About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1924)
PAGE FOUR WgjklcSni Ainsley Copyright 19<24, NEA Service Inc IL IE <5 IE IR, ID IE MA 11 Have you ever been hungry? Oh, I do not mean the lusty appetite that exercise brings, nor do I mean the faint sensation of discomfort that comes when dinner is delayed. 1 mean hungry! Not for an hour, not for a day, not for a weejj; but for a month, two months three menths; 1 mean a hunger that is a slow star vation, that is not content to melt the flesh and shrink the muscles, but works a fatal alchemy upon toe heart and mind. Perhaps you do not believe in such alchemy. Nevertheless you '-Will concede that the mind posses ses great dominion over the body. And mistreated slaves overturn their harsji masters. Why should not the body, then, mistreated, de stroy .the mind that, ruling, has made no success of its reign? 1 say that no .famished man will observe, after he has conquered fear, ti e laws that men with full stomachs enacted. Conscience, and the words it con jured up before my mind! Honor.! fidelity, duty! Well, I had won hon or on a certain bloody meadow be-» tween two hills in France. Fidelity? For thirty years I had held the faith implanted in me in childhood. Duty? Well, in my pocket was a paper proving that 1 had been honorably discharged from the army of~-does it matter which army? Does it mat ter where I was born, who were my parents, what had been, before the war, my station in life, my educa tion? Let it be enough that I called my self a gentleman, that I still call my self a gentleman, and that scores, even hundreds, of your so-called best people, term me such. But I was a very hungry gentleman that night, not so long ago, when I re turned to the shabby, even filthy lodging-house on Thompson street, that I called home. My landlady was seated on a chair in the ill-smelling hall. She met my entrance with a frown. Even had I been the kind to shirk an issiie, J could not have avoided this ope. For she rose from the rocking-chair at the rear of the hall. For a moment she would remove her watchful eye from the brood of half-grown children who played in she kitchen. Sorry as I was for my self, I was sorrier for her. Looking at her, as she shuffled her carpet-slippered feet over the torn and stained oilcloth of the hall, one found it hard to believe that she had ever had youth, beauty and — ? — —— - Hours—9-12 A. M., Other Hours and Suadays 1 s 3-5 P. M. by Appointment DR. C. D. FAMBROUGH Chiropractor Lady Attendant Phone 653 Rylander Bldg., Americus, Ga. ON JUNE 28TH We will have on display the most complete line of Platinum Diamond Ring Mountings ever shown here. Remember the day and bling your old Diamond Jewelry to us and have it made up in the newest styles. AMERICUS JEWELRY CO., Wallis Mott, Mgr. . Phone 229 RE-MILLING PLANT lam prepared to re-mill lumber in large quantities and solicit the patronage of the sawmill men wanting lumber dressed. Prompt Service • r W.W.M’NEILL, / Americus, Georgia. Enjoy Hot Weather We all enjoy something cold to drink in the summer time, so why not see our line of Ice Tea Glasses, Sherbets, Tumblers, Goblets and Compotes. THOS. L. BELL See Our Window Display . <»!■■> ■■ a—- I. ie ■II „ I—, —| , —— II I ■—— ,1 um. ■ ... -.l■ ■■ " That Good Fresh BULK CANDY Just Arrived > ' < Buy It Off of Ice from — MURRAY’S PHARMACY » The Rexall Store Americus, Ga. ‘ 6:00 KM. r --- > L ni 7 ■ W U|| jg A JWI /e w “I GET MY DOLLAR OR OUT YOU GO.” happiness. One seemed to know that she had stepped from girlhood into middle age, and that the step [had not been the bounding stride of confidence, but & frightened, un planned leap compelled by fate. Even the flesh that shook upon her as she waddled toward me was not the firm fat of the well-fed, but the gross flesh of those who live in doors, who work too hard, and who replenish their wasted tissues with food of the wrong nutrition value. Without a word she held out her hand to me. I could feel myself coloring, and marveled that there was enough red in my anemic sys tem to furnish my cheeks with a blush. There is no humiliation more painful to a gentleman than his in ability to pay his debts to persons dependent for their livelihood upon his financial integrity. Red with shame, I could only stammer: “Im sorry, Mrs. Gannon.” I suppose that years before pov erty and worry and disease had left their indelible marks upon her body and character, her mouth may have been pleasant, even inviting. It must have been kissable, for al though 1 had never seen Mr. Gan non, and vaguely understood that he had vanished from my landlady' ken a few years ago, the presence ofi,^o ti many young Gannons argued the bestowal of caresses upon my landlady’s lips. But now her mouth was thin and sharp, in violent contrast to the overhanging cheeks and the double chin. Years of contact with im pecunious lodgers had made a sneer of what might once have been a smile. “Sorry?” she repeated, and her shrill voice cut my very soul. “I can’t pay my rent with sorrow, much less a secondhand sorrow that I get from you.” Her own witti cism amused her, but I could see that it did not soften her. From the room at the end of the hall one of the brood saw me. He raced toward us, stopping breath lessly. “Make a penny disappear, Mr. Ainsley!” he cried. “Let him make a dollar appear,' suggested his mother.” “Ain’t you got a penny, Mr. Ains |ley?” asked the child. I suppose that my shame appeal led to Mrs. Gannon. Anyway, she pushed the child away, harshly or dering him to go back to the kitch en. But pity for my humiliation could not make her forget her own needs. “The rent of youi - room was due yesterday, Mr. Ainsley,” she said. “I’m always willing to give anyone a fair chance, but with plenty of people waiting for rooms, people as is able to pay for them, you can’t expect me to let you have the room free.” She told the simple truth. Even this grimy house had become at tractive to me, because it afforded me shelter from the elements, be cause, for all its degradation, it was better than the hard benches of the park. Mrs. Gannon would have no difficulty in letting the room which I occupied, the rent of which was only a dollar a week, and yet a rent al beyond my power to pay. “Well, what you got to say?” she demanded. “It’s a wonder to me that a good big strong man like you wouldn’t get some kind of a job if you wanted to.” I could not debate the question with her. How make her understand that a wound, followed by illness, 1 and the latter succeeded by eighteen months of malnutrition culminating in what promised to be actual star vation, unfitted a man for manual labor? Oh, I could work like a gianu for ten minutes, but after that brief time I became as weak as a new born kitten. But these were matters that pride kept me from divulging to Mrs. Gannon. She had troubles of her own; mine did not concern her. “Well, there ain’t nothing more for me to say. If you can’t pay me, you’ll have to go. That’s all there is to that.” She put her hands on her hips and stared at me I had never in all my life done a thing which the world calls dishon orable. I should have been abler to look anyone in the eye. 'The con sciousness of virtue should have sus tained my glance. Instead, fell before her truculent glare. Then I made up my mind. “All right, Mrs Gannon; I’ll pay you tonight,” I told her. “It’s tonight now,” she reminded me suspiciously. “I mean in an hour,” I explained. She eyed me unbelievingly, Then, reluctantly, she said: “Don’t think you can put anything over on me. •! get my dollar in advance, like it’s due, or out you go.” I nodded to her apologetically, humbly. She pursed her lips, start ed to say something, changed her mind and let her words become an indistinguishable murmur, turned and waddled down the hall. I mounted the stairs. I say mount ed, but I mean that I climbed them by the most desperate effort. Silver zigzag lines appeared and vanished before my eyes; tiny points of light grew into great molten moons and then faded suddenly into darkness. Nausea attacked me, and I con queredl it only by a miracle of ef* fort. At last 1 reached my room on the top floor. It was hardly more than a cupboard. There was no window; a skylight gave what light and ven tilation there were. There was no chair in the room, nor any carpet. The walls had once been papered, but now there remained only a few strips; grimy, cracked plaster, met the eye on every side. • Yet even this refuge was to be denied me unless 1 found means wherewith to meet the debt that liv ing in these quarters incurred. I had come to this room, stifling my contempt with difficulty. Now it Ii IB W# « M s 11 ® -mJ MOTHS In Bottlw Only W*— m ■ rET Half Pint 50c ■ 3 SKZ Pt. 75c Qt. $1.25 . . Mosquitoes Roadies Anh Foremost Industrial n an . |-. RnoorrH Inttlluto. QgQ DUgS [ TC. ’ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER > First Picture Os : ' Democratic Storm FenterTin Sessiort * / ' zA? - x r a: > aHoHKmKI ® 1a iI" rwreh * yap ijr'boi KT ' ■» ? WMB li gram* g Sob S ‘ .wp I'MliliY ■■ %ret ( n & fWh PBk W % M Ai - i she w .iff* H Jei s sjlendei ■*' ■' Hr* r aceo 1 F" ; i/“ enders i W * T r jut W lor ’ 1 i t 'a No more dramatic political scene has been witness in a genera tion than that which marked the sessions of the Democratic plat form builders, here pictured for the first time. When this photo was taken long days and nights of bitter debate and wrangling had been .gone through, with little hope in sight for agreement on tl.i , Ku Klux Klan plank. In 80 hours Homer Cummings, the chairman, ’ had.had but six hours’ sleep. Many of the others had even less, or itte more. Nerves were on edge, tense situations had risen and tempers had risen high. Seemingly hopelessly torn on the klan and League of Nations issues, members prayed for guidance to do was as desirable as an apartment in i a palace. Dizzily I clutched at the wall and worked my way around to the bed and sat down upon it. I was shak * ing and perspiring. It was bad ( enough to be hungry, but to be homeless also, was unendurable. | Well, I would do the thing I had | sworn never to do: I would pawn the miniature painted upon ivry of my mother. For the oath that I had made to myself, as my other possessions passed into the hands of the pawnbroker, that I would die before I parted with the last re minder of different days, was no longer binding. My duty to Mrs. Gannon was paramount. I had a shabby, worn-out suitcase in the room. I tad thought v/hen I came here that I ovzned the irreduc ible minimum of elothirig possible to cover one’s nakedness; but 1 had seen vanish, one by one, the articles of clothing and of the toilet tliat I had thought indispensable, not to luxury but to life. Now, save for a Shirt, an extra pair of socks and a collar or two, the suitcase was empty—save, of course, for the ivory miniature to which I have re ferred. . * ♦ ■* * My dizziness passed after a mo ment, and I the case and took out the miniature. I had no idea what a pawnbroker would con sider the thing worth, but I knew that it was w'orth millions to me; for when I should part with it, I would also part with hope. Looking at it, my eyes blurred, not with the tears of weakness, but with tears of grief. I seemed to see my whole life pass before me. I was a drowning man, sinking in the wa ters of failure and despair. I saw myself as a child, winning my mother’s smile by some playful prank. I saw myself at a fashion able prep’ school, at college, in Paris playing the part of a wealthy, young dilettante. I could neither paint nor write nor compose, but I flattered myself that I had a cult ured taste for all of these. Then I saw myself reduced to sudden pov> erty'by the failure of a trust com pany to which the care of the estate left me by my father had been con fided. I remembered the blank be wilderment that had overcome me as I faced poverty, a bewilderment soon succeeded by confidence in my own latent abilities. (Continued in Our Next Issue) A man can be happy without a home if he is only staying away from one. Your Kind of Face Powder If there is anything in face pow ders you want, it will pay you t< ask us first; when wc say “any thing” you get an idea of the enor mous line of face powders we car ry. Your Powder is here. Prices ranging from 25c to $2.00; al) tints. AMERICIJj DRUG CO. CHEAP MONEY TO LEND We always have money to lend on farm lands at lowest rates and best terms, and you will always save money by seeing us. We give the borrower the privilege of making payments on the principal at any interest period, stopping interest on such payment. We also make loans on choice city property. Write or see R. C. Ellis, President, or G. C. Webb, Vice-Presi dent, in charge of the Home Office, Americus, Georgia.— Empire Loan and Trust Company Americus, Georgia MM OLHS HKBMM Negroes Have Been Disillusion ed and Many of Them Return to Southern Homes ATLANTA, June 30.—The mi gration of negroes form Southern states to Northern industrial centers appears to have been checked, it was pointed out here today by. rail road officials. Little is heard now of negroes leaving agricultural dis tricts or towns and cities in the South for the North. ‘ On the other hand, it was stated, that many’ of the negroes who left Southern homes to try their for tunes [in the Northern cities have managed to get back into the South aiid that they are well content to' i stay here. The negroes, it was have been disillusioned; Those wha went North found held out for higher •living conditions and great#;7oeW equality were merely che colored fiction of the labor agent. In many instances, it was stated here, negroes who went North found wages no better than they had been receiving in the South and in every instance they found living expenses much higher, so much higher in fact, that the small in crease in pay did not help in any' way. The promise of better living con ditions was even more false than Salts Fine for Aching Kidneys' When Back Hurts Flush Your Kidneys as You Clean Your Bowels Most folks forget that the kidneys, like the bowels, sometimes get sluggish and clogged and need a flushing occa sionally, else we have backache and dull misery in the kidney region, severe headaches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver, acid stomach, sleeplessness and all sorts of bladder disorders. You simply must keep your kidneys active and clean and the moment you feel an ache or pain in the kidAey region begin drinking lots of water. Also get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good drug store here, take a tablespoonful in a glass of water be fore breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and is intended to flush clogged kid neys and help stimulate them to activ ity. It also helps neutralize the acids in the urine so they no longer irritate, thus helping to relieve bladder dis orders. Jad Salts is inexpensive; makes a delightful effervescent lithia water drink which everybody should take now and then to help keep their kidneys clean. A well-known local druggist says he seljj lots of Jad Salts to folks who be lie- /-iitvoto correct kidney trouble w- Ajjiv /rouble. By all means k 2 - (he right Thing. The committee is: Standing (left to right)—Charles H. Mayer of Missouri, Sena tor Caraway, of Arkansas, Representative Finis H. Garrett, of Ten nessee, Senator Key Pittman, of Nevada, secretary of the commit tee. Sitting (left to right) Senator Robert L. Owen, of Oklahoma, Senator Wm. H. King, of Utah, Alfred Lucking, of Michigan, W. A. Ayres, of Kansas, Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, W. K. O’Brien, of Indiana, Joseph H. Kellogg, of New York, William Jen nings Bryan, of Florida, Senator Homes S. Cummings, of Connecti cut, Chairman of the Committee and Elx-Secretary o£ War Newton D. Baker, of Ohio. that of high wages, for many of the negroes in the Northern cities lived huddled in tenements that were crowded with other negroes, unsanitary, without proper light or sufficient air and no room for chil dren to play. The social equality promise, of course, was wholly false. 1 his summer, railroad men here state, there has been litle said of negroes moving to Northern cent ers. In previous summers great numbers were reported- from vari ous Southern states as leaving for Northern cities and the exodus be came so great in f|me states that there was fear of an acute shortage of common labor on farms and in the manufacturing plants employ ing negroes. There; is no hint of such a shortage now, it was stated. PEOPLE ARE LEARNING HOW TO SAVE MONEY -• AT’IRTA, June 30. The income of the American peo- ' f tb figures received r v “Out of is paid out yearly for sertiees, the people are saving thirty million dol lars a day, or about nine billion dol lap a year,” said John K. Ottley, president of the Fourth National Bank of Atlanta, who has given a close study to reports on savings bank deposits. The big bank of willliiiiiiiiilllipiiiiiiiiiilllliiir A LONG, cooling drink of iced Tetley’s on a hot, sticky day means real refreshment. Try it. 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Mr. Ottley said that the amount of money which the American peo ple save out of their earnings now Is said to be as much as their entire income three decades ago. “This, looks like progress, no mat ter how we may compare the value of the dollar today with that of 1890, and it effectually combats the impression that Americans are an extravagant and spendthrift peo ple,” said Mr. Ottley. “It shows that a large number of citizens are learning the rules of thrift.” INDICTMENTS ARE RETURNED IN 8188 MACON, June 30.—Abolishment have been returned by the Bibb county grand jury against Leland Harvey and Milledge C. Willis, Ma con boys, recently sentenced in At lanta for alleged participation in u series of robberies, for their alleged attempt to rob George A. Hanse, of the Central of Georgia Railroad. The boys were alleged' to have nt- X,, Hanse on the tmg^>mri*estcd in I Atlanta. j It takes a license to get married on and an auto license to get a date on. 1 When yoii slap a man on the back and he kicks you in the eye you can easily see he is sunburned.
