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BUY AT HOME
AND HELP
DAWSON PROSPER
By E. L. RAINEY
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
SHOW GREAT GROWTH
PROGRESS WAS DENOTED BY
REPORTS AT CONVENTION.
INTERESTING STATISTICS.
Rev. S. F. DG pastor of the
Dawson Baptist church, who attended
the annual session of the Southern
Raptis. Convention, at Jacksonville,
3. last week, reports that from ev
ll‘.”\rmdpoint it was one of the best
fr'\. Un in the history of the organi
“;,,(. Pesides Mr, Lowe among{"thosc
i;lltb «':'ilv"ld"‘l fro were £s. J.
H. Whitchard, Bridges
and Mr. G M. Robe
and Rev. T J. Herring and
Carter of Parrott,
The growth among southern Bap
tists has been almost phenomenal in
the last few years, and has increased
in a hundred years by 5,019 per cent.
In 1920 they had 3,199,005 members,
representing in all 27,444 local churgh
es and 20,420 Sunday schools, with
1.966,610 pupils enrolled, and chureh
property worth $97,732,9?0. fl‘here are
BOAB Y. B U. organizations, with
301,871 members. § ;
Baptists of the south are seeking
to muster 900,000,000 people, or more
than one-half the population of the
globe. They have on the foreign field
140 foreign missionaries, 978 native
workers, 9 theological seminaries, 632
schools and colleges, and 12 hospitals
to care for the bodies of men. There
was a gain of 154 in the number of
forcign missionaries on the fields, 80
local churches, 14,600 members, 135
Sunday schools with an enrollment of
13.691 and 159 native assistants, the
report shows, while the increase for
the vear in the contributions of the
pative churches was $211,775, the total
contributions of the churches being
$434,234.85. ;
New Fields Being Opened.
New fields are being opened in
Spain, Jugo Slavia, Hungary, Ruma
nia. southern Russian, Palestine, Syria
and Siberia.
The home mission work includes
1656 workers and missionaries who
jabor in the territory of the United
States, Cuba and the Panama canal
zone.
Southern Baptists have a larger in
vestment in educational institutions
than any other denomination in the
«outh, according to the annual report
of the educational board. This board
announced that 119 institutions, with
a total enrollment of 18,869 women and
13.097 men, are being operated in six
teen states. The property value of the
institutions was estimated’ at $26,181,-
401 and their total endowment is $ll,-
323,793. :
The convention has raised more
than £35,000,000 of its $75,000,000 fund
for enlarging its work and its mem
bers pledged themselves to push for
ward to completion of the fund in
1924, More than $10,000,000" in cash
was collected in the twelve months
since the last convention, which speak
ers pointed out had been accomplished
despite the general business depres
sion. The ministerial relief and annuity
fund has passed the million dollar
mark and its goal was set at ten mil
lion through adoption of the commit
tee report.
Admit Women to Board Membership.
Women were admitted to member
ship on the executive committee and
the various boards of the Southern
Baptist convention. The change in the
constitution was adopted after a spir
ited expression of disapproval from
Dr. J. W. Porter, of Louisville, Ky.,
who quoted the Apostle Paul's ab
juration of women speaking in the
church,
“We have started on the down
grade,” he continued, “and the time
will come when a woman will pre
side over this convention.”
Dr. Porter deprecated the “feminist
movement” and declared many leading
workers of the Women’s Missionary
Union are opposed to women taking
part in the convention.
Trees to Prevent Floods;
U.S. Buys 1,700,000 Acres
Will Reforest Burned Over Lan.d in
Effort to Stop Rapid Snow Melting.
Some Acquired in Georgia.
Systematic forestry to prevent high
spring floods, often caused by rapid
melting of snow, will be undertaken
by the United States government with
tracts totaling 1,700,000 acres, recently
purchased. Purchase ‘of additional
areas has also been approved.
The most of the land that has been |
Purchased or will be bought consists
of timber tracts that have been burr}—l
¢d over or cut. The government will
Plant new trees on these for its work.
One of the largest tracts is 400,000
acres in the northern part of Pennsyl‘}
‘ania. The tract is near the headwa
ters of the Allegheny river, in the
mountains. Trees will be planted there
M an effort to slow up the melting ?f
Show in the spring, causing floods in
the Ohio river, into which the Alle
gheny empties. % :
,Most of the lands purchased are_in
P:'!thl\';xfliifl. Maine, New Hampshire,
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, North
and South Carolina, Tennessee and
Virginia. The headwaters of 12 im
g'}wr!:mt systems will be controlled by
em,
RS e
PROMINENT RAILROAD
MAN VISITS IN DAWSON
Was Director of Agriculture for Fed
¢ral Railway Administration.
Mr. I B Edwards, of Atlanta, made
7 Short visit to his sister, Mrs. W. C.
L“' ‘'t Wednesday. Mr. Edwards,
$lO 18 vice president of the A. B._and
i “rroad, was on'an official visit to
this section, ‘and traveled in. his _pri-
Yate car. He was director of agricul-
WTC for the railroad = administration
during the period of government oper
ation of railways. He is at present on
[ four of the state, and, while primari
-7 terested in business for his line,
® vet much interested in agriculture
and has given much study to condi
tions found in Georgia, *
THE DAWSON NEWS
MANDAMUS PROCEEDINGS AGAINST
‘ THE COUNTY DISMISSED BY WORRILL
Mandamus proceedings brought be
fore Judge Worrill, of the superior
court, against the board of county
commissioners by Sheriff E. T. Woods,
to compel payment by the commis
sioners of certain costs claimed by the
sheriff, were dismissed by the court on
the ground that the county was not
liable for the sheriff's fees.
- The amounts involved was about
$l5O, and included the serving-of sub
poenas on grand jurors, fees for the
arrest of parties out of the county and
other expenses incurred in bringing
them to jail.
commissioners contended that
law some of the costs which
the iff had charged against the
county should be paid from fines and
WEEVIL POISON TRAIN
AT DAWSON TOMORROW
CALCIUM ARSENATE WILL BE
SOLD AT COST FROM TRAIN
ON RAILROAD TRACK.
A car loaded with calcium arsenate,
in charge of representatives of the
state board of entomology, will arrive
in Dawson tomorrow (Wednesday,
the 24th), and will be sold ‘from the
train to farmers at cost. It will be sold
in packages of 25, 50, 100 and’ 200
pounds at 9 cents a pound, and cash
will be required on delivery at the
car door. “
The legislature last year provided a
revolving fund with which to purchase
this material to be sold to farmers in
Georgia at cost, and it is understood
the price at which it is being sold—
-9 cents per pound—is approximately
one-half the average market price of
this material. For that, if for no other
reason, farmers, it is believed, will take
advantage of it.
Representatives of the department
of entomology will be on board the
car and will attend to the sales.
Just before the squares of the cotton
are large enough for the weevils to
puncture and deposit their eggs, which
is usually about the time the first cot
ton bloom appears in the field, if there
are any weevils the cotton should be
dusted twice at an interval of three to
four days. Then watch the field care
fully, and when infested spots are
found dust these spots two or three
times at about three day intervals,
and pick up each time all of the punct
ured squares. Later when weevils are
found infesting the field dust the cot
ton every five or six days.
WHO WANTS A
NICE LITTLE BABY?
ATLANTA INSTITUTION HAS
THIRTY CHILDREN WHO
NEED GOOD HOMES.
Want a pretty little baby?
I so the Georgia Children’s Home
Society is ready to fill your order
with one or two, which ever suits you.
The following letter shows just how
badly homes for a number of little
folks are needed:
Editor The News, Dawson, Ga.:
Please get a home among your read
ers for a little homeless baby, or for
one of our larger boys or girls, I
wouldn’t be surprised if some good
childless home there would like to
take our twin girls nine years old.
You couldn’t tell Dorris from Doro
thy to save your life.
We have thirty-two on hand today
who are ready to go out if only the
good homes will offer to take them
and give them the individual love that
no institution can possibly give. They
are homesick for a mother and daddy
and a real home where they can grow
up among friends who will never
think of them'as orphans, but as com
ing citizens of our great state.
I personally thank you for what
you have done to get homes for the
thousand children we have already
placed with foster parents all about
Georgia. The editors are, our most val
uable co-workers in this cause.
Tell them to write to the Georgia
Children’s Home Society or to me per
sonally, and I will try to see that a joy
giving child soon comes to them. Make
it clear that we are in Atlanta, not
Macon. Very sincerely yours,
ROBERT B. M'CORD, State Su
perintendent.
SHOWS INCREASE
Price Rises in Face of Fact That
Stock Is 20 Per Cent Larger.
Although there has been a rise of
2 cents a gallon in the retail price of
gasoline the report of the bureau of
mines, just issued at W ashington,
shows that on April 1 stocks on hand
amounted to 54,243,000 gallons, which
is declared to be 20 per cent greater
than for April last year and 36 per
cent greater than the corresponding
date in 1920.
The report shows that the number
of refineries in operation during March
increased from 296 to 306, and that the
average daily run of oil through the
stills was 1,390,000 barrels, an increase
of 22,000 barrels over the preceding
months. The refineries in operation al
so showed a 79 per cent operatives
status, representing an increase of 3
per cent over February. A compara
tive tabulation submitted shows that
stocks on hand increased during the
first quarter of this year 268,144,423
gallons, and that domestic consump
tion for the first three months this
year is 59,938,951 gallons over that for
the corresponding period last year.
Gasoline is selling at retail in Daw
son for 29 cents a gallon. -
The college graduate usually imag
ines he has the world “put away on
ice,” but the June commencement is
followed by a hot summer.
forfeitures and that in other instances
the sheriff had not obtained permis
sion of the board to go out of the
county and incur bills. It was also al
leged that some of the charges for the
arrest of prisoners were excessive,
Sheriff Woods contended that all
the costs he had charged against the
county were legitimate, that the law
made it his duty to effect the capture
of fugitives and bring them back to
the county, and in such cases he had
charged only fees the law authorized
and other expenses that were incurred
in the discharge of his duties.
The county was represented by
Yeomans & Wlikinson and Sheriff
Woods by W. H. Gurr. The sheriff
is undecided whether he will appeal to
a higher: court.
PROGRAM COMPLETED
FOR COMMENCEMENT
DR. QUILLIAN WILL DELIVER
LITERARY ADDRESS BEFORE
A LARGE CLASS JUNE 6TH.
The annual commencement exercis
es of the Dawson public schools will
be held in the high school auditorium
on the night of June 6th, at 8:15
o’clock. This will be the final exercise
of the school year, closing with the
delivery of diplomas.
The special feature of the evening
will be the annual literary address,
which is to be delivered by Dr. W. F.
Quillian, president of Wesleyan col
lege. Those who know Dr. Quillian
are aware that he is a man of much
prominence in the educational world
and that he enjoys well-deserved pop
ularity as an eloquent speaker and ora
tor. Judge M. C. Edwards, president
of the board of education, will deliver
the diplomas. ;
The senior class consists of sixteen
girls and eleven boys: Josie Catherine
Albrecht, Emma Mae Baldwin, Katie
Bridges, Hilda Brim, Lucy Mae Brim,
Katharine Davis, Eleanor Hacther,
Esther Hind, Virginia Hollingsworth,
Alice Jennings, Mary Lowrey, Dollic
McLendon, Vivian Mcßee, Frances
Rauch, Bessie Thomas, Dorothy Tur
ner, Ernest Allen, Langston Bolton.
Wayland Bolton, Clyde Bridges, G. R.
Cannon, J. B. Drew, Rufus Hill, Len;
wood Holland, Rogers Locke, Jim
‘Tweedy and Parmelee Watkins.
~ On Friday night, June 2nd, the se
nior class will present their class play,
“Ruth in a Rush,” which is an un
usually difficult yet most interesting
comedy. Detailed announcement will
be made later.
Miss Maurine Woodburn, teacher of
'music, will give her commencement re
cital in the high school auditorium on
the evening of June sth.
Albany Glee Club Gave
Splendid Program Here
Audience Highly Entertained From
Opening to the Last Number.
A sparkling program of music and
fun was offered a good sized Dawson
audience at the Palace theatre Tues
day evening by the Albany high
school glee and mandolin club. From
the opening number, “Here We Are,”
to the close the performance kept up
enthusiastic interest, and the enter
tainment throughout was colorful with
bright costumes and stage settings.
Old fashioned and modern dancing
constituted some of the most pleasing
numbers. Several vocal selections re
vealed good solo voices and the chorus
singing was highly pleasing. “The
Dixie Trio” made the hit of the eve
ning, good naturedly responding to
repeated encores. The instrumental
music ranged from classical to jazz.
The program was also featured by
popular readings. The Honolulu scene
to the struming of guitars and mando
lins in true Hawaiian melodies proved
a popular finale to a program of pleas
ing variety.
The performance was given under
the auspices of the Dawson high
school, the proceeds to be applied to
the publication of “The Tattler,” the
Dawson high school annual.
MISS WOODBURN RE-ELECT
ED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD
She Will Again Be in Charge of the
Music Department Here.
The name of Miss Maurine Wood
burn, of Barnesville, was omitted from’
the list furnished The News of the
teachers re-elected to the Dawson
high school. We are glad to publish
the fact that Miss Woodburn was re
elected by the board, and has accept
ed for another year the place as head
of the music department of the Daw
son school, which she has filled so ac
ceptably the past year. She is a gifted
musician, thorough in her work as
teacher and is very popular in the so
cial life of the community. |
FORMER DAWSONIAN IS |
MADE DUBLIN POSTMASTER
Washington dispatches announce
that President Harding has appointed
E. R. Orr, a native of Dawson and
for years in business here, postmaster
at Dublin, Ga. Mr. Orr has many
friends here who will learn with in
terest of his good fortune. A danghter
of Mr. Orr is Senator Watsen’s pri
vate secretary.
EDISON WILL HAVE BIG
| CHICKEN SALE JUNE 20TH
| The Edison News reports that a big
! chicken sale will be held there on
IJune 20th, when it is hoped that at
feast a carload will be auctioned. Buy
lers from New York and elsewhere
will be present.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1922
70,000 HOMELESS IN
~ MISSISSIPP! FLOOD
RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES IN
UNDATE VAST TERRITORY
IN SOUTHERN STATES.
At least 70,000 men, women and
children are homeless in Mississippi
and Louisiana as the result of the Mis
sissippi river flood. Of this number
40,000 are being fed, sheltered and
clothed by the Red Cross and other
organizations, it has been officially an
nounced by various relief bodies. The
remaining 30,000 did not reach the
refugee camps and could not be aided
in this way.
The number of people needing as
sistance is increasing rapidly as the
‘waters of the Mississippi river and its
swollen tributaries spread over vast
‘sections. A case of typhus in one of
the large refugee camps in Harrison
burg, La., has complicated matters
there.
Hunted Sufferers in Boat.
A large pleasure boat was pressed
into service at Pointe a la Hache, south
of New Orleans, to go down the river
in search of flood sufferers in that sec
tion. A large number of those made
homeless by the flood were cared for
at a Red Cross camp at Jackson bar
racks, in New Orleans.
Reports from Concordia parish to
Harry D. Wilson,,state commissioner
of agriculture, said 200,000 acres of
growing cotton had been destroyed
there, with a loss estimated at more
than $1,000,000. Relief measures stead
ily grew more complicated as the flood
waters extended far from the crevass
es and spillways. |
Congress Investigating. |
The “congressional party” which in
spected flood conditions was carried
on the Mississippi river commission’s
steamer Mississippi from Natchez,
Miss., to Baton Rouge, La., the trip
ending at New Orleans. Many of the
members expressed sympathy with the
proposed placing of all levee mainten
ance under federal control.
Senator Ransdell and Representa
tives Wilson and Martin, of Louisiana,
members of the congressional delega
tion, announced during the inspection
that the amount needed to complete
the levee system under the jurisdiction
of the Mississippi river commission
had been estimated at $26,667,000.
BACK FROM EUROPE
OPPOSING ALLIANCES
PROMINENT GEORGIAN HAS
PUNGENT OPINIONS ABOUT
CONDITIONS THERE.
ATLANTA, Ga—“ With the single
exception of England I do not believe
that any of the JBuropean countries
intend to repay the United States the
money we loaned them during the
war.” ~
That is the opinion of Forrest Adair,
sr., president of the Adair Realty and
Trust company, and one of Atlanta’s
foremost business men, who returned
Monday from a trans-Atlantic tour
that carried him into various countries
on the continent.
Mr. Adair formed some very defi
nite, not to say pungent, opinions on
European conditions, particularly with
regard to relations with the United
States. Accustomed to guage condi
tions from the business man's view
point, he “took stock” of things as he
saw them in France, Belgium, Eng
land and other European countries.
And his conclusions are both interest
ing and illuminating.
“The countries that were our allies
during the war gives us very little
credit and no thanks for what we did
to whip Germany,” Mr. Adair declared.
“] am mighty glad the United
States kept away from the Genoa con
ference, and I hope and pray that we
may never get mixed up with Euro
pean politics and intrigue. What I
saw and heard over there convinces
me that the less we have to do with
FEurope in international politics the
Letter off we'll be.
“I'm glad I went across, but I'm
gladder to be back. No more Europe
for mine.”
JOINT DEBATE ON
STATE INCOME TAX
GOVERNOR HARDWICK AND
FORMER GOVERNOR SLATON
ENGAGE IN DEBATE.
ATLANTA, Ga—Gov. Hardwick
and former Gov. Slaton engaged in a
joint debate concerning ‘the income tax
at a meeting last night of the Atlanta
Automobile Association.
Present System Failure?
Gov. Hardwick contended that the
ad valorem tax system’las proven a
failure not only in Georgia but in all
other states; that the state is obliged
to have more revenue when times im
prove; that the revenue should be de
rived from invisible property and in
comes as well as from real estate and
household furniture; therefore, that
the state should dispense with ad va
lorem taxation cxcept in'case of ne
cessity and derive its support from a
tax upon incomes.’
‘ Many Would Escape?
Ex-Gov. Slaton contended that a
state income tax would remove the
tax burden from the majority and
transfer it to the minority; that only
those who keep a set of books, like
merchants, manufacturers, etc., would
be made to pay a state income tax,
while others not keeping books would
escape income taxation; that the leg
islature would make extravagant ap
propriations, and thereby discourage
business and industry.
The debate was heard by a large
and representative attendance.
FINDS $5 IN HEN’S CRAW.
Mrs. M. Kletter, .of Cincinnati,
found a $5 gold piece in the craw ol
a hen which she purchased.
'HUSBAND AND WIFE
] SLAY ONE ANOTHER
BATTLE TO DEATH WITH AN
AX AND BUTCHER KNIiFE.
CHILDREN WATCH DUEL.
BAD AXE, Mich.—lt all started
with a quarrel that brought Joseph
I.obert and his wife, bickering, back
from a picnic on Sunday. It ended
with the finding of their bodies in one
of the rooms of the farm house,
through which they had fought, she
with a butcher knife and he with any
thing that came to hand, until he
struck his final blows with an ax.
The bodies were found when the
oldest child returned from school late
yesterday, but the news and the ex
planation only became generally
known today. It all was explained by
Edward, 4, who had sat with his lit
tle sister, 2, and a baby brother, 6
months, in a baby carriage in the
yard of the farm house, which is lo
cated near Elkton. They had seen the
start of the trouble through a win
dow. They had not seen the finish.
Edward, of course, was the only one
able to tell anything. He said papa and
mama had started their fight in the
‘kitchen.
From the oldest, a boy of 10, thse
}authorities learned that on Sunday his
father and mother, seemingly on good
terms, had gome to the picnic. When
they retnurned they were quarreling.‘
The boy said that things appeared
better Monday morning when he left
for school.
At that point little Edward’s frag
mentary story of the start of the fight
came. The authorities had to imagine
the rest, That was relatively simple,
The interior of the house was blood
spattered. Chairs and tables were
wrecked. Broken dishes were scatter
ed about.
The condition of the bodies told the
rest, the story of a hand to hand fight.
His throat was cut and he had been
stabbed severfil times. Her head was
cut open from the blow of an ax, and
the marks of previous blows showed
on her arms and shoulders. Bruises
showed that crockery and pieces of
furniture had been used in the fight
before the two duelists “closed in.”
Neighbors say they do not recall
that the couple had previous fights.
They were regarded as prosperous.
THOUSANDS WILL SEE
THE PASSION PLAY
EVERY TRAIN BRINGS NUM
BERS OF RELIGIOUS FOLK.
STAGE SET FOR OPENING.
OBERAMMERGAU.—The simple
Christian people in this little mountain
hamlet are ready to redeem their 300-
vear-old vow to God: :
Already the audience, which is drawn
from the four corners of the world, is
beginning to assemble for the most
famous dramatization of Christ’s life—
the Passion play—which will have its
first public presentatipn in 12 years.
Every train arriving is bringing hun
dreds of religious spectators, who are
eager to take advantage of this op
portunity, which occurs once in 10
years, but which has' not been pre
sented since 1910, due to certain un-
Christian disturbances only too well
known.
Lang in Leading Role.
All rooms already have been taken
in the honte of Anton Lang, who will
play the part of Christ, as he did 12
vears ago. The_ domiciles of the vil
lagers playing Pontius Pilate, Herod,
Judas, Mary and Mary Magdalene, as
well as the apcstles and disciples, all
have been spoken for in advance.
There is a Christian cleanliness in
the air. The snow-clad peaks of the
Vavarian Tyrol look down through
their bristling groves of pine trees,
while the warm sun glistens on the
mountains’ snowy mantle and pours
down real heat on the clean village
streets, through which the villagers go
about bareheaded and barekneed in
their picturesque Tyrolean dress.
All is activity in the village. There is
a sound of pounding hammers and up
against almost every house are several
ladders on which are sturdy burghers
busy with pot and brush, putting the
finishing touches to the mural decora
tions. most of which run to religious
motifs, surprisingly well executed.
Many Americans Present.
The long pointed shoes of American
women are to be seen now in the vil
lage streets, through which oxen driv
en by picturesque highlanders, smok
ing long stemmed pipes with painted
china bowls and ornate tops, proceed
with seemingly studied dignity.
This is the scene as the stage is all
set for the presentation of the great
spectacle in the big semi-covered am
phitheater where the drama of Christ’s
sacrifice is played and as it has been
re-enacted every 10 years since 1634.
That was the year in which the vil
lage, almost wiped out by the plague
and reduced to the direst extremity,
called upon God for relief and promis
ed to produce the story of Christ’s life
every 10 years. Their prayers were an
swered and tomorrow Oberammergau
ikecps its vow.—Chicago Tribune.
iKILLED WHILE WORKING
| AT BOTTOM OF A WELL
Windlass Broke and Fell on Top of
Head. Killed Instantly.
On Mrs. J. J. Hammack's farm,
'two miles north of Coleman, George
|Sealy. a well known negro in that sec
ltion and a community well digger,
| was cleaning out a well for Mrs. Ham
'mack, and after his work was com
pleted and his helpers were drawing
bim out of the well with a leaded
bucket the windlass broke just before
he reached the top, falling back to the
|bottom, a distance .of about 50 feet.
with the windlass following on top of
him, which caused instant death.jx
tra help- was immediately summ ed
and a negro on a neighboring place
lwas et down in the well ‘to bring the
dead body out. The indications arc
lthe falling windlass gave the blow
that caused Sealy's death.
HOPE FOR BALD HEADS
Vitamines in Lettuce Said to Pro
duce Hair on Billiard Balls.
Eat vitamines and keep your
hair on. That vitamines are a pre
ventive of baldness is a deduction
that may be drawn from the lat
est scientific development of the
chemistry of diet. Those elusive
elements in food known as vita
mines, found in fresh vegetables
which are not too thoroughly
cooked, are found to occupy a
most important position in sus
taining life. ’
Four vegetables are known to be
specially strong in furnishing vita
mines. These are cabbage, lettuce,
asparagus and tomatoes. Lettuce,
being procurable the year around
in city markets, furnishes the most
constant supply among the vege
tables, while oranges and some of
the other fruits also help out.
STORK HOLDS OWN
IN VOLGA DISTRICT
!DESPITE RAVAGES OF DEATH
.~ FROM STARVATION THERE
IS NO BABY SHORTAGE.
BUZULUK, Russia.—There has
been no baby famine in the Volga val
ley. Even during the six months just
passed, when hundreds of thousands
of adults and children have died, the
stork has made a valiant fight to keep
apace with the reaper. Accurate sta
tistics are just as lacking on the birth
rate as on the death rate, but an ob
server in the famine districts finds on
every hand evidence that the peasant
mothers have been fruitful even when
the land was not.
The Samara district, despite the
ravages of famine among children last
autumn, literally swarms with infants.
Thousands of new born babies,
thrust upon famine stricken €ommuni
ties by undernourished mothers,
probably have died within a few days
or weeks after birth. Others are tiny
living skeletons with drawn faces like
old: men. But most of them whom the
correspondent saw at railway stations,
in box cars, riding with their mothers
to some more fruitful region and else
where, seemed plump and rosy and
happy. , z
While the mortality among children
was very high last September, they
have received food from America and
elsewhere since then, which the adults
have not, and the death rate recently
has been higher among men than
among either adult women or children,
Asked why the children lived and
the adults died, a bearded old peasant
with clear, honest eyes shining from
his weathered face said it was very
simple.
' “\WhHeii the children cry for food
'we ‘give®ifhto them, even if it is the
last we have,” he said.
DRY LEAGUE BEGINS
FRESH WAR ON WETS
ANTI-SALOON FORCES TO RE
DOUBLE EFFORT TO PRE
VENT BEER AMENDMENT.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Anti-
Saloon League of America has deter
mined to do everything “proper and
lawful” that may be necessary to pre
vent any encroachment through the
coming primaries and election on the
prohibtion status. This was determin
ed here today at a meeting of the ex
ecutive committee of the league.
The committee, by unanimous ac
tion, adopted a resolution against any
beer amendment and made plans to
take whatever legal and political ac
tion might be necessary to prevent
nuffification of the 18th amendment.
“The program of the Anti-Saloon
League,” read the resolutions, “as the
agency of a large majority of the
churches and the accepted, active ex
ponent of most of the law abiding cit
izens..is to see that the prohibition
policy adopted by the nation by un
nrecedented margin has a fair chance
o prove its merits. Honest, effective
nforcement is essential to such a test
and the securing and retention of ade
quate legislation is fundamental to en
forecment. Recognition of this ex
piains the attempt of the liquor inter
ests to nullify the prohibition amend
ment by hamstringing enforcement
through attempfed legalization by
congress of beer, which is prohibited
by the constitution.
“Therefore, the Anti-Saloon League
of America announces its purpose,
without apology to any nullificationist,
to do anything and everything proper
and lawful that is necessary to defeat
the conspiracy of a criminal dnd out
lawed traffic against the integrity of
the constitution and the orderly admin
istration of law and asks the contin
ued and increasing support of all citi
zens who stand for a sound morality:
and a vital patriotism.”
’ .
Modern Noah’s Ark Brings
300 Natives From Jungle
First Animal Ship Since World War
Has Wild and Weird Creatures.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Dromore
Castle, from Capetown, Noah’s Ark
up to date, came to port today. The
jungle ship tied at pier 38, Atlantic
Basin, with the strangest cargo ever
brought to this country—at least at
one time. It brought 300 wild animals
and more than 3,000 birds. -
‘ Among the creatures was a bush
‘hah_\-. smallest of animals, a tiny kan
garoo-like creature, with teeth so sharp
that it could cut a piece of a half inch
thick glass in two.
| The wierdest looking animal was
the thorn-tailed lizard, a survivor of
pre-historic ages. On the aiterdeck
‘were the Chackme baboons, Bill and
Bertha. A Numidian lion, with his
madame, and Thorzas. their 18-year
old son, born in Belgian Congo, also
were in the shipment.
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VOL. 40.—N0. 38
WATSON TAKES PART
IN TARIFF DEBATE
JOINS ISSUE WITH THE IDAHO
SENATOR. UNDERWOOD AL
SO ATTACKS MEASURE.
WASHINGTON, D. C—All prod
ucts of the farm are on the dutiable list
in the McCumber-Fordney tariff b_i.ll,
Senator Gooding, of Idaho, chairman
of the republican agricultural tariff
bloc, announced today in the senate.
“If any ‘farm product is on the free
list I do not know what it is,” he
said, “If we find it we will put it on
the dutiable list if it needs grotection."
Senator Gooding said the average
rate of duty in the bill on farm prod
ucts was 21 3-10 per cent, and called
attention that only a few things pro
duced by the farmer were on the du
tiable list in the Underwood law.
Watson Takes Issue.
Declaring that this was the first tar
iff bill ever framed that gave the farm
er a “square deal,” Senator Gooding
charged that “all this delay in the
senate” was for the purpose of “mold
ing public opinion to the idea ‘that
this bill is infamous.”
The tariff is a laboring man’s ques
tion, Senator Gooding said, adding
that there was no use cf talking about
going back to pre-war costs.
Fo‘llowinf Mr. Gooding Senator
Watson, of Georgia, took issue with
the Idahg senator’s statement, declar
ing it was to the effect that “slave
pressure”’ was responsible for the low
tariff sentiment in ‘the south. He de
clared he had opposed high duties be-*
cause they resulted in the southern
people paying the “tax” on everything
they bought while the benefits went
to a few privileged interests. Mr. Wat
son said he noted in the congressional
directory that Mr. Gooding was born
in England.
“Yes, unfortunately, I was,” inter
rupted Mr. Gooding, “and that is one
of the reasons I am a frotectionist.
1 went to work in a lace factory when
I was 7 years old, and I know the
conditions in free-trade England.”
. Labor in South.
The Georgia senator replied ‘he did
not think Mr. Gooding had yet ex
plained his statement about the south
ern idea of tariff rates, and Mr. Good
ing retorted that the south did not
“respect” its labor as the north and
west does.
“But show me a country or a sec
tion of a country,” returned Mr. Wat
son, “where labor has made the prog
ress it has in the south.”
He added that since the negroes
were freed they have come to owmn
lands, banks and stores, and Senator
Harris, of Georgia, interrupted to say
that the south saw little in the pend--
ing tariff bill that could possibly help
but much that could hurt.
Replying later to Senator Gooding,
Senator Underwood, of Alabama, said
’he belonged to the school of thought
which believed that congress had no
constitutional or moral right to use the
taxing power of the government for
the purpose of building up fortunes
or tearing them down.
“l am just as much opposed,” he
said, “to the idea, under the guise of
a tax, of taking money out of the
pockets of all the people to build up
an industry and making a few per
sons rich as I am to the idea of ex
tending the power of taxation to such
an extent as to confiscate propertfi as
it has been confiscated in soviet Rus
sia under the red flag.”
Senator Underwood insisted that
for every $1 of protection that the
farmer would receive under the pend
ing bill he would have to pay $lOO
in taxes to producers of necessities
which he used. He asserted also that
if it were not for the support given
to the bill by the agricultural group
in the senate it would be impossible
to pass the measure.
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Hobo King” Sells Six
: ¥ . of A
~ Saint Louis Buildings
i
Will Spend Fortune in Establishing
Headquarters for “Weary Willies.”
CINCINNATI, O.—Attorneys of
this city today closed deals providing
for the sale of six St. Louis, Mo.,
buildings owned by the millionaire
“king of tramps,” James Eads How,
of that city, who is devoting his life
to the hobo cause. Mr. How deter
mined te put into action certain de
cisions of the executive body of the
International Brotherhood Association
at the national unemployment confer
ence of that body, just closed here.
It is understood that much of the es
timated $120,000 is to be spent at Chi
cago, New York and St. Louis in es
tablishing headquarters for “Weary
Willies.,” Mr. How, the financial head
and founder of the hobo order, which
has its own newspaper, the Hobo
News, has just returned from an in
vestigation of Russian conditions.
TO “SHAKE DOWN”
THE WAR WOLVES
Government Expects to Recover Large
Sum in Fraud Cases.
WASHINGTON.—The amount the
government will recover from alleged
war fraud cases “will be many times
the amount granted to defray expens
es incident to their prosecution,” the
house appropriations committee de
clared today in teporting a bill car
rying $500,000 for use by the depart
ment of justice as a special investi
gating and prosecuting fund.
EIGHT CARLOADS OF CUKES
SHIPPED FROM VALDOSTA
VALDOSTA, Ga—Eight carloads
of cucumbers in one day is the record
| shipment from the Valdosta erritory
| Monday. The growers were jubilant
|over the prices which teelgraphic re
%mrny from New York brought for
| shipments of last Thursday. No. 1
i"cukes" brought $3 per hamper and
[ No. 2 brought $2. As it takes about
;85 cents a hamper to pay freight
| charges and commissions this means
{52.15 and $1.15 per hamper for the
|two grades. x %