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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879
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WM. S. KIRKPATRICK, Editor; LOVELACE EVE. Business Manager.
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• DO I MEASURE UP?”
A letter has been received by the Chamber of Commerce from
a prominent citizen of another state who recently spent a day in our
community, the forthcoming number of the Chamber Bulletin will
say. The following extracts from that letter ar e given here m order
that every reader who is a citizen of Sumter county may ask h.msel
the question, Do I measure up?
•‘Very often people living in a community fail in their descr.p
tion. of it. for the very simple reason that they see only the physical
factor, of the community, and by reason of their
sight of the real thing that make, the place a des.rable one in which
*° l r «This letter is for a two fold purpose; first, to thank you and
your people for one of the most enjoyable and profitable days it has
been my pleasure to see in many years; second, to express a few opin
ion. a. to the reason, which go to make Americus and Sumter county
good home spots, a. viewed by a visitor—a visitor who in, one day was
able to absorb some of the spirit of progress which permeate, an
dominates everything thereabout.
“Americus is a city in which the people have learned the value of
working together. Your people show evidence of having been, for a
long time, engaged in building up understanding between men and
the cementing of friendship—the building of a united spirit wh.ch is
fast making your community one of the leading section, of the South.
“To find a community in which service, not self, is the predomi
nant spirit of men of business, is to find a place where one can settle
with the perfect assurance that he is casting his lot in pleasant places.
Such, in my opinion, is Americus and Sumter county.
“Americus impresses me a. a place where men do things. Not in a
grandiose, flambouyant manner, but in away which will work for the
greatest good of all. Apparently thorough preparat.on, careful anal
ysis and conservative planning precede your many public undertaking..
But I am led to believe that once a plan has been decided upon it is a
united community that puts its shoulder to the wheel and carries the
movement forward to success."
BUMPER CROP—SUCKERS
Barnum died too early. . , , .
Had he lived till today, he'd have, without doubt revised his
much-quoted statement to read: "There s one born every second.
America’s bumper crop this season, to judge by every report,
is suckers.
Fishing was never so good.
A conservative and reliable banker declared the other day
that, since the end of the war, three or four billions of dollars have
been invested in new businesses —and most of it has been lost for
the investors. ... , .>
Get-rich-quick schemes, despite recent incidents such as the
Ponzi case and in the face of repeated exposures, are flourishing
with unprecedented vigor. Oil, rubber, autos, foreign exchange and
a dozen other games are claiming their thousands of victims.
Roger Babson, noted financial writer, pointed out the situation
in a convincing manner the other day, when he wrote that money
is like work; that the man who draws a far bigger salary than his
job is worth is in danger of losing both the salary and the job, and
that the man who expects a far bigger interest return than his money .
is worth is likely to lose the profits and the principal. , i
There is a world of safe investments offered today with fair
profits in return. No safe investment can ever offer the tremendous
profits pictured by the prospectus writers for wild-cat promoters.
To the man who is puzzled to tell which class of investments to
make, here is an excellent recipe, given by a banker to a widow who
asked his advice on investing some money in a brightly-painted oil.
scheme:
"Madam, if you have enough money so you can take a chance
with it and not suffer if you lose it. buy the oil stock. But if you need
the money; if you can't afford to lose it; don t buy.
JOHN AND JONATHAN
Any American or Briton who tries to create discord between the,
English-speaking nations is a traitor to his own country. So speaks
Baron Beaverbrook, chief proprietor of the London Daily Express,
who has just arrived in the United States.
When Lord Beaverbrook advocates Anglo-American co-opera
tion it is the broad vision of the west that speaks. Recently, it was
proposed in some quarters that Great Britain ask the U nited States to
cancel the British war debts. Lord Beaverbrook killed the suggestion
by pointing out Great Britain was able to pay all she owed and had
always done so. He is now pressing the Lloyd George ministery to
tax every fortune made in Great Britain out of the war. He also de
mands the British government withdraw from Mesopotamia if the
Arab tribesmen prefer wild freedom to a mandate of civilization.
When British financiers lately tried to form a money trust after the
Wall street model, it was Lord Beaverbrook who urged action to pre
vent all amalgamation against public interest.
More than anyone else of British birth who occupies a position
of power in England, Lord Beaverbrook understands the spirit of
practical liberalism, which is the distinctive characteristic of Ameri
can democracy. He sympathizes with it. He is determined that prac
tical liberalism shall play the dominant part in the reconstruction
processes now at work in Great Britain.
Lawson introduced Frenzied Finance but that has been replaced
by Ponzied Finance.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world—Epictetus.
It doesn't seem far-fetched to call him the Ultimtit Consumer.
President Wilson’s weight is back to normalcy.
Have you noticed how Cork keeps bobbing up in the news?
Wit at THE PRESS IS SAYING
SOME CURRENT COMMENT ON TIMELY TOPICS
COLQUITT’S POLITICS.
l-Moultrie Observer.)
CONSIDER the warped mind. The
fellow who is a farmer, and dis
trusts merchants and bankers, rail
road men and manufacturers; the
member of a protestant church, who
worries day and night about the mis
deeds of the Catholics; the laboring
man. who imagines that capital and
employers are his enemies and are
all crocked and untrustworthy; the
man of a political faction who has
worked himself into a frenzy and
speaks against all those who are
not of his faction or his party—we
have no unkind feeling for such peo
ple. We have sympathy for them and
we try to be patient with them.
The editor of the Cordele Dis
patch takes politics entirely too much
to heart. He imagines that the world
is going to the bow-wows unless oth
ers see as he sees and do as he does.
All are traitors, slackers and Reds
unless they subscribe to everything
he subscribes to. He is not alone.
We have many in Georgia like him.
Our friend and neighbor, (and he is
a good fellow) w'orries greatly about
the manner jn which campaigning is
done in Colquitt county, and on sev
eral occasions of late has made ref
erences to this county, that seemed
uncalled for and in bad taste.
Citizens of Colquitt county have a
right to their own political views.
If they have any better people in
Crisp county that we have here, we
have no evidence of it. If we have
any worse people here than they have
there it remains to be proven. We
imagine that they average up pretty
much alike. They are the same sort
of folks.
We wonder if it is necessary for;
the Dispatch to come to far-away|
Colquitt county to find Watsonites
and Hardwickites to peck on. Are
there none in Crisp /county? We
wonder if all the citizens of that}
county feed on the same stuff that|
the Dispatch editor feeds upon, and!
grow’ “loyal to our cause” and free!
from political taint. We have some-j
times heard of a Watsonite rather |
prominent in Cordele. Seems to us,
he was mayor up there a time or
two. Maybe he is a candidate now
for some high office. It was his
custom to attend the Watson pow
wows and sometimes he served as
the attorney for the Sage of Thomps
son. Probably he has moved away
or changed his politics or the Dis
patch would be peckin’ on him in
stead of seeking victims in Colquitt
county.
As for The Observer and its feel
ings toward Colquitt county folks,
there is hardly a man in the county I
we do not feel some pride in. There ,
may. be a few whom we could spare
if we had to have a thinning out of
the bad ones, but on the whole we
need about all we have in the line of
folks, and though some of them have ,
queer political ideas, and some are
unorthodox in religion, and some
vote Republican, some Progressive,
some Populist, some Socialif|t and
some Democratic, they all do good:
work and make average citizens. We
somehow, feel that we would rather
live among a people who have a few j
faults mixed with their virtues than |
Advertisment
Lend an ear and we’ll settle the 1
eating problem.
ju
(That’s the stuff: Oughta be set-:
tied.)
We have the cafeteria. It elimi-i
nates waiters.
(That’s right!)
We have the cooketeria.
(Whazzat?)
It eliminates cook.
(How do?)
You cooks your own. Slot gas J
meter and range on every table.
Bread and butter. Boiled and fried!
potatoes. Li’l butcher shop. Li’l I
grocery store. You buys and you!
cooks and you eats. •
(Can’t cook; show us another.)
We have, gentlemen, the fish pole •
restaurant. In the center is a lady,l
: young, beautiful, smiley ’n every
thing. She sits on a platform 10
1 feet in the air.
(Too bad she’s so far up.)
The tables are about her. Each i
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CITY BANK I
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W ..OH ‘ KMH 1I I intelligence and dispatch the tev.4
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. . . their business, and te safeguard
Commei tai City Bank Building their financial interest.
CRAWFORD WHEATLEY, President
SAMUEL HARRISON, Cashier
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
Ito live in a county like Crisp where
i they are all perfect, and wflere we
would have to look away from home
when we felt inclined to hand out ad
vice or to offer criticism.
A BLOW BELOW THE BELT.
(Albany Herald.)
T’HE Dawson correspondentjof the
Herald, reporting the address of
J Governor Hugh M. Dorsey in that
, | city on Wednesday, the report ap
pearing in The Herald of Thursday,
uses the following language:
“Mr. Dorsey's speech dealt with
the subjects that have been publish
ed, with perhaps one exception, and
Jhat was a reference to The Albany
Herald. He gave as the Herald’s
, reason for changing back to Senator
Hoke Smith, after having opposed
him, that the father of the business
manager of The Herald desired to
be or was to be confirmed in office
before a great while. Some of the
governor’s warmert supporters agree
that this slur seemed uncalled for
and to say the least, not good poli
tics.”
In the present campaign The Her
ald has treated Governor Dorsey
with the utmost fairness. It has
been glad to state that he has made
Georgia a good executive, and has
warmly commended him for his con
structive achievements.
But in the Dawson speech Gover
nor Dorsey went out of his way to
throw mud at The Herald. He did
something for which we have given
him credit for being above doing. He
tried to hit below the belt—some
thing a fair fighter never does, and
which The Herald calling itself fair,
refuses to resort to in retaliation.
We declare the statement of the
| governor to be without the shadow
of truth to sustain it, and challenge
him to produce the smallest bit of
i evidence to support what he charges.
; We deny that The Herald is fetter-
I ed by any pledge, made or even im
i plied, to serve any candidate through
I any consideration other than the hon-
I est Judgment of its editor.
But for the information of the
! governor and some others who have
sought to neutralize the effect of the
Herald’s support of Senator Smitn
by discrediting the paper’s motives,!
jt may be well to state that the busi
ness manager of The Herald Publish-,
ing Company to whom and to whose
father Governor Dorsey made ref
erence in his Dawson speech, is, AN
ARDENT ANTI - HOKE SMITH'
MAN AND ALWAYS HAS BEEU.:
It has been his purpose to vote for
Governor Dorsey in the September,
primary, and we suppose he will so (
vote unless disgust with his canai
date’s manifest unfairness forces him
to make a different choice.
The length to which the governor
goes in being unfair is only equalled
bv the extent to which he makes him
self appear ridiculous. We are sor
ry for both—for he is the governor
or Georgia. He impugns The Her
ald’s integrity in the hope of win
ning votes which he flatters us by
seeming to believe we might be able
to influence, but we have an idea
that his most ungenerous fling will
cost him more votes than he can hope
for it to gain.
table has a basket. You- write your,
order, stick the paper in a basket. ’
Presto! Also, whish! She flips the
hook on the end of a line on the end
I of a pole in the handle of the basket. I
Two more prestos and one more
whish —the cook has it. She fills ;
the basket. Two whishes, one pres
to, basket and food on the table. |
(Bravo! Viva la feesh pole re
j traw! Hurrah! Hooray! Also bush-,
I wah and bunk!)
It’s our turn now to talk and we,
I don’t want any funny li’l () marks!
around what we say, either.
Os the two new restaurants —|
I cooketeria and fish pole—we choose:
the dinner pail
Oh, the old tin bucket, the rust-,
i covered bucket, the tin-plated buck-:
et we all loved so well!
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Them was the days when each man
I was his own dining car.
Them was the days when each wq-
I man could cook, and dyspepsia was
I *Bll for the rich. There was pie.
There was cake. There was sand-
I wiches, too.
We sat on the job, in the cool of
a lumber pile, and we watched the
: sun for the time to go back, and we
ate and we ate, and the old tin pail
was filledl <to )|he brim with the
I things that no cafe-cooke-fishy-teria
will ever be provided for within!
SKINNED!
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THE CITY COMMISSION—MANAGER |PLAN
BECAUSE of apparent local inter
est in just how valuable the
commission-manager form of govern
ment is for cities the size of Ameri
cus, inquirv has been made of lead
ing citizens in a dozgn other cities
where the plan has been adopted by
Secretary Perkins, of the Chamber
of Commerce, who tells about the re
sults of the inquiry in the current
number of the Chamber Bulletin as
follows:
“The commission-manager plan of
municipal government, regarded by
Woodrow Wilson as “a marked ad
vance over any plan heretofore tried
of efficiency and economy,” is rap
in this country from the standpoint
idly being adopted by progressive
cities all over the country, and seems
to thrive even under the many handi
caps forced upon it by abnormal con
ditions of the past four years. De
spite the fact that the interest and
energy of the entire country have
been focused upon the problems
brought about by the war and the
necessity for exarordinary recon
struction efforts, more cities took
time to place their local government
upon this basis during 1918 than dur
ing any previous year. During 1918
thirty-two cities in the United States
and Canada Adopted the commission
manager plan of government. Figures
for 1919 are not available.
“The numerical increase is sig
nificant. but a real epoch in munici-
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Mamie E. Cassady, D. C.
Marcia C. Ramsey, D. C.
Palmer Graduates
Cassady & Ramsay
CHIROPRACTORS
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Phone 195. Bell Bld*.
pal achievement is indicated by the
facts and figures secured from 1
scores of cities which have adopted
the modern business method of mu
nicipal management.
“In order »to secure first-hand in
formation as to how the city-manager i
plan of municipal government has i
actually worked out, letters were re- ■
cently mailed by the writer to prom
inent bankers, superintendents of
schools and chambers of commerce in
several cities throughout the country
ranging in population from 8,000 to
300,000, all of which are operated
out were in the form of question
under the new form. The letters sent
naires containing ten inquiries, seven
of which were questions of fact and I
three matters of opinion. There was
more variance in the replies to the :
former than to the latter, for in the :
matter of opinions the writers were j
practically unanimous, while a few
disagreed as to the salaries paid city
managers, his term of office, etc.
“Os the twelve cities to which let-
L. G. COUNCIL, President T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P & Cashier JOE M. BRYAN, Asst. Cashier
(Incorporated)
THE Planters Bank 0F Americus
The Bank W ith a Heart > -
Resources Over 1,700,000.00
We are seeking new busi
ness on our record and
Si RbiTWB invite the accounts of
B fcgiMFTK firms, businessmen and
grfwig Kyii women, both in and out of
ij ij the city '
' A convenient place for
■?* your financial headquar-
ters.
PROMPT CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; Nooe Too Small
DATE OF CHARTER, Oct. 13, 1891.
SAFE AND DEPENDABLE
We are prepared to serve our customers
with promptness and consideration. The /
experience and knowledge gained by
years of successful banking is at your
service.
WE INVITE YOUR ACCOUNT
Bank of Commerce
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
J. W. Sheffield. Lee Hudson, C. R. Crisp
Frank Sheffield Cashier John Sheffield
MISS ANNIE PICKETT
FIRE INSURANCE
Oppoi’te Posto'rice East Lamar Street Phone 136
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 31, 1920
ters were sent, eleven replied, and
the information is significant. On
one point every correspondent agreed
and that is “we are getting more for
our money” than under the old plan.
To the question, “Have operations
under the manager plan been more
efficient and more economical than
■ under the former system?” every re
ply was in the affirmative with one
exception, which was non-committal.
In answer to the question, ‘Have gen
eral conditions improved under the
manager system over what they were
prior to the appointment of a man
ager?’ replies were unanimously af
firmative.”
DR. F. L. CATO
Phones: 531 Office; 55 Residence
DR. WILBUR C.SMITH
Phones: 531 Office; 657 Residence
Physician and Surgeon
Office Hours: 10 to 12; 2 to 4