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FRIDAY. JANUARY 12, 1923 7
MOST RETIRING MILLIONA IRE IN U. S.
TELLS HOW YOU CAN REACH SUCCESS
t From a $2.27-a-month clerk, Jas.
C. Penney, America’s most retir
ing millionaire, has risen to head
a $50,000,000-a-year enterprise.
He succeeded, first, because he
attended strictly to business and
second, because his wife helped
him.
He says you can attain similar
success—
By hard work and a willing
ness to sacrifice on your own job!
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 11.—A penni
less business failure who rose to the
head of a system of 371 chain stores
doing more than $50,000,000 busi
ness a year in 29 states, is Amerfca’s
most retiring millionaire.
He is James C. Penney, 47, of
White Plains, N. Y., whose name
would still be unknown to the gen
eral public if his broker hadn’t an
nounced the issuance of $1,500,000
life insurance policy making his to
tal $3,000,000. Only three other
persons in this country carry a great
er insurance. They are Adolph Zuk
or who heads the list with $5,000,-
000, Rodman Wanamaker and Pierre
duPont.
Secret of His Success.
How has this wealthy man suc
ceeded in'keeping out of the public
eye?
Ey minding his own business.
Iv is the secret of his success. He
learned it as a youngster.
When he was nine he first felt the
urge of making money. But there
wasn’t much doing in Hamilton, Mo.,
where he was bom, and there wasn’t
much time after school. Young Pen
ney found way, however.
He started raising hogs. He let no
one help him. During his free hours
be went out collecting slops for his
pigs. The business grew so large
that he finally had to give it up.
His next venture was planting wa
termelons.
After he finished school, he got his
first job in the largest general store
in town. His pay was $2.27 a month.
The next year he was raised to
$16.66 but his health failed him and
he had to go to Denver.
Undaunted by Failure.
•There he went into the butcher
business—and failed.
Penniless he got a job in a drygood
store. When he saved SSOO he
bought a part interest in a branch
store in Kemmerer, Wyo. It was the
beginning of the J. C. Penney chain
store system.
“My wife and I,” says the mil
lionaire, ‘honeymooned cheerfully
among the packing cases. I was the
boss; she was the clerk.
“Success in business is obtained
FEEL CHILLY
ALL THE TIME?
IT’S a warning of thin, impure blood
and low vitality when you feel
chilly all the time and dread going
out into the winter air.
Gude’s Pepto-Mangan will increase
your Supply of pure rich blood, help you
put on firm, healthy flesh, and build up
your vigor and vitality. Then you will
feel warm in the coldest weather, and
be protected against coughs, colds and
other winter ills.
You will find Gude’s at your drug
gist’s—both in liquid and tablet form.
Gude’s
Pepto-Mangan
Tonic and Blood Enricher
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Just received from Sherman, Texas, a shipment of genuine
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BRAND.”
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SKETCH OF JAMES C. PENNEY AND STEPS IN THS SUCCESS
only through sacrifice. In making
sacrifices for future success, a wife
must be the real partner of her hus
band.
Mrs. Penny was—
And so they succeeded.
GAS TAX AND HIGH
LICENSE IN INDIANA
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 12—A gas
oline tax of two centg-per gallon, an
increase ranging from 50 to 100 per
cent in automobile license fees, thor
ough consideration of proposed plans
for improving education, appropria
tion of $1,000,000 to continue the
new reformatory building program,
and general economy in apprdpria
tions are included in the program
which. Governor McCray presented
to the legisalture. Tax legislation
as a purely partisan measure may
be introduced by democrats, whose
platform, favored “home rule” in
control over tax levies and bond is
sues. Governor McCray and other
republican leaders believe such au
thority should remain with the state
tax board.
COMB SAGE TEA
INTO GRAY HAIR
Darkens Beautifully and Restores
its Natural Color and
Lustre At Once
Common garden sage browed into a
heavy tea, with sulphur and alcohol
added, will turn gray, streaked and
faded hair beautifully dark and 4 lux
uriant. Mixing the Sage Tea and Sul
phur recipe at home, though, is trouble
some. An easier way is to get the
ready-to-use preparation improved by
the addition of other ingredients a
large bottle, at little cost, at drug stores,
known as “Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur
Compound,” thus avoiding a lot of
muss.
While gray, faded hair is not sinful,
we all desire to retain our youthful ap
pearance and attractiveness. By dark
ening your hair with Wyeth’s Sage and
Sulphur Compound, no one can tell, be
cause it does it so naturally, so evenly.
You just dampen a sponge or soft
brush with it and draw this through
your hair, taking one small strand at a
time; by morning all gray hairs have
disappeared. After another application
or two your hair becomes beautifully
dark, glossy, soft and luxuriant and you
appear years younger.
,COTTON PRODUCTION
ON COMPETITIVE BASIS
SYDNEY, N. S. W. Jan. 12—In-
I vestigation conducted by the visiting
I delegation of British cotton experts
revealed that cotton raised in Aus
tralia by white labor could compete
L successfully with that r.Ased in oth
er lands, according to the delega
tion’s report.
“There is no need to worry about
the maintainence of the “White Aus
. tralia” policy so far as the exten
sion of the cotton industry is con
cerned.” according to Daniel Jones,
Queensland government cotton ex
i pert.
In Queensland, the cotton rettrn
per acre over the harvest season of
! from five to eight months is more
than the average yield in the United
States, he said, giving instances of
crops belonging to returned soldiers
here which realized as much as thirty
pounds per acre, with a production
cost of eight pounds. This success
is due partly, he said, to the fact
that many of the plantations had
been worked on the family-share sys
tem, independent of outside labor.
Many additional acres of cotton are
being planted.
The Vatican library, in Rome,
contains 34,000 manuscripts and
about 250,000 printed volumes.
RED PEPPER HEAT
STOPS BACKACHEj
The heat of red peppers takes the
“ouch” from a sore, lame back. It can
not hurt you, and it certainly ends the
torture at once.
When you are suffering so you can
hardly get around, just try Red Pepper
Rub, and you will have the quickest re
lief known. Nothing has such concen
trated, penetrating heat as red peppers.
Just as soon as you apply Red Pep
per Rub you will feel the tingling heat.
In three minutes it warms the sore spot
through and through. Pain and sore
ness are gone.
Ask any druggist for a jar of Rowles
Red Pepper Rub. Be sure to get the
genuine, with the name Rowles on each
package.
Mules Vr
Just unloaded 2 cars Mules. In this
lot we have some of the finest Mare
Mules, direct from Kentucky, shipped
here this season, 4 and 5 years old; well
broke.
ALSO SOME GOOD SECOND HAND
• MULES ON HAND
PRICES RIGHT
CASH OR CREDIT
G. A. & W. Ge TURPIN
East Lamar St. Americus, Ga.
THE TIF4ES-RECORDER.
1130,000 BOND ISSUE'
WANTED FOR SCHOOLS
(Continued from Page One.)
Dykes declared, “or our schools will
suffer and it will be impossible io
receive ail the pupils applying for
seats. The school rooms now are
over-crowded, with 35 and 40 pupils
in a room, whereas there should not
be more than 30 pupils.”
The schools now need five or six
more teachers, he declared, and a
bond issue must be put over this
summer or a new high chool build
ing and additions to the negro school,
which is more congested than any of
the white schools.
The city can now issue $172,000
additional bonds, Mr. Dykes said,
without exceeding its legal limita
tions. The schools need at least
$130,000 of this sum; SIOO,OOO must
be used for a new high school, the
present high school being taken for
the lower grades and $30,000 devot
ed to enlargement of the negro school
building.
“This is the business of the busi
ness men,” Mr. Dykes declared. “We
can not wait longer. This bond issue
must be passed this summer or our
children will suffer in 1924. Every
civic organization in Amorous will be
asked to join the Board of Education
in an educational campaign, acquaint
ing the citizens with the ac-.ual con
ditions faced today by the board and
their schools.”
The resolution was ' unanimously
passed.
John Sheffield, speaking for a
special committee from the Rotary
club, appointed to look into the af
fairs of the Chamber of Commerce
and report regarding its activities and
whether it should be continued or
disbanded, stated that the Chamber
of Commerce is out of debt, has
money in the bank and is doing splen
did work in a limited way, but car
ing for all needs that have presented
themselves. He declared it as the
I unanimous opinion of the Rotary
committee that the chamber should be
continued, that every Rotarian should
be a member and a worker in the
COMING TO
CORDELE
on a Return Visit
IHEPMIftIW
SPECIALIST
Treating Diseases Without Surgi
cal Operation
At the Suwanee Hotel Thursday,
Jan. 25. Office Hours:
10 A. M. To 4 P. M.
ONE DAY ONLY
Returning in Three Months
FREE CONSULTATION
The Progressive Doctors’ Specialist
is licensed by the State of Georgia; a
graduate of one of the best universi
ties; twenty-five years of practical
experience; (third year in Georgia)
comes well recommended. Will dem
onstrate in the principal cities meth
ods of treating diseases of long
standing by means of medicines, diet
and hygiene, thus saving many peo
ple from a dangerous and expensive
surgical operataion.
This specialist is an expert in diag
nosis and will tell you the exact truth
about your condition. Only those
who have a good chance to regain
their health will be treated, so that
every one who takes treatment will
bring their friends at the next visit.
A diognosis of any disease of long
standing, its nature and cause, will
be made Free and proper medicines
will be furnished at a reasonable cost
to those selected as favorable cases.
Children must be accompanied by
their parents and married ladies by
j their husbands.
Headquarters: Atlanta, Ga.
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Sheffield said extraordinarily
good work was being done by- H. P.
Everett, freight traffic expert in the
Chamber of Commerce. More than
$3,000 has been saved for the coun
ty of Sumter alone through his work.
Through Mr. Everetts efforts, he de
clared, a revision of freight rates -e
--ctrred will save the county SB,OOO per
year while it is carrying on its’ pav
ing work. Mr. Sheffield said that it
had been decided to hold a meeting
of all the members of the chamber
Friday night, January 19, in the
Windsor Hotel, when a dinner will
be served.
Harrell Addresses* Club.
“The Responsibility of a Father -
To His Son,” was the subject used
by Luther Harrell, in a talk to Rota
rians Thursday at their weekly lun
cheon. Mr. Harrell went to Colum
bus last week to hear Dr. Barker, a
lecturer of national reputation, who
spoke on this subject and Mr. Harrell
brought part of Dr. Barkers address
back to local Rotarians.
“The big business of life,” Mr.
Harrell said, “is training boys to fill
the places of the present generation.
The finest legacy any father can
leave to his son. is a desire for right
living.”
The commercal value of land—or
property—is fixed by the people sur
rounding it, the speaker declared,
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Copyright 1922 Hart Schaffner & Marx
Closing Out Our Entire
Stock of Fall and Winter
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Good Clothes
At Big Price Reductions
Thousands o f doll ars’ Our entire stock of fall and
worth of fall and winter winter clothing is in this
suits and overcoats from sale—all the fine new suits
Hart Schaffner & Marx for men and young men
and other good makers will. and boys. Extra trousers,
be sold at reduced prices too.
Suits That Were:
$25.00 now $18.75
$30.00 now . ... $22.50
$35.00 now $26.25
$40.00 now --$30.00
$45.00 n0w 533.75
$50.00 n0w 537.50
$55.00 now-- $41.25
We want you to see and compare our values. You are
welcome to take goods out on approval; and after you have
bought and paid for them we’ll take them back if you de
cide that you do not want them. Prices are cash; alter
ations charged for.
W. ’D. Bailey Co.
stating that the reason Massachusetts,
for instance, was a richer state than'
Georgia, was because the fathers,
generations back, began training
their sons, seeing that they secured
good educations; that they had the
proper home ccrrounding?.
There is a period in the life of
every boy when he is ready and cap
able of receiving training, he said,
and it it at this period that father ;
and mothers should exert their influ
ence with the child. The child with
proper home training is a law-abid
ing citizen in after years.
It is too often true today that it is
the child that dictates and not the
parent. This, the speaker account
ed for through the fact that both
fathers and mothers were too bu y
with other tiling:; to devote time and
patience to training their, offspring.
“You can tell by the conduct of a
child in the school room, just what
his home training has been,” Mr. Har
' rell declared. ,
“Dr. Barker said a law-breaker or
traitor is a man who strikes at the
laws and the flag of his country by
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breaking its laws,’ said the speaker.
• ‘The very foundation stone of our
country is obedience to law—all its
laws—from the last amendment t»
the first.
“I fear there may be lots of truth
| in the statement that we are bring
ing* up a generation of law-breakers,”
i'ue aid. “The father’s first duty to
his s«n is to set an example that the
■ son may follow through life.”
Roy Emmet, classification of dairy
I farm, was received a week ago a:;
1 the youngest member of the club.
! Thomas Harrold, Jr., was a guest >f
; the club yesterday.
Four original verses, by Robert
Burns were found, written in pen
cil, in an old book recently offered
for sale at second hand in London.-
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