About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1924)
PAGE SIX .EP U-JHF- 1 -. "" J?!?? T»»U' 1 V ” "" ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ i i i i ■ —» i ■■ —) y. , «■' ■ --- IF*' EVERY LIVE TOWN HAS A LIVE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WITli EVERY LIVE RESIDENT A LIVE MEMBER times-recorder PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelcae Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered as second class matter at the post of fit* at Americus, Georgia, according to the Act of rs Aaaociated Press io exclusively entitled ’« ute for the republication of all < ieMa **•’ patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to thia paper aad also the local news published here, tn. All right of republication of special dispatches are alto reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST lANDIS A KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., New Yorit; ’eoplcs* Gas Bldg.. CWcago. A THOUGHT ~| He that hath knowledge spareih his words; and a man of undei’l standing is of an excellent spirit.— Prov. 17:27. Not only is there an art in know ing a thing but also a certain art in teaching it.—Cicero. Cows and Cotton We have had more or less to say regarding the introduction of dairying in Georgia and par ticularly in Sumter county. In our opinion, it is a few cows on every farm —as a side line—that will pay. We do not intend to advise or counsel the complete stocking of a farm with cows—ALL DAIRYING. i There may be money in a strictly dajry farm, but what Georgia and this section needs is a few cows on every cotton farm, those cows supplying milk and butter and fertilizer. Dairying carried on in this way is proving a success where ever a market is provided for the milk. Dozens and dozens of counties in the State already are succeeding along this line. A few days ago in this col umn we quoted F. M. Connor, development agent of the S. A. L. Railway in a statement in which he showed a profit from the farm of Henry Fenn, over in Crisp county. Mr. Fenn’s 14 cows produced an average of $133.21 per month for cream alone. Mr. Fenn said: “I have a twenty-horse farm, five plows of which I devote to my dairy herd and I made more money last year from these five plows than I did from the other fifteen plows that I devoted to cotton.” Another instance mentioned by Mr. Connor is that of Tom Wright, a young farmer of the Penia community in Crisp, who started milking three cows in Oc tober, 192 I. In November he added two more cows, and, says Mr. Connor: “From the five cows in ten months he shipped $334.00 worth of cream. His expenses, includ ing feed and tickets for shipping, amounted to $91.70, which gives him a profit of $243.30 for cream. During this time $41.00 worth of skim milk was fed to hogs and two calves were sold for SIO.OO, which runs his profits S3OO, for th e Ave cows for ten months. Mr. Wright estimated his manure to be -Mforth $50.00, which will increase his feed crop yields the hext season. milking and taking care of these cows, Mr. Wright took case of his crop just as well as he did before he 'began milk ing. “These cows of Mr. Wright’s were allowed to run on his car pet grass aryl lespedeza pastures, and througKms bean fields after he had harvested his corn—with a little concentrates being fed at nights. “Other small farmers in Crisp and other South Georgia counties are succeeding equally as wfll as Mr. Wright. “Sow some of your idle lands in carpet grass and lespedeza, Start into the dairy business on a small scale and build up your herd by use of a pure bred sire. “I will be glad to give you a list of reputable pasture grass seed .dealers, their prices, and will be glad to help you select your lands for a psature,” says Mr. Connor. It’s the adding of the FEW cows, the FEW chickens and the FEW hogs that bring prosperity to the cotton farmer. By all means plant cotton, 10 or 12 acres to the plow, fertiliz ed heavily, work day in and day out, using poison judicious ly—do this and you are follow ing* in the steps of those farm ers who are making the most PROFIT out of cotton. And it is the number of dol lars profit that pays mortgages and accounts—not the number of bales that may be produced in a year. How to Orate News seems to be chiefly a record of Terrible Predicaments. Now, about the worst predica ment the awerage man ever finds himself in, is wh£n he is called oH z to make a speech. So the subject is* wortlij? of discussion. Not one person in a hundred is a “natural born orator.” The rest of us have cold chills, mental vacancy and Very dry throats when the official execu tioner —the chairman of the meeting—turns, his relentless eye our way and announces that we are next. It’s a calamity when the speech-making job is thrust on us Jmjpromptu. And almost as bad when we have been given advance notice, foremost of our carefully-thought-out clever re marks vanish Jrom memory as we rise scowlingly, nervously, to our feet and swallow. Actors call this “lack of stage presence.’ The speaker, when nervous, usually is too self-conscious. He’s afraid of disgracing himself. It will help a lot if he keeps in mind that 99 out of 100 in the audience have just as great a dread of making speeches. The expectant, joyful look on their faces is not in anticipation of what they are about to hear. No, it’s just glee that someone else is the goat. They appreciate your plight. They are sympa thetic and tolerant, and don’t ex pect too much, so why be ner vous? Speech-making at its best is dull, and especially so when John Barleycorn is not present to liven things up. To counter act this dullness, tell a joke— even the one about Pat and Mike. Three good jokes will “save” the worst speaker. All speeches are too long. If you want the secret thanks of your listeners, make ypur talk short. The shorter the better. Orators who are naturally gift ed to “talk by the yard” have spread an impression that to read a speech is bad form. Don’t believe it. The audience wants to get the ordeal over with even more than the speaker. | OPINIONS OF j ; OTHER EDITORS > HOW THE SURTAX WORKS Secretary Mellon has delivered a smashing reply to those critics of his income tax reduction plan who contend- that it is designed to “favor the rich,” by its sub stantial reduction of the surtax. In his letter to Senator Curzons, of Michigan, candidate of the radical element of the senate for chairman of the Interstate Com merce Committee, he shows the folly of a petty politician trying to discuss financial problems of which he is ignorant. Even a politician ought to know that when the levy on in comes becomes excessive, the in vestor will put his funds in non taxable securities, but Senator Curzons made the mistake of as serting rather scornfully that no tax-exempt securities could tempt men who had the opportunity of investing in such lucrative enter prises as Standard Oil, whereupon the Secretary df the Treasury comes back at his critics by giving chapter and verse to prove the contrary. William G. Rockefeller, says Secretary Mellon, “undoubtedly was familiar with the possibilities of Standard Oil,” -and yet when he died and his estate was ad ministered, it was found that he had $7,000,000 invested in Stan dard Oil, and $44,000,000 in tax exempt securities. It was indeed an impressive il lustration. A man who had ex ceptional opportunities for know ing what returns he might ex pect from a productive industry found it was wise, under th* ex cessive sur-tax, to invest three fourths of his wealth in non-tax able securities. There is a homely old proverb about leading a horse to water, without being able to make him ” drink. If sur-taxes are so high as to be excessive and drive cap itaj into nbn-taxable securities, how much money does the excess bring in?—Macon News. A “PUSSUNAL” QUESTION Are you getting any of the benefits of high priced milk anti butter and butter fat? You are not unless you are keeping some ' good dairy cows. Now is the time to get in the game.—Jack son Progress-Argus. Those who have dairy cattle on the farms—who have main tained them there for any length of time—know very well that they can be kept and th e other farming activities carried on al vso at the same time. The dairy cattle and the care of them will add an extra cash, income. The graded cattle that are sold off the herd will bring money from another direction. The fertilizer and the skim milk are appreciable bi-products. The hogs and the chickens that can be raised be cause cattle are kept all help to swell butter fat nt the extremely high price of fifty-one and a half cents a pound. This is the time when our dairy cattle get the beans out . of the field, the tur nips and rutabagas, the sweet po tatoes we have grown and housed . for them. Today we can market velvet beans, field pods; peavine and peanut hay, potatoes, turnips, carrots, and other abundantly easy crops through the dairy cows and get back for them in cream " h-HE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER cash more than we 1 could get in any other direction. Sweet po tatoes as a winter feed for good dairy cattle will b ing more in butter-fat than the# can be made to bring from any- other source in the wide world. And then our lesp|deia, carpet, and dallas grass' Aistures take care of the cows the- spring and summer months, fully eight months inXhe year. It is a “pus sonal” question, but aue you get t-'ng any of the. benefits of the high-priced butter-fat—are you? —Cordele Dispatch. Old Days in Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder Jan. 30, 1924.). Mr. snd Mrs. James Rees left fast night for Miami and other points of interest on the peninsula where they wdl spend tl.’-ee or four weeks delightfully. Miss Elizabeth Murphy after an extended t visit in Americus, the guest,of her cousins, Misses Maybell afid Blanche Hawkins left yesterday for jjer home in Los Angeles. Miss Bessie Windsor has been called to Palatka, Fla., by the criti cal illness of her niece, Miss Mariam Stallings, the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam C. Stallings, for mer residents of Americus. Miss Marie Walker and guest Miss Jane Harrison, of Columbus, were members of a congenial party going to Albany yesterday to attend 'the play last night. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Black are at home from South Florida, where they upon their wedding trip two weeks ago. Americus Light Infantrymen were alike elated and enthused yester day as a result of the smoker giv en at,the armory the night beforqliy the’ company officers, Captain Fort and Lieutenants McLendon and Hogue, and on vthich occasion ad dresses were delivered b^ 1 well known speakers, including Mr. J. E. Mathis, Mr. Crawford Wheatley, Dr. H. B. Allen, Capt. John A. Cobb and others. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder, Jan. _ 30, 1904.) Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Sheppard are notv “at home” at their handsome residence, the former Black place, on Brooklyn Heights. Mrs. Ray Wakefield and little daughter, of Springfield, Ky., will accompany her father, Mr. G. A. Turpin, upon his return to Americus next week. Americus people were delightful ly disappointed yesterday when they looked out of their windows upon giwn trees and dry soil instead of an endless stretch of snow as ex* pected. The weather was propiti ous for a heavy snowfall, but came not, and the people rejoiced. There is no doubt now but that; the state of Georgia will soon have the care of the Confederate ceme tery in Antfricus through a con veyance of that property by th<j Ladies Memorial Association of this city. At the meeting of the city, asking a formal conveyance of the property to that body that it, iif turn, might transfer it to the State.’ When the county chaingang is in stituted in Sumter county a few weeks hence the arrangements made for housing the convicts mules and machifiery will ibe all complete and the quarters of the zebras will be roomy, clean and well ventilated Both free and convict labor will be employed upon the roads here. Fifteen and a half cents for cot ton was yesterday’s price in Amer icus. Just east your eye l higher today—to the sixteen cents figure. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Jan. 30, 1894.) Monday opened dark and gloomy and the drizzling rain seemed • to have thinned out the crowd th;*t was present when court assembled tq hear the continuation of the ar gument in the Hinkle trial. The big crowd of Saturday’s session, numbering 800, was at high watch mark, as that was the limit of tl-q capacity of the court room. 1 The well-known hardware firm of J. W. Sheffield & Co., is’ shortly to be changed into a joint stock com pany, and thereafter will be known as the Sheffield Huntington com pany. Elsewhere in The Tinre-s- Recorder this morning will be found the application for charter, wherein Messrs. John W. Sheffield, C. A. Huntington, Frank Sheffield, Chas. Huntington and John Sheffield, Jr., asked to be incorporated under the above name. The capital (stock will be $50,000 with the privilege of in creasing the same to SIOO,OOO. Mrs. Annie Mann and Master Will Miller returned yesterday from Macon where they spent sev eral days as the guests of Col and Mrs. W. R. Cox. Prof. I. W. Bush, an old and fav orite dancing master, after an ab sence of ten yeirs, has returned loaded down with laurels and new dances from the Eact He has brought with him Mr. 11. E. Connor one of the finest Italian harp play, ers that has ever been South, and his music will be highly appreciated by ail who hear him. WE ARE GETTING MORE OR LESS ACCUSTOMED TO 11 JusT A Few Ysars ago This __ MlFomal Bugaboo ■ ■ s . ■ lpayop/! T HELP/J HowThss merely excises curiosity A V Fogis’LuVAPEle / W X' \9 z 5 \ whaTdoesßs ® / / income N bird Dowilft JI. // / -r- ~ \ ALL HiS W ' : Copyright, 1923, DAILY POEM N. E. A. Service A 1 xzi-iIVX Berton Braley i LITERATURE I’d read the books of Bernard Bhaw , t And those of Schopenhauer, In fact, I grabbed each book I Saw And all I could devour That made a study of the dames And helped to analyse ’em, To show up all their little games And aid a guy to size ’em. I wouldn’t have my peace of mind By women’s tricks imperiled, And so I read up womankind As wrote by Scott Fitzgerald, And all those other modern ginks That’s studied women. Yea, bo, I gets the dope and so I thinks “They won’t fool this-gazabo.” But what’s the use? ’Books on the shelf Don’t help ybu when you need it; ' Each girl’s a volume by herseif That changes while you read it! And as for this here kid I love And hope I’m gonna marry; Say, she’s got all the makin’s of A bloomin’ liberaxrv! ' NE-W S ... STATION FAD CALLING . ... Newspapers announce d radio de vice for curling hair. All right girls, tune in on a mar cel wave. You can expect some local inter ference if bobbing for the first time, Dad and ma wilt provide loud speak ers. , As transformers, try putting the switch on and( off. No need td tell you to avoid fre quency or static in style. Station FAD signing off. • • • DAILY SKOFF * ' i Skoffcar—A bird that gives your flivver the laugh. Skoffdate A dame that turns down your movie invitation for a dinner bid. ’ Skofftomb«—A guy that runs in front of autos and street cars on slippery street. Skoffprunes Victim either of a boarding house or the ancient joke concerning it. ' • » » EDITORIAL SHORTS | This time it was the oil. that troubled the waters. 1 People who work in gas stations shouldn’t throw matches. When it gets too cold to swear— well, it's time to go to Florida. Visitors who tell us their troubles are welcome every Feb.JIU. • * • COURT NEWS New York lawyers asked an alienist a 20,000-word hypothetical question. Didn't bother him at all. He has a small boy at home. »» * • ADVERTISING • Our want ads brings results! Re cently we advertised the mysterious disappearance of our pipe, Uumshoe We haven't been able to locate our own pipe, but scores of people have brought in pipes they found suspected of being ours. We not only have future Christ mas presents but far better pfipes, than the one we lost. „ . S/MS’ PZxP ER- LEGAL NOTICE Some lawyers you hire; and some you support for the rest ot their lives. FASHIONS Announcement that derbies are to be all the styld' again will put a lot of mothballs out of jobs. , Which raises the delicate ques tion: What would mothballs do for a living if trunks hadn’t been in,- vented. • * • . MUSIC P. Liguattarri, trombonist extra ordinary, received a distinguished delegation at his hotel last week. They asked him to rehearse ini the theater hereafter. ♦ ♦ * ART Rumor has it that La Drauxe a painting laM week. He /paid his board bill. SCIENCE Experiments made on the latest thing in mouse traps indicate that they pinch the fingers just as hard as the ancient varieties. a fie Refeiw Apple TAXES In all this cyclone of talk about' reducing taxes, let's remember that national taxes are not the only ones. A government bulletin reveals these surprising rigures: In 1923 the national government collected 3204 million dollars of taxes. No 1923 figures are com pletely available as yet for states, counties, cities, towns and rural districts. But in 1922 these com-* bined collected 4228 million dollars in taxes, or nearly a third more than national taxes. * * <= sZ BILLIONS The tax burden of the American wrrATcnAV AFTFiiNriON JANUARY 30, 1924 people is somewhere, abound seven and a half billion dollars a year—< including all taxes, national, state, county, municipal and so on. This is about S7O a year for eA ery man woman and child. Four -a family of five, it averages $350 a year. The actual burden is much great er, for in passing taxes oh to 'con sumers there is usually an addition al levy to play safe. » ♦ » DEBT* While nearly seven and a half billion dollars of taxes are collected in a year from the American people, government spending is much larg er. The deficit is taken care of by bond issues. So the future Is in creasingly mortgaged and the bur den of debt grows' steadily. Air eventual day of reckoning is. inevit able. The national debt is decreasing. But the total debt of states, coun ties and municipalities is increasing- Put the brakes on Uncle Sam fine! But put them also on Barn’s 48 chil dren, the states, and their m£hy family relatives. ♦ * « THEATER The new Cherry Lane Playhouse is heralded as New York City’s smallest theater. It’s another link in the chain of Little Theaters over the country, which have done so much to promote better theatricals and inject life and originality into the legitimate stage. One of these, a converted stable produced the fa mous Provincetown Players and brought Eugene O’Neill from dark obscurity to his present position as greatest American playwright. The movies need a Little Theater movement . Mechanical cost is a bar. But it will come. * * » CHANGE When an unknown writer sends a movie scenario to the producers, there’s only one chance in 10,000 of rts being accepted. The Author’s League makes this interesting discovery in the- law ox chance. It found that onjy four scenarios were accepted out of 42,- 020 sent t 0 producers. Maybe it’s all for the best, after all. Out of 10,000, wa doubt if more than 50 would be worth pro ducing. Writers’ chief problem is overpro duction. As George Ade put it, too much competition with dead men. J” Os the 60,832 persons committed to Engifh prisons in th e penal year ending March 1 ( 1923, 3728 were debtors, according to a London weekly magazine. 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 ■ - KWiIRkIH pon foundation H nf thirty-three years of growth is based the ' Efenpgf* present organization of W : our bank. This expeli ence i s always-' at the* ’’ command of our cus- - ‘omers. We cordially -■*“ solicit your banking The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING __ No Account Too Large; None Too Small EVESY Has Its Share of the Proof That Kidney Sufferers Seek ; Backache? Kidneys wegk? Distressed with urinary ills? Want a reliable kidney remedy? Don’t have to look far. Use what Americus people recommend. Ev ery street in Americus has its cases. Here’s one Americus man s expe rience. . , Let J. E. Oliver, prop, auto paint shop, 303 Cotton Ave., tell it. H says: “The turpeutine fumes weak ened mv kidneys and caused lame back. If I stooped, severe pains caught me in the small of my back and I could hardly move. The kid ney secretions passed often and I had dizzy spells. I bought Doan s Kidney Pills at the Carswell Drug Co., and they relieved me of the A complaint.” Price 60c at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy— get Doan’s Kidney Pills —the same that Mr. Oliver had. Foster-Mil burn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. adv $5,000 TO LOAN On Americus Residence Property Phone 830 LEWIS ELLIS Ihestandard 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-haff and more under their actual value—a mar velous offer—quality of the finest sort, styles that are decidedly smart, colors that are the season’s favorite. In fact, the whole > s matchless at this extremely low price—an opportunity that no wo man can afford- to overlook. 300 Pairs Children’s 25c Socks at 10c Regular 25c grade of Children’s Lisle Socks, black anef brown, most all sizes; her e at per pair 10c $5.00 Velvet Rugs at $2.98 Genuine Alexander-Smith’s Ka tonah Velvet Rugs, size 30x60, over 20 beautiful patterns ;* regularfy ss.Ob; here now for .... .... $2.98 1000 Yards 25c, to 35c Cretonnes at 18c Full yard wide and fast colors, beautiful patterns, in almost every Color. Never before for less than 25c and many times they were 35c; Boys’ Hats, Value $2.00 to $3.00 At SI.OO Eats for, small boys up to 10 years, all colors, black velvet, as sorted cassimerg’ and worsteds, reg- s ularly $2.0'0 to $3.00, now each SI.OO Men’s $2.50 to $3.00 Hats at $1.45 Odd Iqts from our $2.50 to $3.00 lines in all colors and all sizes, here how at each $1.45* The Best Yard-Wide Sheeting At 15c The very best yard-wide Sheet ing, closely woven, heavy grade, the mills pric e is more than our retail price; here”"now yard 15c $1.50 All-Wool Serge 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. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 ' Day Phones 88 and 231
