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The time has come for the communists to exploit the
agony of the bourgeoisie and thus increase their influence
over the workers.—Leon Trotzky, Bolshevist minister of
war.
THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
By THE. TIMES.RECORDER CO.. (Inc.) Arthn
Lucas, Ttrs.; Lovelace Eve, Scc'y.; W. S. Kirk
Patrick. Treat.
U. S. KIRKPATRICK Editor
LOVELACE Businc 3 Mnager
I veniog dail?; except Sunday ; (Thursda*
Oft-tai orgau fer- t'.ity of Americus, Sumle
County. Railroad Commiaaion of Georpia for Thtn
Congre?.-:on..| District. U. 5. Court, boutheru Dis
lri<t of Gcurgia.-
rxilv and Sunday by mail. |t» p*r year in ad
vance; by earner. 15c per .Meek, 65c per month
>7.80 per year. Weekh, $1.50 per year 111 advance
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Entered an bc* ond claa* matter at the postoffice at
Americus. Georgia, according to the Act of Congress.
National Advertising Representative*, FROST,
LANDIS & KUHN. Brunswick Bldg., New lork;
Peoples' <;■•<* Bftlg., Chicago.
ED IT O RIA L .
WHILE the Georgia legislature
thus far has done little but fur
nish material for just criticism, the
action of the house highways com
mittee in promptly reaching an ad
verse report on all the bills before
it seeking to di-runt the present state
highway department and road build
ing program is to be commended.
But the danger is not past. Other
bills of similar purpose are pending
before Agricultural Committee No. 2
of the house. It is to be hoped that
this committee will prove as far-see
ing and interested in the welfare of
the state as a whole as the highways
committee, and disapprove the ruin
ous highway measures before it.
* * »
of the strangest things in na
ture —something that determines
whether you are to be a success or a
failure—is reported by a man just
back from a fishing trip in Canada.
He saw a school of thousands of
baby salmon trout, about half as long
as pins, swimming in military, forma
tion, following a leader.
“That leader looked just like all
the rest,” says the fisherman. “What
made him take charge of all the
others? And what made the others
follow him as nqturally as the rear
wheels of a jitney follow the front
wheel?”
If you can fathom that problem,
you have the secret of success—and
the whole, science of government.
The fisherman took a minnow net
and caught the trout leader. Im
mediately another baby trout took
the leader's place and the school
swam on without an instant’s pause.
Is that just instinct? Human be
ings do (hi 1 same.
v- :f.
IN Chicago- 100 unemployed ne
-1 groes thought they’d found away
to escape rent. Along the tracks of
the Illinois Central railroad, they
built a dugoutj like those back of the
lines in France during the war.
The Aihoad is evicting them.
The important news in the incident
is that those 100 men had found it
impossible to live together without
establishing a well organized govern
ment. They had th *ir own city coun
cil, a mayor, a judge, a police force
and a quartermaster’s department.
You can’t get away from this thing
called government.
If you were shipwrecked on a
South Sea island with : two friends,
if wouldn’t be 10 minutes until one
of you three would become ruler—
step Forward as leadar, begin to
give orders and take the initiative in
hunting food, building shelter and
selecting a location for a beacon fire
to attract passing ships.
* ¥ *
117 1LD geese flv in wedge forma
tion. Shoot their leader and the
formation will close up without stop
ping, a new leader taking the for
mer’s place.
Shoot the leader of wild ducks and
the flock is confused. They head for
the nearest marsh, and, after much
quacking, soar up again with a new
leader. Do they elect him? Indians
say, yes.
Even the timber wolves, hermits
by nature, run in packs during the
winter, a combination for war.
for acquiring food.
In parts of China, men live with
out religion.
Tn ancient Sparta, they lived with
out the family institution.
But wherever men congregate, that
organization called government is in
evitable. It’s a natural law—to have
a leader.
# #
The end of a perfect day, these
days, is a cool night.
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Ex-President Wilson i§ writing a,
. book. Bet it begins, “May I Not-—”
;•■ * * #
O»e of the eternal mysteries is
• bow yopr neighbor can afford a bet;
ter car.
••• r * *
hx-Kairer Bill wears his Uniform
oply at dinner. fvjaybe he attacks'
'feis J''s,d. . . I
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“Three hundred bandits captured,”
says a headline. Don’t cheer; it hap
pened in ■-Egypt.
I
A Toronto professor says he has
a fluid that will make a man tell
all his secrets. So had we onee!
I :
THE FARABLE ABOUT SURE
THINGS.
1 There came unto me a man who
inquired of mo, say. Ha. . thou a lit
tle money to invert? For I should
like to let thee in on tnc Groun 1
Floor. I have Inside Information
upon a Sure Thing.
And he told me of a Corporation
whose stock was selling Very Low,
because the Management were Bear
ing the Market that they might
themselves buy a Controlling Interest
in it; and how they intended to Bull
the stock a little later, and make
it Very Valuable, so that he who
bought now would make a Nice Lit
tle Roll.
And I said, If that be the little
game of the Management, 1 will let
them play it.
1 have long since ceased trying to
beat men at their own game.
For I have stood and watched the
nimble Pea as it made its unabstru
sive way from one ShfM to another,
and 1 have considered how many
1 should have guessed wrong if 1 !
had guessed at ail.
And he said, Nay, this is no Shell-
Game, but a Sure Thing.
And 1 said, There are several men
Playing Croquet at the Poor house,
and ethers who have Graduated from
Business and. are now Pitching
Horse Shoes at the County Farm,
who owe their present relief from
the presence of the Madding Crowd
to the generosity of friends who let
' ■■rm in on the Gi u’nd Floor of some
Sure Thing.
And 1 said, Listen to me, and un
dm-’..ml my position, whether thou
doest likewise or no. Ido not Gam
ble. Ido not Speculate. I deal with
a very few Sure Things, and these
are among them:
A Dollar Containeth One Hundred
Cents, and no More. It is easier to
borrow an Hund.Sd Dollars, than it
is to pay back an Hundred and Six.
The best way to get Money is to
Earn it, and the best way to increase
Money is to spend less than ope
earnet h.
And he said, Those are Old Fogy
Rules, and they’ll never get thee far
up the Ladder of Finance.
And I said, Those rules and t. few
other Sure Things have kept me thus
far with a safe distance between my
door and the Wolf, and I have reo:
and carfare and a meal ticket for
some days in advance.
And that will still be true of me
when those who tru. t in the Inside
1
are playing checker:: somewhere in
an Old Men’s Home for those who
have Seen Better Days.
WILLIAM E. BARTON.
OBSERVATIONS
Raising railroad rates has razed
business.
A hen in the city is worth two in
the country.
A man out of work regards any job
at; a vacation.
The nation that has caused most
wars is imagi-nation.
The trouble with the prodigal sun
in it returns too often.
Often “strictly fir. h eggs’’ are not
fre h; they’re impudent.
Lenin’s real name is “Illitch.” |
Russia should scratch him.
The film trust seems to have been •
pulling a few extra illusions.
A wife’s permanent wave is fine;
but we need a permanent wife wave.
Disarmament will solve the prob
lem of making a round world square. !
Dr. Adler says one out of ten is
feeble minded.. All ten pity the poor
fellow.
•
A girl worries more about bobbed
hair showing her ears than bobbed
skirts showing her knees.
They caught more before prohibi
tion because the fishermap watched
his hook with baited breath.
The British are asking Ambassador
Harvey’s advice on the Jap question.
So they’ll know what not to do.
When a woman see a man wilt his
collar discussing her clothes she just
laughs up where her sleeve used to
be.
Many go to art galleries to see
fine paintings. Other men stand on
the street corner and watch them
pass. ’ 1
Perhaps we would get along better
if we had more appropriations for
construction and less for destruc
tion.
Ohio’s governor releases a manu
facturer from prison because con
finement is interfering with hjs busi
ness. This shows the advantage <rf
a life septence->-ho business to worry
about.
Income and excels profits taxes
;'•collected, during thje last fiscal year
J a‘. erased JJ37 fort ■very -.man. woman
land child’in fhe-eotinfry. 4? dime a
’I day is the price of victory.
The dollars compared with pre-war
value, is worth 65 cents against 37
5 cents at the peak of high prices,, says
1' Department of Labor. Yes, and the
ore it rises, the fewer you get. •
EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Time- Recorder, July
'l6, 1901).
! A church blown down, several
Ismail lieu e... upset, trees and fences
1 leveled and a barn burned by light
ning was the ; ummary made yester-
I day of the storm that swept Ameri-
J <-us ami vicinity Sunday morning,
i doing demag- over an area of twenty
| mile . Lightning stru- k a bain on the
1 Fletcher Gi’fiin place, burning it
with .ill contents es oats, hay corn
and other feed stuffs.
Mi- 1 ilia Johnson leave:'- tomor
row for Milledgeville, where she will
spend some time plea-antly with her
cousin, Mis. M. R. Lamar.
Ti « i . ul: i annual mad dog panic
broke loose in Americus yesterday
morning when an old dog in a yard
on Taylor street was declared “mad.”
The animal may or may not have
been rnad, but the verd.c. was against
him and his career was ended.
• apt. John A. Sibley returned to
Americus yesterday from a trip into
the southern part Os Sumter, where
he secured a contract for the plac
ing of a Lowery round bale cotton
compress.
The friends of Miss Clyde Collins
and Mr. Joseph Howard were given a
pleasant surprise yesterday morning
in the announcement of their mar-,
riage the evening previous.
Th« pay checks lor the Seaboard
Railway forces employed at the Am- :
erieus shops and in other depart
ments of service here were distribut
ed yesterday, covering payment for i
June work. As so many of the shops
men have been on strike here for ■
two months the total amount paid;
out in Americus was considerably
below the average.
The many friends of Miss Ruba;
Ray will be pleased to learn of some ,'
improvement in her condition, though i
she is still ill with fever.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder, July {
16, 1891).
Extensive preparations are being {
made for the picnic and outing which i
the Columbus branch of the United
Trainmen will have at Leeton Park i
July 22. A large crowd will be here ‘
that day, and a grand time is antic
ipated. |
A substantial brick sidewalk is
being put down in front of i’. L. 1
Holt’s building cif Lamar street.'
This will be an improvement on the
■old walk. There are many other
places in Americus which need these I
walks.
An iron and plate glass front is be
ing put in the building to be occu
pied by the Americus Jewelry com
pany. This company will open up
for business in about a month, now.
Today there will be an alliance
meeting and barbecue at Plains.
Quite a party from Americus will go
out.
Confessions Os a Husband!
THE MAN’S SIDE OF MARRIED LIFE
66 —A Real Surprise.
“Gucis what!”
“I refuse.”
“Guess what I’m going to do Wed- i
lie. day night. ’
It was the first time >n a long i
while that 1 had seen Dot really her
self, anil i was delighted. So !■
guessed any number of things, but, i
of coui.e, not the rig -t one.
“1 m going to a violin recital.”
'“Realty?” •
“And with another man.”
“It’s good of you to warn me.'
“Anil you’re going to stay home
and take care of Bobbie.”
“1 11 be glad to do that.”
"But you won’t be lonesome.” ;
“Is that so? Have you looked iut
for me, also?”
Dot nodded. “Guess who’s going
to keep you company?”
I began with David and Goliath
and was going through all the h ■
roes of antiquity w een Dot interrupt-1
ed me:
“Oh, you're no good at all as a
guesser. George is going to take me
to hear Strabmoff—it’s his last re
cital in a long time and Edith I
coming here to keep you company.”;
“Whose bright idea is this?” 1
demanded.
“Partly mine and partly hers.'
George likes music, but you and she '
don’t. Anyway, you can t take me
to hear Strabinofi because we
haven't any girl and we can't leave
Bobbie alone. So we’ve arringed it
this way and everybody's happy."
I was very far from being happy,
but 1 could not say so. Instead, 1 >
tried another tack. -j
“But, dear, it v/ill probably be a j
very hot nighi, and you won’t feel a !
bit like sitting indoors listening to
some foreign fiddler—”
“Foreign fiddler! That’s a stupid
way to talk about —”
“Ail right, I retract the ‘foreign
fiddler.’ But why should you take a
notion to go >o a recital now? And
why do you want to leave me at
home like this?”
“You didn’t object at first—why,
you didn’t say a word against -it un
. til 1 said 1 was going with George,
j Honestly, are you silly enough to be
i jealous of him. Look me in the eye.”
I did so. She went on: ,
“Now is you say you’re jealous of
i him, I’ll make some excuse to Edith
■ and call the engagement of, though
1 haven't been cut a night since
i Bobbi# became
bit Jealous of George J won’ t-feiw
i see ’him again.”
■ The easiest way out of the situa- 1
, tion’wjuki have been to lie and say!
tha* 1 w«>.-. jmlous. It Mis-a 'fact
that a: ‘‘tu;, time* it seeir
I me But with-pot looking
at me that way Lhad’-t., tel! Ihq
J truth, and the truth was that 1 had
: not the slightest grounds
i and that I knew it.
i “No, I’m not jealous,” I said. “If
i I .
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
• THE AMERICUS TtMES-RECORUER.
I It was a thirsty crowd which was
jin Americus Tuesday. Oak Hall sold
{ nineteen kegs of Macon beer, besides
I other things, and that doesn’t make
any count at all for the other places
in the city, all of which did a big
-! business.
■; During the session of Wilcox ccrun-
I ty court last week, Col. E. H. Cults,
'{of Americus, presided in a case in
which Judge Brown was disqualified,
;land acquitted himself with credit.
Mr. George J. Winkler has again
: gone in the butcher business, with
Mr. W. B. Mayo, a will be seen from
i their advertisemen.. He has a reputa
' j lion of making the best sausage of
j all kinds in the country.
Mr. James 11. Wheeler, who went
; to Atlanta to attend Moore’s Busi
ness college, arrived at home last
'! night to lay up until one of his arms
; which is broken can mend. His arm
. was hurt while he was playinb base
i ball. a
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder, July
; 16, i9ii.)
Manager Ford and the members of
the baseball team were the recipients
of typical old-fa:hioned hospitality
yesterday at the hands of Tommy
Hooks, the sterling backstop of the
{ local pine, who kept open house all
• day at h: country home and wel
comed his team-mates with the warm
| est cordiality.
To St.-Simon’s-by-the-Sea instead
of Rose-Dhu-by-Savannah the Amer
; icus military is going, to the great
delight of the soldier boys who didn’t
want any rose-dew in tneirs.
The many Americus friends of Mr.
Will C. Glover will be interested in
j trie announcement of his marriage
: on Wednesday, next,'9th, to Miss
Edna Todd, of California, Mo., a
i charming member of the social set
of that little city. They will visit
Am. ricus before going to.- their home
! in Shreveport, where Mr. Glover has
I for several years conducted a mer-
I eanTle business.
On account of its delightfully in
i formal features, what was one of
the most enjoyable parties of the
i season was that given on Tuesday
{ evening by Mrs. C. R. Raymond to a
{ large number of young people at her
{ home near the city.
At the First Methodist church the
1 pastor, Rev. O. B. Chester, will con
' tinue today h;s series of special ser
: mons.
Mrs. Z. A. Littlejohn and son, Wil
i liapi Littlejohn, have gone to Nachoo
chce Valley, where they will spend
the summer.
Representative E. A. Nesbit came
down from the capital yesterday to.
rest for a day in the bosom of a
-1 admiring constituency.
Miss Minnie Harper, of Atlanta,
the guest of Mrs. Will Dudley, for
the week, left yesterday .to visit
I friends in Richland.
' you want to go to the recital with
' him, I don’t object.”
I had no intention of permitting
! myself to be cooped up with Edith
while George took my wife to a violin
recital, it seemed a thoroughly stu-
I pid arrangement with absolutely
nothing to commend it except tine, it
was very “modern” which was no
attraction in my eyes.
Vainly I had attempted to per
uadc Dot of this, without going too
much into the details of my objec
tion. So I made -up my mind, when
1 found it impossible to dissuade 1 er,
to resort so deception. z
I Sid promised to call me up that
evening and, pretending to be Mr.
Danielson, the firm’s lawyer, insist
on seeing me upon a matter of I usi
ness.
This would give me the excuse I
needed to get away. George could
take Det to the concert as they had
planned and Edith couhl wait at out
house until they returned.
Os course, 1 did not tell Sid why 1
i wanted to get away that night; he
; had the idea I wanted to see a prize-
I fight.
i With my plans already made 1
I awaited the evening without the .least
| bit of worry, for I had provided a
I certain means of escape.
So when 1 met Edith that afler
' noon 1 joked with her about the af
fair as though 1 really intended for
■ it to go through according to the
j schedule that she and my wife han
I worked out.
“1 suppose you’ll be delighted to
have my company this evening,” she
said to me when 1 encountered her
on the street.
“Delighted hardly expresses it,” 1
replied. “I have reached the point
where I am not surprised at any
good fortune that befalls me. Even
to meet you on the street like this,
so far from you,” customary—”
“Oh, 1 dropped in to see George
for a moment —I thought that only
fair to him, despite the fact that he
is going to desert me this evening.
Its all very twentieth century, ■ isn't
it?”
“Twenty-first century,” 1 correct
ed. "What does George think of the
arrangement?”
“Do you know, I find it absolutely
impossible to shock him any more.
But Dot tells - me you made a little
fuss cvyhen she informed you of our
plans for the evening. 1 don’t think
that w: very flattering.” ’
"1 didn’t believe it was fair to keep
I you at home to 4ake care of Bobb'ie
while Dot ami GbLrge went to th;;-.
I recjtal.” •
■ ./‘I jveuiii rather do. • ’
■ git through an .evening of- music—
•even .be. with .ypp.” " ,
“Thank you, Dot’ and George will
cpirie back- nt time to rescue yo.u
i from utter bore’doril.”
■ • "If the wolsa comes to the worst
HIE OLD HOME TOWN By Stanley
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N HAY LOADERS-WRINGERS tHJ= k
■ p p. J CLOVES -jewelry-crocker-v
Hfca g w—gwSJ EiflW
THE BOYS WHO SHAVED THEIR HEAPS
stanlSX TO BEAT THE SUMMED- HEAT, NOW
ARE UP AGAINST THE FLY
15erton’ braleyS Daily Poem
GOME ads you see of clothing
Contain a type of sap
Who fills my soul with loathing—•
I long, to wreck his map.
Then there’s the auto model
With vague and vacuous face,
And nothing in his noodle
Except some vacant space.
’T’HE bozos who are shown in
* Men’s hose and underwear,
Cause me to writhe and groan in
My anger and despair,
But these are noble creatures
With ‘brains and sense in scads,
Compared to those whose features
Appear in collar ads!
T pM I,v
$ " * .A/***’*- ..r-X.
1 can play solitaire. Or should I
bring some knitting with me?”
“Dot may have some socks that
you can dam, if you find it so dif
ficult to pass the time.”
“That’; a fine suggestion; I will
speak to her about it tonight.”'
(To Be Continued).
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THOS. L. BELL,
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| AM not up in lore on
* The advertising trade,
But why is such a moron
Extensively displayed?
Maybe I’m wrong to holler
But I do not see why
The ad that boosts a collar
Can’t show a ‘reg’lar guy’!
artists, heeds our wishes,”
We cry with pain intense,
“Stop drawing these poor fishes
Without a trace of sense;
You need the nimble dollar
But oh, please let ns scan
Some ad that shows a collar
Upon a grown-up man!”
Turner Electric Co.
Reduced Prices on House
' Wiring and Fixtures
We are ready. Are you? Call
us for an estimate-
Phone 124.
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C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashier JOE M. BRYAN. Asst. Cashier.
(Incorporated
THE Planters Bank of Americus
The Bank With a Surplus
Resources Over $1,700,000
Why spend it all. or
leave it stored in boxes
about your home or store,
subject to robbery?
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BANK OF COMMERCE
This Bank does a general Banking Busi
ness on safe Banking Principles.
Your account with us will prove advantage
ous to you in many ways.
WE PAY 4% INTEREST ON TIME
DEPOSITS.
Your business solicited. , J . '
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SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921.
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' teeth —but not for dogs of war.
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