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THE AUGUSTA HERALD
AUGUSTA, GA.
Daily—Afternoon Sunday—Morning
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and also the local news published
herein.
QUIPS: By Robert Quillen
Sufficient epitaph for most of us: "Ha meant well.”
To applaud Is a risky business. Jt may encourage
Mm to talk on.
Ccnlcrs of culture are wonderful. They have art
exhibits for visiting hicks to enjoy.
You can always tell which frock your wife really
prefers. It's the one that is too small.
Well, the American people are strong for an hon
est politician when they find one.
If ha can pass the pigskin sublimely, eomebody
will see that he passes examinations.
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An average
man Is one who
thinks he could
put on wall pa
per as good as
anybody.
You don't really believe In free speech unless you
can listen while the opposition talks.
Chivalry is whnt keeps deacons from cussing when
tome woman tries to run the church.
Mr. Morgan's Income tax Indicates that European
n „tables were not the only onee ruined by the war.
Opera by re Ido Is like eny other If you have some
body to pat the back of your chair with hie foot.
Mellon told us how much they make. Now we are
•von more <ager to discover how they make It.
At least you esn build mansions In the skies with
out having your wife nag about cloacta.
tr
There are oth
er triumph*, but
none compare*
with tho ftr»t
time ft boy I*
called "mister".
You can't work up « revolution in a land where
nothing really worrlea the common people except
•tittle.
In Vienna bald head* are u*ed to advertlae com
modities. Here they merely advertlee virtue.
If one cylinder I* missing. hope for the beat. A! •
bkiil any day you may find the whole car mlaalng.
Another time man get* the l*«t word 1* when he
an vs: "All right! All right! Juat tell ’em to charge
It.*
Correct thl* eentencet “It waa the flrat one they
ahowid me," aald ahe, “and I bought It."
| Snow Flakes By Hai Cochran J
IN these night a that are still there - * a touch of a
chill and It tell* ua that Jack Froal la nigh. The
crop* fade away aa the fall-lime-* at play. We
When the aun sink* away at tho end of the day
there'* a dreariness settling down. The last touch of
red, with tta wonderful epread ahowa how green
leave* have turned unto brown.
Aa fall weather hover* w* take on more cover* and
dress In a Muggier way. Our winter-bound trip
brings the froaty-made nip and we're feeling It plain
ly today.
When frisky, waft* mingle our Mood t* atlngle:
were filled with a aplrtt of anap. Our dullneaa t«
lost n* we wltneae Jack Froat hold the weather run
right In hi* lap.
Therc'a a hint tn the eky that the anew flake* will
flv, as the cloud* gather daytime and night. King
Winter I* humming; the'time la faat coming when
nature will drea* up In white.
Foolish Fings ß *™” Si “*
Dream* may be auppreaaed wlahea, •• Fraud aaya;
but who ever wished the devil would cbns* him?
Nothing hurts your luck aa much aa thinking you
huven t any.
It ta a wlee man who look* thlnga over instend of
overlooking thing*.
A good name, like great riche*, la often faked.
Nerve la ft funny thing. You have It with you
until you need It. And then you loa* It suddenly.
Many a auppoaedly good Christian cuaaea when hi*
radio gives him n sermon Instead of just music.
A little rusting now and then la relished by tha
best of men.
Tho world got* better! We aaw a movie that didn't
end with a kls*.
The atone-age man had hla wife at hla faet, but
tho modern man hna her at hla hrela.
Moat men want a heavyweight pura* for a light
weight fight.
Work never hurt* n man unless he keeps away
from It.
A man in love will de anything, but he uauallj*
dost nothing.
A man ae'.dom lumi ever a new leaf until tha old
one la all smeared.
The needle la mightier than the pin.
Almost time to take back what we said about hot
weather.
Tropic who aay nothing Is Impossible have never
tried paying their bills without any money.
Nothing cornea to him who sits down and watts.
A man w*ho howls at everything Is usually treated
like a dog. t
Most of the men who think they lie to their wive*
don't.
The million* of germs on money and tn ktsse*
never make a ng refuse either.
The original name of the orange was “naranj,"
which I* why they changed It.
The holl-weevll hurt cotton very little thl* year In
the South, and helped convereatlon very much.
PROMOTING PROSPERITY.
THE Central of Georgia Railway has taken a
long step forward in offering inducements to
settlers to come and take up the cheap lands in
this stela made vacant by the ravages of the boll
weevil. Prior to the advent of the weevil, Georgia
was almost entirely devoted to the ono crop system.
Consequently when the weevil arrived hero and be
gan bis devastation, the Georgia farmer that know
nothing else but cotton wae hard hit.
They ere now learning diversification, hut It takes
time to change the agricultural system of the coun
try. Meanwhile, many have gone out of business and
their lands are being sold to pay their debts. Hun
dreds of fine farms are lying Idle from this cause.
There Is a splendid profit In dairying, growing to
bacco and peaches, to say nothing of raising chick
ens and live stock. But the facilities for switching
from cotton to these are not readily forthcoming.
The plan being Inaugurated by President L. A.
Downs, of the Central of Georgia, has the merit of
having been tested out and found entirely practi
cable. It was tried when railroads were building
across the continent and tne wild lands of the west
ern section were being reclaimed from the aborlgl
nees, and the experiment proved entirely satisfac
tory. President Downs Is merely treading the com
mon sense path blazed out by other. Furthermore,
the first decided effort made towards commercial
growing In this state was made by the Central of
Georgia.
Richmond, Burke, Jefferson, Screven, Emanuel.
Jenkins, Johnson and Wilkinson counties are all
touched by the Central of Georgia and Mr. Downs'
plan will doubtless work admirably. Details of the
Downs' plan were printed In the Herald of Novem
ber Uth.
There Is needed an Infusion of new blood In this
part of the South and a showing of how to make
something else besides cotton. Tobacco, wheut, and
sugar beets seem to be the products that promise tho
greatest profit", and President Downs' plan Is simi
lar to the one by which the West was settled up and
made great.
North Carolina la taeming with thrift and prosper
ity that was created by similar methods, and yet a
constant stream of aettlere from North Carolina is
pouring through Augusta dally seeking tobacco
lands In Georgia. They can sell their farms In North
Carolina for double what better land In Georgia can
be bought for, and the tobacco grown In Georgia
brings twice the money of the same product grown
in North Carolina. There la wider diversification In
Georgia and longer sonnons, thus permitting a great
er number of crops to ba mode.
WAITING AT THE BARBER’S.
NEXT— There’s no other business where custo
mers have to wait as long for service as In the
barber shop. This worries a reader. He writes,
urging barbers to work out some sort of system by
which customers could make definite appointments
and do away with the delay.
Doctora do It. So do dentists.
Going to the barber ehop for shave or haircut,
however, la more than a business transaction. Tho
barber aliop tins almost magical powers of rejuve
nating a man’s mental and physical condition. A
haircut, a shave, a shampoo, a scalp tonic -all these
refreshen the spirits. We may have rushed nervous
ly In. But usually we stroll light-heartedly forth.
Give s down-and-out tramp a clean shave, Trim
his hair. He la 50 per cent*esoued back to the ranks
of respectability.
Even waiting for our turn In a chair has Its ad
vantages. Maybe the delay Is annoying to keyed-up
nerves, but It calms us down, rests us.
Men, they have taken away the livery atable from
us. and the "poor man's club” at the corner saloon.
Of all ancient gathering places of the hcwhlakered
se*. only the barber shop remains.
For renturles men have gathered there to exchange
gibes, hear tho latest gossip and, In later genera
tlona, peruse the rscler sporting publications.
It's altogether a myth, thst customers object to
the barber's endless flow of conversation. Where
else could we get the "low down" on politics, the
whispered word about high steppers, the "dope" on
ponies?
Few come more Intimately Into our lives than the
barber. He holds the secret that our hair Is turning
gray or a bald spot enlarging under a wave of hair
carefully brushed to conceal It. To him the customer
confesses the reason of a "big head."
Rnrherlng lost much of Its human atmosphere
when electricity took hold of the clippers and mas
sage. But there’s still n lot of the ancient and tra
ditional around the barber ehop and customs. In
It we make our last aland against the forces that
have broken up the other genial congregating places.
As for putting It on a scientific service basis, let us
•t least wait until we learn whether the Invasion of
ladles coming to get their hair bobbed and necks
shaved Is permanent. 4
Oysters have been back from their vacation sev
eral weeks now without saying what a good time
they had.
A movie star saying her husband Is perfect doesn't
] get her name In our paper with such foolishness.
Be very careful while Inheriting a fortune. In St.
I.nuts, a woman who did It fainted.
I *
j Florists say the old-fashioned flowers are return
ing. but of course this doesn't Include wall flower*.
{ Canned whale meat la being sold In Africa. The
| w hale# are always cut up, never being canned whole.
I HE: AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
Chinese Minister Displays
Real Super-Diplomacy
By HARRY B. HUNT
WASHINGTON— Dr. Sao-Ke
Alfred Sze, Chinese minister
to the United States, proven
himself* a real diplomat by tho
steps’ bo has taken to set America
right with respect to the “heath m
Chinee."
Instead of confining his effrits
for a better understanding between
China and the United States to
parley voos and pour parlers with
the gray-beard* In the State De
partment, Sze Is making his over
tures straight to the youth of the
country who will have the shaping
of our diplomacy in the next gene
ration.
As a part of this Idea, Sze has
presented to the * Central High
School of Washington, In which ho
was formerly a student, a “Chinese
room,” which wjll keep constantly
before the pupils of the school an
object lesslon on the art and cul
ture of his ancient country.
THIS Chinese room, built within
one of the regular class-rooms
of the school. Is finished w‘th
long panels of red and black lac
quer. These pansls are decorate!
with Chinese characters •ettlig
forth the characteristics of a good
teacher.
The windows ore shaded by gold
silk curtains, over a Chinese lat
tloe effect. A large, beautifully de
signed Chinese lantern, suspended
from the center , sheds a mellow,
softened light which brings out the
oriental charm and beauty of the
room.
It will be hard to convince pupils
who receive part of their education
In English In this room that China
Is a hopelensly benighted country.
Instead of being given an adverse
slant at China and things Chinese,
they are brought to regard them
with high favor. For In the desert
of a modrn, utilitarian, American
school building, hts Chinese room
ntands out as an oasis of beauty
and Inspiration. As a bit of Ruper
dlplomaey It amounts to nothing
less than genius!
EDITORIAL COMMENT
REELECTION OF WALSH
Tho rc-elflctlon of Senator Thomas
J, Walsh in Montana by a vsry sub
stantial majority Js one of tho few
bright toots amid thi encircling
Kloom. His defeat would have boon a
National loss ns well as an indica
tion that tho people of hl« State did
not approve of fearless exposure of
official corruption. With Mr Walsh's
relentless investigation of the crook
ed Fall ever before thrtr eyes Repub
lican Senator’s will not bo inclined to
shield wrongdoing when it is brought
UNUSUAL PEOPLE
Heads School
For Tourists
... • y
SUL \
T F JOHNSON.
Amt now we are to nave school* for
tout Utt!
Tl-.r Florid* Tourist* School*, s
Michigan corporation, ha* been or
ganized, headed by Thomaa E. John
eon, superintendent of public Instruc
tion.
The school* will he established nt
Tort Richey, on the gulf coast. Lake
land, in central Florida, and Day
tona. on the Atlantic coast.
Each school will have 12 grades
and teacher* will he supplied front tho
north. The students who go sooth
can thus follow tha course of study
as taught in the north.
OUT OUR WAY
I!| | ha«o -to c.er up and / j
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; ; menTAi TfeUEPA-mY ,„■..
PUBLICATION of income tag
payments proved a fine wind
fall for one class of businessmen
It gave all stock and bond sales
men a gilt-edged list of "pros
pects.” For from the amount cf tax
paid it was possible to estimate:
with fair accuracy the yearly in
come of the reportees, and the
stock and bond boys lost no time
In hot-footing it out to argue the
merits of their various “Issues” as
investments and gather in as many
of the remaining dollars as possible.
One elderly Washington woman
who had never been spotted by the
stock and bond brokers, but who
was revealed by the tax lists as
having an Income well up in five
figures, was visited by no less than
five bustling bond salesmen the
morning her name was printed.
She bought *ome securities from
the last man, then locked the door,
disconnect d the door-bell and de
clared a stale of siege.
WHAT’S In a name? Well, W.
A. Jump, administrative as
sistant to acting Secretary
of Agriculture Gore, held down his
first Job with the department sn’-ly
by his ability to live up to his
Jump's Job was to carry mes
sages from an up-town office of the
department to the administrator,
building down on the Mall, makin.f
a trip every 15 minutes. When he
tackled tho Job he had a bicye! >,
and expected to be able to maintain
schedule without ovcr-exertlon. The
round-trip distance was about i.
mile.
Then his bicycle was Rtolen.
Funds were not In hand for an
other —and wouldn’t be for several
weeks. He either had to walk, and
walk fast, or give up his Job. So
Jump Jumped it.
And by the tlm“ he was ready
to buy a new hike, his boss Jumped
him into a hetter Job.
But even todny he can tell you
Just how many steps it is from
the office to the middle of Penn
sylvania avenu’.
to their attention.—The Philadelphia
llecord.
THE CAROLINA MOUNTAINS
Words cannot be found that
would describe the beauty of the
mountains of South Carolina at
this time. Nature Is putting on hei
b'-st show of the whole year in the
display of every imaginable shade
of color of the leaves on the sides
of the mountains.
On Sunday hundreds of people
from far and nepr went to the
mountains of Pickens and Oconee
and viewed a riot of color that can
not he desciibed. Tho weather was
also perfect In every respect. Good
roads enable any one to reach these
scenes of beauty In two hours nr
less from Anderson. With fair
weather the show will Inst for
probably two weeks longer hut the
leaves are beginning to fall pretty
freely already. An afternoon of a
day spent In these mountains Is well
worth anyone’s time.
Hnnrl work on the Pickens-Bre
vard road has been pushed during
the past month ard travelers may
go several miles further in the
mountains of that section over a
good road than was possible before.
—Anderson Daily Mail.
THE FRIEND OF THE YOUNG
MAN.
Rtelnmetz. the electrical wizard,
was moved by a Just sense of rela
tive value In leaving money for
scholarships at Union College as his
most desirable memorial. Tablets
or portrait or monumental stones
could never meat) so much as the
encouragement of students with ln
miffleilent funds for a college train
ing. Many a man has given a large
sum for architecture that would ad
vertise himself for succeeding gen
erations and has neglected the up
building of lives of young men who
hold In their firm tenure the world s
expectation. One of the best things
about stelnmetz was his generous
encouragement of promising youth,
and his bequest Is in keeping with
the spirit of one who had himself
elimbed from tho hottom of the
ladder despite all handicaps of frail
physique and adverse circum
stance*.—The New York Post.
COWS LIKE JAZZ.
It Is a well known fact that horses
like music, that they "feel so awful
funny when the hand begins to
play.” You have seen them prance
to it apparently getting more pleas
ure out of a quickstep than from a
measure of oats.
Cows siso like music, but thov
can't dance or prance. They hnven't
the knee action to step around like
a horse.
| p. C. Welty. a dairyman of Tex
arkana. Tex., puts on a barn dance
! once a week in the left above the
| cows. When the cows are milked
while the dancing is on they aver
age more milk. —The Toledo Blade.
EMERGENCY ANTICIPATED.
Gompcrs says the La Foliette
game he engineered was a vote of
protest. But, all the same, our
guess Is that when Sam tries to use
the pass key to the White House he
Is said to posses he will find that
they have changed the lock. —The
Houston Post-Dispatch.
REMOTE POSSIBILITY.
“Smith-McAdoo Fight In 1828
Now Looms” reads a headline In
the New York Times. Sufficient for
the day Is the evil thereof. Why
borrow trouble now from the re
mote possibilities four years hence?
—The Philadelphia Record.
FABLES ON HEALTH
Dont'B For Colds
In thl* season when the first colds
of the year are likely to make their
appearance, it is a pretty good Idea
to give the youngsters a list of
"don't”s and be sure they heed them.
The Manns of Anytown were a bit
careless, like most people, but It’s a
good plan to follow these rules with
either little Mary or Billy If they have
colds:
Don't let them kiss anyone.
Teach them to cover their mouth
and nose when they sneeze.
Don't let them sleep with any of
the other children.
Make a gargle rrom one-foutrh
teaspoonful of salt and the same
amount of soda hot water.
Give them a hot footbath before
they go to bed and a hot lemonade
after they get in.
And. of course, a good cathartic.
Don't let them eat meats or heavy
foods and. If confined to bed, a little
hot broth or milk several times a
day.
When Abraham Lincoln ran for
president his campaign fund was
only SIOO,OOO. Douglcr*; spent half
as much. .
Bryan ran three times. Tils fund
averaged $600,000 for each cam
paign.
McKinley held the record for a
single candidate, his fund In 1896
being $16,500,000. The 1924 funds
will be known later.
American Bankers’ Association
urges Uncle Sam to negotiate with
foreign governments to eliminate
the passport system. Then* you
could travel freely from one coun
try to another.
No chance. The passport In Eu
rope Is more a police than a tourist
device. We might profit by the
German system, making every new
arrival in a town report to police
headquarters within 24 hours to get
his “papers” o. k'd. Fugitives would
be more readily spaced, even in a
large country.
Kentucky -mountaineers usually
sit up and watch with Interest
while they are being operated on,
says Dr. S. C. Smith of Ashland,
Ky. In his hospital 85 out of 100
operations are performed while the
patient Is conscious and watching.
"Freezing” and other local
anaesthetics take the place of more
dangerous inhaled ones.
Only a few generations since pa
tients, tied to the operating table,
screamed while legs were sawed off.
The invention of anaesthetics was
Aunt Het
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“I’ve noticed that when a
woman gets to feelin’ sorry
for hernelf. it ain’t long be
fore ever’ body is feelin’ sor
ry for her husband.”
(Copyright. 1924. Associated
Editors. Inc.)
By Williams
one of the greatest blessings, even
though it did permit a lot more
operations than are necessary.
Five autos, stolen In New York,
were traced to Holland, where they
had been sold. This leads to arrest
of three “leaders of an international
auto-stealing ring”—something new
In crime, exports and big enter
prises.
It emphasizes that the theft of
autos is becoming a highly organiz
ed criminal industry. One way to
check It la to make all car drivers
carry papers proving their owner
ship, with fingerprints and signa
tures attached.
Cheap money (low interest rates
on loans) is a “grave danger,”
claims the economist of a big east
ern bank. He fears it will start a
flow of funds from central markets
Into farm land speculation.
Maybe so. But we’ve an idea the
farmer will not view this as dan
gerous as high loan rates that often
drive him to the wall.
John de Vito, 18, modern Samson,
Is shown in news pictures lifting
one end of an auto holding 13 peo
ple. Anyone can do the same with
a lifhting jack.
Brute strength doesn’t count
much any more except in occupa
tions where inventors have not yet
figured out how to use machinery
instead of human muscles. What
counts is: How much can you lift
mentally? ’
Business of the German mercan
tile fleet has Increased nearly 700,-
000 tons annually In the last three
years.
To-
Day
Adoisk Zukdb \
Cm/‘WagesQf
xyP ty] Virtue"
Gorgeous Gloria in another great
surprise role. A flaming Rose of
A** o Italy, pet of the French Foreign
“WILD GAME” Legion.
Mermaid More comedy than “Manhandled.”
Comedy. More heart-appeal than “Her Love
Story.”
Irialtol
loefe, frieze
Would You Marry a
Failure ?
She loved him, expected big
thing from him as the newly
elected sheriff. Why had he
not captured this mysterious
rider?
—AIso—
“SHORT CHANGE”
A Comedy
Starting Hours: 11,1:30, 3,4,
6, 7:30, and 9 P. M.
IwnfflrKilTMl
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Miss Bruce Henry a* “Justine" in “The Unwanted Child"
Imperial Theatre, matinee and night, Monday, Nov. 17.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14
SEAT SALE FOR “THE
UNWANTED CHILD"
OPENS TODAY
Special Matinee Monday for
Ladies Only
A thrilling and powerful play
that every woman and girl should
see Is “The Unwanted Child,’*
which comes to the Imperial thea
ter for matinee and night Monday,
matinee for ladies only. Florence
Edna May, authoress, has defined
one of the world’s great problems
and places those who are guilty In
the pillory. Is the child to blame?
■ls a theme long connected with our
national life. Why should Inno
cent babies suffer and those who
are guilty go free to remain a men
ace to decent, God-fearing people
and the child to become an Inmate
of some state Institution, to be
brought up in ignorance as to the
identity of Its father and mother.
Along with the cry of the nations
of the world for everlasting peace,
there should also be a mightier cry
for justice for’ the innocent babies
who are not wanted.
“The Unwanted Child,” a four
act play dealing with this vital
subject will be seen here with a
most capable cast. There will be
a lecture for ladies only at the
daily matinee. Evening perfor
mances are only ?vr those over 1,6
years of age.
Starting Hours:
12:00, 1:50, 3:40,
5:30, 7:20, 9:10
Imperial Theatre
Mon., Nov. 17 •
A POWERFUL PLAY
A SPLENDID CAST
NOT A FICTURE
HAHHIIS DAILY-UVDIIS ONLY
SOc All Seats Matinee 50c
No Children Admitted
POPULAR PRICES
Night 60c, 75c, SI.OO
For Everyone. Seats on Sale Now.
A WONDERFUL PRODUCTION
I sarlioa A lecture on this
LaUIcS vital subject at the
matinee.
Read ’em and rejoice !
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