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A Thought
A THOUGHT
Seest thou a man that is has
ty in his words? There is more
hope of a fool than of him. »
Prov. 29:20.
Common fluency of speech in
many men and most women .s
owing to a scarcity of matter.
—Swift.
DOES A CONSPIRACY
REALLY EXIST
Many people are beginning to
believe a conspiracy exists among
certain interests to force an extra
session of congress. Referring to
these demands former Secretary
of Agriculture Meredith recently
asserts such a consiparcy did exist
and that the facts do not justify
calling congress to Washington be
fore the regular session begins in
December. Discussing the situa
tion just previous to the death of
President Harding, Mr. Meredith,
who is owner 'of “Successful
Farming,” published at Dcsmoines,
la., said:
“There is a conspiracy among
certain factions to misrepresent
and discourage the farmer. Just
what lies back of this pernicious
scheme remains to be seen, but one
of the big purpose is to make po
litical capital out of this deceit
which can be used to the selfish
advantage of those taking part in
it.
“If Senator Brookhart had asked
for facts from the United States
Department of Agriculture he
would have found that on July 1,
1922, the price of corn per ftushei
on the farm was 62.2 < and
on the same ijate thii yea-r it'Was
86.5 cents per bushel. The. farm
price of winter wheat slumped
from 93 cents to 87 cents per
R ushel; oats increased from 37.3
cents to 45.5 cents per bushel and
barley from 52.2 to 55.7 cents per
bushel. These prices were taken
as of July 1 each year, and are the
farm prices, not the price at mar
keting centers from which trans
portation charges have"to be de
ducted. r
“The departippntt would al.o
have furnished Senator Brook-'
hart with the production in bushels
of each crop and their value at
the prices given above. These fig
ures show that the total value of
these principal grain crops on
July 1, 1922 was $3,183,682,000,
while on July 1 of this year the
total market value at the farm of
these same grain crops was $3,-
638,506,000, or $499,824,000
more than last year.
“It is time to deflate pessimism
in this country, and by this I mean
the pessimism that is not sustain
ed by facts. I do not mean that
everything is rosy with the farm
er. He has borne an unjust share
of the post-war liquidation. The
prices of the things he is called
upon to buy are still too high. But
this does not mean, as Senator
Brookhart infers, that conditions
are steadily getting worse and
that the American farmer is bank
rupt.”
REFUSAL TO SHARE
PROTECTION WITH LABOR.
Some eight or ten thousand
members of the Brotherhood of
Operative Potters have gone back
to work at the wages of common
laborers following their failure to
win a strike begun last October for
an increase in pay. The manufac
turers of various kinds of pottery
products fought relentlessly
against a higher scale 'for their
workers and have finally forced
the union to surrender.
When the Fordney-McCumber
profiteers’ tariff was in process of
concoction last summer, represen
taties of the manufacturing pot
ters and., makers of glass ware
were in Washington lobbying for
the imposition of heavy duties on
every species of earthenware. They
prated a good deal about main
taining an “American scale of
wages” and tried to give the im
pression that they wanted “protec
tion” for their workers quite as
much as for themselves.
The P’ordney-McCumber law in
creased the tariff on various earth
en materials and manufactures
from 10 to 100 per cent over the
rates in the previous Democratic
law. Shortly after the bill was ap
proved’ by President K’ardiirg
(September 22, 1923) the employ
es of big potteries in the East and
Middle West asked for an increase
jn wages. Apparently they belived
they should have some of the “pro
tection” which their employers had
sought and obtained partly in their
name. The employes refused to
surrender any of their new profits
under the Republican tariff, and
the strike resulted.
The experience of the operative
potters 7s that of the workers for
the Steel Trust, the W’ool Trust,
the Cotton Textile Trust, and all
the other big combines for which
the profiteer’s tariff was primarily
intended. None of these wage
earners have received any signifi
cant share of the “protection”
which was urged ostensibly in their
behalf—and any small advance in
wages given to them was quickly
offset by the rise in the cost of
living following the enactment of
•he Republican law.
FARMERS LOSE
MILLIONS BY DECLINE.
Comparison of prices received
by farmers for their several prin
cipal products in the summer of
1920 with the returns they are
getting now shows that in every
instance there has been a heavy
decline—amounting in the aggre
gate to bililons of dollars to the
agricultural producers of the coun
try.
Wheat is now selling for about
$1 a bushel. In 1920 the maxi
mum price was $3 a bushel. Corn
brought almost $2 a bushel at the
“peak” of prices in 1920. That is
more than a dollar above the pres
ent price of corn. In 1919 the
highest price for barley was $1.50
a bushel, as against 52 or 53 cents
a bushel now. Oats reached a
maximum of $1.15 a bushel in
1920, and is now selling for about
43 cents a bushel. Potatoes have
fallen from about $4.50 a bushel
to less than sl.
Hogs have declined in value an
average of sls a hundred pounds
below the maximum price the far
mers got for them in 1919, the
“peak.” At that time the price at
Chicago was $22.25 a hundred
pounds. The price now is about
$7 a hundred pounds.
PICKING COTTON.
ii: value of cotton is deter
mined primarily by its grade.
Grade is affected by the' amount
of leaf, dirt, and other extraneous
matter, color of fibre, and the
manner in which the cotton is
handled in the fields and through
the gins,
Growers should see that their
cotton is carefully picked and kept
as free as possible from trash and
dirt. Mildewed or half rotten bolls
should not be picked and put in
with good cotton. Pickers should
not be allowed to gather cotton
off the ground and put in with
good- cotton. If there is much cot
ton on the ground or mildewed,
half rotten, or otherwise of poor
it should be separately
handled and put in separate bags.
It is better to make one small
bale of low grade cotton than to
spoil a whole crop by mixing In a
little bad with the good. It even
a small quantity of low grade cot
ton is found in a bale of other
wise good cotton, the whole bale
is likely to be classed as if it were
all low grade cotton.
Cotton should not be picked too
soon after a rain or too early af
ter a heavy dew. Ordinarly it is
best to have the picking bags
emptied on sheets in the sun so
that the cotton can dry out before
it is ginned. Seed cotton should
not be stored in contact with the
ground or on concerete floor be
cause moisture in the ground or in
the floors will be soaked up by the
cotton on the bottom and may
damage the whole lot when it is
ginned.
Seed cotton should be stordc un
der shelter and, if possible, on a
wooden floor off the ground. If
the cotton is dry, the .ginning is
faciliatated and the grades and the
character of the cotton are better,
he ginning of damp cotton is the
principal cause of what is known
to the trade as gin-cut, and the
dampm.s is i ikely io result in de _
teriuration of the staple after it
has been baled. Even if only a
Miiall portion of the seed cotton is
damp, if lt ls a iio W e d to g 0 through
he gin with good cotton, it ma
give the whole lot the appearance
of being poorer in character than
t really is. Careful attention to
these matters means dollars in the
selling price of the cotton.
WOOL TRUST TO
“TAKE PROFIT.”
New increases in the price of
oolen goods for men’s clothing
have been made by the American
M oolen Copany, generally known
as the “Wool Trn«c ”
with tn iru st. Compared
with the opening fall pr i ces fift
of the leading staple fabrics were
advanced an average of 6 per cent.
Other representative materials, in .
eluding serges and tropicals, show
ed increases averaging 11 Der
cent above the quotations for he
p " ne "' l923 -
the increases went as high as 15
Z r ab °' e thP -ieef for last
i President William M. Wood of
Woolen Company, re
cntly announced that prices o f
woolen fabrics were o’oinir ••
I much higher” Hi. fc , Very
g er ’ His concern’s latest
OLD DAIS US AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(Fro mthe Times-Recorder August
16, 1913.)
Anent the removal of division
headquarters from Savannah to
Americus, which may be effected
today, it is interesting to know' that
the Seaboard system contemplates
the removal of its general head
quarters from Portsmouth to Savan
nah. This it would seem, would
be quite as logical as the removal
of division headquarters from
Americus.
During many years it has been
the custom of Frank Barber, the
genial bachelor superintendent of
the fine farm of Mr. Arthur Ry
lander, five miles out on the River
road, to reward his faithful em
ployes with a substantial barbecue
dinner when the w’ork of summer
was ended and the abundant har
vest assured. The annual feast
was spread yesterday at the beau
tiful country residence, and hun
dreds enjoyed the bountiful hospi
tality of the urbane host.
Misses Elizabeth and Callie
Slappey will be guests today of
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Slappey at a
family reunion at their home near
Ellaville.
The many friends of Miss Mattie
Pope Hagerty, formerly of this city,
but now of Valdosta, welcome her
here upon a visit the guest of Mrs.
Thomas McLendon.
TWENTY YEARS AGO T OLAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Au
gust 16, 1903.)
Sam Heys, Jr., who has been
with the Americus Grocery Co., at
Albany for six months, is at his
old post at Council, Parker & Co’s.
Mr. and Mrs. George W’. Brun
ner are spending a few days in
Americus their former home, ar
riving yesterday. Mr. Brunner
now travels lotlt of Birmingham,
while Mrs. Brunner, as previously
announced, has accepted a position
in the Prather Home School in
Atlanta.
Miss Mary Littlejohn return
ed yesterday from Columbus, where
she has been the guest of friends.
Copyright, 1923, TYqil'V’ Pof'lTl
N. E. A. Service. l-'ullV 1. Berton Braley
COBB
There still is pep in every step,
In body, brain and nerve of him,
Within the fount of youth he’s been immersed;
The pitchers still must fear his skill
And dread the speed and verve of him,
His eighteenth season’s better than his first!
1
He’s lost no whit of strength or grit,
The blithe insouciant air of him
Still keeps the other teams upon their toes;
Infield and out when he’s about,
The players must beware of him,
For what he’s gonna pull nobody knows.
: •. i
A lesson, this, we shouldn’t miss, >
A lesson in sobriety,
In keeping fit and healthy for your job;
Hence time can’t pale nor custom stale'
The infinite variety,
The vim and zest of Tyrus Raymond Cobb!
1 TOM SIMS SA YS:
Every presidential possibility
thinks he is the berries.
Fire losses increase. Insurance
may go up. All this in spite of
celluloid collars going out.
Cider is being made. Watch
it. The stuff may try to act
hard.
Today’s plan for universal
peace: Burn the phonographs.
If Babe Ruth and Cy Williams
intend to keep knocking home
runs they ought to hire caddies.
Phillippines want freedom
from us. Sorry, we haven’t any.
Good news from Hollywood.
Movie stars consider divorce
much more humane than shoot
ing.
What officials call a bootleg
directory in New York may turn
out to be a city directory.
Shoe men are happy. Fall
trade is booming. We will heed
the shoese for hunting coal.
Spokane couple stayed mar
ried 40 years before he was shot.
Pershing advises girls to
marry soldiers. We don’t. Sol
diers get up at five o’clock.
Chicago man has forgotten
quotations are taken as evidence
that the full tariff on wool is to
be gradually added to the selling
prices of men’s and women’s cloth
ing.
While the new increases are be
ing paid by buyers of the Ameri
can Woolen Company’s products,
its mills are operating on part time
and its employers are receiving
only a small proportion of their
former wages. The tariff is being
written on the company’s price tags
but is not yet getting into the
mill worker’s pay envelope,
THE AMERICUS
Mrs. L. J. Rogers and daughter,
Louise, left yesterday for Con
cord to visit relatives.
Two hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars is the little difference
in tax returns in city property this
year as compared with last year.
Such is the discovery of City Clerk
Hawkes in going over the returns.
Hon. T. G. Hudson, who has
ever held aloft the scales o f jus
tice, illw now preside behind the
scales at L. G. Council’s ware
house, having accepted a lucrative
position t here yesterday. Mr. Hud
son’s f amily is here already, and
they will r eside in Americus for
the next six or eight months.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Au
gust 16. 1893)
Col J. B. returned
yesterday from a several weeks
visit to his old home in Stewart,
looking hale and sunburnt. He re
ports crops in fine condition, but
likely to suffer from an excess of
rain.
A big neighborhood barbecue
0 *
will be given tomorrow at Bear
branch. A number of town folks
will go out to see the dear coun
try people.
Mr. J. W. Furlow got in night
before last after midnight via the
,S. A. M. from Montgomery after
a three weeks trip to Chicago and
the World’s Fair. He says it
would take two years t o see it all
at two minutes the
Master Hawkes’ Court met at
9 o’clock yesterday morning, hut
no business came before it until
at the afternoon session.
There will be a festival t onight
hold in the grove on Mayo street.
East Americus, sot the benefit of
Second Methodist church. Exten
sive nrenarations have been made
and it promises to be a most de
lightful affair, the weather per
mitting. C ome one, come' all.
Little Hubert Ranew captured a
genuine sea gull at his father’s mill
nond yesterday. ' Ko brought it to
town and placed it on exhibition.
who he is. Which is nothing.
Most men away from home do
that.
Some foolish fellow swam
Lake Ei'ie with nothing aftor
him.
Tiffin, 0., printers’s hen laid
three eggs in one day. Why don’t
these printers quit lying?
Five Scottish churchmen say
they couldn't find a drink in
New York. You have to pay
first.
Spoon date 1744 was plowed
up near Berryville, Va., proving
they had picnics in those days.
What’s in a name? Flypaper
was originated by Hugo Thum.
We get our thumbs and fingers
in it.
Dr. Koo is China’s new mini
ster of foreign affairs. It is lia
ble to run Koo Kookoo.
Jim Jeffries, former heavy
weight champ, is preaching. Jack
Lempsey had better go to
church.
Harvard, professor tells how*
to keep from being hit by light
ning. Best way is tell the truth.
Dayton, 0., man has invented
a cycleplane. It carries only
one to be killed or injured.
Healthy gi.ls getting tanned
will find it hard looking pale and
interesting next winter.
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager.
I uneral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 889
Day Phones 88 and 231
TIMES-RECORDER
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Three Smile?
The Call of the Wlid.
Tome Smather and Gabe Gun
shun of the Mount Pizgy region or
Ozarks were guests of a hotel in
the Big Buig lately. Some time
after they had retired for the night
they were rudely awakened by the
fire chief’s car raging past with its
jiren screeching in an unknown
tongue.
“What the bltie heef: “as that?”
cried Mr. Gunshun.
“I d’know persizely,” replied Mr.
Smathers, “but I reckon some fel
ler has stayed out too late and his
wife is hunting him.”—Kansas
City Star.
The Stronger the Better.
The doctors were holidng a con
sultation beside the bed of a man
who was supposed to be harboring
a diseased hip bone.
“I believe,” said one of the sur
geons, “that we should wait and
let him get a little stronger be
fore cutting into him.”
Before the prospective operators
could reply the patient turned his
head and remarked to the nurse:
“What do they take me for—a
cheese? ’ Dry Goods Economist.
Because it Did.
Bill Junior—“Pa, can we see
sound?”
Bill Senior—“No, my son.”
Then what did you mean by
saying that mamma’s new hat
looked like thunder?”—Princeton
Tiger.
PENNINGTON
Mrs. J. I. Pennington spent a
few days the past week, near An
dersonville, with her daughter
Mrs. J. B. Easterlin, Jr.
Mr. W. M. Pennington return
ed to his home, near Montezuma
Saturday, after spending sometime
here with his son, A. E. Penning
ton.
Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Wicker
Pennington had as their guests, the
past week, Mr.s Pennington’s uncle
and cousin, Messrs. Patterson of
Louisville, Tenn.
Miss Gladys Chambliss, spent the
week-end with her sister, Mrs.
Grady Kitchens, at Cut Off
Messrs. J. B. Clayton Penning
ton, and Miss Beatrice Penning
ton, of Unadilla, were guests of
DR. S. F. STAPLETON
VETERINARIAN
Office in Chamber of Cominerce
Phone 8
Residence Phone 171
TODAY ONLY!
Today is the only day.
Insurance is the only way vou
can protect yourself against ‘the
possible destruction of your home
or the possible loss of your valua
bles.
Tomorrow always holds the pos
sibility of loss.
Today always offers the protec
tion of insurance.
See an insurance agent today.
Our office is open or we will call
upon you on request.
We can furnish you all forms of
Property Protection Policies
BRADLEY HOGG
Representing the
Alliance Insurance Company of
Philadelphia
■ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 16. 192?
Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Summers, Fri
day.
Miss Ruth and Neva Ledger
spent last week near Plains with
Mrs and Mrs. Dan Ledger.
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Dennison,
of Bakerfield, were spend-the-day
guests of Mr. and Mrs. McKinley
Dennison Sunday.
On last Tuesday evening Mr.
T. B. Avera and Miss Ruth W ibb
were united In marriage at the
home of the bride near Oglethorpe.
They are receiving the congratula
tions of their many friends who
wish them a long and happy mar
ried life.
Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Summers,
and son, 0. T. spent Saturday in
Americus, with the former’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Sum
mers. '(
Little Miss Oriska Easterlin, of
Andersonville, spent the week-end
with her grand parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. I. ennington.
Miss Idoltne Pennington, has
gone for a woks visit to her grand
narents, Mr. and Mrs, J. K. Mc-
Kenzie near M in'ez’in.'a.
A CRY IN THE NIGHT, griping
pains in the vitals, cramps,
weakening diarrhoea - whether child or
adult, immediate comfort and ease in
CHAMBERLAIN’S
COLIC and DIARRHOEA
REMEDY
Pays to keep always on hand-
CITY AND FARM LOANS
Made on business or Residence
Property and Good Farms. Lowest
Interest. Quick Results.
DAN CHAPPELL
Planters Bank Building
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 gm
1:5’5 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)
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 sw. Richland-Cols 10;05 am
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Asa’t. CaahUt.
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. F. KI KER, Asst. Cashier
The Planters Bank [of Americus
(Incorporated)
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der state su P er vision in
1 Southwest Georgia, i 3 or-
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• S • RnF' cS K ’ ve our custome rs that help-
Al co-operation and advice
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in £ institution.
We believe it will be to
your advantage to get better
~ rvs acquainted with this bank
•-C3S of personal service.
The Bank With a Surplus
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; Nona Too Small
i THE STANDARD
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
At 12 l-2c Curtain Scrim, 36
inches wide, white and ecru, wide
satin borders, pretty quality, good
20c valuC.
At 45c great assortment of Shirt
ing Crepe, the newest and best fab
rics out for men’s shirts.
At 25c over two thousand yards
shirt madras, guaranteed fast colors
36 inches wide, values up to 39c.
At 75c pretty Silk Crepes, suita
ble for all kinds of fine underwear,
light shades.
At 25c light blue pajama checks,
36 inches wide, good quality, regu
larly 35(J.
At 25c regular 39c white dimity,
several popular size checks, sheer
and beautiful.
At 39c beautiful white imported
batiste, 45 inches wide, fine silky
finish, regularly 50c.
At 45c sheer colored organdy, 40
inches wide all 'colors, beautiful
quality.
At 25c, thousands of yards of
Georgia Ratine, natural cream col
or, 36 inches wide, worth every
cent of 35c.
At 79c beautiful Terry draperies
in five pretty patterns, sells every
where at sl.
At 19c, men’s lisle socks, white,
black, brown and gray, all sizes,
value 25c.
At 8c yard choice of 3,000 yards
round thread laces, Torchon laces,
fine linen laces in hand-made pat
terns, values up to 25c.
At 35c, beautifully finished bur
lap in green and brown, full yard
wide.
At 19c yard, fine Nainsook, full
yard wide, regularly 25c yard.
At 75c window shades of water
color shade cloth, complete with ail
fixtures. (
At 25c regular 35c and 50c bras
sieres, all regular sizes.
At $1 regular $1.50 Willowbone
Corsets, guaranteed to give satis
faction.
At $1.25 men’s and ladies’ um
brellas, Paragon frames, steel rods
covered with fast black American
Taffeta (cotton), sizes 26 to 28
inches.
At 49c men’s union suits of good
pajama checks, made with elastic
seam back.
At $1.25 men’s union suits in ex
tra sizes, 46 to 54, Red Cross
brand; none better made.
Standard Dry Goods
Company
Forsyth Street, Next to Bank of
Commerce, Americus, Ga.