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The
Ladies
Who
Appreciate
Good
Shoes
Will be
greatly
interested
in our
showing
of
NEV/
STYLE
SLIPPERS
and
PUMPS
for
SPRING
•and
SUMMER
These
Slippers
hav&
character —
They’re above
the level
of the
ordinary shoe.
We have
every new
color, style
size and width.
We are
experts in
fitting feet,
years of
experience
has been our
teacher and
we do it
correctly
TILLMA N
BROWN
Litters of Feet
WILSON GRIS ON THE
NIIIONR GUM OF
- BORDERLAND ON DUTY
Continued from Page l.i
ary near El Paso, Tex.
i WASHINGTON, D. C., May 9.
I After a brief cabinet meeting today,
Secretary Baker, of the war depart
ment formally announced there are no
more troop movements contemplated. I
EL PASO, Tex., May 9. —Arrange-.
meats for another conference between I
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General Hugh L. Scott, represeaiting |
,the United States military forces, and
General Alvarez Obregon, representing
the Carranza government in Mexico,
are being made early this afternoon. At'
’ Obregon’s headquarters at 2 o’clock itl
was stated the meeting will take place j
I late this afternoon.
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Americans Escape From Mexicans
EL PASO, Tex., May 9. —Seven
American employes of the Porto Rico
I del Boquellas mine, near Boquellas, on
,tbe Mexican side of the border, and
Corner Powers, another American cap
tured by Mexicans by Mexican bandits,
> overpowered their guards and escaped
Ito the border today. News of the ex-
I ploit was received here in a message
■ from the eight Americans who brought
three Mexicans across the border with
them as prisoners.
Arredondo Hastens to Explain.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 9.
Arredondo, the Mexican ambassador
designate, told Secretary Lansing, of
the state department that he had in
formation to establish that there is
no truth in current reports that Gen.
Obregon demanded that American
tioops withdraw from Mexico. He also
denied that Mexican de facto govern
ment troops has been so disposed as
«,to threaten Gen. Pershing’s lines of
ccmmunication.
Before leaving the state department,
j Senor Arredondo gave Secretary Lans
j ing information, which he asserted
j showed the recent raid on Glenn
j Springs and Alpine, Tex., had been
planned on this side of the border, and ;
that other similar incursions are be- I
ing planned.
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I BUR KILLED AND HI XDKED . |
INJURED IN EXPLOSION
i NEW YORK, May 9. —At least four
men reported to haev been killed and
Aiundreds others more or less serious-
L injured in dynamite explosion at I
wrfrks at Las Powder Company, Lake j
Hopatcong, New Jersey. Owing to |
{lsolated ; osition of plant only meagre ■
, details obtainable. Explosion shook'
JCUntry, wrecking houses miles
uxxund. Some reports placed dead I
I high as fifteen.
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Ever Get Mad as
Fury with Central?
Ever get mad as fury
when you were discon
nected right in the mid
dle of a talk? Most of us
have and we have “burn
ed” the wire trying to
find out why it happened.
This is something that
i is liable to occur. Work
ing with a great many
cords in a small space,
the operator may move
yours and disconnect
i you, leaving you in the
middle of a word.
Less than ‘one out of
every hundred calls gets
{ in this trouble. 99 per
cent efficiency is good,
but we are trying to im-
| prove it.
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SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY (JjU
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I'. E. UESriJKOOES, Local Mgr.
•Imericus, Georgia
STANDARD PRICES
AID COMPETITION
The Stephans Bill Encourages
Rivalry In Quality.
REAL BENEFIT TO PUBLIC.
False Pretense In Merchandising as
Practiced by Big City Steres Is Meth
od Used to Injure Small Dealers and
to Destroy Small Towns —Dishonesty I
Can’t Benefit Consumers.
The true competition is between
rival articles, a competition in ex
cellence, which can never be main
tained if, through the perfidy of
the retailer who cuts prices for
his own ulterior purposes, the
manufacturer is forced to compete
in prices with goods of his own
production, while the retailer re
coups his losses on the cut price
by the sale of other articles at, or
above, their reasonable price. IT
IS A FALLACY TO ASSUME
THAT THE PRICE CUTTER
POCKETS THE LOSS. THE
PUBLIC MAKES IT UP ON
OTHER PURCHASES. Fixing
the price on all brands of high
grade flour is a very different thing
from fixing the price on one brand
of high grade flour. The one
means destruction of all competi
tion and of all incentive to in
creased excellence. The other means
heightened competition and inten
sified incentive to increased ex
cellence.
This language, used by the supreme
court of the state of Washington in a
unanimous decision of the ease of the
Fisher Flouring Mills Co. versus C. A.
Swanson, clearly sets forth the inter
est the consumer has in maintaining
the highest form of competition—that
of quality. Competition in price re
sults in inferior quality and the evil
of substitution. Dishonest advertisers
use cut prices on standard and widely
known merchandise to lure customers
into their establishments, where an
effort will be made to sell anonymous
goods.
The genuine bargain is used as “bait”
to spread the impression that all mer
chandise is sold at the same low mar
gin of profit If this impression can be
created the cut rate merchant can sell
unknown goods at as high a figure
as his conscience will permit him to
charge—and his conscience is elastic.
Nearly every man’s is more or less so
where profits are concerned.
A Bill to Protect the Public.
Representative Dan V. Stephens of
Nebraska and Senator William F. Ash
urst of Arizona have introduced in
congress "a bill to protect the public
against dishonest advertising and false
pretenses in merchandising.” A simi
lar measure was introduced in the last
congress by Representative Stevens of
New Hampshire.
It ought to be axiomatic that the pub- j
lie cannot profit through dishonesty or
through false pretenses. The Individ- |
ual may make a pecuniary gain; ’
thieves, burglars and confidence men
occasionally escape paying the penalty (
of their crimes and are pecuniarily bet-1
ter off. But the public, the victims of
the successful criminals, loses.
The Stephens-Ashurst bill provides
for standard and uniform prices on ar
ticles sold under a trademark or spe-'
cial brand, with the widest possible
publicity for buyers and sellers. Oppo-1
nents <,f the bill—adherents of dishon
est advertising and users of false pre
tenses in merchandising—have de- >
dared that, it will encourage monopoly j
and prevent competition. The}- have
tried to make consumers believe that!
it will increase the cost of living, that j
it will raise the price of everything
sold in any sort of store.
No Monopoly Possible.
The bill does not encourage monop-1
oly, because producers who have a mo- j
nopoly of any particular line or who
make an agreement with a competitor
to maintain prices are barred from I
taking advantage of the privilege of j
preventing discrimination by contract
ing for the resale of their goods at uni- i
form prices. A no matter I
how it is gained, cannot do business I
under the terms of the Stephens bill. |
On the other hand, cutthroat compe-1
tition in price has always been the
chief weapon of monopoly.
The bill will not raise prices and in
crease the cost of living. Producers ,
already have the right to sell their [
goods at wholesale at any price they '
can get, at what they are worth. The |
proposed legislation merely permits the (
producer to control the retail price, and
if he puts this too high—higher than
the public is willing to pay—then bls I
goods will not be sold and he loses.
The cut price storekeeper that sells
goods at a loss does not stand the loss;
be passes it on to his customers. What
lie loses on one article is made up, or
more than made up, on another. The
use of cut prices on standard articles
for tile purpose of drawing customers ,
into the store with the intention of ;
selling them something else, that is '
where “dishonest advertising" is found .
and where “false pretenses in mer
chandising” injures the public.
Cut rates by big department stores
enable them to kill off the small store j
and the small towns. Those residents I
of rural communities, villages and the I
lesser cities who want to see their I
home folks injured that the large cities
may grow richer and larger should
naturally oppose the Stephens bill.
Those who desire to see their own
vicissitudes prosper should support the
principle of uniform standard prices.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
The Gala Night
OPERA HOUSE
Thursday, May 11th
ONE DAY ONLY’
| “The
Transgressor”
Made in Americus with
Americus people, by Man
hattan Motion Picture Co.,
of New York City
Continuous from
3 p. m. to 10:30 p. m.
ADMISSION
10 15 and 25c
drinking WHISKEV
61 JURORS IS OIL
GROUND IN MOTION
SAVANNAH, Ga„ May 9.—Judge W.
W. Lambdin took under advisement
late Monday afternoon the motion of
M. M. Lowrey, former cashier of the
defunct Americus National Bank, of
Americus. It will likely be several
days before his decision is handed
down.
That jurymen in the United States
district court in this case, in Macon,
several months ago, took on an aver
age three “gentleman’s drinks” of
whiskey a day, was stated by Deputy
I nited States Marshal Riley. Lowrey
was found guilty by the jury and sen
tenced by Judge Lambdin to five years
in the penitentiary for making false
entries in the bank’s books.
On the ground that the jury was
permitted to have whiskey and drank
it at will while in the Hotel Lanier at
Macon, Lowrey is now asking for a
I new trial. Deputy Marshals Cooper
|and Riley made affidavits that some of
I the whiskey was furnished by order of
| Judge Lambdin, one of the jurors
.stating that he was ill and had to
have it.
In testifying at the hearing of the j
motion, Deputy Riley said the other
jurors drank up this sick juror’s liquor
and took about three “gentleman’s
i
drinks” a day each. He defined a
I “gentleman’s drink” to Attorney W. D.
McNeil, of Macon, as “about half a
, w hiskey glass.”
i Deputy Riley testified he gave the
jurymen whiskey on Saturday after
roon and Saturday night, after the
case was over for that day, but said he
j didn’t remember giving them some on
I the following Monday before noon'
I while the case was still being tried.
Deputy Marshal Cooper testified he
i took one of the jurors to the Elks’ club
■ in Macon, and got him whiskey, which,
.however, he himself administered to
the juror.
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] GOTTON MARKET
| AMERICUS, Ga., May 9.—The Amer
icus spot market shows a rise, with it
■quoted today as follows:
Good middling 12c
Fully middling 11 3-4 c
i Middling 11 l-2c
The Futures Market.
The futures market opened Tues
day, steady with quotations:
Open Noon
January 13.09 13.15
‘May 12.66 12.70
July 12.76 12.78
October 12.92 12.94
. December 13.05 13.09
( losing Market Quotations.
January 13.45
May 12.92
July 13.04
October 13.21
December 12.38
Cy Summer Wisdom
In the sizzly times ahead “How to Dress” is
’d'jwvWoi Half the problem of “How to Live.”
W Your body,overheated and fretted in woolly
, f k V \ft clothes, cannot do a fair day’s work,
yj Jw
Palm Beach is the logical wear for these sun
i A n baked day s.
\ H l/\ h washes as r£? adily as fine linen.
villi \ It invites the breezes and subdues the sun.
I Cool, porous and sightly—it offers the sane
■ [ffl \ solution to men seeking summer ease and
Kyi | comfort.
M t For the street ’ the office, the club—for shore
/ or country—Palm Beach is the Ideal Summer
PETUXE'SUMMER CLOTHES
There’s only one cloth that bears the name
More New Pa ,m Beach. The words are trade marked.
Shirts
Demand Palm Beach ny name, end ask io
Just Received see the label.
Monarch Shirts $1 00
Arrow Shirts $1.50 xxr rx rx -i
sportshirts 50c, $1.25 W D, Bailey Co.
00 YOU LOVE YOiJfl bOG?
THEN HEAD THIS LOCAL
Glenn Hooks, Mgr. of the ever popu
lai Hooks’ Pharmacy, is the author of
a statement, which, backed by a gilt
edge guarantee from this house, will
be very acceptable to owners of fine
dogs.
Mr. Hooks has a preparation known
as VAN WYCK’S SURE CURE FOR
BLACK TONGUE WIHCH HE ABSO
LUTELY’ GUARANTEES to cure any
case of BLACK TONGUE.
Having tried this preparation, and
knowing that it will surely do the
work, I have no hesitancy in guaran
teeing the same. Glenn Hooks, Mgr.,
Hooks’ Pharmacy. Phone 75.
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♦ Big B. Bread *
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* your Grocer or ♦
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FOR THE BOYS
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Palm Beach Suits, Woolen
Suits, Odd Trousers, Blouses,
Shirts, Sport Blouses, Sport
Shins, Underwear, Neck
wear, Hosiery, Collars etc.
Prices to suit everyone’s
purse.
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Automobile Lively. Day and Night
Phone day calls to 302 or 67
Phone night calls to 111. Safety First
f i in
; HERBERT HAWKINS
J Insurance and Surety Bonds
Specialty—Autos at 2 pet ct.
L Planters Bank Building • ’Phone No. 186
d ■ ~ ' — f 1
j Americus Undertaking Co.
FUNERAL BISECTORS AND EMBALMERS '
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3 Mr. Nat LeMaster, Manager
Agents for Rosemont Gardens
Day Phones 88 and 231 Night 661 and 136
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