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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 187».
Published By
THE TIMES-RECORDER CO. (Inc.)
*rthur Lucas, President: Lovelace Eve, Secretary;
W. S. Kirkpatrick, Treasurer (
t uolisned every afternoon, except Saturday; e'ery Sun
morning and as a weekly (every Thursday.)
Vlt S. KIRKPATRICK,- Editor; LOVELACE EVE,
Business Manager
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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR
City of Americ. s.
Sumter County.
railroad Commission of Georgia For Third Congressional
District
P S Court. Soi rhern District of Georgia
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NOT LIKE OLD TIMES.
The fact that The Times-Recorder has just
paid out sl,Bl 1.29 for one carload of paper on
which to print the daily and weekly editions of
The Times-Recorder for the next few months,
causes the business manager, who must keep the
cash coming in, to take more than passing interest
in the following from the Albany Herald, recalling
the days when it cost less than half the present out
lay to produce a newspaper—either large or
small: - *• * «! W * IQ|O
* v “What has become of the old-fashioned
subscriber that used to bring in a load of wood to
pay for his paper?’’ asks “T. F. P.” in his “Pun
gent Paragraph’’ column in the Columbus En
quirer-Sun. Why don’t you know about that?
The parity between a load of wood and a year’s
subscription to a weekly newspaper no longer
exists. Whereas time was when a load of wood
for a year’s subscription to the local paper was
considered a fair exchange, it now requires about
three yearly subscriptions to pay for a load of
wood. And so it is with other commodities.
erything has advanced more than the subscrip
tion price of newspapers. The “old-fashioned
subscriber ’ may be still bringing in his load of
wood, but he sells it for cash and then with one
third the proceeds pays the publisher for his
paper.
WE’RE ON AN ICE CREAM SPREE.
The ice cream habit has America in its grip.
Ice cream manufacturers from Saskatchewan
to the Panama Canal Zone, in convention in Chi
cago, report more than 600 million gallons to be
the 1919 consumption to date, with the season still
%
going strong.
Devotees of hard liquor in its palmiest day,
were negligible in number and limited in capacity
compared to the hordes that daily swing a perfervid
spoon into the nation’s favorite confection.
But prohibition is not the cause for the unpre
cedented increase in ice cream consumption, they
say.
Prohibition has proved a disappointment for
the soft drink and ice cream manufacturers.’’ S.
T. Nivling, Rochester, N. Y., vice-president of the
National Association of Ice Cream Manufactur
v I
ers, said. “The big liquor centers hove not been
(he largest contributors to ice cream consump
tion.”
Maps of the “sundae belts” in the United
’ States show that:
Chicago and the Middle West were on a wild
ice cream “bender” all summer.
New York and the Atlantic seaboard were
very offish with consumption no larger than usual.
The South runs largely to soft drinks with a
caffeine kick, but is coming around to ice
cream.
The Far West is producing millions of frozen
delicacy topers.
Canada eats more ice cream than the United
States on a population basis. The farther north the
p.-sater the appetite for ice cream. Moose Jaw,
With a papulation of twenty-five thousand, consum
ed 500,000 gallons.
Panama s. .'.ply Hr-s have its ice cream in
unlimited quantities.
The nearer we get to tire Arctic Circle, the
more ice cream our people eat," S. A. Caulder,
S skatchewan, said. “In winter we sell more bricks
than in summer. It is nothing for us to see a young
fedow bring his best girl to town on a dog sled
w h the temperature around 30 degrees below zero
and head straight for an ice cream parlor.”
HALF BILLION LOST IN “WILDCATS.”
Houston Thompson, Federal Trade Commis
sioner, gave it as his opinion before the House Ju
diciary committee in Washington a few days ago
that over half a billion dollars a year is lost by the
public in “wildcat” investments. The committee
considering the recommendations of President
Wilson for a Federal “blue sky” law to protect the
public from bad stocks. In the course of his testi
many, Mr. Thompson said that the passage of such
a law was as necessary as the passage of a pure food
law. He said:
Unless such legislation is passed each year
approximately $500,000,000 will be squandered in
t, kippSintßhqmos
y \A& V Walt Mason ■
—JOfcggg; i
THE SURE CURE.
gOME grand old truths are everlasting; one is
that industry is good; amid the yawping and
dodgasting, remember that, and saw your wood.
1 Too many talkers spring their wheezes, too many
make the welkin ring; and as a cure for our
diseases work is the sane and proper thing. Too
many orators are climbing stumps and kegs to \
show their curves; and even as 1 do this rhyming
a braying windsmith jars my nerves. The puz
zling knots we will unravel, and get things going
right once more, when we quit pawing up the
gravel and get down to the useful chore. There’s
nothing like some honest sweating to drive the
fantods from our brains, and help us to the
prompt forgetting of all our penalties and pains.
When 1 am idle I start brooding, and entertain
the saddest views, and I have nigHfcmares, vain,
deluding, and I see snakes and kangaroos. But '
1 am cheerful when I’m busy, 1 sing sweet songs
in dulcet tones; the Russian stuff seems punk and
dizzy to one who’s earning honest bones. And
when we all get down to toiling said Russian
stuff will see.a slump;, and fervid language will
be spoiling with other rubbish, at the dump.
wildcat' investments, and the public will continue
to purchase so-called legitimate stocks already wa
terlogged by bonuses and commissions. No public
officer wants saddled on him a law that will require
him to approve a security in advance of its sale.
The approval of a stock, even after thorough
investigation might cause the sale of a security that
would afterward turn out worthless or very much
depreciated. The investor would take the officials’
sanction as a governmental guarantee, and, when
the stock turned out badly, criticism would fall
upon the official and the administration. A suc
cessful law should put the burden on the one offer
ing the security for sale.
1 hat burden should require the underwriter
t»* bring to the attention of the purchaser, through
ali their circulars, advertisements, and letters, a
complete knowledge of the names of the promoters
and underwriters, the rates of commission and
bonuses received for selling the security, and the
net amount received by the corporation originally
issuing the security. This information, with other
information, should be filed with the secretary of
-be treasury, or some other official of the govern
ment and at the postoffices of the capital cities of
the state where the stock is sold.
It is necessary to require;, more than the sim
ple filing of the information with the public official.
Great Biitain went this far some years ago, and the
act was not a success. There must be a connecting
link, the additional requirement of requiring the
publicity through the circulars and advertisements.
Then th.c purchaser will be put upon notice. No
, longer will securities be waterlogged with promo-
i i 'on bonuses. Failures will necessarily be less, and
consequently the cost of living should be reduced,
| for the sum total of failures in this country due to!
'wild-catting’ or waterlogging securities has acer
! :ain effect upon the cost of living.
If a man has a right to know under the pure
foocV law what ingredients a package contains, and
tne manufacturer can be punished criminally for
. misrepresentation, why should the purchaser of se
curities not have the same right of knowing what
iis behind the security? In the first instance, fail
ure 'o live up to the lav/ may cause one to take into
ihis system poisonous food; in the second, no food |
at all.”
j What Other Editors Say |
• AND 8-CENT COTTON?
Oh, for a return to the good old days when
we can step into a store and buy a pair of shoes
for sl.B9!—Lumpkin Independent.
YOU SAID IT, 80.
i If you ever are hunting a job don’t ever pick
one in a country newspaper where you have to do
the work of all sorts of men every day in the year
and some Sundays.—Thomasville Times-Enter
prise.
I
INSULT TO GOOD EGGS.
! I
,' We quite agree with the authorities of Ard
more, Oklahoma, where Senator James Reed was
' driven from the stage Wednesday night by a
shower of eggs from an audience which did not
I sympathize with his anti-peace treaty agitation,
that the outrage should be investigated. The Ard
more audience ought to be ashamed of itself. Eggs
i are worth a nickel apiece.—Albany Herald.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
Notice to Building and
Heating Contractors
Sealed Yids will be received at the office of Dr. L. M Haw
kins, Chairman, Leslie, Ga., until twelve o’clock, noon, Tuesday,
October 28, 1919, for the construction of Union High School
building to be erected in Leslie, Ga..
Each bid for the construction of the building must be ac
companied with a certified check in the amount of $1,000.00
and each bid for the heating with a certified check in the
amount of $500.00 made payable to Dr. L. M. Hawkins, Chair
man, as a guarantee that if awarded the contract the successful
bidder will immediately enter into contract and furnish surety
bond as required by the specifications. The checks are to be
recognizable at any bank for payment with the simple endorse
ment of “L. M. Hawkins, Chairman,” otherwise bid will be
thrown out.
The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.
Drawings and specifications may be seeu at the -office of
Edwards, Sayward & Leitner, 609 Chamber of Commerce
Building, Atlanta, Ga., and at the office of Dr. L. M. Hawkins,
Chairman, Leslie, Ga.
Building and Heating Contractors wishing to bid may ob
tain drawings and specifications from the architects by im
mediately applying for same and accompanying application
with a certified check in the amount of $25.00 payable to Ed
wards, Sayward & Leitner, Architects. Failure on the part of
any contractor to either give a bona fide bidj for the work or
return the drawings and specifications to the architects will for
feit the check.
Sub-contractors wishing 1 1 get drawings and specifications
are required to pay the architects SIO.OO for the use of same.
BY ORDER OF
THE BUILDING COMMITTEE
DR. L. M. HAWKINS, CHAIRMAN.
*ye old e fashioned
, [horehound drops
From 5c worth—3sc pound
“They’re Good For Your Cough.”
MURRAY’S PHARMACY The REXALL Store
“The Best in Drug Store Merchandise ; the Finest in Drug Stor e Service.”
We’ll Help Do Your Ironing
—help you do it in half the time
Y?; it takes in old-fashioned ways—
- / / —help you do it better and elim
inate the countless weary steps it
liff ~~4.- used to take between ironing
jy board and stove.
.W7 —we ll do all this and more—
If You’ll Buy An Electric Iron.
An Electric Iron is cheap measured by what it and our service
will do for you.
Purchase one today and begin to enjoy the full benefits of our
service.
AMERICUS LIGHTING CO.
PHONE 555.
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a It » T 1 on farm lands at 5 1-2 per cent, inter I
J Money LOSnGQ est and borrowers have privilege., es JJ
* paying part or all of principal at any intereit period, (topping in- £
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5 AMERICAS, GEORGIA. 5
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CITY LOANS
Attractive Terms Prompt Attention.
Phone 830. Planter* Bank Bide
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PC3T OFFIdfaOXEIAMERICUS.G*.
L. G. COUNCIL, (Incorporated 1891 JOE M. BRYAN
President „ ~ ’
c rmivT/MT Asst. Cashier.
C. M. COUNCIL, T. E BOLTON
Vice Prc’t. 4 Cashier Asst. Cashier.
CONDENSED STATEMENT
The Planters Bank
of Americus
At The Close of Business Sept. 30, 1919.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts _ $839,570.66
Banking House and Other Real Estate 28,159.85
United States Liberty Bonds 77!80o'oo
Cash and Due From Banks $443,353.49
Advances on Cotton 291,071.82 734,425.31
Total : $1,679,955.72
LIABILITIES.
Ca P ital $ 50,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits 212,176.25
Deposits 1,277,779.47
Bills Payable „ 140,000.00
Total $1,679,955.72
Large or small accounts are appreciated.
The confidence and patronage of our cus
tomers makes this showing possible, for
which we thank them.
J VV. SHEFFIELD, Pres. FRANK SHEFFIELD, V.-P.
LEE HUDSON, Cashier.
DATE OF CHARTER:
Oct. 13, 1891.
A good banking connection is of value along many lines,
financially and otherwise..
It is not alone in the business world that it will be of im
mense assistance. It gives you a real sense of independ
ence, a feeling of self-respect which is worth many dollars
to you.
A connection with an institution like this one gives you
Prestige.
You will receive prompt and courteous attention at
BANK OF COMMERCE
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
Commercial City Bank
Corner Lamar and Forrest Streets
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
Each man must build his fortune from the money that
he’ does NOT SPEND. The rule is so uhiversal that ex
ceptions don t count. Think before you »pend. Decide
whether the article you are about to buy is really worth
while. If it isn t SAVE the money, no matter how small
the amount may be. If you do this CONSISTENTLY
you will soon be surprised at the result of your effort
Open an acocunt with us TODAY and begin SAVING.
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AMERICUS UNDERTAKING COMPANY
Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
Naf LeMaster, Manager
Day Phones 88 and 231. Night 661 and lf7
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12,19107