About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1924)
PAGE EIGHT EVERY LIVE TOWN HAS A LIVE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WITH EVERY LIVE R ESIDENT A LIVE MEMBER TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED 1879 tt~ - - Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelcae Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter at the poet of fid at Afnericus, Georgia, according to the Act ol Congress. 9 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled the use for the republication of all news dis patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news published h« rC * In. All right of republication of special dispatches \ are also reserved. - —— National Advertising Representatives. H 1 T LANDIS & KOHN, Brunswick Bld*.. > pw lor *’ Peoples’ Gas Bldg.. Chicago. . A THOUGHT Not rendering evil lor evil, .r railing for railing; but contrariwise, blessing: knowing that ye ai e the e unto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.—l Pct. If thou are of elephant strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.—Saadi. This Is Your Town. Why buy in Chicago if you live in Americus? Would you like to see this a better town with more life, en terprise and business? Would you like to see more work going on here? And would you like it better if you could walk into Americus stores and find them bigger and fresher and more varied stocks of everything? All this could be—if tne bulk of the money that goes to the mail order concerns stayed here, if you don't believe it, look into this matter and see how many dollars leave Americus in one month for the so-called bargains that the mail-order people pic ture in their catalogs. And then imagine what that much money spent here at home would add to the town's business! Os course, you have a per sonal right to buy where you please. You don’t have to buy ; at home. You are a free man in a free country. All of which is true, in a sense. But it is equally true that we are mutually dependent one upon another. That which may be legal, per 1 se, may not be necessarily ex pedient. It may be within your right, but at the same time not be for the best interest of all concerned, yourself included in the number. When the Playground or Chamber of Commerce needs funds, does any one ever hear of Sawbuck & Co.. making a contribution? They may can vass the merchants in Americus and get results, but the catalog house wouldn’t give them as much barb wire as they could eat. The same way about our churches and hospitals. Who keeps them up? The Philama ycrk Bargain House? Not so you can tell it And when you have some thing to sell, do any of these "golden pheasants” buy it of you? You have a right to do as you please, but adherence to the doc trine of "buy it at home" means profit in the long run, not only to the man you may buy from, but to you. We don t have to stand to gether and pull together if we don't care to Nobody can make us do it. But all the same it will be a lot better for us if we do, and we are bound t/> lose some thing if we don’t. Let s all get the home town" idea in our heads, and as long as we live in Americus let’s be of, for and by Americus. Intolerance. Intolerance did not deipart with the Dark Ages nor is it unknown in enlightened Amer ica. The American people, how ever much they hate to or re fuse to admit it. are intolerant in matters of opinion and belief. Persons in disagreement even on a subject most impersonal and trivial are inspired with a bitter hatred and irritation with one another because of the dis agreement. Americans with opinions running counter to each other are irreconcilable. They have not learned the art and lesson of tolerance, so when a neigh bor, an editor, a public speaker, or anyone, for that matter ex presses a thought or a belief op posed to their own there arises at once a dislike for that person which stops nowhere less than with a vitriolic derision of per sonalities and personal opinions. To be sure, people are not burn ed at the stake for their opinions in this enlightened age, but it cannot be denied opinions have been the provocation for mod ern murders and that many opin ions and their advocates are burned at the stake every day in j the mind| of the intolerant mul titude. I Humanity has not yet acquir r l ec j that felicity arid happy atti tude of looking at ideas disin terestedly, detachedly. V'jew ./points ate no object. The oth “'er man s opinions are worthless, ' fallacious, unless they tally with '(the accepted. Arguments to -day are never interestingly pug nacious until there is disagree ment because every man likes to . know that his fellow has the same slant on the subject as he and'nobody will admit himself lin the wrong. Intolerance is ! childish and the mark of illiter acy. It is compatible with re ligious wars and tyranny. No intelligent person should be afraid of the truth, ’and the man or wo- man who is fearful lest an other's opinions may differ, and rightfully, with their own should be sparing in the expression of ■ 'pinions The truly receptive i mind will discard like an old garment all ideas, no matter how revered and sacred should they be found obsolete or erron eous and accept the new and proven without mud-throwing and mouth-frothing. The devouring fire of bigoted i and intolerant public opinion has 1 - raised more martyrs to thought and truth than the stake and faggot. J OPINIONS OF § OTHER EDITORS ' IN PRAISE OF COFFEE • After three years of research i at a .cost of $40,000, Prof. Sam ' uel C. Prescott of the Massachus etts Institute of Technology has [ come to the conclusion that cos , fee as a beverage is not injurious but, on th e contrary, that it aids both mental and physical activi ty. Speaking before the Nation al Coffee Roasters’ association in ■ Boston, says the Boston Tran- ■ script, in a report of the meeting, he declared that coffee is fatigue relieving, and both increases the power to do muscular work and the power of concentration nec essary for mental effort. Prof. ; Prescott is head of the depart ment of biology and public health at the institute and, it seems, has had direct supervision of the spe cial study started by the coffee men to learn th e truth about their product. During continuous ex perimentation, an entire labora tory has been devoted to the pur poses of research. Professor Prescott is reported as saying: After weighing th e evidence, a dispassionate evaluation of the data so cpmprelTensively survey ed has led to no conclusions that coffee is an injurious beverage for the great mass of human be ing’s, but, on the contrary, that the history of human experience, as well as the results of the scien tific experimentation, point to the fact that coffeg is a beverage which properly prepared and rightly used, gives comfort and inspiration, augments mental and physical activities, and may be re garded as the servant rather than the destroyer of civilization. “Coffee, if properly prepared, has a remarkable stimulating and fatigue-relieving effect, due to the action of caffein, which acts on th e central nervous sys tem. It promotes heart action mildly, increases the power to do muscular work, and increases the power of concentration of men tal effort, and therefore is an aid to sustained brain-work. It has no depressive after-effect. It is not habit-forming, and does not require continually increasing quantities to give satisfactory stimulation. The action of caf fein might be likened for pur pose °f visualization to lubrica tion of machines, although the analogy is not perfect.” This is high praise, comments the Transcript, on its editorial page, and adds that it corre sponds with the prevailing judg ment of Americans, who habitual ly consume rather more coffee than any other people in the world. It goes on; This scientific praise of coffee will perhaps arouse the propa gandist activities of the partizans of tea. If coffee is beneficent, what about that other comfort of the harassed human race, the Cathayan cup which cheers but not inebirates? Can not all that the professor has said for coffee be also said for tea? There is, of course, t+ie tannin in tea, which is in coffee. It all comes down to Professor Prescott’s pre . liminary phrase ‘properly prepar ed and rightly used.’ Even cof fee can b e abused; there may be : too much of a good thing. A wholesome limit must be placed upon coffee as well as tea. It is the merit of both of these sub-< stances, used as a beverage, that they do not readily lend them selves to a nor ordinarily 1 r.roduce dangerous reactions, i They are of solid benefit to the i human race.” Manufacturers . Record. STUDENTS FAIL TO RETURN MACON, Jan. 18.—The num ’ her of students who failed to re I turn to Wesleyan after the Christ Mmas holidays this year is less thm ■ j half of those who dropped out las -1 year, although a large enrollmen si is in the school, Dr. Quillian, Pres trident of the school has announced bl wro Apple BROADCASTERS Radio broadcasting stations have 100 million dollars tied up in their equipment and organizations. And .they have spent 30 million dollars ,in the last two years sending out (programs. This is the latest trade .estimate. In‘radio broadcasting there is a j big duplication of effort. Experts believe the time is coming when there will be onjy about six broad casting stations—possibly just one main station, with substations at strategic points relaying the main concert. » » » FATHER Maker of radio appartus anxious contemplate the future. The younger generation is pretty well ‘sold.” They have their sets. And except for improvements, that puts the brakes on sales. But it looks as if another big radio market will develop during 1921. Father and other members of the older generation have been sit ting back watching, awaiting the day when ‘the thing will be perfect led so I cipn buy a set without mak ing it or having a lot of fuss tunins in the stations I want.” With the neutrodyne, that day is here. Expect a secondary period of big buying in radio. » ♦ s CHECKED A Chinese resturant in New York City leases its hat-cheeking privilege for $12,600 a year. At that, insiders say the concession will pay profits of SIO,OOO a year. The usual system is to make the check girls wear tight collars sc they can’t hide their tips, which usually have to be turned in) . The tipping system is undemocra tic, a hang-over from old days, and it will pass out as soon as the pub lid balks. A traveling man estimat ed that each hat cost him SSO be fore he wore it out, counting tins. • » » OLD TIMER Anthony N. Bray left an estate of 75 million dollars. In life he kept most of his books “in his head,” and it cost him only SII,OOO a year to look after his property, his son seeks relief, claiming the require ments of the law have increased this cost to over half a million a year. Bookkeping, originally intended as a device to cut expenses, iij many cases has become a major fac tor in the cost of living. There isn’t enough money in the world to pay for a “complete” bookkeeping sys tem. The ancient storekeeper who kept his records in a nail keg was wiser than is generally conceded. « • 4 RICH You read that a fortune of 75 million dollars was, left by Anthony N. Brady. Now, that’s a lot of money, and you wonder who this man Brady was. We don’t know, ex cept that he is described broadly as a financier. You learn something about your country and its distribution of wealth when a man can die leaving 75 million dollars, and unknown to the average man. • * » SNUFF Do you know anyone who uses snuff? Yet 30 million pounds of snuff a year are sold in our coun try—three times as much as in 1890. The average person doesn't know a thousandth part of what ‘goes on’ in the United States. Judging from some startling revelations we’v had, this is all for the best. The spice of life is in illusion and de lusion. THREE SMILES Couldn’t Have Been “Did my wife speak at the meet ing yesterday?” “I don’t know your wife, but there was a tall, thin lady who rose and said she could not find words to express her feelings.” “That wasn’t my wife!”—Karka turen (Christiania.) Disqualified! “But isn’t he a nice young man, Mama?” , “Not at all, my dear. He reminds me of your father at his age.”— Leßire - (Paris.) And Then Som e “Mama,” said the little boy, who had been sent to dry a towel before the fire, "is it done when it is brown?—Pein son’s Weekly (Lon don.) HENRY Ford has figured out another way to save money. He is building dou ble-decked boxcars so be can ship his autos "two deep.” They say it’ll save him $6 every time he ships Ford car this way. We found this item buried on a financial page. It doesn’t get as much attention as Henry in politic/, for instance. But it struck us a- 1 typical of wljat has ‘made” Henry Ford—from a mechanic with next to nothing, to the world’s richest , man. Six dollars on every Ford car would give him in a year as many millions as he has fingers and thumbs. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ABOUT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR 1 ® • Z N/ ‘ - _ "etomThe 6ovet?NMeN~ WELL WE! ' “ ? Wouldn’t ThaT be H C I -) GRANO?" . r "o(Z MESBeTeV he's been booTLegg/ng mSP <>4. Os? SOMeiHING —1 iOu r)tAD iwsmjdrnww? »'i», \ m QELiEVE WIS SUSPENSE " ZD / x TgY a/w ZZ \ v VOb-ThaT? , V v \\\ a, ( r whVThaTs nW incomsTax blank. .. iZ V" VZ 7 -A‘ , / Copyright, 1923, DAII Y POFM By N. E. A. Service 1 I V/L.LVI Berton Braley LITERATURE (As Some Critics See It) Here is a book about a Jane Who’s normal, sweet, and good and pure She hasn't any moral stain, Her lover is a decent wooer. Pah for such pap'. I can’t endure These lives that haven’t any spot in, A book is like a cheese, I’m sure, It isn’t good unless it’s rotten. Ah, here’s one that is less insane, It smells 4 divinely of the sewer! The girl has blood clots on her brain, The hero’s wrecked beyond all cure By drink and dope—a sot, a boor, With sin and wickedness besotton This is the art that’s new aye, newer; It isn’t good unless it’s rotten. The dump, the cesspool and the drain, The garbage, scow—these have a lure Beyond my power to explain; ■ The author pictures them, none truer. Where life is blue he paints it bluer, This is the stuff to which I cotton, By God, this book is literature It isn’t good unless it’s rotten! ENVOY Reader, pUytse. understand that you’re Possessed of taste that’s misbegotten, If you don’t cry, with the reviewer, “It isn’t good unless it’s rotten.” N & W S | IPZs.P-BR-1 NATIONAL debt can be paid FAMOUS EDITOR SAVES U. S. ! SO MANY BILLIONS Our national debt is announced at about 33 billions. This is more than a bootlegger makts, except on holidays. What can be done? Why we can get Jack Dempsey to bte a good sport and pay this debt for us. That's settled. * * * WEATHER >Save these cuss words you use on winter. You can use most of them on summer soon. • » • WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW I Among books received this week I which will be reviewed later are: i The Seed Catalog, The Bank Book, | The Calendar, The Dictionary, The i Spelling Book and The Encyclopedia All of them are bunt * m » MARKET Cops are causing activity among the Washington bootleggers. • ♦ ♦ COMICS Bryan has picked a candidate. I The candidate isn’t Bryan. » » ♦ TAX NOTICE No, Sing Sing inmates owe in i come tax this year. Only one paid | last year. Coulds have silk insides. * * EDITORIAL Mexico is in trouble, Obregon got up too late one morning to meet the daily crisis.,Now things are so quiet,you can hear a pistol shot in Mexico two blocks away. Those Mexicans eat too much hot’tamles. • « • RADIO NOTE A fan in Chile got New York This may stop the one about open- ing the window and getting Chile. ♦ ♦ • ADVERTISING Go to church and gget your New | Year resolutions repaired while you j wait. Old ones made like new. Most work lasts seven days. Some lasts a lifetime. V * SPORTS Babe Ruth, world’s ' champion baseball player, got fined S7O for speeding. This is too bad. Babe is a big man now, but some day, if I he keeps on speeding, he will be big enough to cover a few acres. HEALTH HINTS Apparently harmless tattoo marks led to a Texas man’s capture, so never get tattooed. ❖ $ * SOCIETY Mr. Bondklipper, who broke his foot kicking a collector out the door, broke his other foot kicking al chair when he got the doctor’s billi yesterday. His many friends and I enemies will be so sorry to learn he| hns only two feet to break. • ♦ • BEAUTY SECRET Poking the nose in other people’s! business may make it flat. BEDTIME STORY I got the bed warm last night. ■ It is your time tonight.” Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Day Phones 88 and 231 SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 19, 1924 'hints by the Father of Physical A ' j Culture. BERNAKR. MACfACOEM >r .-,w There is only one way in which the spine can be kept young and that is through exercise. ThA-c are three conditions for which one should strive, and ones exercises, accordingly, should be chosen to these ends. Corrective movements of the right kind are necessary in straightening the spine, and stretching- exorcises are especially important in this con nection. Stretching, bending, and spine-twisting exercises are all I valuable, not only in straightening ! the spine, but in giving it that I quality of elasticity and flexibility j which is characteristic of youth. An exercise for flexibility of the upper spine, useless unless per formed very thoroughly. First bring the head far forward, the j chin touching the chest if possible, I then far back, looking straight up i ward. Repeat all these exercises ■ a few times, or until slightly tired. | If through bad posture there is i a continuous, or unnatural strain upon certain parts of the spine, it will become habitually bent, the ligaments will become weakened, the flattened at. one side ill the adaptation to the chronic •faulty positjon. and one will have deformity of the backbone as a whole. Here is an exercise for upper spinal flexibUtty. Turn the head around, first far to the one side, then to the other, though -without strain. Then bring the head both downward and to one side. Bring to the left side then to the right side, then diagonally backward to each side. There are many cases of ser iously displaced vertebrae and spinal deformity which will need not only exercise, but also special adjustment by some one skilled in such work, such as an osteopath or chiropractor.. One who possess es a normal spine, however, can keep it normal by the proper ex ercise, and even where there are marked tendencies to spinal cur vature and displacement of verte brae many of the simple spine stretching. spine-handing, and spine-twisting exercises will have great corrective value. < Here is a simple stretching ex ercise which may be performed first with, both hands together then with each hand separately. Stretch one arm as high upward as possible and stretch downward with the other arm. This is par ticularly effective in its influence upon the dorsal spine. L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) 1891 -'1924 Tr ts Upon tile foundation of thirty-three years of Ik gloWth is the H&SWr ? present organization of « SwM OUr ba,lk - This experi- Wk-aMBWMiI ' ence is always ,t (he command of our cus- WIBWW tomer,s. We cordially solicit your banking — t business, The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Too Small Old Days .in Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Jan. 19, 1914.) Following a protracted illness ex tending over a period of several weeks, Mrs. Donia Howell, wife ot Mr. John T. Howell, passed to her reward on high at 6 o’clock Monday morning at their residence on Jack son street. She was 53 years of age, and leaves besides her husband, one son, Gordon Howell, of this city. Mr. John W. Shiver is confined to his bed as the result of painfi.ll powder burns upon his face, sus tained in the burning of dry grass upon his lawn at his Lee street re sidence. Mr. Shiver had sprinkled dry gunpowder freely around the dry Bermuda grass and when the match was applied the powder blazed up in his face. Fire, which it was supposed ori ginated from a cigarette, was dis covered at an early hour Sunday evening in the home of Mrs. W. C. Barrow on Jackson street. A mat tress and bed clothing was partial ly destroyed before the blaze was extinguished. Mrs. J. Logan Irvin will return to Jacksonville today after a visit of several weeks to her mother, Mrs. S. H. Hawkins, on College street. Miss Stella Rodgers, of Sumter, is the guest of friends while spend ing a lew days here. Frank Wilson, Leslie Toy, is hon ored by Emory collegp, when he is elected champion debater by the Phi Gramma Literary society. . TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Thnes-Recorder, Jan- 19, 1904.) The Baptist church w-.s the scene of jin impressive marriage service Sunday morning, following immed iately upon the regular morning ser vice. As the congregation left the church, Mr. Carl C. Rogers and Miss Ina White presented themselves to the pastor, Rev. R. E. Neighbor, and in the presence of a number of friends were united in marriage. The bride is the pretty daughter of Mrs'. J. M. White, of this' city. The lire department was called yesterday to the home of Mr. A. C. Bivins, on Lee street, where it.seem ed for a time the firemen would, be busy. Sparks had collected on the gutters of the house. Ten thousand dollars was sub scribed in as many minutes today at the First Methodist church Sun day morning, when several members made their subscriptions $ 1,000 and $5,000, miiay giving three and four times as calls were made on them. The beautiful church edifice will be quickly completed as soon as an,,ad ditional S2OOO is raised. An Americus merchant is still the object of goodnatured gibes about a “fire” which occurred at his hand some house. Barrels of soot pour ed out of the fireplace- and caused the family to believe the house to be on fire. It developed later that a big t rkey buzzard perched on the chimney top had acidentally fallen down the fiue, and frantically strik ing the sooty sides with its wings, had caused all the “fire.’’ THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Jan. 19, 1894.) Today being a legal holiday Sun day hours will be observed at the postoffice here. There will be two collections of mails by carrier and two deliveries, the same as on Sun day. Capt. Henry I’. Snyder, formerly a conductor on the S. A. M. road, but now of Columbus, 0., arrived in Americus for a short visit to friends here. He was accompanied by his sister, Mrs. J W. Simmons. The cotton market lost its grip yesterday and slipped down 15 points. The better grades easily brought 7 1-2 cents, while a fancy article might have sold for a little more. Mr. W ells/Brown has purchased “u desirable lot on Felder street, ad i joining the property of Mr. J. W. Harris, and will shortly begin the building of a pretty residence soon. The Americus furniture factory is now running full time, and finds it hard to keep up with the orders now coming in.
