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PAGE SIX TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED 1879 Published by - Times-Recorder Co., (lac.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered at second elatt matter at the postoffice at 4mericut, Georgia, according ta the Act of ton free*. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitUd to the ute for the republication of all newt db pitches <redi ted to it or not otherwise credited to tint paper and also ?he local news published here in. Ail right of republication of special dispairhet are nbo reserved. National Advertising Representttivee, FROST T/i'DIS & KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., Nesr York; Peoples’ Gas Bldg., Chicago A 1 bought Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may fol low strong drink; that continue un til night, till wine enflame them.— Isa. 5:11. It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunk enness; for all other vanities and sins are recoverd, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness—Sir Walter Raliegh. COMMITTEE S REPPORT NO SURPRISE TO ANY ONE. The sepcial committee of Repres entatives and Senators, appointed to ‘‘investigate” Mr. J. J. Brown, commissioner of agriculture com pletely exonorates him o feh'arges of illegalities, irreguluartities and undue political activities while in office. The most the committee dd was to hop on to poor old Grover'Ed mondson, who now has no Watson to defend him. Representative Stewart failed ut terly to come across on his charges against Brown. And the report of the commit tee could just as well have been written before the legislature ad journed. It was exactly what was expect. Nothing more, nothing less. That Commissioner Brown was not guilty of the charge preferred by Stewart we felt confident, and said as much some time ago. That Mr. Brown is guilty of un <kie political activities, there is no twubt in our minds. He is. one of the most astute politicians in the south, possessing one of t'he most efficient political machines the state has ever known, and he knows how to use that flnanclftino, brother. Our fight has never been on BROWN, ' but on the whole darned DEPARTMENT. It should be abolished and whatever function it does perform, should be left to the State College of Agriculture. The state would save by the change thousands and thousands of dollars annually and we would se cure results that would soon take Georgia from the foot of the class of Southern States. , The Macon Telegraph thinks that it is the system itself on which the Department is founded and conducted that is not in keep ing with enlightened government and intelligent political economy. Says the Telegraph: “Os course, the present Com missioner of Agricultural is not responsible for the system. He did not create it; he inherited it. When he came into office, the hundreds of positions existed He found an army of inspectors, and himself the general. Few generals voluntarily suggest that their army be disbanded, unless at the end of a war, and even then it is doubtful. And still few er politicians demand that a great political machine that they inherited be scattered to the wind or turned into an organized ma i chine against them. ' After all, the solution rests with ther Legislature. That body does not require any investigat ing committee to inform them, what s needed. The members of the Georgia General Assembly ' are fairly wel informed men. They know the situation without additional inquiry. It is hardl;, necessary to bring sensalenal charges and prove them: it even does not matter greatly if they are not proven. The Legislators certainly must know that the system is wrong, faulty, arbi trary, wasteful, poplitieal, unde mocratic and opposed to sane and good government. The Legislators can change the system. They can remedy the Department. TThey can save the State, the people, the farmers money. They can stop the leaks. They can reorganize those sec tions of the State Goverment that are antiquated. The Georgia State Government is really the Legislature. By political manipu lation,"however, the heads of the various Departments have usurp ed functions or gained control of the Legislature until these De partmental heads are themselves the State Government; and the General Assembly—the House and Senate—are their Punch and Jpdy. It is hoped we will not be mis understood. This is not said to bo sarcastic. It is not put forth to over-state the situation, It is an attempt to state fact. The agri- cultural Department or the Pri son , Department—the two work 1 hand in hand—will say, “Punch do this,” or “Punch, do that” and Punch does this or that. Nev er were manikins better trained. The people are not blind to the fact but much alive to it. Senator Brown of over Athens way ignored the strength and power of the Department: he knows now what will happen to a Legislator who does such. \ gentleman who makes laws must be careful. There will be no relief from the present Legislature. No change in the system need be expected until there are sent to the legislature and governor’s chtfir men who are fearless, men who are just ordin ary business men, there to serve their state and not themselves. So long asnine out of ten of those who go “to Atlanta,” go there to prepare to run forg ovemor or are seeking some other office, just So long as nine out of ten of chine fatten off the vitals of the state. . Once Georgia really awakes out will go the whol caboodle, from top ;to cellar. not how lonng BUT HOW WELL WE HAVE LI WED After all is tfaid, it is not so much a question ot how long we live, but how well we have lived while sojourning “herp below.” And each day add this to your’ prayer: “Oh, Lord, help me to grow old gracefully. About 200 years ago Richard Bradley published a “Family Dic tionary” in which he said: “To at tain to an advanced and even ex treme old age, take three pounds of rosewater, five ounces of orange and lemon dried in the shade, nutmeg, clove and cinna mon, of each three ounces; a pound of red roses that have been gathered two days, a pinch of laurel leaves; put all these togeth er with some rosewater, bed upon bed, into a glass of limbeck, distill them very gently with a Bath- Mary, and keep the water that comes out for your use.” This concoction according to Rradlev, would prolong life and meantime effect all the cures for infirmities and disorders ever claimed for any patent medicine by a street fqker. There are many home brewers ambitious enough to attempt to manufacture Bradley’s formula, no doubt. He had other formulas for living to a ripe old age—and played them up so strongly that it is evident the folks of 220 years ago were as keen for long life as eager observers of monkey gland expei-iments. Life is a .merry-go-round, the same old things over and over again in ‘different disguises in sue ceeding generations. N Death and Trouble seem ta ignore the campaigns against them. The trouble with these attempts to find a method of making peo ple live 150 or more years is that, even if scientists discovered how, no one would live up to the rules. It’s like going to a doctor. We want him to give us a pill and send us away mggically cured. If Doc prescribes starvation diet, a long course of bitter medicine or 'hard physical exercise, the patient is likely to consider the cure worse than the disease. After all, we’re kidding our selves about wanting to live 200 years or so. Most of us are ready to quit at 70, tired, bored. EDITORIAL COMMENT IT HAS IT’S MERITS Bill Biffem in Savannah Press says In Augusta a man suggested a $5 poll tax for Georgia when the Tax Commission met there. At last accounts the boys hadn’t •caught hint, because he managed to get over into South Carolina.’ The Waycross Journal replies: “A $5 poll tax for the voters of both sexes has more merits than some tax suggestions we have heard fro mmen, who, judging by the office they hold, shold have pretty good judgment. AND SO FIRTH Gasoline is selling for 9 cents a gallon in Texas. We pay 22 here in South Georgia. The dif ference is freight, state tax, and s 6 forth. The “and so forth” is an important item, for it includes evaporation, leakage, John /D. Rockefeller’s pin money and a lot of other things.—Albany Her ald. for the old days have forgotten that girls didn’t wear silk stock ings then.” The chances are about 100 to 1 that the fellow in the old days didn’t know what sort of stockings the girls were wearing, and considered that it was none of his business, which it wasn’t. —Columbus Enquirer gsii, * f ? v.ir " THE " AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER 1 Copyright, 1923, PoPITI By N. E. A. Service Berton Braley THE MECHANIC SPEAKS—Braley—2o Maybe I’m “gross, material and blind,” Maybe my soul’s become “commercialized,’’ But i’ll admit, somehow, I cannot find What evil lurks in being “standardized.” , Standardized tools make work a simpler thing, Standardized roads and railways give to man Broader horizons, greater scope and bring New wonders for his seeking eyes to scan. “Standardization” gives a million men What onfte a thousnad at the most, night ou r n. it multiplies again and yet again Comforts that would be otherwise unknown. It adds new spced'to thought, new breadth to dreams. Lightens the load of weariness and toil, Makes steel the beast of burden, and redeems The plowman from his bondage to the soil. ■ v It does not tie men to material things, But makes them serve him in a better way; Gives toilers leisure for the thoughts of kings, For books and music, laughter, love and play, “Standardized thought?” Ah yes, I’ve heard the phrase, It sounds like something ominous, in sooth- Yet since the first beginning of his days Man’s thought has struggled for a standard—Truth! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) OLD DAYS LSI AMERICLS\ TEN YEARS AGO TODAY*”""" Monday morning, no paper pub- j lished. " ■ - TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (Fropi the Times-Recorder. Oc tober 13. 1903.) Mrs. C. C. Hawkins left yestei’- day sos Atlanta, where she will bo the guest cf relatives while spend- 1 ing some time at the Atlanta fair. The many friends of Mrs. George Turpin rejoice at her recovery from a recent severe, attack of typhoid fever of several weeks duration. Mrs. Frank P. Harrold is at 'home again after :i delightful summer’s trip including recently a pleasant ' stay in New York City. Mrs. U. B. Harrold, of Americus, spent yesterday in SavanSah atten ding the annual stockholders meet ing of the Central of Georgia Rail way. Ttfo cotton market was slightly better yesterday. Nine cents is stiil the ruling price, while receipts con tinue to fall off considerably. . Rev. R. F. Neighbor will remove i his gospel tent next week from East Americuh to the vacant lot op ! posite the fire department to spend some time. These chilly days forcibly remind one that summer ‘has vanished, and . that the time to part with $G for a , single ton of coal is close at hand. , THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Oc tober 13, 1893.) Early yesterday afternoon Merra TOM SIMS SAItS: News from Pittsburg, Health of ficials run all goats out. Wonder if it includes husbands i Pittsburg doctors goats earrp germs. How about goatees? Are there germs in soup? Health authorities say all goats must leave Pittsburg. It will cut the population in half. Possibly hearing our plea not to make goats of cows. Pittsburg has even banished goat milk . Since goats are taboo in Pitts burg who buy oil stock there? Bad Los Angeles news today. Movie director robbed of $17,000. Whole week’s pay gone. Imagine a movie director bor rowing SIO,OOO until he gets his pay check Saturday night? Philippine elections went against General Wood. Certainly are knock ing on on Wood there. King of Denmark risked his own life to 1 save a sailor. There is noth ing rotten in Denmark. A New York man who locked his son in a celler two weeks will be locked in a jail 00 days. Earthquake hit PyrenelsV moan-, tians, which were named after toothpaste or fire extinguishers. German cabinet has resigned. Things are so quiet over there now you can hear a bomb drop. Esquimos’ long silent winter be gins this month. So quiet there you can hear a gumdrop. Berrien Springs (Mich.) thieves walked away with 1600 shoes. Girls’ shoes have thicker soles now. One pair will last back from 10000 auto rples. Ludendorf says lie is Germany. It can’t be true. He isn’t hungry and broke and in debt. Working is good exercise if it doesn’t develop .a grouch, A. J. Buchanan, Gene Everitt, A. S. Thompson, E. J. Brown and R. F. Nehring secured a large two horse wagon and started forth to collect the provisions donated by the Americus people to the suffer ers in Brunswick. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Allen have announced to their friends the marriage of their daughter, Miss Bessie Allen, to Mr. K. M. Mc- Donald. The marriage will be hap ply solemnized at the residence of Mr. Allen, on Forrest street, at 3 o’clock p. m. Wednesday October 18th. Miss Allen is a young woman of many charming characteristics and has ever been a great favor ite in Americus, Her Approaching marriage to the worthy and popu lar man of her choice will be quite a social event in our city, and a host of friends tender congratula tions. Mi-. W. H. C. Dudley, Miss Mamie Dudley, and Mr. Will Dudley left yesterday for Chicago where they will spend several days viewing the attractions at the greatest of world’s Fairs. Our Baptist friends have built a church at the cost of over $35,000 Pious men and women have prac ticed no little -self denial in order to make good their subscription pledges, and secure completion a debt of sll.-000 was contracted On the 17th of the present month. 81,000 will fall due, besides $.385 interest. It is getting so you have to look on the back page to see whom the Chinese bandits captured Morgantown (W. Va.) hen lays twice daily. Trouble with this world is we work too hard. Built a house of packed saw dust in Hoquiam, Wash, Sawdust is fine wood. Read it again. News from Chicago. Judge Sa bath won a golf cup. That’s all right. He won it on Friday Corn sold over a dollar a bushel in Chicago. We said over a dollar a bushel, not a quart. Buffalo man had stomach taken out without‘aneshetic. Perhaps lie was raised on green apples. Statistics show marriages are growing fewer. Just the same they I don’t seem far between. j Cowboy shot a barber in New j York. Another trouble wfibh this ! world is we talk too much. Scientists are back millions of years without knowing if the egg or the dinosaur came first. | Three Smiles i | * 4 INEVITABLE ‘ Howdy, Sam, how is you’ boy ” “Tollable, tollable." “Seed him last last night, an’ I noticed somepin pow’ful strange about him yassuh, powerful strange.” “He cain’t help it, Pete. Don't blame him, Dat’s his wife.” SPECIFIED “A woman,” marked the man who got his education out of books, “is a delicate creature and should be handled with gloves.” . “Yes," chuckkled the guy who jot his the other way, “boxiing gloves." t TOTALLY WASTED Insurance agent: “The policy would protect you, too, in Case your wife should die.” Mr. Meekleigh; “But in that case I wouldn’t need protection.”. ot kefereo •*1 *3kL Albert Apple TABOO In various states the campaign continues, to prevent teaching the scientific doctrine of evolution in the schools, on the ground chat evolution is contrary to the ili d! On the other hand, in 10 states the Bible is not permitted to be read in. the public schools, says William" R. Hood, specialist in school legislation. Six states require a daily Bible reading in school. Six other states permit it. In 19 states and the Dis trict of Columbia, the law is silent on the subject. Id other states, the law is silent, but courts have ruled in favor of the Bible. * * # PRAYER One of the most amazing phases of human nature is the scheming by which men in thousands of dif fv Ait ways try to make money. There seems to be no limit to hese schemes. In London, England, the police find a man posing as a clergyman, making hundreds of dollars a week by selling prayers. He has a place of business. For a fixed sum of money he’ll pray for what his cus tomers want. Police describe him as “extraordinary successful.” * * * BURDEN Immediately after the Civil War there was one political office hold er to every 1000 persons in the United States. Today here is an office holder for every 72 people, observes William Clcrkin, Akron business man. If this developps to its logical conclusion, eventually everybody will be on the government payroll. Butt the pendulum will swing in the opposite direction. Taxpayers can stand just so much, no more. * * * HERO “Can’t we have a stage hero who remains poor?” demands Paul M. Pearson, nresident of the Inter national Lyceum and Chautauqua Association. “Can’t wc have a Tieor who toils terribly rather than the hero who wins easily and always makes money?” No. Mr. Pearson, wo cannot. There are too man' 1 such “heroes” in everv day life. When we so to the theater we whnt to see life is we’d like it,. po+ as it is. The man : n the ticket office knows it. "northward More negroes in Chicago now than in New Orleans or Baltimore. In 1910 Chicago had only 44,000 negroes. The figure now is esti mated as high as 200,000. Other northern cities have had a similar increase, though not on as large a scale. It is part of a de finite, racial movement, and it is leaving the south with a difficult labor promlem. k * * *-■ HALF You read a lot about the Ameri can farmei - ’s struggle for his fair share of prosperity, Farmers are having pretty much the same dif ficulty in other countries. The outcome is hard to predict. But the reaction, when it comes, will be mighty. Half of the world’s workers are engaged in agricul ture, our government finds on checking up. In America only 29 per cent. Farming still is the basic indus try, as important as all other in dustries combined. Ask the starv ing man. GOOD WEATHER FOR GOOD MEATS - Ours are the best These choice cuts of Veal, Pork and Beef Steaks and Roast are most r>".- petizing now. Let us pick them for you. Season for Pork Sausage, Apa lachicola Oysters and Winter Trout ’s ta hand. We will have you in a day or two. Don’t forget we are on the job. Think what you would like to have today. Call phone 181. We Can Please You. DR. S. F. STAPLETON VETERINARIAN Office in Chamber of Comßierce Phone 8 Residence Phone 171 IF YOU KNEW how mjjch whijter and larger your diamonds would look in the new styles of platinum and white gold you would have them changed at once- Come in and let us show you. Americus Jewelry Co. Phone 229 Wallis Mott, Mgr-. * kAiIRDA® \kxo hc'’C^Sc^^BM|| UY T-B 15TIM& 1 HOrlh ~-jSEI I Luc sU_, ■ li \-v.s'' x o. ■ 'f fj|p - /' If - ---3 } c'l” ■■ * V. —ss§Ss“j=S/L:r.~™-S .; Ax v ': d x r : ? .o KffilTES County Agent and Party Will Visit Concord, Shiloh, New E,ra and And ersen.v F-?,!e Georgia O. Marshall, county farm demonstration agent, announced to day the dates upon which he will visit various sections of the county this week to present to the farmers l the necessity of destroying all cot ton stalks early. “There is no use in the world waiting another min ute to begin u.i. work,’ said Mr. Marshall today. “If we are going to starve the weevil out this winter we will have to begin early this fall. Kill the cotton stalks while they are green and furnishing the wee vil with food, and ydu send the insects into winter quarters hugry. Few of those forced inlo hiberna tion before they get their stomachs full will survive the winter sea son.” The necessity of beginning this work now and making the effort universal throughout the county is being stressed by the county agent at urgent request of a number of ] big farmers, bankers andi busi- | ness men, Recently he has visitedi Plains, Leslie, Thalean, Thompson and Pleasant Grove, and in all of these communities t’ farmers as a unit have agreed to gin at once the destruction of stalks in their cotton fields. On his visits to these schools, Mr. Marshall has been accompanied by a number of Americus business men who arc vi tally interested in the problem of starving out the boll weevil, and all of whom have been greatly en couraged by the hearty enthusiasm with which Sumter county farmers i have lined up behind the proposi | t.ion. Points to be visited this week by J Mr. Marshall and his party of • “stalk killers” and the date' on which each will be visited are an nounced today as follows: Concord, Monday October 15, J 7:30 P. M. j Shiloh.—Tuesday, October 10 J 7:30 P. M. I New Era.—Wednesday, OctobeJ 17, 7:3 P. M. U Huntington.—Thursday, Oclohfl 18, 7:30 P. M. ■ Andersonville. —Frida v, Octobß 19, 7:30 P. M. B “Come to Neel’s Ah tion Sale of forty hiflE class registered Jerse* October 22nd, Thom* ville, Ga. iJp FOR QUICK SERVICE AHfl HEAVY HAULING PHONHB WOOTTEN TRANSFER (MB Office in Americu, Steam dry BBS SOUTH JACKSON STRbHBI - - L. G. COUNCIL, PresidenflES C. M. COUN( iL, V.-P. tnJ ' The Planter® 0 IgjlfiiM TTieftlpl!! RESOUi mmm PROMPT, No Accoifl TH Buy it At ( And Y. Only K Counts. Nort the be jiutten and T lilac cxcelh Monda 40-1 nllfl ■ i >1 ' ■ ■ day flj m ■ '• fl H y II .. - ■ til ■ all B ; B i Jjs| B Jg Jay an<^| ■ > Bl
