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The Americus Times-Recorder.
ESTABLISHED 1879.
Published by THE TIMES-RECORDER CO., (Inc.) 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
ing, and as weekly (every Thursday.)
OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR:—City of Americus, Sumter County, Rail
road Commission of Georgia for Third Congressional Districct, U. S.
Court, Southern District of Georgia.
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A SUMTER COUNTY FARMER was talking yesterday. "1 sold
two-thirds\of my cotton some time ago, he said, but still have
a third —and plenty of debts. The other day 1 sold four bales of
cotton and got only 11 cents a pound, or $55 a bale- The cost of
ginning, hauling, etc., was $6 per bale. My net loss, according to
my calculations on what it cost to produce that cotton, was $97 per
balC “But 1 have a scheme, and 1 think if applied generally it would
solve our difficulties and put our section in far better condition. 1 own
1,100 acres of land. 1 hpve no business owning more than fifty. I
think it would be a wise thing for every land owner who is in debt
to sell off enough of his land to pay his debts, and then go to work
to do sure-enough farming on what he has left. In my case there
are only my wife and myself. Fifty acres would be all 1 could possi
bly take care of, and it is my duty to move out onto this land and
make it produce. If I would look after it properly I would have my
hands full with fifty acres, and I and the county would be better
off for it."
* * *
I7EW MEN’MAY AGREE with the solution of our financial troubles
* offered by this farmer. There are serious flaws in the scheme. Foi
instance, with money tight, who would be able to buy the amount
of land offered for sale? And there are other flaws. But the kernel
in the scheme remains, and it is worth consideration. There is too
much hit-and-miss, haphazard farming as a result of tne tenant sys
tem. Sumter county land will produce infinitely more than it is now
producing, if carefully, properly and intensively farmed. That
means devoting intelligent effort to a few acres, instead of spreading
the effort out thinly and ineffectively over many acres- If every
farmer will live on his farm and look after it personally, a better job
will be done of cultivating it than if he makes his home elsewhere and j
makes its operation a side issue. This is human nature and it is a
rule of experience.
* * *
*THE RECENT PUBLICATION of the experiences of various Sum
* ter county farmers in diversifying is attracting attention through
out Georgia. Says the Albany Herald, commenting upon the story
of T. J. DeVane: i
The Sumter county farmer of whose operations the story was told
in The Herald has the right idea. Last year he raised only four bales of
cotton on a 488-gcre farm. Not that he could nat have raised more, but j
simply because that was all he had time to raise without letting cotton- |
growing interfere with what he considered more important activities. This \
year he will farm on the same plan—raise much grain and sell it “on the j
hoof,” for his farm is well stocked with hogs and beef cattle. The only j
cotton he will raise will be in a field just big enough to give the fariq hands
something to do when work elsewhere on the farm slackens up a little. He
will have to buy practically nothing for humans and beasts on the farm to
eat, and probably will be able to show a snug profit in cash on his operations
this year, as he did in 1920. The food-crop way is the safe and sure way.
both in good seasons and the seasons that turn out not quite so well.
* * *
'J’HE DAWSON NEWS sounds an optimistic note for the down
hearted, and it Is talking good sense, when it says: "The South
west Georgia farmer is happy on the way toward recouping his for
tunes. More and better preparations have been made up to now
for planting than in several years before.”
* * *
'J’IMES HAVE CHANGED in the iast 20 years, as the column, ap
pearing dailv on this page testifies. Commenting on this fact
the Brunswick Banner observes:
The Americus Times-Recorder’s column, “Old Days in Americus,” is
replete with interesting and inspiring news of those good bid days. For
instance, twenty years ago, “Yesterday was pension day in Americus and
numerous pensioners of the Mexican, Indian and Civil Wars rece : ved their
government money,” followed by the regaling announcement that “The
Altmeyer & Flateau Liquor Company advertises ‘four full quarts of Eight
Year'Old Sharp Williams’ pure rye whisky for $3.50’,” Just twenty years
ago!
* * *
President Wilson describes a boob as a bungalow, “having no
upper story.” But the house with lots of room above is likely to be
quite narrow.
* * *
Sir Auckland Geddes had better bring his oil can back with him
if he expects to wheedle Uncle Sam out of those war debts.
** * °
The fact .that there are a few Red teachers in our schools doesn’t
excuse us for underpaying the loyal ones.
* * *
Lucky the 1920 spender who saved his income tax as he went
along.
a * *
Many solutions of the housing problem .have suggested,
but none better than the one to build some houses.
a a <s
The sea monster found off Miami makes the old New Jersey
sea serpent look like a sardine.
a a a * v '
The new color, Harding blue, is several shades lighter than the
feelings of the disappointed office seeker.
'a a a
Senator Dial is on the watch; he’s all wound up over the idea
of having Judge I-andis impeached- Perhaps it’s poli-ticks.
* a a
The most interesting thing about this Witherell kidnaping cas
ts the fact that the quick-witted telephone girls are to get the reward
* * ¥
Rebellious baseball men need not be encouraged because Judge
Landis was over-ruled in the Berger case.
BUSINESS REVIEW OF THE WEEK.
Vegetables at 1914 Levels
prices of all eastern
** vegetables are now down to low
1914 level, says H. K. Jones, head
of New York’s State Division of
Foods and Markets.
Packers make same claim about
most meats—wholesale.
| One year ago wholesale commodity
; prices averaged 127 per cent above
pre-war prices. Now they are 132 per
cent above 1913 average.
16-Cent Gasoline Due.
Refiners continue slashing prices
paid for oil at wells.
The cut averages about 50 per
cent, on which basis gasoline should
be selling for 16 cents a gallon or
less.
Refiners retort that they must use
un present stocks of oil, bought at
high prices, before -slashing gasoline.
Steel Price War.
Leading independent steel manu
facturers have begun to undersell U.
S. Steel Cornoration, whose unfilled
tonnage continues decreasing.
The price was in steel probably
means that the bottom soon will fail
out of pig iron prices.
Iron now is S2B a ton. Highest in
war time was $42. Long way to drop
yet till iron reaches $10.25, price
prevailing July, 1914,
Money end Credit.
Checks sent through all clearing
houses in United States last week to
talled 28 per cent less than same
week a year ago.
Dr. Barton’s Daily Talk
THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
By Dr. William E. Barton.
That genial American poet, Sam
Walter Foss, touched a responsive
. chord in contem
porary life, when
he wrote his poem
“The House By
the Side of the
Road.” He found
in Homer a line
! which told of n
certain gracious
“He was a friend
to man, and In
lived in a house
by the side of the
road.”
Whether h i s
- place of residen.ee
was voluntarily
|P? 0?
prise
BARTON
chosen and hence the expression of
friendship for humanity, or whether
it was accidental, and its opportuni
ties well improved made the o.vnei
increasingly hospitable and kindly,
we may hot know; but in the Ameri
can poem the place of residence was
voluntarily chosen. “I and Homer
collaborated,” wrote Mr. Foss.
There was a time when men who
knew the world to be sinful suppos
ed themselves to have no way of
keeping themselves holy and of gain
ing additional holiness but by retir
ing to the desert and living of sancti
fied uselessness. We have found
that the best type of holiness comes
not in that way. We know who
taught up a better way: •
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder, Satur
day, February 18, 1911.)
Col. N. A. Ray, of the great Bag
ley-Ray orchard, was in • Americus
yesterday and -was still quite op
timistic regarding tihe fruit crop
prospect. His two hund-sd thous
and peach trees are in the pink of
condition, Col. Ray sta and the
prospect for an excellent crop for
this year i s favorable.
A scene, which for a moment -fill
ed spectators with horror was enact
ed at the Seaboard passenger station
in Americus yesterday noon when
the baby son of Station Agent Sel
lars, at Plains, was knocked pros
trate by a'switch engine, which pass
ed over the body of the little chap
without hurting it beyond a few
scratches inflicted in the fall.
Mayor Mathis will have his Valen
tine display in court house this morn
ing with a bunch of boys, who on
St. Val’s night, recklessly wrecked
and ruined private property out in
the residence districts of Americus.
The announcement yesterday
morning of the marriage on the eve
ning previous of Eula Bagwell and
Ernest Logan, came as a pleasing
surprise to the many friends of the
young couple here, but the congrat
ulatiions were none the less numer
ous and sincere for that. The rites
were solemnized by Rev. O. B. Chest
er of the Methodist church here and
Farm Loans
%
Farm Loans in Any Amount Promptly Nego-
Hated and Closed.
T. O. MARSHALL
if>- *8 PLANTERS RANK BLDG. AMERICUS. GEORGIA
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
By ALBERT APPLE.
_ New Orleans lost 43 per cent,
Kansas City 38, St. Louis 27, Boston!
26, New York 15, Detroit 10, Chi
cago 10, Baltimore 7. Pittburg’s
clearings gained 10 per cent. Phila
delphia gained 4 per cent. San Fran
ciso broke about even.
But bank clearings merely show
credit conditions. Bills are hard to
I collect, even from large companies,
l most business men find.
Less Speculation.
Number of stocks traded on New
York Stock Exchange during past
week was 60 per cent less than same
week 1920.
The 25 leading industrials, averag
ing the yveek, gained over one point.
Total bond sales were a fifth less
than year ago.
Many Lines—Briefly.
Railroads report 323,000 surplus
freight cars. January loadings av
eraged 14 per cent less, in numbers, i
than year aog.
Soft coal production a fifth less 1
than a year ago.
January building, country over, 11 j
per cent more than December.
Flour milled so far this season one-!
fourth less than year ago.
Banks are curtailing credits to far- j
mers.
Huge shipments of wool arriving |
in United States from abroad—antic-!
paring the tariff.
New England shoe factories run-1
ning at three-fourths ‘capacity.
“I pray not that Thou shouldest
take them out of the world, but that
Thou shouldest keep them from the
evil that is in the world.”
That was the program of Jesus.
His apostle Paul had this idea:
“Be not overcome of evil, but
overcome evil with good.”
That is the program of being in
the and not being dominated
by its evil influences, but of using
every opportunity for good. And
that is the program of the man in
the House by >the Side of the
Road:
“Let me live in a house by the sid<>
of the road,
Where the race of men go by,
The men who are good and the men
who are bad.
As good and as bad as I.
I will not sit in the scorner’s seat,
Nor hurl the cynic’s ban—
Let me live in a house by the side of
the road, -
And be a friend to man.”
It is possible for us to wall our
selves in with a spirit of complacency,
and let the toiling world go by.
It is possible to find our home in
some remote habitation where the
pain and hunger of the world shall
not greatly disturb us.
But it is better to live beside the
highway of toil, in a house with an
open door, and be a friend to man.
witnessed by a few invited friends
of the couple.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(Monday morning, no paper.)
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
From the Times, Wednesday, Feb
ruary 18, 1891.)
A parlor entertainment will be
given at the residence of Mr. Theron
N. K'awkes this evening which the
public is cordially and earnestly in
vited to attend.
The mud ran in a buggy which
was passing along Jackson street
yes'terday afternoon, while a man
bogged up at the corner of Cotton
avenue and Forsyth street and had
to be prized out.
The stone trimming was put on
the first new story of the city hall
yesterday and the brick work on the
second story was commenced.
Col. Zera A. Littlejohn has return
ed to Cordele after spending several
days here.
Hon. Happy Jack Cranston, Esq.,
is back from DeSoto where he went
to attend to important business.
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Pass from Right to left—
Cbnfessionsof a Bride
iO a /BY IJUC/MCIK
THE BOOK OF MARTHA.
The Disturbing Third Person.
Ann’s impulsive kindness cause!)
the pitiful old creature on the bed
to give her a critical “once over”
and to ask:
“Which Lorimer is youv husband?"
“Jim!” Ann proudly replied.
“The handsome aviator?”
Ann nodded.
“He’s an invalid—l real t in a
paper.” Then after a pause, “Little
girl you ought to be at home this
minute taking care of him instead of
fooling around me. What are you do
ing here when he needs you? And
how'on earth did you get into jail?”
Ann explained briefly that she was
seeking atmosphere for a drama she
was about to write.
“Silly girl! Silly girl! You don’t
know you own heart, child! I’ll bet
there’s a man, not your husband,
somewhere in the back of your head,
making you act like a little fool!”
Ann did not recoil; she merely
grimaced in her monkey fashion and
pulled apart the sections of Jui
orange, handing them to Madeline,
one by one.
The old woman paidTio further at
tention to me. I did not interest her
in the least. I suppose that is tho
usual penalty the good pay for their
virtue. One i 3 simply overlooked if
one is normal. But the abnormal, like
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Ann, make a hit. Madeline perceived
what I knew well that little Ann
Lorimer belonged to the destructive
half of her sex. And she dared to
say to Ann what I had only dared to
think about her. I could have ap
plauded Madeline, but she needed
no encouragement.
“Now when I’m about to die, life
gets plain, some ways,” Madeline
Marche rambled on, with many paus
es between her words. “Mrs. Jim
Lorimer, quit your flirting! You're
cheating yourself, as well as your
man! Love is a farce—or love is not
—just as you make it, my dear!”
I heard all that she said, although
I appeared to be watching the two
little girls who were playing with
their dolls in the yard next to
the hospital.
Madeline’s voice had fallen to a
whisper when she spoke again:
‘Once I thought that I was drink
ing deep of life because 1 loved a
man who lied to his wife for my
sake. I was vain because I ruled hint
—another woman’s husband! After
awhile I found that his love for me
was no more sincere than his love
for her! He lied to both of us! I wa.-.
proud and I left him. He cried, I re
member! The next man who loved
me lied to his fiancee—for my sake:
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1921.
It was all the Same. They were all
the same—the men who have made
love to me! There was no truth in
what they offered me! They thought
they were drinking deep of life
life—life! They were only drinking
deep of lies—their own lies—and
mine!”
‘Everybody cheated!” murmured
Ann.
‘No! I never cheated! I swapped
lies for lies!”.
Suddenly Ann’s voice shrilled in a
whisper:
“What’s the matter with her,
Jane? Look! What’s the matter?”
I looked—and touched the rubber
bulb which summonded the nurse
from her station in the hall.
And then I drew the white sheet
over the whiter face.
(To be continued.)
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