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A THOUGHT
....A report entereth
A reproof entereth more into a
wise man than an hundred stripes
into a fool.—Prov. 17:10.
Better a little chiding than a
great deal of heart-break. —Shake-
speare.
An Unpublished Letter
The Democrats hope to win
the fall elections. Their faith
is pinned on three things—their
candidates, Republican misrule
as evidenced by the oil and vet
erans bureau scandals and the
tariff. Os the three, the people
will be more interested in the
latter, as it represents the great
est of all taxes placed on their
shoulders.
The Philadelphia Record
• publishes the following letter
which farmers throughout the
country are NOT receiving be
cause it is NOT being broad
cast by the Republican National
Committee byway of ebnfes
sion and apology—
“ Dear Mr. Farmer:
“In order to secure the sup
port of the manufacturing inter
ests for the Republican candi
date in the 1920 campaign, it
was necessary for us to pledge
an increase tn tariff rates.
“We were, of course, aware
that this would be injurious to
your interests by increasing the
prices of nearly everything you
consume, thus taking money out
of your pockets and putting it
into the pockets of the manu
facturerers.
“For the purpose of securing
your assent to this program, so
prejudicial to your prosperity,
we promised to let you in on the
tariff swag by placing a duty of
30 cents a bushel on wheat. We
represented to you that this duty
would insure a high price for
wheat and thus compensate you
for the losses our tariff was go
ing to inflict upon you.
“We did this very reluctantly,
because we knew that sooner or
later you would find us out; but
without, your votes we could not
■win, and we felt that the end
justified the means.
“We are now obliged to con
fess—because you know it—that
a duty on wheat is useless to you,
and that in spite of our 30-cent
duty, wheat is selling for less
than it did when it was on the
free list.
“We regret exceedingly that
we buncoed you, because we
have now lost your confidence,
' and the next time we ask you to
pull our chestnuts out of the fire,
even though we invent a brand
new device to hornswoggle you,
you will probably turn a deaf ear
to our representations.
“Trusting that it is not incon
venient to you to pay the high
prices for what you consume
made possible by the tariff you
helped us to put over, we are,
“Very truly yours,
“Republican National Commit
tee.”
No such letter will reach the
farmers, but between Bob La-
Follette and the Democratic
candidate the farmers of the
country will hear whisperings,
loud talk and shouts that will
give tßem the gist of such a let
ter.
Poor Bill
Some are incapable of “sus
tained thought.” Others fail to
think straight and accurately.
Few of us get the best there is in
our brains.
A 20-pound muskellunge was
hooked by a fisherman in Spar
row Lake, Ontario, Canada. He
landed it in his rowboat. Now,
a 20-pound ‘‘lunge” in a row
boat is about as genial and ac
tive as a wildcat.
This fisherman we’ll call him
Bill, was alone in his boat—no
one to advise. Also, he was a
“city feller,” and never before
caught anything a fourth as big.
Nothing in his rowboat to kill the
"lunge” by a whack behind the
eyes. But he happened to have
a loaded shotgun.
So he blew off its head—also
blew a big hole in the bottom
of his boat.
Bill saw danger ahead. He
started his brain cells to working
—but his brain stopped too
soon. The fish may have been
a bit dangeruos, but the water
was sure death to one who could
not swim, and Bill couldn't. An
Ojibway Indian was forced to
rescue Bill or he w’ould have
drowned among the weeds.
Train your brain to go beyond
the immediate danger
A Question Often
Asked
An out-of-town reader, one
who thinks as he reads and ob
serves life’s passing drama,
writes:
“A friend of mine died re-'
cently. He was in his fifties, an
active man, filled with zest for
life, a man of family, success
ful, a good citizen.
“On my way to work I drive
past the city infirmary. There
1 see doddering old men of little
use to society or themselves.
Doubtless, some of them would
rather be dead. My active, use
ful friend dies; they live on.
Why?
“A Friend.”
The man died in accord with
some “natural law' imposed by
the Creator of All for the Good
of All. This explanation must
be accepted, or it must be ad
mitted that the little dot in time
called human life is merely a
tremendous and most brutal
j oke.
What law was violated is en
tirely another question, a ques
tion that is being more and more
understood through the progress
of the sciences. We have
learned, for instance, why yel
low fever carried off thousands
of the able-bodied, and often
left the weak and debilitated.
Life is full of the mysteries
with which His wonders are per
formed and human progress will
be at a standstill when we cease
to study and discover the why of
them and adopt ourselves to the
good that in them.
The difference between a
man dead in his fifties and a
has been in an infirmary may
lie in what the two had at birth
and how they lived, and no sin
gle instance of seeming unwis
dom or injustice impeaches the
Great Purpose.
We are a long way from
qualification as a jury of peers
for trial of Omniscience
Stop, Look and Listen
Not one automobile driver in
a hundred slows up, looks and
listens for the coming train as
he crosses the railroad tracks;
still fewer come to a stop.
The toll in human lives is
growing; it is enormous—all be
cause a few seconds of delay is
not given. The grade-crossing
has become one of the greatest
factors in the loss of life.
In the Kiwanis Bulletin we
found this story in verse, from
the pen of “Punkin Spinning:"
he was speeding in his flivver,
rushing eastward by the river.
he was giving lurching lizzie all
the gas that he cood give
her,
till he jammed upon the brake,
makeing lizzie snort & shake,
but the trane came roaring on
him; he had made his last
mistake.
he got stalled upon the track;
haddent time to start or back,
so he made heroic effort to aban
don his old hack.
all to soon he breethed his last,
for the trane was much too
fast;
he was greeting old St. Peter
by the time three coaches
passed.
never more he’ll speed his fliv
ver,
urje it eastward by the river;
nevermore will he give lizzie all
the gas that he can give her.
after he was struck that day
he soon stopped, but pee
pul say
that he’ll never look & lissen,
’cause he’s too darned far
away.
This world is too beautiful to
leave. Stop, look and listen.
Saint Peter can spare you a few
years longer.
W Va vs
Statistics show women have
charge of spending 90 per cent of
the money in circulation and the
figures don’t have to be proven.
The nice thing about a bad start
is it gives you more to brag about;
after you do win out.
After eating supposedly young
chickens in restaurants we have de
cided youth will not be served.
When you see a railroad crossing
remember the power of the express.
Make a mousertap better than thy
neighbor and you will catch all of
his rats.
The cookbook tells you how, but
you must read the bank hook to see
what.
TTi e height of ignorance is think
ing you know everything
They are discovering ways to d°
everything fast except sleep.
The man with a fake cure for
rheumatism will pull your leg.
HOME
'
There’s a magic little word that makes a fellow want to eat.
It’s a word that never can be overplayed. Every time that you
may hear it, it suggests a welcome treat, and the little word I think
of is home-made.
You appreciate the foodstuffs that are purchased at the store
and they satisfy the appetite, ’tis true. But the grub that makes you
happy; makes you holler for some more, is the food that mother
cooks herself for you.
Apple pie that fairly savors of the finest kind of taste is the
kind that makes you hungry when you’re not. It’s the brand that
mother makes you and no portion goes to waste, for the pie, from
start to finish, hits the spot.
Homemade brea dis baked at morning and it seldom lasts till
night, though a baker’s loaf is not as strongly played. It is just
that mother makes it in away that seems just right? What’s the
reason that you like it best home-made?
Even parents have the habit and they get the homemade thrill!
It’s a trait that in each living soul is born. Though it isn’t to their
liking, yet they’ll cat their fullest fill, when a youngster in the fam
ily pops some corn.
(Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
; Old Days In Americus <
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. July
22, 1914.)
Mrs. Will Easterlin at her resi
dence on Lee street has as her
guests this week, Miss Annie Fudge,
of Colquitt, Miss Imogene Mcßride,
of Oglethorpe, and Misses Lillie May
end Thelma Easterlin, of Anderson- ;
ville.
At a special meeting of,the police
commission held yesterday afler
noonA. H. Chalkely was elected a
member of the police force, suc
ceeding former Policeman Davis.
There were several applicants for
the place.
Officer Chalkley will don a uni
form and assume his new duties at
once.
The very large and congenial
throng of Americus pople at Myrtle
Springs the past week have enjoyed
as thoroughly the stay at this pop
ular resort as to induce the determi
nation to remain another week.
Among those remaining there are
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Tullis, and
guests, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Davis,
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Harris, Jr.,
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brown, the
Misses Brown an their guests, Miss
Morgan, of Macon, Miss Hinton, of
Reynolds, and Miss Culpepper, of
Atlanta.
The announcement yesterday of
the marriage on the evening pre
vious of Miss Louise Drew and
Mr. Clarence Jordan was in the
nature of a pleasant surprise to
their friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jor
dan are now at home at the resi
dence of Mrs. Lillie Sniitwick, on
1 rospects Heights.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(f rom The Times Recorder. July
22, 1904.)
Not an onion could be bought in
any Americus store yesterday. And
yet they can be grown here at the
rate of 500 bu. per acre.
Mr Henry IL Glover Jr., and
bride, of Galveston, arrived yester
day upon a visit to his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. 11. Glover, near Ameri
cus.
Messrs. Charles Wakefield and
Eugene Rustin were among the re
turning excursionists yesterday
spending the week in Savannah.
Mr. Edgar L. Guerry, Mrs. Guer
r.v and children arrived in Americus
yesterday from Tuczon, and will
sped several days with relatives in
this city, th. ir former home. Mr.
Guerry is still employed in the rail
road business in Arizona, and while
he loves his adopted state he is glad
of a sight of the ol <l red Wls again.
The physicians and surgeons of
Sumter county numbering more
than a score, are to orgainze an as
sociation, the object of which is
mutual benefit and the advancement
of their profession. A committee
eons.stmg of Dr. H. B. Allen, Dr
'■ M. Field, and Dr. T. A. Channell
was appointed to draugl t constitu
n and by laws to be adopted at a
«■ ... B «f u, e , 0 on “ ;
W ednesday.
The first bale of cotton marketed
in%.mericus this y< ar was hauled in
to Albany’ yesterday morning by
Deal Jackson, the thrifty negro
farmer who for several years past
has brought in the first one. It was
classed as good middling, brought
fifteen cents, a pound and weighed
351 pounds.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. July
22, 1894.)
Mr. John Windsor has leased a
half interest the coming season in
the Alliance Warehouse, and pro
poses to take a hand, by proxy at
least, in the marketing of the next
crop.
Handsome wedding cards have
been received by friends in the citv
nnnouncing the approaching nup
tials »f Miss Maggie May Smith
and Mr. William M. Harper, in At
lanta, Wednesday August Ist at
three o’clock at the residence of the
brims parents Mr. and Mrs G H
Hancock. ' ’ T;
It is rumored that Dawson and
Americus will be bound together by
" THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER 7
the silken ties of matrimony ere an
other weeks goes by. The happ>
couple will make their home in this
city, and Th e Times Recorder of
fers cangratulations in advance to
the gentleman from Americus.
Mr. C. M. Wheatley came down
town yesterday with a face as clean
as a candidates speech when he but
tonholes you and sings his song. He
had prund his whiskers for the first
time in forty years, and his best
friends did not recognise him,
Miss Clara Bragg returned to Ma
con Yesterday after a visit of’ sev
eral weeks to her brother, J. T.
Bragg in this city.
’ OPINIONS OF !
’ OTHER EDITORS ;
THE DAY’S WORST PUN.
Ono of tho gentlemen sentenc
ed in New York to do time for a
whisky conspiracy is now out on
bail. It was purely a matter of
Means.— Philadelphia Nortn
American.
IF THEY DID!
The reason life is quiet ana
peaceful in rural sections is be
cause country doctors don’t tel!
all they know.—Flint Journal.
THE WEATHER SERVICE.
Perhaps few people realize
that, in all •its predictions, the
national weather service is 88 per
cent right.
Yet these figures are said to
be established by long observation
and careful verification in the
five districts in which the terri
tory of the United States is di
vided for meteorological pur
poses. Since there are few hu
man undertaking which can
score 100 per cent success, the
weather bureau may be said to
have made quite a creditable show
ing since its establishment in
1870.—Atlanta Constitution.
TAYLOR COUNTY PROSPERS
When Taylor county has finish
ed shipping the largest and best
peach crop in years, attention will
then be directed to marketing
cantaloupes, watermelons and to
matoes in enormous quantities.
Many carloads of corn, cured
sweet potatoes, peanuts, hay, car
tie, hogs and poultry will be ship
ped duiing the fall. With cotton,
lumber and kaolin as a surplus,
there ought to be prosperity in
the community that wrP ■’.oubtless
produce envy of other sections
—Butler Herald.
A QUESTION ALL WILL ASK
As the big Majestic was plow
ing her way to New York, four
great propellers pushing her, Wil
liam H. Stanton, assistant cook,
jumped overboard. One of the
propellers struck his body and
cut it in two. As he jumped he
said, “Here I go.” Where did he
go?
A few would be grateful if he
could put his body
come back and answer the ques
tion.
A majority of us think little
about it, although before a hun
dred years shall have passed all
the sixteen hundred million hu
man beings on earth will have to
say, “Here I go.”—Arthur Bris
bane in Atlanta Georgian.
ANOTHER BANK “BUSTED. ’
The old ways are the best.,
At least so thinks one Mrs.
Marv G. Fisk. 81 years old, of
Washington. D. C„ who had >
faith in bfmks and ran a persc 'al-
Iv-eonductod institution, which
busted on her hands.
All the world is familar with wo
man’s loaning toward her stock
ing as tho safest place to denos't
her monev. nnd it mav have boon
because of tho nuhl’citv given this
much-advort'ted “First National
Rank” that- Mrs. Fisk decided to
abandon this method of safety
for a more original one. She kent
her monev—some $20,825. to be
exact—ninned to her corsets,
whore she could he vorv r.nr P that
fhi'«vos would not brc.'vk
and steal. How long she had car
ried it th re nobody knows, but
she is very sure now that she car-
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BY HARRY B. HuNT
NEA Service Writer
WASHINGTON, July 22.—Rob
ert Marion La Follette’s chief coun
selor and assistant during his
paign for the presidency v.ill not be
his campaign "manager,” nor any
one of the half dozen or more “pro
gressive” leaders who are active in
his behalf.
When he wants real political wis
dom and advice, La Follette will
get it right at home. Not by in
trospection. Not by seeking the
more youthful viewpoint of Bob
La Follette Jr. But from the tried
and true source that has proven
its merit through his campaigns for
the past 40 yearfr—Mrs. Belle Case
La Follette, his wife.
** * ,
Probably no other man in public
life today has had as direct and
efficient aid from his life partner,
in solving his political problems, as
La Follette has had from his help
meet.
From the tinge of his first cam
paign for Congress, back in 1881
through his terms as governor of
Wisconsin, where hg put'into ef
fect his theories of ‘democratic
Republicanism, and throughout
'his 20 years in the Senate, fight
ing a minority fight with in Ins
own party, Mrs. La Follette has
bad a large part ; in the research
and study pecessary for the prep
aration of his speeches and arti
cles.
And her moral support, bul
warking his own ideals and resolu-
ried it one day too long. It is now
responding meekly in two well
known Washington banks, and
Mrs. Fisk has lost a little of her
faith in original methods for tak
ing care of a fortune, which no
one suspected she poss; ssed.
Believing that the safest place
for such a large sum was on her
person, and being of the oid
school, which still clings to stays,
she pinned her roll to this sub
stantial object, and at night in
stead of a modern tim -combina
tion closing on her riches, she
wrapped the bill-bedecked gar
ment in an old newspaper, byway
of further precaution, and threw
it in the corner of her room,
where no burglar would expect to
find such treasure. One morn
ing, making up a bundle for tho
trash man, she scooped up the
pile containing corset, money and
all, and into the trash can went
sixteen SI,OOO bills, eight SSOO
bills, two tens and a five—s2o.-
825 all told—and there they re
mained until Mrs. Fisk, discover
ing her loss, w r.t frantically to
police ' eadquarte. . A detective,
actin • on the hysterical tip of tho
co _tless and cashless dame,
w nt straight to the trash can on
he nearest corner, and found
the money undisturbed.
. A mere bank now houses the re
stored f< .-tune, and Mrs. Fisk is
considering joining the anti-stays
leagr and abjuring corsets for
ev .more,—Savannah Press.
Americus
Undertaking Co<
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
•
Funeral Directora
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 88
Day Phonei 88 and 231
tions at times when he seemed to
be leading a forlorn hope, has been
even more valuable.
* * *
The La Follette partnership dates
back to the davs immediately fol
lowing their marriage m Madison,
Wis., in 1881. Prior to that time,
through their college years, they had
been rivals, each seeking to excel
the other in scholastic honors.
La Follette had entered the Uni
versity of Wisconsin Xrom the
small town of Primrose.
Miss Belle Case, who was latter
to become Mrs. La Follette, ma
triculated the same year, from
the village of Baraboo.
Both were interested in history,
political economy, theories of gov
ernment and similar subjects.
Young La Follette wasn’t going
to let any girl get ahead of him,
so he pitched into his
added vim. Miss Case, who as
Mrs. La Follette was later to be
come an active advocate of woman
suffrage, set out to show that a
girl could know as much about
politics and government as any
boy.
The scholastic race was a tie.
Meanwhile, the competition whicn
first brought dislike soon changed
the attitude of each of the young
folks to respect, then to admira
tion. Before graduation, Dan
Cupid ha'd ended all rivalry wltn
one of bis well-placed arrows.
The next document they sougnt
after getting their diplomas was a
marriage license.
And that fall they both entered
law school!
* -t-
hen La Follette set up as a law
yer, Mrs. La Follette became a
working member of the firm. Sne
briefed cases, acted as index chief,
did much of the research necessary
in preparing cases for trial.
This position as right-hand as
sistant to her husband she still
holds.
An alert, rather stocky, gray
haired but energetic woman of the
so-called “intellectual” type, Mrs.
La Follette has not had to make
her husband’s interests her inter
ests. . They have been that from
the first.
So next to Bob himself, “Mrs.
Bob” will have the biggest say in
how to attack the problems of the
Independent campaign.
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