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The Washington times., 1924-01-16
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FACTS
Congressman Swing Says U.
S. Officials Are Aiding
Border Traffic.
BY TOM EVERRITT,
Cosmopolitan News Service.


Congressman Phil D. Swing of
California today declared that
American Federal officials are
working hand in hand with Amer
ican gamblers and vice promoters
who lure young girls Of school
age across the border into Mex
tcan vice dens.
Enraged Citizens Act.
Tia Juana and Mexicali are filled
with gambling houses. dance. halls
and immoral resorts run by Ameri-
cans, Swing charged. Both are with
in convenient auto distance of South
ern California. Swing said that
constant stream of American
{ pleasure seekers, including boys and
girls Of school age, crosses the
boundary line to those resorts.
There, Swing said, the most vici-
Gus, immoral practices are en-
couraged, and young girls go by sue
cessive steps from rum to dope, and
finally to utmost degradation.
BY a wave of the hand, the Fed.
eral border officials could stop this
drunken procession of revelry,"
Swing said, but by their negligence,
they are playing the game Of the
vultures who control the vice ring.
1DN
ragged citizens of the border towns,
angered by the failure Of Federal Of
ficials to act, took the law irta their
own hands and turned back Hundreds
of young people enroute TO these
gambling centers.
Appeals to Coolidge.
Swing has appealed to President
Coolidge for help. Congressman
Swing said: "There openly flourishes
Immediately across the line in
Mexico every form of vice known to
the human race. When say
'flourishes,' I mean flourishes upon
the widest scale.
'"The evil and injurious effects
upon American communities along
the border and reaching back more
than 100 miles into the United States
cannot be even estimated.
"The principal concern is the
protection of the immature youth
of the country, who are lured to
these vice resorts under the attrac-
tive invitation to visit quaint Old
Mexico There are hundreds Of
American school girls and boys of
seventeen and eighteen years of
age in the dance halls nightly on
their way to ruin.
"The girls are taught to drink
liquors and the boys are taught to
use narcotics. There is a four-way
result to all Of this-confirmed vice,
the resultant disease, the crime
which follows and the financial
drain on legitimate business"
FavOrs 5O-Mile Zone.
Besides this, these resorts leave
a trail of broken homes, to say
nothing of broken hearts and the
sadness and trouble that comes
from ruined lives"
Legitimate business is conducted
in the day time down there, but at
might there is nothing but the prac.
tice of all forms Of vice. Federal
Government employees, by keeping
the boundary line open at night,
facilitate the practice of this vice,
and If they would close the line al
nine o'clock, four-fifths Of all this
vice would be prevented. 1t is for
the Government itself to cease being
the handmade of iniquity.
II told President Coolidge the
conditions are "a stencil in the
nostrils Of decent men, and that
the governments of Mexico and the
United States should clean up a
60.mile zone, based upon the fact
that 95 per cent of the vice ia
operated by Americans for Amer.
leans"
The Washington times., 1924-01-16
PHYSICIAN, WHO KEPT
BISMARCK Thin, DEAD

MUNICH, Bavaria, Jan. 16.--Dr.
Ernst Schweinger, seventy-three,
personal physician to Chancellor Bis.
marck, Is dead.
He was credited with evolving a
treatment which prevented Bis
marck from becoming fat.
The Washington times., 1924-01-16
England Recognizes VenizeIos

LONDON. Jan. 16.-Official an.
nouncement was made by the for
eign office today that England has
recognized the Venizelos govern
ment at Athens and resumed dipIo-
matte relations with Greece.
The Washington times., 1924-01-16
WITH THE
ALIBI
ARTISTS
THE TRAFFIC COURT
IN CROSS SECTION
Read 'En1 and Worry
Being . Skeleton Record OF
Cases Tried IN Judge
Schuldt'S Tribunal
BY DONALD McDOUGAL.
The Dummy's Dilemma.

LHO DUAAAAuy . DuOAAuAA0s
IL chased him from 8th and G
to A street southeast at 30 miles
an hour, your honor. He ran
over Pennsylvania avenue at S5
and slowed down to the 80 mile
gait at the other crossings. When
| asked him what all the hurry
was about ne said he had a load
of fresh beef to deliver. The meat
smelled all right to me. and it
looked as though it ought to keep
quite a while longer.
The Cop Can Bull Him.
But I told him he was my
meat either way-if the beef was
so bad that he had to get rid
Of 1t that fast, I'd report him to
the Health Department, and II 1t
wasn't, he'd naturally have to
face charge OF speeding"
But Cant Cow Him,
"I was driJ ad
livery Ford. your HONOR, and 7
had 75O pounds of meat on there,
besides myself-900 pounds alto
gether. I can't run any 30 miles
an hour"
How old did you say 1t was?"
1.-THE beef? Oh, you mean the
truck. Four years. It won't run
over Is miles an hour. Not even
down hill, 1t won't"
Couldn't Make the Grade.
That's a little too steep. The
court believed you up to that
point, but your testimony con-
tains too much hyperbole to pe
accepted as reliable"
What does that mean, your
honor?"
"It means that you pay a fine
Counsel (insinuatingly): "It was
o'clock in the morning, your
honor, and there wasn't much
traffic.
Work All the Time.
"a truck with a 900-pound load.
scooting over cross streets at
thirty miles an hour Is danger
Gus proposition at any time, day
OF night. And there's no office
hours for traffic regulations.
There is no intermission in their
application. They're like taxes.
You're assessed SIS"
No Comeback.
HE ran UP Fourteenth street
at IL D. m. yesterday, from Florida
avenue to Euclid street, in a Cadil-
lac at twenty-eight miles an hour.
stopped him there and said, It's
only yesterday that you forfeited
$10-'"
Counsel: I'VE object"
The Court: objection sus-
Counsel: What did you say
next?"
PatrOlnan Sam Weller.
II said, You'll have to put up
$25 for this, and you forfeited SO
yesterday"
1--WE object"
objection sustained"
I'm just telling you what I
said"
Counsel: ''That'l do"
The cop (mumbling): Il thought
It would"
A Fishy One.
Boob: "I was running up -Four
tenth street hill, and my speedom-
eter was showing twenty. But
the instrument Is five miles fast,
so 1 was only going fifteen.
I didn't know the officer was be-
hind me, and he Jumped at me so
suddenly that I forgot my speed
ometer was fast. That's why told
him / knew was speeding. But
that was q mistake"
The Faster the Longer.
It's hardly reasonable to suppose
you would be running up the hill
at fifteen miles an hour in Cadil-
lac. Fifteen dollars. And don't
come here again."
II only came this time to get
my money back, your honor"
II you come here again it'll take
you thirty days to get yourself
hQplF ~
The Washington times., 1924-01-16
SPAIN EXTENDS HER
POWER IN MOROCCO

MADRID, Jan. 16.-The directory
today approved a decree extending
the authority Of the Spanish high
commissioners in Morocco.
A new department is being Gre
ated to unity Moroccan action.
The Washington times., 1924-01-16

''Say It With FlOWers."
Gude's flowers for ell occasions. Home
grown specimens. 1919 F.-Advt.
The Washington times., 1924-01-16

The regular meeting of the Mt.
Olivet Methodist Episcopal Church
teachers training class willsbe held
tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock at the
church at Ballston.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10

back Of business was IS. Us
The other interview was with
Daniel C. Wing, president of
the First National Bank of Bos-
ton. the largest financial insti-
tuition in New England, a Ne
braskan, who unaided h 8
climbed to the very top. He
said:
My own idea of days work
never has been eight hours, but
10 hours, and IL hours. Any
man who is in earnest about get
ting on and is willing to put in
the necessary amount of work
and thought, can do very we'll
here.
IF one keeps himself in the
right state of mind" and is will
ing to work 2 hours day"
success, in a measure at least, is
assured, even under present
conditions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
FAIRER RELATIONS NEEDED

There must be fairer rela-
tionship between the results Of
the farmers labor and the results
of the labor Of others. The pub
lie has not realized that the Ma
ton has passed into new eco
nomic era in which the balance
between agriculture and other
industries must be more care
fully safeguarded. The farmer
has had forced upon him an in .
creased cost of production which
he is powerless to pass on to his
customer. He is the only man
in business today who is in that
position-Senator Capper, In the
Forum.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. May
10, 1894.)

(From The Times Recorder. May
10, 1894.)
Judge Allen Fort, who has been
attending the meeting in Washing
ton of the National Convention OF
Railway Commissioners, will leave
the capitol today and will reach
Americas Sunday, the meeting hav-
ing adjourned yesterday. Judge
Fort was chosen as chairman of the
convention to be held next year
He was also designated to prepare,
to be presented to congress, an
amendment to the interstate com
merce laws prohibiting railroads
from introducing new evidence in
cases appealed to the courts from
the commission.
A letter from Capt. A. C. Bell,
who with Judge J. C. Mathews is
spending some time at White Sup
phur Springs, Fla, reports them
much improved in health and enjoy
ing their stay very much. Miss
Frances Bell has joined her father
at White Sulphur Springs, and win
probably remain until after the
Chautauqua exercises on the goth.
There is hardly man, woman or
child along the line of Southwestern
road, and particularly in Americas,
who does not know Capt. L. c..
Young the veteran conductor, who
for score of years has looked after
the comfort of the travelling public
via the "old reliable" He will re-
sign his place in a few days and re-
turn north. Capt. Young is an en-
thusiastic G. A. R. man, and always
took lively interest in the Federal
cemetery at Andersonville. He is
also a "dyed-in-the-wool" republi-
can, but this fact in no wise less
ened his popularity among a host
of friends throughout Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10

ing them that woman today is a
disgrace to her grandmother; that
with her kiss-proof lipsticks her
corsets parked at the dance, and
her fresh, bold I-do-as-I-please
attitude she is all wrong from the
tip of her toe to the top of her
head. In short, something ought
to be done; girl babies ought to
be thrown from the Palisades, OF
some other high cliff, to rid the
world of an impending danger.
In the old days such a proposal
would have been received with
snorts and scorn by the feminist8
They would have exploded forth
with.-Milwaukee Journal.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
The Grand Old Party In
Georgia

The Grand Old Party in
Georgia has its ups and its
downs. In fact. there are two
c.. O. P. branches in the slater
the Regulars and the Lily
Whites" c,
Not so long ago the "Regu-
lars" met and reelected the ne
gro, Henry Lincoln Johnson as
national committeeman. A ne
gro woman from Savannah. was
elected national committeewo-
man. The Regulars" are COM
posed Of negroes AND whites
but mostly negroes.
The Lily Whites met in At
lanta a few days ago and elect
ed their national committeeman
and national committeewoman.
Present with the Lilies" were
three negroes.
A nero weekly paper, the At
ianta independent, reporting the
Lilly White convention. put
this head over the story
THREE cOONS AMONG
THE LILY WHITES;
PHILIPS NOT PRESENT.
And refers to the gathering
as the ''pie-hunters, who had
a United States marshal at the
door to keep out the undesir-
ables.
There are two things we can
understand about the Georgia
Republican parties. First, why
three negroes among the Lily
Whites and second, why ANY
whites among the Regulars"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
THE OFFICIAL NOD

The fact that so many Presi-
dents have been broken down by
office seekers Quitting" in and
politicians shaking his hand, has
led President Coolidge to establish
a rule that visitors must simply
nod then pass on.
The privilege of shaking the
hand of the Chief Executive is
enjoyed by many people, especial
ly by the young. The late Henry
Watterson used to speak with
gusto of the fact that one of the
early Presidents took him upon
his knee. But that was when the
land was young and visitors were
few and knees were strong. Il
was Andrew Jackson who first an
nounced that the doors of the
White House would swing open
and the latch would hang upon
the outside. The Adamses had
been exclusive and studious and
the people did not have a chance
to see greatness at work.
President Wilson became an in
valid and was not accessible to
the general public. Even before
his stroke the exegencies of the
led to the closing of the gates to
the White House grounds and the
posting of gurdsa around the Ex-
ecutive offices. 1t was felt that
President Harding's death was
fastened by the fact that he tried
to be accessible to the public, and
shortly before the new rule of
"nodding the head" was estab-
hshed in Washington President
Coolidge is said to have shaker
hands with 5000 strangers in the
course of a single day.-Savan-
nah Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. May
10, 1914.)

(From The Times Recorder. May
10, 1914.)
To Miss Katherine Thomas, rep
resenting the Americas High school
and Miss Margaret Wheatley, rep
resenting the Furlow Grammar
school, have been awarded the beau
tiful gold medals for the best work
in English, in contests in which
many pupils of both schools enter
led. Miss Thomas in addition to
winning the p o. S. of A. medal,
was recently awarded the gold medal
offered by the Americas chapter
D. A. R. for the best essay upon
American history. The contest for
the grammar school medal was very
close between the winner, Miss Mar
garet Wheatley, and Miss Agnes
Gatewood and Miss lone Carter,
each of whom is entitled to honor
able mention. Among the many eX-
.cellent record made by members of
the graduating classes reference is
made to that of Miss Elizabeth AL
len who has for nine years maintain
ed perfect attendance, without a
days absence or hardness, and has
at every session taken high rank
in her studies. Miss Edith High
tower made the remarkable record
of having taken both the junior
and senior work in one session, that
just ended; also taking two courses
in classical and scientific work.
Upon this date, fifty nine years
ago, Miss Mary E. Dudley and John
w. Wheatley plighted their troth at
The family altar in the ante-bellum
Dudley residence here, and to them
has been accorded long life of
perfect happiness together. Mr..
Wheatley was then twenty-five years
of age while his beautiful young
bride had witnessed the dawn of a
like number of bright summers.
Both are now in their eighty-first
year and still blessed with health.
Americas extends congratulations
and good wishes to the bride and
groom of 1855.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
The Boil Weevil Is Out

The little old boil weevil has
erawled out of winter quarters
in Sumter and is ready to do
his best to cut Sumters money
crop.
Nothing satisfies his appetite
but cotton and nothing cures
that devastating appetite but
calcium arsenate.
Cotton production in paying
quantities is now boiled down
to work, small acreage to the
pillow and poison. There isn't
an expert in the land who
doesn't agree on these three
principles.
The man who attempts to
care for more acres than he can
work and poison is simply
throwing his time, money and
credit to the winds.
He could with far less effort
go to the bank, borrow hum
dred or two dollars and light
his pipe with the money. At
least, he would accomplish the
Same end with less effort.
OF course, we'd say he was
crazy-and he would be unbal-
anced, but
Sumter will produce a great
crop this year provided we
work and poison, and one good
crop of cotton will place our
farmers, merchants and others
Onttheir financial feet. So
Let's work and poison and
poison and work for the next
few months, and begin now.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
IT WASN'T WHAT IT WAS

The hottest campaign after the
presidential primary. The fight
among themselves in the McAdoo
ranks was unusually peppery.
and much bad feeling was Great
ed among the leaders. To our no.
ton the quarrel was about as i'm
ortant as debate on whether
an atom is larger than mole
Guile. Besides it was not about
what is was about at all.-Daw-
son News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. May
10. 1904.)

(From The Times Recorder. May
10, 1904.)
A discouraged fishing party has
just returned here from an eXcur-
sion to Line Greek, near Flint River.
Much to their surprise land owners
refused to let them fish there, hav-
ing declared an embargo upon all
fisherman. Recently, it is said,
parties dynamited the streams down
there, destroying bushels of fish and
spawn, and this illegal and outra-
geous act has resulted in the bar
ring out of those who would fish in
sportsmenlike manner.
While the cotton season of 1908
ended here some time since all the
bales have not been sold. Americas
warehouses still contain $50 bales
of the fleecy, while the owners
are probably sorry now they did
not sell out two months ago at 16
and one -half cents. The next crop
is going to be a large one, and 10
cents or perhaps II cents may seem
big price next fall.
An electric battery was turned
upon the Fishing Club yesterday
when Will Turpin came back from
"the mill" with a hundred fine ones,
The little child of Mr. and Mrs.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
RICHES

After the Civil War, General Jul
liam Shakspere Carr invested $4,000
in the TOBACCO industry. When he
died the other day, this $4,000 had
grown into millions.
But it wasn't altogether 'luck" or
fortunate Investment" not by a
long sight. Carr went into the bust
ness along with his money, became
head of the company later. His mi
lions were probably due more to
his ability and industry than to his
original investment. A dollar is
never worth over 100 cents unless
properly guided.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
ANGRY PASSIONS

Can't think that Georgia's vote
in the national presidential con-
vention or even the position of ma
tional committeeman is worth
the estrangeemnt of friends that
that is being brought about by the
contention over appointment of
delegates to the state convention,
Somebody has evidently given
away to their angry passion
Lexington Echo.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
PANAMA

The Panama Canal has been doing
more business than the land-cut at
Suez. In 1922 only 1870 tons of
shipping passed through the Panama
Canal for every 2O7 tons through
Suez. But the tables were reversed
in 1928, when 247 tons of shipping
used the Panama route for every
227 tons through Suez.
There are two reasons. First,
Americans are using Panama Canal
more and made for coast-to-coast
shipments because it is cheaper than
the extremely high cost of shipment
by railroad. Second, international
foreign trade is slowly shifting to
the Pacific and away from the At
lantic and Indian oceans.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
Gi'.&i I.
~ byAbert Apple
FENCE

FENCE
Even the monkeys have an i'm
migration problem. A writer in Har-
per's magazine says that in Java a
railroad is the fence or dividing line.
Black monkeys live on one side,
gray monkeys on the other. The
blacks and grays stick to the palm
trees on their own side of the tracks
and never cross over into the other
fellows territory.
The white man does the same
when he excludes immigration by
the yellow race.
We may be more intelligent than
the monkeys. But, having establish
ed fence in Java, they never cross
over and wage war.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
The Right State of
Mind

The other day we read inter
views from two successful bust
ness men in the East. From
each we cleaned a thought
which may appeal to you as it
did to us.
N. B. Parker. president of the
Library Bureau, a cooperation
with annual sales of $40, O0O.-
900, saids
Business conditions are basic
ally sound. Prosperity is being
enjoyed in this country to an ex-
tent never before realized or an
ticipated. Where business recess
sion is being experienced, it is
larely due to a state of mind, ag-
gravated by delays in construc-
tive government action on the
federal income tax and other I'M
portant legislation and not be-
cause underlying conditions are
not good.
That statement, 1T is largely
due to a STATE OF MIND.
recalls the statement made to us
last year BY an Albany mer-
chant who said that conditions
were Is per cent and the man
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
RATS

People united against rats in Mon
mouth county, N. ]. They killed
100000 rats-and the killing saved
the community 100000, according
to the current number of New Jer-
sey Agriculture.
Such things can be done locally
or nationally. But when it comes
to international action, it's next to
impossible to get people together
except to murder each other in war.
This is the fault of leaders, not of
the plain people. Governments, not
populations, start wars.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-10
DISTANCE

Marconi, in England, heard by ra-
do the beathing of a mans heart in
Pittsburg. Marconi suggests that
long-distance diagnosis of disease
Will be made by radio, also pre-
s"riptions for treating the disease.
You can picture a doctor of the
future, instead of rushing around
to see his patients, simply sitting
down at his radio and hearing then
heartbeats and lung action, also by
radio movies examining the patient
tongue. Science brings isolation t.
the individual.