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TIMES-RECORDER
PUBLISHED 1879
Published by
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Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher
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A Thought
The Lord is in his holy tem
ple; let all the earth keep silence
before him.—Hab. 2:20.
Henceforth the Majesty of
God revere;
Fear him and you have nothing
else to fear.—Fordyce.
MERCER SAYS WHISKEY
REBELLION IS ON.
Jesse E. Mercer, one time
newspaper editor, and known to
scores of Georgians, is now ac
tively interested in keeping the
Georgia League for Law En
forcement Through Constituted
Authority before the poeple, has
sounded a warning and says the
whiskey rebellion is on.
Mr. Mercer declares the op
ponents of prohibition are more
active in Georgia today than
they have ever been and they
want a return of the bar room
regime; that the coming legisla
ture will be bombarbed for a re
peal of the law or at least a
modification of it. The active
’’wets” do not constitute more
than 10 per cent of the popula
tion of the state, he
estimates, but that they are
very much more than 10 per
cent effective. Mr. Mercer says:
Prohibition did not just grow
up like a rank weed. You and
others brought it about by work
and sacrifice. Nothing worth
while comes ady other was. You
must not let crest in the
great principls?fag 'in the pres
ent crisis. You must not leave
it to others now. Every Tight
thinking American' will accept
the challenge of the old whiskey
gang—same old bunch to a man
who expect to profit by our
overconf ideneb.
Do not be by the fact
that Georgia is 'overwhelmingly
for prohibition., It is, but the
situation is r peculiar. A minior
ity, probably as small /is ten
per cent of the people are plan
ning to run over and defeat
the will of the great majority,
provided, of course, we fail to
sense the danger in time to pre
vent.
At this moment the people are
divided into three camps
or classes; the easy-money, easy
piorals class, much less than ten
per cent of the voters; the illit
erates and criminally inclined,
from whose ranks come the wild
cat distiller, the rum-runner and
the bootlegger who are support
ed mainly by the “easy-money"
law defiers; then the great mid
dle class—the common people—
who, men and women, believe in
prohibition and in law enforce
ment, who believe in American
institutions, who are the sustain- '
ing power on which our civili
zation rests. On them we are
dependent for the maintenance
ot prohibition.
With the women voters to re
inforce our legions there can be
no donbt of the result—pro
vided we do not let the liquori
ties surprise us as we sleep.
What will do in your coun
ty? Please answer.
We need your suggestions,
now.
BUILDING STOPPAGE
INJUDES ALL BUSINESS.
Serious results are threatened
(by the skyrocketing of prices of
building materials, which are
rhoving rapidly toward
the “peak” reached the influ
ences of the World War. Brick,
one of the largest constituents
of building, is now 250 per cent
above the pre-war price.
The immediate consequence
of a stoppage of building be
cause of excessive prices, it is
feared, will be hurtful reaction
on all kinds of business and in
dustry. Equally harmful would
be the continuance of insuffici
ent housing in the larger cen
ters and persistence of high
rentals, which are now among
the chief factors in the heavy
cost of living.
Many of the materials used
in construction of homes and
other buildings are “protected”
•by | Fordney-MeCumber profi
teers’ tariff. Structural steel, all
kinds of tools and builders’
hardware, sanitary pottery, win
dow glass, and certain classes of
lumber are all subject to big
duties, which are added to prices
even when the materials are
manufactured} in this (Country.
Materials in the average build
ing represent about 60 pej cent
of the total cost. With practical
ly all materials carrying a tar-
iff of from 10 to 250 per cent
it means that the big corpora
tions like the Steel Trust, the
Glass Trust, the Sanitary Pott
ery Trust, and the Lumber
Combine are reaping most of
the profits.
Defenders of the profiteers’
tariff are attempting to induce
the public to believe that in
crease in wages account for the
present cost of building. Statis
tics show that while the pay of
mechanics and other workers has
risen less than 100 per cent
compared with the rates in 1913,
the cost of materials has soared
from 50 to 350 per cent.
WILL GULLIBLE UNCLE
SAM BE EASILY FOOLED?
Europe must have heard that
this government expects to end
its fiscal year in less than a
week with something like SIOO,
000,000 surplus in the treasury,
so they say, for now the sugges
tion comes from London and
Paris that the best way to solve
the financial andi industrial
muddle of the Old World would
be to substitute Germany for
Great Britain, France, Italy and
our other war borrowers as our
sole debtor for war loans made
to our allies. That’s a fine idea
—for Europe. But isn’t it a bit
rough on Uncle Samuel? If
France, living next door to Ger
many, and with an army on the
Ruhr, cannot collect, from the
Berlin government, what
chance, think you, would the
United States have? It is about
the sweetest little suggestion
that has come across the water
for some time, but it is too bad
that we are boycotting sugar
just at the present time.
In our opinion, the best serv
ice we can extend Europe is to
make it plain that we do
not intend to carry the load it
so persistently, shirks.
Germany is evading payment
of war indemnities. Russia
might possibly be excluded from
consideration but Germany caij
•Bot'bg because of its position
in world, industry and its impor
tance as a commercial nation.
Germany has wealth enough
eventually to meet all obliga
tions, but for the most part its
tangible wealth outside of es
tablishments, buildings and resi
dences is invested where it is
safe from taxation. Germany
owns over seven billions of
American securities and has
tremendous investments in those
of other nations all deposited in
the banks of foreign countries.
It must reap what it has sowed
and in the end it must not only
Pay indemnities, but also penal
ties for its deliberate financial
suicide.
ROCKEEELL7R GIVES
LESSON IN EFFICIENCY.
Ihe Rockefeller Foundation
was established ten years ago.
Since that time it has spent
$76,757,040 ‘for (the ,wel|(be
ing of mankind through the
world,” according to a report
jjust issued. An enormous
amount of good has been ac
complished by this huge num
ber of dollars, but we are not
holding a praise service for
John D. Rockefeller. He took
that amount of money, and con
siderable more, from the peo
ple by exploiting their natural
resources, and, it is no more
than just that he should re
turn at least some of it to them,
and if he exercised more wis
dom than we wodld have shown
and accomplished greeter re
sults than we would have obtain
ed in spending a like amount,
this is merely the interest we
charge so rgiving him the money.
The point worthy of accent
ing in John D.’s benefactions is
that the cost of administering
his $76,757,040 philanthropy as
only $1,107,874, or about one
and one-quarter per cent of the
total expender. Here indeed we
may learn something. It is al
most an axion that it costs a
dollar to give away a dollar. Ex
perience has taught us that the
cost of administering relief is
usually as great as the amount
spent. The ladies’ aid society of
a country church will collect
S4O at an ice cream social nd
realize $8.25 profit on it. So
ciety will spend SIOO,OOO on a
charity in New York City and
charity ball in New York City
and turn over SIO,OOO to some
worthy cause. Hhe churches of
the land raise millions of dol
■ars each year for missionary
work, and then use from 20 to
40 per cent of this amount
spending the balance.
Yet here is a philanthropic in
stitution, the greatest of its
kind in the which has
cut the cost of administration to
a little better than one per cent.
Truly John D. has set us at least
one good example,
OLD DAYS IS AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AAGO TOADY
(From the Times-Recorder. June
25, 1913.)
A meeting has been called for
Saturday in behalf of the move
ment to gain a price of fifteen
cents for cotton. This movement
has been fostered for some time,
and the discussion to be held here
Saturday, will be led by two out
of-town speakers.
Misses Ruth and Louise Hamil
ton have gone to Albany upon a
visit of a week to friends.
A party of fisheretnen leaving
yesterday for St. George’s Island
included Messrs. Frank Mitchell,
ClifM C. Clay, V. H. Gaines, Jack
Shaw, Henry Christian, S. B. Haw
kins, and Allen Johnson.
Misses Thelma and Evelyn
Bragg have gone to Macon on a
visit of two weeks of relatives.
Relatives here in Sumter coun
ty of Enoch and Patrick Tyson
would be pleased to have some
knowledge of them, from whatever
bo utide's it may be gt/(n)e<f. -For
some time the relatives of these
two brothers in this county have
no news of them.
An addition to the large number
of artesian wells in Americus has
just been made in the completion
of a very fine well at the new
plant of the Atlantic Coal and Ice
Company on Spring street.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. June
25, 1903).
From Albany yesterday came the
gratifying intelligence of improve
ment in the condition of the lit
ec £ au & hter of Mr - and Mrs. Ed
Sheffield of Americus, and who
has been so desperately ill re
cently. Since Sunday there had
been an alarming chance and it
seemed that the precious little life
must go out despite every effort '
made to stay the grim messenger
A series of brilliant Friday as- 1
ternoon reception, beginning to
the rr F^’ an r r i nO . On ’ Wi “ be Kiven at 1
frL E r C ? b durign summer, 1
from five to seven, during which I
time delicious refreshments will be
5 by . the Elks. The fair guests i
will likewise have access to the bil- 1
Copyright, 1923, Tx • 1 vx
n. E. a. SCT>k . c . Daily Poem Bcrt , n By ßra , ey
WEATHER
“Whether it rain or whether it snow,
We shall have weather, whether or no.”
And whether we smile or whether we fuss
The weather won’t alter a bit for us.
So when it’s foggy we won’t complain,
And when it’s rainy we’ll let it rain,
And when the weather is clear and fine
And Old Sol’s shining, we’ll let him shine!
All right, all right! That is cheerful stuff,
But just a little of that’s enough!
It’s true that nothing we do or say
Can change the weather we get each day,
But when we’ve planned for a day outdoors
And the sky above uq just pours and pours,
And all our pleasure is on the bum,
We get relief if we grumble somej
“Whether it’s cool or whether it’s hot,
We shall have weather, whether or. not;”
But though I’m cheerful as can be,
I like to feel that I’m wholly free
To kick and growl if I do not like
The kind of weather I chance to strike,
Over the climate I’ve no dominion—
But, I’m entitled to my opinion!
TOM SIMS SA YS:
Oregon crops are being ruined
by caterpillars, probably one va
cation from some silk mill.
Glacier advances indicate the
ice age is returning, so our ice
man is worried a little.
Many of this year’s college
graduates show signs of recov
ery.
German people are gambling
in marks, but many people here
match pennies, which is worse.
We are eating more soft boil
ed eggs than ever before, ac
cording to a dry cleaner’s fig
ures.
Attorney general sayS the sug
ar situation is very satisfactory,
but doesn’t say for whom?
Big rainstorm hit New York
recently and thousands tasted
their first water in several
weeks.
Bad news from Madrid. Spain
fighting Moors. Just like them,
we don’t know what it is about.
Over in London, a woman
mill worker won $160,000 no
doubt making all the neighbors
mad.
Baltimore’s new council is
asking for beer. The Weather
must be getting hot in Balti
more.
Love’s a gamble. Texas shiek
who played with hearts and dia
monds was dealt with by clubs
and patted in the face with a
F P ade - I
Scientists made 2,00,000 volts
of lightning. On* time we saw
that much in a quart bottle.
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' THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER <
lard parlors and afforded every
. entertainment.
Prof. J. E. Mathis is still in
r Florida, assisting Mr. Arthur Ry
r lander with extensive business at
" Johnstown for three or four weeks,
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, THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
i (From the Times-Recorder. June
25, 1893.)
The city board of education held
’ an important meeting yesterday
i every member being present. Prof.
| Harper was unanimously re-electea
1I The following teachers for the
i Jackson street were elected: Prof.
J. E. Mathis Principal; Prof. J. E.
McKee, Miss Saliie Wheeler, Miss
Lannie Adams, Miss Lily Brown,
Mrs. D. T. Wilson, Mrs. L. A. Sim
mons, Miss Susie Taylor, Miss S. R.
Cowles, Miss Emma Council, Miss
Genevieve Morgan, Miss Annie
Ansley, Miss Annie McLaughlin,
Miss Hattie Clarke, Miss Carrie
Shropshire.
The following pupils have each
received giyht honor certificates
for scholarship and deportment
during the school year just closed.
First Grade, Tucker Ansley, Char
lie Cobb, Frank Olver, Parrot
Poole, Pearl Howard, Rebecca
Mathis, Josie Rowland, Undine,
Stanfield, Fred Hollis, Leah John
son, Hazel Tower, Bob White. Sec
ond grade, Julia Guerry, Ralph
McKenzie, May Belle Hawkins,
Eugene Bailey Lizzie Bivins, Elam
Johnson, Carobel Murphy, Ettie
full is. Third grade, Mabel Sawer,
Mattie Lamar, Mamie Gray,
Queena Butcher, Lula Brown,
Eddie Belle Dunn. Forth grade,
Belle Ansley, Myrtle Poole, Ina
White, Percival Raiford, Lou Belle
Speer, George Cobb, Robert
Adams. Fifth grade, Lizzie Boone
Harrold, Daisy. Cobb, Saliie Wim
bish, Ruth Glover, Kate Hollis, Eva
May Hawkins, James Lark, Ann,
C. Clarke. Sixth grade, Genie
Glover, Allen Fort, John Mc-
Lendon, May Davis. Seventh grade,
Lula Greene, Mamie McLendon,
rlora Monk, Gertrude Smith,
Eigthth grade, Helen Hunting
ton. Ninth grade, Jamie Carter,
Minnie Nicholson, Florence Hirsch
Charles Harrold, Tenth graded
Nora Burke, Nettie Lockette.
Things are getting so it takes
good eyesight to tell a filling
station from an ice cream parlor.
Three congressmen are visit
ing Russia. Serves all four right.
The airplane will never be
popular until you can drive
with one hand and park on a
cloud.
About 75 were poisoned at a
New York Wedding party, even
though the bride didn’t do the
cooking. f
Three Smiles
Force of’ Habit.
“Phwat was the last card Oi
delt ye, Mike?”
“Spade.”
“Oi knew it. Oi say ye spit on
your hands before ye picked it
up.”—The Leatherneck.
A Private Matter.
“John do you realize that you
talk to yourself?”
“I’ve been told so.”
‘ What do you say, at such
times?”
"Don’t ask me; I’m no eaves
dropper.”
Addison s Ads.
Addison Jadd, who was called Ad
Jadd,
Was a Harvard grad,
Employed by his dad;
Dad Jadd’s factory made the adz—
The axe and the adz—real ttools,
not fads.
Ad’s dad said to the lad ‘ Well, Ad
We’re needing a full page adz ad
bad;
Can you write good ads for your
dad’s doodads?”
’Why, Dad,” said Ad, “I’m an adz
ad wiz,”
i So the lad wrote an ad for his dads
adz biz,
Dad Jadd was glad for the ads of
Ad;
Both Jadds made scads—from Ad’s
adz ads.
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WANTED LOANS, LOANS,
LOANS, LOANS —Having a di
rect connection and plenty of
money at the lowest possible inter
est rate, I can save you money on
city loans and farm loans. H. O.
JONES. ‘ 14-ts
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WANTED—To protect you, your
family and your property. Frank
E. Matthews, Insurance. 18-t£
LOANS on farm lands and city
property. Low interest rate.
Loans promptly closed. See S. R.
Heys or H. B. Williams. Phones 48
or 52.
ROOFING—Phone 117—SHIVER
Johns-Manville ROOFING, roof
coating, roof cement, creosote,
roof paint. ts
DR. L. M. HAWKINS, Physician-
Office over Americus Drug Co.;
phone, office 363 • residence 523.
6-ts
PHONE 117—JNO. W. SHIVER—
Let us fit your home with
screens before the rush is on. 28-ts
PHONE 117, JNO. W. SHIVER, or
call and see the best RED CE-
DAR SHINGLES. Will last 20 or 30
years. Best grade eever No. 1 and
No. 2 Pine Shingles and Laths, ts
FARM LOAN MONEY plentiful at
cheap interest rate and on easy
terms. W. W. Dykes. 9-ts
FOR SALE—Attention Pig Club
Boys. We have some extra fancy
Duroc pigs for sale. W. J| Josey.
29-ts
FOR SALE —Electric irons guaran
teed one year, $4.65. Supply lim-
W. W. McNeill. 5-ts
FOR RENT —Bee Hive Store, La
mar street. Possession September
first. W. W. Dykes. 4july3
FOR RENT—Unfurnished apart
ment close in; desirable. 308
West Church street. 9-ts
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water, garage. Phone 800. 16-ts
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Charmingly simple and tasteful
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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 Leave
11:55 pm Colum’s-Chgo 3 : 45 am
10:35 pm Albany-Mont 5:14 am
7:21 pm Macon-Atl’nta 6:37 am
1:55 pm Alb’y-Montg’y 2:14 pm
2:14 pm Macon-Atla’ta 1 : 55 pm
10:15 am Columbus .TilS pm
6:37 am Albany 7:21 pm
5:14 am Macon-Atla’ta 10:35 pm
3:45 am Albany-J’ville 11:55 pm
2:58 am Albany-J’ville 12:37 am
12:37 am Chgo.St.L.’Atl 2:58 am
3:45 am Cin & Atlanta 1;35 am
SEABOARD AIR LINE
(Central Time)
A rr > v e Departs
10:05 am Cordele-Hel’na 5:15 pm
12:26 pm Cols-M’t’g’y 3:10 pm
3:10 pm Cordele-Savh 12:26 pm
5:15 nm Richland-Cols 10;05 am
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, apartment, couple without chil
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' 123-3 t
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phone 798. Reward—23-3t
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months. PSce $lO. 408 Jack
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