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' PUBLISHED 1879
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The Timcs-Rccordcr Co., (Inc.)
Lovelace Eve, Editor and" Publisher
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el Americus, Georgia, according to the Act ol
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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BITTEN WITH WANDERLUST
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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
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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.
