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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
A News" Bootlegger

The newspaper editor who
claims he is giving the public
what it wants" when he seeks to
exploit crime news and scan
dal is nothing more than a
news bootlegger."
This statement of Bristow
Adams, Of the Worlds Dairy
Congress, is being quoted by
newspaper men who have re-
ceived figures submitted by Mr..
Adams in addressing the Uni
versity Press. Club at Syracuse,
N. Y.
MIR. Adams told Of a recent
survey of the news printed in
metropolitan and smaller news
papers, which he conducted at
Cornell, where he is head of
the department of publication.
He maintained that crime
news was less than 4 per cent
OF the contents of the newspa-
per, contrary to the general
opinion. Educational news oc-
cupied three times as much
space as crime. and business
news occupied six times as much
as crime news.
But for the EDUCATIONAL
news, as carried from day to
day in the columns of the news
papers, progress would be
greatly retarded in every sphere
of human endeavor. Fighting
the boil weevil, carrying a mes
sage to the peach-growers, re-
citing business condition reports
-all of this and more is a part
Of the educational news of the
day. 1t is vital to those engag-
ed in the business and of inter
est to others.
Scandal and crime news. as
a rule, are carried in brief. 1t
is necessary that it be carried,
for publicity is necessary in the
fight against evil.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
FARMERS! YOU HAVE IT WITHIN YOURPOWERl TO MAKE

along the step that ran full
length of the car, and collected
fares. The other side of the
car had railing to keep care
less passengers from falling out
while rounding curve.
That sort of entertainment
wouldn't satisfy four-year-old
child now. But it was great
stuff, back yonder. There were
no movies then, no radios-and
even the horseless carriage was
generally considered an inn
practical toy that never would
be used except by people with
more money than brains.
The thrill Of the old-time
street car ride through the
summer night was not altogeth-
er due to lack of other enter
tainment nor even to the exhil-
aration of fresh air that rushed
through the open sides of the
car and nearly took the pass
engers' breath.
The real thrill was because
the street car was still novel
ty, just coming into widespread
use.
It's only SO years ago this
May that the electric street
car was born Many cities
claim the honor. But it was in
Richmond, Va, that the first
commercially successful electric
overhead trolley car made its
initial trip.
A generation or so before
Thomas Davenport constructed
a toy street car that ran around
a circular track. Never heard
of Tom7 All he did was in
vent the electric motor.
Two Germans built an cleo
trio trolley line a third of a
mile long, at the Berlin Expo
sition in 1889. Next year a
small line, for public use at a
fixed fare, was operated near
Berlin. But it failed financially.
Americans meantime were
busy, several cities experiment
ing. Richmond, Va, had the
first honest-to-goodness' cleo
trio trolley line, according to
the American Electrical Rail
way Association.
From then on, the old-time
horse car was doomed. Today
the electric railway industry car
ries 10 billion passengers a
year and represents an invest
ment of six billion dollars.
1t seems incredible that all
this has come about in 60 years.
We'd like to turn the clock
back and get kick" out Of
such simple amusement as a
trolley ride. The world changes
fast in our generation and the
novelty of the new quickly be-
comes commonplace and bore
some.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
TWENTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY

TWENTY YEARS A6O AODAA
(From The Times Recorder. May
27, 1904.)
Mr.. T. w. Galloway leaves in a
few days for Chicago, where he will
take a theological course at the
Moody Bible Institute, to prepare
himself for ministerial work. For
some time Mr.. Galloway has served
as assistant pastor of First Baptist
church here, and viii thoroughly
himself equip for work in the mini
stry.
Mrs. A. C. Bivins entertained a
number of friends, young matrons
and misses, at Holly Springs yestter-
day where the party enjoyed a pic
mic.
Declared by the law from fishing,
Col. Littleton would probably accept
a lucrative position at shoveling
snow until blackberries get ripe.
Henry Clay, the little son of Mrs.
Mary b. Clay, is quite Ill with fever
at their home near Cobb.
Sumter's eight delegates TO the
state convention, Mesars. John A,
Cobb, w. A. Dodson, N. A. Ray, Al
len Fort, C. S. S. Horne, N. C. Mill
er, C. R. Crisp and j. B. Pilsbury
will go to Atlanta Tuesday to be
carly upon the scene when the State
Democratic Convention assemblies
Wednesday morning.
Mr.. H. C. Bagley, who own prob
ably the largest peach orchard near
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
THAT'S A BIG JOB ITSELF

The house of representatives
has passed a new immigration
bill restricting immigration to the
lowest point in history. 1t is well.
The United States would welcome
the better class of immigrants
but it might as well be under
stood now that we don't intend to
be made a dumping ground for
the scum of Europe. It would
be a good idea for the foreigners
already here to be made into
good Americans before admitting
any more Jackson Progress
Argus.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
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SORERED

Europe's troubles now are chiefly
financial, for the people are pro-
.gressively working harder and the
wars destruction is being rebuilt
with amazing speed.
And the financial situation over
there is improving in the best pos
sible way, governments living with
in their incomes. In the first four
months of 1924, German govern
ment spent about $50 million GOLD
marks less than it collected in taxes,
etc. France in the same period saved
a surplus of 1920 million francs.
Italy, too makes bright showing
her government revenue and spend
ing almost balancing in the last nine
months.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27

One day in Mexico, what they
thought was another revolution
was only a new photograph record.
Posterity must get awfully impa-
tient waiting for its parents to set
tie down.
An optimist is a man who, when
he comes to a detour, thinks it is a
very good road to be a detour. i
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
The Left-handed Child

Do not try to change the left
handed child. Let it use its left
hand. Let Nature alone, for
she knows what she is doing.
By tampering you may interfere
with the child's mental develop
ment.
These facts are brought out
by Maximillian P. E. Grozz-
mann, in his book, "A Parent 5
Manual, : published by the Cen
tury Co. He says:
Parents worry when they dis
cover their children are left
handed. They will do all they
can to change them over to right
handedness. They nay succeed
in doing so, but at a great risk,
and usually with bad conse-
quences which show themselves
with the years.
THE reason for the usual
right-handedness is that We are
generally right-sided. In the
evolution of the human race the
left hemisphere of the brain has
developed functionally beyond
the right. Now, as We have the
curious arrangement that all the
nerve connections of the body
cross over to the opposite side of
the brain, the left hemisphere
controls the right side, and, be-
ing functionally the stronger,
makes us right-handed. In the
left-hander, the right hemis-
phere is preponderant. Further
more, we know that all functions
have certain definite centers in
the brain and that the manual
centers are in close proximity to
speech centers and intimately
allied with them.
The result of this condition
is that an interference with the
natural arrangement such as fore
ing a left-handed child to use
his right hand, produces disturb
ances in this relation. This ex-
plains why a left-handed child
who Is forced away from his
natural endowment or loses it
through accident or imitation, is
likely to develop speech defect,
like stammering, or become ner-
vous and generally awkward"
This advice from the eminen
DR.. Grozzmann is worthy of Sc
rious thought, especially for III,
parents of left-handed child
Give the child's nature Z
chance to develop. Guide it
yes; but do not attempt tt
DRIVE it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
THE STANDARD
DOLLAR DAYS HERE WEDNES-
DAY AND THURSDAY
We Close Thursday at 1890

We Close Thursday at 1890
81 will buy 2 Crinkle Bed
Spreads for single beds.
81 will buy one pair mems Bed
room Slippers; our regular SIPS
quality.
81 will buy 48 cakes of good
Toilet Soap, regular size cakes.
81 will buy 10 yards fine smooth
yard wide Sheeting; regular 15e
yard.
81 will buy mems knitted four
finland Ties; regularly SOC each.
81 will buy 6 yards standard
Dress Bingham; regularly Csc yd.
81 will buy one mans Umbrel-
la, full regular size, fast black
cover; regularly $1.25.
81 will buy 2 pairs Ladies Silk
Stockings, black or white; regular
ly 81 pair.
81 will buy pairs Ladies' Silk
Stockings black, brown and
gray; regularly SOC pair.
81 will buy one Mans Night
Shirt of fine muslin or pajama
checks, all sizes up to 10; regular
ly $3.50.
81 will buy one pair Boys Over
alls of best standard denim, all
sizes up to 16.
81 will buy 2 yards Pepperel
Bleached or Unbleached Sheeting,
ga.
81 will buy 4 Turkish Towels,
bleached snow-white, size 22x44
inches.
81 will buy one dozen of Maxine
Elliot's fine Toilet Soap; value
SIPS.
81 will buy 5 yards best stand
ard percales, light or dark colors;
value 25c yard.
81 will buy 5 yards Bungalow
Cretonne, full yard wide, beautiful
patterns regularly 25c yard.
81 will buy yards best stand
ard White Oil Cloth, 45 inches
wide; value 4Oc yard.
81 wiz buy 5 yards White
Ratine, full yard wide; regularly
25c yard.
81 will buy one dozen mems fine
soft finish Cambria Handkerchiefs
value each IL 1-2c.
81 will buy 2 dozen mems Hem
stitched Cambria Randkerchiefs,
full regular size.
81 will buy 8 yards Mercerized
Pongee, white and natural color.
81 will buy Cfex Rugs, size
8Ox6O inches, many patterns and
colors. n ss
Standard Dry Goods
Company
Forsyth ST. Next Bank of Commerce
AMERICUS, GA.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
ANOTHER BONUS PROPOSED

The Washington News-Report-
er agrees with the Gazette, that
all mothers should get a bonus
from the state and that when the
babies come two at time the DO.
nus should be doubled-Tifton
Gazette.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
A THOUGHT

Go to the ant, thou sluggard;
consider her ways and be wise.--
Prov. Go.
People that have nothing to do
hre quickly tired of their own
company.-Jeremy Collier.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
IT'S NAME is A HANDICAP

A man living in the odge of
Morgan county close to the
Greene county line at a settle
ment known as Swords received
an anonymous communication
warning him to leave the com
munity, which he promptly did.
He was suspected of giving in
formation about the location of
stills to officers of the law, but
claimed tnat he had not done so.
Swords is reported to be doing
a big moonshine business. A
stranger seeking a peaceful COM
munity would not be likely to Sc,
leet place bearing a strife
suggesting name like Swords. The
name is handicap.-Cuthbert
Leader.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
REMARKABLE

Phenomenal memory of Naum Lit
owsky, a Lithuanian, amazes east
ern professors. Told the date of
your birth, he can Immediately give
the day of the week your birthday
occurs in any year past or present.
Call of 10 long numbers and he ech-
pes you by reciting them backwards
These are typical of many remark
able feats.
How does he do it? By associating
numbers with colors, he says High
er scientists call this Confusion d
the senses" There are people who
see certain colors when various mus
cal notes are played. The eccentri,
cites of the human brain are the
greatest mystery in this life.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
Old Days In Americas

Americas, having eight hundred
broad acres thus devoted to fruit,
came down from Atlanta yesterday
to look after his fruit and large cot
ton farm as well.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27

"a NI&S made on improved
LOEAA NAIfarm lands at cheap
est rates for terms of 5, or 10
years with prepayment option given
Money secured promptly. We have
now outstanding over $1,1O0,000 on
farms in Sumter county alone, with
plenty more to le1d.
MIDDLETON MCDONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co.,
in Sumter, Lee, Terrell. Schley,
Macon, Stewart, Randolph and
Webster counties. 81 Planters Bank
Building, Amerieus, Ga. Phone SO
Ok 2ll9 tIE.s, ~----.-- ~
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
Turning Back the Clock

Do you remember when a
wild evenings sport consisted
of putting on ones Sunday
clothes and taking asstfeet cAf
ride2 The concIurtor-ranfe-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
WHAT THE COUNTY NEEDS

WHAT THE COUNTY NEEDS
A prominent business man as
serts that every official who ad-
vocates high taxes should =.
driven into private life. The
trouble is that officials pretend
to be for low taxes for the
Masses" but high taxes for the
rich" with the result that taxes
stay up, and eventually all the
people bear a share of teh burden
What the county wants and needs
is not a shifting, but a lifting
of taxes. The tax-shifter is
plain fraud. Wilmosgton (Del
Journal.
A FARMERS VIEW
The following is reproduced
from the Cordele Dispatch, which
paper accredits it to a farmer,
He says;
"We cannot expect stable az
riculture, an assured profit from
farming, unless we lay the foun-
daton on a constructive program
of work carried out through a
period of years. So many of the
obstacles in our path to pros
perity are directly traceable tc
the lack Of plan in our under
takipgs, that we the tempted to
say that if every southern farmer
great and small, would lay OUT
his cropping plans five years in
advance, and stick strictly there
to, our economic troubles would
vanish. 1t cannot come as the gift
Of government, through credits.
through cooperatives, through
press propaganda. 1t can come
only through the realization that
farming is a vocation, not a spec
ulation-a complex system o.
cropping-not the exploitation Of
a single crop for a single sea
son."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27

Movie starring isn't so~good. Be
tween pictures you have to run out
and get a divorce.
The bathing girl doesn't care a
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
woNDER-cHlLD

Celebrated wonder-child, Adele
Aarons of Philadelphia, continues to
amaze scientists. She began to walk
at three months. At year old, had
the intelligence Of an eight-year
child, and said to a visitor:
q am annoyed, you see. I'm cut
ting my teeth. l have never had
molars before, you know. The pain
is excruciating.
There are hundreds of thousands
of grown-ups who will have to look
in the dictionary for the meaning of
"excruciating."
Maybe these rare wonder-children
are forerunhers Of a super-race of
the distant future The boy of 10
today knows more than gfaybeards
of 5000 years ago. Knowledge and
wisdom are not the same, however.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
AGED

Uncle Sam is paying pensions to
over 100000 war veterans or their
dependents. One pensioner is be.
ing supported by every 90 Ameri-
cans.
The day will come when the pen
sion roll will run into the millions.
Old age pensions are just matter
of time. Incapacitated veterans of
peaceume service to the nation, both
in public and private life, will even
tually be rewarded the same as bat
tle-scarred veterans.
The certainty of a pension in old
age would, some claim, induce many
people to work less hard in their az
tive years. But it'd also end lot of
dishonesty, especially petty cheating
-outgrowth of fear that old age
will be penniless.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-27
CHURCH

Only a fifth Of our rural popula-
ton attends church, is the national
governments claim. There are 1O1-
600 rural churches scattered over
the country. But this is not too
many, as some conclude when they
examine attendance figures. The
main trouble is that So many farm
ers are Of different religious be-
lief than the nearby church.
Radio is the farmers church. And
it will be increasingly so.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-05-08
WASHINGTON LETTER


Special Correspondent Sank Centre Herald
Copyright 1928 By National Editorial As.oci.tio,

lected its candidate for the Presi.
dency. 1t is customary in spirited DO.
lltical contests for strong partisans tt
see the facts distorted by retroactive
pecularities of ones own glass. II
the average citizen would take the
time to harken to scientific invest.
gators the ordinary run of elections
can be described as :'periods of emo.
tlonal astigmation and shifty logic or
party issues" In everyday parlance
the claim is advanced that a parry
man is wilfully blind to obvious is.
sues and sees nothing but the GOO.
points of his Own group.
Though hearings are now un,ler.
way to determine the viewpoints OF
the public on the question of Amer.
lean participation IN WorlC
Court, it is unlikely that any action
will be taken by the Senate at ,hi.
session. An academic discussion Of
the proposals will probably he car
ried out but it is said in high quarters
that international issues will be care.
fully submerged until December
month after the elections.
D.
Another measure to purify election
practices has been introduced in the
House by Representative Cable, Of
Ohio. Something new in politics
would result if Section 10 of the
Cable bill were incorporated in the
law, for it raises prohibition against
direct or indirect promises of APP.
pointments of person or persons t.
any private or public position for the
purpose of securing support in polit,
ical campaigns. AS this is campaign
year, it is doubtful if the Cable bill
will be reported out of committee as
its enactment will revolutionize pres.
ent campaign practices.
Dr.
Taxpayers of the District of Col.
umbia are calling attention to the
effects of absenteeism In the House
as result of a recent vote. The
fiscal relations Of the federal gov.
eminent to the District of Column
bia were changed by House amend
ment on vote of 20 to out OF
a total membership of 435. It is
pointed out that members of Congress
now in Washington are giving thei,
time to the preparation of campaign
speeches which are becoming neces.
sary with the approach of the primar.
lies and the elections. In fact, the
Congressional Record shows thai
many members of the House are the
subjects under discussion in Congress
and are not always germane to leg.
islation.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-05-08

the department favored the "pay-as-
you-use' plan"
Commissioner Charles M. Babcock
answered as follows:
Perhaps the difference can be
most clearly shown by illustrating
with typical mile of new highway
improvement. At general averages,
the land or right-of-way will cost
$500, the grading $500 and the
gravel surfacing $4,000, making the
whole mile cost $7,4OO. The right-of-
way and maintained grade will serve
as long as the road is used and the
life of the crawling may be placed
at years.
"Under the 'pay-as-yau-go' plan,
the entire cost would be paid from
current tax funds the year the i'm
provement is made.
"Under the 'pay-as-you-use' policy,
the cost of the right of-way and grade
would be spread over 20 years and
the surfacing over years, that each
year might be charged according to
it's share in the use of the improve
ment.
"When made hard and fast policy
on needed highway betterment, the
'pay-as-you-go' plan is faulty because
it draws no line between current ex-
penses and permanent investments.
Applied to farming, it would mean
that the farmer must wait until he
can pay in full instead of borrowing
part of the purchase price and letting
his land help to work out its cost.
In read building the effect is to give
the present day taxpayer the use of
only one-tenth as much highway i'm
provements as the tax payer of ten
years in the future, although both
may pay toward better roads at the
same tax rates.
"Your inquiry brings out one of
the best reasons for bonding for
needed highway improvements
each year may fairly share in the
improvements which otherwise will be
pyramided, the first year getting the
least and each succeeding year more
and more benefits for its tax dollar
The bond plan reduces the cost of
financing trunk highway improve
ments for the reason that the state al
ways can loan funds at higher in
terest rates than it pays on its bonds. "
Public roads must be paid for with
public funds, the bulletin adds, but
the tax payer who demands better
and insists upon paying the
whole cost in one year instead of
fairly apportioning it over the period
the improvements will serve cannot
consistently complain against taxes
which he makes unnecessarily and un-
fairly high.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-05-08

Frank Borzage, whose fame as a
directorial genius rests on so secure
a foundation as "Humoresque" and
children of Dust" is the directo,
of ''The Age of Desire" a First Ma
tional picture which is coming Tues
day evening May 10 to the Caughren
Theatre. Like it's predecessors, it. is
a pulsating slice Of life, with the
searchlight turned onto the inner re-
cesses of the elemental emotions and
passions.
No one can mirror life as Borzage
can; no one can inject the quality of
humanness into his productions as
can this director. He is able to in
still into the members OF rls cas-,
some of his enthusiasm and genius
for fidelity, with result that his
pictures alweys take front rank
among the seasons successes.
"The Age of DESIRE" which is
from the pen of Miss Dixie Wilson,
and was written while the latter was
a member of the cast of the Green
witch Village Follies, is a gripping
tale of the cravings of the modern
woman. It's theme is one that pos
sesse a powerful appeal and its
embodiment is series of dramatic
|highlights.
Mary Philbin, William Collier, Jr.,
and Myrtle Stedman have the lead
ing roles, assisted by Josef Swick.
ard, frankie Lee, Mary Jane Irving,
j. Farrell Macdonald, Bruce Guerin
and Frederick Trusdell.
With a heavy piece of rope play.
ing the role of rattlesnake, James
Howe, the worlds only Chinese mo.
ton picture photographer, recently
suffered the greatest fright he has
ever experienced. This little drama
was enacted with the dry ground
of Arizona as a stage and the rug.
ged hills in the background as seen.
cry. The country in Arizona where
the Paramount picture, "To the Last
Man," was filmed is said to be in
Tested with serpents.
James decided to sleep in ham
mock, one of the cattlemen who
visited the movie camp placed 8
piece of rope beneath his blanket.