Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-11-07
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Baptist churches throughout the
country were urged to spurn
money offered by profteers, "the
meanest kind of thieves" in
statement issued in New York by
the Rev. DR.. Samuel Zane Batten,
secretary of social service educa-
ton for the American Baptist Pub
lcation Society.
Every Baptist church should
know whether any of its members
are engaged in this nefarious busi-
ness of pro6teering," Doctor Bat
tes said.
Mrs. Ebert H. Gary, has been
elected a member of the Women's
Auxiliary, an organization made
up of the wives of striking steel
workers. It is now up to Mrs.
Gary to accept or decline.
Barriers between Fifth Avenue,
New York, and Fifteenth Avenue,
Gary, Ind, were swept aside and
it was made plain in speeches and
the election of Mrs. Gary that the
differences between the steel
workers and Judge Gary do not
extend to his family. The vote to
make Mrs. Gary a member was
unanimous. In addressing the
meeting, 7. ]. Wind, organizer for
the American Federation of La
Dor, said:
"One thing about E. H. Gary is
that he never herded your hus-
bands to the polls and forced them
to vote his way"
The presence Of several hundred
members of the American Legion
downed any desires "Bill BilP'
Haywood might have had in
preaching Bolshevist doctrines in
his Sioux City, Ia, speech few
nights ago. The l. W. W. leader
denied the use of all auditoriums
in the city and the streets, spoke
from the window of the I. W. W.
headquarters. He refrained from
incendiary remarks on learning
the legion members were present.
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A road of EPSON salts is an at
traction Texas can soon hold out
to tourists, according to the state
highway department, at Austin.
Ten miles of road out of Rock
port are being surfaced with a ma
terial which analyzes more than
One-fourth EPSON salts. The ma
terial is obtained from flats where
constant evaporation of gulf wa
ter mas left silt strongly impreg-
mated with salts, among which the
EPSON variety predominates.
Highway engineers say the mix
ture forms an excellent road sur
facing material. The salts absorb
enough moisture from the air to
keep the roads damp, free from
dust and firm on the driest days.
One trouble, however, is that the
road becomes very slippery during
wet weather, but this is overcome
by adding a small proportion of
she'll and regulating the slope of
the surface.
Old Dame Fashion, Paris, has
packed her trunks and moved, bag
and baggage to Fifth Avenue.
This changeable old belle, whose
ephemereal whims only the artis-
try and eternal chic of the church
capital could satisfy since the days
of the early Bourbons, has desert
ed her boulevards and taken bour-
geoise old New York-long de-
spised-to her bosom.
For today French buyers-rep-
resenting the most famous fashion
maisons of giddy old Paris, are IN
New York to the new style-and
more to the point, to buy the "Le
Dernier Cri' in evening gowns,
opera cloaks, f1lmy lingerie, strlk-
ing hats and other things that
make up milady's toilette.
And they are buying heavily
these famous costumers and arbl-
ters of form. One of them declar-
ed today the new American crea-
tons were superb" and that ne
would take complete line of sam
pie gowns and new designs back
with him.
London is also paying its ho-
mage to the wonder of the Fifth
Avenue fashion artistry with the
arrival of David Scott Of Hanover
Square, London. famous design
er, who is buying heavily in all
lines of late American fashions
and fabrics.
The largest wage increase ever
given a labor organization there
has Just been announced at Brock
ton Mass. in an award to shoe