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A Thought I
He that hath knowledge spareth
his Words.—Prov. 17:27.
Silence ig deep as eternjty;
speech shallow as time. —Carlyle.
Let’s see now, today is Ford’s
day to refuse the presidency. He
does it every other day.
Tech-Georgia
For several years we have heard
of this or that one attempting to
bring about a settlement between
the athletic authorities of the
Georgia School of Technology and
and the University.
Failure seems to have again been
the portions of the peace-makers
this year.
It is something of a reflection
on both college authorities, the
student bodies and the state at
large that this feud should be al
lowed to exist. (
Boys will be boys. The strong
competition that exists between
Tech and Georgia will likely cause
“ructious rows” whenever these
two rivals meet. That is natural
and to be expected.
But for the enmity to be con
tinued after the ‘‘game is over,” is
rather babyish, to say the least.
The Walton Tribune thinks some
body should be spanked, saying:
“These Tech and Georgia
smart alecs responsible for the
two schools holding off from
each other in athletics ought to
be taken up and spanked. The
thinking people of this state ire
getting fed up c,n the high and
mighty antics of some of these
alleged educators.”
The Waycross Journal’s editor
says the trouble lies in a ’.ack of
discipline and courage on the part
of student, faculty and trustees,
expressing its condemnation thus:
“The Tribune is right. There
has never been any real reasqn
for the athletics troubles of
Tech and Georgia other than a
notable lack of student-body dis
cipline fostered, to a certain ex
tent at least, by nome too cour
ageous faculties and trustees.
I et the trustees of both colleges
issues an ultimatum to the effect
that unless peaceful and sports
manlike athletics relations
are resumed that ALL athletics
at both colleges will cease ini
mediately-. If backed up prop
erly we will hear no more of this
foolishness that Tech and Geor
gia cannot mCet without calling
out the police reserve of the en
tire state.”
These same boys meet at proms
and other social affairs of college
life, with never a thought of ani
mosity. Why should it exist on
the athletics field.
It is up to somebody—some au
thority somewhere—the spank, fire
or otherwise handle this rather
foolish college row.
Medical Theory
Chinese is simpler than any of the
European languages. And to learn
to speak and read it requires no
more time than to master German,
French or Spanish, claims Frank
lin C. H. Lee. He teaches Man
darin Chinese at Columbia Uni-,
versity.
His native assurance impresses
us, for we inherited a noticu'that
for a white man to learn Chinese is
next to impossible.
If it’s true that Chinese is as
easy to learn as German, French
or Spanish another bit of inherit
ed hokum is exploded. Hokum is
being exposed so repeatedly in our
inconoclastic age—hokum of long
and dignified standing—that we’re
beginning to wonder if the general
impression of three-dimensional
life has been built on, ». quicksand
foundation.
Ed Howe has challenged the an
cient belief that a red rag inflames
a bull. Ed makes out a plausible
case to the contrary—says it’s
merely one of our false inherited
notions.
Exploder Stefansson claims the
Far North is an attractive climate,
with multitudes of flowers in sea
son, and the winters no worse than
in some parts of our northwest. He
says our idea, that the Far North
is a terrible ice country, is inher
ited from Greeks who didn’t know
, and explorers posing as heroes,.
So it goes. Medical theory has
been turned topsy-turvy in the lart
few generations. Einstein has ov
erturned many of the of
science. Old ideas about home life
. and child-rearing have been toss ■ 1
in the waste basket.
About ail that’s left unexploded
is in economics. There the an
cient theories hold firmly, stroking
their long whiskers and shrieking,
■...“lufidel!” when iukinn exploders
like Ford and Edison challenge such
things as the money system.
OPINIONS OF
i OTHER EDITORS
PAGE MR. BRYAN.
Maybe that great increase in
the manufacture of / whiskey
glasses, reported at the conven
tion of the American Federation
of Labor, is because the kind of
stuff they put in them nowadays
break so' many of them.—lnd
ianapolis News.
WHO WILL BID?
As the usual thing when you
hear a man say that another
“has been bought”—you had bet
ter watch the accuser every time,
for he is only advertising himself
for sale—Editor Jim Williams
in the Greensboro Herald Journal
SAFETY FIRST
Men in public life nowadays
• seem to have larger families,
some sense to that. Since moth
ers and daughters were enfran
chised, an anti-race-suicide can
didate’s sure of at least a few
votes.—Cobdele Dispatch.
HOLIDAY ADVERTISING
“Wise advertisers use greater
space in the daily newspaper
during November and December
for they know that immediate,
not remote, results follow and
they adhere to the old adage
about striking while the iron, is
hot. Holiday trade rounds out
the year and adds tremendously
to the total volume of sales.
Holiday advertising seems to
breathe a new spirit of effec
tiveness. It is well worth the
best offorts of merchants, big
and little.”—Philadelphia Record
BUYING BY THE LABEL
Oh, yes; you may be eating
Georgia-made butter every day
and don’t know it. In a sort of
perversity of human nature in this
part of the country there are
many who will pay more for an
article from a distance than for
the home product, there are
many who buy food for the
label. And the packing houses
know this psychology. They
buy the Georgia creamery prod
uct, repack it and sell i! back; co
Georgians under the packing
company ’s own brand-name.—
Savannah News.
“TIME TO MILK.”
‘lt's time to milk.” High
time if Thomas county only knew
it, and everybody that can ought
to learn how. You may readily
understand that we are discuss
ing the dairy proposition that is
being agitated here. It is lit
erally and figuratively time that
every farmer start milking.
If they did there would be a
cash income every week. This
comes if you get the cream and
you can get cream if you milk
cow’s and properly care for them.
It is lots less trouble here than
in any of the dairy sections of
United States and about half as
expensive.
In addition when you get the
cream check you also have good
skimnlted milk that will prove
very fine for raising hogs and
chickens and when you have a
few of either of those yiu add to
the cash income every rftonth at
least and in away that pays the
actual expenses of the farm.
It’s time for every farmer to
start milking and to milk every
day if he wants to make money
on his farm. Thomasville
Times-Enterprise.
THE NEWSPAPERS PART
Agencies of every kind are
working overtime plowing
deep and close—in their aid of
development of the abundant re
sources of Georgia. But the part
furnished by the newspapers of
the State, it semes to us, is just
a little more generous and dili
gent in their efforts than the
rest.
Day after day and from all
sections of the State corner to
our desk special editions of first
one newspaper and another
teeming with the spirit of optim
ism as they tell the highly inter
esting story of the natural re
sources of their sections, com
bined with wonderful progress
that has been made and plans
for the future in that direction.
Preservance, patience and pep
are the elements that apparent
ly predominates’the men who di
rect the publication of most of
our newspaper, with their cen
tral thought being that of put
ting our money advantages to
their best use. —Butler Herald.
EXIT THE BRICKLAYER I
Listen to this! A machine that
lays brick has been invented by
a Scotchman and it is being hail
ed as marking such a stupendous
stride in the field of construc
tion that the brick-layer a,s we
know him will become as extinct
as the Dodo. This mechanjcal
brick-layer is described in the
current number of the “The Na
tion’s Business" as having a
mortar tank, a hopper of brick
apd a motor, and that it does its
work with scientific precision.
The machine is said to lay its
course of brick, come back, break
the joints and even skip the
openings and do whatever else
the exigencies of the job re
quire. The thing even “tops”
each brick to settle it in its
mortar.
A part of the description will
stir the emotions and warm the
cockles of the heart of every
contractor in the land. The ma-'
chine has an amazing capacity
for work, never quarrels about
the wage scale or the leygth of
the day. It works with so much
speed that three men have all
they can do to keep it supplied
with brick and fresh mortar. It
will lay 10,000 brick a dk;:. and
will only ask for a little nourish
ment in the form of a modest
amount of electric juice through
the motor. It is hinted that the
machine will work a revolution In
the cost of building operations.
The Selma Times-Journal.
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’[ Copyright, 1923, FArsil-sr PoPfTI By
I N. E. A. Service xZ«liy A Berton Braley
DIET
The fat Lady said,
W‘ell, of course, you may scoff.
I do look over fed
But I can’t take it off. ‘
1 eat like a fay. I
Yet I’m gaining, it seems,”
(And she nibbled away.
At some chocolate creams.)
"For ..breakfast I munch
Naught but some toast that is dry
• Only salad for lunch
And no pastry or pie,
Yet I still put cn weight—
It is Fate, so I judge.”
(And she airly ate
Seven pieces of fudge.)
“Well, it only proves that
Though you scarce eat a crumb
If you’re meant to be fat
It is fat you’ll become.”
(Then she sugared her tea,
While bewailing her beam,
And ate two plates or three
Os delicious ice cream.)
I OLD DAIS IN AMERICAS'
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TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Nov.
15, 1903.)
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jackson
ropshire have issued invitations
to the marriage of their daughter,
" Bell, to Mr. Thomas Calla
way on Nov. 15th at their home in
Atlanta. This announcement will
be read with interest in Americus
as Miss Shropshire and Mr. Calla
way are both well known.
One of the largest and most ela
borate card parties of the seasm
was that at which Mrs. Council en
tetrtained Friday afternoon in hon
or of the Matrons Club. Mrs.
Mrs. Council was assisted in en
tertaining by Miss Annie Council.
Os the informal parties of the
week none was more interesting
and enjoyable than the card party
given Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. C.
O. Niles for the benefit of the
Americus library.
Mrs. Crawford Wheatley’s card
party Thursday afternoon in compli
ment to Mi?.-, Abbue Williamson of
Nashville, was one of the prettiest
social affairs given for this popu
lar young lady.
Little Miss Annie Miller and Will
Miller of* Americus will spend
Thanksgiving in Savannah with
their aunt, Mrs. E. M. Habersham.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Time§-Recorder. Nov,
15, 1893.)
Col. Aney Gatewood was in town
early yesterday morning on a still
hunt for a barbecue, and while
skirmishing on Lamar street, dis
cussing politics with the faithful,
told a wonderful story of a belled
buzzard out in his baliwick that
has scared half the negroes out of
the country.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McKenzie en
tertained a party of friends most >
delightfully at the Brown House '
last evening. The delightful tea!
was tendered complimentarj’ to ;
Miss Lula Slaton, of Atlanta, and
Miss Laura Matthews, of Fayett
ville, N. C., Miss Slaton is the guest'
of Miss Callie Windsoiv Miss Matt
thews is the guest of Mrs. E. T. B.
Glenn. Miss Callie Windsor, who
is easily the most popular young
lady in Americus, completed the
congenial trio who made up the
charming party. Messrs. Joel
I THE REFEREE
WINTER .
A severe winter is predicted by |:
New England settlers, because por-1
cupines are exceptionally fat. It’s •
believed this fat has been stored to i
keep them warm and serve as emer
gency food in bitter weather.
On the other hand, word comes
from Cerfada that a mild and open
winter is predicted by Ojibway and
Algonquin Indians, because squir
rels have not been storing many
nuts.
Maybe they’re both right. Winter
may be spotty. We’re not yet out
of the period of reakish weather,
though the suin is believed t?> have
recovered to normal in amount ot
heat it sends us.
> SWEET.
The proposed soldier bonus
could be entirely taken care of by
a tax of 2 cents a pound on sugar
So claims the United States Eug
ar Association. It furnisher
enough figures to give a bookkeep
er a headache. What it really wants
is repeal of the tariff on sugar
and institution of flat sales tax
of 2 cents a pound.
Some very novel schemes are ad
vanced these days, to make taxa
tion gas painless a form oi' extrac
tion as possible. The child doesn’t ]
holler as much when the pill is sug- -
ar-coated.
$64
| Taxes last year took an average I
:of $64 from every man, woman |
and child in our country. So fig-1
ures National Industrial Confer
ence Board. That’d be $320 for a
man and wife with three childrejn.
The politicians wouldn’t dare hand
us a straight bill for so much, so
they cleverly arrange a lot of in
direct taxation that is passed on
to us in the form of higher cost |
of living. ' ,
One reason taxes are so high:
Fifty-four billion dollars worth of
; property is exempt from taxes.
That’s almost a fifth of our entire
national wealth.
TRAGEDY
I When you think you have trou-
I bh-s, remember Mary Dermody,
Ict ippled domestic, of Laurel Hill,
jN. Y. She has lost $535, her life
I savings, which she had been 20
| years accumulating with a view to
I obtaining admission ' to an old
ladies’ home. The Money was tied
Mt a handkerchief and pinned in
side her dress. Pin came loose.
' THE AMERICUS MRS-RECORDER *
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' Hightower, C. A. Niles, and J. W
. Furlow enjoyed the evening round
of pleasure with the fair guests and
i their accomplished hostess.
s Miss Fannie Carter, formerly of
, Americus, but until recently an em
■ ployd in the department of agri
culture at Washington, has been
married to Cap. A. B. Gray, of the
i regular army. The galant captain
was a widower with a grown daugh
ter. Ki s post is in Chicago.
Mrs A. J. Cleghorne returned to
ugglethorpe yesterday after a visit
of s> ' r -eks at the home of
her father, Mrs. C. M. Wheatley on
College street. ,
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder: Nov.
15, 1913.)
Americus merchants feel elated
yesterday as that unerring baro
meter of business —the cotton mar
ket showed continued improved
conditions and the price advanced
to the satisfactorv point of two
weeks ago when the split slik qual
ity of the fleecy sold here at 13
1-2 cents and money seemed a drug
upon the market.
At her handsome home on Lee
street Mrs. James Hixon has as her
guests, Mrs. H. L. Bridges and
Mrs. S. R. Bridges of Atlanta, who
arrived yesterday.
Mrs John M. Goolsby a*id Mrs.
Neon Buchanan have returned from
a visit in Atlanta, where they spent
several days.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Quarterman
have returned from Savannah and
will again reside in Americus, to
the gratification of their numerous
friends here.
After a brief delay, awaiting the
arrival here of Rev, Allen Fort,
from Chattanooga, to complete the
award e” contracts, operations will
Ibe started tomorrow m the erece
’ tion of the Fort apartments on
! Lee street. The building contract
has been awarded John W. Shiver,
who stated yesterday that he would
begin work immediately.
Eat all the cabbage you can. It
will be scarce next year. Campaign
cigars must be made of something.
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Never start an argument with a
bigger than you unless you
like being called a liar.
Mary’s money would have been
safe in a bank. But that doesn’t
lesson the tragedy.
COLORS
The latest hospitals are doing
away with white, especially in the I
operating room. White, it’s dis- i
covered, caused headache, nervous
ness, indigestion and other ail
ments. So it’s eliminated, and
more restful grays and tans are
used instead.
Why don’t they use green? It’s
the most restful color. That’s why)
nature uses it so much in trees, i
grass and other plant life.
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CROOKS '
Seven-tenths of the crooks
brought into New York City courts
are natives of other cities, claims
Judge Mancuso. He’s defending
his fair city against what he calls
the charge of being' “the worst, 1 city
in the universe.”
Trie other cities can come- back
at him with similar statistics. Their
arrests include a lot of native New
Yorkers.
Six of a kind, half a dozen of
another.
)j ' 7OM SIMS SA\S: |
Henry leads a hard life. Before
| breakfast every day he decides
| either to run or not to run.
The Germans are sail! writing
notes to France. These are ‘he only
notes France can collect.
Big meeting in Brussels. Hun
i died orators delivered fiery speech-
I es. Regular Brussels spouts.
! Armistice Day would be better
if it didn’t remind privates of
Second Looeys still at large.
Figures show the war cost 11,-
) 000,000 liv*bs and wasn’t worth it.
) Boston still exploded. Injured
three. Would have injured many
, more if it hadn’t exploded.
i ; In Los Angeles they are object
-1 ) ing to dancing without lights.
> i Called on account of darkness.
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i A Texas man didn’t. He gave the
I minister a worthless cheek.
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Farm Waste May Be Turned to Profit
Through Discoveries of Negro. Scienist
From the County Agent and Farm Bureau Magazine.
Agricultural Workers and Busi
ness Men See New Possibil
ities in Utilization of Farm
Waste for Foods.
Business and scientific journ
als have been givng a great
amount of space to the reports
of a company now being organ-1
ized in the South for the pur
pose of commercializing the dis- |
coveres of a negro scientist. Hie
fact that this man, George W.
Carver, of Tuskegee Institute, at
Tuskegee, Ala., has developed ,
many products for use as tood
and other purposes is a tribute
to all agricultural work.
Our readers are concerned witn
that part, of the story that tells
how Professor Carver came up
from an obsecure position, to erne
of prominence as a result oi his
work and ambition.
Commercialization of the formu
lae which the professor has devel
oped will give to farmers of the
country a new outlet for vegetable
waste and tend to increase the far
mer’s earning capacity. The fol
lowing account of the organiza
tion of a company to exploit the
discoveries of the professor taken
from The Peanut Promoter, lead
ing journal in that field will serve
to point out the magnitude of the
project to our readers:
Among those interested in the
project are several financiers and
men of prominence, including an
official of a large food distribut
ing organization Scott Allen of
the lx. W. Rogers Co., Atlanta,
Ga., Charles A. Wiekersham, pres
ident of the Atlanta and West
Point Railway; Hugh M. Dorsey,
former governor of Georgia and
Ernest W. Thompson of Macon
County Alabama, are mentioned as
incorporators.
Applications have been filed in
Washington, for United States pa
tents on the methods and processes
invented by Professor Carver; and
as soon as these arrangements are
complete, the new company ex
pects to begin their exploitation.
Unique Application.
In many respects, the, applica
tion for charter is one of the most
unique documents ever filed in the
recoitls of Georgia courts; for it
sketches a plan of action which, if
it succeeds, will revolutionize many
established ideas and provide a
stimulus never anticipated before
The skinny people have one ad
vantage. The can eat all they
please without getting any fatter.
Only think you can say for
Germany’s aluminum coins is
wealth won’t be such a heavy bur
den. \ .
.Football is played with the pig
skin and this may be why there are
so many rooters.
Arguing with a policeman is
about as foolish as a dog trying co
bite a big automobile.
Many people have the polish and
refinement of a good education
without the good education.
When you burn your hand put a
little soda on the place. Nothing,
however, helps sideburns. •
The best thing about stopping at
a hotel is you don’t mind if you do
get the towels dirty. _ _
for the growing of certain South
ern products.
Professor Carver is a negro of
the older generation, born in slav
ery, educated at Tuskegee, with
out kiln' u. (bo world so far
as he knows, and an expert on agri
culture, bevtg in charge of that
department' at the institute. His
strange results from . investiga
tions in new. realms of science
have won him international recog-
I nition, including a fellowship in
| the Royal Society of Great Bri
tain.
Refused Many Offers.
Always until now, however, ha
has refused every offer to com
mercialize his work, declaid ng ho
, had not completed it to tl*r point
I where he would be willing to see
it developed.
, The busines sos the corporation
now about to exploit these discov
eries is best stated in the words of i
its application for charter, as fol
lows:
“To buy, sell anc deal in for
mulate and patented processes for
the development of various and i
sundrv products such as food,
dyes, stains, paints and other like
products from the sweet potato,
the pecan, the okra, and dande
lion, the black oak, the sweet gum I
the willow, the swamp maple and
other like native growths; and also
from wood ashes and all clays,
toilet powders, face creams, clean
sing powders and other like prod
ucts.” 1
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Makes Milk Frjm Peanuts.
From the peanut, the professor
makes milk that compares favor
ably in nutritive value with cow’s
milk, and dyes from the hulls and
skins. He has made potash from
chinaberry ashes, paper rom okra
fiber, rope from cotton stalks, fiber
artiieial silk from poplar bark—
these are a few of the more than
300 products he has evolved from
waste materials.
From the sweet potato, a crop
on which the southern farmer can
depend for a satisfactory yield
year after year, Professor Carver
has made flour, meal, starch, libr
ary paste mock cocanut, breakfast
foods, preserved ginger, ginegar,
ink, shoe blacking, coffee, chocol
ate compound and numerous other
products.
The rich and useful salvage he
has wrViig from everyday materials
is not more wonderful than the
career he has achieved in spite of
more than common handicaps and
difficulties.
Born in Missouri. !
Professor Carver was born at
the close of the Civil war on tbe
plantation of a Missouri ul :G-r,
L. G. COUNCIL, President. IC. V. Cishier,
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Ca*hi4; f • KfKKK. .<s*rt, Ctshin
The Planters Bans of Americus]
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< * , ‘ r record of Thir
jai S | •*' -y-three years of ser-
<?* ’ViA'".’’ vice has won for us
’ >»g.' :4 ». C* •' ‘i ••cognition as “The
■•■ >/6 1 Bank of Personal Ser-
IWK>< ■ :>‘Vi JI 2Tf«9 vice.” We invite your
account large or
omall —commercial or
The Saul* V/fth * Swplaa „
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 •
PROMPT CONSEP.VATIVE, ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small
: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1923
When he was 10 years of he
left the home plantation for Neo
sho, Mo., about eight miles away,
to go to school. Then began his
struggle for an education. He got
a ride on a wagon to Fort Scott,
Kan., and worked as a cook and
did laundry work until he finished
high school. He passed entrance
examinations to a college in lowa,
but was refused admittance be
cause he was a negro. Simpson col
! lege at Indianola, la., was his next
| choice.
Lived on Meal and Suet.
“I opened a laundry for my col
lege support,” Professor Carver
says. “After all my matriculation
fees had been paid, I had 10 cents
to live upon. I bought five cents
I worth of corn meal and five cent.#
worth of beef suet. I lived on*
these two things for one whole
week—it took that long for the
; people to learn that I wanted
clothes to wash. After that week
I had plenty of friends and plen
ty of work.
’ “After getting my bachelor’s de
gree I was elected to the faculty
1 and given charge of the green
house, bacteriological laboratory
and the laboratory in systematic
botany. Later Booker T. Wash
ington offered me a post at Tuske-
I gee, end I have been here for 27
years.”
Not only has Professor Qarver
been accoided the recognition due
him educators and scientists, but
the industries which he will bene
fit once his plans are set to work
are quick to sense the possibilities
as well as the responsibilities he has
created for them.
Nothing in a name, Mr. Snow is
a big game hunter in Africa.
Open fires are much better, than
steam heat. Imagine getting real
mushy about a radiator.
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Americus
UnrlertnlcinQf
NAT LEMASTER, Manager,
Funeral Dirsctom
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and
Day Phones 83 and 231
TAX NOTICE
City taxes aro •'.uw dae. Pay
early and a’.uij extra cost as
fi fas will issue!
December irt, P'ia,
A <>. G ATP WOOD, Jr.
Ci«itc «nd ‘OeMurer.
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