Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-13
NElGHBORING VET SCORE, S
GEN. THOMAS SOUNDIY
w. I. Christopher Tells Some Inside Politics In
Confederate Circles-Says Clique Has Fought
| Against Aid For Old Soldiers and Widows

Editor Times Recorder: The best
way to bring about reforms is to put
the deeds of men in the limelght and
as Bobbie Burns said, "See themselves
AS others see them" The writer. like
the rest of his comrades, is an old
man, but does not like chickering's,
fusSing and fault finding. He loves
the old soldiers and the widows OF
departed comrades as the labor, time
aud talent devoted to their we'll being
full attests, by putting money in their
pockets to make their latter DAYS as
easy and comfortable as possible, but
he will not be imposed on or allow
others to be treated wrongfully with
out prot ;t. He hates political trick
cry, ingratitude, double dealing, de-
ception and cZarism worse than the
devil hates hoy water. He abhors
sham, over weaving ambition ard
J7nus-taced ! eople who merit the
contempt of all fair-minded and hon
est-hearted men. We are all human.
Precious few of us possess Christlike
attributes. If man slaps you on
the cheek, you do not present the
other to be slapped also. as the Good
Book tells you to do. You simply
look around for a rock or a brick
and knock the daylight out of him on
the spot, and you would not take time
to pick out any particular spot. his
nose would fit brickbat as well as
any other part of his anatomy. If
you made that nose look like a
mashed tomato that would make you
feel good for the insult of having
your face stamped. Self preserva
ton Is the first law of nature" and
the man who will not resent an insult
is great big nobody, spelled with
cap N. In Wobster's old blue back
speller most of us used in our school
boy days. in the back of the book an
old farmer found a boy i'll one Of
his apple trees He used mild per,
suasive language to get the boy to
come down and let his apples alone
but the boy refused and gave him
sass back, SO the old farmer knock
ed the boy out of the tree with piece
Of turf. and the turf contains more
clods and dirt than grass. SO the
young rascal was brought to his
senses. The writer has tried the per-
suasive method and it will not work
and has decided to use grass turf with
hard clods that will hurt, so he has
decided to hew to the line and the
chips can go to the devil for what
he cares. If these palpable facts hurt
let them hurt. it's not his funeral. He
is not to blame for the faults and
misdoings of Others
AThe division commander and his
N too" fellows have always oppos.
ed the increase Of pensions. He was
opposed to the organization of the
League at Dublin and tried to choke
it off and utterly failed. Simply be-
cause he did not favor increased pen
sions, like little JORGE car he OPP.
posed everything he could not boss,
and all of the other so-callcd generals
did as the division commander, fought
the old soldiers and their widows
old men who carried a gun and took
four years of privation and hard
fighting under Johnston, Lee, Gordon
men who were sure enough gen.
erals. How man or set of men
could have the nerve, the over-devel.
Just arrived, a beautiful lot Of
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