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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-11

ton that increasing revenues will
increase the yearly surplus each
year. 49,. -
North Carolina gasoline tax
and vehicular license fees are
taking care of principle and in
terest charges against her bond
issue. as we'll as furnishing suf-
hcient fund for road mainten-
ance. This highway fund
amount to $7,500,000 annual
ly and from it is appropriated
each year $4,000 for retire
ment of bonds; $2,250,000 is al
located for interest charges; g.
100000 for road maintenance.
leaving a remainder of $3.50
600 for surplus. From this sur
plus account $250,000 is appro-
priatad annually for overhead
expenses of the department.
Commenting on the North
Carolina plan, the Atlanta Con
stitution says the showing of the
North State is extraordinary
and only illustrates what vision
backed with determination, can
do" and states that North
Carolina will retire her $780,
100000 bond issue in 40 years,
and the first series, due in 10
years, may be actually paid off
BY the surplus. and not renew
ed as was anticipated, and this
possibly without making inroads
into the sinking fund. If the
surplus should even be used for
emergencies, or for additional
roads to the originally mapped
system, then the sinking fund it
self will be ample to retire the
bonds as they mature without
interest renewals.
The principal weakness in the
Georgia plan is the distribution
of the three cent gasoline tax
of which one cent goes to the in
dividual counties of the state on
basis of mileage; one cent for
retiring w. & A. r. r. war
rants, leaving only ! cent FIR
the use of the state highway de-
partment.
The one cent that goes to the
individual counties is SUPPOS-
ED to be used on the roads,
but the fact of the business is
that many counties will not use
this fund in road building OF
road maintenance.
No rapid progress i'll perma-
nent road building can be made
in Georgia under our present
plan. North Carolina will have
completed her, system and viii
be reaping the vast benefits of
her wise foresight many years
before Georgia can see the end
OF her program.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-11
old Days in
Americas
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder.

tFtVHl ltAG L lIlGS NGNOA NN -
Feb. 8, 1910
Mr.. Frank Stanley has recently
purchased from Mr.. C. S. Duer his
interests in the Americas Machine
Co., and now owns extensively that
important enterprise for the re-
building and repair Of automobiles
and high class machinery.
Misses Britain and Glover left
last night for Atlanta where they
will make purchases of dresses for
thethe dress making business they
will establish here
Mr.. Cassels is at the Americas
hospital, where he is being treated
for the gunshot found inflicted Sat-
urday night in the duel getween a
constable's posse and several ne
groes, below DeSoto, on the Lee
county side of the line, wherein Mr..
Marion Bass was shot dead and Cas-
sells and Laramore, of the arrest
ing.
Miss Sarah Mathis was operated
upon for appendicitis at the Ameri-
Gus hospital yesterday, and her con-
dition last evening was very favor
able. The operation was performed
by DR. w. S. Prather, assisted by
Drs. Chambliss and Mayes.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. & Diner will he
at home shortly at the Turner res
idence on Hill street, near that of
Mr.. w. A. Dodson, which they have
just purchased.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Dure returned
to Macon yesterday. AS the guest
of Mrs. Charles NJ. Council for a
week many social entertainments
were given here complimentary to
Mrs. Dure, one of Macon's charm
ing matrons.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-11
BACK no THE FARM.

1t is said that the trend Of
college students to go into the
cities ratrer than the rural dis
tricts is gradually diminishing
because of changed conditions on
the farm.
Of late, the rural community
has been looked to as a field for
research and service. State uni
versities and agricultural colleges
are carrying on extension work.
A lecturer on the subject in
New York says that there is a
very definite movement at last to-
wards going back to the farm.
This movement is small but is
on the increase.
A small group of girls have had
their imagination captured by the
present crying need in the rural
held and are specializing in rural
sociology and education. They
say thew are eager to help. State
demonstration and extension
work, organizing pig clubs, corn
or canning clubs among young
pc pie on the farm, is another
highly specialized and attractive
held for women. The compare
lively new social work undertake
en- makes new and by organiza-
lions makes a new and strong APP
peal.
One college girl said:
She was going back to marry
and live on the farm because she
at last saw the farmhouse in a
new light. Il am going to make
II community center" she
was reported as saying, and
show others what farmers wife
can do"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-11
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY

(From The Times-Recorder. Feb.
II, 1894.)
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Vivian, of st.
Louis, whose presence here last
winter recalled with pleasure by
many, returned yesterday and will
spend the balance of the season at
the Windsor. Both Mr.. and Mrs,
Vivian made a host OF friends dur
ing their former visit, and their
presence again will prove welcome
addition to social as we'll as musical
circles.
The young people have arranged
for st Valetino german on Friday
evening, next, 10th inst, which,
promises to be one of the most de-
lightful social events of the season.
Many handsome invitations have
been sent out and the attendance
will doubtless be large. The com
mittee of arrangements consists Of
Messrs. Hugh Bond, julius Stan
field, J. T. Killen, and Carl Glover,
which is a sufficient guarantee that
the affair will be a grand success
in every respect.
Mr.. N. F. Powell, who formerly
conducted Rhea Springs, Hotel is
now safely located in his new place
the Allen House-at Americus
Ga.
The death of MIR. William Hooks
yesterday morning, while not alto
gether unexpected, brought sorrow
to the hearts of hundreds who knew
and loved that good man who had
spent over a half century of this
life in their midst.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-11
CONTEST
More Entries in Effort 10 Find
Good Wcrds

GUN IES
More Entries in Effort to Find
Good Words
Dan Dobb's efforts to find the six
most important words in the Eng
fish language are bringing results.
The prizes will be awarded soon.
New entries are: "The stuff was
water, not bootleg" Here, you
can use my. handkerchief" $50 l
Stopped, looked and listened" "The
seed catalog did not lie" yes, We
have a lower berth" 4 love you, /
love YOU" Il hate you, / hate you"
and Spring isn't so far away now"
SOCIETY
Home often is merely a place
where you get your mail. That is
where a Chicago man slipped up.
He didn't even come home for his
mail, so his wife opened it for him,
Now he is paying alimony.
MRNNtA1Eo
Cafe cashier chased a robber
with broom. She is single SO
we don't know how she got her
training.
POLITICS
Last presidential election we
jumped from one party to another.
1t may mean nothing, but this is
leap year.
DAN DOBB SAYS
One nice thing about your wife
being missing is you can find a
place at home to hang your clothes.
EDITORIAL
A Cincinnati dental student has
been arrested. Cops say he killed a
man and then robbed him. This
young fellow is learning to be a
dentist fast. Of course, he carried
both crimes too far. That is the
trouble with young men, they be-
come too enthusiastic oven. their
work. A capable dentist should
only nearly kill man before rob
bling him.
BIRTHS
The stork is voiceless, but a
man with triplets tells US the bird
is dumb in more ways than one.
SCHOOL NEWS
The college student who recently
married her profession may be
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Copyright 1923, dali Y.POtM BY
N E. A. Service "a AAA~ = - ->~~A& Berton Braley
DESIRES

DESIRES --,
I'd like to meet with John 7. King
To deal me out bunch Of jack. ~.
That sure would be a pleasant thing
I'd buy the wife diamond ring,
I'd buy myself benzine hack;
I'd like to meet with John T King.
John gives his cash careless fling,
Then goes away-and comes not back
That sure would be pleasant ching
lie loans his dough without string
At twenty thousand bucks a crack.
I'd like to meet with John I. King.
My money cares would all take wing,
I'D have whatever now lack;
That sure would be a pleasant thing
Page Santa Claus and bid him bring
This generous person to my shack,
Pdrlike to meet with John T, King.
While he's at large to hope cling
That ne may slip me out a stack;
I'd like to meet with John t. King 7
That sure would be pleasant thing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-11
Dan I)ol)f,SDailv
MANS WORRY is USELESS

teaching him now.
SPRING NOTE
Only a few more. weeks before
the annual Easter egg shortage.
AUTO. NOTES
The 1924 model autos are said to
be model autos.
MISSING WIFE FOUND BY
Police
Why worry? Every day some
thing happens to show how useless
weeping over sloshed milk can be.
Take the case of man in New
York. His wife was missing. He
had no idea where she was for three
years. What would you do under
such circumstances? Why, you
would worry. That's what this man
did.
Cops searched three years, finally
finding her in Chicago safely mar
ried to a plumber. Now doesn't
that show the futility of worry?
SPORTS
Tex Richard says the longest fight
on record lasted two days, and the
shortest one four seconds. He is
wrong in both cases. The longest
fight we ever heard of is Bryan's
fight to become president. This has
lasted for years and years. Per-
haps the shortest fight was one time
when an auto driver thought he
could whip>a traffic cop.
JAIL NEWS
Pickpocket robbed girl in a
Kentucky sheriff's office. Thirty
COPS present escaped without loss.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-11
SHINE

Chemists claim they have dis
covered a way to remove, perman-
emily, the shine or gloss that ap-
pears on blue serge and other clotL-
ing by wear" The chemical for
mula is valued at a million dollars
which strikes us decidedly as very
low estimate. After all, simple ia
or discoveries like this are
the most important of all, The
needle and button are worth more
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CIGARS

The cigar was invented just 125
years ago. Previously tobacco was
smoked only in pipes, In 1899 Mrs.
Prout, of South Windsor, Conn,
made the first cigar and began sell
ing them.
More than 10 billion cigars a year
are now turned out by factories. But
the cigar is steadily losing out. Gig
arets became respectable" during
the World War and are gaining pop
ularity. Women alone smoked seven
billion cigarets last year, the trace
estibates. Quite shocking for
graudmas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-11
GOLD

About a million dollars worth of
gold week was mined during 1928
in United States, Alaska, Porto
Rico and Philippine Islands. The
output was nearly twice as big in
the record year, 1915.
The national income-total of all
American activities and labors--
last year was about 800 times as big
as the value of the gold mined. Yet
gold is the basis of values. Would it
be better and fairer to use human
energy as the measure of values?
Many think SO, including Edison and
Ford.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-11
NICOTINE

America taught the world to
smoke tobaccof says Herbert Dun
hill, the pipe maker. The history
of tobacco is his hobby, and he
doubts the claim that tobacco was
smoked in China thousands of years
ago
When the first white explorers
came to America, they found the
Indians regarded smoking some
what as religious ceremony, believ-
ed that tobacco had medical powers,
and frequently had their witch doc
tors prescribe it--like thirsty man
under prohibition.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-11
COSTLY

A partially completed super
dreadnought Of the American
navy recently was condemned to de-
struction under the treaty limiting
naval ornaments. A fine target to
keep our gunners in trim, but 90
million dollars had been invested m
the condemned ship. In peacetime,
that seems like a painfully costly
target. In war, we'd take it as a
matter of course, no objections.
When at war, a nation is more or
less insane, especially as regards its
pocketbook. Sanity slowly returns
as we cool off and begin counting
up the cost.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-11
POWER

The Atlaptic ocean, tides would be
harnessed to supply electric power
by a new scheme being studied by
engineers of the Federal <. Power
Commission. This would involve a
tremendously big construction job
in the Bay of Fundy, near Nova
Scotia
The day unquestionably is com
ing when the tides will be harness
ed, the suns rays imprisoned and
put to work, and electricity taken
out of the air." Civilization depends
on cheap Power, and we have bare
ly scratched the surface of possibi-
lilies along this line.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-11

than the anto and radio, though not
spectacular,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-11

Pickpocket robbed a girl in a
Kentucky sheriff's office. Thirty
COPS present escaped without loss.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-02-14
Oldest Livina THINGS.

A. the largest existing organisms,
the big trees Of California occupy q
place unique among the living things
OF, the world. said DR.. II. A. Gleason,
assistant director. lecturing at the
New York Botanical garden. While
they may be exceeded In height by
some Of Australia's gum trees, as
they are exceeded in diameter by the
chestnut trees of Sicily, in actual bulk.
said the lecturer. they are far greater
than either Of these. Authenticated
measurements show that California's
big trees have reached diameter of
over SO feet, heights Of more than $50
feet and ages we'll over 5000 years.
Since they do not suffer from diseases
and are not seriously injured either
by fire or lightning. and since trees
apparently do not die Of old age, the
usual cause Of death among the big
trees Is by the undermining Of the
root system through the gradual re-
moval of the soil by water.-Scientinc
American.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-02-14
Any French village.

SeeI am old, but / am beautiful;
my devout children have embroidered
my robe with towers, steeples. creme
lated battlements and belfries. / am
q good mother; teach industry and
all the arts Of peace. nurse my chill
dren in my arms. am their
record. have lived because
have hoped. Learn Of me this blessed
hope which saved the fatherland.
Think In me 30 ~ to think beyond
yourselves. Look at this fountain.
this hospital. this market that the
fathers have bequeathed to their chill
dren. Work for your children a your
ancestors have worked for you. Each
Of my stones brings you q benefit and
teaches you a duty. See my cathedral,
my guildhall, my Hotei-Dieu, and ven
crate the past. But think Of the
future Your sons will know what
Jewels you, In your time. have en-
cased In my robe Of stone.-Anatole
France
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-02-14
ORIGIN OF WORD SCHOONER
Gloucester Said to Have Been Birth
place Of Vessel Known a
"Sehooner."

Besides ranking as the country's
greatest fishing village Gloucester de-
serves recognition for the invention
Of the word schooner, now used to
designate type Of sailing craft. This
quaint town, with its long street, its
smell Of tar and hemp. where you en-
ter a restaurant and order q delicious
steam Of swordf1sh, is now celebrat-
ing its three hundredth anniversary.
It would be equally fitting to let the
world know by what within It was thxt
its schooners came to be so named.
It was in Gloucester that the word
originated. Previous to 1713 the word
was unknown. Capt. Andrew Robin
son built vessel which he masted
and rugged in peculiar manner. Dur.
ing the vessels launching as she was
aiding of the stocks bystander cried
out: ''How she scoonsT The cap
tain instantly returned: "A schooner
let It bel" And thus the name came
into our marine vocabulary.
Sco0n was the word used In the dia-
lect Of that day to describe a skipping
or skimming motion and Is Of Scandi-
navian origin.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-02-14
COUNT COINS BY MACHINE
Electrical Continuance Also Wraps
and Seals Money ut Rate Of
40 q Minute.

Very few Of US have any trouble
In counting our coin by hand. In
mihts, however, In banking houses. In
Offices Of electric railways and In
D9hy other establishments vast guam
tides Of coin must be counted and
pecked daily.
An electrical machine Of the most
improved type counts coins Of any
G3e from pennies to dollars. and wraps
them at the rate Of 400 minute as
long as the current Is transmitted and
the coins are fed into the hopper.
An expert, while he Is In good work
Ing trim, can count and wrap so coins
. minute: so it will be seen that the
machine does the work Of eight men.
The services Of q man are, however,
required to operate the machine, his
work consisting Of sorting the coins.
picking out plugged pieces, blanks and
buttons, which In some cases seem to
set mixed with good money.
The machine receives the sorted
coins at one end and delivers them all
smoothly rolled In lunches to suit
and with the wrapper pasted.
II Is the invention Of man whose
business 1t was to collect coins from
slot machines and to sort, count and
bpndle them.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-02-14
scientific View Of Earth.

A French scientist finds In the great
depths Of the Arctic ocean an argu-
ment tending to show that the earth
u slightly topshaped, the protuberance
corresponding to the point Of the top
being at the south pole. This. be
thinks. would explain the different re
suits arrived at BY the various meas
urements Of astronomers and geode-
sists.
The differences are very small In
comparison with the entire bulk Of
the globe. yet they are readily ap-
probable, and one Of the explanations
that has been suggested for. them Is
that the earth II tetrahedral In form.
But the Frenchman thinks the top
shape theory is preferable. The fact
that to IN eye looking at the earth
from a point In space It would not
sendbly differ In appearance from q
true sphere shows how refined are the
methods Of science which enable. men
living on the surface Of the globe to
detect variations In Its general con-
tour.-New York Sun.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-02-14
star Four Years Away.

II the light Of all the stars were
10 60 out at once, II would be at least
four years before we noticed any diff
ference In their light After that time
these lights In the sky would disappear
one by one. according to their dis
lance from the earth. No one living
today would see the last starlight go
out II all their lights were extinguished
ct once. The nearest star takes four
and one half years for its light to
come to rs. We say star is so many
eight years" away. basing it's distance
on the time II takes its light to reach
us. It takes light 100000 years and
more to reach us from some Of the
farther stars. From some of the more
distant stars we are just now receiv-
Ing the light that originally emanated
from them way back In the Stone are
before history. It has taken Il al
these years to reach US
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-02-14
COAST GUARDS Of ENGLAND
More Than q Thousand Lighthouses
and LIphtshIps Under Control
Of Trinity House.

More than q thousand lighthouses
and lightships guard the COASTS OF the
British Isles. and all are under the
control. direct or indirect, of Trinits
house. For the purpose OF control the
coast ia divided into districts, OF
which the London district is the most
important. 1t extends from South
void In Suffolk to the North Foreland
In Kent.
The stores for this district are kept
at Trinity wharf, at Blackwell, and
here are to be seen casks OF oil, an
chors, mooring chains, complete lam
terms and machinery Of many sorts. as
well as quantities Of buoys OF different
sizes, shapes and colors.
The anchors used for mooring light
ships are huge implements OF Iron
shaped like great umbrellas. and as Tor
the mooring chains. these are tested
By hydraulic power up to 300 tons.
Can buoys. spherical buoys, wreck
buoys, bell and gas buoys are here by
the score. Some are new; others are
old and battered. and have been
brought In for painting and repair.
Painting buoys goes on all the year
round, and the work Is done by the
men who are ashore from lightships or
lighthouses Life on a lightship Is no
Joke, especially In bad weather. and
each man after two months afloat gets
q month ashore.
Since accidents sometimes happen
to lightships. q relief ship Is always
kept moored at the wharf ready to
start at a moments notice to replace
any vessel which has drifted from her
moorings or been sunk in collision
London Tt-Bits.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-02-14
TELLS HOW HE STOLE MELON
Speaker on Honesty Says . Queer
SILVER Ran Up HE Spine and
He Put Fruit Back.

Mr.. Moneybags, the English prof
iteer, has Just bought the largest house
IN the country town, and 50 he was
recognized as the unofficial squire Of
the place.
He was In great demand as speak
er at all the local functions. and that
Il how he came to be on the platform
at the annual prizegiving. due to give
an address on Honesty"
When his turn came to speak he re-
lated how, when quite boy. he saw
q cart of melons outside shop and
nobody In sight.
ION the spur Of the moment" he
said impressively-"on the spur OF the
moment. / say. took one of those
melons"
he paused for effect, and was not
disappointed. The whole audience
gave one gasp at the idea OF their
local bigwig doing such thing.
But he went on. Instantly queer
sensation assailed me and shiver
went through me. made up my mind.
and went back to the cart and re-
placed the melon-(loud applause)-
and took q ripper onel"-Pittsburgh
Chronicle.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-02-14
ANIMALS persisted IN TAR
saber-Tooth Tigers, Mastodons, Els.
plants and camels Caught IN
California Asphalt Pit

Recently I stood looking into the A.
phalt pits at Rancho La Brea, Cal. j
had held in my hand that morning an
eight-inch tooth from this pit, the great
curved fang of Smilodon. the saber-
tooth tiger.
The terrible weapon might have been
torn from the tigers jaw only yester-
day, so perfectly had the impregnating
oil preserved II. Thin, bladelike, its
inner serrate edge pricked the skin
and chung to the finger drawn through
its scimitar curve. 1t was perfect
tooth.
The beast possessing 1t had persisted
in his mighty pride. And here with
him in the treacherOus tar had persisted
two thousand of his kind. Skeletal
parts of two thousand saber-tooth IT,
gers have been taken from this Cali
fornia tar pool at La Brea.
As stood by the pit looked about
me. Two small ground squirrels
watched me from behind eucalyptus
tree; a forest Of derricks rose over
against me. pumping oil; a stream
of motor cars whizzed past me on the
paved road; but in the pool below me
the oily ooze dubbed thickly; and be-
low the ooze lay heaped the bitumi-
nized ends of all the years.
Geology here had scrapped her later
ages. This was Times dump. the rem.
dering vat, where into nothingness and
night each lighted day is melted. each
perfect form Of life.
What strange and mighty forms
have vanished here: tigers more dread.
full than those Of the Amazon or Ben
gal mastodons Of monstrous size, ele-
plants, camels, tapirs. sloths, horses.
wolves, cave bears and bear dogs big
ger than the Kadiak bear, birds and
reptiles without like or kind among
the living-now forever gone except
that their buried bones are found, and
on those rude and partial frames
rough guesses hung for what were
once unique and breathing FORMS
Harper's Magazine.