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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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A MONTH ON
WOO.
Cov’E’RS PRiNCfPAI-
D AND e
J. LEWIS
ELLIS
Empire Building
Phone 830
Americus, Ga.
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 23, 192?
■ for a refrigerator
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‘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.
