About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1924)
PAGE SIX “THE MOST INDEPENDENT MAN TODAY IS THE FARMER WHO LIVES AT HOME ANDHAS SOMETHING TO SELL EVERY WEEiv TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelcae JJve, Editor and Publisher Entered as second claw matter At the postofficr at America*, Georgia, according to the Act of CougreJs. Tho Associated Press is exclusively entitled, to (he use for the republication of all nc • ■ Matches credited to it or not otherwise crrd.t-’d to , this paper and also the local news pubUnhTii , . In. All right of republics!ion of special us; • are a!m> reserved. Xational A<lver:iMn ß Hrprewntator.. J-KOST ; LANDIS A KOHN, Brunswick lil fc . •' * xorK » Peoples’ Gas Blue.. Chicago. ~ A THOUGHT | A fool despiseth his father’s in struction; but he that regardeth re proof is prudent —Prov. 15:5. It is always safe to learn even from our enemies, seldom safe to isstruct even our friends.—Colton. Blundering. Last summer the Legislature' passed the tobacco tax bill. It was amended, or changed or amplified at the extraordinary session. The tax was supposed to go into effect on January I. A few days before word was sent out to the retail dealers of the state that stamps for the tax were NOT ready, so please es tablish a ‘‘conscience fund. About this time, a court wran gle developed——for which no state official is to blame, but which further confused the retail dealers. The whole affair is another example of the inefficiency of those who are supposed to have functioned immediately after the bill was passed and signed. Billy Sutlive, associate editor of the Savannah Morning News (and a member of the Legisla ture from Chatham county) says that the State has scored a "la mentable failure in its efforts to collect the tax,’ and comments as follows: The State seems to have scor ed a lamentable failure in its ear ly efforts to collect the State tax on cigars and cigarettes. It would appear that because of the delay of the Governor in naming the commissioner whose duty it is to se e thaf this tax is collected and the failure of the commis sioner after his appointment to promptly name t-he deputies to serve under him, the State is to , Jose a great deal of money. The situation is further complicated by the effort on 'the part of the tobacco people to stop the collec tion of the tax by court injunc tion. This will probably cause long delay and coupled with the failure of the State to promptly put the new statute into opera tion will cause Georgia to lose a great deal of money which it is justly entitled to. One can scarcely blame the “ultimate the man who smokes the cigars and cigar ettes, and who pays the bill, for declining to pay a tax which the law provides shall be paid through the purchase of stamps when there are no stamps. If the State has failed to equip it self for the collection of the tax, then let the Stat P suffer, is prob ably the view taken by the man who buys. It is very hard to con vince the average purchaser of a i cigar or a package of cigarettes that the State is in earnest about tax collecting when it doesn't have the machinery in force for tax collecting. The State House officials en trusted with the collection of this tax should have been very promptly on the job after the leg islature voted them authority. If it was not possible to exact ly the stamps needed to have the law enforced on the first of the year, some expediency should have been adopted to get stamps in use temporarily. This could have been done very easily. Some retailers are collecting, the tax; others are not. dealer states that when the stamps are provided, he will use them. Until that time, he will not. It seems to be rather clearly established that UNTIL stamps are provided the retailers hands are tied. He can't force a custo mer to pay a tax for stamps when he has no stamps. In the meantime, the State is losing thousands of dollars be cause somebody or several somebodies—bungled. Kiwanis. Georgia Kiwanis clubs arc do ing things realy worthwhile, carrying out to the fullest its motto of "We Build. Our own Americus Kiwanians ' have been in the forefront of i every civic battle for better things. In the malarial fight, the sale of swimming pool bonds and other endeavors, they have more than carried their part of the load. Americus Kiwanis is assisting George Marshall in his summer tomato crop campaign. It was the Kiwanis which inspired and jumped in with George to make this a whale of a success. Many dhter instances of the work of | the local club could be cited. The Dawson News picks the Dawson Kiwanis club to lead that community to better things. It says: Everything must have a lead er to make it go. It devolves upon the Kiwanis club -to be the leader collectively and leaders individually of Dawson. The club is made up of leaders in . their particular professions and I businesses, and it is the only civic club in Dawson. Action is the I coin in which every organization and individual must pay for ex istence. The first of the year is a good time to resolve to push Daw son forward. Cedartown Kiwanians are '.anting trees and have adopted the cedar as the official tree for its little town up in North Geor gia. Regarding the effoits of Cedartown Kiwanians, the Rome News says: Cedartown Kiwanians have a happy sense of the appropriate. They have adopted the cedar as the official tree of their town. Congratulations to our neighbor. The cedars of Cedartown will be beautiful companions to the dog woods of Rome. And so it goes all over the State, in every town with a Ki wanis club. They ARE build ng towns, building men, and building future citizens in their work among boys. In every en deavor, the Americus Kiwanis club will be found right up in the lead with their fellow Geor gia Kiwanians. I OPINIONS OF ; OTHER EDITORS I .....-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-J HUSBANDS, BE CAREFUL Never slap your wife or make faces at her. Over $17,000,000 alimony is paid yearly in Amer ica, says the Augusta Herald. Also, be sure ther e are no loose pieces of furniture lying around, when you try it.—Tifton Ga zette. TWO BATHS A DAY John Greer, who lives over in Moultrie, says you can take the meanest man in the county, give him two baths a day for a year and make a gentleman out of him. The hog has it on the men, if that’s the way you judge cm, John. You can gave a hog one hot bath and a shave and make anything oht of him from pork chops to sau sage.—Savannah Press. WHO SIGNED THE BILL, CHARLEY? George Carswell’s terrible tobac co tax is on the rack now. Won der what the lawyers and the courts are going to do with the one vehicle on which George ] honed to ride into office. Pity the tobacco trust is such a bad guy, when the other trusts may do what they pleas 0 under simi lar conditions right up under the nose of George Carswell in the very senate chamber.—Cordele Dispatch. ADMIRES THE DANE We admire the Danish Prince Viggo, who has given up al] pos sible claims to the throne of Den mark and renounced his title o? “royal highness' in order to mar ry an American girl. He knew where to come to for a wife, any way. Some da’' the Prince of I Wales may do the same thing, I though it probably will not be ! an American girl. He has caus ed his Kingly parents much i anxiety by refusing to choose a wife from the nobility of Eng land.—-Tifton Gazette. .1 THE SHINER’S DEATH CODE. ii That moonshiners whose stills I are in the vicinity of Jackson- I ville, Fla., have a “death code" i like unto that of th e vendetta hound bands of Old Corsica is stated on authority of both State and federai law-enforcement of ; officials. Two negroes who were put to death recently are declar . ed to have been “death code" I ; .-ictins who were suspected of i cither giving information to the authorities or stealing liquor from the moonshiners’ organization and selling it for private enrichment, if the facts ate as stated, they show very clearly how one form | of lawlessness breeds greater law lessness. When moonshiners turn murderer:; to protect their husi- 1 ness we get an impressive illustra- I tion of the progressiveness of the i spirit of law defiance.—Albany 1 Herald. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER I. . . . _l. ... - ~ f Aii'xM’A' daily POEM OUR OWN FOLKS I’ve met them in valley and mountain d plain, They’ve talked in lingo-of Texas or Ma They smacked of the middle-west stare- > the south, Os New Jersey’s farmlands, New drouth; They're fat or they’re lanky, short-stat . ■ or tall, But my kind of people Americans ad-1 i They've taken me from the cold and the a,rm, They’ve given me shelter and welcome that's warm, They've shared in my fun and they’ve chi cred me in loss When I’ve needed help they have sure come across. Their kindness is somethin it’s great :■ recall, Good people—-my people, Americans all! *■ Caucasian or negro, whatever their hide I’ve found they were mighty fine white f ■ ■> inside, Big-hearted, clean-minded, a generous hrong Who’ve treated me right as I've traveled along. Good fortune be with them, whatever befall, Good people, my people—Americans all! -:- OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS ""| TEN years ago today (From the Times-Recorder. Jan. 7, 1914. ) The Americus cotton market yes terday like the prevailing tempera ture, opened down and disagreeable to those who had hoped for an ad vance after the close of the gen eral holiday demoralization. 'With 2,500 bales in the warehouse, holders watch with the interest the sliding scales of prices. Values here yesterday were around 12 1-4 to 12 1-2 for any cotton of the finer grades offering. Miss Georgia Fort, of Americus and Misses Catherine and Kathleen Oliver, of Plains fair students at Wesleyan returned yesterday to re sume their studies after the Xmas vacation. The friends of Mrs. W. C. Bar row will learn with regret that she is confined to, her room with an at-' tack of la grippe and will join in I the wish for her speedy recovery. : Four thousand pupils attending the county schools of Sumter coun ty went back to books this week, the enrollment being greater than at any other time since the establish ment of the public school system in Sumter. Mrs. L. G. Council and little daughter.!, Huth and Elizabeth, have returned -here from a visit in Live Oak, Fla., where they were guests of Col. and Mrs. C. N. Hildreth. Lee Hansford returned yesterday from Cincinnati where he attended recently the annual meeting of rep resentatives of the Union Central; Life Insurance Company. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Jan. 7, 1904.) A marriage of more than usual interest was that of Miss Hattie Louise Daniel and T. Marvin Ev erette, solemnized at high noon yesterday at the residence of the ' bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.' Daniel, near Americus. The bride,! one of Sumter’s most charming! young women, was a vision of per I feet loveliness in her wedding gown i of champagne crepe do chine and ' point lace. She carried a superb; bouquet of bride’s roses. Miss! Amzie Daniel, sister of the bride; was maid of honor, and Mr. Brown Smail was best man of the occa sion. The marriage of Miss Mervin Callaway and Mr. Joseph A. Erwin, -:- THE REFEREE | CHINESE Wong Lee, Chinese laundryman, dies in New Haven, Conn., It’s re vealed that he saved $15,000 in 20 years. The $15,000 represents con .siderably more self-denial than most white men would subject them selves to, for such a sum. Prdbably Wong- Lee had hoped to go back to China in his old age, where his savings would have sever al times as much buying power as in America. He died before his dream materialized, which seems to be a world-wide tendency. His death is interesting chiefly because| it ansv. .-rs the question, how much a Chinese laundryman saves. * « * ROMANCE Margaret Birch, 30, London school teacher, is or. her way to a South Pacific island, traveling 8500 miles to marry the man she loves. The island is far out of the beaten track, so from San Francis- Co she travels 3000 miles by f. eight - er, a 28-day trip. Here are romance, faith, hope, de-1 votion, love. Margaret’s long trip is symbolic of that most important venture in life—marriage. There-i after, all other things are incid. n . I tai. IMPROVED Chemist - are busy seeking sqb.j stitutes for our vanishing forests I in a Norweigian laboratory a scion-1 tist discovers how to make t.rtific a| lumber, as hard as oak. Industrial, | Gas magazine says he uses a mix-: ,tt>re ot half sawdust and naif chalk ;-nd chemicals, bound together tin-! , der very heavy pressure. The' j product cannot decay and burns |onl\ under very high temperature.' of Clarksville, occurred yesterday morning at 11 :30 o’clock at the home of the brides parents, Mr. and Mrs. Merrell Callaway, and rarely has Americus witnessed a more per fectly beautiful ceremony. Miss Vie Callaway was maid of honor, while Mi- May Wheatley and Mr. Merrell Callaway, Jr., were the only attendants, forming a half circle at the altar. Than Miss Mer vin Callaway, no young lady in Americus wa: more beloved for ner charms, grace and many accomp lishments. Two additional residences will soon ornament Dudley street, near Lamar, as Mr. A. J. Hamil has pre pared plans for several dwellings - to be erected there this year, work upon which is to begin immediately. After spending two weeks at her home here Miss Jeannette Ray re turned to Cuthbert to resume her I studies at Andrew College. I THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Jan. 7. 1894.) What Americus needs now more than anything else is connection by telephone with the dozen or more towns within a radius of thirty miles. It would be of inestimable benefit to her merchants, as well as to those df the towns to be con nected, and our people should move in the matter at once. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Steele leave tonight for Tampa, where Mrs. Steele wilt spend several weeks with relatives. Mr. J. C. McKenzie and ;family will occupy Mr. Steele’s for [mer residence Monday, having leas ed it for several months. Louis Larramore, an old Ameri cus boy who is now numbered among Lee county’s successful far mers, was in th? city yesterday af ter an absence of several months, and as usual received a cordial greeting at the hands of his many I friends in the metropolis. Miss Lizzie Slappey, of Anderson iville, is spending several days at the I home of her brother. T. R. Slappey | at his home on Church, street. The many friends of Mrs. T. F. ! Gatewood, who has been quite I sick for the past two or three weeks, . will be pleased to learn that she is improving and will soon be entirely restored to health. Mrs. Ros;-; Stanfield and chil dren returned home yesterday from ■ a visit of several days to relatives , I in Leesburg. We are. moving into the age of substitutes for natural resources. • » » HANDICAP The totally deaf may hear by touch, announces Professor Robert H. Gault of Northwestern Univer sity. He has been working on this line for several years. And has al most perfected a mechanism by which sound waves are conveyed to the brain through the fingertips. Much more experimenting to be done. Deaf people must wait be fore becoming too hopeful. But — 1 Every problem has its solution. Every handicap can be overcome. ♦ NOAH A tiibe of Indians in South America haded down to it through many generations, a story about an ancient flood correspond ing in time and magnitude to the deluge of Noah’s time. So reports John Giffen Culbertson,' Texan .back from visiting the tribe. : The same tradition is found in China and among nearly every other people, even in obscure places. It will please church people to learn that this particular section of I the Bible again is supported, even I though it raises the question ■whether all who escaped the deiu"- 1 traveled in Noah’s Ark. From the dances we have seen ! girls should use flavored talcum powder on their necks. | More good news for drug stores, j I Boston doctor finds bobbed hair 1 ■ turns gray quicker. j Friday is fish day. Friday, Feb. 1 2U, bachelors will be the fish. ■ WAS EVER ANYONE IN MORE DIFFICULT PLACE IX U I \ 'g Ogee/ \ Z W, A s ’ '. ( IF I OMCY 1 KNEW \ • ' Vv'MICM Poad LED I \ \ Ok \ loThe IwsTvoies J \ \\ A—l fA i /7 - ■ //<?■ ■cr ■ < w ' A':'-. k W ; . »r ■ nt. i ■ miM—nimMi ' Health 'Tdints 1 ■' T ky ie L- ■ Witi* father of Fr'j Physical „,c4 Culture BER.NAR.IX MAC FADDEW _ J - -- r. I iiiiiiiim—■■ Treatment of a sore throat: Abso lutely no food must pass your lips as I long as your throat is sore or you hat ea fever. Sometimes the skipping of one-meal is sufficient, sometimes 1 days are needed, but no matter. Put- j ting food into a body already filled i with more nutriment than can be !; utilized, and more refuse than can be eliminated, is like throwing more gar- i bage into the yard. In one case it is i joy to bacteria and the other comfort i to flics. If you begin to fast early enough serious conditions will not develop. During the influenza epi- I dernic in Chicago, we were able to ' prevent the development of all cases seen early enough by at once prohi* ! biting food. Food is needed to “keep ; up strength” as is commonly taught, eating to keep up strength, means eating to use up strength. Get the alimentary canal as clean as possible, as quickly as possible, and keep it so. Fake an enema of warm water and see that it does its work. Repeat the enenn, daily. Next, the I whole tract should be swept out by j mean-- of a saline cathartic. Take i ; half bottle ot Citrated magnesia on the mornings of the first two days yon are sick and a wineglassful on eact» succeeding day. Remember the liver, the great neutralizer of toxins, is ex creting bile, whether you are eating i or fasting, directly into the alimentary canal, and an initial cleansing of the tract is not sufficient. It must be done daily. Take into your system as much water as you can. Swallowing may be pain* ful, but warm or hot water can usually be taken comfortably. Do not be I afraid of hot water, even though , there is fever. By increasing kidney | elimination the cause of fever is re* ] disced. Kidnev complications in acute diseases are due to lack of water in ■ the system. Pineapple juice may be I added to the water. A mucilaginous i drink, such as flaxseed tea, slippery ' elm water, or acacia, may be taken glassfuls, as often as desired. Although air is important, we do not believe in the dictum, “plenty of j fresh air,'’ to the extent of the dis- j comfort of.the patkent. The skin of : the patient must be kept warm because we wish to keep the blood to the sur face,»We would rather say “have good ventilation in the room, but keep the patient warm.” Those who are strong, and with a good heart, and pulse not too rapid with no fever, may remain tip and can take exercises for increasing the cir* culation in the skin, thus helping elimination. * ["three SMILES I A Good Speedometer. City Motorist—How do you know ,if 1 whs exceeding the speed limit 1 when you haven't a watch or Any thing? Country Constable —W:.l, ye se- n that yellcr dog a chasin’ ye didn't ye? When that, dog can't keep up with a feller the feller’s a going more’n tnutty miles an hour.— Science and Invention. The Better W; y Buroughs— 1 asked you for a loan of $lO. This is only five. Lenders—l know it is, but that's the fairest way—you lose five and 1 love five.—Denver Post. > > Speeding Up Efficiency expert (to Central) —Would you mind if I gave you the number all five times at once?— Life. MONDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY 7, 1924 I TOM SIMS SAYS -:- I _ The demand for locomc ives is in-, creasing. Why don’t auto drivers look and listen at the crossings? Cigar smoking increased only 4; [per cent in 1923, there 1> irg so fe v political campaigns. Cigaret consumption increased; iast year, ,the word 'c< r umption ’; i having an excellent im . ning. Chewing tobacco fell oi'l’ in 1923,! maybe because sidewalks are get- 1 ting too wide to spit across. The manufacture of smoking to-1 bacco declined last year. We knew! [that. No body seemed to have any.' Crude oil production broke all 'records in 1923. The same is true 1 iof crude movie production. Last year 540 bank failures were I (reported. Beside? this many chil-J !dren’s banks failed Cbri tmas. There was a tremendous fruit crop for 1923. We tell you blcar.se prices forgot to mention it. Shoe production increased last U’ear, but emergency gasoline tanks I ’nay soon cut this gain. ; . _. Building boom? boosted the lum ber trade last year, even presiden tial timber being plentiful. • Fur business v.as good in 1923. All domestic pelt.-- sold. They co .... from skinned husband.-. Americus Undertaking Co. ) NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 68 Day Phones 88 and 2S‘ 1 I HAVELUNCH With Us Sandwiches, blot Chocolate, Tomato Bouiilion, Hot Cof fee, all hours during the day, at Americus Drug Co. 1 I- 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) j 1891 - 1924 h ■ - ; S Upon t I ■ ’■'t'.’Wr of thitt;. c year-; of . ■ ii.T ' growth is based the , •» . present organization of K&.'M ’< I? r,ur bank. This cxneti- uw once is always it the ’ V'XiJSi’Syw command of our cus- £'' '\ r tomerr. W, cordially j tSfoksgjff* solicit your banking -L-. business. The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 y PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Too Small tfuivu. .... - bb. - —fcl . - - -—bb—bimbimb—ib m _ _ - - I Tomato canning increased in 1923 Something should be done. This is I cruelty to boarders. — The 1923 prune crop was short, ,so that helps boarders some. ■ Railroads made money last year. This, however, is not news to peo- Iple who bought tickets. Pig iron broke all records in 1923. ; The industry has grown so big it ■should be called hog iron. DR. S. F. STAPLETON VETERINARIAN Office in-Chamber of Commerce Phone 8 Resider.-ce p hone 171 I ma( ' e on improved u Nk. farm lands at cheap- , est rates for terms of 5,7 or 10 i years with pre-payment option given Money secured promptly. We have new outstanding over $1,100,000 on farms in Sumter county alone, with plenty more to lend. MIDDLETON McDONALD Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co., = in Sumter, Lee, Terrell, Schley, Macon, Stewart, Randolph and Webster counties. 21 Planters Bank . Building, Americus, Ga. Phone 89 or 211. RAILROAD SCHEDULES • Arrival and Departure of Passenger Trains, Americus, Ga. Centra! of Georgia Ry. Central Standard Time Arrive Depart 12:01 am Cols-Bghm-Chgo 3:15 am 12:37 am Chgo-St. L., All 2:53 am 1 :54 am Albany-Jaxville 2:10 am 2:10 am Ciiy-Atl-Chgo 1:54 am 2:53 am ATbny-Jaxville 12.37 am 3:45 am Albny-Jaxville 12:01 am 5:14 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pin 6:37 am Albany 7:21 pm I' 1 .20 am ColumbUs .3:>5 ym 12:20 pm Cols-Bham-Chgo 2:40 pm 1:18 pm Chgo-St. XTAtI 2:01 pm 1 .11 pm Albany-Montg’y 2:17 pm 2:01 pm Alb-Jax-Miami 1:18 pm 2:17 pm Macon-Atlanta 1:51 pm 2:40 nm Alby-Jax-Miami 12:20 pm 7:21 pm Macon-Atlanta 0:37 am 10:35 pm Albany-Montg’y 5:14 am SEABOARD AIR LINE (Central Time) Arrive Departs 10:05 am Cordele-Hel’na 5:15 pm 1? 26 pm Cols-M’t’g’y 3:10 pm 3:10 rm Cordele-Savh 12:26 pm 5:15 v-.Tn Richland-Cols 10:05 am
