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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-31
FARMERS ARE' ADVISED
HOW TO ORDER NITRATE

ATLANTA, Ga, January 31.-(Spe-
ciaD-The State Department of Agrl-
culture has prepared special circu-
lar letter giving information and data
as to the method of obtaining nitrate
of soda which will be sold direct TO
farmers by the United Safes govern
ment at cost,
This nitrate of soda. of which the
government has obtained one hundred
thousand tons for agricultural par
Roses, will be sold through county
farm demonstration agents N each
county and under the supervision q
]. Phil Campbell director az ahs eX-
tension work in Georgia. whs Is ~
Gated in Athens
In those conz55as xhit.h haHs NJ
demonstration 4ee11s. MI Campbell
viii sggaszs cousmiggesss 10 tsfaB the
dfss-ss1sie1e ami <,sn1aigea> va axe
WISE e,s 1.araad To- sls 1ss'4alaas where
yhszs arg agents d order 10 render IS
siSganca.
Farmers desiring nitrate AZ soda
should make their application direct TO
the county agents or members u these
committees, through whom il will be
supplied to them at So per ton, I. o.
&. cars at port q arrival. The pur-
chaser will pay the freight charges.
but there will be no state fee charged
the farmer for inspection, as the state
will not require registration by the
government or inspection of commodi-
ties handled direct by the government.
However, the state department of agri-
culture will cooperate with the federal
government in sampling and analysing
this material, when necessary, for the
protection of the farmers.
The Department of Agriculture ad-
vises that all Georgia farmers desir'
ing nitrate of soda get in touch at
once with the county agent, or some
member of the local committee who
will explain the details and enable
them to get promptly the amount they
need.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-31

There is more Catarrn in this section
OF the country 1han II other diseases
put together, and for sears it ws4s sup
posed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing
TO cure with local treatment pronounced
it lneurable. Catsrrh is a local disease,
greatly influenced by Constitutional con-
ditions and therefore requires constitu-
tional treatment Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine. manufactured by F. j. Cheney &
Co, Toledo, Ohio, is a constitutional
remedy, is taken internally and acts
thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
of the System. One Hundred Dollars re-
ward is offered for any case that Halls
Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-31
S1.OO viii Be Given

10 each of several schoolboys who will
deliver copies of the Curtis publica-
tons to customers. only schoolboys
clean, gentlemanly and ambitious
need apply. The $1.00 is in addition to
liberal cash profits and many other
advantages. Apply to Hightower's
Book Store J. E. Hightower, Cor La
mar & Jackson Sts., Americas, Ga. ad
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-31

Colds Cause Headache and Grip
LAXATIVE BROMO QU1NINE Tab
lets remove. te cause. There is only
one "Bromo Quinine." E. w. GROVES
signature on box. soc. adv
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-31

short sentence in jail. From his re-
marks those who came before him
after this will not get off SO lightly
At the time the judge was sentencing
Lucy Sibley and leila Hunt thirty
days in Jail and a 500 fine each for
r4oonshining. They were from Cam
den county.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-31

The girls of an exclusive girls fin
ishing school in Waterbury, Conn,
have pledged themselves to do with
out sweets during the war.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-31
BLEACH YOUR
DARK SKIN
HAVE SOFT, FAIR, CLEAR, BRIGHT
SKIN,


Use Black and White. Sent by Mail
25c. Agents Make An Easy Living.
Just try Black and White Ointment
(for white or colored folks. Apply as
directed on label, to face. neck, arms
or hands. Ii is very pleasant to the
skin ana las the effect of bleaching
dark, sallow Or blotchy skin, clean
ng the skin of risings. bumps, pimples,
lackheads, tan or freckles-giving you
q clear, saft, bright complexion, max
ing you the envy of everybody. Sold
on q money-back guarantee, only Csc
(stamps or coin sent by mail.
q FREE.
II you send 81 for four boxes Of
Black and White Ointment, Csc cake
of Black and White Soap, included
free. Agents make an easy living rep
resenting US. Apply for territory and
speciaI deal. Address Plough Chem
zeal Co. Memphis, Tenn. Write now
fo.day-WhIIe you think about it.-adv
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-10-30

tenptuouS illusions to the flag
for the exemption Of his son
from military service, on the
sole ground that he will blindly
support the President. The
President is quite ready to ad-
nit that Republicans are loyal
enough to fight and die, as they
are doing by the thousands;
loyal enough to take up great
loans and pay enormous taxes;
loyal enough to furnish import
ant men at no salary on some of
the great war boards in Wash
ington. But they arc not loyal
eonugh, in the Presidents opin-
ion, to be trusted with any share
in the government of the coun-
Try or legislation for it.
If the Republican party con-
trols the House we can point out
some things they will do. They
will replace Mr.. Dent, of Ala
bama, at the head of the Mill
tary Affairs Committee with
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-10-30
THE REJOINDER

Some time ago the President
said politics is adjourned"
Now, in the closing days Of the
campaign, which has been de-
layed by the united efforts of
all parties for the Liberty Loan
now, when all public meetings
have been given up owing to the
influenza epidemic-the Presi-
dent sends out q direct party
appeal calling upon his country
men TO vote for Democrats be-
cause they are Democrats. with
out any Differences to whether
such Democrats have been or
are in favor of war measures
and have d war record which
deserves support.
The voters of Michigan. to
take single example, are called
upon TO support Henry Ford,
notorious for his advocacy of
peace at any price, for con-
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-10-30
AS Being Discussed by Representative Leaders

julius Kahn, to whom the Ad-
ministration was obliged to turn
for assistance to take charge OF
and carry the first draft bill
against Mr.. Dents opposition.
They will put a Republican at
the head Of the W2ys and Means
Cobb;ttee as leader of the House
instead of Mr.. kitchi1 Of North
Carolina, who voted against the
war. They will give the country
Speaker who did not oppose
and would never oppose a draft
bill, and would never say, as
Speaker Clark did, that there
is precious little difference be
tween q conscript and a con-
Wet"
Although the Republicans of
the House are in the minority,
they cast more actual votes on
seven great war measures than
the Democratic majority was
able to do. What is the record of
the Senate? On ffty-one roll
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-10-30

countrymen, that l am asking
your support not for my own
sake or for the sake of a politi-
cal party, but for the sake Of the
nation itself, in order that its
inward unity of purpose may be
evident to all the world. In
ordinary times l would not feel
a. liberty to make such an ap-
peal to YOU. In ordinary times,
divided counsels can be endured
without permanent nurt, to the
country. But these are not
ordinary times.
If, in these critical days, it is
YOUR wish 10 sustain me with I'M
divided minds l beg that you
will say so in a way which it
will not be possible to n1iSunder-
stand, either here, at home or
among our associates on the
other side Of the sea. l submit
my difficulties and my hopes to
YOU.
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Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-10-30
THE APPEAL

hand. They occur in the most
critical period our country has
ever faced or IS likely to face IN
our time. If you have approved
of my leader snip and wish me
to continue TO be Your unem-
barrassed spokesman in affairs
at home and abroad, I earnestly
beg that you will express Your
self Enthusiastically to that effect
by returning a Democratic ma
jortty to both the Senate and
House of Representatives.
I am your servant and will &C
cept your judgment without
cavil, but my power to admins
ter the great trust assigned me
by the Constitution would be
seriously impaired should your
Judgment be advirse, and | must
frankly tell you 50 because so
many critical issues depend up
on your verdict. No scruple Of
taste must in grim times like
these be allowed to stand in the
way of speaking the plain truth.
l have no thought Of suggest
ing that any political party is
paramount in matters Of patrio-
tism. l feel too deeply the sacri-
fees which have been made in
this war by all our citizens, ir-
respective of party affiliations,
to harbor such an idea. l mean
only that the difficulties and
delicacies Of our present task
are Of sort that makes it i'm
peratively necessary that the ma
ton should give its undivided
support to the Government I'M
der a unified leadership and chat
Republican Congress would
divide the leadership.
The leaders Of the minority in
the present Congress have un-
questionably been pro-war, but
they have been anti-administra-
ton. At almost every turn since
we entered the war they have
sought to take the choice of
policy and the conduct Of the
the war out of my hands and put
it under the control Of instru-
mentalities of their own choos-
ing.
This is no time either for d.
vided council or for divided
leadership. Unity of command
is necessary now in civil action,
as it is upon the field Of battle.
If the control of the House and
the Senate should be taken away
from the party now in power, an
opposing majority could assume
control of legislation and oblige
all action to be taken amidst
contest and obstruction.
The return of q Republican
majority to either house of the
Congress would, moreover, be in
terpretative on the other side of
ten water as reputation of my
leadership. Spokesman of the
Republican party are urging you
to elect Republican Congress
in order to back up and support
the President, but even if they
should, in this, impose upon
some credulous voters on this
side of the water they would i'm
pose on no one on the other side.
1t is we'll understood there, as
we'll as here, that the Republi-
can leaders desire, not so much
to support the President, as to
control him.
The peoples of the Allied
countries, with whom we are as?
sicated against Germany, are
quite familiar with the signifc-
ance of elections. They would
find it very difficult 20 believe
that the voters of the United
States had chosen to support
their President by elec.ing to the
Congress a majority controlled
by those who are not, in fact, in
sympathy with the attitude and
action Of the administration.
| need not tell you, my fellow
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08
TREATED SQUARE.

An officer in the national army who
has an eye for the human side of mill
tary life notice ed a rookie who had come
To- the camp with a sullen and hope
less expression, who moved about as
if always expecting to be jumped on
for something. Gradually that man
began to cheer up, to look the rest of
the men straight in the eye and to go
about his work with the energy and
swing of man who likes his work
and his fellow-workers
One day he asked permission to de
vote some of his own spare time to
doing odd jobs for the officers. Cues
toned, he replied that he had never
in all his life been treated square I'M
til he came to the cantonment. He
had been cuffed about at home as a
child He had grown up with fear
and resentment in his heart, looking
for trouble and abuse and always find
ing it. Then he had been drafted.
In the army he had been treated
like every other man He had been
given work to do like everyone else
But yhe had also received fair treat
ment like every one else 1t had made
a mag oflfGm, and he was trying to
showahis Appreciation in the most d.
rect way that occurred to him-by
giving his leisure to the officers who
had been decent ceen to him. 70.
! That this mans ieaseois not unique
points but one difference between an
autocFatic militafTsm and an army
raised to defend democracy. 'h
Tai aF
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08
LOYALTY IN THE COUNTRY.

The first Liberty Loan found its
biggest response in the large cities,
particularly the Industrial communi-
ties of the Feast. The second had a
more general acceptance throughout
lie country, though the urban popula-
ties of the East. The second had a
reversed the original situation.
The secretary of the treasury sound
ed warning, at the beginning of the
last week of the drive: 'The people
of the big cities, excellent as their
efforts for the loan have been, will
have to intensity their work to rival
the results being achieved in the
small towns and country districts"
The latter had taken the lead; and
despite the utmost efforts of the big
cities, they seem to have kept it. The
rural sections have more than re-
deemed themselves from the charge
of selfish Indifference. They have
even shamed the city fellow who
preached patriotism to them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08
STANDARD ROLLING STOCK.

Contracts for 1,025 freight and pass
enger locomotives, the largest order
ever placed in the history of American
railroads, have been let by the federal
railroad administration. That is good
news to a nation that has almost
given up hope of adequate transpor-
tation facilities. Deliveries will be-
gin in July and continue throughout
the year Nearly all of the new en-
gines are expected to be available for
hauling freight next winter. If they
are the situation will be much improv>
ed over last winter. Most of them
will be assigned to eastern roads,
where the shortage of motive power is
greatest.
The locomotives will not bear the
initials or emblem of any individual
railroad system, but and simply the
initials "U. S." with identifying num-
bers. That will be visible proof that
our railroads, for the present at least,
have been really nationalized These
"U. S." locomotives will not be own
ed by the government, however, but
by all the rail, Dads jointly.
Another significant thing, perhaps
the most important of all, is that they
mark the beginning Of STANDARDIZED
ton. The locomotives ordered are
said to consist of six newly developed
standard types, intended ultimately
to replace many times that number
OF tyres Heretofore every big rail
road has had a penchant for design
ing its own engines. Standardization,
of course, will mean a great saving in
manufacture and repairing.
The administration is introducing
the same principle into production of
freight cars, of which 100000 have
recetly bee ordered, ad expects to
make big gain in simplicity and eff
ficiency in all kinds of rolling stock.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08
CHIVALRY IN WAR.

A recent dispatch from the British
front in Flanders contained two little
stories of children found unexpectedly
in the midst of the great battle storm,
and protected by the instructive chiv-
airy Of British soldiers
In Neuve Eglise, taken by the Ger
mans and retaktE by the British, the
latter discovered two German babies
left h. the German troops The Tom
mics took them into a trench for safe
ty, as the Germans were Smelling the
ruined town. When the trench came
under heavy fire, they fell back,
taking the babies with them, and final
~ delivered the tots, safe and SOUND,
to field hospital in the rear. There
the English nurses are taking care Of
them.
In another Part of the Flanders line
two British artillery officers found
baby that had become separated
from its parents in the confusion Of
flight before the German advance.
They took the infant with them to a
hayloft, which they were obliged to
use as an observation post. The
weather was cold, and the baby was
thinly clad. They placed it between
them and kept it warm with the heat
of their own bodies. Later the baby
was found, sound asleep, between two
corpses. It's saviors had been killed
by shrapnel The baby is now alive,
and well in a Bristol hospital.
These were natural enough things.
Almost any Briton, Frenchman or
American would do them. There are
thousands of such instances in the
allied records.
But how we long, for the credit of
human nature, to read a few such
stories of German soldiers! We search
war literature for them, German liter
ture included, almost in vain. In
stead, we have an appalling history
of cruelties to women and children.
Deluded and brutalized by their
false teaching and the example of
their Prussian masters, the German
, troops are too busy with their kill
ing to bother with such sentimental
nonsense as being mercilful to the
! helpless.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08
BORN TO THE WAR.

To-day again." writes Philip Gibbs
in the New York Times, II have been
among the thousands of French sold
iers. 1t is splendid to see them be-
cause of their fine bearing. They are
men in the prime of life, not so young
as some of the British and with a
graver look than one sees on the Brit
ish faces when they have not yet
reached the zone of fire.
"They are men who have seen all
that war means during these years of
agony and hope and boredom ana
death. They have no illusions. They
stare into the face of death unf1inch-
iagly and shrug their shoulders at the
menace and still have faith in vic
tory.
They are not gay or boisterous in
their humor, and they do not sing like
tie British as they march, but they
seem to have been born to this war,
and its life is their life, and they are
professionals"
And these are typical soldiers of an
army that so many of US imagine is
exhausted and dispirited, representing
i nation "bled white"
There is no exhaustion in France, no
falling of spirit, no national anemia.
More than a million men have been
killed More than million have been
disabled But there are millions still
in arms, fine, outstanding men with
good red blood in their veins and with
q, fighting spirit in their hearts that
all the blood-letting of which linden
burg's hordes are capable will never
dimi sinh
Born to the war" is an Illuminating
phrase That is the French army.
That is French manhood That is the
French nation And thanks to France,
that is the spirit of the whole great
alliance of which we are an humble
part For ourselves, we ask nothing
better than the teaching and COM
radeship of those bronzed Gauls who
stare into the face of death unfinch-
1ngly and shrug their shoulders at its
worst menace and have faith in vic
tory"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

It's going to be so before long that
when a man starts to the polls to vote
he'll have to wait an hour or so for
his wife to get ready to go along
with him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

It's a pity that the Overman bill
doesn't give the president the author
sity for recognizing the Senate, along
with the other government bodies and
war industries
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

It's become so now that the street
corner standbys miss half of the short
skirt procession by having to look up
and watch the aeroplanes passing over
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

Whenever a man starts to shaving
early in the day and powdering his
face often, and wearing his best clothes
downtown, and sporting silk shirts,
then's when his wife sits up and be-
gins to take notice
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

The photographers are having lot
of fun out of the name of the new Mis-
souri, senator, Xenophon P Whitley.
However, we think his name is funny
enough, without adding anything to it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

It's a terrible risk for an aviator to
fly low over the streets of Americas at
a time of day when the short skirts are
passing by. He's liable to take a
look and then pull the wrong lever.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

with Gods help we shall obtain
peace in the west" says Hindenburg;
not a soft peace, but an honorable
peace" Well, even the Almighty
would have difficulty in making Ger
man peace honorable.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

The Macon Telegraph aisays that
schfey Howard is going to poll a ire
or. ~ s1nasf lsIIs. .tslia
mendous vote among the Atlanta CON
tractors whom he helped to secure fat
government contracts, However, We
doubt it. People like contractors vote
for favOrs they expect, not for what
they have gotten-and it is not likely
that Schley Howard, after breaking
faith with the president. can get any
thingzelse for anybody. $50 ates
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

TIE most won derful of all studies in
expression IS to watch the look on a
fellows tace when he is dancing with
the girl he loves and to observe the
lock On tle same mans face ten years
later when se, is, dancing with the
woman he married. ats u9hf.ea
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

When a man leaves a letter ad
dressed in a feminine hand on his
desk, unopened, it's good sign that
he isn't particularly interested in the
author of the epistle.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

The British government has raised
the taxes on liquor and lowered the
price. That's one way to collect more
taxes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

What has become of the old-fash-
toned bride-elect who called in all of
the neighbors and showed them her
assortment of lingerie?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08
Americas, Georgia, May s, 1918.
GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING

The energy of the bill collector Is
on the most wonderful things in the
world
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

If the Allies will be as obstinate in
their stand as the American Congress
is in it's ways, the Germans can never
pass
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

No woman will ever admit that she
started the quarrel-or that she lost it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-08

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