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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-20
SCOUTS GIVEN
OATH AT FIRST
MEETING HERE

Americas has a troop of Boy Scouts.
THAT is a very important announce
. ment for Americas, for as time rolls
by Americas will realize what a great
asset this troop of Scouts is to the city
and county.
George o. Marshall, county farm
agent, who not long ago accepted the
scout mastership, met Wednesday af-
ternoon with about 20 boys in the
county courthouse.
The Scout Oath was administered to
the Scoutmaster and the 20 boys ap-
plying for membership by Lovelaee
Eve, ex-scoutmaster of Troop One, At
lanta, the Oldest troop of Scouts in the
South.
Joseph Perkins, secretary of the
Chamber Of Commerce, began the
movement for a troop in Americas, and
the success of his endeavors was seen
the splendid bunch of boys who met
MIR. Perkins and Mr. Marshall yes
terday.
The boys voted to hold their regu-
lar weekly meeting ON Friday even
fngs, from Z to o'clock. the place OF
meeting to be named by the scout
master.
Short talks were made the boys by
Rr. Perkins, Mr. Marshall and Mr.
Eve. Each prospective Scout was pro-
vided with Scout Hand Book and will
within a few days be required to pass
the first examination, which will for
mally make of him Scout, with the
degree of Tenderfoot.
A cordial invitation is extended all
boys in Americas to make application
to Scoutmaster Marshall for member
ship in Troop One, Americas Boy
Scouts Not more than 80 boys may
be included in one troop, and those
who do not get in at once will be fore
ed to wait for the formation of Sec
ond troop.
Scouting is the most interesting
play any boy ever engaged in" Scout
master Marshall said to the boys. at
means hiking, camping, studying that
most interesting Of all subjects-na-
ture. The trees, the birds, the soil
all hold interesting stories that scout
ing opens up to you Scouting is not a
Sunday school class, and yet it teaches
obedience, patience, cleanliness Of
mind and body A troop of Boy Scouts
is the most democratic institution in
the world You make and administer
your own laws, to a very large extent
AS scoutmaater l hope to bel will
be, just a Scout with you"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-20
The Promoters wife
By JANE HELPS
Copyright, George Mathew Adams)

/ think Neil was sorry for his
| tIusqueness to me and tried to make
up by telling me in extraordinarily Op-
tlnIistic tones of the great amount of
money he was to make Il he pulled
OF this next DEAL" without in any way
giving me hint as to what kind of a
deal" it was.
l tried earnestly to rouse myself to
share his enthusiastic optimism but in
vain. My heart was heavy. felt as if
some evil impended Whenever l ask
ed a point-blank question, Neil cleV-
erly evaded me, and l wondered at the
unreasoning fear that had all at once
possessed me.
What was going to happen?
That night / dreamed that my fu-
ture had shaped itself into a horrid
stretch of years, unhappy years in
which Neil and Blanche Orion, Mr..
Frederick and others were all mixed
up; and in which l. in spite of inces,
SAINT work and care, could not shield
Neil from some terrible calamity.
1 woke sobbing. Neil was sleeping,
but my hand found his and, comforted
I fell off to sleep again. Thus it was,
always, that my love for Neil over
ruled my reason and persuaded me
that my forebodings were foolish.
Tomorrow = lorraine Morton and
Barbara Dine With Mr.. Frederick.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-20
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-20
Bah LEARNS OF A BUSINESS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ORTON
is THERE.
CHAPTER XXI.

l was stunned for moment. then
my good common sense, of which ia
Their used to say had more than be-
longed to me, asserted itself. What if
Neil and Blanche orion were driving
in taxi? Either of them might have
met the other and given them lift.
Yet reasoned, it seemed strange that
they should be in the park, so far from
Neil's Office.
When Neil came in had lost all de-
sire to joke him about my visit to his
Office In its place had come great
desire to know more of that business
so luxuriously housed. So l told him
at once that l had called on him, and
how disappointed 1 was to find him
out He fiared up Immediately l be-
gan to question him:
What motive did you have in going
tc the office? To call or to spy on me?'
he asked. IF you've got anything to
say, why say it, and get it out of your
system. But either stop talking or
tell me what you are driving at"
/ sighed as I answered. had hoped
be would be nice about it and tell me
things.
81 saw you out driving in the park
with Blanche orion, so 1 knew you
weren't out on business / had not
intended to tell him / had seen them,
but it slipped out without thinking.
I'm of age" he snapped. Then: 1T
| lunch with business men and there
hapepn to be ladies there also, is it
anything so very dreadful that I take
them homer"
II didn't say there was, Neil. Do talk
reasonably. 1 am not finding fault,
] just want to know things"
So he had been lunching with
Blanche orion. would not be little
and mean, neither would I let him
think me jealous. There was feel
ing that something had me by the
throat, for a minute, but it passed as
! added:
please tell me about the things
which interest you, dear. / feel so out
OF things when you refuse. Did you
talk business at lunch?" I had been
about to say before Blanche Orton,"
hut caught myself in time.
"Of course we talked business!" i'm
patiently Didn't tell you it was a
business luncheon? I have to go 10
Boston tomorrow. Most likely I shall
go directly from the Office TO the train.
Don't forget to send Tlnk0 down with
my bag by noon I'm catching the three
o'clock, but may lunch somewhere"
Let me go with you, dear? l never
have seen Boston, you know, rcver
been there"
tits a business trip. l couldn't
take you about or be with you"
Neither can you be with me if I
remain at home and you 60 Please
let me CO."
He considered moment, then refus-
ed absolutely to take ME. I pleaded
and coaxed, but it did no COCO. He was
aaamant.
wondered why he wouldn't take me.
Expense had nothing 10 90 with it;
of that I was sure. But why did he
not want me to go?
There were a great many unanswer-
ed questions in my life at this time
too many.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-20

Tomorrow - lorraine Morton and
Barbara Dine With Mr.. Frederick.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

come accustomed to appointments.
 We all like to pan the Mormon. But the fact of the matter is that if it were not for the Law and the High Cost of Living, most every man would have a few extra wives.
 We can understand how a patient can fall in love with a trained nurse. But a sick man usually looks so much like something the cat dragged in that we can't understand how a trained nurse falls in love with a patient.
 What has become of the old fashioned small boy who used to say: Now I Lay Me- before he went to bed at night?
 If woman had a sense of humor she wouldn't wear hobble that makes her shuffle along and take two-inch steps like she was wearing shackles on her ankles.
 The reason it is so easy for a girl to please man when they are en- gaged is because it is going to be so hard for her to please him after they are married.
 You must hand it to the women for inconsistency This summer they are going to wear a band of fur around their threats. But from the hroat down their clothes will be almost invisible.
 And the reason why he likes to kiss her hair whon he is courting her is because he'll want divorce later on when he finds his comb and brush filled with her Browning Glory.
 There was a time when a girl could save a train by taking off her skirt and Tagging the train. But nowadays a girl isn't going to let m engineer see her when she is wearing nothing but an envelope combination.
 And there wouldn't be so blame many automobile accidents if auto drivers would use little horse sense.
 If you carry your wife's picture in he back of your watch, take q squint at it every day and see that t IS there. We knew man whose wife removed her picture from the back of Hubby's watch to see how long it would be before he missed t. She waited two years for him to miss it and then sued him for ali mony
 Notice to Novclsts: Never refer to henpecked husband as a mouse" woman is afraid of a mouse.
 The truth of the matter is that the married Conscientious Objectors who wouldn't fight in the army have as many battles at home as the rest of us.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE

That headline is an error. It should read Some thing Wrong Everywhere"
 In a statement just issued Washington by Sec retary the Treasury Glass to the effect that the war cost America $30 TIT 000,0 ,000 he says in orde! that this great obligation may be met both the Government and the people of America must practc sober economy and wise investment, avoiding waste and speculation
 Secretary Glass fails to inform Just how te practice economy when early-day Kondke prices are prevailing and advancing every week. Is there yelled humor in the Secretary's of the word 'sobei economy" Of course and under existing arld conditions any economy practced in Alaska as well as elsewhere in America this time must neces- sarily "sober economy but at the same time any person that eats with eats at present prices practice sober any other brand of econ omy? It just can't be done.
 More than eight months have elapsed since the arnistce signed and the price Of iVlng-aye the price of existing-has steadily advanced ever since and is still advancing. Where will it end and condition will the country be in if the end is not soon? What condition is the country in today
 During the period of the Americans were not quite 100 per cent loyal Had they been 100 per cent. loyal, seventeen thousand new miiliona1res would have been made in the United States For nearly years the majority of denied ourselves many of the necessities of life in order that we might help win the and while we were practicing such selfdenial millionaires the number of seven teen thousand were being made at our expense Were they practicing the same brand of sefdenia that practiced? Hardly. They profiteering while looked longingy at something in the grocery stores wanted to eat but felt that we could not and the time help win the war.
 Furthermore, the majority of Americans were buy ing themselves poor in the line of bonds at the same time they stnting themselves of the necessi- ties of life in the belief that prices would be lowered And this is where the majority of Americans fooled The war is over and prices still soaring and the end is not yet The result is that people all the country are being forced dispose of their bonds in order to the means of living.
 And yet theorists tell us the country is prosper Theoretically the country may be prosperous but. the people of the country-a great majority ol them, at least-are prosperous The average wage salary earner throughout the country has been harder put to make both ends meet than present. The manufacturers may be prosperous but the consumer is taking up the starvation belt average of hole every month This is condition, not a theory and which now facing.
 Ask the retailer why goods high and he refers you to the wholesaler. Ask the wholesaler and he says material and labor too high, and ask the laborer and he will tell you that he can not support himself and family the pay he re ceives And there you
 Something wrong? Everything is wrong.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
VICTORY FOR MEDIATION

The Executive Council of the American Fedora tion of Labor has formally approved of the forma- ton the National Board of Jurisdictional Awards in the building trade, organized arbitrate "all jursdetional disputes and doing away with sympa- thetic strikes such matters"
 This is another for mediation and should prove boon to the building trade and all business interests dependent that trade Contractors will be encouraged 10 go ahead, assured that in Of disputes mediation is agreed to and strike averted As an official states Tt does surrender the right to strike eliminates disputes that have hitherto caused the greatest trouble.
 Fear of strikes is one of the causes of delay in building operations all the country Contractors and builders have refused to take long chances be-
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
Bitter Pill For Alaska

Seattle Times)
 Instead of the SIP 000. which to have been appropriated continue work on the Alaska Railroad Congress appropriated but $243SOO0
 In an eleventh hour impulse to economize, the Republicans Topped $10,000,000 from the sum that was to have been devoted to this improvement
 This will be an especially bitter pill for the North land because reports had supported lively hope that Congress would be just, generous, in it's deal ings with the railroad
 The statement is made by Interior Department officials that completion of the road will be delayed year.
 It is Seattles business open fight now, to make sure that completion shall not be delayed for a longer period.
 Republican leaders in Congress should be made to understand that this city state and section thor cughy appreciate the importance of the pioneering railroad work undertaken by the Government in the North1and.
 They should be acquainted with the fact that improved transportation is recognized throughout the Pacific Northwest the means by which the development of the Territory be rendered sure and certain.
 Seattle always has been spokesman for the North land in matters of this kind
 continue occupy that position with re- spec to the Alaska Railroad.
 Start the fight now!
 Keep it up until Congress appropriateS the money needed to complete the line.
 This is Seatte's fight much as it is Alaskas
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
BITS OF BY PLAY By Luke McLukf Copyright by Cincinnati
 Enquirer

The Burial of Sir John BarIeycorn. Not a drum was heard, not a funeral
 note, As his corpse to the boneyard VIC
 hurried; But few of us swallowed a farewell Ger the grave where our hero we
 buried No useless coffin enclosed his breast Not in sheet nor in shrowl we
 wound him; But he lay like rummy taking his
 rest, With his empty bottles around him Thick were our tongues, and we were
 dumb, And we spoke not a word of sor-
 row; In our hearts was the dread of the
 thirst to come, And we bitterly thought of the
 morrow We thought as we hollowed his mar
 row bed, And took from him his empty
 flagon, How the Drys in derision would
 tread OCT his head, And we mounted high on the
 Wagon! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that
 gone, And OCT lemonades they'll let him
 sleep on, In the grave where reformers have
 laid him.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
Blue Sky Stocks

Washington Post)
 It is a source of great satisfaction to note that the Federal Trade Commission has begun cam paign to put stop to the selling of wildcat stocks and securities circumscribe the activities of the financial pirates who prey upon the credulity people. This is a particularly good time to start campaign for the suppression of these frauds There many millions of people in this country who invested their savings in Liberty Bonds paying IA per cent interest large number of whom are easily induced trade in their bonds for worth less stock which the seller promises will yield travagant returns in the future. Among the bond stock saesmen reaping rich har- vest, and they should be stopped Stock in phantom oil companies, poducing gold mines and blue print manufacturing plants traded for Liberty Bonds, which the fakers cash in and devote their 
 Repated warnings from high official sourres have not served to restrain people from falling victims of the lure of get-rch quick concerns. They read of babies to full stature, of great fortunes made overnight, and they succumb to the tempting promise of the "blue sky salesmen.
 The Federal Trade Commission render no worthier service than protect the ignorant portion of the American public from the machinations of the fraudulent stock jobbers. Every who is caught in the dragnet of the law should be prosecuted to the limit warning to others who prey upon the gullibility of the people.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
Quick, Doc!
G. Ivanolavitch lives in Cincinnati

On, ndn<! If you're not fat-headed gook, Each day you will read Luke McLuke He's reached the zenith, he's an ace No other man can touch his place. Right off the plate he serves things
 hot
 He never misses a good pot shot; With rapid fire, zip-bang it goes, All over the art his satire flows. He makes some frown, he makes
 some laugh, For Luke McLuke is not all chaff. And, oh, boy, he's a modern sage, This fellow Luke is all the rage. He does stunts in funny way, He puts plexus licks to stay; On shady stuff gives light and air, His satire sure is rich and rare. When on a subject he turns his light The hypocrtes all take to flight. He's full of spices, he's full of pep, If you keep up you've got to step. Stick to it Luke, you're on the level, And with your wit you beat the devil With your think box you see things right.
 Then you turn on your gospel light, From Iceland to hot Timbuktu, The world, Luke is proud of you Daniel Webster Treon Fairland Ind,
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
America's Challenge
(Leslie's.) ]

(-eslies.)
 Republicans and Democrats differ sharply public policy but both accept the principles of the Constitution and endeavor to apply and improve them each in their own way. Neither Republicans nor Democrats would change the form of Government under which we live. The Socialist party, the other hand, openly declares its purpose to wreck the present form of government, to undo all the work that has been accomplished for 150 years, and to bring to end the greatest achievement in social and political organization that the world has ever seen Let there be mistake about the defiteness of this issue. Americas existence is challenged
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
Mean Brute! Ouch!

"If my sweetheart refuses me will be miserable for the rest of my life," sighed the youth.
 Huh" said the married man, "and if she accepts you the result prob ably will be the same. So what diff ference does it maker"
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
Paint.

No more will l kiss this Mary Mutt,
 Once was enough for mine; Her checks look just like roses, but They taste like turpentine.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
Mean Brute!

"All married men are not pessi- mists," said Mrs Gabb.
 "No," replied Mr Gabb. But most of them are ex-optimists."
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
Paw Knows verythlna.

Willie-Paw, what is memory? Paw-Memory is something that enables a man to remember his cred itors and forget his debts. my son.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
Same Old Story.

He'll meet girl and she will smile. To talk to her he'll finger; He'll ring her doorbeh for a while,
 And then hell ring her finger.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

Suppose you have noticed that darKhess comes earlier these evenings than couple of weeks ago? We'll it does
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
piaqinq.

He digs from morning until late To earn his bread; but Tabor Does not seem to appreciate
 The dignity of labor.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
M ercY!

A very modest man is he,
 He should have been a Miss; He won't play pool, because, you see The worries might kiss.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

An electric fan properly placed in an open door way or window will quickly chase away the flies and mosquitoes and doubtless scatter the mischief making microbe
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

The greatest hydro-ecctric plant in the world nanned for India, is expected to deliver water to the turbines at pressure of 6So pounds to the square inch
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

writer in the East advocates doing away with cats He does deferentiate between house cats and mean old cats"
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
Oh!

Why do peDp,e take vacations in summcr?" asked the Boob.
 Well" replied the Cheerful Idiot when the weather gets too close people want to get away from 1t"
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

1r,in e Cohh inc bumOrist, failed to see any t1ing hut tragedy in the Wiard-Dempsey meeting at Toledo Willard probably takes the same view of
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

Anyway, will have no prostratlons rom neat to record as long as the persstenty refuses to shine.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

About the least that can be sald or Fostmas'er General Bureson at present is that he seems rather shy of friends.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
Yes, But Whaddy Va Mean?

We learn from the esteemed Char lotte (N. e. Observer that the Court house at Salisbury. N. C., is in an 'insan.tary' condition.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
Gosh!

Dr H. l. Blood is located. in Mid dletown, Ohio. and Dr. J. H. Death IS located in Franklin Ohio. Middle town and Franklin are only a few miles apart, and We do hope that doe tors Blood and Death will not form a partnership
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

The former German Grown Prlhce says ne WI" commit suicide before he will be tried by the Allies Wouldn't that be awful?
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
That's Different l!

That's Different! We saw this headline in the Lex ington (Ky) Herald
 Gay Funeral Takes Place" And we were kinda worried until we discovered that Gay was the name of the man they buried
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

The former Kaiser ought to nave lots or time lo write that book of his when he takes up his resi- dence on island.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

a dollar from Mother and the follow ing Saturday Mother told Father to buy her a ninety-eight-cent tabouret on which to put a fern Every week or so Mother would make Father get her something out of that dollar, and Father has figured that it cost him so far SAY to borrow that dollar And last week Mother said to Father: If I had that dollar you owe me l could get the swellest towels. They are having a sale at Jones's.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

Organized labor has thus tremehuousy oeheii''ou n ntr, irdnstrallv and likewise benefited it. oIf Mediation means more peace and prosperity.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

Our idea of punishment fitting the crime is when star boarder gets married and has 10 cook his breakfast.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
Fair WarninQ!

Never borrow money from your wife. Last Summer Father borrowed
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

The oldfashioned kid who used to whine for a penny now has a who demands dime for ice cream and two cents for the Government
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
Our Daily Special

Scratch Up Worms For The Late Risers.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

What Luke McLuke Says.
 By the time a woman has beer married ten years she begins to be
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

Probably the main reason why a Red Cross nurse shouldn't be allowed vote is because she might come in contact the polls with soldiers whom she saved in the war
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16
TIPS FROM TEXAS |

(Dallas News) Another thing-if the kiss is luxury, which party should pay the tax?
 Others can do they please, but if we ever get able to have an operation for appendicitis we are going to spend the money for a flivver.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-16

Mir Peavish says it has been so long since he chucked Mrs. Peavsh under the chin that if he were tc try it now probably she would hit him before she realized he was playing with her