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FOUR AUGUSTA HERALD. Published Rv*ry Afternoon During the Week and on Sunday Morning THE mmAhT) PUBLISHING CO. Entered at the Augusta Post office as Mali Matter of the Fecund-class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Dally and Sunday. 1 year ff.o4 Dally and Sunday, per week IS Dally and Sunday, per month .60 Sunday Herald ; year 1 M PHONES: Ruafner j Office 297 I Want ad phone 29f Society 2616 I Manag'K Editor ?«• News Room ...299 1 Circulation Foreign re present at i v ire—■ The 'enjamln A Kentror Co.. 226 Fifth Ave, New York City. 121 A People’s Oaa Build ing; Adame St. and Michigan Blvd.. Chfc*x© TRAVELING REPRESENT! ATIVES - J Kllnck and WDM Owens are the only authorized traveling representatives for The Herald Peg no money to ctnere unless they can show written authority frorr Rualnesa Managur of Herald I üb« Ushlng Co. Address all huslnase comunlcatlona ta THE AUGUST/ HERALD, 736 Prosd St . Augusta Oa __ oinmur ■ a i< *. wl 1 bt publtahad It The Herald unless the name of the writer Is signed to the arflcla ____ 'Tli'o* ‘•n **£6 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. This guarantee will be written In every 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 guarantee In comparison with tba claims 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 soma ■ ill il 1 p l\mmm |i|||||ii m niS tiiiii ) T>w «U. BRiArtcteJ 1 ; ml kno l &&&, mr. 6u«uwe? we-mese »«wer 1 kiwi 1 H* TZ. Viv m ''l J r _— IF Jo a£so ro HA'je. 3<woe* . i! j gpr I. it j) t«e' AUotrr HtT I BAP6W L . JVjJTTEU- Mfc J \ r*AT G-<0 Jj Ij i Fir®® Ana|nngfh mm lM®w Orlansii ¥® ¥l® Esa|ldh Msmj “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 - * 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.