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PAGE SIX TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISH!:!) 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered a> eecond clew matter at the poatoffat at America*. Georgia, according to lie Act of Gedftrem. The Awociatcd Prs» >• excluaively entitled ta the uae for the republication of all newt dis patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to Ibis paper and also the iocal news published here- In. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST LANDIS & KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., New York; Voplea* Gas Bldg.. Chicago. A THOUGHT | Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain.—Prov. 81:30. If thou marry beauty, thou bind est theyself all thy life for that which, prechance,- will neither last nor please thee gne year.—Sir Wal ter Releigh. A Useless Thing What is the most USELESS thing in the world was asked of the guests at a recent banquet in Americus. There were many answers to this question, one of which was — "A clock that fails to keep, right time.” We suspect that answer came from some one who has endeavored to keep dates by the time found on the face of pur city clock on the court house. Until recently, this old serv ant has been most faithful and efficient, always within a second or two of correct, but for the past few months our old and tried friend has been rather lax in its service. When Western Union clocks signaled the noon hour, the city clock was some paces behind, or ahead, depending on the day of the week. One citizen claims that its tendency is to run slow, show ing that as the years go by its limbs are becoming weak and palsied. Another suggests that its pace is too fast, that the old time-piece is ahead of the com munity. : But that statement was emphatically denied. However, a clock that fails to keep accurate time, is about the most useless thihg in all the world. It should ‘‘get on the job" or cover its face. Maybe, the board of county commissioners could remedy this rather embarrassing situa tion ■ There are many com plaints being heard about the service rendered these days by our old friend the clock a-top the county courthouse tower. A Spender News dispatches credit Mr. McAdoo with saying that it is impossible to reduce taxes and pay a soldier’s bonus. In oth er words to add not less than six billions of dollars to the national budget and reduce taxes at the same time. Georgians -have not yet for gotten Mr. Walker’s platform of two years ago, when HE prom ised to spend more and collect less, for that is what his declara tion really meant. He promis ed FREE SCHOOL books and a REDUCTION of taxes. Has any one been embarrass ed by a radical reduction of state tastes? It is the other way around. Increased gas tax and, a 10 per cent tax on tobacco is what happened since Mr. Walk er’s campaign. Had he been able to jam through the legisla ture his free school bok propo sition, another tax would have been levied to meet this ex penditure. A news dispatch states that while addressing 500 people in the Union Depot at Kansas City, the following colloquy took place between Mr. McAdoo and one of his hearers: “Is it possible, Mac, that the government can pay us the bpnus and at the same time re duce taxes’” was the question of the crowd. “It certainly is,’ was the re ply, “and if permitted, I am go ing to see to it that the bonus is paid.” The shoulders of the nation are bent with the tremendous load of state and federal taxes, and yet, right off the bat, Mr. McAdoo says "1 am going to see to it that the bonus is paid." Os course, he will “if permit ted." Mr. McAdoo is a ' SPENDER- His record during the war shows how little he cares for a few billions, more or less. But Mr. McAdoo will not “be permitted.” What the backbone of this country is demanding to day is LESS spending lower tax es, more efficiency. A halt must be called and it vyill be- The Democrats haven't a chance in the world tq beat Coolidge with a man like Wil liam Gibb» McAdoo. » OPINIONS OF i OTHER EDITORS • ON THE FENCE This newspaper is not going to get all excited about politics.— Dalton Citizen. The same here. We are going to stay on friendly terms with the various candidate-, and we trust the candidates will bo friendly to each other. Muc:i better to have a campaign of friendliness and good feeling than to get excited and wrought up. Jackson Progress-Argus. CAN HE? The appointment of special counsel for the prosecution of the oil cases can mean but one thing —that that department of the government whose duty it is to represent the public interest jn all such proceedings is not, as at present constituted, to be trust ed with the business which the oil scandals have created The Department of Justice is so dis credited in the eyes of the people, and of the court that it cannot represent the government in its fighnslo cancel the graft-reeking oil leases and prosecution of the men believed to be guilty. How Daugherty can hang on after President Coolidge has signed the commissions of Pomerene and Roberts passeth understanding. —Albany Herald. , ANOTHER MAN DOWN In the integrity of President Harding The World life com plete confidence. It did not and does not credit the faintest echo of the.dirty rumors which have been disseminated about him Yet his administration will be his toric for the betrayal of public trust by men whom he put in high places because of his admria tion of their personal qualities and because he confused their friendly service to him with’ad ministrative fitness. Repeatedly history records this administra tive experience of men whose kindliness of nature renders them unable to separate their personnal from their official fav or. Invariably the consequences are disappointment and humilia ton for the executive, disgrace for their aids and—worst of all —a deadly blow to public con fidence in the personnel and methods of government.—New York World. NAI URAL BORN FOOLS A very charming woman said to me one day, “Men are just natural born fools!” She was right. The reply I might have made—and did. mentally was that, while men are fools and have been these thousands of years, women have been su premely foolish, which is even worse. If women had not for cen turies permitted men to make all the laws—and they need not have permitted it—set up all the mor al standards and lay flown all the rules generally, world affairs might not have been messed up <so; but she permitted it —with amazing folly. She has more sense than men about a lot of things, but she has been too easily bluffed. ' If the women during the past thousand years had exercised all the influence and power they might have, but foolishly didn’t war amoung men —, individually and collectively—long ago would have been abolished. Here’s hoping she’s coming to her senses!—Jim Nevin In At lanta Georgian. THE PEANUT "CO-OP.” The peanut “co-op” is getting btrey early in the season.- The peanut crop in Georgia will be ail important one this year, and a great deal depends bn the man ner of its marketing. In the hands of the cooperative mar keting association, which only desires to see its members get full value for wh£t their labor produces, there is reason to be lieve the crop will prove a prof itable one. That Georgia can produce peanuts in large quan tities has been demonstrated and marketing is the only problem with which growers need concern themselves. A necessary part of the solution of the marketing problem is the question of acre age, for large overproduction would depress prices in spite >f anything the cooperative associa tion, the growers will be able to inform themselves fully as to probable demand for peanuts next fall and winter, and can pitch their acreage accordingly. The crop is one of the most prom ising of the many money crops of this section, and cooperation in the appointment of acreage is as important as cooperation in selling the croj> when it matures. DIRTY POLITICS Some years ago Woodow Wil son said: “Some men say that politics is a dirty ibusiness. It is your business and if it is dirty you have no one to blame but yourselves. When a! man says to me that politics is dirty I ask him if he voted at the last primary and if he says he didn’t invite him to shut up.’ This truth cannot be too deep ly impressed upon the minds of all citzens. If all the members of the church brought to their voting the same faithfulness to principle which they carry to prayer meeting there would no longer be any dirty politics. There are enough chui’ch mem bers in every voting precipct in Georgia absolutely to control the election. No minster of the gos pel would be violating any obliga tion of his pulpit neither would he ’ be taknig sides in politics, were he tp urge all of his members to V THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER T Copyright, 1923, DAILY POFM By N. E. A. Service 1 X V/Lulvl Bcrton Braley TIME CHANGES. Old days, old ways, , They had their charm, Wrapped in a haze Gold-hued and warm, They drift across our memory At? “those good times that used to be.” Old days, old ways, We sometimes sigh A wistful wish s' For days gone by; , ' • Yet, were they subject to recall, ,r Perhaps we’d like them not at all. Old days, old ways, \ They change and go, And we change with them And we know How different they would appear— Old days, old way—-if they were here 1 Old days, old ways, Posterity Will envy you And envy me, And say of times we live in now, vote. The esseptial need of any democracy is to keep its citizens actively interested in govern mental affairs. There are more ’ good people than bad pe v’ei in this*world. The world, is getting better rather than worse; But many church members, with the open consent of their church and minister, draw aloof in a proud self-righteousness from participa tion in politics.—Waycross Journal-Herald. Thomas county is fast becom ing the producer of the best hogs in the state. The monthly co operative hog sales have proven a material stimulant to the in dustry and the prices have been very satisfactory in every way The low price of hogs at the pres ent time is a condition that cannot be locally remedied but the Thomas county hog has been brought out by breeding method* and proper and scientific feeding to a point where it is worth more than the average hog on the mar ket by a half cent per pound. The Moultrie Packing Company received the’January sale of hogs at’ a fair amount over the market price for the sale day and re ported that it was graded the best lot of hogs that had ever been received there in the general run of its business. This is the sort of stuff that will count materially in the hog raising business. There are two essentials, good breeding stock and careful an 1 intensive attention. With our abnormal natural advantages and the accessibility of fine brood Sows and boars it is"' no wonder that the Thomas county hog has ’ been boosted to the highest pin nacle of the type. This is but a start. We have been in the busi ness for many years but not in the co-operative marketing plan but one year. There is already a very material change in plans, for many farmers have seen the light and are going to have their hogs ready each month -go as to get cash payments therefor to make their farm operations more profitable. With the dairy proposition going strong and creamery pro duction increasing weekly, with plenty of hogs for sale each month and with the hatchcry in full swing and many more chick ens raised than ever before, Thomas county is adding to its material wealth in many ways.— Thomasville Times-Enterprise. THREE SMILES Out-Bunking J. B. Londoner —What do you think of that tower for height? New Yorker (abroad)—Do you call that high Say, in our 91st floor bed rooms we have to close all the windows at night to keep the clouds from rolling in.—Selected. It Will Be Plenty Hot A chap was arrested for assault and battery and brought before the judge. “Wrat is your name, occupation and what are you charged with?” asked the judge. To which the prisoner replied, “My name I am an electrician and I am charged with battery.” The judge, turning to a bailiff, said, “Put this man in a dry cell.” —lnland Merchant. That Old Decoy! A clergyman who occasionally substituted for a brother preacher in a remote country parish, was scandalized on observing the oid deacon, who had been collecting the offering, quietly abstract a coin be fore presenting the plate at the ql tar rail. After service he called the old man into the vestry and told him, with some emotion, that his crime had ben discovered. The deacon looked puzzled for a moment. < Then a sudden light dawned on him. “Why, sir. you don’t mean that old dollar of mine? Why, I’ve led off with that for the last 15 years!” —People’s Home Journal. Albert Apple VANISHING How would you like an America without trees? We’re approaching th’at condition rapidly. In the past year the lumber industry chopped down enough trees to make 25, billion feet of lumber. Only a fourth of this was replaced by growth. It’s just a matter of arithmetic until forests, high up in the list of most valuable natural resources, will disappear—Unless trees are planted on a much larger scale. Government can help. But the problem is morally up to the lumber industry now destroying the for ests. A law with teeth might com pel them to plant at least one tree for every ne felled by the ax. » » • DELAY The president takes his job four months after he is elected, because -it took that long to count ballots, get word to him and bring him to Washington in the early days be fore railroads and telegraphs. When administrations change, these four months are “lost mo tion,” periods of stagnation and un certainty. Representative White of Kansas officially starts the ball roll ing for a constitutional amendment under which presidents would be gin their term Jan- 24. A sensible move. The date should be moved back farther. •h * * RADIO Song and music writers’ royalties have been cut in half by radio com petition, their organization claims It continues its wrangle with bnaad casting stations about payments for music sent by radio. . Eventually radio will have to be endowed, to provide suitable enter tainment, unless broadcasting sta tions are reduced to half dozen or so. Step forward, millionaires, who want tq, do some real good. • » • RECKLESS Take reckless drivers’ autps away from them. This is being urged by many highway traffic ex peits. They figure that only one driver in»twenty is reckless. But even that’s a menace. Most reck less drivers Wfro get into cour’u arc chronic “repeaters,’ not first offenders. Mexico is backward, but in some pf its cities have sense enough to jail the car of a Speder. for six months or more. Germany tackles the problem another way, arrest ing victims fr being reckless and stupid enough to get run over. * * * X SLAVE An “electric furnace man” for homes is' invented. It’s a machine that automatically feeds coal into the firepot and takes away the ashes, even shaking the furnace when needed. Similar . automatic stokers are already in use indus trially.. We seem to be ap caching the time when nearly everything wll be automat ; c. p.ople to have no work to do. except manufacturing machines, caring for them produc ing and transporting raw mate rials and growing food. That’fl still be enough 'to keep us buhy, The earth can never become a loafer’s paradjse. though a two* hour day is not impossible. Many already Ijave it. » » » DOC A shortage of young doctors, to serve as internes at hospitals, is becoming acute. This didn’t strike us as startling until we read that there are 6,830 hospitals in ihe country with 756,000 beds. Including people who stage their illness at home, at least hJflf a million Americans must be paid up all the time with various mal adies. Probably three-mourths of this illness is due to incorrect liv ing—lack of exercise and fresh air. and improper diet, SEEMS TO gE THE WHOLE SHOW Jpwi W = XS hW -:- OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Fab. 26. 1914-) Messrs. J. E. Sheppard. W. A. Dodson, and L. J. as at torney representing W. B. Blakley, now serving time at the state pri son farm, will go to Atlanta today to urge before Gov; Slaton the granting of the parole recently, recommended by the prison com mission. Blakley was given a ten years sentence for the killing of a showmaij in Americus less than two years ago. . '•' ; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lainer will leave tomorrow night for New- York. where they wil spend two weeks in sight-seeing as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Grantland Rice and friends. Inman Griffin went to Monte zuma yesterday, called there upon business and pleasure. “I would not take on thousand dollars cash down for the benefit received by my farm as the result of the snow fall here” said Arthur Rylander yesterday. “The lands had recently been thoroughly brok en, ploughed as deep as a plow would go, and the snow now lying upon it will pulverize every clod as large as a marble. The snow will enrich the land and is worth tons of commercial fertilizer. Is there any valid ’reason why Americus should pay $8 more per carload upon shipments of coal than do other towns in this section of the state; towns that are from thirty to fortfy miles further from the coal mines that is Americus? Yet Americus is doing this very thing every day, without protest—possib ly without, knowledge of the heavy descrimination against us. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Feb. 26, 1904.) Miss Martha Cobb returned home yesterday from Milledgeville, where she have been visiting relatives for two weeks. Miss Bela Hill returned home last night from Atlanta, where she attended this week the national convention of educators. The public schools of Sumter arc all provided with text books pre scribed under the uniform book law, and will be put into use in the schools next Tuesday. Like the cork of an idle fisher man bobbing upon a placid stream, the cotton market bobs up and down still. There were no violent fluctuations yesterday, though May did fall some forty points from the highest but regained back half the Iss ere -the close Something like 700 bales are still here, unsold. Free! Free! R.T.P.M.C.S. FOR OVER 40 YEARS HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE has been used successfully in the treatmea; ° HALL’S I’CATARRH 1 ’CATARRH MEDICINE con sists of an Ointment which Quickly Relieves by local application, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acts through the Elood on the Mucous Sur faces thus reducing the inflammation. Sold by all druggists. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 ~ Pay Phonej 88 and 231. ♦ TUSEDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 26, 1924 but 13 1-2 cents yesterday’s best offering-will never touch »it. That five connered race for the office of solicitor of the city court causes about as much interest just now as any feature in the list. The final rehearsal this evening for the amateur play “The Sleeping Beauty and the Best” will take place at the opera house, and the public is assured a fine production tomorrow night. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Feb. 26, 1894.) „ There is more money invested in Ibicycles in Americus, perhaps, than in any city of ilke sizein the state. Almost every young man here is a and owns a fine wheel, many 4f them costing $l5O each. The Jadies, too. are fond of the exercise and many of them own handsome wheels and there is no prettier sight than a party of them riding gracefuly through the streets Master Charles B. Hudson. Jr.; a manly little fellow, the prototype of his distinguised grandfather, “The Old State” came around to help us run the Times-Recorder yesterday. He was a welcome visitor. Mr. James Fort, of this city, has Sumter county by Commissioner Nesbitt, and will enter upon fils duties this week. The position of oil inspector here has long been filled by Mr. D. T. Davenport to whom Mr. Fort will prove a worthy successor. The beautiful and fascinating Miss Nanie' Sue Hill, of Newnaq, a decided favortie in social circles here, passed through the city yes terday en route to Albany, where she will visit Miss Ella Pope. Mrs. W. R Walker came down from Macon yesterday to spend a day or two with Mr. Walker. The family will perhaps move here shortly. Eggs were never cheaper or more plentiful in market v than at pres ent. One Americus grocer bought 800 dozen in a lot yesterday, and every store in town is preuy well stocked with the “fruit of the barn .yard?’ The retail price is 10 to 12 1-2 cents. » Mr. George S. Cobb was admitted to the bar in Chambers court yes terday mprning, after passing a very creditable cxajnination before attorneys here. 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 I . (Incorporated) 1891 ■ 1924 ;I" 'f Upon the foundation wSW-via” I <8 « KBSiBMRI thirty-three years of * ffIdWWE growth is based the ißEkilbbßs present organization of Iw’-’WwWrHMMM Our t>ank. This experi- ; ’S ence * s always at the sA?' 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; Nqne Too Small THE STANDARD 95c BARGAINS FOR TWO DAYS ONLY. THE SALE BEGINS WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 9 O’CLOCK, CLOSES THURSDAY AT 6 P. M. 95c for 5 yards best standard 32 inch Dress Gingham; value 25c to -29 c yard. • 95c for 10 yards 36 inch Cur tain/Scrim, 36 inches wide, double border. 95c for 5 yards best standard Bleaching, full yard wide. 95c for 4 pairs Ladies Genuine Buster Brown Lisle Stockings, all sizes. 95c for 4 pairs Men’s Buster Brown Socks, black, brown, gray and navy. 95c for 8 yards gbod quality Apron Gingham, fast colors. 95c for 5 yards 36 inch Cretonne, great variety of pretty patterns. 95c for 3 pairs Ladies best 50c Silk Stockings, black, brown and| gray. • 95c for 3 Men’s Four-in-Hana Ties, plain silks or knitted silks. 95 c for 4 yards best linen finish ed Ihdian Head Cloth. 95c for 2 yards highly merceriz ed T<ble Damask, 64 inches wide. •95c for 4 Turkish Towels, ac tual size 22x44 inches. 95c for 4 Huck Towels, plain or blue borders, size 18x36 inches. 95c for bleached ready made Sheets, size 72x90 inches. 95c for 4 Gold Seal Pillow Cases, full size, best quality. 95c for 10 pairs Children’s Socks, black and brown, all sizes. 95c for Men’s Umbrellas , 28 inch size, fast black American taf feta covers. 95c for Boys’ Union Suits, rib bed or fleeeced lined, all sizes. 95c for 3 yards Shirting Madras, 36"Tnches wide, new patterns. 95c for 4 yards genuine Japanese Crepe, colors warranted. 95c for 4 bars of our famous Castile Soap, 1 1-2 pound cakes. . 95c for 20 cans Lighthouse Cleanser, regularly 8c can. 95c for one lot of Ladies’ Ging ham Dress of best quality gingham. 95c for Ladies’ Bed-room Slip pers, all colors and sizes. 95c for 2 Boys’ Blue Chambry Work Shirts, all sizes. 95c for 2 Rag' Rugs, medium sizes, well made, all colors. 95c for 5 yards guaranteed Lin en Towel Crash, full width. 95c for 2 Linen Huck Towels, full regular size, blue or white borders. 95b for 5' yards Turkish Towel ing, full width, heavy quality. NONE SOLD TO MERCHANTS. All the Above Advertised Bargains Will Be Reads’ Wednesday Morn ing at 9 o’Clock. Standard Dry Good* Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS. GA.
