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THE AUGUSTA HERALD
AUGUSTA. GA.
Daily—Aftcrnaon Sunday—Morning
Entered at the Augusta, Ga., Post
office as Mail Matter of the
Second Class.
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of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
A THOUGHT
Only by pride eometh contention: but with the
well advised ia wisdom.—Prov. 13:10.
Religious contention la the devil's harvest.
Ln Fountains.
QUIPS: By Robert Quillen
In a email town the neighbor's conscience doth
make cowards of us all. ,
Perhaps those lines on Mars that are obliterated
•t t.mes are party lines.
The true philosopher Isn’t prejudiced against
any sect except the Insect.
As to the "intelligent minority", if it Is intel
ligent it doesn't remain a minority.
If all men were eiiual, there would be no need
of laws to cramp the style of the able.
In a period of bobs and knickers, "lie-man" may
yet hecom* a useful expression.
It sounds un
reasonable. but
doubtless t h a
happiest people
•re those that
have bread pud
ding for supper.
A' f
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The more untenable hla position, the more he
yearns to use hemp as an argument.
No wonder Spain krepa on losing. She doesn’t
claim she la acting for Morocco’s good.
It may be cheaper to rent, but you can t hock
rent receipt* when you wish to buy a car,
Boiled down, the merit of a tariff law is that It
enables ua to chaige one another too much,
Dempsey left the Wllla-Flrpo fight before it was
over, hut thla lime Flrpo dldn’l help him out.
Communism has little chance. All the average
(nan la willing In abate with you la hia prejudice.
Man haxeom*
idvaniagcs Inn
he can't altp 14
ounces of cloth
over hi* head
and call himself
dressed
Republics nr* not ungrateful. The memory of
Walter Johnson will be treasured for endless yeara.
There lan't much political freniy In evidence,
hut what can you expect of people who are cold
enber?
It won't he hard for a woman to handle a mete
State Not If she has earned the right to he called
"Ma "
Candidates are born You can’t acquire the gall
to think chaos will result If you are not elected.
Correct this sentence: *T tried to talk to the
President”, said he. "hut 1 couldn't get a word In
edgewise.'’
COVERS By Hal Cochran
When the night time arrives and the kids go to
hed, you will tuck them away, good and tight. The
©V sandman hovern around by the covers as little
ones hid you goodnight.
They re resting once more as you near close the
door, and you tell them to get u good sleep. They
fuss like the dickins, your neraousness quickens.
Then, finally, there Isn't a peep.
Then mother and dad are at ease for a spell.
There e really some rest to be had. Retirement of
youngsters the home noise will quell, and the soil*
tude makes you feel glad.
Then, after a while, It's your own bedtime, too,
and you quietly start to turn In. And then you will
peek, it's the last thing you do, Just to see how the
youngsters have been. f
The scene is the same and Just habit's to blame;
the covers are most on the ground When the tots
are asleep. Just why Is it they keep always kicking
the bedclothing down ?
Foolish Flings By Tom Sims
Hir»e*hoei» held a meeting in PlUabuhg, but
we don't know how much chewing tobacco naif* In
creased.
And at the Southeaestrrn Lighting Association
convention in Birmingham. Aia. soma ahockinir
aiatemen'a were made by the live-wires.
Hay, of Cleveland, la aald to he the moat popu
lar radio announcer, but ha had better not announce
my politic*.
Tha only tax return* in favor of the taxpaper
lately wai re'urning part of hi* Income tax.
The school teacher with a room full of kid* ask
inis foolish question* know* how a presidential can
didate feel*.
Markets show more timber I* being shipped thl*
year. We don't know if thl* include* presidential
timber
The wood* swill soon be turning over their new
leave*.
No man is old until ba need* a shave half the
time
Lo» Angelea forger won'S have any expense*
to worry him for 10 year*, according to a Judge.
Father time ha* no reverse gear, but Just ths
same he can turn hi* head around.
War bride* have organised in Chicago Theae
are real war bride*, not Juat the fighting variety.
If these Chinese don’t quit fighting soon there
will be nothing left of Chin* except chop euey.
The fall dances have started a lot of thing*
SAMUEL H. MYERS.
NOT only does Augusta lose one of her out
standing figures at the bar In the death of
Mr. Samuel H. Myers, but there ia a general
loss to the community of an upright, sterling citizen
—a man of high character, broad sympathies, great
probity, and withal a gentleman of the finest type.
He was a man of ever abiding loyalty to his
frjends. Without ostentation, he always strove to
serve the best interests of his community, and in
his business affairs he at all times manifested the
highest Integrity. Mr. Myers was a man who loved
his home and his friends with a sense of devotion
that bespoke more forcibly than words the excel
lence of his character. His love for children espe
cially, and their reciprocal fondness, gave evidence ot
a gentle nature and kindness of heart that ranked
him with God's real noblemen. A man of studious
bent, he possessed an invaluable fund of Information,
and his counsel was sought by people from all walks
of life.
His death summed up In symbolic form the man's
whole life. It came quietly, quickly and peacefully.
There was no excitement, for him at least, when the
summons came. And so he had lived—calmly, phil
osophically, and happily—always hoping for, believ
ing In. and securing, the beat life offered.
HOW THE FARMER FEELS ABOUT IT.
THE HERALD published laat Monday an In
teresting communication from Mr. J. C. Lamar
oq the subject of cotton growing and market
ing. Yesterday we carried another letter from a
planter living near Mcßean, signing himself “Farm
er", who commends the position taken by Mr. Lamar,
and at the same time, takes the city man and the
politicians to task for their failure to assist the
farmer.
While we believe Mr. Lamar was far too pes
sibistic In his report of recent cotton crop condi
tions, we admit that the long period of dry weather,
followed by incessant rains, has meant a serious loss
to the farmer, both In the quantity of cotton grown
and the delay and expense In harvesting It. Mr.
Lamar, In mild-tempered fashion, takes The Herald
to task for some of the "bullish" news etories this
paper has hern publishing from time to time from
towns In this territory. Bight here we would like
to say that these stories were published, generally,
upon the suggestion of business men, farmers, and
county farm agents, who, up to three or four weeks
ago at least, firmly believed that the biggest cot
ton crop in years weuld be grown In this section and
that the prevailing price of 28 or 30 cente a pound
could mean nothing but good times for all hands.
The farmers have been sorely disappointed!
Their disappointment Is always reflected in general
business; hence, the turn In events, Is disappoint
ing (o everybody. The situation Is not nearly so
had, though, as Mr. Lamar painted It. The cotton
crop haa suffered less, we are told, than was at first
believed. Then, too, the price Is on the upgrade,
being quoted around 25 cents again, and the result
has been a new apirlt of optimism.
It la true that neither the farmer nor the bus
iness man has any reason to expect a business boom
this fall, but, assuredly, conditions are going to h£
fairly good much belter than last year—and when
the final count of profits and losses are made in the
late fall, The Herald confidently believes that there
will he a balance both for the farmer and business
man.
As to Mr. Lamar's complaint of the effects of
the government forecast on the price of cotton, we
agree with him that this has been a highly detri
mental feature of the harvesting season. The law
requiring a semi-monthly forecast by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, though, was passed at tha in
stance of southern members of congress, who, back
ed by the Farm Rloc, Jammed the measure through.
This was done, It Is said, In the face of advice to
the contrary hy south rn cotton merchants and bus
iness men.
Senator George is now making complaint that
tha estimates as to cotton acreage Is all out of line,
declaring that "Due to the absence of reliable sta
tistical data, largely regarding acreage planted, the
price of spot cotton has been recently depressed far
below the sctusl average cost of production." He
hopes to have this situation remedied.
We are told hy some of the county farm agents
that the government methods of securing data upon
which they base these crop forecasts are, at their
best, highly conjectural. It Is gained by estimates
of local farmers and business men end hy agents of
the government, but each year we see high acre
age and high production forecasts dwindle with each
succeeding report until, when the final statement
is mad* public, there is a wide difference between
this and the original forecast. It would seem to
us. though, that the old plan of monthly forecasts
was much to bs preferred, as ths bearish waves
created hy some of the recent reports are not spent
until another bearish wave. In anticipation of the
nrx: semi-monthly report begins to rook the market.
"Farmer", writing from Mcßean, seems to think
the city man, especially the labor unions, woman's
clubs, etc , do not appreciate what the farmer means
to them, individually and collectively. In this con
nection, though, we might point out that the city
man, like his neighbor In the country, has had a
hard row of stumps ' to battle with during the past
three or four years, and It has been a case of
"every man for himself and ths devil take the
hindmost."
The business atmosphere Is beginning to cleat,
though, and the farmer who now holds up his end
will, in The Herald's opinion, find the city man
woman, too- ready and willing to give him every
ounce of co-operation and assistance in their power.
Had new* from London. Teople In on* English
town eat si* meals a day. which is more like on*
long meal.
There may he a lot of money h.dden in old
stockings, but there Isn't anything hidden in the
new ones
Women who smoke seem to flare up easily.
To a ikinny girl, a riding habit is a had habit.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.
Experts See No Chance of
Planes Displacing Ships
By HARRY B. HUNT
WASHINGTON'— Haa aviation
reached a stage to make a
strong navy any less import
ant than it was?
In the last few days the succes-
Llon has been made that It has.
The suggestions came from the
White House.
Government experts are very
backward about taking issue with
the president. But among them
selves—the Idea’s too ridiculous
for words, practically all of them
ray. Here and there, perhaps some
out-and-out aviation fanatic may
hold otherwise, but he’s a hard
fanatic to find, even In aviation
circles.
Ik HAT aircraft are important as
naval auxiliaries is agreed.
It Is conceded readily that a
war fleet without them would be
at a tremendous disadvantage—
probably a fatal disadvantage—
against another fleet adequately
equipped with such auxiliaries.
"But to compare a battleship
and an aeroplane, as weapons,” to
quote an officer who holds an im
portant navy department post, “is
like comparing an automobile with
a piece of pie. They’re unrelated,
entirely. One’s for one thing, the
other’s for another. There’s noth
ing interchangeable about them.’
FOR purely defensive pur
poses.” went on this authority,
"aircraft, In sufficient num
bers, might do.
"But If ever the United States
has trouble with any foreign coun
try, naturally we will want to
carry our campaign to the latter’s
shores, to sweep enemy commerce
from the ocean, and to protect our
own.
"How could we reach the waters
of any overseas foe without war
ships?
We certainly couldn't do It with
airplane-carrying vessels for if
they were unprotected by warships
the enemy would sink them as soon
as they put to sea.
"Dirigibles may serve the pur
pose if the time ever comes when
one of them can transport several
thousand men, and we have a big
fleet of them, liuta that time isn't
here yet and it’s unlikely It ever
wdl be.
"Neither is it likely we ever shall
see the way when an aeroplane can
fly oversea, operate and return
without a landing.
"Such voyages as the round-the
world flight, made during favorable
weather, from well-equipped base to
well-equipped base, at convenient
intervals, Is one thing.
"A trans-ocean flight by a great
fleet of planes would be altogether
UNUSUAL PEOPLE
He’s a Champ
Life Saver
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"Buck’ McNeil, docknrmster of the
city pier In New York, is a champ
life saver. It is estimated he has
rescued some 200 people, said res
cues ranging from accident to at
tempted suicide. He has medals
galore, one of them a diamond one
given him hy the city of New York.
His greatest feat was rescuing two
men from under a swiftly moving
paddle-wheel of a ferry boat.
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a different matter. How many such
planes, raking off from New York
or San Francisco, ever would reach
the European or Asiatic coast!”
IT ISN'T even certain.” con
tinued the officer, "that planes
would be cheaper than surface
rcen-o’-war.
"The ordinary military plane
costs about 312,000.
“With good luck, no accidents,
its life Is about a month, or 75 fly
ing hours.
"The life of a battleship, costing
38,000,000 or 310,000,000 Is about 10
year*.
"A $32,000 plane must be re
placed 120 times in 10 years at a
total cost of $1,440,000, And nobody
will argue that' a singlep lane is the
equivalent of a battleship. One hun.
elred would be more like a fair com
parison.”
SI
From San Francisco the inventor,
Kdwln R. Scott, claims he and other
American scientific workers were
experimenting with "death-rays"
before the Englishman, Grlndell-
Matthews, was ever heard of. In
vention rarely is the creation og
any one man, but rather the out
come of generations of effort, each
of a long chain of inventors con
tributing his share to the final pro
duct.
We fail to see. though, how the
invention of a murderous “death
ray" or any other such device of
warfare is much to boast of. The
original inventor of the rifle was
satan in human form.
Hetty Green’s son believes, from
experiments he and his staff of en
gineers have made, that it will be
possible to broadcast radio-movies
within 18 months. Not long to wait.
The next step will be some form
of television, by which you’ll look
in a box or on a screen and see, by
radio, a show, prizefight, battle or
presidential inauguration afar off.
Radio Is solving considerable of
the passenger transportation prob
lem by making It unnecessary to
travel to "be In on the entertain
ment."
That's the price paid for one book
—319.750! This is at a New York
auction of old and rare volumes.
The book in question was a copy of
Sanderson's "Biography of the
Signers of the Declaratio of Inde
pendence.”
Things are unbalanced when any
man can pay for a lone book, tat
tered and old, more than the aver
age family can save in a lifetime by
working their fingers to the bone,
even though spending the money
does put it into circulation.
Fifty direct descendants attend
the sixty-fifth wedding anniversary
celebration of A. J. Wakefield and
wife at Pana. 111.
If every one reproduced as pro
lifically as the Wakefield family,
and death did not Intervene to make
room for newcomers, a century or
less would have this earth so tight
ly packed with folk that no one
could be down. Standing room
onlv.
We have to get om to make room
for newcomers. Nature has this
for her scheme and she will never
tolerate Its frustration by medical
discoveries enabling people to live
an average of 350 or more years.
New ways of death will develop as
old ones are conquered.
A pews picture shows a Georgia
negro and his wife with 19 of their
children. They have three others,
not present when the newspaper
photographer came galloping up
out of breath. They were posed in
fine and look like the crowd wait
ing through the night for the world
series gates to open
Another picture show* a descend
ant of a rugged white settler, who
came to America in 1729. This de
scendant and his wife, now old.
have no,children.
Jules Verne, if alive, could write
a fascinating and not improbable
book about future men shipping
freight and express By radio—some
process of disintegrating matter
and reassembling it in its original
form at the far-oft receiving sta
tion
That sounds wild? Not any more
so than radio music, radio speeches,
radio movies and radio viaion
would have seemed when Grover
Cleveland was in the white hou*.
Her Boy Made It!
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Mrs. Calvin Coolidge pauses at an old fence post on John Coolidge’s
farm near Plymouth, Vt., and gazes tenderly at a wind vane carved by
boyish hands. Her younger son, Calvin Jr., now sleeping on a neighbor
ing hillside, made it one of the summer vacations he was spending at his
grandfather’s place.
SISTER MARY’S
KITCHEN
Breakfast—Baked apples, cooked
wheat cereal, thin cream, creamed
codfish on toast, milk, coffee-
Luncheon—Corn pudding, cream
ed celery, whole wheat bread M)d
butter, Jelly, tea, milk.
Dinner—Baked wnite fish, scal
loped potatoes, mashed turnips, ro
malne salad, whole wheat rolls,
steamed date pudding, milk, coffee.
With the exception of the romainc
salad there is nothing on these
menus a child of four can not eat.
He should not be allowed a large
portion of the dinner pudding but
as this is a simple, easily digested
dessert it can’t hurt him.
Corn Pudding
Four or five ears of sweet corn, 1
tablespoon flour. 2 teaspoons sugar,
1 teaspoon salt, H teaspoon pepper,
54 cup milk, 2 eggs.
Grate corn or cut lengthwise
through the center of each row of
kernels, then cut a thin slice from
tops of kernels and scrape out milk
with blunt edge of knife. Beat
whites and yolks of eggs separately.
Beat yolks until thick and lemon
colored. Add corn, our. sugar, salt,
milk and pepper and mix well. Fold
in whites of eggs beaten until stiff
and dry on a platter with a wire
whisk. Turn into a buttered baking
dish and bake half an hour in a
moderate oven. Serve at once or
the souffle will fall.
Steamed Date Pudding
Four tablespoons butter, 54 cup
molasses. 54 cup milk, 54 cup white
our, 15i cups graham flour, 54 tea
spoon each cinnamon and nutmeg,
| pound dates.
Soften butter. Beat eggs well.
Add molasses, butter and milk and
beat with egg beater. Mix and sift
white flour, salt and soda. Add to
graham our with spices and stir
into first mixture. Mix well- Scald
dates, remove stones end cut in
small pieces. Stir into dough. Put
into a buttered mold and steam 2 |
hours. Serve with lemon sauce.
Lemon Sauce
One cup sugar. 1 cup boiling wa
ter. 1 tablespoon cornstarch, 1 table
spoon butter, 1 lemon, few grains
salt.
Mix sugar and cornstarch. Add
boiling water slowly, stirring con
stantly. Add satt and boll five min
utes or until mixture is clear. Add
butter and lemon Juice and remove
from the fire Cool and serve.
A few gratings of the rind of the
lemon can he boiled with the sugar
By Williams
and water mixturer if a sharpe
sauce is wanted.
This pudding can be reheated and
used later in the week if there is
any “left-over.”
FABLES ON HEALTH
Care of Wounds
Most boys come in with bruised
or cut fingers, particularly during
the baseball and footall season—
and the Mann youngster was no ex
ception.
So Mrs. Mann generally vtas pre
pared with a liberal assortment of
finger stalls or covers.
They should be made to fit all
sizes of fingers. White cotton or
wash gloves may be used. Sew on
narrow tapes for trying around
> A \ HlPHlk Atlanta
Circulating Ice Water
Servidore Service
Free Ceiling Electric Fan
liltfi In Each Room.
Convemc t Downtown Location
Rooms $2.00—52.50 —$3.00
OTHER HOTELS OPERATED BY
BARON A WILSON INTEREST
I Mecklenburg Hotel Charlotte, N. C.
Jg*~ Exchange Hotel Montgomery, Ala
11 A— -j- Hil'man Hotel Birmingham. Ala.
HARRY F. ZOBEL* M«T. Terminal Hotel Augusta. Ga
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 3per annum, compounded quarterly,
instead of 4% as formerly.
AUGUSTA CLEARING HOUSE ASSOCIATION
Georgia Railroad Bank Union Savings Bank
Citizens & Southern National Exchange
Bank. Bank.
REDUCED RATES
—TO—
Atlanta and Return
$9.24
ACCOUNT
Southeastern Fair
Children Half Fare.
Tickets on sale October 3rd to 10th inclusive.
Tickets limited to October 13th, 1924, prior to
midnight of which date return trip must be com
pleted.
'For detailed information and schedules,
phone or write
GEORGIA RAILROAD
SAM D. WILKES, P. A.. W. W. SNOW, D. P. A„
809 Broed St., Phone 45
M. C. JONES. C. T. A„ R. F. WESTBERRY. 0 T, A.
Phone 661 Phone 1889.
Auguste, Ga.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
SILLYADS
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Of course you want an auto that
goes. But when you want an auto
that goes—in a garage, get one that
does not go—over your head for
expensive parts and service. Such
a car is a Ford from McGowan-
Motes Motor Company.
When it was wet, catching one
fish at a time was satisfactory
sport. Now some of us expect to
pull up a quart. To be In some
thing strong, insure in the com
panies of Lorick & Vaiden, Life
Insurance.
Terrible Aeroplane Murder: Miss
Jones confessed that when the
aviator proposed, she threw him
down. Autoists never even throw a
lock down at their Tires from
Hersey Tire Company, 620 Broad, if
they are Holyoke Tires.
The author of Sillyads composes
them by sitting on the wood pile,
and expecting the wood to spit. For
building material to meet all ex
pectations, get it at The Augusta
Lumber Company.
Some men used to get lit up
properly. Since it became dry, now
only their autos get lit up properly,
and they have a better start —by
having their batteries recharged at
E. A. Greene’s, 576 Broad street.
When we solder a pipe, we blow
about it with a torch. Afterwards
the customer blows about it with
a smile. Dobson Plumbing & Heat
ing Co, Phone 3222.
the wrist and place in the medicine
chest for emergency.
When the finger is cut or mash
ed or bruised, wash it very clean
and place a small piece of absorbent
cotton over the wound, draw on the
finger pocket and deluge with
spirits of turpentine. Keep the hand
up, but resting easily, for 15 min
utes. Unless inflammation appears
leave the finger alone —otherwise
see that it gets attention.
Teach the children, particularly
boys, to take immediate precaution
when they wound themselves in the
hands and feet. Sucking a wound is
a good immediate remedy, but
should be followed by a thorough
wash and a solution of carbolic
acid or iodine.
POSITIVE PROOF.
She: When we enter the hotel we
mustn't let them see we are newly
married!
He: No. Look here, you had bet
ter carry my bag, stick and my um
brella,—Ru.v Bias (Paris!.