About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (May 30, 1924)
PAGE EIGHT SUMTER COTTON FARMERS, COTTON SQUARES ARE FORMING: DUSTING COMES NEXT. UNDUSTED FIELDS WILL BE RIDDLED BY THE WEEVIL' TIMIB-BECCIDBB PUBLISHED Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered m eeceed eleae culler at the poatoflict at Aaerieee, Geerjie, eeeenlto* te the Aet a< CeofraM. The Aaaoclaled Preee la eiclaalvel/ entitled ta the uae for the republication of all aewe die* eatchei credited to It or not otherwleo credited to thia paper ahd alee the local cew, publiebed here* la All right of republication of epecial diapalchm are alto termed. ■ National Adrerttoing Repretentartree. MOST LANDIS « KQHN. Briutawkk Bldg., New Yueki »oonlee' Gee Bide.. Chlcagw. A THOUGHT As in water face answereth to face, to the heart of man to man. — jProv. 27: 19. Truth makes the face of that per son shine who speaks and owns it. <—.South. Civic Clubs to the Rescue The three Americus civic clubs Tuesday^—Lions, Kiwanis and Rotary—made possible the early opening of the swimming pool out at the playground by purchasing a sufficient number of bonds to pay off all indebt edness of the Playground as sociation. It was a generous, a noble thing for these fellows to do, and in so doing they have proved their love for little chil dren, their faith in the com munity and their desire to aid in the training of’the youth of the community for its responsi bility later in life. Supervised play is a recogniz ed necessity by every forward looking community. There was a time when the young could be permitted, wit ha reasonable degree of safety, to seek its pleasures where and when desired. However, it has been conclusively demonstrated that |he physical and moral welfare of the child must be supervised. 4 The creeks and ponds are no longer free from contaminating diseases. Malaria and fever Itirk in their wafers. Moral de generacy seems to be more ap parent about the isolated banks of a creek, river or pond than elsewhere. The effects of un desirable associates are easily observed. The child must play if it is to develop, therefore supervised play becomes a vital necessity. f Recreational 1 facilities for those who have passed from youth to manhood and woman hood are necessary. The play ground, with its pool and other facilities, has met and will con tinue to meet these civic de mands, and it should receive the support of every man and woman in the city. Its possibilities for civic good are almost limitless, and as such it will bring in a dividend that cannot be measured in dollars and cents. No child, however poor its parents, should be denied the privilege of this municipal plot set aside for physical and moral education. There are men here financialy able, whose love for childhood, whose desire to serve, is such that they will see that no one is denied. The city is indebted to the splendid body of civic club members for the# generous con tribution they made Tuesday. But to J. Ralston Cargill, more than to any other one person, is due major credit for the existence of the swimming pool, debt free, and the play ground plant. When others were skeptical and discourag ed, he drove ever forward, de termined that this dream for the kiddies of Americus” should be a guaranteed fact for all time. Mr. Cargill unstinting ly gave of his time, talents and money and the pool will ever remain as a monument to his love for little children. Underwood As Labor’s Advocate During the Underwood-Mc- Ado carppaign there was a con stant barrage of literature in which the former oil attorney was declared to be the labor ing man’s saviour. McAdoo's friends would not admit that the laboring man had any oth er friend on earth. However, the Columbia Rec ord, commenting on the subject of labor and its friends, makes this comparison between Mc- Adoo and Underwood— The difference is Senator Un derwood has never exploited la bor. Ke-has been cofctbnfr -• do a gqod demand let it go it 'that. He haaSievee been an agi tator. He has not been a drum- beater in any of his elections, and he has never been defeated in his home State, where or ganized labor is strong. Probably it is because he is not a self-booster that few are aware that Senator Underwood started out to make his living as a locomotive fireman. Yet that is exactly what he did, for a short time, he was an engineer and regularly took his engine out on the main line, like the rest of the engineers. There is now in Birmingham a veteran locomotive engineer, for thirty-nine years an active member of the brotherhood, who has no patience with those who misrepresent Senator Un derwood’s record. Col. Tom Pound says he knows whereof he speaks when he asserts that the senator is a true friend of the laboring man. Years ago, as Colonel Pound recalls, when the corporations all over the country were blacklist ing members of the unions, it was Senator Underwood who put a stop to it. The Colonel re calls this feat, because it was he who escorted 156 engineers to Washington to ask the assistance of Mr. Underwood. The result was,the law which prohibits blacklisting. It freed the laboring man from the com bined influence of retaliation and vengeance—which the older union men recall was the sword held over their heads to terror ize them. Senator Underwood has always given labor unions conscientious treatment. When he thought the leaders wer e wrong he told them so. He never soujght advant age, crdeit or praise for having done that which he considered his duty. A difference from those who seek office by under taking to wear a halo of any sort. The results might have been different even in Georgia had Senator Underwood quit his post of duty in the Senate and come South to “toot his own little whistle.” The public soon forgets, it believes a great deal of bunk when handed out by profession al politicians. Senator Under wood’s tariff law alone was a greater contribution to the la boring man than Mr. McAdoo’s boost of wages for a relative ly few. ; OPINIONS OF i § OTHER EDITORS USED TO BE S There used to be such a thing as a parlor but now only the, ex clusive old families boast one.-- Thomasville Times-Enterprise. JUST HUMDRUM Many, a man gets mad because he has to answer the phone a few times, and cusses out central who has to answer the phone all day. —Rome News Tribune. MUST HAVE SOMEBODY Modernists who claim that Adam and Eve never existed make it necessary to hunt up someone else to blame for the world’s trou bles. —Griffin News. THIS IS THE QQUESTION In all kindliness, we might ask: “Did those cutting-up” stu dents carry their own whisk ay with them to Washington? Or dii they get it after they reached the place?”—Moultrie Observer. HOW CAN YOU TELL Greene county gave McAdoo nearly a thousand majority and there isn’t any KJC.K. organi zation in the county. The peo ple who voted for MeAdoo are just every-day-honest - to - God Georgians.—Greensboro Herald. MOON MUST BE FULL The new nioon is rising rather high in the northern skies, which, weather. It is also tilted so as to “old folks” say, is a sign of drp spill water, which, the same au thorities say, means a wet month. Now which will it prove to be? —Early County News. WHY SOME PEOPLE FAIL One of the main reasons why some people never get on their financial feet is because they spend what they expect to make before it is made, and often they fall short of their expectations. The only safe course is to earn your money first, and then spend it afterwards.—The Sandersville Progress. THIS IS A LOSS Why can’t somebody fix it so as to let us have Swift and Co., continue in business in Georgia? We need them the worst kind. Where’s the sunshine of live stock industry in this murky, foggy, rainy weather? are buying one and a half million hogs from the west now and raising and eating that many more in Georgia. Must we go . "back to buying ihd.ferftire thre« million -htrgs-? ■ Mee-on Telegraph. - The Swift plant at Moultrie is the maker of competition in the INSCRIPTION • FOR A STATU E of CHAUCER /AT WOODSTOCK /A \ Such was old Chaucer, such the placid mien I V Os him who first with harmony inform’d I■- 1 lie language of our fathers. Here he dwelt For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls | ! Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, of knighthood, or the wiles fOf homely life; through each estate and age, The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though perchance From Blenheim’s towers, 0 stftirger, thou art come Glowing with Churchill’s trophies; yet in vain Dost thou applaud them if thy breast be cold To him, this other hero; who in times Dark and untaught, began with charming verse To tarCe the rudeness of his native land. —Mark Akenside. buying, the Cuban and the Caro lina buyers having to compe’e with the Moultrie packing housa. Industries of this kind in Georgia are just as deserving as any up east or anywhere else on the may —and a law-making body that can destroy ours and build for other sections is not the kind we ought to have—Cordele Dis patch. ONCE OUT OF DEBT It was nearly a century ago, in December, 1834, that Secretary of the Treasury Taney in his an nual report to congress, announc ed that the entire national debt would be paid or provided fur during the ensuing year. Thus the United States will pre sent that happy and probably, in modern times, unprecedented spec taele of a people substantially free from the smallest portion, of debt,” to quote from the report. Secretary Taney's predecessor, Secretarp McLane, had predicted the total extinguishment of the national debt three yearp before, and it is evident that the officials of that day had no confidence in the theory, attributed to Hamil ton but probably never advanced as a general truth, that “a public debt is a public blessing,” for the final wiping out of the last bond occured but seventeen years after the close of the war of 1812, ir which much of the debt was cre ated. Had later financial administra- | tion been as thrifty Uncle Sam might long ago have paid,the civil war debt, which still drags along to tlie enrichment of the bond holders. —Dearborn Independent. GOV. NEFF BREEDS DISCORD So far, only Mr. McAdoo and Senator Underwood have been seriously considered by the Demo crats of Texas in connection with the nomination, and there has been no great amount of enthus iasm for either. While most of the Democratic voters have their choice between the two men, a bitter partisan spirit has not been manifested. There has beer a tendency merely to judge which is the most available candidate for the party to nominate. Texas enjoyed the prospect of a campaign without mud-slinging and indulgence in personalities, until Governor Neff got on the stump and began to attack both candidates that Texas Democrats are considering, without letting out the secret of the identity of his own candidate. His attacks upon Mr. McAdoo have been quite generally con sidered as unwarranted, and with out basis of fact in some partic ulars, and it is to the credit of* the Underwood forces that they are not trying to capitalize the governor’s, structures on McAdoo for their own candidate, the sen ator from Alabama. The Underwood leaders are making a clean clear-cut fight for their candidate. The campaign harmonizes with Senator Under wood’s character, and type of statesmanship. They are present ing certain very plausible reasons why Mr. McAdoo is not available as a Democratic candidate for president, but they have refrained from attacking his personal cha raster, and are discouraging such attacks from others. If the Underwood people have their way, this campaign will be ended as it begun, on a high plane, with an appeal to the people’s in telligence, and not to their pas sions and prejudices. The governor could have con ducted his campaign for an unin structed delegation, and his un named candidate, without indul ging in attacks on Mr. McAdoo’s personal intergrity and his ef forts would have been more ef fective. From all indications, the gov ernor’s vituperative talks are not cheating any great excitement ?W«g tfye jvptersj bus he has Pob —Lauk of a phancy at least one decent political cam? paign.—Houston (Texas) Post. ” THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER JkSlLbijAlbert Apple BIG Small banks earn a higher per centage of profit than big banks. This is discovered through a survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. For instance, one big bark with a million dollars to loan will usually make less money from it than if it were distributed among 10 country bankers. each using SIOO,OOO. The reverse often holds true in business and is a factor in the high cost of living. There is a point in the development of large corpora tions and semi-monopolies where the economies made possible by size are eclipsed by overhead and other expenses due to size. We might all be more prosperous if many of our large corporations were dissolved into chains of small businesses, if not too small. * * * BIKES This is hard to believe, but it’s true: Americans are using more bicycles now than during the “bicycle craze” 25 years ago. The auto didn’t put the bicyle industry out of business, though it did 1 paralyze it for a while. The process will repeat when air planes come by the millions. We’ll need all the planes we can get, also ■all the autos. These is room for both. The new' no longer displaces the bld, they help each other. CROOKS Three hundred thousand profes sional criminals in our country, re ports the National Surety Company. That’s a low estimate. It doesn’t include the profiteers and petty cheaters who operate within the law. The professional criminals each year steal 3000' million dollars of American money and property. This is only a shadow of the steal ing by the aforementioned profiteers and petty cheaters. Dishonesty begins wherever full value is not given for price paid or services rendered. * * * KILLED While we were actively engaged in the World War, half as many Americans were murdered here al home as were killed in battle over seas. Wars come to an end. Murders do not. More than a million Ameri cans will be murdered during this 20th century if the present rate continues. * * » 6924 A. D. Five thousand years from now, scientists will view moving pictures showing how we ran our industries and manufactured the things we use in 1924. The films soon will be sealed in a vault in the Smithsonian Institution, not to be opened for 50 centuries. Watching these films, future men will conider us in about tthe same light as we’d consider the prehis toric cavemen if we had movies of the ways they did things. If you could come back to earth in the year 6924, you’d find next to noth ing ou’d realize. Imagine the diffi culty explaining a crystal radio set to George Washington if he could return. * * * DRAFTED Judge Gray tells how leaders of •the steel industry frustrated a pro posal to have Uncle Sam take over and operate the steel mills during the war. Gray says the committee of steel men said to the government, in effect; “If you think, under government management, better service will be rendered and you believe you can legally do it, you may undertake forcibly to secure the management iof the steel business. You will never do it with the consent or the approval of the owners of these properties, and you will Ibe/helil re sponsible, morally at least,” THE WAY TO EVERLASTING PEACE f ' > I, ■ j Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. May 30, 1914.) Hon. E. H. McMichael was in Americus yesterday returning to his home in Buena Vista, from a visit to the capital. Mr. McMichael is the representative from his county in the legislature and at the June session will offer an amendment to the automobile tax act, which will provide machinery for securing necessary and accurate information on which to distribute the fund now in the treasury. Behold the Muckalee fisherman at this season of the year! He riseth up early and disturbeth the entire family; mighty are his preparations He goeth forth with great hope arid much “bait” but when the day is far spent he returneth, smelling of strong drink and the truth is not in him. Yea, verily, he knoweth not the meaning of the word as he, telleth of the big fish he caught, but “it got away.” Mr, and Mrs. A. C. Crockett and Mrs. J. R. Hudson spent yesterday pleasantly at the home of Mrs. J. P. Heard in Vienna, going over in the morning upon a motoring trip. Completed and ready for the great work of humanity for which it stands, the Americus and Sumter County Hospital will open its doors this week to sick, suffering human ity and extend to all such a well come there. Miss Breeden together with Miss Ridgeway and other ladies constituting the former hospital staff, will remain in Americus, at least for the present, where their services will be fully appreciated R. P. Stackhouse, Jr. who is at tending the university at Belle Buckle, Tenn, is at home for the summer vacation. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday, no paper published. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. May 30, 1894.) The friends of Col. Duke Ilamil are trying to draw him into the legi slature race, but as yet he gives them no reason to hope that he will yield to their seductive influences and hurl himself into the politicial vortex. Dr. A. H. Campbell, for twelve years pastor of the Baptist church here, preached his farewell sermon to a large congregation on Sunday night last. He leaves Friday for Macon, where he has accepted a call to Tattnall Square Baptist church. It was with deep regret that the pastor’s resignation was accepted Sunday. It was tendered two weeks ago, but was not formally accepted until Sunday night last. Messrs. George Van Riper, George Nix, Brum Lee and Bob Frederick, with a party of friends from Columbus, returned yesterday from a weeks fishing frolic to the Dead Lakes of West Florida. They had a fine time and caught a car- T f\ \ IMS ma<le on improved x** farm 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, Lae.,, Terrell,. Schley, Macon, Steiwwt, Randolph 'and Webster eounttCTrSt Ftantrrrs Barrfc Bailding, /mericus, Ga. Phono &9 UML —---I -—— • load of f ish»». Pursuant to call, twenty two mem bers of the Americus Bar Associa tion met in the county court room Monday for the purpose of agreeing upon endrosing one of their num ber for the vacancy caused by the death of Judge J. C. Mathews, of the county court. Judge J. A. Ans ley presided, while Col. F. A. Hoop er acted as secretary. On the first call Col. J. H. Lumpkin lead all competitors, though his closest com petitor received a very handsome vote. His nomination was then made uhaniumous and those present were not long in making a selection. J/, \ 'DAILY PO£M THE ANNUAL SURPRISE If you’re feelin’ like me, you will surely agree, there’s a kick in the thought of a swim. You can’t call it rash when you’re achin’ to splash in the water with vigor and vim. When comes the hot weather folks gather together and talk of a picnic or two. While beach ads you’re scanning, you’re hurriedly planning on what is the best thing to do. Os course, in the end, you can al ways depend that you’ll motor or walk to a beach. A swim is 4 the thing that is certain to bring all the people who live within reach. Then you gladly recall that, quite late in the fall, a garment for bath ing was stored. So out comes the trunk where the suit has been sunk and it s z due to be quickly explored. You hunt and you hunt; it’s the annual stunt. Then you find it and shortly you don it. But then you’re confused for it cannot be used cause the moths have been dining upon it. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) 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’L Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Asst. Cashier ■•h'-.'Bk . The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) _ AT YOUR " SERVICE Oldest and largest State Bank in South gWijiri'd Ikj | Kill >■; west Georgia. Any I? business entrusted to jwa us w receive our ISibftOrm?li i If best attention. Y° u are n°t a l" ftf.ready one of our valued customers, we w °uld appreciate an opportunity of . serving you. The Bank With a Surplus * RESOURCES i. OVER $1,700,000 PROMf’T, CONSERVATIVE,,, ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Too -Small AFTERNOON, MAY 30. 1921 THE STANDARD WOMEN’S IS TO $6 SHOES "4- AT $2.98, $3.50 and $3.95. Se e the window display. All Shoes brand new, just received from one of the largest shoe mak ers. Every shoe bears this mak er’s name. Patent colt, Suede Brown and Black Calf, Hollywood and Strap effects. Every size in lot. . WOMEN’S ‘SECONDS’ PURE THREAD SILK HOSE AT 75c The price of the first quality is $1.50 to $2 per pair. These ‘Sec onds’ are the best that we have ever handled. The silk part of these hose is perfect. Occasional ly there is a drop-stitch in the lisle part whcih has been neatly mend ed; all sizes, all colors; Friday and pair ~... 75c MEN’S HIGH GRADE Fbuß- ( IN-HAND TIES, 35c Men’s Knitted Silk FoUr-in- Hand Ties, in every color, full regular length; regularly 50c; here Friday 'and Saturday, each „..35c $2 QUEEN VICTORIA SHEETS AT $1.49 Each one with the original ‘‘Vic toria” label, so of course each one first quality, bleached snow-white, size for double bed; this sale only $1.49 MEN’S ENGLISH BROADCLOTH SHIRTS AT $1.98. Genuine English Broadcloth Shirts, made with attached collars. Th e labels are in every shirt. Reg ularly $3; here Friday and Satur day, each $1.98 25c MEN’E LISLE SOCKS THREE PAIRS FOR 50c Fine Lisle Socks, medium weight, double heels, toes and sole; the best 25c value you have seen; here Fri day and Saturday, 3 pairs for 50c MISSES AND CHILDREN’S BROWN SANDALS AT $1.50 Brown cut-out andals, flexible stitched-down soles, fine and com fortable, all sizes up to 2, pr. $1.50 MEN’S EXTRA QUALITY UNION SUITS AT 75c The best dollar quality in Amer icus; closely woven p'ajama Checks, made with elastic seam back, all sizes, per suit 75c Standard Dry Goods Company Fortyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GA.
