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The border vidette., 1924-11-29

| Let us build up pride IN our
country, not in boastful or ar
rogant manner, but with q sense
of appreciation and thanksgiving
that we are so fortunate as to
live in land where conveniences
and advantages for the poor and
lowly are greater than the lux
uries offered favored and veal
thy persons short century ago.
Clemencea-United Verde ex
tension turning out 1000, 900
pounds copper monthly, gain of
5CO,OCO pounds per month over
past records.
Yuma-Sand Hill dune road in
Imperial county being laid with
test redwood plank track. laid in
sections to be removable by
crane mounted on truck.
Yuma-Contract let for paving
Fourth avenue. Contract soon
to be let for paving G4 miles on
Phoenix highway.
Phcenix-Babson's statistical
report shows notable improve
ment in Arizona business.
Cotton developing finely in
Salt River Valley. Grape fruit
crop is best on record. and citrus
harvest is most favorable.
Two veins of ore, one 130 feet
thick with 1.12 per cent copper
and one 125 feet thick with l 81
per cent, found in Castle Dome
group in Globe Miami district.
Phoenix-Lee's ferry road, to
connect with states to the north,
is to be built soon.
Yuma-First carload of grape
fruit shipped for this season.
Somerton-Two new garages
open for business.
Yuma-Repairs being made on
| Masonic Hall.
Williams Many property sales
and building contracts reported.
One group of five residences will
be built at once.
Phoenix-State taxi book su
perintendent reports gain in
school enrolment, with almost
every community in the state
showing increase.
Yuma-Minor Drug company
begins another drug store build
ing.
Globe-Copper Reeds proper.
ty, near San Carlos, being ex.
tensively developed.
Kingman-First shipment Of
ore from development tunnel of
Red Top mine in Potts mountain
section, shows high values of
lead and silver.
Holbrook - Roaming out of
Holbrook we'll, in order to go
deeper. The we'll now has 100
feet Of water.
Tombstone-Thirty cars of ore
are being shipped monthly by
lessees in this district.
Holbrook Gas we'll flowing
100000 cubic feet daily found in
Paradox valley.
Phoenix-Forest service will
construct patrol road, 40 miles
long, north of Ponto Forest, for
fire and patrol protection.
Ajo-Magma Copper company
produced 100000 pounds cop
per during last quarter, costing
S.26 cents per pound.
Nogales-Good holiday bust.
ness reported.
Kingman-Paymaster proper.
ty in Mohave county will erect
30 ton mill.
Yuma-Arizona and Gandol.
pho hotels remodeled, and filled
to capacity by tourists.
Florence-NeW club building
dedicated for public use.
WinsloW-People's Bank and
Trust company opens bank in
old bank of Winslow home.
Tucson-Federal road to top
of Chiricahua mountains may be
built next year.
Nm io;nol op6 Stato lnp6 -
The border vidette., 1924-11-29

Electric power growth exceed
ed population gain in 1923. Com
panies added ). lS5 600 customers
The border vidette., 1924-11-29

Census bureau statistics show
that the American people in 1923
spent over $1,000 a minute, or
81 100000 q day for candy and
ice cream.
The border vidette., 1924-11-29
ARIZONA WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW.
November "a, 1924

Let us build up pride in our
country, not in a boastful or ar.
rogant manner, but with sense
of appreciation and thanksgiving
that we are so fortunate as to
live in a land where conveniences
and advantages for the poor and
lowly are greater than the lux
uries offered favored and veal
thy persons a short century ago.
The border vidette., 1924-11-29

Municipal and state bond is
sues in excess 5000, ,O0O.0 900 were
authorized by voters at the No
vember t election.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06

by his energy and thrift has
built up his farm to high state
of fertility, has built a comfort
able house and nice farm build
ings, and says Immediately: This
is a good, profitable business, and
this farmer can stand an increase
in taxes
We all realize that it is hard
to arrive at fair and just sys-
tenn of taxation, but | believe
the present system of taxing
farm lands, as it applies in the
above illustration, is unjust to
the good farmer who owns, OPP
crates and improves his farm.
We would encourage this class of
farmers by exemption from tax
alton up to a certain amount
(say $4,000 to $4,000 for i'm
provements.)
On the other hand, let the
owner of the unimproved proper
ty bear more Of the burden of
taxes. Encourage the owner of
the unimproved property to i'm
prove it or dispose of it, that it
may go into the hands of a good
farmer who will make the soil
more productive and the farm an
asset to the community.
An inducement should be Civ
en- to every one to improve hi,
lands and the suggestion of al
exemption Yill help.
In a Canadian province they
have a system of taxing land
at a 100 per cent valuation anc
Is per cent valuation on its i'm
provements, both urban anc
country property.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. May
6, 1S94.)

Quite a party of Americas peo-
pie will leave Tuesday for Dallas,
Texas, to attend the session Of the
Southern Baptist convention.
Among those who will probably go
are, Rev. A, B. Campbell, Messrs.
Henry Johnson, Thornton Wheatley
T. A. Collins Mrs. John Windsor,
Miss Hattie Windsor.
Miss Emma Prince gave her
Sunday school class a picnic outing
at Magnolia Dell yesterday Several
friends Of the fair young hostess
joined the picnickers at the Dell,
and the occasion was greatly en-
ioyed by all.
The hardware houses Of the city
will join the o'clock closing move
ment of Monday. The Sheffield
Huntington Co., W. NJ Tullis and
J. w. Harris & Co., have. agreed to
enter into the moveemnt for the
summer months
Miss Mamie Holzendorf, a very
attractive and popular young lady q
Thompson, Ga, is the guest of her
aunt, Mrs. H. S. Johnson, at her
home on Taylor street for a few
days.
l., The executive committee of the
County Sunday school Association
had pleasant meeting at the Pres
byterian church yesterday morning.
The object of the meeting was to
for the annual convention
to be held May 25th. An invitation
from the Sunday school at Gate
woods school house to hold the
convention with it, was unanimously
accepted.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. MAJ
6, 1914.)


6, 1914.)
The closing exercises of Miss
Chaeman's music school will begin
this evening when the primary de-
partment will render its annual re
cital, other grades appearing at
later date. The exercise will sake
beginning at o'clock.
The two Americas camps, P. 0.
S. of A, awarded a year ago two
very beautiful gold badges to stu
dents of the two city scholastic
Americas High and the Furlow
Grammar school, for best essays
submitted The High School medal
was won by Miss Geneviye Prather,
while Miss Francis McMath had the
distinction Of winning the grammar
school golden shield.
Several Americas capitalists
those interested in the proposed
plan combining the two electric
lighting plants-are in New York
today with that end in view, while
consumers and the general public
here await with interest the result
of their mission.
When Will Turpin came back
from Wells Mill yesterday with q
string of Dream as long as a cloths
line, John Sheffield and Sol Stills
were visibly affected. An hour
later a huge auto truck piled with
household effects and cooking
equipment sailed out of town mill
ward, and today the families Of
these two ardent disciples of Isaac
Walton will be at home at the Hotel
Edlittleton, down on the shores of
the pond.
Col. Neil A. Ray stepped to the
music of Dixie as the boys in gray
marched away yesterday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

(From The Times Recorder. MAY
6, 1904.)
The new postage stamps of blank
ct size issued in honor Of the st.
Louis Worlds Fair are now ON sale,
and Americas people fond of The
taste of mucilage can get al they
want for a cent. The new stamps
are larger than the regular issue
and are among the bandsomesJ
ever issued by the government
though they are not as elaborate
as those issued for the Columbian
Exposition.
Already the man behind the dol
lar has the peachlet Gin his midst.
The first shipment in Georgia went
forward yesterday from Tifton
beating by ten days the first ship
'ment made last year. The "Sneads,,
and other early varieties will be on
the local market in ten days or two
weeks, though the finer peaches
come later
Under the firn name Of Childers
and White, Lee C Childers and
C. M. White have established Ia
broke lge business. Both are well
knov young business men and
W doubtless make a success Of
Ieir new venture.
Miss Alice G. Cobb, of Ogle-
thorpe, is visiting relatives here
for several days, coming down yes
terdav.
is Daisy Oliver left yesterday
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
Taxing Thrift

Our present system of fixing
taxable values on lands, both in
the city and the country. pen
allies the owner who improves
his holdings.
The farmer who works hard,
saves his money and improves
his place is Immediately taxed
because of his thrift. This is
unjust.
This thought is forcibly pre-
sented and suggestion for
remedying it is made by w. D.
Barton, in an article in the Pro-
gressive Farmer. Mr.. Barton
says
The present system of taxing
farm lands is unjust to the good
farmers for the reason that it
tends to penalize their thrift and
energy. 1t does not encourage
improvements of either soil or
farm buildings, for after making
such Improvements the owner is
always called on to pay a higher
rate of taxes on his property.
Take for example, two adjoin-
ing farms which have about the
same soil types and are equal in
value so far as improvements
such as farm buildings, fences,
etc, are concerned. Let us sup
pose that the owner of one of
these farms lives in town and
rents out his farm while the 9TH
er lives on his farm, personally
supervises it, and puts forth ev-
cry effort to improve it. The
owner who lives on the farm may
by his good farming and business
ability increase the fertility of
his soil until it will produce large,
profitable crops. The income
from this farm may enable him
to build a nice, comfortable
house, a good barn, fence his
farm, and stock it with purebred
cattle and hogs. This farm will
then be improved and is an ex-
ample for the whole community,
many of whom will profit by
watching the method used by this
farmer
Let us see how the tax adjust
er passed by the unimproved
place and considers the owner
who is already paying a low
rate of taXesas paying too much,
but he travels by the place
OF the good farmer who
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
THE COUNTY UNIT

We have been a sticker for
the bounty unit system because
it gives the small thinly settled
counties some advantage in
State politics, as against the
large counties where political
clubs are easily kept together and
organizations vote as units, often
at the behest of one man. But
no advocate of that system ever
expected the day to come when
two thimble-rigging politicians
should get in back room and
deny all Of the counties, big and
small, the rights which the coun-
ty unit system should give them.
-Valdosta Times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
LINING pAUGHTERs OF ,7s

The Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution has 10 wards to
whom special consideration is TO
be given as long as they live, foE
they are the only living women
whose fathers fought in the war
of independence. In IL states
there are now living the 10 aged
women. Their average age is 80
years. Many of them are more
than 100.
Mrs. Louisa Kirwin Capron
Theirs, 100, who lives in Milwau-
kee, is the daughter of man
who was aide de camp to Gen.
Washington. Mrs. Helen M. Bar
rett, of New York, can point with
pride to the fact that her father
crossed the Delaware with Gen,
Washington the night so mem
cable in American history Mrs.
Harriet Morton Gilbert, of Mas
sachusetts, can recall the presen-
tation to her by the Marquis de
Lafayette of a dress sword cap.
tured from the British.
All this rolls the scroll of his
tory backward. These women
have seen many presidents come
and go; have witnessed the devel-
opment of the greater part of the
country. They are the real
daughters of the American revo-
luton, and as such it is no Won
der tina D. A. r. make S pets
Of them, pensions them, enter
tains them and cries over them at
times when sentiment fills the
heart. Delegates to the recent
d. A. R. meeting in Washington
set aside Liberty bonds worth
$125,000, the interest Of which is
to pay the pensions of these grand
old ladies as long as they live
The D. A. r. makes sure that it
will care for them even as it hon
ors their proud position.-Daw-
son News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
ARTIFICIAL.

Famine or over-production Of
food will be impossible later, FOR
chemists will produce all food arti-
ficially in their laboratories. So
claims a speaker before American
Chemical Society.
This Big Talk. It sounds good,
but there nevertheless win always
be farmers tilling the soil. Synthetic
food, however, would be an ercal-
lent substitute during famines.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
OUR FAMOUS VICTORIA
SHEETS 1T S1.5O

Bleached snow-white, extra
heavy linen finish, made with broad
mems, guaranteed free from dress
ing; regularly $1.98; here now
at --.-,..-.-.- ,-..-,......,-..,. ........-$1.5O
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
THE STANDARD
SHORT LENGTHS OF CON-
GOLEUM AND LINOLEUM
At SOC so. YARD

Regular 81 and $1,25 quality.
Some Of the lengths run to 9 feet.
Here for sale at about half price;
per square yard ---.---.---.---.---------60c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06

The wild flowers are holding
their annual beauty contest.
Faint heart never won fair lady,
but many a fat-head has.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06

Hollomon would have learned
that the present governor of
Georgia is a klansman, and that
a number of this latter's asso-
ciates hold membership in the
khan. It might be well, also, to
let Mr.. hollomon in on the fact
that his cherished friend ERNEST
Willie" Upshaw, self-starting
candidate for the -presiden-
cy, is a klansman. No, Mr.. Hol-
lomon the fact that the khan
controls the state is not news in
either middle or Southwest Geor-
gia.
After asserting that there are
many good men in the khan, Mr..
Hollomon begins to get under
the surface. He sees the control
Of the convention by the khan in
its true light-as a manifestation
Of the deadly grip which the
khan octopus has on the politics
of the state. But Mr.. Hollomon
fails to analyze the situation full
ly; he neglects to add that to a
great extent this condition was
made possible by the prolonged
silence of the three great Atlanta
newspapers, which remained
voiceless in the very midst of
the klan's headquarters.
Clearly the control Of state
politics by the Ku Klux Khan
was not the result of an over
night growth. The khan had
struck its roots deep into the po-
litical soil of the state long be-
fore the Underwood-McAdoo
campaign was launched; it began
before the frightened legislators,
who fell for khan boasts, kneeled
to the sacrilegious fiery cross
under the roof of the state CAPT.
tol where they were supposed to
stand for the open rights Of the
whole people. The khan octopus
for three years has been closing
in on the representatives of the
people and now it is reaching out
to throttle the rights Of the vot-
ers.
Little of what Mr.. Hollomon
or the Enquirer-Sun say is news
to readers of the Times-Record-
er. These and other facts have
been published and republish-
ed in these columns.
Nor in our opinion, to be
frank, is it new or NEWS to Mr..
Hollomon and his Atlanta Con
stitution. These things have
been going on for months and
MIR. Hollomon, one Of the very
ablest political writers and OBJ
servers in all Georgia, must
have known about them. To
think otherwise, would be a re-
Election on the intelligence of
the associate editor and his
colleagues.
But why their prolonged sill
ence?
The khan was dangerous in
its first stage. 1t is more dan
gerous in this, its second stage
of existence. 1t has resolved
itself into a hidden dictatorship.
And no matter how noble it's in
tents may be; no matter how
upright and worthy the men
who compose this hidden force,
1T is NOT DEMOCRACY; it is
autocracy in its most vicious
from.
Every man has right to his
and political beliefs,
and he owes it to himself and his
state to fight for those princi-
Piles which he holds, but he
should fight in the open, with
his head up and his eyes to the
front.
Back room politics, cabals
and dictators will wreck, soon
er or later, any democratic form
of government in the world.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06

Atlanta (Ga) woman shot at her
husband three times without hitting
him, proving some women are not
trained for matrimony.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
GENUINE OTIS PIN CHECKED
TROUSERS AT $3.50

None better made for men, with
waist measures from 20 to so;
guaranteed fast colors, strong and
serviceable, all sizes, per pr.$1.50
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
INADEQUATE

Traffic experts say that within
10 years the railroads will be hand
ling third more freight and a
fourth more passengers than now.
The most gigantic achievement.
proves inadequate before it is com.
2eted Our transportation system
for instance, has advanced to the
point where the railroads in a year
move SO billion passengers one mile
and haul 457 billion tons of freight
one mile. To do all this requires
tremendous power and Organization.
Yet the railroads increasingly be-
come more Of a problem.
Industry in general is growing
faster than man can control it.
Hence its many evils.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06

A tornado demolished many
homes in Austin, Tex, but escaped
before it could be asked to run for
office.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
A THOUGHT

In Your patience possess ye your
soul.--Luke 21:19.
To know how to wait is the great
secret of success.-De Maistre.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
30 INCH NURSES
CLOTH AT 24c

White Nurses Cloth, 40 inches
wide, fine good quality, free from
dressing; yard ---.-,.--.-.....---,-..--24
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06

One Chicago factory is planning
the production of 100000 horns ana
100000 complete loud speakers in
1924. esss
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06

OJd Days In Americus

for Savannah upon a visit Of sew
eral days to relatives there.
Miss Lille Glover left yesterday
for Macon upon visit of some
length to her sister, Mrs. Massey.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06

Maybe a man in Washington who
beat his wife was mad because he
hasn't been mentioned for president.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
FLYING

America is tagging behind ali
leading European countries, in fly
ing, according to speakers at an
aviation banquet.
Major Hensley, cominandanl at
Mitchell Field, says; According to
present indications, before 1927 We
will have nothing tc fly with
If this so, it's a dangerous
blunder. A nations first line of de
Tense in future wars will be the air.
France will be able to hang onto
the Ruhr as long as she has SUI
premacy with planes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
CHANGED

Our national Constitution was
provided during a period when most
work was done by hand, there be-
ing little machinery.
Invention has revolutionized our
ways of living. And most Constitu-
tionaI changes are the result of me-
chanical invention. Prohibition, for
instance, was brought about pri-
marily to make people work more.
Child labor, the great evil needing
a Constitutional amendment to abol-
ish it as we long since abolished
negro slavery, is an outgrowth of
the machine age. Politics follows
industry.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
INDIAN HEAD
AT pc

The doubled and rolled grade,
mercerized finish; Indian Head
woven in the selvage of every yard;
here at yard --.--.-.-...---.....,......2
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
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{.j1'Rze7BI6
A byAlbert Apple
FUTILE?

| FUTILE!
Nature never loafs. She is for
ever tearing down in one place ana
building up in another, the two ac-
tivities balancing.
Water, falling from the clouds
and working its way back to the
sea, wears down MOUNTAINS and
carries them and the best soil Of
the plains along with it to the
ocean.
Dr. Lewis M. Haupt says in a
speech that sand is filling up SONG
American harbors and channels
faster than it can be removede BY
dredging. The purpose probably is
to compel man to keep on working.
Most of our progress is the result Of
trying to dodge work or make it
easier.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
$500

$500
Since our republic was founded,
more than $500 schemes to amend
the Constitution have been intor-
duced in Congress. The figure is
supplied by Professor Henry V.
Ames, able authority.
The trainers Of the Constitution
overlooked a lot of bets. They nat
urally failed to provide many things
not needed at the time but abso-
lutely necessary now, They made
the Constitution extremely difficult
to amend. Was that better than
making it too easy to adjust?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06
GOLD SEAL PILLOW
CASES AT 35c

CASES Al 35c
New lot just received, wide hens,
full regular size, soft finished; alb
solutely free from dressing; reg
ular soc grade at --.-...............-..35c
81 to $3.50 CREPE
DE CHINE AT $3.50.
This gives you pick of the stock
we have on hand, in almost every
good shade including white and
black; yard ..--..--....-...----....$ 1.69
FLORENCE CASTLE SOAP
i-2-LB. BAR FOR Csc
We guarantee this Soap to give
perfect satisfaction or we will re-
fund the purchase price; pure Cas-
tile in long white bars, per bar Csc
$3.50 SHEPHERD CHECKS
At $lO0
Beautiful quality, A inches wide,
medium size Checks; just a clear
saving of soc yard; here yard ST.
SMITHS FINE ADMINISTER
SQUARES AT $45.Oo
Fine heavy Administer Squares,
seamless, size 9x12 feet, equal in
every way to many grades offered
elsewhere for $500, new patterns.
Convenient terms may be arranged
on Rugsy without interest.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-06

The Enquirer-Sun is in agree
ment with all that the Constitu-
tons associate editor says in the
foregoing. But it may be well to
set the impetuous crusader right
on at least one point. Mr. Hol-
lemons statement asserts NOR is
the capitol of Georgia supposed
to be behind the locked doors of
some emperor's imperial palace"
Obviously, the associate editor of
the Constitution has not kept
abreast Of khan activities. If he
bad read the Enquirer-Sun, Mr.,
New Britain herald., 1924-01-11
Warning for Crossings
 Successful in Sweden

stockholm. Jan. 1f.-swedish rail- roads have tested recently. and found successful. device to warn automo- biies, as they approach grade cross ings, of the coming of a train. When train is 1000 feet from a crossing electricity is called into play to drop a bar over the vehicle road. The bar is so feet from the crossing. and takes a position seven feet above the road. From # hang light chains which striking against the car. give warning Of the oncoming train. After the train has passed the bar sutonati- caIiy is raised. Red and white lights nelp to emphasize the warning.