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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
THE TIMES-RECORDER COMPANY,
(Incorporated.)
Publisher.
Published every afternoon, except
Saturday, every Sunday morning, and
as a Weekly (every Thursday).
Entered as second class matter at
ostoffice at Americus, Ga., under act!
f March 3, 1879.
FRANC MANGUM,
Editor and Manager.
L. H. KIMBROUGH,
Assistant Business Manager.
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Year (in advance).
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vance).
Mr. W. Thomas Lane, Jr., circulation
manager, is the only authorized travel
ing representative of The Times
Recorder.
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all news credited to it or not otherwise
credited in this paper, and also the 10-j
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional
U. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
AnmHcus. GtU Octob. r 9, 1917
| PARAGFAPHICALIY SPEAK’NG |
Would you say that a woman in a
short skirt was all dressed up?
That liquid fire the Germans are
using may be some of this moonshine
liquor they’re selling in Georgia.
Mr. Hoover urges us to eat more
hash. We’re perfectly willing, but,
honest, we don't think it's possible.
Will somebody please lend us a
book giving “First Lessons On How
To Behave With A Swagger Stick."
A Valdosta man arrested for having
two wives is said to be “playing
crazy.” The fact that he married
twice might be taken as proof that he
really is crazy.
Even Peru has severed relations
with Germany. We don’t know how
the Kaiser feel s about it, but if Peru
should stop speaking to us our feel
ings would be badly hurt.
Speaking of eating more hash re
minds us that Thanksgiving will soon
be here and that we’ll have the an
nual contest of trying to see how long
you can make one turkey last.
■•w— «,. ■ ~ .i« ■■ ■ 1 ' ■**“*“* — **"
We’ve always hoped somebody would .
invent a device for scratching that'
part of your back that you cannot j
reach with your hands, and we be
lieve the swagger stick solves the
problem.
_• .-1 |-T..| - I ' " ■ .1 "
The Coltimbus-Enquirer-Sun com-j
plains about the high cost of whisky,,
saying that only the rich can afford
ft and foi tnat reasbn the prohibition
law is class legislation against the
poor man. So! The legislature hadj
something against the newspaper men
hi passing that act!
The Atlanta Georgian has discon
tinued exchanging with us because
we expressed our opinion of its poli
tics and journalistic methods. If the
Georgian will stop sending a paper to
all of its Sumter subscribers who havej
the same opinion that we have, itsj
postage bill for this territory will]
not exceed three cents a year.
— -
I Hoke Smith has sent us a photo
h showing the “Senators Who
gran.
1 I n Honor Os The Young
Paiade. To The c o i ors ” r mus t
Men Calk , .. . . ,
picture, and it ought to
be a puzzk ~
’ Tom Hardwick . W eve
be called “FltJq , ~ ,
ture from all an-les,
looked at the nk ~ ,
K - 1 c him!
and Ve can’t locsu
“— 1 is asked to
h Tbe Times-Recorder , n behalf j
BiaV* an appeal for fun ’ Violinists!
of “The families of Talentei Wg '
Who Hav.e Gone To War.” - aising
more interested, however, in * nteJ
money for the families of tale
newspaper men who haven’t gone ,
war. Besides, if the families of these
talented violinists have gone to war. b
we should think the said t. v.’s could *
make a living for themselves.
THE Qi I( K OR THE DEAD.
Our relations with France in this
war, and the presence of so many
young Americans on French soil, min
gling with a people whose tongue they
must perforce absorb or acquire to
some extent, have promoted a greater
interest in the study of the French
language.
Spanish has long since become a
language of utility in this country, be
cause of our more neighborly attitude
toward Mexico, and the necessity of
knowing Spanish for the conduct of
our business affairs with the Latin-
American countres.
In consequence, boards of education
throughout both North and South are
proposing to substitute these more
modern languages for the decadent
Greek and Latin in the curriculums of
the schools.
It is really a problem to understand
why Greek and Latin should be neces
sarily included in the curriculums of
the schools of the present day. One
may surely acquire a classical educa
tion without year s effort in studying
the languages of old Greece and
Rome.
So long ago as 1795, the clear-sighted
Thomas Paine, in his “Age of Reason,”
said: “As there is now nothing new to
be learned from the dead languages—
all the useful books being already
translated—the languages are becom
ing useless, and the time expended in
teaching and learning them is wasted.
A youth will learn more of a living
language in one year than of a dead i
[ language in seven.”
Thomas Henry Huxley and other
more recent scholars, have urged the
abandonment of Greek and Latin in 1
favor of living languages.
It is all rot that the classic writings
of Homer and Caesar and Virgil are
better appreciated if read in the orig
inal. That may apply to bulbous-brow
ed linguists with an exactness for nice
ties, but it certainly does not cover the
general student. “Arma virumque
cano,’ begins the “Eneid,” and “Arms,
and the man I sing,” translates Dryden.
Which is better and more easily appre
ciated by the young student to whom
English is the mother tongue?
Even Milton, in his “Tractate on Ed
ucation,” wherein he advocates the
study of Greek, Latin, Syrian and
Chaldean, in addition to English and
possibly Italian, declares that the lan
guages “are but the means of an end,”
and should be learned solely in order
that the great literary works in each,
then untranslated, might be explored.
Now that these works, as well as the
writings of nearly all ages and nations,
are obtainable in English, there re
i mains no justification for the perpet
j nation of “dead” languages.
I French is a happy medium almost
the world over. It is spoken generally
in Russia mid in Greece, and until the
outbreak of the war it was taught in
all of the German schools. The war
i has had the effect of more widely in
| creasing the common use of English,
which more closely approaches a uni
versal speech than any other but it also
I is true it is going to be incombent upon
|us to know more French and more
Spanish. And the place to begin is in
the schools.
With Girard yust across the river
and the bridge open at both ends, both
night and day, and on Sunday, too, we
cannot understand why anybody in
Columbus should be heard to com
plain about the prohibition law.
MIL HARDWICK IS PEEVED.
Mr. Hardwick is peeved because in
vitations for him to speak in Georgia
were cancelled, and he is not coming
back to his own state during the in
terim before Congress re-convenes.
We suspect that Mr. Hardwick will
b e even more peeved this time next
year.
Then he will either be practising law
in Sandersville or drawing a salary
from the Hearst papers. We certain
ly think that the Hearst papers, think
ing as highly of him as they do, ought
to put him on the payroll. At any
rate, he will not be drawing a salary
from the government whose policies he
is now trying to obstruct, nor will he
e representing the citizenry of a
da * e t * lat lle now misrepresents.
Tht withdrawal of the invitations for
him to deliver addresses in the state
which raised him and elected him to
office, and the passing of denunciatory
resolutions by a grand jury composed
of sterling, patriotic men, and the
outspoken criticism of nearly all of
the newspapers of Georgia, and t he
resentment of an outraged people as
reflected in scores of ways—these are
not merely scattering instances. They
reflect the spirit of the people of Geor
gia, and they show that Senator Hard
wick is a s persona non grata in this
state, as a choice for political prefer
ment, as the Kaiser himself would be.
Time was when Hardwick could
have mustered some strength, when he
would have triumphed in an election;
but that was months ago. That was
before the mass of the people clearly
perceived the real reasons for the war.
That was when Tom Watson’s damni
ble doctrines were being disseminated
without restraint, and hardly without
denial. But now there is an aroused
intelligence, a quickened perception, a
stimulated patriotic ardor, a higher ap
preciation of actual conditions.
The Times-Recorder does not cen
sure Mr. Hardwick for not coming
back to Georgia at this time. If we
were in his place, we never would re
turn!
There are a great many things in
this world that we are not sure of, but
there is one thing we may be sure of
—“Be sure your sins will find you
out.”—Unadilla Rustler. And if your
sins don’t, the neighbors will—so what
chance has a man got?
“SEDITIOUS.”
Ihe most unpatriotic policy of the
Hearst syndicate of newspapers is
their persistent propaganda for a
peace—a premature peace, as they
well know, but one that would he sat
isfactory and consoling to Germany.
Mr. Hearst ha s been striving, ever
since the war began, to gain eminence
as a peace advocate, he who has ever
been so belligerent and whose rabid
outbreak of yellow journalism was one
of the disgraceful episodes of the
Spanish-American war.
In Washington yesterday there was
a conference of a large number of dis
tinguished men of the nation, held for
the purpose of organizing a league to
disseminate actual truths about the
war and our relation to it. This con
ference had the personal approval of
President Wilson, who in an address
declared that talk of peace now was
unwise and unpatriotic. In line with
liis views, and striking directly at the
Hearst papers, is this expression from
the statement subsequently issued by
the conference:
“In this crisis the unity of the
American people must not be im
paired by the voices of
or sedition.
“Agitation for a premature
| peace is seditious when its object
is to weaken the determination of
America to see the war through
to a conclusive vindication of the
principles for which we have
taken up arms.
“The war we are waging is a
war against war and its sacri
fices must not be nullified by any
' 1 truce or armistice that means no
. more than a breathing spell for
the enemy.”
“Agitation for a premature peace is
seditious”—and the Hearst papers
1 have been scattering sedition broad-
11
| cast through the land. Even in the
I Atlanta Georgian’s editorial endorse
i'
I ment of Hardwick the conspicuous
■ note was the discordant peace su?-
! gestion. It was not necessary for the
owner of the Hearst papers to be an
intimate dinner guest of a German
spy—his newspaper policies had al
ready stamped him as lacking in the
higher instincts of loyalty and na
. tional pride.
As Collier’s Weekly so well said.
i “We have observed that it is the
Hearst papers who prove their loyalty
by printing little rows of flags at the
head of their editorl;.’: columns.”
When a woman holds up a short
skirt on a rainy day, we reach the
conclusion that she just naturally
wants to hold it up, and the rain
i doesn’t make any difference.
Among the few English words that
i contain the vowels in their reverse i
order are uncomplimentary and unno-j
ticeably.
IHE AMERICUS TlMb2> RECORD ER
A COLUMN OF CLiPFiriGS
Dry'ing Sweet Potatoes.
It does not seem possible that there
will be a sweet potato drying house
in this county for the present season.
It was a mistake not to have arranged
one for the crop is going to exceed
all expectations and the potatoes are
going to lose 30 per cent of their
value, if they are not sold immediate
ly unless they can be dried convenient
ly. Mr. Archbold has on his place
a storage warehouse and dryer and
he is able to hold his potatoes and
protect them so they will not lose
their value, either in actual weight
or keeping qualities. It may be pos
sible that Mr. Archbold will arrange
to purchase a few hundred bushels
for that purpose. In the event he
does there will be no trouble in Se
curing them. Potatoes are are going
to be extensively used but unless
some method is adopted to keep them
they will not bring nearly the amount
of money that should be received for
them. Thomas county cannot afford
to lose 30 per cent of their value, be
cause somebody won’t erect a stor
age warehouse and dryer which can
be done at a very small cost, compar
ed with the amount of actual loss
that will be sustained if one is not
available for those who have the po
tatoes. Thomasville Times-Enter
prise.
His Tima to Smart.
Senator Hardwick is said to be
"smarting under the action of the peo
ple at home." Well, it is his time to
smart. The people at home have
smarted under hi s actions in Wash
ington. Turn about is fair play. Let
it be hoped that he will smart enough
to cause him to cause him to resign
from the senate. If he sticks to his
job and to the plan of action he has
followed thus far he is likely to find
that hi s presenting smarting is mild
indeed beside the unpleasantness that
‘l will follow him until at the next elec
tion the people will put him out of
the senate. The vote should be so
one-sidedly a?ainst him that even he
would realize that Georgia is not the
unpatriotic, selfish, ignorant collec
tion of people he seems to have
', thought it, but is and has been an
intelligent patriotic state of the Unit
ed States. It is difficult to under
stand how a man who succeeded in
becoming a United States senator
from Georgia and who boasts of hav-
1 ing had a long line of American an
| cestors could so misunderstand the
1 people who so mistakenly honored
Ib.lni. Maybe he thought “that a peo
i pie whe could make the mistake of
j sending him to the senate could be
depended on to make the far bigger
1 mistake of being unpatriotic in the
hour of the nation’s need.—Savannah
Morning News.
You Flatter Us.
The editor of the Americus Times-
Recorder is now considered authority
on woman and short skirts in Geor
ia.—Griffin News and Sun.
ll<iw Should We now?
"Did you ever try sleeping with two
babies on a cold night ” asks the
1
Swainsboro Forest-Blade. We are go-
I ing to refer the matter to the Amer-
Jicus Times-Recorder editor. —Colum-
! bus Enquirer-Sun.
'I *1 hat A bant u Swagger Stick?
! We have been guilty of many in-
> I
discretions but we have never yet
I '
i owned a pair of sleeve supporters or
’ia wrist watch. —Columbus Enquirer-
Sun.
> I
Hard Luck.
A long time ago when we were
farming and cotton selling at ten
! cents and over, some wise guy ad
vised the farmer to hold cotton for
higher prices. We did —and sold for
seven cents a few months later. Thisl
year when coal was sorter reason
able and credit goed the wise ones'
advised to dolay the purchase of winter
coal. We did—now the darn stuff is
about fen dollars per ton and our'
credit ain’t worth a continental and
not a lump to be found in our bin. I
Just our luck—but hereafter we are'
going to try using our own udgmejnt
lend let the wise heads go to—Ger-'
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