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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-09
FORCES AT THE POSTCFf|CE
BUSTED With SANTA'S MAIL
Adequate Force and Equipment Will ExpGdate the DeIiv.
cry Of Christmas Packages New Wagon Ready for
Service Only the Cooperation of Public is Needed
Needed to the End of Ixpediating the Handling of
Packages

The Americas postoffice is already
the scene of activity, indicating the
near approach of the holiday season
and consequent rush OF business
there, and while this is going to be
greater than ever before, Postmaster
Davenport and mis- able corps of as
sistants will be more than equal to
the occasion and, with the co-opera-
ton of the public, will handle the holt
day business there expeditiously.
Than the Americas Office, no other
in the state in a city of like size is
better equipped and prepared for
handling the holiday mails and es-
pecially, the voluminous parcel post
business, which is increasing daily.
There will be no belated Christmas
gifts this year." Postmaster Daven-
port said yesterday to Times-Re-
corder reporter 1--WE want to see to
it that those who are so fortunate as
t. receive a gift, get it not later than
Christmas day"
The automobile mail truck secur-
ed by Postmaster Davenport is about
ready for service, and will be in
stalled in day or two This truck
built to order at the Stapleton-R ees
garage, will greatly facilitate the de-
livery of packages in the city, ami
will make trips as often as required.
Realizing that more pleasure is de-
rived out of anticipation than in pos
session, a fad has been instituted this
Christmas season in that tickets have
been printed on which is Not to be
opened until Christmas Day." These
are placed on the parcel post gifts and
hundreds are being sent before Christ
mas Day, to be opened on December
25th.
Hundreds of such parcels are being
handled through the Americas post
office daily and the number is increas-
ing. Shoppers may have the mer-
chants place such stickers on the arLi
cles they purchase and have them
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-09
YOU CAN'T BLAME HIM
FOR POOR OPINION OF
SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY
CANADIANS PROUD BOAST THAT
HE NEVER WORKED IN HIS LIFE
is SHATTERED

Gulfport, Miss, Dec. AT the Off
cial request of Mayor Bouslog, l..
Lockwood will break the habit of a
lifetime when he begins work on the
streets today The mayors request
will be backed up by marshal with
a gun in his handkerchief pocket.
Lockwood boosted that he had never
done a lick of work in his life.
Lockwood was arrested and taken
efore the mayor on a charge of vag-
fancy. He was indignant at the &C
c1sation He said that his home was
in Canada and that he was basking
the sunlight of the gulf coast, in
stead Of petting chilblains, because
's doctor had ordered him south for
his health
you look strong" unused the mayor.
YES" admitted Lockwood, patroniz-
ingly, your climate down here has
done wonders for me-"
And" continued the mayor, 81 think
all you need to restore yourself to
Perfect health is some exercise. Til
add ten days at hard labor on our
streets to the prescription of youi
Canadian doctor"
But, sir" said Lockwood, drawing
himself SO proudly that the nail that
was holding his trousers threatened
to give way. II have never done
lick of work in my life"
Mayor Bouslog said he'd never re-
form any younger, and the sentence
stood.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-09
WOMEN NOT WANTED ON
FORCE, If TOO LARGE
.Skirted Club SWingerS Are
Thus Barred

Chicago, Dec 8.-Fat policemen ma,
be all right, but fat policewomen vii
not allowed. This is the dictun
promulgated today when physical e.l
aminations for the newly created Jobs
of policewomen were held.
The tests brought 300 applicants
and gerater variety of women thar
the police department thought existed
The rules require that policewomer
shall be lis to 1870 pounds in weight
no less, no more.
A slender girl of SO pounds tried for
d star. She couldn't get past the test
however, and was followed by a gen
erously proportional woman who
weighed in at 213 pounds.
Wont do" said Secretary Widow
son, of the Civil Service Commission
TOO heavy"
ooh! can take off that much
weight easy" the applicant assured
him
well, if you do you ought to quail
fly for fat-r9ducing expert, not a
policewoman," said the secretary.
The requirements state that the
use of legs, arms, hands and feet must
be full and complete" 1t is also stat
ed that ANY physical characteristic
that might interfere with good, active
service or affect appearance, such IA
hammertoe or 1atfoot," will prevent
the applicant from passing the exami-
nation.
In the test of physical strength the
women are required to lift 35-pound
dumbbells and to show their agility ~
hopping across the floor.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-09

An outing means being out just so
much money.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01
SECUTED BY RELATIVES
SZECHENYI DIVORCE
Report that Count Lost Millions Of
Wfe's Money IN Speculation
Also Denied.

New York, July 31-The report from
Paris that Countess Lazlo Szechenyi. who
was Gladys Vanderbilt. seeks a divorce or
separation from her husband was posi-.
lively denied today by those very near to
them on both sides OF the Atlantic
With equal positiveness 1t was denied
that the count has lost in speculation
millions of his wife's money besides the
fortune she brought to him as an anti
nuptial settlement.
So far from the Szechenyis being I'M
happy, their close friends said by cable
and in interviews here that the countess
and her husband await lonsinsly the COM
ing Of pledge OF their affections Both
pray that the child will be a boy
Married at the Cornelius Vanderbilt
house. 1 West Fifty-seventh Street, in
January. 1903. two daughters have bless
ed the union. The children were here
with their parents last summer.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt, brother Of the
countess, simply laughed at the rumors
at Long Branch today. So did Seward
Webb. the countess nephew.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01
Great Hotels and Still Greater.

Articles on the Astor House, New
York, during the first half of the last
century have recently been republished
apropos of the pending removal of the
structure, and they agree as to its
'vastness" and its "sumptuousness.'
These descriptions of what was Amer
ica's leading hotel for decades cause
the present generation to smile. The
Astor House easily might be hidden
away in a corner of one of its modern
neighbors. But this could be said as
truly of many of the leading hotels of
later period. The Fifth Avenue
Hotel, once believed enormous, was
overshadowed twenty-five years ago.
Former great and gorgeous hotels in
other cities have passed through the
same experience. The old fremont
House in Boston, the Grand Pacific
Hotel in Chicago, the Lindell or the
old Painters in St. Louis, the Planters
in New Orleans, the original Palace
Hotel in San Francisco, the old Will
lard and Arlington in Washington, and
a score of other famous hotelries of
forty and fifty years ago would make
a poor showing alongside the present.
day buildings.
In New York another magnificent
hotel is to be erected on the east side
of Broadway, from Forty-fourth to
Forty-ffth Street. although it already
looks to the stranger in that city as
if it could now provide hotel accom-
modations for a nation. In London
a hotel to cost approximately S6,25o.ooo
is to be erected on Constitution Hill,
opposite the entrance to Hyde Park,
although it seems as if it could now
provide accommodations for an empire.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01
DIAPHANOUS SKIRT
LOSES BALL GAME
South Norwak Players Just Couldn't
Catch Flies and Sun Worship at
the Same Time.

South Norwalk, Conn, July a.-One of
those modern diaphanous skirts caused
the loss Of ball game here this after
noon. 1t was the last half of the ninth
inning, and the Westports. who were in
the field, were five runs in the lead. when
q fetching little damsel tripped upon the
field and took a point Of vantage near
the third base, said point being directly
between the setting sun and the players.
The Nationals, who were at the bat,
hit ball after ball, and every rap went
clear to the fence. About the time the
score was tied, Manager McArdle went
upon the field and Joined the sun wor-
shippers.
Hereafter. however. he intends to keep
each diaphanous skirt safely housed in
the grand stands.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01

=
whether it does so morally. All this
has merely been assumed BY the Eu-
ropean nations as an equity in return
for the "hands of" peremptofily
stipulated.
But, granted that this were so. we
think that the United States fulflls
its duty at least every bit as well as
the European powers have discharged
theirs. The states who are implicated
in the present reign of terror in the
Balkans are the wards of the Eu-
ropean concert, which is morally-to
some extent also legally-responsible
for their conduct, a responsibility
which was recognized by the Treaty
of Berlin. Now that the peninsula is
ravaged by the second war within q
year, and atrocities, and murder, and
worse are committed by Christian
toward Christian, such as the world
but rarely has witnessed, the powers
say that they can do nothing, the stu
alton having got beyond their control.
Matters in Latin America often are
pretty bad, but they are lot worse
than the brutalities practiced under the
federation of the European Concert"
Our Monroe doctrine as a "restain-
ing bluff" will continue to do very
nicely.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01

The patrician pig is an Illustration Of
the fact that man, when he arises early
in the morning and moveth himself
arisht, can make Nature look like rank
amateur.
Nature has been producing pigs for
Thousands Of years with about the same
degree of success. Ten thousand years
of practice has enabled Nature to turn
out q pig which was worth about NI.So
after II had died in a high falsetto voice.
On the other hand. man. with a few dec
AIDES Of effort, has now invented and per-
fected a hog which weighs as much as q
small, automobile, and il worth twice a.
much money.
The patrician pig II q pig with family
tree. He can tracs his ancestry back
twenty generations, and said ancestry u
on ale in the State archives. He Ii the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. grandson Of an
eminent hog, and in q FEW years he VIII
be the great great-great-sreat grand
father of a carload Of perfect pigs. which
will die 30 probably that their owner
win double his bank account and begin
to start q little ancestry investigation on
his own account.
For hundreds Of years the ordinary pig
has lived In Q mud puddle and eaton gar
basG But the patrician pig u miles
above this. He lives In hog house with
bedding. b fed on selected menus. and -
manicured carefully by attendants. On
hts legs he carries enough ham for LOU
sandwiches, and his fat sides would pro-
vide bacon enough for a thousand break
fastA But the patrician pig 10 too val
uable to die. His mission II to live and
become an ancestor. And many an anx.
ious farmer has risen on Q cold winter
nisht and unwrappsd Q blanket from his
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01
TWO AMEICAN WOMEN
VICTIMS OF BANDITS
IN MEXICAN STATE

Mexico City. July s1.-Americans and
other foreigners In Vera Cruz are up in
arms over the mistreatment accorded two
American women living in Coco, in the
State OF Vera Cruz. Word Of their as
sault reached here today.
Many Of the timid foreigners are al
ready leaving that State and making
their way out OF Mexico. The more de-
termined are staying behind. and threat
en- to avenge the assault committed by
the bandits. The names of the women
were not contained in the dispatch re-
ceived here.
Foreigners in the capital are still anN-
iouslysawaiting the next move by Presi-
dent Wilson, and express the belief that
should II not be favorable to the Huerta
government, anti-American demonstra-
lions will take place.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01
MURPHY Offers
TO Go ON STAND
Tammany Boss, lnfuriated 1t
Suher's Charges, Breaks
Lifelong Policy.
WRITES TO FRAwLEY
Widespread Astonishnsnt IN New
York Over Action # Tiger
Chieftain.
WRITES TO FRAWLEY

Albany. N. T., July 1.-Lashed into .
fury by Gov. Sulzer's accusations.
Charles +. Murphy, for the first time in
his life. offered today to 90 on the wit.
ness stand and answer questions.
This offer, coming from Murphy. has
caused widespread establishment. Ii made
in the following letter to Senator Fraw.
ley. chairman Of the legislative commit.
tee. seeking evidence upon which to
break the Governor.
New York. July 81. 1915.
Hon. James ]. Frawley, Senate Cham
Der. Albany, N. Y.
Dear sir: This mornings papers report
Cow Sulzer as saying that. large con-
fceholders. the special interests, and
prominent Democrats. interested in the
campaiRn. were made through the bag
man direct to Mr.. Murphy
These insinuations are untrue II
Gov. Sulzer has any information as to
misconduct on my part relating to carr
paign contributions request him to fur
nish II to your committee and will sp-
pear for examination at any time. Yours
truly.
CHARLES r. MURPHY"
Next In importance was the statement
by Gov. Sulzer that he did not sign the
letter bearing his signature and sent t<
Abram I. Elkus in Acknowledgement OF
his contribution. His confidential secretary
Louis A. Sarecky signed many Of his
letters during his absence from the city.
The hearings Of the committee on the
subject Of campaign funds will be held
in New York in the future. beginning
on Wednesday. and Mr.. Murphy, II he
appears. will not be subjected to the
necessity of travelling to Albany, which
he has visited only once since the in.
stallation Of the Governor.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01
CAPITAL Club hangs
crepe ON Front DOOR
Only Few Of Old Guard Sit Up At
Wake"-Ephrain Last Per.
son to Leave.
LAST RAY OF HOPE FADED

Unable to exist under the drastic PRO-
visions Of the new excise law, the Capt.
tai Club. 1913 Pennsylvania Avenue, hung
the crepe on the front door at 1:01 O'Clock
this morning. The club had died . nat
ural death. and only q few of the old
guard were present at the obsequies.
The organization, which was the out
growth Of the old National Republican
Club. which died" about November Z.
Isl2-the day before the Democratic pie
counter opened-had enjoyed q short but
sweet life. its demise being due to q
tendency Of its members to refrain from
paying dues and other debts. Six months
or 80 ago the rent was cut in half and
the outlook was bright. but soon various
debts accumulated. and a gentlemtn from
the marshars office invaded the domain
and walked out with q nice, shiny cash
register which housed the afternoon re-
CENTS. S.G
The board Of governors sent out
notices In effect that they feared the club
was about due for q certificate of death
from natural causes. but still held out
hope. Inc board met Wednesday night
and after . long and sad session. IL was
decided to hold the wake" last night
So the lights went out at 1:01 this morn
Ing and old Ephraim. a sort of fixture
around the place, closed the front door.
wondering why dem exercise fellows Is
% mean"
The old quarters over Loughran's to-
bacco emporium has seen many famous
in its time. For sixteen years
Republicans of all sorts and conditions
used to meet there. talk about prosperity
and other things that the grand old
party enjoyed. Twenty-Five years ago
the old National Press Club. known all
over the land. occupied the rooms. Later
the Iroquois Club came into existence.
and was followed by the Calumet. the
Garrick. and the National
all Of which had their finan-
cial difficulties at different times. much
like the wake" that took place this
II was announced last night that the
quarters have been taken over by the
Express Spark Plug Company Of Amer
lea, q local concern, which was recently
at 500, 1000. The company's
officers are: c. Hugh Duffy, president:
John Loughran, vice president: John c.
Keane. secretary. and F. W. Plugge,
treasurer.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01
FRIDAY. AUGUST /. 1913.
Free Lumber.

The Democrats have placed lumber
on the free list. Their action is I'M
questionably justified. 1t is a COM
mendable move from the standpoint
of the conservation of our natural re-
sources. Free trade with Canada in
forest products" Senator La Toilette
said in 1911, would replenish our own
timber supply fo- a period sufficient to
enable our own forests to produce
again"
Another argument in favor of free
lumber has been furnished by the re-
cent report of the Bureau of Corpora
tons on THE Lumber Industry" II
treats chiefly of the control of our
timber supply. Its findings are star
Ting. To wary ears, on which the
current denunciations of trust control
fall indifferently, the message of this
report is remarkable. The foremost
facts of the report are:
Il. The concentration of a dominat-
ing control of our standing timber in
a comparatively few enormous hold
ings, steadily tending toward a CEN
trail control of the lumber industry.
81. Vast speculative purchase and
holding of cumberland far in advance
of any use thereof.
IS. An enormous increase in the
value of this diminishing natural re-
source, with great profits to its own
ers. This value, by the very nature
of standing timber, the holder neither
created nor substantially enhances"
Some idea may be obtained of this
control by reciting the holdings of one
of a number of the large companies.
The timber land owned by the South
ern Pacific Company stretches all the
way from Portland, Greg, to Sacra-
mento, Cal, a distance of 6S2 miles.
The tract is about sixty miles wide.
The company is not selling this timber,
but holding it for speculation.
Free trade in lumber will have little
direct effect on the control of the
timber supply, but it may bring the
consumer some relief and open the
way for meeting the dangers of vast
centralized control of a natural re-
source
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01
Monroe Doctrine vs.. European
Concert.

1t may be profitable at this period
to compare the Monroe doctrine as
adopted ninety years ago as an Offset
to the "Holy Alliance" of Europe,
with the relation of that challenge to
the present Concert of Powers"
Whenever Europe finds itself in
volved with one of the Latin-Ameri-
can nations the complaint is heard that
the United States fails to act the
part of an international police toward
the countries protected by the Monroe
doctrine, to keep them Tranquil to
make them pay their obligations, and,
above all, to assure to European capi-
tai safe investment The doctrine does
not impose such a duty upon this gov
ernment and it is open to question
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01
Billboards and Bad Eyes.
From the Chicago Record Herald

From the Chicago cord-Herald
DR.. Burr Weaver, former president Of
the Illinois State Society of Optometrists,
addressing his colleagues on the subject
of eye strain. indicts the billboards with
point and vigor.
Street car sickness is entirely due to
eye strain. The rapid shifting Of vision
and the efforts of persons riding on the
cars to read signs and billboards, which
meet their eyes almost every time they
look out of the windows, strain the
eyes. The rapid contraction of the mus
cles results in eye strain and headaches"
The victim of this urban habit is help
less, moreover. because it Is natural for
the eye to read any printed matter that
comes within range. All persons who
have astigmatism have q special grew
ance against the billb6ards, and most Of
them have learned 1t long since from
experience. The billboard has been at
tackled on many grounds heretofore, but
the damage it does to the eyes is not the
least serious Of all, though the least en-
phasized.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01
FORCED TO SUPPORT
GIRL HIS AUTO HIT
California Man, intoxicated at Wheel,
Given Choice Of Paying Victim
or Going to Jail.

Los Angeles. July 31.-Convicted Of
driving his automobile while intoxicated
and causing an accident which probably
crippled Miss Olive Davis for life, ]. S.
McNutt was today given a five-year sus-
pended sentence by Superior Judge VIII
bur on condition that he pay the girl
$50 q month and settle her hospital bin.
While McNutt and the Davis girl with
two companions were motoring on the
San Fernando boulevard recently the
machine skidded and turned over, throw
ing the girls fully fifty feet.
Miss Davis suffered a broken spine
and that her life was saved, physicians
say. by a miracle. The evidence showed
that McNutt was intoxicated. Instead
Of going to prison he is to enjoy his
liberty on condition that he support the
injured girl.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01
Weather Bureaus New Chief.

The new chief of the Weather Blu
reau seems to be the right man in the
right place. Prof. Marvin has been
connected with this branch of the gov
eminent service from the time when
it was a military bureau under the
War Department. He has won reoog-
milton through administrative ability
and scientific work, inventing instru-
ments which contributed materially to
the growth of meteorological knowl-
edge.
Mr.. Marvin has reputation among
men of science for his experiments,
his writings. and his special knowledge
of the work which is to be intrusted
TO his charge. The terrible storm in
this city on Wednesday and its havoc
and loss of life show that much needs
TO be done for the improvement of the
forecasts and reports of the bureau
which comes near 70 many business,
and on land and sea touch many
properties and not few lives. There
is little in this world which interests
so many persons every day as does
the weather. 1t was high time for
Willis Moore to have a successor; and
a most competent and accomplished
one has been provided.
1t is gratifying to learn that under
the new chief more attention will be
given to making the bureaus reports
of practical value to agriculture. That
is the bureaus most important func-
ton, and it was lost sight of, to some
extent, during the incumbency of Mr..
Marvin's predecessor.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01
A Lesson in Charity.

The Mont de Piete, the great
municipal pawnshop in Paris, is the
survival of an old bank conducted by
a religious order established to fight
usury. This benevolent enterprise was
discontinued, 20 be started afresh un-
der the direction of the government in
1901, when Napoleon was near the
height of his glory. The profits go
to the state and to charity; to the
public aid department and to the hos
pitals of Paris.
These charities benefit to the extent
of about $4,000 a year. The storage
facilities of the Mont de Pete are ad-
mirable. The Frenchman may pawn
his feather bed. When it comes back
to him, it, as we'll as the mattresses,
blankets, and all bed furnishings, has
been thoroughly cleaned and disin-
fected The rate of interest on loans
is small and it encourages, by all pos
sible means, the redemption of the
goods on which money has been ad-
vanced.
As the Mont de Pete advances
money only on conservative valuation.
as a rule to the value of two-thirds of
the article pawned, there is generally
a surplus to go to the pawner if the
pledge is sold. Municipal pawnshops
in Berlin charge II per cent, in Brus-
sells 7 per cent, in Madrid E per cent.
In London for small loans the pawn
shop rate is from 400 to 1000 per
cent per annum.
The Washington herald., 1913-08-01
WOULD BAR SEX PROBLEM
STORIES FROM MAILS
Purity Lsasus 4 New Ysrk Urges
Psstnatss Cssssal b Exsreiss
Csasssship Over Pesisd;eals.

New York. July u.-Through appea.s
made to Postmaster General Burieson by
cmcials Of the National Christian League
LOT the Promotion Of Purity. the United
stato government 10 urged to estab.
nsn Censorship over magazines to pre-
vent the too free discussion OF sex
proniems- Specific complaints are filed
AGAINST the Forum. the Saturday Even.
ING Fost and another weekly mag
the Tiger" which appeared in the
Forum for May. 10 cited az the most OBJ
1ectionabls style OF fiction. Miss Jean
stesd. OF the Purity League, refers to
the one-act drama. which was written
~ writer 5ynner as garbage" within
the covers Of . periodical. whose stvIe.
reputation, and history have been such
that few parents would take the pre-
caution Of examining It before placing
1t I'm the family library"