Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-28
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ARE we wasting what we are spending for defense?
Throughout the civilized world the troubled as
they read of the the debbmdened nations spending
armies and navies
Is any wonder? H. N Hickey his Washington dispatch
today shows that the nations will spend FIVE billion dollars at the
very lowest estimate this fiscal year. preparing another
And that isn't the end of the question by long shotl
Is all the being we'll spent from standpoint OF national
defense?
Much money here America going for huge surface
baHleships
ever build battleshipsl
Can be that spending millions type of defense
The London Daily Mirror edtoaly the lessons of the
and demands What Is The Use of Batteshp? The Mir
incidentally of the England pub
shed by Lord Rohermere brother of Lord Northchfe.
HERES how the Mirror the wars lessons that
a. bateshp building is than useless:
Il We see that greatest danger during the came
from submarines in 1917 and 1918.
q That had the Germans been fully provided with subma
and ruthlessy used them 9 A. instead of
later should have lost the
3 That feet remained great peril lurking behind the
shelter of Northwestern could
stay of mines submarines and the aircraft that
will be much deadly in the
n That when out for big action could not
stay enough decisive victory
s. That its surface activities all along restrict
ed by peril under the sea and in the air and that
unable the growth upon the Belgian ho
of these which
Nor was able definite detailed superiority the
enemy.
The old historical Armada persisted because it was obsolete
Shall we build money to do within
der to make old mistake over agan?"
So the London Daily Mirror Many other British papers
take the attitude
Can be that the United States are pouring out our gold
tor defense that would defend per-for
brous surface fleet that apanes and submarines would easily drive
to cover?
SOMEBODY asked Miss Alice Robertson new congressoman
from Oklahoma whether she going to have anything to do
with running the the House Representatives she
ing cafeteria in private life
And she answered: My constituents didn't me to Wash
but myf
desire me to represent them in other intending
anything spectacular and unseemly.'
You speak good Miss Robertson And importing the
quality of good Washington you performing national
service.
Your remarks should point to the numerous variety
male lawmakers who think the performance of prn-
cpa function legislative service The hoppers Of eve state %
sate full of their freak bills intended be passed But
having attained brief hour of publicity they have their only
purpose
Then again Miss Robertson your words right
men os who have been expecting bizarre and foolish things
from For the benefit of all such YOU have
demonstrated there equality of
new equality of civil rights.
hank you Miss Robertson.
Nut Johnson of Kansas had name changed by law Yes
he is a To-pekan.
You don't need blue laws make blue Sunday provided you
paint the town red Saturday night
Ioddlmg has age limit any longer
takes kind of courage eorned beef and
cabbage IN swell restaurant.
Cartoonl must their pictures of coal barons They
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Disarmament is aone it applies to
local banditry also.
Owners of canae needn't worry although the congressional
committee has voted free Seeds Something
about it.
When light burns late in neghbor basement reminds
Of that poem, Oft in the Silly Night
There 0000 900 bachelors this country Kansas girls
need not dread the proposed law to tax old maids.