UAMP, SOS, WOODMEN
OF THE WOULD.
Meets every Wednesday night in
Fraternal Hall, Lamar street All vli-
Itlng Sovereigns Invited to meet with
us. C. WILLIAMS, C. C.
NAT LeMASTER. Clerk.
. Now York man threatens to Ira-
t e*gs from China and sell them at
i coots a dozen. New York egg
will probably regard this as
another yellow peril.
P. and A. M.
AMERICUS LODGH
F. & A. M., mecta *v-
ery second and
fourth Friday night
' s at 7 o’clock.
FRANK J. PAYNE, W. M.
, We notice that out of 150 members
of the Brazilllan Senate one man vot
ed ayalnst war with Germany. Wo
snpposc his name, when translated,
will rhyme with Hardwick!
An Alabama paragrapher says tho
-“e- was probably dropped In whiBky
t» make room for other things. Well,
.-amne of the stuff being sold In Geor-
yta- nowadays certainly has other
fngiwdlcncp than ease In Us make-
tho world, and is still reverberating.'slackers In this country that It is difll- P rovc that the honorable secretary
It did not start when Russia refused'cult to refrain from giving vent to the'1) a pretty closo observer himself,
to demobilize, nor when Germany vio- expression. jand that the old reliable first national
luted Belgium’s neutrality and march-J Tho military slacker Is In the min-1 bank l s still doing business at the
ed across and over that little nation. |orlty. The appeal to the manhood of same old stand.—Amerlcus Times- j f RESCOE PARKER. Scc’y.
The war had Us Inception forty-j the country has not been in vain. Recorder. We had noticed in a cas-
seven years ago, and It actually began From the cities and from the farms uni sort of way. that the. stockings
twenty-five years ago. For It was In^the young men have responded ar.djwero bulging, but wo didn’t knlw they
I860 that the astute brain of the' whllo occasionally there is a laggard were bulging, but we didn’t know they
wonderful Bismarck conceived the l’l the draft he Is not for long. For In [to show that we have not been as
M. B. COUNCIL
LODGE F. and A. M.
meets every First and
Third Friday nlghta.
Visiting brother* are
ideas that would lift Germany to flr.n every self-respecting community, the close an observer as we thought we ,QVlle<1 to attend.
slacker becomes ns one tainted and were. We shall have to do better la W ’ ^
NAT LoMASTEIt. Secretary.
rank among the nations, and It was in
1S92 that Kaiser Wilhelm formulated
his plans for wprld dominion. ,
In n most Illuminating article In
and were. We shall have to do better la
unclean, a pariah among patriots, a the future.—Columbus Knquirer-Su:
thing to be despised.
Equally deserving of public con-
fWhcn a fellow stays at home
■igbtB. the Tliomasville Tlmes-Enter.
i floes not know whether It ls bo-
i he really loves bis wife’s society
auae the grand Jury Is In scs-
So as m -nvdld unpleasantness in
■ after years, a man ought to make tho
-tie girl v3vo a picture of herself 03
ike loots upon arWng »uJ a photo
• eg fun- mother at fifty; and then if
1 be *uu Insists on raarryln*. you may
izat It dawn that he loves her.
’The Chicago Banker,’’ Newell Dwight tumely arc those other types of slack.
Hlllis discusses the true.origln of the ers—and that there are some nobody
European war, reciting only such facts can deny.
as are generally known, hut presenting* The government has employed the
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 14,
Plenty of Peanuts. P. 0. 8. OF A.
To the average weekly editor whozo Mee *» ever 7 flr “ and ‘bL-a Monday
commercial experience with peanuts' £ *•«“*• No II*
j Lamar bt All members In good stand-
has been limited to five cents tranu- | ng | n7 (t c<1 attend. Beneficiary certl-
actlons and paper sack quantities It ficates from J250.00 to *2.000.00 Issued
them In a condensed and comprehen-! bonding system as the best means >:f |„ Intensely Interesting to see thesoito member! ol this camp.
slve form that is lucid and convlnc-; financing the war. United States treas- fnrmers hauling the things by the tw.i-'
fng. Jury bonds aro now probably the safest'horse wagon load and handling them!
At the imperial palace at Potsdam In Investment in tho world. Those that w ith a shovel. It looks wonderful!
T. E. CASTLEBERRY, President.
O. D. REESE, Recd’g. Sec’y.
3892 the German emperor submitted to
his confidential advisors a document
in which "The Pan-German Empire”
was outlined, with boundaries extend
ing from the North Sea to the Persian
Gulf. From that very minute Ger
many began war. It sent spies Into
every nation. It began a propaganda.
It put Into operation all matter of
do not bear taxes cannot be excelled-: It has always been a rule when you.
So when one buys Liberty Bonds he
does not make a draft on his charity
or philanthropy. He is simply doing
hts duty, and It is the duty of every
man with the money at his command
to help his nation In its hour of need
by assisting In taking up this bond
issue. The man who can and doesn't
peparatton. It husbanded resurces of j Is a slacker. Just as certainly as the
you drop a peanut to pick It up. NoW|
these fellows drop a h&tful and nev- (
oi notice It. Somehow we have not
gotten used to It at this office and we,
find It difficult to stay In doors fori
wanting to walk around and pick npj
a pocketful.—Pelham Journal.
require an enormous quantity of flood,
men. money-and munitions. It mapped man who seeks to evade the military, more than the world has been raising
out every possible sort of campaign.
It even calculated on an eventual war
with the United States.
Did not the German admiral at Ma
nila Bay. eighteen years ago, tell Ad
miral Dewey these very things—as
service for which hs Is liable.
heretofore. To meet this demand there
The other class of slackers Is mors must be a Baving. There must he an
numerous—and the pity of It ls that end of extravagance nnd a limitation
tncy do not realize they arc slackers, on waste.
Whenever a woman stops hanging
wp her husband's,coats, and folding
Hz trousers, and collecting his dirty
clothes, and putting his shaving uten-
aHz In their proper placet, and ar
ranging IBs linen <n the bureau draw-
«r. and leaving out hla pajamas every
n'aht—-we say when she stops that w»' United State* V
* ^ ^ u 0Ter | xte Emperor declared in a speeii world safe for Democracy Is going *.o Are you n elaekerT
- -- V ^ ' —
win this wnr—food alone will control subject to military service that you
Dewey related in his memolrst j lr. the end, says Herbert Hoover. Li cannot be a slacker. Take an inven-
Didn’t the Kaiser tell Ambassador] consequence, there must be a strict' tory of yourself Ask yourself If von
Gerard. “When this war is finished, I conservation of foodstuffs, of rood fir have done your duty? Sift your soul
will not take any nonsense from the man and food for beast. To feud the and search your heart. If you don't
armies who are battling to make the Inquire of yourself, others will.
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I have installed a Motor Truck service
purf osj of conveying wheat to my mill f.om
icus, and also returning the flour after it is grots
The truck will be daily at Morgan Step!
stables (Turpin’s old stable’s) where all farmers
leave their whec t for me and receive the flour
after it is ground.
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