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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-11-18

intelligent, the most powerful, and
unquestionably the most happy ma
ton the world has ever seen; and
yet there are fanatics, idealists,
cranks and foolish dreamers who
would destroy this great fabric for
some experiment, like the Soviet
Government in Russia.
"The trouble is we nave come to
take this Government CT ours as
we take the'air we breathe, and the
sunshine we enjoy, as matter Of
course. 1t was a free gift to us,
it has cost US nothing. We forget
that this freedom of oars was net
peacefully won; that cur fathers
bought it with bitter price, bought
it with blood shed on a hundred
battle fields; bought it with wounds
and stripes; with banish9ent, and
confiscation of their property; with
confinement in vile dungeons; sub
lection to the rack and thumb
screw, and of cruel banishment,
that wicked and despotic kings
could inflict; we forge, that every
line of that great instrument was
bought with the blood If your faith
ers and of mine. They gave i! to
us. Is it too much to ask that We
cherish, guard and preserve it? We
can best preserve it by the USE Of
intelligent ballots rather than IN
intelligent and useless bullets"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-11-18
7 TUESDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 10 9Z4

he had attended one night were
.bout to obtain a pardon for him.
Wandering around through the
southwest, he met Mrs. Mccarthy.
Then the law got him once more
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-11-18
, tbe limited States

Apprehended in Pittsburg, he
was sent back to Flcrda again,
only to escape from prison c..nln
at the very time train-wreck victims
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-11-18
Escaped Convict Returned
To Florida Prison Camps
Bride Who Met Him While a
Fugitive VIII Wait for Him,
She Says.
By Nea Service

By Nea Service
HOUSTON, Tex, Nov. 18.-Dr.
George z. Cook has been taken
back to Florida to serve out his
time.
And Anna Grant Mccarthy, who
net him while he was q fugitive
from justice, says she is going to
wait for him.
DR.. Cook Che says chat is not his
real nance is a graduate of the
University of Illinois. Nine years
he practiced in little Florida
town.
A patient, who owed him bill,
proposed the doctor would fix up
papers showing land the nan owned,
though heavily mortgaged, was
clear of debt, so he could sell it,
pay the mortgage and p; Cook
The patient double-crossed Cook
and skipped out with the mo acy.
Cook fled, too.
In Los Angeles he was arrested
again, but released through a jal-
cr's mistake. Then they got him in
Arizona and returned him to
Florida. Soon after starting 9
two-year sentence he succeeded IN
escaping.
After working in Houston arc
/ Galveston, he shipped out as a mess
| boy on tramp steamer, fell Ill ant
was left at lie Havre, France. Tht
American consul paid his fare bacl
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
Old Days In AmericuS

ness there.
Mrs. G. W, Bagley, Mrs. Frank
Bartholomew and Miss Martha
Scott, three charming ladies of. De.
Soto, were visitors in Americas
yesterday.
Americas friends of the beauti
full bride prospective will be in
terested in the announcement OF
the engagement of Miss Stella Ne
Gee and McGregor Mayo, of Way
cross, the marriage to take place
at the Methodist church in that
city on the evening of June 9Th.
Miss MCGEE is the daughter of Mr..
pnd Mrs. Frank MCGEE, formerly
Of Americas.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
Mr.. FoRD's HOSPITAL

Mr.. Ford may or may not be
disturbed by the upheavals arts
ing in connection with the Muscle
Shoals Investigation, but trouble
has now broken out right at his
own doors. He has incurred the
keen displeasure of the doctors
and surgeons of Detroit by erect
ing hospital in the city which
will mark radical departure in
hospital construction, organiza-
ton and operation. The doctors
do not like it and are saying so.
Mr.. Ford will have his hospita,
run by business executives in ac.
cordance with certain definite
business principles and the doc
tors will attend to the therapeu-
ties and surgery, and nothing
more.
Mr.. Ford has introduced into
the conduct of his hospital the
same theories and principles
which he employs in the conducs
Of his other business enterprises.
lie will not sanction union control
He will not sanction union control
says the medical societies are
among the oldest and strongest
unions in existence. They have
preserved to a fine degree the
old craft system by which an in.
dustry is controlled by its crafts
men, and not by the owners OF
business executives. 1t is known
too, that they have a spirit of
service and a code of ethics that
are unmatched in any other walk
Of life.
Another marked innovation in
the Ford hospital is the establish
ment of a uniform system OF
fees instead of the sliding charges
by which doctors are accustomed
to let the well-to-do pay for the
medical care Of the poor. Ford
will not take charity cases and
will allow only the house physici-
ans to treat patients, The Detroit
Academy of Surgery has loosen
ed its artillery against the Ford
hospital and says that its meth
DDS resemble nothing so much MS
garage and repair shop where
human machines are overhauled
like automobiles" Ford seems
to possess a wonderful genius for
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13

flee denied him in1916.
There are others, however,
who say that since Hughes goes
out of office on March d, he
would not be legally Secretary of
State and could not step into the
succession.
The strain on the President
has become increasingly more
burdensome from year to year,
1t proved too heavy for the
shoulders of both Mr.. Wilson
and Mr.. Harding. These two
warnings have caused politicians
to exercise more care in the Sc
lection of the Vice-President
than was once the case.
Due to the unrest of the
Northwest, the followers of La
Toilette would make terrific in
roads on both Democrats and
Republicans, should the Mime
sofa Senator decide to bolt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13

Stone, in the Third District
Court declared: Where you came
from they would burn your mise
able carcass and l am sorry thai
/ can do nothing more than send
you to jail" Owens attempted
to say something in his own de-
Tense, but was quickly stopped
by judge Stone, who declared:
Il want to hear nothing at all
from such as you"
Thus the people of Boston,
who have been among the sever
est critics Of the people of the
South in their dealings with the
vicious and CRIMINAL negro are
learning their lesson.
The people of Boston and 9th.
er sections of the east and north
will learn a great deal about the
black man before they get rid Of
'him-Washington, Ga, News-Re-
porter.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13

(trom The Times Recorder. May
IS, 1914.)
The election, unanimously, of
Lee G. Council, of Americas, to
the presidency of the Georgia
State Bankers Association at the
recent convention in Atlanta while
already forecasted, was an honor
well merited and worthily bestow-
ed, and this splendid body of fl
lnanciers is to be congratulated
upon having as its directing head
one of Georgia's best equipped and
most successful young bankers and
men of affairs.
1t was indeed gratifying to the
relatives and many riends of
Leonard C. Parker when informed
yesterday that he had successfully
passed the entrance examination,
and would be admitted to the full
course at the United States Naval.
academy, Annapolis. kilograms td
this effect were received here yes
lterday.
Among the thirty graduates of
the Americas High school on FRI
day evening were the pretty young
daughters of five railway engine
ers, all residents here, a fact that
was not overlooked by the sturdy
knights of the throttle. Marshall
division, B. L. E. as token of es-
TEEN, presented each of the quin-
tette very handsome sterling
silver card case, souvenir of
their graduating occasion which
they can treasure 1 always The
five young ladies were Misses
Thelma Ryals, RUN Sanborn, Grace
Beck, Kate Hines and Mary Lee.
Misses Elizabeth and Mildred
Hollis are the guests for ten days
Of their sister, Mrs. Frank Lanier,
at her residence on Taylor sire It.
Mrs. Carl Sheppard, who was
formerly Miss Neva Carter, of
Americas, will come today from
Birmingham to visit her aunt, Mrs.
Sion Ross, and also Mrs. Gordon
Heys.
Messrs. Macon Dudley and Jo--
seph Johnson went to Atlanta by
automobile yesterday to see what
was doing in Shrinedom,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
rae Mail ORDER BUYERS


To condemn those who buy
from mail order houses without
investigating their reasons FOR
sending money away will not
help the cause of the home mer-
chants. Find out why local peo-
pie are patronizing mail order
houses. No doubt those who
buy goods by mail believe they
are getting bargainsS getting
more for their money than they
can get at home. Most of the
mail order houses guarantee
satisfaction or refund the pur-
chasers money. 1t is up to the.
home business houses to show
home buyers why it is to the best
interest of everybody in the
whole community to trade az
home. Many business men speak
contemptuously of those who
patronize mail order houses to
visit your store and offer him or
her as good bargains as you can
afford. Try to make them I'M
derstand that the money flowing
to the mail order houses is
drain on the finances of the COM
munity in which they live lessons
the prosperity of the community
and reduces the value of every
piece of property in the COM
munity, including their own. The
mail order business through adj
vertising, which is a tip to local
business houses. Go after the
host of mail order buyers in a
friendly way and let's all make
long pull and a strong pull for
the buy at home movement,
which means home prosperity
Jasper, (Ala) Eagle.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. May
10. 1So40

10, 1894.
DR.. and Mrs. E. J. Eldridge and
Mr.. and Mrs Morgan Eldridge are
expected home in day or two
from visit of two weeks to rel
atives in Baltimore and Saratoga.
Mr.: and Mrs. Ed C. Speer left
yesterday the former on business
trip to New York and the latter on
a visit to relatives in Macon dur
ing Mr.. speer's absence.
Miss Flora Wheatley has re-
turned home from very delightful
visit of three weeks to Miss Fannie
Davant, a fair belle of the Frrest
City
j. R. Britton leaves this morn
ing for Indian Spring in response
70 a telegram announcing the seri-
Gus illness of his father, and sister.
Judge c. L. Battle, one of Ella
ville's ablest and best known citi-
zens as we'll as one Of the most
liberal Of men, has presented the
Baptist church of that little city
with very handsome organ cost,
ing 500, The instrument was pur
purchased of James Fricker & Bro.
Of Americas and was put in posi-
ton by Prof. L. D. Lockhart on,
Saturday. Judge Battle is seventy
eight years old but never in his
long and useful career has his lib
crafty been more Thoroughly ap-
preciated than in this instance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS
BOSTON is LEARNING

BOSTON is LEARNING
Pleading guilty to a charge of
misconduct AMI several statu-
tory offenses with a young wo-
man tenant of fashionable
apartment house in Quincy
Square, Cambridge, Mass, E. j.
Owens, southern negro came
East from Griffin, Ga, has been
sentenced to a year and dag
in jail. Owens stated that he had
been in the north but eleven
months and had hired out at odd
jobs until finally he scored
position as helper at the apart
ment house where offenses were
committed.
In sentencing Owens, Judge
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times Recorder. May
Is, 1904.)


10, 1904.)
Marion Harper, the efficient
manager of number of oil mills
controlled by the Kentucky Re
filming Company is at home from, a
visit to headquarters. This ex-
tensive company is making some
important changes in its affairs.
Harper who has so long enjoyed
the confidence of the company will
hereafter be in charge of the seed
and manufacturing department of
several large mills, his headquarters
will be in Amoricus. ;,
The new Perry & Brown build
ing will be leased en,.cely long be-
fore it is finished, probably ..
month hence. AS already an
nounced, the Elks Lodge has leased
the entire second floor for a term
II years and will fit it up very
handsomely. 1t is understood thai
Wheatley & Ansley have an option
upon the remaining and larger
store, and may open a branch bust
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
Judge Covington s
Suggestion

Judge w. A. Covington, of
Moultrie, representative in the
Georgia Legislature from Col
quit county, attacks the dual
system of our legislative body.
The genial judge declares
that the Senate represents no
one, and in that he is partially
right, because of the system of
rotating the place of State SEN
atorship from county to county.
Judge Covington claims that
the Georgia Senate has been the
graveyard of many measures
popularity sanctioned by the
people of the state; that he was
not particularly arguing for the
abolition of the Senate SO much
as for one legislative body. He
says that
1t is a significant fact that
not one of the European repub-
lies that sprang up after the
war adopted the American legis-
lative system, but that all of
them chose the parliamentary
system. The two-branch system
dates back to the days of Simon
de Montfort in England, when it
was believed that every popular
legislative body should have an
overload of some nature to keep
1t from enacting the popular will
to degree too nearly accurate.
Even Englnad has practically
nulllfied its House of Lords, and
predicted that America would
eventually discard the 'Iegisla-
tive Veto" which has no place
In popular government.
That Georgia is practically
without a legislative department
as the functions of the Governor
are limited almost to delivering
welcome addresses for Atlanta
conventions and making ad in
term appointments Governors
run for office and promise lepis-
lative program, but their recon-
mendatlons are seldom needed
when they get into office. Onlv
through some great sweep of
popular opinion, accompanied bv
d governor of strong character.
can any executive in Georgia
secure legislative accomplish
nent.
The system is wrong. Only
once in several years can Sum
ter elect Senator. He who is
elected goes in to serve one
term. He cannot succeed him
self. He serves but two years
and therefore is unable to initi-
ate any progressive legislation
that requires more than the two
years to put over.
Because of the dual legisIa-
tive system each house passes
the buck to the other. Fixing
responsibility is practically i'm
possible.
We agree with the able Col
quit Representative partly of
the way, at least. We believe
that one body will materially
help, PROVIDED that one BODY
Is reduced In ,,,,v,oLare
The House of the Georgia
Legislature is unwieldy because
OF its size. Cut it to one-fourth
its present number, elect good
men to serve four years, pro-
vide that they take office very
soon after their election, and
Georgia would see a decided
improvement in her legislative
halls.
The Governor. too, should be
elected for four years and he
should take office soon after the
general election. AS it stands,
the Governor scarcely has taken
his seat before he begins his
race for a second term. With
only one term he can accomp-
lish little in a constructive way.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
THE STANDARD
NEW PATENT
SANDALS AT $500

New, just received from the fac
tory, pretty toes, medium rubber
heels, flexible stitched down soles.
They compare well with most of
the bargain $4.95 shoes; here, all
sizes at, pair ......................S3. 90
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
FINE ADMINISTER
SQUARES AT $45.OO

Your credit is good in our Rug
Department. You pay small pay
ment when the rugs are delivered
and the balance in easy weekly or
monthly payments. You get the
lowest cash prices, too, without in
terest.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
THOUGHT

Hearken to thy father that begat
Fhee, and desPise not thy mother
when she is old.--Prov. 1922.
Next to God, thy psrents.-Wil-
liam Penn.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
NEW Csc TABLE
VALUES UP TO $1.0O

One big table filled with all
kind of odds and ends and sold on
an average of soc on the dollar.
Come and look over the lot. We are
sure that you will find something
to buy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
MEMS GOODYEAR
WELT OXFORDS AT $3.95.

Guaranteed Goodyear Welts,
flexible and comfortable, black and
brown, rubber heels. They are as
good as the best SIS shoes; very
special here now at, pair -..-...$3.95
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
MEMS HEAVY SILK
SOCKS AT SOC

Extra well made, double heels,
toes and soles, excellent quality silk,
black, white, brown, gray, cham
payne and navy; sizes 91-2 to
II 1-2, at pair ..........5O soc
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
HEAVY WHITE CREPE
DE CHINE AT $3.50.

I Forty inches wide, extra quality,
closely woven; a regular SO grade
now being offered at at, yard. .S2.4O
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13

At Brandon, England, descend
ants of ancient flint shapers, once
flourishing industry, shape flints
for the decoration of the interiors
of buildings.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13

getting out of the beaten track
and for doing old things in a
new way. His hospital innova-
ton will be watched with inter
est,-Selma Times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
NIGHT

In Buffalo 100000 adults have
attended night school in the last six
years, No one is ever too old to
learn. In youth, schooling is dread
ed-though not as much as former
Iy, due to improved methods of in
teresting the pupil.
In old age, men and women re-
greet that they neglected educational
opportunities in youth when knowl-
edge is more easily acquired. Elk
lstence is an endless process of edu-
cation, and life is just one class in
a perpetual chain.
The brain need never grow old.
SPENDTHRIFTS
The leading governments are be-
ginning to live within their in
comes, according to a check-up by
the League of Nations. 1t reports
Uncle Sam and John Bull spending
less than they take in. South AT
RIGA and Finland have decreased
their deficits near the vanishing
point. Italy is spending a fourth
more than her revenue. France, at
the bottom of the list, is spending
100 francs for every As francs col
lected in taxes and other forms.
Where there is a burst OF &c ~
omy, it's usually due to politicians
being unable to find more to spend.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
behind the a,
| SCRAPPED

A London court decision admits
the worthlessness of 120 million dol
lars worth of Confederate bonds
sold in England by the southern
states during the Civil War Most
of US believed that any sane man
years ago realized the worthless
ness of these bonds. But the
British never lost hope of recover
ing at least part of their invest
ment.
Later you may read about courts
admitting the utter worthlessness of
Russian rubles and German paper
marks. Confederate bonds and
money today are worth far more
than Russian and German currency,
as historical relics.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
CONQUERED

Scarlet fever and diphtheria have
been conquered and eventually will
be entirely eliminated, says DR.. Viii
liam H. Park, conservative physician
of high standing nationally. He adds
that serum has been found that
will prevent measles and check
epidemics.
No battlefield victory ever was as
valuable. But while one class Of
scientists toll to save life by con-
quering disease, another class burns
midnight oil developing new ways
to take life in war. Science sim
ultaneously' is our greatest frie24
and enemy.
WINDFALL
It's becoming not unusual for
successful men to retire and give
their businesses to their employees,
who helped build them up.
The latest is a large cotton brok-
erage house. 1t not only gives its
business to its employees, it even
will back them financially the first
year. The value Of brokerage
house, of course, is largely intarg-
ible, not representing much material
Investment except furniture. Value
Is in reputation and organization.
Well, we're progressing. Many
can recall the old-time employer
who kept his "hired help contented-
iy on the treadmill by promising to
remember them in his willard
usually forgetting to.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
Ei:Afa1aIs
A bgAbcrt Apple
$3.50

The income Of the American peQ-
pie last year averaged about $3.50
apiece, according to Mechanics &
Metals National Bank of New York.
It estimates that 70 billion dollars
was the total income of the whole
nation-including wages, salaries,
royalties, interest on investments,
etc.
On this basis, man and wife
with two children would have had
an income of $4,000 during 1928, if
everything were evenly divided.
That's about $217 a month.
Did your family do better or lag
behind the average?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-05-13
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY

(From The Times Recorder. May
IS, 1914.)
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-02-21
woodrow Wilson'S Place In History.
miss Marjorie Miller.)


Woodrow Wilson, a name that is
known throughout the world, and a
name that is foremost in everyone Is
mind today! The name Woodrow viii
son stands for two things: First,
Woodrow Wilson, the man, and second,
the accomplishments of Woodrow Will
son.
Ex-President Wilson was leader,
a statesman and noble idealist. His
personality was unusual. He was very
reserved, almost cold TO everyone, ex-
cept his few intimate friends; to them,
he was a most delightful associate. He
was determined and having once de-
cided on a course of action he wanted
no advice nor interference. Wilson
occupied the presidency during eight
years of the greatest world upheaval
known to history. After this turmoil
he endeavored to make lasting peace
among nations. In this fight he lost
his health, wore himself out, and left
the White House a broken, wrecked
man. He gave his life for his country
just as much as the boys who lie sleep
ing in France; and through it all, he
said he would be glad to give his
life for the success of his efforts.
Through his efforts five-sixths of the
people of the world are united while
his own country is out of it.
However, in time, we will forget
Wilson the man and remember Wilson
the great figure in history. For Viii
son will be remembered as one of the
great men in history; he will rank
with Alexander, Caesar, Charlemange,
Napoleon and our own Washington
and Lincoln. Let US see what these
great men have done to earn their
title and what they had to contend
with, then let us compare what Wilson
had to contend with and see if he also
has earned that title
Alexander the Great, started the
conflict which never ends-the CON
flict between the new age and the
old. Being educated and cultured, he
was a natural leader of the ignorant