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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
A YOUNG MOTHER

Samuel Mccoy in Leslie's Weela.. Who will keep this night fer you, Until dawn? Who will watch it's hours thr p On and on, Till the gray East flushes r1ae, And nights goneF
 Round one heart your thoughts must q Praying palms That shut softly in their fold (Rich with balms } All the joy your heart can hold, All it's psalms! Lo! A flower has withdrawn From the rest; On the velvet-shadowed lawn ' Where her breast Felt tear from heaven fall, She has guessed. Meanings in the hopes that call Her alone Listen. In the windless calms, From throne Viewless, terrible, come aims For her own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
AND~sTILL GOING STRONG

"There are lot of people in town today
 'Yes," said Squire Witherbee. Tt was kinder talked around that we were goin to have tar and-featherin', an I guess the brethren are drftn' in to be on hand when tn fun starts. There's liable to be powerful lot of disap= pointment before sundown.
 'You don't think the party will be held?"
 "No. Zeke Dawdle was goin' to be tn guest of honor, as you might say, but he got wind it somehow an by this time Zeke's farther away from Chiggersville than he's ever been since tn day he was born" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
cUNsTER TO TOUR WITH FAIRFAX

My contract to make spring tour with Geraldine Farrar, beginning April 27 was signed few days ago. writes Frederick Gun ster the well known tenor, from New York to friends here.
 "On Thursday evening, March 13, between 8 and 9 o'clock, Birmingham time, I 10 sing over the radio from Fort Wood Signal corps station, Statue of Liberty. I am wonder ing if there are receiving stations in Birming- ham? If so, l hope some of my friends will listen in at 1,450 meters. It would be grati- flying if l could know they were listening
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
OF COURSE IT WAS IN NEW YORK

OF COURSE IT WAS IN NEW YORK
 From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 New York, is shocked to learn that one of irs citizens has acquired handsome bank balances by the simple expedient of hiring mamed and crippled persons "$3 day, board, lodging and But it is an old story that there is no form of exploitation too low-down for the gentry who live by their wits and preying the gull lible or sympathetic in the metropolis.
 The disclosure that many supposedly char itable organizations or enterprises were being conducted on 50-50 basis and some even an 80 per cent overhead system, of the early wartime sensations in New York more recent discovery shows how that somewhat primitive method has been improved upon by the addition of little modern scientific eff ciency. It appears that some of these alleged charitable agencies have beaten this exploiter of cripples to it. They were found to have regularly employed staffs of victims, unfor- tunates and reformed exhibits, who were on display at their headquarters for the edifiea- tion of summing parties the charitaby m clned It was a regular performance with a stipulated wage and doubt carefully kept set of books On the appearance of the sus- ceptbe, the employees would go through their respective specialties recting their hard luck stories, describing their downfall relating how they came to be snatched as brands from the burning. Now And then New Workers must wonder how they can be such easy marks, but any humiliation they may feel at being taken in, is soon forgotten in admiration of the tal- ent and imagination of their fellow citizens who separate them from their coin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE MODERN MAUD MULLER

'Tis said the rural flapper
 Is causing much alarm, The simple country maiden
 Who used to grace the farm, Who tended to the chickens, And milked the peaceful kline And cooked and did the washing That hung upon line, Whose ophistication
 We could not but admire, Has taken to joy-riding,
 Wears up-to-date attire And s just about as jazzy
 As city flappers are, Though anyone will tell you That they go pretty far. We view the transformation
 With ill-concealed dismay; She's not the kind of lassie
 The judge saw raking hay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
WILLING TO COMPROMISE

Boss, I'm on the ragged edge of missp, life Could you lend me q quarter?"
 "Why do you ask me to lend you a quart You don't intend to pay it back
 "Then give it to me- boss. Pm not the k of fellow who'd stand on ceremony witt benefactor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
AN UNUSUAL STEAL

of course, we are naturally glad to hear that Woco Pep is so popular said George H. Gray "but when a breaks into filling station to steal hose and carries that hose a block further on to steal twenty gallons of Woco Pep from another filling station, it's something again.
 "This theft was reported last week, and the police have been unable to locate the Woco Pep enthusiast as yet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
NO PRESS FACILITIES

According to this authority, Methusels lived only trifle more than 80 years.p
 "If that's the case, how did he get the repu tation of being so old?'
 "I'm best if I know There were no new paper reporters in those days to interview r every time he celebrated birthday and add or 20 years to his age so the story wo be worth front-page position"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
RIGHT ON THE COAST, TOO

"Mr. Jagsby seems depressed"
 "His faith in human nature has received an other severe blow.'
 What happened?"
 "He has just heard that dry agents dscov- cred big moonshine distillery in the city Of Savannah and plant for counterfeitng tEe labels on his favorite brand of refreshment."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
PAINFUL DISCLOSURES

Are you opposed to the one-piece batI suit?"
 "Yes,' said Mr. Grumpson.
 "On moral grounds?'
 "No, for esthetic reasons. like to thi z there is such thing as the female form vine"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
ONE AMERICAN LANGUAGE

From Farm Life
 When Pennsylvania Dutchman" is vacation, he is having his off" Wh.. thing is finished. with those same to "all.v So when said P. D. tells you his :
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
WINS HER SYMPATHY

What do you do when your stenographer is late?"
 q sigh heavily said MT. Dubwate. Docs that get any results?" "Yes. She tells me I'm working too hard"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
A WAY THE MORCANS HAVE

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 J. P. Morgan will send his colt J. Spencer, to England to find out if he can trot, before en- tering him on the grand circuit in America. The Morgans always train English tracks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
AFEARFUL ORDEAL

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 The photographs have arrived in this country showing Ambassador Harvey in short pants. It is both pathetic and inspiring to note. how bravely he set his face to conceal his suffering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23

Young millionaires in the country who never drive their motor cars too fast and imbbe con traband liquor will do the public favor by kindly coming forward and making themselves known
 President Harding said he mad bully time in Florida. Theodore Roosevelt might have said the same thing, but otherwise there is no resemblance between Warren C. and Teddy.
 Tom Edison says Wall street will prevent Henry Ford from getting Muscle Shoals. Any- body who halls from New Jersey is apt to ex- aggerate the power of Wall street.
 X <
 Photographs of the former Grown Prince of Germany chatting with Dutch housewife as democratically an American candidate for Congress, are subtle propaganda. It is now possible for impassioned lover to call up his lady love from the middle of the Atlantic, but it is an utter impossibility for him to say anything original.
 Advocates of the four-power treaty say se cret agreement with Great Britain is "unthnk- able" We hoping the of that word had been abandoned.
 .. * <
 Emma Goldman is going to write series of articles for the New York World exposing communism. Emma has learned lot since she left our pleasant shores.
 * < *
 Russian was fined $10 for waving red flag in Chicago, but humane judge asked him if he had ever had skull fracture before npos- ing the fine.
 
 The crash of 100 bucketshops does not hold one-tenth the pathos contained in the simple announcement that "Lucile, Ltd.,' IS bank rupt.
 Young King Boris of Bulgaria is reported hard up. We fail to see why that is any ex- cuse for Boris to break into the headlines. Judge Landis finds shaking hands with base ball players in the sunny south preferable to sitting in stuffy courtroom in Chicago.
 * < <
 Believe Trotzky Is Itching Fos War Headline. After salutes large bodies of troops for while he gets that way. The new King of Egypt will never be able to forget for moment that the eyes of the British government are upon him. poet addresses some lines ..To Plain Friend,' from which it is easy to infer that the friend is of the masculine gender.
 x +
 Peggy Hopkins Joyce is dazzling Monte Carlo with her jewels and gowns Peggy rises at p. m. That's the life!
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 Boys who devote most of their spare time to wireless telegraphy are getting behind in their dimeSnovel reading
 *
 If DeValera stirs up civil war in Ireland he won't even be able to say he didn't mean to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
HOW TO START A FIGHT

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 Single women are more to be relied upon than married women, according to opinions expressed by many employers. Try that statement on your wife some dull evening.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23
IT WASN'T CONSCIENCE

Tommy, when you were fighting the little Smthers boy what did the still, small voice say?"
 It said, Punch i'm in th' stummek,' ma"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-23

drive their motor cars too fast and imbibe con traband liquor will do the public favor by kindly coming forward and making themselves known.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
JUSTICE OF PEACE USES
FISTS TO ENFORCE EDICT
When Illinois Man Cursed Judge
He Got Hurt

Los ANGELES, Oct. 26.-J. Wal
ter Handy, justice of peace, ycster-
day enforced a court order against
Robert NJ. Kitterman with two sharp
lefts to the chin and a right to the
defendants middle -.-.
Kitterman had objected to court
ruling in his case and was said to
have shouted
ITO nell with this court.a am go
ing back to Illinois where they won't
treat me that way"
Justice Handy assessed a fine of
$40 for contempt Of court. Hitter
man paid, and later was said TO
have applied IAN opprobious cpl
tibet" to the court. For the latter
alleged offense the court demanded
an apology. Kitterman refused to
make it whereupon the justice of
peace enforced the order with his
fists.
Payment of the fine and an apollo
gy were made forthwith.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
T ON SIM S S AY S

Colds come and colds go and all
that we can do is blow.
Way down south in the land of
cotton, the crop is good but the
price is rotten.
Grasshoppcr glands might be a
great help to football players.
Our objection to seeing a woman
kiss a dog is we like dogs.
Starting fires with care is a good
theory, but it takes coal.
In Maine, a bride of three weeks
wants divorce. She claims she
had been hugging a delusion.
A year on Mercury is only SO days
long, making Halloween come every
three months.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY.

(From the Timcs-Recorder Oct.
27, 1879
Miss Louise Nell, a former visitor
here, is expected to arrive tonight
from her home I'M Atlanta upon a
visit to Miss Gertrude Hudson.
Miss Acolia Caldwell is visiting in
Ideal, Ga.
Miss Clara Willie Prather has gone
on a pleasant visit of some length to
relatives in Augusta.
Misses Helen and Mary Hawkins
will arrive this week on a visit to
relatives here and will remain until
after the Wheatley-Hooks wedding.
Mrs. Frank Harold is the guest
If Mrs. Hugh Willett in Atlanta.
Miss Alice Stailings will leave to-
day for Hurtsboro, Ala, to attend
the marriage Of her niece, Miss Mary
Richard, to James Humber.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
Girls who wear what they choose
seldom choose enough.

Girls who wear what they choose
seldom choose enough.
Chorus girls get $4,000 for brok-
en- hearts and an Ohio man only got
$500 for broken leg.
Your luck may be bad; but in
Alabama, a policeman has been shot
in the neck-again.
Horseshoe pitching is returning
because it is cheap. All you need
is two shoes and few chews.
Leading a double life gets you
through just twice as quick.
A crouch day will keep good
luck at bay.
Too much money makes you I'M
happy-if a neighbor has it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
SEEK MISSING GIRL,


ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 26.-Friends
and relatives of Florence Pointer, Ia
year-old girl, who disappeared from
her home at Hapeville last Wednes-
day, leaving no trace as to her
whereabouts, have started a search
covering the whole South.
Beginning with the police at
Hapevilic and East Point, the search
has widencd as the mystery has deep
ened until police departments in all
the larger cities in the South have
been furnished with a description OF
the missing girl, and an offer of 8
reward for her return home.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
FOR ALDERMAN

To the Voters Of City of Ameri-
Gus: l hereby announce myself a
candidate for alderman, subject to
the Democratic primary on Novem-
Der 8th, 1922, and promise if elect
ed to use my best efforts toward a
just administration, and the most eff
ficient service possible in every de-
partment. Your support will be ap-
preciated.
E. J. WITT.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27

candidate for Mayor of Americas,
subject to the Democratic
primary, to be held on the 8th day
of November, 1922; and will CRATE
fully appreciate your influence and
support. Respectfully,
E. LIN BELL.
Americas, Ga, Oct. 10, 1922.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
FOR MAYOR

To the Voters of Americas: l
hereby announce myself a candidate
for Mayor, subject to the Democrat
ic primary on November 9Th, 1922,
and if elected pledge my best efforts
toward faithful, conservative, eff
cient and just administration of the
affairs of the city, in every depart
ment.
J. ELMORE POOLE.
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be appreciat ted.
H. NJ. STOKES.
REGISTRATION NOTICE

Registration books for the City
Primary to be held Nov. 9Th, 1922,
for the election of Mayor and -Four
Aldermen, open from date until Nov.
4th, 1922, ....
All persons over Fl years of age
and who have paid all taxes due (but
not including 1929 are entitled to
register. E. j. ELDRIDGE,
Nov. 4 Clerk and Treasurer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
HOW CLOSE ARE YOU
TO THE BREAD-LINE?

How far are you removed
from the bread-line? If you lost
your job and your income were
entirely cut off how many
years, months or weeks would it
before you had to seek charity?
The Morris Plan Banks are
making loans to about 1000, 900
people year. At the annual
convention of the heads of these
banks, they tell two interesting
things about people who come to
them for money:
First; The average loan is
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27

candidate for Alderman of Americas,
subject 20 the Democratic Primary to
be held on the 9Th day of November
next; and will appreciate Your per-
sonal influence and support Re-
spectfully W. E. MITCHELL.
Americus, Ga, Oct. oath, 1922.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
E. J. WITT.
For ALDERMAN

To the Voters of Americas: The
of S. L. Hammond hereby
announce him a candidate for alder
man, subject to the Democratic pri-
mary on November 8th, and earnest
ly solicit your support of one who
is we'll qualified to render just and
capable service in this important po-
sition.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
FOR ALDERMAN

| am a candidate for Alderman of
Americas, subject to tie Democratic
primary, Nov. 8. ...
Your vote and support will be ap-
preciated. Respt,
w. T. M MATH.
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Political Announcements
For Mayor

am candidate for the office of
Mayor of the City of Americas, sub
jcct to the city primary, November
s, 1922. l solicit the support of all
qualified voters.
C. J. CLARK.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
J. ELMORE POOLE.
FOR ALDERMAN.

To the Voters of Americus: |
hereby announce my candidacy for
Alderman of City of Americas, sub
ject to the Democratic primary Nov.
9Th. Your vote and influence will
be appreciated.
E. L. CARSWELL.I
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
FOR ALDERMAN.

To the Voters of Americas: |
hereby announce my candidacy for
Alderman Of City of Americas, sub
Ject to the Democratic primary Nov.
8th. Your vote and influence will
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
SEARCHING FOR PROOF
HE SPRANC FROM AN APE


Two scientists sailed the other
day for a tropical island in the
search of the missing link. They
claim they have authentic re-
ports that there are men and wo-
men living there who still have
tails like monkeys.
If that is true, and the scien-
fists find men and women with
tails like monkeys" they will an
nounce to the world that the hu-
man race originated in the mon
key race. That will probably
arouse the wrath of w. J. Bryan
and it will please those who
have placed their scientific bets
on the Darwinian theory.
In all the researches into the
origin Of the human family
science has been forced to stop
at the brink of some world, some
placing it at the thousands,
others at millions, of years in the
past, when the first evidence Of
man was discovered. Nothing to
show from whence he sprang.
He just occurred, a nearly
perfect specimen Of what we are
today, a rough mold with a pre-
historic jaw and hairy covering.
He was a Iowbrow. But be
didn't have an appendage like a
monkey.
Science is interested in our
origin. SO arc 4 lot Of US.
Probably more time, money
and effort has been wa ted in
attempting to get behind the
Book of Genesis than in any
other single effort in the worlds
history.
Yet we are today inst where
we were 1000 years ago. Sup
pose the scientists find the ape
men, as they would undoubtedly
call them.
What does it prove?
1t IS not necessary to go to
the tropics and single out a
tribe of apes that look like men
and act like monkeys, in order to
prove that man is capable of
springing from the lowest order
of intelligence.
The evidence is all around us.
Men are eating themselves to
death every day.
Men are killing each other
each day.
In fact they are doing a lot
of things that even apes are
not expected to do to each
other.
For further signs of similar
ity, the majority of the human
race draws the line at canni-
balism.
So do the apes and monkeys.
No, it isn't necessary to find
the man with a tail to connect
man and ape.
But even so, providing the
competition is established and
the circus is deprived of its one
great attraction, "the missing
link" there will be those who
will insist upon finding coat of
arms for our ape cousins or in
tracing them through the Ply
mouth rock period of our history
before they will even acknow-
ledge that they are kin.
But the most Of US will thank
d kind creator that he saw fit to
remove the appendage before
turning US loose in the modern
world and will still have faith
that Genesis is the foundation
upon which we can safely build
our past.
The age-old quest for informa-
ton anent the human race is
never stopped and always there
are hardy pioneers ready to ven
ture forth into any and every
cline to add one more iota of
fact to the information availa-
BILE regarding the dawn of the
world and the human race.
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FOR MAYOR

/ hcreb! announce my candidacy
for Mayor of the City of Americas,
subject to the city primary to be held
November 8, 1922, for the purpose
of elccting q Mayor and four Alder
men. Your vote and support will be
appreciated.
O. C. JOHNSON.f 81
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FOR ALDERMAN

To the Voters of Americus: l
hereby announce my candidacy for
Alderman of City of Americas, sub
ject to the Democratic primary Nov.
9Th. Your vote and influence will
be appreciated.
HUGH L. MIZE.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27

1856, though some loans run as
high as $4,000, as low as $50.
Second: Three-fourths Of the
borrowers have no property, are
unable to furnish security. They
have to get responsible people 70
go good" for them by endorse
ment.
From people who borrow
small sums from banks, we pass
to another class. You meet them
right along-trying to raise
loans among their friends,
Every office or shop of any
size has at least one person who
is always a certain amount of
money behind the game. It may
be 50 cents or So or some other
sum.
Whatever it is, it seems 70 be
the improvident ones borrow
ing capacity" If you watch, you
get to know Just how much he
is going to ask for when he
rushcs up and shakes hands
warmly.
A certain fellow seems to be
always borrowing IS. He pays
!. bac', and soon borrows it
again-from the same source or
some one else. Often he has
route that he works in a circle,
like the gent who used to do a
lot Of walking in accommodating
his jag.
This fellow is chronically s.
behind the game - just that
much removed from the bread
line. One of the great fnan-
cial mysteries is why he doesn't
manage to get IS ahead Of the
game, so he can borrow from
himself instead of his friends.
Borrowing small sums or cups
of flour becomes a habit.
Housewives have noticed that
certain neighbors are eternally
borrowing the same things, time
after time.
Borrowing started back in the
days when an improvident cave
man saw his neighbor bring in
catch of fish or a bag" of
wild birds or animals. You can
picture the improvident man
rushing to the Woodworking
hunter with this proposition:
Lend me a bird or a carcass
and III pay you back when |
kill some"
A certain number of unfortu-
mates are driven to borrowing
from their friends, by sheer bad
luck. The chronic borrower,
however, is usually a plain old
fashioned specimen of what
country town people call shift
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27

One of the highest mountains in
Germany has been successfully
assembled by an airplane, which
landed on small plateau so yards
from the actual summit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
RAILROAD SCHEDULES

Central Time.)
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americas, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
~, a -~~.+noAs
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.

THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(From the Times-Recorder Oct.
27, 1922
The health of the city was never
better. No sickness of any nature
is reported. Americas cannot be
beat by any city in the South when
it comes to the health record.
Col Eldridge Cults returned last
night from Atlanta where he has
been for several days on business.
A prominent cotton buyer remark
ed that two or three heavy frosts
within the next few days would send
the price of spot cotton values near
up to if not up to 9 cents.
Dr.. j. H. Benyon is visiting his
who is quite sick in Albany.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-10-27
Beloved, if our heart condemn
not, then have we confidence to-
ward Cod. John 1921.

Shakespeare was forbidden Of
heaven to have any plans.
Neither he nor the sun did, on
any morning that they rose to-
gether, receive charge from their
maker concerning such things.
They were both of them to shine
on the evil and on the coed, -
John Ruskin.