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THE TIMES-RECORDER
* ESTABLISHED 1879.
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A THOUGHT
Verily, verily, I say unto you, ex
cept a corn of wheat fall into the
ground and die, it abideth alone: but
if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit
—John 12:24.
Death is the dropping of the flow
er that the fruit may swell.—
Beecher.
CRISP A BOOSTER
FOR HOME GROWN PRODUCTS.
Besides being a representative of
a people in a tine district, Con
gressman Charles R. Crisp is al
ways a booste r for home grown
products.
He has recently been bragging in
Washington about the fine quality
of the pecans raised in his district,
going so far as to exhibit such fine
ones that other congressmen got
busy and had shipped to them
forthwith samples from their owm
home towns.
The incident, we are told,
brought the South into prominence
as a nut growing section, some un
usually fine ones coming to the
capitol from around Camp Hill in
Alabama.
Here we can raise some of as
fine specimens as anywhere on
earth and doubtless when Mr.
Crisp was showing the nuts, they
were not specially selected for ex
hibition purposes, but anyway
even though small, they surpassed
in flavor the Alabama product.
We can vouch for t|je Sumter
product. K. W. Smithwick and
many others in this section who
make a specialty of growing for
the markets is producing some
mighty fine specimens.
SECRETARY MELLON FOUGHT
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS.
Secretary of the- United States
Treasury, Mr. Mellon, fought the
bills which were before congress
just closed which propose to pro
vide credits and money for the
farmer. Mr; Metfbn diies not want
to see a separate banking system
established fo r the use of the
American agricultural interests.
He wants the Federal Reserve
system enlarged and all the finan
cial power of the country brought
into it. The Federal Reserve sys
tem is one pf tfr'e greatest bank
ing systems tin the world, but it
is primarily;ftfi- commercial rather
than agricultural needs, and unless
away is fSiihd io guard against
industrial use of credits to the
detriment of rural activities, one
may question the prudence of con- ■
centrating all of the country’s
wealth in the one system.
Immediately afte r the war there
was a great need for more houses
and flats. It was almost impossi
ble to get money to build these
homes and flats because the money
and the credit ’of the country,
dominated by the Federal Reserve
system, were diverted for indus
trial and commercial investments.
Business men needed more money
with which to speculate. They got
it. The home builder couldn’t get
the loans he needed. The same
thing happened to the farmer.
Speculative business could get mon
ey. Farmers could not get money.
We' Submit this is a bad situa
tion for which Mr.' Mellon offers
no satisfactory solution when he
fights against a separate Federal
department for rural credits.
WICKED MADAME
DE BRINVIPLIERS
Detective Story Magazine in a
recent issue carried an article by
D. E. W’heeler about the wide
spread use of poisons by French
criminals about 250 years ago.
The arch-demon of these poison
ers was Madame de Brinvilliters.
• The article tells how .posing as an
administering angel, she experi
mented upon the poor patients n
Hotel Dieu, the city hospital of
Paris. She fed to the sick, poi
soned food and wine, and studied
their death agonies until she found
the best poisons to use on her
filends,-brothers and rich relatives '
whose money she coveted.
Says the article: “So universal
was the fea r of being poisoned in
France during the reign of the
glorious Louis XIV, that it v. as
customary for ladies and gentle
men of high degree to carry about
with them an antidote for emer
gencies. An antidote in great fa
vor was called Theriac. It was
composed of about 50 different
drugs. Many men of rank and
wealth took their Theriac in the
morning as regularly as they had
breakfast.”
An able writer of that period,
Madaar-e de Sevigne, recorded this
stony, about Madame de Erin
viiiers and her lover. Sainte-
Croix:
“Madame de Brinvilliers wanted
4» ‘
to marry Sainte-Croix. With that
intention she often gave her hus
band poison. Sainte-Croix, not de
siring so wicked a woman for his
wife, gave antidotes to the poor
husband, with the result that—-
shuttle-cocked about in this manner
five or six times, now poisoned,
now unpoisoned—he still remained
alive.”.
This wicked woman finally was
arrested, her gugilt proved and be
headed in public after long torture
in which she refused to betray
her accomplices, who not only poi
soned on their own account but
also conducted a big traffic selling
deadly drugs to thousands who
wanted to get rid of enemies or
rich relatives.
Very little was known about
poisons 250 years ago, excepting
a few of the simpler drugs. Crimi
nals in their laboratories discov
ered much of what is known today
about poisons. And doctors, forc
ed to find, antidotes, uncovered
chemical truths that are of much
value today.
For instaj.ee, our national gov
ernment that, in a re
cent campaign in Arizona, it poi
sheep, instead of five million of prai
rie dogs and farmers are now
ground which formerly was so
possible will support at least 50,000
sheep (instead of five million
of prairie dogs. Time eventually
growing alfalfa and grain on
on ground wh hciformerly was so
heavily infested with prarie dogs
that it was impossible to raise
anything.”
Wicked Madame de Brinvilliers,
and others like her, contributed to
the knowledge that made possible
such uses of poison as getting rid
of prarie dogs. Time eventually
guides all evil into righteous paths.
LAST SURVIVOR
OF BALAKLAVA
An old man of great historic in
terest—Thomas W. Shaw—dies at
91, victim of bronchitis, in a hos
pital at London, Canada. The
telegraph wires described him as
the last survivor of the famous
Light Brigade which charged the
Russian cannon at Balaklava in
1854 during the Crimean War.
As a child, you probably recited
Tennyson’s poem which immortal
ized the Light Brigade. If it
hadn't been for that poem, few of
us would know whether the charge
of the Light Brigade had to do
with a battle or an electric light
bill. The poem was bigger than
the Light Brigade.
Most important part of the
charge by the “valiant GOO” was
that they willingly went to almost
certain death knowing that their
ordeis had been stupidly balled up.
As Tennsyson put it:
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew '
some one had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the Valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.”
Too-ray-y-y! Oh, that poem of
Tennyson’s was great propaganda
for the war god. Many a young
man has rushed gladly to embrace
death in battle, deluded by the
false, philosophy of this poem.
We’re getting a little wiser now,
and inclined to ask a few questions
before varying out orders, know
ing hokum when we see it.
Entirely too much fuss has been
made about being dutiful and
“obeying orders without question.”
That’s a moron attitude, especially
if the person carrying out the or
ders has the least glimmer of per
sonal intelligence and judgment.
The individual has certain rights,
as well as duties, and the propa
ganda that educates us to obey
without question is an inheritance
from imperialism. It‘s the same
sort °f stuff that was drummed in
to slaves by their masters.
The private has a right to ques
tion the edicts of his small group
of representatives who constitute
the government.
The employe has a right to ques
tion his employer. Most employ
ers admit this—and gladly wel
come suggestions.
("AHTOL
By Carl R. Chinblom
Rarely does the man who remains
calm in all emergencies lose an argu
ment to the one who is prone to get
excited.
The tale of the two apartment
house dwellers proves this.
There was a merry party in Mr.
Smith's suite. A good time was be
ing had by all. Presently there came
a knock at the door, and Mr. tywn’s
servant apepared.
“Beg pardon, sir,” said the servartt,
“but Mr. Brown says will you make
less noise, as he can’t read.”
“That's interesting,” said Mr.
Smith. "You tell Mr. Brown I’m
sorry he can’t read; J could read
when I was 6 years'old.”
OLD DA IS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Reeorder. March
G, 1913.)
By a plurality of 179 votes,
Sheriff Fuller won out in the
sheriff’s race Tuesday and conse
quently will continue in the position
he has occupied by appointment of
the court of ordinary since the death
of the late W. H. Feagin in Decem
ber, with whom he had served as de
puty.
Superintendent Mat His was pres
ent at the National Educational As
sociation, which met in Philadelphia
last week. The trip was thoroughly
enjoyed by Mr. Mathis, who visited a
number of the Philadelphia public
schools while in that city.
Not within a week has there been
any appreciable change in the cotton
market, and general dullness has pre
vailed about the Americus
houses. One sale of fifty bales at
the Parker warehouse yesterday is
the only one recorded this week, the
prices upon this lot varying from
DISILLUSION
By -B er ton Braley.
I’m always a bit optimistic,
I’ve always been prone to aver
That people were very much better
Than, frankly I knew that they were;
But even the cheerfullest person
Must learn—from his life or his books —
That the stuff in the pastry-cook’s window
Is seldom as good as it looks!
Those mountains of marvelous pastry,
Those structures of jellies and cream,
Those fairy-like cakes and concoctions,
How toothsome and dainty they seem!
Beware, they are snares and delusions,
Constructed by false-hearted crooks,
The stuff in the pastry-cook’s window
Is seldom as good as it looks.
This ballad, of course, has a moral,
A moral that’s simple and; blunt;
You can’t always judge by appearance,
Yiu can’t tel) a man by front.
You can’t dope a chef by his menu
Until you have tried what he cooks;
The stuff in the pastry-cook’s window
Is seldom as good as it look!
(Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)
TOM SIMS SAYS:
You have to live 50 or 60 years
before you learn everything young
people should know.
A great many men flare up as if
“please Remit” were cuss words.
The next thing to perpetual mo
tion is a flapper panting clothes.
Statistics show there are about
110,‘01)0,000 people in the United
States who hate to get up.
Your ship never will come in if
you stay away from the bank.
Since it requires .17 processes to
wash a stiff collar they should drop
the grindstone and make it 16.
When a man gets half soaked he
thinks he is hard-boiled.
Bloodhounds should be taught to
recognize the tread on the differ
ent makes of auto tires.
Wish we could let the income
tax blanks stay blank.
They are bootlegging tobacco in
Salt Lake City and can you ima
gine what terrible stuff it must be?
Girls of Honolulu are taking up
basketball and it should come easy
as they are dressed already.
An old-fashioned woman in
Prescott, Ariz., stole three horses.-
lowa senator says he may wear
overalls in the White House and if
he does we-hope he .has them
pressed.
E DITORI AL COMMENT
Here is an idea which we wish
to pass along to wage earners who
rent. Every legislature in every
state every year creates some new
and useless office, and this is all
too common in our own tax-bur
dened country ,made so by con
gressional action. Creating new
offices cost money, any money is
raised by taxation, and by the way,
taxation is met by raising rents.
Don’t the wage earners who rent
ever think of that when they vote ?
There is a preacher in Kansas
who should have his salary raised
for making the following anounce
ment from his pulpit: “Brethren,
the janitor and I will hold our
regular prayer meeting next Wed
nesday evening as usual.” —Chris-
tian Register (Boston.) And, no
doubt it is very often the case,
that the prayer meeting service is
little more largely attended than
indicated by this preacher.—Co-
THE AMERICUS TIMES.
10 to 12 cents, according to qual
ity.
The proposed bridge bond issue
failed to carry by the margin of 209
votes, which in a total registration of
1,888, votes is a good showing de
spite the defeat sustained.
Mrs. Howell simmons was called
Wednesday to Atlanta by the illness
of her young daughter, Lucy Sim
mons.. Many friends wil Iwish for
the rapid recovery of the little one.
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
(From The Times-Recorder. March
6, 1903.)
Mr. Will Dudley returned yester
day from Atlanta. His mother, Mrs.
W. H. C. Dudley, stopped again in
i Griffin with Mrs. Leroy Henderson.
! They went up to Atlanta to witness
• the performance of Ben Hur.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday morning, no paper pub
lished.
Just to show what ambition will
do a New Jersey cow gave 11,793
pounds of milk in 12-months.
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A helicopter in Ohio went 15 feet
straight up. or about as high as the
boss gags il’hen you are late.
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Intercollegiate Rowing, Associa
tion has set a boat race at three
miles, which is is a well known
limit.
The first reliable sign of spring
is is when gasoline prices go up.
Russia is so hungry she exports
7,000,000 bushels of grain.
A family of nine was found liv
ing on carrots in the Adirondacks,
which is almost as bad as living on
tapioca pudding.
Atlanta, Ga., is to have a? 2,000-
000 bachelor apartment building;
bachelors can afford it.
Theatrical producer says chorus
girls need higher education and
many will ask if he means all the
way to to the chin.
A ski jumper recently jumped
202 feet. Carpentier, however, will
continue as champion Siki jumper.
Washington archeologist claims
King Tut was worried to death by
his wife’s mother. Maybe Tut orig
inated, the mother-in-law jokes.
Next time a man tells you talk is
cheap, ask him if he knows how
much a session of Congress costs.
lumbus Enquirer-Sun. Old man
Tucker doubtless has never visit
ed Americus prayer / meeting
nights. Here in this town sixty or
more folks gather at the services
every Wednesday night, and this
at one church, too.
Bill Biffen in his column in the
Savannah Press, calls upon Pris
on Commissioner Rainey to explain
this one which recently appeared
in his Dawson News: “Buried in
the little family lot of a cemetery
near Gadsden, Ala., and grieved as
dead by a sorrowing mother for
five years, Clarence Peters has
turned up alive in the state
prison.”
Mistakes will happen in the best
regulated editorial offices. Here
comes the Savannah Press, one of
best edited newspapers coming
to this desk calling the former
Postmaster General in Wilson s’
cabinet “Albert S. Culberson.”
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BY RUTH AGNE S A BERING [Copyright 1922, NEA Service]
It was toward evening, shadows
were long on the grass, sunlight had
softened to a mellow glow, when
Dorothy, tired of playing sought Kate
and with her small elbows on Kate s
knees, her delicate chin cupped in
her hands, gazed thoughtfully into
the woman’s face.
At length the child spoke:
“Didn’t my mama come back with
you?” she asked .
Kate took the child’s hands in hers.
Here was a new task. How was she
to tell Dorothy about the slim silent
figure which lay in Sing Loy s bril
liant bed chamber, swathed in em
broideries, silken and splendid? .
How was she to tell the little girl
that her mother’s lightsome thistle
down laughter, her courageous, dar
ing life had come to an end
“No, Dorothy, your mother didn t
come back with me,” Kate finally
found the courage to say.; Her hands
closed a little more tighUy over those,
of the child as She spoke.
“Didn’t come?” Dorothy echoed.
“No,” Kate’s tone was low. She
looked out across the expanse of
green, carrying away toward the
horizon. Something in the vastness
of it, the softness of its color and its
friendliness gave her strength to go
° n ’“She’H never come any more,
Dorothy,” Kate continued. Then al
ter a pause, “Mother has gone away.
She’ll be gone a long, long time an .
Dorothy must be a good little girl loi
her so she’ll be happy.
“Won’t she come here? t0 ‘
morrow?” questioned the child.
m ??g-she’s gone for oh, ever and
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railroad schedule
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
guaranteed:
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive ;
11 ;55 pm Columbus-Chgo 3:4a am
10:35 pm Albany-Montg’y 5:14 am-
7:2lpm Macon-Atlanta 6:37 am j
. 1:55 pm Albany-Montg’y 2:14 pm
2:14 pm Macon-Atlanta 1:55 pm
10:15am Columbus 3:15 pm
6:37 am Albany 7:2lpm
5:14 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pm
3:45 am Albany-Jaxville 11:55 pm
2:58 am Albany-Jaxville 12:37 am
12:37 am Chgo,St. L. Atla 2:58 am
2:06 am Cinti & Atlanta 1:50 am
FLORIDAN
ALL-PULLMAN, Tri-Weekly
!1:10 pm Cols & Chicago !2:40 pm
!2:40 pm Albany & Jax !1:10 pm
\orth Bound Tuesday, Thur, Sat.
South Bound Wed., Fri., Sun.
SEABOARD AIR LINE
(Central Time.)
Arrive Departs
10;05am Cordele-Helena 5:15 pm
12:26 pm Cols-Montg’y. 3:10 pm
3:10 pm Cordele-Savh. 12:26 pm
5:15 pin Richland-Cols 10:05 am
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ever so long, and you’ll stay here
with Monk and be daddy’s and my
little girl until -ou grow up and go
away to school. ’
“School?” repeated Dorothy. Will
I go to away to school Mama always
said that, too.
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“You go to school and have the
big yard to play in and do every-,
thing just as she wanted you to.”
Kate’s voice was very soft.
Dorothy was silent for a Space. Shd
seined to be considering the thing.
It was almost too much fdr her child
ish mind to grasp. Alice, in spite
of the hardship of her own life, had
kept the little girl’s five years of ex
perience singularly free from diffi
culty. She had no conception of loss.
Suddenly .her curly head dropped
into Kate’s lap.
(To Be Continued)
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Phone 8
Residence Phone 171
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May Ist. ’Come in and make your
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