About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1924)
PAGE EIGHT XIMJKS-K&CL' K P K K PtTBUSREU 1B7» *■■■■! , Hi n i ■■■' ■ Published by Ths Times-Recorder Co., (ine.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Catered u •econd olam matter at the post of fit* tt America*, Georfi*. according to the Act «t The Aateatored Preae to oscluatoaly entitled t« the om for the republieatiuu of al] new* dto* pdlehea credited to it or out otherwiee credited to thii paper and alao the local published bore* la. Al) right of republication of apecia) diapatehee are also reserved. National Advertising Represents tires, FROST LANDIS A KOHN. Brunswick Bids.. New Yorki .’copies 1 Gua BJdr.. Chicago. A Rejoice not when thine enenry falfeth, and let not thine heart be glad wiferi he stumblcih. —Prov. 24:17. An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. —Mrs. L. M. Child. 5-Day Marriage License Law No more marriages in haste in Georgia. You, of course, may repent at leisure, as of old, but the new law passed at the session of the Legislature just closed, makes it unlawful to grant a marriage license until a notice has been posted in the courthouse for five days. In other words, the happy pair must make application for license five days before it is ac tually issued. Marriages performed between August 18th and August 23rd are said to be .illegal by T. R. Gress, assitsant attorney gen eral ,who is quoted as saying: “Under the definite provisions of the law, no license can be is sued in Georgia between August 18 and August 23. This is be cause of the new law which pro vides that application for a li cense must be made five days be fore it is issued. ' For those who married in ig norance of the law Monday, • Tuesday or Wednesday, the thing to do is to go immediately to their county ordinaries, give the information required by law, have it posted in the courthouse, as the law provides, and await the issuance of a new license after five days’ period, when a new ceremony that will be legal can be performed.” The law may be a good one. And again it may not. Un doubtedly there are some cases of undue haste, but five days’ notice will not greatly remedy this evil. That it will work an occasional hardship is evident. If, as its proponents no doubt think, it cuts the growing divorce evil, the law is worthwhile. It’s worth trying out, for in the fu ture neither party can accuse the other of "rushing me into it.” The law may stop some of these "kid marriages” boys and girls still in their 'teens, rushing to double harness on the excitement of a moment. Such cases some times end happily and again they don’t. Here's a case in point: x Deciding that the meager sal ary which the husband was get ting would not support the baby and the flivver roadster they were paying for at the rate of $5 a week Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Epton, 19 and I 7 years old, ’respectively, decided to abandon their infant, so they left him on the doorstep at a home in St. Paul, Minn. The charge of child abandon ment carries a penalty of seven years imprisonment. Out at Ancker Hospital a fat .cooing 10-pound baby boy is the pet of the nurses, happy in his ig norance of the trouble of which he is the center. The little fellow’s mother de bated long whether to keep the child or the flivver. Even aft er deciding to leave the infant in the care of someone else the parents would not be satisfied until they saw him taken from the porch on which they left him. Around and around the block they drove in the flivver after depositing the babe on the door step at the home of A. Ramkey. They did not leave until they saw the child taken into the house and thus assured of care and attention. This may be a case of haste or it may not. Certainly both were unfit for parenthood. 3 TO 1 ON COOLIDGE. The betting is now represented to be 3 to 1 in favor of Mr. Coo lidge. The same New York House that is quoted as having gobs of money to place at these odds, put up a good deal of money at odds of 1 to 2 1-2 and 1 to 3 that Mr. McAdoo would be the Democratic nominee. In 1916 this same firm placed a great deal of money that Hughes would win. All of which goes to show that people who were not born yesterday are not placing their money on Silent Cal at this time. —Selma Journal. Justice Only Is Demanded Mr. Clarence Darrow, attor ney for Leopold and Loeb,- is provoked to vehement outburst. "The public,' he says, thinks it’s doing a fine thing when it rouses itself from its customary lethargy and shouts Hang them!’ But it’s damned un fair.” It is the lawyer speaking the lawyer who can never un derstand that the adjudication of crime is not a mere matter for bench and bar alone. The pub lic is concerned, must be con cerned, or its agencies of justice will have no background, no au thoritative potency. Moreover, crime is not a mere attack upon individual rights or person. It is an attack upon so ciety—the public—and it is the part of wisdom and of safety for society to give active heed to all such assaults. When accused murders plead guilty to the serious charge against them, admit their sanity, and confess knowledge of the difference between right and wrong, as Leopold and Loeb did, the public naturally and logically believes there isn’t much to be done aside from ad ministering the punishment duly prescribed. That has been the usual pro cedure in the past, but Mi. Dar row has discovered something new that, he thinks, neutralizes admitted guilt, admitted sanity and admitted knowledge of right and wrong. That something is the assum ed inability of the accused to practice the right that they are admittedly able to distinguish from wrong. That is, while the young fiends are far advanced intellectually, they are as de ficient emotionally as a child of four or five years is, and this timely discovery of the hired lawyer, backed by convenient and hired alienists, must operate in saving them from the gal lows, the prison or the insane asylum, must relieve them from the grave responsibility of their crime, as if they were babes. It is a novel presentment in mitigation of a confessed crime committed by college graduates. Mr. Darow thinks the public is “damned unfair’’ because it re fuses to believe the plea as any thing more than piffle whose in troduction into the case reduces court procedure to a travesty most disgusting. The idea that men with noth ing more than baby emotions would calmly set about commit ting "the perfect cjme,” plan and calculate it for six months, anticipate an attempt to de feat every possibility of discov ery, prepare loopholes of es cape and alibis, and even join in the hunt for the perpetrators of the crime they themselves had committed—the idea that baby minds could or would do all this is quite beyond even a gullible public to accept with equanimity. It is no wonder the public shows the roilly disposition Mr. Darrow describes as "damned unfair.” But neither he nor his cilents are to be pleased in this matter. Pleading ’the baby act’ will not do. The main result and the only safe one to be attained is that demanded by so ciety through its laws the adequate punishment of the guilty and the vindijeation of justice. 1 WHAT ALL THE COUNTIES ARE SAYING. The tobacco crop in south Geor gia seems to have developed into a very important and profitable industry. There are those who assert that tobacco can be just as ' successfully grown in middle Georgia. If it can be success fully grown here it would be necessary for growers to cooper ate in growing, handling and mar keting the crop. Lamar countv farmers should give consideration to the matter with the view of going into the industry as one phase of diversification.—Barnes ville News-Gazette. NEWSPAPER GRAFT. If newspaper work were one tenth as exciting as it is reputed to be, there woud be fewer men in the business. Newspapermen help perpetuate the fiction that it is intensely interesting ai d adven turesome labor, largely to justify themselves for sticking to a pro fession that doesn’t pay well and extracts much. In the course if cur journalistic experience, we have been offered two bribes. An ac tress once offered us 20 cents to forget what the docket charged her with, and a woman once of fered us 25 cents if we would print a poem written to her by her son—to surprise the boy.—Jake Falstaff, in Akron Times. Once a dog fancier promised us a pup if we’d say something nice in the paper about his Ken nels, and we said it but never got the pup.—Macon Telegraph, Zorve-®) Come on now, confess it; you know that it’s true; you’ve tried to make love once or twice. And haven’t you found it’s a hard thing to do, ’cause just words seem to never suffice? It’s love that the world goes around on they say, and we all surely shelter a share. You never ean buy it; it’s given away; why it’s floating around in the air. The sweetest of love may be given in vain. The truest of lov ers n.ay say that the best he has had in return is just pain, yet you can’t help it flowing that way. The oldest of stories; that’s just what it seems. ’Twas born when the world started out. It lives in your wake hours; then into your dreams; yet we know not just what it’s about. Love understands love, but do you or do I? No! When we ad mit it ’tis well, for he loves but lightly—and love passes by— whene’er hi. real love he can tell. (Copyright, 1924, NBA Service, Inc.) Editorial Opinions Gleaned : —Serious and Otherwise— ' From Press and Magazine j AN EXCEPTION “Tommy, stop eating with your fingers.” But riiamma, weren’t fingers made before forks?” “Not yours, ’Tommy.” -CAUTipus CALVIN’S , SPEECH Briefly, th e whole address of the cautious, statistical Coolidge contains about as much enthusi asm as a Vermont turnip and is equally bloodless—a steady flow of platitudes unbroken by a singl e word to warm the hopes of those who believe with John W. Davis that “the civic unit of America is not the dollar but the man.”—Columbus Enquirer Sup. HE’S THE COUNTRY’S BIGGEST ASSET. A number of counties in Geor gia have in application for farm agents and the demand exceeds the supply. In all intelligent circles the value of a wide awake agent is recognized and appreci ated. The counties that are mak ing the greatest progress in every constructive line are doing it with the aid of the county agent. —Jackson Progress-Argus. THEY SURELY WOULD. The experience of many peach growers this year has been dis heartening. After they had toil ed and spent much money and time and succeeded in raising a large crop of fine fruit the mar ket went to pieces. Some peaches sold for less than packing and shipping expenses and in numer ous orchards fine Carmens, Geor gia Belles and other varieties were allowed to rot for lack of a market. If peaches continue to be grown commercially in Geor gia better provisions- must be made for utilizing the crop; It seems to us that canneries and drying plants would help.—Cuth bert Leader. BOOTLEG IMMIGRATION A MENACE. The greatest menace to society and citizenship in this country Is the illicit immigration which is practiced by all foreign nations on America. Hordes of these undesirable citizens are flocking to this country, illegally and with out consent or knowledge of the authorities. The Pacific coast is a veritable paradise for these bootleg immigrants. Through Southern California, which be longs to Mexico, these immi grants have access to this coun try and aided by the Mexicans and others unfriendly to Ameri ca, the 'number of undesirable immigrants are entering this country in great numbers. Be sides, there is a large Japanese colony in this section which is growing in importance and build ing up a population which will eventually prove a great detri ment to this country. The enormity of the immigra tion bootlegging menace has not been taken as seriously as the condition demands by our peopl? and the authorities in Washing ton. Our government is now spending $1,500,000 to guard the frontiers against smuggled immi grants. There are 4.000 miles of Canadian border to gu&rd to say nothing of other openings from Cuba into Florida; the Pacific coast; the Mexican boundary and the Southern seaboards. It is an alarming condition and one which congress should recognize. Our country has gone wild on the enforcement of the prohibi tion law, spending several times the amount as that appropriated for protection from immigration, and, yet the most serious menace of all is being overlooked and the horde of smugglers flock here by every avenue of approach into this country. Our navy and every available resource should be drafted into service in the cause of prohibiting the bootleg immigrants, who are not only undesirable as citizens but a large percentage of whom are of the lowest type of the na tions front which they come. It is time for action on the part of our government; the pro tection of society demands it; the commercial interests of the nation is at stake and unless something is done to check the onslaught of this country by these worthless foreigners, our nation will soon be over run with them , VT- » ' '■ V- v•-y« »y ’ and our homes sacrificed as a toll for the benefit of the most degenerate races of the world.— Athens Banner. KING Do you want to be a king? A job’s open for you. Explorers re turn with news that a ruler is vtant ed by the kingdom of Cabinda at the mouth of the Congo river in Africa. They have a genial cus tom over there of killing the king i the first night after initiating him into office. So, no king for many years. Nothing is quite as effective as death. Nature is shrewd in limiting the years we spend on earth. Death is her way of restoring balance. It checks the clever brain i>rying too intimately into nature’s secrets. Above all, it makes roof for another train load of excursionists—the next generation. ♦ * * FUTILE The Lakuta tribe, living along the upper Nile in Africa, want rain. So they appeal to their chief, the magician put into public office chiefly on account of his supposed rain-making powers. lie orders rain. If it doesn’t come, his savage followers shoot arrows at the sky in reproof. This story, brought, by explorers, amuses Americans who figuratively shoot arrows at the natural laws of economics, when the laws fail to function pleasingly. Our public will nerver be satisfied until the law of supply and demand is replaced. » * » BRAINS Dr. Goldenweiser speaking: “If you take the (brains of 1000 ordi nary undistinguished individuals and then 1000 scientists, artists and men of eminence, you wil find! no distinguishable .difference between the two series in size and weight.” But you would find a difference in the shape of the brain, the same as a high forehead and eyes far apart are sure signs of intelligence. However, the intellect is not in the brain—which is, to thought, just what the telephone is to the conversation that passes through it. Lincoln’s brain has goije to dust, but his thoughts live on. «« * ■ JOLTED A writer or poet might produce better work after getting a w’allop on the jaw, claims a scientist. “En ergy aroused by anger may flow in to intellectual responses—result in excessive physical or mental ac tivity.” A hard jolt of any kind is a great stimulant. Men go to seed on the. job when the path is too easy for too long. Getting fired is often the best jolt. It rouses a man from lethar gy, usually he gets a better job—is fired up instead of down. • • • OIL In 13 years the supply of oil stored underground by nature will be exhausted, a prominent geologist warns. This has been a stock pre diction for half a century, and it usually precedes discovery of an other big new oil field. Os course, it’s just a matter of time until the oil will be gone. For lubrication man will use such things as lard. For explosive power in en gines he’ll turn to alcohol no-.v widely used instead of “gas” by Cuban motorists. Gallon of alchol, exploded bit by bit, will in effect hurl an auto some 15 miles. Does even more in the stomach. * » » SMOKING Tobacco factories in our country now have an output worth over 1000 million dollars a year—at wholesal - prices. About four-fifths of this is used by Americans, rest exported. sou ve noticed lately not much news about prohibition-of-tobacc-> campaign. Backfire of liquor prohi bition has halted agitation against Nicotine—t<-mporari!p.\lust a lull—reformers must have jobs. THE GRASS WIDOW J E; —— > / r \ / MOW OirrEKear X \ U\ ( VIZOM OOR OUKTsRIP ) \ X \ wets / J / FWr * / / U ISF I LOVE YOU MOPE \ \ Thah aavTumg w Tbs X 'Ay) / J (fan > \\W VOZLP ANP I’LL T» I a (gKIw n anyThihgTo iwe'i&o \ : r //® happy.Vour suggest \. A i k Zfflx will demy J lill The Same \ \ Hwf olp Line } ■B JiHXjbd rx’ D£AR p£EPUL - —mil v : Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. August 22, 1914.) Several Americus meriantile es tablishments in view of present trade conditions are going upon strictly cash basis. This is the bes; means, they believe, for meeting the serious situation confronting them. Several houses will begin the cash plan. Americus merchants with those of Plains, Leslie, DeSoto, Anderson*- ville, Huntington and Cobb, with bankers and farmers of 'Sumter, are going to have a heart-to-heart talk at the courthouse this morning at eleven o’clock. President J. E. Mathis of the chamber of commerce, presided, and appointed a committee consisting of Messrs. L. G. Council. J. A. Hixon, W. E. Brown, and Fletcher. W. Griffin to draft resolu tion bearing upon the present fi nancial conditions particularly in Sumter, and show how best these conditions can be met. Mr. J. E. Mathis of Amerieus has tes&uSHis W Svs' The height of a small boy’s ambi tion is usually about six feet. A man with a grouchy look sel dom gets a pleasant one. Most of us can be glad we don’t get everything coming to us. It is hard to decide what you wish you could do in August. The man. with a line of talk is usually fishing for something. The way you turn out often de pends upon the time you turn in. A dime’s worth of ice isn’t always what it is cracked up to be. Lots of people would be poor if they didn't owe so much. People who live faster than oth ers don’t go as far. The objection to vacation love af fairs is some play for keeps instead of just for fun. Statistics show doctors collect only one-fourth of their fees, so you can show this to your doctor. Biting off more than you can chew is much better than going hungry. When a cynic sees a man helping a lady across the st" ■ t, he wonders where her husband is. Mosquitoes haven’t been happy s’ ice the pajamas replaced the nightgowns. It is hard to get men to church because they don’t care what the other men are wearing. Americus Undertaking Cd. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Director* And Embalmers Night Phone* 661 and 88 _ Pay Phone* 88 and 231 «. LKIDAS AmRNtJON’ ’AUGUAT'??.’ f been honored by appointment by the Southern Cotton Congress to the committee named to investigate the ware-house storage facilities in the Sopth. Misses Lula Hay Elinor Tillman are expected to Return -Sunday from New York where they have been purchasing some of their lines of handsome fail millinery. Mr. John J. Hardy, the man be hind the bonnet, has returned from a trip to the East where he bought a stock of millinery and oth er equipment. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday, no paper published. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. August 22, 1894.) Perhaps the largest single ship ment of cotton received here this season was one of ten bales yester day from the plantation of Mr. C. C. Clay, in this county. The cot ton was stored' at Cotureil & M?- Garrah’s warehouse was of the best quality and will bring the top of the market when sold. Mr. Clay has a good crop and with good sea sons will make 600 bales of cotton this year. He runs 56 plows on his farm and with ten of these, his wages force will make 300 bales or 30 bales to the plow. Besides his cotton crop he will gather 3,000 bu. of corn, which is already made. Several of the colored people of Americus have on foot a plant to build a home for the aged, sick and helpless of their color and will push it to a successful end. Rev. C. H. Collins and Charles Cooper are prominent among those at the head of the movement and already are hard at work among their white and colored friends. Col. and Mrs. E. A. Hawkins and Miss Georgia Lee Hawkins left yes terday for New York city, Niagra Falls and other points of the East, to be gone several weeks. The friends of Mrs. Rosa Mer shon will regret to learn that she is quite ill with typhoid fever at Cal houn, Ga., where she is spending the summer. Her father, W. Haynes, was advised of her illness yesterday. The Barbecue Club will enjoy the regular monthly “spread” at the old rendezvous at high noon tomorrov.. A tender juicy piglet has been se lected for the sacrifice and the trim mings will, be up to date in every respect. L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier, J. E. KIKEK, Ass’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) AT YOUR SERVICE “-Vi Oldest and largest State Bank in South ■■ ■■ west Georgia. Any bw? W S’Hf if business entrusted to us W *H receive our Mall 5 best attention. felr? If you are not al- -''‘s '•« ' rea 4y one °f our valued customers, we would appreciate an opportunity of serving you. The Bank With a Surplus RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING —r No Account Too Large; None Too Small THE STANDARD BRING YOUR DOLLARS HERE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY THEY WILL DO THE WORK OF TWO. Misses Dresses at 59c Misses Dresses of excellent Per cale and Chambray, all sizes; regu larly $1; here Friday and Satur day, all sizes 6 to 14 years _.59c Misses $6.50 New Fall Dresses at $3.50 New Fall Dresses of new ma terials, all cool, new shades; made to retail at $6.50; here Friday and Saturday; great assortment at $3.50 Misses Rubberized Rain Coats at $1.50 Misses rubberized Rain Coals, with hood, new fall models, all sizes; Friday and Saturday, any size, each $1.50 Women’s $lO New Fall Dresses at $7.75 Guaranteed all wool materials, new models, all colors and all sizes, regularly $lO, here Friday and Sat urday $7.75 Ladies’ $1.59 Mercerized Sateen Petticoats at sl. Just opened; made of the best standard quality Sateen with wide ruffle; they wer e wonderful values when sold at $1.59; here Friday and Saturday each.. SI.OO Men’s Athletic Union Suits at 44c You are getting a good quality Union Suit at this price; large and roomy; much better than you would expect; her e Friday and Saturday, any size, suit ..44c Crinkle Bed Spreads at $1.98 \ Plain or fancy stripes, extra large sizes for extra large beds; her? Fri day and»Saturday each $1.98 v ill buy one E. & W. Shirt, collarless or collar attached. $ I vbuy 5 p;.irs Men‘j Black Socks, 1 double heels and t.>cs, ail -izes. Pongee Waists, in all sizes, each 98c White, Green, Brown and Yellow Linen, per yard 89c Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GA.
