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THE TIMES-RECORDER
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
Ye are the children of light, and
the children of the day.—l lheisa
lonian, 5:5.
Fcitune! There is n« fortune! Al)
is trial or punishment or recompense
or foresight!—Voltaire.
THE HAWKINS CHARGE.
A MERICL’S is in the limelight
• again. Representative Ed Mc-
Michael, of Marion county, who has
been a determined foe of the state
highway department, startled the
Georgia house Friday in the course
of a lengthy and bitter speech, by
reading a letter from Joe Hawkins,
of Americus, accusing W. A. Cross
land, federal highway engineer for
Georgia of claiming a personal profit
to the extent of $15,000 in the pur
chase some months ago by the state
highway department of its rock quar
ry in Elbert county.
This charge is serious, and should
be sifted to the bottom —either prov
ed or disproved. However, inasmuch
as it is made against a federal em
ployee and not against any person
connected with the state highway de
partment, it should not be permitted
to prejudice any mind against the
state highway department, in which
the people of this section as a whole
have had great faith, until the facts
are ascertained. Discussing the
charge, Janie A. Hollomon, writing
in the Atlanta Constitution, says:
“1 say without fear or favor that
the introduction in debate of such un
supported and unsworn testimony,
vague and indefinite, in connection
with a discussion of reports made
entirely upon the evidences of sworn
witnesses —and concerning an offi
cial of the federal government who
is not in anyway connected with
the state government of Georgia, or
its highway department, was an ef
fort to appeal to prejudice and pas
sion, and was a method of fighting
the highway department that is un
worthy of the gentleman from Ma
rion, or any other member of the
Georgia legislature.
“If Engineer Crossland, of the gov
ernment service, is guilty of wrong
doing he should be discharged from
his position; and if guilty of a crime
he should be punished by law.
“If any member of the Georgia
highway comission, official or em
ployee, has now or has ever had, any
personal interest, directly or indirect
ly, in any supplies sold to the state,
or has ever financially profited to
large or small extent, in any of the
transactions of the department, he
should be discharged, and if guilty
of crime should be punished—
“ But to take an alleged unsupport
ed statement against a federal em
ployee, and to convert it into a sen
sational attack upon the state high
way department in order to stir up
animosity and to arouse the passions
and prejudices of members, and to
feed the sinister and insidious under
current of rumors as to graft and
corruption, emanating from enemies
of the department, is to abet and aid
in a propaganda that real men and
true men and conservative men ought
not to encourage.
“Joseph Hawkins, who is alleged
to have written the letter introduced
by Mr. McMichael, was a former
engineer of the state highway depart
ment, and was discharged, according
to my information. It is understood
that' he has been sowing seeds of
poison against the department since.
“Even if his alleged statements re
garding Crossland are correct—and
I do not know anything to support
’or deny them—they do not involve,
at the present stage, certainly, any
State of Georgia official or em
ployee; nor do they show any care
lessness or indifference or incompe
tency upon any Georgia official or
employee.
“Until, by investigation, such
shall be proven, then any charge, by
innuendo, or direct, is not only pue
rile but bordering on the libelous.”
According to the report, the El
bert quarry has met the expectation:
of the state department and in every
way is satisfactory and worth every
H cent paid for it. Now that the chal
” lenge has come in a form that must
be cleared up, we believe those in
authority should not hesitate to take
all necessary steps to get at the
truth and see that the guilty are pun
ished, if anyone is guilty, or close
j the mouths of the accusers, if their
accusations are false.
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But Mrs. Bunny had to tell them a million things about how cute
Bunny, Jr., was getting.
i"\R. SNUFFLES and Nancy and
Nick went off through the
woods to the place where Marty Mink
lived near Ripple Creek. .
Marty had swallowed a fish-bone
and the fairy ductor-man was going
to take it out.
The news had spread all throug\
Whispering Forest and Bright
Meadowland and Old Orchard and
even to Lilly Pond, for Scramble
Squirrel had been in the doctor’s
office and heard about it.
“We’ll have to hurry!” said Dr.
Snuffles, “for poor Marty can’t eat
until I get the fish-bone out.”
But scarcely had he spoken when
Mrs. Bunny called out of her front
door (they were just passing the
Ben Bunny house) and asked the
doctor please to stop in and see how
fat the baby was getting.
"It will only take a minute,” said
Dr. Snuffles, "and we can’t afford
to offend a good customer—l mean
patient. Come along, children.”
But Mrs. Bunny had to tell them
a million things about how cute
Bunny, Jr., was getting how he’d
cut his cute little teeth and how
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WHOM SHALL MOLLY MARRY?
Will Molly lake W1 eeer’s Offer? Ben, lAm Trying to Think It
Out But You force Me So. You’re Hard—So Hard.’
BY ZOE BECKLEY.
It/fOLLY stood looking down, at
*”* Ben’s' strong, sun-browned hand
as it gripped the table-edge. His
other arm suddenly went round her
shoulder and gave her a firm little
jerk.
‘ “Come—answer me,” he repeated,
"do you want strength or sweets?”
She* raised her eyes and, meeting
Ben’s, was surprised to see what
goed eyes they were. Ke held her
gaze steadfastly and pressed her a
bit closer against his side.
Once more Molly felt a sweep of—
what was it, emotion? No, not quite
that. Magnetism? Scarcely; Ben
had not great magnetism, that was
just the trouble.
She decided it was a sense of com
fort and safety without thrill.
"Ben,” she answered slowly, mov
ing away ever so slightly, “1 am try
ing to think it out.'But you force
me so. You’re so—so hard and —
what is the word, implacable. You
make me ‘stand and deliver.’ You
insist that I choose between
‘strength and sweets,’ as you put it.
“Well, 1 love strength —” He
made a movement toward her. “ —but
the man 1 marry must have —a cer
tain sweetness too, gentleness, deli
cacy—Oh, 1 don’t know how to ex
press it, Ben, but you—you are so
hard and—somehow relentless.”
Molly turned away, dropping- her
arms in a weary, baffled gesture.
Ben looked steadily at her, his face
set in its hardest lines.
“You mean,” he said, clipping his
words harshly, “that I must offer
you more than I do. Yet I can give
you marriage, a fine home, plenty of
money to do with as you like—to
buy all the beauty and sweetness
you want. As for ‘delicacy’—” Ben
pronounced the word with con
tempt, “I admit I’m no dainty Willie
boy, nor do I want to be.”
She was silent, angry at herself
for her confusion of mind, and at
Ben for his dogged persistence.
“Very well, then.” Ben’s words
fairly clicked. “I see the answer.
You’re in love with that simp archi
tect. Well, I’m going to change
your mind. I’m going to change
you. Just you wait—”
“That’s just what .1 want .to do—
wait.”
Molly’s failing patience was ap-
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he’d learned to flop his ears and
wiggle his nose and how soft his fur
was and how his whiskers were
growing and how he’d learned to
chew plantain and everything.
Dr. Snuffles kept looking at his
watch and saying yes, yes, what a
fine boy Benny was, but he’d really
have to be going.
Nancy and Nick kept thinking of
poor Marty Mink and his fish-bone,
and thty really thought Mrs. Bunny
would never get done talking.
But at last they got away.
Then a funny thing happened.
Mrs. Bunny tore out of her back
door and took a short cut to Mrs.
Woodchuck’s.
“St, st!” she called. “You there,
Wilhelmain? Say, here comes Dr.
Snuffles and his helpers. 1 kt (pt
him as long as 1 could, and now it’s
your turn.
“The longer we can keep him from
getting that fish-bone out of Marty’s
throat the longer he’ll have to do
without a meal and the longer our
I children will be safe!”
(To be continued.)
(Copyright, 1922.)
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“YOU SAY YOU ARE GOING TO
CHANGE ME? WELL, TWO CAN
PLAY AT THAT GAME.”
| parent in her voice, usually soft,
' now shrill and tempensh.
"I hate that streak of cruelty in
| you, Ben. You’re as hard and stub
bom as the metal you deal in.
"You say you are going to change
! me. Well, two can play at that
■ game. Suppose I undertake to
i change you—put you through fire
> and a fearful hammering, as you do
| your steel! I’m going to do it for
your own sake—and mine! Let’s see
who wins!”
Abruptly she turned and left the
j office before Wheeler could meet her
; challenge.
(To J>e continued.)
All the bathing suits must come
| from Missouri.
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OLD DAYS IN
AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
Monday morning, no paper pub
lished.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder July
8, 198.)
E 1 VERY variety of fruit except a
few sun-baked melons and knot
ty peaches have disappeared. It is
too hot for anything to grow.
A brocaded mule with a light suit
■of harness dangling at his heels stir
red Forsyth street yesterday by a
runaway, alarming the sleepers.
Miss Sarah Junes, of M intgomery,
the guest of Mrs. J. A. Pinkston, is
stopping with Mrs. W. G. Turpin this
week.
Miss Alice Massey, one of Colum
bus’ fairest debutantes is visiting at
the home of Judge and Mrs. J. B.
Pilsbury on Felder street.
Again did Americus score a hun
dred and more in temperature yes
terday. It was the seventh day of
i intensely hot weather, on every day
j of which the temperature went well
above a hundred. Even the nights
are intensely hot, and sleeping is next
to impossible.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder July
8, 1892.)
Mrs. J. F Watson and her daugh
ter, Miss Leila, have gone for the
summer to Atlanta, Gainesville and
other places.
Miss Janie Ansley of this -ily and
Mr. John Rogers, who lives near
Americus, were united in marriage
Wednesday at the home of the bride’s
parents in Leeton, Rev. Mr. Williams
officiating. They left at once for
i Florida where they will spend some
time.
Miss Hattie B. McKenzie and Al
bert G. Drane, of Americus, were
married tonight at the home of the
t bride s mother, in Washington, D. C.
Nearly qll of the Georgia colony in
Washington,. including Speaker Crisp
and family were present;—Washing
ton Correspondence, Atlanta Consti
tution. Mr. and Mrs. Drane arrived
in the city last night and will be the
guests of Mr. Drane’s relatives, Mr.
and Mrs. Bloom Brown for several
days, after which they will visit
Friendship, the boyhood home of Mr.
Drane.
i OBSERVATIONS
| BY TOM SIMS
People who long fey? the good old
days would hate to drive a horse.
We think the best looking girl in
the movies is selling tickets.
If overwork caused baldness some
men would never have to shave.
If you don’t pay aS you go, you
are gone.
Men who think they are sharks
usually forget sharks are big fish.
Every now and then a writer
turns out to be a wronger.
When in Rome do as the Romans
do; but when in ibad don’t do as the
bad ones do.
Most of these big movie salaries
are stage money.
Looks like a woman’s work is
hunting a husband. She does it
before and after marriage.
There is a happiness shortage.
Don’t lose any.
Tourists in Europe say they are
overcharged. Well, they went over
to hit the high spots.
Health hint: Show the fly swat’s
swat.
Think of the money you save by
not eating so much in hot weather.
Take your Bicycle to Compton’.
Shop to be made good a. new.
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What’s in a name? Will Horn- '
blower is a California legislator.
It’s a wonder some of these celeb- '
cities don’t forget and marry the
same man over again.
• Nearly everybody is willing to
give away advice except a lawyer. ;
Very few ice men know the dis- <
ference between cantaloupes on ice |
and ice on cantaloupes.
Strange things happen. The |
Prince of Monaco, owner of a i
gambling joint, died a natural death, j
Ohio man cut off his wife’s thumb. I
Perhaps she kept him under it.
Nowadays a pitcher’s ambition is i
to pitch a no-home run game.
A. Boomer lives up to his name, j
He is the French open golf champ.
MANDOLINS
GUITARS
VIOLINS
Sheet Music
Thos. L. Bell
Jeweler and Optician
F. ROY DUNCAN
Architect and
Electrical Engineer
Exchange Dl<ig. Columbae. Ga
AMERICUS
UNDERTAKING CO.
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
Day Phones 88 and 231
Night Phones 661 and 889
RAILROAD SCHEDULES
(Central Time.)
Arrival and Departure of Paitenger
Trains, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures ■
published as information and not
gua72~*'’“ 4 *
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive Leave
11:55 pm Columbus-Chgo 3:45 am
10:35 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 :
110:00 am Columbus 12:30 pm j
6:37 am Albany 7:25 pm,
5:14 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pm
3:45 am Albany-Jaxville 11:55 pm
2:sßam Albany-Jaxvilie 12:37 am
12:37 am Chgo, St. L. Atla 2:58 am
1:35 am Cinti and Atlanth 1:35 am
(* Daily; (!) Sunday.
SEABOARD AIR LINE
Arrives Leaves
5:15 pm Richland Cols 10:00 am
3:10 pm Cordele-lavh. 12:26 pm
12:31 pm Richlaud-Kontg'y 3:10 pm
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The Bank With a Surplus.
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
30 Years of Service
ci' II The continued growth of this
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I'l >S J ilres proof that the service af
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I make a specialty of Farm Property Insurance, giving to
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' SATURDAY, JULY 8. 1922.