PAGE SIX
TIMES-RECORDER
PUBLISHED 1879
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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
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" 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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
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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-.
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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
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