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PAGE EIGHT TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered at eecond claw matter at the poatofficj ftt Americut. Georgia, according to the Act of Coogreaa. ■*»- The Associated Pre» is exclusively entitled te the use for the republication of all news dis patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news published here- In. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST LANDIS A KOIIN, Brunswick Bldg., New York; ’copies' Gas Bide.. Chicago. »——*■ Suppressing The News Recently the Atlanta papers saw fit to attempt to suppress a sensational story. Their in tentions were good, but no newspaper can suppress such a story. It gets to the public, and the attempt to suppress em phasizes the importance or the sensational feature of the story. When such a story is sup pressed, the public wonders why, and there are those who immedi ately shout that the papers are bought or controlled. We doubt if there is a con trolled paper in the state, and we know there isn’t enough money in Atlanta, with all her millions, to buy a single one of those excellent dailies. While we may not agree with the wisdom of havng suppress ed the story referred to, we know the intention was good. There are times when a story should be printed, and there are ohter times when it should not be published. Almost daily, the editor is called on to make a decision of this nature, and he must think quickly. We do not agree with the Brunswick News in its declara tion that— We hope that none of out friends will again ask us to sup press legitimate news and thus force us to refuse. We have made up our miiuis on the sub ject and there is no recanting on it. In future, it it’s news, we are going to print it. Every reader has the right to REQUEST suppression, if he cares to do so. His request may or may not be granted. That’s up to the editor, but the reader should feel free to ccme to his paper with his desires and opinion. No newspaper prints all the so-called news, nor does it al ways tell the truth. If it did, it could not print half the obitu aries coming to it. Sumter’s $1,500,000 Tax - Roughly, there are 30,000 people in Sumter county. Tar iff experts figure that the Ford ney-McCumber tariff act, now in force, costs every man, wom and child in the county $50.00 per year, or an annual tax of a million and a half dollars. The F air Tariff League has] recently set its experts to work on the effect of the Fordney tar iff act on the South. An analy sis published by them reveals that the South as a whole loses yearly nearly a billion and a half dollars. Os this, the sta tisticians claim, the Southern farmer loses from five hundred to seven hundred million dol lars. Every man, woman and child in the South, they claim, loses an average of fifty dollars a year through the increase in the cost of living, directly and whol ly chargeable to the Fordney- McCumber law. Texas alone, it is stated, pays 175 million dollars more in tariff taxes an nually than the state receives in benefits. In an address here recently, the Hon. Herschel Elders said that the Underwood tariff act was the fairest tariff law ever written and that Oscar Under wood is today recognized as the greatest tariff expert living. Doubtless the repeal of the outrageously unjust Fordney tariff measure will be among the first things to be undertak en by the Denr.cc’.ats when the? get in power again, and they will have the benefit of the brain and skill of Senator Un derwood to help them. Let us hope it will be Presi dent Underwood by that time. Hit the Line Hard in 1924 “Hit the line hard in 1924,” Bays the Moutrie Observer. “This will probably be a money making year. The law of av erages is in its favor” And the Moultrie citizens pro ceed to buck the line with all their strength and determina tion, for— They draft thgx ftrst citizen, .Will Vereen, for service as presi- ] dent of the Moultrie Chamber lof Commerce. But they do not stop there. Within a few min utes the members of the Moul trie chamber contribute SB,OOO for expenses of the chamber this year. With a live, determined bunch to follow the lead of Bill Vereen and SB,OOO to meet nec essary expenses, Moultrie is bound for happy days. And that’s about all it takes to MAKE a town, where other things are favorable. The Moul trie Observer says: We have had several pretty bad years in this section. We have had a longer stretch of tight times than we have ever had before. We are probably just about at the end of the dull period. Crops will probably be good this year. We say probably. It is time for us to make another mammoth crop. Seasons will probably be more favorable this years. Our reason for thinking so is that we have had about three bad years, and they hard ly ever go in gangs larger than this. Are you ready for “good times?’’ Life moves in a circle. Good times follow depression, and it is the fellow—and the town who sees farthest ahead that wins in the end. Are you ready? Are we ready? There’s no one to do but Y|OU. Next to your family, your most precious pos session is your town. 66,000 Miles An Hour At some unknown time in the past, the largest meteor that ever struck the earth fell in Co conino county, Arizona. It buried itself, making a crater nearly a mile across and 600 feet deep, with a rim of earth splashed up 160 feet high all around the crater’s edge. This crater is Canyon Diablo. Mining engineers once more are attempting to locate the huge meteor which lies buried somewhere under the floor of the canyon. The Canyon Diablo meteor, according to scientists, weighs a million tons and is at least 300 feet in diameter. Some experts even multiply these figures by four. ’<•. i If the meteor runs true to form, it is nine-tenths pure iron. But the lure that induces the min ing engineers to attempt to un earth the Canyon Diablo is that it probably contains huge dia monds. Our old earth, rushing through space at a speed of 66,- 000 miles an hour, must have staggered when struck by the Canyon Diablo bullet. A leg end of the Navajo Indians says there were three meteors, not one. Meteors travel through space in swarms. Twenty million of them, large enough to be seen by the naked eye, shoot into our atmosphere every day—and usually are dissolved by friction with the air before they strike the earth. The largest meteor (“shoot ing star") ever discovered weighs 36 tons and was brought from Greenland by Peary. So scientists are on tip toes for a look at the giant be neath Canyon Diablo. Real education does not be gin until we study astronomy. OPINIONS OF j OTHER EDITORS j HIGH COST OF BAD ROADS Traveling an unimproved road is just like renting a farm—it costs a good portion of what you make every year. And no mat ter how long you travel or rent, or how much you pay, there is no end to the drain on your re sources in either case. You travel in a circle without getting any where. The sensible thing to do is to cut out the road tax and be gin to make highway investments. —Muscle Shoals Sunday News. A POLICY THAT FAILS The Atlanta newspapers sup pressed the story of the arrest of Mrs. Asa G. Candler and were chagrined and humiliated when the out-of-town papers reached the city proclaiming the incident in glaring 'black type on their front pages. The Atlanta new - papers were the victims of two egregious blunders—they fall ed to suppress the affair and were convicted in the minds of their readers as being undepend able purveyors of the news. A newspaper to be worthy of the name should have a policy and should die by it—-and that policy should be to print the news, if it it fit to print, but not to wan tonly injure anyone. By this sign they will conquer, and by no oth er.—Selma Times-Journal. MARRIED LIFE Sir Arthur Newsholm, who, we are told, is an English statistie cian, comes forward with the suggestion that it is not a fallacy that married people live longer ■ than unmarried ones. He says * THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER Copyright, 1923, f) AJI V POFM By N. E. A. Service I 1 kJ ILL IVI Bcrton B y raley COMFORT When the “ways without” are muddy And are clogged with mire, I love the glamor ruddy Os an open fire. But my fond regard is greater For a place, I wot, Near the old steam radiator ’ Where it’s hot, hot, hot. • 1 &.JL Oh, my thoughts may go romancing Where the woodfires gleam, But when winter is advancing Give me lots of steam. With the pressure indicator At the highest spot And the oid steam radiator Sizzling hot, hot, hot. • Though an open fire is taking As it gleams and glows, Yet the front of you is baking While your back is froze; Give me heat that adequater Such as can be got From the old steam radiator When it’s hot, hot, hot. that this is a fact borne out by in vestigation, and he gives very good reasons why this is so. After a thorough examination of the marriage and death statistics of all civilized people he declares that the number of deaths are less among married men than among bachelors and widowers. Among married women the num ber of deaths is slightly more between the ages of 20 and 10 than among unmarried women and widows; but between the ages of 40 and 50 the deaths among married women are much less. The writer gives several reasons why married men live longest. He thinks that the social position of the married man is generally more settled, that he lives in healthier surroundings, and that he has a purpose in liv ing for his wife and children. Way back yonder when Joe Miller was a young man he wrote a joke book in which he advanc ed the idea that married men really did not live longer than single ones, it only seemed long-. er. ,But this British authority seems to be able to show that it is really a fact that matrimony is conducive to long life. And it must be confessed that his con clusions seem sound.—Savannan Press. .. THERE’S A.HAPPY MEDIUM The disposition on the part of the people of Rome to give earn est thought t 0 the school build ing proposal with the view to avoiding that might bl regretted is most encouraging. Virtually everybody wants better schools, for Rome. The) difference of opinion arises over methods of of procedure and the question of what is needed. Before anything is done taare should .ibe a definte understanding of what the ap proximate cost will be, how the money is to be raised and'the extent to which the needs are to be met. Rome could spend a mil lion dollars on school buildings without getting more than could be used. But on the contrary we could spend §IOO,OOO without getting enough.—Rome Tribune- News. DAMNED EITHER WAY When a great sensation occurs in Atlanta the city papers fill the front, middle and back pages with the stuff, and then some people denounce the . papers for feeding their readers on putrid stuff. Another great sensation developes and the Atlanta pa pers suppress it and then th? same critics denounce the papers for not publishing all the dirty details. So it is be damned if you do, and be damned if you don’t— Sommerce News. TRY THIS ON YOUR PIANO A barometer in common use in some parts of Europe consists of a pan of water and a frog an 1 a little stepladder. When the frog comes out of the water and sits on the steps it is said infallibly to indicate rain.—Valdosta Times AND THE BUZZARDS Some candidate announces that he is in the? race for pure polities. Pure indeed. That man had just as well retire right now, wherever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered to gether.—Commerce News. MORE EASY MONEY • Announcement that the spe cial appropriation for prohibition enforcement, amounting to over ten million dollars has been agreed upon by congress will please a lot of people who see th'- opportunity of getting easv money..—Brunswick” News. The.wife of dne of the best golf ers in Detroit has secured a di vorce, so if he hears about it he may go home. A baby grand cost more than a grand baby. Some say it sounds better and some say it doesn’t. In Scotland, a (blacksmith has' been given authority to marry peo ple. This should stop love from chuckling at locksmiths. Now we are counting the money tax deduction will save us, but we haven’t the real money to count yet. hile it takes all kinds of peo ple to make a world, some kinds seem to be entirely too many. kA Refers Albert Apple FIVE The railroads are farther froir the poorhouse than some of then press agents claim. Official report says the Class One roads in 1923 had net operating income (profit of a little better than five per cent on their property valuation, aftei paying' taxes. That’s at least, more than they’d have earned if their money had been in the bank. Five per cent with safety is con sidered attractive by most people who have millions to invest. Many believe the roads should earn more, and htive good arguments, there be ing two; sides to everything (except a solid sphere). ♦ ♦ ♦ J'OKER Artificial gasoline is perfected by the French chemist. Damiens, he claims. The process mixes sul phuric acid, copper oxide and ethe lyne, then heating and distilling. The big oil companies are nor worried, for Damiens adds that the price of making his artificial gaso line is prohibitively high. That’s usually the case with substitutes for basic commodities. Artificial rubber has been perfected, but can’t be made as cheaply as the real thing. Damiens hopes to get his production cost down to 15, cents a gallon. RUSS Russia claims that its railroads in the last two years have hauled 29 tons of freight for every 100 tons moved before the war. The figure is expected to move up to 36 this year. Passenger traffic is about half of normal. This information is important, because Russia’s economic collapse has beeen most acute in her trans portation system. The Red Bear is getting around better, though sti’l limping badiy. * * * RICH The richest man in Europe, Sir Basil Zaharoff, lives in Paris. Every morning his breakfast rolls are bak ed in London and rushed to him by special airplane. Scientific magic makes this pos sible. Science would be doing a better job if it made impossible the sys tem that permits hot rolls to be rushed through the air at great ex pense to gratify a rich man’s foolish whim—while millions of other Eu roocans are under-nourished and many thousands starving to death. * * « LOAN More than a billion dollars worth of European government and city securities have been floated in America since the Armtistice. Some of the international bank ers and brokers who had a hand in negotiating these loans are very keen for Uncle Sam to cancel Eu rope’s war debts to him. But you never hear them advocating cancel lation of this (billion dollars loaned privately. • * * ALCOHOL Drunks are investigated by scien tists in Vienna. Dr. Schumacher finds that one accident in 40 over there is caused by intoxication. Drunkards are' injured mainly in fights, by getting run down, and by falls. Intoxicated people are less hurt by falls than sober ones, Schum acher reports. This is traditional. It’s not due to Providence, but to a drunk falling like a sack of wheat while a sober man in falling makes himself “brittle” by stiffeinng his muscles and joints. It may save your life some day’ if you remem ber to relax and let the whole body go limp when falling. “Have you any engagements in sight?” Coolidge asked Dempsey. Wonder if he wants to hire Jack? With only a few more weeks to play, the scofe shows the coal deal ers have woA this winter. THIS NEW BOY LOOKS LIKE TROUBLE , O „ < 1 l' L ' I VMrt OiT FerThaT \ ( look AT/ 1 TX I Bieo-He SWMGS / O ' \ i aWickepvoTe \ f ■ »i\ Ol! t-’AY ' yI ! r ! z A i, ) OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS Note: This being Leap Year, items carried in this column to day are taken from issues of March 1, for the respective years. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Feb. 29, 1914.) Residents of East Americus and others whose membership is with St. Pauls M'ethodist church East Americus, are greatly gratified •at the practically new building now possessed and located upon a sit? more convenient and accessible than was the old edifice in which they had worshipped for more than a score of years. The new building, just completed is at the corner of Lamar and Reese streets. Some time since Mr. Crawford Wheatly in exchange for the old site of St. Paul’s offered a larger and more conveniently located corner lot neared the city, and also generously agreed to beai' the cost of removal of the old building. The many farmers coming tc Americus yesterday were invited to partake of a superb dinner at the armory, the hosts of the occasion being the representatives of the Americus Wire Fence Co., repre sented in Americus by the Shef field- Hunington Co. Saturday morning Miss Nannie Sue Bell was hostess to the Wed nesday afternoon bridge club at her home on Lee street. After .he game an elaborate hot luncheon was served. For highest score, Miss Alice Kelly was given a Chi nese primrose in bloom. Mr. Fred B. Arthur will be roundly congratulated today in hav ng completed a term of twenty years as a member of the under writing forces of the Mutual Life insurance Co., of New York. Because of the unsatisfattopy condition of the heatnig apparatus in the high school building, a trouble long existing there, the ehool was again closeel yesterday md the large number of pupils given still another holiday because >f the defective apparatus. This same trouble with the heating has caused the Furlow grammar school co shut down yesterday as well. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Feb. 29, 1904.) Mr. John W. A. Hawkins, of Webster, who was injured a few days since in being run over by a horse, still suffers greatly from a broken limb. Mr. HaWkins was' turning the animal out of the stable when he was run over and knocked low r n. Mr. John M. Bragg, the popular market man in the Artensian block regaled a number of his friends with a feast of oysters last night at his place of business. The bivalv es, fat, jucy and fine, were delici- that cough before it begins- Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER? Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Pay Phones 88 and 231 FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 29, 1924 ously prepared in a style known only to the genial host, and all pro nounced it the feast of the season. The marriage of Miss Flora Harnil and Mr. A George Duncan on Sunday evening 28th inst., was an occasion anticipated pleasantly for quite awhile among the many friends of both bride and groom, and certainly no young couple heie have ever before begun together the voyage of life under fairer skies or happier auspices. Though scarcely yet a debutante, Miss Harail had, by an attractive person ality and charm drawn about her a wide circle of admiring friends. Mr. Duncan is one of the city’s most prominent young business men and leading merchants, and one who deserves all of the success in life he has attained. After congratu lations had been extended and an hour spent spcially, Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Igft, vit. the Central for a delightful trip to Florida, spending, ten days at the east coast resorts and other points of interest be fore returning to their home here. Mr. C. L. Ansley who has been in New York for several days buy ink goods for his house, Wheatley & Ansley,..returned home yesterday. The teachers of Smuter county evidenced interest in the recent ed ucation convention in Atlanta by sending the largest number of teachers', attending from any county in Georgia. Sumter sent twenty two, «of whom fifteen were teachers in the city schools, of Americus and sevep in the county schools. THIRTY YEARS- AGO TODAY Sunday, no paper jgsued. Neglected coughs- A cold often leaves behind a cough that hangs on and cn— wearing you out with its persis tent hacking. Dr. King's New Discovery will stop it quickly by stimulating the mucous mem branes to throw of! the clogging secretions. It has an agreeable taste. All druggists. ■ \ L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. ii. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) 1891-1924 4 Upon the foundation of rbirty-thr,... years of hi ft jffijjSMl growth is based the present organization of J'le X our bank. This experi- ence is always '* t the Sg«y '£*/- li X command of our cus l - KwMPB tomers - We cordially solicit your banking " business. The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 - PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING 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 have ever handled. The silk part of these hose is perfect. Occasional ly there is a’ drop-stitch in the lisle part which has been neatly mend ed; all sizes, all colors; Friday and I Saturday, pair . 75c Men’s High Grade Four-In-Mand Tics 35c Men’s Knitted Silk Four-in- Hand 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 color.:, 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 Hats 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.
