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A THOUGHT ~
The wicked flee when no man
|pur»ueth: but the righteous are bedd
BS a lion.—Prov. 28:1
” Wickedness may prosper for a
yhile.—L’Estrange.
i ,Weevil Control Vital
? Problem
Controlling the boll weevil
Will solve the question of negro
migration. Make it possible for
the negro farmer—tenant, crop
per or owner—to raise cotton
under weevil conditions and the
negroes will remain on the
farms.
These statements have been
repeated a number of times by
~ those authorities speaking in the
county in the past few weeks in
the weevil extermination cam
paign.
“The cotton field is the
natural home of the native Geor
gia negro,” J. C. Maness repeat
ed once more. “H e would rath
er live near a field of cotton
than anywhere else on the globe.
It’s his inability to cope with
the weevil that has caused thous
ands to become discouraged and
go North.
• “The Southern negro loves
cotton; he loves to work in a cot
ton field; he wants to see it
grow and develop. In those
counties where weevil control
has been accomplished, the ques
tion of negro labor has been
solved.
The work among the negroes
by Elbert Stallworth, negro
(county demonstration agent, is
having excellent effect, bringing
results. Stallworth’s messages
to the negroes, in a language
they understand, has given the
negro farmer a renewed tonfi
dence in his own ability.
Dr. DeLoach and Stallworth
have assured the white farmers
that the negro WILL poison,
that, they WANT to poison. To
a remarkable degree these two
speakers, with aid of George
Marshall, county agent, are re
moving whatever suspicion or
prejudice the negro had regard
ing poison. They have shown
him the way and in so doing are
solving the farm labor prob
lem, which is another important
angle in the gigantic weevil bat
tle in Sumter county.
That the negro in many in
stances already has successfully
met the weevil is demonstrated
in two instances on the farm of
Charles Ansley. Mr. Ansley
Bays— \
“One negor cropper on my
place last year, under conditions
which prevailed during the 1923
wet season, CLEARED more
than S4OO on his crop. He lived
for the year and at the end of
th e season had $4 n oto do with
as he desired—in CASH. That
particular negro had told me
early in the season that in the
fall he was going to Pittsburg
where wages, he said, were high.
When he looked at his savings—
his profits—he decided to stay
and is on that same farm again
this year.”
The weevil is one of the most
important contributing causes
toward negro migration. That's
an additional rason why the
weevil campaign now under
way, under the leadership of
Judge Hixon, should succeed;
should receive the sympathy and
help of every white citizen in the
county—be he merchant, farm
er, banker, or other profession.
A Terrific Arangement
of Schol and Home
Discipline
Bad news scatters rapidly. It
wai a youngster about a dozen
years of age whom we first
heard discussing the conduct of
certain high school pupils in a
high school meet recently held
somewhere in the State. So far
as we know, no Sumter county
or Americus boy or girl was
present.
This youngster was sorely
troubled over the stories that
were being told him. He could
not quite understand how such
was possible among school
“children” as he pictured them.
Following is an editorial clip
ped from one of the strongest
and most reliable weekly papers
in the State, the Washington
(Ga.) News-Reporter. It is
iefnbarrassing to reproduce it,
and yet if such conditions pre
vail, the quickest way to meet
and correct them is by “pitiless
publicity," as Woodrow Wilson
so aptly expressed it.
The editorial in full, headed
“School Meet Discontinued
Misconduct of Students Bring
Ban On Competition, ’ follows:
“For some time the News-Re
porter has believed that athletics
in both high schools and colleges
have run away with the good
judgment qf both the faculties
of the schools and the parents of
the students.
“It has come to pass, that in
many schools, more importance is
atayhed to having a winning foot
ball team, or baseball team tran
to producing winning students
who will go out in the world and
win places in those things that
will amount to something for the
race.
“With the gaiety and hilarity
which attend these football and
baseball and field events in
school at which whisky drinking
and all night orgies are common,
in which girls participate as well
as the boys, these school meets
are becoming' menaces to the
race, and it is tirr. e that the
parents of the young folks were
awakening to the seriousness of
the situation, if the school facul
ties are blind to them.
“The News-Reporter has espe
cially in mind the high school
meet held in Washington last
week,
“A >ast majority of th e stu
dents of the schools in the
Eighth congressional district at
tending this meet doubtless con
ducted themselves as ladies and
gentlemen, but there was a
large number of them—entirely
too large a number—who took
liberty for license and went the
limit.
“Whisky was greatly in evi
dence at the meet, and it was
young boys who were drinking it
largely. An all night dance was
indulged in. A hall was hired and
the boys and girls without chape
rones or other restraint, danced
all night, or that part of the
night they were not in automo
biles in the public roads of the
county, quite a number of
couples having been overcome
by too much liquor or exhaustion
from other causes and fell asleep,
head to head in their cars, where
they were found next morning
before they had dome out of
their stupor, by Wilkes county
people coming into Washington.
Many citizens of Washington
who were entertaining these
young people in their homes stat
ed that in many cases that their
guests came in at four and five
o’clock, after having been OUT
ALL NIGHT with MALE COM
PANIONS.
“In another instance a crowd
of hoodlums and they were
representing a high school—be
came incensed with the boys and
girls of another high school, and
took revenge, probably after hav
ing indulged in enough drink to
kill the sense of decency, rotten
egging the latter as they were
riding through the streets.
“In the car that was egged
were both boys and girls and it
is said that at least one of the
ancient eggs hit a young lady
squarely in the face,
streaming down her neck and
over her clothes. One of the
boys in the car stopped several
of the eggs, his clothes next day
showing this beyond doubt.
“The conduct of a number of
boys and girls attending this meet
was disgraceful in th e extreme,
and every boy and girl in attend
ance could not help but come un
der the harful influence of the
bunch of roughnecks—both male
and female—that made the two
nights spent in Washington
PERFECT ORGIES OF DE
BAUCHERY.
“The News-Reporter under
stands that the officers of the
district association voted to dis
continue the meets, as a result of
the horrible conditions that de
veloped in Washington. Howev
er, if there is an effort started
to revive the meetings, the News-
Reporter is sure that the parents
of the young people of the dis
trict, when they know the truth
about the Washington meeting,
will see to it that their daughters
and sons do not come again un
der such influence.
“The editor of the News-Re
porter will certainly not allow
his daughters or sons to partici
pate in such future events and
it is quite safe to stat e that the
majority of the parents of
Washington feel the same way
about it.”
Public school or high school
meets that require the absence
from home over night of the pu
pils attending, should not be
permitted.
The public school is essential
ly a democratic institution.
Among these pupils are those
from every kind of home, good
and bad. The pupils must mix
indiscriminately, the pure with
the evil-minded, if there be
such—and there usually is.
The teachings of a God-fear
ing mother may be broken down
over night. In the freedom and
excitement, the young mind can
not always function as clearly as
it should.
The place for the public
school or high school girl AT
NIGHT is under the roof of his
parents. There lies safety.
Danger lurks outside.
Theres entirely too much so
called freedom today. Home
influences have been broken
down. Parental discipline is
less strict and much harder to
enforce. The child is mistaking
liberty for license. The open
saloon excluded the minor, but
the bootlegger knows neither
age, sex or color.
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.. Sonnet*t;o:»his 1
flSsv' 'feTE- /
My kitej be as thou wert when thou didst grow
i&lr tby g^ ll mother in some shady grove,
1 iHEJVt* M'hen immelodious winds but made thee move, -
/ W, And birds their ramage did on thee bestow.
that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, i
( Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow,
' Is rest from earth to tune the spheres above,
What art thou but a harbinger of woe?
-Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more,
But orphan wailings to the fainting ear;
Each stroke a sigh, each sound draws forth a tear;
41 For which bd silent as in woods before:
* J Or if that any hand to touch thee deign, ;
Like widow’d turtle still her loss complain.
—William Drummond.
The Millen News, another
ably edited Georgia weekly in
reproducing the Washington
News-Reporter editorial makes
thejie pertinent comments —
There may be communities
that will feel that this particular
case is of no special interest to
them, but informed people know
that in every community there
exists an absolute disregard of
any and every form of constitut
ed authority, and a recklessness
of conduct that is appalling. Wc
do not know whether it is ignor
ance of conditions or indiffer
ence to them, that permits the at
titude of apparent complacency
on the part of parents as to the
conduct of their children. Let
us hope that it is ignorance, but
if it be this, it betrays an intellec
tual blindness that is almost in
conceivable in people of ordi
nary intelligence. The bars are
down. Restraint is a forgotten
word. Self-indulgence has been
enthroned. Fanatics who have
prgached the doctrine of individ
ual sovereignty, liberty of action,
the banishment of corporal pun
ishment in the home, schools and
, convict camps, issuing warnings
to not “break the spirit of the
child,” simply watch and not di
rect his development, may now
survey the wreck and ruin
wrought by their damnable the
ories. The re-action is going to
come, but what will be required
to set it in motion is difficult to
forecast. The entire social at
mosphere is polluted. Parents,
Guard Well Your Own Homes.
We would not have you lay
the blame on teacher or faculty.
They must deal with what is
sent them from the home. Their
task is hard at best. There is
no desire to criticise the teacher
or principal or board of man
agement.
The fault is AT HOME and
only at home will a remedy be
found.
: OPINIONS OF '
i OTHER EDITORS :
TIME TO STOP IT!
The proposal to eliminate the
Pullman surcharge, which is 50
per cent of the scheduled Pull
man fares, and which 50 per cent
accrues to the railroads, despite
the fact that the passengers have
already paid the regular carrier'
fares between the initial and ob
jective points, is being fought by
the railroads, as might be expect
ed, and is being equally as vigo
rously demanded by business
men, public service commissions,
and even by the Pullman com
pany.
The question is entirely up to
the interstate commerce commis
sion, as congress provided in the
law creating this surcharge that
it should be abrogated by the
commission at such time as it
found advisable. A decision is
promised within 10 days.
There is not a more unfair tax
upon the traveling public than
this surcharge. When created
the railroads were not making
money, and were having a hard
time to recover from tne disrup
tions and disorganizations pro
duced by war. The people did
not seriously object then as the
strained economic conditions
were recognized, and the spirit of
co-operation predominated to a
marked extent.
Now the railroads are enjoy
ing an even greater prosperity
than before the World War, and
they demand the surcharge now
only because they have it, with
its annual increase into the rail
roads’ revenues of something like
$37,000,000 a year, and are not
disposed to give up what they
have without a fight.
For a half-century before the
World War there was no Pull
man surcharge, and none thought
of. The railroads did not com
plain then, and they carried the
Pullman cars as a part of rou
tine service-equipment, the equip
ment, demanded of trunk lines
making overnight runs.
There is not as much reason
for a surcharge accuring to the
roads, in addition to greatly in
creased passenger fares, as there
was before the World War.
Therefore to keep this additional
and wholly unfair tax fostered
upon the public would be the-pei- ,
Wlbert Aoale
PROSPERITY
Railroads are expecting very
heavy freight traffic in the fall, and
are getting their equipment in
shape to handle it. So reports the
Wall Street Journal after a sur
vey of the leading roads.
Railroad optimism, curiously
enough, is mose pronounced in the
east —chronic home of pessimism
during presidential campaign years.
Heavy autumn traffic would
mean big buying by the public,
with mills and factories running at
capacity— in short, general pros
perity.
♦ ♦ ♦
SPENDERS
American people spent more mor.
ey in April than in April of any’
former year except 1920.
During the month, 36,415 mil
lion dollars worth of bank checks
were written and passed through
the clearing houses.
This was two and a half times
more than in the boom years be
fore the war. Since prices have
about doubled, on the average, peo
ple are spending a fourth more than
in 1913. measuring their purchasing
jn terms of 1913 buying power of
the dollar,
• * *
HOMES
In April about 550 million dol
lars worth' of new building conj
struction was contracted for, the
country over.
This was a fifth more than in
April 1923.
Even a pessimist will have to put
ion several pairs of blue spectacles
to find fault with that.
People don’t build on a big scale
unless they’re betting on good times
ahead. A few business men may
be nervous, but the public isn’t.
And the psychology of the public is
what counts. It generates pros
pertiy or hard times. As long as
'the public spends freely, there is
nothing in the business situation to
worry about.
• • •
FAIR
England is having a World’s
Fair this year, costing 60 million
dollars. They call it the British
Empire Exhibition, but products
of other countries are represented.
Steamship companies estimate that
1 out of every 400 Americans will
attend. How many are going to.
the Exhibition, ■ how many to drink
Scotch?
The former British Exhibition of
1851 featured Yankee devices such
as chewing tobacco, parlor stoves,
bathtubs and cornhusk mattresses.
Quite a contrast, visitors will pon
der, as they view airplanes, radio
etc., at the 1924 fair in London.
* * *
JOB
An old man, 74, walked from San
1 rancisco to Detroit “to see Henry
Ford about a job.
He is proving quite a curiosity
to the younger generation—which,
if it has a member that would walk
across the continent to find work,
has yet to be heard from.
Work is popular, as a rulft, only
when it has an element of sport—
Keen competition, for instance. A
shrewd refrigerator manufacturer,
sensing this, manufactures hi s own
.'Ompetition secretly, and keeps the
two sales organizations fighting
aach other for orders.
♦ ♦ ♦
DEBT
Canada estimates its national
wealth—and the sum just about
matches the national debt of ths
United States.
How much does Uncle Sam, owe?
Look at the map of Canada for the
answer. It’s a good thing so few
taxpayers can comprehend ho a
much a billion is. If they could,
there might be a lot of fireworks,
politicians this year campaigning in
asbestos suits.
People who talk in their sleep
should tell the truth while awake.
Chinese bandits have captured a
town, but we will worry about the
weather instead because th e weath
er is much nearer.
petuation of an unwarranted and
unjustified ' subsidy—Atlanta
Constitution. (
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TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. May
17, 1914.)
Mrs. A. C. Crockett was hostess
on Friday evening to the High
school set at her home on South
Lee street. The party was a com
pliment to Miss Mary Hudson, who
is one of the most attractive of
the younger girls of Americus.
'Miss Bess McLeod was hostess
at an informal tango party at her
home on Brown street last evening.
The dancers were Misses Annie
Ivey, Sara Britton, Melva Clark,
Mary Hawkins, and Besh McLeod,
Charles Payne, Edward Mathis,
Mem-ill Wheatlep, Cliff Wheatley,
Dudley Gatewood, Joe Frank Reese
and Ferd Cohen
A delightful affair of Monday
evening was given bp Miss Edith
Jlightower at her home on Lee;
street, when she entertained five
couples at an informal dance, in
honor of Miss Georgia Fort. Those
present were Miss Georgia Fort,
Miss Louise Rodgers, ■ Miss Sara
Sheffield, Mr. Harry' Williams, Mr.
McCord Prather, Mr. Thomas Har
rold, Jr., Mr. Furlow l Rodgers and
Dr. M. H Wheeler.
Mrs. Thomas McCarthy is at
home again after having spent sev
eral days in Macon with relatives.
Americus Pecan growers will bq
represented at the meeting of the
Georgia and Florida Pecan Growers
association from those interested in
pecan growing and the indications
are. that it wi/i be the most largely
attended in the history of the or
ganization.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. May
17, 1904.)
Americus ball fans are discuss
ing the “outrage” which Atlanta is
going to perpetrate in taxing base
ball. An ordinance has been intro
duced in council to make the owner
of the Atlanta franchise pay SSO
license and 5 pei- cent on his gross
receipts.
Col. George Duncan has pulled
the rattles off his naughtymobile
hnd the machine runs as. smoothly
now as an ordinary one-horsp dlay.
Within thirty days now the cong
regation of First Methodist church
will worship in their splendid new
$30,000 church building.
Mrs. A. J. Hall and Miss Stella
Fountain, of Adrian, are guests of
Mrs. J, M. Weeks and Miss Jessie
Weeks on Jackson street.
Rev. R. L. Bivins of Furlow Lawn
church, returned yesterday from
Nashville where he attended the re
cent Southern Baptist Convention.
After a delightful visit of som&
length to Mrs. Gabriel Toombs An
thony and othe:- relatives in Wash
ington, Miss Maiy Tower has re
turned home.
The robbery at the Stalling's
home near Americus, wherein mon
ey and valuables were stolen has
not yet been ferreted out.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. May
17, 1894.)
Will ’.I. Harper, of Americus and
f A IMS? made on improved
‘-'“ZZiilCfarm 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*
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" SATURDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 17, 1924
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Henry W. Grady, of Atlanta have
been admitted to the bar in that
city after a very fine examination
in Judge Lumpkin’s court. The ex
amination of each applicant was
far above the ordinary, and is de
serving of more than a passing!
mention. Harper is a loung man,
whose home is at Americus, where
for several years he was secretary
to the president of the S. A. & M.
railroad. Since November, 1892 he
has been in the office of the at
torney general, and during his resi
dence in Atlanta he has made many
friends who will congratulate him
upon his successful entrance to his
profession. i
Captain M. B. Council will har
vest a five acre field of fine oats
at his home on Rees park this
morning, using aT McCormick reap
er. Elton Parker will hold the
reins and manipulate the machine,
an easy job or he wouldn’t do it.
Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Hawkes, Mrs. I 1
T. R. Slappey, Messrs. W. E. ann
Howell Elam made up a pleasant i,
party that left yesterday for Bell’s | .
mill in Webster county, on a fish
ing excursion. They will be the 1
guests of Mr. and Mrs J. W. A.'
Hawkins.
Judge and Mrs. J. N. Scar
borough, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Daven- ■
port, and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cart- .
er attended the funeral of Mrs
Robert Burton, in Ellaville yester- '
day morning.
Miss Ella Cameron returned
home last night from a visit to 1
friends in Andersonville, accompa
nied by Miss Hallie Underwood who
will be her guests for a few days.
It is a fact that singing prolongs
a person’s life if said person is care
ful where and when he sings.
The great'silence you hear is the
kids kicking because vacation days
are coming.
Perhaps some people wear tight
shoes because they feel, so good
when they take them off.
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
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I THE STANDARD
Our Big
May Sale
We are turning
the Biggest Stock
of Merchandise
in Americus into
Cash. No prices
are quoted, but (
you will find
prices here below
the other fellow
Not one or two
items for in
stance, but the
whole store is in
the sale. Be on
hand Monday
and Tuesday and
see how much
you can save In
this Sale.
Standard Dry Goods
Company
Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce
AMERICUS, GA.
