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VOLUME XXVII, No. 4
Wins Terrible Sea Struggle;
Old Hawaiian Adrift 51 Days;
Lived on Raw Fish and Rain;
Rescue Was By "God's Grace ’
Kallapa Kanehaku and the small
boat In which the 54-year-old
Hawaiian mail carrier drifted
through the south seas for 51 days
with only a few drops of water
and a few raw fish to sustain him
until his rescue a few days ago.
San Francisco.—By faith ami nerve and
the favor of God, old Kanehaku, the Ha
waiian mail carrier, lives to greet the
new year, after 51 days of drifting at sea
in a 20-foot boat, with only a few drops
of water and a bite of raw lish in all that
time.
It is one of those epic experiences
which men preserve to hearten them
selves and their children in times of
stress —the story of how strong men and
brave prevail against the wrath of gods
and devils, their own blunders and na
ture’s supreme testings.
The story from tlie beginning, then,
as Kailapa Kanahaku. 54 years wise,
mumbled it upon his rescue and return
to his family at Kawaihae a few days
ago, and as those who talked with him
related it here, is this:
Kanehaku and his partner. Oliver
Laau, brown and cheerful as all Hawai
ian** should be, run Uncle Sam's mail
among the islands in a small pow'er boat.
LOST ON THE
ENDLESS OCEAN.
On the trip of October 22. near the
Mahukona shore, their engine broke
down. A trifle, soon to be repaired. But
the ipail must not be late, so Oliver un
shipped the tiny lifeboat, heaved the post
hag in and rowed ashore. Then he
waited for Kanehaku. But Kanehaku
don't come—not that day. nor that
month.
When the old man rose from his t*ask,
the boat had drifted far to sea under a
strong wind and there was no fuel in his
tank.
He peered anxiously into the long un
opt ned lockers. There was no food. Not
.t drop of water. And by this time the
blue bulk of Hawaii’s mountains was
xirtktng beyond the horizon.
' Now, if ever, was the time for Kane
William Jennings Bryan Says
Time for Bimetallism Has Come
Chief Talk Against Silver Coin
age Gone —Gold Will Mot Sup
ply Big Demand for Basic
Money.
William Jennings Bryan has written
this story on the silver situation espe
cially for readers of The Herald. He
traces the history of silver from the time
when a fight was waged. 20 years prior
to 1896, for the remonitization of silver
to the present date, when the large de
mand for basic money brings silver to
>he front again.
By WILLIAMS JENNINGS BRYAN.
The light, waged for 20 years prior to
1*96 for the remonitization of silver, was
forced upon the world by falling prices.
Three international conferences were
held during that period to devise some
way of escape from the bankruptcy that
threatened the debtors of all lands, anil,
'.hrough them, business in general.
liven in 1896 the Republican party
pledged itself to international blmetall
jjn and one of the first official acts ot
President McKinley was the appointment
<jf a commission to solicit the c-operation
of the leading nations of Kurp* in open
ing the mints to the white metal
BLAMED FAILURE ON
GOLD STANDARD TALK.
Former V’ice-President .Stevenson and
Senator Walcott, of Clorado. were mem
bers of this commission, and the latter,
speaking in the United States senate,
charged that the failure of the commls
nlon was due to the fact that Secretary
Gag*, of the treasury department, was
making speeches in favor of the gold
standard, while the commission was ap
nfaling to Kurope for aid In the re-estab
i shment of the double standard.
The general objection raised by tin
financiers to bimetallism, whether inde
pendent or international, was that it is
difficult to maintain an exact parity be
tween the two metals, but this argument
was conclusively answered by interna
tional bimetallists who contended that a
joint agreement between nations would
reduce fluctuations to a fraction so small
as to create no disturbance to business,
and they pointed out that a continual
rise in the value of the dollar was more
injurious to the world than any slight
arJation in the relative value of th<
metal under international bimetallism
• ouid possibly he.
BRITAIN THREW HER
INFLUENCE TO DOLLAR
The theoretic*! objections to the dou
ble standard*, however, hud but lltt:<
influence compared with the practical
objection raised by Great Britain's oppo
->ftlon. Being the grea? creditor nation ol
the world, Great Britain threw her Influ
enec on the aide of-a rising dollar, her
ilnancters being short-sighted enough to
maglne that she could permanently
prosper by a polity that did Injustice to
other nations—and It «u Injustice to
■ ompel debtors to pay In a dollar that
constantly appreciated because of legis
lation that gave to gold a monoply of the
privilege of mintage
Conditions are now entirely changed
Art abundant currency has been secured
from other sources, but, while the debtor
class |a no longer suffering from a rising
dollar and falling prices aa It was prior
•n ISPS, the chief argument against silver
coinage has disappeared and new argu
ments bring a demand for bimetallism
from the very classes that previously op
posed It.
Sow that the bullion in a silver dollar
worth more on the market than the
bullion In a gold dollar (a situation pro
duced not by legislation, hut In spite of
' 1 v-'e be,-»r no more of the "slumping
arou- dl) bd&bear or of tl "melting pot
test "
SILVER DOLLAR NO
LONGER CHEAP DOLLAR
The si* vec dollar ,- no ,otiy. . ’ ■ map
*o,.af ; It w the gold dollar that ia cheap
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
(UNITED PRESS.)
* A ; Jrf
• vt;-; ffixMzk W*
haku to call upon his sterr. gods. Five
days he prayed for rain, but the sun con
tinued to leer at him from a brazen
heaven atyl to thicken the tongue in his
fevered tnroat. Then the old man
turned to the Deity of the Christians.
Ami straightway it rained.
HEATHEN GODS
REFUSE TO HELP.
That night he managed to catch a
paint can full of sweet water, knelt In
thanks, and, remembering his empty bel
ly, again invoked the gods of his fa
thers. crying for food and help.
But Bono, deity of Hawaiian fisher
men, would not hear. Not a fish broke
the gleam of Hho placid sea. For 26
days he went without food. He was be
ginning to go into that lassitude which
precedes death by starvation, when tho
heavens began to rage with thunder
and swords of Fire.
Quivering with dread, Kanehaku
struggled to his knees once again to ask
forgiveness for an old heathen’s waver
ing faith In a God he had just got ac
quainted with.
And once again his player was ans
were. For, early next morning, he was
awakened Horn his stupor by a furious
thrashing behind the stern of his b'o&t.
On the -hooked line which had been left
dangling there throughout the long drift,
a fish was caught. Kanehaku ate rav
enously of the raw flesh, saving only the
entrails, with which, as bait, he pre
sently caught, other fish and lived to
hunger again.
The silver dollar struts down the ; venue, these days, while the gold dollar
sneaks up the alley.
If we may borrow the phraseology em
ployed by the financiers iiO years ago.
And, just as the objections to .sliver are
being silenced by the unprecedented de
mand for that metal, the world awakens
to a need lor basic money so great that
gold will not supply It. and tie- situation
In Europe is made still more aeute by
the fact that we have absorbed much
more than our per capita share of the
gold coin of the world.
Luring and s.n<e the war (he volume of
naner money has been swollen to fabu
lous amounts and no resumption of specie
payments can be thought of without a
verv large increase In the quantity of
standard money. Gold is n fair weather
friend
BRYAW
To uae a familiar phrase, often applied
to Individuals. It Is "Invincible in peace
and (pvlslblc In war." It goea Into hiding
when It's most needed If It had sliver
for a companion It would be more bold,
but gold and -liver together might nor
have been sufficient, to meet all demands
mad" upon them during the conflict
through which we have Juat passed
WOULD FURNISH A
STABILITY IN EXCHANGE.
Uim-talliani vould furnish ariottur ad
vantage, luimeiy, a stability in etebange
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 4, 1920
To hunger again—because ho lost the
hook in trying: to land a big fish!
CAUGHT IN A
MAELSTROM.
That day he sighted land. But his
testing was not yet complete. The land,
toward which he drifted, proved to ho
Bird Island, a barren gloomy rock with
no possible landing for a man who must
row and steer with his empty hands.
Around Bird Islands, as every Haw
aiian mariner knows, swings a never
ending eddy. Into that eddy swung the
boat of Kanehaku. to drift in great elr
eles with other debris of the south Pa
cific.
Tossed around the barren island thus,
hr saw a steamer, far off. He screamed
until %'is swollen black tongue almost
cracked—and the seabirds mocked his
futile chatter.
Then the old man lay down In his boat
to struggle no more. What was to ho
would he, and man in his puny strength
must not expect too much. But even as
ho was preparing to die, life came to
him —the trail of two human atoms
crossing at just the right moment In all
that vaultneas of rolling water.
HE KNOWS WHO
SAVED HIS LIFE.
It was afternoon of December 11 that
Kanehaku heard the chug of a Japanese
power sampan. With his last energy he
lifted himself to shout and gesticulate.
The Japanese fisherman didn’t hear, but
he saw. The old man, naked, starved to
a skeleton and almost insane from thirst
and exposure, was taken aboard ami
rushed back to his homo and sorrowing
family, 440 miles away—the family that
had given him up for dead and had held
funeral services these many days since.
Now. that Is all—excepting only This:
If the brown, kindly neighbors of the
Kanehaku who was “dead,” but who has
been restored to his good wife and chil
dren—if these neighbors have any doubt
about the old man’s new-found God,
they do not argue with him. For a man
who has prevailed over what Kanehaku
had to suffer, is entitled to any faith
. hb&t maudies Ws courage and satlsfied*hl»
rii>e understanding.
between the East and the West, tinder
bimetallism debts can be paid at a fixed
ratio in either metal, and business can
be carried on without violent fluctuation
in the charge for exchange. No one <an
now doubt our ability to maintain bimetall -
ism independently of the act of other na
tions, but bimetallism would give us such
an advantage jn trading with the two
halves of tlie world ihat the commercial
nations would soon be compelled to join
us.
Great Britain, no long- r in control of
the credits of the world, may find it to
her Interest to propose lnt> rnationa! bi
metallism and such a proposition, corning
Irom such a source, would doubtless find
the rest of the world willing to accept in
ternational bimetallism. If our nation re
jected such an offer. th< very commercial
interests that clamored for a gold stand
ard a quarter of a century ago would e a
rnor as loudly for a financial system that
would give them an equal chance with
Europe Iri the contest lor Oriental trade.
China's development would be Impossi
ble on a gold basis- and China is a grow
ing factor that cannot be ignored by those
who plan for the future
WILI-IAM JENNINGS BRYAN
RURAL SCHOOL AS
COMMUNITY CENTER
(By WALTER DUNCAN.;
Special to The Herald.
Columbia, S, C.—ln a recent talk be
fore a group of educators, the state mi
perlritendent of education made the
statement, with reference to farmers'
meetings, that as a rule farmers have
t,ut three places of assembly- the public
road, the country store and th. school
house. These, as he was reminded after
the meeting, are even less I rolled, the
public roads having deteriorated Into an
unlit place for social Intercourse and
►he rural free delivery having robb'd
the cross-roads store of Its center of at
traction. the postofflee.
But though limited In Ills choice to
the, schoolhouse as a place of meeting,
the best has been preserved to th- farm
er. As long as he ban the schoolhouae
he can well afford to give up the others.
Unfortunately, however, many of the ad
vantage* of the schoolhouer aro usually
overlooked. There are various beneficial
nses to which It might h- put Only for
a part of the year and only for certain
houra of the day during this period is It
used for school purposes
The rural gehoolhous. ought 'o be In
the general s»-h«m" of thing- the com •
munlty center and as such In many com
munities throughout the state has be
come a factor j„ developing and foster-
IT HE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES;
Youth Astounds Scientists,
Is Nature’s Secret Found ?
Gets Power From Air, Claim
Alfred M. Hubbard. 19-year-old Seattlo
boy, has done one of two things:
Hither ho has successfully captured the
tlectrie power of the universe in an easily
carried 12-pound apparatus not based on
any Known form of generator—revolution
izing the world’s machinery and turning
civilization upside down—
Or else he has constructed n mechani
cal hoax that baffles the guessing abilities
of thiH city’s foremost electricians.
Hubbards invention, which he insists
is an actual “atmospheric generator” with
no hocus-pocus about it. was taken miles
away from his home laboratory. With
a group of expert electricians observing
the test, an ordinary electric lighting globu
was attached to the wire terminals
The light glowed cherry-red for a good
hour. Hubbard offered to lengthen tho
test as many hours as anyone required,
by way of provlft.gr it wasnt* a storage
battery but was making its own electric
ity minute by minute.
His own claim is that the Instrument
will continue to produce electrical cur
rent indefinitely, or until the insulation
rots from the wires.
Owing to the incomplete state of the
patent. Hubbard refused to permit an ex
amination of the internal workings of the
device. He gives the following general
explanation of Its structure:
The generator consists of a. steel core,
magnetized, with several layers of wire
wrapped armind it. The method of at
tachment of the wires and other details
were not revealed. Magnetism, he says,
takes place after the wrapping Is done,
and after that the instrument needs no
further attention.
“This is not a perpetual motion ma
chine ,” insists Tlugbard. “It merely takes
electrical energy from the air and turns )t
into power.
“In a word. T have hitched my wires
to the tail of the universe.**
“i got my Idea,’ ’says Hubbard, who Is
a high soliool graduate, “from working in
a factory and watching a hell whirl past.
Like thousands of others, I found I could
extract a spark from the belt by touching
it with my finger tip. This gave me the
idea, but my principle is not that of the
belt.”
All experts who saw the machine in
operation agree that there is. of course, a
possibility of trickery. But none of them
says trickery is certain. All say that Hub
bard’s claims are amazing, stuplfylng in
their scope, revolutionary—but not im
possible
If Hubbard has done what he claims,
with a machine weighing only 12 pounds,
he has done these! hlngs too:
He has “scrapped” every gas and steam
engine In the world
He has put every big power corporation
out of business, by enabling every homo
to light and heat Itself.
He has put every farm on a self-run
ning basis at no cost whatever for power.
Ing community spilt, bringing not onJy
the farmers, but. the farmers’ wSve.s to
gether to confer on their common prob
lems. The farmer; no more than any
other man, lives to himself; his isolation
should he measured only by the distance
from his home to the school house. *
ft is good for people of common inter
ests and like problems of Iif«• to rxrrw- to
gether and find in social intercourse a
mutuality of Interests. One, finds that
the weight of the world is not resting
solely on his shoulders. Tlk re is a help
fulness In it, a distinct benefit, hut in no
other way so much as it serves to alter
one’s viewpoint, enabling him to look
out upon the world with the eves of
many, as well as his ow n
Besides this, wherever the sehoolboutie
Is the community center one never finds
a poor school. The community spirit
that is created takes care of that
SMUGGLING FOOD IN
GERMANY INCREASES
Coblenz.- Wmlt trad*' in Joo<i, with it*
attendant *viln of HrnuKKliuj*: andußUry, in
on the increato throughout Germany,
accord!risr to newspaper account*.
The rationing «y«tern ban never been
abandoned even in th#* occupied areas ol
the JthJnHand and some of the iu;wm
paper* contend that the average indl
vidua) canriot HubaiHt on th#; amount of
food ißHucd. The ;iuthoriti«*K are making
'•very effort to check the ilh tr.il traffic In
fo#*dH of all klh#le and tin cou-t* arc
crowded day after day.
SrrimftflinK of potatoes i« beintf carri#d
on thi« winter in al parts of Germany
on a sen)* greater than in war tine.
Germany produced an excellent pototo
crop this year and the authorltic* n*n
trying to wave It from falinK into tie
handK of the speculate s.
Well-to-do people have b« # n ipiluic if.
Bavaria from Prussia, Wuerttemberg and
Thurinria to buy potatoes, #*Kk« an#l fnt»
for which the farrrmrs e‘.iarif#*d exorbitant j
prices. Thlf» work#;d a hardship on the
poorer people who coul#j not. rrompeto
with them.
Living appear/, to he cheaper in Ha
varia than #*!*#•where in Germany flutter
has been selling there at five marks
n pfiund. campareed with; 30 marks In
Berlin. Kkks ar» quoted al 26 pfennings
each whll# In Berlin they cost 1.76 mark*
a piece. Kffits In the oc# upled ar* a have
i#*#n brimdriK for 2 to 2,60 marks .-ach
this winter but are very scare at any
price.
M#*at is ;*!«'> report'd hh farlTy pletUif.il
In Bavaria. although In all other
this form of food Is virtually impure uim
able by' househol#l'*rs reifula.*
rhanreis excepting ore# or twice each
month when the authorities perm t a f« w
one#; to be distributed by the card /-yst *m
to th#» iridlvidtJHl. Most, of th# hotel#
♦hroujehout #*##ntinu#** o H»rv*
meat thr#e or four days #ach week how
ever. The proprietors say they obtain
this fr#*n Holland and that this Jo# r not
violate food regulations.
HORRORS OF PROHIBITION
"Whit .r< you Koim; to do with all
tha "on *• niaih « re/m- de Jar.r. you
worked out with suffar and corn meal
an#j for*h?"
"That's tin* uue/flrm:*' f'nc!e Bill
Bottleiop. "What »r#» w# *mln’ to do
with it? Wo can > drink It and it'## mo
expensive to b# thrown away."—ash -
Inr’un S’ar.
Wii iWVHw i'"' '
jiJfi'ecj H. Huhb&rcL'
He has perpetuated the energy-supply
of every manufacturing plant, railroad,
steamship, construction works, in the
to orld.
BLOUSES ARE
TRANSFORMED.
FOR NEW YEAR
Of the many new things which will ho
seen in the coming year, changes in wo
J. A. MULI.ARKY CO.
830 BROADWAY
There’s Sure to be Great
Excitement Here Tomorrow
VVe know it is hard for anyone to realize that in this day of high prices, we are
selling .such fine high-class apparel at such ridiculously low figures, but under the
circumstances, we could do nothing else. To dispose of these garments w r e will sell
them at Half Price, and when you examine these coat suits, ladies’ and children’s
coats, you will wonder that we would have the courage to make such a sacrifice.
Smart Winter Coats
When you see the splen
did tailoring, the hand
some material, and the
clever styles, you will
realize at once that these
are coats from master de
signers. In the new ma
terials, button trimmed,
with fur or velvet collars.
We regard these as one of
the most astonishing
values of the season. All
ladies’ -and children’s
coats at HALF PRICE.
Prices range from $15.00
to $65.00.
Ladies’ Outing
Gowns
A special lot of outing
gowns on sale tomorrow.
Made of good materials,
and are splendid values.
Full and liberal in length
and width $2, $2.50 & $3
Some Extra Good
Quality in Cotton
and White Goods
For Monday '
Short lengths in U-4 un
bleached Peppered Sheet
ing, for, a yard 69c
36-ineh White bleaching,
for, a yard 25c
Sea Island in short lengths
for, a yard ‘lsc
Lucerne percales in light
and dark colors, for, a
yard . . 39c, 50c and 59c
Splendid outing flannel,
dark or light colors, for, a
yard 35c
Lingerie Crepe or Batiste
for, a yard . 75c and 85c
A special in sheets, for
each $2.00
TOMORROW
The manager of the wool
goods department makes
some perfectly good prices
on new goods just receiv
ed.
Red, white and navy
French flannel, for, a
yard $2.00
White Corduroy for, a
yard $1.50
Velours, 50 Inches wide,
in all colors, for, a
yard $4.50
French Broadcloths, in all
colofs, 54 inches wide, for
a yard $4.50
Beautiful colors in Serges,
for, yard SI.OO
Black and colored trico
tines, 52 inches wide, for
a yard $4.50
J. A. MULLARKY CO.
830 Broadway
We arc Members of the Board of Commerce.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS)
men's dress styles will be up in the fore.
And among those new styles none point.
vo greater charm than tho blouse faslhons
of the new year.
Kntirelv now embroideries will form
odd yokes, deep lower edges, sleeve cuffs
and sasli trimmings on the new develop
ment of the cußfiquc blouse. Th»* main
changes in this popular garment, how
ever. will b' 1 n shortening of the length
md a perceptible widening at the waist
line. In some models it will have a box
cut appearance, and in others a ruli,
belted, youthful silhouette. All will re
tain the slip-over or open shoulder-seam
feature. The new' casaque lines an- don
er to the fgure than hove been the Bal
kan and Tl nasi an blouse models.
Kid Blouses May Come.
Some of these blouses being shipped
from Pans are of tricolette basket
weave trimmed with rows of wool fringes
and borders of large beads and queer me
tallic devices* Many are trimmed with
embroidered strips of lc.at.rhr. Charming
smocks arc being made of silk serge,
heavy silks and slik duTctyna, with elab
orate collars and girdles for outdoor went
this spring.
If may be that the Baris novelty last
I UTHMfm 1
'•Aurn
Fair Price Blouses in This Fair Price Store
That a store can be a fair price store requires more than
a mere desire, it requires the co-operation with fair
price manufacturers. New Wirthmor Cotton Blouses
at ... ~. ••• $1.50
ill
New Spring Skirts
Vastly more comprehen
sive than ever before, our
spring line of skirts em
braces the choicest goods
in the market. Kvery mod
el in our establishment ex
emplifies the standard of
excellence throughout, in
material, workmanship
and finish. Better judg
ment would dictate your
anticipating the season by
making an early purchase.
The materials are crepe
jette, Kumsi-kumsa, pus
sy willow, goldfeuse satin,
mattlesea, baronet satin,
dew kist fantasi, thistle
dew, etc. Prices,
$20.00, $29.00 and $39.00
Are You Interested
in Remnants?
If go, com* to our remnant
counter Monday morning, there
will be remnant* of all wash
fabric* In desirable length* at
very attractive price*
Men’s Cotton
Sweaters
In grej and khaki for, each $2
HOME
EDITION
fall, the kid blouse, will gain popularity
in the state* this spring. Tho beat known
model sent to Amcrcia In the fall was of
flesh pink kid with a perforated design
Although such n hlous- is highly deco
rative, ns well as practical, it still await*
a general accepttnco by leaders of fpgh*
ion^
Hand-Made Blouse.
Far from la«t in Importance la the com
plete revival of the hand-made. lingerie
blouse. Kssentially French, it remained
for the American women on war duty in
France to bring back with them a re
in wed desire for this blouse. French
voile stands high in favor among the
materials, on account of its firmness,
sheernesa and tubbing qualities. All the
old-time decorative idea—drawn work,
shadow embroidery, hand-made heading,
fine tucking, “point” edge and high-pad
ded embroidery—are coming back with
It. Kven the. finely pleated Jabot frill of
delicate lace, for morning wear with
semi tailored suits. Is already in vogue.
Dacca—lnsh. climy and antique filet—*
will be tho loveliest and best of trim
mings.
Blankets and
Comforts
This brings a lucky sale to
you for Monday in blan
kets and comforts. So if
you need them, here is
your opportunity of buy
ing them. We make spec
ial mention of one lot of
comforts and blankets,
$4.50 and $5.00 values in
this sale for $3.98
COAT SUITS
Distinguished models from
one of the country’s best
known makers. Clever
models in the leading
fabrics of the season and
shown in the popular col
ors, and the new trimming
effects. All sizes in gy/'d,
assortments at Half Pr
The prices of the suits e‘
from $17.50 to SIOO.OO,
all at Half Price.
A Reduction on
Serge Dresses
You are certainly going to
he well pleaHetl with these
serge dresses, and it’s go
ing to be easy choice for
you. These dresses are
real values. You will have
to visit our ready-to-wear
department on second
floor, to appreciate them.
Ladies’ Knit
Underwear
laulleg vent* and pant*, for
•>' SI.OO and $1.50
Iktdlea* knit union unite, for.
‘■'o l* $2.00 and $2.50
laidlc's knit corset cover*
for SI.OO
I aiding' knit aklroi,
t°r sl-50 and $1.75
Ladies’ Sweaters
A few ladles' sweaters left, will
sell at reduced prices, do not
wish to eurry them over,