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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1918.
CONGRESS ABANDONS BILL TO
KEEP CLOCKS AHEAD. SOUND
ED PLAUSIBLE, BUT—
W ASHINGTON.—Much more was
behind the congressional collapse
of the bill to extend the *‘daylight
<vine” act beyond last Saturday,
October 26, than would appear from
ihe perfunctory explanations which
have been officially given to the pub-
L The bill passed the senate a short
time ago without opposition. It had
at the time the indorsement of Chair
man Baruch, of the war industries
board, on the ground that it would
save a certain amount of fuel; and
those who had been original advo
cates or later converts to the oper
ation of the law were maturally in
clined to accede to its apparent ex
tension without demur.
But Chairman Baruch and the war
industries board probably made a
mistake in recommending the repeal]
of that part of the law which provid
ed for putting the clock back in Oc-l
tober to the extent of the hour of|
its advance in the spring. It is by
no means necessarily true that thef
process which saves daylight in the[
summer, when the sun rises early,{
would save daylight in the winter, |
when the sun is late out of bed. ;
In some geographical locations it
is undoubtedly a fact that more day-|
licht would be lost in the winter by !
the process than would be gained in|
the summer; and the break would|
have to be a good deal more than
even in favor of winter to make the
proposition pay, because it is in win-!
fer that we use most of our fuel. |
Did Not Make Investigation.
Our present daylight-saving law
was adopted in the light of the ex
perience of other countries which had
tried it and found it good. It is
strange, therefore, that the war in
dustries board and the senate com
mittee, which considered the new
proposition, did not before approv
ing it investigate the experience of
these pioneer nations as to the oper
ation of the measure in winter. If
they had made a little inquiry along
that line they would in all probability
not have recommended any change
in the existing law, and it would not
have been necessary for the house to
stop what the senate had begun.
England and the continental coun
tries of Europe which have adopted
the davlight-saving scheme have ad
hered to the plan of setting the clock
up in the spring and setting it back
in the fall. They have heard the
arcument about continuing the spring
advance throughout the year, but
they have not accepted it. They have
stuck to the present plan because
they believe that it is the best, in
spite of the fact that it would save
a little annoyance on two dates in
each year if the advance oace made,
were permanently retained. ;
Expensive to Householders. ‘
The most enthusiastic advocates off
keeping the clock advanced in the|
winter as well as in the summer are |
the electric power plants and man-|
ufactories of various kinds which use |
a great deal of power. But what|
would be to the interest of these in-|
dustries would not necessarily be to
the interest of the community at,
large in this respect. If the men and|
women who work in factories have|
to rise an hour earlier in winter than |
they have been doing they will burn|
lights when they get up, but by the/
time they reach the factories it will|
be full daylight. The factories might
save some light in the afternoon by
this process, and the electric com
panies would more than make i% up
by the increase in their revenues by |
the ceneral lighting of residences in{
the morning—the residential rate for |
electricity being higher than that for|
factories, to say nothing of the num-!
bers of users involved.
Other important consideration= of
health and comfort argue against
making the people get up in the dark|
on winter mornings in order to effect
@ questionable saving of fuel. Prof.
Jacobv, the eminent scientist of
New York, demonstrated these to the
satisfaction of house members who
heard him here last week.
So, the clocks were turned back
an hour at 2 o’clock in the morning
of October 27, last Sunday, accord
ng to the original schedule; and the
next time it is proposed to change
this schedule it will be harder to get
4 start than it was this time.
UNITED STATES HAS LOANED
$7,520,476,666 TO THE ALLIES
New credits of $200,000,000 for|
taly and $100,000,000 for Francet
Ve been established by the treas-|
]“ “1 ‘partment. American loans to |
1L the allies now ‘amount to $7,620,- |
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Talk of Fixing the Price of
Cotton Has Been Renewed
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Members
of the war industries board express
ed the belief today that use of lower
grades of cotton in government and
commercial products as directed by
the cotton distribution committee
may solve the cotton problem with-
2,300,000 SET FREE
1
- BY FLANDERS DRIVE
BELGIAN TERRITORY OCCUPIED
| RECENTLY BY ALLIES HAS
’l 800,000. FOOD A PROBLEM.
~ WASHINGTON, D. C.—German
‘retirement from northern France and
‘Belgium is expected to reveal no ap
preciable decrease in the population
of the territories, according to re
ports received here.
The food ration the commission
has managed to get through the Ger
man lines has been sufficient to sup
port life and as a result starvation,
which has reduced the population of
Poland 25 per cent. and Serbia 50
per cent., has not been the fate of
northern France and Belgium.
These reports do not indicate the
allied armies will find normal popula
tions in the reoccupied cities, but
they do indicate that the bulk of the
Belgian people and the inhabitants
of northern France will be account
ed for in their homes, impressed in
to German service or refugees intern
ed in Holland. Recent advices said
more than 250,000 of the inhabi
tants of the Lille-Roubaix section in'
France and adjoining towns in Bel
gium were making their way to the
Dutch frontier before the retreating
German armies. |
French and Belgian territory re
cently occupied by the allies contains
a population of more than 2,300,000,
divided into approximately 800,000 |
Belgians and 1,500,0000 French. The |
population of the great industrial seo-!
tion, of which Lille is the center, isi
estimated at 622,000. i
Although the immediate feeding of
this released population is being un-|
dertaken by the allied troops the re-l
lief committee will be called upon toi
supply the people with much larger |
amounts of food. l
1,250 LIVES WERE LOST IN
Property Loss Is Estimated at $lOO,-
000,000, and Nearly 15,000 Peo
ple Are Homeless.
DULUTH, Minn.—The great fires
that paralyzed northern Minnesota
burned $100,000,000 worth property,
killed nearly 1,250 people, injured
many thousands more and made
homeless approximately 15,000 have
burned themselves out. Total deaths,
injuries and losses will not be known
for weeks, but the fire probably al
ways will be known as “the fire that
killed a thousand.”
The estimate of 1,000 dead as a
result of the forest fires will probably
a 2 excceded, according to Major
VWeaver, head of the home guards,
who has made a careful investigation
of the entire area burned over. He
thinks the total deaths will be 1,250
when final reports are in.
Red Cross officials say close to 15,-
500 persons are homeless. Knock
down houses are being manufactured
by the hundreds at a large Duluth
mill for farmerz and others to get
into before winter. Live stock is be
ing cared for with new arrivals of‘
feed. |
POLITE BURCLAR OFFERS
13 L ~n Tal
APCLGGIES FOR HIS ACT
“Sit Down,” He Tells Woman, as He
Pockets Jewels, and Expresses
Regret as He Retires.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Mrs. Edward C.
Rowse, occupying a fourth floor
apartment, encountered a burglar
with conversational proclivities when
she returned from an afternoon shop
ping tour. She had failed to notice
the front door of her apartment had
been forced and walked in, disturb
ing the intruder at work. As he turn
ed he drew a revolver and pointed it
at Mrs. Rowse.
“Now I don’t want to harm you in
the least,”. the burglar said. “Just
just sit down and keen quiet and ev
cerything will be all right.”
Mrs. Rowse sat down. The burglar
backed towards the door.
“Sorry to be so much trouble, bu!
times are so hard I have to do this,”
he added, as he went out with jew
elry valued at $3OO.
PRICES OF FOOD ARE
EVER MCVING UP AND UP
Tall Tracad Over P"'firds. Showing |
Leaps of 4to 72 Per Cent. I
VASHINGTON, D. C.—Retail
prices of food increased 4 per cent.
from August 15 to September 15;
14 per cent. from September, 1917,
to September, 1918, and 72 per cent,
from September, 1913, to September,
1918, the bureau of labor announces.
The increases were determined from
reports by retail dealers on 28 arti
cles of food.
WAR HAS SUSPENDED 850
NEWSPAPERS IN THE U. S.
Wa conditions have forced the
consolication of 250 daily papers in
the United States and the suspension
of 850 papers since 1914,
The Strong Withstand the Heat ot
Summer Better Than the Weak
Old people who are feeble and younger people
‘who are weak, will be strengthened and enabled t
go through the depressing heat of summer by tak
ing GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. It purifie:
and enriches the blood and builds up the whole sys
tem. You can soon feel its Sttengthening, Invigor
ating Effect. 60c. |
out resorting to price fixing.
It was stated, however, that in the
event price fixing should become nec
essary, through failure of the presi
dent’s stabilizing plans, the commit
tee would not hesitate to take this
action.
RUSSIA STARVING;
9
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
DROP IN STREETS FAMISHED.
| BREAD UNOBTAINABLE.
Russia will not count in the war
this winter, one way or another, ex
cept to be an enormous liability to
the world.
Russia is starving to death. Thous-
I ands of men, women and children are
dropping in the streets, faimshed.
'Bread is unobtainable. There is no
flour. This condition prevails in ev
’ery city. |
~ln the remote country districts the
‘peasant families have food but no
clothing. There is no way to bring
whea; from the great steppes to the
starving cities.
In Petrograd the infant mortality
has increased to 50 per cent; one out
of every two babies dies soon after
birth. In what schools there are,
from 57 to 87 per cent. of the chil-|
dren are reported absent. They are
too weak or too ill to attend.
The internal situation spells ruin
for ‘the bolsheviki, despair for the
soviet government, failure for the
feeble attempts of each party to
bring some semblance of order out
of chaos.
75,000 Children Homeless. |
Seventy-five thousand children in
Petrograd alone are homeless. This
enormous army of pitifully underfed
young ones is on the hands of Mad
ame Lelena, Petrograd’s commission
er of social welfare. {
Many of these children are or-l
phans, while others were turned over
to the commune by their parents, who l
were unable to feed them. None is |
over 15 years of age, while the ma- |
jority are under 10. It is estimutg*d~
that the number of children who \\'111!
be public charges in Petrograd before |
the end of the wintér will be 14(),000.{’
The cholera epidemic is u der con
trol in Petrograd, but there are nu
merous deaths from starvation at
tributed to cholera, and these cause
alarming rumors that there is a con
tinuation of the epidemic.
Greatest Need Is Food. |
The situation is growing worse
daily and the juvenile population of
Petrograd will practically be wiped
out this winter unless food is pro
vided from foreign countries. ‘Fig
ures on adult mortality are not avail
able, but according to Capt. William
B. Webster, of the American Red
Cross, who has arrived in Petro
grad, starvation is claiming
thousands, especially aged and in
firm persons without resources, who
ave unable to get food at the govern
ment restaurants or return to their
native villages.
In Moscow the situation is slightly
better than in Petrograd, but there
it also is critical. In peace times the
infant mortality in Petrograd was 25
per cent.,, but now there is an ab
solute lack of milk and grain and the
proper mothers’ food.
Red Cross tc Rescue.
Last winter the American Red
Cross provided tinned milk for 50,-
000 children in Petrograd, and Capt.
Webster is now endeavoring to ar
range to feed the Petrograd children
next winter in co-opcration with Dan
ish Minister Shavpius at Petrograd,
who proposes that shipments of milk
and other food from Denmark be
forwarded on Danich ships under the
protection of the Danish Red Cross.
Relief through this plan must come
within one month, as the Finnish bay
will then freeze, and shipments will
be impossible by other means unless
the political and military conditions
change.
DRINKING IF YOU ‘ !
! DONT FEEL RIGET |
| e |
i Says glass of hot water with | |
[ phosphate before breakfast [
| washes out poisons. E
| |
If you wake ud with a bad taste, bad
breath and tongue is coated; if your |
head is dull or aching; if what you eat |
sours and forms gas and acid in stom- i
ach, or you are bilious, constipated, |
nervous, sallow and can’t get feeling
just right, begin inside bathing. Drink
before breakfast, a glass of real hot
water with a teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in it. Tkis will flush the !
poisons and toxins from stomach, liver, |
kidneys and bowels and cleanse,
sweeten and purify the entire alimen
tary tract. Do your inside bathing im
mediately upon arising in the morning
to wash out of the system all the pre- |
vious day’s polsonous waste, gases and
sour bile before putting more food into
the stomach. -
' To feel like young folks feel; like
you feit before your blood, nerves and
muscles became loaded with body im
purities, get from your pharmacist a
quarter pound of limestone phosphate
which is inexpensive and almost taste
less, except for a sourish twinge which
is not unpleasant.
Just as soap and hot water act on
the skin, cleansing, sweetening and
freshening, so hot water and limestone
phosphate act on the stomach, liver,
kidneys and bowels. Men and women
who are usually constipated, bilious,
headachy or have any stomach dis
order should begin this inside bathing
before breakfast. They are assured
they will become real cranks on the
- pubject shortly. :
THE DAWSON NEWws
i SUBMITS TO “COOTIES”
|OFFICIAL LENDS HIS BODY TO
F AID RESEARCH ENTOMOLO.-
| GISTS. EXTENSIVE EFFORT.
There is in Washington a man in
conspicuously doing his bit, or his
all, for his country by serving as a
“host” for body lice, the “cooties”
of the war zone. He is co-operating
in a very personal and intimate de
gree, with entomologists of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture,
under the direction of the council of
research and the council of national
defense, to find preventives and ex
terminators for the pests that not on
ly annoy and irritate American sol
diers, but that spread trench fever
and other diseases among them.
Valuable data in regard to the con
trol of the ‘“‘cootie’” have been obtain
ed from the parasites living on his
body, and moving pictures of them
have been taken tflrough a micro
scope. The pictures are to be magni
fied and shown at army camps before
scientists and army officers engaged'
in ”(‘i_elousing w.ork.. . . i
The entomologists, in addition to
watching these particular “cooties’”
and others confined in glass tubes
and other places, are testing chemi
cals to learn their destructive action
on lice, their effect on human bodies
and their penetration of clothing. Al
so, they are co-operating with army
officers in testing laundering and de
lousing processes. They are trying to
add to the knowledge of how to re
pel, kill or drive away the tiny para
sites.
~ One of the scientists of the bureau
of entomology, department of agri
culture, also is serving as a host for
‘the parasites, but in a more restrict
ed sense than the Chicago man. His
“cooties” are confined under the
glass top of a wristlet, much like a
wrist watch, and they pass their ex
istence, from the egg stage to the
dead adult, on the skin of his arm,
and can not move to any other spot.
Through the glass cover the entomol
ogist can watch the “‘cooties” as they
emerge frem their shells and go
through all the stages of their life
cycle.
Extensive governmental efforts to
devise ways of overcoming the para
sitic evil are under way.
$4.50 PER POUND FOR BEANS.
After jumping in price to $4.50 a
pound it now develops that castor
oil beans are also producers of pot
ash, which will perhaps send the price
still higher. :
For Indigestion, Constipation or
° Biliousness ?
Just try one 50-cent bottle of LAX-FOS
WITH PEPSIN. A Liquid Digestive
Laxative pleasant to take. Made and
recommended to the public by Paris Medi
cine Co% manufacturers of Laxative Bromo
Quinine and Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic.
SIX WIVES LOVED HIM;
JESSE OTLEY GIBBS EXERCISES
STRANGE POWER OVER FAIR
’ SEX. SAY HE’S “LOVELY.”
CHICAGO.—In spite of the fact
fthat Jesse Otley Gibbs, held in Chi
‘cago charged with bigamy, has six}
‘acknowledged wives, not one of them
will assist in prosecuting him.
Not only this, but half a dozen
other women, living in and near Chi
cago, are urging clemency or pardon
for Gibbs, some of them admitting
they think him “just lovely.”
Dashing and Bold.
Jesse is dashing and bold. When
the police asked him if he desired
protection in court—from his wives,
he said if they—the police—would
watch they would learn about wo
men from him. They did.
Wives No. 3, 5 and 6 were there,
and Jesse gave a round of pleasant
nods to the assembled Mrs. Gibbses.
Mrs. Emma May Early Gibbs, elocu
tionist and poet, fluttered her dark
eyes and sighed.
Hilma Swanberg Gibbs, who is
blonde and a nurse, blushed rosily
and her blue eyes sought the floor.
Rose Lynn Gibbs seemed ill at ease
and hid her face in her hand.
“It's a shame to treat him like
this,” said Mrs. Emma May Early
Gibbs.
Sergt. Carroll, whose present job
is keeping books on the wives of
Gibbs, mopped’ his honest brow and
said, as they filed out:
“Ain’t women peculiar?”
HOW DOCTORS TREAT
Ask any physician or druggist and
he will tell you that the best and only
effective remedy for a bad cold. sore
throat, influenza or la grippe is what
he calls ‘“a brisk .calomel purge,”
which means a big dose of calomel
at bed time. But as the old style cal
omel has some very unpleasant and
dangerous qualities physicians and
druggists are now recommending the
improved nausealess calomel, called
“Calotabs,” which is purified and re
fined from the sickening and danger
ous effects and whose medicinal vir
tues are vastly improved.
One Calotab on the tongue at bed
time with a swallow of water—that’s
all. No salts, no nausea nor the
slightest interference with your diet,
pleasures or work. Next morning your
cold has vanished and your entire
system is purified and refreshed.
Calotabs are sold only in original
sealed packages, price thirty-five
cents. Your druggist guarantees Cal
otabs by refunding the price if you
are not delightéd.—adv.
@ ®
Improved Wilt Resistant ,
I HAVE been improving this cotton for five years by making single stalk selections and
breeding up to where I have the most prolific and quickest maturing cotton that I have
ever seen grow.
I planted three acres last year from the seed that grew on two rows where seed from sin
gle stalks were planted the year before. I planted this cotton on April 10th, and finished
picking on September 20th 5,240 pounds of seed cotton. | ginned this into four bales that
weighed 2,100 pounds of lint. | planted 160 acres this year from this lot of seed, and this
is the seed that | am offering for sale to plant next year.
My foundation stock was Covingion’s Tool Wilt Resistant Cotton. My cotton
has been inspected for five years by the cotton experts of the state entomologist,
and the State Agricultural College. 1 refer you to either of them. These seed
are registered with the Georgia I’lant Breeders Association. [ have my private
gins on the farm and do not zin for the public. In this way I can keep my cotton
pure, and | continue to improve it each year. | have about 2,500 bushels of these
seed for sale at $3.00 per bushel. 1 could not supply the demand for these seed
last year. :
I invite anyone interested in good cotton to visit my farm and inspect the fields where
this cotton grew. lregard it the best cotton that we can plant under boll weevil conditions
on account of its quick maturing and wilt resistant qualities.
Yours truly, j
| H. A. PETTY,
: Dawson, Georgia.
Davis-Davidson Co.
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Ladies’, Misses’ and
Children’s
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