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THE AUGUSTA HERALD
AUGUSTA. GA.
Da i ly—Afternoon Sunday—Morning
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A THOUGHT
Laid mi to the reek that ia higher than L-—•**•
6:12.
For my part I'd rather be the first. man among
these fellows than the aecond man In Home.—
Caere r.
QUIPS: By Robert Quillen
Ah. well; Mr. Dawes la doing enough talking for
two.
About the heat method of climbing higher la to re
main on the level.
A little of personal liberty remain*. Balloon pant*
are not compuleory.
At any rate distance would lend enchantment In
tha case of near beer.
A conservationist I* a man who would save what
the other fellow la exploiting.
You can recognize the aproach of Eaay Street by
the Increasing number of snubs.
The ordinary
restaurant has
no orchestra, but
you can always
listen to the cel
ery.
The hard part Is to find a candidate who has great
ability and little money.
"Domestic are those a nation Is afraid
the League would decide against her.
The old-fashioned daughter got a shingle at in
ternals, also; but It was made of wood.
No man Is an utter failure while people still think
It worth while to knock him.
A fro* country 1* on# In which people are discour
teous to hide their unimportance.
Strangely enough, there were Nordics long before
ah< eta and pillow cases wars Invented.
It he Is in a
distant land and
looks bored be
cause nothin*
spectacular 1 s
scheduled, he Is
an American.
An old-timer Is one who can remember when foot
ball was one part stratery and nine parts hair.
» , wo can't help wishing the J>oy manager would try
l,l» bond on a few ether organisations In Washing
ton.
The reason good people enjoy reading about wick
edness Is because It gives them a delightful sense of
superiority.
Fable: Once there was a man who didn't feel
qualified to advise a widow how to Invest her life
Insurance money.
Correct this sentence: "I am greatly elated this
morning." sold the busy man, 'for I have been called
for Jury service."
Aggravatin’ By Hal Cochran
A PICTURE of summer, when winter Is here,
will carry you back with a thrill. It hangs on
the wall, spreading all kinds of cheer, and you
gnxe till your eyes get their fill.
Or, maybe, a fellow recalls days of old when you
were a kid In your teena. It's only Just foolin' you,
what he has told, 'cause you cannot go hack to those
scenes.
When things that are said, or when things that are
shown, can please you they're not overruled. We
grownups Just like to forget that were grown—lt's
a fact that we like to be fooled.
That ruling applies. It Is best that we add. evcepl
where our longingness cracks. For Instance. It nev
er can make us feel glad, when there's fruit on the
table—of wax.
Foolish Flings By Tom Sims
Importing British whisky Into Berlin has been for
bidden. so now mere may bs shipped to th# United
States.
Doesn't It scent funny to pick up a paper and aee
nothing about th# round-the-world flyera?
"Army protecta against war Just aa firemen
against fire," aa.va General Lejeune. Fire and »ar
are about the same.
8-lentlst thlnka the next presidential campaigners
will travel In airships. Well, they'll hav# the air.
Brcsent politicians don't need alrshlpa. They go
up In the atr very easily without them.
It's a poor government when they have to revive
old acandal Instead ol digging up aomelhlng new.
Everything ha* good polnta. Taking a deep breath
for a long klta develops a glrl'a lung*.
He who keeps too many Irons In the ftra gets
burned.
In Montgomery, Als , a rat whipped two dog* and
bit five people. Never try your home brew on the
cat.
Longer courtship* are being demanded by educa
tors vho evidently don't know what a strain they
arc.
Our Idea of staying broka la trying to borrow
money at a bankers' convention.
Trouble Is a lot of fun and fun la a lot of trouble.
One kind of patching the modern girl knows about
ta patching auto tires.
PLENTY OF AMUSEMENT
THE dog show Is now the center of attraction
and It seems to be well patronized. It is well
worth the price of admission. Old Hover and
little Plmpo seem to be having their day from the
great racket they are raising. A dog show Is some
thing of a novelty In this section, but the dog show
seems to be a very fine display of dogs so far as
dogs go. Those who don't take In the dog show will
certainly be short of the knowledge of dogs, and dogs
are becoming more and more favored by the vota
ries of fashion every day, judging the number of
dogs seen riding in automobiles. A dog is the most
faithful and devoted of all animals, and some of
them are just as bea,utlful as others are hideous; so
this Is a day for all tastes.
There was more Interest taken In the world series
of baseball than ever before. Washington won the
pennant and everybody is glad of It. The contest
was an exemplification of the old saying that
"cheating never thrives.” The contest was between
the New York Giants and the Washington Senators;
and just as the series began It was discovered that
two of the Giants had accepted bribes. Judge Ken
nesaw Mountain Landis, the baseball dictator,
promptly dismissed the two guilty ones and the
playing proceeded. Washington won the pennant to
the great satisfaction of all fandom, and Walter
Johnson and Bucky Harris are the heroes of the hour
and household names throughout the country.
All-absorbing Interest will now be centered In the
Gcorgla-Hurman football game which will be play
ed In Augusta Saturday, and which promises to be
one of the most Important sporting events In the
South. People are coming from all over the coun
try to see It. and It Is doubtful If the accommoda
tions will be adequate to hold the crowd. Special
trains will run and many will come by automobile
from the surrounding country. Telegrams telling of
the result* will be sent to the newspapers all over
the South.
THE SINEWS OF WAR
%
DAVIS and Bryan seem now to be certain of
election. The prospects are that they will
carry the solid South, a majority of the bor
der states and New York, Indiana, and Nebraska.
If they do this or anything like It, they will win
hands down.
Should not Augusta have some part In this glo
rious achievement? Georgia will unquestionably
roll up a big Democratic majority without any ex
pense and almost without effort; hut that does not
relieve us of the responsibility of doing our bit
towards carrying those states which are doubtful
The legitimate expenses of the campaign are great
and the sinews of war are badly needed. Let's all
chip In a dollar and Join the Davls-Bryan club.
The Herald will recelvo contributions to the Dem
ocratic fund which is being raised for Davis In his
brave and winning fight for better government for
the people. The time Is now growing short and It
Is necessary that we make It snappy If we do any
thing to aid our great candidate in his struggle to
clean the Augean stables and put good men In of
fice and restore the Democracy of our fathers to
power.
THE FLORIDA CENTENNIAL.
NOVEMBER 9th to 15th has been set apart by
the state of Florida for the celebration of Its
one hundredth anniversary as a legislative
unit. At Tallahassee, the state capital, elaborate
preparations are under way to make the occasion one
of Interest In keeping with the history of the state.
To Georgians this anniversary celebration of Flor
ida should be especially Interesting because of the
fact that the Georgia colony was primarily settled
to aet as a buffer against the hostile aggressions of
Spaniards and Indiana that were a constant menace
to the South Carolinians. Genernl Oglethorpe, Geor
gia's Illustrious founder, fought the battle of Bloody
Marsh with this same contingent; and as late as
ISIS "Old Hickory” Jackson with 3.000 men, hut
without any authority from the Washington govern
ment. marched serosa the Spanish border, hanged a
number of captured prisoners and raised the Ameri
can flag.
In consequence of this act whwh developed the
feebleness of the Spanish hold on the territory of
East and West Florida, an Augusta man, John For
sythe, was sent to the court of Ferdinand and Isa
bella and negotiated the purchase of the two V lor!-
das for the sum of $7,000,000. The territory was ac
quired by the United States In 1821.
President James Munroe, under whose regime as
president the site of the United States Augusta Ar
senal on the Hill wae purchased In 1524, was enter
tained at a big dance at the home es John Forsythe
on the Hill. The arsenal previous to Its present lo
cation on the Hill was at the site on which the Con
federate Powder works were built during the Civil
War, and where now stands the King snd Sibley
mills.
In this connection there Is a popular tradition, per
haps an historical fact, in which Georgians, and es
pecially Augustane hold an Interest, that DeSoto
came through Georgia with a large retinue and
camped at Silver Bluff on the Carolina side of the
river for several months. An Indian princess wish
ing to captivate the great pale-fare, sailed down the
Savannah River in her birch hark canoe a la Cleo
patra and presented him with a quantity of pearls
taken from musseie with which the stream then
abounded. But her scheme would not work. She
was treated rough rlaced In durance vile About
16 miles from Dalton, Georgia, they point out the re
mains of a fort said to have been built by DeSoto
when passing this way on his Journey to the Father
of Waters, where he lost his life. *
There le plenty of hletory end tradition to make
the Florida centennial celehratlon brilliant with
pageant* and military parade. Old St. Augustine
alone should furnish sufficient spectacular features
to make It a most memorable occasion. All who are
fortunate enough to witness the celebration w ill havo
no reason to regreat the time and money spent In
visiting the romantic picturing of the early day* of
Florida.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
Party That Gets “Silent
Vote” Will Win Election
By HARRY B. HUNT
WASHINGTON— Will "Silent
Cal" get the “silent vote?" If
he does, then Davis anj La
Follette may as well waive the
formality of counting the ballots
and concede the election of the G.
O. P. ticket.
For it is the "silent vote,” the
men and women who take no ac
tive part In the rallies, demonstra
tions and general hullabaloo of a
campaign, who listen and think but
do not lose either sleep or their
tempers over the claims of the cam
paigners, who really decide who is
to be who the day after election.
This year the.usual "silent' vote"
Is expected to be Increased by some
millions of normally stay-at-home
voters. Non-partisan civic and
patriotic organizations, as well as
all the party outfits, are uniting In
a drive to get to the polls at least
75 per cent, of the eligible vot
ers.
What this may mean In the way
of changed results can be sensed
when it Is known that if 75 per
cent, of the folks who are entitled
to vote Nov. 4 cast their votes the
total will be more than 60 per cent,
above the total vote In the 1920
presidential election. In that year
only a fraction more than 49 per
cent, of eligible votes were cast.
T ÜBT what it is that appeals
I most to this "silent vote" on the
I part of the candidates? How
should one go about catching it?
Probably there isn’t any formula.
But in the main it is held that the
large part of this vote Is the think
ing as well as the silent vote.
Tho man who doesn’t say much
Is apt to do a good bit of thinking.
He threshes things out in his own
mind rather than arguthg them out
with another.
Kometlmes, of course, he may be
simple and silent instead of simply
silent. Just ns it is suggested by
his critics that while Coolldge
sometimes slls and thinks there are
times when h« Just sits!
COOLIDGE'B silence during the
campaign—he has made but
two speeches that could be con
sldered campaign utterances—is d»-_
Deadlock Will Not Necessarily
Mean Election of C. W. Bryan
By CHARLES P. STEWART
WASHlNGTON—Politicians who
consider Charles W. Bryan too ra
dical to be safe have been crying
out for some time that a deadlock
ed electoral college the first of the
year would amount practically to
Bryan for president.
It doesn't necessarily follow, how
ever.
It only follows, If It follows at
all. In case the Progressives are the
tallendcrs In the election In No
vember.
And they may not he:
If the Republicans lead and the
Progressives make the second best
showing, which Is possible, then an
electoral college deadlock means
Charles C. Dawes for president just
rtn naturally as the other lineup
means Bryan.
JUST SUPPOSE!
Politicians who consider Dawes
too conservative to bs safe—just as
the conservatives consider Bryan
too radical—don't seem to have
Aunt Het
"Most young married folks
would git along nil right If
the shook o’ their giftin'
married would kill off all
their relatives."
(Copyright. 1924, Associated
Editors. Inc.)
OUT OUR WAY
Bpmip i
HOWU. BE FOHKW6AME, DAST 'TUH
UTTUE BETTOVA POH AU. OUR . WATCH |T,
’OM NOW ON! -BAKES, MAKE CAvnSE EF ,
-A' 1 PRAiRiE a good Job Thet me*
:lam wnV\ V OF ,T! > masses, his i
I WHISKERS ._ PUNCH-ALL /
) HIS PANTS y \ FAINT* /
TS KILLED IM / , f
dared by bis backers to be proper
technique.
The candidate’s apparent Indif
ference r.nd nonchalance, it Is held,
creates a sense of his absolute con
fidence. This self-assurance is sup
pos'd eo react psychologically on
doubtful voters, making all those
who gauge their votes by the de
sire to mark a winner incline to
the man who seems surest of vic
tory.
Also, while an outsider, trying
to get In, may Indulge In a ham
mer-and-tongs campaign, a sim
ilarly strenuous battle by one al
ready In would be interpreted a 1:
meaning tht he was badly scared.
And that would be an unfortunate
impression, causing all salt-heart
ed followers to abandon his cause.
Coolidge’s viewpoint is that for a
candidate who Is already in office
to indulge In much speech-making
Indicates that he Is one the defen
sive. The fellows who are leading
the offense, he agrees, must talk.
But the best program for the man
already In Is to stand pat, say noth
ing, and exude an atmosphere of
unshakable confidence.
The president says he never
knew a candidate to lose anything
by talking too little, so he’s striv
ing to talk even less than usual.
4 FTER his demand that Char
/\ ley Dawes be ousted as vlce
presidential candidate of the
Republican party, G. O. P. leaders
are more than ever certain that
Senator Brookhart’s parents were
clarovoyant when they named him
Smith WILDWMAN Brookhart. Be.
cause of Brookhart and his chal
lenge there are now a lot of wild
men around Coolidge-Dawes head,
quarters.
AFTER all, the enthusiasm on
tap In a presidential campaign
Is pretty much of a manufact
ured article. Official as well as civil
Washington has been a lot more
"het up” over the world’s series
than it will be over any possible re
snll of the Novemb-r elections.
thought of this. At any rate, they
haven't emitted any loud cries
about It. as the others have.
Compare the two cases.
Say the electoral College does
deadlock, with Coolidge and Dawes
receiving a plurality of the votes,
Davis and Bryan second on the list
and La Follette and Wheeler in
third place.
Then suppose the House of Rep
resentatives, charged with the task
of picking the president in case the
electoral college can't do It, also
deadlocks, as probably It would.
In such a situation the tfenate real
ly would mnke the presidential
choice, for the senate elects the
vice-president If the college can
not. and if the house couldn't elect
a president, then the senate’s vice
presklential selection would become
president.
But while the house Is authorized
by the constitution to vote on three
presidential candidates, the senate
votes on but two candidates for
the vice-presidency.
BRYAN
Thus the senatorial voting would
be limited to Dawes and Bryan.
In a case like that It’s not strain
ing matters to assume that the
Progressive senators, deeming Bry
an preferable to the unquestionably
conservative Dawes, would throw
their strength to Bryan. And. of
course, the Democrats would vote
for him.
Between Democrats and Progres
sives he'd make a majority and
would become vice-president, and
immediately afterward president.
But suppose, with Coolidge and
Dawes leading In the electoral col
lege, La Follette and Wheeler came
second and Davis and Bryan third.
Then. If both the college and the
house deadlocked, the senate would
have to choose between Dawes and
Wheeler.
Naturally Dawes would get the
Republicans’ support.
And does anybody think there
aren't enough conservative Demo
cratic senators who would throw
their votes to him to give him a
majority?
Anybody who does Imagine such
a thing doesn't know much about
the senate of the United States.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
AMERICANS LEAVING ENG
LAND.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
The return of the straw-hatted
end horn-spectacled goes on apace.
Doth the British and the American
lines are taking the tourists back
across the Atlantic as fast as the
crowded liners can do it. About
1,500 Americans left on the Majes
tic this morning, and about the
same number will be leaving every
week by Cunard liners until well
into September.
All the evidence is that Americans
have been spending freely in Lon
don this year and there probably
never was a time when we enter
tained so many mllliohaires. Tne
return passage to America on a
recent departing liner of one fam
ily alone cost 2.200 pounds. This
family consisted of eight people,
with the addition of four governess
es, four valets and two maid ser
vants.
WHITE FUEL.
(From the London Mail.
The government itself has the
gravest responsibility In the mat
ter of unemployment, and it is not
to be solved by the socialist nos
trum of nationalization. The ex
ample of Russia ought to serve as a
fearful warning against such
schemes. Of all the government
schemes, that for the production of
high-tension electricity on a great
scale will necessitate the most care
ful consiaeratlon. Exact particu
lars and estimates are essentia!.
Electricity will not work miracles.
The ultimate source of power is
coal, which costs here, in labor 255.,
against 7s in the United States. So
long as our sources of power Is so
inordinately expensive, so long will
our trade be at a grave disadvan
tage. „
MENACE OF FALLEN LEAVES.
(Charleston News and Courier.)'
October declares the president of
the American Automobile Associa
tion is the most popular month in
the year for motor touring. It Is
also held by him to be the most
dengerous month. He urges that
during October drivers should ex
ercise greater care than usual if
they would safeguard themselves
and their passengers. It appears
that a principal menace on the im
proved highways is caused by fall
en leaves.
“This is the time of year,” he
says, “when wet leaves on the
highways present a constant
hazard In motorists who fail to
keep their minds on the business
of driving safely. ‘Leaf skid
ding' is particularly dangerous
In the early morning, when the
sun has not had an opportunity
to dry out the dew that is being
held under the leaves.
'lt Is fine to get up early on
an October morning, jump into
the car and enjoy the advan
tages on an early start on the
day's journey, but it is hazard
ous to imagine that you are the
only party to get an early
start.- Many accidents are the
direct result of the early mo
torist's imagining that he has
the whole road to himself.”
Many drivers have learned by ex
perience that leaves can cause nas
ty skidding and they are likely to
remember this phase of danger, but
there are many others who need to
be warned of the menace. The re
minder is timely.
UNUSUAL PEOPLE
Organist 60
Years
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William Emery, 78, has been a
pipe organist for 60 years, 44 of
which have been with Trinty Epis
copal Church, Clarksville, Tenn.
Born in England he began hls mu
sical career with the violin at the
age of seven.
He came to America in 1866 and
lived at different times In Ken
tucky, California and now Tennes
see. Emery owned the first au
tomobile—they called them horse
less carriages—in Clarksville.
By Williams
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