Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-06-30
EDITORIAL.

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they were needed, instead of get
ting along on as thin ice as pos
sible to avoid spending money
would have prevented the col
lapse of service at the steam plant
of the Americus Lighting com
pany yesterday. Every engineer
knows that it is absurd that
three boilers were permitted to
pei into such bad condition, from
years Of service without needed
replacement of weakened parts,
that all of them COULD get out
of commission at one time. That
this DID happen, as result Of
rundown condition, most efec-
lively. answers all that has been
!, sss-id by representatives of the
company as to the alleged high
efficiency Of the plant The fact
that the city plant, so despised
and belittled by representatives
of the company, furnished the
steam with which to operate the
company electric generators in
order that the people of this com
munity might have any lights at
all last night, also furnishes .elo-
quent commentary on who was
right and who was wrong in the
recent controversies over rates,
contracts, and the alleged perilous
plight Of the city.
The citizens of Americus have
no desire to prosecute the Ameri-
Gus Lighting company. They on
ty want the company and its rep
resentatives to be frank and hon
est with them. and to give ser
vice, for which they are willing to
pay well, if it is good. They be-
lieve that the present manager,
Mr. Ewing is making genuine eff
fort to give service, and that if
permitted he will do it. He has
the confidence of the public, and
It is hoped he will be given a
chance 10 make good.
A RE vein for a scorching sum
mer2 Some of June's sam
pie hot days make it appear so.
But last winter was mild. And
q mild winter usually is followed
by cool summer, for nature has
q way Of evening up the yearly
temperature. Sometimes she
sklps year or two, but in the long
run cool summers follow mild win
tiers and hot summers follow cold
winters.
In the last 40 years. the coun-
try yearly temperature has aver
aged 40 degrees. Taking it bv
decades, it has never varied as
much as two degrees from that
average.
he coolest July on record was
IN 1916. the famous year when
snow fell in the Northern states
every month.
he hottest JuIys were in 1857
and 1876.
he coolest January was in
1917 and the coolest MaroL -
in 1885. vas
The three wapnest decades
were those ended in 1900. 1910
and 1920. The coolest decade
followed the hottest.
These figures, from The
Weather Bureau, lend support r.
the old men who claim that we
don't have the winters we used
to. N'oo
Maybe they're right. but the
Weather Bureau says that there
never is any permanent change in
average temperature.
y &
AT TIMES we all curse the
weather and the climate. vet
mother nature has in her store
house on earth every sort of eli
mate and weather you could de
sire.
The moistest town in Cherra-
pongee. India. Its rainfall aver
ages 456 inches a year and at one
ume rose to COS inches. Proba-
BY the Cherrapongee people pray
for drought at ths very time farm
efs around Americas are PLAYING
for RAIN.
The coolest place in the world
is the village of Nerkhoyenski. in
far northern Siberia. That town
never has any summerA and
sometimes the thcrmometas veg,
listers 80 heIoxv zero Ma