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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-03-01
u. S. Mine Death Rate
Triple That of Britain

Washington.-Coal miners are being
killed three times as fast in the United
States as in Great Britain, ROYAL s
Meeker, secretary of the PENNSYLVANIA
department of labor and industry. told
the annual session of the American
Association for Labor Legislation re.
Gently. Both the fatality and the gen.
eral accident rate among PENNSYLVANIA
miners have increased in spite of
safety measures. he said.
Van A. Bittner of the United Mine
Workers of America suggested that
conservation of the coal supply aud of
human life could be directed only
through a federal Department of
Mines. He also advocated a federal
safety council, composed of miners.
coal operators and government repre-
sentatlves. TO compel the installation
of safety devices in mines.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-03-01
Firemen Start Fires to
Test Their Efficiency

New York.-Three members of the
Nyack volunteer fire department.
Fred Metisky, Edgar Wanamaker and
Frank Kirk-were indicted on a
charge of arson In the second degree
by the Rockland county jury at Nyack
recently. County authorities say that
within the last month they set fire to
the Ttowt boathouse, the Lydocker
barn and the Quincy carpenter shop
In Nyack, all Of which we're partly
burned.
Metisky pleaded guilty and said that
he and other men had become bored
by sitting around the irehouse with
out any action and had decided to fire
the places to test the efficiency of their
apparatus and personnel. Wanamaker
and Kirk pleaded not guilty. Metisky
was remanded for sentence.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-03-01
Optometrists Unable to
Discover Perfect Ewes

Emporia, Kan.-"One hundred dol
lars for a pair of perfect eyes," read
an offer made by the Kansas Associa-
ton of ~Optonsetrists, which closed its
convention in Emporia recently, and
when the ''spec" doctors opened a
clinic at their headquarters many EN-.
porians, proud Of their eyesight, ap-
piled for examination. They were In
formed that no one had perfect eye
sight and the prize would not be given.
Eyes were like leaves, explained the
optometrist in charge; NJ two were
alike. and none was perfect. The doc
tors still have their prize money and
will keep it forever unless they change
the rules of the contest.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-03-01

The Workingmen's 3. & L. Assocla-
ton of PIeasantville is now issuing
fullpaid shares. par 500 each. Inter
est at the rate of $50 per annum is
payable On the second Mondays of
March and September of each year.
Anybody can subscribe. This is a
g~ilt-edged investment with maximum
interest upon your money. Any infor-
nation desired will be gladly furnish
ed by the Secretary, J. o. Herr, IL Old
Turnpike. advertisement.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-03-01
Shlninu Christians.

Unpublished hearts do not shine; so
untried Christians do not display the
real luster of their true character
The Christian Monitor.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-03-01
The Real ThlnQ.

Self-sacriice is never the real
thing, until self is forgotten clean and
clear. in loving thought of others
Christian Monitor.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-03-01

Your moneys worth and more
ffty-two issues of The Pleasantville
Press for only $3.50.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-03-01
Morning.
The WorkInomen,s q. e. L. Assoc

TITS always morning somewhere in
the world.-Horne.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
EURoPE's "MR. BOX,

Whlle the administration is
waiting for something to turn up,
and is confined to unofficially
observing, individual Americans
are doing a good deal to Guilt
vate the sentiments of peace and
habituate the world to the settle
ment of international contro-
versies by diplomacy and ne
gotiation and arbitration. What
Mr.. Box did in this country Mr..
Filene has been doing in Europe,
and the prize he offered has been
awarded to sthe author of plan
which would be perfectly effec
tive if adopted, but the probabili.
ty of its adoption is not grant
ed. 1t amounts to little short of
merger of all European coun-
tries in a United States of Eu-
rope. We claim a more isolated
type of nationalism than the 81
countries which have joined the
League of Nations. but il is hard
" probable that the nations of
Europe will cede so much of
their sovereignty as is involved
in the French plan which has re-
eeived the Filene nrize.-The
Philadelphia Record.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
central READY FOR
HEAVY FALL TRAFFIC
President Downs Says Road Re-
lies Upon Cooperation of
Public to Better Service

That the Central of Georgia is
making preparations to handle a
heavy traffic this fall and is rely
ing upon the public to cooperate
in preventing delay or interruption
to business is the statement of L.
A. Downs, president of The railroad,
who takes an optimistic view of
conditions.
President Downs points out that
this section has a larger cotton
crop than in a number of years,
that it is being rapidly marketed,
and that conditions of supply and
demand justify a good price. He
refers to other agricultural pro
ducts, which have brought increas-
ed returns to the farmer, and shows
how an increase in the purchasing
power of the farmer stimulates
transportation, retail trade, and
brings about good times.
The Central of Georgia has just
placed an order for new locomc-
tives, in accordance with its pre-
gram of adding to its equipment and
keeping all of its facilities in first
class condition. Mr.. Downs says
that 90 per cent Of the ls3ad's loco
motives and "a per cent of the
freight cars are in good order, and
that shop forces are being increased
to better this excellent condition
The railroad president asks tie
cooperation of the public in load
ing cars to capacity, loading and
unloading cars promptly, and or
dering only sufficient equipment to
fill their daily needs. He states
that already there are no idle coal
cars on the Central of Georgia and
warns the consumers of coal to
avoid the danger of delay by pvo-
viding Immediately for their win
ter requirements. He says that the
Central of Georgia is willing and
able to give satisfactory service and
thanks the public for its coopera-
ton in the past.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
EaiPf5h i;I:
X hsNhcrt Aupae

An airplane travelling 100 miles
an hour would not get you to the
planet Mars until you had shot on
ward through space for about 40
years.
At 1000 miles an hour, the trip
would take four years.
No airplane could travel 1000
miles an hour for more than few
days without getting its machinery
so hot it would be unable to func-
ton and continue its flight.
No airplane could ever carry
fuel for trip of four years or
more. OF course, power might pos
sibly be electrical, received by ra-
dio from super-station back here
on earth.
Any way you look at it, even the
widest dreamer cannot see any
possibility of men ever flying out
to visit other worlds.
Nature has chained us to our
earth and its immediate vicinity.
There is no escape except by death
A flying trip to the moon is not
impos ,ible in the future centuries
when men will be phenomenally adj
vanced in invention compared with
now.
Airplanes that will travel 1000
miles an hour are just matter OF
tine.
A plane of that speed would trav-
ell from the earth to the moon in
about 10 days. To the moon anc
back in three weeks or less!
The flying machine is undoubted
| ly man greatest invention to date
in the sense of being marvellous or
a big scale, with the possible ex
ception of X-ray and radio.
How long until you'll own your
own airplane, a flying flivver, safe
to ride in? Sooner than anyone
| expects.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
From The Times-Recorder Sept

10, 1914.)
A meeting of the citizens of
Americas is hereby called to meet
at the Young Mems Christian AS
soc3ation Building Thursday night,
September 10th, for the purpose
of organizing a Law and Order
League. If you are interested IN
this matter be sure to be present.
Americas is greatly interested IN
reports current here to the effect
that the Seaboard Railway Co., con-
templates important official changes
at an early date, and that in the
Encouragement of departmental
heads, Harry B. Grimshaw will go
to Portsmouth in high capacity.
When it comes to scientific far
ing, Tim Furlow shows up with the
glittering splendor of a ten carat
diamond, and is as successful in the
line of agricultural as he is as pres
ident of Cue Club or in selling
Reads fertilizers. Just how success
full he is exhibiting a barn full Of
fine oats, gathered from a ten acre
patch at his home on Lee street.
The threshed-out yield from the
ten acres patch is $50 bushels clean
see oats of the best variety and
which will net dollar a bushei,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
Mass Meeting

The Mayor and Council of
Americas have asked citizens of
the city to meet with them
Thursday night for the purpose
Of advising with the city officials
on the question of repairing or
renewing the paving on the BUSH
ness streets of the city.
Their call should be taken in
all seriousness and they should
be given the benefit of the adj
vice and counsel of Americas
citizens.
The question before them is
a serious one and its immediate
solution is necessary for the well
fare of the city. The Mayor
and Council are eminently wise
in calling this advisory meet
ing of citizens. so that they may
take the citizens into their con-
fidence and explain to them the
financial condition of the city
treasury.
That something must be done,
all agree. The question is what
must be done and how is it to
be financed. The Mayor, mem
bers of the Council and the City
Engineer have been studying
the question for days. and no
doubt will offer what they be-
lieve to be the best solution.
Every citizen should be present
to receive this information and
in return give the city officials
their opinions.
The meeting will be called to
order at s p. m. Thursday night
in the City Hall by the Mayor.
All citizens. men and women,
are urgentlyrequested to be pres
ent, and should be.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10

the activities of business. Small
consideration is given to the cost
of these sales and the margin
they should yield. The bringing
together sof the costs and posi-
bilities Of the constituent ele-
ments Of the selling process en-
ables the community purchasing
agent, the retailer, to arrive at
an approximately correct rela-
ton between sales volume and
expense.
The tremendous losses (caus-
ed by over-purchasing) which
were taken during the last period
of depression, can be attribut-
ed in part, to the lack of intelli-
gent control of buyers activities,
the Division says.
The publication was prepared
by Laurence A. Hanson, for
merly affiliated with the Boston
Retail Trade Board and later
managing director of the Massa-
chusetts Retail Merchants assoc
citation, as a result of original re-
search in the field with which
the bulletin deals. The data
was gathered directly from
prominent retailers all over the
country. 1t represents the CO.
ordinated opinions of the most
progressive retail agencies, and
presents an approach of the So
luton Of the problem hereto
fore uninterrupted.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
GIRLS SECRET ROMANCE
DISCLOSED BY TRAGEDY

NEWTON, Sept. 1O.-Since the
shooting last Wednesday by liza
Jones Of a 17-year-old Newton girl
known to friends as Miss Mau0c
Bentley, it has come to light that
She is married and that her name
lis Mrs. Marshall. Her husband, it
lis said, lives in Alabama.
Little is known of her marriage
here, but it is now believed that it
was because Of this secret romance
in her life that she refused to mar
ny Jones, after he secured a mar
riage license, and that it was this
refusal that led to the shooting.
Mrs. Marshall is in a hospital at
Albany, where her conditions is re-
ported to be critical.
Jones is still at large, having dis
appeared after the shooting.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
The Morgue of Business
Failures

The records of the morgue of
business failures give poor
management as the cause of a
vast majority of commercial
deaths. according to the Do4
mestic Commerce Division of
the Department of Commerce in
Budgetary Control in Retail
Store Management" the first of
a series of pamphlets prepared
for the purpose of helping the
American retailer overcome
some of his more difficult BUSH
ness problems.
Failures have been attributed
to lack of sufficient working
capital, to a poor location, and
are very often falsely laid at the
door of economic changes. In
summarizing these causes, how
ever, the Domestic Commerce
Division says that bad manage
ment in some form appears to
be the explanation of most of
them.
More thorough understanding
of individual management prob
lens will save many webbing
retailers, the division asserts
pointing to the fact that the
tail store is conspicuous in
the field of business enterprise
for the number of casualties. In
advocating bugetry control the
division says:
"Only in the past three or four
years has the merchant realized
that his business, as well as THAI
of the manufacturer, is a science,
and that he, too, can we'll afford
to utilize many of the new meth
DDS which are being adopted in
business management in the en-
tire field of industry"
Ope. alton Of business is
much like the running of a ship,
the division points out, in ex-
planning the need for better
management. The captain has
goal-the port to which he is
bound; the chart of the course;
and the instruments, such as
compass and sextant, to keep
him on his course. The captain
of a business must take the same
precautions in guiding his bust
ness ship over the rough seas of
competition and alternating pc
RODS OF prosperity and depres-
sion. The established quotas
and limits are the ports toward
which the bushes pilot is head
ing; the budget; the map; and
the comparison of actual with
estimated figures corresponds to
the ships compass and sextant.
for by this the direction of
movement and the location of
the business is determined.
Selling is the little idol" in
many retail organizations, the
divisions says in connection with
the subject of coordination OF
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
Editorial Opinions Cleaned
Serious and Otherwise
From Press and Magazine
SWIFT TAKES ALL THE
CREAM

Swift & Co. have made ar
engagements to handle the entire
output of the Valdosta cream
erv. This settles the selling end
Of the business for the creamery,
and the proprietors will now be
able to devote their energies TO
increasing the production OF
cream. Triton is helping to
supply the Valdosta creamery
through the cream station open
ed here. Triton Gazette.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
RAISE MORE "PIG MEAT.'

Between thirty-nine ana
forty million pounds of side meat
were shipped into Georgia Lass
year. 1t would require nearly
fourteen thousand more hogs, of
one hundred fifty pounds each,
in eaach of the one hundred and
sixty counties in the state to
bring it up to self-sustaining
basis. This hog raising business
is a hard problem to work out.
When our farmers have them 20
sell, they say the market is poor,
but there is something wrong
when we fail by fourteen hum
bred train loads to raise enough
pig meat to do us. "--LaGrange
Graphic.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

w EAN AGH1ANC AOO lODA
(From The Times Recorder. Sept
10, 1904
Americas took care of $50 bales
of cotton yesterday, ana the cash
returns from the sale of the fleecy
made business hustle in every lihe.
Recognized as the leading market
in southern Georgia, with score
of buyers representing American
and European houses ard paying
the highest prices with every ia :
ility for handling cotton, and tie
best trade center in the stae, far
mers naturally prefer it.
Rev. and Mrs. A. B.. Campbell
who have been the guests of Am
CIRCUS friends for two weeks leave
today for Cordele wher DR.. Camp
bell has accepted an earnest invita-
ton to conduct a series of meetings
at the Cordele Baptist Church.
Mr.. G. G. Webb is a recent aad.
dition to thn leagal fratrnity in
Americas, with office in the Plant
ers Bank guiding room 80. Mr..
Webb is the son TO Mr.. r. K. We5b,
one of Sumter's most influential
citizens, and will meet with success
in his chosen vocation.
Miss Genevieve Morgan is at
home after summer sojourn in the
mountains of north Georgia.
Miss Annie Martin returned home
yesterday from a pleasant visit Of
three weeks in Fort Valley, where
she was charmingly entertained.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
old Days In Americas

easily.
Mrs. R. L. Mcleod ,eturned yes
terady from Jacksonville, where she
has been wishing her sister, Mrs. W.
H. Glover and Mrs. w. D. Miller.
A valued addition has been made
to the city letter carrier force. On
the 18th inst, Hon. Charles r.
Crisp had the appointment of Mr..
William B. McCorkle confirmed as
city mail carrier on route No. l.
at the Americas Post Office. Mr..
McCorkle graduated recently vita
honors at the Agricultural College
here, and stood the highest civil
service examination for the place.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
nnIIcHERTY, TOO.

The Americas Times-Recorder
boasts that Sumter county is one
of the best governed counties IN
the state, being peculiarly for
tunate in the personnel OF its
Officers. Well, we have good
county officials il Dougherty,
too. and we can also say with
pardonable community pride that
the city government OF Albany
is in good hands. Faithful and
efficient officials are = blessing
to any county or city.-Aibany
Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
TELEPATHY

If man ever communicates with
people on Mars, it will be by tel
epathy, not radio or airplane. Flam-
marion, the great French astron-
omer, voiced that prediction last De-
cember.
If two radio machines can trans
nit message between each other,
there's no reason why two human
brains cant do the same thing. The
brain is infinitely superior to its
products, of which radio is just one
ACKNOWLEDGMENT transference-
may be the eventual worldwide Ian
guage, not spoken Esperanto. Cen
ius already gets inspiration" from
some far-off unknown source -
telepathy, "brain radio"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
Poor Prince

You have to feel a bit sorry
for the Prince of Wales. He
seems to be a good fellow with
an inclination to enjoy himself
in a human way, land observe
how he is pestered.
Upon leaving home he has to
observe the royal custom OF
travelling incognito-as Lord
Rennet or something eqnally as
good - and yet, before he
boards his boat, the world
knows all about his incognito.
He finds his steamer packed
with folks who have fought to
get passage so that they may
say oh yes, indeedl | came
over with the Prince of Wales,
and who riot for places from
which to stare at him.
If he dances, he is surround
ed by ring of brazen starers
and is bound to feel that every
female present has marriage or
other social designs on him.
He is entertained and fused
over in some big American cities
until he's tired and sick, mental
ly and. perhaps, physically.
Then, he goes to the wilds of
Canada, for a good time,
with promise to be able to
"rought it. And what will he
get there2
Will he hang his necktie
and white shirt on a bush and
make him bed of pine boughs2
Will he put up tent and fry
his own flap-jacks and bacon?
Will he carry a canoe over a
portage and paddle it through
the lily pads of the silvery lake?
Will he tramp out his own
crawfish bait from the mud.
and smoke a cob pipe? Will
he go out among the great
pines, alone, as the sun sinks
below the mountains, to see hear
and feel nature going to bedp
Will he chop and carry wood
for the campfire and sit in its
glow to smoke. to think and to
praise God for the rhythm of
wavelets upon beach pebbles,
the hymn of night breezes in
the dark forest, the twittering Of
young birds being put to sleep.
the wonder of the stars, and the
blessed freedom of a man who
is being just himself?
Will he get the relief, the Joy
of feeling Here are just God
and His Great works, and my
selfp"
Alas! 1t cannot be. His title
is too precious. None of the
enjoyable roughness of the wiIds
for him. His bacon will be
served tied with ribbons, his
crawfish will be served bathed
and polished, his spotless clothes
will be served by professional
valet from a palace. and a
crowd of flunkies will spoil all
the loneliness and naturalness of
it.
Poor Princel None of the
splendid wildness of the great
outdoors for him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
THOUGHT

Many that are frat shall be last;
and the last shall be frst.-Matt.
1880.
-
Honesty is the best policy.-Cer-
wants.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
THE KAN BEING SWEPT our

The klan itself Is gradually
being swept out, and the forces
that openly cling to the name OF
Khan are facing the necessity OF
reorganization under a more ac-
ceptable term, or realignment.
The iIction in Texas, by the
State Democratic Convention, OF
strictly excluding all Khan rep
resentatives, follows similar, az.
though less vigorous actions IN
other States, and one may as
we'll expect other States, aid
eventually all other States, to
fall in line with the precedent.
The Khan has been travelling like
the boil weevil, but steady tide
of public opinion has crept be-
hind it and is now acting like
Macon Telegraph.
arsenate does in the former case.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
INCREMENT

Land bought by his father So
years ago for sos an acre is sold in
Chicago by Julius Hohlfelder for
$4,000 an acre.
The land itself has not changed
in those SIS years. The increase in
value is due to the productive ac-
tivities of the sWarms of people
who have made the land a center
of congestion. julius gets the re-
ward, quite proper as long as we
have the present ''unearned mere
n;ent'' system.
Later the public may claim for
itself all values created by the pub
lies activities. If the airplane
breaks up the cities, city land values
will crash.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-10
SERVICE

The existence of transportation
company is only justified by its de-
gree of service to the public. Who
says so? A ''radical?" No. The
speaker is Henry Thornton, presi-
dent of the Canadian National Rail-
ways.
Applying his theory: The primary
function of railroad is service to
the public, not just money-making.
Thornton properly suggests that
the principle applies to individuals
in their relation to the public, quite
as much as to railroads.