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pilding and Construction Record Biggest in History oi Augusta
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Georgia a State of Magniticence
Hgja is not a state largely of
K and lowlands, as many seem
K V e Almost any degree of ele
■nianv be found within the bor
■ t iii s ‘ state. We have from sea
■p to 1-728 feet. We have nine
Ks temperatures, and can raise
■ the fruits of the far north to
■>f the sub-tropioal climes.
■ 510 squire miles of Georgia is
■fl'by water, out of its great size
■5 square miles.
■ one-half of the state is in the
■ plain region with an alt'tude
■feet or less. The Piedmont sec
■ ex; ending from Habersham,
■mi Polk Counties, to Richmond
■nd Muscogee Counties, has al
■ varying rom 350 feet to 1,200
■The extreme northern section
■gh peaks and ridges, inter-
■VOLT AGAINST GOLF
it was bound to come,
contest with him have been
'-mm- time by the golfer wary
I ■ a, ! liis eye on popular sentl-
H s w',l as or. ‘the hall. But in his
SHpr... !•-: sive mood he could scarce
expected such an attack upon
Hn.riU game as has lately broken
Idi;v 1 an*3—of all places! One rash
1!:f signal, and a whole volley
Hling was fired in the press. Men
Had evidently been long cherishing
es freed their bosoms of much
stuf!'. In order that our golfing
H may know tile worst that can he
Hbonl them, we will cite a few of
iHiliug accusations. Golf is no true
■ it is, rather, “the incarnation of
■ 101 egotism. ” It is a game for
H old men; a death blow to real
■p!iv and esprit de corps. More
■.l an Irishman wviter to the 1.011-
"golf is a dull but difficult
■ wliieli exercises an enormous ias
■l: 011 thousands of dull-witted peo
|”| That is the great reason it is so
Hr in England. In that country
is “dense,'’ and “even
must <ry to amuse themselves
Stuve. " The English “hate work,"
not let them play golf?"
■twry golfer who confesses to mid
"Htc consider the following indict-
H economic objection to golf is that
alive so many people who would
Btu' dead. Our great captains of
, reach tlieir grand climacteric
■tilnut twenty-five years of gtrenu-
■' 'Thereafter they decline
Hina to their temperaments along
two main lines.
they paralyze their business
Her excessive caution or else they
H 1 l.etn up through melagoniania.
■is regards their family life, they
either to break out in unexpected
or to blast the innocent happl-
Hos tlieir households under a rigid
Hiyism.' The hopes of such men,
■ nnw, have been in syncope or soft
■cf the and t*wse. avC nre 1 ise
■- iiind ol' complaints whielr’gelf irir
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spcrssd with numerous limstone val
. * v s °[. the Appalachian plateau giv
ing altitudes ranging from 750* feet
to over 4,000 feet. Georgia has 100
miles of coast line, with three first
ciass harbors and numerous sounds.
Its harbors are Savannah, Brunswick
and St. Mary’s.
The genera! coast line of Georgia
easmured in straight lines between
points o 0 miles apart and ignoring
islands and inlets, is 100 miles in
engtli, which is about the distance a
etup would sail in going from Savan
nah. x,a., to Fernandina, Fla-; but the
real coast of Georgia, measured along
the shore in straight lines betwee'n
Points one mile apart, is 166 miles of
mainland coast, and 727 miles of is
land coast, making a total shore line
oi 893 miles.
most cases is able to avert. But as golf
is quite unable to restore judgment
nerve, sense of proportion, promptitude
and the other business virtues, the net
result is merely to maintain in rnalig
!iani activity evils which otherwise
would have been mercifully quenched in
a bath chair or in the tomb.’’—New i'ork
Evening Post.
Mt. St, Joseph School, Augusta, Ga„ a Magnificent Educational Institute
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This Building Designed and Planned By 6. Lloyd Preacher, Architect and Engineer.
WHAT THE SHEPPARD BILL
PROVIDES FOR GEORGIA
The Sheppard Child Labor Bill pro
hibits employment in factories, mills,
stores, messenger service and a few
other occupations of children under
fourteen, the minimum age al
ready established In all except five
or six states. It contains none of the
old exemptions that have been found
to be loopholes for violation.
Night work is prohibited to children
under sixteen years of age.
What the Bill Will Do.
It will first of all prevent children
from being exploited under the age of
fourteen. It will prevent them from
being lured from school by the hun
dreds of employments now open to
them.
No longer will parents he tempted
to sacrifice the child's future for the
sake of the wages they can bring,
wages which seem big at first, but
which count for little in comparison
with the loss of earning power in la
ter years.
The educational requirement will
mean, simply this—that parents who
expect their children to go to work at
fourteen will in the future see that,
they learn to read and write before
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA C
they reach that age. The punishment
for neglect of their children will be
the loss of their earnings until this*
bare rudiment of schooling is accomp
lished.
The few children who will have to
quit work and return to school long
enough to learn to read and write in
the next two years are minor con
sideration compared with the thou
sands of children who will be kept
from illiteracy and ignorance in the
future.
Where Georgia Stands Now in Child
Labor Legislation.
Georgia was the last state in the
Union to pass a child labor law.
That law remains today the lowest
in standards of any in the nation. Not
only are children of twelve permitted
to work in mills and factories, but
even this age limit is brought down to
ten years by exemptions which other
states have long ago gotten rid of.
The great movement for higher and
more uniform standards of child pro
tection that has extended throughout
this land and throughout the civilized
world, a movement that has neces
sarily followed the great industrial
changes of the las century, has failed
to touch in a vital way the state of
Georgia.
Over 2.300 children between ten
years and fourteen were employed in
textile mills alone in Georgia in 1913.
KINO LUMBER COMPANY
Contractors and Builders Charlottesville, Va.
Manufacturers and Dealers
Work Executed in any Part of United States
Fireproof Construction Our Specialty
WORK IN AUGUSTA
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King Lumber Company
Charlottesville, Virginia.
Married Seventy Years
(From the Indianapolis Star.)
Seventy years ago Theophilus Jones,
22 years old, drove up to the home
of his sweetheart and, without wasting
time, took her into his buggy and
made a hurried drive across the lowa
state line into Missouri. There they
W'ere married, defying parental threats,
and resolved to be the masters of their
own destiny. A few weeks ago that
same couple observed the seventieth
anniversary of the elopement. Mr.
Jones is 92 years old, while his wife
is 89.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Jones are re
markably well preserved. Their hear
ing is acute, and Mr. Jones sees well
with the aid of glasses. Two years
ago, Mr. Jones says, he could walk
E. H. MOBLEY
No. 4 Irish-Aineriean Bank Bldg.
General Contractor aid Builder
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on all Classes of Work.
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
all over the city without feeling any
fatigue, but recently he tires more
readily.
In 1849 Mr. Jones made the over
land trip to the California gold fields.
Some years later he staked a govern
ment claim in Dakota. He witnessed
the upbuilding of the West and can
tell wonderful tales of the old fron
tier. For fifty-seven years lie has
been a member of the Masonic fra
ternity.
A National Less
(Columbia State.)
Roof has always been a sort of lov
able figure in our view of him. A
man self made. A young lawyer who
wen to the top and kept his hand!;
clean. A student even through the
“AUGUSTA IN 1914"
excitement and stress of the making
of great money—which is the final test
of a student. And then, at length, the
calm and judicious and effective
statesman, working for his party, It is
true, but quite ready to throw the
party aside; seeing things in the calm
of perfect independence and absolute
reason; working, an unassailable pub
lic servant, for the things he saw right
and against those he considered wrong.
IVt lose more than Elihu Root, the
man when he quits the senate. We
lose, in addition, what we have not
had since the days when the leisure
class of the South sent its statesmen
to Washington—a scholar to whom
money is dross, to whom statesman is
a profession, and to whom politics, in
the sense of its trade and chaffer, is
a thing unknown.