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A THOUGHT - In the time of trouble he .hall hide me in his pavilion: in the se cret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me upon a rock, — Fs. 27:5. • « • , It is not designed tl at the road k should be made too smooth for us Samuel Gompers The death of Samuel Gomp 'ers brought sorro wto the mil lions of union labor as well as to many men and women out side the ranks of labor. Gompers was worshipper by his followers and respected by those who opposed his princi ples. He numbered among his friends such men as Woodrow Wilson and Charles Schwab, as well as rriSny others listed among what labor terms the cap italistic group. « More than two score years the national leader of labor, since the war a director of in ternational labor policies, Sam uel Gompers is conceded to have been the greatest single agent in the uplift of the conditon of workingmen in retent times. In policy Gompers always took the middle ground. Too radical to satisfy the extreme conservatives, too conservative to please the extreme radicals, he steered his ship through the tempestuous seas of diverse opinion for an amazng period. The qualities that made him successfully lead the American Federation of Labor through so many trying crises have been described as these: Indomita ble courage, iron will, instinctive tact and diplomacy, ability to keep his finger on the pulse of the labor movement, a brilliant mind, inspiring oratory. Landing in America from London an ignorant immigrant boy at I 5 he took up the family trade of cigar makng in New York. He led his more timid comrades into revolt against the „ conditions that made the work of a cigarmaker almost intolera ble in the old days. While still in his teens he was instrumental in the installation of a “reader” in the factories who relieved the tedum of the automatic tasks by reading aloud to the cigarmakers. Gompers was 31 years old when he took the reins of the federation. He kept them, with the exception of one year, 1895. In that time he saw the trades union movement rise from a few feeble organizations in the east to the largest and most powerful union of workers in the world. He saw the policies of labor veer from radicalism to conservatism a dozen times. Al ways it was Gompers who saw that the course never became too extreme. Mr. Gompers was the author of many books dealing with the problems of labor. His schooling extended only to four terms of three months each, yet he was considered one of the foremost authorities on sociology and economies in the United States. His parents were Dutch Jews who came to London before they were married. The story is told that Gom pers once refused a $45,000 a year salary with a “capitalis tic” corporation at a time when his salary as federation head was $2,000 a year. Gompesr was a hard fighter, from first to last. He went af ter what he desired with all the vim and vigor of a healthy man. In the first days of the federa tion the sledding was hard and of those days, a close friend of Gompers says: “Sam was young the”.. He w:.s ret so stockv, aiiri he had a )ot more hair, black as your hat. He was a natty little f •Ur-’-v, too, full of fight, possessing the capacity for work of a domesticated <le pLrnt, a good talker and he had iiil tne faith in the world. *’Jie slid not have ;tr.y money of his own and the organization l.ad little more. Many’s the tin e 1 >’e seen Gompers conic into town, plug hat. and all, .vortj tor a ft-w cay® and thrh one of the boys to one side, bot- - row a ten spot to got to tne next town. The ten always came back. “lie was game, too. On one oc casion that I recall he faced the gun of a hired bul'v. Sam didn't yell for a cop or take it <m the run. He just walked ip to tin* lad and made him hand the guo over. “Had he so much as b itted an eyelash he would have been little more use to the labor movement, whether he escaped with his life or not. At that time the move ment was primitive and it appeal ed to the more primitive passions of men. That he had “guts’’ and would fight, was a point in his favor. As it was, that incident helped make Gompers.” Gompers’ place' will, no doubt, be filled by another com petent labor leader. It is to be ardently hoped that his suc cessor will be as patriotic, as just and as conservative as Gom pers has been. It was these qualities more than others that made it possible for him to do so much for the cause he repre sented. ARREST OF YOUTH’S FLOORERS EXPECTED Cobb County Officers Have Tip Leading To Capture Os Entire Band AUSTELL, §a., Dec. 15. Charles J. Shelverton, Jr., 25 year old son of this town’s former major received a long-distance telephone call from Marietta, the Cobb county seat late Sunday to the effect that county authorities would make “at least, three arrests” Monday as the first move against the 14 unmask ed men who lured him from his home last Thursday n'ght, drove him to a lonely' spot on the Naple ton-Powder Springs road, two miles northwest of Austell, and horse whipped him, leaving his body buri ed beneath apile of shrubbery, with admonition that “he was only the first of many to get the same dose.” Shelverton said Sunday night that the county authorities were “working on a hot t : p” that prob ably would lead to identification and arrest of the entire band of 14. He was sure, however, tha-. there would be three arrests sometime Monday, at Austell or near that town. It was brought out for the first time Sunday that a number of the unmasked 14 are not citizens of Austell. It is said’that few came all the way from Marietta and that oth ers lived in or near Austell. This is the first time that the theory was sprung that all<of the men were not citizens of Austell. Tlte Shelvertons said Sunday that they were armed and ready for any new invasion of their home or rights STbSSe HF BLUE OF SITROGEN —1 Tod Dressing Qu’ckly Available With Corn Brings Splen d’d Results A strikin gexample of the value of a top dressing of quickly avail able nitrogen with corn was shown on the farm of Mr. H. V. Locke in Elbert county this you. Sulphate of ammonia was the form in which it was used, accord'ng to county* agent W. P. Huie, and the results obtained show the valu? of this ma terial particularly in a dry period at a Critical time in ths life of the crop. The acreage of the plot selected for the demonstration and check plot was slightly over one and one half acres. This w di ided as carefully as possible both in rssoeet to fertility and moisture retain'ng qualities. A light application of ready mix ed fertilizer was used at planting time, and a prolific variety of corn was planted. When the corn was about three feet high 200 nounds of sulphate of ammonia was ap plied to one of the plots, not other top dressing being used on the oth er area. The cultivation given each was identical. There was a severe drouth at the time the ears were forming and the plot on which no top dressing was used was practically ruined, the yield being five bushels on the three-quarters of an acto. The yield from the area ”n which sulphate of ammonia was used, was of course greatly reduced, bu‘ every stalk bore two or mire ears, the total yield being 26 1-2 bushels of thoroughly dry corn slightly more than five times the return from the jirea on which no top dressing was used, _ AMEN! ’A, \ \ " Ity - gSS.* \T\! ■ & Allty XxX \ X \\ L /' 7/ > • ■ z " \W>I V77'' ■ •—XJL ... ‘ 1V DECISIVE \ /\ \ \\ VJcfeRY EM XX . 7 OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. Dec. 15, 1914.1 According to a bulletin 'ssued last right and posted at the Americus shops) of the Seaboard Air Line railway, Americus will no longer be the terminal for the time ugh freight trains, as it has been for twenty five years, but instead, the terminal headquarters will be divided .be tween Montgomery and Cordele. Among the contributions recei cd today for the Empty Stocking Fund was one from Washington, D. C. Congressman Crisp, our representa tive in Uncle Sams lower house, has sent us his check for $5.00. Miss Yonah Buchanan is expect ed to arrive this week-end to spend the holidays here* with her sister. Mrs. E. L. Bell, at her residence on South Lee street. The cotton market is quoted to day as follows. Good middling f 3-4 to 7 cerAs. Middling 6to 6 1-4. Dear Old Santa: Please bring n.f some tools to work with and a sant dumper. I am a good little boy five years old. Don’t forget sister she is good, too. I send ten cent o’ Saizs Japanese don’t care ioi dogs a bouse pets, but we can’t picture thi as making a good dog sc mad. There are 20 women lawyers i> England. We would like .to heai their hair being cut by 20 womc: barbers. Pumpkin Center is the name of ; town in South Dakota, but we don't know why. Harvard University is the oldest American college, dating back even to when the boys had to study. Bamboo seeds are eaten by thi Hindus, but we would be afraiu they would make our joints stiff. Our idea of a heap of joy is see ing a bowlegged girl laughing at some friend whose knees knock. The quickets way to straighten bowlegs is to go out riding vith three in a flivver coupe. These gardenias or japonincas they are wearing will scratch your face more quickly than earrings. There are ony 75 eggs of the great auk in existence. This is be muse it failed to lay aside some for the future. More ducks are eaten in China than in any other country, which should teach them to stay away from there. Dogs have been successfully fit tedwith false teeth, no doubt much to the disgust of cats. Imagine one of these pedigreed dogs with false teeth ha- irg to hunt them before biting a burglar. Largest statue ever cast of glass is of Shakespeare, perhaps so they could see through him Kangaroos are decreasing in Aus tralia. While they last, we should imjtyrt a few for traffic cops. British imports of gi apefruit are increasing, maybe because monocles protect their eyes from juice. THE AMERICUS TIMFS-RtCORDER ~ for the Empty Stocking Fund. Your little friend, Ainsworth Catewood. TWENTY YEARS AGG TODAY IFrom The Times Recorder. Dec j 15, 1904.) Prof I ■ 1). Lockhart exhibited yesterday with pleasure a number of beautiful bunches of celery sent him by Editor Lat.’iner, of Lumpkin and grown in his garden. Pi'ominent among the visitors in Americus yesterday were Mayor C.| C. Cutts, and A’ldermaii Perry C.j Clegg, of Cordele, and if her other] 3,000 citizens can talk r.p a town i with as much force and imnresdvc ness as did these two aifiable gen tlemen, Cordele would soon outstrip Atlanta. Bethesda Baptist church is go-| ing to conduct a bazaar at the citj’| hall this week. Rev.-R. L. Darden] > assisted by Joe Marshall, Robert. Wells, and Boss Warren, together] with a large number of the women as the church, expect to maake a big ■uccess of their b’z.aar. While the market varies a few noints daily un or down, there h id been no real] changes in the sltu.a »nn wtthi” th” week. Here in] Americus the buyers pay 7 3-4 cents for the best grades. Mrs. T. G. Hudson has been c>m-' fined to her home on Jackson s reet for a week by illness, though h-r condition is now much improved. The glad hand was given here esterday to G. H. Whitaker, the hustler who is just oblig ’d to come over oceassional' /. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY Mbndajq no paper published. Mlbert Awpte -HMINEY Most of the heat of your furnace 4oes up the chminey Engineers, ewever, are learning to check this .vaste. Philadelphia Electric Co. in stalls equipment expected to estab ish a record by converting into >team energy 93 per cent of the ?.eat units of its coal. It has al eady been done experimentally in .S’ew York. This is an economy that wouli ave consumers a *f: bulous sum if .pplied to ordinary household fur naces, as it will be ir. time. With -he cream skimmed off our natural .esources, economies become neces sary. ¥ * ¥ STATIC “Grinder static,” which bothers radio fans so much originates chiefly in a district abo"e the west ern part of the Gulf of Mexico. So claims C. W; Horn, head radio man at KDKA. The disturbance, which spreads all over the r -ntinent, is worst during the Gulf rainy season. Some obser v ers believe that static eventually' will be so thoroughly un derstood that it will helt> decided'y to forcast weather. Nothing is use less—not even stiv i ■. * * » IGNORANCE Superstition and ignorance are sc rife in this world, it’s a marvel that humanity progresses as fast as it does. Dr.’T. F. Wall of England is a leader in search for away tc un lock and harness the terrific power pocketed up in the atom. Hearing of his experiments, his neighbors flooded him with letters t-f protest. They fear he may blow up the earth. -j-j The unknown is terrifying. » * ♦ TRAFFIC Congestion of traffic in New York streets cause’s a loss estimated as high as lUO million dollars a ■ car. For in tar.ee, when a tr.v. is idle, in a traffic jam it costs the owner six cents a minute in th? form of unproductive investment, etc. Every autoist and pedestrian has similar costly delay. It is part of the price we pay for advantages of the mortprear. Nature always ex acts her price. And in solving one problem we usually create several new ones,. ♦ » ♦ LIFE Nothing in nature is more won derful than the way .ife struggles to survive and adapts itself to en vironment. In the Olympic mountains, scien tists find worms ‘that live onlv in ice. These worms cannot stand t’n ’.eat of even a human hand. It may be so on distant heavenly bodies such as the planets. Condi tions out there might rot support earthly life, yet would he idea! for other life forms. ACCIDENT Traffic accident skill 22,600 Am ericans a year and injure 678,000 recording to a committee's report to Secretary Hoover. Sooner or later, all auto driver.-' will have to be examined for men tality, eyesight, hearing and pvwer of decision .before giving them li censes to drive cars. RAILKOAU 3CHFVUI.es trrival and Departure of Passeng- Trains, Americus. Ga Central of Georgia Ry Central Standard Tim® Arrive Depart 12 ;01am Cols-Bham-Cbgo 3:55 am 12:20 am Chgo-St.L Atl 2:27 am 1:53 am Alb-Jax Miami 2:08 air. 2:08 am Chgo-Cin-Atl 1:53 am 2:27 am Jax-Albany 12:20 am 3:20 am Miami-Jax-Alb. 11:42 pm 3:55 am Miami-,Tax-Alb. 12:01am 5:29 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pn‘ 6:34 am Albany 6:47 pm 10 :10 am Columbus 3 :15 pm Ipm 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 pir 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) \rrive Depart” 7:55 am Cordele-Helena 9:35 am 12:26 pm Savh-Montg. 3:23 pm 3:23 pm Savh-Montg 12:26 pm J. A. BOWEN, Local Agent LOANS made on improved farm lands at cheapest rates for terms of 5,7 or 10 years with pre-payment iption given. Money secured promptly. 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