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THE AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 187“
Pubhshrd >RDER * (Inc. Ann ><r Lucas.
President: Lovelace Eve, Secretary; W. S. Kir >a trick, Treasurer.
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CHEERS FOR A KING
American newspapers are not much given to cheering kings.
Few and far between are the times they take off their hats to a royal
personage. But just now a number of newspapers—many of them
in the North—are saying—
Hip, hip, hooray for—
King Cotton!
That cotton is king goes without an argument in the Sunny
South. Here His Majesty long has reigned. And some there were
who professed to believe King Cotton s realm extended only to the
Ohio and west into Texas. Not so. Cotton now, as before the war,
is the leading export from American shores. Cotton brings more dol
lars from foreign lands than any other export.
For the year ending June, 1920, raw cotton exports amounted
to the staggering total of $1,381,707,502. Added to that was man
ufactured cotton, $364,036,786. King Cotton rolled into the United
States well over a billion and a half within 12 months. Iron and steel
products brought $932,675,866. Meat and dairy products (the
leader for the year ending June, I 9 I 9 ) was third in I 920, with $77 I'-
066,760.
Wheat, which at one time played such a large part in foreign I
trade, now ranks but slightly ahead of another southern product, to- 1
bacco. •
UMBRELLAS
Where, oh where has the middle-aged gentleman who carried
the green Everett True urhbrella gone? He is being sought by the
National Association of Umbrella Manufacturers, whose members
sense a decline in business that alarms them.
They will make a brave attempt the third week in October to
cover every head in the nation with one of their cambric or silk can-1
opies. But they face the fact that since 1896 the volume of sales has
increased only one-third, or $4,000,000, in spite of a more than
doubled price for their product.
The auto is blamed. Folk can drive right up to the front door
now, and thousands on thousands who used to do their social call
ing afoot, wouldn't think of using anything but the family car these
days. One bumbershoot is as good as another, to the poular mind, i
and though there has been an attempt to introduce the cupola shape
and other didoes, not much has come of it. »
The umbrella men met in convention in New York recently. .
One manufacturer with an assumption of glee, pointed out that not
one of the 150 men present carried an umbrella, though all arrived
in a driving rain. That caused another one to remark sadyl that “the
doggone country’s so dry now, you could put all the available mois
ture in your eye, let alone an umbrella."
THEY'RE GOING
Nearly 100,000 American farmers have purchased 3,000,000
Canadian acres this summer.
They are transplanting their food producing energies to Cana
da, to the Dominion’s profit, and to Uncle Sam’s loss.
They are going largely because of their inability to make a profit
growing food upon high-cost acres of the United States. Land in
Canada is cheap. The time is coming when it won’t be cheap. Acre
age will cost as much there as here. And then what is the farmer'
going to do? Where is he going. The rest of the world except Siberia!
and the Sahara are already crowded.
Maybe by that time he will have learned the secret of the over
crowded Dane, Hollander, and Belgian. He will try to grow more
food in a smaller area. He will cultivate more intensively. He will try i
doing what Jim Hill advised years ago. He will make two blades
grow where but one has grown. He will harvest more bushels to the'
acre.
The wiser of the agriculturists already are doing that. They find
it more profitable and more comfortable than selling out and set
tling in a colder clime.
By the way, Georgia has room for about 10,000,000 more Am
ericans, and offers land as cheap—and more productive—than Can
ada. Let s all get behind the Advertise Georgia’’ movement and
divert the emigrant in this direction.
SAVE HOUSES
One way the authorities in every city can help keep the housing
problem from becoming worse is to inaugurate rigid campaigns to
wipe out fire hazards. Every year thousands of houses are destroyed
by fire, and while this was always a great loss to the country, it
didn t matter so much when houses were plentiful.
Every time a house burns, the situation becomes just that much 1
more acute.
And right now most property is under-insured. Houses are worth
twice as much as they were in 1914-16, and very few insurance poli-l
cies have been increased It is no longer possible to replace a house
with the insurance collected.
Fall is about here and when fires are started to heat homes,
there will be the usual crop of destructive fires, unless every chim
ney is inspected and put in order. All loose trash should be ’one
away with and every hazard removed. If there ever was a time that
such conservation needed it is now.
Tobacco users shiver when they hear talk of a twentieth amend
ment.
There seems to be several ways of spelling Mac Sweeney but
for the British the name spells t-r-o-u-b-l-e.
There is a shortage of homes but fortunately there isn’t likely
to be a shortage of voting booths.
The former kaiser has founded a hospital at Amerongen Well,
he filled plenty of them in his time.
Milliners soon will b e advertising “chic chapeaux suitable for
the polls.”
Bookstores would stimulate interest if they'd publish lists of
the six best cellars.
The map-makers ar e taking a vacation while Russia and Po
land establish their boundaries.
THE BOOMERANG
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WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING
SOME CURRENT COMMENT ON TIMELY TOPICS
NO LEAN YEARS IN SOUTHWEST
GEORGIA
(Albany Herald)
The editor of The News has lived
in Southwest Georgia since his early
manhood, and has never yet seen a
crop failure or lean years of faftiine.
He expects to live here all his life,
and never will see a crop failure. —
Dawson News.
Here in a few words is stated
something worth thinking about.
Editor Rainey is not by any means
an old man, but he has been here
long enough to have noted the pass
ing of many seed-times and harvests.
And he has never seen a crop fail
ure in Southwest Georgia, There have
been bumper crop years, average
i crop ve. an,' short crop years, but
never has there been a cron fail
ure.
When there has been too much
j rain.for cotton, the corn fields have
flourished and returned heavy yields.
When it has been too dry for corn,
the cotton fields have been white
from August until the pickers finish-
I ed bringing in their snowy burdens,
; and it has unfailingly held true that
i whatever conditions militated against
' the full yield of certain crops made
sure the bumper returns of others.
No nart of the United States is
i more versatile in agriculture than
| Southwest Georgia, where the grow-1
! ing season is long and both soil and
climate are favorable to the splendid
■ fruition of almost any crop the far
' mer cares to produce. Hogs and beef
cattle now have become two of the
I great monev “crops” of the section,
' and thousands of acres of nuts and
( fruits are pouring an ever swelling
■ volume of wealth into their owners’
bank accounts.
; Nature has highly favored this
! section, and just how great its ad
j vantages are is becoming more gen
; erally known as the results of diver
i sified agriculture become apparent,
i It now has many money crops, and
the specter of crop failures never
haunts its farmers, merchants and
:, bankers.
AVIATION, ELSEWHERE AND
' HERE
(Atlanta Journal)
i Some idea of the extent to which
.| aviation is being employed in the
i service of commerce may be gather
'' ed from the fact that within the last
twelve-month more than a million dol
, lars’ worth of imports and exports
_i have been airplaned between Eng
land and the continent. It appears.
“ ■ moreover, from a recent report of
1 ! Controller-General of Civil Aviation
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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDLR.
of Great Britain, that during this;
same ">eriod upwards ■ of seventy
thousand air passengers were carried |
with but one fatality and few acci
dents of any sort.
This is tvpical of what is being
done in commercial aviation outside
of the United States. European gov-1
ernments, from the greatest to the
least, are encouraging air traffic as,
a national asset. They rightly appre- •
ciate its significance, not only to
military and naval interests, but to
those of business as well, and to the
common forces that make for pros
perity. They see that the simplest
and surest way of acquiring an aer
onautic reserve against a possible war
is to foster civilian interest in the!
art of flying and to make it worth
while for voung men to become avia-!
tors in times of peace. Especially' do
they realize that the country which
neglects this means of transporta
tion will find itself at n> very dis
tant time as sorely disadvantaged
in commerce as if it had failed to
avail itself of steamships when they
came speeding into the world of
sails.
It is one of the ironies of history |
that the birthland of Wilbur and Or
ville Wright is being left absurdly be
hind in aeronautical development. A i
nation long known for readiness in
turning the hints of science to prac
i tical account and for resourcefulness
in shaping means to ends, mighty in
population and endowed with vast'
energy and wealth, is being outdis
tanced by little, war-maimed coun
tries in a realm of enterprise where
by all odds she ought to lead. Our
Army air service notwithstanding
the urge and opportunity which the
world conflict brought, is little
stronger today than when the puni
tive expedition against Villa came
near breaking down for lack of air
scouts and general aeronautic sup
port. Furthermore, the outlook for
proposed lines of aerial mail service
I is extremely dubious. Though less
j than ten days remain for the receipt
of bids to carry mail by airplane be
tween New York and Atlanta and on
other projected routes in the West,
no bids have yet been submitted.
The cause of these unhappy condi
tions is not far to seek. It is want of
initiative on the part of the executive
officers, o’- want of interest on the
part of the public. It is the backward
ness and pettiness of a Republican
congress. The War Department plead
ed for adequate appropriattons to
help the air service which the war
had developed to a point of great
promise, from disintegrating, but the
Republican majority voted down all
measures to that end. The Postoffice
Department pleaded for appropria
tions to develop the airplane mail ser
vice in which it has made so sub
stantial a beginning; but the same vis
ionlese partizans limited allowable
expenditures for this purpose to a
cost not exceeding that of a railway
mail service—an egregiously stupid
provision which makes progress al
most impossible.
The practicability and great time
saving of airplane carriage of mails
have been fully demonstrated on the
New York-Washington route and on
that between New York and Chicago.
Business is willing to pay a little
more for air service, which cuts in
half the ordinary time for the trans
mission of mails, than for the slower
rail service. Yet, in spite of the mark
ed success of the aerial lines al
ready operating and in spite of the
marked advantages to persons and
institutions desiring the speediest de
livery of t 'eir letter, a Republican
congress throws its reactionary dam
per on this important enterprise.
It is this penny-wise, pound-foolish
policy this narrow, loutish spirit
that has placed America in the shame
ful rear of aviation when she could
and should be gloriously in the lead.
As long as that attitude is tolerated
the nation will pay the penalty in
prestige, in practical interests and,
should war come, in wretched unpre
paredness.
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RAILROAD SCHEDULES
(Central Time.)
, Arrival and Departure of Passenger
| Trains, Americus, Ga.
I The following schedule figures
published as information and not
guaranteed:
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
AH’**® Leaves
11:59 am Columbus-Chgo 3.40 am
10:38pm Albany-Montgy s:lßam
7:35 pm Macon-Atlanta 6:37 am
•7:15 pm Columbus *7:10 am
2:20 pm Albany-Montgy 2:20 pm
2:olpm Macon-Atlanta 2:olpm
Columbus *2:30 pm
10:00 am Columbus . 13:00 pm
6:37 am Albany 7:30 pm
5:18 am Macon-Atlanta 10:38 pm
3:40 am Albany-Jaxville 11:59 pi
•Daily, except Sunday.
ISunday only.
SEABOARD AIR LINE.
Arrives I .ph
10:59 pm Cordele-Savannah 1:20 am
5:15 pm Richland 10:00 am
3:lopm Cordele-Savannal. 12:31pm
12:31pm Richland-Montgy 3:10 p
10:00 am Cordele-Helena 5:15 pm
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1920
ATTENTION!
COURT OFFICIALS
AND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW:
At the recent term of the Georgia Leg
islature an Act was passed raising the
rates for the publishing of
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
The amended law, Section 6066 of the
Code of Georgia, now is as follows:
THE RATES TO BE ALLOWED PUB
LISHERS
For Publishing Legal Advertisements in
This State
Shall Be As Follows:
I For each one hundred words the sum of
i One Dollar for each insertion for the
first four insertions; for each subsequent
insertion the sum of fifty cents per hun
dred words. In all cases fractional parts
shall be charged for at the same rates;
and it shall not be lawful for any ordi
nary, sheriff, coroner, clerk, marshal or
[Other officer to receive or collect from
parties plaintiff or defendant, other or
greater rates than herein set forth.
The amended law was effective Sep
tember 1, and this information is pub
lished for your guidance.
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