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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-11
WHEN A WOMAN TELLS
BY RUTH AGNES ABELING
TOM SAYS, LET US FORGET"

TOM SAYS, LET US FORGET"
ESaNALLY ! heard Toms voice al
the door Of my room. He and
Lila were coming in.
AS he neared the bed | turned my
face toward the wall and closed my
eyes. Tears wers hot under the lids.
! felt pitifully little and weak 49,
bested / knew within myself that
no matter what had gone before, in
spite of the doubt created by hearing
6races voice behind tie closed doors
of his office loved Tom, and to
the exclusion Of every other interest
! knew that if he asked me | should
marry him. could not pet away
from it.
hated myself for what seemed
to be a weakness -the weakness of
loving in spite Of reason-and | wod-
dered as | lay there with my eyes
half closed why love should never
be reasonable For, should my feel.
ing for Tom be governed by reason,
II would have been then what it had
been weeks before when / wrote the
letter which 50 changed my life.
helga-hoW are you?' lie had
taken my hand
When ! opened my eyes | saw that
we We're quite alone in the room. Lila
had disappeared.
You've been cryingm with sur
| prise is there anything can do,
dear?"
HIS kindness hurt. 1t brought
tears and still more tears. And while
cried he stood heIplessly by.
I'm sorly,' I heard him say at
length | looked up. He bent over.
Pretty hard, hasn't it been, little
girl His hand was strollng my
hair
"Ycs!" Just audibly.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-11
OBSERVATIONS


Ireland is fighting for home-rule;
so are most husbands.
Cities have more tnan so per cent
OF tha population lha,a what is
wrong with the country.
The onion crop is above normal
and strong winds are predicted this
winter.
All Wa paths lead to ruin.
Drive slow or be driven slow
One way to keep others off your
toes Is TO be on them yourself
Congress Khan Probe headline
It sure khan
Modest Rents" seems to mean
they have been raised
Time women buy few more
pistols this will be the Western
himlesphere.
Some wedding rings are around the
eyes.
An alarm clock that went off like
corks popping would get most men
out OF bed.
Wild oats are hard to tame.
Distance doesn't lend much en-
chantment to prosperity
A body, said to be 1000 years old,
has been dug up in Maine Police
are al work on the case.
The worst habit is tie habit of
forming bad habits.
Voliva says the world is flat. We
know one who thinks himself Ma.
poleon.
This charge of the tite bridgade is
awful.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-11
THIRrY YEARS ACO TODAY.

IFIOm tnp IImoe- RpCOrdpr Oct. 7.
1911
The corservatories Of Mr. George
Stanfield ON Finn street are surely
p low 10 The aesthetic eve per-
feet mass iof manv-hued blossoms.
his Green houses arc visions of bean
tv. I'd Mr., Stanfield is due the
credit of being called the pioneer
florist of Americas A few wears
AGO he began cultivatjng flowers for
the love of pastime. until now his
collection has crown bnvond his CON
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-11
PEACEMAKERS
BY DR.. William f. Barton.


THE philosophy Of the peace of
Versailles is to weaken the cen
tral powers, and to separate them
from Russia by line on group of
small buffer states.
These are Hungary, Rumania,
Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania,
Latvia, Esthonia, and the rest, whose
names and geographical situation we
so vaguely know and whose political
status Is such puzzle to US.
More and more it becomes clear
how much of vindictivess and jeal-
Gus fear went into the making of that
punitive peace. There was lost an
opportunity to establish peace upon
an equitable and durable basis.
In 1914 the plenipotentiarles of
Great Britain in conference with
those of the United States proposed
to end the war of 1912 on some such
basis. They proposed that a wide
neutral strip be surveyed across the
American continent and populateG
with Indian tribes.
The theory was that if either
Great Britain or the United States
should move to attack the other, each
would have enough allies among the
Indians to hold the attacking nation
back until the other nation could
prepare to defend itself.
Was not that a beautiful way for
two civilized nations to utilize the
savage tribes, and by intrigue and
trickery among them which would
surely have followed for each ma
ton to secure its own protection?
To their everlasting honor the
American plenipotentiaries refused
to consider this suggestion!
What did they do in lieu of buffer
states?
They dismantled their forts on
both sides Of the Canadian border,
and trusted in each others good
faith and friendship.
We want no savages 10 help us
keep peace with Canada. Our un.
guarded boundary is the longest and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-11

This charge of the tite bridgade is
awful.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-11

Voliva says the world is flat. We
know one who thinks himself Ma.
poleon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-10-11
Z RESIGNED from the presidency

Z RESIGNED from the presidency
Of the Georgia School Of Tech
nology because Of the increasing lack
Of Legislative support, and the
prophecy from official sources that
no relief could ne expected until
the states archaic tax SYSTEM had
been revised. An experience Of
nearly 20 years with Georgia poll
ties has not produced oyer-optlm-
ism Chat this redemptivc legisla
tlou IS impending, and IN the mean
time the almjhating burden of
begging Ia support the state tech
biological institute must continue.
Even il the viii were present, the
Impairment of reserve strength to
meet the eratuitous burden has
reached the pono OF necessary con
sideration
Georgia, with her matchless re-
sources, is not 50 poverty-stricken
as to Justify he possible sacrifice
OF family and self in order to Sc
cure the support for her technical
school which she is 50 abundantly
able to provide.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05
SEC'Y MELONS TAX PROGRAM.
lNe,N York E,Neninc Pos.

Secy Melons tentative suggestions to the WAYS
and means committee yesterday concerning tax re-
vision in two respects disapr ontng. In the
first place, his estimate of government expenditures
for next year $4,000 900 900 comes as an unpleas-
ant surprise 10 those who have been hoping
recent agitation for economy would have some
tangible results. 1t is possible. however that in
naming high figure the secretary was merely
desiring 10 play safe" by squirting congress into
providing ample revenues and thus TO save the adj
miHistration the embarrassment of having later 10
face deficit. which might IL congress yields
the pressure for reduction OF without also
applying the pruning knife TO departmental expend-
lures There IS also a possibility that the secretary
made this liberal estimate OF expenditures with the
distinct purpose Of giving the country something
a shock and of causing the public TO insist
nomy with the same emphasis that ii has shown in
demanding lower taxes If his talk before the COM
itee should have this effect he will have rendered
the country a notable service.
Most of the recommendations Of Sec'y Mellon with
regard 70 revision in line with his sugges-
tions his letter Chairman Fordney April.
and have already been forecast in these columns.
They include the repeal OF the profits the
reduction OF surtaNes larger incomes 10 maxi
mum OF 40 percent. reduction in the rate OF the
transportation taxes and repeal Of the taxes
soft drinks As Offset TO these reductions he pro-
Ioses the imposition OF a OF IS percent the
earnings OF corporations with a repeal OF the
present exemption OF $4,000.
But the other respect in which the secretary's
recommendation are disappointment is in two
proposals TO new means Of revenue. He suggests
two-cent bank checks This hardly be de-
s.grated step relieve business OF oppressive
gress slight The proposal for three-cent rate
hrstClass mail Will only be unpopular but is
also step backward, since. under peace conditions.
the postal service should not be regarded fiscal
resource but social necessity 10 be furnished
the lowest consistent with the The
ton observable in Europe against this principle.
regreable and should not be followed in the United
States
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05
THE PROBLEM IN HAYTI.
(SIoux City Ha.) TribuneO

As the darkness settled down upon Hayt thai
first night American marines stretched their weary
bodies for sleep, from the hills and valleys clothed
in dark vegetable growth. for miles around sounded
the CREEPY roll of voOdoo tom-toms. That is the
problem in Hayti Like their African tribal fore
bears, the natives of the turbulent island the
south victims of wood OOism.
1t is their religion Like the Aztec priests OF the
days Of COrtez they practced the human sacrifice
in rude temples hidden deep in tropical thickets.
The marines began their work by Selling the great
drums crawling through the dense underground and
dispensing the medicine man" and his disciples
with few shots into the air. deprived their
church BELLS the medicine summoned their
followers by the grapevine" method.
The voOdOo assembly, with it's cannabalistic rites
and immoral dances, is almost a thing OF the past
after more than five years of marine rule, accord
ing TO investigator for the Dearborn Independent.
But the bodies of least two marines captured by
the outlaws found later with vital organs re-
moved The fanatics believe that by eating the heart
OF sacrificed they absorb the courage of the VIC
tim; and from the liver wisdom and cunning.
Occasionally, now, these temples STUN
bed upon, cleverly hidden under foliage. And in the
OF the islands the natives universally
wearing voodoo charms-tiny cloth sacks at their
necks. bits of rag around ankles wrists, or a
chickens foot.
SO il is suggested that II committee OF congress-
so down 10 Hayti to investigate the conduct
OF the marines has been moved in congress- that
they tie rabbit foot around their necks,
and let them hang in plain view.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05
WHEN YOU'RE OLD.

What will you be doing IN your old age7 VIII you
be sitting the front porch. stroking your white
hair?
or viii you be active. powerful and leader? This
latter. you Ioay doubt For OF have the false
notion that old age necessitates inactivity
Consider the case OF the Earl Of Haisbury--sa
years old. the oldest in the British house OF
lords where he is leader Of the conservatives
Idle hards"
Halsbury in hts prime one OF the greatest Eng
l,sh lawyers. became Lord Chancellor in 1855 and
served until 1905 when ne IS. Now, preparing
TO celebrate his 1OOth birthday. he busily
peryising the writing Of a 2o-volume edition inter
preting the whole law OF England.
The Earl Of Ducie. "a. is rounding out his 6sth
year OF service in the House OF Lords along with
ss-year-old Baron Eversley. both extremely active
Compared with these English politicians. Sen
Lodge. IL is youngster. So Is Sen Dillingham;, ~
and Sen. Culberson. 6s.
Only Uncle Joe Cannon IS. Is a real rival
II you have an idea OF retiring when you are So
consider these great exploits by old
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05
KEEP ON sCRAPPING.
Editor News Times

Editor News Times
The statement IN a recent issue
by wv. NJ y" that France is 70
blame for the present imbroglio in
Upper Silesia Is untrue The peace
treaty explicitly says that the vote
in the recent plebiscite shall Do
counted by districts. not as a whole.
Although many thousands Of Ger
mans who had left the territory
we're allowed for some reason 10 re-
turn and vote, the result, counting
the votes cast by each district rs
determining the future allegiance
Of that district, showed that a great
majority Of them desired 20 be a
lied 10 Poland. Among these were
the districts containing the ve-y
rich coal and iron deposits, which
Germany disukes 10 lose. France.
always the firm and consistent
friend OF Poland. insists on the
strict Interpretation OF the treaty
as Il applieds 70 the Upper Silesian
question. while the rest Of her late
allies are trying 10 deliver the ter
ritory 10 Germany in violation Of
the terms OF the peace treaty gov
erning the plebiscite. T. II.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05
Sic public pUISo

c. L. sees the ridiculous position III
which they place themselves in pro
testing any further amendments to
the already drastic restrictions of the
Volstead law, and compares Ander-
son, Wayne y. Wheeler and Con-
gresham Volstead TO Moses, "the
great law giver," and says further
that the vets should repeal the ten
commandments.
I think the laugh is with the vets.
With submarine chasers securing
the waters Of our eastern coast from
ey West to the St. Lawrence trying
10 CAPTURE rum runners, and where
they fail by the runners making
some harbor. When the chase Is
taken up by the land forces all Of
the expense being borne by the tax
paying public. The vets in congress
may be snugly ensconced in SOM
foreign embassy drinking good old
bottled in bond Bourbon" Taking
n chaser Of Original Budweiser. a
second drink wuld surely cause
broad smile-perhaps a burst Of
unbelievable discussing this same
NolStead law.
Our old friend. Abe Martin, says:
'"They are making it faster than we
can find 1t"
As TO the repeal Of the ten com
mandments: At the time Moses gave
them to the children OF Israel he
gave TO them many other laws.
among which we find:
Thou shalt not delay to offer the
first Of the ripe fruits, and Of thy
liquors. The first born Of thy sons
shalt thou give unto me" EXod. %:
90
Is not the Volstead law a repeal Of
this law of God delivered to the peo-
pie by Moses? Why not repeal tn
whole set Of laws including the ten
commandments? I have become so
dry while writing this that I will
have TO take a look at a bottle Of
vinegar which has an "Old Taylor"
label on it which may moisten my
parched throat by starting a liberal
supply of saliva. in memory of Aud
Lang Syne."
We must obey the law or pay the
renalty. The more drastic the re-
strictions the dryer We get and the
drouth may be OF some years dura
ton. And yet Kansas has never
been dry in all the years Of It's pro-
hibition law. We may be compelled
to spy upon our neighbor 70 satisfy
Wheeler & Co. and woe be unto
the neighbor I find taking a drink
by himself.
THIRSTY.
Edwardsburg. Mich.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05

Titan painted his famous Battle of Lepanto when
he was 9s
Won Moltke IN fun Uniform at S.
Commodore Vanderbilt did not become a great
railroad king until he 20. At IS he was the
active railroad OF his day.
Socrates began studying music when ne was so.
was so.
ages Of American discovery
voltaire. Newton. Spencer Talleyrand and Thomas
Jefferson-all were active and In their intellectual
prime after So
When Calico discovered the monthly and daily
vibrations OF the moon he was 7s
There tens Of thousands Of other instances OF
great men who did their work in old age.
You in your youth grope rather bindly. Expert
ence comes slowly. With old age arrives wisdom
real knowledge Of life.
It's good thing for a government to have gray
boards among its younger legislators It's good
thing for business have old men sitting on the
I'D at headquarters while the young bloods go cut
after the business
Youth usually is too inpusive
Old age. remembering scorched fingers is con
servative.
The two working together. make the happy
medium
Nature make your joints stiffen and your
arteries hard, your hair white and your face lined
with wrinkles. But your brain-your real self-cAn
defy old age.
Train your brain. learn to think straight, II you
would make old age the most successful period Of
your life.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05
PERSECUTION.

Russia has resulted IN rCviv1ns anti-Jewish preid-
dice. according DR.. Kreinin. a prominent jewish
social worker. who has just arrived at Berlin from
Moscow.
DIT Kreinin fears the determination of the entire
Jewish population in White Russia in the revival Of
the Iugrons which have already begun He tells II
Jews forsaking their homes and property and flee
ing TO the frontiers. More than $4,000 living in
horrible conditions along the Rumanian border Not
a child under seven years OF age is to be found
among them having iied OF disease
So persecution lives after the world before
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
Washington ID. O. Post

The United States chamber of commerce. with
membership composed OF 100000 firms and indi-
viduals, has registered 90 percent favor of the
proposed reclassifcation of civil service employees
for the government. The reforms which are favored
by the members OF the national chamber include
following:
Recasting of the policy OF employment adequate
and uniform pay under like conditions; reclassifca-
ton 70 be installed by budget bureau; promotion
the preferred method for filling vacancies; civil
service to apply to all officers not resi- onsble for de-
termining policies; Improvement in the rules gov
erning separations from the service.
The common sense business brains OF the United
States have now passed upon the problems which
were considered by the committee reclassihca-
ton. The solution suggested by that committee
been overwhelmingly approved. The disease that af-
ficts the governmental service has been we'll dag
noSed and the remedy prescribed. 1t is up 70
congress to apply the remedy without undue delay.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05
EMERY.

The American Legion won't let UP in its pro-
gram for disabled untf the last man has
obtained cent OF compensation due him." il
the declaration OF John q. Emery. the legion
commander.
The untiney death Of Col GaIbraith who
legion commander worked increasingly TO get jus
tice the disabled soldiers was a great loss 70
the legion. 1t feared that a successor equal 10
the task OF carrying his work a successful fin
ish could found. Happily these fears seem to
have been unfounded Emery Is made Of the
stuff.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05
G. O. p. OPPOSES TARIFF PRO.
GRAM.


Editor News-Times:
In reading the schedule of the new
tariff bill up for discussion before
congress, l find a number OF rates
that are against the people, and in
favor Of the leather, lumber, and oil
trusts. For instance, 1 note it is
proposed by the bill to put a duty
of 10 per cent ad valorem on hides;
this will mean the buying public will
have TO pay one-third more for their
shoes There is no doubt but there
is a leather trust in our country.
But the worst OF all are the rates
TO be put on lumber and oil. Our
timber supply is limited, and grow
ing smaller each day. A few men
own the greater portion of the tim
Der OF the nation, and they and the
lumber trusts fix the price Of all lum-
Der and building material. We hear
much complaint about high rents.
But il can't be otherwise as things
now are. Last year 1 had occasion
10 reshingle a house. The old shin
giles that I put on twenty years be-
fore were of native yellow poplar,
single amchine in the woods where
the trees had grown. He sold and
delivered them TO me on my prem
ises at $2.25 a thousand. The shin
giles I replaced them with were ship
ped from the Northwest and cost me
delivered at the house SO a thousand,
four times as much as the former
shingles cost me.
The same may be said about oil.
Our oil supply is limited and IN the
hands OF the oil trust. Besides there
are twenty times more demands for
oil now to what there was twenty
years ago. Many factories in this
country and England. besides all the
larger battleships in this country and
England are being converted into oil
power instead OF coal. Now there
are great oil deposits being found
and opSated throughout the world.
Why not let our people have the
| benefit OF them? Why place a duty
on foreign oil? Why not admit free
OF duty into our country timber.
lumber, laths. shingles and pulp and
other timber supplies as we'll as oils?
| W AlN DuAANAA AAAE EAb4AN ~ NdA LAA0
! loads OF the unjust. extortions OF the
| timber, lumber and oil trusts?
The writer has all his life favored
a reasonable tariff. and voted for
Mr.. Harding and the republican con-
gress; but II Mr.. Harding permits the
| present congress TO slip over a tariff
| too favorable 10 the trusts he will
| find himself a one termer, and the
next congress viii be democratic.
So let Nle president beware Of the
shrewd timber, lumber. oil and
leather trusts. The public Is in no
frame Of mind TO be trifed with, and
will resent any injustice perpetrated
upon them by congress J. P. L.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05
TOO MUCH MIL.

Richard Spillane. writing in Commerce and FL
nance calls attention the great printing waste,
not only in the government service but in private
business well.
lie estimates that millions OF dollars could be
saved TO American business concerns and indirectly
the consumers II so-called mailing lists were
vised and kept up to date
His statement that It is doubtful II one piece out
Of of mail hist literature read by the person
eetv1Dg It. Is probably under rather than over
statement OF the case.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05
dust FOIRs @y, G6d zzzsEz
HIS WORK.

HIS WORK.
There isn't much fame on a farm,
an the farm doesn't pile up
the wealth,
1t gives you an appetite early an
late. an it's usually lavish with
health;
The world travels by in its cars. but
the men and the women don't
see
Any reason TO cheer anything that
do or pin any medals on me;
But I'm doing my work just the
same an at night time the
Lord an I know
That the wheat's loOkin' fine in the
acres out there, and well, l
helped II grow.
Sometimes I get gloomy an blue an
wish I could rise with the great,
An wish could point something
out which my hands have build
ed or helped TO create;
Then the orchard looks over to me
an the fruit-laden trees seem to
say,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05
XWAKENING.

The runor that Lenine proposes to acknowledge
Russas foreign debt and begin paying off the inter
and the principal IN 1925. Is of the in
teresting and significant bits OF that has
of Russia since the beginning OF the soviet rule
This = OF the several indications that the
soviet rulers beginning realize that their only
hope OF being admitted the society civil
tied nations lies in their willingness greatly modi-
fy their extreme policy resFect OF international
relations
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05
CARUSO.

"Caruso's voice Is stilled by death"
That could have been said truthfully-if the
singer had died 10 years ego.
But though the marvellous tenor has been touched
by Deaths hand his voice will Live through the Gen.
turtles.
And. too. he will walk with generations after gen.
eratons to come.
For Carusos voice l. preserved for us through
the phonograph his form II preserved for US in mo-
ton pictures.
For which art must thank science
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-08-05

If t. were not for you an the care
that you've given, we wouldn't
be bearin' today"
An the acres Of corn over there,
planted 'em all, row by row,
THE good gift O. nature" the poets
declare-but the Lord knows
helped 1t TO grow.
I reckon I'm filling my place.
though workin' all day on the
soil
An standing the heat Of the merci-
less sun isn't listed as glorious
toll;
There's little Of brilliance here, an
there's nothin' to brag of, i
guess.
A farmers a farmer. an that's all
he is-an' his crops are his only
success;
But the Lord knows. an I know it,
too, as I plough or I harrow or
hoe,
That these fields would be barren
OF wheat an Of corn, if hadn't
helped 'em TO grow.
Copyright, 1929