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times-recorder
PUBLISHED 1879
Published by
The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.)
Lovelace Eve, Editor and iSiblisher
Entered a« aecood claM matter al the poatoffire
•t Americus, Georgia, according ts the Act of
Congress.
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A Thought
Therfore shall a man leave
his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife; and
they shall be one flesh.—Gen.
2:24.
When I said I would die a
bachelor, I did not think I
should live till I were married.
—Shakespeare.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
A STEP BACKWARD
At the recent annual convention
of the Insurance Federation of
Pennsylvania, held in Reading,
Pa., Henry Swift Ives, Secretary
of the Casualty Clearing House of
Chicago, made the following re
marks in regard to present-day
tendencies.
“Every addition to power of
state affecting private prop
• erty right and privileges is a
step backward. Every subtrac
tion from such power is a step
forward. The besetting sin of
this generation is that there is
too much addition and no sub
traction. Democratic ideals aire
being scrapped and autocratic
principles substituted. There is
a turning back to political prin
ciples of three centuries ago
which held the State to be para
mount and the individual only
a pawn in the game of Kings.
“The drift toward socializa
tion of industries is the most
alarming manifestation of this
reactionary and anti-democratic
movement. If the State suc
ceeds in absorbing insurance,
transportation, light, power and
food distribution, the socialist
milleniumk'.will be just around
the cornet.
“There Ss no possible excuse
for calling the government own
ership movement a liberal ten
dency. It is as reactionary as
hell itself. It harks back to the
dark ages. It is the forerunner
of a revival of autocracy. It
Seeds on misdirected altruism,
thrives on goodly sentiment,
and leads away from both.”
We do not Want government
ownership, but government con
trol is necessary. Industry
should be given every fair oppor
tunity to expand and to reap a
reasonable -Jirofit.
It is thii filching of the people
by public utilities in the past that
caused the cry for government
ownership.
We do not care to see our util
ities operated by the state, neither
can we tolerate the interference of
private utilities and their at
temps to deny the people the right
to operate their utilities of they
desire.
We hope to see the Municipal
league bills pass the Legislature,
not because we desire to secure
our hydro-electric power from state
or county owned power plants, but
because we should have the right
to issue bonds for this purpose
when it becomes necessary in or
der to secure reasonable rates.
This is not “reactionary as hell,’’
It is simply protection.
ONE EFFECT OF
TAX-EXEMPTS.
Investments in tax-exempt se
curities have resulted in a reduc
tion of more than $4,000,000,000
in the total net incomes reported
for last year.
In 1916, 206 persons were re
ported in the million-dollar-in
come class, and last year this had
shrunken to only 21 persons as a
result of billion dollars or more or
tax exempt securities being issued
every year and gobbled up by the
investors.
With an estimated $30,000,000,-
000 of tax-exempts absorbed by in
vestors, taxpayers with $3,000 in
comes or less pay 46 per cent of
federal income tax.
Between the excess profits tax
reducing incomes by investing in
tax-exempt securities, we are not
making the rich poorer but the
poor are made poorer, for more
and more the burden of the feder
al income tax is falling upon those
with small incomes.
JOHN DS
FIRST DOLLAR.
The first SIOOO in the bank is
the hardest —and we are apt to be
come discouraged while accumulat
ing it. But, the more you save,
the easier money comes.
The elder John D. Rockefeller's
first business deal was unearthed
in connection with his 84th birth
day recently.
John D. was born four miles
from the village of Richmond, N.
y. He was raised on a farm,
tramped six miles to the little red
schoolhouse, and slept in an attic
through whose roof the snow sifted
in winter. That old house still is
standing, hewn from logs and
fastened together by wooden pins,
as was customary in the old days
when iron nails were very ex
pensive.
John I), saw a wild turkey hen
in the woods. By patient stalk
ing, he finally found her nest. He
carried away her young ones, took
them home and fattened them. Late
in the year he drove his flock to
the village and sold them.
The money? He put it in the
bank, of course.
One day afterward, while dig
ging potatoes, young John D. lean
ed on his hoe and began thinking.
It occurred to him that he had to
i - -
I till the soil several days to get as
I much money as his “turkey fiind”
was paying him a year in interest,
and for which interest he didn’t
have to work a stroke.
John D. invested his money in
turkey hens.
From his turkey venture, the
elder Rockefeller learned a les
son that shaped his entire busi
ness career. During his life-time
he probably has made, as profits,
more than a billion dollars. Ke
could not have made anything like
this huge amount by his own per
sonal direct efforts.
That he did aceumulatte a bil
lion was principally due to his caus
ing money and other men to work
for him.
EDITORIAL
COMMENT.
HOG’S SNOUT PUT TO WORK
The snout of the pig has been
put to work by the farm labor
shortage, and the saying that ev
everything of the pig is used his
squeal no longer holds entirely
good. The pigs now drink at au
tomatic waterers and manipulate
self-feeders with his snout, which
he formerly used to root up pas
tures and emit loud squeals. He
need no longer root or squeal
when hungry, the incentive having
been removed. A certain amount
of time and labor also are elimin
ated by the more simplified way
of feeding and watering Sanitary
concrete wallows or bath and auto
matic oilers are used quite gener
ally and they tend to decrease hog
diseases which are so easily con
tracted in mud-wallows. The hogs
take to the “concrete Ibaths”. in
preference to old mud puddles.
Schley County News.
SHALL GEORGIA PROGRESS?
We do not know, because politi
cal rumors emanating from the
Ueoigia capital wtlile the general
assembly is in session are not
easily verified, how true is the re
port that there is no hope for
highway legislation during the
present legislative session—that is,
the kind of highway legislation the
people of Georgia are chiefly in
terested in.
There is, of course a good deal
of sentiment in Georgia against a
state bond issue for highways, but
The Herald submits it as a fair
proposition that the people alone
have the ’ right to say whether
bonds shall be issued. The legis
lature cannot issue bonds. It can
only submit a proposed bond issue
to the people. And for the leg
islature to decide that the people
shall have no opportunity to say
what their state’s highway program
shall be is to usurp a right which
belongs to the people.
Why, then, should not the people
be given opportunity to express
themselves—to vote to tax them
selves and their children in order
to equip their great state with
such a system of highways as that
state needs?
All this is based, of course, on
the rumor that the legislature will
do nothing more than ‘a little
dabbling” in highway legislation.
We hope we are not correctly in
formed. We hope the current
rumors are misleading.
For we believe the future of
Georgia—her rank as one of the
great states of the south —is more
largely depedendent upon her
highway policy druing the next
few years than upon almost any
thing else. And if that is true,
the legislature has no right to
deny the state the right to march
with the leaders. We must do that
or bring up the rear of the pro
cession.—Albany Herald.
COMMISSION FORM OH GOV
ERNMENT.
The Savannah Press is in favor
of the commission form of govern-
’ ment.
This paper took that position
1 eleven years ago when the matter
! was up for consideration and it
’ feels the same way today. We be
lieve that the commission form of
! government would have been a
good thing then. We believe that
■ it is desirable now.—Savannah
I I Press,
| OLD /MRS?/A AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Au
gust 2, 1913.)
Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Thurman left
this morning for Kirkville, Mo.,
where they will attend the national
convention of the osteopaths of
America, which will also include
members of the profession from
Canada and other countries.
Accompanied by Messrs. L. G.
Council, Charles L. Ansley, J. R.
Williams, all successful planters,
E. L. Bell showed the party over
his extensive plantation near
Adams, in Lee county, yesterday,
the trip from Americus return
haying been made pleasantly in Mr.
Bell’s car.
Yesterday, the Times-Recorder
staff w r as brightened, as well as
strengthened, by the addition of
Mr. Quimby Felton, of Oxford,
who will henceforth be connected
with this paper. The word “brigh
tened” is used advisedly, as Mr.
Melton ha sa manner which wins
him hosts of friends every where.
Miss Jimmie .Tossey returned
yesterday from a pleasant stay of
two weeks at Monteagle and Chat
tanooga.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallis Mott and
Miss Foy Mott are at home again
after a visit to relatives in Cuth
bert and Shellman,
Mr. and Mrs. John Wooten, of
Eastman, are guests of Mr. and
Mrs. George Turpin, at their home
on Taylor street.
THIRTY YTARS AGO TODAY,
onday morning, no paper pub
lished.
TWEENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Au
gust 2, 1903.)
Sumter’s population of school
Copyright, 1923, PaPTTI By
N. E. A. Service. ■L'illiy X OU All Berton Braley
REVENGE
You’ve shown me your album of pictures containing
Five hundred diversified scenes, /
I’ve nodded and smiled while you kept on explaining
Exactly what each of them means;
I’ve lamped every building and tower and steeple
And even pretended, so.mehow, jg
To like all your snapshots of quite unknown people, i
But—l’VE got a camera now!
I’ve heard of each view that you took, how you shot it,
The why and the where and the when
I’ve heard of your lens, just how cheaply you got it t >
Again and again and again!
You’ve told me the weather conditions surrounding
Each picture you’ve taken, I vow;
I ve borne the whole thing with a patience abounding.
But—l’VE got a camera now!
f
And I shall fill albums with people whose faces 4
Are quite unfamiliar to you. / r
And I shall take pictures of all sorts of places
Exceedingly boresome to view-
I’ll show them to you, and i’ll babble of lenses,
Till weariness crinkles your brow;
I’ve listened to all your kodaking frenzies,
But—l’VE got a camera now!
TOM SIMS SA YS:
— —————___
Trouble with living in a big
house is you are more liable to
move to a sanitarium.
“What’s in your telephone”
asks an advertiser. Two million
wrong numbers and a boiler
shop.
If we ever learn how scarce
hen’s teeth are we can tell you
how scarce peace is in Europe.
What’s in a name? Mr. Grin
savage of Sioux City, la., has
just been arrested for cruelty.
More bedtime stories by radio.
Presidential candidates will use
it for delivering speeches.
“Flapperitis,” says a Chicago
doctor, “is a disease.” But It
doesn’t keep them at home.
What tickles a boy more than
passing the school during vaca
tion
When a woman gets all her
bills paid she thinks the neigh
bors are not her kind of folks.
This is the month you are dir
ty again before you get cleaned
up.
K'air nets last much longer if
worn with perfect gentlemen.
Unscrambling eggs and read
ing monograms are about the
same.
Take a bottle of iodine to the
woods to be used after opening
pickles or sardines.
Cold cream helps sunburn, but
it doesn't help enough.
You can eliminate superflu
ous hair with lasting results by
trying to bite a wildcat.
Silk stockings will seldom run
unless you do.
It is getting w'arm enough to
pose for soap advertisements.
People in just about every
walk of life are rising now’.
The hardest building to find
in a strange town is the library.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
age has increased but 281 since the
census of 1898. This was the re
sult of the consolidation of the re
ports of enumerator’s as made by
the County Board of Education
yesterday, and while the increase is
not as great as desired, it indi
cates a steady growth in the coun
ty, which is indeed gratifying.
Americus has seen ball—base
ball, fish balls and high balls, but
the tomorrow afternoon at Leeton
Park will surpass anything thats
happened vet. The Windsor Hotel
diamond wearers will challenge the
diamond trotters who puleld down
bunches of glory for the local
team last week. Following is the
line up arranged by the opposing
ball batters.
L. McCleskey, Napier, H. S. Mc-
Cleskey, Everette, Covey, Childers,
Turpin, Lee and Harper; Kiker,
Dunn, Williams, Smith, Nix, Lamar
Glover, Wheatley, Sheffield, Hanes
ley. Col. Hanesley will finance the
force and command the peaee. The
fund thus raised will be devoted
to the endowment of a home for
old maids pronounced incurables.
Young Masters Thomas and
Frank Harrold, sturdy youngsters of
three or four years, are the envy
of their little friends in the pos
session of a donkey, which they
ride together.
Mr. D. Pealrman, the Lamar
street merchant, purchased yester
day from Mrs. K‘. F. Mulky, the de
sirable residence, 222 Jackson
street, opposite the Buchanan home
and at an early date will make his
home there.
The thing seems to be spread
ing Mexico will have a presi
dential election i ext year also.
What, asks a Los Angeles
professor, “can the modern girl
do? ’ Prof, you’d be surprised.
England and France coulnd’t
get much madder at each other
if they were baseball umpires.
In Paris,nine bakers were ar
rested and fined some dough.
Seattle man of 76 has married
again; the spirit of 76.
What the United States needs
is summer only every other day.
South Sea Island rivals end it
by eating the girl. We have seen
them want to do it here.
1 hree Sm iles
A Good and Sufficient Reason.
Old Lady—l hope you don’t sell
papers on Sunday.
Small Newsboy (sadly)—No’m
i ain’t big enuf to carry the Sun
day ’dition yit.
The Ultimate in Virtue.
Mrs. Nextdoor—"Your daugh
ter is different from most girls;
she’s so sweetly sophisticated.”
Mrs. Simon Pure—/‘She’s all of
that. Why, she thinks a B. V. D. is
a university degree.”—Locomotive
Engineers Journal.
Located.
“Look here!” exclaimed the
stranger, as he stumbled into his
twentieth puddle, “I thought you
said you* knew where all the bad
places were on this road?”
“Well,” replied the native, who
had volunteered to guide him
through the dark, we’re a-finding
them, ain’t w'c?” Pearson’s
Weekly.
PHONE OUR NUMBER 181
Largest Assortment of
Bathing Caps in Town
Charmingly simple and tasteful
in style and designed for many
practical needs. Close fitting and
cause no discomforts. Many
styles, sizes and colors.
Americus Drug Co.
Phone 75
Jfiss Gertrude Davenport, ~ .
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AGAIN- W Place is ai i I . ere 77 1
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Down today— it will mot be replaced
7AS DAD HCAPLEY TM/NKS NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO RETIRE FROM BUSINESS/
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CLASSinEDADVERTISEMENTS
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. I'hones 48
or 52.
ROOFING—Phone 117—SHI VER
Johns-Mapyille ROOFING, roof
coating, roof cement, creosote,
roof paint. ts
Robert Dent.
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 MONET plentiful at
cheap interest rate and on easy I
terms. W. W. Dykes. 9-ts
PHONE 117—JOHN W. SHIVER
for SCREENS, for home or of
fice. 27-ts
STOLEN —Tuesday afternoon at
Americus playground during ball
game, Ford touring car, motor No.
6570528; two holes in top over front
seat; windshield 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. J.
Holliday. 26-ts
Miss Lillie Mae Hughes.
FOR SALE—I 922 model Ford
Touring car. Excellent condi
tion, cheap for cash. Frank E.
Matthews. 3 0 - 61.
$5,000 TO LOAN
On Americus
Residence Property
LEWS ELLIS
Phone 830
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,
Schley, Macon, Stewart. Randolph
and Webster counties. 21 Planters
Bank Building, Americus, Ga. Phone
89 or 211.
JOE
PRINTING
A Department of
The Times-Reeoder
New and Modern Equipment
New Type Face
The Price and the Service
Will Be Satisfactory
I TO YOU
The Times-Recorder Co.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 2, 1923
FOR SALE—About 2000 bushels
■ of new oats. Samples and
• prices at Bank of Commerce. —l-6t
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
C ET E COMMERCIAL
LULKSE Comprising Short
hand, Typewriting, Bookkeeping;
taught in 6 to 8 weeks; easy terms.
Address Box 254, Americus, Ga.
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jl'OR RENT—Two or three unfur
i nished rooms. Phone 772. 26-ts
—
DR. S. F. STAPLETON
VETERINARIAN
i Office in Chamber of Commerce
Phone 8
Residence Phone 171
RAILROAD SCHEDULE
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Tra ins, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
i üblished 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
2:11 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
3:10 pm Cordele-Savh 12:26 pm
5:15 rwi Richland-Cols 10:05 am
Mrs. B. K. Halstead.
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T, E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier. I
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. p, RIKER, Asst. Cashier
The Planters Bank of Americus
(Incorporated)
PERSONAE
SERVICE
Every department in this
ft bank, which is the largest un-
xl IS WWjmWmM 'J er s *-ate supervision in
j LmAMj * ■<*‘ Southwest Georgia, is or-
t3ft? <• 1! ganized and maintained to
&! k"? ■ pive our customers that help-
SI- B co-operation and advice
which is natural to expect
\ A l ’’ from so substantial a bank-
ing institution.
1 ll* Relieve it will be to
■—your advantage to get better
acquainted with this bank
of personal service.
The Bank With * SorpPoa
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small
FOR RENT —Two furnished rooms.
1005 Lee St., or phone 407.
25-tf-dh
FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms
for light housekeeping. Phone
430. 25-ts
Mrs. Brown McLendon.
TAKEN UP —1 Sow, 7 pigs. Owner
can get by damages and feed. C.
F. Hogsed.' l-2t
ROOMS FOR RENT—Upstairs;
two or three, floors and woodwork
newly painted. 115 Prince street
Phone 202. 2-3 t
I FOR SALE —Asters and coral vine.
Florals made to order. Mrs. W H.
'; Bowers. Phone 249. 2-2 t
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BABY CHICKS. You don’t pay until
you see the chicks; sent C.O.D.
Mixed. 9c; Leghorns, 11c; Bars,
Reds, 13c. C.O.D. Hatchery, Bowling
Green, Mo. 2-lt
The
Times-Recorder
JOB PRINTING
PLANTS
Phone 99
LEGAL AD No. 609.
GEORGIA, Sumter County.
Will be sold before the court
house door, in said county, on the
hrst Tuesday in August, 1923, with
in the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder for cash, the follow
ing described property, to-wit:
A certain Ludden & Bates piano,
mahogany , number 136507, one
scarf and stool for said piano.
Levied upon and will be sold as the
property of Aaron Williams to sat
isfy a certain City Court fifa in
l.ivor of Ludden & Bates Southern
Music House vs. Aaron Williams.
This 11th day of July, 1923.
LUCIUS HARVEY, Sheriljf.
LEGAL AD No. 606.
GEORGIA, Sumter County.
9 er E ° Ur *‘ Ordinary, July
The above petition of Mrs. Mol
lie Justice, that she may obtain let
ters of dismission from her guard
ianship, having been read and con
sidered by me, ordered that the
usual citation issue.
JOHN A. COBB, Ordinary.