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AUGUSTA’S POLICE SITUATION. .
The Herald is in favor of a reasonable raise in the pay
of the police and we imagine every member of City Council
as well as the citizens generally are of the same mind. The
vote of the Finance Committee which tied on the question
of recommending such an increase to Council can only be
taken as referring the whole Police situation to the Council
to be threshed out at the general meeting Monday night.
It looks as if the City Council are dissatisfied with the
present running of the Police Department and are at pres
ent interested in placing the blame. If Police Department
affairs are unsatisfactory to the members of City Council
there are several places apparently w here the blame may be
placed. It may be placed on the Civil Service Board under
whose jurisdiction the Police Department operates and
functions. It may be placed upon the Chief and the Execu
tive Officers of the Police Department. It. may be placed
upon the shoulders of the individual patrolmen or members
of the force in the way in which they discharge their indi
vidual duties.
Also and incidentally it may be stated that perhaps the
City Council itself may finally take a part of the blame if
unsatisfactory conditions exist, for they are called upon to
elect the members who compose the Civil Service Commis
sion which in turn controls the Police Department of the
City.
It will be interesting to see just where the City Council
will place the blame for anv unsatisfactory conditions.
Shall the private “cops” be made the goat, shall'the Chief
and the Executive Officers of the Department be made the
goats, or shall the Civil Service Commission itself get the
censure for any unsatisactfory conditions or shall the City
Council itself, which elects the Commission, also bear its
fair share of any criticism for unsatisfactory conditions?
It is unfortunate that the plea for a"reasonable increase
in compensation for the police should be made a part of the
present investigation into alleged unsatisfactory conditions.
Why not separate these issues entirely? Pav a reasonable
salary for one thing, but on the other hand insist upon good
men. capable men, as a prerequisite to getting on the force
and then enforce the necessary rules for efficiency and dis
cipline, under competent executive officers, reporting to a
Civil Service Commission that is in turn composed of good
men and who are out of politics. And the City Council
which elects the Civil Service Commission should start the
hall rolling by electing such a commission without playing
politics.
The idea of putting the Police and Fire Department of
the City under a Civil Sendee Commission was to take these
departments out of local politics. To the average citizen it
seems that in recent months the Civil Service Commission
and the City Council have been engaged verv much along
the lines of tho old time political activities. The Herald ap
peals to the City Council to cut out’politics and give the city
a Civil Service Commission that is itself out of politics and
will stay out of politics and which in turn will give the City
a police force, officers and men, who are out of politics and
who will stay out of politics as long as they serve the city
in these two departments.
The Civil Service Commission is worthless to Augusta
unless it keeps out of polities and in turn keeps the Police
and Eire Departments of the City out of politics and at, the
same time actively and faithfully attending to their duties
guarding the city.
I he < 'tv ( ouncil itself must start the ball to rolling by
handling their end of the Police and Fire Department situ
ation so far a the 1 election of members of the Civil Service
Commission is concerned. If politics creeps in these elec
tions at the fountain head, the city can be very sure it will
permeate throughout these two departments in the end.
WHV MINf S T ERS QUIT.
Clergymen sny lhoy :ir«- not paid
I >*spitr si d«'*lr« to rontl: v»«'
|n their c’hos* n path many f« «>l that
In justice to their fimlllcf: they *mj*t
m« ek ottur line* where the r.veunMn
dollarn Ip greater I’rrhAp© they are
Influent ed hi thin wli«<n they »m i» ail*
vert Iscnir tit* ottering 112 a day t«»
bricklayer* With time and a half for
• v « rtlmr ll would he hut human that
thr v should compare these wages
with the "aalttfy" they receive.
lti a conference on ministers' ial
arle» by the lnt< rchurch World
Movement In I'htladelphla the presl
ddent of Muskingum College. the Rev
Mr .1 Kikh Montgomery, deelnrrd
that the minister *.s "the forirntten
man. ' and that hi* treatment la 'he
shame of the church Their niggard
’V treatment is driving many a good
man out of the rnlniatry, he aaid.
M«n either nerve* as a maid of all
work mid h tlie wash, or In \ <•
make h;. wi* .. - ,i\< and s,.m!
her to jfn earlv death - and no red
blooded man will do that Few
clergymen ca i a .Yard a washing ma
chine." Or Montgomery aald North
ern Itaptlwts have found that eight
of every hundred of their ministers
get h sr than annually, and that
outside of the wealthier churches the
average s*l*r> of a minlsUi Is Us*
than |2 a i\& >.
LITTLE “SNOW WHITE”,
She Is just a little h t of human
Ity The police found her on Phila
delphia's coldest night in an alley ty.
‘mb upon a b'Miikit of stum Mm
wrapped In a banket of wool.
hc«iiUful IP tie g'rl, six w eeks old.
w ith llttr* 1 brow n eyes and tlehh .wn
hair" < an’t you see her looking up
wl;h wondering ex c © at the big po.
Herman ?
Stmu lw*d> didn'' wan? her lto»
the miraes at the hoapltal know a I
about such th ugs And they naimd
htr “Know White**, for th- good lit
tic girl in the fairy tale, b 'cause she
war found In tlks mow and b. cause
her skin la as wh te as the dnsst
porcelain
Society wonder why It a that there
are so many Snow Whites* n the
world t Folks who don’t want bibUs,
have ’am; prop)* who wouht give
their right eyes for 'em can't have
’em Ma> b It is xlod’s way ..f - ,
•ng to it that pearl* without price
wre sometiuus found iu the poorest
ovatera.
the southern sweet potato
IS A VALUABLE PRODUCT.
The real value of the xweet potato
h; s not been readied m the Mouth
because fear farmers have studied
how to preserve tb«m Moat farm*
vv. knowing that swe*t potato* rut
faat. tiae them up xjuhki) or sell
them Mttd so they have seldom had
sweet |H'tat• *e?» qurtnr he winter
season ft has been found. how* v«r.
that sweet potatoes can h« stored
arid saved a long time or canned
end thus the va'ue has Increased
The following from Kama and Fig*
tires Olt l*o t potatoes it Inteiert
Tht southern swee: t Kit* to •# ns
ture's own combination of starch and
sugar It Includes, too, oilier nour
ishing and sustaining f n*d e entente
The dellcous flavor and the nutri
tive and restorative pmperth* «»f the
sweet potato haw long b rti known
and appreciated
One of Shakcspc are's characters
In his enthusiasm «*rtalm© "Let
the sky tain potatoes!* Roth the
oontevt and the commentators show
that It is the sweet potato, then* a
dPn'Vfry from the Vew World- new
become one of tin* So ith'i most va!-
Ufll'f (Tops
There has ixwt| one tit ng and ot e
thing only which has patented
**•%...'t potatoes from nation*) aid
•-vvii world* w J us und th © !s ?’• • :
rr;*> «l**rn> ca’dlv Th >* • co.i h
If .Wiled, store*’ and sttlpped* i:*
(halt h*rdU. ixlat u, tin- Irish po
tato Th s has heretofore served to
confine the delights of the "sweet
meat" tub •!• to the section In which
It is grown
Ihit now with modern commercial
canning method*, all this fs changed
The sweet potato extremelv perish
able in it* natural state-*- when can
ned keeps Indefinitely, losing there
to none of itn excellent flavor and
unsurpassed food properties.
BE PLEASANT, POOR IT OOFS NOT
COST MUCH AND WILL BRING
GOOO RETURNS.
The effect of a pleasant word of a
kindly sntlle used at th right time
will do more to establish human
friendship and confldtncs than many
acts performed through u mere sens#
of duty Orouche* do not make friends
nor do harsh words keep friends. To
b< pleasant takes very little effort,
a d It |s worth while to anvone
s -mAimes if take, an effort to be
pleasant, hut that is Just the time to
• \crt ore *eif and then a pleasant na
lure becomes a habit. The Libert
County Times has some good sug
gest long In the following on how to
he pleasant.
We see where a Vermont woman
has been complimented by the pom
°fTlce department for having presid
ed a« postmistress for twenty-five
years and in all that time not hav
ing given anyone a short answer or
losing her temper It is a record so
unusual, this thing of being pleasant
for ao long a period/ without a
break, that even the government
takes cognliat.ee of it
b ought to he worth something,
too. to the mail or woman who are
at» Inclined to lore their temper on
th* slightest provocation, h should
v ' rve to ionvmce them that if the
HttU* Vermont woman could answer
hundred** of foolish question* every
Week Without losing her temper or
becoming ruffled they ought to be
able to giv# a pleasant ami «*ourtfous
«t\s»*‘r to th* few *ane uvieallous
»*sk* d them
This thing of bring dlai'ourteou*
and Bix nu» shuip answers Is nil a
matter of habit* and a mighty bad
babit at that Hut. like all other
habit*. It Is capable of being broken,
or being discarded forever The next
turn vou are about to give someone
a sharp answer, no matter what the
question asked remember the Ver
mont won.an who refrained from do
ing so for twenty-Ive yaars—thau
answer.
t I
The newest typo xxf electric loco
motive n being investigated bv the
»a'l*-M . administration Five ~f
Vh<f» muttatera have been turned out,*
»ax h we.ghtng *.’€3 tons They have
a speed oapaclt) o( miles an
hour can pull ton* each and
contain an o*l ft red b»|!et In the cab
for heating the pesserg. r cars they
are designed to pull. 8k) much for
prog j ess
This much for contrast: The first
iovHvmottv* used in the meat was on
the Krie & Kalsmasoo Ha Iwav It
waa a diminutive, wood.burning ’.it
tie thing with a tall. Inverted rone
eta* k There were two ttr'vers, four
front wheels no cab. ami little else
but the simplest form Tor steam
ntak ng And transmission of power to
the driver* That was In ISIT And
this locomotive mad* It# trip be.
tween Toledo and Adrian, 3.1 mile*-.
In 1 hour and inlnetr*—soio*.
ttwea
In *1 years vast ctiaagea have
occurred It la not unreasonable to
suppose that In another years
<!o*s now undreamed of will have
bteti dev* lo|*ed to a point w here the
newest thing In present day elect rid
l'HWUioth '*• will seem quite out of
date Our ,?reaf grarC*hlldreu may
l \ ’he S'» for \» T ;k with the
um.- m:ch ,* •. the? w u v s b. u d
thv Cx ultiry.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
TODAY'S POEM
the more they get.
0/ Edmund Vance Cooke.
When laborers got u dollar a day,
Hweatr-d hard for a picayune pay,
Hut now at a dollar an hour or so,
Did ou over Rce anyone work so alow?
r I }»#• more they g«*t; the less they do,
Tb«* more they get, the leas they do
Jiomqf to goodness, isn't it true
The more they get. the less they do.
VN hen profiteers used to be content
U .t/t a margin of seventy-flvc per cent,
I hey work a little bit every year.
Hut never again will they work. I fear.
Tho more they get, the Jess they do.
Th* rriore ‘hey get, the less they do;
W hy work at all, when they’re working
you?
The more they get. the less they do.
Wh'-n a dozen eggs cost, a shilling, about,
Every hen worked hard, day in and out.
Hut now that eggs are a dollar a throw.
Not a cackle occurs for a month or so.
The more they get, the less they do.
The more they get, the less they do;
Search the chicken-yard through and
through;
The more they get, the less they do.
‘Winn an M «\ got three thousand a year
A Congressional sCßffiori was counted
dear.
Hut we'd willingly pay any price per scat,
IR nr) ly the Congress would never meet.
The more they get, the more they do.
The more they get. the more they do,
Do their constituents many or few.
The more they get, the more they do.
When Milton wrote his Paradise F,o»t.
He received five pounds as t|ie total cost.
Hut now that peotry's very much worse,
We get that much for a single verst .
Thi rodn to get. thi Ifp# wa do.
The more we get, the less we do
Did you ever read Paradise Lost clear
through?
That's the reason the less we do!
SUCH IS LIFE
New Year doesn't get to Russia until
Jan 13. which gives Emma Goldman
plenty of time to manufacture a resolu
tion to slay there. But here's betting she
doesn't!
At one time folks got New Year's Day
all mixed up. The Persians began the
year Sept. 22, the Greek hung tip a new
calendar Dec 21 for a few centuries, and
then decided the year started June 21.
England used to celebrate New Year's
Day I •<?<*. 25. and theft left that day to
Rants Claus, picking March 25 for their
New “Vear.
# The practice of making New Year res
olutions began with the Romans, who
goodness knows, had sufficient reasons
for turning over new leaves.
Have you noticed how difficult It is to
keep a new leaf turned over?
Well, Jt won't be quite so difficult in
1920 if you stay south of the Canadian
border and north of the Ulo Grande, and
outside the stocked cellar.
This Is a bit of New Year celebrating
as the Scotch poet did it:
Twal struck—two noebor hixzlc raise
And lilting gaed a sad gate;
The flower of the well to our house goes.
And I'll bonniest lad get.
The custom of si*ting up Dec 31 to see
»he New Year come In. had Its origin In
Europe, but It was eaflv adopted bv
these Americans whoso capacity enabled
them to stick It out that h 'x c ,.
The Chinese have a pecu’.'pr New Year
custom of settling all their old year
dsbts. This is tough on the pocketbook.
but makes It easier to borrow- money af
terward.
Also the Chinese has- a habit of shift
ing their New Year Day around any
where from Jan 21 to F**b IP. reckoning
time from the first moon after the sun
enters Aquarius The holiday lasts three
lays, hut usually It’s a w* <*k or two be
fore John Chinaman goes back to work.
In 1920
One hundred years w** have passed
since the ‘Missouri Compromise" war
passed, and In 1820 also Spain gave Flor
ida to th* United States, thus inakin ; it
noHStble for a few of us to go down o
Palm Beach and g«t advance tips cn
what next summer's bathing cost urn a
will be like
In 1920-
Will be celebrated the two-fnmdrtclth
■umlversirv of the Introduction of clocks
'n the United States. Before that time
they used hour glasses. (Every morning
the alarm clock rings we wish for tho
good old silent Hour glass >
In 1920—•
Will come tho three-hundredth anni
versary of the sailing of the Pilgrim fath
ers. also mothers, and John Smith.
\:\ ID2O--
Wifi come the four-hundredth anniver
sary of the beginning of trouble In Mei
ico. the Spaniards just getting started
down there in 1520.
In 1920 —
Will come the five-hundredth anni
versary of the beginning of the decline
of Iceland ss the best Known winter re
sort in the new world
IkleSlti^
••UNCLE SAM. M. U.." wilt
gnawer question! of g*n*r«l Inter
••t relating to hygiene, san tatlon,
and the prevention of disease. Ad
dress
INFORMATION EDITOR. U. S.
Rubllc Health Servlet.
WASHINGTON. D. C.
Mixed Feeding.
When the mother’s milk i* diminishing
tt is advisable to make tip the lack with
properly modified cow * milk. This may
be done either by following one or mote
breast feed mg’* with enough modifier
ml!k to sstisfv the babv or by giving on©
or more full bottle feeding© in place of a
ilk* number of breast feeding*
The flow of breast milk tends to dimin
ish when the baby nurses less than ftvt
tsmes In 24 hours When the ha by is
bemg tittffccd once ©very fqur hours and
is not satiafed. it is better to give him
after liuralttg enough modified milk to
satisfy hint, rather than to replace a
nursing with th*» bottle. If. on the other
hand, shorter intervals aml more feedings
are !»eing used. A bottle feeding may
take the place of a nursing without so
much danger of decreasing th*» supply of
breast milk Moat txables need additional
food after the seventh month.
Arvsxs>ar©d.
Q lama*' v l War veteran T* years
old and have been suffering fur >tur*
with pa.ns in the head I am nervous,
•hep mK»rl> and find my memory fail
ing. What shall 1 do?
A. It IS very difficult to determine th©
nature of the bead pains concerning
which you xxxmplMn of. so many different
osuii'R would have to be considered. Th©
most common on© In a man of your ag*
would perhaps be a hardening of the ar
terU*. and an lncrea»e In blood pres
sure
By all means have a physician give you
a thorough examination, including an
'ilM'likS
Morninq **-F'?2 l\
Keep Your Eyes
Clou.. Clwt.i' H 1
» « !«■ MM u<« IkoS L« V* was
-inajygiH of the urine and a Ftudy of your
hioor] pressure. To undertake treatment
without having such an examination
made is rnost untriie.
JAPAN BLOCKS
BULBS' PLAN
TO AID CBI
Would Keep Best Customer a
Pauper, Says Expert
By RODNEY GILBERT
(Leading Oriental Journalist.)
If China is to buy large* quantities of
goods from Japan, she must sell large
quantities some where.
China does nor sell, she cannot sell, be
aus* she docs not produce In large quan
tities.
In order to become a Iqrge-scale pro
ducer within the reasonably near future,
a large measure of foreign assistance,
financial as web as technical, will be re
quired.
Hut how likely is China tp invite the
assistance of even a liberal power, when
'.he privileges accorded in return will be
regarded as preced ufs justifying de
mands from Jajpan?
JAPAN FAILS TO SEE
CHANCE IN ‘'CONSORTIUM.”
The nation which most of all would
profit from large production in China Is
the. one nearest at hand, whOßc* language
Is most similar and whose customs least
strange. Yet Japan definitely refuses to
become a party to the only plan which
offers any hope of extending aid to China
in a lorm that i« safe for China to ac
cept.
Japan has been hostile to the new
''om'ortiurn. or conference of Interna
tiona! bankers from. €he beginning. She
stirred up tho first, opposition to it on
the part of the Chinese.
The movement to nationalize tho rail
ways of China to the extent that Japan’s
up- nationalized was frustrated by Japan,
acting through the particular Chinese
officials whom she notoriously controls.
She Insists upon the exclusion of Man
huria and Mongolia from the scope of
the Consort imn. First, because that
would be equivalent to acknowledgement
iv th*- powers that these territories are
hers; second, because she believes that
this reservation will prevent the forma
tion of the Consortium, and. third, be
cause she that the Chinese would
have nothing to do with a Constortlum
organized on that basis.
AN INACTIVE CHINA
WON’T BUY JAP GOODS.
If the Consortium finally fails to ma
terialize, the result, will be that China
will resume a policy of masterly inactiv
ity for another generation at least. The
effect of this can he gauged by contem
plating what it has accomplished in the
past.
China has some 10.000 kilometres of
railway She built 1,000 of her own voli
tion. 4,000 she had forced upon her In
1898 an*l 1897. but for ten y*«rs she
thwarted the best brains representing
the mightest nations of Kurope and
America. so that, the only contract they
could get was for 2.50 ft kilometres more.
The remaining 2.500 kilometres- she con
tracted for on own terms.
Yet. rie gra i-d terms that safe
guard I r sovereignty. China contracted
for a gresit. length of line than all this
put together within tin* space of iw»i
years—lol2 to 1914! This record can be
repeatad.
Japan has for choice of customer.
China, a millionaire, or China a pauper.
She chooseos the pauper.
.lur-nn's statement must answer not so
much for the morality of this choice as
for the mentality of it.
WILBER J. STOKES •
RELEASED ON BOND
Charged With Killing His
Brother-in-Law. C. E. Brown,
at Scotia
Hampton, S. C.—W liber .( Stokes,
charged with the killing of hia brother
in-law, O. 10. Brown at Scotia, was re
leaned by Circuit Judge James E. Peuri
foy on five thousand dollars bond on
t’hrlstmas way. J. L. Ellis, and Mrs. H.
K. Stokes were the bondsmen.
Stokes, through his attorney. Randolph
Murdaugh. Esq., applied for hall as soon
as he was placed in jail here Solicitor
Utaorgc Warren r* slated the motion and
argued against releasing the prison*].
Judge Petirifoy allowed Stokes released.
He is to appear for trial at the February]
term of court for Hampton county.
BUILD FIRE-PROOF
GARAGE AT HAMPTON
Hampton, S. C.—Contract has been let!
for a large brick fireproof garage by the j
Hampton Hardware Com pan v. local!
Ford dealers. T*.e garage will be thirty
feet wide and sixty-five fee: long, and
will join the handsome brlea hardware
store and run run through the entire .
length of the blc.'k. Work will begin
\\i?Mn the next few days on this new
building, and it Is s ated that the build
ing will be completed by March 1. Mr
W F. l>obv\ of Aiken, who has erected
i number of buildings In Hampton <mu!
Varnvllle In the past, has been awarded
the .ontru.'t The new garage will cost
about f.*» COO.
Mr w .1 Anderson, manager of the
Hampton Hardware Company. stated
that In addition to the new garage hi*
company will have installed 11,000 worth
of mod* rn Ford machinery for working
over und keeping In repair Ford auto
mobiles and trucks.
Augusts must go after that 100,000
population with a vim if it wants to
keep up with the spirit of progress
that is spread over all this state.
This city needs more business hour
c more homes and more real en
terprise The future of Augusta lies*
with Its wide-awake eltiaena and all
must work together to build up this
oitj to actual greatness.
NEW MAIL RATEO
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NAUTICAL INFORMATION..
Tenderfoot—“ Why do they have knots
on the oc. an instead of mites?”
First-Class Scout—“ Well, you see they
couldn't have the ocean tide If there were
no knots.”—The Yale Record.
Stomach
Out of Fix?
’Phone your grocer or
druggist for a dozen bottles
of this delicious digestant.— 3 glass
with meals gives delightful relict, or
no charge for the first dozen used.
Shivs r Ale
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Nothing Like it for renovating old
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Bottled and guaranteed bv the celf
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Porch
Shades
Wail
Paper
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Scene in the recreation room in a Telephone Central office
Pleasant Surroundings Make
For Happiness In Work
The telephone operator is no exception to this rule, and
there's a reason w r hy there is a smile in her voice as she says
“Number, please?”
The telephone operator renders a highly important pub
lic service. She has many opportunities to make work eas
ier and life happier for all of us, and in serving others well
she finds that satisfaction in her work that makes her duties
enjoyable.
Then, too, her pleasant surroundings contribute to her happi
ness. Her business home is a light, airy, clean central office with
attractive sitting-rooms and modern dining-rooms.
Her position is permanent. Her opportunity for advancement
is excellent. Her pay is good. She is protected in sickness and
health by a liberal Benefit Plan.
If you would like to become a telephone opera
tor or have friends who are interested in telephone
operating, geo j p Davis, Jr., 937 Ellis Street.
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AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
Practically Everybody
in Augusta
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NOTICE
Bank Overdrafts
The new Banking Law, effective
January 1, 1920, prohibits Bank officers
from paying Checks, drawn by Deposi
tors, when such checks create Over
drafts.
Depositors will please take notice of
this provision of the new statute and be
careful net to issue checks in excess of
their credit balance.
The Augusta Clearing
House Association