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PAGE EIGHT JIMES-RECOBDEB PUBLISHED 1*79 Published by The Times-Recorder Co., <inc.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered m •econd claaa matter at the poatoffict at Americus, Georgia, according to the Act <4 Congreeo. The Associated PreM it exclusively entitled la the nee for the republication of all news dis fpatchue credited to it or not otherwise credited to ■this paper and alao the local «-»*vrs published here in. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST VANINS & KOHN, Brunswick Bldg.. New Torki .’eoplea’ Gat Bldg.. Chicago. | A THOUGHT Set your affections on- things above not on thing on earth.—Col. 3:2. Affection is the broadest basis of good m life.—George Eliot. . z' i Our Teachers It would be exceedingly dif ficult to over-estimate the im portant part that teachers take in the development of the life of the nation. They exercise their art not on materials of this world, which pass away, but upon the human soul, where it will remain through eternity. It is the teacher who makes the school, who sets its stand ards and determines its success or failure. It is not too much to say that the need of civilization is the need of teachers. The contribu tion they make to human wel fare is beyond estimation. No, the words you have just read are not ours. They were recently spoken by Calvin Cool idge, President of the United States. The greatest need of civiliza tion IS teachers—more teachers and better teachers. Neither is possible so long as we fail to pay our teachers a living wage—a salary sufficiently high to attract and hold good men and women . in that profession. That we are not doing in Georgia—or Americus—today. We may be saving a few dollars, but it is costing our children many hundreds of dollars. There Are Two Sides to This Question From time to time we have stressed the economic necessity of "trading at home," placing as much trade in the hands of our local merchants as possible. But there are two sides to this trade-at-home question. No merchant need expect home pat ronage unless he deserves it. He must have the goods in suffi cient variety of styles, sizes and values; he must be capable of showing them to advantage and “selling” his customer when she calls; he must price them fair ly—realizing a fair profit for himself and giving the buyer her money’s worth. Nor is that all. We "trade through the news papers” these days. The mer chant who has all else and fails to convey these facts to his cus tomers two or three times a week, nepd not be surprised if he fails to secure his share of the home trade. He should remember that his customers are daily reading the advertisements from Atlanta, Macon, Columbus, Albany, for all of these papers come into Americus and Sumter county Special inducements are offered and sales made right there. Americus merchants are pur chasing fall and winter stocks now. They will be in position to meet every demand. Watch the advertising col umns for their announcements. Shop through them. Patronize the home merchant who keeps you in touch with his stock. If the stock is worth buying, it's worth advertising. A Run-Away at 11 An 11 -year-old youngster an .nounced to his little playmates that he was "going to run away and go out West, to see the cow boys and Indians and things." For days his parents and the police have searched for him. It would be interesting to know what books this youngster read; what pictures he has seen; who bis companions have been; how much time he has ‘‘loafed ' each day and where he spent it. But more important even than that is: Did he have a real pal for a dad who talked with him and played with him a few min utes each day—or was he the son of a man who dropped in for a meal and a nap occasionai- Vegetable Oils Some of the far Western States are alarmed at the in creasing use of vegetable oils as food. D airy in terests profess to be, disturbed because of the increasing co-or dination of these oils and milk in edible products. Dairymen in Washington and Oregon have become so alarmed over exist ing conditions as to secure the passage of certain laws restrict ing the sale of any foodstuff containing both milk and vege table fats. There is, so far as v.e know, no charge that vegetable oi s are anything other than whole some and nourishing. Perhaps, it may be said with verity that vegetable oils remain sweet and untainted during a longer period than do milk products. Appar ently there exists a new and fer tile field for co-operation be tween dairy and oil milling in terests in the development of a useful industry that may in fu ture years become of national benefit. Certainly little reason exists for opposing the use of vegetable oils as food per se. If the food value of vegetable oils be affected through a combina tion with milk products, it would appear the part of wis dom for dairy interc its first to demonstrate this before attack ing so great an industry as vege table oil milling. There are abundant markets for both dairy products and vegetable oils in both this coun try and abroad Little reason exists for either invading the field of the other. The two in dustries are, in fact, closely al lied—or at least should be. The South is destined to become the center of the nation’s greatest dairying section. All year graz ing conditions in Georgia and other Southern States make this certain. The existence of huge oil mills in these States promise to be a factor of importance in bringing this about. Thousands of tons of Georgia cotton seed oil cake are now shipped abroad annually. This now comes back in the shape of frozen but ter from Holland and the Scan dinavian countries. Within a few years Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee cows will be consum ing most of this feedstuff. In this way vast sums may be saved in freights alone. Scandinavian butter cannot compete with the Georgia product under existing circumstances. This section is the natural home of the dairy industry. Vegetable oils are being used in increasing quantities in all parts of the world. Southern mills are hardly able, during prosperous years, to furnish a quantity sufficient to supply the demand. It is manifestly im possible to restrict the use of vegetable oils to a given indus try, when their wholesome and nutritious food value is univer sally admitted. There exists a demand for more dairy products than the nation is normally able to sup ply. Pure creamery butter is sought by buyers everywhere. Every new creamery finds its output eagerly wanted, and this fact probably accounts for the co-ordination' of vegetable oils and milk products into food. So long as these products are kept pure and wholesome their sale can hardly be justly prevented. I here are many people who are unable to buy the highest priced products. Wholesome substitu tion supplies these with such food as they desire, with no harm dene Whenever the dairy industry is able to supply the nation’s de mand for its product at reason able prices, vegetable oils will cease to be a competitor of the creamery. Until this season ar rives it would appear a gross fol ly for dairymen to be alarmed over co-ordination of the prod ucts into food. An ample field exists for the sale of both vege table oils and creamery prod ucts, with neither industry be ing seriously damaged. FLORIDA HAD ANCIENT LAWS AGAINST LIQUOR FALLAHASSEE, Fla.. August 3. The far-sightedness of Florida’s legislators of the nineteenth century is disclosed in an old law unearth ed in the archives of the state Capi tol here. It is an act which became effective in January, 1855, and pro vided heavy penalties for employes of railroads found guilty of being intoxicated while in the perform ance of their duty. At the time of its enactment there were no railroads in Florida. The act, however, imposed upon the general assembly the duty of ascertaining the proper object.- of improvements in relation to rail roads, canals, and navigable streams; and indicates the present ment the lawmakers must have had that liquor and locomotive com bined would not make for public safety. CfleFjilSt / -LLove It seems that the doll world’s been kind to this tot. It’s sent her fine dollies galore. She ought to be proud of the gath’ring she’ s -got; and day after day she’ll have more. Each Christmas 01’ Santa leaves something that’s new, and al ways a doll comes to stay. She ever has had them as birthday gifts, too. A city of doll folks for play. There’s little old “Oil Cloth” who’s face is just paint, and “Si -ter,’’ who know how to talk. There’s sweet “Dolly Vernon” who’s dressed up real quaint, and a man doll who’s able to walk. The eyes of a mama doll open and shut as she’s tipped a bit forward and back. A small dancing fellow is made so he’ll strut and she calls him her Jumpity Jack. And then, an old rag doll that’s not even dressed. It seems that to pieces ’twill fall. She’s had it much longer than all of the re t and she loves it the bestest of all. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service.) Editorial Opinions Gleaned —Serious and Otherwise— ( From Press and Magazine > WOMAN IN RUNOFF IN PRIMARY Miriam Ferguson will run it off for Governor of Texas with Felix Robertson. She is the widow of the impeached Governor Jim Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson wis dis qualified by law, but ran his wife on the understanding that if elected he would be governor in fact if not in name. It is an extraordinary political situation, but we opine -that Robertson, leader in the first primary, wiil win, although nobody who voted against him the first time will vote for him in the next primary with much glee. The campaign was bitter.”—"Montgomery Ad vertiser. AN OLD ONE An Irishman was seated in a train beside a pompous individ ual who was accompanied by a dog. “Foine dog ye have,” said the Irishman. ‘Phwat kind is it?” ‘A cross between an Irishman and an ape,” the man replied. Shure an’ it’s related to both of us,”’ the Irishman rejoined.— T. P. A. Magazine business revival A business revival in the lat ter half of this year has been forecasted by an unusually large number of industrial leaders, bankers and economists. They do not regard the pres ent slowing down process as serious, but rather as a passing phase which followed naturally the expansion of industry during the spring. By some it has been called a breathing spell, anticipating in creasing business. The excellent condition of the country’s banks and public utili ties will be an important facto?? in business revival. —The Manu facturer. DISCREDITING THE STATE It is to be hoped tint the leg islature wiil not pass thi so-call ed “evolution bill.” If enacted and enforced to the letter the natural-.science, includ ing the various branches of bio logy, as well as the practical, con structive sciences of animal and plant husbandry will necessarily have to be dropped from the cur riculum of every institution of higher education in Georgia. Such a course is not only un thinkable, but it would make Georgia, which even now stand at the top in illiteracy and at the bottom in public education, the subject of intellectual redicule the world over. PLENTY OF WORK IN TIFT Indications are that cotton pickers will be scarce. At any rate, there will be plenty of work for every person in Tift county, white and black, males and fe males, old and young. There will be no excuse for any persons loaf •ing in or around Tift county af ter August 10. It will be good to see plenty of work for every body and everybody at work. Even the smaller school boys and school girls, who haven't been able to find anything useful to do during the summer, should be able to pick up a neat bit of change in the cotton fields when tb.e fields are white and the busi ness of picking gets under way in earnest.—Tifton Gazette. THE NEGRO One who looks about today and observes the visible signs of the progress made in the lest half century by the American Negroes will, if unbiased and just in hi:; estimates of that progress, agree that they have made a propitious beginning in the age-long task of emancipating themselves from the slavery ignorance and super stition, a heritage from their long years of physical servitude to their white masters, and of a longer period of moral and intel lectual darkness in the wilds of Africa. This progress has not been made by chance. It has not been made rolely because those of the whit/. race have sought to place opportunity in the way of the Negroes. .It has been made, as will j Jmetinie be agreed, be cause of the unquenchable desire of the Npgroes to assimilate in some dtgree, the civilazation, 1 ’ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER T the learning, and perhaps the ways, of those about them. “Their problem has not yet been solved. Some day it will be solved, and it is th s brigs promise that encourages tho e who teaeji.—The Christian Sci ence Monitor. bis AFbort WET The wettest spot on earth is the island of Kauai, Hawaii a nfeteorolo gist claims. There, on a mounta: i summit, 455 inches of rain falls in the average year. More than an inch a day. In other districts, farmers are praying tor relief from drought. Nature is uneven in her distribution, She runs to violent contrasts —- swamp or desert, beauty or ugliness. It is as i fparts of the .earth were unfinished other sections given more than her share. This system of uneven distribute seems to be a natural law. People have either too much money, health and happiness—or not enough. MARKET The more the people make the more they spend. Higher the stand ard of living, larger the business done by organizations that supply human wants. This is illustrated: Experts say eight million homes are still unwired for electricity (not counting farms) within reach of big powr plants Putting electricity into these homes would create a market for three mil lion electric fans, four and a half million vaccurn cleaners two and r. half million electric washing ma chines and millions of other electric devices. Wealth, if wise, would for selfish reasons raise wages and the stand ard of living as high as possible. * * * RARE One of Uncle Sam’s 20-cent air mail stamps got into circulation with an error the airplane pictured flying upside down. Only 100 slipped past the inspectors. These are worth S7OO apiece. At least, collectors are paying that much. The real value is absolutely nothing. Value is largely imaginary, out side of necessities and physical com torts. Cases like high prices for rare stamps simply illustrate the power of vanity—the human desire, to own the scarce perferably something no one else can have Selfishness is one of the most powerful' human animating motives. * * » CCO-OP Denmark continues as the shining example of what can be accom plished by cooperative societies. Some of the largest industrial and marketing concerns over there are co-ops. A survey discloses that one of the most striking effects of these band ing-together movements is a high standard in the quality .it' product. People do better work when th< y have a voice in the management Still better, when they ha-e a share of ownership. ♦ * * SUICIDE Suicides are increasing among the highly educated and well-to-do. But tin re’s no increase among the popu lation at large. So claims the con sulting statistician of a big insur ance company. In regard to the highly educated the reason is that nature begins o bring discontent and les?, peace of mind when we know too mur'i. She is jealous of her secrets, wants to keep us submissive. As to ricin bringing unhappiness,, that’s old time hokum propaganda to keep the poor satisfied. » » » SOLDIER Enlisted strength of the regular army is now about 124,000 men. This is one soldier to protect the fives jind property of every 900 Americans Each soldier is guardian of two or three million dollars worl| of national wealth. on wouldn’t think so, to examine their naj’. ON THE JOB ' wl - 'X - SSL-. Txz // J .... . - - .. - ' Old Days In Americus \ TEN YEARS AGO TODAY’ (From The Times-Recorder, Au gust 8, 1914.) The annual barbecue dinner at the Rylander farm near Americus is an occasion ever anticipated wit.i keenest interest by fortunate ones attending, and that of yesterday ivas no exception to the establish ed rule prevailing. At long tables upon the veranda, Mr. Barber and Mr. Rylanders half hundred guests constituted a picture of an idealistic Eveless Eden, as they tested the de licious cue and unusually tempting condiments. Americus warehouses had re ceived twenty-five bales new cot ton up to August Ist- a week ago —and the outlook was most suspic ious. It was expected that a hun dred bales would have been receiv ed during the current week, as the fleecy is opening rapidly on the farms, but in the absence of a stable market, because of the Euro pean war situation, farmers, appar ently are not going to rush their bales to town in any hurry. W Sas’ One use for culture is it makes people perspire instead of sweat. A young doctor tells us he is study ing anatomy at a bathing beach. Much discomfort is caused by buy ing shoes to fit the occasion instead of shoes to fit the feet. Judge rules you may cuss over a telephone in Vienna, and it’s a long way to go but worth it. They say a German co .iple killed 51 people. We say just possibly they were cooks in a boariimg house. Women, the timid creatures, flock ed to hear the testimony In the Chi cago murder case. A straw vote shows Lu Follette’s name is being pronounced every pos sible and impossible way. A real estate promoter is a man who buys outlying property by the acre and sells it by the yard. Luckily, a large group of fossils unearthed near Bass Lake, Ind., were too late to run for office. . Mash from moonshine clogged the sowers in Cinciiinr’i so the only thing t do is build larger sewers. I e hardest part about many a v -ation is lying about what a fine • ano you I’.ad. Pershing will be/given a dinner when he retires to private life, and we he’? they have hardtack for des serf. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Director# And Embalmer# Night Phones 661 and 88 Pay PhgnvH 8§ and 211 Ji! Americus people who read the “war news” be interested in the diference in time here, as compar ed with the clock in European countries where the scrapping is now going on. The following table shows the time in Europeans cities either at war or on the verge of war when it is noon in New York: Berlin, 5:54 p. m. London, 5:00 p. m., Vienna, G:OS, p. m. St. Pe tersburg, 7:01, p- m.' Property owners in Sumter, as elsewhere will pay a lower state tax rate this year as tile result of ihe operation of the admirable new equalization law which has increas ed property returns enormously. Sumter property returns alon e were increased $7(17,000 this year as compared with last yeaas tax re turns. TWENTY YEARS AGG TODAY Monday no paper published. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Rec yrder, Au gust, 8, 1894.) Mr. G. M. Eldridge has had pre pared plans for a very handsome dwelling to be erected upon his va cant property on Taylor street, next the residence of Mrs. B. P. Hollis. Tomorrow is the day of the pri mary eletcion for county officers. Capt. J. H. Allen the efficient clerk of court, is a free lance in the fight having no opponent for that office which he has filled for years. For tax receiver, there three candi dates, J. W Miz e O. D. Reese, and J. F. Daniels. For treasurer Messrs. J E Sullivan and E Taylcr. J. M. Duckvvorth, L. E. Stanford, J. B. Kinard and James Parker are the candidates for coroner Capt. Hill will lay the corner stone of his new warehouse tomor row with appropriate ceremonies. Cooper Dudley’s orchestra will furnish inspiring music, while an embryo statesman will deliver an oration suitable to the occasion. The photographs of the two ugliest men in Americus (se e Ed Littleton for further particulars) will be placed in the receptacle of the cor ner stone, together with the left hind foot of a grave yard rabbit. Another democrat was added yesterday to the list of carriers at the postoffice here, Mr. S. H. Put man taking the substitutes place made vacant by the advancement of Mr. James McGarrah to a car eer’s place. L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) AT YOUR ZsMx. SERVICE Oldest and largest f 'ft WState Bank in South- west Georgia. Any busin ™ entrus,ed to 2 us receive our teflrr "fief best attention. ■ I G c nJKj Jkj It I ? It you are not al- ready one of our valued customer#, " T we would appreciate an opportunity of serving you. The Bank With a Surpliu <5 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING _ .No Account Too Large; None Too Small • ' ' - - f i. ‘ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AVGUST 8, 1924 THE STANDARD WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY BARGAINS At 99c—Men’s E. & W. Dress Shirts, also attchcd collars, all col ors, all sizes. .■ At $1 —Men’s Fino Checked Nainsook Union Suits, extra sizes up to 52. At $1.75— Very large Crinkle Bed Spreads, plain natural color, length 100 inches. At 29c The Best Bath Towel you can buy for the price; size 22x 44 inches. At 48c—Men’s Athletic Union Suits, elastic seam back, all regu lar sizes. At $3.95 —Men’s Fine Brown Ox fords, flexible welted soles, all sizes. At s2.9B—Women’s Patent Hol lywood Sandals, flexible soles, all sizes. At 98c—Women fine Silk Stock ings, all new' colors, all sizes. At $1.38 — Men’s Union Made Overalls of best 220 weight den ims, all sizes. At 38c —Boys’ Blue Chambray Shirts, good colors, all sizes. At 25c—Men’s Imitation Guyot Suspenders, regular and extra lengths. At $1.25 —One big table of odd lots of Women’s and Children’s Shoes, all sizes. At sl.2s—Excellent Night Shirts of Muslin and Pajama Checks, full length. At 35c—Men’s Knitted Four-in- H'and all silk Ties, fifty patterns. At s2.9s—Genuine Floc Dot Voile Dresses, all colors, all sizes. At 5c —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-whitg, sizes 42, 44 and 4G. At 9c- —Ladies’ Ribbed Vests in regular sizes, bleached white. At 35c—Gold Spal Pillow Cases, full size; free from dressing. Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GA.
