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TO THE INSURING PUBLIC
THE INSURANCE COMPANY OE NORTH AMERICA
I ———— OF PHILADELPHIA, FA. ——mmmm—i— —
has been forced out of your Board agencies and denied the right of representation.
This company has opened an independent office in your city and is prepared to
furnish in the future , as it has for the past one hundred and twenty-two years, ab
solute indemnity against loss or damage by fire.
IF YOU HAVE ANY INSURANCE TO PLACE WE
WILL BE PLEASED TO QUOTE YOU FIGURES
INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA
OF PHILADELPHIA, PA.
CAPITAL STOCK PAID UP IN CASH $ 4,000,000.00
SURPLUS TO POLICY HOLDERS .. 9,340,300.00
TOTAL ASSETS .. .. 17,938,783.51
SOUTHERN DEPARTMENT
EDWARD S. GAY, Manager. EWELL GAY. Asst. Mgr.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
m SOCIAL investigator has dl»-
/I covered (hat there are at leant
1,500 college-educated young
men among the “unemployed''
In New York City alone. A Prince
ton graduate wan found sweeping the
Mreeta there the other day. Tits
Chicago Tribune speaks of the case of
a fraduste of one of the leading uni
\ crsitlea of the country who went to
Chicago recently and who was unable
to get work or any sort He found
that there was an ovewupply of edu
cated people, and he lacked the prac
tical experience and training which
would tit him for taking the Jobs that
were open. So he had to suffer.
We are glad he did have to suffer,
and we hope that his sufferings and
those of others of his kind will havt
some effect on the people of this coun
try In waking them up to th« educa
tional needs of the 20th century. The
Pathfinder has always done all It
could, In its small way, to emphasize
the fact that our education of today,
both In colleges and schools, rune al
together too much to the Intellctuat
and not enough to the practical.
Our educational Institutions for the
moat part ara at laast half a cantury
behind the age so far as fulfilling
their mission la concerned. In saying
this we art not merely muckraking
or knocking for the sake of knocking.
The Pathfinder hat been In cloae
touch with the educational field
throughout the country for ovor 20
years and we are In a petition to
know at much about what la being
done at anyone can b*.
We know from the character of the
thousands of question* that are sent
In to us from all ovar the country
how far wide of the mark our schools
are coming. For every practical ques
tion relating to the real problems of
life we get at least a score of ques
tlona on topics which havt no bearing
whatever on anything useful under
the sun: they are mostly textbook
matters, baaed on pedagogical ideas
which are at obsolete In the world of
1914, A. D., a§ the old theory of the
flatness of the earth.
Our schoolti arc still turning out lit
•rgfy products, Instaad ol tbr prac
tically trained young men amt woman
that the world needs The result la
that there la a vast ovarp us ol these
educated classes so called while
there la perpetual and insistent erv
tor willing hands lo take up the real
w-ork of the world We don't want
more novels written we don't need
any more people who ran pass fine
examinations on :»!1 the niceties of
hpeuaerlan Kngllsh or who know all
the dates in history bv heart and
who don't know how to lay their hand
to a tool of any wrt and who fould
starve to death If left to actually pro
duce eheir own living
No what the world wants and la
pleading for Is more young men and
women who ran do things and whose
Ideal* are not towed on the exploded
New England rulturfah of several gen
eration* ago It wants jonng men
end women who believe In productive
w< jrk And know how to go üboiit it
It want* them to have enough prac
tieft) jkno* l*dg¥ of Engiiah of course
Wanted: Trained Men and Women
so that they can read It and write It
Intelligently, hut that la all. If they
have got any brains and the schools
have (aught them to think Tor them
selves Instead of to depend ou some
one else for everything, they will in
cidentally acquire all tho knowledge
of English they need in fhclr work
or their life.
In these days of universal reading
everyone la bound to be woll educated,
In the ''English'' Hcnse, amt tho
schools should therefore waste very
little time on that subject. Why,
anyone who roads the l’athllmler dili
gently every week will actually hav.v
it better education than the average
student gets out of a college course;
w« mean exactly that, anu no exag
geration
If our schools and colleges turned
out really educated men and women
It would nr a different thing, but they
do not Thera are numerous univer
sity graduate* In the government eer.
vice at Washington who hardly know
enough to come In when It rains. If
you could see the editing which some
of their official reports and tatters
require before they can be licked Into
shape for sending out you would
throw up your hand* In consternation.
We have education enough, Hoavon
know*, but the fault la that It la mis
applied. Frame that statement and
hang It up as a motto, and uee it over
the head of the f|r»t person who
stands us for the old Idea of Intel
tactual education at opposed to prac*
tlcal training. Certainly there are
thousands upon thousands of collage
graduates who are today either unable
to hold down a job or who are work
ing In placet where all their high
brow education Is of no value to them
but where a practical education would
be of Immense benefit If they only
had It.
Yes we want to nib this fact In
and the more these "round pegs In
square holes" suffer snd squeal, the
better tl will be for the education of
the future l.et all the world know
that our education I* misdirected and
I hat It does not fill the hill; we can
never have any genuine educational
progress until we get down to that
tundamenU! fact "Reform tt alto
i gether.* said Hamlet to the players;
and that t« exactly what we want to
do with our system of education
\ little patching here and there will
do no good; the entire conception and
plan muat be changed The effort
must be aimed toward a different
mark entirely. There ta enough work
In the world walling to be done Clod
knows, and why should not the com
In* up generation be trained to do It?
There la no excuse for Idleness or uu
employment; these thing* should he
treated as a sin. and the cause looked
to and removed
The present writer hat enough work
laid out to occupy him for a dozen
lifetimes, and when he (peak* about
work he does not use the term In any
academic or theoretical aenae; ha
speaks from actual experience and
lot* of it. He knows that there it
good honest work everywhere always
waiting to be done, and you know it
alaa; the work always awaits the
(An Editorial from The Pathfinder Re-Published by Requeat).
worker, and the worker will always
find hla work. If people are without
anything to do It la simply because
they are square pegs and they are try
ing to squeeze themselves into round
holes without yielding.
Why should it he that some shall
always be laboring—carrying on this
work which the world requires and
which someone muat do —while others
are taking things easy and hunting up
excuses for not getting busy? There
Is work enough Edison finds so
much to do that at the age of «7 he
Is still putting In 18 l ours a day.
Eectl Rhodes, the South African ex
ploiter. died with the exclamation on
his llpB: "So much to do!"
It Is such men that we should look
up to as our examples. They are men
who work not for themselves alone
hut who feel their duty to the world
and who are willing and thankful to
do their utmoßt for the benefit of
mankind. Such men do not stop with
eight hours nor do they demand a
minimum wage; they work whether
the dollar Is right In sight or not and
they Tlnd their compensation In their
work rather than In the dollar
It Is such Ideals that we must culti
vate We must exalt work and teach
Recommendations for Revision
of Carolina and New England
Mill Rules By Conference
Recommendation was made for the
vision of the "Carolina Mill Rules."
adopted In 1912. as follows;
Under the sub-heading of "Tare"
the section to be made to read as fol
lows:
"On compressed cotton the tare shall
not exceed twenty-four pounds and on
uncompressed cotton twenty-two
pounds per hale, snd any excess con
stitutes a Just claim against the sel
ler (The following to be added:) Any
gain in weight, however, In the cotton
tn question to he applied against a
claim for excess tars."
Under the heading of "Payments,"
that clause which provides that drafts
not paid after three das s shall hear
the legal rate of Interest, ia altered
by striking out the "three days," and
substituting therefor that the drafts
shall he paid "when due."
Under the subject of "reclamation."
that section of section F is stricken out
which read* as follows; "That upon
re weight of cotton, if the loss tn weight
ts In exces* of one pound per bale .if
the Invoice weight, the seller shail be
expected to pay the cost of reweigh
tug" For that clause the following ts
substituted; "That, upon reweight of
rotton at the mill, if mill weights are
found correct, the expenses of re
wetghtng shall be borne by seller; If
the mill weights are found Incorrect
such expense shall he borne by the
mill."
New England,
The committee beg* to report the
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA.
We Make Our Own Rates in Aupsta
R. N. CLARK, Agent..
833 Broad St. Augusta, Ga. *
our boys and girls that it is not only
honorable hut that It Is an Imperative
and sacred duty, and that the evasion
of work is a crime. We must not only
extoll work In the abstract but we
must set an example by working our
selves.
And we should give the preference
and the greatest honor to work which
is productive; we should absolutely
stop paying ajl this tribute to literary
and Intellectual characters and should
transfer our homage to the men and
women who actually do things for
the betterment of the world. We
have hundreds of monuments to lit
erary men, statesmen and warriors—
but how pitifully few are the memo
rials to inventors and real world
makers!
Precious months are spent In our
schools In studying Hawthorne and
other out-of-date writers, but how
many students know how the Con
cord grape originated, or now to bud
a peach seedling? Other months are
given to the praise of the poets, but
how many boys are taught to fix a
door that will not shut properly, or
how many girls to prepare an econo
mical and wholesome meal? Many
a pupil has been marked down in
alterations or amendments to the New
England Terms of Buying and Selling
American Cotton, adopted by the
Arkwright Club, the New England
Cotton Buyers Association and the
Fall River Cotton Buyers Associa
tion:
In section 2. strike out "five per
her cent" and substitute “ten per
cent" (Making the Notion read:
"Sales calling for even-running grade*,
or made on type, may contain ten per
cent half a grade below the lowest
grade specified if offset by an equal
number of hales half a grade above
the lowest grade specified.")
Section 9 of the' rule*, on "differen
ces between grades" changed to pro
vide; "Difference* between grade*
•hall be the average grade of the of
ficial differences existing In the New
York, New Orleans. Memphis and Au
gusta Cotton Exchanges at the time
of delivery. Claims for allowance of
short staple shall tie determined as
heretofore provided."
The heretofore existing provisions
for claxscrs and board of appeal—sec
tion* 10 to 14, arc stricken ouL and
the followinx substituted:
"In the event of disagreement be
tween shipper snd mill upon grade,
weight, tare or other claims, the
mutter shall he settled. If possible by
friendly agreement. If not, then as
below stated," -|f the mitt and the
shipper can agree upon a third party
who is conversant the conduct
of the business, the question shall bq.
school because lie didn't give the
right answer to the absurd question,
“How many continents are there?"
hut in how many schools are like
pains taken to teach boys how to do
plumbing, or painting, or concrete
work, or the numerous other things
that the world wants done?
Every farmer knows how impossi
ble it is to get hold of good helpers,
every housewife knows how scarce
girls are who can take hold and run
a house and are willing to do it;
everyone who has occasion to employ
a man for any purpose knows how ill
trained our mechanics and laborers
are as a rule and how little work
they want to do for the maximum of
pay.
There is no end of work for those
who want to do It and are properly
equipped to do It, and the aim oT our
schools and colleges should now be
not to turn out more fine writers, etc.,
but to give us young men and women
who can and will take hold and help
at the places where their help Is most
needed, namely fin producing the
things which the world really needs
and has to have. All the educational
law and the prophets Is embraced In
this simple poposltion
submitted to such third party, and
his judgment shall he final.
(c). If this cannot be done, the
Mill shall seiect one arbitrator and
the shipper shall select one (these
arbitrators being persons having no
connection with either of the contend
ing parties) to whom the questions
shall be submitted by both parties to
the dispute, either verbally or in
writing, and in the event these two
cannot agree, they are to select a
third arbitrator to act with them,
and the judgment oT the majority of
the three shall be final
Hi on the failure of the arbitrators
represented the mill and the seller to
agree within 30 days from the final
submission upon a third arbitrator
to act with them, if the appointment
of »uch arbitrator shall become necea
sary—either of the principals to the
dispute shall, in such case have the
right to call upon the president of the
Cotton Manufacturers Association oT
the state in which the mill is located
to appoint auch third arbitrator pro
vided, however, tlyrt In any case aris
ing where the president of such asso
ciation or any mill represented by
him. is interested, the appointment
of the third arbitrator as above pro
vided thall be made by the vice-presi
dent ot the Cotton Manufacturers' A*,
soctation of the state in which the
mill in question is located
(d>. If the dispute be as to grade,
the samples drawn by the mill shall
be eubraitted. unless the seller claims
the right to have new sample* drawn
In which event samples of cotton
shall he drawn by either party with
I the ccnzent ot the other, or by a third
| part) In the presence of both parties.
, Provided, however, that in cases
w here It may be impracticable to have
samples subsequently drawn, the cot
ton not to be samp’ed shall he »».
! slimed to he of the grade invoiced
i (e). In any arbitration the party
against whom the decision Is render
ed. shall be liable for expense of ar
bitration, and if the party making the
claim shall be sustained in part he
shall be deemed to have received the
decision, except in a claim for loss
in weight, where the re-weight must
show a loss averaging more than one
pounjj bale in order for claim to
be oensidered as sustained.
(f). These rules shall apply as to
staple cotton, except in matters of
length of staple, grade and differ
ences consequent thereon, whish shall
be arbitrated in New Orleans or
Vicksburg, under the rules of the
New Orleans or Vicksburg Exchange
at the option of the buyer.
Receiving Weight,
Section 24 be eliminated and the
following substituted —24 (both);
"Cotton must be weighed as prompt
ly as possible, but within 48 hours at
point of discharge from the time it
is unloaded at Fall River, New- lted
ford, Mass., and all other practicable
points. The receiving weights shall
be tagged on each bale. There shall
be one-quarter pound per bale allow
ance after 48 hours for every day 3
delay in weighing."
Tara.
Section 49. Strike out "9 months”
and Insert in lien thereof "thirty daye."
Strike out Secti<»n No. 50 and sub
stitute in lieu thereof (both):
"Gain in weight of the cotton shall
be applied against a claim for ex
cess tare, on one and or the same
mark on one invoice."
Sections 55, 56, 57, 58, 64, 65, 66, 67
and 68 to he altered to conform to
requirements of revised section.
CAN’T DODGE ’EM.
No matter what tho season
Some care Is with us still;
We’ve heard the last of Christmas,
| We've paid the final hill;
! But now' a new vexation
Upon life's path we spy—
The anti-fireworks question.
For the next Fourth of July.
A FORTUNE IN IVORY.
He—Folks are very poor in the town
you come from, aren't they?
hlhe—Oh, my yes! Why they’re gp
I poor that if a girl arrives there with
gold filling in her teeth they all look
upon her as an heiress.
"How's your wife?"
"Her head troubles her a good deal."
"Neuralgia?"
"No; wants a new hat!"—New York
I Evening Telegram.
New Maid (announcing visitor)
Please, ’urn, Is this the lady you told
Ime always to say you was out to?—
I London Opinion.
ERE LONG.
The man who freta
To gather pelf.
Ere long forgets
His better self.
—Exchange.
City Niece.—Oh. Uncle Hiram, you
mustn't eat your pit. with your table
I knife.
I Uncle Hiram—Will, gal, what am I
Ito do. My mouth isn't large enough,
by heck, to use a carving knife.
NOT INVULNERABLE
| "He takes great pride in the fact
that he has never tried to get rteh
| by raising chickens."
•Still. I happen to know that ha
once tried to grow ginseng on a sub
urban lot."—Exchange.
WEDNESDAY. MAY 6.
The Polish Population,
in Prussia Is Getting
To Be Very Rich
Berlin,—There is genuine alarm here
et the growing wealth and prosperity
of the Polish population in Prussian
territory, particularly as a parliamen
tary paper just issued showfe how
costly has been the ineffective Prus
sian policy towards the Poles. Ac
cording to the figures given the gov
ernment in the apace of twenty-seven
years has spent no less than $245,000 -
000.00 in its attempts to provide a
Prussian rather than a Polish owner
ship of land. The figures for the past
year are illuminating In this respect,
increased Prosperity.
In the course of twelve months the
so-called colonizing committee bough;
no fewer than thirty-seven estates and
twenty-five smaller properties, 40,000
acres in all. Of this land, however,
scarcely a quarter was owned by
Poles, so that although $165,000 of gov
ernment money went into Polish lands
the land bought only amounted to 12,-
500 acres. This is far below the aver
age since the proportion lias hitherto
torn more than one-third. This fact
is significant, since It shows the in
creased prosperity of the Polish agri
culturists.
Junkers Dismayed,
The stronger position of the Polish
agriculturist is shown in other ways
also. Scarcely a week goes by witn
out a cry of dismay from the junk
ers, because some big estates held by
a German aristocrat is bought up not
by a German but by a Pole. The to
tal result Is that in spite of official
expenditure to the extent of $245,000,-
000 In twenty-seven years, and great
outlays by the junker leagues, the
Pole* hold more land than ever be
fore. The laat twenty years have
produced a very Important alteration
in the Prussian Polish question on the
Polish side. The Poles have shown
themselves belter agriculturalists;
their labor is cheaper, their manage
ment better, and altogether little re
mains of the habitual disorder and in
capacity which once made the expres
sion "Polish household" the popular
expression for chaos and dirt.
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES.
"Pa, what Is a transcendeniallxt? ’
"Have you chained up the dog. as
1 told you?"
"Not yet. pa.”
"Well, do that, and when you come
hack I will tell you what a transccn
dentalist la.”
While Bobby was gone his astute
pirent dug the needed information
out of a dictionary.—Exchange
A SMART MAN.
"Jinks is a man of unusual intelli
gence."
"Think so?"
"I do. Hit views in general aro
very like my own."
DID HE MEAN PHILADELPHIA.
Doctor —You need a change of ell*
mate.
Patient—What's the matter with
this climate?
Doctor— lt's too changeable. — Boston
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