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PAGE SIX
TIMES-RE CORDER
PUBLISHED 1879
Published by
The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.)
Lovelace Eve, Editor and I'ublishei
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•t Amencua, Georgia, according t* the Act <rf
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| A Thought |
Fools because of their transgres
sion, and because of their iniqui
ties, are afflicted.—Ps. 107:17.
The compliments of the season
to my worthy masters, and a merry
first of April to us all. We have' all
a speack of the motley.—Lamb.
MEN CONTINUE
THEIR WORK
AFTER DEATH.
When you have discovered or
perfected a new feat we are liktly
to think that with us our idea will
die. Not so. The deeds of men (and
w»men, of course) live long after
them.
Why marvel at the engineering
skill and power displayed by the
ancient Egyptians in moving the
stones for the pyramids The other
day they moved a seven-story build
ing weighs 15 million pounds.
While the movers were transpor
ting the big structure at the rate
of four feet an hour, its elevators
continued operating, and runuing
water, telephone and electric ser
vice were maitained as usual.
Dead men helped move the big
building, for probably nine-tenths
es the mechanical “tricks'* em
ployed in the moving were work
ed out by former generations, long
since gone back to the' dust,
the inventors of the lifting jack
the principle of rollers, ropes,
cables, block and tackle and wind
less—all these inventors helped
move the Chicago /building. So did
many other men—ineluduing the
creators of the steam engine and
the patient intellects that slowlwy
trained men to work together on
big undertakings.
Without pH these foregunndrs,
the building could’t ave bee mov
ed an inch.
Economists have an expression,
“the dead hand”—the process of
men continuing their work on this
life, long after their death, by
their discoveries and accomplish
ments which they bequeath to gen
erations that follow them.
The principple of “the dead
hand” operates all through our
daily lives. We puff with vanity as
we observe our accomplishments
and modestly admit that we’re the
mightiest generation ever. But
we re really the harvesters of the
effort of the many generations of
the past. They sowed the seed for
us, as we are doing for the future.
In our daily battle in Sumter to
find away out of the present mud
dle, think what an everlasting cre
dit will be due the man who from
his brain comes THE RIGHT
BEAN.
another angle
T OSCIENTIFIC
SALESMANSHIP
Two fifths of the hairdressers,
whor“doll up” the heads of Ameri
can women, are men. It’ll be just a
matter of time until men will mon
opolize all the jobs in this line of
worjt. So predicts A. J. Auer
bach, Salt Lake City hair dresser.
He says: “A man can dress two
heads to a woman’s one and do it
better.”
Auerbach advances the unique
theory that in a few years the
stores that cater to women will em
ploy only_men clerks, and the wo
men clerks will shift to men’s
clothing stores. x
“Thp idea,” he explains, “is that
a man knows best what looks good
on a woman, and vice versa.”
The increasing tendency, of hav
ing good looking girls behind the
counter to wait on men customers,
has, been noticed by all of us. It’s
a part of so-called scientific sales
manship.
A pretty girl clerk has the hypno
tic power to selll the average man
neckties, for instance, that he’d
never think of buying from a man
cerk. Man is very subject to flat
tery—quick to believe any compli
ment from Ihe opposite sex.
The difficulty is that when he
comes out of his trance he is not
likely to return to the place where
he; bought flattery instead of a
really becoming necktie.
As for men eventually monopol
izing the sales jobs in stores cater
ing to women, we doubt it. Women
in the matter of clothing, are not
as susceptible to flattery from thj
opposite sex as are men. Maybe
they dress to attract men, but
we’ve noticed that the average wo
man would rather get a compli
ment about her new gown or hat
one woman than several men.
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
ALL IN FAVOR HOLD UP YOUR
HANDS.
The debt paying era is draw
ing near in this north Georgia
section. When cotton begins to
move its time to begin to pay
debts. It has always been said of
the Primitive Baptists that they
pay their debts. It’s a mighty
fine characteristic. It’s well worth
while io have the reputation of
being a debt payer. When one
has the contrary reputation, he
is a bad row for stumps. Many
an honest man obtains credit—
not so much on his assets, as on
his reputation as an honest man
and a debt payer. It is wonderful
how fast a dollar can travel and
how many debts it can pay in a
short time if kept on, the go. We
have seen it demonstrated. In a
company of a half of dozen men
one day, one of the party pulled
out a dollar and handed it to
another saying: Here’ the dollar
1 owe you.” It was handed at
once to another member of the
party on a dollar debt. That same
dollar passed all around and
every one of the party handled it
once, some twice before it finally
found a permanent lodging. This
serves to illustrate t'he debt pay
ing ability of a» greenback dollar.
It has paying power, if kept in
action. When not in action it
has no more value than oak leaf.
A few weeks ago a business firm,
to which the News is indebted,
in sending a statement sent with
it the following: ,
“If you owe a man and pay a
man
As soon as the bill is due,
And, the other man pays anoth
er man *
The money he got from you
Then the money paid will
lend its, aid
hi settling bills galore.
And will soon return as you'll
quickly learn
That’s a few bills more.”
T hat’s might good gospel. If
everybody will adopt this policy,
there will be thousand, and thous
ands of dollars that will change
hands within the next few
months. .
There is nothing purely sel
this to us, that induced us to
write this little editorial. Our
readers do not owe us anything.
Every subscriber who reads this
paid in advance. And yet &
general debt paying era will be
of advantage to the News. Start
that dollar on its rounds and
er long it wil drop in at the
News office. And when it does,
we. herby give assurance that it
will not be salted down for keeps
We will instantly start it out on
its glorious mission of debt pay
ing. We move here and now that
everybody agrees to join the
debt paying band. All in favor
hold up yeur hands.—Commerce
News.l
THE GOVERNOR’S ADDRESS
In a cerefully prepared ad
dress at the banquet tendered
the tax commission by the At
lanta Association of Credit Men
Tuesday Governor Walker ex
pressed his approval of three of
the most urgent problems before
the forthcoming legislature, at
least one of which can be enact
ed, under the call, at the extra
session which will convene on
November 7.
He said:
“1 favor a measure limiting
the rate of county taxation, with
a flexible or elastic provision
which will permit progressive
counties to add a sum sufficient
to met payments upon princi
pal and interest on such bond, is
sues as they may see fit to vote.
"I further favor a modern,
scientific, business-like budget
system which will assure wise
economic expenditures of the
money raised by taxation.
“I favor an auditing system
which will prevent waste and
make suggestion as to economy,
prevent duplication and secure
purchases at wholesale prices on
the supplies used by the state.”
For several months The Con
stitution has been pleading with
the legislatures to enact these
measures.
The county and munuicipal
tax rates, under the ad valorem
system, which it is not proposed
to disturb in any of the various
tax changes suggested for the
state at large, are fixed without
limitation; and under the partial
Hat and partial segregated! levies
now* provided in the laws, the to
tals run up to an enormous
amount in a great many of the
counties—Atlanta Constitution
MAY TAKE A HANGING.
It may yet take a hanging or
tWo to teach the lesson to offic
ers of the law* that murded for a
nusdqnieanor is simply murder.
Ihe latest outrage of this kind
occured in Rossville the first of
the week, wwhen an officer shot
and killed a misdemeanor pri
soner. And he shot him in the
back too.—Dalton Citizen.
THE BEST BEGINNING
How to start the 1924 Farm
Program—Destroy every cotton
stalk before frost. Don’t merely
cut them down and leave them,
plow them under. This is the best
beginning for another year. Do
this first and then you will be
ready to consider something else
—but nothing should supersede
this destruction of stalks—
. Vienna News, _
THE AMERICUS » TIMES-RECORDER i
Copyright, 1023, V PoPtTl By
N. E. A. Service. I'aUj 1 Will R cr ton Braley
ROAD LAW—Braley—lß ,
Drive a Ford or a Packard Six, h A J k
Rolls-Royce, Paige or a Cadillac, i > #
It matters not on which you fix '
Your buying eye when you pay your, jack; ;.
The fact remains, when you hit the track ?
With Touring Model, Sedan, Coupe, > | £
here to Any Old Place and back, y 'fc
A Load of Stone has the Right ofWay. '
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You may know all of the fancy tricks, >
You may be blessed with a special knack
Os wriggling out of a traffic mix, I
But don’t forget that an ugly whack / jtgi,
Awaits the bird in a pleasure hack
Who ges too fresH with a loaded dray,
He'll stand in the ruins and cry, “Alack, ’•» 1
A Load of Stone Has the Right of Way.”
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In the city or “out in the sticks,”
The laws are written in white and black, v \
But regulations are simply nix
When a truck has a lot of to pack.
It’s backfire sounds like a bomb attack,
And if with the driver you dare get gay,
Your car 11 resemble smashed bric-a-brac,
A Load of Stone Has the Right of Way. * *
Envoy. i
Di ivei s, list to this wise, wise crack,
I£ you forge it you’ll rue the day
And moan, while'standing ’mid wreck and wrack,
“A Load of Stone Has the Right of Way.”
(Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)
[OLD DAIS IN AMERICVS]
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(brom Ihe Times-Recorder, Oct.
17. 1913.)
It looks as though Americus
doesn't want a Young Mens Chris
tian Association for t'he city. The
executive committee has made
every effort to secure enough to
Pay off the indebtedness, but so far
they have fallen short in their at
tempt. There still remains $2,500
to be raised and the time for the
notes to lull due is already pass
ed.
Americus merchants to whom the
cotton market is the true barome
ter of trace conditions rejoiced yes
terday in the reaction which follow
cd the market decline of the past
week. Already the price had brok
en below thirteen cents, and the
laces of farmers and merchants
alike could have been measured ac
curately with an overgrown yard- i
stick.
Mr. W. I’. Persons of Americus,
local reporter for the department
of commerce, has received from
that source the figures upon cot
ton ginned in Sumter county of
the present drop to Sept. 25 the
date of the last official report.
The total was 11,165 bales ginned
on Sept. 25 last year.
Mrs. W. F. Hodges, Misses Re
becca Hodges, and Ruth Hodges
and Miss Mildred Hollis and Robert
Hodges will go to Macon in Mrs.
Hodges’ car tomorrow to spend the
day.
Miss Mamie Brown has gone to
Macon where she will be the at
tractive guest of friends during the
forth coming state fair.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From The Times-Recorder, Oct.
17. 1903.)
An Americus man who some
times twists the tail of the 22” tail
of a tiger pulled down S6OO yester
day in he rise of cotton, that is
lie said he did.
finding that his stock of fine
whiskey i s really larger than de
sired. F. Q. Bass offers a reduced
price on many very excellent
brands, to which he calls attention
in his advertisement today. Than
Mr. Bass, no dealer in Georgia car
ries purer or better whiskey, while
his beer, ale, “arf and arf” are
very popular with connoisseus.
Seven hundred and eight bales
7OM SIMS SAYS:
Why don't you people write let
ters as you should? Nov/ a big
writing paper company is broke.
News from Washington. Glenn
wars on bureaus. Wish he would
war on a dresser of ours.
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Boston man rushed cut in pa
pamas yelling liomj were after him.
How big are Boston bedbugs?
Thief robbed a thief in New
York, We refuse to say he could
n’t tind anyone that wasn’t
Wealthy widow stayed lost in
New Hampshire woods, perhaps be
cause men were afraid to find her.
I’rincess Ogla of Greece will
marry. Ought to make a good cook.
’
Chicago speeders face brain tests
Didn’t know sspeeders had any.
Cleveland bridegroom was jhii- '
ed. Will be good training.
More cow news today. Twenty
Warren (O.) cows saved from fire.
Not their time to be steaks.
Bobbers will take anything. One |
in Cincinnati took a bath tub. May
take a bath next. Guess he want
ed to lead a clean life.
A cloak 300 years old has been i
found in Sweden. Clothes don't last i
as they once did. ■
at the warehouse represented the
cotton rceipts in Americus yester
day and 9 1-2 cents the pprice at
which sales were made. Buying
was brisk and farmers with cotton
to sell were in a better frame of
mind.
Like St. Paul's and St. Peter’s
churches, the splendid new edifice,
the first Methodist church here,
will be distinguished from afar by
the immense dome. The great dome
rises majestically from the centre
of the building and rapid progress
with the Woodwork in now being
made. biuppt. James Montgomery
gives this very important work his
most careful personal attention,
this assuring completeness in every
detail
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(from The Times-Recorder, Oct.
17. 1893.),
Dr. A. S. Hawes was the reci
pient of many warm congratula
tions yesterday upon his appoint
ment as medical director of the
Equal Life Insurance Co. of New
fork tor the states of North and
South Carolina, he position car
ries with it the handsome salary of
$5,000 per annuman, and expenses.
twenty-two applicants for ex
amination in the civil service have
filed the necessary papers and will
stand the examination today. These
are Messrs, olcar C. Strode, J. E.
Oliver, S. Alex Sullivan, Robert J.
Wheeler, John M. Wimbish, Cliff
McElroy, Thomas Mims, John F.
Monanham, Samuel Hart, Will
Walker, John Colson, George Gra
ham, Thomas 'E. Mayo, W. T
Ragan, and Jesse Pope.
Misses Ora and Ira Perry, the
pretty twin nieces of Mr. and Mrs.
R. J. Perry will celebrate their
birthday this afternoon. The oc
casion will be a merry gathering of
young friends at the home of
"Mamma Perry” on Jackson street.
Howell Elam is engaged at the
Bank of Commerce during the ab
sence of Cashier Sheffield, who is
spending a few weeks at the
World’s Fair. Howell is a very ef
fecient book-keeper and bank clerk
and easily feels at home behind a
bank counter.
Mr. W. H. Allen formerly of this
city, but now of Atlanta arrived
yesterday on a vjsit to Dr. and
Mrs. G. T. Miller on Lee street.
Due partly to the fact that peo
ple had rather have autos, Chicago
reports a baby shortage,
Limon (Colo.) Girl was shot
slightly while stealing melons. Girls
will be boys.
A slender girl shows the fall
styles best. A slender pocketbook
shows them worst.
The long drooping ostrich plume
is coming back into favor, but not
with husbands.
The fall frocks are carrying
touches of ermine, formerly worn
by somebody’s house cat.
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OUT OF PLACE
Captain Zoomer: “The Aviation
Ollicers’ School film had a private
[ showing- last night.”
General Airpockette:: “Good
; Lord! How on earth did he get into
I the picture?”
SERVICE
Recruit: “The captain says I’m
to draw my regulation uniform.”
Supply Sergeant: ‘“Sure, buddy. I
- How’ll you have it—too large or
too small?”
RETRIBUTION
Chief Telephone Operator:
“What’s Glady’s crying about?”
Assistant Ditto: ‘“She called up
a triend and gave herself a wrong
I number.”
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SHOOTING
About 45 million dollars worth
of, firearms and ammunition were
manufactured in our country in
1921, according to a census report,
this year, probably more. The fig
uree doesn’t include the product of
government establishments. It’s the
wholesale value, so the public pays
considerably more for killing in
sturments.
Not much wonder there art as
many murders and other crimes of
violence, considering the millions
of dollar® worth of shooting ap
paratus available for the criminal
world. One way to check crime and
check it quickly: Curb the sale of
firearms and ammunition.
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FLASKS
■Silversmiths report a deeied fall
ing olf in the demand for small
liquor flasks to-be carried in
ladies handbags. Before prohibi
tion, there was a big market for
them which’ll surprise many.
• However, the flasks industry in
general is busy. The demand is for
the larger sizes. We wonder how
many times a flask can be filled
before some of this high-power
bootleg eats through the glass.
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BARGAINS
Maybe you’ve noticed how cheap
ly you can buy cocktail shakers,
wine glasses and the like. Most of
this paraphernalia was made before
prohibition. Now it’s a drugq on
the market.
Such people as are drinking seem
to prefer the “hard” stuff, in
most cases. That’s one of the trage
dies of prohibition. People drink
to get jingled. Drinking for se
cialbility is almost extinct. It was
less harmful than drinking for the
effect,
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NEGROES
I The death rate among negroes
|is high. Seventeen out of every
100 j colored people die each year,
according to the government. Thus
is a death rate seven-tenths high
er than among whites.
.Number of negro understakers
increased three-fifths in a decade.
Whites are more adapted to stand
the wear and tear of civilization,
being longer removed from the nat
ural state of outdoor life than the
negroes.
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PROFIT
Big office buildings, five to 30
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager,
Funeral Directors
And Embalmer*
Night Phones 661 and 889
Day Phones 88 and 231
IF YOU KNEW
I how rnjjch whijtcr and larger
your diamonds would look in the i
■ new styles of platinum and white I
• sold you would have them '
' changed at once-
i Come in and let us show you.
Americus Jewelry Co.
Phone 229 Wallis Mott, Mgr. i
stories high, earn an average of
only 4 to 7 per cent on the money
invested in the bulding, accordig
to an architectural magazine.
For the smaller sky scrapers, the
land or site is usually worth more
thin the building. When it comes
to 30-story buildings, the land ;s
generally worth a quarter as much
as the building.
1 he value of land, of course, us
ually is created by people who
work on it or nearby, not by the
land owner. It’s an interesting sys
tem of lb" public being taxed by
nidividauls who got there first.
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CO-OP
Farmers were banded together
in 1925 co-operative buying and
selling organizations in 1921. De
partment of Agriculture, finds.
Considerable increase since then.
Watch this movement grow—rapid
ly.
The co-operative movement, oper
ating in many ways, eventually
mry be the solution of the high
cost of living. When The year
2000 might be as good an estimate
as any.
MRS. PETERS DEAD
AFTERLONG ILLNESS
VALDOSTA, Oc . 17. Mrs.
Smith Peters after a long and ling
ering illness, died at 10:25 Sun
day night i na Valdosta hospital.
Her illness covers a period of about
SOHO KITS
Ouri are the best
These choice cuts of Veal, Pork and
Reef Steaks and Roast are most n?.-
petizing now. Let us pick them for
you.
Season for Pork Sausage, Apa
lachicola Oysters and Winter Trout
stn hand. We will have these io?
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.
BRAGGS NMET
We Can Please You.
DR. S. F. STAPLETON
VETERINARIAN
Office in Chamber of Commerce
Phone 8
Residence Phone 171
FOR QUICK SERVICE AND
I 3;^Y-L- HAUL,NG PHONE 121
WOOTTF.N TRANSFER CO.
Office in Americus Steam Laun
dry
SOUTH JACKSON STREET
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’*. Cashier,
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. F, KIKER, Asst. Cashier
The Planters Bank of Americus
. . (Incorporated)
a SERVICE
Our record of Tlii'r- •
Jy-three years of Ser
vice has won so“ us
recognition as “The
Bank of Personal Ser
vice.” We invite your
account large or
small —commercial or
savings.
___ Bank With a furplaa
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
PROMPT CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small
r .WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 192 J
I a year and she was recently
! brought to Valdosta for treatment
i from her home at Naylor.
The - deceased was about twen
ty.-seven years of age and was a
daughter of the late W. M. Force,
of jhc Naylor district, her entire
I life’had been spent in that section
| of Lowndes county where there is
I a large family connection.
THESTANDARD
MISSES’ AND CHILDREN’S J
C-IATS WORTH SB.OO to $25.00J
AT 54.95 to $19.75.
For weeks to come you will pay sßg
to $25 for coats that are, no better 1
styles, that use no finer fabrics in
the manufacture than these, in fact
that it is a sale that cannot be
matched in Americus for brand new.
coajtp all syles and every one guar
anteed to be new.
MORE OF OUR FAMOUS CAS
TILE SOAP AT 25c BAR. We
have just received another shipment
of our famous Florence castile soap
each bar weighs 1 1-2 Lbs and is
guaranteed to be absolutely pure,
just try one bar and you will be
our regular customer, per bar 25c.
MISSES & CHILDREN’S $3 TO
$5 00 SHOES at $1.98. A clean up
sale of our best school shoes for
Misses and children, in the lot are
many Scuffer shoes, also the Har
! risburg make you cannot buy bet
ter school shoes all sizes in the lot
on center table. Price, per Pr. $1.98
BOYS SERVICEABLE UNION
SUITS at r 'sc Suit. Every size
from the small ones to the largest
16 year old size oi fine fall weight
ribbed these are probably the best
values you will see this season when
we buy again they will be 25c per
suit higher all sizes at suit 75c
MISSES' 3-4 LENGTH SOCKS
AND FINE RIBBED STOCKINGS
AT 25c. Displayed on center tables
all sizes and colors in the lot, and
you will find every pair as good as
any 50c hosiery in Americus while
the lot last take your choice at
pair 25c.
WOMEN'S BLACK SILK STOCK
INGS 35c PR. Ji PRS FOR sl.
“Seconds” of the best 50c stockings
you have ever seen fine! black silks
with back seam lisle tops double
lisle soles now’ 35c pair, 3 for
sl.
GOOD SEA ISLAND WEDNES
NESDAY & THURSDAY AT 12 1-2
YARD. The best sea Island for two
days selling at 12 l-2c only ten
yards will be sold to one buyer at
the price full yard wide and sold
only on Wednesday & Thursday at
per yard 12 1-2.
Standard Dry Good*
Company