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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 31, 1923 '
FLfflIM PLM IMS
fl»[ W IT Gm,
COOK AGENT SITS
Stalk Stripped July 27 Puts on
138 Squares During Twenty-
Five Days
WEEVILS ARE ALL GONE
Patch Surrounded by Woods Se_
lected For Experiment Dem
onstrates Value of Plan
(Continued from Page 1.)
ing. Practically all the weevils
were in the squares and when they
are taken off and put in the bag,
the weevils are practically all in
the bag.
Inasmuch as the weevils will not
eat leaves, the few remaining on
the stalk will naturally go to the
top of the stalk and locate in the
bud. Go along through the cotton
as soon as possible after stripping
squares, and put a nip of poison in
the bud. Then every weevil is gone
and troubles along that line arg
over for the year.
Makes no difference if your
neighbor is lazy or indifferent. His
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i should say it is ! j
| 1 could tell a cup N
'1 of Maxwell House
• blindfolded. Wliat •
else could have such
| aroma, such flavor, L
such uniformity!
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Popular Economics Series
By Bank of the Manhattan Company, New York City
Greatest Family in the World*’
Article Five
MILLIONS OF CAPITALISTS
There arc forty million persons
in our country “engaged in gainful
occupations.” About the same num
ber of people are investors in Life
Insurance and these investors have
thereby created an investment fund
of eight billion dollars.
Now see how this works out.
Those engaged in “gainful occu
pations” are divided into many
groups, according to the work they
do. Let us take two or three of
these groups to illustrate the effects
of Life Insurance, as a source of
capital, upon the economic life of
the country.
Consider first the railroads. They
need money with which to carry on
their vast and ever-expanding busi
ness, so important to the prosperity
of the country. If they cannot get
capital, they cannot buy cars and en
gines and build stations and main
tain their tracks. For financing new
equipment and track improvement
the railroads must sell their stocks
and bonds. Right here come on the
scene our good citizens who have
gotten together in their life insur
ance companies, money enough to
buy two billion dollars of these rail
road stocks and bonds.
Two Billions of Capital
Among the forty million policy
holders are many railroad men, in
cluding all grades from the president
down. I f the railroads could not get
capital these railroad men would
either be out of a job or would have
to work for reduced wages and sal
aries. But these very men have
helped through their investment in
Life Insurance to create a fund
which supplies their roads with two
billion dollars of needed capital. So
'they, help themselves twice over:
first',., their life insurance policies
have purchased security and happi
ness for themselves and their fami
lies ; second, through the investment
of a part of this insurance fund in
railroad securities, they have helped
.to finance the very railn ads which,
provide them with their livelihood.
' Now, give a thought to the farmer.
He has joined with many other far
mers in buying Life Insurance, He
and his fellow farmers need r.c.v
capital for buildings, I<- mere 1. ml
■and equipment. Once more the cup
>ply is provided by insurance fir.d'-
treated by farmers and others wn >
{have invested in Lite Insurance.
; Those farmers who pay life insur
ance premiums have helped to help
(their fellow farmers, for one and a
billion dollars of lite insur
•ance funds are loaned upon farm
Financing New Homes
Think for a moment of the city
Iman who wants a roof over his head
that he can call his own. If you
don’t build houses, you can’t have
■homes. Still less can masons and
carpenters and plumbers and paint
ers and all the other building crafts
men make a living. Many a person
can pay for a part of the cost of a
home at the time it is built, but the
balance must be paid off over a pe
riod of years by means of a mort
gage. This is better/ than paying
I rent in most cases, but it cannot be
i deme unless someone will loan him
the money with a mortgage as col
lateral.
So the home-owner and the me-.,
chanics who build th'*, house for him
turn to the fund which they all have
helped to create when they joined
the great company of investors in
Life Insurance, a billion and a quar
ter dollars of which has been in
vested in mortgages on city prop-
.... pie and in fact
(Next Article of Series is "Addl NJ Years io Every
weevils xVill stay £lt home unlil
they have eaten his squares and by
that time new squares without wee
vils will be on your cotton and will
be developed too far for the wee
vil to harm.
On the fanu of Mr. Touchstone,
according to Mr. Bennett, it was on
the second of July when the squares
were picked off an eighteen acre
patch on the plantation. At that
time there were about six or eight
squares to the stalk. A stalk was
picked out Friday July 27th, twen
ty-five days later, and one hundred;
and thirty-eight squares were coun- I
ted on that stalk, and not a tolli
weevil could be found in the patch.
The patch is surronuded on three
sides by woods—ideal winter quar
ters for the pest.
In an adjoining field where an-
NO FEAR OF EVIL resulting from
change of diet, water or climate,
concerns those who take on the short
trip, summer vacation or long journey,
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CHEAP MONEY ON FARMS
$2,000,000.00. Two Million Dollars to lend on good farms, well
improved, at 5 1-2% interest, the borrower having the privilege of
making payments on the principal at any interest period, stopping
the interest on such payments. Also, we have large sums to lend at
6%, 6 1-2% and 7 per cent. Loans can be closed as soon as abstracts
of titles can be made. Our contract is as good as the best and you
do not have to wait.
Write us or see G. R. Ellis or G. C. Webb in charge of our Hotm
Office, at Americus.
EMPIRE LOAN & TRUST COMPANY
Americus, Ga.
When you think this thing through
it looks like as good a system of
self-help as the world contains. But
beyond this it helps other individ
uals and classes and groups through
out the nation. It is a perfect ex
ample of ideal cooperation.
This simple statement of facts,
which anyone can easily verify,
throws a good deal of light on what
some earnest, well-meaning folks
among us call “the menace of capi
tal.”
Let us consider, for a moment,
what “capital” actually is. Before
man emerged from the earliest sav
age state there was probably no cap
ital. Our first ancestors lived as
best they could “by the day.” If a
man killed a bird he ate it; if he
• found nothing for a week he could
starve. After a while he learned to
preserve food, and at a later day to
cultivate grain, so he could put some
thing aside for future needs. If
everybody saved the same things,
there was no chance to exchange
goods, for everybody would have a
surplus of what nobody else wanted.
As civilization advanced and wants
multiplied, barter became possible.
One man could exchange some ex
tra corn for another’s piece of pot
tery or bit of woven cloth. Those
who had nothing to offer but the la
bor of their hands were in a bad
way; at best they could get food and
shelter for the day. Slavery was
one institution where the worker
needed no capital, and without cap
ital, that is what these workers be- ,
came —just slaves.
As soon as the worker could be
paid in something he could exchange
for other things—he began to taste
the joy of independence. It made
no difference whether he was paid in
copper or silver or in paper—pro
vided people would accept it at <•
stable value.
If this worker spent every cent he'
received for his daily needs or com
forte, he was little better off than be
fore, except that, as he could bar
gain, he could get food or shelter of
better quality. The first man who;
did not spend all he made, who put)
aside ever so little for another day,
was free! He had learned to save.
Becomes a Capitalist
When he put these savings to
some other use, so that instead of be
ing eaten or worn they were in
vested, he became a capitalist. He
might have bought an acre of
ground, or the grain to seed it. He
might have paid a neighbor to drain
his land, or he might have loaned a
little to another for an extra con
sideration. In any case, his savings
began to work for him just as be
fore he had worked for his savings
Capital, therefore, is today’s sur
plus. It is what gives us a better
start tomorrow than we had today.
If we don't save it, we don’t have it,
and when we have it, it is useless un
til it is put to work.
If thrift is right, then it is right
that people should acquire funds as
the result of their industry and self
denial. ,T But money that is merely
hoarded is like water that becomes
stagnant; it is harmful, not helpful.
When money is put to work, it is
like water power; it turns the wheels
of industry, increases employment
a-rt<l raises the general level of com
fort.
1 Where every producer can create
a surplus and that surplus can be
gathered into a common fund and
put to work for the common good
we shall liave reached an ideal con
dition. Towards this goal the forty
million who have cooperated in
building up life insurance funds are
showing the way. These millions
already are “capitalists” in princi-
other method is used the cotton
was not as large because when the
■ squares were picked off the other,
all the nourishment in the soil
helped the plant io grow, so a hill
consisting of four stalks was pick
ed out in the field where the Flor
ida method was not used, and a
count revealed eighty-four squares,
against one hundred and thirty
eight squares where the Florida
method was used.
Mr. Touchstone is very enthusias
tic over the success of the new
> method. His case is merely a fair
I example of the farmers in this vicn
i ity who have tried out the new
method, and now firmly believe they
will make a good crop of cotton.
A girl in one of these faney
bathing suits with ruffles looks
as if she has just seen a rat.
Compton’s Bicycle Shop
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Second-hand bicycles for sale
r THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
DR. FORT FINDS MH
WIA IN DOOLY
As Many as 6 and 8 People
Lying in Houses There, Suf
fering With Disease
VIENNA, July 31.—Dr. M. A.
Fort, an officer of the State Board
of Health, who recently vsited
Dooly county, in an interview here
gave out the following valuable in
formation relative to malaria and
simple method of control:
“In driving through the county
I have seen 6 or 8 people lying in
bed or on the porch. Upon inquiry
I found in each case that they
were suffering with malaria. Mos
quitoes that bite only at night gave
them the disease. Some of them
had built smokes, burnt leather,
tried to sleep in tigh close rooms,
but the mosquito got to them.
And the suffering from ordinary
mosquitoes keeps them awake and
makes them not fit to work next
day.
The best relief so far discovered
for such people is to spray the
rooms the common creosote that is
used for preserving timber. Last
summer Dr. Coogle in Mississippi
sprayed 25 houses where mosqui
toes were especially bad, and no
mosquito was ever discovered in
any of the houses during the rest
of the year. True it stains the
walls and leaves some odor, but the
walls are already smoked, and the
odor is pleasanter than the smudges
which are now used. In fact the
odor is quite agreeable to many
people. If all the tenant houses
of this class in Dooly county were
now sprayed, there would be very
little malaria, and much suffering
would be prevented this year. It
costs only a few cents a house.
To demonstrate the efficincey of
this method I have today personal
ly treated two houses in this coun
ty. One house is occupied by
Seab Kendricks in Vienna. If in
terested, Chief of Police Penning
ton will show you the house. This
house was sprayed yvith a fifty-fifty
mixture of Creosote and keronsene.
This is said to develop a. pleasant
er odor than creosote alone, but
it may not last as well. Time will
tell. The other house was at Rich
wood, and occupied by Robert
Davis. This was sprayed with
creosote alone, and well done. We
recommend an examination of this
house to judge of the method.
Some counties in which we have
made this demonstration are buy
ing many barrels of creosote. Mills,
turpentine camps, and large farms
are spraying all their quarters, as
it saves doctor bills, and avoids loss
of labor when hands are so scarce.
SIMS PUT VETO ON~"
BILL SECOND TIME
ATLANTA, July 31. Mayor
Walter A. Sims has for a second
time vetoed a measure passed by
the city council to re-instate five
sanitary inspectors recently clipped
from the city’s payrolls. The men
were dropped for economic reasons.
Mayor Sims said, and he wants
them to stay dropped.
MITCHELL PEANUT MEN
ORGANIZE ASSOCIATION
CAMILLA, July 31.—Mitchell
county peanut growers have organ
ized into the Mitchell Countp Pea
nut Grower’s Co-operation Associa
tion. W. E. Holton, of Camilla,
was named chairman. Reports are
to the effect that a fairly good
yield" may be expected in peanuts
ENLAND HAS ’EM TOO
LONDON, July 31.—The gover-1
ment is prosecuting heavily all j
those accused of evading income '
tax laws. So far hundreds have i
been caught in the dragnet. Many
cases reveal that false tax returns '
were filed.
JOCKEYS WORE CREPE
ROUNDHAY, Leeds, July 31.
Following the funeral of Arthur
Willey, M. P., many jockeys, who
had attended the ceremonies wore
crepe on their sleeves at race meets
in which they participated. It was
an unusual sight for. a race meet.
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man. I now do all my housework, also
washing and ironing, and do not know
what real trouble is. My health is fine,
! and I weigh 140 pounds. When I started
| taking it I weighed 97 pounds. I,gladly
recommend Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege
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down. You may use this testimonial
: for 1 am only too glad to let suffering
women know what the Vegetable Com-
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from an operation
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case of female trou
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read of your won
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decided to try it. I
could hardly drag one
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(EDITORIAL)
Citizens, Express Yourselves
The Mayor and City Council and members of the Board of Educa
tion of Americus for several months have engaged in a fuitle effort
to solve the problem of operating the city’s schools and paying off
the existing floating indebtedness of the municipality.
The two questions have become so intertwined during the dis
cussions of the problem that a severance of the issues now might
be unwise.
The Sumter delegation in the General Assembly, apparently, rec
ognizes the- inability of City Council and the Board of Education to
agree upon the provisions of a single measure designed to “unravel
the tangle.’’ The§e gentlemen have, accordingly, framed a bill which
they believe to be the best solution possible and this bill has been
published in full in The Times-Recorder.
I he Sumter delegation has requested citizens to criticise the bill;
they want to know whether the measure as framed meets with the de
sires of taxpayers; whether the men and women who pay the taxes
are satisfied with the safeguards thrown about its expenditure
ami whether they want any special safeguards thrown about these
special funds.
There are in Americus three .civic clubs, numbering among their
X" 1 *" “ le “‘ »“ "P'esentan™ e ,,ry bu.ine.s „ p rot e s !
. ’ ‘ ’ ,nem I rs ot the clubs have in the past expressed them-
communkv Th Hy UPO " "’ atters involvin * th « good of the
portant municipal problems. se ,ni
It is the task of the Sumter delegation to hav. ik 1•1 ,
authorize the raising of such funds J, i legislature
the city’s schools and paying off tb Th/ "“ ary for operating
they are answerable to Ihe people . f or ft? f m . U " i ® ipa,ity ’ and
the expenditure of these funds. ' eguards thrown about
an b “ rt ”■«
farnls. a„J tfc „ .I’’™”" O-
payers to express themselves. ' ‘ P c,t,zens and ta x
st ; -p“Stau™ 1 '"““'“•fly writ.- either Senator
W. Riley. The address of 11 ,V‘ Iln ° S ° r Re P res entative George
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criticise their action after th^biH l!"’°:' JUSt Gn ° Ugh not to
•hey would c „„ si d„ n r "„ y Th " y h ""“'
honest mon they will tee| , c ™««n> made, and belnf-
LAMB IS PRINCIPAL
AT UHION HI SCHOOL
Instructor at Camp McClelland
St--needs Prof. F. F- Thomp
son, Who Resigned
LESLIE, July 31—F. F. Thomp
son, who was elected principal of
Union High school, has resigned to
enter a different line of work. He
is now with Woolworth Co., Atlan
ta. W. L. Lamb, of Swainsboro,
who is now on instructor at Camp
McClellan, Anniston, Ala., and is
a graduate of the University of
Georgia, has been eleceted as prin
cipal.
Mrs. H. G. Blackshear will leave
this week to visit her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Welch, at Preston.
Miss Jenny Busby, of New Or
leans, came last week to visit for
some time her friend, Mrs. J. P.
Daughtry.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Harvey, of
Atlanta, are here spending the
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week with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Harvey.
Mrs. J. L. Amason and daughter,
Louise, returned to Atlanta Sunday
alter spending several days here
with relatives.
and Mrs. John Harvey and
1 iss Carrilou Harvey spent the day
Sunday in Ellaville with relatives.
Miss Mary Wilson returned
rhursday from Midville, where she
visited friends.
Miss Carolyn Johnson, of Ella
ville, is the guest of Miss Carilou
Harvey.
Miss Lailah Clifton is spending
thl M we ek with friends at Sasser.
Mrs. G. M. Pool and daughter
who-3 Monday for Atlanta,
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PAGE THREE
of the death of Mrs. Pool’s brov.
cr-in-law, Carlton Cox.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Harvey and
children returned to their home in
Glenville Tuesday, after spending
some time here at the home of
their parents, Prof, and Mrs. J. M.
Harvey.
Mr. and Mrs. Scarborough moved
from Reynolds here last week. Mr.
Scarborough has charge of the bar
bershop here.
Rev. J. P. Daughtry is at Leary
this week assisting in a meeting.
CLEM POWERS HEADS
MACON LIONS CLUB
MACON, July 31.—E. Clem
Powers, local attorney, has been
named president of the local Lions’
Club. He succeeded Patrick Cal
houn, who found it impossible to
give his time to business that goes
with the presidency.
THE STANDARD
$2 and $2.50 Pure Thread Silk-
Stocking! at $1.25
They are too good to be called
“seconds” and not quite up to the
high standard, so here they go in
this sale at half price. Full fash
ioned with thread silk soles; some
thing you never saw on $1.25 hose
before. Colors only black and
brown; just about enough to last
until Thursday at 1 p.m., so come
early. Per pair .... $1.25
Water Colored Window
Shades at 69c
Full regular size in solid green
only, mounted on the best spring
rollers and worth as usually sold $1;
here Wednesday and Thursday 69c
More Ladies
Vests at 15c
People have been buying them
here by the dozen; they are as good
as you ever saw for 25c; in regu
lar or extra sizes. Factory “seconds’’
nothing wrong with them more than
a drop stitch occasionally; they
look and will wear as good as the
first quality; all sizes 15c
$5 to $7.50 Bathing
Suits at $3.95
For ladies and men, of fine all
wool materials, newest styles, all
colors, all sizes $3.95
1,000 Yards 35c to 39c
Cretonnes at 19c
Bungalow cretonnes, 36 inches
wide in about fifty new patterns;
the wholesale price today is just a
little more than 19c, but we will
sell every customer here Monday at
19c. No samples sent, no telephone
orders filled; be on hand and get
your supply at yard 19c
2,000 Yards Regular 16c
Sea Island Sheeting 12 l-2c
'I his sheeting is 38 inches wide
and fine, smooth weave (not the
flimsy kind) but real good Sea Is
land; here yard 12 1.2 c
Brassieres at 50c
Regular dollar brocaded Bras
sieres reinforced with heavy elastic,
all sizes, regularly $1; at 50c
Standard Dry Goods
Company
Forsyth Street, Next to Bank of
Commerce, Americus, Ga.
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