About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1924)
Wtf* ■ lll ' —’>*««■•.■ ii i ■ TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Loveleae Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter at the postoffks •t Americus, Georgia, according to the Act of Coogrtwe. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled ta the use for the republication of all news dis* notches credited to it or not otherwise credited to 'his paper sod also the local news published here in. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST .ANDIS & KOHN. Brunswick Bldg.. New York: ’copies’ Gas Blds.. Chicago. A THOUGHT The hoary head is a crown 1 glory, if it be found ir, the " ° righteousness.—Prov. 16:31- Old age- is the repose of life; the rest that preceedes the rest thia remains.—Robert Collyer. Cows As Collateral "Eighty per cent of our loans on dairy cows have liquidated themselves within eight months, we consider them the safest loans we make to our farmers.’ This is the emphatic state ment of a banker and one who knows what he is talking about, for he is one of the pioneers in this line, for the declaration comes from J. A. Johnson, managing vice-president of the Ashburn, (Ga.) Bank. The Ashburn bankers prob ably have done more in putting over Turner county’s cow, hen and hog program than all oth ers combined. So far as we can learn every community that has turned to dairying has become a prosper ous, farm-owning community. Not only is this true in this coun ty, but it is true in Europe. It : is claimed by authorities quali fied to know that dairying transformed Denmark from a country of tenant-farmers to one where practically every farmer owns his own farm and has a substantial deposit in the bank. In one generation 90 per cent of Denmark’s farmers have be come land owneis instead of renters. The same story might be told of Wisconsin. California, Min , v nesota and lowa. Is dairy farm ing more profitable in the North than in the South, asks F. H. , Abbott, secretary of the Georgia association, and he answers his question this way: This question has been answ.er- L ed emphatically in the negative I .not only by scores of Northern A dairy fanners who have come ■ \ South and proved the case for F \themselves but in a notable letter I written a few months ago by an ’ experienced Pennsylvania dairy </ man, former manager of one of 1,/ the country’s largest dairy farms M and a graduate of the country’s 1 leading daily school. This letter, I addressed to the lat e George T. / |R»tts, former president of the I Ashburn Bank, Ashburn, Ga., and ’ y also president of th e Georgia as- j aociation, claimed th P following : advantages of the South over the North for successful dairy farm ing: 1 Cheaper land; 2 Cheaper buildings; 3 Cheaper cattle; 1 Cheaper labor; 5 Cheaper concen trates for feed; 6 Less tubercu losis in herds; 7 the season of ‘ ; th e highest butter-fat prices, the ! season of butter-fat production I in the South; 8 Prices for butter- j ftt.-Vre, equal or higher; 9 I ME pastures season. much safer for Soutlmin kers to gamble on daily B under su< h uatuial ■HHM s than for bankers in th,. ■■■■ ned Northern state,. wh,, ; Vlc their farmer: tn.h baike-g ■H i kind of farm piogram and ’ se whole farm loan sy , »ed upon “how many cow," t “how many bales ” “Dairy farming," m ••ovv-h.'i; ||||K i” farming must mu he eon- SnML td with “dairying," which, a ■|M ' -\lted industry i- almo-t <\! e class as “cottmi satin- A < “‘w ""’beat fanning" - r ■K 3ffarming" or any other *■ lar,riln T whin- ■HH'I placed in one t>i BL her hand "dan fm >• > Ililllilllilß a balanced i. r, H 'tough c.is,i; 'bit ek • and poultly •de HMMH tg cxi'.en-i >r cost above ■MHK|Kd to raise the crop or crop' J' plain “I’t.rri . And I do.ile can h where tn.- has fallen ■ . ■gSgjMLA isolated e.'. e v. in into the whnl: MMBME-ssive one-crop bmsi . jMMßMfcuaati<i cases can • i’.e.i MjSfeffiljS’M’ l ut th- < • ho.i W * "Hthe no'.' banke ■. I'm-i. t "' ie r, '“ : slow y ' ‘ kßwwHsß* ll instrument a made ' •" ' nr.? ' • solve HLt problem. ■ ti. TOWN HAS A ’ retically, again. The f«<’t ' s are millions of ton< 00( t. l ?,‘ fagti for cows rotttng m fields in Georgia and other Southern states and millions of acres of good pastures in Georgia to feed the additional 200,000 cows needed to supplj Georgia with her dairy products.- g n example among hundreds shows how this thing of cows and feeds works out in actual prac tjcp. a dairy farmer by the name of Brewster near Newman, Ga. a recent convert to the cow hog-hen program, has been mar keting his milk in Atlanta, keep ing an accurate cost account on each cow. He has raised his ruf fage and hay and bought his con centrates. His experience taught him first, that since he has no additional labor costs to carry, it paid him to milk with just the flow he got from his home-grown pastures and home-grown hay. But, he found later, it paid still better to supplement his hay and ruffage with prepared cow feed which he bought from the local dealer. In the same experiment he learned the big market price he would be receiving through the cows if he were to raise these self-same feeds; and now he is growing all his feeds. If this farmer- had followed the “slogan’ the theoretically correct slogan in the abstract, he would not have a dairy herd today, and accord ing to his own statement had he not begun milking his Cows when he did, without “waiting for the feed” his cotton failure would have put him out of business and he would have lost his farm. Thus the cow somehow begets the feed. The plain fact is that cream eries and cows and feed all come together. All of which proves that there is more danger of go ing too slow than too fast in establishing the “cow-hog-hen” plan of farming to furnish op erating costs for the production of cotton or peanuts or what not, and to insure the farm operator against the misfortune of a loss of his money crop. As Mr. Abbott so emphatic ally points out, dairying, as we should like to see it in Sumter, is a suplpemental crop, a side line, and not ALL DIARYING, Give every cotton farmer a few cows from which to se’l milk, and you have placed in his hands a weekly cash income; vou have enabled him to en rich his cotton lands from his fertilizer and you have provid ed him with skimmed milk on which to fatten hogs and poul try. The hands of the farmers are tied until we have worked out a plan for financing him in the purchase of his cows, and also provided a creamery where he an sell his milk each day. It seems to us that the past hree years have been suffi iently hard on farmer and mer :hant to cause both to meet this source of financial salvation without one day’s delay. OPINIONS OF OTHER EDITORS : GEORGIA’S DEATH RATE Here in Georgia the death rate is lower than the average for the whole United States. It is 10.4, which is lower than that of any other state in the South, and much lower than that of some of the other states, as for example, Maine and New Hampshire. The rate for the whole country last year was 11.7 in each 1000 pop ulation. Georgia has by no means done what she can to re duce her death rate; if one-half as much money per capita were spent here as in New York, for instance, this state might come very close to being the healthiest, according to statistics, of the whole nation. This is but another of Geor gia’s advantages. The trouble with Georgia is not in its climate, nor in its soil, not in its water supply, not in its mean* tempera ture, not in in anything that na ture has provided, but, to be flank, the whole trouble is in its people. It has .not done what it could hav e done to make its prod ucts demanded the world over, ibecause its people have fallen down on the job.—Thomasville Times-Enterprise. GASOLINE Nearly a billion gallons of gaso line in storage, here in the United States. An enormous figure. But Americans are using that much “gas” every 60 days. Production still exceeds con sumption by about 100 million gal lons a month. That should act as a brake on prices for some time._ BIRTHS The best news from France in many a moon is word that birth ! have been exceeding deaths at the rate of over 100,000 a year. Not a big increase in population, as w'a reckon things in America. But it’s Important in France, where the chief fear is a growing population in Germany and a shinkage in France. The cradle situation ov>.r there is the real kwy- to politics be tween the two countries. T THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER LIVE' CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WITH EVERY LIVE RESIDENT A LIVE MEMBER *4s3Rn Apple WEATHER Beginning aliout the time of the birth of Christ, the world had very wet weather for several centuries. The came a dry spell that lasted 600 or 700 years. Weather fluc tuates in long cycles. At present it looks as if at least the /middle latitudes of our Northern Hemis phere are slowly pasisng out of a dry period that has prevailed for the past 200 years or more. So says the authority, Dr. Willis Luther Moore, in “The New Air World.” Much of our weather originates somewhere in the Far North. So weather observations up there will be the most valuable feature of the coming airplane and dirigible flight s over the north pole. • * • GROOMING At an Ohio college recently, it was reported that sophomore men had decided not to shave during ex amination week, and women stu dents not to use cosmetics. The idea being that they could concentrate better if they didn’t devote any men tai effort to beauty. Now, that might be all right the oretically with a Hindu hermit delv ing into mystieizm. We can’t vouch for women and the personal effect they get from beautifying. But we believe that a shave- and a haircut, in addition to stimulate ing self respect, also stimulate the processes of the brain. That’s where our last dollar would go, if ‘broke.” • • w NOBILITY A million dollar jazz palace, where unemployed count® and ba rons will be employed as dancing partners and hosts, will be built in New York. Isadore J. Faggen invented this wonderful idea. Some humorists consider it fun ny. Rather, it’s pathetic. Not that we are sorry for nobility forced to hunt a job. We‘d like to force hon est work on some of the parasitic noblemen who stay in Europe, bankrupt, and plot politically or set their traps for American heiresses The former nobleman whd is wil ing to work as a dancing partner or waiter, to make an honest living, has our respect to the hilt. Old Days in Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY . (From the Times-Recorder. Jan. 25, 1914.) Muckalee creek and Town creek will both be spanned by enduring concrete or steel bridges yerv short ly. The estimated cost of the Muck alee bridge will be about §B,OOO. Mr. W. E. Mitchell, who owns very large realty interests on Lamar and Hampton streets, is preparing to erect a brick building fronting Hampton street, with Mr. T. L. Cranberry superintending the work. Americus will entertain this week the annual meeting of the Sumter county Sunday school convention, which includes all Sunday schools in the county. The wedding on Wednesday aft ernono of Miss Nella Rowland and Rev. J. A. Mills, of Aztec, N. M. was one of the loveliest affairs of the season, occurring at the home of the bride’s mother on Rees Park Rev. J. A. Thomas performed the ceremony, and Mrs. Hattie Warlick played the wedding march Mr. W. T. Crouch died at 3 o’clock at the residence in College Park, the end following a short ill ness. He was well known in Amer icus, where 1 0 years ago he man ied Miss Beulah McMatMlwho with one little daughter, survives him. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday morning, no paper pub lished. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Jan. 25, 1894.) Many farmers of Sumter county will lose their meat if the present warm spell lasts much longer. Scores of them killed their hogs during the cold snap two weeks ago, but since then the weather has been quite warm and in many cases the meat has already spoiled. Miss Clifford Napier, who has been the charming guest of Miss) Mamie Dudley for the past two weekes, returned to Forsyth yester day accompanied by Miss Dudley who will be her guest for a few days. A movement is on foot to start a | farmers’ exchange in this city at an | early date. Such an enterprise un ' der careful and conservative pian 'ageemnt would prove quite remun I erative. Only staple goods, such as ! are used on the farm, will bo hand led and these will be exchanged at ..‘-pot cash prices for all manner of ! farm products. Tom James, Albany’s fire chief, I who has relatives in Americus, has been reinstated to his former posi tion in the service of that city. The Hinkle trial and the rain yes ■ terday combined to clear the streets iof people and packed the couyt house to the doors. IT’S GOING TO BE HARD TRAVELING KiilSli i ■ 5 ■At i / HEPS’ ME I i mlttmil w I-I/ 1 LL::*_cJ : Copyright, 1923, DAILY POEM By N. E. A. Service L/MlLu 11 V/L-.IVI Berton Braley THE DESERT DISILLUSION (Wanda Hcwley, the movie Star, says that the real sheik of the desert is usually seventy and black.) Oh ladies who seek for a peek at a sheik, Who lives his life rudely and rawly, A Bedouin grand in th e land of the sand, Consider the words of Miss li’awley. “A sheik,” she reports, “is a geek who’s antique, And black as a heavy cigarro, A pcrtiarch dark who, as you may remark. Is not like young Ramon Navarro.” How sad is the shock to the feminine flock To find that the sheik in his glory, Os whom writers tells is —well, just a sell, And only exists in a story. The deep wrinkles streak the bleak cheek of the sheik, Who isn’t a bold young deceiver, But old as the hills. Why, h e kills all the thrills. This antediluvian (beaver - . So ladies who yearn and who burn to discern A sheik who’s a torrid bambino, Dont’ roam o’er the foam but remain here at home I And worship Rodolf Valentino. You shriek for a shiek who is sleek, young, unique? You seek, very likely, to shar e a Romance with a sheik? See tfe films onc c a week, But don’t go away to Sahara! c lo//r h s NEWS PAPER. EXTRA! NORTH POLE EXTRA! NAVY TO RETURN SHIMMY RE-1 GION S VISIT Denby plans to send the airship Shenandoah to the North Pole next spring? Can’t go now. North Pole isn’t at home. It is spending this winter in the United States. Only last night the North Pole ' slept with us. It shook us awake i early this morning. | “Hadn’t you better go home and j I get ready for Mr. Denby?” we chat-1 I tercd, “No,” said the North Pole. . snuggling eloser, “the north pole ’ cats are attending to things up there.” • » ♦ AIRPLANE NEWS Dayton, 0., gets the Puaiz' r aerial classic for next fall. It will' make many necks stronger. • • • weather Seven months until August. • * * / FASHIONS Men's spring straw lid brims asp; so wide a few fill a street car and | only nine make a dozen. *** AUTO PAGE Honey may be used in place of, alcohol to keep the radiator from , freezing. Also, at little honey in the front seat may keep you from freezing if she is a warm mama. If you have alcohol in the radiator you I may add honey to it. But adding 'alcohol to a little honey in the front ' seat Is very dangerous. » » s- MUSIC NOTES “Jazz is like measles,” says Ken tucky University music head. But it is much more catchy. * * • GARDEN NOTES Maybe Burbank could cross the income tax with an adding machine and produce a correct answer. ♦ * * ADVERTISING ' One way to save coal is marry a ifat woman and sit in her lap. Spend- j ing the winter in Africa will remove goose pimples. sp * e SPORTS French Boxing Federation nas ruled fighters must not kiss at the end of a bout. Thus an old French ring custom ends. Rules are slow ly taking all the danger out of the j once great sport, pugilism. • » s> BANK NOTES President of a New Jersey bank ■ is only 28, so how can he look mad l enough for the job? EDITORIAL A good rule works both ways. If ‘ you break a mirror it means seven years bad luck. So if you don’d | break a mirror it must mean seven [ years good luck. Think of all the | mirrors you haven’t broken. • => * BRO. TOM’S KITCHEN Adding tabasco sauce to the cof [ fee will keep it hot. » » • COMICS Lady addressing legal authority | on surtaxes, “I want to know why, ia lady pays Sir Taxes?” • * a HOME HELPS Don’t let your husband or furnate go out on a chilly night. • • • SOCIETY I Upon learning French boxers have | been ordered tq stop kissing at the end of a fight, Mrs. Glublub said: "My husband and I are American' citizens and will pay no attention to! this rule.” s- » * BEDTIME STORY “Open that window and I get a divorce tomorrow, you Eskimo.” Brooms are a part of the Pitts burg (Pa.) fire department’s stan dard equipment. They're utilized in extinguishing brush blazes. M *‘ l£ Father of p Physical Culture BER.NAR.R macfaooen . When the processes of curimr disease and building the body b ■- conic as scientifically accurate as mechanics, we will learn that all parts of the human mechanism must be treated from the aliment ary canal. There may be a rev. exceptions to this rule, but nearly all complaints have their orgin in this qomplicated organ, A clean alimentary canal means cleanlim si throughout the entire interior sur face of the body. Many are under the impression that they are clean after the ex terior surface of the body has b. er. scrubbed and cleansed. Hut the interior surface of all the various I tubes within the body, ranging in size from the capillaries to the 1 stomach and colon, is perhaps ’ more than one hundred times greater than the exterior surface of the body. Os how much greater importance, therefore, is interior than mere surface cleanliness! If you could cleanse your ali mentary canal throughout its en tirety with almost the same ease that you wash your face, you would probably consider yourself possessed • of an extraordinarily valuable piece of knowledge, and 1 now intend to present a method of accomplishing -thi? very thing. The cleansing process is so direct in its effects and the results are so sure that it can be stated without fear of contradiction that it will absolutely cleanse every part of the alimentary canal, and that failure in its use is practically impossible. This process is as sociated 100, with a vitality build ing and muscle-strengthening pro gram which also invaluable. The method combines the drink ing, of hot water with exercises tor stimulating and strengthening the spine, the exercises which we have shown for the spine being par ticularly useful for the purpose. As the treatment can only be taken on an empty stomach, the mqgt suitable time for it is im mediately on rising in the morn ing. When you are ready to be gin the treatment, you must have at least two quarts of hot water at hand. Take it as hot as you can without sipping. You should be aide to drink it down as you would when thirsty. It can be flavored with a little salt if pre ferred, but add nothing which is in any way nourishing. Bogin by drinking a half pifit. or a pint and then proceed, to the exercises. r m SS’ F r re ® ident T - E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V ,-P, and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier 1 he Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) 18 9 l - 1924 3 'WSftaHwOl 1 pon the foundation '1 of thirt years of il growth is based the present organization of Wm mjuH; K OUI- hank - Th « e.xpeti- cnce is a,wa y s 9t the command of our cus wWS tomers. We cordially ■ solicit your banking business. • The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Too Small Nir ARY 25, CONSTIPATION A cause of many ill”. Harm. ’ lul to elderly people. X relief in taking CHAMBERLAIN’S TABLETS Ea»y—plca.-ant—effective— only 25« fiSw \\\ Constant hacking x j makes the cough • worse STOP itmow wither. Bell’s Pine- Tar Honey-—or it may become chronic. Nothing so quickly loosens phlegm,soothesdry throatsnbd stops coughing Made of the very same medicines the best doctors prescribe combined with the good old-time stand-by—pine-tar honey! Its taste is pleasing, too! Keep Dr. Bell’s on hand for the whole family. All Be sure to get ' the genuine. r»R. BELL’S Pine'Tar Honey H STANDARD I Fifty Charming New I Hats at $2.98 and $3.98. I Fifty new styles, all fresh and I new in exceedingly pretty styles, representing the newest creations in millinerynna e just come. It is only because we have the very good connection that we have that we are able to offer these excellent hats for the price. 25 New Spring Hats; regularly $5; here at .. ..$2.98 25 New Spring Hats; regularly $6; at $3.98 I The Sale or Men’s Shirts at SI.OO Som e have been buying them by the dozen. It is the accumulation of a whole year now lumped into one big lot; every size is here and many arc less than half price; choice of the big lot now .SI.OO Men’s Servicable Socks 15c Pr. or 7 Prs. for SI.OO Seamess Lisle Socks, black, white, brown and gray; double heels and toes, double sole regularly 25c;. here Friday and Saturday pair 15c, seven pairs for SI.OO Infants and Children’s Ribbed Vests at 25c All sizes from 1 to 6 years; very clastic, well made; here Friday and Saturday ... ...... . 25c Beautiful Terry Draperies At 79c Extra heavy reversible Terry Draperies, i"n about one dozen good patterns; regularly $1; here Friday and Saturday, yard 79c Thousands of Pairs of Fine Shoes at $2.98 We hgye sold more Shoes dur ing thp past three weeks than we have ever sold for the same length of time, and we still have some of the best Shoes that we owned at the beginning of the sale. It is a chance for you to stock up. buy two or three pairs. The best shoes in our house for ladies’ and men are only $2.98. There arc some for less of course. Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GA. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMAS i ER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Day Phones 88 and 231
