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guy AT HOME
AND HELP
pAWSON PROSPER
gy E. L. RAINEY
ALL LIQUORS BARRED FROM U. S. TERRITORIAL WATERS
—_—
opESIOENT MUST PAY
IT coSTS HIM TWENTY-FIVE
REGULAR FARES FOR USE[§
OF PRIVATE CAR.
fATS UP MUCH OF HIS SALARY
gill For Forthcoming Trip Will Stag
ger Him. In Old Days Companies
Tran-porting Presidents Stood Bur
den of Traveling Expenses.
There still is a great deal of mys
wry through the country as to how
the president travels. Mr. Harding’s
:rthcoming journey: to Alaska has
prought the subject up anew for dis
cussion, says @ Washington special to
4 Baltimore Sun. Continuing, the
Qun writer says:
Does he use a pass?”
‘Docs he pay for the trip out of his
own D (k(‘t?" ‘
“Does he pay for the newspaper
nen and the photographers who go
;114 ngr
. He Pays His Way.
These are the most common' ques
tions that come to Washington, and
ior the sake of brevity the answer to
Lll of them is “Na.”
The president of the United. States
ks not a “deadhead” in railroad par
lonce. He must pay! his fare just as
v ordinary individual must, except
hat the president, for the sake of ex
cutive seclusipn, always uses a pri
e car, and in order to induce the
2iroads to handle this car he has to
av 25 full fares instead of one. Anyl
rdinary person, however, can have a
cvate car hauled®at exactly the same |
There was a time, up to and includ
¢ a large part of the Roosevelt ad
inistration, when the president was
arried iree by thé railroads; not only'
he president, but all of his entourage,
ncluding as many guests as he cared
( ite. The Pennsylvania railroad
o the old days financed many a presi
jential trip entirely across the conti-,
ot and back, defraying not only the
spenses of transportation, but all
wiman charges and both solid and
lonid reireshments, with after-dinner
mokes thrown in for good measure.
Expensive for Railroads.
It is estimated that some of the big
rsdential “swings ‘around the cir
cost the Pennsylvania as high as
000 or $lOO,OOO. -There was no
ther way the president could travel,
less he chose to spend the greater
rtion of his salary, which. was but
30.000 a year at that time.
ongress at last .came to the con
on that the practice of placing the'
1 of presidential trips on a few !
modatihe railroads was all]
brong. 'lt was agreed that the presi
ilt should travel but that he should
* have to place himself under obli
ns to the railroads for services
red. So congress, dofing its c(n;n‘
)i nigeardliness, not only raiSed the
rosidential salary to $75,000 a year, |
‘ lait came into office, l)ut‘
rented a yearly appropriation of $25,-
lditional for traveling expenses.
‘ $25.000 a year does not pro
] n awful lot of transportation at
prevailing rates..
This Bill Will Stagger Him.
| When he starts across the continent
bis month the president will trayel
1 2 special train. A special train costs
25 full railroad fares for every mile
faveled. In addition to this every
illman car in the special train costs
00 a day, with an additional sur
arge, which also goes to the rail
-oads. It can be seen that at this rate
b presidential appropriation will be
sed probably for two cars of the
pccial train, accommodating the pres-|
nt's immediate party, including his
feretary, George Christian, and Dr.
awver and such personal guests as
¢ fesires to take along, as well as a
I i clerks and stenographers to;
indlc the executive business while
It chiet magistrate* is on tour. |
| \¢wspaper’ men, photographers,‘
Pecial writers, and even the secretJ
krvice men will have to bear their
/ i the general expense of the
)i some of the Tait trips,
en railroad fares were much cheap-
E n they are -otday, each news
dher man was assessed as high as
e r traveling expenses alone.
Must Rent Private Car.
wirary to the general impression,
E dent of the United States has
rivate car of his own. When he
i the road he is compelled to
: irom the Pullman company.
ias been talk from time to
& providing the chief exedutive
; car, but congress never has
b step. The $25,000 travel ap
n always has proved suffi
- ‘ar, even with so keen a way
; \r. Taft.
: \laskan portion of the jour
: the return trip through the
E ‘anal, of course, will be made
E v vessel, but here again the
Sidential party wWAII “pay for its
E: standing full share in the
t of the messes aboard.
HILD FOUND LUNCHING
“N STICK OF DYNAMITE
14 P
“dren Found the Explosive in a
: Bunch of Wire.
. E. Brewer, of Kansas’ City,
_ amazed to find her, three
~daughter seated on the step
porch complacently chewing
f-pound stick of dynamite.
'A:t;"l the baby from its
; Other children, who had
; mg in the yard, explained
4 baby found the 'explosive
o och of wire. No-illveffects fol
ine dynamite menu.
THE DAWSON NEWS
Baby Falls Five Stories;
Slightly Wrenches W rist
Margie O’Donnell, Aged 2, Breaks
Tenement High-Dive Record
In New York.
NEW YORK.—Margie O’Donnell
the record for the tenement
3 infants’ division' to
ay: fell off the
roof of a g, slightly
wrenching her righ t.
Mrs. Mamie O’Donnell, Margie's
mother, was busy with a large wash
and put a chair sin the doorway of
their third-floor flat so that the air
could circulate around, but Margie
couldn’t. Margie, however, hurdled it,
mounted two flights of stairs and then
got out on the roof. Across the street
were some boys playing on a roof
with pigeons.
IAMERICAN RED CROSS IS A
GUARDIAN ANGEL IN WAR
| AND TIME OF PEACE.
Forty years of relief work in fire,
flood, war and other disasters will be
celebrated by the American’ Red Cross
this summer. Since 1882 the society
has been active in relief work.
Now, Red Cross officials declare,
while their primary conception of Red
Cross societies was relief in war time,
the' American society has recognized
its greatest task as the amelioration
of suffering in peace.
Geneva Treaty Foundation.
“The sick and wounded victims of
epidemics and natural calamities suf
fer none the less because their suffer
ing did not spring from war,” says
Ernest P. Bicknell, vice chairman and
former national director of the Amer
ican Red Cross.
“The treaty of Geneva, which is the
foundation and charter of all Red
Cross societies, makes no provisions
for any activities outside those con
nected directly with armies and war.
Aided in 372 Disasters.
“Not a great many years elasped,
‘however, before the world began to
realize that the underlying idea -of
the Red Cross was more widely ap
plicable to conditions of life.”
Previous to 1905, the year of re-or
ganization, the average yearly cost o
disaster relief was about $lOO,OOO.
Since 1919 the average cost has been
about $14,500,000. Since 1881 the
American Red Cross has extended re
lief in 372 disasters.
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DICTURESQUE PROCESSION ON
HISTORIC PENNSYLVANIA
AVE. IS REVIEWED.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President
Harding had a prominent part today
in "the festivities incident to the open
ing here of the forty-ninth annual
convention of the Ancient Arabic Or
der, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He
reviewed a parade of .3(),({0() Nobles,
the feature event of the day; delivered
an address on fraternalism at the first
session of the Imperial Council and at
tended a banquet given for Imperial
Potentate James S. McCandless, of
Honolulu.
* With Mrs. Harding and Gen. Per
shing, the executive, *who is a Noble
of Aladdin Temple of Columbus, 0.,
remained for three and a half hours in
his box in the reviewing stand in
front of the white house as the long
line of nobles passed through “The
Garden of Allah” on their march over
the “burning sands” of Pennsylvania
avenue from the capital to Washing
ton Circle. Mr. Harding wore a white
suit and a red fez, but Gen. Pershing
was in the uniform of his rank as
general of the armies.
Both the executive and Mrs. Hard
ing entered fully into the spirit of the
occasion, vigorously applauding the
marchers and finding amusement in
the antics of some of the drum majors
and the clowns accompanying several
‘of the delegations. As each of the 11
temples passed the stand the presi
'dent and Mrs. Harding arose to sa
}lute the American flag and so were
kept on their feet much of the time
the parade was under way.
Probably no more picturesque pa
rade than that ‘of the Shriners ever
has passed over Washington’s historic
thoroughfares, scene of many inaugu
ral, victory, preparedness and * other
pageants. From the conventional black
and the cooler white the colors pre
sented all the hues of a rainbow,
while the variety of costumes kept
pace almost with the number of the
colors. Chariots, mounted patrols etc.
X;;;nomers Work Years to Chart
300,000,000 Stars in the Heavens
World Scientists Discover But Small
Number of Stars Visible With
out Aid of Telescope.
One of the most interesting and
valuable results of modern studies in
astronomy is nearing completion in
the Paris observatory, after 36 years
of painstaking labor. It is a new map
of the heavens and catalogue of the
stars. The compilation shows that
there- are approximately 300,000,000
heavenly bodies visible through pow
erful telescopes.
.Photographing the heavens was a
plan first developed by ithe Paris ob
servatory, and its then director, Ad
miral Mouchez, summoned an inter
national congress of astronomers in
GARNETT W. SAYE, FORMER
FEDERAL PROHIBITION
AGENT, IS NEW OFFICER.
CITIZENS HOLD MASS MEETING
Claim That Activities of New Officer
Is Interfering With Farm Labor
And Request Commissioners to
Dispense With His Services.
Mr. Garnett Saye, former federal
prohibition enforcement officer located
at Albany, has been employed by the
board of Terrell county commission-:
ers as county policeman, and he be
gan his official duties here Thursday
with a rush.
On the first day "he snared three
liqguor making devices as a starter.
One of the distillers, a negro named
' Tom Simmons, living near the Cen
tral of Georgia railway, made such ‘a
hasty exit that he left his store wide
open and even his automobile in the
care of Mr. Saye.
Two moonshiners were disturbed in
their illicit labors Friday, and a large
copper still of fifty gallons capacity
was brought to the sheriff’s office af
ter the raid.
It is understood that the grand jury
at the .last session of the superior
court was requested by a number of
Dawson and Terrell county women
to emplgy a special officer in an ef
fort to curb the illicit liquor trade.
The grand jury suggested that such
an officer be employed, and the coun
ty compmissioners hired Capt. Saye for
a term of three months at a salary of
$2OO a month, ; ;
Mr. Saye is an experienced man in
this work, having been employed in
several Georgia counties before com
ing to Terrell. He is an indefatigable
worker, and seems to be spurred on
instead of curbed by the flood of ad
verse crittcism which has greeted his
efforts here.
It is his intention to catch every
maker of moonshine in Terrell coun
ty. little or big, from the lard can
operator, to the copper still magnate.
| The new officer is on_the trail 8f the
moonshiner, and it will be wise for
that individual to check his opera
ltions. :
Farmers Protest.
A mass meeting was held in the
court house Saturday morning to dis
cuss the matter of requesting the
county commissioners to wait until
fall to employ a law enforcement
officer. About forty were present and
several made talks for and against the
employment of a new county officer.
Farmers claim that labor s being
run off the farms, due to the energy
of the officer, and ask that something
be done to relieve the situation. No
action was taken.
It is understood that another meet
ing will be held at the court house
Friday morning for the purpose of
further discussing the matter. :
Just what the outcome of the agita
tion wil be remains to be’seen.
tion will be remains to be seen. The
action of the commissioners in em
ploying this officer has caused more
discussion than anything that has
happened here in a long time and: it
would seem that the end is not yet.
Mr. Saye is experienced in the work
for which he has been brought to Ter
rell county to do. and while in the
employ of the government made a
record as a tiger hunter that was pos
sessed by but few men. i
CHIEF JUSTICE NOT SEEKING
TOGA BUT RESPONDS TO
POPULAR CALL.
SAVANNAH, Ga—Chief Justice
Richard B. Russell, of the Georgia
supreme court, said in Sav#hnah on
Thursday that while he does not seek
a senatorial toga if,the people wish
him to make the race for the senate
next yvear he will do so. The chief
justice was asked about reports from
Atlanta that he was to run for the
senate. He said a number of people
have spoken to him about the matter.
“I do not wish to appear greedy by
asking for another office aitger being
honored by election as chief justice,
but if the people want me to run I
shall do so,” he stated. ;
Justice Russell is in Savannah at
tending the annual convention of the
County Officers’ Association of Geor
gia, which convened here Thursday.
Justice Russell is to make an address.
1887, at which time it was decided to
map the heavens. Eighteen nations/
ggrecd to contribute to the undertak
ing.
Ten thousand leaves of a photo
graphic map contain stars to the
fourteenth magnitude, of which there
are more than 20,000,000. Stars to the
sixth magnitude may be seen with the
naked eye. 4
A few years ago the number of
stars was set at approximately 100,-
000,000. Now that number has beeh
trebled, and as the explorers of new
worlds in the universe progress in
their studies they find space filled
with stars, the light of which reaches
the e{e of the explorer after years of
travel, so distant are these bodies.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1923
Georgia Sends President
’ .
Season’s First Peaches
Fruit and Roasting Ears From Au
gusta Delivered at the White
Huse by Airplane.
AUGUSTA, Ga.—First peaches of
the season ecaten by President and
Mrs. Harding were sent by airplane
from Augusta to Washington. The
plane also carried a dozen roasting
ears of corn for the president,
The peaches for the white house
were to be transported by the two big
Martin bombing planes of the war
department, which carried from
here two bales of cotton to New Bed
ford, to be made into Masonic aprons
by, the Wamsutta Mills there and
rushed on to Washington to be worn
by the Shriners in convention there.
~ The peaches were presented at the
white house by Lieut. Courtney
Whitney, of the army air service, and
’Cranston Williams, secretary to Sen
‘ator Harris, of Georgia.
) The plane left Augusta at 4:30
‘o'clock ‘in the morning, and only §
hours of actual flying time was spent
in taking the peaches irom Augusta
}to the president. :
WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS, MAS
SACHUSETTS AND OTHERS
WILL ENTER THE WAR.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—With New
York state leading the “revolt” against
prohibition, several other states are
lining up behind it, according to in
formation reaching here, and the wet,
forces are looking to the great indus
trial states of the union to join in
similar action for a repeal of state en
forcement laws.
With Wisconsin ameong the first
states to report a movement under
way in its legislature to put the state
enforcement act to a test, Illinois,
Massachusetts and Comnecticut report
similar revivals of activity among the
wets. _
The Wisconsin adsembly, striking
the first blow in the west at absolute
prohibition, has approved the Tucker
bill by a vote of 47 to 43 to repeal
the state dry enforcement law.
Mayor Backs Wets.
The Constitutional Liberty League
of Massachusetts, heartened by Gov.
Smith’s approval of the repeal bill, de
clared Gov. Smith’s move is the start
in a nation-wide campeign for the
modification of the Volstead act.
Any move toward this end in Mas
sachusetts will have the full support
of Mayor Curley, of Boston, who is
quoted as saying that Gov. Smith’s
action “marks the first vital blow at
fanatical interpretation of the prohibi
ition law.”
| Sees Wine-Beer Drive.
|. Mayor Curley has declared he looks
to see agitation for light wines .and
beer spread rapidly through the coun
try.
Connecticut three times refused to
ratify the ecighteenth amendment, and
a petition now is before the legislature
to repeal the state enforcement act
that was passed under the belief that
the legislature must adopt a concur
rent statute in agreement with the
Volstead act.
The repealer is in the hands of Sen
ator M. C. Grath, democratic leader
in the senate.
House leaders have said they will
act on the repealer if Senator Mc-
Grath insists.
Missouri, where a considerable
number of wets are concentrated in its
leading city, St. Louis, also is report
ed to be receptive toward sentiment
for loosening the Volstead law. The
recent legislature tightened the state
law by curing some legal defects in
it, but a branch of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment
is campaigning to bring about a
change.
( Cincinnati Joins In.
Cincinnati wets also hailed the ac
tion of Smith, but leaders say there
has not been sufficient time elapsed
since New York’s action for any ac
tion to be taken.
NEARLY $4,000,000
GOVERNMENT FIGURES SHOW
67,719 PERSONS IN STATE
MADE INCOME RETURNS.
Citizens of Georgia paid $3.892,545
to the government in income tax for
the calendar year ending December
31, 1921, according to figures made
public Wednesday by J. T. Rose, col
lector in Georgia. The total income
reported was $180,311,466. Returns for
this tax were made prior to March
19, 1922, and all of the $3,892,645 tax
was collected prior to December 15,
1922,
According to the figures 67,719 per
sons made returns, the average re
turn being $2,663.
Compared with 1920 there was a
decrease of 5,606 or 7.55 per cent in
the number of persons making re
turns and a reduction in the total net
income amounting to $48,308,250, or
21.13 per cent. The decrease in tax
paid was $3,805.048. or 49.43 per cent.
There were 24754 incomes of be
tween - $2,000 and $3.000, and 25578
incomes between $l,OOO and $2,000 re
ported.
The average tax paid ‘was lower in
Georgia than the nation’s average,
which was $107.98. The average for
Georgia was $57. 3 ¢
,There was only one return listing
an_income of more than $150,000 and
only, eight list:‘nf incomes between
$lOO,OOO and 3! 0,000.&“ ‘
BAINBRIDGE WILL BRING A
STRONG TEAM TO DAWSON
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY.
FOUR TOWNS FORM CIRCUIT
Schedule Is Arranged Temporarily by
Albany, Bainbridge, Arlington and
Dawson. Albany and Arlington to
Play Here Next Week.
The 1923 baseball season will open
on ‘the Dawson diamond Wednesday,
June 13th, the fast Bainbridge club
coming here for a two-game series.
Dawson will journey to Bainbridge
for games in that city Friday and
Saturday.
Bainbridge is the dark horse of the
new South Georgia Loop and is man
aged by J. M. Stackhouse, former
star South Atlantic League pitcher,
who, under the name of James, pitch
ed a no hit game for Columbia against
Charleston several years back. It is
reported here that Stackhouse has
corralled a fast gang of ball players
and though they have given out no
announcement as yet it is generally be
lieved that they will have the cream
of the league.
Just who will ?pcar in Dawson
uniforms has not Dbeen disclosed yet
by the officials, but from bits of ru-‘
mor floating around it is believed
that this city will be represented by
the fastest team ever gathered ' to
getHer on Baldwin park.
Albany will play in Dawsoh on
Monday, June 18th, and again on
Wednesday, the 20th. The Dougherty
county town will probably open here
with Jack Slappey, who has been
pitching baseball long before the ad
vent of the boll weevil., Jack has been
pitching in the Texas League for
Shreveport until recently, when he!
joined his home team. He also had ai
yvear with Connie Mack’s Athletics.
Arlington Comes 22nd.
On Friday, June 22, Arlington will
make her debut on the local diamond.
Arlington is this year managed by
Tige Stone, one of the best-known
semi-pro players in Georgia, and with
al a fine young gentleman. Under
Tige's able leadership the Bostwick
ites will present a strong array of
material. He has Ike Thrasher, Hop
Morgan, Cliff Pantone, Charlie
Hodges and others well acquainted
throughout this section.
Following is the tentative schedule
of the locally christened South Geor
gia Loop, which will begin its grind
tomorrow, June 13th. The schedule
is only tentative and runs through
June 23rd, as Blakely and Americus,
it is supposed, will be organized by
that time:
June 13th Bainbridge at Dawson;
Albany at Arlington.
June 14th Bainbridge at Dawson:
Arlington at Albany.
June 15th Dawson at Bainbridge;
Albany at Arlington.
June 16th Dawson at Bainbridge;
Arlington at Albany.
June 18th Albany at Dawson; Arl
ington at Bainbridge.
June 19th Dawson at Albany; Bain
bridge at Arlington.
June 20th Albany at Dawson; Arl
ington at Bainbridge. :
June 21st Dawson at Arlington; Al
bany at Bainbridge.
June 22nd Arlington at Dawson;
Bainbridge at Albany.
June 23rd Dawson at Arlington;
Albany at Bainbridge.
All Teams Stronger This Year.
Dawson will present one of the
der the local name when the club treks
der the local name when the clug treks
out on Baldwin park for the initial
struggle of the season. Heretofore,
for as many moons as most of us can
remember, the Dawson team has been
woefully weak at the beginning of
the grind and then strengthened as
the season progressed. This time,
however, the home team will be in
the fight from the tap of the bell.
Albany will have one of the strong
est aggregations ever to don the
Dougherty county livery, that is cer
tain. The officers of that club have
been at work for some time gather
ing material and it is safe to bet that
it is well to rest assured that the old
fox will have a strong representation
for his wonderful little baseball town.
Any team that boasts of Tige Stone
and Sullivan on its pitching staff will
be hard to beat in at least two games
of any series.
Just what Uncle Bob Bostwick will
have at Arlington is hard to tell, but
when their opening lineup is announc
ed some of the best known college
stars in Georgia and Alabama will be
ready to answer to their names. It
will be indeed hard for Albany to as
semble as good team as it had last
year at the beginning of the season.
Billions Dollars Spent Each Year by
Americans for Tobacco and Snufi
United States Uses 60,000,000,000 Ci
garettes Every Twelve Months,
Federal Statistics Show.
America’s smoking, chewing and
snuff bill is $1,000,000,000 a year, ac
cording to figures just made public
by the department of agriculture,
which declares that since the civil war
the per capita consumption of tobac
¢6 has more than doubled. Sixty bil
lion cigarettes now are being manu
factured every year in the Unitéed
States, this being exclusive of the
“roll-your own” kind.
“The consumption of tobacco has
increased steadily since colonial times,
but since the civil war it has been
rapid,” department officials say. “Be
Married 12 Years Ago
But Did Not Know It
Man Lost Pocketbook and Finder
Adopted His Name, Taking Wife
Under It in France.
PARIS.—In the eyes of the law
Joseph Tesniere, employe of a Paris
theater, was married 12 years ago, but
he knew nothing about it,
Twenty years ago Tesniere lost a
pocketbook containing various cards
of identity. The finder, appropriating
the name, in 1911 married a girl in
Toulon whose first name was Pauline,
Recently, Tesniere learned of the
deception. The law said he was legal
ly married, so he instituted proceed
ings and the Toulon tribunal has just
granted him a divorce. ,
Meanwhile the perpetrator of the
trick is being sought in Spain.
HAD TO CANCEL PASSAGE
" HOME AFTER GOING THE
COCKTAIL ROUTE.
PARlS.—Three well known Amer
ican society women, two New York
ers and one Chicagoan, here for the
annual replenishment of their ward
robes, canceled their passage on the
Olympic tomorrow and ca%led their
husbands they are suffering with se
vere colds, preventing their departure
as a result of a wild night in Mont
martre, ending at noon today, when
they were still suffering from giant
hangovers and had their hair bobbed.
The three started the cocktail route
vesterday afternoon after the races;
then took in the big downtown cafes
and finally the Montmartre resorts,
consuming such large quantities of
champagne and shimmying with high
ly tipped proiessional dancers that
they were ashamed or afraid to re
turn to their big, exclusive hotel near
Place Vendéme at daylight. |
The trio repaired to another haunt,
imbibing eyeopeners and other meth
ods guaranteed to bring them to, even
snifing a little cocaine, which the‘
place offered as a sure cure. |
Finally at 11 o’clock they decided
to patronize a beauty parlor for a
massage and hot towels befpre going
home. At the -Wair. dressing establish
ment they encountered a couple of
dancing girls whom they had met the
night before in Montmartre having
their bobbed hair trimmed and the
three society women decided to emu
late them.
It was only after a long sleep that
the trio *tame to and realized that
their husbands have strong objections
to closed cropped heads and decided
it would be necessary to prolong their
sojourn a couple of weeks and . let
their hair grow as much as possible.
PUBLIC MUST “SHELL OUT']
LIBERALLY FOR FUEL THIS
YEAR. HUGE DEMAND.
America’s coal bill this year will be
the highest in history, according to
government officials, who explain it as
due primarily to an unprecedented de
mand for 'coalgat this season of the
year, which in many sections is keep
ing prices at winter levels.
Production Is Normal.
No falling off in production can be
held accountable for the present
prices, it is declared, as reports show
a steady output equal to any reason
able demand in both hard and soft
coal districts. The householder him
self, according to all indications, is
keeping up the price by “laying in”
his coal during the spring months,
when normally the demand is slack
ened.
The consumption of some grades of
coal may be running slightly in ex
cess of current production, govern
ment officials says, but this does not
indicate an actual or potential short
age. All orders can be filled from re
serve stocks, it is said, and as soon
as the average householder has laid
in his winter’s supply, the usual siump
will be felt in the demand for all do
mestic grades.
Heeding “Buy Now” Admonition.
The action of the public in heeding
the admonition to “buy now” is keep
ing the retail price of coal at winter
levels in many parts of the country,
it is said.
Bituminous prices, however, have
taken a slight drop. Production re
ports show that bituminous is being
mined at the average rate of 10,000,-
000 tons a week, and anthracite at 2,-
000,000 tons, these figures comparing
favorably with the averages of other
years. .
fore the civil war it was less than
four pounds per capita. Since that
time the rate of consumption has
steadily climbed until it is now &5
pounds.
“The outstanding feature of the ex
pansion in the last quarter of a cen
tury has been the great increase in
the use of machine-made cigarettes.
From 1895 to the present time the
manufacture of cigarettes has risen
from 4,000,000,000 a year to 60,000,-
000,000.
“Census returns show that in 1919
there were 10,291 tobacco manufact
uring establishments employing 183,-
000 persons. The internal revenue from
tobacco now amounts to nearly $300.-
000,000 a year.” v
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VOL. 40.—N0. 41
HARDING OVERRULED LIB
ERALS AND INSISTED ON
DRASTIC REGULATIONS.
ALL LOOPHOLES ARE CLOSED
New Regulations Given Out by Treas
ury Department Effective June 10.
Only Hope of Wets Is in Congress.
Foreign Governments Protest.
WASHINGTON. The treasurv
has laid on the international door
step Its new regulations carrying out
the supreme court decision barring all
beverage liquors frem territorial wa
ters of the United States after 12:01
a. m. June 10th.
No loop holes have been left, ac
cording to a treasury spokesman, and
the court’s recent construction of the
dry law will be rigidly applied.
Having failed to find any way by
which conflict with foreign faws could
be avoided, the treasury based its
new ship liquor rules on a literal read
ing of the court’s decision and pre
pared to let come what may.
Crux of Announcement.
The crux of the administration’s
pronouncement, which became ef
fective on June 10th, is found in sec
tion 8 and 10 of the regulations. They
rcad as follows: :
Section 8. No merchant vessel, do
mestic or foreign, may lawfully carry
as cargo within the territorial waters
of the United States any liquor for
use for. beverage purposes.
Section 10. It is unlawiul for any
United States or foreignm merchant
vessel within the territorial’ waters of
the United States to carry or possess
as sea stores any liquor whatever for
beverage purposes.
Not a Loophole Left.
Not a loophole, it appears, is left
whereby either the passengers or the
crews of foreign merchantmen may
obtain liquor for beverage purposes
while the ships are within American
waters. Any liquor found aboard any
ship within the three-mile limit for
beverage purposes may be seized by
prohibition or customs officials and
those resporsible for it held under the
terms of the Volstead act.
Almost immediately after the su
preme court had rendered its decision
France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain
and other maritime nations, thr.opgh
their Washington embassies, petition
ed for some modification of the law
which would exclude from its opera
tion ships of their flags.
In any event, it was urged, this
government ought not to enforce t_he
court’s decree regarding foreign ships
until enough time had elapsed for
ships then away from their home ports
to return and discharge any intoxicat
ing liquors aboard before " touching
again at an American port.
Effective on June 10th.
The administration recognized the
urgency of the latter proposal and
Secretary Mellon nearly a month ago
announced that the regulations which
he would issue under the court’s de
cision would not become operative
until June 10th. -
But the protests of the foreign gov
ernments against the application' of
the Volstead law, as now interpreted,
barring the possession ‘of cargo or
ship stores liquors within the three
mile limit, have not been heeded.
Liberal individuals among the group
of administration officials who drafted
or reviewed -the regulations ‘sought
with a microscope to find in the
court’s decision some back door or
side door which would let the foreign
ships out, but it is evident that they
failed.
Harding Barred Evasion.
Moreover, it is well known in Wash
ington that the president himself, who
is the final arbiter in such matters,
laid down the fule at a meeting of the
cabinet that there should be no de
liherate evasion of the court’s inter
pretation of the Volstead act as ap
plied either to domestic or foreign
shipping.
~Supported by the president, °the
strict constructionists inside the ad
ministration easily had their way, and
although the state department, into
whose ears the foreign departments
have poured their complaints, was in
clined to urge moderation tlie liberals
were ovefruled, as the regulations
made public show. :
Its only hope of alleviating a sit
uation, which most officials agree will
be embarrassing to international com
merce, was said to lie in remedial leg
islation from the next congress.
Foreign Governments Protest.
Although the Washington depart
ment representatives of the maritime
powers have been in frequent consul
tation for several weeks in connection
with the liquor question and have
acted concurrently, they have at the
same time presented their views sep
arately to the state department and
any action which may follow applica
tion for the court’s decision through
the treasury regulations is likewise ex
pected to be taken individually. It is
not believed that the sovereign gov
ernments contemplate at present any
retaliatory action in their’ own ports
against American vessels.
The situation which will arise from
a strict application of the decision
has been officially called to the atten
tion of the state department by Great
Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Portu
gal, Spain .and The Netherlands.
They, as well as other governments,
are understood to he hopeful of relief
before long through some remedial
step which will afford them more lib
erty of action within the limits of
their own ships when in American
territorial waters." ; s