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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30
q S'P Z. a. s.5 l9ss, Daily Poem
By
Berton Braley
THE IDEALIST

Where shafting whirls and hammers drop,
In factory and grimy shop,
He hears-not strident dssonance-
But rhythm of the true romance.
The thunder of the rolling mill. !
The shrek of shears and plane and drill
Make mighty music to his ears,
For in their mingled song he hears
A march song of humanity
That throbs with strange deep harmony,
That lifts the soul and makes the blood
A tingling torrential flood.
He knows that in this noise and murk
Of dull machinery at work,
There is a purpose and plan
Which shall make fair the world for man.
Out of the clamor and the CRIME
He knows there shall arise in time
Ships to go forth on high emprisa
And towers soaring to the skies
The ReaIist can only sense
The tumult and toll immense,
But the Idealst has seen
The dream that springs from the machine.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Tines-Recorder. July
80, 1899

y
80, 1899
The ball room of the Windsor
was the scene Of a delightful ger
man last evening. A number of
young people were present and the
figures of the fashionable dance
were charming to all who parti-
cipated.
You ask why Girls. Sherlock is
smiling and bowling so? 1t is be-
cause baby boy has taken up per
manent abode at his house. He
never was SO happy.
Mr.. w. H. Allen, for a num-
Der of years has been the happy
possess or luxuriant growth of
whiskers all over his face. His
whiskers were his pride, and the
thought never entered his mind
that some day they would be shay
ed from his face. But, that day
come, the weather being so ex-
tremely warm last week, he deter
mined to part with his pride, at
any cost. (The way some girls of
today feel about their Aair.)
n lel &c patty VIII ISdNS Amer
icus this week to do the sights of
The White City" The following
ladies and gentlemen will go: Mr..
and Mrs. w. K. Bell, Miss Annie
May Bell, Mrs. John R. Shaw,
Messrs. Charles and Ed Ansley,
Joel Hightower, Isom Cain, and
Lester Windsor.
Several members of the Hotel
Windsor's social circle repaired to
the cool shades of the woods yester-
erday, spending the day fishing in
a do as you please style. A de-
lightful luncheon was enjoyed ard
the party returned home by twi
light to dream happily of the fish
they didn't catch, Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Doughty, Miss Nina Fish,
and Mr. Hugh Brown were the hap
Ply participant ts.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30
Perfectly Capable.

Not so long ago a bunch of gun
men started a reign of terror in a
certain Texas town, and the terror
stricken mayor wired frantically to
the governor for Texas Rangers to
restore peace. A special train
came down from the ca.ital and
one lonely Ranger stepped out.
Where's the rest Of the outfit?"
demanded the mayor and the
sheriff.
Rest, hell" replied the Ranger
mildly, you amt got but one riot
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(F'rom the Times-Recorder. July
On 1QnQA

w LOVCJs
w. j. Josey, the well known At
lanta merchant who is to embark
in business in Americas is busily
engaged arranging the spacious
store room in the Windsor Hotel
block which he will occupy shortly.
Sweet potatoes of the new crop
are already in market here and
plentiful at $3.50 per bushel This
is very early for potatoes and the
crop is large one.
Messrs. T. Wheatley, T. F. Gate
wood, and T. w, Galloway, mem
bers of the board of deacons of
First Baptist Church, and among
the absentees from the city at pres
ent, have been requested to return
to Americas today to attend a meet
ing of their board to be held at
once for the purpose of discussing
matters of interest of the church.
The Glover Grocery Co., as has
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

Funny news is so scarce we
wish Charlie Chaplin would
marry, or Bryan say something
new.
DR.. Hrdlicka of the U. S.
Museum is a pigment expert and
not a hard Ticker doctorer at all.
jack Dempsey, some say, has
lost his punch. Our guess is
maybe Luis Firpo found it.
Auto having replaced the horse
Ford wants the flivver to re-
place the Democratic donkey.
Women are doing fine in Bri-
fish politics, Englishmen no
longer rule the permanent waves.
Houdini, handcuff king, has
written play, hoping to get
something besides himself out of
it. 800. >
A Nicaraguan editor shot four
times will recover. Editors grow
accustomed to anything,
BY some queer twist of our
language Kansas people make
moonshine from sunflower seeds.
judging from the foregoing, that
at least these two cities have all
the negroes they care to have.
If we may read between the lines
we would say that they have a
few more than they know what
to do with, and would be glad
for some of them to hunt homes
elsewhere-probably return to
the Columbus Enquirer
Sun. a~~.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30
$3.50 FROM
ONE sow

As the season progresses, and
rain follows rain, we are more and
more convinced that less cotton
and more hogs, corn, pecans and
other crops must be produced in
Sumter county.
With our wonderfully fertile soil,
long seasons and mild weather,
dairying and live stock and hogs
hold great opportunities for Sum
ter county. We are producing
many hogs, but more can be raised.
Regarding hogs, we find the fol-
lowing in the Hawkinsville News
Dispatch:
Tom Milan, fifteen year-old
lad in the third year Clarksburg,
Tenn, grew IS bushels Of corn per
acre, and marketed two litters of
pigs from one SOW in a year, clear
ing $187.50 on the projects.
He selected corn as his first
project. He prepared a one-acre
plot, fertilizing it with 100
pounds of nitrate of soda and
200 pounds of acid phosphate.
Pure bred disease-free corn was
planted, and from the acre he
husked IS bushels, which was
As bushels above the average
per acre yield for the same kind
of land in his locality.
l
corn at the State Fair at Nash
vile, winning third prize, and
first prize at the Clarksburg
Fair in competition with more
than sixty corn growers.
The second year he bought
Bertha" a two-year-old pure
bred Poland China SOW. She far
rowed him three Htters within a
year, of seven and eight pigs
respectively, and Tom helped her
to save them ALL The first two
filters were marketed at 8 months
and 6 months of age respective
ly, for a total of $1875O, and
the third litter is being fed for
market.
Interest that boy on the farm
in hogs. Get him a good sow, allot
sufficient land to him to raise his
corn, and watch him go to it"
Give the girls a good COW and a
flock of thoroughbred chickens
and she will surprise you and her
self before the year is out.
The corn crop of Colquitt coun-
ty is good-something to be
proud of, says the Moultrie Obser-
yer, sufficient acreage having
been planted in the county to sup
ply its needs for another year, and
continues:
We have more acres in corn
this year and it is twice as good
it was last year.
Corn has been selling in Moul-
trie the past spring up to the pres
ent at a dollar and thirty cents
a bushel. Many farmers have
been forced to buy at this price.
1t will be that high or higher
next spring. The man who ex-
poets to have more corn this
year than it requires to carry
him through the year should be-
gin making arrangements to
store it and safeguard it from
weevils.
The corn will be soft this year,
as a result of the unusual amount
of rain, and it will fall easily to
the weevil unless it is properly
housed and treated. The man
with a good crop of corn can
well afford to equip his barn for
protecting it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

WANTED - LOANS, LOANS,
LOANS, LOANS-Having di-
rect connection and plenty of
money at the lowest possible inter
est rate. l can save you money on
city loans and farm loans. H. o.
JONES. 14-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30
Sherman Was Wrong.

Poor boy" remarked the lady
visitor to the wounded soldier in
the hospital, you must have been
through some pretty tight
squeezes."
well, ma am" he replied, blush
ing uncomfortably, "the nurses here
have been pretty good to me"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

While Thomas Edison invents
things at home his son invents
excuses to return to college.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

WANTED-Lady traveller $500
month and transportation. Call
Mrs. T. P. Willis Monday night.
Inone 776. 30-1t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

FOR SALE-One baby carriage in
good condition, cheap. Can be
seen at 1T E. Lamar street.-dh
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

On Harding's return from
Alaska he probably will spend
the summer at the ice box.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

DR.. Hrdlicka says red heads
are becoming scarce. Others say
they are not scarce enough.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

PHONE 117-J0Hl ". SILVER
BEST GRADE RED CEDAR, No.
l and No. 2 PINE SHINGLES 27-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30
Three SIN lies
Grammaticallv Speaking.

Landlord; I'm here after the
rent"
Tenant: you're wrong. I'm
after the rent-you're ahead of it"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30
A Thought

They that will be rich fall into
temptation and a snare, and into
many foolish and hurtful lusts,
which drown men in destruction
perdition.-1 go.
There is nothing keeps longer
than a middling fortune, and
nothing melts away sooner than
a great one.-Bruyere.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

LOANS on farm lands and city
property. Low interest rate.
Loans promptly closed. See S. R.
Heys o. H. B. Williams. Phones As
or 50. .,.
Charles Glover.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

WANTED-To protect you, your
family and your property. Frank
E. Matthews, Insurance. g18-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

FERTILIZER-Call on G. H. Walk
er,Phone SIP for good cowpen
manure for chrysanthemums. Now
is the time. 3O-1t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30
TOM SIMS SAYS:

On Harding's return from
Alaska he probably will spend
the summer at the ice box.
mi, rI;..,, ir,o,+s
., "' - -, ;,,,,o,,+,
'''i''s' g, ''''-' 49, -
DR.. Hrdlicka says red heads
are becoming scarce. Others say
.
Our guess IS a preSloehIiai
possibility seldom gets eiecUeo'
Narcori invented tho wireless
81 wars aoo and # is going
'''e way ~ ~ -
Kansas farmer IS suing his son
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

Our guess is a presidential
possibility seldom gets elected.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

Funny news is so scarce we
wish Charlie Chaplin would
marry, or Bryan say something
new.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

DR.. Hrdlicka of the U. S.
Museum is a pigment expert and
not hard Ticker doctorer at all.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

jack Dempsey, some say, has
lost his punch. Our guess is
maybe Luis Firpo found it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

What jumps out of reach
quicker than d promising future?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

Marconi invented the wireless
q years ago, and it is going d
long way to be so young.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

Florida man who tried to
smoke out mosquitoes hasn't
any mosquitoes or house either,
now. =
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

By some queer twist of our
language Kansas people make
moonshine from sunflower seeds.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-30

A reformed poet making an
honest living, tells us his poetic
license just expired.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-06
SOVIET PROPAGANDA DOESN'T
CONCERN THEM! WELL
WHY NOT, WE ASK

to his neck of the woods. 1t applies
to EVERY neck of the American
woods.
The Red propaganda, with it's
'amalgamation" bunk, it's stealthy
underground treachery, its sob-stuff
about poor Russia, which was made
poor by Red criminality, its railing
against "reactionaries," it's glowing
drunken promises of "deliverance,"
is propaganda that is on the job
every minute and that hits every
place where trade unions exist.
The danger is only in going to
sleep.
The danger comes from the fell
lows who say, "Why should / worry ?"
and who get up on platform and
wobble around with chatter about
perhaps don't agree with all of it."
Any man who thinks he agrees with
any of it ought to get busy and learn
something about democracy and some
thing about American trade unionism
This isn't frantic" yelp. It's
cold blooded hell raising with men
who are forgetting facts and who
are doing sloppy thinking, or no
thinking, about an issue that is real.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-06
TO IMPROVE LABOR
LAW

Harrisburg, Pa.-Additional COM
pensation, lengthening of periods over
which compensation is paid, increas-
ing the maximum amount paid, and
the addition of new list of compen-
sation injuries are among the fea-
lures of bill introduced in the gen
eral assembly by Senator Joyce, Of
Luzerne.
Compensation would be paid for 500
weeks, as against 800 weeks under the
present act for payments to depend
ents in the event of death from in
jury. Children of deceased workmen
would receive compensation until 18
years of age; the present limit is 16
years. Burial expenses would be in
creased from 500 to $3.50. Increases
in the schedule for medical attention
and hospital services would be i'm
proved.
The present $12 weekly maximum
would be increased to $40, and the 10
day waiting period would be reduced
to seven days. The present rate of
compensation is 60 per cent of the
weekly wage; this would be increased
to sc 2-3 per cent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-06
DAUGHERTY PUBLICITY
DECLARES FOR ANTI
UNION SHOP

Wages and working conditions are
most important to wage earners, but
living standards are not the only val
ues.
A spirit of independence among
workers can be classed among the
nations greatest assets.
Timidity is not trade union char
acteristic Trade unionists do not
stand as cowed "hands" before the
angry glare of an autocratic employer
when he sees his power over them
disappear forever.
Trade unionists are the advance
guard in the great battle for justice
and humanity. They are out in front.
They beat down opposition that the
great citizenry army may take more
advanced positions.
1t is the trade union that men first
come to with their story of tyranny
and wrong.
And this mighty movement, that
rights these injustices, is to be de-
stroyed by the attorney general.
This official is against collective
bargaining, the keystone of the trade
union arch. He would decree by law
that workers much bargain as indi-
viduals.
What philosopher was it who spoke
so wisely on the value of laughter
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-06
PRIVATE CAR"
DEALS
Is Secret Government, Says
L. S. Senator

New York Private car govern
ment" was the term United States
Senator Copeland used in describing
secret deals between big business and
government officials, in a speech be-
fore group of shipping men in this
city.
Last spring the private car of
Harry Sinclair pulled into Three Riv-
ers, New Mexico, the home of the
secretary of the interior, and out of
the conversations in that car there
developed the secret deal whereby the
great Teapot Dome oil field, which had
been set aside as a reserve for our
navy and merchant marine, was leas-
ed to the Sinclair Oil Company" said
Senator Copeland.
ITO guarantee the people against
the imposition of such acts of secret
government there is needed the light
of publicity on all affairs that concern
the public"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-06
STANDPATTERS
In Senate Have Back to The
Wall

Washington.-Th national admin
istration has been dealt hard blow
by the death of United States Sena-
tor Nicholson, of Colorado, who was
a staunch defender of the administra-
tion. His successor will be named by
Governor Sweet, who belongs to the
minority party.
Before the passing of Senator Nich>
olson, the administration claimed a
senate majority of 10. At best, this
is paper majority" as it includes
Senators La Toilette, Brookhart,
Frazier, Borah, Ladd, and several
others who are more or less pro-
nounced in their disregard for the
party caucus.
This paper majority" is now re-
duced to nine by the death of the Colo
rado senator. Formerly it took six
of the Independents to block a party
measure. Now it takes but five, and
it is openly declared that it will be
impossible for the administration to
organize the senate, when it convenes
in regular session next December.
With the increasing power of the
senate Independents in both parties
the chances for legislation favorable
to big business decreases. There will
be no anti-strike legislation passed
and the reduction of surtaxes on big
business will find rough travelling
Proposals for ship subsidy, if pre-
sented, will be hooted off the senate
floor, while the tariff law, living costs
and the transportation act will bt
bombarded from every side.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-06
BOY AWARDED $4,000

Philadelphia.-A verdict of $4,000
was awarded a 9-year-old boy and his
father against the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western railroad by jury
in this city
The boy, a shattered piece of hu-
manity, excited great sympathy in
court Both eyes were blown out and
his left hand and arm to the elbow
We're shattered as a result of an ex-
plosion of dynamite on the company's
property at Scranton. The dynamite
was found by the boys in an aban-
doned shed on the company's prop
erty.
Attorneys for the railroad charged
that the boys were trespassers on
company property and that they found
the dynamite elsewhere. The father
of the boy proved that the boys were
given permission to play around the
shed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-06
0NE-MAN RULE
Goal of Special Privilege

Washington.-Political agents of
privilege must know that their con-
troll of the next house of representa-
tives will be very uncertain as they
are now whispering that Cannonism
ought to be revived.
These advocates of autocracy justi-
fly this position on the ground that
the different elements in the next
house will make it hard to pass leg
islation.
The agents do not specify what sort
of legislation will have rough sled
ding, but details are unnecessary in
this case. Give the speaker more
power is the plea of these agents,
who want matters arranged as they
were years ago when the people be-
came so enraged over Cannonism that
the autocracy of the speaker of the
house became a national issue and
that presiding officer was shorn of his
power.
The attempt to revive Cannonism is
simultaneous with talk of revising the
senate rules so that the filibuster will
be outlawed
With the senate ending the historic
right of each senator to talk as long
as he pleases, and with affairs in the
house controlled by the speaker, as ir
the days of Cannonism, privilege
would remain entrenched in both
branches of the congress.
The quiet agitation for these
changes, and the absence of publicity
regarding them, indicate the resource
fulness of privilege and its ceaseless
efforts to thwart the popular will.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-06
STATE INSURANCE
PAYS

Albany.-The surplus in the state
compensation fund last year increas-
ed $346,000 over the preceding year,
reports committee of business men
who represent the policyholders in the
state fund Private compensation
companies are devoting every effort
to destroy the state compensation
fund, as they we'll fear it will even
tually develop into state monopoly of
workmen's compensation insurance.
The state fund report, however, is a
blow to the campaign of the private
companies.
The state fund has a surplus of
81 100000, and of this $850,000 is set
aside for a catastrophe surplus, leav-
ing a net divisible surplus applicable
to the policy holders of the fund
amounting to $1,080,000 The number
of policies increased from 1876 to
II ,401, showing wider participation
in the fund on the part of the en-
ployers of the state.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-06
By CHESTER NJ. WRIGHT


Communism doesn't concern me-"
Soviet propaganda is nothing to
worry about"
"Why should we get excited about
the Reds? ?"
Even labor editors who ought to
know what is going on have made re-
marks like these.
There is something astonishing
about the indifference manifested by
many persons concerning the most
menacing propaganda American labor
has ever had to fight against.
There is more Red propaganda in
the United States today than could
be described in many newspaper
pages.
Men are going hither and thither
trying to tear down the trade unions.
Paid agents-not just one or two,
but many of them-are on the road
constantly
Thousands upon thousands of dol
lars have been poured into Red prop
aganda funds.
Some of this money has come from
Moscow, some from New York's rich
fanatics of the lunatic fringe, some
from the "art" colonies of various
ether cities, and some from labor hat
ing employers who can't see beyond
their noses.
Writers, preachers, lawyers and
other professional men and women
belong to the Red propaganda ma
chine. Some are just the unknowing
tools of the Red outfit. Some are
worse.
A labor editor introduces Foster at
a mass meeting and says he isn't
sure he agrees with ALL that Fos-
ter has to say! No, Mr. Hyena, I'm
not sure l like everything you do, but
III play with you little, just to
show there's no hard feeling.
SO it goes But remember this as
hard fact: Communist dictatorship
in Russia has declared war on the
American Federation of Labor; the
communists in the United States are
following orders; every Red outfit il
this country is directly linked with
the main Red program Monkey with
one, you monkey with all.
Rich women, looking for excite
ment; fad crazy writer's, looking fol
nobody knows just what; paid propa-
gandists looking for payroll contin-
uity; unbalanced fanatics driven by
sick brains; calculating mercenaries
and zealots hating everything demo
cratic and American-all these hook
up around the Red band wagon and
do their deviltry in concert.
Somebody thinks this doesn't apply
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-04-06
MICHIGAN CONVICTS
USED TO BREAK STRIKE

Jackson, Mich.-Warden Hurlburt,
of the state penitentiary, located in
this city, assigned so convicts to break
strike of seven men at the Jackson
Steel Products Company. The warden
said Mark Merriman, a member of the
prison board, and an officer Of the
Hayes Wheel Company, requested this
action, as it was necessary for the
steel plant to unload its cars imme-
diately and secure material that the
Hayes factory used.
The use of convicts angered trade
unionists and sympathizers in this
city. and there is talk of a legislative
Investigation The instigators of the
move are surprised at the storm they
have created, and they are issuing
smoke screen statements in the hope
that resentment against them will
subside