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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
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state agent for the Corbin Banking
Company, of New York at the
handsome salary Of $4,000 per year.
Doubtless the city authorities
have overlooked Internationally
the school interests in this section
of the city. Many Children in east
Americas are out of school from
the fact that school is located on
the other side of the city, which
makes it too far for small children
to attend, either in summer or in
winter. East end is just as much
entitled to school conveniences as
any portion of the city. They pay
tax to keep up the schools and
should have the benefit of their pro
rata share of the tax money eX-
pended for education.
Cotton futures were decidedly
better yesterday over the advance
of IL points in the market, which
wits similar advance the day be
fore. run the price of good middl-
ing back to seven cents. Few far
mers, however, have any cotton on
hand, the bulk of the crop having
been sold long ago.
A charming coterie of ladies and
gentlemen who make up the con-
genial social circle of the Hotel
Windsor, enjoyed a delightful game
of progressive eucre last evening,
Those playing were Mesdames
Cooper, Brown. Lewis, jenkins
Evans, Homan, Won Mater, We.
terroth, Messrs. Warswick, Bloom
Brown, Broadhurst, Fields, Lewis
Wetteroth, Hugh Brown and Roe
Edwards.
The returns from the election
held in Stewart county today OF
the sale of whiskey indicate thai
the vets have won by a small ma
jority. Returns up to 7 o'cloc}
D. m. at WHICH hour the telegraph
office closed. indicated At major
ity for the wet, or sale of whiskey
with only one or two small countr.
precints to hear from, which can
not materially alter the result.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. March
|, 1904.)
ZEN YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.

t4IOnl IlC 11tiiCo-ANSSOA0Cls 4t4etl III
l, 1904.)
With clear track and orders to
go ahead, as given to the state COM
mittee, the many candidates for Of
flee here, and whose fortunes are
to be decided at the state primary,
will pull open the throttle and pro-
coed to go down the pike at halr
lifting speed. These are the
aspirants for the office of solicitor
general and members of the legisla-
ture. Messrs. Crawford Wheatley
and W. T. Lane are the avowed
aspirants for sensational honors il
this district, and each is doing
herculean work.
Col Littleton predicts an early
spring, basing his opinion upon the
one fact that he has already seen
gopher sitting on log in MUG
kalee.
Miss Maria Harold, Miss Anna
Harold and Miss Mary Davenport
left yesterday for Atlanta where
they will spend several days.
Deputy Sheriff Gatewood caple
back yesterday from Milledgeville,
where he went to carry a negro
woman with rats in her garnet.
Fifteen cents for cotton again /;
get out of the way, mister, for
Beck and Kit are going down the
row for more cotton now.
Messrs. W. w. Dykes and Ed L.
Kiker went to Oglethorpe yester-
day. Their business was evidently
of an important nature.
Mrs. M. E. Westbrook, Mrs. E.
V. Huntington, Misses Virginia
Gum, Bessie Wyatt and Bicy West
brook went to Montezuma yester-
day.
Suits for damages aggregating
the large amount of $4,000 were
filed in the City Court Of Americas
yesterday by the Chambliss Ware
house Co., and J.SH. Williams, each
separately against the Americas
Oil Co., and will be heard at next
term of court.
Mr.. Robert Lee, of Americas, is
eminently the man behind The
gun" and now bears the distinc-
ton of having broken all records
in Georgia in straight shooting
Yesterday afternoon, Mr.. Lee broke
143 "bluerocks" in 143 straight
shots, without missing a bird. This
is the finest record made in Geor-
gia for straight shooting, and Mr..
Lee now holds the belt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
WEALTH

The principal forms of wealth
in Pennsylvania total about three
times as big as the wealth of the
much larger state, Texas. This is
the latest estimate by Uncle Sam.
Texas, farmed intensively, could
support the population of the whole
world, many experts claim. Its ma
tural resources, as yet Barely
scratched, are fabulously profuse-
undoubtedly many times greater
than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is ranked higher be-
cause it has had the population to
produce and accumulate. Man
power, in the last analysis, is the
greatest form of wealth-in many
ways the only.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
Ejf1&FeaaI6
~ bgAbert Apple
FIENDISH
BY
Berton Braley

Confessing in court. a New York
gangster nonchantly tells how he
hired himself out at $50 a week to
set fires to tenements. He says he
got a bonus of $40 for one job
firing a building in which ESQ peo-
pie sleep.
The really remarkable thing
about a case like this, however, is
its rarity. That is true of all major
criminal operations The criminal
is the expection, and that's why he
gets publicity. A discouraged pub
lie, for instance, gives SO much
thought to the 10000 Americans
who commit murder in year thai
if forgets the more than 108 mil
lions who don't.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service)

startling in the way it discloses
that ancient people had much
the same problems as we have
today - deadbeats. hayward
sons, etc. The collection gives
forms of use in congratulating,
borrowing money, proposing
marriage, renewing old friend
ships--in short, practically ev-
erything covered by a Model
Letter Writer book as was in
common use a generation ago.
Life is an endless theatrical
The actors and
the stage settings change, but the
plot repeats itself through
eternity. s1sga asa
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
FATAL

Fatal auto accidents have in
creased by half in five years, This
is due, however. not to increased
carelessness. but to the larger NUM-
Der of machines in use. The ele-
ment of danger accompanying the
average car is slowly but surely
growing less. All this is the result
of safety-frst campaigns and more
intelligent handling of traffic.
We've made a good start in this di-
rection. but there's still long way
to go. :, ma
Accidents, almost without eXceF-
ton, originate in someone's cere,
lessness.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
IT WON'T WORK!

The attempt Of the republicans
to pull the democrats administra-
ton of the navy into the oil leas-
ing scandals is so obviously 'po-
liticaP that its momentum is lost
in theincentive.
The fact is that while the law
providing for the development"
of the governments oil reserves,
directly or by contract, lease or
otherwise" was passed during
the administration, it was purely
a precautionary measure to pre-
vent the drainage of the under
ground oil pools by private inter
ests holding adjacent lands, and
as such conditions developed no
lease were made by the same
rious and sundry attempts to
lease were made. Although va
terests that subsequently made
the leases through Secretary Fall
Atlanta Constitution.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
voLSTEADISM

The federal courts in the last
four years have handled more than
$4,000 criminal cases in connec-
ton with the prohibition act. This
averages 119 cases day.
A conservative estimate would be
that the courts do not reach one
in 1000. Enforcement of law, in
the long run, depends on public
opinion, popular respect for law.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
A PROGRESSIVE SPIRIT

No finer compliment could be
paid Churchwell Brothers and
their Waycross Managers. e.
Co!eman-than was conveyed by
the announcement that the entire
staff of this store had met to-
gether FRIDAY evening to con-
slider plans Tor lettering the
service of this establishment to
the public.
Such a meeting is evidence of
a spirit of real progress, PROOF
that the staff wishes its methods
and its service to keep pace with
the best methods and the best
service in the trade.
These meetings will be held
monthly and there is no doubt
but that the customers will be
made aware by the continued
good service and the constantly
improving service of its store
that the staff is taking its work
seriously and conscientiously.--
Waycross-Journal
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
AN AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO


Full, friendly and diplomatic
relations with Mexico are now
about to be established. The
appointment of Charles B. War
rem, of Detroit, to represent the
United States .as ambassador, at
Mexico City, will no doubt be
ratified by the senate and with
the appointment of an ambassa-
dor from Mexico to Washing
ton there will be resumed rela-
tions that were broken five years
ago. Phe recognition of the
Obregon government effected
last summer of course meant
much towards the restoration of
amity and trade between the two
countries but it was necessary
and desirable to go further. The
latest action taken by President
Coolidge in the matter will be
generally approved.
Mr.. Warren is particularly well
suited for the position to which
he has been appointed having
been, member of the commits
sion which visited Mexico last
year and succeeded in adjusting
matters to the point where recog-
milton of the Obregon govern
ment could be properly made.
II is understood that he was re-
luctant to accept the post, but
has been phethilAd upon to do
so. His information and aequain-
lance in Mexico will facilitate
re-establishment of desirable con-
ditions between the two coun-
tries.-Jaek.onyille Times-Uni0n
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
JUST A SUGGESTION

"We believe if congress could
recess for thirty days and every
mothers son of its membership
put in month blowing it might
resume it's work and act with
sense. Congress needs a period
reflection and meditation
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
BLUFF

An old-time traffic cop in New
York says that in big storm pedes-
trains are fewer by three-ffths and
autos by tenth. This proves, the
cop reasons, that people are not
actually as busy as they think. In
storm they find time to stay IN
der cover. "On the first clear day
these busy people will be OIL;
again, risking life and limb to gain
a few seconds by rushing in and OUT
of traffic"
Hurry is about so per cent nerv.
BUSINESS and 25 per cent bluff.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01

A new survey shows Alaskan oil
wells more important than Teapot
Dome. This may cause a scramble
for government officers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
CATARRHAL DEAFNESS

is often caused by an infiamed condition
of the mucous lining of the Eustachian
Tube. When this tube is infiamed you
have a rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing. Unless the Inflammation can
be reduced, your hearing may be de-
stroyed forever.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will
do what we claim for it-rid your system
of Catarrh or Deafness caused by
Catarrh. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
has been successful in the treatment Of
Catarrh for over Forty Years.
Sold by all druggists.
F. ]. Cheney G Co, Toledo. o.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
THE STANDARD

MONDAY AND TUESDAYS CSC
BARGAINS ARE THE BEST IN
ALL HISTORY-ALMOST EV-
cry LINE REPRESENTED.
SAVINGS RANGE FROM
THIRD TO HALF. COME MON
DAY OR TUESDAY. THESE
OFFERINGS WILL BE WITH
DRAWN TUESDAY EVENING,
AT 6 O'CLOCK.
95c for yards best standard 80
inch Dress Ginghams; value 25c to
zoe yard. ,op5a
csc for 10 yards SO inch Cur
tain Scrim, SO inches wide, double
border.
95c for 5 yards best standard
Bleaching, full yard wide.
95c for pairs Ladies' Genuine
Buster Brown Lislc Stockings, all
sizes.
95c for pairs Mems Buster
Brown Socks, black, brown, gray
and navy.
95c for 8 yards good quality
Apron Bingham, fast colors. -
Csc for yards SO inch Cretonne,
great variety of pretty patterns.
csc for pairs Ladies' best soc
Silk Stockings, black, brown and
gray.
Csc for Mems Four-in-Hand
Ties, plains silks or knitted silks.
Csc for yards best linen fin
ished Indian Head Cloth.
csc for yards highly merceriz-
ed Table Damask, Ga inches wide.
95c for 4 Turkish Towels, ac-
tual size 22x44 inches.
Csc for Huck Towels, plain or
blue borders, size 18x36 inches.
95c for bleached ready made
Sheets, size 1890 inches.
Csc for Gold Seal Pillow Cases,
full size, best quality.
95c for 10 pairs Children's Socks,
black and brown, all sizes.
95c for Mems Umbrellas, 2S
inch size, fast black American taf-
feta covers.
Csc for Boys Union Suits, rib
bed or flecced lined, all sizes.
95e for yards Shifting Madras,
So inches wide, new patterns.
95c foI a yards genuine Japanese
Crepe, colors warranted.
95c for bars of our famous
CASTLE Soap, IL pound cakes.
95c for 20 cans Lighthouse
| Cleanser, regularly SC can.
| 95c for one lot of Ladies Cling
ham Dresses of best quality Cling
| ham.
95c for Ladies' Bedroom Slip
pers, all colors and sizes.
! NONE SOLD TO MERCHANTS.
Standard Dry Goods
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
IS cg E: K. s:, 1923 DAILY POEM
FINS

l had some stocks
From out Of which
/ looked for rocks
To make me rich;
There was a crash,
The boom went flat;
] lost my cash
And that was that!
f2gsE# (
I Dreamed Of fame.
/ thought I'd make y
A wondrous name
And no mistake
Within the ring
l cast my hat
Fate hit me-bing!
And that was that.
TR PAN 1iAA a
l Loved a girl,
My head and heart
Were in a whirl
Right from the start;
She wed a guy
Gray, old and fat;
/ heaved a sigh
And that was that,
up @~8A8
So, to rehearse
What went amiss,
/ wrote a verse
A And that was this!
Copyright, 1924, NEA Servi
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
NET

Violators of the prohibition act.
convicted in federal courts, pay all
average fine of S17O apiece. This
is disclosed by the government re-
port, covering four years.
Uncle Sans net still has man
holes through which whales ca
swim freely. But the net is work
ing about twice as efficiently as tW
years ago. Federal convictions in
1928 totaled over $4,000. compared
with a trifle under $4,000 in 1921
TIE trouble with the net is tina
it catches too many sardines. -.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01

Christian! thou knowest thou
earliest gunpowdre about thee.
Desire them that carry fire to keep
at distance. 1t is a dangerous
crisis, when a proud heart meets
with flattering lips.-John Flavel.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
A THOUGHT

Let no man say when he is tempt
ed, / am tempted of God; for God
cannot be tempted with evil, Meth
er tempteth he any man-Jas. 1:13.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-01
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. Marcn
L. 1S94.)

One of the many young men OF
this city who have achieved success
abroad is Mr.. t. ]. Fielder, who
left Americas several years ago to
accept the responsible position of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-20
AN uI,.ADyIsED PROPOSAL

Representative Britten of Illinois, "lth his unsuccessful introduction of meas ure calling upon the president to sum mon white nations bordering on the Pa cific to a defensive conference agalnst Japan, has revealed himself as an oppor- tunist of the less clever type. His e1- fort to have this country put chip on its shoulders is too crude to deceive any body. Under pretext of defending thls nation against attack, he chose the surest means to provoke trouble. Fortunately the resolution was not given serious con sideration.
 But even to permit it to be introduced was somewhat injurious. There are Jln- goes in both countries who would Ike to stir LID trouble between the United States and Japan. The resolution was 1ur- ther an unwarranted legislative en- croachment upon the diplomatic preroga- lives of the executive. The state de- partment will in plenty of time warn war congress of any emergency warrantng such action as was contemplated Tn the Rritten measure. Meanwhile, congress has plenty to do taking care ot the con cerns that fall properly and lmmedlately within its own province.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-20
Chloe Shingled

l. never knew exactly why
 Sweet Chloe failed of sheer perfection, couldn't though I used to try,
 Find fault ill any one direction. Her features were so very fair
 That it was difficult to flatter And she had lovely, wavy hair.
 What was it, then, what was the matter: l lately heard with great dismay
 In which sheer wrath and sorrow mingled That in the fashion of the day.
 The girl had had her tresses shinged. vowed that she would look fright. And yet it was my pleasing duty To own, confronted with the sight. That she was TT in point of beauty. And yet. alas! for those poor dears
 Who follow in her footsteps vainly. Their necks, unsuited to the shears
 Betray their folly all too plainly. Eager to be as fair as she,
 These but alright the passing stranger, And Chloe, shngled, seems to me
 Extremely like public Danger.
 Bob Hare. in Washingtnn Post
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-20
DIyULGING A CONFIDENCE

It seems that certain naval officers are inclined to be restive under authority and to exercise forbidden freedom of speech with respect to naval facts that 1t is not expedient to make known at this time. Already certain leaks relative to range of naval guns have been traced to theil. source, and it is said that other of ficers guilty of similar breach of dis cipline are under investigation. It IS high time that any insubordination to official and executive authority be de- tected and rooted out of the navy. Pres ident Coolidge expressly stipulated that there be no public discussion by naval officers of certain facts which it was de- sired to keep confidential until the pres idential inquiry had been completed. There is no navy but what has certain information that, for the good of the service and the safety of the nation, should not be divulged. While the leaks in this case may not be serious, it is ob- vious that there is no trust to be placed in those responsible for leaks, and they should be disciplined before they come into possession of facts the revelation of which would be highly prejudicial to our naval strategy. Freedom of speech is one thing, but failure to keep in confi- dence what is given in confidence is something that the very urchins in the street would condemn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-20

Record of how the cutover sandy region around Pinehurst, North Carolina, for. merly almost bereft of inhabitants, has now become a well-settled, highly cul- tivated locality, with lands, previously held high at one dollar an acre, now with their improvements valued often as high as one thousand dollars an acre. It is said that at least 300,000 of such acres around Pinehurst, vacant in 1910, are now under intensive cultivation, chiefly in peach orchard, but in part devoted to a variety of profitable crops. To Mr. Brownlee Erik of Richmond, Virginia, is given credit for tke vision that saw the possibilities latent in this region and for the enterprise that acquired title to the land and induced settlers to come in and fill it up.
 This is merely an illustration of what can be done elsewhere in the South, and in Alabama, whose land is naturally both tillable, and of fair fertility except in certain inconsiderable portions. But the highest land values even in Alabama are where the soil is not naturally of the best. It all depends upon how the land is treated and to what crop it is devoted. Each locality has it's special agricultural opportunity. It awaits only the seeing eye of man to bring that opportunity to fruition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-20
AN IMMIGRATION CONFERENCE

Of far-reaching possibilities Is the pro- posed conference of all the nations or the western hemisphere on the question of a uniform immigration policy. The United States has borne the brunt ot criticism for its laws regulating lmml- grafton. but other American republics are giving serious attention to the same problem, and there is no doubt that there is elsewhere in North and South America much sympathy for the attitude ot the United States. The republic is the es- tablshed form of government for the na- tions of this hemisphere. It is increas- inglv noticeable that immigrants from certain countries of Europe are making an effort to transplant their institutions instead of embracing those already estab- hshed in the countries of their adoption. That is a tendency that arouses the re- sentiment of the citizens of the respective republics to a degree greater than is gen erally realized.
 Recent cementing of alliances among American republics has given impetus to new feeling of kinship and commonality of interests among all the republics, which look to the United States to blaze the trail along many lines of national moment The Latin-American peoples are as jealous of their national individ-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-20
THE PARK FAILURE

With the growing, and now acute, need for park development in Birmingham, the failure of the park board to function con- stitutes direct public injury to thls community. Birmingham would already be in possession of far-reaching and per manent public benefits if the park board had been functioning as it should. Much money would have been saved III pur- chases of suitable park properties, money which it is now no longer posslple to save, as realty prices have greatly ad- vanced within the period of the board existence. It is also believed that record of real achievement would nave prompted men of means to contribute both land and money to the development of a comprehensive park system. Every day of delay, and especially for such selfish political cause as understood py the people, counts against the puphc H. terests. It means heavy loss to Blrmlng- ham directly-a loss so much the greater because the reason for delay IS so artl' ficial, selfish and unnecessary.
 Other cities have gone ahead while Birmingham has been standing stlll m park development. There is no essentlal difference between Birmingham ana other cities, except that this city appears to be burdened with more ot1lclal ln- competence. There is no reason except such incompetence why parks should not be developed in Birmingham. One way to "sell'' city to outsiders is to demon strate the faith which it's own people have in it's opportunities and future One way to encourage such faith is to create among it's own people that CIVIC pride which proceeds from confidence .. m the administrative ability and integrity of it's public authorities. But in Birming- ham official vision lags away behind the nublic desire. Therefore, the cure TOT the park failure must lie with the pubic snirit of the citizens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-20
REPRESENTATIVE JULIUS KAHN

Although it has been sad that many of German birth who were in Amerlca during the war were unjustly treated it is probable that every mans loyalty to this country was pretty accurately ly, ap- praised by his fellow-citizens. Those citizens of German birth who were loyal to the United States often found them, selves in positions of responsibility, ana ana discharged their duties faithfully Among these was Julius Kahn, congressman from California, German by birth, but given chief credit for steering success fully through the house MT. Wilson s measure for raising an adequate army Although not then chairman ot the house military affairs committee, MT. Kahn was the most influential member of 1t. He IS also to be credited with helpful service in bringing about the house approval or the plan of maintaining civilian military training and of classifying our industries with a view to their conversion to war service when required. Whatever may have been the faults of Julius Kahn, dls- loyalty to his adopted country was not among them.