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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27
THE BOOSTER SPIRIT.
The date has been set.

The date has been set.
September 14th, at the Windsor
Hotel, will be held dollar dinner.
Just prior to the evening dinner, Z
huge torchlight procession will be the
feature of Americas history.
A great, grand, get-together move
ment, to build Americas and Sumter
County on the wonderful resources
which she so proudly possesses.
Every citizen is expected to take
part in this gala event. Your pres
ence, your voice, your commentator
that's what is wanted, and that's
VIVA you are expected to furnish.
Americas and Sumter County is on
the brink of a great future. Possibly
never before in her history, has such a
wonderful cooperation been shown in
every movement that tends to uplift
glorify and magnify.
Perpetuate this spirit. Make it
stronger. Build it higher.
Get the booster spirit. Engender it
in to your very soul. Make every deed;
every act; and every word a good
word.
Pull together; push together; move
in unison.
Join the ranks of the great-tall:
and act for Americas and Sumter
County.
by their fruits, We shall know
them"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27
ONE PAPER TOWNS.

1t is by no means unusual Tor some
hopeful newspaper man to establish,
in a "one-paper town" which already
has a successful daily or weekly, as
the case may be, rival publication
and about once in a hundred times the
newcomer drives the old paper out
and occupies the field alone No one
paper town can support two papers.
One or the other must go to the wall
sooner or later, unless the one that
fights the losing battle is backed by
somebody with a well-flled money
barrel.
The spite paper" in the country
town or small city is far more com
mon than spite fences" or spite
walls" in our big centers CT popula-
ton. A local clique or faction, or, it
may be, single individual, is offend
ed by some statement made by the To-
cal paper or some policy for which 1t
stands. A new paper is launched for
the avowed purpose of driving the
established one out of business, and
' about once in hundred times it sue
ceeds. Frequently local politics is re.
sponsible for a new paper, which is
established solely for the purpose OF
giving some political faction an organ.
Discussing these things in connec-
ton with the recent establishment of
new paper at Eastman, the Rochelle
New Era says
Local politics is almost without eX
ception the cause of a second news
paper being established in a small
town. We happen to know that this is
the case at Eastman. Methvin has al.
ways gotten out about as good a week
| ly newspaper as there is in the state,
and the paper is really credit to the
town and county, but friend Claude
has had political aspirations and
there you are.
Albany. Valdosta and Moultrie are
three large towns that have but one
newspaper each, and they are all fin
ancial successes. They are live and
up-to-date and the business men o!
those towns are proud of them to
that extent that they would not even
think Of giving encouragement to com
petition.
"A newspaper man can drop into
any average small one-newspaper
town and get all kinds of TONGUE
encouragement to start another paper
And then, as rule they will give him
a nice advertising patronage for a
few issues, and then--they will let hin!
slowly starve to death.
Not trying to discourage you Broth
er Perry, but rather to encourage you
to take up well-digging or snake
charming on the side Albany Her
aid.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

We do not desire to be considered
as being unduly inquisitiye, but, in
view of his recent utterances, we
would like to inquire if Representative
Gardner, of Massachusetts, has given
any intimation to the president that he
is ready to shoulder a gun and march
to the front, if the necessity should
arise.-Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

/ 1noto by National Child Labor Committee.
THE PRODUCT OF THE CRIME FACTORY"
have failed to reveal a single night
messenger whose work had not brought
him into personal contact with vice.
The chances of promotion in the
messenger service were summed up by
one boy as follows Nothing to it I'M
less you are the right kind Of guy.
You can get to be check boy or file
clerk after being in the service year
or two if you stick to it, but ordinarily
nobody wants to stick = 9 There Is
nothing to do when we're not on calls
You can go into the Office and sit down
and loaf, or you can go outside and
stand up and loaf In our office the
manager never cared what became of
you as long as you were within calling
distance"
The attitude Of other employers to-
ward the boy who has worked as a
messenger was brought out last winter
By Miss Anne Davis of Chicago at
hearing on the proposed Illinois child
labor law, which included twenty
one year limit for night messengers,
Employers tell me-" said Miss Davis.
"they always specify that a boy shall
not have worked as a messenger when
they employ him"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

All honor to the man who earns his
iiving by honest toll. He, it is above
all others, who is always pulling for
better things. He is always on the
front seat of the community band wa
gon He is the first resident to greet
the stranger and tell him that he is
visiting the best town in the state.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Perhaps no class of people meet
with so much or so severe criticism as
teachers. Much Of this criticism is
unjust and exists solely because pa.
rents and others listen to unverified
reports and do nothing to acouaint
themselves with the inner workings Of
the school room.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Cyr's Primer.
Prince Arithmetic Book 1.
Wentworth-Smith Arithmetic Book
Reed Primary Speller.
Reed Word Lessons.
Frye's First Steps in Geography.
Wentworth-Smith Arth Book 2.
Evans History of Georgia.
Cyr's Fourth Reader.
Wentworth-Smith Arth Book 8.
Montgomery English History.
wentworth Elementary Algebra
Myers Med. & Mod History.
Wentworth-Smith Plane and Solid
Geometry.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Cranston Williams, son of Editor ]
c. Williams, of the Greensboro Herald
Journal, has gone to Americas as man
aging editor of Times Recorder. He
is one of the brightest young journal
lists in Georgia, a chip off the old
block, and the press generally will
wish him great things in his new field
Walton Tribune.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27
Uncle Eben.

~Mebbe." said Uncle Eben, "dar
wouldn' be so much divorcin if q
woman took as much interest in
mans business while dey's married 40
she takes when she's tryin' to colleck
alimony."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

The Macon Telegraph is regular
paper-day in and day out it is full Of
rare literary productions on its edi-
torial pages, and the paragraphs, we'll
they are best
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Cranston Williams, son of Editor
Jim Williams of the Greensboro Her
ald-Journal, has been employed as
managing editor of the Americas
Times-Recorder and We predict that
he will make that paper one of the
brightest in the state. He is very
bright and capable young man.-Se-
noia Enterprise Gazette.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Editor Duke complies his daily ed e
itorial pages on the Griffin News and
Sun into one and issues them in a
weekly. Separately they are excel
ent, but united they are superfne
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Some one suggests that it was about
time for members of the state legisla
ture to resign alphabetically. Mr.. Az
ert, of Walton County, has already re-
signed. Next?-Rome Tribune.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Cranston Williams is now managing
editor of the Americas Times Record
er and will proceed to show his father
Editor J. G. Williams of the Green's
boro Herald-Journal how a newspaper
should be run.-Rockmart News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

No matter how thick your rubber
heels, they won't stop your courage
from skidding if you don't use plenty
of mental grit when things get slip
pery-Dublin Courier Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

With the kind consent of the people.
President Wilson will likely accept
the Kaisers neat apology for his Ar
able act. It's a sad day when words
can pay for lives.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Cranston Williams, who has gone to
the Americas Times Recorder as man
aging editor, shows by his work that
he is a chip Off the old block-Macon
Telegraph.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

The police in Savannah, according
to the Savannah News, have just raid
ed blind tiger. We wonder what they
call blind tiger in that town, any
how?-Brunswick News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

When lynching becomes necessary
to uphold civilization, we will then
think that hot weather was made for
comfort
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

The new editor of the Americas
Times-Recorder had his picture print
ed in an Atlanta paper and appears to
be rather handsome young fellow
Griffin News and Sun.
For all of which, we thank you.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

A neutral ship doesn't enjoy any
thing like the advantages of informed
ship
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27
THE NEWSPAPER TALK

In order to be a social favorite a
man must be cheerful liar-Greens-
boro Herald Journal.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Mighty glad the legislature is keep
ing quiet, which causes us to remark
that other things have virtue in them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

We are not looking for trouble, but
that is no sign we should not know il
We saw it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

The Macon News Photographer will
soon have to go to eating cold-storag9
stuff.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

The Colonel Teddy couldn't star on
the front page with his Plattsburg ad-
dress. It's sad day, mates.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Where there's a will there's some
times a wife," is discovery of the
Rome Tribune-Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Tolstoi was a good writer, even if
he don't turn out we'll in the prophetic
role.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Be careful how you laugh when you
are happy, for some fool may think
you are laughing at him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Uncle Sam can always fine recrea-
ton in baseball and railway time
tables.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Our dear old chum, Coley Blease, is
back in the ring. Welcome is our
wish, and oblivion our desire for you.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Judge a man by the depth of his
knowledge rather than by his waste
measure.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

FARM LOANS-Can give good
terms on farm loans; money plenti-
flu. W. W. Dykes. 10-a
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

MONEY LOANED-ShoNId you need
any money, call to see me. / am pre-
pared to secure money now at 81 per
cent. interest, on improved farm lands
Loans promptly made. r. L. May
NARD, Americas, Ga. Slit
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27
School Books Wanted

we VIII exchange School Books merchandise for Second
School Books allowing oned price from now until s
g your ola DOCKS as per list below that
from US books that credit e
all old books received you other hooks &c o 800
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Use conservative judgment in swat
ting the fly-while he is on the butter
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27
ABOUT YOU AND us.

y \ + \ \ = + 4 4 4 + 4 4 4 4
Cranston Williams, son of old man
Jim Williams, of Greensboro, has been
made editor of the Americas Times
Recorder. Don't know who selected
ter choice ourselves.-Macon News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27
Observation-Disclosures

WANTED-To exchange touring car
in first class condition, for live stock
or farm implements. Americas Ma
chine Shops. 24-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

The trouble with some people is thai
they continually try to get even with
some one instead of attempting to get
ahead -Brunswick Banner.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

WANTED-Position as overseer on
farm for next year Can give good
references. Young man and resident
OF Sumter, Address "Overseer," Box
AS, Americas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27
Americas, Ga August %, 1915
Now, the Great White Way.

Ker-chew; Brest-Litovsk has fallen
Ker-fop
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Davy jones locker is about the
most popular resort we know.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

Cyr's Second Reader.
Jones Third Reader.
Frye's Home Geography.
Mother Tongue Book I.
Eggleston First Book in American
History.
Reed & Kellogg's Graded Lessons in
English.
Reed & kellogg Higher Lessons m
English
cooper Our Country History.
BENEFITS Latin Grammar.
myers Ancient History.
Frye's Higher Geograph.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

FOR SALE-Shetland pony; age 8
years, and rubber-tire buggy Price
$4,000. Address ]. NJ. Smelling, Rich
land, Ga. Att
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27

FOR SALE: Full blood Duroc
Jehsey Pigs; entitled to registration.
13tf F. G. BEAVERS.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-27
LOST
FOR RENT

FOR RENT-Schumpe house, cor
ner Church and Forrest Miss Picket.
213 Forrest. tillSt
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30

"War, What For?" is for sale by
The Northwest Worker at 25c, post
paid, or copies for 81.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30
A LAUDABLE EFFORT

We notice that among those who
have taken up the work of pushing
the sale of WAR, What For?" is Com
rade Thomas w. Williams, State Sec
rotary of California.
A special effort of this kind on the
part Of all of the other state secre-
taries, with the assistance of our
press, would do more to meet the lingo
situation than almost anything else
Each secretary knows exactly the
conditions existing in his particular
state, and is therefore the best quail
fled to organize an effective cam
paign.
Comrades, let us cooperate with
our state offices and our press, there
by getting into touch with all of the
departments of the organization, to
get this wonderful book into circula-
ton. 1t is the work that is most
needed ri ht now, and will still be
needed for years yet to come.
1t should be mentioned that Com
rade l., e. Katterfeld, State Secretary
of Washington, since taking office
year and half ago, has put into cir
culation 400 copies, selling them at
cost
Anyone wishing to buy through the
state office should remember that
Comrade Katterfeld will mail five
copies, postpaid, for one dollar. Or
you may order through the Northwest
Worker for the same price.
No Local should be without at least
five copies of this splendid anti-war
and propaganda book, so that its sale
may be pushed on any and every occa-
sion. Buy one for your public library,
or for the school library. See that
every editor, preacher and school
teacher in your locality is provided
with a copy of "War, What For?"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30
The Claim of Socialism
To WOman'S Vote
BY Tracy D. Mygatt


"Why, | used to believe all those
things could he true, but everybody
laughed at me. SO | began to think
they must be right and that ] was
wrong. And now you've given 1t all
back to mel"
1t was a young girl speaking, from
the closely packed throng of girls
about the agitator, and as the older
woman looked at her kindling eyes,
and then beyond, over the grlmy
smokestacks Of the factory town
where this girl was drudging away
her youth, her eyes blurred in sud
den mist. For this II meant to be a
Socialist: to bring back, for despair,
faith; for blindness, vision; for lone.
illness and misery, love.
FAITH, VISION, LOVE; DO THE
WORDS SOUND STRANGE TO YOU,
FRIENDS, WHO WE'RE TAUGHT
OUR CREED WAS HATE? Then
think for a moment of that little fac
tory girl, of the thousands upon thou
sands like her, who come into this
world full of dreams, and whose
dreams are broken, swiftly ineXora'
bly,, by the brutality of present-day
conditions; broken by brutality, and
even worse than that brutality itself
by the sneers and groans of the poor
fools about them who tell them II
must be so, that human nature can
never change, and all the other dreary
lies that would make of this world d
wilderness and of God a devil.
/ My friends, stop being deceived ;
/ the misery of long hours, low wages
child labor, unemployment, prostitu
ton, war, which you either bear
yourselves, or see other people bear
do not come through Gods will; they
come because in the business" world
the law of the wild beast, competi
ton. has been substituted for the law
of love, and just as soon as we put
love or cooperation in the place OF
competition we shall have the world
of which Socialists tell you, and not
before. For as things now are, less
than tenth of the people own al
the wealth, and remember that
wealth does not mean as you have
perhaps been taught, just gold and
diamonds, which you can get along
perfectly we'll without, but bread and
meat to feed your family, coal to keer
your baby warm, wool to clothe your
self in, land to live upon--things, in
a word, as vital and as necessary as
the very air you breathe.
Thus we see the necessity of great
change in the government, which
shall make for us at last a common
wealth" indeed: a change so great
and basic we call it Revolution; the
change, by the enlightened will of the
people, of this private ownership OF
the means of life, into collective own.
ership of the people, by the people,
for the people.
And here you see the reason for
our present campaign.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30
In This Our World
BY Marvin Sanford

We are living in troublesome days,
full of social unrest, full of storm and
portent of evil, period marked by
the collapse of capitalist civilization.
individuals are disconsolate and
hopeless.
Nations are tearing at each others
throats.
War spirit Is rampant Neither
Orient nor Occident is free from its
baneful effect
The Great War is no exception. It
Is war of the rulers, altho fought
by subjects, without whom it could
not continue.
War spirit. it's glamour and glory,
vanish as the intellectually of the
people increases. It is not likely that
the working class of any nation hates
It's counterpart in another nation to
such an extent that they will spill
each others blood on the battlefield.
And today they are the people who
hold the fate of war in their hands.
as Jean Jaures said, There is no
iron law of wages that working-cass
action cannot bend, there is no iron
standard of working hours that labor
cannot reduce, and there is NO IRON
LAW or WAR THAT PROLETAR.
IAN ACTION CANNOT BREAK"
An information war Is useless.
senseless, eXcuseless The workers of
all nations labor for and with one an.
other in the production of the worlds
goods War between them Is afro.
rcious murder; utter insanity.
But the rulers will have 1t so. And
it means the death of their system.
Out of this storm, this cloud of evil
this confused mass, comes from the
rulers a cry of horror, a look of dis.
may. They see the workers in in
creasing numbers refusing to be tar
gets; refusing to fight the wars of
their masters. They see the workers
laughing in the face of the master
and telling him: Flight your own
wars! Our war is against war; it is
with your system. We wage war at
the ballot box and in the shop. We
wish you no bad luck, other than to
see you forced off the back of hu.
mainly"
This menace increases as men be.
lieve more and more that wrongs
snail not be redressed through war
but through the growth of democracy;
that the great fight is against social
Injustice and capitalist oppression, and
that it is the mission of the proIeta.
riat to conquer the world through or.
ganization for security and emancipa.
ton.
This new spirit is becoming liv.
ing power, Gripping and astounding
our foes, but it exists wherever a
man is fighting for his emancipation.
ana 1t Will spur us on to the keenest
OF exertions and the strongest of &C.
tivitles, in the task of securing for
the world our great aim-the right to
labor and to live in freedom.
THE ARMY is GRoWING-THE
ARMY OF PEOPLE WHO HATE
THIS SYSTEM AND ITS POVERTY,
CRIME AND WAR, ITS BRUTAL
OPPRESSION AND TYRANNY, AND
1T WILL FIGHT ON AND ON UNTIL
HUMANITY FINDS PEACE IN THE
SOCIAL DEMOCRACY.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-30
LETTER OF APPRECIATION

Everett, Wn., Sept. 81, 1915.
Northwest Worker.
Dear Comrades.-Permit me to nat
you on the back little for the splen-
ala work you are now doing in push
ing War, What For?"
One ounce of energy devoted to cir
culating this book NOW is worth
many tons of resolutions when the
dogs of war are loosed and it is ever
lastingly TOO LATE.
My first book order upon assuming
the duties of State Secretary last year
was for 500 copies of "War, What
For?" Since then the State Office has
sold many hundreds of additional
copies. And yet there are thousands
of people in the state, yes, hundreds
of thousands, that have not yet read
this book, and that do not yet under
stand. They are a menace. A men
ace that will overwhelm us when the
crisis comes. Our supreme duty now
is to enlighten them. In this task
there is NOTHING equal to "War,
What For?"
Hence I say Bully for you" Keep
it up, and more power to you
Yours in revolt,
L. e.. KATTERFELD,
State Secretary