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PAGE EIGHT times-recorder PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Timcs-Recordor Co., (Inc.) Lovelcae Eve, Editor and Publisher £titern lac second class nutter at the postoffi'* •t Americus, Georgia, according lo tlio Act ot , Cocgrtws. The Associated Pre«a it exclunively entitled t« the uae for the republieation of ail news batches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper ai>d al«o the local new* published In. All right of republication of apocial d;tpatcnc* are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives. LANDIS fk KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., New Tout, ’copies’ Gas Bldg.. Chit ago. A THOUGHT | Lying- lips are abomination to the Lord; but the* that deal truly are his delight,—Prov. 12:22. He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.—Montaigne. Women Voters Women who plan to vote in the March 19 primary may not have to pay back poll taxes, in order to qualify as electors. It is the opinion of no les3 an au thority than Attorney General George M Napier that women who register this year to vote are not required to pay back poll tax for the ycais 1922 and 1923, but may register and vote and then pay their 1924 poll tax in December. This opinion, however, is not shared by other high state offi cials at Atlanta, and Comptrol ler General W. A. Wright is one of those who disagrees with the attorney general as to the status of women voters. According to the comptroller general, whenever a woman offers to register she is required to pay for all the years preceding the year of election back to 1922, the date of the passage of the act making women eligible ‘an voters. Once a woman regis ters and votes, in the opinion of this officer, she becomes a regis tered voter and must pay poll taxes when they apply again for all the years that they have not paid preceding the election. The status of women voters, perhaps, has been somewhat clouded by an amendment to the enabling act under female suf frage was made an accomplish ed fact, adopted during the retl cent extra session of the Geor gia legislature. Under this amendment, it would appear the status of wo- j men'As voters in Georgia, is ma terially changed. The substance of this act is to be found in Paragraph I of the General Tax Act of 1924-25, sub-section (a) on Page 7 of Instructions to Tax Collectors of Georgia, issued by the Comptroller General of Georgia. I provides that the poll tax shall not be ‘ demand ed of female inhabitants of the state who do not register for voting and sub-section (a) pro vides that female inhabitants who have heretofore registered may themselves of the benefit of this act and be re lieved of the poll tax by having their namqs stricken from the registration book. Since women do not have to pay poll tax unless they register for voting, then no back poll taxes should be required of them. In a letter to T. S. Higdon, tax collector of Tift county. At torney General Napier explains this paragraph to mean that, under certain circumstances, wo men voters are not required to pay poll taxes, except for the year 1924 in order to become qualified voters. Illustrating his conception of the law the attorney general recently wrote Collector Rigdon in part as fol lows: To* illustrate: Suppose a wo man of 59 should apply to you to register for voting; under the Acts of 1022 and 1929, as I have heretofore construed that law, you would be authorized to re quire her to pay the tax for 1922 and 1923. However, un der the amended law, since fe male inhabitants are relieved of this tax who did not register for voting, then women are not to be required to pay poll tax until and unless .U) e y do register for voting. A man who Ims not heretofore voted, and who wouid be eligible to vote this year, would be en titled to register and pay his poll tax this coming December. My I construction of the lay is that women who have not heretofore registered for voting are entitled _ to register without paying any back poll tax, and may pay this year’s poll tax in December. And should a woman have her name stricken from list of regis tered voters, as provided in sub- | section (a) referred to, she could, as a matter of legal right, come later to the tax collector and have her name registered for the purpose of voting. Analyzing the foregoing the deciding factor as to whether or • EVERY LIVE TOWN HAS A LIVE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WITH EVERY LIVE RESIDENT A LIVE MEMBER no t women voters must pay back taxes is to be found in their purpose in registering dur ing past years. If a woman reg istered for any other purpose than for voting, or should she exercise the right conferred upon her in sub-division (a) of the General Tax Act, and had her-name stricken from the list of voters, it would seem to be well within her legal rights to again apply for registration, pay poll taxes for the current year, and cast her ballot upon equality with other electors. It all revolves about the famous question as to whether or not a woman has the right to ‘change her mind.’ OPINIONS OF j OTHER EDITORS j f “NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE” The announcement emanating from certain political circles in Atlanta that Senator Reed, of Missouri, would enter the Geor gia presidential preferential pri mary causes no surprise to Geor gians familiar with the cau cuses” and political confabula tions that have been held by a familiar faction, an erstwhile dominating faction in this state to regain their lost prestige and power. Th e machinations of this fac tion are too thin not to be trans parent. In fact, the most gulli ble will not be deceived, misled by their tactics, which, the way, have been tried in Georgia on a’ former occasion and which arc now known of all men. No sane man or woman be lieves for a moment that Senator Reed is a bona fide candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency and is to make a fight in Georgia in the primary for the votes of this state. He is not a “Watson candidate” as has been affirmed by those de signing politicians who hav e been holding secret meetings for months to devise ways and means to capture this state for their own sordid purposes, Ib'y sheer chicanery, but if the Missouri senator’s name is on ih e ballots, he will be a “Hardwick candi date.” That’s as plain as open and shut. That same scheme has been resorted to in Georgia before. And what a fiasco it was! Certainly th e electorate of this state is not to be caught in this trap for the second time. It’s all too plain. The bait has been nibbled at before. / The Missouri senator may per mit the use of his name on the bailots. to further the aspirations of Tom Hardwick, if he so elects, but it will serve no purpose, other than to make an assinine exhibi tion of himself. And he’s too shrewd for that. And, on th* other hand, the Democratic pa pers of Mr. Reed’s own state have endorsed former Governor Gardner for president. It is considered very doubtful as to whether the senator Would be able to carry Missouri in a Demo cratic primary for the presiden tial nomination. It will be rcealied that Reed was nominated and re-elected to the senate in 1922 'because of the nearly solid support of the Ger mans; g small portion of the Republican vote. Certainly not by a solid Demcoratic vote. Reed as a Democratic can didate for the presidency and to run in the primary in Georgia— only! That’s going some! If Tom Hardwick thinks the people of this state can be fooled that easi ly, it’s a very serious reflection on the literacy of this state. Ho and Reed have been lunching to gether in Washington for some time, the result being the incu bation of a scheme to restore the Hardwick faction to power in Georgia. That’s that. Hardwick is the only Democrat of prominence holding a job un der Attorney General Daugher ty, disclosing a close relationship between the two. There’s something significant about all this hobnobbing. It is of far more importance to the Democrats of Georgia and to the country that Reed be de feated in this state than it is for Georgia to go for either McAdoo or Underwood. But there is but the remotest apprehension that the Missouri senator will cut any big figure in Georgia politics. • Not yet. Nor will Tom Hardwick “como back.” Not yet.—Brunswick Banner. TAXES Our present system of taxa tion seems to be admiratoiy de signed to compel the rich to be idle, to take their money out of industry and to put into lax ex empt securities. Secretary Mellon says that men with very large incomes are forc ed out of industry if they muqt ray 25 to 50 per cent of their in comes for taxes. The railroads, ‘ factories and stores of the country, and the la borers who work in these, need capital to bring prosperity, but the " government is doing its best to take capital away from them and put it into bonds-sold by the Fed eral Government states, counties and schools districts. This fight of capital from in dustry into tax-exempt securities mean's that the rich pay less in taxes, and in consequence the poor must pay more, ns taxes must be paid by some body. "To adopt the sales tax is tiie simple efficacious way to remedy this defect, —Atlanta Georgian. _ - . ... ,i. i. , Old Days in Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Jar.. 31, 1914.) Americus peach-growers view with feelings of apprehension the season of summer weather now pre vailing, as it forebodes no good to the peach orchards here, if long continued. While there are no peach blooms in evidence as yet in the big orchards here, the buds swelling and a few more days ofj warm weather will force them into full bloom, only to be nipped hy some February blizzard, thus de troying the peach crop. Thirty bales of cotton pi'ed up yesterday at the Council warehouse attracted attention, as much as such a large lot had not been, brought here during the new year. The thirty hales were the property of Mr. Jere M. Duckworth and rep resents but a minor portion of his last year’s crop. Recovering partially from hor rible burns inflicted by live elec tric wires and which he was en tangled a considerable time before terrified spectators below could res cue him from his position of im minent peril, Mr. Wclbur Smith, a well known Americus electrician, re turned here yesterday from Dawson where for five months weher he la\ upon his bed, swatlied in bandages. Miss Jennie May Jones is a petite and charming little visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William M< Jones, where she arrived yesterday Misses Gertrude and Lucile Jos scy will spend today with friends in Macon, returning here this evening Their sister, Mrs. U. S. Haisten will reecntly, is now very much im proved. Mr. R. A. Shy, recently operated upon for appendicitis at the Ameri cus hospital, continues to improve rapidly, and will soon be upon* the streets once more. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Jan. 31, 1914 Seated in a buggy, while Justico G. P. Subcr stood by his front gate. Miss Allene Collins and Mr. Joe E. Stewart were joined in matrimony here yesterday afternoon. On ac count of the bird’s youthfulness her parents opposed the marriage at this time, it is said, but the young couple outwitted their vigilance and determination and Justice Subcr did the rest. Three farmers in Americus yester day who together hold nearly 200 bales of cotton worth SBO per bale, had cause to feel very good. Supt. A. J. Poole, of of the Sea board shops here, went to Savannah yesterday on important business and will probably return tomorrow. If a policeman was stationed at Magnolia Dell on Sunday after noon people could go to that resort as they have done in years past. Mr. and Mrs. George I). Wheatley entertained a few friends at 6 o’clock dinner last Wednesday in honor of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Quim by of New York, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Wheatley. Dave Andews has come back from Atlanta, and there’s no cotnaicrton Atlanta, and there’s no contraction in that placid smile. Mrs. George Van Riper, Miss Wil lie Van Riper, and Misses Aduie and Mamie Tarver leave Tuesday foa Claxton to attend a fashionable wedding. , Not a little talk in a political way was mingled with business evidenc ed the fact that Sumter is going to have a spirited campaign. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. Jan 31, 3894.) Editor Terrell Brooks, of Cortkb says that the belles of his town have driginated a fad that is bound to be come popular and far reaching. Tljese belles of the magic city say that if they can steal the bow from the inside of an unmarried gentle man’s hat and wear it in the hec-i of their stocking that the owner of the hat bow will be sure to propose matrimony. Mr. J. W. Matthews has accepted a situation with the Americus Grocery Company and will go on, the road so rthat well known house tomorrow. Joe Howard, one ot the young messengers at the Western Union office, beat the record yesterday for fast riding. He rode into the coun try a distance of six miles to deliver a telegram, making the round trip of twelve miles in fifty minutes. Tjie meeting of “The Club” at the residence of Mr. Frank Shef field last night was one of the most interesting of the new year/There was a large attendance, and the t programme, published yesterday was I faultlesly rendered. 11 ' Mr. and Mrs. K. M. McDonald, of Sumter City, are spending a few days with relatives in Americus, r 0 THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER GETTING READY FOR HIS COMING-OUT PARTY Copyright, 1923, DAILY POEM By N. E. A. Service LArAILi l 1 Berton Braley , » PETS The sits in the single nook Where it is snug and warm, But the dog goes where his master goes Nor cares how great the storm. The cat sits in th e ingle nook Stroked in the proper wise, But a dog’s heart thrills at every glance From out his master’s eyes. And though the cat may dwell with you A guest beneath your roof, Its spirit is forevermore Something apart, aloof. But oh, a dog—so great his lov e That while his life endures, His flesh and blood, his heart and soul, His every thought is yours. I like a pat and I admire Its splendid dignity, The way it takes your milk and meat Yet keeps its spirit free; Yet I would rather hav e the love Os one small mongrel cur Than all the selfish tolerance Os all the cats that purr. EXTRA! TROUSERS! EXTRA FAMOUS EDITOR SOLVES HARD PROBLEM « Lately our trousers have been baggigng so at the knees we found taking them off at night becoming difficult. Three weeks ago we could re move them by imagining they were boots, and tugging accordingly. Two weeks ago we were forced to start using a bootjack. •One week ago the bootjack broke. Then, by nothing less than in spiration, we remembered a “home help” *we wrote last summer. We put the trousers on backward. After wearing the trousers back ward three days the bag at the | knees was gone. Now we plan to alternate, one day the trousers will be on right and the next day on! backward. _ If your trousers suffer from knee bagging try this plan. * * • HOME HELPS Letters from an old flame are fine for starting a fire. • * * EDITORIAL A scientist is planning to send a rocket to the moon. This is aiming pretty high. Even if he fails, tis seems likely he will enjoy the fun of trying. So .the moral is: Don’t look at the ground unless you want to go in that direction. • 9 0 ADVERTISING The pipe named Gumshoe is still missing. After robbing a tobacco store late last night it escaped by tripping up three cops and suffo cating all the firemen when they answered a general riot call. Lib eral reward for the pipe, dead or alive. • * • SPORTS There are good sports and had sports. A good sport is a man who tan whistle. ‘My Country Tissof The,” while paying his taxes. A ■ bad sport i,s a man who .spends so much time cussing Congress he has no time to v t <e, s*,^.^** | BRO. TOM’S KITCHEN I ’ When too lazy to wash the dishes . say you must let them soak. IV * * BEAUTY SECRETS Is some other girl taking your sheik? Smear a little glue on your lipstick. ETIQUETTE Never say, “I am glad to meet, you” to a bill collector. This Is nec’dlcss lying. * * • BEDTIME STORY “Daughter, tell that saphead to go home.” * $ * HEALTH HINT* Throwing the clock at the eat may be fun, but is considered un healthy by the act. , kfl'kefeive bbjAlbert Apple Whisky, supplied to bootleggers by the “rum fleet” lurking near New York harbor, has become so j impure that confiscated bottles j hereafter will not be sold to has- ( pitals. This is announced by United : States District Attorney William- Hayward. Formerly there was much good: liquor, the real stuff from Scotland. After analysis, Undo-Sam sold the best to hospitals. Now it’s a rare quart that analyzes pun*. Hayward says the rum ships are ‘floating, chemical laboratories to adulterate I good liquor or produce synthetic j whisky.” Rash idiots will sniff and sav: “Pr\ propaganda.” * * * SWEET People -e using less sugar. VVil !«tt & Gray,.sugar trad- authorities, announce that less than 96 pounds lof sugar was sold last year for , every man, ,roman an 1 child This js eight pounds less than the year THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 31. 1924 before, and only 11 pounds in:, ic than in the year before the war. The most logical explanation is that people arc making less, wine in the cellar. Candy eating continues big. Sugar is a twin brother of alcohol. There are plenty of “can dy drunkards.” * * ® SHOCK Fifty thousand volts of electric ity passed through an employe of General Electric Co., at Schenect ady. His heart and breathing stopped for several minutes. Then he revived. Alive now. A current of 2000 to 5000 volts would have killed certainly. An overdose of electricity is like an overdose of a certain poison that is fatal in small quantities. Electricity is the Supreme Mys tery, barring the spiritual. * V V PISTOLS Police Commisisoner Enright of New York City again urges Con gress to make a law prohibiting the manufacture, sale and possession of pistols—except to officers of the law. States and individual com munities cannot stop the traffic, for pistols can be bought bv mail or der. If you want to help disarm the underworld, here i:; your chance. Write your congressmen, urging ihe lav/ Enright wants. Grovo's Tosioiess Ghitt Tonic Purifies the Biood and makes the cheeks rosy.6oc $5,000 TO LOAN On Americus Residence Property Phone 830 LEWIS ELLIS Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Day Phones 88 and 231 1,. 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) The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Too Small THREE SMILESj A Brief Respite. A Boston physician on a western trip with his wife wrote home they would retrun Monday on the 10 p. m. train. Their two children, aged 9 and 11, received very definite in structions not to meet them at the depot. . ’ When the parents arrived at 11:30, their train being an hour and a half late, they wee. sui-prised to see Ernest and Alice waiting ■(** them on the station platform. The mother hurried forward to expostulate, but was cut off by tho shrill voice of Ali/qvgrying: “Hurry up, mother! Don’t stop to, talk. The taxi’s up to $7.60 al ready.”*—Boston Transcript. The Fiery Cro*». The dusty porter at one of the photoplay theaters found a R«-d Cross button the other day, and bringing it to the box office he in quired : “What’s dis?” “Oh,” said the cashier, “that shows you have subscribed a dollar to the itett Cross fund.” “Goodness,” replied the negro “Ah was seahed to pmt dat on nw ’cause Ah thought it was a klan pin.—Youngstown, 0., Telegram. Yes, He Found the Light “What are you looking for?” “I lost a five-dollar bill at Broad way and 37th street.” “Then why seek it up here in Times Square?” “’Shmore light up here.”—New York Sun and Globe. THE STANDARD FEBRUARY CLEARANCE SALE. OUR WHOLE STORE, COTTON AVENUE TO FORSYTH STREET, WITH ONE AIM TO SERVE YOUR NEEDS AT THE LOWEST PRICE. YOU WILL MAKE THIS YOUR SHOPPING HEADQUAR TERS ONCE YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH YOU ALWAYS SAVE HERE, Ladies’ 50e Buster Brown Lisle Stockings at 25c Every pair bears the Buster Brown trade mark; fine lisle thread, double h ee l s and toes;, regularly 50c; here Friday and Saturday pair i ...250 Men’s 50c Buster Brown Socks at 25c Fine mercerized Lisle Socks, black, brown and grgy, the best you ever saw for the price, all sizes Friday and Saturday, pair 25c Misses 50c Lisle Socks at 25c Sizes up to No. 10 1-2 three quai> ter length, fine lisle thread, doub.le heels, toes and sole; always 50c; here Friday and Saturday, pair 25c 36 Inch Curtain Scrim At 10c White and ecru, doubly border, 36 inches wide; only a limited sup ply to sell at this price Friday and Saturday, yard 10c 39c Curtain Marquisette at 23c Plain tape edge, white and ecru, 36 inches wide, regularly 39c; here Friday and Saturday yard 23c Genuine Japanese Crepe at 35c Imported Japanese crepe for Children’s dresses, waists, ladies’ dresses, elc., colors warranted at yard , .35c $4, $5 and $6.50 Shoes at $2.98 This sale will continue tor air other week, and jf you can find your size in the lot you will get. the best paV of Shoes you ever saw for the price, all styles, high or low cut for women, plenty of styles for men ;choic e of the best in our house, pair $2.98 Misses and Children’s Shoes at $1.25 Many of these Shoes formerly sold for $4 pair. We have had them on sale at $1.98 for the past two weeks. Now all that remain will be closed Friday and Saturday at $1.25. Every size in the lot. New styles, many of the E. C. Skuffer make. Come look them over. Standard Dry Goodi Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GA.
