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A NEWSPAPER
pEVOTED TO
PUBLIC SERVICE.
,By E L. RAINEY
o LAIMS OF ROADS
ARE $631,500,000
RAILROADS HAVE COLLECT
ED $260,000,000 TO DATE. PUZ
JLED ABOUT AMOUNT DUE.
S
| \\'A_\'Hl.\'tiT()N, D. C.—The gov
enment returned all railway lines to
peir former private owners almost
dghteen months ago. .
But the United States railroad ad
qinistration, 2 relic of war-time gov
cment railway contro], continues to
exist. + s
[t employs 1,300 people. It is costing
American taxpayers $4,000,000 a year.
“Ipe railroad administration justifies
te existence by maintaining that it
m'm ccttle hangover claims of the
railways against the government,
That is true. There are at least hali
3 billion dollars of unadjusted claims
to be settled. But it is difficult to con
vince a hard-pressed taxpayer that it is
pecessary to maintain anything like so
great @ force to make this adjustment.
The officials of the present railroad
admillifitfhtion are, with a few- ex
ceptions, the same men .who served
on the administration during the war,
That means that practically all of
ihem were or are officials of private
railway lines. !
Its highly probable that persons in
the railroad administration today are
drawing public salaries for adjusting
claims of line in which they are pri
ately interested!
. The government gave up federal
ilway control in March, 1920, the
Fsch-Cummins railway legislation be
ing passed at the same time.
Upder the Esch-Cummins bill the
ilwavs were guaranteed federal com
pensation for any losses they suffered
it operation between March and Sep
ember, 1920. _
In that period the railways lost
wughly $631,500,000, according to an
«timate. They already have collected
qound $260,000,000 of this loss. Now
they're trying to get the remainder—-
$370,000,000. |
The railways have not presented
emized statements showing exactly
jow they lost the enormous sum.
And they have not promised that
wvhen the total sum is paid they will
regard it as payment in full of the gov
emment’s obligations under the Esch-
Cummins legislation.
There is nothing to prevent the rail
ways presenting fresh claims from
year to year and collecting from the
treasury annually of the money you
pay as taxes and the money your chil
dren and children’s children will pay!
That offers almost boundless oppor
tunity for the railways to enrich them
selves while they impoverish the tax
payers.
Women Add Inch and a
Half to Average Stature
Dressmakers Are Forced to Use More
Cloth Because of Increased Height.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.— They’re
building "em bigger. Dressmakers say
«, corsctieres agree there’s something
i it and now along comes cold, cal
wlating science to explain why wo
men weigh, more than they ever did
before.
Women areé no fatter, say the physi
al culture experts. They're simply
larger, and here’s the reason: The wo
men of today are one and half inches
taller as a class than forty years ago.
Their chests are larger, their waist
lines have widened. Their muscles have
hardened. All this makes them weigh
more. :
The changes, according to those
who have made a study of the subject,
are simple enough to explain. Women,
tspecially during the last twenty years
or 50, gradually have been converted
from the clinging vine to robust per
sons who are proud rather than ashami
ed of the physical feats they can
accomplish, Participation in sports has
turned the trick.
‘Time was,” explained William Her
mann, a physical training expert,
when a woman thought vigorous use
?l the body and its muscles was un
adylike. All that has changed, of
course, and the gradual participation of
women in sports and various forms of
txercises actually has brought about
?fl‘hlmfzo in her height and her figure.
¢ change in height is not simply a
tase of athletics having taught a wo
”l‘.d” to stand straighter. It is an actual
C'?H.L*‘v- that can be measured.”
o ’l? commenting on the change in the
(J(” mine physique several Philadelphia
Cin;;m;.kcr.s said the change was prin-
I[mh- noticeable in a higher chest and
arger waistline. ]
Wy . i "'
Disarm the Ladies,
Says Congresswoman
Women Call for Disarmament, Yet
Send Sons to Military Academies. :
“Compulsory disarmament of wo
men” has been suggested by Alice
Robertson, Oklahoma's congresswo
tan. With murders by women increas
o LIS as necessary as disarmament
01_1‘.:nir.n_<' she holds. |
The women talk disarmament, but
they want war,” she said. “Look at the
0-called women’s magazines. They are
filled with advertisements of military
iademics. Women clamoring for _dis
aMmament send their boys to military
“ademics and let stores continue to
g 10vs suggestive of war.
“Women “who murder get off too
dv They're not judged according to
tdm yarme standards as men who mur
ki
LIGHTNING SHAVED THE
SIDE OF MAN’S HEAD
Lightning shaved all the hair off the
‘Qiflnf”"‘ of Steven O’Donnell’s head.
b Y'Donnell, a rancher, living near
"Z¢man. Mont., was stunned but re
avered congsciousness - and went un
ed to his home,
THE DAWSON NEWS
Convicts Rob County
Of Gasoline Supply
COLUMBUS, Ga.— That the
placing of Sam Sellers and Robert
Williams on the Muscogee county
chaingang has not stopped them
from robbing folks is made plain
by their arrest at camp Monday on
a charge of stealing gasoline.
It seems that these long term
convicts. have been systematically
robbing the county of gasoline for
some time. This fact was revealed
by the arrest of Willis Johnson on
a charge of receiving stolen goods.
Found with 31 ‘gallons of gas, the
negro, it is declared, told the offi
cers the convicts had been sending
the gas to him. The convicts claim
they left the gas with the negro be
cause the wagon tank was leaking.
Officers express the belief that a
systematic robbery scheme has
b&ogress in Muscogee for
s
SILK IS NO LONGER THE FA
VORITE FABRIC OF THE
BUYING PUBLIC.
~ ATLANTA, Ga.—One pretty good
sign ‘that the country isgetting back
to a normal basis, in buying at least,
is that the buying public ils getting
back to a cotton basis, whereas in the
flush days of war inflation, merchants
say, silk was the cheapest fabric lots
of people cared to purchase, and this
despite the fact that cotton goods were
somewhat high with other things.
Getting back to a cotton basis is a
good’ thing in .more ways than one.
Besides being a measure of economy
it will help cotton get back on its feet,
figuratively speaking. That will help a
great number of people, for the more
cotton there is used the busier will be
the cotton factories, the better will be
the demand for raw cotton, and the
more money there will be for those
who produce the cotton. |
Atlanta merchants have no hesitation
in saying that the demand for silk
shirts, fancy socks and expensive cra
vats has declined and customers are
buying a cheaper line of goods. Here,
they say, is one case of a return to
normalcy. Not having the money to
buy the more expensive articles the
public is buying the less expensive,
as it did before the period of war wage
inflation. Sy -
““If there is any economic law in
volved in the process it is the very
old and fundamental law that people
buy what they can afford,” said one of
the leading haberdashers in the Peach
tree arcade, where many fancy and
exclusive §ho§s display their expen
sive wares. “But no doubt the condi
tions in men’s furnishing goods trade
are entitled to respectful recognition
for their bearing on general industry.
'Haberdashery is an index of prosperi
ity no less than more pretentious lines
of business and deflation there has its
Lsignificance. If the public is giving up
silk for cotton it is returning to the
first principles of economical buying.”
There should be a great deal of sat
isfaction in the south over the change,
it is pointed out here by agricultural
leaders. While the south is putting
cotton to one side as a sole crop, it is
declared, there still is a great deal of
cotton in the south and more is com
ing on, and it will help a lot, business
men agree, if people will buy it and
use it to' a greater extent than they
have been doing.
SPEED-RECORD LOCOMOTIVE DRAWS
SLOW PASSENGER TRAIN IN GEORCIA
Ten-Wheeler of the Atlan—t—i;-c;;—[,_in—e Ran at Rate of 120 Miles
An Hour and Won Mail Contract in 1901.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Pulling a
slow local passenger train in Georgia
is the “ten-wheeler,” which one day
20 years ago traveled at a speed great
er than that of any steam locomotive
ever built, 120 mile an hour. This en
gine, now Atlantic Coast Line No. 210,
was Plant System No. 111 when it set
the world's record for sprinting. At the
same time it won a’ United States mail
contract between Washington, D. c
and Jacksonville.
The Seaboard Air Line and the At
lantic Coast Line-Plant System in
‘March, 1901, were conducting tests
under observation of postal authorities.
Each road, it was agreed, should run
three trains to determine which could
bandle the Florida and Cuban mails the
quicker. It was while pulling the third
'test train between Savannah and Jack
sonville that No. 111, of the Savannah,
Florida and Western, just delivered to
the railroad by builders, unexpectedly
Isot its record that still stands.
Hot Box Developed. ;
Soon after leaving Savannah No. 107, |
a new locomotive assigned to the test, |
developed a hot driving-box and the |
Seaboard test train passed it at Bur
roughs, 11 mijes out, the two railroads |
paralleling to that point. |
At Fleming, 23 miles from Savannah,
No. 107 was still experiencing trouble,l
and when passenger train No. 23,
southbound, with engine No. 111, @
charge of Engineer Lodge, overtook
the test train officials substituted the
111 for the 107, ordered dispatchers to
clear the road between Fleming and
Jacksonville and instructed Lodge to
push his engine to the limit.
A fire some years ago destroyed the
records of the run between Fleming
and Waycross, but reports show that
No. 111 made the 76 miles between
Waycross and Jacksonville_in 59 min
utes, an average speed of 78 miles an
hour.
The world’s record was set near
Screven, Ga., 12 miles south of Jesup.
where No. 111 and her train covered
five miles in 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
No. 111 arrived at the union station in
Jacksonville ahead of the Seaboard
test train and the Atlantic Coast Line-
BANKS OF DIXIE AND GOVERN
MENT BACKING MOVEMENT
| TO PRODUCE CATTLE."
| CHICAGO, Ill—Eugene Arnett, oi
|Oklahoma City, arrived in Chicago to
'day in the interest of a campaign to
raise the standards of cattle raising in
the southern states. According to Mr.
Arnett the banks of the south and the
government are back of a plan to take
Illinois steers south, and to educate
the farmers in stock raising, instead of
purely crop growing activities.
The movement started in Oklahoma,
where the banks became tired of car
rying small farmer loans, when the
agriculturists appeared to be using the
wrong tactics. !
Eighty-nine per cent of the banks
of Oklahoma got together and decid
ed to make no more one-crop basis
loans to farmers, unless the borrow
ers would try methods advocated by
government farm experts. ;
A survey showed that 40 per cent o 1
the southern farms were without a
single head of stock, and that farmers
were seeking to get; a living only from
one crop. After the farmers have been
prepared to care for cattle, agents of
an appraisal committee are to go
through the dairy districts of Illinois
and buy thousands of steers for ship
ment south. These steers, according to
Mr. Arnett, will serve the needs of
the southern farmers as well as high
priced bulls raised only for breeding
purposes.
GAIN $4,000,000.00
2 \
\
TOTAL RESOURCES HAVE IN
CREASED $34,000,000 IN TWO
YEAR PERIOD. ‘
Despite unfavorable financial condi 1
tions and in the face of low prices re
ceived for farm products, principally
cotton, deposits in state banks of
Georgia increased $4,319,500 ‘for the
year ending June 30, 1921, over the
year ending June 30, 1919, according
to an announcement made by T. R.
Bennett, superintendent of the state
banking department.
The figures were compiled from the
statements of the state banks sent in
under the call issued by the depart
ment for June 30, 1921, and show that
Georgia banks are in much sounder
condition than many people supposed,
and also that the depression is not
Lnearly as bad as it looks on the face
of things.
| One significant thing shown by the
figures is that the total resources ofi
the state banks are greater by approx
imately $34,000,000 than they were on
June 30, 1919. The resourdes in 1919
were $252,350,000 as compared to re
§<9)gi'ces of $286,594,000 for June 30,
1 Another indication of sound business
methods being used in the banks is the
report of overdrafts. On December 2,
1919, the overdrafts of the banks ag
gregated $7,488,000. Overdrafts hav=
been cut to $319,000, as shown by the
latest statement. There are more than
600 state banks and these figures show
the overdrafts average less than $5OO to
a bank.
‘ An encouraging ‘feature of the re
ports, according to the banking depart
‘ment officials, is that the capital stock
of state banks has increased from $29,-
250,000 in 1919 to $34,059,000 in 1921,
an increase of $5,150,000.
Plant System was awarded the mail
contract.
Ordinary Type of Engine.
Some time later the Atlantic Coast
Line absorbed the Plant System and
No. 111 became A. C. L. No. 210.
There is nothing out of the ordinary
in the design of the engine, which is
of the typical “10-wheeler” type, threc
pairs of drivers and four pony truck
wheels. She has 19-inch cylinders with
a stroke of 28 inches, 72-inch driving
wheels, and carries a boiler pressure
of 180 pounds. The engine weighs 150,-
500 pounds. Her rated tractive power
is 21,480 pounds.
The old Plant System track between
Savannah and Jacksonville is known
among railroad men in the southeast
as “the Speedway” because of the fast
time that has been made on it. No.
111 made her notable run in 1901, and
after the Atlantic Coast Line took over
the Plant System a special train was
handled at a rate of 105.6 miles an
‘hour. This instance was on March 9,
1903, when a train chartered by the
family of George Gould was run the
172 miles from Jacksonville to Savan
nah in 152 minutes, or at a speed of
70.7 miles an hour. Engine 271, with
'Engineer Thomas Leake in charge,
‘which pulled the train, ran the seven
‘miles between Walthourville and Mc-
Intosh, Ga., in four minutes, exceeding
1053 miles an hour.
Pill Consumption Large;
Forty-six Billion in Year
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Cigar
ets numbering 61,859,900,000 were
manufactured in the United States
last year, the census bureau’s an
nual tobacco report, issued today,
shows. Of that number 15,834,000,-
000 were exported; leaving about
46.000,600,000 factory made cigarets
for consumption in the United
States. Cigars manufactured num
bered 8,720,754,000 and tobacco
manufactered, including chewing
smoking and snuff, totaled 413,891,-
000 pounds.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1921
SENSE OF HUMOR
VITAL AT CAPITAL
STRANGERS AND “INMATES”
ALWAYS SEEM TO THINK.
“17°S A H--L OF A PLACE.”
WASHINGTON, D. C.—To enjoy
Washington you have to be on the in
side looking out, and at the same time
on the outside looking in. Which ap
parent paradox is easily explained by
the further statement that you must
be neither a stranger nor an “inmate.”
An “inmate” is one who is suffering
from the bite of the venemous insect
known as stingerus politiciaus, and
who, as a result of the infection, gets
himself elected to something in Wash
ington and ever afterward takes him
self seriously.
“Good Old Siesta.”
There comes a senatbr into the gal
lery, piloting a little group of constit
uents. Pomposity, condescension, im
portance ooze from him. He is a mix
ture of democratic affability and states
manlike concern. Quickly he leaves
his dear friends, explaifing in gestures
you have seen often before, that he
‘must hasten to important affairs.
~ He goes down' the stairway, and you
see him take a certain turning in the
hallway. His constituents doubtless
think he is wearing himself out over
affairs of state, but y%u know he has
really sneaked into the'cloak room and
gone to sleep on a couch.
T}%ere"s Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
See her tripping gaily, down the long
east front steps. Looks like a girl. She's
idn the senate gallery practically every
ay.
On the plaza, a group of cowboys,
Indians, a black bear, very miserable
in the heat, and some perspiring chaps
grinding movie cameras.
In the senate chamber Jim Reed,
stretched full length on a red leather
sofa, very uncomfortable. Nobody else
ever lies down in the senate chamber.
John Sharp Williams laughing. Sounds
like a cuckoo clock striking 1. Bert
Fernald, of Maine, telling Jim Watson
of Indiana “a good one.”
And Some Even Flirt.
Joe Frelinghuysen shooting his cuffs
and watching the galleries. The gay
young wife of a naval officer—now on
distant service—trying to attract a cer
tain party’s attention.
Cal Coolidge's family in the gallery.
His boys have recently put on long
pants and they think everybody no
tices the fact.
A. B. & A. FREIGHT IS
‘ISEVENTY HEAD OF CATTLE
DIE IN CRASH OF-CARS. ONE
FLAGMAN IB* INJURED.
CORDELE, Ga—Fast freight train
3No. 93, of the Atlanta, Birmingham
;and Atlantic railroad, traveling at a
rate of 30 miles an hour, was blown
from the rails at Musselwhite, five
miles from this city Friday morning,
and nine freight cars were completely
‘demolishcd and seventy head of cattle
killed.
Ephriam Peckiman, a- negro brake
man, sustained painful injurics when
he jumped from the tender of the lo
comotive when the explosion occurred.
No other members of the train crew
sustained injuries.
The wreck occurred when the heavy
locomotive, pulling a long string of
perishable laden freight cars, hit what
is believed to have been a large amount
of dynamite placed on the track on a
high embankment and directly over a
short trestle and on a rather sharp
curve. The engine was thrown off the
track but remained upright.
Seventy Head of Cattle Killed.
The disaster is considereg the worst
of the series of wrecks which have
occurred on the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic railroad since the railroad
became involved in a general strike
of employes on March 6th. Crashing
down the steep embankment were four
cars of live stock and six cars of gen
eral freight. Three of the cars were
reduced to splinters and six others
were piled upon each other and demol
ished beyond repairs.
The four cattle cars were next to
the tender of the locomotive, It is said
the way they left the track and slid
down the embankment it appeared that
they had reccived the full force of the
explosion, which was heard for several
miles. Fifty head of the cattle were
killed outright. When the debris was
cleared sufficiently enough to allow the
remaining 332 head to obe released it
was found necessary to shoot 20 as
the resuit of shattered limbs and bat
tered bodies. Those surviving were re
leased in a field, but later rounded up
and reloaded in the cars.
Having fully determined not to per
mit further operations of train wreck
ers in Crisp county without great risk
of being caught the county commis
sioners have offered a reward of $5OO
for the apprehension with evidence to
convict those who take part in further
attempts to destroy A. B. and A. prop
erty in this county.
$l,OOO Reward Offered.
The reward applies to the wreck
which occurred Friday. It was also
announced that $5OO reward is offered
by the railroad, making the total of
$l,OOO. It is believed that other coun
ties on the main line of the railroad
will join in on this movement.
Two other loaded freight cars and
two tank cars loaded with molasses
were derailed, but remained upright.
The locomotive was badly damaged
and the tracks for several yards were
ripped W the force of the explosion.
PAY TOO SMALL; BAKER
COUNTY SHERIFF QUITS
NEWTON, Ga—Sheriff J. C.. L.
Jones, of Baker county, today resign
ed his office. He wired Governor Hard
wick that his remuneration was SO
small that he was unable to support
his family from it, and that he wanted
to move to Florida to farm,
WETS PLAN SILENT CURSE
Thirsty Americans Are Called onto Devote One Minute on Labor
_ Day to Meditations on Dry Laws.
A man can’'t be arrested for what
he is thinking. At least not in the pres
ent stages of mental science. That is
solely between him and God and the
bed post, and will probably remain so
unless the knights of the blue laws
decide to invade psychic realms.
If there is anything to the mental
telepathy idea, O boy, what an earfull
the antis are going to get on Labor
day—next Monday. The streets may
not be thronged with marching crowds
but the array of cuss words scheduled
to file past the national capital dur
ing the afternoon would make any sail:
or blush at his amateurish inefficiency.
At 3 p. m. on Labor day every mem
ber of the Order of Camels is to pause
for one moment, stand at attention
BLAMES CONDITIONS
ON FEDERAL RESERVE
WANNAMAKER BEFORE THE
JOINT COMMISSION. WOULD
CHANGE PERSONNEL.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Federal
reserve board policies in connection
with price and currency deflation are
“cynical, cruel and inexcusable” and
constitute “financial tyranny and com
mercial criminality,” J. S. Wannamak
er, president of the American Cotton
Association, charged today before a
joint congressional agricultural com
mission. The board’s methods, he add
ed, are “heaping up gold in the United
States at the expense of all civiliza
tion.”
Speaking, he said, for agricultural
producers the witness asserted the
federal board and banks were respon
sible for the general price degline. The
board’s pressure still was being exert
ed upon “bankers who ate afraid of
their shadows, who may find all their
loans called by the reserve banks any
minute, and dare not disobey its or
ders,” according to Mr. Wannamaker,
who asked the commission to recom
mend legislation for general revision
of the reserve board personnel.
He proposed that the personnel be
composed of twelve members, nom
inated from the various districts as
representatives of industry instead of
bapking, who should be appointed by
thé president and confirmed by the
senate, Further, he suggested, that the
icommission recommend the instant re
duction in federal reserve rediscount
rates to a basis of 334 per cent on
liberty loan collateral.
“The federal reserve banking system,
‘created to serve the people, by its ad
rministration has made the people ser
‘vants of the system,” he asserted. “Its
‘po]icy will require the American peo
}ple to pay with deflated dollars a na
‘tional debt borrowed in inflated dol’-
lars.”
Price declines that have been effect
ed lately, he declared, would not help
consumers, because “they have left
nothing for agricultural producers to
do but combine and reduce production
so low in the fature that prices will
give us some margin of profit and let
us pay our debts.”
NEARLY ENTIRE TOWN IN
NEW MEXICO IS WRECKED.
200 FAMILIES HOMELESS.
EL PASO, Texas—Flood waters
which wiped out virtually every build
ing in the town of Hatch, N. M., yes
terday, causing more than 200 families
to be made homeless and destroying
thousands of dollars’ worth of ptroperty
were still several feet' deep in the town
today, according to messages received
by the El Paso Herald.
Heavy cloudbursts throughout this
section early yesterday and Wednes
day night caused rivers and creeks to
rise high and rushing torrents were
sent over rich farm lands and through
Hatch.
Women and children of the town
are suffering from exposure, according
to H. F. Fieldness, of Hatch, who tel
ephoned the conditions to the E! Paso
Herald today. He asked that physi
cians be sent to take care of them im
mediately.
Fieldness said he was standing in a
foot of water in a telephone booth in
one of the five buildings yet stand
ing in the town.
“Over 200 people have been render
ed homeless by the flood and they are
suffering,” he said.
Hundrds of persons in the upper El
Paso valley, who were forewarned
drove their stock from the lowlands
into the foothills.
There was a continuous all night
procession of men, women and chil
dren moving from the valley into the
hills, carrying load after load of pro
visions and houschold furniture.
Many slept on the hillside and along
the high roadways without any bed
ding. .
The Wets in Georgia
: Should Take Warning
State Law Prohibits Home Brew Re
« gardless of Federal Legislation.
Thirsty Georgians are warned not to
crowd around the home brew vat too
soon. Provisions of the state “bone
dry” law prohibits the making of home
brew, even blackberry or scuppernong
wine, regardless of any legislation en
acted at Washington.
The Willis-Campbell beer bill, if
finally passed by congress, might per
mit the home manufacture of liquor in
states having less drastic regulations
than those of Georgia, but it will have
}no legal effect orr the status of prohi
bition in this state.
and think as he never thought before,
according to the decree issued on Fri
day by Louis M. Kotecki, grand sheik
of the order. All other thirsty Ameri
cans are invited to add their mite to
the avalanche of anathema.
Each parched member of the order
may suit himself in the pattern of his
mental processes, and he may formu
late them in any language he pleases,
but he must keep it up for a minute,
according to the proclamation.
Whether the method will bring re
lief is mere conjecture, but a few
bright ideas are expected to result. At
3 p. m. on Labor day do not be too in
quisitive of your neighbor's medita
tions. A lot may be thought in 60
seconds.
- CAUSING HIM WORRY
?IS SWAMPED WITH APPLICA
. TIONS FROM MEN TO FIND
i WIVES FOR THEM.
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~ SAVANNAH, Ga—Mayor Stewart
has gained a reputation as a matrimo
nial agent. Previous to this time the
mayor had received letters from two
men who wished wives. The mayor
kindly published the letters and sent
the replies to the men. One of them
was a Terrell county farmer. The news
has been broadly heralded and as a
result Mayor Stewart has a problem
on his hands that ranks with other big
municipal problems.
The mayor has since received a let
ter from a farmer’s son, 25 or 30 years
6ld but who could pass for 10, he says,
at Andrews, S. C.; a farmer, 39, of
Mississippi, and a railroad man, evi
dently an official of the Atlantic Coast
Line, who boasts of a character and
reputation that wil stand a rigid test,
and says he can furnish references all
wanting him to find women willing
to become their wives. The Terrell
farmer affair was mentioned in the let
ters and one sent a newspaper clipping.
Those interested can answer to wife
hunters numbers 1, 2 and 3 respective
ly, care Mayor Stewart ‘at Savannah.
The mayor at first thought the wife
getting business was a big joke, but
he has found it differently.
I‘WOMEN SEEK TO CHECK THE
| GROWTH OF SMALL BEARDS.
COCKTAILS ARE BLAMED.
’ PARlS.—Beards and mustaches are
increasing alarmingly among women
iand doctors are blaming cigaret smok
ing and alcohol drinking principally for
this phenomenon.
Statistics at the thospitals show 11
per cent of the women inmates have
an abnormal growth of hair on the
upper lips and chins, and 27 per cent
of the women inmates in the insane
asylums are bearded or have mustach
€s.
. Paris society, which has taken up
active cigaret smoking since the armis
tice, when Turkish scented tobacco
has been available énce more, and have
contracted the American cocktail habit
from the A. E. F., are aghast at the
statements of leading Paris savants
that tobacco and alcohol are conducive
to unsightly hair.
~ Leading beauty doctors assert a big
percentage of their clients continually
are under treatment for hair roots, be
ing electrically burped out or other
wise eradicated.
‘ Recently it was announced a new
treatment, applying ointment to the
skin which ate away the hair, had prov
en extremely dangerous to the skin,
ruining the complexions of hundreds
of women who used it awhile, These
now are having their outer epidermis
removed, hoping to regain a fresh,
clear skin. :
“One of the principal reasons which
the new fad of yellow ochre face pow
der was adopted so quickly is because
so many women are afflicted with lit
tle mustaches,” said Felix, a leading
Rue de la Paix beauty specialist.
Beauty doctors assert they have few
er American customers since prohibi
tion. This also is credited to the fact
there is less who smoke in America
than in Europe.
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'Bans Public Building;
N‘othmg for Dawson
No Possibility of Improvement of Post
Office Facilities Anywhere.
All prospects of a raid on the treas
ury for the construction of public
buildings, which for a time seemed a
possibility despite the general re
trenchment program, vanished when
Representative Langley, of Kentucky,
chairman of the house committee on
public buildings and grounds, declared
there would be no such measure at
the present session. :
Incidentally, he put a stop to the
possibility of a building measure for
iwhich there might be some excuse to
improve postoffice and other condi
;tions in cities where they actually
{might be needed. Such a course had
{been considered in view of the exam
{ination into postal facilities being con
i’ductcd by Postmaster General Hayes.
i Some officials of the postoffice de
‘partment and the treasury department,
iwhich has custody of public buildings.
recommended immediate improvements
!in about 60 cases. These were regard
ted as being of merit, since the cities
lin which they are located had entire
{ly outgrown present facilities.
i That condition is applicable to Daw
ison. The erection of a government
|building here was authorized by con
|gress ten years ago and a site pur
| chased, but for one reason and another
work has been delayed.
BUY ‘AT HOME"
AND HELP
DAWSON PROSPER.
VOL. 39.—N0. 5
UNCLOG U. S. COURT
DAUGHERTY URGES EIGHTEEN
NEW FEDERAL JUDGES. HE
BLAMES PROHIBITION.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Attorney
General Daugherty has recommended
to President Harding and to the re
spective judiciary comittees in con
gress as a plan' of solution for the
present highly congested dockets of
the federal courts the appointment of
18 new federal judges at large and
legislation providing for their assign
ment when and where needed. ~
He also recommended authority of
law for an annual conference of the
senior circuit judges of the respective
circuits with Chief Justice Taft and
the attorney general to consider v_vag'l
and means for expediting federal judi
cial business and increasing the effi
ciency of the United States coaurt.
Wet Cases Clog Courts.
The present congested condition of
the courts is largely the result of legis
lation for the enforcement of national
prohibition legislation. It is a problem
that met Mr. Daugherty at the very
threshold of his entry into the depart
‘ment of justice. ‘After conferring with
the president, several months ago,
‘when a decision was reached to try
to cut the Gordian knot in judicial de
lay, Mr. Daugherty appointed a special
commission to survey the situation,
His recommendation to the president
is based on its findings.
According to Mr. Daugherty, there
has been an increase of 800 per cent
in criminal business alone in the fed
eral courts in the last nine gar’s.
There will be an increase of 22,000
cases of all kinds this year over 1920,
it is estimated.
Courts Are Swamped.
“On June 30, 1915, there were 132,-
102 cases pending and undisppsed of
in the federal court of the United
(b;tates,” said Mr.. Daugherty on Fri
ay. :
“In 1920 there were 18,744 cases
pending at the close of the fiscal year,
while the estimated total pending }unc‘
30, 1921, is 141,000. It is apparent from
these figures that the present number
of judges can not handle the judicial
business of the United States.”
Preaching Duel Slated
To End Church Dispute
Pastors Seek to Settle Controversy
Over Organs and Missionaries.
COLUMBUS, Ind.—Rev. William
'H. Book, Columbus, and the Rev. R.
Roberts, Beck’s Grove, have arranged
a “preaching duel” at Beck’s Grove,
Bartholomew county, Sept. 22 and 23.
The “duel,” as it has been termed by
Mr. Book, will be on the question: “Is
it righteous to have instrumental mus
ic and missionary societies in church
es?” Mr., Book, who is pastor of the
‘Tabernacle Christian church at Co
lumbus, wil] take the affirmative, and
’Mr. Roberts, pastor of the Christian
church at Beck’s Grove, will take the
‘negative. The congregation of two
churches in Beck’s Grove will be the
judges. :
The question to be debated was rais
ed several years ago in Beck’s Grove
when there was only one church in
the neighborhood. Some members de~
sired to place an organ in the edifice
and form a missionary society, but oth-.
ers opposed. The membership divided,
the dissenters building a house of wor
ship, in which they placed an organ
and organized a missionary society.
Several months later a cyclone de
stroyed both churches. Two new build
ings went up, the feud continuing. Re
cently it was decided to settle the ques-~
tion through debate.
Eight Thousand Useless
Machines in Storage
With an Expenditure of $829,863,000
‘i Only 2,200 Planes in Service.
- WASHINGTON, D. C.—Congress
has appropriated for the development
of army and navy air services, since
we declared war on Germany in. May,
1917, a total of $829,863,000.
The tangible assets from these ap
propriations, as they stand today, in
clude 10,780 planes of all sorts and de
scriptions, in all shapes and conditions;
one rigid dirigible balloon, one semi
rigid dirigible and 27 non-rigid dirigi
bles and a present air force, includ
ing fliers, mechanics and supporting
personnel, of 22,491.
Of the 10,780 planes on hand, how
ever, only about 2200 are in present
shape for service.
Nearly 8,000 planes, including train-.
ing planes and planes completed on
contracts existing at the time of armis
tice, are in storage. The majority of
them probably will never see service.
~ Like the wooden ships of the ship
ping board most of these 8,000 planes
constitiite a liability. -
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}Rlchland Soon Ready
| With Potaio Plant
%Expects to Buy, Cure and Sell Thous
i ands of Bushels of Spuds.
.~ RICHLAND, Ga.—The last notice
‘has been published of the application
for a charter for the Tri-County Po
tato Curing Company, and the attor
ney for the company is completing
‘the papers and will appear before the
proper authorities to have the char
ter issued.
~ Already a sufficient. percentage of
the subscribed capital stock has been
paid.in, the sjte selected and the plans
!on hand for the beginning of the work.
The company expects to have the
lplant in operation- in time to handle
this year’s crop of sweet potatoes and
in addition to storing and curing such
supplies as the fafmers may desire to
have stored by the company expects
to buy thousands of bushels of pota
'toes, cure them and sell them later.