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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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Arthur Lucas. President; Lovelace Eve, Secretary;
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For Third CougressAonal
District.
0. S Court, Southern District of Georgia,
mitereu as oecond-Class Matter at the Fostoifice at
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FAIRPLAY AND ACCURACY—-The Times-Recorder
strives always for fair play and accuracy. Any injustice
in the news or editorial columns or any inaccuracy will be
rectified gladly, and anyone calling our attention to un
just, injurious or inaccurate statements in this newspa
per will have our sincere thanks.
NEXT WEDNESDAY THE TEST.
Next Wednesday will be a test of citizenship for
every voter in Sumter county. By his vote on the per
manent highway bond proposal will every voter register
himself either for or against Sumter county; for or
against progress; for or against better rural schools and
churches; for or against making rural life more attractive
to the young people on the farms; for or against bring
ing the good things that can come only to the larger
communities nearer to his own family by making it
possible for his family to have easier access to them.
It is human nature to be a bit selfish —we are all of us
more or less selfish. The accusation of selfishness has
been made against some communities where there has
been some opposition to the proposed bond issue. The
Times-Recorder doesn’t believe this charge. But if this
charge is true, certainly those holding the fondest hopes
for the success of the bond issue can look to those com
munities for the heaviest votes FOR the bonds, for no
other proposal has ever been submitted in Sumter county
that should so appeal to the selfishness of the individual,
since it offers every opportunity for individual benefits of
every description along with the community benefits. On
the other hand, if the charge is untrue, certainly nothing
is to be feared from adverse votes from these communi
ties for, with only a magnanimous spirit as their guide
and the good of the whole community uppermost in their
minds, their ballots will be overwhelmingly cast for
bonds and progress.
LEST WE FORGET.
One year ago yesterday spot cotton was selling in At
lanta for 36.35 cents per pound, the highest price since
the war between the states. Yesterday spot cotton in
Atlanta brought about 9 cents per pound less.
One year ago America was just getting into the
great war. The markets of the world were stopped to
her; th* energy of the whole world was centered on
war. Today the war is over, industries are rapidly re
turning to normal, exports for the current crop are al
ready more than 300,000 bales greater than last year, and
peace will be signed within a few days w’hich will permit
the sending of cotton into the impoverished nations of
all the world. Cotton a year ago was WORTH 36.35 cents
in Atlanta; TODAY IT SHOULD BE WORTH MORE
THAN THAT FIGURE, instead of much less.
The farmers have had a bitter lesson, and in these
days of good planting weather and optimism of better
prices for cotton to come they should guard against the
temptation and the whisperings of the mill interests and
speculators to plant a greater acreage than their pledges
to a reduction of one-third will permit. Therein lies the
only solution to the cotton grower’s problem. HE HAS
THE WHIP IN HIS HAND AND IF HE DOES NOT USE
IT, IT WILL BE TAKEN FROM HIM AND USED ON
HIM.
The Atlanta Constitution sounds a timely “Last Warn
ing” to the cotton planter in the following language:
“The next few weeks is going to settle the fate of the
1919 cotton crop—as to whether it is bring fair prices or
low.
“Planting is now under way, and soon all the seed
that will make this year's production will be in the
ground. I | I | |
“We repeat, that if the farmers plant a big acreaeg,
not a greater acreage than, but even as great as, that
devoted to cotton in 1918, they will be setting a trap for
low prices this fall!
“There are today unsold around 8,000,000 bales of last
year s cotton crop, which have been and are being held
for higher prices.
“Os that amount perhaps not to exceed oen-half will
be disposed of between now and the time when the new
crop will become available.
“On this basis there will be carried over, as a sur
plus, to be added to the 1919 crop approximately 4,000,000
bales—by far the largest crop surplus on record.
“This 4,000,000 bales pitched on top of another large
crop would inevitably produce a collapse in the cotton
prices next fall.
If, however, this year’s acreage is held down to
reasonable proportions, to an acreage necessary to pro-
j A VERSE A DAY. |
THE CHANGE.
ALL the daytime I belong
To the solemn-coated throng
Who with grave, stupendous looks
Study cash and ledger books,
Or who go,
Staid and slow,
On sad business to and fro.
But when twilight comes, I range
Over topics new and strange,
Wasting all my leisure hours
On gay birds and phantomflowers,
Or I sing
Some mad fling
Through the impish evening.
Yes, and when the moon goes by
Rocking in a foamy sky,
Then I swear I’m more akin
To the laughing Cherubim
Than to those grave men who go,
To and fro, to and fro,
On sad business to and fro.
GEORGE ROSTREVOR, “Eescape and Fantasy.”
duce, say, not to exceed a 9,000,000 or a 10,000,000 bale
crop this fall, the world's demand will assimilate the
1918 crop surplus with the new crop, and all of it will
be marketable at fair prices.
. “Last year the South devoted 37,000,000 acres to cot
ton.
“Another such cotton acreage with favorable weather
conditions, would spell calamity!
“A crop of less than 30,000,000 will produce more
money than can be produced from a 37,000,000-acre
crop.
"The reasonable, the sensible thing for the farmer
to do, then, is to put himself in the way'to receive more
jnoney from his cotton by holding his cotton acreage
down and devoting the remaining acreage to the produc
tion of other crops—food crops and feed crops for live
stock.
“That policy will make this year the most prosperous
in the history of the cotton belt.
“This is a final warning!
/ “The next few weeks will tell next fall’s cotton
story.”
i THE NATIONAL PRESS. |
Mission of The Air PatroL
With the swearing in yesterday of twenty-four avia
tors as members of the new police reserve flying corps,
New York starts forehanded preparations for a day that
will soon be here—the day ■when the skies will be
speckled W’ith ’planes and dirigibles bearing passengers
and freight. Distant as that day may seem to the con
servative, one has only tq recall what a brief spell ago
it was that the automobile was in an infancy which by
comparison makes the present development of dirigible
and airplane seem supreme perfection.
At first the new “fly cops” will have little to do. Near
as it may be, traffic of the sky has not come yet.
11 hat will they do when on duty? There will be no “fami
ly entrance at which to stop for a friendly chat about
the boys with Jake, the bartender. There will be no inti
mate little neighborhood affairs like the payday night
scrap of Rooney and his wife, to furnish amusement. As
for taking forty winks on post, the “fly cop” doing it
would wake up to find himself automatically dropped from
the force.
But premature as these appointments seem, it will
not be long before there will be traffic cops hovering over
the Woolworth building, the Metropolitan tower and
other high spots. For traffic rules must be formulated
and air lanes mapped out shortly. Meanwhile the idle
air police will earn their pay if they just keep the public
eye looking their way and thus permit Mayor Hylan to de
mote obnoxiously honest inspectors without having ev
erybody stare at him. —New York Globe.
< THIS AND THAT.
Have you noticed the dandelions springing up on all
sides since the return of the boys in khaki?
Fowls are so very scarce that we would be glad to
hear the umpire or referee call a few.
The League of Nations seems subject to appendix
attacks, if not appendicitis.
In the spring the young girl’s fancy
Lightly turns to thoughts of clothes
While she pumps dear father’s pocket
She wears pumps upon her toes,
Only pumps and silken hose,
And the price Dear Father knows!
A Community Foe-Rum.
Speaking of community forums, why not consider
the claims of The Sign of The Pine? In ye olden days
the wits, poets and philosophers, such at Shakespeare,
Samuel Johnson, Goldsmith, and others of like illus
trious name, were in the habit of meeting in the coffee
houses where they partook of the cup that cheers, but
dos not inebriate. The coffee house became, as it were,
a clearing house of wits. So, not to be modest about it,
why not the tea room become a community forum?
—C. B. S.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
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BEFORE BREAKFAST
Says you really feel clean, sweet
and fresh inside, and
are seldom ill.
If you are accustomed to wake up
with a coated tongue, foul breath or
a dull, dizzy headache; or, if your
meals sour and turn into gas and
acids, you have a real surprise await
ing you.
To-morrow morning, immediately
upon arising, drink a glass of hot
water with a teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in it. This is intended to
first neutralize and then wash out of
your stomach, liver, kidneys and
thirty feet of intestines all the indi
gestible waste, poisons, sour bile and
toxins, thus cleansing, sweetening and
purifying the entire alimentary canaL
Those subject to sick headaches,
backache, bilious attacks, constipation
or any form of stomach trouble, are
urged to get a quarter pound of lime
stone phosphate from the drug store
and begin enjoying this morning in
side-bath. It is said that men and
women who try this become enthu
siastic and keep it up daily. It is a
splendid health measure’ for it is more
important to keep clean and pure on
the inside than on the outside, because
the skin pores do not absorb impuri
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while the bowel pores do.
The principle of bathing inside is
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phosphate act on the stomach, liver,
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THE M’KINSTRY STUDIO.
T., Q. COUNCIL, Pres. T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier.
0. M. COUNCIL V.-P & Ca shier J. M. BRYAN, Asst. Cashier.
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READ THE T.-R. WANIADVIRUSIMEMS
SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1919.