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The Alaska daily empire., 1923-07-12
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR BABY.

Funeral services for the little day old baby daughter of MT. and Mrs Conrad Suekkestad were held yes terday afternoon at o'clock at the c. w. Young Undertaking Parlors. Rev. David Waggoner conducted the services. The baby was born at II o'clock Sunday last at St. Ann Hos pital and died at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning.
 Mrs. and Mrs. Suekkestad are from Hawk Inlet where Mir Suckkestad is bookkeeper st the P. E. Harris can nery.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-07-12
Rurrbardf r

c. A. Burkhardt. president of the Alaska Consolidated Canneries, pass cd through Juneau on the Queen for Yes Bay to inspect the company cannery there. He made the round trip on the Queen inspecting the canneries at Tee Harbor and Tena- kes. MT. Burkhardt issaccompanied Is by his wife and daughter. Nan.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
A WARNING SOUNDED

The people of the state ought
to watch this special session with
unsleeping eyes. The man who
evades, who obstructs, who PLAYS
peanut politics during this special
session should be marked for q
sure and speedy return to pri-
vate life. Every legislator should
do his duty and that duty, if he
is an anti-Walker man, is to for
get that satisfactory tax reform
measure will make Walker sure
OF second term; that duty is
to put Georgia first, to get down
to work, stay on the Job, study
the measures that are poured in
the legislative hopper, and
through the wisdom that comes
from the counsel of many pa
trlotic minds, give the state az
genuine tax reform measure
whieh'will relieve the inequalities
of the present tax burdens, which
VIII increase the revenue of the
state and make it possible for
every activity of the common
wealth to function as it should.
-Vidalia Advance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL WEEK
Todys Article W. Merchant.
GOD AND COUNTRY"

part to make tlds >..- garden spot
Of vac morld.
Now let Us consider our people.
Fhese little specks that we see bus
Ting to and fro among all this
greatness. Such a variety. From
the lowest to the highest; from the
ignorant to the learned. All man.
ner and kind. What are they think
ing of? Out Of the thoughts come
the issues of life. Do they realize
the power, the magnitude and
grandeur of our country to God,
Are you planning TO Yetard or
country and to defeat God, or ARE
you doing your part 10 make better
our country and accomplish the
great purpose Of God. We recent
iy visited our asylum for the in
sane. We were proud of this we'll
kept and worthy institutions But
what Of the inmates. why are
they here I knew o.o woman
there who in my boyhood had been
an angel in the community. A
model of culture, education, gen
tlaness and modesty. Why this ideal
OF my youth now raving in this
place? I knew; the sins Of the ia
Their. He had been Z debauch, sat
jsfieG every lustful desire, ana died
IA druukard. The l,fc of almost
every cnlld Of his was a tragedy
Oh! let the fathers AMI sons snow
that TO keep her people sane, we
must live clean, to produce a strong,
sturdy race.
Education will make us appre-
ciate God and our country. We are
mot afraid that true education will
make infidels or anarchists. A
knowledge of God and our govern
ment viii not made red" But
instead will make law abiding citi-
Gems and Cody men and women.
Education should begin in the home.
Set the right example before your
children. Do only the things you
are willing for them to do Make
the right kind of environment for
them to grow in. Surround them
with good reading matter and things
for their wholesome development.
Give them the right training in
childhood that they have a know
ledge of real active life. Discipline
them that they may obey the law.
Cooperate with the public school
teachers that the best results may
be obtained. Education in the
schools has, perhaps, as vital part
to play in our nation as any HUI
man agency. Here the very foun-
dation of intellect is laid. The fun
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
Where Taxes Go

Fifty cents Of every dollar paid
in taxes goes to salaries, if figures
made public recently by tax experts
are correct.
1t is estimated that four billions
of dollars is required annually 70
pay office holders, national, state,
county and municipal.
There are more than three and
a half MILLION persons on pub
lie pay rolls and our annual tax
bill runs to eight and half Bill
LIONS.
Don't get confused; we are talk
ing in dollars-good hard United
States dollars-and not German
marks.
Whether you are getting your
moneys worth or no, is a matter Of
personal opinion. That there is 4
terrific waste, caused by personal
politics, inefficiency, fee systems
and graft there is no denying.
Some day--a thousand years
from now, we will look on govern
ment a sa business and not poll
tics. We will place trained men.
on adequate salaries at the head
of departments, bond them and in
sist on efficiency.
When that day comes, taxes viii
be considerably less, results far
greater and progress more rapid.
The start already has been made
with the lowest unit, the municipal
ty. AZ
Commission form Of city govern
ment, with trained city Manager
is saving millions for American
cities. n
County ,gasernment will follow,
with many county and city govern
ments combined into one admins
tration.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20

damentals Of knowledge are given
to instill in youth strength Of
morals and character, The great
desire for knowing and finding ott
is created. AS far as possible, the
application Of the truths taught are
given. Our great publicyschooI sys-
tenn andlvaried colleges and institu-
tions Of learning without peers
anywhere. Every boy and girl can
satisfy his utmost desire for learn
ing Education in the church gives
the finishing touch and makes
full. well balanced education. No
educatjon is complete until the
hand, mind and heart are co-ordi-
nately instructed. But we have
such short time for religious
teaching. Only about one hour a
week Fifty-two hours yearly. And
then only a. small per cent OF orr
people attending. But any student
thoroughly mastering his Sunday
school lesson and other teaching in
the church can gain a great amount
of Biblical knowledge. The Bible
is The greatest text book in the
world. It's teaching is the leaven-
ing of knowledge. The develop
mant of the spiritual is the crown
ing Of all attainment. The culmi-
nation of all aducation is in the
teaching OF Jesus Christ. Educa-
ton in the home, school and church
produces a complete man of the
highest type.
Our slogan for today is "a Cody
Nation Cannot Fail. All great ma
tions chat have forgotten God have
invariabl yperished. These good
United States will stand as long as
they are true to God. Forget God
and We perish. Let the congrega-
ton repeat together the slogan
"a Cody Nation Cannot Fail"
Let us also say together, l will be
Cody that this nation may be a
Cody nation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20

In response to President Cool
idge's proclamation for Education
Week, Nov 1925, ] speak today on
the subject assigned, God and Our
Country"
God should be our first thought
When we begin to think of Him we
cannot go behind the first verse of
Genesis, an the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth"
Then we see Him as a God of crea-
ton. When man creates or invents
something, we immediately hail him
as a genius, but our wonderful God
created the great universe and all
that there,is therein in. six days.
May may take a lifetime to pro
duce one small now thing, but God
| in one week gave US all the won
ders OF nature. His masterpiece of
creation was man. In His own i'm
! age created He him. That is where
we get the idea that the form of
God is like our bodies. To man
He gave unlimited liberty to have
dominion over all of His creation,
What a privilege and yet what
responsibility. Man abused that
freedom, and God had to put re-
strictions upon him, in the form of
laws. The world desire for liberty
is but the original and first state
of man. We sometimes think of
God as old and wrinkled and grey,
But He is the same yesterday, to-
day and forever. Age has no effect
on Him.
Now let us look at our country.
We like to say our. 1t is bad when
q wife or husband says this is, my
car or my anything, How much
more a partnership when we say
ours? This is our country. You
may not own one foot Of land or a
hut yet you can say with all that
this is our country. The hills and
mountains of the east, the Rockies
and slopes of the west form one I'M
surpassed panorama of nature No
where has God more graciously en-
/ dowed His handiWork of creation.
Go into our great coal and iron
, mines of Alabama and Pennsylvania
igold. silver, lead, copper and zine
mines of the west, and gas and oil
fields of Texas and Oklahoma. We
cannot but say our hidden re-
sources are beyond value View the
great corn fields of Illinois and
Iowa; the wheat fields of Kansas
and Nebraska, and the cotton fields
Iof Georgia, Texas and the South.
The rich soil, touched by the in
genuity of man, has wonderfully re-
sponded with an abundant harvest.
Look at the mSriads of cattle,
Ihorses, sheep, hogs and chickens to
supply the fat Of the land. Surely
There was never an Eden more abun-
/ dainty supplied. Our great cities of
skyscrapeYs, institutions of learn
ing. and modern conveniences are
| models to the world. Our own
| Washington, D. c., stands as a. mon.
Eument to liberty, peace and happi-
Eness.
The railroads, our great arteries
tof commerce, bind US together as
lone compact nation and make us
direct neighbors one to another
Certainly man, too, has done hi:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20

This week is being observed in
our local schools, and elsewhere in
the nation, as National Educational
Week, a week set aside by the Ma
tional Educational association for
the consideration of education. ,a'
The more we think and the more
we discuss our schools, the more eff
ficient will those schools become.
To the educator, the most DIS
tressing thing he has to face is the
lack of interest taken in our schools
and colleges.
The public school should be Of
FIRST Importance to every man
and woman. Sane aod patriotic
education is the bedrock o. liber-
ty and happiness.
Every parent should visit our
schools and KNOW the man or
woman who has in charge the edu-
cational training of our children.
Writing on the subject of Corn
pleted Education" Rev. Luther
4 Harrell, minister and educator, has
this to say;
by education we understand the
sum total Of those processes where
by society transmits from one gen
Grafton to the next its accumulated
social, intellectual and religious eX-
perience and heritage. The means
for such processes are unlimited,
while the effectiveness of these
processes cannot be doubted
Considering education in the
above light, one begins to realize
that an education can not be COM
pleted until life itself has been
lived. Another truth that dawns
on us, is that forces of education
that touch the life most are the I'M
organized forces. Only a small
portion of the life is spent in TIL
school room, under the direct in
fluence of the organized forces of
education.
1.-THE old statement that we are
never too old to learn" carries with
it more truth than most of us real
ize. The truth of the situation is
that we must continue to learn
or we shall dry up and die. We
must increase our stock of knowl-
edge or we shall lose what little we
possess. But has the world at
large learned this truth?
In the activities of the world to-
day, one will hear the statement
made often, that this is a day Of
young men. Where did this idea
originator, Did some one cease to
learn or in other words did some
one complete his education, even
while he continued to live? 1t may
be that this is an explanation OF
this current idea.
ut is true that men grow old ii
years, but there is no real reason
why men should cease to be stu
dents. The man of eighty year;
has a valuable place to fill in the
world, if he viii only continue u
add to his store of knowledge, arC
at the same time the young mar
has his place to fill. There should
be no conflict here. The one
should supplement the other.
knowledge cannot be transmit
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20

ted, as one would sell merchandise.
The ability to think must be de-
veloped, and there is time when
this ability must be developed
Great men have lived and died, and
perhaps some have thought all
their greatness was wasted but
through the record of their lives,
others have been inspired to great
er things, and in this way they con.
tinue to live.
But there is some truth in the
story that is told of a negro about
to be hanged When asked if he had
anything to say he replied: NO, I
reckon not--except l want to tell
you all this sure am going to be
lesson to me, Our experience
teaches us but we do not live this
life over Is the lesson wasted?"
Give yohr schools that thought
and interest they deserve. Know
the teachers and lend to them the
sympathy and aid they must have
to serve you and your child to the
greatest advantage.
Familiarize yourself with the
needs and necessary expansion Of |
your schools if you would protect |
your children now and in the fu- |
ture.
Each day this week the Times
Recorder will publish an article
written especially for the paper on
some phase Of education. 1t will
benefit YOU to read each article
carefully.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
DAILY POEM
Copyright, 1928,
N. Z. A. Service
By
Berten Braley
PURE GOLD

In absence of loquacity
Some people find sagacity.
They think the silent person is bird
With wisdom of immensity
Because of his propensity
To sit and think and never say word
Behind that quiet front of him
And in each nod and grunt Of him
They fancy there is knowledge erudite
And and then you find it's true
He has clever kind of mind, it's true
And those who Ahink him wise have got it right!
But silence oft has back of it
Not thought-but utter lack fit;
That ponderous appearance is stall
That Jovian impassivity
Hides mental inactivity,
There's nothing going back there at all
Still, if that individual v.
Can dope it out to kid you all
To thinking there's brain beneath his hat;
If he can only stay with it
And somehow get away with it,
The silent lad is pretty wise at that
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
FOR GODS SAKE DEsIsT

The tax commission has recon-
mended that steps be taken to
enforce the law in the collection
OF all taxes. This is a good rec
ommendation if carried out in
the right way but for Gods
sake do not add any more tax
burdens to the people, who are
already paying more than their
Just share. Governor Walkers
platform committed him against
the leyying of any additional
taxes, yet the last legislature paid
no attention to thi sand saddled
several new tax bills on the PEG.
pie. Any constitutional amend
ment that adds additional taxes
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
From the Times-Recorder. Nov,
20, 1879

from the Times-Recorder. Nov.
20, 1879
Judge Littlejohn yesterday hand
ed down his decision in the now ia
nous Barlo wcase and awarded the
eleven-year-old daughter of J. E.
Barlow and Mrs. Edith Barlow to
her mother The case has attract
ed statewide attention because of
the prominence of the parties con-
cerned.
Mrs. John Council, of Council,
Ga, is the guest Of Mrs. E. c. Par
wer at her attractive Taylor street
home during the remainder of her
visit in Americas.
Mr. John Mathis viii go to Daw-
son today as attendent upon the
BaldWin-Stokes wedding. a fashion
able event there this evening.
Hazel Council, the baby daughter
of MI. and Mrs. Barlow Council,
and who has been very seriously
i'll is now better to the gratifica-
ton of THEN many friends,
Miss Mary Verdery an attractive
and charming young lady of Jack
sonvlAe, is among the guests ar
ri9ing already for the Firather-
Hudson wedding.
Miss Maybelle Hawkins, the guest
of relatives in Atlanta during the
recent auto show has returned to
her home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Davis, of
Jacksonville, are guests of Mrs.
Davis mother, Mrs. c. P. Payne on
Lee streetI where they arrived last
night.
Eugene Kemph, who for three
years has been a regular in the
United States army, is at home
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
INVENTION

Three hundred times a day, an
apparently new idea occurs to some
American. Applications for pat
/ents average 5000 a month. This
shows that brains are active in our
young nation, though the 5000 in
clude applications for trademarks,
prints and labels, as well as patents
for new inventions Americans are
tremendous successes Isl science. In
other pursuits, we grope rather
blindly, especially tho spiritual side
Of eXistence.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
AFRAID 10 FACE ISSUE

AFRAID TO FACE ISSUE
The extra session of the Legis-
lature declares:
The trouble is that no man in
Georgia politics seems to be
strong enough to dare to face
the issue and tell the truth. In
this lies an opportunity for some
member of the Legislature. There
IS place in Georgia for a fear
less man who will demand that
the Legislature cease to wran-
gle over petty things, and tell the
people of the State just what is
going on. For one who will strip
the veil of subterfuge from
present policies and come out for
honest common sense administra-
ton of Georgia's affairs. A So
luton OF the tax question suit.
ing every man cannot be had,
but men who compose the Legis-
lature can quit beating the devil
about the bush and in ten DAYS
enact effective tax legislation
which will provide ample funds
for the States needs and with
out extreme hurt to any class
Cobb County Times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
He's Different.

Shop Foreman-You amt one
of them blokes wot drops their tools
and scoots as soon as the knock
off blows are you?
Lily White-Not me. Why, ]
often have to wait five minutes al
ter l put me tools away before the
whistle blows.-Sydney Bulletin.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
" 4 -
FLYING

Wandering aviators, joy riders
and circus-stunt flyers are seriously
hindering the progress Of aviation
warns Captain Z. S. Land, u. S.
n. His attitude apparently is that
flying IS a serious business, not a
sport or recreation.
Speed craze is fIying's real enc
my What's needed is tool-proof,
safe, cheap plane-not one that'il
make 1000 miles an hour.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
THOUGHT

Answer not fool according to
his folly, lest thou also be like I'M
to him.-Prov. 1854.
Full oft we see cold wisdom
waiting on superfluous folly
Shakespeare.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20

an interview with A. NJ. Herring,
predicting that heavier-than-air ma
chimes would be constructed cap
able Of speed of 1876 miles an
hour. The city editor tenderly
threw the interview into the waste
basket and razzed the reporter for
trying to get into print with such
visionary tommyrot.
Recently an airplane travelled
twice that fast.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
Reason Enough

She-Why do people cry at we'd
dings?
He-Well, l imagine those who
have been married themselves start
it, and the others join in,-Bostou
Evening Transcript.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
TWENTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY
(From the Times Recorder. Nov.
20, t903.)


(From the Tinies-R Recorder. Nov.
20, 1909
The Epworth league held an in
teresting meeting last evening at
the home Of Miss Carrie Speer on
street. Quite an extensive and very
entertaining program was given.
MIR, Joel Hightower has been at
nome with his family for & few DAYS
returning from a business trip.
Cotton men in Americas, repre-
senting foreign houses, will leave in
q short time now This season here
is the shortest in many years.
Firm at 10 3-4 cents for good
mldling cotton, the market has
varied but little in the past 2 days.
There was sudden drop of thirty
five points yesterday but the loss
was as quickly regained. They lust
cannot put the price down and some
tine morning>it is going to soar out
Of sight. The advice of some fac
tors is shut your eyes and buy
cotton "whichsmeans, Of course to
buy Il regardless of price or quail
ity e
Eighteen years ago Mr.. J. B. Co.
yiEl lett Americas to seek his for
tune IN far away Costa RIGA. Yes.
teTday ha returned to his old home
here, with a fortune in good if not
the product of The coast of gold"
and is glad to be back again. Mr..
Gown is relative of Mr.. w. C.
Barrow of An7ericus and is a guest
at his home here.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
THREE SMILES
A Bit Of Bribery.

Grace - Oh! Stealing jam! I'm
going to tell mama!
Freddy - Wouldn't you rather
have some jam?-Delineator.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
MINORITY

More than a third of the present
members of the United States Sen
ate got into office by a minority
vote. For instance, 81. senator's re
ceived an average OF. only one
fourth Of the votes that would have
been cast in their states if every
person entitled to vote had really
voted
Government by minority is the
penalty for citizens failure to vote.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
NO STOVES q SHORT SESSION

Efforts were made to recess
the session at once, but, of course
they failed, as they should have
defia.
A flood Of tax bills were and
will be introduced as we'll as sew
eral for free text books We
shall see what we shall see, but
The Times via be very agree
ably surprised H if any real re-
form measures are passed at
this extra session.
Since winter is nigh at hand
and there is no way to heat up
either Of the two halls in which
the legislature meets, save fire
places, no long session is prob
able.-Carrollton Times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
A HoPE-NoT A PREDICTION.

a HOF E-NOl a FREOtO tON
The state legislature is called
into special session for the spe-
cial purpose of arranging a tax
system for this state. 1t is bad
ly needed and has been needed
tor some time. The same legisla-
ture failed to provide the remedy
at the regular session and fear
ing it might also do likewise at
the next regular session, the gov
ernor called for special meet
ing. If there ever was time
when all surplus argument and
pickering could be set aside with
good grace and real work done
now is that time. The legisla-
ture is organized and ready to
proceed. 1t has a definite work
to do and there is no sense in
not spending at least ten hours
of every day attending to it. We
hope they get something done
and over within ten days.-Thom-
asvllle Times7Enterprise.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20

Prof.-This is the third time
YOU looked on Jones paper.
Stude-Yes, sir, he doesn't write
very plainly.-Boston Beanpot.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20

Lincoln, Neb., courts bar married
men from flirting with stenogs. 50
how will they keep one?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20

Six girls directed New York traf-
fic for one hour. Luckily, they new
er changed their minds once.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20

People who haven't time to stop
at a Embarrassing manage to find
time to attend the frfneral.-EX-
change.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-20

Please be thankful this Thanks
giving that you know better th~n
to spell Christmas Xmas"