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TIMES-RECORDER
, PUBLISHED 1«79
Published by
The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.)
Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher
•t Imericua, Georgia, according ta the Act of
CongreM.
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patches tredited to it or not otherwise credited to
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A Thought
A THOUGHT
Many, are the afflictions of
the righteous; but the Lord de
livered him out of them all.—
Ps. 34:19.
What seems to us but dim fu
neral tapers, may be heaven’s
distant lamps.—Longfellows.
THE ONE SURE WAY OF
BEATING THE SHARPER.
There is one sure way to beat
the sharper and only one sure way.
That is to keep y»ur money out of
his hands—keep it in banks.
During the first half of the
month of June, 1923, seventeen
thousand investors lost a total of
thirty-nine million dolars at the
hands. of three get-rich-quick con
cerns. Since the war three bil-
J’on dollars have ben lost by the
investor of the United States
through the machinations of bucket
shops and stocu swindlers. Think
of J t —three billion dollars—three
thousand times a million dollars.
It always makes my heart ache
to see hard earned savings swept
away. An average man or woman
finds it difficult to work to save a
hundred dollars. It takes most per
sons a lifetime to accumulate a
nest egg sufficient to protect them
when the rainy day comes and to
stand off the wolf when they are
stiffened with age or weakened
with disease.
The most contemptible Speclies
of mankind is the sharper who
schemes to deprive these people, of
the money for which they hiy-e'
pinched and slaved.' If...the sharper
wore his soul as he does his clothes
he would have ' p‘o chance at
swindling anybody because his
pernicious personality would be dis
cernible but he comes in a tailor
ed suit, vrith a suave tongue and
a winning smile. H'e will deceive
most people whoVdo not understand
the rottenness of the principles on
which he
, When you
with a proposition that promises
you rich returns on your money
he is branding himself as one of
two things—he is either a faker or
he is an\ ignoramus, because no
sure investment will promise rich
returns. Anything that brings over
eight per cent can be viewed with
suspicion and the higher the per
centage promised the greater
should be the suspicion.
PRICE-FIXING
THE CONSUMER.
One of the most pernicious and
audacious attempts ever made to
squeeze further pennies from the
already hard pressed consumed is
the move to induce Congress to
pass a law permitting manufac
turers to arbitrarily fix the retail
price at which their goods may be
sold and to compel retailers to
maintain these prices. There have
been raw deals attempted before,
but this caps the climax.
Such a practice would create
nothing less than a vicious trust
composed of the manufacturer, and
the retailer, with the manufactur
er in autocratic command. Such
a law would make the highest tariff
look like a low hurdle. The pres
ent proposed law would give the
manufacturer absolute freedom to
name any price he saw fit and
compel the retailer to adhere to
this price.
If the manufacturer were given
this unrestricted power he could
be expected to name the highest
price for his commodity at which
the retailer could possibly sell it.
If this, vicious price fixing law
should ever become effective, the
next logical step would be to per
mit the producers of sugar, flour,
and other necesisties of life, to fix
their retail selling prices and these
prices would soar. It would make
legal the greatest hold-up game
that ever swindled a long-suffer
ing public.
A wise old adage says, “Competi
tion is the life of trade.” This
proposed, price fixing law is a step
toward ■ eliminating competition.
It should be stepped on, and step
ped on hard. The price fixers would
entirely eliminate the influence of
competition in reducing prices or
in holding prices down. They
would permit manufacturers to in
flate prices and force retailers to
observe them. They would misuse
the great power of the Congress
of the United States to maintain
this inflation. Our Congress is to
be heartily commended for its
present stand in refusing to en
dorse such a scheme.
$520.00 A YEAR
FOR SMILES.
There was a stenographer work
ing in one of our organizations
during the war. Office help was
scarce—particularly stenographers.
We were paying fairly competent
girls $35.00 per week. There was
one young woman on the force who
was thoroughly capable and she re
ceived but $25. The reason for
this was she was so cantankerous
no one wanted her around. As
much as we needed help the office
manager didn’t care whether she
stayed or not.
One day he called her into my
office. "You are an extravagant
young woman. You must have an
independent income.’’
She looked puzzled. "I don’t un
derstand.”
“Os course you don’t” he re
plied, “else you wouldn’t do it.
You are paying ten dollars per
week for something you don’t want
and nobody else wants. You real
ize that we are paying you twenty
five dollars per week while other
girls are getting thirty-five dollars.
Do you know why?”
“No.” She was regarding him in
tently.
“Because,” he replied brutally,
“you are so disagreable around this
office that we are' not willing to
take you except at a discount.”
She did not flicker an eyelash
but' continued to gaze at him with
steady interrogation.
"You are humoring a character
trait that is costing you teni dol
lars a week $520 per year $5,200
per decade. Personally I do not
see how you can afford it. It
looks to me like rank extravgance.”
A look that mighgt have resembl
ed quizzical amusement flashed
over her features. She was silent
for a moment as she looked
thoughtfully out the window. Then
she said frankly and with the most
amiable expression I had seen her
wear—“l had never thought of it
that way. I have realized that I
wis perhaps a little—er—difficult
khjiietimes. But I did not realize
fit Was costing me so much money.”
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
BELOW THE BELT
Oh, well, the legislature didn’t
put any tax on a man for kiss
ing his wife. Possibly none of
the members do that, and they
thjnk it would bring in
any money.—Crawfodrville Ad
vocate-Democrat,
THE ONLY SAFE
“Night riding and whipping
of men has become so common
in Georgia that the only sure
way for a fellow to feel safe
from flogging is to break in the
penitentiary, where the lash
has been abolished.”—The Mad
sonian.
LATEST STYLE IN MEN’S
CLOTHING.
f‘The latest thing we have no
ticed in men’s clothing is wo
men,” They were’., wall
too.—Claytqn County News.
PREACHERS WHO ARE
MONKEYS.
There have been preachers
who made monkeys out of them
selves by trying to ape the late
Sam Jones, and editors and poli
ticians who do the sanie thing
with the late Tom Watson. But
both Jones and Watson had
brains.—Cedartown Standard.
WILL REPEAT PERFORMANCE.
The newspapers of the state are
discussing the extra session of
the legislature that has been
called by Governor Walker to
assemble on the 7th of Novem
ber and the concensus of opinion
seems to be that the same poli
ticians and trouble-makers who
defeated all tax reform meas
ures proposed during the regular
session will repeat the perfor
mance in the extra session.
Brunswick News. ®
WANTS "LEGISLATORS ON
GOVERNOR’S TAX COMMISSION
Now that this extraordinary
session of the legislature has
been called to enact a tax
reform measure, we had as well
view the whole situation as it
really is rather than as we would
like to have it.
The Governor appears to be
without any definite tax policy.
If he has one, he failed to sub
mit it to the legislature at its
regular session. He has pro
claimed to the world and speci
fically to the legislature that he
is in favor, of “tax reform,”
but that is as far as he has gone.
In this he is like the fellow
who didn’t know where he. was
going, but was "on the way.”
The announced purpose of the
Governor to appoint a commis
sion to formulate a tax reform
measure to be submitted to the
legislature sounds good and may
work out all right, but unless
members of the legislature are
placed on that commission who
not only really want tax reform,
but can lead in putting the
measure through, nothing will
be accomplished and the Gov
ernor will find himself still
floundering.—Albany Herald*
Copyright, 1923, By
N. E. A. Service. Vdllj A UULU Berton Braley
UNAPPRECIATED
Now the doors of education
Once again are opened wide
And the children of the nation
Troop unwillingly inside;
Are they not quite pleased and happy
Where there’s knowledge to be got?
Well, to put it short and snappy,
They are not!
Do they not.discover glamor
In the things their schoolbooks teach?
Do they not, in learning grammar,
Sense the magic of our speech?
Do they not with eager yearning
* Hurry to the destined spot
Where the lamp of wisdom’s burning?
• They do not.
Now vacation’s silly capers
Have been finished, put away,
Do they not find books and papers
More enthralling every day?
Do they not begin perceiving
Just how lucky is their lot
To be studying, achieving? ?
They do not.
With unwilling feet they’re trudging
Back again to enter school,
Which to most of them is drudging
Underneath a tyrant’s rule,
It takes many years to tame them
And to show them what is what.
Do I blame them?
I do not. i
OLD DAIS L\ AMERICAS
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Sep
tember 6, 1893.)
Albert Hill will watch the green
leaves take on a brilliant red and
yellow hue from the latticed win
dows of the county jail unless he
can produce or bank certificates to
the amount of $250. Albert, it is
charged, burgled the shoe shop of
Citizen B. T. Hawkins and for this
inspection of the law, Judge Mat
thews bound him over for the
above sum.
Work upon the interior of Mims,
Hudson & Bros., new drug store
in the Wheatley building is al
most completed and the store will
be ready for occupancy in a few
days. .
Americus merchants and busi
ness men evidently are” not antici
pating hard times and dull trade
this fall. The usual large stocks
have been purchased, and the far
seeing mrechant knows full well
that printers ink and the present
advance in the cotton market will
make business hum with him.
The local cotton market today
quoted good middling at 7 1-8 to 7
1-4 cents. %
r.
TWENTY.. YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Sep
tember, 6, 1903.)
Mr. H. W. Smithwick wishes to
announce that he has just mov
ed his stock of goods across For
syth street, directly opposite Dun
can’s store, and that he is better
prepared than ever to handle repair
work.
Miss Emma Dearing Lee, a
charming and cultured young lady
of Brunswick, is the guest of her
aunt, Miss Carrie P. Bird, for sev
eral days at the Ketel Windsor.
Miss Annie Council is at home
after a delightful visit to friends
for several weeks in Opelika.
Two cases of diptheria are re
ported on College street, at the
home of Mr. Thomas Harrold and
Mr. J. A. Davenport. Both are
mild cases. •
7 OM SIMS SA YS:
A Brooklyn baby who swallow
ed a toy auto will recover. Please
tie your flivver outside.
The eclipse due Sept. 10 is
not the Firpo-Dempsey fight.
Baby fell into a Wisconsin
river and was saved; a real baby;
not a bathing beauty.
Fourteen men were unable to
land a fish off New Jersey,
where booze is thrown over
hoard.
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Just as boys are rushing off
to college an Oregon professor
quits to become a plasterer.
A gentle, loving Los Angeles
creature wants to' drink iodine
if they won’t hang her husband.
Pennsylvania man has escap
ed from jail three times. If you
think this is easy try it once .
Fat men hold a convention in
Portland, Me. The funny thing
is all are not landlords.
Even though an Elkton, Md.,
minister married 9000 couples
be has died a natural death.
Cops think a San Pedro Calif,
oil tank fire incendiary. ’ May
have found oil-soaked waste.
Chinese typhoons ate almost
as dangerous as American booM
Se «- ___
I THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
Many a charming Americus girl
has lived to regret the day she mar
ried a man just to keep some other
girl from getting him.
Five hundred and fifteen bales
cotton made up yesterdays re
ceipts in Americus. And is also
made up the best trade in years.
Judge Z. A. Littlejohn return
ed to Americus yesterday from
New York, coming by the Sea
board. Despite the warm weather
prevailing during a portion of his
stay, Judge has greatly enjoyed
his outing and .returned to his
duties greatly refreshed.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Sep
tember 6, 1913.)
The Americus Oil Co., for twen
ty one years one of the city’s im
portant industrial enterprises, is
again at the front with the be
ginning of the seasons business and
if possible, better prepared and
equipped than heretofore to the
end of ginning cotton by the most
up-to-date methods Mr. Robert
L. McMath manager and proprie
tor of the Americus Oil Co., gives
his personal attention to all busi
ness brought to the mills.
Mrs. James Harris, Jr., is, ill at
the Americus hospital, where an
operation for appendicitis was
found necessary yesterday. The
operation was performed by Dr.
R. E. Cato, and the many friends
of Mrs. Harris will be pleased to
learn that her condition last night
was regarded as quite favorable.
When Americus fans go all the
way to Atlanta to see a ball game
they mean to see it, despite hard
ships. Messrs. J. E. D. Shipp and
Sam Clegg saw the latter half of
the Atlanta-Mobile game, and it
was no fault of theirs that they
did not see it all.
Miss Georgia Bena Dodson, Miss
Marion Edwards, Miss Susie Hatch
er, Miss Margaret Murphey, Miss
Florine Hardwick, and Miss Edith
McKenzie wh > attended the dance
at the Country Club Thursday
night, returned to Montezuma.
Furs and fur coats will be I
about three arguments and one I
crying spell higher this fall.
A senator is being sued for I
thirty cents, expecting to make I
him feel like that amount.
Antiques are things made I
long, long ago. We are just I
about out of antique prices.
Wonder if the Italian who I
swam the, English Channel devel
oped his arms eating spahetti?
One of the books we would
like to see written is “How to
Be Happy Though a Reformer.”
Place a few auto tags end to
end, Read life to right. It is
how many marks for a dollar.
The California report that a
movie star and her husband are
close friends is probably untrue.
What a pity shoes wont stay
shined as noses do.
Several makers are making
autos as funny as they can, but
can’t get jokes started about
them.
No female mosquito lives more
than one winter, thank heaven.
A fall may prove fatal to
flies.
JUST A LITTLE UPSET
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Three JSmiles
Overdose.
A sad looking woman of (ma
ture years appeared on the street
pushing a baby carriage, in which
was a fine healthy infant, howling
lustily. A friend aproached.
‘SWhy, Mrs. Lufkins!” she ejac
ulated . “What a darling baby!
But you haven’t any children.
Whose is it?”
“You’re wrong, my dear,” re
plied the sad-faced one. “This 'is
my husband. He went too far with
the gland cure.”
You Can’t Dodge It.
The captain entered the officers
mess kitchen.
“Do I understand that there will
be no desbrt tonight?” he demand
ed sternly.
“Yes,” replied the new and
careless private.
“Yes—what?” roared the captain
“Yes—we have no bananas.”
The Ananias Club.
“Os course, father, dear,” said
his young and good looking daugh
ter, “if you disapprove of my wear
ing sleeveless dresses and using
rouge I will respect your wishes,
even if it does make me look so
queer, for I’d rather please you
than be in style.”—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
PLEASANT GROVE
Pleasant Grove school opened
Monday morning with a large at
tendance. The teachers and pat
rons are looking forward to great
success in she future.
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. White, of
Rupert, spent part of last week
with Miss Veronica White.
Miss Annie Ruth Barton spent
Saturday night and Sunday with
Miss Gladys Reeves.
/ Miss Annie Coogle spent! the
week-end very pleasantly with her
sister, Mrs. Otis Morris.
Quite a large crowd attended
the barbecue given by A. A. Pres
ley Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Dew and
Jeff Dowdy visited at the home of
J. M. Reeves Sunday.
Dr. and Mrs. Houston and chil-
I dren spent the week-end very
pleasantly with relatives in Syl-
I vester. ,
Hugh Clements spent Saturday
I night with his sister, Mrs. C. S.
• Braswell.
Mr. and Mrs.. J. C. Willis were
I spend-the-day guests of Mr. and
I Mrs. W. G. McGlamry Sunday.
Mrs. J. N. Reeves is very ill at
I present.
I Misses Gladys Reeves and Annie
I Ruth Barton visited Mrs. Joe
RAILROAD SCHEDULE
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Train*, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
i übhshed 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
2:14 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
I 12:37 am Chgo.St.L.’Atl 2:58 am
I 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 p» Richland-Cols 10;05 am
’ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 6. 19? 3
Hawk Saturday afternoon.
An extra lodge crowd attended
the singing at Miss Thelma Mor
ris’ Saturday night. It is said to
be one of the singings held this
year.
Mrs. J. D. Lane and young son,
Wade, are spending several days
in Fitzgerald as the guest of Mrs.
Charles Isler.
Miss Gladys Houston has return
ed to her home in Sylvester after
an extended visit with her brother,
Dr. M. H'. Houston.
Miss Ruth Horne, of Atlanta, is
visiting her brother, J. W. C.
Horne. •
George Middlebrooks is ill this
week.
The weekly singing will be held
at the home of Miss Annie Coogle.
A cordial invitation is, extended to
all.
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CITY AND FARM LOANS
Made on business or Residence
Property and Good Farms. Lowest
Interest. Quick Results.
DAN CHAPPELL
Planter* Bahk Buildinf N *
YOUR LIFE S WORK,
IS IN DANGER
Every man knows that disaster may
hit him. Fire, accident and theft re
spect no one. Great catastrophes
have meant complete disaster .to !
thousands.
Save yourself, today, from such a
possibility.
With wise insurance there can be
no such thing as “complete- disas
ter” for you in any eventuality.
Insurance will give you full finan
cial protection in case of loss. We
can give you all form* of Property
Protection Policies.
BRADLEY HOGG
Phone 185
Representing the
ALLIANCE INSURANCE CO.,
OF PHILADELPHIA
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager.
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 889
Day Phones 88 and 231
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T, E. BOLTON, Am’*. Cashier,
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier, J. E. KIKER, Asst. Cashier
The Planters Bank of Americus
(Incorporated)
PERSONAL
SERVICE
Every department in thia
r-EafeStSa bank, which is the largest un
-11 WbjlWwS <ier state BU P erv ision in
ffilfflff ™ Southwest Georgia, is or-
fII ganized and maintained to
M give our customer s that help-
IS II co-operation and advice
Bwi Jw lilt *HI Is fewKwilrl which is natural to expect
from so substantial a bank-
ing institution.
mHW hiyOfitt ifll flaßtgtMj believe it will be to
*• — —. your advantage to get better
.. acquainted with this bank
of personal service.,
The Bank With • Surplus
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
PROMPT. CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small
THE STANDARD
OPENS THE FALL SEASON WITH
NEW. MERCHANDISE ALL OVER
THE 6TORE.
For men, women, school children •»
and infants—and many things for
the home, such as Rugs, Upholsteries
Linens, Blankets, etc. All of Stand
ard quality.
FIFTY STYLES NEW
DRESSES FOR FALL
At $3.75, $lO, $12.50, sls, $19.75,
and $25
Dresses made - according to the
latest and most preferred fall styles, l
Dresses of unbelievably good ma
terials, heavy and firm of weave,
materials that come, up to the high
standard of qality.
DURABLE DRESS GINGHAM
At 25c. School Dress Pattern*.
One would know them anywhere.
The pretty plaids and plain eolois
that take a tubbing so merrily; 32
.inches wide, yard 25c
GERMAN LINEN
TOWELING AT 20c YD.
Nothing to equal this toweling for
service 1 ) full toweling, width, nat
ural linen color, mill ends and short
lengths to close at yard 20c
INFANTS SILK AND
WOOL WRAPPERS AT 50c
Sizes 1 to 5, made of silk and
wool; also silk mixed; baby bands at
the lowest prices you have seen
them in many years; all sizes .. 50c
Factory End* and Short Length*
of Table Damask at 50c
Worth regularly off the full.bolt
75c to 89c, these are in desirable
lengths of 2 12 to 7 1-2 yard pieces;
great variety of beautiful
to select from at yard 50c
Factory Ends and Short Length*
of Good Outings at 15c
Get your winter suupply of'these.
Are honestly 25c grades in lengths
of 10 to 20 yard pieces, but will cut
in most any length to suit the buyer.
Friday and Saturday yard 15c
PETTICOATS
AND BLOOMERS
100 Jersey and Satin petticoats
and bloomers, every good style
.shown in this assortment; arranged
on special rack for your choosing;
Friday and Saturday $2.98
Standard Dry Goods
Company
Forsyth Street, Next to Bank of
Commerce, Americus, Ga.