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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
Selling Organization

The sweet potato growers
are organizing a cooperative or
ganization, following the exam
pie set by growers of watermel-
ons, peanuts, pecans, syrup and
other products.
Last year there was produced
seven and half billions of dol
lars -syorth of products on the
farms of this country for which
the consumers paid twenty-five
billions of dollars. Co-opera-
tive marketing will tend to give
these products to the consumer
for less and at the same time
bring in a greater part of the
total to the farmer, according
to Frank Johnson, lecturer.
from Iowa.
The prosperity of the city de-
ponds on the farms. A bank
rupt farming community means
a like situation in the towns and
cities of that section.
The success of the California
orange grower is credited to the
fact that California produces
only two varieties of oranges
and sells them through one or
two selling cooperative organi-
cations. The failue of the
Florida citrus growers is at
tributed 10 multiplicity Of va
rieties Of fruit and selling or
CARNATIONS
Information coming from
Valdosta is that the sweet pota-
to growers in that section have
perfected temporary organiza-
ton and applied for charter
under the cooperative market
ing act. The organization will
be known as the Georgia Sweet
Potato Growers association
with headquarters IN Naldosta.
Regarding the sweet potato
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
What One More Dust
ING Would Have Meant
for Georgia

Sumter farmers are breaking
ground and some planting cot
ton today, either for the mar
ket in the fall OF the boil wee
vii in the summer.
Every authority, local and
otherwise, is satisfied that poi
soning, is necessary and is eco
nomically a good investment.
To attempt to produce cotton
now without poisoning is fool
ish.
DR.. Andrew NJ, Soule, presi-
dent of the State College of
Agriculture, made the state
ment in an address recently de-
livered at Albany that if the
farmers of Georgia had, given
their cotton fields one more
busting with calcium arsenate
last summer, they would. have
made 100000 more bales of
cotton than they, actually har-
vested.
That's an astounding state
ment and but for the fact that
it comes from so high an au-
thority as is DR.. Soule, we
would be in doubt as to its &C
curacy.
The T'imes-Recorder has no
desire to dictate to the farmer.
We know nothing more about
cotton farming than we are told
or read, but such statements as
the above are worth bordering
over.
II Last summer, in Sumter coun-
ty, we had prospects for IA
bumper crop, antil the weather
man got cross and began send
ing US rain-day in and day
out.
Our farmers became discour-
aged and many of them gave
up IN despair, but just suppose
we have kept on fighting.
What a difference there might
haye been.
-. This statement of DR.. Soule
is worth remembering. 1t may
rain again when another crop is
in the making. But, says the
Albany Herald:
The farmers should remen-
Der what, in The opinion of an
outstanding expert, one more
busting of the cotton fields with
calcium arsenate last summer
would have meant to Georgia.
The battle will soon be on. Nav
the farmers win a glorious VIC
tory, not with calcium arsenate
alone, which is the infantry, but
with the food and forage crops
which must constitute the heavy
artillery battalions of the anti
weeyil army.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09

and its possibilities if markete'
through a selling organization
a writer from Valdosta has thi'
to say:
Encouraged by the success of
the watermelon, peanut cane
syrup and other cooperative
marketing associations Of the
state, the farmers see in the or
CARNATIONS one of the most sue
cessful of all the commodity or
CARNATIONS thus far undertake
en-.
Georgia being the foremost
sweet potato growing state in
the Union, it Is lamentable fact
that because of the lack of sys-
tenn in curing, grading, packing
and marketing the Georgia far
mers have realized far less for
their potatoes than some of the
other potato growing sections
that are organized. Produce
dealers throughout the country
say there is a very marked pref
eFence for Georgia yams where
they can get them properly cured
and graded, and it is to work
out these details and overcome
some other evils besetting the
sweet potato industry in Geor-
gia that the farmers have deter
mined to organize sweet pota-
to marketing association.
cat this time sweet potatoes
are being quoted in the Eastern
and Northern markets at from
$3.50 to So per bushel, while the
Georgia farmers are selling theirs
in the local markets for around
81 to SIPS per bushel, and it
is conceded by all parties who
know that the Georgia yam is
far superior to those that are
selling at the higher prices in the
Eastern market. This condition
has attracted the attention of
the United States Department of
Agriculture and in Z recent bull
letin the department has given
out some very interesting data to
the effect that Georgia with ten
other Southern STAGES aow pro-
duce more than 80 per cent of
the total crop of sweet potatoes
but market less than 80 per cent
of the total carlot shipment. 1t
is also estimated by this depart
ment that fully rs per cent of
the sweet potato crop is lost by
freezing, insects, diseases and
other causes that can be over
come by careful attention. There
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09

fore, the Department of Agricul-
ture is urging upon the South
ern producers the necessity of
standardizing and improving their
varieties in order to increase
The yield per acre.. all of which
is included in the scope and
purpose of. the Georgia Sweet
Potato Association"
lhe Sumter county sweet po-
alto grower has a curing house
right here in Americus. where
he will find q cash market for
his product, operated by an
Americus man, Mr.. Roy Black.
Sug.tcf farmers will not make
mistake by planting "a few
acres IN potatoes and those who
do will find a cash market here
in the fall.
Curing houses and co-opera-
tive selling organizations go
hand in hand. AS stated BY
the United States Department
OF Agriculture, the South pro-
duces 80 per cent of the sweet
potato crop, but markts only Is
per cent. There is an enor-
nous loss from freezing, spoil
age and a lack of STANDARDIZED
ton.
Cooperative marketing and
curing houses will cure this evil,
give the farmer more money for
his crop and add wealth to the
community.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
ZEN YEARS eco ropAY
(From The Times Recorder. Apri
9, 1919 I

8, 1914.)
Americas ard Sumter county are
going to have demonstration agent
on the job every day in the week,
beginning the first of May. They
are also going to have a canning
club expert or hand for six o.
more weeks this summer to help
the girls of the county in their work.
The following committee will &c
out after the $3.50 today: R. p.
Stackhouse, chairman; F. P. Har-
rold, L. G.. Council, G. R. Ellis, and
G. C. Hawkins.
The Americas postoffice building
has just received it first exterior
scrubbing since it's erection half
dozen or more years since, apd tie
improvement thus wrought is quite
apparent. For several days a force
of scrubbers have been applying
soap or other real estate remover
upon the handsome exterior, which
now glistens respondent in the April
sunlight.
Mrs. Joseph Bryan, who for seve-
rial weeks has been the guest of Mrs.
Charles Humber, near Lumpkin, has
fallen i'll, and will return here today,
though her indispoisiton is not of
serious nature.
Miss Julia Gordon, will go to-
morrow to Savannah to spend the
Eastertide at the residence of her
aunt, Mrs. E. J. Whalen.
Mrs. Nora Zorn has returned to
her home in Denmark, S. C. after
an extended visit to her daughter,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
When the First Word
Was Invented

Here race of people whose
language consists of only one
word. This word is 'Inge." It's
used by community of ESQ
savages who live on the banks
of the Cauras River in Peru.
Garrett F. Hall, artist-expEorer,
returns to civilization and tells
about them.
When crowd of these saw
ages gets together for a talkfest,
one of them says, 'Inge. p res
emily another savage mods and
answers, ''Inge." If there is
general agreement, the whole
crowd choruses, 'Inge." Sounds
like a political meeting.
How would you like to live
among them? After all, think
what fine arrangement it
would be for the pests who bore
you with their driveling CAB.
One word and they d be talked
out. Or, at an oil investigation,
a witness wouldn't have to he..a
and haw or refuse to answer on
advice of counsel. He'd simply
lnge and let the audience
make its own guesses at what
he, meant,
ltd be an ideal system for
newspapermen who wanted to
get away to a ball game. Just
send the paper to press with one
word, lnge thus telling ev-
erything with the utmost detail
possible. Fine system for an
editor cramped for space.
What word would you select
IT our language had to be weed
ed out and singled down to one
word? The Rabbits will make
such selections as patriotism,
mother, = loyalty or truth. :"
We knew thhsty folk who d
select Whisky" in the hope
that if they said it often enough
they'd finally find some kind
hearted party with a pre-war
cellar.
For politicians we'd recon-
mend Bunk CufF;c;an+l,,
Peated, it would make a good
average political speech. Imag-
inc a candidate swinging around
the circle and haranguing his
hearing: Bunk. bunk, bunk.
bunkl The audience would
listen awhile, nod their hsads
and comment to themselves. Il
see the issues haven't changed
since the last election. The
campaign is to be fought out
along regulation lines.
There are times when our
radio speaks only one word
Eee-eeeT'
Seriously, though, it was a
great event in human history
when the first word was in
vented. So began speech. Ii
must have started with one
word, possibly 'lOuchI"
Language is our greatest in.
vention. Humanity is like q
baby, beginning with one word
gradually becoming fluentIy ex
pressive.
Baby in the cradle, theI
gradually growing to maturity
and finally aeing-this is sym
bolic of civilization. On thi
comparison, how old. is humanit,
! now9 About two-yearsp
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
YOUNGSTERS

One in every four American
school children has defective vision
or eyestrain. This is announced
after examining more than four mil
lion students.
1t also is known that defective
eyesight is the cause of much mental
backwardnes cmong school chill
dren.
The dance used to be whipped
and s. u up in the corner with a
papc one on his head. Now the
te~ sees that he gets glasses and
N scecial training, maybe a
ular extract to stimulate his
uy IN through his thyroid.
Some of the old-time teachers, in
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
COATS OFF

Although the cold wave was
arriving Sunday night, we arc
told that the Pentecost preach
er pulled off his coat down at the
church and went at it right. This
Is the way we do when we set
type or when we sit down to
the table and even pull off our
coat when we go to bed at night.
--Dahlonega Nugget
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
WHO KNOWS

American factories in 1929
produced 3,635,767 passenger
autos, compared with 1885, 6S
the year before, final figures
show. And it looks as if 1924
January three and a half times
as many passenger autos were
manufactured as in January
1929. How long will it be until
there'll be similar figures for
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
NOT YET, BUT WAIT!

There doesn't appear to be
much interest in any quarter III
a gubernatorial race this year.
1t may be that the people are
tired of politics, anyway. Some
times they want rest from the
turmoil and strife which a heat
ed race usually engenders.-
Adel News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
THE STANDARD
Crinlsle Spreads for Single Beds
A. SOC. CSC and Csc.

Crinlsle Spreads for Single Beds
At SOC, Csc and 75c.
Extra heavy quality, made from
the short lengths left from the
making of the larger Sizes I'M
bleached and unhemmed; plenty for
everybody; for two days selling
each .-................ SOC, Csc, Use
Curtain Scrim
/ DC Yard
Good curtain scrim in real
bargain now at 10c. This is dou-
bled bordered in white and ecru,
36 inches wide. While the lot
lasts at, yard -, 1880 -.---.--.-.-10c
$40 Crepe de Chine Dresses
At $5.75.
All silk Crepe de Chine Dresses
in every good color, new styles just
opened, all sizes; mere eacn -.-.$5.75
Infants Fine Kid and Patent
Slippers at SIPS
Infants Slippers of fine black
and brown kid, also patent leather,
turned soles, regularly $1.5o; here
now at pair ..--.-------..------ $1.25
Gold Seal Yard Wide
Percales at l8c
Regularly 25c, full yard wide,
colors guaranteed, new light spring
style; regularly 25c now at yd. l8c
Standard Dress
Bingham at I9c
One big table filled with full
Standard Dress Bingham in about
fifty new designs, 27 and 50 inches
wide, every yard worth 25c, all
fast colors; here now at, yard 19c
Heavy Yard Wide
Sheeting at 12..1-2c
The best yard Wide Sheeting,
even weave, good weight, bleaches
and looks like linen when washed;
plenty for everybody, yard IL lac
New soc Colored Voiles
AT 39c
Forty inches wide, in a great va
/ riety of new pretty patterns, med
fum and dark patterns, beautiful
quality at, yard ....,.,.,,-.,...-.......39c
Plenty of Fine 40 Inch
VOTES at zoe
The grade used by some st8es as
leaders at 25c, here on sale every
day at zoe; light, medium or dark
styles, good patterns, at yard zoe
Standard Dry Goods
Company
Forsyth ST. Next Bank of Commerce
AAsERICUS. GA.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
FAR

An old lady leaves $25O,0O0 to q
former actor as "a token of my ap-
probation for his friendship al a
time when most needed"
The actor rejects the legacy. He
turned the quarter million over to
the old lady's sons.
That is real honesty, justice and
deceney Of the finest kind.
Interviewed, he refuses to discuss
yhe matter, He's the sort that should
be down in Washing ton helping run
the government.
Or in control of an industry with
a corner on necessities.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
(:14 z a7p5
Az bphlbert apple
OIL

Nature sometimes gets on the
consumers side, but not for long.
Big gushers of the southern Cali
fornia oil pools glutted the market
and smashed the price of gasoline.
But an oil pool is like quart OF
whisky-holds just so much. Pro-
AUCTION of the southern California
fields has dropped two-fifths from
its peak.
It's about time for another big
oil pool to be discovered That's the
way the system works. Meantime,
there still is more oil than rneded.
Scarcity is long way distant, if at
III 3Fi
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09

TWENTY YEARSAGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. Apri
9, 1904)
Miss Laura Coin, who has been
spending two months very delight
fully with her aunt, Mrs. George
Winship, in Atlanta, retained home
today.
Miss Brownie Carter has been the
guest of relatives il, the city for
several days.
The great Sumter county candi-
date barbecue is dated one week
henee-neXt Saturday-and great
host of voters, their wives and chill
dren, will assemble at Magnolia Dell
to enjoy the monster picnic of the
year.
Americas was the pathway of a
severe wind and hail storm which
struck here at 4 o'clock yesterday
morning. dong considerable damage
hereabout. The roof of R. J.
Perry's kitchen was picked up and
landed on top Of the dwelling house,
the terrific noise greatly alarming
the family, though the damage to
property was not considerable.
Some of the state house officials
are much grieved at being called
upo1 by committees of several Geor-
gla counties for small amounts to
help defray their election expenses.
No such demand, however, has been
made by Sumter.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
A THOUGHT

We know that the law is good. if
q man use it lawfullyg-Iim. / q,
Laws can discover sin, but not
remove.-MiltorL
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09

Bad news from Canada today.
Ontario cow attacked a train, so
7 ow her owner has steak daily
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09

Wasn't it spring when Rip Van
Wrinkle went to sleep and slept %
fears?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09

I'll is getting SO about the only
drivers who will give pedestrians
a lift are street car motormen.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09

their treatment Of "duIl" pupils,
were as much ounces as the one
with a paper hat.
-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
CUSTOMERS

The leading chairI stores are
doing a fifth more business than a
year ago. Part of this represents
higher prices. Part is due to their
cutting in" on individual retailers.
A third cause is better business gen
orally.
The dinner pail should be full
of pie ard cake this spring.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
Old Days In Americas

Mrs. Nat LeMaster.
Miss Corrinne Stills returned to
Americas yesterday after visit il.
Montezuma and Fort Valley.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
FIRST CASH CROP MOVING

Int county'S tlrst crop OF the
year is now going to the mar
ket. Plant shipments start
last week and will continue ~
several weeks. Only cabbage
are moving now but tomato
plants will be going out soon and
these win be followed by potato
plants. Plant growing and ship
ping has become quite an indus
try in Tiff and a good many
thousand dollars are brought into
the county each year by this
means. The plants are late this
year, but the seasons are late
and the truck growers in other
sections will get their plants by
the time the soil is ready for them
Triton Gazette.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09

EYES

Reading in a street car or on q
train shortens life, claims DR.. Mon-
Afghan, New York's health commits
5ioner. Every time the car lurches
tiny muscles are Kept busy adjust
ing the eyes to the reading matter.
Also, the lighting is poor" Dec
cautions. Fhe strain inpairs eye
sight. And eyes out of order cause
many nervous complications, irclu-
ding loss of vitality, in effect, short
ening life.
People riding home form work,
tired out after the days toll, should
relax the mind and nerves as well
as the body.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
FATTY

Tom Tor, of Los Angeles, weiphS
TAB pounds. Hearing which, the
circus people didn't wait to see
him. They wired an offer and told
him to come ahead as a sideshow
attraction.
Lewis and Clark displayed no
more courage going west over a cen
furry ago than Tom Ton travelling
east. You can imagine him irI a
Pullman corridor. Reaching New
York, they couldn't get him into a
taxi, so they loaded him on a truck.
At the hotel, he had to use the
freight elevator.
How kindly nature is, in stand
ardizing the size of humanity with
so few exceptions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
BIGGER MEN ON BIGGER SAL.
ARIES NEEDED


Mr.. Henry Ford in diagnosing
the Ills Of the body polite is CON
vinced that the country would
escape many of its political dis
tresses and much government
mal-administration by paying
better salaries to those who con
duct the affairs of government.
Mr.. Ford believes in big salaries
as the only means of tempting big
men to take office and intro
duce efficiency in governmental
operations.
Mr.. Ford airs hrs views in the
current issue of Golfers in this
wise: ''The right course would
be to pay as much as business
pays and then cut down on the
number of men. Make the sal
aries so high that it would he
grotesque for small man to be
in the job. Cabinet officers
ought to have at leas t $780,
200 q year, justices of the Su-
preme Court not, less than S75,-
600, and no judge should have
less than $25, 900. We ought
to have fewer members of Con-
gress and pay them say $4,000
a year each"
Mr.. Ford's ideas are not new
and they are founded on a STRAIT.
UNI of good sense and much hui
man experience.
There is a commonplace com
ment that always accompanies
the linking of the name of some
outstanding citizen with public
office for which his fitness is
strikingly manifest, 70, he
couldn't afford to take it is would
mean too great a sacrifice" 1t
is this failure of public office
to provide financial allurement,
or at least adequate compensa-
ton, which deprives the state
and the nation of the services
of its most capable men. Mr..
Ford thinks that by employing
its biggest men on some scale
of adequate remuneration the
cost of government could be de-
creased and not increased. But
the reaction to the proposal that
congressman be paid $4,000 a
year almost induces a fainting
spell.-Selma Times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
Rome

alrplane production? - Rome
News-Tripune.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
Curtain Scriln
10c Yard

Good curtain scrim in n real
bargain now at loo. This is dou-
bled bordered in white and ecru,
36 inches wide. While the lot
lasts at, yard $3.50 1890 ----------.-1oc
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09

THIRTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY
Monday, no paper published
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09
$40 Crepe de Chine Dresses
At $5.75.

All Silk Crepe de Chine Dresses
in every good color, new styles just
opened, all sizes; mere eacn -.$5.75
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-09

Infants Slippers of fine black
and brown kid, also patent leather,
turned soles, regularly $1.50; here
now at pair --..,.--.,------..---.-- $1.25
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-08
OCEAN PARK TN
PLANS FOR new
100000 PIER
by Omitted Press Leased Wire

OCEAN PARK, Calf, Jan. S.
Car loads of lumber were being un-
loaded along the ocean front today
as Ocean Park hurried plans to
come back
Over the still smoking embers of
the Sunday blaze which totally
destroyed the resorts three bio
amusement piers, workmen were
erecting scaffolding, ready to com
mence sinking the huge piles upon
which larger and more expensive
playground will be erected.
The $3,o00,000 loss will be replac-
ed by an investment of much more
than that, and, according to plans
OF the promoters, the whole construc
tion will! be completed III time for
the opening of the summer season.
Attempts to make the new piers
fireproof are being arranged. Creo-
sote covered piling wil be used,
while the floor Of the piers will be
made of cement.
Origin of the fire is still a mys-
terry, with some believing it was in
cendiary and others that it started
from q small pier restaurant store.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-08
Riverside Man Is
Renamed Head
Education Board
BY United Press Leased Wire

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 9.-Names
of II candidates suggested today
were being considered By the state
board Of education for appoint
ment of state commissioner of vo-
cational and industrial education.
H'hc appointment will probably b.
made this week. The position pays
5000 Il year.
E. p. Clarke, owner of the River
side Press, was reelected president
of the board late yesterday without
opposition. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Phil,
lips of Portelviile was elected vice
president to succeed Mrs. Agnes
Ray whose term as Il member CT the
board expired recently, S. d. Merk,
Burlingame, was nominated for vice
president but declined III favor OF
Mrs. Phillips.