About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1923)
PAGE SIX TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelcae Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Americus, Georgia, according to the Act of Congress. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for the republication of all new# dis patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local ncW« published here in. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives. FROST LANDIS & KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., Kcw York; People*' Gas Bldg., (JMcagO ■» A THOUGHT Whosoever shall offend one &f these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.—Marks 9:42. Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of it self; it only requires opportunity. —George Elliot. What Ails Georgia On his return home, Cobb Milner rays the eyes of the east are on Georgia, that mill men in New Eng land no longer are looking toward , the Carolinas, but their eyes are on Georgia. There is just ahead of us, both in North and South Georgia, the most brilliant future of our his . tory. South Georgia should begin | now to reap a harvesti sim'ler to that of Florida. North Georgia should get things that have been going to the Carolins The world is ready* to come in, but we are not ready to receive. Politically, Georgia has an im mense stone about her neck| Grasp ing, two-by-four politicians have been and .are Georgia’s curse. There is a glaring lack of states men. We are a ship without * rud der. We are drifting. From the highest to the lowest, our officees are filled with' men of small mental capacity and little or no courage. Georgia’s greatest need is AN EMPIRE Z BUILDER, a man of brains, brawn and sinew. Until such a man rises from obscurity, we shall continue to drift. ' The Valdosta Times wants to know “What AILS Georgia’’ and answers this question: ■-m' . “Georgia is right now suffer ing from her inability to mobilize her mental resources and put them'to working in the right direction. There are too many factions operating in this State, each of them trying to build up superiority for itself and refus ing to yield to other factions that may be just as near right as it is. There is noth'ng so hard to control as the fool who ; s willing to butt against a stone wall. A man who has an absurb idea in his head and who has the will power to back it up to the last notch is a hard individual to' manage, or to get along with. “In the Georgia legislature there are a number of different factions and each faction is try ing. to put something over that will help itself. There is a power ful faction which is trying to throttle any kind of legislation that will make it bear its propor tionate part of the burdens of the State. “Instead of moving towards an agreement, the factions seem to be multiplying every day, and the condition seems to be more hopeless. “As a matter of fact, there seems to be a powerful faction at work to keep up the division. If this faction can prevent the others from getting together it will accomplish al] that it wants. It will at least save itself from having to put up its part of the money to carry on the State af fairs. The powerful lobby which has been operating in Atlanta tor a number of years, seems to be just as busy now as it ever has been, its present object be ing to cause all of the trouble possible without getting any good results for the State. What ails Georgia” seems to be that Georgia is lack ing in the kind of mental that ought. to take hold of * situa tion ( like that before the legis lature and thresh it out. A state which sends a bunch of men to make its laws, unless it sends its best citizens, advertises to the world that it either does not want good laws or else that i cannot save itself f/ O m those Who would ride it to disaster. Georgia s big trouble at the pres ent time is moral and spiritual, and not physical, for Georgia’s ’esources are as great as they have ever been, but her Juan I Power 1S mentally not what it "ss 30 or 40 years ago. Possibly never before in our his tory was the opportunity so great or as easy to grasp. We are blessed a. no other state in the union with wLh f h th ° S !! thingS that g 0 t 0 m »ke ' wealth, and yet, we stagger and reel under a load of debt and I ure. Give us MEN. ! OTHER EDITORS OPINIONS OF THE COUNTY AGENT But we cannot lay too much stress upcci the service of the county agent we have. Their la- I bors are specially given to sav ing the poultry, the hog and - the dairy cattle, as well as tne other varied and numerous calls to which they have to respond, I They have much to do and can not specialize no matter how long and hard they work —upon any one line of work. They ha v e many lines and always gladly re spond. We must not forget that they will as readily respond to those who need poultry informa tion as iri other lines. They are with us already and within call ing distance, ready to serve. They will do what they can to start the poultry house and maintain a poultry un't on your farm that will be correct and yield a profit.—Cordele Dispatch WHISKEY TRAFFIC The whisky traffic is a curse to the coming generation; chil dren are easy to learn and catch on easier than the average per son would believe, and when they see father drunk and soused in shine, the very first thing they think of it, “Daddy drinks,” and I know it’s all right and I'm go ing to drink, too,” and the first chance he gets when out with the boys, he will be brought I home some night dead drunk, a truly good example you have taught your boy. It also may lh- your daughter as she may, from “toddies, flips,” develop a liking for the effects it gives. Therefore, throw aside your bus ,-less reasons,, and help stamp this curse from the coming gen eration. ' WHY THIS SOUTH GEORGIA FARMER COULD RAISE COTTON G. W. Doster, a Sumter county farmer who does' business on a 700-acre tract of land, made a 250-bale crop of cotton this year. The cotton, including the seed, is worth $43,750, according ing to the Americus Times-Re corder, but that is not all that’s been raised on the Doster farm. This Sumter- county farmer says there is really nothing re markable except that everybody on his farm works. For he has found that it takes not only hard work but intelligently di rected work to whip the boll wee vil. This is declared by farmers in this auction to have been “the hardest year to raise cotton” they have ever experienced. When dry weather was needed the floods came, and when hot weather would have done won ders for the cotton plants it was cold and damp. Farmer Doster says it rained on 23 of the 31 dhys of last July on his farm. Yet he made 250 bales of cot ton. And here is one of the reasons why he could make cotton in the worst cotton year farmers can remember. It is a rea son The Herald has been trying to drum into the understanding of farmers all over this section, 'but with not very encouraging results. Here are Farmer Dos tets own words: “I started my 1923 cotton crop last year. Just as soon as cot ton picking was over in 1922, I went into the fields and plowed up .every stalk, raked the stalks together with riding rakes or cultivators—and, yes 1 burned the stalks. I know some folks say you are taking something out of the soil when you burn the stalks but I burned mine. It’s just my way of doing.” The rest is simple enough—a routine of hard work, including deep plowing, repeated harrow ing, careful seed selection and intense cultivation from the time the cottcn plants are out of the ground until the crop is ma tured. Fallen cotton squares are picked up and burned, and pois on is used freely both aS a spray and in dust form. And always program is “work early and late, six days in the week, every hand on that farm.” The country will be full of farmers anxious to raise cot ton next year, but in communi ties where cotton stalks were left standing in the fields till frost drove the boll weevil into hibernation there will be mighty little chance of success, If Southwest Georgia farmers had destroyed their cotton stalks as soon as this year’s crop was gathered—burned them or, bet ter still, plowed them under — there would be a reasonable pros pect of making five acres of cot ton to the plow profitable in 1924. But this highly important measure of safety was not tak en, and now it is too late. The cotton fields will be early infest ed with adult weevils, afld the farmer who plants cotton will be under a tremendous handicap. Albany Herald. THERE WILL BE NO CHEAP COTTON The Textile world speaks; vs it as “an extremely difficult cot ton goods market, complicated by, the radical advances in raw cotton which have taken place since Friday of last week.” It says that the Government’s crop estimate Os 10,248,000 bales dis posed of the last faint hope of cheaper cotton during the pres ent crop year and spot cotton sold during the week at over 33 1-2 cents. Prices on gray cot ton goods advanced quickly dur ing the week in sympathy with the raw material, but they are not based on current quotations for the staple. Finished goods of most descriptions are being ad vanced cautiously; they contin ue materially under replacement costs, and Considered as a whole are being bought with grep cau tion despite the admittedly good value offered.—Selma Times. A college professor is a man who speaks volumes. Copyright, 1923, DAII Y POP K/I N. E. A. Service i-'M.IL. I T VFEaIVI Borton Braley There isn’t any question That overeating brings A lot of indigestion And other kindred things; But though our rules of living Are strict and sane enough, We sit down on Thanksgiving And we stusf. Tn brick November weather With diet rules ignored The household gets togegthcr About the groaning board And though the sky be murky We care not for its gloom, We have a portly turkey To consume. TOM SIMS SAYS -:- A fox can scent a man a quar ter of a mile away, but you must, get very close to a pole-cat You can always spot a man who drinks cofee out of a saucer, be cause he spots himself. The nice thing about two autos crashing is you often find whisky in one for the injured? t The hubby of Princess Mary is a collector of old glass. So are the optoists in this country. Dictionary is what you use when you cant think of what to use in place of a word you can’t spell. Lots of lips just made to kiss are made over pust afterward. If at first you don’t succeed, take her :t box of candy. Oldest town in the world is Damascus. Nqw guess .where we bought some of our street oars. OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Nov. 28, 1903.) To the end of very largely in creasing the output of their busi ness Sherlock & C 0.., are installing a new apd expensive plant for the manufacture of bottle 1 i ’a wat>". New Machinerey of latest design is being installed in the Buchanan building, next to Parker & Coun cil’s warehouse., Col. Crawford Wheal ley was the toast of a half hundred friends yesterday upon the success of that stag dinner at Moonshine Farm the day before. , Miss Martha Wheatlev is at home again, to the delight of her host of friends, after a nextend ed absence in Virginia and at the north. George Duncan, consulting a 1902 almanac, went to' Buena Vista yesterday, to spend Thanksgiving returning here this morning. Eleven cents was the round price demanded by Americus warehouse men yesterday for the staple, and they go't it for the better grades. The futures market soared aloft again, January cotton going as high as i-1.25. The Jackson Parker farm of 400 acres, west of the city, has been sold through Mr. J. B. Felder, to Mr. 3. L. Croxton, the considera tion being $2,1009. LIFE The monkey gland treatment for old men is discussed at the Royal College of Physicians in England. The leading speaker, Professor E. 11. Starling, says the only way to lengthen life materially is by eugenics—by breeding from long lived individuals. Every family has what might be called its customary death age, also its danger year. And the numjber of years the average person is des tined to live generally determined before he is born—by the kind of life led by his father and mother and ancestors who came before. • • » HOSS An intelligent horse in Illinois watched its farmer-owner, John Fry, pump water from the well. In the early morning Fry hears the pump going. He looks out the win dow, sees the horse pumping the trough full ot water so r himself and the rest of the livestock. This horse demonstrates that he has the ability to observe, discov er and imitate. And that’s about all there is to intelligence. * * * CARS Railroads in the last 10 months put into service more new freight cars and locomotives than in any corresponding period of the last 10 years. The exact figures are 155,872 freight cars and 3371 lo comotives. This is less than the steel indus try hoped for, because railroad buying for several years had been very low. But it’s a lot of new equipment and it’ll help shortage of cars and motive-power-—a de cided factor in cost of living, es pecially coal. « * » GIRL Did you ever see a show so in terest;ng you could sit through 128 performances? Dorris Symonds has seen the musical comedy, “Little Nellie Kelly,” that many times in Boston. Voluntarily, too, she paid admission, wasn’t an usher. Dorris is fortunate. She demonstrates that she can go through life without, monotony. Life is a repetition or the. same old show. There is nov elty only during the intermissions. FILL-FULL-MENT THE DAY OF We’re thankful for each blessing That we have come across— (“Please help me to that dressing And cranberry sauce”). M For al! our joyts we’re grateful Thanksgiving' is the word (“I’ll take another plateful Os that bird/) « Our duty lies before us ( , Friends, husbands, wives, Come join in on the chorus Os forks and spoons and knives.. Let happiness aird mirth be About the planet spread And everyone on earth be Overfed; Things can be coo good to be true. Books can be too true to be good. Everybody is digginp up prehis toric stuff everywhere. All we have to offer is a few street cave. Los Angeles is where pemila go to find something to do until Urey can get into the movies. Reformers | say the modern dance looks more like a race. We say it usually ends neck and neck. The proof of the pudding is in digestion. One Chicago man, probably a coal dealer or landlord or boot legger, paid $400,000 indome tax. The man who plays tihe horses may find he is the victim of horse play. It would be awful if there was nothing for reformers to kick about. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Nov. 28, 1893.) It is understood that Prof. Tay lor, a fine teacher and disciplinar ian residing near Montezuma, is be ing urged to come to Asnencus and open a private school for boys and little nrsses. Mr. Thornton Wheatley as re ceiver of the Bank of Americus, sold the Jord-tn pl'f‘, on Felder street, for $1,200. Capt. J. li. Allen clerk of court is wrestling with an attack of la grippe, and has been confined to his room since Friday. Schumpert & Lewis, the livery men, would like to know the abouts of one of their best teams, which was hired to a stranger about two weeks ago. The man hired the team for one week but before the expiration of that time, wrote the firm from Ellaville that he would keep it two weeks in stead. The team may turn shortly, but in the meantime the owners are not feeling the best in the best in the world over the delay. Miss Annie Salter, one of Sum ter county’s fairest and most cap tivation young ladies has just re turned from the State Fair, where for a week she reigned as, belle of the hall and made conquest with out number. , TEN YEARS AGO TODAY No paper in file. THE REFEREE HOKUM Like a page from the super.,ti tious past: A orceress in Boston collected $1305 from a-man for such recipes as eating hay to pre vent his home catching fire. The man’s wife wasn’t- as gullible, so she called in the police. Demonstrating that some of us arrive on the stage a few centuries too late. Others come a few cen turies too soon. tiAVED If all the money in savings de partments of American banks and trust companies was divided equal ly, there’d be only $l5B for every man, woman and child. Doesn’t se('m much? It’s double -the figures of 10 years ago. Means we re more thrifty, more prosper ous? Hardly. Rather, it reflects the shrunken buying power of t>ie dollar. You have to use $2 now to buy what cost only $1 in 1913 BY TOM SIMS Be thankful you don’t smoke I It s a bad habit. Be thankful you do smoke. It’s lots of fun. I Be thankful you don't drink.. Makes you drunk. Be thankful you do drink. Keeps you from being sober. Be thankful you have hair on your head, i.ooks nice. Be thankful you are bald. Saves combing. Great asset. Be thankful you did 1 not. Great asset. j Be thankful you don’t eat onions, i Onions smell. Be thankful you do i eat onions. Onions taste fine. Be thankful all girls are not blondes. Blondes are dizzy. Be thankful some are blondes. Blondes are dizzy. How To Be Thankful What Two Democratic News Papers Think of Mellon’s Tax Reduction Proposal THE IRREPRESSIBLE DEBATE. (From the New York Times.) One thing made sure by Secre tary Mellon’s letter about taxes and the bonus is renewed and ac tive discussion. The cut-and-dried program of many congressmen is already scrapped. They have got to stand up before the country and give reasons for what they propose to do. And when we say reason we do not mean inarticulate, ani mal cries, such as are coming from certain senators and representa tives who oppose the Mellon plan. They cannot any longer get off by simply saying that they are “not in accord” with the secretary. They must explain why they are not, If they merely make wild assertions that Mr. Mellon wants to let 22,- 000 millionaires get off from pay ing taxes so as to have nothing left for the soldiers, they are go iwg to be subject to cross-examina tion on the floor of congress and by their constituents. The debate on the whole question cannot now be escaped, and it will be on new lines. This has already been achiev ed by Secretary Mellon with the support of President Coolidge. And the widespread public interest so quickly aroused shows that the people of the country are determin ed to have nothing of their own to say. When the argument gets into full swing, attention will be fastened on such a position as that taken bv Senator Frank L. Greene, of Ver mont. In the statement given by Jum to the Times yesterday he did not limit himself simply to saying that he wa sagainst the soldiers’ bonus, as proposed, and in favor of prudent tax reductions. He went cn to show how the two things are related. He set forth ins be lief that if congres really wants to do something substantial for the ex-service men and their depend ents, it will move promptly and courageously to cut down the tax burden now resting on the people. Senator Greene declares that a re duction in taxation “will actually mean in the end a greater econom ic gain to the soldiers and their lamilies end their neighbors’ fam ilies in the general averaging of results in everyday life, in the ulti mate reduction in the cost of liv ing, than the few hundred dollars they would get out of the bonus.” These are the words of truth and soberness They are financially sound and based on experience. The bonus if voted by congress, would quickly vanish from the hands of its beneficiaries, while the taxes re quired to pay for it would continue tor a geenration or more to plague and hamper. On the contrary, the advantages to be gained from lift ing a part of the weight of Federal wou e id°n f / ndi , vid “ als and business would not only be instantly rcal thei.’ b " t ' vould be permanent in ire bmmd ; b " Ch doLt ml° Cnter lnto the l«ng foJe us WblCh " 0W is be? i THREE SMILES i Arrived Too Early Hall Boy—De nun in room oeben has done hang hisself! Hotel Clerk Hanged himself? Did you cut him down? Hall Boy—No, sah! He ain’t dead yet!—Life. ( Other Way ’Round •vh? a vn yoUl \ landlad Y indignant •vlien you asked her for another month s rent?” wn? 0 ! 1 ‘a® contrai 'y, old man, it ua.,l who was put out.”—Chapar- , , No Argument Here. wile ",‘V Sha lu e ’” cried the young , not a thing in the house fit mama.’’ m g °‘ ng strai « ht h °me to ih y v U sonf on t mind - dear,’ said he husband, reaching for his hat. 111 go with you.”—Pathfinder. < w Yell p ™ctice mu?h C n’ lat, < l° the twins niake iiiucn noise nights ” “Praise to be hivin! Shure each wan cries so loud ye Z can’t hear the ither wan.”_Boston Transcript. An°^K binS Af ‘ er An °‘l>er complaln?’ S ”w mot ? rist chan ts this and lit led looked bumped ?nto’ our re ar ?’° mln | I „ diot City Star. ~ Kansas j Be thankful you have a home. I Very enjoyable. Be thankful you have no home. Taxes are too high. I Be thankful you are maj-ried. Real happiness. Be thankful you are not married. Real happiness. Be thankful you can sing. Sing ers are welcome. Be thankful you can’t sing. Singers are pests. ! Be thankful you have an auto, i Great convenience. Be thankful you have no auto. Great nuisance. Be thankful you are rich. Saves I worry. Be thankful you are poor. I Crn’t lose your fortune. • I ii Be thankful you are thankful. , j Makes you thankful. Be thankful I you are not thankful. Be thankful. THE VETERANS THEMSELVES (From the New York World.) What one courageous . man in high office can do when charged with responsibility and inspired by a sense of duty to the people and the nation, Secretary Mellen has shown-in his letter to Acting Chair man Green of the Ways and Means committee advocating tax reduc tion. The response of press and public has been instant. At last there is a rallying cry and a lead er in a fight which seemed about to be lost by the sheer cowardice of congress. . Mr. Mellon, wrote in no. spirit of hostility to the ex-service men. They are as much interested in financial sanity as the rest of the people. The average veteran is a i young man still, sound in body and I earning or seeking a livelihood. He has a good jub; or he has a job not so good; or he has no job at all and is looking for one. If he has a good job he will lose more in taxa tion in the long run than he can hope to gain by the bonus. If he has no work at all. or is working for the present under conditions with which he is dissatisfied, his chances of doing better are all bound up in the business conditions of the country; and nothing con ceivable could do more to encour age industry and bring better times than the cutting down of the bur den of taxation. Nobody knows what the Federal bonus will cost. Call it only five billions, and the interest on the bill, with a little payment on prin cipal, cannot run less than a quar ter of a billion yearly. But the rnarketing of such vast bond issues in a market overloaded with bur dens will drive up the interest rates all along the line, to the detriment of industrial investment. That is not the whole story: With the bonus to pay for, there will be no chance to cut down income tax rates. The very rich man will con tinue to invest heavily, as he does now, : n tax-exempt securities mon ey that might otherwise be invest ed in industry. Altogether, the in direct yearly cost of the bonus for many years to come will be great er by how mimh no one knows— than the direct cu_t. Im common with the rest of the community, the veVetan should weigh in Secretary Mellon’s pro posal the chance of these benefits, lot himself and for his neighbors: A reduction of the tax on earned incomes as compared with invest ment income; a lower rate on all income, relieving the average house holder and releasing vast sums luithcr up the financial scale for in vestment that provides employ mint; the repeal of nuisance taxes, and smaller improvements in the' general system which are sadly needed. ' Every member of congress who ■is mentally fit for his post under stands the case perfectly. Some of them see and avow the/truth, uke Senator Smoot, i .t have de off lr *h anyt-ng to head oit the blunder. Some see the -ruth in, private and deny it in pub lic. Secretary Mellon has rightlv judged it his duty to see the truth, ‘-“.urge the right course and to have m 11 -icon's sober second thought, that it will take that course. He should have the substantial backing of the entire community without regard to party. There is neither Democracy nor Republican um m a tax bill. There is neith er Republicanism nor Democrack m a man being out of work be cause of burdens needlessly placed on industry and business. A good part' of Mr. Mellon’s backing in the fight that is before him should be mi f<? * ed i’ ln . thclr own cause and interest, by the veterans themselves. TAX NOTICE Registration books for the gen eral election to be held December 12th are now open. Books close Dec. Bth, 1923. A. D. GATEWOOD, JR., 11-9:12-8-23. Clerk and Treas. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Day Phones 88 and 23'1 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 HHHBMraK -■> Our record of Thirty- three years of service has won for us recog ii nition as “The Bank of Pot/onal Service.” We invite your account— larse or small—com niereial or savings. The Bank Wilh a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT. CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Too Small WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28. 1923 Potential Presidents r Tow m Akjahxwßi xxit haw- *6 mister. . ptPFER. GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER Lqwyer, lecturer and writer. Born Philadelphia March 16, 1867. Admitted to Pennsylvania bar 1889 Professor of law, University of Pennsylvania, 1893-1910. Lectur er at Yale, 1915. Author: “The Way,” “A Voice from the Crowd” and several books and treatises on law. Appointed U. S. senator to fill unexpired term (1921-27) of Boies Penrose, deceased, Jantfary 1922. Republican. Home, Phila delphia. f DR. S. F. 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