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By E. L. RAINEY
pOTH POLITICAL PARTIES WON
DERING JUST WHENCE "ARE
COMING «SINEWS OF WAR.”
oLD METHODS ARE GONE
Congress Has Formed the Embarras
sing Habit of Poking Its Nose into
Campaign Expenditures. Neverthe
less, Ghost will Walk.
WASHINGTON.—Where to get the
money to finance the campaigns of
the big parties this year is a ques
tion that is causing not a little of in
terest, speculation and doubt in the
ninds of those who are familiar with
the fact that it takes money, much of
it. to keep the game going from a
nominating convention to election
time.
During the past week one of the big!
features in connection with candidatel
Harding’s carppaign conference has
been where to get the coin. Harry
Daugherty, his campaign _manager,
and the man who must k"l'dl-a“wn}
and where to get the sinews u. ary
has been here conferring on this mat
tor. as olso has been Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, son of the late president;
friends of the late George W. Per
kins, and others, all directing their
minds in one direction. ;
There is no longer a Mark Hanna
“harrel,” and even if Hanna were liv
ing there are cogent reasons why
there would probably this year be no
<uch lavish contributions to republi
can funds. One reason is that of late
congress has formed a very embarras
sing habit of poking its nose into the
doings of the two big parties. Demo
crats investigate the doings of the re
publicans and the republicans in their
turn put their smelling committees
at work on the least provocation to
oet something on the democrats. So
there you are. Nobody wants to be
investigated.
Was Different Formerly.
In the days gone by it was easy far
the big monopolistic concerns through
out the country—the big trusts—to
contribute liberally with good pros
pects for favors in return but now it
isn’t so any more.
}. Congress in both branches is work
ing overtime smelling out for some
thing rotten in political Denmark, but
the present financial and economical
<ituation here—where everyone is
hunting the profiteer—makes the big
monied concern very geechy about
coming through with the coin. |
" There are statistics on file with
congress showing __where, in yearsl
gone by, the strong financial concerns
of the country made no secret of con
tributing magnanimously to republi
can slush funds. But such days are
no more. |
The big concern which would now
give $50,000 or $lOO,OOO to a cam
paign fund at this time wopld prob
ably be jerked up by its corporation
heels almost before the ink on its
check was dry, because there would
immediately arise the assumption that
something would be expected in re
turn. The element of profiteering
‘would be much too prominent for the
general good.
Small Contributions. -
This is about the plan which will be
followed, although mnow candidate
Harding’s managers are as stm?
with information as a tramp would be
with a new ham bone; contributions
will not be asked in large amounts.
They will be solicited in small denom
inations for two reasons. One is that
there must be no semblance of big
money from the money trust—which
would indicate a lot -full of profiteers
—and the other is that with the afore
said congress members poking about
here and there it would certainly spell
defeat for the republicans should
there be a repetition of the Wood and
Lowden slush fund stuff. That killed
both of these worthy candidates even
before the doors of the big coliseum
at Chicago swung themselves open
and none know it better than the
corps of Washington newspaper men
Who were on the job.
The ghost will walk, of course, but
there will be no prancing about all
dressed in the finery of big dollar
marks. This year he will do his mu}-
night hour—graveyard stunts—in his
usual quiet way and watch it, he w§ll
be there with the goods. There will
be no big, dazzling bunches of the old
time Hannah stuff, but, on the con
trary, thousands and thousands of
small contributions from persons too
small and insignificant for the con
gressional nose to ferret out. The
money will count, however, all the
same, and money—plenty of it, is
what the big wigs in the two big par
ties are looking for now.
—ime s e
CAROLINIANS PAY $140,000.
FOR A FARM NEAR ALBANY
Farkas Place of Nearly Six Thousand
Acres Is Sold.
. ALBANY, GA.—The Live ak
ha”"‘s Corporation, of Eastover, S. C.,
Bas purchased from H. H. Harding,
C;‘lHel‘bert and Joseph Norwood, of
Lombia, 8. C., trustees, the Farkas
Place cight miles south of Albany, and
a}talmng 5884 acres. The consider
c{;(;n was more than $140,000, it was
jioted. The purchasers plan to cul
ot and use for pasturage purposes
= of the lands in the tract, conduct
ti é" one of the largest farming opera
| s In this section of the state. They
:pna'n to plant 1,000 acres in oats dur
“os fhe coming fall and to put out
VU acres in pecan tm. Nk
' PURCHASE OF RUBBER STAMP
| BIG JOB IN WASHINGTON
?Bids for It Are Advertised, Referred
; and OKed Several Times. A
Mass of Correspondence.
i WASHINGTON. Going to ex
{tremes, even in doing vyight, some
'times doesn’t pay. Everybody knows
{it is well to advertise for bids on
| purchases where public money is in
ivolved. But there is a limit to which
| this should be carried.
A head of one of the sections in
the Federal Board for Vocational
Training the other day wanted a rub
ber stamp, the price of which was 38
cents. He sent a requisition to his
superior for #t, which was regected.
i Finally the supplies section adVertis
ed for bids on the stamp and fifteen
*days later he got the stamp. The red
tape “papers” had been OKed, reject
'ed, approved, examined, referred and
the like a dozen times, and messen
gers had worn out more than thirty
eight cents worth of leather trans
{porting them from one place to an
lother. At least twelve cents worth
|of stamps would have been used in
icommunications, if the government
ipaid for stamps, and the record in
I,the case showed that many stenogra-
I phers had been hard at work on it.
| case.
NATION IS TO FEEL
~ STILL HIGHER PRICES
|
| ; |
iAPPRU‘. Y $9,600,000 WILL}
’ BE ADDED .0 COST OF LIV
| ING THIS YEAR. i
I e 1
| WASHINGTQN. Approximately
;$9,600,000 will bg added to the nation’s
living eosts for the ¥ear beginning
fwi'th September, J. E. Weatherly, eco
nomic expert of the justice depart-
Iment, predicted today. Weatherly
‘said he based this prediction on_ the
belief the Interstate Commerce Com
;mi-ssion would be forced to increase
freight rates approximately $2,000,-
1000,000. b
. An appeal for increases totaling $l,-
000,000,000 now is being considered by
'the commission at the request of the
| railroad managers. Amnother billion
‘must be added when the Railroad
'Board grants proposed wage increases
‘to 2,000,000 workers, Weatherly as
'sumed.
| “Increased freight rates are reflect
‘ed in living cgsts, not in straight pro
‘portion, but magnified by 4.8, said
' Weatherly. -
“This is because the public pays a
freight rate increase several times in
stead of just once. ;
| “One increased rate is paid when
the cattle go from the plains where
they grazed to the slaughter-house.
The second increase is paid when the
raw hides are shipped from slaughter
houses to tanneries; a third from
tannery to shoe manufacturing house,
and a fourth when the finished shoe
goes from the manuYacturer to dealer.
“Shoes thus show a magnification
of the rate increase four times. In
some commodities, however, the in
crease is magnified only three times.
“There is another factor. The in-'
creased freight rate paid by each deal
‘er or manufacturer is added to his cost |
‘of operation, on which he figures his |
profits on a percentage basis. |
. “There seems no getting around the
fact that a freight rate increase
‘means a tremendous boost in prices
of every commodity produced in the
' United States. Every person in the
'United States is Pdund to feel the in
crease. It means a tax of about $96
‘a year for each of the 100,000,000 per
hsoms in the United States.”
' A decision on the plea of the rail
‘roads for an increase fs expectedl
from the Interstate Commerce Com
|mission soon. 1
| s CeneEe IR o 1 SEm eAo T T Al AN
CAN'T MAKE COUNTY
~ PAY_INTEREST FEES
SUPREME COURT HOLDS THAT
. UNDER CONSTITUTION, DEBT
| CANNOT BE CONTRACTED.
l The case of Tift & Peed Grocery
'Company vs. Worth county, passed
‘upon by the Georgia Supreme Court
last week #nd the decision of the
lower court affirmed, possesses unus
ual interest wherein it set forth that,
under the constitution of the state of
{Georg'ia, a county cannot 'be held
liable for interest on unpaid county
}warrants in the absence of some valid
legal contract or provision of law au
thorizing the payment of interest.
| Of especial interest is the decision
just now, when suits are pending
iagainst the counties of Tift, Laurens
and Cobb brought by the National
'Park Bank of New York City, to re
cover on notes megotiated by Frank
'Scarboro of Tifton. The amount in
'volved in these three suits is about
15130,000. It would appear in the ab
| sence of information to the contrary,
‘that the same constitutional prohibi
tion would prevail.
'+ The Tift & Peed suit was -brought
;in Worth superior court and appealed
,to the supreme court, which holds that
a county in this state is not liable for
linterest upon county warrants in the
absence of some valid legal contract,
lor provision of law, authorizing the
payment of interest. The court says:
I“The term ‘new debt’ as embraced in
par. 1 sec. 7, art. 7 of the constitution
|of this state (Civil Code Sec. 6563),
|embraces interest as well as principal.
| Under the allegations of the petition
lthe interest sued for created a debt
|agwinst the county which is inhibited
by the above provision of the consti
itntlon, and is, therefore, unforecable
by suit brought against the county to
recover such interest.” 2
THE DAWSON NEWS
FLORIDA AND VERMONT GOV
ERNORS REFUSE TO CALL
SPECIAL SESSIONS.
IS USELESS, SAYS CATTS
Against State Constitution, Declares
Clements in Statement in Which He
Refers in Vigorous Terms to “Polit
ical Opportunists.”
PENSACOLA.—Gov. Catts has re
fused to call a special session of the
Florida legislature to take action on
the federal woman suffrage amend
ment, local suffrage leaders anounc
ed Monday night. They said the gov
ernor contended such action would be
useless. l
CLEMENTS TALKS PLAIN.
RUTLAND, VERMONT.——Governorl
Clement today issued a proclamation
refusing to call the legislature in spe
cial session to make possible ratifica
tion of the federal amendment for
woman suffrage. |
The ‘governor’s proclamation followsl
a conference which he held at Wash
ington recently with Senator Harding,
at which it is understood the republi
can nominee for president discussedl
with hi mthe possibilities of havingl
ratification completed by the republi
can legislature of Vermont. . |
In giving his reasons for refusing
again to call a special session Govern
or Clement said the proposed amend
ment. clearly invades the constitution
of Vermont; that the present legisld
ture was elected before the question
of ratifying the federal amendment
had airsen and that the people of
the state have had no opportunity to
express themselves upon the issue.
The governor proposed that the mat
ter be taken up by the next legisla
ture and urged that candidates for
election be required to declare them
‘selves on it.
~ Free Government Threatened.
~ Governor Clements’ proclamation
‘asserted that “as it stands and is in
‘terpreted by the supreme court to
day the federal ‘constitution threatens
‘the foundation of free popular govern
'ment.”
| The seventeenth amendment to the
constitution, he said, had been lobbied
;through congress and state legi.sla
tures by federal agents, and the eigh
teenth amendment had been forced
‘lthrough by “powerful and irresponsi
'ble organizations, operating through
| paid agents.”
“It is now proposed to force through
'the nineteenth amendment for woman
'suffrage in the same manner and also
without the sanction of the freémen.
“] have been asked to overlook
these considerations as a matter of
party expediency, but this is a mat
ter of principle, not expediency, and
the party that imvades a well estab
lished principle of popular govern
ment will suffer to the end.”
RAW SILK CHEAPER
STOCKINGS HIGHER
WATERMELONS IN THE LUXURY
CLASS, AND SMALL APPLES
SELL AT ELEVEN CENTS EACH
WASHINGTON.—SiIk 'is coming
down and silk hose are going up. This
is explained by the fact that there
isn’t much silk in a pair of hose, but
’the demand is strong and the-better
elass of hose is a most formidable
]competitor for cotton hose, cotton
sigll being high.
"But it doesy’t make much difference
‘nowadays how much raw commodi
ties come down, as as most of the
price of everything is profit.
There was a time when one could
buy a large watermelon for ten cents.
The latest advance in food prices in
Washington is 11 cents each for ap
ples.
If this keeps up the watermelon
11-DAWSON .1 ..o oo
party will become extinct and when
one invites guests to his home the in
vitations will say,. as an inducement
for the guests to accept, “we will cut
an apple.” 1
Some restaurants recently quit serv
ing potatoes on account of the price,
and now apple pie has jumped to
15 and 20 cents in ordinary restau
rants, and 30 and 50 cents in others
that boast of more “class.” . i
Surgeon Cuts Flesh From His
Own Thigh to Save Wife’s Limb
R i e ——— it
Calmly Discusses With Doctors Technic of Operation
as He Performs Sacrifice of Love.
CHICAGO.—With a hand as steady
as though he were performing the
simplest of operations Dr. Orlando P.
Scott, a well. known surgeon of Chi
cago, Friday calmly rested on a hos
pital table at his wife’s bedside and
cut strip after strip of flesh from his
own thighs and grafted them onto his
wife’s foot and ankle.
_ The entire operation, outdoing the
greatest story of heroism from the
Spartan legends, was performed with
out the single administration of an
anaesthetic. Not once did Dr. Scott
wince in pain as he drove the sur
geon’s knife into his flesh.
As speedily as he sliced a strip of
flesh from his body he coolly per
|formed the difficult work of grafting
it upon his wife’s limb, while a fellow
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1920
FISH LIARS, ATTENTION!
CLEAR LAKE, S. D.—June
16. This city has been practi
cally isolated, except from the
west, as a result of the torrents
of rain which have fallen during
the past few days. In all direc
tions from the city roads and
bridges have been washed out
and small streams have been
turned into raging rivers. Hun
dreds of acres of farm land are
under water and in many in
stances the crops have been en
tirely washed oute
The lake here has gone over
its banks and surrounding farms
were flooded with fish of all de
scriptions. The fish have de
voured corn and other grainss in
the fields and some claim that
the water rose so rapidly that
many fish were actually drown
ed as a result of the great down
pour of rain. The Rock Island
railroad lost long stretches of
track and road bed in the vicin
ity of Clear Lake and at Brandt,
south of here.
STATISTICS SHOW MORE POUNDS
OF TUBERS THAN ANY OTH
ER FOOD ARE CONSUMED.
More pounds of potatoes than of
any other food are consumed by the
European and English-speaking peo
ples as a whole. All our forty-eight
states can grow potatoes, and yields
of 100 to 200 bushels an acre, with
as much as 800 bushels in fancy farm
ing, put to shame the fourteen to
twenty bushels of wheat grown on an
acre.
' And yet commission merchants ad
mit that potatoes are the highest
thing in the market. In the seven
year period from 1913 they have in
‘creased in retail price 353 per cent.
‘ln 1916 consumers were alarmed at
isl'Bo a bushel, but this season $6 a
lbushel and 35 to 40 cents a quart pack
|prevail. :
l People talk of coal famine, sugar
| famine, and they are bad enough. But
{the real thing is a potato famine. For
example, Ireland’s in 1848. The Ger
mans during the war feared no eco
| nomic disaster like a failure of the
potato crop. Realizing the vital po
sition of potatoes, Germany raises
about twice as j v bushels to the
acre as we do, and'gree or four times
our total. And the German consump
tio, in some places, where they live
on potatoes as some Orientals do on
rice, is twenty-five bushels a year per
person, while our consumption is only
three or four bushels per capita.
I Poor Crop in 1916.
~ Potatoes won respect in 1916 when
ia poor American crop of 286,953,000
' bushels was flirting around $2 a bush
fel. The next crop of 442,108,000
| bushels eased the situation. In 1918
‘tHe country produced 400,800,000 bush
iels, and last year 385,000,000. Com
i pared with the increased demand, it lis
{easy to see why three-bushel barrels
new from the South should bring $25
| wholesale, and old potatoes bring $8
4a hundred pounds. The coming of the
new crop is moderating the prices, but
| they are still high beyond all compam
son with other years.
The world’s potato crop averages
about 5,471,000,000 bushels. Jln 1915
it was 3,044,314,000 bushels, but in
1916 it was only 1,720,356,000, which
accounts for the high prices at that
' time. “The United States crop for
1915 was 359.721,000 bushels, but with
the rest of the world dropped down
in 1916 to 286,955,000 bushels.
In 1917 the United States produced
444,108,000 bushels (that same year
Germany raised 1,580,000,000), in
1918, 400,106,000; in 1919, 358,000,000.
‘The United States Department of
Agriculture has received reports in
‘dicating that the acreage planted for
potatoes this year will be 5 per cent
jess than last year. Michigan reports
90 per cent, but California 110 per
cent., and the average less.
Aroostock County, Me., without
any comparison in this country as to
potato fame, yields on an average
more than 200 bushels to the acre,
while New York, Pennsylvania and
New Jerséy get only half as much
per acre.
True, a potato is 75 per cent water,
but it has also 18.8 per cent starch
and 3.2 per cent sugar. A pound has
a food value of eight eggs, one-fifth
pint of milk or seven ounces of bréad.
physician stood by him andedressed
‘his wounds.
Dr. Scott’s act of love and self-sac
rifice was performed to save his wife
from disfigurement and possible loss
of her right leg.
The injury to Mrs. Scott was the
result of an automobile accident six
weeks ago, when, accompanying her
husband on an emergency call, the
Scott machine crashed into another
machine. Her right leg was crushed
and the flesh was str'nged from it in
jong gashes. Later gangrene set in,
and it was decided t*te a skin graft
ing operation would necessary to
avoid amputation.
A number of physicians and nurses
}gathened in the hospital room where
the operation was performed.
INGREAGE 15 GERTAIN
|
THE INTERSTATE COMMERCEE
~ CCMMISSION WILL BOOST THE
EARNINGS OF CARRIERS. |
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: |
FAVORS 24-31 PER CENTE
PN |
May Also Act on Railroads’ Plan to
Increase Passenger Fares to Extent |
Necessary to Bring in 5300,000,000 i
Additional Income. |
In order to increase railroad earn-i
ings in the United States to the ex
tent necessary to provide a six per!
cent, return on property invested, as
authorized in the transportation act,
advances in railroad rates of 24 to
31 per cent. will be made by the In
terstate Commerce Commission. '
The commission, which has con
cluded its hearings, has made no of
ficial statement, but unofficially it/
hag been learned that the commis
sion is prepared or is preparing to
grant the following increases:
Increases Vary in Territories
Official classification territory
cast of the Migsissippi and north of
thre Ohio, 30 per cent. |
Southern classification territory,l
inclnding Kentucky, 31 per cent. |
. Western classification territory, 241
per cent,
. The freight rate incresse will |
crease gross receipts of the rail
roads approximately $1,170,000,000,
it is estimated.
Increased wages to railroad em-i
ployees, which will increase the oper
ating expenses approximately $600,-
000,000, are expected to be granted
by the Railroad Labor Board and the‘
commission is planning to take cog
nizence of this award. ‘
- Proposed Passenger Rate Increase 1‘
: M small increase in passenger
rates will increase the revenues by
between $250,000,000 and $300,000,-
000, or about half of the increase
in wages, is understood to bLe provid
ed in a plan presented by railroad
()Wll_Cl'S__' § e &
The increased efficiency of opera
tion expected to result from a return
to work of employes by reason of the
higher scale of wages will insure "a
return in revenue to the extent nec
‘essary to absorb the difference in
‘the cost of operation, according to the
‘hopes of members of the Interstate
Comerce Commission and represen
;mtives of the railroads.
PEACH CROP ONLY
i . :
" ABOUT 4,500 CARS
| »
z e s
|
'GROWERS - REDUCE BY HALF
. ESTIMATES OF 8,100 CARS
| 'MADE EARLY IN SEASON
' According to present indications
'the 1920 peach crop will be 3,027 cars
'short of the estimate made by the
Georgia Fruit Exchange at the begin
ning of the season, and 2,677 cars less
than 1919’s car shipment, peach men‘i
say. At the beginning of the season
8,100 cars were considered a conserva
tive estimate, but wfth\the movement
already 1,391 cars less than last year
it is believed that 4,673 cars is the
maximum number that will be shipped
from Geo[gia this year. The total,
number of cars shipped in 1917 was!
7’350. T b ! S Sl A o,
| The Georgia Belles wil! be 720 cars
short of the 1,800 estimate, and the
' Elbertas will be 1,380 cars less the
12,300 estimate, peach men state. Geor
' gia Belles are bringing $1.50 to $4 a
'crate, and Elbertas are quoted at $2.50
to $3.50.
.~ The largest shipment for the year
was Saturday, when 220 cars were
moved.
| Can’t Sell Belles.
Peach growers are unable to find
much of a local market for their
Georgia Belles, which are being ship
ped this week. Visiting growers say
the commission merchants with few
exceptions have left for their north
ern homes and the growers are hav
ing to consign most of their fruit.
The cause of the departure of so
many of the buyers is the bad carry
ing qualities of the peaches shipped
so far.
The only peach man making money
this year will be the man who sold by
the basket or sold his crop by the
crate f. 0. b. the loading track. The
canning factories are fiaving a big
year. They are being offered the
remainder of the crops of a great
many of the growers at a small price
and are usirg as much of the crop as
posible to handle.
If the showers continue for two or
three days very little of the Elberta
crop, which is far below normal, will
be picked and the fruit will be left on
the trees to rot.
PERFUMES WILL COST
ONE DOLLAR A DROP
Cost of Flower Production Causes Big
Rise in Parisian Prices
- Parisian reports .indicate that the
more penetrating perfumes are short
ly to cost $1 a drop.
The cost of producing flowers is
said to be the reason for the rise in
price. A pound of jasmgin perfume
requires 35,000 jasmin bushes; 5,000
rose buthes produce but a pound of
rose extract, and it is necessary to
glean the plants in a plot thirty miles
square in order to procure a pound of
violet essence.
GRACIOUS, BO! WHEN DOES
Eight Million Bottles of Baron De
Mumm’s Best Champagne Will Be
Sold at Auction.
PARlS.—Eight million bottles of
champagne will be among the items
on the list. of commodities to be plac
ed on sale January 28, when the se
questered property of Baron Walter
De Mumm will be auctioned off. This
property was seized in 1915 subse
quent to the baron’s resumption of
German citizenship when the war be
gan.
The number of bottles in the baron’s
cellars in the vicinity of Rheims,
where the sales will take place, was
greatly diminished during the war.
When General Ludendorff was making
her furious drives toward Rheims and
Epernay the wine cellers were used
as shelters for the troops and the men
were given almost priceless wine with
their meals.
In addition to the bottled wines
there are 500,000 litres of wine in
casks, these being stored in ware
houses, mansions and ¢ottages, as well
as secret hiding places beneath vine
yards in the champagne country.
COUNTRY SLOWING _
UP NOW :
LUXURY TAXES PAST MONTH!
SHOW BIG DROP IN AMOUNT ..
SPENT ON FRIVOLITIES.
WASHlNGTON.—lndications that
the American public is gradually ta
pering off its luxury buying appeared
in reports gathered from various gov
ernment departments today.
At the internal revenue bureau it
was shown that many classes of lux
ury taxes have shown a sharp falling
off in the last few months.
At the treasury it was said that lib
‘erty bond sales are on the “increase,
many banks reporting difficulty in
getting enough bonds of the smaller
denominations to supply the demand
of customers. |
i The commerce department reports
'show that importations of cut and un
cut diamonds which totalled 85,164
‘!karats in ‘May, 1919, dropped to 17,-
986 karats in May, 1920. At the same
‘department it was said that 5,000
ldiamond cutters are idle in Antwerp
because of the dropping off~of* pur-
Echases by this country. |
. Luxury taxes for May this year
compared with collections in May 1919
| chow a drop. Taxes on sales on per
fumes and cosmetics dropped about
30 per cent, collections on autos for
i hire showed drop of about 80 per
{cent; those on candy sales dropped
'about 100 per cent; soft drink sales
taxes dropped @ like amount, and
taxes on yachts and motor boats fell
off 25 per cent.
Sales of these articles are indica
,tive of the surplus in the American
pocketbook after necessities are pur
'chased. They are bought only after
| necessities are obtained in ample pro
portion.
.~ Many luxury expenditures, however,
still are running at the same rate as
usual since the armistice when the
wave of national extravagence began..
’Thoater admissions have not yet'be
gun to show a decline, according to
\tax receipts.
- Speculation is beginning to slack
off, according to tax receipts on brok
erage businesses. In May this tax
netted the government only $52,113,
as compared with $114,700 for the
corresponding month one year ago.
Economic experts studying the re
turns to the various departments to
day ssid they may indicate that
Americans are beginning to save
money or they may mean that the
present prices of food, shelter and
clothing are taking so large a share
of the earnings of the American fami
ly that there is nothing left for
luxuries.
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;GEORGIA BACHELOR
| SEEKING AN HEIRESS
!Southerner Wants Good Looking
' Bride, Widow or Spinster, No Chil
dren, and a Dowry of $lOO,OOO
' One hundred thousand dollars is all
that C. J. Rooney, bachelor, 5§ years
'old, of Augusta, Ga., asks to marry
'a widow or spinster, between 40 and
45 years old, who has no children and
possesses an average supply of good
looks. The southerner wants it under
stood that, unless the lady appeals to
‘him temperamentally he will have
‘nothing to do with her, not even if she
‘should have a dowry of a billion dol
\lars. :
Mr. Rooney has written to the” A
tlantic City (N. J.) publicity bureau
’for aid in finding a model wife. He
'says he is a college graduate, with the
‘highest endorsements, but poor.
Therefore, he demands the dowry of
tsloo,ooo at the moment of the mar
'riage ceremony.
“This is a business matter and the
Jady can have a divorce and half her
'money back any day she chooses to
ask for it,” he wrote.
MORE THAN 10,000 CLERKS
Congress Refused to Make an Appro
priation to Pay Them
Ten thousand clerks will leave
Washington within the next two
weeks, as a result of the reduction in
government activities enforced by ap
propriations for the new fiscal year.
More than 5,000 employes were dis
charged from the war department
during June and the number to be re
leased in July is estimated at 3,000.
In other departments there will alsc
bé reductions. ; ;
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VOL. 38.—N0. 46
RIVAL POLITICAL CHIEF'S
SEEK THE VQTES OF WOMEN,
27,000,000 OF WHOM WILL BE
ELECTORS IN NOVEMBER
MANEUVERING HAS BEGUN
Republicans Placed Five Women on
National Executive Committee;
Democrats Countered With a Fifty-
Fifty Proposition. Party Fate at
Stake in Coming Election . ;
Will Hayes and Judge Moore, na
tional chairmen of the two parties,
have gone a-wooing. They are dead
ly rivals., But it is not the hand of
one lady fair they seek. They are
courting on a wholesale basis, and if
the truth must be told they are out to
win not the hearts, but the votes of
27,000,000 women.
Hays, as the chairman of the Re
publican National committee, is try
ing to out-Lochinvar Moore, the
chairman of the Democratic National
committee, and each man has enlisted
his entire political family to help him
out in the contest.
Looking for “Steady Company.”
Both men feel that the “girlhood
lover” of the political ingenues, who
are going to vote in November for
the first time, will prove to be the
“steady company” of the future, and
for that reason as well as the 1920
election they are vieing with each
other for first choice.
Mr. Hays is understood to have
made a good impression when he ap
peared in Washington with a box of
bonbons in the form of five new places
on the Republican executive commit
tee, which he donated to the ladies.
. Women Vote a Big Factor
Seriously speaking, and it is very
serious for the rival political mana
gers, Republicans and Democrats
alike are devoting more thought to
how they can capture the so-called
woman vote than to any other phase
of the political battle.
It is now regarded as certain that
the woman’s suffrage amendment to
the United States constitution will
have been ratified by the thirty-sixth
state before the presidential election
\in November, and under such.condfli
| tions 27,000,000 will have the right to
vote. :
f lgnder state suffrage laws now on
the statute books approximately 16,-
000,000 women have the right to vote
at pregidential elections, and with
the federal amendmentsratified by the
required three-fourth of the states
} 11_,000,000 more in non-suffrage states
'will be added to that number.
Republicans Recognized Issue.
There were 26 women delegates and
124 women alternates sitting in the
Republican national convention at Chi
cago. There were 104 women dele
gates and 204 women alternates sit
ting in the Democratic national con
vention at San Francisco.
“Equal rights does not mean equal
representation,” was a familiar say
ing at Chicago when suffragists were
there demanding they be given the
same number of places on the national
committee as the men had. “Equal
rights means equal opportunities,”
they were told, and the managers ad
vised the women that if they wanted
places on the national committee they
must go out and compete for them
with the men. They must make cam
paigns.
Democrats Raise the “Ante.”
Democrats at San Francisco de
clare their party made a ten-strike in
permitting each state in the union to
have one man and one woman mem
‘ber on the national committee. There
‘are no women on the present Republi
can national committee.
Until two weeks ago, when the Re
publican executive committee was in
creased from 10 to 15 members, there
had never been a woman member of
that body, but the five new places
‘were filled by Chairman Hays with
‘women of national prominence. In
‘addition, Mrs. Harriett Taylor Up
ton, of Warren, 0., was made vice
‘chairman of the executive committee,
and it is understocd she will have
‘exclusive charge of the work of that
committee as it relates to winning the
votes of women.
Republicans generally are stressing
the fact that of the 35 states which
have ratified the federal suffrage
amendment to date, 26 were predomi
nantly Republican, three evenly divid
ed and only six are overwhelmingly
Democratic. Now both Democrats
and Republicans are bending every
enrgy to get the one #%dditional state
necessary if women are to get suf
frage under the federal amendment.
BOTH NOMINEES ARE
FRIENDLY, BRITISH THINK
London Newspapers Comment on the
Nominations for President
LONDON.—The British newspa
pers, commenting on the nomination
of Governor Cox, point out both the
Democratic and Republican presiden
tial nominees “are friendly toward
Great Britain, and neither seems’
ready to follow President Wilson's
lead in European affairs.”
The Washington correspondent of
the Times calls the selection of Gov
ernor Cox “a blow to the White
House.” :
Educated Women Don’t Marry. :
It bhas been calenlated that only
about 35 per cent of the women honor
students of the universities marry.