About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1924)
PAGE SIX WIMES-RECORDER r HJBMSHED 1879 —.ll l l Published by The Co., (Inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered as arc end d&aa matter at the poitofficf 81 Americus, Georgia, according to the Act of range i aa The Aaaociated Preaa la etcltisirelj entitled to the nae for the repablication of all newt dia. patches creditod to it or not otherwiae credited to Ihie paper and alio the local newa publiihed hero in. AH right of republication of epecial diapatchea are a!ao reserved. National Adrertiaing Kepreaentativea. FROST tANDIS A KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., Nee York; Voplea* Gas BMa- f-hicatto, A THOUGHT | Thou shalt not defraud thy neigh bor, neither rob him- —Lev. 19:13, The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. — Bailey. Can Underwood Be . Nominated? A few local voters have rais ed the question of the possibility of Senator Underwood being nominated in June at the Demo cratic convention, at New York. There seems to be a doubt in the minds of some of the prob ability of his selection, even though he goes into the conven tion with the votes of Georgia, Alabama and other Southern states. “If Oscar Underwood enters the convention ip June with a solid Southern vote behind him, or a healthy vote scattered among other states, he will have as good a chance for the nomina tion as any living Democrat,” Senator Tom Heflin declared to a few Underwood friend? last night. Indications now point to the selection pf one of three out standing Democrats. They are Oscar Underwood, Ex-Secretary McAdoo and Ex-Governor Ral ston, of Indiana, who is now a member of the United Senate from Indiana, Senator Ralston is an able Democrat, a man who has the love and utmost faith of his state. He is the leading 'dark horse' among the Democrats to day. Mr. McAdoo will enter the convention with a goodly vote. That’s certain. But he will not h&ifc a sufficient vote to secure the nomination and after a bal lot or two he will be dropped. That’s the consensus of opinion of the leading members pf his party. Senator Underwood's chances come next. He has the confi dence of the South and the East and he has scores of influ ential friends from most every state in the union. Mr. Mc- Adoo and Mr. Underwood are political or personal ene mfes. Underwood has recog mred the splendid ability pf Mr. h/i 00 anc * we understand Mr. McAdoo recognize? the equal or greater ability of the Alabamian. Once Mr. McAdoo realizes the impossibility of securing the nomination for himself, reason and facts would seem to indi cate that he >yp,qld lpnd his aid to his Southern opponent, Mr. Underwood. Friends of the two men be lieve that this is just what will happen. Therefore, in our opinion, Mr. Underwood’s chances of nomination in June M 6 than those of either Mr. McAdoo or Senator Ral ston. Regardless of his ability, his loyalty and his pre-convention support, the Democratic party will not nominate Mr. McAdoo. His business affiliations since the World War are such that he is not now an available candidate, l o name him now would be to Place an almost unbearable load on the shoulders of his party. Therefore, Mr. McAdoo's only chance of nomination will be on the first ballot. After that, his support will dwindle. To succeed, Mr. McAdoo NGT mSb convention with NOT LESS than a two-thirds of the total vote, and this he will not have. Roger Babson and Newspaper Advertising . When Roger Babson, static ian and recognized authority on most questions relating to busi ness, speaks, most business men stop and listen. Mr. Babson is a large user of advertising in its varied forms. He has t tried about every method of advertising and his conclusion on this most impor tant question is worthy of seri ous consideration. In a letter not long ago, in which he discusses advertising, Mr- Babson says: We have long needed a reliable measure of business psychology. My associates having studied and rejected several indices finally analyzed newspaper advertising lineage, both as a cause in changing local business condi tions and as a barometer by which impending improvement or decline can be anticipated. The resu’ts in this field of investing ar e exceedingly interesting and perl inent. In comparing newspaper ad vertising by months with the vol ume of local business in 30 lead ing cities for a period of ten years, my associates find that there is a distinct connection be tween these two factors. An in crease in newspaper advertising is paralleled in almost every case by an increase in local business beginning the same months. When the lineage of local news paper advertising turns and be gins to decline the momentum gained carries th e general busi ness on the community either from one to three months be fore it definitely turns down ward. What Mr. Babson says of 30 large cities is just as true of the smaller city. The advertising columns of the small daily are a true index to local trade. The merchants who have se cured the largest results from newspaper advertising are those who have been consistent adver tisers. The safest method for the small merchant, as well as the merchant of the city, is a definite appropriation, based on a percentage of sales, appor tioned over each of the 12 months of the year. A Market Worth Going After It is common for a wealthy Latin American to purchase five or six autos at a time, great ropes of pearls, diamonds, sap phires and rubies. This is the most interesting fac^,„ brought from his latest South American tour by E. M. Newfnan, trave logue lecturer. Newman is enthused, and with good reason, about the pos sibilities of trade between Unit ed States and Latin America— particularly Argentina. He figures that South Amer ica has a purchasing power three times as big as France’s and 10 times as big as Japan's. There’s a market going after. _ Ten years ago, when Newman visited South America, he no ticed very few American autos. On his recent hg found American cars by the thousands* Our autos are so popular south of the equator that they have practically driven the cars of all other nations off the market. Mr. Newman says; “Contrary to the popular im pression, South Americans have pride in their personal ap pearance. American collars, Spirts, underwear, hosiery, shoes khd hats find great favor. , “American moving pictures are the only ones shown. Mary Pick ford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogart are as well known 'in South Ameri can cities as they are in our own.” Good newa, that we are find ing such favor with pur neigh aors to the far south. Argentina is an especially log ical mqrket for the American manufacturer, LbQtprer Newmnn believes, because: "The peo pie of Argentina are the most extravagant race in the world to day. Their extravagance ex cels even that of the Rusisan no bility during the czar’s regime.” Newman says that Argentine women, when they appear in public places of reaction, are so dazzlingly appareled and be jeweled that they eclipse in splendor even American wo men. All of which are surface indi cations of enormous natural re sources and national economic productivity that will place Ar gentina— (Brazil also) —in the top ranks of world powers. Many of us are so hypnotized watching the decay of the old civilization in Europe, that we forge tthere s a mighty new civilization rising on the South American continent. Argentina, in some ways, is the key nation of the world. Psychologists know that the epi demic of World restlessness that culminated in the World War cropped out first sn Argentina in the form of the tango, moth er of jazz life. OPINIONS OF OTHER EDITORS | COWS AND THE CASH Cows and the cash, is a slogan that many of our farmers have adopted in practice. There are great possibilities for this sec tion in the cow. Many commu nities in other parts of the state are findng small cheese factories profitable. Those who have tried it out, say that a small cheese fac tory can he built for about $2,- 000, with the capacity to use the J#sr, iiUflu i f ( > A/foi-'g V .v O u/ri TjTp t k ’.I ’ { m m pxhjlLy ■ "w my, ■mm ■ \ , nsl? j ■ // '/'%>; ‘.Jjra *7 ’A '/(/(& • \|>.. |lf !i 2 vxr. t/« . iW, ■\• •« sm i 5 ■1 ■' ■ flfPi : ••••*•* 1 I ■(. _ZbL. COJLLABY Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise. Sleep, pretty wantons; do not cry, And 1 will sing a lullaby: Rock them, rock them, lullaby. Care is heavy, therefore sleep you; You are care, and care must keep you. Sleep, pretty wantons; do not cry, And 1 will sing a lullaby: Rock them, rock them, lullaby. . . —Thomas Dekker. . milk produced by two hundred cows. There is always a ready cash market for cheese. Accord ing to figures compiled by the Georgia Real Estate Association, Georgia buys annually more than 100,000 pounds of cheese from one state, Wisconsin, and a fact worthy of notice is that the agri cultural communities that produce this cheese, are the most pro gressive and in the best financial condition of any farming com munities in the United States. — LqGrange Graphic. GEORGIA POLITICS We do not think we miss it far when we say that Georgia js badly infested with politics. In state politics one campaign hardly ends before another begins. This means that more attention is paid to office hunting than statesman ship,”—Oeilla Star. UNDERWOOD S STRONG CARD Senator Underwood’s strong card is his unswerving loyalty to law. He respects the law-*-he stands for the Constitutions and Statutes, State and Federal, and for their enforcement. When he fakes the oath to support and de fend the Constitution he has the courage to keep his oath inviolate. The American nation needs such a man for President. —The Pear son Tribune. IT’S THE LIFE YOU LIVE “It is not the money you have that will make you happy during the year. It is the life you have live and the service you have rendered to those about you. The greatest happiness comes from above, from within, from those you love and those whom you have made *to love you. Your vision must transcend material things to find out —Dawson News. ' ’ ' ______ PRESIDENT’S RESPONSIBILITY A president of the United States who wants to make a change i» his cabinet can do so in short order. In his official fami ly he is master. His word is law. He has pnly to make known his wishes to have them take effect at once. There, is nothing to pre vent him from ! reaching a decis ion on his own responsibility or enforcing it at will. There have been presidents who in the situation where Mr. Cool idge finds himself, would have fired Mr. Daugherty without pain ful hesitation. They would have given him to understand plainly that it was time for him to go. They would have left him no chaice. Under provocation they would not have beaten about the bush or stood unduly on pun ctilio. And Mr. Daugherty,’ if not voluntarily, at least under compulsion, would have quit the cabinet. Mr. Coolidge is a man of sc ience and mystery.—Brunswick News. EDUCATE THE BOY FOR THE FARM Farm boys who (ake vocational training in agriculture in the pub lic schools are more apt to stay on the farm than other farm boyt who go; to high school. This is a reasonable assumption, of course. But the actual figures given out by the Federal Board for Vocational Agriculture are somewhat amazing: “A survfey of the graduates of 271 rural high schools in the state of New York who had not studied voca tional agriculture showed only 3.6 per cent now engaged in far ming. On the other hand, 45.2 per cent of the graduates of school giving vocational courses in agriculture in the same state are reported engaged in farming. This figure is based upon a survey of 910 graduates. The same dif ference obtains in the other states,” it is declared in an of ficial report which reaches our desk. The moral would seem to be easy. If you want your boy to stay on the farm, let him get some of the poetry and romance of the business as it is taught in the high school. If you want your boy to be educated away from the farm, banish the agricul tural vocational training from your high school.—Farm Life, r THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER * hjAlbcTi Apple ASTRAY The legitimate function of Ccn-. gress is legislation —making . the laws to start new activities and regulate old ones. But Congress is never as happy as when it has an prgy of investigations. Now, inves tigating is a proper congressional fppetion. Carried to extremes, how ever, it encroaches in the judicial side of government, a function belonging primarily to the courts and prosecutors. Similarly, the courts show a ten dency to encroach on the legislative, by peculiar “interpretations.’’ And the executive branch of government for some yearsh as had a tendency to usurp legislative and judicial powers. Government nationally is in dan ger- of its three parts trespassing on each other. * * m SIAMESE-TWINS? Voters, more than ever before, are wondering how much real dif ference there is hetwen the two leading political parties. Lenin, of Russia, once commented that the effect of a two-party sys tem of government is chiefly that one party works while the other rests. * i t CRIME Fathetically, Chicago boasts that it had only 270 murders last year, compared with 330 in 1919. Simi larly, its burglaries dropped from 6108 to 3019, and its robberies from 2912 to 1402. Crime waves follow every big war The latest wave seems, to be grad ually subsiding. The nation on tht average is more honest. * * » NIGHT-CAP A night-cap is the best thing for avoiding colds and rheumatism. So claims Sir James Cantlie, celebrated authority on health. His name is most appropriate. Thirsty readers will be disappoint ed to learn that the night-cap he refers to is, not a whisky toddy, but a flannel cap for the head. Once these were used by nearly every body. Old things always return, if you just give them enough time. History is a revolving wheel. * * f RAPID To make a drinking glass has re quired from four to seven hours. Now it’s done in II lminutes, by a new machine at the Libbey plant in Toledo. One machine makes 1,200,- 000 tumblers a week, so strong that one inverted tumbler support? 970 pounds of iron. Machinery like this takes the place of a lot of human labor. But every one gains. The labor former ly employed is released for making other articles. So, each month, more and more articles come into general use—steadily raising the standard of living. ♦ * * MOVIES The talking movie, attempted many times, is now perfected and soon will be exhibited to public audi ences. So announces Prof. James J. Norris, who credits General Elec tric Co. with perfection of the ma chine said to synchronize movie films and spoken words. Will people prefer movies com bined with speech? A charm of the movies is in thei. silence. Escaping from a fire, in zero weather, thinly clad, is almost as exciting as emerging unscathed from an oil tangle. If riches brought happiness, boot leggers and many otiter such people would laugh themselves to death. Among new inventions is a col j lapsible grip. It acts like a man 'asking the railroad fare. , THE MAGICIAN _________ t \*A 11 ?/ ' .--"''A \\ \.v \ / f _ \ ’ • \ X* \W' \ // / MWJUGwTYx) -SAIDYou \ o.\ X \V ' ( DIDN'T flWfc. ASViHfNG - ) A • , l VNtW Just LOOK AT j Ovs j mtf'S COMIrtG ooT V OF- Y<?UR HAT / ■■■ Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Thnes-Recorder. March 18, 1914.) Aapidly increasing traffic in the freight department of the Seaboard railway at Americus demands a pro portionate increase in the clerical forces to handle it. The Seaboard’s freight business here has been grow ipg rapidly in recent mopths, to such extept that more clearicla help is. required. To the end of investi gating the situation locally, V. C. Tompkins, general traveling frieght agent of the Seaboard, spent yesi terejay here, and it is understood that he agrees that the increased business demand additional forces to properly hapdle it. Eigth thousand, two hundred and thirty dollars will he paid next week to Confederate pensioners residing in Americus and Sumter county. Such was the cheering in formation received yesterday at the office of Judge John A. Cobb, of the court of ordinary, whose duty and pleasure it is to look after the interest of Sumter’s pensioners, file their applications for them and lat er to pay their checks. The following names appear on the monthly honor roll of the Fur low Grammar school: Fourth Grade B: Ruth Comer, Hulet Humber, .Elizabeth Sheffield, Annie Ruth Jones, Ruby Oliver, Pauline Cleve land, Clarence White, Thelma Hines, Marie Bell, Samuel Hooks, La Vern Hubbard, Janie Lee Kent, Chester Dixon. Sixth grade A: Eugenia Collins, Irma Cannon, Lollie Chap man, Mary Dudley, Couradine Lane, Madre Rogers, Elizabeth Stevens, Rose Mae Stevens, Mary Eva Gnos yelius, Fannie Veates, Rpsella West brook, Eugenia Warlick, Winnie Lou Webb, Emory Jones, Louie Hansford, Dewitt Glover. Mr. Earnest Statham came up from Cobb yesterday with all the other residents of that part of the county to see the balletic scraps. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. March 18, 1904.) Among he announcements this morning is that of Robert E. Lees who aspires to legislative honors as one of Sumter’s members in the low er house. For some time past Mr. Lee has been urged by liis host of friends to enter the race, and with such assurances of support, together with a laudable ambition to attain this high distinction, his formal an nouncement is made today. The beautiful stee( ceiling for the First Methdist church building, ex quisite in design, has arrived. One of the candidates running here has arranged to get married if elected, and one deqr old spinster, at least, eagerly ip- the result. The funefU cf Ben R. -Tossey took plape at o’clock yesterday aft ernoon v’ Or’ :rove cemetery and the yer large concourse of sur rowiil mds this gathered to pay tea- ■•bute attested but in a d .o high esteem in yvhich he 1 id. T! 2 best evidence of a city's growth is the rapid and steady in crease in its population, and more especially does this'apply to the in fantile contingent. And from the standpoint of “the babies on our block” Americus ranks with any MOTHERS — , „ Why allow “snuffles’ ana stnuy, wheezy breathing to torment your Babies when quick relief follows the use of CHAMBERLAIN’S COUGH REMEDY No Narcotics TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 18, 1924 other Georgia city #f ten thousand population. The illness of both Justices Gra ham and Ansley leaves this district without a justice on duty at pres ent, a condition never before occur ing. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY t G 18, 1894.) Yesterday was St. Patricks day, and every loyal Irishman in Ameri cus as elesewheve, wore the sham rock in memory of the old Saint and of the beautiful Emerald Isle. There was no public demonstration here as far as could be learned. When the porter at Smith & Dav enport’s furniture store went to the Stable yesterday morning to harness the hrose for the -day’s work he was surprised to find the animal covered with foam and showing every evid ence of having been driven nearly to death a few hours before. A Forsyth street bachelor was heard to say yesterday that he does not know whether marriages -re failures or not, he does know that all attempts of marry have been complete failures with him so far, and he cannot explain the cause. While Toni Bivins, a fisherman, was coming to the city With a wagon load of Flint river catfish about daylight yesterday, he stopped the team out near the Hoys place in or der to prepare breakfast. While pasking about in the dark, looking for firsewood, he fell handfirst into an old well. His partner McDonald, fished him out with a plowline and declared it was the biggest sucker he ever saw. Miss Massie Crittenden, a beauti ful and highly accomplished young lady of Shellman, returned home yesterday after a visit of several days at the home of Mrs. I). B Hill. 666 is a Precsription prepared for Colds, Fever and Grippe It is the most speedy remedy we know, Preventing Pneumonia 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 The Planters) Bank of j Americus (Incorporated) r i . * < > growth "is based the ence * S 3* th® tome . rs - TVe cordially The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Too Small THE STANDARD] l . a \: •- T ' « f' Sale of 200 Pairs Kid Gloves at 59c Many'of those 6loves wsr e for merly $1.50 to s2.’ot) paii’j most all sizes in the assortment; choice Wednesday and Thursday, pair 59c Men’s "Fleeced Lined Undershirts At 50c Formerly up to SI.OO Shirts only to close at this price, every size in the lot; Wednesday and Thursday each 50c The Best Bleached Seamless Sheets at $1.39. Just for two days you can buy these Sheets for this price. The jjest that can be figured on the Sheeting alone today would cost $1'.69. These ar e gobd Sheets, not the kind" made to sell and not to wear, full size for large double beds; here in reasonable quantities Wednesday and Thursday , $1.39 “Seconds” of $1.50 Stockings At 75c Displayed on center table are these wonderful ‘‘seconds.” The pmall defects will not hurt the Stocking in looks or wear, all sizes and all colors; Wednesday and Thursday, pair 75c Fine Yard Wide Sheeting At 15c Full yard wide, even weave, good weight; just one bale to sell at this low price, yard 15c Men’s and Boys’ Caps At 98c The greatest assortment you have seen for this price, fine all wool cassimere Caps of the very latest styles, displayed on center tables, each 9sc Boys’ Serge Caps At 50c Fin e Blue Serge Caps of all woo} materials, all sizes, worth 50 per pent mor e than our price, each 50c The Largest Display of Gingham in Southwest Georgia, at 25c More than five thousand yards , New Spring 1924 Ginghams, now on display in our store. The colors are guaranteed, widths range frpm 27 inches to inches wide. More than two hundred patterns to se lect from. Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commercs AMERICUS. GA.
