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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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Published every Sunday morning and
•very afternoon except Saturday, and
Weekly, by the Times-Recorder Co.
(Incorporated.)
Entered as second class matter at
fottoffice at Americus, Ga.. under act
Ot March 3, 1879.
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President
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City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional Dustrict.
U. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus. Ga n July 18, 191"
That 20,000 gallons of wine is still
proving a troublesome question not
y only to the assembled legislators ih
Atlanta, but to the gentlemen of the
Fourth Estate throughout Georgia.
The game; of double-cross played by
Von Bethmann Hollweg and Zimmer
man in being effectually exposed to
the German people by the heated dis
cussions in the Reichstag. Too bad
that the revelation could not have come
sooner.
The Crown Prince is now in the sad
dle, practically supplanting, as far as
practical purposes are concerned, his
militaristic father; now for a burst of
savagery which shall exceed in violence
the most lurid dreams of Von Tirputz
himself.
Well, at any rate, the calling off of
the bond election will save a lot of
oratory, fuss and gasoline, while the
plain, ordinary voter will be spared the
necessity of hearing endless discus
sions anent the various angles of the
question.
That the gentler sex can stir up just
as much of a rookus as any collection
of mere men. is being forcibly demon
strated by the delegates in attendance
at the Woodmen Circle convention in
Atlanta, where politics is being played
to the limit in ‘he deliberations of that
organization.
A certain well known young man of
Americus, when asked why he didn’t
enlist in the ranks of Company I, de
clared that the fact that the company
is composed for the most part of local
men does not cut much of a figure with
him; about three minutes after the first
shot is fired, he avers, he will be
among total strangers.
German insurance companies have
been prohibited bv President Wilson
from carrying insurance on American
vessels. It would seem at first blush
as though Teuton insurance organiza
tions would be taking a long chance in
accepting pisks involving ships and
cargoes liable to be destroyed by tor
pedoes launched by German hands.
• An Atlanta man went to jail the
other day because he refused to pay 30
cents charges on a cork leg that didn't
belong to him. And the odd part of
the thing is that the real owner of the
artificial limb also emphatically de
clined to pay over the three dimes nec
essary to bring about its proper deliv
ery. Right reckless and independent
for cne with his limited means of sup
port.
, eternal vigilance.
At a time when it would seem that
every farmer in South Georgia should ’
be exercising the most unceasing vigi
lance over his cotton crop and expend
fng every ounce of energy necessary
to abate the damage done by the de
structive boll weevil, it appears that
there are still some planters in Sum
ter county, who, unlike the majority
of their neighbors are sitting idly by. *
while the dread pest takes toll of the
fleecy staple maturing in the fields.
Sumter, perhaps more than any
county in the state, has had the benefit
of expert advice on the subject of the
weevil. Many of the most progressive
planters have made special trips to
weevil infested sections of other states j
and have seen with their own eyes the
ba v oc wrought by the insect horde.
Meeting after meeting has been held
in the various sections of the county
and the most recent phase of the anti
boll-weevil fight is the series of field
meetings arranged by Agricultural
Agent W. J. Boyett, so as to cover even
t ie most remote districts. Sumter coun
ty farmers have been and are being
given the best possible assistance, if
they have any desire whatever to pre
vent the weevil from harvesting a crop
that promises to bring 25 cents per
pdiind this fall.
Now, be it said to their credit, the
majority of farmers in Sumter countv
are going after Mr. 801 l Weevil in a
manner that insures victory over the
pesi. provided adverse weather condi
tions do not make it physically impos
sible to cope with' the situation. It
may be truthfully said that the farm
ers with real business ability are tak
ing the weevil infestation seriously and
are working most efficiently along the
I lines laid down by the men who have
t the campaign in charge.
i But there are many who through in
> d.fterence, incredulity or sheer ignor
ance, who are taking it for granted that
Mr. Weevil is going to ovedlook their
< paiticular crops of cotton. Ask them
- if the weevil has appeared in their
) fields and they complacently tell you
- "No, I haven’t seen a sign of him yet.”
1 it's a ten to one shot that the pest is
j getting in destructive work that will
knock the profits off an entire year’s
work.
Several farmers who congratulated
3 themselves that Mr. Weevil was not
3 even in their vicinity, have found, upon
f j being visited by a weevil expert, that
3 the insect was doing business most en
z ergetically. The weevil infestation is
general throughout Sumter county and
while comparatively light on account
f of the efficient fight put up by the ma
jority of our planters, yet in those sec
? tions where no comprehensive cam
j paign is staged, the effects of the pest’s
- presence can be easily detected.
Let no one be persuaded that his
particular field of cotton is going to
get by unscathed or even slightly dam
t aged by the weevil if an unceasing and
I enerfetic offensive is not maintained
‘ | against this most destructive foe of the
j South’s lucrative product. If you have
'ino yet seen evidences of the weevil on
II your plantation, ask the agricultural
iagent to look your place over an]
verify your opinion, If he finds the
weevil, lose not a moment but get busy.
IF.
If, through our failure to build ships
rapidly enough to offset the terrible
destruction of the submarines, England
should be starved into submission—
j IF, through our failure to build with
■ the utmost possible speed steel and
wooden ships, regardless of the cost,
itstead of frittering away priceless time
on petty details we should be unable to
feed and munition our own army in
. France—
j Here are two vital Ifs. Unfortun
-1 ately, there are possibilities of evil in
- them so great as to'. fairly stagger the
mind.
We know that submarines are de
s stroying the world’s shipping at a rate'
J | that is startling, endangerong the abil
t ity of England to feed its people. It
f should be remembered that England is
0 compelled to import nearly all of its
- foodstuffs. It has a population of
■ about 45,000,000, concentrated in a
- limited area, given over largely to in
t dustrial operations rather than to ag
'- riculture. This; island empire is be
ing threatened as never before in its
history. The destruction of shipping,, j
it it goes on apace as for the last few
months, will mean that the world will'
, be too bare of shipping to permit Eng- ■
land to import the foodstuffs and the
(munitions absolutely needed for war.
We may throw into France a large (
army, but if the submarines destroy
(ships faster than we are building them,
we might find our army without food,
without munitions and absolutely help
less, doomed to destruction. These are.
I not idle vaporings. They are the
facts, well known to Washington
to all the Allies, a«d likewise as well
(known to Germany ;and to the ac
complishment of this purpose Germany
is bending every power of its existence.
If England, by reason of starvation,
should be compelled to give up, it is
well known that one of the indemnities
demanded by Germany would be the
surrender of the British and French
fleets, and another would be the sur
render to Germany of Canada, stretch
ing for 3,000 miles across our north
ern, border, and with an area equal to
that of the United States.
How do we know that these w'ould be
part of the indemnities required?
In the same way that we
known for the last two and
years some of the forces that werej
moving the world in this fearful
flict. You need not expect the inside
diplomatic sources in Washington to
(admit these facts; nevertheless, they
are facts, and their reality is fully ap
preciated in Washington as well as
elsewhere.
It might be said that before sur
. rendering its fleet England would sink
' ir in the ocean; but this she would not
■ dare to do, for the reprisal upon her
I I people would be so fearful that Belg
:, ium’s destruction would seem as child’s
: j play as compared with the destruction
that would prevail throughout England.
If Germany held in its power the
' British and French fleets, all of our
• naval building would be in vain, for
we would not have an hour’s show
1 against such a combination.
If Germany had possessed itself of
1 Canada, it would immediately have
under its control the Soo Canals,
’ through which pass the Lake ores that
! feed the furnaces and steel works of
5 the United States; and it would be but
a few days before it had under its con-
1 ftrol the entire ore supply of the
- Lake Superior district. It would then
1 be impossible for us to fight. With 90
1 per cent, of the steel output of the
■ United States dependent upon these
? ores, and this supply instantly cut
I off, the vast irort and steel enterprises
1 that stretch from the Lake region to
■ the Atlantic would instantly shut
■ down, and with these plants idle there
• would be no possibility of making any
• fight against Germany, for we would
be without war-making materials, since
! , it would take years under the best
1 j conditions to develop iron and steel
■, making in other sections to an extent
I: sufficient to enable us even to begin a
1 fight.
’ j During the Liberty Loan campaign
- Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo in a
1 public speech stated that if the Allies
I were defeated, Germany would demand
1 an indemnity of at least one-half of
’ our total wealth, or $120,000,000,000;
■ and that, instead of subscribing for
Liberty Loan bonds, we would have to
subscribe for indemnity bonds. We
shall conquer, but it will be through
; I much bloodshed and at a terrific cost
> | ci money; but the latter counts not in
1 comparison with human lives that must
be lost, and to a large extent lost be
i cause of our failure during the last
I three years to understand the situation
, and prepare for it.
■ W’e must now’ build ships with the ut
most power of men and money. Every
day’s delay is threatening, and danger
ously threatening, our ability to keep
England from starving; and should
England starve, the world goes down
with a crash, and we with it.
We shall win, because our people,
, slow to wake up, will sooner or later
throw into the building of ships the full
power of the nation’s life.
We must build ships to take care of
• the coastwise traffic and relieve the
i pressure upon the railroads, in order
I j that the railroads may handle the war
I freight and the war travel which will
- be thrown upon them.
We must build ships for the Pacific
- Coast trade, and also for the Lake*
s trade in order to provide ore to rur
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
/the furnaces now hampered by the
shortage of ore.
We must build ships suitable fcr all
■ of these interests, and at the same time
ships for the trans-Atlantic trade
| —ships of wood and ships of steel —
’ and build them with all speed that the
I utmost stretch of our power in men and
money can provide.
No time is to be lost. Every hour’s
delay endangers our very existence.
‘ priceless time has already been thrown
away, and the whole situation has been
muddled by that most unwise speech
made to steel men against wooden
ships about the “birds nesting in the
trees.” The steel men know full well
that it is not possible for them to
rovide the steel necessary to construct
the ships that are needed. They are
eager to see—at least, broad-minded
ones are—wooden ships built as well
as steel ships. And once more the
Manufacturers Record would urge with
all the energy it can command that
the nation build ships, and build them
now, and keep building them; for this
is not a matter of one year or two
years, but for many years.
So great is the destruction of the
world’s shipping, so great is the de
preciation of the shipping that has not
I yet been sunk, that for years to come
Jit will be difficult to supply the world’s
J needs for shipping even long after the
,'war has ceased.
Build ships, build more ships, and
. still more ships!
. Let the whole energy of the nation
which can be concentrated in ship
building be put into the construction
. of woden anfi steel ships, of ships for
. every purpose, coastwise and foreign.
. In this way only will it be possible to
prevent a fats of which the historians
5 of the future would have to write in re
garj to America:
“If the United States had only built
, ships rapidly enough the world could
- have been saved.”—Manufacturers’ Re
. cord.
f Alexander, the new king of the
; Greeks, has evidently had pro-German
ism drilled into his mentality so long
t that he finds it mighty, difficult to en
s tertain any other sort of ideas. There
t js considerable talk going on in allied
quarters to the effect that active co
j operation on the part of Greece will
not be secured unless rather drastic
I measures are used by the Entente.
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> Richmond, Virginia,
Will make Loans on
Improved Farm and
City Properties.
| Low Interest Rate-Prompt Service
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Loan Correspondent for Ga.
Savannah, Georgia
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And No Longer Nervous, Since
Taking Cardui, Says Georgia
Lady.
1 Trenton, Ga.—Mrs. Ellie Gifford, of
this place, writes: “1 have always suf
fered ... but was worse after marriage.
I would have .. . painsand misery in my
stomach and hips. 1 would have a bad
sick headache every time, which would
i generally last two days. I had always
l heard what a good medicine Cardui was,
so 1 thought I would try it. I used two
bottles and it helped me.
Fifteen months later I began to be <
nervous and was worse at my ... But
at these times I did not have any pain
and do not now suffer any pain. But 1
was very nervous, so nervous that my
hands would shake. Any noise would
make me jump. So I took two more bot
tles of Cardui. J have never been nerv
ous since ... and do not have any pain.
I think this is all due to Cardui and
Black-Draught.”
Cardui, the woman’s tonic, is composed
only of pure, vegetable ingredients, which
have been recognized for many years by
standard medical books as of medicinal
'value, in the treatment of many diseases
peculiar to women. Try Cardui.
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Our Steam Vulcanizing
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Every job we turn out is
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Time will demonstrate
the wisdom of bringing
your vulcanizing to us.
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Sewing machines and Supplies; Key
and Lock Fitting, Umbrella; Repaired
•nd Covered. Phone 420.
Lee STREET. MAR WELL
AMERICUS CAMP, 202, WOODMEN
OF THE WORLD.
Meets every Wednesday night in
Fraternal Hall, Lamar street. All vi«-
itlng Sovereigns invited to meet with
us. STEPHEN PACE. C. C.
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
E. and A. M.
• AMERICUS LODGB
F. & A. M., meets ev-
& ery second and
fourth Friday night
/ \ at 7 o’clock.
FRANK J. PAYNE, W. M.
J. RESCOE PARKER, Sec’y.
• M. B. . COUNCIL
LODGE F. and A. M.
meets every First and
Third Friday nights.
s « Visiting brothers are
invited to attend.
DR. J. R. STATHAM, W. M.
NAT LeMASTER. Secretary.
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 14,
P. 0. S. OF A.
Meets every first and third Monday
nights in P. O. S. of A. Hall, No. 21»
Lamar St. All members in good stand
ing invited to attend. Beneficiary certi
ficates from $250.00 to $2,000.00 issued
to members of this camp.
S. A. JENNINGS, Pres’t.
O. D. REESE, Recd’g. Sec’y.
C.of Gaßy
’’The Right Way”
Trains Arrive.
From Chicago, via
Columbus ♦ 12:15 a m
From Columbus *10:00 a m
From Columbus * 7:15 p m
From Atlanta and Macon..* 5:29 a m
From Macon * 2:11 p m
From Macon ♦ 7:85 p m
From Albany * 6:40 a u
From Montgomery and
Albany *.2.11 p m
From Montgomery and
Albany *10:89 p m
From Jacksonville, via
Albany ♦ 8:40 a m
Trains Depart
For Chicago, via Columbus ♦ 8:40 a m
For Columbus I 8:00 a m
For Columbus * 8:00 p m
For Macon and Atlanta ...* 6:40.a m
For Macon and Atlanta *2:11 p m
For Macon and Atlanta ... *10:89 p m
For Montgomery and
Albany * 5:29 a m
For Montgomery and
Albany * 2:11 p m
For Albany * 7:85 p m
For Jacksonville, via
Albany *12:15 a m
‘Daily ! Except Sunday.
adv GEO. ANDERSON, Agfjnt.
SeabDard Alt Line
[be Progressive Railway ol the Sootb
Leave Americus for Cordele. Ro
chelle, Abbeville, Helena, Lyons, Col
lins, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond,
Portsmouth and points East and South
12:31 p in.
2:30 a m
Leave Americus for Cordele, Abbe
ville, Helena and intermediate points
5:11 p. m.
Leave Americus for Richland, At
lanta, Birmingham, Hurtsboro, Mont
gomery and points West and Northwest
8:08 p. m.
Leave Americus for Richland. Col
umbus, Dawson, Albany and interme
diate points
10:00 a m
Seaboard Buffet Parlor Sleeping Car
on 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 passengers
at 11:40 p. m.
For further information apply to H.
P, Everett, Local Agent, Americus.
Ga.: C. W. Smal’, Div. Pass. Ag nt,
Savannah. Ga.; C- p G. p. a.,
Norfolk. Va.
L. G. COUNCIL, Pres’t. INC. 1891 b. S. COUNCIL, Cashier
C. M. COUNCIL, Vice-Pres. T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier
Planters Bank of Americus
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Resources Over One Million Dollars
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