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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 18HL. I
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A THOUGHT
For 1 was an hungered, and ye
gave me meat: I was thirsty, and
ye gave me drink: 1 was a stranger,
and ye took me in.—Mat. 25-35.
The poor are my best patients; ;
God pays for them.
Boerhaave.
IT’S UP TO THE
RESTAURANT MAN.
Patronizers of restaurants here
and elsewhere complain they can
not get green stuff served them,and
that the restaurant keepers tell
their patrons that it’s hard for
them to find just what is wanted.
But F. A. Wilson, Jr., of Les
lie, finds away and has written
the editor of the Macon Telegraph
that he can supply these restau
rant folks with all the fresh ar
den tluck they may want. His
letter to the editor of the Tele
graph follows:
“If you will tell your restaurant '
man to make me an offer on tur
nip salad, spinach and loose-leaf I
lettuce by the three-peck hamper
or bushel, f.o.b. here, I am sure
you will find these listed on his
menu and the product will be the
best that well balanced fertiliza
tion can produce in this grand old
state of ours that naturally gives
its vegetables such a super flavor.
“Educate our people to eat raw
vegetables and I will send you
a crate of plump, juicy cucumbers
before summer.’’
BOBBED HAIR
WAS “THE THING.”
Bobbed hair was going out of
style when King Tut’s- tomb was
discovered under the sands cf
Egypt. But leading hairdressers
say that bobbed hair may rule for
another year or t'.vo, as part of the
King Tut fashion crazes now *m
ing planned by dictators of styles.
Bobbed hai r and bobbed wigs
were “the thing” in King Tut’s
day.
Among the rich and royal ladies
of Tut’s time, the headdress was
a masterpiece that must have re
quired weeks of work, elaborate
and fantastic ,hair and jewelry
forming large wings on top of the
head.
The high-steppers and flashy
dressers strung their hair through
beads, giving the effect of a crop
of necklaces growing out of the
skull. Keep your eyes open. Some
in your community will try it.
• Girls who have been plucking
their eyebrows into straight lines,
with tweezers, wiil be glad to learn
that such was the style in King
Tut’s day.
When it came to gowns, the most
daring Egyptian social leaders
wore garments made entirely of
transparent beads.
Starched and carefully pressed
ruffles and pleats were the rage
in Cairo and other Egyptian cities
3500 years ago.
Jewelry was worn extravagant
ly, profusely—large rings, brace
lets, armlets, necklace, anklets,
and head-bands. The Fans were
carried, also hand mirrors. Nails
were stained reddish-yellow with
henna juice. ‘Loud” perfumes and
thick oils were rubbed all over the
body.
A queer custom among fashion
able ladies of ancient Egypt was
painting a second set of eyebrows
below the eyes, so that the optics
resembled sandwiches.
How much of this barbaric
oriental display will creep into the
fashions of American women? Pro
bably more than any of us now
dream.
J. M. Gidding (of J. M. Gidding
& Company, New York City) says
antiques in the world’s museums
every great coilection of Egyptian
has a flock of style -designers and
jewelers around it. They are get
ting ready to flood the market with
new styles.
Says Mr. Gidding: “This is be
ing assisted by a reaction from the
dress prevailing for so many years
during and after the war. There
has never been a time when the de
signer has had to keep so carefully
in touch with the news. It is
necessary to keep posted constant-’
ly’-Ky cable.”
The average father, who foots
the bills, will soon curse the day
when a scientists’ shovel, striking
the top stone of a flight of steps,
started the uncovering of King
JuVs tomb.
MORE THAN HALE THE FOLKS
| RENT THEIR HOMES.
That more than half the homes
in the United States are rented
and that most of those who own
their homes have encumbered them
by mortgage, is revealed by the
Birmingham News who have been
studying statistics along this line.
Hire i. what the News says:
Os the 24,351,676 homes in the
United States, as disclosed by the
census of 1920, 13,236,700 were
rented. Os the 11,114,967 class
ed as ‘owned’ 6,862,520 were free
and 4,252,557 were encumbered?
The bad feature about the situa
tion is the increase in encumber
; ed homes; for the previous census
of 1910 showed 6,236,074 free
homes, with 3,037,101 encumber
ed. With a gain of only 626,446
in owned homes, there has been
the amazing increase of 1,215,346
in encumbered homes!
“For some peason, not apparent,
home owners have been plastering
mortgages on their homes. Some
will say that the expense of war
time had to be met; doubtless this
was true in some instances, but
with a home owned and free and no
rent to pay, it must havi taken
rather an extraordinary set of
circumstances to bring about mort
gaging the home. Certainly not
so widespread or general as 11 ese
figures would indicate.
. Other students of the situation
charge it to the extravagance of
the period after the war, when
■ everybody seems to have lost his
. head and was buying right and
left. The asserting has been made
that the automobile is largely re
sponsible for this situation and for
the failure of home owning to
grow as it should have grown;
people have bought cars instead
of homes,and those with homes but
no cars, who wanted to be ‘in the
swim’ or keep up with their neigh
bors, have put a plaster on the
place and started burning up gaso
line.
“In the 1920 figures North Da
kota led, with 75 per cent of own
ed homes; New Mexico had 70 per
cent, and South Dakota and Idaho
With 67 per cent. The greatest
gains in the number of owned
homes have been made in New Jer
sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, and the District of Co
lumbia.
ARE AMERICANS
“GOING CRAZY?”
The American people are rapidly
going crazy, says Dr. J. N. Hurty
nationally known Hoosier medical
man; Some will comment: “Going?
They’re already bughouse.”
“Americans are fast becoming
a race of morons, imbeciles and
and maniacs,” Dr. Hurty comments
in discouragement. He thinks, in
another hundred years there will
not be a sane person in the coun
try. *
Cheer up, Doc. Feeble-minded
ness and maniacal hysteria are
pandemic in these United States.
But that’s because the war left us
in a highly-strung nervous con
dition. In time we'll settled down
to normal. Are headed that way
now. And normal is sanity.
The crazziest ones never are
locked up in the asylums. That’s
because sanity and insanity are va
vague terms that cannot be accur
atetely defined, except that aver
age mentality is sanity and that in
sanity is a deviation from the nor
mal—above or below.
The greatest scientists of Eu
rope, or at least most of them,
thought Columbus was crazy when
he argued that the earth was round
instead of flat. (Accepting hear
say evidence, we now know it’s
round.)
It’s only a few decades since
nearly 'every one in America
thought the Wright Brothers had
“bats in the belfry” because they
insisted that it was possible for
man to fly through the air like a
bird.
A Ynan may be crazy by one
standard, and sane by another. In
grading mentality, most of us are
like the soldier who said. “Every
body’s out of step but me.”
An English brain specialist, writ
ing' in London Daily Mail says one
of the commonest forms of insani
ty is the arrest or short-circuiting
of the basic human instincts in the
individual.
For instance, our most powerful
control is the instinct of self-pre
servation. When we fail to re
spond to that instinct, and con
template suicide, we are on the
borderland of insanity. We also
are crazy, more or ’ess, when we
fail to respond normally to/the do
mestic instinct, the herd of social
instinct and normal expression of
the religious instinct.
Chronic gloominess, bad temper,
defects of memory, premature in
ferences and extravagant imagin
ings—all these are mild forms of
mental derangement, says the Eng
lish specialist.
He adds: “Gullibility is also an
indicator of weak thought. As re
regards the affections, the well-bal
anced mind shows more ilkes than
dislikes, more friendlines than
hatred, more sympathy than anti
‘’““r”
OLD DAIS US AMERICUS
j TEN YEARS AGO TODAY .
i ( From the Times-Recorder Marche 7,
1913.)
Architects have submited plans for
I the hadsome apartment house which
the Fort estate proposes erecting up
i on the Lee street property of the late
Judge Alien Fort, and if accepted will
asure a modern and atractive build
ing there.
Mr. Thomas Bell will begin soon
the erection of a handsome t*wo story
residence next that of Mr. ’A. W.
Smith on Lee street.
Mr. J. 11. Reeves of the faculty of
the High School, has purchased a
building lot on Harrold avenue, and
will be one of several other residents
to build a home there this summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Nap Rucker, who
have been spending the winter
months with relatives near Ameri
cus, have gone to Augusta, where the
Brookyn Nationals are in training
camp, and where Rucker will get
down to hard work preparatory to
opening of ball season.
Judge James Hixon, who is co
executor of the large estate of the
late J. D. Whittle, of Americus, who
died suddenly Saturday evening at
his former home in Blackville, S. C.,
has just returned here from that city,
where he has been looking after mat
ters relative to the large estate therc
and in Sumte r county.
Yesterday brought a typical March
day to Americus, and the wind was
conspicious star of the day in the
weather galaxy. There was, of
course, the usual curiosity-provoking
display of shapely ankles (and other
kind), «tilk hosiery lingerie and simi
lar perqui ities.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From The Time -Recorder. March
7, 1903.)
After an illness of only a few
days, Mi . J. W. Twitty died yes
terday m i T.ir.r at her home on Feld
er street. Mrs. Twitty was stricken
on Mond:.night last but her condi
tion v.a. not. condisered dangerous
until W ilnesday, when her phys
icians pronounced her case hopeless.
Mr. Edward Stallings adressed the
city council, for the Seaboard Rail
way, relative to the improvement of
Jackson street by curbing same and
laying gravel there on asking a prop-
I THE GAMBLE
By Berton Braley.
If we could know
Tomorrow’s pleasure and tomorrow’s woe;
If we could see
What isn’t yet but is yet to be;
If we could but learn *
Just how the wheel of fate is bound to turn;
t If it were clear
What will transpire next week, next month, next year;
W’q wouldn’t find
As much fun as when we go it blind.
Wed lose the thrill
Os gambling whether luck be good or ill.
We would abide
Within a world where all was cut and dried;
And, sick and sore,
We’d find it most decidedly a bore.
But since we can’t
See far ahead or even take a slant
At anything
Which future days or future years may bring,
We get a kick
By guessing whether fate’s hand holds a brick
Or a bouquet—
It’s better thus than any other way.
And then beside —
We couldn't change it any if we tried.
(Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)
| PLEASANT GROVE j
The Henry W. Grady Literary so
ciety met Friday afternoon and a
splendid program elected new offi
cers for the next two months. The
officers are as follow-: President,
George Methvin; secretary, Sam Mc-
Glamry; chairman of program com
mittee, Howard Beard; program com
mittee; Ruby Methvin, Gladys Mur
phy, Willie Ruth Methvin, Estelle
Methvin.
J. R. McGlamy, Sr., spent Wednes
day and Thursday of last week in
Atlanta on business.
Misses Hazel and Edna Braswell
were the guests of Miss Ethel Parker
Saturday.
The singing at Miss Annie Coo
gle's Saturday night was largely at
tended.
The Pleasant Grove boys played a
game of basketball with Plains Iri
day, the score being 22 to 26 in favor
of Plains.
Misses Mary and Susie Jordan
spent the week-end with their sis
ter, Mrs. C. A .Chambliss.
Miss Annie Ruth Barton has re
turned to school after being ill for
some time.
The high school pupils stood ex
aminations week and made good
marks in their studies 4 ;
THE r AMERXXJS TIMES RECORDER. 1
osition from council as to grade cost
of work and amount of gravel neded.
For sometime past the city coun
cil has been in the market to the ex
tent of the purchase of a pair of
horses for the fire department, but
is no nearer a conclusion now than
at the start. A good team will cost
a good price, of course, and is it upon
the price that [the men who control
are inclined to kick.
1 he owner of a goodly lot of cotton
here, was a trifle : orry yesterday,
that he did not sell at ten cents, in
stead of holding on for fifteen.
The owner of the one known va
. cant dwelling in Americus declined
yesterday to lease the property at
$25 per month, for a year.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From The Times-Recorder. March
7, 1893.)
Mrs. Richard Stewart is actively
canvassing for funds to help out the
Georgia booth at the Richmond fair,
and is meeting with material en
couragement.
The Central railroad has recently
issued and distributed a beautiful
and brilliantly colored flyer advertis
ing the Royal Blue train drawn by '
the renowned Nancy Hanks between
Atlanta and Savannah at the high
speed of a mile a minute.
Their many friends will be pleased
to learn that Mrs. Charles F. Crisp,
Mr. Charles Crisp, Jr., Miss Berta
Crisp, Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Davenport,
and little Miss Lucia Hawkins will ar
rive tonight from Washington. Speak
ler Crisp will not be home for several
'weeks yet, and his family will make
their home with Mr. and Mrs. D. F.
Davenport until the completion of
their own beautiful residence now in
course of erection.
Baby fingers left their impress
•upon editorial desk yesterday, leav
ing a sweet, reminder of lovely flow
ers as rare as Baby Fort is fair. Our
visitor was the pretty little daughtei
of Judge and Mrs. Allen Fort, and
he r bright little smile haunts us still.
Mrs. John F. Lewis, of Hakinsville
and daughter, Mrs. J. C. Holmes, of
Macon are guests for a few days at
the home of Mrs. W. A. Dodson, or
Lee Street.
I The basketball game between
Pleasant Grove and Glen Holly girls
wa: postponed until Friday after
noon. The game will be played on
Pleasant Grove court.
Mr. and Mrs, R. M. Dowdy and
■ family spent Sunday with Mr. and
■ Mrs. W. S. Dew.
Miss. Thelma McGlamry was the
guest of Miss Willie Maude Loper
' Sunday. ,■y
Douglas McNeely and Eddy Brock
motored to Cordele Sunday after
l noon. »
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Reeves spent
. Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. R-
Beard.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Braswell were
1 the guests of Mrs. J. M. McGlamry
Saturday.
Mrs. Otis Morris spent the week
end with her sister, Miss Annie Coo
’ "le- ;Y t:
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Holloway, of
, | Pennington, spent Sunday with Mrs.
L. G. Methvin.
Mrs. J. M. McGlamry ai d little
I son, Ray, spent Thursday afternoon
as the guests of Mrs. C. S. Bmweil s
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The One Man-Woman
By Ruth Agnes Abcling (Copyright. I 92?, NEA Service)
“But I want my mama! I want
my mama!” Dorothy wailed her
head buried in Kate’s lap.
Kate gathered the child in her
aims. But Dorothy refused to be
comforted.
Justin, who had been sitting
silently by, rose from his chair.
“Let me take the little day.” His
heavy voice rumbled in , his throat.
Ke held out his arms. Kate put the
child in them.
Holding the little body close, .
tin set off across the veranda, talk
ing the while, quietly, to the sobbing
child.
Strangely, as the elderly mar.
talked to Dorothy, the Sobbing
ceased. The silent prairie man, with
that heaven-given quality, born of
the love of broad stretches of rain
Still carrying the child, he walked
of across the field to the
Kate watched, as the figure disap
peared in the shadow of the trees.
How many times her' father had
taken her in his arms, when she was
a child, and walking out through
that very grove, of which he seemed
so much a part, soothed her troubled
heart. ' i
He always had seemed to under- i
stand the burden of the huma.i i
heart and his touch upon the wounds. ,
had been as gentle as love could |
make it. >
At length Kate turned to the <
house and went upstairs to her own
room. As she opened the door, the
battered trunk which had once been
Dan’s property came into the line
her vision.
She hesitated, her hand still on
the door.
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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 P-Y.
Arrive Leave
11:55 pm Columbus-Chgo 3:45 am
10:35 pm Albany-Montg’y s:l4am
7:2lpm Macon-Atlanta 6:37 am
1:55 pm Albany-Montg’y 2:14 pm
2:14 pm Macon-Atlanta 1:55 pm
10:15 am 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
!2:4opm Albany & Jax !l:10 pni
North 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 pm RichJand-Cols 10:05 am
(and sun-kissed fields, of wind-blown
trees, had soothed the little grieving
heart.
“I had almost fyorgotten the
trunk,” she said ,half aloud.
Crossing the room, she lifted the
much-labeled * cover. She had
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I thought, when she closed it before,
[ that probably it never would be
opened again. But some -itrqn'ge in-
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1925
1 1
flom Sims
Says:
Using mouldy seed corn costs
lowa alone $21,000,000 yearly
and the habit should be easy to
give ag* ,
First sign of spring in Tusca
loosa, Ala., was when college girls
started a correspondence school
teaching how to make love. j
i
West Virginia man sentenced
erve three life sentences
ly has a hard job before him.
Chicago may raise marriage li
censes to $5. Some say it is worth
that and some say it isn’t. /
A first sign of spring anywhere
is a crowd standing around a store
window full of fishing Jackie.
Can Henry Ford play golf well
enough to be president?
Hunt the brighter things. Talk
ing movies arc a failure thus far.
Be careful while spring cleaning.
It takes a finer nail nearly live
months to grow out again.
i The best thing about being real
j short is hotel blankets cover all 1
except your head and feet.
People who long for the good
old days would hate to read this
stuff by a candle.
J
. ! A tall girl is handicapped be
i cause she has to stoop over before
a man can make her kiss him.
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| fluence impelled her to raise the lid
i and kneel beside it.
She touched the garments which
were folded inside. Dan’s garments.
; Tomorrow James Latham would
come. He had told her he loved her..
! that he wanted to marry her. Thera
I were but 24 hours yet to elapse be
fore he expected her answer.
Here, in the presence of Dan’s
possessions, things which once had
ben verily a part of him, the situa
flon seemed ridiculous. Yet there
were Alice and her story, with their
embittering taint. Could James
Latham and his devotion dull the
pain of that wound Kate won
dered.
(To be continued.)
DR. S. F. STAPLETON
VETERINARIAN
Office in Chamber of Commerce
Phone 8
Residence Phone 171
TAX NOTICE
My books open February Ist; close
May Ist. Come in and make your
returns, and bring your Land Lot
Number. We have to have them.
Very Respectfully,
l-24t GEO. I). JONES.