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THE ATHENS DAILY HERALD.
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 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
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VOL. 2.
NO. 156
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ATHENS, GA.. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1914.
WEATHER FORECAST.
Washington, D. C., February 21.—Forecast for Georgia: Fair tonight
and Sunday.
NOT THE ATHENS SPIRIT.
Athens is going to be a city of 30,000 population one of these
days. Why not pull for it for 1920? It can be done and with a
thousand or two to spare. “The Athens spirit” can help to bring
this about.
But first, to get more people to come to Athens it’s necessary
to ask more people to move to Athens. People don’t go as a rule
where they are not invited and where they are not made welcome.
Think of this for a moment.
If every citizen of Athens would sit down and write a cordial,
friendly or husint.is letter, inviting someone to come to Athens, to
live or to enter business, do you know what would happen? At 1
least 500 n.v, would move to Athens within a year. This
is no guo*.-,v.\ i.\ i.oi exaggerated—it’s plain facts. People
will listen to to facts, to new ideas.
Why not enlist the whole community in the work the Cham'
ber of Commerce is trying to do to build up Athens—to bring
liew people and more people of the right sort to Athens? Why
not widen the circle of earnest and willing workers, instead of
making it smaller and smaller?
And here’s one more thing that is not in keeping with the
Athens spirit: It’s bad business to ask people to Athens and then
knock them if they accept your invitation and come to Athens.
Better not ask them in the first place if this is the way Athens
proposes to treat the newcomer.
Athens, perhaps, has less than the average city's share of the
town knocker. That is one reason why Athens has grown and
will continue to grow faster than some other cities. • But there is
no disguising the fact that the knocker exists in all growing
towns. It’s simply a question of whether the town will outgrow
the knocker or the knocker outgrow the town.
It is not the Athens spirjt to knock, but to boost. When you
hear the knocker start, begin to boost. It’s the way to win for
cities as Well as individuals. One is the Athens spirit—the other
is not. Invite more people to live in Athens and make them wel
come. They’ll bring in turn their friends.
ABATE THE FLY NUISANCE.
Now that winter is practically over and warmer weather is at
hand it is needful that stringent measures be promptly adopted
looking to the abating of the fly nuisance. A stitch in time may
save many lives.
There is an ordinance promulgated by the Athens Board of
Health which requires^Mft users of stables within the corporate
limits keep them clean. There has been much complaint in the
past that this order has to a considerable extent been disregarded.
It is a good rule, one that is calculated to safeguard the health of
our people, and it should by all means be rigidly enforced.
Large numbers of flies are bred in these stables and these
; insects multiply at an astonishing rate and scatter among the
neighborhoods in which these stables are located, jeopardizing the
health and lives of our citizens.
Athens has the best climatic advantages in the country, but
if insufficient attention is paid to sanitary matters disease will
flourish here, no matter how well nature has blessed us. To trifle
with this matter of cleanliness will prove costly. The Herald
urges that the Board of Health and the City Council take hold of
this matter and provide for the strict enforcement of the order
of the board that the stables iocated in the city be kept thor
oughly clean.
Let this be done before the hot weather sets in. It will prove
good health insurance and doubtless prevent serious illness.
EXTEND THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF ATHENS.
The resolution of Councilman Mathews, introduced recently
at a called meeting of the city council, providing for the extension
of the corporate limits of Athens a half mile beyond the present
limits is a progressive step.
The rapid growth of this city is generally commented upon,
but at the same time the city's revenue is insufficient to take
care of needed municipal improvements. In practically every case
where these improvements have been found to be imperative a
bond issue has been resorted to in order to enable the administra
tion to carry the work forward.
There still remains much street paving which should be done.
It will not be possible to do much in this direction during this
year, although Mayor Dorsey hopes to be able to accomplish
something along this line. There are many requests for street
lights which it has been found absolutely necessary to turn down.
The budget for 1914 provides $13,000 for lights, and this sum is
just sufficient to take care of the present lighting. The sanitary
ent’s allowance is too small.
It is estimated that if Councilman Mathews’ resolution can
ive favorable action more than $1,500,000 worth of additional
will be taxable by the city. It is just and necessary
i that the city should have the taxes from this property to carry
Eon the work of the administration.
The progressive forces will do well to see to it that nothing in
left undone to secure every possible advancement for Athens, and
this proposition of Councilman Mathews is most assuredly along
progressive lines.
THE INTERLOCKING COMMITTEE.
Last October the commission form of government was de
feated in Springfield, Missouri, by 504 votes. Monday it was
defeated by 51 votes. We have not the slightest doubt that it will
carry at the next election.
No modern city can get away from the commission form of
government, which means municipal efficiency, any more than a
manufacturer can get away from using steam and electricity in
stead of hand power.
Detroit’s new charter was beaten—which was a good thing
for Detroit. Incidentally, the politicians fought it—which was
also a good thing for Detroit.
Two good lessons were re-learned by Detroit and were re
taught to other progressive cities.
First, that the machine will beat even mild reform, if it can.
Second, that in order to get the people enthusiastic for a new
deal in government it has to be the best possible new government.
It is easier for the politicians to beat a compromise measure
than it is for them to beat an out and out commission government
charter.
Detroit’s proposed (and just defeated) charter kept ward rep
resentation. It was a straddle. While^jtvOffered much that was
better than its old charter it stopped’away this side of really
effective and responsible city government.
Naturally, the people did not fight for it as they would have
fought for the real thing in responsible effective government.
This is not a safe age for compromise between good govern
ment and bad government. The people have tired of half-way
"reforms.” They have discovered that all such measures are
simply added delays to the attainment of real reform and real
popular control.
THAT RAILROAD FOR DANIELSVILLE
From The Daniolsville Monitor.
The Chamber of Commerce of Ath
ens has appointed a committee to look
after the electric line from Anderson,
via Hartwell and Royston and to Ath
ens. Danielsville's opportunity is
here. All the officials of the road now
being operated north of Anderson
need to cause them to extend this line
from Anderson through to Athens is
a little encouragement, and if wc are
awake to the situation Danielsville
people and land owners in Madison
I will not let the opportunity pass in
lending these officials iheir share of
encouragement. Let’s go after it,
boys, by registering our names with
the Chamber of Commerce at Athens
as wide-awake “pullers.” Were the
road to go north of here, it would not
circle back into Athenu, and certainly
there is no better town in North eGor-
gia than the Classic City. With Hart
well, Royston and the whote of Mad
ison county on a string, what more
could they want?
Good Roads and Their Relation to
Rural Schools
Washington, February 21.— The
rural population is more willing to
support better schools today than at
any previous time. It being realiz
ed that all educational activities or
agencies must be more or less corre
lated, and, more than all else, ihul
they must be made accessible to the
hildren. Ia many counties where
bad roads prevail, most of the schools
are of the antiquated one-room varie
ty. They are usually located along
bad roads which, during the winter,
when the schools are usually in ses
sion, become so nearly imposible as to
make it difficult for the children to
reach them, This condition causes ir
regular attendance and restricts the
educational opportunities of the child.
Not only this, but it often impedes
the economic consolidation of these
smaller schools into larger, stronger
graded schools, with high school cour
ses, directed by a competent principal
and crops of teachers, according to the
Office of Public Roads, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
On the other hand, in countless
which have improved their roads, the
schools are easily reached, the average
attendance greater, the efficiency
largely increased and economic con
solidation made possible. Regular at
tendance at school means consistent
and regular growth of both school
and pupil, und consolidation of school
means a maximum of efficiency at a,
minimum of cost. It is also note
worthy that there is a marked tend
ency for the consolidated school to be
come the social and intellectual esnter
of the coinunity. Mont modern rural
schoolhouses are so constructed as to
serve the community as gathering
places for vinous kinds of public meet
ings, and where vans are used to i
vey the children to school during the
day they are frequently pressed into
services to haul the farmers and their
wives to institute work, lectures, or
entertainments at the schoolhouses.
The consolidated school becomes a
sort of community center to which all
educational and social activities con
verge, and in order that it may prop
erly perform that function all of the
highways leading to it should be so
improved as to render it readily accis*
sible throubhout the year.
Remedy and Reward.
“Yes, it took me about six months*
hard work learning to work this aero
plane.”
“And what have you got for your
pains?”
“Arnica.”—Ideas.
Don’t let your good resolution die—
even of old age.
Gas a Fuel
Delivered In Pipes
How could any house-wife be without it
Think of the time and work it will save you.
Ask your neighbor what a treasure she has
in her gas range and water heater, then call
us and have one iastailed in your home.
Athens Gas, Light and
Fuel Company
260 Jackson St Telephone 54
STOMACH TROUBLES
Mr. Ragland Writes Interesting
Letter on This Subject
Madison Heights, Va.—Mr. Chas. A.
Ragland, of this place, writes: "I have
been taking Thedford’s Black-Draught
for indigestion, and other stomach troub
les, also colds, and find it to be the very
best medicine I have ever used.
After taking Black-Draught tor a few
days, I always feel like a new man.”
Nervousness, nausea, heartburn, pain
in pit of stomach, and a feeling of full
ness after eating, are sure symptoms of
stomach trouble, and should be given the
proper treatment, as your strength and
health depend very largely upon your
food and its digestion.
To get quick and permanent retiel
from these ailments, you should take
a medicine of known curative merit.
Its 75 years of splendid success, in the
treatment of just such troubles, proves
the real merit of Thedford’s Black-
Draught. Safe, pleasant, gentle in action,
and without bad after-effects, it is sure
to benefit both young and old. For sate
everywhere. Price 25c. n. g in.
Plausible.
Willie—Paw, why is Latin called a
dead language?
Paw—Because it is useu by doctors
when they write prescriptions, my
son.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
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