About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1924)
PAGE FOUR THE TIMES-RECORDER ESTABLISHED 1879 Lorelace Eve . . • • • Editor and Pubiiaher Dan R. Schroder - * • • Advertising Manager Entered a* aecond Hat* matter at the post office at Ameiicua, Georgia, according to the Act of Congress. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for the republication of all news dis- . patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news pubi «hed here to. All right of republication of special dispatches are reserved. National Advertising Representatives. FROST LANDIS & KOHN, 225 Fifth Avenue. New York; Peoples Gat Bldg., Chicago; Waltpn Building. Atlanta. A THOUGHT | The (tone which the builders dis allowed. the same is raide the head of the corner 1 Pet. 2:7. ♦ » » Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand. —Robert S, MacA'thur, D.D. There’s a Way For The Fellow With “Grit” Most any young fellow, with grit and determination, may se cure a college education. Lack of funds need not deter him. There’s away out. More and more, we witness splendid young fellows working their way thru college. Two instances appeared in the papers a few days ago. Adolph Eckstein, sensational football center at Brown Uni versity, Providence, is literally paying for his education with his He is selling to a hos pital A>r SSO a pint and using the money to pay for his educa tion. r . Yale’s football captain for l92s, c “Shep” Bingham, is work ing his way through Yale, serv ing as a waiter, and he is said to be a good one. These two instances show that not only can a young fellow work his way through, but he can also work and hold his so cial standing in the college at the same time. Once upon a time the belief ; existed that only the decendants of wealthy families were eligible for the higher social and ath lectic honors at the large uni versities. Such is not the case now. Brown and Bingham prove / that statement. Slinging hash and selling one’s blood may not be pleas ant, but it is profitable when it provides the way to an educa tion and a successful life. Profitable Hog Production Here’s some good advice from the pen of Tait Butler, written for the Progressive Farmer, on the subject of prof itable hog production: In this department, on March r 8, last, I answered an inquiry re garding the probable length of time hog prices would remain low. Here is one paragraph of that answer:— “Hog producers had a losing period during most of 1923, and by the latter part of 1924. or at least early in 1925. a period of profitable production should fol low-.’’ Live hogs were then selling for around $7, and in recent weeks have been bringing $9.50 to $lO per 100. In five months the price of live hogs has increased 40 per cent. For the next year, the tendency of hog prices will be generally upward, because the oast period of. lower prices has decreased production. In fact, something like 8,000,000 less pigs were far rowed in the spring of 1924 than 1923. A reduced corn acreage and a smaller crop, along with im proving conditions for the farm er generally, will also tend to force hog prices higher. If our Southern farmers would reverse their usual practice and begin to increase their produc tion after prices had been go ing down for a period of about one year and then sell the herds down closely when- prices are high, so as to reduce production to meet the period of decline in prices, pork production would i prove more satisfactory. I No one can foretell just when I prices of hogs will begin to go or down, nor can he foretell Bhv low they will go or how he can be certain that f higher prices follow .p.pre .il pries. ‘ . "S’ ■ xt-' no-. fpr >-< " 1 - 1 - * no SU< l’ *’ s ■' ■ ' '" ! ''' ’’ ' "• Hr &. VV’ B* •' * s ■ 1 ■' 1 ■ ‘ ji -.to - .... ■ ■La or ( .ila <> i lie 2k _ must li-.iit; Bk. Newspapers in The Schools Prof. W. G. Bleyer, director of journalism at the University of Wisconsin, has been lecturing ,his classes in journalism on the development and cultivation of a newspaper reading public and is quoted by the Savannah Press as saying- Democratic government depends upon public opinion, and public opininn, as we know it today, is mainly taken from the newspa pers, Mr. Bleyer stated. If the purpose of education is to train the youth of the Nation in citi zenship, the study of the newspa per should have a prominent part in our public schools. Newspaper reading today is not taken as a serious nart of the individual’s life. On the whole the individual devotes at least thirty minutes a dav to the newspaper. This is the weakness of our modern democracy. We do not digest the facts; we swal low them too hurriedly. The aim of the newspapers and journalism schools should be to train a hew generation of news paper readers to whom news, real news, is of more importance than the society column, t he sporting page, or the funny strip. The news should be read first, leaving these other features as desert. The news the solid food. We need to cultivate news taste and discrimination in the public. The public should be taught to think of the news as a part of history, of current events that are making history. The newspa pers can influence public opinion and through that influence, even the economic forces of the Na tion, can be molded. They can be the organs of enlightened pa triotism and make for more ideal ism and community betterment. Less emphasis should be put on the sporting page. An inter est in sports is healthful and nor mal, but we over-stress it these days. Professional sports are not a good stimulant for the mind. The newspaper is a daily chapter in world history; it is the chronicler of events and opinions. Because of this Prof. Bleyer believes that newspapers should be read and studied in the public schools. Youth readily turns to the comic page, the sports page and other features, but how many really digest the news of the day or learn to appreciate editorial discussions? 10,000 Murders a Year Sears, Roebuck & Co. stops selling pistols by mail. Butler Bros., another big mail order house, recently announced the same ban. American police will have less work when all mail order houses discontinue the sale of pistols by mail, either voluntar ily or under compulsion of a na tional law. At least 10,000 murders a year are committed in the Unit ed States. That is the known number, according to police sta tistics. There must be thousands of unknown killings, where the victims are never discovered. By far a majority of murders are done with pistols. You read often of pistol murders- You read only occasionally of a human life taken by blade, club or poison. To stop the shooting, shut off their pistol supply: It is sometimes argued that, even if revolvers could not be bought in the open market, crooks would be able to buy pis tols under cover. That is true, to some extent. But the sup ply would be smaller. In most states and cities, re volvers can be purchased, only by police permit or by registra tion. Effectiveness of this reg ulation is lessened by mail order sale. An argument frequently ad vanced against stopped the sale of revolvers, is that the law abiding householder would be defenseless against intruders. The answer to this is that the householder can arm himself with rifle or sawed-off shotgun, which cannot be carried through the streets by crooks without de tection. A pistol is a constant tempta tion to the lawless and weak minded. The national government should prohibit the sale of pis tols by mail. It can be done. It should be done. ‘••"I n * Facts About Georgia Tuberculosis claimed a of 2,737 deaths in the Statfß| Georgia during the year 1 as compared with 2,61H| 1922. Os the 1923 hgiMß 013 were white -p724 ne & roes mA ~ RIVALS • 1 _ -- - M KIILINxALMOS, r~ •' dS MANY fOLKS AIOW . KEBBeSo- AS YOU APE - 4- i,Ai LEAS? (M MY . victims a fish Ting 1 CRANCE Foi? 11AEIP LIVES Vl W loM vW i WSsK A 7 zY I "■ i- ! i Zn- /or—./*- \ \ .x, J|4f 1 Wj ■ -O'li if 1.1. ■ X Xii.. -? ffw h 4 M / i OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS ? TEN YEARS AGO TODAY Monday, no paper published. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Dec. 27, 1914.) Upop application to the New Americus Steam Laundry during the holidays, each customer will get a handsome 1905 calendar. Miss May Wheatley has returned from Shorter College and will spend the holiday season delightfully at hep home here. At the marriage altar a man im agines he is getting what he wants, but later he is apt to discover he didn’t know what he wanted. A very delightful and enjoyable occasion was the reception tender ed by Miss Annie May Bell yester- Xis lavs . Texas man claims an oil stocl? swindler got his fortune. How quaint and old-fashioned. Man went crazy downtown in Philadelphia, not, however, because he saw where he was. Now we know why bathing girls left the magazine covers. They have better jobs on the 1925 calendars. Dancing half the night is good training for a girl, enabling her to walk the floor with her baby later. New way to kill scarlet fever germs is found. Better than paint ing one red, white and blue so they will chepr themselves to death. The great advantage in making love in a flivver, we hear, is you can start the thing so quickly. Have a good time when you are young so that when you are old you will be sorry you did instead of sorry you didn’t. Everything is a habit, and success depends upon the ca<e with whi n you change your habits. Anticipation is almost all of realization. “Every normal man should have a hobby,” says a doctor. Every nor mal man has. It is family Tenn. She Bk . - ’-S3 .• ■ ■ " - THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER day afternoon at her studio, and attended by her pupils and several invited guests. An immense spider web was artistically wrought of : pretty colored material and at the end of each web z was a' souvenir music calendar for every pupil. The most superb specimens of lemon ever seen in Americus was exhibited yesterday by Capt. John A. Cobb and grown by his daughter, Miss Mattie L. B. Cobb at his home here. Miss Cobb picked ten of these lemons from her young tree ■ this year, all of them weighing, more than a pound each. Always at Christmas the absent members of the Harrolds gather here in happy reunion and the oc casion is ever one of pleasurable in terest for all. Among those from other points who will assemble at the beautiful residence of Col. U. B. Harrold are Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Shipps, Dr. Charles C. ftarrold of Macon and Mr. David Shipps, of Bordentown, N. J. > THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder Dec. 27, 1894.) When Postmaster Scarborough entered his private office on Christmas morning he was waited upon by Messrs. Frank Mitchell and Everett Speer, two of the clerks in the postoffice, who presented him with a beautiful gold headed walking cane, suitably inscribed. Christmas weather was just one day late coming in yesterday with a flood of rain and subsequent freeze. Old weather prognosticat ors say that we may now look out for the coldest snap of winter. The pretty home of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Joiner was the scene of a happy marriage yesterday after noon, the contracting parties being their niece, Miss Rena Bell Har grove, and Mr. Cullen Horne. The ceremony was performed by Rev. T. M. Christian. The attendants were Mr. John R. Hudson and Miss Emma Joiner, and Mr. Jack Joiner with Miss Evelyn Hall. Miss Pugh presided at the organ and rendered the ever beautiful wedding march. Many handsome token of remem brance evidenced the popularity of the young couple, who begin the voyage of life together under brightest auspices. Mr. E. S. Britton came from Ma con last night to attend the mar riage of his brother, Mr. Jack Brit ton, and Miss Nannie Dodson, which very happy event will take place this morning. LOANS made on improved farm lands at cheapest rates for terms of ,>r 10 pre-payment iveo n c y with plenty v - 1 ’'' l ’ ■lanta Trust Co., in Krrell, Schley, Ma- ■AL NOTICE from my cf- first. . fccKee D.D.S. Bi bjAtet Anile WATER California engineers plan to di vert part of the mighty Colorado river and make it flow westward to the Pacific. The water, needed in Los Angeles and along the way, will obey man’s orders and travel across mountains and deserts. It is fl great undertaking, and our civilization is proud of it« power to do it. If Yuan, ancient Chinese emper or, could speak from the grave he would say: “I did a greater job than that, shortly after the Noah’s Ark flood. I shifed the entire wa tershed .of China, in some places as much as\ 600 miles.” * * * RIDERS Truth sometimes crops out unin tentionally. The Bell Telephone News com ments seriously: “In the big cities Wtjomobiles are making traffic con ditions easier by gradually reduc ing the number of pedestrians.’’ CHAINS It looks as if chain stores arc des tined to dominate the retail mer chandising of all leading commodi ties such as food, clothing, tobacco, candy, drugs, fuel, and so on The individual retailer each year finds it more difficult to survive the competition of big combines. This is a definite evolutionary movement in our economics. The period of consolidations, which be gan about a quarter of a century ago in manufacturing, is now ex panding with a vengeance. Hew long until the business system .will RAILROAD SCHEDULES Arrival and Departure of Passenge: Trains, Americus, Ga. Central of Georgia Ry. Central Standard Time Arrive Depart 12:01 am 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 pir 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 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 Savh-Montg. 3:23 pm 3:23 pm Savh-Montg 12:26 pm J. A. BOWEN, Local Agent WANTED ! All of your Frying size Chickens —liens and eggs. Americus Hatchery and Supply Co. —• Americu® Undertaking Cd. V, AT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directors jh>' nd 88 SATURDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 27, 1924 RAGGED little calendar of nineteen twenty-four, you've really done your duty very well. But now your days are numbered, as theyi have been heretofore, and you’re bound to pass, as time is 3 ire tell. I We’ve seen you in kitchens where you've caught the ladles' eye, an<J they’ve marked the grocery orders on your face. In the room where they do stitchin’ you have «» j. K shown time fleeting by. Yea, in homes you've /, hung in every little place. Al > And the men folks, too, have had you In their Ol ; ( offices and such, and you've helped to keep their A business going right. Every day you've always I \|l |iH added just, the necessary touch, and they've \ changed you as the day swung into night. V IfjN / fg Day by day we've turned your pages; .month by month you've died away, till of nineteen „ twenty-four there is no trace. True, in duty'you —- —-' were gifted, but, aias, you've slowly drifted till the year of tw -i.y nvfl must take your place. J (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) be monopolized by two or three rival corporations—or. by one alone? • » - SELLING Mail order houses and retail mer chants for years have fought each other. Two distinct methods of salesmanship have been involve .1 in the struggle. The ultim ate outcome apparently is going to be a consoli dation of the rival sales systems That is often the ease—opposing forces meet each other half way Sears, Roebuck and company u ill | open a chain of retail stores in lead-1 ing cities. It already has nine mil-| mion customers and expects the! stores to attract three million more. I * * * FIRE Tremendous quantises of gaso line are being used. It will surprise many to learn that the oil industry is selling more fuel oils than gaso line. Coal men need search no further for what has put such a big crimp in their sales. Oil is increasingly taking the place of coal. One rea son so rthis is the instability of'the coal industry, due to strife be tween miners and operators. • » * BABEL A lot of hioney—eq Tlj j]lion dol lars. That will Tbe the cost of the biggest building in the world, Chi cago’s forthcoming Temple of Agri culture. A skyserhper, of course, is chiefly a monument to high land values which force tenants up into the air. The great Huxley hall' a century ago said of America: “I canno’ say —_ J FOR QUICK SERVICE AND I HEAVY HAULING PHONE 121 WOOTTEN TRANSFER CO. Office in Americue Steam Laundry SOUTH JACKSON STREET LEGAL AD NO. 775. 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 the hour of 12 noon, th? following nroperty 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 Lamar St., in 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 store 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 Hie 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. I ~ “ L. G. COUNCIL, President. T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. and Cashier, J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of (Incorporated) a OUR CUSTOMERS With a reasonable knowledge of what each of our hundreds of customers want, coupled with our pledge to be “sympathetic to every need, and faithful to every trust”—-makes this bank an institution preferred. We cordially invite tcur account— commercial or Savings. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 .. AM that I am in the slightest iegree im pressed by your bigness, or your material resources as ::ueh. Size is not grandeur, and territory does net make a nation. The gr-at issue about which hangs a true sublimity and the terror of overhanging fata is, What are you going o do with all these things?” You can take tliejjoy's Christmas horn and use it forM furnel, if you will need a funnel.''' Turkey, Chicken And t : Roast Dinners every day holidays at tl e Tea Room. THE STANDARD LA ;T OF THE YEAR SALE MONDAY & TUESDAY Renfrew Devonshire Cloth, 24c. 32 nc.ies wide, plain colors, fan cy chec , stripes and plaids. None bette. made; Monday and Tuesday, yard ' 24c « ’ J- &■ P. Coats’ Spool Cotton, 48- Dozen. Costs’ Spool Cotton, all number, black and white, per spool, 4c j per 'doze’ ’4Bc Fren oadcloth, $1.95 Yard. 54 i . oV wide, black and colors, chamoi finish, all wool, $3.00 value Monday and Tuesday yard . ( $1.95 $1.75 Loders Cloth, 98c 54 inches wide, medium gray, ex cellent quality; regularly $1.75, Mcnday and Tuesday, yard 98 35c Jap Crepe, 22c Guaranteed fast color, regular width; regularly 35c,, Monday and Tuesday, yard X 22c sl2 50 All Wool Blankets, $7.50. • 1 All wool, largest size for large double > hedp, beautiful plaid pat terns; Monday-Tuesday, pr. $7.50 Children’s $2.50 Stitch-Down j Shoes, $1.35. Flexible all leather soles Brown .School Shoes, sizes 11 1-2 to 2; reg ularly $2.50, Monday and Tuesday, pair $1.35 The Best Outing at 19c. Th?Se are the best Outings and are worth 25c if they are worth a cent; great variety of pretty pat terns; Monday and Tuesday, yard i. 19c Standard Dry Goods Company i FORSYTH STREET ' Next to Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GEORGIA
