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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus.
Sumter County
JI ilroad Commisison of Georgia for
Third Congressional District.
I S. Court, Southern District of Ga.
Entered as Second-Class Matter at
ti Postoffice at Americus, Georgia,
ording to th e Act of
National Advertising Representatives
FROST, LANDIS & KOHN
Brunswick Building, New York,
l • oples Gas Building, Chicago, Can
... r Building, Atlanta.
13 THE Y. M. C. A. TO BE LOST?
The Americus YMCA Building
•a .11 be saved —or it will be forever
1 t. On e of two things must occur
c.z September 1. The answer rests
v _h the business men—the citizens
- if Americus.
For years the YMCA has strug-
[ d along under the immense handi- '
i j of debt. Mr. L. G. Council has
o ered to pay off the entire debt
. d turn the building, absolutely
.mcumbered, to the people of this
glorious little city, PROVIDED—
Certain improvements are mad e in
the building, which it is said will cost
5,000. These Improvements are
iie installation of a heating plant,
nething the building has needed
i.dly for years; repairs to the roof,
. immediate necessity, we under
nd; and the construction of a
sdern swimming pool.
Mr. Council’s splendid gift with
-*se added improvements, will give
Americus a Y M C A| plant equal
any city th e size of Americus.
A mass meeting of citizens, to be
•sided over by the Mayor, has been
.ied to meet Thursday afternoon at
o’clock in the Courthouse. It is
pected that every interested citi
i will be present. It is necessary
t those who have supported the
a M C A by their subscriptions in
past be present, to discuss the
ution of this question.
» This is the last opportunity to save
Y. M. C. A. Ms?! of Americus,'
‘■■’.at is your wish?
UNDERTAKING INDUSTRIAL
TRAINING.
A plan, nation wide in scope, was
today inaugurated by Colonel Arthur
sods, assistant to the Secretary of
ar, for factory owners and indus
al corporations throughout the
jntry, 20,000 in number, to under
:e industrial training for their
. rker s at the same time that they
cay them a sufficient living wage dur
ing the period of their apprentice
ip. -"’-i-’ef'g. i.
This plan originates in the difficult
' 'uation in which the country now
nds itself because of the high cost
cf living and the general industrial
rest. It is felt by the office of the
istant Secretary of War that the
ndamental solution of the high cost
living lies in an increase of pro
iction; and that industrial training
the same time that it accomplishes
is result will also make every work
wether skilled, semi-skilled or un
r idled, feel that he has a real oppor
aity for advancement and for an
reas e in his earning power.
Investigation by Colonel Woods’
ace shows that American factories
running at a very low level of
. iciency. In New England, for ex
■./le, experts state that th e facto
s are not more than 60 per cent
eient. It i s estimated that six
Ilion men are being used today
’o the work th->t four and a half
million men could do if they were
perly trained. The average work
according to these figures, never
ains an output of more than 35
r cent of his best efficiency, simply
cause he has never been trained
■ do his work properly. Even a
light increase in this level of effic
mcy will mean a great increase in
he national production and a cor
nonding decrease in the cost of
mg.
Those employers who have already
n approached with this project,
’ particularly those who have al
ly tried the scheme, are thorough
ly confident of its feasibility and its
eiuendous possibilities. It is found
■t not only is the productive power
hese men increased, but that they
ually pay for themselves at the
le time that they are learning and
t by the increase in their individ
efficiency a fund of labor is
ated from which experts in tech
al and managerial capacities can
recruited. Some factories report
doubling of the men’s output as
esult of industrial training. One
■ oe factory in Brooklyn reports
it a number of apprentices recent-
I ly taken in at sls per week to learn
the work are now, after three to six
weeks of careful training, earning
as high as S7O a week.
Th e plan, it is said, appeals equal
ly to the labor leaders before whom
it has been laid and who have seen
it tried out. It means that the in
dividual laborer need no longer en
ter upon his work haphazard or feel
that he has no opportunity for escape
or advancement from his own par
ticular task. By this system of
training men can be put on that work
for which they are best fitted and
each man benefits by the conscious
ness of his own individual opportu
nity for increasing his skill and im
proving his condition by an ncrease
in his earning power.
ADOCATES PUBLICATION OF
COST PRICES.
In the special message which Pres
ident Wilson recently read before a
joint session of Congress he touched
the key not e of the whole high price
situation by advocating a federal
law requiring that the cost price be
stated on or in connection with all
goods placed in storage or shipped in
interstate commerce.
If this plan is put into effect it
will mean that practically all goods
offered for sale in this country, ex
cept the products of farms adjacent
to cities and towns, will be required
by law to display, as far as possible,
the cost price. This is a tremendous
ly important step in the direction of
universal publicity of the production
and cost prices of all goods offered
for sale, and will, in all probability,
do more to insure honest and rea
sonable prices than any other mea
sure which can be enacted for the
curbing of profiteering.
Th e present system of maintaining
secrecy as to cost prices of merchan
dise is not only condusive to profit-
Passing the Word Along
A*. ,
a good fellowship between
X car-owners which makes everybody
anxious that the other should get all the
benefits going in the handling of his car.
That’s why there is so much mouth-to
mouth advertising of Firestone Gray
SidewaH Tires.
One man tells the story of the better
than-ever vzork he is getting this year
from the Gray Sidewall Firestones. The
other buys a set —and so the good word
. passes along.
Result —wonderful and constantly grow
ing numbers of this tire all over the South.
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TIRES
Most Miles per Dollar
Georgia Motor Company
Phone 133 Americus 106 W. Lamar St.
%
Agents For
Firestone Tires
RIPPLING RHYMES
BURNING MONEY.
Life is gay and blithe and sunny,
since the peace dove hit the
breeze; every one is burning mon
ey just as though it grew on trees.
I insist on thrift and saving, but
there’s none to heed my words;
johnnies say that I am raving, and
throw money to the birds. Men
are drawing princely wages, and
their breasts are filled with mirth,
and they jeer foreboding sages
who predict a day of dearth; but
that day will come as surely as
tomorrow’s sun will rise; things
will then be going poorly with the
giddy spendthrift guys. Things
won’t boom along forever as
they’re booming now, my friends;
and the man who’s truly clever
saves as ably as he spends. It
is patent to the knowing, in ex
pansive times like these, that the
kopecks won’t be growing always
on the shrubs and trees. There
will come a day of trouble, when
this boom is left behind, and the
kopeck and the rouble will be
mighty hard to find; happy then
the lads whose wages have been
safely placed in brine, who obeyed
the seers and sages, when the sav
ing graft was fine. And how sick
will be the mortals who like spend
thrifts now behave, who reply with
jeers and chortles when we call on
them to save!
eering and fraud, but it is unfair
to those merchants and manufactur
ers who are honest with the public.
Nowadays it seems to be the rule,
because of high prices, to regard
practically all manufacturers, mer
chants and middlemen as profiteers;
when, as a matter of fact, thousands
AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER.
of them are endeavoring to treat the
public fairly and honestly.
Os course there will be vigorous
objections to this cost-price publicity
plan, but it will come principally
from the dishonest and not from the
honest manufacturers and merchants.
Indeed, it would not be at all sur
prising if some of our most fair
minded business men should, now
that the President has sanctioned the
plan in principle, voluntarily insti
tute this price-publicity plan in
their establishments by posting or
making the cost prices on all goods
offered for sale.
The taking of such admirable vol
untary action by one or two mer
chants in any city or community
would mark them with the badge
of honesty and fair-dealing, and, as
other honest and progressive busi
ness men followed the example, their
action would quickly serve to point
out to the general public the busi
ness establishments and business men
who are our real .profiteers; and the
punishment that would be meted out
to such profiteers in the way of lost
trade and confidence would be more
speedy and effective than any penalty
which the slow and uncertain process
of court procedure could possibly
inflict.
While it would be deeply gratify
ing if the publicity plan could be
put into effect throughout the whole
country by the voluntary action of
merchants and manufacturers and
other business men, and without
waiting for the enactment of com
pulsory legislation, it is perhaps too
much to expect this result in all
cases. Now that President Wilson
has come out so publicly and forcibly
in favor of this plan there should be
no great difficulty in inducing fair
minded and progressive merchants
and manufacturers to adopt it vol
untarily. .
Your dental work can be done
absolutely painless. This is a prov
en fact at Dr. N. S. Evans dental of
fices.
(WE GIVE GAS)
Positively Safe and Harmless.
17 Years Experience
DR. N. S. EVANS
DENTAL OFFICES
•
Jackson St., Near Kress*
AMERICUS, GA.
Phones: Office 411. Residence 475
The Standard
NO BETTER VALUE ANYWHERE
Than our Men’s Oxfords at $4.95,
and our Ladies’ Low Shoes at $3.90.
Knowing our stand of all leather
shoes and reliable workmanship,
don’t these shoes sound pretty good
to you? They come in all leathers—
of black and tan—all style heels and
according to today’s market every
pair is worth double the pre? we
are aiding for them.
Ladies Low Shoes, all sizes, at $3.90
Men’s Low Shoes, all sizes, at $4.65
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MOTH
ERS OF WEE KIDDIES—
ROMPERS AT 48c
Well made Rompers of durable blue
and brown chambray are here in
large quantities for little boys and
girls who wear 2 to 6 year sizes, 48c.
BEAUTIFUL SILK STOCKINGS
AT $1.25.
Full fashion white, black, gray, full
fashioned of purb thread silky in sizes
of 8 1-2 to 10, at $1.25. /,
WHITE SILK STOCKINGS AT 98c
i Famous “Burson” make, full fashion
ed stockings, in white only, all sizes,
valuue $1.50; very, special here now
at 98c pair.
DAINTY GEORGETTE AND
CREPE DE CHINE BLOUSES
AT $3.98.
Up to date style, trimmed in the
newest fashions, flesh, white, blue,
etc. Good value at $5. Choice now
at $3.98.
BEAUTIFUL CLUNY LACES
, AT 12 l-2c.
Pure linen laces in hand-made pat
terns; all widths .from 3-4 to 2
inches wide and worth all the way
up to 25c. Choice of about four
thousand yards at 121-2 c.
STANDARD
DRY GOODS CO.
F I fib St-, Next Bank of Commerce
Americus, Ga.
SIOO Reward, SIOO
The readers of this paper will t
pleased Jo learn that there is at leac.
one dreaded disease that science has
been able tb cure in all its stages and
that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces of the System thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, giving the
patient strength by building up the con
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have bo much
faith in the curative power of Hall’s
Catarrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo,
Ohio. Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
New
Selections
CAMEO
BROOCHES
Rings
and
Bar Pins
Thos. L. Bell
Jeweler and Optician
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashier J. M. BRYAN, Asst. Cashier.’
INCORPORATED 1891.
The Planters Bank of Americus.
Resources Over One and Quarter Million Dollars.
■ With an unbroken record
of 28 years of conservative
and successful banking, we
respectfully solicit your
business. We especially call
your attention to our Sav
ings Department. We pay 4
per cent, compounded semi
annually. Why not begin to
day and lay the foundation
for future independence?
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING.
No Account Too Large, None Too Small.
J. W. SHEFFIELD, Pres. FRANK SHEFFIELD, V.-P.
LEE HUDSON, Cashier.
DATE OF CHARTER:
Oct. 13, 1891.
The ample capital, surplus and conservative business
methods of this bank constitute its strongest claim for
new business.
Its directorate is composed of men accustomed to solv
ing important financial problems; men who realize the
caution demanded in handling large sums of money.
If you bank here you will receive courteous consideration
and careful attention.
BANK OF COMMERCE.
Commercial City Bank
Corner Lamar and Forrest Streets
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
Crawford Wheatley E. T. Murray, Sam’l Harrison,
President V.- Pres. Cashier
Now that VICTORY is won we must all look ahead to th«
requirements and opportunitie s of the future.
Why not open an account w ith us today ?
Whether large or small your business is respectfully so
licited.
AMERICUS UNDERTAKING COMPANY
Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
Nat LeMaster, Manager
Day Phones 88 and 231. Night 661 and 167
S ALLISON UNDERTAKING CO.
I ESTABLISHED 1908
s Funeral Directors and Embalmers I
| OLFN BUCHANAN, Director |
Day Pho 253, Night Phones 381 106
J. A. DAVENPORT—INSURANCE
Country Dwellings, Barns, Mules and Feedstuffs.
Fire, Life, Accident & Health, Tornado, Plate Glass, Bonds Antal.
All Companies Represented Are The Very Best.
B. C. HOGUE
BACK ON THE JOB IN AMERICUS.
CONTRACTING, BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURAL
DRAFTING
P. O. BOX 116 PHONE 9085
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* PROMPT AND SATISFACTORY TRUCK SERVICE
I CLARK’S TRANSFER
“We Move Things”
» PHONE 303 ALL KINDS OF HAULING
ft
TURNER ELECTRIC CO
Electrical Supplies and Contractors.
Estimates Cheerfully Furnished. Lamps, Fans, Motors, Telephone Bat
teries. House Wiring and Repairs a Specialty. Combination Bas and Elec
trical Fixtures. Phone 809. Windsor Avenue.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 191 s.