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“WOOLTEX SUPERIORITY”
of style, fabric and tailoring
is not just advertising talk, it is an
actual fact that many of the best dress
ed women in Americus have proven to
their satisfaction. Ask any woman
who has ever worn Wooltex what she
thinks of it. Ninety-nine times out of
every hundred you will get nothing
but praise, if she complains refer her to
us for tho “Wooltex” people insist up
on making good any unsatisfactory
garment.
This season, “Wooltex” is even better
than ever before. The suits have that
different look of high priced custom
tailoring, the fabrics are prettier and
the styles are more exclusive.
Come in and let us show you how
stylish you will look in “Wooltex.”
“Wooltex Suits” $25.00 to $40.00
Other Si its $12.50 to $30.00
NEW DRESSES
T his is the “Great White Ssason,”
everyone is asking for white dresses,
the fashion leaders say “White,” the
manufacturers are making up quanti
ties of white dresses of all descriptions
and we are showing numbers of styles
in white lingerie and woolens.
It is not too early to buy now, its
just about the right time for you get
your choice of the stock and will have
your dress ready to wear when you
are ready for it.
Prices range from $2.50 to $30.00
Silk Dresses SIO.OO to $25.00
♦ Children’s
Don’t go to tin* worry
and trouble of making:
|L your daughter’s dresses,
,M send her down and let us
tit her in these pretty tail
or made dresses, they are
inexpensive i.ic'to $2.50
and are very satisfactory.
Numbers of styles to se-
Wash Goods, Linens
& White Goods
Our displays of wash goods, linens,
etc., give the store a very summery
appearance. It is time to buy your
clothes so we offer you a carefully se
lected line of voiles, 20c to 75c; tissues,
15c to 29c; ginghams, l()c to 25c; mus
lins, 10c to 20c; poplins, 20c to 50c; lin
ens, 25c to $1.00; linenes, 10c to 35c, in
fad almost anything in wash goods
that you could desire.
“The Store that Sells Wooltex”
A CALM APPEAL 10 COOL REASON
To the Citizens of Americus:
The question before the voters of
Americus at this time is a business |
proposition. It is not a question in 1
which passion or personal animosity j
or personal ambition should enter. It j
is. above all things, a question in i
which political planning for personal (
ends should not play a controlling
part.
Each and every voter should divest
himself of these false considerations
that have been improperly injected in
to the campaign. They have no place i
in it. The mind of every voter should
he divested of them and should analyze
the question purely on its merits as a
business 'proposition, for a business
proposition it is. pure and simple.
The question before you. as a citizen
end voter, is this:
Is there any necessity for a muni-,
cipal electric lighting plant in the City j
of Americus? Is there any real justi
fication outside of that existing in the
overheated imagination of a few pol
iticians, for the city to sell $50,000 of
bonds, the very last bonds it can leg
ally issue, and invest the proceeds in
an electric plant.
Much has been said about numerous
municipal lighting plants scattered
over the South. The fact has been
suppressed, though, that these plants
were not started in cities already hav
ing private plants meeting the public
needs, that these municipal plants
were not put in to fight already ex
isting plants. As a matter of fact, the
vast mass of municipal lighting plants
in the South were built in towns hav
ing no electric plants whatsoever.
They were built to meet an existing
need for such a plant. In a vast ma
jority of these towns having municipal
electric lighting plants there are no
gas works. The majority of them are
too small to permit of the presence of
a gas and an electric plant. In many
towns of a larger size the municipal
ity. owning the electric lighting plant,
has deliberately refused to either put
in gas works or to give a franchise to
private parties. This has been done
because it was feared, or realized, that
a gas plant would make the city in
vestment in an electric plant unprof
itable. To make the municipal elec
tric riant pay, the public has been de
nied the advantage of gas service.
This cannot be denied. It is abso
lutely the truth. Take our sister city
of Albany, Ga. It has been refused
the -privilege of gas for many years.
Only in the last few months did the
city respond to the demands of ths
people and provide for gas.
Americus has had gas and elec
tricity together for twenty-five years.
It had them when it was a town of
five thousand or less people. The city
government could not, or would not,
put them in. Private capital was in
vited, urged, encouraged to put them
i in. The investment by private capital
in a gas works and in an electric
lighting plant was welcomed as a
great progressive step forward. Pri
vate capital was welcomed and hon
ored.
As a result of these investments of
private capital the people of Ameri
eus have enjoyed the benefits of a
double service—gas and electricity—
while many other towns have been
furnished electricity alone and denied
gas. This is an indisputable fact.
Americus has today a gas plant ad
equate in every respect for its full
needs, for the needs of a city very
much larger. This is not disputed by
the advocates of a municipal lighting
plant.
Americus today has an electric
lighting plant equal to the needs of a
city twice its size. The advocates of
a municipal lighting plant cannot de
ny this. The verv man they brought
here from Atlanta told them it was .
good plant, fully adequate for ail
needs. As a matter of fact it can
generate sufficient to meet the needs
of twenty thousand people.
It is not claimed by the advocate?
of a municipal lighting plant that
with the money realized from the is
sue of $50,000 bonds they can pnt up a
plant equal to the. new plant now
here, and provide the outside service
it can he shown hv competent, un
biased experts, not parties seeking to
sell the city a plant, that this is th c >
truth. The city merely intends to
■provide you, the public, out of your
own bond money, with a plant and
general service inferior to (hat you
already have.
On what grounds is this to be done?
Why is it proposed, when Americu*
already has an electric plant adequate
for a town of 20,000 or more people, a
plant representing private capital, to
issue bonds to establish a competing j
plant for which absolutely no neces
sity can lie shown to exist?
The chief, the only, argument that
is put up by the main oratorical ad
vocates of the proposed bond issue, is
that the city will make money by it.
make money to reduce other taxes or
provide cheaper lights.
Is there any guarantee that it will
do this?
Review the whole bond issue cam
paign, think it all over.
Have you anything but words
words, words, words, without a scin
tilla of proof to back them up?
Have these advocates of a munici
pal plant come to you and tendered
you contracts with the city by which
you will get your lighting or your
power at 25 per cent., or even 15 per
cent., or any per cent, less than you
are now' getting it under rates sub
ject to State regulation?
Have you this, or any other tangi- i
ble proof, that you will get your lights '
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER.
or power cheaper if this unnecessary
plant is built?
Have you any assurance whatever,
except the empty vaporings, the idle
A CALM APPEAL—2nd onov.
utterances, of men who know abso
lutely nothing about the electric bus-
Men, who, despite their clam
or, have never presented any adequate
evidence that they know what they
are talking about?
Ask yourself if this is not true, if
every statement made in this open let
ter is not true.
Then think of the estimates they
have made.
Two years ago they told you a bond
issue of $15,000 was adequate. They
knew’ all about it then, just as they
know all about it now. You recall that
they forced a bond election for that
amount and lost it.
Now they insist that they can sup
ply a plant and service for $50,000 and
ask for that issue of bonds.
Were they right two years ago?
Are they right now? Have you any
assurance that they were then or that
they are now?
They went to Atlanta, before the
railroad commission sitting as judges, I
and presented a carefully prepared |
statement, which represented their
complete and final judgment as to the
value of the existing plants, the gas
works, the old electric and the new
electric plants, and their entire out
side service, extending to all parts of
the city.
They gravely told the railroad com
mission that the entire valuation was
$76,000. They paraded that statement
before the public of Americus.
They brought a young electrician
here from Atlanta to further mislead
you, a few days ago. He devoted
THREE HOURS to a complete study
of the three plants and the entire ser
vice throughout the city.
At a public meeting called by the
municipal lighting plant advocates he
presented his estimate. It was nearly
$120,000.
Is not this a further evidence of ig
norance on the part of those seeking
to lead you into this experiment?
The state railroad commission, hav
ing no faith in partisan and manifest
ly biased reports, sent an expert of
its own here. It took him FIVE
DAYS to do what the city electrician
of Atlanta did in THREE HOURS,
and then it took him FOUR DAYS t j
consider his data and prepare a re
port for the commission.
His report will soon be presented to
the public.
Which will you believe, the city en
gineer, who knows little as to gas and
electricity and who is not in a posi
tion to make an intelligent estimate,
and who made the valuation of $76,-
000, or the Atlanta city electrician,
who knew ‘it all in three hours and
made an estimate of $120,000, or the
expert sent by the state commission,
who gave nine days to the considers
tion of the question?
The voting public of Americus is
level-headed, sensible, intelligent.
Think over these things before you
vote, BEFORE YOU ARE LEAD INTO
SUCH AN EXPERIMENT AND
No Hope for the Consumer Under
Municipal Ownership.
Below you will find an extract from the 37th annual report of the
Railroad Commission of Georgia, 1909, —Page 195:
File No. 8802.
“W. A. H. Davis ) n ... . . , ,
f Complaints as to rules and rates
Douglas Light & Water Plant, j Flled May 4th ’ 1909 *
“The Douglas Water and Light plant is owned and operated by the City
of Douglas, Ga., and the rules and rates governing the service of said
Company to its patrons are fixed by ordinances of the City Council. The
Commission after handling the matters complained of with the city of
Douglas, and said city declining to change its rules and rates, insisting
that same were in all respects reasonable and applied without discrimin
ation of or against any one, advised complainant that inasmuch as public
utilities owned and operated by municipalities are not subject to super
vision by the Railroad Commission, it could not be of further assistance
in said matters.”
The following are the charges for the City of Douglas, Ga.:
Lights:
Ist 50 K. W. Hrs, .15 with discount of 10% if paid by 10th
2nd tSO “ “ “ .12*4 “ “ “ 10% “ “ “ “
AlLover 100 “ “ “ .10 “ “ “10%“ “ “ “
Power —All at 7 l-2c per K. W. hour,
We deal in facts—not personalities. j
Americus Gas and Electric Co. I
NEEDLESS EXPENDITURE AS IS
PROPOSED.
Americus has today an electric
lighting and power plant that is not
equalled by any plant in a city of 15,-
000 people in the South today.
It is proposed by means of an in
ferior plant, in the hands of politi
cians—for you cannot keep their fin
gers out of the pie— to break down
th ; s private investment, to destroy its
value, to leave you, with an inferior
Get in on
the fun
Ts yott enjoy a good laugh,
you shouldn’t be without a
Victor. Turn on the fun
whenever you want —an
abundance of jolly songs,
bright minstrel jokes and
humorous specialties.
Come in today and hear
the Victor and have a few
laughs.
victors $lO to SIOO. Victor-
Victrolas sls to S2OO. Terms to
suit.
Victor for Sale by
Will Dudley
ALLISON’S
Crockery Sale
Our customary annual sale of Crockery and
Glassware of odds and ends in both departments
gives our friends a money - saving opportunity
of investment that comes once a year, and es
pecially true at this year’s
Annual Clearance Sale, Beginning
Monday, March 4, Closing
Saturday, March 30
As usual during this sale, we make special reduction through ail
departments. We do not deem it necessary to make this a
announcement, as most of our friends are aware of what we mean
as they have visited our annual sales before. Enough t.o say yon
will be satisfied with the choice bargains offered.
Allison Furniture Company
Aiiisonmniding Americus, Ga.
plant, with a plant whose rates and
service are not subject to revision and
regulation by the state railroad com
mission as are those of the private
plant now here, and with absolutely
no guarantee that you will get cheap
er rates than the commission forces
: a private corporation to supply elec
| tricity for.
| You are asked to vote $50,000 for
! these local experts, to vote the last
dollar of bonds Americus can issue,
to spend the last dollar available for
years to come, for a plant much in
ferior to the one you already have, to
give you a poorer service, and, in all
likelihood, with absolutely no guar
antee that you will get lights cheaper.
Are not these statements all true?
Are the leaders practical?
Look back a matter of two years.
Consider the public record of two
leaders of this movement, aside from
all personalities.
j Did noj two of the chief leaders of
| this municipal lighting plant move
j ment, backed by others now instigat-
I ing this bond Issue, urge and seek to
force through council a plan to tear
down the Furlow High School build
ing and to use the bond money yo i
had provided, in the erection there of
a school building that ACTUALLY
HAD LESS ACCOMMODATIONS FOR
THE CHILDREN THAN THE OLD
ONE.
Suppose you had followed these
men then. Suppose you had taken
their advice?
Today you would be either renting
rooms for‘your children or two hun
dred or more of them would be on the
streets, deprived of an opportunity to
attend school, and you would be fac
ing the necessity of another large
SUNDAY, MARCH i; f
bond issue for a school building. Even
as it is, with the old and the new
building, the accommodations are toi
meagre.
These facts cannot be denied. They
are known of all men. They are mat
ters of public record.
If they were so impractical then
in such a vital matter as that what
reason have you to believe the;
are not equally impractical now!
They shouted almost as loud
ly to tear down the Furlow school
building and use your bond money to
put up a building with smaller accom
modations as they areynow shoutins
to TEAR DOWN THE EXISTING
ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANT ANI>
USE YOUR MONEY TO PUT UP K
SMALI KR INFERIOR ONE.
Are they safe leaders? They surely
should have known something abotii
the school proposition. They showed
their incapacity then. What can they
be expected to do in a matter in
volving something they know nothin?
about ?
Men may be conscientious in then
beliefs and at the same time he hope
lessly ignorant, hopelessly impracti
cal, absolutely unsafe as leaders.
It is not a question as to whether
these leaders are sincere. It is a
question as to whether they are mis
guided, unreliable, engaged IN' A
PROJECT EQUALLY AS IMPRAC
TICAL AS THEY WERE WHEY
| THEY SOUGHT TO REDUCE THE
I SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS AND
USE THE BOND MONEY TO SO
PURPOSE.
Think these things over. IT 1$
’ YOUR MONEY THAT IS TO BE
' SPENT. AMERICUS.
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