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OFFICIAL ORGAN for City of Amerlcus, Sumter County, Webster County,
■allroad Commission of Georgia f or Third Congressional District, U. S. Court,
louthern District of Georgia.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, MONDA Y AFTERNOON, JUNE 28, 1915
DIXIE COMING INTO OWN
The awful spectacle of a world in arms which we are forced to con
template today must recall with a peculiar vividness to many men and
Women north and south the horrors and desolation of another struggle
which was concluded, happily as we all now believe, just fifty years ago.
When we consider that the wealth of the whole United States in 1850
was estimated at a little more than $7,000,000,000, and that the cost of
the war to the South has been conservatively figured at $4,000,000,000,
we may gain some faint notion of the material burden under wdiich the
South slowly arose to work out her destiny.
The situation she then faced was one to daunt the stoutest hearts,
It involved a re-organization of the w'hole economic and social structure
in a land mourning the loss of the flow’er of its youth and manhood w'ith
broken credit, capital destroyed, industry prostrate, and streams of im
migration diverted. To the burdens of the reconstruction period were
added the paralyzing fallacies of the greenback issue and the nation-wide
disasters and stagnation of the panic of 1873, and the five lean years
which followed. Not until 1880 did the South begin to come into her
own.
In 1880, the agricultural capital of the South was $2,762,000,000, and
the total value of its agricultural output $756,000,000. The cotton crop
was 5,761,000 bales of which the South used 179,000 bales and the North
1,610,000. Oply about $330,000,000 were invested in manufactures, the min
eral output was $18,000,000, the railway mileage approximately 25,000 and
the population 18,600,000. With these figures in our minds, let us attempt
the construction of a concept of the industrial South today.
The population of the South In 1912 had risen to 33,475,000, and the
railway mileage to 90,930. The population of the whole United States in
1880 was about 50,000,000 and the total railway mileage 93,000. In gen
eral, it may be said that the South today is in a far stronger position
industrially than the entire country Yvas in 1880. It cuts mornre lumber,
mines nearly twice as much coal, produces nearly four times the petrol
eum, and nearly six times the spelter. It has more looms and spindles
and a much larger investment in manufacturing plants. Its agricultural
capital is greater and the products of its farms are worth fifty per cent,
more. It makes nearly as much pig iron, and twice as much coke as the
whole country produced only thirty-five years ago.
Agriculture is still and always will be the greatest business of the
South, and the backbone of its prosperity, although even now the value of
manufactured products exceeds by nearly $900,000,000 the revenue from its
farms.
WE CAN BE PROUD OF THE COMMISSION
The American people have a right to feel proud of the work of the
American Relief commission. What American energy and intelligence can
accomplish under the most discouraging conditions is entertainingly dis
closed in the Literary Digest, in quotations from the report of the com
mission and comments thereon, as follows:
American business methods have never achieved a greater triumph
than in Belgium. The American Commission for Relief in Belgium, in
their report just issued, makes this abundantly clear when they state
that they have accomplished the seemingly impossible task of supplying
the Belgians with $65,000,000 worth of food on an actual contribution
amounting to only $10,000,000. The secret lies in the fact that the differ
ence between these two sums has been supplied by the Belgians them
selves, under conditions which called for the most skillful financial opera
tions. (
By degrees, the commission has extended its banking business, until
it is now able to find money to enable the commmunes to pay their officials,
run the schools, continue necessary municipal works, and to save the
country from anarchial conditions by thus rendering civil government pos
sible. t
The Bird of Prosperity is right in our midst if w'e will only look for
it. But, we are too much like the children who were not contented with
their lot. They searchel the woods for a bird of happiness, forgetting
that they had caged up in their own home the real bird of Happiness, the
Blue Bird. Each one of cs has a bird of prosperity in our own sphere of
territory.
A man’s idea of keeping house, while his wife is away for the summer,
consists of hiding the bottles and watering the flower boxes the night bo
fore she returns.
~~lt will take Georgia many a year to live down the disgrace of having
to call out the militia to protect the governor of the state from a mob.
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER
Sunshine Pours
Into Our Lives
Over the Wires '"X
“Wish all the child
ren married and living in
different places the Bell
Telephone is essential to MV
our happiness. We can If iKm.
call any of them, day or JHJHv
night, and hear them as
well as if they were right
“Very often one of the girls calls me by Long
Distance and we have a pleasant visit of five minutes
or more. You’d be surprised to know how little it
costs as compared with the joy and satisfaction.
“When any of the grandchildren are sick and I
am called at night, I simply reach for my extension
telephone and talk without moving from my bed.
Often I can give advice and direction that saves lots
of worry.”
Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station .
/? AV SOUTHERN BELL telephone
IsSy? and telegraph company.
DOCTORS DISCUSS SURGERY
AT ASSOCIATION MEETING
(By Associated Press.)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28.—1 t Is
now possible to weigh a person’s head
without the fatal inconvenience of de
taching it from the body, according to
a method announced by Dr. C. D. Spi
vak, of Denver, to the American Med
ical Association here.
Dr. Spivak described the apparatus
which he has contrived by which it is
possible to weigh different parts of the
human body. By means of a pair of
scales with sliding weights made like
a seesaw and by the aid of compli
cated mathematical formulae, the
separate weight of any part of the
body can be determined.
In his address as chairman of the
Section on Obstetrics, Gynecology and
Abdominal Surgery, Dr. Thomas S.
Cullen of Baltimore reviewed the pro
gress of abdominal surgery in the last
twenty-lve years, pointing out that it
is now' possible for any competent sur
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geon to open and explore the abdo
men with perfect safety to the patient.
He told of the wonderful advances
that abdominal surgery had made in
the last twenty-five years and show'ed
that the death rate from abdominal op
erations had decreased from 25 per
cent to about 3 per cent.
Two papers on ulcer of the stomach
presented before the Section on Sur
gery attracted general discussion. Dr,
William J. Mayo of Rochester, Minn.,
stated that in his experience ulcer of
stomach often cause deformities which
than in women and that it is often
mistaken for cancer. Ulcers of the
stomach often cause deformities w'hcih
seriously interfere w'ith digestion and
may be followed by cancer. The rela
tion between ulcer and cancer of the
stomach was discussed by Dr. A. .f.
Ochsner of Chicago, who claimed that
there w'as increasing evidence of the
infectious nature of cancer.
Although local public health organ
ization in America is over two hun
dred years old, it is still the weakest
part of our defense against disease,
according to Dr. J. W. Kerr of Wash
ington, D. C., Assistant Surgeon-Gen
eral of the United States Public Health
Service. In many rural districts no
attempt is made at health supervis
ion, while in other places, the compen
sation is so small as to make satisfac
tory public health work impossible.
These conditions, Dr. Kerr said, are
largely due to lack of recognition by
the public of the value of full time
health officers to the community. Re
cent advances in Maryland, New York
and Massachusetts providing for san
itary districts and reasonably paid
health officers encourage the hope of
better things in the future. In Dr.
Kerr’s opinion, physicians should not
only advocate public health w'ork, but
should engage in it to a greater degree
than heretofore.
Want Column
WANTED—Miscellaneous
WANTED—To lend S9OO on a farm
in Sumter county. H. O. Jones. 25-cf
Yearwood’s Barber Shop.
PHONE 245.
White Swan Laundry Agency.
I can save you money. Everything
returned but the dirt.
23-2 w
WANTED—The public to know that
I have a thoroughbred Jersey bull for
services. Henry R. Johnson. 10-lm
MONEY LOANED—ShouId you need
any money, call to see me, I am pre
pared to secure money now at 61 per
cent, interest, on impro r ed farm lands
Loans promptly made. R. L. MAY
NARD, Americus, Oa. 3-1-ts
FOR RENT
AT TEN DOLLARS —Six room house
bath, gas and screens. Dr. Davis.
25-3 t
FOR RENT—At $S small five-room
house; new; water and phone furnish
ed. Phone 154. og.g t
) ■ L. G. COUNCIL, Pres’t Inc. 1891. H. 8. COUNCIL, Cashier
> C. M. COUNCIL, Vice-Pres. T, E. BOLTON, Asst Cashier.
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j Planters’ Bank of Americus
CAPITA!, SURPLUS AMD PROFITS $210,000.00
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MONEY LOANED!
We make farm loans at 6 per cent interest and
give the borrower the privilege of paying part of
principal at end of any year, stopping interest
on amounts paid, but no annual payment of
principal required.
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THE ALLISON UNDERTAKING COMPANY
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