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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
By THE TIMES-RECORDER CO.. (Inc.) Ar?bn»
Loeat, Pre*.; Lovelace Eve, Secy.; S. Kirk
Patrick, Treaa.
W. S. KIRKPATRICK. Editor
LOVELACE EVE, Butioefl* Mnajer
Evening daily; except Sunday; weekly (Tbureda;)
Entered a» second class matter at the postoffice a t
Americus, Georgia, according to the Act of Congress.
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County, Railroad Commission of Georgia for Third
Congressional District, U. S. Court, Southern Dis
trict of Georgia.
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ED 1T O RIAL.
I ET us be thankful tliat the Demo
cratic party has at least two men
in the United States senate who are
willing in international matters and
subjects of world import to place
statesmanship above partisanship and
cheap politics. We refer to the po
sition of Senators Oscar I itgerwood
of Alabama, and Hitchcock, of Ne
braska. These two senators have tak
en a stand for ratification of the
German peace treaty, which will be
accepted by the .senate tonight un-1
less there is a slip in the program,
and by tomorrow the state of war
with Germany, so long existent after
hostilities actually closed, will have
ended.
Senators Underwood and Hitch
cock have taken a sensible position.
They fought for the Versailles treaty
without change. When they couldn’t
get that, they fought for it with res
ervations. When they couldn’t get
it that way, as a result of hypocritical
Republican politics, they refused to
belittle themselves by taking the
identical position they condemned in
the opposing party, ami are now
fighting for the treaty as it CAN 'be
ratified. In taking this position they
have had in mind national and world
welfare, instead of party advantage.
* * ♦
’T'HEY explain their position as f >1- I
low’s:*'
“We fought for the Versailles
treaty without reservations, and then
with reservations. Were we to op
pose the pending treaty simply be
cause the Republicans defeated the
Versailles treaty, we would be guilty
of playing petty politics, a crime we
brought against the Republicans. We
do not approve of the treaty before
the senate, but is our judgment that
business affairs of the world require
a cessation of the technical state of
war between the United States and
Germany.’’
These two senators deserve the
highest esteem of their fellow Ameri
cans. They have exhibited that rare
attribute of letting statesmanship in
stead of politics control their official
actions.
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JJERE is a Georgia fable: Once
* upon a time there was a head
line writer on the Macon Telegraph
who omitted the word “gutted” from
a caption over a report of a fire.
And there was great consternation
over the novelty.
* * *
r J'HE Tifton Gazette observes
“ Sylvester is to have a grain
elevator, erected by a local milling
company, to cost SIO,OOO and be
ready for business December 1, ac
cording to The Local. This is an im
portant step toward supplying a
home market for diversified products.
We expect to see the day when there
is a grain elevator at every county
site town in South Georgia.”
We hope Uncle John Herring lives
to see that day of which he writes.
For Uncle John is getting along in
years, and if he lives to see it, its
coming is not so many, many decades
away. Not that he is about to “pass
out.” Far be it from such, for he
is probably the youngest man for his
age in Georgia.
But he makes no miscalculation
when he slates that this is an im
portant step toward supplying a home
market for diversified products. He
is merely a little conservative, for
it is T HE important step in such a
direction. With the establishment of
a grain elevator for the proper grad
ing, cleaning, and loading of corn,
oats, wheat, barley, rye, velvet beans,
etc., a cash market is at hand at all
time for all these dry products at
the current quotations, just as a far
mer now can sell his cotton at the
market price, regardless of the sea
son, or as he can dispose of his hogs
to the packers at the market price
for cash.
Every railroad side track in the
great grain states of the North and
West has its grain elevator where
there | is a constant cash market
for the farmer’s products. Before di
versification becomes a reality in the
South on a scale of great importance,
eh vators will have to be generally
distributed throughout this section,
too. When they become so distrib
uted, King Cotton will have become
the slave of the South, instead of
the South being the slave of King
Cotton. *’
bertoli Bra leys I )<ii ly Poem
■ (HOMNISCICACE
BRALEY OMNISCIENCE—2O EMS
THERE’S only twelve people on earth, so they say,
Who understand Einstein; but that isn’t true.
J Twelve get him, perhaps, in a “relative way,’’
But full comprehension is given but two;
The deep inner meaning, the secret, the key,
Is known but to Eeinstein, to Einstein and Me.
By Einstein's great theory all things are clear;
The tariff, domestic and foreign relations.
The weather we get at this time of the year,
But, due to the average mind’s limitations,
The answers are known in their en-ttr-et-tee
To no one but Einstein—but Einstein and Me.
Such questions as “Why don’t the taxes go down?’’
And “Why do the prices stay stubbornly high?”
And “Where is a flat to be rented in town?”
And "When will America really go dry?”
And “Where can I get it?” Such questions can be
Solved only by Einstein, by Einstein and Me!
We’ve settled all problems, we’ve doped them all out,
In seven dimensions, or maybe it’s eight;
When Einstein has found himself somewhat in doubt
He’s asked my opinion and I’ve set him straight;
But what our conclusions are, ever will be
T secret ’twixt Einstein —’twixt Einstein and Me!
(Copyright, 1921.)
♦
iOLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
t
(From the Times-Recorder'Oct. 18, j
1911.)
Q EEKERS after health should re- ■
member Americus. Only recent-'
ly it has come to light that the city |
has a record for September health |
that is surely unsurpassed in any i
ity of equal size in this section of ,
the state or throughout the entire i
date. Americus enjoys a record of,
inly one death during the entire ■
month of September.
There has been current locally for
some time a rumor to the effect that
he Seaboard Air Line railway will
greatly improve its local shops, and
mere seems to be a good foundation j
.cjr the rumor.
According to official figures in Su
perintendent Maher s first monthly I
repoit io the board of education .for
he present school year, the grade 1
with the largest attendance in the |
grammar school is that of the second
division of the fourth grade, known
as Fourth Grade B, while the first
year class in the High school, of
course, leads all the rest.
With trees blooming for the second
Jme this year and latent buds evinc
ing an alarming precocity, the 1912
peach crop of Middle Georgia is in
serious jeopardy, and will unques
tionably be damaged to the extent
of thousands of dollars if the present
unseasonable weather continues.
It was “show day” in Americus
and throughout .he day the streets
were thronged with thousands of good
natured people, bent upon seeing all
that came in their way.
Americus Baptist churches will be
largely represented at the annual
convention of the Friendship Baptist
association, which assembles with the
church at Leslie.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder Oct. 18,
1901.)
Mrs. William A. Dodson will enter
tain this evening from 9 to 12 a.
m. at her beautiful Lee street home
in honor of) her charming guests,
Miss Lewis and Miss Leonard. A
large company of friends will re
spond to Mrs. Dodson’s invitation,
and the occasion will be one of the |
most delightful of the present so
cial season.
Mrs. Unruh, the noted lecturer, is j
coming to Americus very shortly, and
is under the auspices of the W. C. |
T. U. Her visit here will be one*
of interest, and she will lecture eith
er at First Methodist church or at the
tent on the hotel park.
Mayor J. B. Felder will reurn to
Americus today from Boston—not I
the large metropolis of the Universe, I
but plain, little, unpretentious Bos
ton, Georgia, an embroyo metropolis
of the wiregrass region.
The publication in yesterday’s
Times-Recorder to the effect that the
Macon Presbytery, which includes
Americus, would build a school for
boys and girls at some point within
its bounds, created much interest
’ here, and plans are being made to
. ''have it located at this point.
. Mr. Luther Hawkins left yesterday
> for Augusta, where he has accepted
the position of general manager for
the Southern Bell Telephone Co., a
most desirable place.
Ihe wedding in Cordele of Miss
1 ‘ Bessie Walters, a former Americus
I resident, and Mr. Hubert Marshall,
- also of Cordele, was of wide social
e interest here, where both the young
', people are well known and greatly
v esteemed.
DENTAL NOTICE
e Dr. E. E. Parsons. Office Hours
£ from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. Upstairs,
Commercial Warehouse Building.
Will give you good service. Painless
Extracting or No Charge.
EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE'
I
(From the Times-Recorder Oct. 18,
| 1801.)
Among the distinguished ladies in
| attendance on the Woman’s Mission
l ary conference now in session in this
' city is Mrs. Young J. Allen, of China.
1 Mrs. Allen and her husband left
i Georgia in 1859 for the mission field,
.and have ever since been residents ol
; that faraway country. Mrs. Allen is
now in Georgia superintending the
i education of her children, and while
i in ti e city is the guest of Mrs. C. C.
! Clay. »
Mrs. M. L. Myrick is in Atlanta
this week on a combined business
■and pleasure trip. The Atlanta Eer
i old says: Among the visitors to the
I legislative funeral this morning was
Mrs. Bascom Myrick of the Ameri
i cus Times-Recorder. She is one of
i the brightest women in Georgia and
J does much to make the columns of
(that attractive paper as sparkling as
■any in the state.
The sacred pantomine “Nearer My
God to Thee” is to be rendered at
• tee First Methodist church tonight
: by Miss Florence Powell, and is a
most beautiful and impressive serv
ice.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Mr. Luther G. Bell, of this
city, and Miss Emma Ramser, at the
I home of the young lady’s parents,
jon Barbour street, in Eufaula, Ala.,
lon Wednesday evening the 28th inst.,
at 8:30 o’clock.
J The German given at their rooms
< ty the Americus club on Wednesday
I night was cne of the most enjoyable
I of the season. The ladies looked
i lovely in their handsome and radiant
J costumes. The music was furnished
I by Profs, Reimer, Leamon and Bessie
> I Leamon. The ball room was taste
. fully decorated with cut flowers and
l tropical stand plants, the effect of
which vyas beautiful in the extreme.
TAX NOTICE.
Tax books for the payment of 1921
I city taxes are now open.
E. J. ELDRIDGE,
10-3-11-3 Clerk and Treasurer.
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It has no rubber sac
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, # It ho Ids severa 1t lines
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sold under an ab
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Come in and yet your
Dann Pen today.
G. M.
ELDRIDGE
—— Jeweler
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• THk AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER. ’
WHAT’S THE MATTER*
WITH US, ANYWAY? ,
Fancis H. Sisson, Vice-President, Guaranty Trust Company of
New York, Answers the Question
BY FANCIS H. SISSON
Vice President, Guaranty Trust Cd
of New York
D SINESS is suffering from mul
tifarious reasons and no one of
them can be held to be solely, or even
chiefly, responsible', unless it be uni
versal economic exhaustion following
the most destructive of all wars.
There seems to be a widespread
misconception of that fact, however,
as is evidenced by the countless pro
posed economic nostrums, each ad
vanced as a panacea, and by the mis
guided attempts of certain economic
and political elements to legislate for
their own selfish interests in the be
lief, honestly entertained doubtless,
that by solving their dwn special
problems, through obtaining prefer
ential treatment, usually at the ex
pense of other taxpayers, the coun
try will be restored t*. prospertiy.
We should not forget tha- more
than three hundred billion dollars
of the world’s wealth were spent ir.
war’s activities between Aug. 4, 1914,
and Nov. 11, 1918, for the most part
without economic or replacement val
ue. But more important, and deplor
able, than that, ten million • of the
world’s most productive lives were j
laid down on the fields of battle and j
the activities of forty billions of peo
ple were d> fleeted from production
to destruction.
Universal Problem
The world’s debts were increased
from forty billions of dollars to more
than two hundred and fifty billions.
The world’s trade, industry and fi
nance were thrown completely out of
balance and there was created the >
need for a complete economic recon-1
struction.
That is the situation we face to-,
day. It presents a problem in which [
we are involved in common with an
other nations and, whether we will
or no, we must consider our rela- ,
tions to other nations as an essc-n i
tial feature of our own national life, i
While before the war we were a
debtor nation to the amount of five ;
oillions of dollar s, we are today t'ne |
world s creditor to the sum of more ;
.han fifteen billions, and our entire i
relationship to the world’s business>
and the world’s interests generally |
are completely altered—a change we
are tardily recognizing and the full
significance of which, apparently, we i
have not yet begun to comprehend, i
In brief, the betterment of busi- I
aess in i'.is country is not merely a .
domestic problem, it is a worldwide ,
problem.
Situation Improving
We ate paying the bills of man’s
folly, ambition, greed, selfishness and
hatred, nation against nation, class
against class, interest against inter
est, and as long as these factors in
human nature are dominant, all of
the relations of men are disturbed
by them and economic recovery is ■
halted.
When will this' recovery be mani
fested? No man can foretell. It can
only be stated that fundamental fac
tors in the situation are improving.
There are concrete evidences of
gradual improvement abroad, and
there is reason to believe that we
Your Banking Business Invited
We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest On lime Deposits
BANK QF COMMERCE
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:
Frank Sheffield Charles R. Crisp
John Sheffield Lee Hudson
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Organized Octobebr 13, 1891.
_ Ek., OITNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Asst. Cashier.
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
. CERTIFICATES
OF DEPOSIT
'»• ese days safety of
I? your P rinc ’l’ al demands first
is i'Mk’Mlvvo consideration. After that
HfwiudWlll comes your rate of interest,
!•«’': fcSgsMMpi an d third the negotiability of
|ii: ffi y° ur investment.
J, jMI. Our Certificates of Deposit
are always worth 100 cents
on a dollar; they pay 4 per
v a - ■ • i t , cen t and are always negotia-
-—ble.
We welcome new accounts.
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE,, ACOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small
ATTENTION
AUTOMOBILE OWNERS!
Here is where you find first-class general repairing by
mechanics who know how.
Auto electrical carburetor repairs, all kinds a specialty.
We are expects on reconstruction of wrecked autos.
Bring yours to us.
IVEY MACHINE & ELECTRICAL CO.
118 So. Jackson St. Phone 794
j have passed through the worst of
11 our deflation period in the United
States and will soon experience a
• slow but material betterment.
This wouid undoubtedly be imme
diately accelerated by the funding of
the railroad’s indebtedness to the
; government on account of capital ex
penditures made by the government
I while the roads were under its con
, trol.
That settlement, which would provide
half a billion dollars for the imme
diate use of the railroads, should re
sult in a stronger financial position
for the carriers and hasten the time
when they can make additional ex
penditures for maintenance and
equipment.
The stimulus of the steg] and oth
er industries resulting from any large
scale expenditures by the railroads
would assist more than any other
single factor at this particular time,
perhaps, in overcoming the present
business business dullness and in pro
viding employment for thousands of
men.
| OBSERVATIONS
Cheer up! Chris!mas eve falls on
pay-day. _ x £
The man who acts like he is the
whole cheese is usually only a small
piece.
Hi winds make noses blow’.
The best fire prevention is to hold
i down your job.
Easiest way to find a tack is turn
the lights off and hunt barefooted.
j To the garage repair man every
I knock is a boost.
Bad eggs are welcome/ until they
j go breke.
Only way some girls will ever get
into the movies is buy a ticket.
“Good for a Headache” reads an
adv. Most people want something •
jbad for a headache.
| Foreign entanglements are mostly '
nautical knots.
A gallon of home-brew saved a
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UNDERTAKING CO.
Established 1308
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Noel E. Smitl) and
Olen Buchanan, Directors
Day Phones: 286 and 253
I , Night, 859, 381 and 106
To guard against errors or being imposed upon The
Times-Recorder cannot ac< ept for publication article
or items not signed by the sender. It i s no t nZ
sary that the name be for p übhcation, but it must be
attached as an evidence of g ood faith.
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Chicago man’s life. It broke the jug i
just before he got a drink.
Knocking congress is tilting at a !
windmill.
“Money talks,” but it can’t drown
“The voice of the people.”
One nice thing about a crowded
street <Aii' is it is warmer.
The tariff is a thing of duty and
a toy forever.
Thousands of moths specializing on
women's clothes have starved.
The best permanent wave is that
of the American flag.
I
Notice To Farmers
We will close our Gins for the season
after October 29th.
FARMERS COTTON OIL CO.
AMERICUS OIL CO.
WINTER LAWN GRASS
Now is the time to plant. Green Lawn makes your home more
beautiful. Price:
tfle Lb Peck 90c (5-Lbs)
. Special Price in Large Quantities
PLANTERS SEED CO.
Phone 502 Forsyth St.
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I Kent’s Garage
I AUTOMOBILE and FORD
I REPAIRING
12 Years’ Experience In Americus
S GET OUR PRICE BEFORE HAVING
I YOUR WORK DONE
I B. B. KENT
E Lamar Street. Opposite Rylander Ga'- p
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TUESDAY. OCTOBER IB, 'Tot.'
A parrot recently died in Austra
lia at the age of 119 years.
The first American bathtub was
installed in 1842.
Turner Electric Co.
Reduced Prices on Houm
Wiring and Fixtures
We are ready. Are you? Call
us for an estimate. k
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Phone 124.