About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1924)
PAGE SIX 1 EVERY LIVE TOWN HAS A LIVE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WITH EVERY LIVE RESIDENT A , LIVE MEMBER times-recorder PUBLISHED W 79 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelcae Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered as secood class matter at the poatofficr at Americus, Georgia, according to the Act of The Associated Press is eiclusfrely entitled to the use for the republication of all news dis hatches credited to it or not otherwise credited to < ■his paper and also the local news published here* In. Ail right of republication of special dispatcher are also reserved. Natkmal Advertising Representatives, fj 0 *' 1 ’ LANDIS & KOHN, Brunswick Bldg.. N<"* YorM; Peoples’ Gas Rida.. Chicago. _ 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. ■ 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- r 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.’ r 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. 1 OPINIONS OF f 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 ' J : ! ■ it . ij/* "" T ■ - <7 rwwoA ~ \ -:- 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! i ixm. . vz-v /i i, ;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. . sg * -. WEATHER Mercury jumped 80 degrees in 36; hours in Norfolk, Neb. Maybe dur-| ing a political speech. *• • X 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. » » . 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. * * 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. j » *' » HOME HELPS Kill bedbugs by inviting in rela tives too skinny the bugs starve to ■ death. . I* * * 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. * » * 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? if s »- MIRROR The gentlemen who eat statistics' for breakfast announce \that nearly six billion dollars were spent for V z*. 2 1 A • V A A WA A « / 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! \ 'I Y — ’ 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. ♦ 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.
