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PAGE FOUR TIMBS-RECCIDBB PUBLISHED 1W» Published by The Times-Recorder Co., (ine.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publishes Foternd as second class matter at ths poctoffta at Americas, Georgia, according to the Aot W Coraieas. Ths Aaaocia’rd Press is exclusively enritfal t« the use for the republication of all news die* patches credited to it or not otherwise credited te this paper and also the local *.«*» pah Ha bed here in. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST LANDIS A KOHN, Branewick Bldg., New Tos*| Cae Bldt.. Chicago. 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. ♦ » * 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 * « « 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 -T- -1 • THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER 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. ♦ » • 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, OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahem RovdL 'loti GAVE A<!, You \ z'" "X ( W ' I EAChIOF’EIA I "( BUT I THOUGHT m AMQE , \ A |UA _ T."'dE \ qF a, p A iR OF k!ev| Mi-vu-r vaIEU- D U’T SHOULD GIVE I9WJXJP CLOG SriOE<=>, a,cT aT -THAT ’Esa BIG p AKj ’-TniJ> ’EM LODGE YkJIGVT POP a L _ Birr rf'iu w| I \VE AIUT 1 \jJELL GO TOP || AUDIENCE l|l DOu-SG VOTMuVG ELSE / ikJ-STEADM AS- Akl -bZrc r frl t l||i v Y ca Hr Mt / W Jl' A mIIL ,-JK BE HI ' / ft W 1 Z MU/ / WG! ■ ■TALK EAR’S-I \ 'Copyright. C'-U. by SEA Sei-yic. hie.) ; 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. 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