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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-07

Just as Dr.. S6uffle& hung up the
receiver the door bell rang and, sure
enough, it was Mark Muskrat him
self.
DR.. SnuffI9s looked at his tongue
aud pounded him a. over End
slapped his chest and counted his
pulse and then said;
Il know just what is wrong sir!
You're very Gick man. You've
got a disease called by a very long
name. It's called 'nothingwrongat-
alln"
Goodness gasped Mark, turning
pale "Am | as bad as that?"
YES" nodded DR.. Snuffles, but
1 can cure you" And he sent Nick
for a special kind of medicine.
why it was only water'' said
Nick when Mark Muskrat had gone.
Never mind" smiled Dr. Snuffles.
His own imagination will do the
rest"
ITO be continued.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-07
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
EDITORIAL
HELP THE SMALL CITIES.

TIE Associated Highways of
America, an organization for the
furtherance Of national roads, plans
at an early date to promote pro-
ject for national trunk highways
throughout the United States, these
highways to connect at least three
of the largest cities in each state,
Another matter that will receive
their attention will be the standard
jzation of camp sites.
The plan should meet with hearty
approval for there are few who do
not in this day and time subscribe
to the program of better roads,
whether it be a national or local
matter.
There is just one phase of the pro-
posed national highways thSt might
be changed to advantage, but the
suggestion is rather revolutionary
in its effect and that is, instead of
favoring the larger cities of the state,
cities well able to finance their own
road work, why not expend the mon
ey in connecting smaller cities with
the main highways throughout the
state.
This would be of greater benefit
to a greater number and of more
lasting benefit to the states, than to
further improve highways contiguous
to the states richer counties and
cities.
In this way there would be ave,
nues of traffic opened that would
be opened in no other way and prove
lasting benefit to the people of the
various states.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-07
THIRTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY.

(From the Times-Recorde August
6, 1929
viii Carter is going to have a
pretty and cozy home on Lee street.
The building is nearing completion
and shows up well.
Moonlight rides are getting to be
popular,
G. w, Glover's handsome residence
in course of construction on Lee
street is going to be one of the most
elegant in this part of the country.
The Work is progressing rapidly and
satisfactorily.
Miss Myra Westbrook Is visiting
in Oglethorpe.
Those newly fitted law offices on
Lamar street are beauties. Messrs.
Clark and Hooper have just moved
into their handsome new rooms and
are now comfortably fixed. Messrs.
Maynard and Smith also occupy pref
ty new rooms in the same building.
Miss Lila Reese, poular and
pretty young lady of Buena Vista,
is the guest of Miss Carrie Brannon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-07
LOCKING THE BARN AFTER
The HORSE is STOLEN

MACON seems to be aroused over
the fact that band of armed
men took a negro slayer from the
officers of the law and lynched him.
They are properly aroused in one
sense, for flouting of law, constitut-
ed to hold together society and stem
any encroachment of barbarism, is
serious matter.
Yet it would seem that with full
knowledge, according to reports
emanating from the Central City,
that the negro would be lynched if
caught, the authorities and the good
people of the city would have been
more consistent had they taken
prompt steps to prevent the lynching.
A few rigorous steps by the very
citizens now calling so loudly for in
vestigation would have saved the
situation in the first place.
THERE'S arnold provcrb about lock-
ing the barn after the horse has
been stolen that might have an apt
reference to to the present situation
in Bib.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-07
WHAT BORES YOU?

WEARS from now, when young
: men of today will be white
haired and hobbling about on canes,
their piping voices will interrupt the
conversation in the airplane with
this
81 mind the time just like it was
yesterday, back there in 1922 when
Bell, the inventor of the telephone,
died. Strangest part of it all was
that ii his last years he didn't have
any phone in his own home. Said
it was nuisance"
That will interest people of the
future more than any other fact
about the great inventor, just as it
has recently been causing the most
talk.
And yet it is very simple piece
of psychology.
A clerk in candy store soon
gets "sick of the sight of it"
The housewife, though she loves
the furnishings of her home, often
becomes bored almost beyond endur-
ance by the sight of the ever-rresent
broom and dish-pan.
Small wonder, that Bell became
bored and annoyed by the telephone
after devoting most his long life to
it,
1t corresponds to you, after start
ing jubilantly on task, but coming
down the home stretch with: IF /
ever finish this up, I'll never tackle
another one"
A kitten never tires of playing
with ball of yarn. A squirrel
would be content to run forever in
It's revolving cage. A toad never
wearies of music.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-07
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS

|. Kalmon is the first of the cot
ton fraternity to come back from his
summer outing and get ready to
greet King Cotton.
Will DudIey's new motorcycle was
exhibited on Jackson street yester-
day and this hayless horse was the
admiration of all onlookers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-07
HTING-A- LlNG-A-LING"
= Dr.. SnuffIes' telephones.

Nancy was washing the dishes and
Nick was wedding the flower bed,
SO DR.. Snuffl6s, the fair doctor, ans
wered the phone himself. 1t was
Mr.. Muskrat.
Say, DOCTOR" she said in a queer
voice, please don't let anyone know
/ called up up, but Mark, my hus-
band, is on his way to your house
and, honest to goodness, there isn't
a thing the matter with him"
That's very strange" answered
DR.. Snuffles. why should he come
to see me them"
Because" answered Mrs Musk
rat, "he thinks he's sick. He's got
a hundred things the matter with
him, he thinks. but he eats enough
for 10 people, sleeps like log, is as
fat as pig and everything.
But he complains something
awful!'
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-07

Health is wealth, but it doesn't
pay to swap.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-07
OBSERVATIONS
BY TOM SIMS

s~~>~~~S~
A man who can't be shown any
thing can be shown up.
n =
What's in a name? The Irish had
battle at Mt. Misery.
Chewing gum beats chewing the
rag.
We would hate to be robbe4.
There is SO much competition.
Sometimes we think a pesslmist is
man who is consumer.
Price of rubber is up. 1t cost one
man $25 to rubber.
Smokeless powder is strong and
so is a smokeless cigar.
Early to bed and early to rise
makes you healthy but not very
wise.
We wish to retract our kicks
against the cold last winter.
You can see little ripple of pros
perity at the banks.
From the way shoe laces break
it is regular string game.
Painting honse never costs as
much as painting daughter.
Remember when | pronounce
you man and wife" was life SEN
tence? a
There is a tendency to go to sleep
in political berths.
Longer skirts" says the bow
legged. shorter" say the bold
legged.
Money seems to go further when
you are after it.
Turning down high prices will
make them feel cheap.
Optimists should not have gold
front teeth.
Our days are numbered. Don't
lose any.
The man with straw lid wears
hay while the sun shines.
The woman who uses a dish rag
often feels like one.
Some women even go to church
for their husbands. Sea-
You can't keep good man or
good mans business down.
A used car is a pleasure car to
the man who sells it.
Some of our millonaires seem to
need check
Laundries clean up during the SUM
mer months. A I
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-07
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.

(From the Times-Recorder August
6, 1929
Miss Mildred Jackson, of Buena
Vista, is the house guest Of Miss
Ruth Brown at her home on Har-
rold avenue.
Miss Mary Mathis is on visit to
Miss Elsie Cubbedge Of Tybee, where
she will spend sometime pleasantly.
A Jolly camping party leaving to-
morrow for Kinchafoone creek IS
composed Of Ben Hollis Hawkins,
Leonard Gartner, Boisclair Kiker,
Leland Chester and VIII Hawkes..
l.. A.. Lowery, of Chicago, is the
guest of his brother, M. M. Lowery.
Mrs. j. E. Hightower and little
daughter, Ruth have returned from
prolonged stay with Mrs. High
towers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. II.
Thornton, in Winterville.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-07

All animal life is more or less con-
tented with routine existence The
difference between it and man is
that man alone has the nervous
temperament, forever seeking n
change, firing of The old, laboring
for the thrill of the new.
This nervousness is what has made
man develop into civilization While
animal life has pIodded along me-
chanically, without material inn
provement or progress.
In each of us there is a mysteri-
Gus something that demands con-
trast in life, to keep us normal and
progressing.
Physically, emotionally and men
tally we react from The thrills of in
tense activity to a languid torpor.
1t is natural law and no life
can be happy without recognizing
and conforming to it. Very few
men can avoid going to seed with
out having hobby.
Often a wife is blamed for being ir-
ritable an grumbling when all that's
wrong is that she is deprived of con
trast by being cooped up without
proper diversion.
Work like a beaver, when you're
working. When you quit work, for
get tiff you can. Concentration
is fine asset, but only in its place.
If life bores you, it is your own
fault. The remedy is simple-cast
about for diversions that will give
you contrast. And be thankful for
sorrows and set-backs. Without
them for contrast, all pleasures and
successes would become boresome.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-07
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.

From The Times-Recorder August
6, 1929
Mrs. H, s. Walker, on FurloW
street has as her guests this week
Miss -CalIie Davenport, of Albany
Mrs. Kate Cocker and Miss Pratt, of
Columbia, Ala.
Misses Orrie and Pansy Montfort,
the pretty guests of Misses McLaugh-
lin, returned home today. They are
among the most popular of the sea-
sons visitors.
Not much is being said about it
yet awhile, but Americas is going to
have fair next fall. Write that
down on the calendar Of your brain.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-08-07
RAILROAD SCHEDULES

Central Time.)
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americas, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
plln--> e,+o~I.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-24
Starving the Peoples University

The death Of Tho late Henry VI.
Leipziger, cut of IN the prime Of his
usefulness, was much de-lorct. Bu,
at least he was spared reading ne
figures which show tire shr.rka.e Of
me public lecture system o. .hs
Board Of Education. which he raised
20 the dignity Of a rrea: popular
university.
Thirty years ago the free lecture
system Of New York. the frs. of Its
kind at home or abroad. was cstab-
lished by a small group which in
Guided DR. Leirziger and the revered
DR.. Thomas Hunter. A. first the
speakers were chiefly such volun-
teers as could be recruited. Finally
small appropriation was secured
and the attendance mounted stead
lily. in ten years reaching half 4
million. During the Low Mitchell
era. when Tammany was out and
New-York tribune., 1922-06-24
Unbecoming Modesty

MIR Hearst has scattered publioa-
tions devoted to MS praise through
out the state. He has sent employ
oes abroad 10 organize the Party
for Political Progress. paying all the
expenses. He has held secret meet
ings with William J. Conners in
which his political chances we're Sc
riously discussed Yet he declines
to say. openly and frankly, whether
he is a candidate.
This reticence in another man
might be put down 10 modesty--to a
desire 20 learn If the people really
wanted him before he expressed his
eagerress for Office But Mr. Hearst
is not exactly a shrinking violet. He
beleves-and with some Justice
that Il he does not boost himself no
one else will boost him. SO he boosts
himself on all occasions. and when
he grows fatigued with the task or.
ders his editors 70 spell" him a, II.
II is possible, Of course, that Mr
Hearst does not really want the gov
crnorship. or even the Democratic
nomination for il. But il is perfect
, ~ clear that he wants Mr.. Murphy
TO think he can get the nomination
That will enable him 10 dicker foI
the Tammany delegation in the next
Democratic National Convention
Goverrorship or no governorship
Mr. Hearst is after the Presidency
Mr. Hearst's visions and attempt,
70 conceal his political ambitions arc
rot in the least misleading. Had ht
been drafted into the great war HI
would not have been assigned to tho
camouAage division. He is not ar
adept at hiding things.
HIS eyes have been on the Whit,
House since 1904 He has hated anc
attacked is every occupant since
that time. chiefly because they hsc
the job that he wanted. 1t is plair
row that he is looking beyond tht
governorship at the same shining
objective.
His purpose has been read in hi
newspapers and MS public speeche,
for nearly twenty years. II is NOR
apparent now than it ever Vas. Ye
he fancies that by refusing "a iel
lnterviewers chat he is candidat,
Tor Office the public can be kept il
the dark as to MS plans till ht
chooses what he thinks is a strateg,
moment 10 reveal them.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-24
Does Teaching Payl

To the Editor Of The Tribuns
Sir: Wide publicity has been g"
this week TO the earnings q f'''.
tons 1912 class. From 'he fsP-s
that the average income for the GO.
wa, last year about $4,000 and io' =, =,
vocation Of teaching not quite SAj
two lessons have been drawn Y
teaching does not pay; (2) college "
pay.
will you consider the ineomP''.
ness Of the evidence and the possies..
n) that q large proportion Of y =,
Princeton alumni OF 1912 had ~
business income thrust upon then Z
parental and social connections
tirsly apart from any college tr'i''s
(2) that compared With his ''aiv
point and investment, and perhaps 6.
pared even with those Of his GU
mates who have earned their way 7
teacher on $500 for a 2oo-dsy yes'
among the highest esrners Of his e'r
WILLIAM II. ALLEs
New York, June 81, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-24
The Wilson Assassination

The good news comes from Ire
land that the cowardly assassination
Of Marshal Wilson is as much exc
Grated to the south Of the Ulster line
as to the north Of IT, This condem-
ration of these infamous gunmen'
indicative g il is Of the great change
Of spirit which has come over Ire
land. seems spontaneously universal
The murderers perhaps thought that
some day. even though caught and
punished. monuments would he raised
in their honor. The only memorial
Ireland in her present temper would
Mt is a gibbe'.
Since the election IN southern Ire
land went heavily against him De
Valera has been cndoavoring IN
covert ways 70 incite new disorders.
He hs, not ceased 10 appeal n irrec-
oncilables. who. IN their wild willful-
ness. care as little for Irish opln-
ION a. for the worlds opinion Il IS
charitable % assume that he did not
have any particular crime m mind
hut he is Old enough 20 know that It
rs impossible 70 distill poison into
half-crazed minds without promot-
,ng noxious reactions. The world "a
weary Of the crews that in many
lands SOW the seeds Of hate and then
profess surprise that hate produced
according 10 It's kind.
The Phrnix Park murders put
back the cause of Irish freedom for
a generation Happily the group Of
British statesmen who are respon-
sible for the settlement which is at
last in sight are too broad in vision
and too corfder; in faith to he
DETECTED by the Wilson murder.
But II will bring against them a ter
rife strain. What is Ulster TO think
the Ulster that Michael Collins
says should come into an all-lrish
union? What will be the feeling Of
Englishmen. Scotchmen and Welsh
men who a. heart entertain a pro-
found distrust Of Ireland? The
shots that killed this brave'snd wise
soldier have in their line Of FIRE
everything that Ireland holds dear.
The most dangerous enemies Of the
Irish people are the Sim Fein ex-
tremists. Their masks have been
lifted.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-24
Books By Percy Hammond


msnturs, q. one.al guardian q "A
public taste. Ore cannot. hosse
choose ones own Temperament or ~
own theory of criticism.
The other sort ~ criticism. h,Trf
has its values. No, .ong ago r's :
"rhe Brooklyn Eagle" that John "a
Weaver, one % las The New ~
Tines calls HIM ,he local tnuss>
bolts Of criticism. had written: "Isri
no doubt about i,. Huxley i' orllr'
I did not know which one o. ihe Hli1
Mr. Weaver meant, bgt a later eer
OF Mr. Weaver's led me- 70 be- eve ;i'
he referred 70 Aldogs HUXLEY = 20
a writer" said Mr. Weayer, Nii d;
unquestionaoly notable future' =
this morning picked NJ wi,h anit;s
tion Of pleasure Aldous Huxley li1s
volume. Mortal Coils" liked ut
Weaver ard also Herbert Gormrh
Mr.. Huxley's Limbo" "Leda' RI
Chrome yellow" But "NOrta. c-'
entertained me- the most. In ,,ir
mote Circumstance that Mr D,r
the publisher. ever asks me- -
short story OF his printing ' =
best. shall for once disress'' ~
walkley's modest preeepts lrs D.
exclaim, The Gioeonda Smile. a
initial tale in Aldous Hgx.ey's o-S'
tion Of short things. Mortal coi,s q
ideal tale-full o. VIZ, Pene'Fi'H'
character study and the desp.sed qsi.''
Of ingenuity. Other things IN 'ae '~'
are entertaining -"Green rar,'i'
Nuns At Luncheon" "permo'i'''a
Among the Nightingale ard ~
familiar "Tillo,son Banquet
New-York tribune., 1922-06-24
What Readers Are Thinking

ing the FIRST gust. which yea can ~ 4,
sweeping ahead in a cloud o. eu''' = =
it has been dry, is heavy 'a'n' VIZ"
lightning and thunder
Never trlHe With 8 storm IN s9D1'' s'
II you see thunder heads and I'VE.
thunder and are on the water o's
TO be careful. A storm son'ei."'
makes up in fifteen minutes or ~
II in a rowbos;, cut fof SHORE =
soon A.. storm seems certain. j y''
are good sailor in good craft ~.
plenty Of sea room. you can s'H
.ousll out: /, is safer 20 lower ava ava
ard anchor. It is no disgrace 70 :
afraid Of a squsll; i is foolish 70 F'''
smar. and triae wi,n one.
An OLD TRIBUNE READsS'
New York. June %, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-24
The Illinois Murders

The brutality that marked the
ssughter of tho strlkebreakors on
Wednesday has rarely been equaled
IN this country Only when men
have resortcd % lynching has there
been a comparable exhibition Of
blood lust.
Nineteen of the dead were non
union men. On some il is claimed
were found cards Of Chicago
secret service organization, and II is
alleged these were subjected to tor
ture before they died But murder
is murder. and whatever the afilia-
ton Of these men. 10 take their lives
BY violence IS a staggering crime.
II is bad for the union that many
among lis number took part in the
killing. So also is It an unfortunate
coincidence that the attack occurred
iust after the receip, Of a message
from Presider. Lewis Of the United
Mine Workers Of America stating
ths, Representatives Of our organi'
ration are justified in treating this
crowd rs an outlaw organization
and IN viewing It's members IN the
same light as they would view any
other common strikebreakers.'
To impute 20 Mr. Lewis a wish 70
ineite 70 violence is unwsrranted.
But his message, notable as much
for what il does not say as for what
= says. was singularly unhappy.
The antipathy Of the striker toward
the strikebreaker is notorious, and
the strikers could only be inAamed
by the Lewis message.
Violence will not advance the
cause of either side. nor will a
s.sughter Of strikebreakers by
strikers help un!onism. Pending
intervention by the government. 1t
Is the clear duty Of Mr. Lewis 70
leave no doubt that he emphatically
opposes violence and will not
tolerate II.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-24

A cold acquaintance in the Middle
West writes me TIA, not long ago he
purchased for two bits In a second
hand bookshop a treatise on how 10 play
rolf An indoors man, he was less
interested in the volumes contents
than h. was in the inscription upon
"its Az leaf" This was addressed 70
me by the late Bert Lesion Taylor, =
good friend. suthor Of The Pipe Smoke
Cory" "A Line o. Type or Two" The
so-Callsd Human Race and the dis
ecvsrer many years ago Of F. P. A. TO
p. Hammond" the inscription says, "A
sorry golfer. May he read, ponder and
disregard 81 don, admire you" my
acquaintance writes. but shall have
even less affection for you II you can't
explain"
What's the use. as Clement Scott
said. when a book given to him By
Ellen Terry was found in London
eireulstinE library. "Johanns mus,
have sold IL, but whats the use Of my
saying that I didn't" Apprehensive
ihi. other valued presents may have
dinppssrsd similarly look f.arfully
through my shelves, and discover
tha, some Johanna or other mus, have
-. ~ asst
Impressions" by A. R. Walkley.
dramatic critic Of THE London Times"
n was gift TO me from the late Lyman
n. Glover. of The Chicago Record
Herald" Of whom Sir John Hare once
said ths, he vas "the greatest dramatic
critic writing IN the English language"
tn. iersroing is written no less as
~srninr to careless book lovers. than a.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-24
Peace Hath Her Victories

Great Britain taught America
golf and America has twice beaten
her AZ II.
Last year Jock Hutchiscn. Mid
die Western professional, came home
with the British open championship.
Yesterday Walter Hagen won IT,.
with Jim Barnes. Of Pelhr m. tied for
second. and Hutchison fourth in a
field in which played the b,st golfers
in the British possessions.
In Hutchson's victory there was
the consolation that he was born in
Scotland. Bu, Hagen was born in
America and learned the game here.
As yet no native-born American
has ever won the British amateur
championship. Walter Travis. who
defeated the crack amateurs Of Eng
land and Scotland, being an Austria
han by birth.
But with golf links practically
bounding every important American
city. with public and private courses
scattered from one end Of this coun-
try TO another, that may happen at
any time.
Americans take naturally 20 golf.
There is plenty Of room for 1t here.
Gradually they are learning that il
is worth while TO quit hustling for a
few hours for two or three days a
week and study self-control on a
broad expanse Of greensvard.
Golf may never be the national
game, but it cannot be commercial
lied, and it presents problems which
Americans are fond OF solving. 1t
has become the pastime Of Presi-
dents and members Of the Supreme
Court and captains Of industry and
United States Senators, as well as
Of thousands who have neither
wealth nor position. but swing demo
cratic clubs over municipal links.
We are turning out crack golfers
by thousands over here. and the am
hition Of every one Of them is to
cross the seas some day and win the
British open championship. II the
British consider II American impu-
dence 70 beat them at their own game
the young aspirants for golf honors
are willing 10 let il 60 al that.