About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1924)
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 12, 1924 What's Going GUY FAWKES CUSTOM— EGYPT—. t CO SW On in World BY CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer Just before each Parliament meets in London, a lot of offi.-ials in funny old clothes like the kind people wore 318 years a<ro,''ran sack the big building where the ses sions are held, looking for infernal machines. King James I started this custom. * * • Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes et al. lad decided! to blow up Parliament, and King James with it, for he was going to be ther e on the opening day, to de liver his royal message. They smuggled a great store of gun powder (there was no TNT in those days) into a cellar under the Parliament houses and had every thing all ready, But at the last minute they were discovered. » ♦ ♦ Royal Orders It was a narrow escape, however. The king gave orders that never again m,ust Parliament meet—at any rate when royalty was going to be present—without a preliminary search of th e premises for high explosives. Through all the years this order [ always has been carried out religi ously. In a couple of cent irks the offi cials got' over their nervousness and didn’t expect to find anything but they' looked anywav. It was a habit they couldn’t break. When Parliament met Dec. 9, 4 his year, however, for once r was con siderably more than mere habit. It was a real search, with a fine tooth comb, too. » » » Egypt England is having with Egypt, which wants more freedom, whereas England’s plan is to take away Some of what she has already. Lord Allenby is British “high commissioner” in Egypt. A compe tent man, he knows what’s going on there. So when the London govern ment got word from I’m a few days ago of an Egyptian plot he’ had discovered to kill King George and all available cabinet members, lords and commons, it scared the authori ties. The attempt, according t< Lord Allenby, was to be made at the opn ing of Parliament. Parliament opened according to schedule but there was nothing per functory about the search this time. * ♦ # Well Guarded The king drove from his palace to th e Parliament houses under a huge bodyguard. Ex-jerf gftnpjen of tested loyalty and courage sur rounded Queen Mary, the Prime of Wales and other members of the royal family. The cabinet members were similarly guarded. Some hun dreds of Egyptian residentyor visi tors in London are under surveil lance or locked up on suspicion. * * * Popularity Congress shows no intention of doing much this session except ap propriate money, and as little as possible of that. Apparently the lawmakers are be ginning to get the idea that the president is popular— and the last election seems to have demonstrat ed that he is popular—principally because he’s so very economical. Being popular is a large part of a politician’s business and congress men are politicians. If the presi dent can be popular by being eco nomical, why can’t they, too? thereby getting re-elected. That s To Sure a Said /wnr tee e Izi) VI l -A- -/ y >- , xf v%. |Bww | tablets .■<s? Wfe>. ..■*;s&'■ > -7,,'*? a '' ’ The First and Original CJold and Grip Tablet Proven Safe for more than a Quarter of a Century as an effective remedy for COLDS. GRIP, INFLU ENZA and as a Preventive. The box bears this signature Price SOc. | what the legislators evidently have! | asked themselves. Signs are that i • they aim to find out by t-ving it for I awhile. Huge Loan to „ Power Company ' (Continued from Page One.) tinued, “that struggled ..long foij twelve of fourteen years not earn-| ing enough to meet its m ods, ham- I pered and getting nowhere. M< re j power was needed in the territory 1 than it’s equipment could rurnish, but it couldn’t get any more equip ment couldn't enlarge its plant, be cause it’s earnings w r re so poor that no hanker or bonding 1 bouse would underwrite it's securities. “Now look at the change which fourteen months of fair trfehtd w'A have brought. In September of laijt year The Public Service CorrpfF sion, granted the company a 19 per cent increase in its wholesale power rate, after the General Manager, L. A., McGraw had exjjlr.ined to his wholesale customers —large inndus trial consumers —that Hey womci ha ve to consent to tie increase or all of Macon’s business interests would wither, together on the same bus’S.” “ Within fourteen months after the increase went into effect," put ting the company on its feet -for the first time financially, it was able to borrow $2,500,000. 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This will be en ergy enough to furnish the town when its magnificent dream of 100,- THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ” last <rf the triplets arrived while he was op his route. So, if Wilbur got his orders mixed up that morn ing, the customers really will have to excuse him. Here the babies are seen with their mother, Mrs. 000 population has bee n reali-.ed.” “It does this not onl.v for Macon itself, but it puts the Macon terri tory in position to evand eco nomically, to bring naw industries here with payrolls and people and Clara Duncan. They were less than 21 hours old when this pic ture was taken. The Duncans now , have seven youngsters l —all boys. new money. It means Hint Thomas i ville, Forsyth, Jackson, Griffin, Monticello, Hampton, Thi. aston - and Jonesboro will be able to <lo J the same thing. It means expan l sion, growth, prosperity for a vvholc section in the very heart of Geor gia. “And what did the rate in crease really amount to? “A fractional increase in the pow > er bill of the town’s largest con sumers, the very industries which wjll now profit from the anticipated expansion. • “The retail rates for home and the like were not changed. The in crease enabled the company to stand on an equal footing with other enn panies over the country in apply- Rylander Theatre Monday—T uesday SUNSHINE KIDDIS VIOLA DANA in 6 Revelation’ Fox Comedy d Sunshine Kiddies appear between pic tures; 3 shows daily. / Prices 25c and 50c Children's Matinee Tuesday—l Oc PAGE NINE ing for a loan, \ “By that one act, that one in crease which was shown by the facts of twelve- ye«H er-wwe-oi- to be nccespary. Pirg'' public service comipwpjn rx‘ s T ow &cn to Havr done a fninly enec / tivc thing for the state’s advance ment. “The commission is to be con gratulated and so are the people of Macon, who constenied to the increase."
