About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1924)
PAGE SIX SUMTER COTTON FARMERS, COTTON SQUARES ARE FORMING: DUSTING COMES NEXT. UNDUSTED FIELDS WILL BE RIDDLED BY THE WEEVIL 1 TIMES-RECCRDER ' PUBLISHED U 79 1111 1 i Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (iuc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered ■■ second clew matter at the post of fid •t Atsericuo. Georgia, according to the Act of Congrw The Associated Press Is exclodrely entitled ta the me for the republication of all jagwa die* patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper abd also the local news published here in. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. W[ __ . - - - - National Advertising Represents tires, FROST LANDIS A KOHN, Brunswick Bldg.. New Tori; /copies’ Gao Bldg.. Chicago. A THOUGHT Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.—Ninth Com mandment. Where fraud 3** J falsehood in vade society, the band presently breaks.—South. Prayer The modern civic club trains men for service in many ways. One of its customs is the open ing of each luncheon with a prayer by one of its members.. In one of the local clubs, the president starts at the top of the roster and follows it through in alphabetical order. The prayer offered by these business men are usually short and to the point. Many of them are most inspiring in their beauty and simplicity, as you’ll agree from the following re cently heard here— “ Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee this day for the food we are about to partake and for the health and happiness pre valent in this club. “May we ask forgiveness for our sins and beseech Thee, our Lord, to care for the poor and those in trouble and in need. “May whatever humble good and uplift represented by this club and its members be spread throughout the community and let its harvest be Christianity al ways and prosperity everlasting. We ask for Christ’s sake.” Many prayers of vastly great er length have said less than this from the lips of an unpre tentious business man. Pulpit orators often have failed to embody more beauty and sim ple eloquence. We recall Bourck White’s famous “Prayer of the Man in the Street,” the petition of one who knew he was weak and de sired strength; one who believ ed himself a coward and want ed to occupy the place of a man; a lonely man desiring compan ionship and comfort. He pray ed~~-~ . Lprd, I want to be strong. I’m a weakling. I don’t stand on my feet. I shuffl e along, hid ing my principles, dodging this way and that. The trouble with me is, I’m a coward. I’m not playing the man. I’m one bundle of evasive ness and searings and triviality. I’m ashamed of it. And so I come to You, the Maker of man ly men. You delight in my strength. You look with pity on weak-kneed folk. But You give Yourself freely to people who stand for somethinbg Therefore, be my companion, God of the strong and unafraid —that I may learn from You how to hold myself straight up; how to walk with a resolute stride, and to speak out with resonant tones. Make over un to me Your quality of courage ousness. Teach me to look life square in the face, and to fear nothing in erath or hell but You. Then I know I’ll count for something. At present I count for nothing—a cipher; a mere zero in the arithmetic of the ages. Build a bony framework of principles inside of me, to the end that I may be an up standing fellow, a man with strong men will comrade. Fiber me into moral courage. Strengthen me, and I shall be strong. Strengthen me, and I shall be straight. Prop me up to stand for the right the right is unpopular. And so I shall begin to live. I will fear neither death, nor poverty, nor public opinion. And the world will behold in me an erect soul, mighty with the mightiness of manhood. Amen! In your scrap book or back in memory’s vaults you, too, have & prayer stored away—a petition, the repeating of which gives you comfort. Be you Protestant, Jew or Catholic, when your back is to the wall there’s an involuntary cry that ascends for aid. But to the heart of the Av erage Man there’s no prayer that brings so much satisfaction as those lines we learned at mother’s knee, taught lisping lipa from her whose love comes first and last through Eternity— a prayer repeated by the great and the famous, the lowly and the obscure— “ Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray Thee Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, .jl P r ay ; Jfhee my soul to From the tiny bedside of mil lions of (jbildrqi that age-ojd prayer is wafted daily on the evening breezes. From the cradle to the grave, man is worshiper. In some form or other, he looks upward and onward to some future rest ing place inhabited by an All- Wise Being. Answering Editorials With Buckshot Not so very many weeks ago the editor of a Georgia weekly paper was shot by of his townsmen. It is charged that the editor was fighting the bootlegging interests of his county and that this was the cause of the crime. The incident recalls times most of us thought had past, when the editor traveled through his community “heel ed,” ready for trouble at any moment. And often he was the target for a shot. The surest way to arouse a people is to resort to violence on the person of him who is en deavoring to expose crime. We may go our way, little suspecting the criminal condi tions that prevail. The warn ing from the press may have more or less effect, but let some desperado shoot the man who is exposing the evil, and the public arises. The Tifton Gazette has this reference to the recent Soper ton tragedy. Shooting up an editor because he opposes the manufacture and sale of liquor isn’t going l to stop the efforts to enforce the law. Most of the peoplee in every community are lawabiding and such action can have only one result—more rigid enforcement of the law. People may travel along apparently without notic ing law violations, until some such catastrophe occurs, and then they rise up and demand that the law be enforced. Evils said to exist in this community will more quickly be remedied because of the shooting of the editor than would have been had he been left unmolested. The “Death Ray’’ Sold The next war, experts tell us, will be fought principally from the air with chemicals—— chemicals more terrible than poison gases. “The death ray,” another means of human destruction, has been to sold to Britain by a British subject, the discoverer, for $1,500,000, news dispatches state. ''-*6?; No one but the inventor. Grindell Matthews, and his close associates know what is the “death ray.” Evidently he has convinced his government of its effectiveness and cap ability as an engine of destruc tion. Os his discovery, Matthews says it is the most devastating war engine of all ages. How ever, many scientists and in ventors ridicule his “death ray," but Matthews says it will make England safe from all serial at tack. He says his machine will produce a terrifying energy cap able of spreading death and ruin throughout a zone of flame. He first offered if to the Brit ish. When they declined to buy, he went to France. It is said he approached our own State Department. However, the British have it and we on this side of the Atlantic would much prefer to see it in the hands of the English than those of any other nation. The Women’s Vote Never more than 50 per cent of the possible male vote of this country has been cast in a po litical campaign. Often it has been much less. However, the women of America state that they have their plans so laid that around 75 per cent of the female vote will be cast this fall in the Presidential campaigns. The women’s vote is an un known quantity, one that the politician cannot forecast, and it is a source of worry to the national leaders. John Temple Graves, writing in the Washington Post, has this to say about the women’s vote: The wide world of politics is watching and waiting for the American woman’s vote in No vember. It is a thrilling and tremen dous event. For the first time the American woman is full suffraged now and, if she wills, may vote her full militant strength in the coming national election. Never before has she been abl e to poll more than a fragment of strength. Sectional and sporadic enfranchisement has given expression to her will in local elections. But at last the entire sex, from Maine to £«ltfwnia, bolds in hand the <7? LEST BE THY DEAR LORD \ /-y Blest be Thy love, dear I-ord, f That taught us this sweet way, Only fo l° vc ee f° r f° F lal ’° VP s’ p ,LY 0 Thou, our souls’ chief hope! ' Ji We to Thy mercy fly; Where’er we are, Thou canst protect, Whate’cr we need, supply. =; I Whether we sleep or wake, I To Thee we doth resign; f By n, wc scc * as we^as da y. K . If Thy light on us shine. i Whether we live or die, SaV? K Lz 1 ■ Both we submit to Tb.ee; Hr I ■' ( k at b we I |VC - as w dl as life, hj 1 \ •If Thine in death we be. V'- U I . —John Austin. little white slip of paper that marks its full equality and its glorious opportunity. Since the republic was born it has known no more interesting, no more fateful hour. In the South, the vote will be cast solidly for the Democratic nominee, not always from choice,but from necessity. In the East, North and West no man can foretell the results. The women of these sections may completely upset all po litical forecasts. It is the unknown quantity. Even after the candidates have been nominated, forecasting the female vote will be a matter of guess work only. It is beyond the ken of mere man. , OPINIONS OF OTHER EDITORS ! A PROBLEM OF DEXTERITY Pity the politician. It’s no easy matter to straddle a fence while keeping one car on the ground.—San Francisco Chronicle. NOT GRUMBLING IN EVANS COUNTY Shipments of cross ties, tim ber,. lumber and naval stores are I doing much toward keeping mon ey in circulation in Evans county. But like all other resources pro vided by nature, we do not begin to appreciate their worth until they are np more. The truckers in Evans county seem to have made a “lucky strike” with their crops this }<ar. So far we have not heard a grumble about the' price received for the various shipments.-—Claxton Enterprise. THE OLD-TIMES “The old-timer is a man who took as much pride in an SBO rubber-tired buggy as one of the present generation does in a $2,000 automobile,” says The Maysville Enterprise. Back in those SBO days, one could hire a horse and buggy an entire Sunday afternoon for $1.50, and the girl that went with it cost, perhaps, the price of ah ice cream soda, to-wit, 10 cents —in the small towns, a nickel. Nowadays, the garage keeper won’t give you so much as a, pleasant look for $1.50. FIGHT! FIGHT!! FIGHT!!! An old adage says that “a rainy May means a poor crop,” but there is another that says “a late start means a good crop.” . So you may take your choice this year. We have had a wet May, and the start is certainly late. But casting adages aside, what is needed now is fighting spirit. The farmers .of Georgia ihave shown that they have this spirit, for they have battled against seemingly insurmountable ob stacles in the past. But it ever fight was needed, it now. Georgia’s goal should be not less than 1,500,000 bales, and that much or more is already in the ground. Getting it out, however, is a different thing. There is but one way to over come the boll weevil, and that is to fight, fight fight,—Atlanta Constitution. NOW FOR A NEEDED REST The country will brpath a sigh of relief that President Coolidge has signed the tax bill. The effect of the new law is to reduce by 25 per cent taxes on last year’s incomes payab'o this year, while some of the many excise and miscellaneous nuisance taxes are repealed. The president has done wisely in signing the bill. If he had done otherwise it probably would have necessitated a prolongation of the present session of con gress, and nothing that coui.l happen to the country would be worse than that. What the people want now above all things is a rest from congress, and a reaSonahlj-. period of peace and qujet durift*' which business may be given an opportunity to adjust itself to a uomal bnsig, THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’ Apple CURE A cure for cancer will be dis covered within a few years, pre dicts Dr. Charles H. Mayo. That would save 100,000 live a year in the United States alone. The great terror, tuberculosis, will also be conquered in time. Pos sibly by inventing away to get sun light down into the lungs. Exposed |to the sun’s rays, the tuberculosis 1 germ dies in a few minutes. And after we stamp out cancer, .tuberculosis and other dread de stroyers, nature will send entirely new diseases to take their place. She wants to keep us fighting con stantly to survive, and her reserve armies are unlimited. Flu arrived shortly after several fatal fevers and smallpox were gotten under control. * * • EXPENSIVE Fifty thousand dollars was paid by a Michigan man for a single strawberry plant. He has since . spent $40,000 improving it. The purpose, of course, is more and better berries. f More attention is paid to crops , and livestock than to the people , who eat them. For every $1 spent to save babies’ lives by instructing ( mothers, probably SIOO is spent in ( fighting hog cholera, boll weevil, plant-life blights and the like. DRY The college boy who totes a hip flask is getting attention. Students are being organized into dry clans, pledged to uphold the prohibition laws, in many eastern colleges. Members agree to refuse drinks. This is the only way the coming generation can be kept from Demon Rum. Prohibition is nine-tenths a problem of education—of drinking rather than making and selling fire water. « * 9 DEADLY Several inventors claim they have discovered a “death ray” which, swung like a searchlight, would start fires, explode ammuni tion and kill enemy soldiers miles away. It’s not a new claim. You recall the X-ray, so widely discus sed before the World War. It is frequently suggested that science may make war so deadly and destructive that no nation would dare start fighting. War would become mutual suicide. It’s not impossible. But, first, nations would have to agree to have no secrets in their war offices, other wise there’d be individual advan tages. War, like other evils, is perpetu ated by secrecy. » ♦ « BONUS The soldier bonus u4ll cost about sl.lO a year for every American, man, woman and child, according to estimates. Rather cheap insurance for pro tecting 108 million lives and some 320 billion dollars worth of natio nal wealth. It’ll all go back to its source— ■, the people. Out of one pocket, into the other. ♦ ♦ * JINNI An electric machine that lays ns many bricks as 20 masons is b: ing marketed in the building trades. Three men operate it. The labor of 17 men is saved, released for other -kinds of work. This is typical of the history of applied inventions. You picture a future- race with nothing to de except run machines, make them, mine and prepare orcs and grow food. These tasks can be made easier by machinery but nev er displaced by it. There’ll always f jplenty of work, thongh.olfp)f-| hour workday may be the rule a long time after we’re all dead and forgotten, WHAT IS MORE THAN A JUNE DAY WITHOUT . SPEECHES? y . _ ■ l 2 J/WX- vA. tA \ tX \ rx ( iBACTe.tS, Ad" \ \ J) I F&llOw GgAPuflfes- \ \ x ■ 2s® & 1 LCOi< towN X k? Youß Smiling Faces > ‘S f»i -i « ' A VIE ARE GAteEP HERE /M )K CievELRHPB SELECT A C 7 CAimiE For vics J)/ 1 □( J Px?£sipenT J Cf Mjf 4 > Ah" _ oL f Sm } Jak 1 —A The man we nominate here \ /< / ,N new York musT Bc7he / WxX X" //. 4 L* L_„_ : Lxx zJ Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. June 5, 1914.) Os interest to their many friends in Americus, was the wedding on Thursday of Miss Kathleen McGar rah and Dr. Nathan F. Murray, of Macon, which occurred at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Rosa McGarrah at Friendship. The bride was lovely in her going away gown of a soft wisteria with which she wore a small hat, trimmed in the same color. Her flowers were sweet peas in a shower bouquet. Immediately after the ceremony they came to Americus where they were given a delightful luncheon by Mrs. W. C. Carter. Dr. and Mrs. Murray left at two fifteen for a short stay in North Georgia, going afterwards to Macon where they will make their’home in the future. Prominent among the visitors spending yesterday in Americus was Hon. Clifford Walker, of Wal ton county, who is a candidate for the office of attorney general of Georgia, with, most excellent pros pects of winning that coveted lion or. Col. Walker is no stranger in south Georgia, and especially in Americus, where he has been of times a guest at the home of his sister, Mrs. Frank P. Harrold. Superintendent J. E. Mathis, of the Americus city schools and one of Georgia’s best known educators, has been named by Gov. Slaton as a member of the board of visitors of the University of Georgia. Miss Gertrude Hudson has gone to Atlanta as the fair guest of Miss Louise Mell, whose marriage on Thursday next will be an occasion of social interest in that city. TWENTY PEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. June 5, 1904.) When a small shipment of water melons were unloaded at Sparks store yesterday the news spread from Rabbit neck to Peppermint alley with the celerity of a light ning flash and brought unbleached Americux to the spot en masse. The melons were about the size of a Japanese torpedo but not as heavily charged. In celebration of his fourth birth day anniversary Master George Mil ler welcomes host of young friends from 5 to 6:30 at his home on Church street. It was an event royal for the sturdy little men and .women of tender years and all wished their genial young host a long succession of h ??y birthdays. R. N. Allen superintendent or, G. M. Eldridges plantation of 1,500 acres near Americus, came to the c’ y yesterday with the first col on bloom of the season on his coat lapel. Mr. Eldridge has 550 acres in cotton and 300 in corn this year, anti both crops are very promising. The marriage this afternoon of Mi Julia A. Walters ami Mr. J. F. I AfM w made on improved “X/xAiNiwfarm 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, M.tcon, Stewart, Randolph and Webster counties. 21 Planters Bank ‘Building, /mericus, Ga. Phone 89 .61 ill* THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 5. 1924 Bolton is an occasion in which a host of friends here, as through out the county feel an interest. Mr. Bolton will bring his fair bride to fiis pretty home on Lee street irr-i mediately after the ceremony. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY XFrom The Times Recorder. June 5, 1894.) The next meeting of “The Club” which will be held on Friday eve ning at the reisdence of Judge W. F. Clarks, will be quite a “novel” meeting. In addition to the reg ular program an interesting fea ture of the evening will be a “Li- 1 brary Party” in which all the mem bers are expected to take part. (Each member is requested to wear some article or articles of dress which will suggest the title of some book. Col. Dug Prince was the happiest man in town yesterday. “General Evans” glorious victory in Clarke county said Col. Prince sent good cheer to my heart. Mrs. ..White, of Atlanta, who is already well known among a num ber of friends in this city, has join ed her daughters, C. B. White and Gertrude White here and will make Americus her home. I Mrs. Waite and Misses White have leased the cottage, 310 Church street, recently occupied by Mr. and Mrs. M. I. Atkins. It is now Judge James A. Hixon, of the county court of Sumter. The appointment was made yesterday by Governor Northern and was as much a surprise to Col. Hixon as to his numerous friends. None are better qualified to wear the ermine, but as Col. Hixon was not an appli cant for the place the news of his appointment was quite a surprise to all. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Niglft Phones 661 and 88 Day Phorftes 88 and 231 L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKEII, Ass’t. Cashier Sffl**- 1 AW The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) AT YOUR a SERVICE 1 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 serving you. The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE. 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