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;. L. RAINEY.
|STRAT|ON AT WASHING
wiLL SPEND ENTIRE
10D IN PREPARATION.
WENSE ARMY OF
g
Ships Constructed and De
\Gill Be Raised for the Entente
ors Sent to European Waters
Fight U-Boats.
government’s plans for the
er of war with Germany as
ed by the war college, the gen
f of the army and the navy
J board have been endorsed by
et Wilson and British and
y war missions in the United
_These plans contemplate that
tire period shall be spent in
il military and naval prepar
and othat the United States
wt assume a leading role be
-918, After that year America
ke her place at the side of her
e allies and pour in men and
y in unlimited measure so long
e is need of either or both.
e plans thus far endorsed cover
pne vear, though everything that
¢ done in Washington regard
e war is based on the assump
that the struggle will last at
three years.
Bome of First Year’s Plans.
e first step taken by the United
s government in the European
will be the loan of $3,000,000,-
or more to the entente alhgs.
sam of $750,000,000 will be in
d in new ships to be used. in
hg the German U-boat campaign
pffective. The United States will
rshare in hunting down U-boats
already has a number of de
irs in European waters. More
ter'this service as soon as pos-
In the meantime the navy wgll
France and Great Britain in
ng the Atlantic ocean and the
fieet will be held in readiness
stant service, if required.
army of 1,200,000 men will be
bled, equipped and trained for
e in Europe next year. Nine
nts of engineers, for railroad
ction work behind the French
itish lines, will be sent forward
in as recruited and the main
iian army will be preceded to
by Gen. Pershing and staff,
b they will study European
s of fighting and prepare to
up the defense of a section of
ine.
lustrial plants which are begin
to turn out munitions for the
ed States will be kept at full
f, and all equipment for the im
e American army will be manu
red before the men are started
the sea. While military prep
bl is being pushed to the limit,
fovernment will encourage in
possible way the production of
l?ural supplies throughout the
s Predict That Ultimately All
Levies on Estates and Incomes
Will Rest on the People.
bers of congress, who have
& careful study of war revenue
Tes, are of the opinion that
of the $1,800,000,000 propos
be raised by tax levies will be
directly by the masses. The
$900,000,000 will be paid by
% and individuals but ultimate
€ bulk of this may be shifted
€ Mmasseg,
der the war revenue bill, taxes
Pid by business and individ
ft excess profits, $200,000,000;
income tax, $553,000,000; ret
¢ income “tax, $108,000,000;
Obile tax, $68,000,000; estate
s6.mm,nmn; tax on club dues,
0,000, Of 'the new income tax
000,000 fas on corporations
.(tjh(‘ balance $372,000,000, on
uals,
b excess profits tax, automobile
nd individual tax will be shar
%adly by the people. These
"'t $640,000,000., By this
* of climination the total to
ted on the people in new taxes
be $1,540,000,000. The total
fained from surtaxes on in-
Vill fall on comparatively few
‘ and will leave $1,200,000,000
finally distributed on men of
Y means,
T SAYS woMAN IS
EWIFE oF TWO HUSBANDS
Mate Des;rled Her and Sh“
Tried Again After Waiting. ;
¥ YORK, N, Y.—For the first
i the hist()ry of the Unlte(”
" ¢ woman has been declared
Urt the legal wife of two hus'i
¢ Timchick deserted Mary
o M 1908, fn 1915, not be
le to find him, she married
* Then Timehiek eame back.
tice Greenbaum ruled that she
\}cu*al wife of hushand No. 2
¢ | establishes his elaim and
t:;:f ‘ccond ceremony annuled,
£ reverts to her m riginal place
Vife of No, gfigéw‘»z&imbfia?
THE DAWSON NEWS.
GOVERNMENT GIVES COTTON
CONDITION AS 69.5 PER CENT.
First Report of the Season Is of
: Crop to Mua g .
WASHINGTON, i difapy, "
dition of the cotton Crop on May . _
was 69.5 per cent. of a normal, com
pared with 77.5 last year, 80.0 in
1915, 74.8 in 1914 and 79.1 was the
May 25 ten-year average, the depart
ment of agriculture announced to
day in its first report of the season.
The acreage planted in cotton will
not be announced until July. Cold
weather in April and May hurt the
cotton crop severely through the en
tire South.
Condition of the crop by states
follows: Virginia 75, North Caroli
na 63, South Carolina 70, Georgia
69, Florida 76, Alabama 61, Missis
sippi 66, Louisiana 74, Texas 74, Ar
kansas 64, Tennessee 63, Missouri 13,
Oklahoma 77, California 82.
NEW LAW MAKES NO DISTINC
FION BETWEEN HOBQ AND
THE MILLIONAIRE.
Do you want to loaf? Then stay
away from West Virginia. The state
legislature has just passed a measure
providing jail sentences for any kind
of male loafer, between the ages of
16 and 60. It declines to distin
guish between a genuine hobo and
silver-spoon-marked scion who is
caught wandering over the golf links,
not even if his income be twice that
of Rockefeller or Carnegie. His po
sition of living in elegant idleness on
his income is as reprehensible under
the law as the back-door importun
ings of the “Weary Willies.”
All able-bodied men must go to
work or move beyond the boundaries
of West Virginia; otherwise they will
be arrested and put to work mending
roads, digging ditches and building
fences, plowing fields, hoeing pota
toes, besides being fined $lOO.
Law to Wipe Out Idleness.
The law is designed to wipe out
all idleness in the state until the war
is over and is scheduled to include
“all able-bodied male idlers, loafers
or loiterers,” and ‘“in no case shall
the possession by the accused of
money, property or income sufficient
to support himself and those legally
dependent upon him be a defense to
any prosecution under this act.”
Under the law, a loafer is one who
shall fail to or refuse to regularly
and steadily engage for at least 36
hours per week in some lawful and
recognized business, profession, occu
pation or employment, whereby he
may produce or earn sufficient to
support himself and those legally de
pendent upon him, and shall be held
as a vagrant and be guilty of a mis
demeanor. .
Only bona fide students are ex
empt, and these only during school
terms.
NEW YORK CITY ALSO
THE SCENE OF RACE RIOT
Southern Negroes Weild the Trusty
Razor on Policemen.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—A negro was
shot and killed by a policeman in a
race riot near Sixty-second street
and Amsterdam avenue to-night. An
other was found with a fractured
skull in a doorway.
The shooting followed a call for
police reserves after trouble broke
out between negroes and white resi
dents of the neighborhood.
In a free-for-all fight several per
sons were more or less seriously in
jured and many arrests were made.
Two policemn were slashed on their
hands with knives or razors wielded
by negroes. The police quickly round
ed up the offenders and dispersed the
crowd. Several women were aomng
the injured.
LOCAL BOARDS WILL FIRST
PASSON WAREXEMPTIONS
A STATE BOARD WILL ALSO BE
NAMED TO WHICH APPEALS
MAY BE TAKEN. WHO WILL
BE EXEMPT.
Boards of Georgia citizens will de
cide what men in Georgia of military
are age exempt from conscription.
An exemption board of three mem
bers will be appointed in each coun
ty, one of whom shall be a doctor,
and none of whom shall be connect
ed with the military organization,
state or national. .
In cities of over 30,000 population
a separate board or boards shall be
appointed; and the city shall be
marked off into subdivigions, each
subdivision containing 30,000 resi
dents. For each of these subdivisions
an exemption board of three mem
bers shall be appointed. These nom
inations will be forwarded through
Governor Harris to President Wilson.
Only the president himself can ap
point the board.
Governor Harris will nominate the
boards that are to act in the coun
ties, and these boards, too, must be
ratified by President Wilson.
In addition to the boards in the
different cities and counties, a state
exemption board will be appointed,
Lo wWiliCii appeails nay be e irom
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1917.
Us. _ CIALS AROUSED TO
INDIGNATION BY EXODUS
OF GEORGIA NEGROES.
b /
Police Are Nightly Making Raids in
Crowded Quarters and Arresting
All Without Money or Good Rec
ords as to Character.
CINCINNATI, O.—Aroused to the
greatest indignation by the dumping
of many thousands of Georgia and
Tennessee negro laborers upon this
city and the central states by labor
agents who have recently spread
false reports throughout the south
ern states of big wages being paid
for negro help in the north, Dr. J.
H. Landis, health officer here, to-day
received a decision made by the
Ohio state health board, fixing the
recent smallpox epidemic here and at
various Ohio cities, among the hordes
of newcomers in a most drastic man
ner, upon companies and contractors
interested.
Dr. Landis says, in securing an
over supply of labor from the south
without any care as to the great dan
ger to health of the central states.
The official decision received here to
day declares that drastic prosecu
tions will immediately follow in
every case where epidemics of dis
ease result from the herding togeth
er like cattle of the southern negroes
in the slums of this city, and in con
struction camps in Ohio, West Vir
ginia, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois,
where the deluded southern negro is
inveigled there to receive most mea
ger wages, rough treatment at the
hands of gunment and none of the
comforts of life.
To Start Prosecutions.
Dr. Landis to-day was instructed
by the state board of health to fur
nish the state of Ohio with data and
evidence regarding the present small
pox epidemic, with his promise that
all of the vast expense now being had
by the®city of Cincinnati, the result
of such action by fake northern labor
agents, will be at once assessed by
law ag‘fiinst those guilty.
Nightly police raids are being made
in the slums and daily roundups of
all strange negroes without money or
records of good character from the
police of southern cities, and drastic
prison sentences of all homeless new
comers is in progress daily. It is es
timated by the police that nearly ten
thousand homeless negroes are now
crowded together in the city’s worst
tenements and minor race riots, in
cendiary fires and brawls in the ne
gro tenderloin keep several squads of
police constantly busy.
Profusion of Rare Specimens in His
Home Robbed Air of Its Oxygen
and Caused lliness to Owner.
His passion for flowers may result
in the death of Charles Pim, of Gar
field, 0., who is now ecritically ill.
Physicians say that the man’s condi
tion is due to the abundance of
plants in his home,
To satisfy his desire for flowers
Pim turned a portion of his home
into a greenhouse. He also did this
that he could take care of the rare
specimens he had under cultivation.
The many flowers robbed the air of
its oxygen, while the poison they
gave off infected the atmosphere, re
sulting in Pim’s eritical illness.
A statement of these facts was
made Wednesday morning by Adju
tant General J. Van Holt Nash.
This statement made clear for the
first time how the question of ex
emption is to be decided. It will
rest entirely in the hands of Georgia
citizens—as far as this state is con
cerned—the boards will be nominat
ed by the mayors of the four largest
cities and by the governor, and no
one connected with the military will
serve on any of the boards.
General Nash has written to the
mayors of Atlanta, Savannah, Ma
con and Augusta, asking them to
nominate the boards that are to
serve in the cities. Governor Harris
is preparing a list of the different
counties in the state. All these nomi
inations must be in the hands of
President Wilson by June 7.
Those who are exempted from mil
itary service will be relieved of duty
because of one of the following
three reasons:
They are unfit physically for mili
tary service.
They have others wholly depend
ent on them for support.
They are engaged at an occupation,
necessary to the government in the
prosecution of the war. -
When President Wilson ratifies
these nominations, the aopointment
will become mandatory. No one can
refuse to serve on an exgx:&tion
board after the president has affirm-
THE SUN IS SAID TO
BE LOAFING ON THE JOB
Government Man Says That Is Why
Weather Is so Cool Over Country.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Oold Sol,
acting in a most unseasonable way,
is playing slacker.
That accounts for the unsual cool
weather throughout the country, the
United States weather bureau ex
plained to-day.
But warmer weather should come
within two or three days, the bureau
predicted.
Because the sun isn’t functioning
properly, there is an excess of air in
Alaska, Canada and the northern
states and a scarcity of it in the
South. The drift of air is southward,
when it normally should be north
ward.
But the North is running out of
excess air and the South will begin
delivering soon.
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE IN EIGHT
STATES, AND DEATHS MAY
REACH FOUR HUNDRED.
Spring tornadoes, making their ap
pearance earlier than usual in the
Central West and in the South, have
caused deaths of more than 300 per
sons and injury to at least 1,400
more, together with property loss
that will mount to millions of dollars.
The damage can scarcely be estimat
ed because of the serious loss in
growing focd crops. The series of
storms swept sections of Illinois,
Kentucky, Kansas, Alabama, Arkan
sas, Indiana, Oklahoma and Tennes
see, and in each state wiped out vil
lages, caused heavv damage in cities
and towns and swept over vast ex
panses in rural districts.
Relief agencies, slow in getting un
der way because of crippled railway
facilities and broken lines of commu
nication, are caring for the thousands
of homeless persons in the several
states. Hospitals have been estab
lished in hotels, fraternal homes and
private residences, and bandages.
made for war purposes are being
used in caring for those injured by
the storm.
Hlinois Was H!“‘lff‘ Hie.
The series of tornadoes started at
Andale, Kan., where the village was
wiped out causing a loss of 36 lives.
It swept across the state of Illinois
and inflicted the most serious loss
at Mattoon where the list of dead
comprises nearly 60 persons and the
property loss amounts to $4,000,000.
In the city a strip 4 blocks wide and
26 blocks long was wrecked. The
storm spent its fury in Charleston,
111., where nearly 50 were killed, and
then moved into Indiana where slight
damage was done. g
At least 160 persons were killed
and more than 500 injured by the
southern wing of the wind and hail
storm that swept through portions of
Western Tennessee, Kentucky, Ala
bama and Eastern Arkansas. Twenty
persons were killed near Hickman,
Ky., where the storm appears to have
reached its greatest fury. At Bondu
rant and Lerford, Ky., the reported
dead are estimated at 35. Twelve
were killed at Sayre, Ala., near Bir
mingham. A property loss of over
$1,000,000 was sustained in Alaba
ma.
Eight persons were killed near
Tims Lake, Ark., one at Clear Lake,
six at Dyersburg, six at Pate Land
ing, Tenn., of whom all but the six
were white persons. At Clinton, Ky.,
five ‘persons were killed. Twelve were
lost at Cypress and five at Dublin.
In addition many sustained injuries
from which they will die.
The monetary loss for the South
ern states cannot be estimated. ]
In Colgate, Okla., several peop]e]
were killed and over a hundred in
jured, and four hundred residences!
wrecked. At Drake five persons were
killed and several houses demolished.
Savannah Ministers Do Not Believe
It Proper to, Discuss Such Mat
ters in the Pulpit.
SAVANNAH, Ga.-——Because most
of the pastors of local churches be
lieve that the $2,000,000,000 liberty
loan is not a subject for discussion
from the pulpit, few sermons rela
tive to it were delivered in Savannah
Sunday, June 3, which day was set
aside by the government with re
quests of the ministers throughout
the United States to preach specially
on the huge war loan.
Rev. W. N. Ainsworth, pastor of
Wesley Monumental Methodist
church, is the only Savannah pastor
who has received a request to preach
such a sermon. He said to-day he
did not expect to deliver any such
discourse from the pulpit, but would
confine his sermon to the gospel.
Rev. J. M. Outler, pastor of Trin
ity Methodist church, said he felt the
liberty loan is not a subject for a
sermon from the pulpit, therefore
he would not preach on it. In this
connection Mr. Outler said he has
subscribed for the bonds as liberally
as he is able financially, but that he
could not preach on them from the
pulpit. He said though he would be
v\[illmi:o throw the full weight of
his influence, officially @dhfl@fllcufl
ly, to the support of the bonds.
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“IT WAS GOD’S WILL THAT 1|
KILL MY CHILD,” DECLARED
KANSAS CITY MAN. :
Mumbled to Mission Worker That It
Was Heaven’s Will That He Should
Offer Up His Child on the Altar
of Religion.
Jacob Bentz, 35 years old, of Kan
sas City, Mo., crazed by religious fer
vor, applied the story of Biblical
sacrifices to his own home and drag
ged Helena, hig oldest child, uged six
vears, into a room and beat her to
‘death with the heavy arm of a sew
ing machine. Two hours later Bentz
was fournd with his Bible opened at
the chapter in Genesis. teliing the
story of Abraham’s offering of Isaac
as a sacrifice. He was kneeling be
side his dead child, his hands clasped
in prayer.
“It Was God’s Will.”
Bentz did not resist arrest and said:
“It was God’s will that I kill my
child,” as he was being taken to jail.
In another room Mrs. Bentz was
found clutching her three reamining
children.
The man was known to be deeply
religious and read his Bible at every
opportunity. The sacrifice of his
daughter was premeditated, as he
had informed fellow workmen at a
packing house that he was contem
plating a three days’ journey such as
Abraham took before offering Isaac
to the Lord.
Beat Daughter to Death.
On the evening of the tragedy
Bentz had been reading his Bible.
Suddenly he closed the book and, tak
ing Helena by the hand, forced her
to leave her mother and enter an
other room with him. The mother at
tempted to follow, but Bentz pushed
her back and locked the door. Half
an hour later, the Rev. A. S. Sixta,
who conducts a mission in the city,
called to visit the Bentz family. The
crazed man opened the door slightly
and peered out. He saw the minis
ter.
“You are a servant of God and and
welcome,” Bentz said. Then the min
ister inquired who was home and the
madman replied: “I am praying be
side the child I have sacrificed to
God.” Sixta, fearing to excite the
maniac further, remained with Bentz
until late in the evening when he
managed to escape and called a po
liceman.
© @ 9 ;
Davis-Davidson Company’s
June Clearance Sale
Our Entire Line of Ladies-Ready-
To-Wear and Millinery Will Be ;
~ Sold at a Great Sacrifice. ;
Special Lot of Dresses
We have a lot of Dresses, this season’s styles, that will
be offered at one-half of regular selling price. An oppor
tunity of the season. . ,{
Ladies’ Suits
A small lot of Suits left that will be sold at half price. =
$50.00 Suits for $25.00 $25.00 Suits for $12.50
40.00 Suits for 20.00 20.00 Suits for 10.00
30.00 Suits for 15.00 15.00 Suits for 750
These are the biggest bargains of the season. Less
than manufacturers prices. A
Millinery “hs
Our entire line of Millinery will be offered at a great re
duction. Don’t fail to come in for your share of these
goods. Yours anxious to please, LT
Davis-Davidson
Two Stores: 120-122 Main Street Te_l.'
The Volunteer
- Army
To the last man it is inspired by a
desire for LOYAL SERVICE.
The same desire for service has an
imated us in the assembling of our
perfectly matchless line of
Groceries That
i :
Satisty =
It is a man-sized job to keep up a stock in condition to
meet the wants of all the people, but that is just what we
are doing. We are prepared at all times to give you
the best of the market--clean, fresh, satisfying Grocer.
ies and Provisions of every description. And at VERY
MODERATE PRICES, considering the times. ;
Try US nexttime. We’ll make good.
»
Bridges-Cocke
Grocery Co.,
Phone 87 ‘
Main Street Dawson, Ga.
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