About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1924)
PAGE EIGHT 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 Congre. a. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled t the use for the republication of al! news dis '•tehee credited to it or not otherwise credited to his paper and also the local t ews published here tn. All right of republication of special dispatches ■re also reserved. National • Advertising Representative*. LANDIS & KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., Ac* lurX » Peoples’ Gas Bldg.. Chicago. 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. •JI 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. • • « • 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. ♦ • 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? « » a 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. ♦ ♦ • 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.) THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER _ TROUBLE IN THE AIR _ wo / _ u ;. 'xu oil — S v .. ■/. W '"'■y Our Daily Poem 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. * * » FOREIGN NEWS A young Argentine girl swam 26 ; miles in 24 hours. If she was after , a man he got away. , ♦ * ♦ 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. * * * MOVIES Fatty Arbuckle is now a Buster Keaton director under the name of j Will B. Good,'so maybe he will, ♦ * ❖ POETRY Walt Mason is starting a bank vith the money he made on poetry, roving anything can happen. » « ♦ MARKETS Hartford, Mass., man says he has oeen to heaven. We write to ask: aim about coal prices there. • * ■ 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.” * W * 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. • * * HOME HELPS If your chickens feel bad, let them read the pictures in the seed cata logs being mailed out. * * • HEALTH HINTS 80.-4.0 n crops captured 9600 pints of hair tonic. When drinking such, use hair remover for a chaser. • • • 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. * V c FASHIONS News comes that a Dorchester, Mass., man’s collar-button is 33 years old. It should quit work. » ¥ « COMICS Magnus Johnson wears no pa jamas. Then he isn’t ready for burglars, i ❖ »:• « ETIQUETTE Besides being impolite to chew to bacco at a dance, you seldom find 1 a place to spit. » » » 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.” ? A . I 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 . ’ i Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Day Phones 88 and 231 ♦ 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,
