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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
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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. _
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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BEDTIME STORY
“Daughter, tell that saphead to
go home.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
