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LA
OWEST LEVEL REACHED
W 0 MONTHS AGO. CONDI
TIONS ARE IMPROVING.
L4l Returnd to Normalcy Predict
odas Result of Lessened Unemploy
ment, Increased Savings, Greater
production and Paying Crops.
yhen are business conditions going
impf“""} When are we going to
petter times? Is there any real
dation for this loose talk about
¢ hardest winter we ever had” being
¢ ahead of us? Are the approaching
ths going to bring us soup houses
a gradual resumption of industrial
ity ? ’ !
hese are the questions on the lips
every American today.
he business and industrial decline
he United States, which began just
ore the close of 1919, reached its
et level early in the summer. The
g beat pack toward “normalcy” be
soon after the first of June. Only
trained observer could detect it at
put since the middle of July the
rovement has been patent to all
will take the trouble to read the
<spap<‘!~ |
On the Upgrade. |
4is is the concensus of government-.
hodies and economic and industrial
orts in Washington, men who keep
ir fingers on the business pulse of
mtion year in and year out. Theyi
e the first to predict the slump,
fy two vears ago, and now they‘
the first to forecast the return to‘
dtions closelyg approaching pre
wrmality. These men are almost
ot in declaring that the worst of
sard times” have passed and that
mtion is now headed toward mod
e prosperity. They say the im
wement will be steady, rather thau
i with perhaps a “fl_alreback’_' or
furing the hardest of the winter
e, But the worst has passed. The
atumn and winter will see a grad
esumption of industrial life. It
be slow, it is true, but the trend
bpward. There may be setbacks,
they will be only temporary.
igns that we have again resumed
¢] on the road to prosperity may
iy be read by those interested. Of
ls at the capital sum them up as
Signs of the Times.
nemployment is slowly lessening.
peak was passed prior to the har
days, and in many of the basic
of industry there is a steady drift
en toward the shops.
sbor cfficiency is increasing. The
age working man is now doing
e for a day's work. Production sta
ts from all over the country show
eciable gains in this respect.
he sepnding spree has ended. De
lack of employment for millions
part time, at reduced wages for
1, savings bank deposits show
greatest gain in the history of the
iy, Luxuries are becoming a drug
he market, but there is a constant
ad for substantial things and the
ssaries of life.
wer monev rates are appearing.
er money rates mean a loosening
redits. More credits mean more
ess. The financial structure of the
nisin good shape, having weath
the storm of the last year and a
without impairment.
rge crops promise a year that will
the farmer out of his difficulty.
ke rops will not bring top prices,
tree, but neither do they repre
top investment.
More Going Back to Work.
bluction figures in the hands of
vernment show that labor is now
tng perhaps 20 per cent more
it had been doing during the war
ths and the period of the business
e, This is held to be one of the
mportant developments of the
it situation, the one, in fact, more
ay other which has permitted
d prices on commodities.
W England perhaps was hardest
all when the war bubble bursted.
textiie mills shut down with a
b But unlike agriculture, which
r‘]'”t. irduous pull, the mills re
! when buying resumed. Many
M are going full tilt now, evi
r‘,"“’"“.s‘ of returning buying
. 1 the country. There are spe
'?f‘f“?"‘j reported- to government
:\ll \_-»‘la.\hz{)gt(m of large textile
g 0 /U per cent of the number
;“‘“ I:‘.nrmg the war boom,
E the same volume of pro
i = OFaes words labor has
sp‘_““‘-m like it did before the
Increasing Efficiency.
eij."'lt and figures of increased
R lie viGEae car world are
R Mg The period of shut
- intes ‘and spring was used
.. the incompetents and the
g “’?"-‘!wd efficiency of la
bor At a greater reduction in
B s of the finished articles
&b, M wage cuts. The indus
k r “1!\ feet again for the
R the average and
B . Cals ate feeling the gen-
S . ISR and retrench
b, Bives the low cost car
oy 12 railways report an ex
het . More than 20 pre cent
v o or for thé mouth of June,
Suher. & a deficit of last year
b profit in face of de-
EFlb o & O
o yw EN MILLION
~U MAIDS IN EUROPE
fen e
dom. I°N women in Europe
e olg . 91€¢ unmarried and to
ted 41ds unless the problem
lved o, . Superfluity of women
tica <, - ustics show that the
d b 10Tty of women has in-
LUUDOOO since 1914.
THE DAWSON NEWS
CHANGES IN THE TAX MEASURE
AS DRAWN UP FOR THE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Revision
of the 1918 tax law has been completed
by republican members ot the house
ways ang means committee with the
adoption of these additional chPrges:
“Repeal of the express and /, “"nipe
line transportation taxes effec(?l‘d 7
1, 1922; \ ~dog
Imposition of a license tax of slu
on venders of soft drinks, effective
upon enactment of the bill;
Substitusion of a manufacturers’ tax
of 12 cents a gallon on cereal bever
ages (near beer) for the present levy
of 15 per cent, effective upon enact
ment of the bill.
Tax on Manufacturer.
Imposition of a 5 per cent tax on
the fuil manufacturers’ selling price of
the following articles if sold by the
manufacturers at levels in excess of
those specified: !
Carpets and rugs, $3.50 per square
yard; trunks, $3O each; valises, travel
iing bags, suitcases, hat boxes used by
travelers and fitted toilet cases, $l5
each; purses, pocketbooks, shopping
and handbags, $4.00 each; portable
lighting fixtures, including lamps of
all kinds and shades, $lO.OO each; fans,
$l.OO each, and house or smoking coats
or jackets and both or lounging robes,
$3.00 each.
These taxes also would become ef
fective upon enactment of the bill.
No change was made in the levies
on telegraph, telephones, cable and
radio messages, this section of the old
law remaining in force.
Luxury Tax Continues.
The manufacturers’ tax of 5 per cent
on carpets, trunks and other articles is
designed to replace the so-called lux
ury levies now in force, including thise
on wearing apparel, but the plan now
is to continue these taxes collected
and paid to the gavernment by the
retailers until next Jan 1, despite the
fact that th\eé manufacturers’ tax would
become effettive upon enactment of thc]
bill.
The license taxes on vendors of soft
drinks is a new levy, exclusive of the
manufacturers’ taxes on syrups used
at fountains and on unfermented bev
erages, carbonated waters or bever
ages of other soft drinks sold in con
tainers.
Repeal of the excess profits tax and
an increase in the income tax on cor-
1,483 BUSINESS FIRMS
RECEIVERSHIPS DURING THE
MONTH EXCEEDED THOSE
OF JUNE BY 11 PER CENT. .
NEW YORK, N. ¥—One thousand
four hundred ecighty-three business
concerns in the United . States went
into receivers’ hands during July, says
Bradstreet’s credit-rating agency.
This was about 11 per cent more
than in June, when the number of
failures was 1,329.
But compared with January, when
there were 1,998 failures—it is a much
better showing than many credit ex
perts had expected.
July, it had been feared, would be
the month of greatest business mor
tality.
Some credit men, accordingly, now
belicve that the credit crises was pass
ed early in the year. In other words,
that the process of weeding out “the
weak sisters” is nearing completion.
Here a table that shows number of
failures in recent months, also the net
loss—excess of liabilities over assets.
TABAEY " ches o= e B $27,043,617
February _-_....--1,435 $31,137,44
NMarch .. v o 21500 $32,733,229
April ___——--_——__l,4lo $20,608,360
May -oo hgol $21,752,475
June i 1389 $18,504,474
TR ik Gd sk $25,979,301
FEDERAL AGENTS -
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CAN’T SEARCH HOMES
ACTION OF CONGRESS MAKES
HOME BREW SAFE FROM
“DRY” SLEUTHS.
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| WASHINGTON, D. C.—The house
of congress has voted to keep the home
Istills boiling.
| Under an amendment to the anti
beer bill, approved by the house last
Iw'3c=k, the cellar still and home brewing
outfit would be safe from interefernce
by federal prohibition agents, if no at
tempt was made to sell the product,
It came about in tnis way. The
‘house adopted a substitute to the
Stanley amendment, passed by the
senate, which prohibits all searches
and seizures without warrants.
The house substitute prohibits- the
searching of homes without warrant,
'and then declares that no warrant shall
be issued unless there is reason to be
lieve that liquor is being “manufactur
ed for sale or sold” in the home. Thus,
'so long as you are not making liquor
Ifor sale or selling it the prohibition
agent cannot get into your home to
’search for evidence that might convict
‘under the Volstead law.
£€ .3 .
W heel Chair” Girl
Is Queen of the Town
CHICAGO.—A victim of infan
tile paralysis in childhood and for
years confined to a wheel chair,
Miss Emma Laux is the queen of
Watseka, 111. In her soverign capac
ity she visited Chicago’s Pageant
oi Progress with other queens rep
resenting the towns on the Dixie
highway.
Miss Laux, who is now able to
walk with the aid of crutches, is
Watseka’s telephone operator.
“She is not only our most beau
tiful girl, but also the most typical,”
one of the judges said. “We want
other cities to judge us by her.”
porations from 10 to 15 per cent, with
the $2,000, exemption retained, effec
tive on Jan. 1, 1921
| Married Men Gain.
Repeal of the income surtax brack
lets above 32 per cent, effective Jan.
ohy, 1921,
r% -eq] of all forms of transportation
e otive Jan, 1; 1922;
ARG “am $2,000 to $2,500 in
the exempr. arried men having
an annual net < Ae of $5,00 or less,
effective Jan. 1, 1921,
An increase in the exemption to
heads of families on account of de
pendents to $4OO for each dependent,
instead of $2OO as at present, effective
Jan. 1, 1921.
Exemption from tax of the first $5,-
000 of income received by individuals
from investment in building and loan
associations, effective Jan. 1, 1921. °
Repeal of the tax on fountain drinks
and ice cream and the substitution of
a flat tax of 10 cents a gallon on all
}fountain s?'rups to be paid direct by
the manufacturer or maker, effective
‘upon enactment of the bill.
| Repcal Stamp Taxes.
~ Repeal of the stamp taxes on per
fumes, extracts, tooth paste and toilet
preparations and proprietary medicines
and the substitution of a manufactur
ers’ tax of 5 per cent on the sale prices,
effective on the enactment of the bill.
SubgtCitution of a manufacturers’ tax
of 2 cents a gallon for the present 10
per cent on the sale price of unfer
mented juice beverages and carbonat
ed waters or beverages or other soft
drinks sold in contaners, effective on
the enactment of the bill.
A reduction in the manufactuers’ tax
on candy from 5 to 3 per cent, the
manufacturers’ tax on furs from 10 to
5 per cent, and on sporting goods from
10 to 5 per cent and the levy on art
and art works from 10 to 5 per cent.
effective on the enactment of the bill.
Imposition of a manufacturers’ tax
of 3 cents a gallon on certain classes
of grape juice and 2 cents a gallon on
other classes, in lieu of the present tax
of 10 per, cent on the manufacturers’
selling prices, effective on enactment
of the bill. X
The levying of 5 cents a pound on
carbonic acid gas sold to manufactur
ers of carbonated gasses, effective on
enactment’' of the bill,
MUST HAVE THE REAL TAG
~ WHEN CAR APPEARS. MORE
++ - FEES FOR SHERIFFS.
Anybody in Georgia driving an au
tomobile at this time with one of the
cardboard “ten day” tags which have
been issued to automobile dealers for
a long while is violating the law and
is subject to technical arrest of his car.
That law was wiped out by the legis
lature and Secretary of State McLen
don has called attention to it in the
following statement:
“The press of the state will render
the public a service by calling atten
tion to .the amendments made to the
motor vehicle law.
“From now on no ten day card
board tags can be used at all, and it
will be a violation of the law for any
one to attempt to operate a car under
one of these tags.
“The amended law makes it the duty
of every sheriff in the state, of which
there are 160, and of every constable,
of which there are 1,700, one in each
fnilitia district, to swear out warrant
and prosecute every violator of the
motor vehicle law. In other words, an
army of 1,860 -public officers is now
charged with the duty of enforcing the
law, not only as to tags but as to ev
ery other requirement.
“It will not be safe for any violator
of the law to get out of his militia dis
trict with an unregistered car.
“The amended law also defines the
use to which a dealer may put a deal
er’s tag. Many dealers are now using
tags unlawfully. °
“Constables who swear out warrants
and justices of peace who issue such
warrants will be entitled to costs as
fixed by law in misdemeanor cases.”
The Sheriff Gets His.
Still another change made in thc;
law, in addition to those referred to by
Mr. McLendon, is a provision which
requires every man in the state with |
a car which was registered the previ-j
ous year, and is not registered by the
first day of March and up to the first'
day of May in each calendar year, to
have his application for a license tag |
vised by the sheriff of his county, for
which he pays a fee of s§l. No applica- |
tion for a tag on an old car will be
recognized by the secretary of state
between March 1 and May 1 which is
not endorsed by the sheriff of the
county from which it comes. The pur
pose of this change in the law, as ex
plained by the authors of it, is to pre
vent the theft of automobiles. It does!
not apply to new cars, or to cars which
have never been registered but, takm‘
in connection with the record of un-|
registered cars of the current year, |
which appeared on the registry list of
the previous year, and which is pro- |
vided monthly to every sheriff in thcl
state, the authors believe it will make
the registration of stolen cars nearly
impossible. Under the operation of the
law it will mean that the purchaser. oi |
a used automobile will, for his own
protection, have to be careful of thcl
person or concern from which he pur- |
chases it, in order that he may be sure‘
the car.will not be taken away from
him by the sheriff when he seeks to!
have an application tag vised by the
sheriff.
St el
COFFEE FAST TAKING
| THE PLACE OF BOOZE
Coffee drinking has increased 21 per
cent, or 100 cups a year for each per
son in the United States, since the ad
vent of prohibition, according to fig
ures made public by _the National Coi
fee Roasters’ Association. s
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1921
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%SHIPPED AS FREIGHT, AND
- MEN WHO MOVE TREASURE
~ MAKE NO FUSS ABOUT IT.
STEAMERS BRINGING MILLIONS
Boxes of Yellow Metal Are kept in
Strong Rooms and Carefully Check
ed in and Out Under the Eyes of
The Purser of Ship.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Gold, tons of
it, coming here on every large passen
ger liner that plies the Atlantic, is
handled by seamen and longshoremen
as nonchalantly if it were scrap iron.
On such ships as the Olympic arrive
millions of dollars worth of the pre
cious metal, shipments such as would
have swamped an old galleon sailing
the Spanish main, But the heavy steel
bound boxes of ingots or coin stored
away in the holds of the giant liners
arouse among passengers and crew far
less interest than the presence of an
internationally known actress or prize
winning Pomeranian.
It 'was recently announced that the
United States sub-treasury vaults here
already hold $1,500,000,000 in gold,
one-fiith of the world’\s entire sugply.
Gold is classified as' freight and a
certain rate per ton is paid for trans
porting it, although due to its value |
special consideration is given its safe
ty. On each of these’ big ships is a
vault, known in ship language as thc‘
strong room. It is a big box or cham
ber, heavily lined with armor plate
steel, located in one of the lower holds
in such a position that it can be ap
proached but from one direction, by a
passage opening from but one door or‘
hatch. v i |
Is Well Guarded. ‘
There is no space around the strong
room for a would-be thiei to work
with a driil, and indeed if he should‘
get in he would probably find himself
a prisoner. 4 |
Delivered to the ship in a European‘
port the purser carefully checks the
number of boxes, notes the stated val-‘
ue of the contents, sees to it that prop
er customs permits for shipments have
been issued and in the name of the
ship signs the bills- of lading. Under
his personal eye it is stowed in the
strong room, where it is again check
ed. The room is locked and the keys
and combination of the door are re
tained in the purger’s own care. On
several of the ships electric alarm de
vices add to the protection.
~ On arrival in New York the gold
shipments receive firgt attention aiter
the passengers haver&)[ew discharged.
!A special force of longshorénfen under
the eye of a trusted boss is led to the
'strong room in company with a‘rep
resentative of the bank or banks to
which the gold is assigned. The boxes
are checked out, loaded on trucks, a
certain weight to each man, and trun
ldled away to waiting vans near the
ship sides.
All in a Day’s Work.
The longshoremen who handle the
treasure make no fuss about it—it is
all in a work day of eight hours—and
gold or pig.iron it is the same to them.
"However, once in the vans, when the
ship is released of responsibility, therc
is a show of guards.
What would happen to the gold if
the ship should meet with an accident
and go down? “It would have to go
with the ship unless conditions were
such that it could be removed after
the lives of all on board had been sav
ed,” is the answer of the lines. Like
other freight it is insured, and not
even treasure must be taken into con
sideration when lives are at stake.
Gold shipments which have gone
down are occupying the attention of
scores of marine experts today. Num
erous devices have been patented and
many lives have been lost in attempts
to salvage sunken treasure. Among
hundreds of others a rich .reward
awaits the man who can salvage the
treasure lost with the Lusitania.
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i MAY SEEK OFFICE
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'NEW LAW REMOVING CIVIL
| DISABILITIES NOW IN EF
g FECT. OTHERS FAILED.
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| ATLANTA.—Although only one of
!the several measures advocated by the
tGeorgia League of Women Voters has
lbeccome a law, the co-operation on the
part of practically all state organiza
tions of women, it was stated here, was
a development of far more importance
than the success of any one legislative
program.
May Hold Office.
“On questions affecting women and
children and on questions of humanity
and justice women as individuals and
in groups feel alike,” said an Atlanta
member of the league today.
l The bill for the removal of the civil
idisahilities of women, which has been
signed by Governor Hardwick and is
now a law of the state, provides that
‘'women may hold any office in Geor
'gia on the same terms as men. Furth
".ermore. it harmonizes the Georgia
statutes with the federal suffrage
lamendment by providing that women
'may vote in any election in Georgia
subject to the same restrictions as
'men.
i This bill, as urged by the league
and as originally introduced in both
‘houses of the legislature, conferred on
women the right and duty of jury ser
vice, though there were exemptions
in their favor. The jury provisions of
ithe bill was stricken by the com
‘mittee of both houses. This, it is claim
ed by the League voters, stripped the
bill of its greatest value, and jury ser
vice for women will again be urged.
| Five Failed.
Five other measures urged by the
women during the recent session of
the legislature either failed of passage
or were not reached in the reguiar or
der of business.
KILL FOOD HOARDERS
‘TWELVE MILLION PEOPLE
~ ACTUALLY STARVING IN
FAMINE AREA OF RUSSIA.
THOUSANDS SUBSIST ON GRASS
Pitiful Stories of Suffering Heard on
All Sides by American Relief Offi
cials. Parents Abandon Children to
State. Conditi%ns Growing Worse.
American relief workers, who have
begun the work of organizing food dis
tribution in the fame-stricken nation
of the Slavs, have merely scratched
the surface so far, but their reports
show that starvation stories from thé
land of the bolshevists have not been
overdrawn. Preliminary reports tend
to show that thére are 12,000,000 per
sons An the Volga river basin actually
starving to death, while two-thirds of
the entire population of Russia are on
hunger rations.
Where Gaunt Hunger Rules.
The famine area begins between
Nizhni-Novgorod and Kazan on the
north and extends southward in a
broad belt to Tsaritsin, on both sides
of the Volga, embracing the Tartar
republic provinces of Simbirsk, Sama
ra, Saratov, Penza and Tambov; the
Tcherkask republic, parts of <Riazon
and Tula, and a large part of the prov
ince of Ufa to the foothills of the Ural
mountains. ‘
Famine conditions have been made
worse by poor transportation and in
efficiency of local distribution organi
zations, which have been vigorously
attacked by the newspapers during the
past few weeks. For instance, &g per
cent of the milk spoiled in the province
of Moscow was due to the defective
organization of the receiving stations.
Pitiful tories of Suffering.
Pitiful stories of suffering are told
on all sides. The peasants of Tambov
are reported to be eating bread made
of ' straw, potato parings and weeds.
In the Novenski prison, where several
Americans were detained, the bread
was adulterated with a flour which ap
peared to have been made from cow
peas. Kasha, the staple cereal of the
peasants, has been replaced by flageo
let beans, which are imported.
Famine conditions are particularly
scvere among children, 300,000 of
whom in the Volga district are report
\Pd to have been abandoned by their
parents to the care of the state.
The beginning of the food tax col
lection by the soviet authorities was
marked by the execution of a group of
rich peasants in the Mariopol district.
These peasatits had conicealed ! their
grain and were trying to dodge their
tax. An cxample was made of these
peasants to prevent the practice of
hoarding. Heavy rains spoiled much
of the hay crop. The government is
making an effort to save the live stock
by concentrating herds on the natural
pasturage slopes of the Ural moun
tains. The peasants, however, are op
posing this plan, fearing they will nev
er get back their cattle. !
Health Situation Bad.
l The cholera death wave is sweeping
'five new Russian districts, taking a
lheavy toll of lives. The epidemic has
‘invaded Podolia, Volga, Kieff, Tver
‘land Smolensk, making 24 provinces
'in all now affected. One hundred fifty
thousand ,victims were reported to
have died in two towns in two months.
Fiiy-two thousand were children.
I A description of the terror following
the death wave was contained in dis
]patches received in London. Gangs of
looters followed the trail of burning
homes, which were fired by occupants
when they deserted them. Armed
'bands entered the homes pf those who
might be suspected of having food and
stole anything they could find. -
" A band of {fugitives approached
Moscow and was refused entrance. One
report stated cordons of troops with
poison gas surrounded them and drove
’thcm back.
WOULD STOP PLANTING
MEETING AT MACON URGES
LEGISLATURE TO PASS
SUCH A LAW.
MACON, Ga—The Georgia Farm
congress, meeting in conjunction with
the Georgia State Agricultural Society,
today passed a resolution urging that
the state take legal steps to stop all
production of cotton in Georgia for
one year.
The resolution was introduced by
Benjamin W. Hunt, banker and plant
er, and indorsed by J. J. Brown, state
commissioner of agriculture. It was
passed unanimously as the initial step
toward the absolute abolition of the
boll weevil as a factor in the cotton
situation, by freeing the entire cotton
belt of the pest.
The proposal is a radical one, and
should suich a measure be introduced
in the legislature it willi no doubt meet
with strong opposition apd provoke a
hot fight. It will be found that many
people are not yet willing for statutory
legislation to go that far.
Says Too Many Baths
Are Injuring Americans
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Too
many baths, too much personal
cleanliness is breaking down = the
health of the American public, said
Dr. J. Cameron Pickett, San Fran
cisco physician, in an address be
fore the annual convention of the
National Association of Chiropodists
here. Dr. Pickett’s subject was skin
lesions, and he deciared that the
rapid increase in the prevalence of
these convinced him that America
had carried the subject of bathing
too fiar.
Uncle Sam Needs Help;
Has Too Mué:h Booze
WASHINGTON, D. C.—An over
stocked national booze cellar that
nobody knows how to empty is one
of the unusual heritages of Uncle
Sam ainder the prohibition law.
Tl(el anomolous story of how, in a
land of drought, liquor obtained by
confiscation has become a white ele
phant on the hands of the goévern
ment was fold to the cabinet today
by Attorney General Daugherty,
arousing a discussion which led no
where except to a decision to investi
gate further.
The attorney general told the
president and department heads that
large sums of much needed govern
ment funds were being eaten up in
storage houSe rentals and policing
expenses to keep liquor that the gov
ernment did not want. An even |
greater economic /waste would result
from pouring the seized spirits into
the sewer, and it was suggested that
a way might be found to extract the
alcohol for commercial purposes or
to turn the liquor itself to some
legitimate use. The law says it is
to be ‘“‘confiscated” but doesn’t say
how to dispose of it. |
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U.S.“REED U BY .
“DOUBLE CROSSED” IN SALE
OF U. S. WAR SUPPLIES.
RIDICULOUS PRICES.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Members
of congress have been astounded by
the disclosures that the French govern
ment had attempted to impose a tarid
duty on war materials shipped to
France during the war.
Congress learned for the first time
that France insisted that if the Amer
ican government attemzted to carry
back to the United States the supplies
remaining after the armistice a duty
of about $150,000,000 would be impos
ed. As a consequence of this threat
the American liquidation +committec
sold to France for $4,000,000 property
originally valued at $1,700,000,000:
Not only did France agree to waive
a tariff claim when the sale was made,
but promised that the fgoods would be
used for.the benefit of French people
in rehabilitating devastated areas. Now
it turns out that the French govern
ment has sold most of the property to
the speculators and individuals, who
are trying to ship the goods to the
United States and sell them here at
cut prices. The house of representatives
has blocked the scheme, however, by
adopting a resolution imposing a tariff
of 9 cents on all such goods, so that
no more of it will be dumped on the
lAmcrican shores.
- THE RACE AGITATORS
'SAYS THE INTER-RACIAL COM
} MITTEE DOING STATE HARM
AND NOT HELPING NEGRO.
{ JACKSON, Ga.—"lt is time such
|nauseating propaganda should stop,”
!asscrtcd judge W. E. H. Searcy, ir.,
lin his charge to the Butts county
igrand jury referring to the recent
’peonage charges brought against citi
| zens of Georgia by the inter-racia!
committee of Atlanta. Judge Searcy
scored the activities of what he term
ed the “misguided efforts of the inter
!racial committee and agitators,” and
'his remarks on this line were a featur:
lo‘f his charge at the convening of the
]Angust term of Butts county superior
court.
l He said the people of Georgia have
Ibeen done a great injustice and a
lgrievous wrong by the so-called friends
of the negro. In fact, he said, they are
'the negro’s worst enemy.
’ “Every smokehouse, every corn ecrib
will soon be closed to the negro unless
lthis propaganda stops,” said Judge
'Searcy. The real friends of the negro
are the southern people, he said, and
the farmers of Georgia and of the
south have made advances to the negro
when in all probability they knew they
would not get back the money. This
generosity, amounting in many cases
to charity, has been met, said Judge
Searcy, by charges of peonage and
cruel treatment.
The jutist pleaded for a square deal
for the negro and demanded in return
that he be made tg give a square deal.
He deplored mob law and violence, but
said the effective remedy in this and
all other cases was to first remove the
cause. He showed that in Georgia ap
proximately 42 per cent of the popula
tion is composed of colored citizens,
and that almost 54 per cent of all crime
is committed by the negro.
®The sooner the better element of
the negro race learns to stop follow
ing the will-o’-the-wisp of 40 acres and
a mule, of social and political] equality,
the better it will be for them,” said
the judge.
“There is no better, safer place in all
the world for the good, law-obeying
negro than here in Georgia. Here
there is mutual understanding. The
white man has fed, ciothed and cared
for the negro. Oftentimes he has been
repaid for this kindness by acts of bru
tality and*lust.”
. Judge Searcy said that as long as
he could raise his voice or lift his arm
he would refute the ‘“vile slander
brought against a great state and a
great people by a set of misguided agi
tators and reformers.”
Rules Whisky Is of
No Value in Appraisal
NEW YORK, N. Y—~The law is
the law. Although there are thousands
of thirsty Americans who would pay
$lO a quary for good Scotch, 20 quarts
of whisky were listed as of “no value”
when the estate oi Comnstant M. Bird
formerly president of the Manhattan
Savings institution, was recently ap
praised. . :
BUY AT HOME
AND HELP
DAWSON PROSPER.
VOL. 39.—N0. 51
T—M‘wm‘*:\
HUGE LIQUOR TRUST
l BOOZE Homcns EVEN FORGE
I ORDERS ON TREASURY DE
{ PARTMENT AT CAPITAL.
CRIMINALS COVER COUNTRY
Their Profits Exceed $150,000,000 a
Year. Prohibition Enforcement Of
ficers Often Brave Death Seeking
Blockade Runners.
Since the advent of prohibtion in
the United States bootlegging has de
veloped into perhaps the most gigantic
criminal conspiracy in the history of
the nation, cold fact and figures now
in the hands of the federal prohibition
authorities in Washington, D. C., show.
The hip-pocket dispenser, for whom
the name bootlegger was first invented,
has given piace to an organized traffic
wielding a power undreamed of by
the general law-abiding public, say
“dry” officials. The crimes of this
new-born giant among lawbreakers
range- from corruption, counterfeiting,
blackmail, bribery and forgery all the
way to wholesale burglary, arson and
even murder, The profits of the boot
leggers in the past 12 months are con
servatively estimated at more than
$150,000.000.
Sheriffs and Court Officials Aid.
Steamships, power yachts, automo
biles, airplanes and fleets of motor
trucks are at the command of the or
¥anized bands of traffickers in booze.
n some sections sheriffs, court offi
cials and political leaders are extend
‘ing secret aid. The greatest counter
feiters and forgers of the day are em
ployed.
When occasion demands the “busi
ness” of the bootlegger is transacted
on fake letterheads of the United
States treasury department itself. So
cunningly is the work done that the
‘water-marks of the paper are repro
duced. Even the envelopes are imitat
icd and in some cases forged orders for
the release of huge quantities of bond
ed alcoho! are daringly franked free
as “government business” through the
‘mail.
Only 954 Federal Agents Out. _
Pitted against these powerful viola
tors of the prohibtion laws is the com
paratively small prohibition enforce
ment unit of which-Maj. R. A. Haynes
is the commissioner. This unit has an
appropriation of only $7,500,000 for the
current fiscal year, and, in addition te
the enforcement of prohibition, it is
charged with the enfi)rcement of the
anti-narcotic laws. i
Large office foreces for executive and
clerical “work have - to~ be maintained: .
As a consequence there are in the
whole United States only 954 federal
agents actually engaged in running
down bootleggers. + Major Haynes,
however, does not. despair but hopes,
with the local co-operation of police
departments, sheriffs and courts, to lay
the bootleggers by the heels.
Already the prohibition bureau has
dealt the traffic some heavy blows.
Since Jan. 1 of the current year, in
complete records show that more than
150,000 arrests have been made for
violation of the federal prohibition law.
Since Jan. 1 of the current year in
been seized, totaling a. value of $9,-
561,749, with eight of them not yet
appraised,
Bootleggers Murdered 12 Officers.
Additional incomplete records show
that, since Jan 1 indictments or in
formations have been returned against
14,190 persons, -and during the first
three months of 1921 convictions and
pleas of guilty have been obtained in
338 cases. The disparity between ar
rests and indictments 1s regarded as
strong proof of the failure of local
courts and officials to co-operate in
certain sections of the country. -
Twelve federal prohibition agents
have been killed by bootleggers during
the past six months—some shot down
in desperate battles, others murdered in
cold blood. Nearly two score other fed
eral agents have been severely wound
ed. The strongholds of the bootleggers
aré in Pennsylvania, New York, shi
cago, San Francisco and Florida.
' Fake Business Concerns.
' Thousands of individuals and fake
business concerns are engaged in
fraudulently withdrawing alcohol and
whisky from bonded warehouses. They
usually operate under the camouflage
of legitimate commercial enterprises.
The making of proprietary medicines
is a favorite device, It is done every
where, but the offenders are thickest in
Pennsylvania and surrounding states.
Others use flavoring extracts manu
facture as a subterfuge.
Moonshine stills, once limited to the
mountainous regions of the south, now
operate in every section of the coun
try. Seizure and destruction by gov
ernment and local agents is becoming
almost a daily occurrence.
Profits Are Enormous.
The profits from the illegal sale of
whisky, which are divided between the
retailers and wholesalers, are enor
mous. They get whisky for $5 to $2O
a gallon and sell it for $5 to $2O a°
quart. The biggest profits are on alco
hol. Bootleggers buy a 50-gallon bar
rel for $250 or $3OO. Adding two bar
rels of water, a little coloring and fla
voring matter they produce three bar
rels of “whisky.” Putting this up in’
whisky bottles with counterfeit labels
of standard brands they seli it at top
notch prices and it is by that method
bootleggers have been known to clean
up as much as $4,000 to $6,000 on a
single barrel of alcohol.
KENTUCKY WOMEN WIN
JAILERS’ OFFICE IN PRIMARY
Successful candidates in a primary
election in Kentucky included three
women. Mrs. Belle Napier won the,
nomination for jailer of Breathitt coun
ty over ten men candidates, while Mrs.
Ida F. Edger was the successful can
didate for the same office in Woodford
county. Mrs. Charlotte O. Woodbury
won the nomination for tax commis
sioner of Jefferson county. e