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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-14
THE MAINE ELECTION.

Maine has gone overwhelmingly Republican the state cleo
ton of Monday
Small news in If Maine had gone other would
have been indeed for Maine normally overwhelmingly Re
publican Records show that Maine has consistently republican
its election 1872 1910 and in 94 The
plurality has averaged 900 and the tradition has been that
$1,000 plurality pointed for the national ticket IN NO
vmber The republican plurality in 1916 $3.50 but in No
ymber Hughes All than President Wilson
carried the country Yet 9o Gov
defeated the democratic candidate by only o4o and
that republican the elections
country The total in the state however only III oo9
nearly 30 900 less than in 1916.
Democrats who familiar with conditions East tell us
this year served Offset the national
League Nations and that the result of the November cleo
president will be different Maine Let hope The
declarations previous yesterday however that Mondays results
of of the people the
ha went undisputed
The result straw The election of Thomas E. Watson in
Georgia week nearly oneha of the total record popular
running aneague platform against formidable cand
dates both favoring the League of Nations also We
still believe the woodland counryneeds the League
of Nations believe it absolutely and strongly have
believed But apparently there great many good
Americans who do not agree with
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-14
WHAT THE PRESS is SAYING
SOME CURRENT COMMENT ON TIMELY TOPICS

and the Macon Telegraph and may
be others. in thus aiding and abet-
ting these gamblers was most repre-
hensible.
In view of the above the honest,
patriotic democrats of Georgia should
demand of the next legislature:
% A secret (Australian) ballot,
where the people and not the poll
ticians shall nominate and elect our
officers. This law should provide all
the machinery and defray the ex-
penses, and guarantee honest cleo
lions both primary and regular.
(2) Adequate legislation to pro-
tect and safe guard the honor, char
acter and record of every candidate
from the highest to the humblest.
A law with real teeth in it should
be passed protecting every mans
character from open lying and false
insinuations and baser implications
Already good men dare not, in many
cases, offer for office because of fear
of libellous campaign liars. The state
owes it as sacred duty to protect
every man in the enjoyment of the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-14

character that years of honest toll
has built for him.
The campaign just closed has been
characterized chiefly by character
assassination" not before seen in a
half century of public life.
Adequate laws should be enacted
to protect party honesty and punish
that class of irresponsible voters who
vote in another party than their own.
No man has the right, moral nor
legal to go into a primary election
held by party he does not affiliate
with.
It is not honest to participate in a
primary election of any party other
than your own; and one who does it
should in honor feel bound to sup
port and vote for the nominees Of
that party in the election. 1t is more
honorable to organize a party and
hold primary Of your own.
These are some of the lessons that
the campaign just closed have i'm
pressed upon up, and we trust that
others will see it as we do and that
we may have laws enacted to purge
our state of the corrupt and corrupt
/ ing practices so fagrantly Haunted
IN the faces of the people during the
past few weeks.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-14
Arkansas Farmers Are Urged
To Adopt Sumter System

The Arkansas Gazette, of Little
Rock, says:
THE system followed by farmers of
= Sumter County, Ca, is ideal for
every cotton growing county in Ar
kansas, according to H. M. CottrelI,
agriculturalist of the Arkansas Profit
able Farming Bureau of the Little
Rock Board of Commerce. Mr.. Cot
trell says that every member of the
Arkansas party was greatly impress
ed by the methods in this county of
which Americas is the county seat.
Mr.. Cottrell describes the system
as follows:
"The average size of the farm in
that county is 275 acres under cult
walton. The average planting per
farm in acres is corn 113, cotton e.,
hay and forage crops so, peanuts AZ,
wheat 8. There is an average of Sd
acres of velvet beans planted in the
corn on each farm and 35 acres of
cowpeas in the corn and after small
grain. This makes a total average of
364 acres of crops grown each year
on 275 acres of land.
WS QtQ tlOt HCS q StuDDl6 1l6lu III
the entire county. Every acre of
small grain had been planted with
cowpeas Immediately after harvest.
An average of seven out of every
eight corn fields had velvet beans
growing in the corn. Plains, in this
county, is the largest shipping point
in the United States for hogs of
strictly local production. There is an
average of 81 hogs on each farm; 6
cows giving milk and 8 beef cattle.
From 400 to 800 pounds of fertilizer
per acre are used on cotton and 200
to 800 pounds on corn.
Ideal for Arkansas.
"The Sumter County, Georgia, sys-
TEN of farming is ideal for every cot
ton growing county in Arkansas. Cot
ton is the surplus money crop. The
moderate use of commercial fertilizer
and the large quantity of vegetable
matter turned under the shape of
velvet bean and cowpea vines, cot
ton stalks insure large yields of both
cotton and corn. Special attention
is paid to the breeding of high yield
ing plants and intense cultivation is
given. Corn is second cash crop
and large shipments out of the coun-
ty are made. The method of farm
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-14

France internationally, except for a
curious alliance of small and weak
powers which the French govern
ment is hard at work creating. These
little nations, including the princi-
pality of Poland, Hungary and Bel
GUM, are united to France only by
their common fear of German mill
tary recovery. Their ability to as
sist France, alone, if Germany or
ganizes war of revenge, is so limit
ed as to foretell perhaps even a fatal
disaster to France as world power.
Distrust of the governments effic-
iency sufficiently explains why the
monarchist propaganda again is ac-
tive in France. There are domestic
reasons as we'll. Not the least is the
ridicule these French people have di,
rected against President Deschanel
since he walked out of the window of
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ing securing yields of so to 100 BUSH
els an acre and surplus in the coun-
ty.
The Sumter county farmers raise
all the hay and forage crops they
can use. In years when peanuts
are high, the crop brings a good cash
income to every grower. When pea
nuts are cheap, the hogs fatten on
them, leaving more corn to be sold.
1t is hard to beat the Sumter county
program. If the boil weevil or wet
weather at picking time damage the
cotton, there are the corn, hogs, pea
nuts and dairy products to bring cash.
When drought cuts down the corn
yield, the yield of cotton is increas-
ed. Peanuts bring big profits, either
sold at high price or when fed to
hogs. They are money makers every
year. Every year the quantity Of
vegetable material in the soil is in
creased.
Examples of Big Profits.
"The experience of N. A. Ray
shows the profits from the Sumter
county system of farming. Mr.. Ray
has 400 acres in his farm, 100 Of
which is annually planted to cotton,
the remainder in corn, wheat, velvet
beans, hay and other food and feed
crops. His annual production is from
1000 to 1900 pounds of seed cotton
to the acre, 40 bushels of corn, 80
bushels of wheat and 5 bushels of
oats. He also devotes considerable
attention to hog raising and annually
slaughters sufficient to supply his en-
tire farm and has a surplus of sew.
eral thousand pounds left for the
market. In 1918 Mr.. Ray planted so
acres of his farm in corn, velvet
beans and peanuts. He gathered 40
bushels of corn to the acre, or a to-
tai of 2,400 bushels, which, at the
prevailing market price of $150 per
bushel at that time, was worth 3d.
600. He gathered and sold 20 tons
of velvet beans for $3.50. He also
killed $4,000 pounds of pork fatten-
ed on the so acres after gathering
the corn and velvet beans, and this
meat was conservatively estimated as
being worth $4,000, thus showing
total cash income of approximately
$4,000 from the so acres, besides
furnishing ample pasturage for 80
head of beef cattle, six mich cows
and so head of stock hogs"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-14
HALL A KINGA GAIN RULE FRANC E?
BY J. w. T. MASON,
Noted international Exper

A NAToLE France, member of the
French Academy, Europe's lead
er in letters. man of profound and
/ fearless vision, declares there are dis
tinct signs that the idea of a mon
archy is becoming more popular in
France. Since so distinguished a
Frenchman speaks first, the matter
can be considered above a whisper.
The fiftieth anniversary of the
foundation of the French republic
fell on Sept. 4. But the celebration
has caused no resonant echo. This
is curious fact.
For some time, observers of
Frances chaotic foreign policy have
seen possibilities of a coup d'etat be-
ing organized by the monarchists.
The failure of the Emperor Napol-
con III in the Franco-Prussian war
gave rise to the republic. While
now, at the close of the return war
against the Teutons, monarchists &C
euse the republic of having failed
likewise.
True, the allies won the war; but
Frances chaotis foreign policy have
seen possibilities of coup d'etat
being organized by the monarchists.
The failure of the Emperor Napol-
con III in the Franco-Praassian war
now, at the close of the return war
gave rise to the Republic. While
against the Teutons, monarchists ac-
cuse the republic of having failed
likewise.
True, the allies won the war, but
Frances present position as visitor
Is Ear more precarious than when she
was vanquished, 50 years ago. Since
the signing of the allies peace terms,
France has made repeated mistakes
in foreign politics that are begin
ming to have cumulative effect.
Thus, it would be futile to affirm
that American sentiment toward
France has not changed since the re-
turn of the American Expeditionary
Force from the war. France, too.
has antagonized Great Britain and
Italy chiefly over the Russian ques-
ton and the problem of the German
indemnity. At the same time, every
effort of France to engender a ma
jor world policy of her own by COM
batting the Russian people on their
own soil has failed, and has had its
inevitably evil effect upon French
political prestige.
This futile statecraft has isolated
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-14
GEORGIA DEMOCRACY, DE.
BAUCHED, RAVISHED, VIRTUES
in DISGRACE.
Carroll County Herald.)

(Carr0u county herald.)
The campaign for the nomination
of a candidate for U. S. Senator,
Governor and other state, Judicial,
Executive and legislative candidates,
which closed tonight, September 7th,
should fill every patriotic Georgian
with alarm, as well as disgust, and
cause him to wonder where the end
will be.
This article is being written on the
night of the 7th while the results of
the battle of the ballos to be had on
he morrow are of necessity unknown
hence hey are free from the bias of
either victory or defeat.
Readers of the Times will recall
that we have never favored the
county unit system of making nomi-
nations; neither under the NELL law
nor under the practises of the "old
steam roller" methods. We have
foreseen and predicted that if per-
sisted in such methods would disrupt
the democratic party, result but
too apparent when we see<men run
ping for the highest offices in the
gift of the people, running in a dem
ocratic primary, yet bitterly assail-
ing the party's platform as enunciat-
ed by its national convention and
denouncing its opponents, and lead
ers. the president, his cabinet and
associates.
With an incorruptible, honest and
loyal organization in charge of the
party in this state these men could
- -,
mary. Their campaign and their
methods have been an appeal to the
passions and prejudices of the peo-
pie and done more to stir up strife
and bitterness among the people
than any campaign since the "carpet
baggers" were driven from Georgia.
Unhesitatingly we say that the
honest val democracy of Georgia
should repudiate the whole affair
and come together and reorganize
the party and hold real old fashion
ed democratic primary for democrats
only.
Another reason for urging this
course is because among even the
so-called democratic leaders in the
campaign just closed there have been
too many practices that were de-
grading. 1t has, in too many in
stances, been a contest between indi-
viduals and factions. utterly reck-
less of results to the commonwealth
or party so "my" faction routs and
destroys the other faction,
These leaders have shown their ut
ter unfitness and should be relegat'
ed to the scrap heap.
The methods and practices, resort
ed in this campaign have been de.
moralizing and corrupting beyond
measure.
Leaders on both sides, indeed on
all sides, openly violating the laws
of the land, both they and their off
cial organs by fiagrantly Haunting
their bets on the front pages in con-
spicuous "boxes" to attract attention
while courts and o..--cials "winked'
at this campaign gambling. If this
editor were one of the beneficiaries
of this gambling, either the present
or incoming governor. he would pa
role every poor negro crap-shootel
now building roads in Georgia, OF
refuse to accept the benefits deriv.
ed by the "big gamblers" The con.
duct of the Constitution, the Journa
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-14
BUDYONNY.

Believe the whispered word of the Bolhevki that given
peace and with outside world they will lay aside the
sword and the plowshare
They'll do nothing of the kind according to Budyonny
And Budyonny, right powerful in Boihevk Rus
than Lenin and Troky Budyonny is the terrible Cossack
oug that Denkn his DOOM that turned back the Poles
and heads the Red armies Budyonny of bandty,
has powerful in all Russia by gathering together all those
who wish rob and murder without interference 1t
of unchecked robbers murderers raps That the army
sustaining Bolshevism in Russia.
Please don't say That Russa affair 1t than Rus
as affair 1t is of all the of the world Bud
himself has made clear how close your home may
strike. He promised his army:
Forty years of war;
Why so longa
Budyonny gives To the people he said would
take 40 of until all the poetarian brothers
the world free from the rule of bourgeoise and capitalism
his loong followers he said Forty years of pos reve
forty in which rob and plumber the richest
world"
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Americas, Ga.
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or left-handed9 This is important
or life-handeda This is important.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-14
For LITTLE BOYS

This going be heatoheart talk with little bows who are
getting ready for school week.
The editor used be little boy himself
and learned how unreasonable teachers can be at times
So he has deved history 70 the special of those little
fellows who sometimes fail their lessons as teacher
thinks they should
AS o arithmetic:
"Four thousand Arabs running laughing wildly
and causing shine in the hundred
The who wrote that Alphonse Daudet smart man
father and teacher will that But you know we'll
haven't got 1000 teeth.
on the box the cOaehmans hear such
loud weeping
The very person who wrote Cermne Lacerteux was
hears with his with his back
Gustave Droz another Il felt mount
ing in my throat Tears of ones eyes dom theyp
So friend than LITTLE hove
ghtu Teacher should remember that next time vo oct
Ave by adding and when you sling in sulplus
when spell dog
The moth that into bathing suit this autumn will arve
your happiness keene if something you by makes your
neighbors ealousa
The coal miners have holiday schedule all their own
The hand that rocks the cradle threatens to rock the
boat " 0 inc P0"''i"nS
waving shirt saved the crew of the submerged SIS pb.
ply of those silk affairs.
The oil clos continues to report business dull
Red Cross critics had better knock in the presence of an
Italian earthquake sufferer. -
or left-handedp This is important
lifehanded2 This is important
Maybe MacSweeney found the only feasible av 70 heat The
h. c, l.
The former kaiser building log wall around his Dutch re-
treat Logroing will never get that politician another job
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moving railway train in his sleep.
Monarchist sentiment has never
entirely died among the French peo-
pie During the past so years it has
threatened the government repeated
ly. While the republic effectively
protects France against lost of her
position as first class power, how
ever, the republic is safe. But, once
let. the impression b., come general
in France that the republican states
men, the most virile of them social
lists, are gambling Frances heritage
away in a futile international game
of bewildering diplomacy, and the
time will be ripe for a reactionary
revolution.
If temper and temperament cause
many more errors in Frances world
policies, the monarchists will be well
satisfied with the result.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-14

French divided The oldest of them
the
according dispatches Europe the Bonapsr
are the Prince Victor Ma
Napoleon and Onnaw of the late King Leopold
look with
would outside France for their king
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-05-13
Secretary Daniels Secures Original
Cablegram Which Differs From
First One Used 4
(By the Associated Press)

WASHINGTON Man 3-Charges that ca{egram
produced before the ,sen} Naval lnvestgatng Ymlt
forged signature, made today by Secretary anes
He referred to message which Admiral s lad
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-05-13
CARRANZA FORCES
IN GREAT BATTLE

. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, May 13---
Serious fighting between rebel troops
and forces commanded b. President
Caranza occurred yesterday on the
Mexican national railroad north of
San Marcos, State of Puebla, ac-
cording to dispatches received here.
The area of the battlefield is renort-
ed to be five square miles. President
Carranza is said in wireless messages
from Mexico Cit to have personally
directed the operations of his troops
for EIGHT hours on Tuesday.
American Destroyer 232 and the
transport Miamee arrived here to-
day. Commanders of all Mexican
warships in the port of Vera Cruz
held meeting todav on board a gun
boat to determine the attitude to be
assumed bv the navy relative to the
revolt. Governor Huerta, supreme
chief of the revolutionary movement
is expected to arrive in Mexico City
in about a week according to des-
patches from the canitol With him
will be General Calle at the head of
5000 troops who will serve as oar
rison forces in the central part of the
country.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-05-13
HIiDRETH SELLS
NEWPORT PLANT
TO HOULlHAN
Berlin, N. H., Publisher to
Take Over Express &
Standard On June 1st

One Of the largest real estate tran
sactions in recent years was con-
summated yesterday when the Ex-
press & Standard plant was trans
ferred to J. H. Houlihan, editor
of the Berlin Reporter, of Berlin,
N. H.
The Express & Standard is the old
est newspaper in Orleans county,
founded in 1853 and has lono been
reckoned political power. d. w.
Hildreth, its present editor and pub
Usher, has been the owner for 20
years, buying the Napcr from Theo-
philus Grout in 1897. In 1903 he
bought the stationery store and job
printing business Of C. F. Ranney.
In 1913 Mr.. Hildreth built the
present molern up to date brick
block, fitted with all modern print
ing machinerv and equipment With
in few monthe he has BOUGHT a limo
tyne machine of the ver,,- latest vat
tern, which is yet to be installed. Mr..
Hildreth also contemplated enlarging
the Naper and many other innovations
IN the near future
The Express e. Standard is recog-
nized as one of the best weekly pap
Continued on page fve)
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-05-13
''SPY SYSTEM"
RESULTS IN BIG
LIQUOR SEIZURE
Customs Officers were Wait.
ing for Smugglers and
Captured $50 Quarts

The "spy system" of the Customs
Department and the clever work OF
Deputy Sheriff Theodore Crosby OF
Derby Line resulted in one of the
largest seizures of liquor to be made
in this section since prohibition went
into effect The capture took place
in Derby Line early Wednesday
morning and as a result Magloire
Emond, Jr., of Rock Island will ap-
pear in S. Court at Windsor next
week to answer to charge of SNUG
Cling. The amount of liquor taken
was $50 quarts, including "a quarts OF
rye whiskey and 1875 quarts Of gin.
The barred beverage was being
smuggled in by automobile. Another
machine, loaded with liquor, escaped
after Sheriff Crosby fired shot at
the driver
Customs officials at Derby Line
were clipped off" taht the liquor was
enroute for the states in two auto
mobiles and these officers in turn
notified the Newport authorities to
be on the lookout. Officers were stat
toned along every roadway leading
from Canada and a sharp watch kept
through the night for the smugglers.
Sheriff Crosby took his post at the
fork of two roads in Derby Line.
A machine came speeding down the
main road and Crosby stationed him
self in the center Of the road, waiv-
ing his hand for the driver to stop.
When he saw that the machine would
not stop, he stepped out of the road
and drew his revolver. The auto
swerved around the fork and sped up
the other road As the machine
turned the curve the officer fired and
the bullet struck the real" of the car.
knowing that it would be impossible
to catch the machine, Crosby walked
down the road stretch and waited
as he suspected another machine
would come along soon after. His
suspicious proved correct because but
a few minutes elansed when another
came speeding along.
He stood in the road again and
Emond, the driver Of this car stopped
Continued on page fve)
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-05-13
THE LYNDON
INSTITUTE AN
EASY WINNER
Score 50 Points in Dual
Track Meet with st. J.
Academy Team

The second annual dual track meet
with LyndoaInstitute was held We'd
nesday aft~ lat the St. Johns
bury Fair Grotaa ss,ndon was an
easy victor to the tul to 81.
St. Johnsbury won two alaces
and tied for another out Of d . Z
II events. Shores and Lanpher We
the two responsible for the two tirsts,
Shores in the hundred yard dash and
Lanpher in the shot put and tie in the
high Jump. At no time was st. Johns
bury dangerous to the Lyndon sue
cess and after the fourth event, 220
yard dash, she was clearly out of the
running. Hall, Hutchins, Currier and
Bedard worked consistently and were
largely responsible for Lvndon's VIC
tory. Bowen for st. Johnsbu'w. an
ncxed second place in the quarter and
mile runs. In the half mile relay the
Lyndon team Of Bedard, JAY, Currler
and aGudette won from Lord, Shores,
Bowen and Lanpher, though the st.
Johnsbury boys put up hard tussle
and it was a race from start to finish.
The list of events is given below
with the contestants names in order
Of finish:
One hundred yard dash, Shores, Gau-
dette, Lanpher. Time, II 2-5 sec
onds.
Pole vault, Hall, Weber, tie for
third Hovey and Streeter Height,
7 feet, A inches.
Mile run, Hutchins, Bowen, Dress
en- Time, minutes II l-5 seconds.
Two hundred and twenty yard dash
--Currier, Bedatd, Lord. Time 25 Is
seconds.
Shot put, Lanpher, Morse, Woods.
Distance, "a feet inches.
High Jump, tie for first Lanpher
and Hutchins, Bassett third place.
Height, feet, 10 inches.
Quarter mile run, Bedard, Bowen,
Woods. No time given.
Discus throw, Morse, Lanpher,
Cheney. Distance 94 feet, inches.
Broad jump, Hall, Lanpher, Lord.
Distance II feet, 2 inches.
Half mile run, Hutchins. Dresser,
Continued on page four