About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1924)
PAGE FOUR IIMIB-RECIIDSI PUBUSHKD urn Published by The Times-Recorder Co., <we,) Lovelace Eve, Editor and Publisher Kaund u weond elm Buttei at th* preiolflcc M Aaw.eu, Creorgia, •eoordlaj m th* AM ad Caagrwa. Tka Aaaoclarad Praaa la exclnrirel, aadthl M tka re* foi the republication al all neve din patehea credited to it or not othorwiao credited to tka papet and alao the local .ova pakUahed here in. All right of republication of apodal dlapatehaa are alao received. National Advertlaing Repaeaentatiraa, FROST UNDIS A KOHN, krnnavidk, Rldp.. Nov I ark I loopin' Gaa Bldg.. Chicago. A THOUGHT Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou, diaquited in me? Hope thou in God—Ps. 42:15. ♦ » • Christians are directed to have faith in Chrict, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desir t. —Franklin. “Get Out the Paper’’ It is an unwritten law in ev ery newspaper office that the paper must be gotten out re gardless of difficulties or ex pense. A few days ago the publisher of one of South Georgia’s best weekly papers phoned us for help. "A cylinder on our press is broken; we can’t print our paper; can you help us out?" A few hours later a printer and a pressman from the paper in trouble drove up with his “forms"—that is, the type from which the paper is printed. The forms, ink and paper were placed on one of the Times- Recorder presses; the weekly paper was printed and carried many miles through the night. The publisher and his crew were tired, but extremely hap py. "The paper was “out.” Disregarding cost and human energy, the subscriber must get his paper. A little late some times, but delivered just the same. Printing machinery is among the most delicate and difficult of mechanical devices. And while thousands of extra parts are kept on hand to supply, broken or injured parts, occas ionally a break down comes in every plant. There are times when the mechanical force works for 24 or 48 hours without sleep, nev er grumbling or kicking. From office boy to publisher there is that spirit of loyalty to the reader, that desire “to get the paper out regardless.” A Scandal Brewing One sure way of losing the confidence of the average man in his government is the trad ing or selling of Federal patron age. It may be good politics to allow the victor to take the spoils, but when the victor per mits the spoils to be traded for; sold to the highest bidder; swapped and trafficed for, the party in power is sure to forfeit the confidence of the voters. Senator Walter F. George, according to press dispatches, has evidenced that this sort of practice is now taking part in Georgia; and that the negro Re publican boss, Henry Lincoln Johnson or his agents, are re sponsible. The Junior Georgia Senator has presented the situation to the President with the request that he act. Should the Presi dent fail, Senator George says there will be a "fight all along the line.” And Senator George is just the man to live up to his promises. The Republican party has time and again expressed its desire to break the Solid South; to establish itself "down in Dixie." If that desire is gen uine, the G. O. P. should first select REPRESENTATIVE . white Republicans to manage its affairs and distribute its patron age "down in Dixie." There are such men in the Georgia party and to have placed a negro national commit teeman over them, and later add a negress as national com-, mitteewoman, is, to say the least, poor politics, faulty judg ment and an insult to its white adherents. The manner in which Repub lican affairs have been handled in Georgia for the past several years has been little short of criminal. An impartial invest gation may show that a really wholesome scandal exists. And w hile we are Democrats, still we are Americans and this is CUR government and not a lame horse to be kicked about by a bunch of ignorant, grasping un principled whites and biacks A scandal is brewing in the political pot. 1 he High Cost of Poor Farming Statistics are being invoked in every line of business now adays to insure a degree of ac curacy regarding operations, notes the Augusta Chronicle. It is a notable thing that until re cently but little has been done in a definite way to acquaint farmers with their own affairs. The average farmer has ben going along planting so many acres in cotton, so many in corn, and so many other crops without regard to result,” says the Moultrie Observer. “The idea seems to have been just to get something to do regardless of the outcome." Clemson College has issued a booklet on farm operations and the cost of production in Anderson County, South Caro lina, that should be in the hands of every farmer in the South. It shows what is being done in this representative agricultural section. A total of 33 farms were handled in the work, which was done in 1922, and the wide range of output and cost con stitute an amazing state of af fairs in Southern agriculture. The average income per farm was $387, of which the tenant farmers was S3OO and the own er operators $4 14. The aver age laborer received $392 per farm and the average return on farm investments amounted to 8 per cent, which certainly was not bad, considering everything. It is shown that the average owner, or operator, expended $2 77 in labor per farm, which was charged out before profits were figured, though $122 of family labor was thrown in, for good measure. Cost of cotton production av eraged 20.4 cents per pound, but the range in cost was from 8 cents to $1.16 per pound. Corn cost an average of $1.45 per bushel, oats 52 cents per bushel, hay $16.77 per ton, wheat $1.95 per bushel. One thing that may be said of Anderson county certainly can not be said of the average farm er’s family. The Clemson Col lege booklet states that they consumed 333 gallons of milk or nearly a gallon a dpy, 136 pounds of butter, 66 dozen eggs, $79 worth of meats, 12 bushels of meal, 10 bushels of flour, or wheat, six gallons of syrup, 21 bushels of potatoes and S4B worth of garden prod ucts. On the whole they sure ly were pretty well fed, besides living in a house that had an av erage rental value of $192 a year. A striking feature l of the re port is the fact that analysis shows that the most profitable crop on the land was oats, fol lowed by cowpeas, the two crops being the most profitable grown in the county. This doubtless holds true the coun try over, especially the South east. The time will come when the farmers will keep books on their farming operations, make a summary of their business at the end of the year and start out next season with a more intelli gent idea of what can be ac complished. Alt - &IZS Christmas is dashing madly to ward us at the rate of 60 seconds a minute. This Claus family is rbout like all the other. Mrs. Santa Claus does the work and Mr. Santa Claus gets the credit. Wish old St. Nick would bring us about half a dozen brand new pay days, large size. Our guess, just offhand, is that half the men looking at their watches don’t care much what time it is. Wouldn’t it be a hear of fun if lyou could live up to your ideals without using any energy? Winter would be much nicer if it didn’t work at night. Many sealskin coats being sold this winter were worn by rabbits last winter. Movie productions will be reduced so maybe they will show the same films over instead of just the same plots. Somebody could make a good movie of a mad dog chasing a tax collector for miles and miles and miles. It may be cheaper to marry than to give her a Christmas present. In Boston the center cf culture, a man gave up his job because he couldn’t chew tobacco at work. . OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern XtLL X : '. j . ’.LU \ j KIOVJ VJIUT MW LIkJEG V EASV IkJ lUIG J OWXVFAc am 5 VJILL BE ASTUE kIOBLE ’ V, J , aJ EPEEcU - rfaLIIVS CAEE-ARAU,— VLAViUG ‘ ; ’ OF tAARC : MERE AGEMTUA-r ™ PARToFCAG&iOG, I crfßtKeG w 111 BE TP UouJukJG CTfllEid MAVBe ICAhJ- f - £ BT-JbVE.-TUUIJG UJAG J ABOUT I I AMAKIOFMVFEATPER! A AKJ'WKE'-I £ ~'EGAP,~I VJILL PIT J V XIT ( -True perk/or \tPoge vJords!/ T L-.'l (K. mF ■ TFT • b rmWnPi II \ iblWi Am ii "tinMitel ww < j I'< w I Wi IM w iWMr* \ ®’ 92 « * w** "» c MIMoM PAVTfe | Old Days In Americus TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. Dec. 5, 1914.) So far as the police were inform ed this morning, no other burglaries last night followed the four commit ted early yesterday morning on Prospect Heights, when a raid was a MlbertAwie SAM Money collected in taxes by Uncle Sam in four months up to Nov. 1 totaled roughly 736 millicnd dollars. This was over 79 millions less than, in the corresponding months of J 1923. The slump was mainly due' to business depression. With prosperity returning, 1925 should fill the people’s wallets. That means, bigger incomes to tax. If Congress curbs its spending, chances are that a substantial hole can be cut in the national debt. ♦ ♦ ♦ BURDEN Uncle Sam figures on paying off the national debt in about 20 years. Roughly, this will retiring a billion dollars worth of bonds every year. If the program works out the generation that fought tjie war will pay for most of it. That’s fair er than passing the warden to the future. Cities which are mortgaging the future by increasing bonded indebt edness should follow the national lead. “Improvements” are needed, to be sure. But no improvement teats freedom from debt. » • • DEATH-RAY No mysterious death rays have been discovered, says Brig. Gen. Fries, head of the chemical warfare service. He says all known rays and power obey cm tain definite laws. He adds that the same is true of poison gases, and derr’es stories about new and terrible gases. I After all, modern warfare is mainly a matter of starving the people back of the lines and ex hausting their powers of economic resistance. That’s our greatest na tional strength. ♦ ♦ ♦ LIGHTNING All important so-ca'led mysteries eventually yield to science. The latest to be solved is the age-old mystery of what’s known as ball lightning. The explanation is com plicated. But ball lightning recently was produced artificial'y in General Electric laboratories. Scientists are detectives. Pro gress is simply the understanding and application of things and forces that already exist in nature. Man is like a boy exploring endless cun boards. * * * LABOR Organized labor plans to expand in the life insurance field as vigor ously as it has branched out into banking. It’s a logical move. The two are closely related, insura oee being a method of scientific saving. Organized labor is just beginning to realize the powers it has by rea with its savings, eventually could buy out its employers. * * • COPPER Business is improving swiftly in nearly every direction One case is the copper industry, which so far this year has exported 140 pounds of metal for every 100 pounds a year ago. Shipments to other coun tries now are almost as big as be fore the war. THE AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER w made upon the Guerry score, the G. W. Cannon store and residence and the garage of J. T. Wairen. Dear old Santa—Please bring me a pony and a saddle a,id rifle and a box of shot and a bridle and a blanket and a drum and I’ll be a good little boy. Good bye. Barlow Council. Miss Mitch Payne will return home tonight from a vi«it of some length to friends in Thomasville, and Pavo. Dear Santa, I wish you would bring me a pair of boots to go 'with my cowboy suit and a pistol case and belt, a nice new suit of clothes and some goodies. Your little friend, James Collins. Miss Mary Belle Hixon, who is being delightfully entertained in Atlanta is the guest of Mrs. S. Rus sell Bridges, was one of the maids of honor to the “Queen of the Carnival” there last week, a social occasion of statewide interest. TWENTY YEARS \GO TODAY Monday, no paper nub'ished. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Time sßecorder. Dec. 5, 1894.) V There will be a pleasant gathering cn Friday evening for the children under chaperonage of Miss Lena Haynes at her residence. Candy will be pulled by the merry boys and girls and the proceeds will be given to. the organ fund of Calvary .church. Several ladies will assist Miss Haynes. A good time is in store for all who attend. A happy marriage was consumat ed at Leslie yesterday, the contract ing parties being Mr Issac A. Per ry and Miss Bettie Parker. The nuptial not was tied by Judge \ A. Freeman in the presence of a num ber of friends and relatives of the hjippy couple. Mr. James Cotney who has been connected with the Americus Jewl ry and Music House for the past cwo or three years has resigned his position there, and will engage in jther business shortly. The through Pullman- sle -pers that pass Americus each night on route to Jacksonville are generally well filled with Western and North ern tourists. Did they but know of the climate surroundings here they would skip the “land of flow ers.” Tfie first monarch to own a pri vate airplane was ti e h ug of Spain, others going up in the air without them. _ railroal; schedules Arrival and Departure of Fassenge Trains, Americus, Ga. Central of Georgia Ry. Central Standard Time Arrive Depart 12:01am Cols-Bham-Chgo 3:55 am 12:20 am Chgo-St.L Atl 2:27 am 1:53 am Alb-Jax-Miami 2:08 am 2:08 am. Chgo-Cin-Atl 1:53 am 2:27 am Jax-Alban'y 12:20 am 3:20 am Miami-Jax-Alb. 11:42 pm 3:55am Miami-Jax-Alb. 12:01am 5:29 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pm 6:34 am Albany 6:47 pm 10:10 am Columbus 3:15 pm lpm Chgo-St.L-Bham 2:40 pm 1:15 pm Chgo-St.L-Atl 2:13 pm 1 :54 pm Atlanta-Macon 1:54 pm 1:54 pm Alb-Montg’y 1:54 pm 2:13 pm Miami-Jax Alb 1:15 pm 2:40 pm Miami-Jax-Alb 1:00 pm 6:47 pm Atlanta-Macon* 6:34 am 10:35 pm Alb-Montg’y 5:29 am 11:42 pm Chgo-St.L-Atl 3:20 am SEABOARD AIR LINE Central Time) Arrive Departs 7:55 am. Cordele-Helena 9:35 am 12:26 pm Cols-M’tg’y 3:23 pm 3:23 pm Cordele-Savh 12:26 pm J. A. BOWEN, Local Agent When the Cub Isn't Covering < Assignments j —By W. K. S Tourists going to Florida were held up and robbed by a gang of men near Valdosta—Oet the land lords in Florida were sorry to learn that they have competition. * * -r The Cross Word Puzzle Craze has hit England. This ought to get her mind off the Egyptian trouble for a little while. * * • The Columbus Mystery Girl at last tells the police that her name is Mary Smith. Can you imagine such a name baffling detectives for a month. * * » Police had to be called in to quell a fight between two factions of the United Daughters of Con federacy meeting in Washington. Being so close to Gettysburg must have had a bad influence. * * * COTTON MAY BE DOWN BUT IT’S NEVER OUT. Charley Burke had a small fire in his Ball Park warehouse Tuesday evening and twenty five bales were damaged by fire. The fire fighters were called to the scene and it was thought that all the fire in the bales l ad been extinguished. However, “Dusty” had the bales removed from the warehouse and placed on the outsiae of the build ing. He showed good judgment here. Wednesday at midnight one of the bales burst out in flames and the smoke eaters had to be recalled to finish the job which they thought had been completed Tuesday after noon. * * * The man who is a radio fan and a cross word puzzle bug too; don’t have much time to devote to his family. * * * We have heard so much about ‘‘Little Jessie James and the James Boys,” recently that we ire wonder ing if they had anything to (lo with Attention, Masons Regular communication M. B. Council Lodge No. 95 tonight 7 o’clock, Masonic hall. All Masons cordially invited. DAN CHAPPELL, W. M., R. L. CRAWFORD, Sec. WANTED Porto Rico Yams R. E. BLACK NOTICE! Registration boolc for the ge leva! election to be held Wednesday, December 17th, 1924, are now open. A. D. GATEWOOD, JR., Clerk and Treasurer. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 k Pay Phonej 88 rud 2JLL FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 5, 1924 IT'S easy enough just to promise you'll write and with friends of yours keep in close touch. But the thought dies away, when the friend’s of sight, though the task n"’er amounts to so much. ' Some relatives visit you; tiun go away, with requests that you drop them a card. You promise, but hesitate, day after day. Why is it that writing's so hard? No doubt there is paper, right 11 ~~ lm ready at hand, that you purchased WBSa for letters and such, but it seems -t ! that you never can quite under- / stand why you seldom are using it A Jf much \ H. . y fl In just a short time you could *TS? _ jfh/ J W dash off a note that would tell friends the news of the day. But. at I postponing writing we all seem to dote though real promptness at writing would pay. Just take a nigl.t off. write the letters you owe. for qn writing a whole lot depends Ycu'H find that the letters to friends that you know will' help them to always he friends. 'Copyright. 1924, NEA Service. Inc.) J the holding up of the State High way Official neab here Tuesday night. ♦ ♦ ♦ A STITCH IN TIME. During the past mon'.’i two stores have been burglarized in Americus. Thiev&s came into both of the stores through windows in the rear. Nei ther of these window, had bars across them. It proved an easy matter for the pillagers to come in the stores, open the doors and help themselves. Some have said, where was the policeman? This is unfair, the ques tion of most importance is, how did the burglars get in? No criticism should be heaped on the heads of the local police force for these two robberies. The best thing the criti cizers can do, if they be merchants, is to place heavy iron bars across all windows in the rear of ti eir stores and shut up these entrances which are the same as “welcome" signs to the burglar ♦ * V HENRY WINS A HENRY. Must be a “Grand and Glorious Feeling,” to win an automobile?! Now when the barrister and the wiff go on a journey they can put the J. H. in the tool box of the ‘‘Cad” to help out in an emergency. Wouldn’t it be too bad if we were all as bad as our enemies think? WOMEN NEED SWAMP ROOT Thousands of women have kidney and bladder trouble and never susnect it. Women’s complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trou ble, or the result of kidney or blad der disease. If the kidneys are not in a healthy condition, they may cause the other organs to become diseas ed. Pain in the back, headache, loss of ambition, nervousness, are out cn times symptoms of kidney trou ney trouble. Don’t delay starting treatment. Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, a phy sician’s prescription, obtained at any drug store, be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions. Get a medium or large size bot tle immediately from *any drug store. However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing hamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper. —(adv.) $5,000 TO LOAN On Americus Residence Property Phone 830 J. LEWIS ELLIS LOANS made on improved farm lands at cheapest 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 Sum ter county alone, with plenty more to lend. miqdleton McDonald Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co., in Sun ter, Lee, Terrell, Schley, Ma con, Stewart, Randolph and Web ster counties. 21 Planters Bank bldg., Americus, Ga. Phone 89 or 211. L G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier I he Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) OUR ■ 4 CUSTOMERS W With a reasonable knowledge of what each of our hundreds of rf-ifi.. Fl!f'?kli 1 • «W Kifi customers wan , cou >led with PMrwr" 1 our pledge to be “sympathetic Hu li’lll JI ever y n eed, and faithful to every trust”—-makes this bank an institution preferred. We iijs.■ U-qrt'-Il -ifli cordially invite , cur account— — fi etcommercial or Savings. Capital and Surplus $350,000.G0 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 4 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, .ACCOMMODATING CAN’T BEAT IT “I’ve got a safe full of thankful letters testifying to the mighty heal, ing power of Peterson’s Ointment for old and running sores, eczema, salt rheum, ulcers, sore feet, broken breast, itching scalp, chafing and blind, itching and bleeding piles.” T. G. Rokestrom. of 808 Loraine St., Detroit, writes: “I suffered with piles for over 25 years nothing did rr.e any good. After my fourth box of Peterson’s Oint ment I am nparly cured. It is the greatest ointment I ever heard of.” 35c, 60c.— (adv.) THE STANDARD FRIDAY and SATURDAY BARGAINS At 35c—Solid Green and Brown Burlap, 36 inches wide, excellent quality. At $1 Box —Ladies Linen Hem stitched Handkerchiefs. At $1 Box—Men’s Initial Hand kerchiefs, warranted all linen. At 59c Box—Men’s Bleached Cotton Initial Handkerchiefs. At $1 Box—Men’s Pure Irish Linen Handkerchiefs, initialor or plain. At $1 Box—Ladies’ White Lin en Handkerchiefs, colored tape edges. At 25c—Ladies’ Imported Pon gee full regular size and hem stitched. At 59c—Men’s Colored Border Silk Handkerchiefs, full regular size. We have the largest stock of Handkerchiefs in South Georgia. Come look them over. At 50c—Ladies Silk Stocking that are worth a dollar if they are worth a cent, here now at pair, 50c —and the following colors are in cluded: Peach, Biege, Black, Brown and Gray . At 69c—Here is another dol lar stocking. Plenty of the fol lowing colors: Two shades of Gray, Biege, Peach, Black and Oriental Pearl. - At .$1 —Fine Lisle Stockings in the following colors: Beaver, Stone Gray, Russian Tan. Those are regulaj 1 $1.50 stockings in some other stores. You see this number and you will buy. At $1 Beautiful Chiffon Stockings in black and every good color, fine feather weight but strong enough to give good service. Two Thousand Yards Best Outing at 20e Yard. Think of the best Outing and you have this one; perfect, fresh new patterns just from the mill; here now at, yard 20c Ladier.’ and Men’s Outing Gowns at $1.25 and $1.50. Made of good heavy quality stripe Flannelette, absolutely fast colors; all sizes; here now at $1.25 to $1.50 All Wool Serge Dresses At $6.75. Every Press in this offering was made to retail at $lO, and they are worth every cent of that price, too; here they all go now ....$6.75 Standard Dry Goods Company FORSYTH STREET Next to Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GEORGIA
