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FOUR THE AUGUSTA HERALD AUGUSTA, GA. Daily—Afternoon Sunday—Morning Entered at the Augusta, Ga., Post office as Mail Matter of the Second Class. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use of re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. DISHES By Hal Cochran j HEN the supper meal Is over and you're lazy \A/ as kin be, and you're leunln' back in com * » fort, aorta propped against your knee, there is just one thing that frels you. kinda robs you or your fun. It's the fart, that always gets you, that the dishes must be done. Just a half a dozen saucers and a half a dozen cups, and a flock of other dishes that the evening in terrupts. They are sitting on the table filled with scraps of food and such, and the truth is, very frankly, that they don't amount to much. But you'd rnther sit a-pufflng on a clgaret or pipe than to help to do the dishes when the doing time is ripe. And the Missus, too, feels lazy and as loafy as can be and she really doesn't blame you, as she's alppln' at her tea. * So you talk a while, while sitting, and you sit there as you talk. Then, to help your Indigestion, you de cide to take a walk. In the end, the evening passe? as all nights are bound to go, and the morning after Mom regrets she let the dishes go. QUIPS: By Robert Quillen The most thrilling words are simplest. Consider "Atta boy!” Poets and people who can wear knickers are born and not made. The smaller the town, the harder eltlzrns hate tho local millionaire. Almost all boudoir caps are attractive unless some, body has them on. There Isn't much to success except thst you ll* abed an hour longer. Some married men have children, and some have only one boss. At any rate, no atrangcr can drink enough soda water to make him assure you that hie wife doesn’t understand him, No man can serve two master, unless they are « wife and a mother-in-law. What la fame? Even a bricklayer has a crowd to stand and watch him work. Sound waves have great power. The clapping of handa has been known to swell head*. At times every Jit owner has a primitive blood lust and wishes he drove a five-ton truck. There are compensations. If you have one foot on a banana peel, the other may be on ohewing gunt. We are a queer people, and If a man announcca a cure for exlatlng evils we call him a nut. If Ji 0 The trie efu l way to compli ment a cook 1 a lo let the belt out another notche The boss is the one that provides the adjectives when something is spilled on the table cloth. According (o science, hair grows after death; but this ia darned little consolation for a bald man. When they are made up you can't tell mother from daughter, except that one is impudent. Most men can resist the temptation to brag except on those rare occasions when they get up at 6 o'clock. Correct thia sentence: "I’m sure both families can use the living room," said she, "and get along nicely." Foolish Flings ß * T ° n Sl “» Thins* are so quiet In Mexico you enn hear ell (lock paying dividends. Every mnn like* ■ wife who flirt* union* *he 1* hi* own. Only time some men want to stay at home is when friend wife Want*‘them to take her to a show. We would like to *ec a fight to the finish between the fool killer and the joy killer. The great China question, as seen In most of our home*. I*. "Who will wash the dishes?" The man who make* a fool out of himself always Claims someone else did It. Only a few more week* In which to pay the bill* you ran up last Christmas. On Thanksgiving, we enn nil be thankful we ate not turkeys. Some of those who foil not drink bootleg and spin. The poor are with u* always, but often the rich are a.tainrt u*. Time is money, and the only way you can really save time is by savins money. The farther bad hewa travels the bigger It grows; the farther good news travels the smaller it Brows. A stingy mnn eventually elves himself away. The pest who asked, "Well, Is It hot enough for you?" will soon be asking, "Well, Is It cold enough?" Taxes may be reduced in Germany. That's natural. They can't raise them because the people can't, Nothing Increases your confldene# In the eeneral order of things like having a banker lend you money. An American bandit was caught In Mexico, show ing It Is safer to stay in our own teirltory. Woman was caught running a still In an Ohio town. Men are getting to be bigger loafers every day. A NEW KIND OF FEATURE FOR HERALD READERS. ELSEWHERE in this issue announcement is made of a new kind of feature for Heral/ readers. Suppose it was possible for the Her ald to employ an editorial staff of 20 or 30 of the ablest men in America to write its editorial columns? Even the New York Times, Herald-Tribune, Chicago Tribune and other great papers would find it Impos sible to do this and get away with it, despite their immense revenues. And yet In nflniature this is the new editorial feature that the Herald offers its renders commencing with Monday's Issue. . An editorial staff headed by William Allen White, one of the most famous editors of America has been formed under tits direction, and dally nfi editorial on some Important topic of <he day will appear in tho Augusta Herald. Herald readers are familiar with most of the newspaper features of the present tlme the comic page and comic strips, household and women features, picture page, fashions, cartoons, sports, paragraphs, the daily story, and the cross word puzzle that Is now gripping so many Horald readers. But an editorial feature under a staff such as has never before oeen assembled in America, Is something new and different. In the Herald's editorial staff which Is headed by Mr. William Allen White, are included such names as Edwin A. Alderman, General Henry T. Allen, New ton H. Baker, Luther Burbank, Arthur Capper, Rich ard Washhurn Child, Edward A. Filene, Samuel Oompcrs, Edward N. Hurley, Will Irwin, Vernon Kcl. logg, John L. Lewis, Governor John M. Parker, Gif ford Pinchot, George E. Roberts, Elihu Root, Ida M Tarbell, Augustus Thomas, William English Walling, Brand Whitlock, William Gibbs McAdoo, Cyrus K. Woods, Robert Underwood .Johnson, Carrie Chapman C'att and E. T. Meredith. Look for this new editorial feature Monday in the Herald and every day thereafter. It is authoritative and good and up to the minute and is well worth reading. BROOKHARTS DOWNFALL IMPENDING. DAVID F. STECK, Democrat of lowa, Is dis satisfied with ths secret recount that pro nounced Senator Brookhart reelected by a slim majority, and Is preparing for an appeal to the Senate for further examination of the lowa ballot boxes. This promises to be a highly Important elec, tlon contest. A very Important factor In Steck’s case Is the fact that his representative and campaign manager Is Blair Coan who attained prominence as the Repub lican National Committee agent In the Indictment of Senator Wheeler, of Montana, last spring. Coan also figured conspicuously in the proceedings before Ilrookhart’s committee In the Douglerty Investiga tion. Conn la Just as candid now In championing Stock's cause as he was when he told how he went to Montana to "get Wheeler.” He Is anxious to havo Steck seated In order to get rid of Brookhart to punish him on account of his Insurgency, and particularly Is attacking Conn's par ticipation In the Wheeler cause. \ Coan Is counting on the Republican!) In the Senate seizing on any opportunity to oust Brookhart, and ho expects the Democrats to side with Steck, naturally, ns he Is one of them. Taking everything Into con sideration, together with the charges filed ngnloat Brookhart, the situation looks pretty dubious, not to say, bilious. Conn's expectation 1b that when the Senate goes Into the lowa returns It will be plainly seen that thousands of votes marked for Steck were thrown out by election Judges who either were of Brookhart's faction and prejudiced, or were acting under a mis construction of the law. The recount has shown that 50,000 fewer votes W’ore cast In the senatorial race than for president. He thinks the major por tion of these were yotes for Stock, lie states that In single district the recount eliminated several hundred votes that had been marked according to a diagram published In two lowa newspapers. The voters made the mistake of reproducing on their ballots an arrow shown In the diagram to Indicate where to put the cross to vote for Steck. GAMBLING AT CARDS. HE mah Jongg craze Is beginning to wane. It | sttjl has millions of enthusiasts. And It will be populnr for years. But cards are coming Into their own again. This runs true to history. Thousands upon thou sands of gambling games have becji invented. But Invariably man goes back to "the greasy paste boards." When people play cadrs, they are handling a gambling device so many thousands of years old that the origin is lost In the mists of antiquity. The very ancient Hindus had a game called "Chaturajl"—which, many experts believe, was the origin of playing cards. "Chaturajl" (the name ot “four rajahs or kings") was really highly complicated chess. l.lfe to the undents was a lottery. They symboliz ed this belief In the four divisions of cards -hearts for love out of which life Is born, clubs for know ledge, diamonds for wealth, and the acorn or spado for death. In the Middle Ages, card games took clearer shape. ! Hearts came to represent bravery. Spades repre sented swords. Diamonds signified shields. Clubs were symbolic of army provisions. It was a military age, and cards became games of war. The four kings stood for the famous champions of long ago—David, Alexander. Julius Caesar and Char. I lcmagne. The four queens represented Arglne, Pallas. Esther and Judith—-who were, respectively, symbolic of ilia ! jesty, wisdom, piety and fortitude. In some decks ot | cards, with a little Imagination, you can discern these I qualities In the facial expressions of the grotesque ; ladles. The four knaves represented the gallant captains, i Ogier, Launcelot, I-ahire and Hcctm de Gallard. But If you ask a Chinaman, he will tell you that ! his race Invented cards thousands of years before i these celebrated personages were born. To a China -1 man. curds represent the etars, the human virtues j and. In their various combinations, about everything under the sun. It's the oldest game, and It will be played when [ mah jongg and even baseball are gone and forgotten. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. (ADVERTISEMENT) Mr. Fleming on Paving Lakemont Drive With Public Funds Augusta, Ga.. Nov. 20, 1924. Editor Herald: On my return to office this morning, after a three days' ab sence in attendance on the supreme <:ourt«in Atlanta, I read with much interest and no little surprise, the account In a local paper of Wednes day of the meeting of our county commissioners on Tuesday, In con nection with the bids for a con crete roadway on the Lakemount property. Mr- Holley, the chairman, Is re ported to have said: "That a cor dial Invitation had bee., extended to William H. Fleming, who ap pears to be the chief objector to the proposition of the county co operating with the property own ers of Lakemont Drive, In paving that splendid'thoroughfare. ” I must take exception to two statements in those remarks of Mr. Holley. No Invitation, "cordial" or otherwise, was extended to me to attend that meeting-at least none ever reached me. I was in Atlanta on Tuesday, and had previously Informed tho secre tary of the board, and two of the members of rny enforced absence on that day. In fact, I did not know that any such meeting was to be held. The advertisement specified that bids would bo received until 12 o’clock November 18th, but con tained no mention of a board meet ing. My other exception is, that I am given the credit of being the “chief objector" to this plan of developing private property at the public ex pense. Mr. Holley seems to have overlooked the protest of the grand Jury, backed up by a similar pro test from .the chairman of the tax reduction league of Richmound county—-a protest highly creditable to the officials of the league, since the owners of tho property to be benefitted by this misuse of the public money, are said to be promi nent members of the league, earnest In opposition to tax increase. Furthermore, there was before the board a letter from me asking tor a public hearing, at such time in the future, as the board might name. No action seems to have been taken on that request—doubtless the chairman thought It required further conlsdcratlon.—perhaps It may ho granted yet.—as I under stand none of the bids were ac cepted. Howevy, It seems a "cordial” In vitation old reach Mayor Smith and Mr. Lee, attorney for the owners of the property, both of whom ad dressed the board. We naturally excuse Mr. Smith for being favorably inclined toward any plan for beautifying and popularizing our new park nnmed In his honor, "The Julian Smith Park”; and as long as he confines himself to tho use of city funds on city property, perhaps he may be allowed a free hand. But when he seeks to Influence the county commissioners to make an illegal use of county funds (and I have yet to learn of a single law yer holding such use to be legal under existing conditions of the county treasury) ho oversteps the bounds of wisdom. Indeed, It seems, (hat our most excellent mayor in the exuberance of bis optimism, would, if given the power and tho bi%k credit, pave everything from Dan to Beersheba —rejoicing in tho pleasure of check ing out large sums of public money, but oblivious of the hardships of tax pay-day. Mr. Lee made a most plausible showing for his clients, except that ho carefully avoided expressing any opinion that the contemplated use of the public funds with our pres ent outstanding debt of the county amounting to $395,000, would not l>e in violation of the constitution. Ills silence on that subject was eminently wise. When Mr. Cleveland was presi dent Big Tim Sullivan, one of his enthusiastic supporters, asked to have some favor granted him. The president told him It would be against the constitution. Where upon, Sullivan replied in those now historic words: "What Is the con stitution between friends?" Tho reader must make his own application- I refrain from making Mr. Lee also said that "All tho property owneTs in the neighbor hood are deeply interested" In the success of the scheme. Of course those in the "neighborhood." But what about the thousands of tax payers not in the neighborhood ? The theory of the public being be nefitted by increased revenues, is certainly of remote application, and for every dollar so going into the public till, • doubtless hundreds would go into the pockets of private owners. Again. Mr. 1 ,oe says that the board "in undertaking this opera tion, has taken an action which is purely legislative, over which they have exclusive control.” it Is true this quasi legislative body, is given wide discretion, hut the courts have the power to restrain un abuse of that discretion , } hesitate to differ with my good irleinl Mr. lee, on a question of Washington Fears China Is Turning “Bolshevik” BY CHARLES P. STEWART. WASHINGTON. From the state department division of far eastern affairs' standpoint, latest developments in China are about as unpleasant ns posslhle can be Im agined. It was bad enough when Japan appeared to have gained control of affairs at I’eking. It's still worse now that Russia seems to be getting the upper hand. Ahout u fortnight ago Tsoa Kun Aunt Het j \\ urn j ."I reckon no w oman ever gits too old to wish she look ed good in a bathin' suit." (Copyright. 1924. Associated Edl:oi». Inc ) constitutional law, and therefore I will take refuge under the follow ing quotation from a decision of the supreme court of the United States: "To lay with one hand the power of tho government on the property of the citizen, and with the other, to bestow it upon favored indivi duals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery, because it Is done under the forms of the law, and is called taxation.” Also. Judge Gouley, in his Justly celebrated work ort constitutional limitations, says: "Indirect and in cidental benefits, which may result to the public, do not make a pur pose a public one, where the direct object is prlvat^." That language fits most aptly Into the facts surrounding this de velopment; for on a visit this morning to the Highway Depart ment at the Court House, i learned that tho digging and grading done by the county commissioners for the owners of Lakemount property, was not confined to the roadway of this beautiful pleasure drive leading In a seml-oircular detour away fronuthe public highway, but also include the grading of about one-third of a mile of a lane called "Laurel Lane," extending from the main roadway, up along • ravine, and ending ifT what the French call a “cul de sac” or blind alley, with no exit at that end. But why discuss the wisdom or unwisdom of the county commis sioners in using the public money to dig down the hills and fill up the ravines as they have already done, when the real live question Is, whether the board has any power at all, under present conditions of the county treasury to spend any more money on this project? If they have no such power, they ought to stop of their own accord, or be stopped by the courts—a result which must certainly follow, if there are any tax-paying citizens With backbone enough to file suit —and incidentally, I will say, there are some such. Our Oeorgla constitution pro vides that no county, except by vote of the people, shall incur any new debt, In excess of one-fifth of one per cent of the assessed value of its property, and that only to supply "casual deficiencies" in the revenues. The cost of this proposed con tract cannot be classed as a "casual deficiency.” Again, our taxable property is about $44,000,000. One per cent of this would be $440,000, and one fifth of that would be SBB,OOO. Now the county commissioners already owe $395,000. But "What is the constitution between friends?" There are several other matters that could properly be brought to public attention in this connection, but I fear this letter is already too long. However. I must beg Indul gence to include a letter I sent the commissioners from Atlanta on November 7th, and which I learned Was received before the meeting of the board, but it seems to have escaped the attention of the report ««, That letter is as follows: “Gentlemen: “Referring to the proposed paving of road at Lakemont, I desire to say that I have just had an Interview with a leading member of the board of commissioners of Fulton county. He informs me that his board has always refused to spend any public money in developing private prop erty. , "He says when owners of tracts desire to develop their lands, they must dig down their hills and fill up their own valleys, and grade and pave their roads at their own ex pense. After that is done, and set tlement made, and buildings erect ed, and people are in them, the board sometimes take over the main thoroughfares and keep them up but they never dig, grade or pave the roads in advance. "He mentioned one Instance in which one of the commissioners had begun digging out a roadway on a i' v vale piece of land, and the board when they found it out, took every hand off the Job. "This gentleman with whom I talked, also said the money so spent could be recovered, and the commissioners could be held liable. I trust the board in Richmond county will not force a case in court. "Very truly. » “VVM, H.. FLEMING.” Mr. Editor: I have no axe to grind in this matter. I wish the owners abundant success in developing this valuable property. My purpose in writing these several communica tions to the board of commissioners is to do what I can to avoid forcing the issue involved into the courts. The banks In lending money to the county are already doing so on a moral risk, rather than on legal rights. A complete airing of the financial situation of the county incident to a suit in rourt. could only result in furthy Impairing Ita credit. WM. H. FLEMING. ✓ was president of China, nominally. Ills capital was Peking. His author .tV “‘o city limits was doubtful but at least he was recog nised as far north at the Great Wall and as far south ns the Yangtse. South of the Yangtse Dr. Sun Yat Sen, with hqadquarters at Canton was more or' less In control—about ns much in control as Tsao Kun was In the north. The south, however, didn't matter so much to Tano Kun. It's a long way from Peking. The line of de marcation between north and sduth Is not very distinct. It was as hard for Sun Yat Sen to got to Peking as for Tsao Kun to get to Canton, hrom Peking to Canton Is 1,500 miles In an elrllne, 2 000 by any practicable route, and by water at thaw Great Wall en North. Put on the north the Great Wall Is a sharp boundary, near to Peking —less than 200 miles, and therevare two railroads. \ And to the northward Is Man churia. whore Chang Tso-lin Is boss Chang Tso-line Is a tool of Japan. Backed by the Japanese, he was at war with Tsao Kun. Keng Yu-Hslang, famed as the "Christian general." was Tsao Kun'* military rommander. Peng flopped to Chung * side. That was the end of Tsao Kun as president He resigned and was lucky to save !*tw head, by taking refuge In the legation quarter at reklnc. This meant, for a few days, that Japan ruled In Peking thrown Chang Tso-line and Feng Yu-H&i ang. Naturally this didn't please the State Department In Washington It betray* no secret to say that this country Is aware relations between America and Japan are somewhat strained by the former's immigra- 1 tion rules. Japan Is Suspected. If Japan's voice becomes supreme in China it is considered a fore gone conclusion that the Chinese "open door" will be slammed against all but Japanese and there's no country against which it will be slammed with more enthusiasm than against the United States. Looking farther into the future, Japan Is more than suspected of a design to transform China's four hundred millions into a huge mili tary machine, under her own con trol. But now comes the news that Fenb Yu-Hslange. the “Christian general,” has flopped again. Entering the "Forbidden City,” he has driven out the former jemperor, Hsuan Tang, and grabbed all of the fatter'?! riches on which he could lay his hands. In itself, this doesn't matter so much. When he was deposed Hsuan Tang was given fairly liberal fi nancial allowances and permitted to retain a semblance of a royal court. If Feng merely had put a stop to this it would be all right. But as the State Department's far eastern division gets the story, Feng did it under the influence of the Ruslan soviet envoy, Karakhan. Does it mean that China is turn ing Bolshevist? The far eastern division is afraid it docs. Besides. Fege has invited Sun Yat Ren to join him and Sun is consid ered Bolshevitic in his views. Speaking Public Mind SALVATION ARMY HAS BUSY NIGHT Augusta, Ga. Nov. 22, 1924. The The Herald: With the bad weather coming the Salvation Aiigiy is kept busy night and day. Last night there were five calls that were answered and wom en and children sent to the homes or taken care of for the night. These people are always on the job where help Is needed regard less of hour or weather. Captain Ellis and his corps of workers are busy now arranging for a Thanks giving dinner for the needy kid dies and the public is earnestly requested to help by not passing the kettle, which you will see on Broad street, without donating your share in, givln these children a real good and Joyous Thanksgiving. The coming of Christmas is also be ing looked forward to by the poor children and hoping that Santa Claus wen’t forget them. As has been done in the past the Salva tion Army is doing their utmost to make this Christmas a real Mer ry Christmas, which will longer linger in the minds of the children and also the grown ups who will be courteously Invited to come adn see how these youngsters enjoy them selves. Captain Ellis has already distributed several hundred mite boxes and sincerely hopes that the people who have received them will do all they possibly can in helping this good cause along. It is more blessed to give than to re ceive. A. RUSSELL, Sergeant Major, Salvation Army. FABLES ON HEALTH Children and Food “But the children d... i like the food that is good for them," the neighbors would sometimes say to Mrs. Mann of Anytown \ hen the question of proper feeding arose. Mrs. Mann would answer: "Well, why don’t you train them to like it?" Children can be spoiled In mat ters of eating just a little bit easier than thejt can be spoiled in any other way. There are very few, if any, foods w'hich are unpalatable If properly home-cooked, and getting the chil dren in the habit of eating them is much the same sort of thing as get ting them to do errands, or go to school, or wash their faces or do any other thing that is habit. The parent should take the child aside and explain to him that eat ing is more than a mere matter of “taste.” The child should receive an education in the fact that eating for health is a mighty important thing and that, if left to do as he pleased, the child will suffer the consequences. UNUSUAL PEOPLE Daily Hiker At 80 > ■ **■ s *iffT " m s - Colonel Richard Sneed, Oklaho ma's secretary of state, is nearly SO years old. but he takes a dally three-mile walk between his home and office. By It he expects to add 20 years to his life. First Class Hair Cut Hotel Richmond Barber Shop. Blocs and Regulars Both Claim Victory By HARRY B. HUNT WASHINGTON— All sorts of interpretations have been put upon the result of the recent election. Probably the significance most generally attached to it, however, is that it voiced the people's de sire to be done with blocs in con gress, and for a definite, undivided party control in legislative affairs. Whether that is to be the result remains to be seen. On paper the Republicans have a clear workable majority in both houses. So did they in the last congress. But the "farm bloc” and the "prog ressive bloc”, which refused to fol low the edicts of the administra tion’s party leaders, made this ma jority ineffective by the balance of power they achieved. That one or the other of these blocs, or a combination of both, may accomplish the same control in the newly elected congress is by no means impossible —nor un likely. So far as the farm bloc, at least, Is concerned, it is evident that its leader, Senator Capper of Kansas, considers the election carried an indorsement of its activities so con vincing as to make its continuance inevitable,. THE entire Kansas delegation, which supports dthe so-called "farm bloc”, was returned to congress— all by increased ma jorities,” says Capper in an analy sis of what he terms "The Na tion’s Verdict.” Of his own re-election, largely as a result of his fight for rail-rate revision and other measures spe sifically designed to assist agricul ture —all of which yvere indorsed by the farm bloc which he headed, he says: “When on a previous occasion my lome state voted me a majority of 162,000, that was thought to be a record. But the indorsement on Nov. 4 of what I have been undertaking Better Highway to Augusta (From the Savannah Press) The initial step in what may be come a movement for the construc tion of a permanent hard surface road between Savannah and Au gusta was started at a meeting or the Waynesboro Rotary Club on Tuesday. .. . At the meeting were assembled more than fifty of the major tax payers of Burke county. The pres ent plan of road construction, which was discussed, contemplates the reconstruction and paving of parts of the highways through Burke. The ultimate paving of the stretch between Savannah and Augusta was only talked of as a future possi bility. But it was touched upon by none other than the Hon. John 'Holder, state highway commis sioner. The reference was impor tant. At the meeting Indications ot the new-born progressive spirit which is sweeping this section of Georgia was strongly felt. The taxpayers of Burke showed themselves willing to increase their taxes for improved conditions. They realize that to keep pace with North Carolina on the north and Florida to the south, Georgia must progress. They have recently, under the guidance of Mayor Frank Palmer, Increased the taxes of Waynesboro for the con struction of more than a mile of concrete paving through the city. They have shown themselves ready to pay for more paving. We beliexe that there Is nothing more important to the development of this section of Georgia than the ultimate construction of a paved road beweea Savannah and Au gusta. No chain is any stronger than its weakest link. If any motor ists leaves Savannah on his way through Waynesboro to Augusta, he travels first of all over sixteen miles of beautifully paved road through Chatham and eleven more miles of moderately good road to Springfield. But upon leaving the county seat of Effingham and go ing on his way to Newington, his nerves are taxed, the springs of his automobile receives even a worse tax than his nerves, and a road which is one of the most notorious ly and consistently bad stretches, will spoil his entire trip to Augusta, which would otherwise become a great pleasure. The inevitable effect of this kind of uneven roadway is that the traveler nevtr wishes to return. To what good, therefore, are fine roads in Burke and Chatham counties, if the connecting links are so weak that the highway is not made at tractive. What Georgia needs most of all Is a system of perfect high ways leading from one large center to another. We believe that the present county system Is a poor one, because It does not provide for this. A notoriously bad road will do more to Injure a community in Its near vicinity than all of the other wise unfavorable publicity receiv able. The zoning system of road pav ing, such as is being started In the ATLANTA AND RETURN $6.41 ROUND TRIP THANKSGIVING NOVEMBER 27TH, 1924 FOOTBALL TECH VS. AUBURN GOING TRIP Tickets will be good on train No. 7 leaving Augus ta 3:so P. M,. Nov. 26th, and all regular trains leaving Augusta before noon November 27th. RETURNING Tickets will be good on all regular trains up to and Including train No. 4, leaving Atlanta 8:00 F. M,, C, T,, No vember 28th. Half Fare for Children. PULLMAN ACCOMMODATIONS Those desiring Pullman accommodations to Atlanta should make reservations early. GEORGIA RAILROAD 3AM 0. WILKES, P. A, W. W. SNOW. D. P. A., 809 Broad Street. PI- one 45. K. F. WESTBERRY, U. T. A.. M. C. JONES. C. T. A.. Phone 1889. Phone 661. Augusta, Ga. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 in the senate, by a plurality of 275,- 000, breaks all records west of the Mississippi and puts me under a t heavy obligation.” Which obligation, one naturally infers, is to continue in the next congress his support of the same sort of measures he fought for through his first term. THE La Follette leaders In the House, elected as Republicans but ready to follow the sug gfestions of the defeated Independ ent chieftain, also are smiling smugly as they contemplate the prospect ahead of the new congress. On railroad and farm legislation, and on tax revision, they are con fident their control in the new house will be even more decisive than it has been in this. They declare that not less than a score of the new members, elect ed as Republicans, were nominated and elected through progressive in dorsement and support and and will be found in the ranks of the "pro gressive bloc” on all issues wherq there is a definite cleavage betweeii stand-pat and progressive Repub licanism. Out of this same group, organized labor also figures it has added about 10 votes to its bloc strength. THE old Missouri mule, for two generations the chief depend ence of Uncle Sam’s army for its laurels. It, too, is now threatened transport purposes, must look to by a foreign rival. Purchase has recently been made by the quartermaster of the U. S. forces in China of a dozen Chinese mules, for experimental purposes. These animals, natives of Mon golia and Manchuria, are reputed to be even tougher than their Mis souri relatives, to he able to haul heavier loads, and make longer daily marches, and to subsist on a ration o*i which any self-respecting American mule Would starve. Georgia coastal counties, and whereby the weaker counties are being helped along in their road construction by the stronger ones, should be the salvation of the Geor gia road system. When the time comes for the in auguration of the zoning system, for the construction of an Augusta- Savannah highway, we believe that the Rotary Club of Waynesboro would be an apt sponsor for the movement. Present indications are that the proposed Augusta-Savan nah route will go through Millen and Statesboro. At the present time the road seems to be better by Ef fingham /county route through Sylvania, and jus as water will seek the mean level, so will the road be built through, the counties where the sentiment is more favor able and the spirit more prog ressive. Si The young men who are wasting their precious time, and to parents who are neglecting their children s 1 health, we recommend the follow ing from “Forty Years in News paperdom," autobiography of Mil ton A. Mcßae, the newspaper pub lisher-genius: "The brevity of life is a startling thing when analyzed. A generation is only a little more than 33 years.j One-half of the human race dies before attaining the age of 17; one quarter before the age of 7.” ’ Complex problems have simple solutions. Milton A. Mcßae, in his autobiography, tells how he built up the St. Louis Chronicle in 1887. It was a penny paper, but handi capped because St. Louis did not use pennies for change In those days, a nickel being the smallest coin. Mcßae ordered SIO,OOO worth of pennies from the mint and got them distributed by inducing local mer chants to price goods at 49 and 98 cents instead of 50 cents and sl. With pennies in theiT pockets, peo ple bought the penny paper. Its circulation in one year jumped from 7,000 to 25,000. "Robinson Cruso" continues as the world’s best seller, though it was first published 205 years ago. The Bible, of course, ranks first. “Robinson Crusoe” is printed in 33 languages. Its tremendous popu larity is sometimes explained by pointing out that it is, in effect, n history <*' civilization- Its strongest appeal, is to peo ple who’d like to get away from civilization.