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ments of their own that presented particular appeal to their own readers Papers in cities bombed by the French interiarded the stock advertisements. With appeals to their readers to sub- scribe to the seventh war loan as an answer to the acts of the entente in bombing unfortifled cities
 The Stuttgart papers furnish good ex- ample of the way in which the provincial Gernan press has taken advantage of local happenings to vary the routine ad- vertistng sent out from headquarters in Berlin. Immediately following the latest French raid they came out with tho fol- lowing blank forms for subscribers to- sign.
 'tnf sconseauence of the aerial attacks on my home city of Stuttwart I have de- cided to double the amount I originally subscribed to the seventh war loan.
 The war cost Holland sS1 fgOo00 in the first half of this year bringing the total so-called "crisis' expenditure since the beginning of the war up to $295 640 GOO. Crisis expenditure principally means thel maintenance of army and fleet in state nf mobilization. It also includes cQok of| providing cheap food. sS
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ventive measures and because the num- Der of vessels in these waters has de- creased
 The Norwegian papers state that pro- ceedings against German spies in Norway and the heavy penalties inflicted have to a great extent diminished tire loss of yes sells leaving Norwegian ports. Hereto- fore, these spies had reported the move- ments of ships to German U-boats keep ing watch along the Norwegian coast for their prey.
 The press unanimously urges every Norwegian to get the White Book and study it in order to learn what German kulter is and the treatment of a na- tion toward which the chancellor lately said Germany only harbored the most friendly feelings The newspapers also request the government to publish tho book in English and German.
 The railroad companies of the Argen- tine republic have openly accused the government of playing politics and per hitting the widespread destruction If property which has characterized the railroad strike movement in order to ob- tain the votes of the 10.0oo railroad em- ployes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15
PARTY FOR VISITORS
GIVEN TUESDAY EVENING

A pleasant young folks social Tues
day evening was that arranged by Miss
Alice Etheridge and Mrs. l. A. Wilson
al the home of the latter near Hunt
ington, given in honor of Miss RUBY
Stone, of Byromville, and Miss Walter
Mae Head, of Andersonville. The
guests were Misses lola and Meryin
Dell, Ella and Jewel Perry, Estelle and
Susie Stanford, Alice, Lottie and Adele
Etheridge Alice Carter, Ruby Stone
Louise Bass, Vesta Holman and Walter
Mae Head; Messrs. Roy and Wills
Holman. Edward and q. A. Young,
Hilton, Carol and j. w. Perry, B. H.
Harris, Roy Etheridge, Glen Dell, Carl
ton Bass and Wiley Carter.
Delightful refreshments were served
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15
40 900 LEAGUES UNDER SEA"
OPERA HOUSE AUG II AND Il

Present day thrilling submarine
events were foretold figty years ago
by Jules Verne Today they are pic
tured down to the minute in the Uni
versal's startling photo-play, based on
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
Sea-" When you see this epoch-mak-
ing drama you will have seen the most
darink, most sensational and most rev.
dictionary achievement in cinema his
tory. You will see Jules Vernes mon
ster" of the seGen seas. and the mighty
commander, Capt. Memo, who follow =
ed the path of vessels 10000 leagues
or his voyage of vengeance. You will
see the torpedo fired and photographed
under the ocean while speeding on its
deadly mission and full-rigged ship
blown to atoms Through the magic
window in the submarine Nautilus"
you will see the victims sinking to
he silent lepths. Through this window
you are shown all the amazingwon-
ders of the deep. You see the "Nautil-
ius" in tropic ocean dive to myster-
ious depths and human beings emerge,
exactly as Jules Verne wrote. Hunt
ers descend to the floor of the ocean
among eating sharks. They re,
ouire neither life lines nor air pipes
to- connect them with the surface With
supply of axygen in condensed air
tanks, they visit the wonderful marine
gardens and coral cayerns Tnere hu :
man feet never ventured before. Cen
tury-old wrecks are found and search
ed for lost treasures. There is a terri
fying combat at fathoms deep, between
Cant. Memo and giant octopus, crush
ing a pearl diver in its monster tenta-
cles; positively the most thrilling spec
tacle ever photographed. Scenes from
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AMERlGUs SHOWS
OPERA HOUSE
Friday


Friday
julie Vernes' 100000 Leagues Under
the Sea-"
Saturday
100000 Leagues Under the Sea-"
ALCAZAR THEATRE.
Wednesday
Triangle Plays, Dorothy Dalton IL
wild Winship's Widow. IS acts.
Twin Troubles. Triangle Comedy
Thursday
Paramount Picture, Pauline Freder
lex in Her Better Self."-5 acts.
Friday
Vitagraph, Earle Williams in TIKI
Hawk acts.
Chapter u Mystery of the Double
Gross"
Saturday
Triangle Plays, Wilfred Lucas an
Lillian Gish in Souls Triumphant. =
5 acts.
The Camera Cure" - Triangle
Comedy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15

vengeance. We have that already
for the regime of occupation that you
force US to undergo is despised by
everything that is decent in the whole
world. l am speaking Of the judg
ment of history, of the, inescapable
punishment of the God Of justice.
And to you who are, if 1 am well
informed, son of the Church Of
Christ. equally with the most humble
of our workingmen, l dare to add that
you are loading your conscience with
heavy burden in covering with high
authority a military decision that lik-
ems an act of Christian and pastoral
abnegation to a crime.
%. j. CARDINAL MERCER.
Archbishop of Malines,"
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Cardinal MERCER Protests
Against Filming of Belgian
Priests By Teutons

councils of the Belgian communes,
realizing in the majority of cases that
they were in duty bound to safeguard
the integrity of the nation, refused to
furnish, under the classification Of un-
employed list of free citizens des-
uned to be converted the next day into
a list Of outlaws.
A Roundabout Method.
Blocked by this refusal the mill
tacy power tried a roundabout way.
The idle men OF being registered the
only thing left to do was to try those
not idle That which could not be
obtained through a direct procedure of
positive enrolment was sought through
an indirect method by graciously of
fering to stamp the cards of those who
we're to be spared and thus, as the re-
suit Of subtraction, ranging on one
side the category of idle men for de-
pcrtation.
The threats to the mayors were fol
lowed by enticements to the middle
class citizens. Both these attempts Of
the military power had the same OBJ
ject-to induce the Belgians to coop
crate in the organization of the depor
tation of their brothers. Both were
INTENDED to have the same result-to
snatch a class of citizens, as guiltless
and free as all the other Belgian citi-
zens, from their homes and force them
nto exile and working for the enemy.
That all the future beneficiaries of
this stamped card may not have sus-
pected the hook beneath the bait is
conceivable. That some men of the
world loaded with family obligations,
may have considered less carefully the
effect Of their action and in good faith
have confined their sentiment of ma
tional solidarity within more narrow
limits. is not to be made a grievance
against them. But the priest, for whom
temporal interests do not count in com
parison with those of eternity; the
priest who as a preacher of the COS
pei and an official representative of
Christian right, would blush at not
making his conduct conform with his
highest pledges; the priest, as the pro
tector of the weakest, has clearer
vision of his moral obligations, and
is able to judge if he would not be
failing in his duty, if he did not ex-
tend fraternal devotion beyond the
strict requirement of the common law
These monsieur, the governor gem
eral, are the lofty considerations that
guided the clergy of Mai:nes and OF
which your excellency may have found
a glimpse in the letter addressed under
date of December "a to the district
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science forbade them to accept.

science forbade them to accept.
Very well; they will pay the 100
marks from their modest salaries, or
if they do not have the means to set
tie it. perhaps, they will pay with
their liberty for their inability to
satisfy you.
Very well, again! l know the
souls of our priests well enough to
predict that they will remain patient
just the same. They will drink to
the dregs the cup of bitterness that
you have forced to the lips of peo-
PIE who never wished you anything
but good.
1--WE await our vengeance in pa
tience
4 am not speaking of our earthly
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15

version" to another religion by fraud
OF undue influence.
The basis Of this law was a distinc-
ton, first, between orthodox and nom
orthodox Christians and, second, be-
tween Christians generally and Moh
ammedians and heather. Voluntary
conversion from orthodoxy was punish
able under certain conditions, whereas
voluntary conversion to orthodox was
not punishable. For conversion to or.
thodoxy by violence or threat the pen
alities were mild and, in practice were
never enforced; and non-Christians
virtually were not at all protected
against violent conversion.
The law now under consideration
recognizes the complete liberty of all
Christians. To emphasize this princi-
pie, the projected law abolishes the
legal use of the word "heresy," and re
places the legal term "perversion" with
conversion"
The new law will protect citizens
against forcible conversion, by i'm
posing a penalty of Imprisonment not
exceeding three years. The law will
urther deal with certain extremist sec
tarians such as the Skeptsi and others
which mutilate themselves and have
burned one another alive Tor such
offences the penalty is Imprisonment in
a fortress.
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chief That is what made me write
as follows to his exceIlency, M. Baron
Won Kissing, in my letter of Noyem-
Der 20:
1T would be iniQuitous to make
the whole weight of the deportations
fall upon the working classes. The
middle classes must have their part in
the however cruel it may be,
and just because it is cruel-that the
occupying power imposes upon the
nation. A great many members of
my clergy have aske me to beg for
them a place in the van of the per-
secuted. l register their offer and
submit it to you with pride
The lines that your excellency
takes from his same letter of Nov
% harmonic with the attitude of the
clergy of Malines, and with all my
correspondence regarding the depor
tation.
I'm my letters of Oct 10 and Nov.
10 l had protested with all the energy
that love of justice and charity was
able to give me against the Ndnap-
ing of thousands of our fellow coun-
trymen. Nevertheless, fearing that
the military power would remain deaf
t these protests, and to my objurga-
tions, | added this most natural
thought If nevertheless, you persist
in the injustice, at least allow our
priests to modify the evil that your
violence does to our people. accept
their cooperation in order to save
hat which. according to your own
instructions, iniquitous as they may
be, may still be saved.
But you have not wanted that
You have removed your operations
from the control of those who,
through their social vocation and
daily contact with the common people
were qualified to exercise IT,
'You have indicated, even to me, that
l was not to convey word of COM
fort to those being forced to leave to
suffer your rule, and have respected
the order.
Cannot Put Gods Word in Chains.
But there is barrier, M. Gov
ernor General, before which military
force halts and behind which the right
is inviolably sheltered. From that side
if the barrier it is we, representatives
of moral authority who speak as mas
tiers. We cannot, we do not wish to
allow the Word of God to be put in
chains
THE military governor has had the
hardihood to sentence each one OF
nineteen priests to pay fine of 100
marks for not having wished to bene-
fit by a privilege which their con
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15

Following the condemnation by the
German authorities in Belgium of 10
Naliues priests to pay fines OF 100
marks each because of refusal to aid
i'll compiling lists of unemployed Bel
sian workers for use in deportation of
men TO Germany. Cardinal MERCER
sent a letter of protest to Baron Won
Huehne, then acting governor gen
eral, defending the action of the priests
and pointing out that there was a
limit to the exercise of temporal power
says the New York Times. The text
CT this letter, which was written in
February and briefly referred to at that
time appeared May Is in La Metropole'
a Belgian newspaper now published in
London, and reads as follows:
"Archbishopric of Malines.
February, 1917.
ITO the Governor General-Sir:
Your excellency has intrusted to
the chief of your political department,
NJ. Baron Won der Lancken, the task OF
writing to inform me that you are at
g loss to explain the attitude Of tae
clergymen of Malines who have consid-
cred it their conscientious DUTY to de-
cline the offer to stamp their cards
OF Identification.
ut seems to you that their attitude
is not in accord with this passage in
my letter of Nov 20, 1914; The
,riests who know the common peo-
pie better than any one else, would
be valuable helpers to the recruiters;
why is their assistance refused?"
THE military governor has SEN
fenced each one of these clergymen to
a fine of 100 marks, and your excel
lency declares that, to your lively re-
greet, you can only ratify the SEN
tence.
THE initiative of the clergy of Ma
lines was, indeed, taken in full con-
seriousness, as your excellency sup
poses, and the reasons therefor were
presented in writing to the district
chief. We do not wish to deny that
the latter's intentions toward certain
social categories may have oeen
kindly, but his enticing procedure to-
ward the bourgeois class was menac"
ing for the working class.
For the purpose of organizlns
with more system and certainty the
levy of contingent of the Belgian
population destined to serve, willingly
or through compulsion, the economic
interests of the enemy, and, conse-
cuently, indirectly his military inter-
ests, the occupying power had de-
of the communal authorities
the list of unemployed workers. The
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15

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with Apologies to Rudyard Kipling9
If you can hold your tongue when Ger
man hackers
Are loosing theirs and damning I'm
Gle Sam;
If you can keep from cussing out the
slackers
And faying SNUG hypocrisy and
sham;
If you can wait and not be tired by
waiting,
While reptile papers keep US on the
rack;
If you can stand the pacifstic prating
And never have a yearning to strike
back.
If you can see your country's cities
plastered
With sycophantic warnings AGAINST
war;
If you can watch a yelIow-livered
bastard
Refusing to confront things as they
are;
Ii you can see a swarm of crawling
lizards,
squirming through the marriage Ii
Gense door
Men with atom souls and smaller giz-
ards,
Disgracing those whose honored
names they bore.
T. you hear an orator denouncing
The liberty for which our nation
bled;
Ii you let him so without trouncing
Or punching the bally traitors headl
Ii you can smile when lying propa-
ganda
Seduces men who ought to know the
truth;
If you can tolerate their rotten SANDER
And hear it with an idle first, for
sooth-
If you can sneer at men who wear the
khaki,
Or jeer at those who wear the navy
h1up.
If you can whisper like skulking
lackey,
About the men who have the nerve
to dc;
If vanquishment of brutal force ap-
pals you,
If you cant prove your right to be
a man,
You may be everything your mother
calls you,
But, believe me, YOU are not Amer
ican
Edwin Carly Ranck, in Brooknlyn
Daily Eagle. -.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15
TO FORBID THE
SALE OF MEXICAN VESSELS

MEXICO CITY, Aug ia move
ment has been started here to induce
the government to forbid the sale of
vessels flying the Mexican flag and en-
gagged in commerce to and from Mex
lean ports and their transfer to other
flags. The originators declare that the
removal of these vessels from the Mex
lcan trade would have detrimental eff
feet on Mexican commerce.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15
HUGE FORTUNES BEING
MADE IN VIENNA NOW

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 15.-The Vienna
correspondent of the Berliner Tageblat9
asserts that huge fortunes are being
made on the Vienna bourse by specula'
ton in shippingshares, These are be-
ing forced up by a group Of Trieste fin
anciers and, as an instance of the re-
markable rise which has occurred. the
correspondent says AustroAmerican
shares which stood at $40 in April,
were quoted at 1850 July, while those
OF other shipping companies are being
quoted proportionately high.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15
OF SILENCE"
WAS A GOOD SHOW

1.-The Price of Silence presented by
William Fox, starring William Far
mum yesterday at the Opera House, was
another good show of the many put on
by Manager Dudley. William Farnum
is always good and the part taken in
The Price of Silence" was admirably
suited to him. He was well supported
by the other members of the cast and
the scenes were well laid.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15

usder the ocean, on the earth anr in
the sky combine to make this first and
OILY submarine drama truly the most
amazing wonder picture of all time.
This attraction will be at the Opera
House two days, Friday and Saturday,
August 18th and 18th.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15
DOZIER.CROUCH.

Many in Americas will be interested
in the marriage of Miss Susie May Do
zier and Mr.. John Henry Crouch,
which interesting event takes place to-
night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. w.
T. Dozier, parents of the bride, in
Dawson The wedding will be very
quiet, with only few relatives and
friends present. Mr.. Crouch will take
his bride to Columbus to reside.
AS the guest of Mrs. H. E. Allen, Miss
Dozier has visited Americas several
times and has a number of friends here
who will hear with cordial interest of
her marriage.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15
RAPID PROGRESS IN REFORM
OF RUSSIAN PENAL LAWS

PETROGRAD, Aug. 15.-Rapid pro
gress is being made by the commission
newly appointed to reform that part Of
the penal law of 1903 which deals with
violation of the principle of religious
liberty, conservation to another relig-
ion by violence or threats and per
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15

daughter, Bertha Kathleen, to Mr.
Burdette Cordell, of Americas. The
ceremony was performed at home sun
day afternoon by Rev. R. L. Bivins.
The bride and groom left Immediately
after the ceremony for bridal trip OF
a week to points in Florida, and upon
their return they will make their home
with Mr.. and Mrs Roy Cordell, on
Lamar street.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-15

Mr.. and Mrs. S. W. Frazier, of Friend
ship. announce the marriage of their
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