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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26
Points To Pacific Rec
ord In Appealing -
For Support sr
NOT ASKING FOR =
OPEN HOSTTLITIE
Seeking Only Justice
and Adequate !.
Protection
By CARL d. GR0Ar.

(Sfdn Correspondent United Pysse)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2e.-Prsst
dent Wilson today appealed to .
joint session OF congress for permis
sion to arm American merchantmen.
TO establish an armed neutrality"
and for full and immediate assur-
ance that he may exercise such
authority as he deems necessary 10
handle the German-American sftua-
uon.
Declaring that he II "the friend OF
reace and means to preserve II for
America" a. long as he Is able. the
president emphasized the fact that
he neither asks nor contempiatss .
step which need bring war thru the
action Of this country. He declared
that war could only come thru an
act OF Germany.
mo course OF my choosing Will
lead 10 war" he said. War can
come only by the vilful acts and
nOh Ut my CRN"slht= 6AatN
He added in almost the next sen
tence. that we must defend our
commerce and the lives OF our peo-
pie"
lie emphasized that while he may
now have full power to take what
steps are necessary. he desires that
congress by its own vote" show
that it is behind him In whatever he
may decide Is necessary.
While he asked specifically for
power 20 arm ships, he said he
could not be any more sjecinc. since
he can only decide as the situation
develops. what specific thing should
be done
The president also asked "a sum
cient credit to enable me TO pro-
vide adequate means Of protection
where they are lacking. including
adequate insurance against the
present war risks
The house galleries were packed
with people who sat in tense silence
as the president outlined the inter
national developments since Ger
many issued her U-boat decree.
The president pointed out that
tho American ships have not been
sunk without warning and the overt
act has not occurred. 1T viii he
foolish 10 DENY that the situation Is
fraught with gravrst possibilities
and dangers"
Chairmsn Flood Immediately CALI
ed ueeting of the house totem
affairs committee.
The committee will consider bill
which Flood started 40 draft before
the message vas delivered. incor-
porating ali the legislation neces-
sary 10 giyo the president the power
he warts.
No time was set for The mcettne
y, was expected 10 he 10
o'clock before the menssos e0u1A
be gathered togetheH
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26
Death TO
CUT OFF rs
SALOONS
1917 Licenses Will Fall
Below 1900, Is
Outlook
4l9 APPLICATIONS
ARE NOW ON FILE
A n n xed Territory
Will Not Materially
Affect Total

Because OF the death OF about 20
holders OF retail liquor licenses
since May I. 1916, the number OF H.
censes 10 be granted by the common
council in May. 1917. will be reduc-
I'd TO about .290. and possibly more
To date tls applications for removal
OF licenses have been fled with the
city clerk. The last day for the &C.
ceptance OF applications is April IS.
Aid. shermtn Littleheld. chairman
OF the commNt tee on liquor regula-
tion. believes Mat there will be a
material reductidp in the number of
licenses applied Nor this spring
owing to statc.w idA prohibition, and
does not expect that the number viii
exceed the number 10 b. granted.
Last spring there were more than
1000 applicants. with but 1915 H.
censes TO be Issued.
Perusal OF the license books show
that TO date but three persons In tho
territory recently annexed To -..v
city have applied for renewal OF Ii
censes
The annexation of this territory
will not add TO the number OF sa-
looms 10 an appreclable extent" said
Aid Littleaeld, Monday. There may
be- doEer saloons in those .'-rts Of
the city annexed. and at the most
there r. not more than IS. or that
humber only three have 80 FAR fled
their applications for renewals"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26
'KuT' ONCE
MORE HELD
BY BRITISH
Turks Are Driven From
Stronghold In
MesapOtamia
TOWNSHEND'S
MEN AVENGED
Dispatches To London
Indicate Victory Is
Complete

LONDON. Feb 26 6--Kut-el Amara
has been recaptured by British
forces.
Chancellor OF the EEchequer An
drew Bonar Law made the an.
nouncement this afternoon in the
house OF commons.
lie said the Turkish garrison was
in full retreat
The whole enemy's positions az
Sann-Ai.Yat and Kut-el.Amara have
been secured" the Mesopotamian
statement announced Kut Itself Is
automatically ours"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26
COUNCIL TO
FORCE DUR.
TO BRACE UP
Dingeman Maps Out
Plan After Confer
ence With Mayor
COMMITTEE TO
TAKE ACTION
More Trailers Suggest
ed AS One Means of
Getting Relief

Exhausted by its repeated efforts
tC compel the d. a. r TO provide
letter service on some OF its lines,
and annoyed at ito inability 10 OBJ
tain any equitable adjustment OF its
demands and pleadings. the com
mon council will resort to new tao.
lies to compel the street railway
company 10 come TO time.
Actuaed by the hundreds OF com.
plants that daily arrive at the cor
poration counsel's office concerning
the ID. L. r. service. and At the
suggestion OF the mayor and many
OF the more influential aldermen.
Corporation Counsel Harry j. Dinge-
man. after confering with the
mayor. has prepared communica-
tion 10 the council. 10 be submitted
Tuesday night, setting forth what
are the Mblics principal grievances
against the street railway. and ask
ing authority 10 have tho council
committee on public utilities work
with one Of the assistant corpora
tion counsels, whose duties from
row on will be confined entirely 10
rtreet railway matters. They viii
take up the individual complaints
ind determine Jointly what course
To pursue.
Tho efforts OF tho public utilities
committee and Mr.. Dfngeman's AS
sistant will be directed To accom-
plish six different objects. which
The corporation counsel has sum
married. In his letter as follows:
First-Improvement OF service.
principally addition OF r'ore cars.
on the following ines: Fort-st.
West and East Jefferson, Gratiot-
I'VE. Myrtle and Fourteenth.
Second-Installation OF trailers on
the Gratiot-aee. lima
Thlrd-E Elimination OF the prac-
uce OF compelling passengers to
change cars At the car barns. par
ticularly on Jererson-aye.
Four,h-The strict enforcement
OF the ordinance compelling cars to
stop fof all passengers.
Fifth-Prevention OF the over.
crowding ot cars.
Sixth--Adiustmcat OF the trans
fer system On the Grand Belt line.
Try Ger Ws.hIng ny the I'D. Mss.s-
shusetts Laundry Co.--Msis soos.-Ade
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26

LONDON. Feb. 2s.-The liner Ia.
pnia has been torpedocd on the
ish coast
London reports asserts that the
ner was torpedoed without warn.
Ps
The Cunarder was cnroute from
ew York TO England.
The faconia vas steel screw
eamship OF 1s.oe9 tons. one of the
rgest vessels now in transatlantic
ervice. She was registered at Liv.
Fpool and was built in 1912. She
a. owned by the Cunard Steamship
bmpany. and was 500 feet IN length
ht II feet beam.
The Iaconia n the biggest vic.
m OF the German submarine war
IRE since the new decree was an
bunced.
Two hundred and seventy-eight
lrsengers aboard the Laconla we're
fscued. Six Americans were among
pose aboard tho Laconia.
The Cunarder carried mail from
merica. She was torpedoed Sun
ky night.
A further statement this after
BON said that a majority OF the
brvivors were expected to land at
ueenstown. and the others at
hntry. Ireland.
Capt. W. Il. ID. Irgine was In com
and Of the big liner. q. Rain was
lief engineer; q. 8. Kennedy sur-
ION; W. Ballyn. caief steward A.
Robertson. chief oficer: c. T.
bedding, pUrser. w X. Gorson., as
slant purser.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26

~ You ARE IN DOUBT
about your future ask "Matatma,
the psychic marvel. Niles Theater, All
this week. 'sBarGaIn Hatiness 10
aud 20 centk.-AdI
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26
BRYAN SlAPS
LINGO PRESS"
Asserts Advocates of Belliger-
ent Action Libel Pres
ident

NEW YORK. Feb. 26.-The fol
lowing was received Sunday by the
Emergency Peace federation from
William Jennings Bryan from Mi
ami. Fla.
The lingo newspapers ara con
stantly giving reasons why we
should 20 10 war. but they denounce
IA unpatrlotic anyone who dares to
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26

WASHINGTON. Feb. 2e.-The
tate department received Official
Ford Of the sinking OF the giant
(unarder Laconia la a cable from
(onsul Frost at Queenstown this
|fternoon- Frost's message read
Cunarier Laconia torpedoed. sunk.
leb. 2S $50 miles west OF Fastnct.
|etails not yet known: two hundred
fventy-eight survivors will land
ere today.
1T Is known some missing: one
Pad"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26

Pvssft.g--ths pA.ss .est kfsa--shst
stsht-Tises Ses Degt---Msf. <k1s
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26

Try Osr Washing ny the III. Mss.s-
ehusetts Laundry Co.--Mais ao0S.-Ads
ALBERT ". SHERMAN
Fer necerser. -Ad.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26
PRESIDENT ASKS "0.K." OF CONGRESS
T0PLACE GUNS0NU.S. S.L|NERS;WANTS
NOWARBuT MUSTPROTECT COMMERCE

forces was the cause OF rejoicing
here today. Kut-elAmara, memora-
BILE as the spot where Gen. Town
shend and his 5000 British troops
early In the war held out so lons
before the Turkish forces. before
they were starved into surrender,
is now almost surrounded by the
British Mesopotamian forces. The
(CeptinueS On Psge TweD.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26
BRITISH WIN SEA FIGHT:
TEuTONS SHELL MARGATE


this afternoon
our
s
known.
but fed before desroyers arrived the scene
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26
GREAT CUNARDER SUNK WITHOUT
WARNING OFF COAST OF IRELAND;
278 SAVED, DEAD, SEVERAL MISSING
steamer Is Biggest
Prize To Date of
Ruthless War
EFT NEW YORK
FOR LIVERPOOL
carried United States
Mails and Rich
Cargo

NE WYoRk, FebM 26.-Ther,
were 20 Americans on the La
coma u was stated at the
cunsrd offices here OF whom 20
were members Of the crew.
Following 10 a list OF Amerl-
can passengers:
Rev. Joseph Wsreine, New
York.
Arthur T. Kirby, Bsinbridee.
NJ. Y.
Floyd p. Gibbons, Chicago, o
Tribune correspondent
Mrs. 3. e. Harris. Hotel Vol.
cott, New York. believed TO be
from Fort Dupont. Del.
Mrs. Mary and Elizabeth Hoy,
Chicago.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-02-26

Mr and Mrs. Dwight A. Hitch
cock. " the Hotel Stevenson. an.
uounce the marriage ot their daugh.
ter. Anna Legxett. - John Boniholt.
n the Hotel Manhattan. New York.
Wednesday. Feb. -
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14
"The Shadow Of a Name

Under the above caption appears a
brilliant editorial in the Americas
Times Recorder, in which the editor
predicts a sad ending for Thomas E.
Watson unless he changes his present
unfriendly attitude toward the govern
ment because of which fact his paper,
The Jeffersonian, has already been
barred from the United States mails.
After drawing vivid picture, show
ing the pitiable predicament of the
famous Thomson lawyer and journal
ist, the Times-Recorder concludes with
words of warning, to which Mr.. Wat
son would no doubt do well not to
turn deaf ear, unless he wishes to
set himself in still deeper trouble
Hawkinsville News and Dispatch.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14
BEAUTY OR BRAINS?

They say that Miss Josephine Ran
kin, the only woman member of Con-
gress, is very attractive, well-liked by
men, and possessed of considerable
charm. But she is not good-looking.
Still, as general proposition, the
woman who exalts intelligence above
charm of face and figure, who puts a
premium on mentality in preference to
beauty, will probably receive slight
encouragement from the men folk and
none at all from the members of her
own sex.
We dare say that every woman, way
deep down in her heart, so great is
feminine vanity, would choose the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14
FOUR GREAT MEN.

-Four great figures have developed in
this world war. four men Of whom it
might be truthfully said that they
are shaping the destinies Of the uni
verse.
The outstanding character, of course,
though not the greatest, is Emperor
Wilhelm, who will ever loom the pages
.of history as one Of the most porten-
Itous figures OF all time.
The others are Woodrow Wilson,
Lloyd-George, and Kerensky
The latter has just made his debut
On the worlds stage, but his entrance
has been as successfully accomplished
as it was striking and dramatic.
Woodrow Wilson was already ac-
claimed a great man before the war
more fully brought out his genius of
craftsmanship. Lloyd-George, too, was
a notable parsonage, but now he is one
,of the most powerful of all the men in
the world, the virtual dictator of Great
Britain.
So little is known of Kerensky, who
leaped from obscurity into enormous
prominence, such as Napoleon, in one
day, became the talk of France, that
people everywhere are avidly reading
all they can about this remarkable
man.
By all manner of rating, Kerensky
must be placed alongside the Kaiser
President Wilson and the British pre-
mier as one of the four leading men OF
today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14
A TERRIBLE PROBLEM.
~, adornmen

1t is not a pleasant subject to dis
cuss, nor even to think about, but it
presents a problem nevertheless that
must be faced-this proposition of
chasing the argus-eyed women of the
underworld out of the cities and scat
tering them through the width and
breadth Of the state.
in Atlanta, Macon, Augusta and
now Savannah, the residential districts
occupied By the unfortunates have been
closed, and their inmates driven out
into an inhospitable world.
And now comes government
inspector who tells the city officials
that vice conditions in Macon are "ter-
rible," SO bad as to be fairly appall-
ing, what with these undesirables tax
ing up their abode in respectable com
munities, in hotels, and in boarding
houses, wherever by chance or intrigue
they can secure lodging.
Of course, many of these women
leave the cities, bounded as they are
by police, and their practises made diff
.ficult and Improbable. And they are
going into the small towns of the
state, to places which heretofore have
hardly known them by sight. Little
cities the size of Americas are feeling
the effects of the governmental vice
crusades, and will even more so as it
becomes more and more impracticable
for these women to live in the cities
which have army camps.
The government officials, in their
wisdom, doubtless after long and close
study of the problem, have decreed
that it is better for the districts to be
abolished in cities where soldiers will
be camped, and to their superior know
! ledge and judgment those who have
given the matter less expert inquiry
must necessarily defer. However, there
| is no question now about the fact thai
, the problem is farther from a solution
than ever before, and that, what has
been an irritating question To- the
larger municipalities, will now be an
intimate, personal and pressing issue
for the smaller cites.
tt is a question to which the offic-
ials OF every town in Georgia win be
obliged to devote considerable thoue BIT
and worry, without any hope of ever
reaching an altogether satisfactory de-
cision.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14
A COLUMN Of clo Pl4CS
No Time For Quibbling.

/
! The Triton Gazette says: The time
has passed when aid or comfort can
be given to peace propagandists or
Observation-Disclosures, who are but
friends of the enemy masquerading
III the home camp. When it is fully
understood by our people that every
move of this kind, which gives en-
couragement to Germany and thus pro
longs the war may cost the lives of
many of the sons whom Tiff has sent
to fight the battles of their country,
there will be longer patience with
those who talk sedition.
1t has been said that the man or
means who, by word or act, keeps a
soldier out of the ranks of the Ameri
can army has, so far as the result
of the war is concerned, fought for
Germany to the same extent that he
would had he sent bullet from a
German gun through the heart of a
man on the firing line
When our sons are at the front and
the lives of our dear ones are in dan
ger we will lose patience with apollo
gies for and the friends at home of
the enemy they are kghting. Already
the forbearance of the patriotic citi-
zens has been sorely tried Under
the pretext Of liberty or speech he has
heard his country and his leaders as
sailed and its motives questioned IN.
til the limit of endurance has been
reached.
IT is we'll that the strong arm. o. fhe
government has reached out to bring
these men to an accounting. Had
these things 3een permitted much
longer the people would have taken
men who have sought, for political
capital or other selfish caGs, To ~cey
upon craven fear or cowardly senti-
men have been playing with fire. The
prompt action of the government will
doubtless bring them to a realization
of their mistake. Otherwise, the peo-
pie will call them to an accounting
and well may they fear the result
when the American blood first spilled
in battle.
The time has past when liberty can
be distorted into license or men be
allowed to make personal gain at the
expense of the blood of brave men.
For this is war, and war means no
tomporizing with the enemy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

the perfection of pulchritude to the
attachments of the mind, even though
she knew she was making a fatal err
ror. But how wonderful is she who
possesses both beauty and cultivated in
telligence!
The scandalmonging historians say
that Cleopatra had pug nose and was
freckled. But she had one of the
best trained intellects of her day, and
she did not altogether need physical
attractiveness to allure such stalwarts
as Caesar and Anthony. The Duchess
lcf Marlborough, Madame De Stael
George Sand, George Eliot, Madame
Roland even Sappho of ancient Greece
these women were not distinctively
gifted with good looks, yet men found
their society pleasing and all of them
occupy special inches in history Then
there are the women of the type OF
Harriet Martineau, whose association
with men was due entirely to mental
superiority.
In the end it is much better to be a
Martineau, than a Recamier, Theresa
than Mary Stuart, a Maintenon in
stead of a Pompadour.
Ruskin has well shown in his "Ses-
anne and Lilies how the "lilies of the
queens garden" are the good women,
the noble women and more often the
intellectual women whose beauty is
their goodness and nobility and Gull
tured intellect. AS Lord Bacon says,
Beauty is like summer fruits, which
are easy to corrupt and cannot last.
Beauty derived from intellectual
charm is, perhaps, like rich jewels
best when plainly set" and needs no
ether, though undoubtedly enhanced
! 10y, adornment
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14
A CHANCE FOR CHARITY.

Elsewhere in The Times-Recorder
there appears a news statement of the
pitiable condition in which two Con
federate veterans of this county have
found themselves.
These two men each received about
five dollars a month from the state as
a pension, ana they have no other
source Of income. For them, without
outside assistance, to attempt to live
on that meager pittance were an i'm
possibility.
The Times-Recorder is informed that
III the two men were slightly supple
mented to the extent of fifteen dollars
per month, to be divided between pro-
portionate to their actual necessities,
that would be sufficient to adequately
maintain them
These old gentlemen are not ap-
pealing themselves for public chart
ty AS destitute as they are, the
pride which made them leave their
homes more than fifty years ago and
risk their lives and suffer the hor-
rors of war for their beloved South
land. that pride still lives within
them.
Isn't it possible for some one man
in Americas to give the sum of $3.50
Ito proper custodian, to be distrip>
Iuted to these old veterans, so much a
month, for the next year?
Aren't there enough warm hearted
sympathetic, charitable men and wo-
men in the county to raise together a
fund of $3.50 with which to guarantee
to these veterans food and shelter for
another year?
| The Times-Recorder is undertaking
OF its own accord to raise $3.50 for
these splendid old fellows, both surviv-
ors of the war of the sixties who even
today are suffering for actual wants
of life, and who, in their pride have
lstubbornly refuse to acquaint even
their old comrades with their real con-
dition
Such contributions as The Times-Re-
corder may receive, and should re-
ceive, viii be publicly acknowledged.
and a trustworthy citizen, familiar
with and personally interested in
these cases. will handle t1ei7 distra-
button.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. IA,
p, o, q. OF A.

Meets every first and third Monday
nights in P. o. s. of A. Hall, No. 21s
Lamar st. All members In good stand
ing invited to attend. Beneficiary certi-
fcates from $25O.OO to 100000 issued
to members Of this camp.
T. E, CASTLEBERRY President
o. D. REESE, Recd'g. Sec'y.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14
HI h Cost Of Hunting.

The hunting season will soon be
here, but, when it is realized that it
IS going to cost more than a jit every
time one pulls the trigger of his gun,
there probably will not be so much
hunting Brunswick News
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

Let justice be done, though the
heavens fall" exclaims an editorial
contemporary. We've never known
justice to cause the heavens to fall,
but we have seen it raise hi.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

We read where a woman Used kher
husband as he was leaving home and
discovered that he had drunk some
poison Usually this discovery is
made when husband returns home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

A. scientist says that sleep is a
myth" 1t certainly is, if there's a
new baby in the house, or a girl learn
ing to play the piano.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

A Boston woman caught her hus-
band osculating a lady visitor, and the
husband pleaded that he was merely
kissing her back of the ear. What
bungleri
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

A Florida grower is Dragging about
a lemon that weighs five pounds.
Without calling any names, we know
some that weigh around 10 pounds.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

This is certainly a rapid little age
we're living in. We read in an Ohio
paper where "the girls Of today are
the wives Of tomorrow and the moth
ers of the day after"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

Whenever a hen lays an egg now
aGays the man who owns her is tempt
ed to join with the rooster in growing
about it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

1t has reached the point where a
woman must wear clothes that start
too late and stop too soon in order to
meet the fashion test.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

A woman may show poor taste in
a long skirt nowadays, but
she at least has the satisfaction Of
Knowing she doesn't show anything
else.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

With $500 in American coin, you can
buy S472 in Mexican money. First
come, first served. Come early and
avoid the rush.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

"Spasms of color" will prevail in the
autumn styles for women, meaning,
doubtless, that fits will be order
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

The man who buys porterhouse
steak on a soupbone income is headed
for the slaughter pen
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-14

Large evenings and "big times"
usually go together, and are followed
by big heads"