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PAGE SIX The Americus Times-Recorder ESTABLISHED 1879. Published By THE TIMES-RECORDER CO., (Inc.) Arthur Lucas, President; Lovelace Eve, Secretary; W. S. Kirkpatrick, Treasurer. Published every afternoon, except Saturday; every So morning and as a weekly (every Thursday.) WM. S. KIRKPATRICK, Editor; LOVELACE EVE, Business Manager. OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR City of Americus. Sumter County. Railroad Commission of Georgia for T ard Congressional District. U. S. Court, Southern Dis* ct Georgia. Subscription Daily and Sunday, $6 a yea T in advance; 65 cents a '/ Entered as Second-Cla- Matter at the Postoffice at Americus, Georgia, accc *nc to the Act of Congress. National Adv casing Representatives: FROS’r J3ANDIS & KOHN Brunswick Bldg. PWples Gas Bldg. Candler Bldg. New York Chicago Atlanta - 11. '.l* - ■ ljJ ■ MEMBER A SCCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press exeF .ve'y entitled to the use for publication of all news jiatutches credited to it or not otherwise credited m Ju* paper, and also the local news published b*reip. .11 r.ght of republication of special dispatches herein n-j.ned are also reserved. WHO’LL HELP THE SHERIFF? A new step forward in the enforcement of the prohibition laws, both state and national seems to . he.ve been taken in Sumter county. In fact, Sum jfer appears suddenly to have taken the lead in lav ( enforcement or efforts for law enforcement in Georgia. I On the first page of this edition of The I imes- ] Recorder is reproduced a signed statement by Sheriff Harvey challenging the sincerity of the citi- , zenship of Sumter county. It is manifestly impos- , sible for him and his limited force of capable depu- , ties to police and spy on all of Sumter county in j addition to performing their many other necessary | duties. But with the genuine co-operation of rhe j public, they will be able, supported by the courts, < to strike terror to the heart of the blind tiger and making moonshining the most unpopular pastime | ever practiced in Georgia. ] Whenever enough people of Sumter count' ( r make up their minds that the moonshiner must go he 11 go and go quickly. There is no question ' about it. It lies easily within the power of the ' people themselves. They have the machinery of j law now and they have the officers. It is not neces- < sary to wait for the government to send in th revenuers to raid these offenders who are break- ] ing our own state laws just as truly as they are vlo ■ lating any federal statute. , Some planters profess to hold the belief that it is necessary to wink at the making of wl.is’.j I tenants in order to keep tenants and farm bauds from leaving them. Other planters declare th:: 1 to be either a mistaken idea, as it is undoubtedly on i the pajrt of some honest men, or a deliberate m > statement of condition. A prominent planter of ? this section, who, however, does not live in Sum s ter county, was discussing this phase of the liquor menace recently. When the white landlord gets ready to stop ; the making of liquor there will be no more liquor," ; was the substance of his conclusion. "1 own con- i siderable land and have a number of tenants. I | put every one of them on notice from the start that < anyone caught making liquor on my place will have ; to leave instantly. But Ido not stop there. I tell them further that 1 don t want to hear of any liquor making going on, and that if such reports come to me two or three times, enough to indicate to me! that there is something doing. I’m not going to 1 wait to prove it, but that tenant will have to leave. They all understand it and 1 don’t have any trouble with moonshine on my place. And I have no trou ble getting and keeping good tenants.” 1 hat moonshinings can be made unpopular is proven by the innovation of Judge Littlejohn at the recent session of the Superior court in sending offenders to the chain gang without the alternative of fines. This alone is declared to have resulted in i stump liquor taking suddenly to cover and to be ; more difficult to obtain hereabouts just now than ' at any time since the enactment of the rigid pro- i hibition laws. I j No doubt many good people who gladly would have co-operated with the sheriff in run- ■ ning down liquor violators in the past have hesitat-1 ed to do so, not knowing whether their efforts ■ would be appreciated or well received. But the nvitation of the sheriff for co-operation should eave no doubt in the mind of any persons as to vhether his assistance in uprooting this source of nurder and other forms of crime will be wel comed. Those citizens who stand for law and order are to be congratulated upon having in office a sheriff with courage and conviction sufficient to cause him to declare himself openly for suppression of this serious evil and to call upon all citizens to aid him in running down and breaking up. this in iquitous traffic. AN AMERICAN COMPOSER OF FAME. Horatio William Parker, widely known music composer and a professor of the theory of music at Yale since 1894, died of pneumonia the other day at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ralph Sem lar, in Cedarhurst, N. Y. P-ofesior Parker was born at Auburndale, H RipplingfcnqniosW XjL&X Walt Mason ANTI-RED. r J'HE banks are full of savings, the people's hard-earned dust; and so we hear the ravings of Reds with deep disgust. No program an«- chistic can get a foothold here; no wild-eyed Russian mystic can throw things out of gear. In vain the red flag wavings, the threats by tongue or pen; the banks are full of savings, put there by working men. When all of us are stony, dead broke and on the bum, perhaps Red speeches phoney with greater force will come; perhaps they will convert us, we ll join the un washed dubs, until the peelers hurt us with lig num vitae clubs. But while wa have our sav ings in yonder moral bank, you’ll note that our behavings won’t be so brash and rank. With vines and figtrees growing beside our cottage doors, we do not heed the blowing freaks from other shores. With happy children playing about our modest homes, we do not heed the braying that comes from batty domes. In vain the elocution of frayed, imported seer, no priest of revolution can get a foothold here. Mass., September 15, 1863. In 1911 he was award ed the Metropolitan Opera prize of SIO,OOO for his opera "Mona,’’ and three years later, with his opera Fairyland,’’ won a prize of SIO,OOO offered by the National Federation of Women's Clubs for the best American opera. Professor Parker was probably America’s greatest composer of music. He was a church or ganist when 16 years old. The opera “Mona,” which won the SIO,OOO prize offered by the Metro politan Opera Company, was written in a lonely lit tle fishing shack near Blue Hill, Conn. It took Professor Parker two years to finish the opera, he said. In 1902, Cambridge University, England, con ferred upon him the honorary degree of doctor of music. London critics praised his work and pre dicted a great musical future for him. Professor Parker and Brian Hooker, of New York, often wrote in collaboration, producing both "Mona” and "Fairyland,” which won the SIO,OOO prize offered by the National Federation of Musical clubs for the best grand opera written in English. Prof. Parker s name will go down in musical history, not with the great writers of popular clas sics, but as a writer of enduring, worth-while mu sic. BEING A BEAR. Women everywhere are being urged to cease buying as a remedy for the high cost of everything in the stores. There is some wisdom in this ad vice, but if it be blindly followed it will lead to dis rster. It needs more than the proverbial grain of salt. To abstain from buying eggs and butter at absurdly high prices when beef and bacon are available at far more sane ones is good sense. To abstain from buying luxuries when one knows that the prices for them are not the natural doubling of the depreciated dollar, but the quadrupling or quintupling of the profiteer is also only the part of sanity. But to refrain from making the necessary purchases for decent upkeep of either home or wardrobe is only laying the foundation for future trouble. For two years American women patriotically I abstained from buying clothes or rugs or furniture or anything which they could possibly do without. The emergency was pressing. It was right that they should meet it as they did. But after the two years, what happened? The need for replenish ing were not normal but obnormal ones. That is one big reason for the so-called “frantic" buying of the last few months. The woman who normally spends ten or fif teen dollars at the January and July linen sales, and who abstained for two years, finds herself without a decent wash-cloth or bedspread. Yes terday she was equipped. Today, she has nothing jin that line. The old things went to pieces all at j once like the one-hoss shay. It is the same way in the whole gamut of i manufactured articles. Reasonable provision for | upkeep must be maintained. Being a bear has a sad way of turning one, at the most inconvenient time, into a bull. Wis dom, as always, lies in the miHdle ground. Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard, the "flying par son, winner of the recent army transcontinental air race has announced that he had resigned from 1 the army air service and will resume his work as a i clergyman, says a news dispatch from New York. I am going to take the advice I received in an 1 anonymous letter the other day and go back to ■my preaching,’ Lieut. Maynard said. "In sub stance it sasd: lam now an old man of 80, but when I was a young man. an old man told me not to be a fool. Now lam old and you are young, • so I want to give you some advice. Don’t be a : fool. Go back to your pulpit and give up your fly- j ’ling and newspaper fame." ■ Perhaps the lieutenant has reached the ctr, < •elusion that he would rather be a live mectXvJ . preacher than a dead famous aviator. ) THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER | SOMEWHERE IN OUR STORE | is the gift you are looking for. J || No matter who it is for, we can || show something appropriate, || something that will delight the ft recipient. Here you will find a stock of gift goods Cgs in jewelry, leather goods, silverware, cut glass—a stock that will give wider selec tion than any other we know of in the city. ■ EXTRACTS AND TOILET CHRISTMAS CANDY WATERS Huyler. and Johnson’* Djer Kiss Leather Bill Fold* O Mari. Garden CIGARS, in Christmas Hudnut* Three Flower. Boxe., 25 or 50-to a box Spring Garden Stationery ■ 8 Brown’. Garden of Allah Thermo. Bottle. Brown . Violet Auto-Strop Razor. £ .Ji (In Set. or Separate) Flash Light. ■ Americus Drug Company | PHONES 7 5 AND 121. -T-T-n -a; I ' MWUMMWMMMMM MMMMMWMMNMMMMMMMMMMIMM CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS Os The Hundreds of USEFUL Gifts You’ll Find Here, We Suggest Only a Few. FOR THE CHILDREN Express Wagons Velocipedes Pocket Knives Flash Lights FOR THE MAN IN THE HOME— Auto-Strap Safety Razor* Shot Guns, automatic loading Shot Guns, s-ngie ot double Rifles, single-shot or repeaters, barrel Hunting Suits Shumate Straight Razon Beach Vests and Jackets, FOR MOTHER, WIFE OR FRIEND DE LUXE Vacuum Carpet Roasters, large or small Sweepers and Cleaners Rochester Tea Kettles bcissors, Shears and other ~ ... ~ Cutlery Aluminum Ware Always Carving Sets most acceptable Chafing Dishes Oil Heaters, Etc. “A LOOK AROUND THE STORE WILL HELP YOU SOLVE CHRISTMAS PERPLEXITIES” SHEFFIELD COMPANY. PHONE 20. FARM LOANS 20 YEAR AMORTISEMENT LOANS— On the plan of the Federal Land Bank*. No joint liability and without red tape. 10 YEAR LOANS— interest payable annually. Privilege of paying part or all es principal at any intere.t period. 5 YEAR LOANS Written option furnished permitting payment in full at any interest period. Mo’.ey is available a* soon as title to land is approved. We will be glad to explain the various kinds of farm loans. JAMES A. A JOHN A. FORT Planter* Bank Building. - _ . ! LOANS Literest~LOANS FARM Lowest Rates CITY If you have good property, either farm or city, I can make you an attractive loan. Annual curtail of principal allowed, stopping interest on amount paid. Local Money On Hand For Quick Loans. H. O. JONES PHONES: Office 177; Residence 753. America., Ga. I *»*»»»»»»» »«**»> | I • I on f * rs » land, at I 1-2 per cent, inter » * money Loaned «.t borrower. h.v. priviUM- JI « paying part or all of principal at any interest period, stoppin* in- J ‘ * tere.l on amount. paid We always bar. best rate, and naainst » 4 term, and g»v« quickest service. Save money by seeing or writin* J ; G. R. ELLIS or G. C. WEBB • AMERICUS. GEORGIA. * £ I t • tttcmtttttttttttttmt***.*'. I I J. LEWIS ELLIS CITY LOANS Attractive Terms / Prompt Attention. Phone 830. Planter. Bank Bldg ii; When in Need of Insurance Just Phone 849. J G HOLST INSURANCE in All of Its Branches. BONDS 1 C M co™™: '"’t ‘ TE ' BOLTON> C ““« C. M. COUNCIL, (IncorporateJ» joe M BRYAN Vice Pres’t. & Cashier Asßt . The Planters Bank of Americus, CHRISTMAS GREETINGS MWe are very grateful to our customers rind friends for the business intrusted to us, making this the best year in the history of our bank. ■ Our officers and directors join in wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Prospermia New Year. Prompt Conservative Accommodating. No Account Too Large; None Too .Smalt ALL GOOD AMERICANS ARE TODAY Saving Avoiding waste, being thrifty, spending wisely. Many who are SAVING and PROSPERING for the first time in their lives are often at a loss to know what to do with small sums, and how to plan their methods of saving. Open a Savings Account today and begin to SAVE CON SISTENTLY. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. Commercial City Bank Corner Lamar and Forrest Streets. Americus, Georgia Statement of The Condition of The BANK OF COMMERCE, Americus, Ga. Dec. 2, 1919. Condensed From Report To State Treasurer. Resources: Loans and Di5c0unt55656,645.36 Overdrafts gg g*j Banking House2o,ooo.oo Bonds Owned by Bank 139,850.71 Cash on Hand and in Banks 530.’712:99 Advances on Cotton in Process of Shipment 83,862.41 . . .... . $1,431,161.30 Liabilities: Capital Stock . $ 65,000.00 DEPOSITS-— ndlV ‘ ded Profits 107,355.89 Snbject to Check $997,786.36 Demand Certificates 5,058.59 Time Certificates 229 100 01 rr £ ep n its J 10,860i45 1,242.805.41 Cashier s Checks . g 11,431,161.30 We Invite You To Cal! On Or Correspond With Us. Oirectors: J. W. Sheffield, Frank Sheffield, John Sheffield, Chas. . ( nsp, Lee Hudson. J. A. DAVENPORT-INSURANCE. , Country Dwellings, Barns, Mules and Feedstuffs Fire, Life, Accident & Health, Tornado, Plate Glass, Band, Auto. All Companies Represented Are The Very Best I ALLISON UNDERTAKING CO. (Established 1908,) Funeral Directors and Embalmers. OLEN BUCHANAN, Director. Day Phone 25. > Night Phones 381 or 106 I—lUi llli 1111 mill m .im AMERICUS UNDERTAKING COMPANY Funeral Directors and Embalmers. Nat LeMaster, Manager Day Phones 88 and 231 Night 661 and 167 CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS * Here Are Some of the Items We Have For the Holiday Trade: Bicycles, Velocipedes, Coasters, Kiddie- Kars, Toddlers, Express Wagons, Coaster Wagons, Foot Balls, Basket Balls, Guns, Air-Rifles, Skates, Alluminum Cooking Sets for Children, Pocket Knives and a thousand different other things. Williams-Niles Co. , HARDWARE PHONE 706 * TUESDAy > DECEMBER 23, 1919.