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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20
PERHAPS YOU LIKE
TO SIT AND WHITTLE.

For lack Of something to do,
perhaps you secure a soft piece OF
pine and sit and white.
But, in case you happen to be
one of those who don't, wouldn't
it be good plan to cut out the
whiting periods" Of the day by
seeing to it that you have enough
business to keep you busy?
When your business loafs for
lack of customers, you're throw
ing away not merely your time,
but the overhead expense and also
the profit you should be getting
from your invested capital.
The costliest thing in the bust
ness world today is time-the idle
time-the time which is not prof
itably filled with work.
Some merchants sem satisfied
to take trade as it comes, trusting
to established customers TO keep
them in business.
Other merchants, in their efforts
to attract new trade all the time,
seem content to let the old Gus
toners shift for themselves in the
matter of getting service and sat
isfaction.
One is about as foolish as the
other. ...
The welIfounded selling and adj
vertising policy keeps constantly in
mind the necessity, not merely of
attracting new trade, but Of sat
isfying amply satisfying-all who
respond, whether new or old.
The merchant with this policy
does not let his attention to his es-
tablished trade prevent him from
reaching out by every legitimate
means for more.
Nor does he let himself or his
salesfolks neglect a single customer
who enters,
To grow lax in this respect is
simply throwing customers away.
And they're too precious for
that!
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THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
1FFom the Times-Reeorder. July
on 1902

| ", iCOysJ
There isn't a summer resort ho-
tel on the mountain nor by the
sea that affords the traveller a
mde refreshing sleep than does the
Hotel Windsor. Surely it is now
the coolest place in Georgia. A
prominent guest Of the Windsor for
the past two weeks, ON leaving yes
terday, paid Chief Cerk Stanfield
high and meritcd compliment,
saying that he was the most polite,
prompt and accommodating hotel
man it had been the good fortune
of the travelling man to meet. Mr..
Stanfield is universally liked, and is
the right man in the right place
Miss Stella Scarborough is at
home from a pleasant visit of two
weeks in Ellaville.
Mrs. J, r. Coppedge and chill.
dren left yesterday to spend the
summer in the mountains in North
Georgia.
Messrs. s. McGalrah, Arthur
Rylander, and T. E. Allen and 9TH
ers on yesterday loaded refriger-
ator car with 700 bushels Of select
ed LeConte pears, which they will
ship to Chicago. Prices quoted are
very good, being from 80 to 81
per bushel, and our pear growers !
will doubtless make other shipments
should returns from this prove sat |
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following day.

following day.
Some Of US prefer golf. Others
gain more pleasure from moving
pictures or baseball or Setback
on the porch in the evening.
Play keeps US mentally fit.
Play pulls the mind out Of the ruts.
In the following editorial obser-
walton, the Lumpkin Independent
says:
The average town wastes a
lot Of money each year on base
ball games that could be used to
+ better account"
And says the Atlanta Georgian
in reply:
The Georgian doubts capitally
that ''te average Georgia town.
wastes any money, really, through
baseball patronage Certainly,
this game is of all games the one
nationally approved. It is typi-
cally American and serves a fine
! purpose by way of healthful rec
reation among the people. 1t is
! of all games, too, the most demo-
cratic in its appeal
And over and above that, base
bah is by and large a clean sport.
1t never has proven very attrac-
tive, either, to the "tin horn" or
professional gambler 1t is sin
gularly free from those obiac-
tionable things so comomnly at
taching to pool rooms, race tracks
and the like.
If recreation be a good thing.
if human beings must have a
safety valve" some avenue Of
ascape from hard work, baseball
would seem to provide that ave-
nue. more wholesomely than any
thing else. Money spent cncour-
aging it is hardly money wasted.
What The Georgian says G
q baseball, goes for the moving pi,
: ture. Like baseball and golf, SEE
ing the picture is habit-u-a hal
y it worth cultivating-it is Who'll,
Z, some recreation for every men
Der Of the family,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20
Copyright, 1929 Dos1xr DOor~ By
n E. A. Service DdA1J OCAA1 Berton Br
FJaEsS'
BEYOND THE PALE

I try to love my fellow man, do in all sincerity!
And it is very seldom that l fail.
know that have every need for tolerance and charity;
And ether folks similarly frai.
I car forgive lot of things from forgery to homicide;
Most every sin that history reveals
But there's of criminal brushes all my calm aside
The binds who Yields a toothpick after mealsl
forgive guys who live life Of deep depravity
But not the goof who probes every tooth;
Who tries trace within his face of cavity;
He drives to insanity in truth .H
know that have faults galope-oo many to be numbering
So I cannot be harsh upon i sinner:
But nix upon the sort of man who mixes numbering!
The bird who Yields toothpicl after dinner
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THE GEORGIA
HIGHWAY COMMISSION.
A q

1t is our opinion that the one de-
partment Of the state government
that is really functioning is the
State Highway Department.
We have our opinion of the use
lessness and waste of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. We have our
opinion Of other departments, some
on straight appropriations, others
on fee system
And vet it is the State Highway
Department that is now receiving
the most severe criticism. 1t seems
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A Thought

] will bring the blind by way
that they know not; | viii lead
them in paths that they have not
known; I will make darkness
light before them, and crooked
things straight.-Isa. 42:16.
0 loss of sight, Of thee ! most
complain!
Blind among enemies, 0 worse
than chains,
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit.
age! Milton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20

Schultz What's the difference
between the death of barber and
the death Of SCULPTOR"
Hartmann don't know. What
lis it?"
Fritz-"Well one curls up and
dyes and the othee makes faces and
busts.n
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20

O0WIaEe me TlguTes IOT IyI6
with those for 1922. You will note
an increase from 100000 to
$l2,oo0,OoO in five years, or an
average Of $1,Oo0,OOO a year.
These figures represent the money
actually collected from the people.
They do not include sums borrowed
or bonds refunded, but are the net
amounts paid by you out of your
pockets.
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TOM SIMS SAYS:

Entirely too many people are
going down to the movies to talk
about something.
Wearing old clothes is all right
if you know you don't have to,
The first time man slaps
neighbours child Is always the
last time,
Every time tehy build a new
railroad crossing the auto deal
ers order more cars.
No home is complete without q
few uncomfortable chairs 10 Of
fer unwelcome company,
If you hear a great silence il
is the children yelling for school
to start again.
Some people viii stand for any
thing, but help with nothing.
A bigamist says he married
three times because he was crazy.
Most everybody agrees.
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I hree SIN lies


host 60 guest, a retired doctor)
And did you ever make a serious
mistake in your diagnosis?"
Guest Yes, one serious one
/ once treated patient for indi-
gcstion and she could easily have
afforded appendicitis. - Eek
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De Mortuis.

Say pa"
Well, my son.
Il took a walk through the ceme-
terry today and read the inscriptions
ON the tombstones.
Well, what about it,"
Where are all the wicked people
buried?'- Syracuse Orange Peel.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20

FOR RENTING large connecting
first floor rooms. Hot water and
other conveniences. Phone 443.
1885,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20

WANTED TO BUY-A few calves
and yearlings for cash. Box 456,
Americas, Ga. 17-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20

WANTED-Party with small saw
min outfit to cut 100000 feet
lumber. w. J. Josey. 1877
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20

J two ladies were invited and after
a swim, a picnic lunch was enjoyed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20
Warren Battle.
RAILROAD SCHEDULE.

arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Americas, Ga.
The following schedule figures
published as information and not
ON y 1.c ~ I'd
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FOR SALE-A-No. 1 Grade Reg
ular Second Sheets, 1-2 by II
inches, special per thousand, 81.
The Times-Recorder job Printing
Department.A22
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20

TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
(trom the Times-Recorder. July
20, 1909
Monday Morning, no paper pub
lished
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20

PHONE 117-J0uN ". SILVER
BEST GRADE RED CEDAR, No.
/ and Ne. 2 PINE SHINGLES 27-tf
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ROOFING-Phone 117-SHIVER
Johns-Manville ROOFING, roof
coating, roof cement, creosote,
roof paint, If
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20

WAN I'D = LDENo, LUANs,
LOANS, LOANS-Having a d.
rect connection and plenty of
money at the lowest possible inter
est rate. | can>save you money on
city loans and farm loans. H. 0.
JONES. 14-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20

,LOANS on farm lands and city
property. low interest rate.
Loans promptly closed. See S. R.
Heys or H. B. Williams. Phones 48.
or So.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-20

WANTED--To protect you, your
family and your property. Frank
70. Matthews. Insurance. i8-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-14

nance of man; so taught by re-
ligion, so held by custom, so forced
by law. From this dominance they
are now largely free. But so
agreeable a mastery was not to be
surrendered without struggle.
The real trend of the woman's
movement is away from the long
abuse of this relationship. 1t pos
tulates freedom of the woman from
that abuse, not freedom to join in
it. The misused movement we
call birth control is intended TO
protect the mother from enforced
childbearing, and has been most
beneficial to the crowded poor
But in the present m:shsu5ljuE Of
the movement IL hss come 20 BIZ SIS
it were a free ticket fer selfish
and frujt'eSs :a5afceace, a-s se aid
in the lamer.ae,s ~sceesvs,- IF
our times aEse,e~s H,.z @s- au5
women.
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WHO ARE THE RADICALS.
AND MOBS'7

Socialist radicals" and
'mobs" are some Of the names Re
publican leaders are applying to
the farmers Of the country because
the latter are denounciug the prof
iteers' tariff and repudiating Re
publican candidates for office.
Congressman Frank L. Greene Of
Vermont, one Of the stauchest Of
the Republican stand-patters. has
Joined Senator Fess, Senator Cam
eron, Secretary Of Agriculture
Wallace, and other Republicans in
Gliding the farmer for his actions
Congressman Greene condemn.
what he characterizes the 'stupidit,
Of auctioning the Government Il
State Socialism" by bidding for tn,
"socalled progressive vote" anc
recommends that his party instead
OF making eXtravagant promiset
should turn squarely about ant
promise what we will not permit t.
be done"
! The Republican party ought no
resort to bread and games and tn,
circus to keep the mob quiet
Representative Greene declared
evidently referring to the proposal.
Tor helping agriculture. He rebuke.
those who would appeal to what hC
describes as the greed of a clamor
Gus multitude" and says we ar,
trying to bride the populace" will
promises Of governmental assis
lance,
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Cobb

Mrs. Matte Joiner and daughter,
Susie, of Quincy, Fla, have been
the guest of Mrs. Ida Statham fol
the past week at her home near
Cobb.
Miss Nellie Brown of Ashburn
and Miss Eta Mae Davenport of
Helena, are the guest of Miss Mary
Lou Bailey.
Mrs. A. B. Hawkes. of Folena,
was the guest of Mrs. Mrs. ]. ].
Cooke, last week.
DR.. and Mrs. H. L. Boggs has as
a permanent visitor at their home
Ia daughter born August. 2.
Mrs. Pearl Sims or Leslie is
spending several days with Mrs.
H. L. Boggs.
Mr., S. H. hodges is visiting
friends and relatives near Savan-
nah.
Miss Frances Sims, of Leslie was
the guest of Miss FAIRY Hill and
Mrs. Oscar Summerford last week.
Those attending the Rally at Les
lie Baptist church Friday, Aug. 10
were Mrs. G. C. Thomas, Mrs. 7 A
Snellings Mrs. J. Y. Hill, Misses
Mary and Wilma Hill and Miss
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SUMTER'S FAGR
HERE his rALA.

Meetings sTs 1s1g nsfE 20 fs
interest Of the Tar hrs 4hs s4
in various paris nt eau-e ami
people 81 ths asa1er 4-a ~sI,eug
70 The s17ra-s a. sra =ar Rhcl
Is as q sholll ssa
Ths-z ls mara IN aeuat IN 1le
staging az s. pbpt gaaul-r ellr laI
;hs ms-a sor1rnls AZ 8 -av md'var
shows HrI -ts 5.sa.lg u 15s4slaae-
zas zreGussa T'lgs IS essen sa
re BANNED gm zla 1114a. .u1r-
" ssE zla- lalgc De -za-aed 4-se-
wi1srs. Thecs 7rgzE 10 De
uaGa 51ere 5laE .a1n0d DEE made
anywhere else. and there IS a feel
ing Of pride in coansy attainment
20 be gained chat cannot De attain
ed IL any 0ther manner. And the
men behind the county fair should
be given every possible assistance
in the fruition Of their plans.
If Sumter county puts on a
credita5le fair here this fall, it
means that the products Of the coun-
ty will be presented in favorable
light to thousands of persons who
will visit the Atlanta fair few
weeks later---that Sumter county
will be given Advertising that can
not be bought at any price any
where, and which is available only
through the medium of the county
fair. The Chamber of Commerce
of Americas and Sumter Countr IL
behind the fair, which means it is
to be a peoples fair, that it is
given for the benefit and profit of
all the people.
The Times-Rec6rder is interest
ed in the success of the fair for
the very reason that it is to be
peoples fair, and because of this
interest we want it to be a sue
cess III every department. This
can easily be accomplished, if the
people of the county will work to-
gether under direction of those in
charge of the fair. and it should
be done. Every good citizen of
every community should lend his
aid to the preparation of a spIen-
did community exhibit, and while
there must be community rivalry
to bring out the best there is in the
community, all Of this can easily
be forgotten in the spirit of conu-
ty pride that should surround and
sustain the best exhibit shown at
the fair.
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WOMEN ACQUIRING
VICES OF MEN.

The behavior of women in &C
quiring the vices of men is precise,
ly that of any servile class sudden
ly set free, according to Charlotte
Perking Gilman, in August Cur
rent History Mazagine. InduI-
gences previously enjoyed by the
master and denied to the slave are
eagerly seized upon as proof Of
freedom and equality. 1t it GER
tainly to be hoped that our race
mothers will soon see not only the
danger but the undiginified alb
surdity Of initiating the worst
weaknesses Of men.
There is, however, much more
involved in this present period OF
indecency than the rising Of wo-
men. Any student Of recent and
current history can observe a
movement of moral relaxation. a
lowering Of standards Of sex re.
lationship which has been going or
for the last half century of so
In England this became more anc
more visible in the days Of let u,
say Aubrey BeardsIey and The
Yellow Book, eliminating disas.
trously in the sad end of that scape.
goat Of the "high-ups" Oscar
Wilde. In France we see it blossom
ing freely in Verlaine and Baude
laire, in that dallying with tn,
"Fleurs de NAL" which was Ian
guidly accepted as the Fin d.
steele movement. 1t remained 70.
the German people to give us tn,
quintessence Of all this in tn,
solemn philosophical sexmania O
Sigmund Freud, now widely pois
oning the world.
In the old status of women, nov
broken and changing under ou
eyes, they were as a sex quite help
lessly under the tutelage and dom
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-14
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-RecOrder. Au
gust IA. 1879

{ 6A9N IL IL 90
That an Americas man, George
Fort, is proposed for appointment
as treasurer of the United States
as announced from Washington, is
/ gratifying in the extreme to his
friends in this city and throughout
the state and has been discussed
with favor and interest since an
nounced from Washington a day
or two since.
Albany has sold Jeff McCleskey
to the Boston Red Sox for $500
according to reports sent out from
.he home of the baked bean. Al
bary loses a good infielder, but
$500 is a pile of money for a
Sally player.
Jovial Ike Kalmon is back from
the meeting Of the Empire State
league in Thomasville, with a smile
that won't wear off on his face. Ike
carried a point or two at the meet
ing that placed Americas well up
m the race for the rag of the sec
0nd session.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Harold have
as their guests, Mr.. and Mrs. B. s.
Walker, of Monroe, and daughter,
Mrs. J. B. McCrary, of Macon, who
have been spending several days
pleasantly at their residence on
College street.
Miss Mary Belle Hixon is visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. Russell Bridges
in Atlanta, and later viii go to
Gainesville, as a charming mem
Der Of a house party there.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. F. Gatewood and
daughter, Miss Cordelia, have gone
to Indian Springs in their car to
attend the great encampment in
progress there.
THIRTY YEARS AG OTODAY
Monday morning, no paper pub
lished.
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The June bridge tells us he once
looked as if he stepped out of a
band-box; now as if he stepped out
of a box-car.
Nearly all men about town are
about broke.
Candidates on speaking tours
make many speaking detours.
A man with fly swatter in
each hand can't see anything so
very wonderful in nature.
If you want a man to feel at
home let him raise cain because
the dinner is late.
The third crop of straw hats
is about ripe.
Women have the most sense.
Men use the most sense.
A dipuomat who went over for
light on the European situation
was reported in Paris lit
-
Hunt the bright things. With
so many worms in peaches there
may be none left for chestnuts.
A detourist tells us the speed
limit is often one mile an hour.
Nice thing about hot weather
is nothing else matters much.
The young ladies are tanning
their hide now. Next winter
they will be hiding their tan.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-14

TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times Recorder. Au-
gust IA, 1903.)

TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(FrOm the Times-R Recorder. Au-
gust IA, 1903.)
DR.. H. E. Allen killed an otter in
Muckalee creek near Magnolia
Dell yesterday that measured five
feet in length and weighed eighteen
pounds.
Messrs. J. T. Stallings, Herbert
and Willard Edmondson left yester-
day for Birmingham, on a pros
pecting tour and it may terminate
in their permanent residence.
Advices from the fifteenth dis
trict eact of Americas, speak in
glowing terms of the crops in that
section. Especially is this so on the
plantations of Capt. Jno. A.. Cobb,
and Mr.. ]. NJ. Summerford. Their
crops are said to be as fine as the
land could grow.
At their beautiful home on
Church street, Mr.. and Mrs. G. A.
Mcneil entertained the young peo-
pie in honor of their fair visitors
from the Land of Flowers, Misses
Lizzie and Artie Taylor. Many gal
liant beaux and ladies fair were in
the party, and made merry as the
hours swiftly glided by.
Prof. J. L. McNair, with Mrs.
McNair, has reached Americas and
they will soon be comfortably
domiciled in their new home here.
Prof. McNair was recently elected
to the position of assistant prin-
cipal of Furlow school, and will en-
ter upon his new duties September
18th.
A deal was affected yesterday
whereby the Americas Y. NJ. G. A.
purchases from DR.. A. B. Hinkle
the beautiful vacant lot, corner of
Church and Jackson streets, and
will soon erect beautiful Y. M.
C. A. building there.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-14

Nettie Lou Howard.
Miss Carolyn Foster is visiting
friends and relatives at Camilla.
Mr.. Clyde Swain, of Chokee, is
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Smell
ings.
Mrs. A. w. Powell and Miss
Marguerite Stringer of Metcalf,
were the guest of Mrs C. A.
Wade, last week.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-08-14
ARE AWEElCAN EAEsgEES
AL SAMSON ASEES

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N. E. A. Service. ~ Oily H. ONAA Bertt
By
Berton Braley
A PRAYER

Lord when my burdens are hard to bear
| shall whimper at times, no doubt,
shall groan, perhaps, in my deep despair
When my courage and grit run out.
For life, at whites, is torturers rack
Inflcting such bitter pain,
Thou canst not blame. if my will shall crack
Under the cruel strain.
I ask thy pity, dear Lord, when
Am broken and hurt and weak, e5-4-
When under blackyand sullen sky Eglf-
stray from the path | seek;
But scourge me Lord, if with craven heart
struggle not back again,
To play worthy and manly part
In a world that was made for Men.
| cannot always maintain smile
When all of my dreams go wrong,
/ shall vince a little once in a while
At the jeers of the mocking thropg;
But help me, Lord, when to earth I'mhurled
And roweled by fortunes gaff
To rise in the face of cock eyed world
And laugh, and laugh and laugh!