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pAWSON PROSPER
By E. L. RAINEY
GEORGIA HAS NEARLY ONE MILLION CHILDREN IN SCHOOL
NATION MOURNS AS BODY OF
DEAD CHIEF IS BEING BORNE
TO WASHINGTON CITY.
President Harding, Thought to Beon
Road to Recovery, Dies Suddenly
of Stroke of Apoplexy. Wife Was
Reading to Him at the Time.
sAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—At 7:30
Friday night there started from this
far-western city a funeral procession
.cross the continent such as the na
tion has never before witnessed—a
suneral train bearing the body of a
oresident of the United States across
the 3.000 miles of deserts, plains and
mountains.
The train, bearing the remains of
President Harding, will arrive at
Washington - Tuesday afternoon. The
remains will pe taken ‘immediately
:0 the East Room of the white house,
whence they will be transferred to
e rotunda of the capitol the next
morning, Thursday, Aug. 9th. There
| they will lie in state until 5 p. 'm.
f Then, after a funeral service, they
| il be taken to a special train, leav
(ing Washington that evening, Thurs
day, Aug. 9th, for Marion, Ohio. The
¢rain will reach Marion Friday morn
' ing, Aug. 10th, and the funeral will
e held there Saturday, Aug. 11th.”
The arrangements for the funeral
iollow the desires of the president as
he had often expressed them in life.
He had always said he wished his
inal resting place to be in Marion,
the scene 'of his early struggles and
rise to fame. |
San Francisco’s Sorrowful Goodbye.
In sorrow unutterable San Francis
co tonight bade good-bye to all that
was mortal of Warren Gamaliel Hard
ing. who until a few hours ago was
nresident of the United States. :
Fhousands of persons with uncov
cred heads lined the streets along the
line of march from the Palace hotel
‘o the Southern Pacific station at
Fhird and Townsend streets,. where
the presidential party’s special train
was in waiting. .
The line of escort was led by Chief
i Police O’Brien and a detail of po
lice. A specially picked guard of sail
ors, soldiers and marines walked be
<ide the hearse.
Mayor Rolph, army, navy and ma
rine officers and members of the cab
inet followed.
Mrs, Harding left the Palace hotel
r the station in a closed car at 7
o'clock, accompanied by Dr. Sawyer
and Secretary Christian. The shades
i the car were drawn and there was
no draping on it in either crepe or
colors. Spectators along the sidewalk
hared their heads as the car passed.
Troops Guard Line of March. [
As the casket reached the outer
hotel door cavalry bugles sounded the
fourishes. Then a navy band played
the Star Spangled Banner after which
l.ead Kindly Light, one of the late'
oresident’s hymns, was played. When,
the hymn was concluded the activei
pallbearers carried the casket from the:
doorway and placed it in the hearse. |
I'he band then began the “funerall
march and the procession started its
<low movement toward the station.
The line of march was lined by
soldiers, men from the Thirtieth in
fantry at the Presidio. The hearse ar-i
rived at the station at 6:40 p. m. The|
casket was left for a few minutes in|
the station waiting room, after which
it was placed in the train. A window
i one of the coaches was enlarged to
permit entry of the casket. The win
dow was draped with evergreen and.
S |
~ The casket was carried to the train
by cight active pallbearers, consisting
of two sailors, two soldiers, two ma
rines and two national guard mem-
Silence, more than anything else,
haracterized the attitude of the thous
ands who saw the cortege pass on its
way from hotel to station. DBared
heads, silence and tears. The only
noise was that made by the marching
oot men and horses.
Funeral Services in Capitol.
~ Ninety and a half hours will be re
cuired for the trip. When it is ended
at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday the body of
Warren G. Harding will rest awhile
in the white house, where he served
the American people for nearly two
and a half years and then in the cap
itol, where, as a senator from Ohio,
¢ represented his native state for six
Funeral services will be held in the
cavitol rotunda late next Wednesday
aiter the body has lain in state all
dav. and then will begin the final
journey to Marion, Ohio.
Arriving on the morning of Thurs
d2v at Marion, among the homefolks
he dead president loved best, the
vy will be given the tender care
i neighbors and friends until the
llowing day, when funeral services
will be held” and a national day of
mourning observed. Then it will be
od to rest in the Marion cemetery.
President Harding Died Suddenly.
Uresident Harding died instantane
lv and without warning at the
_“lace hotel here Thursday night at
730 o'clock, a victim of a stroke of
oplexy, which struck him down in
s weakened condition after an ill
e 9 exactly a week.
__lhe chief executive of the nation,
«nd by virtue of his office and person
@ity one of the world’s leading fig
ares, passed away at the time when
s physicians, his family and his
i“onle thought that medical skill. hope
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THE DAWSON NEWS
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President’s Death Caused
Gregt Sorrow at Capital
WAS \, D. C.—News
of the death ident Harding
fell with almost i effect
on the national capitall
As the news began to rea
on the streets there were scene
sorrow such as had not been wit
nessed here in many yeras. Never
before had Washington been so
unprepared to hear of the death of
a chief executive; and the circle of
Mr. Harding's friends was one ex
tending down to some of the lowli
est of the residents of the capital,
for during his two and a half years
in the white house he had made a
place in many hearts by his hu’
man qualities and his attitude of
constant helpfulness toward every
one.
- TO UNITED STATES
PLAN NEW DRIVE TO SPREAD
PROPAGANDA. HAVE UN
LIMITED RUBLES.
Russia is sending reinforcements to
the United States to start a new drive
in the “war of propaganda” which the
communists have been waging over
here for the last several years. They
aim to overthrow the government of
this country and substitute a soviet
regime, similar to that of Russia.
Washington, aware of the new
menace, is preparing to take action.
Have False Passports. :
Agents of the Russian communists
are on their way to Canada, {from
which country they expect to slip in
to the United States.
They are fortified with false pass
ports to gain admittance into Canada.
They expect to sneak over the border.
George Salutzki, a member of the
central committee of the Russian com
munist party, is en route to Canada
in company with two comrades, Jasi
ten and Silberman. There are nine
others on the way or ready to em
bark, among them one Lepse, who
has 12,000,000 gold rubles at his com
mand to spread the principles of com
munism in this country. ;
Plans have already been made for
the work they are to perform over
here. The Russky Golos, a newspaper
printed in New York city, will be a
medium for the dissemination of com
munistic propaganda.
Workers All Over Country.
Charges have been made that Amer
ican minor officials with the Ameri
can relief association in Russia gave
valuable help to the communists on
their way here in securing passports
and supplying them with information.
This has been vigorously denied by
association officials. _
The chief of the communist move
ment in the United States 1s .belleved
to be one Removy, who is said to be
in San Francisco, Cal., at the present
time. "He has workers posted all over
the country.
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THERE’S DANGER OF
LIQUOR SUPPLY FOR THE EN
VOYS TO UNITED STATES
IS HELD UP.
WASHINGTON, D. C.— Ship
ments of liquor from abroad to the
embassies and legations of Washing
ton are held up, at least temporarily
by the recent rulings of the treasury
department, it was learned officially.
Since the orders were put in force
prohibiting entry of liquor into the
three-mile limit, even under seal, gov
ernment officials have been in dcubt
as ‘to how the diplomatic corps of
Washington can have its liquor
‘brought into the United States with
out a violation of existing regula
ltiqns. It is admitted that a test case
might be made and the result might
be favorable to the embassies if they
ilqzmcd heavily enough upon the prin
ciple of their diplomatic immunity,
but none of the diplomatic corps ap
pears to be willing to take the lead
in making a test case, and all are, so
| to speak, leaning upon their oars and
"dreading the day when their fast di
minishing stocks are completely used
up.
It is admitted there is one method
which could be resorted to as a last
recourse. This is to have liquor
brought in on battleships. Diplomats,
with the “many-a—true~word-is—spoken
in-jest” air, were predicting that un
less something drastic is done the
good people of Baltimore may wake
up some morning to find a fleet of
foreign battleships in their harbor.
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25,000 Flowers in Boquet
For W. C. T. U. President
Each Blossom Represented 2 New
Member of the Union.
CHICAGO, IIL.—A bouquet of 25,-
000 flowers each representing a new
member was presented to Miss Anna
A. Gordon, world national president
of the Women’s Christian Temper
ance Union. The blossoms represent
ed new members that have joined the
organization since June 14, 1923, and
filled a room about 15 by 20 feet in
dimensions. - :
The bouquet included pine fones
from Maine, wild rosse from Jowa,
moccasin flgwers from Minnesota and
| almost al! varieties of southerry Cali
fornia flowers.
THE RAGE ISSUE RISES
T 0 VEX REPUBLIGANS
“LINK” JOHNSON, GEORGIA|
NEGRO, HAS APPOINTMENT
OF WOMAN ASSOCIATE.
ey !
White Unlikely to Accept and Ne-|
gress Would Be Opposed by Com
mittee. Situation One of Social and
Political Delicacy.
WASHINGTON.—The troubles of |
the republicar® party in its attcmpt}
permanently to break the ‘“solidi
south” were further emphasized and
complicated today when it developed
that because Henry Lincoln Johnson,
a negro, is republican committeeman
from Georgia that state probably will
have no associate and advisory fe
male member of the national com
mittee representing (Georgia.
Georgia, according to present indi
cations, will be the only state without
feminine associate to advise a repub
lican national committee in the next
campaign. The situation is one of
both political and social delicacy—
and it all revolves around the fact
that Georgia is the only state which
has a negro member of the national
campaign committee.
White Chairman Hands Off.
J. Louis Phillips, ' the white chair
man of the republican organization in
Georgia, is in Washington today and
was asked concerning the Georgia rep
resentation on the republican national
committee.
“I have nothing to say on that sub
ject,” said State Chairman Phillips.
“I"'m hands off. Henry Lincoln John
son is the republican national com
mitteeman from Georgia, duly elect
ed by the Georgia delegation at the
last republican convention. He will
serve until the next party convention.
The plan is that each national com
mitteeman shall have a female asso
ciate and adviser. That selection is
up to Johnson and I have not tried
to*influence the selection, nor will I
discuss it under the present circum
stances.”
History of Conditions.
Here are the troublous conditions
confronting the republican party in
'Georgia, which inevitably have their
Washington reactions:
\ Johnson, through a coup at the Chi
cago convention three years ago, caus
‘ed himself to be elected as national
committeeman from Georgia. It was
the first time a negro had been able
to bring about such an election.
White republicans in Georgia, -most
of them out of line with Johnson, per
fected their own state organization af
ter the national convention and have
been able to control practically all of
the federal patronage in the state for
the last two or three years. However,
Johnson hangs on to his post as na
tional committeeman and has reject
¢d all suggestions that he resign or
‘accept an appointment under the
'Harding administration that will take
him out of Georgia politics.
~ Now the republican national com
‘mittee is determined to increase its
‘membership by giving each national
committeeman a woman adviser——-un-l
til such time as the party may for
‘mally allow women membership on}
the national committee. A score or
‘more of states have selected their‘
women representatives.
! The hitch in Georgia, according to
white representatives of the state, is:
If Henry Lincoln Johnson desig
nates a negro woman it will bring
innumerable complications when she
sits around a table with white com
mitteewomen from the same section
of the country.
Chairman Adams, of the republican
national committee, is reliably report
ed here as appreciating the potenti
alities of all this and to be urging
Johnson not to select one of his own
race. ‘
On the other hand, if Johnson
should designate a republican white
woman oi Georgia as his associate
there is considerable question wheth
er she would accept such an appoint
ment.
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IN HER POSSESSION
WOMAN BUNDLES THEM INTO
TAXI WHEN NEIGHBORS
MAKE COMPLAINT. - ‘
When neighbors in Brooklyn, N‘
Y., complained of the racket made b_v‘
her 19 children and a dog Mrs. Anni
Siewers hired a taxicab for $lOO,
bundled the children and the dog ini
the machine and drove to Schenecta
dy, a 12-hour ride, through the chill
night air. |
Arriving at Schenectady one child’
died of penumonia, several others
were taken to a hospital ill, the Sther
children were taken to an almshouse,
and Mrs. Siewers was held by the
police for questioning. |
She told the police that only three
of the children were her own. The
others, ranging from two months to
three years old, were children of di
vorced parents or of parents unable
to care for them because of poverty
or sickness.
She said she had come to Schenec
tady to buy a farm from a real estate
agent so that she could rear the chil
dren in the country air. Police say,
however, she spent her last $lOO for
the taxicab.
Mrs. Siewers claimed she was
prompted to care for the brood in her
charge because of her “great love for
children.” /
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, AUG. 7, 1923
Look What Man Ate,
T hen Asked for Apples
MERIDIAN, Miss.—Complain
ing of pains in the stomach Feath
erstone Thomas, a patient in the
Philadelphia (Miss.) hospital for
insane, was operated on at a local
hospital Friday.
Surgeons found his stomach con
tained:
Thirty-two ' wishbones.
Two bed springs, cach having
two-inch prongs on them.
Half an inch of .wirec.
Six trouser buttons.
One nickel.
Several small pieces of glass and
bits of ground glass.
While on the way to the hospital
Thomas got up from the stretcher
and begged the ambulance driver
to stop a moment to pick some
apples. ‘
THAN WAS U.g. IN 1880
FIGURES SHOW WONDERFUL
GROWTH IN EVERY LINE
OF BUSINESS.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Some interesting
figures showing the industrial and fi
nancial progress of the south are
pointed out by Joel ";Hunter, of At
lanta, business counsellor, who is back
home following a trip to the north
west, during which j;m visited Yel
lowstone Park. Mr. Hunter discussed
conditions in the sosth with many
business men of other sections on his
trip and some of the figures which
he cites were used in his talks.
The south, according to figures
which are now being emphasized in
the north and east, has four billion
dollars more capital investad in man
ufactures than the whole United
States had in 1880. The south’s in
vestment in cotton mills in 1923 is
five times as great as the national in
vestment in such mills in 1880.
Mr. Hunter shows, as will be re
vealed by statistics, that the south
now produces almost as much pig
iron, more than twice as much coal
and twelve times as much petroleum
as the natioré did in 1880.
Between 1900 and 1923, quotihg
statistics which Mr. Hunter has in
hand, southern farm property quad
rupled in value, rising from $5262,-
000,000 to $21,685,000,000. = Between
11904 and 1921 southern home insur
ance in southern cofmpanies grew to
$1,714,000,000, an increase of 62.58 per
cent. Total bank deposits in the south,
{56,273‘000,000 in 1922, were nearly ten
‘times those of 20 years ago.
GEORGIA’S CROP FALLS EIGHT
POINTS DURING JULY. FLOR
IDA ALSO HARD HIT.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The de
partment of agriculture in a statement
today, commenting on Its report fore
casting cotton production this year at
11,516,000 bales, from its condition of
67.2 per cent of a normal on July 25,
declared “the causes of the decline of
the condition of the cotton crop dur
ing the month ending July 25 were
conspicuous in two important states,
Texas and Georgia.” Florida also was
hard hit, according to the statement.
“Every district in Texas,” the state
ment said, ‘“‘suffered deterioration of
condition, due principally to lack of
moisture, but also due to high temper
atures and the ravages of insects.”
The statement continued:
“With the exception of counties in
south Texas little material damage
has thus far been done by the weevil
or the boll worm in that state, but the
leaf worm has been very active, par
ticularly in the south. Serious damage
is reported from the southern district
of Texas from the effect of what is
known as the cotton flea, a relatively
new pest. The foregoing causes were
sufficient to make the crop deteriorate
six points during the month in the
states as a whole to 71 per cent, or
to the average oi past ten years on
July 25th.
Georgia’s cotton crop, which has
had a ten year crop condition of 70
per cent on July 25, fell eight points
during the month, this year, to 48 pcrl
cent, the lowest condition on record
for that date. The boll weevil has
greatly increased in numbers and de—}
structiveness in the southern third of
the state and the area of heavy dam
age is spreading northward. The cot
ton plant in a large portion of the
state had not set any fruit prior to
July 21, which is usually considered
the dead line after which bolls can
not be set and a crop made under
weevil infestation. Weevils are pres
ent in all parts of the state in greater
numbers than they were last year.
“Weevil ravages are heavy in Flor
ida, where the condition of the crop
declined 13 points during the month.
Declines of 1 to 2 points in Virginia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
‘Oklahoma were variously caused by
raips, weevils, deficient moisture, late
ness of the crop, extremely hot weath
‘er, wet cool weather in May and early
iJune followed by drought.
~ “Improved or stationary cendition
‘during the month in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee,
Missouri and New Mexico was not
sufficient to balance adverse cause
elsewhere. Yet in the average of all
states the crop deteriorated but 2.7
points, although the average deteriora
tion of the past ten years is 3.6 points,
or greater than the deterioration that
occurred this year.”
BECAME PRESIDENT AMID
HUMBLE SURROUNDINGS
COOLIDGE TOOK OATH IN
THE LITTLE PARLOR OF
HIS FATHER'S HOME. }
Vice President Was Visiting “Old
Folk” Back Home When President
Harding’s Death Occurred. Oath Is
Administered by Father.
PLYMOUTH, Vt—Calvin Cool-|
idge took the oath as president of the
United States at Plymouth, Vt., at
2:47 a. m. Friday. The new president
was sworn in by his father, who is a
notary public, and at whose home he
was visiting. The text of the pledge
as prescribed by the constitution was
telephoned to him by the white house.'
Vice President Coolidge received
exactly at midnight Thursday the
news of President Harding’s death,
which elevated him to the presidency.
dency.
The news came as a gteat shock
to the vice president, and, his first
thought and that of Mrs. Coolidge,
was to send a message of condolence
to Mrs. Harding at San Francsico. He
dictated the following statement:
Dictates First Official Statement.
“Reports have reached me that
President Harding has gone. The
world has lost a great and good man.
I mourn his death. He was my chief
and my friend.
“It will be my purpose to carry out
the policies which he had begun for
the service of the American people
and for the meeting of their responsi
bilities wherever they may arise.
“For this purpcse I shall seek the
co-operation of all those who have
been associated with the president dur
ing his term of office. As for those
who have given their efforts to assist
him, I wish them to remain in office
that they may assist me. i
~ “l have faith that God will direct
the destinies of our nation.”
Sends Telegram to Mrs. Harding.
When M. Coolidge, ..awine down
stairs to welcome the I@WSspaper men
he held a telegram from Secretary
Christian, notifying him of the presi
dent’s death. He was calm, but Mrs.
Coolidge, who stood beside him, ap
peared to be on the verge of tears.
Mr. Coolidge stopped to say “hello,
boys,” to the newspaper men. Then
he dictated the following telegram to
Mrs. Harding:
“We offer you our deepest sympa
thy. May God bless you and keep
you.” _
Old fashioned lamps lighted but
dimly the typical New England par
lor in which Coolidge stood as he re
ceived the news of President Hard
ing’s end. It was an humble setting—
one that the vice president might have
chosen could he have selected the spot
in which to hear he was to become,
through a tragedy, the next president
of the United States.
No Telephone in Father’s Home.
There was no telephone in the home
of Mr. Coolidge’s father.
The vice president, in need of rest,
had gone to Plymouth, knowing he
would be practically out of touch with
the rest of the world. He had been
‘receiving telegraphic reports as to
\Prcsident Harding's condition at a
general store, across the street from
his father’s house.
There was nothing to indicate that
the change of chief executive would
greatly alter the present makeup of
the administration, or would result in
any immediate summoning of con
gress in extra session.
THE NEW PRESIDENT
TAKES UP HIS DUTIES.
Washington.—Calvin Coolidge on
Friday arrived in Washington and
grasped the helm of the ship of state
as it fell from the lifelegs hand of his
captain, Warren G. Harding.
Quietly he took upon himself the
duties of pilot.
Up practically all night receiving
the news of his chief’'s sudden death,
he had taken in the sitting room of
his father’s farm house in Plymouth,
Vt., the oath to perform the duties of
thirtieth president of the United
States. J
Then a visit to his mother’s grave.l
and he was off to Washington. He
arrived in the capital at 9:10 p, m,, to
be met at the railway station by an
official party including Secretafy
Hughes and Postmaster General New.
As he passed through the gates at
the depot to the presidential entrance,
which was last used by Mr. Harding
when starting his Alaskan trip, Mr.
Coolidge raised his hat and bowed
quietly to the crowd behind the ropes. !
There were no cheers, but spectators
raised their hats. The reception
throughout was marked by its dignity
and silence. |
President Coolidge went directly to
his suite in the Willard hotel, where
‘he and Mrs. Coolidge will remain un
til Mrs. Harding, at her convenience,
‘moves -from the white house.
'Woman Wins $25,000
Damages for Spoiled Face
Alleging that her face was marred
for life by a beauty operation Miss
Mae Edwards, a dancer, of Atlantic
City, N. J., has been awarded $25,000
damages. The dancer sued Charles
Holden, owner of a beauty shop, af
ter he had perforq:ed an operation to
remove lines from her face.
Asparagus is believed to be the old
est known plant used for food.
Freshly Fried Fish Are
Cast Up by a Volcano
Dainty morsels in the form of
fish already fried are thrown out
from time to time from a volcanic
peak in the Andes mountains of
South America. This peak is call
ed the Tunguragua, and under
neath the mouth of the volcano is
a subterranean lake. During an
eruption the suction draws up
quantities of water, carrying along
the fish, which are cooked by the
inferno through which they pass.
Such is the scientific explanation
of the pheaomenon. But the na
tives' tell another story about it.
They hold that when an eruption
occurs, destroying their crops, the
mystic spirit of the Tunguragua
provides the fish so that they shall
not go hungry.
BURDEN OF $4 A YEAR ON EV
ERY MAN, WOMAN, CHILD,
STATISTICS SHOW.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Nation
al Industrial Conference board today
sounded a warning against the exten
sive growth of local indebtedness, the
inevitable result of which “is that fu
ture generations will be weighed
down by debts, the proceeds of which
are being used for the construction of
improvements that the present gener
ation is enjoying and many of which
will have outlived their usefulness
within the present generation.”
The board calls attention to the
fact that the total gross bonded in
debtedness of state and local govern
ments has increased from $3,850,000,-
000 in 1913 to more than $10,000,000,-
000 at present, placing an annual bur
den of $4 on every man, woman and
child in this country for debt service
charges.
Several inheritances of large in
creases in the last ten years are cited,
notably Arizona from $10,000,000 to
$43,000,000; California from $10,000,-
000 to $76,000,000, and the combined
indebtedness of county governments
from $12,000,000 to $119,000,000.
“Some municipalities,” the board
says, “have utilized methods more be
coming to fly-by-night enterprises
than to governmental bodies that
should serve as models of conduct to
private industry. There are cases
where bonds have been issued to pay
current expenses contrary to specific
state laws, where legal debt limits
‘have been exceeded, and where valua
tions have been considerably boosted
so as to keep municipal issues within
the legal debt limit.,”
School buildings, it adds, have been
financed by sixty-five year bonds and
in one case, the board found that a
'municipality sold a block of bonds in
1872 for acquiring water works which
were never bought although the bonds
have twice been . refunded. i
WASHINGTON REPORTS BUT
LITTLE INTEREST TAKEN IN
DECORATIONS OFFERED.
WASHINGTON. Two-thirds of
the men who served in the American
army during the world war have
shown no interest in obtaining the
Victory medal or Victory button,
which is available for issue to all per
sonnel, including field clerks and
members of the nurse corps.
The Victory medal was designed for
vear in the lapel of civilian clothes.
It consists of a five-pointed star on
a wreath and is quite attractive. -For
those wounded in battle the medal is
silver. For all others it is bronze.
Every effort has been made to in
duce velerans of the world war to ap
ply for the Victory medal. The Amer
ican Legion and other veterans’ or
'ganizations have co-operated. But the
iapplicants have not aggregated much
more than one-third of those entitled
'to wear this button.
3,842,450 Medals Sought.
| The original purchase order of the
quartermaster depot was for 3,842,450
medals., Of this total 500,000 were
turned over to the navy. Up to April
6th of this year 1,223,049 had been is
sued to army personnel, who applied
for them, leaving on hand at the quar
termaster depot, Philadelphia, 2,119,-
401.
French Woman Calls
Children Forbidden F ruzt]
Says They Are Becoming Objects of
Luxury. Few Can Afford Them.
PARIS.—Mme. Maria WVerone,
president of the French League of
Woman’'s Rights, declares that chil
dren are becoming such objects of
luxury that the only modern young
woman who can afford them is the
one who has no legal right to them.
“It makes no difference now wheth
er they are legitimate or illegitimate,”
she says, “all children are becoming
forbidden fruit.
“Pamphlets, speeches and prizes for
large families will do no good. You
hear complaints that the French wo
men do not want to have children. As
if the men had nothing to do with it!
It is the whole French population
which does not want children.
“It is bad enough to have landlords
refuse apartments to families with
children, but the worst is the latest
practice of business houses in dis
charging women who are about to
become mothers.”
A NEWSPAPER
DEVOTED TO
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOL. 40.—N0. 49
FIGURES ARE GIVEN OUT
AN INCREASE OF 59,491 SHOWN
RY 1923 CENSUS OVER THE
; ENUMERATION OF 1819,
S G |
15,432 [ILLITERATES IN STATE
Whites of School Age Have Increas
ed 52,381 and Negroes 7,110. Facts
Revealed by Recent Census of
Children Between 6 and 18.
- There are 900,352 children of school
age, 6 to 18 years inclusive, in the
state of Georgia. These figures, ac
cording to the 1923 census of the
ischool population, which has just beem
‘made public by the state department
of education, show an increase of 59,-
491 over the school census of the
state taken in 1918.
The census; taken during the
months of March and April, 1923, in
every county of the state, has been
approved by the state board of edu
cation. The total cost of taking the
census, the report sets forth, was $55,-
308.17. :
~ One of the interesting points
rl)rolxght out in the report is the fact
‘that the increase in white children of
school age during the five-year period
was 52,381, whereas the increase of
negro children was only 7,110. Of the
900,352 total in 1923, 524,135 are white
and 376,217 are colored.
Fulton county leads in the number
of school age youngsters, according
to the report, with a total of 65,775.
Of this number 52,069 are in Atlanta.
Chatham county stands second with
23,196; Bibb third with 19,489, and
Richmond fourth with 18,864. All oth
er counties have less than 15,000 each.
Decrease in Illiteracy.
A decrease in the per cent of illiter
acy among school children in Georgia
as a whole is noted in the report. The
total number of illiterates in 1918 was
25783. In 1923 this figure had been
reduced to 15432. The decrease in the
number of white illiterates was 2,586,
or a decrease of 0.62 per cent. Negro
illiterates decreased 7,765 in number
during the five-year period, or 2.01 per
cent. :
One hundred and thirteen counties
reported a decrease in the percentage
of white illiteracy, while 31 counties
’reported an increase. One hundred
and sixty counties reported a decrease
in the percentage of colored since the
1918 census was taken were not in
cluded in the comparisons.
Burke county leads in the number
of illiterates, possessing 519, of whom
502 arc colored children. Jefferson
county, with 384, 353 of whom are
colored, is second, while Troup coun
ty is third with 317, of whom 300 are
colored. The largest number of white
illiterates is reported in Walker and
Bartow counties, which have 93 and
92 respectively.
During the five-year wveriod since
the taking of the last census there
has been a slight increase in the num
ber of school-age children classified
as_defectives. The figure in 1918 was
4,522, while for 1923 it is shown to
’hv 4,928,
Four hundred and one of these are
blind, 626 are deaf and dumb, 1930
are crippled and 1,971 are feeble ming
ed. White school-age children classi
fied as defectives number 2,738 while
(lle(gectivi colored children number 2,-
9(0).
Long Court Fight Over a
Chicken Comes to a End
Killed in 1918, and Fierce Law Suit
Has Waged Since.
Bill Watts, of Oak Park, a fashion-.
able Chicago suburb, killed a pet:
chicken of Mrs. Mary Darby’s in the
fall of 1918, when the chicken wan
dered inte the Watts’ back yard and
gobbled a grain of corn to which Bill
had thoughtfully tied a string. This
was Bill’s method of curing the Dar
by chickens of the habit of eating his
garden seeds,
Since that momentous occasion the
war in Europe has ended, the map of
the world has been changed and doz
ens of kingdoms have fallen, but the
fight over the chicken went on. The
Watts have not spoken to the Darbys,
for Bill Watts was arrested after the
death of the chicken, haled to a jus
tice of the peace court and fined $3.
Today the case was called again
on appeal and there was much argu
ment as to the legal method of killing
a chicken, this being the point on
which attorneys claimed the case
hinged. Judge David gave strict at
tention to the argument for 15 min
utes ana then rose with this announce
ment:
_ “This case is dismissed. It’s trivial.
The people of Oak Park should de
vote more time to human beings, es
pecially their daughters, and less to
chickens.”
But say—how do you kill a chicken
legally? There won’t be any peace in
Oak Park until that point is finally
settled.
CLEAN FACES OF WOMEN
OBJECT OF NEW CAMPAIGN
Washrag to Replace Lipstick, Rouge,
Powder and Scented Soaps,
A campaign to make women’s faces
clean has begun. The washrag will be
the banner. Lipsticks, rouge, powder,
and scented soaps smust go.
Dr. Victor Robinson, editor of Med
ical Life, of New York city, is at the
head of the movement- He will be
aided by women’s clubs throughout
the nz2tion, he announced.