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THE AUGUSTA HERALD
AUGUSTA. GA.
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A THOUGHT
Tha princa that wantath undaratanding ia alto a
gr«at oppreaaor.—Prov. 28:16.
Humility la the light of undemanding.—Buriy an.
QUIPS: By Robert Quillen
The grin of the "cheerful loaer" la merely chagrin.
Trrhaps it would help aome to have alienlata ex
amine the Jury,
Even the beat of ua would be "crlmlnala" If enough
silly laws were pasand.
Itevolutlon la a mrnna of elevating a new gang
whose nests need feathering.
Usually a great critic la Just a common acold with
n better vocabulary.
The good die young. Ah, well; If they would die
good, they muat do It young.
Still, aavagn
women g*t that
graceful carriage
by carrying hur
den* on their
heads and not in
them.
A hick complex Is Just a vague feeling that New
York should be abolished.
How unhnppy nil of us would be If our own sins
worried us n* the neighbor's do.
No people is ready for liberty while It calls Gov
ernment "It" Instead of "we."
Hint to plutocrats: It's the hardness of the up
per crust that makes earthquakes *o vloletlt.
The Eskimos are lucky. They are moral and
liappy ami too far away to civilize.
To one who thinks Orientals can he Americanized,
these Tong wars furnish feud for thought.
Pome people
get ahead a lit
tle. and (omo
just live from
movie to flivver.
lie Is a vise httshnnfl who known whnt ho will he
called on to* explain when ho Rets home.
It norms funny when people praise the Supreme
Court for declaring Iho Cnnetltutlon constitutional.
You can Ret a free Government bulletin on nlmoet
everything except tho framing of ecu slide law*.
An.' ricanUm: reeling very Ronoroua while lend
ing the money made so easily out of tho world’s
misery.
Correct this sentence: “Sow that 1 am elected,"
sai l he. "you will always find mo Just ns approach
able."
G randma’s Farm Hal oochran
I MT S take a trip in old memory's ship to a farm
that Is out In tho open. Answer the call of the
lulsky-like fall when for fretlt nlr and pep wo
are gropin'.
In the days that are gone, at the break of the dawn
we would hitch up old Dobbin and ride. The shout
of hurray aont tho old one-horse shay to the cheerful
and bright countryside.
llut now things nro changed and they're all rear
ranged. The auto forced Dobbin out soon. It takes
but an hour, though we’re still on horsepower, end
it used to tnko nil afternoon.
Where Dobbin was struttin’, nowadays we'r# put
puttin'. 'Tis funny how things come to pass, Onco
the horse had n rep lint It's now out of step ns we
Just have to step on the gas.
And when ho arrive, all the air Is alive With the
spirit that makes It a far', that though autos take
ue. the countrysides make us Just wish that old
Dobbin were bark.
Foo%h Fings By Tom Sims
Ho. hum. If you can't get a chuckle out of this
stuff you can go listen to the radio politicians and
laugh out loud.
Ar. 1 by the time we thought up a new costume for
n m;:: jue l .ill we decided to go ns a nervous wreck.
Is Boston, n mnn claims a SIO,OOO reward for stay
ing sober ten years. Even If he doesn't get It, he
has saved that much.
We wouldn't send s daughter of ours to a dance
with a drunk, not even if wo had a dozen daughters.
The first reliable sign of old ng* is when s man
starts thinking the rising generation Is going to the
dogs.
Woman in Steubenville, O. shot her husband in
stead of poisoning him. which was rather old fash
ioned of her.
The man who kicks because iho cut gets under his
lect, should try keeping goldfish Instead.
The circus ring Isn't as amusing as the political
ring.
And political machines, as you may havo heard,
use a lot of gas.
Dealers asy we are smoking less tobacco, but don't
•ay more whul.
The world, says a scientist, shakes like Jelly; but
maybe he has been going to too many dances.
We spend so much for fun and have so little of it.
It'* awful to be Just rich enough to make your
wife wish she could afford a fur coat.
Thla often seems to be tho land of the free and
home of the easy.
Probing s woman's mind Is about e* simple s* un
scrambling an egg.
NO DISEASE BY 1974?
WITHIN 50 year*, chemlats and phyalclana will
have discovered cures for nearly all ene
mies of the human body. Including such
dread maladies as ranccr. So predicts Dr. William
K. Nichols, former president of American Chemical
Society.
Then no one would die until the body Just natuarl
iy wore out like an aged machine, barring accidents
and such killers as lightning. It Is pleasant to con
template.
Why wait 50 years? The famous Dr. Wiley, In hi*
eighties, rocently said: "If luxury could be destroy
ed and nil houses burned to drive us outdoors, the
diseases which kill us old and middle-aged men
would disappear.
That's true. Disease as a rule Isn’t much to fear.
The great danger Is In a lowering of the body's pow
ers of resisting or fighting off disease.
And lowered resistance is an inevitable result of
living an unnatural life. Of course, as time goes on,
man's body adapts Itself to Its environment—-be
comes Immune to conditions and germs that have
killed city-dwellers before long environment led to
Immunization.
The esklmos are the healthiest people in the world.
Bring them down to our cities and they die like flies
It was so with the red Indians—exceedingly healthy
until the white man brought his disease, such as tu
berculosis, and his alcohol to lower their powers of
resistance.
All this demonstrates-that disease is usually an
unnatural condition.
Also, that most dissases are created by civiliza
tion, and that wherever civilization goes It carries Its
diseases with it.
Does nature disapprove of civilization, particular
ly of our congregating densely In cities, and try to
“get across' 1 to us the news of her disapproval by
attacking us with maladies?
COMPENSATION INSURANCE.
VETERANS, you are losing money until you
apply for your adjusted compensation Insur
ance, created by the last Congress.
In case of your demise, your relatives will receive
a mere pittance, and that spread out Into 10 pay
ments, rather than a lump sum for the policy value.
The adjusted compensation Insurance Is bssed
upon the number of days of service. When a vet
eran applies, the government Issues a aervlce cer
tificate, and if there was over 110 days' service, an
insurance policy of the 20-ycar endowment type,
worth about two and one-half times tho face value
of the service certificate.
Should a veteran apply for insurance, and die the
following day, the full value of the compensation In
surance policy will be paid his relatives In one lump
sum.
Should a veteran die without making application
for compensation immrnnce, his beneficiary Is paid
only the value of the service certificate —$1 a day
for domestic and $1.23 a day for foreign sorvice, less
the S6O bonus paid In 1919. And this smaller sura
la not paid In one lump, but In 10 quarterly pay
ments, stietching over two and a half years.
For example, a voteran served 500 days in domes
tic service. If he applies for a compensation insur
ance policy, and should dls before its maturity, his
relatives receive approximately SI4OO.
Hhould he fall to apply for the insurance, his rel
atives. In cose of his demise, would receive only
$440, paid at the rate of $44 every three months.
HISTORIC FAKES EXPOSED.
Or It famous cracked I.lberty Bell was never
rung dramatically to celebrate tho signing of
the Declaration of Independence, claims Prof.
Henry J. Ford of Princeton Unlvorsity, writing In
American Mercury magazine.
He sa\ s tho story of the Llbery Bell Is a myth, liko
many another legend of this country'* early days
such ns tho yarn about George Washington and the
cherry tree.
According to Prof. Ford, the I>oe lit ration was
adopted July i. It* preamble was adopted July 4.
And all without celebrations In Philadelphia or any
where else. The Declaration, he claims, was not
signed until Aug. 1, and the eignlng was not com
pleted until the following Jnn. 18—In 1777.
He goes on to toll how the "false legend" about
the ringing of the Liberty Bell and the great cele
bration wan started 75 years later by Ooorge Lip
pard, a fictional romancer.
No matter how much truth I* produced to back
up Prof. Ford's claims, Americans will continue to
believe and revere the Liberty Bell story. And they
should.
It la absolutely necessary for a people to havo
thrilling tradition*. The fact that these traditions
mny be false does no Injury, as long as they are
harmless.
Throughout history, all grent races have been
spurred an by Inspiring legends that had little or no
basis in fact. You recall the Norte myth about Val
halla. the hull beyond the grave, where wont the
souls of heroes who die in battle. Theee ghostly
warriors each morning sallied forth through Val
halla's 540 gates, to tight, and returned at night to
-.east with the god*. The Valhalla myth was a nec
essity back yonder when nature wna using military
organization to each men how to co-operate in gov
ernment and In economics,
it is so with other myths.
What would childhood be without a belief in San
ta Claus, Jack Frost and the Easier Rabbit? Cer
tainty It would lose much of its glamor and charm.
A race that had no harmless myths would be a
race without much tradition, dramatic instinct, Im
agination or patriotism. Happiness ts intangible.
The greatest things In life are Illusions. We need
our myths. Spare them, ye lemon-Jutee-blooded ma
terialists. It there wasn't a Llberv Belt, there ehould
have been. It is a symbol. Wise men know the need
and power of symbolism.
There are grown people In New Y'ork who think
they enjoy life.
"Score in Danger"—headline. Sounda Uke a foot
ball game.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA,
Progressive Bloc Veto Is
Certain to Come
WBy HARRY B. HUNT
ABHINGTON—Two years, at
least. of comparative In
action. Two years—perhaps four—
of "status quo.”
This Is the prospect responsible
for the complacency with which *
large part of the population here In
tho east regards the scrambled
political situation, which seems cer
tain to leave the progressive bloc
with a veto power In congress and
to leave whoever Is elected presi
dent hamstrung for the lack of a
legislative majority sufficient to
put Into effect any major con
troversial policies.
The result of this situation,
while It necessarily would be detri
mental to the prestige, pride and
power of any of the oplttlclal ar
tles. It Is held, might he a good
thing for the nation. That view,
among persona who ore less Inter
ested In parties and politics than
they are In a chance to go ahead
with their business affairs on a
definitely known basis, has gained
a very substantantial following.
BACK of this feeling, of course,
is the growing belief that
Washington Is tending toward
being a governmental cure-all; that
law rather than industry, effort and
Integrity can bring prosperity and
success.
Anything that promises to put
the brakes on the enactment of
laws and still more laws touching
every phase of personal and busi
ness relationships, is being looked
upon with growing regard by an
Increasingly large part of the peo
ple.
The thing that could most ef
fectively bring this result—the
enactment of a minimum of new
law*—would he the absence of one
party control and administration
domination In Congress. Then only
measures so well founded and so
generally supported as to win more
than nvere party backing would
stand any ohance of passage.
THIS result, of course, would
cause a lot of brainstorms In
Washington. There would be a
lot of sound and fury here. The
capital dome would rock. From a
strictly Washington viewpoint the
situation would he terrible. It would,
seem here, doubtless, that the dis
ruption of the nation was at hand.
But the nation outside of Wash
ington could proceed calmly about
Its affairs. Business could go ahead
knowing that tariff and taxes, for
the Immediate future, -would be un
changed. The certainty of “things
as they are” would replace the un
certainty of “things as they may
be.”
Of course there would be no
progress, except ns a settled state
brings stability and securenes*. Our
movement "back to normalcy" or
"ahead to Utopia” would bo by our
own efforts. It would not be legis
lated upon us.
SHOULD Coolidge, for Instance,
be re-elected, the new Con
gress will not he called into ex
tra session whether Republicans
control It or whether an insurgent
"blaanco of power" remains in the
saddle.
The short session of the present
Congress, from Dec. 1 to March 4.
will he occupied with the passage
of appropriation bills.
This would mean no Congres
sional activity In general legisla
tion before December, 1925, at the
earliest. Even then a possible Dem
ocratic Insurgent coalition would bo
ineffective, since the Coolidge veto
Aunt Het
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“It’s a raae o' true love if
she can adore him still after
she hears him snore."
(Copyright. 1924. Associated
Bditors, Inc.)
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would atill be working and the G.
O. I J . would still be strong enough
In Congress to block any over-rid
ing of a veto that protected any Re
publican policy.
FOR this reason the prospect of
a Congressional deadlock and
a virtual impasse in the pas
sage of party measure* is not caus
ing half the worry through the busi
ness and industrial east that it is
in the west. Here the status quo
is rather liked. If It can keep that
it'll be satisfied.
FABLES ON HEALTH
Growing Children
"My goodness, It seems like the
children grow an inch a day." Mr.
Mann would say as he returned
from work and looked over his little
brood.
Many children seem to grow too
fast and some to sprout up all too
slowly. Experts have worked out
tables showing the sizes children
should have attained at certain
years and these are Interesting to
all parents.
Between the ages 6 and 11 chil
dren should grow- about two Inches
a year. Between 12 and 17 normal
growth Is not more than two Inches
a year.
Girls who will be short of stature
grow three Inches between 12 and
13; short boys do not exceed a
grov.’th of two Inches a year and
medium sized boys grow three
Inches between 13 and 14; tall boys
grow three incites a year between
13 and 14 and 14 and 15.
At the age of 15 statures, rang
ing from short to tall, run about In
this order:
Boys—Short, 58 Inches; medium,
63 inches; tall, 70 Inches.
Girls—Short, 59 inches; medium.
62 inches, and tall, 66 Inches.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
THE HOME BREW INDUSTRY.
Th consumption of "juice grapes"
has become so great that the prob
lem of unloading them from cars In
the big cities is worrying railroad
managements. Because the grapes
shipped in could not be gotten out
of the cars expeditiously, embargoes
of them were declined some time
ago in Pittsburg. Buffulo, Roches
ter and a number of other large
cities. New Y'ork followed suit at
the end of last week. According to
the New York Times, there were
1,250 carloads of grapes awaiting
unloading immediately about New
York City and 917 cars across the
river in New Jersey. In each car
there are 21) tons. Figure it out;
not far from 90,000,000 pounds! And
thy are not for “grape juice.”
The Times says that because the
railway officials expected a record
crop of Juice grapes to reach New
Y’ork this year special arrange
ments were made to take care of
them. The consignees agreed to ac
cept nil shipments In the yard
along the New Jersey side of the
Hudson rivr. Three freight yards
on the New Jersey side were served
to receive these grapes, but the
congestion has become to great the
ear service division «f the American
Railway AssoelaFon has declared
an embargo on juice crapes coming
to the New Y’ork market.
The wine-making Industry In the
home would seem to be growing In
the east with astonishing rapidity,
and the grape growers are doing a
better business even than when
American wine was sold under
French labels.
A FORWARD-LOOKING CENTE
NARIAN.
Moss Cleveland, a cousin of the
founder of the cltv of Cleveland and
a relative of Orover Cleveland,
started yesterday on hi* cne hun
dred and third year. Though con
fined to his bed by a broken hip.
he takes s philosophical view of
life. For him not even a hundred
years are sufficient for solving the
mystery of existence, and he asks
for more time. F.ut at the one hun
dred and second milestone he naus
ed to make an observation which is
rare among the aged. It is that
people as a whole are holding back,
looking back and resisting progress.
They will not move from old ways
"sooner than they have to.” YVhen
he wns a boy in Connecticut hi*
neighbor said to a salesman of
scythe that "a sickle was good
enough for my father to reap oats
with and It'* good enough for me.”
When the mower came the users of
scythe* said that It would never
cut. And a similar attitude he
found general during the succeed-
ing decades of his century; the
steamboat would never run; the lo
comotive never would b? practical;
the cable across the Atlantic would
break and could not be mended; the
Wright brothers would meet the
fate of Icarus, and the radio—well,
that was simply as fantastic as
Aladdin's lamp or the magic carpet.
"I have lived,” said he. “to see
them take back ail these things.”
He added: "Today nothing seems
Impossible to me—not even the
straightening out of the country’s
politics, bad as they look." To
face a second century with such a
spirit is a stimulus to faith and for
titude and a reproach to those of
fewer years who walk backward
and talk despairingly of the future.
This fTeveland seems to have been
discerningly named "Moses.” The
promised land is always ahead for
him. Whether he Is permitted to
enter It or not, he has had sight
of it—the land where the Impossible
of today becomes the commonplace
of tomorrow. —New Y’ork Times.
THE PRECEDENT.
The public would likely prefer to
forget the Loeb-Leopold case, but It
has no chance. Thick and fast
from over the country come pleas
of mercy in murder cases because
of the youth of the criminals. In
sanity pleas are getting to be com
mon. Possibly It is best that so
ciety Is not permitted to forget.
Surely the continued reminders of
that deplorable miscarriage of Jus
tice will eventually Impress upon
the people the danger In permitting
such travesties in tha courts. Crime
Increases and It is crime of the
most heinous kind. It will lncreas*
til the American peopl rise up in
righteous indignation, If there be
such a thing left In the country,
and demand an enforcement of law
that Is consistent with civilized so
clety.JNashville Banner.
Clarence Darrow, the lawyer, re
cently declared that not one of the
19 men under sentence of death at
Sing Sing would be there if they
could have afforded good attorneys.
It isn't by any means a new idea.
But the trouble is in the courts
anl laws rather than in the pocket
book of the accused. In England
all the lawyers in creation nor all
the millions In money could not
save from the gallows a murderer
by premeditation.
From evil comes good. The Leo
pold-Loeb case has started a re
action against capital punishment.
Everything has a set and definite
UNUSUAL PEOPLE
“From Riches
To Rags”
i ii iwi Minmn-i ——,
From "rags to riches” was re
versed in the case of Mrs. Adele
McMasters, whom fate has led from
a royally appointed castle, near
Bordeaux, her blrthlace, to the role
of a cripple pencil saleswoman on
the streets of St. Paul, Minn.
Her mother, daughter of the Mar
quis de Fournier, was exiled when
she married a Huguenot, and the
girl, thrown on her own resources,
came to America and opened a
bookstore on Staten Island. Her first
husband died and her second matri
monial attempt was not a success.
"I will not go to a poorhouse,”
she says determinedly, "so I’ll sell
pencils.’’
By Williams
purpose—though often It Is not ap
parent because hidden in the spirit
ual domain outside our three-di
mensional material world.
To curb the drug habit, an inter
national narcotic conference will be
held in Switzerland In late Novem
ber. Our country will send dele
gates. It is understood that they
will say, in effect: “The only way
to curb the drug traffic is to surb
the growing of plants that produce
narcotic substances.”
Opium farming, for instance. Is
quite common In the orient. To
stop It, Is easier said than done.
"The great debts of war remain
Nothing but work will remove them.
No ingenious solution will provide a
substitute"—Quoting Henry Bell.
The acute pain of neuritis
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No rubbing —no waiting
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the moment you use it. You don’t
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circulating swiftly through the
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RAVENOUS eaters that they were,
our primitive ancestors were not
bothered much with failure of the diges
tive or eliminative organs to function
properly. Their vigorous, active habits
took care of that.
But under modern living conditions we
require another means of avoiding and
dispelling constipation. And so more
people every year are turning to Pluto
Water, the safe, quick-action physic
that flushes all harmful accumulations
out of the bowel tract
Ward off dangerous appendicitis, pneu
monia and influenza. Don’t trust to over
night cathartics that interrupt sleep or
interfere with business when they work
at all. Time counts when you need a
physic. Pluto Water acts in 30 minutes
to two hours and never gripes.
Keep a bottle of this harmless family
physic in your home always. Physicians
prescribe it. Druggists everywhere sell
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ONE NIGHT OUT /
—via—
“ The Palmetto Limited” Pullman Dining Car
Train
Lv. Augusta 1:35 P.M.
Ar. Washington 7:25 A. M.
Ar. New York 1:30 P.M.
Ar. Boston 8:05 P.M.
Ar. Buffalo 8:00 P.M.
Ar. Fittsburg 6:44 P.M.
Tiek*t», Reservation*, Information From:
M. C. Jonet, C. T. A.. K. F. Wcstberry, D. T. A.,
Phone 661. Phone 1869.
W. A. Leitch, D. P. A..
809 Brood Street, FHono 625.
ATLANTIC COAST LINE
The Standard Railroad of the South
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5
general manager of Lloyds 1 Bank,
London. England.
He is correct. Anß the cannon
fodder of the world should keep in
mind what he says. The gigantic
war debts are nothing more than a
mortgage on future labor. Exam
ple: A bilHon dollars of war debt
represents a year's work by over
6GO.QOQ laborers at $5 a day apiece.
You never know what you’re eat
ing. In a cak of yeast are 22 times
as many cells as there are people
in the world. Nature's big-scale
marvels fire the Imagination, as in
astromony. but her greatest won
ders are in the microscopically
small. There seems to be no limit
to size, big or little.
Some photographs of the moon In
natural colors were shown at a re
cent meeting of the British Astro
nomical Association.
sick, pain-ridden tissues. And this
increased blood supply sweeps
away the conditions that ara
causing the pain.
At once you feel genuine relief.
Then—before you know it—tha
pain is gone. It will not stain. All
druggists have Sloan’s—3s cents.
Constipation
—the penalty
of civilization*,