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THE AUGUSTA HERALD
AUGUSTA, GA.
Daily—Afternoon Sunday-Morning
Entered at the Augusta. Ga., Post
office as Mail Matter of the
Second Class.
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PRESS.
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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
The thought* of th# diligent tand only to plenteoue
neooi but of ovary ona that it ha.ty only to want.—
Prov. 11.5:
Diligence, nbove ail. is the mother of good luck.—
Samutl Smiles.
QUIPS: By Robert Quillen
Women wonder why Wale* is single; men wonder
how h* managed it.
•'School tone; driv* alow'' la a fair warning. You
(night meet an adverb.
Conservatives are people who think ‘radical" and
"discontented" synonymous.
The French are a practical lot. They make fewer
records and more plane*.
The three curse* of our generation: I/io*e tongues,
loose morals, loose brakes.
The millennium will begin soon after patriotism
la purged of appetite nnd envy.
The thing* one
stands for are
called convic
tions; the thing*
one falls for are
called flappers
Psychology: The rich man grew thin and smiled;
the poor man grew thin and curaed.
Daughters wouldn’t have so much lo tell mothers
If mother* would tell daughters more.
It * queer the nuthorltle* can't discover fake stork*
when the sucker find* them so esslly.
Stale* enjoy ridiculing the Senators from other
State*. It helps them in forget their own.
The truth I*. s<>u don't particularly care for the
darned thing unless you can't afford It.
And *o there la a new demand for travel literature?
And the Couzen* committee ha* only begun.
A hick town i*
a place where
Central can tell
you which mem
ber of Ihe family
the doctor was
called to see.
A dull newspaper la on* In which you don’t recog
n.xo the name* of any of the casualties.
Thd scars of war heal, and none are mad at on*
another now exrept Mr. Hughe* nnd Mr. Trotsky.
Government require* you to help support the rum
chasers, but you can avoid supporting th* rum fleet
"Youth will be nerved" is s good saying. But to
check criminal youth we need another; "Time will
lw served "
Correct this sentence: "She had on a made-over
ha:", said the friend, "and I thought It new.”
Plain Foolish B ? Hftl Cochran
WHEN th* fall la In the ozone and the leave*
are In the fall, and there* cold within ihe
air but not your head, It la nice to crank your
auto. If the thing Will atart at all, and Just rid# to
watch the green thing# turning red.
You can ride the lovely highway* where the mud I*
mucky thick; you can now and then get atuck up to
the hub But, on any of the way* someone elae will
likely stick, so you'll know that you are not the only
dub.
You can catch the cut of autumn w itb It* tingle In
the air: you can deeply drink the chill In, brave and
hold. You can catch the loss of aummer which has
gone, you know not where. *nd It'e likely, too, you 1
also catch • cold.
Oh, I've met the folk* wPho've done It and Ml paa* It
on to you. It la mild to merely tell you they have
laved They have worn too llttla clothing, nulls a
fooliah thing to do. and they've driven on the road*
tha' are not paved.
Foolish Flings=y Tom Sims
South Dakota boy net the wood* on fir*. Almo»t
as rash as candidate* who burn their bridges before
them.
They caught a pearl thief In l’*rl*. H* thought the
wor d wai hi* oyster, but it wasn't.
b'tndtng'pearls In oyster* isn't a bit more difficult
than finding oysters In case oyster »!ew.
Hen* teeth grow more scarce Chicago dentists
in session find more women wearing false teeth.
That * one punishment of a gossip She wear* ou*
her tseth clicking them together.
l..f# in the open Is good for one, but don't keep
you teeth out In the open ail the time
Main building of the N’ew York police recreation
camp burned, because cops failed to catch the fire
in time.
What will you do with your old straw lid? Cut in
pieces, roll In flour and try.
Mow gltoul the summer underwear* Boak It In
ink this winter and use It for a bathing suit nea:
summer.
Almost time to get all cleaned up for th« wlnt*r
so you can put eoal In the bath tub.
Anniston Star. In Alabama, calls bootlegger*
"Hquorlt*#," but they are more often ''hquorong* ”
A min'* right# to drink boose are fast becoming
hi* funeral rites.
Ther# are American women who have been mar
ried for years without seeing a clothes pin or rolling
pin.
And a debutant* Is disgraced if ah* can't hug or
rajs cook.
LIVING ON TEN MILLS.
IN anticipation of the constitutional limit of ten
mine for operating the achools of Richmond
County, which is made compulsory by a law ef
fective in 1926, the Board of Education, in fixing the
budget last Saturday, made a step in the right di
rection when a rate of 10.15 mills was ratified for this
purpose.
A deficit of around $75,000, resulting from the
erection this year of new schools at Hcphzlbah and
on Monte Kano, made It necessary that the board
assess one and a half mills to meet that debt and .35
of a mill to meet the annual payment on the balance
of the SIOO,OOO Tubman High School bond iasue.
Since the Board of Education carried over a deficit
of around $22,000 from last year In the way of op
erating expenses, which the .15 of a mill will hardly
cover, it can he seen that the schoole will be actually
operated on a few thousand dollars less than the
aum a ten mill rale will raise.
The Herald sincerely congratulates the Board up
on its deeiaion to reduce taxes to a point commen
surate with the needs of a modern school system. H
is now made manifest, in our opinion, that the Board
can "live" on a ten-mill tax, and the new tax-limit
law is expected to go Into operation without a hitch
and without any necessity for undesirable parsimony
In the conduct of the schools.
EXIT, 5-CENT CUP OF COFFEE.
THAT pleasant Institution, the 5-ccnt cup of cof
fee, will soon be only a memory. This sad
news Is conveyed by a speaker at the restau
rant owners' national convention.
It will depend on whether competitors will come
forward with coffee at 6-a-mug when restaurants
kite the price,
Coffee Is the king pin of the eating-house busi
ness. One large chain of restaurants built up its
trade largely by reason of the excellence of lta cof
fee.
A good cup of coffee, coming at the close of a meal,
take* the cur»e off a lot of poor cooking that has
gone before. And If the coffee hasn't that indescrib
able flavor for which Americana are so keen, the
whole meal Is apt lo become a regret rather than a
pleasant memory regardless of the tastiness of the
food.
That a cup of good coffee should be served for 5
cents la something the average American considers
part of hie heritage, not to mention that it la an in
stitution of democracy. To charge him more ia
tempting fate, Its like Inking the baby's rattle
away, or trying to wrest peanuts from the elephant's
trunk.
Still, a lot of other famous 5-cent Institutions have
practically passed—lncluding a big serving of pie.
the nickel cigar and the Ice cream soda.
That revolt In Braill may lnterefere with our cof
fee supply later. An aggravating complication la
that the coffee crop this season is below last year's.
As to how much estimates rang* as high as a million
and a half bags.
Americans use more coffee than any other people
over 200 million dollars worth a year, In the raw
state, wholesale price.
We're now consuming over 13 pounds of coffee a
year for every man, woman and child. This is two
pounds more than In 1923.
Prohibition is responsible for this increased drink
ing of coffee. People are getting from coffee a part
of the stimulant they formerly secured from a bottle
with a revenue stamp pasted over the cork.
The presidential candidate* overlooked a good bet
by not championing the 5-cent cup of coffee In their
political platform*.
COOLIDGE AND CHAOS.
THE Chicago Tribune la the recognized leader of
hard-boiled Republicanism ill the West. It la
a very ably edited newspaper, and in aplte ot
intense partisanship It doe* not hesitate to criticise
the party management wenever It appear# to de
serve It; and at tlmee Ita criticisms are quite eerlous
Arthur Henning, the Tribune's Washington cor
respondent, Is the man on the housetop of the na
tion. to report things at Washington as h* finds
them, lie is too high class a writer to color his
comments to pander to the Interest* of any party;
nor doe* he follow the usual rut worn by newspaper
propagandists. Th# following editorial reference to
Mr. Henning's observations on hi* Western tour,
which appeared In the Tribune, prove* interesting:
"Arthur Sear# Hennings eaya that the Weat la dis
affected. The normal Republicanism of lowa and
Indiana and Minnesota, he eaya. Is badly shot up.
Wisconsin, North Dakota and perhaps South Dakota
are already In Hob's vest pocket. And other atate*
may follow. It means, aaya Mr. Henning, and he
usually la right, that two states lost to Cooltdge out
of the group of throe, comprising lowa, Indiana and
Minnesota, wilt throw th# election into congrest, and
that, to put It simply would be bad news for Mr
Coolidge. There are several perttnent Indications. In
fact, that the Weet I* dissatisfied, and that It la time
for the trane-Allegheny management of the Repub
llcan party to notice It"
This allows that dissatisfaction Is widespread
throughout the West, and that Mr. Henning is now
finding out what has been patent to others for some
time past; to wit, that this Is the eort of climatic
fac'lon that creates votes for th# other fellow. In
oher word*: no amount of silence and looking wise,
no argument of snuggling; no amount of spluttera
tlon of sulphur and brimstone can save Coolidge He
Is a gone gosling.
Here 1* the way Ihe Tribune turn* up Chairman
Rutler and take# him to task for alleged Inefficien
cies. Hut what l» the use of locking the stable after
th* hors# is gone? If the people are already deter
mined to vole for Davie and Bryan, why worry*
But. eee what the Tribune say*:
"It might be better for the Republican parly and
for thing# In general If It noted theae facts now.
Some weaternlsm Injected Into Its managerial per
sonnel and Into Its policy now may save a good deal
of shocked surprise and sorrow later In the year. A
constructive program with a western slant may be
the diffeienc* between Plymouth, Vt, and Washing
ton. P C. for Mr Coolidge.’
All the world# a stage on which comedies have
th* longest run.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.
Now They Puff Freely
In London’s Puses
BY MILTON BRONNER.
LONDON. For ycara the
riders In London’s 3,000 buses
have refrained from smoking
inside the vehicles, believing it was
illegal to do so. And then the
other day a wise guy spilled the
beans.
He boarded a Piccadilly bus and
went Inside, continuing to puff on
his pipe. The conductor told him
it wasn't allowed. It was unlaw
ful. etc., etc.
"Guess again,” said the smoker.
“I have looked up the law and you
haven't any right to forbid smok
ing Inside your old buses."
The conductor was afraid to take
any chances, so he contented him
self by reporting the incident to
headquarters. The smoker was
found to be within bis rights.
The newspapers printed the
story. And now every boor who
doesn’t care for the comfort of
others is flaunting his smoke in the
nostrils of a helpless public.
Berlin is at present the Mecca
of alt the wanderers of central Eu
rope, many of them sneaking across
the frontier lines without pass
ports. „
They get away with It until they
are picked up In the German capi
tal and taken to Alexandcrplatz
where the police endeavor to get
at their nationality. Once this is
secured, the police compel the le
gation of that country to send the
undesirables back home.
The other day nn officer said to
one woebegone Individual:
Speaking The Public Mind
STRONG FOR OTEY WALKER
In reading The Herald of today
I note the interest of Augusta con.
reining the politics of the "Old
Home Town." It seems that there
la a diversity of opinion as to the
outcome of the coming election. In
my opinion. Otey Walker with Aunt
Karah Peabody as his campaign
manager will carry the election over
Edd Welgler by a big majority. Edd
as be is familiarly called by his
mnny friends, has not the courage
and conviction to uphold the law,
and while It docs not look well in
print to use the term, Edd Is a
coward, made so by his wife who
with her lashing tongue has made it
hot for him ever since the nuptial
knot was tied, or even before, as
rumor has it, as she forced him In
to an unhappy marriage.
In talking with a man the other
day, and by the way, a well known
drummer, he declared that Aunt
Karah Peabody had helped his busi
ness in a substantial way. Asked
why, he said that when Aunt Sarah
Peabody went on the “No tobacco
Campaign” and broke so many pipes
most of them being old, and had
not been cleaned for quite a while,
and about this time Aunt Sarah be
came rheumatic, and remained In
doors. Much of tho time, and the
smoke crowd bought new pipes and
upon his suggestion filled them with
Prince Albert Tobacco, he said
when Aunt Sarah came down town
and caught the crowd smoking she
threatingly lifted her umbrella, but
inhaling the aroma of the Prince
Albert filled pipes, this delicious
odor seemed to go to Aunt Sarah's
head ns she grabbed Otey Walker
around the waist and proposed a
wait*. , ,
Pardon me for this digression. I
Just wish to show that Aunt Sarah
has no enemir* in the Old Home
Town.
C. M. BHEPHKRD.
1453 Cooper St.
"A CLUB WOMAN” MAKES
REPLY TO “FARMER"
To The Herald:
In your Issue of Sunday, Kep .
29th, appeared a letter signed,
"Farmer." The writer in los-ng
asks "What has the various Wom
en'/* Clubs done to influence any
\t,’ elation that would render aid to
the female of the species on 'he
farm?", etc.
My attention has been called to
this ’article by a number of eluh
women who rail that 1 endeavor 'o
reply to your contributor from Me-
Bean*
To answer his question is diffi
cult because of the great amount of
information to be had on the suo
ji*ct. I have here before mo the of
ficial reports of both the General
federation of Women's Clubs and
of the Georgia Federation of Wom
en's Clubs, which date back to the
organization of the movement in
and the formation of our state
federation in 1806.
Very early in this history may he
found resolutions calling for a unit
ed effort in behalf of agriculture.
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the phantom crew.
t, _
"Look here. You say you for
merly lived M what was the Austro-
Hungarian Empire. But now you
say you are neither Austrian, Hun
garian, Czech, Serb. Rumanian or
Pole. Tell me in one word to what
you owe allegiance."
"Dollars,' aaid the derelict hope
fully.
From Ukraine comes the story of
an amazing army of mice which
is on the march out of the famine
stricken districts and which de
stroys everything in its path.
The route of this strange animal
Coxey’s army can be discerned
miles off because swarms of
ravens, storks and herons follow
and feast upon what is to them a
marvelous moving banquet.
The governors of Volhynia nnd
Podolsk have issued public peti
tions for help against the plague.
General Baden-Powell. founder
and father of the Boy Scouts
movement, Is held in deep affection
all over the world, but nowhere
more than in Scandinavia, where
he frequently comes for inspection
and review of various Boy Scout
bands. . , ,
And the name by which he Is
best and most familiarly known Is
—"Badmelster Powellson."
He gets the title of "Bathmaster"
because they say up in Norway,
Sweden and Denmark that every
time the general comes the heavens
empty themselves in terrible
shower* and the moment he leaves
sunshine comes back.
forestry, home economics, and bet
ter living conditions for the women
on the farms; for in the early clubs
were to be found women who lived
“in sections remote from the large
censers.” Passing over the years let
us quote from the last report of
the General Federation, page 562,
"The General Federation believes in
the necessity of co-operation be
tween urban and rural clubs so has
created the county co-operation
committee. The needs for this com
mitee rest upon the following
facts:
There are apprximately 10,000,-
000 urban homes and 10,000,000 ru
ral homes in the United States. If
the federation reaches only the
urban clubs It automaticlly cuts in
half Its sphere or usfulness and can.
therefore, never become the great
nation-wide organization for which
we hope.
"All women, both urban and ru
ral, have a common interest in the
home and the child. The program
of the General Federation pre
eminently stresses the welfare of
these "two in one” and. therefore, it
may serve the rural women as well
as the urban.
“Apparenly conflicting interests
and some cheap self-seeking politi
cians have for years been creating
a prejudice between the urban and
rural population"—A nation wide
movement is in progress to break
down this prejudice. As a rule, to
know a person better is to like him
more."
In Georgia in 1912 the president.
Mrs. Hugh Wtllet, reported
“Through the F.ducational Legisla
tive committee a campaign was
started to secure from the legisla
ture nn appropriation for teachers
on household extension work or ru
ral women in domestic science and
hygiene. Through their efforts were
unsuccessful, they succeeded in
creating sentiment In favor of the
p an.” At that convention a closer
co-operation with the State Agri
cultural Coll'-ge was noted and Miss
Mary Creswell. assistant state
agent, of hoy’s and girl’s clubs,
spoke c'lmmending the women’s
clubs for their splendid work in
furnishing free scholarships In the
girls Canning clubs of the agricul
tural department.
In 1914 the Georgia Federation
endorsed the resolution presented
by the International Congress of
Farm Women, that the Department
of Agriculture endorse a bureau of
farm women presided over by a
practical woman farmer, and a copy
was sent to Hon. Hoke Smith. U.
S. senator from Georgia. The De
partment of Country Life was
established that year, and the “wear
cotton cloth” Inaugurated. In 1915
many school Improvement clubs
were organized in rural sections and
in 1916 the following "Important
laws were enacted.” which effect
the women on the farm. These the
report says, were strongly ad
vocated by the federation and in
many eases. Initiated by if. "The
Georgia Training School for Girls.
The Child Labor law. The prompt
oaymrnt of teachers Better, purer
Radio Swings Election
Advantage to the People
By HARRY B. HUNT ,
WASHINGTON. Politici an s
used to put their ears to the
ground to hear what the people:
v/ere saying. Now the people put
their ears to the radio to get a
darned good idea what the poli
ticians are whispering to one an
other.
At any rate, that's what the
politicians are afraid they're do
ing.
Under the old system the politi
cians had the advantage: they
knew things in advance ol the peo
pie.
Under the new system isn’t It
possible the people will have the
advantage?
This thought worries the politi
cians. . ,
They don't know exactly what
the answer is. They can t Judgo
from past experience, for this is
the first campaign the radio has
figured in, at least enough to
amount to anything.
It's true the public always has
had a chance to get plenty of
politics through the newspapers.
The public also could go to politi
cal meetings.
But the natural Inference from
the fact that less thn half the
country's eligible voters bothered
to east their ballots at the last
election, Is that they weren't a bit
interested.
Not being interested, the politi
cians' guess is that they didn't
read what the newspapers printed
about politics or attend any po
litical meetings.
milk. The Smith-Lever bill. Pub
lic health, vital statistics, prohibi
tion, good roads commission, com
pulsory school attendance.”
An outstanding report this year
was on the success of the annual
agricultural rallies, which for sev
eral consecutive years were con
ducted in every congressional dis
trict by Mrs. Nellie Peters Black,
who had the commendation and
hearty co-op6ration of the State
Department of Agriculture . the
college, and the experiment farm.
"These meetings have demonstrated
the fact that county, town and city
men and women find a common
meeting point when discussing ways
and means of encouraging the
South to live at home.”
Steadily through the years the
clubs in every county in Georgia
have worked to perfect these laws
which relate to the health and
happiness of women on the farms
and in the towns. A study of the
year books will show that rural
schools and country life, have play
ed a most Important part in the
work of the federation.
It was through the efforts of the
Augusta Woman's Club that a rep
resentative first came to the city
to arouse Interest in home demon
stration work. The first demon
strator was an active member of
the club, knowing that she could
rely on its membership for assist
ance in the work of the county. On
several occasions the women have
entertained the young people of the
canning and pig clubs when they
met here for their conti If th «
Georgia Federation of Women's
Clubs can boast a membership of
more than fifty thousand, scat
tered throughout every county in
the state, surely many are from
the farms and can be relied on to
see that legislation is promoted
which Is favorable to themselves.
"A CLUB WOMAN.”
Aunt Het
r
"I like the old style o’ put
tin' all the victuals on the ta
ble at one time so a body can
allow space accordin'.”
(Copyright. 1924. Associated
Editors. Inc.)
By William*
Now it s one thing to stay away
from a political meeting—
It's one thing to turn from the
political page of a newspaper, to
the pink sheet—
And it's something else again to
get past a loud speaker without
having something screeched into
your ear that will stick there, in
spite of you.
Will the radio bring out the stay
at-home vote, or any considerable
part of it?
If it does, considering that the
stay-at-home vote last time was a
little more than 50 per cent, of the
total eligible vote, and if It ahowa
a decided partiality for any par
ticular candidate —why, then the
stay-at-home vote can do pretty
much anything it wants to.
And the stay-at-home vote, like
the radio, practically Is an un
known quantity.
Taken in connection with the
fact that a three-cornered fight is
confusing, anyway, all this makes
the situation very disturbing to the
politicians.
Politicians don't mean exactly
what they say when they declaim
against the stay-at-home vote.
A politician is just as much in
earnest as he pretends to be when
discussing his own party's stay-at
home vote, but mighty few politi
cians lose much sleep over opposi
tion stay-at-home votes.
In fact, among politicians of all
parties, the bigger the total stay
at-home vote is, the easier it is for
the politicians to manage things
and the less they have to fret
about. *
The last stay-at-home vote was
big enough to suit the most fastid
ious political taste. But will it
stay at home this time. too. If
not. Its very bigness makes it per
fectly uncontrollable.
This isn’t to say that some of
the interests which are trying to
get out a full vote aren’t absolutely
sincere. But your genuine parti
san? —the more people, not of his
way of thinking, who stay awav
from the polls on election day, the
safter he feels.
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