About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1924)
<' . IF V pF ■Khought gpK arc br’thicn; why do <■ ,o another.— Acts 7:2': W?• ♦ • SMSftsßfe • is I '. b> other, an ; 11 v MHHSj^Vi/ God. Lamartine. IBgJ:£c the Registration B List! •gSßrllie City Attorney b-’s stated the registration list used tn UHie 1923 fall city elections is the that must be complied with Mn the bond election which will Wbe called in October. /OnJ,that list are somewhere K a MM|a a thousand names, some g have moved from the ' ■jsqme have died ;md tb« re be legitimate reasons whv ' Rer names should be removed ■k. the list PRIOR to the bond date. ■ Therefore, it is of vital impor j||Jnce that this list be purged, ÜBirefully and efficiently, for ev- name on the list must vote giSBOR bonds or it will be a vote ■gainst bonds. Ihe names of de citizens, if allowed to re gVrhain on the list, will Ba.vote AGAINST the bond is The State law requires that |B twO-thirds of the number regis mdUMUST VOTE FOR ■ jjONDS. With this handicap, it ■ will be no easy task to put over ■ the bond election unless every ■BSSfftJtt'4# made to have those H favoring bonds REGISTERED, ■ then see that they VOTE on <iay. ■H|H'h£fe|h mote- or less c onfus H®; jJ in the minds of some as to ■ether they arc regislcttd Be ■HBise of the automatic registra- I tiWn in the county and State elec- ■ tions, citizens often think they ■ are registered when they are not. | , It would be wise and would i much confusion if the I cw would first PURGE the present list and then PUBLISH thfct names of those REGISTER- ■| The publishing of the list aid the committees work ? ng for the bonds to know who Yere not registered. The com mittees then would go after the IT iunregistered and on election day ’ would use their efforts to get those registered to the polls. Purging the present list, then publishing that list, is the first step necessary, we believe, in conducting a successful bond campaign. Get Those Cotton Stalks! The value of cotton stalks in Vx our fight against the boll weevil ■ is now recognized. Experiments have shown that where vs eevils are forced into hibernation ear ly in the season, or where they go into the hibernation period in a weakened condition from the lack of food, a very small per- i centage of them live to damage the next year’s cotton crop. For this reason the early destruction of cotton stalks is highly desir-, i ’ able, says Prof. Blackwell, Agronomist at Clemson College. The next question arises as to the best method of getting rid of these cotton stalks. This is a very difficult problem in the Coastal Plain section from what F"' it is in the Piedmont, he says. In the Coastal Plain section and especially in the Savannah River Valley on the sandy soils, cotton matures early and there is no top crop, and therefore, stalks may be plowed under very easily be fore frost. If, all farmers in each community would do this, it would be a very effective con trol measure. In any section of the State, the best thing to do, if possible, is to plow under these cotton stalks and plant a winter crop on the land early in the fall. This may be done very early in the Coastal Plain sec tion. , In any section of the State, with the exception of very heavy clay soils, cotton stalks may be completely turned under with any good size breaking plow. It cannot be done with a small one-mule plow. A ten-inch breaking plow with two mules can turn any ordinary cotton - -atofa 4hf use of the weed ; / JHF w? "'"'W'’’' - -'■Fan 'loing but neither metmid is nearly so satisfactory as com pletely turning the stalks under, whereby we get the benefit of the organic matter and the hu mus from the cotton stalks and at the same time destroying the weevil’s food stupply, says Prof. Blackwell. They Created Their Opportunities One man builds his own fly ing machine. Another, his own piano. Not mafty years since I ord, a mechanic, built his own auto—engine included and then began building them for others by the millions, over 10 million cars to date. Farther back, we find Howe laborious ly figuring out and building the first sewing machine. So it goes. None of these men had op portunities. They created their own op portunities. Handicaps and obstacles can be overcome. That’s been proved thousands upon thous ands of times. What count are ambition, determination and willingness to work. Given these, nothing can stop the progress of man—except the most excep tionally bad luck. Schulz wanted to fly. Being a school teacher in East Prussia, he didn’t have any too much money. So he gathered togeth er some poles and tin cans and made a glider, one of those fly ing machines heavier than air and without a motor. Schulz go this machine finish ed and entered the big gliding contest in Germany. The com mittee in charge decided his out fit was unsafe. So they barred him. Schulz w«nt to work again. He got mote tin cans, some bal ing wire and a lot of old broom handles. He built another glider, gave it a coat of paint, got past the committee. With this crude home-made affair, Schulz broke the world’s record* remaining in the air over 42 minutes. Reminds you of a boy build ing a radio out of such things as a hairpin, a cockroach and an old watch ease. Fake another case, Earl F. Ol son of Galesburg, 111. He wanted a piano. Didn’t have enough money to spare. So he built his own, a baby grand. It took all his spare time, five hours a day for two years. Pa tiently he shaped and assembled 500 separate pieces of parts and materials. Experts are amazed when they hear Olson play this home-made instrument. You appreciate such an- accomplishment if you are a musician. Where Wilf It End? She who was Marguerite Clark, famous stage and screen star, but who, for six years past, has been wife of a mighty lucky husband, Harry Williams of Pat terson, La., writes that she is playing her graceful role; that she finds happiness in raising chickens, working among her flowers, and attending to house hold duties. “I believe," she says, "1 could find similar hap piness if 1 had to work hard in a smaller home.” A good many heads of city homes are being convinced that there must come a return of woman's ideals to something like Marguerite Clark’s, or there will be a crash, moral and domestic. In such homes, the children are coming to care less and less for the home life. It is go, go all the time. Dances, joy-rides, theater par ties, one-piece bathing parties, card parties, cigarets, face paint, lipsticks— a continual urge for "thrills." The rapidity, rush and daring of business life, in these days, are nothing compared to the rapidity, daring and sophistica tiorf of youth. A good many fathers are anxiously asking what the rising generation will become where will all the "thrill’’ lead, when will come the social break down. All that fame, public applause and big pay could give, Mar guerite Clark had, but she finds her greatest happiness in working jn her home, and the home is the foundation of civilization. How many youths have home making as their ideal of happi- V"|| a she ' A dapper young fellow a mustache though he that the thing will look •'Politely you ask him the cause of the fuzz. But he just doesn’t, so he answers “because.” Whenever you’re stuck on a question folks ask, don’t feel that answer’s a terrible task. When quizzed as to why—well, just take it from me, just answer “because” and you’re safe as can be. Perhaps you will wonder, with reason enough, just why a man writeth this lingo of stuff. The answer should clear me—l hope that it does—and the honest reply to the question’s “because.” (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) ; Gov. Alfred E. Smith Will Run Again Editorial From New Pork Titr..s When the sun rises it put out the stars. The clear under stand ing that Governor Smith will ac cept a renomination this wees has instantly extinguished, all minor Democratic candidacies. Mayor Dylan has discovered that he does not wish to be governor. II : finds himself so tied up with the city’s business that he cannot even go to tne Democratic convention This curt ending of a supposed ambition will make his admirer wonder whatever his “boom” wls begun for if so soon it was to be done for. Started by the Mayor himself, on the way home from the Hearstian Enchanted Hill in California, it was all along sus pected of being bound up with a settled animosity toward Gover nor Smith. If the Hylan trial bal loons was sent out to test public sentiment as respects the gover nor, it certainly fell to the earth in a ridiculous collapse. It is probable that this incipient and futile plotting against him did not enter largely into the gov ernor’s decision to reconsider his personal unwillingness to stand for a third term at Albany. lie had successfully despised the Cati litian swords two years ago, an 1 did not need to bother himself about them now. Evidently what he has done is to yield hie strong ; private inclination to the appeals and demnads of his . political friends and his party. It seems that they put the case to him a a miblie duty, All things Consider ed, and he was unable |o break down their arguments. .He will again offer his services/ to the state which pays its governor so . niggardly a salary that another election will mean to Mr. Smith and his family a heavy pecuniary sacrifice. But he has finally con cluded that he must not let that stand in the way of loyally do ing all lie can for his party. The nomination of Gov ernor Sknith will force a revi sion of the calculations of th • Republicans. In this • t.atii they must realize that they will have a formidable contost on their hands They can find no evidence that th.- great popularity of the governor, convertible into votes, lias dimin ished. It should be heightened, rather than lessened, by the in jection of national politics into the campaign. Governor Smith emerged from the Democratic Na tional Convention in .Tune stron er than ever with his party ir. New York, and in a. position to seize with telling effect upon one of the issues which is weakening and distracting his political oppo nents. Such ostracism as the Ku Klux Klan, with the sneaking con nivance of mapy Republican lead ers, proposes on the score of relig ious creed, certainly reaches its acme of shrieking absurdity in the person of Alfred Smith. If he is not a good American and a man fit to hold high office, where can one be found? Without a doubt the State Democratic Convention will be as explicit and challeng ing in denouncing the Klan and all its works as the Machusetts Democrats were on Saturday. It may even paralies the action of the Machusetts Democrats who, after asserting that the Ku Kluv Klan is a menace to the peace and security of the country, points an accusing finger: “Yet we are confronted with the spectacle of the President of the United States, the leader of the-Republican party, afraid to raise his voice against a socitey of masked men who are striking at the constitutional guarantee of liberty and religious Freedom and who will, if not checked and dis persed, prove deep disunion and disorder.” As Governor of New York the people know Mr. Smith to have the most comprehensive and mi • nute grasp of all their affairs ever possessed by an occupant of the Executive Mansion at Albanv. He has shown, moreover, the high est ideals of public service, has ' striven for great refroms. without partisan bias, in the methods of conducting the business of the state; has won the apnlauge and support of manv Republicans for the measures which he has advo cated for the good of dwellers in the city and in the country alike. Governor Smith will be himself all the ■platform that he need : It will not be necessary for him to concern himself about his own campaign. He may with a free mind adhere to the schedule of speaking in behalf of Mr. Davis and the national ticket in other states, to which he has already agreed. The voters of New York will require no addresses or ap peals from Governor Smith They know him for what he is and for what he can do in their in terest. His very will * put .’RoWflhh’cans” to 1 heir trumps—though they had thought that they could safely play some of the smaller cards in their pack. BEER George Washington’s great- great grandfather, Lawrence, long ago piled up a beer bill at Oxford Uni versity in England and neglected to pay it. So runs tradition. American lawyers, at their con vention over there this summer, took up a collection and paid the old ac count, which amounted to less than $4. That, however, bought enough beer to float a battleship back yon der, which may be why they are re ferred to as “good old days.” * » ♦ GERMS The pious need not be shocked be cause George Washington’s great great-grandfather drank Leer. Wile and beer were light drinks for those days of brandy, rum, whisky and gin. Nearly every one drank as a sub stitute for the polluted water winch was the rule long ago. Water was unsafe to drink. Science has mad.? it safe. Many a man with a faded red nose and high blood pressure will comment that progress has its price. * ♦ ♦ SONG Only one song in a thousand makes a hit and brings big profits to the publishers and writer, says E. C. Mills. He’s chairman of the Ame rican Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Manv will be surprised that so few songs go over big. And yet the situ ation is no different than in other lines of work. For every one who succeeds a thousand or more fail outright or at best never reach more than very mild success. Success is the exception, failure the rule. More profitable to study failures and try to figure why they failed, than to analyze the careers of the rich and famous. What not to do is quite as importaint as what to do. ♦ « * EXIT Fifteen years ago it was not un usual for a popular song to sell three million copies. Now it’s a rare composition of sheet music that reaches a third that much. E. C. Mills blames-this on the de cline of piano and violin playing It’s so much easier to stick a 50- cent record on the phonograph or tune in the radio than to practice for years and probably get no where, Man used to have to create his own music. Now it’s cut-and dried and served to him, like near ly everything else. * * * CUT-AND-DRIED The village band is a vanishing institution, along with the individual amateur muscian. Radio and phono graph have canned music It’s an age of can —canned food canned music . . . r id even canned rtiought. The increasing tendency toward specialization gets the aver age person in such a rut that hj is too tired after work to do much thinking for himself. The profes sional “thinker” is among our gen eration. His thoughts, Alas! are usually futile. Specialization de stroys the individual mentality. • • * INDIANS Indians will vote in the presiden tial elections this year for the first time, under a new law. There are about 135,000 of them, or half as many as peopled this continent when the white man came with whisky bullets and bright glass beads. In a close election those 135,000 Indians might come very near to swaying the result. The speakers will soon be lauding the noble Red Man, on whose- stolen domain we now live. Savings deposits are increasing in the United States, perhaps because you must pay some down on the auto. Fourteen Indian nations held a dance in Mexico; tame, no doubt, when compared with a debutante's dance, f ’ 9 I 99 i ■■■ K I monFvao': L-i CHNNGL I J —V along virrn a I ' \ x I EEVI TE.NS.L ll Ml 1 tli» Wd jPW - IjW U F! W Wffl L-2? MAJOR PUTS THE WASPONSr.CLNR- J \ Old Days In Americus J TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Sept. 25, 1914.) The Americus press of the Atlan tic Compress Co. was put in opera tion yesterday for the first time this season and handled a small lot of 150 of 200 bales for export. This is a part of a shipment to be made to England and is the first Americus cotton to go abroad tiiis season. Sales here to this date has been for American spinners who have pur chased a few hundred bales locally. Eight to 8 1-4 cents is the price at which cotton of the best grades u? held, but even at that price no one seems to want the staple. Americus is going to “take sugar in hers” all right this fall, but it ; s going to be the pure, undulterated home made article, instead of that brewed from Kiser Bill’s beets, the white granulated articles which rias soared in price since Bill start- d his rough house in Germany. Farmers in Americus yesterday from Sumter and surrounding coun ties report their fields still white with open cotton although picking has progressed very well during the past week. Heavy rains have done great damage to the crops. While Kiser Bill’s bold band of bilious bayonet boys are putting towns off the map of France and Belgium, the dove of peace has plac ed a new one on the map of Sumter —that of “Arles” which supplants the name of Bagley on the Central, three miles north of Americus. Thir was the former site of the great Baglev orchard of 250,000 trees recently destroyed. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAh (From The Times-Recorder. Sept, 25, 1904.) Americus cotton receipts—wagon cotton, mind you—is now crowding the eighteen thousand mark, and Americus gets the benefit of every bale sold. Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Prather have gone to Harlem near Augusta, up on a visit of a week to relatives, where her sitser. Miss Essie Roe buck, visits in Atlanta. Mr. Thomas J. Black of Americus, has been appointed adjustant gene ral of the Western Brigade of Geor gia, U. C. V. with the rank of colo nel. The appointment was made yes terday by Brigadier General John A. Cobb, commanding the Western Brigade of Georgia, and is a deserv ed recognition of the worth of a brave and valiant Confederate sol dier who ever did his duty in the past and who will reflect credit up on the honorable position lie will assume. The little son of Prof. A. G. Mi’- ler four of five years old, was run over and bnd’y hurt yest rady boy a careless negro “biker” who was r«ic ing with another moke on a Church street side walk. To the end of inducing the brirg ing of cotton to Americus from ad joining counties, thus increasing the trade of the citv generally, free ferriage is offered to teams of cot ton and produce coming this way. Arrangement to this end have been fully perfected and all wagons here in specified will now cross the river I /"I A rr '- ade on Improved 4iJf 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 cotunty 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, G». Phonq 89 PT 811. u ■ without charge. Mrs. J. C. Jenkins and little daughter of Guadalajara, Mexico.!, where Rev. Mr. Jenkins is now stationed, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Raiford. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Sept. 25, 1894.) Sumter county and Americus will be ably represented at the fourteen th annual session of “The Farmers National Congress,” which will con vene at Parkersburg, W. V., on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 1894.. Hon. R. T. Nesbett, Commissioner of Ag riculture, has appointed Hon. D. C. N. Burkhalter a delegate from Am ericus. Mr. William Thomas Lane, one of Americus’ talented young attorneys, was the recipient of many congratu lations yesterday, and well worth is he of the good fortune that awaits him as told bj r the handsomely en graved wedding cards that came to friends, bringing the happy nup tial tidings which reads: Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Crittendon request your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Massey, to Mr. William Thomas Lane, Thursday evening, October fourth, at six o’clock, Me thodist Church, Shellman Georgia, 1894.” The wedding will be largely attended by the friends of the hand some prospective groom. There are few more popular girls in society than Miss Massey Crittendon, and since her debut she has ever reign ed queen in the hearts of those who were so fortunate as to be number ed among her friends. Her rule has been one of love and gentleness, and the homage rendered her even by her woman friends in their uni versal verdict “that she is a s love- Rble as she is beautiful” is a just and worthy tribute to the personal charms, gifted mind and sweet wo manly nature. Miss Eugenia Harris, of Norwoo 1 ?’s visiting at the home of Capt. M. B. Council called here by the ill ness of her sister, Mrs. Council. Evolution is always mistaken for revolution. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER. 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For 20 cents the laundry will cure all hurts; displayed on special counter, choice . $1.98 J. & . Coats’ Spool Cotton At 1 Cent Spool Genuine J. &. P. Coats’ Spool Cotton, all numbers, black and white, per spool 1c; 5 spools for sc; sold only with other purchases of $1 or mpje. Best Standard Outings At 20 Cents Full width with heavy double-nap, plain colors and great assortment of fancy patterns, here now at yard 20c Boys’ Heavy Ribbed Union Suits at 98c Heavy ribbed or fleeced., lined Union Suits, every regular size and plenty of every size; some of these are long enough and large for small men; here now at suit .. .98c Heavy Yard Wide Sheeting At 12 l-2c Yard Full yard wide, heavy even weave; selling now at the lowest price ir two years; 2000 yards to let go at yard 12 l-2c Get Your Share of These Remnants at Half Price Remnants of almost everything sold in a regular piece goods stock and some of them are marked as low as 5c yard. They average half price or less. Displayed on center counters. The Best Pillow Cases At 35 Cents Gold Seal Pillow Cases, fuH reg ular size, guaranteed free from dressing and of excellent quality muslin; regularly 50c, here at 35c Men’s 25c to 35c Knitted Four- Hand Ties at 10c They are just like we tell you. Come and see for yourself; full length; beautiful quality; while they last, each ...10c Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Commerce AMERICUS. GA. j ii—■ ■ - -wr .SWIM-1- llWl—*
