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FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1919.
THE TIMES-RECORDER
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"oFFICIAIToRGAN FOR:
City of Americus.
Sumter County
Railroad Commisison of Georgia for
Third Congressional District.
U S. Court, Southern District of Ga.
Entered as Second-Class Matter at
the Postoffice at Americus, Georgia,
according to th e Act of
National Advertising Representatives
FROST, LANDIS & KOHN
Brunswick Building, New York,
Peoples Gas Building, Chicago, Can
dler Building, Atlanta.
WORK AND SAVE.
While it is gratifying to fe6l that
Federal and State authorities
throughout the country are under
taking, by every legitimate means,
to reduce th e cost of living the fact
should not be overlooked that the
food situation in Europe is even
worse than it is in America, and that
while there is much need that liv
ing conditions be made moi'e tolera
ble here, it is also incumbent upon
us to aid as much as possible in the
improvement of living conditions on
the other side of the ocean.
W’hen we went into the Great War
for the preservation of human lib
erty we knew full well that it would
mean sacrifice, and we did sacrifice
many thousands or our finest young
men to that great cause. An now, af
ter America has done so much to
preserve the freedom of our Eu
ropean Allies it ill becomes us to
consider only our own physical ease
and comfort when the call comes to
us from across the sea to aid in the
preservation of human life. This
does not mean that we must jeop
ardize our own health by sacrifice
of necessary food, but it does mean
that we should work and save—
work to increase production and save
to prevent waste- —as much as pos
sible in order to complete our task
of rescuing Europe front destruc
tion.
IDLE MONEY.
Three prosperous looking Syrians
walked into a Birmingham bank the
other day carrying a rather bulky
bundle wrapped up in an old news
paper. Th e Syrians were interested
in finding out something about Am
erican financial and banking customs.
They were looking for a safe place
to put their money. It subsequent
ly developed that the paper-wrapped
bundle contained something like $30,-
000 in bills, which the Syrians had
dug up out of their hiding place un
der a cellar floor. It represented
years of savings.
The Syrians had been prompted to
seek a safer place for their savings
than the cellar floor by fecent thrift
publicity. They had read in the
newspapers that hoarding money was I
thriftless, and that money buried un
der the cellar floor was not earning
anything for its owners. They were
surprised to find that the money
could be earning interest for them
while it was safely invested.
The “stocking bank” of th e for- |
signer is .one of the most fertile
sources for new capital which the
country needs just now. Many of
these foreigners are among the
thriftiest of cur people, but they lack
the knowledge of American customs
that they would lead them to proper
ly invest their savings. The efforts
of the Savings Division of the
Treasury department to insur e wise
investment of savings, and govern
ments continued offer of Thrift
Stamps, Savings Stamps and Treas
ury Savings Certificates as an ab
solutely safe means of keeping sav
ings are safely but surely bringing
this class of savers to realize that
'ir money i s more benefit to them
selves and the community invested in
e securities than it is buried in
cellars or stored away in the mat
tresses.
NEW BALKAN WAR
THREATENED.
bitter controversy over the dispo
on of Thrace has caused a situa
*lon in the Balkans which may, un
s prompt measures are taken to
prevent »it, result in a new Balkan
r- Greek troops are concentrat
’ i on the Bulgarian frontier ready
1 occupy Thrace if that territory
m not awarded to Greece by the
<acg Conference.
h appears that the American dele
gates alone are opposing the grant-
-of Thrace to Greece; all other
legates having agreed to it, but our
1 “legates insisting that Thrace be giv
en to Bulgaria on the ground that at
RIPPLING RHYMES
ENVIRONMENT.
I hear men say, sometimes,
“Great Scott! This is the village
God forgot! There is no chance
for me to rise, in this old burg of
mossback guys.” Then they go
forth, upon a day, to fairer pas
tures far away; and there they
find things just as bad as in their
own abandoned grad. It cuts no
ice where genius dwells; we’U al
ways see it wearing bells. The
man who has the goods may go to
desert waste or arctic snow, and
there hang out hi s modest sign,
and. he will find that trad e is fine.
Ours is a quiet dreamy town, but
it would hold no fellow down.
If some youth shows the proper
fire, with wrench or hammer,
brush or lyre, men drop their
work half a day, to help him up
ward on his way. With proper
stuffing in your head, there isn’t
any town so dead that you can’t
cut a swath right there, and nine
teen kinds of laurels wear. And
in the deadest, grayest town a
man may win a world renown. If
you, fair reader, where you are,
can’t hitch your w'a'gon to a star,
you couldn’t do th e trick in Cork,
in Boston, Joplin or New York ,
the present time there are more Bul
garians than Greeks in Thrace, al
though it is conceded that the
Greeks wer e greatly in the majority
there before the war and that the
only reason the Greeks in Thrace are
now in the minority is because so
many of them were massacred and
driven out by th e Bulgarians during
the war.
This attitude of the American dele
gates is utterly inexplicable. To
grant Thrace to Bulgaria looks very
much like putting a premium on
wholesale rapin e and murder. Un
der this plan, if Germany had mur
dered or carried away into slavery
enough Belgians to leave the Ger
man element in the majority, then
Germany would have been entitled
to Belgium; and when Turkey suc
ceeds in murdering a few more Ar
menians and is thus able to put the
Turks in the majority, then Turkey
will be entitled to Armenia.
FIRST NATIONAL LABOR CON
FERENCE
The first international labor con
ference, provided for under the
treaty of Versailles, is to be held
at Washington, D. C., on October
29, it was announced by the state de
partment yesterday. Unless America
has ratified the treaty by that time,
admini; irauon officials say, this coun
try will be unable to participate in
the conference.
It is expected that there will be at
present at the Conference for each
country a representative of labor,
one for the employers, and two ap
pearing as representatives of the peo
ple. They will be accompanied by
experts who will sit at the confer
ence but will have no vote. Th e pro
gram for the first conference will
consist of the following four major
question:
1. The application in each coun
try of the principle of the eight-hour
day. In the treaty all powers have
agreed to accept this principle.
2. The qeustion of state help to
remedy unemployment. The treaty
of peace establishes the duty of each
member of the League of Nations
to provide for legislation to under
take remedial measures with refer
ences to unemployment. The con
ference in October will discuss and
develop the definite laws which the
experience of all the world may sug
gest.
3. The question of women in in
dustry. This will include the ques
tion of the prohibition of night work
for women. Another question will
be that of women’s employment in
dangerous trades.
4 The last major question to be
considered will be that of children
in industry. The prohibition of la
bor by children under twelve years
of age is proposed.
Stomach
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with meals gives delightful relief, or
no charge for the first dozen used.
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cannot supply you telephone
GLOVER GROCERY CO.,
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Many theorists who are old enough
to know better are advocating that a
man who produces all tha*t he can
on his farm is foolish, because they
have noted at various times that small
crops have sold for more money in
the aggregate than larger crops.
“Suppose in a crop-failure year that
corn should go to $lO a bushel? If
you have no corn what good would
that do you? Would it be better for
a few farmers who have corn to make
big money out of the farmers in the
crop-failure section and others who
have no corn?
“Suppose every man shoujfi cut
down his acreage of cotton to boost
the price. Would the man with the
smallest amount of cotton get rich?
Nobody asks you to grow cotton at a
loss; there are hundreds of things
that can be successfully grown at a
profit. Why he a slave to cotton? But
when you do grow cotton, grow on
each acre all you can profitably pro
duce. In order to do this you will
have to know the cost of fertilizer,
labor, etc. Then it is a matter of
arithmetic.
“There are planters who make
money year after year in cotton. They
can make money often when you can’t.
Whose fault is it? Many fail in busi
ness-farming as well as merchandis
ing. If you can’t make it pay—get
out of it.
Make Every Acre Work Profitably.
“The principle involved is the same
as in manufacturing. The student of
economics knows that if a plant is
not used to its full capacity there is
a consequent loss in the return on the
investment. The same is true on an
acre of land,” said Mr. Frank Baackes,
vice president of the American Steel
& Wire company, when asked about
the cotton situation. “In the press
service of one of our middle states
colleges, the dean says, ‘None of our
instructors are teaching the farmer
that it is either his duty or to his
greater advantage under peace condi
tions to secure a maximum produc
tion regardless of other economic con-
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siderations!” Exactly so; but such
advice must be made definite in order
that the lay and inefficient may not
take it as an excuse to loaf on the
job.
“It is true that if every factory in
the United States should make noth
ing but collar buttons we would soon
have more collar buttons than could
be disposed of; and the same thing h
true of farming. Do not be misled—
every farmer must produce all of the
corn, oats, hay, forage, wheat, sirup,
Irish and sweet potatoes, vegetables,
milk, butter, fruit and all other prod
ucts of the soil first, to properly nour
ish his own household, and, second, to
feed the outside world.
Distribution Usually to Blame.
“The trouble is not usually in over
production. Distribution is to blame
for most of the trouble, although of
course there is always the danger
that too many farmers will manufac
ture collar buttons, so to speak, when
they ought to be balancing the world’s
ration.
“The bureau of markets has under
taken this problem—that is, to advise
so far as possible what to grow, but
the farmer is doing as he always has
done. If the price of potatoes is high
in the fall he grows potatoes until he
gluts the market. N'ext year he grows
no potatoes, and the third year po
tatoes are high again. The wise man
does not attempt to keep all of his
eggs in one basket.
“The farm is a factory and the
same advice is given to farmers that
has been adopted by other manufac
turers: You can’t make a profit un
less you know your costs. Standard
ize your products.
“No market scheme, whether of co
operation £>r -legislation, can long main
tain a superior price for an inferior
commodity.
“Farmers should first maintain
themselves and family and labor on
their own farms; and this applies to
cotton in the South and to wheat in
the North. I have no patience with a
pile of tin- cans at the back door of
the farmhouse.”
Your dental work can be done
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DENTAL OFFICES
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AMERICUS, GA.
Phones: Office 411. Residence 475
The Standard
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Than our Men’s Oxfords at $4.95,
and our Ladies’ Low Shoes at $3.90.
Knowing our stand of all leather
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according to today’s market every
pair is worth double the pre? we
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Ladies Low Shoes, all sizes, at $3.90
Men’s Low Shoes, all sizes, at $4.65
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR MOTH
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ROMPERS AT 48c
Well made Rompers of durable blue
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large quantities for little boys and
girls who wear 2 to 6 year sizes, 48c.
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BEAUTIFUL SILK STOCKINGS
AT $1.25.
Full fashion white, black, gray, full
fashioned of purse thread silk, in sizes
of 8 1-2 to 10, at $1.25.
WHITE SILK STOCKINGS AT 98c
Famous “Burson” make, full fashion
ed stockings, in white only, all sizes,
valuue $1.50; very special here now
at 98c pair.
DAINTY GEORGETTE AND
CREPE DE CHINE BLOUSES
AT $3.98.
Up to date style, trimmed in the
newest fashions, flesh, white, blue,
etc. Good value at $5. Choice now
at $3.98.
BEAUTIFUL CLUNY LACES
. AT 12 l-2c.
Pure linen laces in hand-made pat
terns; all widths from 3-4 to 2
• inches wide and worth all the way
up to 25c. Choice of about four
thousand yards at 12 l-2c.
STANDARD
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F t pth St., Next Bank of Commerce
Americus, Ga.
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INCORPORATED 1891.
The Planters Bank of Americus.
Resources Over One and Quarter Million Dollars.
With an unbroken record
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No Account Too Large, None Too Small.
J. W. SHEFFIELD, Pres. FRANK SHEFFIELD, V.-P.
LEE HUDSON, Cashier.
DATE OF CHARTER:
Oct. 13, 1891.
The ample capital, surplus and conservative business
methods of this bank constitute its strongest claim for
new business.
Its directorate is composed of men accustomed to solv
ing important financial problems; men who realize the
caution demanded in handling large sums of money.
If you bank here you will receive courteous consideration
and careful attention.
BANK OF COMMERCE.
Commercial City Bank
Corner Lamar and Forrest Streets
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
With the return of Peace and Prosperity to our country
a connection with a good bank will be of great assistance
to anyone who desires to keep up with the business world
of today. We will appreciate your account, whether
large or small, and will be glad to extend to you any
courtesy consistent with sound banking principles.
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President V.- Pres. Cashier
AMERICUS UNDERTAKING COMPANY
Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
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Day Phones 88 and 231. Night 661 and 167
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