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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1922
Page
6
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A compact quotation from Thomas Carlyle urges earnest inquiry into personal duty. It emphasizes shaping a small part of the future faithfully according to known rules and continuing diligent effort with a true heart.
The piece analyzes social impressions in introductions, arguing timid claims can win favor. It cites Clemenceau’s self deprecating honesty as powerful, notes aggressiveness alienates audiences, and suggests softness and tact aid persuasion. It contrasts sales, courtship, and diplomacy with velvet approaches.
A historical note argues for eliminating business cycles by stabilizing prosperity. It cites Colonel Leonard W. Ayres’s finding that 40 percent of the past sixty years were marked by serious downturns and urges viewing this as the core economic problem. It critiques the recurring boom bust cycle as a needless, repetitive pattern in prices and industrial activity.
Economists view prosperity and downturns as natural cycles but argue the industrial system is man made and should be under human control. They suggest remedies like national projects or dollar stabilization, price regulation, and reassessing fear of hard times to avoid self-fulfilling pessimism.
An editorial snippet cites income tax due dates and tax returns, implying most can’t avoid payments if money was earned over the year. It also notes editor personalities, including Brown of Cordele Dispatch and Shope of Dalton Citizen, with a playful remark about decorating and red paint. A Columbus Enquirer-Sun item mentions a nine inch coin now held by a prominent collector.
In Montgom ery the Daughters of the American Revolution plan a Friday afternoon benefit at the Alcazar theater on December 20. A varied program of pictures will be shown and prizes awarded to children selling the most tickets.
Misses Ethel Baisden and Annie Dixon depart this morning for Fort Valley to visit Mrs. Evans. Miss Mary Wheatley returns home after a two week visit in Albany with Miss Nella Vason. Yonah Buchanan visits from DeSoto. Americus merchants report growing business with 28 000 bales weighed and rail shipments possibly raising totals above 50 000. Spots sold in Americas at 73 4 cents for good middling.
A large delegation of Albany youth and some from Columbus expected for the social event of the season. Col J E D Shipp visited, J J Smyth & Co. sold their interests to Schumpert & Lewis who will run the Lamar street livery now. Eugene Lockett remains ill at his father's Forrest street home. Capt H C Bagley left for Atlanta on business and will return later. Judge R F Lyon of Macon and Col J W Hagood of Montezuma are among visiting attorneys handling local legal matters.
A humorous verse laments dining cravings, preferring steak cooked rare. The speaker flips between light dishes and hearty meat, expressing a persistent call for a steak and urging it be rare. The refrain recurs as a playful chant to the waiter.
The Turks, after three years of hard fighting, resume dialogue with the Allies on a fifty fifty basis, illustrating the old saying that a nation may be down but not out. The tone suggests stubborn spirit remains as talks resume.
Adel editorial urges residents to support Georgia enterprises by choosing local products in stores. It argues creameries and farm goods from nearby farms are equal or superior to imported items and that community buying boosts regional farmers and town businesses.
A collage of breezy quips from a bygone year. Jokes tease about a New Jersey man drafting a will on a butcher shop pad while price quotes for steaks drift through. A Paris bid for a moving sidewalk, Harlem and Detroit snippets, and light musings on gifts and curiosities fill the page with humorous vignettes.
The Dawson News extols the dairy cow as a reliable cash producer good for tough times and prosperity. It urges studying dairy needs, using the cow now and later, and hints at the University of Georgia football schedule with a Yale game noted for next year.
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