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TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1923.
' ¢OLONS ARE CALLED
LEGISLATURE TO CONVENE
NOV. 7TH UNDER PROCLA
MATION OF GOVERNOR.
Governor Walker on Friday issued
| 5 call to the general assembly to con-
E cne in extraordinary session on No
vember 7th. The governor cannot fix
the limit of the session, but he inti
mated that he expects the legislators to
- complete their work by November
29th, Under the call of the governor
the purpose of the extra session will
be:
“To reform the tax “system of the
«ate by proposing constitutional
amendments relating thereto by enact
ine general laws relating thereto; to
repeal the tax equalization law; to
I,r;mr._~s constitutional amendments
and enact general laws which will
bring to the tax books intangible, in
yvisible and other property now es
caping taxation and distribute the
purden of taxation by placing a fair
chare upon those citizens enjoying
large incomes who now pay practical
- |y no taxes, and provide practical and
| ¢ficient means to establish uniformi
ty of taxation by enforcing the tax
laws.
“To enact laws authorizing the state
board of education to purchase and
distribute text books without cost to
the pupils of the elementary grades
of the common schools in the future,
making such present appropriation to
. that end as the prospective state of
| the treasury will authorize.”
| The Governor’s Reasons.
| Governor Walker says in his proc
[ lamation convening the general as-
L sembly:
‘ “Future progress in Georgia along
F il industrial lines depends upon the
| establishment of a stabilized system
. of taxation. Experience has clearly
| demonstrated that there can be no
' civic peace or harmony among the
| people of the state, and that taxation
| cannot and will not be stabilized un
. der the present so-called tax equaliza
tion law, in the practical operation of
" which tax experts estimate that from
- onc-third to one-half of the people and
;‘ one-third to one-half of the taxable
| property are bearing all the burdens
of taxation, while many of the citizens
. of the state most able to pay taxes,
having large annual incomes from
«alaries and other sources, are entire
ly escaping taxation; unrest and bit
terness are increasing among the peo
ple, business is grewing more unsettled
and large industrial plants leaving the
north and east are being located in
. other southern states because of the
~ unstabilized condition of taxation in
Georgia, and the continuance of this
unfair, unjust and unsettled condition.
of affairs will work irreparable loss
and damage to the people of the state.
“That the income of the state is not
sufficient to pay the existing obliga
tions to the old Confederate veterans,
equip and maintain the common
schools, the colleges, the elemosynary
and other institutions of the state to
the point of efficiency which will hold
Georgia in line with the progressive
states of the union; that hundreds of
thousands of dollars can be covered
into the treasury of the state annually
by a scientific and business-like sys“
tem of enforcing the tax laws and oth-‘
. ¢r obligations to the state. |
. “That the present laws of the state
compel the attendance of all children
. within prescribed ages upon the
schools without providing school
hooks, although many of those chil
' dren are absolutely unable to purchase
} the same, and that the people of Geor
oia recently declared that such school
. books should be furnished to pupils
- in the elementary grades.”
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BURIED IN FUR COAT
WORTH 35,000 DOLLARS
TEXARKANA, Ark—ln accord
ance with his request the body of
Dr. Fred M. Spiers, who served as
United States commission for Alaska,
was wrapped in a great coat of Rus
sian sable, fur-lined boots and a fur
cap, when prepared for burial. The
buriai robes are estimated to have
cost $35.000. He came here two years
ago and lived almost exclusively to
hi!‘.'.\ulf,
The Manilla Railroad Company, a
government-owned line, has 646 miles
of track in operation.
Mrs, Mildred Pipkin, of
R.F.D. 8, Columbia, Tean.,
says: *““My experience with
Cardui has covered a numbe: of
years. Nineteen years ago .. .
I got down with weak back. 1
was run-down and s 0 weak and
mervous 1 had fo stay in bed.
I read of
)
The Woman's Tonic
and sent for it. Itook only one
bottle at that time, and it helped
me; seemed fo strengthen and
bulld me right up. So that is
how | first knew of Cardul.
After that, . . . when I began fo
get weak snd ‘no account’, I
sent nght] for Cardui; and It
never failed to help me.”
I you are weak and suffering
from womanly ailments, Cardui
may be just what you need.
Take Cardui. It has helped
thousands, and ofight to help
you, '
At alt druggists’ and dealers’,
et i e
Why There Are Really No “Dog Days”
The term “dog days,” as applied to
exceedingly warm days, is incorrect,
according to an official of the New
York state department of health.
“Dog days” came down through his
tory, the ancients believing the name
derived from the rising of the dog
star, Sirius, with the sun.
The 'belief that warm weather caus
es hydrophobia was responsible for
the term “dog days” being given to
days of sweltering heat, and this old
superstition has been dispelled.
Expert physicians have ascertained
that the hot weather does not give
dogs rabies or hydrophobia. These
authorities declare these maladies are
not contracted by any canine unless
bitten by another dog or animal that
already has the disease.
Louis Pasteur, the famous French
man who perfected a vaccination pro
cess for inoculating human beings
and dogs against rabies, with his dis
coveries substantiated these experts.
Another popular conception that a
HATE TEARING VITALS
OF THE OLD WORLD
COOLIDGE CONVINCED U. S.
HAS BEEN WISE IN AVOID
ING ENTANGLEMENTS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President
Coolidge is convinced that the United
States has followed a wise policy in
avoiding entanglements in the con
troversies of Europe, it was learned
authoritatively at the white house.
Reports made to the president by
observers returned from abroad are
interpreted as confirming the wisdom
of that policy.
Nothing has been revealed, Mr.
Coolidge feels, that points toward any
necessity for a change in the policy
of non-intervention which has been
followed by the American govern
ment since a plurality of 7,000,000
American voters pointed the way
three years ago.
Those who have vistied Europe, in
the president’s opinion, have returned
with a more acute realization of con
ditions there. Impressed by the bit
terness and hatreds of the Old World,
they sec all the more plainly that
there is nothing for the American
government to do at this time except
to follow the course already mapped
out.
Coolidge Non-Skimps
For First Time in Life
Now Has Income Which, Makes It
All Nationalities, Says Report.
Calvin Coolidge, for the first time
in his life, is in receipt of an income
that makes it- unnecessary for him to
skimp. As governor of Massachusetts
he earned only $lO,OOO a year. As vice
president of thie United States he
could just about make both ends meet
on $12,000. Today with a princely
emolument of $75,000, Mr. Coolidge
is making his first acquaintance with
“casy street.” There is no incumben
cy upon the president to use up the
traveling fund. When the Fifty-fifth
congress established it in 1907 it was
provided that the money is “to be
expended at his discretion and ac
counted for by his certificate solely.”
While vice president Mr. Coolidge
had an opportunity to double his of
ficial income by writing, but decided
it was not compatible with his public
duties. :
THIS DOESN’T INDICATE
HARD TIMES IN GEORGIA
A Big Jump in Automobile License
Tags in the State.
Receipts from automobile license,
tags up to August 15, 1923, exceed
ed by $240,259.48 the amount collect
ed for the same period in 1922.
Up to August 15, 1923 there had
been 141,086 passenger cars and 18,-
001 commercial cars registered in the
state, making a total of 159,087, com
pared to 119,484 passenger cars and
15,972 commercial cars, or a total of
]35,456 up to August 15, 1922. This
is an increase of 21,602 passenger
cars and 2,029 trucks.
The cash receipts up to August 15;
1923 were $2,048,912.82 compared to
$1,806,653.34 to August 15, 1922, or
an increase of $240,259.48.
NOT ENOUGH COTTON
ON 120 ,ACRES TO PICK
801 l Weevil Has Got It All on a
Crisp County Farm.
The Cordele Dispatch reports that
there is a farm in Crisp county with
120 acres in cotton this season which
promises now not to be worth pick
ing at any time. One man made a
faithful effort in six acres of it yes
terday to find one boll—he failed. This
is in a farm, too, where a large amount
of money was spent in fertilizers and
the work done with a view of reaching
the thirty-cent cotton price this fall.
Now the money and +he work are all
a compvlete loss and if cotton brought
a dollar and a half a pound there
would be none from this farm to sell.
$3BO PER ACRE AVERAGE
FOR POBACCO IN TIRT
Prof. J. C. Hart, in charge of tobac
co experiments at the Coastal Plain
Experiment Station in Tift county, re
‘ports the sale of 5,868 pounds of to
bacco from 4}2 acres on the experi
‘ment farm which brought $1,711.43,
or an average of $29.16 per hundred
pounds. This averages $3BO an acre.
Farmers who .expect to grow tobacco
next year are urged to visit the sta
tion and learn about growing tobacco.
Ts s e L
CAUSE OF APPENDICITIS.
When the bowels are constipated
the lower bowels or large intestines
become packed with refuse matter,
that is made up largely of germs.
These germs enter the vermiform ap
pendix and set up inflammation, which
is commonly known as appendicitis.
Take Chamberlain’s Tablets when
needed and keep your bowels regular
and you have little to fear from ap
pendicitis.—adv. ¥
e e
Brazilian cocoanut palms live from
600 to 700 years. , .
mad dog must froth at the mouth al
so has been dispelled. Health officials
say that while this is generally the
case, a dog might have a form of dis
ease known as “dumb rabies.” This
does not make the dog act wildly or
froth. Nevertheless its bite is just as
dangerous as from a dog afflicted with
the other disease, and usually results
fatally for the person bitten.
The belief that a mad dog will nev
er go near water also has been found
to be wrong, for health authorities
have discovered that mad dogs in
many cases show no aversion to
swimming streams and in other ways
coming in contact with water while
on a rampage. This belief is absurd,
and any persons who will run to wa
ter in the hope that the dog will not
continue its chase will find themselves
mistaken, :
Owners should have their dogs im
mediately made immune from the ra
bies by an injection of a special vac
cine recently discovered by health au
thorities.
NEW KIND COTTON
IS BROUGHT FORTH
COTTON PLANTS AND MUL
BERRY ROOTS SUCCESSFUL
LY GRAFTED IN TEXAS. |
A dispatch by Victor H. Schoffel
mayer from Galveston, Tex., to the
Washington Star is as follows:
“Successfully grafting cotton plants
to the roots of a mulberry tree and
blending in the offspring certain de
sirable characteristics of Egyptian sea
island and other long staple American
varieties P. Dan George, a Rouma
nian-Hungarian plant breeder who
settled at Lamarque, Galveston coun
ty, sixteen years ago, has developed a
new variety of cotton. One grafted
plant this season has, actual count,
017 bolls and hundreds of squarkes
while the parent plant last season had
542 bolls which opened July 28, some
with 7 locks and none with less than
five and six. The plant was eight feet
tall and six feet in diameter.
“From three grafted cotton plants
last season Mr. George gathered fif
ty-nine pounds of seed cotton, or at
the rate of five bales an acre.
“The value of the new variety of
cotton will depend entirely upon its
performances under actual farming
conditions. This has not been possible
because until this year there has not
been enough seed.
“Examination of the staple from the
three parent plants last season showed
a length of one and a half inches with
fine silky texture and good drag. A
large open boll was almost as big as a
man’s fist. All were larger than ordi
nary cotton bolls. This year’s bolls
are of very large size, many of more
than an inch and a quarter in diame
ter.” ) g
The first measurement of* the
earth’s surface was made by Eratos
thenese 245 B. C.
The Leading Cotton Factors of Southwest Georgia
- SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE OF ALL COTTON
PRODUCERS TRIBUTARY TO DAWSON '
We have been in business longer than any firm in Terrell County and believe we are better
prepared to serve the public than many of our competitors. We have every equipment
necessary tor handling the farmers cotton to the best advantage. '
' EFFICIENT SERVICE IS OUR SLOGAN
We have competent men of experience in every department who render satisfactory service to
~ our customers at all times. Simply having a warehouse to receive cotton
does not necessarily mean Efficient Service. |
SALES DEPARTMENT
We especially call your attention to this department as our salesmen are experienced classers
who are prepared to class and price your cotton,.enabling us to get the highest prices.
AUTOMATIC SPRINKLING SYSTEM
Our Warehouse is installed with the Grinnell Automatic Sprinkling System, giving us the
lowest rate of insurance.
- THE BEST LOCATION IN THE CITY
Our Warehouse is the most centrally located in Dawson. This alone adds to your convenience.
Market quotations bulletined in our office every 15 minutes during market periods
Make Our Warehouse Your Headquarters and Let Us Serve You .
Lowrey and Davidson
COTTON FACTORS—WAREHOUSEMEN ,
THE DAWSON NEWS
CONDITIONS IN EUROPE
IMPROVING-MELLON
TREASURY SECRETARY SAYS
U. S. CANNOT INTERVENE
HELPFULLY JUST NOW.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Econom
ic conditions in Europe are improving
and the United States cannot inter
vene helpfully at this time, Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon reported to
President Coolidge today after an ex
tensive trip abroad. The secretary was
in conference with the president for
more than an hour and is understood
to have given a rather cheerful out
look of the Europe situation. He is
said to believe that payment of repar
ations and other disturbing factors
will be solved in some way not as yet
known.
While in France the secretary vis
ited “the war devastated regions, but
said that everything in that country
is prosperous. There is no noticeable
unemployment and money appears to
be plentiful. An example of the‘pros
perity of France was said to be the
fact that automobile plants are run
ning full time and it is impossible to
get delivery of any of the better
grades of French cars in less than
four months.
TO TAKE BOY CENSUS.
To determine how many boys there
are in Albany a “boy census” is be
ing taken by the Albany Y. M. C. A.
One of the points to be determined
will be to learn how many of the boys
can swim.
Look Young! Bring Back lts
Natural Color, Gloss and
Attractiveness
Common garden sage brewed into a
heavy tea with sulphur added, will turn
gray, streaked and faded hair beauti=
fully dark and luxuriant. Just a few
applications will prove a revelation if
your hair is fading, streaked or gray.
Mixing the Sage Tea and Sulphur rec=
ipe at home, though, is troublesome.
An easier way ‘is to get a bottle of
Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound
at any drug store all rcady for use.
This is the old-time recipe improved by
the addition of other ingredients.
While wispy, gray, faded hair is not
sinful, we all desire to retain our
fiouthful appearance and attractiveness.
y darkening your hair with Wyeth'’s
Sage and Sulphur Compound, no one
can tell, because it does it so naturally,
so evenly. You just dampen a sponge
or soft brush with it and draw this
through your hair, taking one small
strand at a time; by morning all gray
hairs have disappeared, and, after an
other application or two, your hair be
comes beautifully dark, glossy, soft and
luxuriant.
In Charrge of v
Local Standard Oil
Service Station Service
We are in chafge of the Stand
ard Oil Company service
station at T
| DawsoN, GEORGIA
: - 'We personally will appreciate
your patronage and will do
our best to serve you to your
utmost satisfaction.
CrowN You will be pleased with
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POLARINE water and crank case service
OIL & GREASES .
Best For Lubrication 10 Which you are always wel
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Better Stick To The Standard
STANDARD OrL COMPANY
WNICORP ORATED
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