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DAILY
FORTIETH YEAR.
AUSTRIAN SITUATION REALLY CRITICAL
MANY STRIKES
OCCUR, PEOPLE
DEMAND PEACE
/
EMEPROB CHARLES ISSUES A
STATEMENT DECLARING RE-
FOR WAR RESTS
ON ALLIES.
LONDON, Jan. 22.—The situation in
Austria-Hungary is rapidly approach
ing a crisis.
The ministry has resigned.
Fully fifty thousand socialist work
men are on a strike, and are demand
ing an early peace.
The entire populace is evincing
nrarded dissatisfaction, because of the
almost prohibitive cost of living and
the scarcity of employment.
Emperor Charles today made a
statement of his nation’s aims, declar
ing that responsibility for war rested
entire 1 y on thet Allies. He said the
dual monarchy desired no territorial
aggrandizement, and really wanted
peace. He proposed no new peace
terms, however.
Only meager dispatches are allowed
t c come from within the kingdom, but
it -is evident that the strikes are na
tion-wide, and that a crisis of a most
serious nature is impending.
The publication of newspapers has
been temporarily suspended.
WILL BE USED TO
SID FUEL SUPPLY
GOVERNOR DORESY DIRECTS L -
CAL COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
CHAIRMAN TO INVOKE HELP OF
THE COUNTY BOARD.
A meeting of the board of county
commission rs will be held this week
to formulate a plan for furnishing
wood free of charge to the poor people
of the county and to other people at
the actual cost.
Franc Mangum, chairman of the
Sumt.r County Council of Defense, has
been directed by Governor Dorsey to
take up this proposition with county
' commissioners at once, and in con
junction with them to devise away
for obtaining and furnishing this wood.
Convict labor will be used to cut it.
The governor’s let'er is as follows:
Franc Mangum, Esq.,
Chairman, Sumter County Council
of Defense.
Sir: The attorney general having
advis'd that the Prison commission of
the state of Georgia must use con
victs for the relief of sufferingjay rea
son of the fuel famine now abtaining,
the Prison Commission has directed
that the authorities in each county in
charge of the convicts shall, in con
junction with each and every coun
ty council of defense in the state,
formulate a program immediately for
for the use of convicts in cutting wood
foi the relief of suffering.
This is .therefore, to inform you that
you will please get in touch with the
ordinary or county commissioners—
whomsoever have charge of the con
victs in your count}’—and, if there be
anj suffering within the confines of
your county, formulate rules and regu
lations,' fair and reasonable to all,
whereby wood may be cut and supplied
tu those needing it.
Mr. Mangum has already consult
ed Chairman Arthur Rylander about
,t b matter, and Mr. Rylander has
agreed to call a meeting of the board.
FREEZING WEATHER
TODAY’S PREDICTION
Colder weather is the prediction for
tonight, with the temperature below
the freezing point.
This part of the state got its full
shaie of rain yesterday, but there was
no freeze.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
"LIVEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA."
“PIITATO or EACH
WEEK BEING URGED
FOOD ADMINISTRATION PLANNING
TO INAUGURATE CAMPAIGN TO
ENCOURAGE USE OF SWEET PO
TATOES.
Tho United States food administra
tion is placing a consistent campaign
tc inaugurate the use of sweet pota
toes. Grocers will be urged to inaug
urate a “potato” day each week, select
ing whatever day is slack in deliver
ies and making a special price for po
tatoes delivered that day. Housewives
will be asked to buy potatoes, a week’s
supply, on each potato day. The ad
ministration wishes to place the sweet
potato on every table in Americus
every day in the year.
The food administration declares
tnat it is necessary right now as a
war measure for everybody to eat
potatoes and also to purchase them
in fairly regular quantities week by
week, so that distribution will be
equal everywhere for the next five or
six months, relieving congestion and
enabling growers and istributors to
handle potatoes at the most reason
able prices and to further encourace
the production of a larger crop this
spring.
The department of agriculture is
working to improve potato growing
methods and to increase our crops.
Tho co-operation of the consumer and
the grower are needed now more than
ever before. Every American family is
urgd to buy and eat potatoes freely
through the winter and into the sum
mer. Hotels and restaurants are be
ing urged to serve potatoes liberally.
Co-operating witli the department
of agriculture, the food administration
has taken definite measures to stabil
ize theYotato industry, both as to pro
duction and as to distribution. Stand
ard grades and the system of sale by
hundred weight basis have already
been introduced.
The potato today is plentiful, cheap
and the best substitute for food staples
wo are asked to save for the allies,
the army and navy. It furnishes
nourishment, bulk, mineral salts and a
corrective alkalinity in the diet.
Germany plants more than twice as
many potatoes as the United States.
Germany gets more than twice as
manp bushels per acre and she eats
three times as many potatoes. Ger
many’s wise use of potatoes helps her
to hold out against the allies.
If we are going to win this war we
must fight Germany man for man.
shell for shell, potato for potato. The
food administration declares we raise
too few potatoes on too great an
acreage If our yield per acre was as
great as Germany’s, the state of New
York atone, of Michigan, or Wiscon
sin. or Minnesota, might raise all the
potatoes, we eat. We eat too few po
tatoes because the quality is not good.
We speculate in potatoes from year to
year—farmer, jobber, retailer, every
body. That makes fluctuation in priced
for which w> dearly pay.
IMPORTANT MEETING
SLATED FOR FEB. STH
AT NEW YORK HOTEL
ATLANTA, Ga,, Jan. 22.—Dr. An
drew M. Soule, federal food adminis
trator for Georgia, who has recently
returned from Washington, ailhounced
today that on February sth a confer
ence of the state mercantile represent
atives of the United States food admin
istration will be held at the Hotel As
lor in New York to make plans for
enlisting the full and complete co-|
operation of the retail , merchants j
throughout the country in the admin
irtrations educational campaign.
Mr. E. L. Howe and Mrs. Gertrude
Mosshart, who are directly connected
with this work in the Washington of- i
flee of the food administration, will]
•cepies nt the food administration at
the conference, and Mr. J. W. Hollo
well, who has general supervision of'
the work of the state organizations of
the administration, will a’so be present'
to confer with the state merchant rep-1
resentatives as to their relationship to
the federal food administrators of
Ahcir states.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 22, 1918
39,000 POUNDS
SUGAR RECEIVED
EACH WHOLESALER GOT TEN
THOUSAND POUNDS, AND RE
TAILERS WERE ALLOWED TO
HAYE 100 POUNDS EACH.
The sugar situation in Americus is
somewhat relieved to today, owing to
the arrival and distribution of 30,000
pounds in this territory.
Each of the three wholesalers re
ceived one hundred 100-pound sacks.
“I could sell six carloads if I had
it,’’ said Mr. Carr Glover this morn
ing, adding tihat he had 600 customers
who wanted at least 100 pounds each.
Mr. Frank Lanier has four ship
ments ordered, and the other whole
salers have shipments due. Just when
these will arrive is not known. How
ever, the dealers are doing their best
to.get sugar here, applying to every
possible source.
The retailers are selling sugar when
they have it, in two and five-pound
lets. As each retailer only got one
hundred pounds out of the shipment
distributed today, they had difficulty
’n supplying their regular customers.
ENTIRE EAST HIT
BY SNOWSTORMS
ONE OF THE MOST SUDDEN AND
UNEXPTCTED COLD WAVES YET
—CAUSES TIE-UP OF RAIL TRAF.
FIC.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 22.
The entire east is snowed under to
day, all the way from North Carolina
to Maine. Storm warnings have been
issued all along the Atlantic seaboard.
Trains are tied up because of snow
drifts, and thei e is a temporary lull in
business. The snowstorm was sudden
and unexpected, and is causing much
suffering. Colder weather still is
predicted for tonight and tomorrow.
OR. C. P. OIVIS BICK
. KT BISJFFICE KGIIH
The friends of Dr. C. P. Davis will
be interested to know that he is at his
office again, after a week’s confine
ment with a sprained ankle.
While chasing down his copy of The
Timi s-Recorder that the wind was
blowing about early last week, Dr.
Davis slipped and injured himseir.
OFFICIAL FOOD PRICE SCHEDULE
AS FIXED BY U. S. ADMINISTRATOR
This list of prices is effective for one week, beginning Monday, Jan
uary 18th. T
Purchasers are requested that if they are asked to pay more than the
prices stated here to report the sa.ne to the food administrator.
’ugar, per pound, He
Sugar, “cash-and-carry”, per lb. ..10c
Flour, best grade, 24 lbs SI.7F
Flour, second grade, 24 lbs $1.65
Flour (if sold in bulk) per 1b....7 12c
Rice, fancy head, per lb. 11c
Lard, country, per lb ;....32c
Lard, pure ..32c
Snowdrift Lard (10-lb pails) $2.50
Lard Compound, per pound 27c
Grits, per lb 07c
Irish Potatoes (old% per lb 04c
Onions, per lb 06 l-4c
Peas, per lb. ...14c
Lima Beans, per lb 20c
Cheese, per lb 35c
Butter (creanxgry) per lb ...40c
Eggs, per dozen 50
Tomatoes (no. 2 cans) 15c
Tomatoes (No. 3 cans) 20c
Corn( Fancy Maine) per can.. 17 l-2c
Evaporated Milk, (small cans). .07 l-2c
Evaporated Milk (large cans)....lsc
Fagle Brand Milk ’....... .25c
Ga. Cane Syrup (gallon) sl.lO
Ga. Cane Syrun (half gallon) 60c
Bread (per loaf) 10c
White Meat (sides) per 1b....... ,28c
HERBERT HALEY OF
MBH SME
PROMINTNT BUSINESS MAN, DES
PONDENT OVER FINANCIAL
LOSSES, PUTS BULLET THROUGH
'HIS OWN HEART.
(Special to Times-Recorder.)
MACON, Ga., Jan. 22. —Herbert Ha
ley, prominent business man, who was
one of the first in the South to make
a fortune out of the coca-cola bottling
business, killed himself today In his
office on Arch street, by firing a bullet
into his heart. He leaves a
five children.
Mr. Haley had been despondent for
some time, over severe financial losses,
and had had other worries also. Mr.
Haley came to Macon from Chatta
nooga about twelve years ago. He
did not leave any note, nor give any
indication that he contemplated taking
his life.
ANOTHER NOTE ID
ALLIES ISPHEPARED
TROTSKY IS AGAIN IN PETRO
GRAD AND IS ARRANGING A
STATEMENT—PEACE NEGOTIA
TIONS ARE SUSPENDED.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 21. —(Delayed.)
—Peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk
have been postponed for a fe wdays.
Foreign Minister Trotsky is again in
'Petrograd, acording to the newspa
pers here, and he is said to be pre
paring another note to the Entente
Allies.
ATLANTA TRAFFIC
HALTED BY FREEZE
STREET CARS FROZEN TO THE
TRACKS—ENTIRE TOWN IS COV
ERED WITH ICE—WIRES DOWN
EVERYWHERE.
ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 22. —Because of
a severe freeze, following a hard rain
all of yesterday, Atlanta is covered
with ice today.
Street car traffic in nearly all parts
of the city is at a standstill, cars be
ing frozen to the tracks. The streets
are so slippery that few vehicles are
moving, and hardly a horse is seen.
Wires all around this part of the
country are down.
White meat (cuts) per lb 30c
Meal (per peck) 50c
Sugar may be sold in two-pound and
five-pound packages—not over five
pounds to a customer. Less than tw’o
pounds may be sold.
Flour may be sold not-over 48
puonds to a customer. Rural resi
dents are allowed twice as much sugar
and floor.
The retailer is allowed sl.lO a bar
rel profit when flour is sold in the!
sack. He is allowed $l5O a barrel
profit when it is sold in loose quanti
ties. He-ik allowe 1 two cents a pound,
I profit on sugar when it is charged and i
I delivered —one cent a pound profit If J
the customer pays cash and carries it.
Sales must be by the pound—not by
the measure. Dealers are required I
to post this notice conspieiously in
their stores.
N FRANC MANGUM,
Sumter County Food Administrator.
Advisory Committee: W. A. Dodson.,
N. M. Dudley, R C. Moran. Mrs.
Lawson S tap Won, Mrs. Frank
Harrold.
FOOD ÜBS
10 BEPIIISHED
SAVANNAH ADMINISTRATOR WILL
’ PROSECUTE THOSE WHO HAVE
NOT BEEN COMPLYING WITH HIS
RULINGS.
SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 22.—Viola
tors of the food administrator’s regu
lations will be firmly dealt with. AH
those who have been temporizing as
to observance of prices and selling
rules raelized this yesterday, when
telephane calls from the administra
tor’s office reached the offending deal
ers within a very short time after vio
lations had occurred.
Refusal of two firms to sell fresh
eggs at the fixed maximum price, were
reported t® Maj. W. W. Gordon, the
county food administrator. The ad
ministrator lost no time about calling
up the stores accused of this viola
tion and his conversation wit hthe
managers was extremely brief. It re
sulted in willing consent on the part
\<f the violators to deliver eggs im
mediately at the price fixed by’ the
administrator.
Certain very definite penalties at
tach to the violation of the food ad
ministrator’s orders, under the spec
ial authority conferred by act of con
gress providing for ‘‘the national se
curity and defense by encouraging the
production, conserving the supply and
controllihg the distribution of food
products and fuel.” Under this act all
firms doing a business amounting to
SIOO,OOO or more are to oper
ate under a federal license.
The same act provides that wilful
failure or refusal to conform to the
order of the food administration and
its representatives subjects the offen
der to z the penalty of having his li
cense revoked or suspended and also
provides, on conviction, for a fine of
$5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding
two years, either or both. Refund of
the excess charges is the first penalty,
and in the case of dealers who do a
business amounting to less tnan >iw,-
000, the food administrator is author
ize tc? cut off his source of supplies
by prohibiting any wholesaler or other
dealer to sell to the offender.
The authority of the administrator
is very clearly defined, Maj. Gordon
said today, and while he does not ex
pect local dealers to show an£ serious
disinclination to conform to the law,
at the same time he is prepared to
’’eal .unequivoeably with any cases of
linquency.
Certain Savannah green grocers who
have been holding oysters at their old
price, 50 cents a quart, for thetMast
two weeks, in spite of the published
maximum of 40 cents, yesterday noti
fied their customers that a refund or
the excess charge would be given.
This is also true of some of those who
sold eggs last week at a price in ex
cess of that fixed by the food adminis
tration. Refunds on these excess
charges are now obligatory, and re
sponsibility devolves on the buyer to
see that the administration price is ob
served or the refund promptly made.
WHOLESALE GROCERS
WILL HAVE MEETING
ATLANTA NEXT WEEK
Messrs. Frank Lanier, Carr Glover
and a representative of the Mor. lan L
Jones Company will attend a meeting
of the wholesale grocers of Georgia
in the offices of the state food admin
istration next Wednesday.
I This meeting will be addressed by
j Mr. Soule, state administrator, and his
executive secretary, Major McClatcney,
be th of whom have just returned from
Washington. The food laws, as they
relate to wholesalers and retailers,
will explain in detail.
The meeting will also be attended
by various of the county food admin
istrators, who also will receive in
struction and information regarding
the enforcement of the food control
law.
AMERICANS FLYING
OVER GERMAN LINES
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Jan. 2i.
—American observers are now view
ing the German lines, being accom
panied always by French pilots. They
are doing a regular ah?re of the bat
tle work.
CITi
EDITION
SOME CHANGES IX
FOOD PRICES ME
MME HERE TODAY
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR AL
LOWS GROCERS TO RAISE PRICK
ON LARD—RULING MADE ABOUT
BOARDING HOUSES.
I A&.X' ■■■
The county food administrator to
day changed the prevailing prices, pre
viously announced, on pure and com
pound lard.
The price, as ordered for the week,
was 25 cents for compound and 38
cents for pure lard.
Several grocers complained, how
ever, that this was not allowing them
any profit at all, and upon investi
gation it was found that the new mar
ket quotations were such that the gro
cers could not sell at those prices to
any advantage.
The grocers are paying about 24 12
cents for compound, and about 28 cents
for pure lard.
The new lard prices, therefore, fiar
the remainder of the week are:
Pure Lard 32c
Compound 27c
The food administrator was also
asked today to-make a ruling on how
much sugar boarding houses coeW
purchase. It was held that each per
son is alloweda per capita supply of
three pounds a month, and thus if *
boarding house feeds thirty
that house would be entitled' to par
chase SO pounds a month. However,
there is not enough sugar in the city
for any one person to purchase that
quantity.
It is further held, upon directioa of
the national food administration, that
sales of 100 pounds or more, to con
sumers, under such circumstances, *
must be-considered wholesale sales,
and only wholesale prices may be
charged.
Dealers who have boarding hotures
fat customers may sell sugar in quan
tities consistent with the spirit of the
law, and the risk of being guilty of
“hoarding” will be assumed by tho
buyer. The same ruling applies to
the sale of flour to boarding houses.
They must not, hovere, have on hand
at any time more than a thirty days'
supply of this commodity.
The fixing of a price for eggs has
caused some confusion. Country deal
ers are refusing to sell for less than
50 cents, and as this is the price fixe*
by the food administrator those gro
cers who buy eggs from the rural dis.
tricts are not allowed any prafit to
the transaction. There is no way «f
forcing the man who produces eggs
his farm to sell for less than fifty
cents a dozen. Some of these are even
asking 60 cents. The price of eggs
""was fixed on a current market pries
or 43 cents for storage or shipped eggs.
The market yesterday in Atlanta was
45 cents for such eggs. Food admin
istrators and dealers everywhere are
having difficulty in regulating the sale
and price of eggs, especially fresh
country eggs.
DEMAND CONTROL
PACKING PLANTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22.
The demand of Chicago packing house
employes for government control of
the industry during the war broadened
today to include all the packing plants
in the country. It was made clear at
tho outset of the present hearing be
fore the mediation commission that the
pecking house employes believed the
taking over of the packing industry
by the government to be one of na
tional necessity. '
AMERICUS OUT OF .
TOUCH WITH WORLD
WHEN WIRES BREAK
Americus was out of communica
tion with much of the world today be
cause of wire troubles. The Western
Union had a wire operating to -Savan
nah and another to Macon, but could
not g't beyond Maccp, Many wires
were reported to be down,
of the .sleet storm of last night. ' .
The Times-Recorder received moat
of its Associated Press report over the
long distance tele ’.one. through Dis
courtesy of the Macon News.
NUMBER Ift.