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PAGE FOUR THE TIMES-RECORD ER CSTAILISBCn I*7* * -ovche* tv* * * ®dlu» PubiUher Entered m •eecnd ehua ■mnes at rh« pc«t a!flee «t America*. Georgia, to tb« Art <rf Coofreat. The &Mociated Frees <• evclneltelj entitled to ±8 u»e for the repnblicttion of all oewa dia patcho credited to it or not otherwise credited to fh»e paper and also the local news published hero tn. All right of republication of special iif patches ire reserved. N&ticnai Advertising Representatives, FROST tANDIS A KOTIN. 115 Fifth Avenue, Nev York. Peoples Gee Bldg.. Chicago: Walton Building, Itlantt EDITORIALS A Remedy for the Community Knocker — A woman reader of the Times-Recorder sends us the fol lowing with the suggestion that it might help if published. We do not know the author, but it’s worth reading: One rotten apple will putrify a whole barrelful. One Auntie Doleful in an after noon sewing circle can generally manager to drape the crepe over the whole session before the gos sipfest breaks up. One blighted chestnut tree can infect a whole area, leaving a forest of gaunt chestnut skele tons. One tick-infested cow can indi rectly bring about the devastation of a whole herd. In addressing ourselves to a consideration of the sundry blights with which our little world is cursed, we say offhandedly that the blights of nature are bac teriological or physiological and that those of human nature are just plain cussedness. “Well, are they? The human nature ones, we mean? Isn’t a blight a blight? And, further, isn’t a blight a sort of cantagious dis ease? Dear reader, we aim our shafts at the Community Knocker. We capitalize his name because he is a human entity. He is an ac tuality. He is with us—always, it. seems. He is übiquitous, an omnipresent blight whose hide seems impevious to the sprays of hommunity disinfectant. Volumes have been written about the Knocker; rivers of worlds have flowed upon his head. But in his sphere of diseas ed existence ho sees not nor does he hear those- things which seek to penetrate his ego. A remedy for the Community Knocker Blight? A cure for him? We generally cure blights by eradication. But our civilization directs that human blights be not eradicate d. Detention and educa tion, if you must, but not exter mination. Let us, then educate our Com munity Knockers. Let us seek them out, inventory them, put them in the light, each and all of them that we may bend our indi vidual and communial efforts to ward effecting the only cure. We shall bear in. mind that lit tle drops of water, rightly ap plied, will wear away the hardest surface. We shall inject in the knocker »our own antitoxin, oitr burning faith in the spirit of our community and in what we as a people can do. We shall set I the ant'J’.toxin of our faith against the virus of his blight ing cynic Lm. We are many and he is fw. than God. But our strength shall not be in our numbers; simply in our faith in community power to ’ overcome his poison. Ihe community knocker has had his day. A few months ago he could ’:get away” with his stuff. 1 oday it’s different. The hand of every loyal citizen is turned against him. It's' now boost or boot it. North Carolina’s Tax System— So much has been said of re cent months about North Caro lina's tax syste mand so little really is known about the iar Heel's taxes that we publish be low two letters giving much in teresting information on that subject. The following letter is from the chairman of the North Caro lina Highway Commission to a Georgian, in which the chairman says. • I think it is unfortunate, but it i true, nevertheless, that wherever you find propogahda again;!, road development, it in variably diverge; from the truth —for instance, your statement that some of the pepole in Gero gia are saying that road develop ment ill North Carolina has in. creased taxes, when as a matter of fact the Highway System of North Carolina is financed solely by license taxes on automobiles and t tux of four (4c) cents a gallon on gasoline, sold and used in the automobiles. “As a matter of fact, the State of North Carolina does not col lect a single solitary cent of tux yn real estate or personal prop- A THOUGHT ~| Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream drcams, your young men shall see visions.—Joel 2:28. Dreams are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy.—Shakespear ■ I erty for the administration of State governme t; personal prop erty and real have been segre gated as property upon which the counties levy tax for county pur poses only. “Your inquiry as to the in creased values of land on ac count of the building of improv ed roads cannot be answered di rectly, but I estimate that wher i ex r we have built improved road , that the property values within two miles of the road, have increased in value more than the cost of the road itself. In some instances their increase in value has been phenomenal, and the immediately alongside the road has increased in value much more than twice the cost of the pavement. Josephus Daniels, of the Ra leigh News and Observer, has this to say in a letter to the same Georgian regarding highways and taxes: “The entire co. t of eonslr •- tion and maintenance.of the Slat■: Highways is borne by bond., is- t sued for that purpose and by a tax on gasoline and automobile licenses. “Taxes have not been increas ed on property of any kind for the construction and maintenance of these State Highways. We collect about $10,000,000 an nually gasoline tax and licenses bn automobiles. This is sufficient for the improvement of the high ways, the payment of interest on the bonds, and provides a sinking fund which will enable us to re tire the bonds in less than thirty years. “There is no opposition to the policy being persued by the State Highway Commission, but great enthusiasm and confidence in towns and country. North Carolina bond funds were used only on the state’s system of highways—not on oth er roads. The North State road depart ment has an income of $lO,- ! 000,000 from a 4-cent per gallon gas and oil tax; Georgia’s in come from gas tax and motor vehicle fees will be about $6,- 000,000 this year, and it is esti mated by a reliable authority that Georgia’s income from these two sources—at the pres ent tax rates —will be between nine and ten millions of dollars in a few years. North Carolina has built—or nearly so her entire system of hard-surfaced roads while Georgia has been talking about it. North Carolina created a commission of hard-headed business men, gave them lhe money and told them to BUILD ROADS—and they are building them rapidly. Ihe Georgia Legislature has now adjourned. It has given more power to the Highway Commission and by adding one half cent to the gas making it now 4 cents instead of 3 1-2 cents, the commission's income is increased something like half a million. With between six and and sev en millions of dollars a year, there’s no earthly reason why we should not see rapid road con struction in Georgia. * ¥ Half Million In Ten Years— Atlanta believes she will number her population at 500,- 000 in ten years and her busi ness men are building with that vision before them. Wiih all of her new hotels, it is difficult even now to ‘‘get what you want when you want it” in her best hotels. bier theaters are crowded and the movies enjoy ing "good business’ 'in spite of a musicians strike. Ider best -igstauranls and cl.ini.ng rooms are well filled in this “off sea son." Her bankers and trust of ficials are more optimistic than in several years and are branch ing out for new business. 1 hey. are more interested in Georgia farm lands than urban realty and express the greatest faith in that type of investment. All of which is but another straw, showing that the wind is blowing toward lhe farms again and it should not be long before th< tri nd will be ' back to the farms,” rather than the reverse. Automatic electric switches handle trains which carry 75,000 peeple into the Grand Central TerK nal each day. " MUDD cfntfr~foi .KS ‘ SL-.3 IT BACK I Sat 1 \ / -.veil IT AI.TT RAitiiti’PoPAN’ ' it's A Swindle? thet ; | it Points t' fair v.tATurn” I Mail oxvtß wcusg can’t )/ But ip yer corns is achin’ ( r-OCL M“ WITH A CON- / .SOMETHIN' MUST of WRONG ; TiWHON LIKE TH£t' z y WITH'- 1 < '.• " r . - kx ,A ‘ , -rtT'K ; H. lU'V AxT v /' ’ \\ V.JX ' Xi-- p it .. r eajr Since ma Slupe ordered one of those WEATHER-VANES FROM REARS, SUE B'JCK S, CO. AGAINST POP'S ADVICE, HE HAS DEEN WAITING FOR A CHANCE To Ti'KE ADVANTAGE OF TibE THIRTY DAY '■■■■■" || OTHER DAYS IN AMER’CUS i TEN YEARS AGOTODAY ' From the Tinies Recorder, Au gust 24. 1915.) g iYkytd Sumter couty’s hay crop is se riously threatened just now by an army of worms, commonly called grass worms, which ■ ■■. d vs fating I large areas of hay on plantation-- I here. Americus people have had many very enjoyable tenting parties this summer at resorts near the city, and among the most unique of these is the tent party at which Misses Margaret : ml Isbael Wheat ley are entertaining a number of their .young girl friends this week. A commodious house tent w-is spread upon the Wheatley lawn and i those enjoying the outdoor life ar, I Misses Wheatley, Misses Marfo* : I Kalmon, Fannie Furlow, Pcuh (Broadhurst Mary Walker. Catherirn I Hamilton and Dorothy Maffet of Montezuma. Mr. and M rs . Neon Bi ' anan ... little daughter Josephine are at honu as a ’ter aving ■ ..me I ; i:e >a; v in » ■ • North Carolina 'M jatsinreturn ring here from Montreat. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Tim<. ; ito:<>rdcr, Au gust 24, 1895.) Shortly after du: i: yesterday, Mr. Barlow Council, while driving along Lamar street, near the artesian well,, acidentally ran over Erick Bass, the eight year old son of Mr. T. Q. Bass, inflicting painful thoug h not serious injuries. The little boy was crosisng the street with a pitcher of water and prob ably did not see the buggy ap proaching. At the opening of the season con siderable quantities of dried peaches were brought into Amer icus, market, but recently the con tinued low price have caused far mers to practicaly abandon the busi j ness. One <b aler here has shined EDITORIALS - I ®W€ll •’ f '-J California is seventy-five years old in September. It is the end of a long period, as tin.,- is measured in our swift-mov ing western world. Yet Rome cele brated its thousandth anniversary 1677 years ago, during the brief reign of I’hilippus the Arabian, and might have celebrated its two thousandth in 1248, under the fugi tive Pope Innocent IV, if it had not been to busy with the civil wars of Guelphs and Ghibellines. Both there anniversaries came in period of the very lowest ebb of Roman power, but Rome-survvied the ebbs and the floods, and now, well on its third thousand year', is capital of Italy, seat of the pope, and the most impressive historic spot on earth. Compared with a hi.-iury 1 like that, our anniversaries are but a ; things of yesterday. How will it bo, two thousand years from Itow, when Romo, p 1- haps, will be numbered with Nine voth and Tyre? The great time, of Rome was the era of the Mediter ranean. ’]'h" modern age has been the qra of the Atlantic dominated by London, and now by New York. The -future belongs to the Pa-! cific. Around that greatest ocean dwej. most of the human race, and intrf its harbor;: open the world' greatest resources. The Atlantic .Wi*i take the place of the M>-d;tor rZnean its theXlediterranean did of AMERFCU3 I 10,000 pounds of fruit this season, ■ j which perhaps the heaviest single I shipment made to date. One year . Americus dealers handled 300,000 1 pounds of dried reaches. This sea- I son only 5 cents per pound has J i been paid for the fruit. .darter George Cobb cnlertain <l qv’te a large number of voung _■■ friends at a birthday party last I night. Refreshments were serve 1 It le little folks, and the occasion I i was one of rare enjoyment. 11. H. Glov s in the city 1 yesterday and report ; the loss of . tl irty-two fin hogs from cholera. TWENTY YEARS A9GO TODAY , Crom Th« Timer-Recorder, Au gust 2 i. 1905.) Mrs. J: nos Haris, Jr., has gone to Thomasvill J to Thomaston to visit her brother, . R v. T. W. C. i'.i.vay. goim th nee to Clarksvile to visit her sister, Mrs. , Erwin. The skating craze in several Georgia citi- has reached su”i' rous 1 >' -portions that the au i'’.orities will--,prohibit skating on the street :. A North Georgia editor gives this defi‘.ition of a ‘ house party: “A ' ■ place where lhe girls stav up all | night and sleep allalay; where the J mother worts, al day and al night; ' i and where the father hides in the corner, foot.- the bills and cusses. ’ : A congenial party of young peo ; pie will spend the dav delightfully at Myrtle Springs. Those going going will be Mr. and Mrs. Clarence and Mrs. W. G. Turpin, Miss Jose-( phine Turpin,- Miss Alice Merritt Miss Lucile Clegm Miss Jeanette Ray, Mis; Emma May Borum, Mi-rt ' Claude McLaughlin; Messrs Mc- Donald, Dudley Gatewood, Zack Childers, Frank Turpin, T. F. ('alaway, Lee Hansford, A. J. Hamil Jr., Ray Wakefield, and Ernest Tulis. the .Aegean. JOINING RACES OVER PACIFIC Th clash <>f the joining of races; ti 1 interaction of old civilizations in new contacts; the awakening of half the world—the-e-will all hap : • :i ar. c ■ . t hff Pacifi -. They will lie bigger things than ever happened before, because they will affect nisre people, ini’.: biting greater lands.' And California, facing the Pacif . with On ;-un, Washington ami British Columbia, as its coadjutors, Europe and America as its I ;-,cl country, and the opening orient as its opportunity; with the climate and tile beauty of Greece and a peep!;; de : -I'.ded from the ultimate pioneers of the boldest race—when some governor of California, in 2850 or some hierarch of th." world, in I; .‘>o, proclaims the thousandth or the two-thousandth anniversary of ( aiifor.iia, will there not be a story o n-call more majestic than even that 1 I Rome? I A tel- phone exchange is when I they swap right numbers for wrong ones. Modern music has reached the poin where you can’t tell if thy in-. e b,burs are spanking lhe baby. t.-'x I often have wondered whv moth ~s will feel and 'uss about kic’s keepin’ lean. How much docs it matter how dirty they get if their interest in playin’ is keen? ) The health of a child gets its start when he’s young and the seed for the future is sown. He climbs up the ladder cf strength, rung by rung, or he turns cut a weakling when grown lhe builders’ most need are sunlight and air if a youngster’s to ready advance. .To rob him cf playin’, to give too much care, 13 puttin’ a crimp in his chance. , Go on, let ’em run in the open and free. Aw, shucks, let ’em play in the sards. Just let ’em get dirty as dirty can be, and smear up (heir faces and hancL. There’s always warm water and soap to be Lad, so tvash Lie kids daily, and then, you 11 find they won’t mind it. In fact, they’ll be glad to go and get dirty again. Many Important Bills Passed and Defeated by Assembly (Continued From Page One) MEASURES ADOPTED ing railroad grade grossings. The i bill provides for designation of I each crossings as ‘safe” or unsafe, I and makes it. illegal to cross an ”un- ( safe” crossing without first com- . ing to a full stop. A bill making army reserve offi cers eligible to hold civil office. A bill establishihng a state real estate beard to have authority over real estate agents in the larger cities.* A bill making the United States naval store standards the standards for this state. A bill intended to keep the negro out of politics in Georgia particu larly intended to remove the negro out of the republican party in this state. The forestry bill, creating a state forestry board, so that the state may get federal forestry funds. A bill creating a commission to purchase the present residence oc-1 cupied by the governor as a perm- I anent governor’s mansion. A permissive act allowing coun ties to exempt new industries from taxation for five years. This sing ly makes a constitutional amend ment to this effect, ratified last year, elective in counties which de sire. without having to pass special lro>Y bill. Bi 1 ! increasing state gasoline tax ! to a total of four cents and apron- ’ rist-ng the additional half-cent to ■ 'be highway department. MEASURES DEFEATED (C''.pH'nned t’om Pago On-' missioner J. J Brown. The anti- Erown faction charged that the d partment v s being used as a “po- ! litieal r..:-.’line,” and gaining ' strength as the session progress.-d they scored victory after victory in ■ their fight against the department. 1 The climax cam -, however, in the defeat in the senate Saturday of lhe distillation, test bill which, proposed to reduce the number of oil inspectors operating umler the . department from 186 to 6. The state port bit!, 1 The fo..;try contrm-t bill which rroposed'to encourage timber crops bv ' 1 i’i:vo able t axatioa rates. fm anti-pistol bill, a proposed FL Y-TOX kills flies, tnosqui toes, roach es and other household insects. Will not stain. Has pleasant odor. Harm less to humans and animals. Backed hy a positive guarantee. Developed at i Mellon Institute of industrial Research I by Rex Fellowship. HA - LOX is easy 1 and pleasant touse. A tn-.I sprayer free with each small bottle. ' let FL Y-TOX now and enjoy freedom from insects. Mali-Pinta. 50ei TintM. »3cf Quart*, $1.25 , For best result use Spec's! • / FL Y-TOX Hand Sprayer. < I d 7x "’' t.y U d A MONTH ON C 0 S Fr% iN cI?A t r AND INT£R£ST i J. LEWIS ELLIS Empire Building Phone 830 L Americus, Ga. _ .... j amendment to the constitution co i authorize the legislature to regu i late the character of arms that ■ may be borne. i ’The bill which sought to repeal ' the tobacco stamp tax, substituting i a dealers’ tax. The search and seizure bill. A measure which sought to abol- I ish the Tenth District A. and M. I school.--., which failed to reach the ' I house floor. ', A constitutional amendment to ' allow municipalities and counties to | pass their own local legislation. A bill requiring all peace officers ! in the state to wear badges in plain 1 view at all times while on duty. The bill extending terms of the I governor and members of the leg . islature to four years. The measure to prohibit women i from working at night in industries. A bill to create a series of high ( way districts as bodies corporate, i This was twice defeated in the sen- I ate. A bill proposing to increase the legal -peed limit for automobiles from 30 to 40 miles an hour out side of incorporated towns rnd cities. Some many for better or worse r-rd som<; to talk. ‘MOTH I ( ! Child’s Best Laxative is - “California Fig Syrup" V I \ Bilious, Constipated ■ M 3 Hurry Mother! Even a fretful, peevish child loves the pleasant - taste of “California Fig Syrup ’ and it never fails to open the bowls. A teaspoonful today may prevent a. sick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for genuine j “California Fig Syrup” which has: directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle. Mother!! You must say “California” or you may get an imitation fig syrup. Troy G. Morrow ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Bell Building AMERICUS, GA. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Man*g« / Funeral Director# And Embalmer# Night Phones 661 and 89 Dav Phones 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 I'he Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) Success Independence ).-••• • The first step for permanent r- success is to save. Whf not U ! ; ' " V 41 ’ i! *' let our Savings Department ii ”! - , be of service. We pay 4'7 / ’ ' 4 V! Compound interest semi-an- nually. Later on you wilt a r SI a wise move for in ■ dependence and happiness. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 I L RESOURCES OVER §1,700,000 Prompt, CyEscrvaUve, Accbmmodaiing ‘- l MG\IV\Y AT’GUST yr 1925 Everybb'dj s iif 'antiqrib-'' btiAler when it cbmds t6'looking for real old prices. Autos arc changing this world. Once love made the., world go around. Now love makes it park. Thing - are so- complicated. Nar row minded people are thick head ed. Everything i n’t fooli- b. Maybe rating yeast would p< p up a man so he could get out and raise some - dough. They are still working on the gi gantic Stone Mt. Monument. Bet a dent ist could drill it in a week. One can make one’s hair thick by swimming in muddy water. Don’t blame a girl for rolling her stockings until you learn if there is a hole in the knee of one. If you lose sleep at night, don’t try to find it while at word the fol- I lowing day. What’s become of the monkey i gland discovery? You don't see : many old men staeling apples. One reason husbands don’t get ( vacations is, who -would stay home to feed the canary bird? | Somebody is always favoring a 1 drastic change for others. (SKINNY MEN Thin Men Run Down Men Nervous Men Yon probably know that Coil Liver Oil is the greatest flesh pro ducer in the world. | Because it contains more Vita -1 mines than any food you can get. You’ll be glad to know that Cod Liver Oil comes in sugar coated tab lets now, so if you really want to put 10 ci- 20 pounds of solid healthy flesh on your bones and feel well and strong ask Nathan Murray or Howell’s Pharmacy or any druggist for a box of McCoy’s Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets. Only 60 cents for 60 tablets and if you don’t gain five pounds in 30 days your druggist will hand you back the money you paid for them. It isn’t anything unusual for a person to gmn 10 pounds in 30 days. “Gei ’ ' the original and genuine Cod Liver Oil Tablet.” i —(adv.) 7ANTED ! I Hens and Fryers Market Stronger AMERICUS HATCHERY AND SUPPLY CO . Americus, Ga. Dr.R.B.Strickland Dentist Americus, Georgia BELL BUILDING Over Western Union Telegraph Co. RAILROAD SCHEDULES Central of 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 6:17 pm 10:10 am Columbus 3'15 pm 1:54 pm Atlanta-Macon 1:54 prr. i 1:54 pm Albany-Montg 1:54 pm ( 3:10 nm Albany 10:12 am 6:47 pm Atlanta Macon 6: r 4 am (10:35 pm Alby-Montgy 5:29 am i 11:42 pm Chgo-St.L AU 3:20 am SEABOARD AIR LINE (Central Time) Arrive Departs 7:55 am Cordele-Helena 5:35 am 12:26 pm Savh-Montg 3:23 pm 3:23 pm Savh-Montg 12:26 pm J. A. BOWEN, Local Agent.
