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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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A THOUGHT
If thy brother trespass against i
thee, rebuke him; .and ; f he repent
forgive him. And .if he trespass
against" thee seven times in a day
and seven times in a day turn
again to thee, saying, I repent;
thou shalt forgive him.—Luke
- 17:3,4.
Never does the human soul ap
pear so strong as when it fore
goes revenge, and dares to for
give an injury.—E. H. Chapin.
THE HOME WORK
HABIT GROWS
Since wages went up in the war
days, many people have growled
because domestic services and
work about their home places have
cost so much. If as a result any
of the people of Americus have
been induced thereby to resume
these active tasks themselves, they
may not merely have saved some
expense but they have added years
to their lives.
Many men give up such activi
ties at an early age, feeling that
they are not strong enough to
mow their lawn or handle ashes
or spade up the garden. Perhaps
under recent conditions they have
been induced to put on the old
overalls and do a little hard work
with their hands.
They may have puffed and
wheezed at first so they felt as if
they were breaking up physically.
But after a little training, a lot of
them have learned they were just
as good as ever. They rejoice in
this new-found strength, and they
keep a habit that gives them use
ful exercise.
Similarly with many women who
formerly felt themselves unable
to do housework. Under the stress
of the war period, a lot of them
resumed acquaintance with the
cookstove and the broom, and find
their physical ability constantly
improving. A lot of these folks
look forward to more years of ac
tivity than they did five and ten
years ago, just because they have
learned that it pays to keep up
their physical ability.
TIMBER SHOULD EE
REGARDED AS CROP
Whether timber is to be mined
from our forests, without thought,
of replacement, like coal from
our hills, or whether it is to be
considered as a crop to be har
vested and grown like other farm
erpps is now being discussed in an
article by.the United States De
partment of agriculture.
The article discusses very thor
oughly the problems now con
confronting the country as a re
sult of the lack of a forestry pol
icy and the resulting depletion of
the Nation’s forests by logging op
erations and fire.
Nearly half the land area of the
United States, some 822,000,000
acres, was originally forested, says
the article, but the forested area
has now been reduced to 138,-
000,000 acres of virgin forest,
250,000,000 acres of comparative
ly inferior culled and second
growth, and 81,000,000 acres of
barren land, a total of slightly
less than 470,000,00 acres.
“Largely through timber min
ing,’’ it continues, ‘‘the original
stand of timber has been reduced
from more than 5,200 billion
board feet additional in culled and
second-growth stands.
“Seventy-five per cent of the re
maining virgin timber is west of
the Great Plains, and more than
50 per cent of all our remaining
saw timber is in the three Pacific
Coast States, while nearly half of
the lumber cut is consumed in the
region east of the Mississippi Riv
er and north of the Ohio and Poto
mac River. Lumber producing and
consuming centers are so far
apart that we pay $250,000,000
annually in lumber freight.”
The article traces the shifting
of the timber industry from the
East to the Middle West and South
and then to the West, The neces
sity for virgorous reforestation
and for the conservation of our re
maining forests is emphasized
since, according to the article, the
available timber supply of the
United States is being consumed
about four times as fast as it is
being replaced.
FINDS TARIFF NO
HELP TO FARMERS.
Prospects for the improvement
of agricultural conditions in 1923
are not so bright when viewed b~
economic experts in the Depart
ment of Agriculture as the politi
cians of the Republican National
Committee represent them to be.
' This fact is made plain by a sur
vey which has just been completed
by a special committee of econo
mists engaged by Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace.'
Th. prospect with reference to
the supply of farm products for
the coming year is that at least
there will be no reduction in out
put in the United States,” says
the report of these economists.
“With some overflow»of the busi
ness activity of the United States
to the reSt of the world particular
ly the non-European part of the
world, the prospect would rather
be for some increase in the pro
duction of foods in foreign coun
tries. We cannot therefore con
fidently offer any reason for the
expectation that our farmers will
meet any less severe competition
in European markets, during the
coming year than they have met
during the last year.”
These experts say in effect that
surplus products of the farm will
have to be sold abroard in compe
tition with the agricultural output
of Canada, South America, Asia,
and Europe, and that the price
will be fixed in a market over
which the Republican tariff does
not and can not exert the slightest
influence. The experts might
haxe added thatt he American far
mer will be selling all his pro
ducts whether at home or abroad
at prices fixed in the foreign mar
ket, while he will be buying much
of his food and all of his clothing
furniture, hardware, implements,
building materials, and other nec
essaries at costs dictated by the
profiteers’ tariff.
TARIFF TRANSPORTATION
TWIN G. O. P. TROUBLE.
Agricultural conditions have not
made the recovery that was ex
pected by the Republican admini
stration and are sure to be a cause
of dissatisfaction and defection in
the ranks of the western Republi
can progressives and radicals of
the next Congress. The tariff on
grains, livestock, wool, sugar and
other crops of the West has not
proved effective in enlarging the
farmer’s market or increasing the
price of; His products, but has op
erated to magnify his cost of liv
ing.
There have been some advances
in the prices of agricultural prod
ucts, notably wool, but these gains
to the producers are offset by the
rapid rise in commodities which
they have to consume. Official
statistics from the Department
of Labor show that the average
wholesale price of nine groups of
commodities - including farm
products—were 12 points higher
in March, this year, than in March
1922, before the Fordney-McCum
ber bill passed. The advance n ag
ricultural products was 12 points,
but the prices of other commodi
ties of which the farmer is a heavy
consumer had considerably outrun
the rise in what he had to sell.
The cost of clothing moved up
ward 27 points between March,
1922, and March, 1923, accord
ing to the official statistics. Build
ing materials were 45 points high
er than last year; and metals —
hardware, wire, implements, etc.
—4O points higher. Moveover, the
cost of consumers’ commodities is
ascending faster than the prices
of agricultural products arj. In
consequence of this disparity be
tween what he pays for all he buys
and what he receives for all he
sells the farmer is finding fault
with the tariff. One big agricul
tural organization has declared
that the tariff has increased the
cost of living to farmers by $300,-
000,000 a year.
The tariff and transportation
will be twin troubles for .the next
Congress and for the whole ad
ministration, it is forecast. The
move to reduce duties and freights
will find about the same amount of
support, it is believed, and the ef
fort of the reactionaries and spok
esmen of the administration to
precent a reduction will provoke
a bitter fight.
There will be a new and pow
erful enemy of the Republican
tariff in 1924 —the woman. She
has seen all she wears and coogs
and uses growing costlier and
blames the tariff. The campaign
•now being conducted by women
to lower the price of sugar is a
symptom of their reaction to econo
mic and political conditions. They
feel certain that sugar would be
cheaper if the tariff were lower.
They will carry that conviction
with them to the polls next year.
IT’S DARNED
CONSPICUOUS
In London they were discussing
advertisiig. ‘‘Great stuff, these elec
tric signs on Broadway,” said the
Yankee. ‘They’ve got one adver
tising Wrigley’s gum, runs a whole
block, 250,000 electric bulbs.”
‘‘How many?” cried the astonish
ed Londoner.
‘‘Two hundred and fifty thous
and,” answered the Yankee.
The Londoner observed, ‘‘But I
say, old chap, isn’t that a bit con
spicuous?”—The Kan-Sun.
TOM SIMS SA YS:
No wonder Europe has such a
hard time. A tourist tells us they
are all foreigners over there.
Hope the weather man gets wet
when he soys fair and it rains.
Chineses are much better at
fleeing than at fighting, even
dressing with shirt tails already
out.
Wish all people practicing on
coronets wuld move next door to
to all people practicing on trom
bones.
Dr. Copeland says, eat L.ss sug
ar and live longer. Sugar pri ’e
boosters will pose as benefactors.
Hope the laundryman’s own
shirts get torn up in the wash.
Florida man who said he stole
to travel has gone cm a long trip
to the penitentiary.
The first of every month we al
ways hope our postman has a mil
lion bills addressed to him.
In Washington, 195 quarts of
booze evidence are gone. Nobody
knows if it went before Congress.
How would you like to see a
cop chasing himself because he
swipe d acouple of bananas?
A skinny man is a man whose
elbows poke holes in his coat
sleeves.
Nothing beats an old-fashioned
thunderstorm for finding things
lost under the bed.
Believe It Or
' Not!
WAYCROSS, May 17.—-Whether
or net a teetotally live’ frog can
make hi; home in a human being is
a highly debatable question, but that
is what Wilbur Burton, 18 year old
ildgro, of 608 Daniels street, as
serted and what is more he pro
duced the frog as evidence.
Although his listeners were some
what incredulous of his story they
asked him to proceed, and he did.
He said the frog hopped out of the
mouth of his aunt, Corinne Greene,
22 year old negro woman of 608
Daniels street, following a series of
paroxyisms.
’’She began to feel that some
thing was hopping up and down in
her throat,” he declared. “We went
to the drug store and got some medi
cine and gave it to her. She coughed
up several bugs and then heaved up
the frog. She’s pretty sick right
now, but she may get better.”
The boy, who was accompanied
by Alex Edwards, 20 year old ne
gro who works at Cady’s stave
mill, and lives at 1125 Folks street,
produced a large live toad frog,
in a fruit jar and six or eight in
sects in a bottle.
The story as given by Burton was
corroborated in all of its essential
points by the other who came with
him.
ROME HI*GRADUATES.
ROME, i Mlay 17. —Wednesday,
June 6, has been set as graduation
day of the Rome High school, accord
ing to announcements at the conclu
sion of a meeting of the board of
education here.
OLD DAIS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder May 17,
1913.)
Diplomas were awarded to seven
teen members of the class of 1913
at the local high school last eve
ning. The members as the class
are R. H. Comer, Eugene Gartner,
Inman Griffin, Morgan Stevens,
Misses Ruth Britton, Bessie Cobb,
Christine Argo, Lucy Buchanan,
Mary Grey, Brownie Hodges, Carrie
Belle Mathis, Theodosia Mathis, An
nie Laurie Page, Mildred Borum,
Julia Hines, Inez Mauk and Ernes
tine Scarboro.
Miss Genevieve Prather, of the
Americus High school and Miss
Frances McMath, of the Grammar
school, carried off the coveted hon
ors in the award of prizes made last
night for the best record in history
and English.
Miss May Burke was the guest of
Miss Mattie Lewis Dodson during
the past week.
Mirs. Walter Rylander has gone to
Cuthbert to visit her parents, Rev.
and Mrs. T. F. Davenport.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Statham, of
Cobb, were visitors spending Friday
in Americus.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder May 17,
1903.)
We haven’t heard of anybody pay
ing 10 cents for cotton delivered
next September.
A beautiful new trap, pulled by a
splendid pair of Kentucky throuogh
breds, is one of the latest acquisi
tions at Turpin’s stables here.
Evan Mathis, the little son of Dr.
and Mrs. E. Y. Mathis was severely
injured yesterday in a fall from a
wagon.
The largest deal in realty made
here in some time was the sale of
the C. W. Felder plantation of 1500
acres to James Johnson. Captain
Felder has owned and operated -the
farm for fifty years, perhaps.
The marriage this morning of
Miss Leila Watson and Mr. Duncan
Forrester, to be solemnized at noon,
comes in the nature of a surprise.
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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER f
Aviators may soon get so they
can go some place about as quick
as they can stay where they are.
Our idea of fun is a telephone
girl calling up a friend and being
given the wrong number.
Spring’s evil is finding away to
carry all the truck you had in vest
pockets last winter.
Nothing makes us happier than
seeing a shoe clerk buy a pair of
shoes that hurt his feet.
Children are small people not al
lowed to act like their parents did
at that age.
Wish wagons went past the
milkman’s house every morning,
waking him an hour before time.
Fountain pens are long, slender
instruments you shake to spatter
ink all over creation.
What would be nicer than see
ing a landlord’s wife disgusted be
cause he won’t paint their home?
A fat man is a man so wide
people don’t know whether to
climb over him or walk around
him.
Wouldn” it be fun to see a bar
ber shaving himself and arguing
that he didn’t need a massage?
A fat girls is a girl who has to
look in a shop window to see if
her shoes need shining.
Pure Logic
The amateur gardener scratched his
head,
“This thing is too much-for me,”
he said,
“I plant tomatoes,
Green peas, potatoes,
Lettuce and beans, to meet our
needs;
I treat ’em kind
As I ought to do,
But all I find
When the season’s through,
Is a bean or two and a lot of weeds.”
The amateur gardendr thought
thought
On why his gardening came to
nought;
From cerebration
An inspiration
Came suddenly into his puzzled brain
Then he gave a wink
And he cried, “I’m sore
That I didn’t think
Os that thought before,
A logical plan that is safe and sane!”
So the amateur gardener bought the
seeds
Os all the different sorts of weeds,
He planted thistles
And things with bristles-
And all plant pests he had heard
about;
Thtn corn and peas,
Potatoes “00,
And plants like these
Sprang up and grew
Till they’d coked the weeds and the
thistles out!
(Copyright, 1923, NEA Service,lnc.)
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
’ (From the Times-Recorder May 17,
1893.)
The many friends of Mr. William
Hooks will be pleased to hear of his
improvement.
Pursuant to the call of Chairman
Cutts, a number of citizens met at
the council chamber last night for
the prupose of hearing the' report ot '
t/ne canvassing (Committee foe the
proposed cotton factory.
The little s<jn of Mr. S. M. Cohen
was struck by a wheel of the mail
wagon yesterday as it was being driv
en to the depot, but escaped without
serious injury.
Mrs. J. A. Turpin has given the
contract for a pretty two-story resi
dence to be erected on the vacant
lot near her present home on Jack
son street. Mr. W. H. C. Wheatley
prepared the plans.
Mrs. Dupont Guerry, who has been
visiting relatives here, returned to
her home in Macon yesterday.
Miss Mervin Callaway is spending
several weeks in the country, the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. A. D. Gate
wood.
WOULD ISSUE SIO,OOOO STOCK
ROME, May 17.—A petition on the
part of the Rome and Northern Rail,
way company, which operates a line
from Rome to Gore, Ga., asking the
permission of the Georgia Service
commission to issue SIO,OOO worth
of common stock to raise a portion
of the purchase price of the prop
erty, has been filed by Wilson M.
Hardy, of this city.
The railroad property was sold at
a receivers’ sale several days ago for
$35,000 and the balance remain
ing due after the issuance of the i
SIO,OOO stock will be taken care of
with notes which expire within a
year.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank our friends for
their expressions of love and sympa
thy during the hour of sadness and
for the beautiful floral offerings, we ’
express our deepest appreciation.
MRS. LEE PATTON & FAMILY, j
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WANTED—LOANS LOANS LOANS
LOANS —Having a direct connec
tion and plenty of money at the low
est possible interest rate, I can save
vou money on city loans and farm
loans. IL O. JONES—I4-tf
FOR SALE-—Hydrated Lime; spec
ially prepared for sanitary pur
poses; 50-lb bag for 75c. Harrold
Bros. Telephone No. 2. 8-12 t
FAR MLOAN MONEY plentiful at
cheap interest rate and on easy
terms. W. W. Dykes. 9-ts
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Let us repair your
Furniture. Ain ericus
Screen Mfg. Co. Phone
73. • 2-ts-
FOR R^JT —'Two furnished house
keeping rooms. Apply Mrs. M. E.
Jossey, 404 Lamar Street. 5-ts
,We do all kinds of
Cabinet Work. Ameri
cus Screen Mfg. Co.
Phone 73.2-ts
NOTICE —Dividends to depositors of'
the Commercial City Bank are now
ready for distribution, and checks for
same may bo had by calling at office
of Bradley Hogg, liquidating agent,
office over Williams-Niles Hardware
Co. H-7t
Sumter County National Loan Asso
ciation has unlimited money to lend
on farm land. Remember this is the
cheapest money vou cay borrow, g -
Geo. O. Marshall, Secy.-Treas
15-30 t-junl;
FOR SALE —HONEY and bee sup-
plies. E. J. Tyson, 510 Barlow St.
DR. L. M. HAWKINS will remove to
Americus from Leslie, Monday,
May 21 and will occupy offices in Y.
M. C. A. Building formerly occupied
by Dr. R. P. Glenn, where he wiil
engage in the general practice of
medicine. 16-51
PHONE 117, JNO. W. SHIVER, or '
call and see the best RED CEDAR !
SHINGLES. Will last 20 to 30 i
years. Best grade ever No. 1 and i
No. 2 Pine Shingles and Laths. ts :
WANTED—Party with binder to
cut thirty acres oats. W. J. Josey.
7-ts
FARM LOANS 5 1-2 PER
CENT INTEREST.
6 1-2 PER CENT. NO COM
MISSION TO COMPANY.
GORDON HOWELL, REPRE
SENTING CHICKAMAUGA
TRUST CO.
$5,000 TO LOAN
On Americus
Residence Property
LEWIS ELLIS '
Phone 830
AMERICUS
UNDERTAKING CO
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
Day Phones 88 and 231
Night Phones 661 and 389
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. . LOSTTt- <> D’uroe female shoals. J.
w. itt.—io-tf.
FOUNll—One 1923 Auto Tag. Own-
I er cal get same by giving number
, and pajtig for ad at Times-Recorder.
5-ts
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PT!GNE|I7^-SHIVER— If you have
roof double. We. can fix it. Dis
tributorA for Southern Cotton Oil
Co.’s pajts and roof coating. tv
LOANS in farm lands and city prop
erty. ll.ow interest rate. Loans
promptlyiclosed. See S. R. Heys or
H. B. Wlianis Phones 48 or 52.
Noy is the time to
screerl your ‘house
Amertus Screen Mfg.
Co. Rhone 73r. 2-ts
Let bs screen your
house. lAmericus Screen
Mte. q>... hone 73. 2-ts
ROOFINGI-Phone 117—SHIVER—
John’s Manville ROOFING, roof
■ coating, rclf cement, creosote', roof
paint. I ts
WANTED-jTwo hundred head of
cattle tolyasture Very best at
tention. St ttles & Goepp, 206 La
mar St.—l! -ts
"WANTED-4 I'o protect you, your
family an your property. Frank
E. Matt he vi Insurance. 18-ts
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I'OR I’ROlff’T TAXI service call
9117, Liblty Case. Ray Thacker.
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PHONE 11'LjNO. W. SHIVER—
Let us fit rour home with screens
before the nish is 0n.—28-tf
We n:|ke all kinds of
Porch Boxes for Flowers.
‘Americul Screen Mfg.
Co. Phfe 73. 9tf
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I WANTED—»cans, any quantity.
Neon Buclp.an. 15-5 t
WANTED—t’iickens, eggs, country
hams, any inount, at right price.
Easom and N>tin. 17-lt
1 -H' COI J IL ’ T. E. BOLTON, Aea’t. Cashier, S
|C. M. COL rciL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. p RIKER, Asst. Cashier £
1 The Planters Bank of Americus I
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... ... a . SERVICE .k |
? ilf'; , ■; ' • ■ ■ - Every department in tbffs *
*• bank, which is the largest un- £
2 der state supervision in 8
-•M ■A Southwest Georgia, is or- J
S iK??: i': ganized and maintained to ;|>
k • | • :..••• .>I! .nv I t lI.JI 1,. *
H i co-operation and advice ?
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!•* ’ n g institution.
g - v'W'-H'’ ‘ believe it will be to }:
!; ‘ ' your advantage to get better *■
5 ■ acquainted with this bank S
5 I of personal service. 3
I Ths -Saak With st Jurplus . $
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 j
PROM ’X r ACCOMMODATING £
S , jL None Too Small
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THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 17, 1923
FOR RENT—Very desirable front
' room. 313 College St. Phone 971.
12tf
• WANTED—Boarders. 209 North Leo
’ Street, oil's. D, N. Maddox. 17-3 t
• WANTED—To rent for a month
visible writing, standard keyboard
, typewriter. See Times-Recorder.
1 7-tf-dh
NOTICE
I am not responsible for any bills
made by Mrs. R. M. Ethridge after
May 12, 1923.
i 17-3 t R. M. ETHRIDGE
FOR SALE—I dresser and wash
stand, dining room safe, sideboard,
2 center tables and 2 dining tables
> and 1 bicycle. Apply to J. M. -Macey.
142 Catton Ave. JPyF_3t
i FOR SALE—Dining room suit of
furniture. Mrs. Tom McLendon.
17-2 t
FOR SALE—Five fresh Jersey cows.
Fifty dollars. At Agricultural Col
lege. O. W. Caswell. 17-lt
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 Leave
U:sspm Columbus-Chgo 3:45 am
10:35 pm Albany-Montg’y 5:14 am
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
0.14 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pm
3 :45 am Albany-Jaxville ‘ 11:55 pm
2:58 am Albany-Jaxville 12:37am
12;37 am Chgo.St. L. Atla 2:58 am
3:45 am Cinti & Atlanta 1:35 am
SEABOARD AIR LINE
(Central Time.,
A i rive Departs
10:05 am Cordele-Helena 5:15 pm
12:26 pm Cols-Montg’y. 2:10 pm
3:10 prn Cordele-Savh. 12:26 pm
5:15 pm RichEnd-Cols 10:05 am
NOTICE
City lax Books are now open for
1923 returns. Books will-close July
Ist. Make your returns early. A.
D. GATEWOOD, Clerk and Treas
urer.— (adv.)