Georgia Historic Newspapers

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A THOUGHT^|
Where no counsel is, the people
fall: but in the multitude of coun
sellors there is safety.—Prov. 11:11.
»• The best receipt—best to work
land best to take—is the admonition
of a friend. —Bacon.
How Much Cotton to
the Plow?
How many acres of cotton
to the plow can be safely plant
ed: Some say 10, others 15.
Colquitt county advises five or
six. The editor of the Albany
Herald answers the question in
the following editorial:
There comes to the Herald a
ietter from a prominent gentle
man in the business life of
a Southwest Georgia town who «
makes an inquiry which suggests 1
that others may be interested fl
even as he is| He was not writ- 3
ing for publication- and there- fl
fore we are not printing his let- fl
ter, but this, in substance, is his |
query: »
“The average farmer knows f
that he must plow after each
rain, as soon as th e ground is f
sufficiently dry. The cotton
has also so to be hoe’d. In JS
order to do this, and also poi- I
son cotton regularly and thor- ■’
oughly as is now being urged .
upon every farmer who can
be reached with the appeal,
how many acres of cotton can
a man, his wife and one
Child, on a small one-horse •
farm, take care of, and at the
same time cultivate sufficient
land to feed the farmer, his
family and his stock?’’
There can perhaps be no bet
ter answer to the question than ■
to recall the “Colquitt county
plan’’ for a one-horse farm
adopted last fall, after the com
pjeteness of the boll weevil’s
work of destruction in the cot
ton fields of this section was ap
parent. That plan represented J
the best thought and experience fl
of farmers, bankers, merchants I
and others vitally interested in S
agricultural prosperity, and it J
was subsequently adopted in aS
number of other counties.
The Colquitt county plan pro- 3
vided for “not exceeding five or 1
six acres of cotton,” for it was 1
realized that for a one-horse i
farmer to plant more would I
mean his failure to cultivate it r
on the intensive plan proved to r
be essential to success.
Far better that too few acres •
be planted to each plow and j
hand than too many.
Discussing this question with
us» recently, Dr. J. C. Maness
said his only uneasiness with
regard to Sumter county was
that we had too much cotton
for the amount of labor and
plows.
When asked what he would
advise, he said:
“Plow us some of it, by all
means; plow it up and plant
corn or other feedstuff. That’s
the only way to beat the wee
vil. Plant what you can easily
care for and put the rest of the
land in something else. There
will be more cotton from the
decreased acreage than from
the maximum."
After all, the answer to the
question of how many acres to
the plow, is an individual one —
one that each farmer must ans
wer for himself. %
“There’s No Fool Like
An Old Fool”
The funniest thing in history
is how a pretty woman made a
fool of Aristotle, the ancient
Greek philosopher, in his old
age.
His job was tutor and guard
ian of Alexander the Great,
who ’’conquered the world” and
died when he was 42.
Lovely woman was Alexan
der’s weakness. , He had paus
ed in his career to worship at
the shrine of an adventuress.
Chided by Aristotle, Alexan
der mockingly said:
"Sighing, alone he cried as inly
moved:
‘Alas! These men, me seems,
have never loved.’ "
The philosopher won out,
however. Alexander jilted his
sweetheart. SLe managed to
get to him, learned why her lov
ei had abandoned her. Burning
for revenge, she set her traps.
Details are somewhat lacking
as to what followed. But it
wound up with Aristotle at the
beauty's feet, his
to the four winds.
t.< Her. answer was that, before
she would become the old man s
darling, he must gratify J her
craving to mount and ride the
back of the jvisest man in the
world.
Alexander, watching, soon
saw her strap a saddle on Aris
totles’ back, fasten reins to him,
mount and ride about the im
perial gardens, Aristotle on all
fours as he lumbered along with
his precious burden.
When a -white-haired philos
opher madt such a fool of him
self, one doesn't wonder at the
old boys of our generation
whose affections and fancies
get them on page one of the
newspapers.
Aristotle, when he realized
how he had been duped, admit
ted that youthful Alexander was
crazy like a fox when he pur
sued feminine beauty.
“Love is master of man
kind,” agreed the aged man of
wisdom.
Often we think of youth as
a fool, but after all, there’s no
fool like an old one.
Pensions and the Bonus
We heartily regret the action
of the Democrats in passing the
bonus bill. From the first we
have felt it to be a mistaken
piece of sentiment—or political
trickery;—as you will.
The bill is now a law, but we
fear we are are not yet finish
ed with the soldiers bonus or
pension.
Only the first appropriation
has been made. Others will be
demanded. It has been the
case with every pension meas
ure ever passed by State or
Nation. Next year or the year
after, there will be “new class
es to be added. Millions
more will be piled on the bil
lions already spent.
The Cordele Dispatch says
our Democratic delegation has
gone wrong in the bonus—all
of them, declaring that—-
Our Democratic delegation in
Congress is gone wrong in the
bonus—all of them. This is the
most .gigantic blunder of a gen- .
eration in legislation. There will
be a day when good government
will need what is going to be
thrown to waste in this political
raid on the public treasury.
There will be a day when the dis
abled and needy of this national
army of four million will suffer
because of it—and the able
bodied soldier will mock and
sneer at this commercial, politi
cal, monetary interpretation of
loyalty, of patriotism—the sor
riest swing backward, down
ward, away from true purpose,
high and noble ideal, great na
tional devotion to a cause that
has ever been possible in the
minds as such men as compose
the American Congress of this
day and hour! A dollar day—a
political estimate of the value of
the loyalty of an American sol
dier in such a caps e as that which
sent them to France! Not while
we know ourselves shall we call
it worthy—how we wish it had
not been done!
Our strongest objection to
soldiers bonus and pensions is
that they tend to pauperize.
The politician sees a vote
getter in giving away money and
he meets every demand —at the
expense of the people. The
recipient is never satisfied. He
demands more and more as
the days pass—and he usually
gets it.
The pension appropriation
made by the State of Georgia
for Confederate veterans and
their wives and widows is
greater today than ever before,
though sixty years have gone
by.
The same will be true of the
adjusted compensation law.
Only the first appropriation has
been made.
\ OPINIONS OF >
OTHER EDITORS j
THE NIGHT-SHIRT ORGANIZA
TION
There seems to be a whole lot
of time and energy being wasted
in a palaver over whether the
Hon. Senator-elect from Texas,
Earle B. Mayfield, is or is net
affiliated with and supported t>y
the Ku Klux Klan. Daily there
comes from Washington, where
Congress is indulging its investi
gating habits, a full report of
who says he is and who says he
isn’t and who says he received
campaign contributions from the
klan and who says he didn’t re
ceive them.
Why all the excitement? it
Mr. Mayfield has a desire to ally
himself with a night-shirt organi
zation, that is an affair which
concerns himself and the people
who elected him to the United
States Senate. As may be de
duced from the old lady’s remark,
he even has a right to kiss a epw
’ if he ' feels 5 that way about■ It. •
Texas Is a’ToTerign Strut? and' as
kl £CHO AND < ‘
SILENCE
\V u rvwßr ' n course w hen leaves began to fly,
f A™! Autumn m her lap the store to strew,
*/ T J rV*- m *d wild scenes I chanced the woo,
Through glens untrod, and woods that frown’d on hig
*L. Two sleeping nymphs with wonder mute I spy!
'W . \ And, 10, she’s gone!—ln robe of dark-green hue
1 ’T WaS^Om ' ief yStfr^*’ence^ew ’
fA Aw h°r quick the hunter’s horn resounded to the sky I
yj /zZr In shade aflnghted Silence melts away.
VrdK No * so her sister. —Hark! for onward still,
With far-heard step, she takes her listening way,
'''' Bounding from rock to rock, and hill to full
: W* nark the merry maid in mockful play,
With thousand mimic tones the laughing forest fill!
( X ’ —S’* Egerton Brydges.
such is entitled to representation
in th*: Senate. So long as that
State seems to think Mr. May
field represents its purposes and
ideals, so be it. Let Texas worry.
—Baltimore Sun.
10,000 PROFIT FROM ONE FARM
A Burke county farmer is said
to have made a profit of ten
thousand dollars last year on a
farm of less than four hundred
acres. His success is attributed
to the fact that he rotates his
crops and plows under green
crops on a portion of hig land
each year for fertilizing pur
poses, thus putting humus into
the soil so necessary for plant
life. He gets good dividends in
the increased production of cot
ton, corn and small grain. If all
farmers would follow his example
Georgia would become one of the
most prosperous 'agricultural
states in the Union. He beats
the experiment stations in getting
results.—-Sandersville Progress.
WHO blocked tax reduc
tion
Would you hire a doctor to fix
an automobile? Would you hire a
cook to arrange the financing of
a new hotel? No, you would not.
Then why is every congress
man and every senator supposed
to be capable of figuring out a
better tax plan for financing our
national government than are the
experts in the United States tveas
ury who are responsible for a
sound financial policy for this na
tion?
Men not capable of financing
a corner grocery store feel more
fully qualified to inflict upon
the public their ideas of running
a six or seven billion dollar an
nual government budget than do
the experts in the treasury de
partment’.
The people have been crying
for tax reduction, but instead of
giving it to them our rag-chew
ing politicians in congress have
been fighting to figure out some
■plan that would override the very
business-like proposal of the
secretary of the treasury and his
assistants, which would have lop
ped over $300,000,000 off the tax
bill for 1923 if it had been adopt
ed.
Politics may be all right as
long as it confines itself to poli
ticial matters, but it is a curse to
a nation when it dips into busi
ness pure and simple, and should
not be a vote getting vehicle for
republican or democratic politi
cians.
REPUDIATING AUTOCRACY.
At a meeting of the state demo
cratic executive committee the
rules adopted for the September
primary and the subsquent state
Convention placed the party in
Georgia back into the house of the
fathers, and vindicated, by un
animous action, the position W
The Constitution in opposition to
the wholly undemocratic rules
adopted in January to govern the
presidential primary of April, and
its subsquent convention.
The rules adopted in January
placed exclusively in the hands
of the successful candidate, or
his agents, the naming of the dele
gates to the convention from all
the counties, including those car
ried by unsuccessful candidates,
without necessary reference
to or consultation with the coun
ty committees in the respective
counties, or even the friends and
supporters of the successful can
didates in -the various counties.
How this rule was subr.quently
employed, by which local voice
in the selecuon of delegates was
completely ignored, and county
autonomy, which is the basic prin
cipie of representative democracy
was abrogated by the secret mani
pulations of a small group in At
lanta, is now ' political history.
It is satisfaction enough to
know that the state committee, in
so short a time—even earlier
than The Constitution had dared
to hqpe— saw and recognized
the error it had made and com
pletely repaired it, without pro
test or a dissenting vote.
KI Indeed ,<>f th# ‘ committee
rnwpublicly aeknowkMged the
’ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
Apple
BONUS
To handle the soldier bonus,
Uncle Sam will have 4000 special
clerks. If the work’s equally di
vided, each clerk will have over
1000 veterans to investigate. And
for each veteran there’s an average
of 40 documents in government
files. All of these will be gone
through, and a considerable part of
them balled up and have to be un
tangled. Red tape multiplies like a
family .of rabbits.
The War Department long ago
had the system schemed out, with
the “machinery” ready to be put
in operation. The next thing will be
to keep corruption out of the work
and prevent the usual interminable
delay. Either one of wh' .-h is about
as easy as winning the war.
FRAUDS
The American people certainly
like to step up and place a bet on*
which shell the little pea is under.
In 1914 stock swindlers gently
separated the public from 250 mil
lion dollars. This year the plunder
from worthless stocks will be four ,
times as much, predicts Henry L. *
Doherty, the investment banker, j
That’ll be about $lO for every man, A
woman and child.
Says Doherty: “Americans are
the most gullible investors in the (
world.” Political observers guessed j
as much, long before Barnum stare- ,
ed his museum. As for stock swin- (
dies, the man who tries to get sonic- (
thing for nothing usually gets noth- (
ing for something. (
ahead ,
Rev. Clausen enters his six-year- (
old son in the class of 1941 of ar, .
eastern university. He was afraid, i
if he waited longer, the enrollment
list would be overflowed.
Getting quite common, to book a
youth several years ahead for col
lege entrance. The colleges are
swamped with customers. Higher
education is increasingly within
reach of more and more of the popu
lation. That means, the level of
average prosperity is rising.
IRELAND
The Irish Free State reports a
deficit of about 43 million dollars
for 12 months. That much was spent
more than was received in taxes and
other revenues. Ireland couldn’t be
expected at the start to be able to
guess accurately how much money
would be needed. A few years of
experience will be necessary.
Prosperity and surplus will inevit
ably come, for the winning of self
government will curb emigration, by
which Ireland for generations was
drained of her most valuable natural
resource—people.
RUSS
Russian farmers are gradually
jetting back toward pre-war crops.
Very gradually, however. Final fig
ures show last year’s wheat crop
aver there was 245 million bushels,
compared with the record of 937 mil
lion bushels in 1913.
The three-fourths drop in produc
tion gives an inkling of the malnutri
tion and starvation that have stalk
ed the land of the ex-czars. At
empty stomach, rather than govern
mental changes, apparently explains
Russian conditions of the last few
years.
Total grain crops in 1923 were a
bit smaller than the year before,
but a fourth' larger than in 1921.
The 1924 outlook is better,
GAIN
Foreign trade is looking up. Ex
ports of American manufactured
goods in the fiscal year 1924, to end
June 30, will be 200 million dollars
ahead of the year before and 400
million ahead of 1922.
Unlike the wartime boom, this is a
healthy growth. It’s apt to be per
manent. And, as a mater of fact,
the physical volume of our foreign
trade during the war boom exceeded
normal by only 6 per cent. The sup
posed gain was a price hoax. There
weren’t more exports. They just
COST more. ’
former "mistake of the committee,
in offering the new rule for adop
tion.
The legislature should seal the
question with a legal mandate.
SHOULD O’ SEEN THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY
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Old Days In Americus
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. June
4, 1914.)
The sale yesterday of the brick
building on Lamar street, formerly
known as the Chambliss warehouse
property but more recently owned
by Mr. Luther Hawkins, was oi;
interest in local realty circles and
varied the dullness of the past two
Or three months. The property was
purchased by Dr. W. A. Rembert
who acquired it as an excellent in
vestment and at a good round price.
Col. W. W. Dykes will qualify as
the duly appointed receiver for the
Americus Trust and Savings Co., the
state bank heretofore operated in
conjunction with the defunct Ameri
cus National, and to an extent, alike
defunt. It is hoped that depositors
of the savings bank may eventually
get back a considerable portion of
the $13,000 o more, du them at the
time the parent bank went by the
board and its doors closed.
Mrs. J. T. Killen and Miss Killen
will come tomorrow from Moultrie
as guests of Mrs. E. P. Morgan,
during several days.
The many friends of Mrs. C. A.
Ames deeply regret her continued
serious illness at her residence on
Hill street, and will hope for her
early recovery.
Mrs. P. L. Holt has returned here
from Galveston, where for two
months she has been with her sen,
Peyton, who has been seriously ill,
but is now improved, and will re
turn here shortly.
Mrs. J. O. McArthur and daugh
ter, Mrs. Griffith Eldridge returned
yesterday from a visit to relatives
in Blarkely. ’
Col. D. R. Andrews felt prouder
yesterday than would a father of
triplets, and all on account of a
watermelon, the first one of the sea
son and a joy promoter of Florida
growth, which bent down the scale
beam at 72 pounds.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. June
4, 1904.)
At a meeting of the local camp
yesterday Mr. John M. Blount pas
senger agent of the Central, with
Mr. S. A. Pruitt, local agent, went
before that body in interest of the
Nashville reunion, and the Ameri
cus delegation will go by the Cen
tral. A special coach will be given,
the Americus party leaving here at
noon on the 13th inst. and arriving
at Nashville, next morning at 6:30
o’clock.
Postmaster Frank Mitchell along
with other Georgia postmasters has
just been given an increase of SIOO
a year in salary, dat.ng from June
Ist. His salary is increased fror.i
$2,300 to $4,000 a year. With the
and the increase in the duties and
growth of the Americus post office
responsibilities of postmaster, it is
but natural and proper that the
salaries of the postmaster and other
officials of the office should be in-
| made on improved
farm lands at cheap
est rates for terms of 5,7 or 10
years with pre-payment option given
JUoney secured promptly. We have
new 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 Bqnk
Building, A marfijuß, Qa. Phone ’B9
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 4, 1924
I creased.
Prof. I. L. McNair, of the faculty
of the Furlow High School, who was
succeeded in that position of the
recentelection by Prof. Duncan, of
Alabama, has already severed his
connection with the public schools.
At an early date he will establish a
high grade private school for ad
vanced pupils, and will thus remain
in Americus.
The sweet girl graduate is now
telling us what lies beyound the
Alps, while the young man over at
the college is giving us a few point
ers on how to conduct a republic.
When an Americus girl gets en
gaged she acts like a man who has
just bought a dog supposed to be
able to lick anything in his class.
Mr. W. L. Thomas one of Plains
prominent business men, was in-
Americus yesterday.
Col. Jim Williams magnificient
peroration yesterday upon “fresh
air, pure water, hygiene and sani
tation” deeply impressed the as
semblage.
THIRIY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.
2 MAY DIE FOLLOWING
PISTOL DUEL IN STREET
MONTGOMERY, June 4.—Hays
Fannin is dead and David Knighton
is wounded, perhaps fatally, as the
result of a fight in a street in front
of the postoffiee at Grady, Ala., a
village about 35 miles from Mont
gomery, according to reports re
ceived here.
The fight is said to have been
caused by an argument over a dice
game. An exchange of blows re
sulted and Knighton is reported to
have stabbed Hays Fannin. Knigh
ton in turn was shot down by Walt
er C. Fannin, brother of the dead
man, according to reports received
here.
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER. Manager
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 88
Day Phones 88 and 231
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