THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 17, 1924
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that in his opinion the county school j
superintendent is a county officer I
and that- as-such comes within th4 i
constitutional provision that all 1
county* officers shall be, elected by |
vote •of, the qualified electors o(-“l
the county. This unofficial opin- I
ion , was published in The. Times- I
Recorder on March 1, 1920, but no ]
official opinion on the issue in
volved has ever been had so far as I
known
Chaifmaftf I. E. D. Shipp, of’ the I
county school board being aware of j
the ', facts above stated, “recently |
wrote George M, Napier, attorney !
general of Georgia, in Atlanta, |
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11 ng his opinion upon the matter andj
that official has just written Cm. j
j Shipf>, suggesting that the matter be i
] brought to the attention of the .
|fourts for final adjudication, j»c j
j hesitating to rule thereon with fin- (
iality. *
.Attorney General Napier’s ruling ‘
ion this question, which js interest-j
ling to a large number of residents!
I here, is contained in a letter to Col. ■
IShipp, dated January 16, and rei.ds *
as follows:
“Responding to yours of the 15th I
I instant, just received, wherein yiht.j
ask whether, in my opinion, a voter'
I living in an indepedendent school j
district is eligible to vote in an elec-]
j tion for county school superinten
dent,'! beg to say .that I have again
I examined Section 14 7 of the Geor
igie School Cpde, and must adhere
Ito the opinion expressed in my let
jter to Hon. N. H. Ballard, State
I Superintendent of Schools, dated
December 31, 1923, which contain
jed the following paragraph:
“ ‘With further reference to the
I question of the validity of the law
'.contained in Section 147 of the’
I State School Code of Georgia, es-
I pecially with reference to the pro
vision holding that voters of an in-
I dependent school .system not
| participate in an election for
|ty superintendent of,sch6ols, I beg
■ to say that I would not fie willing
| to take the responsibility of hold-.
, ing that .'this law-is inoperative and
| of no effect, in fact of the repeak
' ed discussions of our Supreme Court
| holding that no law should beheld
I unconstitutional unless it is mani
festly in conflict with some pro
vision of the Constitution of Geor
gia.’
“It seems to me a very serious
question to disfranchise citizens
f yno appear to be entitled to pal
ticipate in the selection of countv
officers. The law says that the
County School Superintendent shall
be elected by the voters of the
ccuht'y, and the situation is not at
all. free from doubt. In other
words, the Supreme Court might
hold that this law, preventing voters
of a county from participating in
the election of a county superin
tendent of schools,is illegal. It
wou’d-seem to me that the voters,
whether living in an independent
school district, or not, are interest-
SCire Relief
i LIQUID-NO
I ’ NO DOPE
For Boweland Teethinc
Troubles.Constipatiori
Colic. Sour Stomach.
I BABY EASE
ed in the selection of-the best pos
sibly obtainable to fill the office
of ‘county school superintendent.
Every citizen of an independent dis
trict is vitally interested in the Pro
gress and success of the schools of
the entire county.
The matter ought’ to be thorough
ly tested in the courts and ought
to set the question at rest, but 1:
would feel unauthorized to hold that
that contained in Section 147 sof
the School Code’ is unconsitutional,
and that therefore ptopje who are
by thatj law prohibited from voting
in such an election, should.partici
pate and'vote. I do think, however,
that ought to be put to a judicial
test, and trust that it ma/ be done
in order that the question may F'
finally set at rest.
I suggested to the State School
Commissioner, in another part of
the letter quoted from, that it would
be wholesome to have this matter
finally passed upon by our Supreme
Cqurt. 1 still think so, anc. trust
that this course may be followed.”
Pui suant to the suggestion con
tained in the foregoing letter it was
suggested today by interested par
ties that the jinatter may be brought
before the courts in the form of
manda mus proceedings directed
against the Democrat'* 1 executive
committee, and that these through
the usual processes of law will fin
ally bring the question before the
Supreme court for adjudication. In
the meantime, it remains t<\ be seen
what action will be taken by locM
authorities, and whether or net
Americus residents will be permitt;
ed to • Vote for this officer in the
coming primary.
RESOLUTION OF RESPECT
Death has again invaded the
ranks of Camp Sumter‘642, U. C.
V., Americus, Ga., and took from us
i our fellow member and friend,
I William T. Mims, who was born in
I Drayton, Dooly county, Ga., 1839.
Illis parents were Payton and Sarah
j Mims. He married Miss Victoria L.
■ Oliver, daughter of W. B. F. Oliver,
I of Americus, Sumter county., He en
i listed June 11, 1861 with the
Americus Volunteer Rifles com
manded by Capt. T. M. D. Kingj
which company was attached to the
9th regiment of Georgia Volunteers
with Longstreet corps, and was in
actual service the four years.
After the war he spent the re
mainder of his life in Americus, his
wife having preceded him to the
grave several years. Three children
survive him, Dr.. W. F. Mims, of
Kissime, Fla., T. M. Mims, of Hast
ings, Fla., and Mrs. Charlie Clark,
of Pensacola, Fla.
He died Nov. 30 1923.
Resolution adopted and ’ ordered
spread on the minutes and copy
sent to the family January 1, 1924.
W. P. PersoiM, J. B. Nicholson,
committee, H. D. Watts, comman
der; J. B. Nicholson, *adj.
* THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER >
FINAL
MADE FOR 'LEE ORY'
• -
Veterans and Sons of Veterans
to Be Guests of U. D. C. Chap
ter During Exercises
Final arrangements were com
pleted today for the presentation
of a Robert g. Lee program to be
.given at the Americus High school
auditorium' Friday morning at 104’0
o'clock under the auspiceb of the
local chapter of the Daughters of
the Confederacy.
Invitations have been accepted
by Camp Sumter No. 642, U- V.,
and by the United Sons of Veterans
to b e honor guests at the exercises.
Pupils from the city schools, to
gether with those of the Ttfird
District Agricultural and the rural
schools, will be present to partici
pate in the -program and to hear
the purpose of the perpetuation of
Lee’s memory. The public is in
vited.
Fitting Confederate decorations
will grace the stage, on which,the
Veterans and Sons of Veterans will
be seated, together with Mrs. James
W. Jr., local president of
U. D- C. and her officers.
Rev. Richard F. pastor
of the z Presbyterian church, will be
the chief speaker of the day, and
his message will deal with the in-,
fljience of the life and deeds of
General Lee on the present and fu
ture history of the South. •
The program in full follows:
Invocation—Rev. James B. Law
rence.
Hymn—How Firm a Foundation.
Introduction of Speaker—Hon.
Hollis Fort.
Address—Rev. Richard F. Simp
son.
Solo—•-Selected, Welibur Smith,
accompanied by Mrs. Joe Bryan,
pianist.
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RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT
Camp Sumter, No. 642, U. C. V.,
Americus, Ga., has again been visit
ed by death, and took from our
midst our beloved comrade, J. T.
Bowden, who died September 21,
1923.
Colnrade Bowden was born Nov. !
12, 1844. z and was nearing his 79th
year. He was married to Miss Ida C. |
by America's bedtfomcin 'Mer "T)
GUJ'SIIACK lOlXENiid*
Gertrude Atherton
XLVH (continued)
She looked up Into his eyes,
anxious but imperious, and an
swered softly: “Why not?”
"Exactly, ('ve no desire to take
that long journey with you. but
I'm not going to take any chances,
either. - . . . Ah! Here's an
ilea ftiat beats the other 'Qiollo'w.
When the party breaks tip we’ll go
down to Huntersville with them,
marry there, and return to camp.
I don’t see how your Dolomites
could beat this for a honeymoon.
Why in thunder should we trail all
the way over to Europe to find se
clusion jvhen we must return in
two or three months, anyhow? It’s
■i scandalous waste. We can go to
the Dolomites for our second hon
eymoon we’ll * have one every
year. Ai>d this is much more in
the picture if you want to be Mary
Ogdeh again. . She never would
have proposed anything so elabo
rate and unnecessary. Say yes,
and don’t be more than a minute
about it.”
Mary drew in her breath sharp
ly. The plan made a violent and
irresistible appeal. There would
bp no long" interval for possible re
versal. for contacts In which it
might be difficult to hold fast to
her new faith. But what excuse
could she make to leave him later?
. . Later? Did Austria really
exist? Did she care? Let the fu
ture take care of Itself. Her hori
zon. a luminous bpjid. encircled
these mountains. . . She.
smiled into his ardent eyes. “Very
well. I’ll write to Hortense todaj
and tell her to send me up a trous
seau of sorjs. And now —y</u are
to understand that you have not
damd*lo propose to- me yet and
are suffering all the qualms of un
certainly. for 1 am a desperate flirt,
and took a long walk in the woods
this morning with Mr. Scores.”
“Very well. Miss Ogden. 1 will
now* do my best to make a fool of
myself, and as soon as we return
to camp will telegraph to .New
York for a five-pound box of choco
lates." )
“Hark! Hark! The Lark!”
Jiouted Todd r as he rowed past
with Babettf Gold. ‘‘Only there
isn’t a lark or any other bird In
these woods that I’ve been able to
discover.”
“Birds sing one at a time,” shout
ed back Clavering. "Choir of jeal
ous soloists.”
He rowed into a little cove and
-.hey gazed into the dim green
woods, but the ihaple leaves grew
almost to the ground, and it was
like peering through the tiny
changing spaces Os a moving cur
tain through which one glimpsed
green columns flecked with gold.
He beached the boat, and they
walked, single file, up a narrow
iun-way madeiby tha.deer. Every
where w.as whispering
curtain. Between the rigid spruce
2nd soft maples were fragrant bal
sams and ferns, and an occasional
pine with its pale green* spikes.
They passed enormous boulders de
tached from the glaciers that had
ground mountains in their em
brace, but today things of mere
beauty in their coats of pink and
’green and golden moss.
Their footsteps made no sound
on the mossy path, and they came
suddenly upon a deer and his doe
drinking at a pool. But the ant
lered head was flung back instant
ly, the magnificent buck wheeled
tin his hind leks, gave a leap and
went crashing through the forest
snorting his protesting fury. The
doe scampered after, her white
lined tail standing up perfectly
straight.
They sat down on a log, dried
and warmed by the sun in this
open space, talked sos
• hours. There was no need for
careful- avoidance of dangerous
subjects. Covering had come to
these woods nearly every ’year
since he had made the north his
home, and she had forgotten noth
ing of her woodland lore. When
one is "in the woods,” as tjie great
Adirondacks are familiarly called,
one rapely talks of anything but
their manifold offerings. It is easy
enough to forget the world. They
both had their Jong tramps, their
rough campings-out, more or less
exciting adventures. When a loud
bell, hung in a frame outside the
camp, summoned them to dinner,
they walked out briskly. Once, as
the trail widened, he touched her
fingers tentatively. She let her
own curl for a moment, then gave
him a provocative glance over her
shoulder and hurried on.
a* a
XLVJII
Clavering, when making up his
list with Mr. Dinwiddle (by cour-
tesy), had, with the exception of
Todd, who was always the life of
any party, Gora, whom he always
liked to have at hand, and Eva Dar
ling, who was a favorite of "The
Ambassador to the Court of the
Sophisticates," as Todd had long
since dubbed him, chosen his
guests at radom, taking whom he
could get, careful merely to ask
those who, so far as he knew, were
on speaking terms.
, But he hardly could have gath-
Reese December 1876, who preced
ed him to Hm* grave several yeafs.
Comrade Bowden was in the Cav
alry service as a soldier and was
highly commended for having done
his whole duty.
Resolved: That in’the death of
Comrade T. J. Bqwden, Camp
No. 642 has lost one of it most loyal
members, one who had become
deared to jrll by his nobility oWife,
oMMIIi'i
//*wy l\
“Their footsteps made no sound
on the mossy path.”
ered together a more congenial and
lively party, nor one more delight
ed to leave New York for tho
woods. Henry Minor, editor of one
of the intellectual and faintly radi
cal magazines, whose style was so
Involved in his efforts to be both
"different” and 6 achieve an unre
mitting glitter, that he had recent
ly received a petition to issue
a glossary, was as am table as a
puppy in the society of tils friends
and when in the woods talked in
words Jf one syllable and discov-
ered a mighty appetite. His wife,
who had demonstrated her origi
nality by calling herself Mrs. Mi
nor, Was what is known as a spiff
ing cook and u, top-notch dresser.
She had, in tact, the most charm
ing assortment o' sports clothe®
in the camp. Eva Hiding, who
danced for pastime and illustrated
for what little bread, she was per
mitted to eat. at home, was as live
ly as a grasshopper and scarcely
less devast- ting. Babette "Gold
wore her black hair in smooth
bands on either side of the perfect
oval of her face, and had the sad
and yearning gaze of the unfor
giveh Magdalen, and she had writ-
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PAGE THREE
and one who had never lost faith in
the justice of the cause which • in
spired the South to take up arms
in its defense.
Read and adopted, and ordered on
the minutes and copy sent to his
family, Jan. 1, 1924.
. ..W. P. Persons, J. S. Xicholson,
committee.
H. D. Watts, commander; J. B.
Nicholson, Adj.
ten two novels dealing with the do
mesticities of the lower middle
class, treating with a clinical
wealth of detail the Irritable mo
notonies of thp nuptial couch and
the artless intimacies of the aur
sery. She smoked Incessantly,
■■could walk ten miles at a stretch,
and was as passionless as a clam.
Gerald Scores, who short
pointed beard and looked the com
plete artist, was one df the chief
hopes of the intellectual drama
cunningly commercialized; and as
capable as Clavering oL-'shutting
I up his genins in a water-tight com
partment, and enjoying himself in '
the woods. He was mildly flirta
tious, but looked upon emotional
intensity in the personal life of the
artist as a criminal waste of force.
Halifax -Bolton, who claimed to be
the discoverer of the Younger Gen
eration (in fiction) and was just ,
twenty-eight himself, was a critic
of formidable severity and the
author of at least five claques.
The intense concentration of writ
ing routed his sense of humor,
he bad as many droll stories In his
repertoire as Todd. His wife, the
famous "Alberta Jones.” fierje
Lucy Stoner, was the editor at a
phenomenal salary, of one. of the
“Woman’s Magazines," j|nd wrote
shqrt stories of impeccable style
and indifferent content for the Cen
tury and the Dial.
They were all intimate friends
and argued incessantly and amia
bly. And they were all devoted to
Mr. Dinwjddle, whom they ad
dressed as Excellence, without ac
cent.
When Mary and Clavering arrlv-,
cd at tile camp in response to the
dinner hell, Eva Darllngj»who wore
very pretty pink silk bloomers un
der her sport skirt, was turning
hand springs dowq the living room, ;
while the rest off the party Up- ; 1
plauded vociferously, and MW.Thar
sing, who was entering with the
triad chicken, nearly dropped J
platjer. • ” I '
“Just Iu time, MaSama'Zattiany,*
cried Minor. “This is the sixth
round and she is panting ”
But she interrupted him. “ ‘Mary’
—from this time on. I insist. You
make me feel an outsider. I
won't be addressed in that formal
manner nor answer to that foreign
nflane again.”
-’‘Mary! Mary! Mary!” shouted I
the party with one accord, and
Clavering drew a long breath. He
had wondered how she would man
age ,to feel Mary Ogden under the
constant bombardment of a name
that was a title in more ways than
one. But he might haye trusted
her to manage it! £
(To Be Continued) J
