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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-13
Philip Ames Refuses to Talk

/ GY'VE never felt just as ! do TINS
morning-Mi Sorenson,' Lila
was slipping her coffee, and there
are some things which | think should
be lonesome changes.
II wonder if you" she was hest
tating where heretofore she would
have given an order
Would you she started again,
call Philip for me-please-and tell
him to come-that | want to see
him."
When l called Philip Ames' office
| was told that he was not in.
But he must be there-there isn't
anywhere else he could be at this
time" Lila said nervously. please
tell them to have him call me-"
II wish | could get out of the
party-but it's too late to recall any
invitations" She was thinking
aloud. Then to me. You must for
give me if | seem to be not myself
today-I'm-not"
The next 80 minutes we spent talk
ing Of the party.
won't you try 70 get Philip again
i know that girl must have forgot.
ten to tell him?" Lila finally broke
out
I called but was told again that
Mr.. Ames was not there.
Call his home said Mrs. Ames
at length 4 must talk to him-and
have him here"
The well-modulated contralto
which answered my ring at the
Philip Ames home startled me. |
wondered that its magnetism hadn't
kept Philip Ames at his own hearth.
stone.
/ was told by that voice, which
said it belonged to Mrs. Ames, that
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-13
HE DOESN'T PROPOSE
YOU'RE TOO
LIKE HIM
BY RUTH AGNES ABELING

YOU thought it a clever little pose
L and because some of the girls
laughed and tried to initiate your
way Of Struggling your shoulders and
taking care of yourself while you let
everyone else do the best they could,
you continued it.
You continued it until, almost, it
became the real you-and you
Haunted for nina rather advance
sort of person with ideas about free
dom and the survival Of the fittest,
even when it came to street car seats
and little. tired women who look so
hopelessly forlorn standing in an
aisle while the car joys along.
There was just such one the
| other day when he was going home
! with you. OF course you had
wedged in through the crowd--lt
| was an art you were proud of-and
slipped into a seat. The mem SIT
ting near were rather ashamed and
uncertain. they buried their heads
in the newspapers, but you were
frank about ii and stared right at
the woman. and the nice young man
who stood near you was AFRAID you
were going to say something ABOUT
! he cheap scarf tied over her mar
He felt queer about it. You looked
50 Young and so strong and she 50
| fCrsaken and tired. OF course, ne
didn't say anything, but ne WISHED
that you would get up and give hei
your seat-as they used to do years
ago.
And then at home. while your
mother was still standing, you
dropped into your chair at the din
ner table and greeted your brother
with q shout.
You believed in single standards
to the very last You didn't want tC
bother with the fussy feminine
things. You were meeting him on
his own ground. You were a pal.
You didn't know but what you
might even adopt his style of dress
skirts were such a nuisance, you
thought.
You were smart You were
swapger. You were clever
Ands YOU thought he liked you fol
it 50 each day you tried to be little
more smart, little more swagger
little more clever. And the days
kent slipping uneventfully by until
suddenly he met that little girl chun
Of yours who reveled in fancifuI
frills, and was such a girly-girl and
they ran away the next day and were
married.
Don't forget to be distinctly fem.
mine!
No man wants to marry his chum
! Neither does he want a be-trouserec
pal for a wife. He wants an old
fashioned girl, even one who is will
ing to live up to the highest side OF
a double standard
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-13

Curly loved Captain Pennvv5I
or Cap'n as he was usually c,r
and Cap'n Pennywinkle loved nj
Curly was quite as useful to his
tie master as Sprinkle-Blows h
brella was to Sprinkle-Blow. Or nj
pety-Flap's shoes were to him. orr
Bobadil Firms wishing ring, or h
but not least, the Green Shoes
Nancy and Nick. Being magic
out of the Fairy Queens stab
Curley could do almost anything.
spoke English quite well, as did
master.
But there! I'm telling about
horse before Pm telling about
master, which is just as bad
putting the cart before the hC
You must know about Cap'n Pen
Wrinkle. Really, Bliny Ocean wo
be the most mixed up place in
world, were it not for the order
keeps.
(To Be Continued).
Copyright, 1920.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-13
OBSERVATIONS


These are anti-bellum days. d.
Every week is a thrift week.
The 'bloom Of youth is rouge.
Girls should be treated right-apd
often.
A grin to the face is worth two to
the back.
Woman is still a mystery in spite
of styles.
Sometimes the boss has to be a
crank to start things.
One home team that always loses
is mother and father.
Rural photographers arc packing
away their wooden fish for the WIN
ter.
Depression is like all permanent
expensive. but not permit
nent.
The only way poor man car
discourage the stork is to inherit q
fortune.
Statistics show women are. spend
ing less for paint. Buying whole
sale?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-13
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS

years he has been connected with
the Americas schools.
Excavating for the foundation
walls of the two buildings of the
Johnson-Harrold warehouse company
is nearly finished, and in a day or
two bricklaying will be going for
ward at a rapid rate.
Americas warehouses handled 300
bales of cotton yesterday, with the
prospect of today's receipts doubling
that number.
Just now the farmers Of Sumter
county are storing away hundreds of
tons of hay, while big wagons haul
to Americas daily the surplus not
needed on the farm.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-13

ToHN NJ. STDDAL, editor of tn"
American Magazine, the most hu-
man, probably, Of all magazines pub
lished. once said:
~"The reason so much reading mat
ter is unpopular and never attracts
wide reading public lies in the fact
that the reader sees nothing IN IT
for himself. Take an article, we
saw. entitled The Financial System
Of Canada 1t looks dull, DOESN'T
it? 1t looks dull because you can't
quite see where it affects you.
"Now take an article entitled Why
it is easier to get rich in Canada than
in the United States That's differ
emf Your interest is aroused. You
wonder wherein the Canadian has an
advantage over you. You look into
The article to find out whether you
can't get an idea from it.
7rYet the two articles may be basic
ahv alike, differing only in treat
mont. One bores you and the other
interests you. One bores you be
cause it seems remote. The other in.
terests you because the writer has
the skill to translate his facts anc
ideas into terms that are personal to
you. The minute you become per.
sonal in this world you become in
teresting,"
4 ND that explains the interest in
n Fatty Arbuckle in jail 1t is
personal news-news about the trou.
bles of your own heretofore personal
friend in trouble. And you want tc
know all the details
Very simple, after all. isn't it -
this interest Of yours?
A man IN Paris claims he can walk
on Yater We all do over here.
Ir renlv to What is the world
coming to-" we say America"
Fho vae' mo callel Ice days
,letanrfolp's was thinking Of the
September income tax.
Afehans rare1v see their bride,
before the wedding; Americans SEE
them rarely afterwards
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-13
ED ORIAL .

WHY are the newspapers printing
columns about Fatty Arbuckle
and his troubles? The answer will
give the reader a hnt as to what real
ly constitutes news.
Every detail Of Arbuckle's trou-
bles is read with deep interest by
nine out Of every ten newspaper
readers because nine out Of every ten
such know, on feel that they know
Arbuckle personally and intimately.
Seeing him repeatedly on the screen
in action in parts both pleasing and
highly entertaining has famiharized
the public with him in a way that
makes every person seem to know
him. And, feeling this closcncss, his
troubles are like the troubles Of a
close personal friend The fact that
he is thousands Of miles away has no
bearing on the case; the intimacy OK.
lists and the interest is natural. The
character Of the crime with which he
is charged, or the kind Of a private
life he is now revealed to have led, is
beside the point, however much it
now may have done to sever what
public friendship and esteem the cor
pulent movie star has had.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-13
TWENTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY

(From the Times Recorder. Sept.
10, l90D.
The marriage of Miss Minnie John
ME Williams and Mr.. Clarence O,
Niles last night was an occasion of
much social interest in Americas, and
not in long while has a prettier
church wedding been witnessed here
Calvary Episcopal church was
thronged with friends Miss Elizabeth
Harold rendered the wedding march
The ushers were Judge Charles R
Crisp, Mr.. John W. SILVER, Mr.. Rob
ert f. Lee and Mr.. Charles Burke
The maid Of honor was Miss Mary
Chapman of Macon, and Misses Dovie
Clements, Suzanne Simmons and
Lila Johnson preceded the bride and
groom. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. c. T. Wright, rector of the
Episcopal church of Albany.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles NJ. Davis
have sent out cards announcing the
engagement of their daughter. Jessie
Morgan, to Mr.. James Henry HarweII
Parks, the marriage to take place al
noon on Thursday next, 10th inst
at the Davis residence, ITO Prince
street.
Prof. w. J. Moves and family
leave today for Valdosta to make
that their future home. Prof. Noyes
was recently elected to a high posi-
ton in the Valdosta public schools
and assumes his new duties at the
/ opening of the fab term. For many
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-13
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY

(From the Times-Recorder Sept.
13, 191D.
A reduction of 10 per cent in the
n tax rate of Sumter county was
made at the meeting of the board
of county commissioners yesterday
making the county tax rate for the
coming year only 50 on the 81 ,00G,
as compared with the rate Of SO
per $1,000 paid by the people of the
county last year.
With the departure of the pretty
school girls for the colleges and
schools up the state there was moth
ing left for the gallant lads but to
do likewise, and accordingly half a
score departed by the Central noon
train yesterday Of this number s
will attend Stone Mountain school
this term. Among the Americas boys
bridge, Fred Stills, Ben Hawkins
Frank Cato, Emory Rylander, Nc
Cord Prather and Kinchen Worthy
The spirit Of good fellowship man.
fest n our churches is matter for
which the people of Americas have
reason to be thankful. As a practical
expression of this cordiality of feel
ing there has been formed a Pas
tors Association.
The building committee of the Am
ercus Hospital, composed of Mrs. c
c. Hawkins, Mrs. r. l.. Maynard,
Mrs. H. B. Mashburn and Mrs. Chas
Williams, went to Albany yesterday
by automobiles for the purpose of in
specting the new hospital building
there.
Mrs. NJ. l.. Myrick is welcomed to
Americas, her former home, upon q
visit of some time to friends She is
the guest this week Of Mrs l.. G
Council
Misses Rebecca Hodges and Mary
Ella Davenport will leave today for
Gainesville where the will enter
Brenau College.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-13
BEST RHODE IS
LAND RED EGGS
FOR SALE,

Fifteen eggs from specially
mated pen; all prize winning
birds of best color and type.
$500.
Fifteen eggs from pen mated
for egg production; good color
and shape birds, 5000
Limited number of either class
for sale. Build your stock from
the very best foundation to be
had.
c. r. BEALL
Oelethorpe University, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-09-13

To guard against being imposed upon The
Times Recorder cannot ept for publication articles
or items not signed by the sender. 1t is not
sary that the name be for utilization, but be
attached as an evidence of God faith
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-05-13
BIG SNAP BUY
20-acre Fruit Orchard
hAAr CnnL n nA
Near SPokane.

sWI4 NEA sIs sec. 81, T. "a, r. a..
Pelletier orchard-20 acres rolling, rich,
deep loan soil, trees IL years old, have
been well cared for and are in excellent
condition; 80 are cherry of several va
rieties; IL of prune pear and early apple.
Beauty and Olympia Baldwin apple trees.
Crop outlook is fine; 125-foot we'll with
large flow of splendid water; gasoline
pump; 3-room bungalow, large packing
shed; Is miles Sc. of Spokane, near Pa
louise highway and electric car line and
town. of valleyford. Livestock and farm
equipment go with place; $4,000 will
handle Deal with owner, Mrs. j. II.
Pelletier. 1907 West Maxwell Ave-. Spo-
kane. Wash: Write or phone Max. s395J.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-05-13
Must Readjust Wages.

These conditions affect, generally,
the food, clothing, housing, that peo-
pie must have. There must be a vital
readjustment of wages before We can
have permanent reconstruction and in
dustrial readjustment. But how can
we, a nation of business men, expect
wage-earners to agree to this while
the middle man not only passes on
his losses to the consumer but exacts
an unreasonable profit ON replace
ments?
Il hope everybody understands that
we must have an honest-to-God days
work from every wage-earner If we
shall restore economic poise and pros.
per our industry. Prosperity can not
be based on idleness, nor can national
resources be increased by halfhearted
work. The need of the hour is work
and saving, and then work more and
thrice save. And when our people
follow these cardinal truths their hap
piness and contentment will be perma-
nently assured
Our economic evolution will be
a failure unless the people-yes, all
the people-begin now to put their
conscience into their business and
their work. A conscience left at the
altar of the church does no useful
service. 1t must be brought into our
daily work and business. This Is alb.
solutely necessary to bring about a
correct understanding between those
who serve and those who are served.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-05-13
Prices Maintained.
Washington State
Yakima Apples Move Fast.


YAKIMA.--With only 500 cars of
apples left in storage in the Yakima
valley. growers and shippers are op-
timistic about cleaning up the entire
49, crop by June 1.
Almira Leads In Spelling.
DAVENPORT. = Almira won the
county spelling championship for this
year among class A schools with a
final average of 81 from the four
tests given. Davenport took second
place with an average of 95.A. and
Harrington third with 93h per cent.
Pasco. Burbank Bridge.
PASCO.-Marking one of the most
important events In the history of the
development of this region and of
the northwest, the new toll bridge
spanning Snake river between Pasco
and Burbank and connecting Walla
Walla and Franklin counties, was Of
ficially dedicated May 6. The crowd
witnessing the ceremonies was esti-
mated at from $500 to 5000. Z.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-05-13
Hugh Wallace to Leave in June.

PARIS.-Hugh C. Wallace, the re-
firing American ambassador. will
leave Paris the last week in June
for his home in Tacoma. Myron T..
Herrick, the new ambassador, will ar
rive in Paris the middle of July.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-05-13


troubles would soon solve them
selves. Unfortunately for us all, the
law Of supply and demand is in these
respects as dead as a New England
mackerel.
Each Wants His" First.
Manufacturers, jobbers, whole
salers, retailers, laborers-are all in
some sort Of combination to Illustrate
this fundamental law of economics.
Each is out to get his first.
II realize that / am offering you
no new thought when l say that at
this moment this very condition is the
underlying cause of Industrial and
business paralysis. These combina-
tions-gentlemen's agreements, or
what not-have gotten prices of things
to the point where there is no rela-
ton between cost of raw materials and
! cost of production; no relation be-
tween cost of production and cost to
the consumer; in short, where there is
no relation between value and selling
price.
"The consumers know this, and 80
they are waiting. They have pointed
the procession Of interests, whose
motto is well get ours first" They
are determined to buy no more than
absolute needs in market thus un-
considerably fixed.
THAT there is now no proper re.
lation between production cost and
consumers cost is constantly proved.
A farmer took 20 calfskins to town
and received for them the price Of q
pair of shoes at $3.50 and cash
balance OF $1.30. The farmer sells
his fatted sheep at cents pound !;
but you pay $3.50 at a good hotel for
one English mutton chop weighing
about six ounces. The same utter lack
of logical relationship between costs
and prices prevails throughout the
gamut Of foods, and in about every.
thing else that can be controlled. AS
to meats, l can tell you, of my own
knowledge, that it is not the packer
that is chiefly responsible. The re
sponsibility lies somewhere between
i'm o<0 oh
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-05-13
"UncIe Joe" IS Years Old.

WASHINGTON. = The house ad-
journed Saturday that the S5th birth
day OF uncle Joe" Cannon could be
fittingly celebrated.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-05-13
righteousness Must Prevail.

The first essential step in this
economic REIMBURSEMENT is for business
men. traders, manufacturers, to square
their actions and direct their course
by the compass of righteousness, good
will, fellowship and brotherhood.
Then those who serve will be willing
to serve well at fair wage for an
honest days work.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-05-13
u. S. STEEL MUST
NOW STAND TRIAL
UNFAIR COMPETITION BY GIG
TRUST CHARGED BY FEDERAL
TRADE BOARD.
II OTHER COMPANIES ALSO
"The Pittsburs Plus" Price Main
tanned Regardless Of Transporta-
tion-Hoids Rail Control
Virtual Monopoly.
II OTHER COMPANIES ALSO


plant against the United States Steel
corporation and IL subsidiary COM
panies, alleging unfair competition in
interstate commerce, was issued re-
Gently by the federal trade commits
sion. Thus the commission finally
has decided that it has sufficient jur-
isdiction to take UP the long standing
complaints by users of steel products
and others against the alleged use by
the corporation of the device known
as 'the Pittsburg plus price"
The steel corporation and its sub
salaries are given 80 days to make
formal answer to the complaint, after
which the case will proceed to trial
nouncement said the case was an
"outgrowth of conditions complained
of by more than 1900 manufacturers
of steel in the Chicago, Duluth and
Birmingham districts and legislatures
of three states, by several municipali
ties and by chamber of commerce and
many business organizations through
out the United States"
1.-THE Pittsburs Plus"
"The Pittsburg plus" price is des
cribed at length in the commission s
announcement, which says that nu
der it "all steel except rails. wher
ever made and whether made in the
United States Steel corporation plants
or by independents. is sold at the
+. o. b. Pittsburg price, plus ar
amount equivalent to the freight te
point of destination" and as an illus
tration says that this means that the
Gary steel fabricator who runs his
own truck to the Gary. Ind, steel mil
and purchases steel manufactured al
that plant must pay the price charged
in Pittsburg plus an amount eQualine
the freight rate from Pittsburg tt
Gary"
The complaint is not limited. how
ever. to the alleged use of this de
vice. 1T charges specifically that the
steel corporation GOWNS and controls
the ultimate iron ore supply in the
United States" and that because o.
ats power and influence" through
the large percentage of the steel man
ufacturing business done by it ant
supported by it, it's consequent pc
tential power to embarrass or destroy
its competitors by unduly lowering
it's price schedules is "tantamount
to the naming by the steel corpora
ton of prices that are to be charged
by all the steel manufacturers in the
United States"
Prices Maintained.
The charge is also made that the
steel corporation "for at least sever
years has issued from time to time
price quotations and schedules GOV
ering rolled steel manufactured by
its subsidiaries, and that these quota
tions are adoptedby all of the re
spondents' subsidiaries and their com
petitors substantially as their quo
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-05-13
Buys Kellogg Store.

/ kELLOGG.---E. b. Thornhill &C.
quired the interests of all other stock
holders in the Worstell.Thornhill CON-
pany here for $4,000 cash and his
holdings in the Wallace store Of the
company.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-05-13
CR|SS|NCER'S TALK
PROVES TOO TRUE
NEW TREASURY COMPTROLLER
iMPRESSES NATIONAL
CAPITAL.
MOST COMBINES MUST RELAX
Each Business Man Out to Get His"
First-Consumers Wait-Gives
Remedy-Read the
Article.
MOST COMBINES MUST RELAX

WASHINGTON, ID. CD. Il. Girls
singer, country banker. brought to
Washington by President Harding
from Marion, Ohio, to be comptroller
of the treasury, has impressed the ma
tional capital as man of convictions
with no fear to express them. When
he delivered Il speech the other day
before the district bankers in which
he declared that the law of sundry
and demand no longer controls bust
ness he attracted much attention to
himself because it is unusual for a
government official to be SO frank.
He declared that the reason the
drop in the cost of living has not
been uniform is because retail prices
in many lines fail to reflect lower
wholesale prices.
Scarcity, coupled with the desire
to have, should and does fix the
price," he said. IF things people
need to eat, wear and house them
could be bought with the assurance
that the price was governed by the
same unfettered law, our economic
troubles would soon solve them.
selves. Unfortunately for us all, the
law Of supply and demand is in these
respects as dead as a New England
mackerel.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-05-13
Capital Punishment Ends.

STOCkHOLM.-Capital punishment
in Sweden has been abolished.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-05-13
viii Ship Wool by Water.

decentralization will ship it's
wool to Boston this year via Portland
and the water route through the Pana.
ma canal instead of by rail, according
to Hugh Sproat, president of the Idaho
State Wool Growers association.
Seven cars of wool already have left
for Portland.