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THE AUGUSTA HERALD
AUGUSTA, GA.
Daily—Afternoon Sunday—Morning
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QUIPS: By Robert Quillen
Let Wales occury Page 1 while he ran. He will be
king some day.
God made the country, but only election year
makes It influential.
A hick complex is Just a desire to see a New York
ball club get licked.
No wonder Cain turned out badly. There wasn't
a single bonk on child psychology.
Think how the Herrin problem would worry
America if it were located in Kurope. ..
A desiructive Instinct doesn't handicap a boy; he
will make a good baggage handler.
The objective
case seems an
affectation. You
never heard an
owl say "To
whora".
The Darwinian theory seems reasonable when you
Observe how many rabbits become seal.
It is especially difficult to love a man whose con
science lets him enjoy things yours forbids.
•'The great problem Is that of distribution.” Na
ture falls down here, also. Observe the paunch.
No people is capable of self-government until It
can see a detour sign without pouting.
The great Improvement In Hrpo's left shows how
quickly a good press agent can get results
It is all right to have business men In office If
they will remember whose business It Is.
11 frequently
happen* that tha
first false step la
stepping on th»
I"".
A (rood pariy
man ia one who ran ha counted on to hill tha vote
of another good rarty man.
A military nation haa tha faults of a sport modal —
too much power and not enough utility.
people ar* funny. Tho more they learn to value
fraah air, tha more they try to hullrt their houses air
tight.
Doubtless ancient civilisations perished when
everybody became a public Job holder and died of
pique when non# Vera left to meddle with.
Correct thi* sentence: "It Is a great privilege",
said tha husband of ten years, “to kiss your dear
hands." y
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Foolish Flings By Tom Sims j
Thera seems to be a difference between pleasure
nnd happiness.
Where's our vest? We got to have It cleaned for
the coming winter,
A policeman shot a robber in Kansan, and that's
all right; hut In New York he would have to claim It
was an accident.
, The Prince of Walea atnokea cheap American cl
gareta. The world may be startled some dsy to learn
he eats onions
Autos are hard to dodge, but not as hard as polit
ical issues.
One tragedy of life is most former football atare
are coaching now for leas than bricklayers make.
Germany says she will pay to the limit, but ahe
reservea the right to think it le the limit.
Golfers may be foolish people, but they don't plsy
polo.
The lucky owners of summer suits which have
ahrtink will aoon find they make excellent under
wear.
What will become of the whit* trouners this win
ter? Kay aside a shirt and use the set for pajamas.
The girls who ha\e heen wearing knickers and
heavy stockings will put on warm silk when the
chilly days arrive.
Polo players may he crary people, hut they don’t
play chesa.
In Rockwood, Tenn., a farmer killed one of hie
hired hands without working him to death.
W# could believe tourlets were havltig » good time
if‘they all didn t look so tired and worn out.
They say Jack Dempsey will ba married and give
others the rhanre to say hts wife will then he cham
pion.
When a man says he will marry a movie star In a
year or two It may mean she has previous engage
ments to fill.
Everyone will he as surprised as usual to hear
Christmas is only about three months from here.
Robbers held up a Chicago filling station and got
only a few’ thousand dollars, which was had luck.
The over-cautious man wants three guesses at the
presidential election.
Musician was shot In Chicago, hut not for being a
musician.
These two-inch belts the sheiks are wearing make
n nice hold for kicking one In the pants.
Denmark has nearly trebled Its consumption of su
gar In SO ' ears, which certainly was sweet of her.
Hammond find > hoy whipped his teacher at a
Sunday school picnic, so may have had a fine time.
Chicago man broke a rib driving a golf hall and
probably blamed It on the caddy.
Evanston (III.) man got six months for peeping In
to bedroom windows. *o even when he get* out he
will never look the same.
If hell is paved with good Intentions, as current ru
mor says, then the sidewalks must he made of pre
election promises.
I/>ve Is the only thing on earth that esn make a
taxi fare seem small.
A rain shortage isn't as hard on the ear drums as
a banana shot-tags
MANUFACTORIES EXEMPT FROM !
TAXATION.
THE people of Georgia will be allowed the priv
ilege of voting on an amendment to the Con-
Rtltution exempting manufactories and new in
dustries from taxation for a period of five years in
the November election.
It has been slated that one reason for so many
manufacturing plants locating in other states is that
they have been influenced in a great measure on ac
count of taxation. At the last session of the legis
lature, a measure was passed providing for an ex
pression of the people on this Important quesion. If
the amendment is ratified, then all new manufactur
ing plants locating In this state may be exempted
from slate and for a period of not less
than five years.
The amendment should be passed and every em
couragement possible should be shown to manufac
turers in order to Induce them to locate In Georgia.
Manufacturing industries are the backbone of the
state and bring thousands of new citizens and In
crease business in all lines or commercial pursuits.
It Is believed that the voters will ratify this amend
ment by an overwhelming majority which will place
Georgia in the front ranks of southern states as a
manufacturing and Industrial state.
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TO YOU FROM FAR AWAY. ,
IT costs SBSO freight charges to haul a carload of
low-grade lumber from the Pacific Coast to New
York City.
This is typical of the "transportation problem"—
the penalty for ronsumers living too far from sources
of production.
New York slate used to grow its own lumber. It
still would be, if forests had been conserved, replant
ed systematically.
You have observed the tendency of Industries to
center each In a special district of the country. Shoes
have been made In and around Boston, autos In De
troit, meat In Chicago, steel In Plttcburg. And so on
Ail this Is a part of our age of specialization.
Communities or districts of the country are getting
so each has its own specialty, Just as each individ
ual has his "skilled line."
Usually industries congregate in particular sec
tions because there they are close to fuel supply,
•near the raw materials they need, or strategically
situated for distribution.
But when low-grade lumber Is hauled from the
Pacific Coast to New York which could grow its own
lumber, and machinery Is hauled from New York to
the Pacific Coast which could make Its own, the
cost of long-distance transportation more than eats
up the savings due to specialization by districts.
Yes, we are too far from sources of production.
the real '•railroad problem." The solution?
It will shape Itself naturally, by economic evolution.
The final result Is difficult to foresee. But there’s an
Increasing tendency for districts of the country to
try to make themselves self-supporting.
For Instance, many can recall when nearly all Iron
and steel came from the Pittsburg district- Pitts
burg still la the king pin. But gigantlo steel Indus
tries are growing up nt faroff points such as Gary
and Birmingham.
Bhoe-maklng used to be elmost monopolized by
tße Boston district. 'Todny shoes are made every
where.
The high cost of railroad hauls Is destined to
break up the industrial specialization by districts.
BETTER TIMES AHEAD
THE Iron and steel Industry, which leads the
way for all other business activities, Is slowly
but steadily climbing back up toward full
time operations.
The gain in pig Iron production in August was only
8 per cent over the July output. But It was the first
check to the drop that started late in March.
With the national election out of the way, and tin
certainty and superstitious public fear allnycd, times
may boom suddenly. The iron and steel Industry not
Infrequently leaps upward with rather amazing
speed. In August 1925, pig Iron output had dropped
to 1.818,110 tons. In four months It was up past
3.000.000 tons.
That may happen again in Iron and steel and In
general business. All hope so. V
l,ot* of buatess rainbows in the sky. Election will
soon be over. Steel Industry on the upgrade. Eu
rope. having finally settled (he reparations problem
(for a time, at least), should convalesce faster; this,
In turn, would stimulate American business.
The farmer is In better shape, his buying power
gradually being restored. Business failures recently
have been the lowest of the year. Balirond freight
loadings have been running the highest of the year
to date.
All these point infallibly to better times ahead.
America went through severe hard times a few
years back. That always occurs after a big war.
Here's what happened after the Napoleonic wars and
after the Civil War:
War s end brought a boom, followed by depression
In which prires dropped. Then came another boom
and prices went up but not quite as high as before,
l-ater things slumped and prices sagged. Then re*
covery. And eo on.
We've been going through the same process—a
post-war boom, depression, another boom or secon
dary period of inflation, and recently the reaction,
downward. The stage again Is set for a turn up*
ward.
We'd be better off if we could have good business
£itl the time. Instead of booms and depressions alter
nating. The thing could be arranged- and will b#
later, when men understand more about controlling
the puying power of the dollar, or. In other words,
how to stabilise prices.
Business conditions and prices are Siamese twins
B's a cruel world. When the girts put on evening
dresses you ran see where their bathing suits stopped
Molasses candy In your wife's fals* teeth stops the
conversation.
Buttermilk is Just sweet milk that has been around
too much.
Throw yourself at a girl's feet and she will step on
your neck.
A pair of dreamy eyes Is liable to cause some
black ones.
Sometimes poltloal parties present a fusion ticket
to avoid a confusion ticket.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
Copenhagen Never Hikes,
Everybody Uses Bikes
BY MILTON BRONNER
LONDON. —There used to be a
popular son g over here in
which the question was asked;
"Where do the files go in the win
tertime?”
And the answer was that they
went into the blackberry Jam. Simi
larly, a song might now be written
asking where all the old bicycles go
when American kids get through
with them. And the answer might
he—Denmark, and particularly Co
penhagen.
That great capital city and port
has more cyclistH than any other
place in the world. Out of its 700,-
000 people, it is estimated that over
200,000 uso bikes.
The auto procession in Fifth ave
nue, New York; Euclid avenue,
Cleveland, and Michigan boulevard,
Chicago, has nothing on the bike
parade in tha Ostergade. In the
rush hours tens of thousands of
Danish men, women, boys and girls
are to bo seen hurrying to or from
their work.
The file past Is endless. It Is
dizzying. So much is this the case
that the police have drawn up spe
cial traffic regulations for people
using bikes.
And on certain busy boulevards,
portions of the street are reserved
for up and down bike traffic.
IT'S a merry tale and Illustrates
Just how much of a figure-head
King Haakon la in his republi
canmimled, independent Kingdom
of Norway. Recently at a party
the king dropped his handkerchief
and a gentleman hastened to pick
"Thanks ever so much," said the
king gratefully. "I can't afford to
lose it. It's the only thing In Nor
way I am allowed to poke my nose
into.”
Navy Heads Worried Over
Stiff Cut In The Budget
BY CHARLES P. STEWART
WASHINGTON. —With the bat
tleship Florida already laid
up at Boston because of dil
apidation the navy has not money
enough to repair, officials of the
department are worrying over news
that the budget bureau has trim
med $58,000,000 from til/ $346,000,-
000 which they estimated wns thy
least they could get along on dur
ing the next fiscal year.
Under the arms limitation agree
ment, experts point out that the
navy has not been kept up to date
by the construction of new ships,
ns previously.
instead tho country has been get
ting along on what was left over
from the war.
Fighting vessels fall Into disre
pair prqtty last, it is explained, and
more and more money is needed to
keep them in good running order.
Just us an old automobile's upkeep
is more expensive than a new one’s.
The Florida was laid up because,
owing to boiler deterioration, it was
dangerous to run her as fast as her
newer sister ships, and she simply
was a nuisance lagging behind or
holding them back.
If file next fiscal year's naval al
lowance is only $290,000,000, de
partment officials say, it probably
will be necessary to lay up the
battleships Wyoming. Utah, Arkan
sas. New York and Texas also.
This would leave thy.navy with
only 12 capital in service—
eigiit less tiian England and only
two more than Japan.
The urms limitation agreement
put England, American and Japan
<.n a "5-5-3” naval basis.
England and .fapan have kept up
to their respective standards.
America, all authorities agree,
has fallen below hers.
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur,
recently said tho actually existing
busls is about “5-4-3."
Most naval officers all It
"5-3‘,i-3."
Some experts even assert Amer
ica's strength is below Japan’s,
when tho comparative fitness of tho
two countries' navies is taken into
account.
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| FARMERS ATTENTION. \
If boll weevil infestation is t’o be reduced next j
| year all cotton stalks in the county must be destroyed |
| early. Every cotton planter owes it to himself, his |
neighbor and his community to do this work as |
early as possible. This is one of the most profitable !
co-operative projects that can be carried on by a 1
cotton growing community. Completely destroy all
green stalks three weeks before frost !
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EVEN though the king of Swe
den is away somewhere in his
kingdom holiday-making, the
seremony of changing the guards at
his ugly palace in Stockholm is a
great show.
Every day at noon it attracts
hundreds of his faithful subjects to
the place.
In the middle of the great court
stands the officer of the day a fine
figure, immaculate in his nasty uni
form of gray adorned with Swedish
blue. Oft In the distance is heard
a fine military band playing a
swinging Swedish military air.
Here they come. Boom, boom,
boom! Followed by tha troops in
blue uniform and wearing polished
high patent leather boots. And—
shades of Kaiser Wilhelm—they are
doing the real, authentic goose
step!
No Prussion guard ever slapped
his feet down with a prettier strut
than do these tall soldiers who
guard the place where the king
sleeps when he is at home.
MODERN days In Denmark,
Gray haired mother and two
daughters, 17 and 19. sitting
at table at one of the side-walk
terrace restaurants the leading Co
penhagen hotels have in the sum
mer time.
They have been drinking col Tee
and eating pastry,. Now its light
ing-up time. Daughters put fire
to eigarets and Inhale with delight.
Not so for mamma. She is of
sterner stuff. With business-like
manner she produces a small brown
cigar, bites off the end, lights and
sends a blue cloud of smoke Into
the air.
Votes for women have apparently
been followed by cigars for women.
The best naval opinion is that
this is too pessimistic a view, but
there are no dissenters from the
verdict that, with the Florida, Wyo
ming, Utah, Arkansas, New York
and Texas out of commission, the
advantage will be heavily with Ja
pan.
Some defenders of the budget
cut argue that the reduction really
is only $36,000,000, because $20,000.-
000 is going iqto the coast guard,
to stiffen the campaign against
rum smuggling—and in wartime
the coast guard becomes part of
the navy.
Naval men get little comfort out
of this.
The coast guard's new vessels,
they say might have their uses for
defensive purposes close inshore,
but at long range, or for nny such
services as a battleship is designed
to perform, they would be wholly
worthless.
FABLES ON HEALTH
Care of the Feet
A* most people know, but give
little attention, the type of shoes
worn and tha fit of them are all
imi>ortant factors in the comfort
and health of the feet.
Children between the ages of 9
and 14 should be watched closely
and care taken in fitting them to
shoes. This is the period of great
est growth and the question of foot
expansion should not be forgotten.
Around the age of 13 children—
girls in particular—are likely to
I'lgin to get fussy about styles in
shoes, and from 14 to 21 is a pe
riod when this style idea gets
most firmly implanted.
In old age a good shoe fit is even
more important. The foot having
attained its complete maturity i 3
very sensitive to changes in or
gaiuc life and the freest foot ac
tion should he allowed.
Shoe fitters and shoe salesmen
should be acquafnted with the
structure of the hums n foot and |
its various peculiarities.
Different ages require different '
shapes and different occupations
changethe shw requirement.
If the child 1 arrives at maturity
with sound feet the chance for
comfort in later is good, pro
vided good shoe judgment is used.
m
Alabama man fled his home 22
years ago, thinking he had killed
a man. All these years he has
kept under cover, suffering the
tortures of remorse. Recently he
learned that the man he shot re
covered and lived. His soul paid a
price for something he didn't do.
This victim of fate's irony in
volves interesting problems in phil
osophy. For instance, if a man
tries to murder an enemy and his
crime is frustrated by his cartrid
ges being blanks, is his intent as
evil as the actual deed? The law
says not, even though the man did
everything in his power to accom
plish the killing.
Back from Europe, a friend tells
us had to pay S3O a day for a
room in a second-grade hotel In
Eondon. So it's easy to believe
that American tourists are leaving
300 million dollars over there this
year, as experts cintm. Three hun
dred thousand made the trip this
summer.
One big result of this Is that
foreign currencies have been prop
ped up by the demand for foreign
money by Yank tourists.
Grand jury investigates com
plaints made against noisy air;
planes hv residents of Dong Island,
N. Y. Sleeping is going to be quite
UNUSUAL PEOPLE
Never Uses
Hat Checks
v'. fHg
Miss Pauline Mohr, checkroom
girl in a Cincinnati (O.) restaurant
never use hat checks. She invests
each hat received with the person
ality of its owner. "Straw lids are
stickers,” says she. "They’re so
much alike.'’ But she solved this
by noticing the face of each ownet
and attaching that, in her mind, to
the lid received. Miss Mohr has
checked some 400,000 hats in eight
years and has made less than 100
mistakes.
Aunt Het
M
Coffer
"I don’t mind confessin’
that I like to chew gum when
I'm in private where folks
can't hear my upper plate
pop."
(Copyright. 1924. Associated
Editors, Inc.)
By Williams
a job when Joy-riders by the thou
sands fly low overhead at night,
shouting and flinging empty flasks
and trash overboard.
The airplane a great blessing, will
also be a nuisance. In solving ono
problem we generally create sev
eral new ones.
A prowler in origins announces
that the crowbar gets its name
from the beak of the crowd which
sit resembles and from which the
invention of this prying steel bar
originated.
Nearly ail inventions are just
copies of things that exist in na
ture, either singly or by combina
tions of copied parts. The air
plane's shape is the bird’s. There
is nothing new under the sun—but
there are new applications in infi
nite number.
A New York convict escapes from
an “honor" road gang. His father,
an Italian, delivers him back to
the prison warden. The convict
apparently returned voluntarily
after talking with his father.
Bitter for both of them, but both
act wisely. There may be escape
froth prison. But there's no escape
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NOTICE
• All deposits made in Savings Departments of
the undersigned Banks by the 10th of each month
draw interest from the Ist of the month.
Effective from October 1, 1924, the rate paid
by the undersigned Banks on savings deposits
will be 3i ofo per annum, compounded quarterly,
instead of as formerly.
AUGUSTA CLEARING HOUSE ASSOCIATION
Georgia Railroad Bank Union Savings Bank
Citizens & Southern National Exchange
Bank. Bank.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 18
from conscience and the fear of re-B
capture.
This bit of science, caught in theji
net of wide reading, will interest*
radio fans: Pure water is not a
conductor of electricity. The
rial dissolved in the water is what,a
makes H2Q conductive. However.®
there's no such thing as absoiutely||
pure water except In chemical lab-w
oratories, so radio fans needn tj§
worry about proper grounding. §
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Night Latches Furnished.
Guns, Pistols and Cash Reg
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