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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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McAfooO AND JENKINS
Wm. G. McAdoo is a man of fine sensibilities. The Republicans
have been proclaiming that the 'Wilson Dynasty" must not be perpet
uated, and have contemptuously referred to him as the Crown
Prince.'jn both instances assuming that he would be the Democratic
nominee at San Francisco. Mr. McAdoo being a man of his own mak
ing. a man who married into the president s family late in life, and a
man who thinks for himself, frequently differing with the president on
fundamental matters, what other course could one of his keen sensi
bilities pursue than to seek to prevent his name coming before the
convention? Naturally he would not relish the jibes that would con-;
tinually be thrust upon him during the campaign were he to he nomi-;
nated by his own seeking or consent. And what would cause him mere
concern, probably would be the effect such attacks would have upon
his wife, who is the daughter of the president
But should Mr. McAdoo be nominated in spite of his orders to
the contrary, the shafts of Republican ridicule would lose their sharp
ness; should he be drafted by his party the attacks would become a
party and not a personal matter.
That is the reason why Dr. Burris Jenkins, of Kansas vdty. whe
has made a name for himself both as a minister and as a newspaper
publisher, is right in determining to present the name of Mc Adoo at
San Francisco, regardless. Mr. McAdoo being a highly available man.
the party should have the right to determine whether it wants him
for president or not. Mr. McAdoo has already said *hat no man shou; d
refuse the nomination if it were offered to him. and ne undoubted - !;,
will no* :efuse to accept should he be nominated at San Francisco.
THE OILY CROWN
Who is going to be Ruler of Oil? The United States or Great
Britain?
That is an important question today. It is going to grow in im
portance day by day, for the deepest and clearest thinkers in govern-,
ments and business are agreed that the world is upon the threshold of.
oil fuel supremacy.
Chairman A. C. Bedford, of Standard Oil. told the Foreign j
Trade convention at San Francisco, We are at last seeing what the;
British have recognized—that the country which controls the petrole
um supply will control the trade of the world.
Sir Auckland Geddes the new British ambassador to America be
lieves Great Britain plays but a small part in the oil fields of the
world. In a speech before the "Pilgrims -- in New York, he said:
"England is not striving to get monopolistic control of ori Her
companies are active. Fair competition is no crime, and it will he all
for the good of every one if we have free competition in connection
with this important, this vital substance.
Geddes called attention to the fact that "seventy per cent of the
present oil production of the world comes from the United States,
sixteen per cent from Mexico, and of that American capital controls
three-fourths.
He said Great Britain from the whole British Empire only get*
2 1-2 per cent of the world's supply; that American capital controls
82 per cent.
Os course he was speaking of developed oil fields o* Rowing
wells. The point to be driven home to Americans, however, is this
Who is going to control the oil'fields of the future, the fields now
undeveloped, which the drill has not touched, but which will some
day, abound in wealth-producing, commerce-driving, navy-floating
gushers of oil? When those, now undeveloped, fields come into ex
istence, it is probable that the present American fields will be dry
It is true, as Geddes says. America wears the oiiy crown today
But isn't it also true that the wearer of the crown years hence wilt he
the nation now branching into new fields, where unmeasured stores'
of oil flow concealed far below the earth - s surface?
WHEN PA AND MA WED
You have heard of divorce orphans, haVen t you ? And your ;
heart throbbed with pity and sympathy for them? Os course. Most 1
human hearts are that way. For you know that divorces darken lives
of little children; that neither the father nor the mother is just the
same to them afterward; that home isn’t the home it used to be.
And, haven’t you hoped, often, when reading of these divorce
orphans, that their foolish parents would "make up,” rewed. and be
gin life all over again, for their children s sake, if for no other reason
Which is a hope seldom realized. However, it did happen just that
way in Los Angeles the other day.
Clifford G. Fowler and Elsie Margaret Fowler were married.
Once before they had played leading roles at a wedding—and in a
divorce proceeding. Yes. they had children, children who loved both
their father and mother and who grieved when the home was broken
up.
The son was his father's best man at the wedding. Wasn't
that fine?
The daughter was the maid of honor. More cause for joy.
It wouldn’t be at all bad, would it, if every divorced couple
bleated with children, could—and would—remarry and give sonny a
chance at being best man. and daughter the opportunity of being maid
of honor.
At any rate, the heat prostrations this summer won t be John
Barleycorn prostrations.
A man has the best of it He doesn't have to sweat through three
coats of powder.
The G. O. P. plank concerning the league is sadly in need of in
terpretations.
In these dry times a candidate can raise a dust without mud
throwing.*
The political game indicates that Denmark has no monopoly on
rottenness.
ON THE JOB
It isn’t fair to make light of the college graduate.
It isn't even a good joke.
The college graduate just now is putting his
oulder to the wheel of progress. He is on the job
of lifting life’s burdens. He's stepping from the class
room to the mill, mine, factory, field. And he's dead
: xious to get started in real life work.
One, not so long ago. ther ■ were those who made
sport of the newly fledged college graduate. He was
pair. ted a- a being in outlandish clothes, and one who
must come home to father for support. Ho was pie
tjred as a fellow who had a greater inclination for
r.iandohr. playing than for chonping wood; keener for
football than for kicking goals in the machine shop.
Be: this is rot a fair picture of the college graduate
-{ today.
A CIT Y’ S BI GG EST ASSET
A TRIBUTE TO NEWSPAPERS BY A BANK PUBLICATION;
Tr.c following is taken from a :
.■even issue of "Corn Exchange,” i
put)„sae*3 by tee Philadelphia Corn ;
Exchange-National Bank.;
'A'ere Philadelphia to pay at com- I
tnerc.a. rate: for ail the free adver- i
t - qg the newspapers now con- ‘ i
tr.t-te grat,-. the annual outlay for
trtat .tem would exceed the whole '
of the poi.ee department.
A r et. cities reckon up the assets i
'.'ey posse.-.-, tney count theijr sac-, ]
tones, railroads, stores, banks,
nontfei, eiubs, parks, theatres, church- 1 '
es, gas plants, water works and tele
■ . -a.... over it ok the i
new,: papers, which, if properly 1
measured, *ouia come near the top .
o: the ..st And among all the great
cit.es of the earth, and Philadelphia
ra:.-. among the ten largest, none
na: peer. more fortunate in the loy
aity of its press than this town of
Wilham Per.:..
1 Benjamin Franklin was America’s
; first great editor, and no city ever
had a journal whicn did more to
boost and to promote civic enter
j prise than did the staunch weekly
• printed by Poor Richard,
j Anc ai; of those many things in
j which Philadelphia, thanks to Frank
lin, was first, he wrote about and
'urged in his newspaper. It was a
; vehicle of progress.
But Franklin’s paper sold only a
j tew thousand a week. Today our
newspapers sell about 1,200,000
copies a day.
The people of this city never ex
pect a shipyard to do anything but
build ships. A locomotive plant has
done its duty when it constructs rail
way engines. A hat factory, flour;
mill, clothing factory, bank, store, 1
trolley road and telephone is not
reckoned upon to give its time, serv
ice or capital for boosting any en
terprise excepting its own.
But a newspaper has dozens of re
quests every day to print or to urge,
to commend or damn, to beg or pro
mote, something out of which the
owner of the paper can derive no
financial benefit. He is expected to
employ his capital in that way for
the common welfare.
A newspaper has but two possible
sources of income. One is from the
sale of the paper and the other from
the sale of advertising space.
Whatever in a paper does not at
tract readers to buy is not a profit
able thing for the owner financially.
Whatever in a paper takes up
space where an advertisement might
be printed is a direct and immediate
loss. Very little of wnat us called
“civic boosting” ever brings to a
newspaper a single reader. Certain
ly no begging proposition does.
Armenians always require ‘relief
so it seems, and the papers are ex
pected to print columns of appeals.
But no person would ever think of
buying a newspaper just Fo read an
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article asking him to contribute |
money to some one 6,000 miles
away.
An account of a prize fight, base- j
ball game, murder, election, elope
ment in high social circles, a horse
race, a battle or a hot debate in con
gress, would sell papers. Readers
would buy to see that sort of thing.
The journal which for a century!
and a quarter has been regarded in;
parts of the world as the greatest,
newspaper published is the London j
Times. But so far as booming any-!
thing in London, the Times might
as well be printed in Tokio. It de- j
votes but little of its resources and |
capital to that sort of thing.
It may be contended that it is a ■
newspaper’s legitimate business to
urge and beg and boost. Bulf it is;
no more the function of a newspa-j
per than of a magazine, and maga
zines thrive by publishing only such
articles as their editors believe the
public wishes to read.
The magazine tries and does se
! cure circulation by interesting its |
readers and so gets advertisements. 1
It publishes no Belgian, no Polish,
nor Armenian appeals, never urges
better street paving and cleaning;
does not coax people to contribute
for the support of hospitals and col
leges; makes no demonstration for
aving babies, swatting the fly or any
: of these public things wheih daily
i newspapers are constantly aSked to
' help.
Every newspaper publisher knows
! that there is neither circulation nor
financials gain in such a policy, yet
j they all do it.
| There is another feature of Phila
j delphia journalism which is rarely
thought of by those not in the busi
ness of printing papers. Every pa
per in this city refuses to accept cer
tain classes of advertisements which,
if printed, would yield tens of thous
ands of dollars in revenue.
The public says, perhaps, a paper
: has no right to publish questionable
1 ads. But do other businesses scruti
nize as closely
Does any job printer refuse to
print nice stationary for so called
! brokers who are trying to gull the
: public by send them lying letters?
Even the United States govern
ment sells postage stamps to carry'
millions of swindling letters to the
victims of fradulent games.
So the newspaper gives more of its
1 services free than almost any other
■ institution that is not an endowed
; charity, while at the same time it
' voluntarily for what it deems to be
1 the public good, refusing to accept
' profitable advertising. Who can
. estimate, therefore, the sum total
of such a policy, day in and day out,
adhered to by our newspapers?
Philadelphia journalism has beer
full of romance. It has brought out
1 a host of live,’ braihy men. After
The college graduate does not believe that he
knows everything and has nothing more to learn. He
does believe that father has a store of experience im
possible to acquire in college, and he’s willing to sit at
father’s right hand that he may learn of things not
written in books.
The college graduate, more than any other young
person, is willing to start at the bottom of the ladder
and climb upward. He climbs, too! The bankers, the
presidents, the senators, the labor leaders, the inven
tors, discoverers, teachers, the captains of industry of
tomorrow are the college graduates of today.
Don’t believe them when they tell you the college
graduate is a “fifth wheel,” a useless ornament, some
thing to hang freakish clothes upon.
The college graduate is none of these. He is a
lifter, not a leaner.
I Franklin’s day, the most talked of
' newspaper for a decade or more was
| the Philadelphia Aurora, edited by
j Philip Freuneau. It was bitterly
i hostile to Washington while presi
dent, and it became easily the fore
most journal in helping Jefferson to
j create and build up the Democratic
i party.
Our newspapers are old establish
led institutions. The North Ameri
| can antedates a century. The Ledger
lis eighty-five, while the Press and
Inquirer began before the Civil War.
For many years the Record and the
i Bulletin have been going serenly on
jthe highway of success.
W’ere Philadelphia going to erect
i monuments to its dead who perform-
I ed for their city a fine service while
living it would be called upon to re
member its many able editors and
publishers of the past, for who in
their day and their way did more for
! Philadelphia than Franklin, Forney
j Childs, Warburton, Young, McMich
ael, Smith, Singerly McClure and
Elverson.
DR. F. L. CATO
Phones: 531 Office; 55 Residence
DR. WILBUR C.SMITH
i Phones: 531 Office; 657 Residence
Physician and Surgeon
Office*Hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 4
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LOOK’
’ | 1200 Acres, on good road and
r railroad station on property; 600
\ acres open land, running water,
1 00 acres nice, level pebbly land,
balance slightly rolling, to hilly;
■ one 6-room residence, one 4-room
",
house, several tenant houses, fine
e
peach land, and suited to stock
s!
‘j raising and general farming. Only
( * S2O per acre, one-third cash, bal-
ance easy term*. 200,000 feet
' pine timber.
> P. B. WILLIFORD
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GEORGIA-A FIELD
|. OF OPPORTUNITY
By J. KELLY SIMMONS
President Georgia Press Association
Georgia is your opportunity. It is
to the ambitous man of today what
the Golden West was to the pioneer
of 1849. It is more.
No uncertainly faces the agricul
tural, industrial or business prospec
tor in Georgia. He will take out gold
in proportion to his energy, labor,
capital, or all three.
Georgia is the heart of the New
South. It is a highly developed state;
yet more than half of its fertile
acres are lying idle. That is because
of its great size. Georgia is the larg
est state east of the Mississippi river.
It contains 59,475 square miles, with
an acreage of nearly 38,000,000. Os
this acreage considerably less than
20,000,000, are being cultivated. Yet
Georgia according to last year’s sta
tistics, has attained fourth place ag
riculturally speaking. Only Illinois
It>wa and Texas lead in the total an
nual value of farm products.
Georgia is FIRST in peaches. She
is second only to Texas, the largest
state in the union in the production
of cotton, and is third in meat pro
duction. Its importance in live stock
and poultry raising is increasing
daily.
Georgia is indeed a field of op
portunity. As high as $4,000 a year
has been made from an intensively
cultivated Georgia acre. Profits of
S3OO to SSOO an acre are rather com
mon.
A Colquitt county man began farm
ing ten years aajo, when he was
tweny, with no capital. He now owns
a 500-acre farm, makes 200 bales of
cotton, 50 tons of hay, plants 28
acres of sweet potatoes, supplies
cream from 25 cows to a creamery
in Moultrie, sells 100 head of hogs
to the packing plant and 15 beeves.
A Chicago man went to Fort Valley
a few years ago and went in debt
$7,500 for a farm. Eight years latei
he wrote a friend he had paid off
that debt, purchased $2,500 worth of
live stock and had built farm houses
and bought implements to the amount
of $2,000. A Baldwin county farmer
began a few years ago as a farm
laborer and today he lends $15,000
yearly to his neighbors. Story af
ter story of the wonderful achieve
ment of farmers who started in Geor
gia without anything at all, could be
recounted; some of them too glowing
to seem possible.
While Georgia is largely an agricul
tural state, her manufacturing and
mining opportunities are wonderful.
There are more than 5,000 manufac
turing establishments of various and
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 23, 1920
many classifications in Georgia. Near
ly every important industry is repre
sented in the list. Millions of
dollars worth of raw material re
main in the ground for future devel
opment. They are at the door of the
i manufacturer who conies here and lo
cates.
Both agriculture and industry are
served by a network of 8,000 miles
of railroads which traverse eveuy
part of the state. Three important
ports, Savannah, Brunswick and St
Marys’, are upon 170 miles of At
lantic coast line. Georgia has all the
benefits of the Panama canal. The
markets of the world are open to its
producers.
Georgias population is now well
over the 3,000,000 mark. Walled off
from the rest of the world she could
support a population three or four
times as great or more.
Let us not overlook another de
sirable thing to consider about Geor
gia as a home for the new-comer—her
wonderful climate. The average an
nual temperature in North Georgia is
52 degrees; in Central Georgia is 63
degrees; in South Georgia is 68 de
grees. We have a growing season in
northern Georgia of 210 days and
260 days in the southern part of the
state.
Georgia is a wonderful state. She
has every natural advantage. All she
needs is developing. The people of
Georgia really do not appreciate the
possibilities. The future is before us
We must awake to these possibiliities.
We must build a chain of good roads
from one end of the state to another;
we must have a good school house in
.every district. We must have a good
teacher in every one of these schools.
We must all pull together. We must
adl work for the common good of
Gfeorgia.
GEORGIA—a field of opportunity.
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