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Americus times-recorder., 1920-05-31

Dances will be continued at Myrtle
Springs every Tuesday and Thurs
day nights. Everybody invited
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Americus times-recorder., 1920-05-31

The Italian government has de-
clded TO buy no more tobacco from
the United States, Egypt or the
Philippines. 1t will insist that only
Italian, Dalmatian or Albanian to-
bacco be used
Americus times-recorder., 1920-05-31

goal for the institution will be reach
ed.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04
CITY NEWS BRIEFS
BY Condo

Mr.. and Mrs. George Holston have
taken an apartment with Mrs. Fred
Smith at her home on Brown street,
and are at home to their friends in
their place Of residence. Mrs. Hols-
ton has been honoree at several pref
ty social affairs, and others are being
planned for her pleasure.
Mrs. Walter E. Steed and w. w.
Steed were visitors in Americus yes
terday and were the guests for the
day of Mrs. Meta Castellow at her
home on Church street. Mrs. Steed
occupied the chair of history this
year at the A. & NJ. College.
Mrs. Robert Hicks, of Reynolds
who has been the guest for several
days of Mrs. Fred Smith at her home
on Brown street, is spending the re-
malnder Of the week with Mrs. W. E.
Brown at her suburban home.
Ice cream and cake-"Old Fashion
Pound Cake" at Mize Grocery Co.
for dinner Sunday. Phone 224 or
354.-4-1t
Rev. l.. G. Henderson, who spends
part of his time here every week,
returned yesterday to Albany.
Miss Sarah Bethune, of Dothan
Ala, and Miss Sarah Jeffries, of
Cuthbert, were here yesterday, en-
route to ElIaville. Miss Velma Will
liams and H. B. Arlington, came to
meet them here, Miss Bethune and
Miss Jetfries being guests at house
party being entertained by Miss Will
liams this week.
Miss Emma Virgins of Smithville,
was a visitor in Americus yesterday.
Mrs. F. B. Glover left today for
Mllledgeville, where she goes to at
tend the graduating exercises of the
q. n. |. c., of which Miss Lois Glover
us a bright member.
Dr. Allen Fort, who delivered the
literary address last night at the
graduating exercises of high school,
left for his home in Nashville early
this morning.
Mrs. Daisy GnosspeEus returned to
Savannah this afternoon after spend
ing few days with Mrs. Annie
Poole Walker at her home on Bar
low street.
Old Fashion Pound Cake It's
good with your Sunday ice cream
Mize Grocery Co. Phone 224 or 354
Alt
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04
J, (. Hays to Run for
Browns Place, Report

ATLANTA, June 3.-It is report
ed here that j. f. Hayes, of Monte
yuma, has made the announcement
to friends that he will be candidate
for commissioner of agriculture.
Mr.. Hayes has served in both
branches of the general assembly, is
a member of the board of trustees
Of both the University of Georgia
and the State College Of Agriculture
and IS very well known throughout
the state.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04
FUNERAL OF MRS. MARTIN.

The funeral of Mrs. George W
Martin, who died at Sheffield, Ala.
Wednesday, was held here today at
the First Baptist church of which
congregation she had been a member.
lnterment was in Oak Grove Gene
terry. Many Americus friends who
had known and loved the deceased
as Mrs. Allen Matthews a few years
ago sent beautiful floral tributes as
tokens Of their grief, and many Of
these attended the funeral. Rev.
Carl Minor, pastor of the congrega-
ton, ofticiated at the obsequies and
the pallbearers were T. F. Gatewood
Sr.. c. G. Hawkins, James Lott, Cleve
Tlllman, Hollis Fort and W. A. JOY
ner.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04
Sharp-Point Pencils, in gold and
silver. Bzll, the Jeweler.-30-tf

Robert Campbell, of Macon, is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Morgan
for few days at their home on Fur
: low street, having come down to the
commencement exercises at Americas
High school last evening.
Place your order for Odom's Quail
ky Brick Ice Cream for Sunday din
ner. Delivered Sunday morning
Just phone 224 or 354, Mize Grocery
Co.-1-4t
MIR. and Mrs. Sam Rodgers, of Sum-
ter, spent Friday in Amerieus with
friends.
DR.. J. R. Statham, Richmond Stat
ham and Fred Statham leave at an
early date for Baltimore, where they
will spend some time. Before re-
turning TO Americus several cities OF
interest viii be visited.
Fans. Just received full stock Of
electric fans, all sizes. Furner Elee-
tric Cost
Friends Of Ben Statham will learn
with regret Of his illness at his home
in Atlanta. His condition IS greatly
improved at this time, and his early
recovery anticipated.
VT. Thomas, Of Plains, was bus
mess visitor in Americus yesterday
afternoon.
There was no meeting of city coun-
eli last night, it having been decided
to defer the gathering owning to the
commencement exercises at Americus
High school. There was no impor-
tant business 10 be transacted, it was
stated today.
Dances will be continued at Myrtle
Springs every Tuesday and Thurs
day nights, Everybody invited
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J. W. Gregory, Of Damascus, was a
visitor in Americus today.
Fans! Just received full stock of
electric fans, all sizes. Furner Elec-
trie Co.-3-3t
C. S. Gerald, a well known planter
residing near New Point, was a bust
ness visitor here today. While in
Americas, Mr.. Gerald discussed crop
conditions in his neighbOrhood, say
ing that although few weeviIs have
appeared there he does not believe
they will destroy all Of the cotton
before it can be gathered, and that
the increased price the staple viii
bring will compensate the farmers
for the short crop they may make,
The corn crop in his community, he
says, is in excellent condition, but
cotton in about fifteen days late.
Mrs. Gutherie Allison and children
left today for the mountains of Vir-
ginia, where they will spend the re-
mainder Of the summer.
Fans! Just received full stock Of
electric fans, all sizes. Furner Elec-
tric Co.-3-3t
A minor automobile accident oc.
CURED near the postoffice yesterday
afternoon a heavy car driven by R
P. Stackhouse, Sr., striking a light
car standing at the curb. The dam,
aged car belonged to ]. C. Clements
who was not present at the time, and
Mr.. Stackhouse left note explaining
the accident
Mrs. S. E. Warlick has returned
to her home in Atlanta, after Wis
it of a few days to Mrs. R. NJ. An
drews, on Church street.
Mrs. A. C. Crockett and Mrs. P
A. Leonard, of Vienna, left yester
day for Atlanta, where they will bt
guests of their sister, Mrs. W. F
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Rodgers, of Sum-
ter, spent Friday in Americus with
friends.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04

DR.. J. R. Statham, Richmond Stat
ham and Fred Statham leave at an
early date for Baltimore, where they
will spend some time. Before re-
turning TO Americas several cities Of
interest viii be visited.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04

Place your order for Odom's Quail
ky Brick Ice Cream for Sunday din
ner. Delivered Sunday morning
Just phone 224 or 354, Mize Grocery
Co.-1-4t
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04

Robert Campbell, Of Macon, is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Morgan
for a few days at their home on Fur
low street, having come down to the
commencement exercises at Americas
High school last evening.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04

Mrs. S. E. Warlick has returned
to her home in Atlanta, after Wis
it of a few days to Mrs. R. NJ. An
drews, on Church street.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04

Fans. Just received full stock Of
electric fans, all sizes. Furner Elee-
tric Co.-3-3t
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04

Mrs. A. C. Crockett and Mrs. P
A. Leonard, of Vienna, left yester-
day for Atlanta, where they will be
guests of their sister, Mrs. W. F.
George.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04

Friends Of Ben Statham viii learn
with regret Of his illness at his home
in Atlanta. His condition IS greatly
improved at this time, and his early
recovery anticipated.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04

old Fashion Pound Cake" It's
good with your Sunday ice cream
Mize Grocery Co. Phone 224 or 354
Alt
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04

". T. Thomas, Of Plains, was bus
mess visitor in Americus yesterday
afternoon.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04

There was no meeting Of city coun-
eli last night, it having been decided
to defer the gathering owning to the
commencement exercises at Americus
high school There was no impor-
tant business 10 be transacted, it was
stated today.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-04

Ice cream and cake-"Old Fashion
Pound Cake" at Mize Grocery Co.
for dinner Sunday. Phone 224 or
354.-4-1t
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-01

7 AM little Armenian girl. I have
u three years. My name has a his
tory as long as the tail Of cat. 1 am
called Iraneh Esther Araxie AZgape-
tan.
Iraneh, because l was born at Kaz-
vim, in Persia, and that is a good Per-
sian name Near the Red Cross hut
where first opened my eyes was the
tomb Of Esther and Mordecai, so my
father also named me Esther. Then,
being a good Armenian, had to have
the name of our beloved river Arax.
Therefore am Ara1ie.
My father is General Mesrop Newton,
khan AZgapetian. He was with an
army in the Caucasus mountains dur
ing the Great War We were living
Just inside the city wall. could hear
the jackals at night bowling, bowling
all the time l oowled too. My nurse
said the iackals let me bad example.
My first nurse was great big soldier.
He belonged to the Russian army,
which was encamped near us.
My mother tells me that she paid
FIVE roubles a day Chat is $3.50 in
American money! for half a loaf OF
bread. The bread was often full of
dirt and splinters. One fine day my
father found Il can of condensed milk
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-01

| in a shop and bought it for &c. That
day I had a feast and did not cry at
all. Several times my father was able
| to buy salt herring, for which he paid
$3.50.
began to get very thin. My mother
said she must take me away so that I
would not die. We began to go away,
hut it took a long time. Everywhere
there were people going. They mostly
had no clothes, and often they would
fall down. My mother said they would
never get up again. My mother said
they did not have the money to buy
even the bad bread we had and they
could not live without food. We
travelled in an ambulance, on horse
back, donkeyback and camelback, In a
truck, q motor lorry and a cart-in
fact, by every way except an airplane
1t was many months before we could
come to America. There is much to
eat here. like America. l never cry
any more. My mother cries. She says
there are thousands of little children
starving to death in our country. 1t Is
not nice to starve. I did not like 1t.
1t makes her sad. But some days she
smiles. That is when my mother says
! she knows America will not let the lit
| tie Armenian babies suffer or be hurt.
ARAXIE.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-01
j, S, WILL PUNISH
JERSEY BEER SALES
Roper Warns Defiance VIII
Incur Drastic Action.

Washington, March ALI persons
found violating the federal prohibition
enforcement act will be proceeded
against to the ''limi. of the law IT,
respective of any state statutes legal
izing the sale of liquors, it was an
nounced by Commissioner Roper, Of
the internal revenue bureau.
Mr.. Roper's ruling resulted from
the bill now pending before the New
Jersey legislature legalizinz the sale
and manufacture of beer containing
BIZ per cent of alcohol.
"The bureau of internal revenue Is
charged with the enforcement Of the
national prohibition act" he said. 1T
definitely prohibits the manufacture
and sale for beverage purposes OF all
liquors containing half per cent or
more of alcohol by volume. This be-
Ing the case, the manufacture and
sale of 31a per cent beer, which Is
permitted by the bill in New Jersey
legislature, is in direct violation of the
federal statute. All persons. there
fore, who are found guilty Of this yio-
Iation OF the federal statute VIII be
proceeded against TO the limit of she
law"
The house unanimously refused to
appropriate one million dollars for use
until July in attempting to prevent
the smuggling of liquor over the Cam
adian and Mexican borders. Proyis-
ions for the appropriation had been
Inserted in the general deficiency bill
by the senate Chairman Good, of the
appropriations committee, said the ex-
penditure would be useless.
IF we are to patrol the Canadian
frontier of 5000 miles and 1900 miles
of Mexican border to search travellers
for liquor" he said, sit will take mil
lions of dollars and require three
searching shifts a day"
Representative Cannon, Republican,
Illinois, declared that nothing short
of the army, the navy and the coast
guard could stop the smuggling of
liquor into this country, So long as
there was a demand for ii"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-01

secretary of the Paris, Lyons & Medi-
terranean Union, ordered that gen.
eral strike be called on the Paris,
Lyons & Mediterranean on February
a"
The statement then gives figures of
the wages paid railwaymen, the mimi
mum wages before the war being
about 1900 francs yearly, and now
2400 francs, plus 1880 francs indem-
nifty for the dearness of living, plus
T20 francs as an extra cost of living
allowance, a total of 1900 francs, with
living in Paris. Besides this an allow
ance is made for the mems families.
An eight-hour day is being introduced
and indemnities given to workers to
whom it is impossible to give eight
hours Immediately. A special COM
mittee is now sitting daily to discuss
improvements which, when adopted,
Will raise the amount paid in wages
from 75O,000O00 francs 10 100000
900 francs.
which is headed, "The Truth on the
Strike" begins:
"a worker, having been punished
for answering a cOnvocatiOn of this
union, his comrades unite with him"
The statement then accuses Yves lie
Trocquer, minister of public works, of
showing an absolutely uncompromis-
ing spirit and ''incomprehensible lev
ity." It says that Premier Millerand
on his return from London seemed to
show a more conciliatory disposition,
but only offered to arbitrate the con-
fiict if work were resumed first. The
railway mems delegates, the statement
says, making further concessions, Of
fered to accept the premier's condition
if Campanaud's punishment was sus-
pended until after arbitration, but this
EaS refused.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-01
FARMERS INCOME
SUBJECT TO TAX
Gains for 1919 Must Be Figured
Under U. S. LaW-Returns
Due March Is.
LAND SALE PROFITS TAXABLE.
Necessary Farm Expenses May BE
0educted-Special Form for Farm
Income-cash or Accrual
Basis for Computing.

a farmer, shopkeeper, or tradesman
must figure up his net income for 1919;
md II the farm or business income
Raus his other income was sufficient to
require an income tax return a COM
plete return must be filed with the col
rector Of internal revenue by March 10.
A farmer should ascertain the gross
income of his farm by computing all
gains derived from the sale or ex-
change Of his products, whether pro-
duced on the farm or purchased and
resold.
Farm Expenses.
From his gross income farmer Is
allowed to charge off all Of his neces-
sary expenses in the conduct of the
farm during the year. These include
costs of planting, cultivating, harvest
tag and marketing. In addition to
these costs he may deduct money spent
for ordinary farm tools Of short life
bought during the year, such as SHOW
els, rakes, etc. Also, the cost of feed
purchased for his live stock may be
treated as an expense in so far as this
cost represents actual outlay, but the
value of his own products fed to ami
mails is not deductible item.
Other farm expenses allowable are
the cost Of minor repairs on buildings
fbur not the dwelling house), on fences,
wagons and farm machinery; also bills
paid for horseshoeing, stock powders,
rock salt. services of veterinary, insur-
ance Except on dwelling house), gaso-
Hne for operating power and sundry
other expenses which were paid for in
cash.
As to hired help, all the productive
labor Is a deductible expense; but the
wages Of household servants, or help
hired to improve the farm, as in tree
planting, ditching, ETC., cannot be
claimed AGAINST earnings, A farmer is
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-01
Sycamore's Good Traits,

OF all our forest trees the sycamore
is the last to clothe itself in the spring.
In fact, spring is gone before the syca-
more has donned it's raiment of foliage.
In early June, when all the other trees
are at their best, the sycamore still
displays its winter baroness scarcely
yelled by immature leaves. 1t is said
that the sycamore's leaves, which come
in May, are likely to be destroyed by
mysterious fungous disease, and that
the foliage which finally natures in
July is In reality the trees second
crop. If this be the true explanation
of the sycamore's hardness, the tree
deserves great praise. Such undiscour-
ageable persistence is quite in bar
mony with the sycamore's rugged per-
sonality. What other tree would not
give up the fight were it thus handi-
capped and tortured by malignant
snemy?
France May Abolish Food Duties.
Madrid, March 1.-The food situa-
ton was discussed a Il meeting OF
economic bodies 1t is proposed to ASK
he government to abolish duties on
he importation of necessities.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-01

I "Eyerywhere in the fields there were
people down on their knees searching
for grasses to eat. Those near the
railroad lifted their heads and gazed at
our train as it rushed past, ana L
caught gEimpses of terrible faces. An
old man sitting at the top of an en-
bankment waved q handful Of grass at
ME where / stood at the car window,
then threw his head back and laughed
maniacal laugh. began then to feel
the cold chills with which 1 was to
shiver for days on end"
OF Kars she writes:
ct had been raining for days, and
wherever one looked one saw nothing
but misery and mud. Between the rail-
road tracks were unsightly pools and
puddles, through which many human
scare-crows trudged back and forth.
"They were multiple Lazarus, and
the train was the rich mans table.
They were begging for crumbs. be-
gan to hear for the first time the whtn-
ing indescribable phrase that sounded
to me like 'O-na-ne, O-na-ne.' 1t was
so feebly, SO plaintively murmured,
'O-na-ne.'"
Mrs. Egan asked what 1t meant and
was told the nearest equivalent was
"Oh, my soulw But" she says, ut
was more than that; it was prayer
for mercy"
Describing a makeshift hospital be-
fore the arrival of the Near East Relief
workers, Mrs. Egan writes:
"The sick in their unbelievable rags
were lying around on the f1oors-bun-
dies of unimaginable Wretchedness.
The doctor was not doing anything at
all for them. What could he do? He
had not so much as a single ounce Of
medicine of any kind. The little peo-
pie were more pitiable than the
adults. The ward, If may call it that,
had in it not one stick of furniture Of
any kind, and the children were all
lying on the dusty and rubbish-strewn
floor with nothing under them and no
covering save the rags they wore"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-01
american Women Stirred
by Armenian Horrors
-NEERCIFUL GOD, it's all true
AVE Nobody has ever told the

sNEERCIFUL GOD, IT'S all true
AVE Nobody has ever told the
whole truth! Nobody could!"
Thus Eleanor Franklin Egan, in the
Saturday Evening Post, quotes How
ard Heinz of Pittsburgh, Herbert
Hoover's representative in the Near
East, on the real conditions in Arme-
MIA as he saw them with his own eyes.
Mr.. Heinz had been one Of those
who had believed the stories of star
walton and death in Armenia had been
exaggerated. Not until he went him.
self to the Caucasus did his views
change. Then he was shaken to the
foundation Of his soul by what he saw.
Fearful! Awful! Horrible! Unbe-
lievahle!" are some of the adjectives
Mrs. Egan says must be used in speak
ing of conditions in the Near East,
where Near East Relief, 1 Madison
Avenue, New York, supported by con-
tributiOns from the American people,
is conducting the only organized effort
to save the lives of these utterly desti-
tute millions. Everything she saw and
heard justified the necessity for quick
and generous aid from America. Her
story of what she witnessed re-en-
forces the call of the Near East Re
lief for aid for stricken Armenia.
"The Hunger grim is everywhere
evident" Mrs. Egan writes. ''The
pitiful hundreds seemed to me to be
weeping constantly. Not profoundly
as in grief, but whimperingly, ap
,rrI,v II ,,Ix oil
distress. A terrible population. In
speakably filthy and characterization
throngs; shelterless, death stricken
throngs milling from place to place,
! children crying aloud, women sobbing
| in broken inarticulate lamentation
men Utterly hopeless and reduced to
/ staggering weakness, needless Of the
tears rolling down their dirt-streaked
I faces"
That is her picture Of the Arme-
mans most in evidence in Armenia.
] These are the throngs. Then she
! turns to the mobs Large numbers
i; here and there, wide-eyed, eager, hands
! outstretched in wolfish duplication;
] teeth barred in CHASTITY grin that had
| long since ceased to smile-an emaciat-
ed skin-stretched grin, fixed and I'M
! controllable"
j 'Is it any wonder" she asks, "that
! I could not swallow my food? I threw
it to the children in the yening
| hordes and started small rio. The
children fought together, snar1ed and
clawed at one another for small bits
of army biscuit or morsels of bully
beef.
"And then I was told that many Of
them were SO starved that solid food
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-01
FRENCH STRIKE
TAKES UGLY TURN
4 Sympathetic WdIkOut is Now
Threatened.
NATURALIZATION DEMANDED
Trouble Beginning In Discharge OF
One Workman Asummes Sinister
Form-Coal Put on War Basis.

Paris, March 1.-The subway and
tramway employees and the omnibus
cab and taxicab drivers unions held
several meetings and adopted in prin-
ciple a proposal to call a sympathetic
strike in favor of the railway men.
provided they are invited to do SO by
the General Federation of Labor,
which has assumed direction of the
present strike movement
Delegations of the Partisan unions
of railway men have requested Pre-
mier MlIerand to receive their dele
gates. Apparently the dismissal of
the railway man Campanaud for alb
sence from duty to ATTEND union
meeting has been relegated to the
background, and the railway mems
claims are now headed by demand
for decentralization of the railroads.
The price of bread, which was
scheduled to advance from 20 to 80
percent today will remain stationary.
The government deciding to postpone
the increase until March 10.
The government and the federal
council of the railroad men have is
sued statements giving Il history of the
strike The formers statement be-
gins by saying that the strike was
due to an incident of internal disci-
pine and to claims presented by the
employees connected with wages and
conditions of labor.
"a trades union meeting was called
for Dion" The statement continues:
THE directors of the Paris, Lyons &
Mediterranean line gave the usual per-
mission to employees who were mem
bers of the administrative council of
the union of syndicateS to attend.
Campanaud who was not a member
of the administrative council, did not
receive this permission. Nevertheless,
he went to DIXON. He was punished
by two days suspension by the chief
engineer and the directors refused to
pa-oeI tba DuniShnlent + con ATidOl
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-01

tai population, were massaered. No
barbarity in human history exceeds
the gross cruelty of that destruction.
Thousands were driven out upon the
desert, there to die from hunger and
thirst under the pitiless rays Of trop-
ical sun.
Such was the price which the Arme.
MAN people paid for their Christianity
and their loyalty to the cause of justice
and democracy during the world war.
One-quarter of a million children,
chiefly orphans, whose parents persisted
IL massacres, are utterly dependent on
American charity.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees
In the Caucasus, clad only in torn, YER
minous rags, without shelter and with
out food, can exist only If America has
compassion upon them.
Shall we fail them? Not If / know
my country!
Help Near East Relief in It's work
for Gods poor.