About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1925)
Friday afternoon, july 31, 1925 Congresswoman Huck Gers Self Arrested For Setit Larcency Winnifrcd Mason Huck, former congresswoman and the first wom an to nrcside over the house of rep resentatives, got herself sentenced to prison. Guiltless of any crime, she nought an<Wcrs to the Questions- Are our prisons humane? Can a girl, crushed by her fel low men, regain her place in socie- W. Here is he rfirst story, written for The Times-Reccrder. By Winnifred Mason Huck Former Representative to Congress from Illinois. “Put your hat over there,” said the matron, glancing toward a dingy corner of the cell room, as she pre pared to search me. I stepped gingerly across the dark floor to the hat rack. A wild assortment of feminine head gear confronted me. One peg was hatless. From that high van tage point, a lusty cockroach viewed the world. One cock-eyed glance of welcome he shot at me, and scuttled off into the dark. The smell of stale tobacco smoke, mixed with that of rotting food in the vermin-infested corners of the room, accosted me at every breath. And the stench of cooped-up hu manity pervaded all. “Have you any money?” asked the matron. As I showed her my pocketbook, my hands trembled. It was not all acting, for the cockroach greeting had startled me into some dismay ing anticiaptions. “Is that all?” she asked sus piciously. “I have $lO pinned on the inside of my stocking,” I said, looking un utterably guilty. “Now tell me the truth,” she said, with the severity of one catching a child red-handed in a lie. “Well,” said I, “you can look for yourself.” But she went no farther with her searching. The Door Clang* The door clanged behind me. The bolt shot. I was locked in the Cleveland po lice station, with the owners of those indescribably squalid hats. My eyes were getting used to the darkness, and I thought that soon I could see as well as the rats whose green eyes shone in the corners of the room. K? My nose, however, never became ’X acclimated, and during the davs that followed, every breath I took in that place left its sting on my memory. - • - In the half light I discerned two colored girls watching me with cool, calculating eyes. My knees shook. I said to my- REJOICES DAUGHTER CAN RESUME STUDIES “Everything my little 12-year old girl ate distressed her; even a glass of water would cause her to belch gas and she was unable to go to school for nearly a year. I bought her a bottle of Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy, and since taking it she is eating us out of house and home and is attending school again.” It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intctsinal ailments, including ap pendicitis. One dose wlil convince or money refunded. For sale by all druggists.— (adv.) CL x SsW>A9j FOR SALE BARGAINS —One hay rake, mower, Case power bailer, Dela Vale sup arator, 0r.2 grist m'ill, one feed grinder, one home light plant, and several gasoline engines, various sizes. F. G. FOR SALE —Cable Piano as good as new. Will give /terms. W H. Cobb. Phone 800.—29-3 t FOR RENT —Best apartments in Americus; desirable local ions. Jno/ W. Shiver. —29-ts. MISCELLANEOUS STHE AMERICUS BUSINESS College is in operation; morning, afternoon and night. Miss Liliiar Braswell, President. Merritt Blag —lt! NOTICE —Next bus for Miami and Coral Gables Friday, August 7. Better make your reservation. Phonees 337 or 6(j. Neon Buchan an.—2B-tf. —2B-tf FOR RENT Three furnished rooms to couple without children. Mrs. C. R. Whitley—3l-3t The United States has 142 tele phones per 1000 inhabitants, while England has only 20. Eleven com tries have more telephones per 1000 ttrt* England. Last year 454 persons were res cued from shipwrecks abound tin British coast. I self that I was not afraid of them. : 1 kept saying it. But my mind ran riot on the i thought of how many bestial crim inals lurked in all those tiny sells, : waiting to steal out into the center of the room and stare at me. My imagination had me in its grip, and ! ,'gar to know a terror different from any that I had ever experienced. I looked around for a place to sit. There was none. Bevond tb > door ol a cell I saw a floor which looked somewhat cleaner than the rest. , The cockroach who had greeted ! me faded into insignificance before the scene that presented itself with in the cell. A Million Roache* A million or more of his kind wandered about the place, listless !ly, arrogantly, making no move to avoid me. Wrath seized me. I fought for my right to a seat in the cell, snap ping them here and there with my 'cry own fingers, controlling my' horror of them in my rage to dis possess. them. Their nonchalance infuriated mt. I hated them because thev did not. scurry out of sight when I entered. I should have liked to build a bon fire under a thousand of them, as they promenaded up and down the iron wall. But I never reached the point where I could have stepped on one. I fought for the seat, and I got it. - I did not enjoy it, but I did -it there and wonder how I could ever have been afraid of bur's. Life had moved swiftly for me within the last hour. For years I had wanted to see the inside of a jail from the inmate’s point of view, and for months I had schemed how I might do it. One day a good friend said in m' presence a few of the things he f«di about persons who were too chick en-hearted to prosecute those who wronged them. If people stole from him. he’d show them! He’d send any thief in the world to jail, if it was the last thing he did. My Opportunity A few' days later, my opportunity came. His car was standing at the curb. His new coat was inside, and the door was unlocked. I waited until I saw him coming up the street. Then I reached in. grasped, his coat and started to walk away. I did not look back, but I felt he was quickening his pace. “That’s my coat,” he said at mv elbow, with a touch of excitement jin his face. Then, recognizing me. 1 “Ye gods! What’s the big idea?” He looked completely amazed. “This is my coat,” said I, without changing expression. “Say, this isn’t April Fool. What’s the joke?” “Well,” said I, “perhaps it is a joke and perhaps it isn’t.” Then I told him of my secret am bition to get a real inside view of a jail, and that I was expecting him to make good on his threat of a few days before. Sweat broke out on his face. “Come,” he begged, “let’s go to lunch and forget this whole busi ness.” “I should say not,” I answered, all the while guiding our steps to ward the police station. “Anri where’s your sporting blood?” This gibe went home, and while I had the advantage, I made another lunge. “This is the chance I have boon seeking for months,” I said. "1 can’t imagine your going back on FOR RENT WANT TO RENT Five or six room house. I am coming to Americus to make a permanent home and desire to rent a home. Might consid er buying it later. Address, “Warehouse,” care Times-Re corder.—2o dh-tf-xz FOR RENT —Four room apartment. Immediate possession. Refer ences cxchfln.'Ved. Address “X,” care Times-Recorder.—29-11 FOR RENT TWO furnished rooms for light housekeeping. Phone 592 —29-3 t FOR RENT—Desirable bungalow; corner Harrold avenue and Hill St. Harrold Bros. —28-6 t FOR RENT Desirable 6-room house with garage, garden. 417 Rees Park.—3o-3t WANTED WANTED—Every one to drink Flint Rock Ginger Ale for an appetizer—before end after meals 5c per Lottie. Oe sale at all gro cers. XS-tt I WANT to do your fine Watch Re pairing. I want to set your dia monds for you. I will exchange new mountings for old ones. I will pay cash for old gold and platinum. I want to sell you dia .monds for cash or credit. R. S. , And so I was brought up in court. I was proud of my friend as ho ; put on a long face and swore out a I warrant before Cleveland’s young assistant prosecutor, John Boylan. Six Months ; Judge F. IA Stevens, a man with I kindly eyes, but with lines in his ; face that told of const ar- contact , with a worn of evil and suffering, i lectured me >.<?■ unkindly. The g:r.- i el pounded on the desk. 1 * Elizabeth Sprague, six month-. ’’ i ho raid. ; I was led out, turned over to a I policeman and within an incred!!-;-, i short time, found myself locked in i with the scum of a big city. 1 had seen their hats, at i tor the present, there war, nothing else about them that I want d to see. But I was doomed not only t- sec the women themselves, but to oat with them, to talk with them, at times to peer down into the abyss where their crafty, ugly, depraved, thoughts writhed. A scuffle, a curse, a sharp com mand, the sound of the impact O’ flesh on flesh brought me sudden/ to my feet. In the outer room the matron ami a policeman were bringing in a new prisoner. It was a sort of free-for all wrestling match. The three plunged into the room. The policeman and the matron with .1 deft twist of their strong ai -...i dispatched the woma nprisoner wit!) a reeling velocity into one of Che cells. Livid Rage Tn livid rage, she regained hrr feet and made for the door, it •hummed in her face an.l the rain ing bolt was shot. Her fury broke into a storm of such language as I had not imagined ex’rt.'d on tin earth. The policeman went out, straight ening his clothes. The matron was rubbing her wrist, which was red and swelling from an ugly scratch. She said nothing. This was a mere trifle in comparison to man.,’ of the hurts she received. I wont back to my call, shaken with fright. What next, in this place wh?re t was caged with smells, vile sights, crawling filth, rage and obscenity? I wondered why Damn had no' described hell as a cage instead of giving the souls of the dead unlim ited space in which to roam. I felt that I had experienced the prison feeling, but what I knew then was a mere shadow of the hor ror that crept upon me during tl e later days and weeks of life behind bars and locks and gray walls. Nothing could shock me anew, I thought. But I was wrong. Looking up, I saw one of the pret tiest girls I had ever looked at, framed in the doorway of my cell. She was young, slim and grace ful. \ Her hands were delicate find her feet small. Her clothes reflect c 1 cm HAND BAGS, SUIT CASES AND LEATHER POCKETBOOKS REPAIRED By N. R. Harris, Expert Workman Aluminumware Free to Customers PHILLIPS CHAMPION SHOE AND HARNESS SHOP I I I E. Forsyth Street NOTICE I pay highest cash price for Iron and Steel Scrap. Junk Autos, Old Tires and l übes, Metals and Rags. T. L. DURHAM -.-riraiwiwrß', liH-^wiiFi»aw!fi»nmMiiiMfi 1i H-^wiiFi»aw!fi»nmMiiiMfie | BBUKM®KZKSKiiMBi®SfIr43ra3BBIir!SMSK2aOHE3BIiEftanHIMraB®S»SM»SM»aSffISaSr EXPERT WIRiNG REPAIRING SEE— J. c. BASS Electrician Estimates Furnished Expert House Wiring Repairing FOR SALE—I 2 .hp 220 Volt Motor. 106 East Church Street Phone 854 IIIBI II IIHiHII IIIWMII I I'll 111 ■'BMlir , lT l " ■' I rwii|ii. A WHEN IS YOUR BOY’S NEXT BIRTHDAY? f ‘j| Give Him a Wa* h Watches Sold C . Lkr hiy or V, Weekly Payments 'WHEN Ptrijgon Diamonds sold on Payments. AMERICUS JEWELRY COK/ANY, Inc. Phone 229 ' ■ Wallis Mott, Mgr. THE. AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER The Prince Has His Troubles, Too a rag J Jw j no* h AoCTIF-xjjWWf.L.-.5a . JTCSsMBhF ' wt'An -JiiMMfe? sSiXd a £Mb ' J&jCTF J OP*’ i W or -iW --nW. If While reviewing the guard of honor at Witwatersand, Johannes burg, South Afric'a, the Prince of Wales is- forced to stoop down anil fm tened and is hanging over his shoe tops. To avoid such embar ra. -iments as this the prince should emulate the American college boy v ho wears no garters at ail. quisite taste. She had good features, fine gray eyes, a well poised head and an ap pealing expression. She stood and stared at me. Tomorrow —I meet two pretty girls and learn mere about the English language. « $14,000 FOR DECLARATION SIGNERS SIGNATURE ATLANTA, July 31. The sale of the signature of Buttoh Gwin nett, Georgia’s signer of the Decla ration of Independence, for $14,00G came to light by the publication of an essay by W. R- Benjamin. Mr. Benjamin, known as the “Dean of Autograph Dealers” in New York city, publishes an essay on the Signers of the Declaration of In dependence and tells of how Hames E’. Mannin, late mayor of Albany, N. Y-, and lifetime collector of signature and documents of the Revolution period, was ridiculed for paying $4,600 for a good docu ment bearing the signature of But ton Gwinnett and how this docu ment sold later for $14,000. There are 27 sets of the original signatures of the signers of the Declaration and eleven or these are privately owned. The remaining 16 are divided among state institu tions, libraries, ejad historical so cieties. BIG MONEY RUINED HUGH M’QUH.LAN, SAYS PRETTY WIFE i (Continued liom Page One) hand. Soon his work had been no- ] ticed by a scout and he was taken over by the Bostonians. Then came the “Big money!” Success and fame mounted fa t. Boston had given him $4500 for five months work. The Giants want ed him and paid SIOO,OO0 —or some such figure—and his salary leaped to S9OOO. Thence, she says, it has ascended to $22,000. All this Mrs. McQuillan related with the shadow of a wistful smile I upon her lips. Big money 1 ! “It wont to his head—poor boy,” she went on. “Three years ago the crisis camo. I noticed the change when the S9OOO job with Now York came his way. Big money in his pocket and fast company just be yond the corner! Then came gay parties—women—-drink—and night after night he didn’t come homo. Those were terrib’e years. I thought he would get over it and was pal i ent. The past year I went home to my parents in Worcester. But for my religion—l am a Catohlie—l should have divorced him. It seems tragic that money should so muddle | Far more than this she has said I in the legad phrasing of the court papers, “Another woman” is nam- WANTED! Salesman to handle our line of Fireworks on a strictly commission ba sis. GREAT AMERICAN FIREWORKS CO., 166 W.h.’tt ludl Street Atlanta, Ga. -wfc,,vA< Jßk FOR CLEANLINESS! '/’•* ' ASST I South Georgia Public’Service Company W. H. CURRY, District Manager ed, Miss Helene Goebbcl, the blonde beauty who was “Miss Bronx” at the 1924 Atlantic City bathing beau ty contest. She tells of fines al leged to have, been imposed for drunkenness; of a debauch staged upon the eve of an important game v.hen, she avers, the fine was $500; of an a;.i-< i oient for separate main tenance that'was not lived up to and charge sthat “he was transform ed from a good husband into a drunkard.” Big money! There is also McQuillan’s side of [Grant Sees His First I Well Dav In 9 Years 'lf This Wonderful Karnak Cost < Ten Times Its Price ; Would ' Have Still More Than Got Valve Received,” Declared Atlanta Man. No longer docs anyone doubt the i xtraordinary merit pl' Karnak. It j s proven by tile experience of the ; ■eople themselves in all parts of! Georgia to be the greatest medi-j ?ine that ha ; ever been known. 1 Listen to v.hat John E. Grant, of 119 Stewart avenue, Atlanta, say:/ “If Kai imk 4-o- t me ten times the mice I would still have more than gotten value received from this re i arkable medicine. “Why, for nearly nine years I had hardly known what it was to re free from indigestion and rheu natism. (t didn’t seem to matter >ow careful I was about eating, my itomach would bloat up so with gas hat it would almost cut off my breathing. Sometimes I thought ny heart was stopping. “My head would whirl around and I wcraid get so dizzy I was al r.ost blind. I had sharp pains in the pit of my stomach nearly all he time and 1 was so nervous I wouldn’t get a night’s sleep to save my life. I would get up in the morning with a bad taste and no appetite at all. “Then on top of all that 1 had rheumatism in my right shoulder so bad I could hardly use my arm at all. I was sure in a bad way and jriSt couldn’t get any relief. “But that’s all forgotten now. 1 took Karnak and the very first bot tle relieved the rheumatism com pletely and I could use my right arm the same as my left. To Our Friends and Customers I The Ginning Season is here. We specialize in ginning cotton and we have the most up-todate and simplified Gin nery in this section. We owe it to our customers to give good service. We have put in new saws, new belts, etc. The ' ’juice’’ is on and wc are ready to gin. We would like for you to look over our gin plant and let us gin your cotton and show you that we can make good samples and give the very best of service. We are in the market for Cotton Seed. Why not phone us when you have cotton seed to sell or when you are in the market for cotton seed products’? IT WILL PAY YOU ! FARMERS COTTON OIL CO. Phone 92 PAGE THREE the ease. He says she didn’t attend to wifely detiert that he came home many times to find I er gone; that he tried to build a happy home, but they drifted apart. As for Miss Goebbcl, she denies any intimations of “gay parties,” admitting only a friendship in which hers has been an influence for good. But whatever the true circum stances, “big money” again has writ ten its story of scandal and unhappi -1 i-'-ss and a frail woman with luster | lost eyes asks; “What man can stand its acid test?” '*'*** I, M j VM:- 1 Fv/vAi J°h» E - Grant “I eat like a horse, three or four times a day, and feel like a three year-old colt. My indigestion is gone—eat anything 1 want—noth ing hurts me. I haven’t had an ache or a pain since I began tak ing Karnak and f .sleep like a log and feel absolutely well for the first time in nine years. I have al ready gained seven pounds. “1 am telling everybody about Karnak, for 1 think that anyone who had gotten as much benefit as 1 have from this medicine and wouldn’t recommend it to their friends hasn’t got much humanity about them.” Karnak is sold in Americus by Americus Drug and Seed Store, Howell’s Pharmacy and leading druggist; everywhere.^(adv.)
