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deans of these institutions vary from
$500 to $4,000. University teachers Of
subjects for which there is direct COM
mercial demand outside receive som =
what higher salaries than those in
charge of the traditional academic
subjects, but the difference is less
than might be expected. The highest
average salaries for full professors are
paid in law and civil engineering. Law
claims the highest paid professorship
in any subject, with one salary OF
$500; but there are professors Of
physics, geology, and Latin who re-
ceive $1,000. 1t is significant, how
ever, that on the basis of the figures
reported most college teaching, par
ticularly in the first two years, is done
by men of instructor grade with sal
aries of $1,000 to $1,000, or by assist
ants who receive on the average about
$500, usually for half-time services.
Quite as noteworthy is the variation
in salaries for State superintendent
of public instruction. The salaries Of
the chief school officers in the various
States range from $4,000 in New Jer-
sey and New York; $500 in Illinois;
$500 in Massachusetts,; and $4,000 in
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, California,
Indiana and louisiana down to $4,000
in Delaware, Nebraska and Nevada,
$1,000 in South Carolina; and 1890 in
South Dakota.
The report contains detailed compar
isons, showing the increase in teach
ers' salaries at different periods. The
figures thus collected will be utilized
as the basis for further investigation
by the Bureau of Education and by
organizations such as the National Ed
ucation Association to determine the
actual conditions of the teaching pro-
fession.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-08-08
UNEQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK

Wide variation for the pay for the
same or similar work is one Of the
most striking situations revealed by
the investigation of teachers salaries
just completed by the L. S. Bureau OF
Education, under the direction of j.
&c. Boykin, editor of the Bureau. Pub
lie elementary school-teachers may re-
ceive $2,4O0 a year, as some do in
New York City, or $45 a year, as in
certain rural communities. Even in
cities of the same class there are con-
siderable differences in the salaries
paid teachers. On the administrative
side there are county superintendent
with pay ranging from $115 to $4,000
per annum, and college presidents re-
ceiving salaries all the way from 5000
to $12,4OO.
In city school systems salaries have
increased steadily in recent years, par
ticularly in the Western States; and,
in general, salaries in city school sys-
TENS are fairly well standardized. The
average salary Of the superintendent
of schools in cities Of over 100000 pop
ulation is Sits; the range is from
$4,000 to 10000 In the same group
of cities high-school principls average
$3,565 and elementary teachers $1,018.
Even in the smallest cities listed,
those between 5000 and 10000 popu-
latiCn, salaries are fairly uniform. The
maximum for superintendent in this
group is $3,600a nd the average ST.
915; but elementary teachers show an
annual average Of 1888, with salaries
as high as $3.50 and as low as $1O4.
1t is in the colleges and universities
that the widest variation prevails. The
salaries of men with the rank of
professor" range from $3.50 to $500.
Professors" in some institutions re-
ceive less than Instructors" or even
assistant" in others. Salaries of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-08-08

Memorial Resolutions, Resolutions
Of Respect, Obituary Notices, ETC.,
other than those which the paper may
6eem proper to publish as news mat
Ger, will be charged for at the rate OF
cents per line.
All advertising copy requiring two
columns of space or less should be in
the business office not later than noon
of day prior to date of issue in order
10 insure it's prompt insertion. All
copy for space of more than two col.
umns should be submitted not later
than 6 o'clock of the day, two days
wrior to date of issue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-08-08
TOUR Of QUE
BEG

Ottawa, Que, Aug. IA series of po-
litical meetings in the province of
Quebec will be held during the late
summer and autumn, starting at Lou
isville tomorrow. The Quebec minis
ters will participate. Last spring a
tour of the Eastern townships was
made, and the naval policy of the Gov
eminent was discussed at number Of
highly successful gatherings. These
meetings are for similar purpose and
will include the French section of the
province.
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his military machine will fail him ?
Possible Russian schemes of territor-
ial expansion in Europe deserve scant
sympathy even though Russia has been
willfully provoked but who can look
unmoved on the spectacle of France
fighting for life-for her national ex-
istence?
History will deal kindly with the
German people in general, but it will
speak unpleasant truths about the
domineering Prussians, and it will
find not even a thin veil with which to
cover the moral nakedness of the self
seeking, warlusting Kaiser Wilhelm.
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How City is Fortified.

In 1888 the Belgian authorities de-
cided to adequately fortify both Liege
and Namur, the two important points
on the Mouse. At each place a num-
Der of detached forts were construct
ed along a perimeter drawn a dis
lance varying from within four to six
miles of the city. At Liege twelve of
these forts were constructed, six on
the right bank and six on the left side
of the river. All of the forts have
been kept fairly we'll to date. The
heavy guns in their concrete case
ments are raised and lowered auto
matically. The average distance be-
tween them is four miles, but two
which defend the main line OF the
railway from Germany, are little over
a mile apart.
1t has been estimated that $4,000
men would be necessary fer an ade-
quate defense of these Notifications.
The railway lines through Liege are
the direct routes from Cologne to
Paris and from Luxembourg to Brus-
sells, the possession of either of which
would be valuable prizes the German
army.
Waterloo, the place which every
body knows as the scene of the down
fall of Napoleon at the hands of the
allies on the 18th of June, 1915, is not
on direct line from Liege, but lies
some sixty miles from it in an air
line south of Brussels.
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when they know it is bad.
The moral of our preachment is
this: If you are manufacturing or
selling a thing that is worth while
tell the world about it. If your COM
modify is hurtful or inferior, destroy
it and get into a legitimate business
Proper advertising, by which we
mean honest advertising, is not play
1t is business, legitimate, necessary
and constantly growing business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-08-08
NEW ENGLAND TOWN
100 YEARS OLD

Lancaster, n. H., Aug. This town
will celebrate it's $50 anniversary dur
ing the week commencing tomorrow
1t will take the form of an old Home
Week, and hundreds of sons and
daughters who have not visited their
birthplace for a number of years are
expected. Addresses will be by Sena-
tor John W. Weeks of Massachusetts,
Judge Savage of Maine, and a number
of others.
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Today's Birthday Honors

George Cromwell Scott, Republican,
of Sioux City, Iowa, was born in Mon
roe County, N. Y, Aug 8, 1864. Had 2
common and high school education
and was admitted to the bar in 1887.
In November, 1901, Mr.. Scott formed a
law partnership with William Mil
christ, of Sioux City, and removed
there the following year.
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AUG. 8TH IN HISTORY

1S29-Baltimore celebrated its Centen-
NAL.
1854-Preparations were made for the
siege of Romersund; the French
were landing troops at Alanl,
south of the besieged city
1S64-So many men of Chicago and the
state of Illinois were being re.
cruited by agents for other
states that Governor Yates is
sued an order barring such
agents.
18S4-The bodies of those who died in
the Greedy expedition were re-
ceived at Governors Island, n
Y with military honors.
1S94-Japan protested against the de-
livery to China Of 10000, 900
rifle cartridges by an American
firm.
1904-Collapse of a bridge at Dry
Creek, Cal, caused a railroad
wreck in which rs persons were
killed and many injured
1912-The Presidents Palace in Hayt
blew up killing President LIE
conte and others.
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Americas, Ca, August S, 1914
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By Mail in U. S. and Mexico

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The man who saves is the man who
wins,
In the worlds unceasing strife,
The man who works and the man who
strives,
Is the one of the useful life.
There are men who gain great for
tunes,
Through a turn of the wheel of luck,
But the riches made by Greater Men
Were earned through work and
pluck.
Would you join the ranks of the
fighters,
That conquer the world? Or slave
And fight the wolf when your day is
done?
You'd rather the first? Then SAVE!
Anonymous.
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IS ADVERTISING A GAME OR A BUSINESS !?

Throughout the world there is spent
annually $3,OOOOOO,OO0 in advertising.
The subject of advertising is, there
fore, one of considerable Importance.
There are three interesting questions
in connection with advertising; and
there are numerous other questions
almost as interesting. The special
three are:
% Why advertise?
(2) Are advertised goods as salts
factory as unadvertised goods?
(3) Who pays for the advertising?
The first question may be answered
with other questions. Why do people
shout when they are happy? Why
does person enjoy a thing more
when his friends can share it with
him? Why does a man shout Help"
when he is drowning? When smoke
and flame burst from the roof of a
house why does the discoverer yell
Fire? If friend is sick why tell
him what will relieve the pain? If
you have something to sell why not
hide it in the cellar and say othing
about it?
People advertise for no other reason
in the world than to let other people
know what they have, its quality, or
desira5ility, and the price.
Men who have made a careful study
of the subject declare that advertised
goods are generally of higher quail
ity than those that are not advertised.
This is because it does not pay to ad-
vertise goods that do not give salts
faction.
The old notion that the money spent
for advertising is ultimately paid by
the man who purchases the advertised
goods is mistaken notion. Large
advertisers are usually men who make
or sell goods in large quantities. The
economy in manufacturing commod-
ity in large quantities, and the ability
to spend both sides of dollar BIZ
turing it over quickly, tend to reduce
prices rather than to raise them This
being true, as everybody knows, the
conclusion is inevitable that the cost
Of advertising comes, finally, from thu
pocket of the manufacturer or merch-
ant who does not advertise. That is
to say; $3OOO,OOO,OOO is last. annually
by the men who do not advertise
What becomes of this enormous
amount? 1t is simply absorbed by
alert and resourceful competitors.
In England they have already found
that only honest advertising pays. The
same wholesome lesson is rapidly be,
ing learned in America Quacks and
humbugs are finding it harder every
) day to get a hearing in reputable
newspapers. Honest editors and bus
/ illness managers are not going to tel
= their subscribers thing is good
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gists.
Evening journal., 1914-12-08
Braves DREW
The BIC CROWDS

In these days when it is as difficult
to get authentic figures on major
league attendance as it is TO find a
manager for the New York Yankees.
anything that seems definite and
reliable is interesting Such a state
ment has come out of Boston con-
corning the attendance the champion
Braves drew at home and abroad in
the past season. II may not be Off
cial, but it is vouched for as fairly
reliable The Braves, it is stated.
drew $4,000 at home and $4,000
abroad. Of the home attendance
$4,000 poured in during the month
of September alone, when the Braves
were off in front and playing at Fen
way Park.
The best results abroad we're at
New York, where 10000 paid to see
the Braves beat the Giants Phila-
delphia fans turned out to the num-
Der of 120.S00. St. Louis was next
best in patronizing the Braves with
10000.
The other cities followed thus: Chi
cago, $1,000; Brooklyn, 81 400; Pitts
burgh, 10000; Cincinnati, 34,400. This
means that one National League club
alone drew 100000.
Evening journal., 1914-12-08
Winning remnants
A WINTER PASTINE
Several National League
Clubs Claim the 1915
Rag Already
GIANTS TO SHOW
GREATEST CHANGE

This is the open season for winning
pennants. The Next Year" cry is
upon us. and any old team at all is at
liberty to 60 as far as il likes toward
coping the flag in the conversation
race which will be in progress during
the coming sessions of the Stove
League. The bust-up and the awaken
ing is withheld until the grass Is
green again and suitable alibis have
been framed.
The most convincing and sustained
next year" talk was evident in the
vicinity OF Boston during the winter
of 1913-14. But these Boston folks
made good. In 1912. the Braves had
finished last in the National League
scramble. Last year found them at
the head Of the second division. and
with the acquisition of Johnny Evers,
the next year" talk looked like furth-
er waste Of conversation up to July.
but after that most everybody knows
more or less what happened. Now
Boston can see nothing else but an
other pennant in 1915 and considering
the unprecedented feat OF the Braves
this year in winning the worlds
championship IN four straight games
from the hitherto unbeatable Ath-
letics and the general outlook among
the other teams argument at this
stage of the game is largely futile.
The Giants are expected TO present
one Of the greatest changes in the his
tory of the team when they take the
fed for the 1915 race The next year
talk in New York is weak and waver-
ing. for no one knows what to expect
There is no doubt. however. that Man
ager McGraw plans a house-cloaning
His machine has fallen 10 pieces. The
four-time pennant hoodoo struck with
full force upon the Giants just at a
time when il seemed McGraw would
overpower the ink The inheld catch
ing department and the outfield are
now sadly in need of bolstering up.
New blood Is needed, and McGraw in
tends to reconstruct his team not
upon the wreck of his present organi-
cation. but after wedding out those
who have slipped back. There is like
~ to be some lively trading this win
ter In which Giants who have hereto
fore figured in the worlds series box
scores will be shunted away from
Broadway. Burns in the outfield and
Fletcher at short, and Tesreau in the
box are about the only men who dis
played anything like the form Nc
Graw must have. II was not one OF
Matty's great years, but no one 1.
talking of a trade involving Big Six
As for the rest of the team, however
no ones neck is any too secure.
Next years pennant is not conceded
to Boston in St Louis or Chicago. OF
even Brooklyn, for that matter The
rise of the Cardinals has been all but
as sensational as the Braves They
didn't go as far as did Stallings' men.
but kept everlastingly at it. and may
be expected to give a good account Of
themselves next year The Cubs OBJ
viously we're suffering from internal
troubles during the past season. They
have the pitchers and the power and
under real leadership will be danger
GUS to any team. Brooklyn staged an
eleventh hour squirt that carried them
to the top Of the second division The
Evening journal., 1914-12-08
BY HAL SHERIDAN,


Written for the United Pres.l
NEW YORK, Dee. s.--National League
magnates assembled at the Waldorf to-
day in annual conclave, with President
John X Tcner IN the chair. The meet.
ing was set for 2 o'clock. The hoard
of directors of the league was scheduled
TO meet two hours earlier.
Two important questions were eX-
pected TO hold the spotlight during the
best part of the sessions. One was the
proposed extinction of Charles w. Muir
ply and his mentor, Charles i. Taft,
a. far as baseball is concerned. The
other was the funeral arrangements and
formal burial of the Federal League.
Both questions were expected 10 furnish
no small amount of work.
II was realized that Murphy and Taft
with about 100000 valuation approxi-
mated worth of Chicago National
League stock in their possession. would
be difficult pcrsonagcs to extinguish. Al
ter the hasco of last year when the Ma
tional Leagucrs solemnly announced
Murphy's extinction and the latter re-
Gently hohhed mp with great handfuls of
Cub stock. the maSnates were deter
mined TO settle the question, this time
fairly and openly. for all time. There
was plenty Of talk about the Waldorf
corridors and In otner spots that are
not so dry, that Murphy must go some
time and il might as well be now The
gossip was that the magnates might
compromise by Kidding the league OF
Murphy in some way, and making no
fight on Taft, who. by the way, has a
pretty strong following in the league.
As 10 the interment planned for tho
Fedcrals. even more trouble is expected.
Despite the fact that the league has
been pronounced dead for over yea,
there were evidences of life remaining
in the corpse today in the shape OF
Fed scouts who haunted the Waldorf 10
entrap and cnsnare the meandering
baseball players who are hocking about
the National League magnatcs in droves,
as they always do on these yearly gala
occasions. That a complete change in
the plan of battle for next season will
be promulgated seemed certain. Il was
the program TO adopt some mode OF
warfare to-which the American League
magnates, who are due to meet here
soon, would agree without squabbling
and turmoil
Ono thing is certain. ANY agreement
that might he reached between Organic
ed Baseball and the Federal League 1--WE
say might oe) will have 10 have the
sanction of Dave Fultz's Player Fra
ternity, or there will be more trouble
Evening journal., 1914-12-08
Characteristic Anecdotes Of Hans" Wagner

The following anecdotes are CLEANED
from a large number which appear IN
the Special Hans Wagner issue of the
Baseball Magazine:
Wagner's dislike for fancy clothing Is
well known. ! have seen the massive
Teuton lounging in the SWEETEST hotels
with a gray flannel shirt and no sign
of a necktie, while the fashionables
We're trooping by. Eccentricityl No
Honus doesn't pose as an eccentric. Boor-
ishness, ignorance of etiquettey Not that
bird, for Hans Wagner is as pleasing
and courtly a gentleman as anyone could
hope to meet Presswork, publicity
stuff? He does not need any. He is as
independent as he is powerful; as solid
and determined in mind as he is in body,
and he dresses as he darn pleases lie
is rlans WAGNER, and he is worth five
or six dressy dudes that look in agony
upon his tieless iannels.
At that. when you catch Wagner.
force him into glad rags, and put him
in parlor, he's pippin. He commands
attention and gets respect, even before
folks know him for the great ball player.
One night at Hot Springs, Wagner, cor
rectly clad, a splendid picture of strength
and manly perfection. was listening to
the music in the big ballroom. Sitting
beside me was a Chicago plutocrat. who
las his millions, all won by hustling
every minute of his business hours. This
man, who did not know Hans Wagner
was studying the ball players general
makeup. Finally, turning in his chair,
the rich man exclaimed, "NNho the devil
is that MANI He's the sort of fellow I'd
like to have working for mel Bulldog.
Evening journal., 1914-12-08

fighter. thinker, learn a trick and never
lose it, honest as the day is long,
wish had himl Say, Bill, who is hep
Hans Wagner, Mr.. -" | an
swered. straneline a grin. The millionaire
took another long, long look $50 that's
Wagner, hey?" he murmured "Now |
understand why he has his reputatinol'
If there is anything that delights a
crowd it's TO see Hans Wagner strike
out, especially if the feat is performed
by some kid pitcher. Perhaps / am
wrong, but it has seemed to me. on sew
eral occasions, as if Honus deliberately
struck ont Just to give the crowd a
ration of glee and hatter the youngster
ON the slab When the Pirates are safe
ly ahead, and some young hurler has
been sent to the hill by the losing foe.
Hans actually seems to strike out far
ottcner than at any other time. and il
always looked to me as if he did So
always making "A terrific wild swing at
the last one-iust through goodhearted-
ness. And how the crowd always wells
and bellows in sheerest ecstasy And
how the kid pitcher swells mp and hugs
himself while he thinks of the glory
that is his-the Joy of telling everybody,
to te latest day he lives. about the time
he struck out Hans Wagner-and made
him miss the big one by a milel
OF course, all these strikeouts may be
accidental. and the old boy may be try
ing-but why is it that you will so Of
ten see Wagner miss three under such
circumstances, while it's blamed seldom
youll see him fan in a tight game. with
men on, and some star pitcher working
against him.
Evening journal., 1914-12-08

Dodgers have a habit of arousing
hopes at the tailend of the season, or
making a wild dash at the start and
then dying out, so they look about the
same for next year
AT Pittsburgh there Is a problem.
This team, on paper. is one Of the
strongest in the entire outfit, but has
been a complete fizzle. Early In the
season McGraw declared It was one,
the Pirates. the Giants had TO beat II
they were to win their fourth consecu-
tive pennant. How far the little Ma
poleon was on In his estimation of the
real strength of HIS enemies is shown
by the fact that the Braves, a team
he did not figures in the running. beat
him, while the Pirates pulled in with
the Cincinnati Reds, the only team In
their rear. The Pirates slipped so far
back that even Hans Wagner fell
short OF his annual 800 batting aver
age. The trade which gave the Pirates
Konetchy, one Of the best first sackers
in harness, Harmon and Mowbrey for
Jack Miller. Wilson and Robinson
seemed to make the Cards and sim
ply work the finish of Fred Clarke's
crew. Something will have to happen
in Pittsburgh.
The Federal League raid put the
blink on the Phillies this year. where
sickness and injuries have stepped in
before Had Seaton been with the
team and contributed his usual share
Of victories, Dooin's men would have
been up among the leaders and fight
ing around the top with Grover Alex
ander's mastery pitching as their
prize asset. With Alexander turning
in victories right alng. and Seaton to
aid the Phillies would have had pitch
ing strength to burn.
To the famous board OF directors.
we leave the hapless Cincinnati Reds.
Charlie Herzog took 'em and made
them jump through hoops, roll over
and dash into first place early this
season. but they then settled and con-
tinued TO settle until they nearly fell
clean out of the percentage column.
In September they pulled the history
making stunt Of losing 10 straight
games. II is fashion to have a new
manager in Cincinnati about every
spring. but the Reds fashion plate for
1915 is as yet missing Cincinnati be-
ing the last word in National League
affairs, recess is now in order.