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A THOUGHT" |
Seest thou a man diligent in his
business? he shall stand before
kings.—Prov. 22:29.
The master look sharpest to his
own business.—Phaedrus.
Spend and Save
Sumter county is marketing
her cotton crop, which promis
es to be one of the largest crops
since the coming of the boll wee
vil. But, neighbor, don t lose
your head. Spend cautiously,
carefully and for only the neces
sary things. X
Remember those debts must
be paid in whole or in part, and
don’t forget that there’s anoth
er crop to finance 4ti 1925.
The Georgia weekly papers
are cautioning their readers to
spend carefully and save some
thing for another day. This sort
of propaganda is being read by
farmers and others all over
Georgia. The Bainbridge Post-
Searchlight has these words of
advice —
Just a word of caution. The
good crop in sight must not turn
you a fool. May we all profit
by experiences of 1921 and 1922.
There must be a lot of old time
debt paying around this coun
try before there is any safe
spending. It means the future
welfare of the section. Our
people can let just a little pros
perity remove from their minds
all memory of such times as we
have had the past three years.
Let us pay our debts, that and
that alone will start us back on
the solid and safe road to pros
perity. Let’s not forget the les
sons that we have learned in the
past three years. Don’t get diz
zy-
Due to crop failures, many of
us have debts to pay, and these
must come first. Therefore,
spend sparingly until these obli
gations are taken care of.
Many of us will feel like turn
ing loose and having one grand
and glorious time, ‘‘just spend
ing.” Don’x do it. Remember
1919 and [920 —many of us
spent recklessly then instead of
saving for the “rainy days.’’
Don’t get dizzy! Keep your
head. Spend and save.
Children and Thrift
There are three million school
children depositors in the school
banks of the nation, with depos
its totaling more than $12,000,-
000.
There are two of the out
standing points of the report of
a survey of school bank condi
tions in the United States. The
schools made no reports, but the
figures obtained were close
enough to show the rapid growth
taking place.
Generally speaking, the in
crease in depositors and deposits
is at the rate of 25 per cent.
Steady increases are found both
in the percentage of depositors
to pupils enrolled as well as in
the average amount of individ
ual deposits. It is estimated
that that there are now between
7,000 and 8,000 school banks
successfully operating through
out the country. They are lo
cated in some 500 cities and
towns.
The work of school banks has
only begun, the report shows. If
all available children were en
rolled in the school bank sys
tems of the country the number
of depositors would be in thq
neighborhood of 25,000,000 in
stead of 3,000,000, and the
amount of deposits would be
$100,000,-000 instead of $12,-
000,000, it has been estimated.
It is easier to teach economy
and thrift when the mind is
young and plastic than later,
and the teaching at this time
will help curb the natural ex
travagance of childhood. Few
children know or appreciate the
value of a dollar. 1 o them it
is only something to spend— to
most of them is this true.
Why not firmly fix in their
minds and habits the fact that
a dollar is something to SAVE
instead of to spend?
After all, SAVING and
SPENDING are habits, the first
we encourage by loose giving,
the second we. neglect to a
shameful degree.
Your Danger Year
At age of 109, Mrs. Nora Brad
ley Kane in Newton, Conn.
She claimed she never had a
doctor until a week before her
death, yet had always enjoyed
fine health.
Her formula was: “Work
hard and leave all the rest to
God."
A fine formula for a person
gifted with excellent health. She
never had a physician, for the
simple reason that she never
needed one. Incidentally she
escaped an unfortunate feature
of some medicine— that it oft
en cures one organ of the body
by wrecking another.
Doctors don’t prescribe as
rrfuch pills and tonic as they
used to. These have their place
in certain definite ailments, but
the medical profession is recog
nizing Proper Living and Sani
tation as the best medicines.
Formulas for living to very
old age are constantly coming
to light in the news. The pub
lic is always eager for them. But
unfortunately, these formulas
rarely are of much value—be
cause what is one person’s meat
is another’s poison.
Aged people frequently claim
that temperate living is responsi
ble for their advanced years.
Yet the other healthy
veteran of 74 appeared before
Magsitrate Gresser in New York
on a charge of being intoxicat
ed. He said that he had been
drinking whisky for 60 years,
and the only difference he could
notice was that liquor is “not
what it used to be.”
People who survive old age
usually come from long-lived
stock. Irj. one family, members
who grow to maturity have a
tendency to live to about 70,
while in another family most of
them die around 60.
Making allowances for indi
vidual cases that deviate from
the rule, every family has—by
the law of averages—its danger
year, when death seems to strike
down the greatest ijumber. If
you have a record of your fam
ily tree, you can check up and
learn your danger year—when
to be most careful.
The age of death has a close
connection with heredity.
Firing the Furnace
in the Summer
The time was midday in one
of the hottest of mid-summer
days. The place, a restaurant;
the person, a big fat man, seat
ed at a table, his collar off, his
collar-band open, his sleeves
rolled up, his hair cut short. He
was eating, when he wasn’t mop
ping streams of perspiration
from his super heated and ex
posed anatomy, says the Flori
da Times-Union.
And this is what he had be
fore him: A big juicy steak,
fried potatoes, streaming hot
corn on the cob, and everything
eles that goes with a “full meal.”
He spoke, occasionally, between
mouthfuls of food, and what he
said sounded like he was com
plaining about “this blasted hot
weather. But he kept on feed
ing his furnace, just as he would
pile logs in the blazing fire place
in the very coldest night in
winter. Perhaps he has a fire
going on the hearth in his home,
even in these hot summer days,
but not likely.
At the lunch counter, on the
same day at the same place as
above referred to, was a man
who had every appearance of
good health. He wasn’t over
weighted, like the man at the
table; his flesh wasn’t flabby;
he wasn’t perspiring unduly. He
ordered a piece of pie and a
glass of milk, gave the waiter a
cheerful smile with the tip, and
was off about his business. Not
a word was said about the
weather.
Which of these two men illus
trated common sense? One
complained of the heat and at
the same time was putting more
heat producing food into his
stomach, his physical furnace.
He did not complain about him
self, for what he was doing. He
just blamed it all on the weather,
and “kidded” hijnself into be
lieving that the weather wasn’t
what it ought to be, forgetting
that he himself was to blame for
his uncomfortable feeling, which
was evident in his very action
and in the tone of his voice. The
other man, the one who ate
sparingly—oh, well—we just
don’t give him, and the com
paratively few others like him,
credit for having common sense,
and using it in hot weather eat
ing.
Then we wonder, some of us
do, why so many people are
sick.
Sonirvs
Jdol
The mind of a boy keeps a turning around while he’s living the
days of his youth. Ke’s learning the right from the wrong, ’twill
be found, and he’s picking deception from truth.
There much is ado in his fast-growing head, ’cause creation has
made it that way. He’s getting his pointers from what’s done an<[
said, and a lot of them enter to stay.
As gray matter grows and the youngster fills out he will find
he’s a mind of his own. If training is proper there isn’t a doubt,
he’ll be anxious to go it alone.
All boys pick an idol; they worship it much. From youthdom
to a,ge it will be the one little thing that contains the real touch —
“Ah, there’s an example for me.”
Quite lucky the father who’s lived so thai- he his son’s best
ambition inspire. And any son’s father, by trying, can be the
idol his youngster admires.
(Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc)
Editorial Opinions Gleaned
—Serious and Otherwise— >
From Press and Magazine j
AND HAVEN’T LEARNED YET
It is estimated some good look
ing girls have been taught to
swim 40 times this summer.—Co
lumbus Ledger.
LOOKS LIKE ITS COMING TO
THAT
Maybe we can get up a real
war between the pacificists and
the national defense day pro
ponents and stage a genuine fight
of some kind to settle the ques
tion.—-August Chronicle.
LESS POLITICS ALSO NEEDED
Greater interest in politics is
now urged upon business men.
We do need more business in poli
■ tics—and more business men—■
and less politics meddling n busi
ness.—Savannah News.
SEEMS LIKE WE’RE LUCKY FOR
ONCE
The people who are to do the
voting next Nevember have the
consolation of knowing that no
matter whether Coolidge or Da
vis is elected we will have a good
president, as both men are of
high character who will endeavor
to do their duty fearlessly and for
the best interests of th 3 country.
. —Sandersville Progress.
IN HOLLYWOOD
“Yes,” replied the movie star.
“She is a clever actress, but, oh,
so eccentric!”
“Indeed!” we ventured
“Oh, yes! Why, she has only
been married to one man, and is
actually living with him yet!”—
Exchange.
END THE DAY OF THE
ALIENIST
The Chicago murder trial
ought to end the day of the alien
ist in the court-room in this
country. They have put up an
exhbition that has not only made
the angels weep but has made
“the judicious grieve.” It would
now be in order to subpoena a
dozen or more good citizens whose
equipment is nothing more than
hard-horse sense to sit on the case
of the alienists. Most of them
would without doubt be found to
be “psychopathic,” whatever that
is.—Selma Journal.
WRONG CALL
The doctor rushed out of his
study in a state bf great excite
ment.
“Get my bag at once!” he shout
ed.
“Why, what is the matter?”
inquired his wife.
“Some fellow has just tele
phoned he can’t live without me,”
gasped the medical man as he
reached for his hat.
His wife gave a sigh of re
lief.
“Just a moment,” she said gent
ly. “I think that call was for
our daughter, dear.”—Exchange.
ONE VINE PRODUCED 350
POUNDS OF WATERMELON
Mr. J. W. McLendon, of the
Chapel Hill community, told us
one day this week of what one
little boy did in his community.
The little boy is Cecil Sasser, the
little adopted son of Mr. V. L.
Williams, of the Chapel Hill com
munity. Cecil is 11 years old.
Last spring when Mr. Williams
was planting his melon patch
Cecil planted a few hills for him
self. He wanted some melons to
call his own. From ope vine of
these melons, which was of the
“World’s Wonder” variety, Cecil
has gathered 10 melons averaging
35 pounds each, or 350 pounds
for the 10 melons, and there are
still on the vine five more small r
melons that will average about
15 pounds each. These five mei
lons will make over 400 pounds
from the one vine, which we be
lieve leads everything we have
heard of in the way of watermel
ons.—Florida News.
ALONG THE BYWAYS
Even before the automobiles
took over the main roads it was
better to walk in the byways.
Along the lesser roads people are
not too hurried for a friendly
greeting as they pass, and the
very animals of the back country
are less sophisticated—the horses
and cattle look up from their pas
ture to gaze with frank interest
at each passerby.
Then, coming from time to
time across the quiet of the coun
tryside, are sounds that men have
always heard gladly—the far-off
crowing, like a mellow bugle, of a
barnyard king-athe distant creak
• THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
and rumble of a farmer’s heavy
wagon rolling on upon the hills.
But best of all are the moments
of discovery: late afternoon, when
the shadows are growing long,
and the road, bending suddenly
about a low hill facing toward
the bay, comes out upon a wide
view down a wooded valley with
dark green pines—and then, be
yond, a great stretch of far wa
ter, deeply blue.
That is the alurement of the
byways; quaintness is all about,
and beauty lies in wait— per
haps around the next turning of
the lane.—Collier’s Weekly.
SI wferez
CUSTOMERS
Japan and China in a year have
bought about 500 million dollars’
w’orth of our exports. Canada in
the same time bought over 601 mil
lions. Canada right now is a bigger
customer than the Orient combined,
for Americans. Only one other coun
try buys more American goods—
United Kingdom.
Also we buy from Canada more
than from any other country. Trade
“across the line,” buying and sell
ing, exceeds a billion dollars a year.
She’s a good neighbor. And eco
nomically, she’s bound to us closer
[han she is politically to England.
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HIDDEN
Only one American family in
every four has an income of SIOOO
or more a year—if you believe the
national income tax figures.
The latest of these statistics that
are completely compiled cover 1922
and show that 6,385,405 admitted
incomes of SIOOO or more during
the year. It’s estimated the aver
age family has four and a half
members—that is, nine members to
every two families.
If the tax collector could get to
The “hidden incomes,” Uncle Sam
could retire a big chunk of the na
tional debt.
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secreted
Do you believe that only one
American family in every four has
an income of SIOOO or more a year?
And do you also believe that only
one family in every 14 has an in
come of S3OOO or more a year?
If so, you believe that the na
tional income tax totals for 1922 tell
the true story. How much is hidden
—by small incomes as well as the
big ones?
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escaped
Fewer than seven milion Ameri
cans pay national income tax. With,
their families, they total less than
31 millions of the population.
So about 80 million Americans
are in families, none of whose mem
bers pay an income tax at all to
Uncle Sam. How powerful will tax
reduction or promises of it be to
these 80 millions in the presidential
campaigns?
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HA!
Incomes ttaxed by Uncle Sam in
1922 totaled under 22 billion dol
lars. The income of the whole peo
ple that year was around 45 billion
dollars, according to experts.
This left an average of S3OO
apiece for every man, woman and
child of the 80 million people not
affected directly by the income tax.
Can the average person live on that”
DOES he? Find the joker, time's
up in two seconds.
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horrible
The “War of 1930” is predicted
in frightful details by the German
general, Freiherr von Sehocnich, in
his new book. Curiously enough, he
expects war between England and
Japan; then Russia attacking Po
land, and Germany at the throat of
Belgium and France with death ray
machines killing 500,000 people in
48 hours. One incident will be
100,000 civilians dead in Berlin
front 60 Freanch airplane bombs.
Wed like to know a bit more
about this general—and how close
he is to the War Office. Is he a
modern Jules Verne? Or has he
been hearing Real Stuff?
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TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. August
23, 1914.)
Flatten the biscuit a little bit
more and promote the healthful
corn dodge for flour lias hit the
pike again and is climbing higher.
Americus broker received notice
yesterday of another advance of
forty cents per barrel, wholesale,
and the price of the biscuit ingre
dient is marked up accordingly.
On Thursday evening Mrs. L. 0.
Gammage was hostess to a large
number of the younger set. The
honoree on this occasion was Miss
Edna Williams, of-. Sanford, Fla.
Interest attaches to the fact that
after a long lapse of years, Ameri
cus is to have again a girls boarding
school, conducted by Miss Susie
Taylor, with Miss Gertrude Smith
and Miss Marie Walker as assistants,
openng September 14th.
Taking a careful busness like
and conservative view of business
conditions now existing, the Ameri
cus Automobile Co., announced this
morning that, after September Ist,
its business will be conducted upon
a strictly cash basis.
Mrs. Gordon Heys, at her pretty
suburban, home has as her guest this
week her cousin, Miss Nelle O’hara.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. August
23, 1904.)
Manager Luther Hawkins, of the
Augusta telephone exchange, re
turned home yesterday after spend
ing a week here in Americus.
If it was hotter at Port Arthur
yesterday than here in Americus,
the Russian rats shut up there de
served sympathy.
Mrs. W. J. Josey is at home again
Georgia, to the deiight of her num
erous Americus friends.
The Central of Georgia for the
after a pleasant visit in south
w Sas'
Money makes the mare go. It also
seems to make the hair go.
The man who doesn’t have to
work might as well collect his life
insurance.
One great obpection to living in
the country is you have to go to
town for your vacation.
It s unlucky fishermano who
doesn’t even catch one to lie about.
An easy way to make a small boy
take a bath is to paint a “No-Swim
ming” sign on the bath. room door.
Fi usually stay i.i water over
their heads. So do human fish.
A man in love will do anything,
but he usually does nothing.
People who sleep or. sleeping
porch should get up first.
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NA T LEMAS7 ER, Manager
Funeral Director*
And Embalmer*
Night Phone* 661 and 88
Pay Phone* 88 and 231 .
SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 23, |9 24
second week in August earned
$166,900, a gain of $14,000 over
the earning for the same week of
last year. The gross earning since
July 1, the close of the fiscal year,
show an increase of $37,415.
The cotton market during the
last three days has been a delight
ful surprise to Americus “talent’
find not a few of the wise ones get
into the baloon before it started cn
its trip to azure heights. August
contracts have since last Friday
have advanced fifty points, or a
half cent while the fall months have
climbed the grand also to a good
extent. Spot cotton feels the ef
fect of this advance and the finer
graces are probably yorth 10 1-2
cents here on such a market.
Mrs. A. J. Hamil, Mrs. Linnie H.
Brown and Miss Ruth Brown return
ed yesterday from a peleasant stay
at White Springs, Fla.
Miss Florence Page is the fair
guest of her brother, Walter Page
at The Windsor, during a visit of
several days in Americus.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. August
23, 1894.')
Col. W. K. Bell who has been
spending the heated term in the
eastern metropolis and among the
pleasant resorts near by, is expect
ed home in a few days. The colonel
is an expert wheelman, and some of
his friends of the cotton fraternity
insist that he will make the trip
home by easy stages, via the bike
route. Should this be true a com
mittee will go out to meet him, and
Col. Bob Oliver, also an expert and
enthusiastic rider as well as elo
quent speaker yill deliver an ad
dress of yelcome.
The “At Home” club will be en
tertained this evening by Capt. and
Mrs. J. C. McKenzie, assisted by
their charming guest, Miss Visher,
of Montgomery.
The jury commissioners of Sum
ter county, Messrs. J. E. Thomas,
Lott Warren, J. c. Carter, Thorn
ton Wheatly, Zimi Markett, and J.
G. Ronery, have been busily engag
ed since Monday revising the jurv
box. ' ‘
W. D. Bailey, the haberdasher
leaves Sunday for New York to
Purchase hi s fall stock of shoe s,
hats and gents furnishings.
Mrs. John Gatewood returned
home last night from a visit of sev
eral days tc her daughters, Mes
dames Dennis and Ledbetter in
Eatonton.
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MONDAY AND j
TUESDAY!
Two Days of Remark-’
able Values
The Short Lots, the “Odds and
Overs,” the Too Manys—These*
New Arrivals of Fall Goods — 1
THESE PRICES WILL SEND
THEM FLYING
At 59(c —Misses and Children’s
Gingham and Percale Dresses, sizes j
7 to 14 years.
At $1 —Children’s Gingham
Dresses, newest models, best stan
dard Gingham.
At 35c —Children’s Blooir.ers of
good quality Sateen, all sizes.
At $1- —Ladies’ Lingette Bloom
ers, all colors and sizes.
At s2.9B—Ladies Fine Silk Jer
sey Petticoats, every color, plain
or embroidered.
At $7.50 —Ladies Silk Tk'icolet .
Dresses, brown and black; also ex-j
tra sizes up to size 50.
At $8.75 Ladies* New Fail
Dresses, all wool materials, newest
styles, all sizes.
At $3.95 —Ladies’ Silk Jersey I
Blduses, new patterns, all sizes.
At 18c—Gingham Remnants of
the best standard 25c Giggham;
every yard guaranteed fast color,
all 32 inches wide.
At 25c—Imported Batiste, 45
inches wide; great variety of new,
pretty patterns.
At 25c —Your choice of our stock j
of Imported and Domestic Voiles;
values to sl.
At $1 Yd.—Beautiful Crepe de :
Chine, 40 inches wide—black, white
and every good color.
At sl.so—Misses Rubberized
Rain Coats with hood attached, all
sizes 6 to 14 years.
At 85c—Ladies’ Gingham Dress
es, Organdy trimjned, new fall
styles.
At s3B.oo—Alex Smith & Sons
Fine A.xminster Squares, size
12 feet, combining Smith’s well
known features, beauty and designs;
attractive colorings, long wearing
qualities together with our remark- I
ably low price, makes this offering I
exceptionally attractive. I
At 39c—Boys’ and Children's 1
Union Suits of good Pajama I
Checks, all sizes. I
At 48c—Men’s Union Suits of I
excellent Pajama Checks, 36 to 46- I
At 49c—Boys’ Khaki Trousers of I
good grade Khaki Cloth, sizes up tc I
16 years. |
At 25c Yard-wide Ribbons,
plain and fancy patterns; formerly fl
up to $1 yard. |
Standard Dry Goods I
Company 1
Forsyth St. Next Bank of Comm*™ I
AMERICUS, GA. |