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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1(X FflK 6 POWDER Absolutely Pure graj» fossa* dTartor m»M*m Speaking ... THE ... Public Mind 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." IN ALL OUR NEIGHBORHOOD There I* Hardly A Woman Who Does Not Rely Upon Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg etable Compound. 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If you are ill do not drag along until an operation is necessary, but at once take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. If yon want special ad vice write Lydia E. I'inkliam Med lei fie Cu, (confidential; Lynn, Muss. GOVERNMENT TO BUILD A 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 HAVE EXHIBITS AT FAIR Orangeburg, 8. C. 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