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MORE ABOUT THE A. R. C.
To The Herald.
Your correspondent^ho signed him
self A Football Fan was, I think, a
little unfair on the Richmond Acad
emy in the letter he wrote the other
day. I have taken occasion to look up
and inquire diligently into, the mat
ter of the A. R. O.’s defeat by the
Georgia Military College, and my con
clusion is that the Academy had more
reason to “kick” at the result than
your correspondent perhaps Imagined.
I must grant, with him, that their
protest in print was to some extent
in questionable taste, but that they had
every reason to be dissatisfied with the
referee seems to be very generally
granted.
Of course it is an accepted rule ot
sport that a defeat should be taken
in good part, no matter by what means
it may have been inflicted.
But at the same time there was some
excuse for the Academy in this in
stance, if one considers their plaint
rather in the light of a justification
before their fellow Augustans, to whom
they felt accountable, than as a mere
crying out against injustice.
The A. R. C. has won many vic
tories in the past and suffered many
hard-fought defeats and never given
cause' to their townsmen to find fault
with them for lack of sportsmanship.
Gannot we give them credit for hav
ing a good reason when they do
“kick?” Though a protest can. as
your corespondent says, do no earthly
good and though it looks ugly In print,
cannot we make allowances for a
crowd of boys stinging under what
they considered a very real and pres
ent injury? I think we should be a lit
tle less quick to criticise, anyhow, on
general principles. JUSTICE.
ALL THE ACADEMY WANTS IS
JUSTICE.
To The Herald:
"So the representative of our city
on the gridiron were defeated Mon
day” is the way Mr. Football Fan puts
it in Tuesday's Herald. I am not so
sure whether we were defeated or not.
It is hard to tell when you are de
feated if there is no referee.
The Academy team left the city
Monday morning with the expectation
of defeat. They were going up against
fearful odds in the question of weight
and training. But the defeat they
looked for was In football and not In
referee's decisions. We do not claim
that the referee was not on our side
as Mr. Fan has it, but we do claim
that the referee did not know enough
about the 1914 rules of football to ref
eree a game of this importance or any
game for that matter.
I would like to ask Mr. Football
Fan, if he saw the game Monday. If
he didn’t, what does he know about
the treatment we received at the
hands of the referee; and if he did
see the game I must say that his con
dition in regard to knowing the game
is about as hopeless as that of the
referee.
I agree with Mr. Fan that it took
nerve for the referee to do the best
he could. If the beat that any man
can do is no more than that done by
the referee in this game I don’t think
a very large number could summon
the courage to impose defeat on a
worthy team through their Ignorance
and incompetency.
The term "knocker” would apply in
Mr. Football Fan’s case. He even
writes all athletic representatives of
the city always have some excuse for
their defeat. If other athletic repre
sentatives of the city have the same
grievance that we have they have a
just right to make complaint and the
man who will censure them for mak
ing complaint is not in sympathy with
the laws and courts of our nation,
whoee purpose is to give justice.
Again I agree with Mr. Fan that
you seldom hear of big schools and
colleges blaming referees for their
defeat. The reason for this is that
colleges and big schools (under the
latter class we place the Academy),
have competent referees to whose de
cisions there can he no complaint
made.
We are ready to take defeat like
men when we are defeated but when
we are not defeated and the decision
Is against us we feel that we have a
right to ask and demand justice—and
if this justice Is to come through the
referee we only ask that a man be
used who Is capable of giving just de
cisions.
Do not let It he understood that I
am a player for I am not, I am merely
A FOOTBALL FAN OF
ANOTHER CLASS.
\ GERMAN COMMANDS SYRIANS.
London, 8:35 a. nn.—An Athena dis
patch to the Ihdly N>*« atatea that
the German Colonel von Kleck ha*
arrived at Damascus and haa taken
over direction of the general staff of
fvvrtan troop*. He la also recruiting
Bedouins.
ROAD TO ANTWERP LEFT
A MASS OF BLACKENED
BIS BY THE BERMANS
Description of Destroying First Line of City’s Defenses—Hole
Bored Through Belgian Resistance—Constantly Exploding
Shrapnel Shells Played Havoc With Fleeing Peasants
Antwerp, (via London, 11:30 p. m.)
—The Germans on Saturday spent
sixteen hours In a terrific artillery
duel in an effort to ford the Nethe.
The Belgians held their ground mag
nificently and with great sacrifices
prevented the Germans from crossing.
The Germans were evidently unwill
ing to lose men in an assault and de
cided to widen the breach in the for
tifications by bombarding the forts
between the Rivers Senfte and Schedlt,
which were unable to hold out against
the steady downpour of shells.
200,000 Men.
Thus the first line of Antwerp’s de
fenses were destroyed. For the final
attack the Germans are hurrying
200,000 men to the battle scene from
Aix-le-Chapelle via Brussels.
The Germans are boring a hole
through the Belgian resistance like
the boring of a tunnel through a
mountain, in which progress no mercy
is shown. Whatever interferes—vil
lages, churches, schools and factories
—are wiped out with steady pre
cision.
Endless Procession.
The road from Brussels to Antwerp
is a line of blackened ruins. Some
of the towns, including Termonde,
have been completely erased. The
population fled. An endless proces
sion of peasants and shopkeepers,
WHAT WILL THE S. C. ASSEMBLY,
CALLED IN SPECIAL SESSION,
DO TO JUSTIFY ITS EXISTENCE?
That is the Question All Carolinians Are Asking Themselves
in the Matter of Relief For Present Cotton Conditions.
The Various Plans Suggested For Legislation in Palmetto
State.
WALTER E. DUNCAN,
Staff Correspondent,
The Augusta Herald.
Columbia, S. C. —What will the South
Carolina general assembly, called to
meet In extraordinary session to enact
emergency legislation which will relieve
economic conditions, do to Justify its
existence?
That is the question that all South
Carolina is asking.
At the same time, all South Carolina
is looking to the legislators to take some
action which will bring relief.
Senators and representatives are. how
ever. asking of themselves and of one
another, ‘‘what shall we do?” or “what
can we do?”
I have talked today with men from all
sections of South Carolina. All are
anxious, apparently, to do what can be
done to contribute to the relief of the
situation. All are. apparently, seeking
the best way out of the woods, and all
1 have talked with, I am sure, are sin
cere In their expressed deslra to help
solve the problems.
South Carolina led In secession. Here
In Columbia sons of South Carolina
were first to defy the national govern
ment to proclaim the sovereignty of the
state.
As South Carolina led In secession
many men who have devoted, these last
few weeks, serious thought to the sit
uation believe that South Carolina shall
and will lead the Sduth to agricultural
independence through legislation, emerg
ency legislation, which will set the pace,
form the basis, cut the cloth, and in
short, lay the foundation on which all
the states of the cotton belt will build.
From Virginia to Texas, they follow
ed South Carolina In 1861—followed
South Carolina to the most splendid
test of a principle that the world has
ever known, a test through blood,
through fire. As a result war—the war
ing of the world—was revolutionized.
Now, If South Carolina, again taking the
Initiative, sounds the tocsin, blazes the
trail, leads the way, will the South fol
low?
That is, more than the legislators
themselves realize, I think, the critical
question.
South Carolina produces only about
one-fourteenth of the cotton crop of the
South. Of Itself, one-fourteenth of the
production, whether curtailed or elimi
nated, can make no material difference.
Baying aside the law of supply and de
mand—whlch caanot he laid aside except
for purposes of argument—the moral ef
fect of any emergency measures which
the South Carolina legislature may
adopt at this critloal Juncture Is, It Is
generally recognized as fact, worth
more than all else.
There is an unmistakable consoler -
lousness among the solons —it pervades
the very atmosphere of the historic state
house-that what they do the other
states in the cotton Pelt will follow their
lead .that extraordinary legislative ses
sions will be called In Georgia. In Ala
bama, in Mississippi, In Loulal&na and
other Southern suites, and that co
mmllm action will he taken by all of
the cotton-growing states before plant-*
ing time next spring
Responsibility rests heavily upon
them. I have never seen a finer body of
men. Many of them, since they last
met together, have gone before the
people, candidates for re-election, and
have been defeated. But they realize
■that they ore here, not as politicians,
but that political lines having been elim
inated by a great necessity, South Caro
lina must lead the way for the South to
follow
If heroic measures are necessary to
meet and deal with the situation I be
lieve that these men, representatives of
the people of a great state, of divergent
political faiths, sreall.to a man. egreed
and solidified on the one vital point—
that for the salvation of South Carolina
and the South the cutton acreage must
be cut at least one-half and ttrat posi
tive legislation must be enacted to ab
solutely assure curtailment to that ex
tent.
In their Individual beliefs, some go
even further than that. Some, and no
Inconsiderable number, are ready and
willing to vote for a stringent law pro
hibiting the planting of any cotton at
all In South Carolina next yenr.
Today the farmers of South Carolina
were asked by the state division of the
Southern Cotton Congress to eliminate
entirely the planting of cotton in 1915.
and this action, taken at a meeting held
young and old, with their chattels
loaded in hand carts and antiquated
wagons and followed by countless
children are slowly moving in the di
rection of Antwerp’s cathedral tower.
Much Difficulty.
They have difficulty in avoiding the
numerous military trains of guns,
wagons and automobiles rushing to
the front. The refugees, on arriving
In Antwerp, are cared for by the civil
guards and boy scouts and taken to
the public buildings and the German
shops which, contrary to the accept
ed version, were not destroyed hut
were temporarily taken over by the
government. The refugees are well
fed.
On Firing Line.
German shells continually strike the
roads leading to Antwerp and the ex
ploding shrapnel has in some cases
played havoc among the peasants.
During the worst part of the battle
on the Nethe many priests and monks
were on the firing line attending the
wounded and giving the last care to
the dying.
The. fortifications at Wavre-St.
Catherines were ruined with about
130 shells while the blowing up of the
powder magazines ended Waelhem.
Both forts were evacuated on the
same night.
at the Jefferson Hotel here and pre
sided over by Mr. Wade Stackhouse,
president of the state division, will be
given consideration by the legislature.
I believe that I am Justified In the
statement that the legislature does not
know, nor has the remotest Idea, what
will he done or how. whatever Is done,
will be accomplished. I was on the
floor of the house for an hour today
(Tuesday) and that hour was just be
fore the legislature convened.
"What are you going to do up here?”
I asked of Mr. G. Tillman Holley, of
Aiken, who was In his place anil who in
troduced me to the speaker, Mr. Smith,
of Camden.
“God knows,” was his reply—and that
should be comprehensive enough for
anyone, I suppose. “God knows.” was
the most authentic information It was
possible to get from any one, and I put
the same question to a dozen men from
a dozen different sections of the state.
“God knows, but we are determined to
do something.”
That the members of the house of
representatives at least mean business
was indicated when Speaker M. I;.
Smith, apparently giving expression to
the sentiment of the house, was ap
plauded when he said:
"Let us do what we intend to do at
once. Let us proceed In a sane and
businesslike way, do what is best to be
done, quit and go home."
No man can say how long the extra
session is going to run, but It appears to
be a matter of certainty that bills
which were Introduced at the last ses
sion of the legislature and left as un
finished business are not going to be
given the right of way, to say the least
of It. Bills which were continued are
now proper for consideration, the speak
er ruled today, but the bills on the cal
endar—and there are enough, were they
taken up, to Insure a continuous ses
sion for a year—which the house re
fused to consider* cannot be brought up
except by unanimous consent.
The governor of South Caroline, In
his message to the legislature, makes a
radical recommendation, which so far as
I can learn does not meet with any con
siderable approval. That is that a law
prohibiting the sale of any property, real
or personal, under any mortgage or lien
dated prior to the first of October, be
passed with a privlso that If any debtor
shall attempt to make away with his
property or to do It serious damage In
order to decrease Its value, the provis
ions of the law shall not apply to him. *
On the questions of extending the time
fcr the payment of taxes and reducing
the legal rate of Interest in Mouth Caro
lina to six per cent, both of which are
recommended In the governor’s message,
there Is a wide difference of opinion
limited only by political lines.
Only two or three puges of the 104-
page printed message of Governor Blease
dealt with the matter the legislature has
been called together to consider the re
mainder being an outline of the politi
cal situation In Houth Carolina, ns the
governor views It, since 1890 and after
It was begun, on motion of Mr. Nichol
son, ot Greenwood, that the entire mes
sage be read, It was discontinued. Hlini
lar action was taken In the senate.
Members of the general assembly made
It plain that they are not here to at
tend political funerals.
Actual work was begun at once.
Mr. C. C. Wyeha, of Huniter, Intro
duced a bill In the house to authorise
the governor, state treasurer and comp
troller general, to borrow money with
which to finance the state during 1915
He elso Introduced a bill to extend
time of paying taxes of 1914. a resolu
tion to appoint a special commission to
confer with similar commissions from
legislature* of other cotton-growl rift
Htate* or cotton legislation, and a reso
lution to reduce the cotton acreage in
1916.
Mr. H. C. Hummers of Anderson, In
bills Introduced, favors the extension of
time for payment of taxes and reducing
the legal rate of Interest.
Mr. I>. McQueen, of Marlboro, the
chief cotton producing county of the
state, and Messrs Itelaer and F.pps, of
Humter, Introduced bill* proposing the
reduction of the cotton acreage In 1915,
and the Mcl-aurln-Htevenson bill, pro
viding for a warehouse system In South
Carolina, was Introduced.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
NEWS OF NEARBY TOWNS
AIKEN MANAGER,
COMPUTING SCALE CO.,
BUYS TEN BALES
Aiken, S. C.—William R. Yarber,
district manager for South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida of the Angldile
Computing Scale Company of Elkhart,
lnd„ has received instructions from his
firm to buy ten hales of distress cot
ton in Ills territory at 10 cents a pound.
Mr. Yarber wrote his people In Indl
. ana from Ills headquarters at Aiken
last month, suggesting that they Join
the ’ b*y-n-balo” movement, and un
der date of October Ist received a sat
isfactory reply. He has bought already
one hale at Ashton, Bamberg county,
South Carolina from Sanders & Jones,
a business firm of that place, and one
bale at Butts, Ga., from W. R. Wig
gins. The other eight bales will he
bought in South Carolina and Geor
gia.
BRUNSWICK DEACONS
DISMANTLE A CHURCH
Brunswick, Ga.—When two factions
of the Missionary Baptist Church at
Freedman’s Rest fell out and almost
earner to blows, one faction a few
nights later dismantled the church
building. This force of destroyers
was led by the pastor, the Rev. D. T.
Tyson, so it is alleged, and today
Pastor Tyson and four other members
at his flock are being tried in the
city court on a charge of malicious
mischief.
It is said that the two factions of
the church in question have been at
bitter’s ends for some time. Finally
the question of accepting a proposi
tion from the Georgia Coast * Pied
mont Railroad to remove the church
building off the right of way of the
railroad came up. The faction, led
by the pastor, was opposed to the
proposition. The faction, headed by
Paul Benjamin, agreed to accept the
proposal and this was accepted.
The Tyson faction was determined
not to he outdone. "We’ll tear the
building down before we will stand
for Its removal,” it is alleged they
said. So, it is claimed, the Tysonites
met at the church and completely dis
mantled the building.
REV. MR. RAGSDALE AGAIN.
Atlanta. —The Rev. C. B. Ragsdale,
who figured in a sensational way as
a “witness” in the noted Frank case,
is now charged in the Fulton court
with fraud, Mrs. Ollle Cain alleging
that the minister swindled her In a
land deal where she hud trusted him
because he was a preacher.
Ragsdale figured In the Frank case
after the verdict, when he testified that
lie heard Jim Conley confess to the
murder. He later repudiated this con
fession and said a lawyer and a de
tective had persuaded him to make It
Mrs. Cain sets out that she made
two deals with Ragsdale and that in
each instance he misrepresented val
ues and facts. She wants the trans
actions declared null and void and her
money back.
BOMBSONHOOF,
PRISONERS FREE
London, 5:22 a. m.—A Reuter dls
patch from Amsterdam dated Friday
night says: •
"During yesterday’s bombardment
of Antwerp some shells exploded on
the roof of the prison. The wardens
Immediately liberated the prisoners.
"From Maastricht comes the news
that 20,000 Germans are approaching
Antwerp from Liege. A fugitive
member of the Red Cross states that
the inner line of forts near Lierre are
In German hands and that fierce
fighting still continues."
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NEW POSTOFFICE AT
MADISON
Madison, Ga, —Mayor Brooks In
forms us that he has received a letter
from the postoffiee officials at Wash
ington accepting the old court house
square as the site for the proposed
new postoffice building.
A former administration offered
this site to the government at $5,000,
and the offer has been accetpod.
While it Is not expected that work
on the proposed new building will be
gin at a very early date, yet that we
will have a handsome new building
can now he regarded as a certainty.
Mayor Brooks thinks the sale of the
square for this purpose a very wise
thing to do. And so does nearly every
citizen of the town.
orangeburg"schools to
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Orangeburg, 8. C. The County
Board of Education 1h now working
on a plan to have the public schools
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of school work as can be placed on
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