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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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AMERICUS. GEORGIA, SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1917.
Will you go, or must you be made to go?
o
Join something—which is of service to the country.
o
It’s "Old Glory” before the glory of God permeates
every ripple.
Hell must be in a gala array, anticipating the arrival
of the Hohenzollerns.
Q
War councils in Washington should be common af
fairs with high purposes.
o
It is sad to contemplate that Dewey and Funston are
missing the very events which they looked forward to.
o—————
Some cry that it is the rich man’s war. Well, with
the high cost of living the poor couldn’t start anything.
o
The fellow that won’t go until he is conscripted is the
kind who should comprise most of the "dead” in the
official reports.
o—
There was many a sad heart yesterday when the cir
cus left its winter headquarters to start on the long hike
through the states.
0
Miss Rankin acted the part which could be reasonably
expected of a woman, but Kitchin, of North Carolina,
can have no excuse.
o
The call of our country has been sounded, and it now
remains to be seen who is willing to assist in perpetuat
ing what our forefathers died to give us.
o
Bay rum “highballs” have killed a Fifth Infantry
soldier in Atlanta. Taking its place alongside ginger,
extracts and cider in the hall of fame.
o
Six paper manufacturers have been indicted by the
federal courts. May a wall be found thick enough to
stop the bullets in paying the punishment.
Let our part in the war be nothing of the half-heart
ed variety. It has been the Entente who have kept the
Germans away from America, and now let us do our
turn.
o
The preacher who was jailed at Douglas received the
proper dose, and may his kind fail to multiply but re
ceive punishment according to the offense which it com
prises.
o
Strict enforcement of the vagrancy and loitering laws
of our city and state will go a long ways towards les
sening the chances of success for the alien enemy who
is operating over the country.
o
R. Fields Taylor, who has been in the newspaper
business in Covington and Washington, is now state
news editor of the Augusta Chronicle, and both of these
leaders in their lines can congratulate each other.
o—•
Again we arise to reiterate that the people of the
United States are proud of almost everything they pos
sess ahead of our Congress. Each fellow has his own
curious notions of how the war should be conducted.
o
On the morning of May Ist, 1898, Admiral pointedly ap
prised the Gerinan Kaiser through the admiral at Ma
nila Bay, that Uncle Sam could bite hard. The nineteenth
anniversary- will soon be here —and let’s send another
round into the satanic hide of Kaiser Bill.
o
When it copies to following the rules of censorship,
we claim a batting average of 1,009, notwithstanding
some of the newspaper brethren in Georgia seem to take
a delight in printing more about the guardsmen now
than when they were called in the Mexican border ser
vice.
o
Governor Catts, of Florida, writes letters which reflect
no dignity on a person occupying the position that he
does. He seems to think that the whole world has it
in for him, and has the gumption to think that he dhn
lick the entire business. When God made us all, the
devil was certainly putting in overtime.
UNIVERSAL SELECTIVE CONSCRIPTION.
Whether President Wilson and the war department
| overcome the opposition to the selective conscription in
Congress means much to the United States, although
the people have apparently left it to Washington—where
the decision must be made. England points away to
I America, and the Times-Recorder hopes that Congress
I will adopt the method of conscription as advanced by the
executive branch of the government. It is democracy—
and we have arrayed our vast resources in the name of
freedom and humanity.
Selective conscription is system, economy and effi
ciency. It is a manner prescribed for selecting soldiers,
whereby the man best fitted for a certain line of work
can be stationed in that capacity, and forbids the calam
ities which have befell nations in the past who sent
trained men to the trenches who should have been plac
ed in industrial plants at home. Through selective con
scription the efficient engineer performs a greater ser
vice to the government in his branch than by wading
knee-deep in trenches of blood and mud.
It is undeniable sact —gained from the history of the
United States, and made very evident in the European
war, that the flower of the country’s manhood always
answers the first call. The "slacker” of miltary age
holds back through his own cowardice and the lack of
patriotism of friend and parent. Selective conscription
places the burden equally, and makes every citizen alike
respond to the defense of his country.
When the final plans for raising the first armies are
developed through Congress and the war department,
the wave of recruiting will sweep the country. Scenes'
will be enacted unlike anything in our history. The
able-bodied young man who fails to answer the call of
the Stars and Stripes will be stamped in his own com
munity as unworthy to share the fruits of our success,
and throughout his own life will be blackened by a con
sciousness of treachery to the trust which a merciful God
has given.
The next few weeks will mark many fateful hours for
the United States. It is to be hoped that Congress will 1
unanimously open its eyes to the justice and wisdom of
securing an army on a basis of efficiency and service—.
and not through the hap-hazard sweep of volunteers
who will comprise some of the men whom the nation can
ill afford to send to the battlefield.
The glories of the past are cornerstones for the future
—but let us profit by the failures which we have wit
nessed.
o
THE TROOP CENSORSHIP.
The Americus Times-Recorder will not tell any
thing about the soldiers encamped at the capital of
Sumter, but the Albany Herald doesn’t mind tellng
all about the troops that have been sent down to
the county seat of Dougherty.—Forsyth Advertiser.
Under the rules and regulations governing the volun
tary censorship now being imposed by the newspapers
themselves, the movements of troops and facts concern
ing our navy and shipping ar© forbidden, unless author
ized through the proper officials. The Times-Recorder
is abiding by the requests of Washington in spirit and >a
fact.
In another article the Advertiser commented on its
ignorance of the rules and regulations. They have been
freely published, and were sent to the daily press. Wash-]
ington should make known the instructions to every pub-'
lie at ion.
As for the local movement of soldiers, we cannot con
ceive of any aid which might be made useful by the'
enemy. Still, modern wars are fought in silence and
under censorship—and we are glad to do our part. The]
people of the United States would not profit one whit by I
knowing every development since war was declared, but'
it would only serve to form the fabric of base and
groundless rumors which are more common than re-'
cruits.
o
THE WILD RUMOR.
Again we warn the public against rumors. During the
past week some of them maintain that the Kaiser was
dead; that Thomas Edison had been assassinated; that
several railroad shops had been destroyed. The Times-
Recorder is a member of the Associated Press, un
doubtedly the greatest news-gathering agency on earth.
It never sleeps; moves master than any like institution;
accurate—-and accommodating. The ’phones ring a hun
dred times a day with queries about the wild rumors,
but we are always glad to affirm or deny. When we tell
you that "there is nothing to it,” or “we know nothing of
it” —that means that the Associated Press does not re
cord any such event because it hasn't happened.
o
The Moultrie Observer is ably edited, but as yet we
haven't been able to line ourselves up to their way of
thinking. For instance, the Observer says: "If we fight
a separate fight, utilizing our navy on water and ou r
men at home, we know that we are invincible.” Our
meagre faculties of reasoning fail to catch—why. when
and wherefore.
o
The Americus and Sumter County Red Cross chapter
| is making the most remarkable strides of any similar or
ganization in the state. Only a few weeks old with sev
eral hundred members, and now actively at work in
learning the home work of Red Cross service, the local
body gives promise of playing a prominent part in our
preparedness:
0
Immediately after Georgia went "bone-dry" T. Bosh
Felder announces that he will go to New York to prac
tice law. where undoubtedly the supply is unlimited. He
is an example of a politician who has hurt the cause of
prohibition more than he has done it good.
IHE AMERICUS TIMEj-RECORDER.
THE WHATCHAMjI COLUMN
Bp George Martin
Signatures.
The signature is something a man
writes at the end of his letter so no-
I body will know who they’re from.
| Some business men who are really
i interested in knowing who writes to
them, employ signature ferrets. That
is, bright young men who take the wil i
signature, chase it to its lair, lash it
into a fury and force it to divulge its
identity.
j Then there are other methods. Some
times the ferret is able to nail a signa
ture’s owner by comparing it with
the printed list of directors, or man
agers or something like that printed at
the top of the letterhead. But this is
not often possible.
Some folks have signatures and oth
ers write their names.
THE COLORS OF THE
SECOND REGIMENT
(From Macon Telegraph.)
I There can be small doubt but that
| the average young American of good.
| physique and minor dependents will
I get his share of military training, an J.
j perhaps service, before the dove of
'peace flutters back to our extensive
shores, but to lads of spirit and cons
cientiousness of patriotic duty it is a
deal more satisfying to go willingly \
than to be mustered in along with,
those who may not want to go.
Os all the divisions and corps to
make up the big army the republic is
shortly to call to> the colors the pres
ent national guard regiments un
doubtedly w’ll be looked upon as the
aristocracy of the service. They are
now, equally with the regular troops,
the first line regiments, and no matter
v hat later to be famous divisions may
be raised, after the war is over the
men who went out first, when the
state troops were called over a year
ago will carry themselves a little
more proudly, will take to themselves,
with none to gainsay their right, an
edge more unction for the quality o»
their personnel and the genesis of
their service. They will be the picked
troops, the emergency men, the sold
iers for the highest and most import
ant duty.
In opening their battalions to im
mediate recruiting to bring them up to
full peace strength, probably almost
at once to war strength, an opportun
ity is presented to the boys who did
not go at first to align themselves
with the men who will surely wear the
proudest honors, to become one with
the regiments that are bound in the
case of active service, to establish tra
ditions that will be prized in the an
nals of American military achieve
ment. The Second regiment, for in
stance, needs several hundred men,
and the pride of the officers and en
listed men in this organization that
ranked as one of the crack regiments
of all the first class national guard
units at the border, holds forth invi
tation only to the best the central and
southwestern portion of the state can
produce. The present rolls make up
a membership list of fitness, fineness
of spirit and conscious pride in the
knowledge that they are selected men.
individuals of a superior type.
To the young men who know they
are going, who are ready “when thei
t'me comes,” the doors are opened for
a selected few to take their places in
a proven and picked regiment. That
it will be enlisted in a very short
I t'xpe to the full strength demanded
I goes as a matter of course. The point
, is that there are men still in civilian
clothes who in the months and years
rt> come will regret that they did not
I join this crack Georgia regiment when
| they had the chance.
TAKING UP SPADE
AND HOE FOR U.S.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14.
Carl Vrooruan. assistant secretary of
agriculture and a member of the Na
tional Emergency Food Garden com
mission, says now that we understand
what can be done with the back yard
garden, the next question to take up
is how to do it to get the most ou r
of our labor. If everyone with a
back yard should plant a garden in it
the result would put a big dent in the
high cost of living.
The city man has an hour or two in
the morning or an hour or two in the
afternoon after dinner. The exercise
will be just what he needs, for he will
be getting back to nature. The outlay
is small for the returns it will bring.
With a little care .here are some of
the vegetables that can be raised in a
back yard garden if the instructions
are followed:
Beans, cabbage, parsnips, cauliflow-
Jer, onions, lettuce, cucumbers, peas,
beets, carrotsfi radishes, asparagus. It
will be seen that in this list are vege
tables that are commanding record
prices right now.
With prices the way they are, every
available foot of ground should be
made productive. In the work the in
terest of the children should be enlist
ed for they can help, and in helping
their minds will be directed in a path
that will be of value in later years.
The average back yard is 50x50 feet.
First clean it up. Get those ashes up
out of the cellar, and if there are no
paths about the yard use some of the
ashes to make them.
I Be sure the paths are straight,
i Trenches should be dug aong the paths
i eighteen inches deep to secure drain- 1
age aw’ay from the house, if possible.
The soil thus found can be scattered
about the yard and used to fill de
pressions.
Put in these trenches the stones,
i broken bottles, bits of brick and crock
ery that may be found. Leave the
| trenches in this condition until the
soil is dry for spading, where the
good beds are to be made.
The spade should be driven deep and
the soil broken fine in turning it over.
All the stones found should be driven
deep and the soil broken fine In turning
it over. All the stones found should
be tossed into tha drainage ways.
Before the garden is spaded give it
a good covering of manure and see that
it is turned under the soil. Then rake
I well, making the soil as fine as you
jean. This should be done in sections
I about six feet wide across the garden,
'so that the soil will not be packed
down again by tramping on it.
IN COMMAND OF
THE U. S.NAVY
WASHINGTON, D. C. April 14
The centre fire-control for dread
naughts, whereby main gun batteries
are located in a line down the center
of the ship, is one of the revolutions
of naval construction contributed to
the world by American naval genius.
Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, rec
ognized as one of the world’s leading
authorities on naval construction is
I the man who originated “centre-fire.”
He is now Chief of the Bureau of
Construction and Repair. His job is
to draw' the intricate detail plans and
specifications for the navy’s new' ships,
and after afloat, to keep them ship
shape. No one branch of the naval es
tablishment is more vital than his ,
perhaps none so much so.
Admiral Taylor inaugurated his
brilliant career with the Navy by grad
uating with top honors from the An
napolis academy, and then entering the
great English naval academy, when
England w’as receiving our midship
men. Taylor carried off the highest
honors ever won at that academy.
When the British cruiser Hawk ram
med the steamship' Olympia in the
Thames several years ago, the Gritish
Government sent for Admiral Tylor to
obtain his expert opinion as to the
cause of the mysterious collision.
It is chiefly due to his efforts that
the present super-dreadnaught can
travel fasted and with greater dis
placement on the same amount of coal
than the pre-dreadnaught could.
Taylor is one of the meekest men to'
look at in the world. He has the face,
bearing and general appearance of a
country preacher. He thinks so far
ahead in warship construction that he’s
generally about the same distance be
hind in the matter of prevailing styles
for men’s clothing.
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