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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 dIRF * I * Ywk <jgo I ./i* * Illi ' jKiii 41 ~ 9I mi ,!■ ■ in ■■■ ig ■ ■ ■ i ■ - . - . , ■ - - -. ■ -■! i ■ i i ■— 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 ■.- • . • 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. CARTOONETTE / o A’6sS’ <:>tA B ii ~X You Won F •) ) NEED AN EAI? TRUMPET To / H£Atz The 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 "1 SPY YOU!" NEW GAME AT THE BEAACH sfliMß 1 iW 1 1 ■ ’•i i T w?' ' " * 'Kw.V fi' ' x -. 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 « 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. . MAIL EDITION