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THE AUGUSTA HERALD
AUGUSTA, GA.
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A THOUGHT
ra, ye are brethren; why do ya wrong One to » n '
o!K*r.—Ada 7; 2®.
Men, jr.:.n la thy brother, and thy father la God.-
Lamartine.
QUIPS: By Robert Quillen
If she i* an equal, why Is alimony?
If the k'an Isn't an Issue, why keep explaining ao
vehemently that It lent?
At that he la a wise lame duck who knows which
way to hobble this year.
It Is better to buy your coal all at once and avoid
more than one grouch.
If at 18 h« thinks he looks distinguished, hla
glands nre functioning normally.
One thing that makes It hard to find Ideal servant*
is the scarcity of Idea! employer*.
The way to get
the most experi
ence for the least
moniy is to keep
the neighbor's
children for a
day.
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ml
Dta: with the manager when possible. Underlings
may be as unreasonsble aa you are.
And the cheerful loser may be trying hatefully (o
diminish your joy In licking him.
The only reason boya fare better than girl* In be
cause nobody expects them to be perfect.
The liberal la much like other people, except that
he Is madder about things In general.
The ancient leader appealed to the wlaa men; the
n' lern appeals more frequently to the gallery.
" •• movie hero ootni* through counties* battle*
t: itched except for a shot In the arm.
If you wish to
know how ex
plorer* feel when
frozen In the Ire.
tell a woman the
look* fin* In
spite of her a;e.
After surviving American entertainment, Wale*
probably won't core what a horaa does to him.
The only American group that hates either aide In
China Is composed of proof readers
Fecundity make* the common people victorious,
and aome day Jltneya may overcome locomotives.
At any rate the Kusalans taught the world that It
Isn't always progress Just because lfs new
Correct this sentence: "Well, I vow", said Dawes.
BEC k (JSE fi y Hal Cochran
THERE'S always a reason for everything, yet
there's one satisfaction we never can get. The
womenfolk gather and chatter and lutz*. You
ask why thcr do It the answer's "because."
The Missus refuses to Join you at lunch hnd what
Is the reason? You haven't a hunch! You wonder
and fret like the av'ragc man does. You say. "please
explain," and she answers, "because."
A dapper young fellow will grow a mustache
though he knows that the thing will look perfectly
rash J’olltely you ask hint the cause of the fuzz.
Hut he Just doesn't know, so hs answers ••because.”
Whenever you're stuck on a question folks ask.
don't feel that answer's a terrible task. When quisled
as to why—well, Just take it from me. Just answer
"because" and you're enf* as can be.
Ferheps you will wonder, with reason enough. Just
why a man wrlteth this lingo of stuff. The snewer
should clrar me- I hope that It does and the honest
reply to the question's "because,"
Foolish Flings®? Tom Sims
Just being married teems to be becoming sufficient
grounds for divorce
They say bobbed hair isn't as much trouble as long
hair, and if you have your teeth pulled you won’t
have to brush them.
Dava arc getting shorter right along now. but the
distance from payday to payday remains the same
Even though you hear a lot about self-made men
we can t think of any men who ar* not that.
It takrs two to start a fight or a family, and too
ot.cn there isn t any difference.
We hute to ment.on unpleasant thing*, but Income
taxes are due again 10 days before Christmas.
Faint heart or complexion ne'er won a husband
Friday ta considered unlucky because It usually
comes the day before payday, and that a when jou
are broke.
Nice thing about the coming cold spell la you can
K-ep jour hands in jour pockets so you won't lose
your money.
Did you know a rope was 10 per cent stronger
when wet? Thie even Includes the campaign cigars.
The dtad-leuer offtca Is being swamped with polit
ical circulars and that's thtir right address
SomeHrms talk la cheap. Sometimes It len t. Of
ten a little of It coats a man a lot of money.
Rad luck la usually cussed for bad luck, whilt good
luck la usually taken for granted.
Football's here. Wa heard a quarterback tele
phoning and ha scared central ralkng the signals.
Anyway, most of those Russian* were named for
a few radio stations
Radio la becoming popular In Russia, arid It doesn't
matter, but many a whisker will get hung In the
wire*.
The price of raw sugar Is up. perhar* due to *om»
raw deal.
FUREY’S FERRY OUT OF COMMISSION
FUREY’S FERRY has been out of commission on
account of high water. The landings on both
aides of the river have been submerged to such
a depth as prevented acceas to the ferry boat.
Nothing could emphasize more the urgent need
for a bridge than the present conditions.
A party of touriata stopping at the Hotel Richmond
were coming towards Augusta vta Furey’s Ferry
when they were advised to turn off at McCormick
and detour via Edgefield. The Plank Road from
Edgefield to Augusta la now being worked and th>.
tourist party got stuck in the mud, making tt nec
essary to engage a mule team to pull their machine
out of lta predicament.
This la ony one example of such trouble and In
convenience that has been called to our attention;
but doubtless there are others. The conditions com
plained of have existed for nearly two weeks and
may obtain off and on throughout the coming winter.
Then, too. In the summer and fall month* low water
may cause a stoppage of the ferry.
There Is a first class road on both sides of ths
river, and traffic Is very heavy when conditions will
permit. The motor boat was operating satisfactorily
up to the time of the present Interruption; hut the
traffic Is Increasing ao rapidly that even tha motor
boat will be taxed within a short time to keep up
with It. There Is no doubt that wit* such a bridge
as s standard highway requires, the traffic coming
Into Augusta from up-country sections would be
enormous. A bridge, and nothing hut a bridge, will
properly serve the traffic demands.
ARE WE GETTING TAX CRAZY?
ON the market page In today's Issue of The
Herald Roger W. Babaon, Americas foremost
business observer and statistician, asks: "Are
We Oettlng TAX CRAZY?" Though the Richmond
County Board of Education has power to levy any
amount of taxes It sees fit without consulting the tax
payers of tha county, Mr. Babaon's question calls to
mind the recent defeat of an election held at Harlem,
Georgia, for the levying of a school tax of five mills
to continue until such time that «. school house could
he completed. It would seem that acme people arc
waking up to the evil of taxation.
The Herald believes, and It feels that Us readers
are of ths same mind, that "taxes cannot," as point
ed out by Mr. Babson, "continue to Increase Indefi
nitely without causing trouble." Bankruptcy Is the
Inevitable If taxes are levied without a thought of
the ability of the people to pay and at the same time
meet the expenses of the necessities of life. As Mr.
Babson very aptly puts 11, "We should use special
ij, re when uaing borrowed money. Debts can ruin
as well aa Individuals."
Economy Is as vital to the Individual as It la to
the collective whole —government. To live beyond
an Income la to become hopelessly Involved In deht.
So “the great need of life," ns Mr. Babson says, "1*
for us to have all things in their proper proportion
according to our income and requirements."
"It Is well enough to go Into debt," he continues,
"to a limited amount for certnin things; but let us
not mortgage our future Just to supply rich men with
non-taxable bonds." Aa The Herald sees it. It is not
so much who Is going to come Into possession of
bonds, but, by whom and how is the Interest and
principal amount on these bonds to be paid?
The answer is simple.
By ninety-nine per cent of the people who do not,
nor are able, to buy bonds or any other kind of se
curities.
RIDE ONE, RIDE ALL, OR RIDE NONE
HERALD does not believe that the Board
j of Education should go Into the transportation
business. We doubt indeed If It has the legal
right to spend tax montea levied for educational pur
ports for the hiring of automobiles to transport the
children of certain districts to school. At any rate
the question has become acute in the 119th District,
where It Is claimed certain discriminations are being
made, in other words—certain children are allowed
to ride and other children are not allowed to ride to
school. The slogan seems to be "Ride One, Rid* All.
or Ride None." The outcome of the matter will be
watched with Interest.
In round figures some $19,000 a year Is spent by
the Board of Education In riding certain children ot
the varloua country diatrlcts to echo! each ycßr. We
auggest that this money could be better spent In fur
nishing free text books to poor children than In Joy
rtdlng aome of them to achool. In fact to our mind
there are Innumerable ways In which thla annual
Joy riding to achool money could be better spent, I*,
might be spent In building better achool houses or a
new achool house each year tn the various country
districts.. It might be spent in paving the school
teachers s better salary In the country school*.
It certainly seem* a discrimination to ride some of
the country children to achool and to forbid thia
privilege to other country children. It certainly
aeema a discrimination to ride the country children
to achool and not to do the same thing for city chil
dren. especially where some of the high school boys
nnd girl* probably live aa far from the achool house
as aonie of the country children who are ridden to
•choole
O
EDITORIAL COMMENT
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DID IT WITH COWS.
Cordele Piapnich: A Georgia farmer who we*
*o hard hit by conditions which have prevailed
the past few years, that he was forced to give up
hi* farm and become a tenant, eleven month*
ago, decided to change h.a system of farming.
He bought eight cows and aome chicken*. "Since
that time." he **y*. "I have aold $Bl9 32 worth
of cream. SIOO worth of poultry and eggs, and my
share of thia year's cotton crop will net me about
SI,BOO. In other word*. I wti become a farm own
er again In Jutt on* year." There I* a creamery
operating In hi* county.
And that * the atory of many of them In thi* terri
tory- They will have to do It again Cotton today
! it bringing fully twenty-five per cent lower than
i what tt coat to make It. It will go on down to lee*
I than half what It Is bringing now unless the farmer*
who own it arrange to block the drive by f.nancing
their affair* until the spinner* need It. Why work
for the apeculators? Let the cows help save the
farm.
THE AUGUSTA HEEALD. AUGUSTA, GA*
PROHIBITION AND IMMIGRATION
ARE NORWAY’S REAL PROBLEMS
BY MILTON BRONNER.
CHRlSTlANlA.—Prohibition of
whiskey and brandy has brought
about a big Illegitimate trade In
these alcoholic drinks.
The thousands of miles of coast
lines, with their Islands and their
river mouths, have given smug
glers of prohibited Uqtlors every
chance to ply their illegal business.
The police and the navy have
found themselves unable to cope
with the bootleggers and the smug
glers and the effort has made In
creasing demands upon the .nation
al treasury.
All this sounds like the United
States. But In this case It hap
pen* to he Norway, which is not
only enduring some of our own
troubles In fighting the booze de
mon, hut this fall Is about to have
a big political battle In which booze
Is to be the main issue.
Different Problem.
But the Norwegian problem dif
fers In many aspects from the
American. In prohibition we went
the whole hog. Norway went half
a porker.
As long ago as 1838 the Nor
wegians began their prohibition
battle, but It took the form of war
on alcoholic drinks like whiskey,
brandy, schnapps and strong wines
like port and sherry. Just as with
us this received a tremendous Im
petus at the outbreak of the war.
To save grain and potatoes as
foodstuffs, the Norwegian govern
ment early In 1914 war months for
bade their use in the manufacture
of alcoholic beverages and also the
aula of alcoholic drinks.
In 1919 an advisory plebiscite on
prohibition was taken. * Four hun
dred and eighty-seven thousand
nine hundred and ninety-nine voted
for and 304,207 against. The govern
ment. therefore. Introduced and
passed Into law a bill prohibiting
highly alcoholic drinks and also
strong wines.
This meant wines with over 14
per cent alcohol. Immediately un
extraordinary condition developed.
One of the main experts of Norway
Is fish. Two of the best customers
are Hpnln and Portugal.
Spain said: "If you bar our sher
ry, we bar your fish."
Portugal said: "If you bar our
port, we bar your fish."
Law Modified.
Therefore the law was modified
so as to admit wines with 21 per
cent alcoholic content. But the sale
of wines was taken out of private
hands.
A state wine monopoly was creat
ed. In other words, a creation of
the government Imports all wines
consumed In Norway and disposes
of them. Beer can ho freely man
ufactured, sold nnd bought. But
amuggllng of prohibited drink hns
become so prevalent and so profit
able and the effort* of the state
have been so fruitless that the
late conservative government pro
posed the prohibition law be re
pealed. This was defeated.
The conservatives resigned and a
radical ministry was formed. This
fall the elections for the Storthing
will largely turn on the question of
retaining or repeating prohibition.
Immigration Problam.
That Isn’t Norway's only trouble.
Our Immigration laws are another.
It was largely heralded that w*
welcomed the so-called Nordic races
and that our Immigration statutes
were really framed to keep out the
races from southeastern Europe.
Norwegian Immigration in had
year* In the home country used to
go n* high as 27.000, most of whom
cam* to our grain states of the
northwest. Being farmers inured to
hardship and hard work, they be
came splendid ettlzens of their
adopted oountry. But under our new
laws Norway's annual quota is cut
to 6,000.
Aunt Het
|pi|
"Back in the days when 1
was growin' up the girls had
pretty legs, but they didn’t
think of 'em as assets."
(Copyright. 1924 Associated
Editors. Inc.)
OUT OUR WAY
V\MV MCHS46.RS GtT -
"The. PiRST SELL . fCapwcht 1981. by SEA Serve*. J
There are patriots here who re
joice They say our law* will keep
the flower of their young manhood
at home to develop Norway's In
dustrial, timber and water-power
resource*.
Others point out, however, that
with the United States so largely
closed to Norwegian Immigrants,
with Canada demanding farm labor
and nothing else and with Brazil
and Argentina too far away and
too hot, there la no place for young
men to go when times are hard.
Unemployment Coatly.
Norway only has 2,640,776 people.
But It ha* over 10,000 unemployed
and over 10,000 more on state-aided
relief work. Unemployment has cost
the state and the municipalities
several hundred millions kroner.
Unemployment, together with the
high cost of living, has given Bol
shevik agitators their chance. There
have been many labor troubles.
Borne time ago a big strike oc
curred in the Iron trades. The
court* declared the strike unau
thorized and Illegal. The leaders
calmly admitted it. Later the em
ployers locked out 80,000 men. Set
tlement was effected only after six
months' hardship.
The Bolshies have ruined the So
cial Democratic party as a force in
the state. Out of 150 members of
the present Storthing, they only
have eight, whereas the Commun
ist* have 29.
Thl* extreme element In Nor
wegian life Is a new phase. But
those who listen to Bolshevik bland
ishments are largely confined to the
cities. The biggest element of the
population is agricultural.
Farmer* and Fisherman.
In the main the nation Is still a
nation of farmers and fishermen.
The farmers own their own farms.
But they are small farms where a
living Is hardly won. And, when
the farmer dies his farm goes to the
eldest son.
The other boys then have to move
out into the world. We used to get
most of this splendid material. Now
we only get 6,000.
And think what these men are
used to: Their farms are so rocky
that the farmers actually carry
earth to the rocks, spread It and
grow a thin crop of hay.
The weather is so damp that the
cut hay Is hung out to dry on wires
like wash on a line.
The winter rains wash the earth
off the rocks. All the work has to
be started again the following year.
The pious need not be shocked
because George Washington's
great-great-grandfather drank beer.
Wine nnd beer were light drinks for
those days of brandy, rum, whiskey
and gin.
Nearly every one drank as a sub
stitute for the polluted water which
was the rule long ago. Water was
unsafe to drink. Science has made
it case. Many a man with a faded
red nose and high blood pressure
will comment that progress has its
price.
Fifteen years ago It was not un
usual for a popular song to sell
three million copies. Now It's a rare
composition of sheet music that
reaches a third that much.
E. C. Mills blames thlß on the de
cline of piano and violin playing.
It's so much easier to stick a 50-
cent record on the phonograph or
tune in the radio than to practice
for years and probably get nowhere.
Man used to have to create his own
music. Now It's out-and-drled and
served to him, like nearly every
thing else.
The village hand Is * vanishing
institution, along with the individ
ual amateur musician. Radio and
phonograph have canned music.
It's an age of cans —canned food
canned music . . . and even
canned thought. The Increasing
tendency toward qpectallzatlon gets
the average person In such a rut
that he Is too tired after work to do
much thinking for himself. The
professional "thinker" Is among our
generation. His thoughts, nlas are
usually futile. Specialization de
stroys the individual mentality.
Indians will vote In the presiden
tial elections this year for the first
time, under a new law. There are
about 135.000 of them, or half a*
many ns peopled the continent
when the white man came with
whiskey, bullet and bright glass
beads.
Tn a close election those 135,000
Indians might come very near to
swaying the result. The speakers
will soon he lauding the noble Red
Man. on whose stolen domain we
now live.
SILLYADS
vss^j
We may be descended from mon
keys, but the poor flea comes from
the dog. When things on you feel
like they should be pressed, bring
them to the French Dry Cleaning
Company, Phones 3551-3552.
A man has been known to step
all over his partner’s feet while
dancing and at supper—sit on her
right hand. Hot water is easy to
have on hand, when you own a
Rund Water Heater from The Gas
Light Co., of Augusta.
People who used to down medi
cine in their stomachs, are downing
it now in their minds since they
have been benefited by chiroprac
tic adjustments by Leonard
Knowles, chiropractor. Masonic
Temple.
Should the ice be taken from
Iceland, it might remove the cold,
but when the Ire Is taken from
Ireland, things will not Vie so hot
there. To be served right, dine at
Vorhauer's None-Such Bakery &
Restaurant, 720 Broad street.
A man may use his head in a
dark room, by bumping it against
the mantle piece. Another man may
use his head by switching on those
convenient eectric fixtures install
ed by Whitney-McNeill Electric
Co.
Don’t spend your money being a
sport, staying out late, and finding
your wife laying for you. Put
your money in hens. Feed them on
Vitality Poultry Feeds and have
something more profitable laying
for you. Harrison & Benson.
The Ouija board correctly wrote
her lover’s name, but though his
eyes were blue, persistently re
ported that after asking fother, his
eyes would be black. When your
eyes are about to change, consult
C. H. Pointel, The Optical Special
ist.
Women who pay income tax in
this country number more than
800,000.
UNUSUAL PEOPLE
Holds Job In
Two Towns
<« .% ■ wy
Dr. Egbert R. Cockrell is mayor
of Fort Worth, Tex., and president
of Williams Woods College at
Fulton, Mo., at the same tlma
When elected head of the girls'
school he refused to resign as
mayor until he had carried out be
iore-election plans. As soon as
these plans are completed he will
turn all his time to the college po
sition.
By William#
Speaking The Public Mind
STORIES OF CRIME.
Augusta. Ga., Sept. 23. 1924.
To The Herald: As a believer in
the power and influence of the
press, and with the knowledge that
there is hardly a young boy or
girl in our country who is not a
constant reader of our great daily
newspapers, and with the firm be
lief—gained from my own experi
ence and from observation for a
great while of young boys—that the
things they read from day to day
In newspapers gradually become
part and parcel of their being, I
hope I may not be considered a
hard critic or one of our ever pres
ent pessimists for giving expres
sion to my views.
The wonder is forced on me if
we are never to see—day in and
day out, forever—any headline or
apparently important thing except
one parading before our eyes and
that of the boys and girls of our
community some horrible crime or
some vile scandal? Blank “Con
fesses to such and such doublo
murder," Mrs. Blank "Bares love
for Blank in" (horrible murder or
unspeakable scandal); small boy
“Admits murder with axe," and
on and on and on, day after day!
Have we no other facts on which
we can look, that we are forced to
look day after day on the front
pages of our great dallies at the
faces of Leopold and Loch, with
the recounting of this unmentiona
ble crime, the picture of their cells,
the kind of gum they chew, the
picture of the church they attend
(and one of them a scoffing agnos
tic) —shall the picture of them and
their crime be fastened on our boys
authorizing all this attention and
publicity? Are there no really good
people or good deeds worthy of be
ing held up to your young boys and
girls, even with pictures, on the
front pages of our papers as ex
amples of honor, honesty, work and
service?
Of the theory advanced by many
newspapers that the placing con
stantly before young hoys and
girls of these crimes and scandals
will tend to deter them or will by
fear or in some way impress them
Children cry for
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
with the hideousness of them and
thus be of benefit to them I am
fully aware. Do you not think that
the' effect is rather to gradually
give them an indifferent attitude,
then complacency and sympathy
and finally the thought that it
must not be ao bad as all the daily
papers make such ado of it. Is it
not already creating that situation?
Many good people, fathers and
mothers, have I heard say so, and
they are wondering if our great pa
pers are forced to publish it? I
submit the thought.
Very truly yours,
J. AV. TALBERT.
Bowdre Apartments.
FABLES ON HEALTH
Cellar Cleaning
Time
With fall days approaching, the
Mann family gave a thought to
"ptting up" fruit for the winter"
and getting the cellar in shape.
It was surprising how much junk
had gathered during the summer:
boxes in which vegetables had been
placed; odds and ends left by the
youngsters, all sorts of things.
Everybody should give a thought
to the cellar at least twice a year.
Boxes that may have contained de
cayed vegetables should be cleaned
out. Air the place as thoroughly as
possible and then sweep the walls,
celling and floor. Then air agan.
R.emember air from the cellit
permeates the house and be care
ful that no refuse gathers to poi
son this air. Give the cellar a
weekly Inspection to make certain
no decayed matter or dirty refuse
has gathered
Get the coal bins cleaned out
now that the furnace is not in use
Be certain that the furnace pipes
are cleaned out before winter sets
in.