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MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1919.
PROMOTERS OF
AIR CIRCUS TO
SEND OUT SHIPS
SOUTHER FIELD, June 23—Word
has been received from Souther Field
that its ticket department for the
great aerial circus and field day to
be held July 12 is fully organized.
They are prepared to dish, out the
pasteboards at 50c each to the palpi
tating public. Advance sales are al
ready coming in, and arrangements
are being made for a local salesman
in every town without reach of the
camp.
The following inducement has been
offered to every town within a radius
of seventy-five miles of Souther
Field to buy tickets in advance. As
soon as the local agent has sold sev
enty-five tickets in advance and will
notify the Comanding Officer, South
er Field of the fact, an airplane will
be sent to that community; if there
is a suitable landing field, the ship
will land. At any rate it will give
demonstrations of flying and stunt
ing over the city and in each and
every town where the ship lands, the
holder of a ticket will be entitled to
leave a letter with the selling agent
addressed anywhere in the United
States. These letters will be taken
up by the visiting ship and started
on their way by airplane mail, noti
fication to that effect being made on
the letter. This is a unique opportuni
ty for the young man with a sweet
heart to purchase two tickets and
write two inviations to attend the cir
cus and mail them to her by air line.
These tickets on July 12 ’will en
title the bearer to see more for his
or her money than has been crowed
into the fifty cent limit since prices
began to go up in 1914. It is prom
ised that there will be something do
ing every minute of the time. The
most diversified tastes will be accom-
On every package of twenty cigarettes made B
from imported tobaccos, smokers pay over 2 *4’
C_ cents of the price for Import duty. Also they SBF ,
pay the cost of Marine Insurance plus Ocean ™
Freights and other charges.
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—and they’re
missing
that
V irginia
taste
No other tobacco can give a cigarette that taste,
that relish, that zest one gets in a cigarette made
of Virginia tobacco alone.
And none can give yju such value. Because
Virginia tobacco is raised in this country and.
unlike foreign-grown tobaccos, does not have
to pay Import duty.
A package of Piedmonts will bring you Virginia
tobacco at its best.
I’2o for Id cents
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Im The Virginia Cigarette
iedmont
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modated before the day is over. It
isn’t all to be seen either. The spec
tator can take part in the big dance
that will be given to musi? from a
military band. Can hear the descrip
tions of ships and engines; can wit
ness the exhibitions and moving pic
tures regarding the air activities and
many other events. There will be
soft dring department and probably
light lunches will be obtainable on
the grounds. In a word, all the senses
of the human being will be satisfied.
All this for half a dollar, and all are
invited to take a day off and at
tend.
MELONS START MOVING
OUT OF TIFT COUNTY
TIFTON, June 23.—The Coleman
Plant Company made the first ship
ment of watermelons from Tifton last
season, loading a car Thursday.
George Daniels shipped the first
car of melons from Ty Ty Wednes
day. It is expected that several cars
will be loaded in that vicinity in the
near future Omega shipped its first
car of melons Wednesday.
Must Be Progression.
The moral law of the universe is
progress. Every generation that
passes idly over the earth without
adding to that progress remains unin
scribed upon the register of humanity,
and the succeeding generation tram
ples its ashes as dust. —Mazzini.
Step Higher Up.
If all our actions and motives in
daily life could he actuated by a sub
conscious and all-pervading idea of
fitting ourselves as we go along step
by step for figurative letters of recom
mendation as to our ability to capably
hold the next trench, ahead, how sure
ly would our foes of slackness, dila-
QlHnpw nr»rl innoiiinoG nr<f, Un
1,000,000 Gallons a Day.
The daily consumption of gasolene
md distillate by the 344.000 motor ve
licles operated in California is ap
proximately 1,000,000 gallons.—lndian
ipolis News.
We'Adventures ofW
W Jimmy Coon wj
PETER GOES TO THE SWIMMING
HOW the Snow Shoe Rabbits
laughed and how Jimmie Coon
and Peter Rabbit and Teddy Possum
laughed to see Mr. Fox go slinking
home.
Peter Rabbit didn’t laugh for some
time, .however, fbr he was so scared
that he had to be dragged out of
Mr. Porcupine’s house by main force.
Mr. Red Fox didn’t come around
for two or three days and in the
mean time the days passed very pleas
antly for the little guests.
The Snow Shoe rabbits tried to
teach Peter Rabbit not to be afraid
of water, for they gave up trying
to teach him to dance.
“Well,” said that smart Jimmie
Coon, “Something more simple than
dancing suits little Peter. He really
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.
They were very fond of dancing on
their hind legs
is not fit for high society.” You would
have laughed if you could have seen
Jimmie Coon say this. He looked so
proud and poor little Peter looked
mortified to death.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
All the Snow Shoe rabbits laughed
out loud and poked each other for
they were fond of dancing on their
hind legs, but Jimmie Coon wasn’t
much more of a success at this kind of
dancing than little Peter.
One day it rained hard and Peter
was made to go walking. You know
how your cat walks in the rain?
Well that is just the way little Pe
ter walked; stepping high and shak
ing each foot. He was afraid to have
a single drop of water touch his feet.
It was a funny sight, and how all
those rabbits laughed.
Uncle Snow Shoe said, “Now Peter,
we can all swim and we are going
to teach you and for the first time
you Can go and see how we do it.
Peter would much rather have
stayed at the rabbit house but no
indeed, off they all went and Peter
was dragged by the left ear by one
of his cousins. Soon they came to
the pond.
Uncle Snow Shoe sat on the bank
and all the Snow Shoe boys plunged
through the thin ice and swam
across.
Then they looked around for lit
tle Peter but he was not to be seen.
Nobody could find him and he never
turned up till they reached home.
“Why did you run away, Peter?”
asked Uncle Snow Shoe. “I saw it
all” said Peter, “and I was so hun
gry that I came home for a littk
lunch of willow shoots.” Unck
Snow Shoe was very fond of little
Peter, and he said kindly, “Well
don’t let any of you call little Peter
stupid. I don’t know, it seems to me
that he is smart enough»to take qare
of himself. He got way from Mr. Red
Fov. He doesn’t like him. He got
away from the water because he
doesn’t like that.”
Tomorrw—Mr. Red Fox tries Again
to Catch Peter
INSTITUTIONS
FOUND FULL OF
FEEBLEJWINDED
ATLANTA, June 23. —In the re
port rendered to Governor Hugh M.
Dorsey on the conditions existing
among the feeble minded of Georgia
by the Georgia Commission on the
Feeble Minded, which has just been
submitted, an alarming number of
defectives are noted, and the imper
tive need for immediate provision
of special institutional care and
training is pointed out.
The commission has had a corps
of scientific experts, headed by Dr.
V. V. Anderson, one America’s lead
ing authorities on the subject at
work on Georgia conditions for the
last 4 months; and the findings of
these experts as embodied in the re
port of the commission is summar
ized as follows:
The survey shows that 40 per cent
of the almshouses visited were feeble
minded. The study of. a typical or
phanage showed that 28.7 per cent
of the children were feeble minded.
The male inmates of the state prison
farm at Milledgeville showed 17.5
per cent feeble minded. Os the male
inmates of this institution 65.8 are
classifiable in forms of deviation
from normal mental health. Among
the women inmates 42.8 per cent
were found to be feeble minded. Two
typical county jails were selected and
34 per cent of the inmates of these
jails were feeble minded persons,
with the mental level of ten years
and younger.
Os studies here in Georgia of 122
immoral women, 43.5 per cent were
feeble minded. A study of a group
of 100 cases in the juvenile court
was made. Seventeen per cent of the
children in the juvenile court were
found feeble minded; 15 per cent of
the Fulton reformatory; 21.4 per cent
of the state reformatory for boys
and 27 per cent of the Georgia Train
ing school for girls and 3.5 per cent
of the children in the public schools
were found to be feeble minded.
ATLANTA AGAIN TALKING
ABOUT MOVIES ON SUNDAY
ATLANTA, June 23.—Atlanta
may have motion pictures on Sun
day, emphasis being necessary on the
“may.”
A movement was started here Fri
day, which promoters believe will
be received with more general favor
or rather less ministerial disfavor
than previous efforts to give the
people recreation on the Sabbath,
and submitted to the Atlanta Ministe
rial association for their study.
It provides that the theaters shall
be turned over to an outside commit
tee of responsible and reputable cit
izens to be operated at a nominal
admission price of ten cents on Sun
day; that the money received shall
go first toward paying the actua’
cost of operation, and then to some
worthy object, such as parks, or play
grounds or hospitals; and that there
be a censorship of the films above
and beyond that of the usual week
day runs.
One of the principal objections to
’ motion pictures on Sunday hitherto
■ has been that they were proposed
Ignore from the motive of gain thar
< from public welfare.
| The new suggestion has met
( enough favor to warrant its serious
I consideration by the ministers, who
; are co-operating with the men be
hind the enterprise sufficiently to
entertain it seriously.
SHIMMY DANCE IS TOO
HORRIBLE FOR MACON
i MACON, June 23.—The “shimmy”
has been barred in Macon. Along
with it goes the cheek and tickle
toe steps.
i It is probable the police will as
sist in keeping the ban on the
dances considered by dancing mas
ters here as “vulgar and a horrible
mutilation of the fine art of danc
ing.”
Lieut. Martin Thompson, who is
acting chief during the illness of
C hies C. L. Bowden considers the
shimmy and all of its forms inde
cent, and should be abolished for
sanitary if for no other reason.
Miss Baber Blackshear, a wel
known teacher of dancing says the
new forms are “horrible” and should
be abolished immediately.
First steps toward banning the
shimmy was taken at a local park
when the manager ruled four cou
ples off the dancing floor when they
started to shimmy. Managers of
other dancing pavilions have de
clared that they intend to bar the
dance, too.
NO BEER AND WINE, SAYS
HOUSE COMMITTEE, 12-5
i WASHINGTON, June 23.--(By
Associated Press.) —-The proposed
amendment to the pending prohibi
tion bill, giving the president author
ity to repeal war-time prohibition
as it effects beer and wine was d"
seated by the house judiciary com
mittee Saturday by 12 to 5. *
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