About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1924)
IF S|l t’r<i t• u«^ -a t o n patches or not otherwise to this the locs] eewi published hero in, All republication of special dispatches are also reserved. » ■ i - u - - 11. i. ~ ■ ■ >— National Advertising Representatives, FROST LANDIS & KOHN, Bronswick Bldf.. Nev York: /copies' Gas Bldf.. Chicago. A THOUGHT ' The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. —Prov. 28:1. Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming'.— Wendell Phillips. , / Why the Delay? For the third time the trial of Charles R. Forbes has been postponed. As head of the Veterans Bu reau under the Harding admin istration, Forbes criminally neg lected those suffering and brok en boys who came from France wounded and shell-shocked and disabled. He was indicted in February for misdeeds, which included accepting bribes in a conspiracy to defraud this government. It is now reported that Forbes will not be brought to trial un til late in the fall. Why this delay? Is Forbes to be allowed to eventually es cape punishment? ‘‘Hard-Boil ed Smith-’’ was sent to hard-la bor for deeds less vicicps than those of this deeserter. The Democratic might tell the people who it is that’s shielding Forbes! When the Electoral College Fails to Elect The probability of the elec tion of President and Vice-Presi dent being thrown into the Ho'use of Representatives this year is stronger than ever. Last week William Jennings Bryan, in commenting on the, nomina tion of his brother, claimed that such a contingency was more likely since the selection of Da vis and Bryan than before. Unquestionably La Follette will grab a sizable bunch of votes in the West and Central West, causing deflections from both major parties. LaFol lette’s friends already claim the Wisconsin senator will carry a group of Western States whose electoral vote is 54, with pros pects of getting others. A candidate must secure a majority of the votes in the elec toral college, that is 531. Fail ure to secure a majority by eith er of the candidates throws the election in to the House of Rep resentatives.’ The 12th amendment of the Constitution of the United States fixing the manner of the election of President and Vice- President by the House follows: The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by bal lot for President and Vice-Presi dent, one of whom at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballot the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as Vice-Presi dent and of the number of votes for each, which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit, . sealed, to the seat of Govern ment of the United States, di rected to the President of the Senate; the President of the Sen ate shall in the presence of the Senate and House of Represen tative, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President, if such a number be a majority of the whole nun.brs of electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest num bers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as Presi dent, the House of Representa tives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President the votes shall be taken by states, the rep . resentation of each state having one vote’; a quorum for this pur pose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President, whenever the right of a choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as Presi dent, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President if such num ber be a majority of the whole the zy p highi-.-t num- the list uie Senate shall Mose the Vice-President; a for thr purpose shall consist of twp-tfcirds of the whole number of Senators and a ma jority of the wl®le number shall be necessary to\a choice. But no person constitutionally ineli gible to the offiae of President shall be eligible te that of Vice- President of the United States. Twice in our history has the election been thrown into the House. The Albany Herald re lates two instances. Says the Herald— Thomas Jefferson was so elect ed in 1800, after he and Aaron Burr had tied in the electoral college with 73 votes each. And in 1824, just 100 years ago, John Quincy Adams was elected by the House of Representatives, despite the. fact that his opponent Andrew Jackson, had received a large majority of the popular vote. This was after the Consti tution had been amended so as to require separate balloting in the House for President and Vice-President. Originally, the two candidates receiving the highest and next highest votes were declared elected President and Vice-President, respectively. Should this election be thrown into the House, Georgia will have one vote, as will New York, Rhode Island and each of the other states. We’re a Nation of Rovers How many different towns have you lived in? How many times have you moi -cl from one house to another? how many miles have you traveled since birth?- Most of us find that, as the years slip by, we travel more, nnove oftener ands change jobs rfipre frequently trf days when son followed in father’s footsteps generation after generation, liv ing in the same town, the same old family homestead, generally the same line of work as parent. There are many indications that we are becoming a race of Gypsies—rovers. It is the natural result of better transpor tation facilities, especially the auto. Twenty years ago, a man or woman ta.hng a trip of 1000 miles was the talk of the town. Today one attracts more atten tion if he doesn’t take an oc casional long trip tharf if he does. People move from house to house, city to city, job to job, farm to farm. Covered wagon days are re turning—nearly everyone a pio neer, yearning to be somewhere else, doing something differ ent. One symptom of our Gypsy tendency is the increasing cus tom of not building for perma nence. blouses used to be built to last forever, if possible. Now they're thrown together. Own ers don’t care. Most of them expect to move in a few years. Same with auto ownership— the buyer, when he buys, al ready is looking ahead to the date when he’ll ‘‘trade in the old car for a new one.” E. W. Forbes, head of Fogg Art Museum of Harvard, warns that the paintings of. some of our modern artists may not last more than 50 years because of inferior canvas or paints. Excel lent materials are on the mar ket for the artist, but often he is careless in buying and using. Bad paint, improperly varnish ed, may fade to a blur instead of lasting centuries like the mas terpieces of the old-time paint ers. All this is typical of our gen eration's attitude: ‘‘Today’s the thing. Let tomorrow take care of itself.” Two definite reasons why we are becoming Gypsy rovers and do not build for permanence. First, we realize more than ever before that life is merely a jour ney, a training school or gymna sium for self-improvement. We view life as a Pullman car —and are quite willing to leave peanut hulls and banana peels behind us. Then, too, we build only for permanence in big projects like the Panama Canal, because we are busy creating hew ideas, pro cesses and devices—and willing to replace repeatedly the ma terial things expressing these ideas, processes and devices. Former generations, for instance, were content to use a horse and buggy and make them last as long as possible. We conceive or build the IDEA of the auto —anti that idea is permanent even if individual autos are not. A man has a white or (blue shirt to don. They both have been laundered with care. And yet he can’t tell which one to put on, though it matters not which he may wear. He’ll go to a tie rack and gaze at his ties; in all sorts of colors they’re dyed. The black or the browri or the green one? He sighs! It’s terribly hard to decide. w His tan shifes are handy and shined bright and new His black ones are undenihe bed. To put on the tan seems the sane thing to do, but he’ll fclean up the black ones instead. One suit? that he wears has been out in the rain; the other is pressed spick’ and span. He picks out the first ohe, which sounds quite insane, but—isn’t that just; like a man? V Just why are the men folks so odd about dress; and why da they fuss about clothes? It makes little diff’rence what’s chosen, I guess, so why do they ponder? Who knows ' ? (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) \ OPINIONS OF ’ 1 OTHER EDITORS J WHAT BECOMES OF JT? The flood of gold into our country from abroad comes fast er. It’s at the rate of almost half a billion dollars a year, or much more than a year ago. Bankers discuss the unwisdom of America corralling all the gold in the world, which seems to be the tendency. Maybe they exagger ate the danger. Talk of other - nations discarding gold as a basis of their money systems is “hot air.” The adoration of gold is stronger than money systems, stronger even than governments. —Rome News-Tribune. GEORGIA’S LOW DEATH RATE. There are but four states in the Union with lower white death rates than Georgia. One of the four is a Southern state, while the other three are sparsely popu lated states in the Rocky Moun tain section. According to figures compiled for the entire United States and published in the Manufacturers Record Blue Book of Southern Progress, the deaths in Georgia per 1,000 white ■ population in 1912 were 9.2. Mississippi’s race was a little lower, being 8.7 per 1,000. The rate for Idaho was; 8.0, for Montana 8.1 and for Wyoming 8.9. Nebraska’s rate was the same as Georgia’s. And yet Georgia showed a low er death rate among the negro population in 1922 than any one of the states named above, and lower than all other states but two. The deaths per 1,000 among Georgia’s colored population were 12.2.—Albany Herald. THE DIFFERENCE WAS IN FEEDING. Fayette county, lowa, brings forth some rather compelling evidence on the worth of care ful feeding. A. certain Brown Swiss herd of ten cows received from January 15th to February Ist, last winter, their usual ra tion of two parts ground corn, one part oats and timothy hay at will. During that time they produced 67.5 pounds of but terfat which brought $30.15. The total feed cost being $21.88 a profit of $8.27 was realized. The grain mixture was then changed to equal parts of ground corn, oats and oilmeal. Allowing two weeks for the cows to be come accustomed to the change, records were kept from February 14th to March Ist. In that period these same cows produced 98.3 pounds 'of butterfat which brought $56.07. The feed cost being $40.03 and leaving a profit of $16.04. No better evidence could be gotten of the necessity for care ful feeding in determining prof its from the herd. It is not an unusual case, any of us could point to hundreds, yes, thou sands, of cases where equally as pronounced results have come from careful feeding. A cow is merely a machine for the man ufacture of milk and butterfat. Like any other manufacturing plant she can produce a finished product only in proportion as • she has available the raw ma terials from which that product is made. It is up to the feeder to make those materials available and his profits will be guaged by the thoroughness with which he does so.—The Dairy Farmer. HEAVY RAINS ARE DAMAGING ROADS VALDOSTA, July 16.—The re cent heavy rains are damaging the roads in many directions and the repair gangs operating under the State Highway Department, as well as the Qounty forces, are kept busy repairing the damage where the shoulders of the new roads are swept away. Some bad washes are found on the Troupville road just out of the city, as well a.-: along the new road extending from the Val dosta-Quitman road to the Troup ville road. These washed places are being filled in as rapidly as pos sible. Other evidence of the exces sive rains is seen at the river, which bad overflowed the banks and Sun day was sweeping out into the la goons and rapidly filling them with water. Acting sensible under a beautiful mo®n is showing your ignorance. " THE AMERICUS Apple TRAGIC A frail llittle old woman, giving her age as 95, is arrested on a vagrancy charge 'in one of the smaller communities n.-ar N>.-w York. The magistrate sends her to prison for six months. Her crime was in having no means of support, and begging a few pennies. Her fate must be annoying to patriots boasting of our civilization. There is nothing quite as ridiculous and brutal as*the law, at times. * * * GIANT Fossil skeleton of a giant 45 feet tall discovered in Serbia, cables re port. His teeth 18 incnes long. We’re almost inclined to believe this,* for two reasons. First, Barnum is dead. Second, the fossils bones are on their way to the national museum in Belgrade. Odd, though, these marvels al ways happen far off on the other side of the earth, never at home where we can check up with our own eyes. » » * DRUNK A drunken man at the wheel of a moving auto is worse than a maniac with a gun in a crowded thoroughfare , Magistrate House says in New York traffic court. Henry Ford made the wisest com ment about prohibition when he said that booze had to go when the motor car came in big numbers. The peo ple can’t have both . Can you im» agine traffic conditions now if the barrooms were wide open again? How many would gladly give up their autos? DRIFTERS Discontendted middle- western farmers used to drift, from state te state, then into Canada, as if drawn like the compass needle. The lure of western Canada is on the wane. Canadian government closes a number of land offices it maintained for a quarter of a cen tury in our western states to entice farmers north. One of these, in Omaha, closes its doors after send ing 50,000 farmers across the bor der. They took 54 million dollars with them. Where do the drifting farmers land now? Cities, apparently. * ♦ » YORK Three-tenths of all fruit ana vegetables marketed in the United States are now eaten in New York City. Shipments total three million dollars a day. New York City is the “overhead” of the United States. * * * BUGS Radio keeps many potentially bad boys good. The number of juvenile court cases in America dropped almost 42 per cent in tin past year. Radio deserves a large portion of the credit. It diverts youthful energy into placid channels. Crime, after all, is to consider able extent just a matter of misdi rected energy. Grownups as well as children. Manv nrofessional criminals would become good citi zens if shown that they’d moke more money if they’d apply to le gitimate work the energy, time, brains and scheming they devote to ' trying to get something for nothing. LOWNDES FARMERS ARE SAVING MELON SEED VALDOSTA, July 16.—With the slump of the melon market a con siderable number of excellent w .- termelons are being left in the fields this season. Several grow ers, having very fine melons thus left on their lands, are taking s‘.< ns to save the seed for market and -ir<> feeding the pulp and rinds to their hogs and in this way will get a con siderable revenue from what would otherwise be a waste product. The pulp makes excellent bog feed and where the melons are of the proper size the glowers feel certain they can find ready sale for the seed. You can’t expect people to be cheerful at breakfast wish their faces looking as if they bad been slept in, I ’ AN OASIS ATI f on boy/ I inapt r weshT Www •\\ n I a>i?mOiTi3beA Ml I miPaGE j Z/o f'/ 111 |t w A/ -3 *4 Z o I •>- ■ AM 'x . Old Days In Americus j TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. July 16, 1914.) Sumter’s crop of sweet potatoes will be a whopper this summer tubersure, and to farmer J. L. Sparks, whose initials do not in dicate him a jack-leg, farmer, is due credit for producing the first ones of the season on his farm near the city. Motoring from Atlanta, to Mam moth, Cave, Ky., a distance of sev-1 eeral hundred miles, has been the ’ pleasant experience of Mr. Thomas I Harrold, of Americus, who arrived J at his destination yesterday, ac companied by friends from Macon. Mrs. Harrold, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. W. E. Long, ofi Hurts- | boro, Ala., and Miss Quenelle Har-; rold, preferred the more prosaic! rail route to Crab Orchard, Ky., l where Mr. Harrold will join them today. Misses Nettie Claire McMath and Anne Hgys, Americus belles of the future, have gone to Augusta, to spend some time at the home of their aunt, Mrs. R. B. Winlock. Mrs. Gordon Heys had as guests yesterday, Mrs. Edmund Oliver, Mrs. David Jennings, and Miss Clara Eubanks, of Plains, spending the day here. Mrs. F. A. Thomas and Miss La verne Thomas will leave this morn ing upon a visit of some length to relatives in Atlanta and Walunt Grove and other points in North Georgia. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. July 16, 1904.) Mrs. W. W. Wheeler has pur chased for SI,OOO as an investment only the Witt property, a four room dwelling, out Lee street, near Judge- Hixon’s. Capt. G. L. Williams, of the Americus Light Infantry, went to Albany yesterday to Col. W. L. Wooten, commanding the Fourth Regiment,.relative to. tile proposed maneuvers at Manassas, and the probability of the Americus military going. Americus lodge of Elks will be well ri’eppcMnted in Cincinnati it the ann/ual meeting of the Grand Lodge of the United States. Mr. George 11. Fields, goes as the grand representative of Americus lodg and will b<- accompanied by Messi-:. John M. Council, Steve R. Small, and Charles Marks. Up to yesterday morning the Cen tral Railroad has handled exactly thirteen hundred carloads of peaches and j’ums for the season. This fruit netted the owners an average <.i $650 p. - :r; or a total cash r .urn of $845,000 —nearly a 1 milli- .i dollars, and the season is | not yet half finished. ■ Master Edwin Murray, one of the . imes-Recorder’s valued carriers | leaves today for a months visit to 'relatives in Thomaston. i The local Epworth League held pi our Kind of Face Powder If there Is anything in face pow ders you want, it will pay you ti ask us first; when we 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. - AMERICUS DRUG CO, . 7—afiK. I >l,ono - ’ WED. an interesting and largely attended meeting last night at the home of Miss Carrie Speer, cn. Jackson street. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday, no paper published. ADMISSION TAX LAW TO BE INTERPRETED WASHINGTON, July 16.—The bureau of internal revenue has com | plated and soon will issue the first j part of the revised regulations I under the new tax law, setting forth the treasury’s interpretation of the law applying a tax on ad missions. Bureau experts have been engaged for some time i.i ! drawing up a construction of all [provisions of the law and it is ex : pected that the revision will be com ' pleted in another thirty days. The new regulations make defi nite the apparent intent of congijefs to levy a 10 per cent tax on the whole admission when the charge is more than 50 cents. The tax does not apply under any circumstances when the admission is 50 cents or less and the bureau has issued a caution to the public against col lection of taxes except when the amount exceeds 50 cents. Most theaters and amusement places have stocks of tickets bear ing the old admission rate plus the tax borne on such admission prior to the repeal, so the bureau has given them until September 1 in which to obtain new tickets bearing printed dates in compliance with the new provisions. Destruction of the old tickets must be accounted for to the bu reau by the owners. The regula tions granted one privilege to hold ers of great stocks of tickets—they may have them “over-printed” or stamped plainly in the new amounts. Half the world doesn’t know how the other half lives, but it worries about it half the time. 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, As«.’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) K AT YOUR SERVICE Oldest and largest >'W’ W State Bank in South- d'.v M west Georgia. Any frflrjr :: ..r f| MrhHKS business entrusted to us wiH our f l I? best attention. ' ''A 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 f PROMPT, N o . ; None Too Small THE STANDARD OUR JULY SALE NOW ON; EX. TRAORDINARY VALUES. Floc Dot Voile* at 35c 40 inches wide, the most pop ular fabric of the year, almost ev ery color in the lot; here now at yard 35t 50c Voiles at 25c Over fifty patterns .beautiful 40 inch Votes, new 1924 styles; selling regluarly at 39c to 50c, here now at yard 25a 50c Plaid Nainsok at 35c Beautiful Maid Nainsook, 36 inches wide, in small and large checks, suitable for fine underwear; here now at yard 35c Pajama Checks, 40 inches Wide, at 17 Cents Good, serviceable quality, 40 inches wide, regularly sold by oth ers at 25c; here at yard 17c Men’s $1.98 Khaki and White . Madras Shirts at $1.25 | Attached collars, Twffcnt quali ty “White and khaki colors, ■fflzes 14 1-2 to 17, each $1.25 Men’s Union Made Overall* at $1.38 Regular selling price $2; made of 220 weight white back blue den im and well made too; all regular sizes up to 42 included in this sale; pair .-. $1.38 Ladies’ $5 Hollywood Sandair at $3.95 New, just received ft;om tho maker; flexible soles, beautifully finished, all sizes 2 1-2 to 8; regu larly $5, now $3.95 Yard Wide Sheeting «t 10c Yard wide*fine, smooth even weave; regularly 15c, here for this sale at yard 10c Pcpperel or Victoria Sheets " at $1.49 Full size, for large double beds, bleached snow-white, made with broad hems; regularly $1.98, here now each $1.49 More Crinkle Remnant* for Mak ing Bed Spreads, at 30c yard Width 40 inches. These lengths come in pieces up to 4 yards each. The mill price on the full bolts is 50c yard. Our price for the same quality on short lengths and rem nants, yard 30c Beautiful Silk Striped Shirt Madras at 49c Reduced from 59c and 69c, 36 inches wide and guaranteed fast colors, beautiful assortment of tripes .‘uitalble for men’s shirts, boys’ waists, ladies and misses dresses; choice now yard 49c Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GA.
