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PAGE SIX TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelace Eve, ’“ditor and Publisher Catered •« second cl»< matter at tie portoffice Bt Anericutp Georgia, according to the Act of CongtAM. a The Associated Pre** !• exclunrtly eatitlH to Vte uae for the republication of all news di*. patcbea credited to it or not otbcnrise crediw-d to thia paper and also the local new. published here fn. All right of republication of special dispa:che* are also reserved. National Advertising Representative*, FROST & KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., New York: Peoples* Gas Bldg., Chicago A Thought Riches certainly make them selves wings; they (ly away as an eagle toward heaven.—Prov. 20. r. This yellyw slave Will knit and break religions; bless the accurs’d; Make the hoar leprosy accurs’d; place thieves, And giv e them title, knee and ap prboation, With, senators on the bench. • —Shakespeare. A PENNY A DAY KEEPS MALARIA AWAY. That’s the statement of malarial I experts, that one ct&ijt’s worth of quinine taken every day will posi tively precent malaria. When we stop to consider the enormous economic loss in Sum ter county each year from malaria alone, the magnitude of the little penny is realized. A letter to Dr .Branham, county health officer from Director of Athletics, S. L. Robinson, of Mer cer University, says: ‘I am glad to state that our football men were required at the start of the seaon to take preventive doeses of quinine. Up to the present time we have not a single ease of malaria, which, 1 believe, is a remarkable fact considering that a large part of our squad are boys from malarial country.” In view of the splendid record made by the Mercer’s football team this year, the above state ment is of interest and rather significant, especialy to those who must remain physically fit. We must eventually eliminate malaria entirely, but in the in terium, use uuifline for a preven tive. • —M-vfr OFFICIALS DENY ‘‘JOKER’ IN LAW TAXING TOBACCO. ’ If you have laid your plans to "go into the cigar or cigarette busi ness/’, so as to escape all state taxes, yo.hidi hdst wait on Attorney General Napier. Despite tlje fact that rumors have been rifle for several days to the effect t|iat a"joker” in the new cigar ppd cigarette tax law would permit dealers to avoid pay ment of all ad valorem or special f taxes to the state, an unofficial opinion rendered at the office of the attorney general on Friday ef fectually disposes of these claims. The clause in question is the con cluding portion of Section 7 ot the act and reads.as follows: ‘‘Nor shall any other tax be re quired of cigar dealers..” It was claimed that this not only exempted all cigar dealers from ail ad valorem and special taxes, oth er than the new tax of 10 cents on all cigars and cigaretts sold, hut that it also would open the doors' for anyone to avoid payment of jiis taxes by simply becoming . the’the proprietor of a cigar stand, no matter how small. Ijowever , Assistant Attorney General T. R| Gress, in the absence of 'Attorney General Napier from the; city, pointed out that there are-ttfo sections of the code of Georgia which would effectually bar' any such interpretation of this act.' Both clauses refer to rules under which the courts shall inter pret laws enacted by the legisla ture. The p irst of these sections pro vides that no law shall pass which refers to more than one subject matter or that contains matter dif ferent from what is expressed in the; caption or title. The one sub jecl-matter in the law in question is |he enactment of a law for the taxation of regular cigar and cigar ette dealers. No reference is made jo ■ podou Xun oi uoiideo aqt ut present taxes, other than the spe cial occupation tax on cigar and cigarette .dealers. The second citation is from the code, and provides that in all inter pretations the courts ‘‘shall look diligently for the intention of the general assembly, keeping in view. Rt all times the old law, the evil, and the remedy.” As one of our friends remarked when informed that the JOKER was simply a joker, ‘There’s always something coming up to take the joy oOt, of life. . EDUCATION PAYS \ THE YOUNG FARMERS v OF THE NATION. The biggest thing that any man can do for Sumter county is to help secure the biggest teachers for our children, a prominent loc/.l educator said to us the other day. “It is the desire and the hobby of my life to see Sumter county’s . schools the BEST schools on earth. ’ If that is done, we need not worry * about our future,” he saws. j Another local educator told us of ’ his plans for summer schools for ■ both the young and the old farm- * er, a school where the NEEDFULS 1 will be taught, leaving the “trim ; mings” for others to persue. • The question naturally arises: “In dollars and cents, how much does education increase the earn ing capacity of the farmer?'” This question was asked by the U. S. Bureau of Education and some ' of the state colleges are publish ing the answers. The Georgia Agricultural Col lege collected the facts from 1,271 farmers of that State and found that these who had no schooling earned on an average -of only $240 i. year, those with a good common school education earned $565 a year and those who had completed a’high school course earned an average of $664. The men who • had completed an agricultural ■ short course earned $896 and those j who had graduated from the agri cultural college were earning an average of $1,254 a year. The Kansas Agricultural College had 1,237 reports. The average young farmer with a common school education earned $422 year, the high school graduate earned an average of $859 a year, and the college graduate $1,452. - - ---- ' r" OPINIONS OF OTHER EDITORS AT FIRST BLUSH ■ “[ believe the average voter is more interested in defeating certain candidates than in elect ing the ones voted for. I asked more than a dozen persons yes* terdav what actuated them most in voting, a desire to elect a par ticular man or to defeat a cer tain candidate, and invariably they said to defeat someone. At first blush it would seem that it was the wrong attitude, but is it? For example, it doesn t mat ter who holds office, provided he ja trying to do his best, but the knows by experience that certain men are unfit for pub lic trust and therefore should, be defeated. Don’t you vote’often- • est'to defeat someone? Honest. Just between us?” —Pensacola Journal. AN UNPARDONABLE SIN An Unpardonable Sin—To be in a community, to make a living off of it, to educate your children from it, to get everything you possibly can out of it, and put absolutely nothing into an organ ization- that constantly works for the benefit of your city.—Hart well Sun. ANOTHER MONEY CROP i Bermuda onins a fine money crop for the fall. The cost of cultivating a few acres will be small. Try it—Butler Herald. TIME TO CHANGE. The American Legion wants to change its slogan of “100 per cent Americanism,” because an other organization is trying to adopt the same. Besides that the American Legion does not have to boast of its Amreican ism.—Valdosta Times. DOLLAR CHASERS. Europeans continue to chide Americans for chasing the dollar, but we are beginning to suspect that this is but another case of sour grapes. Americans have very good reasons for chasing the American dollar, and first among these reasons is that it will buy something when caught. , Brunswik News. FARMERS ARE AHEAD Georgia farmers are twenty millions in cold market dollars better off this year in their crops than last year. What are they kicking about? Few are, indeed, kicking so you can hear it.—Savannah Morning News. TOO MEAN TO, LIVE-—TOO BAD TO DIE. Catherine Miller, of Philadel phia, was courted, loved and in duced to place hef* affections upon a worthless sort of a vaga bond there some several months ago find in her sincerety and love was induced to furnish the young man sufficient funds to enter college for a better edu cation. All went well for months but with money provided for his edu cation the young ipan commenced having a hilarious time with oth er women and commenced neg. lecting the woman" who had made it possible through her love for him to secure an education. Not like the Heloise of the ancient days this woman did not sacrifice her all on the altar of disgrace for the man she had , loved, but better, still she se cured a pistol and killed him, and let us hope that she will be ac ' quitted of the killing when the I time for trial arrives. , It was bad enough to fool the > girl; it was worse to take her money, but the straw that broke the camel's back was not the waste of money sacrificed for his education, not the fact that the provider has been woefully neg lected, but the other women who were in the case. t Such men are too men to live > and too bad to die and yet some s folks say that there should be no hell.—Richland News, THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ' Copyright, 1928, 21_* P na m By N. E. A. Service. Berton Braley A DOMESTIC PLEA My dear, you know my heart is true, You know I love you fearfully, And were it necessary to, t I’ die for you right cheerfully; I know', too, that you’d gladly go To Timbuctu and back for me, But just the same I beg you, “Oh, 1 wish you wouldn't pack for me!” *» • » e' jA . » 1 know the job T do in punk, And that I’m not meticulous. ’ I know I chuck things in the trunk • In fashion most rediculotfe. I know with what exceeding art My stuff you'd fold and stack for me. "**» But, darling, kindly hav e a heart— -1 wish you wouldn’t pack for me. < The job you do is fine, no doubt, But when I must begin again To put back what I’ve taken out, 1 cannot get things in again. You ut my duds so well in place, So neatly do you fold ’erfi all, I have to buy another case When 1 start hack, to hold ’em all* I throw things in my trunk? Oh yes, ** I know your work is snappier But just th e same and none the less My own way leaves me happier; "> Though much disorder I display, Don't exercise your knack for me Just let me go my frowsy way— I wish you wouldn't pack for me! * - . , : - I I I—M n ■II —HowM-rtl— ■ *■■■>lllll M I M >l-■■ 11. I, M„„„ : \OLD DAIS IN AMERICVS\\ aj« -■« -n—.»« ■»« Tit—ll H it H HF •4* TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder October 1 29. 1913.) Seven good Amreican dollars, and 20 cents more, or a sum total of $7.20 was the round prie ( . paid in Americus yesterday for a Sum ter-raised turkey gobbler, a be whiskered old patriarch of the barnyard, norv held in leash for the Thanksgiving feast. He was bought by an Americus aiderman, while the unfed ‘cit,s’ of the com mon herd regarded his possession with eyes of verdant envy. Misses Darien Pinkston, Lucile and Edith Jossey have returned from a visit of several days to . relatives in Macon. Messrs. Will Horne and John Monahan, Jr., have returned home after a visit of several days to the fair in Macon. Misses Gertrude Hudson and Can. Willie Prather are going to day to Macon upon a brief visit. j Dr. M. H. Wheeler, who has been ( visiting collegemates in Atlanta for ( the past week, has returned to ( Americus. Dr. Wheeler will open ( offices in Americus on the first of November. j Mrs. C. W. Clark and daughter, ( Mildred, are spending a few days , delightfully in Macon, where they ' are the guest of Mrs. Clarks moth- j t er, Mrs. Ritttenberry. |; TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY. I , (From the Times-ltecorder October I Oct. 29, 1903.) t Col. Lawson Stapleton and Col. , Crawford Wheatley the Americus ‘ contingent of Governor Terrell’s j staff, spent Monday and Tuesday in • Macon. They report a good time ind are loud in their praise, of the 'ordial reception tendered Governor , Terrell and the visiting colonels ( >y the officers of the State Fair , and the people at large. , Col. Zach Childers is a visitor in ( Macon, going up this morning, and ( will meet kindred spirits on his ( rrrival. j Hon. and Mrs. John B. Felder ' have issued handsomely engraved , wedding cards announcing the mar- ( iag e of their daguhter, Inez, to Mr. ( Logan Thomas Williamson, of > Nashville, on the evening of Wed- | ; xiesday, the 11th of November. The | 7 OM SIMS SA T 5; ; — , t I: While a San Francisco girl in sured her knees for SIO,OOO it is not why the American Legion met here. New American Legion head is a cowboy. How appropriate! Quinn will meet the bull in Washington. The nice thing about Papyrus los ing to Zev is now we won’t have 't'd learn to pronounce Papyrus. Sunday football players arrested in Pittsburg were probably a few left over from Saturday. Europeans say we Americans are always afte“ more money. Quite right. We always need more. Man jumped out of a sixth floor window in New York where’ some apartments hav e no back doors. About 14,000 British doctors have voted to strike and the people may get sick of it. Lloyd George will be the greatest diplomat on earth if he leaves America without a haircut. This Viscount Goto of China wor ries us. We always imagine they didn’t finish his name. Coolidge is unable to attend the Army-Navy football game, but has one of his own tt hoe. While a bottlenose whale was caught off Gloucester it was not hanging around a rum runner. Middletown (N. Y.) cat set for a hen and was probably as busy as an old hen with one kitten. California golfer made his second hole in one, proving golfers are as bad as fishermen. marriage will he a social event of much prominence, and will bring togethei a distinguished parly of guests from three- states. ' ’The next meeting of the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy for the examination of. applicants for li cense ..to practice, pharmacy in the State of Georgia will be held in Atlanta on Monday, November 16,' in the Piedmont hotel convention hall. J. G. Dodson, of Americus, is a member of th<j hoard. A great treat is in store gor the people of DaWson tomorrow eve ning who attend Miss Susie Lang’s class recitaA. Miss Fannjie Stal lings, one of oqy sweetest singers, has gone there and has consented to render some vocal selections. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY ; (From the Times-Recorder October ! Oct, 29, 1893.) A number of musically inclined ] young men of the city will meet tomorrow night for th e purpose of ' organizing a club. There is consid- 1 enable musical talent a'mong the number- and the proposed club will doubtless prove a great success. , Misses Lizzie and Callie Slappey, ! residing near Andersonville, were the guests of relatives in the city , yesterday. Mrs. James Ansley of this eity, ‘ and Mrs. Georgia Hunter, of San Antonio, went to Columbus yester day on a short visit to the family f of the latter’s daughter. Many Americus people will be in- 1 terested to learn of tjie marriage of Miss Larie Fu/sley,. a pretty and popular young lady residing in c this county, and who, until recent- ‘ ly, resided with her mother, Mrs. A. J. Pursely, in this city. The market opened irregular 1 with prices 2 to 10 points lower as , Compared with last night. The loss was due to weakness of Liverpool 5 market which failed to respond to 1 our advance of yesterday and sales ' only amounting to six thousand 1 dollars. The market rallied, clos ing steady at 9.15 for January . ’ Mrs. White, of Atlanta, arrived ( last night on a short visit to her < daughters, Miss Chloe Belle and ‘ Gertrude White, at th e home of . Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Johnson, on ; Taylor street. f Opening day of New York pheas- i 1 ant season six hunters were bag- I ged. c Melon says taxes may be lower. c This is regarded as a good sign an ’’ election is coming. . Film atitre, as you may. have no- J ticed, is filmy attire. , ’ li i c Three Smiles ij Give Her Time. *! Rastus—Ah wants a divorce. Dat ■ woman jes’ talk, talk, talk, night an’ ! s day. Ah cain’t get no rest and dat j v talk am drivin' me crazy. |‘ l Young Lawyer—What does she . talk about? Rastus—She doan’ say.—Life. ! s ! a Generous, Indeed! . Bootlegger—Try a sample of this j 1 ’■ stuff before you buy it. Customer—But suppose it kills me? Bootlegger—Well, it’s my loss then, ain’t it?—Johns Hopkins r ' Black and Blue Jav * _ ii Cash First Paul—l’d go through anything for you. Pauline—Let’s start on your c bank account.—Melbourne Punch. , 1 Poor Fish Wife—How many fish was it you 1 caught- on Saturday, George? 1 George—Six, darling—all beau- , : ties. 11 Wife—l thought so. That fish s market has made a mistake again, i They've charged us for eight. i t In Fashion's Wake. ' Autumn styles are here. One sea- I son a woman’s waist chokes her ; and the next it trips her.—Tacoma |' (Wash.) Times, FACING THE MUSIC % $ X o T? / You MADE ME \ ‘ . /WAAT I YAOCW, ■I. hope you’re • ■ 3 " :• Ya ;y Z / V . MOOS.CS I / Os ikY/Y? \ x' ■, * \ —*• 7 '' -7 rg&Q . I. J | Y a ' ■ I I } Apple NEW YORK Now York ■ Citv Is doing its clty rdanning for the future on the basis that- it and its suburbs will have nearly 29 million people in the year 2000 Which is only 7 years away. Population is exnected to pass 11 millions before 1940. Quite an interesting prospect for the farmers, who’ll have to feed this mob. , But the best laid schemes .of mice and men, etc. Airplanes may break up New York and other big cities long before year 2000, enabling workers to live far out in the coun try, with cities reduced to centers of manufacturing, shopping- and recreation. » * i UNEXPECTED. How many of the things you plan for and confidently expect, ever “come true?” At 59, Franklin Beadle retired from work in Plainfield, N. J. He gave a farewell dinner on th e eve of departing to spend the rest of his days in California—his lifetime goal and dream. He died of heart disease during the meal. * s(t ft WEATHER Most interesting topic of conver sation, in the iong run, is the weather. Probably because it’s al ways doing the unexpected. Two odd angles on the weather: The Far North is steadily getting warmer, though very slowly, ac cording to Dr. Walcott of Smithson ian Institution. In seven years the great Selkirk Glacier has retreated northward 1070 feet. The other angle: Just as much snow falls now as when grandpa was a boy, the Weather Bureau finds by checking up the past. Seemed more then, for the snow that reached grandpa’s’ shoulder in youth now teaches only to his knees. * * latin-america. American exports to Latin-Amer ica (South and Central America) so far this year have been about a third more than in the correspond ing months of 1922. This pleases the branch of gov ernment that announces it. But the figuring is done in terms of money. We wonder if increas ed prices, rather than increased sales, aren’t the real cause. SS # * SILK Silk is no longer an emblem of luxury. Which, by the way, is chief reason the silk hat is not worn by modern sports to display their ability to pay. Americans this year will consume about 70 million pounds of silk. Over half of it will be artificial sill;, made from wood fiber, sea weed, etc. Getting to be too big a job for the silkworm. Chemists had to come to its aid with sub stitutes. Few can tell artificial silk from the real thing, just as only an expert can distinguish a gen uine ivory billiard ball from one made of buttermilk. * * ' « EAST. Japan had only 12,500 licensed autos before the earthquake. Inade quate roads. On the other hand, we Americans have over 13 million autos. Three-fourths of the cars sold in Japan are Fords. A man loses his social standing over there if he drives his own car. Custom decrees that he must have a chauffeur. East is East and West is West, all right. If the twain ever do meet, a wide gap to bridge. Los Angeles judge rules a wife has a right to enjoy life, which, will Isuiprise many husbands. Army aviators will] fly around | the world. Some day an aviator will have a girl on every planet. A movie beauty is demanding $21,000 for her lost trunks, so they not bathing trunks. j 3/ealtli CHints Ly ‘ lite Father of Physical Culture Iz aflat BE KNAR.I< MAC FAD DEM No one can afford to overlook the influence of mental conditions upon the state of the body. One aspect of the subject is commonly ignored or unno ticed by most of those who appreciate the effect of the mind overt-the body, and that is the influence, qf the body over mental conditions. TDis is a mat ter that is of paramount'importance to thousands whose lives are made mis erable by “the blues” and tendencies to worry. These tendencies may be corrected within certain limits by the attitude of the mind itself, a vast number of cases they.cajj be.over come by purely physical means. In the writer’s experience discussed at length in his Encyclopedia of Phys ical Culture, he has knbvrti b'f innum erable cases of pessimistic and misan thropic individuals who have become happy and congenial throng': the sim ple improvement of their physical health. While it is true that an emo tion of grief will interfere with the functions of the body, it is also true on the other hand that in many, many cases a condition of mental depression is caused entirely by physical depres sion. Briefly, the value of any form of recreation, mental or physical, may be judged by its after-effects. If the ulti mate effect is to refresh, and one is able to look back at it only with sen sations of pleasure, then he rnay be sure that it has been beneficial. If, on the other hand, it is followed by a sense of lassitude or a period of ner vousness; if the excitement interferes with the usual appetite or the capacity for perfect relaxation in sleep; if, in short, one does not feel more ready and eager to take up his daily work, and able to accomplish it with greater dispatch and energy, then the sup posed recreation has been a mistake. Many so-called pleasures may seem to afford diversion at the time, but if one can look back at them in the clear light of the morning following with disapprobation for the money spent, disapproval for the time wasted and a generally disgusted feeling of “Oh, what’s the use?” then they are not pleasures at all. At least they do not mean happiness. It is not the false joy of the moment that counts, but the mm total of contentment and happi ness day after day and week after week that counts, and that helps to maintain normal health and the vigor of the body. _;lf in doubt about any form of recreation always apply this test of the aftermath, for any pleas ure that is good for you will not leave a had taste in the mouth, either liter ally or figuratively. L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, A**’fc. Cashisr, C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier, J. F, KIKEft, Asst. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) fit U ur record of Thir- Plßffihffß iiSl'*l >7 ty-three years of ser- npnrnirfrii I? vice has won for us Iftj' recognition as “The Swnwifj Eg mFfl bIWTKUM Bank of Personal Ser jjiyj lllvice.” We invite your gg£- ; .' - •••<. - account large or 033; small—commercial or savings. ' The Bank With a 3orplw RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Too Small MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1923 HELPS PREVENT NERVOUSNESS Even heels prevent shocks to the Spinal Cords. Ask your doctor. Let us fix yours. JENNINGS BROS. Finest Shoe Repairing and Real Dry Cleaning Phpne “Seben-Fo’-Nine” - Americus ■ ■ Undertaking Co. •’ NAT LEMASTER, Managei. Funeral Director* And Embalmer* Night Phone* 661 and 889 ’Day Phones 88 and 231 FOR QUICK SERVICE AND HEAVY HAULING PHONE 121 WOOTTEN TRANSFER CO. Office in Americus Steam Laun dry SOUTH JACKSON STREET - • . • ■ . -,x Genuine. Gillette Razors 14 Kt. Gold Plated on Sale Saturday 98c Americus Drug Company RAILROAD SCHEDULE Arrival and Departure of Passenger Trains, Americus, Ga. The following schedule figures ■ üblished as information and not guaranteed: CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY. Arrive Leave 11:55 pm- Colum’s-Chgo 3:45 am 10:35 pm Albany-Mont 5:14 am 7:-l pm Macon-Atl’nta 6:37 am 1:55 pm Alb’y-Montg’y 2:14 pm 2:14 pm Macon-Atla’ta 1:56 pm 10:15 am Columbus 3:15 pm 6:37 am Albany 7:21 pm 5:14 am Macon-Atla’ta 10:35 pm .'.45 ant Albany-J’ville 11:55 pm 2:58 am ' Ibany-J’ville 12:37 am 12:37 am Chgo.St.L.’Atl 2:58 am 3:45 am Cin & Atlanta 1;35 am SEABOARD AIR LINE (Central Time) Arrive Departs 10:05 am Cordele-Hel’na 5 :15 pm 12:26 pm Cols-M’t’g’y 3:10 pm 3:10 pm Cordele-Savh 12:26 pm 5:15 w Richland-Cols 10:05 am
