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PAGE SIX TIMEB-RECORDER PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered •• •croud deal matter at the postoffice •t <n>erieu«, Georgia, according to the. Act of Cons ren. -. *4*l The Associated Press !s exclusively entitled to the use for the republication of all news dis pitches credited to it or not otherwise credited to J thia paper and aho the local *ews published here in. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Representative*, FROST Mr DIS & KOHN, Brunswitk Bldf., New York; Peoples* Gas Bldg., Chicago. A Ihought To him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.—Rom. 14:14. i- To the pure all things are pure —Shelley. 200 HENS ON EVERY FARM WOULD DOUBLE AVERAGE FARM INCOME. The average income of Georgia farms last year was $400.00. This sum could have been doubled with 200 laying hens. Two counties in California last year sold in New York $27,000,000 worth of eggs. Already this year Mitchell county has sold nine car loads of chickens at $3,000 a car, or $27,- 000. ' 't f V < The above statements were made last week to members of the Sumter County Poultry Associa tion by Mr. McCoy, representative of the State College of Agricul ture. To which S. F. Howe, Sumter county poultryman, added: I will contract with the Sumter County Poultry Association to buy all hatchable eggs its members may produce within, the next year at 00 cents a dozen.” Few Georgians; realize the prog ress that has been achieved in the production of poultry during the last two years. In many section co operative sales have been promot ed, the result of which encourage the farmer and poultrymen to re new his efforts. , “There is not a State in the Union more adapted for the profitable production of poultry than Georgia, with its fertile grain lands and natural poultry rangesfeLilys a South Georgia paper. *“shore is not a county in the Spwe that doesn’t offer many inducements to the poul try raider, and the result as con solidated and broadcast by the department of agriculture l is il luminating. County throughout the State are assist ing in the marketing of poultry, and the co-operatives, plan has solved a long-standing problem. “More and better chickens” is a wise and timely slogan.” “Georgia’s fame as a poultry raising State is going abroad,” says the Columbus Enquirer-Sun. “The progress that has been made in this industry in Georgia is known outside the State, be cause it is growing to be a really big business. The Lakeland, Fla., Star-Telegram has the following: “Please read this, you Flor ida poultry raisers! Georgia’s wealth was increased in the last twelve months due solely to the development of the poultry industry in that State. Accord ing.Tto authentic reports from county agents to the Georgia departments of agriculture, the incubator capacity has been in creased from 150,000 to half a million chickens a year. Poultry is now being shipped in carload lots on a co-operative basis, thus assuring the shippers a more | stable market and better prices.” j Whether you have only a few chicks in the backyard or are real ly “in the business,” join the Sum- ; ter County Poultry Association and help, to put 200 hens on every Sumter county farm, by starting at home. . Poultry raising is both interest- . ing and profitable. It is not "just a woman’s job.” Its possibilities ! challenge even the best and big gest farmers. It is one of the de partments of farming and an im portant one. A few good hens, generously fed and carefully tended will turn bankruptcy into success. However, the fellow who is lazy and shiftless and doesn’t care a darn whether he pays his bills or no, had best let poultry alone. Its not a lazy man’s job. INVENTIONS THAT ARE MOST NEEDED. Have you an inventive mind? Are you tinkering about occasion ally, seeking far something to “invent?” Cappers’ Weekly gives a list of inventions which according to the Patent Office <(f Great Britain, are most needed at the present mo- ’ ment. This is the list: Glass that will bend. A smooth road surface that will not be slippery in wet weather. A fur nace that will conserve 95 per cent of its heat. A process to 1 make flannel unshrinkable. A . noiseless airplane and an air- v. , ■ plane that can be managed*- safe ly and easily by a boy or girl. A motor engine of one pound weight per horsepower. Methods tq reduce friction. Practical ways of utilizing the tides. A process to extract phosphorus from vulcanized India rubber so that it can be boiled and used again. A pipe that can be clean ed easily and effectively. A tem perance drink that will keep and yet not pall on the palate. Talk ing motion pictures. Go to it. There’s a list that- will keep the most active mind busy for a while at least. However, it has been the little inventions that have paid the best in the past. The man who invent ed eyelets and hooks for shoes made a fortune. Rig or little—there is always a wide open field for the inventive mind. JOHN HERRING AND HIS GAZETTE. The delightful little City of Tif ton has many things for which it is or should be thankful, one of which is the possession of a daily newspaper with an editor of tne O’Pe of John L. Herring. It’s a brave man who attempts to conduct a daily in a city of less than 10,000 people. This Mr. Her ring has done and because of his determination and love for his home, the merchants of Tifton should, if for no other reason, contribute their full support. Many things have been accom plished in the city and- county that could not have been but for its daily paper. A city which expects to go forward is under a distinct handicap if it has no daily news paper. The Daily Tifton Gazette was nine years old Friday, September 14. The Weekly Gazette is 22 years older than the daily. Edi tor Herring tells something of the trials and tribulations that have faced him in issuing his daily. He says: "Not always—in fact, at no time—has it been easy to publish a daily newspaper in a town with a population growing from 2,381 in 1910 In fact, we do not recall that there is another daily paper which is strictly a newspaper,,in ■another town of this population in the United States, and from the best information we have there is not another newspaper in the wrold in a town of the population of Tifton, that car ries an Associated Press servw ice. We mention this to show that the job of giving Tifton a daily newspaner has been one that was not always easy. Rut at the beginning we knew the task we were undertaking. "Judging the future by the nin<> yeans past, we can forecast what the Daily Gazette can mean to Tifton. Viewing this, the question naturally arises, What would Tifton’s future be without a daily newspaper? Can Tifton afford to try to get along without one? If you believe such a newspaper is necessary to Tif ton, that it has justifies its exis tence, then give it your support. No newspaper can exist without ’ the support of a strong constitu ency.” In speaking of Editor Herring’s frank statement to his people, The Columbus Enquirer-Sun hopes it will result in an increase in both advertising and circulation. “When the Gazette became a daily there was much division among the people of the little city,” says the Enquirer-Sun, “but in the years that followed this division gradually disap peared, and to the Gazette is due great credit for the part it 2 had in bringing the people to gether and inducing them to work together for the growth and development of Tifton, i EDITORIAL COMMENT ALL THINGS WORKING TO GETHER FOR GOOD Before the congregation of the First Methodist Church of Chica go, a sermon was delivered in a theater, by S. J. Duncan-Clark a newspaper man. That is a combination which would have seemed strange to Methodists of fifty years ago. Today it is, to most of us, mere ly additional eecviden T4|- ly additional evidence that Chris tianity and the churches are not and are never likely to become, "behind the times.” In 1857 a denominational min ister, praying before a large pub lic meeting, asked the Lord “to save Theodore Parker, if poss ibly he could be saved; if not, to see that he went to hell as soon as might be.” Parker’s of fense was that he did not belong to the denomination of the speaker. Otherwise Parker was a great and good man. Today, apparently, even the newspaper and the theater are regarded as part of that combin ation of “all things” which were once said by divine authority to work together for good.—Atlan ta Georgian. ' Copyright, 1923, TYoil'V’ N. E. A. Service. j A Uvlll Berton Braley „ THE DOUBT Time was when I was ready For any old adventure; When I was brash and hearv, Oblivious of censure. But now, I figure chances Down to the smallest fraction, I weigh the circumstances Before I get in action. 'i ■' . I Time was I chased illusions And thought advice was needless, And plunged into confusion With eager youth and heedless; Jlut now, before I journey In fantasy’s dominion I talk with my attorney And ask for his opinion. ■ • I once was most imprudent, As youg men, T suppose, are; > But now I am a student Os what the “cons” and “pros’* are And from a lot of thumping I’ve gained soiflte erudition, I’m not so quick at jumping At each new proposition. *«■' I've learned to curb my hurry And thus avoid g blunder, And yet—and yet I worry And cogitate and wonder; ' I wish some kind adviser My load of doubt would shoulder Say, am I getting Wiser, _ __ Or merely getting Older? OLD DAIS US A MERIC Vs] .. ' ■ ? TEN YEARS AGO TODAL (From the Times-Recorder. Sep tember 20, 1913.) The thirty white teachers of Sumter county under direction of Supt. W. S. Moore will assemble in his office at the court house this morning for their monthly in stitute, and the proceedings will be more than* usual interest and im portance. The effect of a whole week of rain is refeectcd in the cotton re ceipts in Americus, which are the lightest for any week since the sea son opened. Receipts yesterday, for instance were but 255 bales, where as 1.000 bales would have been handled in the local warehouses had fine weather for picking the crop prevailed this week. The Americus Oil mills are laying in large supplies of cotton seed just now, and find little difficulty in getting all they want at current prices, S2O per ton. Not' a few, farmers are selling at least a por-f tion of their seed supply, and scores J of wagons thus loaded eome to- Americus daily. Mrs. Pulaski L. Holt announces the engagement of her daughter, 1 Ruth Respess. to Mr. James Stin son Rees, the marriage to occur ort the eigth of Octber. Mrs. G. W. Glover and family will he at home afte rthis week at the Johnson apartments on Lee street. twenty years ago today (From the Times-Recorder. Sep- ' tember 20, 1903). Just fortv years ago today, and ( it was on Sunday, too. the battle i of Chickamauga was fought. Thfe fact was recalled yesterday by Mr. Newton Glover, who was : wounded in that fight and came home next day. With the earnest hope that his train would reach Atlanta upon schedule Mr. H. C. Bagley return ed yesterday to join Mrs. Bagley in observing their twentieth mar riage anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. 7OM SIMS SAA S: The rumor that Dempsey of fered to pay our national debt is untrue, .. . 11 f Pity the poor German school boy, with his teacher’s marks so low. Lightning hit a Cleveland wedding twice. Why don’t these young people tell the truth? Movie star 62 years old wants a divorce, so perhaps she was too young when she married. Woman of 96 won a beauty contest at Turin, Italy. Now she won’t be worth a darn around home. • Providence, R. 1., woman shot the wrong man, which, however was not an act of Providence. Detroit girl of 17 had jtwo husbands, both her own. Woman shot at while driving a car in Chicago, so perhaps she was just learning to drive. Girl eloped with a one-arm ed chauffeur in New York. We fail to see how she enjoyed such a ride. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could burn coal Pittsburg man was fined for whipping a hippopotamus. He should have whipped an auto in stead. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’ Bagley have hundreds of friends ■ in Americus, their former home, who will wish for them very happy returns of this occasion. Four hundred pupils, books in hand, will await tomorrow morn ing the ringing of college bells as , a signal to start back to work in the school room. These are all white pupils, though the registra tion of negro pupils is quite large as well. Mrs. Arthur Rylander has re turned from quite an extended stay in Florida. Mr. Rylander also return this week. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Sep tember 20, 1893.) Capt. A. C. Bell, Jesse Stallings. Henry Black and four big fat, juicy 'possofhs, made up a pleasant little (Party in the fining room at Capt. Bells home last night. The i possums, done to' a turn and flanked on all sides in sugary yams, made a dish that caused Joe Roneys lips to quiver when he I heard of it. The prompt work of the fire'de ■partment sayed Mr. George D. j M heatleys- barn and perhaps his residence from destruction yester day. Late in the afternoon his two little chillren went" into the bam with a lighted candle to burn spider webbs, and naturally made a brilliant success of the under j taking. -- The cotton market was a little i dull yesterday and prices hardly • so good on Saturday and Monday | Receipts at the several warehouses ,■ were tip to the average, and sales were numerous.at 7 5-8 to 7 3-4 \ far good middling. Misses Beta Hill. Mamie McDon- i aid, and Mary Pickett left for Ma con yesterday morning, where they will enter upon a collegiate ' course at <.£ Wesleyan. Miss Fannie Lou Gatewood left yesterday for Albany where she will be the guest of friends for a week or two. Be very careful while inherit ing a fortune. A Paris ragpicker did it and dropped dead. Movie actor was hurt falling off a horse. Perhaps he was imitating the Prince of Wales. Wire says gold has been found in Alaska, but it may have been a tourist with Jiis mouth open. Berlin reports the tourists nearly all gone. They have just about finished the last one. Anti-tobacco bugs have start ed again, but may get sn oked out. )4 Ten-cen: hrjil • equivalent to $1.75 wheat. Wheat is below a dollary Only farmers know it. More bread is eaten than any other one thing. Chewing gum and tobacco fall far below it. Hobo College is after the Bok peace prize. Bet their answer will be to handcuff brakemen. Estimates place o.’ur cuss words around 4000. Learn them all. They will keep you warm this winter. All the teachers who failed to get married are back at work again. The annual coal shortage is in the consumer’s pocket. ITALY’S PART IN THE CONCERT OF NATIONS . \\\ // vM If n I H L" I / I (J ' ' jiO Vv l .F- ---f w Referee bvjAlbert Tipple POISONS Poison gases, thrown off by thou sands of autos, are the chief cause of the city dwellers' headaches, ir ritability, nervousness, frequent nausea and that “all in” feeling. This belief of Bundesen health commissioner of Chicago. Sounds possible. You know that a man .is apt to be asphyxiated if h£ runs his auto engine in the gar age while the doors are closed. Fresh air and plenty of it, re cuperate us at night, is the only real antidote. Gradually our bodies will adapt themselves to auto ex haust and other city poisons—de- velop the necessary power of re sistance. » • * MYSTERY A keeper in the Bronx zoo, New York, picks up an electric eel and gets such a shock that it makes his arm black and blue. Scientists are stumped when you asked them to explain fully just how the electric eel generates its . current. Another baffling mystery is thp firefly’s light. In a general way science learns what but not why. Education is the process of the awful extent of what we do not know. It merely enlarges our realization of our ig norance. . ' *5 ♦ » ELECTRIC It’ll be the end of 1924 before half of the 22 million homes in our country will be lighted by elec tricity. Use of electricity in res idences is increasing at the rate of a million consumers a year. With more than half of our homes not using the great marvel, electricity, we realize that our | state of civilization still is crude, i But we’re progressing at least 10 ; times as fast as in any previous , century. Man is barely started on ; his endless road. NICOTINE Dr. Charles G. Pease started his i campaign against tobacco in His first success was the “no smoking” rule in New York subways. Now he’s redoubling his effort to put tobacco in the same coffin with John Barleycorn. Back ing him is the Non-Smokers’ Pro tective League, big and rapidly organizatios of which he’s president. Their fight against the poison, nicotine, is waged on health 1 grounds. Remember this prediction by Dr. Pease: “The prohibition of tobad co will come suddenly, just as the prohibition of liquor did.” * » * medical A doctor informs us proudly ihat there now art 445 medical schools in the world, 82 of them ithe United States. This means that, for every four million pecp] e on earth, there is »>nly one n<4ho<» < turning out physicians to care for their health. However, health is about the last concern of the average person until hejoses it. VALUE A big locomotive works gets a cablegram order for an oil can Worth 40 cents. To send the cable cosf $lO. So the oil can, normally worth 40 cents, wa- worth $10.40 when badly needed. Values are volatile, more shift ing than quicksand, more changing than the winds. They are relative. ■* THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 20, 192? Bii——HU—Kn—sn——hr— ! Three Smiles i Misplaced Shamjock. An Irishman was siting in a res turant one day and overheard an Englishman give his order as fol lows: “Waiter, being me some toma to soup, a lobster, and a bottle of red wine.” The Irishman, not to be outdone called the same waiter, and said in a loud voice: “Waiter, being me some pea soup, a bunch of lettuce, and a creme de menthe.’” Then the Irishman noticed that the Englishman had but one leg, and leaning over to him whisp ered : .• “Excuse me, but would) you mind telling me how you lost your let?” The Englishman looked at him patronizingly for a moment, then said: “Well, my man, it was this way. There was a little Irish blood in my veins, and it settled in my leg, so I had my let cut off.” “Well,” said the Irishman, “it’s too bad it didn’t settle jn your head.” . > , Churchly Rip n Wink. A man stepped into a church while the sermon was in progress, and seated himself in a back pew.. After waiting for fifteen minutes, I he leaned over and asked the mem ber sitting in front of him, “How long has he been preaching?” “Why,” said the member, “I think about thirty-five years.” “Then,” said the stranger, ( “I think I’ll wait, for he must be nearly through.” & Ought to Be Struck A vaudeville performer was in the habit of throwing knives at a board before which he placed a very beautiful woman. One night she was ill, and he was obliged to have his wife, of very ugly face, take the regular assistant’s place. He threw the first knife, which grazed her right ear, when a boy in the gallery cried out: “Gee, he missed her!” A loaf of bread is worth a ton of gold to the man starving in the I 1 ar North. A dime represents more imprisoned pleasure in childhood than SIOOO when we are too'old to enjoy it. Carlyle toiled seven years writing a history. One morn ing he woke and found that the maid had used his manuscript to start a fire. That was the extent of its value to her. L. G. 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