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The Washington times., 1924-09-18

These pictures will interest YOU showing the perfectly
formed girl according modern views and the ancient per-
fecy formed girl based the magnificent ancient Greeks
interpreted by the great sculptor Phdias good
With most profound admiration for the zegfed Foies
girl obliged to say that the Venus di Milo the girl
PERFECTLY FORMED
What Is perfect form? It is the form PERFECTLY
ADAPTED to the THING TO BE DONE
ship is perfectly formed when it has sharp PROV
to cut the waves and the right streamltne.
prize fighter perfectly formed that has the hitting
power from the shoulder energy hips back
fully developed without carrying surplus material
The deer perfectly formed for speed land the trout
for speed the water the swallow for speed in the ahe
perfectly formed girl the girl whose brain body indicate
the most nearly PERFECT PREPARATION FOR MOTHER
HOOD.
Girls are many things They are beautiful, amusing gay
loving faithful loyal But they realize their highest destiny
only when they become GOOD MOTHERS And one is
to be pied this earth than good deprived
Of motherhood by the lack Of good husband
The perfectly formed GIRL therefore must have the mangs
Of good MOTHER. And the makings Of good mother
you in this statue Of the Venus d Milo which has
magnificent all itself in the great museum Of the
Louvre in Paris and which FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS
in gold couldn't buy. I'D,
The perfectly formed girl needs forehead high and broad
head well shaped in the back good strong neck strong
shoulders hips wide enough and body throughout big and
But il fun HOnanhood TIE skinny, washed out ninety five
silk amusing but she is not THE PERFECTLY FORMED
GIRIr'ss,s as,ea
the Venus Of Milo applied for job in the ziegfeld
Foles Mr. egfed would say Of course Young lady what
YOU want is job the police force, not job with me-
For Megfeld knows what ordinary foolish admres.
that i what he has to select for his oFified girls
However, if he living desert island and there
two girls the island gorified girl without ah7
legs hips and another like the Venus Of Milo
would marry the Venus Of Milo to keep the Negfed
alive s-+-s-sey s..ss s.ss 49,
Don't forget that young ladies Take the hair of your
foreheads eat plenty, don't starve yourselves.
The fun that have with foolish young men now won
last long The intense pleasure that you viii have the
The Washington times., 1924-09-18
DIR. FRANK CRANE
DAILY EDITORIAL
~ DR. FRANK CRANE.
DeteTnliIliIlQ NQIILty.

yT7HAT is sanity
w The question IS not one Of merely amusing
nature but often Is serious enough to esnyict
from execution to life imprisonment.
Bernard Shaw says
Am madf really do not know. Doubtless an
clever certain directions my talent has enabled me e
cut figure in my profession in London.
but man may like Dor QuixOte be clever enough ~
figure and yet be stark mad critic has described
me- with deadly acueness having kindly dislike Of my
fellow creatures Perhaps dread would have been
the mark than dislike for the only animal Of which
thoroughly and crayeny afraid have thought
much Of the courage Of lion tanner.
inside the cage he is at least safe from other men
There is much harm lion. He has ideals,
religion politics chivalry gentiliy in short no
for destroying anything that he does not want ia eat
AT least, sane the rest Of the world ought not
be at large We both things they really
are"
The question must have occurred to every whether
he wholly Doubtless if the acts and opinions
Of any of down accurately he would have
hard work to explain his sanity
This is because is wholly consistent In the
first place, growth and advancement are fatal to
sstency just where the line to be drawn renders every
anti-social in his tendency dangerous that he
should be locked up it is hard to say.
It will be question that it viii be impossible for statutes
define but always remain for the jury to determine
Perhaps the formation Of its opinion the jury should
be allowed to the testimony Of NAH intmates
particularly his wife, No his valet at least
he is always peculiar. @
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The Washington times., 1924-09-18
ONCE-OV Frs

THE PLEASURE or HELPING OUT IN AN EMERcENCY
Said woman recently: The greatest pleasure get
out Of life the feeling that have been permitted to I'LL
breach"
Merely to be the one who helps out in emergency,
she meant.
What is your attitude in this particular
you willing to be the who helps out or are you
indignant If you are not called upon at the very first in
everythingf 6
Can you imagine any more kindly feelings than those
held for the person who never falls in
Have you the mental and the moral stamina to fill in
when others failf
Just think the persons who struggling for
Ia one thing or another and who would fall short Of the
goal if It were not for to take up the broken
hreods the weakened and the weary hearts at the
last
TO be the bridge upon which another may walk in
safety is the greatest Of joys.
Have you tried to experience the satisfaction arising
from Just such circumstances
not get your heart and mind into the spirit and you
may find the opportunity at your very door. a
ipal IntsraAtena Feature InaA
The Washington times., 1924-09-18
GARRETT P. SERVISS ON LOST
ATLANTIS FOUND AGAIN
eW Scientific Evidence Supports Ancient
Legends of Vast Sunken Continents.

mental mass separated from the
other archipelagoeg, but connect
ed by land with Northern Africa.
This became the Atlantis of the
legends, the last fragment Of the
vast Tertiary continent that had
srani.ed the ocean at the end Of
the Cretaceous.
FiEally It, too, was engulfed.
This did not occur until the
Quaternary Period had opened
M. Germain thinks 1t may have
been as late as the middle Of the
Quarternary, and even - late a.
the Neolithic, Or New Stone, age
when the primitive races Of man
had achieved q degree Of culture
which modern discoveries are just
beginning to reveal to us.
Man. then. as NJ. Germain says.
may have beheld the closing
phases of this great phenomenon,
accompanied by bore-waveB and
grandiose volcanic eruptiona. OF
these catastrophe convulsionA.
at once the witness and the VIC.
tim, he preserved o very vivid
oral tradition, which was nxed
many centuries later by tho
writer's OF antiquity.
''And that Northern Africa
where, at the dawn Of ctVlliza.
ton, there existed, southwark OF
the Atlas range. q beaten route
of invasions and Of human migrar
lions, was the theater Of those
wars Of which Diodorus 6iculus
tells us so confusedly, mrs
which perhaps were waged against
the natives OF Africa BY the
Atlantes fleeing from their sunk
en- country"
So. IL these conclusions are
sound. science ''certifies the exist
erlce Of Atlantis. indicates the
place that II occupied on the face
OF the glcba. and marks out.
though vaguely, It's contours. But
It 10 Incapable Of fixing with pre-
cision the dates Of IT. sinlIinG1,
ana only with difficulty does i
glimpse the fact that IN closinR
convulsions Of this : odigious
shock were contemporary with
the earliest forms Of humanity"
Let those whose voyages carry
them within sight of the lonely
peak Of Teneriffe look with ven.
Grafton upon its towering form,
for, in all probability. It ig ma
lures funeral monument Of the
lost continent.
The Washington times., 1924-09-18

N INCE wrote in June last
about the revival in Europe
~ Of interest in the ancient
story Of q sunken continent in
the Atlantic Ocean there has
appeared q fresh discussion Of
this fascinating subject by Louis
German. assistant In the Ma.
tional Museum Of Natural His.
tory ct Paris, which seems to me
to come very close to proving
the case for Plato's Atlantis"
Basing his investigation on evi.
dences furnished by botany. zool-
ogy, mineralogy, climatology,
oceanography, paleontology. ply
Biography. geology and historic
tradition, he succeeds In making
q very plausible picture Of the
mutations OF the North Atlantic
since the Gretaceous Period, the
great features Of which are q
succession Of sinkings (effondre-
mentsl, whereby q great band
Of land, connecting Southern
Europe and Northern Africa with
South America, an e'Africaflo-
Brazilian continent" was, by sue
cessive catastrophes. buried under
the ocean.
According to this account there
were three "Atlantises, OF which
only the last and the least can
be associated with the prehistoric
period of man. This was the At
lantis Of Plato and the Egyptian
priests. 1t was the last remnant
OF the vast continental band, or
BRIDGE" which had connected
the eastern and western worlds.
M. Gernain calls the original
land link between Africa and
America the Tertiary Atlantis
because It. existed at the begin
ming Of the ! Tertiary Period.
Early perhaps in the Miocene.
the second phase Of the Tertiary
Period, this mass Of land began
to sink. at first on the American
side. The geological vestige Of
this subsidence il the deep oceanic
trench that ID in evidence east
ward Of Florida. The subHiding
continent was parceled into arch
ipeIagoey whence the origin OF
the Antilles and the Bahamas.
But later on In the Miocene
other sinlsings occurred, and then
the Azores and the Madeiras were
separated from = Europe. The
region Of the Canaries, how
ever, remained q distinct CONT
The Washington times., 1924-09-18
You Must Not Says England
So We Don t.

Our navy wanted elevate guns batteps to increase
their range thus making ships nearly equal u those
Of other nations
England objected If you elevate your guns you increase
their power therefore yOu increase the power Of your
You muslin do that The Washington Conference forbids ii
80 said the British statesmen who know how manage u.s.
President Coolidge with whom the matter rests saws the
United States has RIGHT to raise the guns but he won t
allow 1t to be done Just WHY?
this country has the right which II has and the Navy
recommends II, why not do it?
The Japanese elevatng their guns The Presidents
decision win be better received in England than Is IL The
United States and early in November the feeling in the
United States Is going to count 80
The Washington times., 1924-09-18

Which proved, for about the nine month time that nv
lunches are the bunk There wasn't trick in it. They did
1--we that way They didn't get married And he does dare
tell about it ssa ss1@.I sa 80
AS said before that article shocked me- was brought
up IN Of those gentle little places where the Ladies' Aid
Mama make Bessies white swiss dress with the real
vaencennes around the neck I'm that allows con-
ycntlons to cramp style but marriage has always seemed
like that 70 White swiss and in little church OF
course long before read Floyd De Free Love article
had come to realize that though most marriages begin with
rcses they generally continue with rumpuses Still ia
never happened to meet anyone who said right out
II TRIED TO BE HAPPY IN MARRIAGE ny NOT
BEING MARRIED AT ALL rs @
Floyd Dell does that right out loud And he goes on
to tell how and why they did it. They were young They
loved each other arden The wished to that love
y AZ AZ original flneness and freshness They ddn
sefishnes and deceit to creep in il people made impossible
vows and tied themselves in the conventional union So
they ddnt tie themselves They pinned their respective
The Washington times., 1924-09-18
: By ELSIE ROBINSON

cards up honestly for all the world to see and
they lived together without any pretense of
being man and wife.
Butt didn't work. Floyd Dell makes you
see why it didn't work-why it never can
work-why spirits insist on making VOWS to
each other and owning each other although
the lips may repudiate such pacts.
That's the most shocking article on mar
rage that ever read. And the most con-
servatiye, constructive brief for conventional
unions for the sort Of honest-to-goodn
marriage which that same Floyd Dell now en-
joys. After had stopped gasping began to
realize that. And began to We very grateful
to Mr.. Dell for shocking me and defying pub
Hc opinion by telling honestly of his un-
successful experiment with Free Love.
The Washington times., 1924-09-18
WORDS FROM THE LIPS OF WISE MEN

live. .ssg Nh q -" - 80 -
The rank i but the guinea stamp \ mans man for
al that. ss5 sTs Ts5- TIKI v F
late another F87F as7S st5se "a 80 m. (.
in Paradise. E T.'sg. r1Tt NJ
They that know no evil will suspect none
Temperance and labor the true physicians Of man.
The Washington times., 1924-09-18

Truth gains BY the errors Of who with due
study and preparation thinks for himself than by the
opinions Of those who only hold them because they do not
suffer themselves to think.
There old proverb that the goodness that you may
do this day. do it, and abide not delay it not till omor
row.
The wssst is generally he who thinks himself the
least
You know not what you or cannot effect until you
try.
The Washington times., 1924-09-18
WISH you'd read that article BY Floyd
Dell in Hearst 5 International magazine.

WISH you'd read that article BY Floyd
Dell in Hearst 5 International magazine.
u No, Pal, this isn't an advertisement I
really want you to read the article and
I'd be just as eager to tell you about it If it
came out in the Salvation Army paper or
the Lunberanls Weekly: That article is going
to shock you It shocked me. But after your
temperature has gone back to normal you're
going to do some tall thinking.
Floyd Bell tells about his Free Love Union
with Rosemary in Greenwich Village AT
first thought there was trick in It.
{ It isn't really going to be as awful as it
sounds, said ! to myself That's Just d
catchy title. When they really get around to
it they won't live that way at all. They IL
get married like everyone else. Why he
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21

The earth's sensible atmosphere
extends more than 100 miles il
height. ~ 81
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21

men and a woman, oscar William
son, motorcycle officer, and J. J..
Stribling, street car motorman,
have been placed under a1res5
charged with feloSious assault anC
drunkenness.
The victims of the assaults were
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles MoTell, c.
Kankakee, H., and B. f. Parker,
80, of st. Lawrence, N. Y, who
went to the rescue of the Morrells
when he heard their cries for help
and saw two men beating them and
dragging tAe4=RfreHF=a terri at Gem
trail City park. The victims were
taken to a hospital, Mrs. Morrells
feet were cut by being dragged on
the ground and her head was bruis-
ed from blows from blunt instru-
ment. Parker's scalp was split open
and his head bruised. Morrell sus-
tanned two decorations of the head
and body.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21
MRS. BESSIE D. PEEL
40, DIED LAST NIGHT
Death Comes to Estinable Ru-
raj Resident After Hines of
Single Day

Mrs. Bessie Dunbar Peel. 45
years of age, died at the family
residence near the Lee County line
on thee Lee street road unday night
at 10 o'clock, death following an i'll
ness of one day.
Funeral services will be held
at 3 o'clock "Wednesday after
noon from Anthony Chapel church.
Interment will be in the
church cemetery. Rev. J. P. Daugh-
erty, assisted by Rev. C. T. Clark,
will conduct the obsequies.
The pallbearers will be G. r.
Simpson, Neon Buchanan, Dudley
Gatewood, T. M. Furlow, r. S.
Broadhurst, j. A. Davenport, Sam
Rodgers and George Walters.
Surviving are her husband, J. W.
Peel, five daughters, Mrs. w. P.
Phillips, of Putnam county; Misses
Mary Elizabeth Peel, Bessie Ruth
Peel, Emily Peel, and Elsie Peel
five sons, John Ed Peel, Henry Tim
Peel, Hoke Smith Peel, Charlie
Frank Peel; her mother, Mrs. Mag
gle Dunbar, of GAINESVILLE; three
sisters, Mrs. ]. P. Miner, Mrs. ].
W. Elliott, of GAINESVILLE, and. Mrs.
A. M. Gillespy, of Macon; two
brothers, j A. Dunbar, of Macon,
and D. E. Dur.bar, of Atlanta.
Mrs. Peel was member of the
Anthony Chapel church, was widely
beloved in her community life.
She was prominently connected by
birth and marriage in Sumter coun-
ty and this section.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21
BUILDER OF Howard
THEATER SUCCUMBS
:. Troup Howard, Atlanta Cot
ton Merchant, Dies In Balti-
more Following Operation

BALTIMORE, Md, April 81
Troup Howard, SIS years of age,
prominent cotton merchant of At
lanta, Ga, died at a hospital here
Sunday from bronchial pneumonia,
which developed following an Oper-
alton for gastric ulcer, Mr.. Howard
came here last Tuesday for treat
ment of the ulcer from which he
had been suffering for number
of years. An operation was per
formed last Thursday after which
the pneumonia set in.
The body, accompanied by Mrs.
Howard, who had accompanied her
husband North left for Atlanta, this
afternoon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21
MACON THEATRES
FORMERLY OWNED

MACON APRIL 21.-G. Troup
Howard, former cotton merchant
and former owner of Macon thea
tiers, and who was reputed to have
made and lost several fortunes, re.
gaining his losses after each mis-
fortune, died yesterday morning at
9 o'clock at Union Memorial Hos
pital, Baltimore, after a major OPP
GRAFTON. He had been in the hospi-
tai about ten days and was believed
to be recovering, but pneumonia de-
eloped and that caused his death.
He was about 81 years of age.
Macon friends and relatives were
notified of the death of Mr.. Howard
during yesterday. The body will
be taken to Atlanta where the fun.
eral will be held on Tuesday.
Mr.. Howard is survived by his
widow, who before her marriage
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21

was Miss Eugenia Bond, of Atlanta
and three children, Troup Howard
Jr., of Liverpool; Frances, aged Is,
and Hampton, aged II.
Mr.. Howard was known in this
country and in England as a cot
ton merchant. But several years
ago he became interested in the
movies and decided to build theaters
here. He was ore of the prime
movers in the building of the Capt.
toll Theater. He disposed of his liz
terests here and went to Atlanta,
where he built the Howard, one OF
the finest picture theaters in the
South.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21
CHILDREN'S DAY At
. WHITE HOUSE TODAY
Grounds of Executive Mansion
Turned Over to Youngsters for
Easter Egg Hunt

WASHINGTON, April 21.-To-
day is being observed as Children's
Day at the White House here.
From early this morning until eve
ming the ground about the execu-
tive mansion will be given over to
thousands of boys and girls in the
capital, all bent on participation in
the good old custom of rolling af-
ter Easter eggs.
President and Mrs. Coolidge have
planned to join the children for a
time during the festivities later to-
day, and the president has planned
10 have the United States Marine
Band play continuously during the
afternoon hours, so as to add to the
pleasure of the boys and girls en-
gagged in the egg hunt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21

81 got to studying this problem
and found that if I could get hap
nv balance between certain vege-
table ingredients, some of which
act on the liver and some on the
bowels, | would be able to fill this
very universal and very definite
need.
II employed scientific methods
and tested one combination after
another until, finally, I hit upon a
formula which proved up exactly
right.
Mothers Pleased.
"After that, l answere the daily
question by handing out a bottle Of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21
WANTED
SECURITY SALES
MANAGER

A sales manager who has an or
ganization of statesmen to sell the
securities of one Of the South's
leading industrials end largest in
U. 81
Both preferred and Common
Stocks on dividend paying basis,
with assets Of a million dollars -
managed by prominent Bankers
and Business men of the South.
Unusual opportunity for the right
man with an organization.
Write to SALES Manager" Box
3s5, Americas, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21

Liv-o-Lax, and the demand for it
grew so rapidly (from one mother
recommending Liv-o-Lax 20 anoth-
err that l finally had to give up the
drug store and start a factory.
Available To All Now
"Now am able to tell this story
of Liv-o-Lax to every family
and to say that you can get Liv-o-
at your own drug store.
IF any one in the family is bill
ious, constipated, stomach not do
ing its duty, or with cold coming
on, get Liv-o-Lax and give it a try.
Really a Double Action
y viii guarantee that LiY-o-LaS
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21

will not only clear the bowels, but
relieve liver congestion as well, and
it is in this latter respect that so
many family laxatives fall short.
II will be glad to send a sample
Write me-"
W. L. Hand, president w. L. Hand
Medicine company, Charlotte, n. c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21
ERNIN'S FUNERAL To
!. Be HELD At MACON
Former District Attorneys Re-
mains to Be Inferred There
Wednesday

MACON, April 81. = Funeral
services over the remains of Marion
Erwin, former United States Dis
trlct attorney, for the past eight
years of the Southern district OF
Georgia, who died in Garden City,
Long Island, Saturday, will be
held here from the First Christion
church Wednesday AFTERNOON.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21
BOISTEROUS MACONIANS
DISTURB TOURIST CAMP

MACON, April 2I.-FoIIoWlng
an invasion of Macon's tourist camp
bv two drunken men early Sunday
morning, and assaults upon two
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-21
Southern Mothers suggesteo
This New Kind of Laxative

Second of Series of Three Interviews With w l. Hand
During many years that drug Charlotte,
an everyday for something in liquid
form to be given children in place castor OIL
The Indianapolis times., 1924-10-18
CHARLES e. CQFFIN
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

Jet. Is, 10. II, 1s. 90. 81. 90, 1894.
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