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THE TIMES-RECORDER
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus
Sumter County
Webster County
Railroad Commission of Georgia For
Third Congressional District.
U. 8. Court, Southern District of
Georgia.
Americus, Georgia, February 4,191 S.
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PAfUGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING~|
* the hooverized homt.
The practical view of the Hoover
ized home, a s seen by the Houston
Pest:
We're eating rye bread at our bouse,
With cornbread on the side;
We’ve corn meal mush at breakfast
time,
At noon we have it fried.
We eat no wheat, we eat no meat,
And we’ll soon form the habit
Os eating carrots every day,
Just like a doggone rabbit!”
Monday ought to be a closing day
for some people’s mouths.
Close up everything else on Mon
days, but keep your ears and minds
open.
These short skirts make the ladies
appear like they have gone out un
awears.
Man’s “grand passion of life” is
something he talks about when he is
flirting with a girl.
It makes a man mad to see a fellow
who owes him a lot of money riding
around in a new automobile.
There is this much to be said in'
favor of marrying old maids —you’ll
find them grateful and willing to
please.
Most of these people who are com
plaining about having to eat corn
meal are the very ones who were rais
ed on it.
■“Raise More Chickens,” says the
Augusta Chronicle. Are you address
ing your remarks to poultry fanciers
or to parents?
“Eat more oysters,” advises the
Thomasville Times-Enterprise. Hon
est, we don’t see how it is possible
for us to do so.
Now is the time of the year when,
at daylight, the little birds in the
trees begin to call to their mates—or
to some other birds’ mates.
We have no objections to men knit
ting. For that matter, so far as we
are concerned, they can also use pow
der puffs and carry knitting bags
around with them.
As a boy our idea of the world’s
greatest man was t he fellow who
chewed tobacco and could spit clean
across the street straight between the
barefoot boy’s toes.
Now if they would pass another
“fifty-fifty” law, requiring purchasers
°f plug tobacco to also buy eleven
pounds of assafoctida and a quart of
•castor oil, how happy we would be!
Every time Bunk Coopers’ la wprac
tise runs down, he begins advertising
himself by running for some office.
This time he s running for the Sen- ]
ate, again. Mr. Cooper's friends are
confident that he will poll at least
three or four hundred votes about
ft Estate.
UP TO THE FARMERS.
The farmers of Georgia, and else
where for that matter, should study
the story of the foolish virgin.
It is applicable to them in regard
to raising their own feedstuffs. There
is going to be ah even worse shortage
than there is now, unless the farmers
raise more to eat for themselves. And
so few of them appear to be planning
to do that.
The Times-Recorder is informed
by a number of Americus merchants
that farmers who are customers of
theirs openly state that they propose
to raise more cotton this year than
they have ever done, so as to receive
the Benefit of the extraordinarily high
market now prevailing.
This will be all right, if the farmer
also raises more foodstuffs, for both
himself and his stock, than he has
£ver done.
There would not now be such a
flour shortage had the farmers grown
enough wheat to furnish bread for
their own tables.
Indications are that the planting of
wheat, oats and other cereals in Sum
ter county will be no larger than, if
as large as, the acreage of last year.
As a matter of fact, it should be doub
led. Every farmer with a few acres'
to spare should sow it in wheat. He
should plant th e largest truck gar-j
den he has ever done. He should
raise more corn and velvet beans.
should grow more potatoes, of the two,
kinds. Then, if he wants to, let him
cultivate more cotton.
One of the chief objects of the
present stringent food administration
is to force the farmer to feed himself
more entirely than he has been do
ing. It is to teach him not only the
wisdom, the economy, but also the
genuine necessity, of living at home.
The Times-Recorder realizes that
the farmers of this community have
been handicapped this winter by un
usually bad weather conditions,
are cramped also by unsatisfactory
labor, but it hopes that the stalwart
and very intelligent tillers of the soil
in Sumter county will demonstrate
tbeir commonsense and their appreci
ation of values, to say nothing of
their patriotism, by doing their share
in the food crisis.
A PUBLIC SERVICE.
The American Sugar Refinery has
just spent an enormous sum, not less
than a hundred thousand dollars, in
advertising reasons for the sugar
scarcity.
This advertising was not intended
particularly to promote the interests
of the company, nor to popularize
with the eating public any especial
brand of sugar, but served almost
solely to explain why sugar is short
and high.
It was an advertising appropriation
patriotically made, and it has un
doubtedly accomplished a splendid
purpose. The Times-Recorder itself
has read the advertising statements
with interest and profit, and we are
sure that the readers of our paper
also have a clearer understanding of
the facts which caused such confusion
and uncertainty in the sugar sup
ply.
Without reviewing in detail the ex
planations of the American Sugar Re
finery Company, the fact stands out
that sugar is scarce because there are
not enough ships to transport it from
the producing countries, because of
strikes in the refinery, because a lar
ger supply than ever before has been
sent to Europe for the soldiers and
the Allied nations, and because the
home consumption has been heavily
increased. Principally, though the
lack of ships, which absolutely pre
vents the transportation of sugar
from Java, has contributed to pres
ent conditions.
It is certain that but for the exer
cise of the powers of the food admin
istration, in fixing a maximum price.
and regulating the distribution and
sales, sugar today would be even
scarcer, and would be bringing prob
ably twenty-five cents a pound. Al
most any well-formed jobber will
agree with that statement.
The sugar refinery company is per
forming a public service in enabling
the people to learn the whys and
wherefores concerning the sugar sit
uation.
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“O TEMPORES, 0 MORES!”
If the old gentleman who wrola
“Nothing is new under the sun” were
l-\ing today he would probably say,
instead, “Nothing is surprising under
the sun ”
No mtater what happens these days,
the world hardly bats an eye.
A few year 3 ago the mere thought
of a Russian revolution, resulting in
the overthrow of the seemingly pow
erful Czar and his autocratic en
trenchments, would have been unbe
lievable. But it happened, almost in
the twinkling of an eye, and the world
was interested only for a day.
A ship may sink, with the loss of a
thousand lives, and it does not even
occupy the leading headline.
A great battle ig fought, and thou
sands and thousands of men perish,
and less than a week afterwards there
are only a few who can recall the de
tails of it.
Changes of government, of dynas
ties, of national destinies, have come
so swiftly, so frequently, that the
world is becoming used to them.
Nothing startles any more.
Who would have predicted three or
four years ago, that the people of the
United States would ever have expe- 1
dienced, and accepted, a conscrlptive'
military system?
Who would have dared to predict:
a time when a man, in spite of great!
wealth, could only buy so much coal l
as a government officer allows him to*
have, and then no more than the man!
with just a few dollars in his pocket?
Who could have predicted the gov
ernment control of railroads?
Who would have proffered the sug
gestion that in less than six months
this country could organize and trans
port to France an army of half a mil
lion?
No matter what transpires nowa
days, the world receives it complac
ently. We have become so accustom
ed to great events, so used to the un
usual, so satiated with the surpris
ing, that nothing ever occurs to really
stagger the brain.
Whatever is, is—and that's the way
the people feel about it.
We honestly believe that if the for
mal official announcement were made
that the world was coming to a posi
tive end on February 15, the people
would go on about their business, just
the same as usual, and be engaged at
it when the end did come.
Even the little things of life have
become inconsequential. Acts and!
words, that a few years ago would,
have shocked, are now commonplace.
Sometimes, even, they are called clev
re. Public costumes, formerly thought
shocking, are now tame. Manners are
different, people are different, every
thing is different.
Verily, this is a jaded, onnchalant,
heedless age!
The single men of Americus had
best make the most of the short time
now- left them. Wchn all the uniform
ed boys of the aviation camp get ac
quainted here, no civilians need ap
ply
New Intelligence Director.
LONDON, Feb. 4. —Major General
feir A. Lawrence has taken over the
control of the Intelligence Depart
ment at general headquarters in
France in succession to Brigadier
General John Carteris. The office
has charge not only of military intel
ligence, but also of all matters con
nected with war correspondents, cen
sorship, photography and visitors to
the front.
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A COLUMN OF CLIPPINGS
Aviation Base For Americus.
Congressman Crisp has secured for
his home county, Sumter, an aviation
base which will bring millions-of dol
lars of government money to that
county. Seventy machines and about
1,000 men will be sent there to begin
with. This base will be located about
four miles from Americus. There
will be three unit aviation fields and
the cost will be about two and one
half or three million dollars.
All this has come through the ef
forts of Congressman Crisp, and we'
congratulate him and the city of
Americus and Sumter county on this
splendid achievement. We feel espe
cially interested as our attachment
is yet strong for our old home town.
We first saw the light of day in old
Americus —well, some few years ago—
and the fond recollections of child
hood and schoolboy days are still en
shrined in our memory and are stow
ed away there ever and anon to be
cr.lled up to remind us of the halcyon
days of our youth. The old school
days when discipline was preserved
with peach tree switches and hickory
limbs, where the blue-back spelling
book, Smith’s grammar and Robin
son’s arithmetic were drilled into us
in such away as you would never for
get, which makes us think sometimes
i
that some of the old ways, at least,
i were the best. We remember when
i the hero of the school wa» the boy
who could lick any boy of his age or
within ten pounds of his weight. A
great many of us had to go barefoot
ied summer and winter, and wore
clothes made of “daddy’s” old ones.
We remember the old home place on
the hill surrounded by acres of rocky
land where we used to keep our big
toe “freshly stumped” and had al
most a perpetual stonebruise. Bet
ter than any moving picture is the
panorama of events as they pass be
fore our mental vision portraying the
wonderful events of childhood’s hap
piest days.—Editor T. L. Bailey, in
Cochran Journal.
It Would Help Some.
A few spies swinging from the bus
iness end of a rope or backed up
against a wall and practiced on by our
sharp shooters will do more to stop
the chain of fires that are starting
throughout the country than all the
: fire apparatus and water that the na
' tion can get together.—Columbus En
i
(.uirer-Sun.
The Sohrt Skirt Question.
One or two struck sisters have had
something to say about this paper
rapping at immodest clothing. The
modest woman does not care what we
say about the dress of the immodest,
and we don’t care what the immodest
say about us. But there is a sad and
solemn fact like this. The women
who pose as social or church leaders
should be very careful, for it is upon
them rests the modesty of the coming
generation o f girls. If th e younger
generation sees a supposedly leading
woman with skirts about half way
to her knees very naturally the
youngster does not think it very
wrong to go about half naked herself.
Modesty is the greatest attribute that
our women have, and when they pawn
it -to pander after the styles that
bring question our future womanhood
is a thing that a public journal should
take up. It is as much our business
to protest against the women dress
inb immodestly as it would be for
us to protest against profanity being
used in their presence, and we have
yet to find one modest woman ob
jecting to it. Rob the Southern wo
men of their modesty and we are
poor indeed, and five inch skirts lead
us to poverty along these lines. “No
tjiief ever held the halter drawn with
good opinion of the law,” nor does
an immodest woman like to see or
hear of her rags being questioned—
that’s all—Bainbridge Post-Search
light.
A rattlesnake always rattles before
it strikes, and thereby makes itself
known, in this respect, as well as in*
others, the raUlusnake is decidedly
more honorable than the writers of'
anonymous letters.
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