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‘ TIMES-RECORDER
PUBLISHED 1874
' Published by
The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.)
Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher
Entered at eerond claw matter at the poMofficc
•t Americus, Georgia, according te the Act of
Con gr res.
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thia paper and also the local news published here
in. AU right of republication of special dispa ches
•re also reserved.
National Advertising Representatives, FROST
:/rOIS & KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., New York;
Peoples’ Gas Bldg., Chicago.
PRESERVE THE WORK
OF LUTHER BURBANK.
Luther Burbank, the world’s
greatest “plant wizard,” is 74
yeaars old and there is no one
ready to take his place.
Experiments completed and in
complete must be lost to human
ity unless something is done and
that very quickly. Because of his
advanced age, he has already sold
part of his California experimental
farm, from which invaluable
plants are being burned to make
way for a graveyard.
The United States Department
of agriculture should buy Bur
bank’s place at once and place
there the government’s best men.
The money wasted every year in
free seed distribution, probably
would be sufficient.
Burbanks claims that to a largo
extent his efforts have been
wasted because of his inability to
distribute the millions of perfected
seeds and plants.
These could be distributed by
the government and if honestly
managed, the demand from farm
ers, gardeners and state agricul
aural experiment stations would
absorb every seed and plant pro
duced.
Much of Burbank’s work is still
in process of development. You
will be interested in the following
extracts from one of Burbank’s
articles in the Dearborn Indepen
dent:
“For sixty years my chief
work has been the development
of plants. The cumulative (ef
fect of this work is now appar
ent. I now have more experi
ments under way than ever be
fore—about 3,000 —and am now
producing more new and improv
ed varieties in a day than 1 used
to produce in twenty years. The
average is at least 1,000 a year
of better forms of plant life
than ever before existed. The
new creations include fruits,
flowers vegetables, nuts, grain,
and trees.
“But this measure of success
is not without its melancholy as
pect. Most of these improved
varieties are going to waste and
it is not unlikely that they will
be wholly lost. The world is
unable to absorb what we pro
duce as rapidly as we produce.
It is not that the human race
does- not need these superior
forms of plant life. It needs
them very much. But the world
moves slowly, weighed down as
it is with great lethargy—a
great inertfti. It is much more
difficult to introduce an im
proved plant life than it is to
produce it.
“At the height of the grow
ing and ripening season some
times as many as forty superior
varieties are found on our farms
in a day—better fruits, grain,
nuts vegetables, or flowers than
ever existed before on this
earth, some of them the prod
ucts of experiments that have
been going on for thirty years.
“What can we do with them?
The only way they can be intro
duced to the public is through
seedsmen and nurserymen. No
seedsman or nurseeryman wants
more than two or three new
plants a; year. I recall that one
dealer took ten hew varieties
one year, but this is very un
usual. At any rate, we can put
out through dealers only a small
fraction of our product. They
assert that it disorganizes their
business' to take more.
“What becomes of the remain
der? It stays on our farms, un
used and unknown to the public.
I have thirteen acres of land at
Sebastopol, California, that
would be worth, to the world a
billion dollars an acre if all of
the new creations upon this land
were introduced io the world
and put to use. I had sixteen
acres at Sebastopol until I sold
three acres a few months ago.
It was sold to a cemetery as
sociation and every plant on it
is being pulled up and burned so
that the tract may be plot.cd
for graves. Among the thou
sands of new and improved va
rieties on this little three acre
tract were more than forty new
selected thornless blackberries
that would have been worth
$30,000 if they had been intro
duced to the world. In addition,
there were some thirty varieties
of new hybird roses from a se
lection of several thousands, a
choice collection of some forty
varieties of loquats a large num
ber of new apples, chestnuts,
plums, peaches, nectarines, dah
lias and so on.
“I am seventy-four years old.
My strength is good for my age,
but it is not what is used to be.
I sold part of the Sebastopol
experimental farm because I
could no longer operate it.
The remainder will have to be
sold for the same reason. On the
thirteen acres that are left at
Sebastopol are 2,000 varieties of
cherries, 1,000 varieties of plums
60 or 70 kinds of selected chest
nuts, between 300 and <SOO vani
ties of pears and 50 or 60 varie
ties of quinces. There is also
a walnut tree that, for many
years has produced each year
SI,OOO worth of walnuts. This
tree is so superior to anything
else in existence that I was once
requested to supply 10,000,000
young trees like it to be deliver
ed a million a year for ten years.
Os course that Was too big an or
der to be filled from one tree. I
could have supplied 65,000 trees
a year if 1 had been able to sup
erintend this work in addition
to every thing else I have to do.
But I supplied only a few.
"When I am tired, I some
times feel that if the world does
not care if the best varieties of
plant life the earth has ever pro
duced go to waste, I don’t care
either. But it will be a great
loss to the world if the thou
sands of improved varieties on
the Sebastopol farm be per
mitted to go to waste. And they
will go to waste unless some
body gives them the attention
that I can no longer give. The
finest plum tree' 1 ever saw —a
tree that bore an abundance of
plums as sweet as honey—broke
down because an employe forgot
to thin out the plums on the
tree as I told him to do. The
tree broke from the weight of
its fruit and before I knew, it
was dead. Valuable trees and
plants are constantly being lost
in this way. We are burnjng fruit
trees off this place because deal
ers will not handle them. 1 have
sometimes thought I would ad
vertise that the place would be
open to the public and everybody
invited to take what he wants
and go away, but people never
think much of things that are
given to them. A man now
wants to buy three acres of the
Sebastopol farm for a chicken
ranch. But the plants might as
well be destroyed to make way
for chickens as to be ruined by
neglect. No form of plant life
except great trees can survive
neglect more than a few years.
“I once offered the Sebastopol
place for sale for SIOO,OOO, but
I would take a great deal less
than that and be glad to do it if
it were going into proper hands.
It seems to me that this farm
should be in the possession of a
state university. It seems a pity
to convert it into a graveyard
or a chicken ranch.”
It would be little short of crim
inal for the Federal Government
to allow the life work of Luther
Burbank to be lost to posterity.
The amount of money neces
sary is insignificant as compared
with the returns.
PRIDE AND.
PERFECTION.
The perfection of the hand
wrought gold and silver articles
made by Smith’s of the middle ages
has identified them for all time.
Every piece turned out was marked
by its maker’s individual signature.
He signed his work as an artist
signs his masterpiece.
Pride of accomplishment is the
background of all trademarked
goods. When a manufacturer puts
his mark on a piece of merchandise
and makes this trade-mark known
through advertising, he deliberate
ly invites your inspection. The
reputation of his wares is in your
hands. His goods must be as ad
vertised, or he loses prestige. Ad
vertised misrepresentation is busi
ness suicide.
That is why it is best to deal
with merchants of established rep
utations. It is the reason why
merchandise of established reputa
tion is the best to buy.
If it’s clothing, you know how it
should wear and what the style
should be. It it’s a musical instru
ment, you know what to expect in
tone and workmanship. If it’s a car
pet sweeper, you know what kind
of service it should give.
The way to be sure of the goods
you buy, is to read the advertise
ments regularly. Then you can’t
go wrong.
Don’t take “pot luck.”
EDITORIAL
COMMENT.
The longer the Legislature re
mains with us, the more w’e are
convinced that bi-ennial session of
that body is desirable.
Along with biennial sessions, we
should delight in seeing the num
ber of legislators reduced by at
least one-half. The body is now
unwieldly, unmaaagealle and to
some extent :iresponsible, the Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun, on the ques-
Ition of biennial sessions, says:
But Georgia is not “out of the
m2 0 u’n yet 011 this Proposition.
1 he bill has not passed the lower
house and, while it is said that a
majority of the members of that
branch is in favor of it, it may
"of get to a vote in that body.
Half of the session is over and
so far no major legislation has
been enacted, and there appears
to have been little headway made
in the direction of the big legis
lation. It seems that a great
deal of time has been wasted.
From the Charleston (S. C.)
News and Courier, we clip this:
The Georgia senate has decid
ed over-whelmingly in favor of
biennial session of the Georgia
legislature. The vote was 41 to
<5. So decisive a victory is inter
preted by the Savannah Morn
ing News as “evidence oi an ap
preciation of the need of com
mon sense economy on the part
of the senate.” The News takes
the view’ that “there is no ex
cuse for annual sessions” and
says: "They are merely one
method of wasting the state’s
money, at a time when the
state has no money it can afford
to waste.” This, of course, is
only one count against annual
sessions. There are othets even
more powerful. No convincing
argument can be macle, jn their
defense.
OLD DAISfLX AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder. July
31, 1913.)
Representatives of the four
Americus warehouses met yester
day afternoon at the office of Mr.
L. G. Council for the purpose of
discussing among themselves the
recently adopted regulations of
the ocean steamship lines engaged
in the cotton carrying trade, re
specting the size of cotton bales to
be handled henceforth. Those at
tending the meeting were Mr. L. G.
Council, Mr. E. C. Barker, Mr.
Frank Harrold and Mr. George
Oliver, prprietors of the four local
warehouses.
Mr. Robert L. McMath president
of the Americus Oil Company nar
rowly escaped being ground to
death under his demolished car
which was run over by a Seaboard
Freight train at the Church street
crossing yesterday morning, as Mr.
McMath was driving to his office
nearby.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. D.
Moreland will be interested in
knowing that Mr. Moreland is now
rapidly convalescent after long con
tinued serious illness. He was op
erated upon at Johns Hopkins hos
pital in Baltimore two weeks ago
for diseased appendix, it is under
stood, and so successfully that he
was dismissed by his physician yes
terday and will arrive here tomor
row.
Miss Marion Edwards who has
been the guest of Miss Mildred
Hollis for a week, returned Wed-
STt'seX’ Daily Poem
ASK ’EM
When any one dishes up scandal
Or whispers a tale in my ear,
I listen perforce as a matter of course,
It’s stuff which one doubtless must hear;
But when my informant has finished
The gossip he came to disclose,
I quietly say in a casual way,
“Who told you about it?
And where did HE learn it?
And how do you know that he knows?”
It’s seldom the gossips can answer
A question as simple as that. J
They mutter a word about "Something I heard”
Or “Well, it’s just general chat.”
They hem and they haw and they stammer,
lhey guess’ and they “think and suppose,”
But, oh, they’ are wary indeed when you query,
“Why told you about it?
And where did SHE learn it?
And how do you know that she knows?”
A scandal that’s false and malicious
Can stir -jp all manner of strife,
And rumor unfounded has oftentimes hounded
A man or a woman for life •
Don’t hurry to spread any gossip
Regarding the high or the low;
They say! Who are “They?” By what right do they say?
“Who told them about it?
And v.j.fie did THEY learn it?
And how do you know that they know?”
TOM SIMS SA YS:
A Los Angeles man’s wife has
left him eight times; not orice,
we’ll bet, being on payday.
Texas is fighting boll weevils
with airplanes, much to the sur
prise of the boll weevils.
A wild man is reported near
Steubenville, 0., or it maybe a
stray big league pitcher.
What’s in a name? About $5,-
000,000 gold will will be gotten
from a ship which sank off
Ushant.
I* ormer senator is being sued
for breach of promise, but not, as
one would think, by voters.
len Days of Grace Enough”
- Headline. Not the Grace we
know.
Hungary reports a bumper
wine crop, which may bumper
few heads.
Every day now more trouble
is being mixed in the Ruhr basin.
Wonder if you can cuss’ before
a girl wearing knickerbockers!
United States uses 40 tons of
postage stamps a week. Why
don’t you people pay your bills?
MacMillan says he will stay
in the arctic 15 months, which
is an awful lot of corned beef.
Some man claims h< has a ser
um to make you tell the truth,
but it sounds like a lie to us.
——— ■■ ■“
We have a few to many pro
hibitionists with their eyes aloft
and their thoughts a cellar.
They keep that schoolgirl com
plexion at the drug store.
A clamity is when a lazy man
gets stung in the seat of the
pants so he can’t sit down.
Monday was wash day once.
Now it is the day we get the list
of killed and injured.
A pessimist is an optimist in
reverse.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
nesday to her home in Dawson.
Mrs. C. C. Tillman and family
are now at home Taylor street,
having leased the residence form
erly occupied by Rev. J. W. Stokes.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday morning, no paper pub
lished.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. July
31, 1903.)
At the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. T. C. Guerry on Church
street, yesterday afternoon ( Helen
Guerry entertained about forty of
her wee friends in honor of her
birthday. Each little guest remem
bered the honoree with a present.
We wish this little hostess many
returns of the happy event.
Mr. E. J. McGehee has leased
the former W. W. Wheeler resi
dence near the Artesian corner, re
moving there yesterday from his
former home on Taylor street.
Peaches and watermelons con
tinue abundant here, and a slick
dime will fill any aching void. In
the meantime, the doctors are
smiling and busy.
Americus is now thoroughly in
oculated with the baseball germ,
and until the snows of winter fall
w’e will hear the stentorian cry
“play ball.”
Corp of the new crop was
brought to Americus yesterday,
and there is much speculation when
the first cotton bale will role in.
Americus again demonstrated
yesterday her ability to play ball,
and the Dawsonians sustained here
their first defeat of the season.
By
Berton Braley
One might even say about the
president's job these candidates
don’t want nothing else but.
Here’s summer half gone and
none of the returning vacation
ists have their ears frost-bitten.
Alaska wants to be a state,
but doesn’t owe enough money
yet.
“Girl of Nineteen Gone”—
Headline. That’s too many’s
girl.
1 hree Sm i I ev
Bright and Snappy.
Insurance salesman (over phone):
“Is this Mr. Jones? How would you
like to have your wife and child re
ceive fifty dollars a week after your
death?
Now our—”
Jones: ‘‘Very much indeed, thank
you. I wish ’em luck. By the way,
do you supply the wife and child?”
—American Legion Weekly.
Looked That Way.
Doris was radiant over a recent 1
adidtion to the family, and rushed
out' of the house to tell the news
to a passing neighbor.
“Oh, you don’t know what we’ve
got upstairs?”
"What is it?” the neighbor asked.
“A new baby brother,” said Doris
and she watched very closely the
effect of her announcement.
“You don’t say so!” the neighbor
exclaimed. “Is he going to stay?”
“I think so,” said Doris. “He’s
got his things off.”
Doing Her Part.
“This is a nice canoe, isnt it,
Maud?” said the tall, dark young
man.
“Very nice, indeed, Charlie,” re
plied the pretty girl in the stern.
"There’s just one objection to it,”
said the young man.
“indeed? And what is that?”
asked the girl.
“Oh, well, you see, if you try to
kiss a girl in this canoe there’s a
great danger of upsetting it, and
then both the fellow and the girl
would be thrown into the river.”
“Oh, indeed!” said the girl, re
flectively, and she sat silent for a
while,).
At length she remarked, softly,
“Chirlie I can swim,” A
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ttASIFIEDADVEffISEMENTS
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
WANTED—To protect you, your
family and your property. Frank
E. Matthews, Insurance. 18-ts
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.
Olin Dixon, Jr.
FOR SALE—Good horse, cheap for
cash; bargain. 239 Hampton St.
5-dh-tf
ROOFING—Phone 117—SHIVER
Johns-Manville ROOFING, roof .
coating, roof cement, creosote,
roof paint. ts
FOR SALE—A-No. 1 Grade Reg
ular Second Sheets, 8 1-2 by 11
inches, special per thousand, sl.
The Times-Recorder Job Printing
Department.—22-ts.
FARM LOAN MONEY plentiful at I
cheap interest rate and on easy |
terms. W. W. Dykes. 9-ts |
PHONE 117—JOHN W. SHIVER
for SCREENS, for home or of-;
fice. 27-ts I
I
STOLEN —Tuesday afternoon at!
Americus playground during ball!
game, Ford touring car, motor No.
6570528; two holes in top over front
seat; w’indshield cracked lengthwise
in top section; back bow of top
broken on right-hand side; rim dim
ly scarred by collision with tree;
back wheels have Goodyear cord
tires; front wheels. Miller tires;
Liberal reward if returned to Frank
Timmerman, Plains, Ga., or for in
formation leading to recovery.
26-ts.
FOR RENT—My home, No. 11l
Taylor St., for 1 year. Posses
sion Sept. Ist. Phone 854. Mrs. J. <l.
Holliday. 26-ts
Anthony Council
FOR RENT OR SALE—Four-room
bungaow. Water and ights. Im
mediate possession. 416 Mayo street. ;
John E. Oliver.. 28-3 t ’
LOANS made on improved farm
lands at cheapest rates for term of
5,7 or 10 years with pre-payment
option given. Money secured
promptly. We have now outstanding
over $1,100,000.0 on farm in Sum
ter county alone, with plenty more {
to lend.
MIDDLETON M’DONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Com
pany in Sumter, Lee, Terrell,
Schlev, Macon, Stewart, Randolph [
and Webster counties. 21 Planters ,
Bank Building, Americus, Ga. Phone |
SO or 211.
Barbecue and
Brunswick Stew
Every Day
Phone your order.
Staple and fancy grocer
ies at right prices
Extra fine beef and pork
products
Prompt Service
Phone 71
WEST END MARKET
PHONE 117—JOHN W. SHIVER
BEST GRADE RED CEDAR, No.
1 and No. 2 PINE SHINGLES 27-ts
FOR SALE—One baby carriage in
good condiiton, cheap. Can be
seen at 117 E. Lamar street.—dh
SCREENING our spe
cialty, We make new
and repair furniture.
Americus Screen Mfg.
Co. Phone 73. s’tf
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COMPLETE COMMERCIAL,
COURSE Comprising Short- i
hand, Typewriting, Bookkeeping;
taught in 6 to 8 weeks; easy terms.
Address Box 254, Americus, Ga.
—l2if
Mi.-.-- A<ia Welk er. ■
FOR SALE—New Dodge touring I
car. F. M. Flournoy. 26-Gt
I'OR RENT—Two or three unfur
nished rooms. Phone 772. 26-ts '
DR. S. F. STAPLETON
VETERINARIAN
Office in Chamber of Commerce
Phone 8
Residence Phone 171
James McDowell
RAILROAD SCHEDULE
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
' üblished as information and not
guaranteed:
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive Leave
11:55 pm Colum’s-Cfigo 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 3:15 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)
I Arrive ‘ Departs
10:05 am Cordele-Hel’na 5:15 pm
12:26 pm Cols-M’t’g’y 3:10 pm
3:lft pm Cordele-Savh 12:26 pm j
5:15 Um Richland-Cols 10;05 am ‘
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashi.r
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. r. KIKER, Asst Cashiei
The Planters Bank of Americus
(Incorporated)
PERSONAL’
SERVICE
? V< i ry department in this
W banK. which is the largest un-
I fip-iS gWuTO/iOl der state supervision in
fcTlBhtUU- « OWpfl Southwest Georgia, i 9 O r-
Si nr and maintained to
Uh Mla R lvf> our customers that help-
co-operation and advice
J'®!# lit]fl SI / jar ? 13 natural to expect
! rom . 80 substantial a bank
,ng lns titution.
fl|l We believe it will be to
your advantage to get better
acquamted with this bank
of personal service.
The Bank With a < 3urpJu«
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; Non* Too Small
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 31, 1923
FOR RENT —Two connecting un
furnished first floor rooms, with
kitchenette. Apply 417 Elm ave.
FOR RENT —Two furnished rooms.
1005 Lee St., or phone 407.
25-tf-dh
FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms
for light housekeeping. Phon>»
430. 25-ts
Mrs. L. I'. Griffith.
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! FOR SALE—-One peanut roaster,
| one chifforobe, one lounge, one hall
itree. Apply to Mrs. B. L. Naylor,
1224 LaFayette St. 30-3 t.
;FOR I ENT Nicely Furnished
front bedroom, close in. Phone
1 951. 30-3 t
! FOR SALE—Two Jersey m’ilk
I cows.—E. L. Cordell, Route B.
I 30-3 t
! FOR SALE—I 922 model Ford
Touring car. Excellent condi
tion, cheap for cash. Frank E.
Matthews. 30-6 t.
FOR SALE—I92I model Ford tour
ing, new battery, four good tires,
i engire, transmission and back end
thoroughly overhauled, within the
past two weeks. Will sell cheap, as
I need the money. R. E. L. Majors
MAN WANTED—By old established
wholesale coal corporation to so
licit carload orders for finest quality
hard and soft coals from combined
consumers for shipment direct from
mine. Saves users 25 per cent or
more. Stores, factories, schools, in
stitutions. homes are easily sold. Our
men making $6,000 ( o $16,000 year
ly. Some working capital necessary
in th? beginning. No experience re
quired. Our field representative will
be in Americus in the near future
for personal interview. Boylston
Coal Co., 3679 So. Racine Ave. Chi
cag°. 21’(s)3t
I’OR RENT—Convenient downstairs
apartment, three or four rooms
with porch and separate entrance.
Possession Aug. 15. 320 S. Lee St.
Phone 765. 31-lt
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