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THE AMERICUS
CE SIX.
I THE AMERICUS TlMES-RECORDEK
ESTABLISHED 1879
Thanksgiving Day Sermon
BY THE REV. JAMES I. VANCE.
p WM S. KIRKPATRfCK, Editor; LOVELACE EVE, Business Manager. A» we gather to give thanks to | commercial opportunity perhaps in
' ■ —————— — 1 Cod for His mercies, thcworld faces I its hitsory. Today we are wonder-
perhaps the gravest crisis in human i ing if there, is to be a panic Worst
history. The news reaching us from | of all is the insidious effort making
Published by THE TIMES-11MC0RDER CO., (Inc.) Arthur Lucas,
sident; Lovelace Eve. Secretary; W. S. Kirkpatrick, Treasurer.
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_ l Commission of Georgia for Third Congressional District, U. S. Court,
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countries overseas is far from
factory. Victory is not being Used
in an altruistic
w_ a y. Industrial
stagnation has set-
led like a pall over
Germany. Austria,
squeezed - into a
small sterile patch
of her former vast
domain, i a threat
ened with starva
tion.
The Balkans are
volcanic with un
rest. Russia hasr
been wading
through hell. Great
Britain and France
are rocked with la-
The Eeast, near and
on, nursing wrongs it is
edress, and reaching lust-
white man's seat of world
to destroy organized government,
and Bolshevists arc not the only sin-
nnra Much cheap thinking is be-
* n ,K indulged in today in the name
of Democracy.
We need a revival of constitutional
government in the hearts of the peo-
nlp If fVln fikanLtn
pie. If the chaotic condition over
seas can stir us to a sense of this
need it will ’not be altogether in vain
that the aftermath of the war has
been so pathetically disappointing.
Rill this ftlncran "RunV tn R„
A REAL THANKSGIVING
•TOMORROW is Thanksgiving Day
- Yea, whoever you are, you have a real reason to be thankful this
If you are a profiteer—be thankful your body hasn t shrivelled
up and blown away, like your soul.
If you are a politician, successful Nov. 2 or otherwise—be
thankful God doesn't blast liars as he is reported to have done in
01<l l“youTe anTnstigator of class hatred, as a brow-beater of hon- luMThrM-
cst labor—be thankful American workers are sane, level-neaded, i e( j w {th chaos. Production has been
alow to hot resentment. . ... |diminshed, sending thc^ost oMivIJj
Here in America, the one land with
a full locker and a strong arm, there
hag been a strange slowness to ex
tend a helping hand. The nation
which two years ago was aflame with
the altruistic spirit which has become
cautious and self-^refill. It whs
been a year of profiteering. Not
satisfied with just profits and a fair
wage, men have been out for all they
can get, regardless of the rights of
others. The aftermath of the World
War has been a pandemonium of
1 IT im . ag in *2 b , ay k°r "" Selt ' ed any * hing_be ‘ hank ' tlflett "toidf'demand "for ht lXr
ful the deluge is delayed, slightly .. ... ..... i prices. .r
If you agree with Browning that all s right with the world be Following thy signing .of the ar-
I thankful there are not enough aayluma to hold ail the morons. j mistice, America faced (the biggest
If you are a liberal-minded, oul-spoken American who still be-
1 lieves in an dpractices the Declaration of Independence and the Con-‘
I stitution of the United States—be thankful you are alive and out of
jail, if you arc!
And whoever you are, high or low, rich or poor, privileged or
I exploited—be thankful that you live in the United States, a country.
1 far from perfect, but the best place in the world to live, after all; j
M your homeland to help make better, till it actually realizes the ideals
[J of liberty and human happiness written boldly in its fundamental
i 1 charter. „ _ _
But this slogan, “Back to the Re
public," is not enough. The evils
which have come are curses which
trail in the wake at godlessness. In
the scramble for gain and the riot
of greed, God and Hia law are for
gotten. Religion has been ridiculed
and caricatured and prescribed. Some
have even proposed to repeal God.
Meanwhile only religion caiv save
the world. If a race war more
bloody and terrible than any that
has preceded is to be averted, the I
races must practice the Golden Rule,
and men must learn that love ia bet-!
ter than hate.
If capital and labor are to lay'
down their arms againsfeach other, t
if they are to recognise and respect!
the needs and rights of the public. I
if they to obey the law and standi
loyally by the government they are !
sworn to support, they must-listen
to God. They must cultivate good ,
will. They must remember that j
since God Is our Father, all we are j
brothers.
If Thanksgiving is to strike the!
right note in the life of the nation!
today, it must call us to our knees,
in penitence and prayer. God Is not.
dead, and the nation that serve |
and honor him may face the future i
\yithout tear. . ,
(Copijrtgfrt 1920. by Tls£lfcu^>apcrEnkrpri«iA38ocalioq)
THE BOOK OF DEBORAH.
. . . , u~V SI 1 Dove Is Forever Singing ia the Hearts
MMIJSSBUD: Q f c . rli and , h# Mjn(U o( M(m
... .... ... , . „ . j “Come with tho car at two. We’ll
i MARTIN V. CALVIN, of Marietta, statistician for the Georgia De-| let Ann drive. Then we can talk.”
i "* partment of Agriculture, is one of Georgia’s moat interesting ; So Deb had planned before she went
thinkers. Mr. Calvin^although well advanced in years, ia a veritable! 'SZSg'&fii
■ ' 7— . r' • j/~* • it • v vuuiuu cciviuuiiy. xuriung
gold mine of information regarding Georgia and Georgia affairs. j to my own dressing table, I discover-
What he cannot show in figures about Georgia is not worth show-j ed the words of Mistress Ann's orig-
* ■ inal son. “You Can’t Live in Love
mg.
kt.. • Unlike many an expert who deals in masses and column.) of fig-i
j urea, Mr. Calvin possesses a refreshingly active intellect that is able; poet; » Mid myse lf ^Syself as* I
to translate figures into thoughts, and is usually a bit ahead of thei glanced over her copy, “but there's
procession in his thinking. Here is a sample of Mr. Calvin’s ex-j some sense in her‘song.’ And it's an
Town All the Time.”
years and old for decades. Measured
so, Ann would be worn out by erotic-
0f mental and *“> when her hour ot beauty was
a *. A iA J? 0 ?®* and exhausted like a dope fiend
infinite possibilities, would be a bene
ficial substitute for romance. If peo
ple realized the thrilling possibilities
of chemstry or engineering they could
derive the same mental stimulation
which romance, based on ignorance,
them now.
“The romance of reality would in
toxicate them pleasantly and spur
them to - *-al achievement of social
value.
“The romance of reality would be
based on truth.”
And most of the irregular romances
The Time,”I hummed as I prepared
to join Deborah.
(To Be Continued.)
DRECO
preMion that should go home to every lover of Georgia and Ceor-|°M , nr X h ’ITOTUc 0 ”u be th?tch!ld Or " hich men l nd women tty to live,'the |
gia people, to every person who wishes to tee more comforts of life' c |^ much t wise!”’ " ° r ' f°“«nee« of trespassers who destroy
on the farms of the South: -Life must have its sober mo- h ?™", Wh . ich °”* ht to bc h«PPy..»nd
* * * i merits.” ran the first line of the cho-
A PRESUMPTION based on the high prices of farm products' ™*-. T be S0 "F w *“ designed for
J' during the world war is that the farmers of Georgia, with pock-! Wives! who often have 'to'endure ood-
etbooks and purses full to bursting are in better financial condition i lea o' public guying not very cleverly
than they have ever been. Following up this presumption, there: disguised as joking. Ann’s little song
are those who charge that the farmers have been inconsiderably ex- !. V . a .7 a _ T™ cd , to . wb .°. think they
iftravagant; that they have invested heavily, meaning excessively, in
automobiles and many other like machines.
T ‘Ter from it The farmers have not been extravagant. In
• purchasing automobiles they have been doing the right thing by the
j members of their families and themselves. I wish I could say that
fan overwhelming majority of Georgia farmers had bought motor
•cars, for in the hands of farmers, possessed of a mechanical turn
of mind, motor cars can be made to contribute not only to the pleas
ure of the members of the families concerned, but to the practice of
; fnany economies on the farm. The machines can be put to work
in various ways profitable to the owners.
have a natural right to abide in Love
Town All of the Time, and finding
themselves unable to do so. blame
their wives instead of themselve:
unset business career., are based on
pretension, deceit and lies. The ro
mantic adventures tool themselves.
Thia theory, of course, is utterly
nbhorrent to the over-stimulated and
romantically drunk.
Ann's song seemed to me like the
flickerof a little red lantern of warn
ing. Ann was qualified to write such
“sonir. I told myself. She was a
vivid -vampU of uncontrolled erotic
ism, as Deb was of temperate and
how deeply modern eroticism per
meates dailv life. The love motif is
forever fin-mg in the hearts of girls
and is forever ringing in the minds
of men..
Even normally nice persons are
never "emitted to forget it It is
fostered by the stage, the movies and
the nrinted word, and in every plane
ii it h - < w here and '••omen mingle, socially
' jfllN hope that every auto-loving farmer has indulged in. another; ^Everybodv*^
m: form of extravagance; that isYenovating and painting his modest
home inside and out; adding the marvelous comfort of running wa-
Hfer in every room in the home, adding some nice looking furniture
;\for sitting room, dining room, etc.; installing a system of up-to-date
flights, etc.—each and all of which can be had at comparatively
ifxmall cost and will add to the attractiveness and the real comfort of
%the home to an extent to which no reasonable person could object
indeed, such person should have any right to object.”
Ann’s verses set me to thinking of! controlled love. ,
Human beings are young for a few
. P* takes more than the turkey to make the Thanksgiving dinner.
■|And one of the necessary adjuncts that pops into the mind of the
g 'louiiewife when she thinks of turkey in connection with that formal
l^telebration is the cranberry.
K lb** «<!“' little fruit. And just as American in everything as — 1 !. demn « , .. b y one of the clev-
T he Indian himself. Native to the swamps and bogs of Newfound-
c , ™ 1 ? ranges even so far west as Wisconsin and to the south down
•u tv r .° 11,8,1 “ ut wbatever it" source, it certainly adds zest
the Inanksgiving dinner.
For a long time the cranberry got little recognition. It was al-
red to growits mossy home and at times was harvested in a hap-
•ard way. Then about 1810, its domestication started. It was im-
>ved both in flavor and size, and the good qualities have been
elt upon, and the berry ’ itsalf has so advrrti.»l it. ,1
, e berry itsalf has so advertised its virtues that
Tl mo r. e . cranbe rry campaigns have actually been launched and
p no little success.
■ *TCj C American people now dispose of over fifty million quarts
Hcranbemes * ?_ .1 . •
X Ljjj ° » ea n and , ma,n, y in ^ at very short season known
cranberty is going to be an all-season
V?
p so far as its consumption is concerned, for"ways have been p"«"
ed whereby evaporated cranberries, malrincr :r C—k
i eva P ora ted cranberries, making sauce a. if fresh
the vine, have already been placed upon the market,
t 3 j°° n . lo •’“'••'•wives, like canned corn on the cob
is. when offered as is possible at the Thanksgiving dinner table.
I™ , ha u e be ?. n . plac , ed in the Milwaukee public
One might label them elixir relics, or relixirs for short.
,bobll d rm,n a wi S ’ !t 1” . Wi " marrV aBain - Thi » it »
ibably a man who eats custard pie, instead of throwing it.
the Shipping Board paid $161 for a hinge, as is charged
a one ought to swing for it. 8 ’
% Syracuse professor caught a glimpse of heaven after an auto
gyba upsetting the theory of thousand, of pedestrians who
careless motorists were headed tbe other way
BiSk
Everybody wants to be romantic all
of the time. Thus over-stimulated
men and women refuse to be patient
with actualities and reality.
Men like the rouge on naturally
pale faces.
Whenever a man and *a girl are
alone together, married or single,
their conversation turns to the erotic
and thus the ordinary talk about
wholesome subjects bores both and
becomes impossible.
the sober college psycholo
gists have come to recognize as an
evil, the over-stimulated stage of the
nv- : mnndnntion. Romance which
trv to live all of the time has
crest writera of the day as n “poison
in human life.”
“Romance is unethical.” writes An-
dro Tridon. “By covering the abyss
with flojvers bv refusing to place red
lights on obstructions a t night, it
The famous root and
herbal remedy for
sluggish Gver, bili
ousness, indiges
tion. rheumatism;
constipation and
sick headaches.
RAILROAD SCHEDULES
. . , (Central Time.)
Arrival and Departure of Pauoagar
Trains, Americas, Cju
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
guaranteed:
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
Arrive Leaves
11 :S9 am Columbus-Chgo 8:40 am
10:28 um Albany-Montgy 6:14 am
7:35 pm Macon-Atlanta
*7:15 pm Columbua
2:01 pm Albany-Montgy
2:20 pm Macon-Atlanta
*11:45 am Columbaa
!10:00ar, Columbus
6:37 am Albany .
5:Ham Macon-AtlanU 10:38 pm
3:40 am AlbanyJaxville 11:69 pm
2:58 am A Ibany-Jaxvilie 12:36 am
. A'bany-Jnxvill* 4:2: am
f 12:36 am Chgo, St. L Atla f2:B8
f 4:21 am Cinti, Atl-Macon 12:13 am
(..) Daily; (!) Sunday; (f) Flag
•top.
6:37 am
•7:10 am
2:20 pm
2K)1 pm
•2:30 pm
13.00 pm
7:36 pm
SF.AHOaRD AIK LINE
'-ric. Leave
’ n -5n pm Cordele-Rnvanr..': 1:20am
B:lSpm Richland 10:00 am
t-10 pm Ccrde1,..S»u,op, JJ;3 pr .
12:31pm Richland-Montgy 3:10p
Winter Cabbage Plants
Set out now will head in February and
March. , Good season NOW and you
should put them out. «
We have the Wakefield’s, Flat Dutch and
Succession: all GOOD, STRONG, well-
rooted plants.
Price 35c Per 100; or 300 For $1.00.
Special Prices in Larger Quantities.
Phone 502. We Make 3 Deliveries
Daily.
Planters Seed Co.
Forsyth St. Next to Dudley’*
MONEY 6°| 0
MONEY LOANED £
paying part or all of principle at any intact pariod, .topping la-
*•*** -r- -yril -
tanat on amnnnt, aid. W, alwaya hava bat aataa i
tarma and air. qnlekeat ..rrlca, S aT a money by aooiag or writing ai.
G. R. ELLIS or G. C. WEBB.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
SEE JME AT ONCE.
I have some very good customers who want to buy small farms in Sumter
•ounty. If you want to sell, see me at once and list your farm with me.
Do you want to rent a good farm ? If bo, I have same
Don’t you want to live in your own home, and stop paying lent? 1
can sell you one and let you pay for same like rent. Come and talk it ow.
I have & Stood list of farms and houses that I can sell right and frlve
good terms. Call and see me at once, as I can save you money on anyudns
you want to buy and can sell anything that you want to sell.
KING STILLMAN.
Alliaon Building. Amricu, (in.
COMMERCIAL
CITY BANK
i
CRAWFORD WHEATLEY
SAMUEL HARRISON
The bank where sunshine and cor
diality has supplanted the snow
of indifference, where the spirit of
informality reaches a pleasing
zenith, and where interest in our
fellowman is always above nar.
President
Cashier
L. G. COUNCIL. President
C. M. COUNCIL. V.-P. A Cashier.
T. E. BOLTON, Aaat. Cashier
JOE M. BRYAN. Asst. Cashier
(Incorporated.)
THE Planters Bank 0F Americus
The Bank With a Surplus.
’ Resources Over $1,700,000
If you will deposit II.OO
rer week in our Savings De
railment for ten years w,
will pay you back 13.200.00.
The world looks different to
the man with money in th«
bank. Try it and eee. Your
intentions may be good, bui
to succeed you most save
PROMPT. CONSERVATIVE. ACCOMMODATING
No Account Too Large; None Too Small.
THANKSGIVING
We ore thankful to our friends for
the opportunity given us to be of
ginuine helpfulness to those who
make this community th-ir home; for
the loyalty of those we serve, and
the increasing prosperity of this bank
and its customers.
Bank of Commerce
OFFICERS AND DIRECTOR*!
FRANK SHEFFIELD, President
JOHN SHEFFIELD, Vice-President
LEE HUDSON, Cashier.
C. R. CRISP.
We Are Now Prepared To Take On Some Realty Business. If You Hava Any
CITY PROPERTY OR FARM PROPERTY
For Sale list it with us. We promise to get in behind it actirely, and give
you service.
ALLISON
123-124 Lamar Street
REALTY
Ground Floor
COMPANY
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