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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18.
AOGOSTA BANKERS NOT MUCH
SURPRISED AT FAILURE OF SMITH
AMENDMENT IN THE NATIONAL
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
They Recognize That Effort is Being Made to Build Up Fed
eral Reserve System By Offering Emergency Currency As
Inducement For State Banks to Join It.
Augusta bankers are not very much
surprised at the house committee on
banking and currency rejecting Sen
ator Hoke Smith’s amendment to the
Aldrich-Vreeland act permitting state
banks to participate in the emergency
currency. The Smith amendment had
already passed the senate.
One banker said Friday morning
that he thought the reason for not
allowing the state banks to partici
pate, .unless they join the federal re
serve. is because of a desire to build
up the reserve system. There are
28,000 banks and trust companies do
ing a banking business, in the United
States and not over 8,000 are mem
bers of the federal reserve system.
Thus the amendment to the Hoke
Smith amendment in the house for
state banks who desire to secure the
emergency currency to join the fed
eral reserve system within six months,
was done for the explicit .purpose of
holding out an alluring proposition to
induce state banks to come under the
federal system. Once under this sys
tem the state banks, while not com
pelled to surrender their state char
ters, would have to comply with the
rules governing national banks.
Whether any Augusta bank will join
the federal reserve system in order to
get emergency currency is not known,
but it is not considered likely that
any of them will.
The following Washington corre
spondence tells the story;
Washington.—Senator Hoke Smith,
after agreeing reluctantly to accept
an amendment to his amendment to
the Aldrich-Vreeland currency law,
whereby state banks availing them
selves of the emergency currency act,
as proposed, shall expressly obligate
themselves thereby to Join the new
federal reserve system within six
months, closed an argument in favor
of the amended amendment before the
house committee on banking and cur
rency that not a few believe may
swing tie committee to a favorable
attitude toward the proposition, de
spite the pronounced opposition of
Chairman Carter Glass, who hereto
fore has dominated the committee all
but entirely in its actions.
While this new amendment admit
tedly will relieve the cotton situation
in the South only partially, if adopted,
it will be a victory for Senator Smith
and Representative Thomas W. Hard
wick, who have exerted every effort
to get the law thus amended. Both
Senator Smith and Congressman
Hardwick made earnest and detailed
pleas for this little relief anyway for
the farmers of the South, and if they
win, in the face of determined oppo
sition, they will have overcome appar
ently insurmountable odds. These
two congressmen have carried the
burden of this fight alone. No other
Georgia congressman appeared before
the committee to lend a hand.
Accepted as Compromise.
Both Senator Smith and Mr. Hard
wick preferred very much to take the
senate amendment just as it came to
the house, and without the additional
amendment compelling the state
banks to join the federal system be
fore they can avail themselves of the
emergency currency provisions, for
they fear this additional amendment
may keep a number of state banks
from taking advantage of the propo
sition that otherwise would, still it
was so plain that the Smith amend
ment was doomed unless this clause
was tacked on, that both men stood
for it as the best they could get. It
is hoped, but not positively known,
that this additional amendment may
dissolve the opposition of Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo, and if it
does, that will mean the measure as a
temporary matter of relief, not en
tirely satisfactory then, but as worth
trying out. One of Secretary Mc-
Adoo s objections to the Smith
emendment was that It took away
from the present law one of the big
inducements to the state banks to
come into the federal system.
It is by no means certain that the
senate amendment even as further
amended, will get a favorable report
and pass the house, as Chairman
Glass shows no signs of weakening,
Out, be that as It may, it is but the
honest truth to say that both Senator
Smith and Mr. Hardwick have done
yoemen’s service in trying to get for
the South even the little concessions
this measure contains, and, whether
they succeed or not, they will be given
credit for undertaking strenuously to
get all that looked as If it might be
secured In the circumstances.
Other Bills to Be Heard,
If this act becomes the law, state
hanks may avail themselves of the
right to issue emergency currency to
cover their present and future de
mands, all within the terms of the
present federal law, of course.
The committee is not likely to re
port on this matter for several days,
and maybe for a week or two, and In
the meantime there are several other
hearings on bills now pending, among
them being the bill of Representative
Henry, of Texas. While a brave fight
will be made for this measure, very
few are sanguine enough to think that
ll will pass in any shape. Congress
evidently has up Its mind that
it can do practically nothing to re
lieve the cotton situation, and there
seems no chance of a Change of heart
taking place.
The Aldrlch-Vreeland act expires
by limitation next July, and all of
these provisions suggested by Bena
tor Smith and Mr. Hardwick will ex
pire with it. whatever they are, of
they are adopted. As conditions nor
mally obtain In the South, there would
be a heavy Inflow of currency to the
banks at this time and a little later
on, and It Is to meet In some degree
this shortage of currency that the
proposal Is made to permit the state
hanks to avail themselves of the set
In question. There still Is much bit
ter and vehement opposition to the
amendment, even as proposed, to be
amended, as It may not pass In any
even, but a hard fight has been made
Jot It. nevertheless. If adopted, It
irm mark the very limit of enngres
atonal action to relieve the cotton sit
uation. >•
Get Jt our «uit from Msrtins.
REPORT SALE
OE 033 BALES
ootton Quoted at 8 7-8 Cents
For Middling. Receipts 1,576
Bales. Cotton Being Sold
Gradually.
i Cotton was quoted at 8% cents per
pound for middling again on Friday.
The sales of the previous day, as re
ported on the board Friday morning,
show 633, which is considerably lar
ger than the day before. However,
cotton is being sold gradually, and not
precipitately, so that the market will
not be depressed by too many sales.
The cotton factors are almost a
unit in declaring that at least one
third of the crop should be sold.
They say that with the coton green
and heavy 8% cents per pound is a
very good price. They think, how
ever, that two-thirds of the crop
should be held.
The receipts of the previous day, re
ported on the board Friday morning,
show that the cotton received was
1,576 bales and the following rail
roads brought it to the city:
Georgia, 255.
Southern, 270.
Augusta Southern, 48.
Augusta-Aiken, 14.
Central of Georgia. 32.
Georgia and Florida, 125.
C. and W. C„ 282.
Atlantic Coast Line, 408.
Wagon, 142.
“MOVIE” PRICES AT
THE GRAND
Manager Richard Tant, of the Grand,
announces that there will be plenty
of seats in the balcony and gallery of
the Grand for the coming Paramount
pictures at popular prices, 10 and 20
cents.
Don't be frightened off by the 25c
boogerboo. That applies only to the
seats in the parquet.
It is believed that the 10 and 20 cent
seats will be the more popular. There
are a great many people who prefer
,to see moving pictures from the bal
cony, apart from the consideration of
price.
Children will be charged 10 cents
all over the house at matinees.
However, considering that Para
mount Pictures are shown all over the
United States at 50 and 75 cents, Au
gusta ought to be willing to pay a
quarter for the privilege of viewing
them.
It is generally understood that these
Paramount Pictures are something in
the way of moving pictures the like
of which has never been seen here be
fore. They are the very last word 1n
movies. They are produced and put
on by such men as Belasco, Frohman,
and all the big producers in the coun
try and are enacted by all-star casts
composed of the most talented and
best-known actors and actresses on
the stage.
For this reason they are the most
expensive and the best moving pic
tures in the world.
Mr. Tant has arranged to put them
on in Augusta every Monday and
Thursday night, except when a regu
lar engagement Interferes, In which '
case they will be shown the night pre- j
ceding or following. It Is a feather in
Augusta's cap to have these pictures
here during the winter, and It reflects
great credit On Mr. Tant for his en
ergy , and Initiative In securing them.
It is a great satisfaction to see some
thing that you know Is the very beat,
beyond which there is nothing.
They will be all feature plays. The
first performance will be next Monday,
3:30, matinee, and 8:30, night.
TO BE ROSH HASHANAH
SERVICES ON TWO DAYS
D. Leo Reich Will Preach Sun
day Evening and Monday
Morning
There will be Koah Hashanah ser
vices at the Telfair Street Temple on
Sunday night next at 8:30 o’clock, and
at 10:30 Monday morning. Dr. Leo
Reich will preach on both occasions.
Mr. Robert Irvin will be the organist.
The subject of the evening discourse
will be "Are We Our Brother’s Keep
er?” with reference to the present
war.
Text: Genesis, fourth chapter, tenth
verse, "What hast thou done? The
voice of thy brother's blood crteth
unto me from the ground.”
BALLARD & BALLARD JOIN
BUY-ABALE MOVEMENT.
BUY A BALE.
Mr. R. L. McCreary,
Dear Sir:—We want every Georgia
employe of the Ballard Mills to buy
a hale and do It quickly.
The good people of your state have
hit on a very happy plan and we must
show our appreciation of the enormous
business Georgia gives us. We hope
they will get out a "Buy-a-Bale” but
ton and that every cltlxen In the state
will wear one. Do sll you can to boost
the Idea —It’s a good one.
Store the ootton for our account and
draw on us for Its value.
Yours truly,
BALLARD & BALLARD CO.
Uneeda
Biscuit
Tempt the appetite,
please the taste and
nourish the body.
Crisp, clean and fresh.
5 cents.
Baronet Biscuit
Round, thin, tender—
with a delightful flavqr
—appropriate for lunch
eon, tea and dinner.
io cents.
Graham
Crackers
Made of the finest
ingredients. Baked
to perfection. The
national strength
food, io cents.
Buy biscuit baked by
NATIONAL BISCUIT
COMPANY
Always look for that Name.
DEATHS
BIGNON, MISS ADELLE S—Died
yesterday afternoon at her resi
dence, “The Pines,” Walton Way,
The Hill, at 12:15 o'clock after
an extended illness. The funeral
services were conducted this af
ternoon at 4 o’clock from the SL
Patrick’s f'hurch, Rev. Father Mc-
Mahon officiating, and the Inter
ment followed In the City Ceme
tery. Deceased Is survived by her
sister, Mrs. James P. Doughty,
and her brother, Mr. Joseph H.
Blgnon.
McCarthy, WILLIAM P.—Son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McCarthy,
died last night at 10:45 o’clock
at the residence, 1045 Broad
Street, In the first year of his age
after an illness of three months.
The funeral services were con
ducted from the residence this
afternoon at 3 o’clock, the Rev.
Thomas Walker officiating and
the Interment followed In the
West View Cemetery.
A Strange Woman
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Hvir * .pfora^^flK^ i^flcC2f'7«^
MRS. MONA DIMOND
The most wonderful trance clairvoy
ant and spirit medium that ever cam*
to this city I* consulted dally on love
affairs, lawsuits, marriage, divorce, bus
iness matters, Investments, speculations;
tell* you the time when to buy or sell
property; brings about your heart’s de
lire In a very short time; tells your
name in full, also full names of friends,
enemies rivals; she never falls to re
unite those that are separated. Tells
yo't whom and when you will marry Of
evert: also dste of marriage Hetties
lover's quarrels, family troubles. Inter
prets dreams, restores lost affections,
and accepts no pay unless perfect aat-
Isfaotlon Is given
Mona Dumond succeeds even In the
most difficult cases, where cheap pre
tenders, weak or half-developed medi
ums have completely failed One visit to
this remarkable woman will more than
convince you that she Is truly a great
adviser, and worthy of your confidence.
Hours: 9a. m. to 8 p m. Spec la i
readings 5* eenl* and |I.M. fxtralsd In
strictly private home.
1107 QREENE STREET,
Near Eleveirh.
Positively no Letters Answered.
CLOSED ALL DAY SUNDAY
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
QUAKER OATS CO.
BUT 411 BILES
OF COTTON
Each Southern Representative
Instructed to Buy a Bale at
Ten Cents Per Pound---Have
Also Ordered Enormous
Quantity of Cotton Sacks
Mr. Frank W. Coffin. Augusta rep -
resentative of the Quaker Oats Com
pany of Chicago, received a letter Fri
day morning from his home office in
structing him to buy a bale of cotton
at 10 cents per pound. Mr. Coffin
immediately made the purchase.
Every representative of the Quaker
Oats Company in the Soutlj, probably
about 400, has been instructed to buy
one bale of cotton.
The letter to Mr. Coffin also stated
that the company had decided to use
cotton bags instead of bags of Jute
and had ordered a large quantity of
cotton bags made for them, 1,000,000
of which will be delivered at once.
This will help increase the demand
for cotton goods and Is the beginning
of a movement to have every possi
ble article that lias been placed in
jute or other kinds of cloth sacks
placed in cotton sacks.
If every householder would demand
that every purchase be enclosed in
cotton sacks, where cloth sacks of
other materials have been used in the
past, the demand for cotton goods
would increase enormously.
IN CITT COORT
Last Two Criminal Cases Dis
posed of This Morning. Court
Adjourned Until Monday
The case of the State vs. Ben. C.
Inglett, charged with carrying a con
cealed weapon, resulted in a mistrial,
after the Jury had remained out on it
all day Wednesday. He was repre
sented by Abram Levy.
J. M. Dunn was, yesterday after
noon, found not guilty of receiving
stolen goods.
R. E. Hutchinson pleaded guilty to
the charge of abandonment of child,
and was placed under a suspended
sentence of twelve months.
Katie Collier, tried on a charge of
Helling cocaine, was found guilty with
recommendations of mercy, and was
this morning sentenced to eight
months.
W. T. Smith pleaded guilty on two
charges, carrying concealed weapon,
tind carrying a pistol without license.
He was sentenced to serve six months
on the first charge, and three months
on the other.
Alfred Thurman and Eugene Powell,
charged with larceny from the house,
were sentenced to Hix months each.
Gordon Ware, charged with drunk
enness on a public highway, was found
not guilty.
In this morning’s session two cases
were heard and disposed of, which
finished the criminal docket, after
which court was adjourned until Mon
day, September 21st, when civil cases
will be tried.
Alvin Rogers was found not guilty
on a charge of pointing a weapon at
another.
Joe Perkins was found guilty of
drunkenness on a public highway and
sentenced to three months.
CITY BRIEFS
A meeting of the civil Bcs-vtce com
mission has been called for tonight at
the fire department headquarters, at
which all routine business will he dis
posed of which has accumulated since
the last meeting the early part of this
month.
A special meeting will be held next
Monday night to hold examinations of
applicants for the position of probation
ers In the Augusta fire department.
Those who pass the eaxmlnatlon will lie
put on the eligible list to fill vacancies
winch may arise in the department.
Yeslcvday afternoon at about 8 o’clock
an emergency call reached police head
quarters that there was a negro dying
In the tralrished at the union depot. The
wagon went to the scene immediately,
mut the negro, George Coorper by name,
was found to be beyond help. He was
strleken with a hemorrhage, and bled
to death before medical aid could Veaoh
him. *
The deceased lived in Moßean. Oa,
and was an i tnployee of a wholesale
liquor house In the city.
HOTEL ARRIVALS
Hofbrau Hotel.
R. J. Ryan, Savannah; 3. 3. Wil
liams, Jr., city; D. J. Morlarty, At
lanta; B. sh Phillips, Atlanta; 3. M.
Beach, Macon.
Genesta Hotel.
W. O. Coles, Atlanta; L. R. Myera
Chicago; E. E. Polk. Pennsylvania; J.
E. Watnak, city; P. Kuhr, Wilmington,
N. C.; C. Glover, Atlanta; J. A. Folk,
Brunswick; O. V. Hoke, Charlotte, N.
C.; W. E. Gantt, Jr., Charlotte.
Albion Hotel.
J. Kantroversky, Kentucky; J. J.
Lawton, South Carolina; 3. W. Pur
dar. Sparta; 3. L. Reaves, Columbia;
3. H. Orlander, Oklahoma; J, H. Ho
gan, East Point; J. H. Craig, South
Carolina; T. B. Tamer, Savannah; A.
Goldberg, Atlanta.
Planters Hotel.
B A. Sullivan, Laurens, 8. C.; A. M.
Timmerman, Edgefield; G. W. Stack;
H. Soloman, Atlanta.
SAVANNAH PASSENGERS
WATCH SCHOONER SINK
Savannah, Ga.—Passengers of the
Savannah line steamer city of Bt.
Louis which arrived last night from
New York, gave a graphic description
of the sinking of s schooner, said to
he the Frederick Day, off Charleston
yesterday afternoon.
The schooner seemed to be anchored
when the St Louis slght-d It, about
2 o’clock in the afternoon, and sank
so quickly that those on hoard ware
horrified.
RESUME WORK ON
IRE POSTOFFICE
Workmen Were Stopped So
That Piles Could Be Tested.
Is Expected to Proceed
Rapidly From Now on.
Work was resumed on the August i
postoffice Friday morning. Several
tlaysago a telegram was received from
the treasury department to stop work
until the piles that have been driven
could he tested. However, the piles
have not yet settled enough for test
ing and will not be for a week or ten
days. They will be tested later. Work
Is expected to proceed rapidly from
now on.
UNIQUE ENTERTAINMENT
AT GREENE STREET
PRESBYTERIAN
The men of the Greene Street Pres
byterian church, under the name of the
Layman's Fo-operatlve Association, de
lightfully and artistically entertained in
the Sunday school rooms of the church
Thursday evening.
Musical milliners were rendered by
Mrs. J. Hardwick Jackson, Mrs. R. K.
Whaley. Miss Mabel Abernathy, Mr W.
P. Manning and Mr. 13. K. Gibbs.
Refreshments w urn served by the
men. among thoss serving In this ca
pacity being Messrs. Newton Rave, Earle
Hollingsworth and Mr. Spencer of the
Y. M. <’ A.
The affair was planned by the social
committee of the association, composed
of Messrs. R. K. Whaley, and G. H.
Clark and M. F. Leary.
$1.50 New Shirts, at Mertins.’
tins critical period of llirir
young Uye*. Thousands of mothers avoid the
dang-TH, restlessness, and suffering of teething
time with
TEETHINA
(7*<a«f hing Powder* )
A prescription oaed regularly by Dr. C. J.
Moffett, a Jefforson Medicul Colleoe graduate of
Philadelphia, in hi* own successful practice for
over 40 years.
He always considered ft bis beet prescription
remedy for cholera-lnfantum, cholera morbus,
colic, worms, dysentery, diurrhona and other dread
ed ailnieut* uncommon mnong infant sdurinu teeth
ing time, 'feethina wan found to help the child,
making teething easy and relieving the mother ox
many anxious moments andaleey-
muiiji nimiuiin iiiiiniciiLi,
lean mghta. Held by ft i
druggists 25c. *T\J
If you ran not w* «
obtain Tee th I n a 'V
from your druggist,
don't send us sny money s
but writ* us your drus- tt
gist’s nam® snd we will ■
»•« that yon sr® supplied. V
Cl. M.fsi
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BETWEENWARRING NATIONS
IN AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
Don’t Smile When You Read This, For it is Not Out of the
Bounds of Possibility-- If War Ends in Winter Time and
Treaty is Signed in America, Then Why Not Come to Au
gusta?
It Is not oufcaicl*' of tho bounds of
•possibility for the treaty of peace be
tween the warring nations of Kuropo
to be signed in Augusta. At first
blush a great many people will im
mediately declare such a thing ns so
absurd that no newspaper would
print it, even as in the remotest de
gree possible.
However, if the treaty is signed in
the winter time, as is probable, and
the United States is selected as the
place, then what is more natural than
for the envoys or peace commission
ers of the warring nations to select
the delightful climate of Augusta or
Home other city in the South, rather
than the rigorous climate of New
York or Washington.
A prominent Augustan, with ad
vanced ideas as to Augusta's promt-
$2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 Never
Bought So Much Shoe Satisfaction
R. L. GARRETT, M|?r.
We Give Purple Stamps. 730 Broadway
Such values as have nev
er been equalled before in
the entire south.
$4.00 and $4.50 values in
Black, Tan, Vici, Velours,
new Louis and Kidney Ileel,
also military heels,, in Mat.
and Cloth tops, (I*o
to be sold at . . v«*OD
ALWAYS WATCH OUR WINDOWS.
SSeSieti&to/
Store Lately Occupied by S. H. Kress A Co
SEVEN
nence as a health resort, said today
that if the treaty was signed In the
United States in the winter time then
either Augusta or St. Augustin®, Fla.,
would lie the place.
And why tint Augusta? Th® treaty
nf peace between England and th®
United States was signed in Ghent,
Belgium, in 1814, and the treaty be
tween Russia and Japan was signed
at Portsmouth, N. H., so why not
let's have ’’The Treaty of' Augusta,’*
which would lie the most famous
‘reaty In the world because it would
bring to an end the most awful con
flict in the history of the world.
The Bon Air, the Hampton Terrace,
the Partridge inti, and the local com
mercial hotels could accommodate th®
peace commissioners, secretaries. In
terpreters. etc.
$2.50, $3.00 and $3.50
represent many a man’s
or woman’s price.
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