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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-23
ARAB STREETS
 BEAR NAMES
 FROM FRANCE

Beirut Syria, Dec 23 - The streets of this ancient city which for hudreds
 of years have borne old Arab names have been given French designations as one of the results of the French mandate.
 Although tine Molsen1 press, which re-
 presents majority of the people manifest the spirit of public antagon- ism % the French language, it con- cedes that French occupation has 1 a, boon to Syria.
 The financial conditions of the pro- vince are more stable now. New laws and regulations have been made for | the bar, placing the legal profession on a. higher basis. A new police force
 ulation of better security than existed
 during the Turkish regime. New and 1 modern public schools are raising the
 s andard of education. In brief, re- i forms have taken place in all branch
 es of the government for the better ment of Syria.
 A noteworthy event occurred a few days ago when Marshal Gouraud the
 French High Commissioner. pro
 claimed the new Constitution.
 l According to the new regulations
 Syria is divided into four autonomous .ates, each endowed with deliber-
 ative councils elected by suffrage. 1 These states are Damascus, Aleppo, the Alouites and the Great Lebanon As regards the first three, t11ey are to unite in g federation with a feder-
 al congress appointed by the states
 governmen- g. The Great Lebanon al present will remain outside of this } union. managing its own affairs in- depend ently. However, 1t Is at liberty
 to join with the o<hers when condi- tions seem favorable.
 : While the two cities of Beirut and ! TripoE are included in the state o1 Great Lebanon. still they are to have
 local autonomy. The law allows eacf . a General Governor with executive power. He will have an advisory coun } ci1 nominated by the government uI1 til elections are possible. The two :. General Governors will be nominated by Che High Commissioner after cen l sultatiou with the executive of th ' state Of Lebanon.
 = 'In the East the races are so In ) terningled that no Western powe
 could govern there without discon g tendng a good portion of the popu d lation," says Near East missionary t He adds: "The question arises; cal |, France afford to turn against her e the MohammeGan population O h Syria,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-23

and caused his indictment in 1914. The indictment was quashed and an other SubSti tuted on which he was tried. The first jury disagreed and the second acquitted him Watson then renewed his anti Catholic campaign, which has increased in bitterness. Re- gently the National Catholic war Council protested against his use o1 the Senate Office Building as heao- quarters for his anti Catholic cam
 paign and sent letter to oenatols
 1emanding that his seat be forfeited
 Watson's great ambition seems to be that of an anti. He does not con fine himself to personalities, ana woe
 betide the unfortunate man crossing
 his path. He will threaten nst hght'
 a duel or else speech.
 His election to the Senate followed
 a three-cornered fight in his own
 State for the Democratic nomination
 in which he stood as the anti W!isoh'
 anti-League of Nations and antl-"ar
 measures candidate. He freely admits and is proud of the fact that his publt- cations opposed the draft law, the es- pionage act and other war measures Throughout the period of America participation in the war these publlca- tions railed at the Government, at lacked the army and the draft Ia" and ever since have attempted to make it appear that this Government did wrong in entering the war
 Met outside the Senate Chamber Senator Watson is personally a charm ing man. He has an engaging smile and talks entertainingly in a milo manner Even when he rises to hls feet to begin speech there is no sug- gestion of the uproar that he proDabIy will raise before he is through. He be. gins his speech in a we1l-nodulateo voice and then works up nearly to the point of frenzy when some one doubts the wisdom of his opinions.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-23
females in the population.
 DfsDropOrtiOna1e Increase.

t6naleS III If1S
 Dfsproportionate Increase.
 Practically all the countries which had an excess in 1911 will snow aii Increase of that excess in 1921, ana in many cases, notably Germany, France, Austria-Hungary and Bel giun, this increase will be, in con sequence of the war, an entlreIy o1s- proportiona.te one. Italy may not De be the case, as so many Italians re turned from America to enroll. but even then the increase will presun- ably be a very large one-
 Further, 1t is probable that uhe ex- cess of males in the Balkan States will have completely disappeared.
 Altogether the figures show an ex- cess of females among ahe white present time and make it clear that the emigration of women cannot bring about a balance of the sexes so far as those races are concerned proportion of the excess of women was, as has been shown, at ages over sixty and thai in America the pre- ponderance of males obtains /through out life.
 l But the proportion in Europe has 1 materially fallen through the war, and it is doubtful whether of the es timated 5.o0o,0o0 excess males ir i half millions are between the ages o1 20 and 60, as an offset against the 13,000,O00 excess women at those 1 ages in Europe.
 1 Nature, we are told, will right the l balance in time, but this, even ii 1 true, does not help to solve the pres
 ent problem. And it is worth while 1 asking is it true?
 l In the countries examined it 1.
 only in the case of France that ar 1 increase in the excess of females 1T
 the population was due to natural in
 crease.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-23
LITHUANIAN STREETS
 BECOMING MORE
 AMERICANIZED

Knovno. Iithuapia, Dec. B - The .smain street of. Kovno. when mas fent that of a Wild West town, has Secome more AmericaniZed than ever Dozens of the men now pl4N- ing prominent roles in the LlLtiuaiiA'll royernnent and in business here are T.ith1anians who have been in Amer ica. and returned to their plrthIano since the country won us lllu ,no-, ence. Some of the business men StiT retain their American citlzen- shin. More strictly American type e1othes are noted in Lithuania than any other country of Europe.
 Iithuania, exclusive of the d3Spu6eo ldo 6ed Wilma territory, has about 2,eoV,ooo ;uI,a bitants At least 100000 Of these have been, at one time or another In America while, according to Lhtn. 11anian statisticss nearly a mllhon oI lithuanian I, birth or parentage are vow residing in the United States. rThe country being almost eNcluslveIE agricultural, they do not usually con gregate in large cities among lllosI osT miners distributed about the rem sylivania and Illinois mining heldS;
 The smallest Lithuanian village generally boasts at least one Engl1Sll. eaS., . essv to them, as their mother tongue it is claimed, is the nearest modern approach to the ancient sanscrl. fron1 which all Aryan languages
 
 of the American variety
 pr. zaunius, of the Lithuanian din1omatic corps. said that nearly e60 0o0 daily is coming to Lithuanaa Froro her sons and daughters in the United States. ,.e-
 "A great role in the economic life op IJth11ania is played by the Ameri' o.nTith11anians" he said. Trade Enterprises, factories, banks, etc, are SeinF established with their money hrroltp of them has just purchased ons of the largest textile factories 1T Tovno. which will produce yearly ofo,t 15.oo0,000 arshenes Gan arsh ene is about three-fourths Of yaro of cloth" e.. 5a,- at Koyno, the corresp ondent foun' +hed frector of the towns b1gges bsnk had been a resident of Scanton pa the manager and president or tn largest trading concern were pot American citizens of hunua ma d narentaee and the Under Minister o Foreign Affairs had been Cn1cag
 The hotel porter had been coa ,,;ner in Illinois and the passport de nartnent of the newly opened Amer ican consulate here was 5ammeo Wit Tdthuanian-Anericar daily, natura ized and carrying American pass nofs seeking renewal of these docu nents which proved their America citizenship.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-23

show-place castle ever built by. Pittsburgh millionaire - Is dragging
 it's feathers in the dust. Abandoned by its family, which has gone to New
 York, and denuded of its strange and splendid collection of furniture, tapestries and art objects. specula- ton Is rife here as to what will be- come of the house that was built to outriva1 all other nlillionaires' homes
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-23

S20.o0o.o00.
 The accepted manner in those days for a new Pittsburgh millionaire there were some forty of them-to show his standing in the community was by building a house, Peacock o11tdid custom. He set a house-m man ston-castle building record. He bought a couple of city blocks and upon one of them proceeded to erect a house
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-23

that had all the vagarles of archi-
 lecture from the classical Dorfc to
 the Queen Anne and comprised all building materials from Carrara mar ble to American brick.
 Pittsburgh marveled. A hundred horses were kept. Everything was conducted on an elab crate scale. Peacock, the man who in selling
 historic Scotch plaids to Carnegie,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-23

by the man who got into the. good graces of Andrew Carnegie In ms hevdey by selling him historic plaids.
 It was when Alexander R. Peacock cashed his Carnegie steel stock. which the canny Ironnaaster = in generous mood-had bestowed upon h1m' Corev and Schwab, prior to the for nation of the U. s. Steel Cooperation, that Peacock found himself with
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-23

made such an impression that Car aegte put him to work selling steei,
 did not lack for ideas lie aoopten +ba o,eacock-one going forth grand iv. With a strutttng tail-on field ,,ar+ as his coat-of-arms. The Pitts burg-made coat of-arms stares forth T, from every part Of the house-lt is sat In mosaic. carved on the furniture that but recently was auctioned off
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-23
.P|TTSBURG'S MOST ELABORATE MANSION
 NOW FOR SALE

Pittsburgh, Pa, Dec. 23-The Pea cock mansion - the most elaborate
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-23
SENATOR TOM WATSON IS "ST0RMY PETREL" AMONG
 NASHIN CT0N LAWMAKERS

Fiery Georgian Is Anti Everything And Will Threaten Fist Fight A Duel Or Speech If Senators Disagree With His Opinions; Has Five More Tumultuous Years To Serve.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-17
LETTERS FROM
THE PEOPLE.
PAY THE OLD VETERAN FOR HIS
hR0R

Editor Times-Recorder: Not long
ago | had an article about pensions
and the old Confederate Veterans in
your paper and | was impressed with
the idea that you felt kindly towards
them, and that on that score ask you
to give me a little space N your
splendid paper.
On May the 18th, 1929 | was elect
ed secretary and treasurer OF the
Georgia Pension League at Dublin,
Ga, under protest, by the meeting of
veterans assembled for the purpose
of making an organized fight for in
creased pensions for old soldiers and
widows. The reason | did not want
the Job was because | had previously
done lot of work without pay or
thanks. I was assured by comrades
from all parts of the house that |
would be paid for my labor. There is
balance due which has not been
paid and no effort has been made
TO pay me for my work or the
leagues Indebtedness.
At the state reunion at Albany
last May, a new pension committee
was elected, composed of the state
commander and five brigade COM
manders whose duty it was specified
in the resolution adopted by the con-
vention, that the new committee wind
up the affairs of the league. Outside
of the efforts of Gen. J. D. Stewart
of your city and Gen. D. B. Morgan,
of Savannah, nothing has been done
The former was president of the
Georgia Pension League And knows
what has been done for the veter-
ans and widows of the state as he
says that the beneficial legislation
now on the statute books was done
largely through the efforts of the
secretary. Americas and Savannah
contributed literally to the fund to
carry on the fight, while Stacker
towns like Dublin, Atlanta and Col
umbus contributed very little to the
fund. Miledgeville contributed five
times as musch as Augusta. Dublin,
the home of the Division commander.
did not contribute a red cent, and
same can be said of the largest camp
in Atlanta. 1t appears that the men
who have been honored by the veter-'
ans the most have fought them for
years on the question of more PEN
sions. There was an exhibition of this
spirit at Albany and only few days
ago highly paid officer of the state
went before the senate and asked
/ that pensions be cut out entirely to
all veterans. That officer who has
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-17

North Winds will soon be going
South for the winter.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-17
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY

(From the Times-Recorder, Aug
ust IT, 191).
A MERICUS streets upon which eX
"A tension of the sanitary sewerage
system will be made will not be block
ed in as long as expected, as labor
saving machinery will to an extent,
be employed in cutting the deep
trenches in which the mains are
laid down.
Under the auspices of the depart
ment of agricultural extension ~
the State College of Agriculture,
there will be held near Plains en- Fri
day, August %, the annual farmers
institute for Sumter county. The
farm of J. J. Doz;er, near Plains, has
been selected as the place WHO'RE the
institute will be hei4.
Agriculturally speaking, this will
be banner year in Sumter county.
Fine crops of cotton insure an era of
prosperity, while abundant supplies
of corn, cane, potatoes, and smaller
crops are assured.
Miss Pearl Lott entertained charm
ingly Tuesday evening at her home
here for her guests, Miss Davis, of
Ocala, and Miss Smith, of Macon.
Mr.. and Mrs. James L. Glawson
will be at home to their friends today
at barbecue dinner at their pretty
country residence, six miles south OF
the city.
Mr.. F. H. Simmons and family
who have come from Savannah to re
side here, have taken apartments a
the Jackson House on Lee street.
School opens September Is in Am
CIRCUS, and the pupils will then be re
| introduced to their teachers.
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OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS

There was no change yesterday in
the condition of Capt. John L. Ad-
derton, and it is feared that the
stroke received Thursday was even
more severe than at first supposed.
Col. H. R. Johnson and Mrs. John
son left yesterday for the North, and
will spend some time in New York
City and at the Pan American.
Miss Clifford Delameter, the guest
of Mrs Henry H, Glover for sew
eral weeks at her home near the city,
returned to Atlanta yesterday.
Beginning late Thursday after
afternoon, rain fell continuously for
nearly thirty hours. Before daylight
yesterday wind and rain together
swept the county, though the damage
wrought was not material.
The seasons last big excursion of
the season to Savannah and Tybee is
scheduled for Tuesday, August 9th
and a number of Americas people are
planning to take last trip down.
After an illness of five weeks with
fever, Mrs Hardison. an estimable
lady residing at Fort Valley, died on
| Thursday even ag, the funeral exer
cises occurring there yesterday. The
| deceased was the mother Of Mrs 7
B. Haynes, of Americas, who attend
ed her in her illness.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY
Monday morning. No paper pub
lished
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-17

WIVES WHO FAIL
HER HEART
ECHOES HER
VANITIES
BY RUTH AGNES ABELING

III there had ever been beautiful
woman, she was beautiful.
There wasn't the least little flaw
from the tone of her wonderful hair
to her smart little shoes. She was al
ways that wayi She never let any
one catch her off guard. And she
knew that he believed her quite
perfect being and that he was proud
SO proud of this wonder girl of his.
She wasn't frowsy. She never
would be, because she spent 100
much time being something else -
and she knew that pleased him -
then.
And she carried the thing on into
the very heart of mis- home.
When he came home hungry, Gag
er to sit down at is own table and
do away with mount aims of food, she
reproached him ii he neglected to
change fresh linens and pouted if he
left off his coat.
Her Table
Her table was panorama of ex-
quisite dishes, with dainty foods
served so tremendously and in such
little bits that he became a regular
8 a. m. patron of Bill, the cX-saloon-
keeper, who still served giant sand
witches with his soft drinks, in his
little shop up the block.
When it happened that one Sun
day morning, when there was COM
pany in the house, he, possessed of
some freakish whim, elected to walk
about his castle without bothering to
don his shirt, she went into Mysteries
and was i'll for the remainder of the
day.
And so it palled-that thing which
had attracted him, because he was
given an overdose of it.
He discovered after year or so
Of sitting across the table from her,
that what he thought was beauty
was something of a masque. He
found that the permanency Of the
picture she made robbed her of her
charm and that when he needed sym
pathy and understanding her heart
was a void in which he found only
the echo of her own vanities.
And SO she failed with him be-
cause she lived only on the surface.
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WHEN A WOMAN TELLS
l Listen To John Ames' Dilemma.
BY RUTH AGNES ABELING

Listen To John Ames' Dilemma.
John AMES was smiling slightly,
~ a sincere smile that one must have
liked.
He led the way to the settee in the
living room, Just the other side of
the portieres.
Il know I haven't any right to
trouble you. but you seem to be the
only sane person in a chaotic world,
so | thought perhaps you woldnut
mind talking to me a little" he be-
BAN
eff there is anything I can do"
the words seemed SO weak, so futile
that / couldn't go on.
Il need someone who can see
things in a way that | can't and
tell me what is best; it is easy to be-
come SO blinded by our own desires
that our vision is all untrue-per-
hans | am that way now and-it's
about that that | wanted to talk"
| waited in silence for him to begin
speaking again.
81 thought until last night" he
began slowly, that life without Lila
would be unbearable | wanted to
hold her in spite of herself and in
spite of the fact that I knew she
didn't care for me-any more. She
had been the one woman in the
world to me and / had tried so hard
to keep her." His voice was wistful.
But last night l seemed to see
things differently thought-per-
haps there might be something else
after all, and that we might-be
happier-apart." The words were
coming hard. 1t was a new idea to
John Ames.
"She had always seemed like but
terfy to me, beautiful thing, so
delicate that the slightest touch
would mar her loneliness, the love-
illness which seemed to me to be the
only desirable thing in life-but-"
Finally, Would you do it?" he
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asked abruptly. #N
mean?" s
"Yes-and then" Again I felt
his eyes searching mine as they had
the night before in the upstairs room.
What would she do them"
asked, sparring for timex
"Why-ma~ry him, | suppose"
"Your brother? Would he get a
divorce, do you thinf?" | asked.
Don't you think so? Don't you
think his wife would be glad to have
the tie broken, for he is nothing to
her? They don't even make pre-
tense any longer"
The husband of the woman who
only few hours before had ac-
knowledged to me her affection for
another man was offering now to FIRE
another man was offering now to free
her and back of it was something
vaguely associated with myself.
Should / let them go on to some
think | know neither of them really
wanted? Should | agree with John
Ames that his plan was the wiser?
Should | snatch at something which
might be my own happiness-or
should / say the one word which
might bring them back safely from
the edge of the precipice?
The shadows were frightening in
the long. old room. | heard Lila
Ames' step on the stairs and her
voice in the hall. giving the maid in
structions. She was Just the other
siGe of the portieres, her perfume
was seeming the place. The door
closed behind her and she rode away.
Then they came-the words.
do you think he honestly loves
herr" Ny voice was strange.
Silence followed
IF l thought he was only fooling
| think I'd kill him."
Copyright 1920
ITO Be Continued)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-17
EDITORIAL

sMIS-SPELLING the title of Mus,
sci Shoals is almost univer-
sal" observes Uncle John Herring, in
the Triton Gazette. when the good
cid A. P. starts wrong, just about all
the newspapers follow. We have had
a great deal of difficulty in getting
the name corrected for our columns
from the press dispatches, and have
not always succeeded. The shoals
took their name from the mussel.
fresh water bivalve mollusk some
thing like clam, common to many
Southern streams, and to those OF
this section. Yet the title commonly
used would be taken from muscle, a
part of the animal body. While the
right name is Mussel Shoals and not
Muscle Shoals, the latter has such
long start that it is probable the
wrong name will go down to pos
terity.
We thought the same thing, Uncle
John, several years ago, until we
went to the sources of official infor-
nation and discovered that Muscle
Shoals is the correct and official spell
ing. Your suggestion as to the origin
of the name is obviously correct, but
the well-known Mr.. Webster says
that muscle is a Perfectly good way
to spell the word meaning shell
fish.
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been sucking the public teat for over
twenty years was none other than
John w. Lindsey, state pension COM
missioner. AS John Spencer would
say, didn't that blow your hat off in
the river?"
If all the camps in the state had
contributed their mite there would
be no deficit today.
| want to ask the veterans, the
sons and daughters of the sons and
daughters Of veterans if they think
it is right to give a comrade who has
done good work such raw deal as |
am getting.
W. T. CHRISTOPHER,
Former Secretary and Treasurer of
the Georgia State Pension League,
Montezuma, Ga. Co. c., 9Th Geor-
gia Regiment.
All papers that believe in giving
the oldest editor in Geirgia simple
justice are requested to publish the
above article.
w. T. c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-17
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

(From the Times-Recorder, Aug
ust II. t90D.
A letter received here Yesterday
conveyed the sad intelligence of the
death Of Rev. w. w. Walker at his
home in Franklin, Va. Mr.. Walker
was for five years rector of the Epis-
copal church in Americas and was
very much loved by the whole COM
munity.
Americas little neighbor down the
Central road, Sumter, will soon have
a commodious new Methodist church
as well as depot. The framing Of the
building is progressing and the build
ing will be completed during the
early fall.
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OBSERVATIONS

Mixing DRINKS also causes trouble.
With rents it is "put up or
shut up"
Vacation days all roads lead to
roam.
The real yellow peril is the price
of lemons.
Sometimes pessimist is the son
of an optimist.
A bachelor is a man who never
made a MISTAKE.
If you don't get a vacation this
summer you'll be rested up from
last years by next year.