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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-12

NEW IOhh, rep lG.--WlI III Tue ~ :
rival of the American line steamer New
York, early today, the number of
American transatlantic passenger
ships in port was increased to four,
with P. A. S. Franklin, president of
the International Mercantile Marine,
which owns and operates the American
Line, declining to permit vessels
TO depart for Europe, before defensive
armament is secured,
The New York was the first Amer
lean passenger steamship to leave
Liverpool after Germanys ruthless
submarine campaign begun The cap
tain of the vessel reported sighting
TO warships within the war zone.
The American liner Kreenland ar
rived here yesterday and dOcked last
night, discharging its passengers to-
day. This vessel with the liners New
York, st. Louis and st. Paul, consti-
tute the four liners flying the Ameri-
can flag in port today.
President Franklin's request to the
navy department Is prefaced with the
statement that his company has been
thus far unable to purchase guns OF
the calibre required as a pratection
for liners at sea. and now turns to
the government for assistance. The
department, although opposed to con-
voying American merchantmen in the
submarine zone, favors the furnishing
. OF. such vessels with defensive arma-
ment inasmuch as the government
recognizes that naval arsenals hold
the only supply of naval guns avail
able. 1t is held, in this connection,
that obtaining defense guns from ma
val arsenals would in no way affect
the private character of the ships
thus armed.
An official statement announced the
navy department has on hand num-
Der OlQ ulOuSl bhISe W SiA-AhSh 81
row available for the arming of
merchant vessels, but the question of
obtaining gun crews after such arma-
ment is mounted, presents a dificult
Lroblem that must be solved by the
ship-owners themselves. Naval Off
GERS are opposed to diverting enlisted
uen from active service on board war.
sbips to serve guns mounted on mer-
chant vessels.
Another interesting phase of the
situation lies III the preference OF the
ship-owners, represented by Franklin,
that the government place such guns
as NAV be provided for the arming Of
merchantmen directly aboard these
vessels by naval engineers. Govern
roent authorities fail to share this
view of the ship-Owners, however, and
if is indicated late today that such
grns, as are placed at their disposal
will either be sold direct to the ship
owners or a loan of the armament will
he arranged in such manner as to
place these guns wholly under their
s,,-ervisjon and beyond control of the
navy department.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-12
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA SEE
THE GHOST WALK TODAY

Today is regular monthly pay day
for the Central Of Georgia railroad
employees in Americus. There is quite
an increase in work going on at the
present here. work on the remodeling
of the passenger depot and track and
concrete bridge work, which will add
largely to the pay roll distributed to
employees of the line Americus this
month.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-12

Yesterday was selected as Sunday
School Day for the entire state, be-
cause it was the nearest Sunday to
Georgia Day. which is Monday, Feb
ruary 18th.
The third annual event was yester-
Gay, and it is believed that the occas-
ion will become a regular practice for
the Sunday schools of Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-12
Freighter oNnge clears For Genoa

Freighter Ownge Clears For Genoa
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-The freighter
Ownge is the fourth American ship to
leave this port since Germany's ruth
less submarine campaign began, sail
ing last night for Genoa. The captain
OF the Ownge is an American, and
there are many other Americans
among the crew.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-12
.merlcan Liners to Be Armed.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Feb. 12.-P.
A s. Franklin, president of the In
,ernational Mercantile Marine, today
formally applied to the navy depart
ment here to furnish his company
guns sufficient to arm the passenger
.hins operated between American and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-12
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-12
GREAT TRIBUTES
To LINCOLN PAID
At HIS MEMORIAL

CUMBERLAND GAP, Tenn. Feb. u.
Tho time when Lincoln lived in this
rugged region was recalled by General
Coleman DUPONT, of Delaware, in pre-
siding today at the celebration of the
twentieth anniversary of the founding
Of Lincoln Memorial university, which
during the past three days, has brought
many distinguished men here to pay
tribute to Lincoln.
1T would be too much to say that
any American boy can rise to Lin-
coins height" said he. Let us all
fervently hope that no crisis shall ever
come to pass that shall call for an
other Lincoln. But here are facts that
should spur and inspire. and doubtless
do spur and inspire every young man
OF today. Lincoln was not a youthful
prodigy; he was neither precotious nor
argelic. He was not divinely gifted
He was just a plain American boy,
palmer than most, at the beginning OF
his career. Born where life was hard
and comforts meagre he had neither
luck nor circumstance in his favor. He
had as poor chance as any boy ever
had to become great and his success
came only through the discipline OF
toll. He put his foot on adversity and
rose to opportunity. He did what any
American boy can do and ought to do:
make the most of Iifes' chance.
THE people of these great Cum
berland hills are of the stock from
which Lincoln sprang and among the
cabins in those rugged Businesses are
youths whose lives now parallel his
early days. We should all time singu-
lar interest, yes, pride, in these young
mauntaineers. And we should encour-
age them in the effort they are making.
so apparent here at Lincoln Memorial
university, to acquire an education as
Lincoln acquired it, by painstaking and
persevering struggle and sacrifice"
This college is doing a wonderful
work and an even more wonderful flu
true is before it. The paths of COM
merce, l might say, of progress, now
circle around it, and avoid it. even as
il Lincoln's day, but the road builders
who are linking states and cities with
broad highways from coast to coast
will one day come upon it, and the
miracle will be wrought. The south
orn mountains will be reclaimed; Lin
coins people will have their chance;
their pure American blood will pulse
with new patriotic fervor and the
nation will find here in these fast
nesses a treasure house of civil, moral
and political wealth for the enriching
of our civilization"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-12
Mayor Thompson Speaks


Our supreme task as a nation is to
illustrate the blessings which come
through loyaly to law" said Mayor
William Hale Thompson, OF Chicago.
In speaking on Lincoln and Law En-
forcement at the celebration today of
the twentieth anniversary of the found
ing of Lincoln Memorial university.
'Lincoln's entire life,' said he, was
developed in the spihit of obedience to
law. Early in his boyhood he deliver
ed memorable address in which hS
pleaded for the maintenance of consti-
tutional authority and sounded note
OF warning against that lawlessness
which results in 'mobocracy.' His mis-
sion was that Of law and his supreme
achievement was the restoration Of the
authority of law. AS a nation we may
we'll follow in his footsteps. Lawless-
ness will undermine the integrity OF
any people, break down the institutions
Of any government and result IN an
archy. Today, as never before, we
need to breathe Lincoln's spirit of 10y
atty to law and order and the safe
guards of constitutional authority.
With this spirit of devotion to law in
the municipalities and states Of this
mighty nation, we will go forward in
the prosecution Of our mission as
great democracy and demonstrate to
the world that the majesty Of law is
safe in popular government and that
cur supreme task as nation is, to IL
lustrate the blessings which come
through loyalty to law. 1t was for this
that Lincoln stood and today he still
stands the silent sentinel of our his
tory, pleading for the preservation OF
the precious heritage Of popular gov
ernmsnt"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-02-12

The Times-Recorder is the ONLY papt
in the Third Congressional District vii
Associated Press Service.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-02-24
E. o. BRUNER S DEATH
COMES SUDDENLY

F.. O. Bruner ,one Of the best
known men in Louisiana, died sud
denly at l 80 o'clock Thursday
morning in the home of K. Miles
Brooks, 723 Howard avenue.
Mr.. Bruner arrived in the city
Sunday, having come from his
home in Crowley, Acadia parish,
for the Carnial. He came alone.
He spent the early part of the
evening away from the house, and
when he returned he seemed in
his usual good health and spirits.
Mr.. BTlner was a man Of much
prominence in politics. He form
erly was a member of the State
Legislature, and he served four
years as State Commissioner of
Agriculture.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-02-24
CLIP THIS AND PIN
ON WIFE'S DRESSER
Cincinnati man tells how to shriyel
up eorns or ealIuses so they
lift off with fingers.

Ouch f!?!! This kind Of ro,,or
talk will be heard less here in town |;
people troubled with corns will follow
the simple advice of this Cincinnati
authority, who claims that a few dron:
OF drug called freezone when annlied
TO tender, aching corn or hardened cal.
fus stops soreness at once, and soon the
corn or eallus dries up and lifts rioht
off without pain.
he says freezone dries Immediately
anu never lnflames or even irritates the
surrounding skin. A small bottle of
freezone will cost very little at anv
drug store, but will positively remove
every hard or soft corn or callus from
ones feet. Millions of American women
VIII welcome this announcement aimee
the Inauguration of the high heels. IF
your druggist doesn't have freezone tell
nun 70 order q small bottle for Won.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-02-24

For the. purpose of establishing
a large modern dairy farm. n. O.
Nelson, proprietor of the Nelson
grocery stores in New Orleans,
has purchased from Mrs, c. D.
Gondran the Linwood plantation
Of the east bank Of the river in
the sixth ward of the parish. The
property comprises 1915 acres of
high and cultivable land. and is
admirably adapted for dairy pur-
poses.-Donaldsonville Chef.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-02-24
Neglected Colds Grow Worse

A cough that racks and initiates
the throat may lead to a serious
chronic cough, if neglected. The
healing pine balsams in DR.. Bell s
Pine Tar Honey-Nature's own
remedy-will soothe and relieve
the irritation, breathing will be
easier. and the antiseptic proper
ties will kill the germ which re-
tarded healing. Have it handy
for Group, sore throat and chronic
bronchial affections. Get bottle
to-day. Pleasant to take. At all
druggists. 25c. 3
(Adgertisement.)
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-02-24

Sash, Plind and Door Factory,
special work Of all description
Cisterus and tanks.-Bertrand
Lumber Co.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-02-24
Plies Cured In 6 to IA DAYS

Your druggist will refund money PAzo
OINTMENT falls to cure any case of Itching.
Blind Bleeding or ProtrudinR Piles in IA days
The first application gives Ease and Rest. SOC.
ADVERTISEMENT
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-02-24

Orders taken for Engraved
VISITING Cards. $1.45 per hun
dred up.
PF1STER BROTHERS.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-02-24
ADVERTISING RATES

Business locals at Sc per line eaat
Issue.
Display advertising at 15c per inch
per issue, single column width.
Display advertising on front page Zoe
per inch per issue.
Lega! advertising at the legal rates al
lowed by law.
Society resolutions of respect, cards Of
thanks, ETC., at regular advertising rates.
Political announcements $1,000, pay
able in advance.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-11
SUIT
AGAINST N. P.

Accusing the Northern Pacific
railway Of unlawfully appropriate
ing its property for a right-of-way
on the Point Defiance main line.
the Tacoma Mill Co., located at
Old Tacoma, filed suit in the SUI
perior court Tuesday for $780,
900 damages.
Previous to 1914, the mill COM
pany had built a sawmill with
wharves and docks on the water
front, the complaint says. On
Nov. 10, 1914, 1t is charged, the
N. p. entered the premises and
began operating main line and
branch trains. as well as main line
trains of the O.-W. thru the mill
property, making use of strip 20
feet wide and enclosing the tracks
with fireproof cover on either side
and over head.
The mill company complains
that the railroad never has &C
CURED the right to use the land
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-11
8 SOLDIERS ExECU1 D!
Dancing
Girls In


Following raids on downtown
Tacoma dance halls Monday night
by police officers, in which 13
girls and two men were arrested
for disorderly conduct. Chief of
Police Smith announced Tuesday
that he had demanded strict OBJ
servanee of police regulations In
all public dances, with the threat
that such places would he closed
II not operated properly.
Many of the girls arrested Mon
day night were members of 10y
parties found at the Chicken Din
ner Inn, on the Mountain road,
early Sunday morning.
Jack Wilson, floor manager
of the Lewenna dance hall,
one of the men arrested Mon
day night, is the city plumber.
He Is charged by the police
with having taken a group of
dancing girls to the Inn Sat
urtiay night and to have fur
nished them with liquor.
Peggy Morton and Rena Good
night, two of the girls caught in
the police roundup. were given six
months sentences by Police Judge
Graham Tuesday morning and or
dered placed in the city quaran-
tine station until cured of social
diseases.
All girls employed in Tacoma
dance halls must undergo medi-
cal examinations hereafter before
accepting employment, and the
proprietors will be held RESPONSE
BILE for their conduct both during
their employment on the dance
floor and at other times OF the
day or night, Chief Smith an
|nounced.
Because of the large number of
arrests of dance hall girls, the
police are forced to make increases
in the women's department of the
city jail.
Two new cells have been order
ed constructed, and work will
start at once. There were 20 girl
prisoners Tuesday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-11
War On
Vice In


Because of the great difficulty
in controlling the vice situation,
Elmer E. Healey. deputy prose-
cutting attorney, was detailed
Monday by Prosecuting Attorney
Remain to devote all his time to
the work of the county branch,
national council for defense.
Something must be done i'm
mediately," said Remain Mon
day, "or the situation here will
be as bad as that of Seattle" The
appointment of Healey is the first
step in big cleanup move
planned by the defense council,
working with the prosecuting at
torney's office.
The appointment of Healey was
made at the request of G. M. Rid
dell, chairman of the defense
council. At his request, also,
Sheriff Longmire detailed Deputy
Sheriff Sears to assist in the work
of running down evidence of liq-
uor violations and prostitution.
There is no doubt that the vice
danger in Tacoma has been grow
ing" said Remain, "and we in
tend to do our utmost to curb it."
1t is known that Chairman Rid
dell and the county defense coun-
ell have masses of evidence which
will be turned over to Deputy
Prosecutor Healey, who will start
prosecutions.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-11
OUR RAILROADS!
Members of Cabinet Ask
President to Take Over
Entire System and Run
It During the War.

Omitted P.ess Lenscd vire.s
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec.
11.-Nlembers of President
Wilson's cabinet today were
bringing pressure to bear on
him to take over the railroads
and ru nthem for the period
of the war.
Secretary of the Treasury Nc
Adoo, /. was learned today on I'M
questionable authority, is the lead
Ing advocate of government con-
troll.
He urged the president to cut
the gordian knot of the whole
transportation problem by selling
the railroads and doing anything
necessary tot insure their efficient
operation to win the war.
McAdoo and other cabinet men,
bers pressed their views at this
cabinet meeting.
The same high authority stated
that the president undoub eddy
will go before congress with a
railroad message in a few days.
The president is declared to
have fatty rejected the railroad
terms of higher rates, draft ex-
emption for employees and govern
ment aid in obtaining financial
credits.
AS result the railroads war
board sought an appointment with
the president to make last stand.
He will receive them tomorrow
afternoon at the White House.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-11

Quilted Press Leased Wire,
LONDON, Dec. II Over
the whole of the western
front today German artillery
was roaring a challenge to
the French and British
armies.
Somewhere along the great
battle line II was confidently
believed Germany was pre-
pairing to make her heaviest
attack since the days Of the
invasion of 1914.
She is masking the location
chosen for that assault by an ar
tillery bombardment that IL i'm
partially scattering shells over
almost every sector of the British
and French Ines.
Official reports, however, indi-
Gated slightly stronger fire over
the French positions. From this
1t was deduced here that linden
burg had chosen the poilus as op-
ponents for his massed armies
reinforced by numerous divisions
recently transferred from the
Russian front.
Field Marshal Haig's battle
front report today gave further
to the belief that Ger
many isy seeking a weak spot In
the western line. He reported
south OF the Scarpe and north
Of the Lys particularly unusual
aerial and artillery activity yes
terday."
The report was in line with the
belief here of Germany's
preparations for grand Of
fensive.
The aerial activity indicated
energetic attempts to seek out
British positions and disposition
of forces, the artillery showed pre-
liminary hunting out of weak
spots, and the raids were of the
sort which one side employs con-
stantly prior to an attack to as
certain exactly what forces OPP
pose them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-11
Henry Ford Says Lighter
Rolling Stock and One
Management Will Get
Them on Right Basis.
UNITED Press Leased wire.)

NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-Lighter
railroad equipment and a unified
transportation system will solve
Americas railroad problem, Hen.
ry Ford declared today in a state
ment to the New York Evening
Mail
Ford asserted taht alloy steel OF
great strength but much less
weight could be used to reduce
operating costs.
THE freight car weighs as
much as the load it carries" said
Ford.
Generally, 1t travels two-thirds
full and comes back empty. Pas
senger trains weight 80 to $50
times as much as the passengers
in them"
Ford declared the banking
interests that control rail.
roads are 50 busy figuring on
profits that they don't know
what ails their own transpor-
tatiOn systems.
Ox1u nsuudHCluCHhU TO.
quires technically trained
men who know how to rum
engines, machines, dig tun-
nels and design better equip
ment," he said.
"The United States needs one
unified railway system, tying to-
gether all parts of the country"
Ford said that four-fifths of a
railroads work today is hauling
the dead weight of its own equip
ment and that frequent rate in
creases to protect stocks and
bonds would no relieve the situa-
ton.
He declared that concrete high
ways should be built SO trucks
and automobiles can take over the
short haul work which now con-
gests railways. that superfluous
rail lines be eliminated, all parts
of the country tapped by railroads
and both passenger and freight
rates reduced.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-11
White Arctic Owl Visits
Tacoman's Poultry Flock

Rev. James Pascoe, retired
Methodist minister, 812 South Co
lumbia st., is trying, to learn
whether the presence OF a white
Arctic owl in Tacoma in December
is an indication Of an impending
hard winter.
For Rev. Pascoe bagged one of
the unusual birds in his back yard
Monday night.
During recent nights the minis
ter has been aroused by a great
squawking among his chickens,
and investigation each morning
has shown that one or more of
his fowls have disappeared. So
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-11
A NEW BRIDGE
AT NISQUALLY

To eliminate the treacherous
curves which have been the cause
Of recent fatal automobile acct
dents, a new bridge will be built
at Nisqually on the Pacific high
way, between the Pierce and
Thurston county lines.
The Pierce county commission
ers Tuesday met with State High
way Commissioner James Allen,
and agreed to put on the budget
Pierce county's share of the cost.
The ocst of the bridge will be
about $4,000. Pierce county,
Thurston county and the state
each will bear one-third of the ex-
pense.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-11
ENTIRELY LEGAL

(United Press Leased wire.)
WASHINGTON, d. c.. Dec. IL.
Execution of sentences passed
on the negro soldiers who figured
in the Houston riots was in full
accordance with the law, the war
department stated this afternoon.
While refusing to give out the
official report Of the hanging of
13 colored soldiers, the depart
ment said the commander had
power to act without review or
approval in advance by Washing
ton.
The courtmartial which tried
the Houston rioters had been
carefully selected.
1t consisted practically entirely
of general officers, in order to
make the trials fair and avoid in
justice which might. aggravate
the race issue
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-11
REAL CIVIL WAR IS
COMING IN RUSSIA

cossack revolters was formally de-
clared by the bolsheviki today
Troops were dispatched from Ka-
Fan on an armored train thru
Kharkoff.
Foreign Minister Trotsky or
dered Ensign Krylenko, Russian
commander-in-chief, to send as
many troops from the front as
possible to crush the cossack re-
volt along the Don and in Ural.
kaledine himself declared mar
tial law in force thruout the ter
ritory of the Don today and an
nounced his cossack forces were
ready to fight.
From Kharkoff It was report
ed today that rebels had mus
tered three trainloads of troops,
together with three from Sunny.
General Korniloff was said to be
In command of these forces.