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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879 s
Published by THE TIMES-RECORDER CO., One.) Arthur Lucas
President; Lovelace Eve, Secretary; W. S Kirkpatrick, Treasurer.
WM. S. KIRKPATRICK, Editor; LOVELACE EVE. Business Manager
Published every afternoon, except Saturday; every Sunday morn
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WE DON’T want to seem to be picking on the Columbus papers,
for we greatly esteem these two able neighbors of ours, but we
do think we have a kick coming at the Ledger for the following edi
torial in which the civic loyalty of one of Americus' most loyal and
bopsting citizens is most seriously compromised:
In view of the fact that J. Ralston Cargill, former Columbus citi
zen and still a Columbus lover and booster, was very largely responsi
ble for the movement which has led to the government taking a hand
in the proposition to make syrup out of Georgia yams, it seems to
The Ledger that Columbus is the place for the establishment of the
proposed experiment plant.
As has been stated in the news columns of The Ledger, the De
’ partment of Agriculture of the U. S. has taken up this matter, and
the announcement is made that three experts have been sent to Geor
gia to make experiments. There seems to be no doubt whatever that
sugar can be extracted in paying quantities from the sweet potato,
and the most important step to be taken is to organize factories here in
the state where the industry can be developed.
A Muscogee conuty is in the very heart of the sweet potato belt,
and there could be no better place at which to locate the proposed fac
tory than right here in the home town of Mr. Cargill.
It is just such industries as these which contribute most substan
tially to the progress and prosperity of the city, and it would seem to >e
well worth while for the Chamber of Commerce to see to it that the
proposed factory be established here.
Columbus offers splendid facilities for the new industry and it
ought to be located in this vicinity.
Until the details of the process are known it would be useless o
speculate upon the probable cost of producing sugar from sweet pota
toes but all the probabilities are in favor of the assumption that the fa
miliar potato, which is almost as typical of Georgia as the water melon
or the peach, will become the basis of a great new industry and a
means of supplying the consumer hereafter with an abundance of sugar
at a The Ledger would suggest that the Chamber of Commerce take up
the matter with Mr. Cargill at Americus right away, in that he is on the
“inside” of the movement and is, therefore, in position to make a stroke
in the interest of his native city-Columbus. True the project is ye. in
its initial stage but it is the very time for Columbus to act, if we get
Columbus people will watch the movement with unusual
interest and with a degree of pride in view of the fact that Ralston
Cargill has had a big part in bringing it about.
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COR the peace of mind of The Ledger, and in just defense of Mr
* Cargill, we may offer this information to our neighbor- tJ.
Ralston Cargill has the naming of the location of that syrup plant
or can influence the locating of it, Americus wnl get it, regardless of
the hopes and claims of Columbus. It may be further said byway
of admission, however, that should Americus not be able to get 1L
and J. Ralston Cargill have the naming of some other town for
location, there is no doubt that Columbus then would get it if she
Wallt 'The Ledger has Mr. Cargill sized up right: He still loves
Columbus. But while he is a resident of Americus he is for Ameri
cus just as he was for Columbus when he was a citizen there. 1 hat
is why the folks in Columbus love him; that is why we in Americus
love him. He really belongs to us both.
WHILE the Griffin News and Sun, one of Georgia’s best smaller
daily newspapers, is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary comes
the news that the Dublin Tribune, a paper with only a short history,
has gone into bankruptcy, the owner filing voluntary papers yes er
dav. Which brings to the front the consideration that the newspaper
publishing business which is rarely profitable in more than a hmited
way, is a business which is sensitive to all manner of conditions, and
will prosper only when conditions are right and kept right.
The Dublin Tribune was launched a comparatively short time
ago when there was already one good paper in the field. Dublin is
not a two-newspaper town, and to newspaper men elsewhere it was
certain from the start that both could not survive, and that it was
only a question of time until one perished. It appears that the 1 nb
une's resources were unable to hold out as long as its older competi
tor’s, and that it had to abandon the field and leave it as it was. with
its own funds dissipated and those of its contemporary probably bad
ly depleted because of the threat-cutting competition that undoubt
edly resulted from the race for existence in a town capable of sup
poring only one such institution.
Ventures like this have been tried before. One was tried not
so long ago in Cordele, and the new paper eventually died with some
losses to be absorbed by those who backed it. A town with one
good newspaper is much better off than one with two sorry ones;
not only does the town get a better newspaper, but it costs the pub
lic and the advertiser less for service rendered. Cordele knows;
Dublin has learned it r and other towns have discovered it in the
past. Dublin now should rally to the support of the Courier-Heiald
with decent rates and better patronage. It can have a better daily
paper soon, if it will do so.
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The man whose pay was not inflated by war times is encouraged
to believe the ditty: “When you’re up you’re up and when you’re
down you’re down, but when you’re only half way up you’re neither
-,’P nor down.”
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A bomb thrown at Lenin's car missed it by many feet. Cherchez
la femme.
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A hundred years from now the world may regard it as unim
portant that Baruch got a medal and Sims didn't.
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If D'Annunzio does write a history of Fiume, it will be in blank
ety-blank verse.
WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING.
SOME CURRENT COMMENT ON TIMELY TOPICS
HIDING UNDER WATSON.
(Cordele Dispatch.)
“So far as the people of Georgia
are concerned, I am not alarmed
as to what will be their attitude to
ward the Ku Klux Klan and toward
the editor whose name appears at the
masthead of the Enquirer-Sun. If I
recall correctly it was the same man
who waged such a bitter and relent
less war on Thos. E. Watson a few
years ago, yet the people of Geor-'
gia do not seem to have agreed with
him in his estimate of Mr. Watson. ■
I doubt not they will regard with
as little consideration his attacks on
us as they regarded his victriolic at
tack on Mr. Watson.”
These are the words of Col. Wil
liam ,1. Simmons, Imperial high stan
dard bearer for the secret order of
the Ku Klux Klan. It smacks of an
effort to get under the long flaps
of Tom Watson’s coat tail with this
movement. It smacks that much of
an effort which will fall—but even
under the coat tail of Tom Watson,
none but the moonshiner, the night
rider, the man with the bull dog pis
tol, could ever see the need of any
thing that looks like a revival of
the Ku Klux Klan in the South.
We are ready to pay proper tribute
to the men who had to live by the Ku
Klux Klan methods in the recon
struction because they were heroes.
They preserved our government to
us, and they made our civilization
in the South severe. We love and
revere them for it. They were the
Ku Klux of another day and another
time.
We believe we can see in the as
sertion of the imperial wizard of the
new order of the Ku Klux Klan an
effort to tie himself to a very dan
gerous element. We know who they
are. We believe it will be easy to
lead some Georgia to believe that
night riders are again necessary. We
do not argue that the published mo
tive of the new secret order is any
thing like that, but we do believe agi
tation now or §t any time in the fu
ture will make night riding lawless
ness possible. The revival of any
kind of that lawlessness which was
necessary in the days of the recon
struction will take the name of the
Ku Klux and with it will go the re
spect for the law which people here
and all over jthe land must impress
as fully and wholly neccessary.
If the imperial wizard could im
press all of Watson’s followers in
Georgia that the new Ku Klux Klan
was necessary, he might put it over.
Law abdiing, self-resepcting people
better leave off that kind of proced
ure, Watson or no Watson. It makes
little difference which way politics go
in comparison with the losses we will
Dr. Barton’s Daily Talk
“THE WEIGHT OF PERSONALITY.”
BY DR. WILLIA M E. BARTON.
ROCK that weighs 150 pounds
will weigh the same in any sit-
uation in which it
I can place itself;
but a man who
weighs the same
amount may sit on
the end of a lever
so that his weight
will lift a ton.
Archimedes was
I right when he de-
I dared that with a
lever long enough
and strong enough
I and with a place
" to stand, he could
lift the world.
It has been
BARTON
done.
Alexander the' Great did it, and
so did Napoleon, and both of them
by methods well known and often
employed. They put the weight of
their personality on the end of a
lever whose length was so many
hundred thousand men, and the world
moved.
The barons who confronted King
John did the same, and by methods
very different; and so did Washington
and Lincoln and Pershing. Thep plac-
toLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Morning Times-Record
er, Saturday, Feb. 4, 1911.)
Mayor Mathis sat in police court
on the case of three unarmed crip
ples w’ho had been arrested in the
midst of a battle royal.
The High school commemorated
the birth of Sidney Lanier yester
day. Miss Mary Fort read an orig-'•
inal paper on “The Character and
Works of Lanier.’’' Miss Mildred
Lide gave a humorous selection. Rev. ■
R. L. Bivins, of the Furlow Lawn
Baptist church, delivered a talk.
Americus has a population of
3,488 white citizens and 4,574 col
ored, according ’to the report of the i
census department, the total being I
8,062.
All clothing at half price. S3O
suits and coats sls, said tin ad of the
Rylander Shoe Co., sls suits and
coats, $.7.50.”.
Americus’ nine near-beer dealers
Lave all paid their annual state li
cense tax for the current year and
Ordinary Cobb yesterday remitted
$3,400 to the state treasurer.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
sustain when there is an element
large enough to start out disregard
ing our established institutions.
Lynching mobs are small in compari
son with what can be developed out
of enlarged activities among night
riders and anything called Ku Klux
is a reminder of the days wiien our
white men forced their way by such
methods because they had it to do.
We do not need the procedure now.
I If we have it, the whole thing will be
; directed in disregard of established
i laws instead of in support of them.
THE KU KLUX KLAN.
(Thomasville Times-Enterprise.)
The Ku Klux Klan is causing no
‘ end of discussion in the state at the
j present time, which is reflected from
statements and discussions coming
from more or less prejudiced sources
North of the Mason and Dixon line,
where they consider it nothing more
than an official intimidator or lash by
which unlawful acts may be commit
ted against the person and property
| of the black race.
We are not prepared to say what
i the order is or whose sympathies and
i interests it may have aroused in this
i state or any other. We are convinced
that it was not conceived with any
idea of contrubting to the unlawful
ness of the present time. If it is
based on pricinples which its head
says are embodied in its constitution
or by-laws, by whatever name they
may be known, it deserves no such
condemnation. It is endeavoring to
promote law and order rather than
to tear it down.
But on the other hand it is quite
true that the name and the institu
tion it symbolizes or perpetuates has
long since gone and with it the need
therefor. As a real Ku Klux Klan
,it is not necessary and therefore
I superfluous and dangerous. With a
i modern adaptation of the principles
that actuated that first organization
and a desire to promote the princi
ples only in a lawful manner it might
! prove valuable rather than a men
ace.
j There are dangers lurking around
i howevef, and the misuse of the term
I may bring condemnation on the or
i der, undeserved but still contribut
ing to its general reputation. There
is no need of hoods and masks in this
day and time unless they cover
something that the world has no busi
ness knowing. Illegal acts are not
things that the world should not
know. Why the secrecy or masks
or whatever are used we never imag
ined and it is perhaps by reason of
this feature and phase that it is meet
, | ing with so much general discussion,
i! a lot of which has been entirely un-
I■ favorable from unpartisan sources.
ed the lever of their personality un
der the inert mass of tradition and
prejudice and tyranny, and the world
moved.
Plato and Shakespeare and Milton
found each of them a precarious
place to stand, and they poised their
weight where it lifted the load that
lay upon the heart of the centuries.
The scabs tell very little about
the weight of a man. At sea level,
they tell one story and on the moun
tain-top quite another; and it causes
the weight to change if he remove or
put on his overcoat. What kind of
measure shall we invent to show the
lifting power of this man, whether at
sea level, or on the mountain-top as
he sits or stands with his skilled
hands on the machinery that operates
a steam-shovel?
We cannot weigh men as we weigh
coal or sand. Personality is a thing
of weight which no scales can meas
ure.
It is the right of every man to find
the lever and the place to stand on
means of which he can weigh n’s full
moral value. The power to influence
other men, the power to change or
control events, the power to lift and
build, si the priceless possession of
personality.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(Monday morning, February 4,
1901, no paper issued.)
TH’RTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Americus Daily Times,
Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1891.)
Col. W. A. Dodson is on a visit
to Hawkinsville.
Hon. Robt. Sch’ey, was
.among the visitors to Americus yes
terday.
Col. E. H. Cutts attended court in
Abbeville Monday.
Miss Bee Clegg will return today
from Hawkinsville where she has
been visiting.
Mrs. Fred Arthur, of Shellman,
I well known to Americus people as
Miss Leila McLaughlin, is visiting
friends and r°latives here.
Col. C W. Hancock is in Abbeville
in the interest of the Americus Build
ing Loan Association.
C. F. Hannon, one of the con
tractors of the Savannah. Americus
and Montgomery, reached the city
yesterday. He says the road is com
pleted to the Chattahoochee river on
the Georgia side.
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CATALOGS AND PICTURE POST CARDS “'CL
ericus Refrigerating company will
meet this afternoon in the office of
Mayor Felder.
M. B. Council, Dr. E. J. Eldridge
and U. B. Harrold were named by
the city council as commissioners to
examine the city accounts.
“New firm, new goods,” read an
advertisement of McMath Bros., com
posed of R. L., E. J. and B. H. Me
Math. They were located in the
Hart building on Forsyth street,
and dealt in groceries, produce,
shoes, tobacco, cigars, etc.
PRESTON
PRESTON, Feb. 4.—Little Coye
Fussell has been dangerously ill with
pneumonia for some few days, but
she has taken a turn to get well, we
think.
Willis Ball has been ill with pneu
monia, but is improving steadily now
Foreman W. S. Bell and his work
men are making steady progress on
the new school building. He reports
that the building will soon be com
plete.
Preston High school’s literary so
cieties are doing excellent work, es
pecially in debating. Each Friday
afternoon is given over to the work
of the literary societies.
The school has an athletic asso
ciation of boys which was organized
Nov. 10, 1920. The students prac
ticed athletics a good deal just be
fore Christmas, but they have prac
ticed very little since moving into
the new school building. However,
there are some reasons for their fail
ure to practice. The athletic ground
is not yet clear of bushes, scraps of
plank and other types of trash; and,
too, the weather has not been fav
orable to athletic practice.
Principal R. W. James has recently
completed a census of the children in
Preston Consolidated school distri-t
He reports that there are 220 child
ren in the district between the ages
of 6 and 18 year* A few of these
children are not in the school now
but it is hoped they will all enter
soon. There are some students com
ing from other districts to the school.
All are welcome.
Some of the students from the
ninth, tenth and eleventh grades are
preparing to give a play in the near
future. The play is a good, one and
the boys and girls are preparing t>
act the parts well.
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i Rhymes From The Muckalee
COMPARE THYSELF WITH JOB.
Remember in these trying times the story of old Job,
Whose name is known in every land that specks this mundane globe.
He ranked six high with R. G. Dun they could not count his wealth;
And more than this, there was Mrs. Job, ten happy heirs and health.
And in a word, opinion was among the largest and the least
That Job was far the greatest man in all the nearer east.
There’d been no war ir. land of Uz to upset status quo.
But just the same there came to Job a great financial blow.
He lost his camels and his mules, his servants and his cattle:
Destruction wrought a master-piece and wiped out every chattel.
Not a thing was left to Job, except his spouse and cares;
For angry winds blew far away the last one of his heirs.
When he had drained the bitter cup of troubles and of toils,
He found his body blotched complete with blisters and with boils.
My modern brother, maybe now you think your luck is tough,
Because you have so much to sell that won’t bring price enough.
But take a little squint at Job; compare his fix with thine.
He was a man, and so are you, now justify your whine.
Job relinquished not his life despite his wife and friends;
And on his fortune smiles once more before the drama ends.
For in the final scene are shown before the curtain falls,
Just twice the beasts that Job had lost, within his stable walls.
And Job is there in health and wealth; for Fortune sure did send it;
And she sent, too, three daughters fair, and seven sons, to spend it.
—A. G. Sucirema.
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same conservative, yet liberal treatment, that has
always marked its policy and earned its reputation
for safety and dependability.
BANK OF COMMERCE
Organized Oct. 13. 1891.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:
Frank Sheffield. Pres’t. Lee Hudson. Cashier
John Sheffield. V.-Pres’t. C. R. Crisp.
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L G COUNCIL. President T. E. BOLTON. Asst. Cashlar
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashier JOE M. BRYAN. Asst. Cashier
(Incorporated.)
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1921.