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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
Editorial Opinions Cleaned
Serious and Otherwise
from Press and MAGAZINE

ling through Canadian ports.
Shipped under labels of ordinary
merchandise, these illicit pack
ages are hard to detect. Ammunl
ton is found in Jars supposed to
to contain lemons, bullets in tires
of bicycles; in two weeks officials
at Hongkong seized 81 ,498 rounds
of ammunition and 528 rifles.
Our super-patriotic. organiza-
tions probably will resent Eu-
ropes accusations, tell her to
mind her own business and all
that sort of thing. But the facts
condemn us. We are not going
to make much Roadway toward
peace as long as we accept bank
ers' loans to Europe and lip SER
vice to peace as all we ought to
do.-Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
You Are Master of Your
Own Destiny

IF you don't like your lot in
life, you have the power to
change it. Hard work and self
denial may be necessary, but ev-
cry man within certain bounds
is master of his own destiny.
Where he is limited in the
matter of change, it is chiefly
due to restrictions created by
humanity at large. The race can
have almost any kind of environ
ment il want-if it is willing to
pay the price.
as Fish IN the underground riv-
p eTs are blind. They don tlneed
eyes, 80 nature took them away.
Put the same fish in waters
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
BAND

European iron and steel makers
forming an alliance" will include
Germany. So runs the rumor reach
ing our steel makers from abroad.
There is no trouble burying axes
and getting nations united in Eu-
rope when profits are at stake. And
bankers and business men, WORK
ing behind the scenes, now ha c
charge Of Europe, after giving the
politicians several yaars of grand
stand playing and no results.
The steel alliance abroad is for
the purpose of presenting a common
front against American steel in the
world markets. The predicted trade
war gets under way.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
The Rapid Development
Of Airplanes

Air bandits will be the next
big problem in crime, bankers
fear. And they have good rea-
sons to fear. Gold and securi-
ties soon will be transferred
from city to city by planes, to
overcome the present difficulty
of delay in shipment.
You picture a gang of ban
dts in armcred planes pursuing
flying gold ship and attack
ing it with machine guns and
bombs, bringing it down in the
open country for footing.
Criminals are quick u adopt
the rev in science Fortunate
ly. science quickly finds counter
acting projections, so the scales
in the long run always swing
against the law-breaker.
Fngerprints, used by all
check signers, would cut forg-
cry at least in half overnight. A
god bet, overlooked.
Recall the first airplane you
saw? Sounded like threshing
machine. Riding in it was
about as safe as going over Nj
agara Falls in barrel.
That wasn't long ago. Per
lection comes fast in our age. A
New Hampshire hotels starts a
daily airplane service by which
newspapers are speeded to its
guests every day.
Makes you wonder, how long
until you'll own your own plane.
Remarkable air stunt: Lieu
tenant Hutchinson, landing his
plane, flies barely clear of the
ground and heads for two other
planes standing idle IS feet
apart.
He can't get between them.
No time to stop or turn. So he
manipulates his plane, turning it
half over like a bird with one
wing down and one up. Passes
safely through.
With control getting perfect
ed like this, it shouldn't be long
until man fearing airplanes as
unsafe" will be laughed at like
the backwoodsman afraid to ride
in an auto.
Honeymoon trips by air from
London to the Continent are be-
coming common. None killed,
so far. The brides are said to
be less nervous during the trip
than grooms. Starting married
life in an airplanel That's
enough to make grandpas jaw
drop.
Air lines are being formed
fast-routes and schedules regu-
lar, same as steam railroads. The
next big one will be a flying
service for mail and passengers,
between New York and Central
and South America. It's being
organized.
How long until rival air lines
will be competing for traffic,
boashng faster service, better
porters, fewer aceidentsa High
waysof the future will be in the
air,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29

Fl. @ Wells and others dream OF
political United States of Europe
the countries over there banding to
gether like our states. It's not I'M
possible, though improbable for gen
eratiors.
To say that the various European
nationallties counld not live togeth-
er peacefully under the same flag is
ridiculous. They do it, right heee
in America. That's because here
unlike in Europe, the leading poll
ticans do not devote most of the;'
time to keeping racial hatreds alive
and flaming.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
The STANDARD
800 PAIRS LADIES' SAMPLE
KID AND SUEDE GLOVES AT
CSC A PAIR.
By .Ahern

Many pairs in this offering that
were made to retail at So; none
that were meant to sell for less
than 81; every color and almost ev-
cry size; complete sample line of
one of New York's greatest glove
importers brought to you at saw
ing of more than one-half; on sale
Monday morning at o'clock,
pair ..--..-....-.. .......................69
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
Best Yard Wide English Long
Cloth 10 Yards for STAG

This Long Cloth will be on sale
only on Monday and Tuesday and
will be withdrawn Tuesday at 6
pm; full yard wide, guaranteed free
from dressing and made of finest
cotton; Monday and Tuesday only,
10 yards for .................. .......$I.4S
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
A THOUGHT

He that givetS, let him do it with
simplicity.-Rom. 1878.
When you give, give with joy
ard smiling. -Joubert.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29

ing friends. At later date, Mr..
and Mrs. Morgan will go to st.
Louis to attend the Exposition.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
THE GLOOMY BLACKsMITHs

II y
The delegate to the National
Horseshoers' Association who de-
fined an optimist as "manifestly
a horseshoer" had in mind the
dire threat of which every auto.
mobile is reminder to his vrart
The village smithy has disheart-
enlng fight to wage against the
the enormous motor factories.
The wise Mr.. Edison has
remarked that "a horse is
the poorest motor ever built"
True, says Mr.. Ford, che is
clumsy hay motor of one horse.
power The farmer knows that
motor tractor is as powerful as
rs horses. The blacksmith's out
look is not encouraging.
Statistics tell a gloomy story
to the horseshoers. In 1918 the
number of farm horses in the
United States was 81, 555. 900; as
the beginning of 1924 it was
l8, 263, 600, a decrease of Is per
cent in six years. The falling,
off has fluctuated from year to
year, but there is no prospect of
hating the continuous decline
In the cities there is less and
less use for the blacksmith's an
wi. In 1910 the Census Bureau
reported the number of horses
mot ON farms" to be 1882, 1889;
IN 1920 the number had been re-
duced to 1,705,0O0. More re-
cent figures are not available. In
this city there were 1O8 600
horses in 1917; now there are
about 10000 horses. Only on
the water front, where the conges-
ton is terrific. is the horse ard
wagon found more serviceable fo~
short hauls than the motor truck.
New York Herald Tribune.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29

The law says you can't make
homemade wine, but many citizens
know it viii turn to vinegar, any.
Yay ..,a.......,.,s o.sp~
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
THE DIFFERENCE


There is supposed to be a wide
difference between a Democrat
and Republican, but not every
one can clearly define it.
This question was sprung in the
Philadelphia Record some time
ago,and a number of good ans
wers were submitted, and when
John w. Davis, Democratic nomi-
nee for President, took the stump
his answer to it was that Demo-
crat wishes the record of his par
ty remembered, and Republi-
can wishes the record of his par
ty forgotten.
That's pretty good, but a writer
in the "Mail Bag" columns of the
Record gives one that is truer to
life if not better. He says: ga
Republican is a person who goes
to get registered willingly, and
Democrat is one who must be
pushed there. Albany Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29

Nl%s made on Improved
AOEAA NGfarm lands at cheap
est rates for terms of 5, or 10
years with prepayment option given
Money secured promptly. We have
now outstanding over $1,100,000 on
farms in Sumter county alone, with
plenty more to lend.
MIDDLETON MCDONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co.,
in Sumter, Lee, Terrell, Schley,
Macon, Stewart, Randolph and
Webster counties. Fl Planters Bank
Building, Lmericus, Ga. Phone SO
OF &AAs EssA.-...A.ss... 80
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
UNION

A political United States of the
World is long way off. But a sir,
liar union, industrially, is in the
making. Gentlemen's agreements
so-called, and undisguised interra-
tlonal business alliances, are in
creasingly common.
Steel has become a word figure
with alliances and understandings,
no longer isolated by counties. So
has oil. And money-banking -
has been internationalizei for years
\ s
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29

Babe Ruth is leading in home
runs again, or rather, yet.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
YEs. We CHARGE For IT


Any one who uses these col
ums for their own personal ends
or benefit must expect to pay for
same lat the advertising rates.
They should realize that every line
of type that goes up costs the pub
Usher something and not expect
him to serve them for no charge
and at his own expense.
Space and composition is all a
paper has to sell, along with the
nominal charge for subscription,
and to expect this service free
as favor is just as much out Of
place as for the publisher to ask
a merchant to give him a box OF
cigars and not charge him any
thing for it.
The paper does a great deal Of
work for nothing, save the meagI
contribution towards expenses
: expenses which the dollar per
year from some honest subscriber
provides, and must have revenge
from some source. If The occasio-
nal applicants for free space for
their own benefit could stand in
the publishers shoes for once they
would realize what an imposition
they are undertaking. l. amer
County News.
QUO n S .fd tdgh hyqat UNlN
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
PEN

Switzerland reports that her mo-
del convict community, WitswiI, is
proving self-supporting. Inmates
are isolated from the uotside world,
but there is no solitary confinement.
They have the freedom of $500
acres. ,t,ss
Many times as many criminals
can be redeemed outdoors as
in animal cages. Our prisons,
mostly, are still modelled after
times when lawbreakers were Gagged
for public inspection. To make at
tendance larger, Chinese even III
vented all kinds of torture cells,
such as ones where the prisoners
could neither lie down nor stand
up. a~@
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
Boys. Nainsook Union
Suits at Csc


Suits at Csc
Limited supply of these Union Suits,
but all sizes in lot of good grade
checked Nainsook; made with elias
tic seam back; any size; Monday
and Tuesday, per suit ---.....-----25c
Fine Yard Wide Brown Sheeting,
IL Yard for $1.00
One sale only Monday and Tues
day; full yard wide Sheeting, fine
smooth weave and fair weight; Mon
day and Tuesday, IL yards for 81
Mems 81 Serge Caps
at SO Cents
Mems Caps, new styles, of all
wool serge every size from 6 ga
to 7 3-8; alar 81; here Monday
and Tuesday, each .-----.,------.--5oc
Boys soc Caps
at 35 Cents
New styles, of good materials.
These Caps are made from the cut
tings of fine suits and overcoats;
all sizes; Monday and Tuesday,
each .-..-.--.---.. ....-,..-.,..-------------35c
Beautiful Thread Silk
Stockings at $15O
Stone Gray and Chestnut Brown;
the prettiest quality you have seen
for the price; equal to any 81 stock
ing; here Monday and Tuesday,
pair ----,.-,,,,,.--- -.,-.-....-...-...-.--$1.5O
Felt Bed Room
Slippers at Csc
Beautiful colors, all sizes; black
and all colors; full complete run
of sizes; here Monday and Tues
day, pair .-.-......-.....-......-..--.----,--a5c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29

Cutting SIMPSONS hair made
him weak, but bobbing womans
hair seems to make her strong, for
If.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29

A man has started around the
world in 2O-foot boat, setting soil,
of course, from our 12-mile limit.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
DUEL

Two Louisiana women, inflamed
by Jealousy over the same mar,
fought a duel with fists. 1t would
up with one of them using a dagger,
the sheriff says.
Two women fighting duel is
news because it is exceptional. For
that matter, so is a duel between
men-oven with fists. Once such
fights were common. NJ longer.
Men are becoming more philosopnic
want love to be $3.50, not a con
test. ssa
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29

Man who escaped from Sing Sing
over a year ago was either caught
or one winter outside was enough
for him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29

Ford is selling about 5000 cars
day, much to the disgust of shoe
men.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-29
Fine Yard Wide Brown Sheeting,
IL Yard for $1.O0

One sale only Monday and Tues
day; full yard wide Sheeting, fine
smooth weave and fair weight; Mon
day and Tuesday, il yards for 81
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-10

class of 100 candidates were in waiting
to cross the superheated sands of the
desert. v
The banquet will be elaborate and
preparations have been made to serve
nearly 1000 Shriners. The refreshment
committee, H. F. Fesher, chairman, will
be assisted by the women of the East
ern Star in serving the; banquet.
The complete program for Thursday
follows: 10 :05 a. M, arrival of imperial
potentate and party at the Terminal
station; Nobility will meet and escort
party to Tutwi1er hotel; automobile
tour of business and residential Sec
tons of Birmingham, / p. M; bust
ness meeting with imperial potentate
and resident and visiting spotentates, 2
p. m. At p. m. candidates report at
the Masonic temple for registration /;
4 p. M, business session and first sec
ton of ceremonial; 80 p. m, BAN
quet in dining rooms of the temple
{ p. M, reception to imperial potentate
at the temple (Shriners only; s p. m,
second section of the ceremonial.
The imperial party will leave Thurs
day night for Shreveport, La.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-10

Mrs. J. N. Cornelius, 1410 Twenty
fourth street, north, Birmingham, was
winner Of the second prize Of $50 in
the essay contest OF the Alabama Fed
GRAFTON OF. Women's Clubs, now in ses-
sion in Montevallo. Mrs. Cornelius
subject was, What Does The Age
Herald Mean to You and to Alabama y
and in announcing the prize winners
the federation made public the winning
essays. Mrs. Cornelius wrote as fol-
lows: ssaE a
To me, The Age-Herald means right
beginning for every. day in the year
From it / can get, each morning, the
news of the world, OF the nation, of
my state and my city on every conceiv-
able subject, right up: to the minute.
Its features are so many and so
varied that my every need is met and
satisfied. From the amusing adventures
of modish Winnie Wrinkle, her family
and friends, her suitors and would-be
suitors, to the profound philosophy and
common sense of consecrated and schol-
arly men and women who give to us
through this medium the priceless prod.
uct of their observation and experience
(the thing that somebody has called .the
radium crushed from the ore, of life'')
there is something good for each and
every member of the family.>
Dear old Andy Gump means a lot to
me- too. When i see him riding high
on the crest Of a wave of good fortune,
/ am reminded that pride goeth before
a fall, and then when l open The Age
Herald some morning and find him
miRed deep in the Slough Of Despond,
and calling mournfully for Min, it. edi-
-fies me to see her rise to the poets
conception of "a perfect. woman, nobly
planned, to warn, to comfort and COM
mand."
, The Age-Herald brings to its readers
material, as well as spiritual, profit.
The women of the nation are the ones
who spend most of the money, and The
Age-Herald brings to the women of
birmingham. and vicinity, through its
advertisements, the very best offerings
of the city's merchants Each woman
can plan, in the comfort and quiet of
her won fireside, what she needs to
buy and where she can buy to the best
advantage. Business men find in its
industrial news information that is
vital, and essential to their success.
They are entertained by the news of
sports and athletics, kept abreast of the
times by the agricultural, financial and
market news, stirred to their duty by
the religious and educational news, and
kept up to date by the news Of tile
state, the nation and the world. In
fact, The Age-Herald is a happy blend
OF information, entertainment and
profit. =. gs&. ~ ~
The Age Herald is always generous
with publicity onsbehalf of every worthy
cause and. enterprise, and from time to
time 1t offers prizes, medals ( and
trophies that rouse the ambition of the
young people in our schools and coll
leges. Such. for instance, as the. ex-
preston contest, held for the, develop
ment and encouragement of oratory, in
agement to the reading and study of the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-10
M'KENNA,REP0RT
FULLY APPROVES
ALLIED BANKERS
CONTINUED from Page Four)
calculations, gives German foreign hold
ings as of December 81, 1928. '-F >
2. Estimated Figures


2. Estimated Figures
"(A) Assets abroad in 1914 belong
ing to German nationals residing in
Germany estimated at % milliard gold
marks. ssasf..
"NB) The War Period. IL, Depre-
citation Of Germany assets abroad !; non
payment of interest due and iiquida-
tion and sequestration measures. result
ed in a loss Of approximately 16,I mil
lard gold marks, l2l During the war
profits and exploitation of Belgium,
France, Poland, Lithuania and Ru-
mania appropriated 81 to g milliard
gold marks; and the sale Of gold and
Of German securities aggregated ap-
proximateiy 2 milliard gold marks.
"tCl Postwar Period. l1) Princi-
pal causes Of reduction; refcit i'm Ger
many's trade balance and the meeting
Of cash. payments to the allies under
the treaty of Versailles caused .reduc-
ton of between 0 and 10 milliard gold
marks. Earnings from German ship
ping, insurance, etc.. greatly reduced.
t2) Principal causes of increased as
sets: la Sales Of mark credit bank
balances and paper marks resulted in
profits Of between TO and 81 milIiard
gold marks. German marks purchased
by citizens of many countries and more
than million individual accounts were
found in German banks. lbt Sale of
gold aggregated one and one half mil
lard gold marks. tc) Sale of German
real property and securities TO for
eigners Appropriated one and a half
milliard golds marks. - =.
5. Conclusion AS To German Foreign
Held Assets 49,.
"(A) COMMITTEES estimates that Ger
man capital abroad of every kind wheth-
err liquid or. in permanent Investments
was not, less on December 3D. 1928,
than 81 milliard gold marks and not
more than.7 8 milliard gold marks and
1t thinks the middle figure of 1916 mil
lard gold. marks is the approximate
total. This figure by comparison with
the 1914 estimate Of German foreign
holdings shows a reduction in foreign
holdings of approximately n. milliard
gold marks.
& abb In addition to the. foregoing,
foreign currency now in Germany APP
proximates - milliard gold marks.
(C) 1t must be remembered that for
eigners hold property in Germany which
has counterbaIance effect and the COM
mittee estimates the value of such
property to / to. IL milliard gold
marks.
A. Conclusions As To, Means OF Bring
ing Exported Capital Back To Ger.
many
"(A) Flight of capital was result
in the main of the usual economic fac
tors; namely the failure to balance the
budget, initiation and the raising of
large national loans, but lit was. ac-
gcentuated by the attitude Of the Ger
man people toward the payment of Ger
many's war creditors; and was marked
by ingenious effort to evade. restric-
tive legislation. 1t was also influ-
enced by the action of spectacular and
timid investors. 4
5 "(B) Neither legal enactments nor
severe penalties hampercd the flight
of capital yor resulted Sin the disclo-
sure of assets abroaas Ende9sthe con.
Editions above stated this demonstrates
the ineffectiyeness OF. restrictive slegis-
iation and the committee feels. that it
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-10
FINISHED
FOR Shrine VISIT
=
Imperial Potentate Dyke
man And Party To Ar
5 rive Here Thursday

Imperial Rotentate Conrad V. Dyke
man and party Of New York will ar
rive in Birmingham at 10 o'clock Thurs
day morning over the Alabama Great
Southern railway from Chattanooga on
an official visitation to Zamora tenn
pie, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine. A
program of entertainment and official
business has been arranged in his
honor, including banquet and big
ceremonial session.
In addition to the thousands of
Shriners residing in Birmingham a
large number from all sections of north
Alabama are expected to be present to
do honor to the guest. Another feature
of the meeting will be the presence of
a number of potentates of the various
southern temples who are gathered to-
gether for a business conference with the
imperial potentate in. reference to the
proposed annual meeting of the south
err temples, and other matters.
The imperial potentate and party
will be escorted into Birmingham by
George s. Obear, first potentate of
Zamora temple, who joined the party
at Knoxville, Tenn. Past Potentate NJ.
G. Hubbard, who joined at Mindless
-boro, KY; Past Potentate Frank G..
Shepard, Jr., who met the party at Chat
tanooga, and others.
The party will be, met at the Ter
min 1 station by Potentate H. c. Crelly
and official divan of Zamora temple,
past potentates., uniformed bodies, glad
hanl committee, visiting and resident
Shriners. and escorted to the. Tutwiler
hotel. Weather permitting. the visitors
will be given an automobile tour over
the business and residential sections of
the city.
Many Candidates
Potentate Crelly, in announcing the
program for Thursday, stated that a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-10
BROWN is ELECTED
EXPRESS DIRECTOR

New directors elected by stockholders
of the Southeastern Express company,
who met here Wednesday morning, in
clude r. A. Brown of Birmingham.
Others to be chosen were: H. G. Arm
strong, Selma; Charles A. Lyerly,
Chattanooga; Joseph L. Graham,
Winston-Salem, N. O.; and Robert f.
Maddox, Joseph d. Saggs, and ]. B.
Hockaday, of Atlanta, Ga.
stockholders were reported well
pleased with the annual report of the
company. 1t was the third annual
meeting.