Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-04
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To handle the soldier bonus,
Uncle Sam will have 1000 special
clerks. If the works equally d.
vided, each clerk will have over
1000 veterans to investigate. Ard
for each veteran there's an average
of 40 documents in government
files. All Of these win be gone
Through, and considerable part of
/ them balled up and have to be un-
tangled. Red tape multiplies like a
family of rabbits.
The War Department long ago
had the system schemed out, with
the machinery" ready to be put
in operation. The next thing will be
to keep corruption out of the work
and prevent the usual interminable
delay. Either one of WI III is about
as easy as winning the war.
FRAUDS
The American people certainly
like to step up and place bet on
which shell the little pea is under.
In 1914 stock swindlers gently
separated the public from 250 nil
llion dollars. This year the plumber
from worthless stocks will be four
times as much, predicts Henry L.
IDoherty, the investment banker.
That'll be about $40 for every man,
woman and child.
Says Doherty: americans are
| the most gullible investors in the
world" Political observers guessed
as much, long before Barnum start
ed his museum. AS for stock swim
Idles, the man who tries to get some
thing for nothing usually gets moth
ling for something.
| AHEAD
| Rev. Clausen enters his six-year-
| old son in the class of 1941 OF an
eastern university. He was afraid,
Iif he waited longer, the enrolment
Hist would be overlooked.
| Getting quite common, to book a
youth several years ahead for col-
llege entrance. The colleges are
Iswamped with customers. Higher
education is increasingly within
reach of more and more of the popu-
lation. That means, the level of
average prosperity is rising.
IRELAND
| The Irish Free State reports a
deficit of about AZ million dollars
for IL months. That much was spent
more than was received in taxes and
other revenues. Ireland couldn't be
expected at the start to be able tc
guess accurately how much money
would be needed. A few years OF
Experience will be necessary.
Prosperity and surplus will newt
ably come, for the winning of self
government will curb emigration, by
which Ireland for generations wa.
drained of her most valuable natura
people.
RUSS
Russian farmers are gradually
getting back toward pre-war crops
Very gradually, however, Final fig
ures show last years wheat croI
over there was 245 million bushels
compared with the record of y37 mi
lion bushels in 1918.
The three-fourths drop in produc
zion gives an inkling of the malnutr
ton and starvation that have stalk
ed the land Of the ex-czars. A
empty stomach, rather than govern
mental changes, apparently explain
Russian conditions of the last few
Years.
Total grain crops in 1928 were
bit smaller than the year before
but fourth larger than in 1921
The 1924 outlook is better,
gain
Foreign trade is looking up. Elk
ports of American manufacture
goods in the fiscal year 1924, to en-
June 80, will be 200 million dollar
ahead of the year before and 40
million ahead of 1922.
Unlike the wartime boom, this is
healthy growth. It's apt to be pei
manent. And, as a mater of fac
the physical volume of our foreig
trade during the war boom exceede
normal by only per cent. The SUI
posed gain was a price hoax. Their
weren't more exports. They ju,
COST more.
former mistake of the committee