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SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1919.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:
City of Americus.
Sumter County
Railroad Commisison of Georgia for
Third Congressional District.
U S. Court, Southern District of Ga.
Entered as Second-Class Matter at
the Postoffice at Americus, Georgia,
according to th e Act of Congress.
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HENRY FORD AND HIS VERDICT.
Whether or not Henry Ford tri
umphed in his million dollar libel suit
against the Chicago Tribue when he
was given a verdict for six cents
damages by a jury at Mount Clemons,
Mich., a few days ago will always
be a matter of personal opinion
among men. The sum total of dam
ages awarded probably will not be
taken into account by Ford, if he is
able to have the jury’s verdict made
the judgement of the higher courts,
and after all it may be inferred that
both sides to the suit have lost, in
asmuch as eminent counsel employ
ed therein must be paid whatever the
result of the court action. That is,
all of them lost if you fail to take
into account the enormous amount of
free advertising the widespread pub
licity given the trial brought both the
Tribune and the flivver builder.
Henry Ford in a unique character,
and perhaps, has received more pub
licity at less expense than any other
living man engaged in a commercial
or manufacturing enterprise. On the
stand at Mount Clements, in answer
to a question by counsel for the Trib
une, Ford admitted he was “ignor
ant” but judging him by some of his
writings one would hardly believe
this statement to be entirely true.
In “Mr. Ford's Own Page” in the cu>-
rent issue of the Dearborn Inde
pendent he goes into the food situa
tion and tell something of the meth
ods used by profiteers in their rob
bery of the ultimate consumer. After
telling of the ability of the earth to
provide an abundance of food for all
the teeming millions of people that
inhabit the globe, and directing at
tention to the fact that nature never
yet went on anything like a general
strike, Ford gets down to the meat of
the problem, when he says:
“Sometimes our attention is rivet
ed to this or that commodity, such as
wheat or meat; but it doesn’t matter
a s to details; the fact is the whole
food supply of the people has been
placed under an exploiter’s tax.
“When you find that meat is too
expensive because it has increased
100 per cent in two years, you take
to some perfectly adequate substitute
like rice.
“And when youjook into the chan
nels through which the rice conies to
you, you find it under the control of
the same forces that made meat im
possible to you. You find, moreover,
that due to these modern methods of j
merchandising,” of which so much un
truth is told, your rice costs you I
75 per cent more than it did a year
ago.
“It is certainly a great game that
corners the substitutes. The same
drives people to substitutes, and then
forces that made butter impossible in
hundreds of thousands of homes, has
control of the oleomargarine supply.’’
Ford may be an “ignorant idealist.”
as he admitted under the gruelling
examination of a trained lawyer, but
he seem s to have a fairly good grasp
upon the economic situation now
faced by this country when he says:
“The food question is the chief
public economic question. It doesn’t
much matter if our ballot is free,
if our bread is at the mercy of the
profiteers.
“We can chant about liberty and
equality all we please, but it will not
mean much if an invisible govern
ment of food gamblers is able to
levy extortionate tribute on our din
ner tables.”
Already there are thousands of
flivver owners who sing praises of
Ford and it may yet develop that his
interest in the ultimate consumer of
foodstuffs will bring more thousands
into the ever-widening circle of his
admirers.
“DRY” BILL MODIFIED BY
SENATE.
The Judiciary Sub-committee of the
Senate, in considering the prohibition
enforcement legislation recently pass
ed by the House, has retained the
general House plan but has elimi
nated several important House pro
visions and modified others. The
RIPPLINGRHYMES
SAWING WOOD.
Old Wilhelm is busy sawing elm,
all days his back’s in labor bent;
and who shall rule his native realm
he doesn’t seem to care a cent. He
doesn’t seem to care a whoop what
factions fall, what factions rise;
flies. Old Wilhelm has a crippled
he’s whacking wood behind hi#
coop and ther e all day the sawdust
arm, he has a shriveled, helpless
paw; and I would give an upland
farm to know just how he wields a
saw. I’m sawing wood myself,
these days, upon my rolling, mort
gaged lands; and I’m equipped, like
other jays, with husky arms, un
blemished hands. When 1 have
sawed an hour or two my wind
is gone, my backbone creaks, and
remark, “L guess I’m through—l’ll
have to rest for seven weeks.”
Then to my oabin I repair, all
tuckered out, my ribs pulled loose,
anckread in daily papers there how
Wilhelm saws his cords of spruce.
Oh, prithee, tell me how this king,
who’s lost his throne and jeweled
hat, this relic with a (crippled
wing—how can he pull such stunt#
as that? For days I’ve piled a saw
and ax, and this to me seems amp
ly clear: When Bill gets down to
royal tacks, he doesn’t saw a cord
a year.
sub-committee, (consisting of Sen
ators Sterling, of South Dakota,
Chairman, Fall of New Mexico and
Norris of Nebraska, Republicans, and
Overman of North Carolina, Walsh of
Montana, and King of Utah, Demo
crats) have incorporated the amend
ments in the House bill, and reported
the bill as amended by unanimous
vote to the full committee.
Among the amendment made by
the sub-committee the most dras
tic is a provision exempting from
penalty anyone “manufacturing
non-intoxicating cider and fruit
juices exclusively for use in his
house.” This amendment may per
mit home manufacture of light
wines and cider for personal use.
Also stricken from the House bill
wa s the provision making it un
lawful for persons to be intoxicated
or to drink liquor on trains, street
cars or other public conveyances.
Another modification of the original
bill consists of a provision to the
effect that reports of manufacture,
sale and transportation of liquor
made to th e Internal Revenue Col
lector shall not be open to inspection
of the general public but shall be
kept solely for the use of the Com
missioner of Internal {Levenue. Also
instead of the House bill’s unlimited
force prohibition, the Senate sub
provision of funds with which to en
committee has fixed the /.n of $3,-
500,000 for the first year’s enforce
ment work.
WHEN IS A WOUND NOT A
WOUND
The 1019 edition of the Arabian
Nights may be read today in the sto
ries of wonder and magic of this war
which equeal those of old tales of
Aladdin and Ali Baba.
All the glory of the East and the
magic healing of Arabian wizards
are woven in the story of Nassib, a
Syrian rug maker.
Nassib was born in Syria, but with
his eyes turned West. All through
the first years of his life, while he
was absorbed in learning rug mak
ing, and was drinking in the color of
romance of the East, he though of
that time when he would travel to
that wonderful country.
Leaving Syria when was just a boy
he spent five years in Russia at
school, and later four years in Eng
lish school learning the language and
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Union High School District Barbecue :
BY R. C. MORAN.
There was a barbecue Friday down
at Leslie. The ’cue was served at
Leslie, but the carcasses were con
tributed by the good people of Cobb,
Huntington, DeSoto and other near
by towns. The people came from the
neighboring countryside, with a few
lean fellows from Americus. In the
party with me there were Joe Perk
ins, who drive us down to Leslie in
his car; George O. Marshall, Dr.
Leith and Prof. Gridley, an agent of
the State College of Agriculture.
Other Americus folks we met at Les
lie included Prof. J. E. McMath,
county school superintendent; Char
lie Burke, J. E. Mathis, J. E. D.
Shipp, J. W. Hightower and Jim Wal
ker. Jim Walker is the champion
barbecue eater of Sumter county, but
all of the people at Leslie Friday
went away filled. And there were
lots of people there, too. Just a day
before the gathering, I wrote that
the people of the neighborhood ex
pected a thousand guests—and all
who were asked came. If it were
necessary to change the statement,
I’d put it in the past tense and say:
“There were present a thousand of
the best people to be found any
where in Sumter county.”
There’s no bridle on hospitality in
the community embraced in the new
Union High school district. There
was a time when the people of Les
lie and DeSoto may have been a little
jealous of the growth of their re
spective towns. That’s perfectly nat
ural in all progressive communities.
Both these splendid little towns have
grown and their pepole have pros
pered because of the friendly com
mecial rivalry existing between them
for years.
When it comes to entertaining
their friends, that’s a different mat
ter. And on Friday the people of
the entire community kept open
house. Sturdy farmers who can sel
dom be persuaded to leave their fine
fields even for a visit to town, laid
all thought of work aside for the
day. They mingled with the mer
chants, the clerks, the boys and girls,
the meaning of western civilization.
At last he reached America. Down
in a small room he set up his loom,
and every day he worked away at
wonderful patterns in soft colors.
His rugs were easy to sell but the
work was slow.
One day with a rug half finished
on the loom aiid bright worsteds
lying loosely about, he went away to
fight with the Americans in France.
During the war a hand grenade
struck hi s leg, necessitating amputa
tion five inches above the knee. Nas
sib came back to the half finished
rug and the bright, loose woolen. He
looked at the big loom and knew that
he could never use it again. A big
loom needs two good legs and his
right one was gone.
After a few day s when his mask
like face hid a great pain and dis
appointment, he was found by the
Fedral Board of Vocational Educa
tion. They saw that behind that
Eastern calm there was a brain burn
ing to progress and they set about
helping him. He was sent to a tex
tile school in February of this year,
and his.work in textile designing has
proved to be of such superior quality
that he has been recommended for
a complete course leading to the de
gree of textile engineer.
From Syria to an American school.
From a hand loom to modern ma
chine. Nassib’s wound was not a
wound, but a key to success.
Other soldiers, sailors, or marines
interested in overcoming vocational
handicaps are invited to communicate
with the Federal Board for Voca
! tional Education, 200 New Jersey
( avenue, Washington, D. C.
AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER.
and all worked for bonds. The ladies,
too, were there. They aren’t vot
ing down in that community just, yet
—and so far as I know there are only
a few who would care to cast their
ballots—but they were interested in
the success of the bond issue.
The children are to be educated in
th e new high school building to be
erected with the money raised
through the sale of the bonds.
But I’m ahead of my story al
ready. Such barbecues as that serv
ed Friday at Leslie are not arranged
in a day. It takes time—and work
—and hearty co-operation—to get up
such an affair. And the school trus
tees in Union High school district
are workers. There isn’t a member
of the board who isn’t willing to give
his whole time to the advancement
of the school, if necessary. But that
isn’t necessary. Men like Dr. L. M.
Hawkins, Dr. W. J. Smith, J. E. Ki
nard, Will Wilson and Lasco Harvey
don’t do things by halves. When
they start anything they finish it. So,
when it was decided to celebrate the
holding of the election and the pas
sage of the bonds simultaneously,
these men just talked the matter over
among themselves, and decided to
let Dr. Hawkins go ahead with the
preparations for the event, while
the other members of the board went I
after the voters—and they got the:
votes.
And, speaking of Dr. Hawkins, if i
I ever decide to give a big barbecue,;
I’m going to ask him to arrange the 1
details, and when he accepts, I’m just
going to forget all about it. I’ll I
know there’ll be plenty for all who'
come—no matter how large the!
crowd may be. And, as I started tol
say, Dr. Hawkins was in charge of
the barbecue. He said there were!
only fourteen carcasses barbecued,'
and I guess he knows—he must not*
count chickens as carcasses. Honest-'
ly. I don’t believe there are enough!
Methodist preachers in all Georgia to |
eat the chickens the people of Union i
High school community slaughtered
for the big barbecue. Folks down
there know how to cook cakes, too.
The long tables stretched through
one entire block in the heart of Les
lie’s residential district, and there
was a plentiful helping for the neo
nle who crowded, thflee and four'
rows deep, about them. The ’cue 1
was well cooked, too. I don’t kno™ I
who cooked the ’cue. All 1 know'
about it is that Dr. Hawkins er- j
ranged the whole affair after a talk
with the other school trustees—and i
you know what I think about Dr.
Hawkins.
And there was just one humorous
incident of the whole day that it did
my hard old heart good to observe.
Well, I was walking about from cne
spot to another, with pretty girls
helping me to good things to eat,
when I chanced to glance beneath
the long table, about half way from
either end. I know I must have been
a sight, for I had a big chicken bone
in one hand and a sandwich of the
best barbecue hash I ever tasted in
the other, when, as I said, a chanced
to look beneath the table. Sitting
there in supremest contentment I saw
several youngsters—boys and girls
just about old enough to begin school
next year—eating their heads off,
and with both hands as full of bar
becue and cake as my own. I won
der if those kiddies reallv understood
the vast benefits they will derive in
later years through the action of the
voters taken Fridev at the poll® in
the little office where Floyd Jones
makes his headquarters on ordinary
•ccasion#.
Which reminds me, there are a lot
of hustlers in Leslie, and DeSoto, and
Cobb, and the other towns in that
section of Sumter. Floyd Jones i® a
hustler—he worked for the bonds
like he works for anything in which
he is interested, but there are oth
ers besides him. There’s W. T. An
derson. He’s the banker there, and
one of the most progressive little fel
lows I’ve ever met. An there’s
Freeling Scarborough and Dr. Smith,
who came up from DeSoto, and “Bill”
Hooks, who ran in from Cobb to help
push bonds “over the top” unani
■ mous. In fact, there’s only one man
in the whole school district who isnt’
just as full of progress as a nut is of
meat, and I don’t know his name.
Somehow, I’m glad I don’t. He’s the
one fellow down there who cast his
ballot against the bond issue. The
othetS hundred an<f sixteen, voters
who put their ballets into the little
pine box in Floyd Jones’ office are
all what I would call “regular fel
lows.” And don’t forget about Dr.
Hawkins. He muss have been pow-
I * ,
erful busy, judging t>y the quantity
of good things he gathered together
( on that long table —but he found
time enough to run down to the polls
and put in his vote for the bond
Issue.
Before the barbecue, there was
speaking. Prof. Brittain, who has
already done so much for Georgia’s
rural schools, hasn’t finished his work
by a long shot. My good friend, J.
E. D. Shipp, said some nice thing®
about him when he presented Prof
Brittain to his audience at Leslie
Friday, but people down there know
him already, and they were expecting
just such a fine talk as he made. He
doesn’t make speeches—he just opens
! his mouth and the words seem to sim
' ply roll out and when he talks he
i says something. His talk was one
along practical lines, and as hardened
> as T am to public speeches, I reallv
' enjoyed the whole of it. Prof. Land
also had a part on the nrogram. and
, thr» peonle who heard him say he’s a
‘ fine talker. All I’ve got to say
’ that if he beat Prof. Brittain, then
I he’s about the best fellow the neople
can hope to get for the position of
state school supervisor.
' But, as I said in the beginning, the
bridle’s off when the people of that
i community put on a big barbecue. 1
I don’t believe I met the fellow who
| voted against the bonds—and I’m
' glad I went to Leslie and met so
I many people there Friday.
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