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V‘. > /Es-RECOBDER f, PUBLISHED 1879 Published by z Times-Recorder Co., t*iic.) y6lace Eve, Editor and Publisher EaMrcd M second cI«M matter at the poatnFfica •i Americua, Georgia, according to the Act ol teagrfct*. « The AaaoclateJ FroM la eaclnaleel, entitled ta the «e lor the republication of all new. dia- Mtcbea credited to it or not otherwiao credited to thia paper and alto the local r.ew, publiahcd bore fa. All tight of republication of apecial diapatebea are alao reaerved. National Adaertiaing Repreaantatlaee, TROST LANDIS A KOHN, Brunawick Bldg., New York; people,' Gao Bldg.. Chicago. a I He that hideth hatred with lying lipa, and he that uttercth a slander, ■> a fool. There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail. •—Shakespeare. 11-- - —>» ’ The Coming Revival A simultaneous evangelistic campaign is to be launched in Americus next week. The first sermons in this coming wave of religious revival will be preach ed in various churches here Sunday morning. The move ment is almost unaimous among the Protestants of Americus. And, co-incidentaly, the seven days ending next Sunday are being observed by Cath olics and Episcopalians through out the world as ‘Holy Week. Only a few weeks ago, Jews of the universe were celebrating certain festal, or holy, days in their religious calendar. Easter Sunday, according to sacred historians, marks the raising of Christ from the tomb; the triumph of the spirit over death and the perpetuity of Christ's church upon earth. This is the one point upon which all Christian denominations stand united. Except that Christ lived and was crucified, died, was buried and rose from the dead forty days afterward, the Christian religion has no support upon which to rest its conten tions. Christ, risen from the dead, is the keystone of Chris tianity, the rock upon which the church of Christ is founded, and upon this (ruth rests the whole fabric of Christianity itself. It is fitting, therefore, that Easter should usher in a revival at Americus. The movement is one in which Christians of ev ery denomination, creed and be lief may heartily and profitably join. Few mqvements bring more lasting results to a com munity than a good, old-fash ioned revival. A wave of re ligious fervor, such as usually accompanies a real revival acts as a tonic to the individual who attends and a source of renew ed Christian ‘ strength to the community wherein such revival is staged. Persecution, such as certain organizations are alleged to practice in religious matters, never yet drove a man or wo man into the fold of Jesus Christ. But there is no gain saying the fact that thousands are brought to love—and serve ——the Savour of Man through the medium of revivals. Love is a greater force than persecution, and love of God and fellowman is the thought Stressed most in revivals. Ex cept one be brought first to love God, little more than lip service can be offered by such ton individual. A revival is needed by the churches in Americus, say lead ers in all denominations. Con gregations here may or may not have grown lethargic toward .their religious affiliations. That question we are not discussing. Religious leaders say the need exists here for a revival. Methodists, Baptists, Chris tians and Presbyterians have united in the effort to make next week’s simultaneous evangelistic campaign the greatest event in the religious history of Ameri cus. That so many congrega tions can unite in a single re vival argues good for the re sult of their effort. Many busi ness houses have agreed to join to make the revival a success by closing their stores and indus tries during the hours of morn ing service. Preachers who will conduct the services are men of talent and ability whose messages must, perforce, sink deeply in to the hearts of many of their Roarers. The truths of the gos pel are to be presented by these men as they have been brought to view such truths. It is interesting to contem plate now many will be helped by the coming revival —how many lives will be saved for how many church-goers be .roused to a sense of their duty as Christians. It is to be hoped before this revival shall end no unsaved person will Remain in Americus; that every church member shall have re newed allegiance to God and the church of his or her choice and that a great wave of broth erly love shall envelope the en tire community. Such, wc believe, is the end sought by those who are head ing this great movement for humanity—and Christianity— in Americus. Cow Peas vs. Soy Beans With the early opening of the Americus creamery, we, as a county, must devote more at tention to feed crops, for cattle must be fed and buying hay and grain is unnecessary and too ex pensive. One of the first essentials — possibly the most important of all others—is to produce our own food stuff. With good cattle and plenty of home-rais ed foodstuffs for them, there is money in milking a few cows. To the farmer there are only two essentials in the raising of feed, says the Southern Culti vator, and that is: First, to know how'; second, "to do it.” In a recent issue this splendid Southern farm journal discusses _the production of soy beans as compared with cow peas, de claring: We have always been a strong believer in the cow pea. For a long time it was the grand champion legume for the South ern farmer. But often a grand champion has its day and a new one comes into the ring and car ries off the honor. The agricul tural college at Athens has been carrying on a test for six years as to the quantity of grain and hay obtained per acre from soy beans and cow peas and we give you below a summary of the re sults obtained: Soy Beans—hay per acre; O-Too-Tan, 3,200 pounds; Lare do $3,020 pounds; Mammoth yel low, 2,800 pounds; Cow Peas, hay per acre. Cow Peas—hay per acre; Brab ban, 1,240 pounds; iron, l;880 pounds; Whippoorwill, 1,720 pounds. You will see that the lowest yield of soy beans exceeds the highest yield of cow peas, and the O-Too-Tan and Laredo gave a yield almost double the aver age of the.cowpeas. The South ern farmers today are buying hay and grain feeds which is en tirely useless. They will put all the blamg on the weather, when the fact is our farmers still lack two essentials which J. Gid Mor ns said were necessary to make money growing onions and fall Irish potatoes v.lich are: first, to know how, and second, to do it. The emptyness of our barns and the poor conditions of our cattle show conclusively that we peed to “do it” in 1924. With a few good cows, cows that will produce a profitable amount of butter fat; feed stuffs raised on our own farms and intelligent work, the cream ery will bring prosperity to thia community. The most intelligent thought and observation should be giv en the question of the best type of feed for Sumter county. Soy Beans, according to the state college, is superior to cow peas. Whether the soy bean is best for milk production cream is a question that should be investi gated since it is a question of pounds of butter fat and not tons of hay per acre that is of first importance. OPINIONS OF OTHER EDITORS TOO MANY KILLINGS “Killing in Atlanta” is fast becoming a substitute for “Made in Atlanta.” The board of trade , in that little city ought to get busy. This thing will keep lots of folks from coming to town in the fall to attend the circus.— Cordele Dispatch. BIBLES C. O. D. Out in Los Angeles an evange list who has been selling 75c Bibles for $3.75 was sentenced to serve three months in prison for using the mails to defraud. His scheme was to l®e the news papers death columns to get names of bereaved persons and would send them a Bible c. o. d., presuming they were in a frame of mind to buy a Bible.. If he had been as adroit in “expounding” it he might have made more and kept out of jail.—Valdosta Times. A PIVOTAL YEAR IN'DIVERSL SIFIED FARMING. By stages and processes which often have seemed discouragingly slow, the agricultural system of the South has been changing in recent years. Georgia has made steady pro gress toward that agricultural in dependence which should be hers, but some of the old practices have persisted in spite of the apparent need of more progressive farm methods. The year 1924 brings Georgia definitely to the parting of the ways. That most valuable of all (HHAT LOVE IS LIKE ' ' Love is like a lamb, and love is like a lion; Fly from love, he fights; fight, then does he fly on; Love is all on fire, and yet is ever freezing; ~ ; Love is much in winning, yet is more in leesing. Love is ever sick, and yet is never dying; Z Love is ever true, and yet is ever lying; * ■ T Love does dote in liking, and is mad in loathing; ’ Love indeed is anything, yet indeed is nothing. ~. —Thomas Middleton. < = J education —the kind that is bought with experience—teaches the folly of clinging longer to the one-crop system. It is a system under which only a few farmers have prospered permanently, while thousands have seen the slender profits of occasional fat years of low prices or crop dis aster. Since the advent of the boli weevil in Georgia cotton fields, the one-crop system has been proved even more hopeless. Cer tainly no thoughtful person will contend that it is longer possible for a farmer in this state to make cotton his only money crop and be prosperous, says the Albany Herald. Consider South Georgia. In this section of the state there are so many crops—crops that not only can bring but are bringing, in in creasing volume, cash to the farms ■ o f this favored section that to neg lect them seems almost criminal. Some of them are cash-producers every month in the year, and there is not a farm in all South Georgia that cannot, with proper management, have cash flowing in from January to December without interruption. Consider this list of South Georgia money crops: Peanuts, Hay. Pecans. Corn, Small grain. Hogs. Chicken and eggs. Milk ana cream from the small dairy herd. Beef cattle. Tobacco. Water melons. Sweet potatoes. Truck. Syrup. Peaches. Nor are these all. And there is not a farm in all South Georgia on which soil and other conditions do not permit of an intelligent combination of enough of these crops to make that farm prosperous and inde pendent- provided, of course, the farmer plans intelligently and works industriously.— Brunswick News. “HEADED FOR A FALL” Just what Miller Bell Hollins Randolph and Tom Hamilton have up their sleeves, is not thorough ly understood, unless they are seeking to build up a political machine that will give them con trol of political affairs in the state. If this is their idea, then they are headed for a fall. They have already done the McAdoo cause in this country a great deal of harm, and McAdoo would help his chances a great deal if he would repudiate the work of these so-called friends.—Dalton Citizen. COST OF A FULL DESK The efficient business man has long since learned the cost of a full desk. So fully has his cost been learn ed that there are few, very few, business men today who use a roll top desk. They are afraid of the pigeon holes. They have learned to their re gret how costly it is to pigeon hole a matter and then forget about it. Consequently the modern busi ness man with very few except ions uses a flat top desk. —Way- cross Journal. SCREEN NOW In these words we cannot im pres our readers with the vast im portance of drainage and screen ing on the farms that the malaria mosquito may be kept down to the smallest possible activity. We regret to write such a thing in these columns, but the people of Cordele and Crisp countw have more malaria to dispose of than they have heretofore been willing to admit. It is a question of elimi nating the waters where mos quitoes breed. This applies to the back yard where pots and pans and old cans catch and re ■ tain water as well as in the ditch-, es and low places which should be sprayed with kersone oil enough to prevent mosquito hatching.—Cordele Despatch. The hardest thing about amount ing to something in this world Is were involved in the exchange of | tliQre are so mary ways not to doigoods—exports and imports. it and so few ways to do it. The governments report discloses r THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’ hjAlbert Apple CHANGED Our generatio: cats 30 per cent more food and 374 per cent more sugar than our grandparents, claims the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. The claim about increased sugar consumption is indisputable. Sugar has naturally taken the place of its twin-brother, alcohol. But we doubt that modern people eat about a third more food than their grandparents, who thought nothing of a pound of ham, four eggs and 35 flapjacks apiece for breakfast. Statistics may indicate 1 more food is being consumed. Out guess is that the increase goes into s the garbage pail. *« * 1 SUN < A machine using mirrors to cap- : ture and focus the sun’s rays heated 1 an oven to a temperature of 175 de grees centigrade last year at Mount Verr,on, Calif. Mr. Abbot, astron omer of Smithsonian Institution, * built and operated the “solar c cooker.” ' This summer he will renew his ex periments on the practical basis of trying to use the heat of the sun for ' kitchen cooking. It would be all ' right except on cloudy days. At- ' tempts to harness the sun will be : * more or less'futiled until away is found to “can” its heat for uninter- 1 rupted use. It is a fascinating fu ture possibility. 1 ** * 1 teddy The Teddy Bear was invented by 1 Margaret Steiff, Bavarian dress- ' maker. A memorial portrait of her 1 will be exhibited this spring at the 1 Leipsic toy fair. Margaret made a large fortune from the Teddy Bear industry she 1 built up. And, measured by the joy she brought to children, she deserved all she got and more. Her life was symbolic of the amazing simplicity with which money can be made on ' a large scale. The public would rath er have a Teddy Bear or ice cream cor'e than a new motor. * * * SUICIDES Thl Save-a Life-League is in creasing its membership rapidly. It was founded eight years ago by Rev. Dr. Harry Marsh Warren. In a sermon he urged people who in tended to commit suicide, to write or visit him first. Gradually tJ clearing house for misery was built up. (League members keep their eyes open for unfortunates in wretched situations that might tempt them to take their lives. Twelve thousand Americans com mit suicide a year. Dr. Warren says he finds that a promise to think it over until tomorrow usual ly gives the despondent a new grip on life. This is true of nearly all. situations that seem hopeless at the time. Wait and thirk! ♦ * * FLYING A “congress on aerial legislation” will be held in Rome April 22. Un cle Sam will be represented. The airplane is swiftly coming into wid er use, and internatior al regula tions necessary, the same as laws for ships in foreign ports. Every far-sighted community will see the wisdom of local regulations for flying traffic—such as prevent ing planes, apt t 0 fall, from flyi’g over houses and streets. The air plane will be a popular form of transportation, same as the auto, time. Laws regulating it should provided in advance. * • • PERSONALLY Our business relations with other countries ii. 1923 paid a net profit of about $1.40 for every American man, woman and child. All transactions involving pay ments between America and other countries left us, when the books were balanced, 152 million dollars :||o the good. Billions, of course, AUTO OK RISE TO MH CRIMES ATLANTA, April 18.—Since Fulton county voters have express ed them selves as favoring the sal ary system for county officers and consequent abolition of the fee system, appropriate steps should immediately be taker; to bring about the change, according to a statement made here by Solicitor John A. Boykin, of the Fulton su perior court, who at the same time states that he will be a candidate for reelection to the office in the next democratic primary. Mr. Boykin’S statement invites the cooperation of the grand jury, all civic organizations and citizens in securing passage of the necessary legislation to abolish the fee system at the meeting of the Georgia Legi slature in June, and declare that he will personally appear before the proper legislative committg to urge passage of such legislation. Solicitor Boykin is now rounding out the last year of his present term as solicitor general of the Atlanta judicial circuit, having assumed the duties of the office January 1, 19- 17. During his incumbency he has handled more than 10,000 court cases. “New conditions have apparently increased the tendency to violate laws and seem even to have added new classes of criminal transgres sions l 0 the category of crime,” Solicitor Boykin declared. Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. April 18, 1914.) Members of Americus chapter, Order of Eastern Star, one of the largest and most popular of th! secret orders represented here, are very much interested in the thir teenth annual session of the grand chapter of Georgia of that organi zation, which will be held in At lanta on April 22 at the Piedmont Hotel. At their attractive residence or. Lee street, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Crockett have as their guests to-< day, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Heard and Mrs. J. P. Heard, of Vienna. Misses Mary Hudson and Eliza beth Eldridge are charming young lady members of a motoring party going this morning to Ashburn to witness the High school athletic contest today. Miss Catherine Davenport, a pupil of the Bell Piano school here, was awarded the prize in the musical contest in the High school meet in Ashburn. John T. Taylor Jr. wor- the first prize in declama tion. Miss Elazabeth Allen, won second honor in the girls’ essay content, in which there were a largo number of formidable opponents Miss Laurt Ardley returned yes terday from a visit of two or three days to relatives in Macon. C uncil of Safety chapter, D. A. R. held its April meeting at the lovely home of Mrs. W. K. Bell on College street, with a large atten dance, The officers elected for the new year are; Regent, Mrs. E. A. Hawkins, vice-regent, Mrs. C. O. Niles; corresponding secretary, Mrs James Harris, Jr. recording secretary, Mrs. W. D. Ivey; treas ure Mrs Maude Smith; historian, Mrs. W. K. Bell; registrar, Miss Constance Holt; chaplain, Mrs. T. B. Hooks. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday, no paper puMi. lied. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From Tthe Times Recorder. April 18, 1894.) Among tb.e familiar faces missing from the streets on account of sickness are those of Messrs. S. Montgomery, G. W. Glover, and James A. Fort, all of whom are con fined at home by sickness. The many friends of each will wish for their early recovery. At the faculty meeting of the Girl’s Normal ai d Industrial Col lege, Milledgeville, held a day or two ago a very interesting election for selecting two students to rend essays on graduation day. The fol lowing young ladies were finally elected: Miss Sara Crichton, oi Columbus, Nor -al Eessayist; Miss Maggie Dur :, of Americus, Indus trial Essayist, Col. Tom Line is nursing 'a sprain i turn, the result of a bi cycle illision in which both he, ar ? other man were knocked Sam figures 30 millien < kaTs worth of liquor was smug f'ed into the United States la.-i year. I A A ivw made on improved J-jx/ZTilNCfarm lands at cheap est rates for terms of 5,7 or 10! years with pre-payment option given Money secured promptly. We have new outstanding over $1,100,000 on farms in Sumter county alone, with plenty more tq. 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. . .. - FRIDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL 18, 1924 EVERETT TRUE By Condo fts THAT SO ! WACC, NOW, CISTSM ' l' V & <3JOT THG RIQMT z SIR. To I t SMOKG ON Tl-bS iik Si r Wes, Too HAVe.THCS ICIQHT TO SMOKc L— Q|q THG‘ g>Trcs&-T —THC? MORt l "QN" THCS 'B-eTTCR. ill V' . ™ Fg galley west and two $125 wheels mashed into a shapeless mass. Miss Mattie Jones, of Mi tgem ery, Ala., Misses Margaret Muldoon and Sollie Smyser, of Louisville, Ky., will arrive in the city today and will be the charming gudsta of Miss Nannie Lou Hawkins. City Engineer Eldridge, assisted by the boys of the fire department ard J. C. Nicholson, of the hotel company, were busily engaged yes terday laying off the walks in the new park east of The Windsor. A handsome fountain will ornament the centre of the square, ar.d the little park will indeed be a gem and a joy forever. ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Justice of the Peace of the 789th District G. M., Sumter County, Ga., to be held at the court house in Americus, Ga., on May.3rd, 1924, to fill the unex pired term of the late Judge F. W. Griffin. Your support is earn estly solicited and will be highly appreciated. Respectfully, H. C. DAVIS.' Exasperating COUGHS- XTOT only you—but all those IN around you arc annoyed by the constant hacking of a j>t rsist ent cough. Dr. King's New Dis covery breaks coughs quickly by stimulating t lie mucous membranes to throw off the clogging secre tions. Has a pleasant taste. At all druggists. Dr. KING’S NEW DISCOVERY 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 1 C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKEE, Ass’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) * .1891-1924 Upon the foundation ..,1 of thirty-three years of growth is based the X" present organization of I oh our bank. This experi- Uw/ziJi' *5 ■ v.ence is always at the £• command 4 our cus- tomers. We cordially : :o; -or firming business. 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At $1 —For six pairs Ladies and Men’ ' Lisle Hosiery, th e best 25c grade you have seen. Sold in lots of six pairs—no more or no less for tflc price of. 6 pairs for $1 At 79c—Firte Table Dantask, two yards wide, of regular dollar grade. At sl.so—New styles of Blouses and Waists for ladies, just opened. At 49c- -Ladies’ Silk Stockings 'n black, brown, gray, sizes 8 1-2 to 10. Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS. GA.