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PAGE SIX times-reccrder PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (Inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered m >econd cl&aa matter at the postoffict at Americus, Georgia, according to the Act of CengrMt. The Associated Proas 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. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST LANDIS A KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., New York; ’copies’ Gas Bide.. Chicago, A THOUGHT - They that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness shall reap the same. Job. 4:8. He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.—Plato. Daddy, Tell Me It’s Fine “Daddy, tell me it’s fine; it helps me.” All afternoon the little fel low had labored, building a railroad track and setting up his toy engine in the playroom. Hearing his father’s steps on the porch, he rushed out, grabbed him by the hand and led him to see the results of his afternoon’s work. The father stood looking down at the crooked track, the engine with three wheels on and one off. The little fellow's eyes caught those of his father, as the father stood looking with never a word of commendation. Nestling his tiny hand in that of his ; father, searching the father’s face for an encouraging smile, the little fellow said: “Daddy, tell me it’s fine; it helps me.” How often do we, through neglect and carelessness, fail to lend encouragement to the lit tle man of the house when he has attempted to do something worthwhile? It may seem a small tiling to the father, but it is much to the boy. One word of encouragement is worth tons of criticism. Gain the love and confidence of that boy and the battle is half won. Make him see in you his best friend. Be his confidant. Let him know that you ARE his best friend; that there’s abso lutely nothing he can not bring to )his dad for advice and en couragement. Prove to him, beyond all doubt, that in you he has a tried and true pal—a companion who will sympathize with him in ev ery battle of life. Daddy, tell me it’s fine; it helps me.” , National Committeeman Clark Howell, national com mitteeman from Georgia is, in point of service, the oldest of the National Democratic Com mittee. He is today the ‘dean’ of that body. Press dispatches are predict ing the deposal of Mr. Howell this year when the state con vention assembles in Atlanta to., declare the nomination of Mr. McAdoo for the presidency. Those after Committeeman Howell’s scalp claim that he and his paper were too slow in boarding the McAdoo band wagon; that his support of Mr. McAdoo was not as enthusiastic as it should have been. However, Mr. Howell has managed to hold his place through the various vicissitudes of Georgia politics and this year may or may not be his Waterloo. He has served the state long and well. His knowledge and experience should be consider ed. This year Democracy has an excellent opportunity to tri umph in the fall elections. With a strong conservative nominee for the presidency, we should sweep the country with a victory as decisive as that of Woodrow Wilson in his first race. The best brains of the par ty are needed in the national executive committee and Mr. Howell’s long experience is an asset that should not be light ly cast aside. Regarding the nomination or election of the national com mitteeman, the Macon Tele graph has this to say: In the news columns we read that somebody has promised to secure for someone the post of National Committeeman from Georgia. This seems to be pre suming a little. The National Convention appoints the National Qoir.mitteeman. Does somebody to dictate to the National Convention? The Times-Recorder has been asked to explain the pro cedure followed in naming the {rational commitMeman from the state. According to our infor mation the delegates from the several counties to the state convention nominate the nation al committeeman and commit teewoman. These nominees are later elected by the nation al convention. The state convention also elects 28 delegates to the na tional convention which meets in New York in June. Our Embassy At Paris The United States govern ment will soon complete the pur chase of a home for its ambas sador to France. Mr. Herrick, our representa tive in Paris, has entered into a preliminary contract for the purchase of a comfortable and commodious home in the French capital. Secretary of State Hughes has been notified, and we are informed by dispatches, the trade soon will be closed. In some capitals we are pay ing enormous rents. In others, the homes provided arq inade quate and unfit for occupancy by representatives of the richest nation on the globe. We are informed that the new home in Paris will require several months for refitting be fore it can be occupied. Re garding the house and its pur chase, the Savannah Press says: The house is situated at the corner of the Rue de Magde bourg and has another entrance on the Rue Fresnel. It has ade quate accommodations for the embassy offices, as well as a residence for the ambasador. There is a small garden with a view of the Seine fiver. Mr. Herrick took personal re sponsibility for the option at terms considerably below the ap propriation of $150,000, so that the necessary repairs and dec orations will be made from the margin. The government authorized the purchase of a home for its representative in France to cost not more than $150,000. Mr. Herrick must be a good trader, for th e information is that the option calls for a price less than the sum named. This is hn un usual situation. When the gov ernment makes an appropriation the rule is to live pretty well up to it and not aim below it. If Mr. Herrick has found a suitable home at a cost less than that proposed he deserves to be thank ed by his government for the evidence of diplomacy. Our foreign representatives should occupy homes which are a credit to the nation they rep resent. To the average foreign er this means more than to the average American. Other nations have been more considerate of their dip lomats than we, and the Paris purchase is a step in the light direction. Make Haste Slowly When will you die? Unex pected accident or illness may hasten the date, snuff you out prematurely. But, on the law of averages, your number of years on earth depends to large extent on your speed of living how fast you burn out yourself. This is not speculative phi losophy. It is exact science. Max Rubner, who is the scientific sacred cow among physiologists, advanced this startling theory: Man is a fur nace, born with a limited amount of fuel—potential en ergy. At birth nature gives us a fixed amount of undeveloped units of energy. We can de velop and use them normally, and die at the normal age. Or we can use them up fast, and die young. Many people de velop only a fraction of their natural energy—the fire goes out for lack of fuel. This is the Rubner theory: For every pound weight of his body at maturity, the av erage man produces and con sumes 362,900 calories of en ergy before he dies. Death comes when he has consumed that amount. Nothing that he can possibly do will make his body produce during adult life more energy than the 362.900 calories. And nothing can pos sibly prevent his death when this amount of energy is pro duced.” L-azy men are universally ridiculed. But |,azy men usual ly are healthy and outlive the sprinters who burn themselves up prematurely. It’s like a for est of thousands of acres which can be burned down overnight. Ihe same forest, used up tree by tree, will keep a normal fireplace going for years. Vou can walk across the con tinent, 3000 miles, taking your time at it, and finish ‘fresh.’ If you try to run the same distance, you 11 die not far from where you start —only a trained ath- Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder, Mar. 25, 1914.) ductive county in Georgia. There were 39,003 bales in Sumter in 1913 and 34,453 bales in 1912 DeWitt Pickett, now in the house from Terrell has the honor of being the first preferential winner for the 1915-116 senate. In the recent county primary in Terrell Mr. Pickett was an easy winner, and his friends about the state are extend ing him congratulations. A ninth innng rally gave the '• Americus high school a 5 to 4 vic tory over the A. & M. college yester day. The game (was played on the Aggie grounds. Pantone and Lane were the battery for tjhei high school and McCorkle and DeLoach were the aggie battery. J. J. Littlejohn a representative of the Chas. Chapman sons hosiery company appeared before the cham ber of commerce last evening and laid before them a plan to establish a kitting mill in Americus, t?,,- booster organization decided to hold a called meeting on next Tuesday night to consider the establishment of the new industry in Americus. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY. (From The Time Recorder. March 25, 1904. ) Americus buyers would have paid 14 cents yesterday for good lines of middling cotton had there been any offering here, -but holders still held for a better price. Col. Littleton wrestles with a problem: Is an Americus' cbtton buyer in summer, or a negro in! bleak winter, the least to be envied. Lovers of the beautiful are at tracted by a tree in the front gar den of Col Thornton Wheatley’s residence Jiere which presents a. picture of surpassing loveliness. It is a towering cedar, the limbs reach ing above the house tops and inter twined among them are vines of wis teria which spread from top to bot tom and completely cover the shape ly tree. Mrs. George A. Turpin and their daughter, Mrs. John Wooten have returned home from a visit of two weeks in Springfield, Ky. Two hundred and sixty-seven head lete cah run 25 miles. Similarly, we can live quiet, normal lives, and live long. Or we can live fast, and die pre maturely. Fast living is not strictly a matter of dissipation. Its usual form is overwork and nervous rush. Life, of course, is relative. We people of 1924 cram into one year as many experiences, thrills and sensations as our an cestors had in years. A century ago, a man would have had to live at least ten years to en joy as ‘much’ as we of today do in one. OPINIONS OF s OTHER EDITORS J IT SURELY HAS The Republican administration surely has made a mess of the weather bureau. The stuff it has been dealing out this year is rot ten. The Senate ought to investi gate it. Maybe some of the of ficials of the bureau have .been buying stock in coal mines.—Tif ton Gazette. A NEW ENTEDPRISE A new enterprise for Andalusia which is now in full blast is the Andalusia Casket Company’s new factory. This enterprise is now shipping daily cloth covered cas kets and funeral supplies. To be gin with it will be limited in ics output but as the business grows the manufacturing capacity will will be increased. Every new en terprise brings more payrolls and payrolls are the basis upon which cities are built. —Andalusia, Ala. Star. SEND FOR BURBANK If Burbank has developed a prune as big as a cocoanut, what might he do for the cotton grow ers of the South if he started oir; to grow a cotton that the boll weevil wouldn’t eat. We have al ways thought that Burbank had he been a native of the cotton states, would have been able to develop a cotton that was 'im mune from the boll weevil, for he has done so much to plant life out one the Pacific coast.—Dothan (Ala.) Eagle. THAT’S POSSIBLE, TOO Fort Valley is getting set for the Peach Festival and indica tions are that the affair will be “bigger and better” than ever be fore. It stands a good chance of becoming a Georgia institution, and we hope it does. The day may soon come when South Geor gia will hold a celebration every year to mark advent of the boll weevil into this territory.—Tifton Gazette. WAYCROSS IS PROSPERING From one end of Georgia to the other people who visit Way cross, especially the traveling salesmen, are spreading the news that Way cross is prospering. One was in the office today and said that Waycross and Co lumbus were the only two towns in Georgia that were near nor mal. He said Columbus had Fort Benning as a safeguard against depression and that as for Waycross, that city was in the best condition he had ever found it.—Waycross Journal, _ ' THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’ of stock sold thus far this season is , the sales record at Turpin’s stables, a record unequaled by any stable in south Georgia. Since the season opened Mr. Turpin has sold 227 mules and 40 horses and ptill has a fresh carload of beauties on hand for the spring opening today, di rect from Kentucky. The long bridge over the Sea board Railway at Barlow Sttreet was torn up yesterday and prat tially a new structure will be placed there. THIRTY YEARS TGO TODAY.. (From The Time Recorder. March 25, 1894. ) The post lenten german of the Americus club on Friday evening next will be by far one of the most enjoyable occasions of the season. Many visiting belles and beaux will be in attendance, while of course local social circues will jjq Very 1 largely represented. The young friends of James W. Furlow will learn with pleasure that he has successfully passed his late examination for West Point and will be admitted to the military academy there in June. He has worked hard and constanttly for the place, and none who know him doubt that he will acauit himself creditably. Gid Cameron is critically ill at his home on Jefferson street, -nd is not expected to recover. The young man has been in verv bed health for a long while, though c”’v within the past fey days has his illness taken serious turn. Edwin Bell has developed into a first class commercial tourist, hav ing taken the position of traveling agent for the Anchor Buggy Co., of Cinncinnati. He likes the business and is making a success of t. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Doughtic returned yesterday from Atlanta where Mr. Doughtie has been under treatment for the past two weeks Harry Steele went down to Albany yesterday will ’return today with Mrs. Steele, who has been visiting relatives in that city and iji Florida for the past two months. Mrs C. J. Sherlock and ItttiC daughters left yesterday for Macon where she will be the guest of rela tives for a few days. bis Albert Apple FOREVER Another sure sign of spring William Jennings Bryan, the hardy quadrennial, now G 4 years old, an nounces that he would consider the matter if the .Democrats decide to draft him as their presidential can didate. He is receiving so many letters, urging him to run, that he has had to print a form letter to ansv*ei them. Neither party has a shrewder politician. He has mainfested his shrewdness by his comparative sil ence in the last few years.. As a candidate, he might run amazingly. He usually does. * * * DEAD? Strange things happen to us in this day and age, if we aren’t con stantly <“on the job”. Aged Isaac C. Crane meets a friend who gasps and says. W hy. Ike, you’re dead. Doggone if I am, says Ike. But learns that the courts declared him legally dead af ter a long absence. Now he craves | legal resurrection, to claim a share of a $25,000 estate. It will be an interesting fight. * * » SING-SING Fifty per cent of the prisoners in Sing-Sing are under 25, and 87 per cent are under 30. The number ol boys between 16 and 20. who are serving sentences in New York pris ons, is larger today than ever before. These conditions do not reflect any sudden change in the younger generation of our period. The roots of it all were the environment and training of as far back as 30 year o ago. Lawabiding adults are reaping the whirlwind of past neglect oi youth. w • w RED-TAPE Death takes Elijah Watt Sells, born 1858. He was one of the orig inal efficiency experts. Readers with long memories will recall that in 1892 Sells and Haskins revised the bookkeeping system of the United States government. If jthe simplified Sells-Haskins system is still in use, it’s lucky we haven’t the system user prior to 1892. Epecially in the income tax auditing department. Thorougn checking-up is necessary. The real trouble is that the tax law its too complicated, a quite natural condi tion in view of its being framed by lawyer-politicians. • • • RUM-RUNNERS Liquor ships have congrega' so thickly in the vicinity of Ntw York that they are a menace to nav igation. So complains veteran Cap tain Schmidt. He says that on his trip out he barely missed running down two hooch schooners. Liquor is plentiful at most places along our coasts. In some eastern cities, it’s even sold in most of the grocery stores. The interior of the country is drier. How long will it continue so if rapid development of airplanes continues? The flying ma chine will be the real prohibition problem. SPRING SHOWERS I “ I . x AS? I fW 4% 44 Ml S lu?S ■. mi f | f J/.^.^//////, I I II 1 zzzz ; W 4 ■ ' er -aWHE banks I WW DOON y a ar *k s hraes Bonnie Doon, \\b W Can b! oom sae f res h an <l fair? ' ow can c hant> ye little birds, B <D| I ■ And I sae weary fu’ o’ care! Sy \\ Thou’ll break my heart, tbou warbling bird, V That wantons thro’ the flowering thorn: /f / [ Thou minds me o’ departed joys, L /-J I Departed never to return. Af L h “ l 7 vkl by b “- , " e i? 00 "’. i 1 '11; 'w ll*ll 1 o see the rose and woodbine twine; I And ilka bird sang o’ its luve, And fondly sae did I o’ mine; Wi’ lightsome heart I pu’d a rose, Fu’ sweet upon its thorny tree! And my (ause luver staw my rose, But ah! he left the thorn Ui’ me. t —Robert Bums. COMMISSION TO ACT 1V rnUiLLi kQADS beima, March zo.—A motion wui oe maue at rue meeting ox county noaru or Revenue Apen ivn co rescind the oruer suspending cue .'regulation governing tne operation oi trucks ioliowing a rain. &evecux weeks ago in response to the peti tions of some oi the truck owners the county commissioners suspenueu the order which forbade the running on roads following the rains. The regulation prescribed that vehicles must not carry more than 50 per cent of their capacity over a road on which rain had fallen until! 48 hours after the rain. Bet ween May land Dec. 1 a Nvait of 24 hours was required. About five weeks ago this regula tion was suspended and now it it being asserted that the roads have been literally cut to peices by the heavy trucks. Both the roads to Marion Junction and Orrville and toward Carlowville, it is yyd have ruts that throws the botoms of cars in some places been worked into squarely on the ground. COLUMBUS VOTERS TO PASS ON BOND ISSUE COLUMBUS, March 25. —Citi- zens of Columbus will vote May ol on a $900,000 municipal bond is sue, it was announced when five ordinances were introduced at the weekly commission meeting. Five items were included in the proposal, an ordinance covering each item. The voting will be on each item sep arately. The schedule as announc ed after several revisions, follows: Schools, $450,000; sewers, $240,- 000; fire stat! . $60,000; paving, $45,000; pr ks. nad playgrounds, $105,000. It was ;.i. o announced that th- ’ 1 item included $65,- 000 t a paid over to the Wynton trurt with the remaining amount of 000 for the erection of a xol and its site. NERVOUS HJiCKJNG Can not be cured by a glass of water, but will, disappear under the healing and soothing effect of CHAMBERLAIN’S COUGH REMEDY Every user is a friend Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Pay Phoncj 88 and 231 TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 25, 1924 MARINES LODGED IN JAIL AT SAVANNAH SAVANNAH, March 25.—The party of four marines and four chief petty officers as escorts which arriver hede recently hound for the Paris Island barracks stopped over in Savannah for thp day. The four marines weer lodged in the Chat ham county jail until the hour of departure. BRIDES TO BE Spring is here, wed ding dates will soon be announced, and brides to be are now choosing their pat terns of silver. Real social leaders prefer the FAIRFAX pat tern for all occasions. If you see this pat tern you will buy it. You will like it. Americus Jewelry Company Phone 229 Wallis Mott, Manage! 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]Americus (Incorporated) ,1891 - 1924 ttSSCSSf iff iunrOMwi Upon the foundation of thirty-three years of K growth is based the j J* Ht present organization of gi: H our hank. This experi- ence Is always nt the command of our cus iSitk ?•’»’sifcqutomers. We cordially jS t- solicit your banking . ” --Sbusiness. The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Too Small I THE STANDARD Genuine Cook’s Linoleum Several new patterns just receiv ed, suitable for bath room, kitch ens, dining room, hallways, burlap back which tnore than doubles the . strength; here at square yard— sl.2s and $1.50 Maxine Elliot Toilet Soap 25c Box Maxine Elliot Complexion soap, delightfully fragrant; three cakes neatly wrapped in box, per box 25c Short Lengths of Best Pcquot Sheetipg at 49c You cannot buy better Sheeting at any price. These are mill ends of this famous make of Sheeting, 2 to 6-yard lengths. We will not cut these lengths. Wide enough for the largest beds; price for the short lengths, yard 49c New Shoes Just Received, to Seil at $3.95. Sport Oxfords, Cut-Out Pumps, Cut-Out Sandals, patent, colt or brown and tan calf, flexible, stitch ed down or welted soles, rubber heels, medium or very low, all sizes just received from the maker; a wide range to choose from at $3.95 Pepperel Wide Sheeting at 49c Every housewife knows this well known brand of Sheeting; for mak ing good sheets and pillow cases and with a price so low it will certain ly be worth your while to buy gen erously. Bleached or unbleached, yard 49 c A Sale of Special Interest to Wo men—New Crisp Dress Gingham At 19c Yard. $ In about fifty good patterns. Never were Ginghams n;or e attrac tive and better suited for Spring and Summer wear; good quality, 27 and 32 inches wide; special ta bles of these attractive patterns; here now at yard ig c Heavy Blue Chambray Work Shirts at 79c Men, women, wives, sisters! This is without doubt the best Shirt value in years. Our ability to give you better values at lower prices is bound to get your trade. These Shirts ar e fast colors and the sizes run up to 17. Get your supply while the sizes are complete; cac h 79c Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS. GA.
