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A THOUGHT
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; con
aider her ways, and be wise—Prov.
6:6
I pity the man overwhelmed with
the weight of his own leisure —
Voltaire.
Bonds for Permanent
Roads
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The attention of the State is
again being called to the advis
ability of a large bond issue for
constructing hard - Surfaced
roads.
The present system of direct
taxation for the purpose of road
building is neither satisfactory
nor adequate. The state now is
collecting a 3-cent gasoline tax.
one cent of which goes to the
highway department, one cent
goes to the counties for road
building or maintenance, the
other cent being used to retire
hypothecated State, railroad
xdntal notes.
With only one cent —two
cents later will require
many years to build an ade
quate system of hard-surfaced
roads in Georgia. In the mean
time othqr states are forging
ahead of Georgia. Florida, to
the south, and North Carolina,
to the North, have almost com
pleted their systems, while
Georgia struggles along in the
mud.
The terrible cost of automo
bile! upkeep and higher cost per
mile traveled is a greater tax than
the interest on bonds. A most
intelligent and comprehensive
statement on this phase of the
question appeared in the Macon
Telegraph, as follows:
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There are at this time some
thing like 200,000 motor vehicles
in Georgia. Sixty per cent of
these are Fords. Upon a fair
estimate as to value, the total
amounts to $150,000,000. Eight
een months is guessed as the av
erage life of a vehicle. But for
easy figuring, place all of them
at two years. The depreciation,
if this, be correct, is $75,000,000
per annum. By .paving all of the
6,000 miles of the State system,
one year could easily be added to
the entire number of machines,
which would mean; an annual sav
inß «n this item of .$37,500,000.
*n Kentucky a test was made
with 62 Fords for a term of one
year. Half of the number were
placed on average Kentucky
roads and the other half were
kdpt on pavement. At the end of
the test period the difference in
coßt of operation and upkeep was
2.50 cents per mile, depreciation
not included. The cost items in
cluded difference in gas consum
ed, oil, tires, springs, bolts, work,
’’ft-.
Figuring Georgia cars at an
. average of 10,000 mile s per an
num, the sam e test applied to all
Georgia cars would amount to
‘ $50,000,000 per annum. Add to
this the $75,000,000 deprecia
tion, and we have $125,000,000
per year being poured into Ak
fOh, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich., and
into the pockets of the oil refin
ers, out of this State—unneces
sarily.
Say that the figuring is all
wrong—that it isn’t half this.
roMch, or a fourth this much, or
art eighth this much—if an eighth
it Is still $16,000,000.
With one hundred millions in.
bonds, to be issued about $lO,-
000,000 P* r annum or whatever
sum may be estimated as eco
nomically usable, this to be
matched by Federal funds, the
entire State system could be
pCved. As 10 per ’cent of thO
system becomes paved, increase
tha tag taxes by 10 per cent and
So on until the system becomes
completely paved, and the tag
takes doubled. This should yield
about $6 000,000 per annum,
and the gas tax about $3,000,-
000 eventually, whcih would pay
maintenance and interest and the
sinking fund with which to pay
off th P bonds. In the meantime
and in addition we should we
slwu’d be keeping in Georgia
fcbrhe of the millions that are
now going out in unnecessary
waste on automobiles.
Jf we put out $8,000,000 per
annum in interest and payment
on bonds, and saving on one
eighth basis as figured above,
our investment would be netting
us one hundred per cent, the dif
ference between the $8,000,000
outlay for interest and payment
on, principal and the $16,000,-
000 saved.
The great trouble with our
present arrangement is that the
people have invested big sums of
mopey in rolling stock to provide
transportation instead of using
railroads as previously, and they
haven’t provided any rogd bed, as
the, railroads have to do. The
people are running their locomo
tives and cars up and down the
State without any rails, or cross
'■ ties qr even dirt road beds—and
they lye paying a big penajty.
Suppose the railrtra&‘ W£r£ to
proceed With such a plan? Dou
ble tag tax would eventually
subject a Ford to a charge of
22.50 per annum, or less than a
dollar per month for a paved
road. And more than this would
be saved in oil, not to speak of
gasoline, tires, garage bills and
depreciation. Georgia can re
duce her motor transportation
cost or waste over $80,000,000
per annum.
A campaign of education is
necessary before any issue of
bonds can be secured in Geor
gia. Eventually, Georgia will
follow the steps of her sister
states. In the meantime, we are
paying dearly for our procrasti
nation.
Road bonds have been made
a political football by certain
state politicians. Until the men
of Georgia demand more brains
and less air from our Legisla
ture, bonds will be made to
wait.
Stinnes Forgot to Smile
Hugo Stinnes, sometimes re
ferred to as the German super
man, is dead. Dead and only
55 years old. He! worked
himself into a premature grave.
Chauncey M. Depew, chair
man of the New York Central
railway lines, is alive and smil
ing at 89 years. Mr. Depew
will celdbrate his 90th birthday
April 23d. He is today hale,
hearty and an active business
man. ; —1
Why the untimely death of
one and the long life of the oth
er ? Probably the answer to
that question is that one knew
how to live. The other failed
to look into the future.
Stinrtes was an egotistical
boaster; a genius, yes. But at
that he desired only to add one
more gold mark to his already
gigantic fortune. He is said to
have remarked on several oc
casions that he was the richest
man on. earth. He has bedn
grabbing one German industry
aftbr another.
Never satisfied, Stinnes tried
to rule the earth and in so do
ing forgot to smile—neglected
to remember that there is just
so much energy and strength in
the human body.
Chauncey Depew has been an
active and successful business
man. He is One of the most
famous after-dinner speakers in
America. He has lived and he
has worked, but always with a
smile. Millions have enjoyed
the stories spoken. and quoted
from his lips.
Here’s one recently told by
B. C. Forbes, financial writer in
the Sunday American. To Mr.
Forbes, Senator Depew said:
“I had a little incident last
birthday,’ an army of reporters
and photographers cam e to see
me at certain hour, and while
the reporters popped questions,
the flashlights went popping.
After they had gone a young
cub reporter breezed into my of
fice, his hat on his head at a
jaunty angl e and his whole atti
tude, oh, so superior.
“I have been sent—l don’t
know why—to write something
about your birthday. What -is
there about April 23 any more
than any other day that they’re
making a fuss about your birth
day,” he wanted to know.
“I replied I was 89 and that
there wer e not so very many of
us left at that age.
‘What about it,’ the young
gentleman demanded, hi s hat still
on his headl
“ ‘Don't you know,’ I asked
him, ‘that on April 23 Shake-,
speare was born, Saint George
was born and I Was born?’
“ ‘All in the same year?’ ask
ed the cub.”
Stinnes' millions brought him
nothing more than the gold of
a miser. The distinguished New
York ex-senator has gotten as
much out of life as most men—
much more than some. He has
lived a- long arid useful life. Mr.
Depew says if you would live
long, you should laugh much,
attributing his nine-tenths of a
century to having early cultivat
ed the habit of CHEERFUL
NESS.
Os Hugo Stinnes, Mr. Forbes
had this to say a few days ago:
Hugo Stinnes:, the German
superman, who was rapidly gob
bling up German industries and
reaching out like an octopus to
foreign countries, is dead from
overwork at 55. x
Stinnes was not a lovable char
acter. Patriotism was sacrificed
to profit. His first concern was
not for his fatherland, but for
his own pocket and honor. He
freely ruined in order to rule.
His ambitions surpassed those of
Caesar, Alexander the Great,
Napoleon.
He was a queer mixture of
modesty and vanty. He dressed
more carelessly than his own
clerks, at e more sparingly than
his own workmen, traveled more
unostentotiously than his own
minor associates. He lived not
in a castle, but, relatively speak
ing, in a cottage.
Yet he would boast as he pass
ed a hotel or newspaper office,
or a bank or other establishment,
‘‘l own all of that.” He brag
ged loudly that he was th e rich
est man in the world. He re
garded himself as a Gulliver in
a world of Lilliputians. K'e
would flaunt an enormous roll
of ( big batik'’ bills with all the
of aii office boy with his
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THE LAST
•Victorious men of earth, no more .
i < Proclaim how wide your empires arc; M
Though you hind in every shore \ J}®
And your triumphs reach as far
Asnightorday,
Yet you, proud monarchs, must obey,
And mingle with forgotten ashes, when '
Death caßs ye to the crowd of common men. <; 5
• Devouring Famine, Plague,and War, i
Each able to undo mankind,
Death’s servile emissaries are;
\ 1 N° r to iese confined,
y. majr ]hX He hath at will
More quaint and subtle .ways to kill;
; » A smile or kiss, as he will use the art,
Shall have the cunning skill to break a heart.
9 r »-James Shirley.
first week’s pay.
He found childish glee, too, in
mechanical toys. Thes e consti
tuted his only hobby.
He boasted that he had never
taken a single day’s vacation in
his life.
Had he been wiser in this re
spect, h e probably would still
have been alive. Human nature
does have limitations.
The fate of Stinnes will cause
many American business men to
stop and think, and let us hope,
le'arn to smile.
The man with hundreds is
just as likely to forget the laws
of human nature as he who has
millions. Whether you are a
giant in your profession or a
pigmy, remember that the habit
of cheerfulness brings in large
diivdends.
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS i
B.OBBED HAIR OVERWORKED
It is strahge that hospitals
husbands and others should haze
such protests on bobbed hair. One
may have choices in the matter,
but for the life of one it is not
apparent why long or short hair
should cut such figure. It sim
ply looks as if the bobbed hair
racket is overworked. —Talladega
Daily Home.
JUST ASK ONE
You do not know how delight
ed v.e are when often coming
ddwn the sidewalk afternoon and
meet to many bright-eyed boys
and girls returning to school
laughing, singing and whistling
with not a single trouble enter
ing their mjnds. We once en
joyed just such happy days. But
in a few short years the schoel
days will end with these young
people and they will later on be
separated in many ways. Some
by death. The saddest day that
comes to a boy or girl is their
last one at school.—Dahlonega
Nugget.
FASHION FEET
The really well-dressed wohian.
we are informed on the highest
authority, should wear seven dif
ferent pairs of shoes a day.
Just what they are we have
forgotten, but the information
gives us quite a thrill.
It is a lojng way back to lfr<
times when Abraham Lincoln de
livered his dictum on legs. When
somebody asked him how long
he thought a man’s ‘legs should
be, he replied that careful re
search had convined him that
they should be just long enough
to reach the ground.
In those days legs, and feet
also, were regarded merely as
parts of the body. Now they
are evidently what might be call
ed the groundwork of a fashion
show.—The Houston Post.
A 60,000-STUDENT COLLEGE
A college of 60,000 students is
in prospect, according to former
Secretary of War Baker, who re
cently told the Johns Hopkins
alumni that he had seen the plans.
Such a college wotlld be huge in
deed, measured by those already
in existence, and would equal the
population of a considerable city.
Columbia University, one of the
largest colleges in the matter of
attendance, has less than 12,000
students, whose numbers are sup
posed to be greater than they
otherwise would be owing to the
desire of students from the in
terior to secure the educational
advantage of residence in New
York in addition to what Colum
bia offers them. Why the Univer
sity of California has as many as
15,500 students is less readily
explained. The University of Min
nesota has about 9,000 students
and Wisconsin about 8,006. Har
vard has onIyJLSAO and Yale only
3,7oo.—■VkMtWTTtTl'ie’r
mr AMERICUS TIMFS-R ECORDER
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WALL STREET
Prediction: You probably will
soon read that the great financial
interests of our country will flC.lt
huge loans, hundreds of millions, to
help Germany on her feet. On the
same principle as fattening a cow
to make her yield more milk.
Why is it so easy to raise fabulous
sums for Europe, when Wall Street
claims that a soldier bonus would
be “too much of a strain on our
financial structure?”
* * *
SPENDING
An ex-judge in the east has been,
receiving about SIOO,OOO a year
from a legacy held in trust.
He petitions the court that this
income has not been sufficient for
the support of himself and family
“according to the standard of living
they have been accustomed to.”
This certainly is a prosperous
country. Do you imagine you could
pull through on SIOO,OOO a year?
The only militarists in the United
States are war profiteers who made
fortunes out of the blood of the men
who wore the uniforms. So says
Major General John A. Lejeune of
the United States Marine Corps.
He is absolutely right, though
many would include the more or less
feeble-minded who, easily swayed,
become involuntary militarists. Our
professional military leaders prefer
peace.
The first stp toward ending war
it to take the profits out of war.
Draft factories and money as. well
as human bodies.
* * «
ODD
The auto has overtaken and passed
the telephone as a device of com
mon use. At the beginning of this
year, final figures show, there were
15 millioif phones in America, while
the number of autos was a quarter
million more.
All this has come about in 20
years. It makes you wonder whht
things will be like 20 years in the
futiirc, especially as regards the air
plane.
• * *
DEADLOCK
Future wars will be fought with
invisible rajs (like radio), 'tvhicli
will create a zone of death in which
everything explosive or burnable
will ignite, and even metals will be
melted.
This is predicted by H. Grindell
Matthews, English scientist, who al
ready has perfected a ray that ex
plodes powder and. cartridges, kills
mice, shrivels plants and ignites
things 64 feet away.
Science, which' created material
civilizations, may boomerang as civ
iliization’s destroyer. The scientific
goal is to make war so deadly that
neither side will dare wage it. One
argttthent against this is that hu
manity has a suicidal tendency.
• « •
INCONCEIVABLE
Speaking of old jokes, Germany
now has nearly 700 quintillion pa
per marks in circulation.
This is 40,000 millions for
pian, woman and child on earth.
The information is passed along
for the benefit of people who imag
ine that marks will, after all, “come
back.”
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j Old Days In Americus
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder,. April
15, 1914.)
Mrs. R. E. Allison and Mrs. R. J.
Perry have as their guest this week
their only brother, J. E. Glover, of
Lakeland, Fla., who arrived yester
day and who will probably spend a
few days in viewing again the
scenes of his boyhood and meeting
old friends after an absence of
eighteen years.
The board of directors chosen
last night at the board of commerce
was: C. J. Clark, L. G. Council, G.
R. Ellis, W. J. Josey, J. E. High
tower, J. E. Mathis, O. Q. Melton,
John W. Shivef, G. L. Williams,
Frank Sheffield, Cleve Tillman, J.
E. B. McLendon, R. P. Stackhouse,
J. J. Holliday and S. A. Moses. The
meeting unanimously passed a vote
of thanks to President Clark and
Secretary Gardner for their work
for the organization during the past
year.
A very entertaining and enjoyable
occasion was that last evening when
the younger pupils of Miss Elizabeth
Craig Cobb appeared in recital at
her Lee street residence. This eVe-,
ning the advanced grades of Miss
Cobb’s classes will render an at
tractive program, assisted by Miss
Gertrude Smith and Miss Cobb, the
latter at the piano in vocal >dlos,
and Miss Katherine Thomas at the
piano in vocal duets. Among those
who will appear are Miss Mardre
Rogers, Miss Katherine Thomas,
Miss Blanche Schneider, Miss Cobb
and Miss Smith.
Little Walter Stapleton has re
covered from a-i"el*>ipse - <>f recefit ill
ness. Mrs Stapleton, ill with rtie
matism during several weeks, is also
very much better now.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder, April
15, 1904.)
L. G. Council will soon have one
of the finest and most complete
mill properties in this section and
of a kind greatly in demand. Sonic
time ago he purchased the Lamar
mill, two miles below the city, with
300 or 400 acres of land adjoining.
A commodious mill house is now
being built there and will be eqUiped
with fine machinery for making
meal for which there is an enormous
demand here at all times.
The nipping weather early yester
day morning conjured up thoughts
of frost and brought to the minds
of not a few in Americus the great
“freeze of 49.” It came on April
15th and wellnigh bankrupted the
country. Col A. P. Lingo reminded
the Times Recorder, yesterday of
the fact that today was the anni
versary of the forty niher.
The places oft frequented by
“gents of ]< '~e” -were vacated
yesterday when the t.i shone forth,
and a stamned towards Muckalee
creek .ed.
T1 Americus colored minstrels,
or 'od under management of E.
ions, and including several
~ ‘i jsional stars, will appear at the
opera house Monday night. A great
1 .11 is assured and colored Ameri
cus will pack (he theatre to witness
I OAfMS made on im P roved
ILuVZ/tlI 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, Americus, Ga. Phone 89
or 211, „x--u-,
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 15, 1924
the first appearance of the company
before it takes the road.
Miss Christine Brown returned to
her home in Montezuma after a
plesant visit of several days to rel
atives in the city.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. April
15, 1894.)
Yesterday Col. Robertas Oliver,
the unterrified cotton shark of the
seas of Lee, in company with hid
trainers, Messrs. Bob Johnson, W. K.
Bell and W. J. Dermody, repaired to
the seclusion of the Dell’s to acquire
the mystic mazes of tandem bicycle
riding having in his hear malicious
designs against the single blessed
ness of a certain charming widow
who rides a bicycle. Col. Robertus
would fain take the lady on a wheel
through the romantic s'ceney of Lee
and Sumter while Ute flowers that
bloom in the spring are getting in
their work and while the,turtle dove
is cooing to his mate, but alas thg
colonel had not yet mastered the
art of riding the bucking wheel, and
so he determined to get himself into
shape to ride double or annihilate a
new suit of spring clothes and a
borrowed bicycle in the attempt.
Captain H. D. Watts, one of the
most prominent citizens of Americus
was in the city yesterday. He re
ports the Southwest Georgia metrop
olis as still on crest of the wave—
Atlanta Journal.
A small farm situated ten miles
west of Americus sold yesterday
for S2O per acre, spot cash. That
does not look very much like farm
ing lands in Southwest Georgia were
going begging.
Will Dudley’s tandem bicycle, the
first of the kind used h re,-.was a
matter of curiosity to many yester
day as it sped through the streets,
with its double load. A certain fes
(tive widower has already put in his
order for a tandem.
These are ticklish times for the
man who still wears his heavy un
derwear.
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)
— lß9l - 1924
Upon the foundation
thirty-three years of
6 $ growth is based the
tiT present organization of
F o ol,r bank. This experi-
Pnce ’ s a l"' ;, ys at the
MreMtT* x 1-'■Fcommand of our cus
tomers. tye cordially
solicit yotir banking
- business.
The Bank With a Surplus
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small
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NEW SANDALS AT $2.50
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THE BEST SHEETING MADE
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Alexander Smith’s Axminstcr
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Extra heavy solid colors; the
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Over fifty designs just received
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