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About The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1910)
THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XV., No. 27. What Do You Think of a Law That Lets a Man Dispose of His Children Like He • Would His Horse or Dog or Any Chattel? The Mother Has No Rights In the Child as Against the Father’s Disposal or Wish to Give Away to Any person Whatsoever In South Carolina. V/HAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS LAW? “The father of any child, under the age of 21 and not married. * * * May by his deed, executed and recorded according to law, or by his last will and testament, made and probated according to law, dispose of the custody and tuition of such child or children for and during such time as he, she or they respectively remain under the age of 21 years, to any person or persons, in possession or remainder.'’ V/ hat becomes of the mother's rights and interests as against the wish and deed of her husband, even when she is in every way—morally, financially, and socially, able, —better able to take care of her own children than any party her husband may see fit to select? Such is the present law in South Carolina against which universal pro test is being mai\e all over the state. A Mother’s Plea for the Custody and Care and Love of Her Own Children. A very great and a very good man vlio was a law-maker during his life and whose opinions long since he left the place he so richly adorned, are widely quoted as the supreme au thority, had a case brought to his at tention that filled his soul with indig nation at the Georgia law that per mitted a woman to be imprisoned for debt. It was an unspeakably sad, a positively tragic case, but the grand old jurist righted the wrong, and never rested content until the law v”Mt reepaled. Today South Carolina, our sister state, stands in need of some such leader of men as this to repeal a law that there exists and that seems even more cruel than this that has been wiped off the statute books of Geor (Contlnued on Page Four.) LOCbl BUTCH TELLS BOW TBBST HUS RAISED PRICES OB BEEF Present Prices are Beyond All Reason. Some Fig ures Comparing Present Prices With Those of Year Ago. Meat, once a necessity, now a lux ury, has joined the aero club and soared to a point almost out of the reach of the wage-earner. The high est prices ever seen in Augusta, pre vail at present, with no chance of a decline except through concerted ac tion on the part of the consumers. Prominent meat dealers agree that the present prices are beyond reason and that the choicest beef is not worth what they are forced to charge for it. They say that their hands are tied and that the prices are forced by the trust prices to the dealer. One of the largest dealers In the city is of the opinion that if people in general really boycott the trust, that a few monhts will witness the decline of the price of beef to its old price of 12 Va Vowed He'd Blow His Brains Out If He Broke the Pledge and Keeps His Word MONROE, La.—Albert Skinner, a saloon keeper, took a double oath on the first day of the present year. He made a pledge that he would abstain from drinking, but promised that If he ever did get drunk he would blow out his brains. He broke his pledge when he went on a spree Wednesday night, but kept his promise Thursday when he com mitted suicide by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. MARK THIS WELL It's the advertised goods that are called for the most. It is the advertising kind of stores that are doing the business, the best and biggest business all over the country. It is the reader of the da.ily ads In The Herald that gets the big gest bargains and makes the dollar do double duty during these strenuous days. You cannot take advantage of the 10-day or the one-day Big Special Sale and Cut Prices which are so prevalent at this season of the year unless you are a constant, intelligent and alert reader of ads. REAp HERALD ADS DAILY. SHOP BY HERALD ADS WHEN YOU SHOP TOMORROW. GET EVERY BARGAIN PLUM THAT APPEALS TO YOU. GET THE BEST STORE SERVICE. SAY ALWAYS WHEN SHOPPING: “I SAW IT tN THE HERALD.” Augusfans Ready and Willing and Anxious to join National Protest Against the Beef Trust The people of Augusta are in ear nest in their protest against the high price of beef and the exactions of the Beef Trust and from replies and com munications received by The Herald, they are only waiting for some or ganized movement, some concerted action, in order to make their protest an effective one. Are you in line with this move ment? If so, sign the meat coupon in today’s Herald. Agitation of this subject has already done good in other cities. It will do good here Ir» Augusta. Don’t delay—sign the cou pon today. What Augustans think of the move ment. A few of the many expressions from Herald readers. A Camak lady writes: “I will not buy any meat for the next 30 days. This trust has a little gold mine of us consumers.” “We sign coupon and hope the peo ple may get good results.” “Advocates our farmers raising meat and bread at home and higher wages for laboring man.” “I will cut out meat for 90 days if necessary,” “Success of such a movement lies in mutual co-operation.” “I am willing to do without meat one year if necessary in order to coli quor the Meat Trust.” "If wages were raised it would be all right, but they are not. The move ment is all right.” “I have 3 in family and we are will ing to do without meat 30 days.” “The working people can’t pay the price for meat and most all other food stuffs. I will be willing to cut out meat for 30 days.” "Does this forbid the use of home raised pork or beef, Buch as may be bought from your country cousin, or does it mean shipped meats?” cents a pound and will also see a ma terial reduction in the prices of all meats, butter, eggs and lard. He said that the “trust” method of advance in price gave the dealer al most no chance to meet the advance. A systematic and steady advance, ranging from a quarter to a half of a cent every day or two, until, finally the dealer would realize that the price had been raised anywhere from one to three or four cents per pound. On January 23rd, 1909 , lamb was sold to dealers, by the packers at 13)4 cents and four days later rose to 14 cents per pound. On March 6th the price dropped to 10 cents, rising to 12)4 cents on the 12th. About one month later the price advanced to 13)4 cents again, remaining within % cent of that price up to date. Pork Loins Up 4c. The latter part of February, 1909, saw the price of pork loins at 12 cents, while the present quotation Is 16 cents, an advance of 4 cents a pound. (Continued on Page Four.) AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 27, 1910. “I am willing to join the movement on short notice. The sooner the bet | ter.” “Yes, we will do without meat GO j days to help reduce price of meat in i Augusta.” "[ am willing to cut out meat 30 | days and then reduce use one-half in j definitely to win fight to lower price.” “We are being imposed upon by ! combined capital. We are not obliged jto eat meat sold by the trust. My household will abstain for the time stated or longer,” Such is the tenor of the replies re ceived by The Herald, showing the great interest among the people of ( Augusta on the meat movement against high trust prices. There’s no doubt but that, a well organized, con certed movement here in Augusta would receive the hearty support and co-operation of the people and un doubtedly prove as effective in Augus ta as in other cities. MINISTERS WILL JOIN IN CRUSADE AGAINST PRICES In speaking of the recent meeting of the Protestant Ministers’ Associa tion, called in the interest of the con certed action that is being taken to reduce the price of meats, Dr. Rich ard Wilkinson stated that with one accord the ministers sanctioned the action taken, and hoped by so doing to interest their congregations in the movement. “The question is to do the wise thing, and a mass meeting of the citi zens should be called. I am in favor of giving th& local butchers every opportunity ,and if Western meals are not lowered the people should stop eating them until they are.” SEC. BALLINGER IS BRIDGED WITH SPECIFIC LETS WASHINGTON.—Just what the charges are that Louis R. Glavis up holds against Richard A. Ballinger, secretary of the interior, finally were made clear to the congressional Inves tigating committee before Its session adjourned Wednesday afternoon. Louis D. Brandels, of Boston, special counsel for Glavis, Informed the com mittee, upon its insistence on the spe cific nature of the allegations, though maintaining that It was not any one act but a series of acts and circum stances upon which the charges are based. Mr. Brandeis’ Charge. Particularizing, Mr. Brandeis said that Mr. Ballinger had acted as an at torney In drawing up an agreement in escrow and deeds In the Wilson Coal company cases in Lewis county, Washington, these cases being an al leged fraud upon the land laws, this being before Ballinger entered the government service and his name not appearing In the court records of the case. Didn’t Show Diligence. As commissioner of the land office in - 1907, said Brandeis, further speci fying, Ballinger did not show due dili gence in further Investigating the al leged frauds connected with the Cun ningham Coal Land cases in Alaska and was otherwise Involved Improper ly therein. Glavis was before the committee and both he and his attorney wene closely questioned by Its members. The hearing will be resumed Friday. PREST. BARRETT GOES TO WASHINGTON Says Congressmen Mnst Now Show “Their Faith by Works” in Farmers’ Union Fight. ATLANTA, Ga.—“ The time has come,” said President Chas. B. Bar rett, of the Farmers’ Union, "when the congressmen who have been mak ing protestations of sympathy with us must show their faith by works.” Mr. Barrett left Wednesday for Washing ton, where he will direct the fight the union is making against the methods of dealing in cotton In vogue on the New York cotton exchange. He will be met there by a large committee, composed of leading members of the union, which will carry the fight be fore the proper congressional commit tees. Alleged Grafters Three of Pittsburg's prominent men recently placed under arrest in con nection with the graft, alleged to ex ist in that city. From tho top to bottom are: Max G. Leslie, delin quent tax collector of Allegheny county, a prominent republican poli tician of Western Pennsylvania, tviio Is charged with bribery, conspiracy, perjury before the grand jury and the misdemeanor of soliciting council men, released on $15,000 hall; F. A. Griffin, former vice-president of the Columbia National Bank, charged wit, 1, conspiracy to commit bribery, sto| 0 ball furnished; E. H. Jen nin| president of the Columbia Na tloi Bank, president of the Colonial Trvf Co., and president of the Pure Oil !• mpany, charged with conspiracy to commit bribery. Tho charges grew out of the attempt on the part of cer tain bank officials to have their Insti tution designated by the dly council as the city depository Officers of the German Natonal Bank were convicted and sent to jjrlson on similar charges last fall. NOTH TIM HUTCHU SAYS VAUGHN Pofitmaster S. B. Vaughn, when seen at his home Wednesday regard ing the charges made against him by former Money Order Clerk R.L. Ballen tine, who charges office, said: “I have not seen the paper and do not know the nature of the charges. I do not Intend to read the charges In a newspaper, and have no statement for the press. When the time arrives and the charge is made officially, 1 will reply through the proper chan nels. That is to the postal authori ties, but I have absolutely nothing to say at present.” NOMINATIONS MADE. WASHINGTON—The president sent the following nominations to the seri ate Wednesday: To be collectors of customs —Jas. J. Haynes, at Corpus Christ* Texas; Robert W. Do we, at Salurla, Texas; Francis 1,. Lee, at Galveston, Texas; George W. Allen, at Key West, Fla. THE WEATHER. For Augusta and Vicinity: Un settled weather, with rain lat< tonight or Friday. For Georgia: Unsettled weath er with rain late tonlg. or Fri day. FLUSH WITH BRIDGES, SEINE RUSHES THROUGH PARIS AT THE RATE OF 25 FILES AN HOUR MILITARY BARRACKS HOUSE PARISIAN FLOOD REFUGEES PARlS.—Thursday, Paris resembled a beleaguered city The military commander in each of the five sections into which the metropolis has been divided holds his soldiers in constant readiness for dispatch to points of danger. The government of the mu nicipality has placed the tu'Hhiry bar* racks and public school buildings at the disposal <>l the refugees, who al ready number, it is estimated, more than 100,000. Laborers Out of Work. Fifteen thousand laborers of the city are out of work and though sub scriptions are pouring in. $200,000 hav ing been raised Wednesday night and of which $1,400 was contributed by the American chamber of commerce, the government today decided to ask par liament for an additional credit to be used in relief work. Kvery minute today brought a new tale of disaster. At S o’clock the vault id’ the Orb ms railway tunnel gave way at the Rue (lit l,e Coeur. An other bad eave-in occurred ;tt the Rue Lille, Hooding the quarters of the Ger man embassy. The buildings of the foreign office were surrounded by wa ter this morning and abandoned. The main drain under the Champs do Mars broke during tlie forenoon and the blanket of water extended back to Ri val ides, where repose the bones of Na poleon. Subway Roof Goes. Several subsidences have occurred in the Palace do La Concorde, the Rue St. Honore and the Hue do Lappe. The basements of the grand palace and the home of President Falliers are tilled with water. Whole sections of the city, including the St. Lazare subway station, have been roped off, The boil ing waters between the Pont An Change and Pont Notre Dame indi cate that the roof of the subway un derneath has collapsed. The curator of the Louvre Museum said today that although the basement of the building had been inundated, the statuary hall was six feet above the level of the water and the sculptures and engravings on the first floor were POSTIL BUNKS 11HEOOQ IN SENATE FRIT Finishing Touches Being Put on Measure by Com mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads. WASHINGTON. The finishing touches on the postal savings bank bill, to bo reported from the senate committee on postof(h es and post roads, arc being made by a sub-com mittee composed of Senators Carter, Dolliver and Owen. They expected to complete their work today and the bill probably will be reported to the senate on Friday. Some very important changes in the draft of the Carter bill, which is be ing used as a model, already have been agreed upon. Sections prescrib ing methods for the conduct of the proposed postal banks have been el iminated and a general proposition has been made, leaving the question of making rules to the secretary of the treasury, the postmaster general and the attorney general. These offi cials will constitute a board which will have the control of the postal depositories. The most Important amendment un der consideration Is designed to pre vent a concentration of postal de posits In money centers of the eaHt. It will provide that the postal de posits shall be distributed pro rata among such banks, local to the postal depositories, as will undertake the payment of the prescribed rate of In terest. Senator Dolliver took the position that the local banks would be com pelled to go to the bond centers to purchase securities necessary to en title them to receive funds deposited that the postal banks. In order to meet this objection, the sub-eommlt tee has agreed upon an amendment providing for the acceptance of in demnity bonds as security to the gov ernment for funds received from the postal depositories. W. G. RHENEY CAUGHT IN BtEVILLE, TEX. Athens Chief of Police Left Thursday for Au gusta Man Charged With Forgery. ATHENS, Ga. —W. O Kheney, alias Kdd, formerly of Augusta, who is al leged to have committed forgeries here, has been apprehended In Heevllle, Texas. Capt. Kaye, with papers, start ed for him Thursday morning. DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. in no danger at present. Immediately oposlte, however, there was great dan ger to the Institute do France t'-e home of the Academic Francaise, which was surrounded b\ the ~, as was the Mazarln Palace, whose val uable art collections were hurriedly removed to tho second story. The region in the neighborhood of (he law courts and the prefecture of police were flooded and chairs and ta bles were drifting about The waters invaded the court of St. Ohapolle, the most glorious gem of Gothic architec ture in France, and the lower floor of the historic conclergerlc was flooded. In the midst oi new and alarming developments and shortly before noon a dismayed crowd that was watching the water gauge at the Pont Koyul noticed that for ten minutes the flood remained stationary and at noon it ac tually began to subside, lty 12.50 o'clock the waters had fallen 3-4 of an inch and the watchers shouted for joy, the glad tidings passed from mouth to mouth and soon the entire quay was ringing with cheers. The news spread like wildfire along the quays, turning exclamations of horror to shouts of jubilution. Temporary Dykes. Ihe work of building temporary dykes back of the parapets, which had been begun at daylight, did not cease tor a moment. In many places the soldiers labored in three feet of wa ter, damming the openings In the par allels and constructing great holding dykes of stone and cement. Between the Place de T.a Concorde and Avenue d’Alexandre, where the water had be gun to flow over the parapet, 1,000 men were busy erecting a wall in the middle of the road to keep the waters out of the Champs Elyses quarter. CAROLINIANS ANXIOUS. ('OI.nMDIA, K. C. —Great anxiety Is felt by the families of two Winthrop students at college In Paris, Miss Lonnie Wyche ( daughter of Represent ative W.vche, of Newberry, and .Miss Florida Bates, daughter of Frank Bates, of Orangeburg. Dr. Wyche has taken the matter up with the state department and Is having a Parts representative report the situation on these young ladles and oilier Carolinians. Nothing has been heard from them since the flood. NEGRO DIED AGED 119. ELYRIA, ().—"Uncle” John Ram sey, III) years old, thought to have been the oldest, person In Ohio, died at tho county infirmary near here late yesterday. Ramsey was a slave and escaped forty years before the civil war, going to Oberlin, which later became historic as a station for tne underground railway for escaping slaves. Much Anxiety for Augustans in Paris No Jlllle anxiety Is expressed in Augusta hy the friends of Miss Pauline Verdery, Miss Elizabeth Hill and Mr. Jules Rival, who are in Paris. Miss Verdery and Miss Hill are slopping In the Hue Benjamin Goddard and Mr. Rival Is at his residence In the due de Rougemont. Mr. Rival has not been heard from recently and ho usually returns from France at I his time of the year. Mrs. J, P. Verdery cabled her daughter In Paris Thursday morning, but no reply has been received. The flood has assumed alarming pro portions, and it Is not known whether the streets In which tho Au gusiuns are stopping are within the zone of the floor or not. It Is hoped they are out of danger. CAROLINA HOUSE KILLS JIM CROW SCHOOL FUND BILL COLUMBIA, S. C.—After a two hour* floor period of oratory, the house guillotined another negro in the woodpile in the hill by Representative Rucker, putting it asleep hy a vote of 61 to 25. It provided for a division of taxes for school purposes into Jim Crow funds, one to he used for white schools, the other for colored, the tax payer to indi cate his choice. In case of corporations controlled outside of the state, the governor was to choose an umpire. A GOOD NAME AND A GOOD BUSINESS Joseph W. Gibson, publisher of "The Haberdasher," was approached by an old-time friend recently who said to hltn; "Joe, do you know of anybody t< whom f can sell my business? I want to retire. The business is prosper ouh and f am well known.” Mr. Olbson told his friend he did not know of anybody who would want to buy the business, and then sud denly turned toward him and fired this question at him point blank: "What, have you got to soli?" The question no surprised his friend that he stammered out this reply: "Why, Joe, everybody known me. You know my business is very profit able. You know that I have all the money I need. You know that I stand well in the trade. Do you mean to say that my business is worth noth ing that I have nothing to sell?” "Yes,” replied Mr. Gibson* "you can dispose of your stock of merchandise at. a reduced price, and that’s all you j All Records Back to 1615 Broken. Report That River is Stationary on Upper Reaches. ♦ •» ♦ FURTHER RISE EXPECTED. ♦ P PARIS. Late in tho afternoon P P the Fluvial Department predieted P P a further rise of S inches before ♦ P tho crest of the flood in the river P P Seine is reached. The flurry of ♦ P joy at noon was followed by ♦ P pessimism as tin waters con- ♦ P tinuod to rise. P ♦ ♦ PPPPPPPPPPPPPPP PARTS. —The stage of the waters Thursday morning exceeded all rec ords back to 1015 and up to 12 o’clock the river continued to rise at the rate of 3-4 Inch an hour. Mope was given to the local author ities by an early report that the Seine was stationary at Its upper reaches. At Melun, Nogent and Bray the max imum Hood was reached during Wed nesday night. On the other hand the River Marne was reported ns still ris ing and a new and higher flood was racing down the Yonne and the Grand Morin. lAutueil Viaduct. Perhaps the most alarming feature of the situation was the Assure at tho Autueil Viaduct at the foot of Paris. Should this give way it would act as a dam and submerge the entire city. The valley of the Seine now pre sents a terrifying spectacle. The flood is miles wide for twenty five miles jrbove, and the raging torrent runs through the city at the rate of 25 miles an hour. IJ, is flush with the parapets at the bridges where it Is not actually overflowing them, turn ing streets Into muddy lagoons and choking underground workings to the bursting point. Sewers Flooded. ' There are 700 miles of sewers and two rivers, the Blevre and the Grange Hotel Botliere, under Paris. The latter is running under the opera house, whose confining walls are subjected to the pressure of thousands of cubic yards of water. Wherever a break in masonry occurs the streets cave In and the water and refuse emerge. Thus dozens of places a mile back from the river streets are flooded and the walls of adjoining buildings have been rendered unsafe. In many In stances the police have forced ten ants to abandon their threatened homes. PRIVATE BANK CLOSED. BRONSON, Micli Private Bank of L. Rudd and Son closed here Wed nesday. A notice posted on the door said slow collections made the bank temporarily unable to moot its obli gations. have got to (tell. Come now, what else you got to well? “You have a good name among a lew people who know you -you have . old good merchandise In a good loca tion hut the consumer knows neither youi* name nor any brand of mer chandise you sell. “A name that’s an asset In business is an advertised name, and It must be a good name. “Merchandise that commands steady prices 1h advertised merchandise — and it must have a good name also. “No, my friend, there Is no good will to sell In your business because you have never advertised.” Mr. Gibson’s friend has not yet re tired, and Is no doubt thinking of some plan to advertise his name and his merchandise so that the public will remember both. In this great community the busi ness that Is not advertised Is not as well known as the farmer who lives ten miles from a country village.
