About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1924)
PAGE EIGHT . FARMERS! YOU HAVE IT WITHIN YOUR POWER TO MAKE A COTTON CROP AND WE BELIEVE YOU WILL POISON THE BOLL WEEVIL TlMES n^^ ai ’ EK —— ■....., , a»-w»v« Published by The Times-Record er Co., vine.) Lovelaee Eve, Editor r,nd Publisher ' *• second chat matter at the poatofflcj r rn p^^ tctta> Georfia, according to the Act <4 tW Associated Preaa is exclusively entitled ta wo nee for the republication of all newt die fwtehee credited to it or not otherwise credited to wie paper and alto the local newt published here l»- All right of republication of special dispatches •re dbo reaerred. ——■ - ■ - Nation! Advertising Representatives, FROST lAMDIS A KOHN, Brunswick Bldg., Nev Torici pidt.. Chicago. _ A THOUGHT * ..Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise.—• prov. 6:6. People that have nothing to do . sere quickly tired of their own company.—Jeremy Collier. When Discouraged ' [Think of “Old Abe” Nine times out of ten, suc cess comes to those who keep everlastingly at it. Those who start and stop, looking back ward with a discouraged look, ' seldom reach the goal. Once upon a time—this reads so much like a fairy tale that it should be started off like one— there was a young man who ran for the legislature, in Illi nois. He was snowed under. So he went into business. He failed. His friends knew that his failure was due largely to a worthless partner, but the young man spent seventeen years of his life paying up the back debts which resulted from the failure. Romance came into his life in the meantime, however. He became engaged to a charming young woman. And then she died. He entered politics again, running for Congress this time. But he was overwhelmingly de feated. He sought an appoint ment to the United States Land Office. It was awarded to somebody else. He ran for the United States senate. And lost. Those who still had faith in him brought about his nomina tion as a candidate for the vice presidency in 1856. But he was defeated. He was defeated again, in 1858, by Douglas. _ Yet, at the time of his death his name was honored through out the world. And today his spirit still goes marching on, his memory is revered wher ,eYer freedom and democracy are loved. He is called one of the two or three greatest figures in American History. The man was Abraham Lin coln. A “News” Bootlegger The newspaper editor who claims he is “giving .the public what it wants” when he seeks to exploit crime news and scan dal is nothing more than a "news bootlegger.” This statement of Bristow Adams, of the World’s Dairy Congress, is being quoted by newspaper men who have re ceived figures submitted by Mr. Adams in addressing the Uni versity Press Club at Syracuse, N. Y. ’ Mr. Adams told of a recent survey of the news printed in metropolitan and smaller news papers, which he conducted at Cornell, where he is head of the department of publication. He maintained that crime news was less than 4 per cent of the contents of the newspa per, contrary to the general opinion. Educational news oc cupied three times as much space as crime, and business . news occupied six times as much as crime news. But for the EDUCATIONAL news, as carried from day to day in the columns of the news papers, progress would be greatly retarded in every sphere of human endeavor. Fighting the boll weevil, carrying a mes sage to the peach-growers, re citing business condition reports —all of this and more is a part of the educational news of the day. It is vital to those engag ed in the business and of inter est to others. Scandal and crime news, as a rule, are carried in brief. It is necessary that it be carried, for publicity is necessary in the fight against evil. Turning Back the Clock Do you remember when a wild evening’s spoA consisted of putting on one’s Sunday clothes and taking a'.stteei jebfl tide? The conductor —came ‘V . ' along the step that ran full length of the car, and collected fares. The other side of the car had a railing to keep care less passengers from falling out while rounding a curve. That sort of entertainment woudn’t satisfy a four-year-old child now. But it was great stuff, back yonder. There were no movies then, no radios—and even the horseless carriage was generally considered an im practical toy that never would be used except by people with more money than brains. The thrill of the old-time street car ride through the summer night was not altogeth er due to lack of other enter tainment nor even to the exhil aration of fresh air that rushed through the open sides of the car and nearly took the pass engers’ breath. The real thrill was because the street car was still a novel ty, just coming into widespread use. » It's only 36 years ago this May that the electric street car was "born.” Many cities claim the honor. But it was in Richmond, Va., that the first commercially succesful electric overhead trolley car made its initial trip. A generation or so before Thomas Davenport constructed a toy street car that ran around a circular track. Never heard of Tom? All he did was in vent the electric motor. Two Germans built an elec tric trolley line a third of a mile long, at the Berlin Expo sition in 1789. Next year a small line, for public use at a fixed fare, was operated near Berlin. But it failed financially. Americans meantime were busy, several cities experiment ing. Richmond, Va., had the first "honest-to'-goodness” elec tric trolley line, according to the American Electrical Rail way Association. From then on, the old-time horse car was doomed. Today the electric railway industry car ries 16 billion passengers a year and represents an invest ment of six billion dollars. It seems incredible that all this has come about in 36 years. We’d like to turn the clock back and get a “kick” out of such simple amusement as a trolley ride. The world changes fast in our generation and the novelty of the new qijickly be comes commonplace and bore some. The Left-handed Child Do not try to change the left handed child. Let it use its left hand. Let Nature alone, for she knows what she is doing. By tampering you may interfere with the child’s mental develop ment. These facts are brought out by Maxirriillian P. E. Grozz mann, in his book, “A Parent’s Manual,” published by the Cen tury Co. He says: “Parents worry when they dis cover their children are left handed. They will do all they can to change them over to right handedness. They may succeed in doing so, but at a great risk, and usually with bad conse quences which show themselves with the years. “The reason for the usual right-handedness is that w e are generally right-sided. In the evolution of the human race the left hemisphei-e of the brain has developed functionally beyond the right. Now, as we have the curious arrangement that all the nerve connections of the body cross over to the opposite side, of the brain, the left hemisphere controls the right side, and, be ing functionally the stronger, makes us right-handed. In the left-hander, the right hemis phere is preponderant. Further more, we know that all functions have certain definite centers in the brain and that the manual centers are in close proximity to speech centers and intimately allied with them. “The result of this condition is that an interference with the natural arangement such as forc ing a left-handed child to use his right hand, produces disturb ances in this relation. This ex plains why a left-handed child who is forced away from his natural endowment or loses it through accident or imitation, is likely to develop speech defect, like stammering, or become ner vous and generally awkward.” This advice from the eminent Dr. Grozzmann is worthy of se rious thought, especially for the parents of a left-handed child. Give the child’s nature a chance to develop. Guide it, yes; but do not attempt to DRIVE it. Movie starring isn’t s<J*good. Be tween pictures you have to run out and get a divorce. The bashing-girl f SILKS • AND O 0/1 FINE ARRAY My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, / * ove are driven away; And mournful, lean Despair ' <'■ O / Brings me yew to deck my grave: s uc b enc^true kvers have. H ,s ace * s as air 33 heaven fiu I When springing buds unfold; I 0, why to him was’t given, 1 Whose heart is wintry cold? | His breast is love’s all-worshipped tomb, Where all love’s pilgrims come. Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding sheet; V -~ r -iri_y ZVv . -Jn When Imy grave have made Let winds and tempests beat! y Then down I’ll lie as cold as clay: True love doth pass away. 0 —William Rlake. OPINIONS OF | OTHER EDITORS j ANOTHER BONUS PROPOSED The Washington News-Report er agrees with the Gazette, that all mothers should get a bonus from the state and that when the babies come two at time the bo nus should be doubled—Tifton Gazette. AN ATLANTA ADVERTISING STUNT Taking a governor from his office in Indiana and sending him. to the federal pen is Atlanta is thtf breaking of another pre cedent. We do not know whether 'thi s is an AtlarJta advertising stunt or the result of a Republi can family row. Seriously, Gov ernor McCray offers an astound ing example of Republicans fall ing from grace.—Cordele Dis patch. THAT’S A BIG JOB ITSELF The house of representatives has passed a new immigration bill restricting immigration to th? lowest point in history. It is well. The Unted States would welcome the better class of immigrants but it might as well be under stood now that we don’t intend to be made a dumping ground for the scupi of Europe. It would be a good idea for the foreigners already here to be made into good Americans before admitting any more. — Jackson Progress- Argus. IT’S NAME IS A HANDICAP A man living in the odge of Morgan county close to the Greene county line at a settle ment known as Swords received an anonymous communication warning him to leave the com munity, which he promptly did. He was suspected of giving in formation about the location of stills to officers of the law, but claimed tnqt he had not done so. Swords is reported to be doing a big moonshine business. A stranger seeking a peaceful com munity would not be likely to se lect a place bearing a strife suggesting name like Swords. The name is a handicap.—Cuthbert Leader. WHAT THE COUNTY NEEDS A prominent business man as serts that every official who ad vocates high taxes should >_■ driven into private life. The trouble is that officials pretend to be for low taxes for the “masses,” but high taxes for the “rich” with the result that taxes stay up, and eventually all the people bear a share of teh burden What the county wants and needs is not a shifting, but a lifting of taxes. The tax-shifter is a plain fraud. Wilmosgton (Del Journal. A FARMER’S VIEW The following is reproduced from the Cordele Dispatch, which paper accredits it to a farmer. He says: “We cannot expect a stable a.r riculture, an assured profit from farming, unless we lay the foun daton on a constructive program of work carried out through a period o f years. So many of the obstacles in our path to pros perity are directly traceable tc the lack of plan in our under takings, that we the tempted to say that if every southern farmer great ahd small, would lay out his cropping plans five years in advance, and stick strictly there to, our economic troubles would vanish. It cannot come as the gift of government, through credits, through cooperatives, through press propaganda. It can come only through the realization that farming is a vocation, not a spec ulation—a complex system of cropping—not the exploitation of a single crop for a,s‘uig.le sea son.” ’ THE AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER T Albert Awlr SOBERED Europe’s troubles now are chiefly financial, for the people are pro gressively working harder and the war’s destruction is being rebuilt with amazing speed. And the financial situation over there is improving in the best pos sible way, governmental living with in their incomes. In the first four months of .1924, German govern ment spent about 250 million gold marks less than it collected in taxes, etc. France in the same period saved a surplus of 1220 million francs. Italy, too makes a bright show ing her government revenue and spend-1 ing almost balancing in the last nine I months. • * * WONDER-CHILD Celebrated wonder-child, Adele Aarons of Philadelpha, continues to amaze scientists. She began to wa’ic at three months. At a year old, had the intelligence of an eight-year child, and Said to a visitor: “I am anhoyed, you see. I’m cut ting my teeth. I have never had molars before, you knqw. The pain is excruciating.” There are hurfdreds of thousands of grown-ups who will have to look in the dictionary for the meaning of “excruciating.” Maybe these rare wonder-children are forerunners of a super-race of the distant future. The boy of 10 today knows more than graybeards of 5000 years ago. Knowledge and wisdom are not''the same, however. ♦ * * CHURCH Only a fifth of our rural popula tion attends church, is the national government’s claim. There are 101- 000 rural churches scattered over the country. But this is not too many, as some conclude when they exariiine attendance figures. The main trouble is that s 0 many farm ers are of a different religious be lief than the nearby church. Radio is the farmer’s church. And it will be increasingly so. » » * AGED Uncle Sam is paying pensions to over 500,000 war veterans or their dependents. One pensioner is be ing supported by every 210 Ameri cans. The day will come when the pen sion roll will run into the millions. (Old age pensions are just a matter of time. Incapacitated veterans of peacetime service to the nation, both in public and private life, will even tually be rewarded the same as bat tle-scarred veterans. The certainty of a pension in old age would, some claim, induce many people to work less hard in their ac tive years. But it’d also end a lot of dishonesty, especially petty cheating —outgrowth of fear that old age will be penniless. • » * REMARKABLE Phenomenal memory of Naum Lit owsky, a Lithuanian, amazes east ern pofessors. Told the date of your birth, he can immediately g ; ve the day of the week your birthday occurs in any yeai - past or present. Call of 15 long numbers and he ech oes you by reciting them backwards These are typical of many remark able feats. How does he do it? By associating numbers with colors, he says High er scientists call this “confusion ->f the senses.” There are people who see certain colors when various mu.i cal notes are played. The eccenti i cites of the human brain are the greatest mystery in this life. One day in Mexico, what they thought was another revolution was only a new phonograph record. Posterity must get awfully impa tient waiting for its parents to set tie down. An optimist is a man who, when hg comes to a detour, thinks it Is a vfery good road to be a detouX 1 I AFTER THE "BIG FIVE- YEAR BONUS BATTLE J J r « T W 4P" \ A 'J w) A \ GOSA* HOW I'lk 'W b lisL, ' ' sMi L ——Z— < f WhaTTh' Dicker gT a, n r/ am ' <sonna WRue \ / Q id) 1 |sgCTgggggl boy/ - ? M / You DON'T KHOW mT \ I A / < FighTm' is-1 hapTo \, L 37 Y/7 WT every sip of AZ \ The waY To geTheps 1 \V J ’ V/ X v /-r I NOW 1 WONPER \ liie Bd/5 DESERVE > / WAaT EFFECT Til \ t iT all righ., 7 ) bays qmTaxes? ? k all righT. • / <\ xZ. Y; ' / " Y%,. . - Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. May 27, 1914.) From the Americus and Fort Val ley territory the Georgia peachlet will soon go journeying northward to make glad the heart of the yank and the crop will be a good one. Exclusive of cantaloupes and water melons, of which there will be sev eral hundred cars, it was estimated by the railroad officials that the' Central will handle about 3,600 cars of peaches this season against less than 2,000 last year. A bridge across rnnt river con necting Americus and Sumter coun ty with Cordele and Crisp will erected during the summer months provided the present grand jury en dorses the project and tells the coun ty commissioners to try to get busj on it. The exact location of the bridge has not yet been decided ujion, but will be left to the com- 1 missioners of the two counties, pro vided it is decided to build. Misses Carolyn and Nelle Worthy are with their grandmother, Mrs. C. P. Sams, visiting relatives in Birmingham, Ala., for a week or ten days. A marriage in the nature of a pleasurable surprise to the many friends of the young bride and groom was that of Miss Janie r eag in and Mr. Rufus G. Webb, which was solemnized Wednesday after noon, Securing a car, and accom panied by the bride’s sister, Miss Laura Feagin, and Mr. Clyde Webb, the young couple motored over to Ellaville where the ceremony was performed. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. May 27, 1904.) Mr. T. W. Callaway leaves in a few days for Chicago, where he will take a theological course at the Moody Bible Institute, to prepare himself for ministerial work. For some time Mr. Callaway hasi served as assistant pastor of First Baptist ehurch here, and will thoroughly himself equip for work in the mini stry. • Mrs. A. C. Bivins entertained a number of friends, young matrons and misses, at Holly Springs yestter day where the party enjoyed a pic nic. Debarred by the law from fishing, Col. Littleton would probably accept a lucrative position at shoveling snow until blackberries get ripe. Henry Clay, the little so?i of Mrs. Mary B. Clay, is quite ill with fever at their home near Cobb. Sumter’s eight delegates to thq state convention, Messrs. John A. Cobb, W. A. Dodson, N. A. Ray, Al len Fort, C. S. S. Horne, N. C. Mill er, C. R. Crisp and J. B. Pilsbury will go to Atlanta Tuesday to be early upon the scene when the State Democratic Convention assembles Wednesday morning. Mr. H. C. Bagley, who own prob ably th? largest peach orchard near f O A |\lS made on improved viwfarm 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 ana Webster counties. 21 Planters Bank Buijd.in|j, Zmericua, Ga. Phone 89 TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 27, 1924 Americus, having eight hundred broad acres thus devoted to fruit, came down from Atlanta yesterday [o look after his fruit and large cot ton farm as well. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. May 27, 1894.) Prof. J. E. Mathis and Private Walter Green left yesterday for Camp Northen to joint the Light Infantry boys. Another party will go up Sunday and others still on Monday morning. Mr. J. W. Sheffield and daughter, Mrs. H. L. Collier of Atlanta, will start Tuesday on a trip to Califor'a, and other points of interest on the Pacific coast. After a tour of the golden State they will go to Seattle and Tacoma, Mrs. Colli??- jointing her husband in the latter city where he is engaged on Government work. At a meeting of the city Board of Education yesterday, Dr. E. J. Eldridge, was elected president; E. A. Hawkins, vice-president, and U. B. Harrold treasurer for the ensu ing year. Who is to be the fortunate win ner of the beautiful solitaire dia mond ring to be awarded by The Times Recorder to the most popular young lady in Americus? Following is the standing of the several fair contestants up to G o’clock yester day afternoon: Misses Mary Watts, 79 Miss Martha Wheatley, 52; Nel lie Johnson, 37; Mabie McKenzie, 35;Eva Horne, 35. Fannie Stallings, 31; Moma Fish, 26; Lucia Hawkins, 7; Lillie Glover, 1; Mervin Calla way,!. Blackberries, plums and “home raised catfish was the tempting grray that dawned upon the vision of the brother in black who came to town yesterdray, and it is needless to add that he went home penni less. 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) • • a AT YOUR ' SERVICE Oldest and largest State Bank in South west Georgia. Any business entrusted to us will receive our best attention. If you are not al ready one of our valued customers, we would appreciate an opportunity of L * serving you. The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING - No Account Too Large; None Too Small THE STANDARD DOLLAR DAYS HERE WEDNES DAY AND THURSDAY W e Close Thursday at 12:30 $1 will buy 2 Crinkle Bed Spreads for single beds. $1 will buy one pair men’s Bed room Slippers; our regular $1.25 quality. $1 will buy 48 cakes Os good Toilet Soap, regular size cakes. $1 will buy 10 yards fine smooth yard wide Sheeting; regular 15e yard. $1 will buy 3 men’s knitted four in-hand Ties; regularly 50c each. $1 will buy 6 yards standard Dress Gingham; regulprly 25c yd. sl' will buy one man’s Umbrel la, full regular size, fast black cover; regularly $1.25. $1 will -buy 2 pairs Ladies Silk Stockings, black or white; regular ly $1 pair. $1 will buy 3 pairs Ladies’ Silk Stocking'S—black, bro'wn and gray; regularly 50c pair. $1 will buy one Man’s Night Shirt of fine muslin or pajama checks, all sizes up to 18; regular ly $1.50. $1 will buy one pair Boys’ Over alls of best standard denim, all sizes up to 16. $1 will buy 2 yards Pepperel Bleached or Unbleached Sheeting, 9-4. $1 will buy 4 Turkish Towels, bleached snow-white, size 22x44 inches. $1 will buy one dozen of Maxine Elliot’s fine Toilet Soap; value $1.25. $1 will buy 5 yards best stand ard percales, light or dark colors; valu e 25c yard. $1 will buy 5 yards Bungalow Cretonne, full yard wide, beautiful patterns..,, regularly 25c yard. $1 will buy 3 yards best stand ard White Oil Cloth, 45 inches wide; valul 40c yard. $1 wilr buy 5 yards White Ratine, full yard wide; regularly 25c yard. $1 will buy one dozen men’s fine soft finish Cambric Handkerchiefs; value each 12 l-2c. $1 will buy 2 dozen men’s Hem stitched Cambric Handkerchiefs, full regular size. $1 will buy 3 yards Mercerized Pongee, white and natural color. $1 will buy 2 Cfex Rugs, size 30x60 inches, many patterns and colors. t | ffIMM Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GA.
