The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, February 03, 1909, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE DAWSON NEWS. By E. L. RAINEY. THE PRESIDENT GETS $383,000 A YEAR The Salary_Paid Him Is a S# s Part of What He Receives. GETTING AROUND THE IAW Many Things Come His Way at Pub jic Expense That Other Men Pay for Out of Their Pockets. Items of semi-Private Nature That Are {or His Benefit Ran Up Into Thou «ands of Dollars. WASHINGTON.—The president’s ompensation—you must not say “aqlary;” that would be disrespect ful—is still up for consideration. It is still uncertain whether it is to be $lOO,OOO a year, $50,000 or $75,000. At present it is $50,000. That is, $50,000 is the popular idea of what it is, for that is the salary specified py law. But, as we all know, there are ways of getting around the law and even the constitution, for in the historic words of a New York as semblyman, ‘“What’s the constitution petween friends?”’ The constitution provides that the compensation of the president shall not be increased or diminished for any president during his incumbency, and it further provides that the pres ident shall not accept any emolu ment. Last year, in spite of this clear prohibition by the constitution, congress voted President Roosevelt $25,000 for traveling expenses, to be used as he should see fit. The argu ment was, of course, that it was not “compensation,” neither ‘‘emolu ment;”’ but so it was not only ar gued but actually decided by the sec retary of the treasury, Mr. Leslie M. Shaw, I believe, that frog legs was poultry. What Other Men Have to Pay For. Jt may interest the public to know exactly what the president of the U'nited States does get of the things which other men have to pay for out of their pockets. First, he gets the $50,000, termed ‘‘compensation.”’ He need not spend any of that unless he especially desires to, except for the two items of food and clothes, of which, when you come to look at it as any sensible American ought to, should not be more costly than the food and clothes of the average Anierican citizen. In fact, the presi dent is in this respect somewhat like the preacher is supposed to be in the community—unfortunately supposed, however, for the preacher—that is, e has so many good things sent him for his table that he does not need a great deal of cash for that pur bose. And the admiring and adver tising American public would gladly, and do, to a great extent send him clothes, too; and not old -clothes either, like those sent the preacher sometimes, but bran new, spick and span “'sto’ bought” clothes. Generally and rightfull considered, the president must buy clothes for himself and his family and food for his table. But that is about all of his actual expenses, except of course, the education of his children. The white house is given him for his resi dence, and last year an appropriation 01 §35,000 was voted for ‘“‘ordinary 'epairs of the white house and main tenance.” No wonder Senator Bai ley exclaimed: “Mark you, ‘“‘ordi nary,’ What would it be if it were ¢Xiraordinary?” Mr. Bailey further 'vmarked that he quite agreed that the president’s salary of $50,000 was Out of all proportion to the amount bent annually for “‘ordinary’’ repairs on his house. A Few Other Little Things. _ Desides the appropriation of this 220,000 for fixing up the white house lere was an additional $4,000 for lmprovements on the white house stounds. Congress appropriated also $6.000 for fuel in the white house @il the greenhouse and stables of the president. And then the little i of $9,000 was given the presi ‘ent for the care and maintenance of ‘e white house green nouse. That s about $250 a day, every day in 'he yvear, for the mere matter of owers. Senator Bailey made the tilement that this would run two “r three farms in his state. Then e president gets the $25,000 for raveling expenses. All these are ATLANTA NIGH BEER GETS STRONGER; STREET RAILWAY CO. ISSUES ORDER ATLANTA.—The near beer saloon 4bpears to be going through a pro cess of evolution, or, rather, it might be called atavism, for its tendency is backward toward the old-time arti { ]‘)' First the city licensed and put re “trictions upon it, then the state taxed it, Now there is talk in At inta of putting still further restric ''ons upon it, among them fixing the Closing hour at 10 o’clock as in the ‘4Be of the barrooms before the days of prohibition. At present they keep “hen as late as they wish, often until Dozjer ' ofher officials of the e 333.5 most private citizens, Musc' .| 9% their own pocket, and are, of right, to be in cluded in the amount of “‘compen sation” the president gets. Includ- Ing the first $50,000 it all amounts to $129,000. 'But in adaition to this amount for private use there are other items of a semi-private nature. In the first place there is an item of $25,000 for “contingent expenses of the executive loﬂi(‘e, including stationery therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, telephones, hooks for library, furni ture and carpets for offices, horses, carriages, harness, automobiles, ex penses of stable including labor, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the president.” It can be easily imagined how a lib eral constructionist such as our pres ent president is construes “in the discretion of the president.” So we may add that item to the $129,000 appropriated for things which other men pay for out of their pockets. Most of Them Personal. None of these items have to do with the official duties of the presi dent, except, of course, that part of the contingent fund he uses for sta tionery, record books, telegrams, etc., and the carriages and automobiles properly used for official purposes by himself and his official helpers. For the official staff of the presi dent congress appropriated last year $69,920. There are a number of oth er items not mentioned, such as $2,- 000 for printing invitations and that sort of thing, electricity and lighting of the office and white house grounds, laundry, etc.. In all it has been fig ured out by one republican congress man, Mr. Madden of Illinois, that congress is appropriating for the president’s use, personal and official, the sum of $383,000 annually. Oth ers, who do net include a number of items for strictly official duties by the president and his staff of secre ‘taries, figure out the total of $229,- 000. | Now it is proposed, and the senate has actually voted, to give the next president straight “‘compensation,” ‘besides the perquisites mentioned above, of $lOO,OOO, instead of $50,- 000 as at present, leaving out the one perquisite which it is practically admitted is unconstiutional, that of $25,000 for traveling expenses. This would be in realiity an increase of only $z25,v00. AN ENGLISH VILLAGE WHERK THEY ARE PHYSICAL GI ANTS AND “SHE IS liT.” LONDON.—There is one place in the British Isle where the motto “ThHe hand that rocks the cradle rules the world” falls flat, and that is in Llangwn, a little oyster village on a estuary of the great harbor of Milford Haven, for in Llangwn it is the man that rocks the cradle. When you speak of Llangwn you mean the Llangwn woman. It is she who goes out fishing; it is she who, quaintly dressed in a short homespun skirt, felt hat and red shawl, and with a donkey pannier, hawks her oysters and fish round the countryside, and it is she who holds the purse and dresses the fam ily including her man. She holds her sway by the moral suasion of physical force. | She is a match for a ’varsity row ing Blue in points, any waterman in strength and any fisherman ’round the coast of four nations in dogged ness against wind and tide, in un dauntedness in a high sea, or in net handling. Mentally she is quite up to the times. Llangwn has banished the public house, and there are many Llangwn women awaiting old age pensions. Needless to say she is a Liberal. Her life is severe ana spartan. Her religion is of the breed of that of Cromwell’s Ironsides. The Llangwn man is somewhere in the back ground. He is a domestic animal. He has not even a claim to his own name. He is ‘“Mary Palmer’s man,” or ‘“‘Bessie Liewellin's son.” There is no off-hand talf of ‘“The wife’” or ‘the missus” in Llangyn. It would appear that Llangwn is the Utopia of the suffragists. Not so, however. The women of Llangwn have not the slightest need for the vote. Their men have it, which is quite enough. , after midnight, though it is unlawful for minors to enter them, nor are they allowed to keep open on Sun day. The Georgia Railway and Electric Company of Atlanta has put them in the same category with the saloons of the old day, and has issued an or der forbidding its employes to enter them in uniform on pain of dismis sal. In the meantime the beer gets stronger and the free lunch better, and it begins to look as if the old days were gradually but surely com ing back. DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 3. 1909. ’MR. BRYAN DEEPLY REGRETS IT His Daughter Who 1s Suing for a . Divorce Married Against His Will. | The ola adage, “marry in haste land repent at leisure,” obtrudes it ;self upon the mind in connection . with the filing of a divorce petition by Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt. Miss 'Bryan was known as a spirited girl, of beauty and mental parts. She 'imagined that she loved the artist. Her father opposed the match. He ‘said she had better wait and see. But the girl, impetuous and head 'strong, thought she already knew iwhat she wanted and how she want ed it, and she wanted to marry the artist right then. Against the riper t wisdom of her parents, therefore, she “took the bit between her teeth” jand ran away, so to speak. But af iter a time came the disillusionment. She found that her idol had feet (of clay. She became discontented, then unhappy, and finally miserable !in the thralldom into which she had ' bound herself. The only way out iwas through the door of the divorce Icourt, and she has appealed to be {permitted to depart by that way. The incident must be deeply regretted by Mr. Bryan, her father, who is an ardent religionist. ATTRACTING ATTENTION. ‘“Little Joe” Is a Different Sort From the Average Politician. The fact that ‘Litle Joe’’ Brown is a different sort from the average politician is attracting attention. Mr. Brown is studying his constituency after the election to find out what the people want him to do. Gen erally speaking the officeseeker stud ies his people before the election, to ascertain what he can promise them, and after the election they see noth ing more of him until he becomes a candidate again. The Brown plan is one that has much to commend it. Man Just Out of the Georgia Penitentiary Visits Associ ated Charities and Reels Off Some Interesting Talk. ATLANTA.—‘““Good morning. I'm recently out of the penitentiary. I want work. But I can’t get it. I'm trying to make good again, but—O, well, what chance will society give a man, anyhow?”’ - It was a middle-aged, keen-eyed man who spoke. He stood midway {the office of Secretary Logan of the Associated Charities. His clothes were growing seedy, but they were brushed with care, and his hands were very clean. An unusually sharp and experienced eye would possibly have noted that under his clothes was a well fed body, a very well fed body. He threw the most cynical tone imaginable into his voice as he continued— ‘“What’s the use, anyway? Here I am just out from jail. I’'ve sworn I'd not conceal that. I've sworn to tell the truth, even if I starve at it. I've paid my debt to society., But there’s no place in the world for the man who tells the truth. If every body should begin telling the truth about himself and the people he knows this civilization you're so proud of would tumble and crash be fore sunset.” Secretary Logan leaned forward in his chair and spat out the end of a cigar. Of all the unique types of hu manity he had handled never had he seen this man’s like. He talked like a Socialist or a student of Bern ard Shaw. Honest Because It's Funny. “If that’s so,” said the secretary, ““‘what makes you so fond of telling the truth?’” ‘“‘Because,” answered the man, ‘it seems so funny, so ridiculously ironi cal to set out to make an absolutely honest living.” “I should judge that you are ed ucated,” said Mr. Logan. “What of it?”’ he retorted, ‘‘that means nothing. I once took a foolish pride and a vain sort of satisfaction in telling people I'd seen better days, and came of good family and all that sort of rot. But of course they thought I was handing them the same old jolly that common pan handlers the earth over have been using for hundreds of years. “lI decided I wouldn’t make a fool of myself in that particular manner any more. Of course everybody has to make some sort of a fool of him 'se]f. But I'll at least choose the sort ’of fool I'll be. And so I'm the fool of truth and honesty.” ~ “Well, you are a sour one, sure enough,” thought the secretary. Then he said aloud: ‘‘Have you any money at all?” The man drew back. “Don’t think I've come here to beg,” he said sharply. “I’'m not that common sort. Yes, I've got money. I have 30 cents.” He seemed to relish the sarcasm of what he said. “I didn’t come here beause I thought youd help me,”” he went on. “I don’t expect anybody to help me, because I'm just out of jail. My face is in half a dozen different rogue galleries. I came here simply be cause a man who happened—heaven knows why-—to give me a dollar and asked me to come and see you, and I had .to promise him I would.” All this while Mr. Logan had been "HARRI” DIDN'T ENTHUSE Those Atlantans Who Expected It of Him Were Disappointed. BUT LIKED HIM JUST THE SAME The ‘“Atlanta Spirit” Germ Did Not Sieze Hold of the Railroad Wiz zard. Could Not Be Pierced by Marthaville Enthusiasm, Before Which Every Other Prominent Cit izen, Including Presidents and Presidents-Elect, Had Fallen. ATLANTA.—Those who expected the ‘Atlanta spirit” germ to seize Edward H. Harriman and make that wizzard of the transportation world enthuse on the occasion of his visit here were sadly disappointed. Not that the visitor was not impressed nor that he proved unsociable or that "he didn’t like. Atlanta and her effusive citizens. It was just simply the business calm and serenity which surround the form and protect the personality of the little giant of finance. He could not be pierced by Atlanta enthusiasm, be fore which practically every promi nent visitor to this enterprising city, from ‘President-Elect Taft down, has fallen. Dressed in a plain business suit, cloaked in a heavy gray overcoat, Mr. Harriman allowed himself to be whirled around the city in churning automobiles, with leading citizens be side, in front of and behind him to point out every place of interest and “‘orate’”” on the city’s great advant ages. He rode, heard and saw. watching the man before him. He observed two facts: First, that the stranger was ruddy cheeked, well fed and without a line of care or anx iety about his eyes; second, that he declined to say where he had ever worked or sought work. These ques tions would not ordinarily be asked him by the average busy office man he would apply to. He observed also that when the question of money arose the man stoutly repudiated any suggestion of a gift, but immediate ly impressed the statement that he had only 30 cents to his name. Put ting these things together the secre tary made up his mind that he had struck the most original adventurer he had ever seen. Here was an indi vidual, he declared, who represented himself as being a reformed convict whom society was trying to thrust back into the underworld, but who probably had never been in a prison or committed any penal crime; a picturesque pessimist. The secretary gave him meal tick ets for a day and assured him he could get him a job if he would re turn in three or four hors. Up to the present time, however, he hasn't come back. The man gave his name as John Corkbit. DIED FROM A CARBUNCLE. Mr. George Rives of Lee County Suc cumbs After Suffering Three Weeks. The remains of Mr. George Rives, accompanied by his brother and sis ter, Mr. A. P. Rives and Miss Mattie Rives, of Springvale, and two cous ins, Messrs. J. F. and I. P. Cocke, of Dawson, were brought here Mon day on the cannon ball train from his home in Lee county and carried %to the residence of his cousin, Mr. J. E. Martin, where funeral services were held at 2 o’clock in the after noon, conducted by Kev. J. E. Seals, the interment being in the Western cemetery. Mr. Rives, as our older citizens know, was born in Cuthbert, being the son of Rev. and Mrs. Robert Rives, and was a citizen of Randolph until some fifteen or twenty years ago, since which time he has lived in Lee county. Some two or three weeks ago he was attacked with a carbuncle, which terminated fatally Sunday morning after ten days'of intense suffering. Had he lived un til May he would have been 51 years old. Joining the church in early youth his life has been lived among us, his failures and successes are known to those who knew him best and loved him most. We knew him as a clever, genial, good-hearted gen tlemar, and are informed that his accounts, both with ‘God and man, were satisfactorily arranged before the end came.—Cuthbert Leader. LITTLE JOE HAS BEEN KISSED. Young Lady Teacher in Brunswick Smacked Him Good-Bye. When Governor Joe Brown left Brunswick for Jesup he was kissed at the station in the presence of a large crowd by Miss Mildred Thomp son, one of the teachers in the Bruns wick public schools. Nothing seemed to escape his ears or his eyes, but precious little es caped his lips, and that little consist ed of pleasant inconsequentials. The entertainment wound up by a visit to the Candler building, which, by the way, is always intended to con stitute the grand, overpowering cli max to the entourage of every prom inent visitor. He was taken to the roof of Atlanta’s king of skyscrap ers, and the day being remarkably clear was shown and lectured upon everything in, about and around At lanta. Had Seen 'Em Before. Although appreciating the magni ficent structure and the enterprise that it stanas as sponsor for no ‘‘ahs” of astonishment were let loose, and it took no expert to see that the visitor had gazed from tall buildings before. Asa G. Candler, president of the chamber of commerce, acted as chief conductor and pointed out the things that might interest. “From that hill over there Sher man fired the first shell into Atlanta, and just to the right of there Me- Pherson fell,” spoke Mr. Candler, and something more than the placid interest formerly shown cropped out in Mr. Harriman’'s countenance. It seemed to appeal to the soldier part of his character; to his talent for fighting, and he asked many ques tions. He asked many questions about many things, but all seemed intended solely to break the monoto ny of listening. Mr. Harriman showed unusual in terest in every bhox car, every bit of track discernible in the far distance, every bit of rising smoke, which. prompted inquiries about the rail roads entering the town. Seeing the road-bed of the Atlan ta, Birmingham and Atlantic rising many feet above the ground as it winds its way into the city he stopp ed and made inquiry about the for mation of the company. “I presume it was built largely by Atlanta capital,” he remarked. And then his conductors seemed, somewhat embarrassed. ‘“No; it was financed by an Atlanta man, but almost wholly eastesssssssss man, but almot wholly eastern capi tal,”” spoke up Mayor Maddox. Despite the fact that he wouldn't discuss his plans and wouldn’t catch the enthusiasm of his entertainers Mr. Harriman made a splendid im pression here, and left the business men with whom he came in contant feeling friendly toward him. “I came south to get some sun shine,” he declared, ““and I have got ten it and am going back home.” | iA RUSH TO GET FREEDOM ? » 1150 CONVICTS WANT PARDONS, I AND BUSY TIME IS AHEAD OF PRISON COMMISSION. l The state of unrest in the peni tentiary produced by the agitation of last year, and the fact that recent investigations have led to a larger ‘number of pardons than usual, has !stirred the convicts to renewed ef )forts to secure their freedom by ‘legal means ‘and, as a result, the state prison commission is confront §ed by an extraordinary number of applicants for pardon and parole. } No less than 150 new applications for clemency have been filed with the commission for hearing at the Feb ruary meeting. Some of these are for pardon while others are for pa role under the law about to be put into operation. For the reason that different conditions are attached to the parole law from those applying to pardons and commutations the commission has delayed putting it into general operation until it can‘ send out eirculars giving full infor mation regarding it. There has as yet been only one case of parole, and that was of a young girl taken from, the state reformatory and placed with a good family. As the commission will be busy until February 4th considering offers of land for the mew prison farm, it will not reach these clemency appli cations until the latter part of next week, and owing to the unusnal number of them it will take practi cally all the month to dispose of them. I The frequent pardons and commu tations of late have encouraged other convicts to seek clemency, and the change in the prison system, which goes into effect April Ist, will have the tendency still further to increasel the list. 3 MEN EAT 675 OYSTERS, 22 POUNDS OF STEAK, 10 PIES AND 31 ROLLS NEW YORK.—Three members of the Manhattan Fat Men’s Club who are in training for the forthcoming annual championship eating contest met yesterday at No. 244 East Third street to settle a private wager of $5O as to which of the trio could get outside of the most food. Here is what they consumed. Ex-Alderman Frank J. Dotzler, who weighs 380 pounds: 275 oys ters, 812 pounds of steak, 12 rolls, 11 cups of coffee, 3 large pies. Jack Grossman, who weighs 315 pounds: 190 oysters, 12 pounds of steak, 9 rolls, 10 cups of coffee, 3 large pies. VOL. 27.---NO. 19. ] 71,000 MEN PROPOSED Advertised for a Husband and ~ Found an Army of Suitors. IS THANKFUL TO THE PRESS | Answers Came From All Over the World, and Girl Calmly Went ‘ Through the List. Finally Select i ed a Few, and Then Her Choice \ Narrowed Down to the Happy Man. % Another Convincing Proof That Advertising Pays. ' BOYD, Wis.—Miss Frances Living stone is pleasantly occupied in that i—~to the feminine mind— most de lightful task of superintending the building of her trousseau. And it’s %all because of her faith in the theorw that everybody of one sex has some body of another sex waiting around for him or her—some place. Miss Livingstone fiddled around her home town of Boyd until one day she made up her mind she wanted to get married. Now, of course, there were unmarried men in and about Boyd, and perhaps they were marriageable, and manageable, and even agreeable. But they did not suit Miss Livingstone, and still con fident that somewhere the voice of; love was calling for her she resolved to meet the call at least half way. ‘ That’s the reason she advertised. ‘And that’s the reason she got 1,000 proposals. And that’s the reason she is rather jubilant over having proved, 80 conclusively her idea that it's easy to find your mate if you go at it in the right way. And that’s the reason Miss Livingstone today, smiled happily, and told how it all happened. “I have the press to thank for reg ceiving so many proposals,’”’ she said. “When 1 put my advertisement for a husband in the local paper I really didn’t expect to get more than a dozen names. And I don’t suppose I would had not the papers through out the world seized upon the ad vertisement as an item of news. Why, papers not only all over the United States but in Mexico, Cana da and even Europe became inter ested in my quest. To them I owe the honor of having been the first woman in history to have received a thousand proposals. “At first the answers came in slowly, and I made a point of an swering tpem promptly, but soon the proposals arrived in such geat num bers that I was almost overwhelmed. It was proposed that I engage a pri vate secertary, but as the subject was a matter of the heart I had an innate objection to this course. I decided, therefore, not to answer any more of the proposals and await the time. when the missives would cease coming. | “For three months the proposals were received with great regularity. Finally, when they had reached the 1,000 mark, I began the work of classification and elimination. Those ’I looked upon with favor received an swers and they in turn wrote again Ito me. By this method I came to the conclusion that Louis Struvnez came lthe nearest to being my ideal. I wrote to him to come to Boyd and meet me. The fact that we decided the next day to apply for a marriage license ought to prove that our love Ewas mutual.” 1 BUTTON FOUND IN HIS HEART. Doctors Make Strange Discoveries in Autopsy on a Body. A Denver, Col., dispatch says: An autopsy performed on the body of Fred Pomplitz, who was sixty seven years old, revealed a black vest button embedded in the heart over the right auricle. Dr. W. G. Mudd and Dr. J. P. Hamill made the autopsy: This was not all, for they found in the spleen of this same per son a piece of rock two inches in diameter, one-eighth of an inch thick and an eighth of an inch wide. The doctors’ theory is that he swallowed the button by accident, that it stuck in the.bronchial tubes and by a process of ulceration was carried into the vena cava. The “rock” in the spleen was caused by salt concretion from the blood. Jack Probst, who weighs 320 pounds: 190 oyesters, 12 pounds of steak, 10 rolls, 6 cups of coffee, 4 large pies. v Peter Balvado, the referee, award ed the $5O to Dotzler, who had hard work pushing the money in his ves¢t pocket. : A dozen other members of the club who wer present as watchers got so interested in the contest that their mouths opened and shut automati cally as the trio ate. Finally they began to howl for some food for themselves. “It’s all gone,” said Valvado. With loud cries the twelve rushed out te a restaurant.