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THE WEATHER
Auqusta and Vicinity
Fair tonight nnff Tuesday; lowest
temperature tonight near thirty degrees.
Georgia nnrf South Carolina
Fa r and continued cold tonight and
Tuesday; freezing temperature tonight.
DAYTON SETS AN EXAMPLE
* Out in Dayton, Ohio, they are going in for radical
changes in city government. The new beginning Dayton is
making it very much like the new start Galveston made
when she blazed the trail and showed the country what
commission government could accomplish.
The new municipal heads of Dayton face a grave prob
lem. They enter upon their responsibilities handicapped
by the lack of funds and the results of the floods of last
spring, but in inaugurating a system in which waste is
minimized and efficiency is developed to its highest, there
is every prospect that prosperity will follow confusion
and exhaustion. Dayton has elected five commissioners
and one city manager.
The new form of gevernment goes into power untram
melled by clique control. This is doubtless the most en
couraging feature of the whole situation.
Party politic \v«*re entirely flrrrinatod at the election, and thin la to be
• n eanential f« l ire of the new program. If the principles of the new form
of government are carried out to the letter.
No party <h i:nation appeared on the ballot at the election; ward lines
were ahollaheii and the city whh considered an a unit, Insuring to all sec
tions of the city equal representation and consideration.
The short ballot principle wan adopted, and the various functions of
government are subdivided into departments, all under the control and
jurisdiction of the city manager The subdivision allows the greatest lati
tude for the efficient discharge of the functions of the government.
The farmers of the charter explain with refernce to the Department of
Finance that great care was exercise tie to provide for the institution of the
best and most modern method of accounting.
AH of the financial affairs of the city are consolidated in this one de
partment. Principles of accounting are laid down and the duty imposed
on the directors of the finance to establish them for all administrative de
partments.
The city manager, Mr. Henry M. Waite, who was for
merly city civil engineer of Cincinnati, brings to his
duties the great value of professional experience and
training as a civil engineer. With the flood problem Day
ton is facing this is of inestimable importance. Manager
Waite has. within the limits of Dayton, a power which is
not less than that of a national executive. He is the ad
mini : I've head of .he city government and will be held
strict ’ rnsible by the people of Dayton for the ad
minisl’rt• of all departments. He was appointed without
regru’ tc ' ; 3 political affiliations, and will hold office at
the v i?i o' the commission. He is subject to recall, the
same r. . 3 * s city commissioners.
H t’viies are: To see that the laws and ordinances
are em need.
To appoint and remove all director a of department* and all mibordinate
officer* aud employe* In the department* in the dnaaified and unchiaatfted
aervloei*; all appointment* to be upon 4ivf»rlt ami film*** alone, and in the
classified service; all appointment* and removal* to be subject to the civil
•ervioe provisions of the charter.
To exercise control over all department* and dlvlalon* created by the
charter, or to hereafter created.
To attend all meeting* of the commlaalon, with the right to take part
tn the dlactisHion. but having no vote.
To recommend to the commi**ton for adoption such meaeure* a* he may
deem necessary or expedient.
To keep the cotnmi»*ion fully advised a* to the financial condition and
Heeds of the city, and also
TV» perform *uch other duties a* may be prescribed by the charter or re
quired of him by ordinance or resolution of the commission.
We have gone somewhat in detail into this feature of
Dayton s commission government because we believe that
the appointment of a professional city manager, a man in
no way tied up or identified with the people of the place,
or even remotely acquainted with its politics, reinforces
the value of commission government and ensures its
greater efficiency.
The Herald still hopes to see Augusta respond to the
spirit of the times and rid itself of a cumbersome and In
effectual system which is wide open to political jugglery,
parasitism, graft, waste and that worst of all blood
suckers and obstructions: inefficiency.
In Dayton they propose to ensure efficiency by a civil
tervice board of three appointed by the commission for
terms of six years, one to be named every two years The
commission has authority to see that all officers and em
ployees arc appointed on the basis of merit and fitness
alone, and will keep a record of their efficiency in the
service.
» Commission government has twice but barely fniled in
Augusta. On both occasions it was defeated by the in-
Comparative Data
Jan. 12th, 1911.
Highest temperature record, 76 in 1890.
Lowest temperature record, 6 In 1886.
1 «nwe«t thla morning, 29.
Precipitation yesterday, .0; normal
13. v
E. D. KM I OH,
Local Forecaster.
fluence of political bitterness, but it will come ere long
and we hope to see it , ujurated by the union of the
very factions which kill ' it in the past.
When we are prepared in Augusta to break away from
cliques, from class arrogance, and from class prejudice,
when we are ready to act with the same broad con
sciousness of community oneness which has animated Day
ton, we shall start on the clear road of progress. Indeed
we have now but to ask ourselves if we can afford to
lumber along handicapped and retarded by an outworn
system any longer?
Has not the time at last come for us to give up follow
ing cliques and parties and devote ourselves to the ad
vancement of the community as a whole?
Dynamite By the Million Tons
When President Wilson In the
White Hmise touched the electric but
ton that sent a spark Into each of the
hundreds of Masting caps of the great
dynamite charge under Gamdoa Dike
at Panama, he marked the practical
close of an era of blasting, the like of
which history does not record.
During their work on the Isthmus,
the Americans turned loose some 60,-
000,000 pounds of dynamite. That Is
30,000 tons, or about thirty trainloads.
No one can Imaging the terrific col
lective force this dynandte represents.
A single blast may turn loose for an
Think of This—Ravage of
the 801 l Weevil Totals 10
Million Bales f sso0 f OO0 f 000
Figures Issued by Director of Census Harris Today Give
Startling Facts. Loss of Cotton Production in Geor
gia and South Carolina Alone Would be Enormous.
Waahington, D. C.—$.100,000,000!
That is the loss cotton producers of
the United Stales have suffered from
the holt weevil, according to statistics
made public today hy Director W. J
Harris, of the Census llureau, Depart
ment of Commerce.
Searchers of the Department of
Commerce have discovered that the
loss In cotton production due to the
h.,l| weevil has totalled 10.000.000 hales.
Placing a value of only SSO on each
hale, the monetary loss reaches the
huge sum of half a billion dollars. The
actual loss, however, would be very
much above even that stupendous fig
ure, for, us pointed out by Director
Harris, the loss resulting from the fail
ure of farmers to plant cotton because
of the fenr of the boll weevil never
can he estimated
Damage to Crops by State*.
Here are the details of what the va
rious cotton states have suffered from
I the boll weevil:
Mississippi.
In Reven selected ooitntles of Ml 3
slsslppl the production of cotton In
1907 amounted to 191,790 bales, valued
at nearly $11,000,000. The boll wee
vil reduced this production to 89,577
bale* in 1909; to 61,482 bales in 1910;
to 37,816 bales In 1911; and to 30,80$
bales tn 1912. The aggregate produc
tion for the four yeurs amounted to
219,634 bales, valued at approximately
$14,(00,000. Had the crop of 1907 been
produced for each of these years the
aggregate would have exceeded 767,000
bales, valued at about $48,600,000.
Many farmers In these counties aban
doned entirely the attempt to produce
cotton. The majority of the farm la
borers have been thrown out of em
ployment and emigrated to other
places.
Louisiana.
Louisiana's largest cotton crop, 1.-
089,626 bales, was grown in 1904. The
production was reduced to 245,648
bales in 1910. This great loss was due
principally to the ravages of the boll
weevil. In ten of the largo cotton
producing parishes the crop amounted
to 256.01 K hales, valued at $15,000,000,
during the year Immediately preceding
the advent of the weevil In each of
these parishes The aggregated pro
duction of these ten parishes for the
following four years amounted to only
211.250 bales, valued at approximately
$13,500,000. Had the production equaled
that of the year preceding the coming
of the weevil, It would have amounted
to 1,024,072 bales, valued at $65,000,-
000. The loss to the cotton growers
In these ten parishes, attributed very
largely to the boll weevil, amounted to
more than $50,000,000 for the four
years.
Arkansas.
During 1906, 1907 and 1908 the boll
weevil was dispersed over an area cov
ering about one-third of the state of
Arkansas. In four selected counties
of the state the crop for 1906 amount
ed to 73,426 bales. Hy 1909 the crop
of these counties had been reduced by
the weevil to 26.962 hales, ami In 1910
It was 35.496 hales. The aggregate
value of these two crops was about
$4,500,000. whereas had each equaled
the crop of 1906 the cotton for these
counties would have brought Into them
I more than $10,600,000.
Texas,
The boll weevil first appeared in the
I state of Texas In 1K92. and during the
next 16 years caused an enormous loss
[ln the cotton crop of the state. In
i seven selected counties In the north
! east section of the state the production
In 1906 amounted to 232,063 bales. This
was reduced to 114.701 bales In 1907;
tn 163.347 bales In 1908. and to 145,-
| 752 tuiles tn 1909. The aggregate value
of the three crops In these counties
amounted to about $24.000,0h0 If the
production of 1906 had been maintain
ed, the value would ha' e been approx
imately $40,000,000.
Probable Effect in Areas Threatened.
Alabama.
The boll weevil now rovers the
southern portion of Alabama Select
ing six counties tn the eastern part of
the state, which are In the direct path
of the weevil, the production during
five years has amounted to 772.555
hairs, which sold for about $45,000,-
0(0. If the ravages of the weevil tn
these counties should result In reduc
ing the production tn the same | ro
j portion as In the selected counties in
Mississippi, the cotton produced dur-
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA.
Inutant 16,000,000 horse power, three
times an much as is developed\by all
the water wheels in the United States
in the eame length of time.
The whole ntory of the use of dyna
mite at Panama, of how the efficiency
engineers made one ton of dynamite
do the work of two, is told In "The Pa
nama I'anal,” the remarkable new
tiook bv Frederic J. Haskin, which
The Augusta Herald is now distribut
ing to its readers at cost price. Do
not fail to save the coupon in another
part of this paper and thus obtain for
yourself the authoritative account of
the canal.
ing the four seasons following the
spread of the weevil throughout these
counties would amount to 440,000 bales,
and the financial loss, computed at SSO
per bale, would be more than $22,000,-
000.
Georgia.
Selecting five important cotton-pro
ducing counties in western Georgia,
which are also in the path of the wee
vil, the loss in the production during
four seasons following the invasion of
the insects would range from 200,000
bales, based on the experience of the
counties in Texas to 350,000 and 390,-
000 bales, based on the production in
the selected counties in Mississippi and
Hie parishes in Louisiana, respectively.
The resulting financial loss In these
counties would be, therefore, from
$10,000,000 to $19,500,000.
South Carolina.
The production of cotton during the
last five years In the five most im
portant cotton-growing counties in
South Uarolina jams 1.478,728 bales, a
value of approximately $87,500,00.
Should the boll weevil infest these
counties, with a resulting loss in cot
ton production such as occurred in the
selected counties in Mississippi, the
reduction in the crops during the four
seasons following the dispersion of the
insects would be 840,000 bales, valued
at $42,000,000.
PROVED BY THE PROPRIETOR
Stranger (in a strange restaurant)
—Look here, waiter, I can’t eat this
stuff. Take It back and bring me
something decent,
Waiter—Sorry, but that’s the best
we cau do.
Stranger—lt is, eh? I’ll show you.
Where's the proprietor?
Waiter—Gone out to lunch.—Lon
don Opinion.
Doctor, tawer, merchant, chief . ..
Richman, poorman, beggarman —
Whoever you are or whateyer you are, you
helped to dig the Panama Canal. Save this
coupon and get the book that tells the story.
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PANAMACANA!
Frederic J. Haakin AJ
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The Sweetheart
Who “Grafts”
(By Beatrice Fairfax.)
Ho site doesn't want to go to the
theatre with you unless you can buy
the very best seats in the house, and
after the theatre when you took her
out for some ice cream at the little
candy store she sniffed and began
telling you about the fine suppers
some other man gives her when he
takes her out.
What shall you do about it?
I know what I'd do about it if I
were in your place. I would stop
curing a snap of my finger for what
such a goose of a girl says or hints —
or even thinks.
What does she think you are—a
millionaire, and what is she, pray tell,
a princess of the blood royal?
What sort of a home has she —does
she live In a palace or In a oastle, and
how many times does she expect her
friends and acquaintances to knock
their heads on the floor before they
dare to come into her august pres
ence.
What claim has she to such royal
tastes?
Is she such a gorgeous beauty that
no man can look at her without a
dreadful fluttering of the heart?
Is she an intellectual giantess, whose
every word sparkles with the encrust
ed wisdom of the ages?
Or is she Just some little pug-nosed,
round-eyed girl who would never be
missed if she stepped right out of the
world this very minute?
1 never saw a really beautiful or
really fine woman in my life who
cared a cent about having people
“spend money on her,” just to show
how much they thought of her.
What sort of a wife would a girl
like that make an honest, hard-work
ing man?
Why, she'd make you live on one
meal a day, and that a meager one;
Just so that she had fine feathers to
show her friends to prove how much
you loved her.
Make a home for you—never in the
wide, wide world.
She'd rather have a two-room flat
without a window in the second room
and sleep on something that pretend
ed to be a bookcase or a writing desk,
or anything except a good, sensible
bed, and eat on some kind of a shelf
rigged up to hide the gas plate—than
to live in the prettiest, most comfort
able little house in the world.
What she wants is show, display.
She’d rather have a hall boy in
buttons at the front door of the flat
than a delivery boy with a good por
terhouse steak and some green vege
tables at the back.
She isn’t a real woman at all, this
girl of yours, young man. She’s Just
ft poor, little, pasteboard imitation—
like the beautiful ladles who hold up
baskets of flowers In the garden scene
at the theatre.
Turn your eyes away from her,
young man, she isn't even worth look
ing at.
TEN RULES OF LIFE
(By Dorothy Dlx.)
To be a human being first, and a
woman afterwards.
To learn how to do some one thing
well enough to make a living by it.
so that I ned never fear the horror of
dependence.
To regard love as the sugar on the
top of the cake of life, not the whole
substance.
To serve faithfully and well those
of my own household, but not to per
mit myself to become a slave to them.
To develop my sympathies In every
direction so that I may truly be a ilt-
We have just a
few Overcoats
and we want to
get rid of them.
If you find your
size in the lot you
Fan buy one for lit
tle money.
All of them are
splend'd qualities
and you’ll be sur
prised at the price.
DORR
Good Taste Apparel
tie sister to all the world.
To cintinually reach out for fresh
interests in my life, so that if one
fails me I shall not be left bankrupt
of resources of happiness.
To let no human being go from my
presence without giving him or her
a happier thought and a brighter out
look.
To bear in mind continually that
it is just as important to lay up at'
feet ion for my old age as it is to lay
up money.
To keep my heart sweet and young
purged of the bitterness and the nar
newness of old age, and so to grow
old gracefully and beautifully.
Daily Pattern
&
- 979*
9799.—A Good Coat Style—Girl*' Coat,
Cheviot, zibelene, velvet, corduroy,
or broadcloth are all suitable for this
model. The fronts are double breast
ed, and the collar Is trimmed with a
shaped band. The coat is finished
In Balkan style. The pattern is cut
in five sizes: 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16
years. It requires 3 1-2 yards of 44-
inch material for a 10-year size.
A pattern of this illustration mailed
to any address on receipt of 10 cents
in silver or stamps.
No. Size
Nam*
Street and No
City State
we sell nniano
Hand-Wind Mill, Steam 11111110
and Belt Driven Pumps * wlfll w
Pipe*, Valvaa, Fittings, Tanka, Galvanized Roofing, Large Stock.
Lombard Iron Works & Supply Co.
600 to 636 Eleventh Street. Augusta, Ga.
Oh, ves, I drop in any Drug Store to buy Pat
ent Medicines, but when I want anything particu
larly fine, or a prescription to be put up, I go to
GARDELLE’S, for T know it’s all right if it comes
from th’« Drug Store.
MONDAY. JANUARY 12.
Augusta Herald
December Circulation.
Dally and Sunday Herald
The circulation of the Daily and Sun.
day Herald for the month of December,
1913, was as foliswa:
nee. 1 10.990 Dec. 16 10 458
Dec. 2 10,327 Dec. 17 10 447
Dec. 3 10,412 Dec. 18 10 Ha
Dec. 4 10,326 Dec. 19 10,453
Dec. 5 10.450 Dec. 20 11 010
Dec. 6 10,921 Dec. 21 (,S.! 10-,'30
Dec. .7 (S.) 10.489 Dec. 22 10 502
Dec. 8 10.396 Dec. 23 10,406
Dec. 9 10,355 Dec. 24 10,431
Dec. 10 10.443 Dec. 25. .N’d^paper
Dec. 11 10,372 Dee. 26 10,42-
Dec. 12 10.484 Dec. 27 11,12-
Dec. 13 10,982 Dec. -8 (S.) 10,410
Dec. 14 (S.) 10,405 Dec. 29 10,684
Dec. 15 10,405 Dec. 30 10,675
Dec. 31 10,684
Total December, 1913 ?15 033
Doiiv Average 10.521
The Augusta Herald, Dally and Sun.
day. has a circulation In Augusta ap.
proxlmately twice as large as that of
any other Augusta newspaper. Adver.
tiser and agenclee Invited to test tnj
accuracy of these figures In comparisor
with the claims of any other August;
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