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A THOUGHT"
It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle, than
for a rich man to enter into the
kingdom of God.—Matt. 19:24.
A man’s true wealth is the good
he does in the world.—Mohammed.
Building for
Permanency
Until we have built hard sur-
- faced roads throughout the State,
Georgia will have no roads.
Grading and re-grading, smooth
ing and re-surfacing our main
arteries is an expensive subter
fuge. After each rain the work
must be done all over again,
then if the rain is a heavy one,
the fills and top-soiling are lit
erally impassable. No sooner
are these mud-holes dried up
than dust makes the road almost
unbearable.
But the worst feature of this
temporary road fixing is the nev
er-ending detouring and incon
venience that meets every tour
ist, making of him a “knocker”
instead of a “booster" for the
State.
An instance of this unfavor
able advertising is seen in the
following, dated from Clearwat
er, Fla., and recently re-printed
in several newspapers.
A motorist who -has just return
ed to Clearwater from a sojourn
- in the mountains of North Caro
lina is responsible for a bright
remark. Such remarks are scarce,
so this is one quoted.
“What Florida needs m re than
any other one thing is good roads
in Georgia.”
This auto tourist went on to
state that the roads .south of
Macon would be all right, if those
Georgia people would only leave
them alone for a day or so, and
allow motorists to get by.
“When I went to the Land of
Sky” this Pinellas citizen de
clared, “the roads from Valdosta
clean into Macon were good
enough for anybody who did not
- object to lots of stale dust. Above
Cordele they seemed especially
good. I gave myself three days
to drive from North Carolina to
Clearwater, and it might* have
been easily done, if tho.se Geor
g.i;vfolks hadn’t torn up the.high
way after I went up.
, “Coming out of Macon, and
felling along as nicely as you
please toward Perry and its
peaches, at the turn of the road
Teame acrosa.a big road sign with
ii map and everything o#i it, which
Explained that the scenic route
of America was through Fort
galley. Just to show that there
were no hard-boiled feelings, £
turned to the right, and went 12
wiles or more out of my way—
ijmply ran into a place where they
were building the road south of
Fort Valley.
i Now, I am not superstitious,
and don’t believe in signs, like
tTerms Are Cash’ and that like of
bunk, but a little ways down the
xoadway another sign confronted
•fee. It said ‘Take this road to
Unadilla.’ Not having paid much
attention to the highway coming
up, only following the number
$f phone poles, turned tq.the left
Jhis time, and went down that al
leged national highway until it
■petered out in a cornfield. Had
jo turn back, or go eight miles
&ut of my way, according to what
« negro field hand said.
“Then just north of Cordele,
yhere the traveling had been good
dn my way north, found that
idles of the road had been plow
ed up and the slabs of sunbaked
iiay looked like an ice gorge in
-the St. Lawrence. Took me most
pf the afternoon to get into Cor
eelft. Nobody seemed to think
|hat it was anything unusual to
tear a road all to pieces and fur
nish m> detour although it is an
gutrage upon touring autoists.
“I nyule up my mind that Geor
gians had sworn to make travel
ing as hard as possible into Flor
ida” concluded the victim of Geor
gia roads.
' One can readily see the ad
verse comparison this and hun
dreds of other autoists make be
tween the roads of North Caro
lina, Georgia and Florida. Rid
iag over hard-surfaced roads in
Florida and North Carolina,
with Georgia’s roads in between,
can’t but greatly damage the
State as a whole. A map seek
ing investment for hi money
tfould not hesitate long as be
tween the States north and south
of us and Georgia. He would
Baturally select one of the two
States with paved highways.
• Sumter county is doing her
part, and will continue to do
so, as will the other large and
prosperous counties, but there
ae financially un-
A>le to carry out fhelr 'part off a
B system of hard-surfaced road
” building. Until a State system
highway building, adequately
financed is under way— building
completed highways north and
south and east and west —until
this is done we cannot hope to
pull Georgia out of the mud and
dust, thus eliminating such un
favorable publicity as that quot
ed above.
Once such a system is com
pleted, Georgia’ superior soil
and climate will come into their
own.
What Georgia needs more than
any other one thing, is more and
better brains on her unfilled
lands. Instead of producing a
million bales of cotton, Georgia
should be marketing twice that
number. We have the land,
and the climate. Give us more
agriculturalists to use these God
given possibilities of ours and
hard-surfaced roads will bring
them here.
We must build for permanen
cy—not for a day or a week.
The Blush of 80 Years
Ago
They opened the Mark 1 wain
Memorial Park in the town of
Florida, in the State of Missouri,
a few days ago, and a very con
siderable number of old-timers
were present who “knew Sam
Clemens when," etc. Reminisc
ed? Os course they did, and
had a fine time doing it.
“That Clemens boy” certain
ly made his mark in the com
munity of that early day, and
some of it was dark but most
of it was white—all of it was
humorous. Anne Levering
Bower, aged 83, went to school
with Sam and moved in the cir
cle that knew him best and most
at the time.
“Sam, ’ said Mrs. Bower, “had
one habit the girls used to talk
about.”
She paused and her eyes
drooped in confusion before her
auditor, and pink of the natural
kind colored her aged cheeks.
Then she brightened bravely
and continued: ”1 guess it’s all
right, for I’m thinking you are
married and will understand.
Sam," she continued still with
some confusion and searching
for the most chaste manner of
expression, “Sam used to have
a habit of pullingjup his— his—
socks when he was with a girl.
He didn’t wear any supporters,
1 guess."
More blushes and a long sigh
of relief because she had finally
relieved her gentle old chest of
, the scandalous doings pl Sam,
who brazenly adjusted his hose
in the horrified presence of the
young ladies!
This is 1924. We of the time
know and have seen legs of all
kinds, colors, shapes and
lengths clothed and unclothed.
They are on parade anywhere
and everywhere. They mean but
little in our blase existence, ex
cite little attention or interest.
But Anne Levering Bower, at
83, can still blush confusedly as
she recalls that Sam Clemens,
some 70 years ago, pulled up
his socks in the presence of a
lady!
We have gone far in one di
rection or another—so far, that
our octogenarians seem to be
about the only ones among us
that have not forgotten how to
blush.
OPINIONS OF
: OTHER EDITORS ;
THE “FLYING DUTCHMAN”
STILL A PHANTOM.
Was there never a real flying
Dutchman, a captain who by his
defiance of man and a God gave
rise three centuries ago to one of
the most famous legends of sea
faring men? The story has it
that the original Flying Dutch
man was doomed for his blas
phemy to sail the seas, finding no
port or anchorage, forbidden to
slep, bringing disaster to all who
sighted him, and destined to be
the prisoner of Satan when the
Day of Judgment came.
Mr. D. G. Lockhart has been
seeking for the grain of fact that
produced so luxuriant and long
lived a plant, and in the North
ern Review he explains that there
is none, or, if any, that there are
too many of them. There are,
indeed, narratives which are not
unlike some aspects of the leg
end; strange and inexplicable mi
rages, a reckless seventeenth cen
tury Dutchman who “cased his
masts with iron to enable him to
carry sail,” ai>! an American
story of one Rambout Van Dan.,
who disappeared after a royster
ing expedition and may be heard
still plying his oars in-the waters
where he vanished.
But the truth appears to be
that the legend is spread wher
ever there are seamen and has
many forms of which the Dutch
man is but one. There is a phan
tom ship in the Baltic, there is a
slave ship loaded with corpses and
a death ship manned by skele
tons; there is even a phantom
junk in the China seas. The sail
ors, out of their knowledge of
shipmasters and their dread of
the mysteries of the sea, have in
vented the Flying Dutchman. It
( is a pity tlptt,-like the most fam-.
ous of FlyCi
» ing Dutchman never realyl exist
| ed, it is at least a glorious inven
v tion, like that of Captain Flint.
- Manchester Guardian Weekly,
l i)obbin
A little ol’ buggy, one-seated and frail, is the only one known
'round the place. As droopy-head Dobbin is switchin’ his tail he is
trottin’ a lazy-like pace.
Right close to the curb goes the shiny ol’ n.are and it's horse
sense that makes it that way. What safety there is, Dobbin knows
that it’s there by the curb in this speed-crazy day.
An auto horn blows and the horse perks its ears; then they
droop, just as suddenly, down. There still is a spark of the speed
crazy fears as she travels around about town.
Forgetting ol’ Dobbin is sentiment robbin’; how easy we all can
forget. How changed is the scene from when Dobbin was queen,
but her spirit is hangin’ on yet.
(Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
What’s Going
DAWES PLAN
DISARMAMENT—
POLITICS—
EUROPE
On in World
BY CHARLES P. STEWART
NEA Service Writer
Theoretically the Dawes plan’s in
effect, but one practical detail re
mains to be trieu out yet. Ger
many can’t pay war damages unless
she can sell bonds. Will anybody
buy them? Two hundred million'
dollars’ worth will be put on the
•market Oct. 15. Eight per cent in
terest is promised, which is pretty
good—if Germany pays it. But Eu
ropean government securities aren’t
as popular with investors as they
were before the war.
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DISARMAMENT
The Third Committee of the As
sembly of the League of Nations, in
session in Geneva, Switzerland, is
discussing another disarmament
conference. The members seem to
think Europe will be a better place
for it than America, because, .more
convenient for the Europeans who
may attend. At least that’s what
they say. In reality it’s suspect' l ’!
Oiev’re miffed with America so»
insisting on meeting them as sep
aarate nations and not as a League
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the flyers
At army aviation headquarters
it’s stated the service has tried to
keep the ’round-the-world flight’s
cost nside $50,000, which is mighty
cheap for such a perforanme.
The bills aren’t all in yet and
the total may he a little above the
figure named, but not much. The
cost of the navy’s aid is extra, but
if the warships hadn’t been helping
the flyers they’d have been under
expense elsewhere. ■, ,
* * *
ON THE DEMOCRATS
Mr. and Mrs. Clem Shaver’j.
home life is ideal but their politic!*"
relations are full of strife, friends
of the family say.
That’s how it happens that Mrs.
Shaver saw her way clear to publish
pn open letter taking Charles W.
Bryan to task for his anti-Defense-
Day attitude, despite the fact that
this attitude was approved by John
W. Davis, and despite the further
fact that Clem is the Davis-Bryan
campaign manager.
♦ * *
CHINA
Twenty warships - American,
British, French, Italian and "Jap
anese—are lying off Shanghai to
take care of their nationals if near
by fighting among the Chinese slops
over into the “foreign citv,” For
eigners really are in small danger
hut they might be in a lot if unpro
tected.
* * *
TENSE
Civilian politicians and the army
loaders in Chile are involved in so
bad a nuarrel that the whole cabinet
has emit. The situation is describ’ d
as “tense.” Revolution is in the
air in several parts of Latin-Ameri
ca.
EMANUEL HAS LARGEST
GEORGIA ROAD MILEAGE
gWAINSBORO, Sept. 11.
Emanuel county has more automo
bile road mileage than any other
county in the State and receives a
larger check for gasoline tax than
any other county in the State of
Georgia, it is announced by count’’
commissioners. Much road building
is being done in an effort to retain
this record.
BORAH WILL REMAIN
NEUTRAL IN RACE
CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Senator
William E. Borah, of Idaho, has net
issued any “premature statement”
as to whom he will support in the
presidential campaign.
Interrupted in preparations for
a trip back home to tak’ 1 care of a
few political fenqes' of his own,
the Idaho senator took time Mon
day to make two statements:
“I haven’t issued any premature
statements as to who I will sup
port,” and “J am still standing by
my decision announced when 1
came here last week to establish
headquarters of the senatorial cam
paign fund investigating committee,
to remain a neutral in the race.
Jk 'l’W >epator refused lq amplify
these statements.
The occasion was a statement
given out by William B. Butler, na
tional republican chairman, earlier
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in the day that Borah had “indi
cated” his willingness to support
the Coolidge-Dawes ticket.
Butler, who had just returned
from New York, said he had’con
ferred with Borah on the subject
earlier in the day.
scared
Objecting to being held up, a
grocer named Frank Saikley gave
chase ta the robber in Danville, 111.
He collapsed after several shots
were fired at him. At the hospital,
surgeons found that the dripping
red on his coat was not blood, but
fountain sirup from a bottle
shattered by one of the shots.
This demonstrates the power of
mind over matter. But it doesn’t
keep men from dying after they
have been shot without, in the agi
tation of excitement, knowing it.
» * *
BUNK
A prince of Siam goes through
Chicago. His name, Vallabhakara.
Reporters swarm to him for a story.
They expect to find a mysterious
individual in oriental robes. In
stead, the prince turns out to be
dressed in latest American fashion,
discussing such things as our movie j
and politics. He’s going to study
sanitation and public health two
years at Johns Hopkins.
Imagine all this from a Siamese
prince! The world is getting dull.
Romance and adventuKp still flare
up here and there. Bit for most
of us life is increasingly cut-and
dried.
* * *
CAAPI
South American drug that de
stroys fear—caapi—is being experi
mented with by American scientists.
A stiff dose is said to make a timid
man courageous. That’s not un-
Drugs ’fife wcu by gang
sters too cowardly to stage crimes
when normal.
If caafii proVesto be all that’s
claimed for it, governments may
use it in the next war. That'd
take away what little bunk glory
still is left on the battlefield. He
roes already have and always had
a drug of their own, like caapi—
adrenalin, manufactured by endo
crine glands attached to the kid
neys. An under-supply of adrena
lin is what makes many people timid
and shrinking. There’s a chemical
reason for the “bashful ’.over.”
CHINA
In ChinS the minister of educa
tion is urging young Chinese
scholars to go to Europe to finish
their education, instead of to Am
erica. His opinion is that college
courses here are too easy,
The real education Chinese get
in America is not from textbooks,
however. Instead, it’s the know
ledge they pick up of American in
stitutions, sanitation, industry, and
so on. Transplanted to the orient,
these are making Chinese civiliza
tion flower again.
* * *
ESKIMO
All Eskimos up north on our con
tinent understand the language of
.the people of Greenland. This is
learned by Knud Rasmussen, Dan
ish explorer. It reveals how the
primitive ancients courageously
sailed their frail boats far from
home.
It becomes increasingly apparent
that prehistoric people were not as
backward as most of us imagine.
Chinese claim civilizations travel m
cycles, up 15,000 years, down 15,-
000, then up again. They have
legends of ancients with flying ma
chines.
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MYSTERY
In Ireland they find more of the
mysterious porcelain rmages of
apes which have been dug up over
there, 50 found since year 1780, in
widely scattered places.
Chinese scholars claim these por
celain images are of Chinese origin,
including their peculiar hieroglyph
ics, and date back to the year 500
R. C. How did they get to Ireland?
Did Chinese explorers travel that
far? The ancient history of China,
as it comes to light, will be fascinat
ing.
• ♦ *
STRANGE
Nothing is quite as interesting as
human nature. A man in Pennsyl
vania is arrested by authorities for
feeding his hound dog while his
children went half-starved.
This man’s vote will couht just
as much as Henry Ford’s, for in
stance, in the fall elections.? Even
democracy has its handicaps,
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; Old Days In Americus
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday no paper published.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. Sept.
11, 1904.)
Wanted —Energetic, trustworthy
man or woman to work in Georgia,
lidpresenting large manufacturing
Company. Salary S4O to SSO per
month, paid weekly if desired. J. 11.
Moore, Americus, Ga.
Mr. John T. Ferguson announces
today his candidacy for county
commissioner of Sumter county
when the full board of five members
is elected on October sth.
One week from tomorrow the
clang of the school bell will sound
the death knell of vacation days,
and the 1,300 or 1,400 school child
ren of Americus will gatfier up
their dusty books, unopened since
June, and hike themselves into the
charmed presence of dear teacher.
Prof. Duncan, who succeeds Prof.
A. G. Miller in the tenth grade, has
arrived with his family and are oc
cupying the former Maynard resi
dence.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawton Stapleon
are expected to return today from
their summer outing.
Judge Ai’en, the man behind the
marriage license, waited yester
day with beated breath and baited
hook; but the groomlet came not
The Council & McGaxrah farm cf
400 acres owned by the Bank cf
Southwest Georgia was sold a day
or two ago for $5,000 or $12.50
per acre.
The lack of a well appointed and
up-to-date- conservatory in Ameri
cus is to be supplied in the estab
lishment of such an enterprise by
Mrs. Lizzie F. Rodgers at her
home out Lee street. Her brothers,
the Messrs. Fulow have ordered for
her material for a large and well
appointed hot house.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. Sept.
O’ &16‘
Bad news from London. This city
now maintains 90 municipal bands,
in all of which are saxophones.
The Prince of Wales will visit
South America next year, perhaps
to compare its bathing girls with
ours.
A new lamp, consuming 94 per
cent air, has been invented, but too
late to make speeches this cam
paign.
Colleges are opening and if the
boys wear their trousers much larg
er they can slip them on over their
heads.
There are about 70,000 auto re
pair shops in the United States, all
doing a rousing business every
Monday.
Denmark has nearly trebled its
consumption of sugar in 30 years,
which certainly was sweet of her.
I niati,e on Improved
vk*f arm lands at cheap
est rates for terms of 5,7 or 10
years with pre-payment option given
Money secured promptly. We have
now outstanding over $1,100,000 on
farms in Sumter county alone, with
plenty more to lend.
MIDDLETON McDONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co.,
in Sumter, Lee, Terrell, Schley.
Macon, SteVzar*, Randolph and
Webster douitiea. 21-Planwrs Bank
Building, /mericus, Ga. Dhoua 89
M 11. J. —a.......
’ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER l|, |, 24
11, 1894.)
A lady registered at The Wind
sor is not an occurrence that would
tend to create any surprise, but lad y
drummers do not visit us oftten,
So the presence of Miss Alice Gro
jnan, a drummer for Cleveland’s
big chewing gum factory, was noted
as a business innovation and the
lady -was the cynosure of many
eyes as she sat pleasantly chatting
in the big dining room at supper
last evening.
The county Board of Eductaicn
met in monthly session Mbnday
morning for the transaction of reg
ular business. Scholarships in the
Girl’s Normal Industrial College,
Milledgeville, were awarded Misses
Mamie Carter and Inez Bass, they
being the only applicants. Miss
Josie Jernigan, who received a
scholarship lastyear, will return to
the college at the opening of the
fall term.
The special committees from the
County Democratic Executive Com
mittee and the Campaign Club of
Sumter were in session yesterday
morning perfecting arrangements
for the big democratic rally here
tomorrow, at which Speaker Crisn
General Evans and Col. Berner v ill
fiddress the “unterrified,” A com
mittee consisting of Mrs. C. C. Clay,
Miss Mary Cranberry Miss Nina
Williams, Miss Em P-ice, and
Mesers. George Stanfield, and P.
D. Hill were appointed to decorate
the speakers stand with Howers.
Several members of the Americus
Cycling Club left this morning for
Hawkinsville, to enter the races
there tomorrow. The boys rode
through the country a distance of
fifty-three miles, and will arrive in
Hawkinsville at noon today.
NEVER BE WITHOUT IT for it
immediately eases sudden, severe,
colicky pains and cramps in stomach
and bowels, deadly nausea and weak
ening diarrhoea. For children and
grown-up use
CHAMBERLAIN’S
COLIC and DIARRHOEA
REMEDY
A very necessary home remedy.
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
Funeral Directort
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 88
Dav Phones 88 and 231
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