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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24.
Total Cost ot a Road Kept Good
Until the Bonds Are Paid oft
D. C. —While it is fre
quently easy for a county to issue
bonds and borrow money for improv
ing the local highways, the raising of
the money to retire those bonds at
maturity is often not so simple. Many
counties, in borrowing money for
bonds, figure that the amount of mon
ey raised represents the total cost of
the road, forgetting that the road
must be maintained and repaired if,
at the end of the term of the bonds,
the county is to have anything to
show for its investment.
The question of financing country
road building is discussed fully in De
partment of Agriculture Bulletin No.
136, entitled “Highway Bonds,” which
is written by the Office of Public Roads
in Collaboration with James W. Glov
er. professor of mathematics and in
surance. University of Michigan. In
tills bulletin the authors discuss fully
the various methods of financing road
building and retiring debts for road
lonstruction, and also deal frankly
with the actual total cost ot a road
during the life of the bonds. On the
total cost of a. road, the authors cite
the following two examples as afford
ing at least a basis for estimating the
total minimbum cost of a mile of
road:
Total Cost of a Mile of Road Built
With 20-year Bonds.
Bituminous-macadam:
Cost of construction ($10,500)
under 5 per cent serial bond
with interest for 20 years $16,012.50
Cost of annual repair and
maintenance ($600) for 20
years 12,000.00
Total cost for 20 years... .$28,012.50
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PIANO LESSONS.
BARRINGTON BRANCH
Peabody Conservatory Piano diplo
ma. 1909: subsequently studied in
Berlin, Vienna and London with
GABRILOWITSCH, GODOWSKY,
and MARK HAMBOTTRG.
Telephone 6988.
IN MEMORIAM
ANNA E. JESSUP
DIED NOVEMBER 22, 1914.
Another life is ended; another home o'ershadowed;
tnother mother has gone!
Across the trackless way—into the land of light, she
has passed forevermore.
Strange and paradoxical though it may sound, I am
both glad and sorry lam sorry to lose the best and truest
friend I ever had on earth, yet I am glad to know that
her gentle and unobtrusive spirit is at rest in the vast
protectorate of God
Were there no such thing as divine dispensation, this
visitation would be unbearable: its mystery would be In
explicable.
The most appropriate sentence that I can recall at this
moment, is the one attributed to the late President Mc-
Kinley, which he spoke to those who watched by his bed
side at Buffalo, N. Y He said: “It’s God’s Way—His
will be done.”
Such words remove from a sorrow much of Its tragic
aspect. They throw a light on Its darker side. They
sweeten its bitterness. They lend to It a beauty all their
own.
She has Joined lhat brilliant throng beyond the river,
in that gorgeous world which lies beyond the pale of
earthly things, so remote from all that we have ever seen
or known. that distance has no meaning, and It will be
to me at least, as it was to the famoti English laureate,
when he said of his friends Arthur Henry Hallem:
“Yet in these ears till hearing dies,
fine set. slow bell will seem to toll
The passing of the sweetest sou)
That ever looked with human eyes.”
E. S J.
under 5 per cent serial
bond with interest for 20
years 26,426.73
Cost ot annual repair and
maintenance ($300) for 20
years 6,000.00
Total cost for 20 years . . . .$32,426.73
The authors point hut that the ac
tual cost of building and maintaining
a specific highway can be determined
only after the character and volume of
traffic and actual wear and tear have
been studied for a series of years. The
figures quoted above, of course, will
not apply to ordinary macadam, gra
vel or clay roads, but in all these cases
the interest on the bonds must be met,
and there must be expenditures to
maintain them in condition. The poor
er the drainage and the less perma
nent the character of the road founda
tion, the greater must he the percent
age that repair costs will hear to the
fist cost. Similarly, the question, of
whether the actual surfacing is de
signed to withstand the character of
traffic and weather to which it is sub
jected also has an important bearing
on what it will cost the countv to keep
the road in such shape that when the
bonds are paid the locality still will
have a valuable property to show as a
result of its borrowing and repayment.
Speaking
... THE...
Public Mind
Help Augusta’s Poor.
To The Herald:
Would not those good women and ex
cellent institutions, who are bending all
their energies to help the stricken of the
European war -one, at least share with
what they obtain, with the suffering
poor, expected in increased numbers. In
our midst this winter? The Rockefeller
Foundation Relief Ship has just arrived
at Rotterdam with 32,000 tons of food
to say nothing of similar ship-loads, al
most weekly, from many 'other places
throughout this country, New York alone
has given -. 175.2-08 in money up to
date, for the Red Cross and food and
medical supplies. Even all this may not
suffice to adequately relieve the situa
tion. But should not a part of our
charity begin at home, but not end
there? is not a. division right, in this
case? And what better dispenser of such
charity than the Associated Charities of
Augusta? And to what better cause
can some of the money contributions be
appropriated than to this necessary and
praiseworthy organitlon, and to help
maintain it, and thereby prevent its
closing its doors, as threatened? It
would be a dire calamity, and mortifica
tion to see this done. So let it be
hoped these zealous women will consider
dividing the proceeds of their good work
in the way of clothing, food and mon
ey.
JUSTICE.
To the Herald:
One seems to hear on all sides now
expressions of the opinion that we
should not help the Belgians with our
charity but rather turn our benevo
lence toward the indigent poor at
home.
I sincerely hope, and I cannot help
but feel, that the people who express
this thought have never really given
the matter proper attention.
What a revolting and humiliating
proposition!
To hear people crying out from the
housetops and bewailing their mis
erable little woes and their petty, in
significant hard-luck stories in' the
face of this stupendous and heart
rending cataclysm of despair in Eu
rope. gives one a feeling of disgust.
Instead of rising in our Just indigna
tion and strength as a young, rich
and virile nation, and extending all of
our help, instantly, immediately, to
those destitute and broken people who
have lost all, all, everything they had
In the world, and who have nobody to
look to on earth but us, —we must
harden our hearts to them, foorsooth,
and turn our attention to our own
wretched poor at home WHOM WE
NEGLECTED ALL THIS TIME! Do
we need a staggering and pitiable cal
lamlty like that in Belgium to make
us attend to home charity?
If half the city of Augusta were in
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ashes, half the men dead, and half the
women and children wandering in the
country round about without food,
without blankets, without a place of
shelter, then we should be somewhat
justified in withholding half of our
sympathy from Belgium and bestow
ing it at home.
But no. \Y p are all here. Our homes
are still standing. We have got fuel
and food (much more than enough
for everybody) —Thanksgiving din
ners, egad! The price of cotton is not
unreasonable. The government has
provided us against any fear of finan
cial panic. And yet we cannot spare
out of our abundance to give to a
people which is crushed, as no nation
on earth has been crushed, whose
country is destroyed, and whose blood
is crying from the ground.
“By the way!” we say, “Haven't we
got some poor devils somewhere
around Here?” We had forgotten
about them. Certainly we cannot
help the Belgians. We can’t afford it.
We must see about these poor devils.
And we each forego maybe one cran
berry from our groaning board and
smirkingly present it, with a few brief
and appropriate remarks, to Ihe Asso
ted Charities. O, the shame of it'.
Good people, don’t take away from
the Belgians to give to your poor. If
you have to give up something, may
be one superfluous Christmas toy for
your children, or one extra and un
necessary article from your table, let
not the recording angel write in the
book beside your name that when the
world was in its dire extremity you
gave nothing. If you were going to
distribute your charity at home, the
time has not been lacking.
One can almost hear an unearthly
voice, borne on the wind across the
desert of the years. “The poor ye have
always with you; Me ye have not al
ways.”
ENOUGuT said.
“How does the report begin?” de
manded the king.
"It is greatly to be regretted”—
"Never mind the rest of it,” replied
the king. “We were licked.”—Detroit
Free Press.
Bonaparte and Meyer May Tell
Congress of Navy.
S V .-.
CHARLES BONEPARTE.
Washington, D. C. —Representative
Gardner, the vigorous advocate of a
stronger navy is determined that the
contemplated congressional hearing
upon the inadequacy of the army and
navy shall he widely comprehensive.
Among those whom Mr Gardner will
call when the hearing provided In his
recent resolution Is adopted will be
Charles J Bonaparte, formerly secre
tary of the navy! George von L. Mey
er, formerly secretary of the navy;
Henry L. Htlmson, formerly secretary
of war, and J. Bernard Walker, edi
tor of a scientific magazine. The hear
ing on Mr. Gardner's resolution for the
appointment of ari Investigating com
mission is expected to be set by Chair
man Henry of the rulea committee,
for tally in December,
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Surety Coupons Appeal to You More Strongly Than Any Other
Trading Stamp.
Last week on two occasions, we pave away sets of 30 Free Surety Coupons and are doing so Wednesday of
this week, and will continue to do so at frequent intervals. In addition, we give Double Surety Coupons on groceries
us well as other merchandise before noon and Saturday nights.
THIS MEANS that you collect a full book of Coupons worth exactly $2.50 in practically half the time it takes
to collect a book of other trading stamps, which makes The Collecting of Them Practically Twice as Profitable as the
Collecting of Other Trading Stamps.
AGAIN, the convenience of spending these books must appeal to all. Frequently it happens to any one that
there are small items to be purchased, such as stationery, toilet goods, notions, neckwear, furniture polish, etc.,
which you are practically prohibited from buying with any other stamps, because with them, you must redeem the full
book at one time. In the case of Surety Coupons, however, you are given in exchange for each full book, twenty five
small certificates worth ten cents each, which.you can use in making purchases in amounts that small if you wish.
Does this not appeal to you?
And, Again, You DO Not Pay Anything Extra on the Merchandise you buy at White’s, due to Surety Coupmns,
while parties who give other stamps have stated very plainly that it was necessary for them to Charge Extra an
Amount Equal to the Cost of the Trading Stamps, and we believe their statement to be true as far as they are concerned.
Because in Their Case, there is practically no profit in return, due to the fact that so many other parties give the
same stamp and redemptions can be made anywhere.
SURETY COUPONS are given by only one store in Augusta, J. B. White & Company, with the exception of gro
ceries, of which there are quite a number of good accounts, and are given in acknowledgment of the continued pat
ronage of its friends. When a book is started we know that to fill it the customer will make future purchases here and
we are willing and glad to give the customer the money which would otherwise he expended in other channels of ad
vertising to induce their future patronage. It is a “co-partnership” sort of affair and the Coupons represent the
dividends to which the customer is justly entitled, because of her loyalty to this store.
Collectors of Surety Coupons represent those who, at all times, Get The Most for Their Money, Because »i
Ist—They buy at White’s where nothing is higher and the great majority of articles lower than elsewhere.
2nd—The Surety Coupons can be used in buying at Special Sales at White’s. For instance: Last week’s Cut
Glass Sale where one book and 48c would have purchased values to $lO.
3rd—Because they get more Coupons on their purchases of a given amount than they can elsewhere.
DECREE PRICES
FOR FLOUR Ai
POTATOES
German Bundesrath in Mani
festo Arranges for Sale
Throughout German Empire
Heavy Penalties for
Violations.
Berlin (via. The Hague and London,
10:47 a. m.) — The Bundesrath today is
sued a decree fixing the price which
growers are to charge for potatoes
throughout the empire
For purposes of classification the
country lias been divided Into four
sections. Thp first consists approxi
mately of the territory to the east of
the Elbe and here the price Is llxed
at 2.79 marks (66 cents) per decaliter
(9.08 quarts). The second section is
the Kincdoni of .Saxony and the dis
trict of Thuringia, where the price Is
6k 1-2 cents per decaliter. In the thir l
action, which is northwestern Ger
many. the price Is 71 cents and in the
fourth section, comprising the west
ern anti southern portions of the em
plr>. 73 cents. These prices are for
the best qualities. For inferior quali
ties the price is six cents less.
For 10 Days,
Another measure adopted by tha
bundesrath was to i rolong by 30 days
the protest on hills of exchange Iri Al
sace. I/orrnlne, East Prussia and a fen
cities in West Prusa a Tile regular
time of protest taken with this ex
tension glees at present a protest
period of 130 days.
The bundesrath decree also that ev
ery attempt to buy or sell gold coins
of the empire at prices above their
nominal value, or the aiding In sued
transactions would he punished by Im
prisonment for one year and a maxi
mum fine of 9,000 marks (11,290*. At
t ■ l , same tlin< tlm coll >. destined for
such transactions would be confis
cated.
By City of Berlin.
A decree lias been Issued for tie’
city of Beilin uud Lire province of
30 Surety Coupons FREE
To Every Visitor Wednes
day, Apply Stamp Desk,
First Floor.
THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY
Brandenburg which sets forth that It
is the dutyof everybody to supervise
with care the use of wheat flour. Ba
keries, hotels and restaurants using
wheat flour must finish their baking
before 2 |>. m. every day and they may
not begin preparations for linking pre
vious to K p. m. Wheat bread may
not be placed freely at the disposal
of guests In Inns, cases and restau
rants
(MYourliD
olPimples
= Pi ' byllslng
CutioiraSo&D
Exclusively
And CuticuraOinfmenf occasion
ally. They succeed when other*
fail. Nothing Fietter at any price.
Samples Free by Mall
CiiMeum Suap end Otnf rn*nf gold throughout thr
world Uhl li ofeti free, with 32-p
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Oh! What Fun! Santa Claus , in
New Y ork.T ells Folks How Joy
ful this Christmas Will Be.
Coming to White's Friday.
Santa Glaus was
1n New York
Monday after
noon. He visited
tile big stores In
the tall buildings
and told them
about the won
derful toys and
everything he had
for this Christ
mas.
Tomorrow he
will he In Wash
ington, to talk
with President
Wilson about the
m e r r y' season
coming, lie will
encourage t h n
Boy Scouts to dn
their duty during
the rush and hurry of the Christmas season.
Then he will resume tits Journey South.
When he arrive- Iri Augusta he expects to see every little boy
and girl, who Is h friend of his, at White’s. His ruddy, smiling
flic will be the signal for s «ood time. Remember that lie arrive*
s.t 4 o’clock Frida; afternoon, and hewants you to be there.
Santa Claus lia nuide the Journey here through snow and Ice
and wind. Just to -c, hts little friends. He was warmly end snug
ly tucked In his sleigh, but the Journey was a long one. Have you
traveled very f.ir at i time? Isn't It tiresome, even If you are warm
ly dressed?
At White h* will have pretty little gifts for every little
ho) and girl. He won't forget any of you,
Be *ur<- to he there
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