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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27
SCRAMBLlNG THE EGGS.

Present indications point to a lively
race for congress from the Fourth
district, when Judge Adamson retires
from the Office to accept that well-pay-
ing position in New York.
SO far it is estimated that fifty cit
liens of the ten counties of the Fourth
district have been mentioned" in
connection with the prospective vacan-
cy
Columbus wants the place, bot so do
Carroll, Coweta Heard, Troupe, Meri-
wether, Harris, Muscogee, Chattahoo-
chee, and Marion counties. Outside
of those, we haven't heard of any coun-
ties aspiring for the honor, but it is
rather due to the fact that there are
no more counties in the district.
Each county has a favorite son
several have regiments of sons. Mus
cogee has named about fifteen or TWEEN
ty, and has actually proposed a pri-
mary to determine which one shall
run
The trouble is, there is no one man
in the entire district sufficiently big in
ability and prominence to stand head
and shoulders above the field. There
are lots of perch, but noe single
trout in the pond.
The Recorder and the people
OF this section are concerned solely
as disinterested spectators, clustered
on the sidelines to watch the combat.
However, Marion county being our
nearest neighbor among the ten units
of the Fourth district, it would cause
no regret here if that county should
supply the man to wear Rep. Adam
sens toga. So much for neighborly
sentiments. Outside of that, we wish
every candidate in the race merry
Christmas and a happy new year, and
hope they'll all spend lots Of money
advertising in the newspapers!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27
A COSTLY INDIFFERENCE.

If Americas loses the proposed ex-
tension Of the Americas and Atlantic
railroad, it will undoubtedly be due in
part to the fact that the merchants of
this city refused, or failed, to assist the
Chamber of Commerce in compiling
statistics on the amount of business
transacted here annually.
If Americas does not get that farm
products warehouse, which Florida
capitalist is DESTROYS of establishing
here, it will be due in part to the fact
that six-seventh of the farmers of the
county refused, or failed, to furnish
the Chamber of Commerce with infor-
nation on their acreage and crop pro-
auctions.
A Chamber of Commerce is a valua-
BILE, a most essential, institution, but it
cannot make any Roadway at all if it Is
to be handicapped as it has been in the
past by the Indifference of the people
of the county to projects on which it
has worked for the greater good and
glory Of the county.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27
"FIGHT IT THROUGH"

The average American probably
shares the opinion of Lowell's Yankee
philosopher on the matter of war:
AS for the war, L goes ag'in it;
That is to say, I kinder do;
That is, l mean, that, bein' in it,
The best way is to fight it thru.
That it is, or probably soon will be,
virtually this country against the en-
envy, receiving assistance from rather
than giving it to the Allies, is be-
lief that many entertain. The ire
mendous scope on which the United
States is undertaking this war gives
ready rise to the impression that when
we do put our shoulder and our full
strength to the wheel we mean to turn
it over.
Only one contingency can prevent
the United States from entering whole
heartedly into the war, probably on a
greater scale than even Great Britain
is engaged. That is the willingness of
Germany to discuss satisfactory peace
terms, necessitating halt of hostilities.
But that is unlikely for some time to
come, and in consequence the prob
ability is that each month will find
this nation plunging deeper and deeper
into the maelstrom, until finally we
will be carrying the larger share of
the burden.
But the American sentiment undoubt-
eddy is that being in it, the best way
is to fight it thru"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27
MAGNIFICENTLY DONE!

1t took big man to do what Frank
A Vanderlip has done.
The president of the largest national
bank in the country, and one of the
most powerful figures in world finance,
receiving salaries and dictatorship
fees approximating a million dollars,
he has resigned his entire connection
with financial institutions and organ
izations to accept secondary position
with the United States government for
the period of the war
His salary will be dollar year!
There are only few men in the
United States who would, or could,
have done that. 1t took every inch of
man. But for that matter, Frank A.
vanderlip is everywhere regarded as
scholar among bankers, and as a
man whose heightened methods have
set new standard in the banking
business generally. His very name
has become a synonym for safe and
honest banking.
His association with Secretary Nc
Adoo in financing the Liberty Bond
loan will be a priceless asset and adj
vantage to the government.
When men of exalted position, SUI
perb ability and splendid character
like Frank A. vanderlip make such
sacrifices to serve their nation at war,
how petty and contemplate seem those
obstructionists in congress, and how
exceedingly insignificant and mean ap-
pear the average men of the towns and
cities who have been figuring how
they could escape army service!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27
A COLUMN OF CLIPPINGS
Cotton Picking BY Machine.

What the South needs more than any
other one thing right now is cotton
picking machine. With such device
it would look with a greater degree
Of equanimity upon losses of labor sup
ply. And it would be difficult to fix
limit beyond which the cotton crop
could not go.
The world demand for cotton in
future is going to be very great indeed
and the South must see to it that its
present strong position in the cotton
world is held. This is by way of pre-
face to calling attention to the state
ment of the Americas Times Recorder
that "a mechanical cotton picker that
can be operated by child and that
VIII do the work of two or three men
and do it more thoroughly has been
invented and perfected" It is said
to have been tried for two weeks on
the farm of Mrs. Mary Clay, few
miles from Americas, under the most
severe tests and has been declared to
be an unqualified success.
The inventor is Carroll stukenborg,
formerly of Selma, Ala, and now of
Chicago, who has devoted fourteen
years of study to the problem which
he is said to have solved His broth
err Fred stukenborg is associated with
him.-Savannah Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27
ONLY A HANDFUL LEFT

The dispatches state that fifteen or
sixteen Indians, originally from this
state, have entered the army camp at
Columbia, s, c., enlisting to fight for
Uncle Sam.
This fact brings to mind the con-
dition of the Indian in Georgia and,
for that matter, throughout the coun-
try, today.
Less than two hundred years ago
the territory now known as the state
of Georgia was the hunting ground and
the residence of thousands of aborig-
inal natives.
The Cherokees occupied nearly all
CT north Georgia, the Creeks had mid
die and eastern and much of southern
Georgia and the Uchees fere settled
around Augusta and at the head waters
o' the Oconee, and sprinkled along the
coast and what is now the Florida line
were Seminoles. Every foot of land
was theirs, and they were masters of
all they surveyed. They hunted where
they pleased, they fished where they
pleased, they pitched their tents where
they pleased, and they did practically
as they pleased. While they were new
er visited by the census collector, there
is no doubt that their number ran way
up in the thousands.
Now there are only seyenty-five
Indians in Georgia, and they are so
widely scattered that it may be safely
said that, to all intents and purposes,
the race has disappeared from Geor-
gia and the Indians, those seventy
FIVE, are clad in the habiliments of
civilization and are engaged in the
Iordinary pursuits of livelihood, so that
they are not ordinarily distinguishable
from the rest of the fellowmen.
OF the three hundred thousand Ind
sans Of the United States the state of
Georgia, once so numerously populat-
ed with them, can now claim only a
four-thousandth share. One-fourth of
the whole number are in the Indian
Territory and one-ffth in New York.
OF course. it is only a question of
years, it seems, before the Indian will
have vanished ALTOGETHER. But the
process of ultimate extinction will
come chiefly through assimilation,
since inter MARRIAGES increase every
year.
1t is one of the few unpleasant facts
III Georgia's history that this state did
not treat the Indian fairly. Now, how
ever, it is entirely too late to repine
or regret
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27
Reverting to the Tendency of the Neill
Primary Bill.
Press

The Albany Herald says:
We are reproducing elsewhere on
this page, under the caption, "An
Ubiquitous Law" an editorial from the
Americas Recorder on the sub
ject of the Neill primary bill which
was adopted at the last session of the
Georgia legislature We agree, in the
main, with what our Americas con-
temporary says about this Ubiquitous
law, but call Editor Mangum's atten-
ton to the fact that he is far from
accurate in this statement: There
was not daily paper in the state,
with the exception of the Atlanta Jour-
nal, that opposed it. There was only
one weekly, the Swainsboro Forest
Blade, which lifted its editorial voice in
protest"
Editor Mangum has recently trans
ferred his base and well-directed news
paper from the Swainsboro Forest
Blade to the Americas Times Recorder,
and it evident that that his exchange
list was rather limited while he was
on the job at Swainsboro; otherwise
he would have known that the Atlanta
ournal was not the only daily paper
in the state that opposed the Neill
bill. and that the Forest-Blade was
not the only weekly paper in the state
that lifted its editorial voice in pro-
test.
The Albany Herald is a daily paper.
and has been for more than quarter
of century, and it certainly opposed
the Neill bill with as much vigor as
it ever opposed any pending measure.
It's editorials AGAINST the Neill bill
were reproduced not only by the At
lanta Journal but by other papers in
the state that realized at the time
what an ubiquitous measure the Neill
bill really was. The Moultrie Observ-
er is another daily paper down here in
Gods country that opposed the Neill
bill, although it was not as vigorous
and persistent in its opposition as the
eHrald was If our memory is not
il fault, the TiftonGazette, the Thomas
Vile Times Enterprise and the Savan-
nah Press also gave the said "iniquit-
GUS law" few raps, and we are sure
that the Macon News and Columbus
EnquirerSun opposed it; and we do
net recall single weekly newspaper
i'll Southwest Georgia that raised its
voice in support of of the measure.
1t is a fact that most of the daily
and weekly newspapers of the state
were seemingly asleep and Indifferent
toward the Neill bill while that meas,
use was pending in the legislature, but
it is also true that there were other
papers than the Atlanta Journal and
the Swainsboro Forest-Bla that
pointed out in 1914, and again this year,
the bad features of the bill, particular,
ly the writing of the county unit sys-
TEN into the law of the state, which,
as, now pointed out by the Times-Re-
corder, the Macon Telegraph has just
discovered; and "more's the pity ont
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

woman will spend two hours and
a half trying to decide which looks
best, big feather on a little hat or
a little feather on big hat, but she
will complain like old rip if she is
asked to devote thirty minutes once
month to her missionary society
o. Red Cross work.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

We see that the irrigation system
is being highly recommended, but we
thought the bone-dry law put stop
to that.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

We recently read fine account of
what a great man and wonderful proph-
et William Randolph Hearst is. It
was not in the Constitution Nor was
il in the Journal 1t was in the New
York American. Mr.. Hearst owns the
American.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

The most daring aviators are now
cutting their initials in the air. Some
day, too they'll have EN- cut on stone
slabs a foot high
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. IA,
p q g or 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-
dcates from $250.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, 1917-09-27

AS long as man remains a puzzle
to a woman, and woman remains a
puzzle to man, life is not going to be
SO altogether uninteresting.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

If we can live long enough to see
one womans hat worth the price paid
for it, maybe we'll be about 200 years
old when we die.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

What chance has a poor man got?
lust as the last piece of ice melts
in the refrigerator, the coal man
knocks at the back gatel
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27
GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING

HOW long before the open season for
pork sausages?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

A French scientist says that the
world is coming to an end in 100000
years Well, when i: does happen
it'll make front page story!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

4 There's a boy in Virginia only eleven
months old that can talk. But that's
nothing. The Bible says that Job
"cursed the day he was born"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

The season for gnats being over, we
trust that we will not be bothered
any more by Hardwick's buzzing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

It is stated that members of the Rus
sian nobility only bathed twice year.
No wonder the Russians revolted.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

She most pressing problem some
men have is keeping their clothes
pressed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

Undertakes also do great deal
OF planting, but we never hear OF them
raising any crops.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

In these days of short skirts short
er still there is need Of any man being
from Missouri
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

So far as we can judge from this
distance, congress has talked about
everything except adjournment.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

All fairy stories begin with Once
upon a time" Once upon a time we
had an egg for breakfast,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

The school of experience continues
IN session the whole year round, and
never has any graduating exercises.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

This is the season, we believe, when
young ladies' thoughts lightly turn to
fall coatsuits and hats.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-09-27

Russia won't be normal any more,
-,gtil It has another crisis.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1917-03-10
Coming Events

March list. Patrick's day.
March 16-W. O. W. dance,
Masonic temple.
March % - Purebred auction,
Stevens County Livestock Asso-
citation, Colville.
April Palm Sunday.
April 5 = Shorthorn sale, by
Shorthorn breeders of Northwest,
Spokane stock yards.
April 6-The Savranoffs, Ly-
ceum course, Colville theater.
April 8-Easter.
May. Island Clearing Dem
onstration ain-Springdale 1st
and I'd, CheweIah Sd and 4th,
Addy 5th and 9Th, Colville 9TH
and 9Th.
Sep. 17-23-State Fair, North
Yakima.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1917-03-10
Post Gard Week

What is it? Let me explain.
1t is one week in the year when
| will make you IL postcard pic
lures of yourself for Soc. Why
do | do it? Simply to convince
you of the superiority of my mod
ern system of photography. |
do not expect to make any money
out of it, but l do figure it will
be one of the best advertisements
that | ever had. Look over the
faces in your home, and bring
them along with your own to me
during the week of March II to
II, 1917, and | will make you IL
pictures that you will be proud to
have your friends look upon. -
Smiths Photo Studio, 14l north
Main street, Colville, Wash.
P. S.-Send in your kodak fin
ishing.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1917-03-10

whether he supported the Wilson
policy of neutrality and keeping
away from any declaration of war
against any other nation.
This country wants no war
with Germany, even though the
munitions factories and eastern
financiers do want it. This ma
ton has no fight with the Ger
man people. This nation is suf-
ficient for it's own. Neutrality
has been the motto of this nation,
as well as protection to it's COM
merce on the seas. In time of riot,
responsible citizens on land are
granted power to carry arms.
President Wilson advised that in
this time of piracy our vessels be
given the same right, and if
necessary be furnished the guns.
But a genuine war is demand
ed by certain interests in this
country and in Europe, And the
state of Washington keeps man
in the senate whose votes and
actions have shown him to be in
sympathy with that demand. He
says not, but his votes do not
bear him out.
VIM. P. Hughes, the veteran
editor of the Northport News,
has sold his plant and paper to
Pike Brothers of Nelson, B. c.,
who have already taken charge.
Mr.. Hughes will retain his Office
of us. commissioner in the News
building. and continue to give
his moral and business support
to the new management. Pike
Brothers bring excellent recon-
mendations, and are welcomed
into the newspaper fraternity of
Stevens county. The paper will
remain democratic.
BILLY" Hughes was the oldest
editor in this county in point of
continuous service. The editor
of The Colville Examiner now
steps into that place. W. H.
Brownlow of the Chewelah Inde-
pendent has been in this county
much longer, but has not been
listed as editor during all of that
time.
Mr.. Hughes retires with the
best wishes of the many who have
known him for so many years.
May the work which he has done
for Northport continue to bring
results.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1917-03-10

those who DO not, may this ar
ticle pass quickly over their
heads without leaving any dis
figuring marks. In case of doubt
as to the validity of the state
ments above, consult your most
trusted student of economics, put
his replies into ordinary English,
and see what you have.
A man of small caliber must
keep out of the limelight during
a big crisis or he will expose him
self. Senator Jones has again
uncovered himself.
The part played by Senator
Jones in the congressional fill
buster which prevented the pas
sage of the armed neutrality act,
the army and navy appropria-
tons, and a number of other i'm
portant measures, is not appre-
ciated by the state of Washington.
But of course that is nothing to
Jones the man who defended
Lorimer, the man who opposed
national defense, but who pro-
posed building government road
through the moutains of the west
coast, the man who opposed
lowering the tariff on necessities,
the man who opposed the presi-
dent who has kept US out of war
and who desires power to arm
our merchant vessels so that the
nation will not be drawn into any
declaration of war.
The senate of the United States
has no rule which will limit de-
bate. Thus toward the close of
a session any set of men may
organize a filibuster and prevent
passage of measures until con-
gress expires. Jones assisted in
this, until the last minute, when
the water got too hot for him
and he climbed out. But the
result is before the American
people.
No wonder the University club
Of Spokane sent him scorching
telegram. No wonder the state
legislature passed and ordered
sent to him the following resolu-
tion, unanimously passed:
Whereas, the United States of Amer
lea is face to face with grave national
crisis revealing foreign conspiracy to
invade our country after the repeated
murder of our citizens on the high seas,
the driving Of our ships and commerce
from the ocean and practically establish
ing blockade on our ports, therefore, be
1t resolved by the senate and the house
Of representatives in the state of Wash
ingt0n in Legislative session assembled,
that the state of Washington be pledged
to stand by the president to the limit
OF its resources in men and money, for
arming our merchant ships and in sup
port of all other measures, ways and
means which the president believes to
be necessary or expedient for the de-
fense of, the country and the full pro-
lection Of the lives. property and just
rights Of American citizens on sea and
land. !,
The man who fails to stand by
the flag of the United States of
America is either swayed by a
greater impulse or by a lack of
Americanism. In case of a con-
gresham, his intention may be
CLEANED by looking up his record
to see whether at the last election
he supported the munitions
makers, the war declarationists,
fhn fnoncio1 intorocta which
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1917-03-10

If you have any old loose leaf
binders you want to sell or trade,
bring them to the Examiner. Or
we will repair them for your own
use.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-11
This method is practicable and effect

This method is practicable and effect
i've.
| recommend each local adopt a rule
refusing to handle fixtures, etc. un-
less made under fair conditions. This
rule IN effect will assist your local and
other millmen.
A short while back Brother Despair
called my attention to the fact that he
was leaving the state for an indefinite
time, and we considered the matter of
his resignation and il was agreed that
under the circumstances he select
someone to act in his absence. The
honor was conferred on Brother Daily.
who has filled the Office in a creditable
manner.
During these times one should re-
frain from criticism of an undue ma
ture, yet | cannot neglect the oppor-
tunity to call to your attention the
need of your sympathy and possibly
such financial assistance that you may
see fit to contribute to the progressive
or commonly called radical element of
industrial slaves. We are in a world
war for democracy and incidentally the
benefits that are supposed to be a
part thereof, yet our masters are at
the same old game of egging on the
safe and sane element of standpatters
in the labor movement to help shackle
the fighting element. We claim the
right to strike and we deny to others
the right TO quit, to practice any meth
cd not o. KID and approved by organ
lied wealth. In other words, play the
game as laid down by custom and cor
poration attorneys. The second thing
the average labor officer does is to
plead for the members not to rock the
boat or to disturb business, they are