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FORTY-SECOND YEAR.—NO. 24.
DRYS SEEK 62 MILLIONS FOR BOOZE KNOCKOUT
WARNSIOF PERIL
IN LAST STAGES!
OF WAR ON TICK
Make Clean-Up Com
plete, Dr. Ramsay
Tells Stockmen
MONTGOMERY. Ala., Jan. 28.— :
Cattle tick eradication in Southern
states is now in a somewhat critical
condition, Dr. R. A. Ramsey, chief of
tick eradication of the Department of j
Agriculture’s bureau of animal in
dustry, told the Southern Cattlemen’s
Association today and an energetic
drive, he said, should be made, espec
ially in states where tick eradication
is nearly completed, to speedily fin
ish the job. The possibility of politics
interfering with the work was pointed
out by Dr. Ramsay.
“There is imminent danger,” he
said “when any state becomes care
less about discontinuing tick eradi
cation when there are still a few
counties or localities or small centers
where tick infestation exists. The'
infestation in these centers, if not
completely eradicated, is going to
spread. Furthermore, these small
centers are liable to be used by poli
ticians for purpose of barter. This
has been demonstrated in Virginia,
where these tick infested counties still
remain in quarantine because certain
state officials and livestock sanitary
officials saw proper to trade off tick
eradication for a few votes on some
other legislation.”
Dr. Ramsay said southern cattle
men could relieve men directly en
gaged in the actual work of tick erad- ■
ication of the responsibility of ob- j
taining appropriations and enlisting
the moral support of the state legisla
tors and executives. He suggested
two members of the association should
personally visit each state legislature
and discuss with the various commit
tees and the governor the needs of
tick eradication.
The work of the cattlemen’s asso
ciation, he said, had been of great as
sistance in the past and the cattle
tick had been eradicated from 569,-
284 square miles, or 70 per cent of
the area infested. There still re
mains 219,581 square miles under
quarantine.
Teachers To Be Guests
At Rotarians’ Dinner
The teachers of the Americus pub
lic schools will be the guests of the
10. si Rotarians Thursday night, Jan
dK-y 29, at 7 o’clock dinner in the I
V a Room. A number of other guests
Mo will enjoy the evening’s fun,
as this is Rotary’s monthly ladies’
night, at which all of the Rotarians,
their wives and friends meet for a
good dinner and lots of fun.
Invitation has been wired to Frank
Reynolds, of the Georgia Automo
bile Association, to speak at the din
ner. Mr. Reynolds has been requested I
to discuss the proposed state bond
issue, which is of so much interest to j
all Georgians, a proposition, which if
carried through will realize at once on
the state automobile tax to the extent
of making $40,000,000 available im
mediately to build hard-surfaced state
highways throughout Georgia.
Wilson Again Appeals
For Loan To Starving
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Presi
dent Wilson today asked Secretary
Glass to make another appeal to con
gress for authority for a loan of a
hundred and fifty millions to Poland,
Austria and Armenia to relieve the
desperate food situation in those coun
tries. The president wrote the secre
tary that it was “unthinkable” to him
that the United States should withhold
from the stricken people of those
countries the assistance which could
be rendered by “making available on
credit a small portion of our exporta
ble surplus of food.”
Message From Mars
Scouted By American
NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—There has
been no unusual interference with
wireless communication in America, !
asserted Dr. E. E. W. Anderson, chief I
engineer of the Radio Corporation of
America, in discussing today the mys- .
terious wireless signals described re-1
cently in London by Signor Marconi.
He scouted the suggestion that the
signals may come from another
planet.
Robbers B’ware
Fair Ladies Will Vamp
You If You Don’t
Watch Out
LOOKIT NEW YORK
BY LORRY A. JACOBS.
NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—1 t is be
coming erceedingly unhealthy along
Broadway for the well-known hold
up man.
Time was when almost any aspir
ing young crook might step into a
bank, or theater, or hotel on Broad
way, simply say, “Hold up your
hands," and a sum of $5,000 to $lO,-
000 would be handed to him. Where
upon he would go out and buy himself
a meal, or a theater ticket, or a pair
of shoes. But those days are no
more.
A few days ago an aspiring young
man tried the Jeses James act at a
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delicatessen store on upper Broad
way. Herman Weinstein, the pro
prietor, couldn’t see it that way and
promptly threw a spray of mustard
into the amateur J. J.’s eyes. Exit
into the arms of a policeman.
Another one who had been reading
fiction about “Thieves in the Night”'
entered the home of one of Brooklyn’s
best known pressmen. The trouble
was that he allowed the well known
pressman to find him there. Exit via
the frying pan knockout route.
And still another entered the Man
hattan Savings Bank, Broadway and
Bleeker-sts, and demanded $5,000
from the teller, David Sands. Im
mediately there ensued a fusilade of
bullets from employes of the bank
who have been instructed to carry
revolvers and have been target prac
ticing in the basement.
None of the bullets hit James
Stratton, but the noise of them call-
ed a policeman. Exit via Black Ma
riah.
And now comes the admission of a
Fifth-ave modiste that she has given
instructions to her young ladies that
if a robber comes in they are to
vamp their vampingest and thus di
vert his attention. It is a hard mat
ter to determine whether or not the
announcement is intended as a warn
ing or an invitation, but it seems
likely to succeed anyway.
All of which proves that waiters,
theatrical men, landlords, coal men,
grocers, etc., should be content to
stick to their present methods.
HUNGARYVOTES
SOLIWFOR KING
American Multi-Million
aire Among Guesses
For Throne
BUDAPEST, Jan. 27 (Tuesday).
—lt is estimated that the monarchis
ts vote cast in the elections Sunday
aprpoximate 95 per cent of the to
tal.
Speculation is said to be centered
on who will be king, and the guesses
range from the Hapsburg princes to
scions of European ruling houses and
American multimillionaires.
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THE TIMESf RECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
COUNTY NURSE
HERE TO AID IN
PUBLICHEALTH
People Asked To Make
Use of Red Cross
Employe
Miss Lola Flenner, a public health
nurse of a number of years’ experi
ence, and recently a worker in child
hygiene in New York city, has ar
rived in Americus to take up the
work of Red Cross rurse for Sum
ter county. She las already begun
her activities, with headquarters in
the Red Cross chapter room in' the
postoffice building, and Stephen Pace,
chairman of the Sumter county chap
ter, today issued a public appeal for
co-operation on the par/; of the peo
ple of the community with Miss Flen
ner in the work she is here to do.
Following is the text of Mr. Pace’s
statement:
Introducing Miss Flenner.
To The People of Sumter Coun- I
ty: The Americus and Sumter
County Red Cross Chapter desires,
in this manner, to introduce to you
Miss Lola Allen Flenner, who to
day enters the employ of the chap- :
ter as Red Cross nurse for Sumter |
county. Miss Flenner is a grad
uate nurse, and for the past ten
or more years has been engaged
in health work with the Pennsyl
vania State Department of Health
and the New York Department of
Health; and she comes to us with
unqualified endorsements from
these two health departments, in
addition to that of the Southern di
vision of the American Red Cross:
“With her training and experi
ence we are confident Miss Flen
ner will be the source of great
benefit to the people of the coun
ty. There are few subjects with ,
which we are less familiar than that
of health—living in away and un
der conditions which will promote
health and then knowing how to
regain good health after an attack
of illness; but we are gradually
learning that health is a very rela
tive condition—that the sickness
of our neighbor endangers our own
family—that to a certain extent .
we must in this, as in other things,
be ‘our brothers’ keeper.’
Co-Operation Is Asked
“Miss Flenner will try to reach
every man, woman and child in the
county, through the home and the
children, and will work in co-oper
ation with the county and city
health authorities and the physic
ians of the city and county, and
under the direct supervision of a
nursing committee of the chapter.
This committee will doubtless make
some public announcement so soon
as they have formulated the gen
eral outline of the work to be un
dertaken during the immediate fu
ture. The chapter urges the ear
nest co-operation of the people and
that you do not hesitate to call
upon Miss Flenner or report to her
concerning matters in her line of
work; for the present her head
quarters will be in the Red Cross
rooms, on the second floor of the
postoffice building.
“STEPHEN PACE, Chairman.”
Miss Flenner is a graduate of the
South Side Hospital of Pittsburg. For
eleven years she was connected with
the Pennsylvania department of
health, and later for a time with the
New York State department of health,
and recently in child hygiene work in
New York city.
Work Educational
Her work for the present in Sum
ter county will be largely educational
and experimental. She will co-oper
ate with Dr. B. F. Bond, county
health officer, and the city health offi
cials, assisting in school physical ex
aminations and going into the homes
of defective pupils to assist; the par
ents in correcting the defects pointed
out by the examination reports. She
will also be at the service of the pub
lic at all times for calls for advice
or assistance, and it is expected that
the public use her services since she is
here to serve the public.
The county nurse idea is a prod
uct of the broadened field of activity
of the American Red Cross. Hereto
fore the activities of that organiza
tion have been directed to relief work
in wars and disasters, or in charity
cases; now its work embraces the
whole public. It is teaching public
health in its broadest sense; it is at
tempting to show and train people
how to keep well and avoid the nec
essity of the services of the physic
ian.
Miss Flenner expressed herself to
day as eager to have the public make
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUAR Y 28, 1920.
MANGET’S RULING
DOUBLES PROFIT,
SAY DRUGGISTS
‘He’s The Best Friend
We’ve Ever Had,’ is
Comment Here
“The best friend the druggists of
Americus ever had.”
That is what the drug store men of
! this city think of John A. Manget, of
Atlanta, fair price commissioner for
i Georgia, whose order aeecting drug
store prices and practices over Geor- j
gia, in force February 1, was pub
lished in yesterday’s Times-Recorder.
“We are delighted; he is the best
friend the druggist ever had,” was the
way Dr. Emmett Murray, of Murray’s
pharmacy, expressed himself when
asked what he thought of the ruling.!
“The new schedule will mean double
the profits we are making. Under his '
schedule, items that we now sell and
deliver for a quarter we are permitted
to sell at 50 cents, computing the price
on his basis of allowing 100 per cent
profit on the drugs and container, 30
cents for compounding, and 15 cents
for delivery.
“However, you may say that Mur
ray’s pharmacy, which has been doing
business on a legitimate margin of
profit, is not going to take advantage 1
of the ruling to raise its prices and
gouge the public, but will continue its
old schedule of rates. I really feel
that he ha« stolen my idea in his;
method of arriving at fair prices, for
it has been in use by me for a great,
while, except that feature relating to
pay for time for compounding pre
scriptions and rate for delivery, for |
which-we do not now -charge.”
Owe Him a Present
“Fine stuff; we can now get rich; it.
doubles our profits, and the commis-|
sioner says, it is fair,” was the laugh
ing comment of Dr. E. L. Carswell, of
the Carswell Drug company. “I’m not |
worried; in fact, I thing we druggists j
here ought to get together and send i
Mr. Manget a handsome present; he
has been so good to us. The fact is,
his rate schedule allows us to raise
the price of nearly all prescriptions:
over the price we are now getting, so 1
I can’t see that it will benefit the pub-i
lie any. However, we will stick to the
old prices.”
“Like the rest of these govern
: ment price fixing campaigns, this one j
merely makes prices higher,’’ said
Dr. Nathan Murray, druggist. “For
instance, under Mr. Manget’s ruling
, we may take one calomel tablet, one ,
i powder and a box, all of which costs
i about 2 1-2 cents, and double the'
; price, making five cents, and add to ,
I this 30 cents for compounding, and
15 cents for delivery, making a to
tal of 50 cents. This same order we
now sell at 10 cents delivered every
day.
Another Example.
“Here is another example; Water
bury’s compound, which comes in
a labelled bottle, is a preparation
i commonly called for in prescriptions.
Instead of pasting the doctor’s label,
with instructions, over the label al
' ready on the bottle, we usually soak
I the old label off and place a new
one on. This bottle costs us 67 cents
and we sell it for sl. Under Mr.
i Manget’s ruling we may double the
price of 67 cents, getting for it $1.34,
I and adding 15 cents delivery charge,
\ making $1.49, or an increase of 49
; cents to the public.
“On the other hand, there is one
respect in which the ruling works a
( hardship on the druggist. Take, for
j instance, an order for the compound
- ing and preparation of 100 cap
' sules. Orders of this size are not
frequent, but they come now and
then. It will take a drug clerk an
hour or more to compound 100 cap
sules—in fact few men can do it in
that length of time. For this work
we are allowed to charge 30 cents.
A drug clerk works an average of
12 hours per day seven days in the
week* and at that rate of pay he
would bring $3.60 per day to his em
ployer, who pays him on an average
' of $5 per day.
“I must say that my conscience
won’t allow me to charge 50 cents
for a dose of calomel, but if I am
(compelled to put up 100 capsules for
30 cents I am forced to make charges
elsewhere to even up for the loss.
, However, I anticipate no trouble
here, and, so far as I can see, the
old scale of prices, which are fair,
will prevail.’’
use of her services; she has come to
help and she wants to be given the
opportunity to 1 elp.
He Guards Presidents
¥¥*¥**¥*¥¥¥¥
Courtesy His Slogan
BY CARC LYN VANCE BELL.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Detec
tive Sergeant Clarence L. Dalrym
i pls, chief guard at the White House,
is courtesy itself with all who would
see the president, whether they are
madcaps or magnates.
If a wild-eyed gentleman or lady
enters the executive offices with a
message for the president that MUST
be delivered in person he is invited to
have a seat and “to wait just a mo
ment and the secretary will see you.”
This is the cue for a secret service
man who proceeds to find out if an
incoherent story accompanies the
wild eyes. Usually this is so and the
visitor is tendered a trip to the Wash
ington Asylum Hospital, where sanity
is scientifically investigated.
25 Years in Service.
The silky suaveness of Dalrymple |
has been acquired in 25 years’ set-1
vice as a White House policeman,i
During that time he has greeted thous- i
ands of distinguished visitors and;
known each of the presidents, McKin-;
ley, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson. His |
manifest courtesy is always remem-!
bered and celebrities have often com
mended him. He has a remarkable
faculty for remembering names and
faces, a trait that is a real asset in
his work.
He has also intercepted thousands
of cranks, many of the dangerous
types, bent on seeing the president.
“Cranks come in waves,” he says.
“During the war a lot of people
HOWARD BUYS
$46,687 TRACT
Secures Mrs. Eldridge’s
Farm of 311 Acres
2 Miles Out
The 311 acre farm known as the
Hudington place and owned by Mrs.
Mattie Eldridge, lying 2 miles south
of Americus on the Lee street road,
was sold today by J. H. Purvis to J.
W. Howard for $46,687 cash, or at
the rate of $l5O per acre. Immed
iate possesison is to be given.
This deal, which is one of the larg
est and most important land sales in
Sumter county in a long time gives
Mr. Howard 1,700 acres in one tract,!
the Hundington tract adjoining land
already owned by him. The land ac-;
quired by him is among the finest
farming soil in this section.
The deal also puts Mr. Howard in
the front rank of South/ Georgia
planters, a position toward which he
has been forging rapidly for several
years. Starting a few years ago with ■
fatal! resources other than energy and
ability, he has acquired this large!
tract of valuable land, all of which he
is farming by modern methods. At!
the present time he has under con
st; action on his farm one of the fin
est residences in Sumter county, !
which will have practically all of the j
comforts and modern conveniences
of the city homes.
Suffers Bad Cut In
Fall Down Stairway
Charles U. Rogers, manager of the
1 Windsor hotel, is nursing a badly cut
I wrist, resulting from a fall down a
stairway in the rear of the hotel sev
eral nights ago in which his hand
was thrust through a pane of glass.
Twenty-eight stitches were required
to close the wound. Being without a
steward at the time, Mr. Rogers was
attending to some of the duties of the
! steward late at night. Owing to de
fective vision, while descending the
' stairs he mistook the sixth or seventh
! step from the ground floor for the
second step, and fell headlong, sus
taining the injury.
Federal Bank Governor
Denies Use of Coercion
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Coer
cive methods have not been used by
the Federal Reserve Board or the fed
eral reserve banks to compel non
member state banks to join the fed
eral reserve system, or submit to the
board’s regulations, the senate was
informed today by Governor Harding,
in response to a senate resolution.
His Inalienable Right.
Mr. Growcher says any man is Jus
! tided in oversleeping if his wife conies
to breakfast with her hair in patent '
I curlers.
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\ with disordered minds tried to get
| the president’s ear, in order to tell of
I a sure way to win the war.
Illness Brings Many.
“After the war was won, a lot with
crazy ideas on reconstruction tried to
see him.
The illness of the president has
excited a lot of public curiosity and
as a result there has been an ava
lanche of letters and visitors who
would have sure cures, from thought
healers down to those with simple
home remedies.
NO BOLSHEVISM
ON POWHATAN
I
Reports Unfounded, Says
War Department As
Probe Opens
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Inves
tigation of the cause of the disabling
of the transport Powhattan at sea is
being made by the official board sit
ting at New York. The Powhattan
was towed into Halifax yesterday.
The war department said reports
regarding Bolshevik activity by mem
bers of the Powhattan’s crew or others
aboard the ship thus far had been
; proved without foundation.
Cecil Gebbett, Former
S. A. L. Chief Here, Dies
Word has been received here of I
i the death in Florida of Cecil Geb-‘
I bett, formerly well known railroad
I man of Americus. Mr. Gebbett was i
at one time general manager of the
I Seaboard from Savannah to Mont
! gomery, with headquarters here. The
; following dispatch from Savannah
i tells of his death and burial:
“The funeral of Mr. CecjJ Gebbett,
i the well-known railroad man, who
: died in Sanford, Fla., Saturday night
■ took place in Savannah Monday. It
was largely attended by the friends
of the deceased. Mr. Gebbett was
actively engaged in railroading in
' Georgia and Alabama for many
\ years He was associated with the
Central, the Seaboard Air Line and
other roads, occupying responsible
positions with them all. He had
been living in Florida during recent
years. He made a great success ir
Sanford as a grower of celery.’’
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Required 9 Hours To
Make 130-Mile Trip
It required nine hours for W. T. !
Calhoun and C. B. Griner to drive I
from Asheville, Fla., near which I
place the 7,000 acre Calhoun planta
tion is located, to Americus last night, |
,130 miles, they leaving there at 5
p.m. and reaching the Arles planta
tion here at 3 a.m.
“And I want to say it was raining
every foot of the way,” was Mr.
Griner’s report of the trip. “We
didn’t have a puncture or a blow-out
or any trouble—just kept plugging
along the best we could through the
mud and slush.”
Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Griner are
Spending most of their time at the
plantation now, returning here about
once a week. They will move their
families there later.
WEATHER FORECAST.
For Georgia.—Generally cloudy to
i night and Thursday; slightly colder
tonight in north portion.
News of The Whole
World By
Associated Press
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
IT’S 12 MILLIONS
MORE THAN COST
OF 25-YEAR FIGHT
Plan To Enforce Laws
And Drive Liquor
From Hemisphere
WHERE SOME OF THE 62 MIL- >
LIONS WILL GO IN THE S
WORLD-DRY WAR
< Enforcement of national prohi- <
? bition and a campaign to make ?
!> America safe for prohibition will i
s cost the Anti-Saloon League of )
( America $62,000,000 in the next (
< five years, according to its execu- <
> tive secretary, Ernest H. Cher- >
5 rington. S
S Some items of the stupendous S
? budget are: ?
? Special legal aid to federal and ?
; state officials, $500,000.
s Publicity offices in 12 popuia- >
< tion centers of the United States, t
? $250,000. ?
> A campaign to “tell the truth -
5 about prohibition,” to organ >
< ized labor, $325,000.
< Special educational campaign <
> among traveling salesmen, 8200,- {
000. s
< Mass meetings to arouse senti- s
< ment against bootlegging, $1,775,- $
) 000.
> For campaign in I atin-Affierica, 5
$6,860,300. <
< For world-wide campaigns, <
$37,000,000.
BY RUSS SIMONTON.
N. E. A. Staff Correspondent,
WESTERVILLE, 0., Jun. 28—
Twice as much money will be spent
in the first year of prohibition by the
Anti-Saloon League of - America as it
spent in the last wet year. .
With national prohibition an ac
complished fact, the Anti-Salopn
League proposes to spend $62,000,-
000 in the next five years. This is
just $12,000,000 more than the total
cost of national prohibition, accord
ing to the league’s figures, for its 25
years’ fight.
“The prohibition fight did not
cease with the passage of the amend
ment,’’ Ernest H. Cherrington, execu
tive committee secretary of the Anti-
Saloon League and general secretary
of the World League Against Alco
holism, told me.
“Roughly we have three duties re
maining. We must see that the dry
law is enforced in the United States.
We must prevent illicit traffic in li
quors from Latin-America and must
make the world safe for prohibition
by making the Old World and the
Orient dry.”
This vast sum will come from the
same old sources, says Cherrington,
and the league is about to launch an
appeal to church congregation* and
dry sympathizers everywhere.
Will Educate Officials.
The league’s campaign of law en
forcement will require, according to
Cherrington, $16,235,000 in the next
five years. This money will be spent
in aiding federal and state officers in
prosecuting liquor-law violators, in
“educating public officials until they
recognize whisky-selling is as much a
crime as theft or murder,'' and in
propaganda showing the evils of li
quor and the advantage of absolute
law enforcement.
One novel means of propaganda
will require $40,000 a year. This will
be spent in spreading prohibition
sentiment among traveling salesmen
that they may in turn spread it
among the business men they meet.
To Invade Latin-America.
“The liquor interests are establish
ing their breweries and distilleries in
I Latin-America,” says Cherrington.
“They plan to ship liquor into the
United States and to entice citizens
j of this country to their strongholds,
i For this reason and also because the
! 20 republics of the western hemis
phere look to the United States as
a pattern of government, the league
will spend $6,860,00 carrying on
a dry campaign in Central and South
I America and the West Indies in the
! next five years. This is in addition
to $50,000,000 to be spent in South
America by the churches in mission
ary work. Os course we will co-op
, erate with these missionary workers.”
But not only, say the leaders of
the Anti-Saloon League, must the
entire hemisphere be dry if prohibi
tion is to be a success in the United
States, but so long as there is liquor
sold in any part of the world prohi
bition in the United States is men
aced.
Dry World Is Goal.
“Just as municipal and state prohi
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