About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1922)
PAGE SIX THE TIMES-RECORDER ESTABLISHED 1879. ‘ w TBB TIMES-RECORDER CO., (he.) Arthur Lmm, Brat. | Lovelace Eva* Sec'y.j W. 8. Birk fttriai* Traaa. V. 9. KIRKPATRICK, Editor LOVELACE EVE, BoaineM Mua|et Cvaabif dally; except Senday; weakly (Thonday) Eatarad at aacood claat matter at the poatoffica at Americua, Georgia, according to the Act of Congreaa Daily aad Sunday by mail, 86 per year in ad WDca* by carrier. 15c per week, 65c per month |7JQ per year. Weekly, 81.50 per year in advance h"—— ■■ - ■ 1 -* Oficlal organ for—City of Americus, Sumter realty, Railroad Commiaaion of Georgia for Third CoDgreaaional District, U. S. Coart, Southam Die trict of Georgia. The Aeaociated Preu it exclusively entitled to the use for the republication' of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Representative*, FROST, EANDIS A KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., New York; Peoples' Gaa Bldg., Chicago. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY. Wherefore, seeing we also are coin pasted about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which dotfi so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race set before us.—He brews 12:1. Oh, the days gone by! Oh, the days gone by! The music of the laughing lips, the luster of the eye; The childish faith in fairies, and Aladdin’s magic ring— The simple, soul-reposing, glad belief in everything— When life was like a story, holding neither sob nor sigh, In the golden, olden glory of the days gone by! —James Whitcomb Riley. CRIME AND NEWSPAPERS. IJOW do you r6ad your daily news papers? What makes the great est impressions upon you? What do you really read, what skim over hur riedly, and what pass by without no tice? Every paper has plenty of material treated in each of these three ways by all of its readers. K'owever, no tall of it is treated the same way or viewed with the same interest by all of its readers. The prevalent be lief that newspapers print a great quantity of crime items is due to the • way in which the average newspaper reader reads a newspaper, Lee A. White, editorial executive of the De troit News, said the other night in an address before the Medill School of Journalism. This is the way, accord ing to Mr. White, the reader goes through the evening paper: “Column 1, disarmament confer ence. The reader on the disarma ment conference: “Um, urn, urn. Japan, urn.” Finished. “Column two, Stillman case. No urns. Close attention. Occasional murmur of ‘Can you beat that?’’ One reader says he must scan the column because the case is ja sociological column.’ Another readier says ‘it is hot stuff.’ Both skip nary a word. “Column three, the farmer bloc in congress. The reader: ‘Um, urn. Well, I know what I think of farm ers.’ Finished. j “Column four: Murder. The read er: ‘Sav, here’s mystery in real life. Why, it’s as good as a novel.’ No further sound from him for twelve minutes. Finished. “Column five, Orchestra deficit: Orchestra must be saved. The read er: ‘ls that so? Well, let somebody save it then.’ Finished.” By that time, Mr.. White said the reader turns hurriedly to the sport page, and after having earned his rest, sleeps his slumbers disturbed, however, by the thought of the crime the newspapers print. COSTS YOU SSO. XT OU and all other Americans con- * tribute an average of about SSO a year apiece to the railroads. Error sharps who want to check this figure, can get it by dividing the population into the railroads’ total re ceipts during 1921. While some of us may think we never use the railroads at all, for freight or passenger service, railroad transportation charges appear in ev erything we buy. The figure of SSO a year apiece probably is a nearly accurate aver age, for such things as railroad tolls have away of slowly buttering out evenly over the country. ■ They are passed on and on until the burden is fairly well divided on the shoulders of the weary army known as Ultimate Consumers. Multiply the SSO by the number in your family and you know how much of your yearly cost of living is due to railroad service. One trouble with “the railroad problem” is that it has been present ed mostly in terms of’billions—fig ures so big that even the average adding machine cannot handle tfyem, let alone a family that is thinking in terms of two cents a pound saved on butter. Having got the railroad problem down to a levy figure of SSO a year apiece, the question naturally rises: “What do vfe get for it?” In retufn for the SSO, the railroads perform service equivalent to haul ing each American 336 miles a year on passenger trains and carrying for him, one ton of freight 2817 miles— * almost across the continent. Back in, 1913, a normal year, the railroads did just about the same passenger and freight service for the average American as in 1921. The cost of doing this was about S3O a year for each of us. In other words, the railroads in 1921 performed nearly the same serv ice as in normal times, but charged two-thirds more. The increase just about matched the expansion of cost of living. A thousand and one morals can be drawn from the railroad figures. The most important is, that all eco nomic problems at all times should be considered in terms of actual services rendered and bulk of com modities changing hands, instead of in terms of dollars, whose buying power changes constantly like an eternal moving picture. If these new silver dollars won’t stack up keep them rolling. Only thing that scares a horse in town is seeing another horse. Ford isj, making artificial leather from gunpowder. Approach these restaurant steaks carefully. West Virginia banker in a coma eight weeks nearly reached a period. - - I Another chorus girl has married a millionaire for love. If everybody were rich how would hound dogs get raised? An English princess is paid $30,000 yearly; but you have to be horn for the job. A bad man is hard to fine. “Thief Weds Victim’s Daughter"— headline. A regular chicken thief. Europe thinks her pow-wows will go to the bow-wows wiithout us. The man who thinks twice before he speaks usually has a wife who speaks twice before she thinks. You’ve got to look sharp to cut much ice. The first almanac was published 1200 B. C. It is'time to revise it. Princeton asks parents not to give students autos. You can’t burn gas and midnight oil at the same time. * « * The couple who married after quarreling 30 years are well trained. The darker things got, the more chance there is to shine. If there were only four autos 25 years ago where did the taxi com panies get theirs? Giving hospital patients confiscated booze is one way to keep them. When a man tells a girls her dresses arc too short Cupid moves on to the next victim. About time for birds to start watching to see who buys garden seed. “Rubber Heels Save Knocks,” reads an advertisement. Yes, people are careful how they talk about you. An old distillery is turning out 1000 gallons of varnish daily. On sale at leading bootleggeries. The most serious operation is hav ing your pay cut. A grin a day keeps old age away. Hot air and cold feet go together. VICTORY ENDS IN DEATH. ESSEX, Eng., Feb. 9.—After de feating a comrade in a practice race at Warley Barracks, a grenadier guardsman named Rhodes fell dead. DOCTOR ORDERED WOMANIBEYED Took Lydia EPinkham’s Veg etable Compound and is Now Well Chicago, Illinois.—“ You surely gave women one good medicine when you put Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound on the mar ket. After I had my baby I was all run down and so nervous it kept me from gain ing. My doctor did everything he could to build me up, then heorderedme to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound with his mod- fl Umß Ji icine and I am now a new woman.! have had three children and they are all Lydia E. Pinkham babies. I have rec ommended your medicine to several friends and they speak highly of it. You are certainly doing good work in this world. ’’- Mrs. Adrith Tomshf.ck, 10557 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. There is nothing very strange about the doctor directing Mrs. Tomsheck to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Comjiound. There are many physicians who dorecommend it and highly appreci ate its value. Women who are nervous, run down, and suffering from women’s ailments should give this well-known root and herb medicine a trial. Mrs. Tomsheck s experience should guide you towards health. •->, KQI Advbhture-s > LZI ©!=■ TUB TWINS gSk Ctivw Roberts’ Barton “MIST LAND.” St « : . -J a There was a nice little tr ain of cars to meet them. ’T'HE next place to which Buskins *■ look the Twins was called Mist Land, it was another part of the Kingdom-of-Up-ih-the-Air. When the magic apple-tree eleva tor stopped and they all got out, there was a nice little train of cars to meet them and a jolly engineer looikng out of the window. Buskins introduced them. “Nancy and Nick, this is Scootalong, the steam-fairy. Scootalong, these are the Twins and we’re on adventures. I’m glad you are here to meet us.” Scootalong touched his cap and said that he was much obliged to meet them ,and that he’d been look ing for them ever since he’d received Buskins’ telegram that they were coming. Buskins explained to the Twins that the reason all steam went straight up to the sky was because it was really a million fairies going to Scootalong for orders. He was chief of them all. “No one knows how important a person he is,” went (OLD DAYS IN ' AMERICUSi TEN YEARS AGO TODAY. (From the Times-Recorder February 9, 1912.) /“|NCE again, for the first time in nearly three-quarters of a cen tury, real Indians are encamped on the borders of Muckalee creek, with in the confines of the city. They be long to the Choctaw tribe and are occupying a camp at the west end of Muckalee bridge on the Plains- Smithville road, just within the city limits. After an absence of 17 years in New York, Eugene Hinkle is wel comed back to Americus, his boyhood home, now en route to Florida, where he and Mrs. Hinkle will spend some time. Prof. G. V. Cunningham has re signed his position as instructor in science and agriculture at the Third District Agricultural College, the resignation going into effect yester day. He will enter the service of the United States Department of Agri culture as district agent for South west Georgia in charge of the Boys’ Corn cluli movement. Animal stories will be told the children of Americus at the story telling hour at the Carnegie Library this afternoon, the main story being about the “Dog of Flanders.” TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY. (From The Times-Recorder, Febru ary 9, 1902.) The funeral of George P. Dure, who died at his home in Americus at a late hour Friday night, will be held ALLISON UNDERTAKING CO. Ettablithed 1908. Funeral Directors And Embalmers Noel E. Smith and Olen Buchanan, Directors Day Phones: 286 and 253 Night, §59 381 and 106 DR. E. E. PARSONS DENTIST Will move Dec. 12th on Jackson St. next to Kress’ Store at the Dr. N. S. Evans’ Dental office. .He will be glad to meet his friends there. CONCERT By Fritz Ki'eisler, Noted Violinist He wili appear in Macon Feb. Bth in concert, giving a selection of his best numbers, and while we can not all attend there, we can enjoy the some treat in our own home by his records on the Victrola. We have a splendid selection of these; come and hear / them. February records all in now. Howell’s Pharmacy, Music Dept. if ■ ’ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. on Buskins, ‘ for the 5:10 express down on the earth all depends on him and his fairies for being on time. He tells the steam fairies just how to push the wheels of the en gine around when the engineer o'pens the throttle and how to blow the whistle at the crossings, and how to stop the train at important places, and everything. Yes, Mr. Scootalong is a very important per son.” Mr. Scootalong bowed and touched his cap again and repeated that he was much obliged for the compli ment. "Won’t you hop in now, young friends?” he asked. “I’ll take you around and show you things. We’re all busy up here in Mist Land from the teakettle fairies to the fog fairies. Mr. Sprinkle-Blow doesn’t make all the weather. Nancy and Nick thanked him and followed Buskins into one of the funny little cars. (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1922.) in Macon this afternoon, where the body was carried yesterday. Mrs. E. R. Raiford, after an ill ness of some months, passed away yesterday morning at her home in Columbus, where she had resided for the past two years. She had resided in Americus for a long number of years t and has numberless friends and relatives here. The funeral will be held from the First Methodist church here this afternoon at 3 o’clock. The Americus S. P. C. A. has named its officers and these are as follows: Judge R. L. Maynard, president; T. M. Furlow, vice presi dent, and T. W. Callaway, secretary. The society will prosecute any case of cruelty to animals reported. The many friends of George Stan field and Miss Stanfield will regret to learn that they have determined to make their home in Norfolk, Va., and will leave Americus within the week. C. H. Beazley, a prominent citizen of Leesburg, was in Americus yes terday and expressed his firm convic tion that petroleum has been found on the farm of ‘Secretary of State Cook, in thpt county. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY. (From 'fhe Times-Recorder, Febru ary 9, 1892.) A meeting of the city council was wk ry /jkmbT ■ SAVE MONEY! Let Oliver Auto Painting Co. Make your car like new. First class Paint First class work. Over Turpin’s Garage. Americus, Ga. THE OLD HOME TOWN By Stanly i jj [}o ‘ . V -■ - —I ANp I - ; i I _n_r w u u.J- .ILBbM mJ !■£"» mb MRM IMPLEMENTS | 5 1W ;iPE£>_ MILLS & "W - 31-is ret-? proof hoe handles ... say A . no-no- s oil- ) E HERCULES EASV death dealing \ CORN STALK SHREDDER < —LZ;CONTRAPTIONS / n ., CUTTER AINP ME!! VICKLC SHAVER.- /' - k I CANHVM ; Il '' I CZAHLcy i AENER TUT hill LOST H!5 BEAftD WHILE U WATCH IHG A STRANGER PEttONSTRATE //J ’ RROgB* ' A WONDERFUL INVENTION- Q held last night, the purpose of the meeting being the discussion of sala ries of the officials, the decision reached being to raise the pay. The mayor will receive $1,200; the aider men SIOO each; the city engineer, $1,500 and the cost of horse feed; elerk and treasurer SI,BOO and no perquisites, and the city attorney SSOO. The salaries of the other of ficials were not altered. Rev. A. M. Williams preached an eloquent sermon to a large congrega tion at the First Methodist church on Sunday night, and the congrega tion which gathered to hear him was a large and appreciative one. Those on the inside predict tht street cars will be running in Ameri cus again by March 15. Ed Ansley made a sale of 3,000 cigars to a firm in Dallas, Texas, yes terdy. The cigar, “The Ansley Seal,” is one of the finest on the market, and Mr. Ansley has had dif ficulty in keeping the market sup plied. IL (’. Storey, business manager of the Macon Telegraph, was in the city Sunday. He is making arrangement.! to move his family to that city shortly. AMERICUS UNDERTAKING CO. Funeral Directors And Embalmers NAT LEMASTER, Manager Day Phones 88 and 231 Night Phones 661 and 889 Our stock of Fancy and Staple Groceries is complete. Full line of Meats. Oysters all the time. We are in the market for Poultry and Eggs. WEST END MARKET Phone 71 J. L. Glawson, Mgr. RAILROAD SCHEDULES (Central Time.) Arrival and Departure of Pattengier Trains, Americus, Ga. The following schedule figures published as information and not guaranteed: CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY. Arrive Leave 11:55 pm Columbus-Chgo 3:40 am 10:38 pm Albany-Montg’y 5:14 am 7:25 pm Macon-Atlanta 6:37 am 7:15 pm Columbus *7:30 am 1:55 pm Albany-Montg’y 2:14 pm 2:14 pm Macon-Atlanta 1:55 pm 1:25 pm Columbus *3:30 pm J 0:00 am Columbus !2:30 pm 6:37 am Albany 7:25 pm 5:14 am Macon-Atlanta 10:38 pm 3:4oam Albany-Jaxville 11:55 pm 2:58 am Albany-Jaxville 12:37 am 12:37am Chgo, St. L. Alla 2:58 am 1:58 am Cinti and Atlanta 1:58 am (*) Daily; (!) Sunday. SEABOARD AIR LINE Arrives Leaves 5:15 pm Richland-Cols 10:00 am 3:10 pm Curdele-Savh. 12:26 pm 12:31 pm Richland-Montg’y 3:10 pm L. G. COUNCIL. President. T. E. BOLTON, Asst Cashier. C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashier. JOE M. BRYAN, Asst. Cashier, (Incorporated.) The Planters Bank of Americus 1 The Bank With a Surplus. Resources Over $1,700,000 19^2 Why not start the new BSeIPI Wt| year aright? We offer you > W/i iil adequate banking facilities, ■MEmS? ifilig l*i 11' Doth Commercial and Sav ’n&s» an< l W ‘B be pleased to lU ■%Jglrtiil have you consult our offi- cers Personally or by mail. We cordially invite your ac count< PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING No Account 100 Large; None Too Small J! Your Banking Business Invited We I ’.ty 4 Per Cent Interest On Time Deposits BANK OF COMMERCE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS i Frank Sheffield. Charles R. Crisp. 1 John Sheffield Lee Hudson Organized October 13, 1891, , ' /‘j “DOMESTIC BREAD” When you want real Bread. Call for the one that has the want more taste. t “THERE’S A DIFFERENCE” Modelfßread Co.' More Mules We will have this week 50 Fresh Mules--not the cheap kind-good mules cheap. Also good £tock of Wagons, Buggies, Harness, Col lars, Bridles, Plow Gear, Etc. COME TO SEE US. j G. A. & W. G. TURPIN j THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1922/
