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Inequality of women has done much to bring about the
dreadful prevalence of divorce and unholv marriages.
—Lady Frances Balfour, British social leader.
THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
By THE'. TIMES-RECORDER CO.. (Inc.) Arthui
Lucas, Pies.; Lovelace Eve, Secy.; U. 5. Kirk.
Patrick. Treat.
Vi. S. KIRKPATRICK. Editor
LOVEEACE EVE. Business Mnagcr
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EDITORIAL.
IV/IAJOR “Jimmie” Fort, of Ameri
cus, is to be relieved by the Re
publicans of his job as federal prohi
bition djrector for Georgia. Politics
and not efficiency of sei-vice count;
not even his good war record, which
is acknowledged, will weigh an
ounce in his behalf- Senatoi Hanis,
through Whom Major Fort was
first appointed to this position, con
ferred in Washington Saturday with
Commissioner Blair, of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, a Republican re
cently appointed to this high station,
relative to Major Fort's continuance
in office. Says a message from Wash
ington :
“Commissioner Blair advised the
senator that he was aware of the
splendid, recit'd of M*jor Fort, but
that the'boScy passed upon by the bu
reau called fe.r the displacement of
all Democrats ami the appointment of
Republicans. Mr. Biair said that he
was waiting on the meeting of Geor
gia Republicans to be held in Georgia
next week, before deciding upon the
appointment of Major Fdrt’s succes
sor.
“It is likely that all pending vacan- ;
cies will be filled by Republicans af
ter the meeting and only those Dem
ocrats serving under definite com
missions will fill out their terms.”
So Major Fort is slated for the
‘‘skids.” In politics the old saw is
reversed: You cannot keep a good
man up.
¥ *
JJROOKS county is experiencing
one kind of mob violence the
Times-Recorder heartily approves. A
band of long-suffering wives for the
second time have taken the law into
their own hands and destroyed an il
licit still that has been bringing want,
woe and misery into their homes. A
Moultrie report telling of the second
still burning, says:
‘.‘The first still was set on fire sev
eral days ago; but it seems that it
was only a short time before an
other was set up to take its place.
Men of the community, or rather
some of them, it is reported, began
drinking again and neglecting both
their families and their work. The
woman who suggested that the first
still be burned called another meet
ing. When the ‘Carrie Nations’ got
together another fire was decided
upon.
“Following the burning of the sec
ond still the women issued a state
ment saying that all ‘stump liquor’
outfits that are established hereafter
in ,that section will be similarly dealt
with."
¥ ¥ ¥
COME persons will continue to in-
• sist that women are getting out
side their proper place when they be
gin activities beyond the confines of
their homes, and that in these cases
they were mixing in something that
was none of their business. But as
we see it, it WAS their business
VERY MUCHLY; it affected their
a homes and they made it thqii- busi
ness.
Women haven’t, much interests in
politics and the ballot when no issue
involving morality or the welfare of
their homes and those in them are
concerned. Hut when these issues ap
pear women' bestir themselves. And
then it is, too, that the politicians
take cover.
More power to- the Carrie Nations
of Brooks county. This country needs
more of them.
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The cost of rehabilitating a dis
; abled.war veteran so far has aver
aged $45,000 for each man, Con
gressman Robinson charges.
This asinine mismanagement is one
reason you Sumter county people
have to pay such big taxes.
Why not give that $45,000 in cash
to the disabled soldier? On the av
erage, he has enough brains to take
it and rehabilitate a dozen in addi
tion to Jnmself. Soldiers, you know,
are not politicians.
’VOU now can mail a letter in New
York and the air mail, with good
luck, cap deliver it to San Francisco
in less, than 50 hours.
Old-timers in Americus chn recall
excitement, of December, 1860,
Avhenj-Ji--- Paijy Ex-
DR. BARTON’S
DAILY LETTER
RIS ING.
BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON.
Yes, it is old-fashioned advice,
' know, but 1 believe it is good—tha
in favor of daily rising.
r “Early to bed and early to rise
i Makes a man healthy, wealthy am
wise.”
1 am not sure about the wealth
but I am certain about the healtl
■ and the opportunity to learn.
An hour in the morning before the
telephone begins to ring, is worth
three hours in the middle of the day
when interruptions are constant, and
is worth two hours of night studj,
when the brain is fagged.
Let me assume that there is some
study in which you would like to be
come proficient, but which your daily
task affords no time for you to pur
sue.
You would like to take a corres
pondence course in your kind of
work.
Need the Sleep
Or you would like to make a study
of English poetry, or of ( hinese
Metaphysics, or of Sanskrit, or of
Political Economy.
But you cannot do it. \ou are held
by your will.
Rise an hour earlier, and do it
while your mind is fresh.
But you need the sleep?
Cut out the last hour at the mov
ies, or the last hour of yawning, use
less gossip, or of troubled and inef
fective work
Actual Rest Counts
But it is not certain that you need
the extra hour of sleep.
If you out in your night resting,
you can spend an hour less in bed,
and still get more real sleep than
many men now get.
It is not the number of hours you
spend between the ‘blankets that
count, but the actual rest and relax
ation and 'reinvigoration.
I do not favor too short a night.
Mr. Edison may get on with four
hours’ sleep, but 1 recommend more.
I think the first rule for success in
life is to get up in the morning and
go after it.
OBSERVATIONS!
Rents can be hammered down.
I A self-made woman conceals : t.
We hope the Irish peace includes
America.
No prisoner has the courage of his
conviction.
Taxes are the only silver linings
to war clouds.
You can’t convince an old man the
good die young.
Some passengers think the ticket
agent sold them the train.
Always put off until tomorrow
those you would do today.
Hot weather makes a fat man fal
ter and a thin man thinner.
Some divorce suits that are being
pressed should have been cleaned.
Chicago is fighting over short
dresses. Possibly to see them. (Not
the dresses.)
Only five months until Christmas
and the family is already spending
father’s bonus.
Raaio will be a complete success
when we control Ameri an officials
abroad by wireless.
Lasker is trying to steer the fleet
clear of politics. That’s one way to
get it into open water.
At last it has been discovered that
the woman who spent $5,000,000 in
Paris made it on hotels.
The Paris water supply is contam
niated; but you don’t hear of any
American tourists dying.
“East is East and West is West”
—and if Harding deletes the rest of
the quotation we’ll be better off.
Holding the Disarmament Council
on Armistice Day will give future
taxpayers a double right to cele
brate.
If we’d lost the war we’d be pay
ing an indemnity to Germany; we
won it, so we’re paying an indemnity
to the railroads.
press carried President Buchanan’s j
last message to Congress from Wash
ington to San Francisco in eight days
and two hours.
What’ll they have in the year
2000 that’ll make 1921 air mail ser
vice seem as slow as the Pony Ex
press seems today?
» ♦ »
business man says:
“It’s just 20 years since the fam
ous Northern Pacific corner in Wall
Street. At times, that day, the tape
was 30 minutes behind. U. S. Steel
plunged from 47 down to 24 so fast
it took, your breath. When the stock
market worries you, just think of the
speculators of 1900. Or get grandpa
to tell you about Black Friday of
1873. It’ll cheer you up."
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EDITORIAL AND FEATURE* PAGE
68 —I Click in Vain.
“I don't know what's the matter
with that child," Dot said to me as
I I stepped into the hall that eve
i ning.
‘ls anything wrong?” I asked
quickly. *
“No, I don't guess so, but he
wouldn’t eat a b:te of his supper.
I’ve just put him to bed. and he look
' ed so sleepy and cross you d better
I not go in to say goodnight.
“Great Scott! I hope he isn’t go
ing to be sick again. He s just get
ting over one illness.
“I don’t really think theue’s any
thing the matter with him. I sup
pose he didn't feel like eating; we
all get that way once in a while. I
really don’t know whether I ought to
go out tonight or not.”
“Oh, go ahead and have a good
time; there’s nothing to worry about,”
I assured my wife, but I felt like a
hypocrite.
We hurried through our meal. Sid
had promised to put in his “rescue”
call, summoning me to a pretended
business conference, at 7 o’clock.
When that time came and I did
not hear from him I began to get a
trifle uneasy, but I was not really
worried, as there still was plenty
of time for him to telephone me.
At 7:10 Dot went to the ’phone.-
“Do you have to call anyone
now?” 1 asked, and I am afraid my
tone was a little sharp. I didn’t
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
Monday Morning. No paper.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From The Times-Recorder, July
17-lfj- 1901.)
Continued improvement is reported
in the condition of Col. S. H. Haw
kins. who has been confined to his
home for more than two months, the
result of a stroke of paralysis.
The Times-Recorder is in receipt
of a letter from the committee of
veterans of Stewart county wherein
it is' stated that on account of the
prevalence of scarlet fever in and
around Lumpkin, the Stewart County
Camp of Confederate Veterans, to
gether with the citizens of the town
held a meeting yesterday and decided
that it would be best to call in the
reunion set for Thursday, the 18th
inst.
The residents of Brooklyn Heights,
one of Americus’ prettiest suburbs,
united yesterday in their great an
nual picnic at Myrtle Springs. Half
a hundred of them went out in wa
gons and enjoyed the day.
Mr. Emmett Clements, accompan
ied by his devoted mother, summoned
recently to his bedside here, was car
ried to Buena Vista yesterday, there
to be nursed back to health in his
own beautiful home. He has been
very ill here with typhoid fever, and
his removal home yesterday was
deemed advisable.
Mr. J. O. McArthur is in the mar
ket for a residence if he can find one
to suit. Homes are scarce in Ameri
cus, however.
Messrs. Otto and Roland Harper
are in Americus on a visit to friends.
They bring the intelligence that their
father. Prof. William Harner, has re
cently been elected president of a
college in New York City.
Again yesterday physicians gave
out the gratifying information that
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Confessions Os a Husband!
THE MANS SIDE OF MARRIED LIFE
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
’ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. '
want the line to be busy when Sid
tried to get me.
“Why, yes,” she responded even
ly. “f want to know just when
Edith and George are coming, so I’ll
be ready right away. The recital be
gins at 8:15.”
“Oh, all right. But don’t take any
longer than you can help.”
“Do you want to use the ’pTione?”
“No, but someone might be try
ing to get us.”
“Do you expect any call?”
“Oh, nothing in particular, but
Danielson, you know he’s the firm’s
attorney, said he might call me to
night. There’s some pretty impor
tant things to clear up before I go.”
“I do hope he won’t telephone you
tonight.”
“Hope so too, but I have to be rea
sonable about these things. 1 like
the firm and I don’t want any un
pleasantness just before I leave.”
“What is the matter with this tele
phone?” Dot exclaimed in dusgust.
She had been jangling the receiver
for a few minutes without getting
any response.
“You’ve probably made the tele
phone girl angry and she won’t an
swer,” I told her. “Hang up the re
ceiver for a few moments and try
again.” ‘
She did so, but without result.
Then 1 tried. The only thing 1
could hear was my own clicking.
(To be continued.)
(Copyright, 1921.)
Officer Albritton is holding his own,
and evidences of his improvement
continue.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From The Times-Recorder, July
17-18, 1891.)
Mr. F. A. Livingston, who lives in
the 28th district, was in the city to
day and told how two of his fine hogs
had been bitten by a five-foot rat
tler which his son discovered in the
pen. Whisky was administered to
the animals, but death ensued, not
withstanding heroic efforts to save
them.
Today the annual meeting of the
Schley County Sunday School As
sociation convenes in Ellaville.
A large crowd attended the alli
ance barbecue and picnib at the
Plains yesterday, and all report an
enjoyable day.
Americus Knights of Pythias yes
terday had a distmgutshj&d visitor in
the person of Grand Prelate Hart, of
Augusta.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Miller are back
from a trip to Lookiut Mountain.
Cant. H. M. Stokes’ many friends
will be sorry to know that he is laid
ur> by sickness. He will go to Tybee
this week.
The crops in some portions of
Sumter county are probably not as
bad as they are reported.
The next annual convention of
the clerks and sheriffs of Georgia
will be called to order in Americus
the second Wednesday of July. 1892.
Mr. C. R. Whitley and Mr. Dorsey
Butler will leave on a trip to Balti
more. New York, Coney Island and
other points of interest north.
Col. B. P .Hollis returned yesterday
from a trip to Atlanta.
Mrs. James Dodson left yesterday
to make an extended visit to friends
and relatives in the northern portion
of the state.
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SOMEBODY’S baby was born in a slum,
Raised in the gutter with riff-raff and scum,
Starved in his body and starved in his mind,
<-* i, r-> Shut out from suit shine and trees and the
stars.
Cheated of Youth —do you wonder we find
L Somebody’s baby behind prison bars,
' Slinking and sly like a rat from the sewers?
X'Yq.-’i ? Somebody’s baby—it might have been yours!
SOMEBODY’S baby is sickly and ill,
' JT’Lv-yA) Losing his youth in the. shop or the mill,
L / .’XXL . Stunted and rickety, listless and white,
11-Yv» • Robbed of his birthright of laughter and
i S/ Ky I play;
Wasted as though by a withering blight,
E \ SXX' Somebody’s baby is fading away.
Swiftly they die while this evil endures—
I 'l Somebody’s baby—it might have been yours!
ISN’T your baby worth saving from crime? •
gX * Saving from toil till he’s come to his prime?
ffMl'i' I sn t your a Xv worth sunshine and air?
1 \ i<J \ “Somebody’s baby” should have the same
r ! H-'TXu “Somebody’s baby” should find the world fair,
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■ M !-/ Give him a chance with the dreamers and
1 31 I A doers—
k j “Somebody’s baby”—who might have been
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