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THE ATHENS
•WEDNESDAY ETENING, JULY 21, IMS.
THE ATHENS DAILY HERALD
ATHENS, GEORGIA
Published Every Afternoon During the Week by
THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
WILLIAM G. GREDIG, Editor.
E. W. CARROLL, Business Manager.
Entered at the postoffice at Athens, Ga., for transmission through the mails
as matter of the second class.
ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1915.
“Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in
life, but the fault more often lies in themselves than in others.”—
Colton.
“HE LAUGHS AT SCARS WHO NEVER FELT A WOUND,
The caption of this editorial can appropriately be paraphrased
to read “He chills his heart who never felt the pangs of poverty,”
and yet this is not literally true because there are many blessed
with an abundance of this world’s goods who are noted for their
charity. Many there are who help the unfortunate, not by hand
ing them a library or a monument when they cry for bread, but
in practical manner. However, there still remain many who do
not heed the cry for assistance from those who are unable to help
themselves.
There is a field right here in Athens for the exercise of a
spirit of human kindness. We particularly refer to the sick babies
of the needy of our city. There are little ones in need of milk and
ice. There are also some grownups in similar condition. Some
of them need many things, including medicine.
There are hundreds of people in Athens amply able to con
tribute to the wants of these sufferers without the slightest de
privation to themselves. The Herald has for the past few years
handled a milk and ice fund, primarily for sick babies, but also
to be used where the need was urgent. This fund is not dispensed
among the unworthy, but the cases are carefully investigated in
advance. Neither is the work confined to any one section.
Wherever poverty, disease and death are found stalking there the
hand of mercy is reached out. Any amount is welcomed.
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS.
In round numbers there were 22,000,000 persons enrolled in
educational institutions in the United States in 1914, according to
the annual report of the commissioners of education just issued.
Of these over 19,000,000 were in elementary schools; 1,374,000
in secondary schools, both public and private; and 216,000 in col
leges and universities. Close to another hundred thousand were
in normal schools preparing to be teachers, 67,000 were in profes
sional schools, and the remainder were scattered through other
types of institutions. The teachers for this educational army
numbered 700,000, of whom 666,000 were in public schools. In
point of rapid growth the public high school still presents the most
impressive figures; the enrollment for 1914 is greater by over 84,-
000 than for the year before.
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
E. P. Ripley ., , A
On Relations of Railroads and People
The Industrial leader* of tain nation are talking to
tbs public taco to face through tba columns of thin paper.
The time was when If a corporation bad anything to say
to the people they sent a hired hand, whispered It through
a lawyer or employed a lobbyist to explain It to tha legis
lature, but the men who know and the men who do are
now talking over the fence to the man who plow*.
When the lending buelnes* men of this nation gst
"back to the soil” with their problems, strife and dissen
sion will disappear, for when men look Into each other's
face* and emlle there Is n better day coming.
Mr. B. P. Ripley, president of the Santa Fe Railroad,
when asked to give hi* views In reference to relations existing between the
railroad end the public said in part: :
"Frequently we hear statements to the effect that these relations are
Improving, that the era of railroad baiting baa passed and that public senti
ment now favors treating the railroads fairly. As yet thla change In public
sentiment. If any suob there bo, la not effective In result!.
It Is true that In the legislatures of the southwestern states dsring the
past winter there were fewer unreasonable and unreaeonlng laws passed
than usual but a consideration of the hosUlc bills Introduced shows that
there Is still reason for much disquiet even though they were defeated by
more or loss of a majority.
Moreover, the Idea that the railroads have been harshly treated does
not seem to prevail In the offices of the State Railroad Commissions which
seem to cherish a notion that their business Is not to not ns an arbitrator
between the railroads and the people, but which proceed on the theory that
the railroads are able to take care of themselves and that their duty la to
act as attorney for the people even though In so doing they deny juatlee
to the railroads. It requires no argument to demonstrate that the railroad*
are entitled to justice equally with other ottiiens and taxpayer*. That they
have not received It and are not receiving It Is perfectly susceptible of
proof. That they have practically no recourse In the courts has also been
determined.
The situation therefore Is that the people, through their representatives,
must aleot whether the servloes of the railroads shall be adequately OOmpen
ciled or not; and It require* no fortune teller or soothsayer to predict that
In the long run the service will take the class that la paid for and no better.
The natural competition between tbe railroads and the natural desire
to perform Brst-olses service hae heretofore resulted In giving ths publlo
much more than It was willing to pay for. Continuation of this will be
Impossible and no laws, however drastic, can long accomplish tbs impossible.”
POCATALIGO
The singing school opened at Ha
Monday morning with a large attend
ance.
Misses Grace and Lottie Gurley
spent Sunday with Miss Irene Mc
Clellan.
Misses Gladys Sailers, Lerlin and
Elizabeth Barrett attended church at
Liberty Sunday.
Prayer meeting will bo held at
Mrs. E. B. Barrett’s Wednesday aft
ernoon at 4 o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rice visited Mr.
and Mrs. Ed McCay Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Barrett spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Chandler, of near Commerce.
Miss Odessa Sailers spent Satur
day night with her sister, Mrs. W.
B. Stephens.
Mias Gladys Sailers spent Saturday
night with Miss Elizabeth Barrett.
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Stephens at
tended church at Chapel Sunday aft
ernoon.
Crops through this section are very
good. Cotton has been reduced and
corn increased, with a decrase of fer
tilizer.
As ths season advances the old cry
for a place in the sun becomes less
and less comprehensible.
NOW CERTAIN THAT
PRINCETON BRIDGE
WILL BE OF STEEL
It wss definitely decided at tbe reg
ular meeting of the county commis
sioners yesterday that a steel bridge
will be built over the river at Prince
ton. At tbe last meeting the deciaion
was to repair the one standing there
now but after investigating the costs
of repairing and the costa of rebuild
ing, and hearing from Professor
Strahan and Captain Barnett, it was
decided that the best plan would be to
rebuild.
To repair the bridge would cost
about 42,500 and to rebuild it, about
$4,200. The repaired bridge would
have to be repaired every few years
but the steel one will last almost
indefinitely. They will advertise for
bids on the new bridge at once.
Beside* this several other important
matters were pasesd on by the com
missioners. A contract to lend the
county convicts, for the building of a
road from the Clarke county line to
the proposed new bridge over the
Broad river near Oglesby, was drawn
up. It was ordered to erect some rail
ings around the jury box in the court
rooms. The report of the county au
ditor, Captain J. F. Hart, for the past
month was approved. Other matters
of lesser importance were discussed
and some of them passed.
Woman’s Duty lo Herself.
Every woman owes it to herself to
keep in good health. No one can
reasonably ba expected to maintain a
cheerful disposition when half sick.
Indigestion and constipation are two
of the most common ills to which
women are subject and fortunately
are easily cured. Mrs. H. C. Getty,
Indiana, Pa., writes. “Last- summer I
wss advised by a friend to try Cham
berlain's Tablets for indigestion and
constipation. This medicine not only
cured me of these disorders but
toned op my whole system so that
my health hai boon better than for
years since taking them.” For sale
by All Dealers.
Chile hss a cruiser named Esmeral
da and, to far as the sizo of its fleet
is concerned, is free to name the rest
of the boat* after hesitation waltzes.
The Baby
Use the reliable
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more then * quarter of a century.
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Chero-Cola
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The cost of education for the year, as estimated by the bu
reau $760,000,000. “This three-quarters of a billion is a relatively
small amount when compared with other items in the public ex
pense, declares the report. “It is less by $300,000,000 than the
cost of running the federal government; it is less than one-third
the nation’s expenditure for alcoholic liquors; it is only a little
over three times the estimated cost of admissions to moving-pic
ture theaters in the United States for the same year. Measured
in terms of products of the soil, the United States spent somewhat
more for education in 1914 than the value of its cotton crop, some
what less than the value of its wheat crop, and less than half the
value of the annual harvest of corn; while the nation’s bill for edu
cation was less by nearly a hundred millions than the value of the
exports from the harbor of New York in the calendar year just
passed.”
Very little increase is yet to be noted in the average term
for public schools. Between 1910 and 1918 the increase was from
167.6 days a year to 168.1—a growth of only six-tenths of a day in
three years. Attendance has improved, however. The average
number of days attended by each person enrolled increased from
113 in 1910 to 116.6 in 1913.
| WHAT SORT OF AN INCOME ARE YOU DRAWING?
* Professor Scott Nearing wrote a book on “Income," in which
he pointed that there were two kinds of incomes—one that came
from owning property and the other from service done the com
munity. Property owners of the University of Pennsylvania
didn't seem to like this kind of talk and they got his resignation.
Whether you like them or not some of the points of Professor
Nearing are worth considering. He declares that the courts are
constantly asked to protect capital by regulation that would pre
vent too small a return for its use. Why not fix a minimum wagq
by law for men and workers? Why leave men to take care of
themselves? Why not treat workers equally as well as cap
ital?.
Is not the community as vitally interested in seeing that
workers get fair wages as that capital should get a fair return on
its investment? As most of the community is made up of workers,
it seems that this view is bound to win out in the end.
THE BUSINESS BAROMETER.
The steel corporation reports an increase of 418,000 tons in
unfilled orders in June, which was 100,000 tons more than was an
ticipated. The total tonnage now on their books is larger than at
any time back to February, 1914.
Pig-iron is being produced at a more rapid rate than at any
time back to October, 1913.
Bank clearings in June made a new high record.
Our foreign trade balance for the fiscal year is over a billion.
The condition of all crops in the United States is two and
three-tenths per cent higher than the ten-year average.
Corn production is estimated this year at 100,000,000 bushels
more than the ten-year average.
Bumper and record crops are predicted by the government ex
perts in wheat, oats and forage for livestock.
The south this year will feed itself and help to feed the rest
of the world,
S3- t '
HOW LONG
Would Your
Husband Stand It
X V' :
If he had to cook over that hot wood stove? Try him and see.
Ask him to step out in the kitchen and cook dinner today. Then
when he starts mopping the perspiration from his face suggest that
you have to stand that health-breaking heat three times a day and
every day of the long hot summer
Let him know how much cooler the kitchen would be if you only
had a gas range.
Tell him how much work it would save—no wood, kindling or
coal to handle. No ashes, sool or dirt to clear lip.
Don’t let him s£oo at that. Get him on a car and lead him to the
Gas Office. j » "
We have on display the Gas Range that will fill your require
ments, and he will be willing to help you pick it out
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Athens Gas, Light
and Fuel Company .
260 Jackson St, Phone 54