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PAGE SIX TIMES-RE CORDER PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and I'ublishei Entered eecond clan matter at the poatoffice' •t Amencua, Georgia, according t* the Act <rf Congreaa. The Aaaociated Treat !a ricluaiaely entitltd to the uee for the republication of all newt die* patchca rrcui’ed to it or not otherwise credited to thie paper and al«o the local new« published here in All right of republication of special diapa.’chet are alto reserved. National Advertising Representative*. FROST f/PMS A KOHN, Brunswick Bidg., New York; Peoples' Gas Bldg., Chicago -■«_ u——— | 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. ' » * ‘I M 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.” ~.' ■ ; V 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. II ■■ I ml* 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. ll—llf—ll—Ul Will —■■»**! ■■ M —M— i Three Smiles | a I + ,_4 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.” THE FRIEND IN NEED j / \ Pl I / / CAM I HELP \ V lIW > ( YOU WiTh Your .X V BAGGAGE, SIR / WQ / X V? x / \ X jjk X Apple 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. • * * 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. •. * * 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, * * * 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. « ♦ ♦ 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. ♦ « » 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
