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PAGE SIX ’ll MES-RECORDER published isro i Published by Hie Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelace Eve, n ditor and Publisher IntweJ a, second cum matter at the po»toffi« “ Americus, Georgia, according to th. Act of ‘■ < ’*T± Th. A..o.i,«ed Pre., I, erclu.iy-l, <-,>titl«,l , o the tiM for the republication of ,11 Dr », j, Jl’M” <re< ■' or not otherwise credittj to tn An'”.c nJ r* 'Sf , " C * l , ”' K ’ >*" kli »ked here to. All tight of tepublication of special diapauhea •re >),o referred. **-i*<cn<» rnT™ I *'!’ Reprewnt.lirw, FROST •/oPIS A KOIIN, Bnma.ick Bldg., New Yorks Cfßople* Gal Rlilj., Chicago * 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. t 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. * • « i 4* 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 ■ ■ ■■ ■ ■■■■ 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] - * 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. • * * Widows cannot marry in India so bachelors J here are considered fairly safe from harm. • ♦ • 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. ■_ VholD ER WE OUGHTER.® SAID HFNfeY M in CALL THE pgi WAS A DON IN/ |gHou> ON~~Mp° LgßC ° ? jM* A * BOYS "aV \r I fwHirrs) DONT CARE IF L 1 voo t»t> lose "Tv”- < \ KEEP OUT of/ JM MY YARDGi/ VLW THE battle:- ■" 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.” £>aTky sitpeiks « W.ite Dep* 101 For Ceialog and flee bookie! on E«B ProduoUon W. Abo S«U Butter Boxes I I 3 “ “ ( Flu. P**cei dairy and farm supply co. ATLANTA. GA F t < i BER.NAR.tt MACFADDEN 7/ealth 'll inks by the Father of Physical ; Culture ! aßmngHßwwaaaga ! 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. L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. B. BOLTON, Aaa’i. CaAitr, , C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. F, KTKEB, Asst Caahlar The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) a SERVICE Our record of Thir ty-three years of ser vice has won for us recognition as “The Bank of Personal Ser vice.’’ We Invite your account largo or small—commercial or savings. The Bank With a fatrphM RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; Nona Too Small > r MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 192 j 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. ■ . ' ’• I - -71 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. * NAT LEMASTER, Manager, Funeral Director* And Embalmer* Night Phones 661 and 88$ Day Phones 88 and 23 L
