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BUY AT HOME
AND HELP
HAWSON PROSPER
| gy E. L. RAINEY
sAVANTS AND SAW MILL MEN
CONTEST FOR THE FAMOUS
SOUTH GEORGIA SWAMP.
Timbermen Invade Wilds and~
Animal Inhabitants to the Southern
End. An Effort to Enlist Prominent
Men in Preservation of Swamp.
\WAYCROSS, Ga.—For the first
(ime in several years there are no re
search mien located in the Okefeno-
Lee swamp, as far as can be learned
in Waycross. Doctor A. H. Wright,
head of the biological department of
Cornell University, has spent the sum
mer in the great swamp for the past
three years, making a special study
of reptillian and botanic life in the
depths of the wildest portions of the
«wampland. It is to be judged that
the professor has completed his stud
ies and has gathered ail the necessary
material for the scientific volume he
intends writing. ; 2
Mr. Wright, on his last wvisit to
Waycross, spoke to local civic bodies
and made a special address to the
University Club of Waycross, in the
hope of reviving the Old Okefenokee
Society, organized under the direction
oi the late Dr. J. F. Wilson, for the
purpose of saving the “Wonderland
oi America” to posterity. -
Mr. Wright has been accompanied
on his trips of exploration by other
scientists of note, among whom has
been Professor Harper, also of Cor
sell. Mr. Harper was particularly in
terested in bird study. He stated
while in Waycross that the Okefeno
kee presents the best opportunity for
the study of bird life and habits than
any one place in the United States.
He mounted many rare specimens for
his own personal gratification, and
sent some to the larger museums of
the nation. e |
Other Visitors.. |
Other students and authors have
visited the swamp on various occa
<ons, and the fact that there have
heen none this summer does not make
the Okefenokee enthusiasts of Way
cross and other south Georgia cities
feel that interest in -thfi proposed na
tional preserve is lagging.
Mr. C. N. Wilson, naturalist of
Waycross, son of the founder of the
Okefenokee preserve movement, and
prominently identified with the recent
efforts to present the possibilities of
the swamp to the people of the Unit
ed States, has received letters of com
mendation from university professors
and nature, lovers all over the United
States, indicating that there is still a
hope of Freserving the Okeienokee
swamp of south Georgia for educa
tional and recreational purposes. Mr.
Wilson recently spent several days in
the heart. of the swamp, with a na
tive guide, studying bird and plant
life. Every entry into the swamp
brings forth new material and new
objects for study, he states, despite
the fact that a large portion of the
swamp has been cut away, and if
some step is taken that will save the
remaining portions of the swamp
there is still the possibility of making
it the greatest “studyland” in the na
tion.
Right now lumber companies are
penetrating Floyd’s island, the largest
of the swamp islands, and.until the
last few months unmarred by human
hands. The primeval forest are being
cut for mill, and the animals are be
ing forced into the extreme southern
end of the prairie lands where timber
is scattered and the millmen do not
find it profitable to cut.
Plan Revival
Mr. Wilson stated to a representa
tive of tlr press that he has taken the
matter o the Okefenokee preservation
before some of the most prominent
men of the United States in the hope
of reviving the movement to bring
pressure to bear on the legislators of
the nation for the saving of the
swamp. Among those men are college
and university professors, authors,
scientists and explorers.
A special request has been made to
Henry Ford to have him come to
Waycross and spend a few days om
the prairie lands and islands of the
swamp, with the view of interesting
him in the project.
“Tt will first be a matter of educat
ing the proper authorities to the point
where they will realize the inestimable
loss that is being suffered in the de
struction of the Okefenokee,” Mr.
Wilson said.
Cotton Up $400,000,000
In Value in Six Weeks
Exchange’s Facilities Are Taxed by
The Great Demand.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The facilities
of the New York cotton exchange
have heen taxed to the utmost be
cause of the great demand for con
tracts for {future delivery extending
until next July. Clerks on the ex
change have been working nights in
an effort to keep the books up to date.
Improved business conditions and
the Washington crop estimate of 10,-
750,000 bales have caused what
amounts to almost a stampede among
cotton users both here and abroad.
Six weeks ago cotton for October
delivery sold at 2034 cents on the New
York cotton exchange and closed yes
terday around 28 cents. This advance
s cqual to more than $35 a bale and
'S cquivalent to an increased return
t 0 the cotton planters in the south of
about $400,000,000.
MAN LIVED FIVE HOURS
AFTER PULSE STOPPED
Physicians said that Jack R. Leany,
seven years old, of Stratford, Conn.,
‘ved five hours after his pulse stopped
ihrobbing. Stimulants were used to
keep life in his body.
THE DAWSON NEWS
Luxuries for Railroad
T'ravelers in New York
The daily departure of some of
the trains from New York is most
ceremonious. On passing the gates
where tickets are inspected the
traveler finds that a wide breadth
of red carpet has been laid along
the station platform, reaching far
out to the train itself. The carpet is
heavy, silencing every footfall. To,
add to the effect of richness rows
tted plants line the carpeted
he traveler is, of
co all hand lug
gage on e barrier, and
strolls luxuriousis*trainward as if
he were a royal personage. Any
one can enjoy this surprising lux
ury by the simple expedient of pay
ing the excess fare demanded on
the train,
Carpet and palms are splaced in
position every day before the gates
are opened and remain ' until the
last passenger has gone aboard.
1 STUDY BIRD LIFE
PREPARES FOR TRIP TO RE
GION OF SOUTH POLE. TO
| TRAVEL 25,000 MILES.
To study bird life and other phases
of nature in the vicinity of the South
Pole what is said to be the largest
and most expensive natural history
expedition ever organized will leave
New London, Conn., late in S?tem
ber.
The party will be in charge of Geo.
F. Simmons, Texas naturalist, and
sponsored by the Cleveland, (O.)
Museum of Natural History. It will
cover approximately 25,000 miles and
will be in progress two years.
The expedition will sail on a spe
cially equipped schooner under com
mand of George Comber, who com
manded the McMillan relief party in
1917. It will visit many volcanic is
lands and wild regions in the Antarc
tic and Indian oceans.
First Stop Off Brazil
The first landing of the expedition
will be at the St. Paul Islands, off
the coast of Brazil. Other stops in
clude the South Georgia Island, Sand
wich and Latter Islands. The Ilast
group is covered with ice and snow
throughout the year and frequently is
visited by volcanic eruptions.
The party then will move to Cape
Town, Africa, where the winter will
be spent. Expeditions will go into the
mainland along the West Africa coast
and to St. Helena and Ascension Is
lands, in the middle Atlantic. ; .
Sail in Summer.
On the approach of the Arctic sum
mer the naturalists will go into the
southern part of the Indian ocean.
Life on the Crozet, Desglation and
Kerguelen Islands will be studied. An
effort will be made to get a specimen
of the giant sea elephants of the Ant
arctic region, s |
The expedition will “include more
than 15 recognized naturalists. Mr.
Simmons recently was named curator
of birds and animals in the Cleveland
museum.
PEOPLE GETTING BACK TO
FORMER EXTRAVAGANCES.
ARE BUYING BAUBLES.
People are getting back to their
former habits of extravagance and to
the old love for luxuries which war
time prosperity encouraged, it is in
dicated by statistics gathered and an
nounced by statistical experts.
It appears that the increased pros
perity of the past two years has in
creased America’s appetite for dia
monds, ostrich feathers, pearls and a
lot of other things that they had al
most learned to get along without.
Jewelers, particularly diamond ex
perts, have received figures which
show that diamonds now_are coming
into the United States in increased
quantity and of greater value than
last year and in much greater quanti
ty than in any year since the world
war started. :
Business men, who have been study
ing the statistics, say that this increas
ed tendency to buy the luxuries and
non-essential things is unmgstakable
evidence of a general prosperity. Peo
ple are making more money now,
wage earmers are more regularly em
ployed and at better wages and mon
ey is more plentiful and more in cir
culation than in the past year or two,
and the effect is seen, it is pom_ted
out, in a revival of the buying
of things that never do have a good
sale in lean periods.
Making Loans to Divorce Seekers
Is the Latest Innovation in Banking
PITTSBURG, Pa—Lack of funds
no longer need prove a hindrance to
mismated couples who would obtain
a divorce if they have enough money
to pay attorney fees and court costs,
according to A. M. Custer, of Johns
town, who is connected with the Com
munity Savings and Loan Company,
of that city. :
In an address here before the Retail
Credit Mien's Association Mr. Custer
said that the newest thing in banking
is the extemsion of credit to couples
who seek legal freedom. He described
the system inaugtirated by a Johns
town concern and stated that not .a
dollar had been lost through loans
made to those who were seeking to
sever their marital ties.
Persons of respectability and good
standing in the community find little
difficulty, according to Mr. Custer, in
securing the loan of funds with which
to prosecute their divorce suits. Cred
’
THAT CATCHES ’EM
CRISP FARMER HAS A HOME
MADE CONTRIVANCE THAT
HAS PROVEN A SUCCESS.
The Cordele News reports that H.
K. Dowdy, who is a quiet but prac
tical farmer of the Sandy Mount com
munity of Crisp county, manufactured
an apparatus all his own' to fight the
boll weevil, and in his own mind, al
though he is not blowing it to oth
ers, met with splendid success.
Mr. Dowdy simply and casually
refers to it as his “boll weevil catch
er,” and says he caught them by the
thousands. He says he did not get it
made until late, but when he did get
it made and where he used it, he said,
he is making a half bale of cotton to
the acre, and he believes his “weevil
catcher” helped out in the result.
By the Handful.
The “weevil catcher” is a simple
contrivance and cost practically noth
ing but a little labor and effort to
make it. He took just a small dry
goods box, something .more.than a
foot wide and possibly nearly two
feet long, and put some small roller
wheels underneath to help glide it on
the ground, took all of one side off
the box except one strip, a portion of
two ends off, put a pan of kerosene
in to hold the weevils when he caught
them, attached it to his plow, so ar
ranged that the cotton stalks would
be forced in the box'and just naturally
ishake the weevils off and into the
“catcher.”
‘ By this simple method he caught
‘weevils by the 'thousands, dumped
‘them out on a sheet and could pick
them up by the “double hands-full.”
He said he was a little late in putting
it into operation, but even where he\
used it some he would make a half
bale to the acre. A neighbor used it
‘on five acres and will make more cot
ton on the five acres than on the bal
ance of his two-horse farm.
Mr. Dowdy’s “boll weevil catcher”
is at least unique and different from
anything vet on the market. It is not.
really on the market, it is simply his
home-made device. He thinks he mayl
be able to further perfect it by an
other season, when he will be largely‘
independent of the weevil and its mis
chievous work. But he never does and
will not yet depend upon all cotton.
RAILROAD OCCUPIES FOUR
- BOOTHS AT BIG EXPOSITION
IN NEW YORK CITY.
The exhibit of the Central of Geor
gia Railway Company, industrial de
partment, at the national exposition
of chemical industrials, New York
city, September 17-22, 1923, occupies
four booths.
The exhibit attempts to show by
sample and descriptive literature, in
cluding maps, particularly 'the unde
veloped, but to a large extent the de
veloped, mineral resources of Georgia
and Alabama tributary to the railway
company.
The exhibit also contains samples
illustrating the naval stores industries,
using the distillation of turpentine and
the manufacture of rosin from pine
tree gum. It also carries an exhibit
of pine oils, creosote, charcoal, et
cetera, obtained from the distillation
of pitch pine stumps, tops and other
refuse by the retort method. -
Forty-One Samples.
The manufacture of paper and pulp
from pine wood is demonstrated, be
ginning with the wood itself and con
tinuing through to the finished prod
uct. In the mineral exhibit special em
phasis is given to bauxite and the sev
eral varieties of clay, including com
mon brick and building tile clay, fire
clay of the coal measures, kaolin clay,
both primary and sedimentary, and
the high duty refractory clays of the
coastal plain.
The exhibit carries 41 mineral sam
ples as follows:
Aplite, asbestos, bauxite, barytes,
calcedony, chert, brick and tile clay,
fire clay, pipe clay, refractory clay,
coal, corundum, feldspar, flint, Full
ers earth, gold, granite, graphite, iron
ore, kaolin (primary and *sediment
ary), limestone, marble, magnetite,
manganese, mica, ocher, onyx, orna
mental building stone, pyrite, quartz,
quartzite, rutile, sand, sap brown, sili
ca, slate, soapstone, talc, shale.
Several of these minerals, such as
coal, clay, marble, iron ore, limestone,
et cetera, will carry specimens repre
senting the several varieties of these
minerals. The exhibit contains in
many instances, but more particularly
the kaolin and refractory clays, arti
cles manufactured in the process of
research work conducted by the Cen
tral of Georgia in co-operation with
the United States bureau of mines.
it in the past has been extended to
both disgruntled wives and husbands
and in no case has the confidence
placed in the parties securing the
loans been abused.
It also was said that in several in
stances where the courts has refused
a decree there had been no trouble in
securing the payment of the funds ad
vanced to the parties in the suit.
The Last Type Set by
Harding Plated in Gold
The last type set by Warren G.
Harding has been plated in gold and
sent to Washington to be kept with
other relics of the late president. He
set the type in the composing room
of the Fairbanks News-Miner. At that
time he was grescnted with a gold
make-up rule by printers of interior
Alaska.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 18, 1923
¢ 29
More or Less” Means
Mouch in Sale of Land
ATLANTA, Ga—The words
“more or less” in a description of
land have a great deal to do with
determining whether the proper
erty was sold by the fract or by
the acre, according to the Georgia
supreme court in reversing the
case .of W. W, Roberts, jr.,
against Denmark Groover and B.
R. Strickland, appealed from |
Brooks county.
According to the record Rob
erts bought two tracts of land
from the defendants, paying them
$7,000 and executing notes for
$13,220. He asked for a refund of
his money and cancellation of the
notes on the grounds that there
were only 420 acres of land on
one tract, sold as 454 acres, and
that there weré other misrepre
sentations. The Brooks superior
court dismissed the case on the
grounds that the land was sold
by the tract.
The supreme court ruled that
the land was sold by the acre, the
deed calling for ' 454.25 agres, !
which the defendants were ufizble
to deliver, and that the deed did
not say ‘“more or less.”
FORMER TO MATCH GOWN,
WHILE LATTER MUST BE
ROUGED FOR EFFECT.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Glass hair
and tangerine ears will be in vogue
this year, it was announced today at
the annual convention of hair dress
ers. “Tangerine” refers to the color,
not the shape. ;
This season the Japanese influence
is potent, and the pagoda headdress
should be much in demand. The
Dutch will play a pari, and blondes
are expected to effect a Netherlands
fashion slightly Americanized.
Individualism will be the object
striven for this year. Promise is made
of styles inniimerable, so that every
woman can choose the coiffure suit
able to her contour and complexion;
and wigs and transformations will
make ot the plain, everyday woman
an individual and a citizen ofs import
ance. {
Glass hair is announced as the
vogue for ewening wear—a shower of
colored glass that cannot be distin
guished from hair, and giass tresses
to match gowns or hamonize with
them. . Those who have Chinese pro*
pensities may wear a pagoda effect or
an Americanized version of the sleek,
plastered Japanese pompadour.
All this \is vouched for by Mme.
Louise of Chicago, ghairman of the
style show. o
. Wives No Longer Afraid.
“The sixteenth century will be re
vised,” says Mme. Louise. “Curls will
be evident. There will be a Roman in
fluence; but no—no, there will never
be anything copied from the eigh
teenth century. That century was
dead, you know. If a wife wore a
switch in secret she did it in the closet
from her husband.”
Alexander Grimault, hair dresser,
just returned from Paris, has a new
creation, he announced, that will start
all America talking. Turbans will be
worn in all colors to suit madame’s
complexion and madame’s taste—
blue turbans, green turbans, rose tur
bans, yellow turbans, etc.
Transformations will be decidedly
in vogue. Bobbed hair may stay; but
in the evening some extra tresses will
be added, so that one may be digni
fied and in fashion. For sports bobbed
hair is correct, but for evening wear
—“Mon Dieu!” as madame expresses
it.
Miss Martha Gonzales demonstrat
ed yesterday the evolution of the per
manent wave.
Spanish combs, made of hair, will
be worn, according to madame; Jap
anese daggres, and revealed ears tinct
ured with tangerine rouge.
Time Erases Angry
W ords; Lovers Meet and
Wed After Forty Years
Man, Now Past Middle Age, Returns
From West and Finds Sweet
heart, a Widow, Waiting.
Benjamin Scott, the most promis
ing young carpenter in Dresden, On
tario, Canada, quarreled with Mary
Mills, the belle of the little town, one
summer night 40 years ago and walk
ed away from her father’s swinging
gate, his chin held high, leaving her
alone. ;
The next day Mary went to the
rhome of her aunt in a nearby town.
'She took her pride with her and that
‘same year was married to Hans John
son. The news traveled back to Scott,
and he went west.
A few months ago Scott, 60 years
old, decided that he was too old to
travel, so he returned to Dresden to
spend the rest of his days. He had
not been there a day before friends
told him that Hans Johnson had died.
In another day Mrs. Johnson open
ed the front door of her home to
Scott, They had forty years to talk
about.
A few days later the conversation
had been brought up to date. Scott
made the proposal of marriage he
would have made over the gate back
in 1883 if it had not been for the quar
rel. “Mary accepted him. :
On their way to the minister’s
home both admitted that they could
not rememher what the quarrel was
about.
“It was my fault,” Scott declared.
“No, I was too proud,” his 63-year
old sweetheart protested.
There are only four fossile forest
areas in the world, three being in the
United States, the other near Cairo,
Egypt. :
’DECREASE IN INCOME TAXES.
~ VOLSTEAD ACT COST THE
, GOVERNMENT $8,200,000.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Enforce
ment of the Volstead act cost the gov
ernment $8,200,000 during the fiscal
yvear 1922-23, Internal Revenue Com
missioner Blair announced Monday in
submitting his annual report to the
treasury department.
The money spent in making Amer
ica “dry” and a loss of $575,705,000 in
revenues were cited' by the commis
sioner in cxplaining a_heavily increas
ed cost in operating his bureau dur
ing past year. Total revenues, which
in 1922 exceeded $3,000,000,000, fell to
$2,621,745,227 for the year ending
June 30 iast, Blair announced. |
Payments of income taxes were
higher during the first six months of
1923 than in the same period of 1922,
the report showed. Despite lower
rates the report indicated either more
persons paid incomes or else those
filing returns paid taxes on higher
incomes. The total income tax pay
ments in March, 1923, were $464,684,-
211, an increase of about $68,000,000
over payments in March, 1922,
Items That Show Losses.
The losses in total revenues came
chiefly from a decline of $400,000,000
in war profits taxes, $170,000,000 loss
in transportation taxes and $39,000,-
OO{} decline in taxes on liquors.
axes on automobiles, trucks and
accessories last year made the largest
jump over the previous year of the
products of any taxed industry. Ap
proximately $146,000,000 was derived
from that source as against $105,000,-
000 the year previous.
Taxes on tobacco and tobacco profi
ucts increased from $270,755,000 to
$309,015,000.
New York, leading all states last
year in total taxes paid, contributed
revenue amounting to $664,796,115 or
almost one-fourth of the total for all
states.
Four States Show Increase.
Only four states and the Philippine
Islands showed an increase in total
payments last year as compared with
the preceding twelve months. New
Hampshire’s total was 37 per cent
greater, North Carolina’s 15 per cent,
New Jersey’s 45 per cent. and Idaho’s
1 per cent, while the Philippines taxes
more than doubled, although the tota!
amount paid last year was less than
$1,000,000.
Following are the comparative re
céipts by Southern states for the fis
cal years 1922 and 1923: ‘
State 1922 1923.
Alabama ... $ 11,464,180 $ 7,708,320
Arkansas ... 6,979,045 5,718,318
Florida ... 14,319,857 13,438,863
Georgia ....... 20,988,706 19,425,325
Kentucky ... 33,122,196 26,250,239
Louisiana ... 22,753,957 16,491,035
Mississippi .. 4,640,497 3,768,720
N. Carolina.. 122,418,329 140,347,366
S. Carolina.. 11,447 385 6,710,485
Tennenssee .. 21,794,676 17,995,959
Virginia ... 46,595,648 40,205,124
SEES NO REASON FOR SEMI
WEEKLY MEETINGS. PLANS
INDIVIDUAL TALKS.
There will be no more meetings of
the president’s cabinet, unless matters
of unusual importance are to be con
sidered, according to orders issued
last week by President Coolidge. The
new president, he said, will consult
with the various secretaries individ
ually. |
Desires No Audience.
It has been the custom in Wash
ington for the cabinet to meet twice
each week. Newspapermen were given
information concerning the business
transacted then, and the nation was
kept in; constant discussion of /what
was going on in the capital;
There is no harm in that part of
the custom, Mr. Coolidge decided, but
there was one result which he did not
like—the cabinet did a lot of talking
and argument and really made no far
reaching decisions. The secretary of
agriculture gave his opinions on ngval
matters, and so on, in eqch meeting,
making the sessions wearisome.
Now for Efficiency.
Under President Coolidge’s orders
stopping the cabinet meetings a high
er degree of efficiency will be possi
ble. Each secretary.will be consulted
privately concerning matters in his
department or on subjects in which
he 11, interested. e
Ircidentally, when the president in
formed his advisors of the new order
of things, he told them that he con
siders the present cabinet the best the
country ever had. . .
New Styles of Currency With Novel
Designs to Be Circulated by Uncle Sam
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew
W. Mellon’s approval of the new de
signs 'for paper money, under consid
eration for more than a year, has been
announced ;at the treasury department
and many new bills of distinctive type
and marking soon will be in circula
tion.
The rew designs at first will affect
only United States notes, silver cer
tificates and federal reserve notes in
denominations up to $lOO, with the
exception of the “unpopular” two-dol
lar note, but it is hoped later to ex
tend the new designs—amounting al
most to a program of standardization
—to national bank notes and ultimate
lv to the rare gold certificates.
Working to make the job of the
counterfeiter less remuncrative, treas
ury experts chose the. method of
standardizing designs, gving one de
nomination of all kinds of currency
one distinctive design for Yace and
Preacher After Trip
Abroad Lauds U. S. Girls
'+ Dr. Frederick H, Knubel, pres
~ ident of the United Lutheran
church of the United States and
Canada, went to Eurdpe some
time ago, and his last words on
departing were a criticism of the
American girl. But he’ changed
his mind while abroad, and his
first words on arriving home on
Thursdayon the steamship Mon
golia were:
“Beside the European girls our
sweet, clean American girls are
wonderful.”
Dr. Knubel said that the mor
als of the younfer generation
abroad are ‘“‘simply deplorable,”
- and that everywhere he went he
heard of the moral decadence that
had set in since the war.
From all reports morals in Euroge
have sunk to a low standard since the
dwar, and many shocking things are
one,
15,500,000 JEWS; NEW
;
~ YORK HAS 1,643,012
iLESS THAN 20 PER CENT OF
- WORLD’S HEBREWS IN U. S.
i YEAR BOOK SHOWS.
Of more than fifteen and a half
million Jews in the world, according
to the recently issued American Jew
ish Year Book for 1923-24, 3,602,150,
or less than 20 per cent, live in the
United States, _ :
Of that number statistics compiled
by Harry Schneiderman, editor of the
book, show that 1,643,012 Jews, rep
resenting 29 per cent of the total pop
ulation, are residents of New York
city. The borough of Manhattan leads
with 657,101, followed by Brooklyn
with 604,380. Thirty-eight per cent of
the residents of the Bronx, .or 278,-
169, are Jewish. There are 85104
Jews in Queens and 17,168 in Rich
mond.
The majority of Jews in the Unit
ed States are centered in the large|
cities, including Phiadelphia, Chicago,
Baltimore, Boston, ' Cleveland, St.
I.ouis, Pittsburg and Detroit.
Majority in Europe.
More than 67 per cent of the world’s
Jews live in Europe, where they num
ber 10,536,755, according to year-book
figures. Countries containing the larg
est number 'are: [Poland, 3,500,090;
Russia (Union of Socialistic Soviet
Republics), 3,113,066; British Empire,
795,466, including 295,000 in Great
Britain and northern Ireland; Ger
many, 615,000; Hungary, 498913;
France and its possessions, 441,500,
including 165,000 in France proper;
Czecho-%lovakia. 381996, and Aus
tria 350,000.
There are 83,794 Jéws in Palestine
and 5101 in the Irish Free State.
Since 1908, 908,878 have been admit
ted to the United States. During the
same period 51,621 Jews, or-5.6 per
cent of the total admitted, departed
from the country.
TONGUE-TIED AND DEAF, HE
PUZZLED LINGUISTS AND
POLICE EXPERTS.
NEW YORK, N. Y,—The savants
of the police department had decided
that the mysterious black man found
wandering recently in Brooklyn was
a member of some strange tribe be
cause he could not understand any
language they tried on him and they
could not understand his language,
which seemed to be gibberish. But
vesterday . the mysterious black man’s
father came to town and said that the
strange one is none other than Bill
Hillman, late of Georgia, but more
recently of Jersey City.
“Bill ain’t no foreigner,” said Hill
man senior; “Bill’s tongue tied. That’s
the reason you folks couldn’t know
what he said.” ‘
It then developed that not only is
Bill tongue tied, but he had been ill
when a child, and this illness had
made him deaf. He knew: English and
tried earnestly to speak it all the time
he talked to the police, but they had
their ears set for a foreig nlanguage
and couldn’t interpret tongue tied En
glish as spoken by a Georgia negro.
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got lost, and eventually wound up in
Brooklyn, where the police picked
him up. He was sent to the Kings
county hospital, where doctors said
he was sane, but talked some strange
language. He was sent all over New
York, and all the amateur and profes
sional interpreters flung their lan
guages at him—and Bifi continued to
talk tongue tied English. He was sent
to Jersey City with his father.
’hack so that those persons into whose
possession the money comes may rec
logm’ze instantly if alteration has been
attempted.
~ The faces of the new bills will carry
portraits of well-known figures in
American history, mostly presidents,
and the best known faces have bgen
‘chosen for the bills' most used. The
one-dollar bill, for instance, will have
Washington’s portrait; the five Lin
coln’s, and the ten Jackson’s. Cleve
land’s likeness will appear on. the
twenty-dollar bills, while for the fif
ties and one hundreds the portraits of
General Grant and Benjamin Frank
lin respectively have been selected.
The whole design, with the excep
tion of the portrait and the over print
ing, therefore, will be uniform, and
the difficulty of “raising” bills to
‘higher denominations Chief Moran, of
‘the secret service, believes, will be
greatly increased.
A NEWSPAPER
DEVOTED TO
PUBLIC SERVICE
VOL. 41.—N0. 3
FOREIGN SEEDBY U. S.
AMERICAN FARMERS DRAW
HEAVILY ON OTHER COUN
TRIES FOR SEEDS. 8
American farmers grow hundreds of
thousands of acres'of crops from seeds
produced in other countries, but fre
quently, perhaps usually, the man who
plants it has no idea that it caine from
the pampas of Argentina, the well- °
tilled fields of Germany or from dis
tant Turkestan. The department of
agriculture keeps a record of all the
seed offered for entry into the coun
try, under authority of the seed im- .
portation act, and does its best to
keep out poor seeds and those carry
ing insect pests or diseases.
Quality of Seed Improved.
As a result we have means of know
ing what different countries are pro
viding for American farmers to plant,
although the exporting country is not
in all cases the country in which the
seed was grown. Of late years the
guality of seeds imported has improv
‘ed greatly as a result of the govern
‘ment’s policy of determining the qual
ity of shipments of seeds.
~ According to records kept since
1919 practically all of the seed of als
sike clover and Canada bluegrass
came from Canada. Very little red
clover seed was imported dnfi? the
last year, but previous to -1922-1923
most of the foreign seed of the this
crop came from France, Itally, Ger
many, England and Chile. In 1923
we got our outside supply of alfalfa
seed from Argentina and Russian
‘Turkestan, with a little from Umfuay
and Germany., Before this year Italy
and France had shipped us consider
able qualtities. Crimson clover comes
from England, Germany and France;
white clover from Germany and Cze
cho-Slovakia. ;
Denmark and Germany are sendin?
us orchard grass seed. A number o
years ago New Zealand was a source
of supply. Rape seed formerly came
from Holland, France and Germany,
but during the war Japan stepped in
and supplied practically our entire de-,
mand. Now Holland, . France and
England are taking part of the mark
et away from the Orientals.
Ireland Big Source.
Ireland is the principal source of
both English and Italian rly,'e grass
seed, but some of the English variety
also comes from New Zealand, Scot- .
land and England. Some seed of the
Italian variety is sent in ‘fr New
Zealand and Denmark, whilfirgen
tina supplies a variety differing from
either of the others.
Gremany is the leader in supplying
the United States with seed of hairy
veich, a legume crop which has be
come very popular in the eastern
states in recent years, but the Ger
mans get the seed from Latvia, Li
thuania and other nearby countries.
Spring vetch seed is largely of Ger
man origin, with some coming from
(liingland, Holland, Latvia and Cana
>
American purchases of some forage
crop seeds are very large indeed. Some
countries send millions of pounds of
even a single kind for the use of farm
ers in various parts of the counmtry.
Argentina, for mstance, shi})ped us
nearly 8,000,000 pounds of alfalfa seed
last year. In the same period Canada
sold us more than 5,500,000 O&)ounds of
alsike clover seed and 835, pounds
of Canada blue grass. We bought 4,-
600,000 pounds of rape seed from Ja
pan and considerably more than 1,-
500,000 pounds of crimson clover seed
from France.
Federal Prohibition Law
Fines Over $12,000,000
Report Tells of Convictions of Judges
And Millionaires.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Convic
tions of judges, attorneys, federal and
state officials and migfi:mires among
the host found guilty of violating the
prohibition laws was detailed in a re
port submitted to President Coolidge
by Attorney General Daugherty.
A" synopsis of the report, made
public with the assent of the presi
dent, reviewed the federal judiciary’s
work in administering the prohibition
law in the first forty-one months of
its operation. It showed that since the
statute went into effect January 16,
1920, more than 90,000 cases had been
terminated in United States courts
with 72,480 convictions and fines ag
gregating $12,467,660., There has been
a constant yearly increase in prohibi
tion prosecutions, the report showed,
while jail sentences for the past 23
months have totaled more than 3,000
years.
COUPLE “HIKED” LONG
DISTANCE WITH CUPID
Walked 1,250 Miles to Be Married in
Mexico, Then Worked Way Home.
Alffter “hikidg” more than 1,250
miles, Roy S. Wiegard, of Dover, 0.,
and Miss Carolyn C. Murphy, of
Brooklyn, N. Y. Miami Un:iversity -
students, were married in a newspaper
office at Mexico City, Mexico. Now
they are on their way back to De
ver—by train. :
The couple left Oxford, 0., seat of
the university, at the clpse of = the:
spring term with another couple, a
brother of the bride and Miss Helen
Cabell, of Dayton, O. At the start of
the journey the common fund conm
tained only $4O, and by the time the
four arrived at the Mexican capital it
had dwindled to 15 cents. :
. After their wedding in the newspa
per office Wiegard worked there as 2
printer and his bride wrote feature .
articles about their trip until _tm'hd :
earned enough money for t re
turn. : ;
$125,000 FOR POSSUM SKINS.
Opossum skins sold by one Austra
fian firm totaled $125,0&} in the ten
manthe endino Iznct Al et