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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER. THURSDAY.DECEMBER 31. 1906.
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A ncricos, t Ga-, Dec. 31, 1908.
OKS TEAR OF PROHIBITION
Tomorrow closes Georgia's first year
of r ohlbitlon. Has It been success
ful iu lessening the consumption of
intoxicating liquors. In decreasing
disorder, in diminishing crime, in im
proving the moral condition of the
people and promoting their material
Interests? These are the questions
that are being asked. Rev. Dr. Ains
worth. of Savannah, a probable fu
ture Bishop of the Methodist Church,
declares that they have been, that
many beneficial results have already
ensued and that more will come as
the people are educated to respect the
law and the officials are brought by
the pressure of a^trong public opin
ion to more rigidly enforce it.
Dr. Ainsworth, who has gone some
what exhaustively Into the subject,
has no doubt In his mind as to the
success of the law. In his address
treating of its operations thus far, he
Isold:
' Prohibition In Georgia has been
eminently a success. Of course one
year is too brief a time In which to
expect the complete reversion of the
habits of thousands and the demon
stration of complete efficiency In any
law, but gratifying progress In sob
riety has been made. Bane men will
potfder the following facts. They are
Instructive and convincing.
"Atlanta up to October 1, had 8,990
police arrests, against 15,086 for the
-same time last year. Of these, 1,598
were for drunk and disorderly, against
4,352 last year. Macon has had for
'the year 2,756, against 4,565 last year
’Of these 453 were for drunk and dis
orderly against over 1,500 last year.
.Brunswick has had 55 arrests in nine
months for drunkenness, as against
308 for the same months last year.
Columbus reports arrests having fal
len off over 60 per cent, with practi
cally no disorder and very little
drunkenness since prohibition went
Into effect. Americus reports a
Christmas unmarked by drunkenness
or casualty—not one arrest made for
drunkenness, against 60 last Christ
mas. Augusta reports nearly 100 per
cent decrease In arrests for drunken
ness, despite a lax enforcement and a
wet Carolina Just over the bridge.
Rome, Athens, Albany and Valdosta
make similarly striking reports. Near
ly every one of these cities, Including
Macon and Atlanta, report In official
figures greater building activity than
last year, despite both prohibition and
Abe panic.
"it is a fact that considerable
whisky Is shipped throughout the
state and used, but Commissioner of
Agriculture Thomas O. Hudson, him
self a practical fanner, asserts the
beneficial effect of prohibition oil
the negro farm labor of the state.
Prohibition Is driving hundreds of
negroes from the cities to the farms
and wherever I go, planters tell me
they have much better success "With
labor. Railroad conductors almost
everywhere testify to a decrease of
drunkenness and disorder, and ex
press agents In all the little towns
assert their records show less liquor
shipped than when It could bo order
ed nearer by.
"The brewers have made persistent
assault upon the law, and -have suc
ceeded In selliug a great deal of gen-
■ ulno beer along with the near bco-s
almost everywhere. The btstorv ol
the brewing business shows It to be
lawless everywhere. They are us
ually the last criminals under pro
hibition to be driven to submission.
Despite them the course of sobriety
has made incalculable gains, and ere
long the state will throttle those who
hold her statutes In contempt.
‘‘All the facts and figures show that
good laws help to make good men.
Gladstone said that the primary ob
ject of law was to make it easier to
do right and harder to do wrong, it
law does not restrain but only makes
the vicious more determined to in
dulge themselves then it is best to
repeal all law. This argument Is a
sophistry of those who hesitate not
to be in defense of a degraded cause.
Laws are a restraint, and a survey of
the facts shows the virtue of this law.
It Is In Georgia the harbinger of a
better dav.”
Was not the record of progress
presented in the Times-Recorder-yes
terday morning one to make every
citizen of Americus sit up and feel
a wave of enthusiasm run over his
frame.
Was it not a record for every citi
zen to be proud of?
Was It not a record that justified
his past hopes and re-created new
hopes for the future?
Was it not a record that he could
take a delight in spreading before
the world?
Americus is not hiding her light
under a bushel these days. She is
letting it shine out brilliantly that
all men may see and know what
she is doing. She has nothing to
be ashamed of, and much, so much,
to be proud of, so much that she
can take a pleasurable delight in
spreading before the world. She is
advertising the fact that she is alive,
\ that she is awake to her opportuni
ties, that she is ambitious, that she
not only has a fiast but a future, that
the progress she has made in the
past Is but an indication of what may
be expected here in the future.
The record of 1908 was magnlfl-
cient. It was a genuine pleasure
the Times-Recorder to compile and
present it. The record of 1909 can be
made even more brilliant. All that
Is necessary is for each and every
JUDGE SPEER FOR THE CABINET
one of us to get to work, to forget
personal animosities, if there are
any, to forget past differences, if
there have been any, to sink every
thing that mars or hinders pro
gress and weld ourselves together in
a hard working mass, seeking the
good of the entire city. Then 1909
will see a forward movement beside
which that of 1908 will pale Into
Insignificance.
The Times-Recorder Is here to do
Its part to the best of its ability.
Speaking from the wealth of ex
perience that an expert accumulates,
the Savanah Press remarks that
lot of good whisky has been spoiled
during the holiday weeks by putting
egg into It
Among recent Inventions Is a type
writer operated by compressed alr.
Hot air artists should find It a great
convenience.
The Standard Oil has keen ousted
from Missouri, together with itB affll
lated concerns. The company will
probably have to be "shown.”
The President's message In reply
to the Secret Service resolutions
Congress It Is announced will be
'calm, dignified and dispassionate.
If so a miracle has been performed in
the AVhlte House.
TO MAKE GEORGIA INDEPENDENT
The Federation of Labor has drop
ped Its "unfair list” until the Su
preme Court of the United States
-has finally passed npon the question
of the rights of labor organizations to
boycott In this way. In the mean
time an agitation will be started in
Congress for legislation in favor of
'- labor organisations. . ;; .
About the most important news item
we have seen recently appeared ’
the Macon Telegraph of Tuesday,
was the statement that in a large
part of Georgia the farmers are
planting more oats than ever before,
and that it is their purpose to raise
more grain than in the past and less
cotton.
If the Telegraph is well Informed,
and it is certainly to be hoped that in
this particulac instance it is, the
farmers hare taken the wisest step
they could possibly take. All that is
needed to make agriculture in Geor
gia absolutely Independent Is the
raising of more grains and meat pro
ducts, and less cotton. If our farm
ers would decrease their cotton acre
age by a third and put that third In
oats and corn they would. In all
probability, find themselves immeas-
ureably better off at the end of the
year. Those who have done so‘report
that such has been the case ' with
them, that, by raising grain and pork
they have been enabled to keep the
profits of their cotton at home in
stead of sending it west for .food
supplies for their farms.
Hay, corn, oats and cotton. That is
a quartet of products that ought
make any Georgia farmer independ
ent if he had a farm worth the having.
Cotton alone is apt to eventually put
him in the poor house with high, and
advancing, prices for the food stuffs he
is compelled to buy for his stock and
his hands. It would not take many
years of such a diversification of
crops to make Georgia indspendent of
the West, independent of the world In
a financial way. For that reason
such an item of news as that the
Telegraph chronicles baa on import
ance in its bearing on the future vast
ly more important than nine-tenths of
the Items that go to fill the pages of
a daily newspaper. May events prove
it true, and may it be a news item
that will repeat itself every year for
some years to come.
Georgia did not give Its electoral
vote to Judge Taft, but that Is
reason why a Georgian’s friends
should not aspire to place him In the
Cabinet. It Is generally understood
that'Judge Taft is friendly to the
South, that he would be pleased, poli
tical conditions permitting, to give it
representation in his cabinet as evi
dence to this section, and to the world
at large, that ills administration Is
not to' be dominated by a sectional
spirit, and under such conditions it
Is not at all Improper for Georgia to
express the wish that one of Its dis
tinguished sons be honored in such
way. At present the South ha3 a
representative in the Cabinet, Secre
tary Wright of Tennessee, but it Is
the impression, that ho will with
draw after a few months; Such being
ilia case, if the South is to be repre
sented, Georgia undoubtedly has firsf
claim for consideration. It is. the
most Influential, thft most progressive,
the most advanced, of all the South
ern States. It occupies a position
of preeminence in the eyes of the
general public, it is essentially Sou
thern in sentiment yet not a Bourbon,
and it is the one state above all others
that would appreciate an honor to
one of its sons as an honor to all of
its people.
In this connection the Augusta Her
ald mentions Judge Emory Speer, the
brilliant Judge of the United States
Court of tills District. The Herald
well says: “There could be no se
lection that would better typify the
Augustan era of American politick
under Judge Taft's administration than
the selection of such a man ns Judge
Speer for a cabinet place.”
In such a sentiment all Georgia
will concur. During a judicial expert
ence covering a quarter of a century
Judge Speer has demonstrated the
possession of the sterling qualities of
personal bravery, as instanced in the
noted land cases in Dodge county,
he has displayed the generous im
pulses of a warm hearted nature
his benign treatment of misguided
moonshiners, he has shown the acute
and highly trained mind of the law
yer in the disposition of intricate
cases that have come before his Court,
and he has convinced law breakers of
high degree of the absolute impar
tiality of Justice in his forum, as
the famous Green and.Gaynor case,
man of remarkable personal charms,
of powers of eloquence that have
entranced and, thrilled audiences
all sections, of broad culture that
makes him the choice companion of
scholars, as well as possessing
practical, comprehensive, common
sense mind that fits him for grappling
with the complicated problems
modern business life, he has that rare
combination of .powers, natural and
acquired, that would make him
ornament to any cabinet, a valuable
counsellor to any President, and
highly efficient head for any depart
ment. If President-elect Taft Is seek
lng a Southern man who has the men
tal equipment, and the other neces
sary endowments for a cabinet of
fice, he need not go out of Georgia,
nor need he go further than the Judge
of the Southern District Court, to
find the ideal man. As Secretary of
the Interior, for Instance, Judge Em
ory Speer would be a power for the
protection of the public interests,
terror to evil doers, a most efficient,
trustworthy official whose record
would reflect credit upon the admin
istration and upon the State from
which he hails. If the South is to be
honored let the honor fall to Georgia,
and if to Georgia then to Judge Speer.
A NEGLECTED GEORGIA FBUIT
in
Lawlessness unchecked breeds law
lessness,’’ says the Savanah Morn
ing Nqws In an editorial on lawbreak
ers in Tennessee. Does this apply
when it concerns open violation and
defiance of the prohibitory law?
Three children have been killed in
Atlanta by automobtllsts. It Is diffi
cult to make the average chaffeur
believe that he can't stop hts machine
Inside of ten feet until he has Injur
ed or killed some one.
President-elect Taft will be the
guest of Atlanta on January 15 and
16. He will find Atlanta one of the
most enterprising and progressive,
well as one of the most beauti
ful cities iu the land. But he must
not believe everything that Is told
to him while there. A liberal sup
ply of Balt will be iu order.
vrj/iodgs
igaziae
FOR JANUARY
will tell you something you
may not know about Farming,
Fires, Pearl Fishing, Pills,
Woman’s Invasion, Flying-
Machines, and Actors.
It will give you lots of good short
stories and beautiful pictures.
You’ll like it. Get one to-day.
JOOK FOB THE PATCHWORK COVER
HOLLIDAY'S BOOK STORE
Georgia apples took the second
prize at the Spokane, Wash., fair.
They were raised up in Rabun coun
ty, were large, rosy cheeked, firm
yet juicy, fine samples of what this
State can do In the production of
one of the most delicious, most
healthful, and most saleable fruits.
It has been shown many times in
the past that a large section of Nor
thern Georgia is adapted to apple
culture. Apples in recent years have
been very high In price, good New
York fruit bringing easily $4.50 to
$5.50 a barrel in the leading markets
of the country. Vast quantities of
American apples have been shipped
abroad, where they aro a, favorite
fruit, the home consumption of them
Is only limited by the offering sup
plies, and there Is every reason why
their cultivation should be encourag
ed In this or any other state where
climate conditions are favorable.
We recall. that on the old home
place of the next governor of Geor
gia, at Marietta, there are fine apple
trees in which Mr. Brown takes an
especial pleasure. These trees were
planted by him, have thrived and hear
large crops of fruit that is of fine
quality as well as of enticing ap
pearance. All that part of Georgia
Is said to be peculiarly adapted to
apple culture. Doubtless there are
considerable more apples raised In
Georgia than the public In general is
aware of, but there Is also no doubt
that the quantity marketed every
year is not a tithe of what it should
be.
Georgia neglects many opportunit
ies. No one questions that. North
Georgia is neglecting one in apple
culture, other sections are neglecting
other opportunities to diversify their
money making crops and increase
their wealth year by year. Sumter
county is neglecting its opportunities
as a dairy section. We could produce
os fine butter here as in the famous
Elgin district, but.we pay 35 cents
pound for New York or Western but
ter and refuse to take advantage
the opportunity nature has put at our
hand. So it is with other, parts
the State. Georgia is rich, but It
poor alongside of what it should
and it will remain poorer than
should be JuBt as long as it shuts the
door in its own face. As long as we
send hundreds of thousands of dol
lars away for apples, and butter, and
hams, and bacon, and beef, and hay,
and oats and corn, and content our
selves with raising cotton that may
bring ten cents a pound, and then
again may not bring over 8%, Just
that long we will continue to com
plain, to feel bitter against tho sue
cesssful elsewhere, and to abuse
system that robs us, as we think, for
the benefit of others. As a matter
fact we are robbing ourselves. The
other fellows are simply profiting by
our determination not to seize the
opportunities that lie all around us
Joyner’s Big Rug Sale
We are offering a delayed shipment of
beautiful rugs at cost. They were ord
ered for the holiday trade, but just came
in this week. Now is your time to get
handsome new rugs at cost.
32.00 Shackelford Jute Smyrna
Rugs, 31 x 60 In., now 98c.
33.00 Shackelford Jute Smyrna
Rugs, 36 X 72, now ,11.75
32.00 Smith's Best Axminister
Rugs, 18 x 36, now 31.00
33.50 Smith's Saxony Axminister,
27 x 54 in., now .. .. ..
11.95
$6.00 Smith’s Best
Rugs, 36 x 72, now ..
Axminister
$3.00
33.00 National All-Wool Smyrna
Rugs, 30 x 60 Inches, now ,, ,, 31 75
34.00 National All-Wool
Rugs, 36.x 72 Inches, now
Smyrna
- ..32.50
Great assortment of beautiful floral, animal
and oriental designs.
Come quick and get your choice. See big
window display.
We are like the Hindoo In the old
story who went far away hunting for
diamonds while acres of the precldus
stones lay right In front of his own
house.
HOW
BOARD OF TRADE HELPS
FARMERS.
A large feather belongs to the cap
of the Board of Trade for its effective
work in securing the withdrawal of
an announced raise in fertilizer rates
for Americus purchasers. In fact, the
companies had promulgated a tariff
for Americus which was In excess of
tha'l of former years, and this would
no doubt have stood except , for the
prompt and vigorous efforts of the
Board of Trade.
Without going into the merits of
the case, it is sufficient to say that the
fertilizer companies had decided
withdraw the favorable rates which
Americus had enjoyed, and place this
city in another class, which would
have meant an Increase In price to the
consumer of more than 310,000 for a
single season.
In the fight for a return to the old
basts, the Board of Trade, through
President Allen, enlisted the aid of
Hon. T. G. Hudson, and with letters
from here and personal work by Col
Hudson the desired end was achieved.
ThU Is perhaps the best piece of
work for the farmers of Sumter coun
ty which the Board of Trade has ac
complished. Had not the organization
taken up the matterthere Is no reas
on to believe that the companies, un
der any other pressure which was
probable, would have restored the
rate.
Not only does the Board of Trade
render material service to every In
dustry In Americus, but the entire
county Is also Its field. It will be im
possible for the farmers to refuse to
come Into the organization on the
ground that It does him no good. Not
a buyer of fertilizer who draws his
supplies from Americus who has not
received very material benefits al
ready from the good work of the
Board of Trade. And whenever a
danger threatens the farmer, as well
as the manufacturer, the Board of
Trade will be the most effective weap
on to remedy the trouble.
W. A. JOYNER.
Americus, Ga
114-116-118 Cotton Ave.
COUNTY
NEWS ITEMS
(Continued from page 1.)
SMlfHVILLE
Ala., spent Sunday and Monday here
with friends.
Mrs. Malcomb Snellgrove is the
pretty guest of Mr. and Mrs. J, D.
Snellgrove for a few days.
Miss Lydia Cochran of Montezuma,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Julian
Glaze.
Mra. and Mrs. ‘j. G. Puritt and
little sons, returned from Atlanta
Monday afternoon after a delightful
visit to Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Rey-
bold.
15th District.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
Miss Marilu Young and Willie
Rooks, from Myrtle Springs, is
spending Christmas with friends and
relatives near Leslie.
Mr. Willie Halstead and V. R.
TAFT CONDEMNS PROPOSED LAW
That Looked to Negro Disfranchise
ment.
Baltimore, Md.. Dec. 2D.-A speech
made in New York some time ago bv
President-elect Taft having been con
strued by many persons In Maryland
as Indicating Mr. Taft’s approval of
disfranchising negro voters in the
Southern states, Collector of Customs
Stone of this city, recently wrote Mr.
Taft on the subject of a proposed
amendment to the constitution of
Maryland, which Is to be submitted
to the voters at the next election, and
which is popularly known as the dis
franchising amendment Mr. Stone to
day received permission to make
public Mr. Taft's reply, which discus
ses the peculiar provision of the pro
posed amendment In detail and con
cludes: ,
"The whole law ought to be con
demned. It Is not drawn in the spirit
of justice and equality having re
gard for the Fourteenth and Fif
teenth Amendments, and I sincerely
hope that no Republican and no Dem
ocrat who desires equality of treat
ment to the black and white races
will vote for It..”
I.000.POUND WEDDING CAKE
Intended for Miss Elkins, It Will
Now Go'to the Chicago Bride.
_ . , . ... Chicago, Dec. 29.—A gigantic cake,
Rooks Is spending a few days with twelve feet high and weighing almost
friends near here. ' 1,000 pounds, originally intended to
Miss Annie Belle Carter, residing t) c a wedding gift- and Christmas
near Mvrtle Snrlmm is snondino- present combined for Miss Katherine
near Myrtle Springs, Is spending Blklng and Ule Duke of ^ AbruuIi
is to be given tol the most beautiful
Christmas with relatives.
Miss Ethel Murphy and sister aro
spending CbriBtmas with Miss Es
telle and Eunice Young.
Italian girl wedded in Chicago before
Jan. 1,
The cake was made by Signor Mo-
Miss Pearl Dell spent several days ^s oYfhl’Abrozz| B esU t tea , J^ f“?
during Christmas in Leslie with her, month were consumed in its manufac-
sister, Mrs. Laura Bass. ture. It consists of almost every in-
Misses Mabel, Mervin and Zola * redlent U8ed 1“ fancy pastry, and at
n»ii 1... lbe fnP •* the model of a steed done
Dell returned from Cuthbert last wlth an ordinary kitchen knife, Its
week, where they have been attend- foundation being merely sugar and
lng school. They will leave in a eggs,
few days to enter school again.
Mr. Crawford Arrington is spend
ing a few days with Masters Cleave
and Albert Derlso.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry 'Williams of,
The Political “Bread Line.”
Not Morse Henris’ Mon on Horseback
Leslie, spent Christmas day with Blrm)ngham ^.Herald.)
Mr. and Mrs. Cannon Stanford, near 1 Governor-elect Hannon, of Ohio,
Huntington. proposes to Inaugurate a revolution
Mr. Sam Terry from DeSoto is by riding on horseback in the parade
spending a few days with relatives ,ormed to make him Governor,
near Leslie this week.
The Christmas tree at Howe A
School House last Thursday night
was very much appreciated by all.
Mr. Lee Bradley and Murj^y and
Duncan Bass spent Sunday afternoon
very pleasantly with friends near
Leslie.
Even John Has His Limitations
Richmond Tlmes-Dlspatch.)
We respectfully suggest to Con
gress that John Abernathy, who cat
ches ’em alive In his bare hands
Chicago News.
Isn’t it queer that a man never
shows his temper until after be has
lost It?
The Bedouin’s Bed.
At the medical mission at Haifa
Palestice, a number of patients aro
received during the year from very
desolate parts of Asia An anecodote
is related concerning a Bedoula »»
had never been inside a house wita
windows and had never seen a dm
stead. He wanted to sleep under tie
bed, fearing to fall off it if be tr
to sleep on It, saying, ‘T can*
and yanks their heads off, might be a, awake all night holding on to jW*
good man to put on the committee bank; besides. It will not keep ai
which goes to rebuke the President It waa a spring matress.
Honored by Women
t When a woman speaks ol her
? silent see ret suffering she
traits you.% Millions have be
stowed this mark of confi
dence on Dr. R. V. Pierce,
oi Buffalo, N. Y. Every
where there are women who
bear witness to the wonder
working, curing-power oi Dr.
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
—which saves the tufferint sex
from pain, and successfully
grapples with woman’s weak
nesses and stubborn tits.
IT MAKES WEAK WOKEN STRONO
IT HAKES SICK WOMEN JVELU
No woman’s appeal was ever misdirected °r
fidence misplaced when she wrote lor «£v 'p r< /
the World’s DisrBNSAav Mbdical Amociatio ,
R. V. Pierce, President, Buffalo, N. Y.
Dr. Pltrct’s Plexsxat Pellets Induce mild nsturst kaurtl movement •<«* * —■