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PAGE SIX THE TIMES-RECORDER Lovelace Eve L<li.<r and Publisher Entered aa second > .ass matter at the post office at Amencui, Georgia, according to the Act of Congress. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for the repubi.cation ot all tie** die patches credited to it or not other*- -e ere-;, ed ti. thia paper and also the local i here- in. * • right of rep'tb'.ic.T tan of special dispatches l<»vHcu. National Advertising Representatives. FROST LANDIS & KOHN. 225 Fifth A.mu.e New York; Peoples Gas Bldg.. Chicago. Wahon Building. Atlanta. r E D IT O R1 A LS Shreveport’s Mayor and Shingle Roofs— Following a conflagration in Shreveport, La., an effort was made to BAN wood shingles. The ordinance seeking to accomplish this was defeated. In explaining his opposition to the ordinance, the Mayor of Shreveport says: I fear such an ordinance will re tard the growth of the city. The | arguments advanced are strong i for individuals to use fire resistive roofing, but not sufficently so to justify the city in enacting a pro hibitory ordinance. It will not affect the basic in surance rates in the city a single cent. There will be no reduction if passed, nor any increase if not passed. The difference in rates only affects the individual building being constructed. The same rela tive difference also affects a brick or stone dwelling in contrast with a frame building. The cost of the fire resistive roof exceeds a good shingle roof and the good shingle root will last almost twice as long. ‘ Individual liberty with reason able restrictions outside ' the fire limits should not be controlled by the council, except where absolute ly necessary. Only about 130 cities and towns out of a total of 3,000 or more in tHe United States have such an ordinance and some of them nota bly, Paris, Texas, Berkeley, Calif., have repealed the ordinance as be ing detrimental to the growth of the city. The recent fire in the city was due to a lack of water and not shingles and the council shbuld act not under the presure caused by a sentiment created by the loss, but take all the circumstances into consideration with delibration and judgment.- The argument that we want to lessen the fire hazard is sound, but carried to its final an alysis would result in the elimina tion of all wooden buildings in the city. Some things we must per mit rather than adopt class legisla tion, unless the hazard is so great or the property values endangered are so heay that make it necessary for the council to act. It was conceded by the represen tative of the Underwriter Labora tories that a good first class wood shingle would not catch fire any sooner than some fire resistive roofing tested, but he claimed that the extra hazard was caused by the flying cinders. The proposed substitute ordinance improves the class of shignles to be used in the future as well as their fastening and will materially lessen the hazard from this source and the general situation is made much better. The new zoning law will stimu late th ■ erection of a better class of residences in the city, and the man of moderate means should not be compelled, whether he de sires to do so or not, to construct a more expensive roof that will not iast as long. From an architec tural standpoint, artistic beauty as well as durability should also be taken into consideration. A national association of lum ber dealers is spreading the state ment of the Shreveport Mayor.' The association's interest is ob-, vious. We recall the great fire which swept hundreds of blocks in At lanta several years ago. We can not forget the terror of that con flagration, as it devoured home after home. Fire departments from many Georgia cities, along TOM SIMS Civilization is coming right along. You can buy almost any kind of food in cans now. There are orchestras with only four or five pieces, but they sound as if they were tin. One thing taught by experience is that you can’t always learn by ex perience. Absence from church was a crime in the seventeenth century. Now it is merely a custom. If you feel badly just because you are alone it is just because you are in bad company then. ESTABLISHED 1879 I J A IHOUGHi | So ought men to love their wives i as their own bodies. He that loveth : his wife loveth himself.—Eph, 5;28. I ♦ ♦ * I All other goods by fortune’s hands are given; a wife is the I | peculiar gift of heaven. —Pope. I with the soldiers from Camp Gor j don, did their utmost to stop the onward rush of the flames. Ev- I ery effort' failed until block after I block of magnificent homes were dynamited. Thig alone stopped the fire after having raged for 18 hours. The fire started in a small ne | gro house. A light wind blew the ; sparks on to the roofs of other negro shacks. The weather had been dry for some time and the! wooden shingles were like tender' —one spark and they were! aflame. A fire generates its own draft, very soon the flames were Dicn ding and the draft CAR . , “ the sparks to nearby homes with WOODEN ROOFS. Thus home after home became ignited' Ihe firemen could not keep up with the sparks And Atlanta lost thousands of her most beau tirui homes- •'l t^le . se home had been roofed with slate or non-inf!amable roofing the sparks would have ailed to ignite them. And there 8 cl answer to s he argument of the Shreveport Mayor and the lumber association. Another point the Mayor makes is that shingle roofs will not lower the basic rate, but he aeknowleclges that it does lower the INDIVIDUAL RATE. That acknowledgement is proof that the fire underwriters consider a shingle roof more hazardous than non-inHamaole roofings *¥ ¥ ¥ Thanksgiving Turkeys Scarce— The Thanksgiving turkey crop is snort, about I 5 per cent under last year, and the nation will pay more , its dinner than a year ago. That s good news for the farmer, but disappointing to the housekeepers of the nation. The average price last year was 26 2 cents a pound. The average to day is 2 7 cents. However, there is a wide range in what the dif ferent sections of the country pay. ihe Northeast is qouting 43 cents, while in the Western cotton belt the prices average 19 cents. The bulk of the Thanksgiving turkey supply comes from the South. The excessive drouth the past year has cut the supply in the South tremendously. Ihe Southern farmer with a drove of turkeys will clean up a nice profit this year. Jf, * ¥ * League Policy Has Its Weight Few dispatches from Eurcpe recently have been more interest ing than the one which told how the League of Nations had issued an ultimatum to Greece and Bul garia, informing them bluntly that they must cease forthwith all warlike demonstrations. The league was founded to do just such things. For years it duck ed its head whenever war cloud arose on the horizon—as witness its action when Mussolini seized ’ Corfu, for ‘example. Now it : seems that it is getting ready to . act. Os course, the league isn’t risk ing much by ordering two com oaratively weak nations like Greece and Bulgaria around. Per haps if France and Italy, for in stance, were involved it would be different. But at all events the league policy has undergone a change, and it will be interesting to see if it is adhered to hereafter. The hardest thing about lying to your friends is it makes you think they are lying to you. Most of us have decided we are going to pay the doctor bill we owe if we ever get out of debt. It is easy to decide what to do in stead of work. Bathing girl pictures should be censored. Georgia boy robbed a man to get money to go to Florida. Learning to argue is easy. All you have to do is be from California I and meet a man from Florida. All the world is a stage. Act now. MUDD CENTER FOLKS TH* IDE£R W DURN 'TiTHiY's • / i' SiT ck in’ TW' CLOTHES) LIMIT T ALL THINGS AN. O STICKIK TH CLOTHbi I Jesr 5 \ PIS OH YER NOSE.? / Tfter L ’ /CX- \ smell ’Round no z-.l \ wasTr c w.X' —WTIL/ , U’l Iw ' WWiAW' TTb= ReCeNT COLD SNAP IN MUDD HAS ADDED To THC PHYSICAL DISCOMFORTS ' ' >= CAL.EO IT SeeMCD AS THOUGH LVERY OVERCOAT THAT CAM(= IN BIS SToRr- WAS SCENTED WITH THAT PERFUME SO DISTASTEFUL To THE MOTU ■— HOWEVER, CAP.. 3 FOUND A REMEDY \ OTHER DAYS IN AMERICUS TEN YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder. Nov. 4, 1915.) The young men of Americus will] give a dance at tne armory of the Americus Light Infantry Friday eve ning and it is being anticipated as one of the brilliant occasons for the | fall season in Americus. Miss Callie Bell has gone upop a visit of some length to Miss Carrie Fullwood at her home in Tifton. Petite Misses Mary Sheffield Coch ran, of Florida and Florence Fort, of Americus were two little • sun beams brightening the Times-Recor-, der sanctum today, fair callers both. Misses Mildred Hollis and Maybel Hixon have returned from Dawson where they attended the marriage of Michael Cronin and Miss Marion Edwards on Wednesday. Miss Lila Merritt, of Albany is the gv.est of Mrs. Louis Grubbs at her EDITORIALS I I The fundamentalist have long been exluding, or trying to e elude, heretics from the churches on the ground of not being orthodox en ough; but it remained for the con ference of the Methodist Church South, at Brekeley, Calif., to ex clude a man because he was too orthodox. « Rev. Maurice M. Johnston of Glen- . dale, hal annoyed his colleagues by criticising by turning him out as “too narrow.’’ Doubtless he was. But the here tics who demand tolerance should learn to practice it. The only thing intolerable about the fundament alists is their intolerance. It may “serve them right” to treat them to their own medicine, but “serving right” is not a Christian principle. Let the intolerant be tol erated, in the hope that they, too, may learn tolerance. If the League of Nations succeeds in staving off the Greek-Bulgarian war, it will have met the only test by which superficial American opin ion has been in the habit of judging it. It will have stopped an actual war, that we knew about and were iinterested in. To be sure, the principle part of | the work of the league has to do, not with stopping visible wars, but | with developing situations under . which wars are less likely to start A war that has to be stopped is already an indication that the league has functioned imperfectly. But, just as putting out a fire is more spectacular than the fire per vention which keeps fires form start ing, so this stopping of a war in which actual fighting had already started—if it is stopped—will appeal to most people as the only thing establishing the practical usefulness and power of the league. BORAH LEADER OF OPPOSITION Senator Borah is appealed to to take the leadership in bringing about the repeal of the law under which the Countess Karoli was denied ad mittance to this country. Doubtless the law ought to be repealed, or greatly modified, and Senator Borah is a good one to get it done. But the very fact of his appeal again illustrates the absurbly un representative character of our present organization of Congress. Senator Borah is appealed to as the leader of the opposition, which he is. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORuER home on Lee Street. Mrs. M. J. Taylor has gone to Sale i City upon a visit to her daughter, Mrs. J. D. McCord. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY Monday, no paper published. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY (From The Times-Recorder, Nov. 4, 1905.) Mrs. D. R. Andrews returned home yesterday after a p leasant visit to Atlanta. Rev. Charles R. Nisbet after spending ten days pleasantly here, returned to his home in Atlanta yes terday. Messrs. E. L. and B. L. Bridges, well known citizens of Ellaville, were in Americus yesterday. Master James Page Collins, was a welcomed arrival in the city yes terday. And a leader of the opposition is a useful functionary, in any govern is that this leader of the oposition is officially the leader of the party which' he is opposing. ment. Th e absurdity of our system And it is not an accidental or ex ceptional aberration of the system. It is its normal and usual result. Seniority brings forward the repre sentatives, nqt of the present, bu! of the past. The barber college must have a course in conversation. Keep out of trouble. It is very dis concerting to learn how few friends you reallly have. fiM, bi I «So*,<> aching and are itci&d r , ‘ Ifctiy HW ATHLETES W STRAINS MB Sf!« Gymnasium director advises simple, easy treatment Hard exercise brings lame muscles— and often bruises and strains as well. An athletic director in a gymnasium at Utica, N. Y., writes that he has found a simple and always effective way of treating them. “Just pat on a little Sloan’s Lini ment, as the bottle says, without rub bing. It takas out stiffness and pain as nothing else will. We have it al ways on hand and we think it is the best ever.” Sloan’s gives real help because it doesn’t just deaden the pain: it gets at the cause. Right to the place that hurts it brings a healing tide of fresh new blood—builds up the injured tissues—clears out the fatigue poisons. Almost at once you feel relief. Stiff ness, swelling, inflammation go down. The pain stops. Get a bottle today and have it on hand. All druggists— -35 cents. Cn Saturday morning we rise with the chickens, an’ dress jes’ as fast as we can. Through pancakes and sirup we rush like the dickens. A real thrill is cornin’, oh, man! We hitch up the sled to our pony, and then, we urge him to limber his limbs. We’re off on our long winding journey again, to the country, to ol’ Uncle Jim’s. We clip a fast gait, an’ we know he’ll be waitin’ to welcome us when we arrive We’ll help with his chores, and we’ll play out cf-doors with the right sort of spirit alive- We skim into sight and he shouts ,in delight, a greeting that really is meant. We join him and then he turns youngster again, till the best of our energy’s spent. The day soon is done, and we’ve had heaps of fun, and we homeward start, feelin’ in trim. I wish I could show all the kids that I know, just a day’s fun with ol’ Uncle Jim. MILTON SILLS AT RYLANDER .... .Milton Sills, the noted screen star started life as a University Pro fessor. Every man, once in his life stands before the Rubicon of his de sire. Either he plunges across to the victory of following his inner ambitions, or he loses by turning his back from the course he longs to follow. Milton Sills, former Uni versity of Chicago professor, thus ac counts for his leaving the chair of Philoposphy for the life of strolling player. He will appear with Doris Kenyon at the Rylander in his latest 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 combir without the unpleasant effects of ether. 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 feel 5 g fine with a hearty appetite for b-eakfast. Eat what you please —no danger. Get a family package, containing full directions, only 35 cents. At any drug store. THE STANDARD THIS NOVEMBER SAVING ON THE BEST SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN t Crowd* Came Yesterday to Buy Shoe,, And We Will Shoe Hundreds More Tomor row and the Balance of This Week At $2.50. Men’s All leather shoes, Army lasts, brown and black. At $3.95. Men’s black and brown shoes, Goodyear welts, reg ularly, $5. At $1.98 —Men’s all leather work shoes, flexible soles, sizes 6 to 12. At $2.98. —Ladies New Patent one strap slippers, flexible soles, values up to $5. At $3.95.- —Women’s brown and black kid slippers, and oxfords welt ed, soles; values up to $5. At $1.98. —One big table of wo men’s high shoes of excellent leather and complete run of sizes; formerly up to $7.50. At $l5O. Children’s flexible stitched down shoes guaranteed all leather. At $1.98. —Misses and Children’s stitched down shoes, all leather; all sizes. Men’s $250 English Broadcloth Shirts, At $1.49, Made with attached collars, or without collars; made of fine E’ng lihs broadcloth, every size from 14 to 17. Men’s $2 Madras Shirt* At $1.25 Attached collars, of excellent quality, madras fast colors, sizes 12 to 17 1-2; very special here at $1.25. More Silk And Wool Socks At 4 Pair* For sl. They’ll soon be sold at the rate we are now selling them; one lady bought 36 pairs; they are better than any “seconds” you ever saw, in fact you cannot find the slightest de fects, the regular price of the socks is 50c to 75c; displayed on center counter and priced while they last, at 4 pairs for sl. Cocoa Runner At 59c Best quality very closely and firm ly woven; natural color suitable for stairways, aisles and hallways; noth ing to equal this for wear, regularly 98c, here at yard, 59c. ’ THE STANDARD DRY GOODS COMPANY For»yth Street, Next Deer te Beak of Commerce AMERICUS, GA. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.NOVEMBER 4, 1925 First National drama, “I Want My Man,” Tuesday for a three-days run. are four well known stars, two, Doris Kenyon, Milton Sills rated among the biggest but the cast alone doesn’t ! make a picture—there is a story in “I want My Man” a real story. Not ] the usual society love drama. Be neath the tinsel of jazzmania it un folds a depth of sincere emotion which carries it out of the usual rut of film entertainment. If throbs Get Rid of That Backache! Americus People Point the Way. The constant aching of a bad baek, The weariness, the tired feeling; Headaches, dizziness, nervousness, Distressing urinary disorders— Are often signs of failing kidneys And too serious to be neglected. Get rid of these troubles! Use Doan’s Pills—a stimulant diu retic to the kidneys. Hosts of people recommend Doan’s. This is an Americus case. You can verify it. Mrs. J. p. Braswell, 901 Elmo St., says: “The first symtoir.s of kidney trouble in n.y case was lame back. When I ran the sewing machine, severe pains shot up from the small of my back and I could hardly keep working. I tired easi ly and everything seemed a task. I was nervous and became easily upset. Doan’s Pills cured me of the attack and I felt fine.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy— get Doan’s Pills, the same that Mrs. Braswell had. Foster-Milburr Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N- Y. — (adv.) WANTED ! Hens and Fryers Market Stronger AMERICUS HATCHERY ANd SUPPLY CO . Americus, Ga. AMERICUS UNDERTAKING CO. Nat LeMaster, Manager Funeral Directors and Embalmers Day Phones 88 and 231 Night Phone—66l and 88 CHEAP MONEY TO LEND we always have money to lend on farm land* at lowest rates and best term*, and you will always save money by seeing u* We give the borrower the privilege of making payment* on th* principal at any interest period, stopping interest on sues payment. We also make loan* on choice city property. Write or see R. C. Ellis, President, or G. C. Webb, Vice Presi dent, in charge of the Home Office, Americus, Georgia Empire Loan & Trust Company Americus, Georgia 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 is? '* " r,t ,te P for permanent fl success i* to save. Why not WflEjrql.i» - let owr Savings Department b “ o{ service. We pay 4% Compound interest semi-an- Later on you will find this a wise move for in- Unwin dependence and happiness. Capital and Surplus $350,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $1,700,000 . Prompt, Conservative, Accommodating with real human interest. The story touches briefly on the World War with deepest heart appeal, the enactment of which will hold any audience spell-bouna. ? Subdivision at J! Laßelle, Fla. s|| We have one of the finest U subdivisions located at La I Belle; all platted and stak' d M 3H —ready for marie t. Laßelle K is one of the oe.-t bets in O ||a Flordia for making quick ■ M money. Some of the wealth- Eg M iest and mo.-t nationally H g| known men in this country ■ ■ are financially interested in Laß-lle and its future de ■■Sal velopment. If you are look- Sa ing for a real money niak- r. Hi H write or wire Ml Chas P. Smith, / 201 Krause Bldg. I Tampa, Fla. Phone 3266 I 3S Do not hesitate. The best positions are vacant now, wait- ? ing for the am- l(V~} ] LJ ; bitious girl to claim ■ _?! them after she has Fj pl prepared herself to fTi Ij| Prepare here for fS handle the duties E2 Ijj of the position. Succeai hj THE AMERICUS M M BUSINESS M LJ COLLEGE fcj - l|jji SEABOARD AIR LINE Central 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. Harness and Suitcases Repaired By N. R. HARRIS Expert Workman ALUMINUMWARE FREE T O CUSTOMERS. Phillips Champion Shoe and Harness Shop 111 E. Forsyth St
