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Nothing is said now that has not been said before—Terence, 159 B. C.
THE RESPONSIBILITY
Ninety-nine one-hundredths of all the crime committed is due to
women’s clothes! j r r m
Who says it? Police Superintendents G. J. Lacy and C. G. Mc-
Graw, of Texas, in a signed statement reporting the findings of a six
months' probe of southern crime causes.
The gentlemen go further:
‘ It is possible to include everything from the divorce evil to the
late World War to what women wear —or don’t wear.
There does seem to be a trifling absence of "chivalry inthe
report of these police chief gentlemen, who went out on a still hunt
for the ’’causes of the social evil” and discovered that ninety-nine per
cent of all crime is due to what women wear or do not wear.
There is one rather striking omission in the findings of the two
sleuths. Their report is completely silent on men's share of the re
sponsibility for the social evil.”
It is a significant fact that the allegorical story of the Creation
starts out with the assertion by chivalrous man that the woman gave
me and 1 did eat. • • j t
“Blaming it on the woman' has been the prime indoor sport
of men ever since. These police chiefs are following a long line of
prece g®" mi ng women ’ s dothes. from the time of the fig leaf down to
the time of the backless gown, is about as far as men ever seem to get
Isn’t it about time to let women have a chance at the problem.
REMEDIES
A department store in Milwaukee, suffering from the troubles
which every employer and every employe has with tardiness, is ex
perimenting with a system by which certain employes who have a
clear punctuality record are paid a bonus.
At the other end of the scale is another Milwaukee nrip which
counts five minutes tardiness a, I 5 minutes and multiplies by three
any period of tardiness longer than 1 5 minutes. Every six months
wages are docked on this basis.
They do things differently in Russia. It appears that the Soviets
are living trouble getting members of government committees to
attend sessions on time, in fact, to get them to attend at all. Ihus,
a general order from the Council of Peoples’ Commissaries, to-wit:
Five minutes’ tardiness at regular meeting, first offense, repri
mand ; second offense, docking pay for five days. ,
Five minutes tardiness special meetings, three days wages,
ten minutes tardiness 10 days wakes; absence
meeting, fifte, public reprimand and compulsory work on hol
idays. .
The decree was signed by Lenin himself, and shows that Lenin
still thinks there is a remedy for everything in laws and decrees.
WHICH?
Girls, which woyld you choose: A husband who makes $2,000
a year, or a job at which you earn S2OO a week?
Bessie B. Parker had to make that choice. Bessie has been pri
vate secretary to Roger W. Bason, the economist and statistician
whose articles in this newspaper are familiar to readers.
Seventeen years ago Bessie applied to Babson for a job. He
hired her at $5 a week. Now she gets S2OO a week as his secretary.
Biit along came Elroy L. Powers of Norwood, Mass., whose sal
ary does not reach $2,000 a year.
And then Bessie found that in addition to being a private secre
tary. she is also a woman, and she fell in love with Elroy L. Powers
and he with her. .
And so it came to a choice: marriage ana sharing a
year or a position that pays SZCO a week? *
’ She chose—Elroy L. Powers!
P “1 am going to make keeping house and baking and mending
ny career,” she said. “1 think it is what a married woman should do.
’A woman must be fair to the man she marries. If business is her first
love and her highest interest she should not marry.
> WHO THINKS FOR YOU?
“The citizen who does not do his own thinking today is no less a
traitor than the man who tried to evade the draft.
In those words George Creel pictures the duties of American cit
izenship. He continues:
“In this hour when the fate of democracy hangs in the balance,
the criminal mind is the CLOSED mind.
The man who lets somebody else do his thinking for him in busi
ness is never the success. Never is he a leader. Seldom does he climb
beyond the lowest rung of the ladder. But the man who does his own
thinking does climb. He succeeds! If it takes thinking to be a success
ful business man, why should any person imagine that success in citi
zenship can be achieved by delegating the thinking to another to
politicians, for instance, to professional office holders?
That American citizen who doesn t do his own thinking over
looks that much of his rights and dodges that much of his obligations.
This is just as true if he lets Big Business do his thinking as it is true
if he permits the Bolshevistic soap-box agitator to think for him.
Do it yourself.
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YOUR BOY
Some day your boy will do something out of the usual run of
things, and it may be that you’ll feel the youngster needs a session
with the strap reserved for unruly outbreaks.
But before you apply the strap think of Tom Edison.
When that great inventor was 6 years old he was missing from
home. Later his folks found him sitting on goose eggs trying to hatch
them. Before he was 10 he had burned a barn—“just to see it burn”
—chopped off a finger, was nearly drowned, and had administered
a liberal dose of seidlitz powder to another boy, confident that the
gas generated would cause the lad to fly.
Tom Edison was what they called a “bad boy.” Once he was
publicly whipped in the village square as a warning to other boys
And now look at him!
Don’t be too sure your boy needs a whipping just because he
has done something you wouldn’t have done.
You may deprive posterity of a Tom Edison by curbing too se
verely the boy’s desire to experiment, to try out things, to explore, to
discover.
The earth, in traveling more than a half million miles a year,
should eventually overtake prices.
TEXT OF SENATOR LODGE’S
SPEECH OF NOTIFICATION
MARION, 0., July 22. (By Asso-i
ciated Press.) —Following is the text;
of Senator Lodge’s address of notifi
cation to Senator Harding, the Re-;
pilblican presidential! nominee, at
his home here today:
SENATOR Harding:
We are assembled here as a
committee representing the states,
territories and possessions of the
United States to make you formal
announcement of your nomination
for the office of president of the Re
public on June 12th last, at Chicago,
by the Republican National Conven
tion. This duty is to us as pleasing;
as it is honorable, but we are also'
i deeply conscious of its far-reaching |
importance. We fully appreciate,
that what you say to us today will;
> not only be read and pondered by all
the American people within the con
tines of the United States, but also
by all other civilized nations. Here
today you will chart the course to
be followed by the Republican party
in the great electoral cont’est which
lies before us and will declare your
purposes and those of the party you
lead when the authority of govern
ment is once more committed to our
keeping.
We await this declaration un
troubled by any doubts and with
the most entire confidence. All who
are familiar with your character and
career and most especially those who
have taken part with you in public
service 'beyfond peradventure
that you are a patriotic American,
imbued with the spirit of the great
leaders of the past, of Washington,
Lincoln and Roosevelt, whose ser
vices to the American people have
become forever memorable in our
history. You will always and instinc
tively, in meeting the difficult ques
tions and weighty responsibilities
which confront you think with com
plete unselfishness of your country
and your country’s interests first, a
high qualification for an exalted of
fice not too familiar to us of late and
therefore peculiarly necessary at thisj
moment. You will, we are certain,
be ever faithful to the finest tradi
tions of the Republican party and at
the same time we are equally sure
that you are wisely tolerant and
open-minded, in sympathy with the
best movements of the time, looking'
forward to the future and its needs I
but never unmindful of the great,
basic principles upon which the .
builders of the Republic laid the
foundation of our government. Your
public life has shown to us and all
your fellow citizens that you believe
in the system of government de
signed by, the framers of the con
stitution. They established a rep
resentative democracy and had no
sympathy with any scheme which
would turn the government of the
United States into an aristocracy
based upon a plebiscite and with all
the intervening representative feat
ures disregarded or effaced. You
have abundantly shown your un
wavering conviction that the govern
ment of the United States should be
one of laws and not of men and*
that the three branched of that
government should all work together
in the exercise of the powers con
ferred upon them severally by the
constitution, for the common pur
pose of advancing the general wel
fare of the people. The makers of
the constitution intended to co-ordi
nate the three great elements of
government and strove to guard
against either usurpation or trespass
by one branch at the expense of the
other two. In that spirit, <*ve all
know well, you will enter upon your
great responsibility.
Domestic and economic questions
of extreme complexity and difficulty
must be dealt with at once in such a
way as to meet the needs of the time.
We shall not attempt to discuss these
questions in any detail because we
know that you will declare your
policies in regard to them in accord
ance not only with the life-long
principles of the Republican party
but also with the opinions recently
declared by the Republican conven
tion at Chicago. It is not for us to
enumerate them to you, for it is to
you that we look to set forth the
proper policies to be pursued by the
Republican party both in the cam
paign and when charged with the re
sponsibility of administration and
legislation. Our immediate duty and
that of all Republicans and all true
Americans who are thinking of the
problems and perils of the present
and of the future is to give you such
generous and complete support that
when you take up the duties of the
great office for which you have been!
nominated, you will find a House and
Senate in full sympathy with your
purposes and ready to aid you in
every way in carrying them to ful
fillment.
The present situation, however,
brings with it far-reaching questions
of foreign policy to a degree never
known in our previous history. At
our own doors we have Mexico in a
state of disorder and disintegration
to which our government, has unhap
ily most liberally contributed. Here
is a grave responsibility not to be
evaded or escaped. We rightly in
sist upon the supremacy in the
American hemisphere of the Monroe
doctrine, which was declared by us in
order to guard the safety of the Unit
ed States and save the New World
so far as possible from the wars and
misfortunes of the Old. We justly
demand the abstention of Europe
from any interference with Ameri
can questions, but this doctrine of
ours brings with it not only its bene
fits but its duties. The condition of;
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i Mexico, owing in large measure to !
, the shortcomings b.f our govern
i ment, could not well be worse, and
we must make up our minds that we
not only owe it to ourselves to pro
tect there, as all over the world,
American rights and interests so
long neglected, but to reach out a
helping hand to the Mexican people
to the end that law and order may
be established in that country which
has been plunged into anarchy arrd
cursed with continuous civil war. It
is of the highest importance to the
United States that Mexico should be
; both prosperous and peaceful and
we must face the fact that without
j our aid the Mexican people cannot
, properly or speedily bring about the
; improved conditions and the reign
of law and peace which, we are con
vinced, they desire as much as we
do.
In defense of freedom and civili
zation and to vindicate our own in
vaded rights we entered upon the
war with Germany and although we
were tardy in taking part in that
great conflict we came upon the field
of action in time to turn the scale
for right and liberty. .Not content
with aiding Europe to bring to pass
the peace which all desired after vic
tory was won, Mr. Wilson undertook
to make us members of an alliance
with foreign powers indefinite in ex
tent and containing provisions which
threatened the independence, thfe
sovereignty and the safety of the
United States. This effort on the
part of the president was arrested by
the action of the Republicans ’of the
Senate who proposed protecting res
ervations which he defeated, together
with the treaty itself. In that work,
you, sir, took a conspicuous part,
and we know that you were in full
accord with the belief of your Repub
lican colleagues that the League of
Nations as proposed by Mr. Wilson
and unon which he and his party still
insist, ought never to be accepted
by the American people. We have
' been and are quite ready to join in
| agreement with other nations, for the
extension of The Hague conventions;
I for the upbuilding and condification
of international law and the estab
lishment of a world court of justice;
for international conferences in re
'gard to non-justicable questions, and
I for arrangements to bring about a
general reduction of armaments. All
I these constructive measures are in
accord with the traditional policy of
the Republican party which has done
so much in the past to forward the]
cause 4>f international arbitration, i
But when we are called upon to be
come an integral part of a perma
nent alliance of foreign powers, to
put ourselves in a position where the
youth of the country can be sum
moned by foreign nations to fight
and die in quarrels not their own,
to entangle ourselves in all the con
flicts and disputes of Europe where
we have no interest, to permit for
eign interference with our domestic
questions and with the Monroe doc
trine, and to sit in an assembly where
our vote is not the equal of every
other country, we absolutely decline
the proposition. We stand for the
policies of Washington and the doc
trine of Monroe, and against the in
ternationalism and the permanent al
! liace with foreign nations proposed
by the president. If the world reeds
us as they needed us in 1917, we
shall not fail in our du f y, but we can
help other nations far better if we
are fiee and untrammeled and do
not permit our strength and our re
sources "to be wasted and worn away
and .he lives of our young men to be
sacrificed in endless hostilities with
which we hav j no concern. Such has
been the policy of the Republican
party as represented in the Senate
and such its policy will remain. We
are certain that you who helped so
largely to frame this policy will,
when the executive authority comes
into your hands, carry it out in such
manner that we can fulfill all our
responsibilities to the world without
binding ourselves by any obligations
to a League which as submitted by
the president is but another name
for the evil combination which was
attempted a hundred years ago by
the ill-omened Holv Alliance.
No national campaign for the pres
idency has ever involved graver is
sues than this one, which now lies
before us. Upon you, sir, will rest
the great duty and heavy burden of
executive authority. We look to you
in full confidence to lead us and the
people of our beloved country out
from the darkness and confusion
which the war has brought upon man
kind into the light which shine's!
where peace reigns and the love of
justice, of 'law and of order rules;
in tlie hearts of the people. Then we
can again take up the work of ad- 1
vancing the United States along the
broad road that leads to success, the
road which we have followed for
more than a century Then indeed.
we shall not only rise to still loftier
heights of achievement for ourselves, I
but be enabled to render the largest I
and finest service to humanity.
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(Atlanta Georgian.)
AND now we are to have oijr ‘mov
ies’ censored, if the legislature ap
proves the favorable report of the
house and senate committees having
that matter in charge.
In that event three persons, ap
pointed by the State Library Com
mission, would determine just what
pictures 2,000,000 Georgians are to
be allowed to see.
Up to date thirty-six states whose
people may reasonably be consider
ed to be up to the average in re
spectability and decency, have re
fused to adopt any similar attempt
to regulate the artistic taste of its
citizens. The Georgian does not be
lieve that Georgia’s people are so
lacking in moral sense as to require
protection of this nature that is not
required by the people of those thir
ty-six states.
Isn’t it worth considering wheth
er the epidemic of efforts at ex
treme and unnecessary blue law leg
islation will react and in so doing
send the pendulum swinging back
ward with such momentum as will
carry with it some of the perfectly
reasonable moral laws that are now
on the statute books?
When conservative newspapers
are impelled to “make fun” of these
extreme tendencies on <he part of
misguided, though perfectly sincere
and well meaning moralists, it is
well to pause in the mad flight, pid
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Yet the Dallas Morning News, a
substantial, conservative 'newspaper
of the old school, feels moved to
this comment, which The Georgian
passes on for the careful analysis
of the legislature of Georgia:
A twentieth amendment to the
constitution is “in the process of
creation,” we learn from a New
York dispatch. Its purpose is to
prohibit divorce, and its sponsor
is the Society for the Upholding
of the Sanctity of Marriage. This
may well start us wondering and
guessing what the next ten amend
ments will be. Indeed, it may be
advisable to get out a “ticket” ear
ly, since there are so many eager
“amenders” in the country. The
following has been suggested:
Amendment No. 21, Against Smok
ing; No 22, Against Chewing; No’.
23, Against Swearing; No . 24,
abolishing mules, golf balls and
telephones (this measure having
been found necessary for the en
forcement of Amendment No. 23);
No. 25, abolishing one-piece bathing
suits (on which the feminine vote
splits along lines of personal en
dowments) ; No. 26, abolishing eve
ning gowns; No. 27, abolishing
evenings (a brilliant idea, suggest
ed, perhaps, by the old “daylight
saving” statute and advocated by
the Society for Combating the Se-
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ductions of Moonlight, at first as a
practical measure for enforcing
own merits, on the ground that
nine-tenths of the frivolous, un
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