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PAGE SIX THE TIMES-RECORDER Lovelace Eve F.litot and Publisher Entered a* second data matter at the post office at Americus. Georgia, according to the Act of CongreM. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for the republication of all news dis patches credited to it or not otherwise credited to thia paper and also the local new< published here in. All right of republication of special dispatches are reserved. National Advertising Representative- FROST LANDIS & KOHN. 225 Fifth Avenue. New York; Peoples Gas Bldg.. Chicago; U .Iron Buiklinz. 1 Atlanta. E D J T o RIA L s Fault of the Newspapers Few newspapers would print crime news if it was not neces sary in the interest of the public to do so, and, for the additional fact that their readers demand it. A daily in the Nor'h discon tinned crime news and lost 50 per cent of its subscribers. An other paper placed all crime news inside the paper, none be ing carried on the front page. This, too, caused a loss of read ers. fully demonstrating that the reader demands crime news. If the newspapers of this country were to suppress all crime news, there would be a decided increase in crime. Many a man hesitates to take a misstep because he fears the publicity when caught. That the criminal is often apprehended because of the publicity given the crime is borne out by the following from the Savannah Press: A man and woman recently convicted of murder in Illinois were sentenced to long terms in the penitentiary after they had been found guilty of taking the life of the woman’s former hus band Immediately after the sen tence was passed the man in the case said “newspapers are all to blame for the case.” If they had not published anything, nothing then would have been said and no one would have been arrested. This in our estimation is a vindi cation for the newspapers who printed the crime news in which the prisoner was concerned. This has been the wail of other pris oners who have been arrested and convicted of crime of which they are to blame, high officials of state have made the same com plaint. Former Secretary Fall might say that he would not be under indictment if the newspa pers had kept quiet. It is an old and worn out alibi. Publicity performs one of its greatest needs when it reveals wrongdoings. • Crime shall not be glorified in its recital. The facts should be told and the public left to draw its own conclusions. The surer the criminal is of convic tion, the less crime there will be, and, the more widespread the publicity, the quicker and more certain will be the apprehension of the criminal. In the publication of crime news the newspaper is merely fullfilling one of the duties it owes the community it seeks to serve. At times the publication causes loss of friendships and bitter feelings, but the publisher worth his salt cannot be intimi dated, bluffed or bought. ¥ ¥ ¥ Madden Vindicates Mitchell— The position taken by Repre sentative Madden, of Illinois, chairman of the House Appro priations committee, in his state ment that "in a purposely meaningless and endless experi mental orgy" the army and navy departments have just squander ed millions of dollars, vindicates the position taken by Colonel Mitchell in his long fight in the interest of American aviation. Mitchell's charges have cen tered around “endless and pur poseless extravagance" which re sulted in but little for aviation Mitchell is sacrificing himself for the good of his country. The army and navy heads may suc ceed in knocking him out, but they will never silence the "hell cat" of the am.v ari service Many reasons for Mitchell s fight have been given. His ene mies have accused him of will fully misrepresenting facts in an effort to keep himself in the limelight. The reason for his actions, however, is likely that given in the following from the Macon Telegraph: His own brother, David Mitch ell, of Jacksonville, assigns an other reasjp. In an interview re cently in a New York paper, he says that he does not agree with his brother’s discretion, that he believes the Colonel should not have dropped the bomb at this time, but he added, “You know we can’t help feeling with those who lose their loved ones.” Pressed for an explanation, he ESTABLISHED 1379 A THOUGHT | Houses and riches are the inherit ance of fathers; and a prudent wife is from the Lord—Prov. 19:14. « Os all the plagues the greatest lin untold, the book-learned wife in . Greek and Latin bold.—Shake speare. said that during the war, John I Landrum Mitchell, Jr., whom the | colonel dearly beloved, was kill- I ed in France flying an army plane came to pieces in the air. David Mitchell belives that his ! brother’s fight was instigated by his determination that more American aviators shall not be sent to their death by “damnable negligence” to which, by his sil ence he would be contributory. Colonel Mitchell has not men tioned his brother in all his fight. If that is his real motive, it is an honorable and worthy motive. The path of a crusader usual ly is a thorny one, and Mitchell's is no exception. It was Lord Roberts, who for years spoke throughout England, warning his countrymen of the impending world war. He did not hesitate to say that Great Britain was un prepared and freely predicted from what quarter she might ex pect an attack. Hia addresses were scoffed at and he was said to be in his dotage, but the world war came and Lord Roberts' predicitons were proven to be correct. England awoke to the fact that an efiemy was at her gates and she was unprepared. Mitchell realizes that if Amer ica is attacked from the air, America would be well nigh helpless; that his brother fliers would be sacrificed, paying with their lives for the shortsighted ness and bigotry of their supe riors. The fighting air officer has aroused America to its true con dition. The army and navy heads realizing this may attempt to call off any further investiga tion. In their narrowness they be lieved they could control public opinion, but in this they have failed- Their persecution of Mitchell has been a boomerang and Congressman Madden’s fearless statement will almost as sure drastic investigation by Congress, followed, we hope by the establishments of a separate department of the air, as is the case with the army and the navy. ¥ ¥ ¥ Jury Service a Sacred Duty Federal Judge Bondy's court in New York was at a standstill. Several persons had demand ed a jury trial and there wasn’t a talesman in sight. Excuses of various kinds had enabled many called to escape jury service- So the judge took three depu ty marshals and went out to round up a jury from the streets. It wasn't so long ago that revolutions were fought to estab lish the cardinal principle that every man is entitled to a trial by jury. In fact, the ruthless activities of the czar's secret po lice and the failure of many poor Russian peasants to obtain jury trials was one of the underlying causes of the Russian revolution. And yet in this country we seem to think so little of this right that it is difficult to obtain juries. , Jury service is a citizen's most sacred right—and privilege, it is a duty which should not be carelessly shirked, but often is. ¥ ¥ ¥ Criticize Less; Commend More— One of the finest paragraphs in President Coolidge’s speech to the Omaha convention was this one: "One of the most natural re actions during the war was intol erance- . . There should be an intellectual demobilization as well as a military demobiliza tion.’’ Replacing intolerance with tolerance in this country is large ly an individual matter. You can't do it by law. You can’t do it by concerted move ments. for even an organization of tolerants formed to combat intolerance is apt to become in tolerant with the intolerants. The only solution is for each citizen to be more tolerant with his neighbor. Judve less: respect the opin ions of others more. Criticize less; commend here. MUDD CENTER FOLKS AND ALSO/- THAT R&Nukj*DS MR. WJIGT4TS MY LITTCte Y'OUNG.STef? —G THE PRIC<H,OV= KG'S ACUJAYS TUG RAW 1 1 —'XO(>t<STH(N<SL ORIQINAk —) CAST HA 3 To ec _ riG-UPCD (M. ' - iw ®- I ■—’S fiS/IKINQ __ U'.l f- — ' CRh /A. W ’’P (IF , L '°- /3 OTHER DAYS TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder, Oct. 13, 1915.) The fifty-seventh annual session of the Friendship Baptist Associa tion will be held with the Baptist church of Bronwood, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week, Oct. 19-21. 1 armers in Americus today from Sumter and the adjoining counties ‘declare that the cotton crop is well nigh gathered. Within two weeks or by the end of this current month the fields will be bare of the fleecy staple. An “Americus end” to the recent disastrous fire at Waycross, the de struction of the La Grande, and entailing property loss a quar ter million dollars,, develops Mr. E. aj. Wooten for several years man ager of the Windsor in Americus has managed the La Grande since left here five or six years ago and was among those who lost by the re cent fire, though to what extent is not definitely known. The marriage Tuesday evening of Miss Blanche Hawkins and Mr. H. Cobb was an occasion of much so cial interest in Americus, and one of the prettiest in every detail. Mrs. Thomas B. Hooks and Mrs. Eugene Hill assisted in receiving the many guests. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY A very enjoyable occasion indeed was that arranged last evening by members of Calvary Episcopal church at the handsome home of Mr. U. B. Harrold on College street. It combined a farewell to the depart ing rector Rev. L. G. H. Williams, who goes Saturday to his new charge at New Berne, N. C. and at the same time a reception to the EDITORIALS Mr J r II Y'L' ll The postmatser general can not personally fly an airnlane. Neither can his first assistant, or anyone else in final author/,/ in the Post office Department. But that does not mean that the airmail is neglected, wrongly or ganized, or incompetently managed. If the lack of actual flying men at the head of the war or navy admin istration means anything like that it means also that there is some thing radically wrong in the whole organization of our defense forces. Probably there is not a ranking admiral in the navy who could per sonally repair a motor dirven ship, either, or break any records point ing a 20-inch gun. But admirals understand the problems of these improvements and appreciate their importance, They are merely bigger ways of do ing the old things. If they can take the same atti tude toward the air service, person al flying skill is not imperative. Flying is a young man’s game. Planning and organizing, whether of flying or anything else,, is an older man’s game. If the naval and military heads are not mentally flexible enough for this problem, neither are they for any other new problem. Unless seniority will work for the air service, it should be abolished or modified for the other services also. CAN’T SETTLE WE POSTPONE “What you can’t settle, post pone,” is the rule of diplomacy. It is all that the French debt commis sion has accomplished. For the present we get the twenty piillions we were already getting as interest on the post war debts for goods actually purchased and delivered, and enough more to be an acknowledgment of the rest AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER • visiting clergy who are attending ■ the annul convention of the Albany deaconry. Americus admitted Jack Frost to her gates yesterday though evi- ■ dences of his presence were ex tremely slight and no damage what ever resulted. The top cotton was ; not touched and is going on toward maturity. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder, Oct. 15, 1895.) Mr. and Mrs. Cullen Horne were receiving the congratulations of their friends yesterday upon the j advent of a son into their home cir cle. He is indeed a splendid ten ' pounder. Capt. W. W. Poole, one of the best known and most prominent res- I idents of the county is very ill at his home, four miles south of the city. His condition is not regarded as serious, however. Messrs. Lee Council and John Sheffield made a flyii g trip to j i Montgomery yesterday and will J spend today there. The attraction 'over that way seems irresistible. I Fully five hundred negroes! .thronged the Central depot yester-j day enroute to the Camp meeting at at Sumter City. They were packed in the cars like sardines, four and five being jammed into every seat. There was a slight advance in the contract market yesterday over, the quotations of the day before, when such a slump took place. January contracts closed at 8.98 yesterday, lan advance of two points. Not a i few of the boys wore long faces ! yesterday and will wear old clothes i for awhile yet, as more than one j was squeezed by the slump on ' Thursday. of debt, but scarcely to be a sub stantial payment on it. Since there was no prospect of getting any more, at this time, that is satisfactory enough. But it leaves still open for some future govern ment of both countries, to attack the real question. About all that has been accom plished is to make it clear that if we offer to remit half of the French debt, which, in effect, we did, we think we have conceded something, while if we demand payment of any of it, the French think we have ex torted something. It is all a part of the education of the peoples of the two countries On the facts we are no nearer a so lution than before. The difference in the action of the Interparliamentary Union in excluding Mary Mac Sweeney and of of the American government in ex cluding Sakiatvala illustrates the right and the wrong way to do such things. ’ Miss McSweeney, who had elect ed herself to represent the imagin ary government of the non-existent Republic of Ireland, was excluded by the assembly itself, which neces sarily was the judge of the creden tials of its own members. The action was taken after con sultation with the government of ■ Ireland, on its assurance that she did not represent it and had never been chosen a member. Mr. Sakiatvala, who was a duly accredited member, was excluded j from an international body which ’ happened to be meeting on Ameri ! I can soil on the ground that he | was not a welcome resident of ; America. I He was not coming in that ca pacity. He was coming to the in ternational meeting, to represent a nation in whose parliament he sits, without protest from his own coun try. He should have been admitted on the principle of diplomatic im mun ; ity. Otherwise the Interparlia mentary Union can never meet I freely anywhere, if its member ship is to be subjject to the cen sorship of the host nation. Suppose it were to meet in Con stantinople, and Turkey were to ex clude any American member who was a Christian! fVINING Wk GIOW-W Let the logs crackle and let the flames roar. Images form in the blaze Give me a fireplace; a spot on the floor, and let me drift off in a doze. Spirit of loafing is holding me tight. Would that my mind rest at ease. 1 can find comfort in flames flaring bright. All by myself, if you please. Warmth of the fireplace is soothing and kind, letting me really telax. Dreamily gazing and resting my mind. That’s how i such restlessness acts. Worry can wait while I seek for the cure that lets you start over again. Any old fireplace can easily lure the worn out and tired type of men. Problems and trouble are waiting for their turn, but surely I II face them somehow, if only they’ll let my old dream fireplace burn, and simply not bother me now. MEXICO WAKING UP TO HER NEEDS Tractors Fast Replacing Ox- Carts; Transportation and Education Are Lacking BY MAX STERN i MEXICO City, OCT. 12.—Two great needs for Mexico are trans ' portation and education. But as in I other things, Mexico is walking up I to her needs. With one-fourth the area of the : United Staies, Mexico has ont twentieth as many miles of rair ' roads, and each mile of railroad ' must serve fourtimes as many peo pie as a mile in the states. I And in education, Mexico is vvoe .-fully weak being still 80 per cent illiterate. 1 Taking up the transportation pro blem first, great rich valleys are 1 isolated. Tabasco is a big hog-raising state, Iyet its next door neighbor, Yucatan, imports most of its meat and lard from the United States. Gasoline is about.4o cents a gal ’ lon in Mexico City, while a few • miles away are the second richest oil wells in the world. Highways t are unknown and in place of trucks the patient mule is still the chief common carrier. Railroad Gambles I The Southern Pacific is now gam bling at least sls, 000,000 on Mexi i co’s future by spending that much to complete its west side system. By building 103 miles of track 'through almost impassable moun tains betwetn Tepic and LaQuem ada, near Guadalajara, the railroad .will open up an empire of wealth in 116 river valleys-in the west-coasT i thermal belt. Besides every kind of agricultur al products from their 52, 000,000 arable acres the west coast states of Sinaloa, Narayit and Sonora have' bonanza copped and other mines, waterpower, hardwoods and fish eries. It will add to Imperial Valley’s winter tomato and melon crops the output of thousands of new acres while cotton, coffee, sugar, tobacco, bananas and other tropical products will begin to pour into the states. Incidentally there will be a three | day Pullman service via Nogales from San Francisco to Mexico City through the most interesting and populous part of Mexico. The Calles highway program is also ambitious. On the east side there is already under construction the first auto highway from Mexico City to the U. S. via Laredo. A gas tax of three centavos a liter is being collected from Mex ico’s 27, 000 gas-burning vehicles. The national congress this fall will make provision for financing a high way program. The government will put to work on the roads all federal employes outsted to make way for economy. From ex-cart and burro to a fleet of airplanes is a sudden jump that A MONTH ON 41000. cozens FRMCIPAL • and mrtnnr e it- / J. LEWIS ELLIS 1 Empire Building • Phone 830 Americus, Ga. * >. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 13, 1925 is typical of Mexico’s emergence from feudalism to twentieth centurj civilization. The army has 25 planes and 50 planes are now being constructed. Education presents a problem. Many villages are without schools and teachers are scarce, but the work of building schools, extending libraries and teaching the workers and farmers how to use their new freedo mit going on at a rapid rate Hacienda a School Five national agricultural col lates are to be established next WOMEN BORN 1873 TO 1881 Now Is the Critical Time. Lydia E.Pinkham’sVegeta ble Compound will Help You Safely Through Convoy,Ohio. 'During the Change of Life I was weak and run-down and could hardly do my work. By reading your advertise ments I found out about Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound and it hasstraight ened me right out and made me feel like a new woman. By the time I had taken eight bot tles I was well and could do my housework on the farm without trouble. I recommended it to my daughter-in-law after her sec ond baby was born and it did her a wonderful lot of good. I told her to try it and if it didn’t help her I would pay for it, and before she had taken one bottle she said to me, ‘You won’t have to pay for it! It is helping me wonderfully 1 ’ And she took three bottles of it. You can use my testi monial if you wish. ’’ Mrs. Elsie Ackerman, Convoy, Ohio. Consider carefully Mrs. Ackerman’s letter. Her experience ought to help you. She tells of the trials of middle age and the wonderful results she ob tained from Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg etable Compound. 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) a Success Independence The first step for permanent succcm i« to eave. Why not let our Savings Department be of service. We pay 4% Compound interest semi-an nually. Later on you will find this a wise move for in dependence and happiness. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 Prompt, Conservative, Accommodating Southeastern Fair October 8-17, 1925 ATLANTA, GA. Excursion tickets will be on sale daily, October 7th to I 6th, inclusive $8.58 —Round Trip—sß.sß Final return limit October 19, 1925 POPULAR EXCURSION To Southeastern Fair, Atlanta, on October 1 3 and I 5. Tick ets will be on sale for all trains on above dates and will be good returning leaving Atlanta prior to midnight of date of sale. Fare from Americus for special excursion will be $4.00 Round Trip 54.00 For further particulars ask the ticket agent CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY The Right Way Phone 137 year. One school is now operating at Chapingo, a great hacienda that was the pride of one ofDiza’s most corrupt country squires. To watch the 500 picked military students at their daily tasks with tractors, sprays, etc., is to realize j a new day is drawing | There are now 2000 national rural schools. Plans have been n.ade for 5000 branch libraries of which there are now 2000 in operation. Politics has interfered with educa tional progress, but if one is to judge by the spirit and measure by a progressive, enlightened and self conscious Mexico in its new-found democratic ideals education, Tokio, Japan, is building 40 miles of subway at a cost of $93, 500, 000 Hall’s Catarrh Medicine _ rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness caused by Catarrh. SoW by drugg'iti for over 40 y:a r i F. J. CHENEY &. CO., Toledo, Ohio AMERICUS FISH FISH & OYSTER CO Always Fresh Fish Phone 778 Americui Undertaking Co. NAT LEMASTER, Manager Fanend Directon I Embalmer* Night Phoner 661 and 88 Day Phone* 88 and 231 i RAILROAD SCHEDULES Central of Georgia Railway Co. (Central Standard Time) Arrive Depart 12:20 am Chi-StL Atla 2:53 am 1:53 am Albany-Jaxv 3:55 am 2:53 am Mia-Jax-Alb 12:20 am 3:20 am Jaxv-Albany 11:42 pm 3:35 am Chi-Cinci-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 1:24 pm Det-Cinci-Atla 3:35 pm 1:54 pm Atlanta-Macon 1:54 pm 1:54 pm Albany-Montg 1:54 pm 3:35 pm Mia-Jax-Alb 1:24 pm 6:47 pm Atlanta-Macon 8:10 am 10:35 pm Albany-Montg 5:29 am 11:25 pm Chi-StL-Bham 3:40 am 11-42 pm Chic-St L-Z.tla 3:20 am SEABOARD AIR LINE Citral Time Arrive Departs 7:55 am Cordele-Helena 9:05 am 12:31 pm Savh-Montg 3:23 pm 3:23 pm Savh-Montg 12:31 pm A. F. FANNING, Local Agent.
