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1 TIMES-RECORDER
4- ' PUBLISHED 1879
Published by
The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.)
Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publishei
Entered a« second class matter at the postoffice
it Americus, Georgia, according to the Act of
Congress. *■«-
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A Thought
Whose boasteth himself of a
false gift is like clouds and wind
without rain.—Prov. 25:14.
We wound our modesty, and
make foul the clearness of our
deservesings, when of ourselves
we publish them. —Shakespeare.
4-YEAR TERM FOR
GOVERNOR AND
BIENNIAL SESSIONS.
A four-year term for governor,
biennial sessions of the Legisla
ture and a drastic cut in the num
bti of representatives in the
House.
We believe that all three of
these changes are vitally riece r.arv
before the people may expect ef
ficiency in time, labor and erpense.
Word comes down the line that
an effort will be made in the near
future to change the term of the
governor to four years. A consti
tutional amendment will be neces
sary and this should certainly
change the date of the assemblying
of the legislature and the date
when the governor takes his seat
as chief executive.
It cost the state approximately
$120,000 to conduct the recent
session of the Georgia general as
sembly, according to W- J. Speer,
treasurer, in checking over
the expense lists Tuesday. The
amount is about the same as that
expended last year.
Members of the legislature are
allowed $7 per day for the 50-day
session and 10 cents per mile for
traveling 'expenses, the chief
items in the cost of the session.
biennial sessions will save the
state $120,000 every other year. |
Cut the number of representatives
in half and another saving is se
cured.
The House is so large and un
wieldly now that the wonder is
that anything of a constructive
nature is every accomplished. New
counties have been formed so fast
that the present, assembly room of
thepHouse will not seat the rep
resentatives. Chairs in the aisles
and seats scattered here and there
are .used by the men from the new
er counties.
Two-year terms for the gover
nor simply forces that executive
to biigip hfe second campaign, if he
hopes to succeed himself, (and ev
ery one does) when he takes his
seat at the beginning of his first
ternj of office.
On the question of reducing the
number of members of the Legis
lature, The Thomasville Enter- I
prise says:
There is an unwieldy bunch
in the House without doubt but
there is little reason to expect
any more precise activity if they
were divided in half. The rep
resentation is composed of men
without any experience in some
instances and men with too
much experience in others.
The experienced politicians
seem to desire to run things and
they fail. * The inexperienced
legislator fails to appreciate the
force and full effect of many
measures and is careless in cast
ing his ballot thereon. There is
but one way to improve it and
that is to send honest to good
ness business men to the assem
bly and make it a real business
torum instead of a political
junketing trip of the most con
spicuous type.
If there is anybody in Geor
gia that can fi 1] that order and
put it into effect he would be
entitled to rank with the great
est statesmen of all ages. We
needn’t expect one soon.
ft is a matter of regret that the
bill before the legislature provid
ing foi the holding of the biennial I
sessions instead of annual sessions
of the general assembly of Georgia
failed of passage. It is not at all
surprising that it did. Says the
Columbus Enquirer-Sun and con
tinu'’: » Ji Ml I
■ Several attempts have been
mhde to get the measure through
the legislature, and while two or
three times one house has passed
it the other has tailed to do so,
and nothing has come of the’
movement.
Any yet the people of the
state seem to want biennial ses
sions. They are impressed with
the "belief that thousands of dol
lars could and would be saved
by the state by cutting the num
ber of legislative sessions in
half. But the members of the
legislature have not gotten to
the point where they are willing
to act.
What Georgia really needs, The
Dublin Courier-Herald’ thinks, is
perhaps lone representative from'
| each county, change The present
, system of rotating senators from
i one county to another, appoint the
Supreme Court Justice for life and
then let the Supreme Court select
our superior judges. Biennial ses
sions would follow naturally.
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EDITORIAL
COMMENT
‘•1840. 1860, 1880, 1900. 1920 '
“All the presidents ei.’ct 1
. ter 1840 at intervals of twertv
j years have died in offiie—that
j is a curious fact that the super
stitious are pointing out,” raid
D. B. Ggace. “President Harr;
son was chosen in 1840 and died
the next year: Lincoln was ele
vated twenty years later and was
assassinated: Garfield was ele
vated to the presidency in ISSO
and was shot by a fanatic: M
Kinley was named chief rxee..
five in 1900 and was killed:
Harding’s election came a: th;
end of the interval of twenty
years, that is, in 1920. let the
President of 1940 bewaw >
runs the chatter of the day. The
coincidences are reduced or.
scrutiny. For cxar-plc, the
death of President Tay .’t is 'eft
out of account altogether,
though all the other president
who died in office are’included.
The reason he is omitted is, of
course, that his demise did not
fit into the twenty-rear periods.
But various rules must be con
cocted for the superstitious."
President Taylor lived only
one year, four months and five i
days after his inauguration,
coming in between the deaths of '
President Harris and President
Lincoln. This fact should be j
sufficient to destroy any super- I
stition. However, there is no
reason to believe that supersti
tion will cause any one to refuse
the nresidenev in 1940.—Colum
bus Enquirer-Sun.
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BUT THERE IS ONLY
ONE IN THE FIELD
It may be too early to see
clearly into the race for the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion, but it is not too early to
see that in George Oscar Un- ,
derwood of Alabama has an easy I
lead over the field. He was the
favorite of the delegates from
this state at the Baltimore con
vention in 1912 and probably
would have been their favorite at
San Francisco in 1920 if he had
been an aggressive candidate for
the nomination. Rome News-
Tribune.
DESERVES VOTE OF THANKS
The Savannah News says that
the boll weevil has cost the
south a billion and a half dollars
in the past five years, basing its
estimate on dependable statistics.
On the contrary, The News be
lieves that the boll weevil has
been worth millions of dollars to
the southern farmers by curtail
ing the production of cotton and
enhancing the price. In all
probability if the weevil had not
infested the cotton belt the farm
ers would now be receiving less
than 10 cents for the staple.
Moreover, the farmers have been
forced to the diversification of
crops and better methods of cul
tivation, which has been worth
more millions to those who are
tilling the soil. Everything con
sidered this pest, which was
viewed as a curse when it in
vaded the cotton fields of the
south, deserves a vote of thanks.
CERTAINLY, IT IS HARD.
“The Cordele Dispatch and the
Walton Tribune have been hav
ing a pretty hard time of it de
fending the attitude of tile
present Governor on the tax :
question. Brown and Camp are j
mighty good champions, but un- |
fortunately Governor Walker
needs more than champions can
give. He needs action.”—Cobb
County Times.
And in ‘reply to the above,
Charley Brown of the Cordele
Dispatch says in defense of the
Governor:
“Sure—we are having a hard
tune of it. Cliff Walker has not
complained, but we think he is
having a harder time of it de
fending himself than we are in
our fight for him. As for u;-.,
speaking for just one, we’ve
tried to take the business of fill
ing the governor's office r or the
best interests of the public as
more than a poker table job. We
have somehow found the place in
that schedule which a governor
ought to try to mmaintain for
moonshine liquor, the affairs of
the masked mob, for cheap che
roots and grafters.”
WISCONSIN FARMERS ‘‘RUN
NING WILD.’
Some Wisconsin farmers, pos
sibly inspired by their false prop
hets, LaFollette and Johnson,
have given public notice that on
September 1 they are “going to
strike,” quit selling of the pro
ducts of their farms unless they
get certain, specified prices for
their hogs and cattle and grains
and vegetables. This is evidence
of farmers “running wild.” Thus
early it may be predicted, with
assurance of -fullfilluient, that
their strike, if it actually takes
place, wiH be an absolute fail
ure.
The Wisconsin chaps, after
several applications of ice to
their overheated craniums, likely
will recover and decide to use
more of common sense, giving
less attention to their prophets,
whose selfish purposes are evi
dent, and “get back in the
traces,” pulling for the success
they see is being attained by
their more sensible fellow farm
ers.—Florida Times-Union.
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I OLD DAYS L\ AMERICUS
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From th< Times Recorder. Au
gust 25, 1903.)
Seven cotton brokers at New
Orleans are reported to have clear
ed a million dol’.ira each in the-re
cent corner and ball campaign in
‘ cotton.
Dudley Gatewood is now at Pablo
He... '?>• aw ex The story that
he tried to off for Prierpont
M < e‘; . d v L'.ich Childers
USS Hoi . a Co . purchased
> ! X .'•.olsotv,stock of
, - - ' uout SI,OOO,
.i .i « business at the
>a'\: to Council, Parker
X Cv w a.chouse [he store will
. ' S. < I ■.rJ.f.er.
C S Ch-XJers. wearing the
<;:i t'c .v-.d :ra.rihi!a:ing smile,
■et.r -ed yesterday from a “busi
• « . ■to W’i te Sulphur Springs.’
M: and Mrs. R. J. Perry and the
. ’ c Misses Perry returned
y-.-terdav after » pleasant stay of
■ . at W <•_ ISprings.
There was no perceptible change
yesterday tn the condition of Miss
- ar” <• Tarver, the little daughter
■: Mr. .fl Mrs. Jack Tarver and
cr;t:cah.y with typhoid fever, i
prayers of hundreds of friends !
g up daily for the recovery of i
this dear little one.
In order that the work of the
schools may be uniform and that!
each child may be provided on the 1
first day it enters school with ev- j
ery necessary supply, the Board of j
Education will furnish them here-j
1 after, charging a reasonable rental!
for the same and follows: $1 for
the First and Secrtnd grades; $2
for the Third and Fourth; $3 for
the Fifth and Sixth; $4 for the
Seventh and Eighth, and $5 for the
Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh terms.
Miss Eva Hildreth, of Live Oak
Fla., is the charming guest of her
sister, Mrs. L. G. Council, at her
beautiful home on Church street.
The game between the Windsor
Hotel and Planters Bank nine next
Poem Berto X ley I
FAKE HIM AWAY
Hot weather I don’t so much mind;
When other folks say, “Ain’t it terrible,”
I often remark that I find
The state of the climate quit<rbearable;
The one thing that gets on my nerves
And fills. /ne with bile and acridity
Is when some wise bozo observes,
“It isn’t the heat—it’s humidity!”
Whenever that statement is made .
You’d thfn’: that tim bird who pi'esented it
Had done it without any aid, *, >.
Had studied it out and invented-itl
Whereas 1 most firmly believe
This phase in its utter stupidity,
Was whispered by Adam to Eve,
. “It isn’t the hi at, it's humidity.”
IPs hard, very hard to forgive
The lad who inquires “Is it hot enough?”
And though we should not let him live,
Os fellows like that we have shot enough,
But—fool-killer, look to your work!
Remove from our midst with, rapidity
That guy who remarks with a smirk,
“It isn’t the heat, it’s humidity.”
TOM SIMS SA YS:
Recent talk in the U. S. of
adopting the Constitution of the
United States has quieted down.
Either pantalettes or a safety
pin shortage have hit England.
Lightning stunned four Chi
cago golfers. Let this be a warn
ing to fishermen who lie, also.
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Football news is back. Notre
Dame players must take dancing
The two are the same.
A dollar buys almost a news
paper headline of German marks.
Took an American 27 hours
to swim the English chann’el. Ke
ought to buy a motor boat.
Boston man broke a robber’s
nose. Never stick your nose into
other people’s Business.
Two New York crooks who had
no etiquete hooks slapped a girl’s
face and took .$4264.
The world gets better. French
haven’t enough oil for a war.
Autos are so scarce in parts
of Mexico, .lose Silva of Maza- 1
mitla has lived 122 years.
The watermelon crop is short.
This is verified by statistics and
by dry cleaners.
France thinks it iff her treaty
and Germany’s treat.
Vacations are about over, all
. except the scratching.
It’s a very, very foolish con-
■ gressman who doesn’t have his
1 picture made pitching hay.
Never stick your head out a
train window or an auto. Another
one is liable to knock it off.
' THE AMERICUS 1
Friday will be huge. No one will
be allowed to shoot the umpire.
A newly painted gas meter in
Americiis is called the “Annias.”
If it can excel the • “Rube Bur
rows” and the “Jesse James” it
must indeed be a dandy.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday morning, no paper pub
lished.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Au
gust 25, 1893.)
Mr. 1. A. Whaley, of this county,
as made arrangements to start a
distillery at an early day, locating
near the Hainil brick yard west of
the city. Mr. Waley is well posted
in the business and has made all
preparations to make a success of
the enterprise.
The club will meet tonight at the
residence of Dr. Ford, Church street
instead of at Major Speer’s as pre
viously announced.
Did you hear the dull thud with
which Wall street hit the ground
yesterday when the Americus banks
put out their certificates? You
can’t down the people of this nret
; ropolitan so long as the Times-
Recorder’s money making factory
i holds out to run.
Mr. Carr S. Glover will occupy
. the store of Mr. A. J. Hamil, on
, Cotton Avenue, and will carry a
full line of groceries.
Master Kooks Burkhalter has re
i turned from a pleasant visit to Co
j lumbus. His young friend, Mr.
1 Sanford Beall, of Columbus, ac
companied him home.
Dr. and Mrs. ’R. C. Black left
yesterday for White Sulphur
Springs, Fla. It is earnestly hoped
that the change will bring health
to these two highly esteemed citi
zens of Americus. Dr. Black was
very feeble who nhe left.
The venerable Christian gentle
man, Mr. J. J. Granberry has been
confined at home quite sick for
the past week.
Would yotr believe the oldest
typewriter is only 56?
Red-headed girls are supposed
to be the vogue this winter. Bet
ter get you a couple.
Stylish winter dancing pumps
have bells on them. This should
keep other belles off of them.
Added, to her other horrors
Germany, poor Germany, is suf
fering with a hoopskirt revival.
They say the waltz will return
this fall. This is the third fall
they have said it.
The country bedbugs have ea-
Xpo uo suoiiboea jioq; paXof
people very this summer.
Don’t pack up your mosquito
netting. Your wife can make her
a winter dress.
Believe It Or
Not
• VALDOSTA, Aug. 25.—C. W.
! McClure, of the advertising depart
ment of the Valdosta Times, of
course believes in advertising, so he
does this when he goes fishing. One
night recently he was. at Octahat
chie fishing and using a phosphoric
or ‘‘moonlight” bob, he made an
unusual catch.
When he slung this line out into
the night, expecting to land him a
good trout for dinner the next day,
he felt something jerk it before the
bob struck the water. Hauling the
line, he was dumbfounded to find
that the bod while flying through
the air had been caught by a bull
| bat and the pesky thing was bang
j ing to the hook and fighting to get
away. x -
DRIVING HIM IN
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Three
At the Museum.
Hard-of-Hearing Old Gentlemen i
(to attendant): ‘‘And what does j
that skeleton represent?”
Attendant: ‘‘A dinosaur.” ’
H-of-H 0. G. (irrascibly): “You
dunno, sir Well, what are you doing
here, then?”
Such a Nerve.
“Well, Mr. Silverstein,’ began j
the new office boy genially, “it
looks -as if we’d have some rain to
day.”
“Say!” ejaculated the? head of
the firm' angrily. “Where do you |
get that '‘we’ stuff?” Then; turn
ing to the head bookkeeper, he
added: “Look, Morris, did you
ever? Two days he’s been on the
job an dhe wants to became a part
ner already!”
Disinterested.
Minister: “So you want to get!
married?”
Mild Mr. Shrimp: “Not particular I
but this lady does.”
PEANUT ORGANIZERS
SUCCEED IN MONROE
JULIETTE, August. 25. The
movement to enlist Monroe county
farmers in the Georgia Peanut
Growers’ association is proving very
successful, according to reports.
Scores of framers have signed con
tracts to increase their acreage in
peanuts next year.
aummnaHaismmnMH
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager.
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 889
Day Phones 88 and 231
MYRTLE
SPRINGS
Spend your vacation
at Myrtle Springs. Good
cottages, cook houses,,
stove and electric lights
Burnished at reasonable
prices. Pool kept in Upsi j
of condition. NO MOS-'
QUITOES. . I
J. L. GLAWSON
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
11:5b 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
2.14 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 1
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 mm Richland-Cols 10;05 am
SATURDAY"AFTERNOOM, AUGUST 25, 1923
SILVERWARE
Silverware is always beautiful
and its lifetime service makes it
the most appropriate bridal gift.
We have a large line of silver,
both in Sterling and plated ware.
(Come in and see our stock; you
will appreciate seeing our won
derful display.
Thcs. L. Bell
Jeweler and Optician
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ARE YOU GOING AWAY TO
SCHOOL THIS TERM?
If so let us fiirn you with
a rubber stamp and indeli
ble pad to mark your cMfh
ing.
HIGHTOWER BOOK STORE
YOUR SUCCESS IN
THE FUTURE
depends much upon the safety of
your past and the protection of
your present. '
Only if your property, your busi
ness interests and vour personal val
uables are insured today can you
be sure of success tomovr >w. Ir.sure
today to protect tomorrow.
We can give you all forms of
Property Protection Policies
BRADLEY HOGG
Phono 185
Representing the
Alliance Insurance Company of
Philadelphia
FOR QUICK SERVICE AND
HEAVY HAULING PHONE 121
WOOTTEN TRANSFER CO.
Office in Americus Steam Laun
dry
SOUTH JACKSON STREET 1
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T, E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier,
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier, J. r. KIKER, Asst. Cashier
The Planters Bank of Americus
(Incorporated) (
PERSONAE
a SERVICE
Every department in this g|
bank, which is the largest un- w
der state supervision in
Southwest Georgia, is or
ganized and maintained to
give our customers that help
co-operation and advice
which is natural to expect
from so substantial a bank
ing institution.
We believe it will be to,
. your advantage to get better
acquainted with this bank
of personal service.
Rank With a Surplus
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 * I
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING '
No Account Too Large; None Too Small i
THE STANDARD
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VOUR LAST CHANCE AT THESE
WASH FABRICS, MONDAY AND
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27TH AND
28TH, AT 25 CENTS PER YARD.
There are goods in this lot worth
a dollar; lots of them are 75c value,
non,: worth less than 50c- all on
coater table so? ycur choosing Mon
day and Tuesday, per yard 25c
Egyptian Long
Cloth at $1.49 Bolt
T"e average pr'ce of ta'.s qijflify
long cloth today is 20c yard; soft
finish, free from dfessing; here
Monday and Tuesday per bolt of
10 yards $1.49
5,000 Yards New Fail
Gingham at 23c
More than 5,000 yards new fall
gingham now displayed here in great
i variety of new plaids, checks and
i stripes, also solid colors; every yard
! guaranteed to be fast color; buy
1 your fall dresses here Monday and
! Tuesday 1. 4 23c
I Ge nuine Imported Japanese
Pongee Silk at 99c
Every thread guaranteed to be
silk. Japanese manufacture even
threads; the grade that is selling
■now at $1.50; here Monday and
I Tuesday, yard .. 99c
Jersey Petticoats
at $2.98
Over fifty new jersey silk petti
coats in every color and black; all
sizes; regularly $3.50; Monday and
Tuesday $2.98
$1.50 White Silk Stockings,
3 Pairs for $1
If you do not believe this state
ment just‘come and see for yourself.
We closed this big lot from one of
the large manufacturers and every
pair was made to retail at $1.50;
while the small lot lasts Monday
and Tuesday 35c pair or three pairs
for SI.OO
$3 Satin Bloomers
At $1.98
Knee length, of extra quality sat
in in every good color, well made;
Monday and Tuesday, pair .... $1.98
72x90 Bleached
Sheets at 98c
Special price for Monday and
Tuesday only; made with broad
hems, size 72x90 inches; Monday
and Tuesday only, each 98c
Standard Dry Goods
Company
Forsyth Street, Next to Bank of
i Commerce, Americus, Ga.