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PAGE SIX * „.. . Times-r&corder PUBLISHED 18W Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered at eecotul data matter at the poiiofUai al America*, Gcoiffa, Mcordfi* to u»® Ait o« Confroa*. i ' * The AMochred Pre* »• wclMitdy entitled t* the u»e for the republication of all DC**di»- patch e* credited to it or not otherwise cwdittf to this paper and also tho local pabMfted hero in. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. _______————— »——Baa—a—a— •• National Adrertisinf Reprcaentatire*. FROST LASDLS A KOHN, Brunswick Bldf., New York; .’copies’ Cos Bid*.. Chicago. | 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. * _ i 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. • * * 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. • * * 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. e * * 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. » » • 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. HELD FOR INVESTIGATION • 11 \ TL—X - z • ■ Youfee P/hchsd 1 : . ...... zS Tv i 1 jX ( R\DD£D/ ■ / I ~ \ • T Ma; ; wpr . ■■ • . . • ■ ■ • •’ Old Days in 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- ALLIANCE INSURANCE CO of Philadelphia A Sound Company. Valuable Advisory Serv ice. Low Premium Rates. Broad Protection Dependable Policies. All form of Property Pro tection. Prompt Payment in Case of Loss. BRADLEY’ HOGG Phone 185 * Representing the ALLIANCE INSURANCE CO., OF PHILADELPHIA 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. ITCH Killed in 30 Minutes With PAR-A-SIT-A-CIDE Buy no substitute. 50c at Clark and Garland 1 666 is a Precsription prepared for • Colds, Fever and GrSppe It is the most speedy remedy we know, Preventing Pneumonia ' FOR OVER 40 YEARS HALL‘B CATARRH MEDICINE has been used successfully in *be treatment of Catarrh. HALE’S CATARRH MEDICINE con sists of ah Ointment which Quidily Relieves by local application, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acts through the Blood on the Mucous Sur faces, tints reducing the Inflammation. Sold by all druggists. ( F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. ’ . 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 • K jife;" "i-wS Upon the foundation thirty-three years of growth is hasied the WglgQa.'lßj present organization of ||j JJ |? SgpjPi'•Jf «>ur bank. This experi encc 1“ always at the command of our cus tpSsljiij/? ',?«• ~VayJOWR towers. We cordially St'j |<*r * solicit your hanking - business. The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER. $1,700,600 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Ton Sipall 16. 1924 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.