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YjOU AND I
SHOULD ALWAYS REMEM
BER “A COWARD DIES A <
THOUSAND DEATHS.’’
THE weakest of fears, if brooded
over and thought upon, will be
come a giant. The end is disaster.
A Brooklyn woman kills herself
L ca u?e afraid of lightning To many
i n Americus this seems strange. Yet
ptrhap some of us have fears that
would have seemed as strange to her.
Banish fear from your mind when
it first conies; later it may become
jtur master.
’ And always remember, a coward
dies a thousand deaths, a brave man
scarcely one.”
IMAGINATION
frightened citizen of Muskogee
Oj-'i., telephoned police that he saw
■big black bear” in a cemetery.
Police advis’d hint to take another
look He did so, and deci led that the
tear” wa. a h’.rgr, shaggy dog.
This is a good illustration of how
distorts sight. Judges
“.(I lawyers are frnv'iar with such
cases,‘book twice before you run.
REI’U l ATJO N
Chicago police went only in squads
and heavily armed when they sought
•■Terrible Tommy O’Connor, wanted
ir collection with f. icr murders and
many robberies.
They knew his reputation.
A B. !.<‘gg ( Pullman po.ner, didn’t,
O’Connor, waving two guns,
'fried to hold up I erg’s car near St.
Paul, the unarmed negro mixed with
him and tossed ‘‘Terrible Tommy
■off the train so vinently that the
desperado didn’t have enrugh
strength to resist arrest when the
train was stopped.
FARM POWER
The farmers are coming into their
own in Canada and i* is predicted
that in the not far distant future j
they will control the government of i
the dominion.
They already control in the prov-|
ince of Alberta and have just elected j
one of their own people premier of
the province, f
He’s an honest-to-goodness dirt
/armer, too. Began life as a farm
laborer and has worked at his trade
ever s.nce.
CONSTANTINE
King Constantine tells his soldiers
they are fighting their way to Con
stantinople to wrest St. Sophia’s,
mosque from the Mohammedan
Turks and again make a Christian
church of it.
But Constantine knows very well
that neither he nor any other Greek
king will ever occupy the throne of
the old Byzantjne emperors at Con
Jtee knows that the powers will in-
W on keeping the city that com
mands the trade routes to the east in
the hands of the weak and easily con
trolled Turkish -gw-rrtTfrcnt.
The whole Greco-Turkish war is
a giant political move on the part
of Constantine to ingratiate himself
Fyith the Greek people by attacking
their traditional foes.
Every Greek and Turkish soldier
vho has fallen in th? campaign is a
human sacrifice to Constantine's am
bit on.
LONGEVITY *
The president of the board of elec
tions in the city of New York cele
brated his 92nd birthday the other
day by doing a full day’s work.
His fellow workers say that he is,
just as spry physically and keen men
tally as he was 20 years ago. He does
not use eyeglasses and his hearing
is unimpaired. "
Regular hours, plenty of work,
plain food and moderation in use
of tobacco and liquor is this young
old man’s formula.
There is no gua.fintee that if you
follow this formula you will live to
oe 92, but it certainly will improve
your chances.
STRAIGHT TALK
Secretary Hughes has gone Secre
tary Hoover one better in backing up
the latter’s demand that Russia re
lease all American prisoners before
we help f ee( | He r starving millions.
'There can be no thought of bet
ter relations betwen American and
Russia so long a sAmericans are
held prisoners without warrant of
law or grounds for their detention.”
's the straight-from-the-shoulder way
secretary of state puts it.
Pussyfooting doesn’t seem to be in
this man Hughes’ vocabulary.
UNAVOIDABLE
A Chicago judge advocates a
course in matrimony for high school
students.
Why not?
Comparatively few of us have a
chance in after life to make use of
calculus or Greek. Rut the problem?!
us married life are escaped by few.
AN EVIL THOUGHT
loronto landlords are charging
rrospectice tenants $2 for the priv
dege of looking at apartments. And,
', ’ don’t apply the $2 .on the rent'
" *he apartment is taken, either.
Probably the only reason Ameri-I
can landlords are not doing this is
because they have not thought of it. I
' will probably strat now, only
LAc f ( . e f or looking will be five dol
■ lars instead of two.
ENVIRONMENT
A 155-pound Milwaukee lawyer
"°k four punches, right in court,
’’t a 190 pound opponent. He had
"Cen counsel for Jack Dempsey,
h v vwe ight ch a mni on.
Environment DOES count.
WEATHER.
forecast for Georgia Partly
■"'illy tonight, probably showers in
"th and central portion; Thursdav
"c.d showers and thunderstorms; not
f'Uch change in temperature.
has adopted a stand
•’d voltage for electric circuits.
f b" Baltic sea has an average of
Cne shipwreck a day.
IN THE JrJwi\_HEART OF
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 178.
TAX ARBITRATION
DEAD KING'S BABY WINS ROYAL FAMILY
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The Greek royal family has surrendered unconditionally to the tiny
child of the late King Alexander. Tire baby, whose mother was Mlle. Manos,
was born 7 months after its father died ofillness caused by a monkey’s bite.
Here is Queen Sophie, mother of the late king and wife of King Constantine,
holding her posthumous grandchild. Its mother, neither titled nor wealthy,
is no longer in disfavor and the Greek king now plans to confer titles upon
her and her child.
U.S. PRISONERS
FREED BY REDS
RIGA, August 3. (By Associated
Press.) —The American prisoners in
Russia already have ben released
from confinement, according to un
official reports at the Bolshevik le
gation press bureau here today, but
there was no word as to the num
ber released or when, how and where
they would be delivered across the
border.
10F2ACCUSH)
BLACKSLYNCHED
PETERSBURG, Va., August 3.
One of two negroes captured at Mc-
Kinney last night as the slayers of
Tingley Elmore, postmaster at To
bacco, Va., was taken from the Brun
swick county jail at Lawrenceville
early today and lynched. The other
negro was left in the jail.
McLaughlin To Trv
To Replace Wright
Times-Recorder Bureau,
Kimball House.
ATLANTA, August 3. —Solicitor-
General C. F. McLaughglin, of the
Chattahoochee circuit, has announc
ed his candidacy for congress to suc
ceed Congressman Bill Wright, ac
cording to an announcement made
by his friends in Atlanta this after
noon. The sqjjcitor was in the city
and met a large number of i the
Georgia law-makers.
Eight years ago Mr. McLaughlin
defeated George Palmer for the sol
icitor-generalship. He is a graduate
of the University of Georgia and is
well known throughout the district.
Daugherty’s First Bale
Comes In Tuesday, Too
ALBANY, August 3.—Dougherty
county’s first bale of 1921 cotton
was ginned at the Planters Oil com
pany gin in East Albany Tuesday
for W. F. Fleming, a well known far
mer of East Dougherty.
That Mr. Fleming has a good deal
of open cotton in his fields can be
.judged by the fact that the cotton
for this bale was ginned in a single
day.
Dougherty county’s first bale m
1920 was brought in by Elzie Plum
mer, a negro, and was ginned August
6, of four days later than the, first
one this year.
Hatches 9 Rattlesnakes
Each A Foot In Length
M. W. Bryant, of the Rift neigh
borhood of Northeast Lee county,
killed a snake in his yard one day
last week measuring 6 feet, with 9
rattles and a button. Mr. Usry,
father-in-law of Mr. Bryant, found a
nest of rattle snake eggs. He took
them to the house and placed them in
a box of sand and in a few days he
had 9 little rattlers nearly 12 inches
long when hatched.
Mr. Usry also killed a large rat
tlesnake on his plantation recently.
PUEBLO AGAIN
IN FLOOD PERIL
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PUEBLO, Clo., August 3. The
Arkansas river here was within three
set of the levee top today as a result
of cloudbursts yesterday in the Royal
Gorge and the hills above Canon City,
but the danger of a new flood is be
lieved passed.
Canon City and Florence, above
Pueblo, were partially flooded and
considerable property damage done.
$6,000,000 LEFT
BY DEAD CARUSO
All Nanles Pavs Mourn
ing Tribute 1 o Dead
Singer ■
NAPLES, Italy, August 3. —Enrico
Caruso, the great tenor, who died
here yesterday, according to estima
tion in newspapers left a fortune of
about thirty million lire, which at the
normal value of the lire represents
about $6,000,000.
All Naples paid tribute today to
the memory of the singer and thous
and gathered for mass or stood un
covered in the streets as the sortege
passed.
MISSOURI VOTES
SOLDIER BONUS
ST. LOUIS, August 3. —Approval
of a cash bonus for Missionaries
who served in the World War, sub
mission to a general vote of the pro
posal for a constitutional convention
and the use of automobile license fees
to pay interest on $60,000,000 in
road investment bonds, was indicated
today by incomplete unofficial re
curns from yesterday’s special elec
tion. The proposed change in the
constitution allowing women to hold
all state offices apparently is in
doubt.
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 3, 1921
CRISP LEAVES
SICK BED FOR
FARMERS’FIGHT
Battles Against Potash
Tariff Vainly Ex
poses G. O. P. Stand
BY WAALACE BASSFORD,
Formerly Private Secretary to
Speaker Clark.
WASHINGTON, August 3.—This
Republiacn congress has decided that
it is better that the farmers of the
South should pay SSOO per ton for
potash produced in Nebraska and
California, than to get French or
German potash at $75 to SBS per
top. And whether you get their
point of view depends on whether
yo uare a farmer or a potash mag
nate.
Before the war, imported potash,
scooped out of the ground in Ger
many and Alsace-Lorraine, now be
longing to France, was laid in New
York at $75 per ton of pure potash.
When the war cut of importations a
few Amreic'ans began producing it
by a chemical process from alkali
lakes in the West, and with compe
tition safely cut off they help the
truck, cotton and fruit growers for
SSOO per ton. As they never pro
duced above 90,000 tons in a year
this shortage aided them in the hold
up. From that thev fell to 30,000
tons. Testimony before the /ways
and means committee showed that
the Americans invested 25 million,
while in the first three years of op
eration government statistics show
that they harvested 48 millions from
potash alone, to say nothing of the
other chemical products sold. Now
they come to congress asking and re
ceiving a tariff tax on imported pot
ash, so that they may further rob
the American user of fertilizers.
Crisp “Shows Up” Situation.
Col. Myron M. Parker, of Wash
ington. their attorney, testified that
50 millions were invested in the
American works, but Judge Charles
R. Crisp, of Georgia, one of the
ablest Democratic members of the
ways and means committee, showed
that half of this capital was in ce
ment, sugar an id™ molases plants
which happened to produce a very
small amount of potash as a by-pro
duct. Judge Crisp came to the house
of representatives fro ma sivk bed to
make a fight against this iniquity
perpetrated under the guise of fur
nishing pap for another infant in
dustry already bloated up with the
farmers’ dollars. He showed how, if
this tax were not added, the farmers
would be in position to get potash
cheaper than ever before, as the war
had taken about half of the potash
deposits from the Germans and had
placed them in the hands of their
rivals, the French, who are already
shiuping potash to New York and
selling it at $35 despite that war
time prices are not yet reduced to
normal. The competition thus aris
ing would naturally redound to the
benefit of the consumer were it not
artificially choked by this action of
the Republican congress. Judge
Crisp’s eloquent appeal for free pot
ash fell on deaf ears—perhaps dulled
by contrubtions to the eight-million
dollar campaign fund used by the Re
publicans in the last election.
Offers the Figures
In the course of his argument
Judge Crisp gave the following fig
ures: .
“The normal consumption of pot- (
ash in the United States is about
250,000 tons. Counsel for the ad :
vocates of this duty assert that the
domestic producers can only produce
50,000 tons, leaving 200,000 tons to
be imported. A tax of 50 cents a
unit on 200,000 tons would raise
$10,000,000 in revenue to be paid by
the farmers; but this is not all they
would pay, as thev would likewise
make a donation to the domestic pro
ducers of potash of 50 cents a unit
on 50,000 tons amounting to two
and a half millions of dollars. Then
Fs one thing about Mr. Laree who
testified before the committee to be
commanded — : his frankness. He o
fers an excuse for levying this duty
that 75 per cent ot it will be paid b\
the cotton producers of the South
Atlantic states. 1 hope this comnu
tee will rise above sectionalism and
will not pass this unjust tax making
the people of my section per
cent of it, which amounts to $9,..70,-
000 per year. Georgia last year used
990,000 and odd tons of fertilizer,
and if this bill is enacted into law,
assuming that a low-grade fertilizer
is used with only two units of pot
ash to the ton, the people of Georgia
alone will contribute as a subsidy
to these domestic producers of pot
ash practically $1,000.00° annually.
H thTs bi is enacted into law the
reouired to contribute SlZ.oOU.im
tokrmi tstock speculators and a few
potash manufacturers to continue to
function.”
Sinnu Fein Seekine Now
To Line Up Ulsterites
DUBLIN. August 3.—(By Asso
ciated Press.)—The sole reason fol
delav in the Sinn Fein’s answer to the
government’s Irish peace proposal, it
is authoritatively stated, is the a
- being made to secure the ad
hesion of Ulster to the peace plan
before returning to negotiations
with Premier Lloyd George, so he
could be met by a united Ireland.
RESTORED TO CITY
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The Fat Man, the Midgets, the Bearded Lady and all the rest of the
side show performers at Coney Island held a beach party to keep cool and
to amuse the kiddies on the be_ach. Here are th'e Midgets hiding behind the
Fat Man and the Bearded Lady can’t find ’em!
HARDWICK GIVES
COMMISSIONS TO
HOLDER, HOWARD
Former Rival To High
way Board, His Mana
i ger Board’s Lawyer
Times-Recorder Bureau,
Kimball House.
Governor Thomas W. Hardwick
this afternoon issued commissions to
John N. Holder and Judge G. H.
Howard as member and attorney of
state highway commisison respec
tively. Under the law the governor
could not appoint Mr. Holder chair
man of the commisison as he desired.
The former speaker will assume
his duties next January unless Dr.
Charles N. Strahan should resign dur
ing the intervening period. S. D.
Dell, present attorney for the board,
goes out of office August 14.
Mr. Holder was a rival of Governor
Hardwick in the campaign a year ago,
withdrawing before the primary. Mr.
Howard, formerly of Columbus, was
Hardwick’s campaign manager.
The assembly is now in the midst
of its most important work. Dis
posal of the tax equalization abolish
ment bill in the senate has left this
body in a position to accomplish the
work remaining before it and to be
transferred from the house during
the remaining days. There is a dan
ger, however, that the factionalism
whic hdeveloped during the filibus'er
conducted by Senator O. A. Nix and
Senator Ed Wohlwender may result
in petty politics playing a too im
portant part in the procedings.
In the house the appropriations
bill has received serious considera
tion, and the fight has been waged
on some of the sections indicates the
senate will also have a merry squab
ble. Efforts to make reductions in
the appropriations have been led by
the Troup delegation and represen
tatives who were defeated in (heir
fight to kill the gasoline ( bill.
MARKETS
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good middling, 11 l-4c. Market
firm.
LIVERPOOL COTTON
LIVERPOOL, Aug. .'’..—Market
opened ouiet. Fully middling, 8.72.
Sales. 6,000 bales. Receipts 863 bale?.
Futures: Oct. Dec. Jan.
Prev. Close 8.81
Open 881 8480
Close B.Bs 8.87 8.9
NEW YORK FUTURES
Oct. Dec. Jan.
Prev. Close ..>2.78 13.27 13.15
Onen 12.70 13.23 13.12
10:15 am 12.84 13.34 13.32
10:30 12.85 13.34
10:45 12.85 13.34 13.25
111:00 .12.92 13.42 13,35
! 11 :15 12.90 13.37 13.29
! 11:30 12.97 13.45 13.35
11:45 13.00 13.47 13.39
J 12:00 . ... .13.05 13.52 13.45
i 12:15 pm 12.98 18.44 13.36
i 12:45 12.88 13.55 13.25
1:15 12.87 13.35 13.27
■ 1:30 12.90 13.33 13.26
i 1:45 12.89 13.37 13.30
j 2:00 12.92 13.39 13.30
I 2:30 12.97 13.41 13.36
2:45 12.90 13.36 13.29
How can you orove that a cat ha« nine tails?
Answer to Monday’s: Lay three matches on a ta
ble in the form of a triangle; stand one erect at
each corner and bring them together at the top. You
will have a pyramid whose base and three sides are
triangles.
(Answer to Monday’s appeared by error.)
4 MILLS TAX FOR
SUMTER SCHOOLS!
I
County Board Acts Un
der Provisions Os
New Law
The Sumter County Board of Ed-1
ucation, at its regular meeting held
Tuesday in the courthouse, passed a
resolution imposing a tax of 4 mills,
or $4.00 on each SI,OOO of taxable
property in the county for school pur
poses. The tax is in addition to the
regular district levies voted by the
taxpayers of the several districts. The
tax was imposed under provisions of
a law passed by the last legislature,
and will be collected in Sumter coun
ty fcr the first time this fall.
The rapid expansion of the ru'-n
school transportation system with the
growth of the consolidated school dis
tricts. requires that the county school
authorities keep in operation approxi
mati Iv a dozen trucks, and these
must be renewed from time to time, |
and most of the levy will be used in i
the renewal, repair and operation of ;
these trucks.
The beard also adopted a resolu
tion requiring the observance of cer
tain standards explained before the
members by State School Supervisor
George D. Goddard. These standards ,
require that in schools having two or !
more teachers that the principals in- ■
struct his faculty members in school j
work not less than 40 minutes week- i
ly, the idea being to facilitate and ’
promote uniformity in school work '
throughout the county. In schools |
haviny only one teacher, the stand- ;
ards require that these teacher- shall ;
either attend the instruction classes :
in some other school, or take an ap- !
proved reading course, of not less
than 40 minutes a week, which was
■■'•'de compulsory by the board Tues
day.
I’rof. Goddard talked some time be
fore the board explaining the state
standards, whidh include the grading
of schools according to the number of !
teachers. Tn 1-teacher schools thev i
provide not more than 5 grades shall
be taught; 2-teacher schools, not
more than 7 grades, and "-teacher
schools, not more than 9 grades. The
1-teacher schools, he said should be
abolished wherever possible.
Changes ordered by the board in ;
district school areas include the trans- j
fer of Old S f Mary’s, now attached i
to Andersonville, to New Era Consol- .
idated district , and the removal cf :
the R E. White farm from Sumter I
detrict to Thalean..
John D. Williams and a number of !
other natrons of I vsean or Thompson |
school, appeared before the hoard, I
P'’ing to-be transferred to Smith-!
ville. Lee county, district, and their
nntif'on was granted, effective when
the I“e oountv school authorities
shall signify their acceptance of the
territory thus cecjed. .
COLORED RFCITAI FRIDAY
F. E Jones and F. B. Ross of Hart
ford. Conn., vocalists and instrumen
talists, will give a joint benefit re
cital at the Americus Institute Fri
day evening of this week. Rev. M.
W. Reddick, principal of the Insti
tute, announced today that the admis
sion charge had been changed from
50 and 75c to 35 and 50c. The pub
lic is invitfd. ■■' ' i
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Coal was used in. England in the
year .852.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
REPEAL BILL IS
PASSED, READY
FOR SIGNATURE
Removes Power Os The
Equalizers To Make
Final Assessments
Times-Recorder Bureau,
Kimball House.
ATLANTA, August 3.—The meas
ure amending the city charter of Am
ericus so as to destroy the decision
of the board of tax equalizers as final
and giving the right to arbitrate in
cases of dissatisfaction ' passed the
senate this morning. The bill now
goes to the governor for signature.
RILEY WIRES OF
BILL’S PASSAGE.
A message from G. W. Riley, a
member of the Georgia house from
Sumter county and resident of Amer
icus, informed the Times-Recorder at
noon today in a telegram from At
lanta that a bill had been passed by
both houses of the legislature repeal
ing the Pace bill enacted last year
prohibiting arbitration of property
valuations for city tax assessments.
Inasmuch as the present city board
of equalization has just completed its
work, today being the final day for
hearings under the legal notices sent
out, and the books being legally clos
ed, except as the board may see fit
to open them to make some adjust
ments that may be called to their at
tention in cases where actual notice
may not have been received owing
to absence, the restoration of arbitra
tion, under the bill can scarcely ap
ply to this year, it. is believed.
Th? telegram from Mr. Riley was
the first public news received here
that the repeal bill had been actual
ly introduced. Proper notice of in
tention to introduce it had been given
by publication by Mr. Riley, in con.
currence with E. A. Hines, his col
league, before the assembly opened.
Opposition by the present city admin
istration, however, which procured
it was reported at one time that plans
to introduce it had ben abandoned.
I The opposition of the city adminis
| (ration remained unchanged, it is
said.
The change last year ending arbi
tration has been a topic of much con
troversy locally for several months.
WIDE’AD FOR
MOVIE RESENTED
Alabama Town Stirred
Bv Hoax —May Go
•To Court
SHEFFIELD, Ala., Aug. 2.—A s an
aftermath to a fake suicide stunt that
was staged at an amusement resort
in Tuscumbia one night Jast week by
the management of a ‘‘movie” thea
ter there, an acute controversy is rag
ing between the proprietors of the
Spring Park resort and the manager
of the playhouse, which may lead to
civil action in the courts.
Public sentiment appears to be
deeply aroused among the Tuscumbia
citizenry, who apparently are resent
ful over the episode.
The suicide hoax was intended
solely as an advertising scheme of
the theater to draw attention to an
attraction that was billed to be shown
at the playhouse, Its purpose may
have been accomplished to the satis
faction of the theater people, but it
was equally as displeasing in quite
another manner, evidently not antici
pated when planned. A large throng
of pleasure including many
women and children, were at the
park for an evening of merry-mak
ing. A frenzy of excitement, wnich
bordered on panic followed the re
port that a woman had committed
suicide by jumping into the deep
water of the soring lake. A wo
man’s dress, hat, pocketbook, contain
ing small change and a note purport
ed to have been written by the wo
man were found on the spring bank.
Immediately search was instituted
to find the body of the supposed vic
tim, which continued throughout the
night. The news spread over the
town and almost everybody respond
ed to the call for aid. The flood
gates of the lake were lifted, and
the chief of police nearly lost his
life when he was washed past the
dam by the swirling stream of water.
Several 'other would-be rescuers were
in danger of losing their lives when
boats capsized 'in the on-running
waters.
It is claimed that in spite of the
frantic situation that prevailed the
soonsors of the hoax were standing
close by, enjoying the spectacle and
made no attempt to stop the men,
women and boys who were making
heroic efforts to find the bodv of the
supposed victim. It was not until
the next morning late that the se
cret of the scheme was divulged. In
dignation over the incident was mani
fested on all sides.
It is reported that city authorities
of Tuscumbia have the matter' unde
investigation. The proprietors of
the park resort and the manager of
the playhiuse have published state
ments in the local papers, and the
former indicate they are very much
aggrieved, while the rlayhouse mana
ger has been apologetic in his -state
ments. .
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