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U. S pRHOIBITION OFFICIALS
WILL ASK CONGRESS TO ACT
\1 115 NEXT SESSION. |
FTY MILLION GALLONS
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Estimated Value Is $250,000,000 and
Renewed Fight on Law .l' Expect
od. Huge Thefts of Liquor and
Battles for Possession Growing.
WASHI.\‘(;TON.——-Federa.l prohibi
fion officials here nave decided to ask
Congress 10 destroy 50,000,000 gauons;
of liquor <tored under bond. v
Prohibition Commissioner Kramgr‘
is convinced that 109 per cer'lt I.“rOhl
pition cannot be achieved whllg bond
ed warehouses, packed to capacity, ex
it in all sections of the c?unt).r as
inual temptation to law violations.
;?Exta than $500,000 worth of bonded
hooze Was stolen last week. Most of
i was taken by highwaymen, who
held up trucks n which it was being
tra“spn:".t(l from one warehouse to an
oher. In several cases battles en
sged between the highwaymen and
the whiskey truck guards, with the
result that the guards were vyounded.
Most of the liquor now being sold
Jlegally in many big cities came out
of the bonded warehouses In SOIE
mysterious manner, prohibition offi
cials admit. Federal guards are
maintained at many of the liquor
storage houses. Officials are also
finding it almost impossible to pre
vent the forging and misuse of per
mits for the purchase of bonded liquor.
If the bonded liguor were destroyed
this big difficulty would be removed,
;offivinls argue. Without iquor in
storage anywhere in the country pro
hibition enforcement would be a mat
ter of only of guarding against smug
gling and illegal manufacture or
moonshining.
Federal prohibition officias now
have no authority to destroy coniis
cated booze except where law vilations
are detected. They will put the plan
of disposition of the vast stores up
to Congress when it convenes in De
cember. This ma yprove the begin
ning of a new wet and dry fight.
It should provide a new test of
strength of the opposing forces, which
re expected to clash within a few
onths on the question of modification
{ Tt}]:e b‘(/;ol(s’tsa;i' law.
e bonded liquor is worth at least
250,000,000, or at least $5 a gallon,
according to present bootleg prices,‘
but many drys point out that the
liquor originally cost its owner much
less than $5 a gallon. Hundreds of
owners bought warehouse certificates,
drys say, after the states ratified the
prohibition amendment. The drys
contend that the public purse should
not be “looted” in this fashion. .Un-‘
der the prohibition laws the liquor
may not be exported and its sale may.
be permitted only for non-beverage‘
purposes, Drys say that twenty-five
years must pass if the liquor is to be
sold legally for mnon-beverage pur-
I’; s. They argue, therefore, that
the whisky has very slight market
{)“:"‘_’-h,‘an-,\and can be worth only a
small fraction of what it originally
cost to manufacture.
NEW YORK APARTMENT
RENTS FOR $30,000 A YEAR
Has 22 Rooms, Including Nine Baths,
And Is Finished and Furnished
Luxuriously.
Although the housing situation 1s
acute in New York City, there are
some vacant apartments which can be
rented. For instance, there is a 22-
room apartment on Fifth avenue, fac
ing Central park. The apartment has
nine baths, individual layndry and
storage rooms, spacious quarters for
servants, and at a nominal rental—a
mere matter of $30,000 a year, or
about $3.50 an hour.
Of course this is unfurnished, but
the “finish” of the apartment is of the
finest obtainable, including imported
mantels and floors of black walnut.
Even though some people might con
sider the rental a trifle exorbitant the
apartments are fearly always rented.
In fact, many of the leases were sign
éd long before the building was fin
ished. In such cases the apartents
Were divided to suit the tenant, and,
as each apartment occupies an entire
floor, it was possible to suit the taste
of each individual without interfering
With any one else.
The apartment house at 820 Fifth
avenue, where the apartments rent
from $30,000 up, is tgne most expen-
Sive one in the city. The apartments
are furnished in keeping witg the ren
tals. The most costly rugs, draperies
and furniture have been obtained.
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ONLY SPOTTED STOCK 1S
ALLOWED ON THIS FARM
Cows, Hogs, Horses, Mules and Dogs
All Have Mottled Coats.
Stoc kon the farm of W. L. Skin-
TSM' near Dunkirk, Ind., is all spotted.
Potied Poland China hogs are his
}p;rmc:pal stock, but Skinner has also
lor.\-.;,\, cattle, dogs and ducks. The
fif"" z;ddtxtti(()ins to the freckled famt:e}y
- 4 spotted mule tand a s
Seoteh Durham calf. PM é‘
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‘ MAN'S ACUTE TASTE. |
By taste man is enabled to detect
... Part of salt in 640 parts of wa
= 0}»;6(1 of quinine one part 4&n
THE DAWSON NEWS
87 LOOPS.
Miss Bromwell Sets Air Record;
Claims She Counted 100
Turns During Drop.
NEW YORK—Eighty-seven
leops in the course of a two mile
airplane drop, claimed as a world
record for women, disturbed
Miss 7 aura Bromwell just
enouglf, , “unday so her first
act afte.dl'% * was a requeSt
over the elfp e cockpit
that her maid ha. * pOW
der puff,
Then she asked the ofn.
servers how many turns tu.
counted, and when told eighty
sevein, she exclaimed that she
counted more than one hundred
herself. »
The observers explained that
weather conditions cut off their
A French woman flier had set
drop, and that she was turning
loops when she first came in
sight. :
A French womna flier had set
the previous record at twenty
five, they said.
LOST
U.S. GIRLS -
MANY OF THEM ARE WIVES OF
CHINESE IN TOWNS JUST
OVER THE BORDER.
NEUVO LAREDO, Mexico.—“ The
Port of Missing Women,” .
* That describes this little Mexican
dobe town, perched on the edge of the
cactus desert of Nuevo Leon.
Here, according to U. S. immigra
tion officers on the botder, can be
found “lost girls” from every section
of the United States. -
Some are young and beautiful. They
are the “new girls.”
Others are ill, withered women long
since forgotten back in the country
they love but never hope to see.
Most of them are white wives of
Orientals—girls who through love of
adventure married Chinese.
“Girls’ Fault,” He Says.
“Never in the history of Mexico
have so many white girls come to mar
ry Chinese,” says Pedro Mendoza, po
lice secretary here.
“The girls, not the men, are to
blame,” he claims. “Never does the
Chinaman seek a wife out of his own
district. The white girl comes here.
With some it is adventure; with oth
ers the strange infatuation which
can’t be explained.” |
‘Mendoza told of the lives these;
girls live. “They are slaves,” he said.
“The yellow man holds his wife as
chattel. The new girl will not stand
for this,” Mendo7 1 said, “but soon rer
m'nd, weakened with the opium she 3
taught to smoke, she does the China
man’s bidding without complaint.”
Hide Parent’s Name.
Mrs. Helen Ah Quin is a typical
case. She was the daughter of a San
Diego grocer, she says. She refused
te tell her parents’ name.
-~ “I went to Tijuana often,” she said.
“There”’ T met Quin. "He was good to
me. He gave me silks and I drank his
rice wine. Then he taught me to
smcke. I fell in love with him, He iz
good to me, and lam happy. I don’t
‘want my people to know, though. Il
‘guess they think I'm dead.” }
} For the same reason Murs. Grace‘
Sam Lee is here. Her parents are
Pittsburgh people. S :
i Not all of the white wives are like
these two educated and uncommonly
pretty girls. : |
! Al the women say their husbands‘
treat them well. The Chinaman, tbey‘
[say, is the most chivalrous husband in
the world. . }
“That may be, but they cause us
more troube than any other class,”
Mendoza says. |
“They weaken the-girls’ minds and
then trade and sell them. Under the
old regime this was winked at. The‘i
new government intends to deal with
'the problems.” 1
Thousands of FEuropean Spinslers
And Widows Seek Husbands in U.S.
|
AMERICAN BACHELORS EXCEED
SINGLE WOMEN BY 5,800,000
ACCORDING TO CENSUS
‘ America, the only nation where men
| outnumber the women, is now supply
ing husbands for women of Europe,
where there are not enough males to
go ‘'round, say reports of the Immi
gratior. bureau. Approximately 434,-
1000 persons, mostly men, sailed from
| the United States in the year ended in
June, according to reports of the im
migration commissioner, who said that
most of the men’left to get married.
- Single women of Europe and wom
en widowed by the war are coming to
lthe United States in the hope of se
curing husbands, reports show. A ma
jority of the immigrants to the United
Statbs are women, and 605,000 for
eigners came to American soil during
!the last year.
Women outnumber men in France,
| England, Italy and in nearly all other
European eountries. This is partly a
result of the war. After the arm
istice thousands of English women
safled to Australia and other colonies,
‘numbers of them frankly stating that
'they were going to be married. -
Conditions in the United States are
far different, for here, in 1910, the
LABOR, ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
AND. SOLDIERS TAKE A HAND.
WORK AT CROSS PURPOSES.
Organized Opposition of One Group
May be Counter Balanced by Sup
port of Another—Labor Failed in
~ Efforts in Recent Primaries. ; |
‘ That the life of a congressman is no!
sinecure is evidenced by the fact thatl
scarcely a member of the present con
gress is free from attack by class
groups for veting contrary to their
wishes. The “blacklist” of various or
ganizations, urging the defeat of mem
bers who voted “against our inter
ests,” includes in one degree or anoth
er virtually every senator and repre
sentative. There is reason to believe
that candidates for seats held by the
members in disfavor stand no better
in the good graces of the organiza
tions, so that if the several active
propagandists have their way hardly
any one can be elected in November.
Gompers’ Warfare Unsuccessful.
The “blacklisting,” however, works
at cross purposes. One class may op
pose a candidate for the unfavorable
stand he has taken in the matter n
which it is vitally interested, while
another group may be supporting the
same candidate for this very stand, and
stll another class casting their bal
lots for him because of his efforts to
benefit their desires. |
The campaign by the American Fed
eration of Labor, led by Samuel Gom
pers, to punish members of congress
who would not follow labor’s dictates
in their votes, especially on the rail
{way bill, is not far ng very wéll in
‘the primaries. Thus far no member
of the house or senate who was con
spicuously picked out as a “foe of la
bor,” has been defeated for renomina
tion. |
~ In some instances balloting result- |
ed exactly opposite to the desire of the
labor union. For example Represen
tate Thetus Sims of Tennessee, who
was the dyed-in-the-wool g%vernment
ownership advocate in the house and
introduced for the railroad men the
“Plumb plan bill,” was slaughtered in
his Tennessee district by his party.
' Senator Albert Cummins, joint au
thor of the . Cummins-Esch railway
bill, to which labor has most viclently
objected, was marked to be the first
victim of the labor campaign. But, in
the primaries earlier in the summer
he defeated his opponent, who was
?acked by the labor pojitical commit
ee.
The anti-saloon league and other
prohibition groups taking the same ac
tion as the American Federation of
Labor, are prepared to fight hard any
man who does not hold the Volstead
act sacred beyond the hint of modifi
cation. '
Former Service Men in Move.
The latest group to threaten organ
ized opposition to certain candidates.is
the rank and file veterans’ associa
tion, supporting Christensen and
Hayes on the farm-labor ticket. It
urges the former service men of the
country to see that more than half of
the members of the senate and house
are defeated. All the nameés on the
blacklist are described as ‘“represent
ing Wall street interests and against
the interests of the former soldiers
and the public.” ?
These lists taken along with the
names of members “in bad” wit hthe
women because of anti-suffrage rec
ords; with the friends of Irish free
dom hecause of votes on questions
bearing upon the freedom of Ireland,
and with farmers’ organizations for
advocacy “of the universal military
training, and few members will bei
left free of organized oppositioh in
their districts. - .
census showed there were approxi
mately 2,000,000 more men than wom
en. The number of single men out
numbered single women by more than
5,000,000. Now, the discrepancy be
tween the sexes is far more pronounc
ed than in 1910, the . census shows.
Bachelors in the United States total
more than 25,300,000, it is estimated,
while spinsters probably do not ex
ceed 19,500,000.
NEW YORK. William Bross
Lloyd, milliomaire socialist, and nine
teen other members of the communist
labor party, to-night were found guil
ty of a conspiracy to overthrow the
government of the United States.
The defendants were given various
sentences, most of them getting from
one to five years in the penitentiary, a
few being given fines in addition. Sev
eral were sentenced to one year in jail.
Lloyd got the heaviest sentence, being
given one to five years in the peniten
tiary and a fine of $3,000 in addition.
The twenty defendants helped or
ganize the communist labor party here
last September. ;
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1920
g2k Shells Plowed Deep Seil.
“It appears that the plowing done
by the shells brought to the surface
the deep soil which contains valuable
materials of which the top soil, used
for generations, had been depleted.
Riding through France one can trace
the lines of the trenches, now filled in
and planted, by the richer, darker
green of the wheat growing in the
deep plowed soil.”
ELECTRIC WIRES SET THE
BODY OF A BOY AFIRE
Victim Burned Almost te Crisp by
16,000-volt Contact.
BOSTON Mass.—-gu r Nicholson,
14 years ol’d, of Cambridge, was in
stantly killed when he climbed up on
some boxes beside a transformer of
the Cambridge Electric Light Com
pany and fell across the feed wires
Ileading to the transformer. Sixteen
thousand volts passed through the
boy’s body, which burst into flames and
‘was burned almost beyond recogni
tion.
WANTS MORE.
France Will Seek U. S. Loan of
147,000,000, After Paying Her
Share of Half Billion,
NEW YORK.—While plan
ning to pay her share of the An
glo-French loan of $500,000,000
when it matures on Oct. 15,
France hopes to obtain another
loan of approximately $147,000,-
000. Jean Parmentier, official
representative of the French
ministry of finance, declared in
an unofficial statement on his
arrival on Monday on the steam
ship La Lorraine to confer with
American banker:.
BIG RATTLER APPEARS AND IS
KILLED BY FARMER AFTER
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
LUVERNE, Ala.—Tom Thagard, a
thoroughly reliable planter, res.ding a
few miles west of here, reports a
thrilling experience on his plantation.
Going for a cow staked in a pasture
near his residence, he discovered a
black - snake apparently milking the
cow. At this juncture a huge rattle
snake was seen rapidly approaching,
whereupon a lively race ensued.
The black snake made good its es
cape, while its pursuer became entan
gled in the rope between the cow and
the stake. The cow, somewhat fright
ened, moved backward, thereby draw
ing the rope tight around the rattler,
exciting his anger, when he began
fighting, striking with all his might
and speed, bitmg "and piercing the
rope many times with his fangs.
Thagard, assisted by twa laborers
who were near, killed the rattiesnake,
which measured 6 feet 9 3-4 inches in
length and had eighteen rattles.
FLANDERS FIELDS @
= IN BLOOM AGAIN
PLOWED BY GERMAN SHELLS
~ AND FERTILIZED WITH GER
MAN GAS SOIL IS PRODUCTIVE.
NEW YORK.—Devastated France is
now a fertile agricultural country, rich
with red clover and alfalfa. German
shells did the plowmng and German
man poison gas fertilized the soil. The
great need of France today is labor
saving devices which can be wielded
by the old men and boys, who are the
only farmers left.
This was the report brought back
from France by Hugh Fullerton, of
the Long Island Agricultural Experi
ment Station, on behalf of the Ameri
can Committee for Devastated France,
of which Miss Anne Morgan is the
head. Mr. Fullerton discussed the
needs of France at a meeting at the
headquarters of the committee.
“Tge French agriculturists believed
‘that the devastated areas would never
again be productive,” .he said. “I
was over two months ago convinced
that this was not true, because I had
lexperience in tearing up Long Island
soil with dynamite and had found the
subsoil fertile. It is an old axiom of
agriculture that the subsoil cannot be
productive, and the French govern
‘ment,( acting on the premise had con-i
demned large portions of what used to'
be the most productive areas of
France.
“In company with Miss Morgan and
representatives of the French govern
ment, I visited one of the worst bits
of the lisne war zone. It was ‘Red
Monkey plateau,’ which was taken and
retaken eighteen times. Not a trace
of cellar wall remains to tell of its
villages; and the soil was overturned |
to the depth of two to five feet. l
Deep in Red Clover. .
“At the foot of the hill the French
experts were still maintaining that
nothing could grow there. When we
reached the top we found ourselves
wading knee deep through the richest
red clover I have ever seen. The
leaves were as big as silver dollars.
Alfalfa covered the deepest holes.
“] will say this for the French:
They are prompt to admit their er
ror. Within two days the order con
demning this territory was revoked. |
Four thousand people returned to
their old homes in one day. I
l . 510,000,000 TX
ROADS TO BE UNDER INCOME
i LAW PROVISIONS FOR FIRST
| TIME SINCE PRE-WAR DAYS.
| Aty
Additional Tax From Transportation
Is Expected to Put Huge Sum in
} Coffers of the Government. Publie
1 . to Pay It, as Usual. -
‘ WASHINGTON.—Increased reve
nues, officially estimated at $100,000,-
[OOO annually, will accrue to the treas
ury as a result of the advance in
transportation rates allowed the rail
‘roads. 1‘
~ The added income for the govern-‘
'ment, officials said to-night, would be
‘derived from increased transportation
‘taxes which are paid by the public as
‘well as through operation of the in
come and excise provisions of the rev
enue laws. |
~ Transportation taxes for the fiscal
year ending June 30 aggregated ap
proximatety $231,000,000. This sum
was made up from the 3 per cent. on
freight charges amounting to $125,-
000,000, the 8 per cent. tax on pas
senger tickets supplying $100,000,000,
and the 8 per cent tax on Pullman
charges producing 6,500.000.
Should railroad traffic continue at
its present -volume all of these
amounts will be increased correspond
ingly with the advance permitted by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
in its rate decision last Saturday. On
this basis officials of the bureau of
internal revenue calculate the addi
tdonal taxes will aggregate $38,5650,~
000 on freight, 18,700,000 on passen
ger and $3,500,000 on Pullman
charges.
Another source of revenue will be
from income taxes levied against the
railroad corporations. Railroad ex
ecutives expect many of the carriers
to earn sufficiently large returns un
der the new rates to compel the pay
ment of income taxes for the first time
since pre-war days. It is from this
source that the treasury expects to
obtain a large portion of the remain
ing $40,000,000 of their $100,000,000
lestimate. Officials placed the amount
from income taxes conservatively at
\550,000,000 a year. :
AMERICANS TO SPEND FIFTY
MILLION DOLLARS IN HA
VANA IS REPORT.
11— DAWSON NEWS __ - - - -=
WASHINGTON.—American inter
ests are planning to invest approxi
,mately $50,000,000 within the next
few months in an attempt to help
!make “wet” Havana the Monte Ca_rlo
|of the western hemisphere, according
'to informal reports reaching commerce
department officials here. |
‘ Shipping companies are making
plans for a rush of vacationists to Ha
vana next winter, who are expected
to leave there additional millions.
Representatives of hotel interests of
Cuba are in the United States inspect
ing hotels and studying the likes and
dislikes of the American tourist. Pub-{
licity men are being retained to pre
pare copy for distribution to newspa
pers next fall and winter setting forth
the beauties of Cuba in glowing man
ner. Cuban business men are report
ied to be counting on an increasing
amount of American patronage. |
American sugar refiners already
have begun to acquire plantations to
grow cane and machinery to prepare
it for exportation to the United
States. At least $10,000,000 will be
spent in this way in the next few
months, according to Howard E. Figg,
genera! assistant attorney, Wwith
whom refiners discussed their plans
before taking action. |
President Gelting Ready to Move
March 4th; White House Sheep Go
iMANY OTHER DEMOCRATIC OF
. FICEHOLDERS PLANNING TO
END WASHINGTON RESIDENCE.
President Wilsen already is begin
ning to wind up affairs at the white
house preparatory to vacating on
March 4 next.
His first step in getting ready to
yield possession of the executive man
sion was an order that his flock of
forty-eight sheep, which has become a
famliar sight on the white house Jawn,
should be sold.
The president’s venture in sheep
raising has been most successful. The
herd has increased in numbers from
eighteen to forty-eight.
President Wilson, however, is ‘mot
alone in beginning plans for a change
of residence next March. Scores and
hundreds of men high in official cir
cles are giving less and less thought
to the problems ahead of them in
their governmental jobs and more and
more thought to what they are going
to do when ~the administration
changes. : :
Many of these will not wait until
Mazch 4 to make a change. Knowing
that, even though a democraic presi
dent may be eclected, the newcomer
GENTLEMAN.
Villa Wires Notice to General
Marinez That He Is On His
Way to Surrender. |
d s e ol
SAN PEDRO, COAHULIA,
Mex.—“On Monday I will have
the pleasure of seeing you in San.
Pedro. I salute you very cordial
ly. “FRANCISCO VILLA.”
This telegram, received Satur
day night by Gen. Euginia Mari
nez, who made arrangements for
the surrender of the Villistas, in
dicated that the bandit chieftain
was on his way here to lay down
his arms and become a gentleman
rancher, s
The surrender will cost the fed
eral government $1,500,00 in gold,
according to estimates of Gen.
Marinez.
Villa will be permitted to pick
out.fifty of his officers, no mat
ter how high their rank, whom he
will retain as a personal body
guard as long as he lives.
QUEER SECT MAKES MERRY AT
ITS FUNERALS. DOESN'T AP
PROVE OF MARRIAGE.
BOSTON, Mass.—They laugh at
fuperals and cry at »weddings. :
Their great aim, while living, is to
die.
Ang they call themselves the hap
piest people in the world. |
’ Such are the queer facts concerning
an odd sect, members of which are to
be found only in northwest Sussex,
England. Loxwood where many of
them dive, is called the topsyturvy}
town, because so many ideas in life
seem to have been turned upside down.
A Saturday Blade correspondent,
who recently visited Loxwood, reports
the results of his visit as follows: |
Bhis is the topsy-turvy village
where there is a set of people among
the inhabitants who cry at weddings
and laugh at funerals. They have no
interest in things which go to make
life bright and joyful—as we know it.
~ He’s Waiting for Next World.
~ The last quarter of an hour has been
spent with a man who has confessed
to me that he is not of this world. To
lhim this life is merely nothing. It is
just a period of waiting. For what?
For the next worlcy_ |
He waits for one thing—Eternity—
in the same way as a condemned mur
dered. To him and others of his be
liefs the hereafter is the only thing
that matters.
This man is My. Henry Aylward, an
elder of that curious and long-found
ed sect, the Dependent Brethren.
~~ This pretty little hamlet of Lox
wood is the headquarters of the Breth-‘
ren. A more appropriate place for a
set of people who live in a world of
their own could not be imagined, for
when a stranger finds himself in Lox
wood the first thing that strikes him
is that he is in a new world. |
Don’'t Approve of Marriage.
Mr. Aylward is a pleasant-faced
man bordering on 60, and gives one the
curious and uncanny impression during
conversation that between each re
mark he flits away into the next world,
of which he talks so much, for what
seems like hours, but is actually per
haps half a minute. He then “re
turns,” continues talking and once
more ‘disappears.’
In accordance with his principles—
which are the principles of the De
pendent Brethren—Mr. Aylward is a
single man. Marriage among them, if
not actually discouraged, is certainly
not encouraged, and any possibility of
a “match” being made between the
younger members of the sect is look
ed upon by all others as ‘all wrong.”
“We are the happiest people on
earth,” Mr. Aylward told me. “We
thoroughly enjoy ourselves—in our
own way—zand we do not deny others
who derive so-called pleasure from the
ordinary things of life.
“Our enjoyment is waihting for
eternity, which,” when all is said, is
the only thing that matters.”
will fill the offices closest to him with
men of his own choosing and not car
'ry-overs from the present adminis
tration, these already are beginning
to turn in their resignations.
They return either to already estab
lished interests of their own outside or
to cast about for some new connection.
Even many men who are ostensibly,
protected by being under civil service
are preparing to look elsewhere for
jobs, as they say that civil service
regulations become elastic, at least
with respect to choice positions, when
subjected to the heat and pressure of
a changing administration.
l
‘ IS KISSING HER TO DEATH
Three hundred kisses a day proved
too much for Mrs. Edward A. Stod
dard, of Brooklyn, and she took her
husband into court to test his sanity,
l;{‘er husband, she said, kissed her on
the street, in church, on the street
cars, any place they happened to be.
“He'’s slowly kissing me to death,”
she declared.
Jadge O'Neil deeided to send the
man to a hospital for observation.
First Section
VOL. 38.—N0. 51
LIKE WEEDS IN U. 5.
TWENTY THOUSAND PERSONS
ARE CREDITED WITH IN
COMES OF $50,000 EACH. .
MANY IN $2,600,000.00 CLASS
One-half of Country’s Richest Men
Live in New York State. Two
Have Incomes of $3,000,000 and
162 With 1,000,000 Dollars.
WASHINGTON. Millionaires
are growing as fast as weeds in the
United States. Already about 20,000
residents of this country have sworn
that their incomes during 1919 reach
ed $50,000 a year. And a man with
an income of $50,000 is classed as a
“millionaire,” inasmuch as that is the
lowest probable return on $1,000,000.
However, not all these “million
aires” are actually the possessors of
$1,000,000. Men with incomes of $50,-
000 as salaries, would come in this
classification, and many of these have
no large sums in bank. Some, indeed,
live on their salaries, and have no in
vestments,
In $2,000 Class.
But ‘contrasted with these “million
aires” are the 2,000,000 persons in the
United States whose incomes are $2,-
000 or less. The internal revenue bu
reau estimates that half the 4,000,000,-
000 individuals, who have rendered
statements, come within the $2,000
class.
There are two men in the country
who have incomes above $3,000,000
annually, twenty-eight with incomes
above $2,000,000, and thirteen who
struggle along with incomes between
$1,500,000 and $2,000,000. It is said
that one hundred and sixty-two have
incomes of $1,600,000, and that ninety
possess incomes of more than $750,000.
" Officials said on Saturday that 16,-
000 men had incomes of $50,000 te
$750,000.
Many Rich Men.
Among the rich men there are 1,270
in the $50,000 to $60,000 income class;
901 in the $60,000 to $70,000 class;
650 who have $70,000 to 380,000; 472
who have $BO,OOO to $90,000; 374
who have $90,000 to $100,000; 1,084
who have $lOO,OOO to $150,000; 476
who have $150,000 to $200,000; 263
who have $200,000 to $250,000; 131
who have $250,000 to $300,000; 134
who have $300,000 to $400,000; 74
who have $400,000 to $500,00.
Of the twenty-eight richest men in
the United States, one-half live in
New York state; two of them reside
in Delaware, and are said to have en
gaged in munitions making on a large
scale. Another, whose name is cele
brated, lives in Michigan. One lives
in Ohio, two in Pennsylvania, one in
Texas and one in Rhode Island.
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[THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
COST $537,640 LAST YEAR
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}Expense of Government Publication
Was $701,790 in 1917, When Con
- gress Did More Talking. 3
WASHINGTON.,—The cost of pub
lishing the “Congressional Record,”
the government publication recording
daily everything that is said and done
in Congress, as well as some things
outside, was $537,640 last year, practi
cally the same as for 1919, but about
$300,000 less than the 1917 cost.
These figures were given recently
by Russell 0. Beene, accountant at the
Government Printing Office, in answer
to an inquiry of Representative Hagee,
of New York, as to the possible sav
ing that would result from €he discon
tinuance of the “Record.” Mr. Beene
gave the cost for 1917 as $801,790.88
and for 1918 as $537,640.
Cornelius Ford, the public printer,
was asked for an explanation of the
gress ‘““did more talking” that year
high figure in 1917, but confessed his
ignorance unless it happened that con
‘gress “did more talking” that year.
Mr. Ford said that in 1917 congress
was in session 250 days; in 1918, 307
days, and in 1919, 279 days.
The printed pages in the “Record”
for these years were 652,511,964 in
1917; 563,672,587 in 1918, and 455,-
130,450 in 1919. The cost of paper
has increased greatly within the last
three years, but the use of a lighter
'and less expensive quality has helped
reduce the aggregate cost of the pa
fper used. For 1919 the paper cost
was $130,000, as compared with $162,-
'OOO in 1918 and $300,000 in 1917.
GIRL. MAKES CHOICE OF
ILOVERS AND THEN FAINTS
When Two Bring Licenses She Tears
One Paper to Shreds.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—For better
or for worse Miss Margaret Corcoran
‘made her choice between two lovers
and was to be married at once to How
ard Rebeck.
Faced with the necessity for making
a choice between Rebeck and Donald
Walp, both of whom visited her home
armed with a marriage license, Mar
garet fainted.
As the men glared at each other
across a library table the girl picked
up Walp’s license and tore it to shreds.
Then she fainted. :
HOUSE MOVED HALF A
MILE WITH PEOPLE IN IT
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A two-story apartment house in
Chicago was moved half a mile to a
new location with two families con-.
tinuing to live in it, undisturbed.