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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-13
T O NJ SIM S S AY S

Several Baltimore butchers have
been told to mend their weighs.
Drive on tax dodgers has started.
Drive on taxi dodgers continues.
Entirely too many lions and ele-
plants are being seen by hunters.
Beyond the Alps lie Italy's poll
ticians.
Some towns are lucky. Near Wit
tenberg, Mo-, two robbers were
killed.
Wire says Pershing and his party
claim they killed 200 ducks, but
doesn't say how many they did kill.
1t is strange how we put things
off. In Kansas, a man needed
shave 80 years before he got it.
Russian Soviet government is five
years old now. Like all youngsters
it never has had enough to eat.
Doctor says fatigue is a disease.
Most of US do get sick of work.
Our most famous rich American
hunters are chorus girls.
Most of the gas politicians hand
out is laughing gas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-13
SUPER-CROOKS AND THE
PROBLEM OF HANDLING THEM

William Allan Pinkerton, fam
ed detective, says criminals of
today are mentally far inferior
to the old-time master minds of
crime.
Pinkerton's explanation is that
the clever crook has turned to
bootlegging. which among crooks
is considered as approaching re-
spectability.
A bootlegger's customers to
whom he sells stolen or doctored
hooch, are more pleasant to deal
with than the lower-grade
fences" who buy the loot of
conventional robberies.
Another reason why so few
men of intelligence are found
among modern criminals is be-
cause the wise ones have realized
that the mental resourcefulness,
necessary for a successful crimi-
nal career, usually pays better
when applied to legitimate pur-
suits.
The man who invented the first
gold brick, for instance, was a
high type Of scientific salesman,
though it probably never occur
red to him that a man who could
sell brass for gold could sell
almost anything, even snow at
the north pole
What modern criminal lacks
in intelligence, compared with
the crooks of generation ago,
he generally makes up in will
ingness to commit murder with
out hesitation says Pinkerton.
The old time crook usually
shot only as a last resort.
Today every city has a breed
of crooks who will kill as quick
ly and indifrerently as the fc-
tional bad man of early days in
the west.
Murder and crooks willing
ness to "bump off" his victim
have become the foremost crimi-
nal problems.
In the old days when a footpad
usually used a blackjack or a
piece of lead pipe, his victim had
a chance. Today the pistol has
taken the place of blackjack and
lead pipe.
The average modern crook is a
coward unless he has pistol and
cocaine or some other drug to
create in him the false courage
necessary to make him use his
"gat."
Control of the drug traffic and
an absolute prohibition of pis-
tolls are necessary before crime
can be restrained on big scale.
Make it impossible for crooks to
get pistols and drugs, and crime
news will become dull.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-13
THE OLDEST MYSTERY
THE SWASTIKA SYMBOL.

The Swastika is the oldest
symbol in the world. Also, it is
the oldest mystery.
You find it engraved on print
tive tools, dug up in the mounds
of the Ohio, Tennessee and
Mississippi mound-builders, who
inhabited America before the In
dians.
The Swastika also is found in
the most ancient ruins of Alaska,
Mexico, Brazil, Egypt Baby
lonia, China, Japan, India, AS
syria, Phoenicia, Persia, Tibet
Greece-and nearly every other
country in the world, including
obscure islands.
Buddha, according to myth,
carved the 'Swastika on the soles
of his sandals, and oriental sta
tues of him often have their feet
decorated to correspond.
The Swastika is the interna-
tional symbol for good luck and
general welfare-like our horse
shoe, the negro's rabbit-foot and
the "chung-meng-fui-goi" sign
that is painted on the door of
nearly every Chinese home.
The Swastika's origin is un-
known. But archaeologists, the
ditch-diggers of science, have
traced it back to the beginning
of the Bronze Age, $500 years
ago.
For all we know, the Swastika
may have been old then.
How did it spread over the
earth and become known in coun-
tries that are supposed to have
had no knowledge of each other
in ancient times?
Christopher Columbus unques-
tionably knew the Swastike, pos
sibly had it painted on his ships
for luck. Yet, mark that it was
used by the mound-builders in
America centuries before Column
bus was born. How did they
get it?
The only plausible explanation
of the universal use of the Swas-
tika comes from China.
The Chinese-who claim that
their explorer, Fu-sang, visited
America 1860 years before Col
umbus-believe that civilization
travels in an endless wave-up
10000 years, then down 10000,
so on forever. That's why Chi
nese mythology tells of flying
men" far back in antiquity.
The earth may be 1,7OO,OOO,-
600 years old, says Prof. Will
liam Duane, of Harvard Medical
School. He bases his calculation
on radio-activity.
Regardless of the number of
years, queer things are buried
back there in the past, as shown
by the Swastika, oldest mystery.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-13
WHY so MANY CHINESE
ATTAIN RIPE OLD AGE"

The On Leong Tong organiza-
ton of Chinese merchants en-
joys queer entertainment at it's
Philadelphia convention. A real
Chinese opera was staged for the
delegates. Since the show lasted
p hours, it had to be split into
two daily performances. Three
fiddlers, three drummers and a
gong FOUNDER, hammering away
at a five-note theme, made up
the orchestra. The actors,
brought from Chinatowns all
over the country, worked mostly
in pantomime. The orchestra
had brisk competition in the form
Of noise, for a Chinese stage
carpenter changes scenery for
the next act while the show still
IS going on, without lowering the
curtain.
This will interest women: The
actors, by Chinese custom, were
all men, even in the feminine
roles. A woman hasn't politi-
cal equality in China, but she is
considered too good to be put on
exhibition for money.
An American, after an hour or
so Of the 22-hour Chinese thea
trical performance, would begin
to yell: Jazz 'er up! Give us
some speed! Put little pep in
'er" Not so with the Chinese.
their most popular plays are con-
tlnued on from one night to the
next, like serial story, some
lasting whole year,
The nearest we have come to
this is the serial movie thriller.
The plot Of a year-long Chinese
play shows the audience every
stage Of mans life, war, an
economic movement or the ca
reer of dragon-devil.
From the 22-hour Chinese
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-13
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS

After an illness of a week, Mrs.
Lille Ross Harper passed away last
evening.
John Wooten of Chauncey, is not
a farmer, but he had cotton to sell
in Americas yesterday. In the raf-
file for the bale of cotton given the
Elks by the cotton men here Mr..
Wooten threw 46, the lucky number.
But there were % others to follow
with the dice, so rather than risk
the chance of losing he sold out to
Capt. Cliff Clay for $40. Capt. Clay
had nerve and stuck to his purchase,
capturing a $40 bale of cotton for
$40. The rattle was conducted by
gentlemen in nowise interested and
afforded much pleasurable interest.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-13
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
SEAROARD AIR LINE.

Arrive e Departs
1905 AM Cordele-Helena Sis PM
1926 PM -Montg'y. $40 PM
$40 PM Cordele-Savh. 1926 PM
Sis Pm Richland- Coils 1906 AM
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-13
EVENTS OF PLAINS, GA.

PLAINS, Nov. lon Tuesday
afternoon Mrs. W. II. Arnold was
hostess at lovely party. The home
was tastefully decorated with guam
titles of gorgeous-hued autumn leaves
and tall vases filled with handsome
dark red chrysanthemums placed on
tables. Following the game of rock,
Mrs. Arnold assisted by her daugh-
ter, Miss Nellie Arnold, served a
salad course with iced punch Twenty,
eight kueSts were present.
Outstanding among the social
events of the week was the rock
party on Wednesday afternoon at
which Mrs. Broadus Wellons and
Mrs. Walton Walters were joint
hostesses at the attractive home Of
Mrs. Wellons. The rooms where the
guests assembled presented a pretty
scene with autumn leaves banked on
cabinets and mantel forming the dec
orations. At the conclusion of the
game, assisted by Miss Bessie Wei
Ions and Mrs. B. W. Bacon, the
hostess served delicious refreshments.
Forty guests were playing.
Mrs. Frank Zimmerman was
hostess to the Young Matrons' club
on Thursday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Alvin Zimmerman. The liv-
ing room where the tables were
placed was adorned with vases of
beautiful pink roses and white chry-
santhemums. Following the game,
little Miss Hazel Zimmerman an
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-13
RAILROAD SCHEDULES

Central Time.(
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americas, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
rIa-~~+"~A,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-13

opera, you observe that the
Chinese takes things patiently
as they come and enjoys life
with a slow natural sereneness
and calm. The Chinese are far
behind US in many things. Some
how, though, they nearly all
seem contented, happy. Unlike
white men, they are not shatter-
ing their nervese by trying to
cram lifetime into a day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-13

people without cast-iron stom-
achs to take some of this food
science with a grain of salt, it
recently was expounded as Cos
lei by Dr.. Carpentor before the
Harvard Nedical School.
The important fact is that
scientists ~re finally beginning to
set at original truth" in the
matter of diet, and hat some of
the accepted notions ABOUT food
values may be due for an
explosion.
Until the investigation is
nearer completion, good aver
age rule is to keep in mind the
old saying that most of US dig
our graves with our teeth.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-13
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.

(From the Times-Recorder Nov.
10, 1902
Mrs. James Dodson has issued
cards to a reception at her home
on Lee street next Thursday evening
when the guests will meet DR.. and
Mrs. Glenwell Dodson, whose mar
riage occurs in Albany the evening
previous.
The Ferris wheel was a wheel of
fortune to the owner, besides carry
ing some Americas folks higher than
they will go again unless dynamite
is used.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-13
A THOUGHT

What shall we then say to these
things? If God be for us, who
can be against us? - Romans
8:311.
God sleeps in the stone,
dreams in the animal, wakes in
the man.-Goethe.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13

Contract for Orofino-Greer link of
Lewis and Clark highway awarded for
$84,604.
Twin Falls reports yield of 720 bush
els Of wheat from eight acres.
Idaho tax levy fixed at 1891 by state
board
Meridian--Arrowroc road to be re-
surfaced.
Wallace-Hercules and Tamarack G
Custer properties putting on second
shift.
Moscow-Plans for 100000 dormi
tory at Idaho University being drawn
Nampa-6$0, 900 to be expended on-
larging and extending Robinson pipe
line in Sunny Ridge district. Will
make possible redemption of 500 a.
ores from sagebrush.
Wallace-Important galeha discov
cry made in Pine creek district.
Kellogg-Developm work at Ma
bob being rushed.
Wallace-Work to start immediate
ly on 40-ft. tunnel contract le by Pine
Creek Mine and Milling Co.
ing $1,000 improvements.
Grace-Utah Power & 1t Co. en-
larging plant, adding 10000 h. p. TO
present. generating capacity of $4,000
h. p.
Yellowstone trail under construc-
ton from Sildix to Idaho line.
Prichard--New bridge to be built
over Big Creek six miles from here.
Caldwell-School board cuts $14,-
600 from budget.
Wallace-Iroh King making good
progress.
Bee industry coming to the front
in Idaho.
Occur d'Alene-Lumber mills have
| tally capacity of 100000 IT.
Mullan-Independen Lead reports
good showing of ore
Nampa to raise $S0,O5O taxes this
year.
Canyon county has valuation of $26,
| 900 600.
Occur d'Alene votes $4,000 bonds
Cor paving streets.
Blackfoot has 5000 acres potatoes
within radius Of IL miles.
Hailey--New fish hatchery to be
built at Hay Spur.
Wallace-Sllver Lode building road
IN order to do winter Work /.
| Farm crops of Pacific northwest
| how gain of $40,73A370 over las,
ear or over 5000 for each family
Wallace-Road planned over MIS-
| 5ion Flats.
D0wney-Work starts on new high
| school.
Pocatpllo-Orego Short Line re
| ports IS per cent of normal force az
work D
ace--Installation of power line
| between Raven and Paragon mines on
| North Side comnIeted
'Wallace-Oreao Mining Co. to drive
lnnel 300 feet.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
n QUESTIONABLE Elk
PERTINENT

IDAHO Is threatened with a period
OF state guarantee bank law agitation.
In plain English his means that a
law would be passed providing thar
banks in Idaho deposit with the state
a certain percentage of their depos-
Its for the purpose of creating u fund
which would protect depositors in an
insolvent bank by drawing on this
fund to pay them.
There have been many attempts to
operate this kind of law successfully
In various states including oklahoma,
South Dakota and Washington
Theoretically the arguments for
the law seem plausible. In reality
such legislation has led to disastrous
results in the states mentioned.
The strong banks which put up
their share of the guarantee simply
protect weaker bank arrangements
which take chances at the expense OF
solvent institutions. The guarantee
law is virtually an incentive for care
less banking.
II guarantees for depositors have
got to be put up II simply oe8ns that
our system of bank examination which
We have at the present time for the
purpose of protecting the public is
either lax or at fault A bank guar
antee law could not possibly raise I,
large enough fund to cover liabilities
during nanio. Businessllke manage
ment in a bank plus sound state bank
ing laws which are rigid and honestly
enforced is the surest prohection Il
depositor can have that his funds are
safe.
If solvent and wellmanared bank
must be penalized IN ordez to secure
funds to protect an irrespoY ible bank.
sound financial standards aa percep
tibly lowered and slight incv'tive eff.
cred for conscientious banking admin
istration.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13

ductlons In appropriations and esti-
mates made most gratifying reduc-
ton in the expenditures. The peak
OF ordinary expenditures was reached
In the fiscal year 1919, s1S,514,000,-
900. The drop to the fiscal year 1920
10 most extraordinary, the total for
that year being $6,403, 100000. For
the fiscal year 1921 further recess
sion brought the total down to S.
116,927,8S9. For the fiscal year
1922 the total, as heretofore stated,
came down to $3,795, 100000. This
sum includes $422, 100000 Of public
debt retirements ohargeable to ordi-
nary receipts and should be elimi-
mated from the $3,795, 100000 in or
der to obtain figure comparable to
expenditure figures for the fiscal
years 1919, 1920 and 1921. The
1922 expenditures, therefore, exclu-
sive Of public debt retirements, are
$3,372 ,G07,899. The reduction Of
1922 under 1920 Is $4,000, 700, 600
and the reduction of 1922 under 1921
is $1,743,319,7S9.
Evidence of the value Of the CEN
tralization of Congressional responsi-
bility in connection with the public
appropriations is furnished in the
fact that Congress appropriated for
1923 2,292 less than the
Budget Bureau requested. In other
words, although frequently charged
with being the spendthrift branch Of
the government, in point Of fact the
Congress appropriated seven per cent,
less than the budget estimates asked
for.
The people of the United States
have just reason to be proud of the
financial record of this administra.
ton. While other countries are
struggling with huge deficits in their
budgets and are burdened with enor.
nous taxes and staggering public
debt, the United States has shown a
surplus for the fiscal year just closed
and at the same time accomplished a
most gratifying reduction in its pub
lie debt.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
CASHIER WHO KILLED
SELF EMBEZZLED $4,000
Suit Filed by Bank in U. S. Court to
Recover Bond; Forgery
is Charged

Suit to recover from the Fidelity G.
Deposit Company of Maryland, $4,000
bond given for George w. Metzler,
former cashier of the Union Central
bank of May, was filed Wednesday In
the United States district court. The
case was transferred from the dis
trict court for Lemhi county. The
Citizens National bank of Salmon is
the plaintiff in the case.
II is alleged that Neither fraud
ulently obtained more than $4,000 o,
the May banks money before it clos
ed its doors August "a, 1921. Meitz-
Ter later took his own life.
FORGERY of notes and the return OF
the original notes to their makers rs
the charge placed against the former
cashier Tho case will be heard In
Pocatello.~-Bo Statesman
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13

President Harding took Office on
/, March 1, 1921. The first complete
dscal year of government business
Under his administration began on
yply /, 1921. and closed on June
20, 1929. The Budge. Bureau was
created in June, 1921, practically
simultaneously with the commence.
mont of the fiscal year. The esti-
mated expenditures tentatively sub
9ittAd by the various departments
tDr the fiscal year 1922 aggregated
4l.660,000.000. The operations OF
That fiscal year have just closed. by
the application OF pressure by the
President, exerted through the
Budget Bureau and with the coopera-
zion OF the heads OF departments and
other administrative officers, the or
binary expenditures for 1922 actual
" amount to 100000, a re-
4uotion OF 5000, 900 from the
figure submitted by the departments
at the beginning of the fiscal year.
The frst budget submitted in De-
cember indicated a deheii for this
same fiscal year of $24, 100000. How
euocessful tho efforts of the adminis-1
tration have been in holding down
expenditures and conserving revenue
10 attested by the fact that instead
Of deficit there was a surplus for
che year of $314.000,00
The total public debt Of the United
States on June 80, 1921, one year
ago, was $29.977, 100000 This sum
had been reduced on June 80, 1929,
n Sas.963,000,000, reduction of
Nt0i4,ooo,oo
Fhe policy Of the administration
&a1 been return to normal condi-
tiors In public expenditures. How
web this has been accomplished is
amply reflected by a glance at the ex-
tepditure figures of preceding years.
Yhe Republican, party gained con.
lxe4 oy the Congress in the elections
pt 1e16 and came into power IN Con-
8rSss on March 4, 1919.
During the period the administra.
Qon was Democratic and the Congress
was Republican, requests of the Demo
cratic executives for appropriations
we're reduced by the Republican Con.
tpess by nearly $4,000, 100000.
Appropriations are the yard stick
" expenditures. The enforced re-
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
BILLY casio BELIEVED TO
HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE

Word from Stanley reaches us to
tho effect That Billy Casio old and
respected pioneer of this section had
committed suicide last Monday morn
ING by tying a sack of rocks to his
neck and jumping in Salmon river.
Mr.. Casto had been missed for some
time and q search for him resulted as
stated above.
Funeral services over the remains
were held at Haley this, "Wednesday
morning
Dcteils Of the tragedy are meagrc
at this time.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
A MOVEMENT is on foot through

A MOVEMENT is on foot through
out the State to have horne Talent chan
tauquas. 1t is argued that they weuli
be just as entertaining and y NJ, rlY
81 oynensive
The plan is for several towns in =
string TO organize their oWn troop oil
entertainers who will give an enter
tainment in each of the towns 20 oper-
ating. The entertainment could be
put on at much smaller cost than
the ones we have been payinr tho
travelling chautauqua, besides devei
oping local talent to great extent
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
Fault of Pacific Ocean,

AS fax as the extent of the Pacific
goes, it's immensely is drawback 10
It's commerce. If it were half as wide
Il would carry much heavier tonnage.
If its shores We're half rs far apart
the nations that face its great eXpanse
would be more neighborly aud would
trade more extensively among them
selves. Freights would be lower and
passenger fares would cost less.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
SpoonerlSm.

Spoonerism, noun. Accidental trans
position of initial letters, etc, of two
or more words (e. g. has just received
a bluShing crow" for real enjoyment
give me a well-boilad icycle'O. From
Rev. w. A. Spooner, esteemed for
Spoonerisms.-From the Concise Ok
ford Dictionary.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
Tin Can.

An old lady was crossing the street
the other day. A dog ran into her
with such force that it Knocked her
down. Just then light auto ran
over her. a gentleman witnessing the
accident came to her assistance. He
said: Lady, I'D that dog hurt your
She looked at him a little dazed and
replied: No, the dog didn't hurt me,
it was the tin can tied to its tail"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
Cleaning Hint.

When you're cleaning house sprinkle
The clothes closets with a little water
In which tobacco has been STEPPED
and then sprinkle with Il little spirits
Of caniphor. The latter destroys the
pdor of tie former AID together they
will prevent anuoyan g by moths
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
Live Iona Like q Tortoise,

Advising people that they will live
longer If. they breathe slowly, Il
physical training expert exhorts lis to
Ego to" the tortoise. He explains that
the tortoise, the slowest breathing
animal Of all, lives to thousand
yearS.-EXchange.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
Can't Helm That,

II don't see why the ways of erriNa
girls are always blamed upon Il i"
Constance van Quentin. Girls have
to have mothers, and mothers have to
have motor cars, don't y?"-Kansas
City Star.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
Must Be Two In Bargain.

The man who complains of having
been cheated seldom admits his own
bad Judgment. Yet, he would hardly
have lost had he not himself erred. 1t
always has taken two to make |, bar
gain and always will take two.-Grlt.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
ItaIY,s City of Flowers.

Florence, Italy, is known as the city
Of flowers. Here the famous orris
root perfumes are produced from
root of the large purple Iris or flag
which is grown extensively throughout
the surrounding districts.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
rloon influences Mushroom Growth.

The growth of mushrooms is inilu-
enced considerably by changes OF the
moon. Observers of these night
croVths know that at full moon the
G,0p Invariably shows itself, but when
On the wane there is a perceptble de-
cline
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
Do Moths U.s. rNNire {

Certain species of moths can com
nunicate with one another even though
separated. A female of the Vapourer
moth may be inclosed In. wooden
pill box. She viii attract makes from
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13
VARYING Human Weluhts.

The normal variations i'll veg =
nay be greatly affected in di7?"re
ways. Some men lose six poun;,s a.
seven pounds during Turkish bat
while others gain n2arly as murh Il
an equally short time by deep driH
lnnr
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-09-13

THE people must realize that it is
up to them to vote against men and
measures that raise taxes, and to de
mand a sizable reduction. II the
people do not fight for reductions,
those n office will. constantly demand