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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
, _ ESTABLISHED 1878.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR
City of Americus.
Sumter County.
Hailroad Commission of Georgia For Third Congressional
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PRICE FIXING AS A REMEDY FOR FOOD
PROFITEERING
The Federal Trade Commission has declared, in a
report just made to the president, that the group of •
foremost American meat packers, known as the “Big
Five,” controls not only the meat situation in this coun
try but also has extensive holdings in South America
and has vast trade associations in Europe. The report
also states that these packers are branching out widely
into other food lines and seem likely to dominate the
entire food situation.
That this situation existed has long been generally
understood by our food dealers and many others. How
ever, the country has been so deeply engrossed in the
immediate problems of the war that the danger involv
ed by this enormous and rapidly growing food octopus
have not been considered as seriously by the public as
would otherwise have been the case.
The time has now arrived, however, when the facts
with reference to unscrupulous profiteers, and especial
ly such big and gravely dangerous ones, must be care
fully studied and some effective remedy quickly found
and applied. The old and ineffective scheme of under
taking to correct the evil features of big business by
destroying such institutions entirely, (as was provided
by the Sherman anti-Trust law) have been tried and
found wanting. There is a remedy which is readily and
quickly available and which, we believe, would be ab
solutely effective. Moreover it is one which has already
been tried and found effective. Many people evince
great timidity when any such plan is suggested, but we
have witnessed the application of the maximum price
plan as it is enforced upon railroads, street car lines,
gas and electric companies and other similar enterprises,
and there seems to be no logical reason why there should
be any hesitancy about fixing maximum prices for food
and other necessaries. In order to prevent such price
fixing from having an unfortunate effect upon wages it
might else be necessary to fix minimum rates of wages;
however, this idea has long been carried out successfully
by labor organizations and therefore is no longer a
mere experiment. A
The obvious remedy, then for this huge food-profit
eering evil by big, unscrupulous corporations, as well
as by smaller concerns engaged in the same kind
of vicious practices, is the legal limitation, by means
of official commissions of profits through the fixing of
maximum prices to b e charged and minimum wages and
other costs to be paid. We believe that this plan and this
alone, of all of which we have any knowledge, can be re
lied upon to correct existing evils in this direction.
NEW YORK THE MEDICAL CENTER OF THE
WORLD
An effort is to be made to have New York replace
Berlin and Vienna as the medical center of the world.
Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Health Commissioner of the City
of New York, is to head an organization which will
start a nation-wide campaign to raise ?50,000,000. The
association is to be called the New York Association for
the Advancement of Medical Education and Medical
Science. A short statement issued by the physicians re
sponsible for the plan reads as follows:
“For years it has been evident that medical educa
tion, both undergraduate and graduate in New York,
has not adequately represented the possibilities of this
great city. One of the reasons for this state of affairs
has been the lack of financial support for our medical
institutions. As a result men seeking medical education
have been obliged to seek medical centers in Europe
where more individual and special courses could be se
cured.”
The plan seems to be a most excellent one and well
worthy of the support of the American people. Before
the war, we wer e almost completely under the domina
tion of Germany in this direction. Our colleges of medi
cine are rapidly being improved and may well become
the best in the world. If the money is made available
for build ngs and equipment America can supply the
necessary talent, and, in the future, we may look for-j
ward to students throughout the world coming to Amer
ica instead of going to Germany to round out their
medical education. i
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PERSISTENCE
STILL the flies around me linger, on my dome
they leave their tracks, though I swat some
with my whinger, butcher others with my axe. Not
an instant do I falter in the swatfest I pursue, but
I say, “So help me, Walter, I will slay a ton or two.
Though surviving flies distress me, drilling deeply
in my brow, unborn peoples yet may bless me for
the good I’m doing now. If we all keep on kerswat
ting, there will come a time, methinks, when no
cheap flies will be trotting on the maps of human
ginks.” Oft the goal is in the distance, too far off
for us to gain; notwithstanding which persistence
is the course that’s safe and sane. There is nothing
like endeavor; be as busy as the ant, though we are
assured we’ll never eat the fruit of trees we plant.
Shall we cease our earnest toiling just because the
r.-y’s in doubt.' bj h a plan I charge wirh spoiling
many a good though weary scout. It is vain to sit
down weeping, vain to sing despairing tunes;
though some others do the reaping, let us keep on
sowing prunes.
A Bit of This and That
It is wildly exciting to live in a town where horses
and cows invade your premises any old time.
• * *
A horse has about as much use for a laundry as a
small boy for a bath tub.
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What to do with our Y. M. C. A. is as much a
problem as what to do with our ex-presidents. May be
a wise solution to turn it into a sanitarium.
* * *
The peace treaty is signed, but there are boll wee
vils, cock-roaches, mosquitoes, fleas, flies, gnats and
Senator Borah left. We should worry.
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“That Something” is a booklet that every Rotarian
at least, should read. It was written by a Rotarian for
Rotarians and is an inspiration.
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We like Henry Ford—he is so human. But he ought
not to sue the The Chicago Daily Tribune. There’s no
telling what may ensue.
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Is there anything that’s better on a sultry summer
day than to sit out on the lawn where the breezes love
to play and eat the frozen heart of a good old Turpin
Gray? You may rave about your peaches and they are
hard to beat—plums, apricots and apples—all the fruits
you like to eat, but to m e no other fruit compares to the
real old Kleckley Sweet!
Here’s to the Sumter melon! May it linger on the
vine, until the sunshine and the rain have made it sweet
and fine; then all I ask is just the chance to make it’s
heart all mine. C. B. S.
What Other Editors Say
VALUE OF A COUNTY FAIR
Those sections of Georgia where county fairs are
regularly held have progressed in many ways since
such institutions were established. The county fair not
only brings the farming and city people together but
helps them to get better acquainted and makes for a
better feeling generally among the citizens of a coun
ty. The county fair advertises the products of the coun
ty. The county fair advertises the products of the coun
ty to the world and opens up more markets for the coun
every year and soon the fame of Clarke county should
spread to all parts of the state and its citizens would
profit materially thereby.
The editor of the Grady County Progress has firm
convictions on the usefulness of the county fair and he
tells them in the following article:
The impression at one time was quite prevalent that
the main purpose in any community of a fair was to
draw the crowds in order to stimulate local trade. This
was the rock on which a good many enterprises went to
wreck that otherwise might have become permanent in
stitutions in the community.
The purpose of any agricultural fair and especially
of a county fair should never be considered in the light
of an immediate stimulus to retail trade, but rather as
a development factor for the community out of which
will grow better business along all lines. When viewed
in this way there is nothing scarcely that becomes a
grenter factor in the development of the farming inter
ests of a county + han a good fair projected along right
lines. If sufficient emphasis is placed on good exhibits
of a local nature it may also be taken as granted that
no worry need be had as to attendance whether very
much of a carnival nature is appended or not. In fact
some of the very best fairs of today have largely aban
doned all these superfluous shows and hold the fair to
what it really purports to be, an exhibition of the pro
ducts of the community which it represents.
Some time ago we said something about a chain of
fairs for these south Georgia counties. The suggestion
received favorable comment from other counties A
number of our neighboring counties are already arrang
ing for the holding of annual fairs, and it is up to Gra
dy to join the procession. With our variety of products
we can make a showing as good as the best, it is simply •
a matter of doing jt.—Athens Herald.
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