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PUBLISHED 1879
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A THOUGHT
lhe Lord is my helper, and I wiH
not fear what man shall do unto
me.— Heh. 13:6.
T o grief there is a limit; not so to
fear. —Bacon.
Moonlight and
,f Romance
The romantic Mexican lover,
serenading his sweetheart with
song and the twanging of a
guitar, has changed his system
and is using the telephone for
love-making. So writes Stella
Burke May in “Men, Maidens
and Mantillas.”
In the old days, when the
guitar wooer appeared in the
courtyard and wailed with his
eyes on the second-floor bal
cony near the family living
room, Pa and Ma usually were
able to keep tab on the conver
sation.
Now the lover whispers his
sweet nothings over the phone,
either from a distance or by us
ing an extension phone lowered
to him from the balcony.
So passes another form of
romance. The passing, howev
er, is not without its compensat
ing features. Most of the love
sick serenaders played the guitar
rather badly, and their voices
were full of static.
Mechanical progress is strik
ing death blows at romance of
all kinds. The polar explorer,
formerly isolated in the Far
North blizzards and his fate un
known, now has radio connec
tion with a broadcasting station
in Chicago.
The galloping pony express
rider, armed to the teeth against
desperadoes, has been displaced
by a safe in a steel railroad car.
The lover used to bring flow
ers to his sweetheart from the
woods or his mother's old-fash
ioned garden. Now he gets them
from a florist, maybe haggles
over the price, ordering by
phone, a boy delivering.
Time was when a wooer, to
win his lady-fair, was expected
to fight all rivals—usually a duel
at sunrise behind the cathedral.
That' s o.k. these days, in fiction.
But if the lover tries it in real
life, the police load him into the
patrol wagon.
Nevertheless, we believe there
is as much love romance in the
world as there ever was. Inven
tion has changed the stage set
tings, to be sure. But sentiment
is as strong as ever, and the
thrill is mainly in sentiment—in
imagination.
The girl clerk in the 10-cent
Store, dreaming all day about a
date with her gentleman friend
for a movie, probably has as big
a thrill as the ancient heroine in
the boresome atmosphere of a
castle waiting for her moonlight
serenader.
As long as science is unable
to eliminate moonlight, love ro
mance will survive. A night
spin in an auto along a smooth
paved road is as thrilling and
romantic as an old-time buggy
ride behind old Dolly.
Kill Mosquitoes Now
You recall the story of the
fisherman who, before leaving
home, always slipped a bottle of
whisky in his pocket, “for snake
bite,” He took a little nip as he
left the house, another half way
to the creek, still another as he
baited his hook, and drained the
bottle before he got his first
bite.
“Why wait to be bit before
taking the medicine,” he said.
“Take the liquor first, then when
Mr. Snake comes along you are
all ready for him.”
That’s the way to fight ma
laria. Get the mosquito before
he gets you. After he has in
serted his bill in your skin, it's
too late to kill him.
With the spring rains we are
having, malarial-bearing mos
quitoes propagate rapidly. Al
ready the inspectors are find
ing “wigglers” about in rain bar
rdf, pools, tin cans, and other
places where water is allowed to
stand.
Begin then fight now, and
start in your own back yard.
Clean up every empty receptacle
that will hold water. Many
have accumulated during the
winter. Give .the place a thor
ough raking over. Do not al
few the weeds to grow, Gather
up all the old dead weeds, grass,
sticks and rubbish. Burn it or
see that it is carried away
One dead wiggler now means
the elimination of thousands of
mosquitoes a few weeks from
now. Put the children to work.
Tell them they are fighting for
their own health and happiness
—maybe for their lives.
If there were a poison snake
on your place, you would dig
up every foot of ground, move
every timber and tin can until
you found it. The malarial
bearing mosquito may be just as
dangerous to your family as the
snake. So, get him before it’s
too late.
Examine the screen in your
doors and windows. Holes and
rips may have developed during
the winter. If old and rotten,
buy new screens and be sure it
is mosquito-proof netting. Wire
screens should be I 6 mesh. This
is important, for the mosquito
can crawl through ordinary 14-
mesh fly screens.
The time to fight is now ftnd
the place is your own yards.
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They Have Their Ey es
On Georgia
The greatest K>nn of pros
perity in this country today is
dairying, authorities in Wiscon
sin claim, and Wisconsin should
know, for it is the world's great
est dairying state.
Beer made Milwaukee fam
ous, but the Sittle daigy cow
made it prosperous, Craddock
Goins, of Milwaukee, claims. He
says:
Milwaukee is the center of the
greatest form of prosperity in the
country today dairying. The
dairy cow has done wonders for
this city. Wisconsin is the world’s
greatest dairy State. There are
approximately 3,000 chees e fac
tories, about 1,500 creameries
and little less than a thousand
milk plants. Milwaukee’s dairy 1
production is valued at a quarter
of a billion dollars—greater than
all the iron ore, gold and silver
mined in the whole United
States last year. These manu
factories have poured untold mil
lions into the pockets of Wiscon
sin people, principally into the
pockets of the Milwaukee people,
at the State’s meropolis and only
large city. Dairying has done a
hundred times more for Milwau
kee than beer could have done.
The dairy men of Wisconsin I
have their eyes on Georgia; they
know something of our climatic
and soil conditions and want to
come to the Cracker State, for,
says Mr. Craddock:
The people who do Milwaukee
the most good are the people
who do not live in the city, but
carry on their dairying and di
versified farming nearby. They
bring their money to Milwaukee.
They are the peopl e who want to
go to Georgia. When they hear
that dairy conditions are so much
more advantageous in the Crack
er Mate than up here, where it
has been so tremendously suc
cessful, they immediately begin
getting interested.
Wisconsin cows are housed in
expensive barns throughout most
of the year. They have several
months of winter in this State—
real, cruel, heart-breaking win
ter. They can let their cows
graze only a short tim e of the
year, whereas the cows can be
put in pastures most of the time
in Georgia, getting plenty of sun
shine, fresh air, exercise, and
costing their owners less to keep
them in good condition. Long
housing makes the cows develop
tuberculosis in the Middle West,
something that can be avoided in
Georgia.
Wisconsin men are interested
in th e South and its dairying pros
pects, and it certainly seems that
the dairy trade-winds are shift
ing Southward, in the opinion of
this writer, who is so busy get
ting this burden from his heart
in order that he may hurry home
before the next snowstorm comes
that he hasn’t tim e to couch his
language in more elegant phras
es.
The Wisconsin farmer
KNOWS the value of a few
cows. In spite of short growing
season and the long, cold win
ters, he has brought that State
from poverty to “the greatest
form of prosperity."
As dairying gains impetus in
Georgia, we may expect many
farmers from the Northwest to
emigrate here, where soil, cli
mate and a welcome awaits
them.
Within a few weeks Ameri
cus will have its own creamery
in operation. There sno finer
soil or climate in the State than
Sumter s. There should be a
few cows on every farm in the
county. Sumter county should
rapidly come to the front as the
banner dairy county in the
State. The weekly creamery
check will bring prosperity to
the entire community.
The moor, always presents the
same face to us.
The moon’s surface is four times
the area of Europe.
Many astronomers cling to the
idea that tb§ moon is a dead world.
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3igh no more, . /1
LADIES I
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more; | V
Men were deceivers ever; I y -'
One foot in sea, and one on shore, W 'F? Z)H i
To one tiling constant never: It :
Then sigh not so,
But iet them go, “Agr TeL
And be you Wythe and bonny; MY
Converting ail your sounds of woe Xm
Into, Hey nonny, nonny. A A
Sing no more ditties, sing no mo ;
1./ Os dumps so dull and heavy; I
fThe fraud of men was ever so,
Since summer first was leavy:
Then sigh not so,
But let them go,
A W'W' i And be you Hythe and bonny;
Converting al your sounds of woe
« ROnn y’ nonn y-
\ r —William Shakespeare.
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HUNT'S A
WASHINGTON fel
LETTEK-*Ss=S
BY HARRY B. HUNT
NEA Service Wtiter
WASHINTON, April 21.—A1l
jazz records will be shattered and
all demonstrations of bedlam out
distanced when the name of Al
Smith, New York’s popular gover
nor, is presented to the Democratic
national convention as the Empire
State’s “favorite son” for the
presidential nomination.
Al’s friends have everything all
set for a full union day of ear
splitting jollification on that occa
sion. Eight solid hours, the sche
dule provides, is to be consumed in
the clamor following the presenta-
I tion of his name.
“The biggest and best in history,”
is the order that jhas gone out tc)
Al’s gang. New York’s noisiest will
be on the floor and ih the galleries,
and if noise could nominate, the,
candidate would be chosen then and
there.
Working in relays and joining in
from time to time in a grand choral
ei pemble of deafening racket, the
uproar will be prolonged to the
point of complete aduitory and vo
cal exhaustion.
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During the early stages of the>
Smith noise-making, the confusion
will be madei more confused by) the
organized effort of the McAdoo
boosters.
New York’s hostility to the Mc-
Adoo candidacy is to be answered,
when Smith’s name is presented,
by the McAdoo forces chanting, for
two hour/, the supposedly damning
refrain: “Murphy! Murphy! Mur
phy!”
During this period the job of the
Smith claque will be to drown out
the jibes of the McAdoo contingent.
When McAdoo’s name is present
ed, Govern r Al’s bunch will pay its
respects in a similar two-hour chant
of “Oil! Oil! Oil!”
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Sensing in advance the weariness
with which such prolonged demon
strations for Smith and McAdoo
will afflict delegates favorable to
other candidates, efforts have been
made to induce these hostile camps
to modify their plans.
Bu.t such efforts get nowhere.
Eight hours is the period planned
and eight hours it will be—unless
they decide to make it 10!
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Since his recent showing of
strength in Wisconsin ai>! else
where, backers of Smith are declar
for once and all two much-mooted
questions:
1. Can ap avowed “wet.” be elect
ed president?
2. Can a Roman Catholic be elect
ed president
But why, the Smith opposition
wails, make the Democratic party
the goat in such a test.
Why, particularly, saddle both
issues on the party in one cam
paign?
With a wet Tammany Catholic
heading the Democratic ticket, all
the advantage that has been gain
ed through recent disclosures a£
fectirtg Republican rule would avail
nothing, say the objectors.
As a result of this viewpoint,
Smith’s nomination undoubtedly will
be blocked.
But nothing short of death and
disaster will prevent him getting the
greatest ovation, measured by vol
ume and duration' of sound, ever ac
corded any “favorite son.”
NEGRO PASTOR AND
STEWARD IN FIGHT
MOULTRIE, April 21. - The
Rev. R. C. McGough, pastor of a
negro church in Mitchell county,
and Mack McGruder, former mem
ber of thc> board of stewards of the
same church, probably will be call
ed on to face a court charge as the
result of a fight they engaged in
soon after McGruder was ousted
from his official position. The
preacher declares that the ex-stew
ard believing that he had some
connection with the dismissal,
“came around and picked a
with me, and there was nothing left
• fpj me tp do but fight bwkj’ijflr
~ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’
i Apple
’struggle
Being in business for yourse.f is
I not all it’s “cracked up io be.
I There are 1,4250Q0 store i:
■ America. That’s a store for very
1 76 people, which isn’t much in the
■ way of customers. Os course, this
: includes all sorts of stores and a
■ customer trades in various kinds of
shops—food, clothing, books, etc.
But, even at that, the retail mer
chandisiig field is very overcrowd-
, ed. It’s a lucky grocery that feeds
more than 60 or 75 families.
Out of what looks like profits at
first glance, come rent, clerk hire,
lighting, heating and other expen
ses.
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MIDDLEMEN
The average store probably has
three clerks. Since there’s a store
of some kind for every 76 Ameri
cans, there’s a clerk for every 25.
In addition are seemingly endless
millions of other middlemen —whole
salers, jobbers, road salesmen, book
keepers and what-not.
We’d all be better off if most of
the attention, now devoted to try
ing to spur people to produce more,
were directed at short-cuts between
producer and ultimate consumer.
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CURRYCOMBS
Another ancient device seems
doomed —the currycomb. A vacu
um cleaner attachment is taking re
place, and is said to do a better
job, in addition to greater speed.
' If Abraham Lincoln came back to
life, he woulq’t recognize nine
tenths- of the devices we use in our
modern complex civilzation, let
alone know how to use them until
instructed. The same would be
true if we, now living, could return
to earth in the year 2000. How
ever, people continue doing the same
basic tasks, generation after genera
tion, only the tools change.
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SUBSTITUTES
Artificial silk “made from wood.'
to use a very rough description— i.
making rapid gains. In a year its
production has increased by a h ili'.
If the boll weevil gets beyo'"d con
trol, some one probably will discovei
how t 0 produce cotton synthetically
We live in an artificial age. People
no longer laugh at “substitutes.”
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NARCOTICS
Americans are steadily becoming
more nervous ami restless, comments
Dr. Oliver T. Osborne of Yale Uni
versity. “The enormous increase in
the use of tobacco shows the desire
for narcotics.” Pandemis nervous
ness, he points out, is especially no
ticeable in the last decade, and it
got well under way about 25 years
' ago.
It is more than coincide: ce, that
nervousness began to become a na
tional malady about the time the
“efficiency expert” arrived on the
job. Driven too fast, beyond en
. durance, people naturally- go tr
pieces.
The Drug Traffic is a result,
, a cause. It' the reaction from high
-1 speed living and work. z
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OIL
Fifteen years ago the consumption
I of crude oil in America was two
barrels a year for every man, woman
and child. Now the figure is six and
a half barrels a year.
There i- still a tremendous reserve
of oil underground. But it is heir ;
drained steadily, and nature is -.ot
, replacing it. Some experts predict a
shortage of oil within 20 years.
What then? Science will ai sw-cr.
Alcohol may take the place of gaso
’ line, for motor fuel, long before the
, pil is exhausted.
, Certain variable dark areas or/ the
( nroon are thought due to vegetation.
I
• Inauguration Day is a holiday in
. the District of Columbia only.
, The spectrum of a star shows not
• only the materials of which it i<
t composed but also its physical cor
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Old 'Days in Americus
ten YEARS ago today
(From Tire Tinies Recorder. April
21, 1914.)
A “sidewipe” collision resulted
Sunday evening at the Y. M. C. A.
corner when a motorcycle ridden by
Madison McAfee and a touring cjr
driven by Julius Brown thus came to
gether. Mr. McAfee was riding west
on Church while Mr. Brown at
tempted to turn his auto from
Jackson street into Church.
The Americus party speeding the
past week fishing and marooning
at the celebrated “Dead Lakes” of
Florida, near Apalachicola, and in
cluding Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rylan
der, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Humber,
Mr. and Mrs. 'Frank Sheffield, Mr.
Kelley, Frank Sheffield, Jr., a-'d
Charles Crisp, Jr. are at home
again, after a most enjoyable out
ing. Col. Billy Humber, an ardent
fisherman, bore off the laurels of
the trip in having caught a whop
ping turtle, the tail of which he de
clared ,was as long as from the
home plate to first base.
Miss Lorenc Turner, as reppesen
tative of Americus Chapter, No. 63,
Order of Eastern* Star, will go this
morning to Atlanta, to attend this
week th’e annual state meeting of
that large and popular order.
Mrs. Merrell Callaway has re
turned to Atlanta after a visit in
Americus, so long her home, the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. James
W. Harris, Jr. at her home on Horne
street.
While patriotic Americus to a
."umber believes that the 'insult of
fered the United States by a lot of
irresponsible in Mexico fully merits
punishment, hope that war may be
averted is generail wished and in
stead. that amends may be made by
the Stars and Stripes. But if was
is inevitable the South Georgia Cap
ital, as in the case of Spanish-Ameri
can imbargo i:? Cuba will rally
around the flag.
•
TWENiY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Reco- i.r. April
21, 1904.)
From the Milledgevi.le Union
Recorder we learn that Miss Marie
Forrester, of Lee county, bright
daughter of Capt. and Mrs. John
W. Forrester and a co;.:, in of Mrs.
W. W. Hooks of this city, will grad
uate from the Georgia Industrial
and Normal College next month
with high honors. She has been se
lected by the faculty as one of the
two essayists for graduating day,
and will represent the normal de
partment.
At the home of the bride’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Argo,
last evening,, their pretty daughter,
Miss Nannie Louise Argo, and Mr.
Albert Thayer were united i:j mar
riage, Rev. R. L. Bivins officiating.
Numerous friends v.i'i'ossed the in
teresting ceremony and extended
cong .itulations to the handsen.e
you g couple.
A hgppy marriage solemnized at
drestor yesterday was that of Rev.
B. Ross and Mi<s Carrie Smith, a
popular young lady residing near
that town. ’
The Sunday school of Calvary
Ep : copal church will have its an-
I 1,13(16 on improved
-.“.-I '■’iu. farm 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
fil 211,
* MONDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL 21, 1924
nual picnic today at Magnolia Dell,
and a large assemblage of friends
will enjoy the delightful occasion
with ths good scholars and their
teachers.
Messrs. I. J. Kalmon and Tave
Armstrong both Americus men who
are now summering in Albany,
came home to cast their ballots yes
terday.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. April
21, 1894.)
Dr. A. B. Campbell, the beloved
pastor of the Baptist church in this
city, has received a call to the pas
;orate of the Tatrall Square Baptist
church, Macon. Not only has the
call been made but the Doctor with
out his consent, has already been
unanimously elected pastor of that
church. ■
A party of ladies and gentlemen
spent yesterday very pleasantly pic
nickh :g and fishing at Black’s Mill,
six miles west of the city. The.
“catch” of fish was nor.c too abun
dant but a jolly time was reported
just the same.
Miss Pearl Thornton, who has
been the charming guest of Miss
Maude Sheppard, for the past seve
ral weeks, returned to her home in
Dawson yesterday.
Judge Phil. E. Taylor, the newly
elected ordinary of Schley com ty,
was looking after matters of busi
ness here yesterday and rcceiveing
the congratulations of his numerous
Americus friends.
Shortly before nine o’clock yester
day morning three pigeons alighted
upon the minute hand on one of the
dials of the court house clock and
reemed to enjoy the novelty, of rid
ing around the circuit. The weight
of the birds kept ths hand from mov
ing fast enough, and the clock
struck 9 when seemingly it was
only, B:4p o’clock.
Professor Charles Lingo, of
Americus, is hero prepared to take
photographs. We have examined
his work and are well pleased, he
will found on the court square an 1
his prices are reasonable.—Butimr
Herald.
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NA i LEMASTER, Manager
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 88
Day Phones 88 and 231
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L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Cashier
C. M. COUNCIL. V.-P. and Cashier. J E. KI'.KER, Ass’t. Cashier
The Planters Bank of Americus
(Incorporated)
AT YOUR
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Oldest and largest
< f'' •! il'f"; s? -Mate Bank in South-
west Georgia. Any
business entrusted to
us will receive our
A*lyj V-’ -k best attention.
If you are not ah
|p' read(y one ,of our
valued customers.
—-• ’tu'J A we would appreciate
an' opportunity • of
serving you. i
The Bank With a Surplus
RESOURCES OVER $1,700|,000
PROMPT. CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING
s No Account Too Large; None Too Small
THE SWARD
WASH GOODS
. AT 5c YARD.
1 2,000 yards Printed Voiles, 28
inches wide, in about fifty patterns,
new 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 Crepe, 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-
i day, yard -24 c
; GOLD SEAL PILLOW
CASES AT 35c.
i New lot just received, wide hems,
■ full regular size, soft finished; ab
solutely free from dressing; Mon
day and Tuesday, regular 50c
. de at 35c
’ $2 to $2.50 CREPE
1 DE CHINE AT $1.69.
. This gives you pick of the stock
we have on hand, in almost every
good shade including white and
black; Monday and Tuesday
yard $1.69
FLORENCE CASTILE SOAP
1-2-LB. BAR FOR 25c.
’ We guarantee this Soap to give
' perfect satisfaction or we will re
’ fund the purchase price; pure Cas-
■ tile in long wih P bars, per bar 25c
$1.50 SHEPHERD CHECKS
AT SI.OO.
i Beautiful quality, 44 inches wide,
■ medium size Checks; just a clear
! saving of 50c yard; here Monday
md Tuesday, yard ... $1
SMITH’S FINE AXMINSTER
SUARES AT $45.00
Fine heavy Axminster Squares,
corn.less, size 9x12 feet, equal in
every way to many grades offered
. elsewhere for $55.00, new paterns.
I Convenient terms may be arrang-
1 ' ed on Rugs, without interest.
! DOTTED CURTAIN
; SWISS 29c
Small dots, medium dots, dots
the size of 5c piece or 25c piece,
■IG inches wine, sheer andp retty;
Mond.ty and 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 tots, canvas covered heels; re
tailing in every good store in Geor
> a :it h'2.!''O; Here Monday and Tues
day, pair ~A . . . ..$1.60
jSt andard \ Dry Goods
Company
! Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerco
1 AMERICUS. GA.