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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02
TY COBB IS
SOLD TO N. !.
AMERICANS
n REPORT NEXT YEAR
The Georgia Peach Brings
$4,000 in Sale

New York, Sept. 1.-Ty Cobo, the
great outfelder of the Detroit Tigers
NV tbe Detroit club to the New York
Yankees next season.
The Georgia Peach" has been sold
hv the Detroit club to then we York
o,,,b for the largest amount ever paid
for a baseball player-$4O,OOO.
The announcement of the sale viii
not be made officially until after the
nresent season is over but the news
of the sale has leaked out through "a
stakeholder of the Detroit club. The
latter declined to have his name used
at this time.
Clark Griffith, manager of the, Sem
ators, got wind of the negotiations
between the New York and Detroit
clubs and offered 100000 for the
great player. He was willing to bid
higher, if necessary, but he was too
late, as the deal had been consufn-
mated.
Griffith was politely ordered by Ban
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02
Dissolution Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the firm
of G. o. Loving & Co., heretofore Ell
gagged in the livery business in the city
of Americas, Ca, is this day dissolved
by mutual consent, G. o. Loving re-
firing therefrom. The business will
be conducted at the same place by ]. J.
Hanesley, who will settle certain f.
nancial liabilities and receipt for all
debts due the firm.
This 22nd day of Aug 1913.
G. o. LOVING.
J. ]. HANEsLEY,
advt-23-1ot
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02
BROWNSVILLE TAKES THE Third
GAME IN CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
Cheney Pitches Winning Ball and Townsville Wins 5 to
2...VddOStd Uses Two Pitchers. chambers and
Hurley Pull Off Sensational PIay.Large Crowd Sees
GamG-,.Ihey Play in ThOmdSviIe This Afternoon
(By Dick Utter,)

Valdosta, Ca, Sept. 1.-(SpeciaD =
.Thomasville came back strong this af-
ternoon and took the game from Val
dosta to 2. 1t was a hard fought
game, every inch being stubbornly con-
tested.
Cheney who was knocked out of tho
box in Fridays game was master to,
day, especially in the pincnes. Vaughn
for Valdosta, weakened in the seventh
and after walking two and giving uo
two hits was relieved by cellars, wha
forced in run. Two more were chalk
ed up against cellars, one in the eighth
and one in the ninth. Up until the sixIh
Vaughn pitched shut-out ball.
One of the best plays ever pulled
off here was made in the second by the
locals with runners on third and Sec
ond, and one down. Chambers at third
pulled down hot one, threw to Hurley
lat first, Hurley whipping the ball t.
Van, and catching the runner who was
on third at the plate Chambers catch
of a line drive over third was feature
The wins and losses now stand Va
dosta 2, Thomasville /. The teams play
the fourth game of the series in Thorn.
asvilIe tomorrow.
One of the largest crowds of the sea
son saw the game, special trains
bringing in large crowds from the
surrounding towns.
The box score follows:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02
DEAN OF millinery
is GIVEN LOVING CUP
Mrs. N. 7. Elan is Oldest
Active Milliner In World

The Atlanta Journal pays a glowing
tribute to an Americas woman in its
edition Of last Sunday Under the
head oldest Active Milliner in World
Pays Atlanta Visit" they ran a story
about Mrs. N. T. Elan, together with
a picture of her with a large ST.
yer loving cup that was presented to
her by five of the largest millinery
companies. The cup was presented ner
in celebration of her 100 opening.
Here is the article as it appeared in
the Atlanta paper:
Among the thousands of buyers who
have visited Atlanta's wholesale mar
ket this season none constitute so in
teresting a personality as Mrs. M. +
Elan, of Americas, Ga.
In the millinery world Mrs. Elan j.
name is a household word She is
known north as we'll as south, for she
is the oldest active millinery in the
world, and the dean Of the millinery
craft in the United States.
She was in Atlanta last week on her
regular buying trip and bought gene
ously of the seasons offerings at the
| Ernest l.. Rhodes company, where sh .
is always a welcome and honored Wis
itor.
Mrs Elan is now In her eighty-fift9
year but she is still the vigorous, sue
cessful business woman. On the &C.
casion of her Tooth millinery opening
last year she was presented with the
handsome silver loving cup, shown n
the picture, by five of the largest mill
linery houses in the United States.
James G. Johnson & Co., of New York .
John Miles & company, of New York
Armstron Gator company, of Baltimore !;
Dowell Helm company, of Baltimore
and the Ernest L Rhodes company, of
Atlanta.
1t is a common saying among millin
cry people that Mrs Elan is a mascot.
She brings good luck to every one
she patronizes. There never has been
millinery house which enjoyed her
trade and did not finally turn out sue
cessful and prosperous.
She has made hundreds of trips t.
New York, Baltimore and Atlanta Her
visit to Atlanta is always an event.
She receives the homage due her sterl-
ing qualities, and her long and useful
career. When she comes she is Civ
en- a royal welcome and when she
departs she goes with godspeed Of
good wishes from all her friends and
with another welcome already planned
fer her return next season. "a
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02
FACTS, FIGURESAND FABLES FOR FANS
(BY QUIMBY MELTON.)

The Brunswick News takes issue
with the Townsville Times Enter
prise as to it's pick of an all-star En-
pire team. The dope artist of the Pr
lot paper proceeds to correct the pick,
He has the following to say about the
matter:
ut will be noted that nine of the
men selected are members of the
Thomasville club, which shows the
sport writer of The Times Enterprise
is somewhat blind to the good quail
ties of the players of the other clubs,
For instance, he picks pitchers,
Cheney, Winges. Day, Roth and Will
der-a pretty good selection at that.
But wouldn't Cheney, Clark, Hartner,
Wilder and Stewart make an i'm
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02

provement on the selection of thls
scribe. We agree on Davenport at
first and Jordan at second, as well as
Murphy at short, but Bowen OF
Americas, is a better hitter and a
better infelder than Champlin ut
third. For the outfeld he selects
Wagnon, VanLandingham and Fen
ton. Very good, but easily improved
up with VanLandingham Chancey and
Seigfried. In the catching staff he
selects Dudley and Eubanks pretty
good pair of receivers, but Manchester
has it on Dudley in every way, except
probably experience. Anyway, such a
club as outlined above could make It
more than interesting for many class
c aggregations."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02

Where's what's-his-name the lead
ing romantic actor of his day."
"Kean, Kemble? Why, he's filming at
a thousand week"
And where's Patty Lind, the marvel
Gus young soprano?"
She's carbareting at two hundred .
night. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02
SEVEN LEAGUES
CLOSE SEASONS

Seven baseball leagues will bring
their seasons to close this afternoon
with doubIe-headers.
Here is the list:
South Atlantic Appalachian, Canad-
ian, Central, Kitty, Michigan State
and Northern.
There are several other leagues that
close their season with the end of the
present week.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02
KALEM presents
"The Sneak"

A powerful dramatic story
featuring Alice Joyce and
Mr.. Thomas Moore
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02

Some men can climb into a police
patrol with the utmost sang froid and
in an authoritative tone say to thu driv-
er, Home, James,"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02

Many a heart onld break we're it not
for hope.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02

Johnson, president of the American
league, to say nothing about COBB
going to New York, and as a result
little was heard from the Washington
manager after ne made his offer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02
ODE A
VI Ina
fl0US
TODAY
TUESDAY
SEPT. End
Admission 5 and 10c

Remember today is Candy
Day. 800 to 900 p. m.
Every child, white or
black, get a nice box of can
DIV today. Candy will be
given only with SC tickets.
Send the kids and see what
a time they can have on a
nickle.
The program was never
better
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02

Summary-Two base hits Murch ~,
Chambers, Schwartz; stolen bases,
Hawkins, (2), Vaughn, Cheney, Muir
ply, Schwartz; double plays, Chembars
to Hurley to VanLandingham; base on
walls, by Vaughn 2, by Cellars 8, by
Cheney 6; sacrifice hits, Champlain
Walker, Barnett (2); hit by pitched
ball, Wagnon; hits off Vaughn, in
6 23 innings, of cellars, in 8 rs In
nings; struck out, by Vaughn 3, BY
cellars /, by Cheney 5; wild pitches,
Vaughn.
Time of game 2:14. Umpires, Der
rick and Fender.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02

Willie-Pa, when has man horse
sense?
Pa-When he can say Nay" my
son.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02
some DANCES
in new YORK

Up in New York they believe in the
new tangled dances. At a recent So
cial affair in the big village, they
danced any and everything. The fol-
lowing dance card given each young
lady by her escort:
Ordar nf Dancinp
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-02
| Direct From the Diamonds f;

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Southern League.
Morning game: Atlanta 6, Ne v
Orleans 0.
Afternoon game: Atlanta 4, New
Orleans 8.
First game: Nashville 3, Memphis
/.
Second game: Nashville 10, Mem
phis 8.
Birmingham 3, Montgomery 2.
Chattanooga 6, Mobile 3.
South Atlantic League.
Savannah 6, Charleston 0.
Jacksonville 8, Macon l.
Columbus Albany Z.
National League.
First game: St. Louis /, Chicago z.
Second game: St. Louis 0, Chicago
0.
New York 2 Boston l.
Brooklyn 2, Philadelphia 3.
Pittsburg Cincinnati /.
American League.
Philadelphia g. Washington 5.
Boston 4, New York 8.
Cleveland Z, Chicago 0.
First game: Detroit 10, st. Louis o.
Second game; Detroit 5, St Louis 3
------------------------------
Many heart onld break were it not
for hope.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27
Continued on fiftb page.


He was promoted to the rank OF lieu
tenant general in October, 1862 While
recommending on Pine Mountain. near
Marietta, Ga, he was killed by an cannon
ball, June Il. 1854.
The father of the subject of this ske'ch
is DR.. William Mecklenburg Polk, Dean
of the Medical School Of Cornell IniFer-
sty and president Of the Academy oil
Medicine A distant connection was
President of the United States
Mr.. Polk studied at Cutters School ana
Groton, and was graduated at Yale class
of "a. and from the Columbia Law Schooi
in 1897. While at Yale he was substitute
back on the varsity football team ana
rowed four years with the class crew.
During Yale Harvard football game
i'm Mr.. Folks freshman year, wnen the
game seemed cinched by Harvard. the
future nemesis of all amateur ana chron-
ic smugglers arriving at this port, walked
I'D and down on the side line, and, his
soul stirred to its uttermost depths'
prayed. "Oh God, give us more time
This may have something TO do win
his being tapped for Scroll and Keys
Since 1891 he has practised law in Ne"
York, with the exception of short TIME
during the Spanish War, when he serVeu
in Porto Rico as a member OF Troop
and as assistant quartermaster on the
staff OF General Ernst. He came back
from the war feeling better than he ana
when he went away.
Mayor Mcclellan also appointed MI
Polk to the School Board. When his
term expired, Mayor Gaynor did not re-
appoint him, although Mr. Gaynor Is
sticker for efficiency. as his admlnlstrd-
ton of the Police Department has amply
demonstrated
Mr.. Folks record as a member oil the
Board of Education was that OF quiet
level-headed but Woodworking, enerser
ic and studious man. He was on the hish
school committee, bylaws committee
committee on the care Of buildings, etc
He took all these things seriously.
drunken, or otherwise incompetent JAM
tor got short shrift. Mr.. Polk ala not oe-
lieve i'm jury trials for drunken Janito'S.
He visited the schools, became acquaih'eu
with the teachers and studied their needs
All members Of the Board OF Education
do not have time to visit the schoois'
Mr.. Polk. by the way believes !"
school board composed Of fifteen mem
bers. but they must not be paid members
He Is a member of the committee Oh ao
mission Of the Bar Association ana u
the law firm of Alexander. Watnss
Polk. at No. 80 Nassau street ana Oh q"
the worth while clubs in town. lie mas
kept in touch with public affairs throuen
the Bureau of Municipal Research "
which he is the treasurer and one Oh '"'
nine trustees.
Mr.. Polk married Miss Elizabeth ro'
ter. daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. James ro',
ter. In Philadelphia, in 1905 when nc ha.
Cornelius Vanderbilt as an usher' !'s'
as ne had been an Usher when Mr.. van
derbilt married Miss Grace WILSON, luz
Folks have three children and 1--we WIN
Mr.. Folks father in the od-fasnioneu
brownstone residence at No. i2s East 0o'"
street, less than a stones throw uo"
Lexington avenue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27

This committee is appointed Icy gen
eraI committee of representatives from
eleven civic agencies, including the Chill
dren's Aid Society, the City CluD, the
Peoples Institute and the lnternatiohal
Young Mems Christian Association. There
are members at large. including men IKE
Henry MoskowitZ and Albert Shieis' OF
the Board of Education. The chairman is
Frederic c. Howe. director of the Peo-
pies Institute This general committee
has fun responsibility both for policies
and for the personnel OF the censoring
committee.
The censorng committee meets III
groups of from five TO fifteen daily. ana
sometimes four times day. 1t looks AT
sample copies of motion pictures which
if approved will be duplicated hundred
times or more and sent broadcast
through the country. It votes through
written ballots. which are preserved per-
manently.
If the censoring committee cannot
agree. or If the committees secretary 9r
the manufacturer whose product Is AT
stake desires it. then the dispute is car
ried to the general committee, whose yer
dict is final. When the general commit
tee reviews disputed picture. II ule9
to lay down general principles OF formu-
late presidents. which are expected 10
have a certain influence on subsequent
judgments Of the censorins committee
The censoring committees own findings
unless overruled by the general commit
tee, are also regarded as precedents
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27

good people, and the next step is to close
the motion picture shows or jail the eX-
hibitor. or establish a star chamber CEN
sorship Of some kind.
Newspaper denunciaton begins and the
audiences fall off. Everybody pays the
fine for Mr. Y. the one manufacturer VINO
made the offensive picture. Plainly, MT
\. the occasional offending manufacturer,
must be disciplined by some one. me
interests of the whole motion picture
business require that every manufactures
shall produce films up TO certain moral
standard and that no one manufactures
shall capitalize a sensational MIN at the
expense of all manufacturers, all middle
men and all exhibitors.
So universal so constantly operative Is
this condition, that it created four years
ago an economic necessity for nauonai
censorship The impulse was mainly from
within the film business itself. This Is
the economic basis of the national
boards power-more real. more automatic
i'm its operation. than the severest penal
law that could be framed.
For. note you, manufacturer must De
kept i'm line with public opinion. Motion
picture trade interests demand 1t; but
manufacturer cannot discipline manu-
facturer X. They are rivals. PROBABLY
they are suing one another over some
patent or copyright question. In other
words. all manufacturers from to Il
need the help of some outside and wholly
disinterested agency for holding down
manufacturer y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27
SPREADING THE NEWS.

Leaving the numerous technical details
aside. IL NAV be said that the ooaru
verdicts at each week end. are trans
mtted 10 about two hundred ana hIS
CORRESPONDENTS scattered over the coun-
try-mayors. police chiefs, civic commit
tees and the like. These correspondents
either see most of the films placed on the
market-three or four of the correspon-
dents see every film placed on the mar
ket-or stand ready to investigate prompt
" when notified by the board The board
SUPPLEMENTS the reports of these corrc-
spondents by local inspection and other
means In this way ii knows whether It's
verdicts are really put into effect
Finally. the board has four secretaries
whose whole or part time is compensated
and there are mechanical and rental eX-
penses. a large part of these eXpendl-
lures is met by contributions from trade
interests whose product is censored, but
the trade contributions. which are volun-
tary and bear no relation to the work
involved i'm censoring their product. have
never been sufficient TO meet the total
budget No salaried employe of the
board votes on the films.
Now, putting these statistics and de-
tails behind us. let us ask: How can
any possible body of men and women cor
rectly judge of the effect on morals, man
ners and ideals Of a film which is TO be
seen by the infinitely variegated audience
to which the motion pictures go? Has
any real benefit to the art or real pro-
lection to the public come from the un-
doubted destruction amounting to more
than 100000 which the board has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27
Nv John Collier.
By John Collier
r EFT US ge: vision of this National
BOARD of Censorship and Of the mo-

u 1T US ges Nlslch vi t"i'
Board of Censorship and OF the mo-
IL ton pictures it censors
There are 5000 picture theatres IN
America. Their daily audience is over
100000. This audience is scattered from
the heart of the Ghetto to the Western
mining camp, from Fifth avenue to the
black belt of Alabama. II is made up of
babes. children. grown-ups. septuagena-
rians. men and women, rich and poor
but mainly poor.
In this audience are half million new
immigrants million children, probably
two million women, two million or three
million wage earning men. This audience
represents variety of races, cultures
economic grades and all the successive
age grades from babyhood TO old age OF
the most variegated population on earth
Now realize that all these audiences are
thronging to see exactly the same pro-
gramme of pictures. A film placed on the
market to-day is seen by million Ameri-
cans before the week ends
Think what censorship means. Censor
shin could be defined as The application of
a moral standard to art, with power to
enforce that standard. But it is really
more than this. The censor is a man who,
il is assumed, knows how people are in
huenced by art-vhat kind of mental and
moral reaction art gets from the people.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27

big Jobs. the Collector Of the Port of New
York stands well toward the top and the
appointment of new man for the post is
an event.
In politics Mr.. Polk is an independent
Democrat. And i'm his case the word IN
dependent is full OF meat. He was APP
pointed president OF the Municipal
civil Service Reform board in July.
1907 and succeeded Alfred J. Talley,
law partner of former Corporation Coun-
sci Delaney, who resigned at Mayor Nc
Clelan's request. He served in the COM
mission until the end of McClellan's
term and resigned on December 81, 1909.
The new methods which he Instituted
put the commission on a business basis.
He was a strict disciplinarian, oversaw
examinations and. in fact. by his earnest
administration OF the affairs OF the or
ganization obtained the enthusiastic APP
probation and support Of all advocates OF
civil service reform
A day or two after Mayor Mcclellan
named him president of the Municipal
Civil Service Reform Board one of the
first persons to congratulate Mr.. Polk,
and incidentally ask him for a remunera-
tive and highly regarded executive posi-
ton. was relative by marriage of the
patriotic Charles Francis Murphy.
The relative did not so much ask for
the place, either as apprise Mr.. Polk or
the fact that he would begin TO juggle
the plums and enjoy the physical comforts
OF the Office on the following Monday.
Mr. Polk told Mr.. Murphys relative by
marriage that he had no intention of CIV
ing him the job Mr.. Polk reiterated this
ultimatum a sufficient number of times
for it to soak itself into the understand
ing of the applicant
The operation could not be described as
painless, exactly. but it was quick. 1t
was all over in fifteen minutes. The pa
tient took no gas. but Mr.. Polk was COM
PEELED. before the office seeker departed.
TO absorb considerable of that visitors
excess production which. fortunately,
did not weaken him In the determination
to conduct that office according to the
dictates OF his conscience.
This anecdote is enlightening when con-
sidered I'm connection with the assertion
that has appeared in certain quarters that
Mr.. Polk is a Tammany man. Tammany
was not consulted In the choice of Mr..
Polk. who is not a member of the 18th
Tammany Hall organization of the 18th
Assembly District. in which he lives.
Neither is he member Of the Manhattan
nor Democratic clubs. His political spon-
sor was William McAdoo, secretary of
the Treasury.
His appointment makes clear that the
President is determined TO continue his
policy OF appointing capable men to office.
Mr.. Polk is New Yorker, but his father
was born In Tennessee and like his
father. fought for the Confederate cause.
The new Collectors grandfather was
Leonidas Polk. the first Protestant Epis-
copal bishop of Louisiana, who, in June
1861, accepted commission as major
general. offered by President Davis. and
was placed in command of all that terri
tory extending from the mouth of the Red
River ON both sides of the Mississippi to
Cairo. on the Ohio. with headquarters at
Memphis.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27
TRADE CONDITIONS.

Now we must go further Trade con-
ditions compel the exhibitor TO take just
what is handed to him in the way OF
programme Trade conditions compel the
middleman or exchange TO purchase films
mainly by contract. and TO keep on ms
shelf only enough films to supply the I'M
mediate requirements Of his exhibiting
patrons. Now. add to this the fact that
every exhibitor in his daily programme
shows the films Of three or four manu-
facturers. and shows the films of dozen
or more manufacturers week, ana We
have the basis for an understanding Oh
the National Board of Censorship.
The public which sees daily pro-
eramme assembled from various countries
and made by many manufacturers, does
not distinguish between the different
manufacturers. If film outrages the
audience. the audience does not visit Its
wrath on the manufacturer, but on the
whole motion picture business First OF
all. the exhibitor is denounced. though he
is really not to blame Then the middle
man is denounced. though he is not 10