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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-02
OBSERVATIONS
BY TOM SIMS

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Since gold was found there, all
isn't quiet along the potomac.
Future Irish histories will have
the present written on asbestos.
Mems fall suits are termed
sober" No hip pickets, maybe.
If we get cut Of life what we put
into it some will get OUT quick.
The girl who thinks kissing is dam
gerous read it in a book.
Lots of people travel first class
who evidently are not.
Voliva says, Il my wife ran for
office | would run for the lake." and
we hope she runs.
Two can't see picture show as
cheaply as one.
Ignorance is no bliss in the eyes
Of the law.
No one ever became a star by
staying out at night.
Paris dancer left the stage because
Of stage fright. We know a man
who married a stage fright.
Prince of Wales is a social lion.
Everey social lion meets tanner.
Maybe these golfers are training
for the railroad strike.
After being in America rs years
an alien has become a citizen. He
thinks he viii take the place.
The. average man wants a 1928
model auto and 1900 model wife.
Bootleg Queen Slain''-l1eadline
t seems the king crowned her.
1t is about time for something
worse to take the place OF jazz.
Health hint: Be sure your circle
of friends is square.
Dad estimates the strikes cost
enough to send SON to college.
Tell your wife the truth and let
her suspect where you haven't been.
New York washwoman sues for
$40, 900 wash money. The bill must
have run two weeks.
Girl has man arrested for kissing
her while driving his car. We claim
she helped in the crime.
"Boccaccio's Bone Found
line Who would have thought
great writer shot dice?
Congress gets lot of cussing that
belongs to this hot weather.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-02
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.

F'rom the Times Recorder August
2, 1902
Americas boasts the largest and
man is fool outside his own bust
ness.
You meet great success. He is
a genius, super-intelIect, in his
line. Tall, to him about important
outside matters which are not con-
nected with his vocation, and you
find that he is an ignoramus. In
other words, he is a genius on one
thing, moron on, others. This is
natural, for we live in an age of
specialization. A man has time, to
master only one thing, To become
successful a man usually has to
become monomaniac on one sub
ject.
You see the reverse of this in the
case of the man who is a jack-of-all
trades and master of none. He is
not moron in any particular branch
of mentality. He knows smatter-
ing of everything. But neither is
he conspicuously intelligent in any
one line.
Frequently we become so hypno-
tiZed by a mans success in his work
that we imagine he would be a
miracle man i'll anything he turned
his hand TO.
Occasionally, that might be true.
But, as a general rule, the individ-
ual has only one song-and can play
it only on one instrument. Maybe
this is why business men Of pro-
nounced ability have not gone ex-
tensively into politics. Maybe,
realizing their limitations. they are
afraid they might be like the car
| penter who tried to tune a harp with
a hammer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-02
E d 1T ORAL,
YOUR DAILY GRIND

HE older you get, the more Won
realize the extreme slowness with
winch we humans accomplish anv.
thing of Importance. Life is a pro.
cess OF grinding the ak for two bour,
10 DO 10 minutes of actual wood
chopping.
Mother is the champion slave Of
the limits of time. She works near
~ a whole day, preparing = SIM
day dinner that disappears down the
throat in a few minutes. 1t takes
an hour to scrub Bobbie and oat
nm ready for exhibition. He seeks
The nearest mud-puddIe and unsoes
the job quicker than it takes 70 ton
it.
The daily grind" is tedious nre
Parat1on for climates that are brief
IN civilization we have to toll all
day, in order to have a few bours
OF leisure. Two weeks vacation IN
weeks of work.
Voltaire knew what he wae taIk-
ing about when he wrote: "Timo iq
OF all things the longest and the
shortest, the quickest and slowcq4,
Inc great period of time neces
sary to accomplish anything was H.
iustrated in England long ago, when
coffee was introduced to the coun-
try as a beverage.
The first coffee sold in England
was put on the market in 1852 bv
Fasqua Rosee, merchant, in St.
Michael's Alley, Cornhill
For 20 years a campaign of great
violence was conducted against cof-
fee. English public affairs lana.
ties We're so convinced that coffee
ruined the health and corrupted man.
hers, morals and p 'htic;, that at
times the authorizes lad to drift
with the current and suppress its
sale.
In THE Women's Petition Against
Coffee" circulated in 1874. the
belief was set forth that coffee
drinkers would breed race of apes
and pygmies."
English coffee merchants had 70
plug for so years to create their
market. How many modern Ameri-
can business men would have that
much patience?
Growing the crop takes a long
sine. The harvest is short. That
Is the way with nearly every hui
man life.
Fate is a jester. Usually there
isn't any harvest to speak of. De,
cidely is this so in the case of the
man who, desiring to enjoy great
wealth, wears himself out in accu
mulating it and wakes up at the
graves edge to find that he has the
gold, but is too old to enjoy it.
We are forever planning what VIZ
are going to do tomorrow or mex
Christmas or year from now. MANY
Of US live too much in a future tha
never comes. The future is mostl!
an illusion.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-02
NOBODY HOME.
1 BRUTAL crime frequently at

"A BRUTAL CRIME frequently at
tracts your attention in the
newspapers. 1t is an ahocious muir
der or a fiendish assault. This sort
Of crime, you find it hard to under
stand, for it is the work Of a fiend
You conclude that mailman did it.
Later the criminal is arrested. You
read that he is a moron
A moron is a person whose intel
lectual Development proceeds normal
~ up to about the eighth year Of
age, and then stops and never 'ex-
ceeds that of a child Of about II
years.
Check back over the past and
you realize that you have met many
morons-grown-u with a child's
mentality-who have been going
along placidly through life without
committing crimes.
William J. Robinson, celebrated
ccnoclast-doctor, writes in his Medi-
cal Critic and Guide:
"A man may be great painter,
sculptor, actor or even a great poet,
and in all other domains Of human
thought be a moron, have the men
tally Of a 12-year-old child"
This rather striking thought prob
ably has occurred to you as yotl have
sat back in the shadows of night,
analyzed your fellov-men and tried
70 figure out what It Is ALL bon
J. There i an old saying that every
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-02

(trom the Tlmes-Recorder August
2, 1902
Americas boasts the largest and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-02
RAILROAD SCHEDULES

Central Tlme.b
Arrival and Departure Of Passenger
Trains, Americus, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
glla.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-02
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY.

The wicked flee when no man EUR
sueth; but the righteous are bold az
a hon.-Proverbs 2S:1.
Thrice armed is he that hath his
quarrel just.-Shakespeare.
The New York herald., 1922-11-10

chair William A. Keating. counsel to
the Sheriff OF Bronx county. who had
acted as attorney In the formation OF
the corporation, were blocked by thr
young lawyers refusal To testify. Mr.
keating admitted that he had prepared
the certificate of incorporation foC the
West Farms Bus Corporation last De-
cember and that he was at that time
Sheriff's counsel.
IN excusing Mr.. Heating until further
subpoena" Mr. Shearn remarked TO the
| commission 81 won't press anything
| further ut this time. There is IN my
orfnion no possible claim Of privilege in
vowed in the questions I have put to
rim, but Mr.. keatinss opinion is just
| as good as mine on that. of course. and
as long as he stands on il j will ex-
| cuse him for the present"
Leo Shiavone of 769 East 204th
street, The Bronx, chauffeur and me-
chanic. testified that In partnership
with his father, Joseph. and his two
brothers. he had obtained early in the
winter of 1921 Il permit 10 operate a
bus line between the Pelham Bay Park
subway station and City Island. IN OBJ
tanning the permit from Commissioner
Whalen his intercessor had been John
Knewitz. a Republican district leader in
The Shiavones, the witness testified.
invested in new buses and other ex-
penses to an aggregate OF about $4,000,
borrowing $4,000 on notes they had
given TO pay for three additional buses
- be added TO their equipment. They
ran until April, 1922, doing a profitable
business through the summer months.
and no complaints had been entered
against their efficiency OF service. On
April IL last the witness was served
with an official notice bearing Commits
sioner Whalen's signature, and inform
ing the witness and his father and
brothers that their permit is hereby re-
voked effective April IA, 1922, at mid
night The notice was served at about
. O'clock on the evening of April 10,
schiavonc said "by two men and II
chauffeur who came up In a Cole eight
sedan and inquired for Schiavope.
You say 1t was a Cole eight?" asked
Mr.. Shearn. WAS that the Commits
stoner's private carr
II don't know about that. but 1t was
a Cole eight sedan"
Schiavone said that after the revoca-
tion of their permit they had again con-
suited Johnny Knewitz. who went
down ito see what could be dore."
Did Mr.. Knewi,z make n report to
you dllNT nc CdIIls pdCh lTOru lle 1cIn-
missioner"
He did. yes. sir; he simply told me
that the organization had demanded tho
line"
And did somebody else get the line
immediately"
Yes sir Richard Morrison he came
there Just "a little after 12 o'clock"
Here we have two perfect examples
OF this revocable permit system" COM
mented Mr.. Shearn, addressing the COM
mission, "one. the O'Neil case, where
q politician who is strong enough to
get the permit is able to hold the man
up for $4,000 IN six months foi the
privilege and In order TO keep the priv
ilege good and see that IL Is not re-
voked And here you have a case OF
another concern with an investment OF
$4,000 in the business. having carried
on the business successfully. cut off
over night without notice and without
a hearing, because the organization de-
nanded the line"
The investigation will be resumed next
Tuesday afternoon.
The New York herald., 1922-11-10
cANTILEvER SHOE SHOPS

II W. goth ST. Copp. Library) N. Y.
564 East Fordham Road. ~ Y.
4I5 Fulton Ss.(over Schraffts) )Bkln.
Se7 Broad ST. (and floor) Newark
The New York herald., 1922-11-10
IL CONFESS TO BOTTLES
AND OBTAIN LOW FINES
Court Says Law Is on Books
and Must Be Enforced.

Fines ranging from s5 to s25 were i'm
posed on seventeen of fifty persons ar
raigned yesterday before Judge Rosal-
sky in General Sessions on indictments
charging violation Of the Mullan-Gage
law.
All seventeen pleaded guilty when
Judge Rosalsky announced that the fines
would be within the $5-s25 limits II no
evidence justified the suspicion that the
liquor was in their possession for sale.
"A great many people OF this com
munity think this is n bad law" said
Judge Rosalsl<y. but since il is on the
statute books IL must be enforced"
The New York herald., 1922-11-10
Import Duties to Exceed
Record by 500, 600, COO

wy AsHrNGToN. Nov. Q CAS-
w sociated Press).-A Federal
revenue of approximately
s445,0o0.000 this fiscal year from
import taxes. or about $1o0.000,0OO
more than ever before in the ma
tion's history, was forecast to-day
by customs officials. This Is on the
basis of returns under the new
tariff act for month and a half
OF its operation and the almost un-
precedented income which immedi-
ately preceded the enactment of the
Fordney- -McCumber statute. when
there We're heavy Withdrawals from
bonded warehouses and rush, OF
imports so as to avoid tho higher
duties carried in the new law. The
actual revenue for the first month
of the operation Of the protective
measure was $40.S6S.266. or at the
rate. of nearly S50o.o0o,o00 a year.
The New York herald., 1922-11-10
Grateful to Friends.

She will study in New York.
When she was asked for the range
OF her voice she was quick In saying
Il should say from middle G To
sharp above high c." She wants to be.
come n colorature soprano. but" she
added. Miss Gail-Curci, for whom
sang last summer in Kansas City, said
she thought ! might develop into
dramatic soprano. You cannot tell, al
The New York herald., 1922-11-10
TOM O'NEIL DENIES
DIVIDING BUS PROFITS
Shearn Shows Withdrawal
of Sl,815 in Two Months
From Bank.
ITEM WAS PERSONAL
Transit Board to Continue
Tracing Tammany
Mans Checks.
SIS, ,000 LOST ON ROUTE
Witness Says Whalen Revoked
Permit as Organization
Wanted 1t.
$4,000 LOST ON ROUTE

The bank book and checking ac-
counts Of Under Sheriff tom" o Nei,
in the Bronx Borough Bank We're the
objects of continued scrutiny by Clar-
ence j. Shearn when the Transit Com
mission yesterday resumed It's invest-
cation Of the West Farms Bus Cor
poration.
O'Neil on Wednesday had admitted
that corporation and It had been
shown that the revenues accruing to
him and to the estate Of the late
Bronx Tammany leader, Arthur II
Murphy, for the first six months of
the bus concerns operation had
amounted to more than $4,000 apiece.
O'Neil's salary as under sheriff is
$500 year, and he had testified that.
other than his salary and his bus
revenues, he had no business or addi-
tional sources of income.
His pass book showed bank credits
TO mis- account since last April in lump
sums of $1,000 and $500, aggregating
more than $500. These deposits, he
testified, were not either salary or bus
profits, but he professed TO be unable
to remember their source. The only
check book The Bronx undersheriff
produced was a new one, opened No
vember last. Mr.. Shearn IVES anx-
ious to inspect his earlier check book
covering the period of the bus lines
operation, between April and Novem-
Der. ONeil had explained that his
custom was 10 throw away his old
check books and his Cancelled checks
as fast as they had become useless.
but he had agreed to look around and
see IL he could find the new check
books immediate predecessor.
The New York herald., 1922-11-10
Defends Dummy Method.

That Is not tho only check book that
dropped IN. All my check books I
drop I'm when am through with them u
declared the witness, with an angry
scowi
"ff this bus business ia an honest,
legitimate transaction. why do you hide
your interest I'm u behind "a dummy?
80 reason at all. ] just didn't care
TO nut my name 60 ~ that is ALL"
"why not, II the business was legiti-
mate2'
"Wcll, for the reason a man who Is IN
politics is criticized for almost every
thing he does. and / felt that for that
reason 7 would like my name left out
and 20 put somebody in thero TO repre-.
sent me"
"Dld IL occur to Won that YOU would
be criticized for taking money for OBJ
tanning a permit from the Department
OF Plant and Structures. was that it7'
"No. knew II was a legitimate bust
ncss. just didn't care 20 have my
name mentioned.'
Mr.. Shearu excused the witness tenn
porarily with the comment. That will
do for tho present. until / get your
checks"
Efforts on tho part OF the exa unfner
to uncover more Of the secrets OF what
he called the sake O'Neil Murphy bus
corporation" by ealIins to the witness
The New York herald., 1922-11-10

though my voice has, ! am told. been
properly placed"
1t was said without boastfulness, but
with typical girllsh naivete. She coul
not remember when she first began TO
sing. 81 guess I've always sung. You
see." she went on, II would rather sing
than play. never was much good at
the games the other girls played and
seemed to know music just naturally.
| learned to play the violin and the
piano. / didn't suppose my voice was
out of the ordinary until began to sing
In church and in some Of our choral
societies In Kansas City. Two kind
friends in Kansas City gave me vocal
lessons and l never can thank them
enough"
Those two 'Tsind friends" the singers
father explained, were John r. Jones, a
Welsh born American music teacher
known to every music lover west of the
Mississippi and to great many others
In the East, and Ottley Cranston. who
thirteen years ago brought into being the
Kansas City Grand Opera Company,
which last summer wrote very Inn
portant chapter into the career Of Marion
Talley.
Creates Great Wonder.
you must know all about John r.
Jones'" said Mr.. Talley. Hes the man
who did SO much for community singing
during war days. He saw the great pos.
slbilitles in Marion's voice and did won
vaers for her, but he had to give UP the
lessons when he got into war service.
Then Mr.. Cranston, who has done more
for music In Kansas City than many
other Of our men there. continued her
lessons"
1t was Miss Talley's appearances with
the Kansas City Grand Opera Company
last summer at its annual performances
In the Shubert Theater in that city that
brought about the young singers audi
ion" in the Metropolitan Opera House
on Wednesday afternoon. It was the
thirteenth annual season OF the local
company directed by Mr.. Cranston. The
opening performance was "Mignon' on
May 21 with Mrs. Allen Taylor, wife
OF ~ prominent Kansas City merchant.
In The title part. At the Wednesday
night performance of Bohemian Girl"
Miss Talley was the Airline. on Friday
night siio was called upon to take over
the role of Mi0non and did so with only
s. piano rehearsal. She sang through
the performance without missing note
and with dramatic insight that created
almost as much wonder as did the quail
ity and stability Of her voice.
Then came the public movement among
the music lovers Of Kansas City that
eliminated in her addition" at the Met
ropoltan Opera House, as described IN
The New YORK HERALD yesterday. II
took three songs and twenty minutes to
solve the girls musical future.
Was she afraid to appear before such
an august body OF music judges? "Oh.
no was her reply. Why not?"
'Well." she replied. II just wasn't. Only
just a little nervous" What did they
say to you afterward?" why, they just
talked and were so pleasant"
In reality the Metropolitans addition
court told tho girl she was marvelously
gifted, but should give herself up to
study for few years without any
thought OF appearing in concert or opera
within that time.
Mr.. Talley will go back TO his Job In
Kansas City as soon as he finds his wife
and daughter flat here. They and their
advisers will take their time in finding
the vocal teacher.
The New York herald., 1922-11-10
TEACHERS BESlEGING
GIRL OPERA PRODIGY
Kansas City Soprano Finds
Herself Victim Of Fame
Overnight.
PLANS STUDY HERE
Marion TalIey Confident
She Will Net Grow I'm
patient at Wait.
THANKFUL TO FRIENDS
THANKFUL TO FRIENDS
Child Discovered in Church
Choir Hopes to Re on Stage
When She Is 13.

Miss Marion Talley, the vocal prodigy
who came from Kansas City to knocl,
at the door of fame as typihed by the
Metropolitan Opera House. found her
self yesterday the victim OF celebrity.
Into the Great Northern Hotel.
where she is a guest with her par
ents. c. M. Talley. telegraph operator
in Kansas City for the Missouri Pa
cifc Railroad, and Mrs. Talley. walked
at breakfast time dozen of inter-
viewers and eight photographers, two
with motion picture machines.
In the girls mall came offers from
solicitous teachers OF voice. all anx-
,ous TO see that the fifteen -year-old
singer with q mature soprano voice
of great beauty advance properly
through two or three intervening
years OF hard study TO the inevitable
career in grand opera and concert.
The most important overnight de-
velopment came with her convincing
demonstration that what had been said
in her home city and in New York about
her voice was not founded Ia nysteci-
cal enthusiasm. On one song she proved
that from her slim, girlish throat comes
a soprano voice Of great beauty. excep-
tional range and unusual power in one
so young.
First Sang I'm Choir.
Another thing was typical OF her
youth. She said: II want to thank
all my kind friends for what they have
nne for me and for what will be don
to help me. but father. mother. my SIS
ter Florence and do not tive in BASE
ment fat" That item in the biogra ply
Of Miss Tal1ey had It's source in Kansas
City and ii was explained away by
Mrs. George E. Powell, the music editor
of the Kansas City Star. who has
watched over the girl for year. You
see" said Mrs. Powell. "thc apartment
house i'm which Mr.. ana Mrs. Talley and
their family live Is built on one OF Kan
sas City's side hills. You get the idea"
Marion Talley's story about herself
Is that OF any girl Of her age brought
up in a family of moderate circum-
stances, with social life radiating about
the public school and the church. which
in their family Is Campbellite church
the First Christian Church OF Kansas
City. 1t was in the choir that this -yrl's
voice was found by her friends when
she was 10 years old. Even then her
voice was not in the least childish
sounding to her young friends. 1t was
almost uncanny in its maturity.
Marion Is a well proportioned girl. tall
for her age. She has a large oval face,
an unusually high forehead and straight
eyebrows under which sparkle large
blue eyes. She is much more than
pretty.
"I am really more than 10 years DID,"
she said. 81 will be 16 in December.
hope to be able to appear in opera when
/ am is, but I am not going to be i'm
patient. / won't mind if i have to wait
another year. Even then i will make
my debut at an age younger than Miss
Geraldine Farrar, who was, l believe.
20 when she first sang In opera, and 7
know Miss Galli-Curci was mere thaa
Is or 10 when she first sang in grand
opera"
The New York herald., 1922-11-10
Drew s4,si5 In Two Months.

Examination of the bank deposit book
showed itNhad not been balanced since
October ~. O'Neil said he had not re-
ceived from the bank any cancelled
Checks since that date and, consequently.
could not have destroyed them. The ex-
aminer thereupon dispatched n mes
senger to the bank with a subpoena call
ing for the production of any cancelled
checks drawn by, O'Neil and still in the
banks possession 1t was by similai
expedient in the case of Ferdinand w.
Frankenberg that Mr. Shearn had dis
closed the two telitale checks bearing
the Endorsements of o'Neil and the
Arthur II. Murphy estate.
We'll. 1t appears from your bsnk
book here" went on the examiner. that
between August 16. 1922. and October
90, 1922. you drew checks on this ac-
count for sf.s15.42."
THAT ,s money have used for my
own purposes and nobody else's."
But that is at the rate of about
SO. 400 a mohth. or nearly $4,000 year.
You do not live at the rate Of $40. 900 o.
year, do your
NO; haven't had anything like ths'
n any time"
How would you explain drawing out
s2,4oo q month from this account if
you do not live at the rate Of $4,000
year,"
We'll, there are reasons. have
spent a lot OF money for different things
do not live as high as that
Nothing like that?'
II NIive fairly well. ! don't deprive
my family Of anything. IL you are try
Ing 20 find out IL paid any money to
anybody out of this business ] want to
say TO you, now / am under oath, that
I have not paid a nickel to anybody"
The grizzled Under Sheriff began to
show some heat under Mr.. Shearn's per-
sistent grillng.
But what do you do with all this
money!" demanded the examiner.
Il can use my money for my private
use" shot back The Bronx paece Of
ficer. "r don't know as YOU have any
right to ask any questions of me. or tell
me how / should spend my money y
II have a right 20 be interested in
hnding if you divided UP any Of this
with politicians"
And I am telling YOU I did not. But
cannot tell now what did with all
that money
but your check book that you
dropped into the waste basket November
/ would shown asked the examiner, In
ainuatingly.
The New York herald., 1922-11-10
Up On
Your Toes
! IN light,
! flexible
Cantileuers

Every step you take in them is
a setting up exercise for the
muscles Of your foot. Can't
lever Shoes prevent fiat foot
and strengthen weak feet, en-
abling them to carry you thru
busy days with more pep and
comfort. Come in and see what
shoe with a flexible arch
means to the flexible arch of
your foot.