Georgia Historic Newspapers

    PAGE SIX
TIMES-RECORDER
PUBLISHED 1879
Published by
The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.)
Lovelcae Eve, Editor and Publisher
Kutercd as second class matter at the poatofficr
al Americus, Georgia, according to the Act of
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A THOUGHT |
He, that being often reproved
hardencth his neck, shall suddenly
be destroyed, and that without
remedy.—Prov. 29:1.
A stubborn, mind conduces as lit
tle to wisdom or even to knowledge
as a stubborn temper to happiness.
Southey.
It’s Our Theatre
Remember, only a short time ago,
bow we all were planning and prom
ising what we would do if only we
had a real legitimate theater?
Remember, our delight when the
good news was heard that Americus
was to have a theater second to
none? You recall what we said--
and I—about the benefits that
would accrue to the city by reason
of the theater.
Wel|, we have the theater. In it
has been shown some of the best
that is to be seen anywhere in all
the South, both in pictures and
legitimate.
A few have given the theater
their support. A number have
absolutely neglected it, forgetting
its very presence.
Americus will never be a city un
til Americus men learn to pull to
gether; to support Americus insti
tutions; to smile more and frown
less; CON-struct and not DE-struct.
The Rylander theater can not
continue to operate at a loss. Man
ager Kincey is bringing good shows
here for you. Unless these receive
your support, he will be compelled
to cancel all dates—unless the
booking offices beat him to it and
cancel out on him.
The theater, in a tense, is a mu
nicipal institution deserving the
unstinted support of Americus peo
ple. And when we say support we
have reference to both pictures and
legitimate shows.
Those towns that have grown are
the ones where team work predomi
nates; where local institutions are
supported; where selfishness and
eternal pessimism are hard to find.
Do you recall what Kipling said
in '“The Law of Jungle?”
Now this is the law of the jungle
—as old and as true as the sky;
, And the Wolf that shall keep it
may prosper, but the Wolf
that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the
tree-trunk, the law runneth
forward and back—
For the strength of the PACK is
the WOLF, and the strength
of the WOLF is the PACK.
Santa Claus
Old Santa will arrive in a few
days— that is, he will for some little
tots; others he will pass by.
When you go home tonight, take
that little tot on your knee, in
front of the fire. Tell him a Santa
Claus story and show him where
his stocking is to hang. Watch
his little eyes blink and shine.
Then, just for fun, suppose that
you were taken away and that lit
tle tot was left without dad to fill
his stocking. Can you picture his
face and his eyes, as he scrambles
frow bed Christmas morn, races to
his stocking, only to find it empty.
The grief, the disappointment, the
tears, the breaking little heart -
hnay not be in YOUR child, because
Santa has spared you, old man. But
there are little tots whose dads
have gone on; whose stocking will
be empty unless YOU and a thous
and others chip in and help the
Times-Recorder Empty Stocking
Fund.
Pennies and nickles and dimes
from the little tots are fine; but you
elders can afford to come through
with larger pieces of money. Every
cent will be> carefully spent by Mrs.
Sherlock and the other good women
who have this noble charity in
tharge.
Loosen up!
Man, A Queer Animal
“Like father, like son,” an old
saying that’s sometimes true.
Many a son has been a prohibi
tionist because of the example of
a drunken father, and others have
fallen victims to rum through the
invitation of fathers to imbibe.
The Elder Rothschild watched
from afar the Battle of Waterloo.
Seeing victory coming to the Eng
lish he races to London and so
plays the exchange that the foun
dation of the immersse Rothschild
fortune is laid.
His son busies himself collecting
fleas, presenting to the British Mu
seum the greatest collection of
fleas in the world.
Rothschild took great pride in
his fleas. He ransacked the world
for them. Expense was no object.
He even sent a costly expedition
into the Far North to get a speci
men of the flea that annoys a cer
tain kind of Arctic seal.
Strange things happen in World
Vaudeville, but rarely anything
stranger than his hobby cf the rich
banker. ,
Arthur of Samme, Englishman,
has 476 different specimens of
match boxes and he boasts that it
took 14 years to acquire them.
Samme claims, with dignity and
confidence, that he is the world’s
greatest authority on match boxes.
No doubt.
In two ways, it’s a striking hob
by.
Man’s instinct for accumulation
is, in its simpler form, the quality
or virtue known as thrift. Carried
to extremes, to its logical conclus
ion, it is responsible for some peo
ple being too rich at the expense of
others who remain too poor.
Many a millionaire will smile at
Mr. Samme collecting match box
es or Mr. Rothschild collecting rare
fleas. But the match boxes and
fleas have benefited their owners
about as much as excessive posses
sion of dollars benefits the ex
tremely rich.
A queer animal, at times, is man.
In justice to Rothschild, it must
be admitted that his hobby did the
world ;r» little good, since lleas
spread diseases and a knowledge of
them is obviously valuable. Which
is more than can be said of some
collections of dollars.
OPINIONS OF .
§ OTHER EDITORS
MAKING DOCTORS
Solomon, had he lived today
in Connecticut, might have writ
ten it: “Os the making of many
doctors there is no end."
The scandal uncovered in Con
necticut is well-nigh incredible,
but the evidence obtained appears
to show conclusively that "doc
tors” have been ground out there
in carload lots. The lists of suc
cessful applicants for diplomas
contain the names of carpenters,
plumbers, barbers, clerks, dug
clerks, automobile mechanics and
the like!
A grand jury called to investi
gate these operations by Gover
nor Templeton is now at work to
the end that the activities of the
“diploma mill” may be ended
and its sponsors and directors
punished.
From press-report statements
this making of "doctors” by
wholesale was quite a hilarious
business. Special cars were used
I>y the St. Louis- and Kansas Qity
originators of the scheme—them
selves regularly accredited mem
bers of the medical profession—
and four trips yearly were made.
On board cars were phonographs
and other amusement accessories
as well as a mimeograph machine
which distributed the questions in
the examination for the Connecti
cut license, the questions having
been cbti ined io. advance
And how tho.- • "stude.u scar
ed! Many of them made as high
as 95 per cent. Such technical
scientific erudition should have
surprised the staid Connecticut
examiners; but there is no evi
dence that it did. Perhaps they
are now surprised. ’ They should
be that, and something' more.—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
NAME THEM, MR. PERRYMAN
From an article printed in the
Talbotton New Era of last Thurs
day under the signature of Rep
resentative A. J. Perryman we
take the following excerpts:
“The writer states without fear
of contradiction that if self-inter
est on the part of office seek
ers were not so apparent in this
session, that the same would
have been concluded last week.
"There is a strenous opposition
to the audit bill and the public
can draw its own conclusions as
to where this opposition is com
ing from—a proper auditing sys
tem in this state is highly neces
sary and imperative if the stats
government ever gets on tho
proper business basis.”
Unfortunately, thq, people have
to depend on its reD'esentatives
for information. We are there
fore asking Representative A. J
Perryman to make public the
names of the self-interested of
fice-seekers, and also to let us
hear from what department
comes the opposition to the audit
bill.
The Enquirer-Sun will be very
glad to print this information, if
Representative .Perryman will ’let
us have it.—Columbus Enqinrc--
Sun.
BUT HE’S FROM MSSOURI
A Missourian wrote us saying
that he did not want to
come to Florida because he was
afraid of malaria, Now the fact
is thqrc is little malaria in most
sections of Florida, while in
Missouri, when a fellow passes _
in a Ford, they can’t tell wheth
er it’s the car or a chill that’s
that she wouldn’t. Now she mar
ries a coffee king and a polo
hound, known as Major Frederic
McLaughlin. Montgomery Ad
vertiser.
_ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
Copyright, 1923, DAILY POEM By
N. E. A. Service "nils 11 WLilVl Borton Braley
IN DISGUISE
I read all the circulars sent me.
The booklets and catalogues, too.
Advertisements don’t discontent me
When plainly presented to view.
But all of my rage I unfetter
In cursing, with bile and with gall,
The letter that looks like a letter
But isn’t a letter at all.
Its aspect is always effective,
With quite a luxurious, touch,
It gives you a feeling prospective
Os dividends, bank-drafts and
such.
Alas, it’s an ad for a sweater,
Or ‘Clothing for Winter and Fall,’
This letter that looks like a letter
But isn’t a letter at all.
I’m glad to peruse advertising
That's labeled so perfectly
plain,
But as to this tricky disguising
x It gives me a wearisome pain;
And I will be anyone’s debtor
Who’ll help to abolish this stall
The letter that looks like a letter
But isn’t a letter at all.
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder Dec. 13,
1913.)
Mr. and Mrs. Ed C. Speer and
daughter, Miss Mary Speer, left
yesterday morning for Jacksonville,
the party occupying Mr. Speer’s
large touring car, in which they
will arrive in the Florida metropo
lis this afternoon. Mrs. Speer and
Miss Speer, will spend several weeks
there, and will enjoy many delight
ful drives in their car in that very
attractive section of the
The price of cotton again touch
ed 13 cpnts..in the Americus mar
ket yesterday morning when the
government estimate of the entire
crop was published at 11 o’clock, the
figures being 13,677,000 bales. In
fact, any considerable line of fine
cotton will readily bring the hoo
doo figure, so anxious are buyers
to secure good grades, but just now
most of the cotton marketed is “off
grade” and sells for a less price.
However, some sales at 13 cents
were effected yesterday.
Dear Santa: lam a little, boy 6
years old and go to a private school.
I have been real smart; my teacher
(Miss Walker,) has taught
me to write lots of words, so’ I
want you to bring me a cowboy
suit, drum, firecrackers, in bunch
es) and anything else at Holliday’s
you see nice so ra good little boy.
Lon Charles Gammage.
Dear Santa: I go to school and
am in the first grade. 1 have been
a good boy in school, and I think
I have been, good at home. I want
you to bring me a cowboy suit, a
big horn, pistol, some caps fend
some ties. Your little friend Chas
Glover.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder Dee i.j’
1903.)
Miss Sarah Cobb leaves next
week for New York and will spend
Christmas holidays delightfully with
her brother, Mr. Georgy Cobb.
Rev. and Mrs. K. Read and Miss
Read after a pleasant visit of three
days in Americus, their former
home, left yesterday for Thomas
ville.
Not the least important feature
of tomorrow’s program is the regu
lar election for three members of
the city council, Messrs. J. S. 80l-
BLAH!
When an American woman feels I
badly she goes out and spends and I
spends, until she feels good again.
In fact, the most expensive thing
the American man can buy is the
American woman.’’
Such is the glib comment of W.
L. George, British novelist, lecture- j
touring America. Not that we have
any particular desire to preserve
him for the futurae, but if we were
W. L. George we’d stay east of the
Mississippi and in particular avoid
the southwest—where woman is es
teemed considerably higher than in
England.
Sex cynicism arouses less resent
ment in the cynical cast.
COSTLY
More than 90 million dollars have
been spent in detrmixfng the valua
tion of the railroads. When La Fol
lette fathered the legislation provid
ing for this valuation, as a basis for
fixing railroad rates, he figured the
cost would be about five millions.
This' figure, 90 million, is the one
announced by the press agent de
partment of the railroads. No
doubt, another 90 millions will be
spent investigation to determine if
it's correct.
The roads claini they have paid
67 the -total 90, and
Uncle Sam the rest.
HOT-DOGS
Fifty-three “hot-dogs” were eat
en by John Huine in a contest. The
audience then carried him to the
rear of the restaurant, covered him
with a fireman’s red shirt and left
him to sleep. He’s the champion
hot-dog eater of New York’s Lower
East Side.
A thousand years from now,
Huine’s giant meal will seem as im
portant as nearly anything else
happening this year in America; so
don’t belittle him. On with the
World Vaudeville!
ONCE
New Haven policeman nearly had
heart failure when Jacob Abraham,
banana peddler, walked in with a
S2O bill which a customer had given
him by mistake, and asked the po
lice to help him find the owner.
How many of our big problems,
ton, D. M. Borum and C. J. Sher
lock being the nominees of the re
cent Democratic primary.
The many friends of Dr. B. L.
Joiner in Americus and throughout
the county will be pleased to learn
of a slight improvement in his con
dition yesterday and will hope for
his early recovery.
Mr. Lott Warren, now of Atlan
ta, is receiving a very cordial wel
, come at the hands of his numerous
I warm friends in Americus.
Mrs. John R. Shaw is still a guest
i at the home of her father, Capt.
C. W. Felder and will remain in
Americus several days.
Mrs. J. L. Hand returned to Pel
ham yesterday after a visit of sev
eral days to her mother, Mrs. F.
D. Hollis, at her home on Taylor
street.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recordei' Dec. 13,
• 1893.)
One of Schley county’s oldest and
most highly esteemed residents, Mr.
Dupree Peacock, died at his home
near Ellaville Monday night after
an illness of many months. Mr.
Peacock was well known in Ameri
cus and the announcement yester
day of his death brought sorrow to
many warm friends..
Mr. and MrS. Byrd Lewis left
yesterday, the former on a business
trip to Atlanta, while Mrs. Lewis
will visit relatives in Thomaston,
her formeri’home, for a few days.
Judge and Mrs. Wellborn F.
Clarke left yesterday for Cuthbert,
wnere they will be the guests of
relatives for a few days.
P.ev. T E. Davenport, of Hamil
ton, spent a day or two with rela
tives here, and left yesterday to
attend the annual meeting of the
South Georgia conference in Daw
son.
Mrs. Eason Smith, who has been
the guest of Mrs. T. N. Hawkes
for the past week or two, return
ed to her home in Bronwood yes
terday.
There are ten little girl attend
ants of the Episcopal church who,
under the guidance and supervis
ion of Mrs. Cecil Gabbett are do
ing their mite to assist in good
works. They are an organized lit
He body known in the church as
"The Busy Workers.”
THE REFEREE
little ones also, would disappear if
all of us were as honest as Jacob
Abraham? What this country needs,
more than anything else, is common
honesty.
SEXES
Women rapidly are becoming the
dominant sex and man will be a
timid, shrinking creature of the fire
side and boudoir. ,
Joke-writers began tefling us this,
long ago. Now they’re backed by
the German scientists, Mathias and
Mathilde Vaerting, whose book on
the subject has been translated for
publication in English. ,
We disagree. Men are slipping ad
mittedly, but any deterioration that
is taking place is attacking both
sexes equally. ,
Women average a 50-50 say.
They always have and always will.
DRUNKS
Liquor makers held an anti-pro
hibition conference in London,
where the Daily Mail in its report
of the meeting recorded:
"Mr. H. F. Fox (United States)
■ said that police statistics in his
county, while showing more drunk
enness under prohibition, did not
tell of what was "going on in the
people’s homes or behind closed
doors in private clubs. There had
been a startling increase in motor
ing accidents due to drunken driv
ers, in divorces and homicides.”
That first sentence is partly cor
rect. The last sentence is bunk.
DR. SANFORD HEADS
SOUTHERN I. A CLUB
‘ ATHENS, Dec. 13.—Dr. S. V.
I Sanford, faculty director of ath
letics at the University of Georgia,
j also professor of journalism and
1 English, has returned to Athens
; from Washington, D. C., where he
, has been presiding at the annual
meeting of the Southern Intercol
legiate conference. Dr. Sanford
was re-elected president of the or
ganization with Dr. J. B. Crenshaw
[of Georgia Tech, Atlanta, vice
president.
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-: TOM SIMS SAYS
Big windstorm did a lot of dam
age in Houma, La. Oh, that re
minds us, congress is in session.
Presidential aspirants are worry
ing over a dark horse appearing
and giving them the horse laugh.
Better a dark horse before a
nomination than a white elephant
later.
There’s Ford, but he isn’t a dark
horse. Henrys scare horses.
Here’s exciting radio news. Dish
pans are being used for antennae.
Now moie girls will see them.
Sometimes our radio sounds as if
dishpans were being broadcast.
A man captured in McKenzie
Tenn., had §9IOO, but was not on
his way to buy' a ton of coal.
I
Imagine the surprise in Cincin
nati when an explosion turned out
to be a bomb instead of a still.
A million dollars may be spent
fighting New Jersey mosquitoes,
which is less than a penny each.
New York man ate 53 hot dogs.
This is dangerous. He will be
barking and chasing )-at.s next.
i
Terrible news from London. Doc
tor has a serum to make men tire
less. These serums make us tried.
\yhat if your boss hears about
the new serum to make men tire
less?
Experts says "Yes, We Have No
Bananas” is made of old tunes.
Well, now they are old twice.
The most fascinating thing about
popular songs is trying to guess)
where the music was stolen.
A bottle cork plant burned in I
Bayonne, N. J., possibly while I
rushing out the Christmas demand.
THREE SMILES j
Ah, Real Scandal!
Mistress—Miss Elsie is coming
out next week.
Cook—lndeed, ma’am. So is my
husband.—Tit-Bits (London.)
, Hubby Knows
"Could you spare the timq for
an hour’s talk?”
"Certainly. My wife has just
told me she’ll be ready in a minute.
—Exchange.
They Should Be Grateful
Simp—We have a great deal to
be thankful for.
Mrs. Simp,—lndeed we have. I’m
real glad that my friends haven’t
got the things we .ain't afford, eith
er.—Judge.
Wonderfully Invigorating
“Your medicine has helped me
wonderfully,” wrote the grateful
woman. "A month ago I could not
spank by baby and now I am able
to thrash my husband. Heaven
bless you.”—Boston Transcript.
A Tip for the Sleuth
A famous New York beauty has
disappeared. Perhaps she washed it
off.—Rochester (N.Y.) Herald.
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 88
Day Phones 88 and 231 *
Waynesville, (Pa.) boy stole a
train to go to a football game. He
was downed on the ten-mile line.
The college girls are forming
redhead clubs, but you never will
hear of a shiny-nose club.
News from Paris. They stop the
phone service if you get hiad at
central. C..j u o abolish phones.
Texas man says he killed a deer
with his knife, and we say prohibi
tion isn’t enforced in Texas.
They are taking the. things out
of Tut’s tomb. Maybe the women
can dig up their Egyptian styles.
•
By the time a fat woman gets
all dressed it is too late to go.
There "would be more ambition if
it didn’t use up so much energy.
Maybe Henry Ford is running for
president under another name.
Civilization seems to lead from
the jungle life to the jingle life.
Wnter to a turk, is just one
holiday after another.
BAPTISTS TRAIN 35,000
IN SOUTHERN SCHOOLS
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 13.
(By Assooiated Press) —Over 35,-
000 students ar» cr.rciisd in the
Baptist’ institution -of learning in
the South, according to a survey
that has just been completed by the
Education Board of tee Scuthern
Baptist convention, it has been an
nounced at Baptist, headquarters
here.
Os this number, over 2,900 arc
ministerial students, and ver 2,-
000 other young mbn and women
are volunteers for other definite
forms of Christian service. This
gives to Southern Baptists the larg
est number of ministerial students
they have ever had at one time.
Theye is a total of 119 Baptist
institutions in the South, it is re
ported. This number includes 5
theological seminaries and mission
ary training schools, 32 senior col
leges, 30 junior colleges and 52
academies. These institutions have
property valuation of 829,439,710
and endownment in the sum of 815,
380,215, giving combined assets of
$44,819,961.
More than 3000 soda fountains
were put in use in Great Britain
last year. The first was introduced
12 years ago, but the long, hot sum
mer of 1921 is credited with the
rapid extension of the soft drink
business.
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)
Bfllfc'll ■•o„rsl'Lv.'cTL
fa three years of serv,ce
Sd has won for us rccog-
'S JrarctFiß nitjon as “Th? Bank of
Hi**' K Personal Service.” We
invite your accountj—-
li large or small—cont
,' mercial or savings.
The Bank With a Surplus
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small
DECEMBER l-2\ 1923
THE STANDARD
Useful Christmas Presents As
Usual Here For Less
At 95c. Ladies’ serviceable Kid
Gloves in all colors (samples); all
sizes.
At $1.50. Ladies’ Black Im
ported Kid Gloves; newest style;
just received.
At $1.98. Ladies’ Kid Gaunt
lefs in new shades; regularly $3.50.
At $5.00. Ladies’ Fancy Import
ed. Kid Gloves; beautiful styles; all
sizes.
At 35c. Men’s and Boys’ Knit
tcl Silk Four-in-Hnnd Ties; regu
larly 50c.
At 50c. Over fifty styles of
Men’s Fancy Silk Four-in-Hand
Ties.
At $1.50 Yard. Gold and Silver
Lace,-7 to 10 inches wide; regularly
$2.50.
At $2.98. Satin or Jersey Silk
Petticoats; all colors; all sizes.
At $1.98. Satin Bloomers; all
lengths; ail colors; all sizes.
At sQc>. Great assortment of®
Turkish and Linen
Towelk.
At $1.25 Pair. Embroidered Pil
low Cases; great variety of patterns
and colors.
At $2.00 Fair. Embroidered Pil
low Cases; on extra good materials;
value $3.00.
At SIO.OO Pair. Linen Sheets;
size 81x90; wide hems; beautiful
quality.
At $2.00 Pair. Linen Pillow
Cases; size 42x36; beautiful qual
ity.
At $1.98. Queen Victoria Sheets;
size 81x90; broad hems, beautiful
quality.
At 70c Pair. Gold Seal Pillow
Cases of best Fruit Loom Muslin;
full size.
At $1.98. Men's Silk Striped
Shirts, attached or collarless; regu
larly $2.50.
At 49c. Ladies’ Silk Stockings:
first quality, black, brown and gray.
At 75c. Ladies’ Pure Silk Stock
ings, black and colors; all sizes.
At $1.25. Panel Back Silk Stock
ings, black and full line of colors.
At $2.50. Fine Imported Chif
fon Stockings; each pair in envel
ope; all sizes.
At $1.98 to $2.50. Crinkle Bed
Spreads in three popular sizes; ex
cellent quality.
At $1.50. Embroidered Wool,
flannel, full width; beautiful work.
At 25c. Men’s Pure Linen Ini
tial Handkercdiefs; equal to many
50c grades.
At 50c Box. Great assortment of
Ladies’ Fancy Handkerchiefs; 3 in
the box.
At SI.OO. Great assortment of
Ladies’ Pure Linen Handkerchiefs;
3 in box.
Standard Dry Good*
Company
Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce
AMERICUS, GA.