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PAGE SIX THE TIMES-RECORDER UTAIUSHID irr» PablMbw Catered m eeeeod clmb mom •« tw peer oHloe •t A-mertctu Georgia, according te the Bat es Coagreoe iße ftaeoexatea Preea u ueJMfttt? eatltM to J>e use for the republication of all atm dia patchw credited to it or aot otherariae credited to thia paper and alao the local published hero la. All right of republication of > pec lai diapatehoa ire reeerred National AdrertMtag Aepreaaautneo, FROST LANINS A KOHN, 235 Fifth Avenue, Neo York; Peoplea Gea Bldg.. Chicago; Walton Building. Atlanta I EDITORIALS Entertaining Tourists— Cordele has a tourist camp. Thursday night 38 tourist cars were there for the night. Under the auspices of the Cordele trade body a fish fry was given these 38 auto parties. Local fisher men furnished the fish. Cordele business men aided in serving and making the tourists feel "perfectly at home." As a rule the tourist is a home seeker. He is prospecting for a place to settle; a place to farm or invest a small saving—some times a large sum. Nine times out of ten they'll land in the place where they find friendly surroundings. There's no place like a fish fry, a barbecue or a small lunch eon to get close to a fellow. Cordele business men are work ing and getting results, too. ¥ ¥ ¥ Mosquitoes in Swamps in Chester, S. C. Thanks to the health board and an enlightened citizenship we of Americus and Sumter county have heard little of mos quitoes the past few years. This year some persons have said it was because of the dry weath er. Read the following and you'll realize that your guess was wrong— Chester, S. C., Sept. 17 The mosquitoes have laid down a bar rage in this municipality this Sep tember that eclipses anything ever attempted by their ancest ors. Folk here thought being a dry year there would be none of the pests. However, their hopes have been shattered by the great est invasion of mosquitoes felt and listened to in years. Where they came from is puz zling. Various ideas are advanced. Some think owing to the streams recently drying up, they came to the city in search of water, as well as blood. Others think the recent winds blew them in from the ocean, while others have fig ured it out and many think the solution is that the water in the streams, prior to drying up re cently, was left in thousands of holes, which made ideal breeding places for the pests. Anyway they are here and the stores are doing a great business selling mosquito lotions. If Chester folk will look about, they’ll likely find the breeding places in their own backyards. Mosquitoes do not travel far, nor fast. Americus has proven that fact. It’s when we see others suffer that we realize more ful ly the wisdom of our fight, one that is splendidly successful. Mosquitoesj like flies, must be fousht year in and year out. Elimination for one year does not mean they will not again re turn, for they will. * * * Cheap Political Frenzy— The apparent effort of some State politicans to capitalize on the “stricken farmers" of North Georgia has drawn the fire of Charley Brown’s editorial pen. In his Cordele Dispatch he has this to say: The cheap political frenzy over the needs of the stricken farm ers in North Georgi? is the most damaging piece of advertising that could be planned—if the devil and his , shrewdest assist ants were on the job. Isn’t it strange that there should be such damaging effect in some body’s move to do good—and isn’t it strange that those who deal with the affairs and inter ests of the public will not do so with more courage? The drouth has done some harm up in North Georgia—has done some harm to late crops in this section—but it has not done enough for the State to take hold as for storm and flood suf ferers. It is not because we do not understand that we find com plaint. It is because, after all the unfavorable advertising and the political frenzy of those who must retain the vote at all cost, there isn’t going to be any aid available from the federal funds. Chairman Holder of the High way commission has in rather large type in the newspapers al- A THOUGHT Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a foot out of joint—Prov. 25:19. • • • Confidence cannot be won in a day.—German Proverb. ready warned the counties in the stricken area that they will have to put up their shar of the funds to match the federal funds on the building of roads, else there can be no road building done for the xeiief of the farm er. Anu so it is. Where will the stricken county get the money if the stricken farmer is too poor to pay his taxes? Every bit of the move to aid the farmer in the arid area is pure bunk—bunk because the move that is being made cannct help him. Unquestionably there's some distress in the arid regions of North Georgia, but Georgia is not starving; Georgia is not destitute; there is work and plenty of it for him who is ready to go after it. North Carolina is sending great placards over the State, reading: Cotton pickers wanted to pick this State’s mammoth crop—the greatest cotton crop ever grown in the State." South Georgia has had about one-half enough labor to gather her phenominal crops. And a number of North Georgians have come here to pick cotton; when the crops are in down here, they move on further up the State and eventually will land in the Carolinas. This foolish move on the part of Holder or whoever started it —-has given Georgia a lot of miserable advertising. Someone has’ used bad judg ment. Georgia, as a whole, was never more prosperous not since the war days. X An Example in Arithmetic— -Ihe following is from Jim Nevin’s column in the Atlanta Georgian: An Atlanta young man, asking his employer for a raise a few days ago, received—so he tells me—the following pointed reply: “Why do you want a raise? There are 365 days in a year; you work eight hours a day and that is 122 There are 52 Sundays in a year and you get them off, and that leaves 70 days; there are 14 holidays, which leaves you 54 days; you take an hour off for lunch, which makes fourteen days which leaves you forty days; you get Saturday after noons off, which makes 26 days, which leaves you 14 days, and I give you two weeks’ vacation each year—when in h— ’ do you work, anyway?” It s too hot to solve Mr. Nevin s arithmetical problem. Well save it for a holiday, or vacation time, or at the noon luncheon hour or Sunday. * * ¥ The Georgia Free Lance— The first issue of Tom Hard wick's weekly paper, “The Georgia Free Lance,’’ is off the press. It is owned and edited by the fearless ex-Senator. In a front page editorial, Mr. Hard wick states with his usual em phasis that "the paper will be independent— independent in thought and speech," and con tinuing he says: “It (The Georgia Free Lance) will wear no man’s collar. It has no axe to grind. It has no grudge to gratify. It will be neither Democratic or Anti-Democratic. It believes profoundly in the Democracy of our fathers. From a hybrid Democracy this paper would call the people back to Democracy and to the American ism of Thomas Jefferson and An drew Jackson.” Every one knowing Hardwick will recognize him in the above paragraph and will realize that if he succeeds in making the Hardwick Free Lance a go, he will start something in Georgia. Hardwick was never one to mince words or shy at an issue. He'll say what he thinks, regard less of consequences. The Georgia press and Georgians in general—should welcome this fearless free lance and his Georgia Free Lance to a field that isn’t always as free or fearless as it might be. / r AIN’T GOT NO LETTERS WON - r Do YOUNG OP RECOMMENDATION NW. \ FPI TWPY's Ton GO “GETTER. - z HANGIN AROUND WERE. C-TW WTK \ -pasnLjLSfe,) w - - Pof* <oe ’j 1 y/ t fa Lu t ; .A // ///' WL.’S' 1 ' ‘i rak? 5 i A II CALEB SYKES PUT A "HELP WANTLu" SIGN IN HIS STTDRg WINDOW AND GOT IMMEDIATE. RESULTS FROM A YOUNG STRANGER. WHO WAS PASSING BY OTHER DAYS IN AMERICUS TEN YEARS AGO TODAY 1 (From The Times-Recorder, Sept. Sept. 23, 1915 Bradley Hogg, the Georgia .pitcher ,who has made a splendid I record with the Gulls for the I present season, left today for Chi '• cago where he reports to the Cubs for work during the remainder of the season. Ben Hollis Lanier, of Americus, a student at the University of Georgia, has been appointed cadet and quarter master by Major W. 0. Boswell, of the bat tallion at the state colelge. One year ago, this date, the price of cotton in Americus was 5 1-2 cents with few bales and little de mand for the staple. Cotton was .a drag on the market. Today the finer grades, of cotton are selling ! in Americus for eleven cents, as on yesterday; just double the price quoted one year ago today. The sale recently by George G. Renneckr, of Chicago, sole owner of the Ware Orchard Co., on the Americus Smithville road, was a realty deal ofinterest. To the end of encouraging form thrift among the girls and girls of Georgia, Pres. John A. Cobb offers |s6o in cash premiums for exhibits Ito be made at the state fair in Ma con. con. United States has a doctor for every 724 persons. EDITORIALS Understanding. tion for enforcing all laws equally, instead of putting all the stress on enforcing the prohibition law?” say some whose real interest is that they do not want this law enforced.l Bless you; that is exactly what is being done. Only, the way to enforce laws equally is to enforce them unequal ly. That is,enforcement should be equally proportioned to resistance. ! If a law is resisted one ounce, one ounce of pressure should be applied to enforcing it. If the re sistance is one pound, the enforce should also be a pound. And if the resistance is a ton, the only way to make enforcement effort “equal” is to enforce it a ton also. So ,an ounce of effort on one law and a ton on another is pre cisely the way to be “equal” in en forcement energy. Whenever the wets want the pressure on prohibition enforcement reduced to one ounce, they con eas ily bring that about by reducing their own efforts against it to the same amount. DANGERS OF THIS . . .. PROPAGANDA GAME Don’t start the propaganda game unless you are willing for the other fellow to do it too, and to take the risk that he will beat you at it. Just now it is a dispute between the international idealists and the super-patriotic nationalsits to see J whether text books shall glorify national pride or teach in- AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER MUDD CENTER FOLKS | TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Ms. and Mrs. J. L. Sparks and pretty little daukhter, Frances, have returned from North Carolina and are now at home at the High tower residence. No other SIO,OOO real estate deal was consumated in Ammericus yes terday, though the waters are stirred and realty is in demand. Mr. Elmo Poole has purchased at a good price two vacant buildiner lots on Jefferson street, fronting his own residence. Two dwelling houses will be erected thereupon soon. The country 7 neighborhoods of Sumter county are all represented in Americus every day now by 7 the sturdy and successful farmers of each locality. The city council has ordered property owners on the west side of Jackson street, from the Dixon cor ner to the Eldridge property to re lay thier pavements at once. Miss Bessie Windsor leaves to morrow for Union Springs, Ala., to reside, occupying a desirable po sition as stenographer with a firm there. One thousand and twenty bales of cotton were hauled to Americus by wagon yesterday and weighed at the several warehouses. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday . No paper published. The only right answer, of course, as well as the only safe one, is that they shall Jo neither. Let them tell the exact truth, as jthe best qualified experts find truth, and leave the students to do j their own moralizing. In fact, if they can draw the moral that the truth is more essential than a con- ielusion sustaining “either” sideof anything, they will have learned pre (cisely the most vital of modern mo ralities, LESSONS OF THE PACIFIC PLANE RESCUE There has been no more dramat ic story than that of the rescue, or rather, the escape, of Commander Rogers and his brave crew of flyers Probably the ones to whom it was not dramatic were the aviators themselves. They were behind the ' scenes and knew all the plot. :! Besides they were busy, and ■ hard work leaves little time for r thrills. They come afterward. But at least, the dramatizing of iit to the rest of the world will serve .to emphasize its lessons. ' First of these is the lesson ■ learned long ago in mine disasters. ■; The rule of thq_ mines is that the " entombed victims are alive, until 1 'their dead bodies are discovered. Now it will be the rule that lost i , aviators are alive until they are ‘ found dead or the broken fragments '' of their vessel are found without '• them. Next is that a modern bombing ' I ■ I Set em up and knock ’em down is quite a homey game. Fori it’s popularity the baby is to blame. Youngster teaches daddy t till it’s got him fairly tame. Set ’em up and knock ’em down is just the proper name , All you need's a box of blocks, a father and his child. Xdd em all together and the tot drives father wild. Sit ’em on the parlor floor. The game gets under way. Father thinks it’s lots j of work, but baby thinks it’s play. One by one the block are piled till soaring to the ceiling, i Daddy has much patience and the youngster has no feeling. When the wooden castle’s built, and father’s done his best, baby comes a crawling and it knocks ’em gaily west. Up they go and down they fall from morning until night, crashing to the carpet mid the shouts of great delight. Think of all the trouble that the baby goes to when he knocks ’em down so daddy dear can build them up again. seaplane is a seaworthy vessel, anrr and should be manned by men who are seamen as well as airmen. Only the fine seamanship of these navy aviators saved a tragedy. Also, the small lessons of one ac cident warn against repeating its particular failures. Another flight will have a radii, transmitting set operated by hand if necessary when all other power, is gone. A husky man, turning a crank with proper gears, can turn out a couple of hundred “watts” of pow er, and a whole crew together could turn out a considerable frac tion of a kilowatt, which is a great deal more than is needed to oper ate a transmitting set. And there will be more emmer eency food, more water, and a little reserve gasoline, not available for flying. I Finally one naval flyer has made a reputation which even yellow journals will respect. And that man is appointe dassistant chief of the air serwice. If that man makes what yellow journalist critics, in and out of the service, think are “mistakes” they can at least not be charged to ignor ance, incompetence, lack of practi cal experience, or lack of skill, re sourcefulness, character or cour age. A sensible man. loyal to his serv ice. who has at the same time the confidence of the ‘ sensationalists, was needed—and has been found. ssrTOM jOsims American Legion had a parade in New York where many had forgot ten the war except for wrist watches now and then. New York’s great city. Has just about every kind of trouble in the world except forest fires. These forest fires are growing worse. They should tack up signs in the woods reading “No forest fires permitted.” Maybe the game wardens could limit the campers to starting one small forest fire per day. Talk about fall styles. And such scanty dresses. The less a girl wears the warmer she looks. But marry one of these warm sisters. Then tell her your pay. You can keep her in the kitchen J Z A MONTH ON WOO. Cov’E’RS PRiNCfPAI- D AND e J. LEWIS ELLIS Empire Building Phone 830 Americus, Ga. r », I .. • _ f ~ J WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 23, 192? ■ for a refrigerator 1 ' ‘Chicago cops shot a bandit. It’s a quauiftt her old custom which may never be revived. French think they have away to ;collect from Russia. We doubt it. ,So do those Russians. j One nice thing about being a man is you don’t have to get mad now and then and wish you were a man. NEW ERA Mr. Alvo Dozier and Mr. Johnson, lof Sarasota, Fla., spent part of ’ | last week at the home of Mr. and i Mrs. M. C. Veal. < Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Harden were spend the day guests of her parents ! I Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Parker Sunday. Miss Beulah Harris spent part of 11 last week here at the bedside of her aunt, Mrs. W. A. Parker. I Mrs. S. M. Parker spent Friday I night and Saturday with Mrs.C. N. ’ Bailey 7 . Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Morris and Thelma ad Floyd Morris and Mrs. C. N. Bailey were the spend the day guests at the home home of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. 0. Bray, Friday. i Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Gohlson, and 1 Miss Irene Gohlson, of Americus I sepnt Sunday at the home of Mrs. ’ i Mary Gyles. R. C. Bary, of Dooly county was the guest of his brother, W. T. 0. I Bray Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Bradley 7 and son Wade, spent Sunday 7 at the JDr.R.B.Strickland Dentist Americus, Georgia BELL BUILDING Over Western Union Telegraph Co ~AMERICUS FISH FISH & OYSTER CO Always Fresh Fish f Phone 778 Hens and Fryers Market Stronger AMERICUS HATCHERY AND SUPPLY CO . Americus, Ga. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER. Manager Funeral Director* And Embalmers Night Phoney 661 and 88 Day Phonne 88 and 231 L. G. COUNCIL, President T. E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. A Cashier. J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier The Planters Bank of Americus (Incorporated) Success Independence (Si <{. 1. -J Th® fir»t step for permanent U PWI! ,ucreM •• to save. Why not S ■ U ‘ O, * r SaTi,l «» Department it $ W b « of service. We pay 4% V ■ * * TuS Compound interest semi-ae- !?■*«fl? anally. Later on you will fill this a wise move for in dependence and happiness. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 Prompt, Conservative, Accommodating iome of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Bradley. Lillian Morris spent Saturday night and Sunday with Louise Bray. Mrs. S'. J Bradley spent last Sat urday at ths home of Mrs. 11. J. Parker. ’; Mr. M. M. Parker and Mrs. V7. A. Bray and children v. ere visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Parker Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Castleberry were visitors at the home of Mn and Mrs. S. J. Bradley Sunday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Connors and children, of Americus, were visitors at the home of Mr. ad Mrs. W. T. 0. Bray Sunday afternoon. $1 50 to $2 Adujstable Caps for Men and Boys, at 98c Adjustable for size, adjustable for comfort; can be made tight dur- I ing a wind, while motoring or im mediately after a hair cut; or, it can be made loose when necessary or convenient to the wearer. Every cap made to fit any size head. Made in Wool Cassimere Suiting Cloth, Plaids and Stripes and Plain colors, satin lined, leather sweated. All in one great, big sale, choice 98c i 69 Pequot Sheeting, 49c None better made at any price; I 81 niches wide, heavy linen finish. I Price for, stock on hand only, I yard _49c SIB.OO Linoleum Squares, $9.95 Genuine Lineoleum Squares, 9x12 feet, in beautiful patterns; at al most half price, each $9.95 Children’s 50c i Socks, 25c Manufacturer’s samples, in over 100 styles to select from. Sizes up jto 10. Choice, pair -25 c THE STANDARD DRY GOODS COMPANY Forsyth Street, Next Door to Bank of Commerce AMERICUS, GA. RAILROAD SCHEDULES Central of Georgia Railway Co. (Central Standard Time) Arrive Depart 12:20 am Chi-St. L-Atla 2:53 am 1:53 am Albany-Jaxv 3:35 am 3:20 am Jaxv.-Alhany 11:42 pm 3:35 am Chgo-Cinti-Atla 1:53 am 3:40 am Jaxv-Albany 11:25 pm 5:29 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pm 8:10 am Albany 6:47 pm 10:10 am Columbus 3.15 pm 1:54 pm Atla-Macon 1:54 pm 1:54 pm Albany-Montg 1:54 pm 3:10 pm Albany 10:12 am 6:47 pm Atlanta-Macon 8:10 am 10:35 pm Albany-Montg. 5:29 am 11:25 Pm Chi-St L-B’ham 3:40 am 11:42 pm Chi-St L-Atia 3:20 am SEABOARD AIR LINE (Central Time) Arrive Departs 7:55 am Cordele-Helena 9:85 am 12:26 pm Savh-Montg 333 pm 333 pm Savh-Montg 1236 pm J. A. BOWEN, Local Agent.
