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ESTABLISHED 1579.
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A n»ericii>. Gt~ December 8, 1915
The Empty Stocking Fund needs
you.
✓
Lansing needs a new typewriter
ribbon.
October 2nd-7th. they are the dates,
so make yours.
Boy-ed and Von Papen have caught
the air to “Home, Sweet Home.”
If it wasn't for the Balkans war
news would he in bad sometime.
The date is set for the Third Dis
trict Fair —and the next thing is the
fair.
These winter winds are sighing
mightily and the short ones are all
he has.
The bankers have contributed to the
j
Empty Stocking Fund. Now who’ll be
the next?
Saving the nation will be a pastime
for several months. Congress is a
rather peculiar body.
Woman's suffrage is realv causing
a stir. They planned for insurrection
during President Wilson’s address.
At this particular moment Henry ;
Ford's peace ship took a dip in the
briny deep, and Henry’s heart almost
fell to pieces.
The dope says that “Little Joe ’ j
Brown and Tom Hardwick may tie up
for the United States senate. Enter:
Boy-ed—somebody to cuss.
The president’s message was becom
ing the greatness of our chief execu
tive. No wonder Hughes just wouldn’t
run; however hard they tried to make
him.
The Laurens Citizen dedicates a lit
tle paragraph to J. D. S., and wants
to know: “Does it help to cuss when a
typewriter hangs on a fellow.” Us
ually. hanging hurts.
These little three act tragedies being
published by the various newspapers
ire growing pathetic. And there's an
other:
ACT I. —Legislature.
ACT ll.—Bill.
ACT lll—Joke. e
g
R. Y. Beckham, formerly with t hs
Doublln Courier-Herald, has assumed
the reins of the Laurens Citizen, pub- j
lished at Dublin, as editor and mana
ger. Both of Dublin's papers are a
credit to the city, and our best wishes!
go with Mr. Beckham in his new enter - i
prise.
A wonderful discovery has been
made by J. D. S. on the Macon Tele
graph. which is: “The young scout.
who mortgages his salary for a mont-i.
to send his sweetheart a Christmas
present and gets in return a silk hand -
kerchief with his initials in the cor
i er sometimes goes off by himself and
v onders wotell."
MORE INCOME TAXATION.
If additional funds for national de
fense are to be raised by internal
taxation, it is fair enough to raise
part of them by extending the in
come tax.
In comparison with taxes on pers
| onal incomes in most European coun-j
' tries, our present system is excep
: tional both in the smallness of the
1 rate and the largeness of the ex
emptions.
The normal rate under our law is
■one per cent, paid on net incomes up
Jto $20,000. That is the rate paid by
i the vast majority of citizens subject
to the tax. Beyond $20,000 the rate
is progressive with the size of in
comes, but our maximum is 7 per
cent, imposed on incomes exceeding
i $500,000 a year. In England today 50
1 per cent of large incomes is taken by
I
i the government.
Our present exemptions are $3,000
a year for single men and $4,000 a
, year for married men. In many for
; eign countries everybody with as
j much as SSOO a year has to pay an .
! income tax. There is therefore, notb
' j ing radical in the proposal that our
exemptions should be reduced to $2,-
000 for single men and $3,000 for
; heads erf families.
There might be no harm in making
the minimum even a little lower, if
’ the rate were kept low. For there s
another consideration just as import
ant as the necessltly of the govern- j
meat’s raising money. It is that ev
ery citizen should have a conscious
ness of the contribution be makes to|
■ the nation’s expenses.
Indirect taxation has fostered thei
| for which Americans are noted. A
| little direct taxation for the average
citizen, just enough to make him sit
up and take notice, without feeling a
grievious burden, would quicken his
sense of citizenship and make him a
better critic of efficiency and extrav
agance in government expenditures.
For those who fight must pay for their
; fighting, just like those who dance
! and take their fun. —Augusta Chron
’iicle.
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THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
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Presient Woodrow Wilson read his
third annual message to congress
Tuesday morning, mid the plaudits of
an interesting audience and under the
careful eye of a great nation.
His message was all that could be
asked of a great American. He sound
cd the true principles of Americanism,
and entered with a full knowledge in
to the affairs of the government.
A striking feature of the address
i
| was his appeal for Pan-Americanism
—a joining of the nations of the west
i ern hemisphere for mutual protection
and interest
The question of revenue will be one
! great issue before congress, and ;
1 good portion of the president's mes-
I sage was taken up with this idea.
It is to he hoped that congress in
its session will not embarrass the
fereign policy of President Wilson. In
a masterful manner has he handled
. 1 the acute affairs which have arisen
in the intercourse of this nation with
! ethers.
■
The nation has prospered during
: the interim of congress’ recess, but
' some irresponsible person or party
' might make much to do about nothing
j which would seriously hamper the!
great work of the President.
PAPER MAX—CROOKED?
A slight intimation that it is possi- j
bie for a newspaper man to be crook
ed comes from the Grffiin News and:
Sun:
Gasoline continues to advance
in price, but the editor of the
Americus Times-Recorder as
sures the public that it is not the
result of his spending all of his
time motoring around in an
igbt-cylinder car. Exactly right;
if you hear of an ewspaper man
riding around in a fine automo
bile you may know there is some
thing crooked about it.
Never. Editor Duke, your are right
—they just don't ride in those kind.
They are writing about “Ford's Joy
Itide’’ now. And when a tiny, wee lit
tle submarine spits in that big boat -
sac be much peace’
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER
THOSE ANKLE WATCHES.
Highly satisfactory evidence that!
“seeing is believing" comes from Ed-!
itor Ernest Camp, in the Walton Tri- ■
imne. But Editor Bloodwortli also 1
sent us “ telegram—and it must have
been the latest:
Editor Cranstqp Williams, after
a recent visit Atr.»Atlanta, says
that the ankle matches look well.
Editor Oliver Bloodworth, after a
stay of several weeks in the
same city, sends us a wire that he
has been unable to sight one yet.
WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK.
“When is a blockade not a block- j
ade?” inquires the Americus Times-
Reeorder. When Greek meets Greek, \
we guess.—Walton Tribune.
Right you are, but no blockade has ;
made conditions extremely sade for
the Entente Allies.
THE NEWSPAPER TALK
The state of Georgia seems to be
sorely jn need of a treasury watch
dog. Now is the time for some one to
make himself famous.—Columbus
Ledger.
Now comes Uncle Sam and joins in ;
the effort to starve Germany. He will i
have two dinners and invite the Ger
man diplomats to but one of them.
The neutrals get invitations to both
dinners. We're neutral. —Covington
News.
■Won’t a man cuss and rear and fuss
U somebody says his wife did any one
of a hundred things that he thinks
them. —Thomasville Times,
The geratest possible prosperity
can be assured to our country only:
through the full development and
the harmonious co-operation of highh
ways. railroads and waterways.—
Dublin Courier.
It's all right for the American wo
men to knit socks for the European
soldiers, but what if the young men
cf America would go over and make
husbands for the war widows. Then
there'd come a big howl.—Brunswick
News.
According to the Birmingham
young man who served in the trench
es modern warfare is mostly a matter
of inches.—Atlanta Journal.
Colorado has been upheld by the
courts in its efforts to enforce the
dry laws. That state has both con
stitutional and statutory laws for pro
hibition.—Athens Banner.
On the Level
By C. W.
Alas. She Meant Her Lips.
She—(Sighing poetically) —Ah me.
He—(Who is very practical)—W
what is the matter?
She —I was just thinking of the
night we went to the ball.
He—Oh!
She—Of something you pressed.
He—Oh, ves —my trousers.
! Virginia Dare—d, and there are
j others. From the Atlanta Georgian,
| of es this come:
Atlanta friends of Miss Ruth Akin,
: Brunswick society girl, who has vis
ited here often, and Robert E. High
; tower, of Thomaston, learned with in
j tcrest Monday of their hasty marriage
after a spin by automobile from
Smyrna to Thomaston.
Miss Akin and Mr. Hightower had
been engaged some time, and it was
suspected that they would not wait
until next spring, when the wedding
date had been set. She was visiting
her sister. Mrs. Spencer R. Atkinson,
Jr., at Spring Hill, Smyrna, when
young Hightower called up from home
and told her he was going to steal
her.
“I dare you to,” she said, defiantly.
“I wouldn’t take a dare from you,”
Lo said, as he slammed down thej
phone receiver and ordered a full j
supply of gasoline. They lost no time i
I '
getting back to Thomaston, where Mr.
The 801 l Weevil Quarantine
And the Necessity For It
Atlanta. December. —(Special.)—
The new boll weevil quarantine line
in Georgia has just been defined and
marked out by the State Board of
Entomology, effective Monday, Decem
ber 6, and a rigid adherence to the
rules and regulations laid down by
the board will be insisted upon in or
der to prevent the spread of the boll
weevil at a rate more rapid than un
der ordinary natural conditions.
The Mexican cotton boll weevil,
says the department, entered Georgia
in August, and, owing to the very
late season and favorable conditions,
spread more rapidly than anticipated.
It has now been found in the follow
ing counties: Decatur, Grady, Thom
as, Baker, Lowndes, Berrien, Colquitt,
Mitchell. Miller, Early, Baker, Worth,
Tift, Dougherty, Calhoun, Clay, Quit
man. Randolph, Terrell, Lee, Sumter,
Schley. Webster, Stewart, Chattahoo
chee. Marion, Talbot, Muscogee, Har
ris, Upson, Pike, Meriwether, Troup,
Heard. Coweta, Fayette, Campbell,
Carroll, Douglass and Haralson, a to
tal of forty, or more than one-fourth
of the cotton-growing area of the
state.
Conditions Were Favorable
It has been an unusually favorable
year for the weevil, and it has ad
vanced uniformly through northeast
ern Alabama and in southern Tennes
see. If it had not been for the strict
enforcement of quarantine regulations
controlling the movement of cotton
seed, hulls, corn in the shuck and such
other articles as are liable to carry
boll weevil, this pest would now be
well established in every section of
Georgia. At the first killing frost the
weevil went into winter quarters, and
one of his principal hiding places is in
stored cotton seed. This creates the
necessity for a strict enforcement of
the quarantine regulating the move
ment of cotton seed from infested into
non-infested territory.
The present actual boll weevil line
in Georgia as just established, enters
the state from Alabama at Newsville
in Haralson county, passes through
Tallapoosa and Bremen, then through
Horace in Carroll; through Bill Arp
and Chapel H:;l in Douglass county;
slightly north of Red Oak in Camp
bell county: then turns southward and
passes through Brooks in Fayette ;
just east of Molena in Pike and east
of Thunder in Upson; slightly east of
Junction City in Talbot and a few
miles east of Ellaville in Schley ;
thence slightly west of Americus in
Sumter, through Philema in Lee,
through Shing’er and east of Sumner
in Worth; thence through Dosia in
Tift, just east of Nola in Berrien and
Hightower had a minister primed for
the occasion, and where they will re
side.
Miss Akin is a daughter of State
Senator and Mrs. L. R. Akin, and Mr.
Hightower is in the cotton business.
Miss Akin is also popular in Rome
and other Georgia cities, where she
has visited and been entertained.”
The Old-Fashioned Christinas Dinner.
The good old-fashioned Christmas
dinner —how I'd like to go
Back to that old farmhouse on the
hill;
Back some forty years or more—a
boy with hair of tow—
Skipping round and never keepin'
still.
Sniffin’ at the pumpkin pies—sniffin
at the cake—
Always gettin' right in mother’3
way.
While the turkey in the oven fairly
set my cheeks aglow
For the good old-fashioned dinner
Christmas day.
Ihe preacher he was sure to come—
that feast required a prayer—
He made it good and long I tell you,
too.
And I felt somehow just like I was
the only sinner there
Kept ail the time a settin’ in a stew
When finally the grace was o’er and
I caught mother’s eye
I pretty nearly busted to begin.
And it seemed to me to eat it I -would
pretty nearly die
Oh, that Christmas dinner how I
waded in.
And this time every Christmas —well
—I get to feelin' queer
Here in the noisy city far from
home;
But I shouldn't for I have my mar
ried children round me here
And I know from ttu Lr bright home
I need not roam
But notwithstandin' all o’ this I’m
sighin’ here tonight
And long to feel the old log fire’s
glow.
[ With paw up at the table’s head an'
maw just at his right
Eatin’—Christmas dinner long ago.
slightly east of Valdosta in Lowndes
and on to the Florida line.
Seed For Crushing Only
In fixing the new quarantine area
for the shipment of cotton seed until
the movement of the next crop begins
on August 1, 1916, the state board of
entomology has authorized the ship
ment of seed from infested territory
for crushing purposes only to oil mills
that are situated within the 20-mile
safety zone. This safety zone is an
area 20 miles wide, just east of the
actual boll weevil line. This applies
solely to seed for crushing purposes,
but these mills will not be permitted
to ship cotton seed hulls to points
east of the 20-mile safety zone until
January 1 and after.
There will be no restriction upon
cotton seed hulls between January 1
and August 1, even from infested to
non-infested territory, as there is
practically no danger of carrying the
weevil during that time. Articles
which may not be shipped from in
fested into non-infested territory, ex
cept within the 20-mile zone, include
seed cotton, cotton seed, sacks used
for seed cotton or cotton seed within
eight months, cotton seed hulls be
tween August 1 and December 31,
Spanish moss and corn in shuck be
tween October 1 and June 30, living
weevils or weevil stages, household
goods containing any of the forego
ing. Where no time limit is specified
the restriction is continuous.
Articles whose shipment is not re
stricted include baled cotton, linters
and loose cotton lint, cotton seed
meal, cake and oil, corn shelled or in
the ear with shuck removed, cotton
seed shown by affidavit to have been
sacked for eight months or more, cot
ton seed for planting after fumigation
by an entomologist, hay and empty
freight cars.
May Delay The Weevil
Strict observance of these quaran
tine regulations may result in holding
the weevil in check in this state for
two or three years longer than other
wise. Had it not been for the quaran
tine against articles from infested
states, the weevil would have spread
all over Georgia long ago. It is im
possible to prevent the spread of the
weevil by natural means, but artificial
means may be almost wholly con
trolled.
Everyone is w-arned not to carry
live boll weevils into non-infested ter
ritory. There are very strict national
and state laws against any person
having live boll weevils in his posses
sion, and the penalties for violation
are severe. The state board of ento
mology states that these laws will be
rigidly enforced.
HAVE SPARROWS
LEFT AAAERICUS
VERVJUDDENLV
DISAPPEARANCE OF BIRDS COM
RENTED EPOS.
Has Americus lost that undesirable
interloper of British proclivities—
that of gobbling up everything in
sight—the English sparrow? Certain
is it he is not here in vast flocks as
heretofore, and observant citizens ex
press the belief that he has fled the
country. Pestiverous birds are still
to be seen here, but not in myriad
numbers as in past years. Has he
gone to the country for the Christ
mastide, or has he, in a professional
sense, given way to that other nuis
ance, the boll weevil. Look about to
day and see if there is not a diminu
tion in the number of sparrows in
the job here.
SAVAGE. WOMEN HEALTH!
The savage lives in the open, eats
household drudgery or social life, gets
plenty of sleep and exercise and is
perfectly healthy and strong, but the
civilized woman is a slave to home
duties and society, often becomes
run-down, nervous and physically
unfit to be a companion or wife.
Our local druggists .Hooks Pharma
cy have a reliable, non-secret remedy
that is a boon to such women, its
component parts being peptonate cf
iron for the blood, the nourishing
properties of beef peptone and the
medicinal extractives of fresh, healthy
cods’ livers, all dissolved in a deli
cious native wine. It is really won
derful how rapidly weak, run-down
women are built up by its use.
SUNDAY’S TIMES-RECORDER IS
AN ADVERTISING FEATURE, Read
every line of she advertisiirg.
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CHRISTMAS
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Boudoir Lamps, Electric Percolators, Electric Toys,
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A new lighting fixture for the parlor or dining room
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1915