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A THOUGHT
Wherefore do the wicked live be
come old, yea, are mighty in pow-
♦ er?—Job 21:7.
If the wicked flourish, and thou
suffer, be not discouraged; they
are fatted for destruction, thou
are dieted for health.—Fuller.
WANTED—A
DEMOCRATIC MOSES!
Wanted: A Moses to lead the
Democrats out of the Direful
Dilemma that threatens in 1924.
For Democratic leaders—not the
presidential aspirants but the boys
who shovel coal and oil the gears
to keep the old machine running—
forsee, thus far in advance of the
national convention, a deadlock be
side which the three-day jam in
1920 will seem insignificant.
‘‘What’s bothering me,” said one
• of the men at the party organiza
tion center, ‘‘is whether we’ll be
able to nominate a candidate at
all.”
A two-thirds vote is required at
a Democratic convention to nomi
nate.
Three opposing groups -at the
convention each will control, with
the overlapping votes that will
shift from one to another, more
than one-third of the ballots.
These are:
1: The Woodrow Wilson group.
2: The William Jennings Bryan
group, including the radical drys.
3: The wets.
To find a platform and candi
date a two-thirds vote of these
groups can agree on is the problem.
The delegates will have to de
cide between these alternative:
1: Being ‘radical” and “dry” to
catch the west.
2: Being ‘conservative” and “wet’
to win the east.
The South, it is agreed, will
have returned to Democratic “nor
malcy” and needn’t be worried
about.
The man to' suit these specifica
tions, doesn’t now loom above the
horizon. He may appear before
June, 1924, but it is considered
much more likely that he won’t get
the spotlight, as a “compromise
■ candidate,” until after the Wilson
Bryan - Smith - McAdoo - Cox
Ford forces have struggled to ex
exhaustion. McAdoo and Under
wood areal|eady “feeling about”
for posibile support.
Among the “willing” candidates
who hope to benefit by a deadlock
-and are ready to be compromised
on are Gerard, New York; Owen,
Oklahoma; Ralston, Indiana, and
Pomerene, Ohio.
Woodrow Wilson has the organi
zation managers guessing. Some be
lieve he expects his physicial condi
tion will permit him to enter the
lists himself. If not, in what direc
tion will he throw his support?
All this suspense and uncertain
ty is beginning already to weigh
heavily upon the party managers.
It promises to become a mighty
burden before June, 1924.
CAN YOU
THINK QUICKLY *
If you drive an auto, you’ve no
ticed that some ‘people, when in
danger of being run over, jump
more quickly than others. At one
end of the line is the pedestrian
who caught in a tight corner of
traffic, has perfect control of him
self, also the power of instantane
ous decision. That party knows
exactly what to do, makes up his
his mind quickly.
The other extreme is the per
son who, suddenly trapped in a
maze of cars, loses his head and
tries to jump in all directions at
once, so that the motorists haven’t
the slightest idea which way to
turn.
The speed with which you are
able to make up your mind, in
emergency, is what the brain stu
dents now call one’s “reaction
time.”
How many seconds in your “re
action time?” That is, how long
does it take to telegraph danger,
o r the need of quick action, to
your brain, then make decision and
start the body carrying out orders
without faltering?
A government bulletin says: “Re
action time is the interval of time
that elapses between the instant
a sign or signal is seen and the
necessary action started. A driv
er starts to pass another vehicle
when suddenly a third vehicle ap
pears which may block his path.
The driver must decide whether to
pass the vehicle or drop back, if
his reaction time is slow he may
not-realize the danger until too late
to avert an accident.
“The reaction time of some peo
ple is very slow and undoubtedly
is the cause of many accidents.
Does the public safety require that
such people be denied drivers’ li-
censes? The bureau of public roads
is not ready to advocate such a
policy, but considers that it should
be investigated as a possible safe
ty measure.”
A very able suggestion. Put into
effect, it would eliminate at least a
fourth of auto drivers —and ths
tame per cent of pedestrians.
What determines your “reaction
time?” What makes one person
quick to reach dcision and act in
emergency, while another is slow
er? The answer leads us back to
the body’s endocrine glands, inter
est in which has lately been eclips
ed by King Tut. Coue and the
Chaplin-Negri incident.
The adrenal glands, attached to
the kidneys, are the regulators of
“reaction time.” They reserve
energy in emergency, and telegraph
through blood and nerves the ocm
maud to halt activity in all parts
of the body except the parts need
ed to extricate the body from the
“in a pinch.”
GET READY—“TUT”
FAD ARTICLES COMING „
Get ready folks, the foxy manu
facturers are preparing to spring
hundreds of King Tut fad-articles
on you.
One of the first of these will be
the Tut-ankh-Amen cigaret. One of
of the big tobacco companies is
getting ready to market it.
A New York firm has placed a
rush order with a pottery factory
to turn out hundreds of thousands
of ‘Tut pups,’ good luck statues like
the Biliken. These are supposed to
to be reproductions of the Egyp
tian “houn’ dawg” that followed
King Tut around the royal palace.
Goldsmiths and their designers
are working night and day on or
ders for Egyptian jewelry, especial
ly bracelets and anklets.
In Washington the patent of
fice is getting ready for a deluge
of applications from manufacturers
who want to use Tut’s name on
their wares, with trade mark pro
tection.
First on the job seems to have
been Frederick Martin Burns,
eastern promoter. As far back as
last Nov. 30 he applied for Tut
trade marks in 15 different indus
tries—bathing suits, music, cloth
ing, dolls, umbrellas and so on.
Burns even went after a copy
right on Tut’s name in the fields
of music, poetry and fiction. To
sew up the name for fiction pur
poses, he “wrote all night. At
about 3 a. m. I finnished my story
know anything about writing fic
which is 6000 words long. 1 don't
tion, but 1 know how to protect
myself for my purposes by throw
ing in plenty of love, mystery and
red-blooded material.”
Burn’s hunch was to monopolize
Tut’s name for fiction purposes.
Judging from his description, the
magazines will fight to get his mas
terpiece.
A King Tut novel is being churh
ed out. Monte Carlo and Alma
Sanders (authors of “Tangerone”)
have obtained the use ofTut’sname
for a show and already haxe writ
ten the music and lyrics.
Vincent Lopez is playing Tut
music with his famous Hotel Penn
sylvania orchestra, New York. He
has sent a rush order to Egypt for
copies of the sistrum, ringing and
chiming instrument found in Tut’s
tomb. Watch the jazz -bands pick
it up.
It’s a great age we’re living- in.
Study the impending Tut crazes
and you’ll learn a lot about infec
tious emotions, the mob spirit and
our instinct of imitation which
links us with the monkey.
' AHTOL
OC JOKES
BY ARTHUR M. FREE
U. S. Representative From Califor
nia, Eighth District
<»HEN I was a prose-
Ea Hl a cut ’ n g attorney in
jflr California, I had
■Wfiln occasion to visit
court in a neigh
boring county.
» There was a man
= z K Up f ° r horse steal
ing who had 110 law_
/■ W yer > and the judge
I with a smile, ap-
A r ! pointed me to de
\ V / fend him. The testi
moA- against my
FREE client was pretty
strong—he had been seen to take
i the horse and ride away. But one
|of the fitnesses said the thief had
■ worn a white hat and black shirt.
, By harping on this discrepancy and
I pointing out that testimony inaccu
j rate in one detail might be wrong in
every other way. I succeeded, much
to my surprise, in getting a verdict
of not guilty.
My client came over and shook me
I by the hand.
“Thank you, Mr. Free, thank
you,” he said. Then, lowering his
voice. “Say, Mr. Free, if I’m not
guilty, hadn’t I ought to get the
horse?”
OLD DA TS US AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Rec ler March 8,
1913.)
L. G. Council, vice-president of the
Georgia Bankers’ association, has re
turned from Atlanta, where he has
been for several days in attendance
upon the meeting of a committee of
hankers appointed for the purpose of
formulating suggestions for a con
cise, practical banking bill to be pre
sented to the association at the next
meeting in Macon.
The place of business of Mr. G. S.
Gardner, on Forsyth street was clos
ed yesterday upon foreclosure of
mortgage in favor of Mr. C. S. S.
Horne. The amount of the mortgage
is something more than $3,000.
The new coined nickels have made
their appearance in Americus al
ready, which is among the first Geor
gia cities to have them.
The funeral services of Mrs. Mazie
W. Mott who passed on Wednesday
morning at Athens, where she was
residing temporarily were conducted
Friday morning from the Furlow
Lawn Baptist church.
Peach orchards in the Americus
territory were not injured by the
cold weather yesterday morning, de
spite the fear expressed over the
state for the safety of the fruit
crop.
Miss Clara Willie Prather has gone
to Jacksonville to attend Wednesday
the Verdery-West wedding.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From The Times-Recorder. March
8, 1903.)
Mr. W. T. Robinson, a well known
planter residing to the northwest of
Americus was in the city yesterday,
and reported the most destructive
hail storm known in that locality. A
downpour ; r -in came first followed
by pelting; h:rl v kich did great dam
age. *
While there was a gain of a few
young rar. who left Americus twe
years ;g > for the Indian Territory
is at home and satisfied, no doubt
to remain be re. He succeeded very
well out tl.i . Uit thinks there is no
place' like Georgia.
While v as a graiin of a few
pointe at the .-lose of the market yes
terday, ;.,mc of the talent in Ameri-
| THE GETAWAY
By Berton Braley.
There were bags and trunks and cases stowed about in many places,
There were packages all wound around with string,
But the sturdy little flivver carried all that we could give her
Though the load was tensely straining every spring.
So we started on our bumming with the motor smoothly humming
And the chill of northern winter in the air;
We had heard the southland calling with a wizardry enthralling
And we hit the trail that leads the rover there.
It was raining, snowing, sleeting, and the elements kept beating
On the windshield and the curtains and the top;
But it only helped remind us that we soon would leave behind us
All this ice and snow and dreariness and slop.
So we skidded and we spattered on our way and nothing mattered
From the land of breezes frigid where your hands and feet grow rigid
To the sunny land of everlasting May.
Every fiber of the flivver seemed delightfully to quiver
With the gypsy joy of roving on the road;
And the motor of our Lizzie kept continuously busy—
We had started her to going—and she goed!
She knew somehow what the trip meant; and although our camp equipment
Caused the lookers-on to cachinate and scoff,
Lizzie plugged along quite happy at a speed exceeding snappy—
We were started, we were going, we were off!
—BERTON BRALEY.
(Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)
TOM STMS SA YS: I
If the Chicago man who paid
$20,000 for a kiss asks us, we
know wheje they cost one ice
cream soda.
The first sign of spring in Leba
non, Ore., was when people start
ed worrying over a flood.
One difference between us and
congress is, congress has passed
the income tax and we haven’t.
The first sign of spring in Seat
tle was when a man remarried his
divorced wife.
Trying to pronounce Tutankh
amen has increased the number of
stutterers in this counrty.
George Washington was the
father of. his country and Johnny
i Rockefeller is its rich uncle.
FRIENDSSHIP.
A large crowd from Preston rend
ered a splendid B. Y. P. U. program
. at the Baptist church Sunday night.
Mrs. S. D. Reese spent Wednesday
night with Mrs. Lizzie Holly.
Miss Kate Short and Mr. Clinton
■ Brock were quietly married at the
■ home of Mr. A. W. Buchanan Sunday
I morning. Both young people were
i from this neighborhood.
Chambers Alexander and daugh-
■ ters, Clara and Orabell were shoppers
i in Americus Saturday.
i Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Wells and
daughters, Josephine and Dorris were
among those going to Thompson.
i Miss Clara Alexander spent the
week-end with home folks.
: Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Wells were
, business visitors to Buena Vista
t Saturday.
> I Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Priddy, Mrs.
I Macßailey and Mrs. Cornelia Hager-
THE AMEP3CUS TIMES-RECORDER. 1
cus profess to believe that the bot
, tom has not yet been reached in the
present slump. The local market is
steady at 9 1-4 to 9 1-2 cents for
■ the best grades.
> K. Taylor Felder leaves soon for
the University of the South at Suwan
nee, Tenn., where he will pursue a
■ thorough collegiate course.
George B. Cranham came yester-
■ day to spend Sunday with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Graham.
The first picnic party of the season
broke lose yesterday. It was wholly
a premature affair and caught the
red-bug off his guard.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From The Times-Recorder. March
8, 1893.) ‘
A bomb was exploded in the camps
of the saloon keepers of Americus
yesterday by the announcement that
city council had, at the regular meet
ing the night before, passed an ordin
ance requiring saloons in future to
close their doors at 10 o’clock p. m,
sharp.
George Smith, Albert Guerry and
Allen Oliver, three young lads scarce
ly in their teens, conceived the bril
liant idea a day or two ago of run
ning away and going west to fight
grizzly bears and Indians. They
started for the wild and woolly west,
but got as far as Leesburg before
they were more than willing to come
home again.
The new uniforms for the members
oi the paid fire department were re
ceived yesterday, and the fire laddies
now present a very striking appear
ance. They are of regulation blue,
Prince Albert cut, and were pur
chased froma New York firm. Chief
Stanfield might have been taken
for a regular Georgia colonel yes
terday had it not been known that the
entire army was on guard in Wash
ington.
If the cotton planter wants to see
five cent cotton, all they have to do
is to plant enough of The dif
ference between 7,000,000(bales at
I SSO a bale and 900,000,000 bales at
i $25 a bale is $125,000,000 additional
i to the loss in a decreased diversifica-
■ tion of crops.
Higher education does pay. Har
vard’s famous halfback has left
college to open a tea room.
Those setting our European pol
icy seem to think necessity is the
mother of invention.
The first sign of spring in San
Francisco was when a boy of elev
en eloped with a girl of ten.
Two robbers who held up a
New York actor wasted their time.
More would live to the safe and
sane age if it weren’t for the un
safe and insane age first.
The sad thing about having a
wife is when you look for some
thing it has been hung up some
where.
son visited at the home of Jim Crox
ton Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Richardson and
two daughters of Lumpkin passed.
through Sunday afternoon returning
from a visit to relatives in Columbus,
and stopped over a short while with
Mrs. S. D. Reese and Mrs. Rosa Mc-
Garrah Friday night to enjoy the
play given by the Concord high
school pupils. 81 J
PROFITEERING SOMEWHERE
LYNCHBURG, Va., March 8.
Mrs. W .J. Crowder, of this city,
while peeling a potato found a note
in it reading;
‘I got twenty-four cents per bush
el. What did you give?”
It was signed *G. F. Beardsley,
Stanton, Mich., and was dated Jan
uary 19.
Mrs. Crowded said she paid thirty
cents a peck for the potatoes.
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By Ruth. Agnes Abeling (Copyright, 192 3, NEA Service)
A slight sound on the stairs at
tracted Kate’s attention. Present
ly Monk’s droll face appeared in the
doorway. He stopped there as if
awaiting a welcome.
“Come along, boy,” Kate mur
mured.
Monk lumbered heavily across the
room and began a lazy nosing of the
trunk and its contents. He never
had seen the man to whom the trunk
And clothing belonged, yet he seemed
to feel a more than casual interest
in them as bis sensitive black nose
touched the fabric.
Kate, lost in reverie, paid no . at
tention to the dog’s searching unti.
at length she heard his claws scratch
ing nervously on the lining of the
trunk.
Looking up, she discovered that
Monk’s head, shoulders and fore
paws were in the battered piece of
baggage, that he had worked the
clothing into a heap at one side, and
that he was sniffing a seam which
ran the full length of the bottom.
“Come away, Monk.” With her hand
on his collar, Kate attempted to dis
tract the dog’s attention.
“Don’t tear it’!’ she said, as his
huge paw, claws out, once more
dragged across the seam, slightly sep
arating the two pieces.
“Why, it opens!” Kate exclaimed,
as she saw the light board on one
side of the seam give way under the
dog\ weight.
With eager, nervous fingers she
worked at the crack. Ki'onk, taking
the thing for a game, tore away vig
orously. His huge mouth hanging
open, he fairly chuckled at the fun.
It recalled his puppy days. He liked
it. .
Finally, with a slight squeaking
lifted under Kate’s hands and there,
unde r it, folded neatly and tied, were
several packets of letters, an old
wallet and some official looking pa
pers.
As if he sensed that he had
reached the limit of his privileges,
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive Leave
11:55 pm Columbus-Chgo 3:45 am ■
10:3 spm Albany-Montg’y 5:14 am
7:21 pm Macon-Atlanta 6:37 am
1:55 pm Albany-Montg’y 2:14 pm
2:14 pm Macon-Atlanta 1 :55 pm
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6:37 am Albany 7:2lpm
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3:45 am Albany-Jaxville 11:55 pm
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South Bound Wed., Fri., Sun.
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Arrive Departs
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12:26 pm Cols-Montg’y. 3:10 pm
3:10 pm Cordele-Savb. 12:26 pm
5:15 pm Richkmd-Cols 10:05 am
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FOLDED NEATLY AND TIED,
WERE SEVERAL PACKETS OF
LETTERS.
Monk stepped out or the trunk, leav
ing the folded intents of. the hot
ter,as neatly'arranged as any wom
an might have done.
He sat down beside Kate and
watched gravely, while her trembling
fingers skimmed the packets, scarce-
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B REAL MENACE <
IH TENNIS TITLE
No Other Nation Making Such
Rap2d Progress With
Racquet
BY VINCENT RICHARDS
Famous Tennis Star
Os all, the nations represented to
day in the game of lawn tennis and
especially in the Davis Cup competi
tion Japan is one we fear most.
Although Australia won the right
to challenge for the famous
tional trophy last year at
Hills it was only beacuse Japan was
unable to send its full strength to our
shores at that time.
With Kumagae, Srnidzu and Kashio
here and ready for tennis season to
start next feprmg the Japanese in
vasion becomes a real menace for
the titleholders during the coming
tournament year.
To the famous and popular ’
“Itchy” Kumagae must go Japan’s
credit for the place it occupies in
the tennis world. He migjit >bo
termed the “Father of Lawn Tennis”
in the land 'of the cherry blossom
at the present time.
“Itchy” came to America in 1916,
possessing simply a backcourt game
and nothing else, but he has mas
tered this type of game to its fullest
extent and during his first season’s
play in this country he gained an.
enviable place in American lawn
tennis circles.
His rise to fame in the tennis
world has advanced steadily until
now he is placed in the coveted
“first ten” by the ranking committee.
It will be interesting to see Kumagae
play after a two-year layoff.
Many tennis critics are of the
opinion that Zenzo Shimidzu is a bet
ter player in every sense of the word
than his fellow countryman, Kuma
gae. To my way of thinking Shim
idzu even at the present time is no
better than the famous “Itchy” in
his prime. I do say that Shimidzu
has a much better chance for im
provement than Kumagae ever had
simply because his game is moro
orthordox.
Japan may not win the Davis Cup
next year and for that matter it
may not even win the right to chal
lenge for this great trophy, but the
real meance in Japanese tennis will
come with the next three years.
They are taking more pains in the
development. of their younger play
ers than any other country in the
world today.
A hat of black felt is
with an ostrich feather that
nearly to the waist. Another of lav
ender straw has lavender wisteria
blossoms tha t are equally lengthy.
ly venturing to remove any one of
them. They seemed things sacred to
her. It was so like an to have put
them in the precise rows in which
she found them. Happy-go-lucky as
he was w*ith his daily life, Dan al
ways had been infinitely particular
about his personal belongings.
(To Ee Continued)