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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
The Trade Outlook Is
Good

ditionsp Things have slowed
down a bit lately in several of
the basic industries. But there S
nothing in the situation to make
us uneasy. All indications are
that the showdown is temp
orary.
Business is a lot like a man
hiking across the continent. He
can walk fast just so long, then
he has to stop and rest. That s
the real business situation -
production was on too big
scale, so now there's lull to
size things up"
These lulls come periodically
even during long-range periods
of prosperity. Trade goes up
and down. 1t always has, and
it always will
Take steel. This giant indus
try is operating at about 80 per
cent of capacity, maybe IS.
But in recent months production
was smashing all records. Now
the industry slows down to
catch its breath.
Then, too, buyers are buy
ing hand-to-mouth, holding
back for lower prices. Makers
are slowly making concessions
small price cuts to serve as
bait This also is periodical
and inevitable reaction. When
prices stabilize, lots or orders.
Auto industry also is quieter.
Buying movements by the pub
lie come in waves. The last
big wave, during January and
February and March made the
factories turn out more cars
than ever before. A hull now,
but only temporary. Place
your bets on another big buying
movement, to start soon.
A lot of the lessened activity
in business generally is seasonal
always comes at this time of
year. That's one reason why
coal production is so low.
Spring always brings dull
spell. Furthermore, there is a
tremendous over-production of
coal-and no national strikes in
sight to create shortage.
But business leaders are ex-
pecting good times. They're
getting ready for it-providing
the capital to carry on work. In
April 298 million dollars worth
of new stocks and bonds were
floated, compared with 305 mil
lions in April last year.
In the first three weeks of
April --latest figures available),
the railroads of the whole
country loaded and moved D.
620,3lS cars of revenue-pro-
ducing freight. This was a bit
less than in the corresponding
weeks of last year, but away
ahead of 1922 and 1921. From
the first of the year to April 20,
the roads moved l42 cars Of
freight for every l4l year ago
in corresponding period, and
40 in 1922 and III in 1921.
This is the long-range tenden-
cy, not only in rail traffic by
in general business. That s
what really counts-the long
range activity, not temporary
lulls.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
BETTER

Freight handled by the railroads
continues climbing steadily. Recover
ing from the slump early in April
So far this year, the roads have
loaded almost exactly as many load
ed freight cars as in the correspond.
ing period year ago.
This sort of news is fundamental.
shows the way the wind is blowing.
1t neutralizes temporary slumps in
some industries, for it indicates that
recovery lies ahead. Business men
don't buy what comes in freight cars
unless they expect to have custo
mers for it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
MAGIC

MAGIC
Photographs are now sent sue
eessfully over telephone wires. 1t
means that pictures will come over
the wires along with news stories,
showing you what's happening afar
off.
This is real magic, more so than
the chimerical elixir of life OF
philosophers stone sought by an
cientalchemists. You pay your mon
ey to see the stage magician pull
rabbis from plug bat OF make
Princess WaWa disappear. =
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
A THOUGHT

A FOOLS mouth is his destruction,
and his lips are the snare of his Soul.
Prov. 1887
Tricks and treachery are the prac'
tice Of fools that have not wit
enough to be Observation-Disclosures
Franklin.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
soc SHIRT MADRAS,
3 YARDS FOR 81.

On Sale special Monday and
Tuesday more than twenty pref
ty patterns of regular soc Shirt
Madras, all colors, warranted fast
Sold only on Monday and Tues
day yards for -.....-.,.........$1
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
39c AND soc COLORED
VOILES AT 25c

New, beautiful Voiles, 40 inches
wide, in a great variety of medium
and dark patterns Monday and
Tuesday (plenty for everybody
at yard .........-................... Csc
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
GOOD CURTAIN
SCRIM AT 1Oc

White and Ecru, SO inches wide;
variety of pretty designs, double
border-Monday and Tuesday,
yard ....-....-...-........ .......1Oc
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
The STANDARD
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
BARGAINS
SNOW-WHITE TABLE
DAMASK AT 85c

Fine beautiful Damask, highly
mercerized, two yards, beautiful
patterns; regularly $1.50-Monday
and Tuesday, yard .....,....s5c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
SAVED
PATHETIC

The right of tenement children to
play in their backyards is upheld by
the New York state supreme court,
appeals division. 1t had been claim
ed that the Riddles were trespassing,
That such thing has to be taken
to court, is a clear-cut picture of
metropolitan Civilization.
Alleys have disappeared. Back
yards are vinishing. Streets are
perilous. Where can the children
play? They are getting a rotten
deal. Parks are too few, too far
away.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24

.yOANlS made on improved
ANEAA NGfarm 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 $1,100,000 on
farms in Sumter county alone, with
plenty more to leEd.
MIDDLETON MCDONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co.,
in Sumter, Lee, Terrell, Schley,
Macon, Stewart, Randolph and
Webster counties. 81 Planters Bank
Building, Americas, Ga. Phone SO
or 21ls -. -. -.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
BEAUTIFUL SILK CREPE
DE CHINE AT &1 40

White, black and all colors, 40
inches wide, guaranteed every
thread pure silk; regularly $1.98-
Monday and Tuesday, yard ..$1.49
WOMEN'S RIBBED
VESTS AT Sc
Bleached Ribbed Vests, tape
neck and shoulders, very elastic;
regularly 15c-here Monday and
Tuesday ... .................o &c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
PEPPEREL BLEACHED
SHEETING AT 49c YARD

You know the Pepperel grade, fine
bleached snow-white, free from
dressing-sold only in limited
quantities Monday and Tuesday,
yard ............ .................. Ale
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
STANDARD DRESS
BINGHAM AT 19c YARD

Best Standard Dress Bingham,
in new patterns, full line of all
colored checks, blocks and plaids;
regularly 25c-here Monday and
Tuesday, yard .--.s.................... I9c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
RENFREW DEVONSHIRE
CLOTH AT Csc

Short lengths of the best fabric
known for the making of shirts,
boys waists, ladies' waists and
dresses; every color guaranteed
fast-Monday and Tuesday, yd Csc
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
fleece /:
hsAlbers apple
An
PAR

Consols, Italian government Sc
curities, sold as low as 68 in 1919.
Recently they went above par, 100
which is face value.
The reason? Italy still has her
enormous war debt. But under Mas
solinis wise financial leadership,
she's eeonomizing, pairing expenses.
That looks good for the future, so
consols advanced.
The real danger and problem in
Europe is government spending
rather than debts already incurred.
A governments credit is exactly like
and individuals. And when a man
however heavily in debt from fool
ish spending-shows signs of com
ing to his senses, his standing rises.
LAWS
More, than 1000 new laws have
been passed so far this year by the
legislatures of 10 states.
We have too many laws, too many
lawyers.
The nation has feeble minded
hallucination that prompts it, as
soon as problem of any sort rises
to try to solve it by new law How
many problems, tackled by creation
Of new statutes, would be solved
sooner and better by leaving them
to the natural laws such as cause
and effect2 Fetch and adding ma
chine
Another thing we need is house
cleaning Of statute books, wedding
out the obsolete junk useful only as
precedents for delay.
SAVED
Diabetes killed 24,53O Americans
in March, 1923. The death toll was
only 1880 in March 1924.
Insulin, the new remedy for dia-
betes, is beginning to get in its gocj
work. Already saving over $4,000
lives a year in our country alone
Doctors Banting and Best, discover
ers of insulin, have performed a ser
vice of incalculable value. Lucky
that a profiteer didn't make the dis.
covery.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-24
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY

(From The Times Recorder. May
"a, 1904.)
Evening star., 1924-09-03
| KILLED, 3 HURT
IN 4ST0RY FALL
ScaffoId at New Willard An.
mex Co|Iapses, Throwing
Workmen to Ground.

One colored workman was killed
and four other workmen were in
jured more or less seriously about s
o'clock this morning when a heavy
scaffold on which three of them were
working four stories above F street.
at the Willard Hotel annex site. near
to the ground.
The dead man was Ellie Palams.
colored. 25 years old. of 1928
10th street. The injured men thrown
from the scaffold, all colored, are
John Matthews, 20 years old, also of
112S 10th street: William Grant, 35
years old, OF Brown court. and Dan
iel Edwards. who gave his address
as Ninth street" A white man. Ed
ward Shumaker, ~ years old, of 3421
o street, at work on the ground near
the scaffold, was struck on the ankle
by brick and slightly injured. All
but Shumaker were taken to Emer-
gency Hospital.
According to those at the scene, the
accident occurred without warning.
The four men were engaged in wreck
ing the west walls of the old Mer-
chants Bank Building. which is being
ton to the Willard. Suddenly the
giant platform beneath the workers
swayed and buckled, and before they
cout1 make move they were precipi
tated four stories downward amid a
shower of lumber. bricks and debris.
Few ON Street at Time.
Few persons were on the street at
the time, but in a short while a large
crowd gathered as police reserves
from three precincts were rushed in
patrols to the scene.
Palams was hurried to the hospital
in a passing automobile, and was pro-
nounced dead on arrival there by Dr.
Hoffman Edwards, Matthews and
Grant were rushed to the institution
in another private machine.
Edwards was rendered unconscious
from injuries to his head and neck.
His condition is regarded as serious.
The extent of the injuries has not been
definitely ascertained.
Matthews and Grant were treated
for bruises on the body.
Shumaker was taken to his home
in a passing, automobile and treated
by his family physician.
Coroner hewitt was notified by the
police of the death of Palams and he
is arranging to hold an inquest
shortly.
Building Inspector Oehmann imme-
diately conducted an investigation of
the collapse. Without attempting to
fix the cause of the accident, Inspector
Oehman drafted a report for the Com
missioners this afternoon describing
conditions as found by his men when
they visited the scene.
Inspector Oehman stated in his re-
port that his investigators learned
that there was approximately half
truck load of brick piled on the scaf-
fold, waiting to be dropped through
the chute, which he suggests may
have been a contributing factor. The
text of the report will be sent to the
Commissioners later in the day.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
GRAND JURY BEGINS
SECOND OIL PROBE

The Federal grand jury today be-
gan another inquiry.
Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Rob-
erts. special counsel for the Govern
ment in oil prosecutions, sent out a
number of supoenas calling for the
attendance before the grand jury of
about IS persons who are supposed
to be able to throw light on the oil
situation.
A. c. Harvey, a lawyer of Colum-
bus, was the first witness. He ap-
peared in the place of r. W. Nell
vaine of Independence, Kan, who had
been summoned as witness. The
summons required the production of
all correspondence and contracts con-
cerning the Mexia oil field, in Texas.
Mr. Harvey declined to discuss the
information he had given the grand
jurors.
]. L. Havice, formerly of Inde-
pendence, Kan, but later of Chey-
enne, was the other witness. He did
not appear to have with him any of
the documentary evidence called for
In his summons.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
DRY CHIEF URGES
D. CLAW CHANGES
Haynes Also Would Give Ali
Policemen Power to Serve
Liquor Warrants.

Heavy penalty for violation of the
prohibition law and additional legis-
lation to give all Washington police
men power to serve liquor search
warrants are urged by Prohibition
Commissioner Roy Haynes in a state
ment issued from his office today on
the subject of enforcement in the
National Capital.
Liquor lawlessness in WASHINGTON
has some of the causes as in some of
the other sections of the Nation" ac-
cording to the report of the congress
s1onal committee which has been in
vesugating conditions here. said Com
missioner Haynes. 1T is nearly always
true that where unsatisfactory enforce
ment conditions exist courts are not
using all the power in the existing law.
Penalties imposed are not severe enough
to discourage the bootlegging and the
rum running Nominal fines are simply
an extra-legal form of license that is
cheaper than the old saloon license.
Secs Immunity Cheap.
when a bootlegger is allowed TO
escape trial by forfeiting collateral
he is buying immunity from punish
ment very cheaply. The report of
the Investigating committee makes
this clear.
Jail penalties for convicted boot
leggers will help solve many of our
problems. Catching liquor outlaws does
not stop liquor lawlessness unless we
punish them adequately after they
have been caught.
When Congress acts on the COM
mittee's recommendations that the
District police be given the same
authority to serve search warrants
as the police in practically every
State, then it will be easier to get
at the bootleg source of supply. Be
cause of the view that the search
warrant clauses of the Sheppard act
were repealed by the Volstead act
Federal agents have to search all
search warrants. Through the CO.
operation of the District Commission
ers we are now deputizing a few po-
licemen and prohibition agents to
temporarily meet this situation. Just
now the District is like a State with
out an enforcement code" 80,
Evening star., 1924-09-03
Hand Made Ouer
So Crippled Girl
May Play Piano
snecial D;snatcb "a The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, September 3.-The
making of what virtually is a new
hand for Elizabeth Matthiesen, ii
years old. that she may realize
her ambition to become proficient
at the piano, is the unusual feat
that surgeons at Johns, Hopkins
Hospital have just performed.
When Elizabeth was learning to
walk, she fell against a stove and
burned both hands. The left hand
responded to treatment, but the
right gave Indications Of knotting
into a fist.
Surgeons decided to try to re-
store the hand to use by plastic
surgery. Small bits of flesh were
removed from the girls leg and
grated to the hand, which was
then fitted with a plaster cast to
remold it to normal shape. Sur
geons today said that the cast is
doing it's work. and that the girl
will be able to leave the hospital
shortly.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
VENUS OBSCURITY
DUE TO ATMOSPHERE
Earth's Twin Among Planets-De.
fies Efforts of Scientists to
Find Marking.

CHICAGO, September 3.-The sur.
face of Venus. which the astronomers
at the University of Chicago's Yerkes
Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis
have found visible at high noon
probably never is seen because of the
heavy atmosphere enveloping her. il
was announced today.
Venus shows phases similar to
those of our moon, and for the same
reason" says the announcement from
Edwin B. Frost, director of the
observatory, mo definite and perma-
nent markings can be seen on photo
graphs. The planet has a. heavy
atmosphere which probably never
allows us to see the surface of the
planet itself. This Is one rea son
for the great rejecting power OF the
planet.
'The planet is nearly a twin Of the
earth in respect to size and probabJa,
mass. 1t is also the nearest to the
earth of the large planets. Its aver
age distance from us is $1,000. 600
miles, but this ranges from 1e0. 900 :
600 miles when the planet is on the
farthest side of its orbit from the
sun to 26.000.000 miles when it is
at the nearest point to the earth on
cur side OF the SUM-
Evening star., 1924-09-03
LEOPOLD PREPARES
FINAL TESTAMENT
Franks Slayer Bequeaths
Bird Collection to Field
Museum and Cousin.
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOCfAteu frebs
CHICAGO. September 3.-The last
will and testament of Nathan F.
Leo6 old. jr, joint confessor with
Richard Loeb of the KIDNAPPING and
murder of Bobby Franks, has been
made public.
That Leopold contemplates the pos
sibility OF receiving a death sentence
at the hands of Judge Caverly. who
now has the murder case under con-
sideration, Is evinced by a letter he
has mailed to Clarence S. Darrow.
defense counsel
The letter bequeaths to the Field
Museum first choice of any five OBJ
jects in Leopold's ornithological col
lection. Next choice is given to a
cousin of Leopold, who may choose
of any three articles after the
museum has made its selection. Third,
any Of Leopold's birds, minerals or
transcripts.
In the letter Leopold asked Darrow
to notify the beneficiaries as soon as
possible-and before his execution.
The letter also thanked Darrow for
his closing arguments. Leopold wrote
that he had been content to die be-
fore he heard that argument, but
that after hearing it he wanted to
live.
The last will was scratched out
under a county Jail arc light on paper
supplied by the jailer.
Plans to Pierce Veil.
for attempts to pierce the veil Shroud-
ing death, If he is hanged. Although
he is an admitted atheist, he says he
will not cast out any suggestion of
the possibility of an after life until
he has had an opportunity to demon
strate its invalidity. So he has pre-
pared ten questions, which he plans
to leave with friends on earth should
he die on the gallows.
The questions are:
Are the experiences of human life
carried into the hereafter?
"Is the intellectual or the spiritual
the dominant note after death?
rs the absence of the physical be-
ing an advantage or a detriment to
such intellectual or spiritual happi-
ness?
earth. or is there complete omnis-
ence?
Does one retain reactions to SEN
sations registered on the mind previ-
Gus to death?
'Is life on earth a necessary prece-
dent to life hereafter? If so, how
long life?
"If the intellectual is dominant in
the hereafter, is earthly knowledge
adequate or insufficient to its en-
joyment?
"Is life on earth a correct balance
of rewards and penalties, or is there
a higher judgment?
'If life hereafter is spiritual, are
the cultural experiences on earth
necessary? What of the savage
mind?
What is happiness?'
Leopold plans to make a speech if
he is sent to the gallowS.
And / will say something that
win make the world listen,' he
added.
Loeb, who has no such philosophy.
admits he has no liking for life in
prison.
When I think of the long life
down there l sometimes feel that it
would BE- better to get it all over
with now" he said.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
COOLIDGE LEADING
ELECTORAL RACE
With Nine Weeks to Go Re-
publican Candidates Have
All the "BreakS" So Far.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Nine weeks more, and it will be
all over. The presidential cam
paign has at length, after the dull
dog days of Midsummer. passed into
the decisive stage. From now on,
all three major parties-for the pur-
poses Of the 1924 contest, the third
party can claim to be in that cate
gory-will remain more or less on
the anxious seat. 1t is an open Sc
cret. acknowledged by Republican.
Democratic and Progressive leaders
alike that at this writing Coolidge
and Dawes are unquestionably on the
inside track.
Estimates by its partisans give
the Republican ticket 2S7 votes in
the electoral college. with only 266
comprising the majority necessary to
choice. Republicans of more con-
servative inclinations have not elimi-
mated the possibility of the election
being thrown into Congress. But
even they consider it a remote possi-
bility. G.. Q. T. managers can be
heard saying that 1t looks as IL John
w. Davis will be as badly beaten in
1924 as Alton b. Parker was in 1904.
A Wall Street magnate, without any
particular leanings toward either
Coolidge or Davis, informs this writer
that financial New York considers
Coolidge today a safe 2-to-1 betting
proposition. 1t is the same author
ity's opinion that nothing less serious
than a nationwide period Of business
depression will change those odds be-
tween now and election day in No
vember.
Mr.. Davis friends do not, of course,
concede the accuracy of these rosy
Republican ruminations. They recall
that many presidential candidate
elected in August travelled up Salt
Creek in November.
Straw Vote ON Ship.
On the homecoming United States
steamship George Washington last
week there was one of the most sig
nificant presidential straw votes of
the present campaign. The numbers
were relatively small, but the cleo
torate involved was peculiarly repre-
sentative of the country as a whole.
Five hundred and thirtyfour votes
were cast by passengers in the first,
second and third cabins. More than
thirty different States of the Union
were represented. and nearly every
"gainful occupation" from that of
garment worker and school teacher
to financial magnate. The voting
was preceded by three days of mock
though intensive, campaigning, and
there was as much excitement over
the election" as if 1t had been the
real thing. Representative John D.
Fredericks of California was spokes-
man for the Cooiidge-Dawes ticket;
Arthur Mulberger of Wisconsin, a
former United States district at
torney, advocated Davis and Bryan;
and Herman Grossman. a New York
proletarian, was the La Toilette and
Wheeler representative.
O. Per Cent Coolidge.
Voting took place by secret ballot
at the same hour in the three differ
ent cabins 1t turned out to be a sea-
slide for Coolidge-Dawes. who swept
the ship with 342 votes. as against
ITO for Davis and Bryan, and So for
Continued on Page 3, Column c.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
MRS. SHAVER'S LETTER
MYSTERY TO HUSBAND
Davis. Manager Says He Hasn't
Read Message Criticizing
Stand of Bryan.

By the Associate Press.
NEW YORK, September 3.-Clem L..
Shaver. Democratic national campaign
manager, said today he had not read
and probably never will read his wife's
letter recently published, criticising
Gov. Bryan's attitude toward Nation
al Defense day.
"Of course, 1 know the gist of the
letter. l haven't heard much of any
thing else the last few days." said Mr..
Shaver. i-.r
But I haven't read the letter or a
CODY of it. l haven't even seen one
what's more, 1 probably won't read it
until this campaign is overt ever"
He dismissed further discussion on
the subject with a wave of the hand.
Evening star., 1924-09-03
Macdonald and Herri0t Tackle
Bic Guarantee Pact Problems
Vide Difference of Views on League
Treaty Considered in Private on
Eue of Opening Debate Tomorrow.

far have expressed opinions concern
ing 1t are favorable.
To this the British reply that as
Russia. Germany. Great Britain and
the United States refused. Italy
answered enigmatically and Japan
did not reply. the only world power
which is willing to accept seems to
be France, and that world peace can
not be organized around one great
power. The French insist that in any
case the problem must be tackled
here and not left to some future
conference in Washington or London.
There is even talk among the
French delegates of the Is countries
which are willing to accept the draft
of the treaty putting it into erect
without the others. leaving 1t open
for others to join later when they
see it's benefits.
The league plan, which is the re-
suit of two years deliberations. out
(Continued on Page g. Column 81