Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-08-31
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From Cordele?"
This topic sounds like he ought
to fill his pews this evening-that
is. if he has reputation for liv-
ing up to the titles of his SER
mons. And then, again, it may
keep a lot of men and women
away who might not care to
hear their names called on such
an occasion.
General Pershing is coming
home in September, and he is
gong to be feted and petted and
made a great hero oc by the
American people wherever he
is. But there is one celebration
planned for him, that will touch
his heart more than any other, be-
cause he is just a man, after all.
That celebration will take place
at LaClede, Mo, his old home
town. A big homecoming is be-
ing planned, a cablegram having
been received from "John," as he
used to be known there when he
was boy, stating that he will
visit LaClede shortly after reach
ing this country.
So all the folks for miles around
are laying their plans for the big
event. They'll all Be there, old
and young; the older ones will
slap the general on the back and
shake hands and call him by his
front name, and they'll ask him
how he is and how things are COM
ing on with him; how he left the
crops in Europe, etc.; how the
weather suits him end whether he
thinks we will have hard winter.
They'll all be home folks to the
general-the only real home folks
ne has, for he has been a son of
the army since reaching his mai
ity, and has never been settled in
anyone place fox any great length
of time.
Yes, there will be many fetes
and celebrations for General Per-
shing, but you can wager that if
he has to miss any of them it will
not be the home coming at La
Clede.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mccarthy, At
lanta club woman who assisted
Mrs. Frances Whiteside at the Ar
agon hotel on Confederate Flag
day last week, relates the follow
ing incident which occurred dur
ing the sale of the flags:
4 happened to see an old ne
gro man approaching and asked
him if he would like to have
flag. Yes, mistess,' he replied, Il
sho would. An let me kiss de
hem of dat uag, for | followed it
clear through de war with my
young marsCer, and | love dat flag
jest lax it was my own.
The old time negro, of which
fast disappc airing class this old man
was an example, has long held a
place in the hearLs of the white
people of the South that is dear
to them and that will never be
etfaced. What pity that this
type is becoming much rarer as
the years go by.
Politicians of the two old par
tles-Democratic and Republican
haven't such a hard time of it
after all.
They may be having strenuous
days trying to decide which of sew
eral hundred are best issues of the
coming campaign, but they have
issues.
Besides, they have presidential
timber-lots of it--enough to keep
them saving away all this winter
and right up to convention time
But picture the plight of the
leader whose party issue, the on
ly one it ever had, has been pick
ed up and carried completely
away and with no chance for an
other issue.
That's the position of the direct
ing chiefs of the Prohibition party
find themselves in.
So tommorw members of the
National Committee will meet in
Chicago to decide whether it is
worth while to keep the old organi-
zation alive or not. And all in
dications are there will be a live
ly discussion about it.
&#*
IA Georgia juror drank the evil
dence in a case in which a negro
wac on trial for violating the pro-
hibition law" notes Jack Harrison
in the Beloit, Kans., Gazette. "That
must have been almost as embar-
RAISING an incident connected
with a home talent play at
Manhattan in which we
took part. At the climax of