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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26

REAL ESTATE SALEsMEN !! Can use one or two more good real estate salesmen; good contract to right parties. Call Main 4448 today foI. ap- pointment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
WERCHANDISE
ARTICLEk FOR SALE

OVERsTOCKED-Too many high-grade
 suits and overcoats; closing them out at $24.60. Wonderful values. Marc Linx, 1911 1st Ave.
 TWO BILLIARD TABLESNSize 4hxs
 it.. pocket; also supplies; in good condition. Will sell cheap. Write H-s7,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26

WANTED-8 experienced insurance men.
 open branch office, $50 week; young lady bookkeeper. experienced salesladies, beauty shop opera tor, lady stenographer. pantry keeper experienced hoisting engineer (electricaD, two travelling salesmen. $l25 month; four rough carpenters. auto me- chanic, outside electricians, all-round mine mechanic, mineS electrician, six rough painters. carpenter helpers. white coal cutting machine runners white -colored coal miners, loaders; white-colored labor CTS (twenty). colored chef cook, $l25 month: truck driver, experience presser car washer, rough carpenters bus bofs. orderly boys, hotel hall boys. women cooks, nurses. hotel maids colored boys girls dishwashers. Others. Producers Agency 2l19h 2nd Ave-, N.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26

BOOKKEEPER-Want position, by
 bookkeeper, and office man, now em- ployed, wishes to make a change; thor oughly competent to handle installment furniture accounts and credit. For further interview address Age Herald. H-51. YOUNG MAYA years of age, good edu-
 cation. desires position with real fu- ture; good speed on typewriter. What have you to offer? Address S-51, care Age Herald. MlDDLE-AGED, hard-working, conscien-
 tious man. wants position as grocery clerk, truck driver or any outside work Gs3s, care. .Age-IIerald. .
 SITUATIONS W.ANTED-FENALE 55 TYPIST. stenographer and general office
 girl. experienced, good references, re- liable; stranger in Birmingham; wants work immediately; willing to begin very reasonable. Address MS5. care Age- Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26

YOUNG MAN WANTED WHO IS OF CEPTIoN ALLY GOOD PERSONAL APPEAR ANcE. NEAT AND WIDE AWAKE. WE HAVE A POSI- TON WITH. ONE OF THE LARGEST CONCERNS IN BIR- MINGHAM THAT OFFERS AN EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT FU- TURF TO THE RIGHT TYPE or YOUNG MAN WHO WOULD BE WILLING TO BEGIN AT ,12.6o PER WEEK; MUST BE IT YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. THIS IS A FINE oPPoR- TUNIrY TO BREAK INTO sALEsMANsHIP. WRITE OR PHONE YOUR. NAME AND PHONE NUMBER TO. "FU- TURF" CARE AGE-HERALD.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
SODA DISPENSER-Wanted at once. Apply United Cigar Store, 1880 2d Ave-. x

BUTLER WANTED-Experience butler
 and chauffeur. Apply 1412 Milner cres- cent. d15
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
A MANAGER

To direct sales. popular, proven prod uct. advertised extensively; sold with amazing success by Wanamaker's; Macy's. Gimble's. ,Liggett and National York stores; big money. exclusive ter ritory and strong co-operation for men with moderate cash capital to manage Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile and other southern offices. Outside men write, wire; local men telephone immediately for appoint menI. ,
 R. c. NoRTHwooD
 Hotel Tutwiler. Birmingham, Ala. P. S.-Contempt before investigation keeps many men poor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
WANT A ROOM?

SOUTH HTGHLANDS-Lovely room In
 private home east Of 20th St.; con venient to meals and car; must be seen to appreciate. Call Main 224s-L
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
REAL ESTATE-SALE X
 HOUSES FOR SALE loo

NORWOOD
 aSrle-
 Brick Veneer Home Nine-room m dern brick ve- neer home, consisting of 3 bed- rooms, glassed in sleeping porch, 2 tile baths, living, breakfast and dining room, sun parlor, kitchen, hardwood floors, tile porch, slate roof, good furnace, cement base ment, garage, lot 60x190 with all street improvements in and paid for; price $13,500; $2,5O0 cash; assume $6,000 mortgage, 5 1-2 per cent, balance $75; possession less than 60 days. If you are in the market for . real home
 Sec ar call-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
EMPLOYMENT E slTUATlONy WANTED-MALE q

AUTOMOBILE mechanic, 12 years experience, cars, trucks and tractors; cap able of doing all repairs. :, Address R-51, care Age Herald, or phone M- 7049.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday no paper published.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. Sept


5, 1894.)
Local sports are interested in
the fight between Billy Mccarthy
and Jack Dempsey, to be pulled off
tonight before the Auditorium Club
in New Orleans for $4,000 and bets
on the two are about even.
The Americas CQrnet Band made
its first appearance upon the
streets last night and, the music
rendered was indeed excellent,
though the band has been organized
only few weeks.
Preparations for the opening Of
the schools are in active progress.
The registration of pupils has al
ready commenced and the prospects
are good for a successful term.
The East Americas school will be
pleasantly located at the corner Of
Mayo an Jefferson streets. TIE
rooms at Jackson street are being
papered and painted, giving them a
very tasteful and attractive appear
aance. Books will be furnished by
our local booksellers at the same low
prices (for CASH as for the last two
years.
The handsome features of Everett
Speer were missed from The general
delivery window at the postoffice
yesterday. He is on the sick list
but as it is not the result of blighted
or unrequitted affection he will be
on deck again shortly.
Col. A. K. Schumpert has given
the city a strip three feet in width
off the front of his lot on lee street,
between the Baptist and First Meth
odist churches in exchange for a.
strip two and a half feet front be.
tween his property at Lee and La
mar streets and the water tower.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05

before you finish soldering the
wires. Radio changes faster
than women styles, far faster.
There has never in history been
anything that has changed so
rapidly-that revealed public
tendency to discard the old and
adopt the new without regret or
suspicion.
This means that people are
losing their chronic respect for
old things. They are willing to
take chance and throw old
devices to the ash-heap as soon
as something better appears.
This tendency may revolution
ize human thought and even
systems of economics. When
the American colonies broke
away from the old country and
set up a republic in government,
they still retained the king-and-
subject idea in that more inn
portant field, economics. The
boss in business, however, is
gradually being changed by
evolution into president of a
business republic instead of mon
arch of bis organization.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
BUY A KISS AT HOME

There is a good story Of man
who found himself bankrupt ami
came home to tell hls better
half. She did not seem so wen
derfully surprised as he expected
and asked him to go to the bank
with her where she opened a de-
post box and showed him a great
stack of bills, sufficient to put him
on his feet, "Whose is it?" asked
the man. tits ours, replied the
wife. And he wondered how she
got it and how she save dso much
You remember that when we
were married you promised me
81 for every kiss; you always keps
your word. / saved the money
and that is the result" In his as
tonishment the man exclaimed.
Il wish | had done all my kissing
at home" There's fine illustra-
ton of trading at home. Every
dollar you spend in 'your own
home town remains here and
helps your town. Every dollar
you spend out of town makes
the town that much poorer. Do
your buying-and kissing-as
home and the money will be as
bread cast upon the waters.
When most needed it will be there
to help you.-The Northwood
Anchor.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
LOOKS AS IF THE MORGAN
RAIDERS WILL HAVE TO FOL
LOW THE KU KLUX AND
AND REORGANIZE

If the presence of an army Of
federal officers in our midst, with
their heavy firearms dangling
from their sides, recalling from
tier scenes in the Wild West, the
presence of half dozen white men
in the local Jail charged with max
ing whisky, the report that
twenty-four liquor plants had
been seized and destroyed in a
three-day raid not far from Madi-
son, the serious injury of four po-
pular young people on The Allan
ia highway by a wild Morgan
county liquor car-if all these
things cannot arouse our people
to a sense of the necessity for bet
ter enforcement of the law in our
county, then it seems there is no
hope, and that those OF us who
would like TO see better condi-
tions will not see them soon
Madison Madisonian.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
John Barleycorn

The first man arrested in
New York City for buying liquor
without a permit is fined $50.
The hand of the law clamped
on his shoulder a few seconds
after he received two pints of
nosepaint in drug store.
Thereupon the federal au-
thorities announced to New
Workers that they henceforth will
include liquor buyers as well as
sellers in their drive against
violators of the Volstead act.
If that system were enforced
all over the country, jails would
overflow with democracy-all
the way from the panhandling
''white-liner" to host of pious-
ly patriotic prominent citizens.
The customer, Of course, in
cites the bootlegger to crime by
furnishing the motive Of the
crime-profit. In an illicit traf-
fee, buyer and seller are equal
ly guilty. Ethically, at any rate.
Wayne B. Wheeler, lawyer
for the Anti-Saloon League,
points with pride to the convic-
ton of 34,067 people in 1923
for violations of the legislation
called prohibition-rather a hui
morous name for it in some com
mnnities.
A bit of arithmetic shows that
only one in about every 5000
of the population was convicted
last year.
What percentage is this of the
total of violators2 So small,
you have to use microscopic
fractions.
It's impossible to prevent
anything by law. We have law
against murder-but some TO-
600 murders are committed in
America every year. The very
existence of prohibitory law in
dictates the prevalence of the
crime at which the law is direct
ed.
The main purpose of any law
is to punish crime.
Prevention is largely a matter
of education. 1t is up to the in
dividual. Compulsion restraints
him only when the punishment
is grave enough to strike terror
to his heart.
This so-called prohibition
problem is. today, just what it
has been since the fight against
liquor started-a matter of edu-
cation rather than law enforce
ment.
As long as people want to
drink, they'll be able to buy
liquor - if they have the price.
The real prohibition problem is
thirst rather than quencher -
buying rather than selling.
If the oncoming generation is
prevented from acquiring the
thirst, prohibition will succeed
because there will not be any
need for it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
A CREED FOR PROGRESSIVE
FARMERS

| believe in myself-believe
that whatever mistakes | may
or may not have made heretofore,
am endowed with limitless pos
sibilities for growth, struggle,
triumph and development-mak-
ing each today better than its
yesterday and each tomorrow
better than today.
| believe in my worll-believe
it offers opportunities as an indus
try, requiring faithful labor; as
a profession, requiring scientific
knowledge; as a business, requir-
ing commercial ability-eaeh with
its challenge and its reward.
/ believe in my farm-believe I
can make it rich with stored ferti-
lity; believe | can make it beau
tiful with we'll kept fields, lux
uriant crops and grazing herds
and I believe that the homestead,
whether cottage or mansion, can
be made glorious with a wealth of
tree and vine and shrub and blos-'
som.
l believe in my family-believe
that love in the home is Gods
best gift on earth, and that to
rear noble sons and daughters
with strong bodies, trained minds,
clean hearts, and cheerful spirits
lis the highest achievement in
life.
believe in my neighborhood-
believe that by keeping everlast-
ingly at it l can get such cooper
alton from young and old as will
make it a better and better place
to live in; and that whether
neighbors help or hinder, it is my
duty to give some thought every
day and do some work every
week for the improvement Of
schools, roads, churches, social
life, business cooperation, and all
the agencies of rural co1nradeship
and brotherhood, knowing thai
sooner or later the sowing will
BRING It's harvest.
And finally, 81 believe in my
Creator and Father-believe it is
His will that His kingdom should
come on earth, and come here IN
my own particular nook of the
earth-and that in my every aspi-
ration toward this end, | am co.
worker with Him whose power
knows no defeat Clarence Poe,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. Sept.
5, 1910

5, 1910
In Amerlcus the opinion prevails
quite generally that the number Of
young women and young men who
usually attende the collegs and
schools up the state will ret be as
great this fall as heretofore, due to
financial conditions here. Usually
America sand the towns of Sumter
send a full quota of pupils to the
various colleges and while probably
several will go this fall, as usual,
it is fact that the number viii
reduced until normal conditions are
restored an dime smore prosper
Gus.
Americas was again the Mecca
yesterday for the man behind the
cotton bale. The weather this week
has been propitious for picking TIE
staple in the white fields of Sumter,
and hundreds of bales were mar
keted here. Six hundred bales
arrived in Americas yesterday
from Sumter county plantations,
while todays receipts will carry tie
cotton held in local warehouses con
siderably above the 5000 bale mark.
Americas mills that expected to get
their stocks at 10 cents are onw
buying for 7 cents instead. Local
ly, there is very little demand even
at z cents, as the mills can ge.
in Texas all the cotton needed for
q year ahead, and are taking only
the very finest grades.
Misses Marybel Hixon and Mil
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
Tobacco

The comeback of the tobac-
CO crop in South Georgia reads
like a romance. From 1900
acres in 1916 to $4,000 in 1924
is the stride that tobacco plant
ers have taken in a dozen years,
and the crop this year is esti-
mated to be worth six millions
of dollars or more.
Last year ll,237,000 pounds
of tobacco were produced in the
State. This year it is estimated
that between 25,000.000 and
IS. 100000 pounds will be pro-
duced-more than double last
years production. Last year
farmers received $3,577,000
for the crop. This year con-
sentative estimates place the
value of Georgias tobacco crop
at 100000.
The following table will show,
better than anything else posi-
bly, could, the rise, fall and re-
covery of the tobacco industry
in Georgia. Figures are taken
from a report of the Atlanta Of
fee of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
SOME LAST LINES

Il wonder if it's loaded. III
look down the barrel and see
Look at this wire hanging
down into the street! I'll throw
it to one side"
Il wonder how much electrici
ty these wires carry. I'll touch
one and find out"
Il wonder whether this rope
will hold my weight"
Which one of these is the third
rail anyway"
Listen! That's the interur
ban whistle. Step on the accele-
rator and Wen beat it across.
2 It's no use swimming here. Pm
going out beyond the life lines"
I've never driven a car in
traffic before, But they saw it's
perfectly simple. An EXCHANGE
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
Old Ideas Stick

The first SO Packard autos
were equipped with 'whip-sock-
cts on the dashboards." Pack
ard engineers demonstrated with
the coach builder who had the
contract to make the first so
bodies. But for year he had
made carriage bodies, and he in
sisted on putting whip-sockets on
the autos.
This incident is typical of all
human progress.
The first railroad passenger
cars looked like stagecoaches.
The first autos looked like horse
drawn vehicles. No matter how
revolutionary a new idea may
be, when people put it to prac-
teal use they invariably insist on
retaining some feature of the old
device or system that is replaced
by the new.
So, quite naturally, the air
plane is a copy of birds and in
sects natures flying machines.
Man couldn't be blamed for
copying them. But the UIti-
mate Airplane may be an en-
tirely different looking affair.
The human tendency, to at
tach specimen of the old to
new things, has a simple psy-
Geological explanation. People
simply have confidence in old
tried-out devices, and they cling
to them as sort of life preserv-
er in case the new outfit doesn't
work.
Probably the builder of the
FIRST Packard auto bodies feared
they would break down and
have to be towed home by a
horse. In that event. a whip
= socket wouldn't be bad idea.
RADIO, the most sensational
mechanical development of re-
cent years, changes swiftly. A
new set comes outs You start
~ make it--and are apt to ind
y, t=f.-.. 49, -
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
ATLANTA POLICE FIND
PIGEON is BURGLAR

ATLANTA, Sept. 5.-"Burglarsp
who were surrounded by police here
after a stealthy entrance, failed 10
materialize and officers were sur
prised when a pigeon fluttered out
OF the door. The officers had been
called by someone who said the
family on the floor above them had
moved out the day before and that
burglars were stealing some furni-
Nure which had not been moved.
The police heard noises as they APP
preached the house but when they
called to the inmates to surrender
fhey received no answer. Investiga-
glon disclosed the fact that the pig.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
RECKLESS

Tied together with ropes, three
Italian mountain climbers slip and
fall. Going over a precipice, the
rope catches on a rock. They hang
suspended above a deep chasm five
hours before rescued.
The curious part of it is that they
will continue their mountain climb
ing, which is about the last word
in useless occupations. Man risks
unlimited danger when the goal is
futile. In practical pursuits he is
cautious. Many a fellow who
wouldn't gamble $40, Fer fear Of
losing it, tries to beat the train to
the crossing with his auto.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05

1t seems that the tobacco plan
ers of this section have learned
how to plant and how to mar
ket their crops. In almost every
county there have been employ
ed men of long experience in to-
bacco production to aid the To-
cal planters. The planters know
a great deal more about tobac-
co today than at any time in the
past, and we are told that there
little danger of their planting
more than they can care for or
that South Georgia will produce
more than the markets will
profitably absorb.
The great danger in such
prosperity is the overriding of
it. Too often profit is made
in crop one year and over
production wrecks the crop a
year or two later.
However, one thing is sure:
Another splendid money crop
has been added to the varied
products of South Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
ETg'R'za7n6
a btgAIbe1t Apple
DIAMONDS

Diamonds occasionally are found
IN glacial drifts in our country. One
as big as II karats was discovered
in gravel while digging a well in
Wisconsin.
These diamonds were brought
down from somewhere in Canaia,
carried along in gravel accompany,
inging glaciers of long ago. Geolo-
gists now are tracing the course Of
these glaciers. They expect to find
the mother diamond mines up north
Geologist is taking the place Of
the prospectors in mining and oil.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
CONFIDENCE

Money in circulation totals over
1865 million dollars, Uncles Sam re-
ports. Over third of this is Fed
eral Reserve paper money, much OF
which is backed only by commodi-
tles-warehouse stocks, carloads Of
bricks, etc.
We're gradually losing the gold
and silver fetish, by the elastic
currency" route. 1t doesn't make
any difference what's back of money
as long as the public has confidence
in it. 1t was loss of public conf.
dence, quite as much as printing g;
gantic amounts, that knocked the
props from under German mark.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
MYSTICISM.

There's an end ito space. The
universe is 228 million light years
in diameter Eight year" being
an astronomical measurement six
trillion miles long. Figures fun
ished by Professor Silberstein.
What's beyond the end" OF
Of space? The scientific answer is
that space is curved or spherical
No one can really comprehend it
Higher science blends into mysli
cism. Man approaches a compreher
sion of the spiritual that exists oll
the other side of the thin invisible
wall.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
A THOUGHT

He calleth together his friends
and neighbors, saying unto them,
Rejoice with me; for | have found
my sheep which was lost.--Luke
1876.
The cup of joy is heaviest when
empty Marguerite deValois.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05

At 3c-Persian Butermilk Toilet
Soap, the biggest sc cake in Ameri-
Gus.
At 1c-Armour's Toilet Soap
guest size, finely milled, small size
cakes.
At Seine Thread Silk Chit
fon Stockings, full fashioned, black
and colors.
At Slime Thread Silk Chiffon
Stockings, black and colorS.
At S1.50-Fine Thread Silk
Chiffon Stockings, black and col
ors.
At 5Oc-Children's y Sport Hose
with fancy rolled tops, all sizes.
At $3.95-Ladies' fancy Trieo-
shan. Blouses, beautiful patterns,
linen collars.
At 81 to $7.5O-New style Hand
Bags and Pocket Books, all new
shapes.
At 35c-Embroidered Collar and
Cuff Sets, in blue, tan and white.
At 10c-Knitted Four-in-hand
Ties for men; left-overs from the
soc grades.
At S2.98-Ladies' Silk Jersey
Knockers, in blue, brown and pur-
pie.
At $1-Lingette Knockers, in
white, black and all colors.
At 25c-Men's guaranteed Gar
ters, black, white and all colors.
At 35c-Men's Knitted Silk Four
INLAND Ties, full regular length
At soc - New assortment oil
Ladies white and colored Kid Belts
new styles.
At Child's Percale I reSses'
guaranteed fast colors, sizes TO
ID years
At 85c-Child's bingham Dresses,
including knickers, all sizes a to
years.
At $1-Misses and Children's
Bingham Dresses Of best standard
Bingham.
AT $1-Genuine Duplex Window
Shades, white on one side green
on other.
At 75c-Ladies' Strap-wriSt'
washable Suede Gloves, all colorS'
all sizes.
At 6Oc yard-$1 all over En- I'm,
broideries, white and colors, Iu''
width.
At 25c-Children's Fancy Mer-
cerized Seeks, plain or fancy tops
all sizes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
Old Days In Americas

bred Hollis of Americas ere guests
of Miss. Marion Edwards house
party at her home in Dawson.
Mrs. Allie Hayes Richardson,
graduate of Emerson College pf
Oratory, announces the opening Of
studio in the Bell Piano School,
Sept. Is.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05
THE STANDARD

NEVER HAVE THE PEOPLE OF
AMERICUS AND VICINITY
BEEN OFFERED GREATER
THRIFT THAN NOW-IN OUR
SEPTEMBER SALE! SHOP
HERE AND SAVE ON EVERY
PURCHASE. HERE ARE
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
BARGAINS
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-05

GA nv; made on Improved
90 "a "A SAfarm lands at cheap
est rates for terms of 5, z or 10
years with prepayment option given
Money secured promptly. We have
now outstanding over 81, 100000 on
farms IN Sumter county alone, with
plenty more to lerd.
MIDDLETON MCDONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co.,
IN Sumter, Lee, Terrell. schlev
Macon, Stewart, Randolph and
Webster counties. 81 Planters Bank
Building, hmericus. Ga. Phone SO
or 211.