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FOUR
lIIifIJTDMOBILE SECTIQgI^p
THE SUNDAY,
4 MOTORIST .
f 1 Sfingibridyed ‘Magazine for Car Owners
- EDITED BY . ft
£tysi william ullman J A.mL
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Vou get cut of a rar Just about
What you put Into It.
SIX BEST
REMEDIES
I
With at least ten remedies bains
off rad for <uoh mnttr problem it
in only natural that come Idea* !
wrjh considering should ba de
ve’oi cd. At present a half dozen
remedies for traffic problems are
itfclninß c nsiderable headway nnd
••very car owner ought to bo fam
iliar with them. They are:
J—Education of persons who nd
xorate (duration of the automobile
driver, a a means of forestalling
radical Instruction.
principal highways nt night so that
motorists will not be obli«ed to use
their full hcadh ights and blind each
other in order to see where they’re
going.
.1 a newspaper campnlßn to show
w; u good usis the automobile Is
I »’pr put to, how many people
driv ears without Rcttlnß Into j
tn,uhlc and how more people are i
Icnrnlnß to get more use from their j
cars by being more careful.
■v A campaign to prove to amn
tjiir safety advocates that twenty
miles an hour la not necessarily a
safe Speed and that more accidents
are happening to slow'drivers than
to foot drivers because the latter do
not day dream.
Education of officials to n
realisation that restrictions on
parking are a cause of conßrslion
nSd thus of accident*, and that
parking: can he restricted to the beat
iiftrreyvi of everyone only as pro
visions are made for downtown
storage or ears in garages or on
parking grounds. „
i Adoption of "alternate traffic
ut every city interieetln. That Is.
tight of way to all motor traffic for
u certain period, thon halting of all
motor traffic so that all pedostrlun
truffle otfn rross unendangered,
CHECK I NG OIL
MILEAGE
Item ember Hint the oil put Into
the oil tin at the r.no-hille draining
prrlii.’- sheuld not be Included In
compitllm: the oil consumed by the,
I' gli.c. Just consider the oil added
between drainings.
THF OLD MECHANIC
SAYS
J'.rown'- Just been In here with
p - i .\v i nr. and It’s given me a
1P light worth pausin' along. He had
~ | ..if dosscti things wrong with It
v, ; ,s just nbout ready to de
. i r t’.iit he'd houghl a lemon whin
1 s 'i. t a question at him.
I'Wlir 's wrong,” asks I. ‘‘you or
tlf cm ?"
tit looked to me ns If mint or his
tnrulilc was Just a (location of not
1-bowin' anything shout his ca-.
I the way with motorists Who
Piiv ~ w cai*. vou know. Because
tip • excited nnd start lookin' for
tle'n-'W car does something a lit
tle different than the old ear, they
tfcublt. . s
1 Brown heard s queer noise In
the dutch, hut didn’t know that -4k
was simidy the clutch plates spin
nlnr The’plate* In this type of
dutch are free to spin, and so
r .mutinies rattle. There was nothin*
wrong ’rept that lie didn't know
tjkat the dutch in Ids new car was
Afferent than the one In the old.
T Engine* of different types take
mas In different waye for beet re
sults In some engines you enn
••crowd” In the gas by steppln’ on
the accelerator as quickly a* you
please, while In others you have got
to feed a certain definite way. 1
I now a car where you’ve got to
feed slowly until the oar reaches a
speed of twenty-five. Then you can
step on It. And If you don't step on
It quickly when It reaches twenty
five you'll lose power on a hill and
have to drop to second.
Unless a driver knows the pe
culiarities of Ills motor how the
mischief la he going to get right
il'sults from It? The car's bound to
do a lot of things to worry the
driver nnd to make him thing he's
bought the wrong car.
An 1 told Brown, the trouble Is '
we're v», (supplied with lemon
squeeze i s.
IT'S A QUEER
WORLD
“Crabs kill ten ”
"Aged can of spinach wipes out
family."
• "Stairways taka toll pf *1 for
months."
These sre possible newspaper
headlines that never appear In print,
and never will. And everyone know*
w by. But that I* why a aana per
centage of the public marvels over
the war the automobile la singled
out for a particularly odious brand
of folly.
“Autos kill ten."
"Misguided auto wlea out family."
"\utos take toll of 81 for month."
There's something wrong eotne-
Wjiere XYhst Is It?
. Incidentally. Isn't It a queer
world that witnesses a closed car
show In America's foremost city
simultaneously with a campaign on
Ive part of the police department to
II event anyone from parking an
automobile within the downtown
district?
CAR CLEANING
TIPS
Don't clean the windows or wind
shield of the car while It is standing
in the sun . A successful window
cleaning Job must be dons in the
shade. Sponge off the glass with
clean water, dry with a damp sha
tnols and polish with a ‘gingham
cloth. If the glass Is In the sun. and
thus hot, the water will dry too
quickly.
In applying an oily polish to a
varnished body %not to enamel
4 th /«)* should
be first soaked In water and wrung
as dry a* possible The polish will
go on more evenly If the rag Is
treated accordingly.
TWO TOURING
TIPS
Tour "visiting card" attached to
the license plate can be of service
to you In tackling strange traffic.
Often the regulations of other cities
1n your own state will be puzzling,
and If you are carrying the atate's
license there is no way for the traf-
flo officers to tell you from a local
dumbbell. Your visiting card would
solve this problem and give you
the advantages of the
that are usually shown a stranger.
I'se yofir own discretion about
selecting a garage for the night
| when traveling. liotol doormen
sometimes get a rakeoff for ree
ommendlng certain garages which
may he very undesirable from the
motorist's standpoint, The right way
to do It to park your cab for awhllo
and step out to look the situation
over before taking anyon'’* advice.
TOLD IN
PERCENTAGES
Forty-two per cent, of the money
collected through slate gasoline
taxes is not available for highway
work.
l orty per cent, of passenger traf
fic Is still for pleasure purposes.
Only 20 per cent, of forest fires
are the result of <auses other than
human carelessness.
‘ FOLLOW MIDDLE
GROUND
There are always two ways to ob
tain any desired result. If hill
climbing ability Is desired of a
car, the designer can Install an en
gine of large here and stroke, or he
can Install a small high-speed mo
tor. If fine riding qualities are de
manded he can hold the ear down
with excessive weight or he can
give great attention to aprlng sus
pension, tire Inflation nnd shock
absorbing devices nnd their ad
justments EsuiiHv the middle
ground of compromise or modern j
(lon is the best proposition, as In all
things Bet this he a guide In select
ing vnur new car, though not neces- ’
cmrily a hard nnd fast rule.
i
INSURANCE
INQUIRIES
Yes. kp automobile policy oil your
enr may he written for h-ss thiut a
year’s time. A week, a month, two
months Just a* you wish.
No, your policy doesn’t expire at
four, six, eight or ten o’clock on
the expiration date. Always at
twelve o’clock (standard time.)
Ye*, the present typo of automobile
policy does not reinstate Itself In
full after a loss 1* paid. The amount
oT the loss paid to the ear owner is
deducted from the amount of the
coverage at 111 In force.
IT'S IN THE WIND
With the constant mesh tran.<-
mission awaiting general adoption
by many manufacturers attention
is being directod toward a no\el
application of this new and In'.v
sstliiK device. Jt Is believed that
With gear shlftlhg so greatly sho
plifted hv this unit that It will be
possible to add a few more gear
changes without glv'ng drivers .inv
more cause for worry, thus milking
it possible to change the gearing
which Is now constant In each par
ticular make of car nt the rear
axle. ' ,
In some cars the gearing Is low,
In others tt Is high This remits In
wna: wc know as high speed and
low <tp> ed motors, both of which
liav* their disadvantages. If the
gearing could he changed at tho
tram mission the same rar could do
wonders on hilt* or reach high
a peed on t lie level at the discretion
of the driver.
No longer would it he a matter of
racing * motor to death on the
level so that it can always he pe
pared for any hill In high, or of
dropping way down to jecond on
long hills lust because your car 1*
geared a little too high for moun
tain work.
The possibilities sre said to he
limitless. 1926 may hold the answer.
LESSONS FROM
ACCIDENTS
Why are motor trucks always,
thought to be on a long, long Jour
ney 7
The average driver will suspect
that the passenger car ahead may
turn into any driveway rn route,
and accordingly he watches hi* step
when he tries to pas*. But it seems
to he different with a truck. He
never seems to figure that the truck
V. much more likely to turn Into a
sole road or blind driveway. Two
Maryland motorists learned their
lesson recently to the tune of a bad
ly wrecked car and a flirtation with
i death.
HONEST ABOUT IT
There’s more truth than humor tn
a sign that appear* on the rear of
a practical Joker’s Tin Lizzie: "Four
wheels—no brakes," it reads. The
only difference between tills car atul
thousands of others Is that the lat
ter merely lark the sign.
WORTH REMEMBERING
In going over the chassis with a
rag or stiff wire brush be csreful
not to catch stray ends of cotter
Pins so as to bend them straight
and encourage them to come loose.
(Copyright 1924. by The Ullman
Feature Service I
WM PARDUE NOW WITH
TOMPKINS MOTOR CO
William (Bll) Perdue, who has
been connected with the automobile
industry iu Augusta for the past
four years, has accented a position
with the Tompkins Motor Company,
61D Bread street, who are distribu
tors for the Nash automobiles Bill
I’ardu# Is well-known through'ut
tleorgla and South Carolina and 1*
considered one of the beat auto
mobile salesmen In tho business, h
ulso understand! the motor car from
every angle and his many friends
predict a great future for him in his
new connection. He takes tide op
portunity of rxtemling a very cor
dial Invitation to his many friends
Ito call and see him at his new
< quarters.
The famous crown of the Emperor
Theodore of Abyssinia has been re
turned from England to Its former
home tn Africa.
The Tire Inflation Problem
By Williamson
f OOC/1M ABOUT TO BECOME ) ft \OU WANTTOII
\ THE PROUO FATHER OF l SAVE THE T|f?£S- |
] ANOTHER FUWER. SHOULD | YES; I F VOU WANT i
/ I KEEP THE- TIRES PUMPED TO SAVE THE CAR-/
/UP AE HARO AS THE MAKERS J NO. WITH A &OQO
l PECOMMENOj/ ' CORD TIRE VOU
"-vp CA.NI REDUCE THE ,
s» 1 _ PRESSURE ABOUT ,
Q /TWATS As’ NtigStl A THIRD WITH<X/tY
f, N *? / EAEiV TO DAMACjE AND Youj I
W|^ L ' Qlo|E ' A> '
*. ' ' ~ *——f— — — 1 1
Cth£ more rubber you have) p=y n i c—t-iki
ON THE ASPHALT, THE LES
VOU WILL SKID. LET out HALF KEEP OUTOF CAR
OF THE A|R Af#D VOU DCUDIEJ TRACKS.THEY ARE
THE ROAO CONTACT", f 7 SMOOTH RIDING;
LOW PRESSURE (VIEANb) BUT YOU FORCE
MORE WEAR ON THF YOUR RUBBER
RUBBER, BUT YOU'RE J T»«5jL DOWN INTO THE
NOT SHAKIN' VOURf GROOVE,BREAK
ICARTO P| EC 65u ' DOWN TUE CAS
The tire manufacturer, of course,
Is interested In his tires giving the
highest possible mileage, so a num
ber of them will tell you to keep
the tire Inflated to a certain pres
sure which Is usually too high for
comfortable riding.
When a tire Is pump'd up to a
point where there is hut little "give"
to It when it passes over a Rtone or
street ear track there Is hut little
strain on the carcass. This means
high mileage nnd good advertising
for the manufacturer, but what of
the ear?
High pressure means hard riding.
Rough riding means excessive
strain on every part of the car and
inuny trips to the repair shop. On
the other hand, you can not expect
to get as many miles out of n ttre
run on low pressure ns you would
out of one inflated to the point
recommended by the mannfnetur
NEW TYPE OF CAR
STIRS AUTO WORLD
«
Studebaker Duplex Ends
Need of Hunting' for Side
Curtains in the Dark and
Storm
DETROIT, Mich.- A new type of
car has stirred the automobile
world as has nothing since the
abandonment of the "buggy" style
of body building.
It Is the Htudebaker Duplex, so
called to lndlcute that It is an open
car one moment and So second la
ter It is an enclosed car.
I.lka all great advances In the
Industrial arts, it la "so simple In
operation, It Is a wonder it wasn't
thought of before." particularly
since ll* need has been growing,
year by year, ever since nutomo
blles were made.
Many people, all of the time, nnd
most people, jmrt of the time, want
an open car—to bring to tlietr riding
the fresh crispness of the country
air, and a free and untratnmeled
association with the great out
doors.
Vet for these same people, the
snug comfort of the closed car.
shutting out the storm and the wind
and the cold, has been at times a
necessity.
Two Cars in One.
The Studebnker Duplex is both
car* In one. Just pull down tho
roller enelosurea concealed In the
roof of the car. In 30 seconds the
open car has been made an enclo*
ed enr.
No hurried efforts to put up cur
tains; no hunting for the right ode
while the storm beats In; no mix
ing them up In the dark; no ex
posure through holes torn In them
while frying to obtain, for the
emergency, the protection given by
a closed rar. Just pull down the
roller enclosures, giving Instant en
closed car effect.
The body is built substantially— i
sides, corners and roof frame are
of steel. The roof Ims curved steel
aides nnd back; hard wood front.
Steel, U-shaped cross beams, slix of
them, support the water-proofed,
duplex fnbrlc top nnd Its linings.
Here is permanent beauty—no aag
glng ti'i-s
Hut. Htudebaker —with 72 years of
responsibility behind it—on which
(lice whole vehicle-using world has
come to depend for rellabllltV—
would nok rest on only one real
contribution to the value given tho
public. It must give nit that en
gineering ability could devise.
Three Distinct Lines.
So there are offered three distinct
lines of care, to meet each of the
three field* of demand—the Stand
ard Six. with 113-tnch wheelbase
and 50 horsepower motor; the Spe
cial Sllx, wllth 12»-lneh wheelbase
and 65 horsepower motor; the Big
Six, most magnificent and luxuri
ous of ita products, with 127-lneh
wheelbase and 74 horsepower mo
tor.
The New Duplex bodies are avail
aide on each line. In addition, cloe
i d models —coupe*, aedans. victorias
and berllnee have workmanship
and materials and beauty of line so
far above the price class of the car,
they must he seen to be appreciat
ed
Of scarcely less Importance than
the Duplex feature are other me
chanical improvements also includ
ed with the price of the car.
An automatic Ignition system
which fits the timing exactly to the
load pul on the engine, has taken
the spark lever off the steering
wheel and put in ita place the whole
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
er. However, you will get much
easier riding and will not shake
the car to pieces on low pressure.
Therefore, Inflation of tires Is a
problem you will have to solve for
yourself.
This advice concerns cqrd tires,
the type generally adopted by car
manufacturers. If you are using
fabric tires you should not attempt
to operate them on low pressure,
us the constant bending of the car
cass will break it down and cause
the lire to blow out before it has
gone more than a couille of hun
dred miles.
If you have been foolish enough
to be tricked Into buying bargain
llres manufactured by "flash-ln
the-pan” companies, you had bettei
keep them inflated to exactly the
point recommended by the maker,
for the majority of them are mo lo
to sell and not for service.
Ughthlng control, In one small lever,
right nt the finger tips. No bend
ing down under the wheel and
groping for a switch on the instru
ment board.
Other New Features.
Out of the driver's compartment
has gone the emergency brake lever,
which formerly cluttered up leg
room there. Grasped as before, it
projects out and down from the
dash, taking no room, yet instantly
available.
One unobstructed piece of glass
In the windshield, with full nnd
free ventilation not limited to two
or three inches of clearance: steel
apron over the gas tank; combina
tion stop and tail light; comforta
ble cushions, set at n new angle for
greatest* comfort; cowl lights, au
tomatic windshield cleaner: uphol
stery such as is foend in the high
est priced cars—these are some val
ues put into the new cars as stand
ard.
Two other outstanding features
—full balloon tires around which
the body lines have been built with
race nnd beauty hitherto nuat'aln
eil, even by Studebaker, and Stude
haker hydraulic four-wheel brakes,
optional at extra charge, that pos
itively cannot he locked nnd which
require no spider-web of conduits
to operate—all this is a part of the
Rtudehnker values offered this year.
GOOD GAR NEEDS
GOOD SERVICE
Satisfactory Performance
Alone Not Sufficient to
Win Owner’B Complete Sat
isfaction
Dodge Brothers Perfect Sys
tem Which Enables Cus
tomer to Know In Advance
What Charges Will Be
Good performance alone does not
imply that the owner, is completely
satlsfleld with his motor car. ac
cording to G. M. Jones, local £>o<lge
Brother* Dealer.
“It take* good service. In addition
to the good performance, to win
hts complete nnd enthusiastic en
dorsement." he said.
He pointed out the fact t hat
Dodge Brother*, while constantly
improving the quality of their car
and thua reducing the necessity for
service, are at the same time giv
ing the service question more and
more attention as one of the funda
mental Issue* In the volume pro
duction and sate of automobiles.
This month, for example. Dodge
Brother* are advertising to the
world. "You Know tn Advance—
Dodge Brother* denier* everywhere
have a fixed charge for every aerv
le* operation.” It is P'fhaps th*
first time that a large manufac
turer has given *uch general
prominence to the subject of serv
ice.
"Dodge Brothers g.xxe years of
study to the development of a serv
ice plan that could he applied with
equal fairness and efficiency to
their entire organization of deal
ers." eald Mr Jones. "When this
plan wn* finally, evolved. It meant
more years of intensive educatonal
work in getting it established and
in operation tn the thousands of
dealerships. Today they have *r
rlved at the point where It ran be
truthfully eald that any Dodge
Brothers owner, anywhere, cen
learn In advance Juet what it will
cost him for any work th;" his car
may require. Oues3Work and un
pleasant surprises in service bills
have been eliminay d.
"The plan through which this
enviable position was realized ig
known as the flat rate service sys
tem cithers have advocated It but
In no case has it been so universal
ly adopted.
"I believe that this system has
done more than was ever accom
plished before to solidify and
heighten the enthusiasm of Dodge
Brothers motor car owners."
Wr. Jones explained that the flat
rate system was not put into effect
until rests had determined a rea
sonable time allowance for every
conceivable service Job. On the
basis of these tests maximum work
ing periods were established and
mechanics are now required to
complete every Job within the al
lotted time.
Thus the service superintendent
is able to estimate within a few
minutes how long it will take to
finish a job. Basic charges are
supplied by the factory with the
basic time periods. While these
charges are variable, according to
It Was a Different-Yes, Far
Different Matter, When Our
Grandmas Used Telephones
Service of 20 or 30 Years Ago Would Cause a Riot of
Protest Today—Writer Pictures Evolution
of the Telephone in Augusta
o w o
| (By HENRY F. SAXON.) |
O O
Like ail Inventions that are really
wonderful and marvelous, and yet
have come to be of such essential and
vital of the every-day life, so
cially. politically, commercially and
otherwise, the telephone Is given lit
tle thought now-a-days as to its
early struggles and installation and
the days when it was more of a curi
osity and wonder than perhaps any
discovery of modern times is consid
ered. When one pauses to give
thought to it, the telephone is a
miracle, but it is not* the intent of
this story to go into the multitudinous
phases of the little Instrument’s use
fulness with its tiny wire strands and
huge cables girdling the world and
minimizing distance of space, or its
progressive history. On the other
hand, it will be attempted to tell
something of local interest as to early
installation and commencement of the
system in Auguste.
For the gist of this story The Her
ald is indebted to Miss Lillian Holli
day who has been with the local
branch as an operator for a numb*,
of years and who gathered most of
the Information herein detailed to
give in a talk before a recent gather
ing of the telephone employees in Au
gusta. Miss Holliday entered the ser
vice of the company In 1807.
FIRST EXCHANGE
IN THE CITY.
The first telephone exchange was
located In the old Western Union
Telegraph building on the north side
of Broad street just below the alley
way which lies between Mclntosh
and Washington streets. W. L. Bren
ner was manager of the exchange at
that time. The exchange was main
tained at this location for several
years, being later moved to the
building on the southeast corner of
Mclntosh and Broad streets upstairs
over the old store of Christopher Gray
& Company (now the Schbeider build
ing and occupied by the Russell Piano
Company.) The exchange was later
moved to the old postoffice building,
standing until recently at the corner
of Mclntosh and Kills streets, where
it remained until 1900 when a lot was
purchased by the telephone company
and the building occupied at this time
on the north side of the 900 block of
Ellis street was erected.
Succeeding Mr. Brenner as manager
have been the following in the order
named: Boardman, E. A.. Bonsell,
Dan Murphy, Alex McDonald. W. IT.
Adkins. Morgan. Buxton L. M. Haw
kin'. P. .T. Nix. W* A. Whitaker and
Marion S. Symms. the latter being
the manager at this time which nn
sitlon he has held for the past five
years.
Among the chief operators in the
old exchange who are recalled bv sub
scribers, have been Mr. Cochraft, Mr.
Bovkin. Miss Essie Matthews, Miss
Bell Edwards nnd Miss Maud Ray.
MISS O'LEARY FIRST
woman Operator.
The first women operator, on the
bourd was Miss Mary Ellen O'Leary,
who became in later years Mrs. John
D. Herriott, of AJken. She remain
ed in the service of the company for
about fifteen years. During Miss
O'Leary’s term there was added a
night operator to the force. John Hay
den. He would remain on duty one
Sunday and Miss O’Leary the next.
There were between 150 and 200 sub
scribers to the telephone service at
that time.
Among some of the earliest tele
phone subscribers and their 'phone
numbers in Augusta were: Paul Mus
tin & Company, No. 45: Lee & Both
well. No. 10 (this number is retained
by the Augusta Grocery Company to
day, the company being a business
descendant of the old Lee & Bothwell
firm); King Mill, Nos. 12, 112; Sibley
Mills. Nos. 54. 154; Southern Railway,
No. 1; Southern Express Co.. No.
2 (number retained to this time);
Perkins Manufacturing Co., No. 4;
Augusta Brewing Co.. No. 5; Peveny-
Hnod Hardware Co., No. 14; Standard
Oil Co., No. 118 (number retained
to this time); Augusta Factory. No.
119 (number retained to this time);
Chronicle editorial rooms. No. 113;
Georgia R. It. Bank, 63; National
Bank. Mo,
A good many years elapsed before
the telephone service was developed
to ti e point of long distance connec
tions. but this finally came about and
now. ns everyone of course knows, no
matter, almost wherever one is In
the world one may get In touch
through the kindly medium of “cen
tal” with one's friends at home or
abroad. The first long line estab
lished out of Augusta was to
The next was with Charleston. S C.
When the exchange was moved into
the building at the corner of Ellis
nnd Mclntosh streets Alex McDonald
was manager, there were but four
operators and only a few toll lines.
The toll lines at that time extended
to Atlanta. Johnston. F. C . Aiken. F.
C., to the Locks above Augusta on
the canal, and to the Countv Home.
The flrrt toT!*operator was Miss Ma
mie Watkins, now Mrs. J. H. Day of
Crawford avenue this city, and Wilt
Albea. who is at this time with the
company at Macon, was night opera
tor.
THE ANNOYANCES OF
THE OLD SYSTEM.
Tt !a well remembered what an an
noyance the oid call system of sig
nalling was to subscribers, and it was
even more annoying to the operators.
Especially when some super-exas
perated ”caller’' started in to turn
the crank. Under the old signal sys
tem It was possible for 50 to 75 sub
scribers to get “on the wire” at once,
nnd sure It must have been enough
to drive all the sweetness from out
the “hello” girl s dl*p<*sitton. Then
there appeared the party-line with
the lock system, and when the little
disk “line In use” showed up there
was abeo-positively no use in trying
to butt in. for Central could not hear
the anguished nnd anxious appeal
That would l>e a fine arrangement for
the overhead cost in each com
munity, the difference is never
great and the factory’s maximum
reaasonable charg£ is never sur
passed.
As a rule, mechanics are also paid
by the job. They are allowed so
much time for the operation and
must do the work in a satisfactory
manner or do it ov. r without pay.
This reduces waste of time and in
creases efficiency. The natural re
sult to the owner Is better work in
shorter time and at lower cost.
Mr. Jones added that Dodge
Brothers have never countenanced
so-called free service. “It is now
obvious to most people that free
service must be paid for somehow
by someone,”' he said. “The usual
way is to add enough to the selling
price of the ear to cover the free
service item. The injustice of that,
however, is that you may never re
quire more than a few dollars worth
of service, while some other buyer
needs ten or twenty times that
amount and yet you both pay equal
ly. Dodge Brothers Owners pay only
for what they themselves get—not
for what someone else may need.”
the boys and girls, and hte gossiping
women, too, of today, for there was
also no chance of there being a
“listener in” on the line and one
could carry on a private confab with
out fear of others interrupting. But,
now, that’s changed, and one has to
watch his step when “on the wire”
for it might get crossed and cause r.o
end of entanglement.
A feature of the telephone service
of earlier days, and not so long ago at
that, that perhaps was of greater
service and benefit than was probably
realized was the “morning test” when
“Central” would ring anrl in dulcet
tones request, “Morning test, ring
please!”
The telephone service in Augusta
has grown from a mere, almost in
consequential industry to its present
large proportions and world-wide in
fluence In less than forty years.
OVER 7.000 ESTABLISHED
STATIONS HERE TODAY.
Today there are 7,445 established
telephone stations in Augusta, more
than 90 operators serve subscribers
any hour of the day or night, in
cluding long distance and toll opera
tors, there is a plant and construc
tion force of 35 men constantly at
work maintaining the service to the
highest efficiency, and seven persons
are employed in the clerical depart
ment. This makes a total of 135 men
and women necessary to keep Au
gustans In totfeh with each other and
the outside world at a moment’s no
tice or expressed wish.
The six hotel stations, alone, com
prise 987 telephones, more than the
number o* population in the average
small town.
The busiest time of the day for the
girls on the switch-board is between
10 ami 11 o'clock a. m.. and one can
imagine what this must mean when
It Is told that there is an average of
65.693 local calls per day, and a daily
average of 8.81 local calls per station.
The latter means that practically
every telephone station in the city
calls “Central” from 8 to 9 times
during the run of the day. Toll call*
per day through the local exchange
average 482. So. just keep this in
mind sometimes when you are in a
hurry and “Central” doesn't show up
with the speed that one's excited and
anxious nerves demand,
Accommodations for the girls work
ing a* the telephone exchange are
not the least part of the company’s
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progressiveness, for the girls are
splendidly provided for in ways that
contribute to their comfort, and be
cause of this to their greater ef
nciency. They work 8 hours per day
tor six days in the week, and in the
eight hours they are allowed two rest
periods of 15 minutes each, making
their working day only seven and one
half hours. They are provided with
lunch rooms rest rooms and other ad
vantages and comforts. In the earlier
days the girls had indefinite working
hours, were required to be on the job
seven days in the week. and. received
no extra pay for over-time’ or Sun
days, and enjoyed none of the com
forts provided for them today. To
day, in addition to other provisions for
their welfare, they are compensated
fr.- over-time and Sunday work.
Today the telephone girl is looked
up to as a very essential part of the
community's daily comfort and happi
ness. welfare and convenience. In
former years this did not obtain.
Tried though she is by sundry vexa
tions and impatiences of “callers.”
the telephone girl maintains a dignity
of poise that is admirable, and sure
ly she should be awarded a rrown in
that Land that lies some where out
in the fathomless Beyond, among the
stars.
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“JUDGE” DICTIONARY
SETTLES DISPUTES
New Words Are Defined In
Work Offered Readers
of This Paper
In case r>f doubt concerning the
rneaninf? of a word, the dictionary
is the court of appeal to which the
average individual must resort.
When Dr. Johnson compiled his
celebrated dictionary, offered to the
public in 1755, it represented a
movement initiated by Swift Ad
dison, Pope and other noted English
writers of that period to compose a
dictionary that would fix forever
and unalterably the English lan
guage in one perfect form. But the
lapse, of years has demonstrated
that fashion in words change with
'The times that a dictionary to be
authoritative and accurate must he
up to date.
A popular demand for such a
work has been answered by the
offer this paner Is making to its
readers of The New Universities
Dictionary in which thousands of
words not found in any other dic
tionary are fully defined. Many of
these words have been brought into
general nnd proper use by the great
strides made in science, business,
religion and the various arts. ( Spe
cialized activities, such as avia
tion. golf, baseball and other forms
of sports have also given currency
to many new terms and definitions
of which will he found in one or
the other of the twenty-two sup
nlomentary dictionaries that have
been incorporated in The New Uni
versities Dictionary.
POLICE REVEALED IN
NEW ROLE—EXERCISE
ECONOMY IN GAS
An interesting fact in connection
with the operation of the police de
partment is presented by the record
of gasoline and mileage in the use of
gasoline vehicles by the department
for the past 18 days. This record
shows that fifteen vehicles, consisting
of six automobiles, two patrols and
seven motorcycles have, during the
last 18 days, consumed a total of 450
gallons of gasoline, or an average of
25 gallons every 24 hours.
As a further evidence of economy In
the operation of the cars and motor
cycles by the police, it is pointed out
that the above figures include an
average total of over 300 miles a day.
which means a grand total for the 18
days c\f more than 5,400 miles, or
something like an average of 12 miles
to the gallon of gasoline. The esti
mate of mileage per gallon is very
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
conservatively figured, considering
that the seven motorcycles are ope
rated more than any of the other
vehicles and require much less gaso
line than automobiles. It is ineended
that 12 miles per gallon he taken *s
a general average in view of the
heavy consumption of the two big
patrol machines, both of which use a
great deal of gas.
JAPANESE FARMERS
Pray to Rain Oods to Sara
Crops
OSAKA, Japan Summer of un
precedented drought has brought
to light strange and primative cus
toms among the farmers of the
countryside around Osaka.
So strange has become the men
ace to crow that there has been
supplication to the rain gods, used
only in the greatest emergency, and
resorted to only twice in the last
70 years. This is the "opening of
the sacred well, in the precincts of
the famous Oira shrine, near
Osaka.
Seven men are chosen by lot from
amortg the people of the village In
which the shrlhe is located. These
offer prayers for a week, living
apart in the shrine precincts,-and
purifying themselves by daily rites
of absolution. Then a fence of dry
grass is built around the- sacred
well and the opening begins. Th*
well is buried deep in the earth. Be
fore its stone cover can be reached
three boxes.each containing a pray
er in ancient Sanskirt, relics of tbs
early days of Buddhism in Japan,
have to be unearthed. When ths
stone cover of the well is removed,
according to the belief, an inex
haustible flood of cold water gush
es over the brim, the sky becomes
overcast and rain falls heavily. How
efficacious the prayers have been
in this instances is not yet known.
Only twice within the memory
of man has this ceremony been
carried out. in 1881 and again in
1911. On the tatter occasion, the
farmers say, heavy rain began to
fall while prayers were still being
offered up.
BERNHARDT VILLAGE
PARIS —A garden village for
French writers and artists is being
built in the beautiful woods at Ples
sis-Robinsor., outside Paris. Th*
village will start with 100 dwellings
and studios and will be named after
Sarah Bernhardt.
NO USE FOR VAN
ATCHISON, Kan.—Ernest Young,
73, has never paid a cent to the
driver of a moving van. He claims
the Kansas record for having Jived
the longest time in one house—6B
years. And furthermore, he doesn’t
intend ever to move, he says.
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