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PAGE SIX fIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED IST? *" Published by Tie Times-Record er Co., (Inc.) Lovelace Eve, and Fublishei ttelend •• ■eeond clan matter at the postoffice at Attjericna, Georgia, according »• the Act of Coogreaa. The Aaaociatod Preet It eicluaively entitled to the ute for the republication of ail newt die- ! patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to thia paper and alto the local neww published bore tn. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST F/M'IS A KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., New York; Peoples* Gas Bldg.. Chi*-<-o 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. | ’[ 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' 1 1 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 * —■> ' 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. * ■ 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. - 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. I) I I Some people marry for money, i A Texas man didn’t. He gave the I minister a worthless cheek. A GOLD MINE IN HIS OWN BACK YARD i f I //" SAV! ' fli r i/11-i V /111 / /■( WIIMS \ /r // I/f l /AA To Talk BUSINESS J aa( < r l ! /A. / /// ■ \l\ 'J /I'/ / I w Hl / 1 \ V # ) h//iik I !■ I //' /// / wouldQuieTDown \ ' / II .i / /// A ovepTepe ,«ay X X IF J II / / //■<■ Ex FbtT Business La —X- y fl' /\/“' \ slump / \'tA/L S If/. /#/ ! ' ### u r 0 - / / Z A / “Ti'A-S / ! !/ A- \ ’ Ml# . ■ . ■ " j 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 / 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] < Insjosnx'rnUd) . 4 S -JbKVICE < * , ‘ 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. 4a • j v * 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. (TolS-J-Vr)
