Georgia Historic Newspapers

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THE TIMES-RECORDER
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ED IT 6RI ALS |
Brown’s Machine
Not Running
Smoothly—
rhe boasting of J. J. Brown
to Henry Allan, as published
Sunday in the Macon Telegraph,
has thrown several monkey
wrenches irTo the B.cwn mu
ch ae, which up to Saturday
seemed to be running smoothly.
Brown, Neill and Ennis desire
to occupy the Governor’s chair
two years hence. As head of
the machine, Mr. Brown had
the inside track. Mr. Neill is "in
bad at home” over his judge's
salary bill. Mr h.nnis saw an
opportunity to take, the lead
among the machine candidates
and grabbed it, by repudiating
Mr. Brown's statement.
The portion of Mr. Brown's
statement, as published in the
Telr graph which drew the lire
of Mr. Ennis is this:
“Ony a.-t week Mr. Ennis,
I’ri .illicit of the .Senate, came to
i i rid Hated he intended to run
in case 1 should not make the
r : ‘ . It will lie either one or the
other of us.”
After reading tin. above, Mr.
Ennis is quoted by John Ham
mond as saying:
“I h; v, had no such conversa
tion with Mr. Brown. It is true
I an. very seriously considering
i ...king the race for governor,
and without any strings or con
ditions on me with or by any man.
I i i.ve had no understandings,
nor have 1 made any trades. I
dropped into Mr. Brown’s office
one day recently and some re
mark was made about the. gover
norship race and Mr. Brown said
he had no intention whatever of
making the race. When he did
I said, ‘‘well, I am very serious
ly considering running myself.’
•‘That is the position i am in
today, and as 1 see it now, the
race will be between Cecil Neill
and
When the Americus interview
with Mr. Brown was shown Mr.
Neill, along with Mr. Ennis’ re
ply, Mr. Neill is quoted as say
ing.
“I have just given out a state
ment in which I have said that I
do not believe it proper that the
presiding' officer of either branch
of the Legislature should be a
candidate tor governor while the
I. gislature i- in session, and par
ticularly snice we have just in
augurated Governor Walker for
a term of two years.”
By their own statements we
have the admisison that Brown,
Ennis and Neill are jockeying
for the Governor’s chair, each
reaching for the machine vote.
Mr. Brown talked and the other
two are attempting to eliminate
him. If the row on the inside
eliminates all three, then for once
Mr. Brown will have done some
thing really worthwhile for his
Slate.
But that isn't all.
Brother Brown’s bragging has
drawn fire in both the Senate
and the House. Monday Sen
ator Hutcheson arose in the
Senate and said:
Mr. Brown (referring to J. J.
Brotvn, the Commissioner of Ag
riculture.) made the statement
that h hangs around the door of
the House and Senate so he can
watch his enemies. 1 do not know
t hit.man Brown, but he should be
in his office tending to his busi
ness'. 1 had a man come to me
who intimated that if 1 would do
certain tiling , that Mr. Brown
v.o'uld t.'.l. ■ case of me. 1 want
to say that I' an. man enough to
take sate of myself. I came here
to work.
Tuesday Representative Paul
Lindsay, of DeKalb county, calls
the attention of the House—
and the State —to the mere
handful, of men who control
legislation. From the Telegraph
we clip this significant para
graph:
‘■There' has be n a growing ten
dency on the part of a nn re hand
ful of men in the House to do the
’legislating for this entire body,”
said" Mr. Lindsay in a sp< ;ch on
r.. floor the iSouse today, when
that body was on the v< rge of
taking up the general appropria
tion bill the measure over which
p< rlup- there is a more versatile
ai XiutHl persistent lobby than
on ■<*>* <»th«r piece, of legisla
tion which i ver comes up fur con
t,d. ratio". But) • f.jirtimiy .'did
■STABIJSHID 1«7»
?A THOUGHT
Whatsoever ye would that men
] .Lould do Unto you, do ye even so
unto them. Matthew 7:12.
There is no beautificr.of complex
ion or form or behavior like the
wish to scatter joy, not pain, around
j us. —Emerson. j
not confine hi-’ remarks by any
means to this particular measure,
but rather ’’<? wandered over the
entire fi Id of legislative control,
and paid his respects pointedly
not only to the “more handful of
men in thia House” but as well to
“the system” and to “those out
side of this House who have been
legislating by proxy for us.”
Another result which came
about through the Americus
story published by the 1 elegraph
was the passage of Senator
Hutcheson’s resolution to in
vestigate the 1 Lghway Dep.’-t
--ment. The machine dir., not
want an invcstig.'H’cn in th; t de
partment. Mr. Brown is quot
ed as follows in his interview
here with Mr. Allen:
“Will the proposed highway de
partment probe that has been
a. ked in the Senate materialize?”
he was asked. “It hasn’t a
chance,” was his quick reply.
It didn’t Eave a chance until
Brother Brown "spilled the
beans” and drew the lire of Mr.
Ennis, president of the Senate.
While we see no need for the in
vestigation, still if it t ikes that
to uncover machine politics, let
them investgiate from now till
Christmas.
Machine politics must be con
ducted under cover —in the dark
—to be successful. When ex
posed to the light, something
bursts and the people get an in
side view 7 . When machine ■'poli
ticians begin fighting among
themselves they expose each oth
er’s hand and convict them
selves.
Time and again we have stat
ed that Georgia was machine
controlled; that a little handful
of men do the legislating for
the entire State; that it is the
Browms, the Holders and Neills
who are in.the way of progress;
that no constructive legislative
program car. Le put across until
such men are eliminated; that
these machine politicians are
maintaining themselves through
their department employes who
constitute a state-wide political
net, paid for by the State at the
expense of our educational insti
tutions; pensioners; highways
and so on. A few thousands of
dollars are alloted to the district
agricultural schools while SIOO,-
000 goes to Mr. Brown’s so-call
ed marketing bureau; the blind
and the insane suffer for want of
adequate appropriations while
$130,000 a year is given the
oil inspector henchmen
Mr. Brown and his depart
ments TAKE whatever they
want and the rest is dividived
among our schools, colleges and
eleemosynary institutions, whose
heads are forced to resort to log
rolling and begging tactics to
get the pittances awarded them.
And the Legislature permits such
things to go on and on.
Such is machine politics in
Georgia. With an income of
$18,000,000 a year, every State
institution is suffering for ade
quate funds. While other States
march rapidly to the front, Geor
gia must lag because of the
weight of this machine on her
shoulders.
But there is another side to
this general discussion. Mr.
Brown could not maintain him
self as the political czar of Geor
gia if the real backbone of the
State wanted it otherwise. It’s
the stay-at-homes, the men and
women, who refuse or fail to
vote who make such conditions
possible. This is forcefully stat
ed in a recent editorial from the
Albany Herald, in which Editor
Mclntosh observes:
What we now want to take oc
casion to say is that if Commis
sioner Brown is the political auto
crat he is accused of being, and
is exercising such power over the
affairs of the State as his critics
allege, h is a serious reflection
upon the people of Georgia. If it
be true that the affairs of this
State can be controlled by the
clever distribution of a little pat
ronage, such as is handed out by
the Cornmisisoner of Agriculture,
it constitutes by implication a
very serious charge against the
people <>f the State who do the
voting. It not only implies indif
ferem as as to the character of
men • b et d to office, but carries
the further implication that the
majority of them can be influ
enced by the beneficiaries of
petty official patronage. If, in
, other words, Commissioner Brown
I is exercising the. power his critics
and political enemies say he is, .
1 and that power is obtained and ~
MUDD CENTER FOLKS
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V.UDD CENTER. HAS INCREaSEp At least ’ I
p ; crv SINCE <V)ISS MAU D
SIMMONS PQqGgtu a CQ-F_sp WITH- HER.
THIS YEAR 4 NUMBER O c SPARE Rooms arg
BEING tDßnrcn m? <OanDMA HOPKINS C A£E$
maintained through an organiza
tion composed of his appointees
—oil inspectors, fertilizer inspec
tors, etc.—the peopld of Georgia
have become a cheap lot of easi
i ly corrupted ignoramuses devoid
! of patriotism and ready to disre
' gaiil or betray the best, interests (
■’<f th State f>r trifle. The :
thought, which suggests itself right ■
■ here is pleasant, to contem
| plate and to write it for our fel
) low Georigans to read would be
mortifynig. Teo many of us are !
careless or indifferent in the ex
ercise of the right of franchise, I
and yield to personal influences j
that are corrupt.
Georgia needs a re-awakened;
civic conscience. We must be-'
t gin studying the needs of our
States and forget the political I
ambitions of our friends. He I
who sells his vote for friend-,
ships cause is either extremely i
careless with h i conscience or [
places a very low value on his
franchise
■ IL7FU 1
B." iPowefl
This is from Hawaii, as all this
column will be for perhaps two
more weeks.
All tourist resorts have their
| boosters, but certain Hawaiian
; boosters have discovered perhaps;
the most original “talking point” of i
them all. In Hawaii, they say, you
can escape jazz!
There are, to be sure, note! dance
orchestras in Honolulu which per
force play jazz for visitors who
would not know how to dance to
anything else. But they play it
apologetically, and none too well,
as good musicans should.
And generally, even tourist com
mercialism finds it profitable to
banish the jazz.
Possibly this is the only accessi
ble spot on earth still relatively un
infected. The plaintively melodious
j native Hawaiian music has gone atl
I over the world, and even chance
j visitors are already familiar enough
with it to want to hear it on its
native soil.
Probably it could not happen
now even in Hawaii, but the writer
recalls a few years ago, attending a
jazz concert in Honolulu with one
of the most cultivated ladies in the
islands who had, until then, never
heard jazz.
This was from a college glee club,
stopping over one day on their way
to the Orient, and naturallp they
jazzed the jazz as only college
boys can. It was interesting to note
the reaction of a cultivated and
sensitive,” but wholly unpreprared
mind J The comment was startling,
but interesting. There was no sug
gestion that it was music.
POLYNESIAN MUSIC
AND HOW IT ROSE
This Polynesian music, of which
I the Hawaiian is the only form fa
miliar to the outside world, is an in
teresting development.
Originally the Polynesian peoples
had chants as primitive as those of
African savages, with a scale of
only four notes. One can hear
chants in Nubia and in Fiji which a
western ear could scarcely tell
apart. The missionaries had diffi
culty teaching them the western
scale.
But, when they once learned it,
their inherent artistic genius caus
ed them to develop it in forms
more delicate and melodious than
any the missionaries knew.
The world knows the plaintive
Hawaiian form. In Fiji it is more
barbaric. The Fijians are only part
Polynesian, and are mostly of ne
groid blood.
One of them intones the melody,
in away familiar in the singing of
American negroes, while Jhg others
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“boom-boom” the accompaniment in
constantly accelerated “4-4” time,
in away that belongs distinctly to
the jungle. Yet the air itself is
probably recognizably derived from
some familiar Methodist camp-meet
ing hymn.
In Tahiti, it takes the form of
ergie:; of :'ng:n ■: “him- nes.” AU
1 ." re totally different from the orig
j hril native chant, but all are also
refinements of the early nineteenth
century P-otestint church music
from which thee are derived.
i TWELVE MEN OFFER
TO DIE IN CHAIR IN
FIGHT ON ELECTROCUTION
(Continued frem Page One,
! trial, and wa f i ally acquitted ” Ift
' said.
i “But t? shadow of my trial still
! hung over me in the town where I ;
I liven. I was completely ostracized. |
' Who:: I went to church the people I
i would <;ct up and leave the pew!
I where '[ rat.
“Finally I changed my name and ;
moved away. Then my wife died, i
and my son was killed in the World .
War.
“Now 1 am old. 1 have nothing
left to live for. But I would like to
do some act that woula ne ; n man
kind.”
The other ten' wouid-be victims,
all over 89. have requested that
their names be withheld until plans
for their execution have been com
pleted.
AH Wiisinv to Die
“These men all mean what they ,
' say,” Dudding declared. “They are
, willing and anxious to die for the
cause.
“As to our capital punishment
exhibition .which we plan to hold
the second week in December. I am
now negotiating with the Washing
ton Auditorium Corporation, Cal
very Baptist church and First Con
gregational church for a place to
stage it.
“We plan to have twelve electric
chairs on the platform, with a volun
teer victim in each. They will be
electrocuted one by one.
“I have written to the attorney
general asking for a ruling on
whether such an exhibition may be
held.
“But if he rules against it, we
will go right ahead with ou" plans.
I believe that these men. all fully
matured and in their right minds,
have the right to take this action if
they wish.”
1
BI OWS AT BROWN
MACHINE IN LOWER
HOUSE THURSDAY
(Continued From Page O-iei
the salary of the director of the Bu
reau of Markets was stricken from
the bill, however, despite the vigor
ous protest of Chairman Barrett and
members of the appropriation com
mittee, who insisted that the item
was fixed by law.
Mr. Linder, who is the author of
a bill offered in the House to re
vise the fertilizer inspection laws
and which bill was adversely report
ed by the agricultural committee bv
a vote of 20 to 2, arose to “personal
privilege", and made the charge on
the floor of the House that Com
missioner Brown, “who is supposed
to represent the farmers of the
State, is in collusion with the fer
tilizer trust," and persistently op
poses legislation designed to benefit
the farmers when it has to do with
anv change in the present fertilizer
laws of the State.
“Mr. Brown used this influence
and his machine to kill my fertilizer
bill .which would have given the
people of Georgia the same protec
tion that is now given the people of
North Carolina,” said Mr. Linder.
He charged that certain brands oi
fertilizer? which are reported in
Alabama to have fallen below the
required guarantee, and on which
the manuacturers were penalized as
high as 50 per cent, are not shown
in Georgia fertilizer reports to
have fallvH VvIPJX at
You never can tell when you’re genna have light, _ or be in
the dark with the coming cf night. For, just at the time when
in light globes we trust, the switch doesn’t wc.k for the bvdb has
gone bust.
It’s funny how people forget tc replace the globes that are
blown, but that’s always the case. V/e never believe that we re
genna get stick for we’ve all got the habit cf trusting to luck.
The globe in the dining room flickers a bit. When it’s blown
we will start in to monkey with it. We tap on the glass till it
glows forth, and then, an hour or so later it blows out again.
Wc’li carry the globes ’round from this room to that till we
don’t know where all of the good ones are. Poor _ father will
figure that someone has gall for removing the lamp liaht out into
the hall.
It seems, that in daytime, we ne’er stop to think that a lot of
cur light globes have gone on the blink. Forgetting to purchase
just brings on disgust, when the light globe’s most needed, at
n T ght time go bust.
OTHER DAYS IN AMERICUS
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder, July
31, 1915.)
J. R. Green has the honor of plac
i ing the first bale of 1915 cotton on
the market at Plains. Mr. |
sold a bale of the fleecy this morn-!
ing at that city. The bale weighed
515 pounds and brought 10 cents a
pound.
Mr. and Mrs. .1. M. Weeks an-
Inounce the engagement •. of their
1 difughter. Clara Ethel, to Mr. John
'M. Thayer of Americus, the mar
i riage to take place at their resi
l deuce here on Thursday evening,
August J 9th.
At their residence on Jackson
street, Mr. and Mrs. Carroll J Clark j
entertained a number of friends
very delightfully Friday evening..
Rook was plaved at four tables.
A party of ten attractive Elki-l
ville young ladies chaperoned by |
Mrs. Strange, of that little city will ,
enjoy “tenting on the old camp I
[ ground.” Mvrtle Springs, next week I
i—a veritable Adamless Eden.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
l Monday, no paper published.
i THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
i (From The Times Recorder, July !
31, 1895.)
I Despite the inclemency of the I
i evening, the lawn party at the beau
[tiful home of Judge and Mrs. W. j
|F. Clarke in everv respect was a ■
charming and delightful affair.
i The Albany Guards are preparing !
; for a grand target tournament tn.
I take place on August 21 and 22. j
■ Invitations have been sent out to |
twenty companies who if they ac- ,
: cept will send a squad of five men
to anticipate in the shoot.
Miss Gertrude Hobbs, of Albany,
and her guest, Miss Lingo, of Am
ericus are attending a camp meet
ing that is being held near Chicka
sawhatchie in Terrell eonn‘y.
Miss Sarah Cobb loft yesterday I
for Sanelo Is’and near Brunswick, ■
where she will spend several weeks
j with relatives.
, Co. W. A. Podsen, and littlo
daughter. I'brttM. Misses Carrie
Speer and Fr.'.ma Dodson returned
home ye c tord-i from a pleasant stay
of three or four days at Tybec.
all, or that any penalty has.been ap
plied in this state to the manufac
turers.
In the course of his remarks Mr.
Linder, on the floor of the Hous;;,
challenged Commissioner Brown “to
meet me before the people of Geor
gia, and all over Georgia before the
next primary and justify his admin
istration of his department, and the
fertilizer laws if he can do so.”
Needed Unity—
Once again we Fear of a move
to unite the warring factions in
the Democratic party.
This is an excellent idea. No
one can say that some sort of a
reunion isn’t necessary.
But are they really going to
do it?
The scars left by the last con
vention arc deep. Worse, they
are symptoms of deep differ
ences of opinion that cannot eas
ily be glossed over.
The fact is that the Democ
crat’c party contains rival sec
tions that can never get togeth
er—unless some miracle of har
monizing is accomplished in a
wav that does not seem probable
right now.
And remember this Presi
dent Coolidge, in 1928, can’t
be beaten bv a divided party.
•¥• -Y
A loafer - is always glad when Mon
day comes because' then he has an
other whole week to loaf.
LOSSiOF STRENGTH
HOBO KIDNEY AND BLAD
DER REMEDY
High Blood Pressure, Headaches,
Verdigo, and insomnia are syrr.p-
■ tom of kidney trouble.
The liver and spleen are some
times enlarged.
A treatment of Kobo Kidney and
. Bladder Remedy has given nthny
people a new and firmer grip on life.
Hobo is sold at your neighbor
hood druqgist.
HOBO MEDICINE COMPANY
SIMS
W>SAYS
Matrimony makes two people one,
but ir makes one grocery bill two.
Nothing can feci better and look
worse than an old pair of shoes.
We are getting ready for airplane
traffic. Lots of our highways are
built for just a few years.
Beauty and brains seldom go to
gether. That would be like putting
gasoline on powder to make it
worse.
Tie chief trouble with thinking is
the more of it you co the nearer
right you think you are.
When someone goes away for the
week end v/e always feel just lik ■
hanging a service flag in the win
dow.
i
If all the June brides p'ut their
first biscuits together we could build
some good road i.
And if all the June brid-egroo-r
put their h -ad ■: together we could
build some better roads.
What could be worse than a lazy
man sitting on a bee and the bee
fixing him so he can’t sit any more?
The world is too small for golf to
replace baseball.
Monday was wash day once. Now
it is the day when mother sees if
■I
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(Incorporated)
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 31, 1925
all her family survived the week
end.
Reliable figures show that by this
time every good fisherman has had
one hook stuck in his fingre.
The rain falls on the just and the
unjust, but especially on the ju t
started picnic.
If you choose your words care
fully you won’t have to take them
back.
Renew Your Health
By Purification
Any physician will tell you that
“Perfect Purification of the System ,
i> Nature’s foundation of Perfcc’glj
Health.” Why not rid yourself or
chronic ailments that are undermin
ing your vitality? Purify your en
tire system by taking a thorough
course of Calotabs, once or
twice a week for several weeks —■
and see how Nature rewards you
with health.
Calotabs are the greatest of all
system purifiers. Get a family
package, containing full directions,
price 35cts.; trial package, lOcts.
At any drug store.— (adv.)
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$5,000 Local Money
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Dr. R.B. Strickland i
Dentist
Americus, Georgia
BELL BUILDING
Over Western Union Telegraph Co.
EGG PRICES
STRONGER
Sell us your Eggs. We
pay the top of the mar
ket for Fresh Eggs.
AMERICUS
HATCHERY AND
SUPPLY CO .
Americus, Ga.
RAILROAD SCHEDULES
Central cf Georgia
Railway Co.
(Central Standard Time)
Arriv, Depart
12:01 am Col-B’ham-Chgo 3:55 am
1:53 Alb-Jaxv. 3:35 am
3:20 arr. 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 pni Albany-Montg 1:54 pm
3:10 nm Albany 10:12 am
6:47 pm Atlanta Macon €:’ 4 am
10:35 pm Alby-Montgy 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 £ :35 am
12:26 pm Savh-Montg 3:23 pm
3:23 pm Savh-Montg 12:26 pm
J. A. BOWEN, Local Agent.