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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-22

Strange left Monday for Macon
where they will be entertained at a
house party this week.
J. C. Moulton, editor of the Schley
County News, spent the weekend
with mis- family at Reynolds.
Mrs. S. A. Royal and Mrs. Glenn
Smith were the guests of Russell
English at EnglishviIle the past
week.
DR.. and Mrs. C. P. Davis, Miss
Parmalee Davis and C. p. Davis, of
Americas, were the guests of rela-
tives in this city Friday evening.
Roy Carter and Miss Susie Stearn
spent Sunday at Englishvillc the
guests of Russell English.
Miss Lucy Cook spent a few days
delightfully."- with Mrs. Grady Kille-
brew at LaCross last week.
Mrs. r. E. Hill and Mrs. ]. j.
Luke were shopping in Americas
Thursday.
j. c. Rainey spent the weekend
with friends in Headland. Ala.
Miss RoXie Stevens visited friends
and relatives in Buena Vista Satur-
day and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lasco Harvey and
children, of Leslie, spent Sunday in
our city with their mother. Mrs.
Henry Harvey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Johnson were
the guests of relatives in Americas
Sunday.
f. /. Bridges, superintendent of
the Leslie High school, spent Sunday
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. 7.
V. Bridges, at their HON eherc. Prof.
V. Bridges, at their home here. Prof
and has many friends here who al
ways most cordially welcome him on
his occasional visits here.
The old soldiers who attended the
reunion at Albany last week report
a most excellent time. Every possible
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ELLAVILLE.

ELLAVILLE, May 2O.-The High
school auditorium last Thursday eve
ming was the scene of much mirth
and merriment, the occasion being
an entertainment given by the unlor
class to the Senior. Upon their ar
rival the Seniors were invited into
the Domestic Science dining room
where an elegant dinner was served.
Covers were laid for IS. The long
white table was decorated with the
Senior class colors, blue and yellow
and with the class flower sweet peas,
Yellow tapers unshaded shed a soft
glow on the beautifully appointed
table. Streamers of blue and yell
low extended from the electric light
in the center of the room to the four
corners of the table. Dainty menu
cards we're placed at each plate and
bore the following menu; baked
chicken, dressing, English peas,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-22

Evelyn Stewart were visitors to Am.
cricus SATURDAY.
M 40 NJ T. w c+ropno o,d
MI an" Ms ~ W. Oh ",s' anu
Miss Cleone Collins spent Wednes-
day in Columbus.
Mrs. C. d. Carter, Mrs. c. c. Wall,
and Miss Mary Carter were shopping
in Americas Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Raincy and
Mrs. S. c. Collins formed a pleasant
party shopping in Americas Wednes-
day.
Mrs. Earl Carter and little daugh-
ter, Ruth, arc spending some time
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-22

pleasant visit to Headland, Ala, re-
Gently.
Arthur Guy, William Croxton and
Bud Greene, Of Buena Vista, were
in this city Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Stevens were
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan
Stevens in Americas this week.
Captain C. l.. Peacock was the
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PAGE SEVEN. =
BY Ahern

guest Of his daughter, Mrs, J, H.
Cheney, in Moultrie the pass week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02
Boss1NG THE RAILROADS.

The railroad labor board, estab-
lished by act of congress to help the
interstate commerce commission han
die the railroad business, is finding 1t
difficult to enforce its orders. 1t
seems rapidly to be drifting into a
class with the Kansas public utilities
commission.
The application of President Rea of
the Pennsylvania railroad to the
United States railroad labor board, re-
questing it to set aside it's decision
with regard to shop crafts, amounts
to a challenge of authority. 1t brings
into question the right of the board to
perform the work prescribed for it by
the Eseh-Cummins act. If the board
vacate it's recent decision, with which
the Pennsylvania has refused to COM
ply, then it might as well close up
shop.
Two objections are made by the
road to the boards decision. One IS
that after the national agreements
with the unions were ordered abro-
gated as of July 1, the board was
without authority to order further ex-
tension; wherefore, the road refuses
to consider itself in any way bound by
those agreements. Then, the Penn
sylvania refuses to acknowledge the
right of the board to specify the man
ner in which elections among it's en-
ployes shall be held or to prescribe the
manner in which negotiations between
the road and it's workers shall be car
ried out.
The Pennsylvania is emboldened by
the outcome of the case of the Erie
railroad, which broke the boards or
ders in six particulars. No punish
ment was melted out to that corpor-
alton. The reason the case went BY
default, as Chairman Barton of the
board explained, was that 1--WE depend
largely on public opinion and the will
ingness of the roads and their en-
ployes to accept the decisions of an
impartial mediative body" In this
statement there is little to give the
railroads pause; that is, nothing as Of
lawful notwithstanding but public
opinion.
Two national bosses and forty-eigft
state bosses on the railroad job seem
too many and it is not remarkable
that those who are trying to carry on
the work of the railroads are in rebel
lion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02

A glance at the respective railway
systems of America and Britain in the
holiday season, says the Christian
Science Monitor. will reveal how diff
ferently they react to the mood of
the hour. While the American rail-
ways continue sedate. high priced, un-
bending to the charms of holiday hi
larity, their British counterparts will
be found to relax completely and
wholeheartedly. once more, as in
pre-war days, the English stations
have presented the familiar rough
and-tumble scenes of embarkation.
excursionist crowds, with sand-spades,
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on the plates gracefully and keep
Hannah from getting Mysteries.
The incident passed without COM
m mt from Mrs. Turner, save some
thing to the effect that the girl Jimmy
mad sent from his office had done
well enough"
Then followed the eeurtship of
Jimmy Turner-a mad, feverish, head
long courtship in which Mrs. Turner
felt perfectly incapable of getting any
satisfaction from Jimmy. She only
guessed that he was in love. But
when within a months time Jimmy
told her that he was going to marry
Miss Sidney Cumberland Brown, only
daughter of Weyland Cumberland
Brown, the multi-millionaire banker,
her astonishment was complete. Like
wise her joy knew no bounds. 1t was
such a social feather in her cap and
would cause Mrs. Standish no end of
jealousy.
On the way home. after Jimmy took
his mother to call on Miss Sidney
Cumberland Brown. Mrs. Turner sat
musing. II seem to have seen her
before, Jimmy" But she never as
ISOLATED the face with that of the
little girl who came to take charge in
the pantry on the occasion of her re-
ception.
Copyright. 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndieate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02
LITTLE BENNY's NOTE BOOK

Me and Sid Hunt wunted to so err
round to the fire house to see the en-
CINE get washed and Sids little broth
er Bert wunted to go with us and We
dident wunt him to, and after vile
1 winked at Sid and sed to Bert, Wen.
you can come if you wunt but il you
do you'll miss the big perrade, so dent
say we dident warn YOU
Wat perrade? sed Bert. and I seds
Dident you heer about the big per-
rade. it will go past eny minnit new.
gosh. Sid, he dident heer about the
perrade, watts YOU know about that
Some kids never heer about eny-
thing, that's wat they get for always
wunting to go places insted Of staying
places ware they're at already, sed
Sid
There's going to be a band ard ev-
erything, l sed, and Bert sed, Ony one
band? and 1 sed, Ony one nuthing,
there's libel to be s or for all I
know.
Well then I CESS I think III wait.
sed Bert. Wich he did, and me and
Sid went erround to the fire house
and there wasent eny fire engine or
firemen erround, Sid saying, G.. there
must be a fire somewares. And We
sat down and leened agenst the wall
to wait without enything happening
to wait for. and after a vile sed.
Gosh, this is no good. lets go back.
Wich jest then fire engines full OF
firemen came up, me saying to one.
Ware was the fire2
No fire. we were in the perrade,
ware have you bin, asleep? sed the
fireman. ?,
Heck. watts you know about thst7
sed Sid, and sed, G, that was a derty
trick to play on ourselves. And we
went back feeling fearse and Bert
was setting on Sids frunt steps say
ing, o. you awt to of saw the perrade.
Sid, 1t was CRATE. bands and hooken
ladders and everything.
Aw shut up. sed Sid. Wleh Bert
wouldent. so me and Sid went and sat
on my frunt steps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02

The public is being urged to write
to senators and representatives at
Washington to adopt the McFadden
constitutional amendment putting an
end to the issue of tax-free securities
at the earliest date. The earliest
date. assuming that the amendment
could be put over in thirty-six states,
probably would be about 1880. hard
ly early enough to afford much relief
to the present generation of taxpay-
ers. This agitation about ax-exempt
securities is largely directed to the
galleries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02
THE ms AND THE OUTS.

The attention of the public is being
directed to the alleged fact that sew
eral millions of persons in this coun-
try are out of employment. The fu-
ture outlook for these persons is not
so dark as it might be since other
millions are threatening to quit their
jobs. In other words, the ms may
give the outs a chance.
It is easy to believe that the men
now idle will gradually find positions,
even with no decrease in other en-
ployed classes. Just how much moro
quickly the job hunters can have their
quest successfully ended if a wide
spread strike shall occur in any i'm
portant field of industry can only be
estimated in a general way. 1t is Ger
tain that, with many willing and rea-
sonably capable men desiring employ
ment, there will be found In their
ranks a considerable number who can
fill the vacancies caused by an indus
trial walkout. The work of particu-
'larly skilled labor cannot be done by
novices, but there is a condition exist
ing now which makes available for al
most any vocation large number of
idle men who are able to discharge a
great variety of duties.
Never before, It is pointed out by
the st. Louis Times, has there been
serious thought by employed men of
a strike in a time when unemployment
was so general as to cause disquier.
The disputes between wage giver and
wage Garner have been reserved foT
those longer periods in which there
was more demand for workers than
could be met. In such times the
striker frequently won his point. 1t
remains to be seen whether, in the
event of deciding to leave his position,
the worker of today can make his
course serve his ends in the face OF
conditions which provide a dozen idle
men to fill the place he vacates.
However, a testing out of the prop
osition cannot be made without much
| hardship resulting. No man should
decide upon such an experiment un-
less he can be certain that in his OWE
individual case he is not risking toe
much. His own Welfare. and the good
of others possibly dependent upor
him, must deserve careful considera.
ton. Because of unfortunate indus
trial conditions, the man who goes OF
| a strike today may be a long Tins
without dependable employment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02

A sheriff in Massachusetts warned
a mob of would-be lynchers that they
would be shot down like rats IL they
attempted to enter the Jail and seize
their victims. An official in Tennes-
see drew a dead line in front of the
Jail, and served notice that the first
member OF the lynching party to cross
the line would be shot. Several i'm
mediately crossed and were shot
down, after which the deputies
charged and scattered the mob. Yet
always there are persons willing and
even eager to be elected to the office
of sheriff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02

the realm of silence is large enough
beyond the grave"
Why wait to express a generous
thought or to do helpful thing, when
you know that you will receive inftn-
itely greater pleasure than the one TO
whom you grant it?-so great is She
law of compensation.
Why wait to put into action that
thing which you have spent SO long a
time in thinking out? If you believe
in it-Eo thru with it. Even the most
depressing failure has its lesson of
success
1 talked with a business man re-
Gently who seemed greatly depressed
over business conditions l asked him
if he thought thew were ever gaing
to improve. And his prompt reply
was: "Oh, yesi But not for a long
time" My reply was that could see
no sense in putting off that good time
that the sooner every man started
to be normal. the sooner everything
would become normal
Why wait for the other fellow7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE
(From Philadelphia Public LedgerJ

1t Was "Dag-gone'' in Our Neighbour
hood.
Sir-Had the word "doggone,"
recently employed in your column,
been penned by an fastener 1 should
dismiss it by laying it to his ignorance
of the origin of the word, or express
sion "dag-on." not "doggone," as
generally quoted by writers and artists
of the east. Whenever L see it printed
"deggone" it has an effect upon me
similar to that of the word pants on
the late Eugene Field, whom 1 first
knew in 1875. when he helped to
write the local on the st. Joe Gazette"
In this case it merely intrigues me,
as you should know the expression is
purely southern and should be written
'dog-on," and means to, set the dog
On the person or thing. What rela-
ken. Perhaps some eastern writer can
explain it, just as the majority of
them, at the time of Mark Twains
death, accounted his "Innocents
Abroad" his great work, notJeven men
tioning ,"Roughing IT. or Life on
the Mississippi" which never can be
reproduced, no matter how gifted the
writer, as the scenes no longer are
there to be depicted. When you go
west on vacation, please pay Uncle
Daniel another visit. G. w r.
hard on the eastern writers and art
lists Most of these who struggle I'M
der the handicap of never having
worked in the middle west do pretty
well. The>plan is to stop at Uncle
Daniels for dinner, driving on to
Quincy in the late afternoon. AIDE
laide never saw the log house in which
we first glimpsed the light of day.
1t Is our ambition to show it to her.
c. T., who has returned from AL
lentown lamped this sign on an office
door: Button Don't Bell: Bump"
THE flames" says the esteemed
Bethlehem Gazette, "are believed to
| have originated by the breeze tanning
a cigaret butt which dropped into the
dried heaps of dust between the
planks."
No institution with which we are
familiar, or unfamiliar, stands more
| in need of a velvet-covered bread-box
than the Bethlehem Gazette We stand
ready to confer this beautiful house
hold trophy any time the Gazette can
find time-to fan flame with a cigaret
| butt.
The unusual attitude assumed by
Chicago authorities in trying to pre-
vent Tex Richard from showing his
| fight pictures because 1t is against the
law to do so is. creating some COM
ment.
Some of the advices from Washing
| ton indicate that Mr.. Debs will be
pardoned before long. Others are to
the effect that he will be permitted to
serve out most of his sentence OF
course, the Imprisonment of Mr.. Debs
| is an outrage; but in case the admin
istration doesn't release him, it likely
will be because the administration
doesn't believe he ought to be released
at this time. In either event, Mr..
Debs is a fine fellow, and SO are
President Harding and Attorney Cen
eral Daugherty.
Some condemn the tarring ana
feathering at Silsbee, Tex, on Satur-
day. Others are awaiting the par
ticulars. The column believes that
when it is necessary to apply tar and
feathers it should be done discreetly
and according to law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02
Dorothy Dix Tails
BIZ DOROTHY DIX
sorid'n Higkest Paid Woman Wri
The Iffera-1.

The Iffers-1.
Are you an iffer?
You know the tribe for they censti-
tute a large portion of society.
The lazy, idle, incompetent chap
who drifts from a poor Job to one
still poorer. but swho always says: II
should be a great success and worth
ten thousand dollars a year in any big
office IF could only get into the right
thing"
The lazy loafer who hangs around
country stores and city pool rooms and
swaps dirty stories with other loung-
ers, while his wife takes in boarders
to support him, and who tells you, Il
should have been a millionaire IF my
rich uncle had only set me up in busi-
ness as he should have done.''
The shift1ess storekeepers, too lack
ing in enterprise to even keep their
shops clean, who assure the world
they would have been shining lights
IF they had only gone into some pro-
fession; and the chemically tired law
Iyers and doctors who have not energy
enough to keep up with their profess
sions who do not hesitate to declare
that they would have been merchant
princes IF only they had gone into
commerce.
The ignorant and nliterate, who
would have been brilliant and INTEL
ligent IF only they had been to coll.
1S6S III lllC44 yOQlAl.
All the down and cutters who would
have done marvellous things IF only
they had had any chance in life.
The women who would write good
books, or paint great pictures IF only
they had time.
The lazy, selfish, self-indulgent
women who lie on the bed and eat
chocolate and let their houses be as
filthy as pig stys and poison their
families on bad cooking. but who say:
81 simply can't do homework but
would work my fingers to the bone
IF had something artistic to do like
being a grand opera singer, or ACTING
in the movies"
The virago whose temper; makes
life a purgatory for her husband and
children, but who says: II would be
as amiable as an angel IF it, wasn't
for my poor nerves." So
The weak mother whose children
are the terror of the community who
says: ST know that Johnny and Mamie
should be controlled and taught to
obey and I would do it IF they didn't
have such sensitive dispositions
And so on, ad infinitum. You
know how the whole aim of self-ex-
cusers take refuge under IF, which
covers more sins than the Justly IA
nous mantle of charity. It's so easy
to say that IF conditions had been
different you would have been diff
ferent, and after you repeat this state
ment enough times you come to be-
lieVe it yourself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
WHY NOT NoW2

A lovely letter came to me the other
day thanking me for the help given
thru the talks. The writer said that
it was their opinion that tributes
should be paid to the living. I have
been carrying that letter around in
my pocket ever since.
Why wait to say nice things to peo-
pies, anyway?
1 hope TO live to see the time when
people will erect monuments to the
living. OF ceurs I know the general
impression is that should these tributes
be paid while yet the man lived, he
might later do something that would
make people sorry they had paid such
honor. Whereas with the one who
has gone, the book is sealed.
But nevertheless. 1 believe in MAX
ing this mortal frame of ours as happy
as possible while it walks and breathes
1t was Helen Hunt Jackson, 1 be-
lieve, who said, II like not only to be
loved, but to be told that am loved
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buckets. lunch baskets and other nee
essary accouterments rushing helter-
SHELTER for the special trains at re-
duced fares bound for Brighton, Mar
gate, Hove, Hastings, North Wales.
the Scottish lochs. and hundred
other fields for enjoyment. for one
day, two-day. five-day. ten-day, week
end or mid-week outings. But then,
of course, says the Mnitor, in England
the automobile cannot yet be said to
have become necessary part of the
family's holiday equipment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02

resist temptation, left it. Is that cor.
reot?"
"Yesuh, jedge. Daas about right"
In that case, can you explain how
two of the hens were nisslng?"
1T was jes' dis way. jedse. I took
'em. reekoned 1 was entitled to dat
many fo' leaving de res"
The office boy and his grand
mothers funeral always were subject
for Jest. But when the test match is
brought into the affair to make a
jokable trio. it gets rather unnervlng.
Anyway, this particular STRIPPING, hav-
ing filled the sin" tray and emptied
the "out," said to the chief Sir.
would like to go to funeral this af-
ternoon." The chief replied heart
lessly: "Oh, you would, would your
Well, you won't" The boy, with all
hopes gone of seeing the test, resign
eddy murmured: mo, sir. I know 1
won't; but 1 would like TO, all the
same" There was something so tragic
and appealing in the lads voice that
the chief couldn't resist asking;
whose funeral7" said the boy:
Yours, sir" Exit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02

Many farm economists are continu-
ally clamoring for more credit"
They might look around them, says
Farm Life, and see farmers, and busi-
ness men as well, who have been
ruined by having too much credit
When prices are continually going up
one can buy on a credit and make
money. When prices are going down
he can buy on a credit and go broke
The country is full of men who be-
lieve that farmers can be made pros
porous by extending unlimited credit
to all who will use IT, Too many of
these men are in congress, and there
are enough of them in official posi-
tons in the agricultural world Where
one man gets rich by going too heav-
lily in debt there are about nine who
stand in danger of becoming bank
rupt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02

. The railroad labor board is making
itself about as unpopular with both
the railroads and the public as ever
the interstate commerce commission
has been. Its capacity for doing
harm is shown by it's unwarranted
interference with the Pennsylvania
railroads agreement with its en-
ployes covering rules and working
conditions. This had been perfected
and was working satisfactorily to the
workers. The railroad board is arbi-
trarily insisting upon a new election
which will admit outside union labor
influences to enter in and to make
trouble.