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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday, no paper published.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. Ma.
80, 1894.)


80, s1894.)
The friends of Col. Duke Hamil
are trying to draw him into the legi-
stature race, but as yet he gives
them no reason to hope that he viii
yield to their seductive influences
and hurl himself into the POLITICAL
vortex.
DR.. A. H. Campbell, for Twelve
years pastor of the Baptist churcn
here, preached his farewell sermon
to a large congregation on Sunday
night last. He leaves Friday for
Macon, where he has accepted a call
to Tattnall Square Baptist church.
1t was with deep regret that the
pastors resignation was accepted
Sunday. 1t was rendered two weeks
ago, but was not formally accepted
until Sunday night last.
Messrs. George Van Ripper,
George Nix, Brum Lee and Bob
Frederick, with a party of friends
from Columbus, returned yesterday
from a weeks fishing frolic to the
Dead Lakes of West Florida. They
had a fine time and caught a car
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
Old Days In Americas

load of fish,
Pursuant to call, twenty two mem
bers of the Americas Bar Associa-
ton met in the county court room
Monday for the purpose of agreeing
upon endorsing one Of their num-
Der for the vacancy caused by the
death of Judge j. c. Mathews, of
the county court. Judge ]. A. Ans.
ley presided, while Col. F. A. Hoop
err acted as secretary. On the first
call Col, J. H. Lumpkin lead all
competitors, though his closest com
petitor received a very handsome
vote. His nomination was then
made unanimous and those present
were not long in making a selection,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30

buying, the Cuban and the Caro-
lima buyers having to compete
with the Moultrie packing hous+.
Industries of this kind in Georgia
are just as deserving as any up
east or anywhere else on the may
and a lawmaking body that
can destroy ours and build for
other sections is not the kind we
ought to haye-Cordele Dis
patch.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
THIS IS A Loss

Why can't somebody fix it so
as to let us have Swift and Co.,
continue in business in Georgia?
We need them the worst kind.
Where's the sunshine of live
stock industry in this murky,
foggy, rainy weather? We are
buying one and a half million
hogs from the west now and
raising and eating that many
more in Georgia. Must we go
back to buying the entire three
-1uiiifon i1ugs? Macon + llegpsP4+r-
The Swift plant at MOultrie is
the maker of competition in the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
ONCE OUT OF DEBT

1t was nearly a century ago. in
December, 1884, that Secretary
Of the Treasury fancy in his an
nual report to congress, announc-
ed that the entire national debt
would be paid or provided for
during the ensuing year.
Thus the United States will pre-
sent that happy and probably, in
modern times, unprecedented spec
tacle of a people substantially
free from the smallest portion of
debt" to quote from the report.
Secretary Taney's predecessor,
Secretary McLane, had predicted
the total extinguishment of the
national debt three years before,
and it is evident that the officials
Of that day had no confidence in
the theory, attributed to Hamil-
ton but probably never advanced
as a general truth, that "a public
debt is public blessing" for the
final wiping out of the last bond
occurred but seventeen years after
the close of the war of 1912, ir
which much of the debt was ere
ated.
Had later financial administra-
ton been as thrifty Uncle Sam
might long ago have paid, the civil
war debt, which still drags along
to the enrichment of the. bond
holders.-Dearborn Independent.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
1924 A. D.

Five thousand years from now,
scientists win view moving pictures
showing how we ran our industries
and manufactured the things we
use in 1924. The films soon will be
sealed in vault in the Smithsonian
Institution, not to be opened for so
centuries.
Watching these films, future men
will cOnider US in about THE same
light as we'd consider the prehis-
toric cavemen if we had movies of
the ways they did things. If you
could come back to earth in the
year 1924, you'd find next to moth
ing ou'd realize. Imagine the diff
Guilty explaining a crystal radio set
to George Washington if he could
return.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
DRAFTED

Judge Gray tells how leaders Of
the steel industry frustrated a pro-
posal to have Uncle Sam take over
and operate the steel mills during
the war. Gray says the committee
of steel men said to the government.
in effect:
IF you think, under government
management, better service will be
rendered and you believe you can
legally do it, you may undertake
forcibly to secure the management
of the steel business. You will
never do it with the consent or the
approval Of the owners of these
properties, and you will be held re-
sponsible, morally at least"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
MOON MUST BE FULL.

The new moon is rising rather
high in the northern skies, which,
weather. It is also tilted SO as to
"old folks" say, is a sign of drip
spill water, which, the same au-
thorities say, means wet month.
Now which will it prove to be?
early County News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
E%e1ai6
~ bgAbeTt Apple

BIG
Small banks earn higher per-
centage Of profit than big banks.
This is discovered through survey
by the Federal Reserve Bank Of
Boston. For instance, one big bank
with a million dollars to loan will
usually make less money from it
than if it were distributed among 10
country bankers. each using
100000.
The reverse often holds true in
business and is factor in the high
cost of living. There is a point in
the development of large corpora
lions and semi-monopolies where
the economies made possible by size
are eclipsed by overhead and other
expenses due to size. We might all
be more prosperous if many of our
large corporations were dissolved
into chains of small businesses, if
not too small.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
HOW CAN YOU TELL

Greene county gave McAdoo
nearly a thousand majority and
there isn't any XXX. organi-
cation in the county. The peo-
pie who voted for McAdoo are
just very-day-honest to God
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
WHY SOME PEOPLE FAIL

One of the main reasons why
some people never get on their
financial feet is because they
spend what they expect to make
before it is made, and often they
fall short of their expectations
The only safe course is to earn
your money first, and then spend
it afterwards.-The Sandersyille
Progress.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
JUST HUMDRUM

Many a man gets mad because
he has to answer the phone a few
times, and cusses out central who
has to answer the phone all day.
Rome News Tribune.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
woMENs SECONDS PURE
THREAD SILK HOSE AT 75c

The price of the first quality is
$3.50 to So per pair. These Sec
onds' are the best that we have
ever handled. The silk part of
these hose is perfect, Occasional
ly there is drop-stitch in the isle
part which has been neatly mend
ed; all sizes, all colors; Friday and
Saturdays pair ,......................-75c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
MUST HAVE SOMEBODY

Modernists who claim that
Adam and Eve never existed make
it necessary to hunt up someone
else to blame for the worlds trou-
bles.-Griffin News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
THIS is THE QQUEsTIoN

In all kindliness, we might
ask: "Did those cutting-up" stu
dents carry their own whiskey
with them to Washington? Or dii
they get it after they reached
the place?"- Moultrie Observer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
A THOUGHT

AS in water face answereth to
face. to the heart of man to man.
PROV. q: 10.
Truth makes the face of that per-
son shine who speaks and owns it,
South.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
Civic Clubs to the
Rescue

The three Americas civic
clubs MISCONCEPTIONS, Kiwanis
and Rotary-made possible the
early opening of the swimming
pool out at the playground by
purchasing a sufficient number
of bonds to pay off all indebt-
edness of the Playground as
ISOLATION.
1t was a generous, a noble
thing for these fellows to do,
and in so doing they have
proved their love for little chill
dren. their faith in the COM
munity and their desire to aid
in the training of the youth of
the community for its response
bility later in life.
Supervised play is a recogniz-
ed necessity by every forward
looking community. There was
a time when the young could
be permitted, wit ha reasonable
degree of safety, to seek its
pleasures where and when
desired. However, it has been
conclusively demonstrated that
the physical and moral welfare
of the child must be supervised.
The creeks and ponds are no
longer free from communicating
diseases. Malaria and fever
Turk in their waters. Moral de-
generacy seems to be more APP
parent about the isolated banks
of creek, river or pond than
elsewhere. The effects of UNI
desirable associates are easily
observed. The child must play
if it is to develop, therefore
supervised play becomes vital
necessity.
Recreational facilities for
those who have passed from
youth to manhood and woman
hood are necessary. The play
ground, with its pool and other
facilities, has met and will con-
tinue to meet these civic de-
mands, and it should receive
the support of every man and
woman in the city.
Its possibilities for civic good
are almost limitless, and as such
it will bring in a dividend that
cannot be measured in dollars
and cents.
No child, however poor its
parents. should be denied the
privilege Of this municipal plot
set aside for physical and moral
education. There are men here
financially able, whose love for
childhood, whose desire to
serve, is such that they will see
that no one is denied.
The city is indebted to the
splendid body of civic club
members for theegenerous con-
tribution they made Tuesday.
But to ]. Ralston Cargill,
more than to any other one
person. is due major credit for
the existence Of the swimming
pool, debt free, and the play
ground plant. When Others
were skeptical and discourag-
ed, he drove ever forward, de
tern,ined that this dream for
the kiddies of Americus'
should be guaranteed fact for
all time. Mr.. Cargill unstinting-
" gave of his time, talents and
money and the pool will ever
remain as a monument to his
love for little children.
I,a~I -..w.x~1 A
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
USED TO BE S

There used to be such a thing
as a parlor but now only the ex-
elusive old families boast one
Townsville Times Enterprise.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
GOV. NEFF BREEDS DIscoRD

So far, only Mr.. McAdoo and
Senator Underwood have been
seriously considered by the Demo,
Gratis Of Texas in connection with
the nomination, and there has
been no great amount of enthus-
iasm for either. While most Of
the Democratic voters have their
choice between the two men,
bitter partisan spirit has not
been manifested. There has beer
a tendency merely to judge which
is the most available candidate for
the party to nominate.
Texas enjoyed the prospect OF
a campaign without mud-slinging
and indulgence in personalities,
until Governor Neff got on the
stump and began to attack both
candidates that Texas Democrats
are considering, without letting
out the secret of the identity of
his own candidate.
His attacks upon Mr.. McAdoo
have been quite generally CON
sldered as unwarranted, and with.
out basis of fact in some partic-
ulars, and it is to the credit OF
the Underwood forces that they
are not trying to capitalize the
governors. structures on McAdoo
for their own candidate, the SEN
ator from Alabama.
The Underwood leaders are
making clean clear-cut fight for
their candidate. The campaign
harmonizes with Senator Under
woods character, and type of
craftsmanship. They are present
ing certain very plausible reasons
why Mr.. McAdoo is not available
as a Democratic candidate for
president, but they have refraineG
from attacking his personal cha
raster, and are discouraging such
attacks from others.
If the Underwood people have
their way, this campaign will be
ended as it begun, on high plane,
with an appeal to the peoples in
telligence, and not to their pas.
sions and prejudices.
The governor could have con-
Quoted his campaign for an unin-
structed delegation, and his IN.
named candidate, without indul
ging in attacks on Mr.. McAdoo's
personal integrity and his eff.
forts would have been more eff
fective.
From all indications, the gov.
ernor's vituperative talks are not
creating any great excitement
among the voters, but he has rob
bed Texas-nf chance to have al
least one decent political cam
! paign.-HonstOn lTexas) Post.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
81 QUEEN VICTORIA
SHEETS AT SI.49

Each one with the original "Vic-
toria" label, so of course each one
first quality, bleached snow-white,
size for double bed; this sale
only ...-..................... ...........$1 .49
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
MEMS HIGH GRADE FOUR
INLAND TIES, 35c

Mems Knitted Silk Foar-in-
Hand Ties, in every color, full
regular length; regularly SOC; here
Friday and Saturday, each ....35c
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
MEMS ENGLISH BROADCLOTH
SHIRTS AT S1.9s.

Genuine English Broadcloth
Shirts, made with attached collars.
The labels are in every shirt. Reg
ularly So; here Friday and Satur-
day, each ...---,..... ......--.-.-,.,,$I.9s
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
The STANDARD
WoMEN'S Sc TO Sc SHOES
AT $2.9S, $3.50 and $3.95.

See the window display. All
Shoes brand new, just received
from one of the largest, shoe maxi
ers. Every shoe bears this maxi
er's name. Patent colt, Suede
Brown and Back Calf, Hollywood
and Strap effects. Every size in
lot.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
BIKES

This is hard to believe, but it's
true: Americans are using more
bicycles now than during the
"bieycle craze" Is years ago.
The auto didn't put the bicycle
industry out of business, though it
did paralyze it for a while.
The process will repeat when air.
planes come by the millions. Well
need all the planes we can get, also
all the autos. There is room tor
both. The new no longer displaces
the old, they help each other.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
KILLED

While We We're actively engaged
in the World War, half as many
Americans were murdered here at
home as were killed in battle over
seas.
Wars come to an end. Murders
do not. More than a million Ameri
cans will be murdered during this
goth century if the present rate
continues.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-30
CROOKS

Three hundred thousand profess
sional criminals in our country, re
ports the National Surety Company
That's a low estimate. 1t doesn't
include the profiteers and petty
eheaters who operate within the
law.
The professional criminals each
year steal 5000 million dollars Of
American money and property
This is only a shadow of the steal
ing by the aforementioned profiteers
and petty eheaters.
Dishonesty begins wherever ful
value is not given for price paid On
services rendered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-11

tional bourgeoisie, the international
bourgeoisie refused It. Was that a
moral defeat? Suppose we should de-
clare to the social democrats that we
are in favor Of unity in the trade I'M
ion movement and they should be
against It, would that be our moral
death? No, not at all. Read once,
how the yellow "Vor%arts" in Berlin
RACES against that unity in the I'M
ions in its international dimensions.
Why? Because these gentlemen are
afraid it may be a blow against them.
That may become anything only not a
blow against us.
How Did the r. |. L. U. Originator
Further it says in the memorandum,
the German delegation and the whole
German party spoke against the foun-
dation Of the r. l. L. U. at the time,
but if it is founded, it must keep the
old forms. That is not right. You
know the history of your own party
very badly. Not the German party
but Paul Levi, was against the foun-
dation Of the r. !. L. U. That is a
very different thing. The German
party was with us for the foundation,
and the r. /. L. U. was founded at
a time when it seemed as If we
should break thru the enemy front in
a direct attack, and soon win the I'M
ions. can very well remember the
foundation session Of the R. l. L. U.
The session was participated in by
DArragona in the name of the italian
delegation and by Robert Williams in
the name Of the English delegation;
some delegates introduced amend
ments to the resolutions. We can
even mention the fact that at that
time Spanish professor came to us
in Moscow, and said" am a reform
list, but the Spanish workers are
Communists, and they demand that
join the Third International" We
answered him: "As long as you are
not a Communist you cannot be taken
into the Communist International
Such times we had then. It was at a
time when we thot that we should in
the very shortest time win the ma
jority of the workers. You know,
comrades, that the movement Gained
down later. All the problems, all the
tactical difficulties of the Comintern
during these five years, are due to
this, that the development went on
much more slowly than we had thot.
The social democrats have become to
some extent stronger even in the un-
ions. Now we must fight them in a
much slower much more difficult way.
That is the new thing that you do
not wish to grasp.
Ito be continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-11

| was talking with a few comrades,
and It seems to me that some of them
are thinking: Let the Russian unions
join up with Amsterdam, we have
nothing against IT, but do not let
them force us in Germany to work in
the social democratic unions. Can
such a point Of view be regarded as
an international point Of view? Not
in the very least. II the Russian un-
ions were to go over to the Amster-
damers without the r. I. L. U. that
would be a real capitulation of the
Comintern and of the R. /. L. U. and
that we will never do. Our Russian
trade unions are feminist unions, and
they do not act as Russian unions but
as part of the Red International of
Labor Unions, and carry out what
the international decides. The Ger
man comrades must consider this
question, not from the purely German
but from the international point of
view
The Winning of the Trade Unions Is
Progressing Too Slowly.
At the congress we see three groups
of delegates: Delegates from coun-
tries where the Communists already
have the majority in the unions, as
for example, France. In this case it is
fairly easy to make a resolution for
union with the reformists; the re-.
formist minority can give way to the
majority.
To the second group belong coun.
tries in which we have no important
influence in the trade unions. Here
the comrades are more or less indif.
ferent to the question at issue. To
the third group belongs Germany and
to some extent Czecho Slovakia.
where we have no certain majority
behind us, but where we are nearing
it, and where sharp struggle is TAX
ing place between the Communists
and the social democrats. Here the
question is most difficult. We see
that. But these difficulties cannot be
decisive in the matter.
The proposal from the Russian dele
cation is both from the International
as from the national point of view,
perfectly right.
Comrade Bordiga says and it is re-
peated in the memorandum, it would
be our moral death if we should make
the suggested proposal to the Amster-
damers and they should refuse it..
That is curious standpoint. We make
our class enemy proposal and he re-
fuses it-does that mean that we are
morally defeated? How is that? Let
us take an example from civil life.
The Russian Soviet Government pro-
posed disarmament to the interna-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-11

character. In comparison with the so.
called ultra-left wing we have often
been reproached with a fright" po-
sition. At the Third world congress
Lenin said: Il am speaking as a right
winger against the offensive theory"
Good, you may call us right-wingers,
we are not afraid. The real left Len.
mist wing is always there, where the
workers are. To win the great
masses Of the workers from the social
democrats, that is the real revolu-
tionary .orientation Of Leninism.
The Memorandum" of the German
delegation, which we saw today for
the first time, has been mentioned
here. We do not know exactly when
1t was written. We beg the congress
not to Judge our views on the basis
Of this memorandum. In this memo
randum the point of view Of the Rus
sian party is not expressed. If you
wish to know our point of view, we
are ready to set it forth, but the
memorandum is false. 1t says that
we are striving for marriage" with
the Amsterdamers. / am afraid that
was written by those comrades who
have prepared such a marriage" in
the Saxon Labor Government" The
question is put in the following way.
One of two things: either union with
the Amsterdamers, or out of the trade
unions.
But think, there is another way of
putting the question. Ask the Rus
sian mensheviki. With them we had
really no marriage" but we also did
not retire from the unions when they
oppressed us. We won the unions not
in 20 months but in 20 years. II you
wish for such directions as will guar
antee you victory in 20 months, we
cannot give you such; whoever under
takes such thing can only be a char
latan, But we know that, in spite of
all, we shall win the majority of the
workers. If we do not manage that,
then there will be no proletarian
revolution.
OF a marriage" with the Amster.
damers there can be no question. We
saw such marriage" last year with
the social democrats in Saxony. But
not in the Russian revolution, there
we shall never see it.
One more reason which must move
the German party to think this ques-
ton thru consequently, if it at pres
ent still has objections to certain ne
gotiations with the Amsterdamers, ]
believe that is not out Of interna-
tional, but out of purely inner party
reasons-it is because our party in
Germany is not fighting out the ques-
ton Of unity in the trade unions.