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PAGE SIX “THE MOST INDEPENDENT MAN TODAY IS THE FARMER WHO LIVES AT HOME AND HAS SOMETHING TO SELL EVERY WEEK” TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelcae Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered as second claw mailer at the postoffi at Americus, .Georgia', according to the Au of Cofifie.*. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled '■ the use fur the rcpubli. ation of all 3 ‘ patches credited to it or not otherwise <f l;te4 this paper and also the local news J'u. ’■■ ■•"'■ '7,« in. All right of repuLlicshui* us sptc--» c.(•,■---■ are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives 1 LANDIS 4 KOHN, Brunswick Bio*-. ‘ Atw Peoples* C.i* Bldu.. Chicago. . - A THOUGHT | Cast out the scorner, and conten tion shall go out; yea, strife and re proach shall cease. Prov. 22.10. I have lived one hundred years; and 1 die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue. —Fontenelle. Farmer On Southern Farms The New York Times, one of the ablest edited and best news papers from a news standpoint in the country, suggests that the people of the South make an effort to secure the better type of immigrants to this country to settle on farms in order to make up for the loss of the thousands of negroes who have been mi grating north for the past two years. The suggestion, of course, is offered in the most friendly and kindliest manner and with the sole purpose of helping to re build and and rehabilitate the millions of acres of devastated farm lands in this section of the country. Commenting on the Times suggestion, the Brunswick News has this to say: However, it is a serious ques tion as to whether it would be for th e best interest of this sec tion or not, the average type of immigrants make undesirable citizens and their customs and habits would not harmonize with those of our people who are na tive-born and represent the best in the nation. As Major General Wood stated in a public address in Boston during the war that “the purest blood of the Anglo- Saxon race was possessed by those people born and reared south of the Mason and Dixon Line.” There is much truth in the statement and the condition is brought about more from the fact that a very' small percent age of- immigrants ever settle in the South. Our people have been kept free from outside na tionalists in a great measure which accounts for the pure American blood of the Southern people. Western farmers would be a blessing to this section of the country. They are thrifty and economical in their habits of liv ing and know how to accumulate and improve lands. If a move ment could be inaugurated which would encourage and secure col onies of these people, the South would profit from their coming and living with us. Rather than encourage the set tlement of immigrants, let us look forward to some movement which will interest the Westward farmer in our lands and climate and offer to them inducements to locate with us and become citi zens of our State and country. The Western farmer has his eyes on the South. His lands have advanced in e until the ‘ average young fanner is unable I to purchase even a few acres. The Southern climate is attrac tive to him. after living through the hard cold. vrind-swept winters of the West. Here he has 12 growing months as compared with six or seven there. The enormous cost of barns and outhouses is saved, for here cattle and hogs require very little housing duripg the winter months. The vanishing tenant system and fewer negroes in South will stimulate Western emigration to the South. While promiscuous foreign emigration to the South would be unwise and objectionable, there is a type of emgirant that is distinctly desirable. The Swiss farmer, the Ger man farmer, the French and Belgian agriculturalist would be splendid examples for our peo ple. These people know how to make every foot of ground pay for itself; how to cultivate and enrich the soil, rather than deprive it of its fertility from year to year by failing to put back into the soil w'hat is taken out with each, growing crop. And, too, these foreign farm ers know the necessity of hard work and lots of it. A few of this type of farmer scattered about would furnish splendid examples and would introduced new and better inten tsive framing methods. „ Hollywood The theater-going public is 1 not only demanding clean plays land clean pictmes, it also refuses i to patronize the picture or the i play in which the actors are ■ known to live unclean lives There was a time when the ac tor and actress could live just I any kind of life, and get away with it Not so today, and that is as it should be In the past few days another movie queen's name is tinged with scandal and from coast to ’ coast, exhibitors are refusing to 1 show her films. ' The 'public will not believe there is a clean Holywood so long as divorce, liquor parties and murder occur within its lim its. Will Hays should act and that quickly and with the utmost vigor. The few that are damag ng the reputation of the movie profession should be banished, completely divorced from the in dustry either as actor, director or janitor. This will clean up Hollywood. The temptations there are many hnd severe. Y oung men and women who have never earned more than a few dollars i week, jump into prominence in a few months and the money begins to roll in. Extravagance and wild living follow. Possibly the producers are partly to blame for the enor nous salaries they are paying hese young men and women. There is plenty of material rom which to draw screen stars, hinks the Macon News, and to make an example now and then ;f the most eminent may have a good effect. The News de clares : One does not have . to be a fanatic to experience a kind of nauseous disgust at the repeated crimes, usually accompanied by unconventional revelry, to put it mildly, which draw attention to the Hollywood cdlony and' if there was ever a time when Will Hays could do something to earn the enormous salary he is suppos ed to receive as movie czar, it is now. He is on his way to the motion picture capital, “with his chin out,’’ as he expressed it. Maybe the producers are learning valuable lessons which will give us not only clean plays but clean actresses and actors. It is certain they will if the pub lic makes its desires known through the box office window. OPINIONS OF OTHER EDITORS [ KEEP TALKING IT There is a g-eneral feeling that the new year just begun is going to be a bright and prosperous one. Everybody is talking better times and there is every reason to believe that we are going to have a better year than in 1923. —Griffin News. NEGROES COMING BACK Elsewhere in this issue will be seen a news notice from Camilla which states that a good many negro farmers are returning in order to farm another year. It seems that the zero weather and high cost of living in the North and East are not so • attractive after all; the negro always gets along all right in the South un der most any conditions when he is industrious and law-abiding.— Talbotton New Era. CHANCE FOR THE WORKERS This year is going to offer a golden opportunity to a few men to make big money by raising cotton, but that opportunity is only for those who are ready to work as they have nevsr worked before and apply to their efforts every item of proven scientific information that can be obtained. Those who attempt to raise cot ton in the old way are going to suffer terrific loss. —Rome News- Tribune. A SOUND DOCTRINE That demonstratiton agent who said: “I have a great desire to see at least one pink crepe myrtle and one pecan tree growing at every home, and at every farm in the county," was preaching a good doctirne. Even a few well chosen flowers mean much to any home, and it is always pos sible to have them. The pecan tree will pay for itself and the flower garden will add to the beauty and pleasure of the home. A twenty-one-year-old tree >n one of the South Georgia counties is said to have yielded three hun dred pounds of nuts this year.— LaGrange Graphic. 100,000 LAWS Th? average American is now living under not less than 100,- 000 laws. He cannot keep all of them and knows, very little about most of them; consequent ly he is a criminal every day of Iris life, and if the laws were en forced all of us would be in trou ble all of the time. Would it not b e a good plan to legislate about 90 per cent of these laws into oblivion? Then with 10,000 law- to govern our actions we should be more law-abiding peo ple. However, if the 10,000 laws were enforced, a good many of us would get into jail.—Valdosta Times, _ „ * THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER Copyright, 1923, D All V POFM By N. E. A. Service U'CYILu IU V, CdVl Berton Braley RESOLUTION Time was I said, “I firmy vow z I will not throw my time away ' • In playing auction bridge!" But now • I play. I fell at last for bridge, but I , Vociferate with leather* lung, „ »• "I never do intend to try Mah Jung!” -//' % You'll not be draggin’ me around '' f To play Mah Jung. My will is strong, z" (You say this is the proper sound —“Mah Jong?”) < P . i All right, pronounce it as you may, „ You won’t bamboozle me along, 1 absolutely will not play " | Mah Jong. J* YE' ■ **■**■ '■«•■,* -F Y ' SPaF You waste your wind, your words I spurn, You tempt me not at all, I vow 1 swear I quite decline to learn’ Pung Chow. Cards cost me fifty cents a pack, Mah Jong costs fifty bucks a set, That’s altogether too much jack, You bet. Pool, bowling, billiards poker—say 1 play them much, right along, They are enough—l will not play Mah Jong. At every game I’ve ever struck, I'm almost always ibadly stung, And so I very wisely duck Mah Jung! OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS TEN YEARS AGO TODAY ; (From the Times-Recorder. Jan. I 9, 1914.) ‘Go to Americus and study the 1 magnificent graded highways of Sumter, the best roaas in the South’ was the sentiment expressed recent ly at a meeting of the county com missioners of Ware county of which the flourishing city of Waycross is the capital. Mr. Armstead Dodson, one of Sumter’s successful farmers whose I attractive country home is neat 1 lains, was in Americus yesterday I and talked most encouragingly of agricultural conditions in that fav ored section. Miss Emmie Kate Andrews, of I Brownwood was the guest of rela-' fives in Americus yesterday while' here upon a short visit. Miss Lynn Mathis’ dancing school at t)\e armory will begin tonight at' 8 o’clock. Lessons will ben given I every Tuesday and Friday nights. | Miss Frances Chappell of Rich land, is the attractive guest of her I sister, Mrs. A. B. Woodward at her home here for several days. Miss L<i Verne Thomas has gone j to Oglethorpe as the guest for sev-' eral days of Mrs. Henry Stewart at her residence there. Lewis Ellis went to Dawson yes terday to look after little matters of business, returning here today if nothing happens. IWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Jan. 9, 1904.) Misses Mamie and Bessie Harper came down from Decatur yesterday to spend -some time in Americus, their former home. Miss Annie Chambliss returned to Macon yesterday to resume her studies at Wesleyan College, after' a pleasant holiday visit to her home her*. Two marriage: here this morn ling furnished a theme of interest ing discussion, and the fair brides '.will be object! of admiration indeed. I Thirteen c<”. cotton i- again the J rule Amerc.us Several sales at (that fancy .Lgure were effected at .the warehouse yesterday. Mes.-.n-. G. O. Loving had a novel duck hunt yesterday. They floated TOM SIMS SAYS -:- , Dr. Coue L coming back. We willi 'see if he gets better year by year as f well as day by day. I j Pittsburg apartment house burn-1 ed, and this is one time tenant couldn’t yell for more heat. About 300 barrels of beer were ;captured in New York, but its too 1 cold for beer anyway. ( “Germany at Rope’s End’’-—head line. Many people contend the elee- I I trie chair is more humane. A woman is robbing men in To-, ledo, 0., and they object because 1 she is robbing them by force. 1 —Leap Year news from Boston, plan stole $15,000 from his wife to I elope with another woman. j Oklahoma eops i.re after a movie ■ 'star’s father, but not because he is |a movie star’s father. Debt experts will hold a big meet jing in Paris. So soon after Christ-1 mas is an appropriate date. | A Birmingham. Ala., man who i tried to stop an argument between j |two stranger. will recover, a , i [ forty miles down the Flint River, I shooting the plump green heads. I While driving to his home yester day afternoon Mr. P. R. Stanfield, an aged citizen was in some manner thrown from his buggy. The in juries sustained are quite painfu. but not of serious nature. Mrs. Frank P. Harrold has as her guests this this week, Miss Hallie Ellis, of Atlanta, and Miss Sallit May Bagley, also of that city; the beautiful accomplished daughter o. (Captain and Mrs. H. C. Bagley Mrs. Harrold’s sister, Miss Irene j Walker of Monroe and Miss Annie Sorrel are also gue ts of Mrs. Hat rold. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Jan 9, 1894.) ■ The first of the union services t< be held nightly at tile Baptist churci this week, was largely attended las I night and'much interest was mani tested. Rev. T. M. Christian pasto of the First Methodist church, eon ducted the exercises last evening assisted by the pastors of othei [churches here. j P. A. Catchings received a pret tily engraved copy of diplonts' awarded by the Vurgubau State Ag icultural and Mechanical Society tc the distillers of that famous brand of whiskey, ‘Yellow Label,” which i. sold exclusively by him in Ameri cus. The cotton market advanced sev- I eral points yesterday and the indiea tions are favorable for even bettei prices shortly. Good middling brought 7 3-8 cents in Americu. yesterday, and advance of an eight from Saturday’s quotations. Miss Mabie Cranberry, a fair rep resentative of the Monumental Citj is visiting her aunt, Miss Mary Granberry. Mrs. J. G. McPhaul, who has been visiting at the home 4>f her mother, ■ Mrs. M. J. Adams, for the past sev. ■ eral week . left yesterday for het ; home in Sylvester. Dr. R. S. Rust, the gentleman ■‘who sustained serious injuries in : | falling down the elevator shaft at : The Windsor Saturday afternoon was considered much better last 1 night and it is hoped will soon re -1 cover entirely. Here’s the Leap Year news from St. Louis: Two sisters managed to marry one the same day. A bank runner is missing in Los Angeles. That's what bank runners seem to do. They run. Many will be sorry to learn a man who tried to swindle a Greenwich, Conn., dentist got caught. News from Mexico: Big oil com pany going on the rocks. The oil business is a slippery game. i’eople who naturally hate oil cor porations will enjoy hearing of a big oil fire in Indiana. It seems natural for an oil stock salesman to be a slick article witn an oily tongue. It takes so little to make some i people happy. Spokane man says he | is glad he is in jail. About dot) people sang on a Chi ,c;.go stage. This is enough singers to make 4000 neighbors mad. Lower wool prices are predicted I for 1924, unless they pull the wool |over consumers' eyes. M INNOCENCE ABROAD .Oh - \ . 1 kWr W \ {W ■ W-Otfli JiCUC- 4 - isd \\ fl®? ■ wc Z .// I \ <.Mvvß.fiEl.9z -:- THE REFEREE PENALTY A girl from the- West Virginia nountains begins serving 34 years in prison for moonshining. The sen ence was seven years and 86000 fine and costs. Unable to pay the me, she faces the prospect of work ng it out at GO cents a day. . What do you think of the propo rtion of making a young woman ■vork 27 years for S6OOO as part of he American system of justice? Government, which should always be ue model example, frequently is vorst. CRISIS A noted surgeon, Sir Frederick /rexes, died recently in England, .t’s revealed that he performed or directed 1000 operations for appen .icitis. losing only one patient—his own daughter. All other opera- ; .ions were successfully. Fate is like lightning. One nev •r knows where it will strike. How ver, fate’s uncertainty and irony ire what make life really interesti ng. Existence would become mo mtonous if everything were cut-ard tried and the road forever paved with roses. •— « Runner Australian newspapers feature a tory about a Papuan boy who trav- ■ THREE SMILES Returned With interest. A boy left the farm and got a ,ob in the city. He wrote a letter to iis brother, who elected to stick to .he farm telling the joys of city ife, in which he said: "Thursday ,ve auto’d out to the country club where we golfed until dark. Then ,ve motored to the beach for the .veek-end.” The brother on the farm wrote tack /‘Yesterday we buggied to .own and baseballed all the after noon. Then we went to Ned’s, pok ered until morning. Today we muled out to the cornfield and ge-hawed until sundown. Then we suppered end then we piped for a while. After that we staircased up to our room .and bedsteaded until the clock fived.’ Another Gem. ' I really believe I'm in luck this time,” said Mrs. Smith ‘‘My new m id is a perfect treasure clean, ■nergetie, economical easily . man iged and capable as can be.” “Ah! And how long have you had her?” asked Mrs. Jones. ‘She’s coming tomorrow,” replied Mrs. Smith. American Mutual Magazine. Prefers old Type A little chap was offered a chance to spend a week in the country, but refused. Coaxing, pleading, arguing promising of untold winders, alike brought from him nothing but the stubborn utimatum: 'No country for me 1” ’But why not?” Some one asked finally. “Because.” he responded, “they have thrashin’ machines down there, and its bad enough where it's done by hand.” Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Sl Day ['hones 88 and 231. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 9, 1924 eled 80 miles on foot in 12 hours, delivering a essage. The journey was all the more remarkable be cause it was over high mountains. It’s a phenomenal achievement, to us who have the telephone, radio., auto, train and mail service to keep us in touch with distant places, in vention has relieved us of a lot of slavery—even if it does let us out of one prison merely to wall us in side another. , ARRESTED A fur dealer in New York City bought a live raccoon for sls and displayed it ’n his shop window to attract attention. The raccoon ( knocked over its saucer of milk ami [ got its feet wet. This aroused the ire of a woman ' passing by. She had the furrier ar- i rested for cruelty on animals. He ; iwas released on SSOO bail. A sensi-: ble judge now tells him to go his | way without penalty, and asks if the Humane Society wants the raccoon ; kept at the Waldorf. This incident is one of many, in-i dicating that we are steadily ap proaching the time when every ac- ( tion will be regulated by law. By j contrast, liquor prohibition may prove a tame form of regulation. STENQG Eighty thousand stenographers and typists in New York City now— enough to make a city of consid erable size. Surprising, to learn I there are so many. They lack oi- Iganization to make themselves no jticed and appreciated. ' Organization is, to workers win ', i the support of an entire army is to [the individual soldier in the ranks. BALLYHOO H. G. Wells, defeated for Parlia iment, looks back and declares he'll I never again run for office. Says I Wells: "I find that a man cannot [retain his frceedom of mind as a candidate. There are so many di vergent views among voters that a man cannot speak his mind frankly and expect to gain .votes. He must .trim his sails to certain breezes.” This is a common theory among 'most politicians, though some of them may obey it subconsciously—- without realizing. But how many of them ever gave the theory a fait test by being 100 per cent frank to the people—without bunkum, deceit ’or pussyfooting and cunning ‘psycho 'logical strategy"? I. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIh.EE, Ass t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) 1891 - 1924 WNp,I? I Upon the foundation E •‘WK.!®* Q l-row.h u based the A present organization of .k/.i.p., ■ our bank - This experi- 41' ■.ais j.. 11 ents a h vu ys it th.- P’rr * ’ icommand of our cus jsL' tomers. We cordially . a?-.. ’. solicit your banking The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Too Small ty k,ltt . Father of Physical j Culture B r R.NAR.R macfadden Whi n we speak of a straight spine, we do not use the word "straight" in the same sense in which we apply it to a stick. The "straight” spine is one that gives the body an erect carriage. There ;if certain normal curves in the perfect human spine which are i-.cidental to the vertical position assumed by man, and which are also valuable as a means of ro ll. vinr 11. head from the Jar, or shock, which would otherwise be experienced in, walking, running, or jumping. In, other words, the slight curves of a healthy spine help lo give it spring. The human backbone consists of a series of twenty-four peculiarly constructed bony structures ar ranged in a column in such away as to provide a canal for the spinal cord. These twenty-four bones, or vertebrae, are separated from each oibi r b'. a scries of plates or rings of elastic and compressible mater ial known as cartilage. It is tlie presence of these elast ic plates of cartilage between the vertebrae which gives the back bon as a whole its flexibility. Each of the vertebrae is pierced with an opening through which the spinal cord passes. Branching off from the cord is a ’series of so-called spinal nerves, each con sisting of a bundle of nerve libers. Tin spinal nerves emerge from the cord through small openings pro ud.■.l between the verleUrae. It will be seen that if these ver t.l .a are misplaced, or out of line, these openings may lie more er 1- ss closed up. and so the Pinal nerv.-s may be pinched and tlv'ir capacity for carrying im pulses or impressions .impaired. In il same way. if the cartilage cushions between the vertebrae be- < .mie battened or hardened, a nar rowing of the openings through which Hie spinal nerves emerge must occur, and at the same time l lie flexibility of the spine will br im,.aired. This necessarily means impair..l functioning, poor health and a rapid development of those bodily conditions which we find in <st rente age. Another factor in the maintenance of a normal and b< autiful spine is the condition of I lie muscles and ligaments along the course of the backbone and of the back generally. l . • If these ligaments are relaxed and stretch ed they®‘lo not hold the spinal vertebrae in their proper relation to each other, and misplacements are likely to occur. Hence the necessity of exercise. . .
