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IntweJ a, second cum matter at the po»toffi«
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NEW MANAGEMENT
OF THE CLAXTON
WEEKLY ENTERPRISE.
1 litre is a little weekly paper
<>own at Claxton that soon will
blossom forth, taking j t s place
among the “best dozen weeklies”
of the state or we miss our guess.
At it s head, as editor and man
age!, is R. E. L. Majors, for many
years, a member of the Times-
Recorder family. lie is planning
many new and interesting changes
in the Claxton Enterprise, with
new type faces, greater linotype
production.
Mr. Majors is an able newspaper
num. He knows the “news game”
from one end to t'he other. Frank,
honest, intelligent and with a su
perabundance of energy, he should
and will make a success of his new
venture.
For several years he was a resi
dent of Americus. Most of that
time he was with The Times-Re
corder. He is familar wiith both
editorial and business depart
ments a combination vitally neces
sary on every paper.
The Times-Recorder regretted
loosing him, but he carried with
him to Claxton the goodwill and
best wishes of a host of friends in
Sumter county, and every member
of The Times-Recorder family.
THE JOKER IN
CIGAR AND CIGARETTE
TAX BILL
There is a joker in the cigar and
cigarette bill passed by the last ses
sion of the Legislature, we are in
formed. How or why it was put
there, no one seems to know.
In some unexplainable way the
‘ joker” slipped into the stamp tax
law, for after stating that the deal
ers must put & stamp on every
cigar and on each package of cigar
ettes, the* act says:
“Nor shall any other tax be re
quired of cigar dealers.”
It is claimed Iby some dealers
that if they buy stamps and put
them on cigars and cigarette pack
ages, they are exempt from taxes
on their stores, farms, automobiles
or anything else, either to t the
state, county or city tax gatherers.
Tax officials will have trouble
unless the law is clarified at the
extra session. Should the law
stand as it is today, lots of folks
will enter the tobacco business.
No one seems to knowhow the
little “joker” got in. Apparently it
is an after-though, for the very last
line of the act says plain and
square:
“Nor shall any other tax be re
quired of cigar dealers.”
THE WORK
OF A CURIOUS
BRAIN KINK.
You will read a good many days
before you find anything stranger
than this in the news:
New York clerk is sent to the
penitentiary for the fourth time
and;- for the same old offense —
stesSing dictionaries. His fourth
attempt to increase his vocabulary
took plgce in a department store
whare he saw the king-pin of dic
tionaries—sl3,so, which, being a
clerjc of modest means, he couldn’t
afford.
’ftiree times he had stolen dic
tionaries and gone to prison for it.
You’d think he had learned his les
son. Not so. Back he came a
fourth time.
Here you se the workings of a
curious brain kink or abnormality
that is also characteristic of the
criminal. What most of them need
is expert medical attention by brain
specialists.
Off to prison the fourth time,
the old man (he’s 75 with white
hair) who can’t resist dictionaries,
boasts that his vocabulary now in
cludes 100,000 words. The report
er describes him as having
“scholarly brow."
Too bad some rich man didn t
catch him early in the game and
“cure” him by giving him all new
dictionaries as fast as they ci.m°
from the presses.
Difficult to understand h;m ami
his peculiar craving? Well after all.
isn\ it just as sane as some of the
cravings the rest of us has e. M e
know many a man who is ‘crazier
about golf,, salted peanuts or *•
collection of canceled stamps t ian
• this pitiful old character brai ing
j«il in his queirtforknowledge.
THE BEST BRAINS
TODAY ARE IN
INDUSTRY NOT ARTS
To build an 80-story building
solidly and equip it with elevator
and other service, requires almost
phenomenal skill and intelligence.,
The best brains today are in in
'dustry, not the arts or professions I
An office building 80 stories
high will be erected on the site of
famous old Madison Square Gar
den in New York City.
The Woolworth building is only
58 stories. From,street level to its
very tip-torp it measures 729 feet.
The new building that will eclipse
it will rise toward the sky 1100
feet, which is over a fifth of a
mile.
'l'his will; make it the highest
man-made structure in the world,
100 feet taller than the Eiffel
Tower in Paris. We wonder what
the builders of the Tower of Babel
would say of it. They’d probably
gape.
The skyscraper an American
creation, is the result of the at
tempt to escape from high land
values and the tribute or toll that
hqs to be paid to them.
Land being too costly, the build
ings bulge into the air instead of
spreading out over a larger terri
tory.
All this is a result of congestion
of population—the swarming in
stinct that began when men band
ed together for common defense
against wild beasts and savage I
rival tribes, and which has reached I
its worst in our generation.
An 80-story wonder
ful? Well, it’s a womJerful monu
ment to our submission to a fright
ful economic problem—land own
ership.
The airplane probably will re
lieve the situation by enabling
men to live hundreds of miles out
in the country, quickly flying to
and from work, with cities aband
oned except as centers of trading
and recreation.
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BIG PROFITS * "
LURE CROOKS \ ‘
TO BOOZE TRADE
At Windsor, Canada, where a
lot of liquor is smuggled across the
river into Detroit and on to other
cities the police find a dead man
wrapped in a blanket and buried in
a marsh.
"Another victim of the rum- -
rimers” the police say. Quite n
commen thing to find mysteriously
murdered victims around Windsor.
That’s to be expected. The worst
element of the underworld co-oper
ates with the bootlegging traffic.
Its big profits lure crooks who oth
erwise would be blowing safes or
holding men up with pistols.
Yes, there’s a lot of, crime in the
wake of prohibition. Murder, bur
glary, forgery, counterfeiting. Due
to prohibition? Many think so
But—
-Ihe crime that trails prohibi
tion is small compared with the
crime that was hatched in the old
time saloojn days.
All very well, to be alarmed
about crime accompanying prohi
bition. But let’s not lose sight of
the crime that accompanied the
wide-open bar.
John Barleycorn always was a
bad citizen. He was the king of
the underworld. Driven to cover,
he naturally continues his opera
tions to as great an extent as pos
sible.
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People have become so' intense
ly interested in discussing prohibi
tion that they are inclined to over
look the fact that the real problem
is just what it was originally—the
havoc of liquor.
It took generations of education
and publicity to arouse people to
the evils of King Alcohol. The in
juriousness of liquor—to the health
to the home and to the nation
should be remembered indelibly.
The details of prohibition enforce
ment are secondary.
Three Smiles
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Advertising copy writer (tossing
piece of magazine copy on boss'
desk) —There’s one with an •un
answerable argument.
The Chief—For ‘heaven’s sake
change it. We want a lot of an
swers to that ad.—Farm Life;
Then She Fainted.
The Tinker—l’ve come to fix
that old tub in the kitchen.
Little girl—Oh Mammie, here’s
the doctor to see the cook.—
Answers.
Truth Often Hurts.
Suzette—Don’t you think my
new dress is exquisite
Her Friend—Oh, lovely! That
dressmaker of yours could make a
clothes prop look graceful.—Tit-
Bits.
Too Public!
Young Dobbs—l want to try on
that suit in the window.
Salesman—Sorry sir, but you’ll
have to use the dressing room.—
Printer’s Ink Monthly.
Square your .shoulders to the world
It's easy to give in—
Lift your chin a little higher!
You were made to win.
Grit your teeth, but smile, don't
frown,
We all must bear our bits.
It's not the load that weighs us
down ,
It’s the wav we carry it.
—Tit-Bits.
' TRE AMERICUS ' TIMES-RECORDER 1
Copyright, 1923, FJililv PoPIYI By
N. E. A. Service- *-'***Ajf x vFCLU Berton Braley
ENOJUGH
I wanted to wander 1
“Way out over yonder,”
Beyond the far rim of the sea;
The breezes werte callnig
With voices-enthralling •
The wide world was summoning me.
So all by my lonely,
Just me and me only
I traveled, and traveled some more} •
But after a-season,
I found, for some reason,
The wanderer’s trail was a bore.
Strange oceans and peoples,
temples and steeples,
I viewed them with lack-luster eyes;
Not one of them thrilled me,
And home sickness filled me, z
A sickness I couldn’t disguise.
No more wander-trailing,
Thank heaven I’m sailing
Again to my own native loam;
My roaming is over,
I’v’e failed as a rover,
Thank heaven I’m on my way home!
OLD DAIS LN AMERICVs]
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TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(from the Times-Recorder. Oc
tober 22, 1903.)
When the meat-saving season
ends Mr. N. a. Ray will be among
those here who will have a full
,” USe - He has a bun <*
erghty-five fattening hogs ready
for the slaughter and now getting
the Imishlng touch from a peanut
field. Besides raising as mu h cot
ton and corn as any planter 'in
Sumter county Mr. Ray looks af
ter the subsistence departments a«
well. ,
The initiative social event of the
week was toe card party given
Tuesday by Mrs. Henry Lumpkin
and Miss Lillie Glover, in 'honor of
of the Lihmry ( lub. Progressive
six-hand euchre was played. The
parlor was elaborately decorated
with palms, ferns and cut flowers.
Mr. P. L. Holt and little daugh
ter, Ruth, went up to Macon yes*
terday io visit relatives.
”• Mr. Leonard Parker, of Ander
sonville, was in the city yesterday
on route to Dawson oif a visit.
Beginning tfcmorrcrw afternoon,
prayer services will be held every
af“eroon this week at the home of
Mrs. Elizabeth Eldridge.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(Prom the Times-Recorder.. Oc
tober, 22, 1913.)
Americus shivered yesterday
morning as the first touch of win
ter banished the autumn season and
started cheerful fires in every
household. Rain Sunday after
noon was followed by a decided
change of temperature, and a ro
bust north-wester chased away
any remaining memories of the
good old summer time.
The cotton market boomed yes
terday as nt no other time during
the current season, and prices are
once more at topnotch prices.
Fear of frost last night sent val
ues up fifty one points in the fu
tures market and holders of spot
cotton were elated in consequence
in the Americus market sellers and
buyers were a little apart, seller
demanding 13 5-8 cents to 13 1-1
cents while buyers held to 131-2
as the limit. Receipts at Ameri
cus watehouses were 350 bales for
the day.
TOM SIMS SA\S:
Here’s Minnesota news. Forrest
fires raging. So are the farmers.
These fires are not Magnus John
son.
When a compressed air tank
blew up at Columbia University
students thought it was a profes
sor.
Dyke broke, flooding a Florida
town, and all we can hope is that
it got seme burglars’ feet wet.
Stove exploded on an Alabama
farm where all cooking is not done
on a can opener.
You knew, sad thing about
cooking with can openers is you
can’t sit around them to dry out.
McMillan is sending radio mes
sages from the arctie, where weath
er is starting south for the winter.
Good radio news today. New
generator eliminates hums. Some
new programs would eliminate “Ko
hums.”
Prince of Wales danced in a Ca
nadian hotel; but not, we’ll bet be
cause he saw his bill. .
Reykjavik, capital of Iceland,
may sound as foolish as it does
from shivering with cold.
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Widows cannot marry in India
so bachelors J here are considered
fairly safe from harm.
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Siamese boy may play quarter
back for Boston University. Lucky
for him he wasn’t twins.
1 Captain John A. Cobb will go to
Macon this afternoon or tomorrow
at the latest-, .to be present at the
State Fair, which opened yesterday
under the splendid influence of
13 1-2 cents cotton and other en
couraging auspices. Captain Cobb
is vice president of the state agri
culture society under the the au
spices of which the state fair is
being conducted.
Miss Annie Bailey returned
yesterday from Atlanta where for
some time she has been the guest
of relatives.
lrs - S. R. Heys is rapidly con
valescent from a recent illness with
diptheria at her home here.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(brom the Times-Recorder. Oc
tober 22, 1893.)
Mr. C. A. pricker was at >ome
last evening to the following om
pany Messis. Carted, Broadhurst,
Chfj ( ’r.y, Irawferd Wheatley, J.
A. Davenport, W. K. Wheatley II
M, Brown, Lisfcn Cooper, ,G. W.
Bacot. The genial host celebrated
most royally his birthday and the
pleasure of the occasion will long
linger in the memories of the for
tunate guests.
It is not the case that father and
son celebrate their marriage anni
versaries together, but this is what
Capt. A. C. Bell and son, Mr. Lin
Bell will do this evening. Thirty
seven years ago today the* genial
captain led his good lady a blush
ing bridge to Hylmen’s alter, and
just eight years ago his son did like
wise. Today is the anniversary of
both marriages, and at the pretty
country home of Lin Bell will as
semble this evening the members
of each family together with num
erous relatives' and friends, it will
indeed he a pleasant occasion.
Mi's. Lawson Stapleton and Mas
ter Lawson, Jr., returned yester
day from a pleasant visit to friends
in Atlanta.
The many friends of John Shef
field will hear with regret of his
continued illness. Ke has been
confined to his room for the past
several days with slow fever and
shews little sign of improvement.
American woman has stopped
bull fighting in Cuba. Now she can
Worry about rat eating in China.
In Toledo, 0., a boy of 18
months has a six-foot pet snake,
so Dempsey may lose his title yet.
St. Louis aviation searchlight
carries'2o miles and would be fine
for hunting a colla rbutton.
A successful Minneapolis busi
ness woman, advises people to play
poker, but we don’t.
Pittsburg Carnegie Musem has
an egg 50,000 years old, which
some case would buy cheap.
Kansas City objects to Sunday
circuses. Kids do too. They
won’t keep you out of school.
Former prize fighter is preach
ing in St. Louis so we bet nobody
tries to sleep in his church.
They caught a one-armed ban
dit in New York. Bandit work
there is becoming pretty easy.
Cleveland druggists say they
are not bootleggers. Then wrtiat
are they? Some even may be drug
gists.
You know, drug stores are fast
becoming just old-fashioned cross
roads stores moved to town.
Live fox escaped in Chicago.
While at large it did net try to sell
any strangers oil stock.
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THE AfeGUMEMT OVER STA77ON AGENT DAD KEYES LOST WATCH
CAME TO.A SUDDEN END WHEN THE WATCH WAS FOUND . ; *-
\— IT WASNT IN HENRY HARRMSTONS YARD AT ALL J
Consitutional
Convention
Wanted
(Continued From Page 1)
ure that if nothing is done, he will
be elminated as a candidate to
succeed himself. They are charg
ing that the only emergency for
Utica?* " 6 CXtra session was a po
htical emergency and, if the extra
Sb? W a u ? re> the Gov enwr
"‘‘l be blamed for the expense,
tk e wii . ! take a two-third vote of
the Legislature to pass En income
tax amendment to the constitution
T*ie ppposnpn claims a majority in
tbe House and where the two
thirds can be secured is said to bo
a puzzle.
The polite refusal of some of the
authors of tax measures to appear
before the Commission is taken as
a bad omen and is worp.-ing the ad
ministration’s friends no little.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
WANTED BY ELDERS.
ATLANTA, Oct. 22.—A request
that Governor Walker amend his
call for an extraordinary session
so that th6 legislature might pass
a resolution providing for a con
stitutional convention was made in
a statement issued here tonight by-
Herschel Elders, Tatnall county
representative.
“For twelve months I have stud
ied the tax question in Georgia and
the other 47 states,” said Mr. Elder
When I went to the regular ses
sion last summer I knew the tax
question was he biggest thing that
could come before us, and, if right
ly solved would be the greatest
blessing that could come to our peo
ple. I introduced bills covering
eight fundamental propsoitions of
tax reform. If put into law, they
would relieve the farmers and
laborers and the poor people and
the land from the great burden of
unjust taxes and place it on the
rich, and at the same time develop
this great state of ours.
“By the end of the regular ses
sion I was convinced that there was
not the necessary numbers* in the
house or senate to pass my reform
measures. I know today we have
enough votes in the house to pass
hem. I regre to say I am reliab
ly informed that two-thirds of the
senate will not pass tax reform
bills. I am trying to talk plainly
to the people of Georgia.
“A constitutional convention is
the way to settle the tax question!
and the school question and the I
reiormation our court pro edure
and every other vital thing that 1
needs reforming.
“Eight years ago, I lost this,
fight in the house and four years
ago I lost it in the senate I have ,
a resolutio npending in the pres-'
ent-house for a constitutional con-1
vention.
“The members of ths conven- ,
tion would be fresh from the peo- |
pie and would do what the people ,
want done about these reforms.,
Then the new constitution would j
go back to the people for their ap- i
prqval. This would end all these
questions and also end too much
politics in Georgia. I shaii keep
up a fight for a new constitutonal |
convention until we get it.”
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Butter Boxes
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Culture !
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1 believe definitely and emphatically |
in early marriages-. As soon as a
youth I-.a- :r:rineri man's estate, it is
time for him lo .mar. r.’ I'he early se
lection of a mate will save him from
many difficulties, enabling him to avoid
many temptations that rtight ..be too
strong to be overcome. Furthermore ‘
early marriage establishes a high ideal I
at a period in life when habits are i
being formed. Every boy who grow* ,
to manhood 'has a distinct and em
phatic desire for a home, for* a wife
and children, and all the duties and
responsibilities associated therewith-"
He craves the companionship of one
upon whom he can shower bis affec
tion. He wants a woman he can love
and who loves him in return. The
prattling voice of a child stirs hi
heart-strings. It is fitting that, these
yearnings should be satisfied early in
life. It is to a man's advantage that
such should be the rase.
In offering this o- . *:i, please re
member that I do no. maintain tha 1
early marriages are always best if a 1
man can avoid the evils that often ar j
company the unmarried state, an I |
which I discu: « in my work Maahon :
and Marriage.
If the immoralities and dissipan *ns
that arc everywhere so pre-. Bitot
among young men can be avoided, the
marriage can unquestionably be de
layed with advantage. Fm inttance
it would be safe to say that the ts r ‘
twenty-five or even thirty yea- =
early enough for a man to -r/i r - r if ;,<•
could maintain" a continent life up t
that time. We raj-t r —emn-r, ha-.s
ever, that in some instances this i« no*
accomplished. Therefore we '.too! i
say that from the twentieth sear ;
marriage, or thoughts of marriage
should not be severely discouraged
for in many instances a marriage a
this age would certainly be cboo-mf
the lesser of two evils.
One great objection to la>e mar
riage is the strong likelihood of per
manent bachelorhood. To postpont
marriage mean* often a permanen
life of celibacy. Thirty per cent ot
more of men and women of marriage
able age in this countr;. are single
which is a truly deplorable state of
affairs. The longer marriage is de
laved the less is the chance of its ever
being consummated.
It is true that we cannot overlook
the financial burden of a home and
children as a factor in the problem.
As a rule the earning capacity of a
man in the early twentiea is limited.
Crabs chew their food with their
legs.
Chicago, in ancient times, made
the first seismograph instrument
to detect earthquake shocks.
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TO ENTER BEAUTY CONTESE
Al LANTA, Oct. 22.—The Min
eralava Beauty Clay compapny,
represented by Rudolph Valeutlno,
movie star, has asked in a tele
gram received by Mrs. Clyde K. By
field, of this city, that she enter
the beauty contest to be staged at
Madison Square Garden, New
York. Mrs. Byfield won the local
c< ntest staged here some time agv
and was invited to enter the nation
al contest at the company’s ex
pense, according to the telegram
and to Have headquarters at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Mr. Val
entino was in Atlanta whCty the lo
cal contest was held and it has been
announced that he will be present
at the National event.
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Drugs Excite 9
the Kidneys,
Drink Water
Take Salts at First Sign of
Bladder Irritation or
Backache
The American men and women must
guard constantly against kidney trouble
because we often eat too much rich food.
Our blood is filled with acids which the
kidneys strive to filter out; they weaken
from overwork, become sluggish, the
eliminative tissues clog and the result
is kidney trouble, bladder weakness add
a general decline in health.
When your kidneys feel like lumps
of lead; your back hurts or the urine
is cloudy, full of sediment, or'you are
obliged to seek relief two or three tiittis
during the night; if you suffer with sick
headache, or dizzy, nervous spells, acid
stomach, or if you have rheumatism
when the weather is tad, begin drink
ing tots of good soft water ana get front
your pharmacist about four ounces of
Jad Salts. Take a tablespoonful in a
glass of water before breakfast for a
few days and your kidneys may then
act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon juice, com
bined with lithia. and has been used for
vears to help flush and stimulate clogged
kidnevs, to neutralize the acids in the
svstem so they no longer are a source
of irritation, thus often relieving blad
der disorders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; can not in
jure, makes a delightful effervescent
. lithia-water drink and belongs in every
i home, because nobody can make a mis
i take by having a good kidney flushing
any time. By all means have your phy
sician examine your kidneys at least
I twice a year.
Americus
Undertaking Co. *
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Funeral Director*
And Embalmer*
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Day Phones 88 and 23 L