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A THOUGHT |
Refuse profane and old wives’
fables, and exercise thyself rather
unto godliness. —1 Tim. 4:7:
Begin by regarding everything
from a moral point of view, and
you will end by believing in God.- ; ’
Dr. Arnold.
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Judge Criisp’s Bill
Representative Charles Crisp
has introduced in Cpngress an
excellent measure in his bill
which would compel the gov
ernment to reimburse tax pay
ers their reasonable costs in
prosecuting appeals from the ac
tion of the Internal revenue de
partment in assessing additional
taxes against them unjustly, when
in the review it is shown that
the original returns were cor
rect.
The action of the Internal
Revenue Department, in many
instances, have assumed a rather
high-handed attitude. Their
demands often are impossible of
fulfillment without enormous ex
pense for accountants.
The unpopularity of the in
come tax, to a large extent, is
due, not to the AMOUNT of tax
paid, but by the expense the
ta#has caused to be incurred by
smaller corporations and busi
ness men .
By all means the bill should
pass. In fact, it should be a
popular bill in Congress with
both parties and Congressman
Crjsp is to be congratulated on
his forethought and care in the
preparation of the bill-
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The Unpaid Workers
Almost every day of the year
there is some than or woman
working for you who never ex
pects or receives one penny for
his services. He is just as busy
as you. His business is as ex
acting and important to him.
and yet, he closes his desk and
jtakes the street for you, for.
Ajnpricus, for- Sumter county.
His .only recompense is the JOY
of service.
The following New Year’s
resolution, from the pen of Jack
Williams, editor of the Waycross
Journal-Herald, should be taken
seriously by every resident of
Americus. Where the word
Waycross’ appears, substitute
’AMERICUS.’
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One New Year’s resolution that
every citizen of Waycross should
make and keep is: “I will take
note of and keep an accurate
check on those who work for
Waycross.*
There are yet men and women
in Waycross who try to dodge
public work, who refrain from
co-operating in any organized ef
fort. Yet if you will notice,"
you will find that when they are
mentioned in th e paper, when by
reason of one fact or another they
figure in the news items, they
are always careful to mention
that they are members of the
Chamber of Commerce or of
the Lions club or of the Kiwanis
club, or of some organization that
they feel has contributed to the
growth of the city. They are
always proud to mention that
they have been on the board of
directors of the Chamber of Com
merce, the Lions club or the Ki
wanis club, that they have been
one of the officers of some good
organization.
Deep down in his own heart ev
ery mah knows that he ought to
be of some service to the city out
of which he expects to make a
fortune. Th e man who is run
ning a store, or a legal office or
a medical office, or a busings
of any kind in Waycross, ex
pects to prosper, expects the peo
ple bf Waycross 1 and the people
who eom e to Waycross, to trade
with him.
Such a man, the man who
makes all his incffinc off Way
cross, certainty is due som P re
turn to Waycross. He should
feel under obligation to jvork for
Waycross.
Further, the man who refuses to
work for Waycross, after he has
made a living off Waycross, for
many years, is secretly ashamed
of himself. He is not proud of
his record. He is not proud that
-his record is known to his fel
low citizens.
Waycross should give credit
where credit is due. This can be
done only if the citizens of Way
cross remember the names of>
those who work for Waycross.
During 1924 make a mental
note whenever you yead ,in the
daily paper that /sntUO man or
some woman has not only attend
ed to his private business but has
found time to donat e some per
sonal work to Waycross.
< These men and women are due
credit. As a loyal citizen of
Waycross you will be fair enough
to give them credit.
Isn't Mr. Williams’ suggestion
a good one—one well worth
keeping in mind this good year
1924? Give credit where cred
t due. Let the man or woman
who is working for YOUR com
munity know that YOU appre
ciate his or her efforts.
1 hen determine that you do
your share of the work this year,
carry your part of the burden.
It s a working, unselfish -citizen
hip that make cities from towns
and villages.
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j O THER EDITORS
MARKET FOR DIARY
PRODUCTS
J. T. Hopkins was recently
chosen as the chairman of the
cow department of the Waycross
and Ware County Chamber of
Commerce for 1924. His first of
ficial action was to increase his
subscription for a creamery and
milk depot by two hundred and ,
fifty dollars.
It is to be remembered that
during 1923 Mi. Hopkmfe gave
liberally of his time and money to
the Waycross Dairy association.
His effort was not in vain. Sev
eral carloads of dairy cattle were
brought to Ware county. Many ■
of the business men of Waycross
became interested in the effort
to build up the dairy industry.
A Chamber of Commerce Com
mittee headed by .1. H. King, se
cured a subscription list of S2BOO
for th<. establishment of a cream
ery and milk depot.—Waycross
Herald-Journal.
MR. UPSHAW. OF GEORGIA
Congressman Upshaw, of Geor
gia, the redoubtable champion of
aridity in high places, has offer
ed to accept the vice-presidential
nomination on the* democratic
ticket, not to become a travel
ing, ranting candidate for this
modest honor but to “accept ’ it,
if properly tendered. Os course,
the democratic party might take
its cue from the modest maiden
Who gets her first proposal and
exclaim, “this is ’So sudden,” and
frown and be perverse, but the
chances are that if the party
should go out and seek a dry tail
to the presidential kite, that
Brother Bryan of Nebraska and >
Florida would have first consid
eration. Mr. Bryan, however, al
ways imposes and insupportable
load on the party when he be
comes a part of the moving equip
ment and he might not care to add
a vice-presinetial defeat to his
list of presidential Waterloos.
Still, should the convention at
tempt to make a meaningless
declaration on the prohibition is
sue, Mr. Bryan might possibly be
persuaded to take another chance
in the lottery and a second place
on the ticket. Mr. Bryan’s
'“junx” would be a terrible handi
cap but it would hardly prove
more fatal than the erratic vo
c iterator from Georgia, who
wants to amend the Volstead act
so as to give the power to vacate
every office, high and low, whose
occupant has “looked upon the
wine when it was either red or
white,” and would deport all
aliens found guilty of violating
the act and employ the army and
navy to enforce prohibition. It
is not believed that the democrat
ice party is courting way to ‘run
amuck’ and that Mr. Upshaw of
Georgia will not afford the means
of its doing so.-tySelma (Ala.)
Journal.
FORECASTING THE FUTURE
It really shouldn’t be difficult
to forecast the future considering
the two greatest laws of the uni
verse. The first of these laws
is cause and effect. The second
is the law of repetitions.
Herbert Spencer, English phil
osopher, attracted by the law of
repetitions, studied it and decided
that historical events and situa
tions repeat themselves with a cer
tain regularity, or cycle, the
same as the four seasons of the |
year alternate and daylight and
darkness follow each other
through ages. .
Governments also, as the ages
pass, have changed with certain
fixed cycle tendency, Study an
cient civilizations. A country may i
be governed by an aristocracy—a I
group of leaders becomes strong I
enough to seize all the control I
for himself, and the aristocracy ■
has evolved into monarchy. x |
Monarchy tends to end in revo- ,
lution.
The next step in cycle evolution
is anarchy or general lawlessness,
a natural reaction from a condi
tion of too much law.
Russia has illustrated both of
these changes.
Out of anarchy conies order
—democracy, usually a republic ;
with government powers delegat- j
ed to elect representatives.
Then the wheel, according to i
precedent of past, civilizations, I
begins turning again. Democracy ■
degenerates inter aristocracy grad- i
ually. as power ibecomes center- I
ed in the hands of a few.
The interesting cycle or wheel I
of governmental evolution stops j
and turns backward a while, as 1
when a weak monarch has to sur
render much to his power and
divide it among |<>!loweis;
in effect changing monarchy into
aristocracy.—Tampa Times,
MY, OH MY! ISN'T HE A PLAYFUL RASCAL '
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-:- OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recordcr Jm.
16, 1914.) *
A party of prominent officials
of the Central of Georgia railway
spent several hours in Americus
yesterday; en route from Savannah
to Birmingham. In the party were
vice president, W. A. Winburn, and
A. R. Lawton; general manager,
Moise, Supt. Henry Baldwin, and
President Pleasants, of the Ocean
Steamship. Co.,
;The quarterly report of Harvey
W. Weaver, city clerk and treasur
er, submitted to the city council al
the recent meeting, was regarded i
as flattering from the city’s view ;
point, showing as it did not only a
considerable reduction in the city’s j
general indebtedness during the ■
past year, but a marked increase
in tax revenues imposed since Jan
uary 1 for the current year
The funeral of Mr. Lee Hightow
er was held from his residence on
Hill street at 3:30 o’clock yester
day afternoon, conducted by Rev.
Robert L. Bivins, pastor of Furlow
Lawn Baptist church. The pall
bearers were Paschal Market, Fred
Anderson, C. J. Reeves, C. U How
ard, J. L. Sutton, and Charles A.
Culpepper, all members of Marshall
Division, D. L. •E. of Americus.
Characterized by simplicity and
pretty in all details was the wed
ding of Miss Ida Christian and Mr,
Roy Edwards Black, which occurred
at high noon yesterday at the bride’s
home on Brown street. The bride
came in with her brother, Mr. Henry
Christian, and they were met at the
altar by the groom and his best
man, Mr. William Bagley, the im
pressive ceremony being performed
by Rev. J. A. Tohmas, of the Meth
odist church.
Mrs. H. O. Jones and little
daughter have gone to Aiken, S. C.,
where they will be the guests of
relatives for some time.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Jan.
16, 1904.)
The finishing touches are being
put on the great dome of the First
Methodist church, and the handsome
edifice is nearing completion.
The weatheij at night is still cold
nough to put the water pipes ofit
of business, and property owners
are watching both the pipes and the
plumbers.
Eugene Roach, \ho is temporar
' ily aibiding at the city hospital, is
fast improving and now sits up
daily to read his Times-Recorder.
Mrs. J. L. Sparks and baby
daughter came from, North Carolina
1 yesterday, much to the delight of
1 Papa Sparks, who has just made the
I acquaintance of this pretty little
tot.
.Miss Margaret Callaway, of Ma
con. is the guest of Mrs. Crawford
Wheatley for several days while
upon a visit to friends in Americus.
C. S. S. Jlorne, who purchased
recently a desirable building lot on
;Church street near Oak Grove ceme
, tery, is already erectirtfc a pretty
I residence thereon, which will b?
i ready for occupancy a month henee.
IHe will build a second dwelling
i upon the lot adjoining at a later
’ date.
I To the end of storing machinery
I used in roadworking, tools, etc.,
and housing mules, carts and wag-
I ons, the county commissioners are
now building on the old jail lot
there about the largest barn in
southwest Georgia. The structure
covers a half a acre of ground and
will have two or three floors'.
In common with other cities,
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
Americus has either lagrippe or the
worst cold that ever afflicted a city.
Everybody is wheezing, coughing or
sneezing, and the malady appears
to be epidemic.
; THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
j (From the Times-Rccordei-. Jan. I
16/ 19&4.) ;
The recent advance in the price I
iof cotton will benefit but few in I
■ this city or section, as the crop has
already been'gathered with the ex-1
eeption of a very small part. Amer-1
icus has received| a-little more than'
44,000 bales of cotton up to this
| time, and of this number less than
■ 2,000 bales remains in the ware
' housese here.
Mr. Henry Walker, one of the
'popular salesinen at George D.‘
Wheatley’s store, leaves today for
Columbia, Ala., his former home,
where he will wed Miss Valencia
Davepnort, a pretty belle of that lit
tle city. The ceremony will take f
place at 7 o’clock tomorrow morn
ing, and immediately after the cere
mony Mr, and Mrs. Walker will take
the train for this little city where ,
they will make their home. i
Miss Mattie Burke, one of Amer
icus prettiest young ladies, left yes
terday for Baltimore, where she
will enter upon, a course of study
at Mount St. Agnes convent, lo
cated at Mount Washington.
Mr. H. I. Norvell, of the S. A.
M*, railroad, came in yesterday
from Charleston, where he has
been on business since his marriage
January 3. Mr. Norvell’s many ■
friends will be glad to hear tlia.il
he and his accomplished wife will
return to Americus sometime in the ,
early spring.
Unless there is more cold ’weath
er and that quickly the fruit crop
about Americus will be a failure
this year. Already the pear and
peach trees are swelling and soon
th e tender buds will be nipped by
I by the usual late freezing weather.
Two or three farmers in the city
yesterday reported haying Seen a
fine deer browsing 'by the roadside ,
near the Pilcher plantation, seven I
miles from Americus, and a hunt-|
ling party w:ll go there tomorrow to
look for the game.
THREE SMILES
Easy to Mix
Waiter—This man in the cower
had a drink of Scotch and now; he
wants rye. We hav e but the one
bottle.
Captain Shake a dash” of
ketchup into it and christen it rye
—Judge.
The Uprising Generation
Photographer Watch, and
you’ll see a pretty littl e jdicky-bird
come out 1 .
Modern Child—Oh, don't be an
ass.—-expose your plate and let’s
get this over!—Royal Magazine.
Yes, Indefinitely! •
“No, Herbert, I am sorry; but 1
am sure we could not be happy to
gether. You know I always want
my own way in everything.”
“But, my dear girl, you could
go on wanting it after we were
married.”—Boston Globe. ’
We tremble at the future life.
And yet, we all think we will have
friends in both places.
G S/’m
NBW S IPA.P BR.
EXTRA! O-OH. GOSH! EXTRA!
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;HELP! FIRE! MURDER! STOP
THIEF! THE CRADLE IS
ROBBED
Awful news from Washington,
i Tdtal of 1600 boys at the age of 15
i married in the United States in
■ 1923. And it will be worse in 1924,
| beacuse this is Leap Year.
Girls’ figures are even higher.
They shew 12,384 girls of 15 prom
ised to love, humor and dismay.
These little tots were not old enough
to start lying about their age.
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WEATHER
Mercury jumped 80 degrees in 36;
hours in Norfolk, Neb. Maybe dur-|
ing a political speech.
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SPORTS
Hans Wagner says an infielder
must make double plgys if he sticks
in the big league.
i This reminds us of a triple we
■ once saw. The bases were full and
so were the players. Batter used a
bottle-bat, like Groh, and uncorked
one to eenter. Fielder was so full
he thought he caught two balls in
stead of one. Umpire looked at the
and thought it was three, so
a triple play had ibeeji made.
This decision was staggering; but
then, so was everybody.
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BEAUTY SECRET
Keeping your mouth shut lets a
black eye get well.
WEEKLY MOVIE PAGE
All the world is a stage, but the
movie stars are acting so foolish.
Shootings are interfering with their
divorces.
Maybe they could get divorces
on Mondays and Wednesday and
hold shootings on Tuesday and
Thursddays and Thursdays. This
would leave week-ends free for the
silent drama.
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j ADVERTISING
I “A man is what he eats,” said
Somebody. Then skinny people
must eat spaghetti. Give our canned
hash a fair trial. It is not guilty.
If a man is what he eats you can
eat our canned hash and it will make
you everything, Hash Brown Co.
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HOME HELPS
Kill bedbugs by inviting in rela
tives too skinny the bugs starve to ■
death. .
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EDITORIAL
j It’s an ill wind that blows no i
good. Even the saxaphone sotjnds 1
nice at times. But this editorial isi
to bring out the shiny side of some
thing worse than saxaphones, the I
coal situation.
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
F uneral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 88
Day Phones 88 and 231 z
$5,000 IO LOAN
On Americus
Residence Property
Phone 830
i LEWIS ELLIS
'WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY’ 16. 1924
M /weg
Apple
STORM
You’ve heard of “the Night of the
Big Wind in Ireland.” - It was the
real thing, not a myth. Ireland lias
been observing its anniversary. The
Big Wind started the night of Jan.
6, 1839. It was a tornado, blowing |
TOO miles an hour, ail night and all
next day. Loss of life and proper
ty was tremendous. A feaful cold
wave followed.
So terrible was the storm that
■for many years the Irish dated
events from the Night of the Big ;
Wind. Some still do. Others date |
from Year of the Potato Rot. j
Nature playing Safe, gave the'
Irish the power to stand a lot. Even
strength has its disadvantages. The
strong man has to carry double.
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IRISH
From Ireland went 300,000 men
to fight under the British flag in
the World War. And 49,500 of
them were killed. This doesn’t in- [
elude Irish- from othA - countires. '
The figures,"just announced by the]
Irish war memorial committee, are ■
amazing, in view of the traditional J
relations between Ireland and Eng- ‘
land. •
I The answer is that the Irish
I fought for a cause rather than for
a flag. That was true of most oil
the soldiers in the allied armies. At
least, the thought they fought for
a cause. How many have been dis
illusioned?
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MIRROR
The gentlemen who eat statistics'
for breakfast announce \that nearly
six billion dollars were spent for
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SOCIETY
Miss Gumit went shopping yester
day. This was all right, but she.
had-her hair on backward.
Friends and admirers will be glad
to learn Mrs. Blublub, v,no. .was
beautifully scratched and had her
hair most charmingly yanked at a
card party last week, has thought
of away to get even. t
BAD MANNERS’
: Keep your'elbows off the tabic,
j Elbows on the table are so coni-
I sortable you eat too much.
Copyright, 1923, DAH Y POEM By
IN.E. A. Service I 1 kZLiIVI Berton Braley
THE BASILISK
It’s fine for a man to be cheerful,
1 don’t like the crabber a bit; 4
But listen, I’ll slip you an earful—
- Although an admirer of grit,
\I can’t sWi'd the Chesire Cat person
Who wear on his map all the while
A fixed, ineffacfealble,
Sculptured, unchaseablfc,
Evermore tarrying',
Nevermore varying
Smile!
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That kind of a bird isnt human,
For sometimes, when lucks running bad,
The bravest of sports—man or woman—
Is bound to get grouchy or mad.
And though they may conquer their troubles
In plucky, unfaltering style, .
They won’t wear that terrible,
Almost unbearable,
Wholly unquellable,
Carved gnd indelible /
Smile!
, A smile is undoubtedly, pleasant,
A smile of the natural kind,
Rut when it’s unchangeably present
You wonder what’s lurking behind;
And I am intensely distrustful
Os devious scheming, and giule
Behind a perpetual,
Glad-to-have-to-met-you-all,
Guaranteed durable,
Chronic, incurable
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T, E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier
C. M.- COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. JE. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier
The Planters Bank of Americus
(Incorporated)
1891 * 1924
11 JiSIMMI Upon the foundation
of thirty-three years of
growth is based the
FjiyjgUW present organization of
g 0111 baHk' This expin i-
ence is always it the
command of our cus
tomers. We cordially
solicit your banking
The Bank With a Surplus ’
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small
I building in the United Mistakes
i during 1923. Nearly a fourth was
for homes. This is »-eal progress
construction —the forward mach ct
civilization.
The procession of civilization had
stragglers. Twenty-eight peopid
were lynched in our county last -
year. A terrible record. The onlny
good -thing that can be said about
it is that it’s 29 fewer than the year
before.
WEALTH
Are you twice as rich as you were
in 1913? The whole country is, and
more so. Government soon will an
nounce its latest estimate of the na
tional wealth. Wall Street says the
i figure will be 400 billion dollars.
: Before the it was about 188
'billions. < , >
Divide it up anH there’d he
agoiind S4OOO for every man, wo
man and child. How many would
divide? Would you? National
wealth includes homes, streets,,
parks, air—cv'ery thing; ,
WAGES
Do you make more than S2B ji,
t week-? That’s about the average
'wage paid in factories in New
| York state. Before the war it was
$12.54 a wewek.
■ These figures are worth watch
ing. Economists say that New York
’ factory wages are barometeric or
the nation at large. That is, they
reflect the general tendency in al!
states. Can you imagine going
back and living on $12:54 a week?
Many do now—whole families.
10 PLAY AT GAINESVILLE
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 16.
The St. Louis Cardinals will ap
' pear here on April 7 in an exhibi.-
j tion baseball game with the Univer-
I sity of Florida nine, according to
| James L. White, athletics director,
j Mr. White states that efforts are
i being made to arrange for a game
I with the Washington Americans,
who will train at Tampa this year,
i The ’Gator ball players also ire
'looking forward to a spring trip that
I will take tb'em to Atlanta for games
with Oglethorpe April 30 and May
1, anti against Mercer on April 28-
29. They will meet .Auburn on May
2 at Tallahassee.
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URGES AID FOR SCOUTS.
ATLANTA,/ Jan. 16. —Speaking
i before a luncheon meeting of the
I Junior Chamber of Commerce rc-J
i cently, George E. Watts, Boy
I'Scout Commissioner for this city
' urged the young men of this city
Ito take an active interest in Boy
I Scout work stating that a very
{ definite responsibility rested on the •
adult members in training the boys
of the community. It was announc
ed that a scout masters training
■ ■course will be held at scout head- ■
'quarters beginning January 24.