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PAGE SIX Every "FJneliihmnn should go to America for a tonic; ever* American should go to Englind as a sedativ< —C. F. Higman, British member of parliament. THE TIMES-RECORDER ESTABLISHED 1879. By THE TIMES-RECORDF.R CO., line.) Arthu Lucas, Pres.; Lovelace L>e, Sec y.; W. S. Knk patiick, Icraa. W. S. KIRKPATRICK. Ed.tor LOVELACE EXE. Bustaew Mnager Evening daily; except Sunday; week;/ ilhur«da\ i Official vrgau for- City cf Americus. Sumter County. Railroad.. Commission Georgia for Third ( Ih'strkK I . S. Court, Southern Dis trict of Georgia. * Daily and Sunday by mail. So per year in a.i vn.ee; by earner. 15c per week, osc per month. 87.89 ier year. Weekly, $1.5- per year in advan< Enteied «• second class matter at the postoffice at Americus, Georgia, a .ording to the Act of Congress. National X her’ .ng Representatives, FROST, LANDIS A KOHN. Brunswick Bldg., New 7.<k; Peoples G;« Bldg., Chicago. EDITORIAL. recommendation of Governor Hardw ck in a special message tc the assembly that biennial instead cf aunnal sessions of that body be adopt, i has a great deal of merit, and .he Times-Kecordcr v.uuld be more than pleased to see it nut into effect, with certain details which it believes would be valuable, they hav ing been found so elsewhere. The governor says doing away with ses sions every year would save Georgia $56,030 a year, and that tn these times i. behooves the spenders, of the peoples’ money to look to e.ery pc.-sible economy. lie points out, too, that fewer sessions would disturb liie scales laws less Itequentiy. pointing io it a. a cri terion, but merely as an exam ple ui successful experience: extern' ing over a number of y, »„ . tice governing legislative sessions m the state of Nebraska may be ol eel. For years Nebraska hi:: had >. ennial missions. Th'- sessions an <• li vened on a certain date h_. law, but their length is not limited by law, a. in Georgia. However, tile period of pay of the members is limited to ninety days. At the end of that time if the legislative calendar is not clear in both houses the session con tinues until it is clear, with the legis lators drawing no pay whatever for their time. The result is that they get down to real business before the end of the session, there is no. jam and log rolling at the end ar, we I now it in a race against time, with many important measures dying be cause they could not b< reached, but everything is disposed of in an or derly manner somehow, and the re sponsibility for whatever disposition is taken is definitely fixed. * sje * : IT is a plan which has stood the test of time. To be sure, the Nebraska legislature is very much like other assemblies of its kind, in that is i? full of politicians and it requires con siderable time usually to get down to business. But when it is late getting into action the state does not suffer, for the members must stick and fin ish their job, and if anyone loses it is the individuals, who serve over ’ time nearly every session witohut pa’ there is one sure tiling tins plan always' does —it prevents costly ex tra sessions forced under our plan by failure of the assembly to do its duty in session. And it has other virtues that Georgia would find valuable if adopted. —. ? * * * recalling the experience of Nebraska, an innovation to be tried there next year in numbering motor vehicles may be of interest. With only ninety counties, and not so many if any more automobiles in the state than Georgia has, it has been found that the large numbers on the license tags are confusing and difficult to distinguish when it is de sirable. So a plan has been devised to simplify matters. Each county will be given a serial number and the motor vehicles in each county will be numbered from 1 up, a dash ap- pearing on the tag between tne sim ple county number and the motor number. Thus very few cars in the whole state will bear as many as five figures, and many of them will bear two or three each, which can easily be read in a flash and remembered with out difficulty. And to make it doubly easy to distinguish the numbers, af ter this year they will be required on both front and rear of all cars. ANOTHER automobile law in the same state has been enacted to do away with the headlight nuisance. No longer is the driver able to exer cise h-s option of turning his dim mers cr or leaving (hem off. The l aw prescribes certain rules and specifi cation for lefises for automobiles, and only those passing the require ments may be licensed for -sale in side the state or used. • Following the enactment of this biaw recer.t’y the makers of prism i Confessions;Of a Husband!. THE MAN'S SIDE OF MARRIED LIFE 70 —-Sid Makes Good. George was in evening clothe: , which did not surprise me a bit, since i was to lake Dot to the violin re- I cital. But I war no prepared td see Edith in a stunning iow-cut gown, for -in was to do nothing except wait home with me until our respec tive better halves got back. She saw my look. "i Knew Dot would dies: up to go ou. with George,’’ she explained, "and it didn’t seem fair not to show you the same consideration.” “I am iiig.dy -flattered, I re turned. ‘‘lf 1 hadn’t been so lazy— ‘‘Don’t! That reminds me of my husband!” "Well, then to paraphrase it, if I' didn’t remind you of your husband I would have put on evening clothes myself.” "Don’t trouble yourself,” Edith as sured me. “You are charming in any garb.” 'lf you talk like that.” put in Dot, I “I won't leave him with you.” There was another ring at the door. “Wonder who that is,” 1 said. Dot had already gone ;o the door. She came back in an instant. “It’s a telegram for you,” she said excitedly. “Do open it in a hurry. 1 hope no one is sick.” 1 tor.? open the envelope.' glanced at the. message, and then handed it w Dot who was trying to decipher it I over my shoulder. She read it aloud: | 1 have been unable to reach you i OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS I ) t TEN YEARS AGO TODAY. (Hom the Times-Recordev duly 20, 1911.) The officers and teachers of Fi’’ ' i Methodist Sunday school hav ■ just enjoyed another of their deligjitul annual ocetmicns —a mooniign inobili ride and basket picnic- end ‘ m> previor ■■ affair proved more e:i-; joyabie. This time the Sunday: : enool folks, more than half a ni.n-j died, rode out to Leslie, twelve I miles and wei • hospitably entertain ed by the people of that pretty v.L, lage. One of tiie greatest improvements I yet inaugurated in the paving way j i- that ot laying a concrete pavement ■ as directed by the city’ council on I Lee street, near the artesian corner. ' The work was started on the east side, in front of the Hudson proper ty, and will be continued southward to Church street. TJig old and worn brick walk taken up yesterday was unusually rough and uneven, and the n‘ew pavement will be a vast and pelimiucnt improve menu Mrs. R. L. Maynard has as mem-1 bers of her delightful house party: at Myrtle Springs Alis ea .Jennie Lou l and Titia Sheppard, of Davisboro, ■ who came yesterday. Mrs. L. D. Lockhart leaves ’oday | for Atlanta for a : tay of several weeks, going thence to Banner Elk, N. (to remain until autumn. The Americus goat went to Eu faula’s way in yesterday’s game whAn ; ike Bluff City boy: put the blue tag on the Champs in a shutout of four I to nil. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY. (From the Times-Recorder, July; 20, 1901.) When it is said that ‘‘chickens are I WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING. SOME CURRENT COMMENT ON TIMELY TOPICS j NEWSPAPERS AND NEWS (Albany Herald) IN printing the news, which is Its bus ’ incss, a newspaper gets much il-! luminating experience :n canfirma ; tion of the well known fapt that it j is impossible to please everybody. ; A limited per centage of -he news; a daily paper prints pleases all who read it and offends none. A great deal more of the news that’s printed gives much offense to as many, and maybe to more than it pleases. Some news isn’t fit to print. Some of this class oi news is of such char acter that it must be ignored alto gether by self-respecting newspapers, while in other cases many details must be omitted. Newspapers print a great deal of news which, if their publishers were guided by their own preferences ;n the selection of news to be served their readers, would' be omitted altogether. But if something! happens that newspaper readers lire! interested in,' and if it be something I that is “fit to print,” it must be print-1 ed as a matter of duty to the. paper's! constituency. Thousands of columns of new Spa-j per space was given .to the recent ; Dempsey-Carpentier prize fight. Pic-j tures of their fight at various stages ; were printed on front pages and I large sums of money were spent by newspapers in getting fight i\ews i: ■ which a considerable of the pub lic was deeply interested. AH’this was not evidence that editors were inter ested in prize fighting. It meant only that they were intent upon report ing the details of something that was a matter of great interest to a very large class of newspaper readers. Discussing the recent prize fight in particular and news in general, the Atlanta Journal says some very interesting things about news and lenses did a heavy bussiness for a t‘me at prices ranging as high as $8 per pair. But Mr. Ford quickly came to the rescue of the owners of ears of his make by'having his new green glare proof lenses approv ed by the state and announcing that they might be had by car owners at 50 cents per pair. EDITORIAL AND FEATURES PAGE y telephone' and am told your line out of order. Can you meet me ■ this evening at the Manhattan club? C. A. DANIELSON. “Good old Sid,” 1 said to myself. ' “He certainly has done his best for , me.” “You don’t have to go, do you: asked Dot anxiously. "That would spoil <verything.” "What it?” a ked George. “Busi ness?” "Yes-, this man Danielson is. coun sel for the firm.” “But you arc leaving them so soon,” protested .Tiith. "I don t se< ’ why you have ;o bother about them, j Why can t Danielson meet you ilt some other time?” '* "He's going to Chicago tomorrow,” I fibbed easily. “Weil, you’re not going to meet him tonight; that’s all there is to i..’ said Dot ni oluteiy. "But if this is important business, that’s different, ’ pul in George. "1 can under?. and just how I’om feels ; about it.” “1 bet I know better than you how . Toni feels about this,” asserted Edith, and s'e looked at me—then dropped her lashes. “He is going to stay right here and let this Danielson person go hang.” “Oh, i suppose I can see him an other time," 1 said i-!ow!y. 1 bad had an open avenue of escape and had refused to take it. (To be continued.) • (Copyright, 1921.) : within reach of all” that term now applies that the yellow twigged song- ; sters arc at; well within the pull of the white citizens with a dime a.- ol the unregenerate colored brothe; with a roost “puli” only. Yesterday . the fat bird- were brought to town in baskets, bunches,■ bags and bun- ' dies—and for once Americus crow ied as she has not crowed in five years. There w. re plenty of them, these fat plump chicks with yellow i propeller blades, anil a stranger ■ might fhive thought a campmeeting of preachers was in full blast here I The quantity caused the market to I sag, and 15 cent bought a nice I “fryer” while a quarter was the very I top of the market, and called for chicks with a pedigree and a fighting record. One Americus fruit grower is on the safe side of the peach marked al ready, to the extent of S9OO which amount he has already banked as the returns for shipments made and the fruit sold in his orchard. Hon. W. A. Dodson and family . left yesterday for Tyhee’s snowy I strand, where thc*y will be joined in '■ a day or two by Hon. E. B. Lewis ; and family, going down from Monte zuma. The party will snend two or i three weeks at Tybee Hotel, enjoy ! ing the invigorating breezes of old ocean. Rev. T. I. Neese, pastor of St. Paul’s church, East Americus, ami Salem church, six miles in the coun j try, will continue next week the pio i tracted meeting at Salem. Mr. Thornton Wheatley returned ! yesterday from Savannah. Miss Alice Wheatley is still there with her sis ter, Mrs. C. W. Hunter. THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY. Monday morning.—No paper pub i lished. , newspapers, and we quote as follows: I When all people tn ink alike on al; ! 'things, there then may be a newspa-! I per considered by all ideal. But men | ! afe curiously diverse animals,' and i even the angels amongst women are l !as dissimilar in temperament and I ■tastes as in eyebr v,s and bonnets.; The best of fishermen disagree on | bait, and golfers on strokes, Denio-1 crats assail Democrats and church i choirs fall out over anthems. Between ; the nicest kinds of persons tongues | have waxed bitter and hearts rankled in disputations over Browning and, Tennyson. Seeing, then, that folk : differ on all subjects, from tobacco! to theology, is it to be wondered that | they differ on news?. And what would ! be the plight of the paper that re ported only that which appealed to! editors, ot to any other group, as in teresting and praiseworthy? Such a journal, had it been “cov | ering” events in the- neighborhood of j the vale of Elah around the year I 1000 B. C., would have published not • a line about the fight between David | and Goliath; for, besides offending i the Philistines and wounding the l vantiy of King Saul, and stirring up I all manner of pestiferous politics, | that story in some of its details would i have been frightfully shocking to re- I fined tastes—the episode, for :n- I stance, of David’s cutting off the ! giant’s head and beaming it m gory! triumph to Jerusalem. - And what a vast deal of court news needs must have been suppressed in the days of King Solomon. His proverbs as edi torial paragraphs would have beer, incomparable, but never could the! social columns have carried all his marriages. No better evidence could be asked of the Bible’s truth, its ! i truth of human history and human j nature, than the broad impartiality I of its narrative and its unswerving I character treatment. Always it gives L the news, shielding no hero nor mon ; I arch, sparing no false pride of nation . j or man, shedding its unprejudiced ; light on the just and the unjust, on . foe and friends, or sinner and saint. ■’ j One ideal there is for which every I sensible newspaper' thrives, however II it errs'and fails—it strives to print i truth. That is why its columns some times shock and distress, for truth is I not all lilies and moonlight. There THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. DR. BARTON’S DAILY LETTER , WASTED Dr. William E. Barton. * ’' Some months ago I was riding on a I fast t rain. 1 noticed a dog that ran j I utter u.- with menacing bark, i The dog lived on a farm, and the I farmhouse sat sprite distance back. The dog began to run toward the ! train when it fii t entered the juris, and as the train gained upon him, co altered his course to a parabolic curve. By the time the train reached the end of the w:de field, he was well I beniitd, but still running. lie ran so hard he did not see the ditch at the extreme end of the field, but fell into it, crawled out, and stood barking after the train. Then he trudged slowly homeward. A few weeks later I had occasion to go again on that same train, and I chanced to be sitting on the same side. The same dog emerged and ■ran in the same curve and tell into the same ditch and stood cursing the train, and then turhed ana walked rack home. Like Some Men I have known men who do the ame tiling. They consider it their rpec'.al piciogalive to run out and bark nt partieuli.r innovations, know ing, m- they must knew, that it will da not a particle of good. Now, for the man who confronts an evil and boldly makes his pro test, even -though he be ignored or persecuted or crucified, I have only w-r '.- of praise. The future belong, to him. Coming 'generations will rise up and call him blessed. But there are other men who mere ly run out and hark, and go home and growl, and who never get any where except into the ditch. Should inquire. There is no virtue in that kind ol p< i l’i riiiani e. i hey should stop and inquire, f whether the train is not minding i’; X own business, and sotting them good example; secondly, whether any amount of chasing it will do any and thirdly, what the.;' v.'O'.iid do with the train if, perih'i:iee, tney should overtake it. But that dog will run after ilia. • me train till he has iheumati.m in his every senile joint; or until :-om< day the fall into the ditch breaks his senseless neck. OBSERVATIONS A bad doctor’ loses patients easily. A speeder discovers his mistakes by accident. Some look upon marriage as a beau knot—and untie it. Those fifteen men on a dead :>ir.n': chest must have been lawyers. Italy wants to pay America in lires. We have plenty, thanks. Picnic parties believe Noah had more than two ants in the ark. A grouch burns up every summer and ireezes to death every winter. About the only infant industry the new tarilf overlooks is Babe Ruth's., Harding seems likely to solve the peace dove’s housing shortage prob lem. A well dressed woman once wanted the most for her money—now it's the least. A dog gets mad if you don’t give him wa er to drink; a man gets mad if. you -do. If a man wants to marry a good job he must learn to love, henor and obey it. The kicker waits for business to pica up while the hustler gets out and picks it up. Women hunt bargains. Perhaps that’s why they like to make hus bands feel cheap. The grief in every other home is that figures show every other home has an automobile. Who hasn’t paid to-hear a lecture and then gone away convinced wo should have free speech? In these* days of price reductions, one man who doesn’t stop when he cuts to the bone is a butcher. Guess the weather man has gone on his vacation and left a two-months supply of “warmer” predictions. are publications a-plenty which re flect this or that aspect of life, se i lecting with a purpose artistic or I ethical. But the broader if humbler purpose of the newspaper is “to hold as it were the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very ! age and body of the time his form I and pressure. But as life itself is se lective, fostering some species and casting others aside, so a newspaper that is on the line of growth chooses and discriminates. “All th? news.” “All the news that’s fit to print,” runs the slogan of the New York Times, while the World declares it self “An institution that should al ways fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption .... always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong.” Truth, de cency and service, these are goals of ! a worthwhile newspaper, but the greatest of these is truth. CHE OLD HOME TOWN By StanlJ J I , . ; •piß-nrsiS-?- 7' 5 MUST BE A I iiO-d} il ! / .I- ; ?icriNGUP-jl ;-W. W i (J) TRAIN NUMBER SIX WAS TEN ‘W 16 J [ LATE TOl->AY- u I BraleyS Daily Poem (President Harding Has Called a Disarmament Conference.) WE have skulked and glowered at our allies, We have “pointed with pride” to our isolation, We has listened to all of the shrieks and cries Os those who’d make us a hermit nation. But now we know—what we should have ,known That no one country can stand aside, That no one people can live alone In selfish glory and careless pride. ABOVE the turmoil of party'strife, I 1 The voice of reason at leagth has spoken; The hope of centuries leaps to life— Perchance the fetish of War is broken. If only the promise at last hold true, And the world be freed of its monstrous burden Os arms —more arms! If we only knew That Peace Forever would be our guerdon 1 WE’VE chosen to dawdle and balk and wait Whenever our counsel or help were sought for, But oven now it is not too late To save the dream that our soldiers fought for. God grant that out of this plan may come An understanding, a spirit splendid • To make the cannon forever dumb! God grant that slaughter and hate be ended! 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