About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1924)
PAGE EIGHT SUMTER COTTOW FARMERS, COTTON SQUARES ARE FORMING: DUSTING COMES NEXT. UNDUSTED FIELDS WILL BE RIDDLED BY THE WEEVIL* TIMES-BECCIDKB ’ HJBUSBEBim " ir-.aj'i . fc*«L, ,um Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher . * K»l*r*d u M**ad «I*m autut at th* M Aatrfcu*. CMTfi*, icfordlng ia th* Ael *i —————— The AModital Pr*a* I* aelutnly **dtM t* th* art for th* repuhllcitio* of all urwa di*- **teh*> sradited to It or not othanria* cradltad to paper aad *l*o the local e«va pabliahed bata ta. AU right of republican** of apacial diapalaba* •M *l«o raaened. National Adaertltlnj RepraaaoUthrM, FROST IAMHB a KOHN, Brunawich >ld(., Kn Twill Soap!**’ <*a Bid,.. Cbk.ro, . I "’'ll ifi ' , . 1. ■■ , ■— A THOUGHT MM,,,,, - -111 ■ -i*~—* ■■ ■ _A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up linger.—Prov. 15:1. Anger manages everything badly, v—Stadius. sVhat Georgia Pays in Taxes Georgia men and women paid in taxes last year state, county and city—not less than $65,000,000. Nor is Federal taxes included in this sum. With the sessions of the Leg' islatuxe near at hand, this sub* j*ct ©f taxes is one of interest to all of us. The Dawson News interest ingly discussed this question some time ago and gave these figures: “State taxes colected in Geor gia last year amounted to $12,- 006,000 and county taxes to $23,000,00(h “Adding to these amounts the estimated municipal taxes paid, - the total State, county and mu nidipid taxes in Georgia last year easily reached $65,000,000. “Thb does not include federal taxes, embracing the large total of $40,000,000 income tax, or ; occupational taxes or automobile j license and gasoline taxes. | “Altogether, they run the tax I bill of the State for one year i well above the $100,000,000 < mark; “It is an enormous total. Os coursf, it must be recognized ( that the price of publie improve- i ments, of the greater demands of increased business, is more tax es- Yet the prospective investor qr citizen always asks, one of i his questions, about the tax rate , 'of State, county Or city. It is , considered an important item by i him.* A high tax rate frequently ‘scares him off.’ A growing t State requires heavy outlays for '■ public purposes. But it must be borhe in mind that high taxes 1 are not good advertising.” i t High tax rates and low tax valuations are poor advertise- j ments for a States county ojT city. They should be reversed, i with a low rate and high val-, nations. This can be done with out lowering or raising the tax poorest fruit first, instead of the income. We are showing our reverse. Unquestionably our high rates and lowe valuations have prevented many invest ments from coming into the State. One of the greatest faults with Georgia is the unrestricted local tan systems. Os the enor mous total of more than $ 1 00,- 000,000 paid in taxes each year by the people of the State, only about $12,000,000 goes into the State treasury. Too often we kick on State taxes, when the trouble lies nearer home. The Toll of the Tariff The tariff will be brought to the front in both news and edi torial columns during the next few months. The Republicans will undoubtedly endorse the Fordney-McCumber tariff law, while the Democrats in the sum mer and fall campaigns will condemn the so-called protec tive tariff. The Republican will give as his excuse for high tariff tolls, the protection of the farmer and the laboring man, as well as the protection of “infant" industry. This has been his plea for a generation. The Fordney-McCumber tar iff law was passed amid a great nation-wide publicity cam paign, designed to fool the farrpers of the country iyt© be lieving it was a splendidlkeform movement undertaken in their behalf and for their economic The farmer today looks back on the publicity campaign and finds that he has again been double-ctoased- There was a leading editorial on this subject in one of the na tional farm papers, "Farm and Fireside." in a recent issue, en titled "The Tariff Is the Bunk." Speaking for the farmers, this paper says of the Fordney-Mc- Cumber law: “Doesn’t the tariff represent fcarift; r«K«s«Bte a gain to «w wool growers of $37,500,000 per year. It costs farmers who buy woolens $27,300,000 per year. So th e net gain to agriculture is $10,200,000 per year. The su gar tariff represents a gain to our beet and cangrewers of $45,- 000,000, but it costs all of our farmers an increase of $84,100,- 000 on all sugar they buy in or der to keep sweet on the farm. Adding up one sid e and down the other, the farmer as a pro ducer gains from the preset tar iff the agricultural schedules—a total of around $125,000,000. But when he goes to buy, that’s Where he gets it in the neck. The American farmer pays every year an extra $426,000,000 on the things he buys because of the tariff. So he is really out of pocket $301,000,000 actual, hard, 69-cent fam dollars— as his net gain from the tariff which Fordney, McCumber, et al., said would help him so much.” These figures, which are re liable, prove to the faimer and the American buying public that a protective tariff is a pro tection to no one except certain “interests." It is a plain, un adulterated steal from the mass for a relatively small "class” The Atlanta Constitution gives these figures which will interest the farmer, gleaned from a report to the Senate Finance committee on "import ed merchandise and retail prices"— Here is one reference to the imported cabbage seed. The seed in question were grown in Denmark. A quarter ounce cost 1.95 cents over there. Th e im porter paid a duty of .6 of a cent, so it cost landed on our shores 2.1 cents. But a New York firm sold it over the coun ter for 35 cents, or a profit of 1,567 per cent. Or take table knives: Mr. Mellon found he could buy them in Germany for 2.75 cents each. Insurance and freight cost 2.75 cents each. Insurance and freight cost .275 of a cent. The duty (80 per cent) cost .825 of a cent paid into the United States treasury. So the table knife cost a total of 3.85 cents delivered to our merchants. A farmer bought this 3.85-cent ta ble knife in a department store for 30 cents, a profit of 697 per cent. With the tariff and its enor mous tax on the people; also the oil and liquor scandals in the Republican official family, the Democrats have the chance of a life time, provided they are wise enough to select as a candidate one who is a vote getter. Whatever else may be an-is sue in the coming elections, ( the tariff law, as now written, can Ftot escape being placed con stantly in the forefront of. the national battle Jor ballots. Law Vs. Justice A schoolgirl of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., had a pet dog which she loved very much but had not the $3 required for a license. She was arrested, fined $lO and then sent to jail, in that Pinch otian land of law enforcement. Then somehow’ the case came before one Judge Fuller, who declared: This is the kind of case which disgusts one with the majesty of the- aw. And in condemning the multi tude of modern laws Judge Fuller said that they apparently were enacted to “criminalize acts condemned neither by God nor conscience,” and that even the “best-intentioned person can hardly go through a day without committing one or more crimes." Judge Fuller freed the child from jail and bought a license for her dog. Amid the judicial tyranny and technicality under which we live it may be permitted us to render thanks that there ex ist a few jurists like Judge Full er, in whose courts justice and mercy sometimes take prece dence over the letter of fool laws. OPINIONS OF OTHER EDITORS : THE AUTOMOBILE MENACE Accidents arising from care less driving of automobiles have caused an alarming condition throughout the nation. Athens is not an exception. Accidents occur here and many of them are inexcusable and due entirely to the careless manner in which the driver directs his car. The time has come when both state and municipal authorities will bo forced to legislate drastic regu lations for the automobile driv er and make provision for severe punishment. A nominal fine, on many, is nothing more nor les? than a license to continue tha the HMvi.ftJtoiy wiHmg to pay h small fine for the A LOOK OUT, ] A BRIGHT EYES ilO**"*’’■a V Look out, bright eyes, and bless the air! M Jg Even in shadows you are fair. I yHM Shut-up beauty is like fire, tjF CV- That breaks out clearer still and higher. IF/ . - Though your beauty be confined, K"' - ' And soft Love a prisoner bound, Yet the beauty of your mind • Neither check nor chain hath found. N Look out nobly, then, and dare i *-> Even the fetters that you wear. • —Beaumont and Fletcher. privilege of speeding and reck less driving. Joy riding is one of the greatest menaces to the pub lic and nothing less than a sen tence should be imposed. Fines will not serve the purpose of breaking up the acts of speed fiends. It will require sentences t 0 the chaingang to properly im press thorn of the danger to tha public lurking in their reckless driving. It is time for action by tfie officials. A delay may mean the loss of lives.—The Anthers Banner. HONESTY IN TAXES Everybody pays taxes. We may not own a bit of land or a house. We may not have a penny in the bank, or even a war saving stamp left over from the war. But we pay taxes just as Surely as if we owned town houses, coun try homes and broad acres of farm land, stocks and bonds, bank accounts, mills, factories or railroads. We all have to eat or starve to death. If the owner of the prop erty in which the grocer has his store has to pay higher taxes the grocer has to pay higher rent and we have to pay the grocer higher prices for our food. We all have to sleep if we want to live. If the person who owns the house where we live has to pay higher taxes then we have to pay higher rent, of course. If the railroads have to pay higher taxes they have to charge higher rates to haul everything We consume and naturally the in crease is attacked on the paying end—that’s where the ultimate consumer hooks on. Out’ of every eight dollars of our individual income one dollar gobs for taxes—federal, state and local. This means that the boy whose expenses; aije eight dollars a week pays one dollar in taxes in the form of prices made higher by taxation. The same ratio prevails regard less of the cost of living, though you may not own a dollar’s worth of taxable property. When it comes to dealing with the question of taxes we need to be more honest with ourselves. We need to understand that we can not continue to load on overhead and not have our pocket books feel it. Governments are like individ uals. The only way they can economize is to spend less money. As long as people clamor for legi slation t 0 cure this or that fanc.- ral evil just so long will taxes continue to be high and in some cases oppressive.—Midville Prog ress. ' DAILY POEM A BIRD’S EYE VIEW How big yet how small is the world, after all, when you view it from up in the air. The vision you gain when you look from a plane makes a diff’rence in things that ar e there. The shrub’ry and trees that the flying man sees will blend till they look at their best; a Carpet of green that’s a picture serene and the essenc e of comfort and rest. Great acres are spreading, wher ever you’re heading, like checker boards ready for play. It’s the view to the eye when you look from the sky ’cause it’s distance that makes it that way. The people, by chance, that you see are like ants as they hurry and scurry along. So small do they seem that it’s all like a dream and you feel that your vision is wrong. How big yet how small is the world, after all, for sane judgment will bid us confess that we’re all not so n.uch; every man’s just ‘a touch of the world as a playhouse, I' guess. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) The only reliable tonic for spring fever is almost losing your job. The British are going ttf repeal their war tax ou musical instru ments, so may lose a little sleep over the results. \ Books, only things which speak v THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER T . •438 k Albert Apple DIAMONDS South African diamond mines ar* working again after being almost entirely shut down for several years. This means that the world is steadily recovering from the busi ness depression caused by the war. When people begin to sport dia monds, they have money to spare. Diamond headquarters in Kimber ley reports that the revival of ths diamond industry is chiefly due to demand for the cheaper or medium grade stones. Indicating prosperity at the base. * * • FOOTBALL Is college football becoming too commercialized? One university’s profits from this sport last year were about $40,000. College heads are wondering if football isn’t shap ing as a business rather than an ath letic game. Professionalism in the boxoffice is as much a menace as professional ism among players. Sport for Sport’s sake is endangered when the sport becomes a medium for tapping the public pocketbook. ♦ * * LEGACY A laundry wagon driver inherits $50,0Q0 in Trenton, N. J. He an nounces he’ll keep on working Which excites amazement, but shouldn’t. The $50,000 at 4 per cent interest would bring the driver S2OOO a year He couldn’t do much with that, prices so high. Time was when $50,000 was a whale of a fortune and the house of owner was point ed out with tlie buggy whip to visi tors being driven around town. Those days are gone. Even a mil lionaire doesn’t excite much interest now, they’re so numerous. o* * * LIMELIGHT The wages of sin are publicity, says Dean Lee of New York Uni versity’s school of journalism. “Pitiless publicity” unquestion ably punishes the guilty—especially those who are powerful enough to keep out of the clutches of the law. But a scolding isn’t as effective as strapoil in the case of a bad boy. More jail sentences are needed. The Chinese alone get full value from “pitiless publicity.” They make convicted profiteers and other social crooks parade in front of their homes and places of business, ring ing a bell and carrying a banner ad vertising their crimes. FRENCH One important development in Eu rope is that the French are taxing themselves more heavily. Recently tax receipts totaled a fifth more than a year ago. The English for several years have been foaming about the low tax rate in France—lower per capita than in England, by far. That was because France was mortgaging the future, expecting to get more out of Germany than now appears possible The French seem to be changing their estimates. • ♦ ♦ LESS Industrial profits are shrinking, a financial “expert” claims. He’s been studying the financial reports of about 100 leading corporations, finds profits from 7 to 43 per cent lower than a year ago. Not necessarily Bookkeepers and tax-dodging experts work won ders with many a financial state ment. They are wizards at conceal ing profits. With exceptions, the expression “financial statement” doesn’t mean what is used to—not by a long shot. PEA WEEVIL KILLING COTTON IN HANCOCK SPARTA, May 28. —Considerable interest has been created here by a report that some kind of insect had literally killed eight acres of cotton on th> plantation of C. M. Layson, near here. Several boll weevil ex perts were here at the time and af ter going out and making, hi investi gation pronounced the insect a pea weevil. They claimed that one dust ing of calcium arsenate would kill it on the oher but) the remedy was too late for this eight acres. TJie-ir.-. sects turned the cotton plartr 6r<swir in a day’s time, __ ~, FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED _ . B|K > • i yr Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. May 28, 1914.) Miss Pearl Lott has gone to For syth, where she will be the attrac tive guest of friends at the closing exercises of Bessie Tift College. Miss Ruth Britton, who has been attending Shorter college, at Rome returned yesterday to spend the vacation season at her home here. Mrs. Walter Rylander has as guests for several days her sister, Misses Mary and Elizabeth Daven port, of Mcßae, the former having just graduated from Andrew col lege at Cuthbert. The many Americus friends of Mr. and Mrs Theron Hawkes ano family will learn with regret oi their purpose to leave Am,ericus; for Atlanta, where they will in fu ture make their home. Prepara tions hgve been made already for their departure within a few days. Lifelong residents of Americus, where their friends are legion, the departure of Mr. and Mrs. Hawkes and Miss Hawkes, is indeed to be very greatly regretted. Rarely has an occasion afforded greater pleasure to so large a num ber of Americus people, little folks and grown-ups alike, than did that of yesterday when the Sunday school of First Methodist church picnicked at Myrtle Springs, together with hundreds of invited guests. A splendid occasion, every moment replete with pleasurable interest—it was an event that will be recalled with greatest interest—until another like it comes next year. Miss Josephine Bagley returned yesterday from Shorter College, Rome where she has been attending the recent session. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. May 28, 1904.) Americus’ little neighbor, Ander sonville, will soon be a city of splen did monuments, as in the national cemetery all of the northern states represented will soon erect costly shafts t 0 fheir dead. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Michigan already have splendid monuments there. Turpin’s Stables will send eight of its finest rigs to AndersonviHti this morning for the use of Gov. Od<ell- and his party Os New York ers. i '*W -W Miss Mary McLaughlin left yes terday for Cuthbert to attend the annual commencement exercises of Andrew Female College. The death was-reported yesterday of two. of Sumter’s old residents, both men of advanced years, Confed erate veterans, and esteemed among many friends. These were Meshack Hitchcock, and Matthew Suggs. Mr. Mesl.ack Hitchcock, who resided at Leslie, died yesterday morning. He, too, was one of “liee’s old boys” entering the Confederate army with Captain Jack Brown’s company, raised in Sumter and Schley, The city council will again pass T pi A (Vlw made on improved farm lands at cheap est rates for terms of 5,7 er 10 vears 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 lerxi. MIDDLETON McDONALD Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co., in Sumter, Lee. Terrell. Schley, Macon, Stewart, Randolph and As ehatet Buifdihg, /meridua, Ga. Phonq 89, PI Hili WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 28, 1924 t upon the desirability or undesir ability of the hogpen as a municipal adornment at the meeting tonight. Since the council has been “on the hog” s 0 to speak, several hundred pens have been rooted out along with the rooters, but there are hun dreds of others yet to be passed upon. THIRIY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday; no paper publishiid. Oh, what is so-raw as a fever blister in June? You must keep going around to stay in the social circles. After they finish naming apart ment houses, soft drinks, Pullmans, radio stations and candy our Jan-; guage will be a wreck. egeta^e w For Constipation Nature’s Remedy (N?Tab g * ets ) a vegetable laxative • J with a pleasant, near-to- nature action. Relieves '' | an d prevents biliousness, E t constipation and sick headaches. Tones and SOr ‘•Sla strengthens the digestion and assimilation. Ctll * Zs Used for BUM jggPl oFF the Old Block N? JUNIORS—.LittIe N?» ■,'•£ Th e same frR —in one-third doses, candy-coated. For fjf- children and adults. Vwtta SOLO BY YOUR DRUSGIST Americus Undertaking Co. 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The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Larga; Nona Tao -Small THE STANDARD DOLLAR DAYS HERE WEDNES DAY AND THURSDAY W c 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 of good Toilet Soap, regular size cakes. $1 will buy 10 yards fine smooth yard wide Sheeting; regular l’se yard. . : i r < $1 will buy 3 men’s knitted four in-hand Ties; regularly 50c each. $1 will buy 6 yards standard Dress Gingham; regularly 25c yd. $1 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 SfbckSngs—black, brown 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; value 40c yard. $1 will 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 Crex Rugs, size 30x60 inches, many patterns and colors. a « '-tarflfM Standard Dry Goods Company Forayth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GA. \ -~ ’ k
