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PAGE FOUR IF EVERY ONE IN SUMTER COUNTY VISITS OUR FAIR ONE TIME IT WILL BE A SUCBESS TIMSB-RECC IDIB PUBUSHKD UK Published by Tbs Times-Recorder Co., luta.) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher E»terr< m mcodil ehaa natter «i the St Amn.eoa, &eoi>ia. te the het of Un|r«*. The Aeeocieted Preet la exclaatvely entitle ’ t« the um for the republication of all eewe 4U pitch©* credited to it ©i act otherwise credited te this paper and also the I ora) pnhliahed here* St Ail right of repahhcatk>» of apacia) ditgatobM are alao ream red. National Advertiaing Repweentativao, FROST LANDIS A KOHN, tornnawleh Bld*.. New Ywfct Wm' C,n BM|, Chicago A THOUGHT For in that he himself hath suf fered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.— Heb. 2:18. * • It is one thing to be tempted, an other thing to*fa!J. —Shakespeare. Pass Those Bonds Wednesday—November 5 the citizens of Americus will vote on the proposed $50,000 Emergency street bond issue. Every voter registered SHOULD vote, either for or against. We hope and be lieve that a majority vs ill vote for the issue- Remember this, for it is im portant: If you are registered and DO NOT VOTE you will have cast a vote against the is sue. There ajre approximately 1,000 names on the registration list. Two-thirds of those regis tered must vote or the issue is lost. Then, of those voting, 5 I per cent must vote FOR bonds, or the issue is lost. In the last few days we have again gone over the cost fig ures of repairing the wood blocks with the city engineer and city officials. It is costing al most as much to repair the streets each year as the interest on the entire issue, and this cost >vill increase every year. Regarding the charge made recently that it is contemplated to divert a part of this bond fund to pay off some how the floating debt. Such insinuations are wholly without ground, ab solutely incorrect and are unfair in the extreme. The mayor, the members of the finance commit tee and the city treasurer will -disburse this bond money. They are under heavy bond not to misappropriate one cent of it. At no time, privately or public ly, has either the mayor, the city treasurer or either member of (he finance committee said or in timate! that one cent of this money would be spent in any planner, except to permanently repave the wood block streets. Another mis-statement is that if these bonds are passed, it will be necessary to raise the tax rate next year to meet the interest and principal on them. That statement is false. In the first place the rate can not be raised, sbys the mayor. Second, it is not necessary, for the mayor al ready has fixed a tentative bud get for next year and in it has provided for the principal and ifitfrest on these new bonds. After all is said on this ques tion, -there is but one important fact to keep in mind, and we guolc the mayor’s statement to the women a few days ago: v “These wood blocks must be Repaired or relaid. The city j Avill not allow their, to pop up nnd remain so. The cost of this Repairing is getting more and more each year. Give us bond jpnoney to repave them and you stop this waste. If you do not .give us bond money, then we -#nust continue to repair them put of the general fund. And Sthig is a sinful waste of money. At’s like pouring water into a rat ■hole. “We are now retiring the float ing debt of the city at a rate ■Jfhat will wipe it out in less than 'Fix years. We have a special tax j>f five nulls for this purpose. •JWhen the floating debt is paid, «|his 5 mills Will be taken from your tax rate, leaving it at 15 .mills instead of 20 as it now is. " “The floating debt was made because past councils put down paving out of the general fund, instead of using Tiond money. "ft “We ask you to pass this bond -«sue because it is the one way &> stop that sort of thing and prevent in the future the piling Wp of a huge floating debt that 'pears 7 and 8 per cent interest, bond funds bear only 4 or <4 1-2 ped cent. slt is up to the citizens of Americus to say what they want done with their streets, but as- Oir studying this question for months, we are absolutely sure the citizens will make a great mistake if they fail to ratify the ftsue es they are requested to do by the Mayor and members of G&mcil- 1& JVote Wednesday by all i&ans, and vdte FOR those The Common People Pay. Reliable statistics show that with $32,000,000,000 in tax- ex empt public securities—national state, district—the difference in the earning power of the aver age tax-free security and that of taxed industrial property is about as 8 to 5; industrials must make the larger percentage in order to compete with the tax free holdings. This forces an unnatural scale of prices f.r everything that is made by in dustry, and prices are now and will remain high until all invest ments are brought to parity, by taxing all incomes from invest ments alike. Why should there be any tax exemption in the United States? The Constitution At the 150th Anniversary cel ebration of the meeting of the First Continental Cnogress at Valley Forge. Pa., Senator George Wharton Pepper said: “When things go wrong, in ninety-nine cases out ot a Hun dred it is we who are at fault— not our constitutional system. Our job is not to chop the Con stitution to pieces to fit our ab normalities, but to make our selves worthy to live under our constitution as it is. “We are reminded hero that when the times were evil, Wash ington fasted all day and united with his countryman in prayer for light and guidance. It was in this spirit that they >.id the foundations of the Constitution. Some of our modern reformers, on the basis of three square meals a day and the noisy procla mation of their own self-suffic iency, want to blow the founda tions from under the Constitu tion. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.’’ LaFollette’s idea, and those who would follow him, is to | tear up, revamp or amend the Federal Constitution. However, LaFollette’s propo sals amount to little. He will not be elected either by the peo ple of by the House of Repre sentatives. Th important question for you to remember when you cast your vote tomorrow is that every vote for LaFollette is a vote for Cool idge. | OPINIONS~OF J OTHER EDITORS WANTS BETTER ASSURANCE One of the best political car toons of the campaign is by Alley in the Memphis Commercial-Ap peal. The republican elephant, dress ed as a leader of that party, is lustily singing, “Oh, we ain’ gwine steal no mo’,” And a disconcerted accompani ment by the democratic donkey is— “ But how’n the ’ell kin the country tell—you ain’ gwine steal no mo’?” In the language of the first nighter in the “bald-head row ” it is “a scream!” The Tennessee democratic committee, it is understood, has circulated 50,000 copies of the cartoon. There is something to it!—At lanta Constitution, SLURS WILSON. Governor Walker did not do a gracious thing when he cast re proach on the name of Woodrow Wilson in the now celebrated speech which the Governor made to a Ku Klux convention. Ic is begging the question to say that Mr. Walker was talking as one Ku Kluxer to other Ku klux ers, and did not expect his re marks to be repeated beyond the charmed circle of that organiza tion. He did not anticipate that the secret of his visit and address would get into the newspapers, but that does not lessen the of fense which he has given mil lions of Democrats and the re proach he has sought to cast on the name of a great leader now in his grave. The Govern or charged that during the world war President Wilson permitted hig Catholic private secretary “to so manipulate the chicanery es politics” that Catholic centers were reared in the center of every camp and cantonment where thej were wanted, the Y. M. C. A. and other Protestant activities being driven to the ’’back alleys and side streets.” Woodrow Wilson wag a Pres byterian elder, the son of a Presbyterian minister. He was tolerant of other faiths, but a stout defender of his own. The roaring, protest against Governor Walker’s slander has come from all parts of the country, and is born of knowledge of millions of men and women that the charge is unfounded. The men who di rected religious activities in the army camns, and the easily ascer tainable facts as to the number and location of Y. M. C. A., Sal vation Army and K. of C. huts and tabernacles, nut the Governor to confusion. He made a slan derous charge against a dead statesman which thjiyo jmrnff'i- ' dente to «uppoft*M*id whichMtoM records and the testimony of millions who •’’rtiohle with authority” overwhelmingly OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahem IWf BELIEVE I \ " LKlik) PRiMTEI) ■ HAVt E-MotVkJ VOL) TUE Okj-lU'MA-lbRCi _CRES-T|<2>A UOOPLE COAT APFAG v COAT'OF ARM'S - pltLOvJ,— " NET ’ UAME ViRGT f FEAIIT-ToiJ \ AkJD IF \T RdCG d AkJ'TU’' z CAME IkJTO PROMikJEkICE DOkl'T F>AY f \ TpIJE To FORM | AkICEGTpAL | TtIROUGfI mW riOBLE 1 KkJEVJ OF H MEAkl<=>~<.K MOTTO 19>,~ <' N| BAROri DAVID, A UOOPLE id k T'VJUEkJ DO , *■ AdTUOkIV GEORGE, UEdRV kJEVJ ORLEAtJc, - \VIE EAT2J ■ UOOPLE, VJUO CARRIED HE WAC? A FTPEET 2 M TAE BAKjkjEP ov vokIG HMaJKER,-- TOLD V'sKa ' I APTIIUR VJITVI GLOPV, a, COMBlriAT'iOk) ' c * y AGAIM<S>TT|AE heck RAZOR \ BOAD ’ AriDCAIJ OPedEP.’J / > Itt IMFfW|’ ;3gS Z YjTM |j| Wgllj OFF -TdE 1 HOOPLE COAT OF X. ©1924 B« NEA SCTVKC. <MC T Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. Nov. 3, 1914.) Official figures of co ion ginned in Sumter county to October 18th the date of the government bureau estimates as furnished the Tin>es- Recorder today by Mr. W. P. Per sons county statistician idicates a decrease as compared v.ith Septem ber ginning, which was nearly 6,V00 bales in excess of the number gin ned up to Sept. 15th la it year The figures furnished today show a total of 26,544 bales ginned to Oct 18. The sale of the plant and equip ment of the Americus lee and Coal Co. under foreclosure proceedings was effected this morning in front of the courthouse, the plant having J been bought for A. W. Smith as re ceiver for the defunct Americus Na tional Bank at the price of $8,420, the said bank holding claims against' the property. The many friends of Miss Mary C. Granberry will welcome her com ing from New Orleans today upon a visit of some length in Americus, For former home, the guest of Mrs. Laura C. Speer. Miss Mary Elza Sheppard has’re turned to Wesleyan after a visit of several days at her home here. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. Nov. 3, 1904.) Mrs. J. L. Sparks and little daugh ter are at home gain after a visit of some length in North Carolina, the guest of relatives. The Lockhart farm of 100 acres near the city was sold a day or twe since netting a fine profit to the -owner over the purchase price. Mrs. Mary A. Pinkston, relative One of these debutantes tells us getting married is even more seri ous than joining a lodge. Have you ever kissed a girl whose teeth stick out too far? If Vou haven’t, then don’t. Ho hum! It’s a funny world. Peo pie who should be happy are not and those who shouldn’t be are. Denver woman wants a divorce from an inventor. We know a few inventors so don’t blame her. The saddest thing about life is it takes 50 years for young people to learn what they should know. Well, the Shenandoah has cross ed from one side of the newspaper to. the other and from the first page to the last. Women belong in politics, but one asked us if the slush fund rais ed in New York was to remove the snow this winter. In Dallas, Tex., they want school children to wear uniforms, so ‘some teacher may suggest strait jackets. , With aeroplanes becoming so safe and efficient these dirigibles |ike a lot of hot air to us. a But one ssn t mucn good until it has been used a q( year?, THE AMERfcus TIMES-RECORDER - of the late B. P. Pinks*, -n c£ Slew art county, was killed yc 'terday in her home at Union. She was riding in a wagon ana acckt. - ntally fell out and broke her neck. Col. Crawford Wheatley who for several years has been associated with the Sheffield-Hu’itington Co. recently disposing of his large in terest therein, has now <. stablishcd offices in the Bank of Americus building on Cotton avenue, wnere he will engage in a private bank ing and loan business. The public sale of the William' Tooke farm of 200 acres, five miles north of Americus, a day or two since evidences the rapid appreci ation' of land values ir. this section of the stalte. Bidding upon this property was very spirited and lucky purchaser was John, Crawford, a prosperous and. welk-tg-do co cred farmer of this county, who paid the round sum of $6,000 for the 200 acres. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. Nov. 3, 1894.) An order was placed yesterday with the well known house of Hen ry Pilcher and Sons of St. Louis, for a handsome pipe organ for tbe First Methodist church of this city. The instrument will cost about sl,- 250 and will be one of the best ever sent out by that house. The organ will be shipped and in position be fore the coming of the Christmas holidays. Messrs Thornton Wheatley and W. A. Dodson, Sumters immediate representatives in the l< gislature, will accompany that di -1 inguislied body on the trip to the Macmi Fair this morning. Mr. J. P. Cooper, an industriohs. hard-working farmer living near Americus, ■ had his ginhouse fired by incendiaries shortly before 3 o’clock yesterday morning and the building with its entire contents, went up in smoke. . Besides the building worth perhaps SBOO or SI,OOO, seven bales of seed cotton, the seed from thirty five other bales and 150 bushels of ofits, together with the gin were destroyed. THALEAN The Thalean Community Club met last night, Mrs. Claude Harvey presided. Under the head of new business it was decided to build up the school library as a definite work for the club to undertake. After the business session a so cial hour was enjoyed, during which games and contests were held. Miss lins rendered several selections on Ilah Burch and Miss Grace Col the piano. A feature of the con test was a string chewing contest between Miss Louise Goodson and Miss Daisy Stephens of the Thalean Junior High School faculty. Miss Stephens was the winner. The committee on the Fair booth has completed its arrange ments and will put up their dis play Monday. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. A. Finch, Mrs. Helms, Miss Kate Helms, and the, Baptist Association meeting, others of the community attended which was held in Smithville Thurs day and Friday of the past week. Miss Louise Goodson, of Daw son, is spending the week end with Miss Ruth Chappell. ____________ Seals have special ladiator jnam-. branes that warm th«< ice-cold atr before it reaches their lungs, FLYING On her seventy-sixth birthday, Mrs. John Lee of Kamsc-S takes a ride in an airplane as guest of her grandson. The picture shows her seat el .n the plane as calmly as though about to distribute cookies among the children. You admire her courage. But by thi? time you arc 76 you’ll do most of your traveling in planes. Flying already is 100 limes safer than most of us believe. # * * FALLING Probably not more than one per son in 10 would take a ride in an airplane if they had t.'ie chance. Falling is what they fear. It’s a natural fear, dating back to the baby’s catastrophes in learning to walk and the child’s pain from fall ing out of a tree. Flying will never become popular ized until the danger of falling is almost entirely removed. Speed i.-. the goal now. Safety will be, later when planes will primarily be mote than military machines ♦ ♦ # WAR Six large women’s organizations will meet in Washington. D. C., in •January “to determine the cause and cure of war.” The cause of war (barring rebel lions for freedom) is usually profit. The cure for such wars is to take away the profit. Drafting factories ’ NOTICE! Pursuant to a resolution and ordi nance passed by the Mayor and City Council ot Americus on the second day of October, instant, calling a bond election to determine whether street improvement bonds in the sum of. sixty thousand dollars should be issued and fixing the date of said election as the fifth day of No hereby given that an election will be held at the usual voting place in the City Hall in the City of Amer icus, on the fifth day of November, 1924, to determine whether an is sue of serial bonds in the amount of sixty thousand dollars shall be issued by the Mayor and City Coun cil of Americus for the purpose of street improvement within the city. The polls will be onen at 9 o’clock a. m. and dose at 6 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of holding this elec tion on November fifth, proximo. Said bonds shall be issued January 1, 1925, shall bear interest at 4 1-2% per annum, which interest shall be paid semi-annually on the first day of January and the first day of July of each year, after their issuance. Said bonds shall be issued in denominations of one thousand dollars each, two of which bonds shall be retired on the first day of January of each year after their issuance, for a ' period of thirty years. The amount of mon ey necessary to be collected an nually by a special levy for this purpose to pay the annual interest on this entire issue of said bonds and to retire two of said bonds an nually will be two thousand dollars for the purpose of retiring two of said bonds each year and $2700.00 for the purpose of paying interest on the entire amount for 1925, the •first year after issuance, and the amount levied and collected to pay interest on the unpaid bonds of this issue will be year l yjjftrs by d |.ffp <l<>ll4rs, that the laat year <4 Said period Puppy loyt'Sß’ i - «»«/< a out for a> walk, h&ftd in hanA - - - ‘£roFS".‘. «” ■» watches outside as she enters the place, II P’ B ln kld-days that such things occur Mui II then she comes out with a smile on her face W XxJas he carries her bundles for her. ’> A They slowly walk home and they taiic J about school, and she asks him what class | AJW M is In Why. Im in the first ll|M| [I wiU brvast - ** a and Uras w 1 thelr aUnRS V friendship begin ' ■BjEjl "* Sh e' s j” 81 a neighbor, this sass Httie raSIW* lass, and she lives lust two houses above bar | jy. •K' Httie boy friend, so it cometh to pass tBBI she's moved into real puppy love. __ tCopyright. l»«, NBA Service, tag®. and dollars, the same as conscript ing human bodies, would work won ders. * * * SPEED Because it flew 187 roles at a speed faster than a r.iiie a minute, a pigeon gets its picture in the pa pers and is exhibited at the electri cal exposition in New York. An airplane that can’t travel faster than that is out-of-date. .Ml this has come about in 20 years. We move fast. * « * GONE In an accident, Benjamin War shofsky, 20, lost his left leg and the ether was so badly smashed it’s use less. A jury awards him $60,000. But he, formerly strong and ath letic, sits glumly at the window and says: “What do I care for a coupla dollars? They won’t g’ve me back my legs.” Money is not all, though most of us never realize it until ;ve have lost health or become cripnied. If we realized, the goal of our work would be health and sound bodies, rather than pay. »* * • EPINARD The owner of Epin.ud refused $300,000 recently for lis fa nous horse. The price amazes people. Bitter comparisons are made with the value of a man. But there’s only one Epinard. At 4 per cent in tel est, ‘5300,000 would yield an in come of $12,000 a year. Any nan who makes that is “worth” as much as Epinard. Multiply your year’s income by 25 and you have your actual fican icial worth on a 4 per cent basis. Are you guarding and caring for your body and mind as much as you would a machine, house or business of the same value? ♦ * * GIANT The tallest building in the world, of thirty years, to-wit, 1954, a suf ficient sum to retire the last two ■ outstanding bonds of this issue amounting to two thousand dollars and the interest on same, amount ing to ninety dollars, must bo levied and collected for this purpose. The registration books for this elec tion are now open and will be kept open until the last Saturday im mediately preceding the date for which the election is herein called and will be closed at 5 o’clock p. m. on said last Saturday before the date of said election. A. D. GATEWOOD, JR., Clerk and Treasurer. City Taxes Now Due All city taxes are now due and must be paid before December 1, to avoid extra costs which will be assessed after December 1. A. D. Gatewood, Clerk and Treasurer Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Day Phones 88 and 231 L. G. COUNCIL, President T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier, J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) OOUR CUSTOMERS With a reasonable knowledge of what each of our hundreds of customers want, coupled with our pledge to be “sympathetic to every need, and faithful to every trust”—-makes this bank an institution preferred. We cordially invite ycur account commercial or Savings. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 ° PROMPT, CdMSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1924 is being erected —not .n New York, but in Rome, Italy. It wdl rise 408 feet higher than the Woolwoorth Building. The gigantic structure will con tain 4500 rooms. 100 hall, theater, gymnasiums, swimming pools, etc. It will oe used mainly for sporting events and training athletes. Its name will be the Mole Lictoria. Building a Tower of Babel in the in terests of sports rather than science is quite appropriate m our genera tion. However, for one Mole Lic toria we have thousands of labora tories and universities. THE STANDARD BEGINS MONDAY, NOV. 3RD OUR NOVEMBER SALE A Storewide Program of Savings Has Been Arranged For This Sale. Never in Our History Have More Attractive Stocks, More Attractively Priced, Been Offered By This or Any Other Store in Americus. Be On Hand Early and Investigate the Spec ials We Are Offering. $3.50 to $4.00 All Wool Coatings at $2-98 Imported Coatings for Dresses and Coats; beautiful color combi nations! 56 inches wide; here, at Yard - $2.98 $3.00 to $4.00 Canton Crepe at $1.98 40 Inches wide; black and colors, new shades; beautifully finished, at Yard $1.98 98c Shantung at 59c Rose, Blue and Pongee for every thing from dresses to curtains; heavy, rough threads; 36 inches wide, at Yard 59c Some Old Fashioned Calicoes Here At 8c Silver Grays, made by Wm. Simp son, probably some of you remem ber how good he used to make this calico; pretty patterns; here for Monday and Tuesday only, at Yard 8c Pepperel Sheeting At 39c Yard Unbleached natural color; guar anteed wide enough for any regular size bed; here Monday and Tues day only, Yard 39c Children’s Gingham and Percale Dresses at 49c Servicable quality of Standard Gingham and Percale Dresses made up in good styles; think of buying sizes 14 to 49; almost large enftugb. for a full grown woman, Monday and Tuesday 49 c Yard Wide Sea Island at 8 l-2c 1000 Yards full Yard Wide fine smooth Sea Island on sale here Monday and Tuesday only, at Yard ‘ 8 l-2c 50c Sattecn Ticking at 39c On sale Monday and Tuesday only; fancy striped Satteen Art Ticking; full bolts (not short lenghts) sold only on Monday and Tuesday, Yard 39c Standard Dry Goods Company Forsyth St. Next Bank of Comnsorco AMERICUS. GA.
