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THE TIMESRECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
Published by
The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.)
Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher.
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A THOUGHT
Man doth not live by bread only,
tut by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of the Lord doth
man live.—Deut. 8:3.
For earthly blessings, moderate
by thy prayer and qualified; for
light, for strength, for grace,
unbounded thy petition.—Hannah
More.
SHOWING WHY
CITIES GROW.
The rapid growth which many
progressive cities and towns uc
ceed in attaining has been one of
the marvels of American life. Peo
ple who are ambitious to have their
own communities go ahead often
a: k how it is that these advanc
ing places secure these quick gains. I
Investigation would commonly
show that such progress is not us
ually due merely to favorable lo
cations. The citizens of such
places have not sat and waited for
progress to come to them. They
have done a lot >f hustling them
selves.
The reputation that a certain
city is a live town has a lot to do
with its advance. People like to
buy real estate or engage in busi
ness in such communities as they
feel that investment values will
gain. They enjoy the feeling of
life and activity that prevail in
such a city.
Chamber of Commerce, Boards
of Trade and all such organiza
tions have had much to do with
the advance of these fast growing
cities. Americus and Sumter is
fortunate in having a live trade
body whose activities are show,
jng some wonderful results for the
good of this section. It is common
ly true though that when men band
themselves together in an active
association of this nature, they
usually achieve gome of the de
finite results that they aim for in
the shape of public improvements,
new industries and the right "sort
of emigrants.
But even if such an organiza
tion does go along for a time with
out much tangible achievement,
the business men are working un
itedly for nevi, facilities and ad- .
Vantages, creates an atmosphere of
progress. The activities of our or
ganization are reported in the big
city newspapers and discussed by
travelers and residents. The idea
spreads around that Americus and
Sumter county is a place of ac
tive and working community spirit,
where the people are hustling to
get things done. When a place gets
that reputation, it will grow of its
own momentum.
IF SUGAR BOYCOTT FAILS
WOMEN TO USE VOTE
President Harding’s practical
approprice of sugar by curtaining
approval of the fight thousands of
women are waging to reduce the
price of sugar by the use
.of this commodity is be
ing read in connection with his
forthcoming political perigrina
tions. The women who besought
-President Harding’s moral support
for their campaign seemed to take
•it for granted that he could neith
er maintain silence nor express
dissent after having exonerated
the tariff of responsibility for the
•present profiteering and refused
to lower the duty as a direct and
effective method of stopping the
orgy of gouging. a
There -is a political as well as an
economic phase to the battle the
women of the country have begun
against their exploiters. They are
Ho longer merely housewives and
stewards of the home. They are
also voters and quite able and
ready to take care of themselves
and their interests. It is doubtful
whether a boycott by housewives
w'ould have been very effective,
but a “strike” of women voters
who can give or withhold their
ballots next year according as the
Republican administration grants
■or denies its co-operation is a
.wholly different matter.
If the price of sugar continues
io average 10 1-2 cents a pound,
retail, as it did in April, or if it
reaches a still higher level and
remains there while the President
is on the circuit in quest of votes
he will be facing and addressing
thousands of women who will be
waiting for an answer to the ques
tion, “What are you going to do
to stop this profiteering in sugar?”
In this rise in the price of sugar
,is epitomized one of the main is
sues of the next campaign—the
Fordney-McCumber tariff. It has
bruoght home to the women of the
country the vital importance of the
Republican’ administration's classic
' piece of economic legislation and
has raised a political question of
the first magnitude.
Sugar ‘was selling at an aver
age price of 6.6 cents a pound in
fifty-one cities of the country be
fore the Fordney-McCumber bill
was enacted. Shortly after the
bill’s passage sugar began to
grow dearer. In February, five
month’s after the enactment of the
tariff, sugar was selling at 8 cents
a pound, and in April, seven
months after the duty of 2.20
cents a pound was imposed, the
retail price was 10 1-2 cents, or
59 per cent more than in April,
1922. In other words, a dollar
would buy 15 pounds of sugar a
year ago, and will buy only 9 1-2
pounds now. The polities of that
Situation is just as easy as its
mathematics. That’s what is worry
ing the Republican leaders.
The tariff question is wrapped
in every package of sugar that is
carried into an American home
these days. And unlike the years
that are gone, the package falls in
to the hands of a voter as well as
a housewife. From the leison
of sugar American women, it is
believed, will turn to the lessons
of wool and cotton and silk and
beef and utensils and all the oth
er commodities she buys, and what
she learns, it is thought, will prove
fatal to the Republican tariff in
1924.
JUSTICE ASKED FOR
“MAMMY’S” CHILDREN. ‘
The most fitting memorial to
“Black Mpmmy,” and the one she
could most appreciate, would be
the protection of her sons from
’torture and death at the hands of
the mob, says Dr. M. Ashby Jones,
son of Robert E. Lee’s chaplain
and one of the South’s ablest
preachers, commenting on the
proposed memorial in the Atlanta
Constitution, in connection with
the recent lynching at Columbia,
Mo. In view of the frequency of
occurrences, when men are hang
ed or burned without trial and of
ten wholly on suspicion, it is not
surprising, said Dr. Jones, that
many intelligent negroes are indif
ferent or actively opposed to the
proposed monument, prompted
though it be by the line and sin
cere sentiment of the South’s
best people.
“If we are grateful for what
’Black Mammy’ did,” Dr. Jones
Continued, “our gratitude should
find expression in a concerted ef
fort to write upon the statute
books of our states adequate leg
islation for the prevention of
lynching and the safeguarding of
Black Mammy’s children I challenge
the nobility of our Southern peo
ple in some organized and ade-.r
quate way to see to ip the.
mob shall no longer dominate
Southern civilization and humiliate
us before the world. By our lov
ing gratitude to “Black Mammy”
of yesterday and our loyalty to
our fathers and mothers whom she
crooned to sleep with her lullabies,
let us swear that her children and
grandchildren of today shall have
a fair chance.”
The South has always been
most respectful to the old-time
Southern darkey both in song and
story. The Times-Recorder recalls
how a third oi a century or more
ago Joel Chandler Harris in his
Uncle Remus stories vied with
Sam W. Small in his Uncle Si
Stories which ran in the Atlanta
Constitution at that period of the
world’s history after the recon
struction- days and were read
around the fireside by men in the
shadows.
COW NOW PAYS FOR
FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
What the cow does for the
newspaper is the latest story to be
told by a newspaper man—Hon.
Joe Lawrence, editor of the Ash
burn Wiregrass Farmer. Editor
Lawrence doesn’t say so but he
might claim a large part of the
credit for putting the profit
making bovine on the road to the
newspaper office, so to speak.
Mr. Lawrence has just had a
striking illustration of what a cow
can do in helping its own pay his
subscription to his home news
paper.
J. E. Wilson, a farmer, walked
into the offices of Mr. Lawrence’s
newspaper, the Wiregrass Farmer
at Aushburn. Instead of paying
the usual $1.50 for a year’s sub
scription, Mr. Wilson handed Edi
tor Lawrence more than six times
that amount, or to be exact, $lO,
with the remark:
“In appreciation of what the
Wiregrass Farmer has done in es
tablishing diversified farming and
in bringing prosperity back to the
farmers of the section.”
Mr. Wilson said further “that
since he started to milk cows he
always had a few dollars in his
pocket.”
Editor Lawrence says he has
noticed that the farmers who are
patronzing the creamery—Ash
burn having one of the largest
creameries in Georgia—and the
i OLD DAIS L\ AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. May
18, 1913.)
Americus friends of Mr. Albert
Drane, of this city who for many
years has held a responsible govern
ment position in Washigton, will be
pleased to learn of his promotion by
Secretary Garrison to be chief of»the
supply division of the war depart
ment a position which is quite a re
sponsible, and to which ’a lucarative
salary is attached. Messrs. George
Fort, John T. Clarke. and Homer
Guerry, all of whom hold responsible
positions.
Saturday afternoon the auditor
ium of the Bell Piano school was
thrown open in cordial hospitality to
the friends of Miss Martha Wheatley
who enjoyed very much the art ex
hibit of Miss Wheatley’s cla> -.
The marriage today of Miss Vera
Robinson of Americus, and Mr. John
S. Murray, of Ellaville will be an oc
casion of social interest among the
many friends of the bride and groom.
Miss Loulie Scarborough was hos
tess on Wednesday evening, enter
taining at two tables of forty-two
complimentary to her guest, Miss
Louise Fuller, of Alabama.
With all the danger and vicissi
tudes usually attending the peach
crop of this section safely weathered
by the growers, there is much specu
lation as to the yield here this sea
son. That will be small in comparison
with last years crop.
TOM SIMS SA YS:
These Chineses bandits better
mind their peas and queues.
If’Russia had autos like us she
could sentence nieii to take a walk
•instead of shooting them.
Now i ’. the time to punish China
for sending us mah jongg games.
Mt. Etna boiling over in Italy,
while in America we have our
preside.n:ial candidates.
Eskimos, they say, are a happy
lot. They should be. Eskimos know
, it isn’t going to get too hot.
Buenos Aires bishop says Amer
ica is women’s paraaise. We say |
some > '!. like birds of paradise.
' Chinese women have the small
est feet in the world, but should:
use them kicking husbands.
Had a big wreck on the Hershey
road in Cuba. Not however, be
cause a train hit a choclate bar.
»
Just to show you how ignorant
African savages are, they consider
castor oil a perfume.
They claim an arithmetic teach
er who got fired in Los 'Articles'
• set her pupils bad examples.
Turkey, the sick man of Europe,
expects to get up and about by
giving America oil.
Ohio minister says proper danc
ing is a fine art. Police say im
proper dancing is a fine.
Bok Says a
Bookful
Don’t work with your eye on' the
clock,
Says Bok.
But keep on the job with vim.
lut something away in the sock.
Says Bok;
(He did it, and look at him!)
Don t play with the frivolous flock,
Says Bok,
It s simply a waste of time,
But rise with the crow of the cock,
Says Bok,
For that is the way to climb.
Be solid sure as a rock, ‘
Says Bok,
st ® ar y aR d calm and sane,
lhe light headed folks may mock,
Says Bok, |
But all of their ways are vain.
Keep nonsense out of your block,
Says Bok, i
Be ifHous all of yours days,
For gayety’s bound to shock,
Says Bok, i j
And levity seldom pays.
’ 1 I
I never would ’care to knock
Ed Bok,
If you follow advice like this,
rise to the top-o’-the-erock,
Like Bok;
But think of the fun vou’ll miss!
(Copyright, 1923, NEA* Service, Inc)
P. O. ROBBERS ARRESTED.
COLUMBUS, May 18.—Charles
Burch, Albristo Edwards and Mason
Owens, under indictment in federal
court charged with, breaking into
the Renfro, Ga., postoffice, in the
federal court, and under state
charges for automobile theft, were
brought here yesterday by United
States Deputy Marshall R. O. Sum
ter of Muscogee, Okla. The three
men were arrested in that city after
identification had been established
the hog and chicken sales are able
to keep the subscription to their
newspaper paid for as well as be
ing prepared to pay cash for oth
er things.
Editor Lawrence does not hes
itate to say that the cow will bring
patronage to the home newspaper
as well as prosperity to the farm.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER 9
TWENT YYEARS AGO TODAY
Monday morning, no paper pub
lished.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. May
18, 1893.)
Throughout this section too much
Lain has fallen recently. General
Green is getting in hi work, and
cotton choppers are reported
throughout the county, and a ma
jority of the farmers are well up
with their w'qi'k.
Mrs. Oriatida Williamson, of Mem
phis, who has been the charming
guest of Mrs. ('. G. ( lay for the past
two’weeks, returned home yesterday,
greatly to the regret of the very
large number of friends made dur
ing her stay here.
Mr. Will Thomas of Plains was in
the city yesterday. He reports farm
ing operations in that section prog
ressing finely and things in general
in a flourishing condition.
Prof. George J. Winkler, who for
the past year or two has been a mem
ber of the faculty of Jackson treet
school tendered his resignation to
the board of education on yesterday
to take effect June 1. He has accept
ed a position as principal of the First
Ward High school at Hamilton, O.
J. W. Sheffield has returned home
from a short visit to his sister, Mrs.
W. S. Bell in Albany.
Mr. and Mi’s. J. W. Mize and Miss
Lillie Caldwell, of this city, are
guests at the home of Capt., J. C.
• McGolrick.
A fly swatted in time saves nine
’ million fly swats.
Two can live on bread and
cheese and kisses, if they don’t
run out of bread and cheese.
to
Our summer resort will be re
sorting to the ice box.
The women certainly are filling
King Tut’s shoes nicely.
It doesn’t matter, but maybe
the Chinese got slant-eyed seeing
if their noses were shiny.
A pian never loses his nerve un
til he needs it.
People who sit around waiting
for things Jo turn up find their
toes dp it first. fc
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Girls too slender don’t mind eat-‘
ing a lot. They have everything to
gain and nothing to lose.
A mosquito is unwelcome be
cause he always brings his bill.
Entirely too many chaperones
have nothing to do.
A sours lusher is a man who isl
f-howtr up at a show down.
The older* a man gets the more
he hates to buy a new straw hat.
Women may have the most
sense, but it takes a man to marry
one.
Nothing makes a hen madder
than seeing an ostrich egg.
■
Three
Smiles *
- J
The Indiscreet Salesman.
Customer—l’d like to see some
thing cheap in a straw hat.
- Shop Assistant-—Try this one on.
The mirror is at your left.—London
Answers.
An Exp e nsive Notice.
Pat—What be yer charge for a
funeral notice in yer paper?
Editor—Fifty cents an inch.
I’at—Good heavens, an’ me poor
brother was six feet tall.
Not Any On Her.
A girl who had just returned from
Egypt was telling her mother about
the pyramids and other wonders.
Some of the stones, she said, were
covered hi e roglyphics.
“I hope, dear,” said her mother,
anxiously, “you were careful not to
get any of them on you,”—London
Tit-Bits.
CAR SEIZED: 2 ARRESTED.
COLUMBUS, May 18.- An auto
mobile, containing sixty gallons and
one pint of Whiskey, was seized by
the police last night and a white man
and a negro were arrested. Those
taken into custody! were E. N.
Quick and Tim Williams, negro.
MOSS MADE MANAGER.
■COLUMBUS, May 18.—Thomas L.
Moss has been appointed and now is
acting retail sales manager of the
Columbus Electric and Power com
pany, to take the place of Wayne
Patterson, who resigned that position
last week to become manager of the
Savannah Lighting company.
GRAND JURY TO MEET
COLUMBUS. May 18.—The Mus-I
cogee county grand jury will hold its
| next session next Wednesday morn- |
|ing at 10 o’clock, according to an-;
i announcement by Solicitor General ;
Walker R. Flournoy. It was stated !
that a number of liquor cases and I
others will be investigated at that
time. It is understood that the I
criminal calendar for the May term
of court will also be arranged at that ;
time by the solicitor.
Tomatoes were introduced in Eng
land in 1596.
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FOR RENT—Two furnished house
keeping rooms. Apply Mrs. M. E.
Jossey, 404 Lamar Street. 5-ts
WANTED—LOANS LOANS LOANS
LOANS—Having a direct connec
tion and plenty of money at the low
est possible interest rate, I can save
von money on city loans and farm
loans. H. O? JONES—I4-tf
FOR SALE —Hydrated Lime; spec
ially prepared for sanitary pur
poses; 50-lb bag for 75c. Harrold
Brqs. Telephone No. 2. 8-12 t
FAR MLOAN MONEY plentiful at
cheap interest rate and on easy
terms. W. W. Dykes. 9-ts
NOTICE —Dividends to depositors of
the Commercial City .Bank are now
ready for distribution, and checks for
same may be had by‘calling at office
of Bradley Hogg, liquidating agent,
office over Williams-Niles Hardware
Co. 11-7 t
Sumter County National Loan Asso
ciation has unlimited money to lend
on farm land. Remember this is the
cheapest money vou can borrow Sr"
Geo. O. Marshall, Secy.-Treas
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 will
engage in the general practice of
medicine. 16-5 t
PHONE 117, JNO. W. SHIVER, or
call and see the best RED CEDAR
SHINGLES. Will last 20 to 30
years. Best grade ever No. 1 and
No. 2 Pine Shingles and Laths. ts
WANTED —Party with binder to
cut thirty ’acres oats. W. J. Josey.
TMf
WANTED —Boarders. 209 North Lee
I Street. Mrs. I). N. Maddox. 17-3 t
WANTED —To rent for a month
visible writing, standard keyboard
typewriter. See Times-Recorder.
17-tf-dh
WANTED—Two hundred head of
cattle to pasture Very best at
tention. Suttles & Goepp, 206 La
mas St.—l6-tf
WANTED —To protect you, your
family and your property. Frank
E. Matthews. Insurance. 18-ts
WANTED—Pecans, any quantity.
Neon Buchanan. 15-5 t
FARM LOANS 5 1-2 PER
CENT INTEREST.
6 1-2 PER CENT. NO COM
MISSION * TO COMPANY.
GORDON HOWELL, REPRE
SENTING CHICKAAIAUGA
TRUST CO.
$5,000 TO LOAN
On Americus
Residence Property
LEWIS •ELLIS
Phone 830
AMERICUS
UNDERTAKING CO
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Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
NAT LEMASTER, Maqager
Day Phones 88 and 231
Night Phones 661 and 889
FOUND—One 1923 Auto Tag. Own
er can get same by giving number
and paying for ad at Times-Recorder.
5-ts
LOST —Pink cameo brooch. Uhone
42, or deliver 123 West Church.
Reward. 18-3 t
LOS’'— Pocketbook containing $lO
bill, knife and policy receipt. Re
ward if returned’to Tiines-Reeordef.
18-3 t
LOST—Bunch keys, short leather
strap. In postoffice or on streets
to Shiver lumber yards. Return to
John W. Shiver. 18-ts
LOANS on farm lands and city prop
erty. Low interest rate. Loans
promptly closed. See S. R. Heys or
fl. B. Williams. Phones 48 or 52. I
ROOFING—Phone 117—SHIVER—
John’s ROOFING, roof
coating, roof cement, creosote, roof
paint. ts
FOR PROM! T TAXI service call
9117,.Libert; Case. Ray Thacker.
PHONE 117—JNO. W. SHIVER—
Let us fit your home with screens
before the rush is 0n. —28-tf
FOR SALE—Brabham Peas. Phone
222. J. A. Dupree. 18-6 t
FOR SALE—one three-speed revolv
ing Emerson fan, slightyl used;
bargain. Phone 381. M. E. Albright.
18-ts
FOR SA*I.E—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 Cotton Ave. 17-3 t
FOR SALE—Dining room suit of
furniture. Mrs. Tom McLendon.
17-2 t
Porch Boxes Made to
Order. Furniture repair
ed (right). Ice Boxes
made to order. Screens
our Specialty. You must
be satisfied. . .
Americus Screen Co.
Phone 73
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON-, Ass’t. Cashier.
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. f, KIKER, Asst. Cashier
The Planters Bank of Americus
(Incorporated)
PERSONAL
* m SERVICE <
Every department in this
w >3 bank, which is the largest un-
l! T7 11 WIMWI- (,er slate supervision in
(OI*JiUM-- ■* ■'■<: ’Southwest Georgia, is or-
£anized and maintained to
K * vp our customers that help-
IM’ 11 co-operation and advice
’> ’A l ' "hieh is natural to expect
*' 1.. ' from so substantial a bank-
in E institution.
W* l believe it will be to
- -• your*advantage to get better
acquainted with this bank
of personal service.
The BarJx With , <
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
PROMPT CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; Rone Too Small
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 18, 1923
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kFOR RENT—Very desirable front
room. 313 College St. Phono 971.
12tf
NOTICE
.1 am not responsible for any bills
made by Mrs. R. M. Ethridge after
May 12, 1923.
17-3 t R. M. ETHRIDGE
1—
LOANS made on improved fairylands
at cheapest races for term of *5, 7 or
10 years with., pre-payment., option
given. Money secured promptly. We
have now outstanding over $1,100,-
039.00 on farms in Sumter County
alone, with plenty more to lend.
MIDDLETON M’DONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Com
pany in Sumter, Lee, Terrell, Schley,
ster Counties., 21_ Planters.. Rgjjk
Macon, Stewart, Randolph and
81dg... Americus, Gs»— Fkone 89 or
211.
taxT’service
In Front of Windsor Hotel
Residence Phone 646
Phone 161 Windsor Pharmacv
L. L. COMPTON
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
11:55 pm 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
5:14 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.,
Arrive Departs
10:05 am Cordele-Helena 5:15 pm
12:26 pm Cols-Montg’y. 3:10-pra
3:10 pm Cordele-Savh. 12:26 pm
K TS nm Richl&nd-Cobi 16:05 am
NOTICE •
City Tax Books are now open for
1923 returns. Books will close July
Ist. Make your returns early. A.
D. GATEWOOD, Clerk and Treas
urer.— (adv.)