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BffITTMH PLEADS
fob manufactures
Says State Must Turn from Sell
ing Raw Materials to Become
Prosperous Again
WAYGROSS, July 23. —If Geor
gia is to attain wealth, she must
change as rapidly as possible from
the mere sale of her raw materials
to their manufacture, M. L. Brit
tain, president of the Georgia School
of Technology told the Georgia
Press Association, in annual conven
tion here today, in advocating legi
slative support of the school, which
he termed as “the chief reliance of
the state for our industrial progress
and development.”
place this state on the real
road to fortune and progress,” Mr.
Brittain continued, ‘‘every city,
town and village must have indus
trial development as in New Eng
land. When this is accomplished
and bur industries are established
and maintained instead of depend
ing upon agriculture alone, we will
see the day of real progress and
wealth in this commonwealth.”
Calling attention of the editors to
the fact that during the past year
Georgia has shipped out of the state
clays, kaolin, bauxite, and numerous
other non-metallic minerals from
which the* state received $1,000,000
“at the rate of a few cents per
pound,” Dr. Brittain stated thitt
“we bought back the manufactured
products of these raw materials at
a cost of more than $20,000,000.”
The Georgia School of Tech
nology, Dr. Brittain went on ,has
just established its latest addition—
a ceramic department, the building
of which will be completed next
month, “ready to train our young
men in ceramic engineering and
teach them what to do with our
clays besides turning them over to
a negro and a wheelbarrow for
shipment north.” The speaker de
clared that it was “confidently ex
pected” that the new department at
the institution would prove to be
“a productive servant that will add
much to our wealth.”
Frogers]
Quart Fruit Jars QE p
Dozw -:
Pints, 7Ep
Fresh shipment Stone’s Angel 9t p
Food ~.4. LrtJv
Rogers Mayonnaise, OCp
8-oz Jar fcsvv
4-oz Jar 15c
Fresh Butter —Large Celery
JOSEPH & BARKER
SPECIALS FOR THURSDAY MORNING
Heinz Sweet Mixed Pickles, \ 9£p
Per Quart
10 Pounds Ice Cream \ 1 Qp
Sait 1
Bread, • s Cp
Loaf
■■■■■—, ■
Jell -o Ice Cream Powder, x Qp
all flavor, package T .’’’
No.’ 1 can Paris £p
Sugar Com
JOSEPH &-BARKER
Phone 224, Cor. Jackson and Forsyth Sts.
Office Hours —9-12 A. M-, Other Hours and Sundays
2-5 P. M. by Appointment
DR. C. D. FAMBROUGH \
Chiropractor
Lady Attendant Phone 653 Rylander Bldg., Americus, Ga.
ELECTRIC FAN SALE
Beginning Monday morning and continuing during the
week I will sell my electric fans at 20 per cent reduction.
this is a great saving from the regular price on electric
fans, and the hot weather has just begun. These fans are
made by General Electric and Westinghouse and are fully
guaranteed. Terms Cash.
W. W. M’NEILL
Hampton and Plum Street 1 Phone 27 I
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Copyright 19Q4, NEA Service Inc
lIIHIIE JIEWEILIEID CA'SKIEIf
I suppose that the same quahtj
of imagination which lifts me above
the rest of those whom socle|g «
pleased to call outlaws, is respon
sible for the feeling of indignation
which possesses me when I look
upon any brutality. I am not mat
ter-of-fact; 1 am an artist. And the
artist, more keenly in tune with
what-ought-to-be than the material
minded man of business, resents
any imperfection, whether it be of
the body or of the spirit.
And here were both! The hunch
back, imperfect of body—and the
superstitious lout, imperfect of
spirit, who stroked the hump.
They were standing on the curb,
at the corner of Fifty-ninth street
pnd Fifth avenue, waiting for a
break in traffic which would per
mit them to cross the street. I was
doing the same thing. I had walked
from the snug little apartment,
which at the moment I was main
taining on Central Park West,
across town on my way to attend
an auction, on Madison Avenue. It
was a balmy spring day, the sort of
morning which after a blustery
March revives one’s faith in the
miracles of Nature. Exactly as a
pretty girl revives one’s faith! 1
admit that «ny faith had been re
vived several times this morning. It
seemed to me that all the lovely
girls of the universe had been plac
ed in Central Park and on the
Avenue this morning, to tantalize
me with thoughts of what might
have been.
I, who hated the world, loved it
this morning. Yet it was the hope
less love of one who knows that the
simple joys are denied to him. 1 felt
a moisture welling beneath my
lids; my eyes were filmy. Then I
laughed at my sentimentality. I had
made my choice months ago when,
after years of deaperate struggle
alongMthe paths of honesty, I had
given up the unequal battle and be
come one of those who prey.
Suffice it that no young girl
would ever be harmed by me —and
even knowing me might some day
cause her irreparable damage. As
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I THREW THE LOUT ACROSS
THE SIDEWALK.
I have said in one of my previous
mernors, like Kipling’s cat’ I walk
alone.
So, because I was in a softened
mood, as well as because I am an
artist and a gentleman, I felt a
surge of pity for the hunchback,
and a surge of wrath against the
man who stood beside him. For
this latter person rubbed the crip
ple’s hump.
Oddly enough, although the lout
seemed none too gentle, rhe cripple
did not resent the action. Perhaps,
poor devil, he had become so used
to the brutalities of his felloe, s .
that his spirit had lost its powers of
resentment.
A year or so ag‘o, when I had
been crushed by the brutalities of
life, I would have felt no indigna
tion at such a sight. I had then
been unable to become angry at in
dignities heaped upon myself. Mora
lists would tell you that I had since
lost my soul, but I tell you that I
had found it. A year ago, an hon
est man, I would have sneered
cynically; today, a thief, I took the
lout by the collar and threw him
across the sidewalk.
The north and south-bound traf-
I ic halted as the lights flickered on
the tower down the Avenue; the
policeman blew his whistle and
waved the pedestrians to pass over.
It was an opportunity, and as my
bewildered victim climbed unstead
ily to his feet, muttering threats, I
merged with the human tide and
gained the doors of a hotel across
the street, slipped through its re
ception-rooms and came out upon
il* ifty-ninth Street, certain that I
had avoided pursuit, and not worry
ing about future recognition. As
for the hunchback, he had not
Dairy Farmers-
We Thank You
I
Fifty Sumter county farmers who milk cows brought in
cream sufficient to start our plant today. Upon the
co-operation of the farmer we rely to make this business
a success. 1 here’s money to be made producing cream.
For this we offer a steady market at highest prices.
Get On
Payroll Today
Save your cream and bring this in when you come to
town; deliver at our plant and help develop a new in
dustry here while you make money for yourself.
Americus Ice Cream
& Creamery Co.
Cotton Avenue ‘ ( Americus, Ga.
DIVING CAPS
.With Chin Straps
The kind you will be proud to own
75c X- 85c
MURRAY’S PHARMACY
The RexaU,Store Opposite P. O. ,
T THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
glanced my way.
Byextreme caution, I eliminate
accidents. Before 1 entered the
acution-roorns which were my desti
nation, 1 glanced over my shoulder
to make certain that no offensively
right-minded person was guiding
upon my trail the man whom 1 had
knocked down. If a policeman in
tervened m a street-brawl in which
I was concerned, it is conceivable
jhat 1 might b c asked my means of
livelihood, a question of obvious
embarrassment.
So I entered the auction-rooms,
and took a chair in the rear. Half
an hour passed before I mad a bid,
and then 1 offered fifty dollars for
a mediocre tapestry. I acquired it
at eighty-five, gave a check to the
attendant, ordered the thing sent to
my arartment, and settled Back in
my chair to watch the rest of the
proceedings. 1 do not think it ad
visable that I should be merely a
spectator at auctions; a connoisseur,
pven though in a small way,
achieves an instant standing. And
my acquisition of the tapestry prov
ed that I had fair taste along with
probably modest means.
Os course I had not come here
solely to purchase. Indeed, the
tapestry would hardly conform to
the color-scheme of my rooms.
Once again I felt the sentiment of
springtime. I wanted a home,
permanence. I wanted a place
where I could put things that I had
acquired for the joy of acquisition,
and because they belonged in that
home. Deliberately I dismissed the
dangerous thoughts.
No man can be a success in
business if he devotes his office
hours to sentimental moonings;
these were my office hours, and 1
was here on business. For where
in the world is one more likely to
have opportunity to see and study
those possessed of wealth than in
an auction-room where articles of
tremendous value are put upon the
block? And the International Auc
tion Corjpany catered to a clientele
of millionaires. Such bargains as
my bit of tapestry only occurred
when they were minor parts of a
great collection.
Nearly everything else was pric
ed in the thousands, and did not
interest me, although occasionally
I noted the names and addresses of
the purchasers. And then came the
Gerald jewel-box. Gerald was a
multimillionaire of vulgar antece
dents and taste who had died a few
years ago. Six months later, his
widow had followed him, and thej
had left heirs who chose to rid
themselves of the miscellaneous col
lection which the Geralds had ac
quired. I could not blame the heirs,
for most pf the Gerald possessions
were more suited to thq walls or
cabinets of a museum than to a
private
And when the auctioneer held up
a golden box, studded with jewels,
I felt embarrassment for him, com
pelled as he was to declare that this
article was a work of art. It was
about nine inches long, six inches
wide and four inches deep; and
workmanship, even a high degree of
craftsmanship, had been expended
upon it. But the thing was too gor
geous, too flamboyant, and one
readily believed the auctioneer’s
statement that the late Mr. Joseph
Gerald had himself superintended
the designing and the manufacture
of the box. One also believed with
out hesitation that it had cost the
multi-millionaire over ninety thou
sand dollars. Certainly the
precious stones that studded it were
Who Branded Him
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The letters “K.K.K." are sear
ed upon his back. But Rev. Orin
Van Loon of Bergeley, Mich., a
DeAoit suburb- insists he re
members nothing of the brand
ing. The minister had started
for Lake Orion, Mich., to attend
a Bible confernece. Nearly two
weeks later he was found un-
worth at least fifty thousand.
But thg very idea that had given
birth to the box was vulgar. It had
been intended to be the receptable
for certain jewels of Gerald’s wife.
The thing angered me. Artists m
precious metal had been debauched
by Gerald’s money and forced to
prostitute their gifts for beauty in
order to gratify a millionaire’s vul
gar whim. I wondered that anyone
save a dealer in gold and jewel?,
who proposed to buy the thing for
its intrinsic value, should bid upon
it. But Gerald’s death had not rid
the world of vulgarity.
The bidding opened at ten thou
sand dollars, and progressed rapidly
to twenty-five thousand, confined
to men whom I intutitively knew
were dealers. Then another man
took a hand. His clothing alone
stamped him for what he was, a
newly enriched vulgarian. For his
coat was cut in the extreme of
Broadway fashion; his neckwear
was an offense to a gentleman, and
the solitaire diamond that gleamed
from its silken folds must have
weighed a dozen carats. He had
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B WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 23 1924
conscious on the streets of Bat
tle Creek. He had lost 30
pounds and his hair had turned
from gray to white. Doctors de
clared he had been drugged.
Rev. Van Loon said he recalled
nothing from the time he cashed
a check at a bank in Royal Oak,
near his home, until he awakened
in the hospital in Battle Creek.
not been born to money; long ac
quaintance with it would have in
culcated in him a few, at least, of
the fundamentals of correct attire.
His nose was a mere blob, piglike.
His eyes, peeping over rolls of fat,
were also porcine. His forehead
slanted back, and his heavy jaws
and jutting chin made him animal
like. Another of the filthy prof
teers who had grown fat upon the
sufferings of the world! Another of
those persons wh<s had risen from
the depths during civilization’s
great convulsion.
I could picture the wife of this
man; as loathsome as himself,
doubtless. Also I could picture the
priceless jewelry that would go into
that box. For if a man would give
sixty-five thousand dollars—it whs
knocked down to him at that price
—for a place in which to put his
jewels, what were the jewels them
selves worth?
The mere thought made me dizzy.
If I could get my hands upon that
. box when it was filled, the fancies
(that spring had put into my mind
today might be possible to me. One
num
18 DISCUSS BBK
W. T. Anderson and T. L. Kirk.
Patrick to Be Principal Speak
ers Before Club
ATLANTA, July 23.—Support
ers of good roads movements i n
Georgia and members of the Geer
gia general assembly are to gathe
here tonight at the invitation
the Atlanta Kiwanls Club for
banquet and discussion of bond i
sues for highways.
Statehouse officials also ai
expected to be present.
The project of a state bond
sue to be used to build a gt
system of paved highways all 1
the state will be the principal J
of the evening.
W. T. Aanderson, editoaH
Macon Telegraph and high
commissioner of the state, and T
L Kirkpatrick, president of the
chamber of commerce of Charlotte
N. C. will deliver the principal &( j’
dresses.
An auto speeder discovers his
mistake by accident.
of those young girls whose eyes had
seemed inviting on the 4venue to
day—
“ Sold to Mr. Marcus Anderson,”
said the auctioneer.
Slumped down in my chair, fum
ing with hatred toward Anderson, I
straightened up when I heard his
name. For there wer e few people
“who had not heard of Anderson. H e
was supposed to have become, dur
ing the war, one of the richest men
in the world. My appraisal of him
had been absolutely correct, and niy
vanity was tickled that, even in so
slight a matter, I. had not erred.
I watched him go to a desk ami
write a check. My eyes followed
him as he came down the aisle and
passed through the door. He came
so close to me that th e skirt of his
coat brushed my knees. Mr. Ander
son, as he climbed into his enormous
towncar, did not know how nearly
he had escaped a violent attack.
(Continued in Our Next Issue)
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