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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03
GOOD MORNING, ARE YOU WELL,

The humanity of the world is divid-
ed into three classes: Well folk, sick
folk and convalescsnts.
Good health is highly priced by
those who have, or have had it.
There are seasons when the jaded
get away from their usual work, for
little while, in search of health. At
all seasons and in all places there are
those who seem to be in search nj
health. At all seasons and in all
places there are those who seem to
be in search of sickness-not inten-
tionally, but because of thoughtless-
ness.
The work of the physician, hereto
fore. has been to cure the sick. His
work, hereafter, will be more largely
in the direction of giving advice as to
the best means of preventing disease,
of discovering early symptoms and of
advising against bad habits. This win
mean more doctors and better doctors.
Most disease is the result of wrong
living. A better civilization, better
adjustment of the individual to his
environment, means better health. I'm
proved sanitation cannot cure all the
ills of a semi-civilized people.
Unfortunately people who live right
are sometimes sick; but bad health is
more often the result of wrong living
uncomfortable homes, poor food, bal
habits, thriftlessness, discomfort poi
sonous animosity and the like. Good
health, speaking broadly, is mainly a
matter of good morals plus a rational
mode of living.
Here's to your health!
Atlanta Constitution.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03
THE NEW SOUTH.
Manufacturers Record.)


The New South. What an awaken
ing. "Old things have passed away;
behold, all things have become new"
new vision; better concept; a
quickened mentality borne on and
supported by a noble purpose to rise
above the ashes of defeat What mag
ranimity as discovered most recently
by the handshake on the old field OF
battle That is the new chivalry that
challenges the admiration of the
world! And what has been done in
commerce, industry and education?
Refer to the records and ascertain As
to the Ne wSouth in it's unparalleled
success. The volume published by the
Manufacturers Record, of Baltimore.
dunn of the marvellous advance made
by the new South since 1870 in com
merce, agriculture and industry. This
volume reads almost like a fairy tale,
yet is, of course, founded upon the
records of the United States and state
authorities. The banking capital and
resources of the New South, accord
in to the United State comptroller foi
1912 have since his last previous re-
port increased more rapidly than any
other part of the United States, being
260 per cent, as anent the Pacific
coast states 240 per cent, Western
states 227 per cent, and the New Eng
land states 60 per cent
The character of the New South
has been discovered in a manner 30
be warmly commanded and emulate0
in her accomplishments on educational
matters. Not only confronted with her
growing white population, with its i'm
mediate and constant demands upon
the public exchequer, but in much
more drastic manner by the masses
of ignorant negro population which
must be educated to meet the demands
of. self-help and general uplift The
New South's progress in the latter re-
spect has been discovered in the spir
of the rues chivalry. Whenever, has
been many times the case, the legisla-
lures of the several Southern states
have had the issue presented to them
as to whether or not the whites SHOULD
be taxed to help in educating the ne
groes, the legislatures have in every
instance voted that such tax should
be imposed upon whites as well as
upon the negroes. Herein lies the
truest kind of magnanimity andaltru-
ism! The New South has been borne
on not only with the desire of re-
trieving itself commercially, but with
true consciousness has looked forward
to and is rapidly achieving a higher
and nobler civilization, realizing that
the highest reward of labor is success
but the acme of success is found in
character. Indeed without character,
such achievements would not obtain.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03
Free Minds, Free Ankles.
(London Opinion.)

The truth is that the free mind has
made inevitable the free ankle. Our
girls are no longer content to be tied
I'D like bales of cotton. They have
learned the use of their legs on the
bicycle. on horseback, and on the ten
mis- court. The masculine leg is not a
yelled mystery. Why should the fem
mine leg be regarded as a dreadful
secret, dedicated to the allurements Of
the ballet? After all, our girls may
not be quite so bold and quite SO bad
as we, in our flaming innocence, imag-
inc. Perhaps they are wise in fore
ing us to bear the SCATTERING revela-
ton that the end justifies the means,
Perhaps they are doing a great AMI
noble deed in delivering us from the
delusion that the less. we see of them
the better. There is no doubt that they
are rapidly emerging from the chry-
sails of convention. They are asserting
their right to be human beings and not
bundles of obedient duplicity. They
are shedding their self-consciousness
as we'll as their clothes. The soone"
we shed our selfrconsciousness the
better.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03
EFFICIENCY VS.. TRAINING

Governor Hughes, of Kansas, who
believes in abolishing the present sys-
tenn of large Legislatures-New Hamp
shire, for instance, a small state, has
the largest legislative body in the
world-has been airing his views be-
for the House of Governors at their
meeting in Colorado, and explaining
what he would like to see done to
make his own state an even more
perfect community than it now is lin
his own mind).
q have proposed to the Kansas leg
islature that we have but one house,
consisting of not more than sixteen
members" he said. "One-half might be
elected from districts, and the rest at
large, with provisions for recall, initia-
tive and referendum. All should be
elected for terms of four years. They
should be paid salaries that would en-
able them to give their entire time to
stury of state affairs
There is a good deal to be said for
this plan if the only conception of gov
eminent is one of absolute efficiency,
after the German bureaucratic meth
DDS. There is no doubt that legisla-
ture of sixteen trained men could dc
much better work than our present I'M
wieldy bodies, with their unnecessary
division into senate and house An APP
plication of the same theory would
work out equally we'll in cities, and al
ready has in many where the commits
sion form of government has been
tried.
The fact should not be overlooke :,
however, that our present methods. de-
fective as they often are, have their
value in giving our people training
in representative government. The
man who goes to the legislature from
his district should if he is the righg
sort of person, become a more valuablc
citizen and of greater worth to his
community in solving it's problems
The same should be true of a larg
, number of other Offices. If admins
; tered in the proper spirit they are edu-
eating upward those who hold them.
There is TO doubt that our legisla-
J lures might be cut down and many Or
fees abolished. in the cause both OF
greater efficiency and economy 1t may
we'll be questioned, however, whether
> a certain factor of training in citizen
, ship would not be lost and whether this
loNs would not more than counterbal-
J ance the gain. The point is an inter-
esting one. Kansas, ever fond of new
IDEAS, might make the experiment The
other states could watch its workings
before making so radical change as
Governor Hughes suggests.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

They were sitting in the Office of
the General Secretary. Will had brok-
en- one of the important rules of the
Association. He was becoming bad
boy. His parents had lost control of
him, he had been in several bad
|scrapes and only his fathers influence
and money had kept him out of Jail.
The General Secretary, ignoring the
broken rule, said will here is list
of some boys l know, 1 want you to
take it home with you and put oppos-
lite each boys name the name OF soma
man here in town, the kind of MAI
whom you think each boy will make if
he keeps on in his present course, you
know all boys become men if they
live long enough"
The next day they sat in the Office.
will, l see you have placed jim
Woods name opposite Walter Brooks,
is that the Jim Woods who got out of
state prison last fall?" Yes viii
said, "he seems to be heading that
way when l get to thinking over it.
will, do you know that Jim Woods
had one of the finest homes in this
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03
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o the night lights, the white lights,
That will not let me go,
That glare and fare upon the air
And beckon to me SO;
The mad lights, the glad lights,
That bind me to the town,
They're cheering when I'm on the
crest
And sneering when I'm down.
The white lights, the bright lights
That blaze against the sky!
TIE call of them the thrall of them
When fife is running high!
The gay lights, the play lights
Above the surge and press,
They're browning wealth with rad
lance
And frowning ON distress!
The white lights the night lights!
How wondrously they shine,
Upon the Jewels and the silks,
The women and the wine!
The bold lights, the cold lights,
The cftys magic lure,
They never gave me faith or love,
Yet they enslave me sure!
-Berton BraIey in Woman's World.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03
WOULD SOON HAVE BEEN
A ''DOWN AND OUT

county and his parents were fine peo
| pie but he would not pay attention to
them but went on his mad career as
he pleased, and don't you remember
that you were with Walter Brooks
when he got into the scrape that they
put him in Jail for? You are in a
mighty dangerous position. Will, you
had better think it over carefully. You
are following Jim Woods every day.
Now, what l wanted to talk to you
about is this, l have a big job here;
there are lots of things to do about
this Association and | want you to
help me. You are bright and strong
and don't believe you are a coward
that is the part of you I want, cut out
the Jim Woods part. Will you do it,"
Will did. He is a middle aged man
now. His father retired a few years
ago and VIII now has charge of the
whole business which is growing. He
is prominent in his church work ami
every movement for good in his town,
but he has never forgotten the General
Secretary, or Jim Woods, or the in
fuence of the Young Mems Christian
Association.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

so your uncle paid your debts
that was very kind of him" "Humph
don't think so. He might have Civ
en- me the cash and let me pay them.
What difference would that have
made?" TT would have re-establishe-
my credit. Boston Transcript.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03
JUSTICE

In issue of Golfers Weekly ap
pears an editorial on the recent lynch
ing of Will Redding in Americas. TIL
person who informe the big weekly 0
the facts was mistaken in some de
tails? For instance the negro whc
was lynched was not drunk. But new
er-the-less the article is applicable t,
majority of such lynchings in tn
South.
The article is produced in full:
"A negro, William Redding, spen
some time and money in blind tiger
| in the town where he sometimes work
Ied-Americus, Ga. He left the place
intoxicated. Redding was soon in
yolved in quarrel with other negroes
and when the smoke cleared the list
of injured was as follows: Chief o.
Police WILLIAM C. Barrow, fatally
wounded. Daniel Stallings, colored
fatally wounded Morris Allen, colored
shot in arm. Unidentified negro, sea u
wounds.
"Redding himself received several
pistol shots, and was later hanged b,
a mob When the first rope by WHICH
he was strung up broke, a second was
brought into play We take these facts
from an Atlanta newspaper; they
speak for themselves. The newspaper
was sent to us by Southerner born
and bred, a journalist. Says our cor
respondent:
at occurs to me in the sickenine
horror of such cases that the mob fails
to get the right man. Instead of the
negro, with his wits stolen away an
his mild nature brutalized by the pois,
in, it should have been the man who
sold him the blind tiger whiskey wh1
paid the price. The reporter on this
story missed the meat in it; the brand
of liquor sold to the lynched negro; tht
distiller of the stuff; the man who IL
legally sold it..
" Another Southern reader adds NOR
to the same purport When his fellow
citizens hang, shoot, or burn, he
writes: They should also send posse
up to Louisville to lynch the manufac-
turer of niger gin whose villanous
product and libidinous literature rob
bed the poor black of reason. 1t would
not take more than one or two sue
lynchings to make the commercializine
of the Southern negroes passions dc
cidedly unpopular.
This second suggestion is not offer
ed by Golfers correspondent as {
practical program. The abolition o
lynching not it's extension, is our de-
sire. Yet so far as justice goes there
would be more of it in the hanging o
the manufacturer of bottle crime tina,
ever there was in torturing this ignol
ant victims. Society is an organization
of men and women to further the bes
interests of the mass. How long will
society stand for the stimulation Q
rape and murder for money"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

Darling" he murmured, as soon a.
they had been seated in the high pric-
ed restaurant, you can have anything
seu want on the bill OF fare. Shall ]
read il of to you?'
NO" replied the dear girl, 'just
read it to the waiter. "-Miiwaukee
Daily News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

There is plenty Of room at the top
quoted the Wise Guy. Naturally,
agreed the Simple Mug. Everybody
wants to get in ON the ground floor
Philadelphia Record
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

Title Ginger says that personally
she is opposed to the silhouette skirt,
but all the same she isn't going to
wear an ulster in hot weather for fear
folks will find she isn't finished like a
mermaid. Galveston News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

This dinner cost me over $40 q
plate, old man" Just cabbage AMI
potatoes?" II raised these vegetables
myself. kansas City Journal
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

Now THAI the fashions have decreed
slit pants for the men we can get out
CTR old caothes and be in style.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

A needle in the haystack is almost
as scarce as & woman who bushes in
the dark
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

If you don't believe that trouble Is
a sprinter notice how easily he over
fakes those who travel at the fastest
Eace.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

If you can't look a man in the face
when you talk to him use the tel
ephone.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03
The Best Hot Weather Tonic

GROVES TASTELESSe chill TONIC enriches the
blood, builds up the whole system and will won
derfuliy strengthen and fortify you TO Withstand
the depressing effect of the hot summer. soc.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

1t isn't every man who can crack a
joke and extract the kernel without
damaging TT
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

Action is alright IN a way But the
young people who do the most running
around don't always make the most
progress
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

|, A man always feels like a hypocrite
when he brags of another mans baby.
Washington Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03

Variety and Detectives are the spies
Os life.-Ex
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-03
OFFICIAL ORGAN:
City Of Americas.
Sumter County.
Webster County.

Webster County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
u. S. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-11-19

Their treasury was empty. All were
under-nourished. Many were actual
ly weak with hunger.
But how they fought! 1 was up
before daylight every day, but early
as 1 was, always found those girls
on the picket line before me. They
suffered insult, abuse, blows and ar
suffered stoically, smilingly-
and they won! 1 never saw finer
courage.
wouldn't it be worth the while of
the federation to help these girls who
have done so much to help them
selves? If were conducting a big
strike, 1 would ask nothing better
than to have factory girls on the
picket line"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-11-19


hardships for the emancipation of
woman.
She was in Budapest as the per-
sonal representative of Gov. Hiram
Johnson of California, at the Interna-
tiOnal Suffrage Alliance, when she
remembered the Seattle A. F. of L.
convention
She has come here with a purpose.
81 want the delegates to the A. F.
of L. convention" she said, Ito real
ize that they cannot find. anywhere
in the world a more powerful ally
than the unskilled working girl.
81 want the A. F. of L. to help these
girls organize, and to help them win
their battle for a living wage.
"They need help, God knows! Dur
ing the garment workers strike in
New York, when | was in a cell for
picketing, fallen women, picked up
by the police because they would not
or could not pay protection money,
urged us, with tears in their eyes, to
fight and never give up. They, too,
had been workers in the factories and
stores. They chose the easier way
Some will tell you that true grit,
the right kind of courage, is found
oftenest in the aristocrat, and that
you may look for cowardice in the
Iowly born. 1t is not true.
Those girls on strike were lowly
born Many of them came of peas
ant stock. They were newly organ
ized. They had had no experience.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-11-19
convention opened, and has been in
the thick of the fight ever since.

If you had more money than you
could conveniently spend you would
probably join. a select club, buy
family tree and try to sneak into the
homes of the best families. Wherein
you would not in the least resemble
Miss Younger of San Francisco.
Miss Younger joined the wait
resses' union and became its presi-
dent.
And she joined strikes of working
girls, and served on the picket lines,
and got arrested, had a perfectly mis-
cradle time, and suffered delightful
hardships for the emancipation of
woman.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-11-19

SITlh0, L WOulu DISK uOLuluS UGLLCE
than to have factory girls on the
picket line"
ETToR TELLS HISTORY OF THE
SILK WORKERS STRIKE
The history of the strike of the
Paterson, N. j., silk workers was told
by Jos. ]. Ettor last night at a meet
ing of the l. w. w. in Roosevelt Hall.
Ettor made a plea for a defense fund
to prevent 140 men and women now
awaiting trial from being railroaded
to jail.
Ettor told of the conditions which
led to the strike, the speeding of
workers and machines; the final
doubling system whereby the man
who had hitherto run one loom was
required to run two, and the man who
had run two looms was forced to run
four, which threw one-half of the
workers out on the streets.
He declared that when a strike was
called, after the silk mill owners had
refused to consider the demand of
the men and women workers for
shorter hours and the abolishing of
the speeding. system, the strikers
were arrested in groups for nothing
more than parading on the street;
that they were all sentenced to from
five to thirty days in Jail and let out
only when the jails became too full
and there was a new lot of strikers
to be thrown in.
-''Bil Haywood was arrested the
first time for just walking on the
street" Ettor said. Naturally, the
Evening journal., 1913-06-13
NEW DELICATESSEN
STORE FOR CITY

NJ. X. Branch, proprietor of the
Atokad Poultry Farm at Gordon
Heights, one of the most successful
poultry places in the State will open
tomorrow at the northwest corner of
Eighth and King steets, a delicatessen
store that will be new TO the people
of Wilmington. Souvenir fly swatters
will be distributed TO all who call.
The new store will be conducted on
the same scale as a delicatessen de-
partment in one of the big department
stores in Philadelphia. A German
chef from large hotel in Balti-
more has been employed and will COOK
the food that will be placed on sale.
This will include chicken, roast meats,
etc. that can be carried home hot
from the store and eaten for dinner
or supper without going to the ne
cessity Of doing the cooking oneself.
Smoked meats. cheese and canned
goods of all kinds are IN stock and
the store will have the sole agency for
the Darlington and Buafflo Valley
buffers. All eggs and poultry sold
will come direct from the Atokad
Farm where there are now about
4 900 Of the best chickens in Della
ware
Evening journal., 1913-06-13
SPRINGER ESTATE
AND FRIDAY, l3!

Sometime ago letters came here
from many places with such regu-
iarity bearing on a supposed Springer
estate valued at millions of dollars
that the city went to the trouble TO
got out a pamphlet explaining the sit
uation and every one who has writ
ten about this alleged estate received
one Of these pamphlets by return
mail until II was thought every
Springer in the country had been sup
piled.
There is one left. Today Clerk Of
Council Mark McManus received a
letter from Fernando Estopinal. a
lawyer of New Orleans, who says he
represents a Springer heir. Inclosed
in the letter was a newspaper clip
ping dated San Francisco. which sets
forth that Pearl and Minnie Holmes,
manicurists of that city, we're on
their way to Sweden to claim their
share of nearly s16O,OOO,OOO left by
Carl Christian Springer.
The article sets forth that Will
mington, Del, is situated on part Of
the estate and that the government
some time ago offered the Springer
heirs s11.OOO,OOO for this property,
which was refused by the heirs.