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PAGE EIGHT ' lIMES-R E C O RD Efi ' PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Timcs-Rccordcr Co., (Inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and" Publisher Entered at Mrond cUm matter al the poatoflM el Americus, Georgia, according to the Act ol Geagrwe. The Aaooclated Preas is Mcheieelr entitled to the use lor the republication of all news die patches credited to it or not otberwiw credited to this psper end also the local new. pub Imbed hero- In. All right of republication of special dispatches •re also reserved. National Ad.ertWng RepresentstiTee, FROST LANDIS A KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., New York; Go BMs- Chicago. A THOUGHT^| Neglect not the gift that is in thee. —1 Tim. 4:14. It is an uncontrolled truth that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them,— Swift. Tax Reduction The Mellon tax reduction plan continues <js a front page topic. It has been propagan dized throughout the country with a thoroughness seldom equalled in the past. Republi cans are pointing to it as if it were the only means of salva tion. The people, it seems, must be convinced that nothing else will do the work. Yet, there is a better way of reducing the tax burdens —a very much better way. 'Oscar W. Underwood, now a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, once said: “The power to tax also car ries with it the power to destroy; it is, therefore, a most danger ous governmental function as well as a most necessary one. The greatest abuse of th e tax ing power from which the people of the United States have suf fered since the beginning of our government has grown out of the unjust discriminations in the ad justment of taxes at the custom houses.” Tax reduction of any sort will be a relief, but the real oppor tunity for a genuine reduction is through a lowering of tariff rates. The greatest tax burden to day is the monstrous Fordncy- McCumbcr tariff. It is stated by competent authority that for every dollat exacted by the in come tax hundreds of dollars are levied upon the whole peo ple by this system of indirect taxation which is thrown out as a sop to favored classes. Nor can any relief be had I from the Republicans. They are wedded to this tariff of abominations, as the New York World calls it, and the only remedy is to divorce the Repub lican party from the federal government. President Cool idge has shown himself to be a standpatter of the ‘ old guard” variety, and the Democrats will bestow a blessing upon a tax ridden country by nominating and electing Senator Under wood to the presidency. Who’ll Dig Us Up? When King Tut’s eyes, now mummified and black, last peer ed from his small boyish skull, he was ruler of the greatest civ ilization then on earth—except ing, possibly, China or India. Millions bowed to him, worship ed him as sacred. If he could have opened his eyes the other day, he’d have beheld his once proud country impoverished, his mighty civiliza tion buried in the dust, almost forgotten—and, around him, men of a strange white race, sweating, sleeves rolled up. calmly puffing cigarets as they unpacked him under the glare of electric arc lamps. It makes us wonder, whether our own civilization will be gone and forgotten 3300 years from now, with Chinese scientists dig ging into our ruins and trying to "place” us in history. All things come from the dust and to the dust return. The finding of King Tut in the Cave of a Thousand Won ders has added to our meager knowledge of ancient Egyptian life. In cold weather, Tut’s on ly means of heating was a char coal fire with poisonous fumes. He had wash bowls and pails instead of a porcelain bathtub with running water. No movies for Tut, no radio, little to read for diversion, no prompt news of far off places. On trips up the Nile, the fast est speed he could get was in a clumsy boat manned by row ing slaves. On the desert, he had to ride a camel or travel in a roofed coach carried on the shoulders of slaves. To go up stairs, he had to walk. He'd probably have given half his kingdom for a flivver, a motor boat, a radio and an elevator. You’ve seen pictures of King Jut’s throne. for comfort, you wouldn’t trade an installment house easy chair. He lived in an age of disease and died young. Ice was unknown. No fresh vegetables “out of season" from hothouses. Swift runners brought him hummingbird tongues and other delicacies. But you go him on’e better when you phone the corner grocery to send you canned foods or fresh fruits and vegetables that come by express from hundreds or thousands of miles away. We are all kings, viewed from ancient standards, in the matter of comforts and luxuries. Some one has figured out that it would require 38 slaves such as King Tut had, for each of us, to do the work performed by machinery, the modern ruler. Barnum’s Rule for Getitng Rich Barnum, the .circus man who "discovered" America, at one time in his career toured Eng land delivering a lecture on "The Art of Money Getting.” After many years, the high spot of this lecture is Barnum's be lief that there is no such thing as luck. Said Barnum: "There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street today, and another tomorrow, and so on, day after day. He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find ! it.” There is, however, more rea son for believing in good luck than in bad luck, even though so-called good luck usually is a combination of intelligence, in fluence and hard work. Barnum was a genius, a com bination of highly ' developed imagination and a decided sense of the practicable. Warning against being too visionary, Bar num told a "philosophic pauper who was kicked out of a cheap boarding house because he could not pay his bill, but he had a roll of papers sticking out of his coat pocket which, upon exam ination, proved to be his plan for paying off the national debt of England without the aid of a penny.” This gentleman, had he lived today in America, would most certainly be in politics. Barnum warned of debt as a consuming monster. He preach ed thrift—economy but be lieved in moderation, cautioning against saving extravagantly as well as spending too lavishly. M. R. Werner, in his bi-1 ography of Barnum, records that Barnum considered sound health and abstention from intoxicating drinks and tobacco indispensa ble for success. Barnum had two excellent mottoes: * Whatever you do, do it with ail your might.’’ ‘ Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius,, he cannot suc ceed." . . . Parents should pon der this bit of wisdom. Many a man is a failure because his parents stupidly talked him into following a line of work other than what he naturally craved. Above all, we believe, Bar num would have urged common honesty to young men anxious to get ahead today. He was known as the Prince of Hum bugs. But his swindles were innocent and in the nature of jests, and he always gave his dupes their money’s worth—en tertainment. You can bet, he wouldn't have touched Teapot Dome with a pole a mile long. Doc Is An Optimist The average American now lives to the age of 56. compared with 41 back in 1870. But, by 1950, people will have a life span of 70 years, predicts Dr. George Martin Kober of Georgetown University Medical School. His prediction, of course, is based on a supposition that peo ple will increasingly live more sensibly and correctly. We hope so. But Doc cer tainly is an optimist. Four hundreds years ago the average length of human life was somewhere between I 8 and 20 years. And it was only 25 years, as late as 1800. A-gain of about five years in two cen turies. There has been a gain of 31 years in the average life span, since 1800. People live longest in New Zealand, averaging 60 years at death. In India the average death is before 25. These "average" figures, how (ever, are arrived at by adding ■up and striking an average of all death, including babies. The gam has been mostly in cutting down the death rate among chil-V '► THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER " ■.i - i ■ - ■ -| ii r- - i .ii an ; . -■ '■■ ' Our Daily Poem TEAPOTICALLY SPEAKING. They are worried in the Senate, y And there must be something in it, For we read it every day and every week, - Its an awful oil scandal And its mighty hard to handle, z For the Teapot’s boiling over, so to speak. w Well, friend Archie got uneasy, When things begun to look greasy, So h c told them almost everything he knew. When they heard this information, FThey began investigation, And the President will surely Mc-A-DOO Messers Sinclair and Dohcny, Find their troubles to be many Since Archie let his information FALL Denby, without hesitation, Has sent in his resignation For you see he’s read the writing on the wall. dren, especially babies. Thia has raised the average. It is doubtful whether there are any more people living to "a ripe old age" than formerly. Or even as many, for that matter. The gain has been made largely in cradle years. As re gards individuals who reach ma turity, they seem to die at about the same average age as in for mer generations. As far back as 1908, experts estimated that three million Americans were constantly on the sick-list, and that 42 out of every 1 00 of these illnesses were preventable cases. Similar situ ation today. When people succumb to pre ventable diseases, they general ly are victims of their own care lessness. This carelessness in many cases results from under estimating their personal value in cold dollars and cents. For instance, take a man with an income of S3OOO a year. Now, S3OOO is 6 per cent in terest on an investment of $50,- 000. If the S3OOO-a-year man had an auto or any other ma chine worth $50,000 he would insure it against every possibility of disaster, and he would care for it as if it were a priceless possession. You can imagine a radio bug neglecting a $50,000 receiving station if he owned it. On the other hand, the $3,- 000-a-year man often neglects his $50,000 body as if it were an,old bit of junk. Give your body a square deal. I reat it with the consideration and care that its high value de serves. OPINIONS OF > OTHER EDITORS i Never throw away anything. There may be another war and you can sell it to the government.— Anderson (Ind.) Herald. ' Europe now contains 15 mon archs and 10 presidents. That is, up to the time of going to press.— Passing Show (London). To avoid accidents, automobile drivers should have an eye test, says a reformer. How about a breath test Hutchison (Kas.) Gazette. One wonders if Americans of the next generation will continue to de cide the league issue every four years.—Trinidad (Col.) Picketwire. The most interesting beauty eon tests are those whose awards are printed among the wedding notices. —lllinois State Register (Spring field). The public is not so much inter esed in what a scofflaw is as where he gets it.—Life. A famous New York beauty has disappeared. Perhaps she washed >t off.—Rochester Herald. A good liar has some trouble keeping in practice where there ’s no fishing and no golf—Judge. The reformer must be sincere aft er all. He labors ceaselessly to work himself out of a job.—Palatka (Fla.) News. I Now some scientist can compute how many revolutions Mexico can 'get out of its gasoline.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Heinie i beginning to suspect that evasion is about as unprofitable as invasion..—Dubuque American Tribune. y , A party leader is a man who can take a popular delusion and con vert *it into a plank.—Shreveport (La.) Journal. Women are entering all branches of business. In New York, one was arrested for crooked dealing in l r ull Street, ‘ _ W - Apple The newspapers of Abraham Lin coln’s day were small, usually four pages. They had very little adver tising. Ask grandpa. He’ll recall that old-time advertising was limited to classified ads. And most of these were the publicity of patent medi cine firms or companies that had unusual services or devices for sale. It took real courage ty A. T. ■Stewart when he began running 10 line ads about bargains in his New York store, for advertising was a new device. John Wanamaker bought Stewart out and “plunged” by inventing modern departnii nt store adver tising. This was a page in history. Fur after all. the history of business is the history of America. # « « WEATHER All of us are, eternally growling about the weather. But if we c-.n t like it, we can move. Nature is d magnificent hotel-keeper, ready to provide any kind of accommoda tions wanted. Professor Barnes of McGill Uni versity in Montreal reports that in Greenland the snow is nearly two miles deep in places. This is exceptionally interesting, scientifically. Jjuj most of us are interested mainly because we’re not living there and have to shovel. * sjt * POCKETBOOK A few factories arc closing down here and there, but the undercur rent of pessimistic talk is without basis. An excellent weathervane of general business is in freight han dled by the railroads. They now are loading 93 cars for every 8G cars a year ago and 75 cars two years ago. “Wood alcohol is queer-stuff. A, good drink of wood alcohol will kill tw 0 men out of five, say; tw’o more will go stone-blind; and the fifth won’t be any worse off than if he’d been drunk on bad whisky.’ So writes Dr. Earnest M. Poate. *WoBd alcohol, like all deadly poi sons. is mysterious. It’s a charac teristic of some poisons that cer tain few people are immunized by nature. The reader will observe that Dr. Poate says the average drinker of wood alcohol has only one chance in five of not being blinded or killed outright. * * • MILLIONAIRE, The wealthiest man in South America, Senor Garcia Alvarez, was invited to a banquet in Lon don, England. He went. On his steamer he carried his own livestock and poultry, so he could be sure of fresh milk and meat and eggs. He returned to Buenos Ayres the next morning after the (banquet. His trip, for the banquet event, cost him $50,- 000. . A thousand and one different ’morals” can be drawn from this. Take your pick. If your liver is functioning har moniously, you merely envy Senor Alvarez and wish you could do the same. Nero, Caligula and Cleo patra were pikers. * « « UTOPIA Men, how would you like to be able to buy a whole suit of clothes for $3? No, that’s not a mistake by the typesetter. Three dollars! Before us is a copy of the Phila delphia Public Ledger of Saturday, April 27, 1861. All ads were small in those days. One of them an nounces: “Whole suits for $3. Oak Hall Clothing Bazaar.” Now we know why they called them “thF good old days.” The annual investigation of gaso line prices is being held, perhaps to see why it can’t be boosted to a dol lar a gallon. Three men claim they are presi dent in Honduras, but we have many more claiming they will be t BITTEN WITH WANDERLUST ' ' ' ' IImJ // / \ '■ ■ ■ I'z eWIi > a *\l / - X' . OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Rgcorder. Feb. 28. 1914.- That Americas enjoys her daily plunge and other aquatic sports is evidenced in the quantity of water consumed here every day. Even on yesterday with the earth snow covered Engineer Stevens reported having pumped 800,000 gallons of water for the day, while the aver age daily consumption at this sea son is near the three quatrer mil lion gallons mark. The right fielder chosen by the committee of eleven experts for the All-American being picked by the Boston Post is Joe Jackson of the Cleveland club, who received all '.but one ballot out of the eleven cast. Jackson has been with Cleve land for four years in which time he has achieved a. grand batting average of .390. Mr. Will Green Turpin on yes terday purchased from Mr. T. B. Hooks the very desirable two-story, nine-room residence on Furlow street, two doors east of Lee ami one of the most desirable in that residential section. In part pay ment he sold to Mr. Hooks the Tur pin farm of forty or more acres, just on the northern limits of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Egbert Allen, Mrs. Etta Nix, and Mrs. Charles Lingo have gone to Macon to attend the silver wedding anniversarty of Mr. and Mrs. William Ragan, former residents of Americus. Mrs. James Summerford May Summerford and Miss Nan Caldwell came up yesterday from Leslie spending the morning here in shopping. . TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Feb. 28, 1904.) Passers by on Jackson street yesterday were much interested in a handsome picture displayed in a window of the Eldridge drug-store, and this interest was increased to a great degree when they learned that this was the proposed Y. M. C. A> building for Americus. The building will cost when completed something like $7,000. The card party at which Mrs. E. D. Sheffield entertained a num ber of friends Wednesday was most enjoyable affair. The pretty home was attractive in decorations of yellow, jonquils being used ex tensively, and: the numerous I gas jets were also covered with yellow. Mrs. Sheffield wore a beautiful costume of white silk mulle over taffeta. The lone hand prize was won iby Miss Kate Hollis, while the consolation prize was awarded to Mrs. Glen Dodson. Americus cotton men were pleas ed with the course of the market FOR OVER 40 YEARS HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE has been used successfully in the treatmeni of Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE con sists of an Ointment which Quickly Relieves by local application, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acts through the Blood 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 .k Pay Phones 88 and 231 m THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 28, 192< yesterday and are confident that further material gains may be ex pected. The market is now about 250 points up from the lowest notch touched, and no one there would be surprised to see values go soaring again. The better grades will very nearly bring 14 cents here now. / Walter Page went down to Moul trie yesterday, wrere hc will visit relatives for a few days. Misses Callie and Nannie Sue Bell who have been spending a week in Omaha with their aunt, Mrs. James Fitzgerald, will return home today. No, Gladys; the city has net bought another fire alarm whistle That loud blast you heard yester day was only the toot of the candi date. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Feb. 28, 1894.) The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Planter’s bank was held at their banking house les night. The old board of officers and directors were re-elected for the ensuing year. G. W. Council president; R. J. Perry, vice presi dent; Directors: E. J. Eldridge, George Stapleton, W. E. Brown, L. G. Council, C. M. Council. A 10 per cent dividend was declared and a snug sum was carried to th? surplus account. Miss Agnes Thornton, a fair belle of Dawson, returned home yester day, after a visit of several weeks to Miss Maude Sheppard. The lat ter accompanied her to Dawson and will be her guest for a week or two. Mrs. C. B. Wilburn leaves today for Rome, where Mr. Wilburn re cently accepted the position of gen eral traffic manager of the C. R. & C. railroad. Many Americus friends will greatly regret their departure. Mr. P. L. Molt has already begun the work of rebuilding the house destroyed by fire Sunday morning and in two or three weeks a pretty two story house will rise, Phoenix like from the pile of ashes and charred timbers.: Misses May and Mabel McKenzie, accompanied by Messrs. Hugh Bond and Tim Killen went up to Monte zuma yesterday to attend the hop there last night. 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 ofjAmericus (Incorporated) 1891 - 1924 Upon the foundation &KBbUB| of thirty-three years of !S & rowth is based the L" present organization of li* It our banl< - This e.xperi- ence * 8 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 CT ,.. y No Account Too Large; None Too Small THE STANDARD SENATIONAL VALUES Women’s $5 to $6 Shoes At $2.98, $3.50 and $3.95 SEE THE WINDOW DISPLAY Brand New, Ju s t Received From The Largest Maker in New York. Every Shoe Bears His Name. Patent Colt, Black K id Gray Suede, Brown Suede, Novel Cut •Out and Strap Effects, every size in the lot on sale here Friday and Saturday $2.98, $3.50 and $3 95 Women’s ‘Seconds Pure Thread Silk Hose At 75c The price of the first quality is $1.50 to $2 per pair. These ‘Sec onds’ are the best that we hpve ev<}r handled. The silk part of these hose is perfect. Occasional ly there is a drop-stitdh in the lisle part which has been neatly mend ed; all sizes, all colors; Friday and Saturday, pair 75c Men’s High Grade Four-In-Hand Ties 35c Men’s Knitted Silk Four-in- Ifand Ties, in every color, full regular length; regularly 50c; here Friday and Saturday, each ... 35c $2 Queen Victoria Sheets at $1.49. Each one with the original “Vic toria” label, so of course each one first quality, bleached snow-white, size for double bed; this sale only $1.49 * Men’s $1.50 to $2 Shirts at SI.OO Striped Percale and Madras Cloh, plain Soisette, Khaki colors, attached collars or neckband style, sizes 14 to 17, big table of over three hundred to select from; choice SI.OO Boys’ Hats, Value $2.00 to $3.00, at SI.OO Kats for small boys up to 10 years, all colors, black, velvet, as sorted casimere and worsteds, reg ularly $2.00 to $3.00, now each $1 Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS. GA.
