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PAGE SIX THE TIMES-RECORD ER csiASUsaxD in *•<•«••• tilt* ■ PaMUher ~ S Catered m eeovad «Im» mn® m ctx etftea •t Am er i coe. Georgia, accordlag ta tha Cat es Coofreaa The Aeavelated Preao ia exelaelvelj aatltlad to the aee tot the repablication of all neve die- Ktchee credited to it or not otherwise credited to A* P*per and also the local oewe published here u>. All right of republication of apecial diapatebea are reserved. National Advertising Representatives, FROST LANDIS A KOHN, 2X5 Fifth Avenoe, New York; Pfopiee Gaa Bldg., Chicago; Walton Building. Atlanta EDITORIALS Our Money’s On Mitchell to Win— America should thank her lucky stars that she has men of the type of Brigadier Mitchell, men unafraid to speak their minds. It matters little what the do to Mitchell, nor does he care. The vital question is whether the air is as important a branch of defense and offense as the army and navy. If the President’s board decides that it is, then the air service should be divorced from the army and navy departments and given a fair chance to expand and im prove—something that it has not yet enjoyed. In our judgment, the air is more important than either of the other branches of defense, and it should be given a place in the Cabinet. Until that is done American aviation will continue to lag behind other nations. Mitchell’s eruptions will bring the question to a head. They in Washington, have soft-ped aled as long as hte public will permit. Lookout for this ques tion in the next presidential pri mary. Souther Field for instance, could have been maintained years for what it cost to build one battleship and at the end of these years, the battleship js obsolete. On the other hand if the field had been maintained, America would have had a fleet of airships, with trained aviators, sufficient to sink a dozen battle ships and defend hundreds of miles of seacoast against any nation. Our money is on Mitchell io win—eventually. The Philosophy of Youth— " And a child shall lead them." . How often we hear words of astute wisdom from youth. Even the tiny child at times gives ex pression to a thought which causes older ones to pause and ponder. Th? extremes of weather makes many of us grumble and complain- The youth and the child take things as they come, making the best of them. In our morning mail was a poem, written by a 1 6-year-old Sumter county girl which is brim full of this wonderful pholisophy of youth. The days will be less oppressive, if we but follow the thoughts she expresses in the following: LOOK FOR THE LIGHT The weather is warm, the trees are tan, The furrowed fields are dry, But remember friends, do not fret, Our Creator is still on high. It was for the best, He sent the rain, And for the best a drouth, So do not let the bitter words Come pouring from your mouth. We must not sigh and pine and fret, If the weather does seem hot We must not live in a good, sweet peaceful way, No matter how hard our lot. The trees are shedding, the plants are dying, But they’ll soon bud out again And the One who made them and let them grow, Will be the One to send rain. When the warm weather changes . and turns to cool, And we have a beautiful rain, ’Twill be the ones who’ve stood it best Who will be the ones to gain. So cheer up people, do not sigh, We must endure the test, And remember the Blessed One on high, Who surely does know best. We are enduring a test, a test which may not always be easy to bear, but temptations over come strength and character. Winter always follows summer’s heat and Winter's cold eventual ly gives way to the glorious days of Spring. The sun invariably forces the clouds away and its ATHOUGHT I Pleasant words are as a honey comb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones.—Prov. 16:24. • * * He that would please all and him self too, undertakes what he can not do.—Dutch proverb. rays are brighter after being de nied us fora time. The stark naked trees leaf out in the Spring and Fall brings the many-hued colorings up among the boughs before the trees shed again- It will be the ones who have stood the test who will be the ones to gain. Thanks, Miss Poetess, for your delightful philosophy of youth. * ¥ * Boys Lead the Way— Boys in the corn, cotton, pig and calf clubs are leading their fathers in greater production per acre; pointing the way to fewer acres with a greater yield. Leo Mallard, of Bulloch coun ty, has been awarded a cash prize of S4OO for having pro duced more corn per acre than any other lad in the State. The cash prize was given by the Chilean Nitrate company and one of the conditions was that only nitrate could be used as a source of nitrogen. There are hundreds of boys in Sumter county who should be enrolled in corn, cotton and pig clubs. The youngsters are more easily persuaded to adopt new methods. They try them, and succeed. Then dad falls in be hind. The Community’s Most Useful Citizen- Many cities, towns and vil lages are holding newspaper voting contests to determine the most useful citizen in the coun ty. In a small town in Ohio a country doctor recently received a majority of all votes cast. The custom is a good one. He who serves best should be known to his neighbors and friends. It pays a debt to him who is most worthy and stimulates srevice for service’s sake. Who is Sumter county' most useful citizen? Who in this splendid county has given most of his time, his talents, his en ergy, his love? A New Speed Record— A Curtis racing plane, piloted by Lieutenant Alford Williams, smashed all speed records last week when it flew at the rate of 302.3 miles an hour, speeding faster than a human being ever rode before. Figures tell little, but that speed means riding from here to Atlanta in less than half an hour; or to Savannah in about 45 miutes; New York in around three hours. A few years hence, very like ly the American business man will fly to the buying centers of the East, spend the day shop ping and return without losing more than one day from his business. We’ve traveled five miles in a minute in 1925. What will be the record ten years hence? ¥ ¥ ¥ Georgia Lily Whites— With the death of Henry Lin coln Johnson, the negro Repub lican national committeeman from Georgia, the white wing of the G. Q. P. have an oppor tunity to turn out the pie-coun ty politicians and gain control of the party in Georgia. President Harding saw the need of a white Republican par ty and did something toward making such a thing possible, but his party placed a negro at its head in Georgia, thereby nullifyng anything the president may have done. Georgia needs two parties, but so long as the negro job hunters are able to control the party in the State, just so long will white men stick by the Democratic party, regardless of everything else. • Some of the finest, some of the brainiest, some of the most loyal and useful men in Georgia are enrolled under the flag of the G. O. P., but under negro I control they are helpless. Mr. Coolidge may or may not i have the wisdom aryl the vision to rectify the evil done by the I national conventions that have I thrust Johnson on this State. f ** A p < ; - = : - r3'x \ 'y' good fer \ NOTH IM’ LOAFER 1 // • f\ . WHY AIN'T YOU I / ; BROUGHT IN TH’ / fir&wooD? J IW (y/I 'YVW / THANKS, Ma! I've / SEEN LOOKIN’ FER N\Y \ ' /z i WHITTLIN’ STICK ALU 1 \ DAY— WHERE D Y’ /T Find it ? ( I a /.j- OTHER DAYS IN AMERICUS I TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From the Times-Recorder, Sept. 24, 1915) Miss Mary Dudley Fort of Amer icus, left Wednesday to spend the week with Miss Louise Callaway in Macon. Miss Fort during her years of study at Wesleyan has won many friends in Macon who will extend I her a cordial welcome, Will G. Solomon, on? of Macon’s I popular young business men was here last night and a guest of his school chum, Stewart Furlow while in the city. I z John Harvey is one of Sumter’s prosperous farmers who is less concerned about the price of cotton than he is over the price of oats, for he has barns full of oats and hay and other feedstuff to sell and comparatively little cotton. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY From The Americus Times-Re corder, Sept. 24, 1905. One thousand and twenty bales of cotton were hauled and weighed at the several wjfrehouses, thus ex ceeding the receipts of any pre vious day and making this the ban ner day of the season up to date. The total wagon bales now stand at 14,334. Mrs. Mary C. Clay and young son, Henry Clay were the guests of friends in the city yesterday. Eighteen heartsick and disgusted Georgia negroes will look upon the familiar hills of the old state early in November, after three years in Africa, and it is safe to predict that [they will never be lured from its borders again. Three years ago a party of negroes from near Ocilla were induced by the representative of an immigration scheme to en list as passengers and future labor 'ers in Liberia. EDITORIALS ■■■gnn “Constitution week” is a fine They put out popular commenta- thing—provided it is the constitu tion that wou celebrate. It may help to revive loyalty to institutions and familiarity with the document in which they were first embodied. If it could also arouse us to face our problems with courage, fore sight and resourceful, open minded ness which the fathers of the con stitution showed in meeting theirs, it would be well worth a week’s holiday for the whole population every year. But cherish no illusions. This is only what the constitu tion week should be for, but it is by no means what some of its most vociferous agitators want to use it for. They want to “re-establish the the constitution in the minds and hearts of the people,” not as a great milestone of human progress, but as a hitching-post, to prevent further progress. To this end, they seek first to make an emotional cult of the text of the constitution, and then to use this emotion as atmosphere sot their propaganda against the direct primary, direct legislation , public ownership and labor unions. AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER MUDD CENTER FOLKS | The caloric in Americus has been something terrible for a week past and instances of prostration and heat combustion have been numer ous, but the most remarkable in stance reported was was in regard to the burning of a fine umbrella carried by Court Reporter John N. Kiker. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Americus Times Re corder of Spet. 24 1895) Mr. James R. Walker is very ill with typho-malarial fever at the home of his father, Mr. John H. Walker, six miles east of the city. Two sturdy formers from the vi cinity of Denver, Col., and mem bers of the big Wilcox county colo ny were in Americus yesterday. They have already “viewed” the promised land” and are delighted with Georgia. Tangle leg whiskey got in its work very effectively Saturday night, as was evidenced by the at tendance upon the mayor’s y recep tion yesterday morning. Each guest left a V-shaped memento. Gov. Atkinson has not yet de termined when he will make the ap pointment of county solicitor for Sumter. In the meantime Messrs. W. T. Lane and J. A. Ansley, Jr. are earnestly watching the tempt ing plum. There was an advance of sixteen points in the cotton market yester day and a consequent better feel ing all round. Good middling cotton 'sold for 7 5-8 cents in Americus the best market in Georgia. Fod wants people to dance the I way they once did. But he , wouldn’t ttry to bring back his 1910 I model flivver. ries, in simplified lawyerese, on the legalistic rather tha n the institu tional and historic aspects of the constitution. They are interested, not so much ( in what is in the constitution as in ' the fact that certain things are not I in it —not in the great steps of pop ' ular government and individual lib j erty which it took forward, but in | the other steps which its framers 11 wisely refrained from including in ; I the first effort. Not the constitution’s trust in the people, the limits beyond which it ; was not willing to risk first trial of • j that trust, must be our guide. . The most sacred dogma is that . nothing which the fathers were not ■ yet ready to venture in 1789 shall • ■ ever be ventured thereafter. I Eighteenth century politics and i, nineteenth century economics shall , forever be the last word in human t progress, and the constitution shall be their barricade, > It shall be the Aristoteles and the t Talmud of scholastic text fetichism; 3 nothing which it omits shall be per t , missible even to think. By making II doubt of the inerrancy of the fath i' | ers, especially in their omissions, wickedly unpatriotic, we set our I • >Cf \ daily J Are you of the brand that is always on hand to pick other peep eto pieces? The world’s full of folks who make sarcastic jokes on others. The habit ne’er ceases. 1 How people get fun, out of razzing that’s done, is something can t understand. What queer brand of pleasure that comes in measure when someone is constantly penned. This habit, adhered to, when folks are referre dto. can only be harmful at best. W e shout that and this when a friend’s gone amiss. Yea, we must get off of our chest DerfeetT* 1 # ’’ S °4? nd W ? cught to knOw that there’s nobody perfect, by far. The real type of friend is teh one, in the end, who can praise toiles, whatever they are. Let’s all put a halt to the finding of fault. Let’s all trv a P etf n for h neW kn 7 ks ° n tHe You’D be savin’ your ■>elr, tor, how near to perfect are YOU? consciences to guard the portals of the intellect against the intrusions of ideas. If this is to be the spirit of con stitution week— and there are very busy agitators trying to make it so —then the sooner we make it a real constitution week, to study the con stitution as a living institution rath er than as a Byzantine parchcment, the better it will be, for the consti tution, for the country, and for us. The appointment of the special air-service investigating committee will serve, among other things, the important purpose of separating the | investigation of General Mitchell from the investigation of aviation. From the military standpoint, it was necessary to demote him in the first place, and it may be necessary to accommodate him now with 1 the marytdom which he is so os | tenfatiously seeking. But, if so, th« I result must not be, or even seem to I be, the hushing up of what may be ■ serious questions in regard to avia tion itself, j A separate board, conspicuously I competent, and at the same time in dependent will not only find out the truth—an army or navy board might do that—but will close the mouths of any who would impeach the good faith of any less disinter ested body. Now we shall have the truth— i and we know it. fss-TOM ) sims assays Bad news from Paris. Conan Doyle sees ghosts. But maybe they are American tourists returning. Betting so an aviator is afraid to leave home without his bathing suit. We believe people have skelet ons in their closets. Much better than having them in bathing suits. Wind, rain, hail, lightning dam age Michigan. NoNt so bad in New York they had an election. w Arrested 75 Chinese at one time in New York. The warden at the jail must have a big washing. Shot a mayor in Mexico. But that’s a natural death there. Sometimes think work was put into the world just to make loafing more from. Spirit messages always seem to come collect. j • A MONTH ON 0 0. Co/iTRS PRINCIPAL s> AND |NT£R£'ST , (l&k. cdnnJr • J. LEWIS ELLIS Empire Building Phone 830 Americus, Ga. * », \ • ' THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 24, 1925 Britons Pay Dollar Dozen For Oysters Copper Tasting Bivalves Are Dearer This Year Than at Any Time in History LONDON, Sept. 23.—September with its “R” means the beginning of the cyster season for English men. But tre “R” also means ruefull ness for the consumer and robbery |by the dealers. For never in the i history of England have the copper | testing alleged oysters been so dear Jas they are this year. While Americans ar paying rea. t sonable prices for the sweet blue points and for bigger bivalves with the salt taste of the sea on them, i Britons are being gaily charged the price of one dollar per dozen for “natives.” as they call the oysters caught in British waters. And the dollar is the price charged at the cheaper places. At the swell joints the holdup is even worse. And if you want to know what the Briton gets for his money take a nice clean brand-new copper American one-cent piece and suck it. It’s one more proof of the Frenchman’s gibe that Briton’s have no palates. Opened a tomb in Ohio. Found quarts of pearls. Some ancient chorus girl. Dr. R.B. Strickland Dentist Americus, Georgia BELL BUILDING Over Western Union Telegraph Co “AMERICUS FISH FISH & OYSTER CO Always Fresh Fish Phone 778 W ANTED Hens and Fryers Market Stronger AMERICUS HATCHERY AND SUPPLY CO •. Americus, Ga. Americus Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Funeral Director* And Embalmer* Night Phoner 661 and 88 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 Independence ® r,t * tep f° r P erni * ne nt l “ c c«u is to save. Why not --±1 pu! IB ■ I** ° Ur Sn’ings Department R be of • ervice ‘ We p“y Compound interest semi-an j?4i nnally. Later on you will JUSSpfaiiOjk slit." “TSjfind this a wise move for in dependence and hapipiaoas. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 Prompt, Conservative, Accommodating LESLIE WOODDEN TO INITIATE BIG CLASS Leslie Woodmen are planning a big time for Thursday njght when a large class will be taken into the . organization. The initiation will be ■supervised by T. L. Bennet, state manager, and a number of officers 0 fthe state institution will be pres ent. A big barbecue will be served she new members following the in lition. Every time we think up a good paragraph we come across a picture of this bathing beauty contest win ner and forget it. THE STANDARD A RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR MOTHERS! 500 Pairs Children’s Sport Socks, at 25c Pair Silk Pleated, highly mercerized, fancy or plain tops—black, brown and plenty of fancy patterns; sizes run up to the largest sizes. All have spliced heels and toes and ev ery pair is worth fully 50c; here Friday and Saturday, pair 25c Boys' All Wool Knee Pants Suits, $6.75 Suits purchased at a special con cession; new patterns, extra well made; sizes up to 17 years. No extra charge for the large sizes. Friday and Saturday $6.75 Boys’ and Men’s Adujstable Caps, at 98c ■ Many $1.50 to $2.00 models in this lot. They fit any size head. Made of pretty new woolen—light, medium and dark shades; choice Friday and Saturday 98c More Linoleum Squares at $9.95 Actual size 9x12 feet; in pretty patterns. At the rate they have been selling our stock will be ex hausted by Saturday night. They are as good and will wear and look as well as any you have seen selling up to SIB.OO. Men’s Silk Socks, at 25c The regular 50c grades; slightly below the standard quality, but bet ter than “Seconds.” You can hard ly find the slight defects in some of them; Friday and Saturday the regular 50c grades of Silk and cotton -..25c $35.00 Seamless Velvet Squares, at $24.75. •A seamless, sturdy velvet Square that will give years of wear in pat terns similar to fine Wiltons; here Friday and Saturday ..$24.75 THE STANDARD DRY GOODS COMPANY For»yth 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 -JIS am 12:26 pm Savh-Montg 3:28 pa* 3:28 pm Savh-Montg 12:18 pm J. A. BOWEN, Local Agent
