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"UY AT HOME
AND HELP
DAWSON PROSPER
SE. L RAINEY
BIG BILLS DIE WITH CLOSE OF LEGISLATURE
e
UCcAN}-.ERS IN SPEED BOATS
OVE}QHAUL RUM SMUGGLERS
OFF FLORIDA COAST.
PTURE CARGOES AND CASH
ales Of pscapades Read Like Chron
icles of Capt. Kidd. Have Racing
Motor Boats. Procured $3,000 in
One Daring Robbery.
MTAM]I 12.—~When ' Bobby hies
b ¢ hay loft or crawls un
er the | and in wide eyed won
o peruses A paper backed chronicle
e \ore Capt. Kidd and other gen
: who .med the seas under the
v Roger, he usually expressed re
et that he did not live a century or
o ap i could have joined the
jventurcrs.
e hoy may not know it, but the
. vers are on the job again and
pades of liquor pirates off the
Dtheastern coast of Florida and in
¢ Dal . if recorded in a book.
iht cause Bobby to regard Morgan,
d & vith less awe. Morgan
d Kid iorced to depend upon
i for motive power, but the mod
) virate has a gasoline motor and
s to sea in a boat that will move
ter my sailing vessel ever
He rhauls a liquor runner, holds
w. steals all, or as much of its cargo
his ves will carry, waves his
nd to t ‘kless owner and disap
d his loot at some unfre
al on the Florida coast.
thers inded op small keys in
b | .. where cargoes of liquor
am runners have been assembled,
d the warehouses.
Smugglers Keep Silent.
01 rts of piracy have not
! The liquor smugglers
n held up at sea charge
nee to profit and loss and
k ymplaint, because they are
breakers themselves. The pirates
furall not tell about their opera
ns. but numerous stories of hold
¢ and robberies leak out through
lerground sources and there is ev
ndication that prohibition offi
s are not the only people the liquor
mers are constantly on the lookout
laniord Mobely, 18, held in jail at
< Palm Beach as one of the four
1 charged with the robbery of the‘
nk of Stuart, at Stuart, Fla., sev-|
| months ago, also has a piracyl
rge hanging over him. Just what
t he is believed to have taken in a{
holdup the federal authorities have
stated, but they have announced |
tif Mobely was granted his liberty
il or was acquitted of the rob
v charge, he would be arrested im
fiately on a federal warrant rh;n‘g-i
Shot Negro Master. ‘
¢ most recent case of alleged pi
v to be made public officially result
in the shooting to death of (\;corge‘
zecomb, negro master of the Brit
schooner William H. Albury, at
Key, in the Bahamas, a short di.\—‘
ce from here, and the theft of be
el 82000 and $3,000 from the ves-
The robbery occurred July 30. The
iy, a rding to British officials,
een engaged in the rum carrying |
fe between the Bahamas and Ja
& Dody Carey, cashier aboard
\lbury, was sent to Miami by the
sh commissioner at Bimini to tell
story of the holdup to the British
nsul and state and federal of
fe Albury was at anchor at_ Cat
Carey said, when an auxiliary
Coner, said to be the Falcon, ap
! three men were aboard the
fon and after anchoring they
fled \lbury and informed
tdgecomb they wished to pur
' of liquor. They were
; during the forenoon while
: I $2,100 worth of liquor
PeCk transferred to the Fal
g Lot to the account.
he Albury’s crew except
i 1d Carey went below. Ca
- king on his books in his
| O when one of the visitors
<red, pointed a pistol at him and
E to hand over what cash
gave him $2,000. The
© Visito in the meantime had
. nd covered the Albury’s
Vit pistols. Edgecomb was pac
e within view of the cabin
P i the men saw him. The
k 1 lered to enter, but see
turned his back. A shot
et I the captain fell dead.
- i the Albury then was
i~ cabin and the visitors de
i 4 brisoners, Carey said, re
. iberty within a few mo
& which had been absent
( veral days, having been
5 Jwner to a man said to’
: been released from the
tentiary, was found at her
% ¢ harbor here the next
ng entered port some
t night, }
ANt~
:" a IS Swept by |
K I\ .
Disastrous Forest Fire
finn.—Whipped to sud
i brisk, shifting wind,
" t fires in the wooded
1 i here wiped out two
: 1l smaller settlements
{ hundreds of persons
es and took a death
..~ Dlaced at from Bix o
i _'Clals reports also say that
i Pim; -airbanks, Silver Creek
ban Lake county, have been
- THE DAWSON NEWS
Waves Carry\
Lost From Vessels,
To Beach at Racine
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Traveling ¥
comfortable and the liquor is excellent
under the American flag on the Unit
ed States shipping board ships, ac
cording to August A. Busch, who, fol
lowing his return on the George
Washington, issued a statement again
seeking to establish an inconsistency
on the part of the United States gov
ernment 'iu prosecuting bootleggers on
;lgmd yvhxlc conducting its own lucra
tive liquor business at sea.
All the whisky on the George Wash
ington was consumed on the return
trip long_before the ship neared New
York harbor and an enjoyable time
was had, according to Busch.
The government in its wet depart
ments is buying Scotch whisky and
other liquors in,quantities, while its
dry departments are solemnly conjur
ing Great Britain to assist in prevent
ing violations of the prohibition
amendment by others, according to
Mr. Busch.
ELEVEN MILLION ARE WHITE
PERSONS AND FIVE MIL
LION ARE BLACKS.
The department of commerce at
Washington has announced that the
total farm population of the south on
January 1, 1920, was 16,827,834, com
prising 11,730,848 whitc persons, 5,044,-
489 negroes and 52,497 persons of oth
er races. The great majority of these
persons, of course, were enumerated
within rural territory, but the total
included 44,701 living on farms locat
ed within the limits of cities or other
incorporated places having 2,500 inhab
itants or more, that is to say in ur
ban territory, according to the census
definition:
The white farm population of the
south in 1920 constituted 48.6 per cent
of the total white population of that
segtion, 24,132,214; and® the negro
farm population formed 56.6 per cent
of the total southern negro popula
tion, 8,912,231.
The negro farm population exceed
ed the white farm population in two
states, South Carolina and Mississippi.
In the former state the negro farm
population numbered 640,357, as
against a white farm population of
434,131, and in the latter the corre
sponding numbers were 722,379 and
547,087, respectively.
The largest negro farm population,
however, is shown for Georgia, 757,-
205.
LADDIE BOY, IN WELL MADE
WOODEN CASKET, IS LAID
TO REST IN CEMETERY.
PORT JEFFERSON, L. I.—Mrs.
Mabel Nelson Trowbridge, who was
found dead with a revolver wound in
her head by the servants with whom
she had lived for the past nine years,
had one creature in her lonely life that
was dear to her. It was Laddie Boy,
her . collie dog. And Laddie Boy was
buried the same day as his mistress
according to her orders, before she
fired the shot which ended her life.
Friend Sends Dog.
Nine years ago Mrs. Trowbridge
decided to leave her husband. She came
to Miller's place near here, and in her
beautiful home, set in the grounds of
a 17-acrc estate, faced her grim fu
ture. She had never had any children.
There was nothing young on the place.
And then a friend, wise in knowl
edge of the human heart, sent her a
tiny collie puppy, all eager barks and
friendly rough tongue, and joy at be
ing alive and able to frisk about the
beautiful lawns where Mrs. Trow
bridge took her solitary walks. And
into her desolate heart the puppy crept
and on him she lavished her affections.
And between the two grew a bond
which death cemented.
[addie Boy was 8 years old when
his mistress died and had suffered
with asthma for the last year. He was
an invalid, barely able to walk, and
was waited on by the servants as
though he were a human being. He
was carried on cushions to the sunni
est corners near the feet of the woman
whose movements he followed with
his affectionate dog’s eyes. To him
she was never a ‘“‘queer recluse” but
2 woman whose hand had ever been
kind.
.Gives Instructions.
In the black moments when she de
cided on her course Mrs. Trowbridge
did not forget Laddie Boy. She had
several times moodily said she intend
ed to end her life, as her health grew
steadily worse.
“If anything happens to me I want
Laddie Boy to be chloroformed and
given a good burial,” she instructed
her servants.
And so two caskets left the home
where Mrs. Trowbridge had lived in
retirement for nine years. One held
the body of the mistress of the house,
who was buried in Greenwood ceme
tery, Brooklyn. The other held the
body oi Laddie Boy. He was chloro
formed and the undertaker was re
guested to give him the burial his mis
tress wished.
" In a well made wooden casket of
the size used for children, on a g"ng
of white satin and wearing his er
collar, Laddie Boy wmdin the
Canine cemetery at Hartsdale, N. Y.
"WOMEN'S BLOG” IDEA
ELECTION RESULTS INDICATE
WOMEN VOTERS RESENT
POLITICAL SEX LINE.
GET AN UNEXPECTED SHOCK
Neither Women Nor Men Voters Are
Following the Lead of Organized
Feminine Politicians, Who Have
Lost Every Fight.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—More or
less “militant” women leaders in poli
tics—the kind who fought over-fierce
ly for the suffrage amendment and the
kind who have tried to organize their
sex into special parties and blocs—
are finding out with chagrin something
that a great many mere men already
knew or strongly suspected.
There is no such thing as the wo
man vote as contradistinguished from
the man vote.
It is the primary elections that are
administering the shock to those who
fancied that the time was ripe for a
sort of Amazon movement in Ameri
can politics, and that candidates for
office, whether men or women, could
be put at the mercy of women’s clubs
and ‘“federations.”
Not Following Militant Sisters.
What is going on at the primarics
would seem to indicate very clearly
that the great mass of women voters,
which does not belong to clubs or
federations and did not care particular
ly about having the vote, anyhow, is
inclined to do just the opposite of what
the more or less militant sister ad
vises.
No candidate of established political
strength in state or district appears
to be going down to defeat for re
nomination because of not having been
an ‘“original woman suffragist,” or be
cause of not having voted in congress
for some 50-50 measures to which an
organized effort was made to attach
special feminine interest.
Political developments appear to
bear out the beliei that there is no
special sex appeal in the question of
education, as either a national or state
matter. If education is good for a
girl it is good for a boy; and whether
or not the Towner-Sterling bill is an
advantageous piece of legislation is a
problem whose decision- should be
reached according to’ the same pro
cess of thought by men and women.
There is no question that the ma
jority of the “organized women” tried
to defeat Senator Swanson, of Vir
ginia, and the support of that element
was sedulously courted by his oppo
nent. The crushing victory of the sen
ator proves that most of the women
voters who participated in the pri
mary cast their ballots for him. The
fact that he was not among the “orig
inal suffragists” did not disturb them
in the least. Neither were they.
Women Voted for Reed.
Senator Reed was the object of a
particularly determined attack from
the “organized women.” He had op
posed the Sheppard-Towner materni
ty act and pretty much everything
else that they had urged him to sup
port. It is a fair guess that they made
more women’s votes for him than they
made against him. They may have
clinched his renomination.
Miss Alice Robertson, the congress
woman ifrom Oklahoma, who votes as
she thinks and who would be a pow
er in any great parliamentary body,
was even more the object of the mil
tants’ wrath than was Reed. “Miss
Alice” had been an original opponent
of woman suffrage and had never apol
ggized for that course. She had op
posed the Sheppard-Towner bill, and
the Towner-Sterling bill, and any oth
er measure she didn't like, whether
it happened to be a pet of women’s
clubs or not. She had also opposed the
bonus bill. The militants thought they
could fix her. But she was triumphant
ly renominated.
Of course, the majority of the wo
men voters did not believe that Miss
Alice Robertson was less disposed to
be considerate of motherhood, or of
education, or of the soldier who act
vally suffered from the ‘“organized
women” who attacked her. No more
did they think Reed a foe of mothers
or of education, or Swanson an &nemy
of the female sex.
Miss Alice Robertson, Only Woman
In Congress, Has Laugh on Enemies
Oklahoma’s Representative, Who Re
fused to Be Bossed by Own Sex,
Renominated by Big Vote.
Miss Alice Robertson, of Muskogee,
Okla., the only woman in congress,
was renominated despite the opnosi
tion of enemies of her own sex. In
renomination by a comfortable ma
jority she has “put one over” on all
women _politiffans, who, she openly
charged in the house, had threatened
“to get her political scalp because she
wouldn’t take orders from them.”
Miss qucrtson's.fight with wo
mens’ political bodies dates to pre
suffrage days, when she was an “anti.”
When she went to congress, in spite
of her opposition to women voting
and holding office, the”breach widen
ed. One of her first acts was to an
nounce to leaders who called on her
in the interest of legislation sponsor
ed by women that she was not a
“woman’s repres:ntative,” but that
she represented everybody in her dis
m"l:!h and would vote a:cordhnel e
ere were reports that she iniorm
ed inm terms some of those whom
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1922
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—The boll wee
vil will destroy $400,000,000 worth of
this vear’s cotton crop, declared J. O.
Taylor, government boll weevil expert,
in addressing the .Cotton States Mer
chants’ Association in scssion here.
[.ess than 3 per cent, or 14,000,000
pounds of poisons, have heen used this
vear against the boll weevil, he declar
ed.
The retail merchant and farmer hold
the keys to national prosperity, declar
e¢d Charles Henry Mackintosh, former
president of the Associated Advertis
ings Clubs of the World.
There are 2,000 delegates attending
the convention.
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
WOULD SAVE STATE EX
PENSE OF A “MANSION.”
The problem of a governor’'s man
sion for the chief executive of Geor
gia was settled Friday, that is—
Provided Colonel H. Bedinger Bay
lor, of Atlanta, with his campaign slo
gan of “Two wrongs never make a
right,” is elected to that office over
Governor Hardwick and Clifford
Walker.
Colonel Bavlor, in formally announc
ing his platforn Friday, offered free
to the state his home—“ Sans Souci
Castle, at the head of Wabash avenue”
—as a governor’s mansion, with all
necessary repairs and improvements—
if he is elected. The *“castle” is to be
used as a mansion during Colonel Bay
lor's incumbency of the office of gov
ernor and will not cost the state one
penny.
Colonel Baylor touched on variods
state issues in his platiorm. He de
clared himself in favor of the repeal
oi the tax equalization law and the
substitution of something better, and
opposed any policy of “robbing Peter
to* pay Paul.”
The candidate asserted the right of
labor to organize, but with competi
tions and with “no. closed shop.” rHe
favored eight hours” work, eight hours’
recreation and eight hours’ sleep.
Another plank was devoted to law
enforcement, in which the candidate
asserted that “blank cartridges should
not be used on mbb&™ He came out
strongly against religious intolerance.
OLD CONVICTS IN CLUB;
?
FORMER PRISON INMATES
MEET YEARLY IN A NEW
YORK HOTEL.
Park Row, New York city, has an
annual dinner that is not reported in
the newspapers. The dinner is held in
a private room at a hotel. The guests
are men past the middle age oi life,
mostly silver-haired and prosperous
looking. There is a quiet dignity about
them. a close-knit companionship and
a spirit of untiring devotion to an ideal.
When they finish their banguet the
doors are locked and all the hotel at
tendants are excluded. It is their hour
of retrospection. And time rolls back
to the days when they wore, not cor
rect dinner clothes, but prison stripes.
They are men who have paid the
law’s price for crimes, and then have
“come back.”
Several Extremely Rich.
Each has won his distinction in his
field of endeavor. Several are extreme
ly rich, judged by New York stand
ards. The members are truly captains
of their souls. This unusual organiza
tion was formed some 20 vears ago.
A man must be out of prison for ten
years and have a clean record before
he is admitted to membership.
No one knows, save the members,
what is said behind the Jocked doors.
After the hour is up the doors are
opened and they become men of the
world again—telling jokes and banter
ing each other in the usual banquet
fashion. Not even in the pre-prohibi
tion days was a drink of intoxicating
liquor served. Most of them went down
into the pit through drink, and they
shun it now.
not take orders from anybody. Then
she employed a man for secretary and
followed this by opposing the Shep
[ard-Town]y maternity bill, which was
!backcd by many womens’ organiza
[tions. and the war was on.
‘ Asked what platiorm she would
stand on in her fight against her own
sex Miss Robertson said the platform
on which she first was elected was
good enough for a second run. It con
tained exactly 12 words: “I am a
Christian: I am an American; I am a
republican.” |
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Town Banishes Gland |
. . :
‘ Farm of a Physnclani
By a vote of 79 to 7 West Dennis,
Mass., has banished the gland farm
owned by Dr. J. L. Hanson. The in-}
stitution was established without the
consent of the citizens, it char%:—,i
ed. The residents o‘fd_tél‘tsgfl iOO‘ f:
{“mn.“ &a man leq aiter buil
glands were Sramplanicd {pta e
8 i S T L ol S VTR Y
Weevil Will Destroy
$400,000,000 Worth
Of Cotton This Year
!SAYS HE WILL INVOKE PRES-
I ENT LAWS TO MAINTAIN
I RAIL TRANSPORTATION.
{ MR
Tells the Full Story of the Twin
Strikes to Congress, and Asks That
’ Legislative Steps Be Taken to Pre
vent a Recurrence of Situation.
l WASHINGTON, D. C.—Under the
shadow of an impending industrial
crisis President Harding went to con
gress Friday, told the “full story” of
the twin coal and rail strikes, and ask
ed that legislative steps be taken to
deal with the situation, and to safe
guard against a repetition of it.
The president’s message, a vigorous
document, dealt with both coal and
rail strikes.
In the coal situation the president
recommended:
| 1. That he be given authority to
create a national coal commission to
investigate the whole industry.
| Asks Coal Agency.
2. That congress consider at once
the creation of a temporary naticonal
coal agency with the needed capital
to purchase, sell and distribute coal
‘which is carried in interstate com
merce.
In the railroad strike the president
did not recommend any legislation.
He severely criticized both sides in
the rail dispute. He described the rail
way labor board as entirely inadequate
to deal with the situation; declared it‘
would have to be strengthened, and |
condemned in almost unprecedentedly
strong terms the acts of violence in
both strikes, all the way from Herrin,
111, massacres to the desertion of
trains at desert terminal points in Ari-|
zona.
Avoids Haste.
“It is not my thought,” President
‘Harding said, “‘to ask congress to deal
‘with the fundamental questions
(strengthening the powers of the la
bor board) at this time. i
“No hasty action would contribute
to solution of the present critical sit
uation. TFhere are statutes forbidding
conspiracy to hinder interstate com
merce. It is my purpose to invoke
|th(-sc laws, civil and criminal, against
all offenders alike.”
While the president asked no action
of congress at this time he affirmed
the federal gqvernment's determina
tion to maintain transporation at any
cost. ;
“I am resolved,” he said, “to use
all the power of the government to
‘maintain transportation, and sustain
the right of men to work.” :
~ The president’s condemnation of
‘employers and of unions in both coal
‘and rail industries was probably the
‘most severe ever addressed by a chief
‘executive to congress, s
~ The railway executives he criticized
for, their “hard boiled” attitude, and
voiced a thinly vailed warning that
‘there is a ‘“‘union-busting” campaign
in progress.
. “The government,” he asserted, “has
no sympathy or approval for this ele
'nu-nt of discord in the ranks of indus
fry.
. The railway unions were criticized
for their unyielding attitude and par-l
ticularly for their desertion of trains
|at desert terminal points, causing suf-'
fering and discomfort to travelers.
| It was about the Herrin, Il plas-'
i<:acrcs, however, that the president |
waxed most indignant. He expressed'
a wish that federal courts be empow- |
{crutl to go into situations such ag Her
rin and mete out justice. ‘
| Calls It Butchery.
i “In that butchery of human bcings,l
wrought in madness, it is alleged tha_t‘
two aliens were murdered,” the presi-|
dent said. “This act adds to the out
raged sense of American justice the |
humiliation which lies in the federal
government’s confessed lack of author- |
ity to punish that unutterable crime.”
Had it happened in any other coun
try, the president said, “we would'
have pitied the civilization that aliow
oA e o
“Under these conditions of hin
drance and intimidation,” the presi
dent declared, “there has been such
a lack of care of motive power that
the deterioration of locomotives and
lmm-cmnpiiancc with satety require
iments of the law are threatening the
breakdown of transportation.”
‘ Both Responsiblue.
Neither the railroads nor the un
jons may escape morai responsibility
for this situation, he said.
The whole tenor of President Hard
ing’s address was interpreted as a plea
that congress take steps to prevent a
recurrence of the present conditions.
Groups who take the law into thelr‘
own hands, the president said, and at—!
‘tempt to control for their own purpos-|
es the resources of the whole people |
can .only be regarded as perils to pub—i
lic society. He said ne:}her employers
nor employes could entirely escape r_e-l
sponsibility for the present mdustnal‘
situation. e i
“There can be no liberty _and” de-!
mocracy maintained in America, he
asserted, “unless there is the same|
recognition given the right to work
as there i 3 the right to quit work. i
“However,” he conch_lded. “the leg?l!
safeguarding against like menaces m.
the future must b,e:.workgd out when
no passion sways, wh;n no prejudices
influence, and when the problem may
be appraised, and ‘the public welfare
be ‘asserted against any and every in
erest which assumes authority be
st e <, oy el G s
It's “Pleasant” to
Take a Trip on Wet
U. S. Ships—Busch
RACINE, Wis—Discovery of a
"‘coal mine” here on Friday averted
peril of a fuel famine in scores of Ra
cine homes.
Coal, washed ashore like manna
from heaven, covered the beach. Mo
tor trucks, men with wheelbarrows
and gunny sacks, women and children
swooped down on what seemed to be
an inexhaustible supply. One man suc
ceeded in obtaining two truck loads.
Officials of the gas company explain
that the coal had been lost while
steamers were unloading at the har
bor, months or years ago. It was wash
ed ashore by the action of freak cur
rents.
Farmers, however, are not so for
tunate. Reports on Friday from Ra
cine and Kenosha counties indicate a
heavy loss of crops is threatened be
cause of”inability to procure coal for
threshing.
'STO S
STORM’S TOTAL |
TYPHOON AND TIDAL WAVE
CLAIM COUNTLESS VICTIMS.
DEAD PILED HIGH.
The tidal wave and typhoon which
a week ago flooded Swatow, China, and
nearby villages caused a loss of life
estimated at 100,000, and is now rated
the second greatest disaster in history.
The great earthquake which shook
southern Italy in 1908 took a toll of
115,000 lives.
Warnings ecarlier in the day indicat
ed the approach of the storm, and all
shipping, including the junks in the
river in which half the population of
Swatow live, sought refuge in the har
bor. Their efforts were in vain, how
ever, for the fury of the storm drove
all before it. By night the typhoon
was raging at its- height, with the
wind blowing at more than 100 miles
an hour. Ships were driven high up
on the land and the city was com
pletely wrecked.
Relief Workers Rallied.
Five large ocean liners were driven
ashore, and three were hopelessly
stranded far inland. The water pene
ttrated miles inland, and entire towns
and villages were wiped out. Swatow
was under ten feet of water, and when
the wave receded it carried hundreds
of bodies into the sea. The storm de
stroyed all food stocks and water sup
plies, and relief measures seemed
hopeless. :
The. Chinese authorities quickly ral
lied, however, and special relief trains
were rushed from Hongkong, 250
miles distant. Relief workers found a
scene of utter devastation. Thousands
of bodies were gathered in piles, un
buried, rotting in the temple com
pounds because of lack of coffins. Sur
vivors were wandering aimlessly
around, trying to locate their loved
ones.
Relief ships were handicapped due
to the fact that all piers had been
washed away. Junks hastily repaired
were used to convey food from the
ships to the stricken district, and re
lief stations were set up in what once
was one of the most prosperous ports
in China, but which is now a mass
of wrecked homes and public build
ings. It will be weeks, it is said, be
fore a list of foreigners who were vic
tims can be secured.
WAGES STILL HIGH;
, ’
80 PER CT. OVER 1914
TWENTY-SIX TRADES COVER
~ ERED IN SURVEY INCLUD
ING MILLION WORKERS.
The average weekly earnings of all
wage earners are still about 80 per
cent higher than lpforv the war, ac
cording to a survey made by the Na
tional Industrial Conference board.
The report covered 26 industries, in
cluding 1,000,000 workers, and showed
that during the last two years there
had been a 25 per cent reduction in
wages. :
Results of the investigation brought
the conclusion that, measured by the
prevailing wages and the cost of living,
the “economic status of the wage earn
er in the principal manufacturing in
dustries of America was 11 per cent
higher at the end of 1921 than before
the war, despite wage reductions and
part time employment.”
The average weekly wages paid for
all industries canvassed were $22.27,
or 80 per cent higher than pre-war
days. This shows a 25 per cent de
cline from the high spots of 1920. The
average weekly earnings of male skill
ed labor in December last were $25.66.
Nearly 4,000 industrial plants were
canvassed by the board in what is said
to be the most extensive and reliable
survey of the situation made since the
close of the war. The report showed
that common laborers had been hard
hit, their hourly wages having fallen
off 27 per cent since 1920.
Mrs. Mary Harns Armour
Sails for the Far East
The many friends throughout Geor
gia and in Dawson of Mrs. Mary Har
ris Armour will be interested to know
that she sailed last Friday on the
steamer Maungamie for a prohibition
lecture tour in New Zealand and the
South Sea Island and Australia. Dr.
Armour expects to be away until early
in: the new year. |
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VOL. 40.—N0. 51
TURMOIL MARKED THE LAST
HOURS OF BOTH HOUSES OF
GEORGIA ASSEMBLY.
LITTLE DONE DURING SESSION
Among Measures in Discard Are Bien
nial Sessions and Income Tax Bills.
Road Bonds Defeated, and $2,000,000
Of New Appropriations Passed.
ATLANTA, Ga.—The 1922 session
of the Georgia general assembly has
passed the corridors of history, if not
the hall of fame.
In a session that lasted wuntil 35
o'clock Friday morning the two hous
es voted to increase the Confederate
pensions in the sum of $1,250,000, and
appropriated several hundred thousand
dollars to the agricultural schocls of
the state.
The senate refused to ccnsider the
;income tax bill. which was sponsored
by Governor Hardwick, and the high
way bond issue was overwhelmingly
beaten in the house, as was the pro
posed $15,000,000 bond issue for state
seaport terminals,
' As usual, in the Georgia legislature,
some of the most important business
|Ol the entire session was postponed
lmml the last night, when the house
and senate were in a state of more or
ylcss disorder and when not many
'members were taking their business
seriously. Songs and facetious person
’al privilege speeches occupied almost
'as much of the night session as legis
lative measures.
| Worthy of Wall Street.
After passing the senate Thursday
afternoon the highway bond issue went
over to the house and met an inglori
ous defeat in the disorderly night ses
sion. An effort was made to substi
tute a resolution by Perryman, oi Tal
bot, authorizing the issuance of $9,-
000,000 of certificates, which was re
by a vote of 73 to 43. It would have
jected by a vote of 73 to 43. It would
have required 134 votes to pass. Repre
sentative Parks, of Terrell, declared
that the resolution was the same old
bond issue under a new name, ‘and a
‘scheme for financing worthy of Wall
street. He urged that it be killed.
The biennial session bill, passed by
’thc house over three weeks ago, was
‘not taken up in the senate wuntil 3
o’clock Friday morning, when numer
ous senators were absent from the
chamber. It was debated in a desul
tory fashion and finally came to a vote
at 4 o’clock. It needed 34 votes, or
two-thirds of the senate, being a con
stitutional amendment. It received 28
votes,” or six less than the required
number, :
The only important measure which
it was believed had rode through the
choppy sea of the night session was
the bill creating a state auditor, but it
was found next day that it had also
been lost by reason of the failure
of the senate to vote on an amend
ment that had been made in the house.
A caluse in the bill providing for the
appointment of the auditor by the gov
ernor was changed and the naming of
that official delegated to a commission.
Governor Hardwick was specially in
terested in the passage of this bill.
The only other measure of state
wide importance passed during the
session was that by Senator Jones, of
l.aGrange, providing for the Austra
lian ballot system in Georgia.
Toward midnight the senate passed
‘the house bill appropriating $226,000
to supply a deficiency in the appropria
tion for what are known as Confed
erate pensioners of the “old” pension
roll and $975,000 to pay pensions to
what are known as pensioners of the
“‘new” roll, meaning the pensioners
‘made eligible by the act of 1919. For
the latter class of pensioners no ap
\propriation was made by the legisla
ture last vear. As stated above, Gov
ernor Hardwick is expected to veto this
appropriation on the ground that the
legislature made no provisions for rev-
Lcnm* with which to pay it
The house agreed to a senate amend
ment to the Reagan bill exempting
women from poll taxes if they do not
register and vote. The amendment pro
vides that women who do vote must
pay all arrears in poll taxes from the
‘time of the enabling act to the time
}of registration.
; Given a Clean Bill.
| The report of the investigating com
‘mittee, which was sent to the general
‘assembly by Governor Hardwick, gave
ithe prison farm a clean bill.
A bill by Perryman, of Talbot, to
‘rcorganize the penitentiary system and
‘make the prison commissioners a
board of pardons, was killed in the
‘commit_tee, and a bil to prohibit legis
lators from representing clients be
fore the commission and a resolution
by the same member authorizing the
appointment of a special committee to
‘cominue investigation of the prison
system were not heard of after their
: introduction.
| As the night wore on and preserva
ition of order in the senate became in
creasingly difficult President Clay dis
carded his well-worn mahogany gavel
and replaced it with a heavy steel
hatchet with a heavy steel handle.
Whenever he rapped with the hatchet
he literally drowned out all other
' noilses.
i Up to midnight the house and sens
ate galleries and floors were filled with
‘spectators, but the expiring hours of
the session witnessed not only their
departure but also the departure of
lmany legislators, who sleepily gather
'ed belongings out of their desks and
vanished into the night.
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