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(■ANDIS A KOHN. Brunavrick Bldg.. Nev York;
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
One day is with the Lord as a
thousand years, and a tnousand
years as a day 2 Peter 3:8.
Patience is the ballast of the soul,
that will keep it from rolling and
tumbling in the greatest storms.
Bishop Hopkins.
A CHALLENGE TO AMERICUS.
JJERE is a challenge to Americus.
The Times-Recorder has receiv
ed the following proposal from a citi
zen who works for daily wages at a
skilled trade:
“I paid a visit to Souther Field a
few days ago and it was my privilege
to inspect the air service depot build
ing there which is to be disposed of
by the government. I was amazed at
its size and impressed with the great
possibilities of turning it into a fac
tory.
“I authorize the Times-Recorder
to say for me that I will subscribe
to a local corporation to operate any
kind of an industrial enterprise at
that place one dollar for every per
son to be employed in the operation
of the enterprise frcrtn fifty up to
1,000, qnd will pay cash for my stock.
This offer is qualified only by the
condition that the concern must be
organized by responsible citizens of
this community, and must continue
to be owned and managed locally.”
Joining this man in this offer was
a co-worker who declared that he
would duplicate the proposal, dollar
for dollar on the same terms.
what two local workers
think of the opportunity facing their
town. What do the rest of you
think?
CRAZY STYLES.
CTYLES are always adjusted to the
*“* national state of mind. And the
return to normalcy is shown by the
present exit of jazz clothing designs.
So says Louis Rubin, secretary of
American Clothing Designers’ asso
ciation.
Louis, the national state of mind
has little to do with it. The change,
as always, is in the state of mind of
some designers and manufacturers.
The jazz styles, that are scheduled
to go into storage with mothballs,
did no', reflect unbalanced or neu
rotic mental condition among the
“vast i.nai irity” of the American peo
ple.
Freak styles come in cycles, pe
riodically, regardless of the national
state of mind. Fifteen years ago
was an era of horse-sense, without
jazz. Yet the lads of that day wore
the craziest clothes known to our
generation—-peg-top trousers, shoe
strings for neckties and enough but
tons on "a suit to load a dozen shot
guns.
When it comes to clothing, the
mass of people are in the predica
ment of a paid-in-advance boarder
who has to eat what is put before
him or go hungry.
We take what we get—what is
handed to us by resourceful brains
turning handsprings to stimulate
clothing sales.
Rebellion against abrupt style
changes, which play havoc with the
average person’s pocketbook, would
be certain if it were not for our in
stinct of imitation.* Man is more imi
tative than the monkey.
The imitativeness is mental as well
.Is physical. This explains the pe
riodical national switching from one
Cure-all to another illusion.
Short skirts came in as a ‘‘freak
ish” style, yet they are sane and sen
sible. Now the decree goes forth,
that to be in the swim the short skirt
must be discarded for a long one.
This doesn’t reveal any change in
the national state of the feminine
mind, for nine out of ten women are
about as keen to give up their short
skirts as they are to ‘‘gather wrin
kles.”
But groups of manufacturers de
cide to stimulate sales and move
stocks of cloth. So, by elaborate stag
ing. the long skirt will be forced on
*’otnen again.
It is a bitter pill for the girl who
scrimped and saved and went without
adequate lunches to get enough mon
ey to buy short skirts. She is con
templating the grim truth that a long
skirt can be shortened but a short
skirt cannot be lengtnened.
Fashion is a cruet and unjust Simo’r
Legree. * 9
The whole system is as senseless
as if word went Ont that everyone
must tear down his frame house and
build a brick one, or be old-fashioned.
KQ] ADVBHTUR&S L.T
O 0 TH& TWINS
Jy Ctk*e Roberiy Barton
HOW PHIL FROG ST OLE DOCTOR S PULLERS
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He grabbed them in his mouth and made a big dive into Ripple Creek.
«OW, OH, OUCH!” Marty Mink
was yelling when Dr. Snuf
fles and the Twins knocked on his
front door. “Doctor? C-c-come on
in.”
The three of them walked into
Marty’s muddy hallway. Marty, you
know, lives on the bank of Ripple
Creek, or rather in it.
Before Nancy had time to close
the door, Phil Frog put his toe in
the crack.
“Hey!” he cried. “You don’t mind
if I come, too, do you?”
“What do you want to come for,
Philip?” asked Nick. “Os course,
you’re safe as long as Marty has a
fish-bone in his throat because he
can’t eat anything.
WHOM SHALL MOLLY MARRY?
Can Ben Crush Billy?—‘Come, Molly, Chuck Poetizing And
Marry Me.’
BY ZOE BECKLEY.
fa 8 Molly reached the street from
** Barton s oil ice she almost ran
into Ben Wheeler’s arms as he swung
from his big car.
How like Ben to come flying
around on the instant to find out
what had occurred—and would oc
cur! With a masterful hand at her
elbow, he helped her in.
In away jßen was a man to be
pioud of. Nbt ill-looking; handsome
rather, in a big, harsh way. In his
carriage, his voice, his very groom
ing and clothes, he was the prosper
ous American.
If only Ben had a strain of soft
ness, sweetness, a bit of subtle un
derstanding! If only he—
Molly’s revery was broken as,
Swerving the car into the River
Road, Ben spoke suddenly.
“That fellow can’t win, Molly.
I’ve just won over Collins and
Meyer, of the committee, which
means Barton’s plans are rejected.
As for his suit against me, I’ll fight
him to the Supreme court. What
will he be when I’m through with
him?
“Come, Molly, chuck poetizing and
marry me.”
Revlusion possessed her. This was
Ben at his worst.
“Not yet, Ben. I want to see if
you and your jnoney are as strorig
and if Billy and his ability are as
easily ruined as you think. Hasn’t
it occurred to you this fight may
make instead of ruin him? Anyhow,
I am with him and I can’t go on
working for you.”
The hum of the motor purred to a
lower key and the car stopped on a
promontory tJ . vt, the river. Ben
pushed back his cap and cleared hw
throat, turning mutely to Molly.
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS j
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder July
12, 1912;)
AjIRS. B. E. Cato and son, Robert,
**• have gone to Hendersonville, N
C., where they will spend several
weeks pleasantly.
Miss Eula Lee Sawyer has come
from Atlanta and is the guest of her
grandmother, Mrs. Thomas Brooks.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Crockett will
leave tonight for Savannah, sailing
tomorrow aboard the steamship City
of Atlanta for New York where they
will spend two or three weeks.
Misses Josephine Bagley, Gertrude
and Lucile Jossey are guests of
friends in Macon.
Mr. and Mrs. Ned Sawyer are
spending some time in New York
City and Atlantic Beach.
Mrs. John W. Shiver will leave to
morrow for Atlanta to spend some
with friends, recuperating from a re
cent illness.
Miss Nell McCalla the attractive
guest of Mrs. John Butt, returned to
her home in Richland yesterday.
‘ Miss Lillie Glover has returned
home after a visit of three weeks
with her sister, Mrs. Jack Massey, in
Macon.
Mrs. George W. Bacot will arrive
tomorrow from Charleston upon a
visit in Americus, her former home,
as the guest of Mrs. Frank Harrold
on College street.
A very congenial party of Amer
icus people at Pablo Beach consists
of Mrs. W. E. Brown, Mrs. T. F.
Gallaway, and little daughter. Misses
Addie Taylor. Mamie, Elizabeth, and
Marjorie Brown, and Messrs Hinton
and Robert Brown. The party have
a desirable flat with a touring car at
their disposal and arb enjoying the
outing to the fullest degree They
have been at Pablo two weeks al
ready and will remain ten days
longer.
Phil grinned.
“Yes, that’s so,” he agreed. “But
I’m curious. I’d like to see how you
pull out fish-bones.”
“Well, come along then,” said
Nick.
“Ow, oh, ouch,? moaned Marty.
Dr. Snuffles took out his pullers
and was just going to pull out the
bone when Phil gave a quick jump
with his strpn-z hind legs anti
knocked the pullers out of the fairy
man’s hand, grabbed them in his
moutji and made a big dive into
Ripple Creek.
“I’m not going to run any risk of
Mr. Mink choking on a frog bone,
anyway,” grinned Phil.
(To be continued.)
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“COME, MOLLY, CHUCK POET
IZIN GAND MARRY ME.”
“Molly, I—listen—” he stammer
ed, “You’re on his side. Very well, I’ll
get you on mine before I’m done.
But the point is, no matter whom
you’re for, don’t leave the Wheeler
Works, Molly. We—need you. It’s
enough for Barton that you’re on his
side; you can at least—”
She knew what he wanted to say
and could not. It was as nearly
an emotional appeal as he could
manage.
‘All right, Ben,” she sai dsoftly,
after a pause, “I’ll stay,”
(To be continued.)
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder July
12, 1902.)
Miss Fannie Stallings, one of
Americus’ fairest debutantes and a
charming social favorite, will return
home today from an extended visit
in Batesville, Ala. Miss Stallings
will be accompanied by a number of
fair friends, who will be her guests
for two Weeks. Among the pretty
visitors coming today are Miss Nettie
Margart, of Bateville; Miss Lena
Garland, and Miss Mittie McNab, of
Eufaula; Miss Wilma Treadwell, of
Geneva and Miss Jessie Streyer, of
Macon.
Mrs. George W. Oliver left yester
day for Newark, N. J., where she will
spend some time as the gu«st of Mrs.
Samuel Dean.
Mrs. Lynn Fort and baby son have
gone to spend several days with rela
tives and friends in Atlanta.
Misses Orrie and Pansy Montfort
have returned home after a visit with
Mrs. Fred Arthur.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder July
12. 1892.)
The pretty residence of Capt. B.
P. Hollis was destroyed by fire last
night and this morning nothing re
mains of the lovely home of yester
day but a few charred pieces of
wood. Heroic efforts were made to
save the building but to no avail.
Some of the furniture was removed
in time hut much was lost. Captain
Hollis and his family were asleep
when the fire began and were awak
ened by it. The blaze originated in
the kitchen. The loss will amount
to several thousand dollars. The in
surance carried does not exceed $B
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John Windsor, a few days ago as
a token of his appreciation of the
compliments paid him by his asso-
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. ”
‘THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER’
with its words breathing hatred of our Anglo-
Saxon brother, Britain, and its music borrow
ed from a foul, English drinking song, "Ana
creon in Heaven.
CAN NEVER BECOME OUR NATIONAL;
ANTHEM, SAYS AUGUSTA E. STETSG.'N
BY AUGUSTA E. STETSON
P* VERY American worthy of the
name, who is awake to the true
meaning and origin of the athera en
titled “The Star-Spangled Banner”
will forever repudiate it, as an utter
ly unworthy medium for expressing
cne of tlie noblest of sentiments —
patriotism and love for jui glorious
country. Tbe spiritual ideals upon
•.hich this nation was based, through
its discoverer, the Norseman Leif
Ericson, in the year 1000; through its
founder, George Washington, in
1776, and through its preserver,
Abraham Lincoln, in 1865—these
spiritual ideals can never be voiced
through a song whose music was not
written by an American, but was
borrowed from a ribald, sensual
drinking song “Anacreon in Heaven,”
and whose words express vicious ha
tred of our natural brother and An
glo-Saxon comrade, Britain.
Never has Congress, trd never will
Congress, legalize an anthem which
sprang from the lowest qualities of
human sentiment. God forbids it.
Americans today are awaking to the
evil influence exerted upon Jheir
children, as well as upon themselves,
by “The Star Spangled Banner,” a
poem born of intense hatred of Great
Britain and wedded to a barroom bal
lad composed by a foreigner. For
example, consider the sentiments ex
pressed by the third verse:
“And where is that band who so
vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the bat
tle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave
us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul
footsteps’ pollution;
No refuge could save
The hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the
gloom of the grave.”
Do these phrases fittingly express
the spirit of America, the nation to.
whom the longing world looks today
for moral and spiritual leadership
with Christ at the head? Shall we
shout, in 'violent, unsingable cad
ences, of •‘the rockets’ red glare, the
bombs bursting in air,” and refer to
day to our democratic partner in
Anglo-Saxondom 4 —-Great Britain, —
as “the foe’s haughty host,” which “in
dread silence reposes?” Shall that
“carnal mind,’ which St. Paul de
clared was “enmity against God,” and
which has ever opposed the progress
of enlightenment and truth, be longer
allowed to express its qualities of
hate, sensuality, and bloody violence,
through “The Star Spangled Ban
ner?” Shall such seeds be planted in
t-he budding minds of America’s
school children? God forbid!
The spirit of America is not suita
bly expressed by hatred, nor by the
horrors of war, which all nations to
day are praying may be abolished
America’s national anthem, which
should be composed, as well as writ
ten by Americans, should express the
same noble animus as that which
Washington voiced when he said.
“Let us raise a standard, to which
the wise and honest can repair; the
event is in the hands of God,” and by
Lincoln, when he uttered the high re
solve that “this nation, under God,
shall have a new birth of freedom;
and that government of the people
by the people, for the people, shall
ciates, as well as a further proof ol
his devotion to his namesake, made
“the Windsor” a present of the mag
nificent silver service which now or
naments the beautiful drawing room
and buffets.
J. A. Ansley, Jr., is in the city on
a brief visit to his parents and
friends and will return to Milledge
ville today. Joe is one of the boys
of whom Americus is justly proud,
having passed an examination for
admission to the bar at seventeen,
unsurpassed by any young lawyer in
the state, in the opinion of his exam
iners. His friends hope to see him
return to Americus at an early date,
and follow his professional career in
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not perish from the earth.”
The work to be accomplished in tlib.’
hour is a transcendent one. Pagan
idolotry can never be enthroned in
America. The effort to do this is be
ing vigorously assailed by Christ, the
“King of kings and Lord of lords. ’
The government was, is, and always
will be upon his shoulder. The
downfall of European autocracy,
which has striven to its utmost to
trail in the dust America’s spiritual
standard, is becoming apparent.
Again we affirm, America was
founded upon spiritual ideals. Christ
at his second appearing, through his
representatives, has planted his stan
dard of spiritual domination on the
soil of the United States, and he is
ever present to defend it. The end
of the reign of ignorance, supersti
tion, serfdom an dallegiance to any
foreign ruler has come. Every knee
shall bow and every tongue shall con
fers the spiritual fact in regard to
America. Christ, at his second com
ing, has forever establis|jpd his king
lorn on earth. He has ordained his
isciples of the twentieth century,
vho are proving that their power is
i the exercise of spiritual dominion,
vith which God endows His children,
who obey His law of truth and love.
From the pages of America's his
oric record, “The Star-Spangled Ban
er” is v >dny being erased by fiat of
God. In its place will be revealed
America’s true national anthem,
written and composed by Americans,
penned by Christly inspiration and
illumined with spiritual light.
> OBSERVATIONS §
> B^ Y TOM SIMS $
The easiest way to lose your
memory is to borrow money,
It must be awful for this woman
who speaks 17 languages to keep a
secret in all of them.
One graduate got through college
by writing short storms. Maybe lie
wrote them to his father.
It takes a marriage license to get
married on, and it usually takes an
auto license qlso.
“Every girl can be beautiful,”
says an advertisement. Yes, but
suppose she is broke?
In Illinois, a gunsmith was held
up and robbed. You can’t always
get by on your reputation.
Washington was the father of his
country. But a Vermont man did
the best he could. He has 326 di
rect rescendants.
There may be no connection; but
the ex-kaiser’s book was written in
Holland, and geographies say: Hol
land —a low lying country.
At least 10 aviation companies are
operating lines in Germany.
A compromise is when a man
agrees to let his wife have what she
wants if she will shut up.
“Auto and Airplane Collide” —
headline. And it happened in Los
Angeles where hey are supposed to
have good roads.
Paper in Miami, Fla., has a broad
casting station. It competes with
the other station W. J. B.
Every dog has his ejay and ever}’
dog has his knight.
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