Georgia Historic Newspapers

    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.