Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-17
0, THANK YOU
(From Albany Herald.)

! We print on this page comment
of the Forsyth Advertiser on the man
ner in which the Herald and the
Americas Times Recorder have handl
ed news Of the presence in Almany
and Americas of National Guard units.
We also produce the Times-Recorder's
comment on the Forsyth papers OBJ
servation.
For these most generous compli-
ments of our valued contemporaries
we are most profoundly grateful 1t
is a newspapers business to print the
news, and the Herald claims to be a
newspaper. It is not ambitious to be a
last years almanac, but strives to
print the news before its whiskers
have grown gray with age.
AS for the truth and justice of crit
icisms of the Herald for news it has
printed of what the soldiers are doing
il is sufficient, so far as this paper is
concerned, to state that the Herald is
~ possession of a copy of the request
which was made of the newspapers OF
the country by the military authorities
respecting the matter of publicity in
connection with troop movements, and
that neither in letter nor spirit have
We disregarded the wishes of the war
department
The Herald has the assurance of the
officer commanding the troops now sta
toned in Albany that nothing what
ever has appeared in the columns OF
this paper that gave publicity to mill
} tary information to which the public
was not entirely welcome. What the
! Herald has published has been unqual-
ifedly approved by the officer in ques-
ton, and under no circumstances
would his wishes. or even his sugges-
tions, have been ignored.
4 Perhaps, it is not inapropos to call
attention to the fact that the Herald,
which circulates more generally in
Southwest Georgia than any other
daily newspaper, has been giving a
good deal of space to military news,
}, not without purpose, or due regard
for the urgent call of the nation for
men to meet the national crisis. 1t is
both interesting and significant that
) Southwest Georgia. in which the Her
aid circulates, has for some time been
| leading the state in furnishing re-
oluits for the army. The central sub
station for this section of the state is
located in Albany, and no other sub
station in Georgia has been sending re-
cruits to the main central station, as
they have been going from Albany.
; The Albany office accepted SO men for
tie regular army during the first four
teen days of April, enrolled four more
yesterday and had seventeen awaiting
examination this morning.
For the part the Herald has had in
this good work we are not ashamed,
) and make no apologies. We propose
to continue to help as best we can.
In order that there may be no posi-
BILE misapprehension in this matter, we
are glad to be able to quote military
ofIicer-one whose judgement and fair
ness are unduestioned-as to the pro-
priety of what has appeared in the
columns of this paper with reference
to troop activities in and near Albany.
When shown the criticism of this pa
per referred to above, and which we
reproduce, the officer made the fol-
lowing statement: Il am surprised at
this. Your paper has done all that was
necessary, and all that could be ex-
pected You have certainly violated no
confidence, nor have you disclosed any
military information whatsoever"
And with that, the Herald is per-
fectIv willing to let its case rest.