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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5
A.-A. RAILWAY
UTTER UP ON
THURSDAY
Hearing Will Be Had in Colum
bia By the South Carolina
Railroad Commission---Many
to Go Over to Protest Against
Increase.
On next Thursday the South Caro
lina Railroad Commission will hear the
arguments on the question of the Au
gusta-Aiken Railway & Electric Cor
poration raising its fares from one to
two cents per mile. It is expected that
there will be a very interesting dis
cussion. From Augusta, Aiken and
Horse Creek Valley will go a great
many people who are interested in
keeping the fares on the present basis.
Mayor Gyles, of Aiken, Senator \\ ll
liams, Representative-elect Foster
Brigham, Mr, L. J. Williams and oth
ers will go to Columbia and endeavor
to show the commission that the rail
way company should not be allowed to
make such a large increase, even if
any increase should be alowed at all.
The railway company is expected, of
course, to have its representatives
present.
The proposal to almost double the
fare between Augusta and Aiken has
met with a storm of opposition from
people along the line and in August.
The merchants of Augusta recently
presented the railroad with a magni
ficent petition protesting against the
increase.
BEER LICENSES
WILL BE Sl,DOa
As Forecasted in The Herald
Sometime Ago, Finance Com
mittee Fixes Same Amount
For 1915 As Was Paid This
Year.
As was forecasted in The Herald a
couple of weeks or more ago, the near
beer licenses for Augusta in 1915 will
be SI,OOO, the same as this year. For
mal action on the matter was taken at
a meeting of the finance committee
of city council yesterday afternoon
when, with one dissenting vote, the
license was made SI,OOO.
There w 7 as a movement on foot at
one time to have the license $750,
some of the near-beer dealers having
asked for a reduction because of busi
fetss conditions, but this movement
Lid not gain much headway.
Next week the finance committee
will take up the matter of Issuing
near-beer licenses and it is expected
that about the same number of people
will ask for licenses next year as this.
The licenses on all other forms of
business will be practically the same
next year as this.
AT THE BIJOU
The unanimous stamp of approval has
been placed on the big four-act Keith
vaudeville show appearing at the Bijou
tonight for the last time. The program,
beginning Monday afternoon, goes hack
to the Bijou's regular policy of tabloid
vaudeville, and all of next week, Man
agers Sparks and Rchrameek announce
a good company will hold forth in aH
its fun and laughter imaginable.
The time is next Monday (continuous
show after 2:30 p.m.) and don’t miss the
show —nor the pictures, next week. See
next week's show at the Bijou without
fall, and observe the Bijou’s new policy.
But first, before the opportunity slips
away, drop in the Bijou this evening and
see the four separate and distinct acts
of the Keith kind, and also three reels
of splendid moving pictures. Each and
every act Is a feature and the artlsts
acrobats, commedians and musicians—
are of the A-No. 1 type.
See Sunday's Herald for a full an
nouneewent of what's In store for next
week at the Bijou.
AT THE STRAND
"Love, Luck and Gasoline,” featuring
John Bunny and Lillian Walker, and
Cutle Van, of the most liked people in
pictures today, and 'The Riders of Pe
tersham.” two splendid features are be
ing shown at the Strand today only.
The picture "Love, Luck and Gaso
line” opens In the following manner:
"Through a tomboy, Lillian Is very
pretty and mischievously winning. At
lenst Cutey, a wealthy young yachtsman,
thinks so. Bunny, her father. Is wor
ried to death keeping up with his
daughter. He pulls her down from trees,
hauls her out of swings and stops her
from playing baseball. He angrily con
fines her to the house when she com
petes in a swimming race, clad only in
black tights. Cutey sends her a note
saying the captain of her father's yacht
is 111 and daring her to sail the boat In
the big race. Dressed In men’s clothes,
Lillian handles the yacht beautifuly and
wins the race. Bunny is prostrated with
rage when he learns that he has been
applauding his daughter.”
AUTOS, AVOID ROAD FROM
POORHOUSE TO BUTLER’S
Mr. W. I. Wilson wishes to Inform
the automobile owners of Augusta and
around this section to avoid the road
leading from the poor house to But
ler's Creek. He stated that the road
has been plowed up and unpacked, and
that the rain has put it in such a con
dition that an automobile Just simply
can't move out of Its tracks after get
ting Into the mud.
NOT A PROMISING MENU.
Traveler (In Southern hotel) —Can I
get anything to eat here?
Sambo—Yes, sah.
Traveler —Such as what?
Sambo—Such as It Is, sah.—Boston
Transcript
A DRY ATMOSPHERE.
"I like this quaint little mountain
village of yours, waiter. ! suppose I
can get plenty of oxygen here?”
"No, sir; we've got local option.”—
Sacred Heart Review,
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iYll « ullidll mas merchandise in your
•vk r -i | stock—now is the time to
Merchant— act.
Why not insert a want ad
under “Business Person
als” or “For Sale Miscella
neous”? Everybody reads
Herald want ads—it will get
results at small cost.
PHONES 296 and 297
Morning With Recorder
Two negroes were brought up before
Recorder Irvin this morning charged
witn vtaloting the 6»bth section of the
city code.
The night watchman of the Georgia
Cotton Oil Company appeared against
them saying that he had found them
at two o’clock this morning asleep in
the company's seed house. He, with
the night inspector, had caught and
held them until the police could be
called They were sent to the bar
racks, where a case under the 686th
section was docketed against them,
and they were locked up.
Judge Irvin went carefully into the
evidence. There was no charge against
them other than that they had been
found alseep on the company’s prop
perty. The negroes explained that
they were walking through Augusta
on the way to Macon. They had come
on foot from Whitney, N. C.; stopping
at farms along the. road work when
their money ran out. They met a ne
gro employe of the Georgia Cotton Oil
Col. last night, who took them to the
seed house and told them they could
sleep there. Hence, in the eyes of the
law they were not trespassers.
Judge Irvin then referred to the
686th section of the city node with
violation of which they were charged.
It pertained to being on the street af
ter ten o’clock at night, unknown to
the police, and acting in a suspicious
manner.
The negroes were not on the street,
nor acting in a suspicious manner, and
Central Council, Parent-Teacher Ass’ns
To Act Monday on Question of One Week
Holiday For Children at Christmas
Believed That Sentiment iB practically Unanimous Among Par
ent-Teacher Clubs to Have More Than One Week---Gom
promise May Be Effected, That is, Holiday From Wednes
day, Dec. 23rd, to First Monday in January.
There has been a great deal said in
the newspapers recently about the
proposed limitation of the Christmas
holidays In Augusta schools to one
week. However, the board of educa
tion has never acted on the matter
and will not do so until next Saturday,
when the regular monthly meeting
for December will be held.
Just what the sentiment of the ma
jority of the members of the board is
with regard to the question is not
known. However, it is believed that
the one week idea will be abandoned,
and a compromise effected.
The plan to have only one week has
met with a storm of opposition, par
ents, teachers and children apparently
being unanimously opposed to such a
curtailment.
On Monday afternoon there will ho
a meeting of the Central Council of
the Parent-Teachers’ Association of
Augusta when the matter will be dis
cussed thoroughly and- the action of
“REEL LIFE” AT THE
MODJESKA THEATRE
The management of the Modjeska
Theatre has produced one of the best
programs obtainable for today’s program
at this popular pleasure house, a list of
plays that Is Htire to make a hit.
“The Niggard," a Majestic production
creates interest and holds it. This
skit is well acted and sure to please.
A two-reel Blograph, entitled, "The
Iron Master’’ is also another valuable
adjunct on the schedule.
'The Wild and Woolly West,” a Prin
cess special. These western scenes are
tVue to life, that is, to the old life, and
are of the thrilling type, the kind that
makes one fidget in their chair —pulling
for the hero.
"The Man with the Hoe” will close the
excelent program. This Is a love drama
which portrays the troubles of two
lovers—the man finally giving In, and
they live happily ever after.
"The Sea Nymphs,” a wonderful two
reel Keystone comedy will he the hit of
the season at the Modjeska Monday.
When Mabel Normand, "Fatty” Ar
hucklc, Charles Chapin. Mack Rennett
and all the other stars of the Keystone-
Mutua! companies unite to make a two
reel comedy. It Is a safe wager that it
Is going to be something out of the or
dinary. Keystone-Mutual comedies them
selves are utterly beyond equal in the
movie business, but these two reels are
what might be called ultra-funny. So
what ever you do, do not miss this great
treat Monday.
FUNERAL OF URIAH CARR
ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON
The funeral of Uriah Carr, the col
ored man whose death occurred on
Tuesday night last, will be held from
the Union Baptist Church, comer of
Greene and Eleventh Streets, Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. Thomas
Irwelle will conduct the services.
He Is* survived by one brother and
several children. One daughter Is
Emma L. Trehaane, of Kranktown,
Ya„ another daughter is Carrie V.
Carr, of Augusta., and a third Is Ruby
B. Carr, also of Augusta. His sons
are Uriah Carr. Jr., and Robert Carr.
His half brother, Elbert N. Jenijings,
of Philadelphia, was formerly head
waiter at the Bon Air.
Uriah had a large number of friends
who mourn his death, his friends be
ing distributed among both the white
and colored people of the community.
The following will be the pall
bearers for the funeral. John Walker,
Chas. .1, Floyd, Robert Crump, R.
Clark, Newt Gowdy and Levi White.
were consequently dismissed. They
were warned, however, that if they re
mained in Augusta without working,
they would be arraigned /under the
689 section for idling and loafing.
A white man armed with a knife and
an oblivious amount of whiskey, ter
rorized a bar room on the corner of
Broad and Marbury streets last night
at about ten o'clock.
Long before the policeman arrived
the confusion had subsided, and all
the merry company had utterly dls
hgnded, vanished. Only the bartender
remained, and he had taken up a
strong position under the counter,
from which he defied death. The de
fendant was leaning up against the
wall, knife in hand, slashing from side
to side, and muttering hoarsely, “If
anybody wiggles his ear I’ll chop It
off. I’ll chop it off.”
When Officer Givens came on the
scene the defendant grew more calm
and handed over his open knife with
out a protest. He came to the bar
racks in the best of humor and made
no trouble whatever.
This morning he was unable to re
member anything that had happened
until six hours after-wards.
As there were no witnesses to testify
to the alleged disorder, however, and
as Officer Given's was only hearsay
evidence, the defendant could not be
punished further than for a plain
drunk, $3.75. The which he paid, and
quickly departed.
this body is expected to have consid
erable weight with the board of edu
cation.
The Central Council is composed of
the president of each Parent-Teachers
Association in the city and the prin
cipals of the schools or their repre
sentatives. Several of the associa
tions have already taken up the ques
tion of a one-week holiday and the
sentiment seems to be unanimous in
favor of more than one week. Mrs.
Stannard Owens, president of the
Central Council, announced Saturday
that the meeting on Monday would be
held especially for the purpose of
threshing out this matter. It is be
lieved that every Parent-Teacher As
sociation in the city will oppose the
curtailment to one week, although
there is a sentiment In favor of stop
ping school on Wednesday, Decem
ber 23rd and beginning again on the
first Monday In January, which would
make about a week and a half.
HORRORS, AMERICAN
WOMEN, FASHION HAS
FLED IN PARIS
Pari*—American women accustomed
to come here annually to worship at
the shrine of Dame Fashion would
Brieve at the change that has come
to the Rue de la Palx. Fashion has
fled.
The luxurious llmuoalne and the
busy taxt-cab have gone to war. In
thier places are cars drawn by horses
too stiff or feeble to carry troopers.
The gems that used to scintillate be
hind plate glass windows, and the
silk ruffles and dainty lingoree that
tempted the glances of passersby, have
disappeared behind iron ahutters
that were put up with the coming of
the moratorium.
Shop keepers are not agreed that
all of this caution is necessary. Many
of them believe there would be busi
ness if there was credit. The morat
orium means spot cash. Raid one of
them: "It is madame who buys and
monsieur who pays. When credit
disappears the life of the Rue le Paix
goes out."
Rome of the artistic designers who
in the past have clothed feminine
Paris and are well known in America
are now making uniforms. One of the
conspicuous apostles of recent eccen
tricities in women's wear (Polret) Is
superintending the work In a govef
ment uniform shop. One of the largest
dress-making shops (Worths) is
occupied by a very complete and com
fortable auxiliary hospital The aristo
cratic hotels are blank and dismal, and
Napoleon looks chilly and lonesome
at the top of the column on Place
Vendome.
The moratorium Is death on gaiety
as well as the foe of credit. It ha*
chased away the frolicsome mldl
nettes, who used to dance twos, three
and fours, to trip away lightly to the
creameries, noonday lunches and cheap
restaurants. Rome of them are sew
ing soldiers’ clothing; most of the oth
ers are at home livin'- on the small
allowances made by their employers
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THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
Only One of Great Nations More
Helpless to Deiend Self on Land
Than US.; Must We Arm Ourselves?
We Have Not Even Such a Mobile Army As Belgium’s, While
Compared with Servia’s Military Establishment Ours Looks
Pitiable-- No Political Party From Now on Can Ignore This.
No Argument As to the “Yellow Peril’’ So Convincing As
Four Months of European Conflict.
Washington, D. C. Only one of
the great nations of the earth la more
helpless to defend itself on land than
the United States. This is China. We
have not even such a mobile army as
Belgium, while compared with Ser
vian military establishment ours looks
pitiable.
These and like eye-opening facts
are now being dinned into American
ears by the scores of well informed
public men. They are of all political
parties, for so far neither democratic,
republicans or progressives have made
a move toward officially espousing
this new Issue, so suddenly giown of
overshadowing importance.
No political party from now on can
Ignore this issue, however, and It Is
not a very risky prediction to say
that some party will soon he making
a national campaign on the platform
of national preparedness for trouble.
No amount of argument, of theory,
of discourses on the "yellow peril"
could Impress this nation as four
months of the great European war
have done. Without taking sides In
this conflict, observers from this shoro
of the Atlantic almost unanimously
have drawn he conclusion that right
eousness and treaties, together or
singly, cannot protect a people when
war, "mounted on an idiot horse,”
comes riding their way.
The speaker denouncing our mili
tary state Is embarrassed by the
wealth of material. The most extremo
statements can be borne out by care
ful statistics and the greatest anxiety
is apparent In the minds of the best
informed.
Navy Better.
The navy is, of course, vastly bet
ter off than the army. But even here,
ex-Secretary of the Navy George L.
von Meyer, declares the efficiency has
fallen alarmingly In the last two years.
The general board of the navy, which
has fought unsuccessfully for four
battleships a year, has Just met a
further disappointment. It decided
18,000 more officers and men are need
ed to man the ships now built or build
ing, but Josephus Daniels, secretary
of the navy, refused to make this rec
ommendation.
The navy, even If no longer the sec
ond strongest In the world, is formid
able compared to the army. Accord
ing to the recent report of the chief
of staff, MaJ. Gen. W. W. Wotherspoon,
a document which Is likely to become
historic, the "actual fighting strength
of the army with ho colors, and with
out deductions for officers and men
sick, on furlough, detached service,
etc.,” Is 2,788 officers and 45,968 men.
This ip a single army corps, that
unit of European campaigns which
sounds so small in the present cable
news! But It does not mean an army
corps drawn upon shore at the point
where an enemy Is trying to land.
Scattered.
This little mobile force Is scattered
all through the 48 states, Alaska, Porto
Riro, Hawaii and the Philippines.
What a miserable if plucky little body
of troops would bar the way of a
clever enemy evading our navy and
swooping down on some of the thou
sands it unprotected points along our
coast can he imagined even by the
layman!
Theodore Rooaevelt has recently
pointed out how easily a strong pow
er could seize the great cities of Bos
ton, New York and Philadelphia and
demand billions of dollars from the
Inhabitants. That would not he con
quesing the country of course. The
Middle West and the Pacific states
might resist for years, slowly and
eventually driving out the Invader, but
at what a fearful cost In lives and
money this result would, be achieved!
Defense Question.
The defense question stares congress
In the face In the shape of the reso
lution Introduced by Representative
Augustus R. Gardner of Massachusetts
for the creation of a national security
commission. This board is to con
sist of three senators, to be appointed
by the president of the senate; three
representatives, to be appointed by the
speaker of the house, and three other
persons, to be appointed by the Presi
dent of the United States. They are
to investigate and report upon the
preparedness of the United States for
war, defensive or offensive.
Congressman Gardner is the most
active exponent of better military
preparations In the national legisla
ture. He declares:
“We should have 47 battleships, built
and building. Instead, we have 28;
effectives with four scrap Iron relics
and eight venerable survivors. We
need 18 destroyers, ready or on their
way; we have 59 worthy the name,
with 16 which are Jokes. We need 39
fast scout cruisers, but we have only
three.
"With our limitless coast line our
submarine strength Is fourth among
the world’s navies. We have an av
erage of about five torpedoes to each
torpedo tube In our fleet, but three
quarters of them are old short range
variety and should he serspped.
"We have not. a single dirigible bal
loon. We have not a single armored
aeroplane. What aeroplanes we have
are too few to reckon.
18,000 Navy Men.
“Our navy is now short 18,000 men,
according to the assistant secretary
of the navy, Mr. Roosevelt, without
taking Into account the men to man
the ships now building.
“Our coast guns have a mile less
range than the bWt guns on modern
dreadnoughts.
“We should have at least 500,000
men, regulars and reserves, ready to
take the field the moment war breaks
out. Wo should he able to raise and
have available for service a million
men within a few weeks. Instead, we
must depend on 35,000 regulars. 120,-
000 militiamen and no reserves. Three
fifths of the militiamen do not know
how to use a rifle properly.
"We have not a single movable
siege gun exceeding six Inches In diam
eter. Nor have we a single motor
tractor.”
These facts congressmen are echoed
Thousands of sensible, well-to-do people
are waiting to co-operate with you through Her
ald Want Ads. Advertise your needs—look for
your wants.
by interviews with Major General Leo
nard Wood, that military genius pro
duced by the Spanish war. A point
that appeals especially to General
Wood Is the lack of officers. It takes
much longer to train an officer than
to train a private. The officers must
be trained first, too, and then train
their men.
Our mobile army in the continental
United States is about 6 per cent of the
force which it would be necessary to
call to the colors in the early stages
of a war with a first-class power,” said
General Wood recently. "The militia
could furnish probably 19 per cent,
leaving a balance of practically 75 per
cent to he made up of men necessary
to fill up the regular army and the
militia to fill statutory strength and
of volunteers.
Little Power.
“To fill up organizations to full sta
tutory strength with uninstructed men
would he to destory largely their ef
ficiency; to fall to fill them up would
he to leave them so small that they
would have relatively little power.
But the need of more men In the
ranks Is only one phase of the problem
as Is to confront us now. There exists
equally the necessity for building up
with as little delay as practicable a
reserve of officers qualified to serve
as company officers of reserves or
volunteers. If we were called upon
to mobilize to meet a first-class pow
er we should require Immediately sev
eral thousand officers. Where are
we to get them. This Is a matter of
vital Importance and which should be
attended to at once and not left to tho
rush, hurry and confusion preceding
a war.”
General Wood suggests an extension
of military instruction in our present
schools and high schools, and summer
College military camps. He also draws
attention to the progressive military
education which has given Switzer
land a reliable army of half a million
men.
"By starting with the lower grades,
the Swiss hoy receives a progressive
training which culminates at his
graduation or when he reaches the
age requiring service with the col
ors,” said General Wood. Then be
cause of what he has learned gradual
ly during his Rchool days, his actual
field service is but sixty days for in
fantry and ninety days for either the
cavalry or the artillery branches.
Annual Outlay.
The actual annual outlay ta the gov
ernment for Its reserves does not. ex
ceed $8,000,000, and yet, with this ex
tremely economical outlay, Switzerland
can master In the hour of need a fight
ing force of 500,000 trained men! We
have a population of more than 90,-
000,000, while that of Switzerland Is
less than 4,000,000, but see how differ
ently we are circumstanced In this vi
tal matter of military personnel.
"Australia has lately found It nec
essary to evolve a somewhat allied
system of military training for her
youth, with service accountability for
all capable male Inhabitants between
the years of*lß and 60. By reason
of this statutory provision Australia
will, in the course of a few years, have
available a trained force of approxi
mately 300,000.”
Rudyard Kipling In a letter to a
friend living In Virginia recently show
ed that he realized fully, as does every
well-informed man in Europe, the
military impotence of the United
States. He warned his American ac
quaintance that, the United States
would some day bo (rampled under
foot by a strong enemy If preparations
to resist were not made while there Is
yet time.
Previoua Record*.
There are those who point to the
records of the United States In prev
ious wars aH showing what wo can do
to defend ourselves now. Millions of
men would spring to arms, they say.
But a more careful appeal to historical
records shows that even General
George Washington berated In severe
terms the unstable state levies which
nearly wrecked his army during the
Revolution. The raw and undisciplined
mobs, which for the most part com
posed the army In 1812, were driven
hither and thither by much smaller
British forces. It was only after the
volunteers were drilled and under dis
cipline that they were able to make
such a good record In the Mexican war
while the untrained militia was
practically useless In that conflict. In
the Civil War the raw troops on both
sides demoralized armies, and It was
not until after they had become
seasoned that they made thler name.
The Spanish war skirmish never af
forded a real test, but army officers
know that the militia which assembled
In the different carnps were absolutely
unfit for service In real war.
We have never had a real land war
with a real first elans power and for
this emergency, a great body of Amer
ican* are coming to think we should
prepare,
MARRIAGE ARRANGED BY
PARENTS IS NOT BINDING
Peking, —A magistrate In a Canton
court has recently ruled that a mar
riage arranged entirely by the parent*
1* not binding on the children.
It la still the custom In China for
parents to select mates for their chil
dren, who, as a rule, do not see them
until the wedding day or a flay or
two before the momentous even. This
applies only to the marriage with the
first wife. The second, third and
fourth wives, and those subsequent
may he selected by the men himself.
Of recent years, especially since the
Revolution, a number of marriages
have taken place on the western lines
of selection and have been preceded
by courtships.
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