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TIMES-RECORDER
PUBLISHED 1879
Published by
The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.)
Lovelcae Eve, Editor and Publishe
Entered as accond class matter at the p< Atoffi<
at Americus, Georgia, according to the Act c
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It’s Up to You. -
The future of every town or
city rests largely, if no, entirely,
on the shoulders of its commer
cial body—the Chamber of Com
merce.
Prosperity comes to every
community through tireless and
everlasting effort on the part of
its citizens, directed through its
commercial organization.
The merchant in a city who
fails to suppoit his Chamber of
Commerce with his efforts and
his money is neglecting a civic
duty that is as important as the
paying of his taxes. The work
of the commercial body must
'■■e done by some one, and ev
ery man should do his share, or
he is placing himself under ob
ligations to another who is per
forming this task for him.
Cities, as we have said more
than once before, grow from
WITHIN and not from the out
side. If you would see prosperi
ty, growth and happiness in your
town, put your shoulder to the
wheel.
For three years the communi
ty has faced crop failures that
have affected every line of
business. This is true of every
city or village in South Georgia
Indications now are that the
worm is turning, that from now
on we will begin to retrieve that
which has been lost. South
Georgia seems to be in line for
its greatest growth and pros
perity.
The city with an adequately
financed Chamber of Commerce
possessing a live, working mem
bership, will reap its snare ot
the good times that are before
us. The city that is not so
situated, will continue to lose
even that which it has.
The answer lies in the heart
of every man in the communi
ty. The responsibility can’t be
passed to another. It’s time to
plan. What is your answer?
Are you a member—a WORK
ING member —of your cham
ber? Have you paid your dues
for the year that is closing?
Are you doing your part?
The answer to those questions
is the answer to whether you are
a worthwhile citizen or other
wise.
A Boys’ Club
The only meeting place for
boys in Americus is the street
corner or worse. There is no
Y. M. C A. or other provision
made foi the boy who is cut of
school for the afternoon and
evening, or the youngster v,ho is
loafing.
The responsibility, of couise
for the boy’s welfare lies at
home. However, there is a civic
duty that is being neglected. A
place for assemblage should be
provided for the boys, a 'place
where they may have the utmost
freedom under proper guidance.
This is an important question,
one that should receive the
thought and suggestion of ev
ery parent in the city. it is a
subject that might well be tak
en up jointly by the.civic clubs
of the city, in conference with
civic and religious leaders.
The NEED is apparent The
good that will result is assured.
Away can be worked out by
men of Americus when once
they have become inteiested.
The boy of today is the citi
zen of tomorrow. The forma
tive period of a boy’s life comes
before he has reached I 5 or 18,
before he leaves for college. In
fluences brought to bear on his
life while he still is a boy will
help him fight life’s battles to
the end.
There’s no work half so im
portant as that which will result
in a higher standard of citizen
ship for the future. A boy’s club
is possible.
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Wise Exercise.
The person who feels all
run down” should start his build
ing-up campaign by getting
plenty of sleep. Also by lying
EVERY LIVE TOWN HAS A LIVE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WITH EVERY LIVE R ESIDENT A LIVE MEMBER
down several times during the
Jay. for about 20 minutes at a
time, to rest the overworked
heart. Remember, when we’re
standing up the heart has to
' pump the blood stream the full
height of the body. When ly
ng down, gravity helps—the
lood flows parallel with the
;round, like water through hori
zontal pipes
The second big need is fresh
air and lots of it.
Exercise comes third. Com-
Sine it with play, to relax the
nerves. There’ll be plenty of
time to scrub the floor and do
'her physical labor later.
Finally, the thing that is
wrecking the nerves of the
Xmeiican people is needless
tsh—-hurry at breakneck speed j
nd without any special destina
tion. We have to speed up at
our work but it’s time to slow
'own and ‘‘take things easy”
A.en the bell rings and we quit
ur jobs until tomorrow.
The best exercise for women
”’ho want to reduce is scrubbing
Se kitchen floor, claims Mrs.
Catherine H. Griebel, of N. J.
State College of Agriculture.
Maybe so, but it’s like telling
'be tired business man it would
do him as much good to get a
caddie job as to play golf.
Wood chopping is about as
ne exercise as there is. But
re’s no danger of wood
chopping becoming the national
port.
People, when they "exercise,” I
want to get away from work.
After all, it s a good thing for
is to try to get our physical ex
ercise in the form of play. Ex
rcise helps the muscles and in
ernal organs, but play makes
be nerves relax, which is just
is important as developing the
nuscles.
There isn’t much relaxation of
tense nerves when we combine
iard work with our exercise.
The average person who
"needs exercise” usually is the
victim of nerves rather than of
physical inactivity. This can be
proved by going to bed and
staying a week, thereby getting
rest and nerve relaxation that
will do many of us as much
good as a wohle season of golf.
It s a mistake to start a cam
paign of strenuous exercise un
less we’re prepared to get more
hours of sleep than we’ve been
used to.
Sleep does us more good than
all the pills, serums and other
forms or do<pe ever devised.
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
TAX EVASION SIMPLIFIED
We hear a great deal of talk
about rich men taking their mon
ey out of activ e business opera
tions and investing' it in tax ex
empt bonds.
No use blaming the rich man
for doing this. Any one of us
would do the same thing in his
place. For example:
A man with an income of
SIOO,OOO per year can get $45,-
< 00 from $1,000,000 invested in
4 1-2 per cent tax exempt securi
ties, and none of this $45,000 will
be taken from him for the fed
eral income tax.
In order to have a net income
of $45,000 from securities
whose income is taxable, our rich
man would have to invest his sl,-
100,000 in stocks yielding him
10.22 per cent, or $102,200. But
after paying his federal income
tax on this sum he would find
that he had only $15,000 left for
himself.
Why in the world should he put
his money into a risky venture
that will yield him net no more
than the same sum invested in
state or city tax exempt bonds,
the return on which is as safe
and certain as the sunrise?
A profound and disturbing in
fluence is exercised upon the in
dustrial progress of the country
by thus diverting into state and
municipal securities th e funds of
rich men, who, because they are
lift, should be the very ones to
pioneer the new fields of industry.
Worse still, th c competition of
rich men’s funds for these secu
rities serves to increase the
natural tendency of cities and
states to extravagant expendi
' ture. ,
! _No more important duty con
-1 fronts congress than/to trine-‘be
even or twelve thousand million
; dollars of tax exempt securities
j under th? income tax.
Possibly a constitutional amend
ment will be necessary under the
income tux.
It seems entirely probable,
however, that since the sixteenth
| (income tax) amendment to the
’ constitution empowers Congress
to tax income “from all sourci ”
it can tax income even from the
securities of the minor govern
mental units.—Atlanta Georgian.
tn-i Albert Apple
HOME BREW
Some of the big manufacturers
of soft drinks are understood to
have made large contributions to
the prohibition campaign, with the
idea that the passing of the saloon
would stimulate the sales of soft
drinks.
Oscar Hogensen of the Illinois
Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages
Association says in a speech that
prohibition lias dealt soft drinks a
body blow. Ginger ale and the like
have fallen by the wayside. The na
tional drink is ‘home-brew.”
This condition may be temporary
I But it illustrates how any movement
is apt to become a boomerang.
BANKRUPT
Seventeen out of every 200 farm
owners in the 15 corn and wheat
producing states lost their farms be
tween 1920 and the spring of 1923.
Hard times ‘wiped them out.” Many
others would have gone bankrupt,
except for the leniency of bankers
and other creditors.
About one out of every 100 busi
ness firms fail each year in the
United States. So the farmer, as an
institution, was hit about four times
as hard by depression as the aver
age business organization in the
matter of absolute disaster.
Life hasn't been easy picking foi
most of us, since May, 1920, when
prosperity went on the rocks. Bu.
the farmer has been hit hardest
of all. •
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PRODIGY
A former child prodigy now 26,
who graduated from Harvard whei.
ne was 16, recently was discovers.
■ orking for $23 a week. This ha
Aracted a lot of attention an
ommc-nt. Lut the chief thing
ho,vs that Americans measure su
ss by dollars.
That is a wrong notion. Steinmc
didn’t leave much. But he was on
t the 10 most successful men of his
generation.
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DARE-DEVIL
In 1757 John Childs climbed to
the top of a high steeple in Boston
and jumped off alighting safeij
700 feet away. He was one of the
pioneer aviators, demonstrating •
sort of parachute contraption. Bos
ton recently honored him with a
bronze tablet or scientific billboard
It takes generations to develop
a revolutionary neW device like th;
airplane. You should remember
John Childs and other pioneers
when you buy your flying flivver
—ls years from now?
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BRAINS
We Americans are described as
"the best half-educated people in
the world,” by Israel Zangwill, Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia
University says Zangwill flatters us
—that his estimate is too high.
Butler is right. Even our brain
iest men do not know more than a
thousandth of 1 per cent of the,
truth Education is simply a process
of extending our horizon—revealing
the gigantic extent of. wnat we do
not know. Man learns little, in
reality. He merely increases his
conception or consciousness of his
ignorance.
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AUTO >
There’s an auto or motor truck in
our country now for approximately
one in every seven people. The lat
est check-up shoys there were 15,-
281,295 passnger cars and motor
trucks in the United States at. the
beginning of 1924. It was a gain
of nearly a fourth in a year.
Twenty years from now, or soon
er, you may read similar statistics
about airplanes, the coming populai
form of transportation. Evolution
is taking us off the ground, to
which we have been “chained” foi
thousands of ears. It corresponds tc
the first fish which, wanting to fly,
grew its fins into wings.
("YriREE SMILES
Taking No Chances
Nervous Gentleman—Would you
be good enough to tell me the time'.’
Polite Youth (consulting watch)
—Thank you so much. There have
been so many holdups in this neigh
borhood that I didn’t dare tai >*my
watch out.—Life.
Doing His Bit.
Pastor Won’t you come to
church today instead of motoring
around the country?
Repiobate—Sorry I can't, par
son, 1 tell you what I’ll do—l’ll go
with a friend, and park my car out
side your church, so it’ll look as
though you had somebody inside—
Columbia State.
ELSIE Tells Him.
Father—What do you think of
your new mama, Elsie?
I Small Daughter—Well, papa, if
you took her for new, I think you
got cheated.—Answers (London.)
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SMILE AWHILE WITH—
Dave C. Burkhalter
HEALTH HINT NO. 7495682
You should surely make a visit
To the mountains for a time,
You will find for your complexion
That the climate there is fine.
But if by chance you cannot go
A climbing in the rocks,
You can buy the same complexion, dear
At thirty cents a box.
Ask Doc Thurman.
QOmOS/ms
N E. W S jPZxP ER,
CRAP SHOOTING IS ALL SHOT
30 FAMOUS EDITO OFFER SO
LUTION FOR BONUS
Cops have closed the crap-shoot
.ng season in Cleveland and Phil
adelphia. This is fine. Now is the
.ime to carry out our bonus solu
-ion. Make it legal for all war vets
co use loaded dice and then they
will collect their own bonus.
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FOREIGN NEWS
A young Argentine girl swam 26 ;
miles in 24 hours. If she was after ,
a man he got away. ,
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EDITORIAL
Detroit hotel fire drove guests to
the street scantily clad in zero
weather. Magnus Johnson, in
Washington, says he wears no
man’s pajamas, not even his own.
Why be a dare-devil? Wear your
pajamas.
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MOVIES
Fatty Arbuckle is now a Buster
Keaton director under the name of j
Will B. Good,'so maybe he will,
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POETRY
Walt Mason is starting a bank
vith the money he made on poetry,
roving anything can happen.
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MARKETS
Hartford, Mass., man says he has
oeen to heaven. We write to ask:
aim about coal prices there.
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SOCIETY
Since a Chicago University pro
cessor says it is all right for girls to
-moke, Miss Livewire has quit. And
on hearing a Los Angele s court
awarded a girl SIO,OOO for a stolen
kiss she said, ‘I got an ice cream
soda for one once.”
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ADVERTISING
Minneapolis man bit off his wife’s
ear. Why let your husband get this
hungry? Euy one of our concrete
fryingpans. Here is a concrete ex
ample : You can cook with it or
argue over why you didn’t cook.
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HOME HELPS
If your chickens feel bad, let them
read the pictures in the seed cata
logs being mailed out.
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HEALTH HINTS
80.-4.0 n crops captured 9600 pints
of hair tonic. When drinking such,
use hair remover for a chaser.
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THEATER PAGE
Spooky plays are making the
ghost walk at New York box offices,
Ghosts drink booze in “Outward
Bound.” That may be what made
them ghosts. Spooks play harps in
“The Spook Sonata,” That may be
worse than drinking.
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FASHIONS
News comes that a Dorchester,
Mass., man’s collar-button is 33
years old. It should quit work.
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COMICS
Magnus Johnson wears no pa
jamas.
Then he isn’t ready for burglars, i
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ETIQUETTE
Besides being impolite to chew to
bacco at a dance, you seldom find 1
a place to spit.
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SPORTS
Dr. Coue, world’s champion op
tmist, is in America again. This i
may revive the indoor sport of argu
ing with yourself over how you feel
Long ago his formula was shorten-1
ed to “Hell, I’m well.”
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Don’t let it run
—that cough
IT may grew into a chronic ail
ment! Stop it now with Dr.
Bell’s Pine-Tar Honey. Just the
medicines that your doctor pre
scribes for loosening heavy
phlegm, easing inflamed throat
and chest tissue, and stopping
coughing combined with the
time-tested remedy, pine-tar
honey. Everybody likes the taste.
Keep Dr. Bell’s on hand for the
whole family.
All druggists. Be sure to get
the genuine.
DR. BELL’S Pine-Tar Honey .
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Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 88
Day Phones 88 and 231
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MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 21. 1924
father of
. Physical
fa X&A Cu 11 ure
BER.NAR.R.
MACFADDEN
Special reference to the import
ance of the flexibility and elasticity
of the spine has been made in a
previous article, in which I point
ed out that this mobility is es
sential to good circulation both in
the spinal cord and sympathic
nerve ganglia. Now one of the
best all-around tests of spinal
mobility is found in chest mobility.
Can you expand your chest, or
arc your ribs stiff and immovabh
I will tell you why this is import
ant at least so far as the dorsal
vertebrae are concerned. It is
bi cause the twelve pairs of ribs
are attached to these twelve dor
sal vertebrae, and the amount of
movement in the ribs is a good in
dication of the condition of the
spine. If you can expand your
chest only half-inch, or in other
wordd, if your ribs are stiff ami
immovable, it means that your
spine is stiff and immovable. Anil
to that extent your spine is eld.
You ant, perhaps not a "chesty”
kind of individual. You have
worn a tight-fitting vest for twenty
to forty years, which makes it
difficult to expand your chest. You
have worn suspenders -which
press down upon your chest on
each side, and this pressure is just
sufficient to act as a continuous
deterring influence, i*en if you
were inclined to expand your chest;
which you are not. Therefore,
perhaps in years, you may not
have really expanded your chest
to its limit.
And yet. that is what you ought
to do every day. Not simply for
the sake of improving your chest
and giving room for your heart
and lungs, but for the sake of
your spine. Cultivate- the chest
expansion habit. Practice deep
breathing with it if you choose,
and that makes it all the better,
but also expand your chest for the
sake of your backbone.
It is this stiffness which you
must fight off, if you would keep
young. To a large extent, the
really old man finds it impossible
to straighten his spine. It is stiff,
rigid. Just bringing his shoulders
back does not give him normal
mobility. He may try to straight
en his spine, and it is a good thing
lor him to do so but if he is a
really old man cannot do it. »■
Here is an exercise for Ihe small
of the back and the lumbar spine.
Bend and stretch far forward with
the knees straight. If you cannot
touch the floor, then stretch as far
as you can without strain.
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier
The Phnters Bank of Americus
(Incorporated)
I
w 1891 -
it ‘ Upon 1!lc foundation
S of thirty-three years of
growth is based the
- present organization of
our bank - This
once is always it the
command of our cus-•
tomers. W e <ordially
solicit your banking
business.
The Bank With a Surplus
RESOURCES OVER $1,70C,000
PROMPT. CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Smail
Old Days in
Americus
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday morning, no paper pub
lished.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. Jan.
21, 1904.)
Rev. I. A. McElroy. D. of
Richmond, Va., will preach at the
Presbyterian church tonight. Dr.
McElroy is a very attractive speak
er. .
Miss Helen McCall, one of boutn ■
Georgia’s . most superbly beautiful
young women, was a visitor here
yesterday, en route to Buena Vista.
Miss Laura Goin left yesterday
for an extended visit to her auntl,
Mrs. Winship, in Atlanta. The
many friends of this popular young
lady wish her much pleasure on her
visit.
Americus will decidedly “in the
swim” very soon if plans projected
by two or three enterprising citizens
are carried out as now contemplated
A first class and well equipped na
atorium will be erected in the busi
ness center.
The ladies Memorial Society of
Americus voted yesterday to confed
erate with the great order, thq
Southern memorial association.
All over thd city new homes con
tinue to go up, but there are no
noust-s to rent. The demand for
them exceeds the supply.
The series ol meetings conducted
at the Baptist church daily continue
to attract large congregations, tho
atendance taxing the capacity of the
building. Rev. J. B. Wardlaw, pas
tor ol the First Methodist chuch, is
still assisting with the meetings,
■ preaching yesterday to • one of the
1 largest congregations of the week.
I
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
From the Times-Recorder. Jan.
21, 1894.)
Mrs. E. P. Erie, wife of the late
Dr. E. P. Erie, who was consul tq
Cognac under President Cleveland’s
administration, is spending several
days in Americus, the guest of Miss
Lena Ford. As Miss Annie Palm
, er Mrs. Eric is well known to many
friends in Americus, where she visit
ed several years ago.
j Judge and Mrs. J. N. Scarbor-
I ough will spend today in Ellaville
as the guests of Capt. and Mrs. Rob
ert Burton.
Miss Lizzie Slappey, of Anderson
ville, is the guest ol her brother
in Americug for a few days.
Miss IdtAvlefritt, of Buena Vista,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Harold
Boone, at her home on College
street for a few days.
Miss Norah B. Lynch, a pretty
and popular young lady of Colum
bus, is a guest at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. George Turpin in West
End for a week or two.
Miss Montine Sanders, a very at
tractive young lady of Gainesville,
arrived yesterday and will be the
guest of Miss Rhetta Aycock for
several weeks.
While the streets were not
crowded yesterday, as is generally
the case on Saturday, the people
who came to town were here on busi
ness and the merchants had a good
business. The farmers are busy
now and will come to town very
little during the next few weeks.
Oil'll! HII1IKII!
Hue IBEJB KI
Stop drugging! Rv.b soothing,
penetrating St. Jacobs Oil right into
your sore, stiff, ach
ing joints, and re
lief comes instant
ly. St. Jacobs Oil
is a harmless rheu ■
matisin liniment
which never disap
points and cannot
burr, the skin.
Get a 35 cent bot
tle of St. Jacobs
Oil at any drug
store, and in a mo
ment you’ll be free
from pain, soreness
and stiffness. In
use for 65 years for
rheumatism, sciat
ica, neuralgia, lum
sprains,
ILS
bags, backache,