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PLANT OATS THIS MONTH—
PLAN TO SAVE COTTON CROP.
“If the cotton farmer will plant
fifty per cent of hia available cot
ton acreage, or about 18,000,000
acres, in oats, (plant them deep
with a rill to prevent freezing)
he will have solved the problem
of crop reduction. As soon at
this fact it officially known
througii the department at Wash
ington, the value of cotton will
immediately respond to the new
conditions and will advance at
once to 10 or 12 cents per pound.'*
WEEMS A. SMITH.
A KINDLY CRITIC WHO WRITES
TO THE POINT.
In > ontfnljiy’H Herald in HpeakiiiK
tie Public Mind Column a correspon
dent Migning himmlf W. F. M., de
clares:
"When I gee a men hunt or farmer
crying hard times and going around
with gloom written all over him 1 put
him down a« a failure. Why? Well,
here's the reason: For years, in most
cast a, he has heen working ami, unless
he Is a fool, at a substantial profit.
Certainly the accumulationa of years
of btird work are more than enough
to tide him over a short lean period.
Anyone living from hand to mouth Is
no go.»d anyhow, and the fellow who
is hollering hard times already, is the
on# who failed to provide for the pro
verbial ‘rainy day." Look out for him
to stick you whether cotton be six
cents or sixteen."
W. F. M. is quit# correct and while
he admit' he is a Yankee from the
Frozen North, yet he resides In the
Bunny South nine months in the year
and he has had opportunity to see that
the South is indeed a "land of prom
ise" -that the lean months will soon
pass away, and that the crops this
year are better than even in the good
years he speaks about.
It*# high time for the Booth to get
down to work, and to stop figuring on
what cannot he helped. The war has
temporarily taken sway HO per cent
of the market for cotton. Save or
sacrifice your cotton as you please,
blit g* t down to l*«*d rocks, and get
busy.
The South has got to feed itself
next \ear.And now is the time to put
in oats, and winter crops. Grain is
going to be worth more than cotton
next > eat*.
Oct hold of a few pigs and chickens
and cattle, take a little c«an to the
mill, do a little more work on that
winter garden. Stop worrying over
the war and the cotton situation.
The South can raise everything at the
present time and make a profit on it
KXCKPT COTTON, as long as the
war lasts, and the war is going to
last a year or more
Face the facts and get busy.
As W. F. M. says:
"Winter is coming on -drended in
Yenkeeland. bailed with delight in
your sun-kissed Kden Why the very
Joy of living in Georgia for the next
six months is enough to make one
cheerful."
PENSIONS AND PREPARATIONS.
The tJreenvllle Piedmont'* remark
that
"Of course there Is neither mlll
srlsm nor Imperialism tn the Unit
ed States, but In our outrageous
penrlon system we have somethin*
fully as costly to the taxpayers
as tiermany's army or Kngland's
navy,"
Ought not to be forgotten It ha*
a very significant bearing upon the
question of preparedness for war. The
graft and waste that goes on under
the assumption that tlye nation owes
It's heroes life long compensation for
war gervlees Is—to the honest mind >
unimaginable Many' of the men and
women who are drawing this blood
from their natlon'a veins are In Inde
pendent clrcumstanees Many are aet
uaily rich.
Here la a slough of corruption and
waste that calls for clesnlng up and
drainage A careful revision of the
pensions this government Is giving out
and a determined squaring of these
demands wlth*what is Just and right,
would enable the United State* to
spend handsome sums In keeping this
great nation adequately defended.
What Is needed Is a commission to
make Inquiries as to where all this
j>en*lon money goes and what are the
claims of those who are drawing It.
Although, the number of those who
took part In the civil war Is growing
smaller every year the sun * of money
going out on these claims are sitting
proportionately larger Someone re
marked on this subject a few years
since that it became terrifying to com
pute what the cost would he when
the number of old soldiers was re
duced down to one
Economy Is a lesson this nation must
learn and It Is as well to begin to
count up the waste that goes on under
the pension system. When we cut out I
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waste, preparedness for war will not
be an appalling cost, but certain it is.
that it 1h the one expenditure we can
not afford to short measure. If Amer
ican citizens do not learn this simple
lesson from events in Kuropc, they are
not likely to learn it before the igno
miny of defeat and sorloits loss drives
it home,
GOOSE GREASE.
To this, from the Oourier-Journal—•
On the whole, Mr. Gardner, the
Gonrler-Journal will have to vote
against your resolution. For the
present »» pigeon-hole Is the place
for it. When vve start for Panama,
the Monroe Doctrine in one hand
and a hunk of goose grease in the
other, we will let you know!"
the New York Sun remarks
Fnlonel Wnttereon In his most
exuberant and flippant mood. But
we all remember the time when he
talked dreadfully of lending an
army of Kentuckians to Washing
ton to seat the presidential can
didate of his choice,**
We would suggest that, for the con
servation of this spirit of buoyancy
and exuberance, the colonel should in
dulge himself’ In sober contemplation
of the havoc in Kurope.
There is a time for temperate
thought and another for flippant va
pouring. In the matter of Investigat
ing our preparedness for defense, toe
alarm has sounded. It would be a
thousand times safer to do away with
defenses altogether than to try and
get on with inadequate and insuffi
cient defense. Tn the one case there Is
the ehance that Invading foes might
he shamed into respecting our pitiful
state of defenaelesaness, hut, so long
as we rnnke a mere bluff at defense
We Invite the world to "enll." Come,
come, colonel, be temperate and seri
ous for \et a little while. "He laughs
heat who laughs last."
MAKING MEN TO MEET THE
NEW DEMANDS OF INDUSTRY
For the past quarter of a century
the United States has found Its chief
problem to b# the scarcity of skilled
labor- men whose practical experi
ence rests upon sound scientific
knowledge.
In ISM only 2£.1 per cent of the
population lived In cities; today the
proportion Is about 45 per cent. Thte
means that the emphasis of Ameri
can life 1 *i% changed from agricul
ture to manufacture. Practically
every electric railway hits been built
since ispo and in the same period,
electric power and lighting plants
have been equipped by the thou
sands. The steam mb road mileage
has nearly doubled, the production
of coal has trebled, the output of
steel has quadrupled, and the vol
ume of copper for commercial uses
must be multiplied by six.
The manufacturing of automobiles,
their distribution, their repair and
their operation require « million
skilled men where yot one waa
needed twenty-five years ago. Avery
Industry Is clamoring for experts
for nn n with the mental equipment
that fits them for constant changes
in method and machtnerv. The para
mount need of American industry ie
a v*<at body of f’exihle labor, able to
adapt itself swiftly to the new de
mands.
The formal educational Institutions
in this country arc doing their heat
to meet this condition* and they are
doing it with courage and wisdom.
But the track. Industrial and tech
nical schools, and the scientific col
leges are able to reach only the
youth tin so who are looking for
ward to life Whftt mu lmb done for
ill. multitude who Me already en
g ,*ed in aome form of Industry? Cu
lts* they out b. trained mot re
moulded While .till earning , llvolt-
Ihmhl for themselves and their famil
ies, th*y must practically pn«* into
lb. milk* of unskilled or floating la
bor It le Impossible for them to
go hack to school or college, what*
ever education or training they ob
tain must hr curried to them by ths
simple.t method and nt th. I.*..it
costs
It nis to oipe with conditions
like tld. that the International Cor
y. Pool, wore eatabiish
e.l twenty.four veir# M so- not n. a
rival or a .übatitut. for other edu
cational Institution, but to auppia
lucnt what thsss latter had done, or
1., do wbat they acknowledge them
selves iinabls to do. The purpose
of the International Correspondence .
Schools t» to carry eduction or '
technical training to anyone, in; •
where at the :#**t possible cost and
tn the most practical form, and to
do It In such a way that th# recip
ient can centim e to earn a livelihood
In the preaent while preyarm* for a
much larger earning power in the
futura
INDOOR SPORTS - - By Tad
(Copyrighted, 1914, American Society
for Trlfht.)
HONEBT VALUE IN FRUIT.
By O. K. White, Field Repreaentative,
Michigan Agriculture College.
(Note: In buying apples know what
you want and get what you a-sk for.)
YVe have appreciated for a number
of y ears that a large number of apples
have not been grading and packing In
a way that would bring satisfaction to
the consumer and retailer of reputation
and best profits to the grower. Much
of this condition has been due to dis
honesty on the part of these people
Hut we are firmly convinced that a
targe part gnf this condition has been
due to the fact that there has heen no
standard by which fruit might lie
graded. Kvery person was his own
Judge, consequently unless the Indi
vidual hnd worked up a reputation for
reliable grading, there was no assur
ance that any purchaser would be get
ting what the package appeured ter
contain.
YY'4th tins fundamental idea in mind,
1 have held a large number of grading
and packing demonstrations in dlffer-
THE diERLI
‘‘Well If He Tells You That, You Will Answer: ‘My
Master is Not Mad at All. He is Merely Provident.”
YY'hen Solomon had finished his
great mosque he sent for the architect
and said to him:
"Next Friday I am going to perform
niy semalik in my mosque, if ,1 is
not finished by that time 1 shall order
your head cut off.”
The following Thursday evening the
architect returned and handed the
Sultan the keys of the mosque and In
the morning the Sultan went there for
the selsmlk.
YVlieti he returned to the Seraglio
he sent for his first Chamberlain and
asked him:
"How many lamps has the architect
put in my new mosque?"
“Fifteen thousand, sire.”
"Good. 1 shall allow four okes of
oil a day for each lamp."
“Your order shall he obeyed, sire.”
"1 hope so. YY'liat day of the week
ta it today?"
"Friday, sire."
“Then next Friday you will perform
immar nt Saint Sophia."
"Yes. sire."
“Take this sure (hag containing one
thousand gold pieces• and give it to
an old hcegar whom you will find sit
ting at the f.rnt of Hie first pillar on
the left. Kis face will be veiled, but
you need not see his face, as he has
made a vow never to show it. "'ell
him to pray for me He is a very
pious and holy man."
"I shall do as you say, sire."
"YY’hat an absurd idea," the Cham
berlain thought as he left the presence
of fils Imperial master. Four okea (a
little over a gallon of oil for each lamp
and a thousand geld pieces for a l.eg
ger." Then he opens the bag and
takes out half of the contents, ami
calls hi* assistant to whom he trans
mits the order Just given him by the
Multan.
The assistant In turn finds the gift
of five hundred gold pieces to a beg
gar an almost criminal of money so
before he goes to the djami he re
lievos the bag of half Its contents.
“Here, my good man. pray for th#
Multan, who sends you this gift."
"May Allah bits# him with a long
and happy life."
The following day the Multan sends
for the Chamberlain
"Hid you give the beggar ths
money T'
"Yes. sire."
"How much did you give him?"
' Kvery thing, sire."
“Is not this the bag I gave you?”
"The Chamberlain turns pale and In
a vole* that trembles with fear he
answers:
"Yes, sire, it is the bag."
"Will you please count Its con
tents?"
The poor Chamberlain counts the
content* four or five times and then
throw* himself at the feet of hit mas
ter begging for mercy.
"Ho pot be afraid. 1 aat not going
THE WAYS OF THRIFT
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
ont parts of this gtate at which these
facts were discussed and an effort
made to impress upon the growers and
handlers of fruit the necessity of much
improvement. Reasons have been given
why inferior fruit, as a rule, should
not be put upon the market, especially
when it is mixed with the better
grades; that they should be separated
and those who desire a fancy fruit and
can pay for it, can secure it and he
sure of having it. For those who are
able to buy only a poorer grade, they
can secure that and be satisfied. At
these demonstrations, different grades
of fruits have not only heen shown but
the actual routine of packing in differ
ent sorts of packages has been done.
The legislature of Michigan at its
last session, was induced to pass a law
known us the Jakway law which re
quires that all fruits and vegetables
paeked in closed packages should he
marked with the name of the grower,
or other person who is responsible for
the packing and at the present time, a
movement has been started to induce
tlis next legislature to improve that
law by passing a law similar to the
(■no recently passed by New York state
which fixes corhpulsory grades and
compulsory methods of marking.
to do you harm, but answer this ques
tion.
"Am I not the most powerful mon
arch in the world?"
“Certainly, sire."
“And you are the Chamberlain
whom I have shown favors of all
kinds."
"Sire."
"Are not alms sacred?"
“Yes, sire.”
"If you rob me, what can you ex
pect others to do?"
"1 am quite crushed, sire."
"Now tell me. Hid you give the
minister my order to allow four okes
of oil to each lamp in my mosque?"
"YVhy don’t you answer?"
"I did not dare. sire. If your order
was to be carried out, all the oil In the
country would not suffice. An trade
Is an irade. If the minister had not
believed me "
"He would probably have answered
you: Oh, no. you must he mad. you or
your master."
Sire."
"Well, if he tella you that, you will
answer: My master is not mad at all.
He la merely provident. Judging
from your actions the four okes will
suffer a number of curtailings be
ginning with the minister himself and
finally there will he left only your
drachms or Just enough to keep a
lamp burning: Now, go and see that
my mosque shall not he dark after my
death. Go and sin no more."
And that Is w*hv the lamps are never
without oil—on the days of festival.
SCHOOL AND CIVIC LEAGUES IN
VIRGINIA.
In Virginia there are TOO school and
civic leagues organised In the country
school districts by the Co-operative
Kducatlon Association, which is a clt-
Isen’s organisation working in con
junction with the state department of
education
A school and civic league Is "a so
cial club, school betterment associa
tion, and chamber of commerce set
down In a country neighborhood and
holding its meeting* In the school
house. Officers are elected, meetings
are held monthly or fortnightly, and
the teacher Is a leading spirit in all
activities" it la a means of commu
nity education for practical cltlxenahlp
adapted to rural conditions and needs.
In addition to musicals, spelling
he,*, and other aocial activities, dis
cussion and ehate of public queatlona.
primarily of local interest, occupy (tie
meeting* The Co-operathe Educa
Hon Association sends to each league
programs on such questions as health.!
good road* and better farming A
home reading course hts heen estab
lished. based on a textbook on some!
rural subject, and supplemented hv 1
bulletins from the several state depart-I
ments and from th# college of agricul
ture. Upon the completion of the
course members are awarded certifi
cates.
The civic training afforded by the
leagues conies largely, however,
through activity in behalf of better
community conditions. One league last
year raised $ 2,500 for the improvement
of the roads leading to the school, and
this year the good roads meeting held
In a one-room school started a move
ment for an automobile road over 100
miles in length.
The Improvement of the school itself
is. pf course, one of the chief inter
ests of the leagues. In 1912-13 they
collectively raised $65,000 which was
expended for libraries, pictures, pianos,
window shades, and other improve
ments.
In a sparsely settled section of
Charlen City county, which until a year
ago had no school facilities, a league
was formed, an old farm building was
sented and furnished with a few
chanrs and a table, and the school
trustees were requested to supply a
teacher. Interest increased and final
ly a mode! one-room senool building
was erected, partly by public funds
and partly by money raised by the
league. Many high schools In Y’irginia
have heen built in Just this way.
MONEY AND COTTON
If you want to borrow money in
New York you have to pay 7 per cent;
that is, for every SI,OOO you borrow
you have got to pay S7O rent or in
terest, or whatever you choose to call
It.
A year ago you could have borrow
ed that SI,OOO in New York at 4 per
cent. It would have cost you, there
fore S4O.
A year ago one bale of cotton would
have brought 13 cents. One bale of
cotton was, therefore, worth $65. It
would have paid the interest on SI,OOO
for eighteen months.
Today Is takes two bales of cotton
to pay the Interest on SI,OOO for 12
months.
Here is a concrete Illustration, an
object lesson. Figure It out and see
how the price situation has revolu
tionised conditions all over the coun
try.
Price is only a phrase we have
adopted to describe the exchange
value of any article, money, stocks,
bonds, real estate, wool, cotton, oil,
Iron.
There is no such thing as the price
of one object. Necessarily, it relates
to two, and a second article has to be
named to complete the statement. It
implies an exchange; exchange value
is the price; price is the exchange
value with gold as the common de
nominator of values.
The price of cotton last year was a
declaration that a bale had an ex
change value equal to eighteen
months’ interest on SI,OOO. Today It
has an exchange value of six months’
interest on SI,OOO. In other words,
measured In Interest, the cotton Is
worth Just one-thlrd of what Is was
worth a year ago;it takes three bales
to do what one hale did a year ago
In the money market.
The price of cottonmlght not be so
had if the prices of many other arti
cles were correspondingly or even ap
proximately affected by natural con
ditions as the cotton is; but when the
hanks of New York have doubled the
price of what they have to exchange
and have halved the value of the
things to be exchanged for it, some of
them are growing rich beyond the
dream# of avarice, measured In cot
ton.
DEPARTMENT PUBLIC HEALTH
Report for tho Week Ending
October 24, 1914.
Communicable Diseases.
White Colored
Diphtheria 6
Typhoid Fever ........ 4 0
Tnbereulosl# 3
Whooping Cough 0
Pellagra 9 1
Measles 1 9
Previously reported—r.ot released.
White Colored
Scarlet Fever 1 9
Diphtheria .$ 1
Vital Statistic*.
White Colored
Marriages 5 0
Mirth* 9 «
Da’Jis 2 IS
C. WILSON.
And Yet Another
Shipment ot
Dorr Hats
Hats of class that
please the fancy and
fit the face and fig
ure of young and old.
Hats of taste, of
style, of quality.
$3 $3.50 $5
DORR
Good Taste Apparel
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BE REASONABLE—NOW LISTEN
CASH is the mighty FACTOR in TRADE—We sell for CASH and
SAVE YOU MONEY as quoted below:
4-ounce bottle Syr. White Pine Co., with Tar 20c
314-ounce bottle syr. Tar. Cod Liver Oil Extract and Menthol 35c
6-grain Aspirin (capsules or tablets) 20c doz.
6-grain Quinine (capsules or tablets) 20c doz.
1-pound White Moth Balls 5c
GET OUR PRICES ON DRUGS AND PRESCRIPTIONS.
WE SAVE YOU MONEY. TRY US IS ALL WE ASK.
Your, for GREATER AUGUSTA,
THE GREATER AUGUSTA PHARMACY
Wrong Side of Streot, 1281 Broad Street—Right Side of Prices.
B. A. DIAL
COAL AND WOOD
Telephones 25-J, 2701 639 11th St.
Wiiiuimffimim aaifrilMi:
WHEN A LADY ASKS FOR STATIONERY
sh* does not mean a "box of writing papeF’—the term common
among all classes before the HURD line gave rise to the dlstlno
tion "Fine Stationery " Now the lady and her coterie have learn
ed the difference—the distinction—and they desire FINE BTA*
■IONERY—HURD’S FINE STATIONERY. Sold by
Richards Stationery Co.
WA& R&S2SP6H
| AUGUSTA HERALD f
"The NATIONS at WAR” is issued in parts
AND EACH COUPON IS GOOD FOR ONE PART
Each pxrt is lavishly illustrated in color* and by reproductions 01
rare photographs from private sources. The entire scries will comnria
a COMPLETE .tory of the war from th. unblassd xlewpctnt of a ImVsu
oxrsrlrr.ccd w.r oorr-.pond.ru. and srtl.t. oov.rlng .very stratwio aoln? sfS,f
from large clrsr type oni ensrasl psprr. ..ch p.rt contl.itng of !l m™ W h a
may b# bound Into book form and a 4<n*p« mmf fnr * A ”? q
of ..ch par. .. iMWsd. This 1. ,h. .tZr ■
One Part Ready Every Two Weeki'
from fsrtnrr. rhorkmc. ol.rU hlr., un.i othr. Kr..r y EXPENSE srx/
Items, amounting to oaij imrb part) 12 Cent
ORDERS BY MAIL lncluds THREE CENTS EXTRA <
for tack part, to cover tb# eoat of poatar# and mailing
Distributed through thl. anmpapar. and caa be had only
Ibi («ikwuj| distributing point#: **
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25.
AUGUSTA HERALD.
SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION
Daily and Sunday Herald.
The circulation of the Daily and Sun
day Herald for the month of September,
1914, was as follows:
Sept. 1 ....13,145
Sept. 2 ....12,745
Sapt. 3 ....12,700
Sept. 4 ....12,810
Sept. 5 ....12,795
Sept. 6 ...11,752
Sept. 7 ....12,770
Sept. 8 ....12.750
Sept. 9 ....12.73)
Sept. 10 ....12 780
Sept. 11 ....12 875
Sept. 12 ....13 415
Sept. 13 ....11,775
Sept. 14 ....13,178
Sept. 15 13,163
TOTAL SEPTEMBER ...38G,657
.r DAILY AVERAGE 12,688
The Augusta Herald, Dally and Sun
day, hae a circulation In Augusta ap.
prolmately twice as large as that of anj
other Augusta newspaer. Advertisers
and agencies invited to test tho accuracy
of these figures in comparison with tha
claims of other Augusta i ewspapw.
FORD
IS THE
CAR
The Wife and Boys and
Girls can drive as well
as the men.
See Lombard.
“ATOP THE STRAND”
RESTAURANT AND BALL ROOM
BROADWAY, it 47th St, NEW YORK
A luturaat of unexcelled qualities, setting a new standard
in catering to the demands of New York’s thousands of guests.
Mwic Dancing Cabaret
the wonderful ROSITA MANTILLA
The Dansant at 4 o’clock
Dandng Conte* Wednedsy and Saturday Afternoon..
Lucky Contest Sunday Afternoon*.
Sept. 16 ....13 125
Sept. 17 ....12,605
Sept. 18 ....12,723
Sept. 19 15,93?
Soft 20 ....11,881
Sept. 21 12,60 u
Sept. 22 ....12,541
Sept. 23 ....12,693
Sept. 24 ..„.12,S 1 8
Sept. 25 .... 12.690
Sept. 26 ....12 908
Sep'. 27 ....11,965
Sept. 28 ....12 670
Sept. 29 ....12.636
Sept. 20 ....12,785