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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-11

to be built in this district, or SO per
cent CT the funds that will be avail
able in the entire state will come
to this district. This proposition is
arrived at directly as the proposed
mileage of the district is to the total
mileage proposed in the state.
May Divert Funds.
However, should the aptitude OF
one district show that they are indls-
posed compared with others who are
in need of more funds = meet the
demands and the budget available in
the county, the state reserves the
right to deduct from the portion OF
one district to meet the more urgent
needs in another. Within the district
it will be the duty of the division en-
gineer to recommend federal and
state aid where study has plainly
shown it to be most practical and
mo tly needed
he decision as to types of struc-
lures viii be determined in like
manner When counties have been
her, Ceore held up through no fault
Of their own, or on account of some
small technicality not supposed to be
familiar to the average business man
or farmer who make up our boards
of county commissioners, it will be
the duty of the division engineer to
expedite this part of the project so
far as it is with in his authority and
jurisdiction by explaining and assist
ing on stumbling points.
Danger In Rush.
1t is not intended in this article to
encourage the even so frequent mis-
take made by many of rushing into
construction without first making due
surveys and studies of the proper
projects just because the public
naturally want to see the "dirt fly"
once the money has been put up. In
deed, grave mistakes have been made
in the past of poor location, wrong
types of materials used and some
times at very excessive cost just for
! this reason. 1t is the intention, how
ever, to herein explain that by close
organization and cooperation be-
tween county and state working in
the always desired unison, results
are bound to develop, that to date
have never been experienced in
Georgia, because it has had no laws
with which to carry this plan into eff
feet.
It might be interesting to note that
figures have been worked out on a
census map of the state that shows
80 per cent of the people of the en-
tire state benefited by the proposed
state and federal aid roads alone, so
that with the development of the less
important roads by the counties it is
undoubtedly bright future that can
be looked forward to by Georgia as
a whole for good roads which means
a etter and more prosperous state
than it already is.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-11
BY w. c. CAVE, Jr.

district BOUNDARIES VIII De cOnnecte
up in the same manner.
Working Units on Ground
In placing the twelve divisions en-
gineers with their offices and own or
CARNATIONS each in their respective
congressional districts, the state high
way engineer has direct representa-
tive and a complete working unit in
itself on the gr0un as it were who
can constantly be in touch with all
of the requirements of the locality
and whose duty it will be to aid the
county authorities in solving the
many technical questions involved
in state and federal aid projects.
Furthering this plan the field parties
working out of the division engineers
Office will make all surveys and the
plans will be completed within each
district, after which they will mere
ly be sent forward for approval,
when as before this was done by pri-
vate companies, termed project engi-
neers, employed by the counties. Ex-
perience has proven this scheme to
have many unsatisfactory fea-
lures. Also whenever a satisfactory
arrangement can be made between
county and project engineer it is the
desire that work now under way be
taken over for direct supervision and
inspection by the division engineers
forces. But should this arrangement
not be made, the project engineer
will simply complete his contract just
as before and the division engineer
will merely assume general supervi-
sion, causing no conflict whatsoever
between the old and Il y Ian.
This district, with the Office of the
disvision engineer at Americas, is an
important one in that it IS not only
amongst the largest in proposed
mileage or federal and state aid road,
but is one that demands immediate
attention to its condition for meet
ing the traffic situation Out of A.
800 miles of road proposed to be
built in the near future by state and
federal aid in Georgia, ALP miles are
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-11
prizes, was in operation.

prizes, was in operation.
Yesterday the ladies of Team No.
3 asked the Times Recorder to ex-
tend in their behalf thanks to those
who had made the affair such sue
cess. These included Thos. L. Bell,
who donated the wedding ring; to
j. L. Sparks, Arthur Mize and ] H.
Poole & Sons, whose donations made
the fish pond a profitable venture; to
those business men of the city who
bought advertising space in the pro-
gram; TO Supt. J. E. Mathis, for the
use of the school building; to the
ladies who donated the cake and the
sandwiches, and, lastly, to the moth
ers of the children who were at con-
siderable pains and expense provid-
ing costumes and otherwise arrang-
ing for the affair.
At the same time the other mem
bers of the committee asked that
public recognition be given Mrs. Car
gill, the chairman, for her untiring
efforts in staging the affair, they Civ
ing her the lions share of the credit
for its great success.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-11
Rpumanian superstItions.

Ghosts are plentiful in Roumazassae
The Strtgol are evil spirits which mn
st. Andrews night make their way Eng
mischief into every house whose doaTss
and windows are not anOinted VITA
garlic, the scent of that plant being
intolerable TO the ghostly nostrils. Ehs'
Moroi are the spirits of unbaptIssa
babes, crying for their motiaAsrB
breasts and not 70 be appeaseG save
by sprinkling their graves with Esnty-
water for seven years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-11

1t Will PROBABLY De OF interest TO
the people Of the Third Congressional
District to know somewhat in detail
the plan OF the STATE Highway De-
PARTNER IF Georgia since it is, now
about to become a real highway or
ganlzati instead Of a small limited
force VIII limited means as has been
its plight heretofore. We might of
fer thanks to those men whose I'M
firing efforts are responsible for the
passage of such an excellent high
way law. This move meant that its
highway organization up to the pres
ent stood well down the ladder but
that now dawns a larger and better
working scale and places it favorably
amongst those near the top. Thus it
is the beginning of good roads for
Georgia with a definite plan upon
which to work.
First and last it is the intention
to work on a basis always looking
forward to the construction of roads
that when completed will give the
oSotS a AllIhSu up oySCSLl, 4,OUU IHlIeS
in all, most useful to the state at
large from a commercial as we'll as
pleasure stand point, and still be
an expenditure where the most is
gotten for the money where such ex-
penditures are needed greatest. For
instance, in the past-and for that
matter some work at present under
construction-has been laid out by
the individual counties and, although
good work has been done, there has
been no general scheme in view for
the future and the result is that each
county seat or city has few roads
radiating out from it's center and
really going no where. Under the
state plan there will eventually be a
county-seat-to-co net of
roads joining up with main trunk
highways throughout the entire state
l" the future to carry out this idea
each federal aid and each state aid
project will be carefully studied and
planned to connect it with another
proposed project; also, county and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-11
CHILD WEDDING
HUGE SUCCESS
Playground Fund En-
HANGED 5000 By Club
Entertainment

The city playground equipment
fund was swelled approximately
$20O-the exact amount of which
has not yet been announcea-bv the
Llillputlan wedding, stated at the high
school auditorium Friday night, by
Team No. 3 of the Woman's Club
under the direction of Mrs. J. R. Car
gill; chairman The affair was a huge
success, with an attendance estimated
at more than 500. The entertain
ment, in which the children acquitted
themselves charmingly, was heartily
applauded when the curtain fell fol-
lowing the wedding proper, and again
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-11
Crazy Tagalogs' Worry
Marines at Manila, p. I.

MANILA, P. l., Jan. 10-The Unit
ed States marines stationed at Cavite
have found new way to haze re-
Gently arrived recruits"
you'll take charge of the crazy
squad today" says the first ser
geant.
"Crazy squad?" asks the recruit.
Sure" replies the sergeant, "Cra-
zy Tagalobs-natives - poor nuts
think they're trolley cars"
Then the recruit is led out to a
long wall where bunch of Taga-
logs are at wo~'- painting and re-
pairing.
"Ding-ding, ding, ding" answer the
others with gestures.
'See," say the jokers, They're all
trying to make a noise like a trolley
car Sad, amt it,
Later the recruit learns a LITTLE
Tagalog, ard finds out that "ding-
t;ng" simply means WALL and that
the natives are talking about their
work; but not until he has spent
many weary hours guarding the era
~ squad"
CT
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-11
PAGE FIVE.
why Bud Is So Healthv.

An army surgeon says city mssz Axw
less liable to disease than, cOzzzzazR
folk because they are more useo2 zns
dirt. II being accustomed to. dir3 axa,
a guarantee of health hencefortks zw9s-
are going to let that seven-year s6ae
rascal come to the dinner table ar
rayed In all his glory The condiEE5ss
OF his hands and face may make 4h@y
rest of US sick, but so long as ne IN
well the dirt may lie on his fingers aEa
inch thlck.-Detroit Free Press,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-11
ENGINEER EXPLAINS PLANS And
PURPOSES In HIGHWAY BUILDING
Third District Entitled To 412 Miles IF Federal Or
State Aid Road, He Says, Under
Adopted Plan

That the Third Congressional District entitled Alp miles of
federal and aid roads under the highway system plan of the
Georgia highway revealed by W. Caye r assistant
highway
for the Tmeecorde purpose something
and the highway results be
ed under the which has just been
effect. Following is article:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-11

Read Ansley's Special Sale ad on
last page.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-11

hldren 3se; Adults soc. War Tax Extra WAR TAX EXTRA
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-29
Engineer Is Killed.

Ansonia, Ohio. Dec. 2S.--George
Reisteri Of Indianapolis, engineer,
was killed and number of persons
were injured when eastbound pas
senger No. 16 on the Big Four rail-
road turned over near here tonight.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-29
MAN WHO KILLED
SELF VICTIM Of
MANIA, BELIEVED
LaPIata Husband Shoots
Father-in-IaW When Wife
Goes to Him for Refuge;
Then Commits Suicide.
Especial Correspondence to The Journai,l

Especial Correspondence 10 Ihe JOurnai'l
La Plata, ~ NJ, Dec. 2S.-Floyd
.G. Martin, who wounded his
father-in law, Sig Cordeil, and
later shot and killed himself, is be-
lieved to have been mentally I'M
balanced. He attacked Cordell,
who was shot through the jaw but
not seriously injured, after Mrs.
Martin had gone to her fathers
home following a quarrel with her
husband. Friends say his mind
has been affected following a re-
cent attack of influenza.
Martin followed his wife TO Cor
delrs house, and seeing the older
man in the yard, opened fire on
him from ambush. Cordell ran to
the house and Mrs. Martin opened
the door and helped him into the
room. AS she exposed herself,
Martin is said to have fired at her
and then fired several shots into
the door of the house.
He went to his own homo then
and when officers arrived to take
him into custody, he eVaded arrest
by turning his gun against himself.
According to Mrs. Martins story,
her husband had been seized by a
jealous rage upon finding horse
and back to the road. He demanded
to know who had been there and
Mrs. Martin said he became in
furiated when she told him that
she had not seen anyone.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-29
ALICE PLOT IS
FOUND To FREE
PRISON INMATES
Machine Gun Company of
the Arkansas National
Guard Ordered Out to
Prevent Freeing ConviCtS.
Try The Associated Press. }

Little Rock, Ark, Dec 2S.-Re-
liable reports of q widespread plot
to free convicts in the state peni-
tentiaries were responsible for the
mobilization of the Pine Bluff ma
chine gun company of the Arkansas
national guard, according to a
statement tonight by Governor
Brough. According to the gov
ernor. the plot was reported to him
by penitentiary officials and in
volved plans for the release of
Tom Slaughter and Fulton Green,
Oklahoma outlaws, now serving life
sentences for murder.
Slaughter and Green are con-
fined at the penitentiary at Little
Rock and principal precautions
are to be taken there, but it was
learned detachments of the Pine
Bluff company also will be sent to
the state farms at Tucker, where
white convicts are confined, and to
Cummns, where negro convicts
are imprisoned. The governors
action in calling out the troops, he
said. followed a conference today
with penitentiary and military au-
thorities, during which the reports
of the plot to escape We're given.
He said it was not known how
widespread the plot may be.
Governor Brough declined to
discuss the details of the reported
plot, hut stated that the troops
would be kept on duty long enough
to prevent the contemplated escape.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-29
EFFECTS COMPROMISE
IN NEW HAVEN SUIT

New York, Dec. 2S.Ih compro-
misc in the $150,000,00O stock
holders equity suit against Will
liam Rockefeller and other former
directors of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad was
effected today when Federal Judge
Charles NJ. Hough ordered the ac-
ton discontinued.
The terms of the compromise
provided that the individual de-
PENDANTS. against whom waste and
Acknowledgement were charged, pay
the New Haven, the corporate de-
PENDANT, $2,50O,O0O, which counsel
for the road tonight said had been
done.
Then the judge issued an order
allowing the lawyers for the COM
plainants $S33,333.33-a third of
the compromise sum-upon their
application for fees, disbursements
and expenses, to be paid out Of the
settlement money.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-29
MEXICANS FL0CKING
BACK TO NATIVE LAND

Houston, Tex, Dec. 2S.-Such q
large number of Mexicans are re-
turning to their native land after
years of exile in the United States
that Meade Fierro, Mexican con-
sui here, has asked the Mexico City
government for additional help for
facilitating the execution of pass
port regulations in the local con-
sulate.
An average of from forty to fifty
Mexicans apply for passports daily
in Houston, according to Senior
Fierro, while between fifteen and
twenty Americans apply each "a
hours for the necessary wise to en-
able them to visit the southern re-
public.
Besides a monthly average OF
between 1900 and 1900 returning
Meyicans here, Fierro declared ad-
vices from Laredo state that Mex
lean eXiles returning home through
that city numbered 10000 during
the month of November alone.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-29
ARTESIA WILL HAVE
A RECREATION CLUB

Especial Correspondence to The Journal,
Artesia, n. NJ, Dec. 2S.--A new
organization known as the Artesia
Recreation association has been or
gained here by about twenty
young men interested in athletics.
A building has been leased and an
indoor basketball court construct
ed, A basketball team, composed
of ex-college and high school stars,
is practicing every night in order
to meet the teams in this section Of
the state. Hs 81
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-29
PRESIDENTIAL YACHT
is DAMAGED BY FIRE

Washington, Dec. 2S.-The mess
room and several state rooms in
the officers quarters on the presi-
Dental yacht Mayflower were
burned out today while the yacht
was tied up at the navy yard here.
A board OF inquiry was convened
to determine the origin Of the fire.
Secretary Daniels said the
amount of the damage had not
been determined, but that num-
Der of the officers on the vessel
lost all of their personal effects.
The fire was extinguished before
| it reached the state dining room
and the presidents quarters.
Eight newspaper reporters and
photographers who entered the
navy yard by passing the marine
guard were arrested and held at
the commandments office for ques-
tioning, but when news of their
detention reached Mr.. Daniels he
lordered their immediate release.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-29
To Cut Iaborers' Wages.

Springfield. Mass, Dec. rs
Z Wages Of common laborers here
will be reduced from 67k to so
cents an hour January /, the build
ing trades association announced
today.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-29
EXPRESS CO. To
MAKE CONT RACTs
WITH RAILROADS
American Railway 0rganiza-
ton May Enter Traffic
Agreements With Lines
Over Which II Operates.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-Authori-
cation was granted by the Inter
state Commerce Commission to the
American Railway Express COM
pany today to enter into contracts
with the various railroads over
which the company operates. The
contract will supplant existing con-
tracts between the railroads ana
the Wells Fargo, Adams, American
and Southern express companies,
the permanent merger of which
into the American Railway Express
company was approved recently by
the commission.
Under the old system of separate
contracts between the carriers ana
the companies. the carriers re
ceived a certain amount from each
company without respect TO the
amounts paid by other companies.
The new contract. however, VIII
provide:
Distribution of Earnings.
"After making the deduction for
expenses by groups the balance
remaining is to be distributed as
follows:
"Two and a half per cent to the
express company and the re-
mainder among the railroads in the
group executing this form of CON
tract in the proportion that the
gross express transportation Tor
the month earned on each railroad
bears to the gross transportation
on all such railroads"
The contract also will specify
that should the revenues after de-
auction fer expenses exceed 8 per
cent the excess shall be DIVIDED
half and half between the' com
pany and the carrier until II
reaches a 10 per cent maximum
when it shall be divided one-fourth
| to the express companies aho
three fourths to the carriers.
Four Members Dissent.
! The commission stated that such
contract would not interfere
with competition and was compat-
ible with the public interests, Com
missioners Eastman. Aitchison
Woolley and McChord, however
dissented from the majority opln'
ion, saying that such contract as
proposed would not be in the pub
lie interest and that it would cause
the railroads to give the express
companies q guarantee against los'
rather than insuring the ROADS q
fair return.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-29
ENGL and LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR
POSSIBLE WIDESPREAD Use OF
GAS In WARFARE, EXPERTS SAY
New Law Prohibits the Importation of Dye
stuffs Into Great Britain for Ten Years;
Way Is Opened for Entry Of German Prod
ucts Into the United States.
tBy THE ASSOCIATED PREss)

Washington, Dec. 2S.-By the
passage Of the dyestuffs import
regulations act, Great Britain has
definitely accepted the theory that
poison gas viii be the supreme
weapon of the next war and at the
same time has opened the way for
the entry of German dyes into this
country, according to the views eX-
pressed tonight by chemical eX-
perts of the government.
The British act, which became a
law yesterday prohibits the inn
portation of dyestuffs into Great
Britain for ten years, which, gov
eminent experts declare. will en-
able England to build up her dye
industry to a point Of complete in
dependence from the outside
world.
Poison gas and dyestuffs both
come from coal tar, it was explain
ed. and from the manufacture OF
the commercial article to the pro-
duction of the military weapon is
but another step in a continuous
process. BY insuring the develop
ment of the dye industry, chemical
experts here said, Great Britain has
laid the groundwork for possible
widespread use of gas in warfare,
as chemical factories can turn from
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-29

the manufacture OF dNeSlullS 70 inc
production of poison gas practical
ly at will.
Direct competition in this coun-
try between German and American
made dyes also is seen by officials
here as result of the British dye
stuffs act. While the act prohibits
the importation of dye products
into the United Kingdom, the re-
striction does not apply to goods
imported for expectation after
transit through the United King
dom or by way Of transhipment.
Under the present war trade regu-
lations. officials explained, dyes
may not be imported into this
country when it can be shown they
are of German origin. But it would
be practically impossible, they add
ed TO determine the origin OF
goods shipped by way of England
if the castings were changed before
consignment to this country.
An influx of German dyes would
probably mean, officials frankly
stated, that the development of the
American industry would be him
dered and consequently the United
States would fall behind the other
nations in ability to produce poison
gas in the event of a war