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done for the Postmasters of Fourth- Class Offices. We want to see them actually placed within the classified service, although they are theoretical ly included at the present time. To actually place them within the classi fied service would be but the work of a moment and the benefit to the serv ice would be beyond comprehension. Once placed within the classified serv ice, they should be compensated prop erly for the work they perform. They are working now on the same basis they did in 1874 simply because no one has bad sufficient interest in them to suggest a change. No Postmaster- General down to Cortelyou ever recog nized them. Does any one suppose that any business of any kind can run for 33 years without a readjustment or some change of some kind? Think of the changed conditions in this coun try in 33 years! At that time (in 1874) it is probable the Government could not afford to do better. Because Postmasters paid their rent and fur nished their heat and light as well as practically everything else that was needed to carry on the business of their offices out of their own pockets then are they to do so today* Why Should Postal Service Be Self Sustaining? What about the millions of dollars that it costs to run the War and Na vy Departments? Why not make the battleships in time of peace carry freight or passengers from port to port and turn in revenue to the Gov ernment, or why not make the soldiers when they are not fighting build roads or work in shops and turn in some revenue to the Government? On what theory does Congress, or who ever is responsible, figure that the Post-Office Department must break even on expenses when the Post-Of fice Department is of more actual service to the people of this country than all the other departments com bined? Why then should one branch of the employes of the Post-Office Department, numbering sixty-five thousand, be compelled to do their work on a compensation not exceed ing that paid to an ordinary negro servant girl?—Post-Masterf Advo cate. A GOVERNOR WHO GETS RE SULTS. The fulfillment of practically ev ery promise made, the attainment of every important result aimed at, by Governor Comer, when he made his campaign in Alabama, is now either an accomplished fact or in sight. Hard upon the call for an extra session of the Alabama legislature, whose object was to bring definite settlement of the important ques tions upon which the people of that state had acted, all but one of the railroads have come to the governor’s terms and have entered an agreement to put in the Georgia rates as de manded. The railroads knew the governor meant business. The legislature in its regular session had failed to complete the w r ork of reform which had been promised the people of the state. There were certain essential features of the program which the governor sought to carry out in the absence of legislative notion. Unsuccessful in this, he called the legislature to meet to complete the job. This evidence of bis determination has already produced results. Moot of the railroads have come to the governor’s terms, which were in dorsed at the ballot box, and it has been made a part of the government that none of the rights of the parties at interest, under it, shall be affect ed by any legislation which may, per chance, be enacted at the extra ses sion. After all, it is results that count, and in Alabama the extra session pro ject is more than vindicated in ad vance of the assembling. Perhaps the most important result accomplished in the Alabama case is the definite settlement of the ques tions at issue and the removal of all doubt as to the future. Both the peo ple and the railroads know just what they may expect; just what they are going to get. There remains no Damoclean sword hanging in the air to fall upon the head of industrial progress the mo ment it bestirs itself. Investment and construction may proceed with something approaching absolute knowledge of what they have got to meet; they have got their yardstick and may cut their cloth accordingly. Over here in Georgia we are still up in the air, as it were. The Georgia legislature, in regular session, did but little—and what little it did was thought by many to be too much; the railroad commission has taken no step even indicative of its future pol icy as to the great questions which were involved in the campaign and promised in the Macon platform. From any standpoint from which it may be viewed, both an extra ses sion of the general assembly and some definite announcement of purposes— or, better still, some positive action —by the railroad commission are much to be desired. Mr. Watson has urged, even de manded, an extra session of the gen eral assembly, conscientiously be lieving that the legislative body failed in its duty when it adjourned with much of the Macon platform remain ing in its pigeonholes. From his standpoint he is right when he de mands that the railroad commission shall proceed to carry into effect the promises of the campaign. He re gards them in a certain sense as his promises; for, as he says, he uin dorsed the note and it has to be paid, or he will know the reason why.” X iewed from the most conservative standpoint, these eventualities are no less desirable and important. Even those who do not approve the full ex tent to which the Macon platform would go, may still justly and right eously demand that there be a final ity to the suspense which is produc ing stagnation. An extra session of the legislature now and a little prompt and positive action —whatever it may be—on the part of the railroad commission would settle all these important questions once and for all and we might rest again in a state of industrial equili brium. 1 f the state has got to wait another twelve months before it can know these things, the prospects are it will bring about industrial depression from which it may not quickly recover. The people and the railroads and other corporations are entitled to know finally and definitely what they have got to meet, and one of the wont oppressions that can be visited WASSON'S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. upon them is damning and indefinite suspense. Let’s know what we have got to do, and do it; what we are going to have, and have it, and then get down to business. That is the way the governor of Alabama went at it —and he won out! —Atlanta Constitution. THE VALUE OF OLD COTTON STALKS. The hog, we are told, has been util ized down to the very last notch, everything except the squeal. And now' the same results are sought for with the cotton plant, ex hausting its possibilities. It is stated that the last issue of The Cotton Journal, published at At lanta, was bound in a cover of white paper that had been manufactured from old cotton stalks. An authority describes the paper as being heavy calendared and, with a fine gloss and in every way equal to the best grades Berckmans Trees NONE BETTER We offer an immense stock of Fruit and Shade Trees, Evergreen and Deciduous Shrubs, Conifers, Roses, Palms, etc. Our stock is free from disease or insects. Special Department for Landscape Work We are prepared to make surveys and plans for residential grounds, parks, cemeteries, mill and sub urban villages. Consult us and our experts will help you. Catalogue on application. ....... P. J: Berckmans Co. inc. FRUITLAND NURSERIES Drawer 1070 AUGUSTA, GA. Established 1856. We do not sell through agents. The $2.00 Offer was never intended as an ajjjfrt proposition on which commissions could bo eharaod. The purpose of wo offer was to encourage the voluntary ■ubscrioor to subscribe to both Jeffersonians at the same time. From mis date the 12.00 price for both Jeffersonians will bo for the voluntary subscriber. In other words it is a net price. No oom m I eel one at all ean be paid on that price for both Jeffersonians. October V. lit?. of wood pulp paper. The paper was made by a Philadel phia establishment under a patent process, owned by citizens of that town. The only question remaining to be settled is, “Can it be econo mically manufactured?” It has been roughly estimated that 10,000,01'0 tons of fiber could be avail able for working up into 5,000,000 tones of newspaper material if it can be shown fully practicable. Doubt less this will be demonstrated beforo very Idng. And, by the w r ay, we have another great fiber plant in the South in the way of the okra plant. Some experi ments ought to be made with it. It is possible that it nas exceptional value for making into certain fabrics that would warrant its culture for that purpose. But as it is, the cotton stalk is a waste product of a great industry, and therefore its working up the greater economy.— Savannah Press. PAGE SEVEN