About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1924)
PAGE FOUR W THE TIMES-RECORDER ESTABLISHED 1879 | LoveLtce Ere Editor and Publisher bse R. Schroder • • - - Advertising Manager Entered a* second c!«s» matter at the post office at Americus, Georgia, according to the Act of Gong r i'm The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to U»e wee for the republication of all now* dis patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to iRm paper and also the local news published here ' ia. All right of republication of special dispatches are reserved. v Nation.!.' Advertising Kent csentatives. FROST LANDIS <1 KOh.N. -’*.•» Fdt»» .Venue. New York; PoopSes Gas B.dg , Ci.iugo; Walton Building, ' Albania A THOUGHT" In all these thing, we are more than conquercra through him that loved ut.—Rom. 8:37 * * • Know that the slender shrub which is seen to bend conquers when it yields to the storm.—Me teStasio. Why Not Fire Fire Prevention Week” On the Farms? The cities have recently been observing ‘fire prevention week,’ and the same sort of thing should be done on the farms. Probably a higher percentage of city businesses carry insurance than farmers. Therefore the need of caution on the farm is greater than the city. A fire in the barn may wipe out a farm’s entire stock in trade. Suggesting a fire prevention week on the farm, the Progres sive Farmer has this to say: Every farm homo* should car ry fire insurance on barns, gin houses and other frame buildings, of course, but even if we do have our property insured, we should still further insure it by dorng three things now:— 1. We should in.p'-ct flues, '““Chimneys, and roofs before start ing the fall fires. 2. We should give the premi ses a thorough cleaning, getf’g rid of all combustible materials that are dangerously placed, such as old lumber, wood, brush piles and leaves—and then never allow leaves to accumulate under or near the house. 3. As soon as the roof is well soaked by rain, the chimneys should be burnt cut. A spark may start a fire in accumulated leaves, (raw arid trash and spread to the house be fore it is discovered. Millions of fires are started daily on our farms throughout the South and there is an element of danger ir every one of them. The best in surance against fire is home made prevention. Fire insurance rates in the country are higher than those Daid in the city where there are fire-fighting means, and yet the rates are not orohibitive. Every farmer should carry fire insur ance, but more important is his following such suggestions as those above. 1 Taxation a Live Issue It is time for the American people in their political activi ties to deal with the cost of tax ation as a live issue and educate themselves to insist upon econ omy in government and to make an issue of economy until result is achieved and maintained, says Paul Shoup. vice-president of the Union Pacific. He claims that one-seventh of the income of our people now goes to tax es. We are paying three times •as much per capita in taxes as we did in 1912. If, then, we are to preserve the rights of the individuals to property, which so far has proved the only in centive to ’ material progress in the world and the only safe guard to the home and the na tion, we cannot ignore the fact that our public expenditures are being recklessly made and pub lic debts incurred on a vast , scale without due regard for the effect upon that great body of qjtizens upon whose successful activities the nation depends for its life. Many legislators will need no more than the recent election day suggestion that the country wants no hair-raising, throat-cut ting legislation. The tremendous rebuke of radicalism has chang ed many a legislative ambition over night. Nowhere would it be out of place for business organizations and individuals to call their leg islators into friendly counsel. Most legislators sincerely want to serve their people; it is us ually where the people refuse to • take an interest in public affairs that they go off on their own personal tangents, wool-gather ing in the maze of unstabilized speculation as to whai is right. A little common Bense how, like thei proverbial sV h in time jjiat saAj» nine, mig® eliminate the nine superfluous laws to ev ery one that is really needed. Make it a rule to tell those who appropriate money for you that you want LESS appro priated and thus enable him to levy LESS for taxes. 36,000 Millions Spent In August How much money did you spend during last August? The American people combined spent about 36,000 million dol lare. That’s enough to give even a mathematician a headache. No human brain can really grasp such a gigantic figure. August was a dull month, with thousands out of work and the average person "watching the pennies.” Yet the 36,000 mil lion dollars spent by the Amer ican people during August was 6000 millions more than they paid out in August, 1923, when times were booming. Spending makes prosperity— creates demand, gives jobs. But why were times better when people spent less? Americans now are spending at an average rate three times as much as before the war. This looks as if the cost of living is three times higher in those good old days when you could ljuy a Sunday chicken dinner for 35 cents. The National industrial Con ference Board insists the H. C. L. is 62 per cent (instead of 200) higher than pre-war. The board is not likely to exaggerate in this estimate, for it is the voice of 15,000 employers. Where do we get this esti mate that Americans spent 36,- 000 million dollars in August? Answer: Bank clearings the country over—the total of all checks written and sent through clearing houses for collection totaled 35,670 millions. You add 5 per cent, for 95 per cent of business transactions are paid by check, 5 per cent by cash. Divide total August spendings by the population and it looks as if $316 was spent for every man, woman and child. During one month ? It couldn’t be. The joker is that there are duplications in the totals. For in stance, suppose a factory sells a suit of clothes to a jobber for SSO and he sells it to a retailer for $75 and the retailer passes it on to the consumer for $ I UO. Now, if all pay by check, this suit of clothes will represent $225 in bank check clearings in these three processes of mov ing it to market. Other dupli cations creep in, back yonder where the raw materials are col lected, transported, etc. Finance, after all, is simple— •as simple as a Chinese puzzle. Facts About Georgia FACTS ABOUT Bartow county was created in the year 1861 and named for General Francis Bartow. Car tersville is the county-seat. The county comprises an area of 471 square miles, and has a population oj about 25,000. It is located in the 7th congres sional district and the 42nd sen atorial district. Cherokee is the judicial circuit. ♦ * ♦ Valdosta is to be the location of the Woodrow Wilson Memo rial college which is to be erect ed for the schooling of. young men of all religious faiths and creeds, and as a lasting tribute to the War-Time President. A million dollars has already been subscribed for the big project, and the American Legion of the country as well as the American Federation of Labor, have giv en their unanimous endorsement to the memorial. Ihe Amer ican Legion of Valdosta and the Chamber of Commerce of that city took the initiative in the plans. "Dad” Bedford, U. S. mail carrier, has handled the mail de liveries at the State Capitol in Atlanta for a period of over thirty years. He has watched many political office * holders come and go, but he has served the Capitol continuously. • » • The cotton gin is credited with having been invented by Joseph Watkins, of Petersburg, Ga., in the year of I 792, accord ing to historical records at the State House.* Mrs. Helen* C. Plane, of At lanta, was the first woman to suggest the naming of a State Historian, this being in 1896. She is a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. They Are Not Good Investments ififf ■£ I Bi/Sf Is <1 ■=4 'avO 1 |i S ft:/Wil’ WJ ■ ■ x - C' *• * ■ xgfcT I —/XJ'l OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS 1 TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Reorder. Dec. 22, 1914.) One more day and the Empty Stocking Fund for 1915 will be closed. Today the total stands above the S7O mark and by tomor row we hope to have touched and passed the century mark. A nice little purse was turned over to the Fund by Miss Susie Floyd Fort, who on yesterday entertained the kid dies of Americus at a “story-tell ing” hour in interest of the fund Among the pleasing entertain ments that will mark the holiday season in Americus will be that on Tuesday evening next when the loc al chapter, Order of Eastern Star will welcome their friends at a ‘tackey party” to be given at Ma sonic Temple. Dear Santa: I know I am kivder ate in writing my letter, but I hope &is . Jackie Coogan has a baby brother now. The lazy little guy is a few days old and hasn’t gotten a jab. Only safe place lor an auto ipeeder is in a desert where the roads are as wide as they are long. A political party is an organiza tion to split about something. About this time every year we al ways decide that what our town needs is a change of climate. If money really talked, an old lime could tell some wild tales ibout what it used to buy. Women take better care of their lands than men. This, however, is not always true of their bridge lands. While a movie comedian’s wife '•.as secured a divorce it was not be cause he threw her pies around. A friend tells us he gave her a pstick for Christmas and is getting it back when she thanks him. You can take the boy's Christmas horn and use it for a funnel, it’ you will need a funnel. Largest diamond in the world is worth SIOO,OOO, but a small one •nay be prized more hi:; uy. Scrape the inside of a new pipe before smoking it or the firewagou may pay pou a visit. # •- Christmas ties are all right. Everybody wears them. Aw, go on. Don’t be so self-conscicus. Candy may be gradu: Ly worn off the seat of the trousers by putting sandpaper in the chairs. With so many other things to wonder about some men insist cn wondering if their hair is combed. If summer were to visit us for the holidays she certainly would be a welcome guest. The average auto last; six years, bariing accidents. Christmas is the time of peace on earth, which is one thing not made in some foreign count-..’. Our kick about breakfast is every body’s face looks as if it had been slept in. THE AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER you will have something left for me. What I want most of all is a baby doll, with a fooler, in its mouth, and a cow-girl suit, a tea-set, a dell bureau, a pretty box of candy and fruit. Hurry up and come t-> see your little girl. Anne "Walker. Miss Sarah Cobb is my teacher and she sure is good to me. Miss Quenelle Harrold celebrated' her birthday with a beautiful pro gressive authors party. Miss Isabelle Wheatley won top score prize, a cologne bottle. IWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. Dec. 22, 1904 ) Americus cotton receipts are new rear the 60,000 bale mark, thus es tablishing a new December record for this hustling market. The marriage of Miss Mary Dot Sanborn and Mr. Benjemin S. Sr-ith was a pretty occasion and one of in terest among the numerous friend; of the young couple. In Judge T. M. Allen Sumter county has one of the best ordinaric ■ in the state, a competent official and valiant old Confederate Vexran who, during his four years encun - bency in that office has worked gladly and unceasingly for the old soldiers in getting through their pension papers, and this without fee or reward. The huckster who was not post ed and demanded 40 cents for eggs yesterday was given a shock when told that prices had fallen to 25 cents. The Christmas bale st’ll continues to arrive, and a glimpse of the beau tiful stores is an inducement to sell, too strong to be resisted The Times Recorder js the recip ient of a box of delicious oranges and fine grape fruit from Mr. Lest er Windsor’s splendid orange grove “Lakeview” at Winter Haven Fla. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times Recorder. Dec. 22, 1894.) The other day George Wheatley and Cliff Clay went out to DeSoto bird hunting and bagged 50 birds. Both are crack shots and after they had finished the days sport and were waiting for a train at DeSoto, Mr. Clay propounded a problem to the DeSoto mathematicians, as fol lows: Messrs. Wheatley and Clay killed 50 birds, and Clay killed three more than Wheatley, how mapy did each kill? It was easier to kill the birds than to solve the problem and they found nobody there to give the -orrect answer. A hundred dollar pointer dog was sold to an Americus sportsman yes terday for the spot- cash The dog is one of the finest oi the pointer denomination and has a record as long as a clothes lint-. Miss Flora Wheatlev has re turned from Guyton where she went several days ago to attend the mar riage of her friend, Miss Fannie Davant. Ordinary binder twine is made from henequen, a fiber which comes from Yucatan. 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. MIDDLETON McDONALD Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co., in Sun.ter, Lee, Tertell, Schley, Ma con, Stewart, Randolph and Web ster counties. 21 Planters Bank bldg., Americus, Ga. Phone 89 or 211. PUZZLE In the insane asylum at North Warren, Pa., inmates are wildly en thusiastic about crossword puzzles. Physicians say there is little effect, one way or the other, cn the pa tients’ minds. It neither improves nor makes them worse. Winch should comfort many a wife who fears the crossword craze may un balance Friend Husband’s men tality. To the contrary, any Lind of puz zle is good brain exercise. * * * FUN What did we do for amusement before we had the movie and auto? People often ask. For one thing, we worked longer hours and did net .have so much spare time. Many spent their evenings with a bottle at the poor man’s club on the corner. Prohibition paved rhe way for radio, mah jongg, crossword puzzles and an endless chain of similar di versions to follow. We’ll have a lot of time-killing fads ?s years slip by and people seek new substitutes for alcoholic exhilaration. • * • DEATHS Get together a crowd of 10,000 average Americans. In a year 123 of them will die. That’s the mor tality rate shown in latest checkup by Uncle Sam. Montana has the lowest rate, only 87 in 10,000 dying in a year. LEGAL AD NO. 778. GEORGIA ,Sumter County. By virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary of said county, granted at the December term, 1924. will be sold on Wednesday, December 31, 1924, within the legal hours of sale and approximately at ;he hour of 12 noon, the following oroperty of the estate of J. W. Harris, deceased, to-wit: “Stock of goods, consisting of a complete stock of hardware, includ ing each and all of the articles usually found in a hardware store, and which is located in the store house, which belonged to said de ceased. located on Lap - ar St., ifi the City of Americus, Sumter county, Georgia, and being No. 302 W. Lamar St.; Also a complete stock of fix tures, located in the aforesaid build ing, and including counters, cases, desks, typewriters.- adding ma chine, chairs, safe, cash register, a one-ton Ford truck, scales, etc. Said sale will be held at the lore house in which said stock of goods and fixtures are now located, to-wit: No. 302 W. Lamar St., Americus, Ga. Said stock of goods and fixtures will be offered for sale in bulk, as a going concern, and then in such quantities as the undersigned might select, reserving the right to accept or reject any or all bids. A complete and itemized state ment of said stock of goods and fixtures will be shown any party in terested by any one of the follow ing persons, all of Americus, Ga., to-wit: J. E. B. McLendon, J. A. Hixon, W. W. Dykes or Stephen Pace. The Terms of sale will be cash. J. E. B. M’LENDON, Administrator. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors And Embalmers Night Phones 661 and 88 Dm EhQPet gfl Hl _ It’s a ?® WAS cfccr* • oiix when your heart heat i. was a sort of » haze* Was there ever at’ dragged past and'when minutes and hours i ONLY You walk up and down t>y a certain closed door . nervous -an you wonder " a nian unite , A nurse iB ” Y ‘X smiles a * -r V- th *’ doorwa - v [imjJ ? l> lefl s,a ’" llri ® \ M 7 5 FZL—JWF 1 all d you re tretiM ' -kJ At last veu ■ ..I' 1 ? doctor comes out. for he’s surely o brlnger of )oy '■ whai be loudly will shout "ire a girl." or instead. ■■ The knowledge that everyone s happy and well normal and glad ' And then, full of proudness, your cheW;| By golly at last, you’re a Dad 1 :T?I (Copyright, ISZI NEA Ser vice. Inc > Rival cities and states inspecting the figures, will make a lot of fool ish claims. In some places mortality is high because so many invalids go there to die. The time of death is, to consider able extent, determined in youth To lesser degree, it is regulated by heredity—before we ire born. • * * WIZARDY Radio, to most people, is an inven tion of the last few years. Yet it is more than 23 years since Marconi received the first wireless signal broadcast across the Atlantic from England. Six years before, he had built the first practical wireless tele graph. More than a quarter of a century has been devoted, by an army of genius, to bringing your receiving set to its present stage of deve’op ■ment. And it’s still in babyhood. The super-set of today will seem very crude alongside ,lthe sets used a quarter century in the future. • * » SOLVED One of its greatest victories has just been won by the American dyes industry. The secret of “golden or ange” has been discovered in the Du Pont laboratories. Inability to make this dye is why our troops went overseas in fading khaki. Rapidly our chemists are redis covering the secrets held so long by Germans. The cunning Germans would, for instance, take a dye that involved 16 different steps or pro cesses, and patent onlv two steps. This protected them. When we “took over” the dyes patents, cur chemists had to figure out the miss ing 14 links. * * ♦ SOLDIERS Allies claim Germany could mus ter 400,000 soldiers overnight from her police training schools. Along with the Reichswehr or standing army, this would give Berlin a force of half a million. Then she has mil lions of war veterans, • Iso more mil lions who were boys during the war but now are matured. The French are not altogether crazy in insisting on keeping a gun handy. Eleven inches of rain has been known to fall in a Sonora storm, or cloudburst, in California RAILROAD schedules Arrival and Departure of Passenger 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-Albany 12:20 am 3:20 am Miami-Jax-Alb. 11:42 pm 3:55 am Miami-Jax-Alb. 12:01am 5:29 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pm 6:34 am Albany 6:47 p m 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 p m o : ?o pm „4 lb -M° n te’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 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 air. Cordele-Helena 9;35 am 12:26 pm Savh-Montg. 3:23 pm 3:23 pm S’avh-Montg 12:26 pm J- A. BOWEN, Local Agent L. G. COUNCIL, President T E BOLTON a >♦ n w C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. .„d Cbl.r. LE. kiKEB. The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) OUR CUSTOMERS W ' th a reasonabk> knowledge of R gfflMgqrl What each of our hundreds of pk IV custorn, ' r s want, coupled with mi ji , Ur to be “sympathetic 1 ftljJil jRI t 0 eVCry noedl and faithful to every trust”-—makes this bank an *. ns f*fuDon preferred. We cordially invite 11 ur account— commercial or Savings. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING MONDAY. Purifies UgL . A and makft * "jjfj Cheeks] Chui wfe: eo. V FOR QUICK HEAVY HAULING WOOTTEN TRANjf® l ' - Office in Arnericue Sie®' SOUTH iw staO| THREE MORE. --SAVE i'IME SHOP AT THE A Complete and Remarkable Du play of Gifts At sl.l5 —Beautiful Hemstitch ed Pepperel Pillow Cases, 2 pairs, in pretty holiday box. At 50c—Men's new style Cuff Buttons, each pair in> pretty Xmas box. At $2.50 —Ladies Cuff Gloves, all colors At $3.95 —Beautifi niaiW kets, full regular size, his price for one pair. At 59c per box of^ 1 4-Men’s Initial Handkerchief: jautiful quality. At slo—Beautiful d flan nel Dresses for ladies 'misses; formerly S2O. Mama Dolls, 50c, $1.50, $1.98, $2.25, $3, $3.5 on up to SIO.OO. Handkerchiefs, per box, 35c, 50c, 75c, OSc, sl. Handkerchiefs, each, sc, 10c, 25„, 35c, 50c, 59c. Men’s Silk Socks, 35c 50c, 7be, 98c pair. Ladies’ Silk Hose, 5C 98c, $1.25, $1.50, $1.98. Rugs, size 30x60, $1.98, $2.48, $3.50 and $4.50. Rugs, size 36x63, $5.75 and $6.75. feet and $.”,9.00. fl”. liu. -. 9x12 f'-.t, $ ®gl|||r"'A'C’ s::9. v.-.u a. l( | 5c,7..50 ?<■ ■■ ! M-11, ■s()<\ 75c and S’l. Shirts for M.-n, 6 SL::c. $1.98, $3.50 and $3.95. i1".,-" SElipl-!- f.. Men. 98c. <1.25, 82.25. $o ' '* Hand Bags, 25e, 7 '4H $2.50, $3, $3.50, $4, /WBJtTbO? $7.50. Men’s Hats, $1.50, $1.98, $2.50, $3, $3.50, $3.98 and $5. Face Powder, 25c, 35c, 75c, and 85c. Perfumes, 10c, 25c, 35c, 50c and 75c, SI.OO. Standard Dry Goods Company FORSYTH STREET Next to Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GEORGIA
