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FARMERS’ VIEW OF
~ STRIKE SITUATION
CLAIM THAT THEY CAN'T GET
PRODUCE TO MARKET, AND
, ARE LOSING MONEY.
ATILANTA, Ga.—Wages must be
more evenly e¢qualized before there
can be general prosperity in the opin
jon of leading Georgians—particular
ly farmers—as expressed here.
The wage -question has been
brought to the fore more than ever be
fore since the railroad strike, and an
analysis,of this question, as made by
agriculturists, has attracted great at
tention. |
The farmer, it is shown, cannot
sympathize with a man who quits a]
good job which is paying him good
money and joins the idlers. .\'l'()rm\‘(-r.t
the tiller of the soil in Georgia, if re- |
norts ‘are to be believed, is “up in |
arms” over the strike situation. He is
unable to get his produce to mark('t’
as he should and he is losing money. |
The right to work, the farmer main- |
tains, as expressed here by a number |
of their leaders. is guaranteed by the |
constitution, and these rights, they as-|
sert. should be maintained in spite of |
the labor unions or anybudy else. Vio- |
lent - acts, they further declare, :n‘("
aot an indication of strength on the|
part of the strikers or their sympa-!
thizers: they are rather the best Zld-‘
mission of weakness which can be]
imagined. They are intended to intimi—z
date the public. i
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View of One Agriculturidt.
“Violence is absolutely the worst
way to proceed,” said a leading south
Georgia farmer in discussing the sit
uation while at the state capitol. “The
purpose aimed at is not obtained, for
the great majority of the traveling
public and shippers cannot be intimi
dated. On the contrary, this public
and the people of the farming com
munities become more embittered by
violent acts for the reason that the
citizens suffer most by the disturb
ances of the traffic, and the railfoad
men should not forget this. Indeed
many of them are not convinced of
the justice of the claims of the shop
men.
“Millions had to submit to the re
adjustment which set in after the war
and its waste, that is, with regard to
reductions in wages, and it must fur
thermore be stated that this class of
labor is not a all in a bad position.
In any event their position is not sc
bad that their status could be desig
nated as insufferable. By committing
violent acts the railroad men only
lose the little remaining sympathy
they still have with the public.”
Figures on Wages.
During 1917 and 1918 figures sub
mitted here show the wages of aH la
bor were inflated 100 to 175 per cent.
Wheat two and a half years ago on
the Chicago market was $2.85 a bush
el: today it is quoted at $1.02. Corn
was $1.65, now 61 cents. Oats were
$1.09, now 31 cents. Cotton was 40
cents, now 20 cents. The prices, with
few exceptions, of all farm products
have deflated in like proportion, it is
stated here. The farmer has to pay
the same freight rate to deliver the
31 cents a bushel oats—due to high
railroad wages-—that he had to pay to
deliver the $1.09 oats. Therefore, as
leading agriculturists here point out,
the wages of the farmer have been
reduced 200 per cent.
J. T. Grifin, a prominent citizen of
T ouisville, Ga., discussing the strike
situation, gives this comparison:
“Two and a half years ago the rail
road shopmen could take a day's
wages and exchange it with a farmer
for two bushels of wheat. Now he
can make such exchange for five five
and a half bushels, and for other farm
produce in like proportion. Therefore,
in making now such exchange, the
mechanic’s wages have increased over
100 per cent, while the wages of the
farmer have decreased over 100 per
cent. The mechanic has made no in
vestment whatever; no tax to pay. The
farmer has to continually make in
vesments in farm implements, keep his
farm stocked, keep the houses in re
pair, on all of which he has to pay
constantly increased taxation. The
mechanic goes to work at 8 o’clogk.
He becomes connected with, as it
were, a part of ‘an automatic, self
guiding machine. If his machine gets
out of adjustment he can report it to
the master mechanic, who will direct
its rcadjustment. The farmer, if he
succeeds, has to work ten to fourteen
hours a day.”
l Feeli
g “Some time ago, | was very
y irregular,” writes Mrs. Cora
A Robie, of Pikeville, Ky. “I
suffered a great deal, and knew
4 1 must do something for this
4 condition. I suffered mostly
with mgsback and a weakness in
mr limbs. I would have dread
ful headaches. Ihadhot flashes
and very queer feelings, and oh,
1 how my head hurt! | read of
| ,
The Woman's Torlc
and of others, who seemed to
have the same troubles | had,
beinl{ benefited, so I began to
use I found it most bene
ficial. 1 took several bottles
.+ s and was made so much
better I didn’t have anr more
trouble of this kind. It reg
ulated me.”’
Cardui has been found very
helpful in the correction of many
cases of painful female dis
orders, such as Mrs. Robie
mentiogs above. If &ud suffer
as she did, take ui—a
mely vegetable, medicinal
ic, in use for more than 40
yedrs. It should help you.
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HAS THE ARGENTINA ANT REACHED
GEORGIA? IT HAS CAUSED TROUBLE
Worst Ant in the World. Wasn’t
Here in 1915, But Is Believed to
Be in Savannah and Brunswick.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Has the Argen
tina ant, an insect that has caused
much trouble and expense in New Or
leans and other cities, reached Savan
nah?
At the request of several Savannah
ladies Thomas Gamble, sccretary to
Mayor Stewart, wrote to New Or
leans for data on the Argentina ant.
His letter was turned over to an en
tomological laboratory and following
are excerpts from the reply:
“The Argentina ant, an introduced
species irom South America, is by
far the worst ant known in the world.
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iMUST KEEP FLASK
DRY DIRECTOR BANS FLA
GRANT VIOLATORS WHO
SET BOTTLES ON TABLES.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Blessed is
he that pourcth his liquor under the
table, for verily he shall not be mo
lested by prohibition agents if New
York Federal Prohibition Director
Day has anything to do with it. This
surprising declaration of amnesty lor
the prudent was made in the course ot
4 discussion of the director’s plans for
enforcing new and stringent orders
against obvious hotel dining room and
cafc tippling. :
Day and his chief aids toured
Broadway cabarets last night and put
out an anti-flask display warning, but
it was explained today they did not
mean to curtail the pleasures of the
respectable, discreet drinker. Under
the table or behind the door thirst
quenching was not the thorn in. . the
pmhil)ition department’s side, accord
ing to Day.
“It’s the open, flagrant, flaunting
violators we are after—the men who
defiantly put flasks on the table or
pour in plain sight,” said the director.
Privacy of hip pockets would not
be violated, he added, but the minute
anything alcoholic appeared on a ta
ble both patron and restaurateur
would be pounced upon as guilty of
violation of the prohibition law.
WATSON'S GUNS ARE
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TURNED ON JiM COX
GEORGIA SENATOR TAKES
LATE PRESIDENTIAL CAN
DATE TO TASK.
Senator Tom Watsen, of Georgia
has opened fire on former Governor
Jim Cox on account of statements 18-
sued by the latter abroad urging par
ticipation by the United States in
solving the problems of Europe and
membership in the league of nations.
| Opening Gun.
Senator Watson's opening gun is an
editorial in the Columbia Sentinel, his
weekly newspaper.
In a statement given to the press
at Washington Senator Watson said:
“I take the position that Gov. Cox
in his persistent efforts to commit the
democratic party to another fight for
the league of nations is playing into
‘the hands of the republicans and of
'the international bankers. I call at
’lc-nli(m to .the fact that there is no
reason to believe that the vast ma
'jnrity of people who so recently voted
against the league of mnations have
tchangv(l their opinions.
“I point out that the recent M'is
’suuri primary demonstrated how un
alterably opposed the people are to
lany form of foreign alhance, In that
state the four-power pact, which binds
the United States to support the poli
cy of conquest entered into by Eng
land, Italy, France and Japan, was one
of the elements in the victory gained
by Senator Reed, which I consider the
greatest political triumph won by any
American statesman since the days
when Andrew Jackson overthrew the
combined strength of Webster, Clay
and Calhoun.
Another.
“I also show that in the campaign
for renomination which Senator Hi
ram Johnson waged in California he
was enthusiastically endorsed and ap
plauded for his magnificent fight in
the senate againdt the four-power pact.
l “Finally, I take the position that
the democratic party should wage the
| campaign this year on the issues
|growing out of the record the repub
llican party has made since President
lHarding took the oath of office on
March 4th last vear.”
MILLION FOR THE CURE
OF CERTAIN DISEASES
Such Is Provision in a Measure Just
Introduced in Congress.
Pavment by the government of $l,-
000,000 to the person who discovers
a permanent cure for any one of five
diseases 1= proposed .in a bill by Rep
resentative Sproul, republican, of Il
linois.
The diseases enumerated are: Tu
berculosis, pneumonia, cancer, epilep
sy and dementia praecox. A board
composed of medical experts of the
army, navy and public health service
would determine whether discoveries
were effective.
WILL POUR $7,000,000 IN
SEWERS IN SAN FRANCISCO
Chinese wine said to be worth $7-
000,000 may be poured into sewers of
San Francisco, Cal., according to an
action pending by S. F. Rutter, Cal
ifornia’s prohibition director.
CAUSE OF APPENDICITIS.
When the bowels are constipated
the lower bowels or large intestines be
come packed with refuse matter that
is made up largely oi germs. These
germs enter the vermiiorm appendix
and set up inflammation, which s
commonly known appendicitis. Take
Chamberlain’s Tablets when needed
and keep your bowels regular and
you have little to fear from appen
dicitis.—adv.
It has only been in the United States
for about forty years, and it has been
scattered all over the southland and
into California. * * * More than 150
cities are putting on control cam
paigns this year. * * * I visited Sa
vannah in 1915 and was unable at
that tine to find the Argentina ant
present. * * * Since, I have been in
formed that this ant is in Savannah
and Brunswick.”
Luther Brown, a representative of
the laboratory, the letter states, is on
his way to Savannah now. He will
establish whether or not the ant is
here. A number of citizens of Savan
nah, the letter states, have purchased
ant poison used in New Orleans to
combat the pest.
OLD JOHN D. HALTS
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THE FLOW OF CASH
PUTS FINGER ON HIS POCKET-!
BOOK. HIS DAUGHTER NOW |
LOOKS AND LISTENS. \
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CHICAGO.—The long lean finger
of John D. Rockefeller, pressing on
that most sensitive nerve, the pocket-w
book, today is said to have called a
halt—temporarily at least—in plans
for further international marriages in
the Harold F. McCormick family. }
Although he says little John D. is
accustomed to being obeyed. He has
not been able to stop the marriage of
his former son-in-law, now basking in
the roseate light of romance with
Ganna Walska, nor has he been able!
to put an end to the preparations fori
the marriage of his grand-daughter,
Mathilde, to Max Oser, the Swiss rid- |
ing master. |
But Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCor- |
mick, daughter of the oil king, hesi—'
tates on the brink of her romance with
Krenn, the vouthful Australian archi
tect, who returned to this country with
her some several months ago. Mks.
McCormick knows her father, and his‘
stern parental figure evidently has'
caused her to stop, look and listen.
His Silence Ominous. !
However, the end of the McCormicki
imbroglio is not yet in sight. Chicago
is wondering what the next chapter isl
to be. Those whe read the signs in|
the air say that dark shadows gath
ering along the horizon and faint rum-!
bles of thunder in the blue, forecast
dangerous storms ahead. |
The silence of old John D. in itself
is ominous. He is unmindiul of the]
flagrant disobedience on the part of
his heirs of his wish that his money
be spent in America and already he
is beginning to bring pressure to bear
from unexpected quarters.
It is an open secret in high official
circles that it was Rockefeller who
forced the resignation of Harold F.
McCormick as president of the Inter
national Harvester Company and rele
gated him to a place of only nominal
control on the board of directors. This
was effected not directly, but by
means of the banks from which the
- harvester company draws its loans.
Settlement in January of his divorce
from his former wife, Edith Rocke
feller McCormick, made further heavy
drains upon the personal fortunes of
Mr. McCormick. And now his sanc
tion of the marriage of his daughter
Mathilde and Max Oser, in definace
of the opposition of the girl’s mother
and grandfather, John D. himseli, adds
Mathilde to his already unwieldly ex
pense account. Although the rumor
that Mathilde's marriage with the
Swiss riding master will cut her off
from her share in the Rockefeller mil
lions has never been connrmed, it is
generally understood that Edith Rock
efeller McCormick is at present con
tributing to the support of the daugh
ter who has defied her. Nor, moreover,
has Mathilde, who is still a minor, as
vet come into any substantial bequests
from the oil king's fortunes.
Mathilde, in popular parlance, is
“still on papa’s hands.”
Mr. McCormick in the meantime is
touring Europe, incognito, with his
new bride, the beautiful Polish opera
singer, playing the flattering role of
her fourth husband.
Gave Ganna Millions.
It has been reported that McCor
mick gave Ganna upon their marriage
a cash wedding gift running into mil
lions, and is in the process of pur
chasing a princely estate as a love nest
for the pair. Reports, however, are
divided as to whether this is to be in
Lake Forest or in Switzerland. How
the European connection of the fam
ily would regard a sudden economy
!strcak is problematical, to say the
Ileast.
! BREED LIKE SIXTY!
“Rats breed like sixty near the wa
ter here,” said Frank A. Zunser, “and
we have to get rid of them every few
!m(mthx We can only do it, we find,
iby using Royal Guaranteed Rat Paste
! which is the best rat killer we have
ever found.” Get a 25 or 50 cents
handy tube today and destroy ALL
rats. Sold and guaranteed by W. A,
IH:lirc and Collier Drug Co.—adv.
~ An evening coat of white rabbit
;sk.m is tied at the waistline with a
twide satin ribbon.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. P. KENYON
Office: Brannon Building.
Res. Phone 131.
Office Phone 70.
DR. C. R. McKEMIE
DENTIST
OFFICE: BRANNON BLDG.
(Over Battle Hardware Co.)
Res. Phone 34. Office 395
DR. W. H. GARDNER
EYE. EAR. NOSE AND THROAT
GLASSES PRESCRIBED.
THE DAWSON NEWS
GEORGIA GIRL TELLS
DANCING WITH ALPHONSE IN
FRANCE WHEN SHE SAW
HER DAD. RULER AMAZED.
NEW YORK.—An embarrassing
incident on the crowded ball room
floor of the casino at Deauville,
[France,» a month ago, in which the
king of Spain was left standing by
his dancing partner. Miss Katherine
Dickey, of Atlanta, while she hurried
to greet her father, James I. Dickey,
a director of the Atlanta National
bank, was explained by the young
woman today on her arrival on the
Mauretania
“The royal consternation at being
told to “wait a minute” in the middle
of a dance and suddenly deserted was
assuaged, however, when Miss Dickey
sought out Prince Nicholas, second
son of the king of Roumania, and in
duced him to convev her sincere re
grets.
The king accepted the situation
good naturedly, and remarked to
Prince Nicholas on the democratic
ideas of American girls.
The story goes that at the height
of the gayety Miss Dickey caught
sight of her dad and wishing to tell
him something of “great importance”
stopped in her tracks and softly told
the king “to wait a minute.”” She dash
ed among the dancers in the rush for
her father while those who observed
the puzzled expression on Alfonso’s
face as he was left alone gasped with
astonishment, When Miss Dickey re
turned the king was missing and real
izing the embarrassing situation caus
ed by her thoughtlessness she suc
cessfully engaged Prince Nicholas as
an apology bearer.
“Don’t make me ridiculous,” Miss
Dickey said to the reporters, “but the
king was so like us Americans that I
felt I could ask him to wait a min
ute, not thinking at all of the rigorous
etiquette that surrounds an European
monarch.”
MAN’S HEARING SUDDENLY
RESTORED BY LIGHTING
Struck by lighting while he was
walking the street during an electrical
storm Maurice Cavin, of Logansport,
Ind., regained his hearing. He was
deaf for many years.
666 quickly relieves Colds, Con
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aches. A Fine Tonic.
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markets buying, and we can very soon be able to show you
The Latest Creations in
Ladies Suits, Dresses, Wraps
and Underwear
We have engaged the services of Mrs. Claude Watson (an expert
dress maker) and if they dont fit you, she can make them fit you
while you wait.
Our showing n every department of our large store will be complete
and comprehensive and we will be able to well supply your every
need. Quick sales and short profits---our motto for this season.
We will appreciate a visit from you.
Your friends,
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