About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1924)
PAGE SIX SUMTER COTTON FARMERS, COTTON SQUARES ARE FORMING: DUSTING COMES NEXT. UNDUSTED FIELDS WILL BE RIDDLED BY THE WEEVIE JIMES-RECCIDER PUBLISHED Published by The Times-Record er Co., (inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered •• second class matter at the po«toffic| at Amaricua. Georgia, according to the Act ot ConfTeae. Tbo Associated Press is eaclosirely entitled ts the oee for the republication <»f all news dia patcbea credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local tews published boro tn. All right of republication of special dispatches Ore site reserved. Naiioul Advertising ReprveeßUtlvee, FROST Landis a kohn. Bruo»«>dt Bia... r<«i Cm Bia... Chicago. A He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread.—Prov. 28:10. Toll and pleasure, in their na tures opposite, are yet linked to gether in a kind of necessary con nection. —Livy. “A Plain Statement” In a large advertisement in a recent issue of the Dawson News, there appears a plain statement" from a very wise banker, S. J. Carter, president of the Bank of Parrott, in which the bank says to its cus tomers — We believe that conditions, as w e have them, and the future, as we s e it, calls for plain talking. It is fortunate that we can talk now about the matter we have in mind, and in doing so, work no hardship on anyone. So we can now make known a policy we expect to pursue, and in do ing so, giv e « full year’s notice. We expect to extend credit to those farmers who are careful to grow ample food crops to meet the needs of their farms. W e know it is unsafe —with boll weevil here —to buy on credit those products tliat can be grown on the farm, and hope to pay for sam e out of a cotton crop. For the present, and maybe always, it will be wise to grow cotton, but certainly it must be a surplus crop. Those necessities must be grown on the farm that we have heretofore had to large ly use the money from the sale of our cotton to pay for. W e are dictating to no one. We are pursuing a policy we know to be right. We are mak ing known this policy a year in advance. We would not be dding our duty as a bank if we failed to vigorously stand for a sound farming program. The program We stand for is the only safe one, And in addition to the fact that we wish to give emphatic support to the wise program of farming under th e boll weevil conditons, is the fact that as bankers we ar e not interested in making loans (no matter how good the security) if we think the funds derived from such loans are go ing to be used in Away that will cause us to have to realize ort the security pledged. This bank will, at all times, do its full part if conditions are such that is a failure of food and feed crops—when proper effort has been made to produce them. The Bank of Parrott gives its customers a year’s notice that only those who grow food crops will credit be extended. It evi dently believes the man who re fuses to “live at home” is not a safe banking risk and no bank can safely loan its money to any other individual. Heads of two Americus banks have frequently spoken of the thousands and thousands of dol lars that are going out of the county every WEEK for feed stuffs that can be raised here. Cotton is a gamble. It is nev er a sure crop. When bumper yields are harvested, the price drops. When the price is satis factory, the yield is low. Under weevil conditions, cotton is more of a gamble than before. The farmer who raises noth ing but cotton, borrowing the money with which to produce it, and, IN ADDITION, borrowing mo/e money to buy feedstuffs (that he should produce) is ask ing the banker to take a long risk. If his cotton crop fails, he can't mqet his obligations for that year, and is forced to pyra mid his loans in order to pur chase food for himself and his stock for a second year. With plenty of feed raised at home and COTTON AS A CLEAN SURPLUS MONEY CROP, the credit risk is small. Many farmers “lived at home,” but thousands do not and in consequence hundreds of thous ands of dollars leave Sumter county every year, never to re turn. This one time, local bankers say, is a terrific drain on the resources of the county, a block in the road to financial recov ery and ultimate prosperity. Mr. Carter and the Bank of Parrott are to be congratulated for taking so far-sighted a pol icy in the interest of their de positors, theirfarmefFandthe entire community; Prohibition Enforcement The Baltimore Sun quotes the press agent of the Woman’s National Committee for Law En focement as saying: The greatest danger to prohi bition comes from the Eastern and Middle Atlantic States, ow ing to the great foreign popula tion and lawless wealthy groups. The grave danger to prohi bition comes from the failure of federal enforcement, not from any particular group or ge ographical section. Illicit booze can be bought as easily in the States on the Canadian border as in the States along the Atlan tic. Whisky comes into this coun try from North, East, South and West. It is also manufactured in quantity in every State. Fail ure to comply with the 18th amendment is not confined to any partciular State of section- Edward Howe, an old-time prohibitionist has this to say of Kansas, an interior State: In the days of license I knew almost no women who would take a drink of liquor. They were mainly active temperance workers, trying to save the men, but since prohibition was adopt ed the number of women who drink is much larger than Mr. Bryan imagines. I have personal ly seen hundreds of them at it, and I am not much of a sport. State prohibition was a good thing in Kansas, but national prohibition did not make Kansas dryer; it made it wetter. The ordinary white mule (moonshine whisky) is very com mon in almost every community, because it is so easily made. I know women who have their cooks make it as they “put over” oatmeal for breakfast. There is something about national prohi bition that has demoralized the people so far as white mule is concerned. It has demoralized the enforcement officials. I am no rounder ancj am not a drink ing man, but I can buy beer and whisky almost any day any where. The law CAN be enforced. Under State prohibition, there was less drinking, less liquor made and sold. It is clearly up to the Federal government to enforce this law as rigidly as it does the laws governing the sale of narcotics, forgery of United States bonds, the white slave traffic or counterfeiting. Under the Republican admin istration there does not seem to be any real desire to enforce the liquor laws, and there lies the trouble. Lost Inventions of the Past Some remarkable mechanisms were invented by the alchem ists cepturies ago. Albertus Magnus, after 30 years' work, made a brass man that talked. An old man listened to the bab ble. of the brass man, decided it was the devil, and smashed it to bits with his staff. So per ished the first phonograph. Baptista Porta, delving in Black Art, apparently discover ed the secrets of artificial refrig eration, for “on a summer’s day, when all complained of the heat, he would freeze his guests with cold air in the room.” Two tremendously important inventions—and all went to waste. You admire the elaborately equipped motorcar with kitchen and beds, in which people take long gypsy tours. The forerun ner, long ago, was the coach of famous Samuel Moreland. It “carried a traveling kitchen, for it had a fireplace and grate, with which he could make soup, broil cutlets and roast an egg, and he dressed his meat by clock work." The earl's home was fitted with similar mechanipal comforts. At about the same time, at the Academic des Sciences, in Paris, a fat and gouty inventor would bid adieu to a visitor and point to his legs to show the impossibility of conducting him downstairs to the door. Yet the astonished visitor, related Isaac Disraeli, never failed find ing the inventor waiting for him outside with a broad grin. This inventor apparently had the first elevator. He enjoy ed it mightily, but kept the se cret to himself. That was the wav with near ly all wonderful discoveries of the brilliant period in history dominated by the alchemists. They considered their discover ies as exhibitions of private mag ic, satisfying their vanity. It rarely occurred to them to put their discoveries into the hands of the people for making life’s burdens easier. The desire to help humanity was a rare phenomenon in an cient times, and even up until about a century ago. J STOLEN KtSf-Wjj Now gentle sleep hath closed up those eyes Which, waking, kept my boldest thoughts m awe; I v"* ip I And free access unto that sweet lip lies, ) W J From whence I long the rosy breath to draw raT Methinks no wrong it were if I should steal F From those melting rubies, one poor kiss; I ■wM None sees the theft that would the theft reveal, 1 i £ Nor rob I her of aught what she can miss: ~ Nay, should 1 twenty kisses take away, 3. / tig There would be little sign I would do j i \ Why, then, should I this robbery delay? 1/ I Oh, she may wake, and therewith angry grow 1 • Well, if she do, I’ll back restore that f" And twenty hundred thousand more for loan, George Wither. , W*— ■ * ...... f “Hard Times” and Human Nature How much easier it is to com plain than to smile. To most of us, the present winter is al ways the coldest; this summer the hottest. If the time be spring, it is the wettest or the 1 dryest. In the fall we complain of the early winter or “cuss because summer hangs on. “Every night I read your ‘Old Days in Americus,’ ’’ a friend said to us recently. “1 have been surprised at con sistency of the season. When 1 think this is the dampest spring in a generation, 1 find in ‘old days’ that usually the spring is wet. After all, one year is very much like another. We have never seen “good times.” It’s always “hard times. Most of us thought business could be better during the years of 1918 and 1919. After they were gone, we termed them ‘‘good times," but not while they were with us. The editor of the Claxton Enterprise recalls some of the hard time of the past, in these words— Every time we hear “hard times” we can’t help but think of the time when soap wrappers were worth saving along with ‘‘Schnapps” tobacco tags when every time you bought a five cent pack of cigarettes you re ceived two 1-eent coupons as a bonus. In those days cotton was 7 1-2 cents pound oftener than it reached nine, and the best job in town paid §OO.OO a month. Who said “hard times?” Life was never a bed of roses and never will be. We reap as we sow. Make the best of to day and you’ll be more fit to en ter the battle tomorrow. OPINIONS OF • OTHER EDITORS WHY SOME PEOPLE FAIL One of the main reason why some people never get on then financial feet is because they spend what they expect to 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. Sandersvivlle Progress. HEN IS STILL USEFUL Electricity has become a fac tor in the poultry business. It is said there is one hatchery in this country with a capacity of a mil lion eggs, with electricity acting the setting hen’s part. No power plant, as yet, has taken over the business of laying eggs. So the hen still has a little something to cackle ovei}. — Eatonton Mes senger. THE SOUTH GAINED The South was the ony section of the country where building during the past month showed an increase over that of April, 1923. Fifty-five southern cities gained 8 per cent. This compar ed with a loss of 19 cent on the part of 109 cities in IJie centra! west; with a loss of 2 per cent, reported by 67 Pacific western cities; with a loss of 12 per cent, in the eastern section, after tho New York city record has been eliminated from the eastern to tal.—lndustrial Index. THE CHAMPION LYRE The wife of a minister in West Virginia has been marriel three times. Her maiden name was Partridge, her first husband was named Robin, second Sparrow, the present Quail. There are now two young Robins, one Spar row and three Quail in the fam ily. One grandfather was a Swan, and another a Jay— but he’s dead now and a bird of Para dise. They live on Hawk avenue, Eagleville, Canary county, and the fellow wro wrote this is a Lyre, and a relative of the fam ily.—Pearson Tribune, 1— 1— Students of medicine are in creasing in this country, ’ * THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER r Apple SCENT Everything is going wrong. The latest is that flowers are losing their scent. Scientific cross-breed ing by florists, to increase the size and cplor of blossoms, is at the ex pense of the perfume. The plint energy that naturally woc.ld go to make fragrance is used up by arti ficially stimulated growth.' Nature always exacts her penalty ,—her price. The loss of floral fragrance alarms botanists. There are 4300 species of cultivatel flowers, but only 420 have an agreeable odor. Os the 308 varieties of violet,, only 13 emit perfume. * * * COBWEBS Some forms of wealth are be yond price. In the liquor collec tion that was left by the late J. I’. Morgan, are bottles of Napoleon’s brandy and a cognac made in 1795. Even a prohibitionis might be tempt ed to sneak a drink from such a : treasure. In our large cities are plenty of I gunmen who would commit murder jfor one bottle of the 1795 cognac. * * * |HONKERS Motor yeliicle owners in the Uni ted States paid over 471 million dollars in taxes last year. There are only 430,000 miles of surfaced highways in the whole country. So auto and motorcycle owners in one year pay more than §IOOO taxes for every mile of good roads. The hole made in the American pocketbook by autos reminds us of one of the craters on the moon. But the auto is easily three-fourths a necessity, only one-fourth a pleas ure device. It is cheap at any price, consider ing the time it saves. Time, after all, is the thing of greatest value among our many forms of wealth. * * * “GAS” Forty years ago, kerosene was the main byproduct of crude oil. Around refineries, men drew off a barrel ofgasoline to wash a pair o' overalls, and dumped it out. Then came the auto. This year, refiners say, 9177 mil lion gallons of gasoline will be pro duced in the United States. This will be a fifth more than in 1923. How long, at this rate of increase, until the underground oil reserves will be exhausted? The future fuel, and probai ly within your lifetime, will be alcohol or electricity sent by radio’ from central stations. * * • BLAST Our bodies are puny, but, aided by our intellects, we do the work of a race of giants. On the western shore of Great Salt Lake, railroad builders recently literally moved a mountain by touching an electric button. Half a million cubic feet of rock and dirt were torn loose and scattrede. It was equivalent to throwing into the air a 10-storv builling 1000 feet long. This certainly is no country for a loafer. And the day is not far off when the man who won’t work won’t eat. Parasites will be weed ed out. * * • RECOVERING When the World War ended, there was a lot qf talk about it be ing centuries before the world would recover. Looks now as if most of the material damage will be repaired in one generation. Recovery is taking place amaz ingly fast. The income of all the people of the nations that fought in the war was About 93 billion dol lars in 1913. Their income row’ is ove-r 82 billions a year, measuted in the same coin—pre-war gold dol lars And income is a mirror of production — human toil. “Another world »war in f-v* years, predicts a French general, so we had better start passing the bonus for it now. It must be awful to be a doctor and get called to the bedside of •somebody who already owes you a k'g bill. REPORT OF THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE ( v ~' I n 1/ V- <■- ’A J / '\ ' v V/ / dcwavons \ v L JWRwSrk \ A SWELL WAIER I _ iablon PaTch just Q x I BEYonp The sycamore / \ f \\\ I?0AP WHERE feZE'S a \ '9 A J V i»«»sied»Z ////ffll!/ \ BELOW HE SWIMMIM' / I V iow.x. yyyw A nI o WOw /i ■ v'vj’.h .Z- \\. - U ® -Z ) • XX x x' • .. : i Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. June 16, 1914.) The Americus Epworth League of First Methodist church will L represented at state convention of that large body, which assembles piis week at Way cross. The Ameri cus representatives selected are Misses Emmie Morgan, Madge Mc- Afee, Messrs. Thomas Marshall, and Joseph Bryan. Miss Lorene Turner has gone to Rochelle upon a visit of a week at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Rogers. Mrs. J. W. Stallings, and Mrs. W. G. Slaughter, will leave tomor row for Mrs. Slaughter’s forraer home in Baltimore, where they will spend several weeks delightfully as guests of their mother, Mrs. J. B. Hurtt. Eugene Bailey left last night for St. Simon Island where he will put in his vacation studying the sad sea waves and anatomy. The condition of little Hazel Prather which during four days ierday and strong hope of her ulti has been regarded improved yes-’ mate recovery is now entertained. Miss Emmie Morgan has gone to Thomasville to spend two days with her sister, Mrs. Charles Smith, prior to going to W'aycross to at tend the state Epworth league con vention. Just as the congregation was leaving the Presbyterian church Sunday at the conclusion of the morning service, the pastor, Rev. J W. Stokes united in marriage Miss Nina Kaylor and Dr. Tyson R. King. The bride an attractive young lady residing near DeSoto, nas many friends in Americus where she is well known, as has Dr. King, a popular druggist of Lees burg. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday, no paper published. ..THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. June 16, 1894.) A delightful german, tendered in honor of visiting young ladies will be danced at the Americus Club this evening after the school exercises at the opera house. Card band will furnish the music, and the affair will be in all respects a most enjoyable one. Misses Mamie Dudley, May and Mabel McKenzie, three of Ameri cus’ fairest debutantes, will leave today on a short visit to Miss Clif ford Napier at her home near For syth. The entertainment at the opera house last night by pupils of the Jackson s treet was ' ..roughly en joyed. Miss Jazzt e McKenzie gave a recitation “Lcg< nd of the Breg enz.” Miss Bessie Warren recited “I’oily” while Master Cliff Clay told “How Salvador Won The Race.” The tent scene from Julius Caesar in which Charlie Harrold took the part of Brutus and Frank Burke chat of Car iu:-, proved a J w-ade on improved farm lands at cheap est rates for terms of 5,7 or JO 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, Macon, Stewart, Randolph and Webster counties. 21 Jlanters Batik Building, Americus, Ga. Phone bd fil 211« „ ,K. aMijP » ’■ 'l* MONDAY AFTERNOON. IJONE 16, 1924 hit. Miss Flossie Dunn’s “Mam mie’s Lil Baby Boy” and “The Bugle Song” by Miss Charlie Winn Baisden were among the best of the evening. The “tableaux mou vant and figures plastique” in which Miss Mattie Ansley, Lucy Mid Cobb, Georgia Lee Hawkins, Bessie Wheeler, Floyd McElroy, Minnie Nicholson, Emory Foster, Charlie Winn Baisden and Helen Hunington took part, proved a beautiful finale to the entertain ment. The graduating exercises take place at the opera house to night, and the graduates are Misses Mattie Ansley, Winnie Stone, Nora Burke, Susie Lingo, Mattie Camer on, Georgia Lee Hawkins, Lucy Mid Cobb, Nettie Lockett, and Messrs Roland Harper Harrold Davenport, and Harry Dunn. RETURNING STUDENT MEETS WITH SURPRISE ATLANTA, June 16.—Gorman Conrad, fresh from a year at River side Military Academy and return ing to give his family a surprise, was hmself confronted with one of the greatest surprises us his life. Conrad entered the apartmtn where he lived on Piedmont Avenue, and was startled to find himself facing an array of pistols, and was profpl ly asked to “put ’em up,” which command he -obeyed The police were called and when they arrived Conrad explained his mission at the apartment and showed hi s key, which his mother had given him. He then learned that his mother had moved to the floor above that day and that the strangers in his former home trought him to be a burglar. Texas Rangers have sent the Prince of Wales a wild pony and if he doesn’t look out this will be a horse on him. 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. Cashiei The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) AT YOIIR OSERVIdt 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. 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 75c 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&tyles, 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 valu e 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 will buy 1 yard best Imported ■Japanese Pongee, full width, reg ularly $1.25. $1 will buy 2 Boys’ Blouses, white, khaki or fancy patterns, all sizes. $1 will buy 2 yar<Js 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. One, two three or up to five dol lars’ may be purchased at on e time. None sold to dealers at the above prices. Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GA.
