About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1924)
PAGE EIGHT EVERY LIVE TOWN HAS A LIVE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WITH EVERY LIVE RESIDENT A LIVE MEMBER TIM E S-R E C 0 R D E R PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (In.c.) Lovelcae Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered aa aecond cl.iai matter at the postuffict at Americus, Georgia, according to the Act ul Cougrt%». The Associated Press ;s exclusively entitled the use for the republication of all patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news published ,rr ’ tn. All right of republication of special di»i’ a 1 also reserved. National Advertising Representstivea. I v ' , F LANDIS & KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., lont * ’eoples’ Gas Bldsr.. Chicago. A THOUGHT | Every man shall receive his own reward according .to his own labor. —1 Cor. <3:B. Heaven often regulates effects fry their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved. . ■ ■"" ■ " The White Primary A Democratic white primary has been called in this county for March 19. This primary is to nominate candidates for cer tain offices in Sumter county. Nomination is equivalent to elec tion, judging by past records. The action of the Democratic party, as represented in the bal lots of white voters cast in pri maries represents the will of the people. The Democratic committee in ordering this election has de creed it shall be held in ac cordance with the laws of the State and existing rules and cus toms of the party.’* These rules and customs are, or should be well known to every white resi dent of Georgia who is old enough to vote. The laws of the State are those fixed eiiher in the constitution or through legislative enactment, prescrib ing the qualifications of voters. In other words, every voter who is qualified to participate in the general election for State and county officers in Georgia is qualified to participate in the election to be held here March 19, provided he or she is also a white person and a Democrat, or will subscribe to a pledge to support the nominees of that party at the general election In other words, the primary on March 19th is the election in which the white people of Sum ter county will select officers who will fill the several county of fices during the next four years. There are many competent gentlemen and at present two estimable women who have an nounced their intention to run for the several offices to be fill ed. These candidates are all residents of Sumter county; and women who are known to al most every person who will cast a ballot in the coming primary. Those voters who do not hap pen at this time to be acquaint ed with the candidates person ally, very likely, will become ac quainted with them before the campaign ends; for the signs all point toward an interesting can vass for votes. The participation of women in this primary puts into the campaign a new and practically unknown element, the develop ment of which is being observed with unusual interest by every one who is interested in politics. There can be no doubt that many women who have never before exercised their preroga tive as voters at the polls, will register and cast their ballots in the March 19 election. It is im portant that these new voters be fully informed concerning ’.he qualifications of voters. It would be unfortunate, to say the least, should even one woman —or man, for that matter—to be deprived of the privilege of voting through failure to regis ter, or for any other cause, con trol over which is held by the individual. So we say to those who would vote in the coming election: In-’ form yourself; if there is a sin gle question upon which you have any doubt, don’t hesitate. Ask someone in position to give you correct information. Chair man James A. Davenport or Secretary John A. Fort, of the County Executive Committee, can tell doubtful ones just what is necessary to qualify any per son to vote. They'■will answer gladly, we are sure, any question you may ask concerning the pri mary. So it is the privilege of every qualified white person in Sum ter county to participate in this; primary on March 19. Privilege in this instance is synonymous with duty. , No person enjoying the privi lege of voting can rightly refuse to exercise this important func tion, which the, constitution* builders of our great government have vested in American citizens past the age of twenty-one years. Upon your shoulders rests the • burden of helping select honest, 'upright, courageous and honor- J'able officers to enforce the laws lof the land. The man or wo man who deliberately neglects or refuses to vote has no right to complain of the actions of those whose official conduct may later warrant criticism. If you are lethargic at the election, don’t get offended if public officers fail to regard your wishes during their term in office. Some of the gravest problems that confront this gov ernment, are the result of le thargy among voters at election time. > It will not be easy for some Sumter county voters to choose . from among candidates who will cffei in this election Many of j these have personal claims upon [voters; others will expect you to I vole for them because of exist ing family ties. This is a matter for you and your conscience; we arc not supporting any candidate in this county election. It tsn t the purpose of this editorial to advance the interests of any in-1 dividual, but to rally to the sup port of Sumter county the help ful interests of every resident. Don’t back away from your plain duty. Vote for the men’ I and women of your choice at the i polls and thereby assert youri • sight to be called an one hun dred per cent American citizen. OPINIONS OF OTHER EDITORS [ SENATOR FALL’S- CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST The melancholy picture of Al bert B. Fall, “a sick man,” ar riving at Washington in the rain of a wintry midnight, his slouch hat pulled far down and his shouL ders stooped as if by weight of the dark disclosures concerning him, recalls another sombre scene of some years ago, in which another sick man played the major part. It was at the White House that this other episode befell, and the central figure was the President of the United States. For weeks Woodrow Wilson had been con ' fined to bed, convalescing from a physical breakdown brought on by the long strain of self-forgetting labors in the cause of national honor and world peace. For weeks the rank and file of his country man had welcomed each word of cheer from his bedside, admiring his resolute battle for new strength, all solicitous, all sym» pathetic. But at the other end of Pennsylvania avenue sat a Sena tor who had fought the Presi dent’s policies bitterly, and who could not abide the thought of a truce, not even in the shadow of .his pathetic illness. By all man ner of innuendoes he waged pyg my war against the stricken giant. “Whnt was the matter with Mr. Wilson?” “When would he be back at his desk?” “Was he men tally as well as physically in\- paired?” ‘Was he receiving callers or signing papers?” “Was the government functioning?” So ran the Senator’s fusillade, till at last he succeeded in having him self designated as one of a com mittee to call upon the president and as an eye witness acertain his condition. Into the sick room he went, pert and prying. He found Mr. Wilson, as others on the visiting committee attested, worn by illness, but bright of eye, cherry and gracioius of word, as nimble-witted as of old—fen astonishing if not disconcerting revelation to him who had come to see if the government was func tioning. That relentlessly curious Sen ator was - O Nemesis!—none other than the Honorable Al bert B. Fall, afterwards secre tary of the interior in the Hard ing cabinet, from which public sentiment forced his resignation, and now summoned to explain to an investigating committee of his ertswhile colleagues his one hundred thousand-dollar part in the government oil lease scandal. “I’m a sick man,” said the for- I mer Senator to the newspaper reporters who accosted him upon his arrival at Washington in the shrouding chill of midnight rain, and by one of whom he is pictured in this wise: “Once a fire-eater a determined figure who pushed through to his objectives, toler ating no jntereference, Fall is now a feeble, crushed old man. His weary eyes showed dully through his spectacles. He had the look of one haunted, with lit tle fight left in him.” A sick man, indeed, whose malady, we fear lies too far, too deep for physic’s aid. And the Senata committee now insists upon as ertaining how that part of the government for which he, as sec retary of the interior was re sponsible, functioned when pri vate interests were seeking to gain control of invaluable public oil fields. His friend, Doheny, the Coli fornia oil magnate, testifying that he lent Secretary Fall one hundred thousand dollars on the latter’s unsecured note, admits that subsequently the Doheny in terests obtained from the interior department a lease on certain naval reserve oil lands from * THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER which lie expects to realize a profit of one hundred million dollars. The negotiations, it ap pears, were secret; and the lands were those which three Presidents —Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson— had unswervingly refused to re lease, regarding them as all-im portant sources of fuel for the oil-burning vessels of the navy. It is nob believed that the future stages of the investigation, which still has far to go, will tend to improve Mr. Fall’s condition. Nor can the pity of having to probe thus into a sick man’s rec ord be gainsaid. Had he been less ruthless in prosecuting his own plans and in stating his own curiosity, the present situation might be more sufferable; at least it would lack so sharp a sting of irony. But Mr-. Fall, poor man, must now behold his chick ens coming home to roost,, a cheer less, ill-omened flock. Some are even so inconsiderate as to re mind him that in his testimony to the Senate committee a month ago he persistently denied having ever received so much as a penny’s loan from the Doheny in terests. Truth to tell, the committee’s case appears remarkably like that of which certain European states men who were studying the pre dicament of Turkey in 1844 are reported to have said. ”We have on our hands a sick man, a very sick man.” Howbeit, the investi gation must proceed; aWd so in quisitive a mind as former Sena tor Fall’s can but appreciate the spirit of the hour; can but feel gratified, indeed as he realizes that the government is still func tioning.—Atlanta Journal. Old Days in Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Jan. 29, 1914.) In the sale a day or two ago the plant of Americus Bottling Co., the property was bougght in at the price named, $1,950 for Mr. Eugene Hill, of Americus, Mr. Hill will put in condition for immediate use and will operate it in the manufacture of popular soft drnks. Mr. John Oliver, of New Orleans is in Americus on business. Mr. Oliver was reared here, his father, Hon. Perry Oliver, having been the first mayor of Americus. A decline of .ten points in the con tract market yesterday had little appreciable effect upon the local spot market, although the value of lower grades was probably affected. The market here yesterday was quoted as follows, good middling 13 cents and middling 12 1-4 cents. Total receipts to date, 33.453. Mrs. H. 0. Jones and petite Miss Jones, who have been spending several months wiah relatives in South Carolina, returned to Ameri cus yesterday. Miss Mattie Lewis Dodson will go to Fitzgerald today upon a pleas ant visit of several days to Mrs. Thomas Dickey at her handsome home here. The local Woman’s Christian Tem perance Union gave a reception to the teachers and city board of edu cation Wednesday night at the resi dence of Mrs. Clegg on Lee Street. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday, no paper published. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Jan. 29, 1904.) Mrs. L. D. Lockhart left yester day for Dawson, called there by the illness of relatives. Mr. DeWitt Pickett left yester day for Cuthbert, where he goes for a day on business. Miss Amzie Daniel, of Friend ship, is a fair visitor at the home of her brother, Mr. Olin Daniel, on Lee street. Americus friends of Mr. C. B. Winburn will be pleased to learn, that he has just been promoted to the position of superintendent of the Second division of the Central Railway with headquarters at Ma jon. Inspired by the success his broth er members of the bar are making as farmers, and seeing visions and dreaming dreams of riches arising from fifteen cent cotton. Col. Frank Hooper kneaded some of Isis dough into dirt yesterday and is now studying the habit of the boll weevil and the caterpillar while planting eongresisonal garden seeds. The union meeting at the First Baptist church that has been In progress for the past three weeks closed last night. The Rev J. (’. Wardlaw, pastor of the First Meth odist and Rev. R. E. Neighbor, pa tor of thj First Baptist conducted the preaching. While Mr. George A. Turpin is in Kentucky, where he went yesterday, he will purchase a pair of horses for the department of this city, if a pair that measures up to the re quirements can be found. With an other pair like the sorrels Amerif eus cannot be surpassed when it means .making time. The .present authorized strength of the United States Marine corps is 1093 officers, 114 warrant offi cers and 27,400 enlisted men. The Temple of Neptune, the ruins of which still stand at Paestum, in southern Italy is held to be the fin est speciment of Doric architecture outside of Greece- A WONDERFUL LITTLE HILLCLIMBER r / Doesh'T ? lx— vN 1/ x • Copyright, 1923, DAILY POEM B y N. E. A. Service Lyz-VXI-i 11 VLIYi fierton Braley A MATTER OF ETIQUETTE When first they met each other he was four and she was three, And they hadn’t read the Book of Etiquette; He was very, very friendly, but no friendlier than she, And they hadn’t read the Book of Etiquette. So without an introduction they made friends, as children will, And they went to school together through their childhood days, until They both started off to x college—they were quite grown up, 'but still They hadn’t read the Book of Etiquette. He took her out to dances and he took her out to plays, And they hadn’t read the Book of Etiquette; They were man-led to each other in their graduation days, And they hadn’t read the Book of Etiquette, She was quite a dainty housewife and a mighty clever cook, Anrf they had six lovely children in their snug suburan nook; Then one day she got a copy o f a justly famous biok, ’xwas .i copy cf the Book of Etiquette. Now the wife it out in Reno, she has left her little roost. For at last she’s read in the Book of Etiquette; She d been living with a husband who was never introduced Which was frowned on by the Book of Etiquette. When the tie that binds is severed, she’ll undoubtedly es*v To re-meet her former husband in a mete and proper way And they’ll then proceed to courtship and a second wedding day All according to the Book of Etiquette. N E, W Sj ,PAP ER. EXTRA . . . SCOFFWIT. . . EXTRA With these rapidly changing times we realize more and more the necessity of rewriting the dictionary . Some bird invents the word Skof flaw and gets SIOO. At that rate every poor professor can quit talking of his wealthy re ; latives and boast of his rich voca bulary. Poor old Webster will never know ■ how narrowly he escaped being the i world’s first millionaire. Anyway, we’ve decided to grind out SIOOO worth today: Skoffblond—A blase young man > Skoffgas a bird that borrows his oil from passing autoists. I Skoffgrub—A fat lady on a diet. This one should be worth $200: Teapot Dome—A guy with- oilv . < hair. J* * » i EDITORIAL ; Temperamental folk should re . member that poets and artists are > used to going without food and liv ! ing in a garret. 1[ ♦ » * AUTO NEWS i I- rom the various automobile shows comes information that auto tires are running into millions now. That’s just the trouble. • ♦ * FASHION NEWS New \ ork style show announces j one-half-piece bathing suit. A noth r ! reason for continuing that diet. ■« * » ’ MUSIC ( Songs that will never grow old: i* Sixteen men on a dead man’s chest; . ho! Yo ho! He, had a bcttlek of 1 rum.” » * * ADVERTISING Gumshoe, the missing pipe is mor. II missing than ever. ;■ Does advertising pay? Hearken! Janitor, after reading this no i tice„ writes us he saw friend wife i throw something in garbage can. : 1 Reward not so liberal today, u* • * OUR HOROSCOPE >! Parents born on this day should, i not leave their offspring out iu a blizzard. Politicians whose birthdate this is would do well to have nothing to do with oil leases. People on Feb. 29 will grow oil I less rapidly than those born on oth er dates. » >:< s SOCIETY We read that Mr. M. Rafscho wizzki is changing': his name Leap year had nothing to do with it. * V * WASHINGTON BUREAU Mr. Bok says he’s ready to put up another prize. Peace at any price. ♦ ♦ * WAR DISPATCH On the even of Washington’s birthday we read that Gus Corn wallis surrendered to the Chicago rum squad/ » :l< « BEDTIME STORY “Just one more hand and jfien we’ll all go home.” • * * ART Sam Haskins is painting his barn. m RofeiQG Apple MAYBE Os interesting things, there's nev er a shortage. A European physician claims he can tell the sex of a child several months before birth, by a new blood test. This seems no more implausible than the theory of the circulation of the blood when, first' advanced by Harvey. A group of mystics, delving in' psychic phenomena, claims it has word from the other side that a Blue Race is due to appear on earth to share things with the White. Yellow Red, Black and Brown Races. STOP Marshal Foch made the decision not to keep the Germans on the run TUESDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY ana nivaae Berlin in 1918, according to Major. Gen. Henry T. Allen, for mer commander of , the American Army of Occupation. Pershing and other military heads left the decis i ion to Foch. j Foch apparently thought the inva sion of Berlin would make too much territory to police. It was one of the most important decisins in his tory. We wonder, if Foch has ie ; gretted it. » * * FATAL Twenty-one thousand Americans will be killed by accidents tnis year while on industrial jobs, warns the National Industry Conference Board An additional 9000 employers and self-employed people will be killed. Whether or not your name will be included on this list may depend largely on your personal caution Safety appliances help a lot. Bull constant personal caution is the best gafetyl device. Be as careful, when working around danger, as when driving an auto past a schoolhouse. * * * HEADQUARTERS Germany used to be the chi,ef magnet for students who wanted to “get the final polish abroad.” But the United States now is "finishing headquarters” for the world, 10,- 000 students a year arriving here from Euope, Asia, Africa and South America. So reports 4)r. Stephen P. Duggan, director of the Institute jf International Education. They come here from the far corners of the earth. Boys, who want to quit school and go to work should ponder this. AGILE Two out of every five American colleges are using “physchological tests” to rate the mentality of stu dents, says Prof R. W. Husband, of Dartmouth. The majority of these tests- are foolishly based on the supposition that mental agility—fast thinking— is the greatest brain quality. As“ a matter- of fact, the best brains move slowly, cautiously like an elephant testing the bridge ahead. Gigantic ( blunders like the World War are the result of fast thinking—snap- judg ment. • • ♦ 9 PROTEST A young man tvrites, protesting at the older generation's notion that the younger generation 15 “going to the dogs.” He says truthfully that “40 cannot judge 20.” And he adds the key of the whole situation: ‘lf we do want to enjoy ourselves, it is because we know only too soon wo will marry, and marriage nowadays 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 11 ffllPw-MHi Upon the foundation « PSSRMI of thirty-three years of growth is bnsed the 2 SjisiiHM present organization of K'! il firIKQWWf OUr This experi encc ia ahva y s it the command of our cus ,omcrs - 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 has not much glamour about it. | Jobs are too hard to get and keep, and there is not much money to be easily, made. You have noticed the tremendous number of young couples who find the pocketbook problem so acute that both husband and wife have to work. In a sense they are victims' * of men whose ambition, rather than to get a lot of money for them selves is to prevent others from get ting. ‘JACK’ If you were presented with all the money that’s in circulation in Arne- - ica, not counting what’s stored away in the Treasury and the Federal Re serve, you’d have nearly 500 mil lion dollars. This is the latest re port. : That’s only $46 for eve rmyan, woman and child. ' A’ With this small amount of money\ along with a system by which bank checks takes care of 95 per cent of all transactions, the country does a yearly business estimated at 350,- 000 million dollars a year. In the list of 10 greatest inven-. tions, include “credit.” $5,000 TO LOAN On Americus Residence Property Phone 830 LEWIS ELLIS _ THE STANDARD KEEPING PRICES AS LOW AS POSSIBLE AND DOING TWICE THE BUSINESS TWICE AS FAST —HENCE THESE LOW PRICES Five Hundred Pairs Women’ Kid Gloves at per pair, 75c We took the entire sample line ' of a foremost New York importer, the majority one-half and more under fheir actual value—a mar velous offer—quality of the finest . sort, styles that are decidedly | smait, colors that are the season’s ' favorite. in fact, the whole * B i matchless at this extremely low ; price—an opportunity that no wo l man can afford to overlook. 300 Pairs Children’s 26c Socks at 10c Regular 25c grade of Children’s Lisle Socks, black and brown, most 'all sizes; her e at per pair 10c $5.00 Velvet Rusjs at $2.98 -Genuine Alexander-Smith’s Ka tonah Velvet Rugs, size 80x60, over 20 beautiful patterns; regularly $5.00; here now for $2.98 1000 Yards 25c to 35c Cretonnes at 18c Full yard wide and fast colors, beahtiful patterns, in almost every : color. Never before for less than ( 25e and many times they were 35c; here yard 18c Boys’ Hats, Value $2.00 to $3.00 9 At SI.OO *■ ' Eats for small boys up to 10 years, all colors, black velvet, “as sorted cassimerg and worsteds, reg ularly $2.00 -to . $3.00, how each SI.OO Men’s $2.50 to $3.00 Hats at $1.45 Odd lots from our $2.50 to $3.00 lines in all colors and ail sizes, here now at each $1.45 The Best Yard-Wide Sheeting At 15c The very best yard-wide Sheet ing, closely woven, heavy grade, the mills price is more than our retail price; here now yard 15c $1.50 All-WoolSSereg e at 95c Fine all-wool Storm Serge, sponged and shrunk, 36 inches wide, regularly $1.50; here now per yard ’. 95c Shoes for Men and Women at $2.98 This price gets the best Shoes in our stock, Goodyear welts for men and women, new styles, values up to $7; here now choice of our best Shoes at.. .... $2.98 One Thousand Yards of White Out ings at, yard 15c Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS. GA. Americus Undertaking Co. NA F LEMAS TER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Day Phones 88 and 231
