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THE TIMES-RECORDER.
ESTABLISHED 1879.
Publishea every Sunday morning and
•very afternoon, except Saturday, and
Weekly, by the Times-Recorder C 0.,,
(Incorporated.)
Entered as second class matter at
postoffice at Americus. Ga., under act
Os March 3, 1879.
G. R. ELLIS.
President.
CRANSTON WILLIAMS,
Editor and General Manager.
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Assistant in Business Department
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Webster County.
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Third Congressional District.
U. S. Court Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Gsu, April 11. IMIS
Enough is all an honest man needs.
A dangerous season of the year this
—for the fish.
When Sherman said war was helZ
he didn't think of politics.
The rich and poor meet at the polls, I
Lut seldom in Congress.
A good motto: If it can thrive make
it. If it can’t thrive kill it.
Advertising is to business what
grease is to a wagon wheel.
With another railroad Americus
would grow as never before.
The Third District Agricultural fair
looms up big and promising.
The dickey birds and spring poetc
are not singing much as yet.
Carranza Is a rare old bird but it
wasn't a Teddy that discovered him.
Stage love may sometimes turn to
real love, but not so with stage money.
Lost—A bull moose badly mildewed.
Please return to the Progressive party.
Never mind about giving the devil
his dues. He’s a mighty good collec
tor.
An introduction to a preacher wear
ing a two karat diamond doesn't jingle
just right.
Why not send Doc Cook down into
Mexico, and see if he could really find
something.
The self-made man should refrain
from mentioning the fact when his
wife is around.
The provident and far-seeing young
man presses his suit at home before
pressing his suit with his girl.
A Kansas editor says that he dreads
summer because at that time the fleas
hold their convention and use his an
atomy for ana uditorium.
i
A girl may be ever so homely, but if
she possesses big feet, wears short
skirts encased in white shoes topped
with livid stockings she will attract
attention no matter where she goes.
LIFE AND THE ROSE.
Life is like a morning rose.
Open to the morning sky,
Ere the shades of evening close
Is scattered on the ground to die
It behooves us then to be up and doing,
Serving others while we may,
Time alone is all enduring,
Like the rose life’s but a day.
—-T. F. P.
THE HOKE SMITH BOOM.
The Macon News takes a ' ery decid
ed view on the matter of the California
Democratic state convention nominat
ing Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia,
for the presidency. The esteemed Macon
paper would have the senator write a
very caustic letter to the parties re
sponsible for this action and promptly
announce that he was “an original Wil
son man” and doesn’t want any such'
playfulness over the situation —as he
being considered a nominee for presi
dent.
It is to laugh. We received a copy
of some California newspaper which
told in glaring headlines of how the
Democrats in convention had repudiat
ed President Wilson and decided upon
the senior senator from Georgia as
the nominee for the presidency iby
! Democracy.
The News goes further and contem
j plates what might haunt Senator
Smith if he refuses to follow’ their sug
! gested course, or some other course
with the ultimate end the same.
It is not clear to us how a state
Democratic convention could rise spon
taneously and out of the fullness of
their heart name a candidate for the
presidency—without some deliberation,
consideration and possible reasoning
foi their methods.
It is very sad that our own beloved
Georgia cannot have the privilege of
casting her twenty-eight ballots for
the “favorite son." But we don’t
think that the majority of people in
Georgia believe Hoke Smith would de
cline the nomination if it were ten
dered him. For Hoke is big enough
to defy the administration, and nec
essariiy is bigger. He’s a big man.
Patiently, ah serenely, do we await
I the statement from Senator Smith as
to his attitude. Whether it will be in
a polite refusal to have his name con
sidered; a courteous thanks for the
signal honor; a full, free swing and
his hat in the ring—or whatever, it is
really hard to tell.
Senator Smith may be “an original
Wilson man,” and may it so be with
Senator Hardwick. But our Georgia
senators have not been as attentive to
the cause of the president, the party
and the administration—as to their
own booms, bombs and bams.
Those California Democrats are
very kind to our Georgia senator. They
seem to think more of him than his
own people. Why didn’t we think and
say that first?
LOVE.
George Fitch is a good w’riter, and
usually knows what he is talking
about. Writing about love, that old,
yet new story, he says:
The poets have been trying to tell us
what love is for 4,000 years, but they
have made such a hash of it that even
today thousands of people can’t tell the
difference between love and a business
opportunity until after they are mar
ried.
Love is a peculiarly squashy condi
tion of the head produced by an ap
petite in the heart. It is a grand thing
for the heart, enlarging it to many
times its former capacity, but what it
does to the mind is mournful to con
template. Under the Influence of love,
we see $9 a week clerks buying $5
bunches of violets, strong and fearless
young athletes weeping great tears,
because the letter carrier didn’t pro
duce a pink note, and well-educated
young women regarding Apollo,;
Shakespeare and Daniel Webster as
mere trash, when compared with the
magnificent young football players or
necktie salesmen who call at their
homes each evening.
Love blinds the eyes, wraps the
judgment, spoils the taste, increases
the capacity for happiness, takes the
sting out of misfortune, softens the
disposition, makes hard work worth
while and fills the land with happy
and often crowded homes.
Love is an infernally, ridiculously
and painfully magnificent thing. It is
a 1,000,000 volt shock of personal mag
netism against which there is no insul
ation. It preys upon the old and the
young alike. It attacks the statuesque
young society princess and reduces
here from an iceburg to an armful of
soft words in three weeks. It steals
into the bony frame of the hardened
old skinflint, who has just ejected nine
teen starving families from his tene-
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ment houses, and transforms him into
a slave of the barber, the manicure
specialist and the florist in less time
than it would take a thousand dollar
bill to earn two bits in interest.
Love can be cured, but it isn't worth
while. It is too fascinating in its ter
rible progress. The best treatment is
to allay it and mitigate it by means of
marriage. There is as much love after
marriage as before, but it leaves the
brain, where it has been* messing
things up, and goes down into the
heart, where it belongs.
Love has remedied nations, revised
history, overthrown kings and cham
pions and has made literature worth
reading. It is said that love makes the
world go ’round, but it does more
than that. It makes, the world go
'round and ’round and ’round like an
other well-known intoxicant. But it is
a far more divine dizizness.
BILSON AND NATIONAL DEFENSE.
There is one form of national de
fense that President Wilson promul
gated in his recent speeches in the
West, and to which, the most ardent
pacifists can take no exceptions. No
one can gainsay the fact that his
speeches have had the tendency to
wield together again a stronger and
more compact Americanism.
It will be recalled that the Presi
dent’s reception at Milwaukee was of
great significance and the trend could
not be overestimated. Americans of
German decent were as cordial and en
thusiastic as could be over his recep
tion, and while some may claim they
were obliged to show their enthusiasm
over Mr. Wilson in order to cleat
. themselves of the suspicion of disloy
(a’ty, this could not be true, as men
could not so enthusiastically respond
jto such speeches as the President
I made w ithout becoming metter Amer
ican citizens regardless of parentage.
Mr. Wilson clearly demonstrated two
very important'things the first day he
was on this speaking tour one was that
the Middle West is anything but in
different to the issue of national de
i sense against foreign aggression, and
| the other is that if the test comes, and
this country is forced into war we will
have little cause to doubt the loyalty
of that great body of citizens of for
eigh birth or blood.
What was shown at his speeches in
Milwaukee was also shown at that
meeting in New York when a great
mass of Americans of Hungarian de
cent expressed their loyalty in no un
certain terms for this government and
the policies for which this adminis
tration stands.
National defense as Mr. Wilson
presents it, is a question that could
hardly fail to stir all that is patriotic
in American people, for ae is doing
more than appeal for dreadnoughts
and a greater army. He is bringing
Americans back to a unity of senti-'
ment, the same as prevailed before the
European situation came upon us, and
the passions of war aroused and tore
a common citizenship asunder. There is
no more vital form of preparedness
than that which reunites a people
threatened with the most serious di
visions that menace a common people.
In appealing for the patriotic support
of the American pople the President
is striking a chord that cannot fail to
secure its response and cannot fail to
cement a new bond of a common inter
j<st between native and alien citizen-,
ship. Result of Mr. Wilson’s speeches
as well as other utterances will be a
stronger sentiment in favor of national
defense, a better spirit of citizenship,
and firmer devotion and loyalty to the
principles for which this government
stands.
No preparedness can equal that of
preparedness that is in the hearts of
the people, and that makes them ready
for service or for mutual sacrifice.
TYPHOID FEVER
Seventy-six out of eighty-seven
eases of typhoid fever which occurred
in a recent outbreak have been traced
l.y the United States public health ser
vice to infested milk. Had the first
eases been reported to a trained health
officer the outbreak could have been
stamped out promptly. When will we
learn that disease prevention is sure
and cheap?
“LOVE SICK SWAIN.”
A ‘love sick swain" sends Cranston
Williams the following, and Cranston
adopted it as his very own in the Amer
icus Times-Recorder:
I wish I was a turtle dove,
I wish I was a sparrow;
I’d fly away to my own true love,
And sing all day tomorrow.
—Madison Madisonian.
FLOGAIMMORIALII
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SALONIKI, April 11.—(British Offic
ial Eye-Witness)—Floca’s has become
the social focus of the Entente armies
in the Balkans. Some such rendez
vous comes to be associate ! with al
most every expeditionary war. The
bar of Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo was
the place through which everyone
passed sooner or later in the time of
the Sudan campaign; the Rand Club at
Johannesburg fulfilled a similar func
tion in South Africa. Here the same
unexpected greatness has been thrust
upon Floca’s, so that its name will
always remain in the memory of those
told off to spend this tedious winter at
Saloniki.
Floca’s in peace times was just a
commonplace case, with no more than
the modest distinction of being the
best of such establishments in Saloniki
Here on an ordinary weekaday were to
be found a sprinkling of Levantine
gentlemen drinking Turkish coffee
while they discussed with fluent ges
tures the latest political rumors from
Athens.
Its fortunate proprietor, who like so
many others here is making a smalll
fortune, has to thank two of the most
cherished Allied institutions—the Eng
lishman’s afternoon tea and the French
man’s afternoon aperitif or appetizer.
From four o’clock in the afternoon un
til eight, Floca’s is more densely pop
ulated than any spot In Saloniki. It is
filled with officers of the Allied armies
—base officers, camp officers, embarka
tion officers, staff officers, flying offic
ers, French, British, Serbian, Greek
such a varied collection of officers of
every rank that Floca’s might be the
animated fashion-book of a military
tailor of international clientele.
But Floca’s would hardly be a suc
cess in fashionable London. Its inter
ior is gloomy and often foggy. Its en
trance is beset by an importunate
horde of ragged urchins. Its Greek
waiters, of sinister aspect, only con
descend to serve when their attention
is attracted by a series of sharp hand
claps. But in Saloniki men count
themselves lucky to find a table free,
ard for those who have lived for
months on a barren mountain side it is
a shadowy and distant reproduction of
the institution of home.
Triumph March
Is Now Planned
PARIS, April 11. —The sword of hon
or presented to King Albert of Belgium
by public subscription has been placed
under a glass case in the Petit Palais,
one of Paris museums. The weapon,
purchased by the pennies of the French
school children, will remain there until
the Germans have been driven out of
Belgium, when it is expected that King
All ert will come to visit Paris and
sheathe the naked blade when he re
ceives it from the hands of its cus
todians.
Money Melted
For Bullion
BOMBAY, India. April 11.—From 30,-
000 to 25,000 sovereigns have been
melted down in India every day for the
last eighteen months for the purpose
< f making up for the falling off in the
imports of gold bullion. The effect of
this has been to create a decrease in
the circulating medium which may
have to be made good by the end of the
year by the increased coinage of ru-
SEE US
It is now spring and house-cleaning
time. Why not let us make your Mat
tresses over for you, or make you a
new one. The rule is for every person
to get an average of eight hours sleep
a day; so if you are going to spend
third of your life sleeping, why not,
sleep comfortably, on a good mattress’
Try us at 120.
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NOTICE!
Have Veates & Son do your
paint work,Ford cars $15.00
up All work guaranteed.
It is our desire to give you
the greatest value for your
money. Phone us at 664,
Americus, Ga.
Our Repairing of Blow-Outs, Tread In
juries, Loose Treads, Punctures, etc,
is the kind that gives the service and
makes Tire Repairing really an econ
omy for the owner.
This plant uses Steam Equipment,
knows the proper Vulcanizing Heats
and uses the very best materials with
consummate skill.
Prompt service at moderote cost —
just call No. 66.
Americus Tire & Rubber’Co.
.. Dan Chappell, Manager.
Opposite I’ostoffice. Phone 66.
MONEY TO LEND
We are in position to obtain
money on farm lands in Sumter
county promptly at reasonable
rates. If you ‘’eslre a loan call
on or write us.
Jas. A. £ John fl. Fort
Planters’ Bank Building.
Seaboard Air Line
rhe Progressive Railway ol the South
Leave Americus for Cordele, B»-
ebelle, Abbeville, Helena, Lyons, Col
lins, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond.
Portsmouth and points East and South.
12:81 p b
2:80 a b
Leave Americus for Cordele. Abbe-
Hie, Helena and intermediate points
5:15 p b
Leave Americus for Richland, At
anta, Birmingham, Hurtsboro, Mont
romery and points West and Northwest
8:10 p B
Leave Americus for Richland, Col
«mbus, Dawson, Albany and interme-
Hate points
10.05 t, b
Seaboard Buffet Parlor-Sleeping Cai
>n Trains 13 and 14, arriving Americus
from Savannah 11:25 p. m., and leav
ing Americus for Savannah 2:30 a. m
Sleeping car leaving for Savannah at
2:30 a. m., will be open for passen
gers at 11:25 p „i.
For further information apply to H.
P. Everett, Local Agent, Americus.
Ga C. W. Small, Div. Pass. Agent,
Savannah, Ga.; C. B. Ryan, G. P. A.,
Norfolk, Va.
C. of Ga.Ry
“The Right Way”
Trains Arrive.
From Chicago, via
Columbus » 1-15 a a
From Columbus *10:00 a m
From Columbus ! 7:15 p jn
From Atlanta and Macon 5:2# a b
From Macon ♦ 2:15 p m
From Macon * J. 30 p
From Albany ♦ 6:3# * m
From Montgomery and
Albany ♦ 2:10 p n
From Montgomery and
Albany » 10;S» p »
From Jacksonville via
Albany * 8:45 a m
Trains Depart
For Chicago via Columbus * 3:45 a m
For Columbu? ! 8:00 a n
For Columbus * 8:00 p ■
For Macon * 6:3# « n
For Macon and Atlanta....* 2:10 p m
For Macon and Atlanta.. .*lo:3# p m
For Montgomery and
Albany * 5:2# a ■
For Montgomery and
Albany ♦ 2:15 p ■
p or Albany * ? : 80 p n
For Jacksonville, via
Albany * 1:15 a n I
•Daily. (Except Sunday.
dvtv. JK. HIGHTOWER. Aeeal. I
L. G. COUNCIL, Pre s’t. lie. 18*1 H. S. COUNCIL, Cashier.
C. M. COUNCIL, Vice-Pres. T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier.
Planters’ Bank of Americus
CAPITAL SURPLUS AND PROFITS $220,000.00
TOTAL DEPOSITS (MARCH 10, l®i6) $556,048.90.
* llll a fl uarter of a “ntnry ex
perlence In succissful banking
IIMw Si and with our large resources and
Bl®’ 7 aft g WMj r close personal atientlon to every
interest cousblent with sound
IIWK OV W banking,we solicit jour patronage
Interest allowed on time cer
ln rar
Prompt, Conservative, Accommodating. We want
your Business.
No Account Too Large and None Too Small.
Member of Americus Chamber of Commerce.
AFTER CLEAN UP WEEK
Now that your home is all clean and bright,
Come, let us screen the flies out of sight
Any lady can hang our Screen Doors and Screen
Windows in just a few minutes.
CALL AND SEE THEM
Get Our Prices
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WILLIAMS-NILES COMPANY
HARDWARE
Lamar Street ’Phone 706
THE ALLISON UNDERTAKING COMPANY
. . . FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS . • '
Daj Phones NigKt Phones
253 80 and 106
J. H. BEARD, Director, Americus, Ga
Commercial City Bank
AMERICUS, GA.
General Banking Business
INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
MONEY LOANED!
We make farm loaus at 6 per cent interest and
give the borrower the privilege of paying part of
principal at end of any year, stopping interest
on amounts paid, but no annual payment of
principal required.
G. R. ELLIS or G C. WEBB
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GENUINE MONTEVALLO COAL
Exclusive Agents in Americus
HARROLD BROTHERS
TELEPHONE 2
Wc also sell Blue Gem Jellico Coal and Eureka
Coal
CASTLEBERRY JUNK SHOP
TELEPHONE 813
Will pay highest market price for Scrap Metal,
Rubber, Tallow’, Beeswax, Copper, Zinc, Allumi
num, etc. Write, wiie or phone for our prices be
fore selling. We are in great demand for bones
and old rags, also burlap bags. Yarn near Sea
board Shop, 7H Elm Avenue
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1916