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PAGE FOUR S,IMES-RE C 0 1 D E B PUBLISHED U7» Published by The Times-Recorder Co., vine.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Entered m eecond eliN matter at the yoetoffioi it American, Georgia, according te the Act W Centime. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled te the nee sot the republication ot al) news die* pstches credited to it or not otherwise credited to thia paper and also the local *ews published here* In. All right of republication of special dispatches are also reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST LANDIS A KOHN, brantwick Bldg.. Nev York I •eoplee* Gas Bldg.. Chicago. A THOUGHT Chasten thy ton while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare fcr his crying.—Prov. 19:18. Punishment, that is the pustice for the unjust.—St Augustine. ' ’ Another Angle of the Wood Block Paving A prominent citizen, intense ly interested in seeintr bonds vot ed to repave those streets now laid with wood blocks, advances another argument for remov ing the blocks: He says: “Those blocks are craeked and broken. There are crevices in between each one of them which catch and hold all the dirt and filth that is placed or blown on the streets during the day. “This is positively dangerous to the health of every one in the city. This accumulated filth can not be swept out; much of it is never washed out by the rains that wash up the blocks. “It is disease carrying and disease holding. As soon as the streets .dry after the rains, this dust is (blown about to be breath ed by every oneon the streets. At times it even has an obnox ious odor. And that is another reason why the streets should be repaved as soon as possible. It is another reason. Streets properly paved may be washed and swept. The present wood blocks cannot be cleaned in any way. They are dangerous, they are unsightly, they are disease in cubators, and should be re moved. And this is just one more argument why we should register NOW so that we may vote FOR the bonds in October. It is your problem. What Is Opportunity? Opportunity is occasionally blown in by the winds, but not often. Usually opportunity has to be CREATED. In other words, success generally is up to the individual himself rather than his surroundings. It is the fellow whose eyes are open, mind receptive and possessing ambition and energy who first seeg opportunity and embraces it. The lazy, satisfied individual never sees or hears. He con soles himself by saying ‘‘Luck never comes my way.” A rag-picker named Harry Caine works in a shoddy mill at Springfield, Vt. As he was sorting the endless stream of rags, he found a woman’s pock etbook. It was old and dirty and torn. Harry gave it a glance and threw it on the floor. Another fellow saw it fall. He picked it up, went through it carefully, even explored inside the lining—and found $44. Aesop would have taken this story and made it into a fable with this moral: “Good oppor tunities are thrown away daily by people who do not recog nize them.” What is opportunity? Most of us consider it just another name for good luck. The aver age person’s idea of opportunity is something that comes unex pectedly to the fortunate and fairly shouts: "Here 1 am. Didn't' expect me, did you? Big mon ey—-all ready for you to pluck, like ripe fruit.” There are, to be true, many opportunities of this sort. Lega cies, for instance, and the oc casional “lucky strike" by gold and oil prospectors. But for each big success of this kind, there are thousands of failures. The Klondike gold boom! fylenticn of it immediately calls to mind men who found yellow nuggets and became millionaires overnight. We forget the thou sands who found very little gold, the other thousands who starved and froze to death seek ing gold. For every opportunity that grows on trees," that comes un expectedly like a windfall, there are hundreds of opportunities that are made. Opportunity exists in every thing. Few see it. You have, for instance, known cases where a new manager took a rundown business and built it up to a tre mendous success. The oppor tunity was less in the business it self than in his own ability, hard work and determination, j Many a humble job is held by men, ope after the er, wl, ~n to drift rA ,(- 1( , n through and leave (Ke job no better than th?y started. Finally comes the exception. He uses the job as a stepping-stone, as his OPPORTUNITY. He does small things ; n a letter, shorter way—thus training himself to be capable to handle a better job. Later he is promoted, eventually becomes head of the whole business. Why Burn Good Timber? Timber conservationists are letting out a wild wail at news that the United States Shipping Board’s wooden fleet is to be burned. This fleet of 218 vessels cost $235,000,000 originally. It’s being sold for $ 1 62,000 to a pri vate concern which expects to make a profit by taking out the metal work. The scheme is to burn the ships and let the metal simply fall out. As ships, the conservationists admit, the vessels may not be worth much, but why, they ask, burn all these millions of feet of valuable timber—with the coun try on the verge of a timber fam ine? The Shipping Board is inun dated with protests. Political Signs In political circles they say that as Maine goes in a Presiden tial election, so goes lhe country, but this year, with prohibition and the Ku Klux Klan entering as issues, the political wiseacres are not so sure in taking Maine’s election as a barometer. However, William Hard, po litical writer, cites Kentucky as a barometer, for, says he: Kentucky went smashingly Democratic last year for Gover nor. There exists a certain strange fact about Kentucky and the country. Since 1891 there has been only one exception to the following rule: If Kentucky goes Demcoratic for Governor, then in the succeeding year the country goes Democratic for President. If Kentucky goes Republican for Governor, then in the succeeding year goes Republican for President. The one exception to this rule was furnished by Theodore Roose velt in 1904. Kentucky went Democratic for Governor in 1903. Theodore Roosevelt broke the charm and in the succeeding year made the country go Republican for himself for President. Otherwise the rule has held. In 1919 Kentucky went Republican for Governor in a landslide. In 1920 the country went Renublican for President in a landslide. If Mr. Hard’s deductions are correct we shall see a Demo cratic victory this year, for last year Kentucky went Democratic for Governor. At least, there’s one more hopeful sign for the followers of John W. Davis, and, as a sign, offsets Maine’s Re publican victory during the past few days. A Trade at Home Week Why not organize a ‘Trade at Home Week?" A local mer chant suggested it today. He said it is needed and he, for one, would jump into it with "both feet.” Americus and Sumter county merchants need every dollar in trade they can secure. Every dollar that is spent awqSGfrom Sumter county, is a doling one forever. Every dollar th» goes to a mail order house is a dol lar lost to the community. Mail order prices are not low er than local prices. Mail order goods are not superior—in fact often they are inferior to the goods sold by local merchants. The merchants in Americus have it in their power to stop a very large part of the mail order business. No one can stop it but them. The newspaper cannot. The Chamber of Commerce can not. Just talking and preaching "trade at home” won’t stop it. All of these sources can help, but it is UP TO THE MER CHANT. The mail order house can be met in only one way, and that is by fighting them with the same ammunition they use —ADVER- TISING. If the local merchants would get together, gather a few mail order catalogs, compare their prices with the prices of the catalog, and then prove to the people of the county in their ad vertisements that they can buy as cheaply— or buy better goods for the same money, then and then only will the mail order trade be kept at home where it rightly belongs. What s needed is a co-opera tive, co-ordinated advertising campaign by the local mer chants. THE BACKBONE OF THE PARTY The job holder is the backbone of every political party. Jobs are the currency in which party debts are paid. This currenoy-, is at present inflated— too >»any job holders eawfig up' tix 1 funds?’—The Valdosta Titmc-s, r ; ■ TRF AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER With a might and a will, comes a touch of the chill that lust in dicates winter is nigh. When we’re right on the brink—well, it makes a man think, and the thinking, in turn, makes him sigh. Most any home-feller knows, down in the cellar,, there’s work that has got to be done. The furnace needs cleaning, the windows unscreening, and who will declare this is fun? You recall with a fear, at the end of last year you left ashes strewn ’round the bin. Now there isn’t a doubt, that they need cleaning out so the coalman can throw the coal in. 1 here s carpets to beat so the house will look neat, and there’s windstrips to put on the doors. While mother is cleaning- she has you careening at scraping and painting the floors. Yes, winter is nice, but it makes you think twice and you’re glad when it’s finally here. It’s part of your cup, but, old fellow, cheer up, ’cause it only comes ’round once a year. g (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Editorial Opinions Gleaned Serious and Otherwise— rrom Press and Magazine IT’S GIN—BUT NOT THAT SORT “Lady friend writes from her home north to know if cotton gin is a new kind of prohibition drink. She said she read in the Local where it put a move on the peop.e of Worth County. No, lady, it is not a drink. It is a thing that makes the mare go in these parts.”—Sylvester Local. SOME ELECTION GUESSES Anybody who has an inclina tion for figures can take the country’s 531 electoral votes and put them through an infinite se ries of permutations to show any result that is desired. The Solid South assures Davis 171 electoral votes, which leaves 360 to be ap portioned among Davis, Coolidge and La Follette. It takes 266 to win and it does not require any unusual acumen to see that if Davis starts out with 171 and gets New York, Indiana, Ulnois and Oklahoma he will be “setting pret ty.” Or taking another combi nation, if he gets the Solid South and adds thereto Kansas, Nebras ka, Nevada, Colorado, California Ohio and New Jersey, he wil have a triumphant finish. All of these states with the exception of lowa and New Jersey went De morcatic eight years ago. But any one can blow election gues ses by simply taking each state’s electoral vote and tossing them I into any combination which sane - I may elect. With a sharp line of cleavage running through the Republican Party, however, the prospects are growing daily more heartening for the Democrats.— Selma Times-Journal. COUUTING A MILLION Doubtless older people remem ber when their fathers and moth ers told them that it would be impossible to count a million even though a person should begin in childhood and live to be a hun dred years old. But that was be fore the word “million” was as glibly used as it is these days. But a million ca nbe counted and in a short time as compared with what has been demonstrat ed by a thirteen-year-old girl. According to the Gainsville (Fla.) Sun: “Collier’s Weexly says a school principal in the West at the beginning of the year offered a prize of ten dollars to any eighth grade pupil who would carefully count a million, using checks and tallies. There were many entrants, but all drop ped out except one, a thirteen year-old girl. For four months this girl used an average of two hours a day counting. Stimulat ed by her teacher and the offer of a prize, she devoted two hun dred and fifty concentrated hours to achieve something of no val ue.” So it is seen that it does not require a life-time to count a mil lion after all. Two hundred and fifty hours, divided into days of twenty-four hours each, would be only ten days and ten hours, ac cording to our division. And it also proved again that more attention is often paid to the use less than to the useful.—Colum but Enquirer-Sun. WILL HE DISCUSS THE KLAN 7 President Coolidge will address the 60,000 delegates in attend ance upon the annual conven tion of the Holy Name Society this afternoon in Washington. The New York World says that it is believed he will declare hin - self on the Klan issue and that his- declaration will be in opposi tion to the hooded order. How ever, tt is not generally believed that he will come out in the open on this important issue of the campaign as he has religion- 1 ly kept his sayings free fro a anything which might be constru ed as being in opposition to the Klan. Republican leaders from Ohio, Indiana, Kansas and some of the eastern states, where the Ku Klux Klan are supporting the republican ticket, have urged the president to keen silent on th > Klan. Their influence will no doubt have much weight with the president at.,this optical time with the republicans. Secretary Slemp, however, Fax written' n letter in which he state that Pres- ident Coolidge has already de clared himself in opposition to the Klan, but that statement does not seem to nave had gene ■ ral publicity, as few if any of the newspapers of the country have published it. Mr. Slemp goes farther and says that Pre - ident Coolidge has repeatedly de clared himself on the ‘ubject as being opposed to the hooded order President Coolidge may declare himself this afternoon, but we are inclined to believe that what ■ ever expression he may give on the subject will be nothing more nor less than a defense of the order in keeping with the de nunciation as made by his runn ing mate in his now famous Augusta, Main Speech.—Athene Banner Herald. They say bobbed hair isn’t as much trouble as long hair, and if you have your teeth pulled you won’t have to brush them. HENTSCH German militarists have a new goat. They’re blaming Colonel Hentsch, member of their general staff in 1914, for ordering the re treat that lost the Battle of the Marne and shortcircuited what might have been a speedy winning of the war. What really lost Germany the war was the fallacy of th • thing she fought for. In a titanic human up heaval like the World War, Provi dence has a hand in the result and permits no error in the decision. Militarism, rather than Germany, lost the war. Time will prove this. Militarism seems very much alive now, but it’s like a chicken after its head is chopped off. * * * SPIRHUAL The growth of materialism has far outdistanced the mental and spiri tual development of man, warns Sir Ma« Muspratt, the celebrated scientist. But he is right. Nearly all of what we consider- as economic and social problems are really spiritual problems. No soli tion, as long as we deal with ma terial effects instead of spiritual causes. • » » GAMBLERS Fifteen ad 20 years ago, on the New York Stock Exchange, specula tion centered in railroad securities. Roughly, two shares of railr rad stocks were sold for every industrial share that changed hands. Speculation has shifted to indus trial securities. In the first eight months of 1924, four industrial stocks were bought and sold for every railroad stock “traded.” Quite a revolution in gambling— a shift from transportation to pro duction as the stakes. ♦ ♦ GAMBLING Almost 164 miF'nn shares of stock changed ha-’ds on the New York Exchange between the first of the year and Sept. 1. That’s at the rate of over 240 million share? a year, and a good many observers are alarmed at the “gambling craze.” It they will consult old newspa per files, they will find that stick trading was on even a bigger seal 0 in the years 1905 and 1906 and even at far back as 1901. Since the dollar in those years bought twice as much as now, there really was more than twice as much spec ulation as in 1924. * ♦ ♦ NEAR-INSANE Experts claim 200.000 people in New York City are “on the border line between sanity and madness.” If you know New York, you’ll com ment that the estimate is too low. On a pouplation basis, there must be at least a couple of millions cf such borderline cases in the whole country. And the craziest ones are not locked up. Their votes count as Jnuch as the ballots of thn int"”' gent. Democracy is not without itsJ handicaps. Sensivle mentality tests would be a wise safeguard at the Polls. , A FIRM BELIEVER IN NQT LETTING THE LEFT ' HAND KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT HAND IS DOING a M \ ra Ml / i ; Tl I ; aw Hr ’ ; Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Sept 23, 1914.) Cotton would bring nine cents in Americus very readily if farmers here were disposed to sell at that figure, but they have agreed tc to hold for ten cents and are ad hering to that agreement. Hun dreds of bales piled up at their homes, to say nothing of the 10,- 000 bales stored in Americus ware houses, bear abundant testimony to the fact that there will be nothing doing until the price advances to ten cents, and many will not sell : r that price. An unusual compliment was be stowed by the county commissioners of Sumter at their meeting here a day or two ago when, without solicitation from any source, that body very heartily indorsed the ap plication of Mr. Albert Brady, of Sumter, for appointment as fer tilizer inspector at the hands of Hon. J. D. Price, commissioner oi‘ agriculture. Dan Chappell left yesterday for Atlanta, where he will enter the State Tech for the full course. Americus people awoke yester day to a realization to the fact that, as in the Spanish-Cuba i fias co. they are to be plucked and mulcted by another “war tax” sche dule more onerous than .hat of the other war. The Times-Recorder carried yesterday morning the full text of the war schedule tax bill, which will be introduced toda' ’.r. Congress and soon will become eff< - ctibe. No man escapes except, per haps, those jailed or dead. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Sept 23, 1894.) Yesterday afternoon witnessed the finishing touches to the hand somest store front in Americu, just finished for Mr. John R. Shaw', by {the Beutell Manufacturing com pany, and Mr. Shaw is justly pleas ed w’ith the appearance of his build ing. With its army of reformers ard perfectly organized corps of em ployes, the Barnum and Bailey Greatest show on Earth will be here on Tuesday, Oct. 9th. The Americus Cycling Associa tion will hold its first race meeting of Tuesday afternoon at the Leeton Park, in which a number of expert riders from neighboring cities will take part. Messrs John Windsor, George D. Wheatley, and Arthur Rylander. will act as judges, whil 1 Messrs. R. S. Broadhurst, and J. T. Cotney, will be time-keepers. P. L. Holt is refree and P. D. Griffith, scorer. A snecial train on the S. A. and M... will carry the crowd out to the race track. No better sign of the times is needed than that Tfye Times-Re corder has been compelled to en- WANTED TO BUY FRYERS AND HENS HAPPY FEED STORE | OAftlS n ’- ada on Improve/ LVrtlXkfarm 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, Stewart, Randolph and Webster counties. 21 Planters Bank Building, >mericu», Ga. Phone U &11» —. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 23, 1924 large to a regular eight page dai ly edition in order io relieve the steady growing pressure on its advertising space, arid make room for its patrons and still maintain its regular new's service. Cotton receipts yesterday were quite satisfactory, amounting in the aggregate to 757 bales. Os this number 557 came by wagon from the country, while the remaining 200 were shipped by rail from some point down the Central. 801 l worms have made their appearance in the country about Americus. Unless their ravages cease vary soon the yield of cotton in some sections of the county will be cut off fifty per cent. THIRTY YEARS AGO TOADY iFrom The Times-Recorder. Sept. 23, 1904.) Americus friends received hand somely engraved cards yesterday announcing the marriage oh Octo ber pth of Miss Mary Lou Thomp son and Mr. Will R- Hansfbtd, th.? nuptials to be' celebrated at the res idence of the bride parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. S. ’Thompson, at Walnut Grove. One of Sumter’s sterling farmer.; as much noted for his modesty as for his business ability, is getting his cotton picked in a hurry, and has plenty of it. During the past six days he has picked, maiketed and sold in Americus ninety two bales at prices above ten cents, and has more than ninety-two bales open in his field. Thats picking ’em some. Mr. W'ill F. Mims, who left Am mingham, Ala., is spending a day at his home here while enrout to Tam pa, where he has accepted a more desirable position. The many friends of Mr. WL H Statham are congratulating him upon his marriage two or three days since to Miss Gertrude Ben nett, a beautiful young lady of Mus kogee, I. T. For several years past Mr. Statham has been in the Gov ernment service at Muskogee, and there met they young woman who is now his fair bride. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Director* And Embalmer* Night Phone* 661 and 88 Dav Phone* 88 and 231 L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier u. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Aso’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) OUR CUSTOMERS !vit If MffirßnM With a reasonable knowledge of ri our hundreds of it If II a l ' ustonle is want, coupled with MWjjfea Hl "ur pledge to be “sympathetic UU it ever Y ne ,ed, and faithful to Cgf/Vly.i. every trust’’'—make* this bank Dius Y's'-V) an institution preferred. We j| ? cordially invite ’cur account- commercial or Savii gs. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING THE STANDARD I Remnant Sale for Wednesday and Thursday, if they last. Yo u can buy some of the lowest priced goods that you have seen in years if you will be on hand here Wednesday morning. Remnants of everything from Gingham to Silk. Draperies, Long Cloths- Many pieces of Curtain Scrim 36 inches wide, marked at 5c yard; other Marquisettes that former ly cold up to 50c marked as low as 10c yard. Os course, some are soiled and slightly shop-worn; others are fresh and pretty. On Sale Wednesday, Sept. 24th. Choose Right Away if You Want Some of These Blankets at $3.98 Beautiful Plaid Blankets, mostly cotton, but wool finish; large size for large double beds; all colors; pair , $3 98 Night Gowns at 98c Durable Night Gowns of Crepe and Muslin, in slip-over style; em broidered; excellent quality; all sizes 98c Well-Fitting Satin Slippers At $4.95 One of the best shoes of the sea son in appearance, convenience, comfort and fit, of excellent black satin on an especially good last with the most comfortable of fashionable heels; all sizes $4.95 More Florence Castile Soap At 25 Cents Bar Our customers are the best ad vertisers we have for this soap. Buy one time and you will keep buying. A large 11 2 t 'ound cake of Pure White Castile boap, right from the soap maker, at bar 25c Good Grade Yard Wide Sheeting at 12 l-2c. Good weight, full yard wide, smooth weave, full weight. First we have received made of the low pri ed cotton; here at yard 12 l-2c Girls’ School Frocks At 98 Cents. Amoskeag Gingham in dainty checks and plaids, featuring smart colors; all sizes, each 98c Standard Work Shirts for Moir at 59c Made of Golden Rule Chambray; will stand hard washing and hard wear. We are offering these shirts just a little below the wholesale price for this week; sizes 14 1-2 to 17, each 59c Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS. GA.
