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■THE ATHENS DAILY HERALD.
FRIDAY EVENING, JANLARY 30.1914.
THE ATHENS DAILY HERALD
Published every afternoon during the week by
THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
\ (No Sunday Issue.)
WILLIAM G. GREDIG, Editor.
E. W. CARROLL, Business Manager
Entered at the postoffice at Athens, Ga., for transmission through the mails
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VOL. 2.
NO. 139
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ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1914.
WEATHER FORECAST.
Washington, D. C., January 30.—Forecast for Georgia: Rain and colder
tonight; Saturday fair and colder.
, EDUCATION OF IMMIGRANTS.
That immigrants are keenly interested in schooling for their
children, or at least conspicuously obedient to school-attendance
laws, is the declaration of Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States Com
missioner of Education. “The least illiterate of our population are
the native-born children of foreign parents,” says Dr. Claxton, in
a bulletin on education for immigrants just issued. “The illiteracy
among the children of native-born parents is three times as great
as that among native-born children of foreign parents.”
Dr. Claxton reviews the whole problem of education for im
migrants, in and out of school. “To the people of no other country
is the problem of so much importance as to the people of the
United States. No other country has so many men, women, and
children coming to its shores every year from all parts of the
world.
“Many of those who have come to us in recent years are from
countries having very meager provisions for public education.
According to the Federal census of 1910 more than 25 per cent of
the foreign-born population of three states was illiterate, from 15
to 25 per cent of five states, from 10 to 15 per cent of 11 states,
and from 5 to 10 per cent of 21 states. In only one state was the
percentage of illiteracy of the foreign-born population less than 5.
“Most of the immigrants in recent years have little kinship
with the older stocks of our population, either in blood, language,
methods of thought, traditions, manners, or customs; they know
little of our political and civic life and are unused to our social
ideals; their environment here is wholly different from that to
which they have been accustomed. Strangers to each other, fre
quently from countries hostile to each other by tradition, of dif
ferent speech and creeds, they are thrown together, strangers
among strangers, in a strange country, and are thought of by us
only as a conglomerate mass of foreigners. With little attention
to their specific needs, they are crowded into factories, mines, and
dirty tenement quarters, too often the prey of the exploiter in
business and the demagogue in politics.
"Immigrants education is not alone the question of the school
education of children. The millions of adult men and women, and
of children older than the upper limit of the compulsory school-at
tendance age, must be looked after; they must be prepared for
American citizenship and for participation in our democratic in
dustrial, social, and religious life; they must be given sympathetic
help in finding themselves in their new environment and in ad-
listing themselves to their new opportunities and responsibilities,
Jhe proper education of these people is a duty which the nation
l#wes to itself and to them. It can neglect this duty only to thoir
hurt and its own peril.”
MULE CARS ON THE GEORGIA
Old Time Motive Power on the “Old
Reliable” Road.
Description of a Journey From Augusta to Athens in Ye Olden
Days—Commencment of the University—When Railroading
Was Not as it Is at the Present Time.
(Edited by Geo. W. Reab.)
CHAPTER III.
Over there, there was no unseemly
haste, nor note of time. The governor
had many directions and just remem
bered instructions to impress upon
his driver, and when, to these, was
added a volume of warnings and in
junctions by his good wife, they en
tered the car and preparations were
made for an early departure. Every
thing portended a trying and weary-
some journey of many hours, but
when the old governor began to talk,
never were fears more agreeably dis
sipated.
Greeting by a familiar name, the
young man who had boarded the car
at Athens and who, it happened, was
on his way to finish at some northern
institution, an education already ad
vanced to a diploma in his home col
lege, he began by giving some wise
and fatherly advice as to his life and
conduct among a people whom he de
scribed as wholly alien to every
southern feeling and principle and in
no way worthy of imitation.
Then in a garrulous disconnected,
but specially delightful way, he began
to describe Georgia affairs and es
pecially public affairs, and the men
connected therewith.
H« had been in politics for fifty
years, and most of that period in posi
tions that brought him in contact—
either as ally or opponent—with every
public man whose name is mentioned
in the annals of the time. His no
tices of these men and their acts were
acute and witty—pointed with inci
dent and anecdote; but long retire
ment and a disposition naturally ben
evolent had affected all animosities
delight possessed the audience
throughout his address and after that
day he was elevated to a place in the
estimation of his party, where every
er~or iwas at once condoned, and to
the last day of his life he continued
to be the petted and spoiled darling of
confiding Georgia.
(To be Continued).
’Twas a Day of
Damage
Suits
Mr. J. H. Davis, attorney, has filed
for J. H. Brewer a damage suit
against the Southern Expres Co. for
alleged injuries received last Decem
ber while plaintiff was on duty as
night watchman at the Central of
Georgia depot. Plaintiff was hit by
a heavy truck, as told of at the time
in The Herald.
The amount involved is $5,000.
Burrell Shaw, an employe of the
compress here has entered suit against
the Atlantic Compress Company for
damages alleged to have been sustain
ed by the falling of a skid between
a car and the platform of the com
press, throwinn the plaintiff to the
ground as he was trucking a bale of
cotton across the space, and injuring
him.
A suit to recover damages to the
amount of $353.50 has been filed in
the city court against Dr. M. F. Math-
and'they^were'dMied'withoot" any
admixture of malice or acrimony. The
hours sped more swiftly than the Air*
and with interest unabated we reached
Union Point and the little party was
lost in the large train, never to meet
DEAL WITH MEN YOU KNOW.
' Don’t expect the impossible of Athens and its merchants. Be
sure first, before you complain of the goods and prices of home
merchants, that you haven’t had a hand in making it impractica
ble for our merchants to handle the kind of goods you want at the
prices you can pay. Merchants are not mind readers nor are they
blind to their own best interests. If they haven’t what you want
they will get it for you at as low or lower price than you can get it
anywhere else. They deserve to be given an opportunity to do so
anyhow; but if they do not deserve it you will be doing yourself a
bigger favor than you will be doing them to deal face to face with
men you know and that can be held personally accountable for
|their promises and performances. Try this for a rule of trading
^hereafter.
The merchants who advertise in The Athens Herald are
dependable. Visit their stores and inspect their merchandise. It
will pay.
CITIES’ DOWNFALL AND “RURAL DECAY.”
At the Minnesota Academy of Social Science, a gathering was
recently told by George Woodruff that the downfall of nations was
due to over-populated cities. In analyzing the cause of deaths of
nations he made a point of what he called “rural decay” and
pointed out a remedy which he described as “the construction of
an equalizing rural civilization.” He offered three recommenda
tions—better business, better farming and better living. Under the
head of better business he urged improved rural credit and im
proved co-operative methods. Under the head of better farming
he suggested soil conservation, greater crops and more live stock.
Under the head of better living he proposed better community
spirit rural social centers, modern farmhouses, better sanitation,
better prepared food, better rural churches, rural Y. M. C. A.’s,
up-to-date rural schols with vocational courses, and good roads.
those periods in the history of the
country which politicians call "crises”
and public men of all shades of opin
ion wore invited to meet hero and en
lighten the people upon the policy
necessary to be pursued to save the
republic from ruin. A spacious plat
form was erected at the east end of
the old city hall and a large audience
from South Carolina and Georgia as
sembled to spend the whole day in
listening with varying interest to or
ators selected from both states.
The delegation from South Carolina
was headed by the veteran George
McDuffie, who, tempted by the magni
tude of the interests involved, had
been, for the last time, drawn forth
from his long retirement. The speak
ers from Georgia were all men of
mark, but the chief attractions were
Toombs and Stephens, who then, for
the first time made their formal ap
pearance before a general audience,
and began that wonderful brotherhood,
personal and political, that for so
many years made their united efforts
almost irresistible. Most of the
morning had been consumed by the
opposing advocates before Stephens
(whom most of the people had never
seen) was introduced and when they
saw standing before them a slight
figure—pale and even emaciated—dif
fering neither in dress or person—
except the flashing eyes—from the
typical cldy-eating “crackers”—some
of whom were then present—it was
difficult to tell whether a feeling of
surprise or disappointment was pre
dominant. His thin, piping voice, at
first, did little to dispel the feeling,
but soon his shrill, piercing tones
compelled the attention of the assem
bly, and his solid arguments—biting
sarcasm—and striking ancedotes—
made them realize that here was a
master mind, encased in a garment of
flesh almost too frail to contain the
powers working within, wonder and
Mrs. Azlee Coulter has filed a suit
for $2,000 damages against the Geor
gia Railroad and Banking Company.
She alleges among other things that
there was no stool or step placed for
her assistance in mounting the train
at the Elberton street crossing of the
Georgia Railroad here, and because
the colored porter, she alleges, insult
ed her after refusing to wait on her;
and because the conductor did not es
cort her through the negro coach and
the smoker to a seat In the first
class car, etc.
a mule belonging to Mr. Hinton, driv
en by a colored man at the time, was
run into and hurt so that he had to
be killed; that the injury to the mulo
was caused by Dr. Mathews' automo
bile; and that the amount asked, the
value claimed for the mule, should be
awarded the plaintiff from the de
fendant.
Matter of Counting.
“Yes,” he remarked, stretching
himself lazily in the one realy com
fortable chair in the commercial
room, “I’m the youngest child of a
big family.”
-'How many of you are there?”
asked the fellow knight of the road.
“Well,” replied the lazy one,‘‘three
of my brothers are dead, but there
were 10 of us boys, and each of us
had a sister.”
“What!” gasped his questioner,
“tfou you mean to say that there were
20 of you ?
“Dear dear no—only 11." - $
ROBBERS GOT HIS $300,
BUT OVERLOOKED $400.
Savannah, Ge., January 30.—Be
cause of his lack of confidence in
banks, B. Skensky, a west side mer
chant, is mourning the lots of $500 in
good American money. At the same
time he is rejoicing over the fact that
the burglar who broke into his bed
room last night and pried open a bu
reau where be keeps his hoard over
looked $400.
The more wo think of Congress
man Moon the more respect we have
for the quadruped variety..—Ex.
CUTTING COST ON THE CANAL
The contribution of the average
American to the building of the Pa
nama Canal was $4. If it had not been
for the unparalleled efficiency devel
oped it might have required $7 out of
your pocketbook instead of $4. As the
work progressed the difficulties in
creased and the amount of material
to be removed was added to in such a
way that it began to look as though
it would require the removal of moun
tains of money out of American pock-
etbooka to remove the mountains of
earth and rock out of the canal.
But Colonel Goethals had estimated
that the total cost of the canal was
going to be $376,000,000, and he was
not willing to let such a small thing
aa a hundred million cubic yards of
material upset that estimate. So !*«
called for efficiency. He asked his
army to remove as mush material for
one dollar as he had thought could bo
removed for two dollars.
Eliminating lost motion there, tak
ing in a reef of expense here, the pro
cess was kept up day in and day out,
month in and month out, until Colo
nel Goethals was able to see one
pound of dynamite doing the work that
formerly had been done by two pounds,
and until he was able to witness two
yards of material taken out of Culebra
Cut at what it was estimated one yard
would cost.
Here is another wonderful story of
human achievement—a stery of yeur
kinsman .your country men. It is told
so graphically in Frederic J. Haskins’
book, “The Panama Canal,” that The
Athens Herald desirea each of ita
readers to have the opportunity of
geiting a copy. See the coupon and
advertisement elsewhere for particu
lar*
Peculiar After Effects
of Grip This Year
Leaves Kidneys in Weakened Condi
tion.
Doctors in all parts of the country
have been kept busy with the epi
demic of grip which has visited so
many homes. The symptoms of grip
this year are often very distressing
and leave the system in a run down
condition, particularly the kidneys
which seem to suffer most, as almost
every victim complains of lame back
and urinary troubles which should not
be neglected, as these danger signals
often lead to dangerous kidney trou
bles. Druggists report a large sale
on Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root which
so many people say soon heals and
strengthens the kidneys after an at
tack of grip. Swamp-Root is a great
kidney, liver and bladder remedy, and,
being an herbal compound, has a gen
tle healing effect on the kidneys,
which is almost immediately noticed
in most cases by those who try it.
Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghampton, N.
Y., offer to send a sample size bottle
of Swamp-Root, on receipt of ten
cents, to any sufferer who requests it.
A trial will convince any one who may
be in need of it. Regular size bottles
50c and $1.00. For sale at all drug
gists. Be sure to mention this paper.
In one respect, at least, Martha
Washington was so different from oth
er women. She had a will of her own
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