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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-16
COUNTY FAIR WILL Be
HELD HERE NEXT FALL
Many Agencies at Work to Secure Fair For Amprjcus :
Board Of Trade Will Back II, Also AmerCus and
Sumter County Hospital Association

IT is a pretty we'll established fact
that Americus will have next fall a
we'll organized and creditable fair, If
tha efforts of the Board of Trade and
tbe ladies of the Hospital association
10 that end meet with success.
The ladies of the Hospital associa-
zion have been interested for some
time in securing a fair to be given
pnder their auspices and to be made
d permanent organization. This would
undoubtedly secure very wide and
generous patronage from the people
of both the city and county.
The Board of Trade is now behind
the project to secure a fair here next
fall. and the aid of this trade organ
ization will add materially to the
success of any movement with this
end in view. If the fair association
can once be organized and financed
srccessfully, it may be made perma-
rent with proper management.
If the Hospital association organ
ICES the work, it will secure a valua-
ble source of revenue and help in pop
ularizing the worthy cause for which
it stands and which 1t has supported
so successfully and energetically i'll
the past. The ladies of the organiza-
ton are heartily in favor of getting
Up sufficient pledges in order to pub
lish soon a list of prizes to be Offer
ed the farmers of the county.
The need of publishing this list
now, and of securing sufficient funds
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: pledged to insure the success of the
plan is urgent. The publication of
large and attractive prize list now
would do much toward arousing a
widespread interest in the fair, espe-
clally in the way of securing compel.
tive products of agriculture. which
is an important feature of the work,
Another feature, which was sugges-
ted in connection with the proposed
fair last fall, for which $1,000 was
actually pledged through the efficient
work of Mr.. G. V. Cunningham, was
the Inauguration of a parade. This
parade would consist of floats of va
rious kinds, and prizes were to be
offered for the most attractive floats
Of different kinds. In connection with
this it was urged that it would do
u!ore to arouse interest in the fair
IL the city than anything else, as dec
Grated automobile floats could be en-
tered, thereby arousing much interest
end lively competition among the la
dies of the city.
The organization of the fair will be
taken up pretty soon, and it is hoped
that it will be rapidly pushed to sue
cessful completion, as it should mean
much toward the development of this
section. Sumter county is notably
lacking in the interest and support
that it is giving to the plan of holding
& county fair, and it is felt that this
lethargy should be speedily overcome
and eliminated.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-16
VACANCIES IN
The SCHOOLS
NOW FILLED
AT RECENT BOARD Meeting
Eight New Teachers We're
Chosen

All vacancies in the faculties of the
grammar and high school departments
of the Americus public schools were
filled by the board of education yes
terday in special session. Six teach
ers for the grammar school and two
for the high school were elected and
the list of teachers for the next year
is complete.
Following are the young lady teach
ers chosen for the grammar school
grades:
Miss Inez Brantley, Halcyondale,
Ca; Miss Emile Binion, Evergreen,
Ala; Miss Edna Condor, Palmetto,
Ga; Miss Louise Hemingway, Perry,
Ga; Miss Ruth Wynn, Madison, Ca;
Miss Lille Williams, Eatonton, Ga.
To positions in the high school, Mr..
u. G. Clements, of Mt. Airy, and Mr.
c. NJ. Hale, Of Marshallville, were
elected The eight teachers chosen
have had experience and training in
the departments over which they will
preside here, and come highly recon-
mended as to their capabilities.
Mr.. Clements is a recent graduate
OF Mercer University, where he was
tutor during portion of his college
course. Mr.. Hale is Virginian, but
Tor several years has been teaching
IN Georgia. Both gentlemen brinS
The best testimonials.
The selection of the eight teachers
was made by the board of education
from large list of applications com
Ing from this and other states. Th'
nigh standing of the Americus school
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Calvary Episcopal Church.

Rev. James B. Lawrence, rector
Sunday school at GAS o'clock.
Holy Communion at Z o'clock; Sun
day school at GAS o'clock; morning
prayer, litany and sermon at IL
o'clock; evening prayer at o'clock.
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Presbyterian Church.

Rev. j. W. Stokes, pastor. Morning
sermon at II o'clock; evening sermon
at 8 o'clock. Sunday school at $3.50
o'clock L. P. Gartner, superintend-
en5 Prayer meeting on Thursday
evening at o'clock.
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First Methodist Church.

Rev. o. B. Chester, pastor. Morn
ing sermon at II o'clock; evening SER
men at 8 o'clock. Sunday school at
$3.50 o'clock. T. NJ. Furlow, superin-
tendent Prayer meeting on Wedncs-
day evening at 5 o'clock.
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First Baptist Church.

Rev. Lansing Burrows. pastor. Nor
ming sermon at II o'clock; evening
sermon at s o'clock. Sunday school
at $50 o'clock, T. F. Gatewood, super
intendent. Prayer meeting on Thurs
day evening at O'Clock.
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FurIow Lawn Baptist church. =

Rev. r. L. Bivins, pastor Morning
sermon at II o'clock; evening sermon
at o'clock; Sunday school at $3.50
o'clock, R. L. Maynard superinteni-
ent. Prayer meeting on wednesday
evening at o'clock.
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IN LOCAL CHURCHES

in each month at 10 o'clock, a. m,
celebrated by Rev. Father Schonhardt,
of Albany. Low mass each Monday
morning at o'clock, following the
Sundays upon which services are held
in this edifice.
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Y. NJ. C. A.

Murray Dunn, Secretary. Reading
room open from until 7 o'clock in
the afternoon. Afternoon services have
been discontinued for the summer.
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is widely known and recognized, ami
there is never any difficulty expert
enced in securing all the teachers re-
Quired. ...
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Christian Science Church.

Morning services today at IL
o'clock; evening services ON Wednes-
day only.
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Catholic Chureh.

Low Mass first and third Sundays
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Continued on Page Threel
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21
ClSSORED
AOtnEA3S|
COOPERATION.


We have no time nor patience with
the far-fetched academic theories of
men in our own ranks who are ever
ready to show the folly of the work
ers doing anything but along their
narrow way that has deep gulches
on either side into which every her
etc" is thrown.
And because of this viewpoint, we
encourage every move of the work
ers to do something for themselves,
and fight every hereto hunter" to
the best of our ability. The present
effort of building tradesmen, for in
stance, to maintain cooperative
and building construction company
should be encouraged. There is a
greater THING involved than the
workers who are stockholders in this
company. These men are only indi-
viduals, but they are attempting to
stand alone-to cooperate, to pull
together, to discipline themselves. If
they succeed, it will be an inspiration
to others. If industry is to be ever
conducted on the cooperative basis
workers must be all those things
that the building tradesmen are
striving to do.
True cooperation will never be
made possible by the government
standing over us with a huge 'gad''
to drive us on through system of
laws and set rules.
That's why we so strongly urge
union label agitation alone for
the direct benefit, but to teach
workers they must organize their
purchase power-that they must
practice cooperation here as they
must in every other field of activity
i before they are real, constructive
power. tt
We may dodge these responsible
ties with a whoop and hurrah, but
our opponents have long since taken
our measure. They know our limita
lions, and we only fool ourselves
when we create an artificial and
temporary sentiment by hot speech
es and the passage Of blistering res
olutions.. The boss quietly laughs a
these attempts to scare him-Amal
gamated Journal.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21
E HoodIu1nisln|
An Interview with Lena Morrow Lewis

cessity of the social and political in
situations of society conforming to,
the economic change.
'The idealists will tell you that
deep down in the heart of every hui
man being is the instinct of brother
ly love, but the pages of history re-
veal the fact that economic interests
and economic necessity are the
strongest ties that bind men togeth-
er. This is not because of the evil
nj mems hearts, or the lack of good,
but only the inexorable demand of
the law of life.
Fundamental changes in govern
ment, or the rise of new political par
ties always comes as the outgrowth
of economic changes.
"The capitalist system has pro-
duced on the one side it's possessing
class, which operates the industries
and resources for he sake OF profit,
and on the other side the disposed
class, who are dependent upon the
owning class for the right of oppor-
tunity to live.
1.-THE collective ownership Of the
means of life must take the place of
private ownership, for this is the
only program that makes for econ
omic opportunity for the largest
number of people on the earth.
when the Lawrence strikers have
all gone back to work the Socialist
party will still be in the field with
it's educational work and in proper
ton as it gains the confidence and
wins the ear of the general public
win the social revolution be accom-
plished by peaceful methods.
Why Lawrence Strike Is Valuable
eve value the Lawrence strike not
because it is the keynote to the So
cial revolution, but because it brings
/ one phase Of the class struggle more
prominently into the limelight.
s'The. contributions of funds and
clothing and food to the suffering
strikers in Lawrence is splendid
testimony to the humanitarian feel
ing of the masses.
"But as the feelings of mankind are
older than it's intelligence, the organ
lied movement making for real con
structive work will have fewer fol
lowers and make less demonstration
i eve have only to be little more
persistent in our demand for intelli
4 gent action and the workers will
learn that nothing is to be gained by
the destruction Of the things they
will need when they have the power
and intelligence to take possession
Of the. same
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21
Why Smash Your Own
Images!
(By G. H. Lockwood Editor 1.-THE Prophet and the AssY

Some time ago at vaudeville per
Torrance the Ass heard this joke on
an Italian vender of plaster casts. He
tried to sell a bust of George Washing
ton to an American who was not inter-
ested. The Italian persisted and tried
to sell him a bust of Garibaldi, the
great Italian patriot. The American
got mad and threatened to smash the
bust of Garibaldi unless the Italian
cleared out. And at this the Italian
got mad and said if the American
smashed Garibaldi he would smash
George Washington. The American
took him up and dropped Garibaldi on
the floor where the bust fell into sew
eral fragments. At this the Italian
grabbed the bust of Washington and
slammed it on the floor and it flew
into thousand pieces-But the
Joke was on the Italian, for BOTH
BUSTs BELONGED TO HIM.
We hear a good deal lately about
"Sabotage'-which has been defined
as the piece by piece destruction OF
the capitalistic machinery of produc-
ton. We have evne had a gigantic ev-
hibition of this method of hostility to-
wards the master class in the dyna-
mite outrages that have been perpe-
trated by certain misguided members
of the trade unions.
Now the ASS may be shortsighted,
but for the life of him he can't see any
possible GOOD that can come to the
working class from such methods
And he can see the GREATEST POS
sIBLE HARM to the cause of free
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21
BREAKING The SILENCE

The silence has been broken. big
Tooth Much Noise Crazyhorse" has
broken the golden silence all to
smash. After about six weeks of
pres agent work that would have
done credit to Barnum and Bailey,
the monumental fake spraddled all
over every issue that confronts the
American people in his Columbus
speech Feb 81. In words that gave
the lie to his actions while he was
president he made a bid for the
votes of the people. with words
that were calculated to tickle the
ears of duped and gullible people
he attempted to place his iron hell
on their necks and at the same time
put his hand into the pockets of the
special interest that he has always
befriended. As political contor-
ZIONIST Roosevelt is an artist that
demands our admiration. In one
breath he declares that human
rights" should be above property
rights, and in the next he says he
believes in the constitution of the
United States that places property
rights above human rights. He says
the wealth of the nation belongs to
the people but that the wealth OF
the vested interest should be pro-
tected. If the wealth Of this nation
belongs to the people then the vested
interest has no wealth to be pro-
tected. And now the Terrible "Ted-
dy" has Joined his own Ananias club
by becoming candidate for a third
term after declaring several times
that he would not. A man who will
lie will steal and Roosevelt is no ex-
ception to the rule. Wonder how he
expects to square himself on the Al
ton steal and the Tenn. Iron &. Coal
Co. transaction? Before noisy Big
Tooth gets into the White House
again the people will want to know
hte particulars about these things as
well as about the anama Canal steal,
these things have been kept secret,
as it SENS that it was kind of a
family affair of Teddy's; but there
is no doubt that Teddy and the Tafts
got a good fat rake-off. Roosevelt is
just the capitalist hope" They
think by nominating him they will
weaken the socialist, hut they are
mistaken again, we have his measure
and shall read his title clear to the
working people of this country. Mis-
taken again, plutocracy, you will
have to do better than that.-Charles-
ton Labor Argus.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21
CAN MORGAN HELP IT?
(By Guy williams) :

knows he has few friends among the
comon people and that his only
chance is to keep in the good graces
of the monkey dinner crowd.
Morgan stands a chance of being
swamped whatever way he turns. But
for the present delay is golden. All
he needs to do is to get his fat office
boy to keep up the trust busting"
as long as it amuses and satisfies the
people. When this farce-comedy
ceases to entertain the mand they
stop the show, what course will Nor
gan pursue?
/ predict that he will agree to have
the government take over the trusts
to be operated not for profit, but to
give good service at cost. He cannot
help himself. If he goes ahead the
people will become 'unmanageable, :
and if he turns back he win be swept
into obscurity by the enraged stock
holders. ]. P. Morgan is too great
a man to let his opportunity pass and
win probably recommend some prac-
teal solution himself. Probably it
wiz be in the form Of paying an an
nuaT allowance to stockholders. and
turning the trust properties over to
the people.
The past belongs to the incompe-
tent reformers who have proven to
the people the utility Of 'Regula-
ton" and Busting the Trusts.
The future nelonEs e the people
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21

~ HOSE who hope for an early
settlement of the trust ques-
ton will do well to remember that ].
P. Morgan is practically in control
of the Federal government
Morgan and his associates organ
lied many of the trusts that are to- be
sbusted." And who is to bust"
them? Why, the government. That is
to say: Morgan's trusts are to be
'busted" by Morgan's government.
Don't any one laugh They expect us
to take it very seriously. We. must
swallow it all and be as serious as
owls. The laugh has been on us COM
mon plugs up till now. Each OF the
three hundred trusts get q profit out
of us. That means that we must pay
several hundred year for the priv
ilege Of living in ''our" country.
Morgan has sold the stocks of these
corporations to capitalists in the
brief intervals they could spare from
their monkey dinners and dog suppers.
And these capitalists we're told what
big dividends the stocks would bring
them, and if the dividends don't ma
terialize the capitalists viii throw
Morgan out and put others in control.
So poor J. P. is between the Devil
and the peluge. II be cuts down pri-
g. tha d,scontenk Of the stockholders
VIM swamp him; and 4 he does not
cut down price the dlsoonsent Of the
peopis khreatsns ae=.snenon. Hs
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21

- ORIGINATED III
. DUP 1fA6M.lIAJEO
A Cautious estimate.

Sandy was an elder in the church.
and truly pious man. He had an eye
for beauty and a love for it, but he
married Tina because he knew she
would make him an excellent wife.
81 suppose Tina is a handsome
lass?" said sandy's cousin, who met
him in Glasgow not long after the
marriage. and had never seen the
bride. 81 ken we've guide taste. San
dy." ''-
"Aweel," said the bridegroom, eau
tiously, she's the Lords handiwork,
Tammas. I'm no prepared to say she
is His masterpiece. Youths Com
panion.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21
Wise Little Willie


Little Willie was playing one day
with the girl next door when the lat
ter exclaimed:
"Dont you hear your mother call
ing you? That's three times she's
done it. Aren't you going in? Won't
she whip youY
'Naw,'' exclaimed Willie in dis
gust. she amt goin' to whip no
body. She's got company. So when
I go in she'll just say: The poor lit
tie man has been so deaf since he's
had the measles. STRAY Stories.
When Three Were No Crowd
According to an English actor, this
happened in a small theatre in a
small town in provincial England,
where troupe of transformers was
playing to meagre audiences.
The william dragged the shrinking
heroine down the stage to the foot
lights and in her ear he hised:
"Are we alone?"
mo, gov-nor," interrupted the lone
occupant Of the galIerys-"not tonight
you amt; but you will be tomorrow
night"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21
He Was a Record-sreaker

An earnest clergyman one Sunday
morning was exhorting those who
had anxious and troubled conscience
es to be sure and call on their pas
tor for guidance and prayer.
To show you. my brethren, the
blessed results of these visits with
your pastor" said he Il win state to
you that onl yesterday gentleman
Of wealth called upon me for counsel
and instruction: and now today, my
friends today he sits among US, not
onlya Christian, but . happy husband
and father"
A young lady In the audience whis-
pered to g matron: Wasn't that pref
y quick work.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21
ROOSEVELT WAS PRESIDENT

One fact win stand out strong in
spite of the attempt to make Roose-
velt's campaign an idol-worshiping
stampede. That fact is that Theodore
Roosevelt WAS president of the Uni
ted States for more than seven years
and that during those seven years
there came to pass none OF the
great things which are now inferen-
tally promised the American people
If he is put into office again,
During Roosevelt's seven years ad-
ministration at Washington Ameri-
can workingmen suffered the same
low wages, long hours Of work, I'M
sanitary conditions Of residence, un-
employment and other evils incident
70 capitalism.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21

There were strikes and lockouts
and workingmen were beaten with
clubs, shot down by the militia and
enjoined by the courts. just as they
are now being treated at Lawrence,
Massachusetts, and other places.
Roosevelt did nothing to prevent
it. He neither attempted to redress
the particular wrongs of this kind
that occurred during his, administra-
ton nor to lay the foundation for
the prevention of similar wrongs in
the future. ~
A law preventing the issuance of
injunctions in labor disputes could
have been passed during Roosevelt's
administration if he had insisted
upon it, but he did not.
He did not do that, nor did he do
any of those things that are of vital
Importance to the working class, for
the simple reason that he could not.
He was not elected as a representa-
tive of the working class, but as a
representative of a political party
owned by the big business interests.
Roosevelt is a candidate for the
nomination at the hands of the same
party. While that party may permit
Roosevelt to indulge in spectacular
stunts" again, it will not permit him
to go further than before in legisla-
ton for the working class, except to
the extent of those small Concessions
which the growing organization OF
the workers politically has compelled
the capitalists to concede.
The man is of comparatively little
Importance 1t is the party that
counts, and the Republican party Of
1914 will still be the Republican par
ty that ruled the nation when Roose-
welt was president.
Big business men who before OBJ
iected to Roosevelt's antics and de-
nunciations of malefactors of great
wealth are today quite willing to &C
cept him, because they believe that
he can satisfy the people with his
noise and at the same time preserve
the interests of big business-Chica-
go Daily Socialist.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21

dom. In fact he considers sr.s
methods nothing short of class ipsan
ity, and that those who take part in
them, or sanction them, as heinz
more dangerous enemies to- the has,
interests of the working class than tbo
master class itself.
If the theory is true-that all wealth
is created by Labor, and belongs IN
those who create it-then Labor sim,
ply destroys it's OWN and is as fool
ish as the Italian who after HAVING
one of his busts busted busts anotha,
bust-Such bust busting would Ger.
tainly. bust the buster. if he kept It
up very long.
The way it looks to the Ass is this.
The workers should not destroy wba,
they so soon EXPECT TO OWN. AND
CONTROL.
The 'bit by bit destruction" of the
capitalistic political machine is the
line of least resistance. Please read
that over again.
AS long as there is a free ballot boz
where the workers can express their
! n SIS INTERESTS, and legitimate
..icks against the present economic
regime, SO, long is there NO EXCUSE
for resorting to other methods that
bring only temporary relief at the
most-and work untold permanent in.
jury to the working class cause.
When the working class has sense
enough to VOTE for its own interests
ftas a CLASS-TIEN the ASS will take
all responsibility for whatever happens
! afterwards-and NOT BEFORE.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-21

A Socialist View Of the Single Tax
What is the single tax and how
would it affect the farmers? The
single tax is a proposition to have no
taxation except that upon land val
ues. Land in the city would be taxed
very much more than farm land, of
course. Unused land would be taxed
as high as used land Of like value,
the Improvements not being taxed. 1t
would benefit the farmer, in that it
would provide a tax that could be
always located, not an insidious, in
direct tax; it would cause many hold
ing lands out of use for speculation,
to dispose Of them, and so enable
the dispossessed to get land. Social
lists hold that it is not the full rem
edy, because it would leave the profit
system inexistence, yet where it is
to go to referendum, as in oregon,
nearly all Socialists will vote for it.,
believing it to be great advance
over the present tax system.-Appeal
to Reason.