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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-01
ONE KILLED, 2 INJURED
I'M AUTOMOBILE CRASH

LOUISVILLE, Ca, Aug. 31.-S.
Earl McGahee, of Wrens, is dead
and Leonard Cato. of Avera and
Keel Thompson, of Wrens, are hurt
as result of an automobile acct
dent near here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-01
MRS. FULLER
MADE STRONG
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound elpedwhen
Other Medicines Failed

pound and find it
has improved my
health wonderful
ly. For months
and months | was
not regular and
had terrible pains.
They used to af-
feet my side so l
could not work. l
read of others be-
ing helped by the
Vegetable Gem
pound sol thought
Evening star., 1925-10-04
Ring as Candidate for New York's Mayor
Would Give Free Passes After First Ride

ent. The way il is now everybody
has to go to work at the same time
and 20 home at the same time and
the result is that YOU can't get either
here. nor there without being squeezed
and warped and tromped on by big
whoppinS shop girls. Let some stores
open in the morning, others at noon
and still others at night and they
wouldn't be no more construction
either to or fro.
If for any reason the above plan
| for garbage disposal don't meet with
| the approval of my admirers ! sub.
nit the following methods for dc
| creasing the number of CARRIAGES to
| be disposed of:
! a. Make il compulsory for every
citizen to keep 10 or more greedy
! dogs.
b. Offer medals and cash prizes for
| obesity and make dieting a felony.
c. Have lots of company a specially
wrestlers.
d. Don't order stuff that nobody
| wants to eat like hominy and crackers
and etc.
g. Cultivate a taste for fish bones.
peach pits. olive stones and etc These
items is often throwed away as offaI
but they amt really so ofal if chew
| ed up fine.
of the campaign issues to he took
care Of with the exception of grade
| crossings, school congestion and the
removal of snow from the streets all
of which can be tended to in a few
wds.
AS far as grade crossings Is con
serned l have always beeen neutra
but would advice others that X they
don't like them why either so around
the other way or stay home. AS for
school congestion if your kid squawks
| about conditions as he finds them i'll
| our \. Y. schools let him get his edu-
| cation abroad. We don't want those
| kind of children in this country al
ways finding fault with their Uncle
| Sammy. Last but not lease the peo-
pie that complain about the length
| Of time snow is left on the streets
would do well to follow the example
| of their mayor and spend the Winter
! in Florida they's a deuce of a lot
| worse places and not always in snow
up to your neck.
Evening star., 1925-10-04
Painting Jobs Profits in Education and Running for Mayor
The New Age in Which the Student Hopes
He Will Be Taught How to Make Money

little second Of eternity the idea has
changed again.
The college is supposed to prepare
people to make their living. The col
lege Is presumed to be a place where
a student is trained to make money.
You put the fees in d slot and you
draw out a salary.
1t Is this fact which Is sending the
tidal wave Of students to the colleges
and which is turning the college cur
riculum upside down. There is an in
creasing demand for what are called
practical" studies. The student
doesn't want to know anything. lie
wants to be taught to do something.
Instead of the search after truth
which has proved unfindable-there
is substituted the demand for an apti-
tude for knowing how" Hence the
flood OF vague and futile studies, each
alluringly connected with the making
OF money.
In place Of physical science Is sub
stftuted instruction in running a gaso-
line engine, in place Of literature is
the art Of writing jazzy promotion
blurbs. In the place Of political econ
omy. which means properly a philo-
sophical analysis Of industrial society
and which has no connection whatso-
ever with individual acquisition OF
| iIOiley, Is Il cheap mess OF
stuff about craftsmanship, price mai
ing and meat packing.
AS yet the best universities still re
fuse to teach hair-cutting, fishing and
undertaking. But they are drifting
nearer TO them all the time: and they
will eventually come into their own.
OF course the student has got TO
live. But it Is we'll for him to remem
ber now and then that he has to die:
the older notion was not absolutely
wrong.
Much that is called practical misses
its own mark. The very directness Of
its aims runs 1t to the ground. The
shot with the high trajectory makes A
hit every time. If a student wants TO
learn business correspondence, so
called, let him begin by understanding
| that there is no such thing. There is
only correspondence between men in
| business. The simple but charming
idea that a sentence had better have a
subject will brighten UP business
| letter to the point of eXhilaration- The
| idea that a thought should have 4
| beginning and an end, if truly adhered
| to. will signal out a. young business
| writer among a hundred employees.
Copyright. 1920
Evening star., 1925-10-04
Crazy Quilt Hunting in Asia.

CURIOSITY among many birds and
~ animals is not an uncommon trait
but in Central Asia there is a species
OF partridge that seems to have more
than it's share of curiosity. In hunt
ing the bird the natives take ad-
vantage OF it's weakness.
If you happened to be touring
through that section during the sea
son Of this particular partridge you
would notice peculiar objects OF many
brilliant colors bobbing along in the
fields or from behind the rocks. In a
country SO plendfully stocked with
strange-looking birds you might think
these objects were nothing more than
some new species that you had not
seen before, but on closer examina-
ton you would discover each Of them
to be a native hunter.
In their left hands they are carry
ing screens of cloth that look some
thing like crazy quilts of the most
glaring colors. This patchwork OF
colored cloth is stretched over q frame
resembling that Of q kite. and some
of the cloth is tied on the edge in
the form Of streamers that wave back
and forth in the breeze.
The species Of partridge for which
Evening star., 1925-10-04
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.

4 T the present moment every
~ newspaper in the civilized
~ world, and in Russia. is pub
4 \ fishing statistics that show the
unprecedented number Of stu.
dents seeking to enter colleges. At
turned away in thousands. At Dart
mouth. Harvard. Yale and Princeton
there is said to be standing room only;
in the Middle West they are teaching
the students in the open air.
At oxford and Cambridge they are
said to be admitting only students in
the four quartertngs eight pints) Of
nobility. In Scotland the admission Is
being narrowed down almost as close
ly as spiritual salvation.
In Russia they have had to abolish
matriculation altogether. and admit
everybody who doesn't wear a collar.
This tidal wave Of students seeking to
enter the universities set in imme-
diately after the war, and shows no
signs of abating.
What does 1t all mean2
A generation or so ago college edu-
cation was reserved for the few. 1t
was regarded as very special path
in life, the entry to which was open
only to those Of peculiar endowment.
The bright boys went to college. The
rest stayed at home.
1 remember 40 years ago hearing
somebody say to an old Scotch-Ca-
madam farmer, Mr.. Angus. what are
you going to do with that boy OF
yours? 1 hear he's very clever"
"Aye!" said the old man proudly.
I'm thinking that IL he goes on as he
is. We'll have to put the college to
him.
Nowadays things are apt to be
turned around. Only last Summer I
heard a conversation that ran some
thing like the one above, but with a
difference.
"Mr. Angus, what are you going to
do with that boy Of yours?"
ITS very hard to say: he seems no
DANCED good at anything: we're think
ing he's only fit to send to college"
There is no doubt that great many
boys are lifted along through school
and lifted clean into college because
there is nothing else to do with them.
1 had a brother who entered Upper
Canada College at the same time that
I did. over 40 years ago. We were put
into the first form. But my brother
Dick grew so fast that they had TO
promote him into the second form at
Christmas.
Evening star., 1925-10-04
~OUR JUNIOR ATE ALL HIS WHITE PASTE

my house. I hope you have better
luck then we did the last time we
done over the parlor. the paper hanger
was held up a whole day on account
our Junior ate all his white paste.
thinking it was some Of my blanc
mango, had left to cool.
And l says we'll dear, you couldn't
blame the poor child. he probably
didn't know the difference. just let me
tell you about the few original ideas
have for our house. And she says
I'm afraid l can't wait dear. and I
says oh you don't have to. I'm conner
tell you at once. And since I was be-
tween her and the door, l took my
time.
Now in the cellar. commenced, ]
am conner have a nice dark shade OF
coal black, SOS not to show the dirt.
with white warming signs on the pipes
and low places, where Geo. generally
bumps his head in the dark. And I'm
conner have two tapestries to hang
around the furnace: One with a scene
from Dante's Inferno for Winter use,
and one with icebergs for Summer. to
help keep the house cool.
And Mabel says of course it'll be
sweet when it's done, but just you
look out that them workmen don't
carry home any of your coal in their
tation these dayS-not that you'll take
my advice!
Well, ] says there's no chance Of
that, I have every hunk registered.
But listen to my idea about the
kitchen. I'm conner get the kitchen
done over with portraits Of hand
some policemen and strapping young
icemen on the walls to keep our next
cook, II any. from getting lonesome.
Also I'm having radio installed
sos ] can go over to station p. D.
Q. and broadcast, when 1 need to tell
her anything disagreeable, instead OF
risking life and limb by actual physt-
cal contact.
And I'm going to put in a electric
stove, electric dishwasher, and II
necessary, electric chairs It'll be
one hot kitchen. says Mabel. but I
pity you, cleaning up each night after
them workmen. not that you'd take
my advice on the matter.
Oh we'll. says, edginG between
her and the door, the way the din
ing room is to be got up is conner
be worth the whole bother. I'm in
tending to have the dining room fixed
up with padded walls. They will be
in white quilting with rubber springs
behind the panels, so when Mother is
she don't like, why it will be less hard
on my dishes, the ones that miss him
will simply bounce back,
Now that's a cute idea, says Mabel.
not that you'll take my advice, but
Evening star., 1925-10-04

Louisville. Ky, paper. Next he was
"suping" at night in a stock company
for 50 week while clerking or run
ming an elevator in the day.
After this he went with road com
pany. Acquaintance with the stage
aroused a desire to be a playwright
He wrote two plays. both Of which
were accepted by the noted actor,
James *. Hackett.
Production of ono Of these plays,
1.-The Fool and the Girl" was made, in
conjunction with klaw & Erlanger, in
the provinces. but Griffith. who was
trying to shake off the old tradition
Of acting in favor of more natural
methods. found it impossible to have
his ideas adopted. He foresaw the
failure which followed.
Upset, so nervous he couldn't eat i,
he went out to walk one night and
ran into a little one-horse motion pic
ture house. Curiosity aroused, he
entered and saw his first screen show.
The picture was crude. But Grif
fifth saw an opportunity for a great
art in motion picturs eproduction.
I'm a failure on tes stage" hA said
to himself. I'm sec :: / can't get into
pictures and make real storieS''
humble job with the Biograph. In due
time his opportunity came. His repu-
tation rose steadily until the produc-
tion OF "The Birth OF a Nation" placed
him permanently as one Of the su-
preme geniuses Of the picture art.
tCoDyriSht. 1921
Evening star., 1925-10-04

would go fine for juniors room. 1t
was all scrawlS and curlycues. with
faint grey hand marks or maple leaves
or something scattered through, SO I
figured where nothing he could do
with q pencil or by leaning first In
the dustpan and then against the
wall. would really change the design
to any degree worth spanking about.
That's fine. says Mabel. l believe
1 will just drop in there on my way
to the squash-courts. and make sure
If they only got enough Of that paper
for one room. she says. but are you
going to do anything with the serv-
ants room?
Oh my yes, I says. What I am
going to do to that is plenty. I'm
thinking Of pink satin walls inlaid
in ivory enamel with tourist furni-
ture and the best quality sticky fly
don't stay, it won't be on account of
that room. But I says, the one room
l can't decide about is the one I and
George occupy. If only ] could find
some kind Of snore proof material
l would use 1t.
And Mabel says yes. that would
be pretty. especially with little dash
of lavender. l think your house. my
dear. she says, is conner be simply
wonderful to put 1t mildly, but, she
says. | certainly pity you. the mess
it's conner he. And before I could
decide exactly what she meant by
that. she was beating il down the
street.
Well, scarcely was she gone then
who would arrive only Mr. Inc. and
he was cordial as creme de menthe
! took him on personally conducted
tour de looks from cellar to attic. and
as we travelled l explained to him all
the details. Mr.. Inc. didn't say a
whole lot, he was closed mouth
clam.
His line was to uh.hu.mum. mum
me, nod. and write statistics down
in a little black note book he packed
along. The only thing he added to
the conversation was a few extras
such as seven quothes of paint ia
make a real good job of it, and etc
Then. when he had all the parts as
semhled, | approached the ever EN-.
barrassing subject of how much would
it come TO?
The minute he went away l called
up that Mabel Bush on the telephone
Say dear, / says, been thinking over
the good advice YOU give me, and de
cided not to bother with the house this
season. And by the way dear. could
you loan me a paint brush? And she
says why dear, 1 thought you didn't
use any make up? And I saws oh
I'm merely conner make up with Geo
He promised to paint the pantry
shelves!
(ronyrirbt
Evening star., 1925-10-04

are bankrupt. And when they are
finally put out Of college altogether.
after two or three years Of effort, they
submit with oriental fatalism.
People ask, "Why are such boys
sent to college?" But tell me, where
else can they go? And. incidentally,
among them are some Of the best and
decentest boys who ever nlisused a
Latin subjunctive.
Then. modern psychologists tell us
that humanity gets only one idea at a
time. We can't hold more. So 1t
comes about that the world at large
has taken up the idea that college
education is an admirable thing and
it wants to get hold Of some OF 1t.
The world. IS usual, is both right
and wrong. Centuries ago, when there
first were colleges, they were founded
mainly to prepare people to die. This
was then the most important business
in life. Later on the idea changed
the college was TO prepare people to
live. In our own immediate time four
Evening star., 1925-10-04

why don't you fix the walls the
same In the kitchen? Because we
use all aluminium ware, / says, and
II don't bend or break and it's real
light. But Mabel, l says, wait until
/ tell you about the hall and the
parlor. In the hall intend to put a
handsome landscape paper. old-fash-
churches and lakes and houses, and
etc, you know the kind.
And then to make it thoroughly
modern and up-to-date, and to give a
person the feeling the hall is merely
the road to various places, I am gon-
ner have signs put up. Parlor. 1-50
mtle-Statrcase. straight ahead, Lii
brary 9-100 yard. turn left. And over
the dining room door. I'll put a sign
saying Hot Dogs. Waffles, Chicken
Dinners, Specially. You see, I says.
1 want even strangers to understand
we are Travelled family
And Mabel says we'll. that will GER
tainly bring the great outdoor indoors,
are you going TO have any advertising
signs? And I says well. l hadn't
thought of that, but it would look
more natural and perhaps help pay
expenses. at that.
But Mabel. I says, honest. the par
lor is the best yet. The walls is to
pc UdpS DIue ScOTSettc pldStoTou 10
the walls in a straight line beltless
model. The icing on the ceiling is TO
be vanilla. and the floor parroquet
I saw the idea in Nanity-Vogue. it was
a simple little room after the manner
of Scramble Egge. the Futurist Fur
niSher of Vienna and all points off:
it belonged in the West Hoboken
Home of Mrs. j. L. y. X. Heep: the
Society leaderkrantz. And Hot Bozo.
If that woman can have it, SO can l.
Well, says Mabel, personally l don't
like to go beyond my station, either
railroad or financial. I'd rather see
that room in a magazine then haf to
live in 1t: Not that you'd take my
advice! / suppose you're going to
have them paperhangers and painters
and plasterers plastering up and down
your stairways, too?
And I says yes indeed, I'm having
water-color in the bathroom. and in
Georges den a lot of sporting prints
such as cabaret-menus Atlantic City
hotel bills. etc. you know. a regular
ha1an's room! AS for the nursery,
why in there I thought it would be
cute to have n frieze of notices to
freeze Junior, such as fold your
clothes, brush your teeth, pick up
your toys"
You see what mean dear, appro.
pirate stuff that will save his morale
and my breath. Then below the dado
why for wallpaper, seen a cute
pattern in Ginsberg- Murphy Inc. s
window the other day, that I thought
Evening star., 1925-10-04

every day, of man named Babe Ruth
who doesn't like flies. At least it ap-
pears so, as he keeps hitting flies
over the fence.
Now l would like very much to help
you. SO after years of research work
] find the best place to keep fly, II
YOU do not want 1t disturbed at all,
Is in a Scotchman's pocketbook.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: I live in an apart
ment house and there is a rumor
about a married couple, in the same
building. The rumor Is that the hus-
band beats his wife up every morning.
DO you believe this?
Yours truly,
I. WONDER.
Answer: I know the people you re-
fer to and it is a fact that the huS-
band beats his wife up every morn
ing. lie gets up at am, and she
doesn't get up till Z.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: / ar. d young man,
but am always in i'll health. 1t may be
the climate here in New York. / will
80 to any town you may suggest
that 1s very healthful.
Yours truly,
D. PRESSED.
Answer: The heafthiest town know
bf Is Crum City, Wyo. This town is
Evening star., 1925-10-04

The next term Dick was nearly 6
feet long and they had to promote
him again. He still couldn't do simple
equations, but when he was over
feet high he had to be moved up to
the senior fourth.
II Dick hadn't run away from
school and Joined the Northwest
Mounted Police, they would undoubt.
edly have lifted him clear up to a
B. A. degree-on sheer length.
When I look over a frst-year class
! can distinguish at once a number OF
students who have got there by this
process Of lifting" Their faces wear
a resigned air, as Of the playthings OF
fate. AS between Latin, spherical
trigonometry and comparative reli-
gion they have no preference what
ever.
They will take" Milton or take"
Plato or take anything that is handed
out TO them. They have failed SC
often that they have said goodbye to
grief. They have been fined till they
Evening star., 1925-10-04

the natives are hunting is called the
chukar. or rock partridge. Chukars
are plentiful, but they are SO wild
that the hunters find it difficult to
get within shooting distance.
Almost all native Asiatic hunters
carry old-fashioned guns and if they
cannot get close to their game they
waste q great many shots. However,
one Of them somehow discovered that
the rock partridge was brimful Of curl
osity and quick to approach and in
vestigate any gay-colored thing. So
he rigged up the kitelike contrivance.
with its various colored cloths. and
found that 1t worked with great
effect, and he brought in so many of
these usually shy birds that other
hunters began to wonder how he
did it.
Finally one Of them chanced to
meet him while he was approaching
a covey Of the birds and, of course,
saw the brilliant lure he was using.
Soon every hunter was making use
Of the contrivance, with the result
that the hunting grounds are now
dotted eacir day With numbers Of odd
looking crazy quilts waving in the
air
Evening star., 1925-10-04
Curious Languages.

A LMOST every one has had as a
= child the thrill Of learning and
speaking some variety of hog
Latin"-that is, the secret dialects
created by adding syllables to the
familiar words of everyday speech.
What we do as an amusement of
childhood the native tribes of Cen
trail and East Africa do in utmost
seriousness.
The code tongues, it appears. have
come down apparently from the dim
beginnings of man. Usually they vary
from year to year, often from village
to village, always from race to race
and from sex to sex. The stern inhi-
bitions Of taboo have much to do with
their existence. Certain subjects
must not be talked about to children
or to the uninitiated, nor may GER
tain words be used. You must not
mention, for example, the dead, GER
tain numbers or fierce animals: you
must be abusive, not explicit, or you
must use the secret language.
Though usages vary, the everyday
tongue is generally used as the base
Of the secret languages. The in
ventors add an extra syllable to each
work as suff1x or prefix or insert a
consonant or a group Of consonants
into the middle Of words. or turn GER
tain syllables backward or juggle the
words in some other way. What
makes the talking in code so bathing
is that there Is a new code every
year for both men and women and
that each annual code is understood
and talked only by young persons
initiated into its intricacies.
Though with a little pertinacity
middle-aged persons could pick up the
code year after year, they rarely
bother to do so after their youth.
The excitement Of picking up the
annual codes soon wears off. So per-
sons of the same sex, age and neigh
borhood find themselves able to con-
verse confidentially with others like
themselves. Thus in a mixed gather
ing, say, in a west African hut, half
a dozen extremely confidential chats
may be proceeding simultaneously
and in complete safety among q
dozen smart takers bawlinE at tho
top Of their voices.
Evening star., 1925-10-04

L
The company was all set to make
film, and the camera man was ready
to shoot it.
But the director hadn't shown up.
The motion picture concerns Of that
day We're not as complete in equip
ment and personnel as the great COM
panies Of today. There was no extra
director around.
It was mighty important. too. that
the film be manufactured and shipped
on schedule. In this emergency, J. J.
Kennedy, one Of the owners OF the
Biograph, and its president, recalled a
young man in his employ who, he
thought. might be able to direct the
picture.
This young man was regarded as a
general pest by nearly every one in
the Biograph ensemble. Employed in
the role Of actor. he took intense in
terest in other matters than his own
work.
He was. in short. youth with ideas.
He was full Of them. They popped
out Of him like shots from a machine
gun, and he aimed them at every one
A lot Of them had to do with the man.
ner in which motion pictures were di-
rected.
David wark Grifith wanted badly
to be a director. However. nobody
knows II he ever would have gotten
his chance II his boss hadn't failed to
show up that morning in 1908. This
Just forced the management to remem-
ber that Griffith was the only person
about the place who seemed to know
anything about directing.
Get out the picture today" they
told him.
There was plenty Of room for i'm
provements in the pictures Of the day,
and David Wark Griffith injected a
number OF them his very first time on
the job.
actor. His employers realized they
had found a genius. Griffith pictures
no sooner reached the public then a
heavy demand for moro Of them set in.
They grew better and better, and