About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1924)
PAGE SIX TIMES -RECORDER PUBLISHED 1879 Published b* The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelcae Eve, Editor and Publishei Entered as second class matter at die postoffio •t Americus, Georgia, according to the Ad vs CcagrcM**. t The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for the republication of all news dis patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to ’lus paper and also the local news published here in. All right of republication of special dispatches -*re also reserved. ■ National Advertistos Rq>rMrau'l«’- FROST LANDIS & KOHN. Brumwkk Blui-. •'«» Y °»: Peoples’ Gas Blds.. Chicago. A THOUGHT | He that, keepeth his mouth keep eth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction. —Prov. 13:3. He who seldom speaks, and with one well-timed word and strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero—Lavater. Sumter Negro Schools Sumter's rural school have in recent years come to be regard ed as models for Georgia, which reflect credit on those who di rect their activities. But it has remained for a ne gro school in this county to "do more for itself than any other school in the county.” Col. J. E. D. Shipp, who is greatly in terested in Sumter’s negro indus trial schools, and who has work ed unceasingly for their upbuild ing, says these schools have surg ed ahead because they have not waited for the school board to do everything for them, because they have done things for them selves. This is an achievement to be proud of and it is paying big in terest to the school students, patrons and friends, in the way of increased educational facili ties. How many white schools exist in Georgia of which it may be said they have "done more for themselves than any other school in the county,” especially if these chance to exist in a coun ty noted for its fine schools as is Sumter? It would be inter esting to know the answer td such a question. It is interesting, too, to con template how these Sumter county negro industrial schools manage, to forge ahead so rap idly. Conditions at the Sumter school probably account for this. W. H. Craig, head of the school, is a graduate of a fine technological college. Sixty per cent of the pupils time is spent in teaching handcraft. There are four teachers and about two hundred 'pupils. Every teacher in this school is a full normal graduate. This school seems to be destined tq be the greatest technological school, for the ne gro children in the state except one in Savannah, which is sup ported entirely by the state. It is most (remarkable that these negroes can raise so much money by voluntary gifts. The school appeared to be six months ago only a dream but that dream has come true. About three weeks since, the six room school building was formally dedicated by negro Masons, who laid the corner stone with appro priate ceremony. There are not to be found better educated teachers than the ones in this school The president of the school is a graduate of a negro techno logical college at Grangeburg, S. C., which carries a very high course of study. Most of his , salary is paid by the Smith- Hughes fund. The general education board of which J. H. Dillard of Vir ginia is chairman, Jias given this school a fine chest of tools of every description for both the wood and work shop, for the boys, and domestic economy rooms for the girls. Just in proportion td the voluntary con tributions that are made by the patrons, will Northern societies aid the school? The only reason then why the school at Sumter has received more donations than the other schools is simply because they have done more for themselves. ‘Glad Rags ’ The Sunday suit of clothes is one of the institutions that is vanishing in our generation. Y ears ago—and not so many, at that—it was a rare man who didn’t have his “Sunday best"' stored ateay for use only on the Sabbath or special occasions such as going to a church social Or “Floradora." The idea was to wear the new suit only "for good." It got into every-day use when the reg ular week-day suit fell to pieces People weren’t particular, in former days, about what they wore Monday to Saturday. At j least, that vyas true of the men. I r EVERY LIVE TOWN HAS A LIVE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE- WITH EVERY LIVE R ESIDENT A LIVE MEMBER Patches and mends were noth ing to be ashamed of. They re flected the economy that was i necessary in a period when mon ey was so scarce that the resi dence of a man making $250 a month, was pointed out as a I own fonder to visitors being driven past in a phaeton. There used to be a song in those times, "Every Day'll Be Sunday By-and-By.” That goal has been reached, in the matter 1 of men’s clothes. Even the over all brigade' is apt to wear the same suit week-day evenings as on Sunday. The Sunday suit meant most o the boy in knee trousers, for with it the clothier-' threw in” a pair of suqpenders and a prem ium like a Brownie camera or a small alarm clock masquerading s a watch. Since the Sunday suit Was de stined not to see week-day serv- six months or more, fath er always bought it several sizes too big— a 16-year-old for a 12- year-old boy was the rule. The glory of the new raiment vas somewhat dimmed by the constant fear of ripping the seat of the trousers or making onnections with grease spots. We'd like to turn the clock back and get something that'd wear like one of the* old-time Sunday suits. Yes, we'd even toil a couple of hours again with na s iron, making trousers creases that would cut a dog in two. For we’ve lost, not only the Sunday suit, but a lot that went with it socially. . I OPINIONS OF : OTHER EDITORS 1 LESS LIQUOR BEING SOLD AND DRUNK IN ALBANY We hav e had no liquor raids or sensational arrests, of moonshin ers or bootleggers to report from Albany during' the holidays, nor have we had any drunken dis orders or crimes growing out of t the selling or drinking of liquor to report. We hav fc had a sober and peaceful holiday season in Albany, and there has been lit* tie, if any, evidence of liquor drinking. During the entire Christmas week there Aas but one cas e of drunkenness docket ed 'by the city’s efficient police force, and if we had no raid on liquor dens it is only fair to as sume that it was due to the fact that there were no visible signs that any were being operated. Prohibition is really beginning to prohibit in Albany, and it is due largely to the fact that those who are able to buy liquor at the prices demanded by bootleggers have come to the conclusion, aft er repeated trials and direct ex periments, that no mor e liquor that is fit to drink can be had, and that it is dangerous to tamper with the synthetic concoctions that may be had regardless of the labels and counterfeit'stamps its containers may bear. Bootlegging is no longer so profitable in these parts as it has been. The demand for such liquor as is to be had has fallen off to such an extent that boot legging doesn’t pay as it did be fore the tipplers got wise to the fact that th c liquor to be had is not fit to drink.—Albany Herald. AN EXCELLENT MEASURE » Representative Charles R. Crisp of Georgia, has introduced a bill to reimburse taxpayers their rea sonable costs in prosecuting ap peals from the action of the commissioner of internal revenue in assessing additional taxes against Mem when, upon review it shall be determined that the taxpayers’ original returns were fair honest and substantially cor rect. By all means this bill should . pass. There is no one feature of the present federal income tax system that is more inquisitorial than that which makes a taxpay er, who has employed perhaps an expensive expert accountant, or income tax specialist and has re ported a correct return and made an honest and correct remittance to the government on the face of the return, go to the additional ex pense, sometimes mounting into the thousands, to defend himself against a supplementary assess ment from the government, made usually two or three years sub sequent, and for varying amounts running into tens of thousands of dollars—Constitution. TWO PLATOON SYSTEM FOR FIREMEN The two platoon system for the fire department is quite a common thing to see in many newspapers where there are agita tions going on for this change.' We hav e not been advised of any such intentions in Thomasville', but it is a matter that should be seriously considered in any development of the fire depart ment, in fact, it is the first thing that wlil come. The two platoon system mere ly means two shifts ’ working 12 hours each but subject at any and all times to answer a fire alarm as quickly as possible— Times-Enterprise. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER z IT’S A DOG S LIFE X -’ F - Os /V X- ■ / z aTs a Hte. FALLOW, \ / & ‘ sTu’ff mow I / \ J I ' k- ■ '' ' x 1 / h 'A / ' N --'A A \ X. / 0”) // \ 1 T" H[ i J .. .... If ~ - Our Daily Poem IF— If we could know what other people think of us, i / And mayfte sometimes say, No doubt we’d keep our thoughts mor e close, And give our tongues less play.x If we could read the minds of thorfe we meet And get their point of view, Much idle chatter would be saved— Wt-’d have les§ talk to do. In short, if we “could see ourselves” From out our neighbor’s eye, We’d find less blame and more to praise In thos e who pass us by. / But why should I at this late hour, ' Attempt in rjiyme to preach, This lesson which dear Bobby Burns Failed signally, to teacfi? - —E.L.T. n &vy s [pznp er. BUTTON' BUTTON! HE HAS IT ? RELIC RETAINS YOUTH AND VI TALITy IN BEAN TOWN * Boston man wears a collar but ton 21 years old. That is older than a stenographer’s gum. A button old enough to vote should find its way from the laundry without asking. If aged buttons talked this one would say ‘‘l never smoke, drink or sleep under dressers.” ». * » MARKETS Leap Year is influencing the bond market, matrimony preferred caus ing quite a flurry. « • * EDITORIAL Naples has shipped to the United States a cheese • weighing 180 pounds. This however is not the big gest cheese in the world. Biggest cheese in the world is. the-man who thinks he is the whole cheese. WEATHER When she fills a hot water bag! every night to keep.her feet warm the honeymoon is over. ♦♦ ♦ • COMICS Coolidge: My hat’s in the ring, fii Johnson: I’ll step on it. * » * FICTION “Making out the income tax is fun,” said a harassed taxpayer. • * » SPORTS I We wish to deny a rumor that the 1 180 pound cheese imported jfrom Naples wants to fight Jack | Dempsey. The cheese may be | strong, but being a Provolone cheese i it is too god to fight. BEDTIME STORY "Use your toothbrush or mother ■ will use the hairbrush.” « ♦ s ‘ ADVERTISING / Reducing exercise. By exercis ing judgment a man, can reduce his tat head. Reduce expenses by exercising caution. Anything can die reduced, except im.ybe taxes. .. * ♦ Foreign news English doctor has a germ 20 years old. Bet it wears sideburns and uses a cigaret holder. New Yorkjr was worried about* ■ missing wife, but found her ■in Jersey safely married again. Big tobacco crop in Turkqy this year. You can put that your . pipe and smoke it. 'i « *-» ■ ETIQUETTE Minneapolis man bit off his wife’s car’. This is considered ill bred in select circles. » sr « WEEKLY RADIO PAGE Changing a’ticker coil regenera- I five set to a loop set ft simple if you keep your shirt on. Remove condenser, ‘vario-coupler, stigma es ophagus' and glyptodon. Next re move your hands, four’ in one cup of molasses, two eggs, and more lasses. Do not stir until cops arrive. i-« * * HEALTH HINTS Boston barber says dentist pulled | out This may be fun but it isn’t healthy. * % V « SOCIETY ' ; Joy reigns supreme at Mr. John’s (house. His skinny daughter is get i ting .plump. was first noticed last night when her elbows didn’t ‘tear the tablecloth. “She’s gaining,’ said Mr. John to a man who'called to put a new’ bottom in a chair. KKIi Americus Undertaking Co, NA 1 LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Day Phones 88 and 231 $5,000 TO LOAN On Americus Residence Property Phone 830 LEWIS ELLIS I"Health. Q/ints fl’y 1e - * A ; ; Father of i-T’ Physical Lk .JLzkJB Culture BER.NAR.a_ MAC FAD DEM The bent-over position of the spine, with the stooping shoulders that go with it, influences the bojy in two ways. First, thc body and its functions suffer from the direct, effect of bad posture upon the internal organs. The chest is flattened and cramp ed, thereby crowding the heart and preventing the free expansion of the lungs. It thus means an im mediate loss .-of the proper supply of oxygen in the lungs and) conse quently in the blood, but it also means a displacement downward of all of rhe vital organs. This faulty position of the body invol ves not«only a cramped chest but the sagging and protruding ab» domen. Tn thc normal position the ab dominal region is never extended. In the slumping position, however, of the' extremely ’aged, or of the one who hits pre maturely aged, the abdomen is re laxed: and prolapsed, and the stomach, liver and other in ternal organs sag several in ches below the normal, crowd ing upon the intestines and other parts below. There is con siderable strain of ah ligaments 'and tissues in this prolapsed yon- I dition, and there is also congestion I due to pressure of these organs upon one another. Under such circumstances poor functioning is inevitable. But. impaired functioning also results from bad posture in an other way. That is through the obstruction of the spinal nerves, due to the bending of the spine, from its normal position and the improper alignment of the verte brae. An ideal posture corrective is the simple exercise oft clashing the hands back of the head, then pull ing the head and elbows back ward. This will straighten the spine, raise thc •chest and give good standing position. To "vitolyse” according to my idea of improving the posture, Straightening the spin- and arousing latent nervous energy, is as s follows: Instead of tipping the head back, it is brought back while the eliin is kept down and drawn inward. Think of drawing the chin inward, downward anil . backward and you have it. ..-This is done simultaneously , with the raising and expanding of the chest at tho solar plexus. Repeat this movement several times whenever you think of it, if possible dozen§ of times each day. * . There’s one nice thing about movie celebrity scandals. We are always getting brand new ones. i FIERY, ITCHY SKIN ! i QUICKLY SOOTHED i • BY’THIS SULPHUR j Mentho-Sulpbur, a pleasant cream, will soothe and heal skin that is irri tated dY broken out with eczema; that is covered with ugly rash or pimples, or is rough or"dry. Nothing subdues fiery skin eruptions so quickly, says a noted skin specialist. , The moment this sulphur preparation is applied the itching stops and after two or three applications, the eczema is gone and the skin is delightfully clear and smooth. Sulphur is so precious as a skin remedy Because it destroys the parasites that cause the burning, itch ing or fli-figurement. _ Mentho-Sulphur always heals eczema right up A small jar of Rowles Mentho-Sul phur mat be had at anv good drug store. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 18, 1924 Apple „ GONE Days when railroad coaches werg lighted by candles, days when con ductors had to carry lanterns at night to see the tickets—these are recalled by William F. Sullivan. He’s a conductor on the Boston Albany Will retire soon, after 52 years of service, , In all those years. Sullivan says, the only change he has noticed in people is their clothes. Styles cpme and go. So do people. Human na ture rolls along, unchanged. The plot of life is eternal, repeating gen eration after generation, the same old thing. Actors, scenery and stage ‘‘props” change, but the show never • * * GOULD In the early days of the telephone, | an old-timer reminisces in the Wall Street Journal, the Western Union installed phones in business offices for demonstration purposes. Jay Gould tried the new invention, Wien ordered it removed. He pre dicted it never would be of com mercial value, never get beyond the toy stage. It reminds you old man Vanderbilt who ridiculed the elevat ed railroad when it was first pro posed. Only within the last 15 years has it become relatively easy to get al new idea across—to induce people to adopt new devices without years of education and pleading. , ♦ « * BABY A ’ nine-months-oldbaby crosses' the Atlantic Ocean alone. His name, i Ferdinand Gluck. He was ill ami couldn’t be brought with his mother when she returned from a tourist trip to /Germany a month before. People on the ship took such good care of Ferdy that he even gained weight on the way across. It strikes us as one of the finest tributes to civilization's wonders, that a baby less than a year old can travel a couple of thousand miles without its mother. A baby', you know, is the only subject on which everybody agrees. BURIED , In Kaiisas they discover a gre.it engineering job by primitive men— an irrigation system, including a canal from a huge dam that stored up the waters of Four Mile Creek. You picture those ancients, digging with bone and stone shovels, carry ing- away the earth in rawhide sacks. A modern steam |hovel would du plicate the job in a matter of day.;. Yet our greatest engineering achievements may seem as crude and primitive, to people 2000 years from now, as the work of the primi tive Kansans seems to us today. Progress is’ slow, but certain. « * * DEVILS Quite a task, introducing' movies to China. The Chinese afraiil of dark theaters, fearful of attacks by enemies and devils. So a wise Yank perfected a screen on which YioJies could be shown without dark ening the theater. This invention will soon take the plj.ee of the stock ticker, Wi.M Street believes. On a screen above the quotation-board, the movie ma chine will flash prices in letter.- eight inches high, all in hoard day light. A boon to the chair-warmini? brigade. STEEL Railroads this year will spend about a billion dollars for new equipment, according to estimates by Railway Age. Good news for the steel industry, barometer of general business conditions, for nearly a third of all steel produced in American mills relics on the rail roads for its market. More steel ingots were produced in 1923 than in any previous year except 1917-which, however, led 1923 by only a very small fraction. Forty-three tons of steel ingots were made last year, Tor every 30 tons in 1913. T : WO TO-NIGOT Without griping or nausea * ' TABLETS • Set your liver right - only CM COUNCIL vp iden tr v T ’ Bol T°N, Ass’t, Cashier -1 LOLNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E„ KI KER, Ass’t’. Cashier The Planters Bunk of Americus (Incorporated) 1891-1924 th *' fou ndation HHwfeiW $ ffct ‘h.rty three years of growth ,s based the fl iWa® . pre^ nl organization of iBWJiWI on ! ' bank - ThiS tuce is always it the command >'f our CUB . business. The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1 7nn nnn ~~ PROMPT, conservative. accomXSic N ° Account Too Large; None Too Small Old Days in Americus i —■ 111 ■' TEN YEARS AGO TODAY I (From the Times-Recorder Jan. 18, 1914.) Mrs. Will Riley entertained at two ! tables of 42 on Thursday evening at ! her home in Brooklyn Heights in 'compliment to her sister, Mrs. j. E. : Toole, of Arlington. After the in- I teresting game cake with egg-nog I was served. , » The Grape Fruit club was enter tained on Thursday morning.by Mrs. W. J. Josey at her home on Lee street. There were three tables, and the prize, a dainty handket|« chief, was won by Mrs. Henry La nier. In compliment to Mrs. Chloe Em ily Freeman and Mrs . Edward Stearh, of Albany, Mrs. H. B. Al len entertained at two tables as autioh bridge on Friday! morning at her home on Taylor street. Mrs. Henry Lanipr received the prize for top score, which each honor guest was presented with a pack'of cards. After the game a salad course with .with an ice was served. Miss Eva Owen entertained at het home on Elmore street Wednes-> day, pt which time rook was played throughout the evening. Those present were Misses Ruby Andrews, Mary K. Livingston, Mary Belle ‘Norris, Corinnne and Willie Crabb, Christine Argo, Marion Stalker, Or rie Baggett, Sara Matthews, Bessie Cobb Lottrell and Winnie Clyde Hill, Miss Sanders, of Richland. Messrs. Johnnie Thayer, George i Matthews, Charlie Weeks, Howell Smith, Rust, J > . T. Livingston, Rus sell Speer, Thad Reese, Roy and Foy Owen. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday morning, no paper pub lished. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Tilftes-Recorder. Jan. 18. 1894.) Mr. and Mrs. >R. E. Allison leave this morning on tt visit of two weeks to relatives in Columbus, Cusseta and LaGrange. Tim Killen-will entertain quite a number-of friends at a birthday par ty tomorrow evening at the home of his sister, Mrs. G. T. Miller, on Lee street. Tim has not yet attained his majority, though Ihat downy mustache he wears would indicate as much. A fishing party composed of Mr. and Mrs. James Montogmery ' and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rylander and children left today for Chapman’s mill. Tents and camping utensils were carried dong and the party will enjoy two or three days in the woods, • .• A number of Americus sports who can’t see the Mitchell-Corbett mill are arranging for a bull fight which will take this city thi.d week. Two vicious bovines will be turned together in an enclosed lot, and a large crowd wiil watch the combat. Sheriff Luke Forrest was notified by wire yesterday of .a wholesale robbery at Powersville the night be fore, and requesting that the blood hounds kept here be sent there to chase the burglars. The city council will no longer tol erate further delay in the removal of the tracks of the street railway. Two weeks ago the council officially notified H. E. W. Palmer of Atlanta, that unless the work of removing the road was begun with in ten days, the city would under take to do it. Professor and IVJrs. L. [). Lockhart returned yesterday from a visit to at Dawson. Scotti got decorated for being in Mfertopolitan Opera 25 years. It docs take a brjive man. Always Takel/ CAS€ARA ; |quihiNE I s elieves LA GRIPPE IN 3 DAYS AH Oruttlrt«--v> cent,
