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PAGE FOUR TIMES-RECI'IDIR PUBLISHED M7» Published by The Times-Recorder Co., une.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Kntered *• ••cend daa* matter at the po*toffk4 at America*. Georgia, according ta th* Aet *4 Cangrea*. The Associated Frew ia excluaWdy entitled ta the uee for the republication of all newt die* patchea credited to it or not otherwise credited to th J* paper and alao the local published hero* ba. All right of republication of special dlapatehea are alao reserved. National Advertising Representative*, FMOST LANDIS A KOHN, toronswick Bldg.. Nev Tori J ’envies’ Gas Bids,. Chicago. A THOUGHT~~ The thought* of the diligent tend only to plenteousne**; but of every one that is hasty only to want Prov. 21:15. » ♦ » Diligence, above all, is the mot. -r ..of good luck. —Samuel Smiles. “That Something" How many of us really lack an incentive to push ahead in this world? How many are lacking ’That . Something?” Naturally you are asking your self just what are we talking about! if you would know, go around to the Carnegie Library on Jackson street, and get that little book called "That Some thing.” Read it, and then read it again, and see if it fits YOUR case, or perhaps the case of some special friend that you .... would like to see succeed in this life's work. "That Something” is a short little story of a man who, after graduating from college, found that he was incapacitated for life’s work, and gave up all hope of ever succeeding. He went from bad to worse, until one rainy day, he found himself on a street corner begging alms from strangers. One day, a prosperous looking citizen of the town stopped to talk to him, and REFUSED to help him, with the reply that he didn't need food, he didn't need clothes, but what * he needed was "THAT SOME THING !” - It woke him up! He found that something! Perhaps right here in Ameri cus we have a number of peo- • pie who have not found "THAT SOME I HING,” who need to wake up! Read this litle book, and then read it again, and recommend it to some of your friends. They may need it if you don’t. Daugherty Continues to Dodge John W. Davis severely criti cised Harry M. Daugherty, in his own State a few days ago. Daugherty replied to Davis in a letter in which he declared that Davis did him an injustice. A few days after Gaston B. Means, one of the witnesses testifying before the Senate com mittee which investigated Daugherty’s conduct in office, came out in what was said to be an uninfluenced repudiation of his testimony. Later, so the press informs us. Means declares he is ready to again appear before the Senate committee with evidence more damaging than ever. Around and around the Re publican corruptionist chases one statement with another, like a dog after its tail. Harry Daugherty is afraid. After months of bluster he re fused to take the witness stand and face the question on his record. He is still cowarding behind a technicality, says The Nation, adding: He is not the kind of man who fights in the open. Twice he has exposed himself as the slimiest kind of fighter. Once he confer red with the secretary and anoth er employee of the Republican National Committee; the latter forthwith departed for Montana and arranged with a federal of fice-holder- to have Burton K. Wheeler indicted on trumped-up evidence. Senator Borah’s com mittee investigated and reported that Mr. Wheeler had “observ ed at all times not only the let ter but the spirit of the law.” Daugherty lapsed for a time into silence, appearing in the newspa pers only in connection with his brother’s fight to keep their bank accounts fron. examination. Now he plays another card. One of the many witnesses who testified to the rottenness and corruption in his department was Gaston B. Means, a former department em ployee, an intimate of Daugherty and friend of Andrew Mellon. Mr. Means was under indictment in New York for violation of the liquor laws. No sooner had he appeared against Daugherty than the prosecution was pressed. Means was convicted and sentenc ed to two years' imprisonment. He told Senator Wheeler that he had no money with which to ap pr-ai, and that a representative of Daugherty had approached him promising relief if he would re pudiate his testimony. Wheeler told him to do asx-onscience bade him. Now, in tie midst of the campaign, Daugherty produces an alleged repudiation—which repudiates in its turn. This Means, somewhat equivocally, suspicious set of circumstance? should be cleared up. Has Daugherty still influence enough in the administration of justice to arrange reprieves for n:<:: perjure then:'. ~ ' ding and help his p ’ : asso- ciates? Daugherty will continue to dodge and bluster and unless a Democratic C ongress and a Demociatic President takes a hand, the chances »re that Daugherty will go unpunished. Mr Coolidge and his courage have not been able to get to gethec s.;:t'.<.en: > to force gov •s where they belong Man Must Work \l ,-g to the editor of a na- I .azine, one who signs himself Anonymous,” asks for help. He wants to know how to Eve without working. Says he: Dear Sir: I know you as a friend of the poor and oppressed and I am therefore writing to ask you to do something for me. I am a poor man who has just had a vacation; not an extensive one, but just a little, innocent holiday in the course of which I never harmed a dumb beast or neglect ed to reward my fellow-man as requested from time to time. Now I have come back to work and I find work impossible. Man was not made for work. ■ Never theless, 1 am compelled to seek my livelihood and have nothing to look forward to in the future except another vacation followed by another resumption of toil. What I would like you to do is to write your Congressman, if you can remember who he is, asking him to introduce suitable legislation abolishing either vaca tions or work. I know, dear Sir, that you have Influence; I know you never work yourself and are therefore not troubled with my problem; I know, if you will, that you have both leisure and power to Do Something. What will it BE? I am hopefully yours. We wonder if there are many who think as does this unfor tunate fellow. Probably there a few, but not many. His trouble is th*at he has failed to find PLEASURE in his work. It may be that he is a round pig in a square hole, and again it may be that h e is just one of those who would become a "wanderer and a vagabond if others dependent on him did not make such a step impossi ble. There is no happiness without work. History’s pages are fill ed with accounts of busy men who have “retired” only to find that in retirement there was nei ther pleasure nor rest. The most miserable, the most discontented man on the globe is the idler, the loafer. There is happiness in work. It is there for him who looks for it. Idleness brings discontent— and sometimes crime. \ OPINIONS OF j J OTHER EDITORS CAPITOL REMOVAL AGAIN The Macon News, for one, has never felt that Macon had a right to abandon the effort to bring the Capitol to this city. Local pride would be gratified by the change, to be sure, but the movement is based on something broader than pride or selfishness. It is not Macon's fight It is the struggle of what we frankly believe to be the majori ty of the people of Georgia. In our opinion, there has never been a time, at least within the past ten or fifteen years, when the ver dict of the people would not have been in favor of capitol re moval. It is not necessary to adopt the Ballyhoo- methods to keep this matter before the General Assem bly. The fight should be main tained on a high and dignified plane. But we do feel that the people of South and Middle Geor gia—in fact, a majority of the • people of this State—think the State capitol should be most ac , cessible to the greatest number of people. There is one way, and only one way, by which the issue can be settled, and that is at the polls —Macon News. A HOPE POSTPONED Georgia was once the “Empire State of the South.” There is no use trying to blind ourselves to the fact that that day has pass ed. North Carolina and Florida have left us far behind. Others will do so, too. unless something is done about it. The reason can not be that we are poor in resour ces—the possible wealth, neglect ed and unused, is greater than 'hat of manv States whose actual wealth doubles ours. Whatever the many reasons which enter in to this condition, it is lamentable ]y true that short-sighted nolictes. and the failure of political bodie l -' to recognize and meet problems •n a spirit of true statemanship, bear a large share of the blame. When it is clearly shown that other neighboring Slates forging ahead of us, the remedy might be *o bring the matter be fore th* Legislature in the true light. It mav be nk-asint to hear about Georgia’s high stand among the United ?t npth- . When the fall is in the ozone and the leaves are in the afll, and there’s cold within the air but not your head, it is nice to crank your auto, if the thing will start at all, and just ride to watch the green things turning red. You can ride the lovely highways where the mud is mucky thick; you can now and then get stuck up to the hub. But, on any of the ways someone else will likely stick, so you’ll know that you are not the only dub. You can catch the cut of autumn with its tingle in the air; you can deeply drink the chill in, brave and bold. You can catch the loss of summer which has gone, you know, not where, and it’s like ly, too, you’ll also catch a cold. - rsqj Oh, I’ve met the folks who”ve done it and I’l pass it on to you. It is mild to merely tell you they have raved. They have worn too little clothing, quite a foolish thing to do, and they’ve driven on the roads that are not paved. • Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) ing but empty air. If she wishes to maintain her standing she will have to get to work and work hard. Nothing but the adoption of broad, liberal policies and the united thought and labor and e.i thusiasm of all her citizens will start her back on the road from which she has lost her way.— Savannah Press. NOT CONFIRMED BY STATISTICS In his masterful argument to the court in defense of Loeb and Leopold, the kidnap ers and murderers of young Franks, Clarence Darrow de clared that it is easy to bang men as the public clamor for hang ing. But this statement is not con firmed by the investigations of one of the leading life insurance coi <- panies of the country, the Metro politian. The Metropolitan, according to its statistics based uoon actual experience, last year paid $724.- 000 in homicide cases. It has been able to obtain complete informa tion regarding only 146 out of 446 homicides among its policy holders. In these cases there were .->5 penitentiary sentences, one parole, one fine and one ex ecution. “The rest are either un apprehended, have been set free, or are awaiting trial.” And so it seems, after all, that it is not such an easy matter to hang men in this counirv. LA FOLLETTE’S ASSAULT ON SUPREME COURT President Coolidge scored f telling blow at La Follettism when he called the attention of the country to the sinister and far-reaching import of the La Follette campaign involved in his attacks on the SuDrome Court and its fundamental guarantees La Follette would emnower Con gress to override and nullify th® decisions of the high tribunal by two-third majorities, just as are reqir'red to set aside a veto <>r the President. The method would be a radical departure from the inherent principles of the Ameri can system of government red would enthrone the lawmaking branch with sunremq nower in governmental affairs. President Coolidge declares that this co vert design in the program of ra dicalism has for its object the confiscation of property and the destruction of libertv. and that the time to begin to check those wht> would loosen and weaken the fabric of our government is before they begin. It is hoped that there will be a sweeping repudiation of La Fjl ette, root and branch, all ovci the country, but is will not be denied that there is an unusual amount of unrest and animosity and Bolshevism abroad in the land and La Follette will be the beneficiary of this immense vol ume of radical sentiment. How ever. should he bv any sort of upturn or complication of the political factors, become the next president, he would be powerless to shake the enduring founda tions of the countrv’s judicial system. It has long been a fash ion to critise the Supreme Court and perhaps it is fair to assume that its decisions have not al ways been right, because it woufd be a supernatural bodv. if th?v were. But taken all in all it represents our greatest contribu tion to the art of government.— Selma (Ala.) Times. COUNTESS ‘'ATM mother OF 7- POUND BOY NEW YORK, Sent 30—Countess Ludwig Salm-Von Hoogstraten, for merly Miss : Millicent Rogers, to day was reported as doing well fol lowing the birth of a son in a pri vate hospital yesterday that the boy weighed seven pounds at birth. Count Salm-Von Hoogstraten, to whom Miss Rogers was married last January 8, now is in Europe. He has been estranged from his wife since last May, four months after they were married against the wishes of Miss Rogers’ parents, Col. and Mrs. Henry H. Rogers. Countess Salm-Von Hoogstraten is the heir ess to a sum estimated at $40,000,- 000 left by her grandfather, the late H. H. Rogers, oil magnate. After the marriage the countess went abroad with her husband. In April her father sailed for Europe and she returned to this country, her husband going to Vienna, where he is head of the Austrian house bearing his name, Ke . was said have been virtually penniless at the time of his marriage. Col. and Mrs. Rogers were present at the birth of their daughter’s son. A man’s rights to drink booze are fast his furneraj rites. Skat* ' THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECO RDER v Apc&s MARS If you have been wondering how the scientists are able to tell so much about conditions on Mars, here is a sample: The Lowell Ob servatory in Arizona recently found that the temperature on Mars is 4S degrees, instead of below zero, as had been supposed. This was learn ed by using the Coblentz radiomter, which is so delicate that it accurate ly measures the heat of a candle 100 miles away. Human brains that can make sud a wonderful mechanism will not be balked at finding away to communi cate with the people on Mars, if any. » » » EGO The public used to sneer and guffaw when imaginative scientist-, far in advance of their time, sug gested that people may live on Mars and other heavenly bodies besids? the earth. Man’s egotism, knowing no boun ds, fancied that the stars and their satellites far off in space existed only as tiny points of light for men to glance at when they felt like ic. Now we know that our world is in the universe, less than a sing’e drop of water in the oceans. With knowledge, man becomes more hum ble. • ♦ • WEATHER Weather experts are on the thre shold of new discoveries in the do main of, forecasting, predicts Mr vin. He’s head weatherman for Un cle Sam. The main obstacle is that weath er involves so much of the unexpec ted. and that’s something no one can anticipate. The human animal has to rely largely on precedent. * * * POLAR Did you “catch” that new scien tific theory about freakish wea’.her this year? Thev figure that pockets or funnels suddenly open in our at mosphere, permitting rushing wed ges of frigid polar air to sweep down on us from up north. The cold breads through just as a river through a broken levee or dam. Then the funnel-shaped po k et suddenly closes up and rays are warm again. The cause probably is connected with our sun, which for several years has been on the sick-list. Now it’s convalescing after a pe riod of giving off 5 per cent le -s heat than normal. » » • PRCDIGAL Things do not always run true to Precedent. A prodigal son. return ing home in New York, failed to find a fatted calf awaiting hun. There was a warrant out for the prodigal. His father, a plainclothesman, served the warrant—took him to tail. This is not -without its note of trag. edv. Can you imagine the mental and spiritual tortues this father went through ? ♦ * * BOSS Northern Pacific ’’a' l, " 1 v insures all its employes unde- - MJ-million dollar “groupe c'-nt’ 1 ’ that re quires no medical r-->->”ination. It’s a wise prov' especially for men who never save. Begins to look as if most of our social and economical problems will be solved by corporations instead of e-overment —in the far off future. Business, after all, is th? real gov ernment. THREE KILLED WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO COLUMBIA, S. C„ Sept. 30. Three persons were killed and two probably fatally injured when a rail road motor car on which they were riding collided head on with a South ern railway freight train shortly be fore 1 o’clock Monday near Peaks, S'. C., about 25 miles nort of Colum bia. News of the collision reached here late Monday when the injured were brought to a Columbia hospital for medical attention. The dead: Killian Chapman, of! Peaks, white; Heyward Metts, of Littleton, S. C., white; Charles Brown, of Peaks, negro. The injured: James Dailey, of Peaks, white; James ne gro. OUR BOARDING HOUSE ■■ . ... mu i— a>~: ..<•*?>;. . ... ~ ■■ 3Y JOVE. BOYS, WANT ARISTO-CAT TO ML IVL YOU TO SEE THIS fINE < EH? WELL I |? SEEN YHIV CREAM \ BRED PERSIAN FELINE ! DON’T KNOW MUCH SEPARATOR BEFORE, ' IT WAS GIVEN TO ME BY ABOUT THESE 1 HAVEN’T TAKEN = NLJIK MAKOLIAN.WHO BACK FENCE ANY SIDE TRIPS TO __ BROUGHT IT BACK WITH BROADCASTERS, PERSIA LATELY,EITHER'.- J HIM FROM PERSIA, ALONG BUT HL LOOKS SIR -I THINK " WITH SOME ORIENTAL RUGS LIKE AN ORDINARY HIS REGULAR BEAT IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO ’ STEM WINDING ' S ON ; . KNOW THAT A PERSIAN MOUSE HOPPER \ JUL/Z \ CAT IS RATED AS THE \ TO ML ! J < HIGHEST IN CAT J pL- < CULTURE EGAD f W yls w jo Sj i Vi WyV) ? /jffldhx Jiff \ ? *0? .OA fIM i I ? ■ few™ W 1 ~ J (CopvnghL 19*21. bv NEA Service. Inc.) , \ Ml HE MAJOR. BRINGS HOME A “ PERSIAN" CAT ) Old Days In Americas THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder Sept. 30, 1894.) An old citizdns, who was discuss ing the cotton situation at Council and Mcuarran s saia that he sold cotton in 1842 for 3 1-2 cents, and didn’t starve either. After th L time the market advanced and de clined alternately until about 1897, when 30 cents per pound was paid for middling cotton at that same warehouse. The injunction and receivership cases growing out of the trouble among the members of Bethesda Baptist church, colored, was enter ed upon before Judge Fish yester day morning. An able aray of law yers represnted the opposing face tious, while Pastor McNeal and 'a targe crowd of interested colored people assembled to witness the le gal battle. Mr. M. Callaway received a hah’ dozen letters yesterday from farri ers and professional men in Mary land, making inquiries as to the price of land hereabout, business progpects and other matters of rela tive interests. They had heard of Americus and the fine farming country surrounding and were n clined to come here this winter. Mr. Glover, Jr., has de termined to study denistry, and to this end left yesterday for Na '.- ville, Tenn., where he will enter the dental department of Vanderbilt University for the full course. ten years aco today (From The Times-Recorder SqL 30, 1914.) Tomorrow morning Americus will miss her Times Recorder, but :n the afternoon she will be introducer, to the Americus Evening Times- Recorder carrying Associated Press Dispatches. The change from a morning to an afternoon edition, which was announced several da\s ago, will be perfected on this day. Americus warehouses were veiy far from being storm centers of in terests yesterday. The price of cot ton (There is no market) remain id at the low ebb of the season, 6 3-1 cents the best offering and no great amount wanted at that figure. Sure ly there will be a return to a high level ere long. The beard is coming back. Why ’ Oh, for no other reason except that any war automatically gives the Qis South Dakota boy set the woods on fire. Almost as rash as candi dates who burn their bridges befor? them. They cougb't a pearl thief inParis. He thought the world was his oyster, but it wasn’t. Finding pearls in oysters isn’t a bit more difficult than finding oys ters in case stew. Hen’s teeth grow- more scarce. Chicago denttists in session find more women wearing false teeth. I OAIXIS lrada on Improved ’U farm 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, 1 Macon, Stewart, Randolph and Webster counties. 21 Planters Bank Building, > meric iu, Ga. Plum# SJ W . y I. - TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMEBER 30. 1924 flowing alfalfa a new lease of life. Remember, liow after the civil war the man who ran for office without affecting a long and flow ing decoration on his chin and cheek never had a chance. Wo'.-., heres another war, and with it : .s the beard. There are several il ready started here in Americus. Mrs. L. D. Lockhart, who sepnt the summer season again very plea tains of North Carolina, returned santly at Banner Elk, in the moun last night toher home in Americus. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder Sept. 39, 1904.) The blue tag is tied to September today, and not a drop of rain dur ing the blessed sweatful month. Verily, there is no balm in Gilead. Mrs. T. N. Hawkes and son,. Nel son, go to Atlanta today where Mr. Hawkes will study denistry. The statement in the Times-Re corder yesterday that W. D. Eli s of the British American Mortgage Co., which holds a claim aginst the Windsor Hotel, was in the city en deavoring to bring about a settle ment of the intricate legal differed-* ces concerning this property, creat ed considerable interest in Ameu cus. It is a well , known fact that citizens of Americus put $160,000 in this once splir.did property, and it goes withopt saying that the stockholders of the Hotel are anx ious to recover at least a portion of their holdings and see the Hotel re habilitated to its former condition. Americus buyers continued Io pay ten cents for cotton yesterday morning, though the condition of the market scarcely warranted that price. A million dollars has been paid to the farmers about America already for the cotton marketed here up to date. These are startling figures but a pencil and bit of pj per will show the result easily. The pretty suburban home of Mr and Mrs. George H. Seig was the scene last evening of a most happy and interesting occasion, the mar riage of their daughter, Miss Mag gie Seig to Mr. Emmet Ethridge Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER. Manage, Funeral Director# And Embalmer# Night Phone# 661 and 88 Dav Phone# 88 and 231 r M President T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Asa’t. Cashier i he Planters Bank of Americus, (Incorporated) OUR gjg|ig|g|fc CUSTOMERS WjlJ W " a reasonable knowledge of what each of our hundreds of ilj W tustom, ‘rs want, coupled with Si H BMEmSlctb our pledge to be “sympathetic »* lIL® l ° ever y nee d, and faithful to ' every trust”—makes this bank an institution preferred. We invite ’.cur account— commercial or Savh-ga. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 By Ahern THE STANDARD FACTORY SHORT LENGTHS ON SALE HERE WEDNESDAY AND THRUSDAY Solid color Chambray, 28 inches wide, pink, blue and all staple shades, fast colors, lengths 10 to 20-yard pieces, at yard 10c Short lengths of good quality Khaki Cloth, suitable for pants and heavy shirts; regularly 39c off the bolt; price for short lengths ...25c Short lengths of Mercerized Un derwear Crepe, beautiful shades; regularly 25c off the bolt; price for the short lengths, yard 15c. Short lengths of Imported Ba tiste, very sheer, highly mercerized; regularly 50c off the bolt; price for short lengths, yard 35c Short lengths of fine Fancy Art Ticking. 34 inches wide, extra heavy floral and striped designs; regularly 60c off the bolt; price for short lengths, yard 39c Short lengths of genuine Amos keag Apron Gingham, every ya r d guaranteed fast color; price off the full bolt about 25c; our price for short lengths, yard 12 l-2c Short lengths of Fancy Dress I'.ahls, suitable for children’s school dresses, fast colors, wool finish, at yard , 4 , 25c Novelty Oblong Checked Suiting, 36 inches wide, excellent quality; one of the most popular fabrics of the day; all colors; regularly 50c off the bolt; price for short lengths, yard 29c More Gingham on the 15 Cent Table We have sold more Gingham by the yard off this table during the past week than we have ever sold before in same length of time. We secured two or thre cases of the best Gingham and have been sell ing for the past two weeks for much less than the wholesale cost, but we bought these at a bargain and are glad to pass them on to you at the same rates; all at yard 15c Beautiful Plaid Blankets at $3.93 Pair Fine smooth Cotton Blankets, large size, in great variety of pret ty plaids with wool finish, good weight; here this week at pr. $3.98 Standard Dry Goods Company F°r»yth St. Next Bank of Conimerc# AMERICUS. GA. ,
