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PAGE SIX SUMTER COTTON FARMERS, CQTTON SQUARES AfcE FORMING: DUSTING COMES NEXT. UNDUSTED FIELDS WILL BE RIDDLED BY THE WEEVIL TIMES-RECORDER PUBLISHED 1*79 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., tine.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered M eecond clM* matter at the poatotflca •t Americua, Georgia, according to the Act of Congreaa The Aaaociated Preet la eiclorirelr entitled to the nee for the republication of all newt die batches credited to it -or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news published bere ts. All right of republication of special dispatches tre also reserved. - - National Advertising Representatives, FROST (ANDIS A KOHN, Brunswick Bldg.. New York: peoples’ Gas Bldg.. Chicago. Abolish the Fee System Opinion over the State is pretty well a unit on the ques tion of abolishing the fee sys tem. The public—we dare say ninety per cent —is opposed to the fee system. It has been charged that bills abolishing the system would have passed but for a lobby al ways active about the State capitol. Whether that be true we do not know, but we do know that so far efforts to abolish the system have failed. , s When fees for any public ser vice exceed a reasonable salary for the man performing the ser vice, the fee should be lowered or the office placed on a salary basis. In smaller counties, where the fees are few and all of the time of the official is not demanded the fee system probably should be continued. This is a matter for each in dividual county to settle for it self and each county should be given the right to do so by con stitutional amendment. The Savannah News says in commenting on the fees paid the Fulton county solicitor: Up in Fulton county th P so licitor of the city court, Roy Dorsey, submitted his fee report the other day for the first quar ter of this year. He showed that the receipts of his office for the three months were $15,785.07 and its expenses $5,538.94, leav ing a nic e little nest egg for the solicitor of $10246.12. Not bad for three months. It is at the rate of $40,000 a year, which is more than any salaried employe of the public in the whole Unit ed ‘States gets in on o year, with one exception, and that exception is the president of the United States. / Now maybe th P solicitor of a court up in Atlanta is worth more to the public than any sal aried public officer or employee anywhere in the United States, and then again maybe he is not Be he ever so brilliant, so hon est, so painstaking, so careful of public and., private interest and right, nevertheless he is not worth $40,000 a year to th P peo ple of Fulton county. Many a man would be willing to take th P of fice and give excellent service for SIO,OOO a year, or even for less than that. The difference between what the office pays and what it ought to pay is pure loss to the people of Atlanta and Fulton county. Thirty thousand dollars is too much to one officer in one year. If that is good system, if that is good policy, then the words don't mean what they seem to mean. Every public official should be paid a reasonably fair sal ary provided his duties are a necessity and his work satisfac tory. Why under the sun do we, as a people, refuse to apply the same business methods to* gov ernment that we apply to our own business. Extravagance in government is a tax on the in dividual. We—you and us—pay the bill. Every public officer is on OUR pay roll; he is working for us and it is our business—or should be—how and what we pay our employees. If we desire our county offi cials placed on a salary basis, it us up to our representatives in the General Assembly to see that it is done. If a lobby is maintained in Atlanta to defeat the will of the people, it should be exposed and every public official con tributing a sum to fund the lob by should be turned out of of fice for attempting to thwart the will of those who employ him. Several Sumter county grand juries have recommended abol ishing the fee system in this county, and the last grand jury recommended the combining of the offices of tax receiver and tax collector. A constitutional amendment i/necessary before this can be done and our representatives should do their utmost to see that such a bill is passed by the General Assembly this summer. Promoting Prosperity Members of the Moultrie Ro tary club provided 21 boys in Colquitt county with pure bred Jersey calves. Each member of the club signed a note jointly with a boy in payment of a calf. A Colquitt County Jersey Calf club was formed by the boys and the club is growing. Already more calves are being applied for. The Moultrie Rotarians are serving their city and commun ity, applying their motto, “He profits most who serves best,” in a tangible lasting form. “That was a fine thing to do, and is worthy of emulation. Such as this will better condi tions and put Georgia on a sound basis again,” says the Dawson News. “A Jersey calf club would help Terrell county.” The Tifton Gazette, com menting on the service of the Moultrie Rotarians, says: Members of the Moultrie Ro tary club are assisting in prompt ing this good work, a member of th 2 club signing a note for each calf with the calf club member. It shows the interest of the Col quitt county boys in better farm ing methods that there were more boys apply ing for calves than there were calves, and the interest of Moultrie business men in promot ing better farming methods is shown by their willingness to as sist th P boys in securing calves. A blooded Jersey calf on every farm in Sumter county will not only add to the prosperity of this community, but it will enlist the interest of our boys in better stock. If we would keep the young life on the farm, we must make the farm interesting and profitable to them. S OPINIONS OF ? ? OTHER EDITORS \ BECAUSE THEY NEED IT. Why is it that an otherwise honest person will take a pencil and think nothing of it. We have even known preachers to take these useful articles, probably without the least compunction of conscienre. At least one pencil a day is ‘ swiped” from The Ga zette editor’s desk. Why do they do it?—Tifton Gazette. SOUTH GEORGIA CLOSING ON THURSDAYS. Thursday half-holidays are be ing observed by stores in practi cally every town in South Geor gia this year. The practice has become almost universal, as it is recognized as only just to the clerks, who have to work late Saturday night, that they should be given some time off during the week.—Tifton Gazette. A TEN MILE WIRE FENCE. A wire fence, ten miles long, is being built along the Florida line to separate Lowndes and Echols counties, in Georgia, and Hamil ton coupty, Florida. This is be ing done to keep tick infested cat tle on the Florida side from com ing into Georgia, where the work of tick eradication is being com pleted. The fence is a double one with cattle guards at every public road. It is now thought that tick eradication in Lowndes, Echols and Clinch counties can soon be completed.—Pearson Tribune. G. O. P S. IN GEORGIA. It was a clean-cut victory for the black and tans, headed by Henry Lincoln Johnson and the colored committeewoman from Savannah. Johnson overrode all opposition and is the head of the party in Georgia, as he has been for many years. He will be the surveyor of patronage the‘tactical commander of the campaign in this state, eople who want to be district atttorney and collector of revenue and postmaster ,in Georgia, in case of the success </ President Coolidge, will have to get the endorsement of “Link” and hi? influential collaboratress. —Savannah Press. It would not be necessary for anyone to ask why the solid south, if there were a color line—if the white man north of the Mason and Dixon line knew—as both the whites and blacks of the south know—that the negro cannot be a political factor—need not be— does not want to be, because race harmony requires that the negro stay out of politics. It would not be difficult to maintain a republican party in the south if white men could remain in charge —if white men could regulate and direct. But today pity the white man who has no more respect for him self than to make it a mullet sup per delegation. Pity the white man who will claim republican al legiance when Henry Lincoln John son’s intellect, his prince albert, beaver hat, and number fourteen patent leather boots hold forth at the headquarters.—Cordele Dis patch. The seating of the delegation headed by Henry Lincoln John son, the negro national commit teeman from Georgia, in the re publican national convention, and the kicking out of the white dele gation, has one unmistakabl meaning, and only one— And that is that the republican party machinery as now organ ize 4 prefers the negro votes of The thoughts are strange that crowd into my While I look upward to thee! It would seem mTu \ As if God pour’d thee from his hollow hand. \ And hung his how upon thine awful front, '"'lkr''' And spoke in that loud voice which seem’d to him W V, 2”-r- Who dwelt m Patmos foi his Saviour’s sake A' V '' “The sound of many waters," and had hade I 'll Thy flood to chronicle the ages hack, ZW H And notch His centuries in the eternal rocks Deep callcth unto deep—and what are we ■ H That hear the question of that voice sublime? \ I Oh. what are all the notes that ever mng > * I From war’s vain trumpet by thy thundering side? Yea, wliat is all that riot man can make, ' In his short life, to thine unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him ’ ' —'« Who drown'd the world and heap'd the waters far L I Above it? loftiest mountains? —A light wave, | ! Ths! breaks and whispers of his Maker’s might! , I —Jahn G C Brainard. • j the north and central west to any appreciable number of white votes in the south, and makes bold that position. The effect, of course, is to de stroy, for the time at least, any thought or hope of building up the republican party to any po tential strength in any of the southern states, leaving skeleton organizations only for the pur pose of controlling local federal patronage during republican na tional administrations. But with the negro chosen ,-n preference to the white vote in the south there disappears all chance of a republican party in this sec tion. Any such hope has now gone glimmering.—Atlanta Con stitution. Good Things To Eat BY ALBERT APPLE If you like delicious tilings to eat you certainly picked out the wrong generation in which to live. Thu cookery of centuries ago must have been exquisite, judging from the writings of some of the ecstatic eaters. The king of Bithynia, Asia Mit or, one one of his military expedi tions developed a violent craving for an icean herring. The ocean was far away, bp the king’s cock took a big turnip, cut it into the shape of a herring, fried it in oil, seasoned it with the powdered grains of a dozen black poppies. The king swore it was the finest fk-h lie ever ate. While you’ve eaten many a fish that tasted as good, it illustrates die phenomena skill of ancient cooks. Cooking is sometimes classed as one of the lost arts. The most famous course at ban quets of rich Romans of old was humming-bird tongue, brought long distances by relays of swift run ners. Today they’d use refrigera tor cars or airplanes. Greek chefs of several thousand years ago were able to serve a whole pig, roasted on one side and boiled on the other, so skillfully prepared that the two parts were as distinct as if cooked separately. Tasty? Well, the stuffing- was saturated with a dozen or more kinds of wine. A race of gluttons was the na tural development from this mar velous ancient cooking. A past master of them, named Apicius, specialized at large shrifps. Hear ing that the shrimps along the Af rican coast were much larger, he actually bought a ship, made the trip, was disappointed, and return ed in deep melancholy. Phlloxenus, asked what he wish ed most, promptly answered: “A crane’s neck, so I would be longer in partaking of my meals. ’ Those good old days are* gone. The last stronghold of eating as a ceremony Wits the banquet, now being made extinct by psohibition. Even the traditional Sunday din ner is losing out, in the number of courses if not in taste. People are beginning to eat scientifically, by palories—and get ting the job finished as quickly as possible, gulping. It’s just as well that cookery is becoming a lost art, though, for fine’ cooks ruin more digestion? than good cooks, by enticing tb over-eating. BRITISH TO PAY INTEREST IN CASH NEW YORK, June 14.—Payment of the next interest installment on the British debt, falling due June 15, totalling slightly less than $69,- 000,000, will be made next Mon day almost entirely in cash, J. p. Morgan & Co., fiscal agents of the British government announced 1 to*- day. A small portion of the amount will be paid in treasury certificates but no direct use of liberty bonds or gold will be madf t _ - THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ’ Apple GIVE THE BABY A CHANCE 6y ALBERT APPLE Most people seem to have the notion that a baby is just a stomach with arms and legs attached. As ling as baby’s stimach be haves and its food is assimilated, the average parent is satisfied. Food gets chief attention. It can’t get too much, but— There is more to a baby than stomach, legs, arms. A baby has a liver, heart, lungs, brain, nerves thyroid, blood ves sels. All these must grow, bud out into full blossom. They arc just as important as the stomach, sometimes more so. Baby’s heart, lungs and brain should get fully as much attention as his digestive apparatus. More than two and a half mil lion babies will be born this year in these United States. Food is all absorbing topic with most young motrers. Each year, fewer moth ers can nurse their young. Each year, babies become more nervous —jumpy. What’s the reason? Doctors say the race is paying the price for something, they’re not sure whak Fast living, too much nervius rush and rustle; these are at the roots of it all. , While watching baby’s food, don’t forget tthat his lungs are working, takisg oxygen from * air and performing other duties. See that he gets plenty of oxygen— fresh air. He should have a room to himself, where he’ll not be in haling poisons from the lungs of bis parents. Watch his nerves. Give them a chance. Never startle him by yell ing, “Boo!” It’s cute, the way he jumps. But it’s weakening to its nerves that are just beginning to function. Startling a baby quickens his pulse, throws a strain on his heart He should always be addressed in a low tone. Keep him where it is quiet as possible. Come into his line of vision slowly, never with startling suddenness. Above all, never waken him from sleep to show him off. Sleep is what he needs, even as much as food. Plenty of sleep, quiet, fresh air and sunshine (with the glare never directly in his* eyes or reflected) —give bay these, and in future years they’ll be wortn more to him than a legacy of mon ty- The lifetime health of most peo ple is determined in the cradle. UNIVERSITY STAR IS NOW WITH PIRATES ATLANTA, June 14.—Fred Sale, star twirler on the University of Georgia baseball team for the past several years is now wearisg .the uniform of the Pittsburg Pi rate. Fred has not yet entered into a game but is daily working in bat ting practice and getting “wised up” on big league ways, according to a letter to a former team mate at Georgia. INCOME TAXPAYERS GET DAY OF GRACE ATLANTA, June (Ll.-JDue to the fact that • June 15 falls on a. Supday, all persons whose income tax returns are due on this date will be given until midnight Monday June 16, to mail their returns, it was announced Thursday by J. T. Rose, collector of internal revenue for Georgia. All fiscal year returns, individ uaj returns fcnd corporation re hirte* which ynade tentative si re* turns before March and were given ; an extension to June 15 will be ac -5 cepted if placid in the mails before midnight MJiday, Mr. Rose stated. r — x? . ‘I / Wioi-p ms \ All / STAMP AO26AWWNI \ W » \\\ y TO MV PROBLEMS ) WlvV • 8 1 * * /Ji I ' ' 4/ XX .< W ' (4^ol sA ■ - .. V l -T , -r' " ' '' '' y.hr ~- Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. June 14, 1914. Wednesday afternoon, Miss Bess McLeod was hostess at a charm ing little dance at her home from : 5:50 to 7. following a swimming ' party at Prospect Park. The ! dancers were Misses Lucy Barrow Taylor, Evelyn Bell • Genevieve Prather, Sarah Sheffield, Annie Ivey, Margery Khlmon, and Mar garet Wheatley; and Donald Spann of Savannah, Edgar Dunlap, John Hopkins, Harry Stearns, and Cliff Hatcher, of Atlanta, guests of Frank Harrold, Jr., Merril Wheat ley,, Joe Frank Reese, Douglas Ivey, Arthur Rylander, and Dud ley Gatewood. • Mr. Nathaniel B. Stewart, ac companied by Mrs. Stewart, left Americus yesterday for Athens, where they will visit friends for a week. Mr. Stewart will go from Athens direct to Washington upon official business connected with his post as U. S. Consul at Milan. The Reese Park Civic Improve ment club will hold another' of their popular weekly festivals Wednes day evening at Rees Park. The festivities wilj begin at 6 o”clock and according to Mrs. W. H. Eastes, president of th e club, will last as long as the ice cream holds out and customers show up. Again Amtricus panted, and hunted the shady side of the street yesterday. • The temperature climbefl to 101 in the shade, and twice that high in the sun. For five days now the mercury has reached the 100 notch or above and the son of man looketh like unto the fam ily dishrag. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. June 14, 1904.) Americus is at the front this morning with real boll weevil scare and while the insect appear ing here may not be the genuine Texas tourist, it is none tne less a fact that it is doing damage, Mr. Ed Stallings was first to discov er the intruder. Capt. John A. Cobb is going to Atlanta tomor row upon business with the agri cultural department, and will take with him a bottle of the insects for the inspection of Mr. Newell. It is similar to the insect appearing st week on th e Moye plantation near Cuthbert and its method of attack is also identical. Mr. W. R. Speer while sitting in his buggy in front of the post of fice yesterday was thrown out by the sudden lurching of the rig and painfully hurt. An automobile coming down Forsyth street fright ened the horsr-, and the accident resulted as stated. Out on the Hodges plantation east of Americus, Sunday after noon a gang of negroe s playing card ■ out in a plum orchard ended frolic in the usual way, one of them pulling the ever ready revol er and shooting out th e brains of another. Horsehair satin is the name giv en to a strong, silky, shiny biack mat rial for smart coats and hats, I O A |XIS irade on improved "k-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 faitos 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 Bank Building, Americus, Ga. Phone 89 ■HI Bill V SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 924 THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder. June 14, 1894.) / z Lester Windsor the popular and • efficient cashier at the People Na-1 tional Bank left yesterday in com- ' pany with T. H. Harris for South Dakota where he will spend the summer in rest and recreation. Lester has been most assiduous in his duties for the past several years and outdoor exercises in the bracing climate of Lakota will send him back to his duties fresh ened and invorgorated. By an oversight the name of Mr. W. L. Haynes was omitted from the list of Evans delegates to the State Convention as published yesterday. Mr. Haynes is on e of the most active and efficient mem bers of the Evans Club and will make a strong member of Sumter’s delegation. Mr. Louis Merrit, a former Americus boy who Is now a popular engineer on the Gulf, Colorado iV Sante Fe with headquarters in Houston Texas, is on a short visit to relatives in and near Americus. Dan Flynn, night operator at the Central depot went over to Mont gomery yesterday on a short visit to relatives. Mrs. Henry Walker returned from a visit of seyeral weeks to relatives in Columbia , Ala. , her former home. Mrs. Thornton Wheatley accom panied by his daughter, Miss ’Liza Belle, a fair puftil of Lucy Cobb College, Returned home from .the annual commencement yesterday. WOMAN ASSASSINATED BY NIGHT RIDER BAND GLASGIW, Ky„ June 14.—Sum mons have been issued to 150 wit nesses to appear today at a special court of inquiry at Edmonton, which is investigating the shooting- by al leged night riders Monday night of Mrs. Albert Kidd, who lives near Center, in Metcalf county. 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’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) AT YOUR SERVICE Oldest and largest I' State Bank in South- west Georgia. Any ’ MBWrf business entrusted to " S us w “* receive our, I best attention. ,f you are notal 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. ACCOMMODATING No Account Too Large; None Too Small THE STANDARD DOLLAR DAYS MONDAY AND TUESDAY. SEE WHAT $1 WILL DO ON MONDAY AND TUES DAY. EVERY ITEM QUOTED HERE IS AT A CUT PRICE. $1 will buy 1 yard 40 inch all Silk Crepe de Chine, all colors. $1 will buy 2 yards regular 75e White French ’ Organdy, 42 inches wide. $1 will buy 6 yards full stan dard Dress Gingham, regularly 25c yard. $1 will buy 10 yards yard wide Unbleached Sheeting, full yard wide. $1 will buy 5 yards 40 inch col ored Voiles, ’ sheer and pretty. $1 will buy 12 Men’s Fine Cam bric Handkerchiefs, regularly 12 l-2c. $1 will buy 24 Men’s Sheer Lawn Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, full size. $1 will buy 1 Ladies’ White or Colored Blouses, 1924 styles, value $2.00. $1 will buy 3 pairs Ladies’ Silk Stockings, black or brown, 50c pr. value. 1 will buy 1 E. & W. Dress Shirt, made of good Madras, value $1.50. $1 will buy 7 pairs Men’s and Children’s 25c Socks, all colors. $1 will buy 10 Ladies’ Ribbed Vests, all sizes, actual value 20c each. $1 will buy 6 yards 36 inch Per cales, light or dark styles, Gold Seal make. $1 will buy 4 yards regular 35c Japanese Crepe, colors guaranteed. $1 will buy 4 heavy Turkish Towels, bleached white, size 22x44 inches. $1 will buy 1 real Duplex Win dow Shade, complete with Harts horn guaranteed spring rollers. . $1 will buy 2 yards regular $1 yard heavy White Basket Weave material. $1 will buy 1 dozen Maxine-El liot fine Toilet Soap, value $1.50. $1 wiil buy 1 yard best Imported Japanese Pongee, full width, reg ularly $1.25. $1 will b.uy 2 Boys’ Blouses, white, khaki or fancy patterns, all sizes. $1 will buy 2 yarijs heavy Mer cerized Table Damask, 64 inches wide. $1 will buy 22 cans Lighthouse Cleanser. You know it sells reg ularly at 8c can. All the above will be on sale here Monday morning at 8 o’clock. Ono, two three or up to five dol lars’ may be purchased at one time. None sold to dealers at the above prices. • Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GA.
