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ABLIC SERVICE.
lfi, RAINEY
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NIFICANCE OF WORK TO
AXPAYERS' CONSERVATIVE
AppROPRIATIONS BILL.
——
i the closing of the leglslaturg
it Wednesday the results ot
Wl session, while not imposing
o umbers, are regarded by many
Lrs as highly important from
qandpoint of their significance to
;ma.\-”,\ of the state.
the first place the general appro
.ns bill carrying a total of $9,-
o 0 is the most conservative pass
jy any legislature in recent years,
}epments‘ what might be termed
imum estimate of the revenue of
qate for the next two years as
glated DY Comptroller General
ot and Governor Hardwick.
¢ the outset Of his administration
ernor Hardwick laid down the
osition that appropriations must
fimited to a reasonable and con
ative estimate of the prospective
me of the state. In so far as the
«l appropriation bill is concerned
governor has been able to carry
his policy, as’ the bill carrying the
ve stated sum for the year 1922
the year 1923 is $72,000 less than
«timate of the prospective annual
bpge of the state for those two
15, :
egislation estimated to p_roduce an
ease of $1,000,000 a year in the rev
¢of the state was passed at this
Gon, in the form of two bills.
The Gasoline Tax. .
i is the gasoline tax bill, impos
-2 retail sales tax of one cent per
oon gasoline, the tax to be col
of by the retailers and turned into
reasury monthly. _Thls bill be
e effective immediately, but its
| operation is likely to be delayed
itest in the courts of its constitu-
Jitv, Atlanta gasoline dealers hav
anounced their intention to bring
The bill is estimated to be worth
st $700,000 a year as a revenue
ducer. o
general revision ‘was made of the
pation taxes of the state, which
embodied in what is commonly
wn as the general tax act. This
ard revision, according to Comp
ler General Wright, will produce
increase of about $240,000 in the
enue of the state.
treasury deficit of approximately
500000, reprgsenting unpaid appro
tions for 1920 and 1921, will be
by Governor Hardwiclfi from the
of the Western and At antic rail
g rentals for a period of five years.
¢ bill authorizing a discount of the
ts for this period has passed the
s and senate and has been approv
by the governor. He estimates that
s trnsaction will place in the treas
j approximately: $2,500,000 cash with
ich to pay the existing deficit and
in the next year with a clean finan-
| slate.
he bill creating a commission to‘w
¢ the governor's mansion for a
il not exceeding fifty years has
1 passed by the house and senate
awaits the governor’s approval. It
the governor's intention to speed up
work of this commission as rapid
as possible, so that the state may
in at the earliest date to derive a
enue irom the famous old property,
wed by him, at the corner of
achiree and Cain streets in Atlanta.
Women’s Bill Passed.
The right of women to vote and
ld office in Georgia is provided for
asenate bill which the house passed
Wednesday morning and which is
pected to receive the approval of
wrnor Hardwick. This bill allows
men to vote in all elections and to
li any and all public offices and
rwise to perform the functions ot
llcitizenship, but exempts them from
Iy duty, military duty, police duty
0 road duty.
L?‘Khl;uiun has been passed at this
sion providing for a commission to
ke a general survey of the tax sys
of Georgia and report back to the
t legislature a plan of revising the
me; 2 commission to investigate the
biect of establishing a board of re
is to administer the educational
tem, including the University of
rgia and its branches; a commis-
Nto work out a plan of redistricting
congressional districts of Georgiz
oniormity with expected legisla
-Ihy the federal congress which will
fh'v“vrn:u one additional member
e“i"‘):‘:'i..f"llill house on the basis o 1
rirm-"" ensus, and commls‘.swns.for
“‘-‘ and sundry other investiga-
trease Is Shown 1n
1 e
Number of Adult Suicides
Sitess Depression and Abnormtal
Conditions Given as Reasons.
\EW YORK, N..Y.—Business de
"SSon and abnormal conditions fol
]““‘i he war were held responsi
¢lran increase of 3,739 in the num
® of adult suicides in this country
g the first six months of this
-ta.‘r‘.;“,"‘"‘-il'arcd with the same pe
-41920, in a report made public
4by the Save a Life League. The
Wrt stated that suicide among chil
;“ more than doubled during the
€ period,
I’” tt ¢ case of children, parental neg
(; and fear of school examinations
f’f‘ Mentioned as the principal caus
-4o -~ O an average of 16 took their
e Sto the number of 214, and
o (Tging 15 years old to the
“tr‘}“'y' 01 293. In most cases the boys
A, C'vers and the girls poison.
e - o the adults the preponderance
o 0 lavor of the men, of _ whom
;:I.‘ V% therr own lives. Their aver
onth. 23 43 years. In the first six
uic]it,»‘\ 01 1921 6,500 adults committed
ng g COmpared to 2,771 last year
o Children ended their lives as
Tred 10 225 in 1920
2 o _Port stated the suicide increase
v \\(;."Azih\”d(_.
THE DAWSON NEWS
Build $30,000 House to
Raise Eugenic Rats
PHILADELPHIA, Pa—The su
per-rat like the super-man is not, as
Nietzsehe would have it, of the war
rior type, but is a gentleman or a
gentlewoman, an aristocrat at heart,
although democratic in his ‘ways. He
is gentle and sociable, a good fel
low, as it were, healthy and active,
and has an aesthetic side, being fond
of good music.
These 7 » some of the conclu
sions draol.d .~ many years of ex
periments - “Ing, dinary rodent
by Dr. Milto.. ¥ wan, di
rector of the Wistu.:
To make observations «
tensive scale, particularly in .
research, the institute is building a
$30,000 home for rats. The results,
it is believed, will be of far-reaching
benefit to mankind. There will be
a well equipped gymnasium for the
rats. Ladders for climbing, modified
trapeze, running space, treadmill
cages and gnawing apparatud will be
provided to give the eugenical rais
ed rodent the proper exercise.
SALARY REDUCTIONS NOT AS
GREAT AS CUTS IN THE
PRICES OF COMMODITIES.
ATLANTA, Ga—Reports received
in Atlanta today by business agencies
show that, as a general thing, wages
have already been reduced appreciably
in every section and almost every in
dustry.
The reports also show, rather un
expectedly, that at the same time sav
ings accounts have increased in the
industrial sections.
According to the head of one busi
ness agency this means that ‘“wage
and salary reductions have not been
as great as the reductions in the prices
of commodities, and, therefore, the
decrease in wages has not necessitated
a lowering of the standard of living.
Economy.
“This may be.true,” said an Atlanta
manufacturer. “It ought to be true, at
any rate, and will be if the wage de
creases are worked out fairly and if
prices as they affect consumers are al
lowed to sink to their natural level.
But there is another influence which
has probably had more effect so far
on working people than reduced prices.
It is increased economy.”
If industrial populations are able, in
the face of reduced wages and wide
spread unemployment, to add fi their
savings it is because they are no long
er spending money for luxuries, in the
opinion ofg John K. Ottley, president
of the Fourth National Bank of At
lanta, who is close to the business
pulse of Georgia and the south.
Silk Shirt Era.
“The silk shirt era has passed,” de
clared one of the leading merchants
here. “The workman’s family now is
spending little except for necessaries,
and is not buying any more of them
than he has to.”
~ Atlanta bankers, taken as a whole,
declare that the situation is a heroic
‘triumph for thrift of which the heroes
would hardly have been thought capa
tl)leoin the riotous days of 1919 and
920. .
HABERDASHERS SAY COTTON,
LISLE AND KNITTED GOODS
ARE REPLACING SILKS.
CHICAGO, Ill.—Fancy silk shirts,
sporty socks and loud, expensive cra
vats are giving way to cotton, lisle and
plain knitted goods, because men are
slashing their clothing bills. I.eading
haberdashers made this announcement
today when they appeared before the
board of review to answer questions
about their personal taxes. :
Well dressed men have abandoned
the silk shirt; it became too common
during the war time prosperity. Team
sters, coal heavers, sewer diggers and
men of that class worked in the cost
liest silk shirts they could purchase
and men who had formerly worn them
quit right there and went to linen, 91910
cloth, soisette and other materials. The
same reason killed off the costly silk
socks and the $5 and $lO neckties.
One haberdasher told the board of
review that the value of his stock had
decreased from $25,000 to $5,000 since
the assessment was made and he said
others would tell a similar story. De
\partment stores that buy up immense
stocks of goods that are a trifle out of
season are offering silk shirts at $5
and $6 that during war time sold for
$lB and $22, but' there is little demand.
Child Was a Prisoner
- In a Crockery Crate
Illinois Mother Arraigned on a Charge
Of Cruelty to Little Girl.
ELMHURST, Ill.—When state’s
attorney, C. W. Reed, and Deputy
Sheriff E. Wolf went to the farm
operated by Mrs. Ann Stepnoves to
investigate alleged cruelty to her
daughter, 3 years old, they found the
child imprisoned in a crockery crate
in the front yard, with rain pouring
and no protection whatever far the
child. The child is shriveled and ema
ciated and has signs of much abuse.
It only weighs nine pounds, although
3 years of age. The mother was ar
rested and arraigned today before
Judge Samuel Rathje, of Dupage coun
ty, and her case was continued.
Juvenile court authorities charge
Mrs. Stepnoves hoped to collect $5O
insurance she holds on the baby’s life.
She has two other children and the
court may take all of them from her.
It is charged that she gave Helen, the
baby, nothing but one crust of bread
each day, and it was literally starving
to death.
1800,000 SAID TO BE DESERTED
IN VOLGA DISTRICT. HORSES
NEARLY ALL DISAPPEAR.
RIGA, Letvia—Conditions in Rus
sia, which the United States is prepar
ing to alleviate unofficially through the
American relief organization in Eu
rope, have been brought about through
the complete collapse of industry and
production under the soviet regime.’
Reports from reliable sources to Mr.
Hoover show in striking figures Rus
sia’s economic plight. :
~ There has been such deterioration of
transportation that there is doubt as to
ability to move the local surpluses that
do exist in the richer grain producing
provinces in Siberia to those areas
which normally depend upon them.
The Volga region, where the greatest
degree’ of starvation exists, is even less
accessible to transport of relief from
abroad through the seaports than from
Siberia.
The decadence in fat production is
general, owing to the requisition of
animals and the diversioh of animal
feeds to breadstuffs. Consequently chil
dren are suffering more acutely in
many sections than adults.
Pillaging Shops.
The city of Tambov was invaded by
a maddened crowd of tens of thousands
of fugitives from the surrounding
country. They brushed aside the Red
troops and pillaged the shops in search
of food. That exhausted, they fell like
wild beasts upon horses of cabs, fire
engines and street cars and glutted
their hunger with the raw meat.
The Polish army is mounting artil
lery on the Russian border in the
neighborhood of Baranowitchi to pre
vent hordes of starving Russians from
the famine regions from invading Po
land. It is estimated that 100,000 fam
ine victims are massed on the Polish
border.
Moscow reports that famine condi
tions are growing worse, particularly
among children, 300,000 of whom in
the Volga district are reported to have
been abandoned by their parents to
the care of the state.
Horses About Gone in Russia.
Russian horses, which numbered 36,-
000,000 before the war, practically have
disappeared, having been eaten by the
famished population, it was revealed.
Classes in Moscow University were
dismissed by the lecturers because the
students were too weak from hunger
to continue their work.
Thousands in the famine districts
are setting fire to their villages before
deserting them for other parts of Rus
sia, according to reliable information.
Many villages are said to be in flames.
'lee Sardines Workers
Jam Lower Manhattan
In New York City
Million and a Half Employed in a
Strip Less Than One Square Mile.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—lnvestigating
committees recently found that the
number of workers who daily flock
into the financial district of iower
Manhattan exceed 1,500,000. If they
were assembled in an.open field of
equal area there would hardly be room
for any of the sleepy clerks to stretch
their arms and yawn.
There is less than one square mile
in the tip of the island below Cham
bers street, or only a little more than
three square feet of ground space for
each person working in the district.
But skyscrapers have so multiplied the
accommodations nature furnished the
first settlers that instead of having less
elbow room than an imprisoned crim
inal everybody can chew gum without
distracting the sensitive ears of the oc
cupant of the adjacent desk.
Although 1,500,000 persons work
each day in this small space, the num
ber who live in the area total less than
18,000. Subways, elevated trains, fer
ries, automobiles and street cars rush
the others in and out every morning
and evening. Some of the commuters
lives 100 miles away.
Negroes Receive $4,500
From the Sale of Beans
Negro School in Forsyth Begins In
dustry That Proves Profitable. -
FORSYTH, Ga—Those negroes of
the county who have enlisted with the
agricultural department of the Normal
and Industrial school in the cultivation
of peans have realized a nice sum from
their sales. Two thousand hampers of
beans have been shipped at an average
price of $2.25 per hamper, making a
total of $4,500 realized from the sale
of beans. Other shipments will go for
ward during the fall and a larger acre
age is being planted.
The bean industry was somewhat of
‘an experiment this season but has been
very successful. When the shippers
become skilled in the best methods of
packing and shipping and with im
proved marketing facilities the profits
of the business will greatly increase.
HEN EGGS SWALLOWED .
BY PYTHON ARE HATCHED
Methodist Missionary Tells of Unus
ual Brood of Chickens.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—A story of
chicken eggs hatched aiter they had
been salvaged from the interior of a
python was told by the publicity de
partment of the board of missions of
the Methodist Episcopal church.
Quoting the Rev. Erwin H. Rich
ards, thirty-one years a missionary in
Africa, the board said that a python
hdd wiggled out of a jungle one night,
entered a hen house and eaten éight
chickens and nine eggs. Natives and
missionaries killed the snake, which
then was opened. The eggs, found in
tact, later hatched into perfectly nor
mal missionary chickens. ;
The bishop of Africa was named as
a corroborating witness.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1921
MRS. ROBERTS KILLS
BOWEN, SEPARATED FROM
HIS WIFE, WAS ATTEMPTING
TO TAKE CHILD AWAY.
A deplorable tragedy that took place
in Quitman county, near Hatcher’s
Station, last Mondav morning is re
ported by the Cuthbert Liberal-Enter
prise® .
From the information; received it
seems that a Mr. Bowen and his wife
had had some domestic trouble and
she had gome to live with her, brother
in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Nick
Roberts. Monday morning Bowen
went to the Roberts home and asked
his wife to come out to the road and
talk to him, and to this request she re
sponded. Upon reaching her husband
he attempted to remove rings from his
wife’s finger, when she snatched her
self loose from him and ran back into
the house. Bowen followed his wife
to the house, and asked ?crmission to
see their baby, an infant. This request
was also granted, and when the father
took the child in his arms he turned
and left the house, carrying the baby
with him. The wife and her sister pur
stied him, and on nearing the road
Mrs. Roberts emptied the contents of
a shotgun into Bowen's body, the load
entering the back and ranging up
ward.
According to our information Bow
en uttered only one sentence after be
ing shot, “Wife, I am dead,” and died
instantly, The coroner empaneled a
jury and made an investigation, and
found that Bowen came to his death
from gunshot wounds in the hands of
iMrS' Roberts, and pronounced it justi
fiable homicide. So far as reported no
‘arrest has been made.
Bowen had only lived in that section
about a year, coming' here from Texas,
and had been engaged in the saw mill
'business.
5,000 GATHER AT
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RICHLAND’S BIG 'CUE
* s
VISITORS FROM A WIDE TER
RITORY ARE ENTERTAINED
AT BOOSTER MEETING.
RICHLAND, Ga.—Thursday was a
gala day in Richland. With 5,000 pres
ent from every nearby county and town
this thriving center opened its heart
and larder. The multitude was enter
tained and fed in abundance and there
was plenty for another 1,000.
The occasion was a great free bar
becue put on by the chamber of com
merce as an advertisement for the sec
tion. A large number of home seekers
from north Georgia ardmher sections
were here on special invitation, ‘and
the occasion centered about impressing
these visitors and others of this sec
tion’s advantages for farm develop
ment.
The day’d program began about 10
o’clock with a concert down town by
the splendid Richland band. The band
led the parade to the shady park just
west of the business section, where
stands a splendid pavilion, from which
the band played again, and from which
the speaking later took place.
Mayor T. F. Carter, called by the
Richland people “the man with more
pep than any other in America,” wel
comed the visitors, and he made them
feel welcome, indeed. H. V. Davis,
secretary of the chamber of commerce
and a prominent business man, told
of the many advantages of the terri
tory, advantages of which all south
west Georgians are familiar. H. B.
Nicholson, superintendent of the
schools, and recently head of the Cor
dele schools, who is a Richland prod
uct of whom the community is proud,
introduced with fine oratory Judge W.
J. Milligan, of Carrollton, who deliv
éred ‘a pieasing oration in which he
extolled the greatness of Georgia and
particularly this section as the world’s
famous garden spot. At the conclusion
of his speech a recess was declared for
dinner.
The serving of a barbecue nearby
began at 12 o'clock. A novel plan was
put into effect to prevent crowding and
snatching, all being obliged to pass
through ten narrow passageways,
where each one was handed a tray full
of delicious barbecue. The throng was
handled in an unusually efficient man
ner, and all were well taken care of.
At 2 o’clock J. J. Brown, state com
missioner of agriculture, spoke and he
was followed by A. A. Elmore, state
organizer for the Georgia Cotton
Growers’ Co-operative Association,
who was sent here by Chas. S. Barrett,
president of the National Farmers’
Union, who was unable to be present.
This was the last scheduled speech,
and was followed by a baseball game
at the ball park between Richland and
Shellman.
Many Dawson, Americus, Plains,
Tumpkin and Buena Vista visitors
were present.
North Georgia and South Carolina
were both largely represented.
. . *
Georgia Senate Praises
|
. Senator Tom Watson
Commends His Stand Against Confir
j mation of Link Johnson.
Before adjourning Wednesday night
}the Georgia senate by unanimous votc
adopted a resolution commending
United States Senator Thomas E. Wat
son for his fight waged in the United
States senate against the confirmation
of Henry Lincoln Johnson, Atlanta
negro, as recorder of deeds of the Dis
trict of Columbia. The resolution fol
lows:
“Whereas, we notice in the afternoon
papers of the manly fight being waged
by our junior senator, Hon. Thomas
E. Watson, to prevent the confirma
tion of Henry Lincoln Johnson as re
corder of deeds of the District of Co
jumbia; therefore, be it
“Resolved, That we indorse and ap
groye the cause of Senator Watson;
e it .
“Resolved, further, That a copy of
this resolution be mailed to Senator
Watson.”
Cotton Produced by South During Year Ending
With July Is Worth Over a Billion Dollars
NEW ORLEANS.—TRe south
produced a cotton crop during the
year ending with July which, seed
and all, was worth more than a bil
lion of dollars, according to the an
nual statement issued to the cotton
trade by H. G. Hester, secretary of
the New Qrleans cotton exchange.
It was a year of tremendous. de
preciation in values, says Mr. Hes
ter, the average value per bale fall
ing from $174.15 during August of
1920, the first month of the cotton
year, to $56.91 during June, the
eleventh month. During July, the
twelfth month, there was a recovery
to $59.04. The total value of the
commercial crop of 11,377,316 bales
was $1,076,380,710.
64 LEPERS GIVEN |
MOLOKAI, ONCE KNOWN AS
“LONELY ISLAND,” IS NOW
CALLED “HAPPY LAND.
HONOLULU.—Use of the new
chaulmoogra oil specific as a cure for
leprosy has been so successful at the
Molokai Island settlement for lepers
here that sixty-four inmates of Kalihi
hospital have been discharged as com
pletely cured.
Authorities say that probably with
in ten years the territory will have no
further need of Molokai as a leper}
settlement; that settlements for lep
rosy will be a thing of the past, and
that leprosy itself may perhaps be un
known, |
Perfected Cure. |
To Arthur L. Dean, president of the
University of Hawaii, goes the credit
for prefecting the leprosy cure. Chaul
moogra oil long has been recognized
as the standard specific for leprosy.
Its one fault was that it had to be ad
ministered as a whole, with the result
that the cure was slow and often in
efficient.
~ *Dr. Dean has separated from the
bulk of the oil that element that com
bats the disease. It is this element, in
the pure state, that has been used
with such astounding results at Molo
kai. The process is by an intermuscular
injection once -a week and capsules in
ternally three times daily.
Dr. W. J. Goodhue, for eighteen
.years resident physician at the Molo
kai settlement, says that under the
present method of treatment 65 per
cent of the chronic cases of leprosy
at the settlement will be turned out
cured within the next twd years.
Many of the patients at Molokai,
however, never can recover, as their
disease was too far advanced before
the cure was discovered.
512 Patients.
There are 512 patients at Molokai
and of these 175 have been under treat
ment with the Dean cure for five
months. The chaulmoogra supply is
entirely inadequate and each day four
to five patients, who beg with tears
lin their eyes for treatment, are com
pelled to turn away.
Manufacture of the cure is being
carried on now in only a small way,
one of the main handicaps being the
inability to obtain sufficient chaulmoo
gra seeds. Hundreds of plants are be
ing reared at government experimental
stations. here and soon Hawaii will
have a number of chaulmoogra oil-pro
ducing plantations.
“Lonely Island.”
Molokai used to be called “Lonely
Island” because the lepers consigned
to it rarely ever returned. Today it’s
called “Happy Island” because since
the discovery that the Dean specific
meant a permanent cure for the dread
disease, the sunshine of hope has re
turned to the faces of the leper in
mates. And the whole institution is
|full of eagerness and smiles.
One Hundred Thousand
Women Are Working on
o .
The Nation’s Railroads
Many Do Common Labor for Carriers,
Clean Engines, Watch Crossings
And Fill Clerical Jobs.
Women workers now are flocking to
the employ of the nation’s railroads.
Nearly 100,000 women are helping to
build lines and maintain and operate
existing systems, a forthcoming report
of the Interstate Commerce Commis-~
sion is expected to show. Women con
stituted in 1920 nearly five per cent
of the nation’s 2,000,000 railway em
ployes, according to a census taken by
the commission, and the number is in
creasing daily.
The 1920 census shows that women
are going in for all kinds of rail work,
heavy as well as light. They are clean
ing engines and headlights in round
houses, keeping watch night as well
as day at dangerous grade crossings,
operating telegraph keys, carrying
messages of train dispacthers, and even
doing carpentry and other heavy work
in the railroad shops.
In some positions women, the rail
roads are learning, are more efficient
than male workers. Some jobs in which
numbers of women are at work.are:
Attendants, more than 1,000; cleaning,
4,000; shop workers, more than 1,000;
station agents and assistants, 1,200;
telegraph and telephone signal service,
nearly 2,000; car department, 1,500;
watch women, 400; common laborers,
300.
The census shows that more than
50.000 are annually employed in cleri
cal jobs. But the proportions of wo
men workers in other lines of railroad
iwork are increasing at a much faster
irate.
el eAR
. Broadway dancer wants $50,000 for
foot injury. Didn't know they used
feet in dancing.
1
During the preceding year the
commercial crop, totaling 12,443,180
bales, was valued at $2,§16,544,520.
In commenting on the fall in val
ue Secretary Hester states that in
the face of such tremendous depre
ciation in such a brief period “a
most remarkable fact looms out,
that financial institutions of - the
south held up as they have. This
is partly accounted for by the fu
tures contract hedge system.”
The average price of middling
spot cotton ih the south dpring the
season was placed at 16.0&I cents a
pound against 38.21 during the pre
ceding year. For the entire g'ear the
avera7ge value of cotton per bale was
$82.67, against $174.58 during the
preceding year. :
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LOAN OF $500,000
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COTTON CONCERN GETS HUGE
~ GOVERNMENT CREDIT TO
| EXPORT 12,0000 BALES.
~ The recent loan by the War Finance
Corporation of $500,000 to Barrett &
Company, cotton factors of Augusta,
has occasioned much interes: in Sa
ivannah, both in banking circles and in
the cotton trade.
, The purpose of the loan is to finance
the exportation of approximately 12,-
000 bales of cotton from Georgia,
North and South Carolina. To nego
jate it Barrett and company were re
quired to give as collateral warehouse
eceipts, insurance attached, and in re
turn -were advanced half 2 million dol
lars, whichy is 80 per cent of the mark-}
et value of the cotton on which the
‘money was borrowed. i
This is evidence of the sincerity of‘
President Harding and the War Fi
nanceé Corporation in the récent avowal
’to aid the farmers of the south in the
orderly marketing of cetton. Their
good intentions are further demonstra
ted by the advance in the Mississippi
Delta district, which will afford the
machinery for financing the marketing
of 100,000 bales of long staple cotton.
The loan to Barrett & Company
was the outgrowth of a letter recently
sent to the Federal International Bank
ing Company of New Orleans, in which
Eugene Meyer, jr., managing director
of the War Finance Corporation, urg
ed the formation of an organization
whereby southern farmers and export
ers would be in a position to avail
themselves of the aid rendered by his
company. :
The committee appointed by Pres
ident Harding, consisting of Secreta
ries Hoovet and Mellon and Eugene
Meyer, jr., has received replies to a
questionnaire from a number of rep
resentative southern banks stating that
it would be desirable, owing to the un
usual conditions, to provide some fi
nancing in addition to that which is
available through ordinary banking
lchannels in the cotton belt.
HABEAS CORPUS WRIT DE
NIED FOR BOY DISTRICT AT
TORNEY SAID WAS PEON.
ATLANTA, Ga.— Federal Judge
Samuel H. Sibley Saturday denied a
writ of habeas corpus for Dave Wor
thy, a 16-year-old negro, held by the
Atlanta police on a warrant sworn out
against him by L. E. Millsaps, of Pike
county, charging the negro with ob
taining advance money from him for
some work and then skipping out, vio
lating his contract.
The writ was asked for by District
Attorney . Alexander on the grounds
that the negro was about to be forced
into peonage. It was held by Judge
Sibley that there was no evidence of
peonage and that the federal court
had no jurisdiction over the validity
of a state warrant.
Mr. Millsaps declared that he want
ed the boy tos return to Pike county
and stand trial on a charge of violating
his contract. He did not want the ne
gro to work for him.
Over a Million Returned
T o Countess Von Bernstoff
Wife of Former Ambassador From
Gem}any Gets Money and Securities.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Countess von
Bernstorff, wife of the former German
ambassador to the United States, again
has possession of the $1,000,000 in
money and securities seized in 1917
by the alien property custodian, it was
learned today.
Return of the property was made to
her American representative by the
Bankers Trust Company, the custo
dian’s depository, under an order of
the District of Columbia supreme
court.
The countess established the fact
that she was an American citizen prior
to her marriage, -having been Johanna
Luckemeyer, daughter of a pioneer
New York silk merchant.
Half of Snake Bites
Youth on His Head
Head of Reptile Wl'nch Had Been Cut
l In Two Strikes Boy Near Eye.
| Harry Stewart, of Level, Pa., was
bitten by a copperhead snake aiter it
had been cut in two.
He was driving a mower through a
filed when he struck the snake. The
head of the snake fiew up and struck
the young man on the right side of
the head near the eye. He was bitten
and fell from the mower in a dazed
condition.
BUY AT HOME
AND HELP
DAWSON PROSPER.
VOL. 39.—N0. 50
SAYSTHISISNO |
TIME FOR GLOOM
AFTER TOUR OF INVESTIGA
TION DECLARES THAT STA
PLE WILL BRING 15 CENTS.
ATLANTA, Ga—Declaring that
‘this is no time forl gloom—cotton will
surely sell for 15 cents,” “Jack” Oliver,
former Atlanta newspaper man, now
the head of a prominent cotton firm
on Pearl street in New York city, tells
of a tour of careful investigation
throughout the important portion of
the cotton belt. 5
Mr. Oliver was not content with vis
its to the larger towns and cities, so
rode many miles out into the rural
sections and discussed matters with
big and small farmers alike—he sat
on rail fences, he says, and listened at
tentively to all that “Silas Homespun”
had to say, whittled sticks out in front
of crossroads stores while being regal
ed with the opinions of “The village
oracle,” quizzed small country mer
chants as well as the larger ones in the
cities, and discussed fundamentals at
}length with prominent bankers and
‘manufacturers. ;
Frankly, says Mr. Oliver, he heard
not one hopeful or cheerful note. To
use Mr. Oliver's own words: “There
was not a single rift in the clouds of
gloom. Despair stalked broadcast. The
war-time symphony of prosperity and
content %iad been turned into a jazzy
jangle by yelping yawkers—a jaundic
ed yellow of pessimism had superced
ed the recent roseate aurora of abund--
ance. The poor house was getting
nearer each day, each hour in fact; the
country sheriff was bent under the
weight of attachments, while court
house doors were invitingly open to
bankruptcy proceedings. It was indeed
an indiscriminate, awe-inspiring, illu
‘minating indulgence in an iniqutous
‘indigo-hued industrial and commercial
attack of acute indigestion. Fortunate
\ly, however, these things were pure
ly imaginary.”
| All in the world this country needs
now, declares Mr. Oliver, “is the loos
ening of the bankers’ purse strings.”
He shows, along with many leading
newspapers and business men, that the
farmers need not charity but credit.
‘The cotton they are holding is excel
lent security. It is a needed cropj arti
ficial financial conditions ot hold
it off the market as a.weofthless prod
uct forever. ety :
“Truly, it looks at the moment as if
the amount of cotton on hand throu%h—
out the world around December Ist
will be the largest in all history. Fac
ing such a situation, if we were to em
ploy only logical deductions as 'thou%h
normal conditions existed, it would be
easy to figure out how and why cot
ton should sell at 6 or 7 cents per
pound. But wait! The backs of all na
tions, as well as the shelves of all the
stores in the world, were never before -
(so bare of cotton fabrics as they are
this minute. Beyond all question of
doubt we ‘will soon be enjoying the
%reatest demand in all history as well.
or these reasons we predict with ab
solute confidence that cotton will sell
above 15 cents per pound before Nov
ember 15th.”
| Mr. Oliver was recently elected to
the board of directors of the American
Cotton and Grain Exchange.
Congressmen May Have
To Punch Time Clock
Proposed Bill Would Penalize Them
For Absence From Session.
Members of the national senate and
house virtually would be required to
punch the clock, under a bill intro
duced in the house by Representative
Kissel, republican, of New York. As a
result of the difficulty of obtaming a
house quorum, with so many members
cager to get away for the hot summer
days, Mr. Kissel proposed that salaries
be doubled, with heavy daily fines for
senators and representatives failing to
show up for a double daily roll call—
at the start and close of every session.
The man absent without leave for
one day of a legislative week would
lose his week’s pay. For a 50-day ses
sion the penalty for a day's leave
would be $3OO, .with a fine of $l5O a
day for a session lasting 100 days.
Within the past week the house has
bhad a job trying to get 217 of the 435
members present at one time to enable
it to perform business. During a re
cent session a point of no quorum
twice necessitated a long delay after
a roll call while clerks were sent out
to round up members. After the sec
ond attempt the house got tired and
quit.
Charges That States
Stole Road Equipment
Government Would Look Into Matter
| Of Machinery Loaned Out.
Reports of a ‘“great national “steal”
are current as a result of federal in
vestigation in connection with millions
of dollars worth of surplus war mate
rials turned over free by the national
government to various states for a spe
cified purpose, road building. It is said
that state officials have been selling
that material.
~ Automobiles, trucks, tractors, road
scrapers, cement mixers, and gasoline
engines, necessary for road building,
‘have been handed over to the states by
the war department under the author
ity of congress. ‘Congress now is said
to be preparing a complete investiga
tion’ of alleged bad faith on the part of
the states. :
Large demands of states for this ma
chinery aroused suspicion. Inquiry de
veloped the fact that in certain cases
the equipment, instead of being used
on the roads, was being sold at ridic
alously low prices. Under the survey
contemplated, disposition of ever
piece of machinery may be determineii