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THE ATHENS DAILY HERALD.
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1914.
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THE ATHENS DAILY HERALD
Published every afternoon during the week by
THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
(No Sunday Issue.)
WILLIAM G. GREDIG. Editor.
E. \V. CAKIIOLL, Business Manager
Why Not Commission Government
For the Good City of Athens?
Entered at the postoffice at Athens, Ca., for transmission through the mails
as matter of the second class.
VOL. 2.
NO. 173
NEWS, SOCIETY
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ATHENS. GA„ FRIDAY. MARCH 13. 1914.
WEATHER FORECAST.
Washington, D. C., March 13.—Fair tonight and Saturday; slowly rising
temperature; frost tonight.
THERE’S DEATH IN THE FLESH POTS.
Intemperate living claims many victims. An over-fondness
for corned beef and cabbage is likely to prove as fatal as over-in
dulgence in intoxicating liquors, to say nothing of the rich foods
which abound upon the tables of the epicure with the price. Let
us hope that the high cost of living, to some at least, has been a
blessing in disguise.
Attention has recently been brought strongly to the attention
of the public by statements of Senator Benjamin Tillman of the
dangers of over-eating, in connection with his resolution to prohibit
smoking during executive sessions of t he senate. The senator said:
“Since 1 was paralyzed four years ago and read my own obit
uary, twenty-one senators, including Vice President Sherman, most
of them younger than I .have died."
A fitting epitaph, he said, lor senators who have died in ser
vice would be “he lived not wisely, but too well, and killed himself
eating.”
"There is no doubt io my mind that this great mortality
among us is due to the way we live in Washington,” declared Mr.
Tillman. "There is a continuous succession of banquets, dinners
and receptions. Automobiles and street cars are used by senators
instead of walking, and pure air and sunshine arc things of which
v.-e too little.”
In our opinion Senator Tillman has hit the nail squarely on
the head. High living is the bane of our existence. Doubtless thi
statement would cause the members of "General” Kelly’s jobless
army or the $3-a-weel: shop girl to sniff in disgust, but to the
senator or other public man who is a victim to the many banguets
which he feels compelled to attend it is no laughing matter. Simple
fure, exercise and sunshine make for a robust constitution.
The senator finds that, as many another man, he has learned
this lesson too late. The pity of it is, says he, that “I had to ruin
my health before 1 discovered those things and learned how to live
rationally.” Self-control in the matter of self-indulgence is the
secret of the whole proposition. Fortunate is the man to whom
is denied the opportunity of over-eating or over-drinking or over
smoking, or of overdoing any of the things which are calculated
to shorten his life.
The Palmetto statesman is of the opinion that even the moder
ate use of tobacco and whiskey is harmless. It is excess which
works the mischief. At any rate, Senator Tillman’s opinions and
experiences along this line are well worth considering, and we will
do ourselves justice to have some regard for the laws of nature, to
cat no more than we need, of a substantial, wholesome sort, to use
tobacco and intoxicating liquors sparingly and to walk much in the
open air and bathe in sunshine frequently. There’s health in it,
Just 30 years ago today the United
States congress first officially recog
nized thf present system of Standard
Time by adopting it for the District
of Columbia. The first to propose
that time should be governed by meri
dians one hour apart is said to have
.en Charles F. Dowd, principal of a
|^B.-oung women’s school at Saratoga,
HpN. Y„ who sketched numerous
schemes prior to 1882. The plan tab
en up by the railroads the following
year, however, was drawn by William
F. Allen, secretary of the General
Time convention. Previously there
had been so many different standards
of time in the United Statea that a
traveler's watch had to be reset aome
fifty times in a trip across the conti
nent if he desired to be correct. For
years it had been said the problem
was past solution.
Today clocks all over the United
States are ticking off the .seconds al
most in perfect unison. Some thirty
nations have followed the lead taken
by the United States by computing
standard time by meridians one hour
apart. In this country a score of time
halls are dropped precisely at noon in
the principal Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf
and Lake ports by electric signal from
the United States Naval Observatory
at Washington, where three standard
clocks are regularly set by star sights
and meridian transit instruments. The
difference in official clocks over 3,000
miles apart is seldom more than two-
tenths of a second. Astronomers the
world over are striving to be still
more precise as to time signals, and
hope soon to be able to flash instan
taneous signals around the world by
wireless.
THE CANAL FINISHED
Ever since the 10th of October,
when Gamboa Dike was blown up
with dynamite, the force of engi-
neers at Panama have concentrated
their efforts on the work of cutting
through the giant Curcuracha Slide.
ES This enormous glacier-like earth
movement, when the steam shovels
were taken out of Culebra Cut, moved
slowly across the canal prism and
closed! it. On the 16th of December
the dredges and steam shovels by
their combined efforts had cut a
through the slide 100 feet
King George saw his first baseball
gam? the other day. Think what that
wide and twenty feet deep, thus mak-mtn has niesedl
lng the canal navigable for small ves
sels of light draught.
Properly to understand this prob
lem of the slides one should read
“The Panama Canal,” by Frederick
J. Haskin. Its account of the engi
neering features of the canal work
has the O. K. of Colonel George W.
Goethals. Save the coupon printed
in today’s issue of The Athens Herald
and get. a copy at cost.
Reduced tax rates!
Rusiness government, managed
in business fashion!
Employes chosen for efficiency
rather than for their ability to
poll wards!
An awakened civic conscience
and civic spirit!
Those are just a few advantages
the more than three hundred cities
that have adopted commission
government have got out of the
new rule.
Without exception the messages
from the cities that have the re
form tell how commission govern
ment has brought efficiency out of
inefficiency; how it has aroused
a new interest on the part of the
citizens in their municipal govern
ment.
The testifonials of some of
these commission government cit
ies are here given:
Reduced Taxes in Memphis.
(By E. H. Crump, Mayor).
The one thing that stands out fore
most since Memphis adopted commis
sion government is the reduction of
the tax rate under the new rule. With
Memphis the commission has not only
spent its taxes to the greatest advan
tage*, insuring the greatest value to
citizens, but it has cut down the tax
rate amazingly in the face of declara
tions made by commission government
adherents that the commission form
is expensive.
In the four years that commission
government has prevailed the tax
rate has been reduced from $1.75 to
$1.58 on the $100, at the same time
public property has been greatly in
creased and the government has given
better satisfaction to the people than
did the old system. This city is get
ting ready to embark in the electric
lighting business and has made a fight
for lower telephone rates and better
street car service. Parks have been
extended and the city is preparing to
expand its municipal pools. A cam
paign to eradicate the smoke evil has
met with success.
Under the commission there is an
entire absence of lassitude that for
merly permeated all departments. As
much is accomplished in one day now
as was accomplished in one week un
der the old system. City employes are
awake to the fact that the old days are
no more. If they expect to remain on
the city payrolls they must do a full
day’s work for a full day’s pay. The
cost of collection of taxes, for ex
ample, was reduced from $20,000 to
$7,500 a year.
On the back of every paycheck Is
sued by the city of Memphis appears
the following notice:
A reward of $100 will be paid
by the City of Memphis to any
person who will furnish proof
that a city employe has been
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guilty of grafting while holding
employment. The name of such
informant will in no .-a-se be di
vulged. The city government pays
good salaries and in return in
sists upon good service. Neither
the mayor nor any city commis
sioner is aware of any grafting.
If there is any we want to know
it.
Here’s the new standard of city ef
ficiency set by Memphis.
Fixes Responsibility in Denver.
(By J. M. Perkins, Mayor).
The fact that the commissioners
have full legislative and executive
power cannot help but be of vast ben
efit because it eliminates the friction
which constantly exists wherever leg-
Iator and executor happen to be of
difference political faiths or of con*
Dieting political ambitions. The com
mission form establishes a point of
responsibility in the commissioner for
any given function of government. As
las entire supervision of appoint
ments for his own department he can
not escape from the actions of his ap
pointees.
Lowell, Mass., Wouldn't Go Back.
(By Dennis J. Murphy, Mayor).
The city of Lowell is now in its
third year under the commission form
of government. The popular opinioi
in our city is that the voters would
not care to .go back to the old system
of government. My personal view is
that the commission form of govern
ment is very superior to the old form
of government.
South American republics have au
thorized those in charge of the plans
for the Panama-Pacific International
exposition to announce that they will
contribute about $3,000,000 to the ex
position. The appropriations made so
far by the South American countries
are as follows: Argentine republic,
$1,300,000; Brazil, $550,000; Venezue
la, $350,000; Uruguay, $100,000;
Chile, $250,000; Peru, $250,000, and
Bolivia, $120,000.
We don’t know why Owner Mur
phy pinkslipped Johnny Evers, but
doubtless it was an baseball grounds.
Magnifying
Misery Into Joy
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When a stomach sufferer gets re
lief he is one of the happiest of hu
man beings and he looks back at hta
old self with a distinct feeling of hor-
or.
Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets quickly
re-adjust the out-of-proportion stom
ach and digestive machinery and bring
joy of life and love for food to the
man or woman who will use them af
ter each meal for a short time.
“HuJIy gee, I used to feel just like
that fellow.”
The action of Stuart’s Dyspepsia
Tablets is a purely natural one. When
taken they enter the stomach just like
food. They mix with t-ne juices of the
mouth. Then they enter into and cor
rectly build up or dilute the juices of
the stomach, go into the intestines and
there when the nourishment from food
is taken into the system so follows
the ingredient* of these wonderful
tablets.
They correct the faults of the blood
and ihus at the next meal the body
is better able to produce a stronger
and more normal digestive juice.
A short use of these tablets will re
establish your digestion, stop gastritis
heartburn, indigestion, foul breath, ca
tarrh nf the stomach and do away
with dangerous stomach ulcers and
many other unbearable conditions.
Go to your druggist today and be
gin the Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablet hab
it. It is the habit of health and appe
tite. Learn how to yearn for food,
net how to spurn it.
Obtain a box from any druggist—
price 50 cents. Sold wherever you can
find a drug store.
FOR SALE!
Four well located negro houses
pay $7.25 weekly, making an in
vestment of 17 per cent.
Can be bought for $2,200 on
good terms. This property near
Southern Railroad depot.
D. G. Anderson & Co.
REAL ESTATE
HELLO, MR. FARMER!
Being a former resident of Clarke and Oglethorpe counties,
I request the farmers of these counties to call and see the
best combination Planter and Guano Distributor on the
market, which I will sell for the next thirty days only to
farmers of Clarke and Oglethorpe counties at wholesale
price, $7.50. Place your order early, as it requires about ten
’days to make them. See samples at Briscoe’s Gun Shop.
M. P. BRISCOE
146 ( j Thomas Street,
Athens, Georgia
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FEBRUARY CIRCULATION.
The circulation of The Athens Daily
Herald for tho month of February,
19U, was as fallows;
Feb. 1. ..(Sun.) Feb. 15...(Sun.)
Feb. 2. ...3,141 Feb. 16. ...3,141
Feb. 3....3,115 Feb. 17....3,170
Feb. 4. ...3,143 Feb. 18. ...3,126
Feb. 6....3,135 Feb. 19....3,133
Feb. 6....3,127 Feb. 20 3,161
Feb. 7....3,115 Feb. 21....3,137
Feb. 8...(Sun.) Fob. 22. ..(Sun.)
Feb. 9....3,113 Feb. 23....3,161
Feb. 10....3,277 Feb. 24....3,138
Feb. 11....'3,279 Feb. 25... .3,243
Feb. 12....3,279 Feb. 26....3,242
Feb. 13... .3,231 Feb. 27....3,385
Feb. 14...;3,127 Feb. 28....3,416
Total far February, 1914 76,590
Dally average for Feb., 1914.... 3,191
Daily average for Janaary, 1914, 3.140
The Athens Daily Herald has a cir
culation In Athens approximately
twice as large as that of any other
Athens newspaper. Advertisers and
agencies are invited to teat the ac
curacy of these figures in comparison
with the claims of any other Athens
newspaper .
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Elegant roadbed and superb equipment. Special
rates for special occasions very often in effect. Ask
the Georgia Railroad Agent for rates andschedules.
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GROUP 3
With the Coupon mailed you, which
entitles you to Ten Dollars off the
regular price in Group 3, there is the
Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner, $30;
Curling Iron Heater, $3.75, and the G.
E. Grill Pan, $7.00, totaling $40.75 for
$30. Easy payments included. , ,
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