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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-14
MIAMI'S CURFEW LAW
SOON TO Be IN EFFECT

MIAMI, Fla, April IL After the
mayor has signed the curfew law and
it is published for 40 days in the news
I.apers it will BIS unlawful for girls uu.
der the age of Is and boys Mnder the
age Of Is to be on the streets between
the hours of 8 D. m and 5 a. M, unless
they have written permit signed by
the chief of police, or accompanied
by their parents or guardians. The
w C. T. U. endorsed the new law by
sending letter to the council The
Woman's club requested that lights
be placed in the Royal Palm Park In
a letter as follows:
The Woman's club, through its civic
committee, earnestly request you to
place more lights in Royal Palm Park.
to the end that the danger which some
times turks in dark places may not
lure certain young people who have
not sufficient home restraint"
The matter was referred to Council
man Brady, with power to act. 1t is
probable that Councilman Brady will
see that there is sufficient light in the
park and that those dark places will
be no mora.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-14
Truckers, Exchange Organized.

SAVANNAH, Ga, April 13.-At a
meeting of Chatham county farmers
al Meinhard tomorrow officers will
be elected and board of directors
named for the Savannah Truckers eX-
change, the cooperative marketing as
sociation for Chatham county which
was organized recently. The truckers
are all enthused over the new or
SANITATION in which there is great pos
sibility fer the farmers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-14
SCHEME AGAINST
HARRIS FAILURE

ATLANTA, Ga, April 13.-Probably
the most significant development in
favor of William J. Harris that has
yet taken place in the senatorial cam
paign was the complete abandonment
yesterday of a prospective attempt TO
prejudice Mr. Harris candidacy by
action of certain individuals looking
to a so-called conference of friends of
the various candidates and prospec-
tive candidates to determine which
one should make the race against Sen
ator Hardwick.
The real underlying object Of this
scheme was to create an opening TO"
certain ambitious aspirants to come
into the situatio nto the detriment o.
Mr.. Harris, and thereby muddy the
waters in the hope Of either sidetrack-
ing his candidacy or at least of put
ting aim in an embarrassing position
But the plan was hailed with such Z
storm OF INDIGNANT protest of members
OF the State Executive committee who
had been approached with the hope
of securing their support, that the
ring-leaders abandoned it, and last
night came out in an announcement
declaring they had never entertained
any such intentions.
That this was directly contrary to
the facts is we'll known to men over
the state who have seen certain let
tiers in circulation recently, and it is
now plainly apparent that the leaders
CT the attempt were simply afraid to
launch it, fearing that it would have
a reaction in Mr.. Harris favor The
bold stand he took in denouncing the
scheme and calling on members o.
the committee to maintain the strict
est impartiality in the senatorial con
test had an instant effect.
Mr. Harris was here in connection
with the meeting OF the executive COM
mittee day or two ago and ex-
pressed himself as more confident OF
election than ever.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-14
FORTUNE IN LIQUOR
POURED INTO SINK

ATLANTA, Ga, April 13.-One hun
bred and twenty-five gallons of liquid
fire, with a fight in every swallow,
were poured int sink at the court
house yesterday by order of Judge
Ben H. Hill
This whiskey had been seized IN
sundry raids during the past few weeks
and used as evidence in the trials OF
the owners.
Deputy Sheriff Gordon Hardy and
Deputy C. C. House were the official
"pourers.'
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-14
BAR GERMAN LANGUAGE
IN MACON'S SCHOOLS

MACON, Ga, April 3.-The school
board of the Macon public schools at a
meeting yesterday voted to abolish
the study of German and every feature
of Teutonic nature from the schools.
Nine students are studying German
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-14
ctsta ~ t;c,o. C't.5y- - Lol2dU.
L r..ner C.,ll.ltE s.

Frank J. Cheney makes oatn that ne
&c ro~i.3r partner of I've f-ra cr L. ].
Cheney & ~. doing business IN the City
of Toledo, County Ind stale aforesaid.
AMI trat rid 8'T3 s-iii ley rhc sum OF
ONE HUNlf>1-4. .tltJI'-AR3 Tor "ach
ana tr,rv case Of Cat~rrh shat HannQi re
'a,,,.nE f,.ti =. .,si. of HALLS C&fAIsRH
MEDICINE,. FRANK ;. Ci-ENI1Y.
Sworn 10 bcfsr> "a an subscribed n
nv nrese7cs It's Ctn 1ay Of December.
AZ s iSgG a. W. GLEASON,
iSaan Notary Public.
HANS Catarrh Medicine Is taken In
.ernally and acts through the Blood on
the Mucous Surfaces CT the System. Seno
for testimonials. free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO, Toledo. Q.
Sold by all druggists. &c.
HaIrs Fami.y Pilis ~ c1nstipatlon-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-14
II Your Supply OF Flour Will Last
Over 80 Days, US. Wants Surplus

/ people is legitimately entitled to use
| 80 pounds of flour in one month. II
| there is on hand so pounds, by accu>
mutation or otherwise, the family, by
| its report, in effect releases 20 pounds
| OF flour to be exported by the govern
/ ment at once of what would be appor-
toned to Georgia this month. The
same system applies to boarding
houses.
Wholesale and Retail Reports.
! All wholesale and retail dealers ana
all others handling flour are required
to make report by or before April IL
, of the total amount of excess flour on
, hand, en- route under shipment or 9TH
! erwise under its or his control. This
will be computed with the normal 80
days supply to which such business
enterprise is entitled and on that COM
putation will be shown the amount of
excess flour which, through these
channels-either actually in stock or
moving in such way as to become in
stock with the current period-may
be reported to Washington for release
10 army export abroad.
Stocks of flour given up in response
to the Food Administration recent
appeals, the donors may be assured,
will provide a direct increase in sup.
plies for the Army and Navy and for
the allies
While it is impossible to ship some
of this flour in the packages in which
it is returned, the Food Administra-
ton has made arrangements to have
, it put in circulation and an equa
amount, properly packed for export,
! Immediately shipped from the mills.
win Be Stored for Time.
! The flour will be stored for the time
being at the most convenient points,
releasing Immediately an equivalent
/ amount that will be sent to Europe
f, in the name of the country or State
, by which it was rendered,
Repacking for expectation would
necessitate needless expense and loss
of time. The method the Food Admin
istration has worked out assures all
that is desired by those who wish 70
be of immediate benefit to the people
who are bearing the brunt of the wa?
and makes for more efficient service
in relieving the present critical situa-
ton abroad.
viii Be a Direct Help.
, The cost of repacking for export
and the duplication for export will be
avoided while at the same time the ex-
act quantities given will be released
over and above the present program
o. sending overseas one-half of the
total American supplies. Those who
offer their flour to the Government
are thus assured that their sacrifice
is direct and immediate help to the
fighters and people in Europe.
| All of the flour that is given up will
be paid for on fair price basis
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-04-14
Families, Reports,

The head of each household, there.
fore. should report the excess amount
OF flour on hand in the pantry at this
time and the number of members in
the family Six pounds per person for
80 days means that family Of five
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
Spurs for Mercury

II an army sculptor were doing a
statue of winged Mercury he would sure
ly add spurs to the equipment of this
ranking officer of the Olympian Esca-
drllle. Or, rather, he would have until
few months ago, when American army
avlators were expressly excused from
the obligation of wearing these essential
insignia of rank. We invite our readers
to smile at this episode but not too
brashly. They may be in the army them
selves any day and faced with the same
appalling problems of what and how
and when to wear In truth, this special
exemption for aviators shows gigantic
growth in the sense of humor appertan
ing to our War Department. An army
board that can see the joke in expecting
an aviator to clap spurs to an aeroplane
is capable of great things
Meantime, the business of changing
uniform regulations and remaking the
uniform entire still goes on merrily.
from the current A,my and Navv Jour-
nat we take some radical changes
now under consideration at that mystic
rlous spot which the censor still insists
must be concealed under its official title
represented by the initials G. II. O., A.
r. +. SO far as we can discover, the I'M
portant practical shift from standing
collar to rundown collar is the one
change not suggested Everything else
would be altered as thoroughly as the
army imagination could devise. Patches
OF colored cloth, with embroidered reci-
mental numerals, are to be sewn on col.
lars To show branch Of service. Officers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

had too much to do with the selection of
this city.
When the war savings stamp commit
tee for Maryland was organized Mr.. Grain
was made chairman, and at that time the
editor of "The Manufacturers Record"
wrote to Secretary McAdoo protesting
against the appointment of Mr.. Grain as
chairman, on the ground that it was de-
liberate slap in the face of all the decent
interests in the State of Maryland opposed
to the liquor traffic.
The scandal which has now developed is
likely to have farreaching effect, for it
proves exactly, Mr.. Palmer stated, that
the liquor intcrests@of the country and the
pro-German brewing interests have united
IN seeking to control the politics of the
country, and at the same time these inter
ests were in the whole or in part working to
a very large extent in the interests of Ger
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
The Cataclysm

'ffohe The Westminster Gazette
w HEN the great wave disturbs the
w ocean cold
And throws the bottom waters TO the
sky,
Strange apparitions on the surface lie.
Great battered ships, stript of their gloss
and gold
And, writhing in their pain, sea-monsters
old,
Who stain the water with a BLOODY dve
With unaccustomed mouths below and
cry
And vex the waves with struggling fin and
fold
And with these, too, come little trivial
things,
Tossed from the dceps by the same
casual hand:
A faint sea-fower dragged from the
lowest sand
That Will not undulate its luminous WINGS
In the slow tides again, lies dead and
swings
Along the muddy ripplcs to the land
EDWARD SHANKS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
In Flanders Fields
o the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l should like to send word of an
probation of the editorial in The Tribune
of Sunday,~October 6, entitled an Flanders
Fields which refers to my brothers
poem. 1t makes little difference where the
poem was written, but you may be inter-
ested in knowing that it took form during
the second battle of Ypres. He was sur
geon to a brigade of Canadian artillery
that fought throughout the battle HIS
dressing dugout was on the back of the
bank of the canal and behind il many of
the men were buried, so that during seven
teen days that they were in action At the
one spot the number of crosses Just behind
them increased in number each day Some
of the words were altered afterward, bu'
practically the poem took form during the
battle
There are two OF three minor irsccu
racics IN the version which you give, and
lnclose correct one. I am sure you will
understand that | am not writing in any
spirit of criticism, but you may be inter
ested in having the exact text
THOMAS M'CRAE
Philadelphia, Penn, Oct. 18, 1918
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

caps will carry broad stripe of color
to show the branch of service. (These
changes are evidently suggested by Brit
ish cxample.) Also, the whole system
and design. and placing of officers in
sigma and non-commissioned chevrons
are radically revised The blouses are to
be heightened and f1ared below the waist
to admit of roomy pockets. These
changes have yet to pass before the War
Department, we understand.
Elsewhere in the same A,my and
Macy Journal is some correspondence
bewailing the shifting, conflicting orders
respecting overcoats. Camp headquar-
ters have advised the purchase of trench
coats. Then, when hard-put lieutenants
have dug down into their salaries to COM
ply, the use of trench coats (save as
raincoats) has been prohibited. In one
camp an officer, returning from overseas,
was summoned by the judge advocate
and informed that he would be confined
to camp if he did not have the officers
braid sewed on the sleeves of his trench
coat. Fortunately the provost marshal
of the District Of Columbia has seen his
duty and done it without flinching. He
has issued detailed regulations for his
district, SO that the war business of the
nation shall be hampered by no such
horrible blunders as unbuttoned over
coats and shirt collars folded outside the
blouse collar.
Evidently there is nothing so complex
as uniformity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
Neighborhood Service

It's a long-distancc call that the Coun-
Gil of National Defence makes to the peo-
pie of the United States when it sum-
mons them to get together in ncighbor-
hood units to create little autonomous
councils, but it is the final connection
that will make the national organization
effectual and thoroughgoing, from the
Washington office down to the last man
and woman in the country
State and county branches we have
had since the establishment of the coun-
Gil, but that network of organization was
still too wide-meshed to catch up the bulk
of the nations people. BY coming down
to neighborhoods and communities, how
ever, the council commands the interest
and energy of all people, and when that
happens functioning on high per cent
begins.
There is room for everybody in the
community councils as they are planned.
The schoolboy who collects tinfoil for his
country, the housewife who can mend or
pack a box, the girl with spare hours to
address envelopes, the man who can
make a speech or take charge of an Of
flee during evenings-all these and all
others can be made use of by their own
neighborhood councils. The councils work
through all the accredited war agencies
and merely serve as a labor distributing
bureau for their community.
New York is organizing now by this
,,~l;.@ ~, k,.1- T l..
to find out from the headquarters in the
Municipal Building just what to do, and
then to go ahead and do it,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
Madeleine
( From HARPER.

IFrom Harpc,'5)
W OU were like wind or flame; YOU could
Il not rest;
Now you lie quietly; now sleep is best.
Something you always sought and never
Was it, perhaps, the gray peace Of the
ground?
You could not keep a creed, or bend a knee
To any God Now are you wholly
free?
You never loved You said you did not
Life was so strange wonder if
you care
For love, at last, and things that love can
reap,
Or light, or life, or anything but sleep
Or If, perhaps. the soul of you has gone
In flame and foam and quick, keen winds
at dawn,
Seeking and mocking still, unshriven,
unblest,
Part OF the changclcss, changcsblc unrest!
MARJORIE MEEKER
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
Cleveland Letters
10 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: I should be grateful if friends of
Mr.. Cleveland who possess published adj
dresses or other critical comment of his
torlcal value concerning his policies or
character, letters to or from him, or
personal recolcctions Of incidents con-
nectcd with his life which would be of in
terest in the preparation Of biography,
would communicate as soon as practicable
with Mr.. William Gorham Rice, of Albany
Any such comment, letters and accounts of
incidents will be acknowledged and will be
carefully returned if the sender so desires.
1t is my hope that Mr.. Rice, aided bv
such material and by his own already exist
ing collection, may feel disposed to under
take biography of Mr.. Cleveland during
the ensuing year.
The assembled letters, comment, publ
cations and records now proposed to be
brought together will be deposited ulti-
mately in the State Library at Albany for
the use of DR.. John H. Finley, who some
time ago invited Mr.. Rice to collaborate
with him, or whoever finally may prepare
"a dehnitive and documented biography.
The collection thus deposited will also be
OF permanent value because of its accessi-
blllty to any one who in the future NAV
desire to obtain for historical or other pur
poses knowledge of Mr.. Cleveland's traits
and his opinions and administrative record
on public questions.
Mr.. Rice was secretary to Governor
Cleveland in Albany, and was later, by Pres
ldent Cleveland's appointment, United
States Civil Service Commissioner at Wash
lngton, and is now New York State Civil
Service Commissioner. He was associated
with Mr. Cleveland from 1882 onward. and
was always an esteemed and devoted friend
inquiries concerning the requests and
suggestions made in this letter may be adj
dressed to Mr.. Rice at his residence. 1873
Washington Avenue, Albany, or at the Capi-
toll, Albany.
FRANCES F. CLEVELAND PRESTON
New York, Oct. %, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
'On Active Service"

AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY FORCE
(H s.. august II, 1879
prom Scribncrs)
hE is dead that was alive.
Il l. How shall friendship understand
Lavish heart and tireless hand
Bidden not to give or strive,
Eager brain and questing eye
Like broken lens laid by.
He. with so much left to do
Such gallant race to run,
What concern had he with you.
Silent Keeper of things DONE
Tell us not that, wise and young,
Elsewhere he lives out his plan.
Our speech was sweetest to his tongue,
And his great gift was to be man,
Long and Long shall we remember,
In our breasts his grave be made.
1t shall never be December
Where so warm heart is laid.
But IN our saddest selves sweet voice
sing,
Recalling him, and Spring.
EDITH WHARTON
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
What Will Congress Do?

In the meantime what will Congress do
in regard to further Investigations to
the use of brewery and pro-German money
IN controlling or influencing newspaper and
political activities in this country? And
what will Congress do in regard to finding
out all of the facts which may now be
hidden away in grand jury reports in
Pittsburgh and Texas and elsewhere as to
the extent to which the brewery interests
sought by big contributions to control cleo
tons, and thus control the country at a
time when these brewery interests we're the
chief hackers of the German American
Alliance, which was actively and aggres-
sively seeking to weaken the moral forces
of America as TO the war and as to the
liquor traffic? Has Congress gone just far
enough to touch the bare edge, and are
there other sinks of infamy to be opened
up? If so, it would be recreant to its re-
sponsiblity if it failed to uncover the
entire situation, regardless Of who may be
helped or hurt by the exposure, which
some say would starte the country if the
testimony now carefully locked ND as to the
contributions of pro German brewery in
terests in politics could be brought to
public gaze.
Possibly men in both parties will be hit
Perchance some of them may be high in
public estimation. 1t matters not who
will be helped who will be hurt, nor
whether this party or that party suffers in
public estimation. Ii there is rottenness
let the sunlight in, for the longer the rot
tenness is covered up the greater the
menace to the healthful life of the nation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
S O S

,Fr'ou The Saturday RcUicu)
ELP us, hardening peoples, all;
Il Il Heed old fearful England's call;
For her pampered sons in hate,
Vow the ruin Of the State.
Workmen will not earn their wage,
Nor let willing hands engage.
Police combine to break the laws,
And with rogues make common cause.
Firenen laugh when houses burn
All would spend where few will earn.
While our bravest fall affair."
Here, at home, we lose the War.
Frenchmen, Bclgians. stretch your hand
Drag, us drowning, safe to land.
Greeks, and Serbs! oh, lend US aid;
For we fail and are afraid.
Gompers! Teach US how to work.
And to deal with scamps who shirk.
Sunk we in sloth and strife.
Shame US into active life
Come, We kindly Japanese,
Raise US, tottering, from our knees.
Trotsky, Lcnin Save US, save
Mindful of the help we gave
Three years since we sent you guns;
True, you threw them to the Huns,
And for lucre did you sell
Many cannon, many a she'll
Still, all that shall be forgot,
So you pity now our lot.
Turks! Forgive us, and forget
Then We'll worship Mahomet-
Though we mspronounce his name,
We will serve him all the same
Help us, Lord! Though scarce man
Hopes you will--few think you can
oil
Pray, in case you have the power.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
A Week of Verse
Exodus
,f'rom The Mcnordh JournaD

FROM The Mcnordh Jou,map
II ATHER the things of your house,
~ Your folk and your bed,
You from your nights carouse,
o heavy head!
And you from the rack of your toll,
Cringing and worn,
Wake to the wealth Of your spoil,
The days new born.
Futile is Pharaoh's lash.
Fallen his gods,
Sapling tinscl and trash
His thunder rods.
Vain is the chant of the priest, =,
Vain as the wind,
For men are leaving the beast
OF their making behind.
Out to the cleansing sands,
Out to the sea,
Far to the holy lands,
o follow me.
MARTIN FElNSTEIN.
With the A. f. f., Somewhere in France.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
Brisbane, Pabst und Lehman

from The kansas City starr
NO doubt it was all right for Mr.. Bris-
bane to borrow money to buy a newspaper.
and no doubt it was all right TO borrow it
from brewers, and no doubt it was all right
Tor the brewers to be named Pabst and
Llebmann and such like, but taken alto.
eether 1T does look as though Mr. Brisbane
might have better gone without a news
paper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
The Grocery Clerk and La Cuerrs

From the Kansas city Tines
Kansas man in France attacked party
of six Huns, bayoneting one and bringing
in the rest prisoners. "The Newton Kan
san" says the soldier used to be a grocery
clerk, and was accustomed to doing nine or
ten things at once.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
The Good Old DAYS

Prom The Arka,saS Ga.ettsp
Only few years ago every time hog
killing time rolled around the farmer sent
his neighbors little gifts of sausage and
ribs worth about 81 600 per gift in the pres
ent market.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27

Is it possible that the absence of Colo
mel House on other business explains the
remarkable political document issued
from the White House Friday?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-27
Some Acquire Modesty-

(From The Atlanta Constitution
It's wonder the Kaiser hasn't seized tho
opportunity to boast that his troops are Of
the modest, retiring kind.