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spiseth his own soul; but he that
heareth reproof getteth understand
ing—Prov. 15:32.
Wisdom alone is a science of
other sciences and of itself. —
Plato.
Primus Jones and
Deal Jackson
Among those famous in
Georgia's cotton history, two
names stand out as “first bale"
men —Primus Jones of Baker
county, and Deal Jackson, of
Dougherty. The first a white
farmer, the other a negro. Os
these men, the Albany Herald
relates some interesting history,
saying—
Primus Jones lived in Baker
county, and had one of the finest
plantations in Southwest Geor
gia. He was one of three broth
ers, all white farmers and among
the leading men of Baker coun
ty. Year after year, until his
untimely death, he picked, gin
ned and rushed to Albany by
‘fast mule express’ Georgia’s first
bale of cotton, and more than
once he beat even Texas. He
knew when to plant and how to
cultivate for fast growth. He
saved the seed from his earliest
opening bolls, and developed a
strain of cotton that made him
famous. His brother, Reuben
Jones, developed the famous
Jones watermelon.
After the death of Primus
Jones, his mantle fell on Deal
Jackson—or, rather, Jackson
picked up the mantle and put
it on. He had studied the white
first-bale man’s methods, and be
lieved he could retain first-bale
honors for Albany. His farm in
the western part of Dougherty
county was one which he Jiad
lived on for years and greatly
improved, and on it he proved
that he had not placed too great
faith in his own ability. Ke ‘took
up where Frimus Jone's left off,”
and year after year, as long as he
lived, he brought Georgia’s first
bale of new-crop cotton to Al
bany.
Jackson was an ex-slave who
had had few early advantages,
but he was endowed with abund
ant common sense, he loved his
farm, repeatedly refusing flat
tering offers of those who want
ed to buy it.
Yes, if either Primus Jones
or Deal Jackson were living, the
boll weevil would have to be out
mighty early in the spring to “get
the jump.”
Jones’ real name was Piamus,
says the Herald, "but as ‘Primus’
means first, and as Piamus Jones
was for many years Georgia’s
first-bale farmer, the ‘Primus’
stuck to him even when he went
to the Georgia Senate.”
These two names were fam
ous in every cotton-growing
county in Georgia, and linger
still in the minds of scores of
old-timers.
Cheapened Himself and
His Friends
Commenting on the activities
of W. D. Upshaw, congressman
from the Fifth district, in his
lonely efforts to name himself
Vice-Presidential nominee in
New York, the editor of the
Cordele Dispatch, says:
Upshaw hardly deserved more
than he got. He had no hope
of being named on the ticket for
the Vice-Presidency. He simply
went about nosing himself into
the wrong place all the time. He
was notoriously strong for Mc-
Adoo all in his own way, and at
the same time notoriously a can
didate for the Vice-Presidency
with such activity as did nobody
any good.
First place, he should have
been a sincere applicant for the
Vice-Presidential nomination, or
he should have kept his mouth
shut. Playing with the thing
served only to cheapen himself
and his friends in so doing he
did not even enlist the sympathy
of his Georgia friends. In the
event that he should have sought
the nomination in serious effort,
thee he should have done so on
his pwn independent initiative.
Embracing Mr. McAdoo every 30
seconds during the progress of
the fight which Mr. McAdoo was
waging did not really assist the
latter gentleman.
As we suppose Will Upshaw
has never permitted anything of
this kind to cross his mind.
But Mr. Upshaw got his name
and picture in the papers a few
times, and these things are very
necessary to one who is seeking
engagements on the lecture plat
form. No doubt embracing
Mr. McAdoo every 30 seconds,’’
as the Dispatch remarks, was
embarrassing to the Gentleman
from Georgia-California, even
though the embracer di d
stump the state for him.
How One Boy Paid
His Way-
- Columbia (S.C.) Record
tells the following story of how
one bey paid his way through
college!
Harry A. Knight of Forest
City, Ark., is going to college on
the proceeds of a cow he pur
chased for SI 00 when he wag 14
years old. By the sale of her
milk and butter and her calves
he accumulated other cattle until
today his livestock is worth $2,-
500 on the hoof and it assures
him an income of $l5O a month.
Thus, he is able to pay his own
way in college, and he will have
a competence when he gets his
diploma. What a chance for any
live and earnest youth in South
Carolina to go and do likewise.
Usually where there’s a will
there's away, and there’s more
in the man than the land. If
the little Jersey cow will carry
a boy through college, she will
pull the farmer out of h:s finan
cial troubles, give him and his
family more of life s comforts
and pleasures.
With the openin" of the
Americus creamery, a daily cash
market has been provided for
all the cream Sumter farmers
will bring in.
High-Hand Injustice
Another instance of highhand
ed alleged injustice was noted in
the news of Monday. The sher
iff of Douglas county is charged
with stopping a car, without the
possession of a warrant; order
ing its occupants to the ground
at the point of a pistol; slap
ping the face of the woman oc
cupant of the car, and man
handling others. The sheriff
was "looking for bootleggers.”
No liquor was found in the car.
Near Sylvania, Ga., a day or
two earlier, a county policeman
is charged with fatally shooting
two men in the name of law
enforcement.
These two instances are only
a few in a long list. Between
the so-called law-enforcers and
“road agents," the motorist has
about as much chance as a
mouse on a cat farm.
When signaled to halt, he
knows not what to do. It may
be a highwaymarf or it may be
a police officer. If he stops for
one he’ll be robbed, manhand
led and maybe killed. He does
not stop, and it happens to be
an officer of the law, his back
will be filled with. lead.
The first thing a police office!
should learn is law observance.
If HE can’t obey the laws, how
under the great blue canopy may
we expect others to do so?
1 here are entirely too many
ignorant and vicious fools pa
rading behind a silver star, with
a billie in one hand and a gun on
each hip.
It Isn’t the Town or the
Job —It’s the Man
Forty years ago a young fel
low named Anderson, without a
penny to his name, drifted into
a hopeless looking village in
Central Ontario.
He was among strangers. His
pocketbook was empty. And he
didn’t have much in the way of
education. The village he start
ed to work in was one of those
backwoods communities which
seem totally lacking in oppor
tunity.
Anderson’s first job in this
place was feeding cattle at the
railroad stockyard—cattle driv
en in by farmers and awaiting
shipment.
Today the village still is a
village—about 800 people. An
derson's hair is whitening. Fie
shows the marks of hard work.
But he is rich enough to spend
his winters in Florida. He owns
a general store he started. He
owns timber land, also houses
that bring him a steady income
of $250 rent a month.
He’s worth about a quarter
of a million.
That s not a tremendous for
tune, compared with some oth
ers.
But Andy has all the money
he needs. He's happy. His
life has been useful, helping his
community. He has raised to
manhood three fine boys, and
they are taking his place as he
rests on his oars. All around,
he's a real success. t
Now, when Andy arrived in
this village, he met a lot of oth
er fellows. Some got out. Some
stayed. They had notion
that there wasn’t any oppor
tunity locally. And they were
right, as far as they themselves
were concerned. Most of them
are where they started. They
haven’t gotten anywhere. Andy
is the only man in town who
has made money.
And he made it in a com
munity, buried in the woods and
rocks, vihere summers are short
and winters 50 below zero
in short, a community that
would look hopeless to nearly
(\IIAIR. (cSn&
Consider the arms of a big comfy chair that sits in most every
one’s home. There must be a reason why chair arms are there —
it ought to be good for a pome.
Dad comes home from work and he spies the arm-chair. K'c
leisurely flops himself in it. And shortly the arms find his legs
hanging there and he’s snoring away in a minute.
Just patiently knitting, all day mother’s sitting; the old chair
just fits her, it seems. And then, one the arms, she will rest
aged charms’and she shortly will drift into dreams.
A sweetheart will gracefully 101 l in the chair; her reason is
shortly made clear. The arms find a lover is .soon sitting there
as he whispers sweet things in her ear.
A little tot’s naughty; some cross words are said, and after
mom’s reprimand’s spent, the child on the chair arm will bury its
head and weep to its heart’s con tent.
A plain comfy arm-chair that’s ancient or new; what long lists
of thoughts it will bring. Consider this arm-chair; give credit that’s
due to a very considerate thing.
(Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
Opinions of Other Editors—
' Serious and Otherwise
THE DAY’S WORST PUN.
When they have a riot in the
Rhode Island Senate and trample
men and women under foot, we
suppose it must be set down to
the mysterious ways of Provi
dence.—Chicago Evening Post.
THE WORLD NEEDS MOTHERS.
A motherly old woman was
urged to attend an “uplift” meet
ing. For an hour she listened
to the ladies tilling how great
ideals should prevail and what
was being done. Finally she was
asked to say a few words as to
helping humanity. She arose,
smiled and said: “Well, I reckon
the most important thing I ever
did was to learn how to be a
good cook, and I haven’t thought
about a thing for the past twenty
years except to keep my family
together and happy.—Ozark
(Ala.) Star.
Real mothers, with heart and
mind and soul fixed upon the
very practical ideal of keeping
the family happy, are the need
of the world today, and not the
reform organizations ihat are
seeking by various methods,
mostly of force, to make the
world better. We cannot force
people to be happy. But by the
adoption of the proper methods
we may lead them into a quality
of happiness from which they
will not try to escape.
The mother, therefore, who
takes the proper care of her
household, who rears her chil
dren in the light of sunshine and
contentment, whose love shields
them from the snares and the
pitfall of the world, need have
little if any fear that her work
will be a failure.—Columbus
Enquirer Sun.
CANNING AS PART OF THE
FRUIT SELLING PROBLEM
Georgia raises fruit of excel
lent quality. But too little of
what we raise is canned.
Georgia should, in*the natural
course of events, Tais e a great
deal more fruit than she pro
duces now. And she should can
a large part of these future en
large crops.
We all know what has hap
pened this year in the heart of
the Georgia fruit, belt.
The weak point in the selling
end of the Georgia peach in
dustry is the inadequacy of can
ning facilities.
What would be the value of
that part of the Georgia peach
crop of 1924 already lost if it
had been possible to can it? Had
there been canneries available
for handling the entire surplus
of the crop—a surplus either giv
en away, dumped into streams,
fed to hogs or sold in glutted
markets for less tlum the cost of
picking, packing and shipping,
what would be its value when
fed to the markets during the
next twelve months? It is true
that a small part of the Georgia
peach crop is canned every year,
but nothing like enough to care
for the surplus.
As matters now stand, the
Georgia peach grower must sell
his crop when it ripens or not
sell it at all. This year it has
been a particularly heavy loss,
'but the same thing may happen
any year—every year, in fact,
for the Georgia crop will hardly
grow less. It should grow great
er, for there is room for expan
sion.
Georgia cans entirely too little
of the fruit and vegetable crops
she produces. Canning means
not only saving a crop’s surplus,
but it means also protecting the
market for fresh fruit, thereby
assuring better prices for that
which is shipped.
We still have a lot to learn
from California, which sells
peach-growing Georgia most of
every man ambitious to go
ahead.
The answer is that oppor
tunity is not found, it is made.
It isn’t the town or the job
that counts, it's the man.
Natural ability, and luck may
enter into the matter to con
siderable extent. But that does
not alter the fact that opportu
i nity is everywhere —for the
right man. *
’ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER 7
peach-eating Georgia’s canned
peaches.—Albany Herald,
LAWING
It’d be a good thing if two-thirds
of our laws were repealed, a speaker
claims at convention of Retail Cred
it Men’s National Association.
Instead, thousands of new laws .
are being added each year. If they
were all enforced nearly every one
would be in jail.
Lawmaking is a national obses
sion. As soon as a problem rises,
public think they can dismiss it by
rushing through a new law. Usual
ly, failure.
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INSURANCE
More life insurance policies being
taken out by Americans than ever
before. Total has been at a rate of
about eight and a half billion dol
lars a year, ft’s a third more than
in 1922.
The public is living less for the
present and thinking more for the
future—incidentally taking fewer
chances, playing safe. Such is the
psychological undercurrent, and it
will gradually assert itself in poli
tics and business. (
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CROWDED
Japan is encouraging emigration
of her people to Brazil. It’s reported
she’ll pay their traveling expenses
and give them a present of 200 yen
apiece when they depart.
Paying citizens to leave a country
is something new. The orient is
over-populated. It’s an ancient situ
ation, not new. And it’s aggravated
by the world-wide rise in standard
of living, which lias a tendency to
make an acre of land support fewer
people.
Improved industrial and agricul
tural methods and devices will never
be able to keep pace with the crav
ing for still better living standards.
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GOLD
This is news to most people:
Gold is sometimes prescribed by
physicians as medicine. It’s taken
in certain kinds of despondency
where the patient is on the border
line of suicidal tendencies.
A few doses of “arum metalli
cum” (gold), properly administered
by a doctor, often make the melan
choly person cheerful and full of
pep, even optimistic.
The coveted yollow metal has sim
ilar powers, received externally. Its
possession or loss sways human emo
tions as much as friendship and
love.
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SECRET
Privacy in radio communication
is claimed by John Hays-Hammond
Jr., the famous inventor. He says
his new broadcasting invention coin
pletely isolates sender and receiver
from interference or listening in.
Marconi and others claim similar
devices.
Pocket radio phones may not be
as far in the future as you believe.
The tendency in radio is toward
oniplicity and usefulness. Right now
its mainly a toy.
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AHOY!
Nations should advertise amon r
each other, urges Stanley Baldwin,
the British poltician. A good sug
gestion. For instance, Uncle Sam
would conduct a gigantic newspaper
advertising campaign in Japan to
tell Japanese the truth about why
we exclude them. Cost would be
considerable, but very cheap com
pared with possible war costs later.
Fifty millions, spent in hostile
countries by England, Germany,
France and Russia, would have
averted the World War.
Tou never learn much from peo
ple you can read like a book.
All people worry because they are
either married or single.
THE PRODIGAL’S RETURN
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Old Days In Americus i
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. July
30, 1814.)
Clark Poole has returned from
a trip to Blue Ridge in the north
Georgia mountains, where he spent
a week with Mrs. Poole and daugh
ter, Elizabeth, who are ther for the
summer.
Miss Mary Elza Sheppard is the
attractive guest this week of Mr.
and Mrs. Roney Jordan, of Ellaville,
who are entertaining a large party
of friends at their cottage at Myrtle
Springs.
Mrs. Janies W. Harris Jr., will
leave tomorrow for Atlanta, where
she will spend several weeks at the
home of her mother, Mrs. Merrell
Callaway on Jackson street.
Dick Brinson, who with Frank
Sheffield, Jr., and Clarke Crisp, Jr.,
has been camping in the mountains
of North Carolina, near Brevarde,
for a month, returned home yester
day.
The marriage yesterday after
noon of Miss Annie Belle. Paige an 1
Mr. George Edmund Sutton was in
the nature of a pleasant surprise to
the many friends of the bride and
groom. Miss Page and Mr. Sutton,
Seeing her with her face dirty is
a fine cure for love sickness.
Lots of people will interrupt a
phonograph record to tell you how
much they are enjoying it.
When a man shoots himself he
gets the one to blame for his trou
bles.
Life is ups and downs. Like hills
and valley.', if there wer no downs
there could be no ups.
What this country needs is shoe
strings that last as long a.hoe?.
The reason so many don’t get
ahead of the game is they don't
play.
When a bootlegger is seized with
the grippe it keeps him in longer
than when he is seized with a suit
ease.
Some men are too cautious even
to make a success as a failure.
There is more parking space
around a library than around a
movie.
The reel modern ”?nt promises
his son .n auto if he doesn’t smoke
or drhik until he is 12 years old.
n St. louis, a musician lost his
ortuno playing poker which is
much harder to play than a piano. I
Neve” worry if a boy hates to I
get hi- hair cut. Ho may grow up
and become an orator.
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Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 88
Pay Phoncg 88 and 2H j*
J WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 30. 1924
accompanied by a few near friends
drove to the residence of Rev. Rob
ert L. Bivins, where the interesting
ceremony took place.
Three additional new cotton bales
were received yesterday at Ameri
cus warehouses, making a total cf
six bales of the new crop received
here already. W. L. Bradley
brought a bale to the Parker ware
house, while Albert Forrest carried
to the Council warehouse his’ third
bale this season. Press Ragan
brought in a new bale yesterday,
the second one of the new crop.
IWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Tinies Recorder. July
30, 1904.)
Capt. H. C. Sapp, the veteran
conductor for years between Colum
bus, and Americus, comes with his
family to Americus to reside short
ly. Since” Capt. Sapp’s train” as it
was affectionately and generally
known along the line, is to be taken
off, he is to be given the train leav
ing Americus every morning for
Columbus.
Mrs George W. Bagley will en
tertain a congenial house party at
her beautiful home next week in
honor of Mr. and Mrs. Bertram
Small.
Miss Loubelle Speer, has as her
guest for a week Miss Clara Chap
pell, of Richland.
The city assessors elected at the
meeting of the city council last
night were Messrs. Hugh L. Mize,
A. J. Hamil, and Lee Allen.
Another handsome auto has been
added to those already here in the
purchase of a fine machine by ME
M. N. Dudley, which arrived yester
day. A local physician is also on
the list of probable purchasers, and
a year hence a score of autos will
be whizzing along Americus streets
to the delight of owners. Mr. Dud
ley’s machine is a beauty, costing
$650.
At the Third District Masonic
Convention which Las just closed
its annual meeting at Lumpkin, it
was voted to hold next convention in
Americus. In the election of offi
cers for the ensuing year, Mr.
John A. McDonald of Plains, was
made worshipful master, J. T. Har
rison, of Lumpkin senior warden,
J. A. Littlejohn of Cordele junior
warden, A. G. Miller, Americus,
secretary, W. D. Murray, Ellaville
Treasurer, B. R. Wimberly of Jef
fersonville senior deacon.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier
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at $2.55.
Smart attractive sandal pumps,
tall new toes and heels some arc
leather trimmed dainty pumps with
slendor straps all sizes from 3 to 8.
We made a clean up of the surplus
stock of Rice and Hutchings fac
tory and got them at our own price
displayed on center counter Wed
nesday and Thursday pair, $2.95.
Some Big Dollar Bargains
$1 will buy 10 pretty linen fin
ished mercerized Table Napkins,
full size.
$1 will buy 5 yards very best
Standard Percales, light or dark
colors, yard wide.
$1 will but 10 yards fine White
and Ecru Curtain Scrim 36 inches
wide.
$1 will buy 5 yards pretty Cre
tonne, yard wide; fifty patterns to
select from.
$1 will buy 4 Turkish Towels,
actual size 22x44. inchesf values to
50c each.
$1 will buy 3 Men’s Knitted' Silk
Fourin-Hand Ties, all colors.
$1 will buy your choice of over
a thousand E. & W. Dress Shirts;
regularly $1.50.
$T will buy 6 yards best Stand
ard Dress Ginghams; regularly 25c
yard.
$1 will buy 5 yards 36 inch Cot
ton Challis, pretty patterns, for
comforts.
$1 will buy 4 yards Underwear
Crepe, 36 inches wide, excellent
quality.
$1 will buy 7 yards extra good
Printed Voiles, pretty patterns.
$1 will buy 2 yards highly Mer
cerized Table Damask, 64 inches
wide.
$1 will buy 8 Boy’s fast colored
Blue Chambray Shirts, all sizes.
$1 will buy 5 pairs men’s regu
lar 25c pair socks, all sizes.
$1 will buy I yard imported Jap
anese Pongee, 32 inches wide; val
ue $1.25.
$1 will buy 1 yard all silk Crepe
de Chine, 40 inches wide, all colors.
$1 will buy 24 men’s Hemstitch
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$1 will buy 2 good water color
Window Shades, complete with all
fixtures.
$1 will get your choice of four
lyards of Wide Ribbons, worth up
to $1 yard.
Standard Dry Goods
Company
Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce
AMERICUS, GA.