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»h<* waek Sunday Momln*
FOREVER.
Millions of years from now a perfect picture of you
reading this newspaper will be floating out through space.
It will be in the form of a moving picture, a complete record
of your whole life, extending on forever as it travels further
and further from Ihe earth into the never-ending distances
of the universe.
That is something to make you think—that there is no
death, that, time and space are delusions, mysteries, which
the brain of man cannot solve.
Dr. C, S. Brainin, the great astronomer of Columbia
University, tells about it in long scientific words. Yet it is
very simple to understand.
* • *
You are standing on the shore, looking out to sea. A
gun is fired, miles away. You see smoke puff from its muz
zle. Seconds later, you hear the report. The noise existed
before you heard it. but you see quicker than you hear, be
cause sotund waves travel slower than light waves.
Just as you heard the cannon’s boom seconds after the
gun was fired, so may you see a thing happen seconds, years,
centuries afterward.
Have the telescope man point out the giant Alpha Con
tuari, the star nearest our earth. It is so far away that four
years are required for its light waves to reach us. You
watch it blinking; what you see is the star as it existed four
years ago. If it vanished now, you would continue seeing
it, it would be four years before its light would vanish to eyes
on this earth. Further away in space, people on other stars
would see it for still more years.
Polaris, another famous star ll6 years for its light
waves to reach us. If the man on Polaris has a good tele
scope, he is now watching what happened on this earth 116
years ago. He is witnessing the purchase of Ixjuisian from
France, the naval war against Tripoli, the establishment of
the first cotton-gin in New Hampshire and the first bank in
Cincinnati.
It will be the year 2030 before he sees, like a moving
picture, a half-witted youth in Sarajevo fire the revolver
that started the World War.
Then the man on Polaris will call the reporters in and
say, “Boys, I have made a great discovery. A war has
broken out on Friend Earth.”
t * *
Suppose that the people on Mars or the billions of stars
in the Milky Way have progressed to the point where they
really have such wonderful telescopes.
As they swing those telescopes toward the earth they
are seeing, according to their distances away, thousands of
toiling workmen building the Pyramids, Noah opening the
door of the Ark and scowling at the mud, a Spanish queen
hocking her jewels for a supposedly crazy man named Co
lumbus, the giant dinosaur trampling forests beneath his feet
—or yourself being born.
The light waves that make possible the seeing of any
happening, travel on forever. Nothing in the universe is
so ancient that it is not still alive and vital—somewhere in
space. Bight waves arc eternal and forever they carry on
ward at the rate of 186,000 miles per second the picture of
everything that ever was or ever will be.
It is the great book of mysteries with seven seals, the
perpetual moving picture, recording for all time your every
movement. The universe recognizes no secrecy. The story
of your life is recorded indelibly on the great records of
eternity. Know this fact and leave a record clean, for
there is no concealment possible in the endless universe of
God.
SCHOOLS TO THE BOYS.
The United State* gosernmant In
planning to bring naval schools to
ihr boy* Inataad of boy* to th*
»chool*. and put the school* right
where the boy* can’t ml** tham
Jotcphu* ot the
navy, want* to t«iatl«l up the finest
navy on earth and one of the big
gest In order to nccomplinh thta
he muii have plenty of jack tufa
and plenty of midshipmen It la
• ary enough to build ahipe. but It la
another thing to man them proper
ly Secretary Duntela la going to
train men by the wholesale for the
big navy Unci* Sam la building
The government la planning inland
naval achoola with a wonderfully at
tractive rourae of training for tlioae
that would like the life of adventure
end seeing the world Th« govern
ment will have none but the beat,
and they will have the opportunity
to go on rrulaea to foreign lamia and
*e* the world atghta Oh. boy, what
u i iun" ! Hon lucky II if lo i» »
boy and have *uch aplendid oppoi -
t unit »ea throat upon you
Wvery unlveralty and every col
lege throughout the country will n*
come a finlahtng school for turning
out h *y* for the navy A four-vear
< one* on nautical atihjecta will be
added to the tegular college rourae
and when the young men have com
pleted thta. a poat graduate rourae
at the Naval Academy at Annapolta
w||| be open to them
The naval authorttlea purpose to
build up a naval reaerve offh-er*’
corp* to a poim coinmenaurate with
the maritime magnitude to which
thta country la expected to attain
While the future offli era for the
naval service are being trained, the
plan will afford the opportunity to
many thousand American boy a of
gaining a aplendid training both
mentally and physically The chance
la one In a million.
In very truth, nothing like It waa
over heard of before Juat think of
It fat here and mother*. |»rr« la a
chance for your boy to become an
Admiral Jim Oliver or an Admiral
Henson, or aoitia other high officer
In th« American navy! Moya of the
present time are certainly born under
a lucky afar
COTTON BONDAGE
M> the aplendid conception and
carafully planned enterprise of W
T i* Harding the t'otton Kxpott
tisrporation with f 100.000 <H»o capful,
la *b--wt to come Into full fruition
The object of thta great cor potation
M to free the farmer* of the South
from cotton bondage under which
they hate ao long tolled and labored
that other* might enjoy the benefits
The put pom of the great corpora
tlon |a to afford the farmer* the op
portunity of getting money on long
time. If they need It. with which
to make their cotton crop* and at
the aame time to sell the cotton on
long time credit* to Kuropean spin*
ner* with approved commercial
rating Thla will enable thr farmer*
to hold their cotton until the mar
net goea to a potbt where It I* ad
vantageous to ae|| and thu* they will
not he f"’crd to aril on a glutted
market to satisfy quickly maturing
obligation*
Thla corporal too will have a tend*
ei*t y to atab Mae cotton price*, thrre
by benefit itng both producer and
spinner It ta to th. interrat of the
public at large for the cotton grow
er* to receive a legitimate profit,
othrrw ia«' thr cotton groware wA' b •
discouraged and plant some
thing elae tnalead of cotton It ta
equally to the advantage of the cot*
tog spinner to buy on a atabiligtd
market, because then he la aaaured
that there will be no violent fluctu
ation* to contend with, and every
body get* their cotton on the name
footing
The manufacturer* of the North
and the lacker* of th# Vtwt have
organised to give longer credit* on
tb*ur product* Southern business,
men and cotton producer* muat fob
. •*** t'otton grower* the
banker* and thr buatneaamen «vs the
Mouth muat get more closely to
gether and organise for their mutual
a* ,rf T # L * hd !tl *** ,h#l former*
vae talk of the enormous re* »urce*
*»• fowith and the talk l« Juan
nable. but what use are they if not
mobilisod and aktifutljr handled* We
tmaat lemlinr the*e interest* just
aa the Northern manufacturers and
at th* Auguata Gft„ Pootof
ftoo as Mall Matter of lh»* la~*.
tin* Western packers have done, to
get our share of the world trade
with its attendant poLts
To the South is now presented the
grandest opportunity in all our his
tory The whole world wanta Am
orhan cotton and will take every
pound of It that wo can grow The
price cuts little figure with them
tho> must have It But we can not
do business according to the old.
slipshod methods of rushing cotton
on a market that Is already glutted.
By massing our resources and com
tdntng our forces, we can put our
great staple tnto the place that It
b -longs in the world's conitni'roft--
In the first place. In the front rank.
THE PRESIDENT'S SPEAKING TOUR.
President Wilson hus signified his
Intention of making a tour through
out the United States to speak in
defense of the league of nations. It
will be his purpose to go before a
Joint sexHlou of the house and senate,
and then immediately to start on a
three week trip Wouldn’t he a fine
thing to Invite the president to In
clude Augusta In his Itinerary? What
any you. Mayor White? lie could be
almost certain to accept. Just to catch
a glimpse of his boyhood home if
hut a glimpse.
We have no other idea but that the
Germans will sign the treaty. . and
that the United States Senate will
ratify It The president has got them
In the same bo*. with theNtd nailed
down There is nothing else for the
Germans to do but sign, and sign by
next Monday. Clrtnenceau s speech in
dicated the terrible retribution that
• waited them if they should fail to
sign Vnd Koch has the finest army
Uie world hss ever seen, readv to
pounce upon l*em It would be fatal
for Germany not to sign But they
will sign
The senate Is doing the same thing
that the Germans are doing Muffing.
Public aentintent will force the sen
ale to ratlfx the treaty The whole
country is in favor of the peace
treaty except a few spot* m the Mid
die West and the Northwest The
people out there are either uninform
ed. or they ate misinformed and de
ertved But Wilson will straighten all
that out when he gets to them and
meets them face to face
lie ts going straight to th# sov
ereign people the fountain source of
ail power, .aid put it up to them to
say by their ballots whether or not
he has fulfilled his duty In f\>f> par
ticular And then it will he known
whether the people w-ant war or
peace Meanwhile, look out for the
finest exhibition of political acrobatics
the world ever beheld, such as craw
fishing, flopping and hurdle-Jumping,
in th# sen it# It will than b# be
tween the people and the senate.
Wilaoti will make (hla the supreme
effort of his life lie will then he
defending his Mg work on which th#
allies are now a unit Ml his ability
as an orator and his power* of rheto
ric will h# exerted to their fulleat He
haa a big subject, on# of absorbing
interest to the neopl# and h# will
make the most of It. The debate he.
tween MoCtimber and Knot shows
the trend of affair*. Mct'umber is a
republican from Dakota and one of
the leading men of that party, but all
the aame he heltevea In a square deal
for all and hr denounces his own
party tn a hitter arraignment, saving
that they had "conducted a campaign
of mlarenreaentation and distortion.”
and furthermore, h# told the senate
that th# league covenant offered th#
pureat hope of preventing future and
more terrlbl# wars "
THRICE ARMED IS HE
WHOSE CAUSE IS JUST
t»y the REV CHARLES ETELILE.)
The wicked fie# when no man pur
•u#th but the righteous are bold aa a
lion “
Shakespeare tells about a thousand
"accusing tongues - each tongue telling
It# a#p*rat# tale And when cunaclcnc#
haa this army at Its command In attack
ing its victim. It lan t long before he’s on
the run
"Hut th. righteous »r« bold sa a linn "
This Joesn i mean th. Mif-rtghtM'un—.
l-asn.-M.il of that hullo*. glaring arttlt. Ist
virtue which disgusts rvnrv r»<l blooded
man and wtmmn it means the on. whose
e-use t* lust and who therefor. is
• thrice armed
I'n# wicked flee whrn o man pur
*u*th, but the righteous nr* bold as a
Uoa "
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
CUCH 1C
3LIR
AS f.EEN BY O. B. JOYFUL)
Often we have wondered If the nele.
brated comic characters were a* fun
ny In real life an they are In the
paper.
Hu we found out.
They arc.
First, wc taclkcd old Kverett True.
We mot him at a concert.
“Everett,” we naked, "why does that
man ahut hla eyes when he sings?”
“Because he can't bear to see us suf
fer," and Everett would have said more
only Mrs. True said for him to hush
up. Me hushed. Funny how Everett
can bite a lion's head off and yet is
afraid to talk back to his wife.
Freckles met his dad the other eve
ning and suddenly remembered he had
forgotten some
thin.
"Pop.” he said,
"would you pun
ish me for some
thing I hadn’t
done?"
"Of course I
wouldn’t," h 1 s
father replied.
“I'm glad,"
smiled Freckleß,
"'cause 1 didn’t
mow the lawn as
you told me to.”
Tom Duff was picking up his be
longings. scattered all over the house.
Certainly his wife had been bawling
him out for being careless. Nat
urally he was sore. And so when she
began talking about the young lady
next door, and said:
"She hardly says a word; so quiet.
I can't understand why so many men
propose to her ”
Tom had his chance at a 'come
back'.
“I can." he hissed, making a bee
line for the stairs.
"Pansy." Mrs Toni Inquired, who
was the best man at the wedding you
attended last evening?"
<Mrs Duff hail to get breakfast be
cause Pansy was a:! tired out from
y V
the wedding celebration she had par / -
tietpted in as matron of honor )
"Ah dun know. Missus Duff, some
thinks as how It wus Itastus, but the
cops Interfered before it wus d elded."
Olivia was rehearsing a play her
club Is going to put on some time soon.
Hhe was aupposed to rvstst the at
tempt of the lending man to kiss her
Huthshe wasn't doing it as well as the
'!/ -
director wanted It done
"Here, here, he exclaimed, coach.
Ing her. “have you never tried to etop
a young man from kissing you?"
"No,” Olivia replied.
And she doesn't know yet why
everybody giggled.
Tom Duff and Everett True believe
Otto Auto’s mad joyride will be
brought to an abrupt finish if he ever
get- married and his wife learns how
to drive a car and wants to use the
car to go to reception some afternoon.
TODAY'S POEM
LOCAL COLOR.
tßy Edmund Vance Cooke.)
In New York, ho I’ve heard it said,
They club a man whose tie ia red.
In Petrograd, they think it right
To shoot a man whose collar a white.
What happens, then in Timbuctoo.
To some poor boob whose shirt is blue?
Out in Seattle, if you seek
For trouble, be pro-Bolshivik.
Over in Moscow, better be
Alert, if you’re pro-IJourgeousie.
Hlght here at home, so runs the rumor,
They soak you if you’re pro-Consumer!
THE COVENANTER
LETTERS
ARTICLE X.
The Principle We Fought For.
Article X of the League Constitution
bfu v f ides as follows. “The members of
«he League undertake to respect and pre
serve as against external aggression the
territorial integrity and existing political
independence of all the members of the
League. In case of any such aggression
or in case of any threat or danger of
■such aggression, the Council shall advise
upon the means by which the obligation
Hhall be fulfilled.”
The law of the League with the sanc
tion of the power of the League thus for
bids the violation of the international
commandment, “Thou shalt not steal by
force.” It is the embodiment of the prin
ciple that we entered and fought this war
to maintain. It is the answer to the
German doctrine announced through its
philosopher, its military writers and its
avowed policies, that “Might makes
right.” It is the denial of the principle
which Germany set forth in the sum
ming up of her whole Imperial purpose,
that conquest by fore© was essential to
the progress of God's world, and that she
was Hla instrument in such conquest.
Objections Answered.
We are met by the objection that the
United States should not bind Itself not
to extend Its beneficent Influence in the
work of civilization through conquest.
Such objectors argue that in this way
the T'nited States has extended its useful
dominion to the present borders of Mex
ico and to the Pacific Ocean. If this
argument is sound, then the United States
should certainly not enter the League. If
we yield to It. we ought never to have en
tered upon the war against Germany. The
argument is not in the slightest degree
to be distinguished from that of the Ger
man philosophers and military men whose
purpose Germany was carrying out in this
war. If the improvement in civilization
and its spread are dependent on war in
its present form, involving for the future
what is practically world suicide, then
surely mankind Is in a bad situation.
Those who support the League inay well
leave to the people of the United States
and the people of the world the decision
whether they prefer a slower method of
Improving civilization than by one which
involves the cruel destruction of one-half
the world in order to enable the other
half to get on.
The second and the more persuasive ob
jection which is urged to Article X is
I that it is likely to involve us in wars all
over the world, and to require our sol
diers to undergo suffering and hardships
and to give up their lives in battles waged
for remote countries In whose welfare we
have but little interest. It is said it will
prove to be a heavy burden, both in life
and treasure, for our people.
How Obligation Is Limited.
In answering this objection, it Is to be
noted that the operation of Article X to
increase the other obligations of the
Lc"»i'e is comparatively small.
Under Articles XI to XVII inclusive,
provision is made for the peaceful settle
ment of all threatening disputes between
nations by safeguarding action of then
League, by arbitration, by mediation and
recommendation of settlement, and by
enforcement of covenants restraining war
until three months after such machinery
for pesceful settlement has failed. By
Articles XVI and XVII a breach of such
covenants is to be penalized by an im
mediate and universal boycott of the
covenant-breaking nation and then bj
such military expeditions as the members
of the League shall determine necessary
on the recommendation of the Council.
Unless, therefore the external aggression
In violation of Article X occurs three
months after attempts at peaceful settle
ment under Articles XII to XV have fail
ed so that the covenants of those articles
are not broken by it. the penalizing pro
visions of Articles XVI and XVII would
apply to the aggression, whether for the
purpose forbidden in Article X or not. In
ether words. Article X only increases the
obligations of the members of the League
b« vond those of Article XVI in respect of
wars which do not violate the covenants
of Articles XU. XIII or XV Article X
becomes practically important, therefore,
only after the purpose of the war has
been clearly disclosed A war ontv for
liiitiv# purprses without taking territory
or overthrowing a government tfrould not
violate Article X,
We have seen this exemplified in our
construction of our own Monroe Doctrine.
The Monroe I>octrine as originally de
clared bv Monroe, was Article X limited
to Lhe aggression of non-American na
tions against countries of the Western
Hemisphere. When Spain attacked Oitle
during Mr Reward s incumbency as sec
retary of state and Chile culled on the
United States to defend . er Mr. Seward
replied that our policy did not look to
our defending an American state against
any punitive war by a non-American
power, but only against one intended to
take territory or to destroy Independence.
Mr Hooseveft Lid down the sa*.m» limita
tions of the Doctrine in the Venezuela
case as to wars begun merely to collect
financial obligations when thxiy did not
speak appropriation of territory or depri
vation of independence.
Modified By Other Article*.
The intervention of the League under
Article X is. therefore, likely to be in
voked only in cases where th* victor in a
war “legal” umVr Articles XII. Ml and
XV. seeks to impose terms on its enemy
contrary to the undertaking of Article V
In all other cases resort to Article X
will he unnecessary because action under
It will have been anticipated under other
articles Article X. therefore, enlarges
the scope of the obligations of the League
much less than has been generally as-
Reoond. should a violation of Article X
occur, and the Council advise a plan for
fulfilling >tr obligation by the member*
of tb • league this plan will have to be
unanimously agreed upon by the < ouncll.
>N> have constantly one representative in
♦ undi who must thus Join tn advis
ing the plan We can reasonably as
*u" < therefore, that the plan recom
mended will not involve us in military
expeditions unreasonably remote or in
convenient. and that it will advise our
action in that part of the acrid where wo
can most promptly furnish aid and in re
spect to wars in which by reason of prox-
Imitv we naturally have a direct
The discussion of this article will be
continued in the neat letter
OBSERVATIONS
The <tt<Trr*ne. b#lw»«n » rtrws and a
Vo«n la about 1200
■ HP' « n tliwk a llitht acroM At
lantic proves him Allaamroock
It apt**ara lhat _ Am*H,-» must .hooaa ;
between collective bargaining and collec- ,
»iv» loafing
Rar,n Mak'oo has been aJmiflrd to th- I
council of the Hig Four This ta Maktno
discrimination against races
Signing the treaty will let Germany into
the Prague hut forgetting that she signed
will let her out again very promptly.
And yet we must remember that de
facto recognition of ti.c Kolcnuk govern
ment doesn't establish that government
In facto, but merely kives it a chanco.
Our guess is that the promise of a ple
biscite in Silesia will make the incoming
passenger traffic a darn site heavier from
now until election day.
The task of the conference was to am
plify the treaty in such a way uh to per
suade Heinie that it was an effort to
modify the treaty.
Asking tho treaty please the Senate
will be a harder job than making it please
Roughing it” in the
National Parks
“Roughing it de-luxe” expresses
what a summer outing may be in
the National Parks of the West.
All the joys of the wilderness,
within easy reach of modern hotels
and railroad trains.
Here you can camp out —climb
mountains —go fishing—and hit the
trail—in a region of peaks and can
yons, glaciers and geysers, Indians
United States • Railrcad Administration •
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811 Broad Street. Augusta, Ga.
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It contained THIRTEEN STARS, signifying the original thirteen States. The
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i
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Germany, for the Senate isn’t on short
rations while waiting to be pleased.
’■a j to be kind. Once upon a time
a man patted a dog on the head, and the
dog turned and bit off an ingrowing toe
nail that had troubled the man for years.
The doctrines of the Rerls lead to in
evitable starvation. Wouldn't it be a
matter of kindness to combine all sane
men :n a grim effort to let the Reds en
joy the inevitable at once?
<’ " r <sc-»’!e the Russian situation,
Heinie will in time use Russia to settle
our L luauon.
Dead Sea?—ln a village in Ireland the
mother of a soldier met a priest, who
asked her if she had had bad news.
"Shure, I have, sir.' she said. “Pat
lias been killed."
“Oh. I'm very sorry.'' said the priest;
did you have word from the war of
fice?”
“No.” she said. “I heard it from
himself.”
The priest looked perplexed and said:
“But how is that?”
“Sure,” she said, “here is the letter:
read it yourself.”
The letter rend: “Dear Mother—l am
• *•- f • Holv Land.”—Pittsburgh
i Ghronicle-Telegraph.
and bears, deep woods and ice-fed
lakes. Around the corner are modern
resort hotels and miles of auto boule
vards. Summer excursion fares.
Ask for the booklets you want. They describe
Yellowstone, Glacier, Rocky Mountain, Mt. Rai
nier, Crater 1-akr, Yosemite, Sequoia, Hawaii, Grand
Canyon, Petrified Forest, Zion, Mesa Verde and Hot
Springs of Arkansas.
Ask the local ticket agent to help plan your
trip, or apply to nearest Consolidated Ticket Office,
or address Travel Bureau, U. S. R. R. Administration,
646 Transportation Bldg., Chicagoj 14? Liberty St.,
New York; 602 Healey Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.