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By E. L. RAINEY
ALL ANXIOUS TO PROVE TRUTH
OF OLD “RULE OF THREE.”
BRYAN IN LIMELIGHT. ‘
WASHINGTON, D. C.—“ One, two,
three strikes and out!”
That has been the rule in the
great majority of American political
careers. Just as baseball players set
great store by three, so do the super
stitious statesmen and politicians.
Three strikes in the national pastime
means the end of the batter’s allott
ed span at the plate and three offi
cers, or an office thrice held usually |
denotes the end of a politfcal life.‘
Wherefore is three considered the
Jucky number in American politics.
Most public office holders who have
made three political strikes, desiring
to go down in history with a clean
date of vietories decline to go to the
bat for the fourth time in the hope
that the electorate will make a wild
heave and give them a pass to “first
base.” And while some lean back
ward from the fourth ball for fear
of being “beaned,” the more ven
turesome spirits are constantly try
ing to break the charmed three. There
are likewise few instances dn
which an office holder having made
two strikes will stand with his bat on
his shoulder and watch the ‘“third
one” go by without at least swinging
at it
Diversity in Rule.
There is great diversity in this
¢pule of three.” For instance, Presi
dent Wilson, running to form has a
three in his political career—gover
nor of New Jersey and twice elected
president of the United States. T
would be possible for him to make it
a “big three.” |
And that has been the chief anxie
ty of various and sundry democratic!
aspirants for the nomination, for de
spite all efforts to “smoke him out”
Mr. Wilson has not yet flatly an
nounced that he will under no cir
cumstances accept a third nomina
tion.
Probably the most unique “three”
in modern American politics is held
by Col. William Jennings Bryan, of
Miami, Fla., Asheville, N. C., Wash
ington, D. C., and other points west.
The peerless leader it may be re
membered has been thrice a candi
date for the presidency and likewise
thrice defeated. It may not be true
as some aver that the candidacy of
the gallant colonel dates from time
immemorial, but who can doubt the
assertion that Mr. Pope had the boy
orator of the Platte in mind when he
wrote, “Hope Springs Eternal.”
Apparently with the view of an ul
timate blessing in mind, Col. Bryan
has recently been seen abroad wear
ine a candidate’s outfit that is as new
and unrufled as if it had not been
laid away in the moth balls since
1912, when at Baltimore he stamped
ed the convention to the present In
cumbent of the white house.
Pull for Commoner.
Pessimistic democrats and optimis
tic republicans 'are of one accord on
the outcome of the presidential elec
tion in 1920. Unless the situation
<hifts considerably before November
rolls around the republicans antici
pate a walkover. Therefore some of
Col. Bryan’s friendly enemies are
strongly in favor of handing the nom
inztion to the commoner so that he
may carve for himself an imperish
able niche in the hall of fame as the
¢nly American who ever went down
‘o defeat four times hand running—
or as near hand running as he could
make it.
Most of the prominent presiden
tial aspirants have their eyes on the
ball, for most of them have two
strikes and the third ball means a hit
or a whiff. Senator Johnson, of Cal
ifornia, has a three, having been
twice elected governor of his state
and to the senate, but he wants a
“real three,” and makes no effort to
conceal the fact that he expects to
ride to the white house on an eight
word platform.
Some of Others.
~Ohio’s senatorial presidential can
didates, Senators Harding and Pom
erene, who are keen about throwing
a “three,” have both served as lieu
tenant governors of the state. Gov.
Cox, of Ohio, is now serving his_third
term, He has also served in the house
and is now busily polishing his hat
in the hope of banging out a triple.
Other senators who would consid
er their triplicate political careers
completely rounded out by four
vears’ residence in the white house
are Underwood, of Alabama; Hitch-
Cnrck,.of Nebraska; Poindexter, of
Washington; Lenroot, of Wisconsin,
and Sutherland, of West Virginia.
They all served an apprenticeship in
the house. -
Vice President Marshall, with two
terms at that job and one as gover
nor of Indiana, would doubtless find
a move to the executive mansion a
pleasant journey, despite his protes
tations to the contrary. Champ Clark,
whose service in the house was bro
ken by a republican landslide in
1894, ‘thus giving him a three with
the speakership, could conveniently
round out the big “three” that he
thought complete for many ballots at
the Baltimore convention.
Senator La Follette has three
threes in his career. He was three
times elected to the housey three
times governor of Wisconsin and
three times senator. The “three”
fpeed record of American politics is
:f‘]d by Senator Robinson, of Arkan
sas, who was a member of the house,
Zovernor of Arkansas and senator
Within fourteen days.
ADAM DIDN'T EAT THE APPLE;
'TWAS NOAH WHO BIT PIPPIN
There Was No Eve, According to New Evidence Brought to
Light by Delver in Ancient Lore.
~ PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—What the
discoverer claims to be evidence old
er than the Bible by 2,000 or 3,000
years, that woman had nothing to do
with the downfall of the human race,
has just been produced by the mu
seum of the University of Pennsyl
vania in the form of a new set of
translations by Dr. Stephen Herbert
Langdon,
Dr. Langdon is now professor of
syriology at Oxford University, Eng
land, He was for three years curator
of the Babylonian section at the uni
versity museum, and while there
studied and translated thousands of
ancient clay tablets from the ruins
of Nippur, in ancient Babylonia.
“Noah Ate the Apple.”
The new book is the fourth in a se
ries depicting the religious life of
the Sumerlans, a mysterious race, the
origin of which is unknown, which
was finally swallowed up by-the later
Semetics. According to one of the
flood stories in the collection Noah
'S CUSSED
WHEN HE ?
APPARENTLY DRUNKEN OR AN
GRY PRISONER CAN VENT HIS |
SPLEEN ON BLUECOAT. l
ATLANTA, Ga.—Has a policeman
any right to retaliate or any legal
way of stopping it when drunken or
angry prisoner curses him in lan
guage which the policeman if a pri
vate citizen would have a right to
resent with blows? |
Again the point has come up in
connection with the handling of
drunks and other unruly offenders in
Atlanta. Various courts of Georgia
have taken different views on the
subject, so that there is no sure prec
edent based on laws of this state,
and a lawyer defending his client
here cited a ruling by the lowa state
court in which it is declared that a
prisoner has an inalienable right to
swear at the policeman who is arrest
ing him, and that such action does
not constitute resisting arrest or any
other punishable offense, unless the
cursing is done in the presence of a
third party who is not apoliceman
and whom the cursing might offend.
To be cursed, in the views of the
lowa court, is a part of the police
man’s job.
Atlanta policemen usually take this
same charitable view when a prison
er is so drunk or so angry that he
doesn’t know what he is doing, but
every once in a while it gets too much
for the cop and he too gets mad and
whacks the insulter over the head
with his billy.
TOO BIG TOZSCRAP
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SAYS CHAIRMAN GRAHAM. TWO
BIG WAR PLANTS COSTING
NEARLY $100,000,000.
FLORENCE, Ala.—Two big war
plants, costing nearly one hundred
million dollars and now idle were in
spected from top to bottom today by
a congressional committee, which will
try to report on how they may best
serve the government in peace times.
Chairman Graham and Representa
tives Jeffries, of Nebraska, and Gar
rett, of Tennessee, rode through a
deserted village containing about 125
concrete houses, costing nearly a
million dollars, and heard a local wag
remark that if they could be picked
up bodily and removed to Washing
ton, for instance, “they would be
worth their weight in liquor.” |
Declining tonight to intimate what
he might suggest, except to say that
Muscle Shoals was too big a scrap,
Chairman Graham admitted that it
was a little different from most other
war plants he had examined. “Muscle
Shoals is different,” he said, “hecause
the working force here today is less
than in war times. It was. not that
way at the other plants, especially
at the Charleston (S. C.) terminals.”
In the boom days Muscle Shoals
had a force of 23,000. About 500 men
are employed there now as guards.
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STORK IS SHY IN PARIS;
Tradition That Number of Children
Increases After a War Is Shat
tered. Great Decrease.
PARlS.—Traditions that the birth
rate of a country increases after a
war have proved gallacious, in this
city at least. Statistics of the prefect
of police show the rate is still sink
ing. The number of births per thous
and of population is lower at pres
ent than it was before the outbreak
of the war in 1914. Poorer quarters
of the city show a higher percentage
than sections containing the homes
of the wealthier citizens.
THE DAWSON NEWS
ate the forbidden fruit after he had
been saved from the deluge.
This salvation was accomplished,
according to the Sumerian version, by
a woman diety. There is no mention
of any Eve in the story. Clay tablets
from which this and other stories are
taken are said to be at least 1,000
years older than Babylonian tablets.
14,000 Years Before Christ.
_ After the Sumerians had been ex
tinguished in their political power,
according to Dr. Langdon, the Baby
lonians retained the language for ec
c}esiastical purposes for many centu
| Ties, just as Latin is now used in the
Roman Catholic church. ’
l The Sumerian records at the uni
versity provide an apparent history
.of mankind back to 14,000 years be
|fore Christ, but this is not consider
led absolutely authentic, because
many of the reigns of kings are col
‘lateral. The Sumerians believed that
the patriarchs, corresponding to
those_of the old testament, ruled be
fore the flood for 360,000 years. Ac
cording to their story it was 35,000
years after the deluge when Cyrus
of Persia conquered Babylpnia.
SEES BIG DANGER |
|
IN OVER-INFLAT ION%
PUBLIC WARNED OF FINANCIAL |
TROUBLE BY VANDERLIP. ',
RAPS U. S. TREASURY. :
NEW YORK, N. Y.—A warningl
that further inflation of currencyi
would result in still higher prices for
all commodities and in more social
unrest and more strikes was sounded
on Saturday by Frank A. Vanderlip
at the meeting of the League for Po
}litical Education.
. Mr. Vanderlip put the blame for
' conditions on the treasury depart
‘ment for repressing the discount rate,
and said that an immediate increase
of this rate to check further inflation
in this country would tend to lower
prices and restore normal financial
conditions. More inflation, he said,
would cause ‘‘nearer approach to a
‘disastrous crash.”
|
| Actuated by a desire to finance a
great war at low interest, he said,
the treasury department had floated
the bonds so that “every purchaser
was involved in a loss the day the
bond was delivered, and has been at
a loss ever since except for the tax
free bonds.”
He expressed the opinion that the
policy had caused dissatisfaction
among the 21,000,000 subseribers, all
'of whom have lost in the transac
ltion.
’ Had Good Motives.
| “Don’t understand me as saying
;that the treasury department has
malignly set out to involve this coun
try in the awful catastrophe of this
inflation and this rise in prices,” said
Mr. Vanderlip. “They didn’t see.!
They didn’t understand. They had
the best of motives. They wanted to
‘float the United States’ bonds at a
low interest rate. They wanted to
cave the country from paying a high
interest rate, and they wanted to
have the credit, undoubtedly, of fi
nancing a great war on a low inter
est rate.
“They prided themselves on having
21,000,000 investors, when, before
the war, there had been only 400,000
bond holders in the whole United
States, but what we got was 21,000,-
000 disgusted people, who had lost
money—every one.
“The influence of the treasury de
partment kept down that discount
rate. kept it down when the bankers
on the federal reserve boards thought
it should go up. They have held it
down to this day.
Twe Big Figures.
“The two most important figures
in the world are the ratio of reserve
which the federal reserve banks hold
and rate of interest. One shows
how fast they are going toward furth-}
er inflation or backing away from ]
it; the other shows whether the
brake is being applied or whether we |
have been letting it run free, as we|
have been. :
“It will be very much less trouble |
to slow down now, pay off loans, have
somewhat less activity, reduce prices
and get back to a sounder basis of |
financial life.
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Ration Water
o Se SR RT eLU e e
Lakes Supplying Norfolk Dry Up
And the City Is Forced to Im
port Liquid.
NORFOLK, Va.—Tank cars loaded
with water brought from North Car
olina and Virgina beach by the Nor
folk and Southern railway on Mon
day were beseiged by hundreds of
men, women and children armed with
buckets, bottles and other utensils.
Families were put on a water ration
of five zallons a day.
The lakes from which the city ob
tains its water are practically dry.
and the scant supply is being mixed
with salt water from Lynnhaven riv
er. This water is unfit to drink and
those who can afford it are buying
high priced bottled water.
Heat was cut off in most buildings
on Monday because there is no water
to fill the boilers.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1920
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~ BIG EXPENDITURES
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DENOMINATIONAL LEADERS OF
ENTIRE SOUTH WILL MEET
IN NASHVILLE JAN’Y 28TH.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—To map out
a program for the conservation of
the victory achieved in the recent
drive for funds and additional work
ers by the Baptist seventy-five mil
lion campaign, a conference compos
ed of the members of the campaign
commission, and the executive com
mittee of the Southern Baptist con
vention, the secretaries of the gener
al and state boards of the denomina
tion, Baptist editors and college pres
idents, officers of the Women’s Mis
sionary Union and its several state
branches and other denominational
leaders from all over the south will
be held in this city Wednesday, Jan
uary 28th.
Members of the campaign commis
sion will present for consideration
the matter of a campaign of evangel
ism and emphasis upon the funda
mentals of religion to be conducted
during the spring months in such
churches as hold their evangelstic
services in the spring and for the
‘summer and fall months in those
churches which are accustomed to
holding their special evangelistic ser
vices at these.seasons. A general dis
cussion of the future work of South
;ern Baptists along all lines will be
'had and the meeting is regarded by
Ethe campaign leaders as very import
ant. : :
Returns Announced.
Returns from the Baptist 75 mil
lion campaign to date, as announced
by Dr. L. R. Scarborough, general
director, show a total of $89,736,-
925, the responses from the several
states being as follows: Alabama,
$4,100,000; Arkansas, $2,625,000;
District of Columbia, $250.000; Flor-|
ida, $1,370,932; Georgia, $10,100,-
000; southern Illinois, $830,704;
Kentucky, $7,167,713; Louisiana,
;$3,820,000; Maryland, $902,760;
‘Mississippi, $4,000,000; Missouri, $2,-
000,000 New Mexico, $732,260;
;North Carolina, $7,250,000; Oklaho
'ma, $3,200,000; South Carolina, $7,-
554,572 ; Tennessee, $5,010,000; Tex
as, $16,560,000; Virginia, $8,002,-
984.
The subscription reported from
New Mexico includes $350,000 which
has been contributed toward the
|erection of a Baptist college in that
i state. Additional subscriptions from
|the foreign fields and other sources
{aggregate $5,260,000, making the
',gtand total approximately $90,000.-
00.
Dr. Scarborough believes that in
asmuch as many of the churches did
'not complete their drives in the fall
' several more millions of dollars will
'come in during the spring, and that
the returns from the campaign will
-eventually reach $100,000,000.
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'MANY EARTHQUAKE
I _
!United States Experienced But Nine
{ ty-Seven of Four Hundred Sixty
i Eight Felt During Past Year.
! Various parts of the world during
'the past year were rocked by 468
earthquakes. Although the United
States felt 97 of these disturbances
there was no loss of life or serious
damage to property in this country.
Loss of life was recorded in the
earthquake of April 28 in San Salva-|
dor and on June 29 in Florence, Italy.
California reported 80 of the 97 |
earth shocks recorded in the United |
States. The remainder were felt in |
various parts of the country from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. Kentuck,v,'
Arkansas, Utah, Arizona, Indiana, Il
linois, Kansas, Tennessee, Washing
ton, Virginia, New Jersey and Michi
gan all reported shocks during the
year, ‘
INFLUENZA SWEEPS POLAND; =
MANY FUNERALS AT NIGHT |
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Discase Is Marked by Suddenness offg
Attack and High Death Rate. ig
Hundreds of persons are dying|Z
dailv in Warsaw as the result of an =
epidemic of influenza sweeping Po- |
land in a form so virulent as to baffle | =
the medical authorities, The disease | Z
is marked by the suddenness of at- | 2
tack and the high percentage of fa-i;
talities, according to American Red =
Cross reports. |§
Deaths in many cases occur within |§
24 hours after the disease is con-"g'
tracted, and women and young people |8
appear to be particularly susceptible. | -
There is almost a constant succession | =
of funerals at Warsaw, many being !§
held at night. ig
TWO MORE SOUTHERN STATES :g
REJECT WOMAN SUFFRAGEIg
South Carolina and Mississippi Over- g
whelmingly Oppose It. lg
The house of representatives of ;g
the South Carolina general assembly =
by a vote of 93 to 21 has adopted a =
concurrent resolution rejecting the:g
federal amendment for woman suf- £
frage. Z
" During the past week the Mississip- E
pi legislature by even a more decisive Z
vote refused to ratify the amend- 2
ment.
‘THERE ARE THREE MILLION g
- JEWS IN THE UNITED STATES =
A Jewish statistician, D. Trietsch. g
estimates the Jewish population of i
the world at 15,430,000. The United 3
States has 8,100,000 of this number. 5
HELEN JYOHNSON ASKS THEM
NOT TRY TO CAPTURE FLEET
ING FANCY OF MALE.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—-—Women were
urged to lower the cost of clothes by
abandoning the world-old tradition
that they must dress “to capture the
fleeting fancy of the male” or to out
do others of their sex, in an address
today by Helen Louise Johnson, edi
tor of the General Federation Maga
zine, before the Columbia University
Institute of Arts and Sciences. Low
er prices could be brought about, she
added, in her talk on “The Ethics of
Dress,” by the adoption of a stand
ardized costume,
Limited Number.
“Man,” Miss Johnson said, ‘‘can
dress properly and becomingly on a
limited number of suits. His reason
ing seems to be that beauty unadorn
ed is adorned the most. His clothes
are far from beautiful.”
OLIVES COST THE LIVES
OF MOTHER AND SON
Three Others of Same Family in Hos
pital and Not Expected to Live.
- NEW YORK, N. Y.—Two persons
‘have died and three others, all in the
same family, are in the hospital to
night and are not expected to live, as
a result of eating olives which pro
| duced a strange malady.
Mrs. Marie Daldene and her son,
Dominick, 16 years old, after eating
the fruit both first lost their sight
and then were suffocated through
paralysis of the breathing muscles,
dying four days apart. A medical ex
aminer said tonight that six persons
had died recently in Detroit ‘from
{poisoning due to the same cause.
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