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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR
City of Americas.
Sumter County.
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A CHANCE TO SERVE.
Answering an editorial appearing in the Times-
Recorder of a couple of days ago on the old veterans
and what can be done for them, a friend suggests one
.way in which real appreciation of these old fellows who
are so fast disappearing can be shown.
“In Sumter county there are at least 1,000 auto
mobiles,” said he. “Also in Sumter county are at least
three old veterans who have not been out of the house
in years, being confined by physical infirmities. How
ever, they are not confined to their beds, and they
could mightily enjoy an automobile ride occasionally if
they had the opportunity:”
If you had been, penned up inside four walls day
and night for years because you were unable to get
out, and hadn’t had an opportunity to at all see what
is going on in the big world or to enjoy a sight of the
green fields and the woods—or the life of the city—
wouldn’t an offer of an automobile ride an hour or
two occasionally seem like a gift of Providence? And
it would be just that.,
Has anyone an auto to devote to such a wonder
lui service occasionally?
THE FIREMEN.
The firemen of Americus have again asked the city
for an increase in salary—an increase to enable them
to obtain the necessities of life demanded for them
selves and their families.
The city of Americus is now paying ,t firemen S7O
per month. That is something that the limes-Recorder
is not proud to publish to the world, for it is a poor ad
vertisement of this prosperous and wealthy community
but it is true nevertheless. Americus must have firemen.
Cut the thought that goes with contemplation of the
salary the members of the department are being paid is,
"How in the world has the city been able to keep ANY
men at such a salary in these days? The firemen re
cited in their petition to the city council last night that
their incomes at present do not provide for actual ne
cessities for themselves and families, not to mention
new clothing, doctor’s bills and incidentals which pile
up on every home.
In the course of a few weeks the city council will
fix a new tax rate. It might be a good plan, if you fa
vor paying your firemen S9O per month—the same sal
ary now being paid members of the police department
—that you mention it to a member of the city council.
They represent you and will strive to carry out the wish
es of any considerable number of taxpayers.
HIGH COST OF LIVING LAID TO WAR TAXES.
Otto Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., one of the
1 adiiig financiers in the United States, in a memoran
dum submitted to ‘a public man in Washington’, suggests
that a non-political commission be appointed to study
the effects of the war taxation upon the present cost
of living. It is Mr. Kahn’s opinion, as expressed in
the memorandum, that “the unscientific system of tax
ation in this country since 1917” has played a large
part in keeping up prices. The banker concludes that
“the very extreme of the burden laid upon business and
income has partially defeated the purpose w’ia< 1. the
framers of our taxation legislation apparently had in
view, and at the same time has given rise to certain
unforseen and troublous development—as invariably
happens in the case of extreme measures, especially
where economics are involved.” Speaking of the excess
profits tax Mr. Kahn said:
‘ The excess profits tax has tended furthermore to
increase actual cost of production inasmuch as costs
naturally are deducted before taxable profits are ar
rived at, and, therefore, under the operation of the ex
cess profits tax, there it not the same inducement as un
der normal circumstances to keep costs down as much
as possible bit in fact rather the reverse. Nor is th.re
any longer any inducement to employ accumulated
profits in the business without capitalizing them, which,
cf course, makes for lower cost of production.’
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Wait Mason
NIGHT.
THE days is long and dreary, and sluggishly it joes
and we are spent and weary, and soon we’ll
have respose; the night upon us creeping, will have
us in its keeping, and we shall find in sleeping the
balm for all our woes. Our tasks are hard and pain
ful, and hours of rest are few; the world is too dis
dainful of all the things we do; our nerves are throb
bing, leaping, and we’re inclined to weeping; but one
long night of sleeping will make us good as- new.
Through daylight hours we’re toiling like Vulcan at
his chore, to keep the kettele boiling and feed the
children four; but one long night of sleeping, until
the dawn is peeping, and doodle-birds are cheeping,
will brace us up once more. This life is sore and
trying, its paths are hard to tread; night takes as
in its keeping, its richest blessings heaping upon the
people sleeping, and thankful they are dead. I like
this old world bully, it’s strictly a success, and I
indorse it fully, and boost it more or less; but dying
is the reaping of harvests worth the keeping; the
goal of all our weeping and striving and distress.
; What Other Editors Say !
“OUR UNBURIED DEAD.”
A contemporary writes at length on the susubject,
“Our Unburied Dead.” Every town is afflicted with
more or less of these undesirables who contribute noth
ing to the educational, religious or civic progress of the
community in which they live. The person who lives
idly, thus allowing his mental and physical energy
to decay is in reality a breathing corpse and in time
becomes offensive to the .eye.—Vienna News.
WOMEN VINDICATE RIGHT TO VOTE.
The participation of the women of Atlanta in the
primary election of Wednesday—the first election in
which women were permitted to vote in Georgia—cer
tainly proves two things, and would seem, therefore,
to settle rather definitely two mooted point.- in re with
an suffrage in this section:
First, the women, by practically unanimous exer
cise of their lately given right to vote, showed that they
wished that right.
Second, by a most intelligent and orderly exercise
of their right to vote they proved that they are ready
for the ballot.
Eminent statesmen have long contended in Georgia
that they would favor the voting of \yomen, provid
ed the women wanted to vote and were ready for the
ballot—that these points being settled, there could be
no further objection offered.
In the light of the election Wednesday in Atlanta,
we assert that these gentlemen haven’t a leg to stand
upon, that they must now favor the extension of suf
frage to the women generally or admit that they were
not sincere in the previous statements.
As a matter of fact, the women on Wednesday
showed a far more intelligent grasp of the rights and
duties of voting than did the men.
The women voted almost their entire strength in
The election, which is what good citizens should do.
The men proved themselves to be “slackers” of
the worst sort, in that they voted only a small fraction
of their total strength, which is exactly what good cit
izens should hot do.
The right to vote is the right and privilege of ex
ercising the greatest function of citizenship conferred
by the laws’ of a great and free people.
No man or woman who refuses and neglects to
vote has any right whatever to raise future objections
to the conduct of the government.
The government we have— municipal, state and
national—is just the sort of government the people
choose for themselves. The sins of suffrage omission
are as great, if not greater, in this nation than the sins
cf suffrage commission.
The women of Atlanta, in outvoting the men by a
wide proportionate margin in Wednesday’s primary,
are, really, more entitled to say what shall be done by
way of civic progress hereafter than are the men—
especially the men who registered to vote.
The Georgian wishes all these women welt the
future.
The Georgian believes their entry into politics
means better, broader, cleaner and more able govern
ment.
They are here to stay; no man would J.re turn
. back the clock that has so wisely been moved forward
! in respect of this.
As the results of the primary, broadly speaking,
we take it the city of Atlanta is well pleased. ,
The men chosen to serve are worthy and well
I qualified for the work ahead.
They have the endorsement of the men of the city
and the women, in a majority aspect of the same.
We wish for them—each and all—terms of useful
ness to Atlanta and the great people, they have been
called upon to serve—and of happinesswithal—Atlanta
Georgian.
AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER.
Nearing Age of Discretion.
As a general thing a woman has to
be about SCi years old before she real
izes that no fancy waist is wo|rth $lB.
—Galveston News.
Takes MiTons cf E-os.
According w the st-iti--t : <- ans of the
fn«y? administration, it tai- s 25.000.000
eggs a year to clarify tins country’s
soup.
Why She Can Talk Longer.
That woman can talk longer than
a man is attributed to the fact that
sb“ uses less force than a man does.
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Resources Over One and Quarter Million Dollars.
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LEE HUDSON, Cashier.
DATE OF CHARTER:
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