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► THE BANNER, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1911. K liras SUB * H. J. ROWE, Editor and Proprietor. THE ATHENS DAILY BANNER is delivered by carriers In the city, or mailed, postage free, to any address at the following rates: 95.00 per year; (2.50 for six months; 11.25 for three months, or 10 cents a week. The strawberry crop in South Georgia was badly damaged by the recent freeze. Jim Nevin says Hitchcock Is a stench in the nostrils of decency and that Washington has known it for many days. 0 Cet ready to build a thoroughly up to. date Y. M. C. A. building In Ath ens. The boys deserve the best that money can provide. The Atlanta Constitution says that visitors to the state of New Jersey will applaud Woodrow Wilson to the echo. If the campaign against the mosquitoes Is successful. Atlanta's postofflee seems to be worried with the Inspector system and the Athens postodlce has Its wor ries over the delay In completing the addltons to the federal building. 0 Arkansas lays claim to the most unique lawyer In the world. A. Cal- len, aged ninety years, appeared be- for the Judge of the Van Buren coun ty circuit court and was admitted to the bar a few days since. 0 It Is said that President Diaz, un able to put down the Mexican revo lution, has made peace overtures. The revolutionists will not treat for peace unless It Is guaranteed that Diaz will resign from the presidency 0 The Atlanta people are to be con gratulated on their Y. M. C. A. cam paign. They started out to raise the money and they were determined to hammer away jinlil it was raised. And they have almost succeeded In their undertaking. 0- Oklahoma wants to annex the Tex as panhandle. The people of Texas hoot at the Idea. Texas Is the larg est state In the union In area, but probably the most jealous when It comes to a proposition that she give up a foot of her soil. 0 It costs Caruso something when he catches cold. He is Just now tak ing an expensive vacation on account of a hoarseness In his throat. Each night that he falls to sing coats him 92,500. He expects to lose - twenty- MOHRS FOR OUR AMBASSADORS. The mouey paid to .American ambassadors is not adequate to the mainten anoe of the several embassies as they should be maintained. The salaries of ambassadors are such that only the rich ran be selected to represent this country at the larger courts of the world. This denies to the men of great brain but modest means the privilege and the honor of representing the Unit ed States In these positions of great dignity and usefulness. The Lowdon bill, now pending In congress, provides for the acquisition by this government of homes for our embassies In the foreign capitals. It would be money well spent and would enable the presidents In the future to select ambassadors without regard to their purses. , The government could provide such a home as It felt should be provided for Its ambassador and then all ambassadors from this country would have to reside in that home, whether rich or poor. This would lend dignity to the po sition nnd at the same time would not be extravagance. The ambassador can afford to live on his salary If the government would furnish him a suitable home. The New Orleans States, discussing this proposition, says: The American people feel that no representative of their govern ment abroad should be called upon to make expenditures from his pri vate income, or that It should be necessary for him to have one in or der to enable him to accept the appointment and to maintain our na tional dignity In foreign countries. So long as our representatives are compelled to expend large sums from their own purses. Just so long will American citizens feel that their rights In such residences are uncertain, nnd that such expenditure on the part of our represen tatives tends to give them too much Independence towards their countrymen and thereby renders them less useful. There Is not the least doubt that Americans abroad would point with pride to a place In which they feel they have the rights of citizens nnd where they may come nnd go with the same freedom as that ex isting at the White House For many years they have noted that fail ure to provide residences for our representatives In foreign countries has prevented the nation from obtaining the services of many emi nent men. It la the purpose of the Imwden bill to provide suitable residences for our Ambassadors so that no reflection will he cast on the national dignity by one living In a palace and his successor living In a flat. Em bassies creditable to our country and strictly American In design can be acquired, It Is estimated, at. an nverngc of not more than $300,000 —a total of only $3,000,000 for all the countries to which we send an ambassador. When the fact Is considered that annually we appro priate $200,000,000 In making preparations to keep on a hostile footing with other nations, there Is much force In the argument that we can well afford to expend $3,000,000 to promote friendship with them. An ambassador's duty Is to cultivate the friendship of the people of the country to which he Is accredited, so that he may bo able to avert pos sible war by smoothing over any differences that mny arlBe and by being on friendly terms with a foreign government get everything he ran In the way of commercial advantages for his own country. It Is also his duty to Americans abroad to throw the arms of his govern ment around them nnd to protect them whenever they are in trouble. SOUTH AND PAPER MANUFACTURING. I Some of the oldest paper mills In the country arc In the South, and yet •this section of the country has never advanced in paper manufacturing as it should have advanced. The great bulk of the paper used In the United States Is manufactured north of Mason and Dixon’s line, and this Is a situation that should no longer be allowed to exist. — It has been pointed out time and ngaln In the debates in congress on the wood pulp question that tho South has a great abundance of timber that Is suitable for the manufacture or paper. In fact the soft woods of the South timber that Is not fit for lumber Is as good for the manufacture of paper aa SMALL INDUSTRIES FOR ATHENS. While Athens is not behind her sister cities In a manufacturing way, there Is no reason why this city should not advance industrially more rapidly than any other city In Georgia, and now Is the time for our business Interests to get together and make a concerted movement toward the establishment of number of industrial plants. Big Industries are always to be desired. Athens has already a number of large industries and she will secure more, but it should be borne In mind that small Industries likewise play their part in the development of a city and that under favorable circumstances and good management they grow into big in- dustrles. Million dollar industrial plants are great things for a city to possess and plants representing as much as one hundred thousand dollars are splendid feeders to the greatness of a city, but small Industries do their part Just as well. Ten industrial plants representing twenty thousand dollars each will probably mean more to a city than one plant representing two hundred thous- and dollars. Athens offers every Inducement to the manufacturer. Low freight rates abundant raw material, unequalled climate, stable conditions as to labor, good educational facilities—all these go lo make up an attractive list of Induce ments to the Investor. Added to These Is (he inducement of abundant electric power sooir-to be available from the new plant at Barnett Shoals, and with this power offered to manufacturers at reasonable figures, there should be a number of new Indus tries to start up at once upon the completion of this plant. Nothing can add more to the business activity of a community than the pay-rolls of numerous Industrial plants. The more pay-rolls the greater the circulating medium, and the greater the circulating medium the more bust The leading men of Japan are very I any other timber. much pleased over the prompt way In which the United States made the new treaty with their country. The very beat of feeling now seems to prevail In Japan towards this country The queetlon Is bow long will that feeling laetf Congressman Bennett has no real desire to annex Canada to this coun try. The Introduction of his resolu tion was purely for the purpose of defeating the reciprocity agreement and he played hla trumps pretty well. Nevertheless, the chances are still very good for the passage of this hill. 0 If Atlanta can raise the large sum of money that has Just been sub scribed for Y. M. C. A. purposes there Is no reason why Athens should not raise enough money to provide for an up-to-date building for our Y. M. C. A, This movement will no doubt be started soon and it will be carried forward to success, too. 0 The Georgia solons should not for get that one of their chief duties this year will be to devise a better tax system for the state. The tax laws of Georgia arc out of date and wholly unsatisfactory. There should be a genuine revision of these laws, so that all the property In the state can be made to bear Its burden of taxa tion. 0 The recent fisticuff In the house of representatives at the national cap! tal between Representatives Mondell and Wlckersbam was one of the most sensational of recent years and an exchange remarks that quite a sum of money might have been garnered In for the national treasury, had regular announcement been made and admission charged at the door. 0 The educational train has nearly a month more on the road. Already more than two hundred thousand people have visited the train. At that rate there will be at least four hundred thousand visitors to see the train before It returns to Athens That la one hundred thousand more than our original estimate. It shows thnt the people of the state are vast! Interested In this work. Madison county has joined the ranke of the counties In this state that are Improving their roads. The road from the Clarke county line to Daalelsvllle Is to he relocated and Improved by the sand day treatment. This I* n good step for Madlaon coun ty to lake. When this ten mile strip of roadway Is finished the county will bo ao wall pleased with It that other road Improvement will rapidly fol low. The time Is coming, nnd It Is not very far distant, cither, when the South will wake up to her possessions In many ways and among other developments that will take place will be that of paper manufacturing. In some sections there are pinna being perfected for Ita beginning. The time mny come when the cotton stalks of the South will be utilized for paper manufacturing, that having been already experimented with and and claimed to be successful. But whether the cotton stalk Is ever made available for paper counts but little. The South has pleuty of timber that can be need to furnish the wood pulp supply thnt Is necessary for the paper mills and In the next few years this Industry Is going to take on n wonderful growth. BIO POSTAL FIGHT IS ON. The republicans have been making great boasts about the economy that Is now being practiced by the party in the administration of the affairs of the gov ernment and along with these boasts has come the appropriation of forty-live million dollars a year additional to the pension fund. It Is now developing that much of this boasted economy has been accomplished through plans that have worked a distinct damage to the service In the departments where the cuts In expenses have been made. The first light that has come over this retrenchment plan of the president looms up In the poatoflice department. It la now being charged that Postmas ter General Hitchcock, In making his reductions In expenses has greatly crip pled the mall aervlce and made the work of postmasters and mall clerks al most unbearable by giving ever 'he direction of business' into the hands of In spectors. There are a number of senators who are ready to unload some heavy charges against the poatoflice department and the next few days In the Uni ted Stutes senate may bring forth smoe hot speeches. It Is all right to make reductions In expenses and the people expect them to be made, but there Is also such a thing as making reductions where they 111 do the service of the departments of government much damage. The peo- pie want efficient aervlce and are willing to pay for It. What they want In the way of economy Is the lopping off of useless expenditures of the public money, such expenditures as that forty-live million dollar appropriation for pensions for instance. The Athens Chamber of Commerce, an organization that has done much for the city In the past, should organize a definite movement to bring about the organization of industrial companies, either with home or foreign capital There Is plenty of money in the country looking for profitable Investment, There are plenty of ways In which money may be profitably Invested in Ath ens. The thing to be done Is to convince the Investors that Athens Is the place In which to plant their money. This can be done and will be done. The present year will not draw to Its close without witnessing the establishment of a number of Industrial plants In Athens. ' A BETTER BUILDING FOR OUR Y. M. C. A. Just now the thing for Athenians to do Is to close up the subscription list of the Y. M. C. A. fund and place that institution on a solid financial basis for the present year. A considerable portion of the necessary amount of money has been subscribed, but the total sum required has been by no means reached. This money should be forthcoming without delay In order that the Y. M. C. A may go forward along Us many lines of usefulness. And when this fund has been subscribed, the next thing for the people of Athens to do Is to begin thinking about providing a better building for the As 8oclatIon. Just when the campaign for a new building will be launched re mains to be determined, but that such a campaign is soon to come no one can doubt who Is In touch with the work of the Association and who realizes the handicap under which the work Is cnrrled on The present building Is poorly arranged and Is absolutely inadequate to the work of the Association. The Association has been able to do satisfactory work only through the indefatigable efforts of Its officers, and yet the splendid work that has been done is nothing In comparison to the work that could bo accomplished In an up-to-date and thoroughly adequate building. A community can spend Its money In no better may than In providing the very best Y. M. C. A. building that money can secure. The parent who makes his home attractive to his boy does' much towards the making of a good citi zen out of that boy, and yet he cannot keep his boy at home all the time. He Is spending his money to great advantage when he provides an attractive Y. M. C. A. home for his boy, a place where the boy rather frequent than other .—*---- *-*- i. h« rendered less atrona and lean manly Athens is amply able to provide a thoroughly commodious, modern, well- arranged Y. M. C. -A. building. When the time comes to start the movement and It Is about at hand now, let every Athenian who loves hla hoy, who loves his neighbors boy, who loves his city, who loves humanity, dig down into his pockets and do his share In railing the fund that may be necessary to provide such a Y. M. C. A. building as will be a credit to this city. ♦ ; AIMING AT A GREATER YIELD The chief effort of the educators who arc striving lo Improve agricultural conditions In this stale, as well as In other states of the union. Is directed to wards bringing about a greater yield from a given amount of energy and atten tlon than Is gained by the farmers of today. To be sure diversified agriculture la both recommended and urged, but If n farmer will plant chiefly for a cotton crop, the training that Is offered him by the agricultural educators Is such as will enable him lo get more cotton off a given number of acres than he has ever secured from the expenditure of a given amount of time and labor. Georgia produces an Immense corn crop, but the yield per acre Is small, when compared to that of the western states. Yet It has been demonstrated that Georgia lands will yield enormously when the proper methods are follow ed. Hence the corn clubs that are being formed throughout the state under the auspices of the State College of Agriculture. Proper preparation of the soil, proper use of fertilizers, proper selection of seed, proper care of the growing crop, proper harvesting, proper marketing—all these enter In'o the question of success on the farm. One farmer may secure only a modest return for his time and labor and his neighbor, no smarter and |io more energetic than he, may coax from the soli a much more abundant harvest. To bring all the farmers of the state to that point where they can se cure greater yields from their farms Is the problem upon which the educators are at work. And they are solving the problem, too. The day Is almost at hand when Georgia’s cotton crop will be practically doubled or will, remain at present figures on hall the acreage. The com crop of this state Is destined to grow by leaps and bounds within the next live years. Oats and wheat and hay and hogs and beef cattle and dairying and Korea of other proBt-making returns from the farm are coming wllh the years that lie Just ahead. MORE MONEY FOR EXTENSION WORK. The good results flowing from the extension work of the State College of Agriculture cannot be overestimated. Since the college has been carrying it. work to the very doors of the farmers in the various sections of the state, the farmers have teallzed as never before the great good that can be accomplish- ed by this kind of work under the direction of such men as President Soule and his assistants. If It were possible for all of the farmers to attend the sessions of the State College of Agriculture In this city, it would be better for them than the extension work, but that is a manifest Impossibility now and will always be an Impossibility. Therefore If the work of developing the farms of Georgia scientifically Is to go forward, if the farmers are to be given the very beat In struction In agricultural methods. If they are to he shown ways In which they can not only make their farms more productive, but also their home life more satisfactory and more attractive, if the cities and the towns of the state are to be benefited through the increased prosperity of the farmer, then the work of agricultural extension must be pushed In Georgia. It takes money with which to accomplish these results. With the ten thousand dollars per annum now appropriated by the state the State College of Agriculture Is able to do much good, but Georgia is a wide field and to properly carry on this work, so that the best results may be secured and the necessary number of farmers reached, a much larger sum of money is needed. The legislators should begin to study the proposition of giving to the 8tate College of Agriculture for this extension work fifty thouoand dollars per an num. That may sound big to some ears, but It Is not a large sum for the state of Georgia to invest enrh year in this kind of work. It will be brought back tenfold In the Increased value of the farms and their output. Such a question Is certain to confront the Georgia lawmakers at no dls- tant date. It wrfuld be well for them to alt up and take notice of the extension work being done by the State College of Agriculture and to devise ways and means for making this work what It should be In every section of the state. ♦ — — 1 1 - —♦ ATHENS’ NEW TAX SYSTEM. The Banner takes occasion at this time to call to the attention of the peo. pie of the city that they have but a few more days under the new tax ordinan ces of the city in which to make returns of their property for taxation. Every effort has been made by the administration to notify the people amply of the change In the law, so that all of them might make their returns in time, and ft Is believed that practically all of the tax payera of the city have received the notices that have been sent out. The new tax ordinances provide for the giving In of the property at this time for taxation, and for the payment of the taxes In three Installments. It Is believed that this new' system will work to the benefit of both the tax pay ers and the city. It will make the burden fall lighter upon the tax payers, as they will not have to pay all the tax at one time, and the city will get Its money at different times during the year, which will save Interest on over drafts In bank and will In every way be better for the city government and hence for the people. The people of the city, after having reasoned out the effects of the change In the law, have aa a rule, favorably commented on It, and It Is quite certain to grow upon the people from year to year as the best possible system that could he devised for the collection of taxes. *■ t THE CHINESE SUGAR OUTPUT Up to this lime the output of sugar In the Chinese empire has been com paratively small, but from reports sent to the United States consul at Amoy, It appears thnt cultivation of sugar cane Is to be engaged In on a large Kale In that country nt once. A wealthy Chinese who has carefully investigated the subject Is satisfied that there Is much money to be made In title line of endeavor and accordingly has bought large tracts of land and hoi engaged dif ferent firms to put up fer him several, modern sugar mills. He find! that the isoit in r.itit.a win grow the cane all right, but that the lack of proper crushing machinery and the absence of modern methods In the refining of the product have been responsible for the slow growth of the Industry In that country. The sugar (hat will thus he made ready for the market will be similar to the Hawaiian sugar and will come Into competition with the other sugars of of the world. Just how far China will he able to compete with other countries In sugar production remains to he seen, hut there are many who have Investl. gated the possibilities of the Chinese empire In this field and they believe that In the years to come China will be a great sugar-producing country.- ’ THE NEW YORK DEADLOCK The end of the great senatorial deadlock In New York U about In sight. Edward M. Shepard hns withdrawn from the race and it Is said that Tammany Hall Is about ready to take down Sheehan. That will pave the way to the ee- lection of some man who Is acceptlble to both Tammany and the Insurgent democrats In the New York legislature. The Importance of New York being represented by a senator lo the next senate Is seen at once. It Is very likely that the prealdent will call an extra session of congress. That session will deal with very Important measures and the democratic party will be on trial. It would be folly for the party to loso a vote in the senate on account of this deadlock and the party leaders In New York, now that they see the extra session of congress so near at hand, are convinced that the time has come when the deadlock must be broken and a democrat chosen as the successor to Chauncey M. Depew. Tammany has made a hard fight for Sheehan, but the organisation made the mistake in putting up a man they kitew would not be supported by the re qulslte number of members of the legislature. MANY NEW BUILDINGS NOW BEING ERECIED HOBSON SEES JAPANESE HOBGOBLINS. Representative Hobaon has been seeing Japanese hobgoblins again. He has told the house of representatives that In less than ten months this country will be engaged In war and It la clear enough that he means that the Mikado will be the gentleman who will throw hts gauntlet down and dare Uncle Sam to fight. Mr. Hobson made this remark In connection with the debate on the naval appropriation Mil, in order lo boost the program for more money with which to build more battleships. He may be right In his surmises, but it does not appear now that he Is. Japan no doubt would like to tackle the United State* but that country Is In no better condition for war than this country. In fact In not so farorable a position. The United State* should go on building battleships according lo * con servative plan, but not allow the Jingoes to have their way and rush the coun try Into a naval program entirely out of touch with the real demands of the situation. If the time comes for the United States to take up arms against the Japs, we hare nr doubt that this country will give a good account of Itself and that victory will come to the American force*. Until the situation becomes more -definitely dcaper-**, we see no reason In being foolishly active In tho construe, tlon of battleablps. There la a golden mean that may he adhered to in this policy of Increasing the naval equipment of the United States. NO POPULAR ELECTIONS OF SENATORS The proposed amendment to the federal constitution to provide for the election of senators by a direct vote of the people will not be submitted for ratification. That was made certain when the republicans of the senate forc ed through an amendment, offered by Senator Sutherland, placing the control of the elections in the hands of congress. This amendment was doubtless In troduced for the purpose of killing the bill, for It was known that Its passage meant the opposition of the democrats of the South to the final passage of the bill. If those republicans who really wanted to see the bill pass had had the courage to vote against the Sutherland amendment, the democrats would have rallied to their support and the bill might have been passed, but the Southern democrats do not Intend paying such a price for the constitutional amendment providing for popular elections. They are satisfied with the present direct method of nominating senators, which Is really equivalent to a direct vote, and so far as the South is concerned, the amendment can go. It will require a two-third vote to secure the passage of this hill, and the Southern democrats hare more than one-third of the votes of the senate. It Is safe to say, therefore, that the bill will be defeated, for Senator Bacon, of Georgia, having sounded the democrats on the proposition, has stated that they are opposed to the bill in Its present shape and will not rote for It. The direct vote of the people for their senators may some day be provid ed for In the federal constitution, but It will not be put there along with a pro vision that gives congress the right to regulate the elections. The South hai had enough of force bill agitation. Work in the Building Line Grow ing Brisk Many Improvements Being Made. The building boom has struck Ath ens with much force and many build ings hare been commenced and are In course of construction during the last few days. Yesterday morning work was com menced on the new Sunday school room of i he Emmanuel church. The building is to be provided with all modern conveniences for Sunday school work, and will be quite an ad dition to the church. Mr. .1. S. Keese, the well known grocer on Prince avenue, has let .a contract for the erection of a two story brick building at the Intersec tion of Prince avenue and Melga street, In the triangle. Work was commenced yesterday morning and will be pushed at a rapid rate until completed. This Improvement will ic quite an addition to that section of the city. Mrs. Frances l-ong Taylor will Commence this week the erection of a building on Lumpkin street, next to tbs Y. M. C. A. It will be a taro-story brick building and- part of the build ing will be occupied by Mr. W. D. Bowden, when It 1* completed. LOCAL UNION OF ATHENS MUSICIANS Muskiirs Have Formed Unkn With Good Membership For Mutual Protection. The musicians of Athens have just completed the organization of a local union for their mutual Interest and protection. The organization bal more than twenty memberi, most d the active muaiciana in the city unk ing aa charter fitembera—wltk a Uw exception*. Others have expressed their Intention of uniting and there will be about tblrty-five when the list closes for charter members—the ros ter being open for thirty days. The officer* are as follow*: John Burch, prealdent; L. P. Canning, vice president; H. C. Collier, secretary; and C. J. Johnson, treasurer. Soaedy Relltf From Kldnay Trouble "I had an acute stuck of Bright'* diseaae with Inflammation of the kid ney* and bladder, and dizziness,” toys Mrs. Cora Thorp, Jackoon. Mich. “A boule of Foley's Kidney Remedy overcome the attack, reduced the In flammation, took aw..y tho pain and mad* tho bladder action normal. I wish everybody could know of thlf wonderful remedy.**, For aal* by all druggists. x