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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23
INSTITUTIONS GET
PART OF DEAN ESTATE
Aged Negro Family Servant AL
so Given Legacy Of $1,000
BY Athens Woman

ATHENS, January Bequests
to church institutions and individ.
ual legacies to a number of Geor-
gians were provided in the will of
Fannie Susan Dean, of this city, the
provisions of which have just been
made public. Mrs, Dean died here
a few weeks ago.
Among the philathropic requests
by Mrs. Dean was one of $4,000
to Wesley Memorial hospital in At
lanta, ar{yAer of the same amount
to the Decatur Methodist orphans
home, and one of $4,000 to Nacoo-
chez Institute if that sum remained
from the residue of the estate after
the deduction of other gifts. A fund
OF $4,000 was provided in the will
for the support Of a foreign mis-
sionary of the Methodist church.
Those named in the will for lega-
cies include; Mrs. Lena Estelle
Amis, Dean Amis and Julius Wal
ton Amis, of Athens; Mrs. Susie
Amis Thomas and William Thomp-
son, of Macon; Paxon Amis and
John Mosepan, of Atlanta; Mrs. F..
E. Moseman Collins, Mrs. Fannie
Mayne Davis, Mrs. Katie Dean Ev-
ans, Miss Elizabeth Hale, Miss Ma
tilda Smith, Mrs. Fannie Smith
Edison, George S. Mayne, Mrs.
Mary Fullilove and Mrs. EsteHe
Hardeman, all of Clarke county;
Mrs. Lou Stovall, of Madison; Mrs.
Mrs. Martha Aubrey, Of harrington;
Mayne iDobbins, of Albany; Popie
Foster, of Winder, and number
of relatives living in Alabama and
Oklahoma.
An aged negro family servant,
who had served the Dean family for
years as "coachman and butler"
wra3 given a, legacy Of $1,000.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23
ITCHING ECZEMA
DRIED RIGHT UP
BY THIS SULPHUR

Any breaking out OF the skin, even
fiery, itching eczema, can be quickly
overcome BY. applying a little Mentho-
Sulphur, says noted skin specialist.
Because OF its germ destroying proper
ties, this sulphur preparation instantly
brings ease from skin irritation, soothes
and heals the eczema right Up and
leaves the skin clear and smooth.
@It seldom fails to relieve the torment
and Disagreement. Sufferers from skin
trouble should get little jar of Rowles
Mentho-Sulphur from any good drug
gist and use it like a cold cream.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23
GEORGIA GINNINGS
ARE 60S,9l6 BALES
Total Ginnings to January IS
Announced by Bureau as
9,946,462 Bales

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-Cot-
ton ginners prior to January 10
amounted to 9,946,462 bales, IN
GLIDING 235,89kround bales as half
bales, and 2o,181 American-Egyp,
tian, and 71s Sea Island, the census
bureau announced today,
Georgia ginnings are G0S,916.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23
THE STANDARD

Wednesday and Thursday Adver-
tisement Brimming With Impor-
sant Items for You. Thousands
of Dollars Worth of New Mer-
eaandise Answering Every Sea-
sonable Need, all Marked Par
ticularIy Low for This Sale.
81 will buy yards English Long
Cloth; regularly 22c yard.
81 will buy 80 Spools Sewing Cot
ton, black or white, all sizes.
81 will buy 20 Cards Buttons;
every style imaginable in this lot;
value 10c to 25c card.
81 will buy, Opaque Window
Shades, complete with all necessary
fixtures.
81 will buy 2 Boys and Chill
dren's Cotton Sweaters, dark col
ors, all sizes.
81 will buy yards White Out
ing, bleached snow-white, full
width.
81 will buy yards Gold Seal
Percales, full yard wide, light %
dark shades.
81 vii buy yards Genuine In
dian Head, SO inches wide.
81 will buy yards good quality
Canton Flannel, full width.
81 will buy yards regular soc
quality Shirt Madras, eolors guar
anteed.
81 will buy A pairs Children's
Socks, all colors, all sizes; regular
ly 35c.
S will buy yards Beautiful
Cotton Challies, full yard wide;
regularly Csc.
81 will buy 3 Boys Blue Shirts
with collars attached, sizes IL to IA.
81 will buy 4 yards of any price
Ribbon in our house formerly up to
S5c yard.
81 will buy 8 yards Ecru Curtain
Scrim with wide satin borders, yard
wide
81 will buy 5 Laf4s bRasSiereS'
new styles, all sizes; regularly Boo
each.
81 will buy 2 yards Heavy Bath
Robe Material, pretty patterns.
81 will buy Windsor Ties, all
colors, full length.
81 will buy 10 pairs Children's-|
Heavy Ribbed Stockings; formerly
25c pair.
ST will buy 7 pairs Mems Seam
less Socks, black, white and brown;
value 25c pair.
81 will buy 4 Infants Under
vests sizes 1 to 6 years; regularly
35c
Standard Dry Goods
Company
FORSYTH ST. Next Bank of Commerce
ANEFPfCIJS. GA.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23
REBEL LEADERS To
RAISE BLOCKADE:
Consul Hood at Vera CRUZ No
titled of Decision to Take Ac-
ton Today

WASHINGTON, D. c. january
23.-Mexican revolutionary leaders
have advised Consul Wood, of Vera
Cruz, of their decision to raise the
blockade of Tampico.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23
GEORGIA
Continued from Page ~

Trust company, in an address be-
fore the seventeenth annual farm
ers' conference now in session here
Tuesday. Mr.. Black was followed
by J. j. Brown, commissioner of
agriculture.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23
WANTED
$4,000 Pounds Pecans
Neon Buchanan

GARDEN AND FARM SEED =
Spencer's Mixed Sweet Peas seed,
Nasturtium seed, Onion sets and
seed Irish potatoes. Go to Wallis
Seed Department for Quality and
Quantity.-10-tf.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23

Sweden was the first country to
recognize that a wife's services in
the home had a legal value.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23

FOR Established, business
now paying over $4,000 per
month net at bargain. Only small
capital required. If really inter
ested, write P. 0. Box 4S1, Amer
icus, Ga.-17-13t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23
A NC made on improved

made on improved
aAA-$<hA Nlfarm 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 H1eFe to leEd.
MIDDLETON MCDONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co.,
in Sumter, Lee, Terrell, SchIey,
Macon, Stewart, Randolph and
Webster counties, p Planters Bank
Building, Americas. Ga. Phone 50
or 2tl,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23

Women now comprise the major
ity Of all employees in the vast tex
tile industry of England.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23

FOR>QUICK SERVICE AND
= HEAVY HAULING PHONE 12I
WQ0FTEN TRANSFER co.
Office in Americus Steam Lauas
= dry
i SOUTH JACKSON STREET
3 RAILROAD SCHEDULES
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23

FOR SALE-Improved Lewis SO
Cotton Seed. \ These seed saved
from cotton which yielded 10 bales
to pillow in 1928. Charles S. Hogg,
Rout A, Americas. -21-10t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23

LOsT-setter bird dog, female;
color black and white; name
Ruby. Dr. ]. c. Berry--29-6t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23

THERE is only oae CAFE the
SAVOY, famous for its food and
neatness.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23
Observation-Disclosures

WANTED - LOANS, LOANS,
LOANS, DEMONSTRATING d.
rect connection ana silently Of
l4ohey at the lowest possible inter.
est rate. ] can save you money on
city loans and farm loans. H, o.
JONES. 14-ef
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23

FOR RENT - Three unfurnished
rooms; close in. Telephone COZ
stiff
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23

MONEY, MONEY-Plenty money
to loan: good company; good
rates and terms. w. 7. Lane &
Son. 6-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23

qHONE 117-JOHN w. SILVER
for SCREENS. fer home or Of
flee. 21-tf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23

LOANS on farm lands and city
property. Low interest rate.
Loans promptly closed. See s. R.
Heys or H. B. Williams. Phones IS
or So.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-23
Standard Dry Goods
Company

Forsyth ST. Next Bank of Commerce
AMERICAS, GA.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
0ver-the-Line Gambling.

Montgomery county means to pro-
tect itself against a certain kind of
resort" which men set up in Mary
land close to the District line. 1t is
generally found it easier to operate
such places near the District than in
it. 1t was only few weeks ago that
Montgomery county police entered a
place on the Conduit road. and it was
reported that they made arrests and
captured gambling paraphernalia. In
Prince Georges county three places
were recently entered by county Off
are pending at the county seat.
Though there is q Montgomery coun-
ty law against setting up a gaming
table it is sought to make the law
more stringent. Delegate Edmonds of
that county has introduced in the
Maryland general assembly a bill
which would prohibit gambling Of all
kinds, and provide for search of sus-
pected houses and rigorous prosecu-
ton Of violations of the law. 1t has
been given out that this bill "is de-
signed particularly to prevent the es-
tablishment of gambling resorts on
county territory near the District line,
which are patronized almost exclusive
ly by residents of the city of Wash
ington." The bill directs that search
warrants be issued by justices of the
peace and by the county grand jury
upon the sworn testimony of any per-
son that a gambling house exists or
that gaming IS being conducted. Per
sons arrested for violation of the act
would be tried as principals to the
case and not as accomplices. and con-
viction could be had on the uncor-
roborated testimony of any other vio-
lator, even though the witness had
participated in the same act of gam
ing. The Montgomery county authori-
ties recgnize the evil of which many
persons in Washington have made
frequent complaint, and are inclined
to apply a drastic remedy.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Toll Bridges Passing.

Slowly the toll bridges in the coun.
try near Washington pass. Recently
there have been several proposals by
authorities in Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia to purchase certain
ancient toll bridges that span the
upper Potomac river and there are
also plans for building new bridges
across the Potomac. Just now it is
the toll bridge over the Potomac at
Harpers Ferry which is under dis
cussion. 1t is said that the chairman
Of the Maryland state roads commits
sion has had word from the head of
the West Virginia highways depart
ment that his state is ready to act
with Maryland in the purchase of
that bridge. There is said to be wide
disagreement between the state au.
thorities and the bridge owners as to
price and that condemnation proceed
ings will soon be started.
Good roads and the increase in auto
mobile traffic have brought more than
usual prosperity to many toll bridges,
and this is probably true in the case
of the old Potomac bridge at Harpers
Ferry. The bridge there was used
by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
before the cutting of a tunnel under
Maryland Heights, and the raising
and realignment of the tracks through
Harpers Ferry, which made a new
Evening star., 1924-03-23

be built. 1t was said by several speak
ers at the meeting that Massa-
chusetts avenue, from 18th street to
the District line, should be made a
restricted area" which would pro-
hibit the building of apartment houses
in that area. The Engineer Commits
sioner said that under court decisions
the District Commissioners could not
refuse to issue a permit for an eight
story building If the owner had ap-
piled for the permit before the height
limit had been reduced by the zoning
commission. The representative of
the building company said that a per-
init for the eight-story structure had
been applied for three weeks before.
Since that public hearing the zon-
ing commission has reduced the build
ing height limit on Massachusetts
avenue between Dupont and Sheridan
circles to sixty feet. According to
the Engineer Commissioner, this may
not prevent the erection of the build.
ing which has brought about the pro-
test, but will prevent the erection of
any other building of greater height
than sixty feet. The question of max
ing Massachusetts avenue a restricted
area west Of 18th street is not touched
on in the news report Of the commits
sion's decision, and is probably still
an open question.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Another Armament Conference.

The House wants the President to
call another armament Limitation con-
ference to deal with subjects omitted
from the Washington conference. An
amendment to the naval appr ropriation
bill adopted yesterday by the House
would request the President to in
ftiate movement for an international
conference to consider further Imita-
ton Of competitive naval armament.
When the bill, with the amendment,
gets into the Senate it is likely that
the suggestion will be renewed that
the proposition be modified along the
lines proposed yesterday by Mr..
French that the overtures be under
taken only when there seems to be
reasonable prospects of agreement on
a further limitation of competitive
armament. The French amendment
to that effect was defeated yesterday
1t is known that both President
Coolidge and Secretary Hughes are
agreeable to another conference, but
hold that the present time is not op-
perfume. 1t is insisted that the Wash
ington conference was not successful
in limiting competitive construction
Of submarine and surface craft of less
than 10000 tons and aircraft.
All the world appreciates the bene-
fits Of the Washington conference,
and when the hour is auspicious the
country will approve efforts to have
another conference, to be called in the
discretion of the President and the
Secretary of State.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
The King of Sports.

The national game may not be in
dire danger. but plots may be on foot
to make the golf club or the tennis
racquet the scepter Of American sport
The loyal lieges of base ball are wax
ing to the menace that there seem to
be rebellious Vaccinations which
would set some other sport upon the
"oyal throne, press q crown or diadem
ipon it's brow and wrap a purple robe
about it. Some time ago We had dis
quieting stories that several base ball
players, great gladiators Of the dia.
mond and knights of the swatting
bat. were going in for golf. There
were scandalous stories that these
men were not only flirting with golf,
but wooing it. Base ball authorities
sought to put a quietus upon this
sedition, and for time the public
mind was lulled. Golf is seductive
and ambitious, and would not thrice,
nor even once, reject the crown.
And now tennis. followed by a truant
populace, knocks at the palace gates
and would assert it's claim as sovereign
of sport. 1t is said iii the news that
drawings for the international tennis
matches for the Davis cup were held
at the White House, and that the
President drew first. 1t is said that
this is the first time in the history
of the famous matches that the draw
ings have been held in the White
House" Presidents have been tennis
players, but they played on the back
lot of the White House and carried
on the game in somewhat of an un-
official way. Even the tennis Presi-
dents and those who knew not the
game at all have given their official
seal to base ball by tossing out the
ball at the opening game, and have
lent presidential authority to the game
by roofing for the home team. Now
the President seems TO give official
sanction to a tennis match. A good
many faithful Americans who read
that drawings for the international
tennis matches were held at the White
House" do not know what was drawn,
but they have a feeling that perhaps
tennis seeks to undermine that great
American institution, base ball. But
base ball and its autumn ally, foot
ball, will be able to hold the throne
against all pretenders.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Zoning Decisions.

The Zoning commission has listened
to requests from citizens of certain
neighborhoods and, in part, meets
their wishes with regard to building re-
strictions. This indicates that the COM
mission is responsive to public or
neighborhood opinion and does not de-
sire to be arbitrary. In the matter Of
its recent decision reducing the build
ing height limit on Massachusetts ave-
nue. between Dupont and Sheridan cir
cles the commission had before it what
seemed to be, and probably was, prac-
neighborhood, and that sentiment ap-
peared also to be reasonable. Many
cases come before the commission
where sentiment is divided or where
the commission, should it acquiesce in
the majority sentiment, put a bar to
the natural growth of the city.
Recently the Dupont Circle Citizens
Association applied to the zoning COM
mission to reduce the building height
limit from ninety to sixty feet on
Massachusetts avenue between Dupont
and Sheridan circles. At a public hear
ing it was shown that the purpose was
to prevent the erection of an eight
story apartment house at Massachu-
setts avenue and 21st street. There was
opposition to the erection Of apart
ment houses of any height. In all
residence neighborhoods there always
arises. opposition to the building of
an apartment house, and zones have
been defined in which they may not
Evening star., 1924-03-23
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL

Politics mako many strange bed
fellows, and so do congressional in
vestigations. Washington has held a
queer lot Of personalities these last
few weeks, and it seems to be get
ting queerer all the time. Prize-fight
promoters, private detectives, dim
lights of the great white way, oil
multi-millionaires, ex-cabinet officers
they are all the same to the Senate
mill, thrown into the hopper, shaken
down and something ground out of
them.
The Investigations are setting up
an entirely new code Of ethics in the
capital. Before a host or hostess
sends out an invitation to dinner he
or she must first inquire into every
line of the activities in which the
proposed guest ever has been en-
gagged. Then he or she must send
list of proposed guests and the
qualifications of each to every other
proposed guest. Dinners at the
capital have grown to be DANCE rous
things.
The scope of the inquiries ap-
parently knows no bounds. They
have approached the stage now where
they are being joked about, and this
LIZ a very critical stage-criticaI for
Doth parties. If the Investigations
become the subject of buffoonery they
may be laughed out of court and
much of the good that otherwise
might be done will be just so much
wasted eHort. The more farseeing
among the democrats are perfectly
aware of this and are endeavoring
70 get the inquiries into certain
definite lines.
Thus far the Investigations have
been left more or less to follow their
own noses. Witnesses have been
called and excused and recalled and
excused again. Perhaps this has
neen due to an effort all along the
Iine 70 cover up and not volunteer
would seem that a little more keen
ness on the part of the investisa ting
committees might have made for q
more orderly and convincing progress
4 !: = x
senator Thomas j. Walsh of the
oil committee has complained of lack
OF assistance. He says he has had
to be investigator, prosecutor, Judge
and jury. This undoubtedly has ham
pered his work and in the face of
the obstacles he has met he has
shown untiring zeal and energy. SEN
ator Wheeler Of the Daugherty COM
mittee has started off with a rush
and has been blessed for the most
part thus far by witnesses who were
quite anxious ito let the Jail out"
for all they ever knew or ever heard.
Toilsome days probably lie ahead of
the Wheeler committee, however,
when the recalcitrants begin to ap-
pear and put up real resistance.
1t is rather an odd thing that the
state of Montana should have fur
nished the two senator's who have
been providing the capital, and the
country with the greatest sensations
Evening star., 1924-03-23

bridge necessary. The old bridge was
bought by a stock company, fioored
and converted into a toll bridge.
There was enterprise in that. The
stockholders took chance of losing
money on the bridge purchase, they
have served many thousands of the
people and there might have been no
wagon bridge over the Potomac at
Harpers Ferry if a private company
had not converted the railroad bridge.
The building of good roads with pub
lie money and the coming Of the auto
mobile have brought about a mighty
increase in traffic. The spirit of the
times is against the toll bridge. 1t
cannot be expected that tax money
will be spent in making roads to en-
courage traffic and that private COM
panies with bridges shall take toll
from that traffic. There is an old toll
bridge across the Shenandoah at Har-
pers Ferry, but this does not appear
In the news.
Evening star., 1924-03-23
The Community Chest.

1t is only natural that, coincident
with a consideration by the commu-
nifty of those problems with which the
Welfare Code Commission is dealing,
a problem quite outside the boundaries
which limit the scope of the commits
sion's inquiries should claim public at
tention. That problem, which has
sporadically been discussed in the Dis
trict for the past several years, is
familiarity known as the community
chest project. 1t involves the question
as 10 whether a single annual CO.
operative effort TO raise the funds es-
sential to the operation of those well
fare agencies dependent upon private
contributions for support might not be
substituted for the present intermina-
BILE succession of individual cam
paigns. drives and appeals
Theoretically this plan is both sound
and impressive. The public is harassed
to the point OF exhaustion by the finan-
cial campaigns of close to one hundred
local agencies, and Graves relief The
efficiency of the agencies themselves
is curtailed to the extent of the drafts
incident to money-raising made upon
the time and energies Of those re.
sponsible for their conduct. The bene-
ticiaries Of the agents benefit less
than they might to the extent of this
curtailment of efficiency. In theory
the public, the agencies and those
whom the agencies exist to help would
all materially profit from a community
chest.
Practically the plan is fraught with
obvious hazard. 1t has been authori-
tatively estimated that the agencies
which would be involved collect from
the public Of Washington upward Of
Sl,250,000 a year for their work. A
community chest drive would prohibit
an individual campaign for current ex.
penses by any agency participating in
the chest fund. even though the COM
munity chest fail to obtain half this
would depend entirely on the enthu-
siastic efforts of a large group Of the
most prominent and respected men of
the community, and to date there has
been no evidence of any serious effort
to form such a group. The failure
OF the big campaign would result in
reversion to the old system of individ-
ual appeals under circumstances less
suspicious than at present. owing to
the communizing of carefully cult
waited lists of subscribers and an un-
favorable popular reaction.
These are briefly the principal argu-
ments for and against the community
chest So great are the advantages en-
tailed, so general is becoming the
popular demand for relief from in:
terminable drives" that it is safe to
assume that eventually the experiment
viii be made. But in fairness to the
scores of splendid welfare agencies in
the District it should be recognized
that impetus to such a movement can
not originate in their midst but should
be initiated by the contributing ele-
nents of the community. Let some
group Of a dozen men commanding the
full confidence of the public under
take to sponsor and direct an enter
prise Of this caliber, lending it the
support not only of their dollars but
their energies; show the agencies
fair chance Of success for the COM
munity chest and a day devoutfy to
be wished for will be dawning.