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PAGE FOUR THE TIMES-RECORD ER RS I'ABJ JL HW I*7* Covelace Iditor Pcbha-CT Entered *• tercnd <U«£ asttler it th* »o«t of (lit at Americus, Georgia, according to the Act- *f Congress. 1 The Associated Pres* ft eiclnshely entitled to the use for the republication of *R news <!;•• sikLri credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper end also the local mw» published here- , to. AU right of republication <>l spe<4*i dispatches ire reserved. W * ——"'■•■*■- ■■■■"—— —— ■ National Advertising Repre»cnt«;lros. TROST LASbi> A ktHiN, 22 \ Filth A” N** Y " rk ; Peoples Gas Bldg., Chicsgo; Wahoo build.nfl. Atlanta. editor\als ’Vho Is The Taxpayers’ ' I n 7..,League? page is arW column on this j the so-called i'Miica'uon from o! Sumter County, eg s' I .cat'll'' 1 . McMath signs his 'hhh W. chairman. It is addressed. as Representatives I lines and Rites> and the "league” requests us to ; publish it. But who is this Taxpayers' | League of Americus or Sumter i C ounty? Ihe circular disirib ’’ted a few days ago was signed ' Taxpayers of Americus.” The letter to fylr. Hines and Mr. Riley is signed "Taxpayers' League of Sumter County.” The bale who was born to the genial judge last week is a lusty young ster and his name must express more than a mere city. It now takes in the county. In another week, probably, the youngster wdl have adopted the whole state. The letter our Representatives would have them believe that the white way was purely a Ki wanis club affair; that it was conceived in the brain of the rich and ruthless for some pure ly sinister purpose. The letter says, "The mem bership of the Kiwanis club is selected of business men and their associates in the profes sional world, and that "no man of the laboring classes can be numbered within their ranks." , A casual glance at the roster of the Kiwanis club shows a num.ber of men who are of the "laboring class,” if by that term is meant men who are not execu tives- Ihe Rotary club has had on its membership rolls salaried employees, railroad engineers and railroad conductors. The genial judge has not intention ally misrepresented. Just anoth er instance of misinformation or ignorance of subject with which he seeks to deal. Ihe action of the Kiwanis club in the matter of the white way has been a purely unselfish one. Ihe club members have acted as a committee of citizens, seekins? to serve their city. Days and ni;rhts of their time have been freelv given for the joy of service. Their effort is a con structive one, while the efforts of such organizations as the one fathered by the genial judge is, nine cases cut of ten, destructive. It is vastly easier to criticize what the other fellow DOES than to get out and DO some thing yourself. The circular and' the letter emphatically say that the pro ponents of the white way would place on the shoulders of the people an inordinately expensive something that is unnecesary and useless, and yet in another breath this league spokesman accuses the Kiwanis club and, by inference, the city officials, of concealing facts and figures re garding the cost of the white way and failure to give out any information. How does the legaue know what the cost to the city or the property owners will be? If the league knows these costs, then how in the world were they con cealed ? The so-called league prates its patriotism and love of man and community and yet both the cir cular and the letter to Mr. Hines and Mr. Riley is a studied effort to array one class against anoth er. ft speaks of Bolshevism and practices some of its teachings, for but for class hatreds and prejudice the Bolshevists would not live a day. The ' league, through its spokesman, would castigate the modern civic club idea; it would have the public believe that these clubs are composed of men who would stoop to use their < lub memberships for the benefit of the few. The Gold en RGe of the Kiwanis is “We Build;“ we build character, we build for others; we build boy hood into manhood- The Rotary club’s motto is “Service Above Self; He 'Profits Most Who fierVe (others) . Best.” There 4re workers i.i all civic cl bs, •tei there is one other civic ‘Hfi in Americus composed en tirfty of workers, the Palladium < hib, 1 his splendid body of men have signified their desire to work with and co-operate with iFv other two clubs. The l-’alladiifin officials visit with and work with the other two < lul>3- Jhey barb been welcomed >vith/ > - I • aihwiu. >«-"irr> w nnimr Tri , A THOUGHT \ ■ ■— .- ——* . 11. \ He that is slow to anger is better I ’Aan the mighty; and he that ruleth I.A • pirit than he that taketh a city. I Proverbs 16-32. \* * * Air in the same degree in which a itafs mind is nearer to free <biiii\'r> in ail ]>:■• ion, in the same <ie'. i\ :,l. o i. Il tie:,: er to strength. - Matus Antoninus. open by every civic club tn \ icus. if then was distinction ol < las::, w<>'l this be possible? II tin re wa A hatreds and class ; prejudii \ .\m< i icus could \ ng ground I j U se three organi zations? • \ 1 lie whi’eUy j s important, j is an imp \ement, a step j of'"’" ‘ \ while way is i when' \' 'e ideralion to array c;i- > Nh this effort er. We can ii‘L :\‘. nst anoth ' nity without a whited? commu cannot exist if, thrtX’ dice or ignorance, AP ourselves to be lhroy c f bickering groups, one suX ‘ lto the honesty and integrity^ 1 ' ' other. I here is a higher on which men may meet, V / the genial judge would pilotX > into the abyss swamp, whr\ ' prejudice and hatred would :■ \ plant brotherly love and the re-N spect that one man muct ba e for his fellows. Industry Is Key to Success bred W. Sargent, new presi dent of Chicago & Northwestern Railway, gives as the key to suc cess the one word—industry. 1 hat’s comforting, especially for the young man or woman who is starting at the bottom with some big concern and won ders if real, hard work can ever be noticed in a world that seems to place so much reliance on "front.” Just industry. Not talk, or office politics, or ability to play a good game of golf with your superiors—just industry. Ihe men who get to those places that arc worth getting to are, almost without exception, the ones whose hard work took them there, it s the only way. The law of gravity is reversed by bootleg booze. . What the world needs 's a front porch that will fly up and sinal: a bill collector. E bi TO RIA L S I 1a ■ ... ... ~ ■■■■ ’ -ant l I Powell A ■ ' .. . ■ J Two factions in Illinois have been wrangling over the question, whether candidates for judges in Chicago should be* nominated at party primaries, er, as now, at par ty conventions. Why not dispute whether they should be chosen by drawing straws, or by matching pennies? Between two methods, both wrong, what difference does it make which is used? Parties have nothing to do with judges. If they must Jye nominated, it should be by a non-partisan pri mary or convention. Even that would seem foolish enough, if we were not hardened te it by custom. No other country’ does it, and we do not do it ourselves with the judges to whom we give the most power and most respect—the Fed eral judges. The only excuse for the cry “back to the convention” for ju dicial nominations is that conven tion nomination is a sort of appoint ment. But it is appointment by secret, self-appointed bosses, responsible to nobody’. If we are to have appoint ment, it should be by the responsible head of the state. If, for our sins, we must still have the election of judges, it should be non-partisan, in nomination and election. WHEN LOGIC MAY BE VERY ILLOGICAL It is interesting, sometimes, to ; pm- ,e the logic of illogic. lor ti e people who do foolish thin;.; do m t do them because they tliii th< i i foolish. The first step in it fm in;;- them is to realize how ; they come to think them wise. The clearest example is the' com t>°h ' court device for fuddt- jury. man is caught stealing. The I > MUDD CENTER FOLKS _ L,. [ Hon D‘ trey expect their ; > ,z CUSTOMERS ,7b GO THReuC-t W . ' -fT iS THING* N FIVE. PAYS? I,'/// \ i • *» uty T.T\ T,T L > L'■ ■ ' T ' ; ‘ ■ - .7 " ■’> . . x " I ?: j A- catalog- Recently came, to ‘b'i’e. clow From "Rears, Soebuck Co-, An:> on TttE envelope, it said,"Return ‘|M PAY 3 BYE’S HUSTLING- LiKE MAD TO READ THE CATALOG- ALL - -through- 50’5 He can Send it back" on Time \ TEN YEARS ACO TODAY f \ 9, 1915,) Misses Mai'gar t and Isabel I \ y will entertain this after-1 rin; Hicks, of Mont. A. Ruth Cot!’ v,ho ,s vl - ltul ß MISS ' lev- <i' anti *^‘ ss 1 a nnie Fur-j he?un ( 'l4“\L'° i: W Os , W .1 l( ■■ !' urlow. Airs. ( \ . ,\ .\;les entertained at a picnic <-r\ ... , , , \- lednesday night in honor of 1:A ~ ~ J ~ ~ . . .Atti'active guests, Alias Harriett i.\ .. ot Camilla, Miss Susie Mae ix- . . . , | . , \er, and Miss ;>alathia Brooks, \ The second prize f<\, , , , , , , , . we best dec orated automobile m ... , ~ , \ 1 loral pa- r.-.de .Monday was won oV, u; Daniels. it was anno'X Mr. J. J. Hardy won seciX* j,,',, j but the original judges decV ' J -hl by Secretary of the <'\ ) ]~, t .i io' Cmnmoi.-e, show Mr . winner of the second prize. \ | Misses Pauline Bioa irrst :\l I'. .■.nia '.'ollins entertained tI.N : fternoon for two lovely visitors : Miriam Rogers, .>1 Macon and Miss Cecil Hicks. Mrs. G. Morgan Eldridge and son, Doctor Eldridge left this morning ' ■ iIS.I days in th ■ city by tiie sea, and tu Tyhee beach as well. man who caught him beats his wife. i Therefore, he did not steal. By what process does a jury al low itself to be convinced that this absurdity is sensible? Probably this: The jury is con crcte-mindcd. Abstract issues mean little to it, as compared with visible persons and things. Visibly before it are two men. -one a thief and the other a wife’ I.eater. The lawsuit is a contest be tween these two. Which shall “win” it? Certainly, not the wife-beater. So the thief is acquitted. Just subtract from your thought everything that you can not see with your eyes, and the conclusion docs not seem so irrational, after all. EVOLUTION THE VERY GENIUS OF THE BIBLE You can’t even read your Bible without the evolutionary method— unless you are willing to believe that the polytheistic Jehovah of Genesis and Job. the One God of the Prophets, and the Heavenly Father of Jesus are all identical concep [tions, of equal and infallible au- Ithority; that the fighting tribal di vinity who ordered the Israelites in Egypt to steal, and who hated and destroyed the enemies of his par- I ticular tribe, and the Author of Righteousness of the Prophets and Apostles are equally adequate de scriptions of the Infinite; that the voice walking in the garden and I the Maker of Heaven and Earth are equally binding imagery. The very puzzles of the Bible itself, over which casuists have dis puted and scoffers have gloated, dis appear when you regard the Bible progressively, as al| modern Chris tian and Jewish scholars do. The conflict is not between Evo lution and the Bible. is I (he very genius of thyi Bible ilrelL j THE AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER TWENTY YEARS ACO TODAY I (Frpin Tiie Times-Re. cider, July 9, 1905.) A party o.’ eighteen gentlemen attejided tl barber •iw n by I Capt. C. C. Clay at his nlantation | yesterday and just suiri an oicasio.n : as ic proved can tetter be imagined than described. A long table was spread bem ith tiie great ■ aks in the yard and piled upon it was sav ory barbecue, chicken pie, chicken, fried and broiled, pies, melons, peaches and .other good things in ; bundance. Before the end of this week Am ericus will have direct telephone communication with Dawson, Shell man, and Cuthbert and the same line will likewise be extended to i Albany, this affording a double itelephone service to that city. I Mr. and Mrs, T. F. Gatewood j have returned to the city from a j weeks stay at the formers home in Jibe country. \ Nearly 200 of the best citizens '\f Sumter county, mostly farmers '* \ prominence and influence, met a Mhe city hall yesterday at 11 i, o’eV]; and spoke in on uncertain ?; voic.\^ n tj le question of restoring 1 bimettXij c coinage. The represen n tative frXu-the districts were M. B. Council, \\p. Burt, and A. T. Oli ver, 27th disSdct, J. B. Parker, 28th: 11. It. Glover, \]’d 16 th; J. L. Page, ;ew l(>th; Jno. Ed Thomas, 17th; M. Boston, \sth. thirty years ago today i 1 1 l lm Th>- Times-kiseorder, -July ' 9, 1895.)“ Mik. Ed Stalling; entertained a ■ ery \ ongenial party of friend at •ilyrtli- Springs yesterday. Tse oc casion was in honor of M-s. -John I. Hu Ison, and very thoroughly en joyed by all so fortunate as to be «n ludi d in Mrs. -Stallings ust of invited guests. Anong those pres ent were Mrs. Stalings. Mrs. John • R- Judson, Mrs. R. E. McNulty, Mrs. p. L. Holt, Mrs. Henry B. Allen, Miss Mattie Rylander, Miss . i Constince Holt. A Parriage, interest in the best cir-les of colored society here was thatof Lucie Warren and Thad Bowie. Tv? bride is the daughter of Boss W ir.en, an industrious and respited colored citizens, and for ) several yean has bee na teacher in the McKay ' [ill school. Hon. T. G Hudson who has ju t been appoints to the position of commissioner of agriculture, came down from Atl.nta yesterday, spend ing the day in Anericus on business While felicitating at his appoint . meat Commissioner Hudson friends here can but reg»?t that his official duties will, of cttirse, compel his removal from Americus to Atlanta. With watermelon selling for a dime and cantelou.ies two for a nickel, the unfed hire are reeling in the delights of the good old sum mer time. I I SIMS W<S2\YS The man worth while s the man who can smile when the world goes along as it does. Take care of the present and you can trade it in on a better future. If you must reduce, try being a dejected lover. Soon be warm enough for the wo en to take off their heavy rouge. Education is useh .. without rein- I mon sen.-e, but common sense is j useful a itii.. I i«U, T hink of the questions a little tot asks. Giving the answers is one of dad’s tasks. Sometimes you wonder how little minds work. Sometimes you wish, for a moment, they’d shirk. Daily things happen when kids are around. Shortly, the why of it all must be found- Locking quite puzzled, a wonder ing lad, seeks for the answer by turning to dad. “Tell me, now, pop, why do cows always moo?” What can you say when they ask it of you? “Why does the wee busy bee always buzz?” All you can answer is, “Oh, just because ” Still, after all, as the little ones grow, questions just add to the things that they know. Quizzing brings out what is right and what’s wrong. Dad’s job is merely to help tots along. Take all the questions that come day by day—try to ex plain them in simplest way. Try and remember, when you were a kid, questioning’s one cf the things that YOU did. —— I Letters Prom the People The following communication to Sumter county's representa tives in the Legislature frorn the Taxpayers’ League of-Sumter County, was mailed the Times- Recorder with request that it be published '• Americus, Ga., July 5, 1925. Messrs. E. A. Hines and George W. Riley, Sumter County Representa- I tives, General Assembly of Geor gia, Atlanta, Ga. Gentlemen; Where lies the power to which public servants should render accounts of their stewardship? Is the dictum of the Kiwanis club superior to the mandate of the people? Are the people to be denied an expression of opinion upon public issues at the instigation of a single civic organization? These are interesting questions. Reading an article in the Ameri cus Tin.es-Recorder, it would ap pear the Kiwanis club has taken unto itself vicarious authority to speak for the people—with none other to be heard. Which would be more excusable were the Ki wanis club representative of the people? Who constitute the membership of this organization that seeks to speak for the whole people in this matter of provid ing and maintaining a select and very expensive street Igihting sys tem for the benefit of a few prob ity owners and over the protest of others? There is no dispute over this question. The membership of the Kiwanis club is selected of business men ana their associates n the professlbn al world. No .nan of the labor ing classes can be numbered with in their ranks. Are all of these citizens and taxpayers to be de prived of their rights because these select and upright young business men have already ex pressed themselves. T hardly think yau will agree with the Kiwanß club in this attempt to usurp/he rights of the people. If the ipnerican nation is to stand, the.ybice of the. people must con tiilie to ring thf,ou.!\i.out the land --and the cry of this voice must ( ; «■ lr i li:.i: country is to ’ : -ape iii.- i. ...oi -of Bolshevism o-'. .i : a. I'ogar.ce must be cn b. d v. i. r. .ar this be found. l.tt’. .ee v. hat tills bill to tax property owners for the cr< ction of a white vzay in Amer icus will cost. The Kiwanis club isn’t making figures public that would let the people know all about their proposition. The peo ple have the right to know this. What will maintenance of the ■proposed white way cost the whole people stretched over many, many years? So fi ras publish ed here, the Kiwanis club hasn’t accurately calculated * this ex pense. Would you buy either for jFourself or any one whose confi dence you possess an article the cost of maintenance being un known, to say nothing of the initial purchase price? Does the bill sponsored by the Kiwanis MOTHER: Baby’s Best Laxative is “California Fig Syrup” When baby is constipated, has wind-colic, feverish breath, coated tongue, or diarrhea, a half-tea spoonful of genuine “California Fig Syrup” promptly moves the poisons, gases, bile,, souring food and waste right cut. New r cramps or overacts. Babies’ love its de licious taste. Ask your druggist for genuine “California Fig Syrup” which has full directions for infants in arms, ami children of all ages, plainly printed on bottle. Mother! You i must say “California” or you may gel an imitation |ig syrug.— (adv.) I club designate those streets upon which it would be permissible to erect a white way? nothing has ever been published here that would give the people this in formation. Suppose at some later date the politics of the communi ty should fall into corrupt hands, what would prevent a corrupt mayor and council illuminating the entire city a white way? It’s usually easy to get a petition through with a little favorable publicity and camouflage of the object to be gained. Will you gentlemen, as*the peo ple’s representatives in the Gen eral Assembly be guided by the voice of the club or the will of-the people? This is a question in which the entire community is deeply interested. Americus al ready has an enormous floating indebtedness, part of which is al leged to be illegal, yet the tax payers continue to. pay annually interest and principal thereon. Five years ago a special tax act, passed by the General Assembly, gave the mayor and council of Americus authority to collect add ed tax for the retirement of this debt. Funds collected under this act could be used for no other purpose .under its provisions. At that'time it was estimated the entire floating debt could and would be eliminated through ap plication of funds collected thru the' additional tax levy authoriz ed. How much of this floathig debt wa retired during that pe riod? How much remains to be paid by Americus taxpayers? These are questions with which you genUeir.en are both familiar. If a mayor and council during past years could and did ignore the law in accumulating the pres ent floating indebtedness of Americus, exists there any surety that a similar condition may not be expected in the future? Too much authority is a dangerous f —; | A Strengthening, Invigorating Tonic for W oinen* &. Children I Grove'® Tasteless \CMII Tonie\ 6CC. ! $5,000 Local Money To Loan J. LEWIS ELLIS Troy G. Morrow ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Bell Building AMERICUS, GA. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Directort And EmLalniem Night Phonea 661 and 88 Dav Phones 88 and 231 1.. G. COUNCIL, President T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier I C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. &• Cashier. J. E. Cashier ' * the Planters Bank of Americus- * (Incorporated) Sound ■ jj’-V Principle. This Bank take, pleasure I.■<’ ,ervin »r lho,e customer. - jB *l*° expect the utmost in 'j P'tfsK commercial banking service, p "*■ ’’ml ,n d yet who do not expect ffl^7tlr r 3 -a accommodation, inconsistent with sound and conservative IBWWSWgkW ba P k!, i' princip,e ‘- Perhaps an account with _r 1 .ft i*Ji ?fe • U1 will prove beneficial to * you. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 / 7 PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, ACCOMMODATING / Hll. r —■ r '“TI THURSDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 9. 1925 thing, gentlemen. Sift this ques tion carefully in your minds; don’t be stampeded into support ing any measure because an or ganized agency for propaganda -. ks your aid. Consult wlh your Constitudnts on this question. We all want Americus to prog ress, but let progress be attain ed only along substantial lines. How many investments will the proposed White Way bring to Americus, when investors learn the cost of the system? Don’t you think it is about time some thing was done looging to a re duction of taxes in this com munity? If we would build here a substantial city; if we would invite the investor and the worth while farmer and merchant to our community, care must be given , this matter of taxes. The is already a heavy one. \ Americus people have been provided a better way for ex pressing their views upon this question than hrough the agency of the Kiwanis club, with its se lected membership from which all laboring classes are barred. There is a ballot box at the store of W. T McMath wherfyan authoritative straw ballot is being conducted. This ballot, we believe, will re flect the real views of the people. Will you heai- their voice, or will you listen only to the Kry of Ki wanis? We have confidence, in Sumter’s representatives that you will both publicly express your selves on this issue and secure a full expression from the people before placing this added burden upon the taxpayers of Americus. As a niatter of information to the whole people here, a copy of this letter’is being handed the Times-Recorder, with request that same be published. Respect! uily yours. TAXPAYERS’ LEAGUE OF SUM TER COUNTY, By W. T.' McMATH, Chairman. Hall’s Catasrla Medietoe rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness caused by Catarrh. Sold bydrug&slt for ever 40 years F. J. CHENEY &. CO., Toledo, Ohio Dr. R.B. Strickland Dentist Americus, Georgia / BELL BUILDING 1 i Over Western Union Telegraph Co/ J . / ■ Money to Lend /■ ■ GN AMERICUS i ■ j RESIDENCE PROPERTY f J. Lewis Ellis Empire Bldg. Phone 830 _ _ EGG PRICES STRONGER Sell us your Eggs. We pay the top of the mar ket for Fresh Egps. AMERICUS HATCHERY AND SUPPLY CO . Americus, Ga. RAILROAD SCHEDULES Central of Georgia Railway Co. (Central Standard Time) Arriv Depart 12:01 am Col-B’ham-Chgo 3:55 art 1:53 Alb-Jaxv. 3:35 am 3:20 air; Ja’v-Albany 11:42 pm 3:35 am Chgo-Cin-Atl 1:53 am 3:55 am Jax’v-Albany 12:01 am 5:29 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pm 6:34 am Albany 6:47 pm 10:10 am Columbus 3:15 pm 1:54 pm Atlanta-Macon 1:54 pm 1:54 pm Albany-Montg 1:54 pm 3:10 pm Albany 10:12 ani 6:47 pm Atlanta Macon 6: r '4 am 10:35 pm A’by-Montgy 5:29 am 11:42 pm Chgo-St.L Atl 3:20 ain SEABOARD AIR LINE (Central Time) t Arrive Departs f 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. i
