About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1924)
PAGE SIX / -I. I M E S - R fc C 0 K D E R > / I PUBLISHED JW9 3/ * - ’ / Published by / The Times-Recorder Co., line.) r Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered at aecood cl«m matter at the po«toLfin M America*, Georjii, according to the Act of CangreM. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled t< the use for the of all news dis patches credited to it or net otherwise credited to thia paper and also the local news published here in. All right of republication of opbciil dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Pep resent a tfvea, TROST LANDIS A KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., New York; peoples’ Gas Bldg.. Chicago. A THOUGHT For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. —1 Pet. 3:17. It is too late to be on our guard \vhen we are ir; the midst of evils, >—Seneca. To the Dishonor of Georgia A few days ago Charley Crankshaw died in Florida. For many years he was an Atlanta jeweler. When his death was announced in the press there were thousands of Georgians who remembeted the debt the State owed Mr. Crankshaw jmd has never paid. Something like 18 or 20 years ago the State purchased from Mr. Crankshaw a hand some silver service for the Bat tleship Georgia, costing $1 7,000. We do not know vzho gave the order or by what authority it was given. We do know that the State, through its accredited representatives, received the sil ver service and presented it to the of the battleship. It then became the property of the nation. Petty politics and cheap poli ticians prevented the payment of this bill. Year after year money was appropriated to meet it, only to be cut from the bill by members of the legisla ture Now Mr. Crankshaw is dead. The debt remains unpaid. It is dishonor on the State and a re flection on every member of ev ery Legislature that has met since the debt was incurred, or . which will meet until the debt is fully paid, with interest from date of purchase. The Valdosta Times makes this pertinent comment: Mr. Charles V. Crankshaw, the Atlanta jeweler who furnished a $17,000 silver set to the Battle ship Georgia and who became a bankrupt because he could not collect the bill from the State, died Monday night. It is a stain on Georgia’s good name that that bill was never paid. The Cordele Dispatch sounds this note on the subject: Good men who wanted to see that bill paid to the man who ex tended their State and his State the credit that was necessary in providing the silver service for Georgia’s battleship in the Amer ican navy before he died, have been disappointed. Th e debt still stands to Georgia’s dishonor and discredit. Cheap politics can do many things wrong’; far too many! The jeweler is dead and his bill still stands unpaid. Maybe, now that the creditor is dead, the next Legislature will see this thing in its proper light and cancel the obligation by paying to his heirs, what the State owed Charley Crankshaw. Baby s Zone of Safety. A baby’s “zone of safety” is a distance six feet from where he Hes. Baby is apt to catch germs if any diseased person ventures inside this safety zone —particularly common colds, tuberculosis and other infecitons Communicable by the breath. No one with such a disease should ever pick up a baby. Anyone with, say, a cold should wear a mask when approaching. The train doesn t leave the track to hit the auto. The auto goes to the track, gets in the way of the train. This principle applies to safeguarding babies from disease germs. Nature never intended babies to be what the medical profes sion calls "wandering units." To the contrary, she intended them to be “stationary units"—living in one spot until strong enough tp creep and later walk away. The infant in his cradle does not go out and “catch” germs. No! The germs are brught to the baby by outsdiers—or else the baby is taken to the germs. Baby in the cradle has not developed powers of resistance against disease germs, though from mother's milk he gets a certain amount of what are known as 'immunes.' Baby needs fresh air and sunshine. He can get these on a screened porch or in a well ventilated and sunlighted room. When baby is wheeled out on the streets in its carriage, he be gins to breathe dust, floating gerrns, poison gas from autos, £tc, A» civilization grovrs more congested and infections more common, it becomes increasing ly dangerous to expose baby to streets. The best place to raise a baby is on the second floor of a house, or even higher up if pos sible. Why? Because there are less dust germs and poison auto exhaust than on the sidewalk or first floor of a house. This is especially true of poi son exhaust from autos —for this gas clings near the ground, being heavy. A baby specialist, who charges SIOO for the advice contained / in this editorial, says it is unsafe to wheel a baby along city streets until baby is about eight months old. Above all, keep people with chronic coughs away from ba bies. The most pronounced sympto/n of tuberculosis is the optimism of its victims. They usually believe they are going to get well, right up to their death. They further rarely believe it is "catching.” The Tax Burden Increases United States Senator Mc- Cormick writes the President, suggesting that a conference of the Governors of the States be called to find means of check ing the great increase in city, county. State and federal taxes. During the readjustment pe riod following the World War, Senator McCormick realizes the enormous local, State and fed eral tax burden that has been forced on to the shoulders of the American people. State taxes, he says, have increased 183 per cent; county taxes 141 per cent; the taxes of municipalities of more than 2.500 inhabitants, 80 per cent; and in the great metro politan cities the increase has been more than 100 per cent. Discussing Senator McCor mick’s suggestion, the Selma (Ala.) Times says: These mounting costs have come within a decade. As federal tax es have been reduced these have risen. While in no way relaxing the pressure on Congress for tax relief, the taxpayer will do well to look at his tax troubles near er home. These, after all are his heavier burdens. And yet no curtailment of tax ation seems possible. The price of progress is the contribution the individual makes to the com mon fund for the upbuilding of the community and for all forms of social, material and educa tional advancement. What the Times says is true in part. Additional benefits to the people have added addi tional burdens. Our forefathers knew nothing of paved side walks and streets, hard-surfaced roads and electric light; gas and water and other convenien. All of these have added to the tax burden. However, there is an ENOR MOUS WASTAGE in taxes; more so, we believe in the fed eral government than the State, and more in the State than the municipalities. The reason is simple. The farther away from the eye the people, the easier to add bureaus, departments and other things that must be met by added taxation. The tax burden can be light ened. While it can not be as low as it once was, still there is room for enormous cuts in ap propriations, by the simple methods of applying business efficiency to governmental af fairs. So long as it is possible to fix tax rates to meet any ap propriation made, just so long will the tax rate be boosted higher and higher. Our legislators are not as much to blame as we folk back home. Every community de mands something of its govern ment. Senators and representa tives too frequently are re-elect ed because of "the amount of the bacon" they have brought back home. If we desire a new postoffice building, we demand one that costs twice as much as is neces sary. Every other community does it, and we, like sheep, fol low the trail. We do not hesitate to implore our representatives to place on the pay roll this or that friend who wants a job. We. at -hr polls, give our ratification to any sort of an amendment that comes to us in the name of “war pensions. Almost sixty years after the Civil War, we are pay ing more for Civil War pensions today than ever before. No man begrudges one pen ny that ever has been paid that gallant band who wore the gray, nor the wives of those men. But new class after new class has been added to the pension roll of the State until today the tax is greater than ever before. We the people are to blame. We demand appropria tions forgetting that a time to pay will come. When WE demand cuts in- XET6 MY PICTURE When age hath made me what I am not now, And every wrinkle tells me where the plough Os Time hath furrow’d; when an ice shall flow A Through every vein, and all my head be snow; When Death displays his coldness in my cheek, U jQH And I myself in my own picture seek, \ Not finding what I am, but what I was, In doubt which to believe—this or my glass; . Yet though I alter, this remains the same As it was drawn, retains the primitive frame And first complexion; here will still be seen Blood on the cheek and down upon the chin; Here the smooth brow will stay, the lively eye,. I T'T; |. The ruddy lip,-'and hair of youthful dye. r •’jJ Behold what frailty we in man may see, ’ Whose shadow is less given to change than he!'" -- ’ —Thomas Randolph. stead of appropriations, our representatives will obey our commands. The responsibility rests on our shoulders, to a large extent. 1 OPINIONS OF j OTHER EDITORS RAIROADS TO SPEND MILIONS IN SOUTH GEORGIA The miUions of dollars spent in and to be immediately spent in Georgia by the railroad lines— • in South Georgia, mostly—will have a great effect on business conditions. The moral effect will and should be tremendous. If the railroads, which depend upon the country through which they pass, see certain increasing business, business to justify large expendi tures in additional rolling stock, better roadbeds, improved track age, numerous new buildings and more equipment—the indications must be pretty safe for steadily increasing good times. The rail roads expertly study condition.-'., survey their territory with aid of experience and science and judgment; they do not dump mil lions into holes just to be spend ing. The confidence which such policy of improvement is bound to inspire ought to react upon many other lines of business, giving them assurance, bolstering their hopes, and strengthening their faith in the future of South Geor gia. The immediate results for good cannot fail to be noticed— for much of that money is spent for labor and labor in turn spends it all in this territory. That keeps more money circulating, new money, money that is not merely swapped about among the neigh b or communities. The large investments being made by several of the large railroad companies in South Georgia are the solidest and roundest sorts of signs of steadying Letter business in the section.—Savannah Press. A NEW COMMITTEEMAN It is cu rently reported that Jack Cohen of the Atlanta Jour nal has sLiiied that in the event there is a vacancy in the post of * National Committeeman he should greatly appreciate and would ac cept the honor if it were tendered to him by thepowers at this time. The Telegraph stated editorial ly a few days ago that there could be no justification of any attempt on the part of the Mc- Adoo forces to humiliate Clark Hejvell by dethroning him from the place of national committee man, which position he has held for the past twenty years, as a punishment for Mr. Howell hav ing failed in the recent primary to espouse the cause of McAdoo as against Mr. Underwood. The Constitution was charged by Mc- Adoo forces with having support ed Underwood, and that inasmuch as McAdoo won, a new national committeeman was in order. Under the circumstances, 11 they are correctly understood ami outlined, Jack Cohen’s selection as national committeeman would be highly pleasing to the entire people of Georgia—and that is the only kind of committeeman we should have, now that the tran sient but ever recurring storms of political strife are over.—Macon Telegraph. THIRD PARTY UNNECESSARY Recently, there has been in the public prints some reference to a talked-of third party movement for this year, something wholly unnece sary, except to serve the self? h purposes of disappointed politicians. This is said, mainly, h'-cau <■ thi is, fundamentally, a two-party government, an ar range. i' nt that has worked with general satisfaction since the foundation of the republic, practi cally. There have been times, of cour when there has been dis satisfaction with one or the other of the two parties to which the voter have given support and ad herence. Sometimes the dissatis fied ones have severed their party connections and “flocked by them elvcs,” aligning under a new ban ner, designed* to meet the r$- r THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’ 4>3lL Apple HOMES Tlie British government consid ers a plan to build two and a half million homes to end the housing shortage. The government would fun ish the money and either rent the homes or sell them to families cn long-time installments. This is subsidy. If a similar pro gram were suggested for America, a cry of “Socialism!” would go up from certain quarters that shout ap proval when subsidy is advocated for capital—subsidized merchant marine, for instance. ■♦ ♦ ♦ SPORT President Coolidge backs plan by which Ur’cle Sam would help make outdoor recreations available for the poor as well as the rich. This is a program about as big as the sun’s orbit. But is is sound in principle. Golf, for example, is becoming the second national sport, ranuing in popularity below baseball. But golf is usually a rich man’s game. The poor cannot afford membership in a club. And municipal golf courses are few ai d crowded. ' The public needs more playgrounds, for grown ups as well as children, and should be provided as a health in vestmer.t bi’ the government. « * » HANDICAP Handicaps are largely imaginary. We realize this whenever we see a man who has battled and overcome exceptionally difficult handicaps of body, opportunity or circumstances. Nelson L. Belle-Isle comes to light in Everett, Mass. He lost- both legs above the knees ir. a railroad acci dent, but he is wielding pick and shovel as a city laborer. How many of us would have the nerve to tackle this hard work with such a handi cap? Inspect your handicaps again. Maybe they are not as bik as they looked. * * » INDIANS Discovery of those three anciei ■’ skeletons in California bring forth the scientific claim that there were only about 500,000 Indians in the United States and Canada when the white man arrived. “They were scattered, and life was so easy they did not have to think,” comments P. M. Rea natural historian. Thinking is very hard work for most people. Their brans would never function except by necessity. That’s why nature gives us so many complex problems to solve-—she's (trying to make us think. So far, she’s only fairly successful. ♦ * * IDLING In 1818 Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend: “A great obstacle to good education is the inordinate pas sion prevalent for novels and the time lost in that reading which should be instructively employed.” Jefferson was wise, but in this he didn’t get to the roots. The reason people shun books of learning is be cause they’re usually hard to read and as u: interesting as dust. Wells (Bid Thomson and Van Loon, by popularizing history and science, have recently demonstrated that peo pie will “eat up” ki owledge if pre sented interestingly. quirements of the dissenters. Gen erally such flocking has not amounted to anything, except to prove that it is unwise to follow after blind leaders as third party leaders usually are. Third parties have come and gone. Tlk» Democratic party has continued in existence for many, many years; this fact of itself : convincing evidence of the part ability and its worthiness t? ><:- tinue as one of the two great poli tical parties of the United States. Adherence to true Democratic principles is not only of highest Importance in this present year, but it also marks the. adherent as a true and loyal member of the party that in the i>a.st has triumph ed over evil, has set its own house in order and by so doing has gained the majority confidence of the people, as expressed by their votes on election day.—Jackson ville Times Union, SPRING LITERATURE I < X Or®/ I V—rn zX ——< T" Nu, iffin A : A swjpe ’ Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recoruen. April 19, 1914.) Handsomely engraved invitations have been issued by Mr. and Mrs. James Summerford to th emarriage | of their daughter, Miss Eula Mae Summerford, to Mr. Charles Davis Little. The marriage will be a brilliant church occasion and will be solemnized on Thursday evening, 30th at Leslie Baptist church. A jolly party of picknickers spending Friday at Kidds Mill chap eroned by Mrs. Robert Bivins were Misses Evelyn Bell, Ruth McArthur Cordelia Gatewood, Annie Allan and Bess Bivins, James Holliday. George Andrews, Frank Harrold, Emmet Bolton and Robert Lar:e. A beautiful affair given in honor of Miss Marianne Watts was the dinner party with dancing after wards, at which Miss Ruth Hodges entertained on Tuesday evening at her country home on Andersonville Road. Mrs. Hoivell B. - Simmor.s will go to Atlanta tomorrow for the week, | meeting there the higher officials of the New York Life Insurance Co., which she represents in the Apieri cus territory with such ability and success.' Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brown and children of Columbus, are in Ameri cus formerly their home. They are guests of Mr. arjl Mrs. H. C. Hor. ton at their home on Felder street. The final threshing out of th.: Barlow case in which the alleged millionaire loses the custody of hi: pretty young daughter, has just re suited in the higher courts. TWENIY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The 'Times Recorder. April 19. 1904.) Miss Maria Harrold, president of j the ladies Memorial Society, re quests a meeting at the public library this afternoon. Next Tues day is Memorial Day, at d there are many matters to be looked after, in the interim. A dear, demure “mi , ” of 17 stormy winters is much t' uc rn ■ 1 in tomorrow” primary. If ‘1? ’ i’ cleet ed, she may stand one slim chance. One of the most desirable and beautiful small farms near the city, that belonging to Col. 11. R. John son, one mile out, was transferred yesterday to Norman C. Miller, the property being valued at. $4,000. While the farm consists of only 150 acres, it is in high state of im provement ard cultivation and a desirable one withal.’ The cotton market is still “down in the lowgrounds” and a long way from sixteen cents spot to which it once so grandly soared. Dr. B. T. Wise, of Plairs, one of Sumter county’s ablest practioners and well kne > citizens, was in Americus y lei day accompanied by his son Dr. Thad ...se, who, while young ' a-' yet, has a bright futu before him. You-ig Dr. W : adv.:.ted with distinction at ;. College, S. C. one of the ..erary institutions in the • . vh, and is pursuing a very • orough course in medicine at Tu- Lme University. I O A ’ nade on im P roved LA/rMiu farm lands at cheap est rates for terms of 5,7 or 10 years with pro-payment option given Money secured promptly. Wd have now outstanding over $1,100,000 on farms in Sumter county alone, with i 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 Qt 2U< ». SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 19, 1924 THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorderr April 19, 1894.) An occasional sale of city pro perty is reported, ai d in each in stance it is clearly demonstrated that Americus dirt always, brings full value. Yesterday Mr. Callaway, the real estate man, sold the small lot on Lee street, just north of the old Mims property and belonging the Thomas Pickett estate for S9OO. There is only a shell of an old build ing i;; the small lot, and the price paid was about its full value. The semi-annual session of the Macon Presbytery will be held in Dawson today and during the re mainder of this week. Revs. Robert Adams and A. Kirkland, of this city, wei t down yesterday to attend the meeting . The pretty new rectory recently built by the congregation of Calvary church was occupied yesterday by Rev. W. W. Walker and family. The : building is artistic in design and is , an ornamerjb to that portion of the ' city. The committe of arrangements having in charge the annual Line Creek pichic has fixed the date fcr that occasion this year on Saturday, May 12th, ard on that day, hun dreds of people from the surround ing country and many from this city as well will gather at Line Crfe'ek bridge for a holiday in the woods. A fine band has been .se cured for the occasion and darcing, feasting and merriment wiil serve i?j drive dull care away and render ths day one long to be remembered. A. L. Rees returned to Savannah yesterday after a two weeks stay here. It is altogether probable that Mr. Rees and family may return to Americus shortly and make it aga.ni the(r home. BILIOUSNESS sick l>en:l i. lic, rour stomach constipation, easily avolUml, An active liver without cclouscl. C HAM B ERLAI N’S TABLETS Never sicken or gripe—only 25c 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) 1891 - 1924 Upon the foundation J of thirty-three years of U ISS'WaSF growth is based the present organization of our bank. This experi ence is always at the command of our cus -B^-jal tomers. We 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 | WASH GOODS ! AT 5c YARD. 2,000 yards Printed Voiles, 28 inches wide, in about fifty patterns, lev/ styles; sold only on Monday and Tuesday and only one dress pattern of 5 yards will be sold to one buyer at the price; Monday and Tuesday, yard -5c SILK CREPES AT $1.50 YARD. White, Tan and Rose, beautiful ly finished Silk Crfcpe, 38 inches wide; equal in every way to some of the $2.50 grades; Monday and Tuesday, yard $1.50 40 INCH NURSES’ CLOTH AT 24c. White Nurses, Cloth, 40 inches wide, fine good quality, free from dressing; here Monday and Tues day. yard 24c GOLD SEAL'PILLOW CASES AT 35c. New lot just received, wide hems, fr!l regular ’size, soft finished; ab solutely free from dressing; Mon ■day and Tuesday, regular 50e 'grad at 35c $2 to $2.50 CREPE ‘DE CHINE AT $1.69. This gives you pick of the stock |we have on hand, in almost every go d shade including white and black; Monday and Tuesday yard —....................................51.69 FLORENCE CASTILE SOAP 1-2-LB. BAR FOR 25c. We guarantee this Soap to give r : rfect satisfaction or we will re fund the purchase price; pure Cas tile in long wihe bars, per bar 25c $1.50 SHEPHERD CHECKS . AT SI.OO. ■ Beautiful quality, 44 inches wide, medium size Checks; just a clear ■ vine; of 50c yard; here Monday nd Tuesday, yard - $1 SMITH’S FINE AXMINSTER SUARES AT $45.00 Fine heavy Axminster Squares, can ;ess, size 9x12 feet, equal >n eveiy way to many grades offered . el-'ev. here for $55.00, new paterns. Convenient terms may be arrange <‘d on Rugs, without interest. CITED CURTAIN SWISS 29c Small dots, medium dots, dots th? size of 5c piece or 25c piece, 36 inches wide, sheer andp retty; Monday aid Tuesday only, yd.. 29c WOMEN'S $2.50 WHITE CANVAS OXFORDS AT $1.60. Women’s White Canvas Oxfords, with good leather, flexible soles, new toes, canvas covered heels; re tailing in every good store in Geor at $2.50; here Monday and Tues pair $1.60 Standard Dry Gouda Company ' Forsyth St. Next Bank of Ccminerro AMERICUS. GA.
