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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-01
TOTAL OF ARMY RECRUITS
HAS JUST RACHED 37.7O3

WASHINGTON, D. c., May IA to-
tai of LAC recruits for the army were
enrolled on April rs and 20, it was an
Eounced today. This makes 81. 7.702 men
added to the army since April /.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-01

NEW YORK, May Columbia I'm
iyersity will open a military training
camp for students and alumni at Dyker
Park today as the first step in plan
to add courses in military tactics to
the regular university course.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-01
; 4 y y + r = = = = 4 4 =
DAILY WEATHER FORECAST

= The weather forecast for Amer 4
= icus and vicinity follows: 4
= FOR AMERICUS: Fair and 4
= cooler Tuesday. 4
= WEDNESDAY: Fair.
y \ 4 4 4 + y y = = \ y - I
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-01

STEELTON, Pa, May Ten per
cent wage increases IN Bethlehem
Steel company plants here. at Spar
rows Point and Lebanon are effective
today. They effect several thousand
munition workers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-01
FURLOW SCHOOL.
CHILDREN STAGE
MAY FES WAL

May Day, recurrence of which has
been celebrated for centuries by the
people fthe earth in spring dances
and joyous songs of welcome to the
spirit of spring, was observed in
Americas today by the presentation o!
a particularly beautiful and interest
ing program by the children of the
FuTlow Grammar school.
The exercises, which were arranged
and directed by Miss Lena Hardy, di-
rectress of music in the public schools
of the city, began at o'clock this
morning on the spacious lawn sur
rounding the Furlow school and were
witnessed by host of spectators.
Hundreds of children, gaily costumed
to represent the people of many a
tions. tripped through the intricacies
of folk dances centuries old, while
other dances, designed to portray the
spirit of patriotism now particularly
aroused by the enrance of the United
States into the world war, were pre-
sented in a manner that denoted care
fui preparation by those in charge OF
the program.
In addition to the May Festival pro,
gram, there were wonderful exhibits OF
work done by the students in the do
mestic science, manual training and
are departments of the public schools
these specimen products affordeng the
patrons of the schools an excellent OPP
portunity Of ascertaining just what is
being accomplished in these various
lines of activity.
The exhibits attracted much favor
able comment and deserveGly so, for
they were far above the average dis
play of such products and were re-
marked upon as the best ever made in
the Americus public schools.
The program of the May Festival was
as follows:
May Queen--Hulet Humber.
Maids representing Spring flowers
annie Zelle Capien, Catherine San
born, Elizabeth Sheffield, Lolita Phys
loc, Lucille Tomlinson.
Spirit of America-Mary Bowers.
Maids to represent the national flow
er, goIdenrod-Mary Griffin, Halle
Walker, Frances Sparks, Elizabeth
Jacobs and Marie Bell.
HeraId-Egbert Clark.
Guards - Hal Gatewood, Courtney
Ivey. William Fetner, Carr Glover.
Robert Bell, George Pope.
Pillow Bearer-Ruth McMath.
Ponies for Chariot-Joe Sutton, Jack
Mozo John w. Sheffield, James Col
Inns, G w Harris, George Ellis, John
f. Kiker, Olin Dixon.
The order in which the program was
executed follows;
Grand March-Entire school.
Entrance of May Queen and Attend
ants.
song-"we Crown Thee Queen of
May"
Attendants pay tribute to te Queen
slrewing her path with flowers.
Rainbow Dance about the May Pole.
Song, Apple Blossoms
Entrance of Spirit of America and
attendants.
Song, Star Spangled Baner."
Flag Salute and Pledge.
Apple Blossom Dance.
English Ring Dance, Lobby Loo.
Kinderpolka, Dance by Sailors.
Vineyard Dance, French Folk Dance.
Ace of Diamonds, Norwegian Dance
Rear the Flax. Swedish Dance.
Shoemakers' Dance, by the Red
Cross.
1 See You, Clown Dance.
Mountain March, Folk Dance Of the
Swiss.
Clapp Dance, Scotch Highlanders.
Indian Dance.
"Hoy-Do-You-Do?' American Folk
dance.
Gymnastic stunts, la Sohjiro, by
The bows of the 5th, 9th and 7th grades.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-01

NEW YORK. May School teach
ers of New York are completing today
a census of all vacant lots in Great
New York available for use in the
home garden movement
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-01
WAR TABLOIDS

LONDON, May Final returns in
census of horses, males
cattle, sheep. pigs and agricultural
Instruments are due in Great Britain
TODAY under war department order.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-01

The Times-Recorder is the ONLY paper
in the Third Congressional District with
Associated Press Service.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Gun Salutes In India.

The viceroy of India, as representa-
tive Of the king-emperor, is entitled to
a salute Of thirty-one guns. This num-
Der had its origin in a mistake. For
merly he was entitled to twenty-one
guns. When the time came, years ago.
for allotting the salutes to the various
native rulers Of India the three prin-
cipal of these vassal sovereigns-name-
ly, those Of Hyderabad, Mysore and
Baroda-were each accorded twenty
one guns. 1t was discovered a little
late I'm the day that the superior rank
of the viceroy had been overlooked in
the matter. and the necessity was
pointed out Of his supremacy over the
vassal rulers being emphasized in the
eyes Of the natives. So instead Of re-
ducing the number of twenty-one guns
that had been accorded to the three
rulers in question the viceroy was Civ
en- ten more guns and is today the only
person in the world who is entitled to
that altogether exceptional number of
guns.-London Spectator.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Military MARSHALL

Like many other French words 70
lating to war and hunting, "marechal,"
In its older form "mareschal," Is Of
purely Teutonic derivation In both its
parts. and the word has had q curious
history. Some words rise in the world
with the passage Of the centuries and
others fall This Is one that from the
very humblest Of beginnings has come
to great estate.
The marshals do not owe their name
to Mars, though they are his votaries.
In the olden times they were about the
humblest men in an army-horse serv-
ants, or grooms. Then they advanced
to the dignity Of being horseshoers,
and those highly respected artisans
are still ''marechals'' in France, though
'ferrants" has to be added to make
their calling clear. And, while mare
chal de France" is a magnificent title.
there are also "marechals des logis,"
who are in cavalry regiments only
what "sergeants" are in infantry regi-
ments.-Exchange.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Length of Our War;.

The first American war, that Of the
Revolution, dated from April 10, 1775,
to April Ii, 1888, a period Of eight
years; the northwestern Indian wars,
from Sept. 10, 1870, to Aug. 3, 1895;
the war with France, from July 9, 1898,
to Sept. 80, 1900; the war with Tripoli,
from June 10, 1901, to June 4, 1905;
the Greek Indian-war, from July 81,
1913, to Aug. 9, 1914; the war of 1912
with Great Britain, from June Is, 1872,
to Feb. IL, 1915; the Seminole Indian
war, from Nov. 20, 1917, to Oct. p,
1918; the Black Hawk Indian war,
from April q, 1881, to Sept. 80, 1882;
the Cherokee disturbance or removal,
from 1885 to 1887; Greek Indian war or
disturbance, from May 8, 1885, to Sept
80, 1887; the Florida Indian war, from
Dec. %, 1885, to Aug. IA, 1913; Aroo-
stock disturbance, 1886 to 1889; the
war with Mexico, April "a, 1916, to
July 4, 1S4S; the Apache, Navajo and
Utah war, from 1S49 to 1855; the Semi
mole war, from 1856 to 1858; the war
between the states, from 1861 to 1865;
the Spanish-American war, April 81,
1898, to Aug. II, 1898, and the Philip
pine insurrection, from 1899 to 1900.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
How Buffalo Bill Got His Name.

Many years ago. when the Union Pa
cific railroad was completed, the ques-
ton arose as to how all the laboring
men were to be fed on meat, as meat
was thought necessary to make muscle
General w. E. Webb had the con-
tract to feed the men, and in talking
the matter over one day with some of
his subordinates one Of them suggest
ed that he call in William Cody, then a
famous government scout on the
plains, to help solve the problem. Co
dy suggested that he be allowed to hire
men and kill buffaloes for the railroad
men,
This plan was adopted, and Cody be-
came later world famous as Buffalo
Bill. In those days the buffaioes were
SO plentiful that it is on record that
more than one engineer had to stop his
train until herd had crossed.-A. G..
Hegeman in New York Sun.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
A Motorcar Race In 1895.

1895 few enthusiastic "horseless
image" manufacturers decided that
u time WAS ripe for a race. As we
@ back at it now the contest was q
aEhanical jest. The vehicles started
aa'eF and then stopped lamely while
1ef drivers made repairs. One in
alOr followed his mechanical wonder
WIN team of horses. The winner Of
.s race had averaged the mad speed
Y seven and une-half miles an hour.
~ engine, carefully tested after the
.',erSh contest was over, was found
WueEelop an amazing four horsepower.
"aldemar kacmpffert in Harper's
I'gazine
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
The British Manicure Lady.

''In English barber shops you do not
have to pay for mirrors, deliberately
tiled floors and manicure girl" writes
Homer Croy in Everybody's. "Over
there a manicurist is considered the
last vocable in the way Of smartness.
The manicure girl hasn't the run Of
the shop there as she has here. She
has a little cage down in one corner,
where she is bottled up as if she were
a rare liquid. When a man wants to
have any light homework done on his
hands he thrusts one of them through
the bars, while the proprietor hurries
up with a newspaper for him to read.
In America we would be insulted if
the owner of the shop put something
into our hands to read while the mani
cure girl was working on us. In Eng
land the art Of jollying the manicurist
is unknown"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Masters of Tool MAKING.

Are Anglo-Saxons conceited about
their -eminence in matters Of ma
chinery? A book, English and Amer
lean Tool Builders" by Professor ].
W. Roe of Yale, answers the question
thus: practically all the creative work
in tool building has been done in Eng
land and America. The
French have shown an aptitude for
refinements and ingenious novelties.
The Swiss are clever artisans.
but have excelled In personal skill.
= Germany has developed splen-
did mechanics. but the principal ma
chine tools had taken shape before
1870, when the empire began. The
history Of English and American tool
building therefore covers substantially
the entire history Of the art"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
His First Golf Play.

Chandler Egan's first golf was
T,yed on a three hole course in a
n,sture back of his fathers house, at
Highland Park, III. The former cham
uon and his brother laid out the links,
hen invited their cousin, Walter, to
teach them the game. The latter tee
jng I'D ball Oh the first, hit it straight
down TO the brOomStick which served
s q fag pole. The bail bounced along
be uneven green and disappeared in
hp hole. Turning to- his astonished
gallery, he remarked:
There, you see, it is very simple.
That is the way You do it."
Chandler Egan tried, but didn't sue
Sed. and although he won the amateur
title twice, he claims he was never
able to equal the wonderful drive his
usin made that day.-Golfers' Maya
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
THE CORSET DANGER.

The time of the corset is passing, be-
cause women are learning better sense.
They have found out that it is dan
gerous to press down the abdominal
contents upon the pelvic viscera. Such
pressure from above causes congestion
of the pelvic contents and the results
are diseases of the genito-urinary and
allied systems.
The corset is an evil; it is not a
necessary evil. 1t is a needless tor
ment. 1t is positive menace to health
and hence it is destructive to the well
being of the body. Nature never in
tended to have the liver, the stomach,
the spleen and intestines pressed down
and crowded upon the delicate life con-
serving organs that inhabit the pelvis.
The foremost and bravest women
have been avoiding with right good
reason the use of the corset. 1t is too
bad that some women are unable to
see the dangers of the tormenting relic
of more ignorance.
The binding and constructing lines of
the corset interfere with the circula-
tion of the blood and thus predispose
to disease of the delicate maternal or
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
~ e..rvStion Point.

"rostion. IF there were q
70 tpe u long do you think the sol
dsge "" civilians could live after the
800 su aawers: Science tells us that If
BE- can se oxist for thirty days without
nsn ea A. tbe end of that time the ma
UOd. ~ n the body will not be spoiled
Snel. he brought back to Its former
frengu . - quarter Of our body weight
AOOu md if is mostly this fat that is
y fa, os food during the period Of
iOsO[ ation, We can absorb and burn
% Ou n,oirbt is gone. We can do the
ber WI" .,+b from 80 to 40 per cent Of
sane W" and digestive organs and 20
OIL " W of our lungs. Our hearts can
per e 1n ner cent and our brains and
Jose ~ systems can lose 5 per cent.
nel'o WI, he seen that the more vital
"" brain and heart-yield least Of
dgaD -o,nable substance for the life of
tOeI odr while the less essential sub
tDe Oo muscle fiber, etc.-are con-
.1med first.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
,,,,+ Be afraid of Work.

,-IoS NJ ScIIw&b, the well known
20 -4or If Bethlehem steel works, has
DS. anro paticnce with the man who
" =. by the time clock than has
w. Rede with his fellow workmen
w. dropped their tools at the sound
D .so whistle. In his book Succeed
v With What You Have" he writes:
y y horp vet 10 hear Of one instance
nora 70 misfortune hit a man because he
.-rod overtime. Not long ago a man
~. nromoted in our works. How did
We bappen to advance this fellow? /
.tod his boss. Well he explained,
: noticed that when the day shift
ront off duty this man stayed on the
~ mill be had talked over the days
.,obIems with his successor. That's
Inv, The man who fails to give fair
'.-Tice during the hours for which he
:. Maid is dishonest. The man who is
mt willing TO give more than this is
tooIish"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Eyes of Rubber.

Artificial eyes of rubber are taking
|the place of the old style glass optic
lin Europe The rubber eyes have the
advantage Of being unbreakable, and
Jas they are of pneumatic construction
they maintain an elastic contact be-
tween the eyelidS and the back Of the
mbitary cavity.
To make the new rubber product a
cast formed of liquid plaster is made
Of the Orbitary cavity, and from this
b constructed an eyeball, the face be-
Ing Of Vulcanite. The front and back
parts are made of soft rubber, there
being space between the two parts
which is occupied by air, making
|as eyes pncumatic.-POpular Science
Monthly.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Room For Thrift.

The American Society For Thrift is
sounding a warning that should not go
unheeded. The statistics it has gath
cred indicate how reckless we are with
our money and how little we lay up for
a rainy day. We are pre-eminently a
nation of spenders who believe in liv-
ing while we live.
Statistics show that ninety-f1ve of
every hundred Americans who reach
the age of sixty are dependent upon
their daily earnings or on others for
support. The total, of course, includes
wives, mothers and daughters who had
not tried nor expected to accumulate
competency. But after they are elm
mated the percentage Of workers who
have a nest egg at sixty is very small,
even if that is generally considered too
young for retirement
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
TIED DUCK WITH CRAVAT.
Left Diamond Stud on II, and That May
Account For Turkey Find.


Cuero, Tex.-What Thomas Lovett of
this county believes to be the previous
history Of the recent story from Chi
cago telling Of diamond stud valued
at $3.50 found In the craw Of Thanks
giving turkey had its inception In
duck hunt here.
According to Lovett's story, while
hunting two years ago he slightly
wounded duck and decided to carry
the bird home. He used his necktie to
bind the birds feet, neglecting to re-
move diamond stud fastened therein.
Placing the supposedly helpless bird in
the rear Of his conveyance, he started
home, when a futter a few minutes
later attracted his attention. He turn
ed In time to see the duck flying off
with his necktie dangling from its feet.
Cuero is in the center Of large tur-
key raising. portion Of Texas, and
many Of the birds, which roam over a
large range, find their way to the Chi
cago market.
Mr.. Lovett so far has entered no
claim to the stud.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03

Larned, Kan.-An exciting coyote
chase in automobiles took place near
Hanston. The party consisted Of Bill
Ham, John Ham, Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin
Seaman and William Warning. They
went in two cars and took three grey
hounds in each car.
Mr.. Warning says that auto polo Is
mild compared with the way those two
cars chased across the prairie, ravines
and bluffs after coyotes. He said that
his speedometer registered forty miles
one time when he dared to glance at Il.
and he was afraid to look again.
They were going along between TWEEN.
u and thirty miles an hour at the tir1s
they started up the first coyote, and
when the biggest hound In Mr.. War.
rings car sighted the wolf 1t leaped
over the wind shield and hood and
landed running twenty feet ahead Of
the car. The coyote was big fellow,
but the hounds finally brought him
down, the big hound throwing him,
while the others pinned him down.
While chasing the first coyote the
ether auto nearly ran over another one,
which leaped up almost from under the
wheels Of the car. The men shot at it
several times, wounding it, but because
Of the speed of the bounding car could
get but poor aim. 1t finally ran into
hole and was fished out with q wire.
Messrs Ham and Seaman have killed
nnny coyotes.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03

gans. The tightness that even the
loosest corset imposes is unnatural and
throws a needless burden upon the
heart, the organ that should be guarded
with all diligence for out of it spring
all the issues of life.
Constipation is one of the most COM
mon complaints of women and evidence
is not wanting that the corset is re-
sponsible for much of it. Constipation
leads the way for hysteria, neurasthe-
MIA, insanity and other diseases of COM
mon occurrence and of fatal tendency
Because of the close proximity of the
uterus, bladder and reetum, eonstipa-
tion is logically a factor in the pro-
duction of diseases of the structures
mentioned. Cancer of the womb, the
most malignant of all uterine ills is
often preceded by constipation and
succeeded by cancer of the bladder.
The last fact is better appreciated
when it is remembered that the uterus
lies midway between the bladder and
reetum. The corset puts pressure upon
all three organs and causes slow death
of function and ultimate death of the
part and death of the body by heart
failure. All that damnable sequence
because of vanity.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
TATTOOS HIS DAY OLD BABE,
Convicted German Military Attache
Takes No Chances,

San Francisco.-His coat of arms
sketched in indelible ink on the wrist
of his baby daughter gives assurance
to Lieutenant G. W. Won Brincken, mil
itary attache of the German consulate
here, that his young wife will carry
away no other couples child when she
leaves the hospital where their first
born came into the world.
In panic at the sight of numerous
other infants in the hospital nursery
Won Brincken, lately convicted Of COM
plicity in the munitions plots involving
the German consulate, catechized the
nurses on their methods Of identified
ton. Not satisfied with their system.
he called for ink and pen.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Woman and Electricity.

When a woman is sulky and will
not speak-exciter.
If she gets too excited-controller.
If she talks too long-interrupter.
If her way of thinking is not yours
converter.
If she is willing to meet you. half
way-meter.
If she will meet you all the way-re-
ceiver.
If she wants to go farther-conduc-
tor.
If she would go still farther-dis-
patcher.
If she wants chocolate feeder.-Ex-
change.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
A DARING voyaqe.

The smallest boat to cross the Allan
tic under her own sail was sailed by
Captain Andrews. This craft was but
fourteen feet long, but in it Captain
Andrews crossed the ocean In 1891,
landing at Palos, Spain. He Travelled
about Europe exhibiting his boat until
the Worlds fair In Chicago. when he
returned to this country and placed it
on view there. He had previously made
two unsuccessful attempts to cross the
ocean.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
"GLAZE," NEW WEATHER WORD
Old Fashioned "SIeet" Will Be Out of
Style This Winter.

Washington. The old fashioned
"sleet'' is going out Of style this win
ter before the newer "ice storm" and
'glaze," weather bureau officials re-
ported in their campaign for more &C
curate Technology for various kinds
Of frozen rain. Sleet is officially de-
scribed as small globules of rain frozen
before striking the earth. When rain
freezes after falling and forms CLASSY
coating on the ground, trees and wires
the condition is called a glaze, and
when this is severe and accompanied
by wind, it is reported as an ice storm.
The weather bureau hopes to elimi-
nate what it considers improper use Of
the word "sleet," as it has caused sub
stitution of the term tornado" for
Cyclone" when a violent storm Of
small diameter is meant.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
Football and Matrimony,

"ei' | wish him luck" said Mr..
SeS after reading in the paper an
~Ount OF The wedding of a popular
loer Of Il college football team.
w. he added in Illuminating tone,
~triage is very much like football"
UOn | talk - ridiculous" snapped
Jones, How can you compare
@Oall TO mar :agc?"
why replied Jones. 1t looks so
10 Those who haven't tried it."
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-03
GOT $1,000 FOR EYE.
Young Man Then Lost Money on Q Gel
ebration Trip.

Young Man Then Lost Money on . Gel
ebration Trip.
Monessen, Pa.-Michael Kamar, aged
Twenty-Five, who received $1,000 COM
pensation because Of the loss Of an eye
while at work in a Pittsburgh steel
mill, is now bemoaning his desire to
celebrate because Of his newly &C.
quired wealth.
When Michael got his money he i'm
mediately arranged for a trip to New
York, with a stop at Ashtabula as a
side issue. He started one day at noon.
an hour after he had the compensation
check cashed, and In less than a half
hour was minus bis thousand. He con-
tinued his journey to Ashtabula, but
returned home and said he would get q
Job.