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DAWSON PROSPER
IBy ELR AIN_._EY
ILOSE 904 MILLIONS IN SCRAMBLE FOR GERMAN MARKS
DRUGS AND LIQUOR FLOOD
FLORIDA COAST FOR 350
MILES, OFFICERS FIND.
P LEAVE CARGOES IN SURF
Havana Housing Waiting Horde;
Chinese Imported at $l,OOO a Head;
gmuggling Extends to Capitals of
European Nations.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Smug
gof European aliens into the
nited States from Cuba, surreptitious
bherging temporarily in the waters
i the Florida coast of large quanti
s of liquors, by “international boot
heogers” «nd mock marriages design
ito ensure entry into this country
i women barred by immigration laws
bom the basis of a report submitted
b Sccretary Davis by the bureau of
Ihie report, Commissioner General
G hand said today, is the mast com
| hencive revigw of smuggling con
bons r prepared by immigration
roic and is expected to be con-|
Lidered the treasury, labor and agri- |
e departments in connectign with!
ke proposed co-ordination of border,
atr 10TCES. 3 3 l
- ernment investigators, by di
bection of Mr. Husband, visited Jack-
Loille. Tampa, Tarpon Springs, Mi-
L. Key West: and Havana. Thv_\'i
ingled, it is said, with the kings m'l"
e smuggling industry and 121“\’(‘(‘]
Lith aliens of every nationality who
Loueht entry to the United States. |
Ramifications in KEurope. ,
e smuggling ramifications, it is
iclared. extend to the capitals of Eu
e and involve . Greeks, Spaniards,
poles, Rumanians, Russians and Chi- |
n ]
The report states that the fa\'orite!
hethod of gaining entry to the United .
Kiates from Cuba ‘for certain a]ien:
bomen has been for them to enter
o ake marriages with naturalized
American citizens, who, for certain
bonsiderations, go through mock cere- |
nonies and - then accompany their
wives” to some Florida point. Fre-!
quent ¢is said, obliging “bride
roms” have been paid as high as
00 for their part in the scheme. |
Il rincipal smugglers in Havana
' ¢ confine their activities 10|
miggling aliens «into the United |
{B, 8 nvestigators state, but al
k ile whisky and narcotics. Thci
ortv of the smugglers are said to |
turalized Americans. :
iqnor or narcotics, the cargo is!
tn submerged at* a predestined
ot and grapsled up subseguently at |
s -obably no fewer than four
¢ssels with aliens and contra
| goods cross from Matanzas to
n ited States each week, the re-
Operations in Havana. :
favana, according to the rvpm'Li
wndreds of aliens throng Central park |
aiternoon and at night, and
onstantly a dozen or more men, ob-|
vously not of the floating alien t_\']w.!
perate among them, going from one
group to another. These men, it is ex
plamed, are “runners” for the smug- |
Ring «“kings.” ;
There is no employment in Cuba |
ir thousands of the Chinese and Eu
pear iens now there, it is rcpurt-i
. vet since the present passport and
imended immigration restrictive act
P perative in this country last
Mlay at least 7,000 aliens are said to|
e arrived in Havana with the ulti
it pe of gaining surreptitious |
ntry to the United States. There are
¥ present, it is estimated, approxi-|
natcly 30,000 Chinese alone in Cuba
r whom there is no employment. In
jact, the report avers, the Orientals |
Wil not dccept work under any cir—i
pumst s. except to earn sufficient
pro! vith which to pay pasage to
s intry or Mexico. The H*LJ{]!
e charged for smuggling aliens, it is
arned, ranges from $5OO to $l,OOO for
f2ch Chinese and about $l5O for an
E \-‘ alien,
E ! i hte “master smugglers” in
favana run shops as blinds, the re
loses, and conduct their ille
ations on the quiet. One of
¢ lavorite routes for the smugglers,
bIS fearne d, is from Havana to Long
B nce up the coast past r‘urkc_\'t‘
p Miami, through Hope Sound,
Past Palm Beach, then through the
L 1 waterway and finally into the
Pl John river, Aliens and liquor are
Moaded at various points en route.
f! s are used, having a’ speed
iEng irom fifteen «to twenty-five |
JICS hour, it is said, and carry up
| - thiens, |
Use 350 Miles of Coast for Work. |
| 'rom Miami to Jacksonville, a dis
e t 350 miles, the whole coast
E 1l to be wide open to smug
;¢ Overations. Both Chinesg and
g aliens, it is declared, are be
i geled in at Mobile, Pensacola,
ot Springs, and at a dozen places
k. hort distance of Tarpon
(oes, such as Clearwater, Crystal
b Dunedin and Cedar Keys.
Ll vessels are understood frequent
t in at Tarpon Springs for
. 'Plcs or repairs,” the inspectors
[ that at such time large
E of aliens and quantities of
b landed. Liquor at this point
. sold over soft drink coun
: said. =
k- Springs appears to be used
. * “dteway principally by ineligible
-8 mostly Greeks, Italians and
| ards, the inspectors assert, while
. —=mz of all descriptions seems to
ring at Tampa and points on
- "““r Tampa Bay, in the vicinity of
‘Wwater and St. Petersburg.
V"v_ + s s .
i Stings, as a cure for rheuma
" are having quite a vogue. |
THE DAWSON NEWS
THE DAWSON NEWS WILL GIVE $2,150.00 IN PRIZES IN GREATEST
SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN EVER KNOWN IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
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' 'S BIGGEST
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| AR .
'HUGE PRESERVE IN SOUTH
~ GEORGIA COMPOSED OF
| LARGE ACREAGE.
~J. lsom Davis, resident manager of
the South Georgia Hunting and Fish
ing Preserve in Berrien and lLanier
counties, is very enthusiastic about the
possibilities tor a very successful fail
hunting season there. The South Geor
gia preserve is one of the best and the
largest preserves of its kind in the
country.
The preserve is composed of 135,000
acres of land and 15,000 acres of arti
ficial fresh water fishing lakes. The
headguarters of the preserve is located
at Nashville, which % near the center
of the reservation.
Quail are abundant on the preserve
and the land is free from rocks, hills
and swamps, the drainage being suf
ficient to take off the water. This sec
tion of the country was formerly the
famous sea island cotton section, but
the boll weevil caused the farmers to
practically quit raising cotton and #o
begin planting peas, corn, oats, wheat,
rice, peanuts, sorghum, chufas, mel
ons, canteloupes, potatoes, tobacco and
various other crops.
The fall season is the time fore the
great ‘“dove shoot” on the preserve.
The doves are there in the autumn
and the early spring by the millions
and the cultivated fields of peanuts,
chufas and the freshly burned off nat
ural grasses act as a natural ‘‘baited
field” for the birds. There are also a
great number of racoons, opossums,
squirrels, rabbits and a few fox, deer
and” wild turkeys.
The Banks’ pond with its 15,000
acres is included in this preserve, this
béing the largest inland artificial iresh
water lake in the south. The dam,
which backs' the water over the land
which forms this lake was built over
one hundred years ago, this making
possible the wonderful supply of fish
which abound in this lake. During
the month of December of last year
over 43,000 pounds of fish were caught
out of the lake by those fishing on
the preserve.
Migratory ducks inhabit the lake in
the fall and winter, coming in great
numbers and affording a wonderful
opportunity for the sportsmen to bag
the limit. One of the features of the
preserve is a district called the “Aili
gator Caves,” in which alligators
abound.
VARIOUS ARTICLES BRINGING
PRICES FROM 1 TO 80 PCT.
OVER PREWAR AVERAGE.
Wheat, wcattle, cotton, dairy prod
ucts and a long list of grains now
are bringing prices to producers at
the iarm gate which are from 1 to
82 per cent higher than the average
return during the prewar period of
1910-14. according to an official study
by the department of agriculture.
Ten of the principal farm products
show very material advances in price
range. Féur principal products show
a decline in ‘comparison with the pre
war price level.
Prices paid producers for cotton
throughout the United States average
82 per cent above the prewar level, the
official study shows. Wool is up 78
per cent, wheat 1 per cent, potatoes
9 per cent, hogs 14 per cent, cattle 3
per cent, chickens 55 per cent, butter
36 per cent, eggs 18 per cent and ap
ples 56 per cent.
Price declines in comparison with
the prewar period are as follows:
Corn 14 per cent, oats 18 ‘per cent,
hay 9 per cent and rye 12 per cent
ifarmers now are prepared to mark
ot their products evenly with a close
eye to the demand instead of being
iorced to throw them on the market
at times when the demand is low.
This will tend to keep prices more
stable for the producer, government
officials say.
MRS. VINSON, UNDER DEATH
SE&TENCE, SHARES WITH
CHILDREN IN PROPERTY.
ATLANTA, Ga—A sentence of
death imposed on Mrs. Cora lL.ou Vin
son by one jury in superior court was
disregarded by another jury in a civil
division of the court in dividing the
$40,000 estate of Dr. &W. D. Vinson,
the husband for whose death on Mar.
31, 1921, she was convicted.
The jury gave her title to the house
and site at 57 Ponder avenue, where
she had lived vears with the slain
physician. To each of the five Vinson
children the remainder of the property
was given in equal proportion.
Attorneys and court observers de
clared the question presented to the
jury was unique. While not clearly es
tablished, there was said to be legal
basis for a verdict which would have
denied the condemned woman any
property right. *
Mrs. Vinson was unmoved when in
formed af the verdict as she lay on
her cot in the woman's section of the
tower. The death sentence given_her
unexpectedly by a trial jury is in
abeyance through an appeal to the
higher courts.
Fach of the five Vinson children
received a definite piece of property.
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Buick Touring Car Will Be Awarded Winner
of Grand Prize. Handsome Bedroom Suite
And an Edison Will be Given Away.
. The Dawson News is today inaugurating a great subscription campaign,
known as the “Salesmanship Club Campaign,” and to this end is offering a
list of prizes the value of which will at once appeal to the ambitious and en
ergetic. The territory to be covered by campaign operations is that ‘naturally
served by this newspaper—all of Terrell, Randolph, Lee, Webster, Sumter,
Dougherty and Calhoun counties. For energetic work during the next few
weeks ending December 2nd, at 8 p. m.,, The News is offering wonderful
awards, aggregating $2,100. These prizes are: .
First Grand Prize—sl,o2o Buick “Four,” five-passenger touring car. (Pur
chased of and on display at the Dawson Buick Company’s.)
Second Grand Prize—s3so Six-Piece American Walnut Bedroom Suite.
Consists of vanity dresser, bow-end bed, chiffonette, rocker, bench, -chair.
(Purchased of and on display at the E. B. Durham Co’s. store.)
Third Grand Prize—s2oo Edison Phonograph. Full cabinet size. (Purchas
ed of and on display at the E. B. Durham Furniture Co’s. store.) ,
Sixty dollars in special cash prizes will also be given. i !
Five hundred dollars has been set aside for cash commissions. All compet
ing contestants turning in $3O or more in cash subscription business and failing
to win a grand prize or special cash prize, will be awarded 10 per cent in cash
on all the subscription money, collections or renewals, “the worker turned in.
} Object of Campaign.
. Though The Dawson News is a wel
‘come visitor in two thousand homes
in Terrell and adjoinipg counties it is
the desire of the management to fur
ther extend its scope of influence, and
to that end is offering a list of awards
'headed by a $1,020 Buick four-cylin
der, five-passenger touring car, which
would do credit to any newspaper in
a town many times the size of Daw
son.
To insure every person taking part
an equal chance all prizes are open for
general competition, and the awards
\will be on the basis of the greatest
humber of votes cast. Besides the priz
tvs a cash commission of 10 per cent
'~\\'ill be J)aid non-prize winners, $5OO
having bten set aside for this purpose.
iThe prizes have all been purchased
‘from local business houses, are on dis
play and there will be no waiting for
delivery, as they are ready right now
and will be delivered to the winners
immediately -on the final close of the
campaign. ;
Divided Into Periods.
The campaign is divided into sever
al periods, the first lasting from the
opening, Saturday October 14th, until
Saturday, Novenmtber 4th, 6 p. m.
kThere is a real inducement offered in
'this period to get a big start, for at
no other time during the campaign
will effort count for so many bonus
votes. For this period, lasting three
‘weeks. there will be a bonus of 100,000
votes for each $12.00 in cash subscrip
tion business turned in. A glahce at
the bonus vote schedule that follows
‘will make this statement clear.
| Bonus Vote Schedule.
~ First Peried: From, the beginning
of the campaign on October.l4th until
Saturday, November 4th, 6 p. m,
100,000 bonus votes will be given for
each $12.00 in cash subscription busi
mness turned in.
~ Second Periad: From®Saturday, No
vember 4th, 6 p. m, until Saturday
November 11th, 6 p. m., 100,000 bonus
votes will be given for each $16.00 in
cash subscription business turned in.
Third Period: From Saturday, No
vember 11th, 6 p. m, unti! Saturday.
November 18th, 6 p. m., 100,000 bonus
votes will be given for each $20.00 in
cash subscription business turned in.
Fourth Period: From Saturday, No
vember 18th, 6 p. m., until Saturday,
November 25th, 6 p. m., 100,000 bonus
votes will be given for each $24.00 in
cash subscription business turned in.
Third Period: From Saturday, No
vember 25th, 6 p. m., until'the end of
the campaign Saturday, December
2nd, 8 p. m., 100,000 bonus votes will
be given for cach $28.00 in cash sub
scription business turned in.
" If the campaign is extended to
close Saturday, December 9th, 8 p.
m., or Saturday, December 16th, 8 p.
‘m., 100,000 bonus votes will be giyen
with each $28.00 in cash subscription
‘business turned in during the extend
ed period.
Get §tarted Early.
The campaign lasts but nine weeks
at the outside limit, and possibly will
run but seven weeks, and the rewards
for vour spare-time work during that
time will equal the salary of most
bank presidents. Bft it is very essen
tial for those who expect to compete
in this campaign to send in their names
at once. There is an entry blank print
ed in a double page advertisement
in this issue of The News. Anybody
may clip the entry blank and enter
himself or herself, or one may enter
a friend or relative as a candidate. The
entry blank itself is good for 50,000
votes. If accompanied by a one-year
Hurt Before Her Birth
Sues Taxi Company
JERSEY CITY, N. J—A 6
weeks old child, through her fath
er, today brought suit against a
taxicab company for injuries alleg-,
ed to have been received before
she was born. Through her father,
Samuel Garguilo, the infant alleges
that as a result of an automobile
accident to the mother, riding in
a taxicab of the Hudson Taxi com
pany, of Jersey City, she had a
paralyzed right arm. She seeks
$25,000 damages from the taxicab
company. The mother, it was said,
was only slightly injured when the
taxi in which she was riding col
lided with another car.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 10, 1922
subscription to The Dawson News it
is good for 75,000 votes; and if ac
companied by eight yearly subscrip
tions, or their equivalent, this entry
blank will be good for 150,000 votes,
and will also entitle the salesman to
a 100,000 bonus vote coupon. After
November 11th this entry blank will
be withdrawn, so gain the greatest
value on the entry blank by getting
vour name, or the name of a friend
or relative you would like to see win
the $1,020 Buick touring car, in today.
The slogan of this campaign is DO IT
NOW! :
The plan of the campaign is very
simple. It is especially easy to obtain
votes, which may be ecarned in but
two ways—securing subscription pay
ments ‘from new or renewal subscrip
tiohs to The Dawson News, or clip
ping the 200 vote coupon which will
appear in each issue of The Dawson
News during the early weeks of the
campaign. The seccuring of subscrip
tions gives votes literally by the hun:
dreds of thousands, while the 200 vote
coupons add very little to one’s stand
ing. This campaign is primarily a test
of The Dawson News salesmanship
on the part of those who take part in
the campaign.
Any man, woman, boy or girl
(white), voung or old, married or sin
gle, residing in *Terrell, Randolph,
Lee, Webster, Sumter, Dougherty and
Calhoun counties and of good char
acter may enter.
One may enter by, simply sending
it hiz or hoe namc, o auy rcader may
enter the names of friends.
Assistance to Contestants.
The Dawson News stands ready to
assist every contestant taking part in
this campaign, in any way possible,
during the race. All will be treated
absolutely fair and above board, and
there will be no favorites. There will
be no “doubling up” or combining of
votes allowed.
An Hour a Day, or Many Hours.
An hour a day will bring big pay,
for the beauty of the Salesmanship
Club Campaign is that it does not
require any specified time. The more
time you can give to your race and
the more vou work the greater your
chance of winning the ®51,020 Buick
touring car, or other big prize. You
may speak to your friends, neighbors
and relatives about your candidacy
and solicit their subscriptions when
cver and wherever you meet them.
The Dawson News is offering you
a pfoposition whereby you can earn
from $245 to $ll3 a week, according
to whether the campaign runs 7 or
9 weeks. Under no consideration will
the campaign run longer than Decem
ber 16th, 8 p. m. The very least You
can do is to receive 10 per cent cash
commission on every dollar you col
lect for subscriptions, and the most
that you can do is to win the $1,020
Buick car and some of the,sBo in cash
prizes. .
The Dawson News Salesmanship
Club Campaign will be marked by the
most rigid fairness.
RODENT MAY SOON BE NO
MORE IN LAND WHERE HE
CAN SEE SHADOW.
The lowly groundhog, one of the
worst economic rodent pests in Wash
ington, will not live to see his shadow
on another “groundhog” day, because
of warfare on him by the bioclogical
survey, says the New York World.
Under John Finley, chief assistant in
this section, says demonstrations of
groundhog control in many parts of
the state have resulted in the entire
extermination of the rodent.
The few remaining ones are so scat
tered that there is no more neced of
farmer¢ fearing depredations. Ground
hogs are casily poisoned. By sprink
ling alfalfa tops with water and. cov
ering the wet vines with sweeteped
strychnine 95 per cent of the burrow
ing animals have been killed. Ground
hogs are destructive in berry patches,
gardens and small fruit trees. In the
irrigated section of the state .they
climbed peach trees and shook off the
best of the fruit.
500,000 ELECTION TICKETS
Secretary E. W. Jordan, of the state
democratic executive committee, has
placed an-order for a hali million
election tickets for the October 17th
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OH, LOOK! A STAMP
OF “PEACOCK BLUE”
IWILL SELL FOR 11 CENTS. A
| NEW SERIES INCLUDING
| MARTHA WASHINGTON.
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, A new 11-cent postage stamp, pea
[cock blue, with a portrait of Ruther
ford B. Hayes, was placed on sale
Wednesday at Fremont, Ohio, in con
nection with’ the commemoration of
the one hundredth anniversary of the
birth of the former president. The
first stamp from the press was pre
sented to Mrs. Harding.
The Hayes stamp is the first of a
complete series to be placed on sale
generally during the next thirty days.
A 5-cent “Roosevelt stamp” will be
ready for distribution Oct. 27th, the
anniversary of the birth of the former
president. Mr. Roosevelt’s portrait was
selected for the 5-cent stamp, the
postoffice department has announced,
because “this denomination is most
widely used on letters to foreign
countries where the former president’s
fame was believed to be more univer
sal' than that of any other.”
y Tomb of Soldier. #
A new 50-cent stamp bearing a pict
ure of the Arlington ampitheatre and
‘the tomb of the unknown soldier will
lhc placed on sale on Armistice day,
November 11th.
~ In the new series the 13-cent stamp
‘has been discontinued, while 14-cent
and 25-cent stamps have been added.
The portraits and designs for the
entire series are: l-cent, Franklin; 2-
cent, Washington; 3-cent, L.incoln;
4-cent, Martha Washington; 5-cent,
Roosevelt; 6-cent, Garfield; 7-cent,
McKinley: 8-cent, Grant; 9-cent, Jef
ferson; 10-cent, Monroe; 11-cent,
Hayes; 12-cent, Cleveland; 14-cent,
Indian; 15-cent, Statue of Liberty;
20-cent, Yosemite; 25-cent, Niagara;
30-cent, Buffalo; 50-cent, Arlington
ampitheatre; $l, Linceln Memorial;
$2, Capitol; $5, America. ‘
Carefully Selected. i
The subjects were selected with |
careful regard for their suitability, thc(
department announced, adding: 1
“The portraits include Washington
and Jefferson as fathers of our insti
tutions; Franklin as the first postmas
ter general; Martha Washington® com
memorate the pioneer womanhood of
America; Lincoln, Garfield and Mec-
Kinley as the martyr presidents; Mon
goe to mark the foreign policy associ
ated with his name, with Grant, Hays,
Cleveland and Roosevelt carrying on
the historical line to a recent day.”
U. S. WILL SELL 67,400 ACRES
IN THE WEST. VALUABLE .
YELLOW PINE.
The last great tract of virgin pine
in the public domain of the United
States is being offered for sale by the
government ‘for $3,000,000 in cash or
credit. The tract is the Malheur for
est, in the Blue mountains of Ore
gon, the last outpost of the untamed
regions, barring Alaska. The forest
stands in the midst of a stretch of
country 10,000 square miles in extent.
There are 7,000,000,000 feet of tim
ber in the Malheur, and the govern
ment will sell it under a plan that pro
vides for a rotation of production that
will continue until the end of time.
The tract is divided into sections, with
new timber growing on some parts
while others are being cut.
Need 80-Mile Railroad.
The purchaser of the tract will have
to build 80 miles of stagldard guage
railroad and many miles of branch
lines in order to carry the timber to
the outside world. The raiiroad will
justify a number of other improve
ments which will make the Malheur
the center of a thriving community,
the government forest service predicts.
Most of the timber is western yel
low pine, and the government’s cut
ting plan will make the supply almost
without end. Eight hundred and nine
ty million feet of timber will be cut
in the first division of the forest, the
government ecstimates, with the work
requiring almost 20 years. At the
present high price of yellow pine these
20 vears will return a good profit on
the first investment. Besides, there
will be the privilege of moving on to
the next tract.
At Headwaters of River. <
The actual timbered tract comprises
an area of about 67,400 acres lying at
the headwaters of the Silvies river in
a broad basin known as Bear Valiey.
It is almost entirely between 4,500
and 6,000 feet above sea level.
Danger, Go Slow,
Chickens Ahead, Is Sign
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PHOENICIA, N. Y.—The fa
miliar “go slow,” “danger, school
ahead” sign so well known to mo
torists, was apparently the basis
for a novel and courteous warning
which has just been posted where
it strikes the eye of automobile
drivers approaching a farm on a
state highway in the Catskill
mountains near Phoenicia. The
sign reads:
“Danger!
“Chickens ahead.
“Please drive slowly.
“We thank you.
“The chickens thank you.”
Sea of Galilee Sermon
Repeated by Methodists
W hile Storm T hreatens
CLEAR LAKE, lowa.—The ser
mon delivered at the Sea of Galilee
was re-enacted here at sunset last
night by delegates to the upper lowa
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church. Bishop Ernest G. Richardson
was carried 100 yards out in a sailing
bark, where he repeated “The Coming
of the Kingdem.”
‘Gathering storm clouds “illuminated
by the setting sun and the shifting
rainbow colors of the lake made a
beautiful background for the pictur
esque sail boat from which the hishop
spoke and a quartet sang. At the con
clusion of the sermon, during his pray
er, the sun broke through the cloud,
which had obscured it for a time, bith
ing the occupants of the bark and the
multitudesson shore in a golden light,
which tinged the lake until it seemed
of fire,
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U. S. SENATE RACE
'SEVERAL OUT AT LAST
. MINUTE. %ALKER FORCES
| FAIL TO AGREE.
Six candidates for the seat in the
United States senate made vacant by
the recent death of Senator Thomas
E. Watson had qualified with E. W.
Jordan, of Sandersville, secretary of
the state democratic executive com
mittee, when the entry list closed at
noon Thursday.
Those qualifying, as given out by
the secrtary, were: Governor Thomas
W. Hardwick, Walter F. George, of
Vienna; G. H. Howard, of Aganta-;
John T. Boifeuillet, of Macon; John
R. Cooper, ef Macon; Seaborn Wright,
of Rome. ¢
H. H. Dean, Herbert Clay, Horace
Holden and Carl Hutcheson, who had
announced they were candidates, fail
ed to pay the assessment.
Six candidates qualified in the race
for state pension commissioner, as fol
lows: Col. John W. Ciark, Augusta;
Major C. E. McGregor, of Warren
son: J. L. Dent, of Macon: Johm €.
Butt. of Buena Vigta;: W. €. H.
Phelps, of Atlanta, and John S. Stone,
of Atlanta.
Mr. Clay, in quitting the race, said
the people of Georgia would wake up
if they knew about the “political jug
gling” that went on in Macon during
the convention. p
Duyring and after the convention po
litic:yl(-adcrs of what they are pleased
to term the “Walker-Watson” wing
of the party made persistent efforts to
reduce the number in the field and
unite on one candidate to oppose Gov
ernor Hardwick. A caucus was held
Thursday in an effort ‘to. effect some
kind of compromise between Judge
Howard and Judge George. |
It was reliably reported that Judge
George declined to enter the cau
cus. He is said to have repeated his
previous statement that if he were
eliminated from 410 race, “‘the people,‘
and not the polificians, must do the
climinating.” Judge Howard has is
sued a statement in which he says he
cannot be taken out of the race, and
is in it to the end. |
; Watson Forces Dissatisfied. “‘
The Watson men at the convention
were dissatisfied with all of the an
nounced candidates for the senate, and
at a caucus at Macon attended by 30()‘
to 300 decided to put J. J. Flynt, of
Griffin, in the race and paid his en
trance fee. Mr. Flynt, however, decid
¢d not to make the race.
“The caucus,” said State Senator
Boykin, “unanimously determined to
support no candidate for the semate
who is not a true and tried friend of
our late chief. A message to this ef
fect will hs sent out at once to every '
Tom Watson man and woman in the
state.” He declared the. Watson men
went out of their own circle to sup
port Clifford Walker Jor governor and
that siow they feel they should be
given consideration in the selection of
a candidate put forth as the represent
ative of the Watson-Walker wing of
the party to succeed Senator Watson.
75,000,000 MEN WERE
GERMAN STATISTICS ARE TO
EFFECT 80,000,000 WERE UN
DER ARMS AT END.
BER L. I N.—Seventy-five million
men were mobilized throughout the
world during the late world war,
according to official statistics publish
ed here. Thirty million were under
arms at the close of hostilities.
Germany's total mobilization is giv
en as 13.250,000, of which 8,000,000
still were engaged at the end of the
fighting. At the height of its expan
sion, at the beginning of the western
offensive March 31, 1918, these fig
ures state the German army totaled
3.500,000 enlisted , personnel and 140,-
600 officers on the western front, be
cides 160,000 enlisted men and 3,000
officers in recruit depots.
These fighters were distributed
among 190 infantry divisions and 2
defensive cavalry divisions. They were
equipped with 32,218 light and 27,143
heavy machine guns, 8845 mine
throwers, 5,652 field rifles, 3,158 light
howitzers, 3,083 guns for heavy fir
ing at high elevation, 1,747 guns for
heavy fire at low elevation and 1,137
aerial guns. A
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GOLOSSAL SUM PAID
% —————
80 BILLION BROUGHT §12.00 A
. THOUSAND AND ARE NOW
. WORTH ONLY 70 CENTS.
DWARFS JOHN LAWS BUBBLE
Golden Stream Poured Into Coffers
Of Defeated Nation Far in Excess
Of Reparations Payments. Ten Mil
lion Buyers in United States.
BALTIMORE.—America has “in
vested” the colossal sum of $960,000,-
000 since the war in German paper
money now almost worthless, says a
special dispatch from New York to
the Baltimore Sun.
America paid 10 cents, 5 cents, 1
cent a mark. America bought 80,000,-
000,000 paper marks at an average of
1 1-5 cents a mark, $l2 a thousand.
Toddy paper nfarks sell below 70
cents a thousand. America has left
what may be worth $56,000,000. Not
more,
The victims in America of this stu
pendous” folly, the most gigantic fi
nancial delusion in history, have lost
$904,000,000. About one-third of the
loss is represented by stocks and
bonds bought in Germany with marks.
The buyers have given to Germany
gold for all her war reparation pay
ments, made t odate, $644,000,000, and
half as much again, -
Third of National Debt After 1865.
| America has paid to Germany a
sum equal to one-third the total of
the: Amergcan civil war debt, $2,845,-
907,626, August 1, 1865. America, vic
tor over Germany, has paid her as
much as Germany in victory collected
from defeated France as indemnity af
ter the Franco-Prussian war of" 1871—
$968,000,000.
This estimate is based on Berlin of
ficial statistics of September 9, 1922
and latest Tecords of German marks
distributed in_this country.
Famous financial bubbles of history
show nothing to compare with the
German mark craze. John Law's
French company bank crashed and
ruined a million Frenchmen over night
when its paper currency inflition
reached 12,000,000,000 francs on an
original capital of 1,677,000 francs.
France, the home land, suffered.
245,000,000,000 Marks Circulated.
l Germany, up to September 9, had
circulated 245,000,000,000 paper marks,
the unguaranteed currency of a war
beaten, practically insolvent govern
ment. But the crash has not come,
perhaps because foreign gold, the gold
of England as well as of America,
bought half of Germany's bubble cur
rency. She has marketed 80,000,000,-
000 marks in America, !
~ London reports British losses in
German marks speculation at about
$672,000,000.
It is estimated that America’s buy
ers of German paper marks hdld 30,-
000,000,000 in America own 20.000,-
000.000 held in Germany, 35,000,000,000
held in Amsterdam, Paris, etc., and
have invested .25.000.0()0.080 of the
marks they bought in buying German
bonds and stocks.
Famous Gold Brick Outdone.
The typical example of flat currency
inflation and its ultimate fate hereto
fore has been for 200 years the Mis
sissippi bubble of John Law, Scotch
economist of note, successful specula
tor, who induced France in 1717 to
experiment with his theory that plenty
of money makes a nation prosperous
and happy and paper mgpey secured
paves the route to plenti?ull money.
LLaw merged his Louisiana company
with his bank, made their shares ‘in
ter-changeable after taking over the
French national debt and its interest
income. A royal edict gave him con
trol of the mint. He hitched promise
of vast profit to his Louisiana com
pany with appearance of solvency for
his bank based on the credit and hon
or of France. A riot of gambling in
the company bank hsares increased
their price value sixteen fold.
Inflation of the bank’s paper money
issue caused the disaster when it
reached 12,000,000,000 francs on origi
nal capital of 1,677,000 francs. Its -
come was 5 per cent on the latter.
Those who remained sane suddenly
decided to buy cows and farms with*®
their paper money and in a month
l.aw was ruined, hated exile from
France.
l.ondon gambled in American green
backs, Union and Confederate, during
the civil war, see-sawing their rival
market from Appomastox to Gettys
burg. New York and Amsterdam
hought and sold more marks in a day
than London handled greenbacks in a
year.
" Ten million buyers of paper marks
in America means that 10 out of ev
ery 115 men, women and children in
the United States own or have held
in grust for them an average of Ger
mam paper marks which cost $lOO at
$l2 per thousand in 1919-1921.
The Lure of “Easy Money.”
Easy money! The lure of specula
tion made successful business men in
America get German paper marks
quick, paying big premiums, fearing
they would be too late for the great
garnering of dream profits. Right af
ter the signing of the Versailles peace
treaty in July, 1919, they paid for Ger
man marks as high as half their par
price, 24 cents, which the paper mark
commanded before the war. They paid
-more than paper marks were sell!ng
for in Germany's neighbor countries.
This easy money mirage made mil
lions of Americans, men of. large sal
aries, take their savings out of the
banks and buy Germany’s paper prom
ises. It emptied the little iron safes in
100,000 cupboards. It sent millions of
dollars of liberty bonds to market here
to get money to invest in Germany's
paper marks. And it still is taking its
toll in pennies today where it was
$lO billy yesterday. 3T ;