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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, « "MV Smpill if y° u iave an y chrisK 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 Invigorating to tha Palo and Sickly The Old Standard general strengthen ing tonic. GROVE'S TASTEJ-ESS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria, en riches the blood, builds up the system, A true Tonic. For adults and chil dren. 60c. 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. THE WISE DRY GOODS CO’S. 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