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SIX AUGUSTA HERALD. Publlihed Every Afternoon During th® Week and on Sunday Morning THE HERALD PUBLIPHING CO. Entered m the Augusta Potnofftee a» Mail Met ter of the NKvnd*claM. SUB SCRIPT ION RA TBS Dally and Bundny. 1 year . ........$A 09 Dally and Sunday, per w»-ek IS Daily and Sunday, per month .50 Surdav Herald. . vear 1 00 _ phONES: Businerj Office ?07 i Want nd phone ’’''G Society I Manning Editor 29# N'-v “ Room ... . i'99 Clr« ula'ion • 2 r >:'.| REPRI ENT ATI VIC entamln A Kentnor Co.. ?'!5 Fifth Ave, Niw York City, 121 S People’* On® Build ing; Adams St. ami Michigan Bivd.. go.. Tr;avehing" ~ p !*i-Tsfntati vi ; s - J FCMnrk and W D M Owen are the only authorised invellng representntlvei for T! «• Herald 1 y no irmnev to othe-e unjeae thev can •'how written airthorlty ; fron. r ?uaine»<» Mm.-iger of Herald Pub- ; H*hin« Co .• • -I na to THE AUOUBT / HERALD, 755 Broad St.. Atißumn. Oa. m The Herald tinier* the name of the writer ia algned to the article. The Augusta Herald baa a larger city circulation, and a larger total clrcuH tior than any other Augusta paper. This has h**on proven by the Audit Co,, of N♦w York 'i ' ' :\*■ ft -re DO gas cent, more Heme Carrlsr City Clr cul/itJo in Augusta than is given by any other Augusta paper. This Huarantee will be written in every confr.t -t and The Herald will he ready and willing at all times to give full ac» cese to Its records to a! advertisers who with to tes* the accuracy of this guarat tee In comparison with the claims of otlur August it newspapers 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 Hi - ■ dt tiliifßßif fejs ! ! 11l j - i r / 1 \rw A,, /1 / Cower SAV 00 you \ A 1i: I || ' ; i!L-4. / J/W»6L«- ■ jjkC I Ar-"| * jIU ! y.v - L -- \ < oe\o A«o N y. /m TA ) / v mc/?6 n J iNtf-f A wrh) / A Jjf IxC A '' '■ - - ' 1 //A aw MHO IS .SMOK'Mr Af'A'' f AeaECTtOV CI&AR, 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 \=======f 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