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6 Published to The Times-Recorder Co.* txnc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Eatarad aa second cl««i natter at the poatoltta » AmaricM, Ceergia, according ta the Act al Ttagraaa Tta AaaaclatM! Praaa to excluatoely entitled ta the nee for the repnhllratlon of all nowa dto- Satchee credited to it or not otherwtoecredited to this paper nod also the local newt published here in. All right of Mpnhlicatioa of special dispatches are also referred. National Adrerttoing Represeetatlree r s°l T ■LANDIS A KOHN, Brunstriok »ldg.. Now Totkl peoples’ Ga« Bid?.. Chicago. A THOUGHT The laborer ig worthy of hia re tw*i*d. —1 Tim. 5:18. The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.— Vauvenargues. “Jack” Cohen Committeeman In the nomination of John (Jack) Cohen, president and editor of the Atlanta Journal, as democratic national committee man from Georgia by the state convention Wednesday, the delegates conferred a high hon or on a worthy Georgian. Mr. Cohen did valiant serv ice for the cause of Mr. McAdoo in his primary. He is a splen did, aggressive business man and. an able journalist. We know of no man in the Btate better fitted or more en titled to the place than “Jack' £ohen. To him we extend our con gratulations and best wishes. Misrepresentations Not being satisfied with a great victory—and it was a splendid one, regardless of how it was attained, whether by trad ing with the Ku Klux Klan, us ing the labor vote and then for getting labor; incorporating the prohibition issue, when that question was not at issue—not being satisfied with all this, Mr. McAdoo’s friends have, directly or indirectly, made more than one misrepresenta tion since the presidential pri mary. They have endeavored to persuade the public that the fight among McAdoo degelates regarding the manner in which these delegates were appointed, was not a McAdoo fight, but discontent among the Under wood forces. Since the evening of the pri mary, when the Underood forces saw that they had lost the state, ‘the Alabama Sena tor s friends have had little to bay regarding the primary, oth er than to concede a great vic tory to Mr. McAdoo. The Un derwood forces recognized the right of the McAdoo froces to name all of the delegates to the State convention. And now another misrepre sentation is brought directly to the attention of the editor of the Times-Recorder in a letter from Hon. R. C. Gordon, of Savannah, state manager for Senator Underwood in the presi dential primary, as follows: Savannah, April 22, 1924. Mr. Lovelace Eve, Americus, Ga. My tear Mr. Eve:—Some ‘‘clev er” McAdoo Atlanta corespond ent has been sending out por tions of an interview with me, which have been published with flaming and"misleading headlines in several papers in Georgia. What I really said is contain ed in an article I sent to the Atlanta Journal, which was pub lished today, the 22d. If you would kindly reproduce it in your valuable paper, in justice to my true position, I will ap preciate it. With kindest re gards, I am Sincerely your friend, R. C. GORDON. The letter referred to by Mr. Gordon, as published by the Atlanta Journal on the 22d is as follows: Editor The Journal: In your Sunday’s issue on the editorial page, I am quoted correctly, viz: That the representatives of Mr. McAdoo “technically com plied with the party rules, and acted entirely within their rights in selecting delegates to the Democratic state convention,” but I still further stated most confidently that if Senator Un derwood had carried Georgia, I, as one of his managers, would not have assumed to select dele gates, regardless of my technical right, without first consulting with the recognized Underwood leaders in every county in Geor gia. I am not aware what proced ure wag taken by the managers of Mr. McAdoo, nor am I but ting in upon their affairs; but air. desirous of being quoted cor rectly regarding what I believe I had made up my mind to en deavor to do, if Mr. Underwood carried this state. I assure you that I have been brought into this controversy most unwillingly, as I consider myself an outsider so far as Georgia is concerned since March 19j but very mueh alive, as tp piy .view* btfiig reported accuy rately, even regardless of hostile and misleading “headlines,” when, without my knowledge or consent, I am interjected into a controversy entirely outside of my present political boundary. I am not now making, and have not made any criticism of the McAdoo managers, and don’t in tend to do so, and I respectfully ask that you give this letter as prominent a place in The Jour nal as you gave to a prefartory portion of an interview I gave when last in Atlanta. And lastly, I intend to give my earnest support and loyalty to the nominee of our beloved historic party at the convention in New York in June next, and do, in my small way, all I can, to make him our president. Sincerely, R. C. GORDON. Savanah, April 20. As a supporter of Senator Underwood, the Times-Record er has not failed to recognize the right of the McAdoo forces to name every delegate to the convention held yesterday, but we did most emphatically con demn the METHOD pursued in the selection of the delegates. After securing the almost uni versal support of organized la bor, McAdoo's managers refus ed (or failed) to name a single outstanding labor man among the delegates to the state con vention. The Journal of La bor, the official spokesman for labor in Georgia, criticized the McAdoo forces for this slight in no uncertain terms. If Mr. McAdoo had the race to run over in Georgia tomorrow, we doubt if labor would “flock’’ to his standard as it did in March. Another instance of the un wise methods pursued in hand picking the delegates was given us Wednesday by a McAdoo supporter from a South Georgia 'county. This county was given two delegates. The first dele gate picked by the Atlanta man agers is a Republican, who did not vote in the primary and is the organizer in that count/ for the Ku Klux Klan. He refused to accept the appointment. The second delegate named is sup posed to be a member of the klan; he did not vote in the pri mary and he refused the ap pointment. The first alternate did not support McAdoo, is supposed to be a klansman and he refused to accept the place of alternate. This left one alternate, an ex cellent woman from that com munity, and we were informed that she attended the conven tion. Another example of the un wise method of hand-picking, instead of allowing the county committee to select, was seen in Sumter county. Colonel R. L. Maynard was chairman of the McAdoo forces but was placed on the delegates list as an al ternate. Others, less active were appointed as delegates. A seeming lack of interest on the part of the four delegates nam ed was evidenced by ths non attendance of Sumter delegates, for only one of the four, Mr. John Wagnon, we were inform ed attended the convention Wednesday. If Mr. McAdoo's managers in other states—or his managers in the national campaign (pro vided of course, that he secures the nomination) blunder as bad ly as his Georgia managers have blundered, then there’s little hope of seeing the erstwhile sec retary of the treasury in the presidential chair. Atlanta, City of Good Hotels Few cities in the country are so richly blessed with splendid hotels as is our own capital city —Atlanta. With the opening of the new Atlanta Biltmore, the $7,000,- 000 palace of 600 rooms, At lanta is now in position to fur nish her guests with the most magnificent hotel comforts and luxuries. Within a few months the new Henry Grady hotel on Peach tree will be completed. A small er hotel on Lucky is nearing completion. Already Atlanta has the Ansley, with 500 rooms, the Piedmont, the Winecoff, the Imperial, the Georgian Ter race, Aragon, Cecil. Kimball and a score of other hostelries. The Atlanta hotels have made Atlanta the Convention City of the South. With first-class ho tels and railroads a city grows. Minus these, she is compelled to stand still There is a cordial welcome one receives in the Atlanta ho tels that is not always found in other cities. From bell boy to manager, there seems to be a desire to give the MOST for the fee; to make one “feel at home, ’ to add some little serv ice that doesn't appear on the bill. With the opening pf the new Atlanta Biltmore, Atlanta has fl/OME IN VIEW Isl * As when the weary traveller gains The height of some commanding hill, ( rtZ. K His heart revives, if o’er the plains hk sees his home, though distant still. J Thus when the Christian pilgrim views x By faith his mansion in the skies^"^"* t The sight his fainting heart renews, And wings his speed to reach the prize. J The thought of heaven his spirit cheers; ; ~ No more he grieves for troubles past; . ' r Nor any future trial fears, ~ So he may safe arrive at last. . 7. - z / Jesus, on Thee our hopes we stay, J .To lead us on to Thine abode; 7 ...) Assured Thy love will far o’erpay h The hardest labors of the road. Vrr. . —John Newton. OPINIONS OF i OTHER EDITORS A BRAVE MAN It’s a brave man who makes his car “do” another season and still a braver one who has no car at all—Vidalia Advance. MUST GIVE ’EM PAUSE When newspapers start cartoon ing public women, women start wondering whether public life is all it’s cracked up to be.—Fitz gerald Herald. THERE’S A REMEDY AT HAND There is no reason for the American citizen who believes in clean government to lose heart Some rather startling things have 'been revealed but the situation is not hopeless. It is the indivi dual citizens’ duty to put the very best he lhas into the fight for cleaner government nd when such citizens get in, the fight will be quickly won.—Albany Herald. HER TWENTY FOURTH CHILD Half the human race—the fe male half—will be interested in this: Mrs. Sebastiana Marroquin, of San Francisco, aged 44, has just given birth to her twenty fourth child. Like Napoleon’s mother, also an Italian, she mar ried at 14. There is wonderful power in the Italian race, as great today as it was three thousand years agd.' Caruso was his moth er’s nineteenth child. The pity is that so many of the fine children die because of irgnor rance. Ten are dead of Mrs. Marroquin’s twenty-four.—Arthur Brisbane In Atlanta Georgian. HIS INFUENCE STILL FELT The fact that Grover Edmund sto’n, former employe of the late Thomas E. Watson, and Mrs. Alee Lytle, former secretary of Sena tor Watson, have been given places in the Federal government In Washington is interesting It is said that the Georgia Representa tive, Vinson, Bell and Brand, and the two United States Sena tors were instrumental in getting them positions. It seems that the influence of the late Senator is■ still felt in Georgia. Mrs. Lytle is employed by the Department of Labor and Grover Edmond ston has been taken up by the prohibition unit of the Treasury Department to aid in the enforce ment of prohibition laws.—Sa vannah Press. ATTETION CAMP SUMTER 642 U. C. V. You are here by commanded to meet at the Court House Saturday the 26 inst, at 10 o’clock to attend the Memorial Exercises at Rylander Theater, by order of H. D. Watts commander. J. B. NICHOLLSON, Ajt. A LEAP YEAR PARTY The co-ed university of Maine had a whirlwind leap year party on the 29th February given by the sorority. The girls called for their males friends at fraern ity houses, bundled them into street cars and forced them to take seats while they stood in the aisles, bought the tickets t a motion picture theater, assist ed them in removing i-nd putting on their coats and after the shw bought them ice cream and cig arettes. —Savannah Press. added another great asset to the state. Men of wealth will come to the state who otherwise might not have stopped. They will see and he told of our undeveloped resources, awaiting the touch of the human hand to turn them in to gold. And, just now, what Georgia needs more than anything else is foreign capital. It is the mil lions from the North and East, poured into North Carolina and Florida, that have placed these two states in the forefront of prosperity. Through the Atlanta hotels the newcomer gets his first glimpse of a great state and a great people. Therefore the At lanta hotels are an asset to the state at large. May they live long, multiply and prosper. ♦ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER " bijAlbert Apple ALAS! ■ Another illusion is destroyed. We’d always envied prehistoric peo ple, believing they had an easy time of it. But they had to work 25,000 years ago. This is disclosed by dis covery of tools of labor near the petrified human skeletons found in California. The tools were a bone awl and a rock ax. The ax may have been used in hunting, but the awl indicates sew ing, one of the earliest forms of work. Man has to toil for his bread, no matter in what part of the world he lives or in what period of history. The few who escape work are sup ported by the toil of others. * * * FOOL-PROOF Roads can be made absolutely fool-proof for traffic, a conference of eastern experts claims. Their program, for making accidents next to impossible, includes street widen ing, slower auto speed and other usual methods. Such a system can be approached but never attained. If autos continue multiplying as fast as now, the day is ahead when cities will have to limit autos to overhead streets built like elevated railroads, or use tunnels. Even then, the highways would have to be di vided into fenced lanes, one car to a lane, to avoid smashes. » * ♦ HUNTERS Uncle Saip should reduce the number of migratory birds a hunter is allowed to shoot. So claims the Izaac Walton League, an organiza tion t 0 protect woods, waters and wild life, A “bird bag limit,” of course, is just a method of making sure there will be plenty of birds to shoot. We not only cling to our most savage and brutal sport, we even in effect breed its victims with a methodical system that must delight an effi ciency expert. * • • •RAVEL How much does it cost to travel? Magnus Johnson insists that $5 a day is enough expense allowance for a government employe. It depends, of course, on how much railroad fare has to be bought. Travel has become an expensive luxury. Corporations before the war figured that a high-grade sales man, making long jumps and stop ping at good city hotels, couldn’t get by for less than $lO a day. It takes twice as much now, on account of lower buying power of the dol lar, just as a job that isn’t paying twice as much as it paid before the war is really paying less. We nre dealing with 50-cent dollars. • * * FLIES Goodby, screen door. A Boston firm will market a “doorless door.” When flies try to' enter, they arci blown iback by a constant draft of fanned air which, however, is not powerful enough to interfere with the entrance of coustomers. A boon for meat markets and other shops where flies enter whenever the screen door is opened. In trying out this device in Bos on, no flies were available, it being 'Vinter. So the company telegraph ed to Texas and had 2000 flies rush ed by express and fed on the way. falk about civilization getting com plex! „ *»-■ * * * k -» . A iflUl JUNGLE 1 he auto and telephone are tran orming life i n the jungles of Africa, writes St. Barbe Baker in London Daily Mail. Many a native chief has a Ford. The natives have heard about the radio and Baker predicts that the savage villages before long will have receiving sets and loud speakers. Eventually there will be n 0 es cape, no haven of refuge, from the "bite man’s mechanical system. In Washington the rum runners tried to use dynamite against the cops. That’s bad, but better than Belling it to their customers. Most beautiful women marry ugly men because they don’t have to put |up with good-looking HL CAN’T BE PRESENTED UNTIL HE’S PRESENTABLE I / suee - X -7 GET a shame ANO | A NEW SUIT ANO rik. I L - • jnTzopuce You To I “"'i This YounG LadY g j gk/ V y 1 | I j 'I i BPiFsa Joans V/1 > O v : ■ Yr' KT) t 1 > Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. April 24, 1914.) In a state of preparedness and ready to leave Americus within a few hours notice, Captain Fort’s valiant company the Americus Light Infantry awaits orders to move to Fort McPherson to be mustered into service against Mexico. The troops awaited yesterday the expect ed order to move but nothing of this nature came. Americus will on Wednesday next, 29th inst., extend a hearty welcome to the large party of representative citizens and civil war veterans who are coming from New York to form ally dedicate the New York state monument in Andersonville, Natio nal cemetery, near this city. Thq party of 500 or 600 visitors will ar rive in the city on the morning of the 29th. It required less than one minute of time for the six hundred pupils of Furlow school to vacate the build ing yesterday morning in their usual “fire drill” exercises, a pleas ing remarkable exhibition which evi denced the careful training bestow ed by superintendent and teachers. Col. Hamilton Yancey, a promi nent and well known Roman, wad in Americus yesterday, where he comes oftimes upon busness. Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Stewart and Miss Lucy Barrow Taylor are ex pected to arrive this morning from New York and Washington, and will spend some time in Americus, formerly their home. Misses Lila and Katrina Gilreath, guests at the Cobb-Donnan mar riage here Wednesday returned to Macon yesterday. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. April 24, 1894.) On Wednesday evening next at 8 o’clock a pretty marriage will be solemnized at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Thayer on Elm ave nue, when Miss Loula A Rosser and Mr. Otis M. Hansford thus give their pledges to Rev. R. E. Neighbor. Mr. and Mrs. Hansford will be at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Martin, on Church street after Monday. Miss Mamie Sherlock, who has finished a special course at Mt. De Sales, College, Macon, returned home yesterday. Master W. T. Lane, and young brother, Robert Crittenden Lane, went alone yesterday to Shellman to visit Capt. and Mrs. R, F. Crit tendon. The Memorial Day Orator will be Col. H. A. Alexander,- of Atlan ta, a gifted and eloquent young orator. Upon conclusion of the exercises the Daughters of the Con federacy will present the bronze Cross of Honor to old soldiers who have not yet received them. The Americus Police and Fire Benevolent Association, as organ ized has for its officers: P. H. Red mond, president: W- r Barrow, vice-president; W. P. McArthur, secretary, W. R. Morris, treasurer. The relief committe'e consists of W. P. Skeleton, J. F. Morris, J. I ma<le on improved ’lCfarm 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 M an. i - ' THURSDAY AFTERI'IOON, APRIL' 24, 192'4 Monahan, and W. C. Barrow. The city schools, Furlow "and Rees Park, will picnic this spring and have selected Friday, May 6th, as the date and beautif' 11 Wildwood Park in Columbus as the Mecca to which they journey. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. Apri' 24. 1894.) The membership of the First Baptist church here, as well as the general public, are very mueh averse to Dr. A. B. Campbell’s ac ceptance of the call recently made by the Tatnall Square Baptist church, of Macon, and at the con clusion of the service Sunday eve ning adopted resolutions, express ing their desire that he remaifi in Americus and continue the great work he has so faithfully perform ed in the past and that still lies before him. Messrs. Evan T. Mathis and W. P. Wallis left yesterday morning for Buena Vista where they will attend Marion Superior court this week. Messrs. Ed Speer, Tom Guice and Walter Harris rode from Ameri cus to Dawson on bicycles yester day. Harris started at 12 o’clock making the trip of nearly thirty miles over a rough country road in two hours and forty nine min utes. They passed Harris on the road ten miles out from Dawson. Dr. E. J. Eldridge has secured the services of Dr. Emmett L. Murray as, a manager of his Lamar drug store, which position v,as made vacant by the death of Dr. J. J. W. Ford. 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