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A THOUGHT |
How much better is it to get wis
dom than gold, and to get under
standing rather to "be chosen than
silver!—Prov. 16:16.
The only jewel which you can
carry beyond the grave is wisdom.
—James Alfred Langford.
A Leader
“What Americus and Sum
ter county needs above all else
is A LEADER—a big man, big
brain, big heart, lots of courage
and a superabundance of ener
gy. Given such a man, and
one cannot predict how far we
would go in material progress.
With such a man at the helm,
our business and professional
men will follow his lead. In a
short time we will have regain
ed whatever we have lost and
will make rapid progress toward
added wealth and happiness in
this, one of the greatest agricul
tural suctions in the South.’
The above came from the lips
of one of our outstanding busi
ness men a few days ago, and
we believe that in a few words
he has expressed volumes.
There was never a time when
we were in greater need of A
LEADER, nor has there been
a period in our history wher
such a man could accomplish
more.
Such a man is seldom if ever
a volunteer. He is sometimes
found among those who say
least, of whom the community
knows but little, and yet there
& in this community such a man.
As there is in every community.
When found, it is necessary that
he be DRAFTED for service to
his community.
At the annual membership
dinner of the Chamber of Com
merce Tuesday night there will
gather in the dining room of
the Windsor the splendid citi-
zenship of this community. This
body of men will be given the
opportunity to select five -new
•directors for the Chartibef -of
Commerce. In the selection,
the most careful thought should
be exercised. Men should be
chosen who are best fitted to
assume leadership, men of
broad mind and courageous,
men who will work.
It is YOUR privilege and
your DUTY, men of Americus,
to join your fellows on Tuesday
night and with your presence
and your counsel, select these
five men and help plan a pro
gressive program for the ensu
ing year.
Towns grow from within, no'
from without. Show faith and
love, for your community and
those on the outside will come in
ito share prosperity with you.
National Scandals
New national scandals con
tinue to bob up almost daily.
Just now the Teapot Dome oil
steal holds the spotlight at
Washington; only a short while
ago it appeared former Secre
tary of the Interior Albert Fall
would be made the goat’ in the
affair. Now it seems not only
Fall, already out of the cabinet,
but Secretary Denby of the
navy, and Attorney General
Daugherty must also go. Repub
lican leaders in Washington are
frantically searching for some
thing to hide the growing scan
dals that threaten to engulf
their party.
The effort to bring former
Secretary McAdoo’s name into
the oil scandal has fallen flat,
except that the weakness of Mc-
Adoo has been demonstrated in
an unsuspected point. In call
ing a conference of his friends
to determine his availability, Mc-
Adoo has in effect admitted his
unfitness to become the Demo
cratic standard-bearer. Either
McAdoo is too thin-skinned to
make a good president, or full
details of his connection with
the Doheny oil interests have
not yet come out. A man
doesn't eliminate himself as a
presidential aspirant without
reason, and McAdoo, if he
hasn t actually withdrawn from
the race, has called in his friends
to advise him concerning a
withdrawal. These t frjends in
clude,, according— ter McAdoo's
own statement, progressive Re-
, publicans, Independents and
Democrats.
Such action on the part of
McAdoo leaves Oscar W. Un
derwood the logical choice of
the party at the New-York con
vention. Discussing the national
political situation created by the
Teapot Dome; exposures, The
Selma (Ala.) Times-Joumal
asserts that “Oscar W. Under
wood stall'd s out as the most
compelling prospect on the
horizon.’’ The Times-Joumal al-,
so holds the opinion that Mc-
Adoo has already been effec
tually eliminated through his
connection with the oil scandal
that has so recently shocked the
nation. Says the Times-Jour
nal on this topic:
“So many unexpected emerg
encies have arisen in the politi
cal domain that many of the prog
nosticators are beginning to re
vise their bearings and to get a
more trustworthy line on the
new tendencies.
Insurgency is becoming more
rife in Republican councils and
the antagonism provoked by Pres
ident Coolidge and which is
bound to roll up to more formid
ible proportions as the conven
tion days approach, is serving to
make his nomination daily less
assured. The opposition will take
form in the so-caled progres
sive element in the party nam
ing an independent candidate,
precipitating a condition similar
to that created in 1922, when the
Roosevelt faction resulted in the
defeat of President Taft.
“In the Democratic camp the
oil scandal seems to have for
the present, at least, played hob
with the McAdoo candidacy.
Just what the ultimate outgivings
of this unfortunate episode will
be, remain to be seen, In the
meantime Oscar W. Underwood
stands out as the most compelling
prospect on the horizon. His pop
ularity and availability are grow
ing into a widespread demand
and his nomination as the weeks
go by is becoming more a gratify
ing certainty.
“Recent exposures of political
dishonesty in Washington have
not won support for either pol
itical party. That organization
or that candidate for high office
which gains the support of the
independent men and women of
the country must come with clean
hands and convincing evidences
of honesty of purpose.’’ *
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
TALBOTtON HAS A SHOW
Editor Perryman, of the Tal
botton New Era, writes of a
“show” that was exhibited in that
‘ city for several days recently,
and here is what he says about it:
Talbotton has been infected
with a two-by-four show for the
past two weeks which has not
added much to the moral uplift
of the town, but has perhaps
, served to lift some of the cash
out of the pockets of our citi
zens who have played the other
fellow’s games.
Columbus people- know quite
well the kind of show to which
Editor Perryman refers. They
have seen such exhibitions here
often in days gone by.
These “shows,” heralded as the
“biggest on earth” most of the
time, have very little, or nothing
that is worth while. Bpt the big
scheme is to’ have various and
sundry devices for gaming and
getting money from those who
play the game. And there are
hundreds who are almost always
ready to “play” it, and thus keep
the “show” alive for a while.
But such aggregations as these
do a community much harm. It
is true they spend a little money
in the towns and -cities where
they “show” but that which they
spend is hardly a drop in the
bucket to the amount they take
away. And that is not the thing
that hurts most—the moral effect
of such companies is exceedingly
had. We do not mean to speak
of the one in Talbotton
botton in any worse lijht than
that of many bthers. They are
all bad, if they have nothing in
the way of entertainment except
shows of a questionable character
and gambling schemes to keep
them going.
In this connection it is of in
terest to state again, as was an
nounced some time ago, that Col
umbus is not to have any such
schemes during the Chattahooch
ee Valley Fair next fall. This
matter has been decided. The
M shows are to be in keeping with
those exhibited last year and thV
games of chance are to be ruled
out entirely.—Columbus En
quirer-Sun. .
GRASPING A TAX FACT “
In a weekly letter sent out by
the National Founders’ Associa
tion is the statement:
The big sign of the times is
that the men and women who do
not pay taxes in dollars and
cents on March 15, and subse
quent quarterly periods, realize
that they are paying every dav in
the year on everything they huv
and use.
When this realization comes to
all the persons who do not pay
direct taxes, grasping throughly
the fact that they pay for bread
for shoes plus taxes and gas
and electricity and car fare
i plus taxes, the. day V>f govern-
TTiehtar wdste is over;-—The To
• ledo Blade,
Copyright, 1928, DAII Y POFM By
N. E. A. Service W/A.lLj 1 I VrLulvl Berton Braley
OCCUPATIONS
The birds that float on lazy tying > *
They never do a single thing
But fly and play and love and sing. *
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The monkey swinging in a tree
He lives a life that’s wholly free ;
Os well-directed energy.
The bee works busily all day
And has no time at all for play
But stows the honey-dew away.
The beaver, with his teeth sO white, -
,- Gnaws down the trees by day and night
And builds a dam upon the site.
What of the bee? For all her plans.
Her honey, presently, is man’s;
Who peddles it in half-pint cans.
II
The beaver’s dam? Well, I aver
It shows where beavers were,
And trappers catch them for their fur.
But birds and monkeys, tm the whole,
Loaf at their ease, invite their soul.
Quite free of man or his control.
The moral is—alas, my friend,
This song has, as it nears its end
No moral I can recommend!
Dan Dobb'sMv
OH, WHAT A FUNNY NOTE
MOVIES WIN
Put It All Over the Politicians
The Teapot Dome has developed
into quite a nice little scandal which
promises to have a long run. Os
course, if they really can’t find any
more scandals in Washington we
will have to keep worrying about
Teapot Dome. But with so many
good scandals there it seems fool
ish to spend the entire winter wor
rying about only one of them.
They do things much better in
the movies and theatrical world.
When a movie or theatrical scandal
begins to pall they always have an
other one waiting for us,
SOCIETY
Spring styles are being shown.
You see hats in the windows beauti
fully trimmed. The customers will
be trimmed later. It will not be
stylish this spring to pay reasonable
prices. But this is nothing new.
Reasonable prices are never stylish.
WEDDINGS
A Maine bride of three weeks
wants a divorce. She claims she
has been hugging a delusion.
DAN DOBB SAYS
If the rich woman buys some
grand opera vocal cords many will
hope she chokes.
EDITORIAL
I Social butterflies have
troubles, Sometimes shooting a man
and sometimes being shot ’them
selves. Many of them are social
buds who did not want to blossom
into wall flowers, so they flitted
away from home as butterflies
The wall flower fades away, but the
butterfly emulates the moth by hav
ing her wings singed. Midway be
tween the two is the only safe
course.
FOREIGN NEV(S
Germany is restricting the out
put of 'beer, the effort to restrict
the intake having failed.
markets
Experience is fine, but a man
with a wild son in college should
be given wholesale rates.
FINANCES
Too much money makes you un
happy—if a neighbor has it.
WEATHER
Only a few more weeks in which
to cuss winter.
MANY OFFER FORTUNE FOR
A SONG
A wild New York rumor says a
rich woman wants to buy a youpg
which he was the silent partner,
bij-Albert Apple
POCKETBOOK
The outlook is for good business
conditions in the -next six months,
judging from the old reliable weath
ervane, the iron and steel industry.
Pig iron, production in January
showed an increase over the month
before. Apparently the industry is
recovering from the slumpin ten
dency that started last june. Pig
iron output traditionally rises or
falls six months ahead of general
business.
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LIQUOR
‘There are 250,(100 bootleggers in
America and they are all doin{(
well. 1 should say the government
is losing two billion dollars a year
in duty that it might have if it dis
tributed malt and other liquors. --
Spencer Penrose, Colorado capi
talist.
Penrose unquestionably is correct
in both figures. If prohibition had
been attempted by a government,
tax of $5 or $lO a quart, Uncle
Sam would have in hist treasury the
billions that have been cleaned up
by bootleggers. Some would rather
-be without the billions than have
Sam in the saloon business, of
’ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER *
girl’s vocal cords so she cah sing
in grand opera. The vocal cords
would be transplanted, just like a
gland operation.
While there are many singers
whose voices need amputating, we
don’t think these voices should be
grafted on someone else.
If this woman wants to learn
grand opera, or as it be
called in this case, gland opera,
why doesn’t she buy a ranch and
call the cows every ’night? That’s
the way a Texas girl learned. j
SPORTS
A scientist is planning a trip to
the moon. Another scientist says
he will find nothing there. We
say he will find filling stations, in
surance agents, tax collectors, poli
ticians, saxophone players and peo
ple who talk too much. 'Why
shouldn’t he find them there They
are everywhere else.
Chorus girls get $50,000 for a
broken heart and an Ohio man got
only SSOO for a broken leg.
collecting revenue, for generations.
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FAILED
' Nearly 2300 business concerns
failed in January,-and their com
bined liabilities exceeded assets by
40 million dollars. These big losses,
of course, are eventually buttered
out over the whole country and
spread on the everage family’s cost
of living. The January Joss will
cost the average family at least $2
eventually.
So it goes, month after month,
Wall Street is close to the kitchen
door.
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MOTHERS
Permanent peace can come only
by a banding together of mothers,
who furnish the cannon-fodder,
orates Mrs. Felix Levy of Chicago.
She’s on the right track. But th;
remedy is not in any special organi
zation of mothers. What they
should do is stop giving their chil
dren toys that suggest war, and
teach, them- to hate war as a; system
of wholesale murder whose “glory’’
is propaganda bunk of the mili
tarists. Schools, glorifying was,
also perpetuate war.
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CONTAGIOUS
Lol of fuss about a New Jersey
man, a “typhoid carrier” who, ac
cording to doctors, caused nine
deaths and 107 eases of the disease.
A “typhoid carrier” is a person who
has the disease and can spread it to
others without noticing any illness
himself.
People have an instinctive dread
of anyone with a contagious disease.
It’d be easy to stir up a riot about
this fellow in New Jersey. The
lioters would yawn and walk away
if urged to exterminate rats, which
spread more disease than ill human
being combined.
** * _
HEINIE
You read About impoverished
Germany. Turn to the financial
page and you learn that our country
last year sold Germany 156 lillion
dollars worth of goods- more than
k she shipped us in exchange . To
help pay the difference, Germany
shipped us a lot of gold. But this
gold still leaves Germany 100 mil
lion dollars in debt to us for 1923.
It’s all right to be generous to a
conquered enemy. But whose
money is being used to finance the
sale to Germany of more than she
, can pay? American exporters arc
■ .n6t making the loans, you can bet
bn, that. Some foreign Exchange
bankers probably know.
TAX NOTICE
State and County Books are
open. Close May Ist. Return
1 early and avoid rush.
Respectfully,
GEO, D. JONES.
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Americus
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. Feb.
16, 1904.)
After a lapse of six weeks an
other case of illness, quite likely
small pox in very mild form, devel
oped here yesterday, the patient be
ing the little son of Mr. and Mrs.
John T. Taylor.
One Americus store sold three
full sets of wedding harness yester
day. The matrimonial yoke, with
halter adjusted, is already fixed; for
the bunch.
'While attending a matinee at the
opera house some months ago. Mrs.
J, H, Lumpkin was so unfortunate
as to lose, a very valuable broach
The article was advertised, but no
-trace of it could 'be found. Satur
day how ver, Mr. Lumpkin received
information that it was in the pos
session of colored woman in town,
and was turned over td Mrs. Lump
kin by Chief Feagin.
The buggy horse of Dr. F. F.
Thomas, while hitched at the city
Hall yesterday morning, took fight
and ran away with the vehicle.
The runaway cause much excite
ment but, fortunately, resulted in
no damage.
Mrs. Bessie Kleckley purchased
yesterday the E. L. Guenw home
on Lee street, near the Burke place,
and may reside there at an early
date. /
Dr. McCalla has returned to
Americus after an absence of sev
eral years and will fgain practice
dentistry.
In the monster bird shoot on the
W. H. Reid plantation in which 1,-
200 birds were killed, Johnston and
Harrison of AmCricus led all others.
Mr. Council bought yesterday the
pair -of mules exhibited recently at
Turpin’s . They wer valued S6OO,
and amon g thefines ever seen in
Americus. ,
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. Feb.
16, 1894.)
Mr. P. R. Stanfield met with a
very painful accidont yesterday
afternoon, just as he was. about to
alight from his buggy at the ar--
tesian well. As he turned the
vehicle and was about to step down
the horse gave a sudden start,
throwing Mr. Stanfield to the
ground. Judge Pifebury and Dr.
Thomas assisted him into the lr.t-
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SATURDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY
ters office where the ugly wound
was dressed. *
Mr. J. A. Ansley, Jr., the talent
ed son of Judge Ansley of this city,
has returned from Milledgeville:
where he has been engaged in busi
ness for some time. Mr. Ansley
will enter into the practice of law,
and will be associated with his
father.' Joe Ansley is a genial and
brainy young fellow, and a host
of friends welsome. his return and
wish him success.
Mr. Emmett Murray, who for sev
eral years has been prescription
clerk at Lavenport’s has resigned
his place there and will perhaps
take a few weeks recreation before
again engaging in business. There
are few more competent men in -his
line than Mr. Murray.
Buglars got in their work in
Americus yesterday morning. A
half dozen residences were entered
by the imdnight marauders and
from that* of Mr. Frajk Lanier, Jr. 1 ,
a large sum of money and checks
were taken. On retiring Mr. Lanier
left the money $197.60 in pan
toon pockets, while the valise was
deposited in the corner of the room.
The .residence of Messrs. G. W-'.
Glover John R. Shaw, D. K. Brin
son, Judge Allen Fort, and that
of Dr. Hinkle.
Col. Tom Lane’s many friends
were glad to sec him upon the
streets yesterday after a two weeks
confinement to his room by illness.
Col. Lane came in contact with
poison oak not long sice and this
is what caused the trouble.
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THE STANDARD
MONDAY A*ND TUESDAY.
BARGAINS
Famous 10c Lighthouse Cleanser 5c
—You know the high quality of this
famous Ceanser. The price has
never before been less than 8c at
retail; large round sifter-top cans
here Monday and Tuesday with .
a limit of one dozen cans to each
customer at, per can 5c
$1.25 Imported Dress Linen
At 98c -
—New Dress Linens for Spring just
received, 36 inches wide in every
good shade, warranted every thread
pure linen and worth $1.25 at ev
ery good store; here at yard ...98c
$2.25 All Silk Taffeta at $1.69
—JBlaek; and colors, full yard wide,
beautiful quality; wear guaranteed;
regularly sold at $2,25; here Mon
day and Tuesday, yard ..$1.69
More Curtain Scrim at 10c Yd. -
—Many merchants are wondering
where we get this elegant 36 inch
Curtain Scrim at 10c. White and
ecru, double bordered; any reason
able quantity at, yard ?. 10c
Alexander Smith’s Velvet
Rugs at $2 96.
—Size 36x60, in about twenty
pretty Oriental and floral designs;
Regularly $3.98; here Monday and
Tuesday at $2.98
Clean-Up Sale of Congoleum
At 60c Square Yard
—Many short pieces left. To 'close
Monday and Tuesday at 60c square
yard for the dollar' quality. Some
of these pieces! are long enough
to coyer the whole floor. They are
all bargains; Monday and Tues
day, square yard ..... 60c
Ladies’ Thread Silk
Stockings at 75c ’ •»
—“Seconds ', of the best $1.50
quality you ever saw, and not cv
erydne can tell that these are “sec
owds”-4-nothing more than a drop
stitch in the lisle part which has
been neatly mended. Does not af
fect the wear or looks; here Mon
day and Tuesday, pair 75c
Women’s House Slippers at 98c
—Beautiful hew styles in all colors
felt tops, ribbontrimmed, all sizes;
here at, pair 98c
Standard Dry Goods
Company
Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce
AMERICUS. GA.