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A THOUGHT
f U -iI—MWIIIIBIII I .1
Many that are first shall be hast;
and the last shall be first. —Matt.
10:30.
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Honesty is the best policy.—Cer
vants.
Mass Meeting
The Mayor and Council of
Americus have asked citizens of
the city to meet with them
Thursday night for the purpose
of advising with the city officials
on the question of repairing or
renewing the paving on the busi
ness streets of the city.
Their call should be taken in
all seriousness and they should
be given the benefit of the ad
vice and counsel of Americus
citizens.
The question before them is
a serious one and its immediate
solution is necessary for the wel
fare of the city. The Mayor
and Council are eminently wise
in calling this advisory meet
ing of citizens, so that they may
take the citizens into their con
fidence and explain to them the
financial condition of the city
treasury.
That something must be done,
all agree. The question is what
must be done and how is it to
be financed. The Mayor, mem
bers of the Council and the City
Engineer have been studying
the question for days, and no
doubt will offer what they be
lieve to be the best solution.
Every citizen should be present
to receive this information and
in return give the city officials
their opinions.
The meeting will be called to
order at 8 p. m. Thursday night
in the City Hall by the Mayor.
All citizens, men and women,
are urgently requested to be pres
ent, and should be.
The Morgue of Business
Failures
The records of the morgue of
business failures give “poor
management’’ as the cause of a
vast majority of commercial
deaths, according to the Doh
mestic Commerce Division of
the Department of Commerce in
“Budgetary Control in Retail
Store Management,” the first of
a series of pamphlets prepared
for the purpose of helping the
American retailer overcome
some of his more difficult busi
ness problems. .
Failures have been attributed
to lack of sufficient working
capital, to a poor location, and
are very often falsely laid at the
door of economic changes. In
summarizing these causes, how
ever, the Domestic Commerce
Division says that bad manage
ment in some form appears to
be the explanation of most of
them.
More thorough understanding
of individual management prob
lems will save many wobbling
retailers, the division asserts
pointing to the fact that the
retail store is conspicuous in
the field of business enterprise
for the number of casualties. In
advocating bugetry control the
divison says:
“Only in the past three or four
years has the merchant realized
that his business, as well as that
of the manufacturer, is a science,
and that he, too, can well afford
to utilize many of the new meth
ods which are being adopted in
business management in the en
tire field of industry.”
Ope.ation of a business is
much like the running of a ship,
the division points out, in ex
plaining the need for better
management. The captain has a
goal—the port to which he is
bound: the chart of the course;
and the instruments, such as
compass and sextant, to keep
him on his course. The captain
of a business must take the same
precautions in guiding his busi
ness ship over the rough seas of
competition and alternating pe
riods oi prosperity and depres
sion. The established quotas
and limits are the ports toward
which the busines pilot is head
ing; the budget; the map; and
the comparison of actual with
estimated figures corresponds to
the ship’s compass and sextant,
for by this the direction of
movement and the location of
the business is determined.
Selling is the “little idol’’ in
many retail organizations, the
divisions says in connection with
the subject of co-ordination of
the activities of a business. Small
consideration is given to the cost
of these sales and the margin
they should yield. The bringing
together «of the costs and possi
bilities of the constituent ele
ments of the selling process en
ables the community purchasing
agent, the retailer, to arrive at
an approximately correct rela
tion betwen sales volume and
expense.
The tremendous losses (caus
ed by over-purchasing) which
were taken during the last period
of depression, can be attribut
ed in part, to the lack of intelli
gent control of buyers activities,
the Division says.
The publication was prepared
by Laurence A. Hanson, for
merly affiliated with the Boston
Retail Trade Board and later
managing director of the Massa
chusetts Retail Merchants asso
ciation, as a result of original re
search in the field with which
the bulletin deals. The data
was gathered directly from
prominent retailers all over the
country. It represents the co
ordinated opinions of the most
progressive retail agencies, and
presents an approach of the so
lution of the problem hereto
fore unattempted.
Poor Prince
You have to feel a bit sorry
for the Prince of Wales. He
seems to be a good fellow with
an inclination to enjoy himself
in a human way, ,and observe
how he is pestered.
Upon leaving home he has to
observe the royal custom of
traveling incognito—as Lord
Rennet or something eqnally as
good and yet, before he
boards his boat, the world
knows all about his incognito.
He finds his steamer packed
with folks who have fought to
get passage so that they may
say “Oh yes, indeed! 1 came
over with the Prince of Wales,”
and who riot for places from
which to stare at him.
If he dances, he is surround
ed by a ring of brazen starers
and is bound to feel that every
female present has marriage or
other social designs on him.
He is entertained and fussed
over in some big American cities
until he’s tired and sick, mental
ly and,, perhaps, physically.
Then, he goes to the wilds of
Canada, “for a good time,’’
with promise to be able to
“rought it.” And what will he
get there?
Will he hang his necktie
and white shirt on a bush and
make him a bed of pine boughs?
Will he put up a tent and fry
his own flap-jacks and bacon?
Will he carry a canoe over a
portage and paddle it through
the lily pads of the silvery lake?
Will he tramp out his own
crawfish bait from the mud,
and smoke a cob pipe? Will
he »o out among the great
pines, alone, as the sun sinks
below the mountains, to see hear
and feel nature going to bed?
Will he chop and carry wood
for the campfire and sit in its
glow to smoke, to think and to
praise God for the rhythm of
wavelets upon beach pebbles,
the hymn of night breezes in
the dark forest, the twittering of
younj birds being put to sleep,
the wonder of the stars, and the
blessed freedom of a man who
is being just himself?
Will he get the relief, the joy
of feeling ‘ Here are just God
and His Great works, and my
self?”
Alas! It cannot be. His title
is too precious. None of the
enjoyable roughness of the wilds
for him. His bacon will be
served tied with ribbons, his
crawfish will be served bathed
and polished, his spotless clothes
will be served by a professional
valet from a palace, and a
crowd of flunkies will spoil all
the loneliness and naturalness of
it.
Poor Prince! None of the
splendid wildness of the great
outdoors for him.
EUROPE’S “MR. BOK.’
While the administration is
waiting for something to turn up,
and is confined to unofficially
observing, individual Americans
are doing a good deal to culti
vate the sentiments of peace and
habituate the world to the settle
ment of international contro
versies by diplomacy and ne
gotiation and arbitration. What
Mr. Bok did in this country Mr.
Filene has been doing in Europe,
and the prize he offered has been
awarded to’the author of a plan
which would be perfectly effec
tive if adopted, but the probabili
ty of its adoption is not grant
ed. It amounts to little short of
a merger of all European coun
tries in a United States of Eu
rope. We claim a mor» isolated
type of nationalism than the 54
countries which have joined the
League of Nations, but it is hard-
Iv probable that the nations of
Europe will cede so much of
their sovereignty as is involved
in the French plan which has re
t ceived the Filene prize.—The
1 Philadelphia Record.
Editorial Opinions Gleaned
—Serious and Otherwise —
From Press and Magazine
SWIFT TAKES ALL THE
CREAM
Swift & Co. have made ar
rangements to handle the entire
output of the Valdosta cream
ery. This settles the selling end
of the business for the creamery,
and the proprietors will now be
able to devote their energies to
increasing the production of
cream. Tifton is helping to
supply the Valdosta creamery
through the cream station open
ed here. —Tifton Gazette.
DOUGHERTY, TOO.
The Americus Times-Recorder
boasts that Sumter county is one
of the best governed counties in
the state, being peculiarly for
tunate in the personnel of its
officers. Well, we have good
county officials ir. Dougherty,
too, and we can also say with
pardonable community pride that
the city government* of Albany
is in good hands. Faithful and
efficient officials are a blessing
to any county or city.—Albany
Herald.
RAISE MORE “PIG MEAT.”
“Between thirty-nine and
forty million pounds of side meat
were shipped into Georgia last
year. It would require nearly
fourteen thousand more hogs, of
one hundred fifty pounds each,
in eaach of the one hundred and
sixty counties in the state _to
bring it up to a self-sustaining
basis. This hog raising business
is a hard problem to work out.
When our farmers have them to
sell, they say the market is poor,
but there is something wrong
when we fail by fourteen hun
dred train loads to raise enough
pig meat to do us.”—LaGrange
Graphic.
THE KLAN BEING SWEPT OUT.
The Klan itself is gradually
being swept out, and the force*
that openly cling to the name of
Klan are facing the necessity of
reorganization under a more ac
ceptable term, or realignment.
The .jction in Texas, by th?
State Democratic Convention, of
strictly excluding all Klan rep
resentatives, follows similar, al
though less vigorous actions in
other States, and one may as
well expect other States, and
eventually all other States, to
fall in line with the precedent.
The Klan has been traveling like
the boll weevil, but a steady tide
of public opinion has crept be
hind it and is now acting like
Macon Telegraph.
arsenate does in the former case.
‘‘SUNK WITHOUT A TRACE. ’
Mr. Lasker, the ex-chairman
of the Shipping Board, says that
“the American passenger mer-
Jchant marine was sunk” when
liquor was abolished. Foreign
ships still have the preference of
travelers, because they can dis
pense liquors, while American
ships cannot.
The New York World thinks
that the American passenger ma
rine was sunk when Secretary
Hughes negotiated his twelve
mile-limit- search-treaty with
Great Britain and the Senate
ratified it.
Before thait time American
passenger ships stood on an even
keel with foreign ships in the
matter of liquor. Under the Su
preme Court decision boats could
carry and sell intoxicating bever
ages outside the three-mile limit.
Then Secretary Hughes got
up an arrangement outside of
Hie law,which was that if Great
Britain would admit an Ameri
can right of search out to
twelve miles, the United States
would permit British ships tc
carry liquors as ships stores and
under seal, within three miles of
the American shore. This is the
damage that was done to Ameri
can shipping interests, for Am
wer»n Sh ] P f stay where th “ v
we jL e an d lose business.
Travelers from the United
Siii 68 Fv ta sk’ nff the British
nips. Even the members of the
from ' Ca N Bar v As ? ocia «on sailed
ironi New York under th,
British flag last Julv
nah Press. Savan-
E S.. IS qh S ° LD,ER FORGE!
th,> v ®J) eri > dan ’ writing for
the New York World says, ‘‘ft
Fr> n >l n,i }k e fitjle difference to
Lngland wlp'ther German guns
rench airplanes sit menacing
-1 on the coast of France.” It
“nvir* that if the Germans
marched now there could not
in. found a regiment of English
men who would consent to try to
stop them.” The reason for the
change of sentiment she savs is
England s treatment of the veter
ans of the war. “Many of these
veterans are bemcdaled. some of
tnem limbless, most of them
starving. They are selling
matches in English streets or
turning the handle of a hurdv
gurdy.”
There is gloom, perhaps mor ’
than the facts warrant, in the
statement, but Great Britain has
been suffering from unemploy
ment while wc have been re
covering from the depression of
1921. It is true that Britain
suffered more in the war than
we did and is still suffering,
and will continue to suffer for
years to come. The evils of a
great war are not readily ef
faced, and it is not strange tha'
many Britishers, looking bacs
over the past ten years, say,
“never again,” when they talk
about defending France.
Great Britain is not alone ir.
the sentiment of her soldier vet
erans. There are many veterans
of the war in the United States
who do not hesitate to make sim
ilar statements, but if war were
declared tomorrow there would
be men to fight under every flag,
just as there were in 1914.—Val
dosta Times. ‘ .
’ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
hMlbert. Acote
An airplane traveling 100 miles
an hour would not get you to the
planet Mars until you had shot on
ward through space- for about 40
years.
At 1000 miles an hour, the trip
would take four years.
No airplane could travel 1000
miles an hour for more than a few
days without getting its machinery
so hot it would be unable to func
tion and continue its flight.
'No airplane could ever carry
fuel for a trip of four years or
more. Os course, power might pos
sibly be electrical, received by ra
dio frotp a super-station back here
on earth.
Any way you look at it, even the
wildest dreamer cannot see any
possibility of men ever flying out
to visit other worlds.
Nature has chained us to our
earth and its immediate vicinity.
There is no escape except by death.
A flying trip to the moon is not
impos-ible in the future centuries
when men will be phenomenally ad
vanced in invention compared with
now.
Airplanes that will travel 1000
miles an hour are just a matter of
time.
A plane of that speed would trav
el from the earth to the moon in
about 10 days. To the moon and
back in thre e weeks or less!
The flying machine is undoubted
ly man’ greatest invention to date,
in the sense of being marvelous on
a big scale, with the possible ex
ception of X-ray and radio.
How long until you’ll own your
own airplane, a flying flivver, safe
to ride in? Sooner than anyone
expects.
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OPPORTUNITY
While other farmers were dis
couraged by a ‘grasshopper plague,’
Victor Niles of Indiana began
catching the hoppers to sell to fish
erman for bait. He found bis
market unlimited, selling 800 a
day at a cent apiece.
Opportunity is not found, it is
made. And trouble sometimes is
! opportunity in disguise.
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INCREMENT
Land bought by his father 55
years ago for $65 an acre is sold in
Chicago by Julius Hohlfelder for
$63,000 an acre.
The land itself has not changed
in those 55 years. The increase in
value is due to the productive ac
tivities of the swarms of people
who have made the land a center
of congestion. Julius gets the re
ward, quite proper as long as we
have the present “unearned incre
ment” system.
Later the public may claim for
itself all values created by the pub
lic’s activities. If the airplane
breaks up the cities, city land values
will crash.
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SERVICE
The existence of transporation
company is only justified by its de
gree of service to the public. Who
says so? A “radical?” No. The
speaker is K'enry Thornton, presi
dent of the Canadian National Rail
ways.
Applying his theory: The primary
function of a railroad is service to
the public, not just money-making.
Thornton properly suggests that
the principle applies to individuals
in their relation to the public, quite
as much as to railroads.
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TELEPATHY
If man ever communicates with
people on Mars, it will be by tel
epathy, not radio or airplane. Flam
marion, the great French astron
omer, voiced that prediction last De
cember.
If two radio machines can trans
mit a message betwen each other,
there’s no reason why two human
brains can’t do the same thing. The
brain is infinitely .unerior to its
products, of which radio is just one.
Telepathy—thought transference—
may be the eventual worldwide lan
guage, not spoken Esperanto. Gen
ius already gets “inspiration” from
some far-off unknown source
telepathy, “brain radio.”
GIRL’S SECRET ROMANCE
DISCLOSED BY TRAGEDY
NEWTON, Sept. lO.—Since the
shooting last Wednesday by Ira
Jones of a 17-year-old Newton girl
known to friends as Miss Maucu
Bentley, it has come to light that
she is married and that her name
is Mrs. Marshall. Her husband, it
is said, lives in Alabama.
Little is known of her marriage
here, but it is now believed that it
was because of this secret romance
in her life that she refused to mar
ry Jones, after he secured a mar
riage license, and that it was this
refusal that led to the shooting.
Mrs. Marshall is in a hospital at
Albany, where her conditions is re
ported to be critical.
Jones is still at large, having dis-.'
appeared aftec the shooting. '
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TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. \Sept.
10, 1914.)
A meeting of the citiiins of
Americus is hereby called to meet
at the Young Men’s Christian As
sociation Building Thursday night,
September 10th, for the purpose
of organizing a Law and •Oriel
League. If you are interested in
this matter be sure to be present.
Americus is greatly interested m
reports current here to the effect
that the Seaboard Railway Co., con
templates important official changes
at an early date, and that in the
re-arrangement of departmental
heads, Harry B. Grimshaw will go
to Portsmouth in a high capacity.
When it comes to scientific far
ing, Tim Furlow shows up with the
glittering splendor of a ten carat
diamond, and is as successful in the
line of agricultural as he is as pres
ident of a ’Cue Club or in selling
Read’s fertilizers. Just how success
ful he is exhibiting a barn full of
fine oats, gathered from a ten acre
patch at his home on Lee street.
The threshed-out yield from the
ten acres patch is 450 bushels clean
see oats of the best variety and
which will net a dollar a bushel,
clrOmoß
HEAVY Fill TRAFFIC
President Downs Says Read Re
lies Upon Co-operation of
Public to Better Service
That the Central of Georgia is
making preparations to handle a
heavy traffic this fall and is rely
ing upon the public to cooperate
in preventing delay or interruption
to business is the statement of L.
A. Downs, president of the railroad,
who takes an optimistic view of
conditions.
President Downs points out that
■this section has a larger cotton
crop than in a number of years,
that it is being rapidly marketed,
and that conditions of supply and
demand justify a good price. He
refers to other agricultural pro
ducts, which have brought increas
ed returns to the farmer, and shows
how an increase in the purchasing
power of the farmer stimulates
transportation, retail trade, and
brings about good times.
The Central of Georgia has just
placed ar. order for new locomo
tives, in accordance with its pro
gram of adding to its equinment and
keeping all of its facilities in firsi
class condition. Mr. Downs says
that 92 per cent of the i*>ad’s loo
motives and 94 per cent of the
freight cars are in good order, and
that shop forces are being increase]
to better this excellent condition
The railroad president asks tae
cooperation of the public in loan
ing cars to capacity, loading and
unloading cars ppromptly, and or
dering only sufficient equipment to
fill their daily needs. He states
that already there are no idle coal
cars on the Central of Georgia and
warns the consumers of coal to
avoid the danger of delay by pro
viding immediately for their win
ter requirements. He says that the
Central of Georgia is willing and
able to give satisfactory service and
thanks the public for its coopera
tion in the past.
Even if marriages are made in
heaven they must be kept at home.
Absence makes the heart grow
fonder only -when it is absence of
all others except the two of you.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1924
easily.
Mrs. R. L. McLeod ’ecurned yes
terady from Jacksonville, where she
has been visiing her sister, Mrs. W.
H. Glover and Mrs. W. D. Miller.
A valued addition has been m ide
to the city letter carrier force. On
the 12th inst. Hon. Charles R.
Crisp had the appointment of Mr.
William B. McCorkle confirmed as
city mail carrier on route No. 1.
at the Americus Post Office. Mr.
McCorkle graduated recently wit.)
honors at the Agricultural College
here, and stood the highest civil
service examination for the place.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. Sept
10, 1904)
Americus took care of 930 bales
of cotton yesterday, and the cash
returns from the sale of the fleecy
made business hustle in every line.
Recognized as the leading, market
in southern Georgia, with a score
of buyers representing American
.and European houses and paying
the highest 1 prices , with every fac
ility for handling cotton, and the
best trade center in the stae, far
mers naturally prefer it.
Rev. and Mrs. A. B. Campbell
who have been the guests of Am
eiicus friends for two weeks leave
today for Cordele wher Dr. Camp
bell has accepted an earnest invita
tion to series of meetings
at the Cordele Baptist Church.
Mr. G. G. Webb is a i ecent and
dition to the leagal fratrnity in
Americus, with office in the Plant
ers Bank guilding room 32. Mr.
Webb is the son so Mr. R. K. Webb,
one' of Sumter’s most influential
citizens, and will meet with success
in his chosen vocation.
Miss Genevieve Morgan is at
home after a summer sojourn in the
mountains of north Georgia.
Miss Annie Martin returned home
yesterday from a pleasant visit -of
three weeks in Fort Valley, where
she was charmingly entertained.
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
Funeral Director*
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 88
Dav Phone* 88 and 231
L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier
C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KJKER, Ass’t. Cashier
The Planters Bank of Americus
(Incorporated)
AT YOUR
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Oldest and lar ’est
State Bank in Soi ith
west Georgia. W
business entrusts 11° 1
us will receive our
best attention. I
If you are nc it ah i
ready one of lour I
valued customlt”
we would appreciate
an opportunity ■°*
serving you. g
The Bank With a Surplus I
RESOURCES OVER $1,700,0fX)
PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small JI
THE STANDARD
Special Blanket Sale
At $4.95 Golden Seal Fancy
Plaid Blankets, in all good colors;
size 66x80; good weight.
At $4.75 Nastiau Fancy
Blankets; warm, durable, washabh
blankets; fancy designs; size 61
xB4.
At $10 —Golden Seal all woo
Blankets, size 66x80; fancy plaii
designs; extra good weight.
At $3.00 olden Seal Gray or
White Blankets, size 64x74; good
weight.
Boys’ Fall Knee Pants Suits
At Great Savings
$4.95, $6.50, $7.50 and $lO -
Fancy Cheviots, Casimeres,, Gray,
Brown and Brown and Gray mix
tures, Pin Stripes, Peg Top Trous
ers with belt loops and watch pock
ets; all sizes.
Ladies’ $5 to $6 Fall
Hats at $2.98
Just unpacked; exceptional quali
ty, fine Lyons Velvet used, Panga
Velvet and Velour
dasplayed on special countersj
choice $2.988
Special Value in Men’s |
Half Hose, 6 Prs. for $1 <
Regtflarly 25c pair, fast blacM
and seamless, spliced heels and toesß
complete run of sizes; here juM
now 6 pairs for $1 ofl
Dainty Envelope Chemise S
At 75c and SI.OO ||
Os White Batiste, prettily triifl
med with lace and hemstitching
small silk flowers embroidered. ■
Still Plenty of the f
15 Cent Gingha m J
The sale has been going on
more than one week and theie'w
still good picking in this lot of
cellent Gingham at 15c. The
25c Gingham in Americus is no
ter than the Gingham that we
offering in our September Sale
15c yarjj; all colors and over
hundred patterns; suitable for
dren’s school dresses, ladies
es, men’s shirts, boys’ waists,
all colors guaranteed. Continues
for this week at yard .
Standard Work Shirts Si
for Men at 59c Sj
Made of Golden Rule
will stand hard washing and
wear. We :re offering these
just a little below the
price for this week; size
to 17, each
Standard Dry GoodHj
Company j]
Foriyth St. Next Bank of Cornn:erw|
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