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    X. UP AND BURN FALLEN COTTON SQUARES AND FEED CALCIUM ARSENATE TO BOLL WEEVIL: DO THAT, AND THE FIGHTK ON
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He that passeth by, and meddleth
With strife belonging not to him, is
* like one that taketh a dog by the
ears.
Ah, how happy would many li < >
be if individuals troubled thiri
selves as little about other people’s
•affairs as about their own. —Lieh-
tertberg.
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} A Warning!
Taxes always have been bur
densome and objectionable.
They are seldom willingly paid
but were submitted to because
one must.
* So long as they were reas
onable, so long as they were
not confiscatory, they were
paid without a grumble—and
the taxpayer went his way re
joicing.
* But today, from coast to
" coast and from Canada’s bor
der to the gulf there is a
mighty rumbling of discontent.
Along with the increase in
the cost of living we have had
* to submit to a continual raise
—a pyramiding of taxes.
■ The people are tired, sore
and rebellious.
Candidates for Congress, for
Governor, for Legislative seats
’have ■ridden into office on a
platform of lower taxation, on
ly to betray their trust by aid-’
ing and abetting increased tax
schedules.
Communism, ‘.Bolshevism
and voting ‘‘blocs" have come
into being, demanding lower
taxes and at the same time
staging another raid on the
| treasury-
The State Legislature has
convened. The hoppers soon
; will b e clogged with bills de
manding additional appropria
tions wheih in turn must be met
by increased tax burdens.
Gentlemen of the Legisla-
you had best go slow in
ajdding more taxes to the al
ready breaking shoulders of
Georgia.
For three years the farmers
of the State have operated at
an enormous loss. Few busi
nesses have seen a profit in 36
months. Our surplus from
i 9 17-18-19 has been complete
|ly wiped out. Bankruptcies
- have been frequent. There
are more mortgages on our
lands today, we are informed,
than ever before in its long and
honorable history.
In many instances, this year’s
taxes—and those of last year— —
have not been paid. Until an
other crop is made, they can
not be paid.
The Legislator who aids in
adding to the burden already
too heavy, should not be allow
ed to again occupy his seat.
* . The people of Georgia are
sick and tired of promises.
What they are demanding is
results. We have had a suf
ficiency of legislative experi
ments. t
Burgin Succeeds
..Marion county sends Joe
Burgin to the Legislature, suc
ceding the late Ed H. Mc-
Michael. Mr- Burgin defeated
Judge W. D. Crawford by a
vote of 41 5 to 238.
Marion is to be congratulat
ed in giving the State the op
portunity of benefiting from
the service of Joe Burgin, and
has set an example that should
be followed by other counties.
Send successful business men
to tjje Legislature if you would
Georgia out of the mud
and mire of politics.
The greatest need in Geor
gia today is able, honest, level
headed business men in our law
making body. We MUST draft
men —send them with or with
out of their consent men of
the type of Joe Bu r gin of Ma
rion.
Enforcing the Road
Laws
"A county where good peo
ple live is the county most
folks want to live in. No
worthwhile man or woman
cares to live in a county of
lawbreakers.”
That’s the opinion of John
Bale, judge of the City court
at Rome and once a member
of the Gsorgia Legislature
from Floyd.
; In his address to the conven-
C-'
tion of county comrdisToners
last week he placed the respon
sibility of enforcement of what
he termed road laws on the
shoulders of the boardp of
county commissioners.
He said that while the sher
iff and his deputies were ex
pected to look out for the
major criminals, that it was up
to the commissioners to see
that the lesser crimes were pun
ished.
“We agree,” Judge Bale said
in effect, “that the automobile,
the open road and bootleg booze
have brought added responsibili
ties in the protection of our
young people. Don’t xepect
your sheriff to patrol your roads.
It’s the duty of every board of
county commissioners to employ
men to catch these offenders
and it’s your duty to see that
they are punished. Bootleggers,
road houses and such can thrive
in no county where your county
commissioners determine they
shall not enter. You have the
legal and the moral right to
clean up and keep clean your
counties.”
Judge Bale is correct. The
Board of County Commissioners
is the most powerful political
boy in the county- It produces
the county’s revenue and then
spends it and the limitations
thrown about the board are few.
W'herever you find a law-abid
ing county, you'll find able and
conscientious county commis
sioners.
The Apache Indians
Here is sad news: The 2500
Apache Indians of the Fort
Apache Reservation in Arizona
ar cgoing to quit their wigwams
and live in what a government
bulletin describes as “modern
homes."
A sawmill has been started
on the reservation and already
100,000 feet of lumber has been
cut. The Apaches will use this
lumber for building their cot
tages.
The Apaches are also de
scribed as having been won
over to the white man's system
of education. The young
Apaches are going to school
regularly and taking home their
grade-cards to papa.
Miraculous, in a sense, for
the Apaches have been the most
reluctant of all Indian tribes in
adopting so-called civilization.
All this is progress, of course.
Why do we call it “sad news?”
Weil, were glad that the
Apaches are being "advanced.”
But somehow we have clung to
the idea that the Apaches rep
resented the last survival of the
romantic old prairie days. And,
when we see them surrender to
the system of time clocks and
efficiency experts, w e feel that
one of our most important il
lusions is destroyed.
After all, the system we call
civilization is a dull proposi
tion. Maybe it s “efficient"
and all that. But a man chain
ed by this system likes to feel
that there is romance and ad
venture and freedom from civ
ilization somewhere.
Next thing we know, . the
Eskimos will be discarding their
candle-diet and adopting cal
ories.
It s all a part of the system
that is reaching to the far cor
ners of the earth and making
life cut-and-dried, drab and
dull. Ihe old-time salt water
sailor of the frigate days is gone,
and now the primitive ApacKe
Indians follow him to seclusion.
Progress, all right, but many
a man resents the passing of the
few remaining outposts of ro
mance.
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GOOD WATERMELON ADVICE
A car of melons averaging 28
pounds in weight loaded at Bos
ton Tuesday could not be sold for
the reason that the melon men
who examined them did not be
lieve that the melons would cut
red when they reached their des
tination.
Had the fruit been ripe the
car would have commanded at
least SSOO on the trac 1 -, but be
cause the shipper was in too
big a hurry he could find no sale
whatever. One man did agree to
consign it.
' If the grower had waited two or
three days longer, he would have
been in several hundred dollar...
-—Pelham Journal.
UNDERWOOD’S UNSWERVING
COURAGE.
Not one backward step has Un
derwood, of Alabama, taken in the
race he has run for the' Demon-,
ratic presidential nomination—an
honor he deserves as much as any
man in the ranks of the party of
the people, and one which none
could fill more ably.
Unawed by the Klan-infected
delegations from Georgia, Texas,
Indiana, and doubtless other
states. The senator from Ala-
Kama yesterday made public the
text of his anti-Klan plank. It
reads:
“We do not reaffirm the prin-
ciple set forth in said resolution
of the Democratic platform of
1856, and do condemn as un-
American and un-Democratic po
litical action by secret or quasi
secret organizations in. further
ance of any political objective
whatsoever, and in particular do
we condemn such action for the
purpose of proscribing the po
litical rights and providings of
citizens of the United States as
is now proposed, practiced and
publicly acknowledged by the or
ganization known as the Ku Klux
Klan and as may now or hereaf
ter be proposed or practiced by
any organization whatsoever.”
There is no mincing of words
—no subtle shadings which might
De misconstrued in Klan indorse
ment—Senator Underwood is op
posed to the Klan in all its un-
American aspects. And Senator
Underwood says that in his anti-
Klan plank.—Columbus Enquirer
Sun.
ONLY LARGE MELONS.
The man who cannot get hi
melons to market within the
next ten days will probably not
be able to sell them at a good
price* unless they arc large mel
ons. The way to have large met
ons on July 10th, is to prune the
vines right now to where only
one melon is left to the vine.
Each year one can ride over
this section at the close of the
melon season and see small wa
termelons in the fields almost
thick enough for you to step
from one to another. They have
been permitted to bear uncheck
ed, with the result that too many
melons are produced, all under
sized, and none fit to market.
There is hardly ever a time
that thirty and thirty-five pound
melons will not sell. They will
sell this season, though the crop
promises to be very large. The
man who has money invested in
melons and wants to get out will
not produce but one large one
to the vine. Use the pruning
knife freely.—Moultrie Observer.
COTTON CONDITION
SATISFACTORY
Considered from any angle, the
anti-boll weevil campaign in South
Georgia is in eminently satisfac-.
tory condition. Recent weather
has greatly favored the cotton
grower. The plant has responded
wonderfully to the stimulus of
hot days and warm nights, and
these same conditions have milita
ted against the boll weevil.
But the wise farmer will not be
willing to “let well enough alone."
He will watch his cotton closely.
He will pick up all fallen squares,
and if adult weevils are found in
his field, he will play safe by using
a little more poison.
The fact that we now have an
excellent crop prospect should
spur farmers to greater activity.
It is a great opportunity.
Fast and thorough cultivation,
picking up fallen squares and the
use of poison as often as neces
sary—-that’s the winning combina
tion.—Albany Herald.
' OFFICIAL CRUELTY
The charges that the disabled
veterans of the World War at the
Vocational Training School, Perry
ville, have bee,n fed vennin-infest
ed food, poorly prepared, in dirty
utensils, that the buildings are
insanitary and the management
inefficient have yet to be sub
stantiated. But it is a sad com
mentary upon Government ad
ministration of such institutions
to note that nobody would be sur
prised if they were.
Why it should be so no one
has satisfactorily explained, but
nevertheless it is a fact that cruel
ty reaches its superlative degree
in the practices of Government
bureau-crats. Perhaps they arc
not always cruel and only delib
erately so in rare instances, but
cruelties that result from ineffi
ciency, neglect and the absence of
a sense of responsibility exceed
anything that human depravity
could strive for.—Baltimore Sun.
IS DEMOCRACY SLIPPING?
Those men who have made a
careful study of the true princi
ples of the Democratic Party ami
have conscientiously and intelli
gently attempted to apply them,
have built up groups of enemies
in their own party. In spite of
the tact that the South gave sou:
precious years of her life to fight
ing these principles, and laid many
a mother’s son in the grave before
his prime, the mar. today who
stands for State’s rights is not in
good standing with quite a num
ber of folks in the South and m
the party.
There is a veritable mania for
centralization of power, and ef
forts* at decentralization are met
with stern opposition. Vast gov
ernmental powers are being cent
ered at Washington, just as vast
financial powers are already
centered at New York. Useless of
fices are being built up, and ex
penditures that could be foregone
are becoming the gevernmental
habit and custom. There are al
ready some fifty thousand Fed
eral officers residing in Wash
ington now, and over a half mil
lion elsewhere in the country.
Is Democracy slipping? Will the
party disappear, except for its
name, which is becoming some
what of a misnomer?
W’ill the craving and demand
for direct action instead of the
slower and safer processes bring
into our American life something
more akin to monarchy or bol
shevism?
It does seem there should be a
party conference “for the good
of the order.”—Macon Telegraph.
Entirely too many people K
he movies to talk about something.
' THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
Apple
CORNER
British rubber growers, who pro
duce 72 per cent of the world’s rub
ber, are forming a new selling com
bine to control world supply, accord
ing to the Wall Street Journal.
Americans are the largest con
sumers of rubber. Only two ways of
protecting them from the high prices
that inevitably result form organiz
ed n ear-monopoly. 'The first is arti
ficial rubber, already accomplished,
but price is prohibitive for auto
tires. The second is to grow rubber
on a big scale ourselves. Our best
bet is the rapidly growing rubber
plantations in the Philippine islands
Should be encouraged.
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FACES
Human face is gradually Jbecom- |
ing longer, claims the British scion-|
list, Sir Arthur Keith. Long, narrow
heads with sharp jaws, that’s (he,
tendency.
It’s a result of more intense think
ing. When a person thinks deeply,
mouth tends to purse, cheeks to be
pulled in and chin sags downward.
Taking life too seriously docs the
same—’’wearing a long face.”
♦ * *
HOW?
Germany is buying from other
countries about 60 million dollar.;
worth of goods a month in excess
of what she’s selling to her export
customers.
This puts her in the hole 720 mil
lion dollars a year.
Until the situation is reversed and
Germany builds up favorable trade
balances by exporting more than sue
imports, there will not be much paid
in the way of reparations. Cash, not
oratory and conferences, pays in
demnity.
» » »
LEAK
• Three .years ago, 60 per cent of
the taxes paid by Americans went
to the national government, 40 per
cent to cities, counties and states.
The tables are reversed now.
Uncle Sam gets 40 per cent, local
government 60.
This is the real taxation menace.
Keep an eye on spending by Con
gress, but don’t forget local tax-eat
ers.
♦ ♦ ♦
BUILDING
One industry that hasn’t slipped is
building. For May the 157 leading
cities report new building permits
10 per cent more than in May, 1923
Possibly increased prices represent
the 10 per cent gain, but the actual
physical volume of building is about
the same as a year ago, and that
means it couldn’t be much more.
The nation is spending three and
a half billion dollars a year for new
buildings, including homes. This
pace, continued, will eventually
lower rents.
* » *
INSURED
Twenty-seven railroads now in
sure their employes under the group
plan of life insurance. ’
We are gradually evolving toward
a system of industrial socialism with
out realizing it.
SfWOP HlffllS TO
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Cranston Williams to Manage
Campaign, It Is Announced
At Atlanta
ATLANTA, June 27.—U. S.
Senator W iiliam J. Harris will reach
Atlanta from Washington about
July 3rd, his friends have been ad
vised here, and will go to his home
at Cedartown for a few days. He
will be accompanied by his daughter,
Miss Julia Harris, who will spend
the summer in Georgia with him.
Mrs. Harris will be detained in
Washington because of the serious
illness of her sister, Miss Lucy
Wheeler, a daughter of General Jo.?
Wheeler.
Senator Harris has had no com
ment to make about the announce
ment of ex-Senator Hardwick, and
it is expected business will proceed
as usual in both the Washington
and Atlanta offices of Senator Har
ris. Cranston Willlanjp, who has
been secretary to Senator Harris
throughout the senator’s term, will
manage the campaign until further
announcement, it was learned hero.
Miss Eva Graham, of Mcßae, Ga.,
the assistant secretary, will have
charge of Senator Harris’s Atlanta
office again this summer. She w s
in charge during the congressional
recess last year.
On returning from a fishing trip
the fish are divided while their
weight is multiplied.
Friday is one of the seven days
on which diving into shallow water
is' said to be unlucky.
No home is complete without a
few uncomfortable chairs in which
to welcome unwelcome company.
. Evpry.time they build a new raiL
road crossing the auto dealers order
more cars,
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Old Days In Americus
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY ‘
(From tl.e Times-Recorder. June
27, 1914.)
The exercises of laying the corner
stone of the new Furlow Grammar
school building is being arranged,
and will be- an occasion of great in
terest to the people of Americus who
feel such a pardonable pride in her
schools. The exercises wil be con
ducted by the officers cf the Ma
sonic lodge of Georgia, and the dace
thereof will be announced as soon as
the grand master can be communi
cated with Supt. J. E. Mathis said
yesterday.
Mules killed in the fields by ter
rific heat of the past two days is a
fact which ’reflects forcibly the real
intensity of the real hot weather—a
condition most unusual here in June.
Twenty seven mules at an average
valuation of $250 mean§ a loss of
$6,750 to Sumter farmers. Several
of the mules however cost S3OO
each.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Crockett re
turned yesterday from a visit in
Vienna and have as their guests
Misses Pauline and Julia Leonard, of
that place.
Miss Marjorie Long, of Eufaula,
is the guest of Miss Kate Page, ar
riving yesterday.
Henry Lanier, Cliff Wiliams, and
Frank Stanley will return today
from the Gulf coast and with fish
stories of marvelous intensity calcu
lated to put Col. A. N. Nias in lhe
discard. f
TWENTY YEAjo AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.
THIRTY YEARS AGOJODAY
(From The Times Recorder. June
27, 189-1.)
To be given on Friday, July 13tb
Everybody invited to attend the pic
nic at the river bridge. We wil!
have a nice string band to furnish
music for the dancers, ami also re
freshments furnished by the follow
ing committee; J. S. Mor-ait, Dan
Lewis, E. L. Murray, and W. Mur
ray.
Pursuant to the call of Chairman
Mathis of the Democratic Executive
committee of Sumter count a meet
ing will be held in the county court
room at 12 o’clock today for the
purpose of selecting delegates tc.
the congressional and senatorial con
ventions.
There are more bicycles in Ameri
cus than in any city in the state, ex
cepting Atlanta and Savannah.
There are perhaps 250 fine wheels
in the town, the total value of which
is nearly if not quite $25,000.
Miss Mary Watts r turned horn ■
yesterd- y from a pleasant visit to
Foray h where she has been the
gue of Miss Clifford Napier for
tl past two wiieks.
Social Amer eus is very much in
terested in lhe marriage this morn
ing of Miss Jennie Stapleton and Mr.
W. Ross Harper.
The young men who are endeavor-
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TO A RAZOR—
You are a friend, just an old
fashioned friend who has stuck to
me year after year. You’ve bulk
up your rep; I can always depend
chat, when needed, you’re bound to
be here.
Pte treated you tenderly; laid
you away and tried to use best of
discretion. You’ye served me for
years and you serve me today in a
regular morning time session.
When roughiness comes to the
point of nly chin and spreads to my
chicks and my neck, ’tis then you
dependable labors begin. When you
pre through I’m no longer a wreck.
The world likes to look on a man
who is neat; who tends to his tidi
ness, aye. Forgetting to shave is a
thing indiscreet, so you come to my
rescue each day.
You’re keen and you're sharp and
you’re cutting, ’tis true, but I'll
grant lhat you’re wise to your line.
You do just tlie things that they
meant you to do. And you’re just
an ol’ razor of mine.
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Inc.)
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