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PAGE SIX TIMIB-R-BCO IDEB f- PUBLISHED UK Published by The Times-Recorder Co., ync.) Lovelssee Eve, Bdßter and Publisher / Bbtond M •eeond claw natter at the poet of fid £ AoMricur GeerftU, tfc4ordi&f to the Act ot Centre*. Um Associated Frew h WelntWy ff th* nee for th* republication of all new* di*- patcKee credited to it or not otherwise credited to tibia paper and also the local oewa published here* Bn. All right of republication of special dispatches ®re also reserved. t i i.* National Advertising IleptfWeßtttlvM, FROST lANDIS & KOHN. Brunswick Bldg.. Rev York; ?oopUs’ Cat Bld A. Chicago A THOUGHT I -* Il I. I Poverty and Shame shall be to him th ß t refnseth instruction*; but he that regarded! reproof shall be h°nored. —Prov, 13: fB. There is an oblique way of re proof which takes Off from the Sharpness or it.—Steele. Jack Cohen, National Committeeman According to political gossip originating in Atlanta, Clark Howell, national commiteeman from Georgia for 20 years, will not request re-election and will be succeeded by John S. Cohen, editor and president of the At lanta Journal. If these reports are correct, ’’Jack” Cohen’s name will be the only one presented to the state convention on the 23d of this month, since he is an avow ed candidate and y acceptable to all four of the McAdoo state managers. In a letter to the Macon Tele graph, Mr. Cohen says: All the managers of Mt. Mc- Adoo’s campaign, as well as hun dreds of his supporters, have re quested that I made the race for national committeeman, and I feel compelled to do so. They have been kind enough to say that 1 represent in Georgia the type of Democracy that Mr. Mc- Add represents—that is the pro gressive wing of the party. I shall appreciate the support of forward-thinking men and wo men who carnev.ly desire the nomination of Mr. McAdoo and who firmly believe in the princi of progressive democracy. In as much as there is to be a change, the selection of Mr. Cohen to fill the shoes of Mr. Howell is eminently fair and proper. No more worthy, in telligdht or loyal Georgian is to be found than he. Starting from the bottom of the ladder, Mr. Cohen has work ed his way to the top in the business world. He and his pa per did valiant service in the McAdoo campaign. The Timds-Recorder took the position weeks ago that a change in the national committeeman Bt this time was neither neces sary Or advisable ; that Mr. H O’Wei 1 had served long and faithfu'ly the cause of Democ racy and that the party needed his services and advice this year as seldom before. However, since Mr. Howell will not allow his name to be offered, Mr. Cohen will and should succeed him. He will bestow honor on his party, his state and himself in this very im portant pomiton. Senator Pepper’s Boomerang Speech An excellent epitome of Sen ator Pepper’s Maine speech with the logical construction to be placed thereton was made by the New York World as follows: Out of ten cabinet officers only three have been proved cor rupt or incompetent. No good Republican should bltjsh for an administration in which only 30 per cent of the cabinet is ad mittedly unfit for public office. The appointments were made by President Harding. No good Republican need hesitate to hide behind the name of- the dead president, but anyone who speaks unkindly of Daugherty, Denby, Fall and Forbes is a ‘ghoul. The Democrats unearthed the scandal. That was a worse crime by far than committing the scan dal. Senator Pepper’s Maine speech was made after a con ference with President Coolidge. New York Herald-Tribune' calls it “not only the keynote speech of the Maine state convention, but also the opening speech of the Republican national cam paign.” Therefore, -what Sen ator Pepper said has the ap proval not only of President Coolidge but apparently of the Republican party organization. Contenting on Senator Pep per's speech the New York World Bays: “This is probably the most shocking revelation that has yet come out of Washington. For her e we have in a considered form, approved by the president himself, an exhibition of com plaisancy in the face of cor ruption, contentment in the face of incompetency and casuitry in the face of profound and far reaching evil. If that is what the respectable spokesmen of the administration think, then this is * pn administration so cynical'■and so sordid that it cannot be de fended.” Referring to the Republican administration spokesman, who, like Senator Pepper are berat ing the Democratic investigators for making the exposures of ad ministrations scandals, Cordell Hull, chairman. Democratic Na tional Committett, Says: “They exhibit not the slighest sense of shame or humiliation over the revelations of official dereliction, misconduct and cor ruption of members of the ad ministration. They display not the slightest resentment against the men ’who have degraded their party and disgraced the adminis tration. They neither condemn the acts themselves nor the men who committed them. They of fer not one word of apology nor even an explanation. On the con trary they are brazenly defiant of public sentiment and seeming ly oblivious of any moral obliga tion their party or to the peo ple.” Senator Pepper Comes from Pennsylvania. For many years she Republican party in the state, controlled by its worst element, has been designated by the reproachful epithet of “cor rupt and contented.' It would seem from the recent utterances of Senator Pepper and other ad ministration spokesmen that the entire controlling element in the) senator’s party had been in fected and is now industrially engaged in trying to spread the infection among the rank and file. And the saddest facts in con nection with Senator Pepper’s speech is that Gdorge Wharton Pepper was sent to the United States senate as a great moral leader, and that Calvin Cool idge, for whom and with whose approval he spoke, is hdralded as a possessor o£ the Puritan conscience. Nature Is Standardizing Eve in the Garden of Eden was 119 feet sass, according to Henrion’s estimate!. He was an expert in giantism. Unfor tunately, he left no detailed rec ords showing how he figured the thing out. “There were giants in thosd days.” Northern France once had a man named Gayant, reputed to Le 22 feet tall. He is a myth ological character. But there must have been an actual basis to the myth. Maybe you have seen Yayant’s statue in Douai. Antwerp claims Antigonius, one of its ancient residents, was 40 feet tall. Gog and Magog, who terrorized the southwestern coast of England, have statues in London showing them tower ing 14 feet above the ground. Ancient Egypt had the other extremd—a dwarf named Phile tas, so small that he had to wear heavy lead shoes to keep the wind from blowing him away. “Strenuous Jeffery” Hudson, son of a huge English butcher at Oakham, was only a foot and a half tall. He was served in a pie at a dinner given to King Charles 1. Later he became a cavalry captain and fought two duels. AH these giants and dwarfs, qf course, were- exceptions. It is phenomenal, how nature standardizes us, makes us so much alike in physique, with the giant or dwarf a rare exception. Nature adapts our bodies to our environments—changes us physically to make us fit in most efficiently in the average every day Nfe of the civilzation in which we live.- Life has chang ed in the last few centuries, and so have people. It has recently been demonstrated, bf measur ing armor, that people 400 years ago were smaller than we of today. Nature’s alterations of her hu man blueprints take place only over long periods of time. But Gradually she aoplies to us the same system by which she takes the eyes from fish in Under ground rivers, which need no eyea. Similarly, the giraffe got its neck lengthened so it could nibble the more nourishing leaves at the tops of trees. People 500 years from now undoubtedly will be a lot dif ferent than people today. Na ture will change their bodies to fit their environments and mode of life. rhey’ll probbaly run to heads, since mechanical progress is tending to make strong limbs unnecessary. ’ OPINIONS OF ? I OTHER EDITORS WAYCROSS GROWING Four more new homes were begun in Waycross during the week ending February 16. This makes a total of 21 new [homes started since January 1, 1924. The work of making Waycross a great city is moving "forward each day. Each eittf- CHAR’M—’ Too late, alast. I must confess, ( a W \ You need not arts to move me; if v*W \ Such charms by nature you possess, />L- \ / ’Twere madness not to love ye. ||k Then spare a heart you may surprise, \ r And give my tongue the glory i V A tTo boast, though my unfaithful eyes A fi y vVh n BWh w Betray a tender story. J W/ - —John Wilmot. ?if . « IV zens, confident of the future of their own city, investing money in Waycross.—-Waycross Journal- Herald. MARRIED MEN KNOW The Atlanta Constitution has been conducting a campaign to determine whether women are Ibetter detectives than men and vice versa-—up to date the women have proved the best. We could have told them this before they started the campaign.—Talbotton New Era. GREAT RESOURCES OVERLOOKED In neglecting the development of its rich clay deposits Georgia is overlooking one of its greatest resources. Taylor county could be made wealthy in a short time if its kaolin mines could be made to yield that for which it is cap able of doing.—Butler Herald. THE HEROIC BAKER One of the charms of life is the uncertainty of the reactions from familiar and everyday inci dents; charms, for monotony is one of the neversleeping enemies of the human race, depressing the spirit, shortening sleep, and less ening, the appetite. The man who breaks our monotony has our thanks, if he does it without breaking the law too loudly. Impulsively, therefore, many hearts will go out to the Phila delphia baker who shot himself because his wife bobbed her hair. Hundreds of thousands of wo men and girls Have bobbed their hair without getting a reaction like that. Possibly one or two have got themselves shot, but to have the head of the family at tempt to bob his life, because his dame bobbed her hair, is a new note in the hymn of life. We trust the gallant baker will not die. The World owes him a liv ing- and something more. The chef of the Grand Monarque kill ed himself because his royal mas ter once carelessly added salt to his meat; but this was wounded vanity, while the other was love. —Atlanta Journal. THE DANGER SIGNAL Hon. Prank A. Vanderlip, Who has organized an association for the purpose of detecting fraud and uncovering graft, has been made to resign certain positions which he held in the trust and in dustrial companies in New York. Evidently the impression Be ing fostered that recent disclos ures in Washington are ‘•hurting business.” This is very remark able. It is not the disclosures that are hurting business but the facts which the disclosures bring out perhaps. Mr. Vanderlip has been very active in bringing to gether an aggregation of business men to condemn some of the transactions revealed in Washing ton. He is doing this in a non partisan way. It is not charged that Mr. Vanderlip is a Democrat or that he is playing into the hands of the probing committee for any partisan purpose. He says he is trying to awaken she con science of the nation and to stir up the public to condemn the rot tenness that has been brogut out without regard to any political effect. We do not know how zealous Mr. Vanderlip has been. Some of. his old associates on Wall street think.he has been too zeal ous. They have displaced him from their boards because, for instance, he seemed to reflect upon the sale of Mr. Harding’s paper, the Marion Star, in Ohio. He is being sued by the new pro prietor of that journal. It will be remembered that Mr. Vander lip had resigned the presidency of the National City Bank because after he returned from Europe several years ago he wrote a series of pessimistic articles upon the commercial and financial out look of the world. Mr. Vanderlip, ih away, is a reformer, and he has found out from the warnings of his old busi ness pals, that when a man begins to reform he had better watch his step. Big business does not al ways look upon reforms with a favorable eye. Sometimes it seems to think that it is more profitable to “endure the ills we have” than to try to better them. —Savannah Press. w THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER *4s3IL Mlberi Apple F’ ' • CENSORED X ’’ ,Waken tq an insidious danger Radio censorship has begun. Olga Petrova, the actress, was talking from an eastern broadcast ing station. In the middle of her talk, the microphone was discon nected and her speech ended abrupt ly. She says the studio director told her that “what I was talking was too strong for the public.” This is the usual plea set forth to justify censorship. Imagine, just 'one man taking it on himself to de cide what millions should or should > not hear. Radio censorship would be a far worse monopoly than any corner on mechanical patents. Nip it in the bud. * * ♦ SPENDERS This country of ours spent over 36 billion dollars in March. That’s shown by bank checks sent through the clearing houses. In three weeks Americans write enough checks to pay off the entire national debt. There is absolutely no excuse for ■ poverty in the midst of such fab ulous wealth. ! » * » 1 MOVIES < The production end of the moving i picture industry continues moving ’ eastward. Famous players-Lasky in ; .1923 produced two-fifths of theii pictures at Long Island City N. Y. ( One reason for the eastward surg ] of the' tide is that artificial lighting has been as good as sunlight. And | the tenedney grows, to build settings for pictures artificially, including ’ scenery. Another reason is that business follows its customers. Forty-two per . cent of the nation’s movie-goers are ' said to be in the eastern states bounde roughly on the north by Maine and South by Virginia. i ON-COMERS i A Chicago boy, Wilbur Wetlin, 1 13,/appears at a radio builders’ con test with 14 sets on his person, all < in working order. He has one set ’ in a peanut shell, others in foun- i tain pens, match boxes, mouse traps and old watch cases. t The rising generation is going I •to be a race of mechanical and < geniuses. We grown-ups < are oid-fashioned already. ♦ * ♦ STRANGE Eightten thousand volts of elec tricity mean certain death. Yet 900,600 volts passed through J. V. Alfriend Jr.,, and he’s still alive. This happened; at Johns Hopkins 'University. No one can satisfactorily ex plain why an over-dose of “juice” may on occasion be harmless com pared with a few thousand volts. Electricity is as mysterious as life, with which it seems to have seme very close relation. Escapes like Alfriend’s are excep tional. Young experimenters should be extremely cautious. Even the ordinary electric light socket is apt to kill, if the victim is grounded, especially in cases of weak hearts. • * » FAIRY The famed Hollinger gold mine in Canada has now paid more than 24 million dollars profit. A fourth interest in the mine was Isold for $55 six weeks before the discovery of ore. Reads like a. fairy tale. It fires the imagination, appeals to the desire to get some thing for little or nothing. Bnt investors should not forget the thousands of mines that have *never paid back even $55 in profits. It seems to be human nature to base broad sweeping conclusions on isolated individual instances which ;are exceptions. VIDALIA TO ENFORCE CLOSING ON SUNDA’ VIDALIA, April 14.—City coun cil of Vidalia at its regular meeting, lamong other matters burnished up ithe Sunday observance regulations and seemed to want them to become effective immediately. The regula tions provied that all places of business including drug stores and filling stations close not later than 12o’clock Saturday night and re-, main closed until 12 o’clock on Sun day night. The regulation as it now stands is rather drastic, no provis ..ituis being made for any contingency BUT, HOW ABOUT THE HOUSEWORK? r . I ft ■BS B LteS f / fi .ZTI i • Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY .Monday, no paper published. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From Thte Times Recorder. April, 14, 1904.) Chief W. P. McArthur and his five fire fighters forged forward fancily fixed yesterday in new spring uniforms. The suits of blue fit perfectly and “Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” With new uniforms and blue caps to match these knights of she nozzle present a natty appear ance indeed. Dragging along at a price a lit tle above 14 cents the cotton mar ket is wholly uninteresting except possibly to the holder of several bales of “spot” who hailed to let go at the crest of the wave. A warehouseman said yesterday there were probably 500 bales still held in Americus, one farmer alone own ing nearly a hundred of these. Another $50,000 enterprise is as sured Americus in the establishment here of another large cotton oil mill and ginnery, equipped with the .most modern machinery for the manufacture of cottonseed oil and the many by-products in that line. Mrs. C. M. Williams and little daughter left yesterday for Macon, where they will visit friends ano .relatives for several days. With nearly $12,000 surplus in the treasury now, and this sum pro .bably doubled by December,, our city tax rate ought to be materially cut. With 500 or 1,000 visitors from ‘neighboring-towns on the Seaboard her© Saturday, with city and county peapie here, Americus will have a multitude. Tim Furlow and Max Banner are 'going over to Augusta tonight to attend the state convention of the T. P. A. otherwise, “der drummers.” An Epworth League was recently organized at St. Paul church with 38 members. On Monday night the League met at the home of Judge Pilsbury, the first social and' literary entertainment, which was an “Evening with Lee.” Miss Alice Johnson, chairman, of the literary department announced the program. Interesting reading and recitations were well rendered by Misses Nona Cross, Nona Johnson, Irma Tarver, Mrs. Pilsbury and Master Harry Schneider, interspersed with music. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. April 14, 1894.) Miss Amos Schumpert, one of Americus’ young debutantes, will entertain quite a number of her young friends at a delightful picnic today at Magnolia Springs. The party of six couples will go out in a wagon draw by a spanking team Pf four horses, and will make the welkin ring with oongs and merry laughtr ■. If u think you have been mis qv" ' I in a newspaper dont get mad ” .t to fight. The Reporter is 1 c.entious and in ninety-nine c; os out of one hundred he is right, resides, he is not always a small I A r\jw made on improved i-jVZ.r’xl viufarm lands at cheap est rates for terms of 5,7 or 10 years with pre-payment option given Money secured promptly. We have now outstanding over $1,100,000 on farms in Sumter county alone, with plenty more to lend. MIDDLETON McDONALD Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co., in Sumter, Lee, Terrell, Schley, Macon, Stewart, Randolph and Webster counties. 21 Planters Bank Building, /mericus, Ga. Phone 89! pt 211, _ _... J ' MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 14, 1924 Some of the A. L. I. Boys it is said, are in favor of marching through the country to Griffin when the company starts for the state en campment in May. This is more soldierly, perhaps, and less expen sive, but the way is long and the roads are awfully dusty. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Maxwell, of Nev? York, will spend several weeks in Americus so charmed are they with our delightful climate. They have taken apartments at the home of Mr. D. K. Brinson, on Taylor street. Miss Maude Gilbert, a fair young debutante of Albany, is the guest of Miss Lilie Glover for a few days at her home on Lee street.. The local cotton market was de cidedly off yesterday, the effects of heavy receipts at the ports. Receipts for the week ending yesterday were 12,000 bales in excess of receipts for the corresponding week last year. START EFFORT TO BRING LEVY BACK MACON, April 14.—Efforts hace been commenced by the W. A. Doody Company to have Dave Levy, held by authorities in Charlotte, N. C., returned to Macon to face, charges of issuing a worthless check on which he secured $75. Levy, purporting to be head of the firm of Dave Levy and Comp any, 553 Fourth avenue, New Yor 1 ;, called on the local storeand offered for sale a line of kimonos. That was on April 1. Before his departure he gave the Doody firm a check on the Chelsea Exchange Bank, of New York, which was returned, marked “no such account.” A telagram to the address left by Levy brought the information that no such firm was known in New 1 York, and immediately the Retail Credit Men’s National Association, was notified. It was through the work of the association that the man was located and arrested in Char lotte. It is not known whether Levy will fight extradition. 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 Americus (Incorporated) • JB9I - 1924 ■ Il Vp °n. the Imn thirty-ttoee years of ’ !* growth is based the jt present organization of SEkuwWh! I SsPW’/iFI our bank - This ence is always at the command of our cus tomers. W’e 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 THREE HUNDRED PAIRS LADIES SHOES AT’ $1.95 PAIR On e big table fitted with good serviceable Shoes, black, brown, all heels and toes, most every size; Monday and Tuesday take your pick of the table, pair $1.95 MORE OF OUR FAMOUS PEQUOT SHEETING AT 69c None better made at any price, 90 inches wide, extra heavy, looks like linen when .washed, free from any kind of dressing; plenty for everybody ;Monday and Tuesday yard -69 c MORE CREX SQUARES AT $4.45 Almost a car load of these Squares 'have been sold by us this year; large enough for the largest rooms, every color; here Monday and Tuesday, each $4.45 BEST YARD WIDE SHEETING AT 10c YARD Full yard wide on sale Monday and Tuesday; plenty for every body; limit 10 yards to each buy er at the price; Monday and Tues day yard 10c GENUINE COOKS LINOLEUM AT $t Patterns to suit any part of the hous e cut in any length to suit the buyer; Monday and Tuesday sev eral good patterns at, sq. yd ... $1 COOKS BURLAP BACK LINOLEUM AT $1.50 SQ. YD. The best that you can buy for the price, two yards wide, in great variety of pretty patterns, suitable for the bath, kitchen or regular rug designs cut in any length to suit the buyer; Monday and Tuesday yard .....$1.50 CONGCLEUM AT 60c SQUARE YARD Few patterns of Gold Seal Con goleum—-you know the grade —to close Monday and Tuesday square yard ’ 60c PRETTY VOILES AT 25c YARD New patterns, new colors, 40 inches wide, dark or light styles -—the best quality you have seen for the price—Monday and Tues day yard 25c LADIES’ AND MEN’S HOSIERY, 6 PAIRS FOR SI.OO Lisle Thread Hosiery, for men and women, guaranteed fast black the best 25c value you have seen here Monday and Tuesday only 6 pairs for $i —l2(s) Make a Date With Kathleen Standard Dry Good* Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commercs AMERICUS. GA.
