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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28
LAWYERS TRY TO
SAVE REV. RICHESOy
A Final Appeal Is Made to Govern,
FOss For Preacher.

Boston, April pa final stem h.,
counsel for Clarence V. T. Richesop,
the confessed murderer of his formo.
sweetheart, Miss Avis Linnell, to So
cure a communication of the death 60,
tence was taken this afternoon when
the attorneys appeared before CIV
Foss.
The lawyers urged the governor "A
lay their petition asking that the Sen.
tence of death be changed to one of
life Imprisonment before the council
The conference was held behind
closed doors.
Al the conclusion Gov Foss an.
nounced that he had taken the MAJ.
ter under advisement.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

In 1890 the corn crop of the country
was 1,489, 100000 bushels, while the
corn crop of the South in 1910 was
100000 bushels. 1t is true that the
corn crop of the country in 1890 was
less than the average, but these
figures give an idea of the rapid de-
velopment of corn growing in the
South, when in one year it could pro-
duce crop almost as large as ven
: small crop of the entire country 10
1890.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

No one can read the accompanying
pages of information about Sumter
county and the city of Americas, study
the facts that have been gathered to-
gether. and examine the illustrations
dealing with the varied features of the
city and the county, without pardon
able feeling of pride in both of them.
Americas is a wonderful little city
situated in a wonderful county. That
is not expressing it too strongly.
Visitors, it is TO be feared, are too
often more convinced of this fact than
{ IT own people. Daily familiarity with
what we have tends to blunt our
sense of its superiority. But the
stranger, receiving fresh impressions,
is apt TO make comparisons that, in
every instance, are highly creditable
to Americas and Sumter county.
Often the expression is heard from
visitors, You people don't really
know what a fine town you have, and
what fine country surrounding it,
or you would let the world know
more about them" We may resent
he imputation of indifference or ig-
norance that such remarks imply, but
the fact of the matter is, such charg-
es are really true. We are actually
Indifferent to the advantages here
presented. to the opportunities offered
to the progress already achieved, tc
the manifest superiority of both city
and county over countless other cities
md counties of equal population.
This Forward Edition is intended tc
rectify this somewhat. If there Il
ignorance, it hopes to remove it. II
there is indifference it hopes to sup
plant it with enthusiasm If there is
apathy it hopes to destroy it and
liant in its stead the seeds of new
and more vigorous interest.
es this is really great city fol
its size, and this is a great county
We all know it, or should know it
md knowing we should be the ones
most eager to spread abroad the
news concerning them. Much of tht
best advertising Americas and Sumter
county have received in the past tw,
1r three years has been unsolicited
unpaid for, coming from visitors wh'
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28
THE NEW, YET OLD, SUPERIN'
TENDENT OF SCHOOLS

There can be no question of the fact
hat the gentleman who is to assume
he responsible duties of Superin-
,cndent of Public Schools of Ameri-
US is thoroughly equipped for this
.npoi taut position. Indeed, it is safe
say that no matter how many APP
llicants might have offered for the po-
,ition vacated by the acceptance by
Supt. Miller of the position at Way
ross, no one would have been found
seeking it with the long experience as
a teacher, combined with the long
enuIe as a superintendent, that was
presented in the record of Hon. j. +.
Mathis.
The position of a superintendent o.
public schools requires something
more than mere scholastic knowledge
OF course the man who fills such an
flee must be a thoroughly educated
man in order to be competent, in ord
er to ascertain and measure the quail
ifications, in that respect, of the teach
.ers, But that is but one of the sew
eral qualities that are necessary il
he is to be a success. Administra-
i've ability of a high order must be
combined with intellectual training
and to this ability and this training
must be added the qualities of a dis
ciplinarian, tempered by tactfulness
that smothes away the rough edges
that are sure to develop, Overcomes
obstacles as they arise, and keeps the
machinery of the school system well
oiled and moving smoothly and with
+ friction.
1t takes experience to bring about
these qualities in a man. Not every
teacher possesses them-few, indeed
probably do. The fact that Supt.-el-
ect Mathis has demonstrated the pos
session of such qualifications, not
only in administering the affairs OF
the schools in former years, but also
in the office of mayor, and in contact
with the business world in recent
vears. instifies the assertion of his
friends that a highly successful per-
iod is ahead for the public schools
and that the high standards now in
existence will be maintained and en-
inent satisfaction given to the general
public, whose only interest lies in
we'll conducted schools giving thor
ough instruction to the children and
preserving a we'll defined course OF
studies. rounding out the mental pow
ors of the children, and at the same
time not ignoring the development OF
character which, after all, rises super
- to anv mere mental equipment that
can he obtained, in school or out Of
school.
As Capt. John A. Cobb, President of
the Board of Education said on the
night of Mr.. Mathis election as super
intendent, all hands should be joined
in sustaining the new head of the
1uhlir schools and in giving him ev-
cry announcement in the great work
that he assumes on July first.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

AS Osborne said in strong speech
i'm Savannah, the facts are that Will
son has no record and that the party
has grave reasons to question his
sincerity.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

Help to bring Americus and Sumter
county to the attention of your friends
in the South. the North, the East and
the West. Help to push the adye'tis
ing bv sending out copies of the For
ward Edition.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

in this lies a sig
nif1cant fact that
it was in his pur-
pose to have
womankind ever
telling the Gospel
to the women Of
the race.
One of the rea-
sons why the
Christian women
Of the world shall
be foremost In
their evangelical.
ton. Christ made
a woman the first
messenger of his
resurrection and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

Bryan declines to explain why he is
speaking for Wilson in Florida afte,
annealing for support for Clark in
Illinois. The suspicion grows that
Bryan may also be thinking of ere
considering" his decision about mol
being a candidate again.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28
Americas, Ga, April %, 1912


= PAINFUL PASTORAL
= = 4 \ y \ \ y = 4 4
New York SUM-
I've been waiting in the lane,
Mary dear,
In the wind and in the rain,
Sticking here
And the former keenly blew,
And the latter soaked me through,
AS fingered here for you,
Mary dear.
But my dream of love is DER,
Mary dear.
] will trouble you no more,
Never fear.
The appointment was for eight
I at yonder ga'den gate,
And eleyen's rather late,
Mary dear.
1t may rlease YOU to be told,
Mary dear,
( That lie caught my death of cold
That is clear.
twill delight yom to have known,
When my final breath has flown,
That the fault was all your own,
Mary dear!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

Taft says Roosevelt has clearly
shown how little reliance is to be put
in any promise he makes But Taft
should not forget one promise Roose-
welt made that held good--the prom
Use to make Taft president.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

Judge Samuel B. Adams put it clear
lv when he said that Governor Wilson
is "A diagnostician but not a doctor.
The country is full of diagnosticians
just like Wilson, who are prolific OF
words but empty of remedies.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28
Facts of Interest.

These facts merely show what the
South has achieved in things that can
be expressed in figures. They do not
however. show the gain that has been
made in the accumulated experience
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

One of Wilson's chief claims is that
he accepted the money of the political
bosses of New Jersey in his campaign
Tor governor, and also their votes ana
support-and then gave them the swift
kick.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

THE Money Trusts" will be probed
from now until election day by both
sides. And the Money Trust" will
be here just the same four years
hence.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

In 1907, just FIVE years ago, Gov
"~r"' then Professor Wilson, taught
at Princeton that The iniative and
referendum were wiles of Satan =
They remained devices of political
devils until Bryan espoused them and
wilson saw the rlimmer of the White
House lights in the distance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

Wilson decries the assistance other
candidates are said to be receiving
from large interests, and overlooks the
fact that the man who accompanied
him to Georgia and footed the horn
in advance, McAdoo, represents the
great Morgan interests.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

Every copy of the Forward Edition
sent TO some one who may be inter
ested in this city and county is likely
To bring a new citizen or a new in.
Eestor How can you expend nickel
better?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

Wilson does not deny that $4,000
was accepted from Thomas F. Ryan
for his gubernatorial campaign. But
that was before he saw new light
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

Retiring from the political discus
sion with disgust, the Montezuma Rec
ord ladies out this good bit of advice.
''Plant corn and hogs, get something
TO eat in this favored land. You want
something to take up the slack in
your stomach. To the dickens with
pOiitics and politicians"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

The South now spends for common
school education over $7S,00O,OOO, or :
little more than the total expenditures
of the United States in 1880 for com.
mon schools.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

Jumping on Roosevelt "wrenched
Taft's soul" Jumping on Taft will not
even wrench Roosevelt's jaw.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

If you believe in straigbt-out
Democrat and not an eleventh hour
convert. vote for Underwood, who has
leYer been found wanting.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

May first opens the picnic season in
Georgia. 1t also promises to be pic
mic day for Underwood in Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

The more one thinks of SumteF
county, the more one considers it, the
more wonderful a county it seems to
be.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

A boy begins by falling in love will
his school teacher, so it won't be an!
warning to him for the future.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

Teddy says he is "just beginning to
E now many rounds does he
think Taft can stand?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

Congressman Hetin says that Taft
went to the Philippines, Roosevelt t.
Africa. and now their party is coins
ACE hotter than either of thoso
places.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

The more birthdays woman ha,
the less she has to say about them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28
THE NEED OF
WOMEN
MISSIONARIES
By Edward A. Marshall,
Daecsor Of Missionary Course Of Moody Bible
institute, Chicago

TEXT-And the angel answered and
said unto the women, go quickly and tell
his disciples that He is risen from the
6ead.-Matt. 1851.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

When true lovers meet, kisses speak
ouder than words.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

The condition of heather women in
foreign lands today demands that the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28

Be sure you're right-then don't Lose
your head.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-28
OFFICIAL ORGAN.
City OF Americas,
Sumter County.
Wahsfar County

Railroad Commission Of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
q. s. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-24
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
fErnrn The Trihnna Eureau- |


Washington, March 23.-The French Am
bassador and Nine. Jusserand entertained
at dinner tonight Senator and Mrs Will
lam Alden Smith, Senator and Mrs. Frank
O. Briggs, the Swiss Minister, Nine. Eken-
gren, Representative and Miss Cannon,
Representative and Mrs. Foss, Representa-
tive and Mrs. James r. Mann, Representa-
tive jefferson NJ. Levy, Baron de BGde,
Russian military attache, and his sister,
Baroness Elizabeth de Bode; Mrs. J. ID.
McIachlan, Mr. and Mrs. Julius &. Bur-
rows, Mr.. and Mrs. William b. Ridgey.
Miss Lay and Mr. de Perett de la Rocca,
French counsellor
The Mexican Ambassador and the Swed-
ish charge d'afaires have been the objects
OF attention from members of the diplo-
matte corps and society in general to-day,
the Mexican Amba ssador receiving the re-
grets OF his many Washington friends over
the report from Mexico of his immediate
transfer to Vienna, and Mr.. Ekengren being
congratulated on his promotion to the rank
of minister in Washington. Mr.. Ekengren
is now in the West. but will return shortly.
Nine Ekengren was Miss Jackson, of
Washington. Senior Crespo will not go TO a
new field I'm Austria, as his wife and chill
dren are now in Vienna.
The French military atache and Count
ess de Chambrun and their children will
return tomorrow from Cincinnati, where
they are the guests of Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, the mother of the countess.
The.Danish Minister and Countess Moltke
entertained informally at dinner tonight.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-24
THE MAINE REMEMBERED.

With beautiful and appropriate cere-
monies all that remained Of those gal
liant sailors who on February 10, 1898,
went down in the battleship Maine were
laid to rest in the Arlington Nation
al Cemetery yesterday. The nation
honored itself in honoring those brave
men. and 1t will be the occasion OF last
ing satisfaction TO every patriotic Amer
lean that the ill.fated ship which too
long remained their tomb has been bur-
led at sea, as becomes a naval vessel
with military honOrs, while the bodies
of the men have been placed at rest on
the banks Of the Potomac, almost within
the shadow of the Capitol, and among
the many heroes who have given their
lives on sea and land to preserve the
Union for which these men also died.
The bitterness Of the cry Remember
the Mainew has yielded TO the softening
influences Of time. and only reverence
and sorrow marked the remembrance OF
the Maine beside the fresh graves at
Arlington yesterday. The Maine has
been remembered. not in anger but In
grief. not in passion but with sweetness.
not in chagrin but in pride. that then,
as always. brave Americans stood ready
TO do their duty, however hazardous,
and to do it bravely.
And in remembering the dead 1t Is
also well to remember the men who for
many years have sought, in season ana
out. TO gain from Congress such practi-
cal remembrance as made yesterday :
services possible. Two years ago yes
terday the untiring efforts Of Represen-
tative Loud. Of Michigan, aided by
Representative Sulzcr. of this city. cul-
minated in success. and after an elo-
Uuent speech in the House by Mr.. Loud
the bill was passed making adequate
provision for the raising Of the Maine
and the honorable burial Of her dead by
a vote Of 115 TO t. It is a poetic coinci-
dence that exactly two years from the
passage Of the Loud bill the final SER
vices in that sad chapter Of American
history should take place.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-24

Park. Artists find in Staten Islano the
rus in mbe as dear to them. and as nee
essary. as TO the poets themselves. Inc
birds chirp there as blithely for arr Is
for poesy and in its meadows and on ltS
hills painters and illustrators draw from
life the tethered COW in her natural en-
virOnment.
staten Island needs no fictitious ear'h-
Quake TO establish its Importance among
the boroughs of this city. IT has It's
great retaining wall at 81. George. with'
say some. n bulge in il that Is ample
proof Of its s,iperabundancc OF artistic
temperament. though posterity, no douht,
will point to that bulge rs evidence of
the earthquake instead. staten lsiand
owns the Bay Of New York. both upper
and lower or. at least. the Staten ISL
anders believe that il does. to hear them
talk. II has probably the greatest coal
deposit In the greater city right at lis
doors. Why. with all its artistic ana
natural riches. should IL claim an earth
quake to which it has no right!
New-York tribune., 1912-03-24
AT THE WHITE HOUSE,
rrro,, The Tr,hune Bureau1

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington, March 23--The President
and Secretary HilIes attended the services
over the Maine dead, going to Arlington Ma
tonal Cemetery for the burial.
President Taft will probably send to CON-
eress early next week another tariif mes
sage. transmitting the report of the Tar1f
Board on the cotton schedule. \ synopsis
Of the report has been before Mr.. Tart Tor
several days and this afternoon Professor
Emery and A. II. Sanders laid the fun re-
port before him
A special musical programme has peeh
arranged by the Fisk Jubilee Singers Tor
next Monday night at the First Congrega-
tional Church. and President Taft has been
invited to be present.
Senator Luke Lea and a delegation from
Tennessee asked the President to place the
name Of DR.. Lucius Brown. superintendent
of tho Pure Food Bureau of Tennessee. on
the list Of those to he considered FOR chlet
Of the bureau of chemistry
REPRESENTATIVE Smith, OF Michigan. IN
troduced to the President Ex-Governor war
ner, Justice Stone. of the Michigan SUI
preme Court, and c. w. Ward, OF Pontlac'
Among the White House callers were
Francis b. Loomis, Senators Warren, Percy
and Gallnger and Representatives Esch'
Lobeck, Burke, Humphrey and Knowland'
Edward c. Westman Henry Henschen
and John f. Ericsson told the President TO-
day that the Swedish-American Republican
Club of Chicago. which he recently ad-
dressed. had decided to present TO the
Smithsonian Institution two noted oil PANT
ings-one Of the fight between the Monitor
and the Merrimac and the other of Ericsson
the inventor of the Monitor.
Mr. and Mrs. Dumalne. Of Boston, VINO
were the guests Of the President and Mrs
Taft over night, returned to their home to-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Taft and Horace
Taft. who were White House guests, re-
turned to Cincinnati to-day.
The President and Mrs. Taft occupied
box at the opera this evening. They had
with them the Assistant Secretary OF the
Navy and Mrs. Beekman Winthrop, Miss
Maury and Lieutenant Rockwell. Mrs. Taft
was at the opera this afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-24
I STOCK WATERING STATUTE.

IT is unfortunate that the 1st and 2d
District Public Service commissions
should differ ON So important a matter
rs She regulation Of securities issued in
reorganization Of corporations under
their jurisdiction. II is more unfOrt-
innate that the Legislature should have
passed the Pollock bill affecting such
regulation. i'm view Of the contention Of
The 1st District Commission that II would
permit the capitalization of franchises.
II would be most unfortunate for Gov
ernor Dix to sign il if there is a scintilla
of evidence that ii could he construed
as the city commission contends.
And there is much such evidence. In
deed. il is somewhat hard to see how the
upstate commissions lawyers can Justify
the statement that under the terms of
the bill franchises could not he capital
ized in reorganization Of public service
corporations and all the evils of unre-
Stricted stock watering inflicted on the
public. This measure stipulates that the
amount of capitalization I'm reorganiza-
tion of public service corporations shall
mot exceed the fair value Of the prop
"erty involved" considering original cost,
cost of duplication. present condition,
earning power land all other relevant
matters and any additional sum or
sums as shall be actually paid in cash"
Corporation lawyers and the courts are
In agreement that a franchise is prop
L. 4. hot ,,.;th 10,
so worded on the statute books any cor
poration lawyer advising his clients in
issuance of securities TO float bank
rupt corporation would not tell them to
capitalize the franchises? Is il cOnceiv-
able that the clients would not do this,
or would not fight in the courts any eff
fort of the commissions to cut such capi-
talizatiOn out of the reorganization
scheme? Is 1t conceivable that the
courts. in view of their former decisions,
would not decide against the commits
sions under such a law?
The Public Service commissions law
specifically forbids the issuance of securi-
ties against franchise values by new
corporation under the jurisdiction OF the
commissions, thus defining the states
policy on the question of franchise capi-
talization. 1t is not to be assumed for
a minute that In the face Of this the
advocates of the Pollock bill would try
10 Justify capitalization Of franchises,
with the attendant evil Of enforced pay
ment Of profits by the ultimate con
sumer' on the capital thus inflated. The
Pollock bill. indeed, was designed and
supposedly ifs introducer to give 10 the
commissions the same power TO regulate
securities issues and prevent stock water
ing III reorganizations which they al
ready possess in the formation OF new
companies. Senator Pollock Is now suf-