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times-recorder
PUBLISHED 1879
Published by
The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.)
Lovelcae Eve, Editor and Publisher
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at Americus, Georgia, according to the Act of
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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.
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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.
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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.
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DAILY SKOFF
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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. '
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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.
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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.
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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.
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. MUSIC
P. Liguattarri, trombonist extra
ordinary, received a distinguished
delegation at his hotel last week.
They asked him to rehearse ini the
theater hereafter.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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