Newspaper Page Text
PAGE SIX
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 187»-
Published By
THE TIMES-RECORDER CO. (Inc.)
Arthur Lucas, President; Lovelace Eve, Secretary;
W. S. Kirkpatrick. Treasurer.
■iuiisned every afternoon, except Saturday; every Sun
• uorniug and as a weeklv (every Thursday.)l
WM. S. KIRKPATRICK, Editor; LOVELACE EVE,
Business Manager.|
Subscription Rates.
Daily and Sunday, $6 a year in advance; 65 cents a
■tenth
OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR
City of Americas.
Sumter County.
Railroad Commission of Georgia For Third Congressional
District
r. S. Court. Sot them District of Georgia.
Entered as Second-Class Mat.er at the Postoffice at
*tnericus. Georgia, according to the Act of Congress!
National Advertising Representatives:
FROST, LANDIS & KOHN
Brunsbek Bldg Peoples Gas Bldg Candler Bldg
New York Chicago
' PRAYERS BROUGHT A FIANCE.
It has been more than a case of love at firstj
sight for Miss Karin Tjader, who lives on Million-.
aires - Row opposite Central Park, in New
City. As she saw for the first time her future suitor I
in the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church she felt that perhaps the time had come
when her prayers for an opportunity to be of Christ
ian service in the world were to be answered. La
ter she met Capt. “Gypsy” Smith, the famous Scott
ish soldier-evangelist. As they became better ac
quainted, she was sure that this was her chance. *
When the captain, who was wounded while fighting'
with the Tynside Scots in the Battle of the Somme,
returned to Scotland in August, Miss Tjader was
at the pier to wish him bon voyage. On her finger
she wore a big solitaire diamond.
Miss Tjader does not look upon the affair
as a romance. “For years 1 have prayed the Lord I
to open away in which 1 might be useful in his!
work. My prayer is being answered,” she said sim
ply. "1 have been brought up in a Christian home,
and it seems to me the most natural thing in the
world for me to marry an evangelist. It seems like
an answer to my prayer, though 1 have no idea
what my special service will be.”
During part of the year Miss Tjader and her
mother live in their home on Fifth avenue; the re
mainder at Vikingsburg, their country home, where
Miss Tjader may be seen almost any day enjoying
a game of tennis, a swim, a sail around the sound
or a spin in her powerful car. But her chief interest
is in religion.
She says she has attended dancing parties, but
cares for them no more. She cares little for the
theater. Her chief, recreation is in outdoor sports
and her real joy comes from her religion.
“Anyone who thinks a religious life is dull and
tedious simply does not know," she said. "If one
is really going to live, one has to pick one s self up
from the whirl and follow a straight track."
Ihe captain will return to America in De
cember and after the holidays he will begin an
evangelistic campaign in Brooklyn. No date has
been set for the wedding. But Miss Tjader says
she will be there when the campaign starts ready
to help, as her fiance wishes her to.
SHANTUNG WILSON’S GETHSEMANE.
One of the most solemn declarations yet
made in defense of the settlement reached in the
peace treaty and the efforts of President Wilson to
bring about the ideals for which he and the Ameri
can people stood, was made a few evenings ago
by William Allen White, the noted correspondent
and republican writer, who was a magazine cor
respondent at Versailles, in an address before the
City Club, of Kansas City, speaking on the topic,
The Conference As Seen By a Reporter.”
President Wilson is one of the greatest charac
ters America has produced and one of the greatest
figures on the planet today, Mr. White declared,
but from the standpoint of a newspaper man the
President has some very mean ways, he said.
The President went through his Gethsemane
over the Shantung deal,” he said. “He was virtual
ly forced to accede to it in o?der to put the league
and treaty across, and if 1 had been in his place
I would have done as he did. But if 1 were in Con
gress, the moment the pact is ratified, 1 would
enter a protest against the dirty steal. New Zea
land and Australia would join America in such a
protest, and England would not dare oppose the
move. With the moral strength of the English
speaking people against the transaction, Japan
would be led to restore the province to its rightful
owners, the Chinese.”
Ratification of the treaty and league covenant
• is the only sure way of settling the Shantung affair,
Mr. White declared, and if the affair is not settled,
ah Oriental war, from which America cannot es
cape, will be the final outcome, he asserted.
HOW DOES YOUR SALARY STACK UP?
Official estimates for a "health and decency”
budget for government clerks place the minimum
annual expenses of a family of five at $2,262, an
unmarried woman at $1,083 and a single man at
SI,OOO.
These figures have just been made public by
Dr. Royal Meeker, chief of the bureau of labor*
statistics, in connection with the investigation of
federal salaries by a congressional committee.
The food item in the family budget amounts
to $778.93. The clothing bill for the year is
„ Ripphrigki'iijKi’QS w
fy Welt
- THE STRIKE fever.
job is all 1 could desire, it yields me hand
' some pay; 1 wrestle with my blooming lyre
for eight brief hours a day. 1 ought to think
myself in luck, to have a job 1 like; but all the
other boys have struck, and so I think I’ll strike.
No stern oppressor grinds my face with crue’
iron heel; to tyrants in the higher place I make
no vain appeal. No rank injustice 1 lament,
my spirit isn’f sore; 1 have no grievance worth
a cent, that makes me walk the floor. But 1
see all the striking lads parade along the pike;
they’ve quit their work in all the grads, and so
I think I’ll strike. 1 am the only man at work
in all this lovely land, who does not find his la
bors irk, who makes no stern demand. I’m sat
isfied with what 1 do, and with the pay I get;
each day 1 earn three bones or two, in damp but
honest sweat. I’m treated better than a king,
and life seems pretty slick, and as 1 sit around
and sing 1 can’t think up a kick. But 1 am
lonesome all the day, the one contented guy; the
rest have thrown their tools away, and they go
marchit|g by. I see them waving bright red flags
as up the street they hike; and so my lilting labor
drags—l rather think I’ll strike.
$513.72, of which the husband is allotted $121.16,
the wife $166.46, I I-year-old boy $96.60, the 5-
year-old girl $82.50, and the baby (2 years) $47.
Housing, fuel and light are placed at $428 and
miscellaneous expenses at $546.82. A total of
$2,262.47.
If the wife was especially competent in the
are of shopping, did her own sewing and practiced
all household economies, the budget might be re
duced, it was explained, to a “rock bottom mini
mum" of $2,025.56.
The bureau, in compiling these estimates,
makes a hat allowance for the wife of one and a
half hats a year, $ I 0 for a winter hat and $5 for a
summer one, the winter hat to be worn two years.
An item of $9.40 is allowed for a newspaper, held
by Doctor Meeker to be a necessity. The family
amusement appropriation is set at S4O, which also
includes magazines, although in general such lux
uries as the latter, it was pointed out;, are to be
enjoyed at the public library.
•( What Other Editors Say 1
TIME TO CALL A HALT.
If the leaders of the miners unions are wise,
they will not shut their eyes to the signs of the
times. They will be very rash, indeed, if they
set at defiance the great volume of public opinion
which is accumulating against their threatened
strike and which will undoubtedly support the gov
ernment in strong and even in unusual methods of
suppression.
Nothing can be more significant than the dis
patches from Washington quoting members of Con
gress as supporting the President without reserve
in his warning to the United Mine Workers and
their officers. These Congressmen are in politics;
they have their ears to the ground to catch the
drift of public sentiment. Were that sentiment in
favor of the strike to an extent even faintly audi
ble, they would either talk in the same sense or
else remain silent. The fact that they are against
the strike and support direct action to abort it, is
conclusive proof that they have caught a swelling
chorus of public disapproval of it.
Now, against public opinion a labor union or
a group of unions is all but impotent. It may do a
certain amount of injury to itself and others, but it
cannot win. When it has the forces of the Govern
ment against it, backed by public opinion, it is des
tined to certain defeat. Its leaders are foo-lish as
well as mischievous in inviting such an outcome.
They are not only inviting disaster to their own
cause in the present but compromising the future of
unionism.
As for methods of combatting the strike, the
Government is amply equipped. Not only can it
keep the mines working to a measurable degree by
extending protection to all men who are willing
to work in them—and there are tens of thousands
I —it can also attack directly the instigators and pro
| moters of the strike. A cool reading of one clause
' of the Lever act for food control during the war
should give a chill to the ardor of any present-time
advocate of social hostilities. The act is still in
force and it covers the case of coal. It imposes
SIO,OOO fines and terms of imprisonment on all
who conspire to restrict the supply or distribution
of any necessities. If this does not cover the com
bination ordering the strike, there is no force in
language.
The miners are now standing, apparently on a
technical point. They insist that some concession
must be made before they will call off the strike
and negotiate the questions involved. In other
words, they demand submission on the part of
every one else as a preliminary to assent on their
part to fair and equal dealing.
It is superfluous to point out the absurdity of
this pretension. What would the miners them- !
selves think if the operators made such a demand?
Surely the men who now advance it have lost their
heads and must be brought to reason. Buying off
trouble piecemeal is a fatal blunder.—New York
Evening Sun.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
n
I $283,000
.___— ?
Bibb County, Ga.,
Serial Coupon Bonds
Dated May 1, 1910. Denominations, SI,OOO.
r Interest Periods May and November.
■I Exempt From AH Federal In
come Taxes Under Present
Federal Income Tax Laws,
and Georgia Taxes
Legal investment for Trust funds and Insur
ance Companies in Georgia. Eligible, in our
■E opinion, to secure Postal Savings Deposits.
Financial Statement
|| Estimated value of property. . .$100,000,000
» Assessed valuation for taxation. $ 47,770,192
Total indebtednesss 1,500,000
Population, estimated, 85,000.
Bonds validated by the Superior Court of
Bibb County, Georgia. Legality of issue ap-
U proved by Caldwell & Masslich, of New York
|g City. ,
■I Bonds of following maturities at prices to net 4% %
H I 8,000 May 1, j920@99.88 J 30.000 May 1, 1931097.90
> E 10,000 May 1, 1922@99.42 30,000 May 1. 1932@97.Cfi
Sr 6,000 May 1, 1923@99.20 30,000 May 1, 1933@97.53
■ 5,000 May 1, 1924@99.00 30,000 May 1, 1934@97.40
■ 30,000 May 1, 1925@98.80 25,000 May 1. 1935@97.28
K 30,000 May 1, 1926@98.62 25,000 May 1, 1936@97.16
H 15,000 May 1, 1930@97.95 10,000 Ma> 1, 1_937@97.05
■E Accrued interest to be added to date of delivery.
Bond Department
£ Trust Company of Georgia
Atlanta, Ga.
■g The above information, while not guaranteed, was
H derived from sources which we regard as reliable.
Just to Remind You of the
Best and Where to Get it
We are cutting today some of the best Georgia and Wes
tern BEEF you ever ate. No old by-products nor stale
stuff, but first class table meats.
Also PURE PORK SAUSAGE, Tender PORK CHOPS
and ROAST.
Gold band Sausage, Star Hams and Bacon, sliced to per
fection. Most tempting to a delicate appetite.
Fresh Appalachicola Oysters and Fresh Fish two or three
1 times a week.
We have some juicy Oranges just in from Florida. Fruits
and Vegetables, and if you will call to see us you will see
the many good things not enumerated here.
Bragg’s Market
PHONE 181.
V c> jhjSERVICE Cj
VQUALITY J
- jam}. "" ' UMr —
POST OFFICE BOX sTaMERICUS GA.
till w
I P.O. Box 116 B. C HOGUE Phon* 28
CONTRACTING, BUILDING, ARCHITECTURAL
] DRAFTING. EXCLUSIVE AGENT .FOR SUMTER
COUNTY FOR TIFT WHITE SILICA'BRICK.
i
ALLISON UNDERTAKING CO.
(Established 1908,)
Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
OLEN BUCHANAN, Director.
Day Phone 253 Night Phones 381 or 106
L. COUNCIL, President T . E. BOLTON Asst
C M. COUNCIL, '
Vice Pres t. & Cashier .
Asst. Cashier.
The Planters Bank of Americus.
RESOURCES OVER $1,500,000.
offer you a complete fi.
11 lOOal nancial service, both com-
Ira'S mercial and savings. On
«B M F time certificates savings
| f ffi T? S accounts, we pay 4 per cent
ijjgLnS >j. interest, compounded. Our
Qfficers and employees are
to serve and co-operate
wl-' ■! W with our customers.
Prompt Conservative Accommodating.
No Account Too Large; None Too Small
ALL GOOD AMERICANS ARE TODAY
c Saving
,v ?, are often at a loss to know what to do with small sums,
and how to plan their methods of saving.
SISTENTLY ngß Account today and begin to SAVE CON-
• INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS.
Commercial City Bank
Corner Lamar and Forrest Streets. Americus, Georgia
MONEY 51$
I Money Loaned !
S paying part or ail of principal at any interest period, stopping in.
tarest on amounts paid. We always have best rates and easiest
I terms and give quickest service. Save money by seeing or writimr
| “ G. R. ELLIS or G. C. WEBB 7
i AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
-rr-rr r f..j r.—--- T IIJB
When in Need of Insurance Just Phone 849
J G HOLST
INSURANCE in All of Its Branches. BONDS I
**************************************^—«»-■ ■■ rrrrrrcrr r r i»*,J
J. W. SHEFFIELD, Pres. FRANK SHEFFIELD, V.-P.
LEE HUDSON, Cashier.
DATE OF CHARTER:
Oct. 13, 1891.
ARE YOU PROSPEROUS?
Today s prosperity doesn t assure your future inde
pendence. Conditions change quickly.
What are you doing to protect your future?
Are you safe-guarding your surplus for the days of
old age?
When you are not so alert, keen and vigorous as
you are today, you will thank us for the 4 per cent,
that your money earned on time deposit here during
your prosperous days. ,
BANK OF COMMERCE
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
J. LEWIS ELLIS
CITY LOANS
Attractive Terms Prompt Attention.
Phone 830. Planters Bank Bldg
AMERICUS UNDERTAKING COMPANY
Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
Nat LeMaster, Manager
Day Phones 88 and 231 Night 661 and 167
TURNER ELECTRIC CO.
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES AND CONTRACTORS.
Estimates Cheerfully Furnished. Lamps, Fans, Motors, 1 elephoo*
Batteries, House Wiring and Repairs a Specialty. Combination Gm
and Electrical Fixtures.
STORE PHONE Wind, or Avenue. HOME PHONE I*
, ■■■■■ .1.1; """
We Have Just Received a Big Line Os
Young Men’s Suits
For Fall. It will pay you to look them over. Will save
' you from $2.50 to fi5.00 a Suit.
W. J. Josey
Clothier Americus, Ga.
I
« _
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1 919 .