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PAGE SIX THE AUGUSTA HERALD Published Every Afternoon During th*i Week and on Sunday Morning by THK HEKADD PUBLISHING CO. Entered at the Aiifftistn P«*stoffice a m Mali Matter of the Second Class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Dally and Sunday, 1 year 16 00 Dally and Sunaay. € months 3.00 Daily and Sunday. 3 months .. .. 1.50 Dally and Sunday, 1 month Daily and Sunday, 1 ueik 13 Sunday Herald. 1 year I.o' Weekly Herald, 1 year fi'J Business Office, Telephono /97 City Editor #9 Society Editor FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES The Benjamin A Kentnor Co., 225 Fifth Ave., New York City, 1108 Boyce Building. Address all business communications to Tilt ASJGLSfA HLKAID 73i Broad Siren, Auffunt* Oa "IF voi) Want THK NEW.-* YOU NEED THE HEKALD." <®S^s> Augusta, Ga. t Friday, July 23, 1909. No communication will a. puOUsncd In Ths Herald unle** tho name o l u.w writer t* Higned to the article. The Herald le the "Mlei.,! adver t lelnK medium of the City of Augueta and of the County of Richmond lor all legal notice* end advertising. There I* no hetier way to reach the home* of the prortcrou* people of thl* city end eectlon than through l h e col umn* of The Hereld, Dally and Sunday. Telephone th« Circulation Department, Phone 2»7, when leuvlng Augnata. and arrange lo have The Herald aunt to you by mall each day. The AugUHta Herald ha* n larger city circulation thnu any other paper, and it larger total circulation than any other Auguata paper. Thla ha* t>* < n pruvoti by the Audit Co,, of New York. 7614 COPIES, 19 THE DAILY AVERAGE ISSUE OF THE A GUS TA HERALD, FOR A PERIOD OF 12 MONTHS, ENDING APRIL 30TH, 190 S. YOU WILL ENJOY your vacation all the more, If you have The Herald with you. 'Phone No. 297, or drop a postal to the Circulation Man ager »nd have The Herald sent you while you are away from Augusta. The Montgomery Journal thinks we are living too high. Not yet; few of us have yet taken to at roplunlng. Nearly everything is now made out of petroleum except hair re storers, which seems strungo for one certain reason. If that petrol butter doesn’t become rancid It may he an improvement on much of th< present ao-called dairy butter, after all. When one thinks of Uncle Joe Cannon one cannot help but regret the Oslerlnn theory Is not being car rier out In practice these days. China’s bnby Emperor Is nlmost as old as Pcrnla’s new baby Sbah. Neither one of them Is old enough yet to make goo goo eyes at. the girls. An exchange run* a column head ed "What editors any of Aldrich.” This may do to print, but what sumo people think of him would he un printable. And another advantage that Is claimed for petrol butter is’that It will last longer than real butter. A lit tle of It will go a long way, pre sumably. The compulsory education which Is proposed now Is different from the old sort, which used birch and hickory switches us the Instruments of com pulsion. A corn husking machine has been Invented which la said to do Its work well. It Is not stated, however, who will kiss the girls when It strikes a red ear. "God pity the state with a few mtl ltonatres and many paupers,” says Senator Clay. It would certainly be better to have many millionaires and few paupers. Perhaps England could put a high wire not fence around herself to keep out airships when they shall 1.-> per fected eons to fly across the Channel with ease. If the Standard Oil could no* 1 dis cover a way to make softsnnp one of It* by-pnoducta. perhaps Ida Tarbeli might be conciliated enough to let the boss alone. But the fellows xvho are able Vo own automobiles should not kick at a little tax on their machines, tor the privilege of using roads which other people put in good shape. Raising the tax on chewing tobacco and not on chewing gum is clearly class legislation In favor of the girls. Will the suffragettes make a kick against It on that account? A Chicago Judge has ruled that to call a man a grafter is not to Blander him necessarily. Of course not, for It may he the truth: but in that case the offense would really he all the greater. The department of commerce and labor announces that “We have coal enough to last for 7.330 years to come." AH the ssmo most of us would feel better If we knew we had enough In the coal bin to last through next winter. Harry Thaw smiled when Evelyn testified that he had promised to kilt her if ever he got out of prison. No doubt this smile wu* one of satis faction over the thought of what a good thing it would he If the world w4>rc rid of this “angel child." It is reported that a Cincinnati minister has secured several canary birds to help out the choir. As long as he was after securing feathered help for his church services he should also have obtained a parrot to help cut the minister. GALVESTON’S VICTORY OVER THE MAD WATER The whole country rejoices with the city of Galveston in its escape from damage by the sTorm and flood which menaced that city. The storm passed over without doing any material injury, and without leav ing behind it the devastation and the horror of the great disaster. That storm-flood almost entirely destroyed the city. Its inhabitants perished by thousands, its houses w r ere washed down and its streets torn up Bo complete was the destruction that ft was extensively ad vocated that the city be abandoned. Because it was built on a low is land, and subject to be swept by storms driving the waters of the Gulf in mad fury before them and which must be expected to recur from time to time, there were many faint-hearted people who advocated the abandonment of the city site, and of surrendering it uncontested to be the play ground of the elements when 'they got. into their mad humor. But the brave spirits among the Galvestonians would not listen to this advice. They would rehabilitate their city. They would rebuild its houses, restore the ruins, and protect the city in such manner that future storms of this nature could do it no harm. This spirit prevail ed The city was rebuilt. And at the cost of several million dollars a-gi'eat wall was built far out In the sea, strong enough and high enough to hold back tin wind lushed water when It should get in its mad tantrums. That was nine years ago. Since then there have been storms, but none of such force as the former great storm. Not until the storm of this Aifck came was the city visited by one of erjual magnitude. But the evil powers of wind and water in the visitation this week are said to have been fully as great as they were that time when they pro duced the Galveston horror. And the city escaped unscathed. While without the waves were lashed in angry fury upon the solid sea wall, behind it the city rested in safety. It must have been an anxious time for the people In the island city, since as yet their wall had not been subjected to the supreme test. But henceforth they will have no cause for, a feeling of uneasiness. They had learned what the water could do and how far it could reach win u it was bent, on doing the greatest, amount of destruction. They had carefully planned what was necessary to overcome this power of evil. And they had carried these plans into execiftion. The crucial test lias showii that engineering skill was right; that the protection pro vided was sufficient; and that for all time to come the city is safe against the repetition of this kind of disaster'to which the city had been subject. There is a lesson In this Galveston experience for Augusta, and great encouragement. Our city Is not exposed to West Indian storms and mad Gulf waters, but it is exposed to tho moods of the Savannah river, and experience has shown that its muddy waters can be almost as terribly destructive as the waters of the Gulf. I.lke Galveston our city lias suffered from floods. Like Galveston our city also has determined to protect herself and conquer the water, which we have made our servant, when it rises in the madness of rebellion. This protective work Is now being done, and in due course of time will be completed. And then, as the city of Galveston lay safe behind the sea wall while outside the waters did their worst, so Augusta can quietly pursue the even ten • of her way when the old Savannah shall go on one of her tears, and roll her red flood past our doors on to the ocean. BY AIRSHIP TO ENGLAND. The first attempt that has qvor been made to reach England In any other way than by ship was made last Monday. Latham, a daring Freuch aviator, tried to cross over 'the Eng lish Channel from Calais to Dover in his crude little monoplane. He failed, and with hts machine fell into the sea. Hut his partial success and the Insignificance of the accident which caused the attempt to fall make it, certain that In a short time this feat will be accomplished. -Lath am himself will make another trial In a few days, and feels confident that he will then succeed. The Zep pelin airship could without doubt cross the Channel any day Its navi gator should decide to make this Hight. In a short time the crossing of the Channel by airship will be come an ordlna'ry event, attracting no more attention than the sailing across of a steamer at the present time. This forecasts Important changes, the most Interesting of which con cerns England's Isolation, and the po sition she has held from a military point of view by reason of her Insular position and the Immunity this gave her against attack. Since William the Conqueror crossed the Channel with his aggregation of soldiers of fortune and armed adventurers and made himself master of England, no Invader Ims trod on English soil. Since England obtained supremacy of the seas she has not dreaded or even contemplated the possibility of invasion. Wlmt the Spanish armada so signally failed to accomplish, and what proved nil utter failure directed by the genius of Napoleon and as ter years of preparation, had ceased to be an object of concern to England. So long us she maintained the strongest navy she was absolutely Mi en re against attack. And so careful were the English people to guard against losing ‘this advantage that they actually determ ined not to allow the construction of a tunnel under the Channel, and stopped tills work after It had been commenced, although the chance of Invasion by such a route was so re mote as to be scarcely worth consid ering. Understanding all this one ma> comprehend the feelings of the Eng lish people in view of this almost successful tlrst attempt to cross the Channel In an airship. If !ho ini pTegnablc walls of a fort were sud denly sunk its garrison could exper ience no stronger feeling of defense lessness than the English people must feel now. when the sea which has been their defense since the middle :.g.-s shall be no longer a barrier to ships that sail in the air above It. When airships may cross the water under cover of night perhaps, and by dropping powerful explosives break down the defenses of a port and de moralize its defenders, an opening will have been made for an Invading force which will allow a well prepar ed enemy to get a foothold. All this Englishmen read In Latham's at tempted flight. Hence England Is peculiarly con cerned In these trials, and watches them with an interest shared by no other nation. PREACHMENT AND PRACTICE It often happens that the most, per sistent preacners ao not practice what thAy preach, and the aversion of doctors to taking the medicine they prescribe for their patients la proverbial. Considering this trait of human character the present per formance of the Jacksonville Thnes- Unlon Is not so strange. That paper has engaged in a crus ade to make its home city drop one half of its name. It advocates cut ting off the latter part, and by drop ping the "ville" from the name to leave it plain “Jackson.” To accom plish this it has addressed Itself In earnest, and when the persistence it exhibits In this self-assumed task is added to 'the paper’s excellence, abil ity and consequent influence,, success may be expected to crown its efforts in the end. The objection to the “ville” In this case does not arise from the appre hension that the people outside will regard the Jacksonvtlllans as villains. The generous readiness wi'th which that city dispenses booze—for the cash —to the sufferers In drouth-strick en sections precludes the possibility of such a mistake. Everybody un derstands that the desire to drop tiie last syllable from Jacksonville's name Is born of 'the realization that the city's name 1b too cumbersome. “Ville” Is a French word, and means city. As it has been anglicis ed. in the term village and its abbre viation, It means a little city. Tills may be another reason for wishing to change Jacksonville's name—the “ville” part of it smacks too much of provincialism. Hut 'the chief rea son is the practical one of economy, a very important consideration when brevity and dispatch are so neces sary in all business. Hut that the Times-Union should advocate this shortening of its city’s name seems Inconsistent. Tt can see the fault in the city’s name and can not see a similar but greater fault In Its own. At least the city’s name Is not hyphenated, nor Is its lat'ter and superfluous part longer and more difficult to spetik than Its tlrst and essential part. Well might it be said to the Times-Union, in its' role of doctor In this case: "Physlcla>. firs't heal thyself.” There are many towns in our coun try which have long names, the relic of a time when economy was not un derstood as it ts now. If ail these towns' names were changed to short ones, the human energy saved in writing their names would, if other wise productively applied, pay 'the na tional In the course of time. For this reason such a shortening of names is desirable. The same also applies to newspape names. Why should any newspaper have a hyphenated name of double length? The exchange reader of a newspaper office can best appreciate what waste of human energy is caused by this useless custom —a waste from which he can save him self perhaps by an improvised code system, which however may not be available In other cases. Yes. change 'the name of Jackson vill to Jackson. Change the name of every long-name city to a shorter one. Change the name of the Times-Union to Times, and change the name of ev ery lone name paper to a shorter one. Do the same with people, and make such changes compulsory by law What right has any city, paper or individual to bear a long name iu this day and time when ft is sought to avoid all waste? THE AUGUSTA HERALD COMPULSORY EDUCATION FOR GEORGIA But It Should Not Be Carried Beyond a Cer tain Point The subject, of compulsory educa tion is one which has developed a lively degree of Interest in the pres ent session of the Georgia legislature. Several bills dealing with the sub ject. have been reported as being be fore the body for consideration. The Macon News is not sufficiently In formed on the details of these meas ures to discuss their merits. With regard to the subject general ly we are in favor of compulsory and equal education of the children of the state up to a certain point. Organized society owes it to the children born into the world and owes it to itself to give each and every one of them a fair start in the careers before them. If this can be secured to all the chil dren alike only by compulsion, then the obligation and the necessity rest ing upon the state devolves upon it the right to use that compulsion. The lack of proper training, or of any training at all, Inevitably handicaps any child in the race for existence and preferment. It is distressing to think how large a percentage of the lives of men and women have been marred if not blighted by the lack of a simple course of training, not alone in the rudimentary elements of letters, but in the equally Impor tant matter of morals and manners that would have set them in the right path and made them more useful and happy members of society. We do not think, however, that this compulsory or uniform moulding of the lives of children should go beyond the point where they have reached a degree of intelligent responsibility when they can choose their own in dividual bent and course in life. Too much stress, we think, is laid upon book learning of the higher sort, up on Latin and Greek and the higher mathematics, and boys are frequently compelled to take these who have no laste for them and who, having no taste for them, will certainly never have any use for them, to the sacri WASTE PAPER NUISANCE It is quite time for some vigorous effort to abate the nuisance of waste paper in the streets. No one cause contributes as much to the general unsightliness of even the best streets as the papers that are thrown out by careless persons and allowed to blow about 'the sidewalks. Some of them are scattered deliberately, but most of them come from the ash barrels. The housekeeper who stuffs loose pa pers into the top of the barrel that is set out. upon the curb, whence they are scattered either by the wind or by prying children, ought to be pen alized. But just what the more thoughtful housekeeper is to do with papers, especially in summer, when it is not easy to burn them, is a difficult question. Civic reform societies have long wrestled with 'this problem, and still the solution has not been found. —Philadelphia Ledger. ♦ ♦ ♦ NEWS AND VIEWS ♦ <► « ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Their Inconsistency, How silent are the mighty about the violations of the constitutional laws of Georgia by railroad corpora tions. Yet they seek to magnify a thousand times any fault they inay imagine about Hoke Smith.—Sanders ville Progress. Mississippi and the Trusts. In Mississippi suits for recovery have been filed against several trusts, the amounts demanded aggregating more than, $40,000,000. Jf Mississippi can find a way of collecting all of this money she may sue herself rich and the people may be able to quit paying taxes for several years.—Co lumbus Ledger. Promise and Performance. In the political year of Hoke Smith and Joe Rrown we heard a lot about Brown and bread. We now have Brown all right enough, but the bread proposition is becoming a most seri ous one.—Calhoun Times. A Municipal Lighting Plant. In Abbeville, Ala., the municipal electric lighting plant furnishes in candescent lights at 25 cents each per monthi This means that there is no meter nor connected load propo sition, hut thnt a consumer may in stall four such lamps, burn them all night every night and pay only a dol lar a month.—Columbus Enquirer- Sun. Give the Georgian His Due. The w ashington post credits Rep resentative Pickier, of South Dakota, with being the "father" of free rural mail de..i'ery. But that is not cor rect. A red-headed man from Geor gia of the name of Thomas E. Wat son was the first congressman to pro-! pose and secure an appropriation for the free delivery of mails in the coun try districts. Mr, Pickier may have done yeoman service for rural deliv ery, hut to Tom Watson is due the credit of having started the thing.—, Savannah News. An Impertinent Inquiry. Some statistician looking after queer facts discovers that the average woman carries 40 to t>o miles of hair on her head. He failed to state, how ever. how- much of it she grows her sel. This scribe can carry a wash pot on his head, hut he can t grow one then Americus News. In answer to ihe question, why is ! Augusta a good town to live in, the Montgomery Advertiser suggests, “be cause it isn't Atlanta.” What an un kind cut at that dear Atlanta, (Ga.) Rome Tribune-Herald. fice of good years in which they could be more happily employed adapting themselves to some chosen life work The state and society spend too much of their energies on the higher insti tutions of learning, seeking to make fine scholars of a privileged few in stead of confining their duties to teaching the helpless fledglings to use their wings and then letting these, each for himself, discover the longer or shorter, the higher or lower flight for which providence and nature has Individually endowed him. Not every one Is qualified to take a higher edu cation, nor Is it an advantage to those who are not so qualified. But where the qualification exists in a marked degree the boy or girl not too greatly handicapped by lack of the rudimen tary training will acquire it, despite all handicaps and disadvantages. The best educated men this country has produced—the me n who have acquir ed most and made most use of their knowledge, have been self-made and self-educated men. They have been men who have graduated from the plow handles and from kindred spheres of toil and hardship. They have formed their acquaintance with books after the day’s toil was done and by the light of the pinewood knot. We mention this not as a desirable con dition, hut simply as an illustration of what difficulties the mind passion ately devoted to learning will over come to attain it. We hold, therefore, that wisdom and duty dictate that the state should rather spend its resources and ener gies giving all its children alike a fair start in life and leave dt more to the rarely endowed among them to discover and develop their excep tional talents. By this method more of those who are naturally fitted to excel in the higher intellectual spheres would be placed within reach of the opportunity and fewer of those who have no special aptitude for it would be burdened with the task of seeking something not to their taste.—Macon News. A BIG DAIRY FARM It is not generally known, hut is true nevertheless, that one of the largest dairy farms in the country is located in Washington county, near Sandersville. This dairy farm contains 1,300 acres. The immense pavilion-shaped barn contains 210 milk stalls. It is lighted by electricity and thoroughly venti lated. The outer wall is heaviest can vas cloth, which in hot weather is raised to the roof and lowered during cold weather. The barn floor is ce ment and is shaped with Inclines and falls, so a glass of water emptied on any part of it will immediately find its way Into the sewer traps under the floor and finally into a cement vat in the center of the fertilizer house, 300 feet away. Through this system all the liquid is carried con stantly and quickly away. ♦ HERALD ECHOES * ♦ ♦ Not the Hardest to Do. A California woman has just broken all records by fasting 49 days. But the Augusta Herald thinks that was doubtless much easier than if she? had attempted to abstain from talk ing for seven consecutive weeks. — San Antonio Light. A Close Race. To the Augusta Herald it seems to. he a close race between the Vander bilts and the Goulds as to which fam ily can establish the most unsavory record. Sometimes one family is in the lead, and sometimes the other. — Shreveport Times. / The Khaki Uniform Must Go. The khaki uniform doesn't seem to have a friend on earth Even the Au gusta Herald is taking a few flings at it. —Savannah Press. Let’s Get Some Seedlings. The Augusta Herald is sponsor for the statement that there is a tree in Africa that exudes beer. If it will stand transplanting, and would not come under the ban of the prohibi tion law, this tree would become very popular in the prohibition states. Or angeburg Times-Democrat. Even Disregards Our Famous Bridge. “Why is Augusta a good town to live in?” asks The Herald. Don't sup pose you will be able to find any one who can give you a remedy for an incurable disease, but as you don't know it’s incurable we don’t blame you for making an effort to find out. As a matter of fact there is nothing that makes or can make Augusta a good town to live in.—Columbus En quirer Sun. THERE’S A REASON Copyright* 1900, by Amwiam-Jownai-Fiti> mi nut. ‘'That’s All”- J ust an insignificant part of man’s get up, but quite the most comfort adding article we’ve ever seen. . , : ji It’s a Garter. Doesn’t go around the leg, but secures the sock without any discomfort whatsoever —worn with long or short drawers. Everything else that is worthy for men’s wear. Dorr Tailoring , Furnishings For Men of Taste. PORTABLE AND STATIONARY ENGINES AND BOILERS Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injec tors, Punpps and Fittings, Wood Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, Belting, Gasoline Engines, Mill Supplies and Repairs. STOCK* AT LOMBARD Foundry, Machine and Boiler Work* and Supply Store, AUGUSTA. GA. TENNIS RACKETS and WRIGHT & DITSON TENNIS BALLS. 908 BROAD STREET Bowen Bros. 908 Broad Street. The Air Dome The People's Pleasure Place. Augusta’s Only Summer Theatre. STILL ANOTHER GOOD ONE. No Change In Hours or Price. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ A LITTLE NONSENSE. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ + (From the Washington Herald.) More Libel. The men behind are mad and fuming; Each growls and grumbles About the time that she’s consuming As she fumbles. The sour remarks are flying thickly At the rear wicket; Alas! a woman cannot quickly Find a ticket. There is an imminence of warfare, And trouble centers About a woman pajing carfare As she enters. Without This Name On the Box “SANTA CLARA CIGAR MFG. CO.” All Other ~ i • “BRUNSWICK SMOKERS” Are cheap imitations of the largest selling smoker in America. SANTA CLARA CIGAR MFG. CO. “Brunswick Smokers.” The Impression Your Letter Makes DEPENDS LARGELY ON THE KIND OF STA « TIONERY YOU USE. -fWi% There is style in stationery same as clothing People of good taste and refinement buy their sta tionery here, because it has style, quality ancl certain touch of elegance not found elsewhere. Engraved visiting and wedding invitations a specialty. Richards Stationery Company FRIDAY, JULY 23. New Crop Turnip Seed Yellow Ruta Baga Early Flat Dutch . Purple Top Red Top Globe Yellow Aberdeen V Golden Ball White Globe Cow Horn Southern Seven Top. Also Beets, Cabbage, Spinach and Collards for fall sowing. Mail orders solicited. L. A. Gardelle DRUGGIST 620 BROAD 620 Nunnally’s Candy Fresh Twice a week by Express Chocolate and Bon Bons, As sorted Chocolates, Chocolate Cakes, Chocolate Almends, Chocolate Creams, Chocolate Braziles, Stick Candy 2fo lb, Alexander Drug Co. Rexall Store. ICE CREAMS, LAUlilMig' AND fmc GOOD COLD SODA WATER FOR SALE That desirable Lot, corner Telfair and McDowell street, Summer ville, 100x150—PRICE $1,200.00. Apply to Clarence E. Clark REAL ESTATE, 842 Broad. COOK’S Goldblume The Best Brewed Quench Your Thirst With A Bottle Of fliresi Wherever Soft Drinks Are Solo. ; DIXIE CARBONATING CO.. Aufjusta. Ga. A Girl's Purse. “I have lost my pocketbook.” “To, bad, Clarice. And what did i't contain?” “Some poetry and some dress sam ples. The finder may keep the poe try if he will only return the dres* samples.”
