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Americus times-recorder., 1919-02-27
MORGAN FINDS
PAVED FLORIDA
REAPINC FREELY
OF PROSPERITY
Poorer State Far Ahead Of Georgia,
He Says, in Matter of
Highways

ut would pay the Americus and
Sumter County Chamber of Commerce
to send every member to Florida to let
him see just how much we are asleep
up here" said L. A. Morgan, of Amer
icus, after his return yesterday from
an outing or three weeks spent with
his family and friends touring Florida
by automobile. IF we did that we
wouldn't be depending upon one man.
the secretary, to pull the whole load
of the chamber, for every man, realiz-
ing the possibilities we have and that
we are overlooking every minute of
our lives, would be and going.
"We are used to talking about Flor
ida being 400 years behind the times.
/ want to tell you that Florida is about
100 years ahead of Georgia in the
matter of good roads-no, won't
say 100 years, for I hope that in ten
years Georgia will have wakened and
caught up. But Florida, as poor
state as it is, has realized the value
of good roads, and is reaping the ben
eft.
While we are sitting around here
with long faces, and waiting and hop
ing that times will be better when the
price of cotton goes us, Florida is
booming. We visited dozens of towns
in all parts of the state that were in
the hey-day of prosperity. You never
hear of slack times down there these
days, because everything is humming
Tkey are a live set of people. and they
are up and going.
"And Georgia can do the same
thing, multiplied manifold We have
the population and the wealth. Ali
we need is the vision, and the deter
mination to do.
"I have come back from that trip
converted and thorough good roads
booster. They are the life of Florida.
and would be the life of Georgia, if we
had them. We travelled up and down
both the east and west coasts of
Florida, from Jacksonville to beyond
Miami, with superb paved boulevards
the entire distance-several thousand
of miles. 1t was a superb trip. But
we knew when we were back in Geor-
gia from the condition of the high
ways, and we left our cars at Way
cross and came home by train.
From this time on my coat is off
for paved highways-and the same
would be said by every other Sumter
county man who could see what have
seen-the difference in business and
pleasure and prosperity-everything
that goes to make up life these days.
We can not build too many permanent
roads in Georgia, and we can't build
them quickly enough, no matter how
soon we build them. Let's get busy
right now"
Americus times-recorder., 1919-02-27
MOnarchists Plan Conn.

LONDON, Feb. 27.-(By Associated
Press.)-The monarchists of Germany
are contemplating an early coup d'etat.
in the opinion Of the Daily Nails Ber-
lin correspondent, who says the old
officer class. with its general staff, has
been gradually getting the whip hand
there since January 19, and now holds
the government in it's power.
A large number of officers are said
to be associated in the plot.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-02-27
Princess Pat Now is
Plain Mrs. Ramsey

LONDON, Feb. 27.-(By Associat-
ed Press. Patricia, of Con-
naught and Commander Alexander r.
M. Ramsey, of the royal navy, were
married at Westminster Abbey at
noon today.
No other social event since the out
break of the war created so much pub
lie interest
Americus times-recorder., 1919-02-27
COP. to Nominate : :
Speaker Candidate

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-(By Asso-
ciated Press .)-Republican members
elect of the next house, gathered to-
day for conference tonight with the
reelected republicans to nominate a
candidate for speaker. Three candi-
dates are Representatives Gillett, of
Massachusetts; Mann, of Illinois, and
Campbell, of Kansas.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-02-27
HUN DELEGATES
LEAVE spa FOR
BERLIN, BERNE
DISPATCH SAYS
No Cause Given for Reported Sus-
pension of Negotiations
With Allies

GENEVA. Feb. 26.-(Wednesday. j.
(By Associated Press.) This even
ing's Swiss newspapers print Ber-
line dispatch stating that owing to the
sudden suspension of the armistice me-
gotiations, the German commission left
Spa this morning for Berlin. The
cause for the reported suspension was
not given.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-02-27
Grand Jury Takes
Recess Until Mar. 5

After three days of continuous grlnd'
in which many indictments were re-
turned, the grand jury for the special
term of Superior court took a recess
at the conclusion of business Wednes-
day afternoon until March 8.
At that date number OF cases
which were not ready for presentation
at this time, are expected to be taken
up.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-02-27
Russians to Enforce
Compulsory Labor

LONDON, Feb. -(Wednesday)
-(By Associated Press.) The Rus
sian Soviet government is instituting
system Of registration. preparatory TO
enforcing the principle of compulsory
work for all, says a wireless dispatch.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-02-27
Norman Hapgood
Given Post at Hague

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-(By Asso-
ciated Press.)-Norman Hapgood, of
New York, formerly magazine edi-
tor. was nominated today to be minis
ter to Denmark, to succeed DR.. Maui
rice Egan, recently resigned because
of ill health.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-02-27
Eisner's Funeral is
Big Demonstration

BERLIN, Feb. 26.-(Wednesday.)-
(By Associated Press Munich ad-
vices received up to o'clocks this af-
ternoon, indicate that the day passed
without disturbance. The funeral
of Premier Eisner resolved itself into
the most imposing demonstration Nu-
mich ever witnessed.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-02-27
WEATHER FORECAST.

For Georgia: Fair tonight; Friday
fair in south and partly cloudy in
the north portion; warmer in east and
south portions.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-02-27
Clernenceau Back
at Official Desk

PARIS, Feb. 27.--(By Associated
Press. Premier Clemenceau resumed
his official tasks today. He remained
at the ministry of war three-quarters
of an hour.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-02-27

Much has been written about the
first American woman to set foot on
German soil. This woman, Miss
Frances Marion, is said to have been
the first American woman to cross the
Franco-G German border after the ar
mistice wa ssigned. She went as the
representative of the Committee on
Public Information in the role of a
scenario writer and we have Mr..
Creel's word for it that she staged a
special government picture.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-23
Story of a Dog.

Marathon races in the woods VIII
never become universal for the reason
that speed and stamina like that of
Buell. Crannell's dog are not universal
in the four-footed hunters" says War
wick S. Carpenter, secretary of the
conservation commission. "Mr. Gran
nell lives at West Glens Falls, and
while hunting near there recently his
dog picked up fox track. The dog
was picked up next day near Gran
berry lake. more than seventy miles
away.
Accounts do not state whether the
dog was still going strong or whether
he might have taken the fox back to
Mr.. Crannell, but simply that identifi-
cation of the dog was made by the
conservation commission license tag
and that Mr.. Crannell went after the
dog.
"The moral of all this is that If one
owns a dog good enough to run fox
through two counties she should sure
ly be protected by an Identification
dIsk"-New York Times.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-23
Satuteo.

Some clever Englishman, comment
ing on French politeness, once remark
ed that when a Frenchman bows, two
thirds of the bow is to himself. That
may be true, and we have to admit
that even the other third Is quite a
fraction more than most Anglo-Saxons
offer.
Saluting is the same proposition. A
snappy salute pulled by buck to the
most second of second iieutenants
draws heavy interest; and the colonel
who jerks his hand a few centimeters
from his still affixed cigar is only in
suting himself and the army.
If some privates were little more
polite to themselves, the saluting trap
never would be sprung and the joke
would all be on the other side of the
military fence.-Stars and Stripes.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-23
vERMIN OLD PEST OF ARMIES
Reference to Them Found In Writings
Of the Romans. and in English
Literature.

The newspapers have had much TO
say about the "deIousing" of the re-
turning troops. Philip Hale writes In
the Boston Herald. The word is not
pretty one and 1t is not to be found
In the dictionaries. but the war has
brought with II many new words. some
of which will disappear, some of which
will soon be regarded as orthodox and
of good and regular standing.
No soldier need be ashamed of nee
essary submission to the process. 1t
may console him to recall the case of
Thomas Otway. an Oxford man, the
author of "Venice Preserved" and
"The Orphan" AS cornet in regi-
army under Monmouth in Flanders.
II was reported that he came back
from Flanders 'mangy and covered
with vermin." Rochester taunted him
with this in his "Session of the Poets"
It should also be remembered that
when the troops were disbanded and
recalled. the money voted by the COM
mons for their payment was misap-
propriated. The soldiers were paid
only by debentures. and the credit of
these was so low that they were hard
ly salable.
1t was observed In the sixteenth CEN
tury that "lice cometh also Of that
cloth that is trained In the wool with
the fat or grease of a horse or of
swine, and therefore the northern
cloths worn of a sweating body do
breed lice in IL hours" The "humor"
OF an individual had much to do with
the character of the pest Lice gen.
dered of sanguine humor were red and
great; of phlegmatic. white; of choler-
ic, yellow, long, swift and sharp; of
melancholic. ashen colored, lean and
slow In moving. Anyone of these pests
"grieveth more in the skin with the
feet and with creeping, than he doth
with bitin. And the 1eaner
that louise is. the sharper she biteth
and grieveth." There were many ap-
proved remedies even in the elder
Pliny's time, thus: "The old skin or
slough that snakes do cast off in the
spring, whosoever drinketh in his or
binary drink, 1t will kill all the YER
min of the body within three days."
The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-23
WRESTLING PARSON IN ARMY
of Second Division Promise to
Go to Church.

With the American Forces in Ger
many.-Chaplain e. s.. Currie of the
Second division has become known
among the American forces on the
Rhine as 1.-The wrestling parson" In
his go-to-church campaign, which he
inaugurated recently among the sol
diers.
Chaplain Currie has been putting on
an exhibition in Leutesdorf every
night the last few weeks, and each
man he throws promises to induce
five other soldiers to accompany him
to church the Sunday following the
wrestling match.
The contests have been held in the
Leutesdorf playhouse. Chaplain Cur
rie has been taking on different men
from the Third battalion of the Sixth
marines each night. Reports to the
chaplain's office of the Second di-
vision say that Chaplain Currie has
been winning about 10 per cent Of
the matches.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-23
FIGURES OF AMERICAS PART In
WAR PASS ALL FORMER RECORDS
COL Leonard Ayers Prepares Remarkable Statistical Summary
Showing Comparative Costs in Men, Money and Material
for All the Countries Engaged-Cost to the United
States Is $22,0OOOOOOoO

Washington.-The war cost the
United States directly about S22OOO.-
600 900. or nearly enough to pay the
entire cost of running the American
government from 1901 up to the out
break of the European war. For every
hundred American soldiers and sail
ors who served in the war with Ger
many two were killed or died of dis
ease during the period of hostilities.
The number of men serving in the
armed forces of the nation during the
war was 4,SOO,OO0. of whom 100000
served in the army.
These facts are set forth in sta
tistical summary of THE War With
Germany" compiled under the direc-
tion of Col. Leonard p. Ayers, chief of
the statistics branch of the general
staff of the army.
This summary, just published by
Colonel Ayers by direction of the sec
retary of war is n complete review of
Americas participation in the war
against Germany condensed into less
than $50 pages 1t is detailed sum
mary of American military operations,
and yet the long statistical tables
usually found in official reports are
entirely lacking.
Col. Leonard p. Ayers is the only Of
6cer from civilian life who has risen
TO the position of chief of a division
of the general staff. Before the war
ne was director of the Russell Sage
Foundation. He was chief statistical
officer of the peace committee. After
his return here he received the dis
Hnguished service medal.
Some of the Figures.
Some of the statistical summaries
10 the report show:
The war cost the United States con-
siderably more than S1,000,0o0 an hour
Cor over two years.
America's expenditures in the war
were sufficient to have carried on the
Revolutionary war continuously for
more than thousand years at the
rate of expenditure which that war
actually involved.
During the first three months eX-
penditures were at the rate of $1,000
300 day. During the next year they
averaged more than S22,000.00O n day.
For the final ten months the daily
average was over S44.O0O,0OO.
The total war costs of all nations
we're about S1S6, ,OOO,OOO,OO0, of which
the allies and the United States spent
two-thrds and the enemy one-third.
The three nations spending the
greatest amounts were Germany
Great Britain and France. in that or
der After them come the United
States and Austria Hungary, with sub
stantially equal expenditures.
The United States spent about one
eighth of the entire cost of the war
The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-23

American combat divisions were in
line in France they We're supported by
their own artillery for 75 days, by
British artillery for five days and by
French for one and a half days.
In round numbers, America had in
France $500 pieces of artillery, of
which nearly 500 were made in Amer
lea, and Americans used on the firing
line 2,250 pieces, of which over 100
were made in America.
AirpIane Production.
When the United States entered the
war the allies made the designs of
their planes available to Americans.
and before the end OF hostilities fur
$500 service planes.
Aviation training schools in the
United States graduated S,602 men
from elementary courses and 4,02S
from advanced courses. More than s.
600 pilots and observers were sent
overseas.
There were produced In the United
States to November 80, 1918, more
than 5000 training planes and more
than 10000 training engines.
The American air force at the front
grew from three squadrons in April to
As in November, 1913. On November
IL the As squadrons had an equipment
of TAO planes.
OF 2,69S planes sent to the zone Of
the advance for American aviators.
667, or nearly one-fourth, were of
American production.
American air squadrons brought
down in combat 755 enemy planes.
while their own losses of planes num-
bered only 357.
American divisions were in battle
for 200 days and engaged in 13 major
operations.
From the middle of August until the
end of the war the American divisions
held during the greater part of the
time a front longer than that held by
the British.
In October the American divisions
held 101 miles of line, or 23 per cent of
the entire western front.
In the battle of st. Mihiel $4,000
Americans We're engaged, compared
with about 100000 on the northern
side in the battle of Gettysburg. The
artillery fired more than 100000
shells in four hours, which is the most
intense concentration of artillery fire
recorded in history.
The Meuse-Argonne battle lasted for
AZ days during which 100000 Ameri-
can troops were engaged.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-23
Saved Venus de Milo From Huns.

NJ. Heron de Villefosse, the eminent
French archeologist, whose death has
Just taken place, was for many years
head of the Greek and Roman sculp-
ture department of the Louvre. Twice
in his career he had to superintend
the removal of that priceless art treas
ure the Venus of Milo to a place of
safety-in 1870, and again in 1914. In
each case the same enemy was con-
cerned. Heron de Villefo3se was sew
enty-four years old.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-23
Orphaned FaWn Adopts
Man as Its Guardian

Williamsport, Pa. - George
Hummel, n resident of Liberty,
while fishing at the head of
Gray's run, heard fawn bleat-
Ing In the woods up the noun
tain side, and upon investiga-
tion came upon a strange sight.
On the ground lay n dead doe
with dead fawn by her side,
while a live fawn stood guard
nearby. The live animal had
worn IA path where it had trot-
ted around the body of the moth
er. There We're no bullet holes
in the carcass. Mr. Hummel had
some cookies In his pocket
which he fed to the little fawn,
and the animal followed him
home, apparently content that it
had found friend. Mr.. Hum
mel reported the case to game
protector and is caring for the
fawn.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-23
Golna to Look Him Up.

'sThat fellow Clipping called me
old Silenus,'" remarked Mr.. Jagsby.
"He seemed to think 1t a great joke"
what are you going to do about
lit"
"I haven't decided yet. 1 have for
gotten about all ever knew about ST.
lenus. but / have an idea that he was
neither a pillar in the church nor an
ornament to society" ty."-Blrmingham
AgeHerald.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-23
Something Worth While.

Rankin never was so disappoint-
ed in my life
Phyle-What's the trouble?
"In the city the other day saw an
aquatic exhibition advertised"
yes"
"And I Immediately bought tickets"
"You were disappointed?"
"Yes, all I saw was lot of men in
diving suits"
"But what did you expect in an
aquatic exhibition"
"Girls In bathing suits. at least."-
Youngstown Telegram.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-04
TELLS OF TOPEKAN
Munsey'c Account of r. A. Williams's
Fight With Aviator.

A Topeka man, Corp. Richard A.
Williams. is the subject of story
contained in Munsey's magazine for
January, in a collection of anecdotes
of deeds of bravery cabled home by
General Pershing- Under the title
sey's publishes this month a number
of stories of Yankee soldiers in bat
tle The story of Corporal Williams.
cs told by the narrator of the events
of heroic conduct. is as follows:
Corp Richard A Williams, of To-
peka Kan, followed the moderately
exciting trade of lineman along the
telephone system at the front. In the
Argonne region one day last fall. he
was at the top of a thirty-foot pole.
splicing damaged wires. when the
snarl of an airplane motor caused him
to look up. A lone plane. marked
with the kaiser's black cross, was
circling like a hawk. and as he looked.
its pilot opened fire on him. Machine
gun bullets sent the Jlinters flying
from the pole and whistled unpleas-
antly about his ears.
Fought With Aviator.
Corporal Williams went Gown the
pole in two jumps, but not because he
was afraid of the German machine
gun. His rifle was at the foot of the
pole, and he snatched it up and
climbed back almost as fast as he har
gone down. From the top of the pole
he fought a duel with the aviator
Circling him again and again. the
German loosed a deadly fire, while the
Kansan sat coolly waiting every good
chance to speed another bullet at the
foe. The German got the worst of the
fight and fled
Corporal Williams was one of
Pc things men to receive the Dfstin-
guished Service Cross.
The article, recounting the valorous
deeds of the Yanks, closes with the
words: when you meet the Distin-
guished Service Cross of the American
army, salutei A real man is wearing
If -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-04
Will CARRY FOOD 10000 ON FRONT
When War Ended There Were
Many Doctors on Duty.
Numbered 12,9s9-A1so s;593
Nurses at Work Then.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.)
General Headquarters. American
Expeditionary Force. Nov. 26.-The
prodigious effort of the medical de-
partment army in France is revealed
in statistics which the Associated
Press is now permitted to make pub
lie. When, on November II, the ar
mistice suspended hostilities and the
great expansion and extension work
of the medical department was sus-
pended. there were in operation 2S3.-
240 beds in camp and base hospitals
and convalescent camps with about
10000 of them vacant.
There were on duty in the Amerf-
can expeditionary force at that time
1929 doctors and 1888 nurses. The
authorized nurse strength of the army
when America entered the war was
testify to the work the medical corps
was called upon to perform.
The disqualification of the army in
France is Interesting. Basically it
consists of mobile organizations. To
each division there are four field hos
pitfalls, two evacuation hospitals and
one mobile surgical hospital and in
addition there is fixed disqualification,
consisting of camp and base outfits
and convalescent camps, with an au-
thorized bed capacity of Is per cent
of the strength of the command.
serving training and billeting areas
while for general service and for the
treatment of more serious cases and
battle casualties there are lis base
hospitals. These base hospitals occa-
sionally are single institutions of from
1000 to 5000 beds or are grouped in
hospital centers Twenty such CEN
ters of from 2. 500 to 5000 beds are
in operation
Convalescent camps at the bed rate
of twenty per cent of normal hospital
beds are authorized for the purpose
of giving as early graduated physical
training as possible and fifteen such
camps are in operation at present.
The American hospitals are partly
in French barracks, school buildings
and hotels and partly in constructed
cantonment Of demountable buildings.
All the buildings taken over were re-
modelled and QUILTED for the purpose,
Lighted and heated and modernized.
while the demountable huts are mod
els of their kind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-04
HEARS FROM BOYS
]. j. Kelsey Gets Word From
His Lads in France.
Jim Kelsey Was Wounded in
the ArgOnne Drive.
HE TELLS OF GOING over TOP
Machine Guns Did Not Bother
as Much as Artillery.
Charles Kelsey Praises Work
of Salvation Army.

j. J. Kelsey Of ace Orchard street
has received two letters written to
him as a Fathers day" remembrance
by two boys in France, one his son,
Charles Is. Kelsey. and the other. his
grandson. Jim Kelsey.
Charles Kelsey belongs to Company
B, 10th engineers, and has the rank
of corporal His letter is dated from
a hotel in AK les Bains. Dear Old
Dad" he writes. 81 don't know why
this is your day in particular. but they
say it is. and we won't argue row that
the war is over No doubt you know
how to celebrate it. 1 am not posted
on that subject. but 1 hope l. means
that you re to have all the cheese you
can eat.
Il am on a furlo in southern
France There are four or five thou
sand of the boys here, and am toJo
that it is costing the government three
dollars a day for each of us to keep
us here. The Y. NJ. C. A. - in the
cafe made famous by Thaw. WHITE
ct al.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-04
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