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A NEWSPAPER
pEVOTED TO
ÜBLIC SERVICE.
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gT SUMS FOR FREE WILL
IFTS HAVE BEEN SUBSCRIB
¢b IN UNITED STATES.
EAM OF GOLD FLOWS
R A el 4
Je Sam Feeding and Clo.thing
Former Refugees. Hungty Children
Being Saved From Starvatiqn. Ar
istice Did Not Stop Relief Work.
Staggering to the imagination is the
eat amount of money given by gen
us America to stricken Europe
ce the first gun was fired in the
mmer of 1914, when the world war
gan. The signing of the armistice
e than two years ago and the re
n of Gen. Pershing’s great army
doughboys did not stop the streami
gold flowing to the unfortunate peo
< across the Atlantic. The call for|
ney. food and clothes is still being]
ord irom overseas, and the Ameri
) people are sending vast sums of
nev to war-devastated countries
ponse to this appeal. . |
\When three great organizations
ne place the value of donations in
md numbers at $825,000,000 some
2 of the immense sum of all the
ts may be arrived at. The great or
nizations working abroad have sub
tted reports showing that the peo
of the United States spent approx
ately $2,540,000,000 in relief work
ring the four long years of the great
flict and since the armistice.
Another Macedonian Call.
Although the great armies have re
ned to their homes and the former
rring nations nNow seek to return to
cc times, there is another call for
lp—a call not unlike the ancient call
m Macedonia. The call has been
rd in America. It was from 3,500,-
children of southern and southeast
, Europe, from stricken Armenia,
rtrodden Poland, the lands invad
by the bolsheviki and fromcentral
rope. The appeal was for $33,000,-
and millions were raised.
ong before the clouds of war en
ifed the United States in the con
t the people of Europe began to
lize that Uncle Sam had a big heart
well as a big pockebook, and evem
ing the present period of business
ression, which has left in its wake
army of jobless in this country
ost as large as the American army
the firing line during the war, the
veal for money is not being forgot
. The story of the numerous cam
gns for money during the war is
new, but perhaps some authentic
ures on the results of the drives
v be of interest.
Aid From Many Sources.
n a canvass of war relief contribu
ns the indorsed organizations were
American Red Cross, Young
n's Christian Association, Young
omen’s Christian Association, Salva
n Army, Knights of Columbus, Jew-
Welfare Board and the American
yrary Association.
‘he” Red Cross spent millions of
llars in welfare work, not only on
s side of the Atlantic, but in Eu
e. The total amount of money fur
hed Europe from Aug. 14, 1914, to
g. 31, 1920, was $217,165,588.76. The
mtries in which the Red Cross
rated during the war were Arme
. Austria, Albania, Bulgaria, Monte
ro, Greece Rumania, Serbia, Bel
m, France, Germany, Great Britain,
ly, Hungary, Palestine, Poland,
ssia, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey,
iland and many other countries.
‘very American soldier and sailor
the war soon realized the value of
work accomplished by the Y. M.
A. The receipts from contributions
the first, second and third drives
ounted to $167,085,804.29. Although
rly $40,000,000 was spent in the
ited States, the war council of the
ociation shows that the expenses
rseas totaled $57,295,722.47. The
amount advanced by the war coun
was $25591,413.49.
ave Aid to Women War Workers.
I'he work of the Young Women's
ristian Association in Europe was
ne on a smaller scale than that of
ny other organizations, because the
vice was primarily for the women
ving the army in various capacities,
Omparatively small group. The work
h the French and other European
Is, which developed early, has been
itmued since the war., In 11 monhts
1920, $205503 was spent toward the
itinuance of Young Women Chris-
I Association club centers in Italy,
lgivm, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland,
Mmana, Lithuania and Serbia. A re
't on war work shows that the as
iation spent $1,637,303.95 in France
d $2,52084-75 in other European
ntries during the conflict, making a
al of $4,158,145.70.
Vhile it is impossible to make any
4ct computation of gifts of the
lights of Columbus, it is estimated
4t - round numbers the 800,000
mhers of the organization raised
000,000 for war relief work.
Millions for Relief Work.
esides these named, millions were
iscribed by other organizations and
1t in welfare work among the sol
s and in helping thousands of war
Ygees. The Salvation Army spent
240,846, The American Library As
~dUon - expended approximately
000 in furnishing magazines and
UKs to the fighters on land and sea.
¢ American relief commission and
d administration has spent about
MOOO,OOO in Europe since the close
the war,
Deores of wealthy Americans and
nireds of societies and associations
‘¢ ®iven nearly a-billion to stricken
'ope. It is estimated that at least
1,000,000 was spent in gifts for war
“gces by individuals on this §ide of
Atlantic from 1914 to 1918. The
‘ount spent by rich Americans since
- War 1s not known, but it is believ
!o aggregate many millions.
Loans to Allied Nations.
"\'111"11u_h not considered gifts, many
'lons of dollars were loaned to the
'¢s by the American government.
THE DAWSON NEWS
Now the Reformers
Would Blacken Santa
They’re Said to Be Trying to Stop
Custom of Christmas Giving.
The Santa Claus associations of
the United States have sent out
warnings to beware lest re
formers, having nothing more im
portant to reform, undertake to re
form Christmas: Propagandists al
ready were at work seeking to pre
pare the United States for the
“black (¢ o’"fmas."
“The &9y “hristmas, among
other refo:. 001-, -ites Samuel
Brill, president o. +a Claus
Association of Greate: Tlatk,
“will advocate and try to
the complete elimination of .
giving at Christmas time. The spir
it has been manifest for the last
nine years, but its actual promo
tion on a national scale has been
interfered with on account of the
late war, prohibtion promoting,
etc. Something new is needed now,
and the black Christmas will be
next.”
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DEMOCRATIC LEADERS WILL
GO TO FLORIDA TO CONFER
WITH MR. HARDING.
MIAMI, Fla—The white house
latchstring will be hanging out for
democrats as well as republican dur
ing the Harding administration, close
friends of the president-elect said here
today.
Those who assumed that the presi
dent-elect, because he is a strong be
liever in party government, will ruth
lessly override the democratic minori
ty, do not know the real Harding,
friends say.
True, there will be no cabinet jobs
for democrats and few political plums,
but in formulating policies Mr. Hard
ing expects to draw on leading dem
ocrats for suggestions. Naturally their
influence with him will be less than
that of his own party leaders, but they
will be given a hearing.
Mr. Harding plans to call Senator
Underwood of Alabama, minority
leader of the senate, to St. Augustine
soon. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska,
who was President Wilson’s spokes
man in the senate during the treaty
fight, also will come down.
It will be especially on non-politi
cal questions that Senator Harding
will seek advice of democrats. In de
ciding upon his tariff, preparedness
and fscal policies, however, he will
stick to the republican platform, tak
ing the view that on these issues the
republican party has made definite
pledges which must be redeemed.
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TUSKEGEE CONFER’NCE
DELEGATES TO BIG MEETING
AT FAMOUS INSTITUTE URG
ED TO STAY ON FARM.
Hundreds of negroes from all parts
of the south, who attended the thir
tieth annual conference at Tuskegee
institute, Tuskegee, Ala., were urged
to diversify their crops, practice econ
omy and accumulate their savings.
They aso were advised not to go to
the city, but to remain on the farms.
The question of law and order was
brought up at the big meeting. The
conference, in a resolution, declared
that all negroes ask is fair play. If
negroes commit crimes, the conference
said they should be punished by the
courts, but not by mobs.
Opportunities on the Farms.
Although the war brought many op
portunities to the negroes outside of
agriculture, the fact still remains that
farming offers greater opportunities to
the majority of the race. The confer
ence urged the people to stay on the
soil and continue to purchase land. Al
though many negroes went north dur
ing the migration period it was an
nounced that the purchasing of land
in the south continued to increase. The
records show that in Georgia alone,
iduring 1919, negroes bought 95,000
acres of land and increased their hold
ings from 1,664,000 to 1,759,000 acres.
The conference suggested to negro
farm tenants to produce their own
foodstuffs, practice economy in other
ways and thus be able to get on with
as small advances as possible during
the present nation-wide business de
pression. ’
Dry Leaders to Ask Congrsss to
Amend the Law to Make Con
sumer Equally as Guilty as Seller.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Prohibi
tion leaders in congress are hoping to
tighten up the Volstead law. They are
planning new legislation to provide a
flat jail sentence for the first offense
of selling liquor, without giving the
courts the optional right of imposing
a fine.
Other changes being discussed
among the prohibiiton leaders relate
to the search and seizure clause, sO
as to reach the home brew and to make
more sweeping the present law undef
which a person buying liquor may be
punished equally with the person sell
ing it. :
Confiscation of every drop of liquor
held by citizens, regardless as to when
or how it was acquired, also is being
urged. This would legalize seizure of
all stocks held in private cellars or
safety deposit vaults.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1921
REGULATION OF EVIL BY LI
CENSE BEING CONSIDERED
AS CURB TO MENACE.
MANY OBSTACLES IN WAY
Members of Both Legislative Branch
es Must Combat at Least Forty-five
Organizations Intrenched in Wash
ington. Some Interests Represented.
A great army of lobbyists and prop
agandists' has invaded “Vashington, D.
C. The hotels are crowded with rep
resentatives of various interests, and
the corridors of the capitol and the
committee rooms of senators and rep
resentatives are jammed with propa
gandists, all bent upon “putting some
thing over,” either before the close of
the present session of congress or dur
ing the next meeting of that body to |
be called together soon after the in
auguration of President-elect Harding.fi
Many Lobbies at Work. |
It has been estimated that there are}
45 separate lobbies at work in the na
tional capitol. Conditions are reported
to be so bad that several senators be
lieve there should be a federal law to‘
regulate their activities, and that the
representatives of the American peo
ple should be permitted to carry on
their work without being pestered by
these special representatives of big and
little interests.
After the senate lobby committee
completed its inquiry several years
ago into the activities of the propa
gandists in Washington there was talk
of enacting a law which would regu
late the activities of the lobbyists and
compel them to obtain a license. But
nothing ever came of the movement.
However, conditions at the present
time are reported to be so bad that
another effort to remove the lobby is
considered likely.
~ First and foremost among the most
powerful lobbies intrenched in Wash
ington are representatives of the Anti-
Saloon League of America; the Inter
national reform bureau, which has
launched a crusade to make the Unit
ed States a sinless nation; the farm
ers’ organizations, bent upon the pass
age of an emergency tariff to afford
them relief from present low prices
for their commodities, and the com
bination of women’s organizations.
Interest in Tariff Bill.
A powerful lobby is also at work at
the present time against the proposal
to have the government own and
operate the Muscle Shoals . nitrate
plant in Alabama. Another lobby is
the Women’s Peace Society, whose
representatives are actively engaged in
protesting against the heavy expendi
tures' for maintaining an army, al
though congress has just decided to
limit the army to 175000 men. The
board of temperance of the Metho
dist Episcopal church has a.propagan
da machine at work urging reform
measures among the members of con
gress.
Now that both the senate finance
committee and the house ways and
means committee have begun hearings
on the new republican tariff bill ev
ery industry affected in the slightest
degree by any change in the rates has
one or more representatives on hand
in Washington acdvely engaged in
spreading propaganda among the con
gressmen who will be called upon to
frame the new tariff legislation.
Just now the favorite brand of lob
byist is the lawyer from the home dis
trict who is interested in some par
ticular tariff legislation.
Lobbyists Play Politics.
The lobby game in Washington has
gone far beyond the crude lobby days
of old, when money at least is sup
posed to have figured in the propagan
da that influenced action by congress.
Politics, little more, is said to be the
real power behind the modern lobby
ist.
The prohibition and moral lobbyists
operate in this way almost exclusively.
They maintain themselves in the cap
ital as secretaries or general counsels
of their organizations, going when
they think the time is ripe to the sen
ate and house and calling on members.
THERE ARE NEARLY FIVE
MILLION IN STATE WITH A
VALUATION OF $140,445,900.
There were 4,933,000 domestic ani
mals on Georgia farms January 1 this
year, with a total farm valuation of
$140,445,900, as against $5,005,000 ani
mals one year ago with an aggregate
valuation of $201,840,000, a decrease
of slightly less than Z per cent in num
bers and of 30 per cent in value. This
is the announcement made by John
S. Dennee, agricultural statistician for
the United States bureau of ctop es
timates co-operating with the Georgia
department of agriculture, division of
agricultural statistics. He bases his
conclusion on hundreds of reports re
ceived by him recently direct from the
farmers of the state. All kinds of farm
animals, excepting milk cows, show a
falling off in numbers. The increase
in milk cows is about 2 per cent, and
he places the number of dairy cattle
at about 470,000 head. But as there
are 310,737 farms in Georgia it is
plain to see, he says, that there are not
near enough milk cows in the state to
supply the urban population, and that
‘the farmers should get busy and in
crease the number of dairy cattle.
~ There are 119,000 sheep as compar
ed with 125,000 & year ago, valued at
$487,900.
" There are 132,000 horses, valued at
$14,784,000; 347,000 mules, valued at
$53,091,000; 470,000 milk cows, valued
at $21,150,000; 763,000 other cattle,
valued ~at $15,260,000; 3,102,000 hogs,
valued at $35,673,000.
et et
Tobacco and Candy Bill of U. S.
Higher Than Insurance Expens
es, Cleary Avers.
_W
The American people last year
spent as much money for candy,
chewing gum and tobacco as they
did for life insurance, declared M. J.
Cleary, vice president of the North
western Mutual Life Insurance com
pany, and former insurance commis
sioner of Wisconsin, speaking to
several hundred members of the
Knights of Columbus Thursday
night.
Mr. Cleary said the country just
now is seething with unrest because
thousands of people are not able to
satisfy their desires and ambitions.
He urged the preaching of thrift at
every opportunity and said that no
country can be prosperous with half
the people in poverty.
JOHN BARLEYCORN
FIRST “DRY” YEAR IN UNITED
STATES HAS “WET” RECORD.
PROHIBITION WILL STAY.
The first full year of national pro
hibition in the United States has been
completed. John Barleycorn has been
found to be very much alive and is
kicking so hard that Washington of
ficials believe the nation is faced with
a live issue that will last for many
years to come. -
There is one outstanding and gen
erally agreed fact. The United States
is not “dry.” Even the most ardent
supporters of prohibition agree that it
is not. Prohibition Commissioner Jno.
'F. Kramer, officially the highest au
‘thority, says that it will never be. At
‘the same time he declares prohibition
is here to stay, but with a fight.
48,000 Gallons in Warehouses.
National prohibition’s first birthday
attracts attention to some interesting
facts. There are 48,000,000 gallons of
liquor in bonded warehouses, costing
Uncle Sam $1,000,000 a year to guard.
Withdrawals on permits have been
averaging 1,050,000 gallons a month,
which will exhaust the supply in four
years.
From January 16, 1920 to November
30, 1920, the commissioner said, there
were 24,469 arrests for violation of the
national prohibition laws. Virtually all
of the persons arrested were recom
mended for prosecution. There were
136,608 gallons of spirits seized and
destroyed. The commissioner’s agents
destroyed 6,839 stills. The total penal
ties and taxes under the Volstead act
amounted to $22,571,639.
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~ RUMORS OF CHANGES
SEVERAL GEORGIA OFFICE
HOLDERS SLATED FOR THE
HEADSMAN MARCH 4TH.
ATLANTA, Qa.— President-elect
Harding’s brief passage through Geor
gia did more than to give certain high
city officials and personages a little
unwanted exercise—it swept the feder
al building with rumor on the absorb
ing topic of who would be who, and
who wouldn’t, after March 4th.
His visit merely started things.
There is no’ indication when, if ever,
the gossip will subside. And since it
has gotten well under way several al
leged facts have been gathered. Thrze
of them are: :
D. J. Gantt, supervising prohibition
director for the southeast, is No. 1
among the victims. He is to be dis
placed by March.s.
E. Walter Trippe, deputy to Collec
tor A. O. Blaock, is No. 2.
new administration.
John W. Henley, assistant district
attorney, will not be displaced by the
Postmaster George C. Rogers is an
other who will go early, in all proba
bility, say the experts.
Of course, all of the officials expect
to go in time. Some will resign on
the day of Harding’s inauguration.
Among these wiil be District Attorney
Alexander and his present chief as
sistant, W. Paul Carpenter. Others
will linger on for months, probably
well into the summer—it is said.
There is another thing the experts
learned while Harding was passing
through. They say it 1s unquestioned
now that Henry Lincoln Johnson, ne
gro republican national committeeman,
will have no more to do with federal
patronage in Georgia than a good old
line Jeffersonian democrat will have—
nothing at all.
Harding let it be known, it was
said, that he is with the white repub
licans of the state, and in seeking ad
vice as to appoihtments he will ask
theirs. One of the gossipers went even
further than that. He said:
“The next president told so-and-so
that Henry Lincoln Johnson couldn’t
even get a job for himself.”
The - others do not agree on this,
however. They all said Johnson will be
made minister to Haiti. -
Barrage of Poison Fumes Will Be
Squirted on the Pest in Chemical
Warfare on Them.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—They are
going to “gas” the cotton boll weevil.
The chemical warfare service of the
army, in co-operation with the de
partment of agriculture, is preparing
to lay down a barrage of poison gas
in .the cotton districts of the south,
calculating to exterminate the pest.
Brigadier General Amos Fries, chief
of the service, said today that experi
ments already conducted promised
success. Military gas has already been
used against rats in seaport citiés, he
added, a 15-minute application along
wharves and under water front build
ings killing every rat in the area. The
army is “gassing” locusts in the Phil
ippines, he said.
SLOW PROGRESS BEING MADE
TOWARD REDUCING NUM
BER IN WASHINGTON. |
EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND
Thirty-two Thousand Have Been Dis
charged Since Armistice, When the
Peak Was Reached. “Army of Po
tomas” Being Demobilized. ‘
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Demobil
ization of the great army of civilian
employes, often referred to as the
“new army of the Potomac,” is to be
left for the incoming republican ad
ministration to accomplish. It is to
have an opportunity to fulfill the
pledge the republican party made to
the country while the campaign was
in progress. }
85,000 Now on Payroll. |
The civil army has diminished
somewhat during the 26 months that
have intervened since the signing of
the armistice, but the reduction is be
ing made not more than one-third as
fast as the staff was created, and there
are still two-and a quarter times as
many employes in the government
service as when the United States
entered the war.
On December 31, 1920, there were
more than 85,000 government em
ployes in Washington alone. The force
did not quite number 38,000 when the
war was declared in April, 1917. The
high point was reached on armistice
day, November 11, 1918, when there
were more than 117,000 civil employes
of the government in this city. Since
the armistice approximately 32,000
employes have been discharged.
The records of the civil service com
mission show the number of employes
in the district and government bureaus
at the time the war began and the
number at present, as follows:
Comparison by Bureaus.
Apr. 1 Deec. 21
Departments 1917 1920
Blate & ol heamse s4B 745
Treastiry .5 . voesvois B2BS 29853
MY e s <lO 168
Hiatial [0 os o 38) 616
Postofice. .. .G .0 2007 AW
Navve .o, il GB6O LN
FOIRCIOr @v b s isniie D 290 - 5788
Agriculture ....... ... 4200 4,641
Commerce ...... .s++.. 1,606 4,329
Labot o ... i G 3 700
Gov't printing ......... 3,996 4,666
Interstate commerce
commission ......+.. 862 1115
Federal trade commis
-8100 L Dol vae g 638
Shipping board .......~ 22 1,710
Railroad administration. .... 1,148
Wae Idustriel ...t ovas dieks
War trade -board.. . ... s 15
Alen propeftVv: .l a¢ e 175
Vocational education .. .... 1,071
Supts. state-war-navy \
butlding v v vaoaia AR A 15068
Miscellaneous .... .... 1,146 2,445
Totals. : /... .. ... 37908 85158
At one time there were in war de
partment 37,406 employes.
Other Interesting Facts.
It is also revealed that the railroad
administration, which surrendered the
railroads on January 1, 1920, continues
to employ within 15 as many persons
as it did at the peak of the war load,
while at the same time several hundred
employes have been added to the rolls
of the interstate commerce cOmMmMis
sion.
The food and fuel administration,
the war industries board and certain
other war agencies have disappeared,
but other boards created for purely
war purposes have continued in oper
ation.
In the 19 months from the declara
tion of war to the beginning of the
armistice the employes increased from
37,908 to 117,454, or at the rate of
4202 a month. Demobilization, how
ever, is taking place at the rate of
1,304 a month.
In the last campaign many republi
can campaigners talked of cutting
from 40,000 to 50,000 employes off the
payroll. The appropriation bills deal
ing with personnel are in conference,
but it is the estimate of committee
men that the reduction will not exceed
11,000 this year.
Legislators are debating the ques
tion as to what mark may be set as
the maximum to which, taking into
}accoum the normal growth of govern
'mental activities and the new prob
lem raised by the war itself, the body
of federal employes may be perma
nently and safely reduced.
PLAINS POLICEMAN
USES HARSH WORDS ABOUT
RICHLAND REPORT OF AT
TEMPTED ROBBERY.
J. C. Arrington, night marshal at
Plains, who recently reported an al
leged attempt to rob the Plains bank,
denounces emphatically the story from
Richland that the burglars seen by
him were a trio of Richland swains,
calling on young ladies at Plains and
Americus, and meeting by appoint
ment near midnight in the business
section of Plains.
“The boys who told that story lied,”
said Mr. Arrington, “and they lied
maliciously.”
Previous to the appearance of the
would be veggs who wore masks and
ordered him to “throw up your hands,”
Arrington says, he met up with Gor
man Pickett, French Snelling and Mr.
Bryant, all residents of Richland, who
were in Plains calling on young ladies
that night, and that he and chief mar
shal J. E. Barker questioned all of the
youths, who explained their presence
there satisfactorily, and asked to be
permitted to come inside the bank to
get warm, a request which Arrington
denied. T
Time Limit For Auto
Tags Is Drawing Near
Only Nineteen Days More in
Which to Secure 1921 License.
Secretary of State S. G. McLen
don has made request that atten
tion of all sautomobile owners of
the state be brought to the fact
that nineteen days from this date
the old automobile tags expire un
der law. Every motor vehicle in
the state at that time must carry
a 1921 license number, or the sher
iff of the county is compelled, by
law, to prevent its operation. So
far less than one-third of the total
number of cars and trucks in the
state have been registered, and it
is a physical impossibility to han
dle the remaining two-thirds of the
license numbers and get them out
by the last day of February. Con
gestion this year promises to be
worse than ever before because of
the fact that so many people are
holding back their applications. Any
serious delay, therefore, which may
occur in delivery of number plates
will be due entirely to neglect to
make application in time,
SECOND DISTRICT CONGRESS
MAN FIRES OPENING GUN
IN WATSON FIGHT.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Anticipat
ing the legislative program Senator
elect Thomas E. Watson announced
recently Representative Frank Park,
of the Second district of Georgia,
today introduced a bill to mone
tize liberty bonds and the gov
ernment war obligation paper. He also
seeks to have the United States call
upon the European allies for settle
ment of the principals of their war
debts to this country, a sum total of
not less than two billion dollars a
year.
While Mr. Watson is the first mem
ber or member-elect of either branch
of congress to suggest the monetiza
tion of liberty and other war bonds
it is not taken that the bill of Judge
Park is in any way a plan to rob the
soon-to-be junior senator from Geor
gia of credit for proposed legislation
of that nature. On the other hand
Judge Park and Senator-elect Watson
are strong pegsonal and - political
friends, and it is assumed that Judge
Park has simply started in the house
at this time the fight for Mr. Wat
son’s proposed legislation that he ex
pects Senator Watson to_finish either
victoriously or in defeat in the senate
after March 4th.
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WILL INVESTIGATE THE
INDIANA GOVERNOR TO SEND
COMMITTEE TO GEORGIA
BEFORE RETURNING MAN.
SYLVESTER, Ga—An Indiana
committee, composed of one negro
and two white men, will be sent to
Georgia and to Worth county to in
vestigate whether Mace Giddens, a ne
gro who shot and killed Deputy Sher
iff W. P. Giddens, at Doles,” Ga., sev
eral weeks ago and who is now being
held by East Chicago, Ind., authori
ties, would be given proper protection
if allowed to be taken back to Worth
county for trial. 4
At the hearing before the governor
of Indiana for extradition Giddens
was represented by several negro law
yers, who stated that they had been
retained by the black population of
East Chicago and that approximately
$5,000 had been raised by subscrip
tions to prevent the prisoner from be
ing brought back to Georgia. The ne
gro, it is alleged, makes the plea that
if he is brought back to Worth coun
ty he will not be given justice, but
instead would meet with mob violence,
At the conclusion of the hearing the
governor stated that he would not
grant extradition papers until he had
heard from a committee of three men,
two whites and one negro, WhiVC\;] he
would send to Georgia and to orth
county to make an investigation.
Hon. T. R. Perry, of Sylvester, has
been employed by the county com
missioners to represent Worth county
in the proceedings and to prosecute
the negro.
Vice President-Elect Left It Unguard
ed For Short Time. Detectives
Want Help to Find It.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Atlanta’s detec
tive department has at last admitted
that Calvin Cooldige’s overcoat was
stolen while he was visiting here and
that the city’s best sleuths could not
find it and wanted the public to help.
The coat was taken when left un
guarded for a short time while the
vice president-elect inspected the Y.
M. C. A. building, and civic pride
made the detectives want to return it
without the world ever knowifig that
the theft had been committed here.
STRANGE, INDEED.
“There’s one thing I can’t under
stand about* these spirit communica
tions,” remarked Mr. Brown, as he
finished reading the account of a high
ly successful seance.
“What’s that, John, dear?” asked
his wife.
“Why you never hear of a departed
soul having gone any other place ex
cept straight to heaven.—New York
Post. :
Bounties paid by Montana stock
rowers the last seven years for the
Eilling of predatory animals amount
ed to $722,453.
THERE’S SUCCESS
AND HAPPINESS
IN CO-OPERATION.
VOL. 39.—N0. 23
TUSKEGEE PROFESSOR AT A
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HEARING IN WASHINGTON
AMAZES COMMITTEE.
SURPRISE TO EVERYONE
Negro Makes Milk, Meal, Hay, Ink
From Goobers. Only Thing That
Is Universally Used in All Parts of
Civilized and Uncivilized World.
WASHINGTON, D. C:——lt is a
fair statement that the most remarks
able testimony before the ways and
means committee during the hearings
on the tariff at this session was given
a few days ago by Prof. George W.
Carver, of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., in
behalf of the peanut, with incidental
observations on the sweet potato,
Profy Carver is a colored man. To
say that he made the ways and means
committee “sit up and take notice” is
to put it mildly. He showed in a few
minutes that he probably knew more
about the peanut and its possibilities
than anybody else in the -world.
After President P. D, Bain, of the
United Peanut Association, and other
persons engaged in the various ' pea
nut industries, had made their state
ments to the committee showing why
a duty of 4 cents a pound on peanuts
is asked in the permanent tariff bill
now being formulated, Chairman
Fordney said that the committee had
been asked té hear Prof. Carver.
When the latter took the stand the
chairman addressed him in this “hur
ry-up”’ fashion:
“All right; we will give you ten
minutes.”
When the witness had talked .for
ten minutes the chairman voluntarily
szid “Go ahead; your time is unlimit
e 'l)
Starting off with the striking propo
sition that the peanut and the sweet
potato constitute together “a perfect
ly balaced ration” for humanity, and
that “if all the other vegetable food
stuffs were destroyed all the nutriment
in them could be supplied with these
two products of the soil, the Tuskegee
specialist proceeded to astonish the:
committee and the spectators by ex
hibiting peanut derivatives which they
had never dreamed of. For instance:
~ Carver: “A short time ago we found
‘how to extract milk from peanuts.
Here is a bottle of peanut milk It’s ab
solutely impossible to tell that from
cow’s milk in looks; the cream rises
on it the same as on cow’s milk, and
in fact' it has much the same composi
tion. This specimen is made especial
ly for ice cream making. It makes the
most delicious ice cream that I have
ever eaten.” A
Congressman Carew: “How does it
go in a punch?” :
Carver: “Well; I will show you
some punches.” (Laughter.) “Here is
one with orange, and here is one with
lemon, and here is one with cherry.”
Carew: “Do these violate the Vol
stead law?”
Carver: “No, sir. I heard someone
ask what kind of a box this is. It is a
Pandora’s box, I guess; it never g:ts
empty. Here is a bottle of buttermi k;
very rich in fats, and very- delightful.”
Congressman Hawley: “Is that
made from the peanut?” |
Carver: “Made from the peanut
milk; yes, sir. And here is another
very attractive product of the peanut
—an instant coffee. And this is a bot
tle of Worcestershire sauce from pea
nuts.”
Committeemen and spectators were
all amused as well as interested. They
wondered what was coming next. It is
safe to say that the commiitee will
never think of the peanut hereafter
as a small proposition.
Carver (proceeding): “Now, the
peanut milk has about the same
amount of curds that cow’s milk has,
and the curds can be taken out and
made into the various fancy -cheese
such as the Neufchatel and Edam.
Now, this-is a pomade—a face cream,
just as soft and just as fine as the
famous almond cream, and it has the
quality of vanishing as soon as it is put
on. Then we have here a bottle of ink.
I find that the peanut makes a very
fine quality of ink. And then here is
'a bottle of mock oysters. The peanut
curds can be made into mock meat
dishes so thoroughly that it is impos
sible to tell them from meat. We are
going to use less and less meat just
‘a§ soon as science touches these va
rious vegetable products and teaches
us how to use them.”
Congressman Carew: “Did you
make all of these products yourself?”
Carver: “Yes, sir; they are made in
the research laboratory (at Tuske
gee). The sweet potato products num
ber 107 to date. I have not finished
working with them yet. The peanut
products are going to beat the sweet
potato products by far. I have just
begun with the peanut. I have with
me, a number of other things produced
from the peanut—probably twenty
five or thirty others, including various
wood dyes and stains.”
Of course, the witness described the
numerous uses of the peanut which
are familiar to the general public—
the butter and the oils made from it,
and the many confections. He also de
scribed peanut cake for breakfast food
and a combination of peanut meal and
“peanut hay” which, mixed with mo
lasses and chinaberries, makes a val
uable tonic food for live stock. There
seemed to be no end to his magic.
This was one of his striking state
ments in conclusion:
“If we think of how the peanut is
used, it is the only thing that is uni
versally used among civilized and un
civilized people, and all sorts of ami
mals like it. It is a natural diet that.
was intended that everybody should
use. :
Here Chairman Fordney asked
Carver what school he had attended.
“The last school’l attended,” replied
the witness, “was »the Agricultural
College of lowa. You douitless‘ re
member Mr. James Wilson, who serv
ed here in the cabinet so loug; He
was my instructor for six years. s