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affectioned one toward brotherly love; in 1 s|| "'v OKI! Jc In if W Ha . H f • |gF' _^ &• r *- > y 5 iSR I x Hr W . "'.' l Da' , l'<i’4L r " nn -*■• •“' U &K, l" e te ’.. -Mate Highway Com .fission 'is on the right track. Building roads in peace meals is the poorest sort of a program. Today Georgia has a regular crazy quilt sort of a highway system- A few miles of paved road, then more miles of dust or mud. The proposal now before the board to pave about 44 miles between Macon and Atlanta will perfect that part of the system and link up the paved strips into a continuous hard-surfaced high way between Atlanta and Ma con. I his can be done with some help from Macon and Peach counties. I here are other parts of the system similar to the Macon-At lanta road. From Americus thru Albany and Thomasville, for in stance. Much of this route is al ready paved completing the un paved parts of this route from Sumter to the Florida line, thru Americus and Albany, will be a completed job. President Coolidge does not favor Federal appropriations for road building, and it is under stood his opposition comes prin cipally front the fact that the states are not building continu ous paved military roads. The President s prestige may give him thg. power to persuade Congress to discontinue Federal aid, there fore it is essential that all states follow Georgia s proposed sys tem of completing one route at a time. Otherwise the states may lose all Federal aid. The: highway board has made a beginning. Let them go step farther by making the engineer, regardless of who gentleman may be, a chief ||||||||Mfact as well as in name lie h ive the authority to select ■HH|Mengine<'ring personnel I nless h‘ re * lre at will, he never build an official or- the best program in the world will be a failure. ¥ ¥ If. * Spending the 1925 Crop Money— Advice is ' seldom welcomed and less often followed, but oc casionally we hear "words of wis dom” from one capable of speaking because of experience. In this instance it is the editor of the Progressive farmer and whether followed or not, it may be well for us to read and pon der the following: ♦ Farmers are now selling their crops—crops made in the sweat of their faces, crops representing not only the toil of the farmer, the farmer’s wife, and the farm boys and girls, but also their hopes. Let’s resolve now to make the best possible use of every cent of crop money that comes to us. If we have been paying “time prices” usury on anything this year, let’s resolve to stint and economize till it hurts so as to avoid ever having to pay “time prices” any more. Let’s try, too, to make purchas es as far as possible for “produc tive purpose s”-e-f or things that will help us earn more. Better equipment, better livestock, more horsepower, more land, more con veniences for doing housework— some of these things are probably necessary in order to enable us to work better and earn more. If we buy something now that helps us earn more, these increased earn ings may later help us buy the other things we want and need. Be. fjMr nsidering any et’s ask oursdj’es:- " Is it for a “productive purpose” —that it to say, is it for some thing that will help us produce more and thereby pay back the money spent in buying it? Or is it for a “consumptive purpose”—that is to say, is it for something that consumes or eats up the money spent on it, without en abling us to produce anything more with which to recover the expenditure? We don’t mean at all to say that we should make no consumptive purchases; many are necessary. But we should always give the r\ preference to productive purchas »>*- es and when there is some con sumptive purchase we wish to . V.V :»k./ Ir< .<i u< 11\ I- . .'■F.'-ad ohv that will help u - .ai’i with which to pay for the con- P ,,e ’’imptiv-c investment. Especialy ,I should farmers who have insuffi -1 cinet work stock or tools or ma- < ( chinery or land aim first of all at getting these things. Making money is but half the task. To get its full value it must be wisely spent—sagaciously in vested. The farm is the farmers business—it is his stock in trade. Careful spending may mean a cash surplus next year and it is always cheaper to pay cash than trade on a credit. To cancel an 0 per cent mortgage is a reduction in overhead and nowadays when the cost qf production and the sale price are so close, it is dif ficult to make a profit until over head is at a minimum. The advice of the Progressive Farmer is as applicable to the retail merchant, the professional man or the manufactuier as to the farmer. We should strive evei to se cure 100 cents on the dollar in vest on the dollar spent. Too often we slave in the earning but are wastrels in the spending. •r ¥ .*■ Benefiting the Health of the Nation The General Electric company is to bring out a simplified auto matic refrigerator, small enough to fit the smallest home and us able wherever there is an electric current. Ice has not generally been classed as a ' medicine;" but its use is one of the greatest steps toward universal good health, and the inventor of the never-fail elec tric refrigerator is a public bene factor like Pasteur and the in ventor of anaesthetics- The day is not far distant when electric current will be available at the front door of every farm. I hen we shall see electrically driven washing machines, auto matic refrigerators, and other la bor-saving and health preserving machines taking the place of—in too many instances female drudgery. The present age is eliminating distance. A few years ago Al bany was more than a day’s ride thru the country from Americus. Today we run down there for din ner with friends and return at bedtime. It’s no more difficult for the farmer 15 miles in the country to visit the movies at night than the inhabitants of the big cities, who live even greater distances from the center of things. Gas and electricity have eliminated distance. Automatic refrigerators, good roads, autos and electric current will relieve the congestion and centralization in the cities, each and all benefiting the health of the nation. ¥ ¥ ¥ Harmonious Action Possible— Commissioner Elwood Mead of the reclamation service denies there is needless delay and oppo sition from his department to car rying out reclamation enterprises. The bureau, he says, desires to build projects wherever sound economic development is assured. That is just the trouble. Cer tain congressmen desire projects built in their states whether sound economic d eve l°P ment > 8 possible or no/' And they get these projects approved by congress, bv.4he familiar precess of log ><Mling. 1 ‘ It is the duty of the technical departments then to report on their feasibility.. If they find out, as they more than once have, that a particular project will never pay for itself, and will always be a charge on the whole nation, for the benefit of. a few of the par ; ticular senator s constituents, it is their duty to say so. and to insist i that congress take the responsi l ility, in full view of these facts, : of subsidizing these propositions or giving them up. Then, if the projects are an engineering possibility, but a fi nancial impossibility, it’s the busi ness of the bureau, when congress provides the money, to spend it. Harmonious action is feasible. The trouble is in harmonious ly "passing the buck.’* MUDD CENTER FOLKS r —; : r~? ; > ah’ MY Mew FALSE AN ’ A Le 1 ' wW^( r£ - erH ' 15 DUET’DAY-) F * 0M > NIECE IN THEY WOMAN OUGHTERj T'DAYS MAIL.’ p Be. fired’ W . __y tJJan'l dpuv ih- Mice, 'f ( FER MY MAIL ORDER / | ; l 7 < catalog'. ■ y -■ ft P ? - • r! W ' T FW-y/'■ H® f AUNT FANNY BUZZ, POSTMISTRESS OF MUDD ‘ jenter , Picked out a bad day to shop JN THE CITY TOR a FALL HAT-—— * OTHER DAYS IN AMERICUS TEN YEARS. AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder, Oct. 21, 1915. ) At her residence on Brown street Mrs. Thomas McLendon was hos tess at bridgy, complimenting her charming house guest, Miss Annette McDonald, of Cuthbert a much ad mired belle here. The interesteing game was played at three tables, and at the conclusion of the game a a hot luncheon was daintily served by the hostess. Those who enjoyed the hospitality of Mrs. McLendon, were, Misses Ruth Brown, Mary Ella Davenport, Mildred Hollis, Maude Sherlock, Nina McKean, Olive Byrd, Nannie Sue Bell, Mrs. H. O. Jones, Mrs. Walter Rylander. Miss Lucy Williams of Plains, was among other shoppers from that town here yesterday. Mrs. G. M. Eldridge and daugh ter, Mrs. James Ferguson, will leave today for Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Ferg uson to reside, while her mother will spend some time there at her home. Miss Annette McDonald, of Cuth •bert, is the attractive guest of Mrs. Thomas McLendon while upon a pleasant visit in Americus. Hundreds of Americus people who during a half dozen years have ad mired the huge Maltese cat ‘Possum’ EDITORIALS President Coolidge is reported as being decidedly angry at the course of the Shipping Board in defying his policies and ignoring him. Let us hope so. Not merely because the president Is right on this issue—the writer em phatically thinks he is; but it is honestly debatable and there are in formed persons who think otherwies —but because anger in the president is decidedly a public asset, for other reasons. President Coolidge would rather cling to certain old-fashioned no tions of the proper relation of the president and Congress. He does not like to use the “big stick.” So, if the president can get angry enough at the Shipping Board to un leash the big stick, that weapon will then be in shape for bigger game. * * * VERGE DEMOLITION THE “SEIGESALLEE Radical papers in Germany are agitating for the demolition of the “Siegesallee,” the absurd avenue of I statues of all the Hohenzollers lead-1 ing across the Tiergarten to the Column of Victory. I The column itself probably no one will pull down unless it is a victori ous French army. It is the most i raspingly arrogant in the world, and it at least commemorates a real achievement, and it is dedicated | “from the thankful fatherland to the : victorious army.” But the long row of monuments 1 leading up to it commemorates noth ing but the stuffed pride of two em perors, one of whom is the only Hohenzollern whoes statue will never grace any Victory Alley. There they are, the great- and the small, the sane and the insane, those who rendered great service to Prus sia and those who rendered less than none, each monument like every 1 other—the Hohenzollern on a pedes tal, and on a. bench behind him two of the advisers who furnished his brains. There are a thousand years of them, but the statues ar e all of one period, and that the most recent and THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER at the Prather drug store, will be sorry to know that he has treed his last rat, and is no more. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder, Oct. 21, 1905.) Mrs. E. P. Morgan returned home yeste'rday, after a visit of some length in Moultrie. Dr. H. B. Allen left yesterday for Tennille to visit Mrs. Allen and wel come their little daughter, a little Miss one day old. Mr. Cliff C. Clay of Maplehurst came up to the city yesterday morn ing upon business. Capt. John A. Cobb returned yes terday from Atlanta, having spent the week at the fair. Back from Atlanta the Mmericus Light Infantry will come at 6 o’clock this morning, fagged out by the te dious trip, but happy at having seen Teddy, and marched in the great pa rade yesterday. The handsome residence of Mr. B. C. Hodges, on Reese Park, one of the most desirable in the city, is being pushed rapidly to completion. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday, no paper published. worst. They stand, not for the glory, of a nation, but for the arrogance of ■ a family, and of the two last of the; family at that. The purpose is to impress the people with the idea that it was the Hohenzollerns that made Germany great. The easiest lesson to draw now would be that the last of the tribe, William the Least, had more than his share of making Germany poor. At any rate, this Victory Alley has neither artistic, historic nor senti mental title to preservation. Doubtless German conserve ism| will keep it; but it would be better gone and forgotten. ♦ » » AMERICANS STILL CONSERVATIVE We are still a conservative people. Everywhere else the labor movement is the center of radical, economic and political theories. In America, the wildest demon stration of enthusiasm at the meet ing of the American Federation of Labor was at the declaration of President William Green against any dealings with Russian organizations so long as they adhere to their pres ent philosophy of opposition to free democratic government. The whole long rule of Samuel Gompers was a protest against eco nomic radicalism. The administra tion of President Green continues the same policy. And the elected delegates give him an ovation for saying so. American organized labor is not only a good thing for the workers, ; who, under its methods, are much the best off of any workers in the world, but it is a good thing for all the rest of us, too. It is our most potent stabilizing force. It makes for sound economics and good government. JAP GIRLS TABOO SHORT SKIRTS, BOBBED HAIR TOKYO, Oct. 20. —Japanese fashions are set by the geisha girls The cut of the kimono and the ar rangement of the coiffure, follow their dictates. There has been a noticeable trend toward occidental styles. Shprt skirts and bobbed locks, however, will not be permitted ■by the powers that rule the geisha | industry. Every occidental kind of coiffure was prohibited after Sep tember 1. This regulation also ap plies to the dress. SHI VERS Early in the mornin’ when it’s nearin’ time to rise; shortly after day break, when ya open up your eyes, old Jack Frost is lurkin’ and he sets his cold waves loose. Windows all are open, and ya shiver like the deuce. How you’d like to snuggle with the covers o’er yer head! How you hate the thought of ever gettin’ out of bed! ’Course the fresh air’s bully and it’s mighty good for you. Still hate it when it chills ya through and through. Would that someone else would come and shut the windows tight. Wow! The thought of rising—well, it doesn’t seem just right. Still, ya gotta do it, so ya hop wit hall yer might, an’ rush into! the front room where the grate is bumin’ bright. Oh, the warmth that greets you! It’s the thrill of every day. There ya find the blaze to chase the chillness away. After all, the coldness and the fresh air of the night, really’s worth the while be cause it keeps ya feelin’ right. BETTY COMPSON IS GREAT IN “MIAMI” If you don’t go to Dudley’s theatre you will be missing one of the best pictures the screen has had in a long time. We speak of “Miami” in which Betty Compson has the lead ing role. The title and the star are enough to tell you that the picture is great but when we say it’s an Alan Croslan dproduction, you know it’s a standard setter. There are society dramas and so ciety dramas. Unless we are very much wistaken, “Miami” is going to serve as a basis for comparison most lavish sets and beautiful ex teriors we- have ever seen. Ther? is a gorgeous gambling resert, palatial homes, hotels and yatchts, gowns ga lore and sports of all kinds. Around these externals is woven an intensely absorbing story of an ul tra-modern society girl, Joan Brue, whose flirtation with a married man almost causes her to lose the man she loves. Those who have nothing to do in life but play are surrounded by a glmaours veil through which the public is always trying to peer. “Mi ami” lifts htat veil and gives an inti mate view of the idle rich. There is also considerable “flapper stuff” —wild jazz partie, joy rides, a se ries of mad “dare dives” into the pool by the reckless Joan who begins in an evening gown and ends san habiliments of any sort. • “Miami” is a rest-cure for the tired busines man, a pleasur etrip for his wife and first rate entertainment for everyone. STUDENTS PREFER BLUE DENIM WORK PITTSBURGH, Oct. 21.— (A majority of night students at the Carnegie Institute of Technology have shown a preference for “blue denim” work. Only a comparatively HOW DOCTORS TREAT COLDS AND FLU To break un a cold overnight or to cut short an attack of grippe, in fluenza, sore throat or tonsillitis, physicians and druggists are now recommending Calotabs, the puri fied and refined calomel compound tablet that gives you the effects of calomel and salts combin without the unpleasant effects of e’ther. One or two Calotabs at bed-time with a swallow of water, —that’s all No salts, no nausea nor the slightest interference with your eating, work or pleasure. Next morning your cold has vanished, your system is thoroughly purified and you are feeli.ig fine with a hearty appetite for breakfast. Eat what you please —no danger. Get a family package, containing full directions, only 35 cents. At any drug store. 0 GET A CHATHAM LOAN ( 1\Z.50 /1000. COVERS PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST J. LEWIS { ELLIS Empire Building Phone 830 Americus, Ga. a X. «■ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 21, 192 I few are entered for occupations ; where clean linen and well combined i hair are necessities. Building and machinery trades hav e attracted many of the students. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS MEET IN BAINBRIDGE BAINBRIDGE, Ga., Oct. 21. Valdosta district No. 9, knight’s of Pythias, will meet here in convention October 27. Plans incident to the meeting are being made by the De catur Lodge No. 32, which is to be host to the visiting nKight’s. A barbecue will be served the guests on Miller’s Farm at the noon hour. Among the 320 guests ex pected will be Will G. Moors, grand chancellor. Atlanta; W. H. Leo pold, grand keeper of records and seals, Savannah; E. A. Rogers grand outer guard, Pelham. ALL OUT OF SORTS? So Was This Americus Woman Who Tells Her Experience All too often women accept their pains and aches as natural to their sex. They fail to realize that weak kidneys are often to blame for that backache, those headaches, dizzy spells, and' that tired, depressed feeling. Thousands have found new health and strength by helping the weakened kidneys with Doan’s Pills—a stibulant diuretic. This Americus case is one of many: Mrs. Lula Leamon. 927 Ogle thorpe Ave., says: “When I swept sharp pains shot up from the small of my back and racked my whole system. My back was weak and I was so tired f hated to get out of bed mornings. I was dizzy and everything turned black. I used Doan’s Pills from Howell’s Phar macy and soon felt 100 per cent better ih every way.’’ Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidnej) remedy— get Doan’s Pills—the same that Mrs. Leamon had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. adv IL. G. COUNCIL, .President {E. BOLTON, Ass’t. Cashier C. M. COUNCIL, V.-P. & Cashier. I J. E. KIKER, Ass’t. Cashier 1 he Planters Bank of Americus (Ineorporaed) Success —■ Independence MIM iMIwK ft h If a of ,ervice - We p“y Compound interest semi-an ■••Uy. Later on you will *hi» a wise move for in ' dependence and happiness. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 Prompt, Conservative, Accommodating [Just Received! Shipment of Columbia Talking Machines. Among these are the latest style consoles, cabinet, table and portables. We are offer ing these at very attractive prices on most liberal terms. Come in and look at the beautiful assort ment we now have on hand. © ■ I | ALLISON FURNITURE|CO. Ouch! My Back! Rub Lumbago Pain Away Rub Backache away with small trial bottle of old “St. Jacobs Oil." When your back is sore and lame or lumbago, sciatica or rheumatism has you stiffened up. don’t suffer I Get a small trial bottle of old, honest “St. Jacobs Oil” at any drug store, pour a little in your hand and rub it right on your aching back, and by the time you count fifty, the soreness and lame ness is gone. , Don’t stay crippW! This soothing, penetrating oil neeir to be used only once. It takes the pain right out and ends the misery. It is tnagical, yet absolutely harmless and doesn’t bum the skin. . . Nothing else stops lumbago, sciatica, backache or rheumatism so promptly. It never disappoints! Artici'lcus Undertaking <-<> MAT LLMASILK. Nlanagwi h unerai Director* And Emtalnicr* Night Phone* 061 and fit l Ouy Phones and 2 I * U AMERICUS FISH FISH & OYSTER CO 4!ways Fresh Fish Phone 778 RAILROAD SCHEDULES Central of Georgia Railway Co. (Centra! Standard Time) Arrive Depart 12:20 am Chi-StL Atla 2:53 am 1:53 am Albany-Jaxv 3:55 am 2:53 am Ntia-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 16:47 pm Atlanta-Macon 8:10 am 0:35 pm Albany-Montg 5:29 am 1:25 pm Chi-StL-Bham 3:40 am 1 -42 pm Chic-StL-Atla 3 :20 am SEABOARD AIR LINE ; Central Time Arrive , Depart* 1:55 am Cordele-Helena 9:05 am 1:31 pm Savh-Montg 3:23 pm :23 pm Savh-Montg 12:31 pm A. F. FANNING, Local Agent
