Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-10-22
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| You affectionate brother, Tom
lea.
! One year at college is a very
dangerous thing some times, es
pecially for the dear young thing,
who are more interested in tn,
latest slang phrase than in how
to make a biscuit or don sox.
Valdosta is letting contract.
for 100000 for the paving of sc
! blocks in the city. That's one
on Albany. Not so long ago Al.
bany advertised to the world
that she would pave A blocks
| (or was it "a or 54?)
Both Albany and Valdosta,
along with Townsville and Way
cross, are getting that back
wash from Florida and these
towns are on a boom.
However, each of these cities
went after the prosperity that is
now coming to them. They re-
fused to wait on luck or chance,
and now that it is coming they
are getting ready for it by MAX
ing their cities inviting to out
side investors.
A speaker before the Selma
Rotary club, according to the
Selma Times, declares that 5 per
cent of the people must do the
thinking for the rest. The trou-
BILE, thinks the Times, is that the
IS per cent thus differentiated
as now knowing how to think do
not recognize their incapacity.
frequently it is the 95 per cent
who are the most cock-sure re-
garding their opinions and men
tai ability.
he Supreme Court again has
ruled that man S home cannot be
invaded without a search warrant.
1t has so ruled many times be-
fore, upsetting deserved convic
tons simply because of illegal
search and seizure.
Yet despite these decisions, the
illegal searching of homes is al
most a daily occurrence in this
country.
1t does much to kill respect for
law.
Respect for law, like charity,
should begin with those entrust-
ed with the enforcement of law.
Too many Washington newspa-
per correspondents have polite
alitis.'
Every time President Coolidge
makes a trip out of Washington,
like his visit to Omaha for the
American Legion convention,
great political significance is at
tached to it.
He is out to win the farmer
vote of the Middle West or to
catch the soldier vote. When he
went to Minneapolis and S. Paul
for the Morse centennial, that
was a move against radical
strength in the northwest, the
Washington correspondents said.
The chances are that the presi-
dent is no different than anyone
else. He probably likes to ride
on a train once in a while and
visit other parts of the country
where the scenery is different
than around Washington. He
probably likes to see the Ameri-
can peole.
And why can't he do it with
uot being charged with playing
politics? On his trip to Omaha,
he declined to make any speeches
en- route very probably because
of this impression that the Wash
ington correspondents give.
The Finn. sire of the great race
horse, Zeb, recently died on a
blue grass farm in Kentucky.
len or ! ! years ago The Finn
made a great reputation for HIM
self and Andy Schuttinger, tho
jockey who usually rode him.
And the secret of The Finn $
success was not alone speed and
stamina, but the ease with which
he could be placed in a big
field of horses.
Placing" means horse sense
enough to drop behind the pace
maker, squirt ahead or come from
behind in the stretch at the conf
mand of the jockey,
! Many horse hasn't got ii.
1t was that horse sense that en-
abled The Finn to win many
race from horses of dazzling
speed.
There's a lesson for human be
ings in the success of The Finn
There's man va young man Wh'
! doesn't want to be placed II
the business world. He doesn
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