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IMOE TWO. THE AMER1CUS T1MEJVKECORDER. THCHXIIAv, BE C {j THE T1MES-RECORDF.R ESTABLISHED 1879. THE TIME8-RECORDER COMPANY, (Incorporated.) Publisher. Published every arternoon, except Saturday, every Sunday morning, and H a weekly (every Thursday). Entered as second class matter at cetoffleo at Amerlcus, Ga., under act ! March 3, 1879. FRANC MANGUM, Editor and Manager. L. H. KIMBROUGH. Assistant Business Manager. Subscription Rates. Dally and Sunday, Five Dollars Tear (In advance). Weekly, One Dollar a year (In ad vance). Mr. W. Thomas Lone, Jr., circulation manager, is the only authorized travel ing representative of The TlmeB Recorder. . Member ol The Associated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for repubHcatlon of ,11 news credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the lo cal news published herein. A TIME TO AI T TOllETHERj i wheat, or an increase of $3.20 wblc'i, cn ibe total flour consumption In A COLUMN OF CLIPPINGS If Amerlcus has a chance to secure Geo.g.a a i 0 nc yields him $800,000 ^ ^ m|(1 l ndPnlocrat |c, an aviation camp, the citizens here ,. cnr i t , cte ase for the same amount of ^ ^ conyen By8tcm of nom- 1 should rise unselflshly and imstlnt- wheat ,c„sumed In making the flour , B out 0 , date and out cdly to the opportunity. j on which the consumer Is saved $8,- J ^ ^ democratlc age has ' An aviation camp here would be the ( 77,.,000 « year. ! n „ lte conclusively demonstrated biggest thing (hat ever came the way This I, an example of the elimlna-j ^ g ^ ^ Four(h dl<(rlct bod y o' , I ‘ " f 1D flour aBd " heat | to name a congressman during the !t would transform this entire city, by the operation of food control un* l , , . . . . cast tow weeks. i f. would mean as much proportionate- der the United States food admlnls^ ^ convention- here is iy to Amerlcus as the cantonment has .ration. Yet a few half-baked the bCBt men In the' >•- Macon. | hers of Congress, with more politics ^ ^ dl , legatio0B helng made Amerlcus must undoubtedly have , u their head than patriotism In ^ & of ci . izenry which some sort of showing for obtaining their blood, are denouncing this food ^ & 9howlng for the people , the camp, else the government would control law. The law necessarily can- ^ ^ done ^ , ong ago , had 1 not he so interested In the several not regulate t he prices of eating com ; ^ ^ band ,capped by an an- feaslble land alto, here. j modules all at once, but it ha 3 «■-, p whwleh they had „ 0 If this possibility exists, it should doubtedly saved tho country a food be cultivated to th e fullest extent - | onrtc. immediately, unreservedly. whole- ■ —-— beartedly. I We seo a reference to "a Drtde cf I power to change. j There are many evidences of the (act that the convention system -s Personal prejudices, factional dlf- ten months.'* which reminds us that not only a product of ancient history. Terences, a (‘l(ls b traits, civic sluggish- there has never been any settlement but decidedly undomestlc.—Columbus Don’t Throw Away 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 i Ledger. 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. ness, self-satisfaction—all these should „f the controversy about how long !s be cast aside and buried deep, for the a hrlde. good of Amerlcus. | —“-— So far tho proposition has been A FIGHT TO THE FINISH. handled by a few men—handled ! / | them because there has been n strange ( xhe American who preached pro- j At]anta doc8 and doeg not Ju9t why lack of interest among others who parcdnesa when the word was hardly | ^ Jg so Ig not Tfiry hard t0 undcr . Amerlcus. Georgia. December «. >»*•• PARAGPAPHICAllY SPEAK NG Those Who Knock Atluntu. In many sections of the state it has become a fixed habit with many to criticlzo rather unfairly everything J. LEWIS ELLIS Attorney at Law ; Planter’s Bank Building Americus, Ga. should have long since bestlrrel | understood, and when it brought him themselves. stand. Atlanta is no better or worse I mo official disfavor and public sut- ^ thg ayerage Amer , can c i ty 0 f ita in addition, obstacles have been p|clon of beln g a cran k. Is General Hs populatlon ls made up ot presented in the path of this gre^t Leonard Wood, opportunity that should not be thcr at all. ’' i people from all sections of the state, it is probably not too much to say j wIth a good sl)rln i,iing 0 f people from that but for politics, General Wood ( tho faBt and qult9 a few from all It is too much to say that Amen- j wou ld right now b e occupying a mors ■ other sccUons of tho United States . c,ls ■ f °r a certainty, can get the avia- j commanding position than he does- | she |g , hardIy a c0gmO p Olita n city, How's the mistletoe crop getting tton camp by going after it, but it '» he would probably be directing some, th<jUgh Bhe may hsrbor 3uch am bt- not too much to say that so long as ( 0 f t h e operations in France, instead even a mere possibility of it exists of supervising a middle west can* every possible effort should be exert • j tonment. Americus should not fail because However, the people of the country are familiar now" with the fact thtt General Wood was ahead of hig time, F. G. OLVER LOCKSMITH. Sewing machines and Supplies; Key and Lock Fitting, Umbrellu Repaired and Covered, l’bone 4211- Lee STREET. NEAR WELL along? It's a wise chaperone who knows when to look. You can often say a great deal by- saying nothing. Pretty Boon somebody’s going to soy something about shopping early War charities aro all right, hut we must say that there are a lot of ’em. Our idea of a hig cater ls a grown nan who can eat aB much as a small boy. Borne men put everything they havo in tlielr wives’ names, even their re ligion of not having properly tried. If a homely woman flirts with a man he wonders what l s wrong wltn himself, but if a pretty one flings him a smile and roguish glanfe he's a fcol for a week. TIIE FOOD LAW IN ACTION. tiens. But Atlanta is a wonderfully suc cessful etty. Whatever she under takes she usually does, and then tells about It in loud and thunderous tones. This is a form of advertising that and whatever may he his message; lt]p9 w put thlngB over . and , B l*ad. And herein lies on© of tho onuses why Atlanta is hammered so much. There is a certain class of peo ple who hate success. The individual, on matters military it is received with the closest attention and confidence. At the very outbreak of this con flict, General Wood declared that it would ge at least a three or four. (he buslneBB , ho town , the clty , the years’ war, and might possibly last- unty , hat make9 good lnvltea the even longer. Now he states that event- acorn and lmprccatlong ot , llG env i ous Somo very illuminating figures al , y lbo war wl i, be sbl (t cd almost I anJ Jea i 0UB have been compiled by the cxecutivo en tl r el>- to a fight to the finish between Tho trulh of the bUB | ness i 9 , At- offlee of the federal food adminlstra-1 the Un | ted states and Germany. These j , al , ta , s a . progreBS | ve c | ty that should " solemn words of prophecy ought to the prlde of alt the people of tha stir every latent drop of patriotic fita1e Her examples of push anl blood In the vcin 8 of all Americans, j ghould be emulatcd . And u,.. tor for Georgia, Dr. A. M. Soule, showing that food control has saved to the consumer In Georgia alone, on one commodity only, more than three Thcro's no danger of tho children times as much as th 0 entire United swallowing pennies, eat ’em up first. Tho war taxes Senator Hardwick Insists that he is ;o>al to his country, hut he doesn’t say which country. The Indications are that Mr. Trotsky, of Russia, will soon be living up to the first part of his name. States Food Administration ls costing the government by congressional ap propriation. These figures show that while this saving has accrued to the families of the state, the farmer has made $800 000 more for his product out of the snmo nrtlcle than lie made bofore this one nrtlcle was taken undcr the foo l control regulations. When flour was selling at retail In U. l». DAVIS Denial Surgeon. Orthodontia, I’jorrhea. Residence Phone 316. Office Phone 811. Allison llldfi. MISS BESSIE WINDSOR, Insurance. Beads. Office Forsyth St Phone *84 PLENTY OF MONEY TO LEND On both City and Form Property st 6% Interest. No Wnltlng, DAN CHAPPELL, Attorney-at-Lnw. AMERICUS GABP, 202, WOODMEN OF THE WOULD. Meets every Wednesday night la Fraternal Hall. Lamar street. A11 vis iting Sovereigns Invited to meet with us. C. J. WILLIAMS, C. C. NAT LeMASTER. Clerk. Wo havo an Idea that it is going to bo mighty hard to interest tho men| 0cor * !l “ for * 1Gr '° > ,cr barr<!l ‘ho price ' ot raw wheat was 81.40 per bushel. in the empty stocking movement. W e have a sneaking Idea that Jos eph's rest of many colors looked some thing Hke one of these knitting bags. In figuring on your Christmas pres ents, be careful not to send a friend the same present she sen; you last year. There ls such a thing as burled treasure. We read wlicro a man In Brooklyn dug up twenty-flvoi barrels of whisky in his backyard. A subscriber wants to know what hi the mischief Is camouflage. Well, sometimes It Is something that ladles use to make 'em look like what they ain’t. An Illinois man. who could neither rend nor write, recently died and left several million dollars to his nieces •and nephewB. It is understood they will forgive his educational shortcom ings. It Is always s man’s luck—If he run,, out home during the day to prove to 'his wife that he does think of her oe- u-aslonally he'll find the house chok- ted with chatter and bridge tables, -hd his wife lost in the crowd. Daniel Webster, when well-likker;d cnee, offered to pay tho entire gov- ornment debt. But with the thing running way up into the billions now, w e doubt if an y amount of bottled en thusiasm could provoke the same "er !f he were living today. Under government regulation, flour has keen brought to $13 per barrel, a saving or $3.50 per barrel to tho consumer, and the price of wheat Is a fixed one of $2.20 per bushel. Figures compiled by the govern ment show there are 625,000 families of the accepted average of five to each family in Georgia. The average con sumption of flour per family is four barrels per annum, of a total of 2, 500.000 barrels of flour in Georgia ea.'h year. The reduction in the price of ftou r to the consumer of $3.50 per barrel on four barrels a year to each of the 625,000 families <n this state runs up to $8,750,000 saved In Georgia in one year under food control regu lations. Then, there Is another side to th9 operation of this system. Before the government took charge of the vvho.it and flour situation tho price to the consumer was governed by speculation and bad already reached $16.50 per barrel, with every Indication that it would havo gone to any higher figure speculators could force ft; probably more than $20. At that time and un der that condition, the farmer was getting $1.40 per bushel for Ills wheat end he. too. was In the hands ot the speculator. The government. In the process of regulating the raw and f.nished product, fixed tha price of wheat at $2.20 per bushel. Under the Old system of speculation the farmer, for the four bushels of wheat In a barrel of flour, got $5.60; under the new system of food control he gets $x.*u lor the same four bushels of ns well as more thoroughly arouse them to a liner appreciation of the tremendous seriousness of our position In the war. General Wood says: “It Is mere camouflage to re tard our entry into the war until a time when our allies cannot pro tect us ns they do today, and when we shall hnve to bear the bulk of tho burden ourselves. “We aro now preparing to do what sound judgment dictated wo should do a generation ago. For tunately, w e nre preparing behind the llne s ot allies strong enough to protect ns while wo prepare... There is not a bit of evidence that was has passed away, or that this Is going to be the last war. It Is more likely that It ls the begin ning of a great scries ot wars. Leagues of peace are Just another kind of verbal massage. The In terests of different peoples seldom coincide for a long time, and hu- nan nature Is bound to assert It self. “The war is not going to be won by smiting the enemy from the Mr. It will not be won by machines, but by men directing machines. We arc going to win—I feel cer tain of that—but it will be after a struggle on which we will look back with horror. We will create a flamo hot enough to make America a real melting pot. "France already has been bled white, because of tho great sacri fices she has made In the Allies' cause. In another year England will feci that her maximum has been reached. In the meantime, the soldiers of the United States will be In training and preparing to lift the burdens from the shoul ders of its two allies. Then the tight will be on, and on until vie-.. tory comes. To do this, the men must be thoroughly prepared, they must be surrounded by the best Influences. They must have the support of every man and wo man who loves the flag. Without that support the fight will bo harder, and the loss of blood can all be done without offense or harm to any other city In the state.- Dalton Cltlzon. r. and A. *. AMERICUS LODGI F. & A. M., meets ev ery second and fourth Friday night at 7 o'clock. FRANK J. PAYNE, W. M. RESCUE PARKER, Sec’y. How Much Syrup Is There! A recent analysis shows that bottles of maple syrup sent South were made from sugar beets out In Utah! Moral: Ent Georgia cane syrup.—Americas Timcs-Rccorder. There’s a hem more liquor In Georgia today than there Is genuine maple syrup.—Dal ton Citizen. M. B. COUNCIL LODGE F. and A meets every First and Third Friday nights, '■/ v., Visiting brothors are 'n cited to attend. DR. J. R. STATHAM. W. SL NAT LeMASTER. Secretary. WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 14, P. 0. 8. OF A, Meets every first and third Monday It Is Impertinent. “Wa 9 your grandfather a bullfrog! lights In P. O. S. of A. Hall, No. 21$ or an ape?" Inquires th c Amerlcus' u ™ ar st - *•* members In good stand- l mg Invited to attend. Beneficiary cerll- | deates from $250.00 to $2,000.00 Issued to members ot this camp. Tlmes-Recorder. This Is nsking mighty singular question.—LaUrange Reporter. It Docs Take n Lot. Turkey may be cheaper than ba con, as thc Tlmes-Recorder says, but yoc hav e to buy so dog-gone much turkey. — Thomasvllle Tlmcs-Enter- I rise. A South Carolina college has a course In public spraklng for ladies. A course in private conversation would be entirely unnecessary. Notice. I will leave this evening tor the mule markets, and will return latter part of week.: I will have In my stables at Plains, a car of first class farm mules, the latter part of this or first of next week. Will sell or swap at reasonable prices for cash or on time with first class paper. J B. Clark. 29-!7 T. E. CASTLEBERRY, President O. D. REESE, Recd'g. Sec’y. Dr. R. E Cato. Dr. F. L. Cato R es. Tel. 96. Res. Tel 66 Office Telephone 531. DUS. R. E. &F. L. CATO. Physicians and Surgeons. Office Houre 14 to 12 and 2 to 4, Hereafter when absent from our of- tlco or homes, calls lert at Hooks' Pharmacy, Tclophone 76, will re ceive prompt attention. greater.' Thc tmmenso appropriations asked ot Congress yesterday for war pur- rt.ces Is convincing proof of the enermous scale on which we have pljnged Into the struggle, and an im- pversire Indication of the plan on which our campaign of action i 8 pitch ed. No nation, at the outset of a »■» las eve r before started under such R. E. WHITE Attorney-At-Law Office In Ilell Building AMERICUS, GEORGIA. J AMERICUS Fish & Oyste/ Market WHOLESALE and RETAIL John Mtn & Co, Proprietors. Fresh Spanish Mackerel, Fresh A’ater and Salt Water Trout, Red Snap pers, Red Bass, Sheep-head and all beadway, and with such a show of| lt,n< * B °* Bottom Fish. Shrimps, Crabs determination and resources. It Is 1Dd Outers, positive substantiation of the stirrln | TELEPHONE^ words of General Wood. j|e West Torsyth Street L G. COUNCIL, Pres’t. INC. 1891 C. H. COUNCIL, VlQB-Pres. and Cashier T - EJOIthil Planters Bank of Ameri CAPITAL SURPLUS ^PROFITS $225,0000 Resources Over One Million D 0 |l ars “ A NATION CAN TOil THROUIiB the people 11 19 >' our patriotic our Government j an Interest-bearing, and be prepared to next Government 3ond issue? Prompt, Conservative, Accommodate We Want Your Busines; No Account Too Large and None Too MONEY 51 Mi MONEY LOANED on ,arm ,ands514 interest and borrowersh ilege of paying part or all of principal at an; period, stopping interest on amounts paid, have best rates and easiest terms and give quidt vice. Save money by seeing us. G. R. ELLIS or G. C. W Bicycles - Tricp Velocipedes Automobile Tires I TP 1 Built For and 1 Uoes Long Semifee We give an absolute guarantee on aHour Williasns-Niles C Hardware Phone 706 Saxon Four $450 Delivered SAXON Sam A Saxon Four is the best Xmas P r ‘ sen , * make your boy or girl or even your wife, ™ * use it some yourself and it will certainly recipient. AH Accessories Carried in Stock al both p' a - Call to see or write LESLIE AUTO CO 209 FORSYTH ST., AMERICUS, C/U AND LESLIE, GEORGIA It will be a pleasure To show you through our R e * n 8 e , ra wC k It will be a treat to you to see no what we furnish you in fresh ni ea ‘ s We give you the best for the leas* Call and see us now. BRAGG’S MARKET Del*