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The Augusta Herald h na a larger city
circulation, and * larger total circula
tion than any other Augusta paper This
has been proven by tne Audit Co., of
New York.
The Derald Guaran eee
per cent more Heme Carrier City Clr
culatlo. In Augusta than is given t»y
snv other Auguste paper.
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contract and The Hamid will be ready
and willing at all times to give full ac
cess to its records to all advertisers
who wish to tes* the accuracy of this
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of other Augusta newspapers
NOT A DISCOURAGING FAILURE.
The failure of the near-law move
ment to persuade our city fathers to
reduce drunkenness and debauchery
In Augusta by putting a moderate
check on the stile of liquor and Intox
icants need fill no true lover of law
and order with despair. Had the
movement proposed anything more
consistent with the law as it exists
than a half way stop in the way of
permitting open and deliberate viola
tion of the state* statutes It might,
perhaps, have bad greater effect.
Council could scarcely be expected
to seo the difference in principle be
tween fire hundred dollars worth of
lawlessness and a thousand dollars
worth. It was at least logical in re
jecting the interesting theory that a
five hundred dollar license would
constitute a bond for obedience to
law, while the thousand dollar license
was merely a permit to disobey the
law.
Certainly, no one in his right mind
would think of investing live* hundred
dollars for the privilege of attempt
ing to sell a drink which nobody
wants and certainly since our city
lathers propose to keep the city in
funds by selling permits for the vio
lation of the state law, they are, at
least, logical in sticking our for a
high price.
This so-called "practical" compro
mise with the reckless defiance of law
which permeates our community did
not go far enough to he practical, it
was impracticul, because it did not
appeal to thoMc who believe that the
state law should be obeyed, what
ever it is, nor did it appeal to those
who believe that when prohibition is
the state law it should he defied and
Ignored.
Council has refused to accept ad
vice for greater temperance In luw
breaking. Evidently things must g t
very bad. Indeed, before there can be
hope of a change, but the people of
have been set thinking and
we feel very sure Indeed that a gen
uine law enforcement movement, such
as will make itself heeded will be the
outgrowth of tlds discouraged little
effort to make things Ichs scandalous.
THE GREAT NORTHERN FICTION.
The New York World says It la “not
oft an (hat ITeaident Wilson onn be
accused of u lark of sincerity,’* bat
asks—what ahull be said of the proal
dent's remarks about the negroes In
the Booth.
Mr. Wl'son said: "There Isn't any
question. It senna to me, Into which
more candor needs to be pul or more
thorough human feeling.” and that “1
know myself, ns a Southern man, how
truly the heart of the South desires
the good of the negro and the ad
vancement of his rare on all sound
and sensible lines ;tt is a matter of
common understand tug.”
Is there anything to create doubt
and misgiving as to the president’s
"sincerity” In these simple} words?
Yet the World supposes It Is condom -
mlng then, when It says these words:
"Might have been uttered fifty years
ago by a Confederate Brigadier They
do not vary much from the sentiments
expressed In the years before the war
by the most extreme advocates of
slavery."
It Is truly wonderful that In a half
century, even the most enlightened
and most broad-minded of northern
journals can show such a complete
misunderstanding, both of the old
South and of the New and of the
negro.
We would remind our bombastic
contemporary that while It Is dealing
with theory the South la dealing with
facts Conditions In all the large
northern cities show very plainly how
sincere are the assumption of the
champions of the negroes who write
such words as these:
•'Negroes are cllltens of the United
Slates, entitled to all the rights which
Mr. Wllaun as president Is sworn to
protect. To what other section of our
population, large or small, would he
refer In such terms of condescension?
If It Is l> laglnable that any other ele
ments of our people could he subject
to the limitations placed upon the
blacks. Ik It , conceivable that the pres
ident would speak thus of their pos
sible advancement on 'sound and sen
sible linear *'
It Is all very well to sit up In an
editorial satu-ium and dream out a
great fiction but If the writer of these
words would do his colored editorials
over around Eighth Avenue. In the
negro section of his own city, the tone
of them might be very different.
Something more sound and sensi
ble than this factitious assumption
that the negroes are fully ripened and
developed for the responsibilities of
cltlsenshlp Is very much needed In
the north, where the race question Is
growing daily more and more trouble
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“The War Broke Me—Am Making the War Feed Me,” Says
The Herald’s Correspondent, Who, Leaving Augusta a
Month Ago, Shipped With a “Tramp” Transport of Mules
For Bordeaux, France *
Now Enlisted in the English Army at Cardiff, Wales, and Ex
pects to Be at the Front in Sixty Days-- Weekly Letters
For The Augusta Herald.
(BY FRANK S. WARREN).
Cardiff, Wales, Nov. 28, 1914.— When
1 left Augusta. 1 was, as you are
aware, very much run down physical
ly. 1 went to New Orleans and at
tempted to secure a contract with one
of the large dailies there, but was
met everywhere with the Icy stare.
A few days of this and 1 was down
to my last dollar with no prospects of
earning anything at an early date. As
the European war had broken me 1
derided to make It cure for me until
It was over.
On October 30tli I sailed from New
Orleans on board the steamer Anglo
l’alagonlau, u British vessel chartered
by the French government to carry
horses to the army of France. Now
witness yours truly for a period of
eighteen or twenty days. Promptly
at 4:30 every morning the night
watchman would come into the bunk
house and howl out at the top of his
voice for everybody to turn out and
“feed ’em up" After a cup of what
they called eoffee aboard the ship, we
fed and watered horses of every shade
and description until 8:80, when we
were fed up on stew, spuds and soggy
bread. Fyom about 9:30 or whenever
the foreman could get their crews to
gether, we were engaged in the pleas
unt task of "grooming horses." 1 e„
shoveling manure overboard. At noon
we wrre u.*atn led up to the trough for
our feed. More shoveling until 4:30,
when the so-called general foreman
would come around shouting. "Feed
'em up, hoys; give'em a little some
thin' to nibble on." Then It was haul
up hay and oats from the lower hold
and pitch 11 to those hungry cuyuse
until three bells, or 6:30, when we had
our third and last mess of the day.
!,et me digress for Just n moment
right here. You are no doubt sitting
there now with your glasses pulled
down over your nose, laughing at the
thought of what a spectacle 1 must
have presented, but mister, that trip
was the greatest thing for me that l
could possbly have undertaken. After
a day or two of it I lost my finicky
appetite that 1 took aboard and be
gan to eat and sleep. 1 went to bed
every evening as soon ns 1 had eaten
my slipper and slept through every
night without a single dream of any
kind.
The Anglo-Patagonlan 1* eom
! manded by Captain lg>rd, Infamous
because of his failure to respond to
the S. 0. S of the Tttnnle over two
years ago. when she sank In the North
j Atlantic w ith such an appalling loss
i of life and for which he was suspend
led for one year.
After his suspension was lifted at
the close of the year he was given
‘command of a tramp steamer which
|he considered quite a drop, since
which time he has been taking his
spite against the world out on those
,that are forced to work with or under
him.
The men who signed on as horse
men were shown one set of articles
which agreed to pay them 1,500 In
: American currency for the horses
when they arrived In France and to
furnish them free thansportatlon to
some port In the United States.
I'pon arrival In Bordeaux we were
shown another set of articles which
all of us had apparently signed which
.called for us to work the ship on our
return passage to the States without
! extra pay.
The Angla-Patagonian came to Car
diff for coal and Captain Lord refused
to pay anyone off There was quite
a row, but nothing could tie done
ahoua the matter and they still have
i my little old fifteen bucks. Moat of
INDOOR SPORTS
the other fellows are now cleaning out
the tower holds of that old hooker
somewhere on the deep blue sea be
tween here and Newport News. They
will surely have earned their pay
they get It.
That finished me .gwith the Anglo-
Patagonian. I secured a place ns
chemist In the Welsh Royal Army
Medical Corps and am now a regularly
enlisted Red Cross man In the service
of H. It. M. King tieorge.
We will not be mustered Into ser
vice until next Saturday—one week
from today—but 1 have a fairly good
Job writing for a local paper about
Industrial conditions In the States as
I saw them and you may rest assur
ed that 1 am not unduly optimistic In
my views, as they are colored by my
recent experienced In Augusta and
New Orleans.
Now to give you a brief synopsis
of business conditions In France and
the United Kingdom from the little
1 have seen.
Bordeaux, ns you know, Is now the
capital of France. It lies on the River
Clronde about seventy miles from the
Bay of Bison. . We ascended the river
to Bordeaux, but when opposite the
town, received orders to deliver our
cargo to the navy yard at l.a Pollse,
a little burg on the Buy of Biscay.
We made the trip up and down the
river In daylight, both banks of which
are lined with factories and farms,
hut there wns scarcely a sign of a
human being man or woman —as-
cending or descending the river. All
shipping is tied up at the wharfs. All
factories are shut up light and that
Is over two hundred miles from the
fighting lines.
T.a Pdllsa nnd la Rochelle the
place where we landed our horses,
have a normal population of 3ti,000,
but In my two days stay In the places,
1 did not see a half dozen able-bodied
men who were not either In the army
or navy.
The little business that Is left Is
being conducted by the women and
girls and they are so scared of a stran
ger that It Is hard to buy tobacco
from them.
Conditions In England are Just the
reverse.
The wnr has taken away a million
and a half of the best young men In
all branches of Industry and trade,
leaving hundreds and thousands of
vacancies to he filled. The result is
that labor Is drawing a higher wage
and Is more plentiful Just now than
at any time In the history of the na
tion.
Hundreds of merchant vessels are
tied up at their piers and docks unable
to sail, because of the scarcity of sea
men and firemen, notwithstanding
the fact that double and treble the or
dinary wages are offered. The Ger
mans are paying the cost of this war
In cargoes lost to the British mer
chant marine.
Cardiff Is what we In the States
would call a "Boom" town. Ten yenrs
ago she boasted a population of less
than SO.OOO, today the Cardiff "Boost
ers" are claiming SOO.OOO for her.
Some growth in so short a time The
principal trade done here Is In coal
and tinplate Nearly all of the coal
used by the British Kmptre being
shipped from here.
One of the first things that an
American notices In this country Is
the extreme low prices that obtain,
but then the wages are arranged to
balance. One can live very well here
on a salary of £ 2 per week or about
$lO In United States currency. lam
taking my meals In a little hotel
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
across the road, called the Albert.
The average cost of a good dinner,
with ale or brew, tea and dessert, is
about a shilling, or 24 cents in United
Stales rmmey. Another chap (from
Nashville, Tonn., who came over with
me), and 1 are rooming together. We
have a large second floor front room
with fire, two beds and all clothing
washed for the munificent sum of 10
shillings per week for both of us.
The assistant day editor just came
In and gave me a bit of war news that
the censors cut out of this morning’s
Issue. It seems that several weeks
ago, when the battle of Ypres began,
the English and French had a com
bined force of only 25,000 men on a
frontage of fifteen miles, facing a
German force of 250,000 men. When
reinforced this force had been cut to
only 8,000 English and French sol
diers. Had the Germans been aware
of this fact,* there would have been
nothing to have kept them from
sweeping on down the coast to Calais,
hut it speaks well for the bravery of
the English Tommies that they never
wavered for one instant or gave one
sign that they did not have ten times
us many men in the trenches.
The French nnd English civilians
and soldiers with whom I have talk
ed, seem very anxious as to the exact
feeling in America about the causes
of the war. The aggressors and the
rights and wrongs in the case. Nat
urally 1 %o my best to assure them
that most Americans sympathize with
the allies (as 1 really bellevu they do).
If you decide to print any part of
this, you'll have to have it typed your
self. No one uses a typewriter here,
except the elite. There is only one
typewriter in the reporter's room that
1 am working In now and that looks
like one of those Bryan has been try
ing for a decade to unload on some
unsuspecting Cracker.
Give my regards to old Doc Murphey
nnd tell him 1 tipped the beam
(Stripped) at 11th (154 lbs.i when 1
was examined for physical fitness
yesterday. That is a twenty-pound
gain in thirty days. Thanks to the
horses.
1 shall send you a weekly letter of
anything Interesting that comca my
way. If you want cable service
you’ll have to Instruct the Western
Union people to make arrangements
for collect n.cssagcs. This, of course,
would only he used In the event of any
extraordinary happening.
The blowing up of the British bat
tleship Bulwark, In the Medway on
Thursday, has caused quite a stir in
army and navy circles. It Is quite a
widespread belief that she was de
stroyed by someone aboard her and an
Investigation has been ordered, which
will undoubtedly result In the closer
scrutiny of the records of those ap
plying for enlistment In the navy In
the future.
Write me In care Mr Hodgson, as
sistant day editor, the Western Mall.
Cardiff, Wale*. I shall act as cor
respondent for them when we go to
the front and he will attend to the
forwarding of my mall.
With best regards. 1 am
Yours Very Sincerelv,
FRANK WARREN
Tlease mall copies of Augusta Her
ald and send a package of Fatima
cigarettes, 1 can't buy any here.—W.
PLAINLY EVIDENT.
Mrs lovewett (at 2 a . m)—Where
have you been?
Lovewett—Just fell In was an old
free , my dear.
Mis. l ovewett- Fell In. eh' I be lev*
you Yore soaked.—Chicago News.
ABSOLUTE DEVOTION
"1 think that women ought ot have
the hallot."
"Do thev really want It?"
•They must want It. Some of them
*v» working so ardently for suffrage that
thev are paving absolute,} no attention
to dress."—Kansas Oily Journal,
By Tad
Official Postoffice Proof of
The Herald’s Supremacy in
Augusta’s Trade Territory
“Average number of copies of each
issue of this publication sold or dis
tributed through the mails or other
wise, to paid subscribers during the
six montns preceding the date of this
statement: ” —Postoffice requirement.
RECENT GOVERNMENT REPORTS
OF AUGUSTA IGA.) NEWSPAPERS:
October, 1913—Herald 9653
October, 1913 —Chronicle 8797
HERALD’S LEAD "856
April, 1914—Herald 9906
April, 1914—Chronicle 8837
HERALD’S LEAD 1069
October, ISl4—Herald 11,179
October, 1914—Chronicle 9,125
HERALD’S LEAD 2,054
The AUGUSTA HERALD’S daily
average for November, 1914—12,209.
The AUGUSTA HERALD guaran
tees all advertisers the largest circu
lation of any Augusta newspaper. Ad
vertisers and Agencies are invited to
test the accuracy of these figures in
comparison with the claims of any
other Augusta newspaper,
AUGUSTA HERALD.
NOVEMBER CIRCULATION
DAILY AND SUNDAY HERALD.
The circulation of the Dally and Sun
day Herald for the month of November,
1914, was as follows:
Nov. 1 11,407
Nov. 2 12,345
Nov. 3 12,380
Nov. 4 12,380
Nov. 5 12,405
Nov. 6 12,435
Nov. 7 12 650.
Nov. 8 11.425
Nov. 9 12,345
Nov. 10 12.350
Nov. 11 12,230
Nov. 12 . ...12.344
Nov. 13 12,315
Nov. 14 12.445
Nov. 15 11.395
TOTAL NOVEMBER 366.270
DAILY AVERAGE 12,209
The Augusta Herald. Daily and Sun
day, has a circulation In Augusta ap
proximately twice as large as that of any
other Augusta newspaper. Advertisers
and agencies Invited to test the accu
racy nf these figures In comparison with
the claims of any other Augusta news
paper.
Speak Out!
(Washington Gladden at the Univer
sity of Kansas).
Of course It Is every man’s business.
In a democracy, to contribute to the
creation and maintenance of a Bound
public opinion. It Is one of the pri
mary duties of every citizen to be
Intelligent with respect to common
concerns, and to speak his mind about
them.
If every man spoke his mind, frank
ly and fearlessly, not only when he
agrees with the crowd, but more es
pecially when he disagrees, we should
see a great Improvement In public
morals and In civil affairs. Too many
of us hold our tongues, from policy
or timidity, when we ought to speak.
Such silence is often little short of
traitorous. The weakness and per
verseness of public opinion is not the
fault of any particular class of clt
lzeng we are all to blame for 1L
SPILLED HINTS.
"Walter, give me that menu.”
"We have none, but I can tell you
what we have.”
“You must have a Jolly good mem
ory."
"Not at all. I simply look at the
tablecloth."
BOUND TO HAPPEN.
"How would you like to give away
lakes to deserving towns?”
"I don't think I'll go In for that
form of philanthropy Somebody Is
sure to accuse me of squeezing wa
ter for the same out of my stocks."
STEAM HEATING SYSTEMS and
Hot-Water Heating' Plants repaired
and put in first-class working order.
Valves, Automatic Air Valves in
stock, the very best quality. Expert
steam-fitter for this work.
Teiephone us today. Phone 472.
THE HENRY HUTT CO..
611 Broad Street.
Nov. 16 12,285
Nov. 17 12,331
Nov. 18 12.311
Nov. 19 12.366
Nov. 20 12,465
Nov. 21 12,654
Nov. 22 11,115
Nov. 23 •. 12.390
Nov. 24 12 455
Nov 25 12,380
Nov. 26 12.220
Nov. 27 12,493
Nov. 2« 12.505
Nov. 29 11.126
Nov. 30 12.211
BE SURE
THAT
IT COMES
FROM '
DORR’S
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Everything for
men and many
things for women.
All of them of
high class at
moderate price.
DORR
Good Taste Appanel
THE CHRISTMAS GIFT
Hurd’s Fine Stationery,
best made, in Christmas
Boxes.
Waterman’s Fountain
Pens.
Leather goods, as Lap
Desks, Music Rolls,
SANTA, the infallible judge of Christmas Pres
ents, would say: Buy at RICHARDS and SAVE
MONEY.
RICHARD’S STATIONERY CO.
COOKING MADE
A PLEASURE
■: by :
Miss Ethel A. Church
SERVICES FREE
For Engagement, Phone
222
THE GAS LIGHT CO.
OF AUGUSTA
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20.
FORD
13 THE
CAR
The Wife and Boys and
Girls can drive as well
as the men.
See Lombard.
WANTED
Three furnished rooms near Hill
for a chauffeur and his family
for three months from January
Ist.
TO RENT
Residence on Hill of eleven
rooms, desirable for boarding
house.
TO LEND.
$2,000.00 on improved city real
estate.
JOHN.'W. DICKEY
"Cheap Excursion Rates ac
count of the Holidays via the
Charleston & Western Carolina
Railway Co. For rates, Dates
of Sale, etc. call on ticket
agents or, Ernest Williams, Gen
eral Passenger Agent, Augusta;
Georgia,”
Men’s Letter Cases,
Pocket Books.
Bibles, Prayer Books,
Hymnals.
Books for children.
Toys, Toys.
Games, Games.