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FOUR AUGUSTA HERALD. Published Every Afternoon During the Week end on Sunday Morning. THE HEPAI-.Q ' ! ' , r CO. Enterfd n? the Augiietn to **• *• M*!l Matter of the Sfteund-c.IM»». """ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ~~ pally and Sunday. 1 year 16.01 Dally enl Sunday, per week II Pally and Sunday, per month .56 Sunday Herald, 1 venr 1-M PHONES” ptialnef j Office 297 ! Want ad phone 291 Society 2€16 1 Manar'g Editor 296 Keea Room 299 Circulation FOREIGN REPRESENT ATI VE—The enjamtn A Kentnor To., 225 New Tork City, 121* People* Gag H'lUd- Ing; Adame Rt.. and Michigan Blvd., c*Mmgo trTvetjng rep’ r iks eni at rvEs - J K’lnck and W D. M Owen* are the only authorised traveling representative* for The Herald. Pay no money to cthere unless they can show written authority frnrt BuslneM Manaffur of Herald Pub lishing Co Address «J! htmtneea comunlcatlaaa ta THC AUGUST a HI- R ALL, 735 Proed St . Augusta Oa. No communication i ill \>* t»ubllshed In The Herald unless the name of the writer Is signed to the article. ¥se Augusta Herald » f «ity circulation, and a larger total dieult tlon than any other Augusta paper. This hat hern proven by ihe Audit Co., of Now York. • rs r.o per rent- more Home CarNer (.tty Or* culatlo. In Augusta than is given by •nv other August a paper. Thia rfuarantec will ho written In every contract and The Herald will be ready and wiring at all Mines to give full ac- Oeaa to its records to all advertiser* who wish to tea* thr accuracy of this guarantee in rompiiwn with tie claims of other Augusta newspaper* BUSINESS "The steady irnTMHi' In th* move, j ment (if c-iitton to toretfcn markets and ■ thn reception of more mill more tilt? ' iirilern from abroad tor a wide ran so j of American sooila and products bit j substantial features In the continued j Improvement In general business con ditions, the net remihs of which are beginning to he rxprrsKcil In dollars “Stocks of cotton and of cotton goods In iSurope will l,e depleted, anil even now Germany and Austria are arialoud to secure cotton and willing to pay good price* for It. The mills of this country must supply cotton good* not only to Europe hut nleo to countries which Europe has been supplying. There are evidences that the declara tion that cotton mills in this country would he running overtime before ho very long was well founded. Money Market. New York Mercantile paper 4a 4 1-2. Sterling exchange heavy; sixty-day bills 4.8250; for cables 4,SOUS; for de mand 4.8625. Mexican dollars 37 1-4. Government bonds steady; railroad bonds steady. N. Y. Bank Statement. New York The statement of iho actual condition of clearing house banks and trust companies for the seek shows that they hold $117,121,200 tcaerv* In excess of legal requirements. CUT THE COTTON ACREAGE IN HALF. The South has shown Its ability to hold Its cotton crop and It is going to hold until prices are satisfactory, hut the only thing that Is going to put up the price of cotton mine rial la cutting the acreage of the next crop In half. When tills is demonstrated, cotton is going up. The Increase in the winter wheat acreage of the entire country Is over four million ai .es and one-half of ibis is In the Southern cotton states. The total Increase for the South is over thirty per cent, Figures in the In dividual states are as follows; South Carolina's acreage has been Increased 1.0 pei cent, compared with the 1913 plaintlug; Alabama, IM> per cent. Mississippi, 136 per cent; Geor gia, us per cent. North Carolina, 75 per cent; Arkansas. 44 per cent; Texas. Tennessee and Oklahoma. 30 per cent, and Virginia, HO per cent. If the same ratio of Increase la shown by the South In other crops as Indicated In winter wheat, one can figure a cotton acreage reduction of 40 per cent. The acreage In the cotton states last year devoted to crops other than cot ton was about as follows: Acres. Corn 36,000,000 Huy. rice, tobacco, sugar, oats, trick, etc 10,000,000 Wheal 7,060,000 Total 63.000,000 If we apply to this the 30 per cent ratio of Increase already reported for winter wheat, we have a total of over 16,000,000 acres which would he, for the most part, taken from the land previously In cotton ami devoted to something else. This would be nearly 40 per cent of the acreage from which the present cotton crop has been produced and suggests u reduction to next year's yield that, war or no war, would put prices very high In 1316. It’s high time the South was raising all Its food supplies. The best farm ers In the South have dons so for sumo time. Those that fall to do so the coming year are going hungry. The South lias already raised enough cotton this year to make it rich next year. If the acreage ta cut In half. The farmer who falls to raise his own sup plies next year and who refuses to out hts acreage, will hurt both him self and his neighbors. ABOUT INVASION. FYirt Worth Hecord : England thought at one time that the country was In no danger of invasion from say foe. Her defense consisted first in her wooden walla, as her navy was called before the days of steel walls of the dreadnoughts. These failing, the coun try relied upon the strength of Its ter ritorials. the men who could be sum moned from all ranks of life to con stitute a volunteer fore. Hut these dreams of fancied security have been shattered, and the possibility of be ing ir.vuded lias assumed such pro portions as to cause forebodings among ti e population of the coast counties Earthworks and fortifications are be ing constructed at tunny points where sn invader might land, and a very great fores of men has betu organ- The Railroad Rate Decision and Its Influence Upon the Country 9 s Business The Interstate commerce commis sion decision in favor of granting higher freight pates Is of more Im portance, when viewed from the stand point us the Influence it will exert upon the sentiment of the country, than from that of the actual amount of money that will be received by the railroads by reason of this Increase. The money will be very helpful, but It does not begin to represent as much iih the railroads need, nor as much as they must have In order to bring about i full restoration of railroad prosper ity and, thus, of general business pros perity. The country has been shortsighted lo the extreme In its antagonism to railroads and to the advance in rail road rate* Here and there the inex cusable mistakes made by railroads in the ill-sdjustmen* and Ihe Inequity of freight rates as between products or communities has "justified vigorous ap peals for a righting of these wrongs, hut ns a whole the freight rates of the country have been entirely too low for the welfare of the country Itself. V\ e have become accustomed to low freight rates to our own disadvantage, because low freight rates mean the de struction ”f th* prosperity Of the rail roads, and that means the destruction of the prosperity of tho country. The statement of President Benja min Harrison many years ago that "a cheap coat means a cheap man" can with equal emphasis be applied to railroads and to all other business ac tivities. Cheap freights mean cheap railroads. Cheap wages mean cheap men. Cheap goods. If cheaper than a fair degree of profit on tlielr cost Justl- Hch, mean cheapening of everything quality, wages and character. • Infinitely better Is It for the country when railroads are prosperous by rea son of freight rates that yield a good return on the capital Invested; when j manufacturer* are selling their goods at prices ttiat yield a large Income on their output; when farmers sell their products at prices that leave them a large measure of prosperity. The con verse Is strikingly Illustrated In the In fluence upon the entire country of the cheap price of cotton during the pres ent season ns compared with th* bene fit to the entire country when cotton was selllnc at a high price. If over night ttie price of cotton could ha doubled, every business Interest In the Routh would he benefited, and from Hits would radiate a general Improve ment of every line of business tn the country. We cannot keep on forcing prices down through free-trade tendencies without destroying the very prosper ity which the advocates of free trade bate hoped to develop. I lird to act as a ropvlllng army In mar an enemy should effect a land In if. The likelihood or an invasion of i England must l>e listed aa one of tool many i osalbtlitlas which are extremely | remote. We can imagine only a eraxy . militarist, or one In the direst ex- [ tremity and moat desperate mood, at - , tempting to land an army on the shore of Kngland with aerloua purpose t> I Invade that Island while any sort of British war craft are available for at tacking the transports. And as yet there in not the least sign of the Eng lish navy's futility. The Kugltsh sea i power la toda>. us it was last year and fifty years ago. toweringlv su perior to any hostile force possible to .isaeinhle against tt In Its own waters. And to put an army of a hundred thou sand men. with thetr necessary vic tuals and munitions, across the Eng lish rhannel would require a fleet of transports so large that even a single daring cruiser or torpedo boat, or a brace of submarines, might dash among them and destroy in half an hour half the floating army. And when the army landed, even in good order, It would encounter at once the activities of a whole nation of people whose prowess in war has bullded an empire that shames that of the Caesar*. it Is quite possible for a hostile power to make raids nlong the British coasts, as the three swift Ger man era sers did a day or two ago hut It is not possible for such raiders lo escape destruction more than once or twice. And at best the fruits of such a taid are hut scanty, and they serve mostly to stimulate the assault ed peoples to more determined and eulhuitiaaUc reprisals. INDOOR SPORTS - - By Tad The man who wants to buy things cheap must expect to have a cheap salary, or a cheap Income, or to see the lifo of the people around him cheapened In every respeett. It is, therefore, of interest to every branch of industry In the country that some recognition has been given by the ln terstate commerce commission to the needs and the rights of the railroads. This Increase is not, however, suffi cient for the needs of the railroads, though It will he helpful. It will be especially helpful In causing the coun try to believe that the interstate com merce commission Is not entirely a commission of destruction. Heretofore its work has largely been destructive. It has regulated the railroads nearly unto death and throttled them In all their operations, and In doing so It has cost the country billions of dollars more than It has saved the country by any adjustment it has made of freight rates. The Manufacturers Record Is not a believer In "commissions," which have been the order of the day during the last quarter of a century. It believes that ultimately many of these com missions will have to he abolished, and it Is not at all certain that the time will not come when the people of this country will realize thnt the Interstate commerce commission has cost It so many billions of dollars that It will he abolished. Just as the commerce court was abolished. There Is a rising tide throughout the country on the part of business men— and under the term of business men we Include every man, whether he works with hand or brain, who Is seek ing to make a living by his brawn, his brain or his capital—against the de structive tendency of political activi ties of recent years, and a growing de termination that this country shall turn to constructive upbuilding work that will create general prosperity commensurate with the limitless nat ural advantages with which the Al mighty has endowed this land. It Is time that this rising tide ot sentiment against destructive policies should make Itself felt In every husi antT In favor of upbuilding policies ness organization, whether of mer chants, manufacturers, bankers, labor or agriculturists, and the mechanic and the farmer have now had It driven home to them with telling force that their prosperity Is dependent upon the prosperity of manufacturers and rail roads. We have had too much of de struction; too much of poverty; there are too many hundreds of thousands of men walking the streets vainly seeking employment because of these destructive poll dee.—The Manufactur ers Record. Official Postollice 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 Octobar, 1913—Chronicle 8797 HERALD'S LEAD 856 April, 1914—Herald 9906 April, 1914—Chronicle 8837 HERALD'S LEAD 1069 Octobar, ISI4 Hsrald 11,179 Octobar, 1914 —Chromcls 9,128 HERALD'S I.EAD 72,054 The AUGUSTA HERALD'S daily average for November, 1914—12.209. The AUGUSTA HERALD guaran tees all advertiser* the largest circu lation of any Augusta newspaper. Ad vsrtiaara and Agenciaa are invitad to teat th# accuracy of thesa figures in comparison with the claim# of any ether Auaueta **wes*ger. THE AUGUSTA. HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 1 With the coming of the New Year, a steady business revival is looked for in all lines of trade and manufacturing. Evi dences of this are already ap pearing in various sections of the country. Orders are com ing to this country in con stantly increasing volume. Domestic trade in the United States has held off from the market until stocks in retailers’ hands are lower than ever be fore. They must soon go to the market to replenish. In the South, the farmers have gone to work several months ahead of time and the acreage sown to wheat, oats and rye, and winter forage crops is unprecedented. The cutting of wood and timber is also in evidence and farm work in general is well ahead of usual preparations. Perhaps the most encourag ing sign to be seen on the farms in this immediate territory, aside from the large amount of grain sown and farm work done, is the “savings bank on every farm” that meets the eye in the storage and hous ing of cottoij. Temporary shelters are to be seen on most every farm with from 2 to 50 bales of cotton protected from the weather. This cotton is generally in plain view of the road, in front of the house, and it is the savings bank from which the farmer will draw during the coming year as he needs the money. This is part of the farmer’s crop that be longs to him, after sending to town and to the warehouse enough cotton to cover his loans and advances. It is cotton that the farmer is hold ing from the market, just as he may hold his corn and oats and cattle until the market price is attractive or until he needs the money. Even the Xmas holidays failed to bring out much cotton for sale for ready money at present prices. The Southern farmer in 1015 is pomp to have cotton money all during the year, as he gradually markets the sur plus crop which he is holding on his farm, and the cotton that is kept on the farm under the eve of the farmer is going to be a constant reminder to him as long as the price re mains low that the acreage must be cut if the price is to go up in the near future or on next year’s crop. It’s cheaper to buy cotton at present prices than to raise it, and the South ern farmer is wisely sowing grain, preaching pigs, living at home, fixing up his pas ture sand getting hpld of a few cattle. As one farmer puts it. “I know my oats are not going to be winter killed because I sowed them in open furrows. I know that my sows are going to have pigs and my cows are going to and 1 have enough corn and fodder and hay to carry them through. We haven’t got much money, but I am holding my cotton, and there’s just as much at our house this year as last year. I believe we are going to have good times in the South during 1915.” AUGUSTA HERALD. NOVEMBER CIRCULATION DAILY AND SUNDAY HERALD. The circulation of the Daily and Sun day Herald for the month of November, 1914, was as follows: Nov. 10 12,285 Nov. 07 12,331 Nov. 18 12,311 Nov. 19 12.365 Nov. 20 12.465 Nov. 21 12,654 Nov. 22 11,118 NoV. 23 12,390 Nov. 24 12,455 Nov. 23 12,386 Nov. 26 12.220 Nov. 27 12,493 Nov. 23 12,505 Nov. 29 11,124 Nov. 30 12,251 Nov. 1 11,407 Nov. 2 12,345 Nov. 3 12,380 Nov. 4 12,380 Nov. 6 12,405 Nov. 6 12,435 Nov. 7 12,660. Nov. 8 11,425 Nov. 9 12,345 Nov. 10 12,350 Nov. 11 12,230 Nov. 12 12,344 Nov. 13 12.815 Nov. 14 12,445 Nov, 15 11,395 TOTAL NOVEMBER 368,270 DAILY AVERAGE 12,208 The Augusta Herald. Dally and Sun day. has a circulation In Augusta ap proximately twice as large as that of any otl.er Augusta newspaper. Advertiser! and agencies Invited to test the accu racy of these figures In comparison with the claims of any other Augusta news paper. HOW THE FEDERAL WAREHOUSE BILL WILL HELP THE FARM ERS OF THE SOUTH. It provides for the federal licensing of cotton, and grain warehouses, thus giving assured value to warehouse re ceipts as collateral on which loans may be sought. Furthermore as its advocates declare, it will develop more extensive storage facilities (a mani fest need of the farmer) and will put the grower In a position to market his products to the best possible advan tage. The following aspects of the hill are noteworthy: The receipts issued by licensed warehouses shall describe ac curately and fully the commodities placed In storage; careful records of all such transactions shall be kept and shall be subject to inspection by the Secretary of Agriculture; the De partment of Agriculture is also au thorized to determine whether the cot ton stored is actually of the grade or class certified in the receipt, and to publish its findings. These and kin dred provisions will make the ware houses licensed by the government so responsible and safe that receipts is sued by them will inspire thorough confidence as security for credit. The farmer, moreover, will be en abled to know precisely the commer cial value as well as the class and the grade of his products. He will be en abled also to turn his sound resources for credit to timely and definite ad vantage. And he will be encouraged to store his crops at these approved market centers. Instead of leaving them exposed to the wear and tear of the weather; this one item, it Is esti mated. will save millions of waste and deterioration. AN EASY NEW YEAR’S RESOLU TION. In the January American Magazine James Montgomery Flagg, the famous humorist and artist, does an amusing piece in words and pictures entitled "Four Easy New Year’s Resolutions." One of the four Is to give up the filthy habit of smoking—under the follow ing conditions: "In powder mills. “While chewing tobacco. "During the acts of any grand opera, orrespective of what language It may be given In. “While eating filet of sole, porter house steak, or sweetbreads cooked with mushrooms “While laying carpets and carrying a pint of tacks In my mouth. "In any building where the danger of fire is enormous and a powerfully built red-headed fireman Is watching me with narrowed lids. ."While reading the works of Henry James. Tu the presence of anyone who can say with a straight face, 'Dear old ChiMM Time Proves the quality, but the style shows itself You get both in a Dorr Suit. Style that pleases the man of refinement who desires to appear to the best advantage. Quality that gives satis faction during many months of wear. DORR TAILORING For Men of Taste STEAM HEATING SYSTEMS and Hot-Water He3ting Plants repaired and put In first-class working order. Valves. Automatic Air Valves In stock, the very beet quality. Expert steam-fitter for this work. Telephone us today. Phone 472. HUTT CO.. 011 Broad Street. THE CHRISTMAS GIFT Hurd’s Pine 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 27. FORD IS THE CAR The Wife and Boys and Girls can drive as well as the men. See Lombard. safety first WHICH? are you looking for Bar gain Counter Glasses, are you willing to wear cheap glasses just because they are cheap, do you consent to having your eyes tampered with at the risk of their Permanent Injury. We take as much Interest and pride In fitting glasses to the face as we do in fitting lenses to correct defects, frame fitting Is an art, you get the best hero PROF. P. M. WHITMAN, Assisted by Mr. L. A. Williams, Optometrists and Opticians. 214 Seventh St Established 1888. 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