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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-24
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY

(Frcm the Times Recorder, May
%, 189D.
Beginning with Monday afternoon,
June Is, a large number of mer-
chants Of this city will close their
places of business at 6 p. m. Ycster-
day Prof. W. B. MITCHELL on the be-
half of the employees of the city, cir
culatCd the petition to close and the
names Of those who signed appear
below: Calvin Carter & son, John
r. Shaw, Eagle Shoe Co., J. w. Shelf
field & Co., r. S. & G. w. Oliver,
Allison & Aycock, Wheatley & Ans
ley, John E. Sullivan & Son, J. r.
Fried & Co., Beehive, NJ. T. Elan,
Arthur Rylander, c. Bright, Ameri-
Gus Supply Co., j. J. Cranberry, T.
Wheatlcy, w. d. Bailey Twill close
from to 7 till Aug. 100, H. Nor
ris, Mrs. f. NJ. May, Williford, Ma
thcws & Co., ]. W. Harris, Butler &
Berry twill close at 6:30), W. H.
West, James Fricker & Brother.
Connection was made yesterday
between the wires of the Western
Union Telegraph office here and the
wires of the S. A. & NJ. and hereafter
messages to any point along the road
can be sent from the main office in
the Times Recorder building
A match game of baseball was
played here yesterday between ne
gro club from Montczuma and a nine
of the unblcached from this place,
resulting in a victory for the latter.
More than a hundred grown darkies,
to saw nothing of the little ones. at
tended the game.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-24
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS
By Stanley


Of 8 yesterday morning every ma
chlnlst and all apprentices belonging
to the union recently organized here,
laid down their tools, washed their
hands and walked out on regular
strike. Several boiler makers walked
out with them In sympathy, and III
all some thirty men have quit. 1t is
reported that all men in the Sea-
board shops had been ordered out
yesterday, and that the strike was
general. Ihc men want a nine hour
day at the present scale OF pay, which
is based on ten hours time.
More than a week ago City Marsh
all tcagin adopted an orphan horse
found on the streets and installed it
in the city's horse hotel out behind
the fire department headquarters.
Recently this new acquisition was put
on the block, but as the only bid of
fercd was 65 cents it was promptly
spuucd and Observation-Disclosures was
sent to the pasture to recupcrate.
But the patent had expired on him;
his attenuated hide and we'll drawn
ribs would not expand; nobody want
ed him for a hatrack, and yester-
day the buzards foreclosed a mort
gage on the noble steed. The city is
out Of nine dollars and Notworth-
adamski is out of misery.
June 5-Onc week from next We'd
nesday-the Retail Merchants asso-
citation of Macon will come to Amer
icus on their annual picnic at Magno-
liza Dell, and a large crowd from Ma
cen and intermediate points will
come with the clerks.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-24
Confessions Of a Husband!
THE MANS SIDE OF MARRIED LIFE

were given their supper and then
put to bed, Talbot helping in the
process. Then we had dinner - a
well-coOked, agreeable meal.
After dinner we talked about many
different things. Incidentally, Tai
bot told me he was gradually pay
ing for his home and expected IN
three years to own it outright eX-
ccpt for a small permanent mort
gage.
l knew he was earning only $40 a
week, hardly more than half what
| was making. And | was finding
it hard to get along on my reduced
salary.
When | went up to my small but
cheerful room | wondered how he
did it and how Mrs. Talbot throve,
so we'll well on such hard work. Dog
found it difficult to take care of one
child and our apartment; it seemed
easy for Mrs. Talbot to attend to two
and manage the house at the same
time.
Yet Dot was more efficient than
Elaine, Leslie Virgins wife, who
didn't see how she could live with
out a butler and an automobile.
Why where the Talbots so happy!
1t wasn't merely that Talbot was
living within his income. l myself
had always done that. But Talbot
and his wife weren't pining their
hearts away for more money, though
they probably would have been glad
if he had gotten a raise.
But they seemed to have senSed
one great truth about money. The
more you get, the more you want.
That night | dreamed that Edith
was wearing $40 gold pieces as ear
rings.
(To be continued)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-24
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY


(FrCm the Times Recorder, May
"a, 191D.
Indications are that the yield Of
wheat in Sumter county is being rap
idly Increased by the interest mani
tested by the farmers OF this impor-
lant grain crop. Prof G. V. Gun
bingham of the Agricultural college
faculty, is engaged in arousing in
crest in the further cultivation of
this crop. AS an incentive to farmers
20 grow more of wheat it is pointed
out that recent yield Of 70 bushels
Of wheat to an area of two acres
was made by j M. Buchanan on his
plantation near Americas. This is an
average of So - bushels an acre
which is an exceedingly good yield.
If the construction of a flour mill
is assured it is believed that the pro
duction of wheat will be doubled in
short time.
Every fine imposed upon speeding
autoists by Mayor Pro Tenn Bolton in
the dozen cases tried before him re
Gently have stuck all right, the city
council, to which high tribunal sew
cral cases were appealed by the de
PENDANTS, having sustained the sen
tence imposed. In the first trial a
week ago the speeders were adjudg
cd guilty Of violating the speeding
ordinance and were given uniform
fine of SIS each. Several paid up but
the others appealed to the city coun-
I'll at Mondays session.
Nh, and M y.e Horny M Stokes
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-24
WHAT THE PRESS
Is SAYING.
Some Current Comment On
Timely Topics.
OUR AMBAsSADORIAL ASS.


O0N AmbASoAOoKiAL ASS.
Look here, upon this picture, and
on this"
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A.. -1..-,. J'"N "''l''
W oIIy 'H'llS ViI1L IneE tine people
% 'I''' country aSN Tor or ADMIRE Is
! uIIS SicaIi| %ha adequately done
| GiiS" 'i7'I WISH lof america IS thaJ
| :lle i''G snare inc freedom she en-
! w, "hGI' EicdI competing sym
| p"'i'S "eIi' u9 j" tielr healts loi
i'Iel everywhere VINO Suifer and are
| "2pPItS3eo' "heh Jhe$ see at last
L L,,c IiE'I use Tor "'llcH IAeir wealth
i''' pce" phe4 up ana theIr mighty
| poWer Gccuhiuia'cd' ana counting ncl-
men pioou nor treasure, now that
OI'eIi A'Ial uay Oh opportunity mas
| COME teJoIce TO spend ana TO be
Spet'C'----f FROM rom PRESIDENT wilson's
| do,reSS 10 congress May ~ l9I6.
On aIHu 10" I"e oJhef:
,, W entered the war solely to save
INC OhIted oIateS ana most reluctant
i ~ an" H'g2afdly at that. we were not
700 PROUD TO hghC, whatever that
n, we were afraid not to fight
nat IS the real truth OF the mat
Ter from Ambassador Harvey
LONDON speech May l9, 1921.
was ever the gulf bctWlXSt a groa.
ana a petty. noble and a churllsI
spirit more VlVldly reVealed?t The i'm
preston has prevailed AT home and
abroad, that the mind of America, a
1t throbbod IN those high hours of tn,
spring OF 1918, was rightly voiced by
Woodrow Wilson; that our pcopI,
gave themselves, soul and sinew
from rarer motive than selfish fear
that cur boys went troopng to The
colors and died a glorious host OF
them, under the skies of France, for
a principle more gerenous than bar
ter and sale. But Colonel Harvca
now glibly essays to correct this. a.
he secs it, absurdly mistaken notion
We went to war, he tells the w2rld
not, as proud champions Of Justice
and freedom, not as defenders OF
democracy and willing bqlocrs n
ma kind. but as caIculating buckstcrs
trembling for our chattcIs and scared
for our skins-and "most rcuctaofI
and lageardlv at thetr
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-05-24

One of the worlds greatest butter
centcrs is Cork, Ireland, which eX-
ports nearly 100000 tons of butter
annually.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
Helping to SolUe the Local
Traffic Situation
By BILL PRICE

The of motor buses means OF aiding In the
solution of the traffic congestion in this city is beng
watched with interest by the public
The Washington Rapid Transit Company, operating
ten large motor buses between Sixteenth and Buchanan
streets and Potomac Park and Eighth street and Pennsy
vana has made good impression in the few days
has been in operation. The buses have been so well
patronzed the officials of the company considering
the purchase of additional autos at the time making
plans for the Improvement of the equipment now in use
The company began March l. and for the first six days
carried average of 5000 per day. but naugu
raj visitors accounted for a portion of the total
The officers estimate that if the average
$500 passengers per day cents fare, it will be
possible to make fair return the investment. Once
well ntrenched, a still lower fare might be possible.
AS the buses parallel the most congested car lines
of the Dstrict-Foureenth street and Connecticut avenue
the line prove of greater convenience to the public than
at first supposed.
The motor bus as rival of the electric has been
tried in cities Some of the experiments
full; many failed.
The double bus operated in London and other
large cities under consideration by the company but
the Public Utilities Commission declined to permit the
double because they would interfere with the limbs
of the shade trees Sixteenth street and might not be
able to get close to the curb owing to the trees.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
Placing Guilt
FOrDeath Traps
THE holding for trial, on a charge

THE holding for trial, on charge
of involuntary manslaughter, Of
q the engineer and fireman of the
Michigan Central train struck re-
Gently at Porter, Ind, by New
York Central train, with great loss
of life, presages another failure of
justice.
The Porter crossing plainly was a
death trap. Roads cross in such a
way as to make it possible for Il
collision of this kind to occur. Means
of prevention are not adequate, and
when a collision does occur, scores
Of people are killed or injured.
Placing the blame on train opera
tives for conditions they are power
less to remedy is unjust. The roads
which have refused to spend the
money to make travelling safe by
eliminating these death traps are
responsible, and it is the directors
who should be prosecuted for man.
slaughter.
Union labor should organize to
prevent this kind of outrage upon
their members, and humane people
and good citizens everywhere should
join in such a crusade and compel
the railroads by law to protect the
lives and rights of their employees
and the lives and rights of the
travelling public.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
THE NATIONAL DAILY
"Help EurOpe!"
Registered at the United State. Patent Once.

us face the facts-the time is here
at last to HELP OURSELVES.
In helping Europe with loans we
have reached our limit. We may
have gone beyond it. The man who
beggars his family to help his neigh
Dor is, by common consent, a feeble
creature. A government which beg
gars itself to help other governments
is no better.
Let us take this truth to heart now,
today, while the nations of Europe
still knock at the door Of the United
States Treasury and call on our
Government and people to forgive
them their past debts and lend them
more-always more.
After the Napoleonic wars Eng
land saw across the channel what
the United States sees across the
ocean today-a torn, ragged dew
astated Europe. She stretched out
her hand and helped as she could,
but always without imperiling her
own people. She protected her own
people first and then helped others
with the resources she had left. Thus
while succoring the Continental ma
tons she made herself the foremost
power of Europe.
After the civil war the United
States had the sorrows and dis
tresses of a nation at the end of
great cOnflict-an enormous debt,
vast areas of devastation, flood of
paper money and all the demoraliza-
ton of a war-weary population! Did
Europe help us' EUROPE DID
NOT. Without rancor, it may be
said, Europe not only did not help
us, but sought to injure us.
There is a lesson for us today in
these two bits of history. From
month to month, from year to year,
since April, 1917, we Americans
have helped Europe as no people
ever before helped other peoples, but
today we stand at the limit. Every
further step taken at this time for
the assistance of Europe will be
taken to the detriment of America.
Therefore, here let us stop and
stand fast. We have helped Europe.
Now let us help ourselves.
GEORGE w. HINMAN.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
Stars and Stripes

We may forget our experiences, but they
never forget US.
Natures habits grow out Of natures
laws; mans laws grow out of mans habits.
Debt is a deceiving garment, soft to slip
in, hard to wear, and harder to take off.
A temper is bad to have, and worse to
lose.
As light is distressing to sore eyes,
reason is painful to perverted minds.
He who cannot stand praise is no better
off than he who cannot stand censure-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
HUMA n
William Anterior Du Puy-

The speaker of the House of Representatives.
Mr.. Frederick Huntington Gillett is far famed
for his of excellent English. His discrimi
mating choice OF words shows itself even on such
informal occasions that of his presiding as
Judge in a recent debate staged by the National
Press Club the subject: "Resoved, That IL is
more noble to be fat than lean. I'm his intro
that the beauty of words. like pearls. may be
enhanced by the manner OF stringing them to-
gether:
From the harem OF the Turk he said, ITO the
ice cabin OF the Esauimo a liberal adjustment Of
obesity is necessarily essentis! ingredient to
beauty. The abbreviation OF feminine clothing
however, both at top and bottom, is hardly COM
patible with exaggerated rotundity. Con-
sidering1 the little that woman wears today. am
Inclined to think that IL Goldsmith still
with us he would so change the sex Of one of
his most famous couplets that it would read
Woman wants but little here below. Nor
wants <hat little long"
York. Pa, says Congressman Edward s.
Brooks. Of that city. came very near being the
seat Of the capital Of the United States.
Back in 1717, when the British were IN posses
sion of Philadelphia, 1t was the seat Of govern
ment. Later. before the wilderness on the Po-
tomac was chosen, IL was considered
The fathers made a great mistake says Mr..
Brooks York is located in scenically beau
tiful valley. is surrounded by productive farm
lands. is a hundred miles nearer the heart of the
nation than is washington. We lost the capital
because our lands were already settled and we
could not give a grant like the District Of Co
lumbia-
congressman >. II. WihsioW, OF Masachu-
sets, is one of the stoutest men in Congress and
enjoys telling jokes on others OF superfluous
averdupois.
He says that not long ago the time for cleo
iton Of officers in the Fat Mems Club in New
York approaching. 1t was conceded that the
man who exerted himself least was best quail
fled for the office of president. So was very
unusual campaign being conducted
Conceive the surprise, therefore, when two
members Of the club, standing on a street cor
ner. the leading candidate for presidency
go past at a run. Later he called into caucus
and defended himself in this wise:
81 was bumped into by truck which pushed
me and started me running. and was too lazy
to stop"
Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Coz
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
Clock "Tells" Time.

A clock that really tells" the time was in
vented some time ago by w. Hartman, a New
York man. He built this tmepiece seven years
ago and he has had II in ever since to de-
termne the staying qualities of Its construction.
The clock in question speaks every fifteen min
utes announcing the correct time The voice
record Is carried n band of film. which is per-
forated in much the same manner as the stand
ard motion picture film. A conventional phono-
graph reproducer is used TO translate the latent
sound record into actual sounds. Pressing but
ton causes the clock to repeat the time. while
another button keeps II silent
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
A Celery Planter.

BY the ingenious application of a discarded
two-cylinder opposed motorcycle engine, a New
York farmer has devised a celery trans planting
machine. says Popular Mechanics Magazine, that
automatically sets the plants while propelling
itself. The motor. hung between the front wheels,
transmits it's power to them, and also operates
two endless belts. While one man guides the
machine two others at the back place the small
plants on marks one OF the belts. as 1t crosses
q feed table. The other belt holds them in posi-
ton, roots forward until they enter furrow
made by a small pillow on the machine, and two
following disks then turn the earth back around
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
OUR PRESIDENT AND CABINET.

II say DAVIS, HOO YER told
you our President was a great
man. Anyhow no HAYS hangs on
his future horizon. He took
WEEKS to form his cabinet, and
to make the meetings congenial
he'll have a MELLON every time.
He HUGHES his way into the
hearts OF every American, but he
took FALL out OF the Senate,
and DEN BY DAUGHERTY he
WAL LACE you IL you don't walk
straight. And he has a CHRIS
TIAN secretary. TISME.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10

The situation is some
what similar to the frugal
gentleman buying a pack
age Of Smearment chewing
gum in a Disunited Cigar
Store and demanding a
package Of matches with the
purchase.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
MIR. B. Baer
DICTATED. But NOT

Now seems to be the time
for the party to come to the
aid OF all the good men.
Since taking the Government
by the ears. Mr.. Harding has
added one hundred ambidex-
trous clerks to the Com
plant Bureau, changed the
wallpaper in the Laughing
Room to a vicious blue, and
hung two Maxim silencers
on each White House tele-
phone.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10

A swivel job with the
Government is softer than
Childs' ice cream in July.
It's four years OF luxurious
limousining in a cushion
spangled chair with a fine
roll-top foot-stool for your
aching dogs. All committee
meetings are held in the
waste paper basket.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
GUESS THIS ONE.

was with you at your birth,
And today am still on hand;
Have never left my place in earth,
And yet. in Heaven, always stand.
I'm FIRST and last in health, for you,
And also aid in gaining wealth:
I'm with all hearts. false or true,
And finish my efforts in stealth:
II. SMITH
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10

"Wimmin," says GUS H., els
Jest like barbed wire. They run
along smooth fur awhile but IT
Amt long fore you cum to the
spikes"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10

Dear Mr.. Bill: My husband and
myself are ardent fans of the
C. O. c. He is on a business trip
in Minnesota, but 1 send him old
II and S every night. He says
he must have 1t.
MRS. r. s. B.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
INAUGURATION ON SUNDAY.

In answering "POLITICo," the
calendar sharks say that the
next Presidential inauguration to
fall on a Sunday will be March
4, 1915, and the next one after
that March 4, 1878. So say
AUNT GRACE" TIM JAY"
HICKORY NUT" L. p, and s. S.
COPELAND.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
THE CONFUSED SPEAKER.

The chairman of the committee was aA-
dressing q meeting at q tcachers' institute
my friends, the school work In the bull
house of civilization. i mean-ah-"
He began to feel frightened.
THE bullhouso is the schoolwork -
civ"
A smile could be felt
''The workhouse is the buschool Of
He was evidently twisted.
The scboolbul is the homework
An audible smoker spread over the auAS-
ence.
The bulschool--"
He was getting wild. SO were his hear
ers. He mopped his Precipitation, grittsA
his teeth and made a fresh start
THE schoolhouse, my friends"
A sigh OF relief went up. Hamlet VS.
himself again.
He gazed serenely around. The light q
triumphant relf-con6dence was enthron14
upon his brow.
lis the woolbark-"
BLOOM
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
<<YYELP EUROPE!" is the call
from every nook and corner

~ SohASo ~ AhoAA, W S"OAS, w "OAU
of mouth, from statesmen, from
editors, from publicists, from propa-
gandists.
"Help Europe!" is the cry from
dozen cabinets on the European con-
tinent-from a score Of cabinet min
listers and ex-ministers. It is echoed
by hundreds Of their orators and
agents in the United States and is
repeated by thousands of Americans!
Help Europe!" is the appeal of
the League of Nations in conference
and of the nations of the League in
dividually. So universal is the plea
that one would think helping Europe
was new proposal, that Europe had
received no help heretofore, that Eu-
rope was receiving no help now.
Help Europei When in the last
four years have we ceased to help
Europei
Did we help Europe when we
spent $25,OO0,OOO,0O0 in eighteen
months and saved our allies from
passing under the German yoke!
Europe thought so then; why not
f.nowf
Did we help Europe when our
Government made loans of $1O0OO,-
100000 to the allies? Europe said
so at the time; would she speak
otherwise now!
Did we help Europe when our
Government let these loans run with
out demand for settlement, when we
left even the $7OO,OOO,OOO interest in
her hands to be used at her own
sweet will, to be paid at her own
convenience Europe seemed to be-
lieve so when the favor was granted;
has anything occurred to change her
mind!
Did we help Europe when Ameri-
can individuals, banks and corpora
ltions granted credits of nearly
$4,OOO,OO0,OOO to the business men
and enterprises of our former allies'
Europe had no doubts when the
credits were granted; has anything
happened to raise doubts nowi
Did we help Europe when from
private sources we lent to her gov
ernments, national and city, $780,
100000; when by private subscription
we gathered and sent abroad mil
lons-yes, hundreds of millions-to
feed the hungry, clothe the cold,
house the homeless and succor the
hopelessf
In four years more than $4,000
100000 has been collected from the
people of the United States and has
been sent to the people Of the Euro
pean continent. Did we help Eu-
rope by this philanthropy Europe
certainly has felt that we did; has
anything happened to alter her feel
ings now!
Forget the direct cost Of the war
and consider the rest!
What in the worlds history has
there ever been like item billions!
Seven hundred millions!
-Four billions!
Five hundred and fifty millions!
Two billions!
And the golden stream still flows.
The annals Of the centuries will be
searched in vain for such a record.
1t is as if the treasury of the ages
had burst asunder, so colossal and
so ceaseless has, been the golden
flood! And always in one direction!
Always from America, always to
Europe!
Help Europe! The United States
has helped Europe as no nation ever
before has helped other nations, as
no people ever before helped other
peoples!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10
"MAssACs, WATER PROBLEM.

Tho water problem of 'MASSAC"
brings answer from PATENT Of
FICE" that the water will be fiow-
ing into the conical reservoir at the
rate OF 1927 cubic feet per minute.
He says X s problem in differential
calculus. FRED HAFLELFINGER
brings the water in at the rate of
14.26S1 cubic feet per minute, or
106.732s gallons. w. z. HUGHES
makes IT 1.4402 cubic feet per min
ute.
"MASSAC'S" answer to his own
problem Is 9.S Gu. IT. per minute.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-10

Speaking of kisses, we've fig-
ured out that they are the means
of expressing undying love or af-
lection, although they dye the
fellows lips sometimes.
AZULES OJOS.