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JAWSON PROSPER
B £ L RAINEY
DAWSON DISTRICT SHOWS AN INCREASE IN 1923 TAX VALUES
oss IS ONLY $53,000, AND IS
pRINCIPALLY IN COTTON
RETURNED FOR TAXES.
awson District Only One in Which
Values Have Increased. The Small
gum of $llB,OOO 'Represents Auto
mobiles Returned in County.
Real and personal property valua
s for Terrell county as compiled
| he annual tax digest of FErnest
aldwin, tax receiver, amount to $4,-
0810, which is a loss of $53,071
om the 1922 valuation.
The Dawson district is the only one
| the county that shows a gain. The
12l white returns in the town district
ow an increase of $4,641 over the
22 valuations. !
The Twelfth district shows the
eatest loss in comparison with the
072 valuations, this district having
decrease of $45,653 in its returns
s year.
The colored returns for the whole
bintv are $346,896, showing a loss
312513 from last year’s valuations.
Gains in Values.
0f the increased valuations gains
r the present year over 1922 are
stributed as follows: Total acreage
211,042, representing a gain in land
837 acres and $28,191; market value
citv and town property, $1,486;
brees and mules, $1,335; dogs, $195;
grchandise, etc., $6,143.
Decrease are represented in the fol
wing items of property as returned:
ares in bank, capital, ‘real estate,
¢, $650; real estate, buildings, etc,
manufacturing companies, includ
¢ goods, notes, stocks, etc., $80;
buschold and kitchen furniture, sil
er, hooks, pianos, clocks, bedding,
¢, $2,738; jewelry and watches,
60: cattle, $3,029; hogs, $2,018;
rming implements, $1,743; automo
les, motorcycles, bicycles, $6,600;
oney on hand or deposit, market
blue of notes, accounts, fi fas or other
jidences of debt $48,221.99.
The returns of property of all kind
the county by districts is as fol-
WS
istrict— 1923 1922
welfth .......$ 305271 $ 3501924
fsser 4o SNO 347,472
ird .....genraes o AAS 098 155,629
ew Eleventh ... 36,581 37,480
faves ..o o 159440 171,197
ronwood ... 398,951 404,864
Brrott ... (436,934 457,029
purth ... e 104415 118,634
gwson ... 2685325 2522779
- Professional List.
The number of practitioners in each
ofession represented in the county
as jollows: Lawyers 12, doctors 17,
pntists 5, veterinary surgeons 1, em
bimers 2, civil engineers 1, president:
lephone company 1. [
Details shown in the digest are as
llows: Number of acres of land 211,-
2, value $1,836,664, market value of
v or town property $909,729, shares
banks, real estate, etc., $393.,182.
Money on” hand or deposit, value of
ptes, accounts, fi fas or other evi
nce of debt, $139,283.
Market value of merchandise, fix
res, fertilizers, etc., $268,325.
Market value of automobiles, bicy
s, etc., $118,145. !
Market value of real estate, build
gs of manufacturing companies, in
uding goods, notes, stocks, etc,
£/,090.
Market value of household and kitch
furniture, silver, books, pianos,
ocks, bedding, etc., $185,522.
Market value of jewelry and watch
b, $81.230.
}}:x)r}<_{t value of horses and mules,
Mar}\j‘it value of cattle, $33,065.
(\'t:r(i\” value of dogs, $725; hogs,
),U69,
‘\l;n‘kgt value of farming implements
d agricultural tools, $59,591.
Aggregate value of whole property
350,810,
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Oh, Rats!” Is Volstead’s
Answer to Reporters
ather of Prohibition Enforcement
Law, Leaving on Ship America,
Thwarts Photographers.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Andrew J.
olstead, former representative from
fn:'z; sota and father of the federal
‘;‘”":'wn enforcement law, sailed
Pi2y cn the America for Copenha
1. where he will attend the Inter
tional Congress Against Alcohol.
}w voiced indignant contempt for
Porters” questions with his favorite
pression: “Oh, rats!” He placed his
! iront of his face to thwart the
Orts of photographers and finally
I“ his stateroom.
Beiore he fled he was told that
"ers throughout the country were
i ine and hard cider.
Mats!™ shouted Mr. Volstead, and
,'.“”,— Rats! They’re not doing it on
.jv,l‘.»‘-xm or anybody’s farm.”
o ere are 1,200 saloons in New
k. Mr. Volstead,” another news
“p. man remarked.
~ats!” he said.
o someone asked him if he ever
} 4 drink himself.
. don't know that there=is any
w 0 one drink,” he said mildly.
’(‘}j_.‘,'?‘-"!her he ever tok that one he
uld not say.
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LEEP SWEARING NEW CRIME
r{;;;j"L’lTH. Minn.—Arrested for
‘c}ar:-ri language, W_illia:p .P“rneu'
g fi‘fw‘&la; steanng in his sleep.
THE DAWSON NEWS
A Disastrous Flood
Is Sweeping China
.DO ibeds reported as appall
ing in ANEEE meince, China,
where 20 districts“Cd been inun
dated by rivers flooded by heavy
rains. A million people have been
made homeless. In some places
dikes have disappeared and whole
villages have been swept away by
the flood.
Survivors who were able to
make their way to the hills are cut
off from food supplies and are suf
fering hardships. They were forced
to flee so quickly they could take
little food and clothing with them.
Other parts of the lower Yangtze
valley are inundated, according to
Chinese government reports. An
ticipating the floods, the people
spent weeks in repairing the dikes,
but the heavy rains made their
precautions useless.
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SALES OF MAIL ORDER
FARMER BUYING MERCHAN
DISE TO MEET CURRENT
¢ NEEDS. IN GOOD FIX.
CHICAGO, Ill.—The American
farmer doesn’t seem to regard his
plight in as pitiful light as painted by
some of his professed political spon
sors. He is going right along buying
merchandise to meet current needs,
particularly where prices are to his
liking. This is the experience of the
big Chicago mail order houses.
Run Into Millions.
July sales of Sears, Roebuck & Co.
totaled $14,960,939, an increase of 33.18
per cent over July, 1922, Furthermore
last month’s business was somewhat
larger than in June, although usually
there is a seasonal recession in mid
summer. Sales for the seven months
ended July 31 totaled $121,738,196, a
gain of 2849 per cent over the cor
responding period last year. July sales
of Montgomery Ward & Co. were
$7,491908, an increasé of 46.61 per
cent over July, 1922, and 'sales for
the seven months aggregated $71,-
929,928, a gain of 53.33 per cent over
last year’s period.
The midweek reviews of the iron
and steel and the automobile indus
tries were fairly cheerful. Both lines
appear to be following the demand
closely and in both there appears to
be some improvement in buying.
Sugar Sliding Down.
The price cutting movement in
sugar continues as refiners vie for
business. One concerp quoted 7.90
cents a pound for fine granulated a
drop of more than two cents from
the high price of the year reached in
April. Cuban raw sugar was offered
as low as 4% cents a pound. |
GET ONLY ONE PER CENT
OF REAL WHISKY. FOUR
SOURCES OF SUPPLY.
“Rank poison” is what agents of
the prohibition bureau af the United
States say of the “booze” being im
bibed by the American people.
After analysis of 80,000 samples of
so-called whisky the bureau finds that
only one per cent of it was real stuff.
The rest was poison.
The liquor supply of this. country
comes from four sources, agents say.
The first and biggest supply is known
as “moonshine,” and which is made
one day and drank the next.
Distilled in thickets, fields and barns
the containers are seldom cleaned and
always have some poisonous matter
left in them, which is brewed into
the next batch.
The second source of supply is the
redistilled denatured alcohol, ‘always
containing a quantity of wood alco
hol. The third are smuggled goods,
and the fourth is liquor illegally with
drawn from bonded warehouses.
These twa latter sources furnish the
minimum supply.
NEARLY HALF OF THE STATE’S INSANE
COME TO THE ASYLUM FROM FARMS
Is farm life' ~onductive to insanity?
Startling figures contained in the
19th annual report of the board of
trustees of the Georgia state sanitari
um for the insane at Milledgeville show
that nearly 50 per cent of the patients
admitted ~during 1922 came irom
farms. The report has just been sub-
Ir)x}itted to the Georgia general assem
y.
Out of the 857 patients admitted to
the institution during 1922, according
to the report, the classified occupation
of 415 was listed under the heading
of “agricultural pursuits;” 134 were
farmers, 154 farm laborers, 77 farmers’
wives, 21 farmers’ daughters, 15
farmers’ sons, 5 farmers’ widows and
9 jarm laborers’ daughters. One hun
dred and sixty-eight of the demented
agriculturalists ‘were negroes.
No other occupation was represent
ed by such a startling quota. The
ranks of laborers contributed 58, laun
dresses 27, housekeepers 26 and cooks
20. Included in the general total were
three ministers, four ministers’ wives,
two school teachers, one soda water
dispenser, one bank clerk, one mule
trader and one ice dealer. More than
100 other occupations were represent
ed by one or more inmates. :
The present population of the sani
farium, the report sets forth, is 3,972.
Memories Alone Are All That Remain of
Beloved President in Country’s Capital
Botved, Silent Figures Show Their Grief at Simple Funeral Services. Humble Labor
ers Rub Elbows With High Officials in Last Tribute to Honored Dead.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A swell
ing tide of honors bore Warren Hard
ing back over the road by which he
came, triumphant, to the presidency
two crowded years ago. For him the
urge of ambition was ended, the com
pelling call of duty stilled in death.
Amid the tens of thousands of his si
lent countrymen grouped along the
way he passed in such state as only
the great dead of the nation may
know. And beyond the brief hour of
the ceremony of sorrow there await
ed for him rest eternal on the soil that
gave him birth.
Down the wide avenue he was car
ried today with marching legions
tramping ahead to lay him under the
dome of the capitol awhile ere he
goes back to his native state to stay
forever. That high resolve of duty
had brought him death and with it
thé peace and quiet he loved, but
which he could set aside at the na
tion’s call.
Train Several Hours Late.
President Harding’s funeral train,
PUTS NEW ANGLE ON MATTER
OF HOTEL BILL. SUSTAIN
| ED BY COMMITTEE.
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ATLANTA, Ga.—The senate agri
cultural committee by a vote of 11 to
2, adversed the bill designed to take
away from the bureau of ‘markets the
$lOO,OOO from fertilizer tags sales.
The hearing grew heated at points,
particularly when Commissioner
Brown was being questioned by Sen
ator Hodges, during the course of.
‘which the senator told Mr. Brown he
‘was going to ask some pointed ques
tions and would ask the commissioner
“not to lose his head.” He was invit
ed by Mr. Brown to go right ahead,
which he did, and the commissioner
put an entirely new angle on the mat
ter of the bill contracted by Repre
sentative * Kittrell while & member of
fthe port and harbor commission.
' Hardwick Did Not Disapprove.
It has been generally stated that
Gov. Hardwick disapproved the bill
and compelled a refund of the money,
but Commissioner Brown made the
statement that there was never any
money paid for that hotel bill by the
state; that there never was any re
fund; that Gov. Hardwick did not dis
approve the bill, because the commis
sioner refused to approve it. He as
serted that Gov. Hardwick’s warrant
clerk had been spreading untruths
about the department of agriculture
and if that man had any red blood in
his veins he would get personal satis- |
faction if he desired it, which the com
missioner doubted. He termed the
charges as “infamous point-blank and
intentional lies.”
“I have a letter here,” asserted Mr.
Brown, “from Secretary of State S. G.
McLendon, which corrects this im-|
pression and which will clear me and
my department of all blame against
such charges. !
“There is absolutely no truth in the
statement,” replied -Mr. Brown. “Who
ever informed you that such was the
case uttered a point-blank, wilful and
intentional lie. I should like to know
the name ofeyour informant that I
may tell him the same thing.” }
“T refused to approve the bill on
the grounds that the commission hadl
not acted on it and because it was
made out to Dr. Kittrell instead of
the commission. The bill was not paid
by the department of agriculture or
the markets bureau.”
“Isn’t it true, Mr. Brown, that this
bill was paid by your approval and
later when Gov, Hardwick returned
to the city the money was refunded by
Dr. Kittrell?” interrogated Senator
Hodges. . l
These were cared for during the past
year at an average cost of $238.04 per
patient, as compared with an average
of $240.72 the previous year. The re
port also shows more than a 10 per
cent. decrease in the number of pa
tients admitted, 857 being admitted in
1922 as compared with 989 in 1921,
There were 283 deaths during the
year. This was 138 less than in 1921,
and the smallest number of deaths
since 1904.
The 857 patients during 1922 were
sent to the Milledgeville institution
from 147 Georgia counties. Chatham
county led with 78, 48 of these being
negroes. Fulton county was second
with 62, only 16 of whom were ne
groes. Berrien county’s quota was
29, 13 of them negroes, and DeKalb
county’s quota 20, with only four ne
groes. Twenty-four counties sent one
each.
The total number of new inmates
admitted during the year by sex show
ed 428 men, 160 of whom were ne
groes, and 429 women, 157 of them
negroes. ‘
According to the report the health
record of the patients for the year
was excellent; typhoid, tuberculosis
and pellagra cases were relatively
small and showed a substantial reduc
tion from the previous year. |
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, AUG. 14, 1923
freighted with the sorrow of the na
tion, reached Washington at 10:22
o’clock tonight. .
Although the train was nine hours
late, thousands jammed the station
concourse, waiting for hours packed
against the iron fence that shuts off
the train platform, to be first to give
their silent tribute to the dead chief
tain.
The train- backed into the station,
so that the funeral car with its flag
draped casket rolled in first, to stop
where the little group, headed by
President Coolidge, waited.
The lights in the' funeral car cast
a brilliant glow in the big train shed.
Secretary Christian and Doctor Saw
yer were on the back platiorm. There
was no noise in the station but the
throbbing of the air pump on a dis
tant engine.
Train Retarded by Great Throngs.
Mrs. Harding stepped off the car
leaning on Secretary Christian’s arm,
and with Dr. Sawyer on her other
side. The band in the concourse bhe
gan playing “Nearer My God to
Thee.”
Mrs. Harding walked erect but
10,000 Children Lay
Flowers on Funeral
Path in W ashington
Tear-Stained Boys and Girls Sing
Favorite Hymns and Put
Wreath on Bier.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Wo
men and children formed a sub
stantial part of the great funeral
procession which wended its way
through the sorrowing capital on
Wednesday. Ten thousand children
strewed Pennsylvania avenue with
a love offering of flowers.
When President Harding en
countered small boys and girls—
he shook the hands and patted the
heads of a good many in the last
two years—he usually put his hand
in his pocket and drew out a stick
of chewing gum. If the mother
was around she made the child
keep it as a souvenir. There are
plenty of these sticks of gum in
different parts of the country.
He was the type of president
that stirred a child’s imagination—
a massive figure, paternal and kind.
Washington children knew him
well through the egg rolling con
dests at the white house each Eas
ter. He was more than a picture
president to them. So they were
given a definite place in the fun
eral ceremonies. The children laid
a wreath on the bier at the capitol.
903 SETS OF TWINS
BORN IN GEORGIA
ALL BUT SEVEN COUNTIES IN
STATE REPORT PLURAL
BIRTHS. INTERESTING.
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Nine sets of triplets and 903 sets
of twins were born in Georgia in
1922, as shown by the birth records
of the state bureau of vital statistics.
The last report of the census bureau
shows a rate for the birth registra
tion area of 11.7 for 1920, while Geor
‘gia’s rate for 1922 was 13.1 per 1,000
births. The leading states, according
to this census report, were South Car
olina with 14.8, North Carolina with
14.4, Virginia 14.1, Minneapolis 13,
Utah 12, with the other states show
ing a decline rate to as low as 8.8 in
Vermont. Georgia's rate for 1922 was
13.1 and if the two years be compar
ed, Georgia has the fourth highest
plural rate in the United States.
Of the twins 533 sets were white
and 369 negroes. Three sets of trip
lets were white and six negro. The
plural birth rate among the whites
was 11.3 and negroes 14.7 1,000 births.
Of the twins 930 were boys and 874
girls," showing 1,064 boys to 1,000
girls, while the total birth record
shows 1,058 boys to 1,000 girls. Of
the triplets, 17 were girls and 10 boys.
The nine sets’ of triplets were re
ported from Baldwin, Campbell, Cow
eta, Fannin, Fulton, Houston, Lau
rens, Lowndes and Mitchell counties.
Twins were reported from all the
160 counties in the state except seven:
Bacon, Chattahoochee, I.ee, ILong,
Lumpkin, Quitman and White. |
No Color Line in France
Is the Warning Issued to
All Foreign Tounsts
Punishment Will Be Meted Out to
Foreigners Who Object to Negroes
/ In Public Places.
PARlS.—“Foreign tourists, for?et
ting they are guests and therefore
bound to respect our customs and
laws, recently on several occasions
have forcibly manifested their aver
sion to seeing colored men, born in
the JFrench colonies, seen :by their
side in public places. If such incidents
are repeated punishment may be ex
pected.”
This note was issued by the minis
try of foreign affairs last night. It
probab?r was_called forth by the re
cent refusal of four Americans to take
bus seats with negro cadets from the
Freujus military school, who were
visiting Paris as official guests.
slowly along the station platform,
A great wavé of American rever
ence for a dead leader rose u? Tues
day to retard the progress-of Presi
dent Harding's funeral train toward
the national capital.
The carefully prepared schedgle
calling for the arrival of the train¥in
Wasnihgton early Tuesday afternoon
had been abandoned. .
It was shattered by the overpow
ering insistence of a saddened people
that they be permitted to express
their sorrow in the only way possible
—standing silent and sorrowful as the
remains of the late president moved
slowly by them.
In a sense it is these reverent peo
ple who are running this train—not
the railroad officials. When the crowds
are great the train runs at a snail’s
pace or stops; when people are few
the train runs fast.
~ Mrs. Harding Orders.
Calmly accepting the situation as in
evitable, despite her intense desire to
see the body of the late president lie
in the historic east room of the white
house before sundown, Mrs. Harding
(Continued on Page Five.)
WILL PUT WORLD
LEAGUE ON SHELF
DEMOCRATIC LEADER SAYS
IT WILL NOT BE MAJOR IS
SUE IN CAMPAIGN. g
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Definite
ly sidetracking the league of nations
as the major issue of next year’s po
litical campaign Senator Robinson,
democrat, Arkansas, democratic lead
er in the senate, in a formal statement
declares that “the guestions of first
importance are undoubtedly domestic
’in character.”
Coming from one of the most ar
dent advocates of Wilson’s interna
tional policies, Senator Robinson’s
Statement is considered to be high
ly significant. It marks the first
®pen attempt on the part of the leader
of the senate democrats to get rid of
the league as an issue and to unite
the party on a program dealing with
America’s problems at home.
Domestic Issues Paramount.
l “The questions of first importance,”
said Senator Robinson, “are undoubt
edly domestic in character. But there
is a general appreciation of the fact
that some of these problems cannot
intelligently be solved without a com
prehensive understanding of condi
tions abroad. Prices of farm products,
particularly wheat and cotton, have
been powerfully influenced by the
European demand. There is much dis
satisfaction among the farmers, par
ticularly those engaged in wheat pro
duction.”
The Arkansas senator speaking of
remedies for the farm situation said
he did not believe any “complete po
licital remedy” exists. He will, how
ever, he said, support any plan which
iappears to be calculated to reduce the
spread between what the farmer re
ceives for his products and what the
consumers pay for those products. He
thinks it may be wise to again extend
the life of the War Finance Corpora
tion and to enlarge its powers in im
portant particulars with a view to
establishing and stabilizing general
market conditions respecting farm
products.
Co-Operative Selling.
Robinson said that co-operative sell
ing agencies are proving helpful to
the farmers in ‘enabling ' them to
reach promptly and directly the con
sumers of their products and by so
doing secure a liberal share of the
price which the consumers pay. Buy
ing agencies, he added, may be organ
ized to accomplish similar ends with
}respect to the commodities which the
farmers consume,
’ Other prominent democrats share
‘with Senator Robinson the view that
‘domestic issues should be made para
'mount bv democrats.
DIPLOMATS ABROAD MUST PAY HEAVILY
TO ENTERTAIN THE KINGS OF EUROPE
' The pomp of European courts has
not decreased noticeably since the
war, according to reports of American
diplomats to: the state department.
American ambassadors are continuing
their complaints of inadequate salaries
to meet the heavy drain of social en
tertainment, and are citing post-war
troubles of entertaining royalty at
functions which equal or surpass the
gilded affairs of pre-war days in Eu
rope.
For instance, the state dinner given
recently by George Harvey, Ameri
can ambassador to the court of St.
James, to the British royal family
set back the American envoy some
thing over sB,ooo—for one dinner and
trimmings. In fact, the trimmings
constituted a large part of the bill,
which contained an item of $750 alone
for palms and ferns given standing
room in the fireplaces of the Ameri
can embassy for the occasion.
Tradesmen holding the royal favor
have to be reckoned with:in the en
tertainment provided by American
diplomats. The caterers are virtually
chosen | for the American entertainer
by the lord chamberlain of the royal
g:‘lace. no unknown or plebeian chefs
ing premitted to cook for or serve
the king or queen. Decorators, flor
ists and a train of .other tradesmen
Georgia Cannot Get
Gen. Oglethorpe’s Body
LONDON.—The University of
Georgia has been refused permis
sion to search for the remains oi
its founder, Gen. James E. Ogle
thorpe at Granham, Essex, where
he was probably buried and where
there is a monument in a church
commemorating him, says the
Dai{y Mail.
“The university's desire to have
the remains and enshrine them in
Georgia is appreciated,” says the
Mail, “but, mindful doubtless of
the indignation caused by the cir
cumstances of the search, for the
remains of Pocahontas, the chan
cellor of the diocese of Chelmsford,
in which Granham is embraced, has
refused thus far to grant the facul
ty permission for a search.”
The Mail in an editorial remarks
that “the public here will learn of
the refusal with great satisfaction.”
MISSOURI STATE HOSPITAL
FLOODED, WITH 30 TO 35
ADMISSIONS MONTHLY.
FULTON, Mo.—Despite the fact
lthat the last census figures show the
population of Missouri is decreasing
the rate of insanity is increasing by
leaps and bounds. Missouri has four
insanes hospitals and they are becom
ing badly crowded. In the district
served by the Fulton State hospital,
which includes Kansas City, the sec
ond largest city in the state, the in
crease of 'insane persons has been
startling.
Ten years ago, when Dr. M. O.
Biggs took charge as superintendent
of the local hospital, there were 867
patients, and today there are 1,444 and
news ones coming in every day. Ten
years ago 10 or 12 patients were re
ceived on an average each month,
while now the average is between 3C
and 35 and with prospects that the
average will be increased in the next
year.
Purchases Cause Worry.
Dr. Biggs ascribes the %(reat in
crease in insanity to the reckless pur
chase of motor cars, which leaves
many persons in financial straits and
causes them to worry about their
debts; narcotics and moonshine. The
records and history of many of the
‘patients in the .last two years show
their minds were wrecked by indulg
ence in bad liquor and drugs. |
THE REPUBLICANS
- WILL LOSE A VOTE
ELEVATION OF COOLIDGE
CUTS DOWN MAJORITY
IN THE SENATE.
The republican organization in the
senate will lose a vote during the next
congress through the death of Presi
dent Harding, a vote which many
party leaders thought might be nec
essary to save the control of that par
ty over matters of legislation.
Now that the office of vice presi
dent is no longer filled it will be nec
essary for the senate to select from
its own membership a presiding offi
cer, who as a senator would cast his
vote on roll calls. While the vice pres
ident, as presiding officer, never par
ticipated in debate he was required by
the constitution to break any tie votes.
With the republican majority in the
senate reduced almost to the vanish
ing point and with threatened new
alignments of republican senators the
importance of the vice president’s vote
took on new proportions.
Who will be chosen as presiding
officer of the senate cannot be fore
cast. Senator Cummins, of Towa, was
selected by his colleagues during the
last session to preside in the absence
of Vice President Coolidge, but he
has indicated a desire to be relieved
of the duties to enable him to give
more time to his duties as chairman
of the interstate commerce commis
sion.
having the royal approval also must
be selected by the American host and
their word, as well as their bills, go
a longs way in directing the function.
Entertainment occasionally ‘of the
rulers of the nations to which they
are accredited is an inescapable duty
of American diplomats, who are pro
vided with no entertainment fund to
cover the costs of food and service.
A few are wealthy enough to bear
extraordinary expenditures for social
entertainment, but the poorer ones
say that the war has not toned down
the “class” of the required social du
ties.
The hjgher standing abroad of the
American dollar is said to help some
in bearing the expense, but in many
cases local tradesmen add to their
bills in the cases of the “rich Ameri
can” diplomats more than sufficient
to meet the difference in the rate of
exchange. :
PIKE, THOUGH A GOOD
LIVER, 267 YEARS‘OLD
e e
The pike, though greedy and fond
of heavy meals, is slow growing, and
is believed to live longer than any
other species of fish. A §wiss natural
ist has recorded the history of one
that was 267 years, |
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VOL. 40.—N0. 50
WAS BURIED ONLY A
A CITIZEN OF MARION
SIMPLE SERVICE IN LITTLE
CEMETERY ATTENDED BY
THOUSANDS OF FOLKS.
| To the Soft Tones of “Lead Kindly
Light” Mortal Remains of Presi
dent Are Put Away in Eternal Rest.
Neighbors Pay Last Tribute.
MARION, O.—A one-time country
editor came back today to sleep for a
night again under his father’s roof in
Marion. And with him came the grief
of the nation, of the world, that he
was dead.
Warren Harding was back again
among the neighborly folk of his home
town. The brief day of his greatness
was but a memory treasured by the
nation. His life work was done. The\
homefolk came eagerly to look their
last on his dead face, peaceful with
the calm of eternity.
Along the same tree-bordered Cen
ter street over which he rode his
white mule into Marion forty years
ago the body of Warren G. Harding
was borne in a massive black hearse,
behind a double span of coal black
horses. :
When' the stripling Harding slipped
shyly from Caledonia into Marion on
that earlier summer’s day he went
first to the court house” square, tied
his mount to a wooden hitch rail and
then set out in search of the first job
in a succession that ended with the
most exalted in the world.
On Thursday, his way being ended,
Warren Harding’s body was carried
to the old-fashioned brick home of his
father, Dr. George T. Harding, for
the final tributes of respect from the
city that he honored and the nation
he served. Here a procession of 40,000
people viewed their beloved dead.
It was Mrs. Harding’s idea that' the
late president’s body should be car
ried in a hearse rather than on a
caisson. Previous presidents have been
given military funerals in token of
their places at the head of the na
tion’s military arms. But the formali
ty and circumstances jarred on Mrs.
Harding’s sense of the propriety of
this occasion.
“I want Warren buried as a citizen
of Marion, net as the president,” she
told those on the funeral train who
were supporting her in her great
trial. “He was given the honers of
his office in Washington. In Marion
I want him to be honored as a private
man and a neighbors” '
. The Trip Home.
Almost two hours behind schedule,
the train bearing the body of Presi
dent Harding was slowly moving
acress Ohio to Marion. '
Thousands of persons waiting to
pay homage were gathered at other
points where the train was to pass.
Everywhere along the way the
passing of the train was marked by
an almost continuous throng. They
were gathered in the villages, they
stood at the road crossings, and many
looked on from corn and oat - fields
iand pastures. A'l came to pay a final
tribute to the .dead in the last car,
V:}IO in life had known so many of
them and so well that he called them
by their first names, and they spoke
of and to him not as “Mr. President,”
but as “W. G.” ;
The Burial Service.
Slowly, solemnly, accompanied by
the muffled beat of drum, the flag
draped casket containing the mortal
remains of Warren Gamaliel Harding,
twenty-ninth president of the United
States, was borne Friday afternoon to
its final rest in the beautiful cemetery
at Marion.
From all parts of the country sor
rowing thousands, headed by Presi
dent Coolidge and including cabinet
officers and others high in authority,
came to pay a silent and last tribute
of reverence to the man a whole na
tion loved.
Services Short and Simple.
A prayer at the house, before the
start for the cemetery, was uttered by
Rev. Walter A. King, of Columbus,
former pastor of Mr. Harding’s Bap
tist church here.
The Rev. W. F. Anderson, bishop
of the Methodist Episcopal diocese of
Cincinnati, delivered the benediction
at the vault.
The choir of Trinity Baptist church
sang “Lead Kindly Light,” one of the
hymns Mr. Harding learned to know
and to love when he lived in Marion.
Rev. George M. Landis, pastor of
;Trinity church, then read from the
scriptures, and Dr. Jesse Swank, pas
tor of Epworth Methodist Episcopal
church, offered prayer.
The choir sang “Nearer, My God,
to Thee.”
Warren Harding was at rest.
' One hundred thousand persons had
crowded into Marion to pay their last
respects, and as the sun was begin
ning its descent in the heavens the
body of the dead president was laid
in a vine-twined vault. :
FREE TEXT BOOK FUND
REFUSED STATE SCHOOLS
Pleas Made by Gov. Walker and Supt.
| Ballard Without Effect.
Despite an urgent appeal by Gov
ernor Walker and by Staté School
Superintendent Ballard for favorable
action on the bill by McCrory, of
Schley, providing for an appropriation
of $60,000 to be used in the purchase
of free text books for the first grades
of common schools of the state, the
house committee on appropriations
voted tc report adversely with only
one member supporting the measure. -