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CLARK HOLT-
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll J. Clark
announce the engagement of their
daughter, Melva Eugenia, to Mr.
Hamilton Tatum Holt, of Columbus,
the marriage to be solentni?.- d Sep
tember 12.
SIMPSON-WALTERS.
Mr. and Mrs. George Roland
Simpson, of Americus, announce
the engagement of their daughter,
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the itching and
MUSIC
SALE
We have a large shipment
of sheet music which we ate
running at 10c per copy.
This is not old music, but
popular song hits.
Come in and select yours I
before it is picked over-
Thos. L. Bell
Jeweler and Optician
for quick service and
HEAVY HAULING PHONE 121
WOOTTEN TRANSFER CO.
Office in Americu* Steam Laun
drv
SOUTH JACKSON STREET
WHERE DO YOU FIND
GOODS AND PRICES AS
ADVERTISED?
Fat hens this week 20c lb.
Sweet Potatoes . 50c Pk.
Fresh Country Eggs 35c doz.
Choice cuts Beef, Pork, Veal,
Hams, Bacon, all the time.
Mellow Pears, Apples and
Bananas
Sweet Milk 10c and Isc
Follow the crowd to
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Arrived Friday
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Frances, to Reverend Sim Douglas j
JValters, of Americus, the marriage i
' to he solemnized August 29, at the
’, home of the bride’s parents.
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CLUB WOMEN WORKING
TO STIMULATE INTEREST.
Mrs. W. F. Felton, chairman of I
I Literature and Club programs of j
the Georgia Federation of Wo-1
. men’s Clubs, has sent out tne fol- j
lowing letter to all members of;
federated clubs:
“Through the kindness' of Mad- I
ams George Mell, of Athens, G. A. i
I Johns of Winder, find McCord I
Roberts, of Atlanta, prizes of ten
| dollars each will be awarded the
successful contestant in Shorn
Story, Lyric Poem, and Newspaper
Feature Articles. The prizes wii
be awarded and the prize winning
story, poem, and article read at
the annual meeting of the State
federation of Woman’s Clubs in
Rome early in October.
“Any member of a federated
club may enter any or all of these
contests. Work must be type
written if possible, but will not be
nefused if written plainly by hand
on one side of the paper. The
story, poem and article should be
signed with the name of the club
to which the writer belongs and
the name of the writer in a sealed ;
envelope. A club may submit any i
number of manuscripts but the :
same person may contribute but i
onye in No. 1 and 2 class. All I
manuscripts must reach the State
| Chairman of Literature not later i
than September 20th.
“It is very gratifying to the club '
women of the State of Georgia i
that in the National contest jn I
literature Georgia won two honor- 1
I able mentions. It is very credit
able to receive two honorable men
tions from one state where thirty
nine states are competing. There
were over three hundred manu
scripts submitted.
“This is certainly encouraging
j news to the Literature of Georgia,
iso let’s get busy at once. If you
' don’t get the prize this time 1 you
will run somebody a close second.
I “The following are the rules, and
■ are fashioned along the line of the
; General Federation contests for
literatutre:
1— Lyric Poem, not to exceed
twenty-four lines and not less than
sixteen.
2 Short story, not to exceed
three thousand words.
“3—Feature article, not to ex
ceed one thousand words.
Subject must be found in club ac
tivities. Story must be written by
a member of a federated club. No
limitation on subject or number of
stories stories written by one per
son. Co|iy must be typed, tripled
spaced. carry wide margins at, side,
top and bottom. Story must be of
current human interest. Winning
story will be entered in nation
wide contest to bo conducted v y
General Federation Press and Pub
licity Department.
“Please lot us show our appre-
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ciation of the liberality and inter
est of those who are offering the
prizes, by making a creditable re
sponse both as to the number and
quality of the papers submitted.”
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MISS RYLANDER ENTERTAINS
AT BRIDGE PARTY,
Miss Harriet Rylander was a
I ( harming hostess Friday afternoon
; when he entertained four tables
i of bridge at her home on Taylor
street.
The attractive living room, where
the guests were entertained, was
aglow with a profusion of bright
garden flowers, zinnias, roses and
' other blossoms from the hostess’
; own garden being used effectively.
Miss Elizabeth Council won high I
I score prize, a beautiful crystal bud I
i vase.
i presented to Miss Cynthia Chappell. I
Popular Economics Series
By Bank of Cm 'lanhattan Company, New York City
"The Greatest Family in die World
Article Eight
WORKING AGAINST OUR
SELVES
Life insurance companies are
chartered by the states in which they
originate. When they do business
in other states they must have legal
permission. Beyond this primary
relationship, which is common to nF
organization of citizens for special |
purposes, the State exercises two
functions in its relations with life
insurance companies: it supervises
I and it taxes.
No fault can be found with the
soundness of the principal of State
supervision. In this country govern
ment is supposed to exist for the
purpose of protecting the citizen In
his rights, which are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. In or
i der to make this protection effective,
I the State exercises supervision over
‘ institutions which vitally affect the
I well-being of the people—such as
i banks and insurance companies.
The Federal government does not
| supervise life insurance companies
except in the District of Columbia,
because Life Insurance is not “com
merce.” But this lack on the part of
the Government at Washington is
more than made up by the activities
of the forty-eight State govern
ments. Over a period of nine years,
Congress and the various States of
the Union held 268 regular sessions
and more than seventy-five special
sessions. In these sessions over tpi
thousand bills were introduced af
fecting life insurance companies and
requiring careful scrutiny by these
companies.
Fifteen Thousand Words a Day
If these ten thousand bills were
strung together one after the other,
each day «of all the 243 legislative
sessions, they would average fifteen
thousand words a day 1
A student of these various bills
has found that they range in purpose
and intent from control of what
agents should be allowed to say in
canvassing prospects, to direction in
detail as to how books should be
I kept and accounts be rendered at the
' home office. In some cases they un
dertook to specify the form of con
. tracts which might be made with
policy-holders. In this flood of fif
teen thousand words a day were
proposals to increase by enormous
amounts the half dozen distinct va
rieties of taxation already in use,
and under which policy-holders in
these same nine years have contrib
uted to the support of the State gov
ernments over a hundred million dol-,
lars. These ten thousand bills in-,
elude'’ at least seventy distinct kinds
of reg-ilations, with several hundretj
new experiments in State regulation.
This amazing activity in Life In
surance legislation originates for the
most part in the notion that a life
insurance company is a rich corpora
tion without a soul and that any
one, therefore, in or out of the leg!
islature who shies a brick at it is a
public benefactor. A fact which
1 seems to have escaped the attentiot
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Each day The Times-Recorder places
somewhere in the Classified Col
umns the names of five persons who
upon calling at the Times-Recorder
office will each receive
Two Free Tickets
To The Rylander Theatre
To See
“Slander the Woman”
I '
A powerful and human drama filmed amid the snows of
lhe Far North. And “The Week End Party,” a Comedy.
Monday and Tuesday, August 6,7,
Read the Classified
Columns of The
Times-Recorder and
Watch For Your Name
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Following the game a tempting
salad course with ice and iced tea
were served.
The guest list included Miss
Margery Cargill and her guests,
Mis< Dorothy Key, Miss Cynthia
Chappell and Miss Elizabeth Fletch
er, of Columbus; Miss Elizabeth
Council and guest, Miss Charlotte
Dean, of Gordon; Miss Chloe Da
venport, Miss Elizabeth Joyner,
Miss Ann Walker, Miss Lillian
Denham. Miss Eugenia Walker, Miss
Dora Riley, Miss Frances Shiver,
Miss Betsy Smith, Miss Elizabeth
Merritt, Miss Lucile Schneider, ifiss
Lillian Medford.
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MISS COUNCIL COMPLIMENTS
CHARMING VISITORS
Miss Elizabeth Council entertain
| ed at her home on Church street
1 Friday morning with a bridge party,
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of the authors of most of those ten
i thousand bills is that Life Insurance
is an institution that really is made
up of forty million ordinary, every
day American citizens who have cre
ated thtT institution by putting in
their hard earned savings in small
amounts from year to year. The
authors also seem to be ignorant
of the fact that, without exception.t
the object of those millions of peo-.
pie has not been to make money by
exploiting the public but rather to
take care of their families and to
better their own economic condition. I
Life Insurance as an institution is
not organized for protit. It is or
ganized primarily for the protection,
safety and comfort of the policy
holders and of those they love. It
is an economic bulwark erected for
the security of the home. It is a
substitute created to take the place
of the bread-winner when he is re
moved by death. All just legislation,
and supervision is for the purpose
of helping to secure these desirable l
ends by insisting upon wise and hon-,
est management, and by safeguard
ing investments and the rights of
policy-holders. 1
One regrettable result of this con
tinuous legislative activity is the
unnecessary expense to which it puts
the life insurance companies—in
other words, the policy-holders—in
defending themselves. Every one of
the ten thousand bills, good and ba i
alike has to be studied and dealt
with by the companies. This is a
heavy expense which, so far as it is
incurred in defending the companies
against unjust legislation, amounts
to confiscation of the policy-holders'
savings. ,
Taxes Keep Increasing
Since the reserve funds of Life
Insurance have become so large, tax
ation is more and more a live topic
of discussion both in and out of the
; legislatures. Whether this discus
sion gets anywhere or not, the taxes
imposed upon insurance companies
keep steadily increasing.
In 1890 the life insurance com
' panics paid in taxes $2,000,000; in
1921, $15,000,000. In the five years
' preceding the first of January, 1922,
: one of our large insurance com
panies paid in taxes over $15,700,-
( 000. This did not include real estate
taxes. During the same period this
I same company paid its entire home
; office force, including executive ot
3cers at home and abroad, over two
lousand clerks and heads of de
partments, its medical examinations
I in the home office, all overtime serv
; ice and all directors,’ fees, only sl4 -
546,000, or less by more than a mil-
i lion dollars than it paid in taxation.
During this period of five years.
j taxes absorbed more of the poljcy
i holders’ money than the entire home
I office management of the company
' For every working day in the year,
day in and day out, for five consecu
tive years, the policy-holders of this
company paid in taxes tn the gov
ernment ten thousand dollars! And
this money was taken from the sav-
| ings of the policy-holders.
lis "Fining the Thrifty")
honoring her lovely house guest,
Miss Charlotte Dean, of Gordon,
and Miss Margery Cargill’s attrac
tive visitors, Miss Cynthia Chappell,
Miss Dorothy Key and Miss Eliza
j beth Fletcher, of Columbus.
Quantities of summer flowers
with a bright yellow color predomi
nating formed an' artistic color
scheme in the wide center hall of
the lovely Council home, where the
game was played.
A box of French stationery was
h gh score prize, won by Miss Dor
othy Key, and the consolation, a
tiny clown doll, went to Miss Cyn
thia Chappell.
At the concluison of the game
a salad course with an ice and iced
tea were served.
Those playing were Miss Char
lotte Dean, Miss Dorothy Key, Miss
Cynthia Chappell, Miss Elizabeth
Fletcher, Miss Margery Cargill,
Miss Chloe Davenport, Miss Lillian
Denham, Miss Harriet Rylander,
Miss Elizabeth Joyner, Miss Lillian
Medford, Miss Lucile Schneider,
Miss Dora Riley, Miss Eugenia
Walker, Miss Ann Walker and Miss
Frances Shiver.
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HORTENSE TINSLEY BIBLE
CLASS TO MEET MONDAY.
A meting of the Bible study class
of the Hortense Tinsley Missionary
1 society of the First Methodist
church will be held Monday after
noon at 4 o’clock at the home of
Mrs. David Jennings on Brown
street.
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WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
SOCIETY MEETS MONDAY.
The regular business meeting of
the Woman’s Missionary society of
the First Methodist church will
meet Monday afternoon at the Car
negie library at 4 o’clock. Every
members is urgently requested to
be present.
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LADIES AUXILIARY MEETS
WITH MRS. BROWN MONDAY
A foreign mission meeting of the
Ladies’ Auxiliary of the, Presby
terian church will be held Monday
afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Walter Brown, on Harrold avenue
at 4 o’clock. A very interesting
program has been sent in for this
meeting, and every member is urg
ed to be present.
ANSLEY’S Americus, Ga.
QUICK!
Quick Ladies! Here goes for so me excitement Monday morning—
first thing. Look this over this evening and be ready for a quick
flight to Ansley s by hopping off in your Packard, Pierce-Arrow or
your ho—“shuh!—there goes that phone again.’’
At $5.00
20 TAFFETA AND VELVEY DRESSES
An Assortment From Various Cabinets and Racks
They
A,e w "% P to _ $30.00
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z At 98 Cents \
15 KIDDIE DRESSES, ROMPER SUITS, ETC.
Organdy,—Tissues—Crepes, Etc. Sizes I to 6 Yrs- *
They
A " w % h P T O _ $3.50
MID-SUMMER DRESSES for WOMEN
*** 1 issues, Swisses, Voiles, Dainty and Cool
$9.00 Values, to Clear Quick H
$/.50 Values, to Clear Quick M M
$4.50 Values, to Clear Quick . $2.98
$3.50 Values, to Close Quick B . 9<S>
Watch the big Front Window Daily
ANSLEY’S
Monday o a.m.
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SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 4, 192 3
Mrs. I. S. Peebles, of Atlanta,
has returned home after a visit of
several dfiys to Mrs. Frank Cato at
her home on Lee street.
Miss Nettie Claire McMath, and
Miss Annie Ruth Ray have return
ed from a delightful visit of sev
eral weeks to relatives in Madison,
Fla., and Valdosta.
Miss Georgia Mac Weaver, of
Barron Lane, is visiting her atint,
Mrs. J. C. Bass at her home on
Lee street.
Mrs. Sara Wilson Bagley has
returned to her home at DeSoto,
after two weeks spent in Washing
ton, New York, Canada and other
points.
| Mr. and Mrs. R.L. McMath, Miss
Lois, Joe and Lena McMath
have returned from Atlanta where
they spent sevearl days with rela
tives, making the trip in their car.
They were accompanied home by
Mr. McMath’s niece, Miss Mary
Crouch, of College Park, who will
be their guest for some time.
Mrs. O. B. Perryman and Mrs.
Theodosia Perryman, of Halesburg,
Ala., are the guests of Mrs. Per
ryman’s brother, M. N. Edwards,
and Mrs. Edwards at their home
on Church street.
Miss Mollie Sullivan, of Mont
gomery, Al'a., is the guest of Mrs.
J. T. Cotney at her home on
Church .street.
McARTHUR STIRRED
BY MISCREANT’S ACT
Fire Chief Willis McArthur is all
stirred up over the activities of
some miscreant who continuously
send in false fire alarms during
the late night and early morning
hours. Last night one of these
came in from box 51 and caused the
department to make a run of a half
mile, besides disturbing citizens all
along the routs traversed. Recent
ly a number of simi’ar alarms have
been turned in, all from boxes in
the same section, and efforts are
being made to determine the ident
ity of the miscreant for them. If
he or she is arrested, Chiez Mc-
Arthur asserts he will prosecute the
ease vigorously.
The
Times-Recorder
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