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WOULD THIS MAKE YOU CUSS?
Profane men,, fat jiicn nnd. above all married
men. ore centered list risks by7urety cornMn
—Frederick N. Withfey. Nation^ s£?yTo?Z*
THEfl
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 23.
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 9, 1921
SIMS ‘CALLED’ BY DENBY FOR LONDON SPEEC
^MOTHERS ACT
TO STOP EVILS
• OFCITYBANCES
Drastic Resolutions En
acted At • Atlanta
Mass Meeting
ATLANTA, June'8.—Drastic reso
lutions designed to eradicate drinking
at dances in Atlanta, to put an end
to all night dances and late suppers
and to eliminate automobile rides
after entertainments were adopted
at a mass meeting of Atlanta moth
ers held’ at 4 o'clock Tuesday after
noon at the Atlanta Woman’s club.
Among the regulations were the
fallowing:
All dances must close promptly at
12 o’clock midnight.
Adequate chaperons must be pro
vided and must remain in the hall
until the dance is over.
Allow no person on the floor who
has indulged in liquor.
Provide a traffic policeman at the
door of the hull to see that all
young people are started honifc safe
ly-
The concurrence of all colleges,
fraternities, dance hall managers and
clubs in the enforcement of
regulations was asked.
Parcpts were asked to refuse to
permit their sons and daughters to
attend dances where the regulations
outlined were not observed.
Between 500 and 000 Atlanta
women were present at the meeting.
Mrs. b. M. Boykin presided and
speeches were made on the subject
* m P rov * n tf dancing conditions in
Atlanta by many women and some
men. Mayor James L. .Key was pres
ent nnd offered his co-operation.
* representative of the Pan Hel-
society of Georgia Tech said
• arc being taken at that institu
te eliminate liquor drinking
ng the commencement dances.
He declare^ the society has employed
a private detective to prevent boot
leggers from operating on the oam-
?;us. He told the mothers that if the
girls wduld come to the dunces early
that they would close early. ^
HOPE DEAD, HATE LIVES;
PEOPLETALK NEXT WAR-
THAT’S GERMANY AS IT IS
A ful| moDlli'i study of *«G®r-
many in 1921" has just been com
pleted for readers o fthis news
paper by.Milton Bronner, ita Eu
ropean correspondent. Bronnor
has traveled the length and breadth
of the country, using his eyes and
his ears and asking questions of
all classes of citizens. His first
hand investigation has covered ev
ery subject from national finances
to national amusements, from pol
itical bickerings to the airplane
industry, from living conditions to
preparations for tho next war—
for Bronner finds defeated Ger
many demands bloody revenge on
France. Bronner’s first article is
printed herewith! others will fol
low.
R. R. Union To Hold -
l Memorial Sunday
Four Americus railroad labor or
ganizations will participate in joint
memorial exercises to be held Sun
day morning, June 12. Rev. Henry
r. Brookshire, pastor of the congre
gation, has been invited by the
brotherhoods to deliver a special
message to the members composing
the orders.
Tho members will gather Sunday
morning in the I. O. O. F. hall, cor
ner of Forsyth sA-cct and Windsor
nvenue, nt 10:30 o’clock, from which
place they will march to tho church,
where special aeata will be reserved.
The orders represented will be the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers, Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen, the Order of Railway Con
ductors, and the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen.
Special music will be rendcrcd-by
the full choir.. A cordial invitation
is extended td tho public to be pres
ent und join in tho cxcrc/es.
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BY MILTON BRONNER
BE HUN, June 8.—The Germany
of today is a bankrupt nation.
It is bankrupt in more ways than
the mere matter of an inability to
make its income match its expenses.
Other European nations arc bank
rupt in that particular way—France
and Italy, for instance.
But Germany is bankrupt in hope
.Hid endeavor. Jt is bankrupt in vim
and zest of living. It is bankrupt of
faith in the future. r
The average Germany of today—
the fellow like you and'me and
Neighbor Smith—can hardly see a
gleam of hope ahead. He is rid of
his expensive kaiser and the ; other
minor kings and grand dukes and
princes. He is rid of a great ex
pensive army und navy. Ho is rid
of conscription. He has a republic
instead of a monarchy. But nowhere
does he see unity or peace or satis
faction.
Politically Germany is a house not
only divided against itself, but many
times sub-divided.
There arc politicians who dream
of the restoration of the monarchy.
There are political parties which
dyeam of Msbevism. Even the So
cialists arh subdivided into various
parties with their various represent,
ntivos in the Reichstag. t
Class consciousness has not been
abolished. It | m s boon intensified.
It is not now the proletariat against
the aristocrat, but the worker against
the war proliteer and, in another
sense, the town dweller against the
farmer.
Everybody Hit
If the Gorman is fairly well off,
tho state takes much of his estate and
of his income in taxes. If ho is u
worker, it grabs 10 per cent of his
wage. If he succeeds in getting his
earnings increased, he finds that the
cost of food, clothes and housing has
more than kept pace with the extra
money he has earned.
He pays six times as much for his
dally paper as before the war. It
costs him eight times as much to
ride in the street car. His food, coal,
gas and rent have gone up from live
to eight times.
Ho earns, perhaps. 300 to 600
marks peg week, and the cheapest
suit of clothes is $600 marks. Shoes
cost from 90 marks up; shirts
murks, socks 11 marks.
His glass of beer which tastes to with itself.
MILTON BRONNER
The trains nrc slower and fewer.
The street ears run at longer inter-
METHVINHEADS
SUMTERCOUNTY
FARM BUREAU
Seven Community Coun
cils Completed And
1 Countv Organized
The Sumter county farm bureau
formally organised Tuesday at t
meeting of delegates from the vari
ous community counels, held at the
Chamber of Commerce. The last of
the seven community councils was or
ganised a few days ago, and the of
ficers of these councils constitute the
advisory board of the county bureau.
It was these mem beta of the advis
ory board who mot Tuesday and or
ganised. John T. McthVtn was chos
en chairman, Mrs. A. F. Hodges, vice
chairman, George Q. Marshall,
secretary, and B. E. Thrasher, Jr.,
treasurer.
This election completes the or-
ranisation- of the Sumter County
'’arm Bureau, which will be affiliated
with the Georgia Farm Bureau Fed
eration. The enrolled membership at
the start is about 120. The canvass
by outside organisers Fas been dis
continued and the membership work
now will be carried forward by the,
membership committees of the vari-[
WEE
E0ITI0
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
... , t . .ous community councils. C. C. Shep-'
n , Th l brightly par(l , of Huntington; county manager
lighted. # The gas is not of as high
quality. The shops are not as well
stocked.
Great Store* Empty.
You wander into tho (great de
partment stores of Essen, Hamburg.
Berlin, Dresden and Leipsic and arc
struck by the comparative emptiness
and silence. Only the theaters and
movies and restaurants and beer'gar
dens are filled.
And there arc many things you
miss in this after-the-war Germany. >
You never run into the parades of
troops that you used to see. You
miss the military bands which u*od
to give dully concerts in the parks.
You don’t see richly dressed women
going around with expensive toy
dogs. i
' Hue thing you do see everywhere
18 ill® tf 1 ’* , y*K recn coht of the German
Soldier. BllL.tllf* in mi ujlin «r,» wiuir-
ing tHem wrnot soldiers notr. They
arr plain citizens who are wearing
the old- army jacket because it is
mado of wirviceabl© cloth and they
can't afford « new coat. .
One thing is as it wast before the
war. I don’t know bow they manago
it, hut German cities are still the
most spotless in tho worlil. The
streets arc clean nnd the parks end
open places'are in beautiful trim.
The lawns are perfect and the pan
sies are a riot of color.
Doubtless you wonder how things
go on at all if Germany is really
bankrupt, its assets arc seized and
sold for tho creditor! and tho firm
ceases to be.
, But you can’t do that when the
government of sixty-five million peo
ple can’t meet its debts. You can’t
sell them out and bundle them out.
The sixty-five millions with their in
dustry, their productive capacity,
their wants still remain.
And a nation of that size can keep
65 a great many hands busy satisfying
its own internal needs and trading
CORRECTION
In an advertisement yesterday for
Itylandcr Slioe^" company, a typo,
graphical error appeared. The adver
tisement should have read "Shoe Snlc,
Thursday Morning-—Five Lot.: of I Li
llies Slippers, in brown, black and
White."
| $5.00 FREE OR '
BATHING SUIT
OR TICKETS
I »OW about trying lor that 15.00
n pr j Z e, nr the new bathing suit,
or the week of free movie passes
to be given away next week by
Manager Emory Rylandcr of the
Rylandor Theater, through the
XInies-Recorder? All you huve to
is to see Jackie Coogan at the
-Rylandcr Filiduy or Saturday of
tills week, then write a 250 word
or less paper on "Why Peck’s Boy
Was Bad,” and mail or bring it to
The Tinies-Recurdor.
Here arc the rules:
# 1—Story must not exceed 250
words.
2—Must be written on only one
) aide of the paper,
i ;;—Must be in the hands of-the
editor of The Times-Rccordor by
; Wednesday, June 15. at 6 p. m.
j 4—Address your story to
£ Peck's Bad Boy, care Times-Re-
cordcr.
The stories written by the prize
winners will be published In Thurs
day's edition of the Times-Re-
corder, announcing the winners.
him like near beer, costa l mark.
Everything he smokes costs much
more. His wifo complains that she
can’t run the household and clothe
tile children on what lie allows her.
If lie seeks consolation in his news
paper the chances are that he reads
of the fresh taxation the government
will have to assess in order to meek
the Allied demands for reparation
payments.
I have heard many people in Wash
ington. London. Paris nml Brussels
bewuil tho fact that Fueh agreed to
an armistice before tho Allied armies-
marched into Berlin. They argued
that only in this way could the Ger
mans have been thoroughly convinced
that they were beaten in the war. But
after n month in Germany, i think
every German knows he was licked.
Evidence Everywhere
Everything the German reads,
hears and sers reminds him of it:
Bremen a dead seaport.
Allied Irnoli on the Rhine.
Snxon textile factories on pari
time.
Ruhr steel mills closing.
Munich’s famous gaiety all gone.
German money low-rnted.
German army n mern .police force.
, Gorman navy at the bottom of the
tea. a
German merchant marine in pos
session of the Allies. ' '
Allied commissions all over the
country.
Germany's fdture mortgaged to
the Allies.
Men like Waller Ratlicnau, head
of the great electrical trust, or Hugo [
Stinncs, with his finger in. n hundred
industrial pies, or Arthur Von (twin-
tier, the great banker and shinping
magnate, have their ow-i thoughts
ami theoroes, but. thj>fulure is so
uncertain, that they prefer not to
discuss things.
Big business does nftt know what
may happen in Germany Rst-lf. It
faces not only huge taxe i and great
increases in its payroll, but an in
creasing difficulty in getting raw ma
terial*. not to speak of the difficulty
of finding market* which will nceept
German goods. y
, The result of all this pessimism and
depression and even hopelessness is
n slowing down in the national life.
Land of Paradoses
Germany is today a land of para-
doxr*.
Its government is "busted”—but
(Continued on Pago Eight.)
during the preliminary campaign,
has completed hts work nnd been re
lieved by the permanent organiza
tion which, it is understood, will
shortly embark upon a ,fNed program
of work.
Community councils are located at
Leslie. Plains, Shiloh, Pleasant Grove.
Americus, Thalcan and Concord
communities. The f officers of ell
theso councils are:
Leslie Council
W. T. Anderson, chairman.
Mrs. F. A. Wilson, vice chairman.
B. A. Bredlev, secretary- treasurer.
Plains Council
F. E. Matthews, chairman.
Mrs. Claude Logan, vie* chairman.
J. W. Murray, secretary-treasurer.
• Shiloh Council.
W. W. Wilson, chairman.
Mrs. J. D. Moore, vice chairman.
M. O. Colston, skeretary-treasurer.
Pleasant Grove Council.
J. T. Methvin, chairman.
Mrs. W. L. Chambliss, vice chair
man.
■ Claude S. Braswell, secrclary-
troaifurcr.
Americus Council,
W. E. Brown, chairman.
Mrs. A. F. Hodges, vice chairman.
It. E. Cato, secretary-treasurer.
c Thslesn Council.
J. E. D. Shipn. chairman.
Mrs. T.; M. A. Finch, vico chair
man.
8. E. Mitchell, secretary-treasurer.
Concord Council.
Eugene : Drane, Chairman.
Mrs. C. J. Dupree, vice chairman.
M. H. Guest, secretary-treasurer.
AWAITS MIS SECOND TRIAL FOR MURDER SENATOR URGES
ACTION; CALLS
IT DISGUSTING
McCormick Complains
To Naval Secretary
For Discipline
WASHINGTON, June 8.—Secrc-
tary Dcnby instructed Ron:- Admiral
Sims today to advise the navy depart,
ment immediately by cable whether
lie was correctly quoted in press dis
patches of the address lie made at u
luncheon in London yesterday.
Senator McCormick complained
formally today, to President llarding
nml Secretary Dcnby about the ad
dress in which Admiral Sims discuss
ed the Irish.question. Senator Me
Cormick termed Sims’ address" dis-
costing and un-American.” He ask-
cd Secretary Dcnby to take iliseiplin.
ary measures against the admiral.
SIMS TELLS BRITISH
OF U. S. "JACKASS VOTE.”
LONDON, June 8— (By Associat
ed Press.)—Rear Admiral William S.
Sims, U. S. N., advised Britons and
Americans to disregard "dangerous
propaganda circulated in America by
your enemies nnd ours,” in address
ing a luncheon of the English-Speak
ing union here Tuesday.
in denouncing “American hyphe
nates,” Admiral Sims said:
"I do not want to touch on tho
Irish questfor.. for I know nothin*
about it and I haven’t round an,
Englishman who does. But there »fi
many in our country who technical!'
are Americans, some of them natural*
ized and some born there, but non©
of them Americans nt nil.
“They arc Americans when they
want money, but Sinn Friners when
on the platform. They are making
war on America today. f . m
“The simple I ruth of it in that
they have the bipod of British i
Americans on their hands from
structions they placed in the w
of the mo: t effective operation
tlic Allied naval forces during t
Disagreement of tho jury means a second trial for 11-year-old Cecil
Burkett,, of Knox, Ind., on the charge -of-killing a playmate. Cecil is con
fident of acquittal.
PUEBLO’S DEAD
FOUND IN MIRE
DENVER. Colo., Juno 8.—Ten mil
lion dollars worth of Pueblo goods
and scores of bodies of Pueblo citi
zens lie strewn In the mire and
quicksands of Inundated farm lands
south of both sides of tho raging Ar
kansas river below Pueblo, according
to a dispatch today, to tho Denver
Timca.
M’LENDONNEW
HEAD OF LEGION
Delegates To Columbus
Convention Also
Elected
The regular meeting of. (lie - John
D. Mathis Pest No. 2, of the Ameri
can Legion, was held at the Carne
gie library Monday night, June 6, at
which time the fallowing delegates
to the state convention to he held
in Columbus, July 4, 5, nnd 6, were
elected:
F. P. Anderson and J. E. B. Me-
London, delegates; J. G. Holst and
Robert C. Lane, alternates.
At this meeting the regular elec
tion of officers was held nnd the
following elected: Commander, J.
E. B. McLendon; vice-commander,
F. P. Anderson; adjutant, R. L.
Crawford; financo officer, S. I,
Saunders; chaplain, C. W. Waters;
historian. Robert V. Lane. These of
ficers will take office at the regular
meeting to b« held the first Monday
in July, for terms of one year.
Motion was carried that a vote of
thanks be drawn and presented to
the Times-Rocorder in appreciation
of its hein and co-operation in tho
membership campaign that has just
come to a successful close. Motion
was also made and carried that reso
lutions 'be drawn endorsing the Boy
Scout movement, arid published in
the Timcs-Recorder.
France , is the greateat snuff tak
ing country in Europe.
ABOUT THIS TIME O’ YEAR
~p
BIG BOOZE HAUL
AT COLUMBUS
— -T V-:-;
500 Gallons Found In
Cellars Near River
C'iiv
COLUMBUS, June 8.—The Seizure
by county officers Tuesday of more
Hum GOO gallons of corn whisky in
nearly 100 kega, constitutes ope of
the largest captures of liquor since
the noted Girard, Ala., round up sev-
oral years ago. Tho liqppr was seiz
ed on'the Robert Gilbert Place, sev
en miles north of Columbus. Gilbert
was placed under nrrest.
-The liquor was hidden in two big
cellars, the doors of which were cov
ered with cordwood. Tho liquor was
in kego, tlio lioopa of which were
lusty, and had evidently been •stor
ed there for nomp time. While it
was all corn liquor, some of it was
colored so us to resemble rye. Gil
bert was placed under 51,000 bond.
Shortly after lie was brought to Co-
lumhus, the whisky was turned into
n sewer near the court house. The
raid was mado by five county offi
cers. , 4 i - •
Five gallons of whisky buried in
the ground, IK half pints founds con
cealed about the person of two young
men, and a still full of liccr con
stituted tho total haul Monday of lo
cal prohibition enforcement officers, proposed,
city and county. Tho activo cam
paign that has been conducted
against the liquor traffic recently
has brought about a great scarcity
in tho available supply nnd a con
sequent rise in the pricu to the con-
"They arc like zebras — either
black hoi . with white stripes, or
white horse-, with black stripes,
we kiioW they are not horses— (
are nsser- III”, cacti of those ai
ha-- a vote and there lots of them.
nt vised the British
olution "forced by
III ml
to ignore any res
these jackass; vote:;."
lie ileploffil the fact that there
i-.-i i a Section of the press on both
rides oT the Atlantic which put
false news on the wires which caus
es questions to hr- asked.”
G.O.P.MAYCUT
DIXIE DELEGATES
WASHINGTON, June 8—The
next Republican national convent 0 *
would be composed of 1,037 deft-*
gates under a new basis of party rep
resentation submitted to th© itft»
tional committee today by the sub-
committee) after lengthy invextlgft-
* tions. A cut of i23 Votes in tho rep
resentation of Southern states is
BABE RUTH GETS"
ONEDAYINJAiL
NEW YORK, June 8.—’’Babo"
Ruth, homo run king, today was sen
tenced to one day in prison and fined
$100 for automobile speeding. Of
ficially the day ’in * jail ends at 4
o’clock this’ afternoon.
British Freighter Hits
Iceburg Off Halifax
HALIFAX, JUNE 8—The British
freighter Scapool struck an iceberg
off tho Newfoundland coaat tbday
und is slowly making for St. John*
with her forefront broken and fore
peak fall of water. Advices to the
Canadian naval staff said the steamer
was not in need of immediate assist
ance.
W YORK, June K.—Repeats
nt Halifax that the unuam-
nr which crashed into an
fcrher%4§nRhe British freighter Sca-
I'uol set at rest fears entertained
in shipping circles .for the’safety of
several largo passenger liners near
Hie ice field. Rumors flew thick nnd
fast concerning tho Fycnch liner
Rtirhambcnu and several erroneous
report* were circulated that she had
met trouble. The Associated Press,
however, did not circulate them.
DUBLIN BULLET»SWEPT.
DUBLIN. Juno 8.—(By Associat
ed Pres*.)—Dublin streets were
swept with bullets/or twenty minutes
this morning following an attack with
revolvers nnd bomba on a police lor
ry. Five constables and some civil
ian- were wounded.
Thouaand Expected At
Sunday School Picnic
A sudden dearth’
chickens both in tho murket
tlie country-side was cep
uu the eve of the Firs
Sunday school picnic, which
lake place Thursday at MyF
!.Springs. Fully one thousand perrons
are expected to attend. V. M. Hol
loway, chairman of the transporta,
lion committee) reports he still can
use volunteer auloritpbiles. Car*
wilt Start from the church at K a. m. ,
- Chairman W. E. Taylor, of thu h\
basket committee udvisc3 everybody
to have their baskets nt the church
by 8 o’clock sharp, when trucks will
leave.
Buckshot Ready For
Peeping Tom Here
Americus has a Peeping Tom. 11®
has been seen about house* in Brown
street jn the 200-block, it has tyion
reported to the police. An officer
has been assigned several nights to
the neighborhood to trap the prowl
er, but so far ho has not been suc-
ccsrful. The miscreant is reported
to have been observed about homes
frem which the heads of the {amilies
JSC of
pone piuch of tir.._,
duties elsewhere. It lias been stn
that if the ‘mysterious per; on shn
ui» in that neighborhood phalli In*
likely to-receive a load of but ktdi
Democrat Elected In
4th Alabama Diatri
HEtLAlA* Ali* 1{ *_;Jun<* >. I amafl
Jobbers. Democrat, was Heeled yc
terdnv by n mniority of about a '
over Jtidgft A. \V. ifong'hore. Re
Bean, to succeed the late Hep re,
Hive Fred Blnckmon. t}f the K
Alabama district, according to
field returns.
The famous Great Wall of
12( 0 miU*> long.
Tho Romans paved the fa
pian Way about 312