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THURSDAY, SEPT. 18
AN EDITORIAL /
"Ride the street cars."
It’s a good slogan. No, not solely for the street car company, for we
are holding no brief for them, but it’s a good thing, we believe, for the
town.
Take away the street railway, dig up the tracks and throw them
away, and the town will go backward; property values will decline,
thousands of citizens would suffer serious inconveniences and business
would soon be at a standstill —all this besides the loss of a very substan
tial sum paid annually to the city by the railway company in taxes.
You're not interested, you say, in whether or not the street railway
company is the largest individual taxpayer in the community. But pos
sibly you would become interested if the tax on your automobile were
doubled in order to meet the deficiency caused by the loss of over a
hundred thousand dollars annually paid the city in taxes by the railway
company.
If our impression gained from personal interviews with officials of
the company is correct, the railway company has no fight to make on
the automobile or upon the automobile owner. Nothing could be more
erroneous. The automobile has its place. These same officials own cars
themselves. It is their contention, and we think they are jusltfletf in
their views, that the automobile owner can do much toward making suc
cessful the operation of the street railway company's lines in Augusta,
by using the street car service to and from his office, whenever this is
practicable, and from refraining, whenever he is in his car, from pick
ing up prospective patrons of the company glong the routes traveled by
the street cars.
In many instances a business man can leave the street car practi
cally in front of his place of business when considerable time would be
Involved in parking his automboile. On the street car he is not runninp
the chance of a puncture and consequent delay, nor is he assuming the
risk of an accident to himself and others with its costly and often trag
ical results. The seven-cent token on the street car, with privilege of
free transfer, is costing him considerably less than it would to operate
his automobile, and in the course of a year the saving accumulated from
the daily practice of using the street cars is considerable.
You need your automobile for pleasure. Keep it for pleasure and
use It for business only in extreme emergencies. In this way its dete
rioration will be cut in half, and instead of buying a car every two years
your car will last you four. This saving can be passed on in the form
of additional comforc which otherwise would be unavailable.
The business man, with his instinctive sense of economy, figuring 1J
out from a dollars and cents standpoint, Js rapidly coming to the con
clusion that it is much cheaper to use the street car to and from his of
fice than his expensive automobile. It is an undisputed fact. There is no
getting around it. Possibly there is five or ten minutes difference in
time in favor of the automobile, but what is five or ten minutes when
ample time is available in the morning and in the evening? In the mid
dle of the day no time is lost because the average business man usually
buys his lunch in town, anyway.
We recognize the convenience of the trolley, the fact that if it were
not for the street car service we would either have to transport our ser
vants to and from work or do without. The cost in proportion to the
service rendered is ridiculously low; made low, approximately the same
as it is made in other cities, by the railway commission, which bases its
calculations on the supposition that the local street car company will
draw a sufficient volume of patronage to warrant the fare designated. If
this volume is not obtained, the company loses and the patrons gain.
They get service in greater proportion than its cost.
Be fair about it; you owe it to yourself, not to the company, to
"ride the street cars.”
Alexander & Taylor,
Public Accountants,
Occupy Entire 15th
Floor Lamar Bldg.
Are Experts In Auditing,
Accounting and Income Tax
Work. Have Built Up An
Enviable Practice Through
Their Thoroughness and
Integrity In All of Their
Dealings
Alexander and Taylor, public ac
countants and income tax experts,
occupy the entire fifteenth floor of
the Lamar building as their office
space. The firm is kept busy with
auditing occounts for various firms,
corporations and industries. Their
work is of large scope and extends
even to the arena of income tax
intricacies. Their services are in
constant deiaand and they have
established an enviable reputation
because of their thoroughness and
ability. Ordinarily the office force
is composed of four men and one
stenographer, though it is found
necessary during busier seasons to
increase the force to as many as
seven to eight men and three or
more stenographers. The business
has been brought to its present
magnitude through loyalty to
clients and strict business integrity.
Mr. Alexander, of the firm of
Alexander and Taylor, is a man of
large experience in his profession
and has been engaged at various
times with several other firms in
the same line of work. Mr. Taylor,
of the firm, is also a man of such
FARMERS OF RICHMOND, COLUMBIA, and BURKE COUNTIES
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SAVANNAH VALLEY NAT IONAL FARM LOAN ASSN.
experience as an accountant as
qualifies him for any class of work
in his line. Mr. Alexander attends
to practically all of the income
thx work connected with the firms
aTlairs, and finds it necessary in
connection with this feature of
their business to visit Washington,
D. C., on an average of at least
once every month, sometimes more
frequently.
The firm is composed of Guy S.
Alexander and Edward F. Taylor,
both of them gentlemen of ability
and personality that readily at
tract the confidence of their
clinentele.
5V^% —INTEREST RATE—S 1 /^
WALTER R. McDON ALD, Sec’y. and Treas.
Offices Eighth Floor Lamar Building
Augusta, Ga.
Application! should be made before October 28, 1924, for
delivery of money by last of November. Loans In amount!
from *SOO to *25,000 available.
ONLY CATHOLIC
NEWSPAPER IN
AUGUSTA IS IN
LAMAR BUILDING
The Bulletin, Published By
the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia, Has!
Offices on 14th Floor, i
Distribution in Every State I
in the Union. Richard Reid,
Editor
In the Lamar building are the
state offices of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia, an
organization which has achieved an
international reputation since its
inception eight years ago. The as
sociation was organized “to bring
about a friendlier feeling among
Georgians, irrespective of creed,”
It believes that mutual understand
ing is the basis of good will, and
it directs its efforts toward making
the teachings and practices of Ca
tholics known, so that they may
be judged by them rather than by
erroneous Ideas of what they prac.
tice and teach.
The Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion of Georgia has branch offices
in every city in the state in which
there is a Catholic church. The
state president is Capt. P. H. Rice,
K. C. S. G., of Augusta: T. S. Gray
of Augusta is state treasurer, Alvin
McAuliffe, state auditor; and Capt.
E. J. O’Connor and Mrs. J. P. Mul
herin state vice-presidents. J. Cole
man Dempsey is president of the
local branch of the association.
Richard Reid, of Augusta, is the
association's editor and publicity
director. *
Pamplets published by the Lay
men’s Association to remove
causes of misunderstanding of Ca
tholics on the part of their neigh
bors, are being used not only in
Georgia, bujt throughout the Unit
ed States, Canada, England, Ireland
and even as far away as India and
New Zealand. Among Catholics
outside the South, Augusta is one
of its best known cities because of
the location here ol the Georgia
Laymen’s Association.
The association publishes In Au
gusta the only Catholic newspaper
between Baltimore and New Or
leans. The Bulletin, with a circula.
tion in every state in the Unloa.
is dedicated to the task of
removing misunderstanding
and promoting harmony among
the members of different creeds
It is a member of the N. C. W. C.
News Service. It is not only a Ca
tholic newspaper, but Southern and
Georgian a 3 well, and it never
misses an opportunity to bring to
the attention of its readers and,
through its contemporaries, to
readers of other Catholic news
papers features about Georgia
usually ignored by the press on
the theory htat good news is no
news. Augusta, Ga., and tha South
have no more loyal booster than
The Bulletin of the Catholio Lay
men’s Association of Georgia and
the members of the association
themselves.
Famous Westminster Hospital,
in London, was founded in 1716,
when four philanthropists met in a
Fleet street coffee shop to discuss
a means of caring for the sick.
The sound of a bell which can be
heard 45,200 feet through the wa
ter can be heard through the air
only 456 feet.
WILMER D. LANIER
LAWYER
1408 Lamar Bldg., Augusta, Ga.
and
Harlem, Ga,
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
Georgia Vitrified Brick
Clay Company, Makers
of “Augusta” Block
One of the outstanding figures in
the industrial life of Augusta is the
Georgia Vitrified Brick and Clay
Company. The headquarter offices
of the company arc located in the
Lamar Bldg, with its manufactur
ing plant at Campania, 23 miles
from Augusta on line of the Ga.
Railroad. The company atso op
erates a shale mine at Belalr, 10
miles from Augusta on the Georgia
Railroad.
Output of the company consists
of high grade fire brick, paving
brick and sewer pipe. Capacity of
the plant is upwards of seven car
loads per day, and their products
are shipped over a wide territory
from Wilmington, N. C„ as far
south as Key West, Fla. There are
170 employes at the plant and
mines of the company and the
headquarters office force numbers
six people. The personnel of the
managerial force and industrial
force is composed of men who are
thoroughly equipped in ■ every way
to carry forward the workings of
the company to the greatest ad
vantage of their patrons.
Officers ofthe company ape men
who are deeply interested in every
progressive move of the city and
lend their aid in every way pos
sible. Frank R. Clark is president
of the company, and JohnM.Clark
is secretary and treasurer.
The water is so clear in the fiords
of Norway that objects an inch and
a half in diameter can be seen dis
tinctly at a depth of 150 feet.
RIDE THE STREET CARS.
WALTER MCDONALD
ONLY BLIND MAN
TO EVER GRADUATE
FROM U. OF GA.
After Six Years In State
Legislature, Is Now Mem
ber Georgia Public Service
Commission. Handles Gov
ernment Loans For Farm
ers of Richmond, Columbia
and Burke Counties
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Walter R. McDonald, attorney at
law, is secretary and treasurer of
the Savannah Valley National
farm Loan Association, with of
fices at 823 Lamar building, Au
gusta, Ga. Mr. McDonald is also
a-member of tho Georgia Public
Service Commission, being elected
to this office by a majority in 110
counties out of 160 in the state.
Mr. McDonald has been other
wise honored by his fellow citizens
in having been elected to the state
legislature by a large majority, at
the age of 23 years, bearing the
distinction of being the youngest
member of the legislature at the
time and of being one of the
youngest members that have ever
sat in that body. He is a graduate
With Broad Street Paving
Complete, Transportation
Service on A.-A Lines
100% Efficient
With the paving on Broad Street now virtually completed,
after weeks of unavoidable interruption to service and schedules,
we announce the resumption of regular schedules on all lines and
an up-to-the-minute service that our patrons will appreciate and
of which we can justly feel proud.
It is our hope and desire to give in return for a seven-cent
token, with free transfer, more than transportation alone. It is
our purpose to make all patrons feel the personal interest and at
tention given to our transportati on service by each individual
employee of thl company.
IN SHORT, WE WANT A UGUSTA TO FEEL THAT WE
ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART O F THEIR BUSINESS AND
SOCIAL LIFE—THAT WE ARE ALL JUST ONE BIG FAMI
LY, EACH STRIVING FOR TH E ADVANCEMENT AND SUC
CESS OF THE WHOLE, THAT IS, OUR TOWN—AND THAT
UPON THE SUCCESS OF ONE NATURALLY DEPENDS
THE SUCCESS OF THE OTHER.
of the law school of the University
of Georgia and is the only blind
man who ever graduated from that
institution.
Mr. McDonald had the mis
fortune to lose his eyesight when
quite a young boy, but with a
sturdiness of determination that
A HOME REALLY
IS A HOME WHEN-
A man owns the spot where he lives, around which beautiful flow
era bloom and he can hear the sweet melody from th® golden throat of
some winged songster perched on a bough of a neighboring shads tree.
When a mother graces each spotless room with her treasures —
children —merrily playing aboat—where a cheery fireplace will give
life and added glow in dreary weather —
When toys, dolls, a little red wagon, pencils, books, stales, and per
haps a lop-eared pup, give mute signs of love and child life —
Then contentment turns a deaf ear to all suggestions of unhappi
, ness and home is really a home. *
We have some REAL HOMES In Augusta and suburbs within the
reach of most any man.
HARDWICK & HATCH
REALTORS
12TH FLOOR LAMAR BLDG.
The Augusta-Aiken
Railway & Electric
Corporation
this affliction should not handicap
him in his race in life he has forged
steadily ahead and established
himself -as a man worthy of the
confidence and plaudits of his fel
lows. He is a lawyer of no mean
ability and a man of personal
magnetism that has attracted a
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large number of loyal friends and
constituents. His frateqilty affilia
tions are with the Eagles, Elks, and
Knights of Pythias; and by all of
his fraternity brothers he is held
In the highest esteem.