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A THOUGHT
Pleasant words are as an honey
comb, sweet to the soul, and health
to the bones.—Prov. 16:24.
Fair words gladden so many a
heart.—Longfellow.
Civic Clubs for the
Farmer
The Progressive Farmer, an
agricultural paper, thinks a larg
er number of farmers have been
impressed by the success in the
cities of the civic clubs, where
meetings are held weekly for the
discussion of community prob
lems andjhe promotion of com
munity progress.
A correspondent to the Pro
gressive Farmer says:
“Farmers shoud have in addi
tion to their selling organizations,
their mutual insurance compa
nies, and the like, an organization
like Rotary Clubs in the cities—
a club which maintains an open
forum for the discussion of the
many problems of the farmer.
Let the women’s organizations
care in the main for the school,
the Farmer’s Union promote the
fraternal side, and let us have on
top of this club with general pur
poses for the dissemination of in
formation and the forming of
public opinion a kind of round
table where rural problems can
be threshed out, as they are in
the city man’s club.
Every community ought to
have clubs suited to the products
which it produces, (corn clubs,
poultry, tobacco, apples, pota
toes.) Whatever the product,
the producers should form a club
for its improvement and mutual
improvement and mutual ex
change of ideas relative to it, or
in other words a tradesman’s
guild, which would keep a library
of reference books and afford an
opportunity for discussion of tho
questions pertaining thereto.”
Such an organization among
farmers would be of untold
value to them. Supper served
early in the evening, when the
day’s work is over, would leave
plenty of time for the discus
sions of the many problems con
stantly facing the farmer.
No one can help the farmer
as much as he can help himself
and the exchanging of experi
ences, the advice of all for the
benefit of each would engender
a confidence and a desire that
will not come in other ways.
Spendhtrift
How would you like to earn
$1 a minute" It would give
you about $150,000 a year. A
great many Americans make
that much and more. The sys
tem that permits them to pile up
so much wealth is countenanced
by the public because every one
figures that, as long as the sys
tem exists, there is always a
chance for him to get into the
$ 1 50,000-a-year class.
We are all millionaires at
heart.
The millionaire merely repre
sents the common goal.
Here’s an interesting experi
ment in psychology. Take al
most any man with an income of
$1 a minute. L»t him by acci
dent drop $1 through a side
walk grating.
What will he do? You know.
He’ll stop, no matter how rush
ed he is, and try to recover the
lost $ I.
He’ll spend at least $lO
worth of time trying to get
back that tantalizing $1 that
has slipped away from him.
Many millionaries attend di
rectors’ meetings just to get the
$5 goldpiece that is paid for at
tendance.
We smile at the man who
wastes $lO of time trying to re
cover a lost sl. And yet we all
do the same thing in principle.
We continue to use worn-out
devices long after they become
more expensive than new de
vices. For instance, many a
farmer—rather than buy a new
faucet for his oil barrel—uses
the leaking old faucet. He col
lects the dripping in a tin can—
but by evaporation loses every
few weeks more than the cost
of a new faucet.
Supposed economy ofttimes is
extravagance.
No matter how much or how
little money we have, our great
est wealth is time. Nature gives
us just so many minutes to spend
between birth and death.
The precious minutes are
ticking away fast. But how
many squander their most val
uable minutes? It’s foolish to
overwork. Man needs to spend
minutes as well as dollars for
recreation to keep him balanced
and efficient mentally and phy
sically. Few of us, though,
spend our spare time as shrewd
ly as we spend our spare mon
ey.
Money fortune depends on
not being a spendthrift with
time, quite as much as on saving
money.
Tax Exempt Wealth
Fifty-five billion dollars of
wealth escapes the tax collec
tors in America. That’s enough
to make 55,000 millionaires.
So reports National Industrial
Conference Board after an ex
tensive check-up. This board is
a most scientific and thorough
statistics-gathering body. Its
figures are used widely in set
tling labor-capital disputes.
The board is a conservative
organization, and its figures are
conservative, as usual.
It doesn’t take into account
the. billions of dollars that evade
taxation by the help of crafty
tax-dodging lawyers and book
keepers—experts in finding loop
holes.
Out of this total of 55,000
million dollars that escapes
taxes, 34,000 millions represent
Liberty Bonds and other tax
exempt securities issued by the
national, state and local govern
ment.
Rich and poor have the privi
lege of participating in this
branch of tax exemption. The
joker is that these tax-free se
curities gradually drift into the
hands of rich individuals and
corporations. And stay there.
The board’s other figures
should be considered by every
reader, to clear up a lot of con
fused ideas.
For instance, among tax
exempt property are these:
One thousand millions in
‘‘foundations.’’
One thousand five hundred
millions in college, hospital,
charitable and church endow
ments.
The rest consists mainly of
tax-empt “real property"
land and buildings owned by
government, churches, ceme
teries, institutions, etc.
Bringing it down to a nut
shell; Tax-exempt wealth is a
sixth of our national wealth and
equal to a third of all property
assessed under the general prop
erty tax.
As civilizations get older, the
tendency is for taxes to be
shifted increasingly (directly
and indirectly) to the poor and
to people of moderate means.
The‘rich progressively escape.
They have the money to find or
create avenues of escape.
B'lOmSi'K
Savs
Even if all the world is a stage
the best way to act is natural.
When a wise man gets home late
he tells his wife the truth so she
will have no idea of where he has
been.
The taxpayer thinks all inroads
lead to the treasury.
The trouble with being friendly
with the neighbors is they want you
to keep their dog or cat while they
are away on their vacation.
Fools rush in where wise men
fear to wed.
If you don’t get a vacation this
summer you will be rested up from
last year’s by next year.
Some men look so cheap they
give themselves away.
From the low pay preachers get
salvation is almost free.
The best thing about paying com
pliments is it leaves them due you.
Making love while the moon
shine is where the son shines.
Many a man’s opinion of a wo
man is formed by her dressmaker.
Those rising by airplane of plain
air are liable to fall.
alking isn’t as good an ever
cise as riding in second-hand autos.
When daughter comes to the
door with red hands, she has been
washing her face, not committing
a murder.
Butchers don’t have any trouble
making ends meat.
M ish it took as long to spend
money as it does to save it.
Love may be blind, but it can see
an expensive auto.
Isn’t it strange how temptation
picks on married men?
The school of experience stays
ppen all night.
Consider the things that are packed in a trunk. No doubt,
you would call them, just trash. The junkman might purchase the
outlay for junk, yet he couldn’t buy them for cash.
A wee pair of shoes that are brownish with age are packed in
some cotton, with care. They’ve rested since time has turned
many a page; since a wee baby’s Mom put them there.
A box full of lace that has never been used. Another that’s
packed full of braid. Just memories sweet that must not be abus
.. ed; just things that a grandmother made.
An old photo album that’s faded and torn, with pictures of
Dad, as a lover. It may be all ruffled, but ne’er can be shorn of
the mem’ry that’s held neath its cover.
K.
Just trash, you may say. Things away out of date. But, aft
er their story is told, you’ll know that, to someone, they’re well
worth their weight, a hundred times over, in gold.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.
i Old Days In Americus
ten years ago today
(From The Times Recorder. July
24, 1914.)
The marriage at Dothan, Ala., a
day or two ago of Miss Maymc
Morris, of Florala, Ala., and Mr.
John E. Fields, of Americus, is of
interest to their here. The
wedding march was played by Miss
Louella Fields of Americus.
Sumters pecond bale cotton of
new crop and the third bale to be
marketed in Georgia was marketed
yesterday, July 23rd, by Press Fa
gan, a worthy and industrious
colored farmer, who operates sev
eral plows on the Lockett planta
tion. The bale weighed 410 pounds
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
LET’S SAVE THE CROPS
AFTER MAKING THEM
We are making good crops in
South Georgia this year—more
corn than in years excellent to
bacco prospects a reasonable ex
pectation that more hay will be
gathered into barns than in n
long time, lots of peanuts which
the season has greatly favored,
not to mention cotton and var
ious other crops.
When these crops are marie,
let’s save them.
When they are ready for the
harvest, they should be harvested
When they have remained in the
fields for a sufficient length of
time to dry out, they should be
put under shelter, not left to
the tender mercies of autumn
and winter rains.
Crops worth raising me worth
saving, and there is no more vic
ious form of wastefulness than
putting out money and labor for
the production of crops only to
1« ave theip to the mercy of the ,
elements.
This year’s harvest are going
to be valuable—more valuable
later on, the chances are, than
when they are harvested —Albany-
Herald.
1
PULLING THROUGH
It has been a pretty hard pull
with some business men and a
great many farmers for the past,
two or three years. We have had
a bad situation. Two poor crop
years followed the two years of
deflation.
We are pulling out now.
We are making the best cron
that was ever made in this
county. We are assured of pret
ty good prices.
Business will boom here for
th* next twelve months. ,
The snan who has been’faith
ful to his task and has stuck
through will be rewarded
It has been a hard fie-ht with a
lot of them, but the big victory
will amply reward them.
The man who / persc-rves will
eventually succeed. The farmer
w-ho has stuck to his farm in Col
quitt county will sit on his porch
and smile at the return of the
man who ran off to find 41 bet
ter country and has been search
ing in vain.—Moultrie Observer.
MAY BE IN NEW TEXTBOOKS
ON U. S. CONSTITUTION.
Some time ago the Baltimore
Evening Sun offered a prize for
the best answer to a question by
which many people have been
perplexed. It was this—“ What
is the difference between a Re
publican and a Democrat?"
Whether the winning answer
will find a place in new text
books on th e Aimfrican Constitu
tion. I shall not guess. But
here it is.
The winner, a lady, writes:
“A Republican is a person who
thinks a Democratic administra
tion is bad for business. A
Democrat is a person who thinks
a Republican administration is
bad for business. Both are right
So there seems to be nothing in
national life of any real impor
tance except “business.” And
the difference between the two
sides is of no more consequence
than that between Tweedledum
and Tweedledee.
Some thousands of'answers to
the great riddle were offered.
Os these, 77 per cent, declared
that there was no difference
whatever; 15 per cent, said that
there had been a difference once
only 9 per cent could find a
small difference still. O Demo
cracy! Hail Columbia!—Herald,
Halifax, Nova Scotia,
* THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER <
and brought thirteen cents, per
pound and was classed good mid
dling.
Mrs. E. P. Morgan and Miss
Genevieve Morgan will leave short
ly for Tennessee, where they will
spend the remainder of summer.
Miss Maude Sherlock lias return
ed here from Arlington, where for
several days she was a vavacious
and charming member of Miss May
Saunders large house party.
Mr. and Mrs. 11. O. Jones, Miss
Ruth Brown, and Walter Brown
will make a delightful trip today,
Americus to Atlantic Beach going
aboard Mr. Jone’s large car.
Mrs. David Jennings of Plains,
returned home yesterday after a
visit of several days in Macon, the
gues(, of relatives there.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. July
24, 1904.)
Material changes in the Johnson
&llarrold warehouse building are
new being made, which will add
much to the convenience of handl
ing cotton. The entire floor of the
immense structure is being lowered
two feet, to conform to the recently
lowered pavement in front.
Mr. J. L. Montgomery received
a letter yesterday from Mrs. Mont
gomery and his sister, Miss Mont
gomery, who left Americus last
Monday for the West Virginia
Mountains. The ‘party sailed from
Savannah aboard the Baltimore
steamer, Itasca.
Yesterday was marked up in the
“Red Letter” list from a business
standpoint. Thousands came from
the country and nearby towns to
make purchases and local met ch
ants had about all the trade they
could handle. In addition to the
usual Saturday trade much of the
$20,000 paid out by the Seaboard
Railway here.
Senator T. G. Hudson and Rep
resentative Hixon came down from
the capital yesterday to spend Sun
day in the bosom of their consti
tuents. Both have been very busy
the past w-eek with matters legisla
tive, Judge Hixon, especially, being
engaged with the tax bills in the
house.
The Americus party of thirty
three young people spending the
past week at Myrtle Springs, where
they dwelt in tents, returned to
town yesterday filling three wagons
with themselves and filling the air
with merriment.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. July
24, 1894.)
Miss Amos Schumpert will com
plement her many admirers and
friends with a lawn party Wednes
day night. There is no prettier
place in all Americus than the
spacious grounds which surround
the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. K.
Schumpert. The grounds will.be
brilliantly lighted with colored
lanterns and the fond parents will
spare no labor or expense in mak
ing the entertainment one of the
most charming of the season. Miss
Schumpert is one of the pretty
young girls who has made her social
debut this season and her entertain
ment is given in return for many
social courtesies she has enjoyed.
Mr. Crawford When ’ey, that
prince of hosts is entertaining in
iiis own charming style a congenial
house party this week at the hand
some suburban residence of his
father, Mr. J. W. Wheatley. Mr
and Mrs. E. C. Doughtie,' Misses
Lucy Sheffield, Mamie Dudley,
Flora and Mattie Wheatley, with
Messrs. H. M. Brown, John Shef
field, R. S'. Broadhurst and G. Y,
Bacot make up the party. Tempt
ing viands will be spread and
around the festal board the happy,
merry, party will gather and t’"
.cares that invest the day will net
disturb ihe equilibrium of ‘■souls
with bu| a single thought, and
hearts that bVut as one.”
Miss Bela Hill entertained a
party oft young ladies and gentle
men delightfully at the lovely home
« .? e . r 4’ ther last evening. Miss
Hill is one of the most charming
Foung society girls of Americus
Bhe is a bright winsome girl, and
counts hen friends by the score.
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BY HARRY B. HUUNT j
NEA Service Writer
WASHINGTON, July 24,.—-Oil
is scheduled to keep things hot in
government circles here in Wash
ington this winter.
No, we’re not hinting at another
oil scandal. Although $125,000 is
involved, it will be dispensed on
regulation government vouchers,
not passed out in black suitcases.
And the heat that is to result is
to be measured in thermal units,
not in angry words, charges and
counter-charges and flaming pas
sions.
sje * *
For although! the government
hasn’t yet obtained repossession of
the oil reserves bartered away by
the late Secretary Fall, and actual
dollars and cents will have to be
paid out to obtain the petroleum
needed, Uncle Sam has decided to
install two great oil-burning heat
ing plants to provide warmth 1 in
some 14 of the buildings his em
ployes occupy here in the capital.
Incidentaly, a new degree of co
operation between various branches
of the government is being ex
hibited in the installation and plan
of operation of these plants.
The Shipping Board, whose of
fices will be among those heated,
has offered to provide a concrete
tanker for storing a supply of fuel
her in Washington. The Navy
Department will chip in by towing
this vessel from Pensacola, Fla..
where she now lies.
Boilers for the larger heating
unit will also be contributed by the
Shipping Board from a surplus of
iharine stock on hand. These were
designed for fast war-time liners,
but will serve out tneir days
anchored to bed-plates in a prosy
dry-land heating plant.
The War Department and Treas
ury Department have each helped
the project along - , the former
donating pipe lines salvaged from
Camp Megde, the latter turning
pver equipment purchased for a
plant to heat the income tax unit,
which it later decided to abandon.
The Roosevelt tradition is to
be carried over into this year’-
presidential campaign, via the per
sonality of “Hell an’ Maria”
Dawes.
1 erhaps we shouldn't have put
it that way, since the vice presi
dential running mate of President
Coolidge has indicated that he
wishes to shed his picturesque
sobriquet for a more sober one.
better befitting the dignity of a
possible vice president. Anyway,
Dawes and his rambunctious per
sonality .ire to be p; in ted as of
the same general character of
thos- vigorous, strenuous ftt
tril jtes which so endeared “T. R ”
to the American people.
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The “politician with a punch,”
however, who is most under discus
sion in Washington these days, is
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 88
Pay Phone* 88 and 231 ♦
THURSDAY "AFTERNOON. JUI Y 24, ]9 24
none other than Senator Joe Robin
son of Arkansas. '
Robinson jumped right into the
center of the capital s tea-table
conversations the other day when,
in an altercation over golf eti
quette, he swung with his fist in
stead of his mid-iron and knocked
Dr. James Mitchell for a dead One.
No one claims it was a dub stroke,
but Mitchell claims the senator
scored on a foul and protested to
the club management, exhibiting a
black eye as Exhibit A.
The discussions that resulted
haven’t been equaled in the ex
clusive Chevy Chase Club circles
since Taft tried golf as a weignt
| reducer.
The Robinson fans said Joe
should have used his drive instead
of his fist, but the Mitchell ad
herents held that his fist proved a
mashie, which no gentleman would
use on his first shot.
The upshot of all the talk was
that Robinson was expelled from
the club. Not because he hit
Mitchell, but because he got the
club too much talked about!
COOKS WIN MEDALS
PARIS, July 24.—Two Ships
cooks—chiefs of the French trans
atlantic liners France and Paris—•
have been awarded the gold prize
of the French Gastronomical Socie
ty in recognition of the menus
they have offered on shipboard.
TEXAS BEES HAVE
TRAVELING HOME
EDINBURG, Tpx-, July 24—For
several weeks a colony of working
bees have been making a daily trip
between Edinburg and San Juan, on
the branch of the St. Louis, Browns
ville and Mexico Railroad. It was
while a baggage car was standing
on the sidetrack here that this
swarm of bees invaded the car and
found a home between th e ceiling
and roof. It is declared by the train
crew that the bees have becorfte so
used to their home on wheels that
they know when the whistle of the
engine gives the signal to start.
The busy, working bees immediately
upon toot of the whistle hustle into
the baggage car and settle down
until the train reaches San Juan,
when they go out again to gather
honey.
— _
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier
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PRICES AND PROMISES
Sale Advertising—Any Sale Adver
tising Can Promise Savings of Al
most Anything—Can Promi,
Reductions—Any Reductions, a
High as One-Half or Even More
and some of these promises ar
made in good faith. The red®
tions and saving's are legitimate
However, these reductions at
made from and savings are based 01
each store’s valuation of the met
chandise it has to sell. It is pos
sible to save the one-fourth to one
half on merchandise according t
a store’s value standard, while mer
chandise of the same sort can b
bought at another store for les
■yet marked at a lower price. Afte
all, it is the actual sale prices tha
count. Here is our Friday an
Saturday list—
At 99c—Men’s E. & W. Dres
Shirts, also attached collars, all col
ors, all sizes.
At sl—Men’s Fine Cheeke
Nainsook Union Suits, extra size
up to 52.
At $1.75 —Very large Crinkl
Bed Spreads, plain natural color,
length 100 inches. .
At 29c The. best Bath Towy
you can buy for the price; size 22x
44 inches.
-At 48c—Men’s Athletic Uniw
Suits, elastic seam back, all regu
lar sizes.
At $3.95 —Men’s Fine Brown Ox
fords, flexible Goodyear welte
soles, all sizes.
At s2.9B—Women’s Patent Hol
lywood Sandals, flexible soles, all
sizes.
At $1.98 —Misses and Children’
Sandals, flexible soles, all sizes.
At 98c—Women’s fine Silk Stock
ings, all new colors, all sizes.
At sl.3B—Men’s Union Mad
Overalls of best 220 weight den
ims, all sizes.
At 38c—Boys’ Blue Chambraj
Shirts, good colors, all sizes.
At 25c—Men’s Imitation Guyot
Suspenders, regular and extn
lengths.
At sl.2s—One ibig table of odi
lots of Women’s and Children'
Shoes, all sizes.
At $1.25 —Excellent Night Shirt
of Muslin and Pajama Checks, full
length. _
At 35c—Men’s Knitted Four-in
Hand all silk Ties, fifty patterns.
At $2.95 —Genuine Floc Do
■Voile Presses, all colors, all sizes.
At sc—Men’s Hemstitched Hand
kerchiefs, full regular size.
At 25c—Ribbons worth up to $1;
a closing out sale, all colors.
At 15c—Ladies extra size Rib
bed Vests, bleached snow-white
sizes 42, 44 and 46.
At 9c—Ladies Ribbed Vests ii
regular sizes .bleached white.
At 35c—-Gold Seal p'illow Cases
full size; free from dressing.
Standard Dry Goods
Company
Forsyth St. Next Bank of CommerM
AMERICUS, GA.