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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-24
THE STANDARD
NOTHING LIKE THESE RPICES
in TIE WHOLE STATE
Special Sales for Monday & Tuesday

Peppcyel Wide Sheetings a; --------49c
Regular width for beds, nothing to
do but hem the ends; now within
the reach Of everybody, yard acc
Mems Best Union Made Overall S1.4s
Guaranteed to be made of the best
220 white. black, blue denim on
the market and made by the best
maker in the business; every size
in stock, at pair -----....-.-,-------$1.48
Mems Sl.98 to $3.50 Dress Shirts
at
Made of guaranteed percales and
madras cloths and well made too;
all sizes from IA to II, at each csc
$3.50, $s.75, $40 and S12 Blankets
at ---........-...-.--.. SA.9S
$3.50, $S.75, $1,000 and $500
Blankets at $4.98.
If YOU can't believe this statement,
come and see for yourself; this
price takes the choice of any pair
in our stock. If you are familiar
with the stock, you know; all at
one price; choice .--.,---..----.-.-..$4.9S
Mems $50 Work Shirts at CSC,
"The Big Yank"; absolutely the
best work shirt made; double
stitched all over and made of guar
anteed chambray, every size in
stock now .-,----.---------.------.-....-.98
Womcn's Nainsook and
Silk Teddies at Half Price.
S1.00 Grades are now soc; $3.50
grades are now 75c; $500 grades.
are now S1.00; $3.50 grades are
now 1925; $500 grades are
now so
Women's SOC Isle
Stockings at 29c.
Fine Lisle Thread Stockings: full
regular made, with scanned backs
in white, black and brown; regu-
larly soc, now at .,.----------..--.--29c
Genuine J & 2. Coats
Spool Cotton &c.
j. & p. Coats Spool S0tton; all num-
bers; black and white; fill size.
spools; nothing short, except the
Beautiful All Silk
Crepe-de- Chine at .$1.25.
All Silk Crepe-de- Chine; SO to 40
inches; in almost every staple
color; regularly $3.50; here now
at, yard -s----..--.--..----.s.-....-$1.25
All Silk Georgette
Crepe at SIPS.
All Silk Georgette Crepe in black.
white and all colors; SO to 40
inches; regularly $3.50, now at
yard ............-....-..........-.-........$I.2
$500 American F'Maid"
Corsets at $1.75.
Flesh color; sterling cloth; pink en-
broidery trimmed; flexible wire
boning; heavy side steels; regu-
larly $500; now .-.....-..-...--S1.75
Standard Dry Goods Co.
Forsyth St. Next Bank CT Commerce
AMERTcuS. ca.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-24

and tenth grades of the Brohwood
school Friday night. Various games
were enjoyed by the twenty-five that
were present.
Mrs. Ethel McCorkle and family
have moved to Atlanta.
Clarence Martin and Charlie Paul
Holland have gone to G. M. C. for
the spring term.
Mrs. Annie Gammage is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. G. L. Kennedy, in
Dawson.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. c. Turner and
daughters Ethel and Annie Ruth,
were the guests of Mrs. Morgan in
Dawson Sunday night.
Mrs. Richard Williams. from Una
dilla, spent a few days last week
with her mother, Mrs Ethel Nc.
Corkle.
Renza Israel, Gordon Mill, John
Walter Chappell and Alvin Dozier
visited Misses Lucye Davis and Ethel
Turner recently.
Mrs. w. A. Wheeler has been
teaching the third and fourth grades
this week on account of illness of Mrs.
S. A. Murray's husband.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-24

an elevator. He was working on the
installation of a glass elevator door
lodging the elevator when it went
up or down. He failed to see it one
trip.
DR.. Andrew NJ. Soule, president
of the State College of Agriculture,
at Athens, has been i'll there for sew
aral days.
The Hebardville school near Way
cross, was burned Friday. The fire
is thought to have been of incendiary
origin.
Preparations are being made by
Atlanta members for the annual con-
vention Of the Associated Advertis-
ing clubs of the World which meets
in Atlanta next June.
The organization of a Farm Blu
reau is being agitated in Monroe
county.
Seaborn Black, one of the men in
dicted for completely in running ne
groes out of the Quillian district, was
acquitted in Superior court at
Gainesville last week.
While crossing the railroad tracks
on her way to church in Oakland
City, Mrs. Ann Hampton Barker,
aged 70, was run over and killed
Sunday by tram.
Guard of Honor" formed OF
Scouts picked from the troops under
the Atlanta council, will meet Vive
President-elect Calvin Coolidge al
the station there when Coolidge Wis
its Atlanta Wednesday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-24

Womcn's Nainsook and
Silk Teddies at Half Price.
81 90 Grades are now soc; $3.50
grades are now 75c; $500 grades.
are now $10O; $3.50 grades are
now $1.25; $500 grades are
now ...--.--.--..-..-....---.-. 81 so
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-24

Mems $3.50 Worl, Shirts at csc,
"The Big Yank"; absolutely the
best work shirt made; double
stitched all over and made of guar
anteed chambray, every size in
stnnk- NOW ...-.-. csc
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-24
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA NEWS

A reward of $500 has been offer
ed by Governor Dorsey for the ar
rest of Archie Willingham, 19-year-
old Mitchell county youth, wanted
in connection with the killing of Fate
SILVER. Willingham shot SILVER aft
ter SILVER refused to give him drink
of whisky.
John Cook, white, has been SEN
fenced form one to three years in the
penitentiary for attempted assault
On the wife of Colquitt county far
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-24

also have periodical spells of sick
headaches. I could not eat or sleep
and got where was physical wreck.
l decided to give Fayorite Prescrip-
.tion trial and It completely cured
me. MRS. ALICE McCLOUD, 1919
Sixth Ave. N. Al druggists.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-24

Forty six per cent of all wood
used in the United States is required
on farms.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-24
COMING--FEB. /
BACKACHE, PAIN In SIDE,
HEADACHE
Nashville, Tenn.-"Dr. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription is the best med

1AfE14C L 4iSt y y ~
taken. I suffered
for a long time
with f g m mi II o
trouble. l would
become so nervous
that | would have
to give up and lie
down until l would
get quiet. | suf-
fered with back
aches, pains in my
side and bearing
mains. | would
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-24

Made of guaranteed percales and
madras cloths and well made too;
all sizes from IA to n, at each csc
$3.50, $s.75, $40 and $12 Blankets
At, 50 So
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

use it fsT nothin' an it might lust as we'll be
backin' money.
lake the Muscle Shoals plant. saws Henry
There's S3O,000,000 worth of energy for vm.
when It's done. Let the govment print S30.-
ooo'ooo worth O bills backed by that energy.
he says, an the plants paid for without q
banker havin' look-in.
Same way with anything else the gov'n,ent
wants to do. All it has to do is figure out
the energy value Of the proposition, issue that
much money and pay for it, cash down.
It'll knock out them bankers, sure. It'l
end wars too, because there won't be nothin'
TO night about. Gov 'ments will be lust crawl.
IN wit money.
You take an develop the idea little an,
leil end crime, too. What causes crime? Whv.
money O. course. If a fella had all the lack
ne needed when he needed it he could put his
blackjack away in camphor an lay off liftin'
ieathers Ter the rest Of his life.
In tbs course Of his life he'll prob'iv earn
soo'ooo or $4,000 anyhow. If he had that
much all at once he'd be on easy street. All
ne mas to do Is to start little home monev-
prewin' plant an turn out energy dollars
backed by his $4,000 or 100000 worth If
energy, an there he is, fixed fer life. unless
some OF his friends hand him tips on the races.
tts great idea. The more you think about
1t the bigger 1t gets It'll end war an crime
an work. There's never been nothin' like =
II can't be beat. Henry's a great man an Tn,
fer him." - IA
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

three bags of gold in the ships wreckage.
Robinson moralizes on the useessness of this
money, compared with needles, pins, cloths
and other things with real value Mr.. Wells
has the island peopled with stable commu-
nifty, headed by Robinson Crusoe, Friday and
his father, and Will Atkins. Some article of
exchange is desired, SO the people settle upon
cowries, a sort Of shell, which is found not
too abundantly. One hundred cowries repre-
sent bushel of grain, under normal condi-
tions. But two or three enterprising Crusoetes
find place where the cowres are very plen-
tiful They food the market with them and
money goes down in value. Also the people of
neighboring island get the Crusoeites into
the habit Of speculating. Some one organizes
company, with capitalization of 10000 900
cowrtes, to explore the sunken ship, though no
one knows the actual location Of the vessel.
Meantime the value Of cowries had depreci-
ated, and all sorts Of substitutes were pro-
posed. The people tried such standards as
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Continued from pugs to,s,.)

what vile treachery is this?" demanded the
captain But Proventura was quick. He ex-
planned: Your excellency, there is no harm
done. You see, it is my nightcap that partly
envelops the ball. This great hat makes nv
head hot, and when take it of am in danger
OF catching cold. / forgot the nightcap. and
my wife thoughtfully has sent it after me.
She has ordered our most skillful gunner to
forward it with a light charge of powder.
There was no other way"
. This nightcap touch, like other touches in
Historian Stockton's chronicles was not en-
tirey without foundation. Word was brought
back to the Peking that afternoon that while
Captain Glass and Colonel Morena, who was
the official out of which Stockton made his
Proventura, were exchanging communications
stray shot from the decrepit old San Luis
battery managed to swat the Charleston's ar
nor, causing an officer to extend the invita-
tion "Comc in"
After Captain Gutierrez explained and his
party, with the exception of the priest. were
made prisoners but Immediately paroled. a
promise was made for Coloao Morena that he
would meet Captain Glass and transact little
business with the American the next morning.
AT the set time Colonel Morena was an absen
tee A trick was suspected. (You are getting
the unlacquered facts now and not an adorned
rale.) Marines were landed from the Charles
ton and from the Peking. battalion of vol
unteers from the I'd Oregon Regiment also
was sent from the City Of Sydney, another
transport, and put ashore.
1t was learned that Colone! Morena was
lingering in the little village u Piss. ON the
islands mainland and from which runs the
road to Agana, Guam's principal sett1 ment
and capital. Ensign Waldo Evans, with the
crew Of Captain Glass's gig, went to Pitt and
brought to the American skipper in front of
the governors residence in Agana the sur
rendering commander and his encourage
Soon. with all in the Spanish uniform standing
barehe4ded and with the Americans at atten-
tion, he Star-Spangled Banner steadily ws5
hauled&to the top Of tall staff. All the Charles
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

fdence ali around could matters be brought
back to satisfactory basis. With that conf
dence restored, business was resumed with gold
accepted as the basis Of exchange on account
of it's convenience.
This was twenty years before the appear
ance of that propaganda best-seller of the anti
gold-standard forces, "Coin's Financial School,
But in it's day Robinson Crusoe's Money"
stirred up considerable of sensation, espe-
cially as it's points were driven home by car
toons by Thomas Mast.
Count Tolstoy seemed to have had an inkling
Of Mr.. Ford's "energy money" long before
Muscle Shoals crept into print and stirred up
controversy among etymologists, who are none
too sure that it should not be spelled "Mussel"
In an essay on Money" published several
years ago, Count Tolstoy began as follows:
Money! What is money? Money repre-
sents labor. Science says it is necessary ~
for the convenience Of exchange, ~ for the
efficiency of savings, (3) for facilitating pay
n,ents.' Then, after describing a haymaking
scene which he could view at the moment from
his own window, Tolstoy proceeded to visual
ize Mr. Ford's "energy dollar" by saying:
"The energy of the air is just as much factor
Of production, if not more so than the land.
Water is another factor-also sunshine"
But Count Tolstoy, having had no Detroit
schooling. did not go on to tell just how the
sunshine, air and water could be harnessed
and created into something that might sup
plant money. Russia may be all right in
dreaming things out but it takes Michigan to.
put the same things across!
If Mr.. Ford wanted an example of the ruin
that money will work on a primitive people,
accustomed only to straight barter, he might
have pro6ted by this same essay by Tolstoy in
which the vague suggestion of the "energy
dollar" occurs. Tolstoy takes the case Of the
FIJI Islanders and tells what money did to
them. In condensed form the story is as fol-
lows:
The Kingdom of Fiji was an ideal state
prior to 1845. The people were prosperous.
though they had medium of exchange out
side of the actual products of their islands.
But King Cacabo found himself confronted
with demand for $4,000 made by the United
States because of alleged outrages committed
by the Fijians against certain American citi-
zens then on the islands. King Cacabo, as the
moneyless monarch of moneyless people, req
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

tread. Always importunate and usually I'M
pudent. Such reporters are not the best.
and this man had, because Of his tireless au-
dacity, proved failure as q news gatherer
and been employed and speedily dismissed
by all the papers. Then he became free
lance
"Fle prowled among the railroads, gathered
what he could, betrayed condolences generously
and sold his output at something an article.
His situation was precarious, but railroad Of
flclais were afraid of him and they fed him
literally with annual and trip passes and one
way or another he made living.
"One evening Mr. William H. Vanderbilt ar
rived with some friends. He was on his pri-
vate car, which was sidetracked in an out
of-the-way corner Of the Michigan Central
yards. The reporter learned of his where
abouts and posted off for an interview. Van
derbilt was at dinner. But it was useless.
Tie reporter forced his way in and cheerily
accosted the magnatc. Intrusion Of this sort
was not uncommon with him. He was nothing
abashed when Vanderbilt said sharply, Don't
you see, sir, that am engaged?
i want an interview
"'Well, sit down at the other end of the
car until have finished dinner, and will
talk to you,' pleaded the victim.
"'But it is late and will not reach the
office in time. The public
''This was too much for the infuriated Van
derbilt, who interrupted his tormentor with the
ejaculation: The public be damned; you get
out of here!'
"The reporter scurried off to the Daily
News Office, told in great glee the story as
have recalled it, and waHted to sell an article
based on vanderbilt's phrase which he had
extorted: The public be damnedy But our
night editor would have nothing to do with 1t.
Instead he roundly denounced the reporter
for the whole business.
"Then the reporter went off to the Office Of
The Chicago Tribune and, cautioned by his
experience at the Daily News Office. avoided
any suggestion that he had aroused Wander
bits anger, and made sale"
Such was the origin Of that phrase which
we have all used.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

Money" and Currency" by writer's who are
known and unknown. One can hardly
visualize the future student of economics run
ming through cards bearing such titles as ''The
Relations Of Energy Dollars and Social
Ethics" "Man and His Energy Dollars" and
"The Depreciation of Energy Currency" Nor
will it be easy to accustom ourselves to the
stories Of wealthy men in the future who tell
of the first energy dollar saved in youth and
how it led to millions. Yet if Mr.. Ford has
his way at Muscle Shoals such changes are
said to be imminent.
In suggesting energy as substitute for
money Mr.. Ford apparently hit on the only
thing that has not been brought forward by
his predecessors in the field of currency re-
form. Some Henry Ford among the aborig-
inal population Of this country, long before
the arrival of the coin-jingling white men, had
put this continent on wampum basis. The
thrifty Dutch who settled New York found
this to their advantage. Buying things from
the Indians on wampum basis and then re-
selling them for gold was not bad business
from the standpoint Of the success magazine
OF that period or any other period.
In the pioneer West, during the trapping
era, beaver skins passed current as coin. When
trapper gambled and lost everything he an
nounced that he was Gin, hoss and beaver"
Nor has gold overthrown all it's substitutes
even as yet. In certain parts of west Africa
shells are still the current exchange In Abys-
sina salt has been commonly preferred to
any form Of bullion. In Chinese Tartary
cubes of pressed tea will satisfy the bill col
lector. 1t was not so long ago that little
cakes of soap formed the chief medium of ex-
change on the west coast Of Mexico. Cattle
and sheep have always been standard among
primitive peoples, though such legal tender is
eventually crowded out by something more
adapted to the pocket.
AS matter of fact, gold or any other arti-
Gle Of exchange is Of no value without public
confidence behind it. That feet was brought
out in a novel way by David A. Wells, a for
mer United States Commissioner Of Revenue,
in 1876, in pamphlet entitled Robinson Cru
soe's Money" Mr.. Wells produced his PAM
phlet at a time when the country was still
struggling with problems of financial infa-
tion, growing out of the Civil War boom. He
took his text, SO to speak, from Robinson
Crusoe,' where the hero Of that tale finds
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
HOW GUAM HAPPENED

ton had been ordered to do had been done.
The 102 members of the Spanish artillery
unit made a happy collection, when, wits
Colonel Morena and his staff, they were pus
aboard an American boat and told they would
be sent from Manila back to Spain as soon IS
transportation could be obtained
Captain Richard P Leary, of the navy, be.
came the first regularly appointed American
ruler OF this Pacific principally. He sailed
"hoie-heartedly into his Inuttons, and for sew
eral years his original manners and schemes Of
looking after simple people won him share
OF praise, some blame and plenty of publicity.
VI Governor Leary jingler jingled this
Hail the Governor of Guam!
Cails has people round to view EN-,
Reads a proclamation to 'em,
says they must keep hens and shoe EN-,
Tells the girls the men must WOO 'en,
If they don't they'll have TO EN-
L they've foes they mustn't stew EN-,
otherwise he'll have to do EN-
In the jail he'll likely strew EN-
Talks if he really knew em,
Does our Governor OF Guam"
The lines were prompted partly by Cover
nor Leary's order overthrowing regulations
of the padres requiring that marriage or gT'
ing in marriage virtually had to be under
Church supervision. Their Governor told the
natives that when the little arrow hit them
they were in love, Church or no Church, and 10
also instructed Guam's cheroot-chewing nap
pers to "vamp" the eligible males If ssla
eligibles were backward about declaring Them
selves.
The allusion to the hens came of the Cover
nor's order that all in the realm must keep
and raise chickens, but that they would Do
fined if they permitted their poultry to 90 sns
promenading in Agana's boulevards.
Certainly, in the passing Of these twenty
odd years, modernities have been injected into
Guam ways and into the Guam terrain. uncie
Sam knows exactly how much coal and oil ara
munitions he can safely tuck away whore onfs
the Spaniards ran entirely out Of powder, anc
Uncle Sam also knows how powerful the guns
are that repose lazily under sod ths. con-
ceals concrete and steel, and the appurtenances
thereto, that make batteries which commsna
appalling ranges.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18

bananas, wheat, cows and glass beads. Finally
they bethought themselves of the money Rob-
lnson had found on the ship, and settled on
gold as altogether the most convenient me-
dunn. But even gold did not solve their trou-
bles. There came war with the cannibals
and an era of fictitious prosperity After the
war there came sudden defation; also, the
government had to borrow, and paper money
began to be printed in great quantities.
For while it was thought this paper money
which was called bluebacks would solve the
problem. 1t was even proposed to extend the
same easy plan to other fields. When most of
the mich cows on the island had succumbed
to blackleg and the children were crying for
milk some one suggested, "Feed them milk
tickets" So the babies were presented with
hot milk tickets and cold milk tickets bf they
did not seem to thrive on the diet.
There was no foreign commerce and stocks
of goods accumulated, with no buyers Then
came period Of depression. At least the
Crusoeites realized that only by restoring con-
New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
1.-THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED"
4

4 STRIKING phrase Is one of the hard
~ est things in the world to kill. If it
4 "A is striking enough, and if enough peo-
pie like it, it will work its way into
the language and stay there in spite of all the
fury Of all the purists in the land. 1t is aston
ishing how much of our daily speech is an
interlapping of glib phrases which come from
somewhere and somehow become part of our
vocabulary. Most Of these phrases are point
less II taken literally, most Of them have lost
their original meaning; few Of them can we
define when asked to do SO by visiting Eng
lishmen.
Phrases too. are treacherous, powerful
things. They cause lot Of trouble; they are
likely to turn and swallow the person who un-
thinkngly makes them. There are figures in
history who are completely overshadowed by
phrase Of their own making.
History will no doubt associate Theodore
Roosevelt with one or another of his famous.
sizzling phrases
And every one knows what William X. Van
derbiit said. That phrase, according to Mel
vile F. Stona. the former general manager Of
The Associated Press, "did the whole railroad
business incalculable damage and, as much as
TRANSPORTATION
companies which followed"
II that is true--and Mr.. Stone should be
qualified to judge the voltage Of a phrase. il
any one could-it is one Of the most grotesoue
jokes that fate ever played on railway presi
dent. For, though Mr.. Vanderbilt did saw
sThe public be damned!' he did not mean it
that way at ALL That phrase has stuck to him
sisge the evening in 1882 when he made it, and
II will keep his name alive for posterity long
after he would otherwise be forgotten. But
he was deliberately misrepresented by the
young man who first heard him make the re-
mark.
Mr.. Stone thus gives the true version Of the
incident in his book, "Fifty Years Journal
ist," published by Doubleday, Page & Co.
"In 1882 there was certain free!ance re-
porter in the city (Chicago). He was one Of
the extensively aggressive type-one Of those
wxsns who make prey where eagles dare not