About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1925)
PAGE FOUR THE TIMES-RECORD ER KSTABUSHID I*7l It* « a • • * Kdltcs tr 4 PoblUber Entered m aerond rJaee at the offJoc at Americus* Georgia* accordhuf to th* hl of UvngTeM. The Anocfoted Preae I* exclusively entitled to rhe nee for the republication of all ncn dia patches credited to it or not othenrive credited to t* • paper and alao the local newt pubiialird here to. All right of republication of apecul dispatches ».o reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST LANDIS A KOHN, 22.’, Fifth Avenue, New York; Peoples Gas Bldg., Chicago; Vi alt on Building. Atlanta. -z’vz z-.^--.z->z-\x'»z-'-z . I EDITORIALS . 1 » s Americus’ Water Supply— Not for a day or an hour lias Americus suffered from want of water during the past few months, and while the unprece dented drought continues, there is no indication that our water supply will decrease. lor a few weeks springs supplying Amer icus with water failed to put forth the usual volume, hut even then the flow was adequate and no effort was made to cur tail its consumption in the city. Not every city in Georgia and other States as well—has been so blessed. In one city there has been a SSO fine assess ed against any one using city water to sprinkle lawns or wasn automobiles. In still another city, water was pumped into the pipes for only four hours a day. The Georgia Railway and Power company is petitioning for an 1 I per cent reduction in Atlanta’s street car service in an effort to conserve hydro-electric power. An official of that com pany states that if the drought continues six weeks longer hy dro-electric service must be abandoned if the present load on its high-tension wires is con tinued. Nathan Murray, chairman of the water committee, states that the flow from the springs has in creased materially in the last few days and no uneasiness was felt regarding a sufficient vol ume of water. That's something to be really thankful for. Americus is pe culiarly blessed with a plenti ful volume of water, of the purest and coldest in the State. Her water is one of the city’s finest assets. Plenty of water in the dryest and hottest of years is a record to be proud of —and thankful for. The heat this summer has been terrific over the entire country. What would have been the suffering if there had not been plenty of pure cold water? To appreciate our water one should travel about a little, sampling the warm, tepid water that others must use. *l* 7 he Oil Leases — Senator Thomas J. Walsh is fiec’y predicting that the higher court will reverse Federal Judge K ' l'nedy s udm'.’ ;n the I capot ! nie i• and will decide it in favor of the government. lie declares the case is paral lel to the Elk Hills case, which the government won. and that both should be decided the same way. He may or may not be right in his prediction. But here s a thing to keep in mind: Both of these cases will come up for review by higher courts, and neither case can be said to have been settled yet. So it might be well to reserve _ all comment about the victory.. of one side or the exoneration of another until the two decisions have been passed on finally. V : A The Politician — M. Painleve, the distinguish ed mathematician who is premier of France, is nothing if not ab sent-minded. The other day he went to a gymnastic display by a great group of trained athletes. “Behold,” he said in a little speech, the future defenders of Fiance.” He had forgotten they were Czecho-Slovak visitors. Y* In New York, Teo In New York State they have been having trouble between the State Legislature and the (governor over the matter of a State Park Board. The Governor Las wanted the park board drawn up and con stituted in one way. Ihe Leg islature, of a different political complexion, wanted another .. In newspaper coments on battle we hear much of strat egy,” of looking ahead to the fall campaign ol political astuteness and so on. But somehow there seems to be strangely little thought, by anyone, as to what program would really be best for the common people, who, after a.I, pa z the bills. jjsn’t it about time our po- A THOUGHT —I I ■ HI 181 !■ He is in the way of life that keep* eth instruction: but he that refus eth reproof erreth. —Prov. 10:18. * * * There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.— Swift. lilical leaders stopped looking at every piece of legislation to see what it can yield in the way of party or personal advantage, and gave a little thought to the best interests of the State? if- if- -Y- Wanted, a Moses — Among other indications of growing prosperity in South Georgia is the number of new hotels that are being built or projected. Valdosta is building two ho- Vadosta is buiding two ho tels. Douglas is building a new bo tch Vidalia is building a new hotel. Macon has completed a $500,- 0(H) fund for a tourist hotel. Savannah is starting a move ment for a tourist hotel. Thomasville has opened the handsome Three Toms Tavern. Hotels are not often filled in a dead or dying section. In fact they are about the first to suffer in times of depression, therefore they may be taken as reliable barometers. Real estate transfers in the past two weeks in the section around Bainbridge indicate that close to $200,000 worth of city and farm property has changed hands, a number of purchasers coming from a distance. Farm lands in Seminole county have brought S6O an acre, we are told, and in Decatur county SSO an acre. Around Fitzgerald recently capitalists have paid out $132,- 000 for farm lands in Ben Hill county. Much of this land was developed, but the new pur chaser, we are told, will spend considerably more in further de velopment. Other sales of consequence we have noticed have occurred in Crisp, Toombs, Lowndes, Twiggs and other South Geor gia counties. Almost daily we receive re ceive requests for advertising rates or letters asking for infor mation from Florida realtors asking about Sumter county lands. A typical letter is the following which came today: Cut-over lands in large acres or improved farm lands wanted. Give me listings and I will sell your lands. I have Northern connections who will pay one third cash, balance in one, two and three years, (> per cent inter est. Now is the time to sell and I can sell them. South Georgia is moving lor ward. Is there « man versed with the situation that doubts this-' Granting this be true, what are we of Sumter, one of the richest counties, potentially, in all of the Southeast, doing to secure our share'-' The situation is simply this- We have the lands, hundreds of acres, with superb climatic con ditions, a 12-month growing season, churches, schools, ex cellent roads everything to make life worthwhile. Almost in our midst are thousands de siring these lands. What’s needed? Nothing more than the brain, vision and energy necessary to bring to gether these two—a Moses. •”> -f- [ Women Smoke Five Billion Cigarettes— American women will smoke five of the seventy-five billion cigarettes sold in America this year, the president of one of the large tobacco companies state. That’s not so bad as might have been expected—only five only five out of 75 but we out of 7 s—but we can’t be held for accuracy of the figures. * * * Summer Business Good In South— Summer business in the por tion of the South included in the | Sixth Federal Reserve district, ' which embraces the “heart of the South,’’ has been satisfac tory and has shown a steady im provement over previous years. This is the summing up of the report of the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, based on a re view of trade conditions for the month of June and a part of July. sfi a - ■■ ■ . . , ..... i ,4»ii <i ■ ■« A man's face may be his fortune. So may a woman’s. Then a vanity case holds a lot of fortunes. Gul th. • a mr"' 1 ■ ir will really I stay parted is after he has parted | with it forevfl „ , MUDD CENTER FOLKS ( DOCTORS ORDERS,FANNY- j X ; I've. DEEN TAKING Too Want ( ) I COLDS )N THE HEAD LATELY-7 ' C * / p 1 A '■> k .sji/ fl i b W* * i ' ''j i ’ 1 \ • '‘.HE. NEWS SPREAD LIKE WILD FIR.E AMONG ■•UDD CENTER’S GOSSIPS WHEN BANKER ZEB ERKINS CAME BACK FROM THE CITY WITR- NEW 3HbCK OF HAIR Z.EB’3 EXPLANATION ms changed appearance. Hasn’t Fool- D THE WISE ONES HOWEVER, WHO ARE. ONVINCED THE PRETTY BOARDER. AT GRAND- ‘•HOPKIM . TtfE. CHANGE-*** - I OTHER DAYS IN AMERICUS J TEN YEARS AGO TODAY Monday, no paper published. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY I (From The Times-Rccordcr, Aug. I 19, 1905.) A hundred laborers with pick and J shovel are now at work at the Cen tral depot, frading the new exten sion of Cotton avenue, necessary to the erection of the passenger shed. This work was entered upon yester day morning, and a mountain of dirt thus moved. The funeral of President Lyman Hall of the State Tech will be con ducted in Atlanta, probably Sunday afternoon. As is well known Capt. j Hall was born in Americus, the son j of Dr. John E and Mrs. Hall. i Auto riding by' moonlight is now i a popular pastime here, and numer- I ous parties enjoy nightly an outing ! on Americus’ smooth streets. I The Sable cotton picker will come in today and exchange his dime for ! the diminutive melon. The mullet of long range odor will also tempt him. Five hundred interested specta- I tors, in luding lawyers, doctors, I deacons, elders, cotton buyers, scribes, and chair warmerg of the courthouse contingent, to say noth ing of politicians, lined the rail fences out at the Godwin farm yes- EDIT OR I A L S '• »■“■■’■■ rrv; r. y w;**/ ■?*»;> .uj.” ww y?fy . <■' <■■-■■■- c ;. ■*. '.*. s^-;,4 •J We have just celebrated the hun dredth anniversary of three instru mentalities of liberation—the rail roads, the Unitarian church and 1 Pomas 11. Huxley. The first set loose the bodies and goods of men; the second was the first organized American institution for the un shackling of their spirits, and the third was the great apostle of scien tific freedom of thought. Now we have added to the rail load the telegraph, telephone, auto mobile, airplane, moving picture and radio; to the first liberal church the liberalizing movements in all the others, and to Huxley the schools, the Scopes trial, the Associated Press and the yellow journals. Ex cept for poverty, which we have not really tackled, the only shackles left are those of voluntary ignorance. It has been a dizzy century— so swift that we have not yet adjusted 1 our institutions to the new machine ry nor our minds and characters to the responsibilities of the new free dom. This, far more than mere ilis covery, is the task of the future. Men Must Be Adjusted to Institutions What Greece and Turkey did to each other, Poland and Germany are now imitating. Because guns and vehicles are commoner than ideas, and violence is easier than thinking, we are more ready to de port racial or national minorities than to devise some way of living with them. Men must bo adjusted to institu tions rather than institutions to men. Like Procrustes of old, if our guest does not fit our bed we cut off or stretch his legs until he does, ore else, as in these recent instances, throw him out altogether. Changing the bed itself does net occur to us. If our minds can not contain the ih a that institutions might be other than geographic, then we may have to make otir pop- W. AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDOI ” terday. The occasion was the first horse race, or trotting contest, as' it is politely termed now. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY I (From The Times-Recorder, Aug. 19, 1895.) Lester Windsor and Cliff Clay, Jr. took a little trip down to De- Soto yesterday afternoon, astride their steeds of steel. The distance of fourteen miles over an ordinary country' road was made in one hour, and twenty minutes. The ride was. rather as costly one for Mr. Wind-' sor as he lost his handsome gold watch valued at $l5O. Mr. P. P. Potter is a Sumter coun ty farmer who raises his supplies I and makes his cotton strictly’ a sur plus crop. Monday he brought in a bale of his last years crop and sold it for 6 1-4 cents, while last fall he was offered only’ four cents for the same cotton. The party of ladies consisting of Mrs. Thompson, Misses Nellie and Alice Kay’, Lou Hamil and Mamie Dudley, who. have been spending some time at Magnolia Springs, re -5 turned to the city f esterday. Misses Rosalie and Gertrude Smith, Elizabeth Harrold, and Mary Davenport returned home yesterday ■ from »a delightful visit of several weeks to their cousins, Misses An- ■ nie and Mattie Pfohl of Columbus. ulations ge ograph ic. It has even been suggested that the negro question in America might be solved by setting aside certain states for black and others for white rule, individuals of either race to be admitted to the states of the other only on condition of ac cepting whatever government and treatment they found there. That is simpler than thinking out a form of government in which both races might inhabit the same territory without either ruling the other. Government Was Not Always Geographic It was not always so. Govern ment was not always geographic. For ages, sovereignty was personal rather than territorial; it extended to certain individuals, rather than over a certain space. Each man, wherever found, was subject to the rule and judged by the law of his own sovereign. The principle still survives, in our claim of extra-territoriality, in back ward countries. An American citi zen. in China, is still tried there by American judges, under American laws. It is doubtless too late to ro vivo this principle for the unman pable populations of the scrambled corners of the earth; but unless wo can discover something more intelli gent than the brutality of deporta tion or the absurdity of majority rule for these regions, they will con tinue to hatch wars for the rest of the world. It is not beyond the wit of man to invent institutions that would fit this situation. It may he beyond bis character to accept them. Conference Would Be Only an Experiment If we finally do hold that confer ence on Chinese extra-territoriality, i as promis .1 by the four-powi r treaty, U is only just to remember ■ that, [he delav is due largely to tPI z If you want to see grace, that is right in its place, it i. >- A ■' ■ you hie to the beaches. For there, ’mong the women, who ready go swimmin’, you’re sure to be eyein’ some peaches. In bathing suits neat, they are reaiiy a treat; quite the best you can find in the land. Cute capers they’re cutting while doing I their struttin’, and playin’ around in the sand. They’ll shiwer and shake when the first step they take and they’ll shout that the water is colder. And then, in a minute ' they’re all the way in it and feelin’ much bolder and bolder. At last they are swimmin’ and gracefully skimmin’ through I water that leads to a log. The divin’ board’s ready. .They pose ajbjb_ steady, then leap through the air like a frog. The beach folks enjoy it for, really, oh, boy, it’s a treat for the eyes that are sore. We hope, when they’re done, they get half as much fun as the people who sit on the shore. reluctance of China itself to have the issue raised beofre it was pre pared to meet it. Wc have agreed that our nation als shall be subject to Chinese law, administered by Chinese courts, whenever China provides modern laws and courts to do it. Such courts, it is claimed, have now been established in the principal cities.' No one pretends that they yet exist elsewhere. The utmost that a conference could concede would be the experi ment of Chinese jurisdiction for certain cases in a fe weities. The rest must grow. ENGLISHVILLE Miss Willie Ruth English spent last week with Mesdames. J. A. Mc- Gill and Jewel English, near Ella ville. ( ' Miss Julia Duke attended the . .three day course for canning club girls at Miona last week. Misses Haru Duke, Vai Kleekley'' and Willie Ruth English and Mrs. A. N. English spent Thursday at j Miona. Mrs. Charlie Kitchens and Miss | Mattie Lewis Kitchens spent Fri-! day with Mrs. S. J. English, near | Fountainville. Mrs. John Aycock, of Anderson-1 ville, spent Sunday’ with Mr. and i Mrs. S. B. Duke. Mrs. Bell Grantham, Mr. and Mrs. : James Grantham and Mr. and Mrs. I ; Horace Walker, of Lacrosse, spent • 1 Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. L. L. | 1 Holloway. i I Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rooks, of And- i j ersonville, spent Sunday with Mr. . I and Mrs. J. H. Jones. I Mrs. C. W. Sanders and children. | iof Americus, spent the week emi here. Mr and Mrs. J. T. Smith. I heron and Mary Harden, of Fountamvill >. spent Sunday with Charlie Kitchens and family. I Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Smith and j daughter, Sara, attende dthe barbe-, | cue at Fellowship Friday. I Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Duke and 1 children spent Sunday with Mr. and J Mrs. Roy Justice. I Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kleekley. of ' near Oglethorpe, spent Friday’ aft ' ernoon with Charge FmD’sb. I Mr and Mrs. W. H. Harden and son Rev. W nl Sm Z.h M’-'- and ’ Mrs. B. M. Kitchens. . Little Virginia English spent the j week end with her grandmother, i Mrs. J. B. Mathis. CUT-OFF The public is especially invited to attend services at the Lutheran church Sunday morning at eleven o’clock. Misses Mardelle Pennington, Janilu Holloway, Ho’vard and Dur wood Pennington, Henry Beden baugh and Owen Barswick at . tended the movies in Americus Sat . urday evening. REAL ESTATE S.OANJ X, ,X. IS x LOAN REPAYABLE MONTHLY- let US EXPLAIN J T fl .v. —1 ’•«*• ~™ • J. LEWIS ; ELLIS Phone 830 • Empire Building Americus, Ga. « - • WEDNESDAY AFTERF^^^O'iUT^P 2 *’ Mrs. J. T. Morris is visiting rel atives at New Era. Mr, and Mrs. James Maxie re turned from a 2 weeks visit with relatives at Athens and were accom panied home by Mr. and Mrs. Tom Maxie for a few days visit. Misses Lucy Belle and Agnes Mc- Donald, of Spaulding, spent a few days here this week with Mrs. Lizzie Bedenbaugh. Miss Mary Edgar Hart, of Ella ville, Robert and Charlie Stubbs, of Albany, attended the Epworth League meeting Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Rob Holloway, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Holloway, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Coker, Janies Tolen, Will Rasberry, A. F. and Howard Pennington entertained at a fish fry dinner Wednesday, honoring Mrs. Bill McKenzie, of Oakfield, and Mrs. A. F. Pennington and Mrs. J. T. Morris of this place. I Misses Eula Kitchens, Janilu Hol loway, A. F. Pennington and E. W. Holloway, spent Sunday afternoon I at Andersonville with Mr. and Mrs. I Olin Holloway. | Mr. and Mrs. George Wicker were DINKLEIU Hotels : <•'. - j.-./.. ■ gcits ? y« Kjr Z t:: g ; :■ " ■ iyoyj® s ■ I Ansley L j I ATLANTA•GA <>so Rooms Baths L Rates A ’U' F FLOAY ' ANDREW JACKSON Open rtm/ust 197.5 TUTWILER. 'Btrminijhmn - ilia- PIEDMONT - C>a- redmont RALSTON I CoZuvnbus ** | Dispensers of True Soutkm Hosyitaiity a mu .uummiiii iiiijiiwn!rc7~7r"--’.7-? •’sspl* n Troy G. Morrow ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Bell Building AMERICUS, GA. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Director* And Embalmer* Night Phone* 661 and B<s Day Phone# 88 and 231 L. G. COUNCIL, President T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) ; ( Success —r Independence w '*’ h ,ucce »» >» »O save. Why not jiL* * et our Savings Department KffihraWlfliH I? be of scrvice - We p a r 4 " u V■ Sp* Compound interest semi-an- MHHalEmEwt'Mtf nuaily. Later on you will f,nd th! * a v * se move •»-. ■ dependence and happiness. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 g RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 i • ■ -- , X’it .us Oi. . } •’ Prompt, Conservative, Acc'’T>'modatin<’ shoppers in ahkuvu., and while there were guest of Mr.- and Mrs. Gordon Feagin. Mrs Drury Norris and children. o f Hill, spent Tuesday wi-.n Mrs. J. A. Smith. Renew Your Health H- cation l; " ' ' ■• - .. . ■ n! chronic aui i n g your vitality? Lun., y-ut -n --tire'TWm by tdfohg a thorougn course Os Calebs, once or twice a week for several weeks- - and see how Nature reward.-, you with health. .. Calotabs are the greatest of an system purifiers. Get a family package, containing full directions, price 35cts.; trial package, lOcts. At any drug store. — (adv.) t T I io A t /X. 11 '/% X I/I 7? 3 * -xls 22 W W X Are you Proud y Y of your watch Y ‘ k i If not you should own a “South S BcnJ ” . s Y-, Then you tw’l/ be proud of its modern >-k -Xft beauty and wonder- Y; ful accuracy. , 7 h w Come in and see . W U the new arrivals Lr J with some of the classiest dial and case designs we f have ever shown. jT AMERICUS ( JEWELRY CO. r p Wall’s Mott, Mgr. - ;, Phene 229 i WANTED ! i Hens and Fryers Marked St 3xl* ■ HATCHER AXD c i T ppr v A'.T-Y A ■ Dr.R.B.Strkkland Dentist Americus, Georgia bell building j Over Weatern Union Telegraph Co. RAILROAD SCHEDULE* Central of Georgia Railway Co. (Central Standard Timo) Arrive Depart -12:01 am Col-B’ham-Chgo 3:55 am 1:53 Alb-Jaxv. 3:35 nm 3:20 am Ja’v-Albany 11:12 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 am 6:47 pm Atlanta-Macon 6: r '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 5:35 am 12:26 pm; Savh-Montg 3:33 pm 3:23 pm Savjj-Montg 12:26 pm J. A. BOWEN, Local Agent.
