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Society
Equal Suffrage Party Organized
In Augusta
Augusta row boasts the distinction
of having an organized Equal Suf
frage League. Friday night there was
a large and most interested meeting
of Augusta women and nu n at the
Albion Hotel, the meeting being pre
sided over by Mis. Stannard Owens,
president of the Augusta League. The
constitution and by-laws was read
and adopted as a whole. Captain J.
Rice Smith made a most entertaining
end bright little talk, paying tribute
to his mother, to whom he gave credit
for all the good there was in him, and
as he expressed it, if she could make
a man of him why should she not
have, anti other women as well have
equal rights with men. Captain * Smith
closed his remarks by saying that he
had been a suffragette for forty-five
years and expected to be for the next
forty-five. At the conclusion of his
talk Captain Smith introduced Mrs.
John D. Hammond, one of the bright
est. brainiest and most delightful wo
men in Georgia, a woman whose depth
of thought and comprehensive Knowl
edge on any arid all subjects makes
her always listened to with a great
deal of interest. Mrs. Hammond in
touching on the Suffrage cause said:
“The* relation of women to modern
community life depends upon their re
lation to those who have made family,
community and national life possible
—the children ofrthe race.
“The tie between animal parents 1m
brief, because their young ho quickly
pass beyond the need pf parental care.
Love dies with the need for sacrifice,
find the beast remains beard. Bui the
years of helpfulness of the human
young fixes the habit of sacrifice, of
parental association, of family ties.
‘Without the circumstances of Infan
cy,’ says John Fiske, 'we might have
become formidable among beasts
through sheer sharp-wit ted ness. But
the phenomena «»f social Ilf** would
have b een omitted from the history of
the world. and with them tin* phenom
ena of ethics and of religion.’ Civil
isation Is brill op sacrifice; and pri
marily on that of the world’s mothers.
“The need for self-assertion, for
aggressiveness, shaped the man,
teaching him to combine, to foresee,
to grasp arid wield power, developing
him through his head rather than his
heart His whs. and is. the struggle
for life; and it does not foster a con
sciousness of other people's rights, or
sympathy with their suffering both
necessary to a rounded development.
The women’s struggle was for the life
ot others, and taught them these two
Royal Case
817 Broad St.
CHICKEN SUNDAY DINNER
From 12 to 3.
Chicken Rmip
Roast Bert Brown Oravy
Roast Chirkr>n, Sngo Promilng
Mushed Pot at or. Steamed Rice
Celery Salad Sugar Reels
Vanilla lee Cream
Corn Muffin*
Ml!k. Ten or Coffee
ACME PLAYS
Tlf GRAND
AFTERNOON NIGHT 3:30 8:30
TOMORROW
Mr. Wm. A. Brady Presents
“MOTHER”
In Three Acts, By Jules Eckert Goodman With
MISS EMMA DUNN, as •MOTHER.”
THURSDAY
Mr. Daniel Frohman Presents
“The Scales of Justice”
In Three Acts, By John Rienhart, With Paul Mc-
AlNster and Jane Fearnley
Same Popular Acme Plays Prices—Afternoon, 10c,
20c; Nights. 10c, 20c and 25c.
Extraordinary Acme Play Engagement Saturday,
Daniel Frohman Presents
“One of Our Girls”
In Three Acts, By Bronson Howard, With Miss
Hazel Dawn, Star in ‘‘THE PINK LADY.”
Special School Girls’ Matinee
Special Saturday Matinee Prices: Children under
Twelve, Five Cents; School Girls, Ten Cents—any
Seat; Adults, Orchestra, 20c; Balcony, 10c.
Special Saturday Night Prices: With Every Paid
25c Ticket Purchased only before 7 P. M. Ladies
will be admitted FREE; After 7 P. M., usual Acme
Prices.
(Try The Balcony—2oo Ten Cents Seats.)
I tilings above all else. For ages they
| seemed only to exist to give pleasure
i men and to bear what men chose to
lay upon them; but through their own
! md their children's experience they
were learning the wickedness of op
pression, tho hurt of suffering, the
j horrors of drunkenness, the awful
riesH of the unnamed sins. Experience
ihted understanding and compassion,
I which, slowly gathered to the driving
point, presses women out at last under
a common compulsion to do their
common tasks.
for love has made life complex
Kumllles, communities, nations, ara
knit together by it until no mother
can control her own children's envi
ronment except as all mothers work
together to secure for all children
what children of all communities neetl.
We cannot live or die to our own
household alone; the moral and physi
cal well-being of the poorest child
touches that of the most favored In
the community.
Women have voted In Wyoming for
forty-five years; for twenty in Colo
rado, Utah, Kansas, Idaho, New Zea
land and Australia. Women tax-pay
ers have had municipal suffrage in
England for over thirty years. In all
these places, and Iri many more, the
sex line Is as marked In public as in
private life Abstract principles of
j government appeal to women very lit-
Mle, or questions of finance, of lnter
i national or commercial relations. But
| whatever a man's ability, or his fit
ness for office, they will vote him
I down, regardless of party lines; they
| force all parlies to put up clean men.
; And they will have the sale of liquor
I stopped, by tho same universal tes-
II Imnny.
Next to there things they busy
j themselves, In all countries, to secure
I legislation along the following lines;
For Ihe tights of women In their ehtl
|dren and their property; for better
education; for the moral protection of
girls; for safe-guarding Ihe labor of
women and preventing that of ehil
jtlren; for housing laws which make
possible homes for Ihe poorest; for
playgrounds and Juvenile hygiene; for
prison reform, and the supervision
and protection of women prisoners by
women; for the Influence of women
on all state hoards dealing with wo
men or children of the dependent or
delinquent rlasses; for the humane
triatment of animals; aid for the re-
TURKEY SUNDAY SUPPER
From 6 to 8:30.
Chicken Soup Al* Mnxlrun
Tomntoe* Celery Radishes
Rrolled Trout Julian Potatoes
Roast Turkey Cranberry Sauce
Veal Croquettes French Peas
Steamed Rlee Mashed Potatoes
Queen Fritters Wlue Sauce
Corn Muffins Salmon Salad
Vnnllla Ice Cream
Milk, Tea or Coffee
moval of all these things from tha
realm of party politics.
Women are following their age-old
Instinct. The home has been their
business, children their responslbllty,
since cave-dwelling days; and the
I sick, tho erring and the dependent
I their pecullai charge since mercy first
I found a lodgment In human hearts
The modern comlexitles of life have
hut placed old duties In new places
and given new aspects to old prob
lems.
; But driven to the ballot box by
! their struggle for the life of others,
1 women should bring there higher
standards of citizenship than the men.
The making of laws for other people
cannot, in the nature of things, be an
Inherent human right. It Is the fine,
high privilege of those fit to he trust
ed with It. To pul it Into the hands
of Ignorance Is to ensure to some ex
, tent —which is a dangerous extent—
a purchasable element in political af
fairs. This element, the country over,
; has degraded national life, and has
Intensified every evil against which
women are set to wage war. And,
coming to the ballot box, not to seek
office or to gain personal ends, hut
to serve the needs of homes, of chil
dren, of the poor and the delinquent,
they can 111 afford to strengthen the
hands of spoilsmen by adding to Ihe
hands of sigjilsrnen by adding those
unfit to vote to political exploitation
or moral corruption. They should de
mand an adequate educational test
for all women voters; and a law, as
In Idaho, disfranchising all women
of known Immoral life. And having
set, this standard they should see to it
taht every woman who comes up to j
it, whatever her race may he, shall ,
he allowed to cast her ballot for tho
welfare of her people's homes.
The development of men has been
Individualistic: Individual power Is |
their contribution to the great race- I
life. But shorn of the other half of |
life the women's half -It cuts llfo I
Into a thousand fragments sundering j
races, nations, Individuals, one from
another. But across all these lines, I
and tinder them, runs the oneness of |
human motherhood, the oneness of ]
suffering In which sex has baptised j
the women of the world. For the sake
of a, common motherhood, of the com
mon needs of children, women will
hold wide the door of suffrage to any
woman who can pass the test, and
close It to any whose Ignroance would
expose them to the corrupting In
fluence of political self-seekers.''
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF
PICTORIAL REVIEW WILL BE
AT VONKAMP, VAUGHAN &
GERALD'S STORE MON
DAY AND TUESDAY.
Mrs. F.dllh Austin, expert demon
strator of Ihe Pictorial Review Co., of
Nfw York, will be with VonKamp,
Vaughan A Gerald Monday and Tues
day of this week. She will explain j
the distinctive advantages of Pictorial j
Patterns nnd show how they may he i
used to the best advantage.
Mrs. Austin will no doubt make
many friends in Augusta for Pictorial
Review Patterns.
Speaking
... THE...
Public Mind
CITY COUNCIL AND SUNDAY.
To The Herald:
I read In the morning papers of a
proposed ordinance coming before
city council Monday to prohibit the
sale of anything whatever on Sunday,
with the exception of medicine, and,
during the summer months, Ice.
My purpose at present Is to give a
f< w temperate and reasonable views
which may bear on the proposition.
Leaving out any question of Relig
ion. which, though it figures largely
in many people's speech, hna, I fear,
but small Influence on th* majority
of people's actions—leaving out the
religious question entirely, it is a rec
ognised economic principle thav a
complete rest from labor every
seventh day is of inestimable value in
increasing the efficiency of the lab
orer. it is the regularity with whtch
the holiday comes that accomplishes
the greater part of the result. Fifty
two holidays taken at random through
the year would not have the same ef
fect. The basis of all life, even of
the whole universe, Is rhythm. It is
the regular period, the cadence, of
"work six and rest one," that re
freshes the world like even, deep
breaths and makes It ever able to rise
I tip Monday morning and take up Its
task renewed, re-adjusted, and re
stored.
Therefore It would he well If every
' person who is employed regularly by
the day were allowed a complete hol
iday once a week. Sunday or any
other day, but preferably Sunday be
cause we know hetter how to rest on
Sunda\ when the whole town Is rest
ing with us.
Rut unfortunately, we have found,
in the complex order of civilisation,
where we are so helpless Individually
and so dependent on each other, that
It is Impossible for certain members
of society to rest on Sunday. Doc
! tors and trained nurses must work.
Drug stores must sell medicines.
Railroads must operate, and steam
ships cannot stop in mtd-oceua
Further, we have found that we
cannot well do without newspapers
ion Sunday, and that smokers are
bent on having their smoke. A drunk
ard may forego his gin. and a bear
be deprived of her cubs, hut a smoker
will Inevitably get tobacco, on Sun
day or on week days or In the desert
of Sahara. No law will stop the sale
of nicotine.
We have found that housekeepers
forget to order the soup bone on Sat
urday night, or that they even some
times forget the turkey; hence the
Butcher Is allowed by law to remain
open until S o"clock Sunday morning.
People must have fresh bread; hence
the Raker ditto. We have found that
periabable fruit perishes on Sunday
like any ordinary day; hence the pan
hellenle league holds shop all during
the sabbath And we never thought
of closing the hotel on the seventh
ulay and turning the Indignant drum
mer, tn stocking feet and suspenders,
out on the cold, cold stdew'alk. It is
unfortunate, hut it Is the inevitable
outcome of our complicated civilisa
tion We cannot close up everything
on Sunday. The city council will not
pass the proposed law. for they know
these things. They do not dismiss
their servants on the day of rest.
What they may pass, however. Is a
law providing that each person re
quired to work on Sunday shall have
at least one regular and complete day
off each week
t E\ cryhod\ in the world ought to feel
fHE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSIA. UA.
one day out of every seven, that joy
ineffable that comes of listening to
the foolish tinkle of the alarm clock,
and thinking what a silly and empty
headed thing it is alter all. J. L. C.
THERE IS SOMETHING RADICALLY
WRONG WITH THE BEGGAR!
To The Herald:
Permanent cases—except where the
applicant is too old or too infirm in help
himself, commonly known as beggars,
we decline to help.
Any able-bodied person continual. y
asking for assistance while making no
effort to Letter his condition, is a beg
gar and should be dea.t with, as such,
by the proper authorities, compelled to
become self-supporting and, consequent
ly, self-respecting.
.So often one gives to the beggar at
the door, or on the street, with the idea
that one is doing a very laudable deed,
and one's conscience is salved with tht
fallacy that “it is better to give to many
who are unworthy than to let one
worthy one suffer.’*
TRUE CHARITY KNOWS NO SUCH
DISTINCTION AS •'WORTHY’’ AND
“UNWORTHY.”
It is much easier to give to the beg
gar money, food, fuel, clothing, etc.,
than it is to make a thorough search
for the cause of his dependence and to
provide a remedy.
IT IS JUST AS IMPOSSIBLE TO
CURE POVERTY WITH ALMS AS IT
IS TO CURE TYPHOID FEVER WITH
PAREGORIC!
Indiscriminate alms-giving is demoral -
ing, unprofitable and degrading to the
recipient, and in just this way are so
many individuals and families pauper
ized and thrown upon the community
lor support.
To re-instate a family, degraded by
tho constant acceptance of alms until
little or no effort is made toward self
support. takes the jpaiient, persistent
effort of years and is sometimes im
possible.
BEFORE GIVING TO. OR DEMAND
ING HELP FOR. ANOTHER LET US
BE CERTAIN THAT HE CANNOT
HELP HIMSELF.
Some kind-hearted person visits a
home where theVe is poverty, filth, an
empty larder, a crowd of unkempt chil
dren, perhaps a drunken father, a moth
er too indolent to make the slightest ef
fort to better her condition, and Jumps
to the conclusion that “this is a worthy
case.’’ it is reported as such with the
bequest that assistance he given at
once and the reporter is, sometimes, in
dignant if material aid is withheld,
without trying to understand why, and
instead of Joining forces with the social
worker, who is trying to reclaim and put
this family on a self-supporting basis,
they work against him giving the alms
he may have withheld in order to force
those who should shoulder the burden
to do so,
1 here is no danger of starvation, we
will see that It does not come to such
extremes, but the superintendent of one
of our mills, one who has the interest
ot his people at heart and is evjr ready
to aid them, spoke truly when, in dis
cussing a family which we had tried.
Jointly, to help, he said, “the only way
to do is to let them get real hungry and
they will go to work.’’
It Is very discouraging hut a fact,
nevertheless, that hunger, is sometimes
Hip only means hy which me can Induct
tfm idler to make an effort to help him-
beggar at your door Is not the one
wlio most needs your help. Giving to
beggars is “like pouring water into n
rat hide." One might go o n giving for
a lifetime and never do any real good.
We are often told that The A. C. of A.
us greatly de.-reused the number of
jeggns in Augusta and, indeed, we
haw- very few compared with ’other
pl.mes hut why ned wk havf
AN ; • ,f .'he elty authorities and all our
good people. would co-operate with us
in torcing him to get to work the beg
gar in Augusta, would soon he a thing
of the past and we would wonder that
we ever tolerated him. 1
When the beggar applies to you send'
him to us. and call us up. if he le Is
.von that he has been m us and we
”’°! ,ld , 'IT,* htlp h,m ra " u * "n and we
will gladly tell you why. In the mean-
VofL. rP assured that IF HE IS XOT
HFi P mJ IKUP , , UHWSKI ' P " WILL
HLJ.P HIM, prvlded he stops begging
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i. h*r A,,er you have used It and
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If you suffer from bleeding, itching,
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