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THE ATHENS DAILY HERALD.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1914.
THE ATHENS DAILY HERALD
Published every afternoon during the week by
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E. W. C A It BOLL, Pusinesa Manager
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VOL. 2.
N.O 159
The Georgia Chamber of Commerce
Pushing “Buy-at-Home”
Campaign
Atlanta, Ga., February 25.—With | M. Morgan, George M. Clapp and C.
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ATHENS, GA.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1914.
Washington, D.
night and Thor, day
WEATHER FORECAST.
C„ February 25.—Forecast for Georgia: Unsettled to-
probably snow; not so cold.
SENATOR BACON’S W ILL.
The will of otir lale Senator Bacon is a good subject for reflec
tion. Here is a man who might have achieved great wealth and
the prestige which always comes with it, but who sought honor and
gained it in a very different direction.
It is not often that a United States senator leaves so modest
an estate as that of Senator Bacon, and it is indeed rare that an
American gentleman is honored—not for what he owns, so much
as for what he has refused to own.
Everyone knows that the United States senate offers alluring
opportunities for increasing the wherewithal of living. There are
innumerable degrees of graft, which, if one is so rude as to men
tion them at all, are given a variety of soft and euphonious names
The depressing fact that most senators grow rich during their
stay in Washington is unpleasant to face; but it is there all the
same, and when we find a striking exception to this generality, it
is an occasion for paying tribute.
Senator Bacon’s estate has been built up, as his will implies,
by hard work and abstemious living. The atmosphere of Wash-
ngton during all those years of his service there to the people of
Georgia did not encourage abstemious living. Senator Bacon’s
limited way of living often opened him to reproach from those who
were accustomed to see the position of a senator upheld by pomp
and circumstance and a free hanled and lordly contempt for the
price.
But Senator Bacon’s high place in the capital was won by the
strength of his moral and intellectual qualities. Even those who
most gravely deplored his refusal to accept wasteful “social obli
gations" as a part of his office, gradually yielded him a higher
respect and admiration for his incorruptible simplicity and his ab
solute honesty and sincerity.
In the modest words of his will, wherein he expresses his
faith in a future life, we gain an insight into the standards to
which he upheld his life:
“I commit my soul to God, in the humble hope that in spite of
many weaknesses, imperfections, faults and misdeeds, I shall be
reunited in a happy immortality with my kindred and friends.”
PANAMA CANAL GOSSIP
the survey of Georgia looking into
the manufacturing needs of the state
merrily progressing, the campaign
launched creating interest in the
building of good, permanent road,
the fight on the boll weevil menace
steadily continuing; the Buy-at-Home
and Buy-in-Georgia movements being
stealily pushed, and with the organi
zation and reorganization of trades
bodies and county Chambers of Com
merce, the officials of the Georgia
State Chamber of Commerce are man
aging to keep busy every hour of the
working week. In addition to this
more spectacular work, the state
chamber is gradually compiling a
mass of statistics of every character,
which will prove invaluable in its la
ter work in trying to induce capital
and new blood to come into Georgia.
President C. J. Haden, of the state
chamber, in initiating the industrial
survey of the state, addressed letters
to various cities and towns asking
what kind of manufacturing enter
prises would be most suitable in the
respective communities. The query
has caused a veritable avalanche of
mail to shoot into the headquarters
offices of the chamber. The informa
tion received will be compiled and a
systematic campaign for industries
carried on later.
Chairman Emory Winship, of Ma
con, of the good roads committee of
the state chamber, is quietly organiz
ing his forces preparatory to carrying
out various plans which are calculated
to increase the interest in good roads.
A meeting of the automobile and auto
accessory dealers together with agri
cultural implement dealers of Atlanta
will be held February 26, and will be
followed by others in various parts of
Georgia. Chairman Winship will
make several extended auto trips in
person in order to gain first-hand in
formation as to the condition and
needs of the state’s roads.
The state chamber has succeeded in
thoroughly arousing the farmers of
the state with regard to the pending j 0 h n W.
boll weevil invasion. Reports from
various sources show that practical
and stringent methods are being em
ployed to counteract the pest when it
does make its appearance in Georgia.
Not only are the officials of the
state chamber persistently hammer^
ing away on the “Buy-at-Home” doc
trine and urging Georgia people to buy
Georgia-raised and Georgia-made
goods, but they have begun the cam
paign to interest outside buyers in
goods grown and manufactured in the
Empire state of the south. For ex-
Bradley, experienced men in their
lines, have been stimulating interest
in the formation of county Chambers
of Commerce during the past month.
Among the county commercial organi
zations that are either active today
or that are preparing for efficient
work are the Randolph Chamber of
Commerce, the Clay County Chamber
of Commerce, the Murray County
Chamber of Commerce, the Taylor
County Chamber of Commerce, the
Butts County Chamber of Commerce,
the Decatur County Board of Trade
and many others. Conyers and a
number of other towns and cities have
recently organized trade bodies and
others are preparing to follow in their
wake. The Clay County Chamber of
Commerce was organized on February
19 under the personal supervision of
Acting Secretary Charles D. McKin
ney and Special Representative Tom
M. Morgan, of the state chamber. Of
ficials of the state chamber have re
eeived requests to he present to as
sist iff'the launching of similar trade
bodieh fn other parts of Georgia in the
near future.
President Haden spent the past
week in New York on business
nected with the state chamber.
DRUGS EXCITE YOUR
KIDNEYS, USE SALTS
SUFFRAGE UP 10
VIRGINIA HOUSE
Hearing on Amendment Expect
ed Soon—Chief Justice Clark
and Mrs. Wells Speak.
(By Associated Press.)
Panama, February 25.—It is. In
many reaped*, very much like a col
lec« commencement season on the
Isthmus just now. Frow the thous
ands of men who have bden taking
long courses in practical canal build
ing classes are being graduated almost
daily, a commencement season which
will probably continue tor many
months.
Men who have put in the full course
•night be believed to welcome release
from the tropics, but on every hand
K there is a sort of ulma mater sent!
merit expressed by many in the hope
that they will return to the scene of
their engineering triumphs for further
service of some sort. A majority of
the men who are laying down their
hooks and shovels are going away
with no other diploma than prida in
having participated in a monumental
work. That is enough to-bind many
men together and it may be no sur
prise that some such organization At
the Canal Diggers Alumni association
is an outgrowth of this common pride.
There is general satisfaction ex-
‘ -pressed that the chief engineer will
•tay until the last, and overlap for a
time at least as the civil governor df
the canal zone. But this appointment
•f Colonel George W. Gocthals as gov
ernor is practically the only definite
answer which the bigger men of the
canal work have been given as to
. what next for a big job.
With Colonel Gocthals' appointment
Richard [„ Metcalfe, who had been in
charge of the civil administration, and
. Joseph Bucklin Bishop, secretary of
the canal commission, are winding up
f their work. Mr. Mctcalc will proba
bly return soon to the United States,
but he declares that reports that he
intends to enter the race fer the gov-
lernorship of Nebraska are erroneous.
I He asserts that it is not his present
intention to do ao, leaving' his future
•n open question.
It ia generally understood In the
gone that Secretary Bishop will be
- appointed hy President Wilson in the
. capacity of official historian of the ca
nal, It is intimated that this is the
wish of Colonel Ooethals, who believes
that the <4|£i Meter* * the gnat
should be compiled while the under
taking is fresh in the minds of thosa
who took part in it, and by a man
who •was a-s intimately associated with
it as was Mr. Bishop. The secretary
will probably remain here until the
official opening of the waterway, aet
for January, 1915.
Among the division engineers whq
hav^ lately been relieved of their du
ties is Lieutenant-Colonel William L.
Libert, the “concrete man.” He was
in charge of the construction of all
concrete work on the Gatun locks,
dam and spillway. Where he will go
when the Isthmian Canal Commission
ceases to exist on April 1 i3 another
open question, hut in some quarters
it is believed that the construction of
the projected Alaskan railway may
furnish a suitable field for his activi
ties, as K will for many who have fin
ished their work here.
Ev?ry one believes that Colonel W.
C. Gorges, the sanitary expert who
rid the Isthmus of yellow fever pests,
and who is now engaged in a great
sanitary work in South Africa, will
be the next surgeon-general of the
army.
H. IT. Itosseau, tta naval engineer
who has always been regarded as
Colonel Goethals’ right hand man, will
probably remain on the Isthmus until
the finishing touches have been given
all the docks and shops at both ends
of the canal. At Balboa this work, in
his charge, has only just begun, and
notwithstanding the headway that is
being made daily it is apparent that
It will be at least another year before
the building which will serve at the
future headquarters of the canal force
and tho naval shops and dry docks
will be ready to turn over to other
hands. Even with this done it is be
lieved that Col. Goethals will find
further*need of his “right hand” man
in connection with the canal operation.
Lieutenant-Colonel H. F. Hodges,
Unitod States corps of engineers, Is
another of the constructors cf the
great waterway whose services will be
required until at least the end of the
present year. His work has been In
looking after the important electrical
installation at the three great locks
and In providu^ fir the aids to navi-
ample, a atone or more of Chicago
business men spent several days in
Georgia a short time ago looking into
the granite quarrying industries and,
incidentally, had their eyes opened in
other respects as to the unlimited nat
ural possibilities of this common
wealth.
It takes sixty-four different people
to manufacture a single shoe, say ex
perts. It will take the cooperation
and unstinted support of the whole
people of Georgia to solve its prob
lems. Through the organization of
commercial trade organizations here
and there the state chamber is gradu
ally enlisting the help of farmers,
bankers, merchants, transportation
companies and public utilities officials,
reel eststo «nd others in an
effort to get all the people of the
state to work for the whole state.
Three special organizers, Messrs. Tom
gatlon through the cnnal. It is ex
pected that this work will b3 com
pleted before the end of the present
year. Then the canal will be said to
be really in condition for the saf<
passage of ocean going vessels and
not before.
Seme anxiety is manifested by Wal
ter F. Beyer, assistant engineer in
chaise of aids to navigation in the ca-
nal itself, over the appearance of
large quantitiei of water cabbage and
water hyacinth that are growing rap
idly and spreading ever the surface
of the canal. These plants are form
ing large and small floating islands
and it is feared will prove a hindrance
to navigation.
Within a brief period after the clos
ing of the gates of Gatun spillway
the water cabbage began growing
along the banks of the lake that w*4
formed. Now they have spread all
over the surface of the lake and float
ing about in great islands that are be
coming very dense. These plants have
very long roots and in nhallow water
become anchored fast to the bottom.
Recently the water hyacinth made Its
appearance and like the cabbage, is
floating about in large islands.
The growth of the latter is much
faster than the cabbage and forms in
masses of great density. It is feared
that ships will have considerable dif
ficulty in piercing these masses. Al
ready means are being considered for
the destruction of plants or at least
for feeir control so they will not ob
struct the channel.
The danger from the plants Is said
to be greatest where the canal is nar
rowest, because they will thera find
anchorage and gradually overspread
the entire waterway. The danger is
regarded as not ho great in Gaiuu take
becauoa they have a tendency to re-
maip qeag tho shore.
The constitutional amendment
asked by the Equal Suffrage League
of Virginia is now before the Virginia
House, with the following patrons;
Hon. Hill Montague, Richmond; Hon.
Chalkley, Big Stone Gap
Wise County; Hon. A. T. Lincoln,
Marion, Smyth County; Hon. R. H.
Willis, Roanoke, Roanoke County.
The hearing will probably take place
next week says the Woman’s Journal.
Chief Justic Walter Clark of the
Supreme Court of North Carolina
made an eloquent address in Rich
mond, Jan. 30, on “Equal Suffrage,” to
a large, enthusiastic and representa
tive audience in tha Jefferson Hotel
auditorium.
On Feb. 6, Mrs. Alice Stebbins
Wells, Los Angeles’ first policewoman,
will speak of the work of policewom
en, under the auspices of the Equal
Suffrage League of Richmond.
These are the first two addresses of
the educational campaign planned by
the League for the coming winter.
How to Mark Linen for Newlyweds.
In the March Woman’s Home Com
panion in the “Home Problem” depart
ment, a contributor, who signs herself
“Ignorance,” says that she is soon to
be married and that she is marking
her house linen for her new home.
She wants to know whether she should
use her own initials or those of her
future husband. The editor’s reply to
the query is as follows:
...c fashion new -r.d has fcezn
the fashion for many years past, that
the bride’s linen and silver should all
be marked with her own initials. Oc
casionally the friends iwho give silver
for a wedding present have it marked
with the last initial of the names of
bride and groom, intertwined. But
this is never seen on linen.”
At the international electrical con
gress to be held at San Francisco in
September next year about 260 papers,
prepared by the most noted electri
cians in the world, will be read.
If Your Back Hurts or Bladder
Bothers, Drink Lots of Water.
When your kidneys hurt and your
back feels sore, don’t g*t scared and
proceed to load your stomach with a
lot of drugs that excite the kidneys
and irritate the entire urinary tract.
Keep your kidneys clean like you keep
your bowels clean, by flushing them
with a mild, harmless salts which re
moves the body’s urinous waste and
stimulates them to their normal ac
tivity. The function of the kidneys is
to filter the blood. In 24 hours they
strain from it 500 grains of acid and
waste, so we can readily understand
the vital importance of keeping the
kidneys active.
Drink lot of water—you can’t drink
too much; also get from any pharma
cist about four ounces of Jad Salts;
take a tablespoonful In a glass of wa
ter before breakfast each morning fo
a few days and your kidneys will act
fine. This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice,
combined with lithia, and has been
used for generations to clean and
stimulate clogged kidneys; also
neutraliae the acids in urine so it no
longer is a source of irritation, thus
ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
jure; makes a delightful effervescent
lithia-water drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep
their kidneys clean and active. Try
this, also keep up the water drinking,
and no doubt you will wonder what
beeame of your kidney trouble and
backache.
TEACHERS STUDYING
DANISH FOLK DANCES
(By Associated Press.)
Copenhagen, February 25.—Several
American teachers are here studying
the old Danish folk dances with the
idea of substituting them for gym
nastics in girls’ schools in America.
In this city a big society has been
formed for the preservation and pro
motion of Danish national dances. The
movement was so widespread that It
attracted the attention of Americans
visiting h«re and resulted in the visit
of the American teachers, who express
themselves as delighted with the
quaint dances. The teachers complain
that gymnastics become very tiresome
and boring to girls, and they believe
that the dances will confer all of the
benefits of the gymnastics and at the
same time be a great source of pleas
ure to the students.
An Englishman hat patented a pro
cess for »o treating the edges <of pa
per money that, when placed in a
phonograph of his invention, they
produce words attesting their genu
ineness.
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