Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-16
EDITORIAL.

it seeking to disrupt the present state
highway department and road build
ing program is to be commended.
But the danger is not past. Other
bills of similar purpose are pending
before Agricultural Committee No. 2
of the house. 1t is to be hoped that
this committee will prove as far-see-
ing and interested in the welfare of
the state as a whole as the highways
committee, and disapprove the ruin
Gus highway measures before it.
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ONE of the strangest things in ma
something that determines
whether you are to be a success or a
failures reported by a man just
back from fishing trip in Canada.
He saw a school of thousands Of
baby salmon trout, about half as long
as pins, swimming in military forma-
ton, following a leader.
THAT leader looked just like all
the rest" says the fisherman "What
made him take charge of all the
others? And what made the others
follow him as naturally as the rear
wheels of a jitney follow the front
wheels?"
If you can fathom that problem,
you have the secret of success-and
the whole science of government.
The fisherman took minnow net
and caught the trout leader. I'M
mediately another baby trout took
the leaders place and the school
swan on without an instants pause
Is that just instinct? Human be-
ings do the same.
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wv Chicago, 100 unemployed ne
groes thought they'd found a way
to escape rent. Along the tracks of |
the Illinois Central railroad, they |
built dugout, like those back of the |
lines in France during the war.
The railroad is evicting them.
The important news in the incident |
is that those 100 men had found it |
impossible to live together without |
establishing well organized govern
ment. They had their own city coun-
Gil, mayor, judge, police force
and quartermaster's department.
You can't get away from this thing
called government.
If you were shipwrecked on
South Sea island with two friends,
it wouldn't be 10 minutes until one
of you three would become ruler
step forward as leader, begin to
give orders and take the initiative in
hunting food, building shelter and
selecting location for beacon fire
to attract passing ships
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WILD geese fly in wedge forma-
- ton. Shoot their leader and the
formation will close up without stop
ping, a new leader taking the for
mer's place
Shoot the leader of wild ducks and
the flock is confused They head for
the nearest marsh, and, after much
quacking, soar up again with a new
leader Do they elect him? Indians
say, yes.
Even the timber wolves, hermits
by nature, run in packs during the
winter, as a combination for war,
for acquiring food
In parts of China, men live with
out. religion.
In ancient Sparta, they lived with
out the family institution.
Bat wherever men congregate, that
organization called government is in
evitable. It's natural law-to have
a leader.
The end Of a perfect day, these
days. is cool night.
Ex-President Wilson is writing
book. Bet it begins, MAY I Not
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One Of the eternal mysteries i,
how your neighbor can afford a bet
ter car.
Ex-Kaiser Bill wears his uniform
only at dinner. Maybe he attacks
his food.
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Three hundred bandits captured,
says headline. Don't cheer; it hap
pened in Egypt.
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= Toronto professor says he ha
fluid that will make man tel
s. al his secrets: So had we once!