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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
PAY UP AND TRADE UP
CAMPAIGN IS BRINGING
IN SPLENDID RETURNS
Secretary Henry Everett Tells
How Effort Is Succeeding
AS Trade Booster
BIG BUSINESS VOLUME
Cash Trade Stimulated And
Back Accounts Liquidated
Chamber Secretary Says

Inc merchants pay up and trade
up campaign which has been in
progress in Americas during sever
al weeks past, is declared by those
engaged in the movement to be the
greatest success ever undertaken by
mercantile interets in Americas
This campaign is now rapidly draw
ing to close, when the mer
chants will give one new model
Ford car as an award to the sue
cessful contestant.
The campaign has been conduct
ed under auspices of the Amerlcus
and Sumter county chamber of com
merce, and Henry P. Everett, sec
rotary of that organization, de-
clsred that today participating mer-
chants had already collected thou
sands of dollars in slack" accounts
beside having added materially to
the volume of their cash sales.
Figures brought into the office
of the chamber of commerce up to
Thursday noon indicate that val
ume Of new business approximating
$4,000 weekly has been enjoyed
by participating merchants through
out the period of the campaign,
said Mr.. Everett One merchant
alone on Wednesday collected 4 lit
tie more than $4,000 IN past due
accounts, and it is expected that
with early November payments the
volume of pay up and trade W
business will practically double it.
self.
One gratifying feature of the
campaign, said Mr.. Everett, is that
it HIS brought many customers in
to the stores Of participating mer-
chant where they have renewed Ole
personal acquaintance, settled ur
little accounts that have been lag
ging during some time, and traded
considerable volume for cash. Ev.
cry merchant who has kept close
tab on his cash and credit sales as
we'll as back collection is enthusiasts
tic regarding the results of the cam
paign, according to Mr.. Everett.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
Murdoch I Od0yA ANSWERS
First Lot of Questions
Answers Sent Times-Recorder by White Ma
hatma; Others Will Appear Tomorrow
Send in Your Questions

you write your question plainly,
sign your full name, address your
envelope to Murdoch care the
Times Recorder In printing the
answer only the initials of the
ouestioher will be given. 1t is es-
sential that your full name be sign
ed to the question, otherwise it will
be given no consideration by Muir
dock.
Murdoch. the White Mahatma,
will appear at the Rylander for
three days and his performance
will be given in conjunction with
the theatres regular picture pre-
gram. The entertainment offered
by Murdoch is new and novel in
every respect, and embraces sew
eral convincing demonstrations of
psychic phenomena, including slate
writing and spirit paintings.
The production is said to be elab-
orately staged, with the company
appearing in gorgeous costumes of
their native land-East : India.
Newspaper critics in cities where
Murdoch has appeared were lavish
in their praise of the Temple of
India" scene with its dancing girls,
dreamy musical setting and weird
lighting effects.
Watch for more answers in to-
morrow's edition. -
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
REP. GEO. ". RILEY is
income TAX
Tells Rotarians Tax Equalization
Law o. K, If Enforced;
Senator Pace Speaks

Declaring that he was opposed TO
any income tax law and stating that
the present tax equalization law was
"the best on earth, if enforced"
Representative G w Riley told Ro-
tarians Wednesday where he stood
on the tax questions that he and his
associates will face at the extra
session of the legislature next
week.
Senator Steve Pace had just COM
pleted his address to the Rotarians,
in which he had stated that he ia
vored an income tax, "but my mind
is not irrevocably made up" said
Mr. Pace. II shall wait to hear
the report of the special tax COM
mission, giving their recommends
lions every consideration" The ad-
dress, Frank Lanier, who was pre-
siding. asked that expressions be
card from members of the club.
MI. Riley's statement came at that
irviration Mr. Riley spoke brief
" On several forms of taxation.
Frank Sheffield, of the Bank of
Commerce, and others expressed
views on the tax question.
Luther Harrell asked for the help
Of he club in the go-to-chureh cam
paign inaugurated by the ministers
Of the city.
Mss Susan Stallings read a poem
written for her by Editor Ernest
Camp, of the Walton Tribune.
Several guests were present.
The program committee announc-
et. that DR.. Emmett Anderson would
address the club next Wednesday.
Ladies night will be observed by
the club Wednesday, Nov. IA, with
the women of the club in charge of
the program. Friends, wives and
sweethearts Of the Rotarians will be
present when the dinner is served
in the Windsor hotel early in the
evening Of that date.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
PURSUED ASSAILANT
LANDED IN JAIL

METER, Nov. Jim Easley,
a negro charged with attacking a
prominent woman here Sunday
night was captured by a sheyiff's
posse Wednesday morning and
placed in the jail here.
Crowds of people are still con-
gregating in the streets.
In case there is a chance 10 get
the negro out of Metterhe viii be
removed to some other prison, the
officers say.
Throughout the day of crowd of
500 men has been about the jail
and threats Of lynching have
brought from Sheriff J. H. Flynt
thee statement that he and his men
will protect the prisoner.
According to the officers, the pis-
tol missing from the house where
the attack was made was found
in Easley's possession. 1t is report
ed here that the prisoner has con-
fessed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
is IN MIDST
Of BOND DISCUSSION
FOR CITY Sc WNARAGE
Committee on Arrangements To
Meet Today and Formulate
Plan For Can.paign
BOND FIGHT MAY ENSUI
Nearly $20,OO0,0OO Declared
Necessary to Meet Public
Needs

ATLANTA, Nov. 1-Disc,s.
sion Of plans looking toward an is
sue Of $10,OOO,OOO in sewer bonds
IN 1924 was at meeting of the
sewer committee of council il was
announced by William A. Henseu.
chief Of construction, Wednesday
night.
A request of the bond commits.
sion that it join with the commit
tee in asking council for an appro-
piration of $4,000 with which to
conduct, a survey of sewer needs in
Atlanta will be made at the meet
ing, it was stated.
The sewer committees discus
sion of bonds will come just 2 dav
before the special meeting Of the
board of education Friday at which
it is expected that the school de-
partment's plans will be preached
for $5,00O,000 school building
bond issue next year and may pre-
cipitate a warm battle on the bond
question which will involve nearly
every department of the city gov
eminent.
The city's present available
bonding capacity is S7,500,0Q0 and
is not expected to exceed $4,000
600 next year even with the regu-
lar reduction of bonding indebted
ness and increase in tax values.
The water department some time
ago made it known that bond is-
sue of s1,60O,0O0 is necessary to
carry out its waterworks expansion
program.
The police department. has made
known its wants of 100000 for
new central police station ana
All announced needs for bonds
exceed $40, 100000, more than
twice as much as can possibly DC
floated on the city's present bond
ing credit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
JACKSO n SUFFERS
.DISAS T ROUS FIRE
HEAVY PROPERTY LOSS
Enoch Lumber Co. Plant Com
pletely Destroyed With
Nearby Buildings
LOSS is MILLION DOLLARS
Flames Famed By Strong
Winds Spread Rapidly Over
Wide Area
LOSS IS MILLION DOLLARS

JACKSON, Miss, Novmeber l.
The plant of the Enochs Lumber
Manufacturing Company, one of
the largest in Mississippi, and the
Morris Ice Plant and score Of
small frame buildings were destroy
ed by fire of undetermined origin
carly today,
The loss is estimated at $1,000
900, with the amount of insurance
carried aot given.
The flames were famed by a
strong wind, and but for heroic
work on the part of the fire de-
partment, other losses would have
occrded.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
UNNASKED MEN BEAT
TAMPA RESIDENTS ON
OUTSKIRTS OF CITY
After Whipping Men, Attackers
Leave Victims Bleeding and
Wounded on Road
WARNING LETTERS SENT
Messages Signed Que Que Que
Received By Victims Previous
To Flogging Incident

TAMPA, Nov. 1. - Unmasked
men last night took at least three
residents of Tampa to the outskirts
of the city and whipped them and
then left them wounded and bleed
ing to make their way back to the
city, according to reports made to
Chief of Police Williams today.
Leo Isaac, proprietor of a restur-
ant, is under the care of q physi.
clan as result of the flashing he
received, Enrique Rosa, head wait
er of the Spanish cafe, and Andrew
Williams, negro restaurant proprie-
tor, were the other victims.
All had previously received warn
ings signed "Que Que Que"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
LADY LORD MAYOR
NAMED AT NORWICH

NORWICH, Eng, Nov. This
city has honor Of naming thee first
woman lord mayor OF England.
Several small towns have had wo-
men mayors, but no city aspiring to
the Importance of being governed
by q lord mayor has hitherto chos-
en- woman mayor for the post.
The dignity now has been be-
stow" H~9 ~ cI CClm2n,
daughter oil the late j. ], Colman,
M. P. member of a mustard-mak-
ing firm.
The city authorities further sur
prised male officeseekers by APP
pointing Miss MacGregor to the
town clerkship, an office usually
given to local lawyer. Miss Mac
Gregor was chosen over many male
applicants.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
MRS. JAMES WOODWARD
ASKS CONTROL ESTATE.

ATLANTA, Nov Ala.
further complicetons to +he Iegsi
battle over the will of the late
James G. Woodward, a motion 10
revoke the temporary letters oF adj.
mlnistration recently granted to
his daughter. Mrs. Mamie Wood
ward Renfroe, was filed in the a..
dinary's office Tuesday by Mrs.
Violet Woodward, widow OF the
former mayor.
1t &c alleged in theN motion Of
Mrs Woodward tkat the letters Of
administration were granted i'm
nrovidently under a misreuresenta-
ton of facts bv Mrs Rerfroe. and
that under the law Mrs. Woodward
is entitled to administer her hus-
b nd's estate. She is represented
by Attorney George Spence.
Under the Woodward will, made
public several months ago, his
daughter, Mrs. Renfroe, was left
without accent and his widow, who
he'd ben his second wife, was left
only the house in which She lived
and monthly allowance of SIS.
Tho major part Of his fortune, val
ued at about $4,000 was be-
nueathed to the nnion printers
home at Colorado SPRINGS. Col. The
will was contested by Mrs. Rem
froe end Mrs. Woodward and { was
set aside. Temporary letters Of
administration were granted last
week To Mrs. Renfroe.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
LANE DISCUSSES LACK
OF INTEREST IN CITY
PRIMARY ON NOV 18TH
Chairman of City Democratic
Committee Says No Candi-
dates Have Qualified Yet
FEES MUST BE PAID SOON
Registration Books Close Nov.
q With Few Having Already
Qualified as Voters

vain less than three days to
eiapse before entries finally close
no candidates have yet been enter
ca IN the municipal primary to be
held here November 10. In this
primary there are four aldermen
TO be nominated and nomination is
equivalent to election Alderman
whose terms will expire January /
are ). W. Harris, Jr., H. t. Nize
and K. E. Allison. Besides these a
successor to E. j. Witt who resigned
recently to go to Atlanta to reside
Is also to be chosen. Under the
uies governing the primary. the
candidate receiving the lowest poll
VIII be named to succeed Alderman
Witt, with others chosen being
elected to serve full term.
Very little interest of any kind is
being developed in the approach
ing election, this being shown by
the light registration in the office
of A. ID. Gatewood, Jr., city clerk
and treasurer In this connection it
is stated that all persons who fail
to register at this time will be au-
tomatically barred from participa-
ton in the primary. In order to
get one name upon the voting list
it is necessary to call in person at
the office of the clerk and tgeas-
urer in the city hall building and
there request registration. All
taxes due for the year 1922 must
be paid before registration and the
registration books close Novem-
Der z.
r. c. Lane, chairman of the city
democratic executive committee TO-
day dicussed lack of interest in the
i primary saying:
GAS chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee of the City OF
] Americas, 1 feel it my duty to call
attention to the citizens of Amer
icus to the fact that as yet there
have been no candidates to enter
the race for the four offices OF
| Alderman, which must be filled at
/
the primary to be held November
9Th. All fees of candidates must
be paid to me not later than II
o'clock Saturday November 3rd.
wish to advise that / will not be. IN
NV office Saturday morning b9'
I have written receipts to be hand
ed to those persons yho payt his en-
trance fee of $4,000 Anyone desir-
ing TO enter will find a party IN ! my y
office up, to II o'clock SATURDAY
who will be authorized to receive v.
this money and deliver my recelP P.
f fnr s@noe 1t should be definitely
understood that no candidate 9 ~ ~
enter enter this primary after IL O'Clock
November Bird
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
100 To CHURCH EVERY
sunday IN NOVEMBER
CAMPAIGN STARTED
Every Man Woman and Child
Wanted In Churches Here
On Sundays
10 USE ADVERTISEMENTS
Less Than 500 Attended Church
Services In City During
Last Sunday

The pastors of the several
in Americas are instituting
go-to-church campaign for the
month Of November, it is announced
today, after a joint meeting earlier
in the week between the pastors
of every church in the city.
Last Sunday there were less
than 500 people-men, women and
children-who attended church
services" said one of the minis
ters. when you take into consid-
GRAFTON that some of those 800 at
tended two services, you begin to
realize how small a number of our
people were in the churches Sun
day. eve do not say that last
Sunday is an average Sunday. |
Continued on Page Two.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
THREE SCORE INJURED
WHEN TRAIN LEAVES
RAILS IN WEST VIRGINIA
B. & o. Flyer With Crowded
Coaches Wrecked Near
Orlando Today
-FOUR SERIOUSLY HURT
Bruised and Bleeding Passen-
gers Given Surgical Atten-
ton in Hotel There

ORLANDO, W. Va, Nov. T.
More than IS passengers were in
jured and four seriously hurt, when
a Baltimore & Ohio local train run
ming from Clarksburg to Redwood
was derailed near here.
Two coaches crowded with pass
engers Jumped the track and rolled
40 feet into a field where they
came to stop upside down.
The injured were brought to a
hote hele and medical and surgical
aid administered.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
MRS. STOKES DENIES
HUSBANDS CHARGE: S
OF HER MISCONDUCT
Recounts Acquaintance With Co.
Respondent, Going Over
School Days in Recital
ALWAYS CHAPERONED
States That On Visits To City
She Was Always Properly
Escorted

NEW YORK, November Mrs.
Helen Elwood Stokes on the witness
stand in her own defense of the
charges brought by her husband in
his divorce suit She recounted her
acquaintance with Edgar Thomp-
son, named as correspondent, and
denied her husbands allegations
MRS Stokes recited her earlier
life history at school and said that
whenever she came to New York
she was always properly chaper-
Oncd
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
MAN AND STILL
NARRED BY COP

NALDOSTA, Nov. 1.-Prohibi-
ton Officers S. P. Land and Deputy
Sheeriffs Field and Langford raided
still in the river swamp north
of the city Wednesday, capturing
the still and arresting II. d. SEES
sions, who is charged with operat-
ing the outfit. Two filled barrels
were found ready for a run.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
CHARGE KHAN
EMPLOYED LOBBY
Forrest Tells of Special 'Propa1
CATION Fund Used During
Legislative Session

ATLANTA, Nov. 1,-Charges
yesterday by the plaintiffs seek
ing receivership of the Ku Klux
Xlan that Henry J. Norton, cashier,
had advanced $1,000 to N. B. For
rest, Grand Dragon of the Georgia
Khan for special propagation cam
paign in the Georgia legislature
was denied in affidavit by Forrest
today.
Forrest said that NJ r. Dunning
received the money, and Dunning
said that it had been used in pros
pogation work.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
BRITISH GOLF CHAMP
is NOW j. S CITIZEN
Declares This Fine Country And
He Wants Nothing Better
Than To Live Here

Los ANGELES, November l.
Willie 1. Hunter, former British
amateur golf champion, has filed
naturalization papers here.
He explained that he liked this
country and wanted nothing more
than to become a citizen of the
United States.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
MILK TRAIN STRIKES
OPEN SWITCH, 8 DIE
Trainload of Milk PAunges Over
Trestle, Carrying Three
OF Crew To Death

PHILADELPHIA, November /.
Three men were killed early to-
day when a Philadelphia and Read
ing railway milk train struck an
open switch here and plunged over
a trestle siding.
The train was on its way to Har-
risburg when derailed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
.STRESENANN TOO I'LL.
PRESIDE AT CABINET
MEETING IN BERLIN
Ultimatum of Socialist Party To
Havae Been Considered
But Postponed A
TO HEAR MEASURE LATER
Probable That Hearing Will Be
Subject of Early Discussion
By Government Heads

BERLIN, Nov. 1.-Chancellor
Stressmann waspreventd by illness
from presiding over the cabinet this
morning when the ultimatum Of the
Socialist party was to be consider
ed.
1t was considered probable, there
fore, that the governments reply to
the party's demand would not be
forthcoming today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
BULGAR CABINET HEAD
VICTIM or ASSASSIN

SOFIA, Nov. i.-Nikola Guena-
def, former cabinet minister,
was assassinated at his own door,
steps and NJ Gueshoff, former Bull
garian minister at Constantinople,
WHO was with him, was seriously
wounded. The police ascribe the
crime to private ngeance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
STITCHES IN HEART,
PATIENT MAY LIVE

AUGUSTA, Nov. With five
stitches in his heart. put there dur
ing a surgical operation, Charles
Jenkins negro, has excellent
chances or recovery according 10
reports at a local hospital here
where the operation was performed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-11-01
WEATHER,

For Georgia-Fair tonight, Fri-
day increasing couldiness, warmer
in north portion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31
FAITH

Faith is a recognition Of the divinity
In one and all 1t is a concordance
with, a stepping into, the harmony,
the eternal rightness, the great true
ness of life. 1t is an acceptance of
the spiritual fact that eternal mind,
demonstrating itself in the law and
order of the universe and in the trend
towards progress of all things, is ON
nipotently good.
Fear is wall, prison made by
man about himself, shutting himself
off from divine power. In fear there
is no freedom of soul; one is shackled
to doubt. If in his agony of soul, the
fearing one earnestly prays for help,
that very act of prayer, of faith in a
supreme goodwill release him from
his bondage, and if he continues in
faith, he will gradually come to know
that right, good, truth is omnipotent.
To be in faith is to be in peace,
to have lost ones self in the greatness
of life, and to have found ones self
a part of the great scheme. Alone
we are naught, puny, infinitesimal,
helpless, but when faith shows us that
divine power is flowing in us, and that
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31
JUDGE GARY IS
FRANKLY AUTCRATIC
Maintains That Returns
From Industry Belong to
Those Who Furnish
the Capital

Lafayette, Ind Judge Gary is
cynically Indifferent to criticism, says
Painter and Decorator, official maya
zine of the Brotherhood of Painters.
while he advocates the American
plan,' he does not hide behind the
flag; he fights in the open. He holds
that the wage Garner should have no
say as to what wages or hours shall
be or as to the conditions under which
he shall work Other unfair employ
ers cherish the same opinions, but
lack the courage to express them. The
judge, brutally frank, impatient of
camoufiage, lays his cards on the ia
BILE. Speaking of the corporation he
states clearly and forcefully, without
hesitation or reserve, his conception
of the relations that should exist be-
tween capitalist and worker. He says:
Their capital permits the exist
ence, the activities and the success of
the corporation. They properly may
and ultimately will dictate the per-
sonnel, the governing rules, the poll
cies, sales and purchases, extensions
and improvements, rates of compen-
sation to employees terms and
conditions of employment and all
other matters pertaining to the prop
critics and business and management
of the corporations. They (the stock
holders) are entitled, not only to
fair and reasonable return on their
investment, but to all the net pro-
oeeds of the business
"The Judge maintains that the re-
turns from industry belong to those
who furnish the capital, that the
worker is only entitled to a wage to
be dictated by the employer, that he
has no right to share in management
or ownership, nor even to a voice in
determining the wages he shall re-
ceive or the conditions under which
he shall live and labor.
1T is we'll that the public should
know, as organized labor knows, that
the American plan'-the anti-union
shop-stands for autocracy in indus
try, dictatorship over the lives of
men, women and children as absolute
as that of the southern slave owner
over the life of his chattel slave, and
with denial of legal or moral respon-
sibility for the consequences"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31
THE LAND OF BEGINNING AGAIN
BY Sing Sing No. 67,005

wish that there were some wonderful
place,
Called the Land of Beginning Again.
Where all our mistakes and all our
heartaches,
And all our poor, selfish grief,
Could be dropped like a shabby old
coat at the door,
And never put on again.
| wish we could come on it all una
wares,
Like the hunter who finds lost trail.
And | wish that the one whom our
blindness had done
The greatest injustice of all,
Could be at the gates like an old
friend who waits
For the comrade he's gladdest to hail.
We would find all the things we in
tended to do
But forgot, and remembered-too late.
Little praises unspoken, little prom
ses broken,
And all the thousand and one
Little duties neglected which might
have perfected
The day for one less fortunate.
1t wouldn't be possible not to be kind
In the Land of Beginning Again.
And the ones me misjudged and the
ones we grudged
Their moments of victory here
Would find in the grasp of our loving
handclasp
More than penitent lips could explain.
For what had been hardest we know
had been best,
And what had seemed loss would be
gain,
For there isn't sting that wouldn't
take wing
When we'd faced it and laughed it
away,
And | think that the laughter is most
what we're after
In the Land of Beginning Again.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31
Not tho Rloht Kind

NOk tHe NTNNt NTNU,
She-John, | found mice In the pam
try this afternoon.
He-Well, what do you want me to
do about it,
She-Couldn't you bring home that
kitty from the club / heard you talk
ing about In your sleep3
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-08-31
One Reason for Thankfulnesa

II am miserable" declared Phyllis.
"WhyW asked her friend.
II am beginning to realize that Regi-
nald married me for my money"
well, at least you have the consola-
tion Of knowing that he is not as
stupid as he looks"