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The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1923-05-17
Regret.

There IS no use in vain regret,
In hot remOrse or bitter tears;
There is no sence in looking back
TO stir the memories and the tears;
w hat you have done, then you have
done
And all your tears won't wash it out!
You cannot make forward step
Burdened by fear or chained by doubt
There lsno courage in the weak,
No.strengthi in that regretting mood;
Wise men go forward though they faint
And ouly weaklings sit and brood.
What you have been, too you have
BEEN
What you're to be is up to you
SO get up dust yourself, and work;
Forget itall, and carry through
The Pathfinder
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1923-05-17
Growing Ignorance of Bible.

Pittsburg Press; Some of our
educational authorities-and re
hgicus contemporaries-are dis
turbed by the results of a quiz to
which 1879 University of Nebraska
students were recently subjected
on their knowledge of the Bible.
1t is said that these Nebraska
university students who are doubt
less no more irreligious than univer.
sity students elsewhere, Z per cent
could not name a single book of
the Old Test lment. Less than
half OF them could name ten books.
Eight and one.half per cent coul /
not name one book in the New
Testament. Eerxes" was given
as the name of an Old Testament
book. Fourteen named "Hezekiah"
as one of the Books of Moses. "
Nothing like this ignorance in the
old days of family prayers.
The Nebraska incident certainly
proves that our education has | e n
pretty thoroughly secularized. We
aim to keep religion out of the school
in so far as it is sectarian and we
are right in SO doing. But we.
appear to have been succeeding so
well that we have excluded not only
sectarian religious teaching but
religious teaching of any kind.
On the other hand, America has
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1923-05-17
Righting The Wrongs of
Farming,

The trouble with the farming
business lies mostly with the meth
DDS of the men in the business
Some farmers prosper while their
neighbors fall by the wayside. The
business is all right, but it takes
good business methods to make
profits. Just as the merchant or
banker keeps tab on every phase
of his business, so should the
farmer. Just as the merchant or
banker compares his methods and
swaps experiences and learns the
weak points in his business and
corrects them, so should the farmer.
The Farm Bureau is a get to-
gether organization of the farmers
of the community, county, state
and nation, where they meet dis
cuss their business, swap expert
ences, learn the wrongs and rights
and put into operation the rights.
1t is true that thousands of farmers
may know very little of this move,
nevertheless in the nation there is
a membership in such an organ
ization numbering over 100000
farmers. In Mississippi belonging
to this organization there are over
10000 farmers and hundreds Of
new members are joining each
week. At the present rate of in
crease the membership in Missis-
sippi will double during the next
few months.
The Mississippi farmers have
gotten little taste of what they
can do through cooperation. Their
first big problem is marketing. OF
their 1923 crop. they are going to
ship directly to the manufacturers
not less than 100000 bales of
cotton. They are going to ship
directly to the city market not less
than 1000 cars OF truck, to say
nothing ofSthe hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of other
products they are going to ship
comparatively. Judging from ex-
perience of farmers in other states
their saving on the cotton will
range from 3-7c per ID. their saving
on other products will be not less
than 20 per cent. Last year the
farmers through this organization
in Mississippi, pooled $4,000 tons
acid phosphate and 10000 tons of
nitrate of soda and delivered it to
the farmers, the acid phosphate at
saving of $3.$5 per ton and the
nitrate of soda can be conservative
ly stated fiom $S-$15 per ton.
This pool was instrumental in bear
ing down the price of commercial
fertilizers throughout Mississippi,
which quantity amounted to not
less than 100000 tons. The fertil-
izer pool will be further promoted
this year. Their program does not
stop at the cooperative marketing
and purchasing of just farm products
but the program is that of making
farming more profitable, the rural
home more attractive, the soils
more productive, to standardize
varieties of crops, animals, poultry.
methods etc. to build the social and
educational features of the rural
C immunity. 1t is worthy cause
and the Extension force of the
A. q M College thinks that every
farmer should learn all about the
organization and join the move.
Extension Dept. A &. M. College.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1923-05-17
kA, TIsHoMINGo COUNTY. MISSISSIPPI.
THE DEVILS SOLILOOUY.

Suggested by hearing speak dspaagngy OF young g
One night as the devil sat musng alone,
In the midst of his cozy warm fire,
Trying to figure the difference in guilt
Tween thief and an all-around liar,
his memory turned to the of his youth
And his eyes filled with hot scaldng tears
80 he took down a ledger and turned to a page
Dated back about six thousand years.
suppose he exclaimed he glanced through the book,
Il am doing the best | can
For my business denotes a continual increase
Ever since the creation of
have cnbbed good harvest for six thousand years,
And should be content with my YIELD
And give my opponent permission to have
The geanings leave in the field,
I've gathered very diversified crop,
vi merchants and lawyers galore;
I've bound politicians in bundles until
The ends of my fingers
have hdders, gamblers and insurance men;
have murderers, forgers and ias
I've filled up my furnace with green Popuss
I'LL they actually put out the fires
L have railroad conductors and doctors to spare,
Horse traders and preachers to spend;
Republicans, Democrats Tories and Whigs
And two or three newspaper
But there is one class I'm happy say,
Can never gain entrance here
Their souls so dirty that they would
Demoraze hell in year.
u refer to that thing neither human beast
The carrlon OF the world
Who never is happy unless he feast
On the wreck of an innocent girl,
A million OF years in my hottest of rooms
His ISLANDERS could atone
So give him match and advise him to start
select little hell of his own
With his fingers he lit n4asbestos cigar,
And placed his book a shelf
He murmured i may be very bad man.
But I've got some respect for myself"
-Daton's Weekly.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1923-05-17
CONNER'S RECORD ON WAR
FOUND CLEAR.
Candidate for Governor Answers Critic In Con-
vipcing Statement. Citing His Record.

of the war, but what | did at home
was nothing as compared with the
sacrifices made by the men in the
army and navy. | lift my hat to
the m. | cannot agree, however,
that all men who could have gone
to war and did not volunteer are
now.unworthy of holding public
offices, for this would include the
thousands who awaited their turn
under the draft as the Government
asked them to do, and it would
include other thousands who were
! above draft age but within volun-
teer age, and who could have gone
but did not go because they were
not called Exemptions and de-
ferred classifcations were not made
for the benefit of individuals, but
for the welfare of the nation, and
it was a mans duty to accept his
classification, whatever it was, and
that is why Mississippians did So.
| was able to 60, | was willing to
go, offered to, and would have
gone except that the President
Congress- and the Adiutant Genera
of Mississippi thought it best that |
remain at my post of duty.
/ have kept silent thus far, be-
cause charges were not made public
II, or in my presence. My patriot
ism, like my religion, is sacred and
/ never boast of either. This whole
issue was fought out in 1919 when |
defeated returned soldier of abil-
ity, carryiny all precincts except
his home boxes, in my race for the
Legislature, and when the fight
was renewed in the Legislature l
was reelected Speaker by the
unanimous vote of the House. To a
fair. minded person this would
appear to settle the m after.
There are no war heroes in this
race, According to my information
all the candidates were within
volunteer age. Some within draft
age, and three were within the ages
of twenty and thirty, as am ad-
vised, when the Spanish American
War was fought war in which the
Government called for volunteers
and each man determined the part
he would play. Whereas, in the
World War the Government fixed
each mans responsibility for him,
and said it was his duty to act
accordingly.
make this statement for the
information of my friends and those
who honestly want the record, real
zing that i will not satisfy my
Political enemies. | hope the
newspapers, in a spirit OF fair play,
will carry this answer to the people
who were not here tonight. l
appeal to our citizens to require
records and not to occept political
rumors concerning the candidacy
of any candidate for Governor, OF
any other office"
Mr.. Conner was introduced by
Fred Montgomery, Commander Ct
| the Local Post of the American
Legion, and his statement called
forth prolonged applause because
of the clear cat. straight forward
manner in Which Mr.. Connol
| tackled the question.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1923-05-17

Hazlehust, Miss, May Sth-
taking from his pocket copy of
the Hazlehurst Courier, Sennett
Conner, candidate for Governor,
in his spec 3h tonight read an article
therefrom which contained the
statement
They say Conner was Stacker
I have waited purposely," said
Mr.. Conner, until came to Halle
hurst so that | might answer this
charge in the presence OF the editor
and readers of this paper. L am
going to give you the true record
tonight just as | have done every
where in this campaign. l wish
that everybody in the State was
within the sound of my voice so
that those who want the truth could
have it direct.
Il have no military record. A
year before it was dreamed America
would go into the W orld War l
was elected Speaker of the Missis
sippi House of Representatives for
the term which extended through.
out the time our country was
engaged in the War. The draft
act of May 18th, 1917, Chapter
Is paragraph 4, declared that
The Vice President of the United
States, the ofticers-legislative
executive and judicial Of the United
States and of the several states
territories and the District of Col
umbia, shall be exempt from the
the selective draft herein prescribed >
THE reason for such provision
is self.eyident. The machinery of
government, Federal and state had
to function, and function efficiently
if our gigantic war effort was to
succeed June.
However, in 1917, before
single division was in France, l
volunteered unconditionally for
military service in any capacity to
which | might be assigned, to the
Adjutant General of our state, who
was then recruiting units for war
service. My enlistment was re-
jected.' Whereupon Mr.. Conner
read from the signed statement OF
General Erie G. Scales Adjutant
General of Mississippi, both during
the war and at the present time, as
follows:
I'm view of the policy of the
government, as evidenced by the
Draft Act, which exempted state
officers from military services and
the urgent appeal from President
Wilson not to disrupt state, county
and town governmental organiza-
,tions by accepting for military
service men 50 engaged. we decided
that, in view of the fact that you
occupied the most important posit-
ion in the legislative department
of our state government, that j,
would be unwise to accept your
enlistment.
After inviting every Doubtir g
Thomas to come forward and in
spect the document from which he
had read Mr.. Conner continued.
Il accepted the classification tc
which l was assigned, and gave
my time without limit TO ever,
eff, t ending toward the success;
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1923-05-17
For Sale.

-Four room house on street back
of w. 7. Ross's residence.
M. S. Hansbro, Sheffield, Ala.
"a If.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1923-05-17
Help Home Trading.
If You Are Doing Business
With Mail Order Concerns

sending cash Of towndong business with mail orde
concenskp about the growhthe industries advantages
beauty of the You have boast coming is good towr
not because of you, but in spite of you,
Americus times-recorder., 1923-07-26

with a party of friends last week
Mr.. Bell intends leaving this morn
ing for Clarkville. A host of Amer.
lcus friends earnestly hope that
this good woman may speedily be
restored to health and home.
Mr.. Joe johnson, the son of Mr.
Henry Johnson, who has been tax
ing a course at Stephens University
at Hooboken, N. j., is at home on a
vacation.
The Amerieus friends of Judge
Max &. Land, of Rochelle, extend
congratulations to him on his pros
pectlve marriage. The marriage
Will take palce the latter part Of
August, and that Miss Gertrude
Taylor, of Cuthbert. will be the
fortunate bride.
Miss Beluah McMath, after a stav
Of several weeks in Atlanta, study.
ing the fall fashions in dressmak-
ing, has returned.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-07-26
sake for you intrigues your inter-

sake for you intrigues your inter-
est.
Has it ever occurred to you that
back of every advertisement in this
paper there is some one with a per-
sonal message for you? More often
than not these advertisements were
written with you in mind. 1t is
impossible for most merchants and
manufacturers to give you a pnon.
call about their goods, their wares
or their services. So they pay us
for the privilege of calling these
things to your attention in our ad-
vertising columns.
Give an advertisement the same
attention you give to a phone call.
Many Of them are just as important
to you-and just as interesting.
They will help you economic and
keep posted on news of vital inter-
est to you and your pocketbook.
Don't ally this paper aside, today,
without reading the advertisements.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-07-26
Al LAST ACCOUNTS

"The Savannah Press" says
the Macon News, "notes that
Governor Walker is the first
governor in years to quote
poetry in his annual message.
In affairs of state, however, it
is better to be quoted than to
quote,
'We suspect that there are
some things the governor said
concerning his position on
some questions of state dur
ing his campaign for the gov
ernorship that he would rather
would not be quoted, but for
gotten" add the Columbus
Enquirer-Sun. He opposed
the Hardwick income tax pro-
posal, but now he is in favor
Of it; or he was at last ac-
counts we had"
Americus times-recorder., 1923-07-26
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder. July
26, 1879

While there is the usual mid.
summer lethargy in a building way
in Americus just at this time, it
came only at the end of a period
of unusual activity in house build
ing, and that it will be followed by
another very busy season in the
early fall seems assured, in the
opinion of property owners. The
fall season will witness the begin
ming of another building era which
will include the two brick school
buildings in East Americus and
Brooklyn Heights, besides many
frame structures for which plans
have been made alerady.
Miss Florence Roberts who has
been spending several weeks with
friends in Chicago, is expected to
return here on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen and son,
Hengy, returned yesterday from
a pleasant outing Of a week at St.
Simons Island.
Miss Lallie Carter has gone upon
visit of some, length to friends
in Macon
Mrs. George Ellis and children
left Friday for Waynesvillle. N. c.,
where they will spend the remain
der of summer.
That Americas will have an ad-
ditional passenger train at the be-
ginning of the fall season seems
certain in reports current to the eff
feet that the Central railway will
put on another Seminole Limited to
Florida. While no official an
nouncement to this effect has yet
been made, travelling men have in
formation to- that effect.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-07-26
THREE SMILES

his choice.
"Move aside there" he com
manded peremptorily, tapping the
other on the shoulder.
"Gwan, an who are you with
your move aside there?" demanded
the citizen.
Don't you know who | am, sir
l am a representative of the peo-
plew
We'll, wot of it?" ask the other,
settling himself comfortably. "You
know wot we are? We amt nothin'
secondhand. We're the people
themselves"
Americus times-recorder., 1923-07-26
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(trom the Times-Recorder. July
26. 1899

I
There was a close and interest
ing game of ball played at Lection
Park yesterday between Montezuma
and Americus. The score stood 12
to Is in favor of Americas. The
| boys from Montezuma are a gentle
manly set of fellows; indeed, so
clever were they that Americus
Mr.. George Dudley will leave for
hated to beat them.
Atlanta this afternoon where he
VIII enter the great bicycle race
this afternoon. If George keens
up his record he will surely bring
back first prize.
Yesterday morning Mr.. V. E.
Rodgers. superintendent of Mr.. N.
K. Rays plantation three miles north
OF Americus, while weighing out
rations to a negro, became involved
IN a difficulty with the negro.
Without any ceremony the negro
pulled his pistol and shot at Mr..
Rodgers barely missing him.
Messrs. Harper Bivins and ], W
Jolly have returned from White
Sulphur Springs Fla.
Mrs. j. c. Mckenzie and daugh-
ter, Miss Bessie, have returned
home from Montgomery, Ala,
where they have been visiting for
several weeks.
City Engineer Morgan Eldridge
leaves this morning for the east to
visit his brother, Mr.. Arch Eldridge
after which he will visit Chicago
for the purpose of attending the
American Association of Civil En-
gineers.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-07-26
Rnsaes Were Wise.

The heads of a big manufactV-
ing plant had this notice posted at
the beginning of the summer sea
son-New Rule for our employees.
All requests for leave of absence on
account of toothache, severe colds,
and minor physical ailments and
on account Of church picnics, we'd
dings and funerals and the like,
must be handed to the foreman in
charge of your department before
10 A. M. on the morning of the
game.-Houstou
Americus times-recorder., 1923-07-26
S' S'PE'iFh'' E' A. s.l5ss' l3ss' Daily Poem
By
Berton Braley
PARTING


We two have been comrades together
In seasons of stress and of strain,
We've wandered in all kinds of weather
The sun and the wind and the rain;
But now-well, old pal, you must leave n
The time of our parting is here,
And though it should properly grieve me,
find I'm not shedding tear
l still look at you with affection,
Remembering gratefully how
You've given me comfort, protection,
But still, l am ditching you now.
For daily the sky's growing brighter
And though you've been sturdy and true,
want companion who's lighter,
And gayer and smarter than you
Old pals, though all right in a measure,
Grow wearisome after awhile,
And find good deal of pleasure
In those of a different style.
straw at this season is more a.
propriate style in hat
Goodby to you, battered Fedora,
I'm leaving you perfectly flat.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-07-26
The Genuine Article

Mr.. Bongs. bumptious and self
important by nature, had become
all the more so since his election
to the State Legislature. Arriving
at a certain public gathering late
when the space around the speak
ers' stand was well filled, and wish
ing to himself off to the best ad-
vantage, he lost no time in showing
his way unceremoniously through
the crowd, only to bring up against
the broad back Of a husky but COM
mon citizen escorting the lady of
Americus times-recorder., 1923-07-26
GERMAN TAX-DODGERS AND
THEIR EX-KAISER.

Helix EA-hAiOEN.
The evidence of German du-
plicity is so vast and so various
that one hardly knows where to
begin in making exposure Of it,
fortunately the current history Of
the financial institutions of that
country supply US constantly with
a mass of interesting and con-
vincing data.
There can be no doubt in The
world that the great financial
and industrial mganates of Ger
many have grown rich beyond
the dreams Of avarice, and con-
tinue to do so every day, but per-
haps there has never been any
thing more monstrous than the
yearly balance sheet Of the
Darmstadt National Bank, which
supplies US with one of the reas-
ons why German industries
should be taxed on the basis of
their actual gold value.
We are told that this great
banking organization owns III
buildings. Their actual value to-
day, measured in paper marks,
is 100000, 100000. This is an
inflated currency, 10 be sure,
and yet even measured in gold
these buildings are exceedingly
valuable.
But what value does the bank
give them for assessment and
taxation?
One paper mark each! And
that is all.
For many years it has been ap-
parent that the former kaiser was
one of the most contemplate
men in his every day life, and
now comes further evidence in
his refusal to pay his taxes in
Holland, where he has found an
asylum, and where he is a thorn
in the side of the Dutch.
1t is safe to say that while
many of his big estates in Ger
many have been confiscated, he
is still possessed of large means.
1t was reported a few weeks ago
that he received, literally, chest
of gold from Hugo Stinnes-a
part of the SHINES policy to blk
his own government. From 9TH
er sources of information we
gather that the former kaiser is
really well heeled.
Holland certainly did not in
vite the former kaiser to come
to Doorn and take up his resi-
dences. On the other hand, the
Dutch are being taxed to pay
for the guards that protect the
eX-emperor and at the same time
prevent him from breaking of the
reservation. AS matter of
fact, while he is under a certain
amount of duress, he doesn't
dare go travelling around the
world.
After a lot of chaffering and
huckstering, which looked like
anything but the regal conduct
we expect from a king, the ex-
kaiser consented to pay his mu-
nicipal tax to the town of Doom,
which amounted to $400. But
when the national government
sought to collect its tax, amount
ing to something like $4,000, Will
liam set up a howl.
The net result is that he is
sponging on the ma ion to which
he fled like u coward when he
found his own trops had turned
against him.
When one thinks of the evil
this man has wrought in the
world-of the millions of lives he
sacrificed, the billions of dollars
destroyed, the oceans of tears
shed, all because he still believed,
and induced others to believe in
the divine right of kings, and
then when we look at the pitt
full figrue he cuts, as shown by
conduct that is not worthy of
man, much less a king, language
is impoverished in the effort to
describe him as he deserves. -
Macon News.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-07-26
A Thought

Henceforth l call you not
servants for the servant knoweth
not what his lord doeth; but 1
have called you friends; for all
things that I have heard of my
Father l have made known unto
you.-John 1914, Is.
Americus times-recorder., 1923-07-26

The town council was having its
monthly meeting and Mr.. Hicks. the
belligerent and radical member
had been indulging in a one-sidec
but heated argument with the dig
nified presiding officer. Finally the
latter found long enough open
ing in the monologue to say loftily
"The chair will not dispute the
point with Mr., Hicks, unless"
THE chair had better not" in.
terposed Mr.. Hicks with dishearten-
ing energy, unless it takes its coat
off" A.