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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY
(From The Times Recorder. May 2,
1914.)

1914.)
Thirty seven thousand bales of
cotton have been handled at the
Americas compress to this date, and
while the plant will not close down
for the season just yet it is a fact
that there is practically an end to
cotton receipts until the next crop
moves in September.
Another pretty suburban resi-
dence will soon be numbered with
The many others erected recently
out on the southside, near the lands
of the Country Club. Mr.. j. Died
man has recently acquired owner
ship of fifty acre track out that
way and will soon begin the cree
ton Of a pretty home thereupon.
Interest attaches to the announce
ment, made yesterday, that DR.. w.
S. Prather, and Dr. A. j. Kemp,
two of Americas well known physi-
clans and surgeons, had formed .
co-partnership and would, hereafter,
continue their general practice Of
medicine and surgery under the
firm name of Prather & Kemp with
offices in the Mckee building.
Miss Cordelia Thornton, left yes
terday for her home at Winterville,
near Athens, for the summer, ac-
companied by her pretty little
niece, Miss Ruth Hightower.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hollis Fort will re
move tomorrow to their new home in
the handsome Fort Apartments on
Lee street, now rapidly nearing COM
pletion.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
PENSIONS BEING PAID


Major c. E. McGregor, State
Pension Commissioner, is quoted
in the Atlanta Constitution as
saying that if the tobacco tax is
upheld by the courts it will be
possible to pay all past-due Con-
federate pensions this year. He
made this statement Wednesday
in pointing out that pensions to
the old class for 1924 are being
paid in full this week, this being
the first time in 10 years that
two installments have not been
necessary.-Albany Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
The STATE CONVENTION

The state Democratic conven-
ton held was a very tame affair
as far this county was concerned
There were four delegates and
eight alternates appointed and it
Is stated that one delegate and
one alternate attended, or went
10 Atlanta for other purposes and
went around to see what was
going ON so that Thomas county
would not be entirely unrepre-
sented.-Thomasville Times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder, May 2
1894.)

HlNIY YEARS AGO TO-DAY
(From The Times Recorder. May 2,
1894.)
One of the features of the re
ception rendered General Evans
Monday night was the very excel
lent music rendered by the Eclipse
Band of Ellaville, and which added
no little to the interest of The &C
casion. The band of twelve or four
teen pieces, under the leadership Of
Prof. Len Baldwin is one Of the
best in this part of the state.
! The series of meetings at the
First Methodist church are continu-
ed with interest unabate /, and twice
daily the spacious edifice is throngad
with earnest listeners. The pastor
Rev. T. NJ. Christian, is doing a
great work and should have the
prayers and earnest cooperation Of
the good people of Americas.
Eighteen miles from Americas is
a branch of Flint river that is com
monty known as Dead River" but
nowhere is finer fishing to be found.
this morning a party consisting Of
Col. and Mrs. L. J. Blalock, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. D. Sni,,., Mr.. and Mrs. S.
D. Cobb, Col j. e. Sullivan, and
others viii go to DECD river where
they prs pose spending several days,
Tents and cooking utensils will be
takea along, dull care and business
w be left behind, and for three
Ays the party viii enjoy camp fife
to the fullest extent.
Gus ,StalIings, who has been the
right bower at A. D. GateWood's
store for year past has resigned in
ord>c tn enter another field. II
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
WHO WOULD BELIEVE THIs7

On the night of March 3, 1924,
a stranger made his appearance q.
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
Alvin Adams in a pitiful cond.-
ton. He was barefooted and not
enough clothing to hide NAKED
ness. He appeared to be utterly
exhausted, and was unable 10
speak To Judge his age, one
needed only to look at him. His
head was entirely bald and not a
tooth in his mouth to gnaw the
bone Of charity. Mr.. and Mrs
Adams kindly took care of him,
and rendered first aid by pro-
viding him with some comfortable
clothing and succeeded in get
ting him to take some nourish-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
A BUILDER OF BUSINESS

The kind of banking Mr.. Mel
Ion has done all his life depends
above all things upon the ability
to select the right mer to back
as managers of enterprises. The
success Mr.. Mellon has had in
this, which has resulted in amass-
ing one of the largest for
tunes in the country, has como
from an almost unerring genius
in judging men. Added to that,
of course, is an untiring business
brain driven by a love of happi-
ness problems and a keen relish
Of constructive work. Mellon
loves to build and deveop business
as j. J. Hill loved to build and de-
velop railroads.-Selma Times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
The Business Outlook
for Fall

From every point in Southwest
Georgia come reports of excel
lent prospects for good crops
this fall. At meeting of the
business managers of daily news
papers in Southwest Georgia in
Townsville Tuesday the re-
ports were most encouraging.
Possibly no other body of
men watch the prospects
more consistently or clearer than
the publishers of daily papers.
Most of them are trained news
men, especially fitted to investi-
gate and form reliable conclus-
ions.
Southwest Georgia is an ag-
ricultural section and its only
crops they count, so it is the
farmer who is watched more
closely than all else.
The consensus of opinion
among these newsmen were
that crops never looked better,
that the farmers were working
harder, more consistently and
more intelligently; that diversi-
hcation was having a splendid
effect; that the general outlook
tor prosperous fall was better
than in several years.
Writing on this subject this
week, the editor of the Albany
Herald says:
The South is hopeful of gem
orally improved business condi-
tions in 1924. That hope is
largely based on a frightened ag-
ricultural outlook. That farm
ing in the South, and particular
ly in South Georgia, is on a
sounder basis than in MANY wears
IS admitted, and the average
farmer has a "hunch' that this
VIII prove a good crop year.
Farmers in the lower section of
the State have weathered two
successive years of more or less
extensive n.isfortunes, and thew
DO not believe that 1924 viii
prove to be third such year
The agriculture of this sectiin
IS more diversified than ever be-
tore. More crops assure the
farmers of steady income. and
what has been learned Of the
boil weevil in the hard school of
experience will be turned to prof
table account.
We agree with the Herald's
statement that what has been
learned of the boil weevil in
the hard school of experience
will be turned to profitable ac-
count" this season.
As we have remarked before
land expect to refer to often
IN the future-about all that's
needed is WORK and POISON
especially BOTH. And that's
that.
Every merchant, every profess
slonal man, every banker should
iALk poison to every farmer.
Many will poison, there's no
doubt about that. But there are
others who win not unless
strong public opinion is formed
IN Sumter county.
Ii $ the business of every one
Tor on the success of Sumter S
cotton crop depends Sumter s
Prosperity-to a man.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
CONCENTRATING MACON

Macon lost no time in punish.
ing the two men who assaulted
tourists whe were guests of the
city in its tourist camp. Had
prompt action not been taken, It
would have given the Central City
a bad name with those who travel
through every year. Macon is to
be congratulated for such prompt
action to protect its guests.-Tif-
ton Gazette.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
CELLAR

"All the efforts that have been
made since 1910 have been directed
to driving liquor out of the home.
We were succeeding until the prohi-
bition law was passed. We are now
raising a generation Of young pep
pie who are seeing their fathers and
mothers discussing around the table
ways of getting a beverage with the
most kick in it, and we are undoing
the work of 80 years"
A minister says this before con
gressional committee. His is new
angle on prohibition. Worth think
ing about.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
CONTENTS

Do you ever smoke 50-cent
cigars? A dealer in Providence, r
l., was doing such a big business in
perfectos at half a dollar apiece
that rum sleuths sampled his wares
lnside-each cigar was a glass tube
filled with moonshine.
Yankee ingenuity will always find
. way to get liquor to the thirsty as
long as it is manufactured. Thu
same is true of narcotics and all
other forbidden fruit. Education
alone can enforce prohibition effc
tively-that and prohibitively + Oh
price. The real problem is thirst
rather than quenchers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
CHINA

China sold America nearly 1877
million dollars worth of goods last
year, final report shows. Nearly
half of this money was for silk We
also made huge sales to China.
Our foreign trade future, both i'm
ports ana exports, is in Latin Ameri-
ca and the Orient, rather than Eu-
rope. In both markets Wen en-
counter sharp European competition.
The young man who expects to
take up foreign trade should
simply study at least three languages
Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
TIP FOR THE LECTURERS

81 have 10 different titles for
my lecture" confesses a clever
lecturer. There is perhaps the
most constructive idea developed
for years on the American plat
form. Instead of preparing new
lectures, just give the old one new
titles.-Fitzgerald Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
t;iiy'5Ai I.
A bgAlbcrt Apple
HoOCH

Before prohibition, the grape crop
Of our country was paying As mil
lion dollars a year to the growers.
Now they are getting 315 million
dollars a year. So claims Editor
Windle Of the Iconoclast. The an
swer is in the key in the cellar.
Soft drink manufacturers also
have profited tremendously by pro
hibition. So have business men, who
are getting the dollars that used to
be rung up in the barroom cash
register.
Powerful forces stand ready to
oppose the return of anything alco-
holic. Most active would be tire
manufacturers whose dollars did
much to bring prohibition, their pur-
pose being to get more work out of
their men. Prohibition came as an
ECONOMIC matter, not moral.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
Fallacy of Tariff Myth

Among h e publications
which lately have been expos
ing the fallacy and futility of
the tariff on agricultural prod
ucts, is the Ohio State Journal
Republican newspaper Of CON
siderable influence among farm
ers in that State. In an editorial
captioned Light On the Tariff
Myth, the State Journal calls
attention to the decline in the
price of wheat following the re-
cent increase in the duty from
80 cents to AZ cents a bushel
and gives the reason why any
such method of protection" is
valueless. Says this C. o. p.
daily:
The present need of the wheat
farmer is a bigger foreign mar
ket. Europe needs our surplus
and would buy it if she could,
but she cannot find the money
and is worrying along on short
rations. 1t is a painful condi-
tion and not to be corrected by
raising the American import duty
on a commodity which we do not
import but wish nightly to ex-
port So far as the n:anip-
ulation of the tariff is concern
ed, the thing for the. American
farmer to hope for is that some
day soon the rates on articles he
must buy, which do come in
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
THE. ONE SAFE CODE

You have heard about Christian
ideals-possibly. Well they make
up a mighty good code of ethics
for the business man-the man in
business. That's what men say
about it who have tried it out and
seem to know.-Cordele Dispatch.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
HOW DID THEY MISS Hi?

They arrested a man in Wash
ington the other day just because
he was running around and claim
ing that he was going to be elect
ed president. His name wasn't
Coolidge, Hi Johnson or LaFol-
lette, either.-Albany Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
HONKERS

More than million passenger
cars and motor trucks were turned
out by American factories the first
three months this year. Some bank
ers and auto industry leaders are
beginning to fear over-production,
They fear it because it would result
in price-cutting wars.
The auto business is freer of mon
opoly than any other basic industry.
Monopoly is to prices what gas is to
a balloon. How long until gigantic
mergers" will begin among auto
makers?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
In a Boys Pocket

ne pockets OF SIIldil boys
yield peculiar collections. May
be you read about nine-year-old
Arthur Parker, knocked down
and run over by a taxi. In his
pockets they found 5 tops, II
brass buttons, 90 marbles. z
oranges, a wooden cigaret hold
er, a pair of clappers, 10 Gig
arets, mouth organ and a
Jew sharp.
This will not surprise the
mother of any healthy lad with
normal tendencies. IF there s
anything amazing about
Arthur's pockets, it's that their
contents didn't include a toad,
couple Of white rats, a quart
of bright pebbles and several
radio sets,
Spring is here, and boys are
beginning to collect.
The small boy is close to the
savage state. His mania for col
lecting odds and ends Of junk
is inherited from the savage,
who adofns himself with glass
beads, feathers, etc.
The instinct Of accumulation
asserts itself in the lowest forms
of human life. Civilization
makes it more intense.
This accumulative instinct
separates us from the animals.
Grows and rats sometimes path
er and hide queer collections.
But as a rule the animal accu-
mulates only what is actually
needed to sustain life.
The squirrel works scientific
ally boarding nuts but not any
more than will be needed during
the winter. The ant has his
storehouse of food. So does the
bee. But the purpose of their
accumulation is to keep them
alive when food is scarce.
Man alone tries to accumu-
late more than he needs.
The way people fight for
money you'd think they ex-
pected to be here on earth for
at least several thousand years.
Does any of them ever get
enougho Not so.
The savage with his glass
beads, the boy with his peck
cts crammed full of trash, the
rich man struggling to acquire
wealth that he no longer needs
all three have much in com
mon.
1t is wise and necessary to
provide for emergency. old
age and a better chance for
the children. But when We pass
a certain point in accommodating.
the quest becomes an obsession
and life loses its color.
A large part of the misery,
friction, hatred and i'll health of
lie IS due directly to the mania
for acquiring more wealth than
we need. Life can be a very
happy adventure and journey, if
we enjoy ourselves as we go
along instead of trying to hog
everything in sight.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02

ment, He is now slowly gaining
strength; but he is not yet able
to talk to tell where he came
from. He weighs eight pounds
Cleveland Courier.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
SOMETHING WORSE. IS.

The State convention was noted
for being harmonious" CON
dition which was guaranteed
when three men got the power
to run it their way. But har-
mony often means stagnation and
that means something worse.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
STRICKEN

in two weeks the plague kills H.
900 in the Punjab district of India
The epidemic struts in the jungIea
as well as cities.
Health is a matter of sanitation
even more than outdoor life.
The child death rate is higher on
New York state farms than in tic
Lower East Side of New York City
+
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
LIE ARsENT MINDEp ENCLIsH

We sure would hate to risk get
ting in Jail in London. Some Of
ficers forgot man they had
placed in Jail and he starved 70
death. Gee but the English are
forgetful.- cambridge Post
Searchlight.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
A THOUGHT

Let none of you imagine evil in
your hearts against his neighbor,-
Zach. SIT.
Wherever there is a human be-
ing there is an opportunity for
kindness.-Seneca.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
AND DIVORCED IN THE FALL

Once they married in haste and
repented at leisure; now they
marry in spring and and repent III
summer,-Rome News Tribune.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02

lpIace is filleed by Dudley Gatewood,
who will be glad to have his friends
call upon him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-02
Attention, Masons

Regular communication NJ. B.
Council Lodge No. % tonight 8
O'Clock, Masonic hall. All Masons
cordially invited.
DAN CHAPPELL, w. NJ,
r. L. CRAWFORD, Sec.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-07-26
The County Agent.

There was time when the county
agricultural agent was not regarded
as essential. In that day, farmers
looked upon him with suspicion, be-
cause of his new-fangled ideas.
Many thought he was going to try to
tell them something different about
farm work, when they were follow
ing the practices handed down from
generations back.
Gradually the attitude of the farm
or changed until he began to view the
county agent as an integral part of
the farm program, a necessary asset
in intelligent agriculture develop
ment.
There is one danger in the situa-
ton, however The tendency exists
to take up too much of the county
agents time with organizations pro-
noting production, marketing or
social activities among the farmers
This is not the real duty Of the
county agent, and the purpose of
establishing this agency in rural
communities will be defeated if
farmers lose sight of the larger field
for the county agent.
He is essentially a teacher and his
work is educational in character. He
is public official, representing the
state college of agriculture and the
United States department of agricul-
ture
His duties lie along extension lines
rather than j organization executive
work, and the sooner farmers appre-
ciate this fact, just that much soon
or will they realize greater benefits,
because relieved from tedious organ
ization work, the county agent will
be enabled to distribute more helpful
information in all fields of farm
work, which is his real function
FX.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-07-26
Pushing Ahead.

1t is an anomaly of American life
that success is accepted as common
place, while failure is described in all
of its sensational details.
When the round-the-world army
aviators started to encircle the globe
they met with the opposition of the
elements which they could not over.
come and which caused the comman-
der to turn back.
But because Of the smoothness
with which the intrepid conquerers
Of the air are progressing toward
their goal, we seldom ever see their
names in print
Yet they are overcoming almost in
surmountable difficulties every day
With persistency and unfaltering
courage. they are pushing ahead.
The crews of the three planes have
made their way three fourths of the
way around the earth without serious
accident Of any kind.
The flight may be robbed of its
alluring sensationahsm. but the
steadfast persistence of the fiers
challenges the admiration Of every
body, especially American citizens,
because they represent the crusading
spirit of our ancestors, whose cour-
age and fearleSsness carved the
cradle of liberty in the western
hemisphere.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-07-26
Clubs Are Popular in Badger
Counties


Iron county boys and girls are out
to MAKE the Best Better. Some
Al are enrolled in club work in the
county.
Practically all the counties in the
state are doing club work this year,
states Wai,elin McNeel, Assistant
State Club Leader at the Wisconsin
College Of Agriculture. Several
counties have started clubs for the
first time and are finding them very
popular.
Nearly $4,000 members are en-
rolled in all the clubs in the state,
McNeel says. Marathon county
leads with about a thousand on their
list. Marinette county is close be-
hind with 900 Most Of the counties
have from $50 to 300 boys and girls
trying out the best methods of doing
some of the farm and home tasks.
Calf clubs are the most popular of
the projects in the state. Pig and
poultry clubs race for second honors.
Among the girls, sewing has won the
largest following.
Club work among the young folks
in the community aims to give them
practical knowledge of some every
day work, to provide wholesome
social opportunities, to develop bust
ness ability, and to attain physical
development. 1t offers all round
training for good rural citizenship.
Training in many lines of farm
and home work is offered by the
clubs. Besides the dairy calf clubs
which are most popular there are
corn growing clubs, home apple
clubs, poultry clubs which may be
either Matching and rearing a brooC
of chicks or keeping a flock of lay
ing hens, sheep clubs, pig clubs
either fattening a pig or caring for &
SOW and litter, baby beef clubs
potato clubs, garden clubs, canning
clubs, cooking clubs, sewing clubs
hot lunch clubs, millinery clubs
and health and hygiene clubs.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-07-26
WARNED TO LOOK OUT FOR
MONEY ORDER THIEVES.
Postmaster Williams Has Been Mott.
fled That Stolen Money Orders
May Appear Here.

Postmaster Williams has been
asked to warn merchants and others
against cashing post office money
orders from the post office at Waller.
Illinois, numbered from 32,801 to
$4,000. These orders were stolen
and if a stranger tries to get you to
cash a money order from this town,
he sure and examine the number, and
if it is one Of these the person
attempting to cash it should be
turned over to the police al once,
and the postmaster notified The
reason for this special warning in
Hurley is that the culprits are
supposed to be headed this way.
Since the robbery a number of
these forms have been filled out for
from SO. to $25 each, and passed on
merchants in northern Illinois cities,
and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The
party presenting same has used
various names as payee and re
mitter In only one instance has
the order been presented at a bank
for cashing, and none has been pre-
sented at q post office.