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gy E. L. RAINEY
‘CALIFORNIA ASKS HELP FROM
' FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND
SEEKS STRINGENT LAWS. |
Gov. Stephens Asks State Depart
ment to Halt the Constantly In
creasing Oriental Population. ‘“Pic.
ture Brides” Evade Law.
California’s statesmen are deter
mined to bring the state’s issue with
Japan to the attention of the Ameri
can people and to demand correc
tion of the so-called evil. The state
department at Washington has been
advised that when the state of Cali
fornia shall have exhausted its own
powers, through the initiation of leg
islation that will prohibit the Japan-|
ese not only from owning land but
even from ieasing it, it will insist
that the federal government take up
with the government of Japan the
questions that have arisen relative tOl
enforcement, under which the labor
ing classes of Japan were to be pre
vented by the Tokio government
from coming to America. 2 }
The Picture Bride Menace. |
Through a strange QOriental cus
tom the picture bride method, the
Japanese has found a way of in
creasing his race in this country.
The Japanese man comes to Cali
fornia alone and establishes a foot
hold as a merchant or a farmer. As
soon as he needs help he sends to
Japan for a “bride.” He aecepts her
on the strength of her photograph,
buys her from her parents for a
trifle and she is shipped to him with.
out having a word to say about the
bargain herself.
The cost of obtaining a bride is a
moderate one for a Japanese settler
in California. It runs in the neigh
borhood of about $2OO. This includes
$65 passage money, the fee for the
picture, usually $l5, and about $lOO
to the agent in Japan who negotiat
ed the “marriage.” In California the
bride slaves for her husband without
pay and bears him a child almost ev
ery year.
Divorce Is Easy.
When her youthful freshness has
worn off her husband can divorce
her in the simplest manner and sell
her to some Japanese truck farmer
who needs a woman laborer for the
hardest kind of work in his fields.
Usually the husband receives from
$30.00 to $60.00 from the truck
farmer to whom he sells his wife.
The Japanese then sends to Japan
for another young and beautiful
bride, who comes and works for
him and bears him children.
The picture bride system became
popular ten years ago, and since
that time California officials estimate
that 100,000 of these women have
come to the United States. There
are now 30,000 native-born children
of Japanese parentage in California,
an increase of 3,000 per cent in the
last ten years, In one northern Cali
fornia county last year 176 children
were horn of Japanese parentage
and but 86 white children were born,
The Japanese wife bears five times
as many children as the white wife
in California, and has been termed
“the greatest enemy of race suicide
in the world.”
- Seek Exclusion Act. :
The congressional delegation from
California will urge upon congress
the need of enacting a rigid Japa
nese exclusion law, quite as drastic
in its provisions as the statute which
is directed against the Chinese. Al
ready such a bill has been drafted.
It provides for full exclusion of all
Japanese, excepting certain selected
classes, and for the registration of
all Japanese lawfully within the
lmllwl States at the time the act
shall be DaSSed.
MAN WEARS SANDPAPER
PATCH ON HIS TROUSERS
Wife's Idea to Save Wear and Tear
Of Match-scratching.
OLINVILLE, Conn.—On a recent
afternoon Orvis Mett came down
Main street with a white square
Patch on the side of his right trouser
leg which attracted much attention.
He entered the postoffice and was
asked the significance of the patch.
Mett replied that he had a_habit
of scratching matches on the leg of
his trousers, which always left a
Streak; that his wife had tried to
bro_ak him of the habit, but to no
avail, and as a last resort had sew
¢d the sandpaper to the trouser leg
and had warned him that he must
Stratch his matches on it—and mo-
Where clge,
“Good idea, I think,” said Mett,
Who also remarked that “pants are
dummeq high jest now.”
FINDS TWO BOOKS THAT
WERE PRINTED IN 1775
Bear an Inscription in Ink That Is
Perfectly Legible.
e REDERICKSBURG, ~ Va.—Fitz-
U2h Conway, of Corbins, Caroline
ounty, in looking over old family
Papers found two books which were
ggmed in 1775. The title of one is
X ¢gulations for QOrder and. Discip
gt of the Troops of the United
i“_“i‘f\‘-" and bore the inseription in
“"'\ of the names of Thomas Minor,
Ty 26, 1787, and James Minor,
auno 9, 1811. The other book was
th Prayer Book for the camp. Al
wel €N many years old the books are
Vell preserved and legible. i
IF COTTON CREDITS STAY
RESTRICTED, WORLD WILL
SOON BE NAKED, HIS VIEW
WASHINGTON, D. C.—J. S.
Wannamaker, president of the
American Cotton Association and
a delegation of southern cotton
growers and shippers confered
with the federal reserve board on
Wednesday relative to the lifting
of restrictions recently placed on
credits by the board.
Unless credits are arranged
r_~re easily the sale of cotton will
'0,,, . ‘victed, resulting in a “na
kew YB4, ' according to Wan
namake.,"
J. D. WEAVER, OF DAWSON, EX.
PRESSES CONFIDENCE OF SUC
CESS. OTHER CANDIDATES.
ATLANTA, Ga.—lndications are
that the race for president of the
next senate will be one of the liveli
est on record, as four candidates are
already in the¢ running, with cthers
mentioned as possibilities. The an
nounced candidates are J, D. Weav
er, of Dawson; Herbert Clay, sena
tor-elect from the Thirty-ninth
distriet; J. B. Jackson, senator-elect
from the Twenty-first, and G. A.
Johns, senator-elect from the Twen
ty-seventh district. Mr. Weaver, who
is one of the best-known men of
Southwest Georgia, has just been in
Atlanta on business and expressed
the utmost confidence in his pros
pects of success.
Mr. Clay was formerly solicitor
general of the Blue Ridge circuit,
and is a son of the late United
States Senator A. S. Clay. Mr. Jack
son has been a member of the house
and senate numerous times. Hg re
sides in Jones county. Mr. Johns was
a member of the hoige from Barrow
county during the session of 1919-
20.
In the house there is a lively con
test for speaker between Representa
tive George Carswell, of Wilkinson,
Representative Cecil Neill, of Mus
cogee, and Representative J. H. En
nis, of Baldwin.
|
NIP PLOT TO WRECK
|
~ “DIAMOND SPECIAL”
BAND PLANNED TO TEAR UP
TRACK AND PLUNGE TRAIN
| INTO FIFTY-FOOT RAVINE.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Confessions
from the eight conspirators said to
be directly connected with the plot
to wreck the “Diamond Special” of
the Illinois Central railroad near
here last Wednesday night were ob
‘tained by Chief of Police Morris and
federal agents. Officials declared
their belief that had the plan been
carried out not one passenger on the
train would have escaped alive.
| Nineteen foreigners are under ar
rest and all are declared by officials
to be communists. The track, accord
ing to the confessions, was to have
been torn up about 300 feet from a
bridge near the village of Bissel, so
that the train would be plunged into
the ravine, about fifty feet in depth.
Whatever - passengers remained
alive, Chief Morris declared the con
fessions said, the plotters intended
to kill them and “to kick in the
teeth of the rich.” The ‘“Diamond
Special” was selected “because only
the rich ride on it; poor people don’t
ride in sleepers.”
A member of the gang was to be
stationed at the nearest farm house
to kill its owner if he raised an out
cry, and phone wires were to be cut,
according to the confessions.
“In my twenty-three years of po
lice service I have never known a
more carefully and diabolical plot to
destroy life,” declared Chief of Po
lice Morris. 5
URGE CONTRIBUTIONS
TO DEMOCRATIC FUND
To combat the effects of mil
lions of dollars said to be in use
by the republican party to win
votes for Senator Harding, dem
ocrats of Terrell and surrounding
counties are urged in a message
received by The Dawson News to
contribute to a campaign fund for
Governor Cox and Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the party’s nominees.
The Dawson News on request of
the Democratic National Commit
tee has opened its columns to re
ceive contributions to the demo
cratic fund, and presents to the
democrats of this section the ap
peal received from Wilbur W.
Marsh, treasurer of the national
committee.
The message received by The
News declares the democratic
party must depend on the masses
of democrats to counteract the
slush fund employed by the repub
licans over the country. Governor
Cox, democratic nominee for pres
jdent, claimed in his expose of the
republican slush fund activities
the opDosition party had control
of several million dollars being
used to win votes for the republi
can cause.
Response to the appeal of the
National Committee through con
tributions to the Cox-Roosevelt
campaign fund will be taken as
assurance of co-operation by the
party, the message from Mr.
Marsh states. o
THE DAWSON NEWS
' PUZZLES POLITICIANG
RESULTS IN GEORGIA, WISCON
~ SIN AND NEW HAMPSHIRE 1
- GIVE THEM A SHOCK. |
A BLOW TO THE LEAGUE
Two Irreconciliables, Watson and
Moses, and One Reservationist,
Lenroot, Win. Both Parties Are
Trying to Fathom the Meaning.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Primary
results in Georgia, New Hampshire
and Wisconsin produced a series of
shocks in Washingtongse pronounced
that no political seismograph was
needed to record them. Politicians
of both parties are busy trying to
fathom the real meaning of the vot
ing in those three far-separated
states,
Unfavorable to League.
Taken strictly at face value, the
outcome of these contests is decided
ly unfavorable to the league of na
tions.. Moses, an irreconcilable, was
nominated to succeed himself in the
senate from New Hampshire, Wat
son, an irreconciliable, was nominat
ed to succeed Hoke Smith in the sen
ate from Georgia, and Lenroot, a
reservationist, was nominated to
succeed himself from Wisconsin.
In at least two of the states—
Georgia and New Hampshire—the
league issue was clearly enough
drawn to make the conclusion highly |
significant. In Wisconsin the league
did not figure so sharply in the fight.
Moreover, Lenroot leaned to the
side of reservations during the pro
tracted senate fight,
Chief Interest in Georgia.
More genuine interest is felt in
the result of the Georgia contest
than either of the others, so far as
political Washington is concerned.
The personalities involved are more
striking and the developments are
more significant. The return to the
political map of Thomas E. Watson,l
one-time congressman, one-time pop
ulist candidate for the presidency,
and all the time iconclast, is a- mat
ter of national interest in itself.
Then there is the defeat of Senator|
Hoke Smith, cabinet officer underi
Grover Cleveland, governor of Geor
gia and twice United States senator.
Also there is the defeat of Governor
Dorsey, who rose to fame in his state
‘throughout the country through his
prosecution of Leo Framnk,
On the side line of the Georgia
contest were former Senator Thos.
W. Hardwick, candidate for gover
‘nor; John R. Cooper, candidate for
‘the senate on an anti-prohibition
‘ticket, and Clifford Walker, attorney
general, who was backed by the ad
ministration forces against Hardwick.
Watson seems to have won con
clusively in the senatorial contest,
lalthough Hardwick, who campaigned
on the same side of the fence, is
not yet out of the woods. Senator
Hoke Smith was badly beaten, and
for the first time during his long po-
Ilitical career in a fight in which he
| himself was a candidate, Watson
]was the bitter foe of the Wilson ad
| ministration, and of everything that
the president stands for. His pet
prejudice was the league of nations.
Through his campaign he said to the
voters: -
“If you are against the league of
nations vote for me. If you are for
it vote for Dorsey. If you don’ti(know
where you stand vote for Hoke.”
l How long Georgians will stand for
Watson as a senator mnobody can
foresee, but it is generally agreed
that once he gets to Washington and
clears his decks for action he will
let the country know that he is In
‘the game. He is a man of many bril
liant gifts and is an author of na
tional repute. But he is a dissenter
always and is anxious for the who]ej
world to know it. w
MONROE COUNTY ALSO RE
SISTS HIGHER ASSESSMENTS
Fullbright Insists On Increase of
Sixty-Five Per Cent.
FORSYTH, Ga.—The tax of Mon
roe county recently completed show
ed an increase of about 25 per cent
over last year’s returns, but State
Tax Commissioner Fullbright refused
to receive the returns and insisted
on an increase of sixty-five per cent.
The county commissioners felt that
was too large an increase to be
granted and at first intended to fight
it with an injunction. However, they
will submit the matter to arbitration
as provided by law, and S. Ruther
ford has been named to represent
Monroe county. The other two ar
bitrators have not been named.
T ee e
SUNFLOWER IS GROWING
OUT OF TREE TRUNK
Strange Freak of Nature Is Attract
ing Many Persons.
MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.—A curios
ity that is attracting many persons
in the yard of Mrs. Mary DeWitt
here is a sunflower growing out of
the trunk of a large maple tree some
distance from the ground. It has a
stem three feet long and a flower
in bloom the size of a saucer. A bird
is supposed to have carried the seed
into the tree, where it sprouted and
took rcot in the bark.
T RS R s
FIVE MILLION CHINESE -
MAY SOON GO HUNGRY
Famine is rife in the interior of
China. Because of a civil war, to
gether with a lack of rainfall, 5,000,-
000 Chinese face a winter without
food, according to reports from
American missionaries.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1920
GIRL MINUS BATHING SUIT
STARTS SWIM AROUND
WORLD FROM WINNIPEG
. WINNIPEG, Can.—Unencum
bered by even a one-piece bath
ing suit, Bella Knight leaped into
the Assiniboine river here and set
out to swim around the world,
with Montreal as her first destina
tion.
Police sighted her swimming
swiftly. westward when they an
swered a_call from residents along
the river bank.
. Bella was frustrating their ef
forts to snatch her from the em
brace of the waves when one of
the constables had a bright idea.
Making a spurt, the policemen
shot their boat past Bella and laid
out a fish net, When she reached
the net the constables hauled it in
and BeHa with it.
“Please don’t bother me. I'm on
my way to Montreal,” said Bella,
petulantly. §
According to ice reports, she
swam a mile and & half before she
was captured,
EXTRA SESSION COULD
ACCOMPLISH LITTLE
———
ALL INCOME FOR 1920 HAS AL
READY BEEN APPROPRIATED
‘BY THE LEGISLATURE.
~ ATLANTA, Ga.—lf Governor Dor
sey should call an extraordinary
session of the general assembly—
which is under consideration, it will
not be assembled before January.
Certain state institutions, for the
support of which the present year
appropriations have already been
made, want more money, and claim
that they will be handicapped if not
crippled unless something in the way
of relief is afforded by or before
April 1.
_As is naturally the case whenever
there is talk of on extra session
numerous other things will be asked
for to go in the call, since a special
session can consider only the subject
matter stated by the governor in
bringing the assembly together. Wo
man suffrage is one of those “other
things.”
Two Points For Consideration.
There are two oviginal important
points in connection with both these
propositions to be taken into consid
eration in looking forward to possi
ble net results in another meeting
of the legislature: First, the same
‘men will be brought back to go over
the same ground on the same subject
matter they haye already passed up
on, Second. the legislative and finan
cial conditions in the state have not
changed one iota since the regular
session adjourned; thegefore, will
‘there be any new and impelling things
to mfove these same men to different
‘action in January?
Among men familiar with the fi
nancial situation of the state the
question is being asked:
" «What could the legislature do if
it met in extra session?”
" All revenue for 1920, actual and
prospective, has been appropriated
already. It seems very doubtful
whether revenue can be increased
without amending the constitution.
This. it is contended, cannot be done
in time to meet the present emer-i
@ency for the reason that a constitu
tional amendment passed at an extra
session could not be submitted to the
people in the general election of No
vember 3. as the constitution requires
all proposed amendments to be ad
vertised sixty days in advance of the
referendum. and that period has ex
pired. The next clection at which a
constitutional amendment can be
submitted to the neople is the gen
eral election of 1922.
i§507,000 OSTRICH PLUMES
- LUREB TO U. S. BY FASHION
IValue of Imports Quadrupled as Result of Feathers Returning
to Style—lndustry Thrives in California and. Te_xas._ 0
The latest decree of fashion re
storing the osfrich feather to favor
has quadrupled the value of the im
portations and greatly increased the
value of the American capital in
vested in the ostrich industry. The
value of the ostrich feathers import
ed into the United States in the fis
cal year 1920 was $2,500,000
against a little gore than $500,000
in 1917 and $750,000 in 1918, anl
with this advance in demand and
price the value of the 10,000 os
triches in the United States has cor
respondingly increased and runs well
up into the millions.
The ostrich industry of the world
has Been extended from the original
home of the ostrich, the wilds of
Africa, to several countries having
a suitable climate, and the United
States, Argentina and Australia are
gradually becoming rivals of the os
trich farmers of British, French and
German Africa, which, however, still
supply the bulk of the $15,000,000
to $20,000,000 worth of ostrich
feathers annually entering world
commerce. The imvports of ostrich
feathers into the United States alone
since 1900 have aggregated nearly
$60,000,000, and were immediately
prior to the war running at about
$6,000,000 per annum, but dropping
to about one-tenth of that value in
the closing years of the war. |
While the South African interests
sought to prevent the exportation of
ostriches or their eggs, a limited
number were brought to the United
States as early as 1882 and estab
lished on farms in Southern Califor
nia and Arizona, where they maulti
NOMINEES EN TOUR DODGE
BANQUETS, HANDSHAKES
AND OFFICE SEEKERS.
’
THEY'RE. NOT JOY RIDES
Contributors to Campaign Funds All
Seek Favors. Cost of ““Spellbind
ing”” This Country Will Be Very
Heavy This Year.
Campaign tours of the country
have become expensive propositions.
More than $lOO,OOO has been esti
mated as the cost of the train ser
vice alone for Gov. Cox’s campaign
ing during the coming six weeks.
Senator Harding will not travel so
much, but it is estimated that his
proposed speaking tours in October
will cost about $25,000. In fact,
campaign managers this year have
discovered that ‘‘spellbinding” tours
are- an expensive inconvenience—an
inconvenience because those who
have participated in such trips soon
learn that they are not golden hours
of pleasure.
A presidentia] candidate who
starts on a jaunt over the country is
laying up much physical discomfort
for himself. During the first day or
two everything is usually exceeding
ly pleasant. The candidate makes
lengthy speeches. at every town
where the train stops.
Voice the First to Go. »
After the second or third day the
candidate finds that his voice has
deserted him. Especially the inex
perienced candidate always makes
the mistake of doing a lot of talking
at the beginning of the trip, but he
is soon compelled to simply appear
on the rear platform and say to the
waiting crowds ‘“‘How happy I am to
see you, friends; good-bye.”
But the loss of his voice isn’t the
only inconvenience the seeker of the
white house job has to contend with.
States invaded by the private train
usually make up the money to carry
the candidate through their territory,
and the largest contributors usually
seek to get their money baeck in rid
‘ing. The initial stop inside a state
line is always the signal for a rush
of local candidates, local celebrities
and local contributors. They maul
‘the hapless candidate around, force
him to make promises which he never
could keep and make life a miser)
for him until they depart, their
places to be taken by a fresh group
of contributors.
One Banquet After Another.
| One of the greatest handicaps to a
'campaigning tour is the number of
‘banquets a candidate: must be able
to consume. Attending banquets,
looking at local sights and shaking
hands with a lot of unknowns is a
candidate’s worst test. Olld time
campaigners have learned to dodge
the banquet hall, but the 1920 cam
paigners will be wiser after election
day, ihsofar as banquets are con
cerned. :
The “swings around the circle’
are trying, not only to the physical
constitution of the candidate, but to
his mentality as well. He is expected
to make speeches, and while in years
gone by he could make one speech‘
do for the entire trip newspapers
today, and the public as well, de
mand fresh speeches at every stop.
Before the trip begins a schedule
is made out at national headquar
ters for the candidate and he is as
sured that this is his final routing.
After the train leaves the national
committee and every member of tbe
partly throughout the land start In
to revise the itinerary, with the re
sult that his mail and his laundry Is
being forwarded to him months af
ter he has won or lost the election.
plied with such rapidity that the last
shipment of ostriches or their eggs
from Africa to the United States oc
curred in 1901. Since the industry
has extended from California and
Arizona into several of the southern
states, notably Texas, Alabama and
Florida, and the value of the capital
invested correspondingly increased.
‘The industry wherever established
has proved financially attractive, the
profits of the South African farms
being reported as high as 40 per
cent on the invested capital, while
the value of a single bird of the
higher grades for breeding purposes
runs as high as $5OO, and the value
of the year’s feather “crop” of a
male ranges from $25 to $lOO.
Africa still remains the most im
portant place of the ostrich industry
and the value of the feathers ex
ported from British South Africa
alone runs as high as $12,000,000 a
year and from Africa as a whole be
tween $15,000,000 and $20,000,000
per annum. Formerly a large share
of the African product was sent
from the colonies to the mother
countries for redistribution, but at
the present time most of our ostrich
feathers imported are coming direct
from British South Africa, where
they are produced.
The birds yield a “crop” of feath
ers about every eight months and
the picking of a bird will yield from
twenty to forty feathers of high
grade, and as they frequently live
to an age of more than fifty years
their individual contribution to the
income of their possessor is not in
considerable,
UNCLE SAM FINDS
SOME POCKET CHANGE
LYING AROUND LOOSE
CHICAGO, Ill.—Local internal
revenue officials today began an
investigation of the presence of
$2,225,000 in the federal building
vaults, with no record of its
source,
The presence of the surplus
money was discovered when offi
cials of a corporation called to
explain why they had failed to
pay $225,000 taxes, produced re
ceipts showing they had paid. The
money was found in the vault, but
the government’s duplicate receipt
had been lost and no record made
on the books. The remainder of
the $2,225,000 is believed also to
have been collected as income
taxes.
| ’
THIS FARMER'S GRAIN
CANADIAN RANCHES UNDER
| HIS CONTROL TOTAL 33,000
- ACRES. ARE CO-OPERATIVE,
t LETHBRIDGE, Canada.—One mil
lion dollars is the estimated value of
lthe grain crop of the Nobleford
‘Foundation farms at Nobleford, 20
‘miles north of Lethbridge.
A single field of 9,000 acres of
wheat was harvested. Sixty binders
drawn by 240 horses passed out of
sight in their progress from one end
of the field to the other.
- The farms comprise 33,000 acres,
or more than fifty square miles.
More than 28,500 acres are under
cultivation. Of this area 10,500 acres
are in summer fallow awaiting next
yvear’s crop, This year 18,187 acres
were in grain, 12,310 acres in wheat,
3,617 acres in rye and 2,390 acres
in oats. The estimated yield will be
307,350 bushels of wheat, 70,340
bushels of rye and 137,400 bushels
of oats.
C. S. Noble is an American. He
learned farming in lowa and North
Dakota, He started farming twenty
years ago in Alberta on 320 acres.
Today he is the head of the greatest
grain producing corporation in the
world. His farms are working on a
co-operative basis. All his old em
ployes own stock and share in the
profits. Yearly dividends have run
from 14 to 30 per cent,
~ Noble attributes his success to hard
avork and a definite goal. As a small
farmer he made money. He decided
he could make a fortune by farming
on a large scale. He moved to Cana
da because he regarded it as the
' poor man’s last great agricultural
opportunity. He invested his early
profits in more land, until a few
years ago he had the biggest farm
in Canada., Half of the land he farms
today was raw prairie three years
ago. He established a world’s rec
ord in 1915 by averaging fifty-four
bushels of wheat to the acre on a
1,000-acre field. :
90-YEAR-OLD NEGRO
l
LEAVES $1,000,000
’ ’ }
MADE FORTUNE FROM LI:'.ASING‘I
OIL LAND IN TEXAS. HE BE- |
QUEATHS IT TO CHILDREN. {
WEST COLUMBIA, Tex.—Charles
Brown, who died at his home here a
few days ago, probably was the
wealthiest and most unostentatious
negro in the world. He was 90 years
old, and generally is reputed to have
left a fortune of considerably more
than $1,000,000. Some estimates have
placed his wealth at twice that. He
owned about 3,600 acres of land,
most of which is in the heart of the
West Columbia oil field. Brown re
ceived an enormous revenue from oil
wells under the onesighth lease
clause. He also was a farmer. He
leaves a family of seven children
and a number of grandchildren.
Although. the aged negro did not
recklessly spend money he was free
in providing well for his children.
His physical and mental condition
was vigorous up to a few days be
fore he died. He made no change in
his manner of living when the big
fortune came te him. He was a fa
miliar figure on the streets of West
Columbia and surrounding country.
Frequently he was seen driving along
the roads and streets in a farm wag
on,
PRICE OF PAPER
ADVANCED $l5 TON
Raise to $6.50 a Hundred Pounds or
$l3O a Ton Is Announced by
The International.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The price of
newspaper in rolls has been increas
ed for the fourth quarter of 1920 to
$6.50 a hundred pounds or $l3O a
ton, according to announcement by
the International Paper company.
“This,” continues Fourth Estate,
“ijs $l5 a ton over the price that,ob
tains during the current quarter.
“Owners of pulp wood in Canada.
personally seen, have said they were
going to have $35 a cord for their
wood or let it rot, and they have
great stacks of it corded up.
«Mills without their own supply
are paying today $2B per cord, and
every publisher knows what that
means in prices per pound of paper.”
HEMSTITCHING—Send hemstitch
ing to MISS SUMMERS, Rosen
burg Bros., Alhany, Ga. Price 10 and
12%ec.
First Section
VOL. 39.—N0. 3
|[PRESIDENT NOW PROCEEDING
' REGARDLESS OF RESULTS OF
‘ NOVEMBER ELECTION.
|
'LIKELY TO COMPROMISE
At Any Rate He Proposes to Drive
Best Bargain Possible When Con
gress Convenes. Will Send Docu
mentg Back to Senate.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President
Wilson is going to take another fling
at the ratification of his favorite
document—the treatfl of Versailles.
No matter how the elections go
next November, Woodrow Wilson is
going to victory or defeat with the
pact that he brought home with him
from Paris.
As soon as congress reconvenes in
December it is expected that the
president will send the treaty back
!to the senate,
If Harding is elected the president
will accept the “solemn, referendum”
of the people, perhaps with no good
grace, but he will accept it, and he
will send the same treaty back to the
same senate which rejected it, and
| prepare to harter. It is believed by
i those here that he will be ready to
trade with the opponents of the
treaty for its ratification;
Will Make Demand.
If Cox is elected the president will
maintain that the people of the na
tion have sustained him, and will de
'mand that the senate ratify the
treaty without the crossing of a “t”
or the dotting of an “i,” leaving it
to his successor to punish the gen
‘tlemen of the senate, if they fail to
accept his orders.
| Whatever way the elections go it
’seems assured now jhat the natiom
|is due for many weeks more of de
bate on the peace pact.
If Senator Harding is elected, and
his proposed plan of a league of na
itions meets with favor, it may be ex
'pected that the present treaty will
ibe torn to shreds before it is sent
ito the white house.
! If the president has to barter with
'the senate for ratification it is cer
| tain that! the %reaty will undergo
'many changes,
| But President Wilson is determin
‘ed to drive the best bargain possi
;b(]ie, and a long fight may be expect
ed.
. Some of the senators who voted
on the treaty in the last congress
may be returning in December to
;sing their own swan song, and this
fact may have a vital effect on their
| vote. .
l’ Less of Favor.
' Unrestricted by thoughts of the
future favors of an administration
it'hat wields the scepter of patronage,
some democratic senators who are
about to leave their cherished sen
ate seats may be expected to look
with a little less favor on the treaty.
. If there are républican senators
who have been defeated it is certain
they will devote their last days in
the senate to contributing to the de
feat of that pact which they have
|'before fought, and they certainly
‘will not vote in any manner that
‘may add to the glory of Mr. Wison.
. The treaty of Versailles is today
in the personal possession of the
president. The president’s greatest
interest is in the future of this doe
lument, in fact many believe that his.
desire to fight for it was one of the
big factors in his recovery from his
‘long illness. Now that he appears to
|be gaining in his strength it is be
lieved that he knows he will never
iagain be the virile man that went to
'Paris, and he is conserving his
|strength for a last ditch fight.
| President Wilson, if his health per
mits, will go out of the white house
| fighting for the treaty of Versailles.
'MAN CONDUCTS A STORE
" ; DOWN IN COAL MINE
‘He Sells Tobacco, Candy, Soft Drinks
| And Other Supplies.
SPRING HILL MINES, Canada.—
One will occasionally find a store in
a quite unexpected place, especially
if one journeys into other climes
than his own, but Everett Martin,
of this place, conducts a small re
tail business where a person would
ihardly expect to find one—down in
'a coal mine.
| Having grown weary of digging
|coal, at which occupation he had
'worked for forty-two years, Martin
thought of the scheme and went to
see the superintendent about it. With
this official’s assistance he got a nice
place fixed up, at a handy location
at the bottom of the mine, where he
now deals out tobacco, soft drinks,
candy and other toothsome knick
knacks at reasonable prices.
A CARLOAD OF SUGAR CANE
SHIPPED FROM RICHLAND
Grower Realizes More Than $600.00
From Two-Acre Tract.
The first car load of sugar cane
was sold this week by Thomas Ball,
colored, on route two from this city,
to a firm in Columbus. -
This is the first sale of this kind in
car load quantities ever made in this
setcion of the state, but it will no
doubt prove to be the beginning of
more acreage and greater sales of
sugar cane in car lot quantities in
future years. Ball will realize some
six or seven hundred dollars from a
two-acre tract of sugar cane by sell
ing it in this manner.
The price paid was three and one
half cents per stalk and was purchas
ed to be retailed to the trade in Co
lumbus for c¢he wing.—Richland
News. .