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PAGE SIX TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered aa second elan mailer at tbe poetoffice •t America*, Georgia, according to the Act of Congreoa. -WBte ■■■■ -- , The Associated Press ’• exclusively entitkd to the use for the republication of all news dis patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news published here in. All right of republication of special dispa.'ches are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives, M>DIS A KOHN, Brunswick Bldff New York; Peoples’ Gas Bldg., Chicago A Thought | Man is Tike to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.—Ps. 144:4. Life is a bubble, and in length a span.—William Browne. A DEFINITE COTTON PROGRAM A definite and complete cotton program for Sumter county for the 1924 crop has been formed after exhaustive study by experts, local farmers, bankers and mer chants. We believe that this is a most important forward step taken by the county, and the Times-Reeord er pledges its columns to the full est in spreading the information and recommendations of the execu tive committee formed in Ameri cus Wednesday pledged to aid the farmers in their light on the boll weevil. It is the belief of those in .posi tion to know that this program, religiously and energetically fol lowed, will mean the successful production of cotton in Sumter county next year. Mo business, whether farming, banking or otherwise, can succeed if half-hearted, unbaked methods are pursued. The farmers of this section have been continually wor ried by tr.e advice of Tom, Dick and Harry: they have been told that this cr that patented boll wee vil killer would absolutely bring success. They have attempted 'to produce cotton through the most abnormal seasons known in many years without a definite plan. The getting together of thii; body of pStfrlotic men who have formed themselves into a steering or campaign committee means that the farmer now has an authoritive source to go to for information and assistance. The action of this body of men in Americus Wednesday indicates bright prospects for- farmer, mer chant and banker of this section. THE SWEETEST WOMAN IN ALL THE WORLD No greater compliment can be paid womankind, tnan to have the I son remark “My mother is the ; sweetest woman in all the world.” Through sleepless night and days filled to overflowing with the never ending tasks that confront her, she has earned that tribute of love, of confidence, of comradeship. Whether you are 6 or 60, you ( still are mother’s boy. Whether ( you are clerk or master of mil lions, mother should still be your , confident and guiding star. Con- , fide in her and many of the dis- j appointments of life will pass you , by. A few months ago B. C. Forbes, financial writer of national repu tation, interviewed a number of : America s ' leading bankers and 1 manufacturers, seeking to find out ■ whether these men of millions • found time to give to their moth ers. Without exception, each of these men took the time, once or twice a week to spend a few hours with their mothers. Sam Jones was wont to remark occasionally: ‘‘Every great man had a great mother; any old stick will do for daddy.” ‘‘We heard a man, over 35 years of age, remark that his mother was the sweetest woman in all the world,” says Editor Levy in the Brunswick News. ‘‘And that man went up in our estimation,” continues Mr. Levy. “But really, every man or woman, boy or girl should think their mother ‘the sweetest woman in all the world.’ “Many times we over look the excellent quan tise in our mothers be- cause we do not view them afar. We have been accustomed <to our mothers from birth and accept their solicitous care and love as a matter of course. There never was and never will be a real great man who did not reverence his mother above all others. “It is real greatness in a man to be ever considerate and kind to his mother. “We heard another man who has never known a mother, re mark that he would give ten years of his life if he could have his mother with him, if only for a day. “And hoys and girls, we desire to remind you that there is no one like the mother. She may be uneducated and may appear to you old-fashioned and out of style. But, you should remem ber tftat she is the one who brought yon into this world—the one w-ho guarded you from all harm when you couldn’t guard yourself. She is willing to give such love as no other human be ing can ever attempt to show. “No pedestal is too ’high and no consideration is too great for the mother. I “We once witnessed an inci dent that has followed us through the pasing years, which was grand and beautiful. A boy had graduated with first honors from a mountain college. The boy’s mother had come to see her boy receive his diploma. “The aged creature was small, wrinkled with the hardships and sacrifices of many yaars. She wore a- fafed bonnet and her dress was of calico. She had found, her way to a front seat in the college auditorium. She looked with pride upon her man ly boy and wore a smile of satis faction as the son received his honors. "And when the boy had receiv ed them, he left the stage and making his way to where his old mother was seated, he took the small, tired form in his great arms and crumpled her to his breast, as he would have dope his beautiful bride. “It was our opinion that this boy displayed true greatness and would some day become famous. “He went away from his moun tain home to a western city and was not long in making his way to fame and fortune. “Yes, boys, be kind and con siderate to your mother. She is •the most wonderful work of Him who creates all people and all things.” While we are on the subject, let’s not forget, as Dr. Barker remarks, “Old dad is around here, too.” Be a pal to that boy, such a pal that when he sees you coming, he will exclaim, “Here comes dad.” If he whispers to the older chil dren, “Look out, here’s father,” you're missing their comradesship and confidence. But it IS “mother, who is the sweetest women in all the world.” 4 BE TRUTHFUL GET THE FACTS. • An insight jnto our late presi dent’s character will be gained by reading his instructions to report ers and writers on the Marion '■‘Star.” They are as follows: “Remember there are two sides to every question. Get them both. “Be truthful. Get the facts. “Mistakes are inevitable, but strive for accuracy. I would rath er have one story exactly right than a hundred half wrong. Be decent, be fair, be generous. “Boost—don t knock. There’s good in everybody. Bring out the good and never needlessly hurt the feelings of anybody. “In reporting a political gather, ing give the facts, tell the story as it is, not as you would like to have it. 1 reat all parties alike. If there is any politics to be played, we will play it in our editorial columns. Treat all religious mat ters reverently. “If it can possibly be avoided, never bring ignominy to an inno cent man or child in telling of the misdeeds or misfortunes of a rela tive. “Don’t wait to be asked, but ! do it without the asking, and above all be clean and never let a dirty word or suggestive story get into type. I want this paper so conducted that it can go into any home without destroying the j innocence of any child.” WHEN COOLIDGE SERVED THE WHOLE NATION. When Samuel Gompers started in to unionize police, firemen and school teachers of Boston he heard from Calvin Coolidge, then gaver nor of Massachusetts. The proposition to throw public Servants wholesale into the ranks of organized labor Coolidge declar ed was frought with public dan ger. With Boston municipal employes once unionized, the other cities of Our Country would have followed suit in one, two, three order. The demoralization of organized labor would have followed as a re sult of injecting the professional politicos and white collar class es into the unions. If the scheme proved practical it would have amounted to a poli tical dictatorship, confiscatory in its raids on the tax payers. Cooldge showed a courage not common among statesmen. He call ed the halt. Speaking for the farmers and smaller property own ers he asserted the principle of no divided allegiances in the public service. Police, firemen and public school teachers could not take orders from President Gompers and the A. F. of L. and also remain loyal to the public service. ffTrJS Daily Poem Berton %,. le7 SLANGILY SPEAKING I like the bird who has the grit To stick to things and never quit; The duck who plays the game in style And taka his bumpings with a smile; The bimbo who will risk a chance On bucking fate and circumstance; 1 he gink who’s kind and merry hearted But finishes what he has started; The bozo who, when out of luck Won’t whine and growl and pass’ the buck. Along with that I like the bloke Wbo’ll stake a fellow when he’s broke; A geek who will not let success Affect his simple humanness; A berry who has learned to play And loaf at times along the way; A joe who, once he is your friend, You can depend on to the end;, , A baby built on such a plan I think it s safe to call a Man. X—.Bl OLD DAIS L\ AMERICUS TEN YEARS AGO TODAY Monday morning, no paper pub lished. \ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Sep tember, 22, 1903.) Miss Mamie Clarke is at home again after a delightful visit to her sister, Mrs. G. B. Morgan, in Cor dele, and where she was aeeorde’d many social attentions. Mr. Carroll K. Clark, of the firm, of Miller & Clark, left this morn ing for North Georgia points where he goes to inspect the quarters of that section. Dr. S. H. McKee, after a wrestle with fever for several weeks, is out ! on the streets again and his friends i are delighted at his recovery. Miss Myrtle Young, of Colum-1 bus, who has been the guest of Miss Winnie Belle Jossey for some weeks, returned to her home yes terday. Messrss. S. P. Wise and F. F. Timmerman of Plains, and C. O. Rainey, z of Ellaville, formed a| quartette of young men here yes- [ terday on their way to Macon to i attend Mercer University. Miss Laurie Burt, formerly of ! Americus and now one of Atlanta’s j most beautiful young women, has i been honored by Gen. A. J. West with the appointment of sponsor for the north Georgia brigade at the! Confederate reunion to be held at i Augusta in November. Good progress is being made ,up- i on the Methodist church building, I lOM SIMS SAIS: Autumn styles are here. One season a woman’s waist chockes her and the next it trips her. • Fashion demands slim people. Fat ones can reduce by talking to people who make them sick. Men are wearing clocked socks again. Better get good quality or the clocks may run. Football’s back. It is nice training for the rough basket ball games which will come later. Half the world doesn’t know how the other half lives, which is what worries it half the time. Men who would raise cain if they found a hair in the gravy enjoy dancing cheek to cheek. Wonder if a divorce ever re sulted from a man finding some other man’s hair on his roll ing pin? Doctors say we eat too fast. Most of us do. We try to keep our food down by bolting it. A model husband is one who is as nice to his wife in private as he is in public. ( The apple crop is good and many a farmer is loafing because his cider is working for him. Don’t call a friend stingy just because he is saving up the first payment on a lump of coal. These are stirring times. And you must keep stirring if you ex pect to have any time at all. Your face may be your for tune, but a burglar's face is his misfortune if it draws legal in terest. The only universal uplift move ment is lifting up the eye brows at the uplift movements. Political and talking machines differ slightly. You must keep paying on a political machine. Poor little unlucky movie stars, several of them haven’t been married since last week. It is hard to be cheerful at breakfast when your face looks as • if it had been slept in. Tuition in the school of ex- r THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’ ***"■»■" H'. ll— u— W 88—88 |||| and the congregation can worship there at no distanct date. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Sep tember 22, 1893.) For some time past the desire has been general among our people to organize a Chautauqua circle here, and to this end an invitation has been extended Mr. Joseph S. Davis, of Albany, to visit Americus and explain the workings of a Chautau qua scientific and literary circle. Judgje Allen Fort and Hon. Vir gil Pqwers of the state railroad commission, will go over to Lou vale on a special train this morn | ing for the purpose of investigat ; ing the matter at issue there be ll tween citizens of Louvale and the : S. A. & M. railroad company. Cotton was several points bet ter yesterday, the market closing steady with good middling quoted at 73-4 to 7 7-8 cents. Receipts at the several warehouses aggregat i ed ”00 bales or more and this num | ber will be more than doubled by ! todays, receipts. Sumter’s farmers will eat nome raised hog and hominy under their own vine and fig tree next year. Never has so much attention been i given to hog raising before, and as a result nearly every farmer in the county will save enough meat l this winter t<s supply his family a j portion of next year, at least while i not a few will save enough to sup ply their family and laborers too I the entire year. perience is ail you have and then some. Talking doesn’t seem to have the least effect on a double chin. Popular songs could be wrose. No song is as bad as its parodies. A loud hat will not keep your brain awake. A ham actor gets egged on. ? J Three Smiles , +-•• * Made No Difference To Him. “Oh thank you,” exclaimed an elderly lady to a laborer who sur rendered his seat in a crowded trolley car, “thank you very much.” “That’s oil right, mum,” was the joinher. As the lady sat down the chival rous laborer added: “Wat I ses is I a man never ort to let a woman ' stand. Some men never get up un- ■ less she’s pretty; but you see, mum, it don’t make no difference to me!” I A New Version. I caught a glimpse of her pale mauve hose, I caught a whiff. I think it was rose, I saw in my glance her slim young waist; But she hurired 30 fast, not a sight of her face. I wheeled about and followed her flight Till I eaught het beneath a great are light. “Where aer yon going my pretty maid? I got a shock when she turned head, “Jus’ home f’um wu’k, kind suh,” she said. Insistent. It was a wet day, and as the pretty girl entered the crowded car a man rose to his feet. “No, you. must not give up your seat; I insist,” said the young wo man. “You may insist as much as you like, miss,’ was the reply, “Pm get ting gout here!” MOULTRIE ROTARIANS TO ENTERTAIN FACULTY moui.trie” Sept. 22. The Moultrie Rotary clirb has an nounced that it will entertain the members of the faculty of the Moultrie schools and the parents of Ki'hool children at a reception on Friday of next week, The recep tion will be put on at the high school “Shell” it is stated. There Was an Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe 7T> Sfejfc© —/A, 7 j (■/ , . « > Apple TIMES * Some business men are a trifle worried because production of pig iron in cur country during August was about a sixteenth less than in July. However, August iron output was over three and a half times as big as in August, 1921, during hard times. Also, it was a third larger than production in August, 1913, when times wer normal. So we’re still in prosperity up to our ears. Iron manufacturing, you know, is the key industry—weath er-vane of general business. * * ♦ WEAK In August, 1433 business firms failed in the United States. With the single exception of July, this was the smallest number of any month for over two years. The job of removing the weak links from the business chain seems about completed. The strong sur vive. Their strength gives one a comforting feeling of security in event general business has to travel a strip of rough road. • * » RADIUM In Fergana, Russian central Asia, mining engineers discover what looks like the largest deposit of radium in the world. This doesn’t attract as much at tention as the averagd discovery of a new gold field. But it’s lot more important, for it may easily v make radium available for every hospi tal in the world. Radium now is so scarce that it is obtainable for use against only a tenth of the cancer cases it could help. SHOES The tooth-pick-toe shoe for men is coming back into fashion, accord ing to Charles D. Coe, representa tive of the oldest shoe factory in our country. He says that shoe styles travel in cycles and that the pendulum is swinging away from common sense comfortable shoes. Don’t place any bets. The same was said about bobbed hair and short skirts. Americans are not as inclined to jump through fashion’s hoop an formerly. The “slaves to style” are beginning to insist on a voice in the management. ** » * DEBT The national debt! now is a trifle under 22 billion dollars, after de- DR. S. F. STAPLETON VETERINARIAN Office in Chamber of Cumitierce Phone 8 Residence Phone 171 JUST RECEIVED Our new line of Shaeffer Fountain Pens; also the , newest styles and colors in Whitmg Society Station ery. When you think of writing think of Whiling. It is a pleasure to use the Shaeffer pen on Whiting’s high grade paper. Phone 229 . > AMERICUS JEWELRY COMPANY By WALLIS MOTT, Mgr. T SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 22vJ923 ducting Uncle Sam’s surplus funds. This means that the national debt is .$207 for every man, woman and child in the country. While even that is a large sum, it’s not enough to drive us to the poor house. The income of all the American people for less than half a year would wipe out every penny of the national debt. A great many Americans would be thank ful if their personal debts were not any larger than their share of the national debt. . •r ENCOURAGING TOBACCO NOW IN LC’.VMDES COUNTY, VALDOSTA, Sept. 22—With the new tobacco warehouse pto|ected by John I*. Lewis, president of the Citi zens Bank, a -certainty, Valdosta all energies toward the extensive business interests are now bending but conservative cultivation of to bacco in the Valdosta territory dur ing the coming year. Already several concerns have employed tobacco demonstrators who'are in the field booking acre age while others are 'making ar rangements for demonstrators, one Valdosta man being now in the Car olina territory on this mission, In addition to this 11. L. Cromar tie, general agric Ttural agent of the Georgia & Flo, a railway*has been dispatched to the Carolina fields by General Industrial Agent W. E. French to secure practical demonstrators as well as interest Carolina growers in coming to this section and planting tobacco. FLARED SKIRTS AND PAINT ARE DECREED LONDON, Sept. 22.—Smartly dressed women of the future must wear “flare” skirts, modified leg of-mutton sleeves, well-defined waist-lines, and must make up in “doll” fashjon, according to Lon don fashion experts. The “doll” make-up consists of a dash of red high on each cheekbone, and an other dash in the middle of the forehead. This gives the fair wear er the appearance of a Dutch doll. 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. BG.LTON, Ase’t. Cashi.r, C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier, J. E. KIKER, Asst. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) ' PERSONAL’ n SERVICE Every department in this bank, which is the largest un 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. X We believe it will be to r your advantage to get better acquainted with this bank of personal service. The Bank With ■ Sorploa RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT. CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; Nona Too -Small THE STANDARD EXTRA SPECIAL FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY ' In addition to our regular bar gains on- Monday and Tuesday we are going to give every customer trading $lO or more one of our talk ing dolls absolutely free. Trade any where in the store you 'like, just so your bill amounts to $lO. You get the doll free. $1.50 Al) Wool Sponged r and Shrunk Serge at sl. All wool storm serge, 40 inches wide, sponged and shrunk; guaran teed best dye; regularly $1.50 every where; here Monday and Tuesday,, yard _ $1 $2.25 Black Satin Duchess at $1.69 Good quality satin duchess, heavy weight, very smooth, lustrous face, regularly $2.25 and good value at that price; here Monday and Tues day, yard ......... .... $1.69 Good Quality Egyptian Long Cloth at $1.49 Bolt 10 yards to the bolt; if we were to buy this Long Cldth now, we would have to charge 20c for it? Get ypur supply early Monday and Tuesday only, bolt $1.49 3,000 Yards 10c to 20c Laces Monday and Tuesday at 5c You remember the big table of lace that we diad on sale at 8c yard. We have sold-thousands of yards at this price. Some of the best pat terns that are actually 20c values are still on the table. Take your pick Monday and Tuesday, yard 5c Genuine Imported Japanese Squares at $2.98 Actual size 6x9 fee! in great va riety of pretty patterns, plain or fancy borders, plain or fancy cen ters; here Monday and Tuesday only . $2.98 10-4 Unbleached Sheeting Monday and Tuesday 45c Excellent quality, only limited supply; only 10 yards will be sold to one buyet| at the price; guaranteed to measure 90 inches wide and. sold only on Monday and Tuesday, yard 45c Shoes Given Away During Fair Week During fair week we will posi tively give free every tenth pair of shoes that leaves this gtore, it mat ters not what price you select, if it is the tenth pair you get them free. Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth Street, Next to Bank of Commerce, Americus, Ga.
