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EDITORIAL.
of our valued contemporaries
sees in the scheduled speaking
trip of Governor Hardwick at Geor
gia fairs a campaigning tour in oppo
sition to W. .1. Harris for the U. S.
Senate next year. And it is our be
lief that this estimation of the im
port of the governor's trip is about
correct. It has been ou*' idea for
some time that the governor would
vacate his office voluntarily next year
and enter the senate race, which has
made it appear to us not improper to
put forward the name of \V. .1. Ve
reen, of Moultrie, early in the race
for the state’s next governor.
Commenting upon the present
governor’s speaking tour, the Sa
vannah Press says:
“Governor Hardwick seems to have
decided to go before the people of
the state byway of the county fair
The Press has already announced his
acceptance of the invitation to come
to Savannah and speak at the Tri-
State Exposition. He has made a
number of engagements of the same
sort. His diary hows the following
dates for speeches at county and
district fairs at each of which he will
discuss taxation:
“Winder, October -1; Barnesville,
October 6th; Soperton, October 7th;
Wrightsville, October Sth; Rome, Oc
tober 10th; Dublin, October 12th;
Columbus, October 13th; Hoboken, ]
October 15th; Atlanta (Governor's
Day) October 14th; Albany, Oct.
20th; Savannah, Oct. 26th; Swain
boro, Oct. 27th; Macon, (Governor''
Day)’ October 27; Augusta. Novem
ber Ist; Baxley, November 2nd.
“He will return to Atlanta from
Rome in order to deliver the address
of welcome to the convention of Na
tional Railroad Commissioners on
the 11th of October.
“Senator Harris took occasion dur
ing the recess of Congress to visit a
number of strategical points
throughout the state and it looks as
if the governor is going to get around
and do a little speaking himself. All
of which points the way to a lively
race for the United States Senate in
the not too distant future.”
♦ ♦ ♦
The recent two cases in the City
Court of Americus, in which a
white man and a negro were fined
upon pleas of guilty for transactions
in seed cotton between sun down and
sun up have called forth considera
ble comment in the state press, chief
ly because of the fact that it had
been almost forgotten that the sta
tute books of Georgia contained pro
visions making such transactions il
legal. Says the Columbus Enquirer-
Sun :
"From Americus comes the report
that a farmer has been tried in the
City court and fined for selling seed
cotton after sunset. And, not only
the man who bought the cotton, but
the man who sold it was fined. This
is said to be the first case of the kind
in Sumter county in many years.
"The incident serves to bring to
the attention of persons who may
have forgotten the fact that this sort
of a law has been on the books for
years. It is a violation of thq, law.
we believe, to move seed cotton be
tween sun down and sun up, whether
i*. be sold or not. This law was en
ictixl years ago mainly to protect
landlords from renters who might be
disposed to take their crop of cotton
from (he farm with ’.it the landlord
kavirg some opportunity for know
ing it.”
T !i E Savannah Press has this to
say on the subject:
"While it is not generally known
that it is against the law to ’nave
transactions of this kind after dark,
the reasons for* such a statute are
obvious. If it were legal to sell cot
ton after dark, if would let down the
bars to a great deal of rascality and
thievery. Men who pick cotton would
try to hold out some to their own ac
count after the sun went down and
loose cotton left in the field overnight
or in a gin house would be prey
of thieves, who would dispose of it
before the next morning.
'The Albany Herald intimates
that it is illegal to sell game in
Georgia after sun down. We havi
been given to understand that it i:
illegal to sell almost any kind oi
game in Georgia at any time. Th.
statutes to protect game btr.D am
animals have made it about as hart
Berton Braleys 1 )aily 1 oem
FARMERS WIFE
11/IV husband is a good, hardworking man.
Simple and plain, and kind of gentle, too;
) He gets me all the luxuries he can.
Though, even then, of course, they’re pretty few.
~ It isn't that he’s close —he does his best —
But farming doesn't often bring you wealth.
>. We neither of us get much time for rest;
I guess it’s lucky that we have our health.
'' I
J KNOW dll that, and trv to be content,
Doing my duty as a true wife should;
Working and planning, pinching every cent,
Raising our children to be brave and good;
But now and then 1 dream of breaking free,
Getting away—away from everything,
i The farm, the house, the daily drudgery—
i i Just once to laugh and play and have my Hing.
h/IY feet are much too clumsy for a dance,
I My hands with work are out df shape and red,
My youth was gone before 1 had a chance'
To frolic, and my beauty all is fled.
Togged out in : ilks and laces I would seem
Only an awkward sight to raise a smile;
Yet of such fripperies I dream and dream,
[| Lord, just to revel in them for a while!
just for once to be where lights are bright,
Where life is swift and free as flying chaff,
To sate my hungry longing for delight,
What would I care though ail the world should laugh?
1 touch my calico and dream it’s silk,
The heart inside me dances to a tune—
Goodness the calves are bawling for their milk,
And John’s come in. "Yes, I'll have supper soon!”
(Copyright 1921.)
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WHAT’S THE MATTER
WITH US, ANYWAY?.]
William C. Redfield, Former U. S. Secretary of Commerce, Blames
World’s “Military Debauch’’ j
BY WM. C REDFIELD
Former Secretary of Commerce
’T’O answer the question "What is
the matter with us?” 1 must
first of all object courteously to the
form of the question itself. It is not
i“a ■"—it is every
body all over the
world. One of the
first things to do
if we are to th'nk
clearly is t> get
the “usness” out of
question.
i an -1 in o the
form—What is the
matter with the
world? it becomes
simpler, for almost
everybody knows
what is the mat let
I with the world.
Not so long ago
REDFIELD
the world took something like fort?
million men in the prime of life away i
from productive labor and set them
at the horrible job of destruction and i
of consumption. Incidentally it killed I
about ten million of them and maim-:
ed as many more.
So we, that is, the world, lost the
proceeds of the labor o*’ forty millioi
active young men for four years, and
had our property, that it. the world -
property, diminish during that time
by what these forty million destroy
ed and the further amount which
they consumed over ah above what
they would have consumed in peace.
Thus stated any one can see there
must be a reaction. This is it. M e
are now in the “cold gray dawn of
the morning after" and there is
nothing altogether strange m the
fact that the dawn is both cold and
gray.
The “Headache"
Stated differently, the matter w-tl’
the world, that js us as a part of
the world, is that we went on a mili
tary debauch, and this is t’ e head
ache of the next day.
Pretty much all of us are in debt
to prettv much, everybody else. Only
:> few of v. have realized the fact
that the one way out is a verv old
fashioned route, a somewhat thorny
oath. It is the path called ‘ V> oik and
Save.” Produce as much as nossi’’ e:
snend as little as possible. That s the
remedv, and whatever else may be
done by Congress or by kings, this
working and saving, this producing
and this absence of spp'-tling. is tne
cne thing that will restore the ba!
ancc.
In some respects balance if
fairly well restored, but every re
! taller who in-»i-’s unon a fancy price
I because he thinks he can get it.
I holding back th-' dav i f restore- 1
5 balance and every wei> ir.gi:':.’' w:”
; for a man who does not shbot te
i get game birds to eat as it ;< for a
rich man to get into Heaven. And !
I the Bible advises us that this is some ]
I * job."
■Th, Enquirer-Sun con inu, -: ' \V
I ; think the vieiv of the Lress in refer
-1 j enre to the buying and selling of
■' ] game is correct. The law give:
I ! game birds and animals about all the
prote, tion they need, and in the
course of a few years, if this law lu?
II - properly enforced, there ought to be
e[an abundance of game almost any
s where, as was the case before the
f i reeklessne:-’- of the hunters and trap-
pers who made it a business of selling
d game of all kinds, caused it to dis
d appear so largely.”
EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE
thinks he can earn a war wagp in >
peace times is also doing his part to >
hold back the time when the balance
is restored. Until that, time comes
there can be no large prosperity.
Meanwhile it is just as well not to
be scared by figures. It sounds s
both sad and serious to say that six
million men, or thereabouts, are un
employed, but this statement is sub
ject to serious deductions. In the
first place, in a country as large a
this, authorities say there are always
a million unemployed. These are thi
floaters and those who, for many rea- ,
son-’, some good and some not so
good, are temporarily out of work.
Unfair Comparison.
In the next place the comparison ‘
is with a time of flush, even exces
'sive employment, instead of with a
normal prosperous time, and a good
many of those, who were a; this flush
period employed have gone back tc
i"e other duties they followed before
In the third place, the figures of un
employment mean that the persons
included in those figures are not eni
ployed at their usual tasks, but it is
a false a-sumption to assume tha’
"hey are all idle. No one knows wxat
thvy are doing, hut it is that
some are working at tasks outside of
heir usual vocations.
One such cultivates a vacant lot
to Sunport his family by selling
vegetables; another works on a high
way; others follow any task that
turns up because they are readv to
turn their hand to any honest effort
rather than he idle.
There is, therefore, a large deduc-
Hon to be made when we talk about
■' e unemployment figures. Never
theless. it is visibly true that an un
usual number are out of work and
will be so until the various factors
in the community which are otit of
] hr-’-.r.ce with one another are restor
ed tn a du« measure of balance.
This restoration of balance is a
.-low process, hut it annears ir it 1 ms
printed every day: Here a reduction
of m’ieo; there an acceptance of a
r,- iuced wage: hero a price which.
’ having reached the- bottom, is steady
or begins slightly to rise: there are
railways operating at a dimini-hed
maimersnee cost. Th.- so and thou
sands of ithcr items like them are
the signs by which one can read that
the process of balancing, is going on.
When it is complete we shall take a
long breath ;.:.d start in on what
promises to be an unusual period of
prosperity.
Tuesda J. Parke Channing,
chairman of Hoover Engineers Com
mittee on Elimination of Industrial
Waste.
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SKIN DISEASE
(Hunt’s Salve a . : S.'-ep .tx.il ir. f {
the treatt of Itch, Eczema, i I
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treatment at our nab.
AMERICUS DRUG CO
Turner Electric Co.
Reduced Pt ices on House
Wtrir.g and Fisturci
We are ready. Arc you? Call
j« for an estimate-
Phone 124.
THE AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER.
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY. .
(From The Times-Recorder, Octi
2-3. 1911).
TEE property belonging to Jamesj
Montgomery on Taylor street]
was sold vesterday to W. A. Humber
for $6,000. The house is next to that
of Mr. Arthur Rylander, and is de-;
sirably located.
Mayor J. E. Mathis, of Americus, I
will probably attend the annual meet-j
ing of the League of American I
Municipalities in Atlanta, when;
about 300 delegates are expected to;
be present.
Judge James A. Hixon will con-'
vent? the city court <1 Americus in
ion M-'iii;; next, tin- term havi..-;
been deferred two weeks in order to i
allow farmers an opportunity to catch ]
up with work on the farm.
Rev. Edward S. Doan, rector of ]
St. James Episcopal church in Mar- j
ietta z arrived in Americus yesterday '
afternoon and conducted last evening i
the first services in the week of mis-]
ion service t at is now in progress;
at- Calvary church here.
Mrs. T. C. Jefford, of Sylvester, i
returning home from a pleasant trip
abroad, is the guest ol Mrs. T. 11.
M (.Gillis.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY. [
(From The Times-Recorder, Oct. ]
2-3, 1901). ' |
The great tent meeting to be con )
ducted here by Rev. John B. Cui- 1
pepper, the well known revivalist, as- I
it ted by hiS sons ami some of the Io- )
al clergy, will begin tonight. The
ervices will continue over a period
>f throe weeks.
As a result of storms in this sec- i
tion, much of the cotton now being]
marketed is stained and of rather]
poor quality. Buyers here paid 7 to I
7 1-2 cents for the best grades of-]
sered, and a considerable quantity]
went at these prices.
A daily service of prayer is being]
carried on this week at Presbyterian
hurcii. Those meetings are held each
afternoon at 4 o’clock and last about
40 minutes.
The people of Americus and Sum ;
ter county will do their part in sub- 1
scribing to the fund necessary to re
build the Confederate Veterans’ ;
home at Atlanta, destroyed by fire
Monday morning.
Mrs. Sallie Kimmey, an aged and
well known resident of Americus died
yesterday. The deceased was the,
OBSERVATIONS
Russia is having a blunder storm !.
A self-made man puts in a self
starter. i
Will the anti- beer measure hold I
water?
That still small voice id money
talking.
Hooch hounds are used in still
hunting.
Some men kiss their wives; others!
don’t shave.
f ,
The longest day in the year is a
rainy one.
A fool and his money are not part
ed until midnight.
We have had high times; but we |
need hire times.
PeopL- who get into everything
usually include debt.
The biggest piece of money in the ]
world is your last dollar.
Some people save for a rainy day
and then hope it will rain.
Spceaking of secret lodges. Senator
Lodge hides behind whiskers.
Ziegfield may cut the price of his
“Follies.” Other follies remain the
same.
Bow-legged girls report great suc
cess fr :n their long skirt propa
ganda.
One way to reduce appropriations
is for Democrats to advocate an in
crease.
The only way to exist without
working is to be an automatic cigar
lighter.
Chewing gum cost America $44,-
000.000 lr.-: year; showing stenog
raphers have increased.
They say telephone service is
worse in England than America.
These are the days of miracles.
Some wemen had rather have a
v : vine er their hat than two
invisible ones cr. their shoulders.
ASTHMA , ,
No cure for it, but welcome
r » relief is often brought by —
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UNDERTAKING CO.
Established 1908
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Noel EL Smith and
Olen Buchanan, Directors
Day Phone.: 286 and 253
| Night, 859, 3SI and 106
' widow’’ of Jesse Lee Kimmey, a pion-
I eer citizen.
Mr. William McGarrah, while look
: ing after the operation of a cotton
] gin on his plantation near Americus
yesterday, was caught in the shaft
i ing and sustained injuries that will
I confine him to his home for some
! time.
There will be an important meet
I ing of the Sumter County Agrieul
i turay Society in the County Commis
; sioners’ room at the court hpuse on
Saturday. The meeting will be called
at 11 o’clock.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder, Oct
2-3, 1891).
The Davenport Drug company last
Tuesday declared a dividend of 8
; per cent upon its capital stock from
j the past year’s earnings, and this,
■ too, in spite of the fact that it in that
Dime many expensive additions have
] been made to its already large bus
; mess investment. It is one of the
] most solid corporations in our city.
At sundown this evening will begin
according to the Jewish calendar, the
year, 5,652. It is their New Year, and
i is observed in many respects similar
] to our own in the manner calls, the
j exchange of good wishes and the
] sending of cards.
; Mr. Frank Bussey, the genial for
- mer night clerk at the Allen House,
left at 3:40 this morning to make
his future home in Atlanta.
George Wilson was as much tickled
at the reception tendered him last
night at the opera house as he tickled
the risibilities of the large audience.
Treasurer Will Albert was selling
i standing room long before the cur
tain went up. The house was crowded
and the reception was complete.
Mr. Jackson Gammage of the 28th
District happened to a most distress
ing accident on Thursday. While op
erating his cotton gin two of his fin
gers were badly mangled and the
hand split entirely open. Prompt ,
medical attention was given the Un
fortunate young man, and there is
a chance to save his hand.
No bills of lading for cott-eji ship
ments to Savannah are being signed
by the S. A. M. railroad on account
' of the blockade at that point.
The Americus Club room:! have
already become a favorite lounging
place for the young men after bus
, iness hours.
DR. BARTON’S ;
DAILY LETTER;
I WILL
By Dr. William E. Barton
'J’OO much have we conceded to the
incompetent and the laggard.
There are races that should be re
served for the swift and battles that
should be won only by the strong.
These are the legitimate rewards’
of strength and swiftness.
The world '.is rather than;
half full of people who are content
with that measure of effort-whichi
will barely enable them to exist. The;
rewards are none too abundant for,
the man who wins by the power of
will.
The ability to say “I will” is one]
of the finest assets of human life, j
Without it no man can ever become]
really great.
Whatever a man may have or lack,;
this is indespensable. He must be able ]
; io say, “I will.”
Then he must be able to do what'
] he has said he would do.
There are three kinds of people in ]
the world. Most people say there are ]
two, but there arc three.
The first is the kind who mean to ]
do right.
The second is the kind who mean
1 to do wrong.
The other is the kind who have no
particular purpose of either kind.
Y'ou can love the man who is de
termined to do right. You can ad
mire the ability and decision of the ]
man who deliberately does wrong.
But you can have only contempt for
the man who has no character of
either sort.
There is a verse in the Bible about
the man who is neither cold nor hot;
”1 would ye were either cold or hot.” i
All the heroes of the world, what-'
ever else they have had or lacked. ]
have been men of strong will.
A man with weak will can strength
en it. It is not necessary for him to ]
yield to laziness, to temptation, to.
unkindness, to bad temper.
It is a man's privilege to assert
his own will, and be strong and clean
and’true and successful.
,
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The peanut crop is bad and we
will have to shell out more for
them.
Do You Talk To Absent Ones?
Perhaps your brothers, sisters, mother or
dear friends live in other cities.
Wh y not talk to
them occasionally on
t e teph° ne ?
Distance makes no
> difference and the cost
is.srpjjll. |
At night from 8:30
o’clock to midnight station to station calls
are one-half the day rate. From midnight
to 4:30 A. M. the rate is one-fourth the day
' rate. i
Ask Long Distance about this quick,
c cheap station to station service.
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MONDAY. OCTOBER 3. J92L
e A New York man hit his wife with
r a chair and she turned the tables on
him.