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The Washington times., 1913-05-29
WORKINGMAN'S WANTS

WORKINGMEN-So Of the most up -to-dat.
boys that you know are wise to this store
they wear the best and sure cash or
the deal: see for new or slightly used
suit g to SO: lot new pants 3 to So: one price
JCSTH'S OLD STAND. $40 n. l.
The Washington times., 1913-05-29

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By BEULAHMARIED DIX

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The Washington times., 1913-05-29

The tax collector has taken in over
Aeoo,Ooo In taxes up to TO-DAY, 20 tnA'
sr~tHcr n o0O0oo ia expected to BE- de-
y,osited IN the local national banks oy
the Treasury on Saturday.
The Washington times., 1913-05-29

The local exchange will be closed
for the rest of the week and many
brokers are leaving today and tomor-
rov for the weekend. A number are
GD6ng TO the gun club up the Potomac.
The Washington times., 1913-05-29

- n the second. night. after that
hapless corpse had been laid
Y beneath the gallows. Thom-
The Washington times., 1913-05-29
SPIRITUAliSM

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readings daily: reads for entertainments,
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MADALINE CURTIN. I0S 9Th 81 y y
Readings daily; healer. developing scsooL
"Wednesday circle. p. m. Ph. Line ssl.-M
HOLY SPIRITUAL CHURCH meets ID a,or
sun. eve, TO. Pyth!an Temple. 1912 sh 81
Y. W. TAKE elevator Mai1I!ue C,IrtI,
MEETINGS Mon. Wed, Fri .. m. sharp.
4 message TO each. daily readings Mr,
MALrBf. so1 Mt. Vernon pl. n. w. u. s.m
The Washington times., 1913-05-29

ORIGINAL GYPSY PALMIST
Whole Fortune Told. snc
Open Nights lI22 sth 81. y. w
ORIGINAL AND ONLY DEBORAH
Peer OF All Palmists and Mediums
SITTINGS DAILY
sl4 18th ST. y. w. Between F and SITS.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28

as Dean Dodson, DR.. Dalrymple, Gen
eral Farm Demonstration Mason Snow
den, Commissioner Bruner and others
have already done They have worked
and are working to the limit of their
time and powers. But police juries,
county boards of supervisors, parish
and county superintendent of educa-
ton, and all the newspapers, could eX-
tend a more generous measure of CO.
operation.
There is no shadow of doubt but
that if the farmers of these two
states could be brought to use to the
full the fund of semitic knowledge
and trained experience put at their
disposition by the Federal and State
governments the wealth-production OF
the region could easily be doubled in
half decade.
1t has been shown that the exper.
iments in sugar culture and manufac-
ture conducted in the Audubon Sugar
School of Louisiana State University
h odd al 10 h Of i-I1 n
in this one crop alone more than
Louisiana State University has eveI
cost the commonwealth in taxes since
the institution was established. This
result has come because the sugar
planters have sought eagerly for every
bit of information, every new method.
every bettered system, the state could
furnish.
If all the cotton planters, the truck
growers, the orchardists, the dairy
men throughout Louisiana and Missis-
sippi would treat the several state eX-
pertinent stations as their agents and
friends and advisers, as the sugar
planters in Louisiana have treated the
sugar school and station, tens of mill
lions would be added annually to the
value of the crops and products.
Our farmers do not use the tools
they have in the measure they should
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28
A MINIMUM WAGE FOR MEN
louisville Post.)

We cannot understand why it is pro-
posed TO fix minimum wage of IS for
women, while nothing is done for men
Speaking generally, the woman
wage-earner has only herself to SUP
port. This at last, is true of the w.
men who have interested the sympath-
les of the Illinois Senatorial investiga-
ton committee. But mems wages must
support three or four.
There are 30,O0000O males and fe-
males engaged in gainful occupations;
each of 100000 supports three per
sons, for there are 90,0OO,00O of US. OF
the 3O,0OO,0OO wage-earners a little
over 100000 are women.
If real relief is to be provided from
some hidden source; if IS is to pro-
tect women from shame, So should De
provided to enable the man at work to
provide for wife and two children az
home.
Indeed, this is the best way to reacn
the women who most need relief-the
women at home working in the kitchen
and at the washtub; the silent women
oppressed by poverty, and the pains
and penalties of child-bearing; the
Itrue women who have so to divide the
weeks income that it leaves nothing
like So for each inmate.
The men on the farm, married or
single, would welcome it. Statistics
show that the average farm Iaborers,
working II and IA hours, earn less
than the minimum wage proposed for
the women employed in the shops Js
Chicago.
1t is men who need relief. Perhaps
if they were relieved more would mar
ry and keep their girls at home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28

enforcement of the ordinance. They
recognized the fact that there are
many valuable dogs in Americas, ana
i. is their effort to bring about the en-
forcement of the ordinance in such 4
manner that it will not prove an I'M
necessary hardship to any owner of i
dog. The safety of the children AMI
people of the city is far more to he
considered than the comfort of any
dog or any number of dogs. That was
one of the arguments which could not
be successfully met by the spokesmeD
OF those who opposed the ordinance as
a measure too drastic under the cir
cumstances. Rabies is a menace to
public safety under the old conditions
These conditions the new ordinance
would correct.
There is no doubt that the people Of
Americas are heartily in accord with
the action of the members of the board
of aldermen in passing the ordinance.
The opposition which developed to the
passage of the measure was notably
uDprepared and inadequate to furnish
reasons that the members of council
deemed sufficient to change them ia
their views. The sentiment of the
majority of the people of Americas s
undoubtedly with the members OF
council The Times Recorder favored
this ordinance from its inception, and
the commentator of this paper is Civ
en- to the members of the council for
their decisive action toward the
abatement of this nuisance, which has
SO long been Objectionable
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28
RURAL ORIGIN OF TYPHOID FEVEF
New York Herald.)

The recently-issued reprint of the
Department of Health of the city OF
New York on the rural origin of much
of the typhoid fever in large cities is a
timely document with regard to legis>
lation now pending at Albany for the
reorganization of health control IN
smaller towns and country places.
The conclusion is that one-fourth of
the typhoid fever seen in New York
city is due to contaminated milk. An
other one-fourth of New York's typhoid
infections are acquired while our city
jewellers are out of town, so that at
least one-half of the cases seen here
are directly of rural origin.
The necessity for more careful SAN
itation of the country districts to pro-
tect city health as well as their own
becomes evident then. Our Depart
ment of Health must ask for help
through the reorganization of the san
itary control of the country districts
with which we are in close relation
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28
THE DOG ORDINANCE

A worthy ordinance was passed by
the members of the city council when
they went on record at their last meet
ing in favor of keeping all dogs off
the streets of Americus. 1t is graf
flying to know that the members of the
board Of aldermen were all in favor o.
this new law for the municipality.
Hitherto the only local legislation
against dogs has been in the nature Of
an ordinance placing tax on them.
This, in the first place was an inoper
alive ordinance, having fallen into dis =.
use, so that dogs of late have been
practically allowed to overrun the
city This nuisance the new ordinau ce
should prohibit. if the ordinance $
properly enforced
The fact that the members of council
were unanimous with reference to the
ordinance and the protection which it
should afford relative to rabies aad
the dog nuisance generally, was no.
able 1t was frankly stated by several
members of the board of aldermen
that they recognized that the new Or
dinance would work hardships upon
certain citizens who owned dogs +
value 1t was the positive conviction
of these aldermen, however, as ex-
pressed in their brief speeches befoi c
council, that the benefits that should
accrue from the ordinance, if it is
carefully enforced, will far outweigh
the inconvenience caused In this
opinion all thoughtful and public-spir
tied residents of the city will concur,
The position of the members of the
Eoard of aldermen relative to the en-
forcement of the ordinance is eminent
ly fair and coHsiderate. 1t was under
stood that due notice is to be given to
the owners OF dogs before the ordin-
ance goes into effect. There was no
effort on the mart of the aldermen tn
be arbitrary relative to the immediate
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28
CROP-WATCHERS IN CHINA
wide World Magazine


In China the fields are not protected
by hedges or fences; the country is
quite open, and is everywhere easily
accessible This is not to be inter
preted as an indication of the peculiar
honesty of the people or of their eX-
ceptional respect for their neighbors'
property. AS a matter of fact, thiev-
ing abounds. Large numbers of the
people are very poor, and this class,
in order to subsist, have frequent re-
course to stealing. AS the time of
harvest approaches and the fruits and
cereals are ripening, orchards and
fields are never safe from the unwel-
come visitations of predatory bands.
The farmer knows this, and hence ev-
erybody is obliged to stand guard over
everything. Almost every field has its
watch tower, and these frai tene-
ments are never deserted night or
day, until the harvest has been fully
reaped. In some districts crop-watch-
ing societies exist, whose sole business
is to provide professional crop-watch-
.ers where and whenever they may be
required.
Fields of Healing, or giant millet, are
watched by professional crop
watcher This stalwart plant grows
to height of ten to fifteen feet, and
"a field of it is yeritable jungle for
density and impenetrability This ac-
courts for the height of the watch
watcher must. if his vigil is to be of
any use, be higher than the crop he is
looking after. Even so, it is difficult
to detect the thieves, they are so eff
fectually hidden by the tall and dense
growth of the kaoling. The object Of
the thieves is to possess themselves of
the millet heads Of the plants, and
this they can very easily accomplish.
All that is necessary is a sharp knife
watchers are women, and they fill up
and a quick hand Sometimes the
their waiting time with some form of
profitable labor One will have her
spinning wheel set up on the platform
and employ herself in spinning; an.
other will spend her time in making
the soes of her husbands shoes; an
other will occupy herself with needle
work of more delicate kind, and so
on.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28
THE WILSON FOREIGN POLICY
(Springfield Republican,


The declaration regarding the coun-
tries to the south of US, and the refus-
al to place the Government of the
United States behind the group of AM
erican bankers, are of a piece, and
must be considered together as setting
forth the Wilson purposes and policy.
Much has been made in recent years
of the part that the United States must
play as a world power" and this pro-
lection has been along the line &C
joining with the countries of Europe
in things calculated to lead toward in
ternational entanglements. To such n
tendency this Administration will not
lend itself 1t would be the friend OF
all nations, but it is not ready to take
hand in enforcing the claims of any
group of citizens which might end in 4
situation antagonistic to another and
friendly country. Students of world
affairs may construe the new policy as
narrowing American participation in
large things-but it will not be easy 10
characterize the stand taken as I'M
American. The sum of it all is that
banking houses making foreign loans
cannot have Uncle Sam as their COL
lecting agent.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28
THE SPIRIT OF A NEW AGE

In his work in championing the pas
sage of the bill in the national Con-
gress to appropriate $3,000,0OO for the
benefit of agricultural extension work
Senator Hoke Smith is voicing the
spirit of the present age in fostering
industrial improvement 1t is the spir~
it of a new age that endorses this
work, in which the people of the ma
ton use their own well organized
agencies to help themselves.
1t is a spirit that recognizes the in
herent greatness and Importance OF
the farmers of the nation in the full
filment of the destinies of the Amer
lean people Senator Smith reads
Alright the message of the coming day,
as the New Orleans Item points out:
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia has
announced that he will press in the
next congress, and hopes to see pass
his bill for a 100000 appropriation
to be expended in agricultural educa-
ton extension work, and a kindred
measure looking to the stimulation of
interest in an extension of vocational
training.
Such measures trend far away from
the time when the aim of our elder
statesmen was to reduce the part of
government in the business of the
mass to its minimum, but the spirit f
the age is with the Georgia senator in
his fight. Government is looked On
now as an instrument through which
community intelligence and wealth and
strength can be eXerte1 in all man
ner of real community self-help.
Such work is not paternalism 1t is
not the government as a thing apart
reaching the hand of charity" out to
those who need aid. 1t is the people
through their organized agencies
helping themselves.
Questions of whether State or Fed
eral agencies are to be used are RAISED
now chiefly on the point of efficiency
which can best get results-the small
er unit the greater?
So now. we have the state commits
sions of agriculture, the state expert
meEt stations supported in great part
by Federal appropriation, state agr;-
cultural and mechanical colleges with
moneys coming from both national and
local sources. Federal farm demon
strators journeying with the farmers
through the long days of spring and
summer, drawing one-half their sal
aries from the local communities anu
the other half from Uncle Sam.
Senator Smith is doing well to pro
pose giving yet other tools to tie
wealth-producers in the country dis
tricts, and to sharpen the tools already
available for them.
What the people themselves NAV
well do, is to spur themselves to more
liberal use of these tools. Here N
Louisiana especially a propaganda t.
that end might we'll be carried on in
even greater measure than such men
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28

Colonel Roosevelt must be patching
up the Progressive platform during the
off season.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28

Local devotees OF terpsichore have
found juicy morsel in the Jelly
roll"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28

The majority of people here don't
seem to be worrying about the income
tax.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28

If you have spring fever, try sulphur
and molasses and sassafras tea.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28

Maybe Willis Moore's resignation is
causing this unsettled weather.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28

This is lean year for the chronic
office seeker.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28

The dog question is bowling mat
ter in Americas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28

The hot weather has gotten tie
fish liars records warmed up.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28

Money makes the mare go and the
auto makes the the money go.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28

The Hon Bill Bryan is sitting stead
lily in the boat
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-28
Americus, Ca March Is. 1918

1913 is making a storm record.
The Detroit times., 1913-05-20
BIZ RAYMOND PULLMAN,
Times Washington Bureau.
MefrODOlif0n Rank BuildiuO.

WASHINGTON, May 20.-Surgeon-
General Blues instructions, which
have just been issued, call for the
sampling Of water and artificial ice
from each and every source Of supply,
and make 1t neces-
SEMi-ANNUAL sary that the sam.
TESTS pies be subjected
PLANNED. to meteorological
and chemical tests
at least once In every six months by
the proper state or municipal health
authority In whose jurisdiction the
supply Is obtained. A common car
rier desiring a certificate OF the state
or municipal health authority within
whose jurisdiction the water or Ice is
obtained, must make application there
for. This provision does not apply
to Ice when 1t Is used on the outside
Of a jar or coil pipe. and does not
come In contact with the water. After
the examination IL completed three
copies of the report are made, one OF
which Is delivered TO the railroad. one
of the surgeon-general OF the public
health service. and one copy to be
retained by the state or municipal
health ofilcer making the examination.
This makes possible triple check on
reports on water supply In all parts Of
the country.
Another important provision Of the
regulation for pure water supply for
the travelling public Is that which COM
pels the railroads to clean and scald
thoroughly water coolers with live
steam at least once In each week that
they are In operation. Officers OF the
public health service think that the
regulation to compel the steaming and
sterilizing OF coolers Is one Of the
most important parts Of the new rule.
and they believe that the practice OF
keeping water coolers thoroughly
cleaned should be followed out In all
institutions where large quantities OF
water are kept In containers for pub
lie use.
The idea goes out very often that
much OF the work In the government
departments IL not done by practical
people. The basis OF this idea. II
there Is any basis for II. seems to be
|, the old-time suspi.
EXPERIENCED cion which some
people in the ear
"MOrHER." Her days hel d
against scientists
and all people engaged In research
work or statistical Investigations.
New evidence of this suspicion came
to the director OF the children's bureau,
several days ago In the following
The Detroit times., 1913-05-20
Problems of Art

The safety OF the nation seems
to be fairly we'll taken care Of, but
II there is one thing more than an
other which needs masters care,
that one thing is art. especially flu
turist art. America has not quite
decided about futurist art. We are
never sure whether thing Is good
until We know what We are supposed
to think OF 1t. The newspapers have
ridiculed the futurist art and COM
mon people have dared laugh at it.
Frankly. OF course. Americans pre-
fer good plain pictures that don't
even require the catalogue for iden-
LITIGATION. but one Is inclined to think
that in art as In poetry, there must
be soul In obscurity because We can
not see II.
II 1t were possible we might trans
plant Japanese art. The something
besides itself in Japanese picture.
is really visible, and soul helps sense
as much as sense helps soul. Jap
anese art, however. grew from the
old art OF Chinese writing. The Chi
nese believed that written characters
lived, and not only spelled words.
but expressed various sentiments In
themselves. The Japanese artist
creates a living thing. He puts his
spirit into his painting so that 1t
may be given again to the beholder.
II he accepts money for his paint
ings they lose their soul. Japanese
art is. therefore. impossible TO Amer.
lea. An art that grew from our writ
ing would be worse than futurist.
II our artists were not paid for their
pictures, we should have no artists.
Perhaps the best we can do. IL we
must get away from our own COM
mon sense plain pictures. is to take
up something along the futurist line.
We may not enjoy 1t and II may spoil
| the wall paper. but II may be the
proper thing after all.
The Detroit times., 1913-05-20

II has always required bravado of q
certain kind for Democratic United
states senator to vote against tarin
reduction. This year the Democrat
who goes with the interests instead
Of the people 10 simply foolhardy.
Five Democratic senators are SAID
to be under the delusion that they
1epresent cane and beet sugar rather
than states. There are three other
Democratic senators who are believed
70 be more devoted to wool than they
are to party or to public. Perhaps
these inclinations are the result only
Of habit and will yield presently to
memorable facts. At any rate, there
10 an amendment to the constitution
which In the case of most OF these
gentlemen IL likely to prove more
.powerful than the favor or disfavor OF
selfish enterprises. 1t reads:
XVII. The senate Of the United
States shall be composed OF two
~ senators from each state, elected
by the people thereof for ak
years; and each senator shall
have one vote. The electors In
The Detroit times., 1913-05-20
Editorial PAGE Of The DctrOit Times Tuesday, y May 20
A Proposed Referendum

Now the American Protective Tarln
league, which, tour years ago. was
fighting the battle OF the men WHO
would permit no modification OF the
"indefensible" wooden schedule, would
have a referendum. We have had two
referendums on the PayneAldrlch bill,
and II was repudiated. Now the peo-
pies representatives are trying 10 put
through a new law. IL will be on the
statute book long before December,
1914.
IL could have occurred only TO men
nurtured in the school OF monopoly 10
suggest that business be asked TO wait
nineteen months for a REIMBURSEMENT OF
our system OF national taxation. III
would. indeed, be hard 10 imagine any
thing more preposterous. Practically
every expression of public opinion that
the country has had has been in favor
OF prompt settlement of this tarin
question. IL there could be referen-
dunn on the plan proposed by the
American Protective Tariff league II
would meet with crushing defeat. Few
men outside OF the distinctly political
class would vote to keep the tariff
question In acute form before the peo-
pie for the next nineteen months. Men
who live by business. rather than BY
politics or political business, are less
interested In the kind of tariff we are
TO have than In the prompt enactment
of whatever bill is agreed on. This
referendum scheme or the American
Protective league is direct importa-
ton from the country Of the March
Hare and the Mad Halter. If II were
subjected to a duty according TO value
It would have high place on the free
ist.-lndianapolis News.