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BUY AT HOME
AND HELP
DA\VSON PROSPER
By E. L. RAINEY
WIDE INTEREST IN NEWS’ GREAT SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN
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GEORGIA’S INCOME TAX
NUMBER OF UNCLE SAM’S
NEPHEWS AND NIECES WHO
pAID LAST YEAR 7,259,944.
13 HAD INCOMES OF $1,000,000
Total Incomes of Those Who Paid
Wwas 24 Billion Dollars. Farmers
Lead Lawyers, and Many Women
Pay on Their Incomes.
WASHINGTON, D. C—Of the
7239044 persons who filed personal
icome tax returns for 1920 as total
of 6,578,382 paid on incomes of $5,000
amually, or less, the report of the in
wrnal revenue bureau on income taxes
revealed today. i /
Thirty-three persons paid on in
cmes of $1,000,000 or more and 123
on incomes between $500,000 and $l,-
100,000 a year.
" The total income represented by the
qore than 7,000,000 personal returns
was $23.735,629,183 and the tax was
$1.071,053,686.
Corporations filing -tax returns to
wled 345,595. They paid taxes to the
smount of $1,625,234,643.
Little Fellows Numerous.
The most numerous class of income
ux pavers was made up of persons
with taxable incomes of $l,OOO to $2.-
i) 2 vear. These “little fellows” num
nered 2,671,950,
The report showed that 77,558 wives
made separate returns from their hus
sands: that 132,181 women paid taxes
s« “heads of families,” while 744,574
men filed as “heads of families.”
Farmers and those in related lines
od the list of persons whose taxable
seomes were derived from businesses
conducted by themselves. There were
71805 returns by agriculturists, while
sroicssional men came next with 269,-
\lore than one-fourth of the entire
nersonal income tax was paid by resi
dents of New York state. There were
1047634 returns ‘from that state, for
. wotal of $286,607,280, or 26.65 per
ent of the total tax. This meant that
ne person in ten in New York paid
an mcome tax.
corgia paid $7,697,693; Louisiana,
9626,591; Kentucky, $7,292,098; Vir
ginia, 87,404,201; Tennessee, $75,565,-
009
. Georgia Income Tax Facts.
" (eorgia in 1921 reported a larger
numher of individual income tax re
turns and a larger gross total on such
returns than any other state in the
[his showing is made despite the
musual fact that six counties in the
sate reported less than two individual
ux returns, They were Baker county
nd Milton county, with two; Heard
county and Towns county with one;
nion county did not report a single
meome large enough to justify a tax
On net personal and corporation in
mes for the calendar year 1920,
Georgians paid $21,202,031 income
taxes or .97 of 1 per cent of the total
collected by the federal government
for 1020, standing twenty-third among
the <tates in the amount paid.
For the calendar year 1920 Georgia
reported $228,619,716 net personal in
me, 961,718,452 net corporation in
come, a total of $290,338,168, which
was .92 per cent of the total net in
ome reported for the whole United
Of Georgia’s population of 2,895,832
personal income tax returns were made
By 73,325 in 1920. They reported their
net personal income to be $228,619,-
710, on which they paid taxes of $7,-
':,.g,\;‘}.
Only about one in every 40 of Geor
¢iv's population filed an income tax
return for the calendargyear 1920. The
average net personal income reported
was $3,117.90. The average tax paid
was $104.98.
Ihe amount of net personal income
reported by Georgia income tax pay
ers grew steadily between 1916 and
1920. In 1917 the amount of net per
sonal income reported was $137,775,-
12: in 1918, $148,366,439; in 1919,
3210471959, and in 1920, $228,619,716.
‘The highest net personal income in
viich return was made from Georgia
was between $500,000 and $750,000.
others reported incomes between
$250.000 and $300,000, and one other
ctween $200,000 and $250,000.
Identity Hidden.
Al four of them, however, made
their returns under the class group
plan, thereby concealing the net in
me and the identity of the taxpay
¢r<. But combined these four had net
come of $1,494,900, on which they
paid taxes of $817,738.
I'wo persons in Georgia reported
! personal incomes between $150,-
000 and $200,000; 12 between $lOO,OOO
and £150,0007 eight between $90,000
nd £100,000; five between $BO,OOO and
290000, and seven between $70,000
and $BO,OOO.
_Persons with net income between
$l.OOO and $3,000 composed the larg
st group reporting in Georgia, there
bemg about 31,000 in this class. There
were about 23,000 persons reporting
ncomes in Georgia between $l,OOO
and $2,000.
WARNS THE WHITE RACE
TO BE ON THEIR GUARD
There’s Danger Ahead Is Declared in
Address at Columbus.
\\arning against the progress of the
ored races, particularly the Jap,
‘eut. Minger, in an address at Colum
s, Ga., to the Civitan club on Fri
v evening, declared that there was
danger ahead for the white man. He
called attention to the fact that the
‘Olored races, especially the Japanese,
"¢ Chinese and the negro, were in
"vasing much more rapidly than the
Vhites and deplorej the constant in
““4se in immigration to this country
O undesirable classes.
THE DAWSON NEWS
Between 50 and 100 Lives Are Lost
In Great Forest Fire in the Northwest
NORT BAY, Ont—Forest fire ref
ugees who arrived here today from
Haileybury reported that between 50
and 100 persons had been drowned
when they were crowded from a dock
where they were trying to board a
regeue ship.
report brought by the ref
ugees cores had been injur
ed and se to death when
flames swept t urch and
caused a panic amon s who
had gathered there for satety®
Among the refugees who arrived on
the boat were Michael Burns, his wife
and five .children, who were resgued
from their blazing home at Hailey-
Crush Indescribable.
bury. They declared the crush at the
dock was indescribable and that many
were pushed screaming into the wa
ter.
“At least fifty were drowned and
possibly a hundred,” declared A. P.
Whitlock, a traveling representative
FIRES ARE CHECKED
SCENES OF DESTRUCTION
THROUGHOUT REGIONS.
OVER 6,000 HOMELESS.
COBALT, Ont.—Heavy rains have
quenched the fire swept area, and tem
porary relief has been provided for the
homeless, estimated at approximately
6.000. The number of known dead is
29, and will possibly reach 60.
The relief party today visited En
glehart, New Liskard, Heaslip, Charl
ton, Thronloe and Earlton Junction.
Scenes of Destruction.
As the train pulled over the un
steady tracks, upon charred ties into
town after town, the sight was ap
pallingly the same. Smouldering ruins,
brick or stone chimney stacks totter
ing over cellar spaces filled with black
ened timbers marked what was a
town.
Sooty faced men and women gath
ered eagerly about the track when the
relief train came and in most cases
somebody on board was obliged to
ask the name of the place, for signs
and once familiar buildings had been
swept away in the tide of flame which
had passed this way a scant 24 hours
before. Such was the scene at Thorn
loe, Haileybury and Heaslip.
In Charlton only oné house was
left standing.
Englehart’s experience was similar
to that of Cobalt. The fire started in
the northwest corner of the town and
was driven by the wind directly to
ward the depot. Women and children
were loaded on freight cars and the
engine with steam up was able to pull
the train out when the wind shiited
almost completely around the com
pass, just as it did in Cobalt. Twenty
five residences extending in fanshape
from the corner of the town which
the fire first invaded were destroyed,
and that was all. Nothing but the shift
of the wind could have saved Engle
hart.
THEY HAVE BEEN FEASTING
ON LIVE STOCK. FARMERS
HUNT FOR THEM.
MOUNT VICTORY, O.—Posses
of farmers are scouring this entire
section of the country with renewed
energy for two lions, reported to have
been seen several times near Mount
Victory. An all-day search proved fu
tile and farmers are under the impres
sion that the jungle beasts are con
fining their activities to night time.
The animals were first seen about
a week ago by William Wilkerson.
Since then they have been reported as
having been seen by several other per
sons. Interest reached a high pitch
today when a Big Four railroad en
gineer and firemen reported that they
saw the lions last night.
“The night was clear and there is
no mistake about it,” said Ben By
Gregory, of Bellefontaine, engineer of
the freight. “They were snooping here
and there, and when we got within
close range both made a bee line for
a woods nearby.”
His fireman, Arthur Stauffer, of In
dianapolis, confirmed the statement.
It is now recalled that considerable
stock has been killed and this was at
tributed to dogs. Now the killing 1s
believed to be the work of the beasts,
which are thought to have escaped
from a circus.
Farm houses are guarded as never
beiore in the memory of the oldest in
habitant.
Do You Have the
Automobile Foot? A
Brand New Affliction
CHICAGO.—A brand new afflic
tion-~the automobile foot— was dis
closed today by Dr. Charles Cross, of
San Francisco, here to attend the con
vention of Physical Therapeutists. It
is caused, he declared, by holding the
foot for prolonged periods on the ac
celerator pedal.
The lesion caused by this strain, he
caid, is usually located at the second
toe. Sensations of pain occur across
the ball of the foot, alternately in
creasing and decreasing until is causes
alarm, according to the physician.
“Limousine foot,” Dr. Cross added,
is something entirely different—being
caused by imsufficient walking.
of Swiit & Co., who was badly burn
ed about the arms and hands.
Soon after midnight George W. Lee,
chairman of the Temiskaming &
Northern Ontario railway, issued this
statement concerning the fire now rag
ing in the north country:
5,000 Are Homeless.
“Over five thousand people have
been rendered homeless. The loss of
life is considerable and is mounting.
“Three trains with twenty-four cars
containing 1,400 refugees have left Co
balt for North Bay. Other trains are
being prepared as rapidly as possible.
“The property loss will obviously
run into millions of dollars. The fire
is still burning briskly, fanned by a
subsiding wind.
The destruction of both life and
property is the greatest ever known
in many similar catastrophes. Scenes
of devastation and suffering extended
over a wide area, and conditions are
pitiful. Everything possible is being
done to relieve the victims.
OBERAMMERGAU’S WONDER
FUL SPECTACLE SEEN BY
315,000, SCORN FILMDOM.
Her passion play over, her crowds
of tourists gonme and her shops sold
bare of souvenirs Oberammergau,
Germany, has slipped back into anoth
er decade of peace and quiet. A few
days of rest and the actor villagers
will busy themselves in restoring the
hamlet to its every day appearance.
The task -will be made easier by the
fact that some 315,006 visitors came to
cee the passion play this season and
left millions of marks which the vil
lage can devote to improvement pur
poses. The gross receipts of the play
itself were some 20,000,000 marks, the
sale of books and photographs netting
4,000,000 in addition. Other millions
were spent in the village shops and
restaurants.
Gave 66 Performances.
Altogether 66 performances were
given this year since the dress re
hearsal on May 9th. Beginning on
May 14th there were 31 scheduled per
formances, besides 33 extra public pre
sentations given on account of the
heavy demand for seats, and two spe
cial play days for catholic organiza
tions.
In 1910 only 57 performances were
given and the attendance was far less,
the seating capacity at that time be
ing considerably smaller. Figures are
not yet available to show the season’s
attendance by nationalities, but up to
the end of August 18,000 Americans
had visited the play.
Now that the approximately 800
performers are allowed to settle back
and rest after their arduous labors of
the last five months, the news that
$1,000,000 has been offered for the
privilege of filming the play meets
with a rather cool reception among
the rank and file of the villagers.
One Mishap Among Visitors.
The elders, especially, express re
sentment at the ‘‘profanation” they
feel would be committed were the deal
to be completed. Even those who over
look the sentimental considerations
oppose the proposition on the ground
that Oberammergau would be robbed
of its unique attraction abroad, espe
cially if the film were used to copy
the production for performance else
where.
KINGS OF RUMANIA, JUGO
SLAVIA AND GREECE SAID
TO BE HENPECKED.
PARlS.—Three beautiful women—a
mother and her daughters—dominate
the puppet kings who hold the reins
in the most important Balkan coun
trieseßumania, Jugo-Slavia and
Greece—where embers of a new Eu
ropean conflagration smolder.
Queen Marie of Rumania is the
dominating personality. She is known
as a superwoman, and through her
maternal influence with her two
daughters, Marie and Elizabeth,
queens, respectively, of Jugo-Slavia
and Greece, she controls the destinies
of 17.000,000 people, with armies to
taling 1,500,000 men.
Speculate on Marie’s Course.
With the dramatic accession of
George to the Greek throne, following
Constantine’s abdication, diplomats
are anxiously speculating on the course
Marie will steer. Inasmuch as the
vouthful Queen Elizabeth is still very
much attached to her mother’s royal
apron strings, and George is disin
clined to mix much in politics, the
way is paved for Rumanian domina
tion of Athens.
This feminization of the Balkan is
the result of the Rumanian queen’s
political foresight and ambition in
skillfully marrying her daughters—ia
mous as Europe’s most ravishing roy
al beauties—to the kings of éreecc
and Jugo-Slavia.
King Ferdinand Henpecked.
King Ferdinand of Rumania is a
notorious example of the henpecked
royal husbands. Long ago he ac
knowledged his wife's superior ability
at international imtrigue.
SENATOR ‘FELTON WILL
SPEAK AT ATHENS FAIR
Mrs. William H. Felton, of Carters
ville, Georgia’s junior senator, will be
a speaker at the Clarke county fair,
‘which will open at Athens Octoger 23.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 17, 1922
RIFLE SQUADS BUSY
Tunouesour RUSSIA
HARDLY A DAY PASSES WITH
~ OUT EXECUTIONS. RECON
STRUCTION UNDER WAY.
RIGA.—The cracking of the rifles
of squads of executioneers continues
throughout Russia, and may be heard
simultaneously with the tattoo of
workmen’s “hammiers engaged in the
actual repair an‘ reconstruction of
buildings throughout the land.
That reconstru;tti(m has begun and
is slowly contin#ing without import
ant assistance from foreign countries,
and that the soviet has not changed
its unrelenting and ruthless policy to
ward " its political ioes, are two out
standing phases of the Russian situa
tion evident to the correspondent of
the Associated Press who has come
to Riga after a@ cight months’ stay
in Russia.
No Fundamenta] Changes in Policy.
Hardly a day passes but somewhere
in the country the death sentence for
political offensesfis made effective, but
at the same tim§ no day dawns with
out the beginnig of some new task,
the purpose of which is to put in or
der buildings aRd streets that were
wrecked during fthe revolution. Pris
oners doomed t@ die look from their
windows out on bustling street scenes
and smiling people who have forgot
ten politics in the pleasure of building
new fortunes as trade opens up.
There have bgen no changes in the
fundamental policies of the soviet
government, but its tactics now seem
to be strikingly summed up in the
phrase of a foreign observer at Mos
cow: ‘“‘Assist or wink at anything
which ultimately helps us in the re
construction of = Russia; relentlessly
crush anyone who dares to raise his
hand against us§ politically.”
Speculators flourish, but the gov
ernment is busy devising means to get
their money away from them. These
men pay heavy taxes; dine at”’stu
pendous prices in tax-burdened rcss—'l
taurants, and play baccarat for high
stakes at night m the casinos from
which the government takes the lion’s
share of the profits. To the specula
tors the government is like the Gods
of Olympus, pefmitting its children to
play at busincs§B but threatening them
with a thunderbolt if they dare to
take part in the political game. |
The government makes no secret of |
its dictatorship, and the people are!
becoming accustomed to this and are
even happy in their daily lives under
it. Under the iron hand of dictator
ship the existence of the masses in
Russia is begiaming to run smoothly.
While the correspondent was in Mos
cow he was assured by government
leaders that no political freedom
would be granted Russia. But this
seems not to worry the people, and
tired of war and strife they now see
ample food before them, coupled with
the possibilities of personal ad\'ance—‘
ment. |
To foreigners in Russia the leaders
make no effort to conceal their policy.
They are not ashamed. They have
confidence in the policy of doing
wrong that good ultimately may come,
and they apparently are succeeding,
slowly and painfully, in reconstruct
ing Russia, but along their own lines,
and without any important sacrifice of
principle.
Reconstruction Is Superficial.
The evidence of reconstruction in
the land is more superficial than real
ly deep-seated. Streets are being re
paved, buildings reconstructed, and
railroad passenger traffic is becoming
normal. Industrial plants, however, 1l
no worse condition than a year ago,
certainly are in no better shape. These
plants need foreign capital, but lack
ing this on terms to which the com
munists can consent the government
is ready to wait until it has a surplus
of exports from agriculture. This it
hopes for in 1923, and then and there
after it sees money with which it will
be able to establish industries itself.
In the meantime, with evidence at
hand of enough food to feed practical
ly the entire population; with a fuel
supply exceeding that of last year,
and with textile works producing a
considerable amount of clothing, the
government expects the population to
be fed, and warmed, and clad, not
pecessarily very well, but still well
enough to weather another year with
out foreign loans. ‘
To feed the few hundred thousands
of people who still suffer from the
Russian ‘famine, the .government still.
looks to foreign aid.;This awill permit
it to devote most of the available fam
ine and church treasure funds to
constructive agricultural betterment,
and to the purchase of harvesting ma
chinery, horses, etc. ” e
Nikolai Lenine, premier of Russia,
though far from strong as the result
of his recent illness, has been the
guiding mind in these general polu‘lcs.i
’
OH, LOOK! HERE’S A
OH, ALGERNON! PIN A PRIZE
MEDAL ON THE AUGUSTA
. POLICE RIGHT NOW.
AUGUSTA, Ga.—A new flivver
story is being told today by the Au
gusta police.
Yesterday B. W. Hall parked his
car on Ellis street with engine run
ning. When he disappeared in a store
the car started forward, and for more
than a block, through crowded traffic
and across a busy street crossing,
dodged automobiles and wagons, as
though guided by an expert chauffeur.
The car came to a halt after two
crashes. one when it tried to stop by
ramming a gasoline filling tank and
last when it crossed the sidewalk and
stopped against a garage door.
400,000 Refugees From Asia Minor
May Perish Unless Aid Comes Soon
Reports from Smyrna, Asia Minor,
Saloniki, Greece, and the islands of
Mitylene and Chios, in the Agean sea,
show that thousands of Greek and
Armenian refugees, who fled before
the conquering Turk hordes in Asia
Minor are in danger of perishing.
Conservative estimates place the
number of sufferers at 400,000. The
Greek revolution has resulted in utter
administrative choas and complete
breakdown oi all the normal process
es of life. A message from the Ameri
can relief workers on the island of
Mitvlene says:
“The situation is desperate. Refu
gees, crazed by hunger, are throwing
themselves into the sea. There is no
bread on the island. Rush 800 tons of
flour immediately. Three Americans
are struggling to look after 150,000
refugees.” &
A wireless message from Comman
der Halsey Powell, of the American
destroyer Edsall, ordered to Smyrna,
Savs.
UNEMPLOYMENT, EXCEPT FOR
CLERICAL HELP, NO LONGER
EXISTS. CALL FOR MEN.
The unemployment of a iew months
ago has completely vanished, accord
ing to the employment bureau of the
department of labor, and in its place
has come a. dearth of skilled and un
skilled workers which is alarming
great industrial centers throughout the
country.
A survey of the industrial situation
shows there is virtually no unemploy
ment in the United States and that
the number of men out on strike has
dwindled to the lowest figure since
the war. Reports to the department of
labor disclose that, except for the tex
tile and transportation workers, there
is not a single strike in the United
States today involving as many as
1,090 persons. Such a record has not
been approached for years.
One of the surprising elements of
the situation is the nation-wide short
age of common labor, despite the in
crease in wages which has been re
ported from many sections. Thous
ands of common laborers could be put
to work at once in Philadelphia, Pitts
burg, Chicago and other l!arge cities
if such labor were available.
The lumber interests on the Pacific
coast can’t get enough skilled or un
skilled workers to fill al the orders
which the yhave. Farmers, particular
ly in Kansas and Texas, are unable
to get farm help, and the manufactur
ing centers of New England report a
lack of skilled workers which is as
suming a serious aspect.
DECLARES CLARENCE TRUE
WILSON TO METHODISTS.
CONDITIONS IN CHICAGO.
PRINCETON, Ill.—Prohibition at
its worst is better than license at its
best, declared Clarence True Wilson,
secretary of the board of temperance,
prohibition and public morals of the
Methodist Episcopal church in report
ing a five months’ survey by that
board of conditions in Chicago. It was
made to the Rock River Methodist
conference.
Seccretary Wilson said that Chicago
was celected for this study “because
it was desired to uncover prohibition
at its worst.” The committee compar
ed wet and dry years in their relation
to crime, welfare and reli¢f, health,
thrift and prosperity and general ?‘us
iness conditions. In each case, he said,
the advantage was shown to exist
since the advent of prohibition days.
“The effect upon crime alone fully
justifies the policy of prohibition in
Chicago,” the report states. “At the
same time, a note of alarm must be
sounded. Current crime statistics
plainly reveal that the wet propaganda
intended to incite uninformed or evil
minded people to violation of the pro
hibition law and to the consumption
of liquor is having an effect. Good re
sults, so noticeable at first, are being
modified.”
The report cites statistics of the
medical superintendent of the House
of Correction, who stated that in 1918
345 cases of acute alcoholism were re
ported and in 1921 this number de
creased to 61. Chronic alcoholism cas
es in 1918 totaled 1,614 and dropped
to 127 in 1921. Three cases of delir
jum tremens were reported in 1921 as
compared with 109 in 1918.
Employers of labor throughout the
city almost invariably declare that pro
hibition has increased efficiency, de
creased absenteeism, and improved
the general physical condition of the
men. The real estate situation has
been distinctly helped.”
Prizes to be Given Away in The
News’ Big Subscription Campaign
First Grand Prize—§l,o2o Buick
“Four,” five-passenger touring car.
(Purchased 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. (Pur
“Americans evacuated 31,000 refu
gees in one day recently. Total for
three days 74,000. Between 20,000 and
50,000 are in the immediate vicinity.
Expect more ships.”
Messages from Rodosto say the
Greek troops there number 10,000;
that they are undisciplined and that
the population is in consternation at
the prospect of a Turkish invasion.
Fifty thousand refugees have been
moved to the interior villages, but 25,-
000 remain. They face a grave food
shortage and an outbreak of tvphoid
fever owing to the polluted water sup
ply.
At Saloniki the conditions are de
plorable. The city has been in ruins
since the great fire in 1918 and affords
little more shelter than Smyrna. The
local Greek administration confesses
its inability to cope with the tremend
ous problem. Additional refugees are
arriving there daily. American relief
working are vieing with the British of
ficers and civilians in assisting to re
store calm and alleviating misery.
l FARM 14,000 ACRES
IS LOCATED IN MISSISSIPPI,
AND IS ONE OF THE SHOW
PLACES OF THE SOUTH.
The biggest cotton farm in the
|world is that under the management
"of Mr. J. W. Fox, at Scott, Mississip
pi. Of a plantation of some 28000
‘acres in cultivation—36,ooo acres in all
—there are 14,000 acres in cotton, The
‘balance is under process of rebuilding,
in pasture, in hay or other feed crops.
It was our privilege to visit this plan
‘tation the last days of July and to ride
over it with Professor Fox himself,
says the Cotton Planter, This farm is
one of the great show places of the
south, and what is to be seen there
is of the utmost importance to. every
cotton grower of the entire belt, What
ever the cost of a visit to this place
any cotton farmer can afford it. |
There can be no doubt that the boll
weevil and his work is one of our
most important agricultural problems.
He is not the whole thing, but until
he is under control he will head a list
of obstacles in the way of economic
production of maximum crops of cot
ton. The work at Mr. Fox’s place
has especial bearing on the solution
of this problem. |
Wonderful Uniformity of Plants.
} Cotton at the Fox place is growing
on fields that range from the worn
'soils brought into cultivation some
thing like a century ago to fields that
were in woods—heavily txmberedl
woods—llast winter. Driving through
these thousands of acres we were im
pressed with the wonderful uniformi
ty of the plants, the good stand, and
the fact that all the fields were bloom
ing up to the top of the plants—and
this in spite of 12 inches of excess
rain that came in April, May and
June, during the plahting season and
at the heights of the cultivating sea
son. 801 l weevils have been on hand
and in all of these fields would have
gotten in their most complete work
except for the use of calcium arsenate.
By the end of the season at a cost of
clightly more than $3 per acre Mr.
Fox had dusted 160 tons of this
material on his fields. The weevils are
under perfect control, and there is
three-quarters of a bale of cotton to
the acre. What we saw on this farm
is enough to make any man who will
take the time to go there and see forl
himself enthusiastic about the futurc.l
WRECK S. A. L. TRAINi
TIRES ARE FOUND ON TRACK!
IN TIME TO AVOID SERI
OUS ACCIDENTS.
AMERICUS, Ga.—Three attempts
to wreck a train on the Seaboard Air
Line, all within the past week, haw‘
aroused authorities to a point where,
thev are determined to solve a mys
tery that has them completely baffled.
Twice on Monday and again Tuesday |
special agents of the road found ties’
across the track in such a position
that a wreck surely would have fol
lowed had a train traveling rapidly
come into contact with them. The
point for all three attempts was on
the Seaboard Air Line about a mile
west of the city.
No Trace of Wreckers.
Investigation has so far revealed no
trace of those who have been making
the attempt. The attempts have been
made in daylight and the 12:30 train
from Montgomery struck a tie and
dragged it 100 feet before the engine |
could be stopped. The fact that it was |
placed lengthwise on the track \\'a~‘}
all that prevented a serious wreck. |
chased of and on display at the E. B.
Durham Co’s. store.)
Sixty dollars in special cash prizes
will also be given.
Five hundred dollars has been set
aside for cash commissions. All com
peting contestants turning in $3O or
more in cash subscription businessand
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 remewals, the worker
turns in.
A NEWSPAPER
DEVOTED TO
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOL. 40.—N0. 7
- ARE NOW AT WORK
|
| PRIZES AGGREGATE OVER $2-
| 000, AND CASH COMMISSIONS
[ WILL ALSO BE PAID.
! The announcement of The Dawsom
iNews’ great subscription campaign
iw:th $2,150 in prizes and cash com
' missions, headed by a $1,020 Buick
’tourmg car purchased from the Daw
son Buick Company, attracted instant
' attention.
I The campaign is not put on by The
Dawson News as a money-making
venture, nor as a popularity contest,
but purely as a campaign to secure
greater circulation in Terrell and ad
joining counties, where there are sev
eral hundred new subscribers which
we can possibly secure, besides allow=
ing pres‘nt subscribers to pay past:
due accofints and renew in advance,
Awards Worth While. &
Instead of paying salaries to num
erous outside solicitors there has beem:
set aside a fund for awards and com
missions worth $2,150, which will be
distributed to successful contestants.
The Dawson News wishes it under
stood at the beginning that this cam
paign is not an ordinary newspaper
scheme. It is a straight out and out
business undertaking in which this
newspaper sets out to attain a definite,
legitimate end, and in a manner that
will appeal to those who take part.
No Losers.
A special feature of the campaign is
the fact that everyone who takes anm
active part will earn either one of the
awards offered, or a cash commission.
The contestants will get paid for what
they do, and no one will do anything
for nothing.
| Nominees Already Entered.
~ We print in this issue of The Daw
son News the names of nominees re
ceived up until noon Saturday, Octo
ber 14th. Thé list shows that the peo
ple of this section realize the full mes~
it of the proposition The Dawsom
News is placing before them. If vomwr
name is not in this list clip the nom
ination ballot found in the page ad
vertisement in this issue, fill m the
ballot and send or mail it to The Daw
son News office today.
$30.00 Goes November 4th.
On November 4th, 6 p. m., there
will bé awarded $3O in cash. Fifteen
dollars goes to the contestant turning
in the greatest amount of cash sub
scriptions from the beginning of the
contest up to that time; ten dol
lars goes to the one turning in the sec
ond most; five dollars goes to thée one
turning in the third most. These are
‘Lthe first special cash prizes, and a por
tion of the $6O in special cash prizes
to be awarded.
Biggest Vote Offer Now On.
The campaign has been divided inte
extra vote periods, and those whe
start their active work NOW stand a
far better show of winning the $1,020
Buick or other big prizes than those
who begin later on. Up until Satur
day, November 4th, 6 p. m., each $l2
in cash subscription business turned
in by a contestant gives that worker
an extra vote coupon good for 100,-
000 extra votes. And a glance at the
extra vote schedule just below shows
various vote values during the race
so get busy now.
; Not Too Late.
Because a list of entries has beem
made does not bar you from entering
the race. A big list of entrants does
not necessarily mean each and every
person entered will go to work. Se
if you want the $1,020 Bunick touring
car, the $350 six-piece American wak
nut bedroom suite, or the $2OO Edison
phonograph, a cash prize or big cash
commissions clip the' nomiration bal
lot from the page advertisement and
send in your name today. The entry
blank itself is good for 50,000 votes;
if accompanied by a one year sub
scription to The Dawson News it is
good for 75,000 votes, while a ten-year
subscription accompanying it gives
the nomination a 150,000 vote value.
After November 11th the entry blank
will be withdrawn, so gain the great
est value on the entry blank by get-,
ting your name in today. An early
start is truly half the battle.
Bonus Vote Schedule.
First Period: From the beginning
of the campaign on October 14th until
Saturday, November 4th, 6 p. m,
100,000 bonus votes will be given for
each $12.00 in cash subscription busi
ness turned in.
Second Period: 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 im.
Third Period: From Saturday, No
vember 11th, 6 p. m., until Saturday,
November 18th, 6 p. m., 100,000 bonus
votes will be given for each $20.00 im
cash subscription business turned .
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 im
cash subscription business turned im.
Third Period: From Saturday, Ne
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 each $28.00 in cash sub
scription business turned in.
1f 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 given with
each $28.00 in cash subscription busi
ness turned in during the extended
period.
THE PRODUCTION OF
- FIREARMS FALLING OFF
The production of firearms at priv
ate piants in the United States showed
a decrease of more than 58 per ’cg%
in the year 1921, as compared with
1919, according to a report by the
census bureau. 1