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PAGE SIX TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED 1879 Published b> The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelcae Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered a« second claw matter at the poMofficr at Americus, Georgia, according to the Act of Congreaa. The Associated Pt css is eichwively entitled to the use for the republication ( oi all new* dis patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news published here in. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST 1. ANDIS & KOHN, Brans*BJd S ., New York; Teoplcs’ Gas Bldg., Chicago. A THOUGHT j The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man looketh well to his going;—Prov. 14:15. It is a curious paradox that pre cisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness, will be our credulity as to the mysterious pow ers assumed by others. Colton. Calamity Howlers There's a difference between CAUTION and COWARDICE. There’s a difference in playing the game safely and losing one s head. We might as well face the prob lems of the day with a smile and a determination to pull through, as to stand on the street corner and howl ‘hard times.” For weeks we have had entirely too much frown and too little smile about this great county of Sumter. To listen to some folk talk, one would think the devil was around the corner on a one-way street. Things are never as bad as they seem, nor as some seem to think. A few days ago the publisher of one of the larger daily papers of the state said this to us: “Il am just back from the East si*id Central West. You know, those fellows up there say Geor gia 'is broke. They told me more about our hard times than I knew. “They said every county in the state was bankrupt except Fulton; that Atlanta was the only city s<r» the state that was not standing with its back to the wall, holding off the sheriff with a pair of six shooters. “And we folks are to blame. An Atlanta man goes East, with smiles over his face and a good word for every one. He tells them that around Atlanta busi ness is good. “Every other fellow in the state who goes up there, radi ates blues like an engine with a busted valve” A ass thought is the most power ful factor' of modern civilization. Cause a city to THINK it is broken and you’d just as well ring! for the undertaker. On the other hand, the commun ity that faces adversity with a smile and may be down and will never admit it is out, comes back in a hurry and suffers little ;.s compared with others. It is the result of MASS THOUGHT . A few days ago an Albany mer chant said to us that his October business was 40 per cent better than the same month a year ago. We \Pere incredulous and asked for an explanation. “I saw what was coining—-no cotton and bad prospects, so I just went to work s I never worked before. It is my opinion as well as that of others, that conditions are only 25 per cent, while the man is 75 per cent. I guess that is right, for my ledgers show me ahead of the game, this time last year.” Here’s another story that has been going the rounds of the edi torial columns, which presents an other phase of the question: “A prominent real estate man from Vienna said the other day that recently a Northern capit alist went to South Georgia for the purpose of investing upward of $200,000 in farm lands. But on the trains, at hotels on { the way, and at the stop-over sta tions, the people were talking boll weevil, farming difficulties and hard times. Even at the town that was his destination, he found the same disspirited, demoralizing conversation. “The gentleman from the North purchased a through ticket back home, boarded his train and did not even stop off at Atlanta. He said that he wanted! to get out of a state where the people had lost their nerve. A people, he stated, that have lost hold of their backbone are in a bad way, and he couldn’t see how prosper ity could thrive in their midst. “What this Northern man said should be worth as much to the people of Georgia, the farmers hnd the business men, as the $200,000 he intended to invest We’ve used our mouths about enough—in the wrong way; the psychology of it is bad for us. Now for our hands and brains -i chance. Georgia is in better fix todav than ever before.” A half dozen determined men, coming to the front, and assum ing the lead, could turn this coun ty into an Eldarodo. There are certain fundamental causes for the present condition of Americus and Sumter county, the principal one being ALL COTTON. There’s away out and it is not hard to see find, but street corner calamity howlers will see it norSare 1 they mentany capable of assuming the lead. The Real Fight Trees shed their leaves in au tumn to adapt themselves to win ter drought rather than to winter cold. Trees could easily grow a protective covering' or overcoat for their leaves. But water freezes in cold wekther, and not enough be ing available for leaves, the trees shed the leaves. A similar shedding takes place in tropical regions having alternate wet and dry seasons. Also, the scarcity and small size of trees in the Far North are due to moisture shortage rather than low temperature. These facts are from a lecture by Prof. George E. Nichols bo tanist at Yale. Trees have a phenomenal ability to adapt themselves to their en vironment. A beech tree growing in a clearing has plenty of light but less water than it would have in moist woods. So it increases its water-absorbing roots and grows thicker "skin” on its leaves to de crease the amount of water lost by transpiration. Now take a beech tree growing in dense forest. It has plenty of water, but not enough sunlight. To overcome this < difficulty, it stretches higher, trying to rear it self above the other tree-tops. Also it makes its leaves larger, which in creases the leaf surface exposed to the sun’s light. A million books could be written, without any repetition, about the ability of plant life to adapt itself to its environment. So with man. It is within our power to adap*. our selves to all changing conditions and new problems. The wise are never discouraged. Knowing a so lution exists, they seek and usually find it. OPINIONS OF OTHER EDITORS A BETTER CITY, YES Since voting school bonds yes terday Waycross is a better city kn which to live; our property is worth more; it affords a more inviting place for the, investment of outside capital. Waycross Journal-Herald. A FEEBLE WAIL No, little lassies, we are un able to advise you, we wish we could; but when the old married hens are all chopping off their hair and trying to take your place generally, we are unable to offer a remedy. It really does look like you are up against i good and strong. Why not try going without stockings for a while? But we’ll bet a dollar they’ll do it, too, if you start it. '—Swainsboro Forest Blade. SAYS IT'FRANKLY The editor of the Savannah Press is quite confident that he is for Bill McAdoo for not only the democratic nomination, but the presidency. And so are we. He is the man to put the demo cratic party im the white house —honestly, fellows, that’s the man. It’s a waste of time to think of trying to carry Oscar Underwood anywhere, but to the convention to help nominate McAdoo. Now, isn’t that your better judgment about it.—say it frankly.—Cordele Dispatch. AN ISSUE If former President Woodrow Wilson’s armistice day address by radio to the people of Amer ica does not make the League of Nations an issue again in next presidential election, it may be counted as a fact that the war president has lost all influence in his country and the League itself is of no interest to the people of the United States. Al though he spoke bitterly in ex pressing his disappointment, he voiced a sentiment which should be held by all of the men who fought so gravely to win the wav that was said to have been a war to end wars. Rome News- Tribune. SOUND PRINCIPLES. Senator Capper, of Kansas, leader of the farm bloc in the upper house of congress, in a speech just made to his home folks, dwelt upon the increasing prospects for adequate home markets for American agricul tural products, provided these products are properly’ balanced. Among other things he said: "I can see no reason why our future American life can not be built with both a highly prosperous ag ricultural and industrial life. Certainly that is the ideal." These are sound views. The hope of the adequacy of home markets depends absolutely upon the readjustment of commodity production, made upon a survey o fnormal home market demand. Take Georgia. We import from other states more foodstuff than we grow. There are stored in the refrigerated warehouses of the Atlantic Coal and Ice Corpora tion in Atlanta today several thousand eases of eggs. Without making inquiry it is safe to say not one egg was produced in Georgia. It is not generally known but more than 50 per cent of the merchantable flowers, such as roses, carnations, chry santhemums, sold by the Atlanta florists are imported into Geor gia from other states. Thousands of dollars’ worth of California grown flowers are sold in Atlan ta every years.—Atlanta Consti tution. THE AMERICUS 'HMFS-RECORDEX ’ DAILY POEM THE PRINCE “I wait for Prince Charming,’’ she said, "Prince Charming, blithe, slender and young, With curly gold hair on his head a And gayJionoyed words on his tongue. Oh, he will be handsome and tall / " And he will be valiant and strong, / A Prince with the world at his call, A figure of story and song! I tMIPf ‘‘l wait for Prince Charming,’’ she said, , ' ~ “To set mII my heart-strings athrum, And ere many seasons hav e fled, I know, oh I know he will come! i He’ll woo me with glorious art, f ~ With tenderness, passion and fire, No other shall capture my heart f Or bring me the love I desire!” - . I He’s fat and he’s placid and short,' • His wooing was clumsy and tame. He’s only a commonplace sort Devoid of renown or acclaim; . And yet when she gazes at him, He sets all her pulses astir, For, thanks to Love’s magical whim. He’s truly Prince Charming to herb -:- OLD DAYS IN/AMERICUS “ TWENTY years ago today (From the Times-Recorder. Nov. 21, 1903.) The cotton market appeared to be hung on a centre yesterday, neither advancing or declining. Good cotton sold for 10 3-4 cegits easily. Miss Marie Jossey is spending a few days in Americus the pretty guest of friends here. Two carloads of the finest Ken tucky mules and horses ever brought to Americus are' now at Turpin's stables. They were se lected in the bluegrass region by Mr. George Turpin, and are beau ties. Prices range or $125 to S2OO, and better stock cannot be had in the South. z When the meat-saving season ends Mr. N. A. Ray will be! among those here who will have a full smokehouse. He has a bunch of eighty-five fattening hogs ready for the slaughter and now getting the finishing touch from a peanut field. A very delightful occasion was that b>f last evening when Miss Laura Hooper received a large as semblage of young friends at her home on College street. Miss Hoop er is one of Americus’ most charm ing and deservedly popular young girls’ and in dispensing the honors of this happy occasion she added laurels to those already accorded her as a genial and gracious, little hostess. Progressive Conversation was the program of the evening. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY .(From-the Times-Recorder. Nov 21, 1893.) x Saturday Mr. ""Henry H. Single tary, one of the most successful planters in this section, bought of Mr. Robert M. Stewart his fine plantation of 600 acres eight miles from Americus, paying $7,000 cash therefor. The farm is well im proved and one of the best in Sumter county. Mr. Singletary now owns more thrin 3,000 acres of fine land in a body, all of which he has bought and paid for within the past few. years. An "unloaded’ gun in the bands of a young man came near caus ing a fatal accident yesterday THE REFEREE HOHENZOLLERN I The Hohenzollerns and their ’ crew wouldn’t be making the world j lose sleep now if the Allies had in •* sisted on their surrender and im prisonment or execution. The Al lies had that chance, when the war ended. Why did they let the German i ring-leaders slip through their fin- > gers? Were they afraid of estab- ! lishing a precedent? ♦ » * GATS A couple of boy bandits shoot a policeman in an eastern city. A wise judge comments: “There should be a law making the person who sells I a gun to a minor, through the mails, • responsible for any damage done. ! All these boy robbers got their guns through the mails.” Why limit the sale only as re gards minors? Youth then would do i its pistol ordering through older! crooks. The real soluticin is to! stop the sale of revolvers alto gether. It would be effective if the penalty for possessing a pistol were stiff enough—say, 20 years J with no mush-hearted parole board ■ to interfere. • * * JAILED Seven thousand college gradu- | ates are behind the bars in various institutions in America. This is ■ learned by an investigator for Johns : Hopkins University. Before we allow ourselves to be-! come amazed, we want a report on ! the many times greater numbers I of college graduates who are not > behind the bars. It’s like the case | of the college man who, winding, up digging ditch, attracts more at-: tention than 10,000 who don’t. Too, many general opinions are based on ■ minority evidence. DANGERS Thirty-nine people in a year slip on soap in the bathtub and are in jured enough to collect insurance damages. This is tht- record for just ode company, the Aetna, which also pays damages to 505 in jured in a year by tripping over rugs and 369 who fell downstairs Sixteen golfers collected damages for being hit by golf balls and morning. A young son, of Col. S. H. Hawkins was handling a shot gun in the dining room at his horn? and about him stood several of his little brothers and sisters. The,gun went off, as all unloaded guns de, the load of shot shattering a hand some mirror in a thousand pieces. The muzzle was aimed directly at one of the little girls when the piece was discharged, but she “ducked” her head in Uie nick of time and the load passed harmless ly over. Dr. R. E. Cato, one of the best known physicians in *his part of the state, has removed to this city from Preston, having formed a partnership with Dr. J. I. Darby. Dr. Cato will ocupy the haadsome residence on Rees Park, recently purchased by himself and Col. j. B. Hudson from Mr. B. H. Jossey. Dane Rumor has it that one of Americus’ oldest and most prom inent citizens will shortly wed a charming widow of Marshallville. The marriage is an open secret and the Colonel is already being con gratulated by his many friends. TEN YEARS TODAY 1 * (From the Times-Recorder. Nov ! 21. 191'3.) Mr. Irving Poole,of Americus, a well known and popular young on ductor of the Seaboard, was strick en by sudden and severe illness at Montgomery yesterday, the attack rendering him unconscious for sev eral hours. His condition was re ported as very serioes. T. O. Marshall has been appoint-i ed receiver for the Young Men’s! Christian association and has been ! placed in charge of the association building by Judge Z. A. Littlejohn. A debt of $18,500 wms responsible for the forcible closing of the build ing. i Miss Susie Lunsford of Smith ville, is the guest of Miss Jimmie Jossey at her home on Lamar street. Mrs. W. K - Bell anti Miss Elea nor Tillman left yesterday morn ing for New York city where thev will spend several days with friends Mrs. Henry Stokes will leave >o day for a visit to relatives in' Lmon Springs, Ala., where she will spend a week. nine others for falling into bunkers. Five dancers had valid claims from colliding with other dancers. To be really safe, take to'an air- TOM SIMS SAYS -:- St. Louis burglar posing- as a plumber was caught, perhaps be cause Ije forgot to forget his tools. Lightning- is so contrary. In- Can ada, it went to the trouble of strik ing twice in the same place. Cowboys wrestled wild cows at a New York rodeo. We wrestled a wild steak i*r New York once. Falling in love or making a pile of money doesn't leave very much time for doing anything else. We would hate to be a detective. They go down to the office every morning and get puzzled. Chicago couple eloped in an air plane. That’s the way these days. They fly high at first. Nebraska scientists claims they have found another lost race. You can "get plenty at race track. California professor claims col lege girls are, cave women) but' he may be judging by their clothes. \\ hat could be worse than teach ing in a girls’ school where they answer questions with “Because?” New York woman voted twice in one election. And they said women couldn’t learn politics. It has been a long time sine, Mexican bandits killed an Ameri can, except by selling booze. Some seems to think peace in Europe will take French ler,ve. There may be nothing wrong wi'h the coal situation, but you won’t need a fan to keep cool. NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL WEEK Today’s Article Written by Col. George R. Ellis, Lawyer. ®/w. <4l _ n,. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES; The Great Charter of Individual Rights The setting apart of Education Week is due to the fact that good ;md patriotic men and women who are thinking, and who have the welfare of our country at heart, know that knowledge promotes ef ficiency and is a basis for pros perity and happiness, while ignor ance handicaps efficiency and mav' lead to slovenness, crime and mis ery. At this time when open andi in sidious attacks are being made up on the Constitution of the United States and our form of government it is important for ur people to ac quaint themselves with tthe provisions and guarantees of the Constitution, so they may un derstand how our nation has grown to be so great and prosperous and the most enlightened civilization l of the world. It is well to contrast our government under the Consti tution of the United States with the laws of former civilizations that flourished for awhile and per ished. Most of these civilizations were autocracies where the king or em peror reigned under a claim or Di "!le rjf’ht, and this led to tyranny Autocratic governments often be came powerful, but always perish ed because individuals intelligence and individual rights were neglect ed. A pure democracy such as existed in Greece for a time during its greatest splendor was too un stable to protect individual life, lib erty or property, and its mono cracy lead to anarchy and its own destruction. ovi n ? eni *’? rs °f the convention" at. Philadelphia who formulated the American Constitution were stu dents of history and were acquaint ed with all of these facts. Thev also knew that one great Greek Fhilisopher had said that govern ment should be neither an auto cracy, which leads to tyranny, nor pure democracy, which, leads to anarchy, but that it should be a golden mean between the two. composed of an oligarchy. They were also acquainted with the Eng lish Bill of Rights wrestetd from tueir rulers by the Anrfo-Sax’on People. However .these wise men of the constitutional convention set mile stone in the history o. the human race and createtd a lepreseptative democracy, or a re public, where the people elect rep resentatives to make the laws choose executives to execute the laws and a judiciary to construe the laws. This Constitution is the greatest charter of human rights ever conceived, expressed and w the governm ent of We often hear the three irancnes of our government, the legislative, the executive and jud iciary, mentioned as the great bul warks of our government and the expressed charter of our liberties, ” ut tho ’-udividual rights embodied Hi the first amendments of the Constitution are the great bulwark ot American freedom, without which the legislative, executive and judiciary branches of our govern ment would be unable to preserve the inalienable rights of the indi vidual.' The Constitution with its three branches of government and this Bill of Rights stands solidly four square against autocracy, mono cracy, radical legislators and un just executives, and even against a corrupt judiciary, for the Consti tution provides ample means of de priving all of these of their of fices when occasions may efiise. The American people are proud of their civilization, boast of their national power, and have just pride in the fact that they are now the leaders of the civilized wol’ld,. but seems to think this greatness, l and all of the beneficiencies which our government bestows upon them has News from London. Wife really hit her husband with a rolling pin. It’s a nice old English custom. Chicago man burned his home by throwing a lamp at his wife. How quaint and old fashioned! General Pershing visited Sedan in France and it would have been better to visit France in a sedan. News from Paris. French offer America wine for wheat. We often mak booze out of rye and corn. Seienists are digging-up strange thick skulls in California. Is it an other movie scandal? The sun never sets on American Legion Posts or on scandals in the War Department. European hotel men are visiting America. Now’s our chance. Do you use sheets at your house? They are dangerous. In Boston, bur glars tied a man with one. Two sisters met in New York. First time in 16 years. Bet one said “Where’s my earrings?" Distant earthquakes reported in Washington. Real ones instead of coming session of Congress. We can all be thankful qvery. Thanksgiving that shirts don’t get dirty as quickly in winter. You never have to sjt around and bog a phonograph to play. Profiteers were charging- so hard when the armistice was signed they haven't been abln to stop yet. come to them by some kind of ac cident, which they do not under stand, and they seem to fail to ap preciate the wise Providence that guided the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention which gave to the world this wonderful charter of individual rights for the government of the American people. They also seem to be indifferent to the fact that there has been a most threatening advance in radi calism in this country within the last few years. It is said that there are 1,500,000 radicals in this coun try who are clamoring for a change in the nature of our government from its present form to one of varying degrees of a communistic state, and that there are’ 400’ news papers in this country represent ing these views, and that they are read by 5,000,000 of our people. It is also stated that over $3,000,- 000, was spent during the last year by Soviet Russia and other radi cals the spread of red propa ganda in America. If the people can be awakened to a full appre ciation of our form of government and the dangerous attacks now be ing made upon it, they will be come diligent in preserving the Constitution as a great heritage and charter of individual rights handed down to us from our fore fathers. Dur good citizens should contribute to this end. By nature man is a social crea ture, and his natural state is in an enlightened civilization, but his de velopment and the eniightment of his civilization is in proportion to the development of the individual. 30, our people should ponder well the status of the individual in the civilizations of the past that flour ished and then perished, and in most of the civilizations of today where the individual exists for the good of the government, and con trast that status with the rights of the individual under the American Constitution, where the govern ment exists for the good of the people who create it. This diference of the status of the individual in the United States from that of other civilizations ki other countries, whereby the American citi&n is given equality ?A °PP Oi ’ is guaranteed life, liberty and pursuit of happi ness, furnishes the key ajrate to the happiness and prosperity of the American people, the greatness of out nation and the enlErtment of our civilization. It is unnecessary to discuss our dual form of government, under which the several states are sov engm and have jurisdiction of all matters which were not delegated to the United States under the Constitution of the United States, as we all understand this dual re lationship and appreciate its value, its check and balances. A brief statement of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution was prepared by the American Bar As sociation for Constitution Week in September, and we give the same as follows: Our Bill of Rights provides for religious freedom; freedom of speech and of the press; the right of the people peaceably to assem ble; the right to bear arms for the defense of the State; protection of thepeople in war and in neacc against undue imposition on the part of military authorities; secur ity against unreasonable search of persons or houses or possessions ..'ithout a duly attested search war rant; the requirement of an in dictment before a grand jury be fore one shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime; providing that no one in a criminal case shall be compelled to be witness against himself; that no one deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; forbidding' the appropriation of private property for public use without just compensation; provid ing for speedy and public trial by sei impartial jury in criminal cases; excessive bail and fines, and cruel and unusual punishment; reserving in the people rights not enumerat ed iri the Constitution; and reserv ing to the States or to the people powers not delegated to tlje United States by the Constitution nor pro hibited by it to the States.” In conclusion I give you a thoughtful and eloquent state ment of Mr. Elihu Root, a great jurists, diplomat and statesman, the same being as follows: “One effect of the Great War has been to break up old habits, old beliefs, old faiths, old content ments and to cause a vast multi tude of people to be impatient of L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) ' SERVICE MMIMEM °ur record of Thirty- * l hrce yca r of service ‘ ' lap WOn * ol ' us ’’CCOg- si S’ ■.nition as "The Bank of iwj? KF Personal Service.” We '-'Sigß invite your account— H largc - > or smal.l—com mere.a! or savings. ~ The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT. CONSERVATIVE. .ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Too Small / WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1923 1 Potential Presidents I \ , S., .- 4^*•*&'?s - .aL**' atMlVirq w*v», u«. votMxy A<( /"B IH-SKtWAIiY O» WILLIAM GIBBS M’ADOO " Democrat. Lawyer. Son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson. Born near Marietta, Ga., Oct. 31, 1863. Was president of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Co. which in 1904 completed the first tunnel under Hudson river. Vice chair man Democratic National com mittee 112. Appointed secre tary of treasury in President Wil son’s cabinet March 6, 1913. In augurated Federal Reserve Bank ing system. Appointed first direc tor general of railways in 1917. Resigned from sabinet Dec. 16, 1918. Residence, Los Angeles. every kind of restraint! and eager for freedom to allow their impulses of the moment. They forget how much they have, how many bless ings they owe to the fact! that they live under the rule of law, in a country of peace and order and se curity and opportunity. They have not learned the lesson of poor Rus sia and China. “They forget the teaching of re ligion and the experience of man kind which shows that man must be governed by rules of conduct, not by impulse; by established princi-> pies, not by the whim of the nicA ment. or there can be no peace! nor justice nor morality in civil so ciety. They do not realize that it is the Constitution of the United States which has established those rules of rights conduct, those lim itations upon official power, those guaranties of individual liberty, which are essential to the preser vation end growth of our country.” COWETA FARMERS TO FARM INTENSIVELY NEWNAN. November 21. On about one-half the acreage that pro duced 2,941 bales of cotton in 1922. Coweta county is yielding 3,970 bales this year, according to Judge James E. Brown, of Newnan who is in Atlanta this week pre siding for United States Commis sibner W. C. Carter, who has gone on a business trip to his Oklahoma plantation. The increase in the cotton which is finding a ready and profitable market combined to put a new spir it into Coweta county farmers and Newnan business men, according to Judge Brown. He is editor and publisher of the Newnan Herald and through his editorial columns he has strongly urged Cow'eta far mers to plant peanuts. “Until recently the farmers were slow to plant peanuts,” he said, “but Newnan now has a large pea nut shelling plant and this season the Coweta Cotton Oil company, which operates the peanut shelter, has paid out about $30,000 for pea nuts. "Peanuts are bringing around $l4O per ton, or about the same as a bale of cotton, and Coweta coun ty alc.ne has rajsed 3,000 tons of peanuts this year.” Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Day Phones 88 and 23 I
