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pEVOTED TO
pUBLIC SERVICE.
By E. L. RAINEY
REPORT OF COMMITTEE REC
OMMENDING NEW APPOR-_
TIONMENT DEFEATED.
ED
TINKHAM PLEA REJECT
Majority Committee Report Averse to
Move to Cut Down Southern Rep
resentation. Massachusetts Mem
per Threatens to Go to Court.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The hquse
of representatives voted today ag_ams}
increasing its membership, whcih is
how 435. 5
The action was taken by adop?xon
of an amendment to the reapportion
ment bill which sought to increase
the total to 483. Under the amend
ment twelve seats would be shifted
from eleven to eight states. ok
The vote to keep the membershxp
at 435 was 198 for to 77 against. The
Georgia members voted for the small-*
.+ number.
“\\]!lulél‘}\".‘:' Gillett and former Speaker
Clark were strong in opposition to
by increase.
The amendment means that the fol
lowing states will lose seats two years
lence:
[;\1,\;,,1”& two, and Indiana, Iowa;
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,:
Mississippl, Nebraska, thde .Islaqd
[nd Vermont one each. California will
gain three, Michigan - two, Ohio two
nd Connecticut, New Jersey, North
Carolina, Texas and Wyoming one
(;uh. :
Southern Representation.
An outstanding portion of the ma
jority report was that dealing with the
Move oi Representative George H.
Tinkham, of Massachusetts, to cut
down the representation of the south
because of its alleged discrimination
aoainst the negro voters. The caucus
committee declined to include such
legislation in the bill, saying that the
question is one that should be given
long investigation, such as the com
mittee could not give, and it doubts
that it would be possible to ascertain,
anyway, whether there have been dis
criminations justifying reduced repre
sentation.,
\iter reciting that Representative
Tinkham, backed by a number of col
ored witnesses, appeared before the
mittee, only to have their claims de
nied by southern members of congress,
gress and aiter quoting the fourteenth
amendment covering the right of all
citizens to vote, the committee report
sdys.
Reasons Against Reduction.
“This amendment was declared rati
fied on June 28, 1868. It is significant
that, although since that date five
decennial apportionments have passed,
no effort has been made to reduce the
apportionment of any state under the
provisions of the amendment. The
reason is doubtless to be found in the
exceeding difficulty of ascertaining
whether, and to what extent, the right
fto v lay have been denied ‘or
[ 1 ime necessary to make such
investigation would extend over many
l'or this reason your commit
tec has iclt justified and compelled to
tollow the precedent adopted in pre-
Vious ennial apportionments.”
Tinkham Is Obdurate.
Comcident with the committee res
port adverse to the Tinkham proposal,
1t became known that Representative
Finkham’s insistence upon action on
the south’s representation is enrbar
lassing 10 the republican leaders. Mr.
[u.i\" 1 threatens to take his fight
I floor, and if necessary to the
R publican leaders have been trying
l" call off” the Massachusetts mem
(’j" on the theory that since the G.
k. l“ has invaded the “solid south”
s 1s not the time to agitate the race
{ucstion in that section. So far, how
;“ Representative Tinkham has
Jcen Obdurate and is demanding an
g 'ctization of election practices in
J¢. southern states with a view to
E duced representation in con
eorgia Districts May Be Realligned.
el action of the house means
rgia will not get an extra
S Rt the twelve districts
d state probably will be realign
oo a 8 o get 240,000 people in each
e 1o conform to the new unit
o asis of the 1920 census.
Family of Six Found
Starving in Gotham
e -
}HL.H}“:? T(:)’S Were Sold to Buy a
Can of Tinned Meat.
e tORK, N. Y.—The story
o s ot six, all starving to
By M ¢to the attention of police
oehe alorris Englehardt, who lives
wver . &round floor at 78334 Third
e irooklyn, answered at his
' and admitted Charles Aran, 7,
& . . ncighbor living upstairs. The
ta g 00 SO weak he could - hardly
Kot -
\..‘Y’“ went upstairs and found
oo ran and his wife and three
Roe, o> ‘armie, 20; Lola, 16, and
k. o o @l lying on a mattress on
E here was no- furniture in
i ..x. .’:s‘n] no fire,
. tlance surgeon pronounced
Do . Sultering from starvation.
an e Ooly one of the family who
BE thia tnglish, said that last eve
oo ey sold some of the children’s
-7 4l bought a can of tinned meat.
JIANITOR 1S WILLED .
28,000 AND BIG FARM
a letter while industriously
e _Droom i the city hall at
o sen ¢ Ind., Charles Wineland,
toiher 1 onth janitor, learned that a
b 5 110 _‘*‘*"‘_ i California leaving |
ash in 1 "k”' truit farm and $28,000
THE DAWSON NEWS
Cornceb Pipes Are
Made By the Millions
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—The
corncob pipe industry in Missouri
last year ran close to $1,000,000.
The exact sales, as reported by W.
H. Lewis, state labor commission
er, amounted to $912,890. Corncob
and wooden pipes originated in
Missouri, from which they received
the name of “Missouri meer
schaums.” Six factories are devoted
to this business of converting
seemingly worthless cobs and seed
stalks into pipes and pipe stems
to be distributed not only through
out the United States but abroad.
Thousands of these pipes are being
smoked in Germany, the home of
the genuine meerschaum, Mr. Lew
s’ report says. During the past
yea/ g~ “issouri’s six factories man
ufa "djn “ 156,800 complete corn
cob pi.. 8y """ “wooden pipes
and more tha.. ~vtra reed
stems.
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SAYS SEX IS TRICKY
THINKS ENTRY INTO POLI
TICS WON'T MAKE IT ANY
NICER. DON'T STICK.
BEULAH, Mich.—"“Politics won't
be any ‘nicer’ now that women are in.
You may bank on that,” declared Mrs.
Estelle Gates, sheriff-elect of Benzie
county.
Matronly, about 50, with a figure
muscular beyond ordinary feminine
attainment, she gave the impression
that she knew whereof she spoke.
Mrs. Gates charges there was a lot
of trickery in heér campaign.
“And I'm right here to tell you that
the women were to blame for it,” she
added. “My husband has been in poli
tics in Benzie county for twenty years
and he says he never experienced any
think like the mean tactics that were
employed against me in the closing
days of the campaign.”
Many who labor under the impres
sion that women will support women
in politics are going to be disillusion
ed, according to the woman who will
be one of two of Michigan’s sheriffs
after Jan. 1.
“They didn’t support me in my
election and I never knew before I
ran for the.office that I had an enemy.
Besides bucking me, they can think
up far more subtle methods of attack
than a man could ever dream of.”
MR. HARDING IS NOW
HAS CLOSED MARION HOME.
PASSED THROUGH GEOR
GIA FRIDAY NIGHT.
MARION, Ohio.—Quitting Marion
for a vacation in Florida before enter
ing the - white house, President-elect
Harding has vacated the residence on
Mt. Vernon avenue which was the
mecca of the front porch pilgrimages
and closed up the little office next
door where many of the nation’s no
tables have given their advice on the
nation’s problems.
The president’s train passed
through Atlanta Friday night and
reached St. Augustine Sunday morn
ing. Mr. Harding made no rear plat
form speeches along the way, having
planned to begin a rest as soon as he
boarded the car. A St. Augustine hotel
will be his Florida headquarters, but
first of all he will get entirely away
from his care on a two wecks fishing
trip.
~ Bade Neighbors Farewell.
He-put in his last day at Marion
bidding farewell to his neighbors. He
made several personal calls, received
many friends at his office, made a
short farewell talk to the pupils of
the city high school and was the hon
ored guest at a meeting of the Elks
fraternity of which he is a member.
He will return here before going to
Washington but only for a stay of a
few hours.
The party accompanying him south
is the smallest with which he has
traveled since his nomniation.
A Story of His Devotion.
A story of Mr. Harding’s devotion
to one of his fellow townsmen came
to light by chance tonight after it
had been kept a secret for several
weeks from some of thosc dircctly‘
concerned. It involved a financial
guarantee by the president-elect to en
able his church to continue the salary‘
of a pastor who has been incapacitat
ed since last July. l
WANTED TO SEE IF PASSENGER TRAIN
WOULD CUT RAILROAD CROSS TIE IN TWO
Seaboard Air Line Passenger Train Came Near Being Wrecked at
Kinchafoonee Creek by Obstruction Placed on Track.
PRESTON, Ga.—A Seaboard pas
senger train, on the main line of that
road from Savannah to Montgomery,
narrowly averted a disastrous wreck
at. Kinchafoonee creek, in Webster
county.
As the train approached the creek
the engineer noticed a cross tie direct
ly across the rails and succeeded in
bringing his train to a standstill be
fore it struck the piece of timber.
On reaching Richland the crew re
ported the matter to a railroad detec
tive wha happened to be there, and
he boarded the “shoo fly,” which was
leaving for Americus, for the scene
of the crime. As this train approach
ed the trestle it was discovered by the
engine crew that another erosstie had
been placed on the track, with the evi
dent intention of wrecking the “shoo
fly” also. *
Investigation was made and a smail
negro boy was found near the scene,
but the d)etective was unable to catch
him. With the aid of Sheriff Chris
. DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, JANERY 25, 1921
THEY PELDGE CORN TO THE
STARVING PEOPLE OF EU
ROPE AND CHINA.
FIFTY MILLION BUSHELS
!Each Proposes to Deliver His Allot
ment Free to Railway Sidings,
Where Relief Organizations Will
Take Charge and Send it Abroad.
CHICAGO, Ill.—The great heart of
the American farmer is in the right
place and functioning properly. He has
seen the price of his crops cut in half,
while his expenses have continued
along the wartime peak, but is still
better off than millions in less fortu
nate lands and is willing to share what
he has with those in need.
Today the 1.500,000 farmers repre
sented in the American Farm Bureau
Federation challenged the urban pop
ulation of the country to meet them
half way in a plan of immense pro
portions to get food to the millions
of starving Europeans sand Chinese.
Briefly, the farmers of the United
States will furnish all the corn needed
for the relief work, free of charge, if
the people of the United States who
are not farmers will undertake to de
liver the grain to the famine stricken
districts. -
No Strings to the Offer.
There are no strings whatever to
the offer. The farmers will give 50,-
000,000 bushels or more and give it
gladly. The farmer has no money, but
he will share what he has. The crop
this year is enormous and the price
is down to a figure that takes the
heart out of the producer. The mem
bers of the bureau do not feel dispos
ed to unload on the present market
and would prefer to give it away. They
will deliver their allotment of the corn
required for relief.-work to the sidings,
‘where the relief organizations will
take charge of it and send it out of
‘the country. The project has been un
der consideration for some time and
a committee was appointed today to
make plans for the successful working
out of the great scheme. The only
stipulation is that the actual corn is
to be delivered, not to be sold and
the money applied to some other form
of relief work.
Surplus Crop to Give Away.
The proposition was read today by
J. R. Howard, president of the feder
ation, and was greeted with cheers by
the 1,500 members attending the con
ference. Active work will be begun at
once by the Hoover and kindred re
lief asscoiations to raise funds to
transport the grain to the starving
countries. It is realized that quick
work is necessary to save the lives of
hundreds of thousands who will per
ish unless relief comes at once.
Offers of donations increased until
within ten minutes more than 65,000
}).ufshels of corn was volunteered for re
ief.
“We will furnish any amount the
Hoover committee can use,” Mr. How
ard said after the meeting. “If they
want 10,000,000 bushels we will get it;
if they want 25,000,000 bushels we'll
get that. I talked with the New York
‘headquarters this morning and the
‘matter will be taken up there.”
ORIENTAL SETTLERS MET AT
TRAIN BY IRATE CITIZENS
AND ORDERED TO LEAVE.
American Legion posts and citizens
of southwestern Texas banded to
gether for the purpose of excluding
Japanese planning to acquire home
steads in the Lone Star state.
Feeling ran high in Harlington,
Texas, when two families of Japanese
arrived from California. The Orientals
were met at the. railroad station and
informed by a‘committee of citizens
their presence was undesirable.
“B. R. Cato, a Japanese colonist from
California, arrived in Brownville later
for the purpose of making an investi
gation. It was reported that he had
arranged to send several more fami
lies to Texas. Cato was met at the
train by a committee of the Ameri
can Legion, Chamber oif Commerce,
Retail Merchants’ Association and
farmers’ organizations and was told
to leave within 48 hours. \
tian, of Webster cunty, dogs were se
!curcd and the culprit trailed to his
home about eleven o’clock that night.
~ The boy admitted the crime, but
stated that his ouly desire was to see
if the train would cut the ties in two,
and that he had no intention of wreck
ing the train. He was lodged in the
Webster counity jail here to await
trial.
Imbiber Was Blinded
By Drinking Illicit Booze
Chicago Saloonmen Must Pay Victim
" $30,000. Sold Him Wood Alcohol.
CHlCAGO.—Blindness caused by
wood alcohol was the ground for a
verdict of $30,000 damages returned
in cricuit court today in favor of Sam
Greenburg. The award, which -was
said to be the first of its kind in Chi
cago courts, was against the saloon
partnership of Cohen & Aikin.
SPENDERS OF
TAX MONEY
WASHINGTON, D. C.—lt is
rather unusual to see a woman be
fore a congressional committee an
nouncing that she is there merely
“as a business woman.” Mrs. Sally
Burch, who, ~with two other wo
men, runs a bookshop, came before
the house military affairs commit
tee to protest against extravagant
military appropriations. And this is
what she said:
“You gentlemen are, of course,
aware of the fact that the current
appropriations for the army amount
to $392,000,000; for fortifications
$18,000,000; for the navy $433,000,-
000; the military academy $2,000-
000, or a total of upwards of $845,-
000,000 for-these services. This is a
amount of our 1916 appropriations,
which was the highest pre-war ap
propriation for all these services.
“I am speaking before this com
mittee as a business woman. 1 can
not believe that the business men
of this country know these figures.
If they know, them, I ask this com
mittee what they are thinking of
that they are neot here in Washing
ton at this time “in such numbers
as to block our traffic?
“The business woman, now she
has become a political factor, will
not overlook the large business of
government, but will insist upon a
sane and wise business policy.
.“Our American people are slow
tdo be aroused, but they will be now
when this enormous burden of tax
ation has to be borne, not for con
structive purposes for which the
whole world is crying in its anguish,
but for destruétion.”
WOMAN EDITOR DECLARES
SPRING COSTUMES WILL
BE IN GOOD TASTE.
CHICAGO.—“Women are facing
an era of simpilicity,” said Mrs. Edna
Woolman Chase, of New York, editor
of the magazine Vogue, and who is
rated as one of the leading experts on
feminine apparel in the fashion world.
“This spring,” she continued, “there
will be a sparing use ot embroidery, a
discard of gaudy footwear, an elimina
tion of that ‘overdressed’ look. Every
thing is to be in exceeding good taste,
exquisite shoes, many pearls. There
will be sashes at the hips, floating pan
els and plaitings—but, above all, sim
plicity in cut and line.
“The knee length frocks are doomed.
They become too .common, you see.
When styles becomc common smart
women drop them and start new
‘modes. They are the ones who start
new modes. Why, evening gowns are
to reach almost to the feet and street
‘dresses will not exceed 10 inches from
‘the floor.
~ “Not one woman in fifty in a fash
jonable American crowd is well coif
fuered, and it™is not expensive to be
‘well coiffuered. A woman with a long
fage should never draw her® hair up
‘high. It merely accentuates the effect
of grotesqueness.
“Women should be as beautiful as
possible. It is their duty to the world
and to their husbands. It is true that
nice men frequently marry impossible
‘women, but not as a general rule. Wo
men dress for one another and the
first rule is fashion. I do not believe in
‘the outrageous iashions adopted by
many young American girls today.
They look common—and wayward—
those awful jet earrings and overfeat
ured hats and lace. Young girls are
copying the models of the women of
30—dressing as women of the world.”
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS’
HAS INCREASED TWO AND A
HALF TIME AS RAPIDLY
AS POPULATION.
White Baptists of the south have
shown remarkable growth in member
ships during the past twenty years,
according to Dr. E. P. Alldredge, sec
retary of the department of survey,
statistics and information of the
Southern Baptist Sunday school board.
By way of comparison the report
shows that—
In 1900 southern Baptists had 737
associations while today there are 975,
representing a gain of 25.5 per cent;
in 1900 there were 18963 local church
es, which number has been increased
to 25,305, a gain of 33.4 per cent;
there were 1,604,413 bona fide mem
bers in 1900 and 2,961,348 in 1920, a
gain of 84.1 per cent; 9,711 _Sunday
schools twenty vears ago, and 17,686
today, an increase of 82.1 per cent;]
639,944 Sunday school pupils in 1900
and 1,835,936 today, a gain of 187 per
cent. Annual gifts to missions and
benevolences in 1980 were $701,323.38,
while this sum has increased to $7,-
331,226.58 today, an advance in 20
'years of 9453 per cent; total contri
butions per year to all purposes in
1900 were $3,069,506.52, while by 1920 |
they had climbed to $21,327,446.67, an
advance of 594 per cent; and the value
of local church property in 1900 was
$.19,437,323, while in 1920 that valua
tion had climbed to $74,273,728, an in
crease of 282 per cent.
OPOSSUM “PLAYED” ORGAN;
CONGREGATION MYSTIFIED
Nine-Pound Animal Objected to. Mu
. sic During Church Service.
Weird moans and strange discords
shocked the congregation of the Bap
tist church at Clayton, N. C., when
the organist touched the keys for the
;gpening hymn. e
First aid organ tuners failed to find
the trouble, but an expert from the
factory extracted a mnine-pound opos
sum from one of the big pipes.
~ AGAIN TURN IN NATION
FACTORIES THAT WERE SHUT
DOWN FOR WEEKS OPEN
ON PART OR WHOLE TIME.
BUSINESS BEING MENDED
Scores Begin Work to Meet Post-War
Demand. Textile Mills Reopen With
Lower Wage Scale. Clothing Ma
kers Back at Work Again.
Industrial skies throughout the
country began to brighten with the
advent of the new year. Many plants
which had been closed down for sev
eral weeks and others which had been
running part time have reopened eith
er on full time or a part time sched
ule. Thousands of men and women
who had been out of work have re
turned to the shops and factories. f
The industries affected by the reju
venation of industrial life include au
tomobile, clothing, shoe, textile, steel’
and other plants. Virtually the entire!
country is affected by the reopening
of these industries and, though some
plants rae still running on short time
their managers predict that by spring
the unemployment problems will be
largely solved.
Automobile Men Happy.
The slump in the automobile indus
try early last autumn threw hundreds
of ‘thousands of men out of work in
Detroit and other automobile manu
facturing centers. Most of these plants
have reopened onc part time. Ten
thousand men in Detroit alone have
returned to work since Jan. 1.
Old employes are being put to work
as far as possible, officials of all plants
stated. Most of the plants are working
on closed models, and no date has
been fixed for resumption of work on
touring cars and roadsters. Several au
tomobile plants now idle will reopen
immediately after the early spring
shows, when the manufacturers learn
what models the prospective buyers
favor.
The textile industry in New Eng
jand has recently shown new activity.
with many plants opening for part
time, and in some cases for whole time
operations. Although wages, in most
cases, have been reduced irom 20 to
25 per cent, yet this has resulted in
lower quotations for goods as a bid
for business. The Chadwick-Hoskirne
cotton mills, operating five plants in
North Carolina, and employing 2,000
persons, have reopened after an idle
ness of six weeks.
~Between 1,000 and 1,500 men have
returned to work in Milwaukee, Wis.,
where various industries have started
up after a long ‘idleness. About 3,200
men have returned to work at the
DuPont Powder plant, in Arlington,
N. J. The plant wusually employs
about 4,700 men. More than 2,000 silk
workers returned to work in Paterson,
N. J., but with a wage reducion of
from" 10 to 20 per cent.
)
WILSON’S TARIFF VIEW
DEMOCRATS IN UPPER HOUSE
CUT OFF SINCE OVERRID
ING HIS RECENT VETO.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Demo
cratic senators opposed to the emer
gency tariff bill are at sea over the
probable attitude of President Wilson
toward the measure.
Since they joined the republican
members in overriding the president’s
veto of the resolution resuscitating the
war finance corporation they have
been cut off from communication with
the white house.
Although they are banking on the
president to veto the pending tariff
bill if it passes the senate, and upon
their ability to prevent the president’s
veto being overridden, they admitted
they were “in the dark” as to what
the president will do if the measure
reaches him.
A report that he may permit the
bill to become a law automatically,
if only as an expression of unconcern
regarding the desires of democratic
senators who deserted him when he
opposed the attempt to revive the war
finance corporation, reached them on
Thursday. :
Perplexity Increased.
* It increased their perplexity over
the unusual situaiton of the demo
cratic leaders of the senate being out
of touch with the wishes of a (femo
cratic president.
Efforts to communicate with the
president through Secretary Tumulty
have availed democratic senators noth
ing, it 1s said,
Their worries hgve been influenced
by the defection in their own ranks.
"l‘hvy have discovered that from eight
to eleven democratic senators from
agricultural states, as a result of strong
pressure brought to bear by their
farming vonstituents, stand ready to
vote for the bill when it is reported
by the senate finance committee.
Hence the filibuster they have
planned against the bill, in the form
of numetous amendments ranging
from the voluminous codification bill
to the immigration and soldiers bonus
measures. They intend to delay final
action. |
They intend to put* off action on
the bill as far as possible and to resort
to every available parliamentary and
dilatory device to prevent its passage.
Government to L.end
Central Railroad $237,900
A loan of 82:3;.900 to the Central
of Georgia Railway coinpany, to aid
in providing new locomotives, -was
approved Thursday by the interstate
commerce commission. The applicant
is requested to finance about £238,000
to meet the government loan.
Kill the First Fly
And Win a Reward
NEW YORK.—Four sane and
sober men celebrated that noisy
first hour of 1921 by visiting New
York's gay cafes and hotels to see
if they could find one winter house
fly. Unsuccessful along the gay
white way they went lower on
Manhattan island, where the less
luxurious restaurants held their
sleepless celebrants. And in one of
them they found a sorry specimen
with a lean and hungry look. The
‘Philadelphia man in the party of
four did the dirty work. Ely‘hen‘he
sent the remains to the Merchants’
Association, which annually pre
sents a scarf pin bearing a golden
fly to the person who first kills a
fly on New Year’s day.
“The capture of this insect, small
as it is, means that we shall have
several billion fewer flies next sum
mer,” said the funeral oration ac
companying the scarf pin.
ENGLISH WOMEN ARE EMI
GRATING ON LARGE SCALE.
SURPLUS OF A MILLION.
LONDON, Eng.—“Jackless Jills”
are emigrating in considerable num
bers from England in the hope of find
ing suitable “Jill-less Jacks” for hus
bands in the United States, according
to Norah March, bachelor of science.
Her comments on England’s “mar
riageble women who may never mar
ry” before the national birth rate com
mission some time ago were widely
discussed in the British press.
_ Government figures show there is a
surplus of a million women in England
whose only hope of marrying depends
on their migrating to some part of
the earth where there is a more even
distribution of the sexes. According to
Miss March, they are doing it. She
says she is reeeiving letterss from
America that are “significant of the
loneliness of some men’s lives.”
~ “Women are enterprising - today,”
she added. “Many are emigrating who
a few years ago would have feared to
take the great adventure.” -
$15,000.00 GRAFI
WITNESS TELLS COMMITTEE
$5 A BARREL WAS PAID FOR
FUEL THAT COST $138.....
NEW YORK, N. Y.—How the gov
ernment overpaid $15,000 on supply
ing oil for one ship alone was told
to the committee of congress investi
gating the United States shipping
board when the committee resumed
its session in this city, after protract
ed hearings at Washington, yester
day.
The witness who told the commit
tee of this graft was Byron C. Baker,
district controller of the shipping
board at Boston, who, in his testimony,
dwelt largely upon the lax accounting
methods prevailing in the board,
which are responsible, he said, for
losses extending into hundreds of mil
lions of dollars.
Mr. Baker told of the case of the
Blue Star Navigation company, which,
he said, was authotized by the ship
ping board to purchase oil for a ship
ping board vessel it was operating,
at the price of $5 a barrel. The oil was
authorized to be purchased from the
Mexican Petroleum company, of Phil
adelphia. Mr. Baker testified that the
Blue Star Navigation company re
ceived a bill from the Mexican Petro
leum company for $1.38 a barrel. The
government, however, the witness tes
tified, received a bill covering the pur
chase at the $5 rate and was thus
overcharged $15,000. The . shipping
goard, Mr. DBaker testified, paid the
ill.
(GOV. SELLS $3,500,000
. OF SCHOOL WARRANTS
! SRR -~
|HIGHEST RATE OF INTEREST
EVER PAID DURING ANY
ADMINISTRATION.
I ATLANTA, Ga.—R. N. Berrien, Jr.,
& Co., of Atlanta, was the successful
bidder on Thursday for the state of
Georgia’s school warrants for 1921,
!\\'hich will amount -in round figures to
$3,500,000.
The rate of discount offered by Mr.
Berrien was 6.92 per cent, the highest
paid by any Georgia administration.
| The only other bid was by the Trust
' Company of Georgia, at 7.73 per cent.
| For three or -four years the rate of
discount paid by the state has been
increasing. ‘
The warrants will be issued fram
month to month to pay the school
appropriation of the state for 1921,
The warrants will be dated February
1, 1922, and will be presented for pay
lmont on that date. |
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~ Liquor “Lost” n Chlcago‘
ITaken From U. S. Storage Houses.
~ Check Up by Officials Reveals Loss.
CHICAGO.—Check of liquors seiz
ed by dry enforcement operatives in
the past year and held at a govern- |
ment warehouse here disclosed that |
more than. $3,000,000 worth of whiskyl
has been stolen, Frank D. Richardson,
prohibition commissioner, announced
today. i 0 R e S
~ Mr. Richardson says he has learhed
ftt;téa("g‘z‘t on‘c g:ine_ before he took office |
from the m FoiTei by TRE o e i
it et SRt N e e s i
THERE’S SUCCESS
AND HAPPINESS,
IN CO-OPERATION.
VOL. 39.—N0. 21
'WARDS OF ADMIRAL MCULLY
TEMPORARILY ADMITTED
TO THIS COUNTRY.
Bachelor Naval Officer Talks of His
Charges. Nikoli Found in Trenches
As Mascot For Soldiers. Boasts of
Killing Two Reds.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Having
obtained from the. labor department
}an order for temporary admission of
‘the seven Russian children he has tent
atively adopted, Rear Admiral New
ton A. McCully, former American
high commissioner at Sebastopol, left
tonight for New York to get the chil
dren now at Ellis island and bring
them here., He said he would deposit
the $5,000 bond required in the case"
of each of the children as assurance
that they will mnot become public
charges. "
Admiral McCully plans to keep the
children here until their right to re
main in the United States has been
fully established. Afterwards he. will
take them to his boyhood home in
Anderson, S. C., to introduce them to
his mother, who will assume tempo
rary charge while the officer is re
furnishing and remodeling his Wash
ington -home for their residence.
Admiral MeCully said he intended
to adopt the children formally if there
was no legla bar. He had attended,
he said, to all legal matters in Russia
connected. with being given custody
of the children. No difficulty was en
countered, he said, because of the ter
rible conditions in The region in which
the children were living. s
Thousands of Similar Cases.
“These children are but isolated cas
es among hundreds of thousands of
cases,” he said. “I did not carefully
select these seven, but when I came
away 1 decided that I should do
something and I took the first I came
to. There were three others I wanted
to bring, but one was tubercular and
I knew would not he admitted. In an
other case the mother gave her con
sent to my adoptién of the children
and at the last moment withdrew it,
and in the third case the mother con
sented, but the father refused.”
“What are your plans for the future
of the children?” he was asked.
“Well,” was the_ reply, v“abemg a
bachelor, you can imagine it took me
some time to get my nerve up to go
through with this affair. Now that ¥
am “started I like it better every min
ute.”
The admiral said he had called a
“faiily council” to meet at Anderson,
and added: ;
“I hope that my niece will take over
the big job of supplying the necessary
feminine influence in their lives,
To Remain “Father” to Them.
“It is my intention to give them an
all around education. When they are
old enough I shall give them the op
lportunity to return to Russia, and if
they care to stay that will be their
privilege; if not, they will of course
return to me. 1 intend always to re
main ‘father’ to them, although thus
!far they haven’t gotten to the point
of calling me by the paternal name.
They call me uncle, and I am well
satisfied that it is that way for the
present, for all these swiit develop
ments are rather startling for a bach
elor who has spent much of his life
at; sea.’
Admiral McCully said that 12-year
old Nikoli wae found in the trenches
on the Wrangel fyont, acting as a
mascot for the soldiers. He was cov
ered with vermin and dirt, but boast
ed proudly 'of having killed two bol
sheviki. The admiral was not inclined
to place much credence in the youth’s
bloodthirsty account. Loudmila Man
etzkaya, an 11-year-old girl, first
caurht the admiral’s attention when
he visited an orphanage at Yelta. He
was captivated by the girl’s smile and
charm of manner, he said, while Nina
Furninan, 8 years old, he declared
““was very bright and cheerful,” with
a capable manner and great ability at
looking after the other children. Eu
genia Selifanova, 19, was “mother” to
the party, the officer said.
Admiral McCully, who is 53, has
been on duty in Russian and nearby
waters five years and upon his arrival
today in Washington conferred with
Secretary Daniels.
After 48 Days Wife
I Breaks Hunger Strike
’Fails to “Save” Her Husband, and
' Heeds Advice of Minister.
DANVILLE, Ill—“ Ernie” Har
rington will not become a Holy Roll
icr preacher. He will continue to sell
groceries and smoke when he feels
like it.
His plump wife, Sadie, who began a
‘hunger strike forty-eight days ago and
‘announced she would partake of no
food until “Ernie” came into the fold,
gave up the battle today, and proceed
ed to wrap herself dround a big meal.
Two days ago she enlarged her con-.
tract by the amnouncement that she
would iast until the entire world was
saved. This, in addition to her original
task of saving “Ernie,” rather stag
ggred her backers, inasmuch as she
was not getting along very rapidly
with the conversion of her husband.
Alfter taking aboard a_ hearty meal
today Sadie has this teo say: “I'm
through with my. hunger strike. I
hoped Ernie would see the error of
his wa#% and repent while there was
time, but he seems to be just getting
stubborner and stubborner. I thongl:t
I heard the voice of the Lord teliing
me to take no food until Ernie had
turned to the church, but it may be
that T was wrem@." . -aae o o