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By E. L. RAINEY
70 BEGIN TARIFF AND
TAX REVISION AT ONCE
REPUBLICANS TOO RUSH HEAR
INGS TO MEET THE WISHES
OF SENATOR HARDING.
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INTERNAL REVENUE TO
HAVE RIGHT OF WAY
Customs Will Be Taken Up January
6th and Considered For Six Weeks.
will Work For Simplification of
Tax on Incomes, Says Chairman.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Prepara
tions for sweeping revisions in the in
ternal revenue and tariff laws will be
inaugurated in the current session of
congress by the republican majority in
compliance with the wish of President
elect Harding. i
Ready by Extra Session. .
The preliminary work will be done
between NOW and March 4, and the
results submitted to the special ses
son which Mr. Harding will call after
ne takes office, which can proceed
without delay to revismg the nation’s
taxation and tariff systems. ;
Hearings on internal revenue revis
ion will begin immediately before the
ways and means committee, it was
announced by Representative Joseph
W. Gordney, of Michigan, chairman,
following a conference of majority‘
members of the committee. The hear
ings will continue until the holiday
recess. |
On the tariff hearings will be be
gun January 6, and will continue un
til within two or three weeks of the(
expiration of the present session. |
To Call Houston First. |
(Chairman Fordney said that as soon
as the committee had time to study
the tax recommendations contained in
Houston's secretary report submitted
today the secretary would be invited
to appear before the committee and
more fully explain the views of his de
partment.
Mr. Forney expressed a hope that
the sccretary or some treasury official
authorized to represent him would ap
pear before the committee the first
of next week. Other witnesses will be
accorded hearings after the secretary
appears. No definite scheduling of
time for witnesses has been underta
ken, the plan being to announce a pro
gram from day to day as the hearings
progress.
“The committee,” Mr. Fordney said,
“desires to obtain the maximum
amount of information in the time
available and with that end in view
will try to distribute the time between
now and the holidays among those de
siring to be heard in the most advan
tageous manner.” 5
Will Simplify Tax.
Chairman Fordney said today that
he had in mind a definite plan for sim
plification of the tax om corporation
incomes. One of his proposals is a flat
tax on the incomes of all corporations.
Mr. Fordney also said it was his de
sire “that the income tax laws be
made so simple that a corporation will
not have to hire an expert or a law
yer to figure how much it owes the
government,”
The ways and means chairman de
clared that a study of Secretary Hous
ton’s report had shown him that the
“estimates for governmental expendi
tures are ridiculously high.”
"I can go down the list of estimates
of the secretary and chop out approxi
mately $1,250,000,000 as unnecessary,”
Mr. Fordney said. “Just ‘for example,
he wants $181,000,000 for the war
risk insurance bureau. With the pro
posed consolidation of the various sol
diers relief agencies into one bureau
we can save $100,000,000 here and
eliminate 35,000 clerks in Washington.
The secretary wants $75,000,000 for
rivers and harbors improvement. I do
not think congress will grant any such
sum this year.”
WILL BUY FLEET
OF 300 AIRSHIPS
War Department Will Likely Spend
$60,00,000 for New Machines and
Equipment; $35,000 for Research.
Bids for 300 new aeroplanes on de
signs worked out by the army aviation
section, which include all latest im
provements demonstrated to be valu
able by recent tests, will be called for
within a short time by the war depart
ment,
Approximately $6,000,000, it is estis
Mmated, will be spent on the planes,
this being the minimum provided in
the present army appropriation bill
for this purpose, )
[he total appropriation for the air
Service, exclusive of pay and mainte
ance of men, which is carried in oth
¢ sections of the army bill, was $83,-
000,000, of which it was provided that
not less than $5,250,000 should be
Spent for experimental and research
work and not less than $6,000,000 for
ew machines and equipment.
CONvICTS STEAL WARDEN’'S ‘
AUTOMOBILE AND LEAVE
Webster County Prisomers Left No%
Trace Behind Them. |
John Mason and Charlie Davis, two
Webster county convicts, made their
“tape from the gang of that county
Yme time Wednesday night and 8o
fr 10 trace has beem found which
Might ead to their capture. . 1
The convicts are locked in stce_i
Cages each night and no night guards
e cmployed to watch them. These'
'Wo managed to tear a commode from
its fastening in the floor of the cage“
End crawled through the place to free
om.
After getting out they to?k the
Qr of Warden Va“m _which was
fund Thyureda ‘morning near Mucks,
lee creek in gumter county.
THE DAWSON NEWS
One Person in Every
159 in Country Is On
. 2
Government's Payroll
One in Every 68 Wage Earner Is in
U. S. Employ. Personnel Situa
tion “Not Ro§y,” Says Report.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—One per
son out of every 159 in the .entire
country was on the government civil
service payroll last July 31, the civil
service commission declared tonight in
its annual report. The commission
adds that of those estimated by the
census as employed in gainful occu
pations in the country one in every
68 was a government worker. :
The total number of civil service
employes last July, the commission
says, was 691,116 and the government
was using them in approximately 1,700
different kinds and grades of work.
There were almost a million gov
ermment employes at the height of the
Op;; war, the commission asserts,
an 10y » “at pre-war figures of some
480,000 & ~robably never again
will be reac. commission de
clares that an “a.. agy picture
cannot be painted” w. govern
ment’s personnel situation.
A partial tabulation of the great
armyy of government employes fixes
the average age at 28.4 years and the
average salary at $1,176 a year, ex
clusive of the $240 yearly bonus which
many of the employes receive. :
The commission’s recommendation
for placing all postmasters under,civil
servicesis renewed.
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TO FELL A MIGHTY FOREST.
BETWEEN FOUR AND FIVE
MILLION TO BE USED. |
Between four and five million Christ-}
‘mas trees will be felled this year to
’brighten American homes, churches
and community centers, and delight
the hearts of the children This is the
estimate of the forest service, which
says that the total of trees used in this
country each yuletide season equals
‘approximately the combined consump
tion of Ergland, Scotland and Wales
and is about 25 per cent greater than
that of Germany.
Of the total of Christmas trees con
sumed in this country 1,500,000 are
used in New York state and New Eng
land, the forest service says. Black
and red spruce are very commonly
seen in New England Christmas cele
brations and in New York and Phil
adelphia. In Illinois and Ohio the lo
cal demand is supplied partly with
nursery grown Norway spruce. Pines
are in great demand for Christmas
trees when fir and spruce are not
available. Throughout Maryland, Vir
ginia and in Washingtn, D. G, the
scrub pine finds a way into many
homes, while in southern Wyoming the
Lodge Pole pine is' almost the only
species available,
Christmas trees, the forest service
says, vary in size from 5 to 35 feet
and prices run from 25c to $35 or $5O.
Where the 25c, trees are available is
not stated. ‘
NEWSPAPER MAN STARTS A
LEAGUE TO DO AWAY WITH
ALL FORMS OF GRAFT.
The formation of a “Business Eth
ics League” to combat tipping and
business bribery of all classes is to
take place in Washington, under the
direction of William R. Scott, a Wash
ington newspaper man. The league
will fight tipping by educating the
public, the employer and the employe.
It will fight bribery in business
through seeking legislation and aiding
in its enforcement. 5
In Washington alone there are fully
50,000 persons who depend in whole
or part upon tips as a source of in
come, according to Mr. Scott’s esti
mate. Six states in the country have
laws against tipping, but they are
poorly enforced, he added.
*«$250,000,000 Yearly in Tips.”
Tipping in the United States, Mr.
Scott declared, probably totals more
than $250,000,000 annually. In 1916 the
total, based upon a census of “tip
takers,” was in the neighborhood oo'f
$200,000,000. -
Hotels, restaurants, barber shops,
sleeping cars and a host of other plac
es, he said, hold down wages to their
employes to a minimum and expect
tipping to carry the main burden of
such operating expense.
Georgia has an anti-tipping law, but,
like many other laws, nobody pays
any attention to it.
NO INCREASE IN USE OF DRUGS SINCE
PROHIBITION CAME TO UNITED STATES
| WASHINGTON, D. C.—Hearings
'be':ore the house ways and means sub
commijttee today on the bill designed
to prohibit the exportation of nar
cotics and restrict their importation
developed a discussion as to whether
prohibition has served to increase the
use in this country of habit-forming
drugs.
Representative Henry T. Rainey,
democrat, of Illinois, said he believed
the liquor ban had in no way affected
the drug traffic.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1920
Will Try to Deceive
His Chickens and
Get More Eggs
EDGERTON, Minn—B. D.
Cornell, local poultry raiser, is go
ing to try and verify the statement
of experts that the lighting of hen
houses increases winter egg pro
duction. Cornell has installed a
complete electric light system in his
chicken house and has the system
connected with a time switch
which turns- the lights on at five
o’clock each morning,-arousing the
chickens about the same time that
daylight gets them out in the sum
mer time.
I F |
‘ OR SUNDAY LAWS
NEBRASKAN REITERATES HIS
CRY FOR SINGLE STAND
ARD OF MORALITY.
WASHINGTON,; D. XC.—William
Jennings Bryan has joined the reform
forces engaged in preparing a legisla
tive drive for Sunday observance, and
in doing so has reiterated his cry for
a single standard of morality.
Commenting on the mworal crusade
being conducted in several states and
to be urged upon congress with a
Sunday observance bill for the Dis
trict of Columbia, Mr. Bryan has writ
ten to the all-American conference on
social diseases, asserting that he pro
poses to press his fight for the single
morality standard.
“I urge,” said Mr. Bryan, “the in
‘dorsement of the single standard—no
segregation of sin, no licensing of vice,
the penalties of immorality enforced
impartially against the two sexes. That
is,-in my judgment, to be the next
great moral issue, and I hope to see
‘Nebraska lead the fight.”
' This was followed by an appeal to
the women to rally to the support of
Mr. Bryan and others who stand with
‘him. He would have Nebraska write
‘into its new constitution a provision
for the “single standard.”
“The women are here; their con
sciences are with us; their influence
will help us,” said he. “How dare we
longer discriminate against woman
and give to the immoral man a re-‘
spectability that we deny her? I beg
you to consider whether this is not
the time to indorse the single standard
of morality. Man and woman _will
stand side by side befroe the judg
ment bar of God; if they must stand
on equality there we should not give
one of them an advantage over the
other in the tribunal which man cre
ates.”
COST U. S. $1,651,191
MESSAGE TO SENATE GIVES
ACCOUNT OF EXPENSES. CI
GARS AND MAGAZINES.
. WASHINGTON, D. C—A special
'message, giving the complete expenses
of the American. Peace Commission
during its "work abroad was transmitt
ed to the senate today by President
Wilson.
The total expenditures amounted to
$1,651,191.09 from December 1, 1918,
to December 4, 1920. The amount act
vally paid out was $1,705,712.06, but
repayments and gains in exchange re
duced this by $52,520.97.
Some of Important Items.
Some of the larger items were:
Travel and subsistence, $28,442; sub
sistence, $193,629; salaries, $200,871;
‘wages and employes at Hotel Crillon,
$131,507; rents, $176,853; food, hotel
and kitchen supplies, $283,560; hire
and laundering of linen at hotel, $64,-
069; damage and loss of property at
hotel $125,870.
| V’arious missions to Russia, Ger
'many, Posen, Turkey, Holland and
Armenia cost $239,726. Purchase of
'automohiles amounted to $14,602, and
“confidential expenses” of presidential
!party $17,534. |
Col. E. M. House and Henry White, |
[the statement showed, received month
|ly salaries of $l,OOO as commissioners,
while Robert Lansing, former secre
’tary of state, and Gen. Tasker H.
Bliss, other commissioners, had their
'actual expenses paid.
Gompers Got $25 a Day.
I Allowance for subsistence for em
ployes and attaches, the statement
showed, ranged from a ‘few francs daily
to $4 and $5 for most of the Ameri
can employes. One item was of $25 a
day to Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor. °
Rear Admiral Grayson was credited
with frequent drafts of $l,OOO and
more, for ‘confidential expenses of
the president.”
Minor items ranged from newspa
pers and magazines to coal and cigars.
The latter, it was said, were bought in
America and sold at cost to the com
mission personnel. .
Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts, president of
the International Reform bureau, said
that while thefe was no considerable
increase in the use of drugs in prohi
bition, of some wh oused to drink now
take drugs if they cannot get alco
hol.
" Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, former chief
of the bureau of chemistry of the de
partment of agriculture, advocated
placing eomplete jurisdiction over im
portation of habit forming drugs in the
hands of the public health service.
CONFINED AT PLYMOUTH. HE
PUTS ON PRISON GARB FOR
: THE THIRD TIME.
PLYMOUTH, Mass.—Charles Pon
zi today entered upon service of his
%sentence of five years at the Plymouth
county jail that was imposed by_g_lf.
federal court as punishment for the
fraud by which he obtained millions
of dollars from thousands of persons.
Accompanied by his wife and fed
eral officers he was brought here from
the East Cambridge jail, where he has
been confined since his arrest in Aug
ust.
Ponzi today put on prison garb for
the third time in his career of attempts
to make easy money, having previous
ly served time at Montreal and Atlan
ta. Then he rejoined his youthful wife
for a temporary farewell. She intends
to leave the mansion home which he
bought in Lexington and come here
and work in order to be near him.
NO FOOD IN CHINA -
FOR THIRTY MILLION
NO RAIN SINCE NOWV. 1919. LO
CUST, PESTS, CHOLERA, CIVIL
WAR, DROUGHT, FLOOD.
SHANGHAIL—"In this cradle of
Chinese civilization we are not strong
on anniversaries. But today marks a
new one which cannot be overlooked.
A year ago today we had our last
rain.”
Thus wrote Rev. John Griffith, of
the Canadian Presbyterian Mission, to}
the newspapers of China from Chang-‘
teh in the province of Honan. |
China was just beginning to realize
that it was faced with one of the most.
stupendous famines that had ever vis
ited that country of millions of people
and little to eat. China had seen month
after month go by without a drop of
rain or a flake of snow in five of the
most populous provinces. “
The people of Chihli, Honan, Shan
tung, Shensi and port of Shansi are
starving. The famine district covers
about 40,000 square miles. About 30,-
000,000 will have to go without food
this winter.
The provinces are the heart of Chi
na. Shantung is the birthplace of Con
fucius,-whence went forth the learning
of this ancient land. Shensi contains
the city of Sianfu, to which the Dow
ager empress fled in Boxer days, and
which was the capital of China when
Rome was crumbling. Kaifeng, its
principal city, was the capital of the
country during the Liang dynasty and
here, until very recently, stood the
synagogue where Jews who came to
China worshipped when the temple
fell. ChihM is the province which con
tains Pekin. The population of these
provinces is about 100,000,000.
Drought, Flood and Pests.
During the past year there has been
intermittent drought and fleod and lo
cust pests, cholera and civil war. Only
a month ago Honan and Chihli saw
fighting between the forces of Gen,
Tuan Chih-jui and those of Tsao Kun
and Chang Tso-ling who are now in
power. It was in Chihli that soldiers
covered the ground with their dead
bodies. And in all this fighting the in
habitants suffered most. For it was
their farms which were destroyed. It
was their homes which were torn
down in the firing. What might have
been saved of the scraggy, parched
crops was trod under foot by the war
riors, by the mercenary army of the
militarists. And now the price must
be paid—by the millions of inhabitants.
NEW DRY BILL TAKES SPARKLE
FROM THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE
Not Even Odor of Booze Would Be Allowed to Assail Nostrils of U. S,
Representatives Abroad in Own Home, at Banquets or Clubs.
A bill that would take the sparkle
out of the banquets of American
diplomatic and consular representa
tives abroad, and would even forbid
diplomats of the United States to at
tend functions where liquor is dis
pensed ‘for beverage purposes, has been
offered in the lower house of congress
by Representative William D. Up
shaw, of the Atlanta, Ga., district.
Representative Upshaw _said the
measure had the support of the Anti-
Saloon lLeague. :
The first section of the bill pro
hibits citizens of the United States in
consular districts of this country in
China from manufacturing, selling,
furnishing or giving away liquors and
their financial interest in any corpora
tion connected with such manufacture
and sale. Representative Upshaw said
this was intended to make the Ameri
can citizen in China get under_the
iAmericam flag and obey the Volstead
law.
Section 2 apparently is intended to
dry the throat of the American diplo
mat wherever he may be. Strictly fol
lowed, it would prevent the ambassa
dor to the Court of St. James from
attending a function in- an exclusive
London club where champagne flows
or the Scotch hightall is not regarded
as a blight. This section reads:
~ That it shall be unlawful for any
- citizen of the United States or per
son owing allegiance to the United
States to serve any of the intoxi
cating liquors mentioned in section
1 herein at a public or official func
tion, or to give official recognition
to any club or association that keeps
or serves such liquors for beverage
purposes. That the prohibition
herein provided shall apply in the
consular districts of all foreign
cuntries ~ wherg such prohibition
does not conflict with the treatics
which this ration has made with
WILL NOT BUY COAL. ONE
USES 700 ACRES OF WHEAT
AS PASTURE FOR STOCK.
LINCOLN, Neb.—Reports from
farmers that they are going to burn
ear corn as a substitute for the high
priced coal continue to be received
here. d
In a letter to A. E. Anderson, fed
eral statistician for the bureau of crop
estimates, P. H. Kilzer, a farmer oi
near Lebanon, Red Willow county,
says he is not only going to burn corn
as fuel for winter, but has opened up
760 acres of winter wheat to his live
stock, The present price of wheat, he
says, does not make wheat a profit
able crop for farmers, and he has de
cided not to harvest the winter wheat“
he has in. |
Kilzer’s letter accompanied his re
port to Mr. Anderson of crop condi
tions on his farm. The letter follows:
“In regard to the winter wheat con
dition, I am sure it is hard to guess,
as everyone near here has turned live
stock on it, considering wheat an un
profitable crop.
“I have always protected my wheat
and alfalfa fields, but my live stock,
this vear has access to such fields. I
do not expect to harvest my 700 acres
of winter wheat. My 1920 crop was
good. T am forced to sell it at $l.lO
a bushel. Cars to ship it in were not
available sooner. I put in my order
for cars last June, but none was grant-’
ed until the market was below the|
cost of production.
“In regard to firewood, the farmersl
are all going to burn ear corn, as 25
cents a bushel is all we can get for it.i
Elderly people, who burned corn
years ago, say it makes a very nice
fuel. We younger farmers can say
more abobut it when this winter is'
over.” =
NOTABLE FIGURES IN U. S.
AFFAIRS INVITED TO MA
RION. BRYAN AND ROOT.
MARION, O.—As he continued his
consultations today on association of
nations President-elect Harding let it
be known that he expected to seek
the opinions of more than a hundred
men and women on the subject before
inauguration day, and that his confers
ences would include some of the most
notable figures in both political par
ties.
William Jennings Bryan, Elihu Root
and Herbert Hoover are among those
he consulted virtually at the outset of
ihis effort to find a middle ground on
‘which the divergent schools of na
tional thought might unite.
' The appointment, with Mr. Bryan,
like those with Mr. Hoover and Mr.
‘Root, was made at Senator Harding’s
request. Since the league of nations
idiscussion began there has peen much
talk about the Bryan arbitration trea
'ties as a possible basis for interna
tional amity of a broader scope and it
is understood that for one thing the
president-elect is anxious to hear first
hand about the negotiations from
which these pacts resulted. Mr. Bry
an’s advice also is expected to be in
teresting in view of his active effort
to secure ratification of the Versailles
treaty with the republican reserva
tions.
Among other democrats who have
been invited by the president-elect to
visit him at Marion are Senator Reed,
of Missouri, Senator Shields, of Ten
nesgee, and former Ambassador Ger
rard.
such foreign countries or the laws
for the execution of such treaties.
The final section provides a fine
for violation of the proposed law,
and both fine and imprisonment for
a “second or cognate offense.”
It was suggested to Mr. Upshaw
that the bill would not only make
state banquets of American represent
atives abroad dry affairs but that our
ambassadors and ministers would- be
limited in their attendance of functions
where it was possible liquors would
be served. -
“Does it do that?” asked Mr. Up
shaw, re-reading his bill. “Well, why
not?. 1 suppose that interpretation is
right. But wouldn’t it be a fine thing,
a good tonic if our representatives
abroad stand by the Velstead law and
refuse to go where liquor is served?”
_ The bill went to the judiciary com
mittee, which reported out the consti
tional amendment and the Volstead
act. -
Sign on North Pole
Has Moved Four
Hundred Miles
NEW YORK.—The flag sign
post planted by Admiral Peary in
his memorable dash to the north
pole has been discovered by Capt.
Godford Hansen, Danish = Arctic
explorer, 400 miles from its original
geographical point. The shifting of
the sign-post, Capt. Hansen said,
was due to the movement of the
ice packs. This steady shiftinf of
the ice carried the post far irom
its original position when the
American flag was planted at the
northern apex of the globe.
Millinery Samples Leak;
Eighty-eight Quarts
In Four Suit Cases
CHICAGO.—A suit case of
“millinery samples” sprung a leak
today as the Pullman in which it
was being carried neared Chicago.
The conductor sent a wire ahead
to the police here.
Detectives arrested two New
Yorkers as they left the train and
confiscated four suit cases labeled
“New York Hat Company.” Eigh
ty-eight quarts of whisky were
found in the cases.
GENERAL SLUMP UNCHECKED
ALL ALONG THE LINE. HIGH
COST GETS HARD JOLT.
CHlCAGO.—Potatoes, cabbage and
apples continue slipping in price, 'and
butter and eggs show signs of weak
ening in sympathy with declines in
other food stuffs. Potatoes were sell
ing today at $1.70 and $l.BO per hun
dredweight. Growers in Wisconsin and
Michigan say they are getting about a
cent a pound for their potatoes. To
day’s price compares with the peak of
$8 per 100 pounds less than a year ago.
Cabbages are selling at $l5 a ton as
compared with $75 a ton a year ago.
Retailers purchased them today at $4
to $5 a hamper. Onions are selling at
one-third the price they brought a
year ago.
Apples have been holding firm for
some time, but they have at last hit the
skids, and are selling 40 per cent
cheaper.
Sugar has registered still further de
clines. It is said Cuban sugar is being
offered in the east at 3 7-8 cents a
pound.
Flour and all other ingredients are
much cheaper, but the hotels and res
taurants in Chicago still charge 10 and
15 cents for one-sixth of a pie. Big
department stores are selling whole
pies of excellent quality for 23 and 25
cents and on special days at 18 and 20
cents. i
“Wholesale prices of fresh meat cuts,
both beef and perk, reached the low
levels of the pre-war period with the
close of business this week. Armour
& Co. announced today. Beef prices,
the last to be readjusted, declined to
the lowest of the year. Light pork
loins sold for 21 cents, as compared
with the pre-war price of 22 to 23}
cents, Lard was offered at 6 cents a
pound under the price of April 1, 1917,
| The average price of sweet pickled and
fcured pork products was 17 cents, that
;);il;g 3 cents under the price in April,
“The market value: of hides, 1414
cents in the aggregate of the ten
grades, has dropped 6 cents a pound
from 1917 and is 1 cent a pound low
er than the price in 1912.”
COX PUTS FOOT ON MOVE
MENT TO DISMISS WHITE AS
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The de
cision of Chairman George White of
the democratic national committee not
to resign for several months at least
was made at the direction of Governor
Cox, it was learned following the de
parture of White for New York.
~ Governor Cox lis said to have put
‘his foot down on any reorganization
of the party at this time, which would
‘have virtually turned control over to
the anti-Cox ‘factions friendly to Mr.
‘Bryan and former Secretary McAdoo.
It was admitted by leaders in the re
organization plan that the program to
elect a new chairman to replace Mr.
White has been temporarily abandon
ed. While this may mean little more
‘than an “armistice,” it is understood
‘that White will-be permitted to retain
the chairmanship for some time. The
fight for control may come later.
“White himself was the one who
made it possible for Cox to retain con
trol,” one democratic leader said at
the end of a conference. “White did
not wish to continue as chairman, but
he reconsidered when Cox asked him
to and then defied any one to attempt
to oust him on the ground that he was
a Cox supporter.”
It is understood that the McAdoo
men in the national committee express
confidence that when the time comes
for a real reorganization they will win.
They will prefer, however, to have the
battle for reorganization come after
Eresfient Wilson has gone out oi oi
ce.
RATHER THAN LOSE JOBS.
MORE THAN 70,000 IN CHI
CAGO AND VICINITY.
CHICAGO.—More than 70,000 ne
gro laborers of Chicago and vicinity
have agreed to accept a reduction in
wages rather than lose their jobs on
account of reduced production, R. E.
Parker, president of the American Uni
ty Labor Union announced today. He
said the union controlled more than
50,000 skilled and unskilled workers in
the stock yards here, the steel mills at
Gary, Ind., and in foundries, factories
and docks in and about Chicago. *
According to Mr. Parker offcials of
the union have agreed on a ten per
cent reductioni for unskilled laborers
and a 15 per cent cut for skilled la
borers and will submit the proposition
to their employers. Mr. Parker de
clared there were 100,000 unemployed
negroes in Chicago and vicinity.
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’ FARM FINANCE PLAN
,CASH MARKET FOR OTHER
. CROPS BESIDES COTTON IS
A VITAL NEED, HE SAYS.
ATHENS, Ga—Establishment ofa
comprehensive brokerage system main
tained by the state for the benefit of
farmers and producers in Georgia and
extending to all counties to enable
quick marketing of products which
will be backed by ample funds to
make its operation- a certainty is the
far-reaching proposal Thomas W.
Hardwick, governor-elect, made in a
speech here Wednesday before several
hundred county farm demonstration
agents.
Providing & cash market for other
crops in addition to cotton, Mr. Hard
wick said, .was the big vital need of
Georgia now.
Mr. I?ardwick said the establish
ment of a brokerage system func
tioning through an expanded state bu
reau of markets will be one of the
most important policies he hopes to
carry out during his administration.
People Tied to Cotton.
“The people of Georgia have been
hog-tied to cotton as a money crop
long enough,” he said. “The present
situation should be lesson enough to
all who have the begt interests of the
state at heart. We've got to raise oth
er crops besides cotton, but we've
got to devise a system of marketing
which will make such crps money
crops.”
Mr. Hardwick made it clear in his
speech that the creation of such a
system will be one of the “big things -
he. will attempt during his adminis
tration. He announced that he will
seek to enlist the aid of all leaders
of thought in this line regardless of
their political affiliations. He said
his plan will be strictly a non-polit
ical one, that his mind is open to
suggestions from any source, and that
he will seek the aid of leaders of all
political faiths and creeds in work
ing out the details of his plan.
Time to Do Things.
“The time has come in Georgia for
us to do something,” he said. “We
have had worlds of talk, reams upon
reams of paper has been used telling
what should be done, but béyond
some work necessarily desultory in
character because of insufficient ap
propriations we have done nothing.
‘Georgia has no money to spend for
more talk and more printing, but
Georgia has unlimited funds to spend
in the support of tangible working
brokerage plan which will bring the
markets of the world to Georgia and
will permit the farmers and produc
ers of Georgia to obtain the highest
market price for their products at all
times, regardless of the remoteness of
their location.
Time to Diversify.
“The time has come for us to make
real efforts to diversify. I am satisfied
that we will never get anywhere until
we provide a real, serviceable, work
ing, functioning marketing system.
We may be able to perfect it in a short
time. It may require many months,
maybe years. But the first step must
be takeh, and I hope that it will be
taken early in my administration. De
fects found in the first system can be
brought out and remedied. The first
step will be to expand the present bu
reau of markets into a big brokerage
system operated by the st::}re for the
benefit of the people of Gedrgia.”
Mr. Hardwick outlined his plan here
as a general proposition. He said dif
ferences of opinion necessarily. will
arise over details, but said high mind
ed and patriotic men can work these
out.
100 Others, Including 11 Superdread
naughts and Six Battle Cruisers,
: Are Under Way.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Nearly
200 warships, including one super
dreadnaught and 96 destroyers, were
completed for the American navy dur
ing the fiscal year ended last June 30,
and more than 100 others, including
11 superdreadnaughts and six great
battle cruisers, were building at that
time.
This is shown in the annual repoft
of Rear Admiral David W. Taylor,
chief of the bureau of congtruction
and repair, to Secretary Daniels, made
public today at the navy department.
Fbr continuing work on the ships
|building. Admiral Taylor estimated
that $119,000,000 would be required
’during the fiscal year beginning June
30. This compares with $79,000,000
last year and is the largest total ever
proposed by the American navy in
peace times for continuing construc
tion.
Admiral Taylor's report also dis
closes that the navy department is en
gaged in developing and constructing
new types of aircraft, including great
rigid and semi-rigid airships and sea
planes similar to those which under
took the trans-Atlantic flight last year.
Besides the dirigible which is being
built in England for the United States
the navy is building a dirigible at
home.
WOMEN’S HIGH HEEL
SHOES DECLARED A CRIME
Osteopath Says Bill Will Be Introduc
ed to Regulate Women's Footwear:
The Massachusetts Osteopathic -So
ciety will introduce a bill in the next
legislature to stop the high heel at its
sources, the manufactuers, according
to an announcement made at the con
vention held in Boston. =
A paper on “High Heels a Crime,”
was read by Dr. R. Kendrick Smith,
of Brookline, who told his associates
that the a(ll"vent of woman suffrage
had given the society courage to -
pose a bill prohibiting the mams::-
‘ture, sale and wearing of heels more
than one and one-half inches in height.