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PAGE SIX TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED JS79 Published by The Times-Becorder Co., (Inc.) Lcvekae Eve, Editor and Publisher fccttred s« tfcouf dan B“Uer 11 die pwtoifirt *» AttuUu. Caargia, acrorJlßl 10 UW Act 01 C««nn. _ Th* A«*ociat<xl Preu !• ex datively entitled U the ate for the republication of all newt dia patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to •li* paper and alad the local uewa published here in. AU rifht of republication of special dispatches are also rescued. N»llon»l Advertising Repr«enUilTe». FROST LANDIS a KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., Ne» Vork; ’eoplct' Cai Bldg.. Chicago, Highway Financing North Carolina has made more rapid progress in hard surface road building than pos sibly any other state in the Union. The. North State's highway plans were perfected in 1921 and her efficient methods have since attracted the notice of ev ery road-building state. Today North Carolina is link ing every courthouse in the state with paved roadways and be cause of her progress is receiv ing favorable advertising from one end of the country to the other. For the benefit of our read ers we quote in full a most il luminating editorial from the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, ex plaining the plan of financing the state's system of permanent highways. This plan should prove of interest to Georgians and is as follows: North Carolina's plan for financing and maintaining its system of highways is panning out much better than i£s most ar dent advocates might hav e an ticipated at the beginning, in i 1921. The developed facts are instructive, as well as interest ing. We are going to give the main points, not only for the in formation of our own people, but for the guidance of people and legislatures of other states having the North Carolina plan under consideration. The more we learn about the system and the manner in which it is operat ing, the better we think of it. The highway budget for the fiscal year commencing July 1 and end ing with June 30, 1924, involves A Sinking fund from automobile and gasoline taxes of $250,000. The interest requirements are $2 250,000, assuming that the whole of the $50,000,000 bond issue has been used, 1 which is not the case. The sum' of $250,000 Het aside for overhead expenses; $8,000,000 is applied to the maintenance fund, making a total of $5,750,000. The approximate revenges for the year will be $7,750,000, Which will leave unappropriated a Jialanee. of $2,000,000, which may be kept, in the discration of the highway commission, for ex traordinary emergencies and to bb converted into the sinking fund after the end of the fiscal year. ‘ The sinking fund of $500,000, derived, one-half from the auto mobile and gasoline tax, and one half from the general fund, will, according to the calculation made by the department of com merce at the university, retire tpe $50,000,000 of bonds in less than 40 years. We say it was intended to set up speh a fund as would retire them in 40 years, because it was thought by the highway depart ment and consulting engineers an appropriation of SSOO per mile per year would keep a hard-surface road in condition, qprtainly for 40 yeaYs, and prob ably indefinitely.' From the bud get mentioned, the reader will We that there has been set aside 101 maintenance, approximately SSOO per mile for practically ev wy mile of the state highway. • The same authority, has figured that the $500,000 per year will retire th e whole $65,000,000 au thorized by the legislature in 42.83 years. The legislature, however, did not contemplate starting the sinking fund for the $15,000,000 authorized in 1923, (because it was not expected that any part of this authorization would be actually spent, although contracts might be left for it before the 1925 session of the legislature. • The highway bonds heretofore issued are serial bonds, commenc ing to mature 10 years from the date of issue. Nobody in the legislature of 1921 expected that we would be able to pay for these bonds when due, but ‘that they would be renewed. Taking the surplus of $2,000,00P from this year’s emergencies, we should have a handsome sum left to put into the sinking fund, and if business conditions continue as good as at present, each year - should show an increasing amount available for sinking fund pur poses, so that we shall be able to pay a good many of these se rial bonds as they mature. It seems to us that no proposi tion could be better financed than the road program. There were many who in 1921 felt that, in the prospective conditions as they appeared at that time, we Could not finance a large bond issue. But they were wrong. The automobile and gasoline tax is not only paying every charge that should be brought against that account and taking caie of every obligation which a wise engineer would impose upon it, but .as stated it Is leaving a sur • Vjfius eflsonwthing like $2,000,- 000 per year, with the expecta- tion that increasing revenues will increase the yearly surplus each year, North Carolina's gasoline tax and vehicular license fees are taking care of principle and in terest charges against her bond issue, as well as furnishing a suf ficient fund for road mainten ance, This highway fund amount to $7,500,000 annual ly and from it is appropriated each year $500,00 for retire ment of bonds; $2,250,000 is al located for interest charges; $3,- 000,000 4or road maintenance, leaving a remainder of $1,750,- 000 for surplus. From this sur plus account $250,000 is appro- annually for overhead expenses of the department. Commenting on the North Carolina plan, the Atlanta Con stitution says the showing of the North State is "extraordinary and only illustrates what vision backed with determination, can do,’’ and states that "North Carolina will retire her $50,- 000,000 bond issue in 40 years, and the first series, due in 10 years, may be actually paid off by the surplus, and not renew ed as was anticipated, and this possibly without making inroads into the sinking fund. If the surplus should even be used for emergencies, or for additional roads to the originally mapped system, then the sinking fund it self will be ample to retire the bonds as they mature without interest renewals." The principal weakness in the Georgia plafi is the distribution of the three cent gasoline tax of which one cent goes to the in dividual counties of the state on a basis of mileage; one cent for retiring W. & A. R. R. war rants. leaving only I cent f° r the use of the'state highway de partment. The one cent that goes to the individual counties is SUPPOS ED to be used on the roads, but the fact of the business if that rqany counties will not use this fund in road building or road maintenance. No rapid progress in perma nent road building can be made j in Georgia under our present ’ plan. North Carolina will have completed her system and wil’ be reaping the vast benefits of her wise foresight many years before Georgia can see the end of her program. OPINIONS OF J OTHER EDITORS HOW NOT TO DO IT De Wolf Hopper, the well known musician comedy perfor mer, now become quite passe, furnishes an example of how not to do it, matrimonially. Hopper figures in the news dispatches as •being diverced for the fifth time. He is now 62 and should be by this time established on a mar riage basis of a certain degree of durability. He gives further con firmation of the rather widely prevalent notion that stage po ple are matrimonially unreliable and that the stage itself breeds a flippant regard for the sanctity of the estate. There ape quite a r.umbej qf notable stage folk who have, mar ried and apparently at least “lived happiljf ever after.” Hopper’s / numerous impersonations may have bred in him a loose regard for anything of-«*r reverential character and no doubt he cqme to look upon marriage itself as a joke. Os course Hopper's idio syncrasies will have no effect in lowering the rightful esteem in which clean stage comedy is held. —Selma (Ala.) Times-Journal. BACK to the farm It is said that the trend of college students to go into the cities ratrer than the rural dis tricts is gradually diminishing because of .changed conditions on the farm. Os late, the rural community has been looked to as a field for research and service. State uni versities and agricultural co]Jeges are- carrying on extension work. A lecturer on the subject in New York says that there is a very definite movement at last to wards going back to the farm. This movement is small but is on the increase. A small group of girls have had their imagination captured by the present crying need in the rural field and are specializing in rural sociology and education. They say thev arc eager to help. Stats demonstration and extension work, organizing pig clubs, corn or canning clubs among young pe pie on the farm, is another highly specialized and attractive field for women. The compara tively new social wdrk undertak en makes a new and by organiza tions makes a new and strong ap peal. One 'college girl said: She was going back to marry and live on the farm beSause she at last saw the farmhouse in a new light. “I am going to make I it a community center,” she was reported as saying, “and I show others what u farmer’s wife can do." ' THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’ Old Days in Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times - Recorder.. Feb. 9, 191,4.) Mr. Frank Stanley has recently purchased from Mr. C. S. Duer his interests in the Americus Machine Co., and now owns extensively, that important enterprise for the re building and repair of automobiles and class machinery. Misses Brittain and Glover left last night for Atlanta where they will make purchases of dresses for thethe dress making business they will’establish here. Mr. Cassels is at the Americus hospital, where he is being treated for the gunshot found inflicted Sat urday night in the duel getween a constable’s posse and several ne groes, below DeSoto, on the Lee county side of the line, wherein Mr. Marion Bass was shot dead and Cas sels and Laramore, of the arrest ing. Miss Sarah Mathis was operated upon for appendicitis at the Ameri cus hospital yesterday, and her con dition last evening was very favor able. The operation was performed by Dr W. S. Prather, assisted by Drs, Chambliss and Mayes. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Duer will be at home shortly at the Turner res iderffcp on Hill street, near that of Mr. W. A. Dodson, which they have just purchased. • Mr. and Mrs. Leon Dure returned to Macon yesterday. As the guest of Mrs. Charles M. Council for a week many social entertainments were given here complimentary to Mrs. Dure, one of Macon’s charm ing matrons. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times - Recorder. Feb. 11, 1904.) Mr. Samuel Harrison, of this city, has just received the sad tiding of the death of his aged and much bo loved mother, Mrs. Jane Harrison, which occurred quite recently at the old family residence “Lakeview” Ballylone, Ballynahinch Ireland. A marriage of much interest to many in Americus occurred yester day morning in Cordele when Miss Alma' Mingledorff and Mr. Samuei Clegg were thus united. Mr. Clegg was reared in Americus, and the an nouncement his marriage! will be a subject of much interest here as in Cordele, Where he in now en gaged in business. His pretty bride was a visitor here last week, the guest of Miss Lucile Clegg, and was greatly admired for her beauty and many accomplishments. Mr. E. A. Hines purchased yester day from Mr. W. M. Howard the dwelling corner of Elm Avenue and Bttrke streets, paying $1,500 there for. As an-evidence of hoij Ameri cus realty is enhancing in value it may be stated that Mr. Howard purchased this same property, one and a half miles from the city, a year ago for SI,OOO, Showing an in crease of 50 per cent within that period. “ ->< The well known firm of Oliver & Guilders dissolved partnership yesterday, Mr. L. G. Childers re tiring therefrom. The announce ment caused some surprise as it was not known that such step was gomtemplate’d. The firm was one of the strongest in Americus or southwestern Georgia, doing a very extensive cotton and supply busi ness. Mr. Lawson Stapleton returned to Americus yesterday from St Louis where he has been on business for a week past. Mr. Stapleton was considering a proposition to travel for the Peters Shoe Co., of' St- Louis, but on investigation found that a connection with Brown, Shoe Co. would be more advantageous. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Feb. 11, 1894.) Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Vivian, of St. Louis, whose presence here last winter recalled with pleasure by many, returned yesterday and will spend the balance of the season at the Windsor. Both Mr. and Mrs, Vivian made a host of friends din ing their former visit, and their presence again will prove a welcome addition to social as well as musical circles.'* The young people have arranged for a St Valetine german on Friday evening, next, 16th inst., which promises to be one oil the most de lightful social events of the season. Many handsome invitations have been sent out and the attendance: will doubtless be large. The com mittee of arrangements consists of Messrs. Hugh Bond, Julius Stan field, J. T. Killem and Carl Clover, which is a sufficient guarantee that the affair will be a grand success in every respect. Mr. N. F. Powel, who formerly conducted Rhea Springs, Hotel is now safely located in his new place —the Allen House—at Americus Ga. The death of Mr. William Hooks yesterday, morning, while not alto gether unexpected, brought sorrow to the hearts of hundreds who knew and loved that good man w r ho had spent over a half century of this life in their midst. AND THAT’S THAT VO 'WC I 4T, There ain't \ No SUCH /- p k ANIMAL!!- W > O Copyright, 1923, DAILY-POEM By N. E. A. Service A V/A-iIVA Berton Braley . i DESIRES I'd like to meet with John T. King To dekl me out a bunch,' of jack— That sure would be a pleasant thing. I’d :buy the wife a diamond ring, I’d buy myself a benzine hack; . ' I'd like to meet with John, T. King. > John gives his cash a careless fling', Then goes away—*ind comes not back —• That sure would be a pleasant thing. He loans his dough without a string At twenty thousand bucks a crack. I’d like to meet with John T. King. My money cares would all take wing, I’d have whatever now I lack; That sure would be a pleasant thing. Page Santa ClaUs and bid him bring This generous person to my shack, I’d like t-o meet with John T, King. While he’s at large to hope T cling That he may slip me out a stack; I’d like to meet with John T. King— <• ' That sure would be a pleasant thing. Dan DobbfeDailv MAN’S WORRY is' USELESS.’ 1 ' CONTEST More Entries in Effort to Rind Good Words Dan Dobb's efforts to find the six inost important words in the Eng lish language are bringing results. The prizes will be awarded soon. New entries are: “The stuff was water, not bootleg.” “Here, you! I can use my handkerchief.” “So I stopped, looked and listened.” “The seed catalog did not lie." “Yes, we have a lower berth.” ‘I love you, I love you.” “I hate you, I hate you,” and “Spring isn’t so far away now.” SOCIETY Home often is merely a place where you get your mail. That is where a Chicago man slipped up. He didn’t even come home for his mail, so his wife opened: it for him. Now he is paying alimony. MARRIAGES Case cashier chased a robber with a broom. She is single so we don’t know how she got her training. POLITICS Last presidential election we jumped from one party to another. It may mean -nothing, but this is leap year. DAN DOBB SAYS One nice thing about your wife being missing ts you can find a place at home to hang your clothes. EDITORIAL A Cincinnati dental student has been arrested. Cops say he killed a man and then robbed him. This young fellow is learning to be a dentist fast. Os course, he carried both crimes too far. That is the trouble with young men, they be come too enthusiastic over their work. A capable dentist should only nearly kill a man before rob bing him. BIRTHS The stork is voiceless, but a man with triplets tells us the bird i is dumb in more ways than one. SCHOOL NEWS The college student who recently I married her profesison may be * teaching him noU’. SPRING NOTE Only a few more, weeks before the annual Easter egg shortage. AUTO NOTE? The 1924 model autos are said to be model autos, MISSING WIFE FOUND BY Police Why worry? Every day some thing happens to show how useless weeping over sloshed milk can be. Take the case of a man in New York. His wife was missing. He had no idea where she was for three years. What would you do under such circumstances? Why, you would worry. That’s what this man did. Cops searched three years, finally finding,her in Chicago safely mar ried to a plumber. Now doesn'.t that show the futility of worry? SPORTS ■“ Tex Rickard says the longest fight on record lasted two days, and the shortest one four* seconds. He is wrong in both cases. The longest fight we ever heard of is Bryan’s fight to become president. This hr.s lasted for years and years. Per haps the shortest fight was one time when an auto driver thought he could traffic cop. JAIL NEWS Pickpocket robbed a girl in a Kentucky sheriff’s office. Thirty cops present escaped without loss. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEM AS 1 ER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Dav Phones 88 and 2 31 FOR QUICK SERVICE AND HEAVY HAULING PHONE 121 WOOTTEN TRANSFER CO. Office in Americut Steam Laun dre cni'TH larvcoN RAILROAD SCHEDULES MONDAY AFT ERNOON- FEBRUARY 11, 192> Apple CIGAR& The cigar was invented just 125 years ago. Previously tobacco was smoked only in pipes. In 1799 Mrs. Prout, of South Windsor, Conn., made the first cigar and began sell ing them. More than 10 billion cigars a year are now turned out by factories. Buz the cigar is steadily losing out. Cig-* arets became ’respectable” during the World War and are gaining pop ularity. Women alone smoked seven billion cigarcts last year, the trace estibates. Quite shocking for grandmas. • ♦ • NICOTINE America taught the world to smoke tobaccofi says Herbert! Dun hill, the pipe maker. The history of tobacco is his hobby, and he doubts the claim that tobacco was smoked in China thousands of years ago When the first white. explorers came to America, they found the Indians regarded smoking some what as religious ceremony, believ ed that tobacco had medical powers, and frequently had their witch doc tors prescribe it—like thirsty man under prohibition. f$ e $ COSTLY A partially completed supeil -of the American navy recently was condemned to de struction under the treaty limiting naval armaments. A fine target to keep our gunners in trim, but 20 million .dollars had been invested hi the condemned ship. In peacetime, that seems like a painfully costly target. In war, we’d take it as a matter of course, no objections. When at war, a nation is more or less insane, especially as regards its pocketbook. Sanity slowly returns as we cool off and begin counting up the cost. « * ♦ SHINE Chemists claim they have dis covered away to remove, perman ently, the shine or gloss that ap pears on blue serge and other cloth ing by “wear.’* The chemical for mula is valued at a million dollars, which strikes us decidedly as a very low estimate. Aftex- all, slniple in ventions or discoveries like this are the most important of all. The needle and button are worth more 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). 03891 - 1924 TT y Upon the foundation of thirty-three years of , growth is based the ; present organization of our bank. This experi ence Is always at the command of our cus tomers. 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 ithan th/- auto and radio, though not I spectacular, POWER The Atlantic ocean tides would be harnessed to supply 'electric power ■ by a new scheme being studied by i engineers of the Federal <- Powei; ! Commission. This,would involve a i tremendously big construction job in the Buy of Fundy, near Nova Scotia. The day unquestionably is com ing when the tides will be harness ed, the sun’s rays imprisoned and put t 0 work, and electricity ‘taken out of the air.” Civilization depends on cheap power, and we have bare ly scratched the surface of possibi lities along this line. • • • GOLD About a million dollars worth of( gold a week was mined during 1923 in United States, Alaska, Porto Rico and Philippine- Islands. The output was nearly twice as big in the record year, 1915. The national income—total of all American activities and labors— last year was about 800 times aS big as the value of the gold mined. Yet gold is the basis of values. Would it be- better and fairer to use human energy as the measure of values? Many think so, including Edison and Fvrd. ' : 3/ealth ’Hints by die # Father of Physical Culture i Bernard MACFADOEN 11. is a comparatively simpP*. matter to exercise the little sphinc ter and dilator muscles which have to do with the enlarging and di minishing of the pupil of the eye. l.'iid< r normal conditions of vigor these muscles scarcely need at tention. It is only whep the eyes are weak, and these muscles do not respond readily in'accomodat ing the opening to various degrees and intensities of light, that spec ial exercise is required. Naturally, the only practical way to exercise these'muscles is to find a method of exposing the eye in rapid succession to degrees 'of light of varying intensity At night this may be done by turning c.n electric light on anti off repeal cd(y for a minute pi- two. In the ; day time one can stand in a rocm with one window, pulling the shadi down to darken the room, and then raising it and looking out of doors. In either C2se try to see the var ious objects in the room When it is darkened. It is, through this effort to see in the dark that the dilator muscles \yill be especially stimulated, as the pnpil enlarges as much ns possible to enable you to see. When the elcpt.rie light is turn ed on, or the shade raised., the greatest stimulation will be de rived from looking directly at the light, or at the sun, for an instant, provided this does not involve the sensation of eye strain dr discom fort. It might not bo wise, how ever,'to do this unless you are s.ire that your eyes are fairly strong. You can get sufficiently good results in looking at any, white object when the light is turned on, for instance, ‘the blank pag'iv-op’n. book. Tul-n the light on and off at intervals of two or three seconds. If your eyes are /sensitive to artificial light it may be better to practice this exercise in the daytime, pulling down the window shade and then raising it. One or two minutes 'of this exercise usually should be sufficient. Shut one eye and hold a pencil point five or six inches In front of the other. Now look through the window at.some point on the hori zon or any distant object. After looking for tyo or three seconds at this distant, point, focus the eye on the pencil point. If your eyes arc normal you will be able to, change the focus without, any con s-lous effort, but otherwise you' r. v exp.prlcnc.e very clearly the si.iS.dion of muscular eft'ort. 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