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the TIMES-RECORDER.
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Americus, Ga., November 16,1915
Politics won’t down!
And the legislature is STILL in ses
sion.
They’re singing "Georgia’s Going
Dry.” ’Pears as if she has gone.
Thursday is the greatest day of the
y. ar—for it’s Georgia Products Day.
Augusta is having much ado over
the first appearance of Judge W. W.
Lambdin.
The South Georgia Methodist perach
ers will have their inning at Cordele
next week.
We are beginning to doubt that the
Ancona was sunk. Nobody seems to
know anything about it.
I
The nation is poorer by the death of.
Booker T. Washington. He was a great I
asset to his race and the nation.
I
Are there harmless cranks? Some- j
«ne of practical turn of mind is for
having them utilized for the starting of
automobiles.
Despite theories to the contrary, the
stay-at-home who spends most of his
time in the little office back of the
livered stable has a checkered career.
American rag-time is being played in
Berlin. The practice is likely to pre
judice the musical critics as well as
the political writers against this coun
try.
A Monticello convict warden adver
tised for an escaping man, and among
the description was: “Clears up his
throat every few seconds.” And, ho a
dry he is?
Costumes that some people are
eaaght out in every time it rains
make one wonder why they put them
selves so completely at the mercy of
the cynical weather man.
That Illinois assistant postmaster
will likely keep his mouth shut here
after when the President wants to
marry again. But that ..as a noble
spirit which prompted forgiveness.
While the human race ordinari v
Hoves an optimist, it is inclined to
fear that the yearning to sit at the
beaches in order to see how perfectly
shocking are some people’s bathing
costumes?
Ones' prestige is determined by his
earning power,” says a Boston man.
Nonsense; a baby has no earning
power, but at home he cuts more ice
than a daddy who may be earning $lO,-
000 a year.
fn a poetic revery we clip the fol
lowing from one J. D. S. column on the
Macon Telegraph:
"Eleven bells, and May the first.
And after that, poor wight,
You’ll do no more moaning at the bar
For it will be ’Good Night!’ ”
CHILDREN S LAWS.
Forty-five state and territorial leg
islatures and the Congress cf the Unit
ed States in 1915 passed laws affecting
children, according to the Children 3
Bureau of the United States Depart
ment of Labor, which has just complet
ed its survey of such legislation dur
ing the current year. Special refer
ence is made to the impressive bulk
of children’s laws and to the number
of commissions appointed to study and
prepare for future legislation.
Arkansas, Florida and Utah have
commissions to report on the needs
of the feeble-minded; New Jersey, a
commission to prepare a state pro
gram for the re-organization of public
care of defectives, dependents ,and de
linquents; Missouri and New Hamp
shire, commissions on the needs of
the blind; Delaware, a commission on
vocational education; Idaho a commis
sion on the need for a minimum wage
law; Florida and Indiana, commissions
cn the need for mothers’ pensions, and
California, a commission to study so
cial insurance.
The bureau says that the appoint
ment of these commissions indicates a
growing realization that benevolent in
tent can not safely be accepted as a
substitute for the careful formulation
of statutes for social betterment. The
subjects to which study is directed are
all of immediate concern to children,
and the states are thus fairly com
mitted to a policy of selecting and
harmonizing provisions which leads
■plainly toward the collection and cod
ifying of all laws relating to children.
As showing the great amount of chil
dren’s legislation the bureau says that
twenty-seevn states have amended
their provisions for dependent child
ren; eighteen have improved their
treatment of juvenile delinquents; six
teen have strengthened their child la
bor laws; fourteen have concerned
themselves with the needs of the men
tally defective and feeble-minded;
three states and the District of Colum
bia were added to those specifically
permitting the use of public school
I school buildings as social centers and
I nine amended, or for the first time
I passed, a playground law, and four
I states passed a model vital statistics
! law. in which the chuldren’s bureau is
' interested, because it considers com
i
! plete birth registration of fundamental
importance to child welfare work.
A few of the forty-five states made
notable advances. Alabama, for ex
ample, whose legislature meets oniv
once in four years, enacted a new child
labor law, a compulsory school attend
ance law, an excellent desertion an 1
non-support law and a statewide juv
enile court law. Florida remodelled
its treatment of juvenile delinquents,
recognized the principle of compulsory
school attendance, passed the model
vital statistics law, and appointed two
slate commissions already referred ’.o.
Kansas established an industrial com
mission to regulate hours, wages and
conditions of work for women and min
ors. and a division of child hygiene in
the state board of health; it also enact
ed a playground law and a mothers’
pension law. New Jersey and Wyom
ing passed comprehensive acts relat
ing to the care of dependent children
and Pennsylvania, carefully drafted
laws relating to child labor and voca
tional education.
The children's bureau has included
in its review the outlying territories
cf the United States and reports that
A’aska has forbidden the employment
cf boys under 16 in underground
mines; Hawaii has passed a curfew
law for girls under 16 in Honolulu;
the Philippines have provided for den
tal clinics in the schools and created
a public welfare board to establish and
maintain social centers, and Porto
Rico has passed a modern juvenile
court.
"The Sunday Atlanta Journal has a
photographer all its own,” comments
Johnnie Spencer, of the Macon Tele
graph. Now, we understand a lots
about, "said” picture; but how’d he
know
Considering the number of shells
which the armies of Europe are said
to be throwing at each other, the
ground on which they are fighting
ought to be right good for metal
mining after the war is over.
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER
THE CITRUS CANKER.
The citrus industry of the United
States, which is growing to be an im
portant business enterprise in eigit
states of the union, representing a
money value of more than a billion
dollars, is in serious danger of being
destroyed. This is the opinion ex
pressed by expert horticulturalists
who have been studying closely the
spread of citrus canker in several of
the Southern states for nearly three
years and co-operating with state
agents in an effort to check the epi
demic.
As this pest, more deadly to the ci
trus trees than tuberculosis is to man,
has developed to such an extent that
no state con control it, and as it
spreads rapidly, and is not respective
of state boundaries, citrus canker is a
very serious menace to every state
where citrus fruit trees are grown un
less it can be eradicated from all the
state simultaneously.
An appeal is being made to the fed
eral government for an appropriation
with which to eradicate citrus canker
from the United States. It was the
United States government, through a
Southern customs house, which ad
mitted citrus canker into the United
States. Citrus interests feel that it is
the duty of the federal government to
do its utmost now to correct the mis
take made at that time.
Florida, with sixteen counties af
fected by citrus blight, has taken the
initiative in this appeal to congress
with its entire state delegation pledg
ed to work zealously for a federal ap
propriation.
All of the seven other citrus grow
ing states are heartily with Florida in
this campaign, and letters and tele
grams are being received daily by D.
C. Gillett, chairman of the Citrus
Canker committee, at Tampa, Fla.,
pledging that they will bring organiz
ed effort to bear.
These letters and telegrams are
from the citrus committee to every
congressman in the United States. It
is accompanied be a concise booklet
telling all the principal facts about
citris canker, which the congressman
is asked to use not only to win him
over to the cause, but in convincing
other confreres that they also should
vote for the appropriation when the
bill comes before congress. The dele
gations from Florida, Alabama and
other states in congress are determin
ed to make this citrus matter their
paramount business in the next con
gress.
A strong effort is being made to
have this appropriation included in
the agricultural department budget, as
it would thus come into use sooner and
through the proper channels of admin- !
istration. As Secretary Houston and
his bureau chiefs have all along tak
en a keen interest in the citrus indus
try it is believed that they will be dis
posed to include this schedule in their ,
estimates.
Representatives Lever and Stephen '
M. Sparkman and Senator Duncan U.
Fletcher have brought the subject to
the attention of D. F. Houston, Secre
tary of Agriculture. Secretary Hous
ton, whose recommendation would be
the most valuable endorement that
could be secured as an appropriation '
would act through his department,
has shown himself favorably disposed.
Alabama and Mississippi now have
active campaign committees co-oper
ating with the Florida Committee. The
Alabama Committee is composed of
six of the most influential men in
■ outh Alabama, who at the meeting in
Mobile pledged unanimous support cf
I e Alabama Congressional Delegation
0 the proposed measure of Federal
relief.
J. H. Webb, the Alabama chairman,
has a wide-awake circle of inuflence
and is personally acquainted with all
the Alabama Congressmen and Sena- 1
ters. R. V. Taylor, vice president an 1'
general manager of the M. & 0. Rail
road, Mobile. Ala., is another active'
and enthusiastic worker for the cause.'
0. F. E. Wimberg, president of the
Gulf Coast Horticultural Society, is ’
one of the most energetic organizers in '
the citrus campaign and is personally
making a canvass of the State delega
tions in Congress from Alabama and
Mississippi, both of whicii States his
society covers.
H. D. Money, of Ocean Springs .Miss ,
son of tiie late Senator Money, is chair
man of the Mississippi committee,
which is composed of five of the
S.ate’s most prominent men.
One of the strongest supporters of
the campaign is Dr. Clarence J. Owen,
managing director of the Southern
Commercial Congress, with headquar
ters in Washington. Because of his
( close association in the Capital with
the government officials Dr. Owen’s in
terest is very valuable to the cause.
I The Central Committee carrying on
this citrus canker eradication from
( offices in Tampa is sending out tons of
citrus circular letters and individual
I
letters of appeal to all growers of cit
rus fruit in the eight states where
j there are citrus fruit trees, to all
important commercial organizations,
railroads, wholesalers, and other bus
, iness interests which would suffer ma
, terial loss through the destruction of
, the citrus industry, soliciting their
support to the extent of appealing in
dividually to every member of Con
gress to vote for this measure.
Already pledges have been received
from many members of Congress and
| others who have great influence in
national affairs.
This state with its large areas given
over citrus groves has a very vital in
terest in this campaign for a Federal
appropriation, and much pressure is
being brought to bear on all members
of the State Delegation in Congress.
About You
And Us
That honorable gentleman who signs
himself J. D. S. on the hind end of the
first column of the Macon Telegraph’s
editorial page continues his concentra
' tion of fire on the person of one writer,
known as Dick Jemison. —Americus
| Times-Recorder.
j Just kiddin’ —that's all —Macon Tel
egraph.
The Americus Times-Recorder says:
“Russia in her driest days will never
be so dry as Georgia after these law's
now in process of formation go into
effect.” Not so dry and not much more
despotic.—Jacksonville Times-Union.
The latest from the Rattle front is
the title which Johnnie Spencer gives
his column in the Macon Telegraph—
“ More Otherwise Than Wise.” Nice
chance for a compliment, and we'll
hand it to him.—Americus Times-Re
corder.
Cease spoofing.—Macon Telegraph.
The Americus Times Recorder has
joned the list of papers intending to
secure a Christmas fund for the chil
dren in that city who might otherwise
haev no Christmas enjoyment. The
Savannah Press has made an an
nouncement of its intention tostart a
campaign for a fund of this character
and it will have further details to give
cut in a few days. We have interested :
some friends in the plan who have I
promised to be of genuine service and
we are sure they will be. —Savannah
Press.
The greatest service to humanity is
rendered when we remember the poor.
Crranston Williams ,on the Americus
Times-Recorder, is some paragrapher,
but he will have to go some to catch
J. S. —Covington News.
We’ll content ourselves with “some."
A railroad conductor came near
meeting a sad fate in Americus the
other day. His train went away and
left him there. But fortunately it
came back for him.—Savannah Press.
And still some things can’t “come
back.”
Scratched
40 Years
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Get a 50c bottle of this wonderful
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| THE NEWSPAPER TALK
A republican is to be ambassador to
Mexico, and it must be admitted that
that is just the right place for a re
publican.—Macon County Citizen.
A preacher is a candidate for mayor
over at Tifton. Those who know sa.y
that Tifton politics is no place for a
minister or a minister’s son.—Moul
trie Observer.
If you failed to make what you need
ed at hime this year, Mr. Farmer, make
plans this winter to do so next year.
It is the easiest way in the world to
make money.—Waycross Journal. 4
An epidemic of matrimony has his
the Whtie House. The president, his
daughter, private physician and' social
secretary are all reported to be engag
ed to be married.—Rome Tribune.
Who will say that even a pistol can
not accomplish good sometimes. A
husband in Georgia struck his wife
with the butt end of a pistol and the
thing shotand killed the husband.—
Brunswick News.
It has been our ambition “to be
piesident some day.” From this idea
we changed and we now long to attain
that lofty place where no other than
L. W. Herrin, of the Tifton Gazette, is
now permitted to perch.—Coffee Coun
ty Progress.
We’ll bet a year’s subscription t« the
Free Press against a 10-pound’ possum
that President Wilson makes England
let our cotton go through to neutral
ports. And then, look out for better
prices.—Alpharetta Free Press.
Take notice that nearly every one
who has suffered sentence under Judge
Fite are violently opposed to him as .<
judge.—Murray County Messenger.
For Dandruff, we recommend
"93” Hall-Tonic
Murray’* Pharmacy.
F. and A. M.
< AMERICUS LODGI
F. and A. M. meets «v
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Friday night at I
.v A o’clock.
S. A. JENNINGS, W. M
CLOYD BUCHANAN, Sec’y.
M. B. COUNCIi
Z; LODGE, F. and A. M
meetß every First as!
' Third Friday nlght *
4 7 XS- Visiting brothersc is
4ted to attend.
W. F. SMITH, W. M
NAT LeMASTER, Secretary.
F. G. OLVER
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and Covered.
LAMAR STREET NEAR WELL.
C. P. DAVIS,
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Orthodontia, Pyorrhea.
Resident Phone 218. Office Phone 813
Allison Bldg.
DR. M. H. WHEELER,
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Office in Bell Bldg., Lamar St. Just
opposite Postoffice.
Office Phone 755. Residence Phone 2SB
AMERICUS CAMP, 202, WOODMKJ
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in ttu
Wheatley Bldg., Windsor Ave. All vis
ting Sovereigns invited to meet with
is. J. M. TOBIN. C. C.
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 14,
P. 0. S. OF A.
Meets on Thursday nights, Wheal
ley Building, at 7:30 o’clock. All mem
bers are urged to attend. Visiton
welcomed. E. F. WILDER, Pres’t.
O. D. REESE, Recording Sec’y.
NAT LeMASTER. Sec’y.
I. 0. 0. F.
Meets every Tuesday night at
>'clock. K. of P. Hall. Visitors a)
ays welcome. R. W. BUCHANAN,
S. H. EDGE, Noble Grand
Secretary.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, ISIS