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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.
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, 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.
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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
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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, _
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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.
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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 ■.
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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.
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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,.
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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. We have now outstanding
over $1,100,000 on farms in Sum
ter county alone, with plenty more
to lend.
MIDDLETON McDONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co., in
Sumter, Lee, Terrell, Schley, Ma
con, Stewart, Randolph and Web
ster counties. 21 Planters Bank
bldg., Americus, Ga. Phone 89 or
211.
Americus
Undertaking Co.
NAT LEMASTER, Manager
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers
Night Phones 661 and 88
Um Eheaef 83 *nd 221 i .
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