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gy E. L. RAINEY
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CIDER AND GRAPE JUICES FOR
INDIVIDUAL USES DECLARED
LEGAL BY REVENUE BUREAU.
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Decision Brings Up Several lmpm-t-’l
ant Questions. Prohibition Officer
plans Flying Squadron for. Gather
ing Evidence in Big Cities.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The timid
ousewife, who has been making
plackberry and scuppernong wine
and other home brews with one
eve on the brewing jar and the other
on the front door with uneasy expec
tation that a prohibition enforce
ment officer might appear need have
no further fear, The-internal reve-‘
nue bureau rendered a decision on
gaturday that in effect lifts the gov-‘
ernment ban on manufacture of
drinks brewed for home consumption'
that may contain more than the %
of 1 per cent of alcohol allowed by
the Volstead law.
But while these home brews may
not be limited in alcoholic content to
1, of 1 per cent of kick, they must
be “non-intoxicating” beverages. 'Thel
internal revenue bureau holds that
«ponintoxicating,” as laid down in
the Volstead act, means non-intoxica
tion in fact, and indicates thereby
that some drinks that contain more
than the prescriped % of 1. per cent,
while they may cheer, will not inebri
ate. :
Beer Not Mentioned.
The decision applies especially to
cider and fruit juices. Nothing is
<aid about home brewed beers. Be
fore going further it should be under
<tood that the home brews covered by
the decision must be drunk at home.
Home brewed cider may be sold, how
ever, to any person having a permit
to manufacture vinegar, and it is al
<o provided that if cider and fruit
juice made at home are preserved at
the time they are made it will be per
missable to sell them.
The decision suggests an effort, to
make a practical application of the so
called moist plank that was contained
in the first draft of the democratic
party’s national platform adopted at
®an Francisco. This draft was pre
vared by Senator Carter Glass of
Virginia, who was subsequently
elected chairman of the convention’s
committee on resolutions, which pre
pared the platform adopted.
Moist Plank Idea.
The first draft moist plank, while
condemning the saloon and favoring
the enforcement of the Volstead act
with a promise of adequate monetary
appropriations to carry out its pro
visions, declared that the party was
opposed to “vexatious invasion of the
privacy of the home” in that enforce
ment,
~ This plank, which was rejected by
the resolutions committee, was in
terpreted to mean that while the
democratic party acknowledged that
prohibition had come to stay and
must be maintained by the govern
ment, it should not be so rigorously
enforced as to interfere with the de
sire of a private citizen to make in
toxicating brews in his own home
:‘}‘llth the intention of consuming them
gre.
~ The ruling announced en Saturday
is expected to bring forward several
important questions revolving around
the problem of how much alcohol
may be contained in home brew to
give a kick. The effect of the de
cision, however, is to suggest that the
government has no intention to make
inquisatorial to private homes of re
spectable people suspected of making
h}*m;- brews for private use exclu
sively,
No “First-Aid” Liquor.
Under a ruling of the commissioner
of internal revenue, William H. Wil
liams, workmen in factories and in
dustry generally must not be given a
drink of whiskey as a “first aid
treatment,
Secretary of the Treasury Hpuston
has approved the ruling, which re-
Peals section 74, regulations 60, au
thorizing procurement of liquors for
use in “first aid” treatment at manu
facturing, industrial and other estab
lishments,
It has been the custom of the at
tendant surgeons at “first aid” sta
tons at all industrial establishments
o administer liquor in medicinal
quantities as' a temporary stimulant
to the men or women who have been
Njured while at work, and who are
awaiting transporation to a hospital.
Hereafter the patient must wait until
the ambulance arrives. l
Doesnt’ Affect Georgia.
The above ruling does not any
way change conditions in Georgia.
The state law makes it a crime to
manufacture or have in possession a
beverage of any kind of intoxicating
Nature,
NEW COUNTY OF BRANTLEY
IS CREATED BY LEGISLATURE
Will Be Made of Parts of Pierce,
Wayme and Charton Counties.
The legislature has passed a consti
!Utonal amendment creating the
(Junty of Brantley. It had previous
¥ the passed the senote.
Brantley county will have an area
of 435 square miles, to be taken from
‘e counties as follows: 215 square
{les from Pieree, 235 square miles
from Wayne ana '23 square miles
‘Tom Charlton.
UNCLE SAME HAS MADE
UP RAILROAD DEFICITS
Government Paid Approximately
$225,000,000 in Three Months
After Act Went Into Effect.
The government paid approximate
ly $225,000,000 to make up the rail
road deficit in the three months after
March 1, when the new transporta
tion act went into effect. If the defi
cit continues at the same rate for the
remaining three months of the guar
anty period the fiovemment will be
out approximately $450,000,000.
A summary for the month of May
showed a deficit of $7,226,964 in net
railway operating income for all class
of roads, except the Pennsylvania
and the Burlington, and a few small
roads. .
TARIFF ON PEANUTS
SOUTHERN GROWERS CALL UP-‘
ON CONGRESS TO SAVE THEM
FROM FOREIGN PRODUCT.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The ple
bian but popular peanut was held
l7~gely responsible by both republi
<o, +d democratic leaders here for
the 9’l’o ‘aned invasion by the re
publicari®y, “e “solid south.”
Southern | »s engaged in pea
nut growing ar. anding a pro
tective tariff to save from the
menace of rapidly incre. impor
‘tations of cheap peanut products
%from China and India, rendered pos
sible by the “free trade” the demo
cratic “‘solid south” has always
stood for, it was pointed out.
‘At the recent convention of the
Peanut Growers’ Association at Nor
folk, Va., resolutions were adopted
unanimously ¢alling upon congress |
to lose no time in enacting such a
protective tariff law as soon as it
reconvenes in December. |
Notice was also served that the
association, with which many south
ern planters are identified, would op
pose for election to congress any
one who did not offer definite assur
ance that he would support the erec
tion of a tariff wall to shut out pea
nut importations from the American
market.
The republicans contend that if
southern planters who are democrats
place themselves on record as favor
ing a protective tariff for one
American industry they and south
ern members of congress can not
consistently oppose protection for
other industries in which their north
ern and western neighbors are inter
ested.
Because of the devastation
wrought by the bool weevil an im
mense acreage. of the south once de
’voted to cotton has been turned over
to peanut growing. Southern plant
ers expected to reap large profits
from their peanut crops this year.
The total farm value of the peanut
crop in the Wnited States for last
year was estimated at $80,000,000. i
$600,000 IS VOTED
HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COM
MITTEE REPORTS FAVORABLY
ADDITIONAL MONEY BILLS.
Confronted by appropriation re
quests aggregating $2,730,000 and
with the report of the sub-committee
to the effect that there is not suffi
cient revenue in sight for 1920 to pay
appropriations already made the
house appropriations committee has
reported favorably bille aggregating]
about $600,000.
The largest item in the list was
$300,000 additional maintenance for
the state sanitarium at Milledgeville.
It was shown that officials of the in
stitution were already in debt to Mil
ledgeville banks in excess of $lOO,-
000, which they were -compelled to
borrow to keep the institution going.
The next largest item was $125,000,
which is additional to the appropria
tion of the Georgia Tech, made last
year. This doubles the sum origin
ally given Tech.
Other bills which received favor
able action were: University of
Georgia (proper), repairs, $25,000;
maintenance, $25,000; insurance $4,-J
500; State College of Agriculture,
maintenance, $20,000; new water
system for fire protection $25,000. {
SMELIL NOT SUFFICIENT T 0
CONVICT IN PROHIBITION CASE
So Holds Dnited States Commissioner Skinner in a-Case at
Augusta. “Guilty But Not Proven,” Says Judge in An
nouncing Decision in Unqsual Cri_mnalt'liroc?‘e_c‘l_ing:‘ A i
AUGUSTA, Ga.—There is still
balm in Gilead.
Georgia law-makers did 2 pretty
thorough job with their bone-dry
prohibition legislation, but they over.
looked one point in clamping the lid
on so tight that a man is afraid to
look like he wants a drink for fear he
will be arrested. :
Citizens of this commonwealth still
enjoy the privilege of carrying
around with them breaths fragrant
with the odor of the juice of the corn
or the essence of rye.
U. S. Commissioner Skinner yes
terday morning dismissed a warrant
THE DAWSON NEWS
CHARGE FEDERAL PATRONAGE‘
AND PARTY PRESSURE ON
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE.
DESTROYS STATE RIGHTS
Declare If Amendment Is Ratified
Republicans Will Pass a Force Bill
' and South Need Expect No Mercy.
Plead for Local Self-Government.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Governor
Cox was requested today to grant a
hearing to the women of the south on
questions of “state rights and party
honor,” in a telegram sent to the
democratic presidential nominee by
‘the Southern Women’s League for
Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony
Amendment, It was signed by Mrs.
!James S. Pickard of Montgomery,
Ala., president general of the league.
The message declared that the
“home-loving women of the south,
who do not picket, card-index or
blackmail candidates, appeal to you
as the leader of the democratic
party to grant us a hearing, not on
woman suffrage, which any state can
adopt for itself without changing a
comma of the federal constitution,
but on two fundamental principles,
state rights and party honor.”
“Political Conscription.”
The appeal was made. the message
continued, because it was proposed to
bring “about the political conscrip
tion of our womanhood and the de
struction of southern civilization by
using federal patronage and party
pressure to coerce the legislators of
Tennessee into violating their solemn
oaths of office and their state consti
tution.”
Suffragists were boasting, the ap
peal said, that Governor Cox had
sent secret agents into Tennesseei
“not only to destroy state rights but
to urge legislators to dishonor their‘
oaths of office.” '
The suffrage plank in the demo~‘
cratic platform was declared to con-|
demn the women of the south and
the majority of the women of the
country withoat a hearing and was
characterized as a “studied insult to
the women of the south” implying a
desire to “read out” of the democrat
ic party the entire south because it
,opposed ratification of the suffrage
amendment.
| “Is the south to understand that
the democratic party, whose very ex
istence is due to the loyalty of the
south,- now intends to treat with
utter contempt those who have lifted
it to power?” the appeal questioned.
Force Bill Threatened.
Declaring that the south was “fully
aware that it can expect no mercy 'if
this amendment is ratified,” the mes
sage said that the republican party
| would pass a force bill, but continued
'that the democratic party, “judging
from its ruthless verdict against the
south at San francisco, equally in
dorses complete federal control of
every southern voting booth.”
Declaring that the league was
pledged to perpetuate the memory of
the “men who died for states’ right”
and to fight for local self-govern
ment, the appeal te Governor Cox*de
clared that if “aghinst solemn protests
and earnest petitions we are forced
to become the political conscripts of
a federalist empire we are fully de
termined to use the very weapon of
the ballot that is thrust into our
hands to drive from public office all
these who are guilty of the destruc
tion of sovereign states.” R
Governor Cox was entreated to ex
tend to southern women “seeking
neither votes nor offices” fair con
sideration before casting his lot with
a “small group of pickets whose
chosen symbol is a badge represent
ing their jail terms for persecuting a
democratic president.” :
FORTY BRASS BANDS AT
COX NOTIFICATION AUG. 7
A new feature arranged for the
notifieation ceremonies, which will be
at Dayton on August Tth, is the mass
ing of forty or more brass bands,
headed by the Rainbow Division band
and the Meteor Band of Piqua, Ohio,
for the playing enmasse of ‘“Ohio”
and other songs which were used in
the Cox campaign at San Francisco.
The Piqua band was the red coated
organization which won national
prominence at the convention,
against James D. Jones, of 818
Young street, charged with violating
the prohibition law, on the ground
that the evidence against him was
solely that a demijohn in a room in
his residence smelled strongly of corn
whisky.
“Guilty, but not proved,” were the
words of the judge in announcing
his decision. ‘“No, sir,” said His
Honor in commenting on the case,
“we are not holding them in this
court on smell alone. More evidence
than that will have to be furnished
to make this court bind over a man
for trespassing upon the prohibition
statutes.”
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING,; AUGUST 3, 1920
PLENTY
Bogey of Gas Shortage Dispelled
By Latest Report of Bureau of
Mines. Ahead of Demand.
Gasoline supplies are increasing na
tionally and on the Pacific coast, ac
cording to bureau of mines figures
and the American Petroleum insti~
tute.
The bogey of shortage is being dis
pelled by t{e official reports which
show that during April, the latest
month for which there are figures,
production of gasoline was 2,829,931
gallons ahead of the demand.
Consumption was 8,591,912 gal
lons. Reserve stocks increased to
643,552,644 gallons, which showed a
considerable gain on the March figure
of 626,393,046 gallons in reserve.
$8,000,000 PROFIT
FROM “SHOESTRING”
BOSTON MAN ' STUMBLES ON
WAY TO WIN WEALTH FROM
POSTAGE STAMPS.
BOSTON.—Startng with a “shoe
string” and cleaning up $8,000,000
in a few short weeks, all in a perfect
ily legitimate manner and in a way
that was open to anybody who was
bright enough to seize the opportuni
ty, reads a bit like wizardry.
Yet that is what Charles Ponzi, an
Italian resident of this city, has done,
and in addition has made millions for
his elients.
His scheme is so simple and so
safe one wondgrs why everybody else
overlooked it. Ponzi admits himself
that he stumbled on it by accident.
He simply buys international cou
pons, which are exchangeable into
stamps, taking eare to buy where the
rates of exchange are such that $l.OO
of American currencv is really worth
$4.00 or more. By so doing he gets
$4.00 or mote for every dollar he in
vests, and is able to pay his clients
iwho place money with him to invest
50 per cent in forty-five days on
I their money. » , :
“I buy international coupons in
great lots, by the hundred of thous
ands, by the millions,”” he said, “and
exchange them for postage stamps.
The idea came to me last August,
when T was contemplating issuing an
export publication. I had written to
a person in Spain in relation to my
proposed publication. and in reply re
ceived an international coupon, which
1 was to exchange for United States
postage stamps 3ith which to send a
copy of the publfcation. Well, the
coupon in Spain ecost approximately
the equivalent of 1 cent in United
States money. I got 6 cents in
stamps for that coupon here. By the
international postal agreement, the
coupon is issued as a convenience.”
FERTILIZER INSPECTORS
i|LEGISLATURE ALSO FAVORS IN
‘ COME TAX AND THE PRO
| TECTION OF BEES. .
I Patronage for members of the
Georgia senate is provided in the bill
of Senator Wilkinson, favorably rec
ommended to the senate by the com
‘mittee on agriculture. It provides
tfor the appointment of fifty-one fer
tilizer inspectors, one for each sena
!toria] district, to receive salaries of
| $lOO a month and expenses four
‘months of each year, and $4 a day
and expenses when working during
the rest of the year by direction of
the state commissioner of agricul-i
ture. |
This committee also reported fa
vorably a bill to require a copy of the i
bill of sale on all transactions in cat
tle to be filed with the ordinary. The |
measure was introduced by Senatorl
Kendall, and its purpose is to act as a |
deterrent to cattle thieves by making
it difficult for them to dispose of ani
mals. It also requires that when
dressed beef is offered for sale the
hide, with ears attached, shall be ex
hibited to the purchaser and the bill
of sale filed with the ordinary. Sales
of carload lots of cattle are ex
fi{rlllpted from the provisions of the‘
ill.
I Counties to Get Motor Money.
Without debate the Knight resolu
tion, which seeks to distribute $l,-
821,039.57 of the motor vehicle tax
fund among the counties of the state
consistent with the post road mile
age, has passed the house 124 to 54.
The measure caused one of the bitter
’est fights of the session, and stub
born opposition is expected in. the
senate frem advocates of the money
remaining in the hands of the high
way commission.
Two important general measures
that have been introduced are bills by
the Meriwether delegation to abolish
the office of attorney for the high
way board, which is held now by J.
H. Quincey, and to abolish the office
of attorney for the state railroad
commission, which is held by Judge
J. K. Hines. Provision is made in
each of the bills for the legal busi
ness of the above mentioned boards
to be attended to by the attorney
general of the state. 1
" Bees Protected. 1
Destruction of hives ~of bees in
fected with “foul brood” and quaran
tine to prevent the spread of disease
is authorized in a bill drawn by the
Georgia Beekeepers Association andl
introduced by Senator Watson. The
state board of entomology is required
to enforce the law.
NEW CHAIRMAN OF NATIONAL
COMMITTEE SAYS ALL DEMO
CRATS ARE RALLYING. |
WILL BLAZE OWN TRAIL
Speaking of White House Confer
ence, George White Says Governor
Will Explain It All Aug. 9. Peace,
Progress and Prosperity Slogan.
WASHINGTON. “Peace, prog
ress, prosperity,” has been adopted
by democrats as the party slogan in
thescampaign.
This announcement was made by
George White, new chairman of the
democratic national committee and
manager of Governor Cox’s cam
paign, shortly after he had taken
charge of party headquarters. |
White characterized Governor Cox
as the “new leader of the party,
‘around whom all are rallying.” Me-
Adoo, he said, at a conference in
‘New York, had .offered his services
‘and would take the stump in behalf of
iCnx. He lunched with Senator Pat
Harrison of Mississippi, who gmade
the same offer and was accepted. At
torney General Palmer and others
have volunteered, he said.
Talks of Conference.
Speaking of the Wilson-Cox con
ference at the white house in answer
to a reoprt that the governor was
trying to “get away from” its effects
as stated in some newspapers, White
said the Ohioan woull undoubtedly
make his position clear in his speech
of acceptance.
“There was no iron-bound con
tract entered into at the conference,”
he stated. ‘“There was some elastici
ty in the statements given out.”
While he had not talked with Govern
or Cox on what the notificatign\
} speech would contain, he thought he
could say the governor would handle
the situation at that time.
White declared he had no engage
ment with the president, but would
call and pay his respects by leaving
his card.
“Wil] the democratic campaign fi,
nance committee accept donations of l
more than $1,000?” White was
asked. I
“It will,” he answered, providing
the source is all that it should be.
The source, rather than the amount,
is what concerns us most.”
Governor Cox, White declared,
would gd into most of the states in
person. He would c¢arry the fight
into the west, and into New England,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois he charac-.
terized as ‘‘the battleground.” ‘
No Cox-Wilson League Contract.
In amplifying what Governor Cox
said after the white house conference
several days ago, Chairman White
said that Governor Cox had entered
into no agreement with the president
to support the Versailles document
just as it was brought back by Mr.
Wilson.
Mr. Cox, upon his visit here, pro
duced the first live story the capital
has had in several weeks, Within
three hours after his arrival he saw
newspaper men at democratic head
quarters and told them three out
standing thing, to wit:
That there is no “iron-bound
agreement” between President Wil
son and Governor Cox on the league
of nations.
| League Not Dominant Issue.
‘ That Governor Cox is not bound to
'make the league the dominant issue
in the presemt campaign and that he
will not make it the leading issue.
That Governor Cox, and not. Presi
ent Wilson, is now the titular head of
the democratic party.
There was no defiance of the white
house in the statement of Chairman
White, but he did make it plain that,
although the president may desire the
league to be the chief issue in the
campaign, Governor Cox is under nol
obligation to make it so, and the
nominee will blaze his own trail.
He further said that in the Wilson-
Cox conference at the white house
the spirit of the league was discussed,
not its details. Governor Cox is
with the president so far as the spirit
of the league is concerned, but it was
plainly shown that he has not swal
lowed that instrument just as it is
written.
Mr. White said, indeed, that he had
heard little talk about the league in
the west.
UNPAID NOTE 2000 B. C. DE
CIPHERED AT U. P. MUSEUM
Stone Tablet Bears Ancient’s Promise to Repay Silver Shekels,
Probably Used to Purchase Female Slave. Compound ‘
Interest Would Cancel Any National Debt. |
PHILADELPHIA—A note drawn
nearly four thousand years ago and
evidently unpaid has been found
among the clay tablets at the Uni
versity Museum by Dr. Leon Legrain.
Bearing 40 per cent interest, the note
iz for four shekels in silver.
It has been computed that at sim
ple interest the sum now due is more
than 3000 shekels. If compound in
terest were charged the sum would
pay the national debt of any country
in the world, even at the end of by
far the most expeasive war in history.
The note was made by one Bur-
Mama to II Sinnutum and was dated
in “Octobe- cf the year in which
King Rim-Sin occupied the town of
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Indiana, Virginia, Kentucky and Sev
en Other States to Be Affected By
New Representation Basis.
WASHINGTON.—On the basis of
an estimated population of 106,000,-
000 for the United States in 1920, an
increase of approximately 4,000,000‘
in ten years, it will be necessary to
provide 65 or 66 additional seats in
the house, or increase the population
basis of representation beyond the
211,000 or major portion thereof now
fixed. In the latter event Indiana
Towa and Missouri would each lose
two. congressmen, and Illinois, Ken
tucky, Maine, Maryland, Nebraska,
' Vermont and Virginia would each
[1039 one, because their populations
have not increased in proportion to
’those of other states, This is the
view taken by Representative Isaac
‘Siegel, New York, chairman of the
census committee, which will frame
the new apportionment bill,
103,000,000 LIVING ON |
y ’
$2,000 YEAR OR LESS
SMALL PERCENTAGE OF POPU
.LATION PAID BULK OF $5,410-
284,874 INCOME TAX.
WASHINGTON, Approximately
103,000,000 persons are living on $2,-
000 a year or less. according to anl
analysis of income tax returns today.
~ The population of the hnited
i States is unofficially estimated at
slightly more than 105,000,000.
o The remaining 2,000,000 persons
paid the bulk of $5,410,284,874 in
federal income, excess profits and
miscellaneous taxes collected by the
federal government for the fiscal
year ended June 30 as announced to
day.
The smaller group is estimated to
include about 20,000 persons in the
millionaire class or those with in
comes of $50,000 a year or more.
This figure is used because it repre-{
sents 5 per cent on $1,000,000. Ap
proximately 4,000,000 tax returns
were filed for the year, according to
an estimate today by C. B. Hurry, as
sistant commissioner of internal rev
enue. They indicate that the average ‘
salary in teh United States is far be- |
low $2,000 a year. J
Slightly less than 2,000,000 per-“
\ sons filed returns on incomes ranging
from $l,OOO to $2,000, according to
the estimates. Two thousand dollars.
a year, therefore, represenis the
maximum income for approximately
98 per cent of the population,
According to ¢ careful study made
by the labor department not less than
}.‘52,260 is needed to maintain in “de
cency and comfort” a family of five
' in Washington.
FIGURES SHOW OUTRAGEOUS
« PROFITEERING IN MEAT.-
CONSUMER PAYS.
. MANHATTAN, Kans.—A great
‘majority of the pigs of the country
are produced in the spring of the
year and practically all of these pigs
are marketed in November, Decem
ber and January.
During the past year the farmer
was paid an average of $12.35 a hun
dred for his 1919 spring pig crop,
which means that he received $33
for a 250 pound pig that cost him
$42.50 to produce. That is the situa
tion that has confronted the pro
ducer.
The consumer who bought the
cured ham, cured shoulder, cured
bacon, fresh loin and fat back that
this 250 pound hog produced paid at
the average retail shop $77.50. This
$77.50 is paid for only 80 per cent of
the marketable portion of the hog.
It does not include the head, feet,
liver and heart, ete. Neither does it
include by products that sell $ll to
$l4 per hog.
Ninety dollars is a conservative
estimate of the amount the ulti
mate consumer paid for the hog the
farmer sold for $33. This repre
sents an increase of 200 per cent be
tween producer and consumer.
Any one familiar with the killing
of hogs and handling of meat knows
that this is an unreasonable spread.
It is simply a case of excessive
profiteering in a particularly valuable
food. |
DurDamigilishu,” which was 1962 B.
C. The instrument’s interest rate
was 20 per cent for six months.
Just what the value of a shekel of
silver was is impossible to compute
now as most transactions were in the
nature of barter, but it is known that
in those days a fine female slave
could be had for five shekels or less,
and perhaps that was what the money
was borrowed for. The silver ratio
then was about six to one compared
with gold, and it may be that a shekel
was equivalent to $lOO now.
There are four witnesses to the
note, but .as in Mesopotamia now
they are not liable; they merely certi
fy to the character of the borrower.
Twelve Pages
VOL. 38.—N0. 48
WRITER PREDICTS A STRUGGLE
BETWEN UNITED STATES
AND GREAT BRITAIN.
Would Strip France of Its Power, and
England Would Be Conaquered.
Conflict Between White and
Yellow Races Also Forecast.
BERLIN.—Three world wars, more
terrible than the struggle just ended,
are predicted in a booklet, “Die Drei
) Kommenden Kriege” from the pen of
Otto Autenreith, author, whose pres
ent work is in its tenth edition.
The three, as he portravs them in
his rather fantastic prophecy, will be:
First, between Japan and the rest
of the allies,
Second, between England and
America.
Third, between the white and the
vellow races as races,
In the first, he predicts that Japan
will be beaten worse than Germany
| was; in the second, England would be
conquered, lose her world position,
and be stripped of the monarchial
idea, while in the third, Germany—
still without seapower, but strong on
land, with rich resources and advan
tages gleaned from the other two
wars, would be the bulwark on which
the yellow hordes would break in
their march into Europe.
In preparation for its struggle with
America, England would strip France
of its power and would make a “moral
conquest” in South America, intended
to convince that continent and the
rest of the world that the United
States was the main danger to civili
zation, In the latter connection Au
tenrieth points out that England
would create the impression in South
America that English goods, ships,
diplomats and so on were superior to
all others; that England, however,
would attempt no actual inimieal op
erations there lest it have America as
an opponent at too early a stage.
And, out of the whole trio of
world struggles, Germany would
again come to a place in tle sun, ac
cording to the writer's calculations,
for she would be the supply staticn
for the others, and wax strong again
from this source vrovided she only
follows ‘the recipe of 'fulfilment of
the present peace treaty and work,
work, work. i
Incidentally, he counsels Germany
against flirting with bolshevism,
against attempting a world dictator
ship of the proletariat through incite
ment of other lands, or of a general
world change through introduction of
socialism and similar cure-alls in Ger
many. :
As for the first war, he suggests
that England would find to her own
advantage to first go against Japan,
relying upon the aid of America to
assist. This accomplished, she could
pave the way for eliminating Ameri
ca from the world fields. %Ie con
tends that America is too close a
competitor of England—more so
than, Germany was—and argues that
as “Germany had to be destroyed’”
for this reason so England will at
tempt America’s destruction.
But he regards the attempt
doomed to failure and sees America
emerge victorious.
Later the yellow race, he prophe
sies, will attempt a stroke against the
white, sweeping on through Russia,
but stopped at the German borders.
In connection with the three wars
the writer anticipates several side
conflicts, and argues that, for its
help against Japan, Germany will re
ceive favors. Particularly does he be
lieve that these favors will be made
at France’s expense as part of Eng
land’s scheme to eliminate France as
a world power and to control
France’s colonies.
TWO WERE KILLED WHEN
BOILER OF ENGINE BURST
An Eplosion Occurs on Negro Spe
cial Train Near Arlington.
J. C. Jackson, engineer, and Will
Smith, negro fireman, were instantly
killed near Alington when the boiler
of a locomotive they were piloting ex
ploted.
The train, a G. F. and A. carrying
seven coaches, was a special plying
between Bainbridge and Cuthbert. All
| the passengers, about 260, were ne
groes, None of the passengers were
injured, and with the exception of
the two killed by the explosion the
rest of the train crew escaped injury.
The boiler was torn from the en
gine by the force of the explosion
and carried nearly a hundred yards
through the air. The track was torn
up for some distance, derailing the
‘tender but none of the coaches, The
‘cause of the explosion is unknown.
ONCE NOTED DOCTOR
DIES AS A DISH WASHER
Death Reveals the Strange Secret of
Restaurant Employe.
NEW YORK.—A man who had
been employed for the last two years
as dishwasher in a restaurant here,
but who, police say, was Dr. Harry E.
Campbell, formerly a prominent
Pittsbgrgh (Pa.) physician, was
found dead in a rooming house here
last night. Two kits of surgical in
struments, diplomas from the Jeffer
sen Medical college, Philadelphia, and
the Allegheny County Medical society
and a certificate statine he was a
practicing physician in a Philadelvhia
hospital were found in his room. '