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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER [
ESTABLISHED 1879 '
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Crimes lead into one another. Burke.
THEY’RE IN THE STRETCH
Two more hectic days, and then the “rank” and file, the tram
pled and the untrammelcd. will flock to the polls to declare their
verdict What that verdict is going to be in each man s case remain
to be seen. Well probably know for a certainty Thursday, and we
KeTommen’ta torning » .ha. tbi. ...
when a man. -.e and»»
VO ‘ in Vb?noH«±T?un>.«r coun.y <ry ill need .ba.
kind of voting. ______
JOE BAILEY
Ten years w , J-ph BaOey idol U
“ Wi.b Tesan. be ranked »i.b Sa.n
Houston and David Crockett, Travis and Lamar.
And outside of the Lone Star state his fame h » d Bpr “f
he was titular leader of the Democrats in the United btates Sen .
But on Aug. 28 the Democrats of Texas defeated this former
idol forth- nomination of governor. The nomination would have
meant success in November, for Texas, like Georgia, always goe
D<!m What C caused this change in the attitude of the people of Texas?
Have the people gone wrong? Is it ingratitude? Is the electorate
fiCW The facts are. Bailey, at ths zenith of his
glorv. betrayed the people's trust. Instead of keeping in the straight
course of service to the people who honored him. be used that power
to serve corporate interests, oil, railroads and the lumber combin .
These interests used him and paid large sums for his *
cause they knew the people trusted him. These sums were called at
torney’s fees, for Bailey was a lawyer. And thats all he >s today
Some in Georgia—and Sumter county—have been so unkind
and unscrupulous, and so disregardful of the facts as to compare
Senator Hoke Smith with Bailey. Bailey was retired only because
he was corrupt. No insinuation even, of corruption, has been made
against Senator Hoke Smith Hoke Smith has never represented any
interest in the senate but Georgia. His enemies admit n e has
profited financially from his service in Washington. Why
the senator’s foes practice the fairness they candi
dates? ~~ r
* YOU TELL ’EM . . '
While politicians have been pointing with alarm at various ills
in the body politic, that justly famous American sense of humor re
mains steadily on the job. It declines to wear crepe and throughout
the nation man. woman and child are having a good time at the
merry sport of ringing the changes on 'l ou Tell em.
You tell 'em, Mississippi, you have a big mouth.
You tell ’em, skyscraper, you have a lot of stories.
These are sample germs of the pun-epidemic that has swept the
land, sparing few sections. Making you-tell- ems has become a fa-.
vorite indoor sport at parties; newspapers are offering prizes for the
best “you-tell-’em” and the pun in its many varieites has become,
at least temporarily, a favorite in the American idiom.
The history of punning runs back to the time of the ancient
Greeks, but no form of pun ever has received so democratic a re
ception as this one that is keeping a nation in good humor during
dog days. .
As old Dr. Addison, the celebrated English essayist said —ir-
reverent punsters probably here will exclaim. “You tell em doctor,
you have the patients!”—as old Dr. Addison said:
“The seeds of punning are in the minds of all men, and though
they may be subdued by reason, reflection and good sense, they will
be very apt to shoot up in the greatest genius. It is indeed impossibly
to kill a weed which the soil has a natural disposition to produce.
And let no candidate for office take himself too seriously thisj
fall, nor attempt to deplore the state of affairs in which a people pun
while the burning issues smolder. For the punster will be quick to
exclaim: z i i
“You tell ’em where to sleep Mr. Candidate. ( you have the
bunk!”
Democratic suffs insist that most of the women voters will re
fuse to be marionettes.
The revival of "Florodora” is a success in New York. Wouidn t
a revived “Black Crook" look tam e now'
Some minor politicians perked up quite a bit when they heard
about a $15,000,000 campaign fund.
Rice growers announce a cut in price to $8 a barrel. Eight dol
lars worth of rice, when boiled, would spread all over the yard and
feed a family all winter.
When speaking of the supply of gasoline they place the accent
on “lean.
The snake charmer who mistook a rattler for one of her pets
should tie pink ribbon on her favorites.
Mutton-chop whiskers are coming in style. Folks who can’t
afford mutton-chops can grow them.
COTTONANDFERTILIZERI9I2-1919 \
By MARTIN V. CALVIN.
Statitician Georgia Department of
Agriculture.
Through years and years, public [
interest in, and public discussion of,'
the cotton crop have been kept alive. |
The degree of interest developed and t
the depth of discussion practiced'
have been after the manner of the
intensive system in farming.
Why so universal an interest?!
Why the ceaseless discussion? Why I
so great activity in advisory, com-|
mercial and other circles as to the;
size of the crop, cost of production,l
and price per pound of the staple i
which producers, as one man, should
dmand?
The answer is: Because cotton
is a world crop. It is the crop on]
which the eyes of the business world]
are fixed year by year. To the seem
ing neglect of corn, oats, hay, etc.,
cotton has been grown on its native
heath in this country, for a long se
ries of years—exclusively, almost.
Why? For the reason, as I have fre
quently pointed out, that cotton, up
to the beginning of the world war,|
was the only Southern crop that had.
“standing at bank,” that is, wasi
clothed with the dignity of collateral, j
During the world war, strong ef
forts were put forth in behalf of
recognition by banks of crops other |
than cotton. This was with a view;
to negotiating and obtaining loans
in support of the wide-spread demand
for larger and better crops of the
cereals, hay-making grasses, forage,
—notably food crops of every pos
sible variety.
To the honor of our splendid bank
management be it said: Thofee ef
forts were crowned with a high de
gree of success. Be it also said that
the whilom “one crop” producers re
sponded to the demand for systematic
crops diversification patriotically
and enthusiastically, and in a most
substantial manner.
It is not pertinent to this article!
that mention be made of any of the
numerous crops—for a long time neg
lected in the seeming for the reason
assigned i. e. that cotton was strict
ly the money crop—which were
grown in the proportions of a crop!
throughout the cotton states during!
the world war, and are still being ■
successfully grown.
Intimately identified with all those
crops, more especially with cotton,
was the great factor in profitable
crop production—high grade commer
cial fertilizers.
Because of the fact just stated, I
determined to submit for your en
tertainment and information a bunch
of exceedinly interesting figures and
facts.
It can not fail to interest you to
know to what extent, in tonnage, high
grade commercial fertilizers were
'used during the eight years—l9l2
1919, both inclusive, in the United
States. You will doubtless be some
what surprised to learn that com
mercial fertilizers are used to a con
stantly increasing extent in States
other than the cotton producing
states. In referring to the geograph
ical divisions of the country, East
ern States will stand for Northern
and Eastern States.
During the eight years named, 50
610,000 tons of high grade commer
cial fertilizers, inclusive of cotton
meal, were used. Os the total.
The 10 distinctive cotton states us
ed 55.2 per cent.
The 6 Southern states not wholly
cotton 15.3 per
Eastern States used 20.5
pei cent.
The 22 Western States used 9.0
per cent.
In other words the sixteen South-
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HOKE SMITH
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lern States consumed 70.5 per-cent
‘and the other (32) States 29.5 per
cent of the total tonnage.
“There is “a study” in that situa
tion if you should be pleased to en-
Iter upon it!
i Suppose we study the fertilizer
factor in its relationship to acreage
and cotton production in 1919 com
j pared with the pre-war year, 1912:
In 1912, the cotton acreage in the
i ten strictly cotton States—-North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
; Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Tex
as, Arkansas and Oklahoma —was in
round numbers 33,900,000 acres;
in 1919, the acreage embraced
132,865,000 acres —a decrease
I in 1919 of 3 per cent
lln 1912, the ten States used 3,515,-
744 tons and, in 1919, 3,751,464
tons of commercial fertilizers an
increase in 1919 of 6.6 per cent.
In 1912, sixty per cent of the fer
tilizers purchased was applied to cot
ton; in 1919, fifty per cent was used
under cotton. This change was
a result of giving closer attention to
the corn crop in particular.
In 1912, the ten States produced
113,340,314 bales of cotton; in 1919,
the produced 10,799,000— -a differ
ence of 19 per cent against 1919.
In 1919, tnere was applied to cot
iton per acre, on a general average,
la total of 124.5 pounds; in 1919, a
I general average application of 114.1
i pounds per acre was made.
In 1912, the general average yield
of cotton per acre in the ten States
was 190 pounds or 38-100 of a bale;
in 1919, the genarl average yield per
acre in these States was 160 pounds
or 32-100 of a bale.
At a glance, you see to what ex-
■ tent high grade fertilizer functions
even though supplied to the plants
in an extremely uneconomical man-'
ner. Inis is a very important mat
ter; for the secret of “money in cot-
■ ion” rests almost wholly in a marked
I reduction in tne cost of product.o.i.
A high general average yield per acre
of lint cotton means a distinct profit
■to the producer. Un the other hand,
a low general average yield per acre
• holds the producer to the ' hand to
‘ mouth” mode of living.
Tenants, of course, are directly re-
I spohsible for the low general aver
, age yield of all crops they cultivate.
They will not use any fertilizer oth
erwise than sparingly. In a large
number of instances, landlords are
i particeps cc.ni ais in Lie wasteful
. practice. Landlords of that class
demand cotton. They lose sight of
everything else. You will better un
. derstand the situation when informed
i that fifty-five per cent of the farms
| in the ten cotton States are operated
by tenants.
,! In 1912, December 1, the general
II average price of cotton was 12 cents
> a pound; in 1919, the general price
J was 35.4 cent a pound. If the
1I general average yield per acre in
-1919 had been 190 instead of 160
.jpoundsar fgrfag r (|‘? (|‘? (|‘ (‘
- pounds, (both averages too low), the
si producer would have received $10.62
;|per acre more than under the low av
-1 erage yield of 160 pounds.
-| All plants require food. In order
1! that they may do their best—they
I stand ready to do that—they must be
) i intelligently fed. That means fed
-1 liberally, and cultivated carefully.
11 More than that: plants need a lib
[ eral ration of food adapted to their
• | necessities. Corn, for example, de
! mands food different from cotton.
[Apply to 'torn 350 pounds per acre
of 7-2-6 goods, you will be astonish-
>led by the increase yield. Apply 400
I pounds of 9-2-3 goods to cotton, you
1' will be overwhelmingly surprised that
you were ever content to pick one
- bale of lint cotton frm three acres'.
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; [ DIVINE OR HUMAN I
BY DR. JAMES I. VANCE
] lI7HICH would you rather have for
■ ” your preacher, a man who is so
’ good that he scares you, or one like
[ Simon Peter, who is so human that
j you can go fishing with him?
The old name for a minister of the
gospel was “divine.” People were not
I always comfortable in his presence.
> I They respected him but he seemed to
■ J dwell apart from common life. He
! |was the frontispiece of a religion
■ whose chief mission was to prepare
1 people to die.
But our ideas have changed. The
' ■ religion which appeals to us today is <
' not that which prepares for death.
I but for life. The world is not after
. j hermits who dwell in holy caves, and ;
, by a life of penance try to merit
,I heaven. It seeks servants who lend a ■
[ hand and minister to human need.
A preacher does not need to be
- any less divine, but he does need to
• i be intensely human. He must be able J
- to enter into all life with sincere sym- I
•' pathy and an honest love for people, i
‘ j He must be able to say in every act i
’ and message: “Write me as one who ■
1 i loves his fellow-men.” This does not
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Privileges For Sale
Sumter County Fair
November 9-10-11-12-13, 1920
The following privileges are offer-
I ed to the highest and best bidders:
1. Barbercue Stand.
2. Dining room and lunch.
3. Cold drinks —bottled.
4. Cold drinks—Fount.
5. Ice Cream —(only)
i 6. Ice cream and cold drinks.
I 7. Peanuts, pop corn and candy.
8. Cigars and Tobacco.
9. Automobile parking.
10. Parcel checking.
Sealed bids will be received until
noon September 11.
Bids will be numbered as received.
First come, first assigned.
Successful bidders will be required
to deposit 25 per cent of price for
privilege awarded when contract is
closed, balance can be paid during
fair.
Concessionaires will be required to
furnish their own stands or tents
where needed.
The right to reject any or all bids
is reserved.
Five big days this year, and big
I crowds every day are assured.
Fine exhibits and numerous high*
‘ class attractions.
j For detailed information as to con
i cessions offered above, see or write,
JOS. PERKINS, Secy. & Gen. Mgr
SUMTER COUNTY FAIR
ASSOCIATION
Chamber of Commerce Building
Americus, Ga.
rssssae —— ——
SEND IT TO US BY PARCEL POST
We will return it to you Cleaned and
Re-Blocked, and looking like a new one.
l adies' Hats Cleaned Reblocked and
Trimmed. Men's Felt Hats Cleaned, or
Dyed Black, Re-Blocked andße-Trimnied
“THE OLD HAT WIAN»
Atlanta 'reorgflM
meant that he is to quit loving his
God; for God has identified Himself
with people. The only way you can
hurt Him is to hurt His people.
The greatest argument for Christ’s
deity was His humanity. It was so
big, so capacious, so cosmopolitan,
so racial, so alj-embracing. that Pe
ter said: “The son of man is the Son
of God.’” And so that preacher is
most divine who is most human. This
it what Paul meant by being “all
things to all men.” He did not mean
that he was a trimmer and time-sen--
- er. He merely meant that he was
human.
FOR SALE-
one 5-room house Lee street. Lot 50x300. Has just been recovered and
painted inside and out. A good value for quick sale, $6,500. Terms.
ONE 9-room house Lee street. Lot 100x200. For a quick sale, $5,250. Terms
131 1-4 ACRES on Lee street road. All open except 8 acres. Good land and
in high state of cultivation. Will take if sold at once $125 per acre. Terms.
I HAVE SOME other very good values in houses and lots as well as good
list of farms that are bargains. If you are in the market it will pay you to
see me before you buy. I have some city property to trade for farms. See
me at once.
KING STILLMAN
Allison Building Americus, Ga.
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(Incorporated)
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