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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29
More National
Pride Needed

4 certain amount OF humility
in nations Is a good thing.
No one likes to see any peo-
pie too chesty.
But it seems to have been
Americas fate to run either to
one extreme or the other,
From the Civil War to the
World War we were the chest
lest people in the world. No
body could touch us-we were
the people for whom the sun
spun through. space.
Now we seem to be inordi-
nately humble. Does a diatin-
guished foreigner reach our
shores, what do we ask him
first? Ism it always " What do
yru think of America
We're too worried about
what others think. The first
thing is to get our own estimate
of ourselves sized up properly.
Then we can go ahead and work
for the goal our chesty ancestors
set for us, and stop bothering
about what our neighbors think
or saw.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29
ED IT O RIA Z s

teal fortunes Of those made by it,
We have got rid of it in the CLASH
fled departments of the civil service,
to eyerybody's benefit But never
with the willing consent Of Congress
Pressure was always necessary. from
the president and from the people.
Yet in those services. the spoils
system produced nothing worse
than extravaganza, inefficiepcy, IA
voritism, injustice and minor graft.
in the prohibition service it has
meant all these, and corruption and
contempt Of government besides.
The announced policies Of General
Anderson promised Improvement,
Senatorial interference will make
has probably already made-that
Improvement impossible.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29

Politics wins! General Anderson
is not to have his non-political en-
forcement service organized on bust
ness principles, but must submit his
appointees to the political approx
al of the senators of the states in
which their districts operate.
And, of course, the high-class
executives whom he had sought to
supervise prohibition enforcement
would not accept appointment ON
these terms, even if they could gel
it, which is unlikely In fact, many
of them had already told him that
they would have the same opportun-
ity to accomplish results that they
would have in business-that is,
control of their own subordinates
and the authority to pay them the
same compousations that business
would pay for similar services.
These are precisely the two things
which politics win not permit. SO,
if we get rid Of the present corrup-
ton and inefficiency in the prohi-
bition service, it viii probably be
only to see it renewed in other
hands.
Political patrouage-monging and
loyal enforcement do not mix.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29
A SAFE REMEDY WOULD
BE TO BITE OFF LESS

Let France take warning Of Car
thaqc When the ancient Punic
nation got so engrossed in business
that it hired foreign mercenaries to
fight it's wars, that began the de-
cline which ended in its complete
destruction by the citizen armies
of Rome.
Centuries later, Rome suffered
an analogous fate. France, though
for different reasons, seems to be
.risling the same rash experiment.
African troops in Europe, and now
German mercenaries and American
adventures in the Riff, are a dan
gorous beginning The reason, to
be sure, is that France is under-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29

Don't Hold
Checks Cash En-

The American Bankers AS
sociation, through its press
bureau suggests that it is not
good policy to carry u,odnd a
check for ain indefinite time be-
fore cashing it.
The advice is sound.
First of all, it's easy to mislay
a check. If you carry it around
Endorsed and then lose it, the
finder will find it as negotiable
as specie.
If it gets worn or dirtied in
your wallet the signature may
become almost illegible and your
bank may refuse 10 cash it
Further, it causes serious IN
convenience to the bank, The
bank keeps its books carefully
balanced, and a check that IS
made out but not cashed Tor
some time brings no end OF an
noyancc.
When you get a check, cash
or deposit it at once.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29
CHURCHES:
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
JOHN Nj. OUUTLER PASTOR

Sunday school at $50 a. H.,
Myble Marshall Superintendent.
rms IS we'll organized graded
school and unless already connect
ed with a Sunday school we invite
you to attend.
Preaching at II a. m. and 1880
p. m. by the pastor.
Prayer meeting Wednesday night
at 1890.
The Epworth League and the Jun
Tor Missionary Society will meet at
6:30 Sunday evening.
The pastor having been absent
for some time will be DELIGHTED to
greet his congregation and friends
. at the services Sunday morning and
evening.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29
II Years Ago
This Month

Eleven years ago This month
the German armies were push
ing On through Belgium and
France to the very outskirts OF
Paris. A great war was on. In
those mad days and tne years
that followed neither side could
afford to count the cost.
But it IS still the morning after
the great fight Nations really
have just begun to count the
cost They have just started to
pay the bills of warfare. The
longest battle is still being
fought.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29
6.L(N)K!gN56 ....-.
AHEAZ2 ##-=-

1t won't be long till summer Is done till nat,uo fill
course Of beauty has greens will e TURNING 70 br
and TO red And what do you see if you'e lool head
A blanket of snow that has turned tleEand white AMI J
things brighter and softer at night pond that S ~
where skates may sway, and folks bmdet uD in
sleigh - ~ ' en-
Ga
A curling of smoke from chimney nearby and = b.z RI
snowstcrm DER spreading the sky folace where oos SLOW
" crackle and snap, younger vitears tucked far md
his cap. - : Is
coal who's walking along bv is team and a,o half
frozen and clouded by jam the traffic wind
beaten cop and bottles with cream freez over the ton
II won't be long now till sumner ndone till sy old r,cl
Frost starts at havin his fun CompIanof heat IS tor that's
cid Cheer up, you will soon be compiling of cold
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29
IIniv,.saI;sf Church

Rev J. N. #,asnake, Supt., of the
UnjvorsalisG Gurchcs of Georgia
wit occupy th pulpit at the Unlver-
ealist church 1n Tavlor street at
both molmingand evening services
Sunday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29

city of PIippi with Paul and Silas.
Hear tha preach, and see its eff
fects the.
Mornir worship, HOO, A spe-
cial musitl program and Pastor
Branch III deliver a special ser
mon on 9eam Work" or working
together Gods service.
B. Y. U. 700.
EVENT. service, 500. A great
song serve of popular hymns and
several s'ciaI selections by the
choir, F5tor Branch speaks on
"The Haor of the Soul" Has your
soul a H'bor in which it can rest
during ii storms?
The ornance of Baptism will be
administeed to several candidates
at the els of the Evening service.
You are rdially invited.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29
GpGC CEE1g
Justice

a Chicago judge tried
pleasing novelty at the start of
the Russell Scott insanity trial.
Attorneys prepared to make
an extensive examination OF
each prospective juror. The
usual result doomed IA week
wasted in The selection of II
numbskulls.
However, the Judge ordered
the attorneys to make their ex-
pminaiions short and to the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29
SHOULD WE HAVE
SIGH POLITICS?

Why should there be this sort Of
"politics" in the prohibition or amy
other service? 1t does not improve
the public service. Neither, gener-
ally, does it better the personal pol
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29

And when liver airplancs are
common ever house viii have
''no parking'' sign painted in the
roof.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29
Letters From
the People
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

We wish to express our aprecia-
ton to all who helped us during the
great sorrow that came to us in the
death OF our precious baby, Marvin.
We shall ever be grateful to Drs.
Emmett B. Anderson and Rerschel
A. Smith, also those physicians who
consulted with them from time 10
time for their heroic fight to save
the life of the little sufferer.
Nor hall we forget the noble er-
forts Of all the officials and mrs
es Of the Americas hospital. Espe-
cialiy do we mention the faithful
ness Of Mrs. D. J. Jordan. Mise
Gladys Goodman and Miss RUBY
Moan. WY
To Res John NJ. Cutler. Joe NJ.
branch md E. T. Moore we extend
our tnanA for the prayers and
words OF Smpathy, while the ten
qeF message delivered by Rcvs II
- '7il'fieN Il. Wilson and our
l'''a'oi' D. o1Winn, will always be
Ct 5 ~, 90 oI Pnsolation to us
me me sweep Song. by Mrs. J. J.
li5 ii also IN hymns by the choir
Miss Carilu hrvn,, -; memory.
tba,I-s F faI. t zurich, deserves our
@-,,,-.,,' LII ioL 7OfIV to carry out our
- ' do Itthe songs render
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29

National Advertising Representatives, FROST
lands & KOHN, 29S Fifth Assnae, New York;
Peoples Gas Bldg. Chio4soi Walton Bdildins.
Atlanta.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29

the use for the republication Of all die.
patches credited TO il not otherwise credited to
tbia paper sud also the local news published here.
b. All right Of republication Of special dispatches
are reserved.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29

Recent figures showing The
alarming manner in which the
number Of crimes in America
tops the number of crimes in
other countries, such as England,
have brought the country to the
realization that something sinp-
Iy must be done to curb the spir-
it Of lawlessness that apparent
Iy has become an American in
stitutiOn.
While were looking for
cures, wouldn't it be a good idea
to ask ourselves whether this
prevalence in crime is in any
way connected with our nation
al passion for passing all kinds
of laws without stopping to
consider whether they are really
needed or can be enforced.
- - -
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29
EDIT . RIAL s

point. So each juror was asked
little more than if he was IN
biased and could give Scott a
fair trial.
That s refreshing. Would that
more judges would get the same
idea.
Russell SCOTS success in get
ting into an insane asylum and
thus away from the gallows has
aroused all kinds OF comment
from the rest of us-most of it
highly indignant.
greatly about it? He's safe, and
one. Why should we worry
he can do no more harm to any
But stop and think a minute.
An insane asylum is not d pleas
ant place to spend ones entire
life Even a hardened criminal
might actually wonder if it real
ly were preferable to hanging.
And, besides, Scott is where
so are we. Let's forget it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29

Entered ss Rooond eisss z4ste7 81 the post Office
e. Americas. Georsis. according to the Art Of
Congress.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-29

0te2s BY NEA SERVICE ~
Evening star., 1925-03-31
Man, Aged 81, Made
Railroad Director;
Got Lucky Start
Rise Of Henry S. Sturges
Due to Chance Meeting
With Banker in France.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 31.-Henry S.
Sturges, 31-year-old assistant to
George F. Baker. chairman of the
First National Bank, yesterday was
elected director of the Erie Railroad
Co,
Sturges' first opportunity came as
the result of a chance meeting dur
ing the war, when, as member of
the A. f. F.. he met W. V. {. Rux-
ton, who in civil life was a partner
in a Wall Street investment firm. At
the end of the war Ir. Ruxton, who
had been impressed by the young
Evening star., 1925-03-31
Swedish Radio Gains.

Since the first of the year, when
daily radio broadcasting service from
the new stations in Gothenburg and
Palmo, Sweden, was started there has
been very marked increase in the
sale of radio apparatus, especially in
Gothenburg. The Stockholm programs
10 large extent are now relayed
from these two stations. Four thou
sand fans have taken out licenses in
Gothenburg.
1t is reported that in Gothenburg
alone there were sold during January
about II 900 crystal receiving sets,
10000 head sets, 5000 tubes and al
most 200 complete receiving sets, to-
gether with large quantity of parts
Of all kinds, the sales amounting to
almost 100000 crowns.
Evening star., 1925-03-31

- btAAN ~ W aa''s 49, -
being filmed and
presented in the
educational cam
paign which Yale
has so strongly
financed. Rev. Mr..
Stokes was for
many years rector
of st. p a u | s
c h urc h, New
Haven, and he was
SO greatly in de-
mand for marry
ing his former
C ] a S $ M a I e S or
pupils at Yale that
he became inter
nationally known
as an ally of Cupid.
n,yf hn t-altn-,tirh al
Evening star., 1925-03-31

terranean village; the officers quar-
ters, the movie houses, the cabarets.
In front of the power house is black
hole with rotted wooden steps-the
famous entrance to that great dugout
Which housed hundreds of German
troops
From this desolate, hill stretches a
wide and bleak panorama, dotted with
half-rebuilt towns whose names are
written blood-red on the pages of
titanic conflict, among them Naptil-
lois and Madeleine Farm.
Not far away are Malincourt and
Avocourt, Dead Mans Hill, EXermont
and Hill 240, where the Americans
had a prison camp with 10000 Ger
mans in it; Cunel, on that memorable
ridge with its fountain monument to
three Boston boys. Almost the only
original house left in Cunel is the one
in the basement and barn of which
the American field hospital was To-
Gated. Apremont, Fleville, Romag gne,
Dun sur Meuse, mecourt--they are
on the circle OF that swing of the
Americans from Varennes and Grand
Pre-.
Dozen Rebuilt Houses.
At Esnes, village of colossal traffic
jams where the American munition
trucks wallowed through the mud.
there are perhaps a dozen rebuilt
houses among the debris. II was in
clear little brook at Esnes that l
found an American tin hat with a
hideous cash across its top.
And the people in these half-recon-
structed villages? Except for the
children. there is hardly a face un-
scanned by tragedy, and not a face
that Is without an amazing cheerful
ness. BY common consent. these folk
seem to go about their tasks with a
smile, however sad the smile may be.
1t isn't good form to NOPE ones
lot is no verse than ones neighbors.
Life is bitterly hard. But it is, after
all. life, and one owes something of
CHEEKY endurance to the memory of
those millions who no longer live.
| have visited so or 40 of these
towns. Nowhere have ! found any
thing but admiration and gratitude
for Americans. Nowhere have |
found that eagerness to lay hands on
the American dollar about which
Americans who know their France
only frCm the Paris cabarets some
times complain. e..
americans" these villagers ask
"ah: we remember well--' The
food Of reminiscence breaks. Their
faces light up. 1t is no preteuse, that
fash of gratitude. They back ii with
the utmost proof of sincerity; they
offer to share with you, as with an
honored guest, their less than frugal
meal.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1925-03-31

man, offered him a position with his
company, which Sturges accepted.
In this connection he made an
analysis about two years ago of the
Erie Railroad which so impressed
Mr.. Baker, who Is heavily interested
in that railroad, that he offered Mr..
Sturges a position as his assistant
lin the First National Bank.
Evening star., 1925-03-31

negroes of this country, and in further
ance OF this he passed several years
in the Tuskegee Institute of Alabama.
During the World War he became the
first educational director under the
Y. NJ. c. A. and received the medal
of the Legion of Honor and other for
eign decorations.
Last Autumn Rev. Mr.. Stokes accepted
the invitation of Bishop Freeman to
come 70 Washington and be affiliated
with the Cathedral chapter. He Is ac-
companied by his wife, who was Miss
Caroline Green Mitchell, daughter of
Clarence Green Mitchell of New York
City. The marriage occurred in 1909
and was followed by trip around
the world. in which lengthy visits were
made to Japan, China, Java and India
Mr.. Stokes acted as president of the
Yale Foreign Mission during this tour.
He published "A number of valuable
books as result of his observations.
He is the son of Anson Phelps Stokes,
sr., and his wife. Mrs. Helen Louisa
Phelps. and his childhood was passed
in that beautiful estate near Lenox
Shadowbrook..
Evening star., 1925-03-31

ceeded for the Boston navy yard late
yests rday. where it will be hauled out
and repaired. The submarine sailed un-
der its own power
Evening star., 1925-03-31
FUNDS SHORTAGE
HALTS REBUILDING
MontfauCon Visitor Still
Finds Much Devastation
! Left by War.
BY Con nSolidated Press.

BY Consolidated Press.
MONTFAUCON, France, March 81
\ Nfwar which has lasted four years
and engaged most of the nations of
the world cannot end when the last
shot is fired. The symbolic proof of
tlAS is Montfaucon.
After the lighting is done, comes
the dreary battle of economies. Take
whichever side you like, or be indif
ferent: this is a dispatch written in
9e cold light of present day facts
if1d the facts are that the French
government has cut down, and in
many cases entirely cut out. its ap-
preparations for rebuilding devastat-
ed villages. The French government
says ii cannot afford money for this
work because the German repara-
tion payments have not come
through. Whatever the cause, the re-
suit is the same to those people in
the Montfaucon area.
1t was the Americans who cap
tured Montfaucon, that town on the
hilltop where the Germans had been
quartered in luxurious security for
almost four years. Some 342 yards
high and very steep, the mount was
the chief hill of the Meuse- Argonne
lront and its capture by the 18th and
B7th Divisions on September -, 1918,
was one of the greatest achievements
of the war. The American push had
begun with the taking of Narennes
by the Pennsylvanians, that village
where Marie Antoinette and Louis
XVI were turned back on their flight
from Paris. In u days Montfaucon
had fallen and the Germans were
being swept out of the Argonne in
a series of hand-to hand battles of
HomeriG feroCity. With the fall of
Montfaucon, Verdun was on its way
10 being saved. After Varennes and
Montfaucon, the German retreat in
creased in speed TO an utter rout,
without the reGaining of an inch on
the Argonne front.
Ghost City Today.
To-day. The town of Montfaucon to-
day is a ghost city on an empty hill
ItfScore of avenues run between piles
Off crumbled stone and gaping walls.
The new town of Montfaucon is in
the valley on the Verdun side, a
handful of streets, a few dozen houses
of wood and stucco. a. sprinkling of
people who, in the rain-cold days of
Spring, do not go in for such unat-
tainable luNuries as coats and UNI
brellas.
One house alone has been rebuilt on
the hilltop. 1t is the large, square
structure which many American
doughboys will recall. on the left of
the Crown Princes tower as you face
toward Nerdun.
No soldier who scaled the precfpi-
tous sides of Montfaucon will forget
the Crown Princes tower, from which
the prince used to look at Verdun, IL
miles away. 1t was ii tall concrete
structure on the edge of the cliff, with
dugout beneath it which was the
last word. in comfort, but the tower has
lately caved in.
Underground City.
1 Beneath Montfaucon's ruins there
Is an underground city of passage
ways and dugouts. built by the Ger
mans during their long visit. The
power house. not-far from the Crown
Princes tower, is today a commodious
concrete room with its machinery
rusting and silent. Here was gen
Grated the electricity to light the sub
Evening star., 1925-03-31
Submarine Limps to Harbor.

NEWPORT, r. l., March 3i-The
new United States submarine S-44,
which struck . rock south OF Conanic
Island, off Newport Harbor. in dense
fog early last Saturday morning, pro-
Evening star., 1925-03-31

IL you want work. read the want
columns of The Star
Evening star., 1925-03-31

parochial work to become secretary and
manager of the Phelps Stokes Founda-
tion for education, especially among the
Evening star., 1925-03-31
FOLKS

Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, canon of
the Cathedral of IS. Peter and Paul,
is the director of the Yale history
Evening star., 1925-03-31

LandslideS in Peru have practically
tied up the railway connecting the
mining district with the coast.
Evening star., 1925-03-31
Copyright, 1925

John Walker, an English chemist
made the first friction match in 1921
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-12
WILSON SCHOOL
MOVEMENT
H|TSSNAG
Wilbur Quits Association
Formed to Establish
Memorial College.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 12.-
R)-r Re Woodrow Wilson Memorial
association organized recently by
small group of government employees
and others to raise funds for Wood
row Wilson Memorial university, has
en- inferred the withdrawal of Secre-
tary Wilbur as an honorary vice presi-
dent and open disapproval of its
method of organization by n former
member of the cabinet under the war
president.
After calling on Mrs. Woodrow Will
son here yesterday, Josephus Dan
iels. who served as secretary of the
navy in the Wilson cabinet and was
one of Mr.. Wilson's intimates among
his official associates, made this state
ment in regard to the memorial as
ISOLATION:
Il do. not think n memorial uni
V rsity like this should be undertaken
without first calling a conference of
men who. are known TO have been
close friends of Woodrow Wilson,"
The manager and principal organ
izer OF the association, y. W. Lowell,
a former newspaperman. is charged in
lawsuit filed against him here with
having given a worthless check for
500 to a hotel in Orkney Springs,
Va.
r. Moulton Petty, an auditor in
the Internal Revenue Bureau. is presi-
dent of the association which was
organized for the announced purpose
of raising $5,500,000 for a memorial
university near here on the Virginia
side of the Potomac river.
Information that the closest friends
Of the war president did not look with
favor on the project was given by
Secretary Wilbur as the reason for
his Withdrawing his name. He had
assented verbally to its use. he ex-
planned after being informed that a
number of prominent men were &C.
cepting honorary or active association
with the undertaking.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-12
GANCSTERS GET "A
YEARS FOR Staying

CHICAGO. Nov. 12.-CP-John
Scalisi and Albert Anselmi, members
Of the notorious Genna gang, who
killed q policeman. were found guilty.
of murder and their sentences were
fixed at IA years Imprisonment by a
jury today.
Their victim, Harold Olson, was
shot in a pistol battle in which an
other policeman, Charles Walsh. and
Mike Genna, gang leader. were killed.
Robert f. Grow, states attorney, who
had sought the death penalty, an
nounced that Scalisi and Anselmi
would be tried at once on another
murder charge in connection with
Walsh's death that a verdict of
hanging again would be sought. The
defense asked for new trial.
Self-defense was the theory Of the
def nse's closing arguments, which,
with the states plea for death, oc-
cupied four days. Scalisi and Anselmi
contended they did not know that the
automobile which drew up alongside
theirs contained policemen and so shot
in self defense. The trial was en-
livened by bitter clashes between OPP
posing attorneys and charges by
Patrick II. 0'Donnell, chief defense
counsel that the Gennas had been
making monthly protection payments
to scores Of policemen to obtain i'm
munity in their alcoholic manufactur-
ing and bootlegging operations.