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PAGE EIGHT Times-recorder 1 PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered •• second claw matter at the p oat of fief at Americua, Georgia, according to the Act of Concrete. The Aaaociated Preaa is exclusively entitled to 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. AU right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST LANDIS & KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., New York; ’eoptea* Gas Bl da.. Chicago. A THOUGHT" Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.—Prov. 27:2 • » » A man’s praises have very musi cal and charming accents in the mouth of another, but sound very flat and untunable in his own.— Xenophon. Fee System Is Doomed The principal issue in the county laces in the larger coun ties of the state is the FEE sys tem. For several years the question of abolishing this ex travagant system in the state has been agitated and many coun ties, by special legislation, have already eliminated it in part or in whole. It has been charged that there was a strong lobby in the State Capitol to fight every move of any county that attempts to elim inate this old and now antiquat ed system of paying county of ficials through fees collected. Every candidate in the race in one of the largest counties of the state is pledged to the salary system and many of the candi dates have declared that they will accept only a stated sum as a salary and place the balance to the credit of the county. The system originated when the counties were less populous than they are today. Its day of usefulness has passed and its end is near. Every county official should be placed on a salary and a fair salary at that, but the income over that amount should go to the county or the charges re duced. The fee system collects an im mense tax from the people of Georgia and now is the time to kill it forever. Why the Difference? War is idiotic. War is use-1 less. War is foolish. If ques tions can be settled by men, they can be settled by nations. It s all a matter of training and environment. You’ll find two men who when differences arise, will call in a third, and settle the matter without feeling or cost. There are others who turn to physical force, to brutal fists or the more deadly firearm. Why the difference in these men? Possibly the first two have learn ed to “give and take,’’ to con trol their tempers, while the oth er two have not. The remedy may lie back in childhod days, when the young mind is pliable. Jim Nevin, writing in his al ways interesting column ‘ Caught in the Current,” in the Atlanta Georgian, tells this story: A Kentucky mountaineer died a few weeks ago. leaving some property to two sons—upon which coal subsequently was dis covered. They quarreled over their inheritance; and finally one brother “dared” the other broth er to come wthn 100 yards of his home. The other brother came, they shot it out—and now both are dead. Somebody else got the coal. That has been man’s idea of the way to settle a good many things, individually and collec tively, since time began. It’s idiotic, of course. It is IDIOTIC. We know the story of two men who recently were called on to approach each other in an endavor to straighten out a vile story that emanated from a gossiping 'tongue. They called in a third friend—and all was settled hap pily and those two are friends today. Had the same thing oc curred to two other men, one or both would have been in their graves today. Things are not always as they seem and an even temper prevents much sorrow- Don’ts for Wives and Husbands Nine common causes for un happy marriages are given in a •recent issue of the American Magazine by Leonard McGee, attorney in chief for the Legal Aid Society of New York City, an organization handling 35,000 cases a year, many of them growing out of domestic dis agreements. Incompatibility', jealousy, in- tereference for relatives, stingi ness, extravagance and differ ences in religious opinion head the list of causes for domestic shipwrecks. Out of his large experience Attorney McGee gives a list of ten dont’s for wives and ten don't for husbands who would avoid the divorce courts. If these DON’TS are observed by all married people there will not be much grist for the divorce mills- Mr. McGee’s first list is— DON’T FOR WIVES 1. Don’t be extravagant. Ev ery man wants to be financially independent, and a husband los es interest in providing when money he earns is spent foolish ly- 2. Don’t let your house get dirty. A clean house refreshes a tired man. <3. Don’t let your person be come unattractive. A slovenly wif e makes a truant husband. 4. Don’t receive attentions from other men. Husbands arc often jealous, and sometimes sus picious without cause. 5. Don’t resent reasonable discipline of the children by their father. 6. Don’t spend too much time with your mother. 7. Don’t accept advice from your neighbors, or even from your own people, about affairs inside your home. Think for yourself and consult your hus band freely. 8. Don’t disparage your hus band. Encourage him. 9. Don’t be glum. Smile. 10. Don’t forget that little things are important. Be tact ful. Be feminine. Men like to | be coaxed, but resent benig driv en. And they “fall for” fem inine charm. The responsibility on the hus band is as necesary gs that which rests on the shoulders of the wife. She has equal rights and privileges in the team work of life. If the home life is to be what it should be, he must ob serve Mr- McGee’s— DON’TS FOR HUSBANDS 1. Don’t be stingy. A wife has a right to expect liberal sup port. She is tolerant of misfor tune, and will live on next to nothing if it’s necessary. But she hates pettiness. 2. Don’t interefere with your wife’s management of th e home. She is a better housekeeper than you are. 3. Don’t be a grouch. A gloomy husband makes an unhap py wife. 4. Don’t hurt your wife’s -feelings. A woman is a bundle of nerves, and slje is far more easily hurt than you are. 5. Don’t stop making love to* your wife just because you have been married a few years. Neg lect is fatal to married life. 6. Don’t nag, or use sharp words. Be pleasant and reason able. 7. Don’t life with your own people, or with your wife’s peo ple. 8. Don’t share your house or apartment with any other fam ily. 9. Don’t be careless about your personal appearance. 10. Don’t be unjust to your children. If you abuse them, your wife will side with them and against you. lake your pencil and run over those DON’TS again. Grade yourself, giving ten points for each DON’T that does not apply in your case because in that instance you have been fair to the other member of your domestic team. How do you grade? Drinking Days Drinking among passengers at sea has been steadily getting less and less, for the last 20 years. T. D. Smith makes this comment. He’s chief steward of the White Star liner Adriatic, and he has been for 35 years in the North Atlantic service. lhe decline in drinking is a genuine prohibition movement, and not because liquor costs have gone up, Smith believes. He says: “Efficiency in busi ness—with telephones, wireless, radio, taxicabs, electrical de vices and the general demand for more speed—has destroyed ] the old idea of doing business in the forenoon and devoting the rest of the day and night to drinking." That just about sums up the prohibition movement, in the last analysis. It comes as a matter of efficiency, rather than of morals. Smith says that when he first went to sea the ships were so small and tossed about so much in storms that ‘‘only hardy in dividuals cared for the- North Atlantic .trip except in May, June and July when there were prospects of fine weather. He recalls that many of the old-time liner passengers were hardened topers who could drink all day and most of the night without ever getting drunk. Their favorite breakfast, served at 1 I in the morning, was deviled bones with champagne. The best whisky in those days I cost only 90 cents a quart, with I gin 50 cents and lower. Beer Copyright, ,923, DAILY POEM By N. E. A. Service * * WXulVl Berton Braley THE MOTORIST’S DILEMMA It was a weary Motorist Who stoppeth one of three; , “I have a grisly tale to tell, I prithee, list.to me: ‘‘Four days ago I drove to town / And on th e street did stop. ‘Ye cannot park that wagon here, ' Drive on! So spake the Cop. “And then I sought another space Where there seemed room to spare; •*" ‘Drive on drive on’’ Ye Copper quoth, . ‘Ye cannot park it there.’ “I needed shelter and a shave; Ye night was growing dark. But though to park my boat I’d crave, No one would let me park. “I tried ye narrow streets and wide, For many hours I’d ridden, But ever I would find a sign — ,i ‘ ‘HERE PARKING IS FORBIDDEN.’ “I even tried ye graveyard once, When sudden did appear A ghost from out a vault who said, . ‘Ye cannot park in here.’ “Four weary days I’ve driven ’round Within this benzine ark. My strength is getting very low, For everywhere in town I go • They will not let me park.’’ A traffic Cop aproached the group, His aspect bleak and dread, * “Ye’re blockin’ traffic on the street, Ye can’t park here,” h e said. Then off ye dock the Motorist Propelled his dusty Flivver. They fished him out, all blue and cold With all his bones ashiver; z And then the Cop arrested him For parking in th e river! was served at 6 cents a bottle. Maybe this explains the origin of the “good old days.” The old-time ocean passen gers bought their hooch, aboard ship, by the bottle- And at din ner time in the first-class din ing saloon 30 years ago cham pagne was seen on every table. Liquor flowed freely at all hours of day and night. Many of us recall when John Barley cron was the silent partner of business on shore also, it being customary for a drummer to take a prospective customer out and throw a dozen rounds of drinks into him before inducing him to sign on the dotted line. People have been tapering away from liquor gradually but steadily in the last 20 .years. Many have the notion that pro hibition was “put over" in a twinkling. They forget that, out of about 2500 counties in the United States, only 150 or even fewer were wet when the prohibition amendment was adopted. Such drinking as still takes place is viewed through a mag nifying glass. Smith, veteran seaman says drinking aboard ship has been steadily declining for 20 years, but most lands men seem to have the notion that ocean travel resembles Ten Nights in a Barroom." OPINIONS OF j OTHER EDITORS I DENBY The Washington correspondent of the New York World doesn’t seem to think very much of Mr. Denby, who, when hris is written, is Secretary of the Navy, but w.w may not be when it is read. This is merely newspaper chronic col oring, says the Secretary. There is Secretary Denby, a well-meaning but dull man. Mr. Denby was less culpable than careless. He was the type of man to whom America erects monu ments, sometimes figuratively and at other times in stone or bronze. He was the successful business man, whom America worships. He was not the great captain of in dustry, to be admired for his courage and audacity and vision or to be vilified for his ruthless ness and disregard of those who stood in his. way. He was a plodder and booster. He stood for respectability and a bigger and better and greater city. His admiring fellow citizens sent him to the Legislature, then they pro moted him to the House of Rep res< wtatives. 3 hen he went into the Cabinet ns Secretary of lhe navy. Honest, well-meaning con scientious, according to his code frankly, the job was too big for him. It was one of Mr. Harding’s many curious appointments. So Mr. Denby flames for a brief mo ment and goes out in darkness. This is a rather dismal picture of the physically big, if not men tally fit, Cabinet officer. W>- remember when he was an ordi nary marine over at Parris Island. He used to visit Savannah when he got a day off and we know him here as the millionaire ma rine. We have always thought h' made a better marine than he did Secretary »f the Navy.—Savan nah Press, M * .mi TOE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER 7 S Refers Albert Apple BEER High-powered beer made thirsty Babylonians smack their lips 4700 years ago. The recipe for making this ancient beer fro mhops and yeast is unearthed engraved on bronze plate, by a French scientist digging in old ruins. Nearly every savage trible has discovered how to make intoxicat ing liquor. Alcoholic stimulants probably were invented shortly aP er primitive man graduated from the animal stage. Liquir has been man’s companion for thousands of years. Small wonder, a nation can’t enforce prohibition in a few years. Much thirst is hereditary. The pancreatic gland will gradually eliminate this craving—but the time required is problematical. » • • TEAPOT From long experience with simi lar scandals, you have an idea hov severely the guilty people in the Teapot Dome mess will be punished. Seriously, why not deport them to Russia? They have done more to shake popular confidence in gov ernment that 1000 Emma Gold mans. * * * RADIO The Canadian National Railway government-owned, is installing : chain of radio broadcasting stations clear across the continent. It ar ranges to put'a receiving set in Un hands of each of its 100,000 em ployes. They’ll pick up reguiai concerts and incidentally keep i> touch with their employer—new suggestions, etc. President of the railroad will talk to them every week. This is prophetic of the future when radio, now mainly a scientific toy, will become as useful as auto, telephone and watch. « * TUT Money, usually lurking in the background or- standing boldly in the spotlight of troubled situations, is tlje root of the row between the Egyptian government an<T the ex cavators of King Tut’s tomb. .The value of the “Tut find” is now placed as high as 40 million dollars, even though most of us wouldn’t have the .tomb’s junk in our attics, except the jewels. How to divide the plunder, is the argument. HEINIE When the war ended, business leaders in all the allied countries feared a commercial war-after-the war, with Germany vanquishing all comers. There was much scram bling for tariffs and other prot . tions. Nearly five and a half years have passed since the armistice. The situation, summed up, shows that Germany’s exports in 1923 were less than three-fifths as big as in 1921, measured in the 1913 unit ot gold marks. While she’d have made a much better showing if the Ruhr hadn’t been occupied, the situation Illustrates how a nervous kvoHd since the war has been fearing crisis after crisis that never ma terializes. , 1X1 <« MELTING 'S'' x I* \ J ® w' 01 J | Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. March 7, 1914.) Americus Lodge of Elks has just held its annual election of officers for the current year. Exalted Ruler I, J. Kalmon is succeede-1 in that capacity by C. J. White. Other officers elected were as fol lows: Esteemed Leading Knight, Mr. Otis M. Physioc. Esteemed Lecturing Knight; Mr. Reese Hor ton. Esteemed Lecturing Knight ; H. C. Garner, Esteemed Treasurer, Chearles H. Burke. Esteemed Ty ler, Frank Marshall. Dr. Henry B. Allen was chosen to represent the Americus lodge at the national con vention, B. P. 0. E., of Americus, which assembles in Spokane in July next. Sumter’s school teachers —more fortunate than are many other county teachers in the prompt pay ment of their monthly salaries, re ceived yesterday the spot cash-bank checks for their entire February account, amounting to $2,534. Os this goodly amount the twenty-six white teachers received $1,557 while the colored teachers were paid $977. Greatest interest attaches just now and for some time past as io that matter to the annual meeting of the Board of Education of Americus. The four members whose terms are about to expire are Captain John A. Cobb, presi dent of the board of education; Messrs. J. E. Hightower, J. E. D. Shipp, and E. B. Everett. A special program of music has been arranged for the Furlow Lawn Sunday school for this morning, Mrs. Furlow and Mr. Gordon How ell will augment the regular choir in addition to singing several solos and duets. * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday morning, no paper pub lished. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. March 7, 1894.) Despite the hard times and 1 u* very low price for their product the worthy hens of Sumter county have gone industriously ’to work, and the market is well stocked with the fruit of the barnyard. Ari Americus grocer bought twelve hundred dozen eggs, yesterday in one lot—think of it; 14,490 dis posed of among local grocery mer chants. Much complaint has been made recently by persons who owns lots in Oak Grove c aotery concern ing the de aa.lons of lower Snatchers. Cnly a cay or two ago a young negro girl stole a large tray f. . of he choicest hyacinths, jap?-’ , and other flowers from th ut there, which she ped .out the streets. . try Black is the proud owner Sto P f s Influenza K-J jPticumonia _ Keep strong. healthy and free firom winter complaints. Hill’s Cascara Bromide Quinine is the quickest acting, most dependable cold remedy. What Hill’s does for millions it will do for you. Get red box bearing Mr. Hill’s pot trait. 30 cents. CASCARAIQUININE PIT.QIT.MKH. of a setter dog, that, according to the statement of Lawson Stapleton, beats the record for pointing birds in the state up to date. Mrs. George Byington left yes terday for her home in Atlanta aft er a week spentmost delightfully at The Windsor. Mrs. Byington is one of those gracious charming women who make friends everywhere. She is equally as popular as she was when Miss Brown, the belle oi Southwest Georgia. The plantation of the late James Rodgers, consisting of 1,595 acres, was sold at administrators’ sale in order Ito perfect titles. The prop erty had previously been purchased by Mr. W. E. Mitchell a prosperous farmer of Sumter. A ticket to Talmage’s lecture has been offered to anyone who will re veal the present hiding place of Col. Ed Littleton. He has not showed Up in his usual haunts for nearly a week, and his absence is a mat ter of great concern to his friends at the warehouse. THREE SMILES She’d Learn Plenty “What does the phrase, ‘address ing the ball’ mean, Colonel?” in quired the sweet young thing, shy ly. “Go out on the links, my dear, and listen,” retorted the old veteran The Way It Goes! “How long will it take us to get through with our case, Mr. Law yer?” “Well, I suppose I shall be through with it in six months, but I doubt whether you will be in six years.”—Klods Hans Copenhagen. A Good Many Do “Where do you suppose those scenario writers get their ideas? “Well, judging from the product, I should say they get them from each other.”—Boston Transcript. Americus Undertaking Co. / NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Day Phones 88 and 231 L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier fl The Planters Bank’of Americus ' (Incorporated) n .1891 - 1924 Upon the foundation of thirty-three years of growth is based ths present organization of our bank. This experi ence is 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 No Account Too Large; None Too Small FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 7, 1924 THE STANDARD FRIDAY AND SATURDAY An Extraordinary Sale of Shoes for Women. Hundreds of Pairs Brand New Shoes in the Fashion able Styles and Leathers for Spring Wear. All at Amazingly Low Prices. Every Pair in the Sale is Guaranteed All Leather and Will Wear As Well As Some of the Shoes Sold Elsewhere at Twice the Price of These. At $2.50 Ladies Black Kid Flex ible Turned Soles, plain or cap toes, all sizes. At $2.98 Ladies Black and Brown Kid Oxfords, with turned soles, all sizes. At $2.98 Ladies Black Kid Ox fords and Straps, suede trimmed, all sizes. At $3.50 Ladies’ Patent Leath er Suede Low Shoes, black or brown, various styles. At $3.95 Ladies’ Black Patent Colt Oxfords, grey suede trimmed, medium heels. At $3.95 Ladies Patent Colt Slip pers, fancy grey straps, all sizes. At $3.95 Ladies Grey Suede Smart Strap Pumps, flexible turn ed soles. z „ At $1.50 Infants’ Tan and Patent Leather Cross-Strap Slippers, sizes 3 to 5. At $1.75 same Shoes as above only in sizes 5 to 8. At $1.25 Infants’ Black or Brown Kid, also Patent Leather One-Strap Slippers. Guaranteed all leather, sizes 3 to 5. At $1.50 sam e Shoes as above only in sizes 6 to 8. 1000 Snow White Linen Finished Sheets Our famous Victoria brand, none better sold in Americus, bleached snow-white, heavy linen weave, all with broad hems— Size' 54x90 at $1.35 Size 63x90 at $1.48 Size 72x90 at $1.69 Size 81x90 at $1.98 Size 90x90 at $2.25 Brassieres at 50c. Many different models at this price, of satin striped poplin, all sizes. Watch for our Wash Goods ad vertisement in Saturday’s paper. Over 11,000 yards of brand new goods will be in this sale. Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS. GA.
