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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
Simple Justice

A young man in the west, es-
capped from prison. He went to
a distant State, got an honest
job and married a good girl.
Then he told her of his past.
She advised him to give him
self up and finish his term. He
did and is back in prison. His
wife is earning her own living,
waiting for the day when he
comes out.
Somehow, one can't help hop
ing that that chap gets a par
don before he has served much
more time. 1t sounds as if, with
that girl to help him, he won't do
society much more harm.
Our aim too often is to pun
ish and not to rebuild character.
If that young man and his wife
are battling back, society should
give them a chance.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
ED ITO RIAL

Congressional committee. urging
"big Democrats to run for Con-
gress, and emphasizing that nobody
need feel he is condescending to go
to Congress. i,
Doubtless, local committees will
be formed, where necessary, TO
draft candidates.
The Democrats have no monopoly
Of that difficulty.
When a veteran congressman re-
tires, or a less prominent one is for
any reason retired, nothing is more
common than anxious meetings Of
interested citizens, not always poll
ticians, seeking in vain for some
really representative man whom
they might induce to accept Con-
gressional nomination.
Instead of the most prominent
men seeking it as the highest hon.
or, as it should be, and as it is in
other countries, men frequently run
for it.
There is something wrong, when
this habitually happens. Perhaps
one district at time, and one cleo
ton at time, there is nothing to
do but "draft" the best man avail
able.
Even this toa- often fails. But the
situation itself needs studying, to
see if a more thorough cure is not
i possible.
Surely, what other countries
have done, in making membership
in the lower house of their national
legislatures their most sought-for
honor, and what we once did in the
same direction, can be done again.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
Hard Work,
But Worth 1t

When the first flush of joy
over being in your own home,
instead of an apartment, dies
away, you are apt to find the
mortgage payments just bit
heavy, and perhaps once in a
while you will wish you were rid
of the whole business.
Don't get discouraged.
Monthly payments on mortgages
are hard, to be sure-but that
way lies financial independence.
Once a man has lifted first
mortgage, nothing much can
stop him.
He who owns a bit of ground
he can call his own is
the best citizen in the world.
We should constantly encourage
home owning and home build
ing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16

department. SO children enrolled.
An fee cream festival will be held
at the school house on Friday night
of this week. Everybody is invited.
The proceeds will go to the piano
funds of both churches.
There viii lbe an Epworth social
at Mrs. T. e. Smiths Saturday
night.
Miss Flossie FORMER spent the
weekend with her parents, near
Thomaston.
Miss Matte Will Powell spent
last weekend in Americas.
DR.. Logan and family visited at
the home of Mr.. Ernest Logan in
Americas last Sunday.
Miss Erline Guest left Friday for
Abbeville, Ga, where she has ac-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
Civil and
Criminal

Clarence Darrow rises to re-
mark that, while criminal law
yers are often looked down on,
they probably have less on
their souls than the average civil
lawyer"
B ause, unquestionably.
many a scoundrel has escaped
Jail thru the activity of clever
lawyer, many of US are inclined
TO have a poor opinion of such
attorneys.
But remember this: for every
criminal who has escaped pris-
on because of a criminal lawyer,
there is another who was en-
abled to lazy his hands on other
peoples property through some
civil lawyer.
Maybe Mr.. Darrow isn't so
far wrong at that.
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
Preparedness
Controversies

The old controversy about
national preparedness is on
again. We must make ready for
war, cries one party; to do so
will provoke war, cries another.
Well, maybe the truth lies on
one side, maybe on the other:
Maybe it even lies about half
way between. But how about
a little preparation for peacea
If this nation, or any nation,
spent half the money and energy
on the problems Of peace that
are annually devoted to the
problems of war, this might be
a much better sort of world.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
ISAW IT IN THE
NEWSPAPER

When you wish to buy something
where do you look.
In your newspaper.
When you need information re-
garding some event Of the future
where must you go for it,
To your newspaper.
Where do you obtain your knowl-
edge of current events, science,
politics and the greater part Of
your education?
From your newspaper.
When your merchants need bust
ness, through what medium do they
obtain il?
Yours newspaper,
When the community and the
churches, schools. civic and welfare
organizations Of che community
need community action and cooper
alton, to what do they appeal?
Your newspaper.
These are some of the reasons
why the newspaper is your newespa-
per and why communities are only
as strong and progressive as their
newspapers. There may have been
instances where a live newspaper
was unable to resustitate a dead
town, but there is no man who has
been mourner at a funeral where
live newspaper has been the I'M
dertaker to a dea dtown. If there
is one quick cure for community
somnolence it is wide-awake news
paper.
The public anticipates its shop
ping by scanning the advertisements
in the newspapers an dthe mer-
chants anticipate their business by
newspaper advertising. Advertising
isamutual prop osition between all
concerned.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
The Laws
Technicali6es-

Now comes a distinguished
legal light who says that the
simple statement Il leave all |
have to my wife" is not a good
will. There could easily be cir
cumstances, he says. under
which such a will could be shot
full of holes by contesting par
ties.
And that, dear reader, is just
why the average citizen is grow
ing more and more suspicious
about the due process of law"
For in no place in the world
except in a court of law could
that statement be misunder-
stood. Isn't it about time that
our courts and lawyers began
to concern themselves little
more with the plain rights and
wrongs of a case instead of the
legal technicalities2
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
Youth and
Adventure

The age of adventure is not
dead, nor is the love of it gone
from the breasts of young men.
Seven young American avia-
tors have just left Paris for At
RIGA, to serve against the Riffs
as a new Lafayette escadrille.
Is that war any part of their
quarrel? No. Will they gain
riches or fame by their worka
No. There is nothing in it for
them except plenty of risks. the
possibility of painful death -
and adventure.
And who wouldn't wish those
lads good luck?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
The Essence of
Progress

If there is one statement that
ought to be allowed to die
speedilv and quietly and quietly,
it is If was good enough for
our fathers. so it's good enough
for us"
That expression has probably
stood in the way of progress
more often than any other in the
language.
In an eastern city recently
certain councilmen violently OPP
posed the construction of a
needed bridge into an industrial
district because the old. made
quate one had served earlier
generations in fine style.
The whole essence of prog
ress lies in discovering and
buildings things better than our
fathers ever dreamed of.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16

Leprosy, once the most dreaded,
though even then probably not the
most dangerous scourge of man.
kind, has now retreated to a few
scattered spots, and a few sporadic
cases elsewhere.
Now, leper specialists meet in
New York and seriously plan to rid
the world of the little that is left of
the disease in this generation.
It is not only theoretically posi-
bic; they think it is practically so.
Once the last case disappears,
there will be no more forever.
Men, will be in no more danger
of contracting leprosy than they are
of being eaten by a saber-toothed
tiger, and for the same reason.
1t is interesting to realize that
there are several other diseases
which may also become completely
extinct.
Yellow fever is already nearly so.
A few years may see the last case
of it disappear forever. Malaria is
harder. Theoretically, it could be
completely exterminated, too, but TO
do so would require the intelligent
cooperation Of 50 many people that
we may have to wait until intelli.
gence itself becomes commoner.
But it is already so scarce, in
many formerly infested commune
tees, that a California doctor, wish
ing to try the malaria cure on a
paresis, had to advertise for a ma
laria patient, in a district where
formerly he could almost have TAX
en- any of the population at random
We are improving
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
P.-T.A
AT CONCORD
By CORRESPONDENT

A Parent-Teacher Association
has been organized at the Concord
school, with 81 members. Mrs. Sam
McGarrah is president, Mrs. ,Lasco
Harvey, vice president; Mrs. Emmett
Hart, secretary; Mrs. Herman
Guest. treasurer.
Many improvements are being
made on the school building, among
these being long-neded repairs and
painting of the auditorium. New
seats vii be furnished for auditor
ium also.
The teacheres are Mrs. J. n. Ross
Of Americas, principal, Miss Flossie
Fortner, Of Thomaston, primary de-
partment and Miss Matte Will
Powell, of EllavilIe, intermediate
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
Log Rolling

When the budget bureau ask
ed the Navy Department how it
could save $20,O00,000 a year
the reply was, in effect, by
abolishing useless stations that
we don't want, but some con-
gressmen do.
Many an economy program is
blocked by the Sxand old con-
gressional game of log rolling"
Nor is it any worse in congress
than in the Legislatures of the
several states. Log rolling and
personal politics blocks many a
Ameeded reform.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
EDITORIALS
e gets out into the world.

he gets out into the world.
Another is that the college
life should create a desire for
the better things of life. That
should awaken an ambition and
it is ambition that prods one
onward. The savage in the jun
gle cares nothing for electric
fans or automobiles. He has
never seen one.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
Give Youths
a Chance

The next time any ponderous,
complacent individual of middle
age-male or female-arises to
utter another TRADE against the
ways of modem youth, just take
a leaf from the doughboys and
ask him, gently: Who won the
war;"
That isn't meant to be funny.
These same young men who are
being called flippant, dissolute
atnd to worldly wise are the
same ones that sailed overseas
for US few years ago and went,
singing and joking, into a regu-
lar hell on earth.
They faced the test and show
ed that our age, no less than
previous ones, produces real
men.
!, And the rest of us2 Oh yes,
we went down to cheer when
they marched away.
OF course, it was all we could
do. But at the same time, con-
sidering that the mess we sent
them over to clean up was one
that we ourselves had made, it
hardly behooves us to point the
finger of scorn at them too fer
vently.
The older generation hasn't
made the world such a perfect
sort of place. Suppose we pipe
down, as the gobs used to say,
and give the younger one a
chance.
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
OTHER DAYS IN AMERICAS

has caught the spirit Of improve
ment and the white wash brush Is
being industriously applied there.
The beautiful residence which
Mr.. B. c. Hodges is building on
Fielder street, Rees Park will be
ready for occupancy early in 0cto-
Der.
Americas cotton receipts-wagon
cotton at the warehouses-now ex-
coed ten thousand bales. No other
interior market touches ours.
Miss Hazel Tower has returned
home after delightful visit Of sew
eral weeks to relatives in Washing
ton, Ga.
Misses Laurie and Christine
Hooper, after a delightful visit of
several days to relatives in Atlanta,
came home yesterday.
Two desirable farms near Amer
icus sold day or two since and ut
a price reflecting the very rapid ap-
probation in value of farm lands.
Mr.. A. D. Gatewood bought of Mr..
Allen Matthews his farm of 200
acres, south of the city, at a price
running up into the figures, Mr..
Mathews buying at once the J. l..
Brown farm of like size five miles
further south on the Lee street road.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
Colleges and
the SIurnsz

A writer in current weekly
magazine suggests that colleges
should not have beautiful
campuses and clustered halls.
Instead, he says. they should be
in the city slums so students can
see life and not develop any
rosy illusions about it.
It all depends on what you
want your colleges to do. One
Iheory is that a college is sup
osed to give lad enough of a
ste Of beauty and cultured
sure that they will stay by
p and sweeten his life after
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
aS|i2!e1S@kCk%ll?EE!!!!gEg:)

I've got sideck that's really my friend though he's on
ly haired hound The type that will stick right TO
the end, and the kind that Pm glad have found.
- When leavn for school at the start of the day. ne comes
hallI along heels We down the road for short
bit of play. When leave him, know how he feels.
enter the schOohoue and bid him gOodby, and he knows
what it all is about He squats himself down. with dogs sort
of sigh, and ne waits till the schools Iettn' out.
come from the doorway and call him by and cheer
takes the place of his He's cled Aw
it's shame, must go back to school on the
had way would spend every day. morning till
night with sidck play. He's friendly and ne just
makes that school isn't all that it's cracked to be.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
(FrOm The Times-RecOrder. Sep

(From The Times-Recorder. Sept,
16, 1850
OF greatest interest to a large
number of Americas friends was the
marriage on yesterday of Miss
Bessie 10 Voolfolk and Mr.. Lee M.
Hansford, a notable social OCCASION
in Fort Valley, the home city of the
charming bride. Upon their return
to Americas they will have apart
ments at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. A. Pope
Mrs. Dan Mckay and handsome
young son have come from Green
vile, S c. upon visit at the home
of her father, Mr.. J. E. Mathis.
H. D. Watts was the winner in
Wednesdays spirited election for
county treasurer for the unexpired
term of the late P. H. Williams.
The county vote was consolidated
today by the executive committee
and Mr.. Watts had a clear lead of
1872 votes over his closest competi-
tor, A. E. Lockett, who ran second
in the nine cornered race for the
county treasureship.
The Americas spot cotton mar
ket was quoted today as follows:
Good middling 10 IA to 10 SO
cents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16

"A perfect gentleman is one who
I'd ws exactly when to kiss a lady.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
The STANDARD

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Peppiel Double Bed
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The BeA Bingham,
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Over SO neN patterns to select from
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Pretty Merserized Underwear
Crepe, At l5c Yaa.
White, pink and light blue; full
width; mercerized. Plenty for all
who come early.
Hong Kong
Crepes, At csc
Better than many Cantohs selling
for twice the price of these. In
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Boys Union Made
Overalls, At csc
None better made for boys at any
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Mems Union Made
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
A THOUGHT

Thou shalt not speak evil Of the
ruler of thy people.-Acts 1855
He who would rule must hear and
be deaf, see and be blind.-Old Ger
man proverb.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16

.cepted q position in the school.
Mrs. Charlie Dupree, who has.
been in the Plains hospital for two
weeks, is some better.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16

And many a girl who goes cut
and gets drunk has parent VINO
doesn't even know she smokes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16

TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From The Times-Recorder. Sept.
16, 1850
Even old Buzzard Roost corner
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
DRAFTING MEN
FOR CONGRESS

Congressman 0ldfield is touring
the country, for the Democratic
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16

Rational Advertising Representatives, FROST
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16

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catches credited to It not otherwise credited to
eAis paper and also the local news published here
e. All right Of republication OE special dispatches
reserved.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
Csc MarqUiseA.
At IL LIE.

Regularly 25c Everywhere. These
are mill lengths ! 10 and 20 yard
pieces, but we WI cut in any cur
tain length to SUD customer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
Pretty Merserized Underwear
Crepe, At l5c Ya,d.

White, pink and light blue; full
width; mercerized. Plenty for all
who come early.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-16
Hong Kong
Crepes, At CSC

Better than many Cantohs selling
for twice the price of These. In
black, white and full range OF col
ors; 80 inches wide.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23
Rnnti,l Chnrch Nntc,

Rev r. W. Lockwood. Acting Pastor
 The following are the services for &he week
 Sunday. t080. nfrning worship and preaching: 2 m., Sunday school: :: 5 D. m. Y r $. C E.; ? ms preach sng service.
 Thursday. 730 D m.. weekly prayer service
 Friday evening. choir rehearsal at fhc church
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS ABOUT PUTNAM PEOPLE, THEIR FRIENDS AND ACTIVITIES

Arthur Duvert spent Tuesday in Boston.
 George Harper of South Main street has gone to Florida for the winter.
 Cashier Arthur E. Smith. Mrs. Smith and Miss Priscilla Smith. spent the weekend in Natiek, Mass, with relatives.
 Mir. and Mrs. Robert Chadwick, who have spent the summer at Poeas- set. Mass. have returned to their home on Chapman street.
 Mis. Rose MeCauley has returned to Torrington after spending the weekend at her home on Church street. Miss McCauley is teacher in the Torrington schools.
 Friends of Mir. and Mrs. Walter (. Richards will be interested to know that they are now living in Phila- delphia, Pa Mrs. Richards was a Putnam girl. Miss Helen Devine.
 Attorney Archibald Macdonald, Jr., and Mrs Macdonald and little son Donald left Saturday on a vacation trip which they will spend visiting relatives in Hartford and New Jersey.
 MT. and Mrs Julius Cordier, Green street have returned from a motor trip to Montreal and other Canadian cities. They were accompanied by Mir. Cordier's son. Alferie Cordier, and wife.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23
JUBILEE QUINTET
Smiley Bros ts Appear ia Abing'on
 Husic HaH

The original Smiley Brothers J1bi- Ice company. G8 posed of three bF5- thers. Am EIrog ard Claude x Smiley fh Albert Day. baritone and s4ssete Jones' accom- psHIt ere t9 appear on the evening 9f Oct 70 az A6IHEtoa aiusIe hsll.
 For sHe Su8levs have been de5ehtiaa she folks af fhe Southland aas1claflE in the north Kentucky
 eet3n They arc fine Christian gen. tleme1 Wh0 taFe attained prominence ia saer every aag tasks ia thelr home cfty- fot euiy Usn the eolored people bus with She white folks as yell.
 The heart songs If old Dixie. songs 0f the cotton field and the leyee. the delIghtfaI old plantation meloiies negro folk songs and spiritue4les these. as rendered by the Smiieys have largely gwen them their repu- tation az a singing group. let they go further and into the realm Of semi classical and popular groups. In fact, they leave nothing Q be desired 10 the way of q first class jubilee program.
 Adam and Claude Smiley are solo izta of extensive training. who are gifted with voices Of extremely bea- tiful quality. and their individual efforts measure up in every way with the splendid ensemble numbers giy- ca by the quartet Sylvester Jones, he accampauist. also offers novel flea tures on the banjo Humorous num- bers galore are used ln the program and the old plantation melodies are staged iH typical southern costumes.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23

Mir. and Mrs. 5. Diamond and Rob ert Diamond motored to Boston Tues day.
 Frank B. Stanton, employe of the local tetlephone company, has been having vacation.
 Mrs. John II. Larned of Providence street entertained her son and wife, Mir. and Mrs. Walter Larned of Pro- videnee Sunday.
 The Workers Council of the Bap- tist Sunday school met at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Clarence l.. Pierce Tuesday evening.
 The Ladies Aid Society of the Bap- tist church will meet with Mrs. Arthur Smith of Seward street "Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock.
 Mrs. Morris Jones of Utica, N. Y, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. W. J. Bartlett of Main street, for some time, IS now in New York.
 Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Chase and son Waldo of Walnut street, and Mrs. Chase's sister, Mrs. Hugo Carl son of W oreester, motored to Boston Friday.
Putnam patriot., 1925-10-23

omer Milot was Boston visitor Tuesday.
 Mrs Nathan R. Burton was a Ro.- ton visitor last week.
 Samuel Simmons of Main street visited friends in Boston recently.
 Mrs. J. Harry Mann and daughter Edna were Worcester visitors Mon day.
 Mrs. C. H. Letters of Grand View was the weekend guest of friends in Somerville.
 The annual Christmas sale of the Ladies Aid Society of the Baptist church will be held Dec. II.
 Mrs Richard Gibney and daughter. Mrs. Joseph Monahan of Farrows street, were recent guests of Boston relatives.
 Mrs. Rose Bizaillou and family of Church street were recent guests of Mrs. Bizaillon's daughter, Mrs. Alex Lavallie of Sterling.
 Mir and Mrs. Charles Ainley of Walnut street entertained Mrs. Thomas Willett and family of Willi- mantle, recently.
 Miss Lovan Dixon, who has been spending the summer with Miss Eliza beth Child of Grove street, has re- turned to her home in Sturbridge. Mass.