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PAGE SIX TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED 1879 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., u«c.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered aa second elate matter at the poet off id *t Americus, Georgia, according to the Act of Cmgreea. The Associated Preet is exclusively entitled ta the use for the republication of all news dia« patchea credited to it or not otherwise credited to tihia paper and also the local news publiahed here fri. All right of republication of apecial dispatches tre also reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST LANDIS & KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., New York; peoples’ Gas Bldg.. Chicago. A THOUGHT" A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.—Prov. 15:4. While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.—Shakespeare. / Our Heroes in Gray Again today we of the South honor the memory of those who fought for home and principle back in the sixties. Battle flags, ragged and fad ed, were unfurled and borne on shoulders bent with advancing 'age; but today those shoulders were a bit stiaighter, eyes brighter and a smile covers faces wrinkled but gloriously beautiful to every man and woman whose heart beats of the Old South. They fought like men; they lost like men; they returned to wrecked homes, unafraid to face the future, unashamed of the cause they espoused. Victory was denied them, but there’s no disgrace in their fail ure. This thought is beautiful ly expressed by Miriam Teich ner, in “Victory’’— I call no fight a losing fight If, fighting, I have gained some strength, new strength; If, fighting, I turned ever toward th e light, all unallied with forces of the night; If, beaten, quivering, f could say at length: ‘T did no deed that needs to be unnamed; I fought—and lost—and I am unashamed.” In time our gray-clad heroes will pass on to their reward, but the memory of their valor will ever live in the heart of the South. Let’s Poison A few more days and King Cotton will be ready for his first sprinkling of poison. From one end of Sumter county to the other, the cotton plant has thrust its head above ground. weevil is licking his chops,” realizing that a great feast awaits him in the thous sQus of Sumter acres. Farmers, lets beat him to the feast. Get your arsenate ready, your mops and sprays in shape for the battle that must be fought the next few months. Poisoning is nothing more nor less than INSURANCE. You pay a small premium of a few dollars an acre to insure success at the end of the growing sea son. It’s cheap insurance, when you count the risk. Dr. Soule emphatically de clares that one more dose of poi son over Georgia last year n V AA given Georgia farm ers 300,000 more bales of cot *OrJ’ P r ‘ S° u l e knows. Let’s not quit this year. Let’s apply that ONE MORL dose of Poison-beginning earlier and continuing until the last minute/ Ji w e do that, Sumter will pro. duce a great crop and enjoy a season of prosperity. Teach the Child the Danger of Narcotics Captain Hobson wisely rec ommended that the peril of nar cotics be taught to all children in the schools. Education is the most effec five backfire to build against U e diug traffic. Os all curbs, it is the quickest and surest. 1 he great concern of any par ent naturally is the f eir: ‘‘Will my child tell a victim to the dope habit that is steadily in vading youth and even the schools?” Teach children the dangers of drugs, the agonies and de spair of the addicts. The most important thing to impress on them is that the first dose usual ly is taken out of curiosity or to be ’’smart.” Impress indelibly on them that the use of drugs is cowardly and vicious. Pre sented to them reasonably and clearly, it should be as easy to teach children never to touch drugs as it is to train them not to drink deadly poisons. One out of every 1 I prisoners arriving at Sing Sing last year was a drug addict. The per centage of convicts who are fiends is 10 times as big as six years ago. And half of these prisoner-victims of the drug habit are second-termers. So Reports Dr. Amos Squire, Sing Sing’s head physician. Captain Richmond P. Hob son, president, of the Interna tional Narcotic Education Asso ciation, says: “It is estimated that more than nine-tenths of all murders, hold-ups and daring robberies are now committed by drug addicts.” Prohibition, important as it is, after all is a trivial matter com pared with the Drug Traffic. At least one and a quarter million Americans are victims of the drug habit, and a fourth of them are not usefully employed. People with whom we talk seem to have the notion that the most outstanding and dangerous feature of the Drug Traffic is the increase in crime, due to drugs. But there is a greater peril— the fact that the drug habit is making its greatest gains among the youth of America. Captain Hogson places the average age of the heroin addict at 23. The majority must have been recruited before the age of 20.” A youth will become an ad dict in 10 'days, and a mature man in 30 days. The government can do much Ry rigid attempts to enforce the Harrison act, and by giving con victed dope peddlers the limit under the law. If that limit is not severe enough, the law should be given more teeth. Why is it that more bootleg gers than dope peddlers are ar rested, though violation of the Volstead act is not nearly as great a menace as the Drue Traffic? Weeds Scientists say that our larg est cities, if abandoned, would in 20 years be run in ruins, con quered ey a jungle growth of vegetaion. Weeds and other forms of plant life that grow wild have terrific vitality. Bitter struggle for existence has given them strength and endurance. That’s why weeds choke out a garden unless vegetables are helped in the fight by constant weeding. The vegetables, pampered and assisted by man generation after generation, have become feeble in powers of resistance. They surrender easily to the weeds, as have the flower gar dens that once surrounded the haunted house. Be thankful for troubles and obstacles. They develop strength—of character and wis dom as well as muscles. i OPINIONS OF | OTHER EDITORS i COMMUNITY ADVERTISING It is just as important for com munities to advertise as ft rs for business houses to let the public know what they have to offer in the way of merchandise or service. Community advertising can be made immensely profit able.—Albany Herald. NOT ONLY IN WASHINGTON The little city of Pitcher in Oklahoma the other cay forgot to hold a city election and four aidermen will hold their jobs for four years more. How happy a bunch of gentlemen in Washing ton would be, if such a thing should happen in November!— Brunswick News. The FARMER’S TROUBLES Forty-two per cent of the farm ers covered in a recent survey feel that their financial diffi culties are due to low prices of farm products. Seventeen pee cent attribute their condition to high taxes, 11 per cent to high cost of farm labor, 10 per cent to high freight rates, 10 per cent to high interest rates, 6 per cent to reckless expenditures during the boom period, and 4 per cent to too much credit.—Selma Times. BOSTON MASS. IS LEARNING Pleading guilty to a charge of misconduct and several statu tory offenses with a young wo man tenant of a fashionable apartment . house in Quincy Square, Cambridge, Mass., E. J. Owens, a southern negro came East from Griff ip, Ga., has beei sentenced to a year and a day in jail. Owens stated that he had been in the north but eleven months and had hired out at odd jobs u: pl finally he secured a position as helper at the apart ment house where the offenses were committed. In sentencing Owens, Judge Stone, in the Third District Court, declared: Where you came from they would burn your miserable carcass and I am sorry that I ca" do nothing more than send you to jail.” Owens attempted to say something in his own de fense, but was quickly stopped by Judge Stone, who declared “I want to hear nothing at all -c// ditty My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange one to the other given: I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, S ffigafn There never was a better bargain driven. 1 My true-love hath my heart, and I have His heart m me keeps him and me in one, 5 My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides: • He loves my heart, for once it was his own, L.j I cherish his because in me it bides: jy'" ' aSD / Mv true-love hath my heart, and I have his. ' Z'- 5 " Ph3 T Sidney, from such as you.” Thus the people of Boston, who have been among the severest critics of the people of the south in their dealings with the vicious and criminal negro are learning their lesson. The people of' Boston and other sections of the east and north will learn a great deal about the black man before they get rid of him.—Washington, Ga., News-Reporter. NEW FIFTY-CENT PIECE Congress has passed, by unani mous vote of the House and Sen ate, and President Coolidge has approved, an act authorizing the coinage of five million silver /ifty-cent pieces commemorating the commescement of work on the Stone Mountain Memorial to the Confederacy. Gutzon Borglum will design the coin. It is of unusual interest that the suggestion of the issuance of a Memorial fifty-cent piece was made by Harry Stillwell Edwards, the well-known writer of the city The idea is a unique and pleas ing one and is destined to be help ful to the cause. Incidentally, the Memorial As sociation w’ill handle the entire distribution of the coins, selling them for one dollar each. This will place in the treasury of the Association some two and a half million dollars, provided all the coins are sold in the national cam paign now being planned. The originator of the idea is to be congratulated—Macon Telegraph. TALKING ABOUT SECOND PLACE There is a movement looking toward the nomination of a strong man for vice president of the ~ two great parties. This is caused by the possibility of a third party and that the presidential elec tion may be thrown into the house Due to a closeness of the vote the President may not be elected and the man chosen Vice Presi dent by'the Senate will become President at least for a time. | When the election of a Presi dent is thrown into the—Souse under the Constitution the mem bers vote as states and the elec tion must be by a majority vote At present the Republicans con trol twenty-three states, the Democrats twenty, and five dele gations are tied. So no candi date may receive a majority vote and, bear in mind, the present Congress must select, if there is no choice by the electoral college until February. The Republicans may .unseat enough Democrats to give them a majority. At pres ent the five states with their po litical complexion evenly di vided are New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maryland, Nebraska anef Montana. There has only been one case of the failure of elec tors to choose a President. That was in 1825 . Among the Democrats there is talk of Franklin D. Roosevelt for Vice President again, or Vance C. McCormick of Pennsylvania. The Republicans are speaking of Judge William S. Kenyon of lowa.—Savannah Press. ' DAILY POEM LISTEN HERE, DAD— Say, Dad, as you sit in your rest a-bit chair and dreamily gaze into space, your thoughts seem to come to me, out of the air, or maybe from looks on your face. You’re scanning the past, and the days yet to be; jes’ pondering over your life. You’re giving a thought, now and then, just to me —and then t 0 my mother—your wife. Has everything been just the way we’d desire? Have most of our wishes come true? Has life as we’ve lived it, been really afire through the things that you’ve struggled to do No wonder you wonder; why, shucks, you’re a dad and all dad keep thinkin’, I guess. It's human to judge by what kinfolks have had as to whether you’ve been a success. Now, listen here, Dad, I am just statin’ out or my battles with good times and strife. If 1 can 'lo half vyhat you’ve done, there’s no doubt I’ll be mighty well pleased with my life. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc ’> ” THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER 1 rjf Refers Wdbert Apple SLAVE The mail brings a circular pic turing a scoop or conveyor by which “one man can unload and store a car load of coal in ai? hour and a half, at a cost of from three to seven cents a ton.” If you were in the coal business and were given your choice of hav ing one of these scoops or the an cient strong man, Hercules, you’d pick the scoop. Machinery is the slave of all of us. It displaces human labor, re leasing workers for the making of other things, thus gradually raising the standard of living. When we reach a scale of living that satis fies we can begin working fewer hours a day, all of us. CAPITAL In four years 22 labor banks have been organized. Their combined re sources total more than 60 million dollars. (And this is only the beginning. If labor saved its money and ors ganized solidly, it would not be many generations until it could buy all the giant industries now known as “capitalistic.” The “middle classes,” comprising by far the vast majority of the pop ulation, are in greater need of or ganization. But selecting white collar jobs and other easier tasks has weakened them, paralyzed the fighting instinct that results in or ganized, united effort. OUT Exports of leading farm products in the eight months that preceded March 1 were valued at 1308 million dollars. This was 6 per cent more than the corresponding eight months a year before, but lhe gam may represent price changes in stead of i: i reased sales. A larger handicap for the farmers is that the 1308 millio'n dollars rep resented what EXPORTERS GOT. The price received at the farms was away below this figure. The farmer doesn’t get the profits-piled-on profits that are added as food moves to market. * » * MASTERS The horse and cow have evisted on earth 10 times as long as man, according to Dr. Mather of Denison University. It makes us wonder why horse and cows aren’t ruling us instead of vice versa, provided the scie: ► lists are correct in.their claim that man in his original state bad no more intelligence than other beasts. But man had CURIOSITY, the force that deverlops the mind. An swer Willie’s questions patiently. The more questions he asks, the more potential intelligence he has, waiting to be developed. • GOLF Ter. million Americans now play golf, according to the’ Playground and Recreation Association. It’s the second national sport, and gain ing followers. So rapidly that it may soon imperii the leadership of base ball. .Remarkable for a sport that only a few years ago was the laugh ing stock of the whole country. One thing about golf, its devotees have to work at it. They get exer cise. That’s more than can be said of baseball fans who, sitting watching others play, are really wit nessing a form of theatricals rather than a “national sport.” A real sport is something in which it fol lowers participate. * * * FREE Only 85 American cities are known to have municipal golf courses, though this sport claim 10 million followers. , Memebership and fees in most golf clubs are so high that i-’s still a rich man’s game. The poor < r even people of average means can not afford it. Ir Canada philan jthropists are building golf courses and throwing them open to the pub lic. Good tip for Americans who want to return some of the money tlie public created for them. Maybe the recent earthquake left the Japs’ heads muddled. Wonder what has become of the old-fashioned congressman who was going to teduce pur taxes? ANOTHER ONE TO TRIM fffl hexiL iJAw w */"W? IL‘^/ / / it m /V / L7 l / I • 1W / IrS I I / — — Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. April 26, 1914.) , President Mathis, and the board of directors of the Americus cham ber of commerce have decided to call a meeting of the merchants of Americus for Tuesday at 11:30 in the A. L. I. armory to discuss plans for organizing a Merchants, Trade association with the view of mak ing Chautauqua week a banner trade wqek for the city. Furlow Rodgers was the host-at a very pretty affair on Tuesday evening when he entertained a d:n ner party at the Country Club in compliment to Miss Marianne Watts, of Thomasville, the attractive guest of Miss Lizabeth Hollis. A very pretty though simple wed ding occurred on Wednesday at the home of the brides’ sister, Mrs. J. H. Beard, on Church street. When Miss Nell Cobb was given in mar riage to Mr. Homer Edwin Don nan, of Macon. Mrs S. H. Young, at her home on Leslie road entertained the mem bers of her forty two club or> Wednesday afternoon with a few outside guestis to fill in vacancies. The party was given on the porch which was decorated with pot plants and bowls of lovely roses. Paul Sanford came form Macon yesterday, and denied rumor cur rent that he might get mad and go to fight Huerta. Crop prospects in the Americus territory were never brighter at this April date than, at present, and with continued favorable season the yield in cotton and grain should be fully up to the average. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. April 26, 1904.) The continued graceful glide of the cotton market towards the bot tom was painfully apparent yester day. Spot cotton in Americus drop ped a full quarter cent, while “fu tures” hit the toboggan slide and sailed merrily down the flume. Middling cotton is now quoted here at 13 and one half cents. Capt. John A. Cobb was official ly notified yesterday by State Chair man Ed Brown of a meeting ol the State Executive Committee tor Wed nesday, May, 4, at the Piedmont hotel to fix the tipne, place and method of procedure in the Morris Glover contest for nomination as judge of the Blue, Ridge Circuit. Miss Martha Wheatley is among Americus’ contingent pf fair repre sentatives at the Albany Chautau qua, going down yesterday. Miss Amzie Williford is visiting’ her cousins, Misses Vernon and Floyd Willifor \ in Atlanta. An out-of-town wedding of in terest here will be .at of Miss Sarah Anne Anthony and Samuel Ridd’j which happy event occurs thi evening at the home of the b .de’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gab riel Toombs Anthony, in W ashing ton, Ga. The social prominence of bride and groom renders the oc casion of interest. Miss Anthony has f cquently visited Americus a.- ilv suest of her cousin, Miss Mary I A Iliade on im P roved 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, ?mericus, Ga. Phone 89 fil l.lli , SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 26, 1924 Tower, who will attend tho marri age tonight. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. April, 26., 1894.) Col. and Mrs S. H. Hawkins, and family, Col. and Mrs. E. A. Hawk ins and family, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hawkins, and Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Gatewood together with a large party of young friends, picnicked yesterday at Coney’s mill a beau tiful spot in nature in Dooly coun ty, on the S. A. & M. road. The party went down by special train, and were joined at the mill by sever ral ffiends on that side of the Flint. The picnic was given in honor of Misses Smyser and Muldoon of Louisville, and Misses Jones and Wilkerson, of Montgomery, who are tho charming guests of Miss Nannie Lou Hawkins. Miss Emma Council,one of the fair teachers at Jackson street school, gave her little pupils a grand picnic yesterday. Several friends went out thee cool woods with ‘he picknickers, and the occasion wa s greatly enjoyed by all. The corn crop in this immediate section is seriously endangered from the ravages of cutworms. In many fields near Americus the young corn has been almost destroyed, and as it is too late to replant the yield ,tl)is year may be greatly reduced. The office of sheriff is about the only one really over which there will probably be a contest. Os course the present very efficient incumbent Sheriff L. B. Forrest, with his able deputy, J. O. L. McArthur, will be condidates for re-election and such has been their record that they will poll even a larger vote than at any previous election. The bank cashier worries us. He sits in a cage behind bars and every time he takes our money the cage looks like a cell. Canada imported $160,000 worth of radio apparatus from the United States during January. / 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) , AT YOUR service S Oldest and largest Vsr Slate Bank, in South- -3 west Georgia. Any I? iWOiWi business entrusted to MMr ■Ol^WwHMaKm us w * 1 receive our 13681 attention. If you are no t al rea<*y one of our valued customers. ■ we would appreciate an opportunity of serving you. The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Too Small THE STANDARD A SALE OF ODDS AND ENDS MONDAY AND TUESDAY AT 25c FOR YOUR CHOiCE. One big table filled with odds and ends of every description, and every article on the table is use full and many are worth five times the price we are asking. In the lot will b e found Men’s Nainsook Un dershirts, Children’s White Dress es (soiled), Ladies’ Shirt Waists (soiled) Children’s Seal Pax Union Suits (soiled), Children’s Dresses (soiled), Ladies Children’s Aprons (soiled), Underskirts for Ladies and children (soiled.) All on big table and offered for your choice at each 25c SALE OF BEST SHEETING AT 49c Pequot Sheeting, absolutely the best made; unbleached, 81 inches wide; mill end lengths, from '2 to 10 yards; her e Monday and Tues day, yard ............. 49c EXTRA SIZE CRINKLE BED SPREADS AT $1.98 In the natural colors; guaran teed to measure 81x90 inches; large enough for the largest bed; Monday and Tuesday $1.98 BEST SHEETS MADE AT $1.49. Victoria, Pepperel, full bleached Sheets with broad hems guaranteed to be free from dressing; our reg ular $2 numbers; here Monday and Tuesday $1.49 MISSES AND CHILDREN’S SERVICEABLE BROWN SANDALS Stitched down soles, of excellent quality brown leather, flexible and comfortable; sizes 5 to 8, $1.25; 8 1-2 to 11, $1.35; 111-2 to 2 $1.50 PRETTY SILK CREPE DE CHINE AT $1.69 40 inches wide and guaranteed all .silk, in every good shade; equal to some grades now selling at $2.50; Here Monday and Tuesday, yard $1.69 BEST YARD WIDE PERCALE AT 12 1 2c For Monday and Tuesday we will sell our best Gold Seal, yard-wide Percales at 12 l-2c; every colors is guaranteed; none better sold in Americus at any price; Monday nd Tuesday, yard 12 l-2c NEW 50c COLORED VCILES AT 39c Forty inches wide, in a great va riety of new pretty patterns, med ium and dark patterns, beautiful quality at, yard ..39c Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS. GA.
