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Georgia.
Americus Gm, April 28, 1916
Hyman is the happiest man in town.
If Hungary doesn't spell hungry,
what “do” it spell?
Peach paradise is the w"? they talk
about Fort Valley.
Many a pretentious home is the bane
of the bill collector.
The weather man smiled. The Elks
seer in his good graces.
It is a cheap skate that is always
belittling the other fellow.
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It isn’t so much the high cost of
living as it is the cost of high living.
It is a foolish idea of living that
prompts us to spend more than we
earn.
When the winds blow the girl with
warped limbs stands no chance in a
short skirt.
All nature smiles, even the trees
and the flowers nod their welcome to
the Elks.
Villa has read his death notice so
*ften that the news is doubtless quite
stale to him.
A man should never remind his wife
sf her age unless he has a birthday
present at hand.
Judge W. E. Thomas is going to
make the boys sit up and take notice
down in the eleventh.
It's war in Mexico, not in Germany,
that Mr. Hearst would like. Monetary
interests first with Willie.
It is only the blind man who doesn't
approve of the short skirt and even
he will say they are worth seeing.
The blind man is to be pited more
now than ever. Men that can see, see
things that even a blind man would '
love to see.
Louisiana's new governor by name
is Ruff Pleasant. Ruff at times, and
Pleasant at others, we suppose; but
then what's in a name?
The United States is the only coun
try where one can say offensive things
about the chief executive and go un
punished, which may have much to d>
with the traditional sweetness of the
American disposition, fermenting
opinions of those in authority being
promptly uncorked and as soon for
gotten .
It is true that this is not the first
time that the United States has sent
■ General Scott to Mexico. It will be
recalled that "Old Fuss and Feathers”
went into that country in March, 1847,
and in the folowing September he oc
cupied the City of Mexico. But no
body knows what is going to happen
this time.
GLAD YOU COME.
The Elks have almost ended their
stay in Americus, but we hope it will
not be long before they will again be
emong us
We are glad they came. They had a
goed time, and we a good time; in fact,
everybody had a good time.
The state convention has meant
much to Americus. It is one of the
greatest honors which could befall a
little city, and Americus coped with
the problem in grand style.
Everybody's glad the Elks came, anl
if it wasn’t that somebody else should
be given a chance, we would bring
them back to Americus for their 1917
convention.
ARMY ADVERTISING.
According to that careful writer. Fred
erick M. Kerby, the advertising bill of
the United States government, made
necessary to get 25,000 recruits to fill
up the regular army to war strength
for purposes connected with the Mex-
ican troubles was $2,171,000.
It costs SB7 per man to get them to
enlist
The army gets 25 men by advertising
while getting one without advertis
ing.
That being the case, no wonder get
ting them is difficult and slow. Ad
vertised goods have to be worth some
thing or the advertising cannot be
successful.
What has the army to advertise?
I Anything which appeals to a man wh >
'can get anything else to do?
i Sixteen dollars a month, board and
I lodging, a position of social inferiority
! and cervitude, medical attendance,
j clothes, and no opportunity for a life's
I livelihood, or the possession of a wife
and family and a real home.
Suppose that any of our great
! schools had a fund of SB7 a student to
1 spend in advertising! Can it be doubt
| ed that it could fill its classrooms and
| dormitories with students? It could
advertise something which all ambi
‘ tious boys want—an education, an
! equipment for business, an opening in
. to the great avenues of success in fife,
< verything which the army does not
offer.
The soldier's day could be arranged
—I have the word of twenty regular
army officers for this statement—so
that he would have not less than three
hours every afternoon and two every
evening for study, every day between
the first of September and the first day
of June, without interfering with his
military duties.
Suppose the army were so re-organ
ized and provided with teachers and
professors as to offer the boys iu
khaki as good an education as is of
fered by the various technical and
other schools, suppose that the re
cruiting officers could advertise that
fact, do you suppose for a moment that
it would cost any such sum to get re
cruits, even though the soldiers re
ceived no pay, except, perhaps, a little
spending money, such as college stu
dents like to possess?
Mliy, such a chance would advertise
itself to every boy in the nation, and
io every man who has not had a
i hancc. >
It would be the talk of every gather
ing of young men of serious purpose
in life.
It would be the great new fact in the
lives of our young men.
Why, that advertising bill alone
w-ould pay the entire expense to the
government of enlisting and training!
from 4,000 to 6.000 men for a year!
Give the army something to advertise
and the boys will enlist!
DEADSURE THING.
Here is one deadsuure weather pre
diction: One week from yesterday and
thereO will be a great dryness in Geor
gia; it will rain from Rabun gap to
Tvbee light and from the heights of
7 onah s peaks to the marshes of
Glynn.—Brunswick News. *
The largest cotton-producing county
in the United States, Ellis county,
Texas, yielded 143.714 bales last year
This is more than six times the amount
produced in the whole state of Virginia
and more than was raised in either
Missouri or Florida.
Next Monday ushers in the dryest
season Georgia has ever known.
INSTANCE OF IRISH FOLLY.
Sir Roger Casement, leader of the
Irish separatists, is under arrest for
, landing German guns in Ireland and
stirring up a revolt there. There has
■teen fighting in Dublin between the
regular troops and members of the
Sirn Fein, an Irish organization favor
; ing separation from England. The rev
, o'ution in Ireland may be more serious
'than at first thought, but it will be
, put down by the government.
How utterly foolish is this movement
<m the part of some Irishmen who can-
I not get used to the British rule. It
i may be patriotic for them to try to es
i teblish a government of their own,
looked at in a certain light, but the
utter folly of the movement is appar
ent.
Ireland will never be a separate na
tion again. It may some day have
ihome rule as Canada has it. Thac
i will be as near as it will ever come to
| independent government. Home rule
would be a great thing for Ireland, and
just before the opening of the war, the
British parliament was ready to put
i into effect a home rule bill, in spite of
I the threat of the inhabitants of Ulster
to revolt against it. Now this move
. went of the separatists is apt to knock
into bits every particle of work that
has been done looking to home rule for
Ireland.
! No more monumental blunder could
have been committed by those who
i are wishing for independent govern
ment for Ireland.—Athens Banner.
■
It is rumored that Hoke Smith and
Tom Tit Hardwick will both be at the
Macon meeting May 3 . It is presumed
Editor Thomasson will also be there
to pay his respects to this beautiful
duo.
The first day of May will be a great
day in Georgia. A day of better citi
zenship dawns. A new era begins.
Judge Cox, of the Albany circuit, is
to oppose Hon. Frank Park in his race
tor congress in the Second district
THE NEWSPAPER TALK
Throughout the South there is a
j b> oad and definite inclination to better
’agricultural conditions. It is unnec
essary to review the various influ
ences that have contributed to this
tendency. They have been widely dis
cussed. The important fact is that the
movement is under way and results are
already manifest.—Doublin Courier.
The Georgia school teachers went on
record as favoring “physical training”
for pupils,- but they would not stand
for compulsory “military training."
Physical training is like the “half loaf ’
—it is better than no bread at all. The
military feature would improve discip
line and system, and that is what the
boys need.—Valdosta Times.
This new- method of political cam
faigning in south Georgia whereby su
perior court benches are transformed
into political rostrums may be pleas
ing to the candidate, but it does not
add very much dignity to the courts.--
Brunswick News.
The oat crop is the first crop of the
year to mature. It is likewise one of the
most valuable crops—not for money,
ut for general home purposes. A good
oat crop means good fat mules and
vises throughout the summer in mak
ing the other crops, and the oat crop
s a very promising one I his year.—
Moultrie Observer.
Peach, pear and plum trees are load
ed with young fruit, and the pecan
trees are in full tassel. The outlook iu
troves and orchards has seldom been
better.
The velvet bean is being grown more
and more in Laurens county each year,
it value is just being appreciated by
th< farmers. Its value to the land, and
its value as a food crop make it doublv
profitable. The velvet bean has in the
I ast been fed to cows and hogs in the
open field. In the future it will prob
el ly be harvested and ground and
! roj erly mixed with other feeds to get
the full benefit and full food value.—
! aurens Citizen.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
SUMMER SCHOOL AT
STATE UNIVERSITY
A Great Factor In Elementary School
Improvemment in Georgia.
The Summer School for Teachers
has come to be one of the greatest
of institutions in nearly every state
of the United States. With educa
tion changing, new subjects coming
in, old methods being recast, even
the best prepared teachers feel the
need every two or three years of the
broadening contacts and new points
of view obtained in our best summer
schools. In Georgia many teachers
have second and third grade license,
evidencing that the original prepara
tion has not been the best. The
University Summer School plans for
all such teachers or prospective
teachers, to extend and broaden the
scholarship of some, to bring others
up to standard, and to present to all
the best there is in modern methods
in education.
A Greater School.
This School for the 1916 session
will probably be the best of its kind
in the United States. Not five per
cent of Georgia teachers who will go
to a summer school this year need
to go to Harvard, Columbia, Chicago,
or any school outside of Georgia for
better offerings than will be found
in the Georgia Summer School. Here
will combine three institutions, the
State University, the State College of
Agriculture, and the State Normal
School in one Summer School. The
talent of these faculities will be at
the service of the teachers. Other
teachers in Georgia have been called
in, and still others from many parts
of the United States.
Teaching Talent.
In primary reading and spelling,
Mrs. Alexander of the State Normal
School will be the principal teacher.
For general primary methods and
with special applications in arithme
tic, language and history, Miss Esta
line Wilson comes from the State
Normal School at Warrensburg, Mo.
Miss Wilson received the B. S. in
Education degree from the Univer
sity of Missouri, and the A. M. de
gree from Columbia University with
special Diploma from Teachers’ Col
lege. She is a gifted teacher and
supervisor.
Miss AVilson will also give a course
in Principles of Teaching applied to
the common branches in grades sth,
6th and 7th.
For Penmanship, Miss Mary E.
Banks comes from the A. N. Palmer
Co., N. Y. City, the home of the cele
brated Palmer system.
For Geography, the instructor will
be Dr. F. A. Millidge of the State
Normal College, Farmville, Va. Dr.
Millidge has his Ph. D. degree from
the University of Chicago, and he has
a reputation unsurpassed as a teach
er of Geography. He will give a
course in Primary Geography, and
another course for Higher Geography.
For Nature Study, Dr. Clifton F.
Hodge comes from far aw-ay Univer
sity of Oregon. He is the author of
Nature Study and Life, the first im
portant book on Nature Study pub
lished, and the one still most widely
used.
These are mentioned to indicate
the quality of instruction given in
the Georgia Summer School for 1916.
Not a phase of modern school work
for primary- and general elementary
subjects will be omitted, but every
thing covered in a thoro manner by
j teachers of great reputation, many of
'hem authors of note.
Reviews and Other Courses.
There will be common school re
views covering all the branches.
Courses in school management, or
ganization of play as well as work,
boys' and girls' clubs, home econom
ics for rural schools, drawing and
blackboard sketching are among the
many helpful courses to improve the
teachers. Special courses will apply
to the problems of rural life and edu
cation, considering the one-teacher
school and the consolidated school.
Other special courses will be devoted
similarly to teachers and problems of
town and city schools.
School Improvement.
How to improve our teachers and
our schools is a great problem in
Georgia and the South. The Univer
sity Summer School is one of the
greatest agencies in helping towards
the solution. Get the teachers to this
school, and the improvement in the
schools will be marked. The expenses
of the session are the lowest, and
teachers should be encouraged in
every possible way to attend. Boards
and superintendents are urged to con
sider this. It is not an uncommon
practice for superintendents to map
out courses for teachers to complete
on basis of promotion. A few teach
ers may study specialties and be a
great help to the Superintendents in
training other teachers in the in
troduction of the special branches.
The recreation feature of the
School will help to make the time
an enjoyable vacation outing needed
by all teachers. Every teacher
should aspire to start every school
year better equipped than in the pre
ceding year. Every superintendent
and school board should be ambitious
to operate schools improved every
year. The State offers great assis
tance to all through the Summer
School for Teachers with its Confer
ence for Superintendents.
Something That ;
Should Interest
Everybody
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MISS LILLIAN CHANDLLR
ORE AND LIFE INSURANTS
HEALTH AND ACCIDENT.
'ffice: Allison Building, Phone 45.
Americus, Ga.
SEE US
It is now spring and house-cleaning
time. Why not let us make your Mat
resses over for you, or make you a
aew one. The rule is for every person
o get an average of eight hours sleep
* day; so if you are going to spend a
hird of your life sleeping, why not
■Jeep 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 io give you
the greatest value for your
money. Phone us at 664,
Ameiicus, Ga.
LOMBARD
FOUNDRY, MACHINE, BUILER WORKS
and MILL SUPPLY jnTURE
Augusta, Georgia.
Capacity, 300 Hands. Hundred
Thousand feet floor space. Cotton, Oil,
Gin, Saw, Grist, Fertilizer, Cane, Shin
gle Mill Machinery, Supplies and Re
pairs and Castings, Shafting, Pulleys,
Hangers, AVood, Coal and Sawdust
Gratebars, Pumps, Pipe, Valves and
Fittings, Injectors, Belting, Packing,
Hose, etc. Cast every day. One hun-:
ired machines and good men ready to
io your work quick.
FORD Motor Cars, Supplies and Re
pairs In Stock. : Quick Delivery
MISS BESSIE WINDSOR
. .Insurance . .
Fire, Accident and Bonds, Os
flee Forsyth St. ’Phone 313
MONEY
Remember when you
want to borrow money on
your improved farm on long i
time that I can get it for you
at Six per cent interest.
The contract carry with
them the privilege of paying
SIOO, or any multiple there
of, or of taking up entire
loan, on any interest day,
without bonus.
J. J. HANES! EY
Lamar Street
Americus, :: Georgia
mInEYTOLEND
We are in position to obtain
money on farm lands in Sumter
county promptly at reasonable
rates. If you ‘’esire a loan call
on or write us.
las. 0. J John fl. Fort
Planters’ Bank Building.
L. G. COUNCIL, Pres’L Inc. 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, Mi 6) $556,048.90.
with a quarter of a century ex
tfcSwH' perlemeln successful banking
t « Mr.® and with our large resources and
rrflh >W W clote personal aitei.tlon io every
I> $ s ? pa jut fft st consi: tent with sound
|S§ S i 's* banking,we stilt it j our patronage
Interest ailowed on time cer
tlilcahs and in our department
«r savings.
! Prompt, Conservative, Accommodating. We want
your Business.
No Account Too Large and None Too Small.
Member of Americus Chamber of Commerce.
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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 . ' '
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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 loans 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
GENUINE MONTEVALLO COAL
Exclusive Agents m AmericusJ
HARROLD BROTHERS
TELEPHONE 2
Wc also sell Blue Gem Jellico nCoal and Eureka
Coal
CASTLEBERRY JUNK SHOP
TELEPHONE 813
Will pay highest market price for Scrap Metal,
Rubber, 1 allow, 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 lags, also burlap bags. Yarn near Sea
board Shop, 711 Elm Avenue.
FRIDAY’, APRIL 28, 1911