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IIMES-RECCRDER
’ PUBLISHED 1879
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A THOUGHT - 1
Let all things be done decently
•nd in order. —1 Cor. 14:40.
Let thy mind's sweetness have
Its operation upon thy body, clothes,
•nd habitation.—George Herbert.
Growing Cotton Under
Weevil Conditions
In *922 a series of demon
strations in weevil control were
carried out on 237 farms in
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida.
One-half of each of these
farms was dusted with calcium
arsenate; the other half was not.
Each side was picked out sep
arately and weighed. The dust
ed area produced an average of
295 pounds npore of seed cot
ton than the undusted.
The dusting cost between $4
and $5 per acre. Figure the in
creased yield of 295 pounds at
25 cents, deduct the cost of
dusting at $5, and you'll readi
ly see that a profit of $69.75
was realized by the use of poi
son.
These figures were given in an
raticle, "Growing Cotton Un
der 801 l Weevil Conditions,"
published by the Southern Rail
way. Regarding the 1922 ex
periments mentioned above,
we find this—
Each side was picked out sep
arately and weighed. Exact
yields of seed cotton per acre for
both the dusted and undusted
sides of each demonstration field
showed yields of 857 pounds per
acre and 562 pounds per acre,
respectively. The average gain
due to dusting was 295 pounds
of seed cotton per acre. The
cost of treatment through the
use of calcium arsenate varied
from $4 to $5 per acre.
Regarding experiments made
on 933 farms in 1923, in which
6,729 acres, an average of 7 1-2
acres to the farm, the article
gives these figures:
The average yield per acre on
these farms wsa 37.7 percent in
excels .of the average of adjacent
• farms where the same methods
cultivation -and treatment
were not pursued.
Cultural and poison methods
will be carried on in 1924 by
the Southern Railway on 4,000
farms operated by white farm
ers and 1,000 negro farms.
A convincing illustration of
what may be done by intensive
cultural and poison methods is
given by the Southern Railway
in this instance:
-A South Carolina farmer
cultivated 100 acres of cot
ton, from which he gathered 127
bales, or more than a bal e to
th e acre,in 1923. Th ; > crop was
on well-drained upland, not par
ticularly fertile. A crop of cow
peas was plowed under in the fall
of 1922, followed by thorough
discing m the spring with the ap
plication, before planting, of 750
pounds of high-grade fertilizer
per acre. The plants, in 3 1-2-
foot rows, were chopped to a
ini One to five sta lks in the
hill, the width of a hoe. Fre
. quent shallow cultivation was
g/ven until the crop was prac
tically matured, and three appli
cations of home-made syrup poi
son mixture were made."
Die results cited above prove
the value of poisoning with ar
senate and prove that its use is
PROFITABLE. Poison does
not make cotton. Its use is in
the nature of insurance against
weevil and weather.
Fight the weevil all the time,
and do not rely on poison alone.
Plow under all cotton stalks
grass, weeds and trash in the
fields in the fall. Clean up rub
bish and brush about the farm
and burn hedges and ditches.
But, with the best care, some
weevils will live through the win
ter. It will pay handsomely to
jgo after these as soon as they
come out of hibernation, either
■by picking them off or by poi
soning the bud of the cotton
with calcium arsenate, because
these hibernating weevils are to
be the ancestors of the thousands
and npllions that may later infest
the crop.
Select land that is best adapt
ed to cotton; that is, high, well
drained, dry land that . has been
put in good mechanical condition
by the plowng in of humus-mak
ing materials such as legumes or
animal manure —land that warms
up early and on which cotton
makes rapid growth from the
very, beginning.
Break early, preferably in the
fall or winter.
Harrow thoroughly and pulv
erize the soil well before bed
ding up.
_ a liberal amount of com-
mercial fertilizer best suited to
the soil and conditions. A high
grade fertilizer with a heavy
content* of quickly available ni
trogen is probably best.
Plant selected seed of a good,
early-maturing variety.
Flant as soon as the soil is
warm enough to insure quick
germination and rapid growth.
Cultivate shallow and often,
being sure to hav e a good stand.
On most lands 3 1-2-foot rows,
with two or more stalks to the
hill spaced the width of a hoe,
give best results.
It is clear from the records
of production in Sumter county,
as well as in every other cotton
production section, that weath
er conditions affect the cotton
crop more disastrously than the
weevil.
Cold and wet weather delay
its growth and fruiting and the
boll weevil has its opportunity.
However, it has been demon
strated that the weevil can be
controlled, by the use of poison
and that the cost is not prohibi
tive.
The farmer who adopts the
methods outlined above by the
Southern Railway expert will
garner a crop that will justify
the expense of insurance by use
of c .Icium arsenate.
9
Lifting—Not a Shifting
Needed
Every one wants lower taxes,
but that’s not all they want.
They want a soldiers bonus of
a billion or two dollars—along
with lower taxes.
The farmers are demanding
all kinds of Federal aid—and
lower taxes.
Every city or hamlet wants a
new federal building or this or
that—and lower taxes.
It can’t be done. It isn’t pos
sible. We have one eminent
statesman in Georgia who said
he was going to give us more
and charge us less—but the re
sults so far is we are PU I'l ING
OUT more than ever before.
The Worth County Local, an
excellently edited weekly paper
has this to say about lifting tax
es and shifting taxes —
A prominent business man as
serts that every official who ad
vocates high taxes should be
driven into private life.
The trouble is, that officials
pretend to be for low taxes for
the “masses” but for high taxes
for the “rich," with the result
that taxes stay up and eventually
all the people bear a share of
the burden.
What the country wants and
needs is not a shifting, but a
lifting of taxes.
The tax shifter is a plain
fraud.
Don t beg the landlady for
better meals and lower rate at
the same time. You'll likely get
neither—or both.
If we MUSI have lower tax
es—and the necessity certainly
exists—then we should demand
less from our state and federal
government representatives.
The facts in the case are that
few of us know how much the
government is doing for each
separate class of citizen. In
speaking of what the federal
government is doing for the
farmers of the nation, the Tifton
Gazette makes this observation
along with the list—
Sometimes you hear a fellow
who doesn’t know what he is
talking about say that Uncie
Sam is doing nothing for his
nephews on th e farms. He’s eith
er lying, with intent to deceive
for personal advantage, or
doesn’t know what he is
talking about.
The.annual supply bill for the
Department of Agriculture, as
passed by the House, carries an
appropriation of $57,000,000,
principally for th e benefit of the
farmers. Among the items in
the bill are: $30,000 for the
manufacture and distribution of
blackleg vaccine; $200,000 for
the eradication of the boll wee
vil; $176,000 for the study of
insects affecting cereal and for
age crops; $660,000 for th e erad
ication of the cattie tick; $184,-
000 for treatment of horse chol
,era; $411,000,000 for combating
the barberry; $572,000 for pre
venting the spead of moths;
$216,000 to control the spread of
European corn borer; $381,000
for the eradication of the pink
boll worm; $409,000 for continu
ing the report on crop and live
stock estimates, and $682,000 for
market news service. If a farm
er is too stubborn and bull-head
ed to take advantage of the help
the government' offers him, it’s
not the government’s fault. It’s
there for him if he cares to take
advantage of it.
There are certain functions
that only the government can
and should perform. Those list
ed above are good examples of
what the federal government
SHOULD do. But we do not
stop there. This list of demands
never ends.
This we should remember,
whatever we demand aud re
ceive, that we must eventually
pay for. If we would lift taxes,
then we must shift some of the
demands for appropriations—
to the waste basket.
—dLr
jCTo the moon
I Art thou pale for weariness
Os climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth,
- ~ Wandering compamonless
Among the stars that have a different birth, —
And ver changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
—Perry Bysshe Shelley /
OPINIONS OF
j OTHER EDITORS §
letting the knocker knock
If you fel like tthe fellow with
the hammer is after you, just let
him strike. Dodging him and,
making things hum in spite of
him is good exercise—yes; it is.
He shrivels and shrivels while you
grow and grow.—Cordele Dispatch:
WHERE THE MONEY GOES
The government printer says
that last year $600,000 worth of
printed material was never put
in circulation, and more than
$400,000 worth was wasted in
distribution to people who did
not wish it. As many as 300,-
000,000 copies of official docu
ments have been issued in a year;
yet no effort is being made t>
put a stop to the waste.—Buena
Vista Patriot.
THE* MERGER PROPOSITION
The merger of county and city
governments is being advocated
on an extensive scale. Why not;
For instance, why have we a coun
ty superintendent and a city su
perintendent for our schools,
when one man could do the work
for both- Look at the tremen
dous saving that would result.
There are too many officers in
the country, town, state and gov
ernment.—Jackson ProsrressArgus.
SHOULD BE INTERESTING
Every time you meet a big
man—a man who has made an
outstanding success of the things
he has undertaken to accomplish
in life—ask him this question:
“What is the biggest thing you
have learned about business—the
one big idea which has done
more for you than any other idea
you have ever had?” The an
swer., will usually astonish you
by their smplicity, but the un
folding of the thought will be in
structive and inspiring. It is a
worthwhile thing to do.—Nash
ville Herald.
STUDENT RESOLUTIONS SIG
NIFICANT
Os more than statewide inter
est is the announcement in news
dispatches that a largely attend
ed meeting of students of the
University of Georgia at Athens
adopted resolutions upholding
Chancellor Barrow and the facul
ty in their determination to ex
pel from the institution any stu
dent convicted in the University
councils of “drunkenness or dis
orderly conduct.” The vote on
the resolution —472 to 19—would
seem to indicate a strong senti
ment in the student body in its
favor. --£i
The fact that it was consider
ed necessary to take such action
would seem to indicate that mat
ters were in a rather bad way at
the University. The faculty of
such an institution is jealous for
its good name, and the same is
true of its student body. Neither
factulty nor student 'body de
sires to advertise to the world
that drinking to excess is common
among classmen.
RAISING THE BONUS
Senator Smith of South Caro
lina has an entirely new method
of paying the bonus and if it
would work it would be fine.
There seems to be no reasonable
hope tnat it would ever meet
with approval and it is not pro
per to say that it ought to be
done. He proposes that all own
ers of tax free securities pass up
their dividends or interest for a
period of four years so that the
billion per year could be paid.
It is interesting to know that
these securities bring in that
amount of money and adds spice
to the effort «that is being made
to discontinue this method of
issuing municipal and governmen
tal bonds that bear a small rate
of interest and are not taxable.
Yet there are millions of dollars
invested in this form of securities
that form the nucleus of substan
tial living of hundreds of people.
To take away their entire income
from this source would work a
palpable hardship and one. thq%
is entirely out of line with demo
| cratic government.—Thomasville
Tin,es -
* THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
bjAibcrt Apple
SPEED
Jules Verhe created a sensation
when he wrote his book, “Around
the World in 80 Days.” That seems
slow now. The other day the king
of England sent a telegram which,
relayed, .circled the earth and came
Lack to him in 80 seconds.
Radio does the same thing in a
fraction of one second.
In Verne’s day fast transporta
tion of the HUMAN BODY was the
goal. Our generation has concern
ed itself also with fast transporta
tion of THOUGHT. Give us tho
radi 0 movie and we can stay at
home and see the world, also hear
the sounds of the far-off places.
And who knows but what even
odors will come by radio?—the
fragrant lotus bloom, the stench of
the jungle, the aroma of liquor in
Cuba.
* * *
HOMES
Last year there was more build
ing in America than ever before.
The record will be smashed again
in 1924, predicts the Copper and
Brass Research Association. It
bases its estimate on what’s already
erected or contracted for.
But. even at that the end of
1924 will find us 5000 million dal
lars behind our building needs, ac
cording to William J. Moore. He’s
president of the American Bond
and Mortgage Co.
Labor shortage is the main prob
lem in building. Thirty-five thou
sand skilled men in the trades die
or retire each year. Their places
are taken by apprentices, of whom
there are to 0 few in many com
munities.
* * *
MUJIKS
Russia, taxing every one heavily,
will assess farmers about 18 per
cent of their crops.
This seems scandalous to a read
er in America. But if you check
up with a pencil, you’ll find that 18
per cent of total income of the
public is not far from the cost of
national, state, county and munici
pal government in the United States.
• * *
FAYING
Argentina rang with public re
joicing when it passed its new na
tional pension law by which every
one who has worked 25 years is
entitled to quit work and i etire on
a full-pay pension.
T o provide money for this, the
law requires every one during years
of work to contribute five per cent
of his earnings to a government
pension fund. The public doesn’t
particularly care for this levy.
Argentina is not the only place
where people don’t “see” that every
penny spent by government has to
be raised by taxes.
■ * *
GONE
The Russian army lost 11 million
soldiers during the war by deaths,
wounds and sickness. So report:;
the soviet, shoving its adding ma
chines aside.
The 1922 famine killed about
five million more.
The typhus epidemic attacked 12
million Russians, with heavy mor
tality.
With all these catastrophes, one
begins to realize that Russia’s woes
are not all of political origin, not by
a long sight.
* * *
MALARIA
Russia’s greatest enemy now is
malaria. Four million cases were
reported in nine months. The pan
demic is spreading instead of being
gotten under control.
Medical historians agree that ma
laria caused the downfall of the
mighty Greek and Roman Empires.
Seven million Greeks perished b
this disease, brought to them by P.r
sians.
The battle with the germs is a
never-ending World War.
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m lands at cheap
est rates for of 5,7 or 10
years with pre-j.ayment option given
Money secured promptly. We have
now outstanding over $1,100,000 on
farms in Sumter county alone, with
plenty more/ to ler.d.
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Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co.,
in Sumter, Lee. Terrell. Schley,
Macon, Stewart, Randolph and
Webster counties. 21 Planters Bank
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Old Days In Americus
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. May 3,
1914.)
Sumter county’s road department
may be benifitted to an extent in
;the prospective cutting of a big
“melon” when the state treasury
department disburses the neat sum
of one hundred thousand dollars
among the counties of Georgia, this
sum having been collected from
automobile and motorcycle owners
as the tag tax levied upon machines
under the new $5 tag ’aw.
A pretty party of three tables
was given on Saturday morning hy
Miss Claude McLaughlin at her
home on College street, in honor
of Miss Florence Niles, of Atlanta,
and Miss Gladys Moulton, of Con
necticut, the attractive guests of
Mrs. C. O. Niles.
Mrs Ed Sheffield was hostess on
Thursday afternoon, entertaining at
her home on Church street, the
members of the Matron’s Club with
a few outside guests. Top score
was made by Mrs. Henry B. Allen,
who received a pair of Niagara
Maid hose as the prize.
There a,re in Americus many
veterans of the gallant old Doles-
Cook Brigade, commanded in turn
by General Doles and Gen. Phil.
Cook, and the annual reunion of the
survivors of this “old guard” are
alway interesting. Another meet
ing is to be held this week in Jack
sonville.
The condition of Miss Maria:
Harrold, who is ill at the Ameri
cus hospital, following an operation
performed Friday evening, was re
ported favorable yesterday, to the
gratification of her friends.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Tinies Recorder. May 3,
1904.)
J. B. Felder offers for sale today
1,100 acres original timber, lying
in 13 miles of Americus and 4 miles
of railroad. It will cut 5,000 feet
lumber per acre. A bargain for a
quick purchaser.
Miss May Davis returned home
yesterday after a visit of several
days to Americus friends.
Mrs. James A. Pinkston anti
children returned yesterday from a
visit of several days to Mrs. J. R.
Americus people interested in the
daily port receipts of cotton were
not a little surprised when; yes
terday’s receipts alone were given
at 16,831; bales. Saturday’s re
ceipts were 11, 221, making a total
of 28,000 bales in two days only.
And the price—well, it js far be
low 16 and one J'.alf cents, the level
to which Sully pc 1 it some time ago.
When the first bright days of
the su came yesterday, promising
a &i' day at “the mill” there was
a g< ieral exodus of the club mem
b' s; their wives and daughters to
. ells Mill. Among these were Mr.
and Mrs. W. G. Turpin, Mr. and
666
is a prescription for Malaria,
Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bil
ious Fever. It kills the germs.
Biliousness
Inactive liver, sour stomach,
sick headtu-he, costiveness,
destroy both meutal and
physical efficiency.
These disorders easily yield to
CHAMBERLAIN’S
TABLETS
riMMnt effective-only ccpte
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 3, 1924
Mrs. W. C. Carter, Misses Emmie
May Borum, Ora and Ira Pery.
That long deferred improvement
the grading of Jackson street, is at
least under way. Yesterday City
Engineer Murray and Assistant
Speer made the final surveys and
staked the lines for the granite cur
bing.
. I 1 » —V
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. May
3, 1894.)
Quite a number of the rather
young society folks will enjoy an
outing at Leeton Park this eve
ning. It will be in the nature of
a moonlight picnic with light re
freshments, music and dancing, ana
will be in every respect a most
enjoyable affair. Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Harrold, Miss Maria Har
rold and Miss Mervin Callaway will
be the chaperones of the occasion,
and some twenty couples will go
out in their charge.
Mrs. L. W. Gardner, of Monte
zuma and Miss Sallie Gardner, of
Ochlocknee, arrived yesterday upon
a visit to the formes’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. I. Murray, on Rees
Park.
The popular sport here now
among a number of young men is
hunting frogs on Muckalee by torch
light. A. party with boats, gigs
ahd torches speared fifty-five of
the high jumpers last night and are
“in it” for an elegant breakfast.
The police are after a gang of
young boys who make a habit of
clipping the tails of horses for the
purpose of making watch chains
of the long hairs thus secured.
A jolly party of picknickers chap
eroned by Mr. and Mrs. Henry S.
Davis, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Pope, Mr
and Mrs. J. O. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs.
R. F. Poole, and others, will spend
today at Black’s mill six miles west
of the city. The party will go out
in four large wagons, and a delight
ful day in the woods is anticipated
by all.
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
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Never were Voiles more attrac
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weave quality, great variety of
pretty patterns, in medium and neat
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great assortment for your choos
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NEW CURTAIN SCRIM
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Much better than some stores
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50c TO 59c IMPORTED TISSUE
GINGHAM AT 39c
Special sale for Monday and
Tuesday Imported Tissue Ging
ham including many silk striped de
signs; here Monday and Tuesday
yard 39c
PRINTED FLAXON
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You all know what Flaxon is.
Flaxon is Flaxon only when the
name Flaxon is woven in the selv
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genuine article, the colorings and
patterns are beautiful, sheer and
fine, yard ....35c
IMPORTED SILK STRIPED
MADRAS AT 49c
Used for making dresses; noth
ing better for wa«h dresses; fine'
silk stripes; colors warranted fast;
great variety of patterns and col
ors; Monday and Tuesday, yd...49c
49c MERCERIZED
PONGEE AT 39c
27 inches wide, fine mercerized
quality; regularly 49c; here Mon
day and Tuesday, ward 39c
MEN’S BELTS
AT 25 CENTS
New style Belst with silvered
buckles, all sizes from 28 to 44;
regularly 50c; here Monday and
Tuesday, each 25c
$2.25 SILK GEORGETTE
AT $1.69.
Special sale for Monday and Tues
day Imported Georgette Crepe, 40
inches wide, in white, black and
all good shades; regularly, $2.25;
Monday and Tuesday, yarrl . sl-69
MORE CRINKLE BED
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Extra large for extra size_ dou
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quality $1.98
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