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puBLIC SERVICE
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gL TAX LISTS WILL
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IN(;OMES ARE TO BE POSTED
UNDER A NEW LAW PASSED
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gS TAX PAYERS WORRY
CAUS
Besides Exposing Private Affairs the
New Law Will Afford Fine Oppor
wnity for Gossips. Will Also In
crease Mailing List Nuisance.
ome fine day next year all persons
who pay income tax to the federa_xl
government will wake up to find their
pames, addresses and amounts of tax
paid posted in a great list at _the of
fice of the district collector of internal
revenue, and perhaps also at postof
fees and other public places. It is a
provision ©1 the new revenue act,
which excited much attention when
the law was In final critical stages of
cu;:tdt‘.::ln n two or _three months
ago. Nov the treasury 18 working out
niles and regulations for application
of the provision, says a Washington
dgispatch. Those who do not like the
arangement call it the ‘“Peeping
Tom” law.
Paradise for Snoopers.
Apny person can look over the
ste and calculate with fair accuracy
the income of a taxpayer by taking
into consideration the family depend
ency, that is, the number of children
and other items determining deduc
tions. Thus we may expect to hear
conversations like this:
‘Do you realize that our firiends,
the Browns, must have an income of
wen thousand or more? I saw Brown’s
mcome tax in the collector’s list and
I was surprised at it, Fhey live so
economically.”
Or this:
“Neighbor Smith, you know, really
doesn't make much. His family lives
well and makes a show, but I saw by
the income tax records that he paid
Jess than I did last year.”
Or ;"‘:I.A}/} flliS:
‘That company seems to be doing
a poor business, according to its tax
refurn
[he amount of tax paid will be as
much a 4 matter of public record as the
assessment on a piece of property or
the decision of a court. The difference
is that herctofore a man’s income has
been assumed to be a very' personal
and intimate thing, to be disclosed to
the tax collector in confidence, and
only for purposes of aiding in deter
mination of the proper tax due and in
evasion of the tax responsibility. Now
the amount of tax paid is to be open
to the world . . . It is the new law of
Posted in Spring.
The lists will be posted along in
April or May of next year, according
to present plans. They will show tax
pavable on incomes for this year, 1924,
on returns to be filed on or before
15, 1925
In smaller communities the publici
ty provisions will make more neigh
bor to neighbor gossip. There is noth
ing to prevent the leading information
spreaders in the smallest hamiet in the
United States from knowing who paid
what, and to pass this along industri
llage stores, in the town
gar the council meeting, on the
front porch at dusk, in family coun
cls, at lodge meetings, wherever peo
ple meet and discuss personalities, the
subjcct of the income tax paid by So
and So and his calculated income is
lkely to become a spicy subject of
onversation.
[hen may come the mailing list
mak and later as a result the ad
vertising material. From tax records
there can be gleaned lists of men who
paid $300.000 or more, those whose
taxes ran around $lOO,OOO, and all
other classes down the line. The small
iry may escape, and they may not.
the lists are accurate and authorita
d will provide too good an op
portunity for direct by mail adver
tisers to overlook.
Of course one purpose of this new
plan is to- catch the tax dodgers. The
theory is that one man will tell tales
on another, if the list does not contain
tie name of the man who should pay
taxes hut who does not do it. Or one
man may know that another should
fave paid more than the record shows.
Alarm Taeories Out.
Yn the other hand, those who con-
Sicer the publicity provision ill ad
vised believe its tendency will be to
make wealthy men who are sensitive
cver the amounts of their incomes de-
Merately “play down” their reports to
mnimize -the “rich man” talk. Both
@c theories, and the utility or alarms
tn not he judged now. The only cer
‘amn thing is that there will be forth
e lot of good gossip.
Date officials, on request of the
“te governor, also must be given ac
=B to returns of any corporation.
¢ purpose of this is to enable tax
o of states to check state
2Ords In an effort to avoid tax eva
1. Any one who knows the rules
U wariare in state politics, however,
. tuspect that in some cases the
Mquiries will not be limited to this
..»7is entire policy of publicity is a
Versal of public policy and practice
amer - Past. When the income tax
v dment was adopted, in 1913, there
o> much opposition on the ground
00, @ man’s income was too private a
ler 10 be subjected to public re
the government. Assurances
. given by friends of the proposal
e 1 ;. PTIVES of tax returns always
wer. e considered inviolable. Laws
te. “dopted imposing heavy penal-
AB/Y ;o f ?“d('.ral employes who made
erth..Tmation from tax returns. Nev
and .. _the policy is now changed,
hane . csults, good or bad, or per
sare,. . Mixture of the two, will be ap
“lt within another year.
THE DAWSON NEWS
A Baker County Lover
Performs Like a Caveman
Shoots His Sweetheart Because She
Wanted to Postpone Marriage.
NEWTON, Ga—Miss Maude
Bentley, 17-year-old Newton girl,
was seriously wounded here on
)Thursday when she was twice
“RDIN hy I. E. Jones, prominent
& ARY »tv farmer. She is still
living “~ians believe she
has a chance : £
It is said that a. ae of the
shooting Miss Bentley .as trying
to persuade Jones to wait'a while
before marrying her. A marriage
license was issued several days
ago, after five days’ legal notice
had been posted.
Immediately after the shooting,
which occurred in the front yard
of the girl’s home, Jones disap
peared and has not yet been ap
prehended. A warrant was placed
in the hands of Sheriff Griffin,
charging Jones with assault with
intent to murder.
LOOKS TO AMERICA TO MAKE
UP SHORTAGE IN OTHER
COUNTRIES OF WORLD.
The United States is the only grain
growing country on the globe that has
produced more wheat this year than
last and, as a consequence, bread eat
ers of the world wiill make a path to
the doors of wheat growers in Amer
ica this autumn and winter.
With the world crop at least 12 per
cent smaller than it was last year and
28,000,000 bushels more wheat in their
shocks and bins that they had last
season, American farmers hold the
most favorable position of them all.
The wheat growers of this country,
it is estimated, will have 225,000,000
bushels or more surplus wheat to ex
port at prices much higher than they
were in 1923.
Price Is Advancing.
Price advances have bDeen greater in
Winnipeg and Liverpool than they
have in the Chicago market. For ex
ample, between June 1 and Aug. 1
wheat advanced only 25 cents a bush
el here, while at Winnipeg the in
crease was 37 cents, and 30 cents at
Liverpool.
Winnipeg’s advance was the largest,
and the Canadian decrease in wheat
yield is the greatest. The dominion
farmers’ crop is only 282,000,000 bush
els, compared with 474,000,000 last
year.
Western FEurope, excluding Russia,
has only 1,021,000,000 bushels of wheat
this year, against 1,090,000,000 last
vear, and the advance on the Liver
pool market comes next to that in
Winnipeg.
WHITE MEN SLAVES;
.
LIVE IN SUBJECTION TO NE
GRO TRIBE IN INTERIOR OF
AFRICA. CAN'T OWN LAND.
Fifty white men and women are
slaves of a black chieftain and his tribe
in the far interior of south Africa, a
member of the south African locust
expedition, penetrating hitherto unex
plored regions, has reported.
The white men and women are be
lieved to be descendants of old Dutch
pioneers who pushed into the wilder
ness years ago and, having lost their
way, were captured by the negro tribe.
Tillers of the Soil.
A doughty chief, Sebele, is ruler of
the tribe, considered the aristocracy
of the Kalahari region. The white
slaves toil for Sebele and his tribes
men, receiving small portions of grain
as wages. The slaves are not allowed
to own lands.
Though Sebele and his tribesmen
are possessed of modern rifles, the
white men are not allowed to own
firearms of any kind. The latter are
kept in absolute subjection.
The south African locust expedition,
which discovered the plight of the
whites, has gone into the interior of
the country to study the breeding
places of locugts.
M P
Plans to Pedal Across
Adtlantic in Forty Days
Will Use Boat of Own_ Construction.
Spent Two Years Building Craft.
William Oldham, English engineer,
will attempt to pedal himself across
the Atlantic in the near future. He
will use a twelve-foot boat of his own
construction, two years time having
been spent in building the strange
craft. Though the tiny ship will be
equipped with sails, Oldham will de
pend to a great extent pn his one
man power propulsion system of bicy
cle pedals geared to the propeller.
Oldham expects to take forty days
to make the voyage, during which
time he will live mainly on preserved
foods. He will sleep in the daytime
and navigate at night. The start prob
ably will be made from Liverpool.
Twenty years ago he built a similar
type boat in which he intended at
tempting to C€ross the Atlantic, but
was prevented from starting by city
authorities in London. No such inter
vention is any longer anticipated.
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WOMEN «“MASHERS” ANNOY
1 MEN IN SOUTHERN CITY
Women “mashers” are the latest in
New Orleans, La. The mayor has
asked the chief of police to stop the
‘practice of women luring men into
automobiles in the business district.
GEORGIA. GANDIDATES
AWAIT VOTERS' VERDICT
ONE OF MOST APATHETIC
CAMPAIGNS EVER KNOWN
IN STATE COMES TO END.
BALLOTS DECIDE TOMORROW
Several Contests for State Offices and
‘ In Number of Congressional Dis
| tricts. Local Candidates Unoppos
~ ed and Small Vote Expected. “
| One of the most uninteresting and
apathetic political | campaigns ever
kno_wn in Georgia will come to a close
tonight, and Wednesday the voters
will go to the polls and register their
verdict. |
The duels for state offices are be
tween United States Senator William
J. Harris and former Senator Thomas‘
W. Hardwick for the senatorship from
Georgia; J. J. Brown, the incumbent,
and George F.: Hunnicutt for com
missioner of agriculture; N. H. Bal
lard, the incumbent, and Fort E. Landl
for state school superintendent; Major
C. E. McGregor, the incumbent, and
Colonel John W. Clark for state pen
sion commissioner; Colonel John T
Boifeuillet, the incumbent, and Rep
resentative . R. Bennett, of Dodge!
county, for public service commission,
and James D. Price, the incumbent,
and Representative Albert J. Wood
ruff, of DeKalb county, for the public
service commission, i
BSmall Vote Expected. |
Everything is in readingss for the
balloting, and a light vote’fs expected
except in districts where there are
spirited contests. ‘ |
In addition to the races for state
house positions there ate a number of}
warm congressional contests that will
aid in bringing the voters to the polls.
In the First district Congressman R.
L. Moore, of Statesboro, is opposed
by former Congressman Charles G.
Edwards, of Savannah; in the Second
district Congressman Frank Park, of
Sylvester, is opposed by E. E. Cox,
of Camilla; in the fifth district Con
gtessman W. D. Upshaw is opposed
by Max Wilensky, of Atlanta; in the
Sixth district Representative Ben J.
Fowler, of Bibb county, and Repre
sentative Sam Rutherford, of Monroe
county, are battling for the seat to be
made vacant by the retirement of
Congressman J. W. Wise; in the
Eighth district Congressman Charles
H. Brand, of Athens, is opposed by
Representative Frank Holden, .of
Clarke county, and in the Ninth dis
trict Congressman Thomas M. Bell,
of Gainesville, is opposed by Sam G.
Brown, of Gwinnett county.
Candidates Unopposed.
Congressman Charles R. Crisp, ‘of
Americus, representing the Third dis
trict; W. G. Wright, of Newnan, rep
resenting the Fourth district; Gordon
Lee, of Chickamauga, representing the
Seventh district; Carl Vinson, of M.il
ledgeville, representing the Tenth dis
trict; W. C. Itankford, of Dpuglas,
representing the Eleventh district, and
W. W. Larsen, of Dublin, represent
ing the Twelith district, are unoppos
ed for renomination.
For judge and solicitor general of
‘the Pataula circuit M. J. Yeomans gmd
B. T. Castellow have no opposition.
J. D. Weaver, for representative from
Terrell county, and R. L. Moye, of
Cuthbert, for state senator from the
Eleventh district, are also unopposed.
On the same date the voters of
Chatham, Bibb, DeKalb, Richmond
and Muscogee counties will vote on
the question of abolishing the salary
svstem of paying county officials. This
referendum will add to_the vote cast
in these counties materially.
PEOPLE HERE WILL HAVE AN
OPPORTUNITY TO OBSERVE
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF SUN.
While no total eclispe of the sun is
listed for this year, one of the best
opportunities for observing a total
shutout of Old Sol’s face will be af
forded the eastern part of the coun
try early in the coming vear, officials
at the United States naval observa
tory at Washington say.
On January 24, 1925, the sun will
be in total eclipse. This will start at
sunrise just beyond Lake Superior. Its
path will be on into New York state
and lower New England. Eastern New
York and southern New England will
be the best positions for observations.
Vessels in the Atlantic ocean north of
Scotland will be able to see it at sun
set. In the middle of the Atlantic it
will be wvisible at noon.
Another total eclipse will take place
January 14, 1926. This will start in
‘Africa, crossing the Indian ocean and
the island of Sumatra in the Dutch
East Indies, and the lower islards of
the Philippines. A
| GREAT BRITAIN ASKS UNITED STATES FOR “SPY” INDEMNITY
WASHINGTON, D. C.—One hun
dred and four members of the- British
house of commons, including Lord
Curzon, signed a petition received to
day by senators and members of the
house d_emanding reparations from
the United States government for the
imprisonment of Mrs. Stan Harding,
a British subject, in a Russian jail.
. The petition states that Mrs. Hard
ing, while visiting Russia in the dis
charge of her duties as a journalist,
lwith safe conduct pledged by the Rus
sian government, was arrested and
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 9, 1924
Be Something Doing W hen
Georgia Girls Bake Bread
Contest Will Be Held at Southeastern
Fair in Atlanta in October.
ATLANTA.—The girls’ bread
baking contest has been announc
ed again for the! Southeastern
Fair in Atlanta, the event to be
staged about the middle of fair
week, October 4 to 11, and already
over the state competitive tests are
being held to qualify the repre
sentative teams.
No exhibit last fall attracted
more attention or created so much
interest and enthusiasm as the
thirty young girls in white dress
es, aprons and caps as they bus
ied themselves around the ovens
in the fair building, showing the
world how to make good bread.
The winners were Daisy Scott,
of Collins; Annie Ruth Sykes, of
Cobbtown, and Mary Wells, of
Collins, constituting the Tattnall
county team. Accompanied by
Miss Maggie Bethea, of Reidsville,
the home demonstration agent
who taught them, they were giv
en a trip to Chicago. The same
reward awaits the winners this
year. It is no mean honor to be
one of the best bread bakers in
the state.
YOUNG GIRL HOBO
TURNS UP IN ATLANTA
ARRIVED IN BOX CAR AND
BOARDED IN CAVE, WHERE
MULLIGAN STEWS.
ATLANTA, Ga.—When an attrac-‘
tive young woman with a wealth of
auburn hair, fashionably bobbed, be
gins wandering around freight yards
at early and uncertain hours of the‘
morning and looking with appraising
eye on brake beams and possibly
empty box cars it is time for the
night watch to grow suspicious. |
In this general condition policemen
discovered Minnie Lee Horsley, who
is good to look upon, out at Inman
yards early in the morning. They call
ed to her and a patrol wagon and
turned her over to Mrs. J. C. Davis,
of the woman’s bureau of the police,
to whom she revealed her story.
In short it was this:
She had tired of her parental roof
at Carbon Hill, Ala., which is dusty
from the coal of the mines. She had
moved to Birmingham. Then she tired
of Birmingham.
~ Seeing an empty box car that was
going somewhere she decided to
change her place abode.
The box car bore her to Atlanta.
She arrived Sunday night and abid
ed in a cave where hobo gentlemen
foregather over a can of mulligan
nearly every evening.
~ She said she enjoyed the thrill.
CANADA GETS 20,000
WOMEN FROM BRITAIN
FEMALE IMMIGRATION FROM
BRITISH ISLES HALF THAT
OF MALE INFLUX.
Approximately 20,000 women from
the British Isles have moved to Can
ada in the last year, or, roughly, about
one-half of the number of men. This
is one of the striking features of the
present consideration of British immi
gration, which is one of the most en
grossing subjects, and one upon which
departmental forces are largely con
centrating, says a bulletin of the Ca
nadian Pacific railway. To form a
more adequate appreciation of the
normal rate of movement the bulletin
further states that it must be consid
ered that in 1923 movement of men
from the British Isles included 1,500
farm laborers and 12,000 harvesters
brought from the British Isles under
schemes devised and initiated by the
Canadian Pacific railway in that year.
This would indicate that in normal
years the movement of men and wo
men would be equal.
According to reliable estimates there
is an excess of 2,000,000 women over
men in the British Isles, while Canada
is one of the few countries in the
world where men are in a numerical
superiority, which amounts over the
entire country to about 64 per cent.
In the more recently developed west
ern areas the male majority is so
striking that it reveals the urgency of
a redistribution of women of the em
pire, which contains the promise of
certain advantages to the women of
the British Isles.
~ In 1923, the first year the depart
‘ment was established, fifteen parties
of girls were brought from England
!to Canada under the auspices of the
'Canadian Pacific railway. Through co
operation with Dorchester House and
the Women's Division of the Domin
jon Government Department of Im
'migration and Colonization these girls
found comfortable and suitable homes
in eastern Canada, though a few went
to the farms in the west,
condemned to death and held for
months in confinement, as a result of
“a 2 baseless accusation of espionage
made against her by Mrs. Marguerite
Harrison, an -admitted agent of the
American military intelligence, who
was at the same time correspondent
of the Associated Press.”
Re-Arrested as Informer.
It is charged in the petition that
Mrs. Harrison, who was a Baltimore
newspaper woman, had been arrested
by the soviet government “as an
American spy and had secured her
liberty by consenting to act as an in-
WAS FUGITIVE 22 YEARS
DID NOT MURDER MAN
TORTURED BY A HAUNTING
MEMORY OF “MURDER” HE
THOUGHT HE COMMITTED.
WANDERER OVER THE EARTH
Alabama Authorities Find, However,
That Victim Recovered. Years of
Turmoil and Torture Have Left
Their Unmistakable Mark.
Oliver Cameron has been returned
to Birmingham, Alabama, from Port
land, Oregon, where an attempt at
suicide gave first intimation of the
mental turnioil through which he has
passed in his efforts to forget what he
believed to be a murder committeed
more than twenty-two years ago.
A wanderer over the earth more
than a score of years, Cameron has
faced almost unbelievable hardships in
his efforts to forget the crime he
thought he had committed. With the
haunting memory always with him, he
has been traveling steadily.
Never able to settle down in one
place for any length of time, he has
missed the joy and happiness that
come from pleasant home life. There
is a touch of the pathetic in his story.
Always, he says, he wanted a home of
his own, with a wife and children.
His fondest memories are those of the
days when he was planning his fu
ture, before the time he is alleged to
have shot W. J. Gay.
Walked Hundreds of Miles.
Leaving Birmingham in 1902 after
shooting Gay, Cameron says, he walk
ed hundreds of miles in his efforts to
escape arrest. He joined the navy,
traveling to the farthermost parts of
the earth, but always there was the
memory of his deed to torture him.
After the navy service he became a
wanderer over the country.
Pursued relentlessly by the thoughts
of what he had done, he kept ever
moving. Illusions of authorities follow
ing were with him constantly and he
always was attempting to foil his im
aginary pursuers, He used a different
name in every town he entered and
made no effort to communicate with
friends for fear that he might be ap
prehended through the correspondence.
At last, driven to desperation by
what had grown to be fanatic thinking
of the subject, he threw himself into
a river in Portland.
- He was rescued, however, and in a
'moment of laxity after he had reach
‘ed the hospital confessed to the crime
he thought he had committed. Port
land authorities communicated with
the Birmingham sheriff’s office.
| Man He Shot Recovers.
And now the tragic part of Cam
eron’s story occurred. Gay, the man
who he had shot, recovered from the
wound. Indictments on assault with
inten to murder and carrying conceal
ed weapons charges had been return
ed by the grand jury at the time of
the shooting, but long since had been
stored away in the musty files of the
sheriff’s office. -
Neone of the present members of the
sheriff’s force recalled the crime. A
long search was necessary to find the
indictments and after they had been
again brought to light considerable
difficulty was experienced in obtaining
money with which to return Cameron
to Birmingham.
Years of privation and mental tor
ture have left their mark on Cameron.
He is emaciated, his face wears a
drawn expression and his mentality
has begun to weaken under the con
stant strain. He goes about the county
jail as a man in a daze, not quite sure
why he’s there. But his face wears a
peculiar expression of joy and happi
ness, for the burden that weighted his
soul has been lifted and his mind_set
free irom the torture of years.
LOSER OF BET WILL
EAT NICE POLECAT PIE
KENTUCKY DEMOCRAT AND
REPUBLICAN PRINCIPALS IN
WAGER ON PRESIDENCY.
PARIS, Ky.—While the greater
part of the Paris population looks on
one of two well-known Kentucky pol
iticians will eat a polecat pie here on
November 3. The feast is the result of
a wager on the outcome of the presi
dential election. The two politicians,
a democrat and a republican, have
agreed that the loser shall eat a pole
cat pie.
The eating is not the worst of the
agreement, for the loser also must
catch and prepare the cat. The recipe
for the cooking of the pie will be pro
vided by Dr. William Kinney, of this
city, an authority on edible game,
who led the politicians to make the
wager on his assurance that a polecat
properly prepared is a delicacy. The
politicians refused to permit their
names to be used in connection with
the story. .
former on British and American visi
tors to Russia and lived there on those
terms for six months, till re-arrested,
as the soviet authorities informed the
American press, for denouncing inno
cent persons.”
During the incarceration of Mrs.
Harding, the petition goes on, she was
repeatedly offered life and release if
she also would consent to act as a
soviet spy and propagandist. Declin
ing those terms, it states, she remain
ed in prison till broken in health and
after five months imprisonment she
was finally liberated as a preliminary
to the trade agreement with Russia.
McAdoo’s Brother Is
Treasurer LaFollette Party
Bolts Democrats and Is Aiding Inde
pendents in Official Capacity.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Malcolm
McAdoo, brother of William G.
McAdoo, Thursday put himself
solidly behind the campaign for
the LaFollette-Wheeler presiden
tial ticket and was elected treas
urer of the progressive party or
ganization in New York state.
In announcing his acceptance of
the post of treasurer for the third
party in this state McAdoo de
clared he was not only a bolter of
the democratic party, “but of both
old parties.”
“I have voted nine times for
presidential nominees, three of
whom were democrats and six re
publicans,” McAdoo said. “I am
a bolter of both parties. I would
have no seli-respect if I voted for
either of the old parties this year.”
THE WHOLE COUNTY
HONORS HONEST MAN
STEINER CELEBRATES FIFTI
ETH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS
BUSINESS IN ILLINOIS.
Fifteen thousand persons of Wayne
county, 111, turned out the day Eman
uel (“Manny”) Steiner, a Jew, cele
brated the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of his clothing business in
Fairfield, a town in that county and
state.
Forty members of the Ku . Klux
Klan, in robes, were present when an
other of their number, the Rev. Her
bert G. Markley, of the Presbyterian
church, presented Steiner a basket of
50 white roses.
“Manny” Steiner started out as a
pack peddler. Soon he opened a cloth
ing store and for 50 years ‘“Steiner’s
Corner” has been an institution in
Fairfield. At the celebration in his be
half he was referred to by the speak
ers as “citizen, patirot and honest bus
iness man.”
Sixty sheep, 20 beeves and 50 hams
were consumed at the barbecue in con
nection with the celebration.
Steiner has always had a reputation
in the county as being a man who sold
good goods at a fair price. A wedding
suit bought from him in 1878, for
$8.50, was shown at the barbecue.
}HOWEVER, VAST SUMS ARE
SENT TO OTHER STATES
FOR SUCH PRODUCTS. |
ATLANTA, Ga.—Dairying is rap
idly becoming an important industry‘
in Georgia and many other southern
states, in the opinion of officials of the
Georgia department of agriculture. |
Numerous reasons might be offered
as to why Georgia should work for
the development of the dairy industry,
agricultural department officials say.
The following, they point out, are
some reasons which show why dairy
ing should become an important fac
tor:
The dairy cow makes it possible to
market something of real cash value
throughout the year.
The price of dairy products is usual
ly uniform over a long period of years.
There is little loss in dairying and it
is a staple product on the farm.
A dairy cow is one of the most im
portant parts of the program to in
crease and maintain soil fertility.
The dairy cow economically and at
a profit converts pasture grasses,
roughage and the by-products of many
grains into milk. This is the only pro
cess by which roughage and waste
can be converted into food.
Dairying works very well with gen
eral farming, aids in the maintenance
of soil fertility, provides additional
farm income and uses iabor which or
‘dinarily would be of less value tc ihe
‘farm. 3
Figures made public at the offices
of the state department show that
Mrs. American Housewife spent five
‘billion dollars last year for dainty
products, It was shown that in the
next few years the south can build
up a dairy business that will bring it
two of those five billions. The south,
it is pointed out, now sends $200,000,-
000 every year into the great dairy
‘states of the middle west for dairy
products,
A Plague of Grasshoppers
' Invades Mexican Republic
Ruining Plants and Causing Delays
And Smashups on Railroads. |
Grasshoppers have become such ai
plague in certain sections of Mexico
that passenger trains have been delay
ed and several collisions have result- |
ed. The land along the railroad from{
Vera Cruz to Julapa is covered on
with a solid mass of the insects. |
both sides as far as the eye can see
Great havoc has been caused over a
vast area by the army of “hoppers.”
Crude oil has been spread along the
tracks to keep the pests away from
the rails, and millions have been
buried in deep trenches, but the plague
still continues to increase and, it is
feared, will move farther north, spell
ing disaster to agriculture.
JAPAN 1S HARD HIT
BY SLEEPING SICKNESS
The epidemic of sleeping sickness
continues to spread in Japan. There
are 1,100 cases now on the island of
Shikoku, and there have been 900
deaths.
BUY AT HOME
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DAWSON PROSPER
VOL. 42.—N0. 2
HIGHER MEAT PRIGES
FORECAST BY EXPERTS
HOGS HAVE ADVANCED, AND
NEXT YEAR'S CROP MAY
BE MUCH SMALLER.
’DROUGHTAFFECTS CATTLE
Large Portion of Ranges Are in Bad
Shape and Feed Costs for Winter
Will Be High. A Review of the Sit
uation as Seen Now.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Americans
who are instructed to “bring home the
bacon” during the remainder of this
year probably will have to dig deeper
into their pockets for it this fall. Hog
prices are up sharply, and this is ta
ken as indicating that the record
breaking receipts of 1923 and the first
half of 1924 are at an end. Shipments
to market from now on until New
p’ear’s are expected to be much lighter
than in 1923.
It was inevitable that the four rec
erd-breaking crops from 1920 to 1923
inclusive would be reflected in an
enormous increase in the output of
pork, since hogs furnished the most
‘profitable method for marketing corn.
It has become evident, however, that
‘hog production has caught and passed
corn production and the raising of
hogs is on the decrease. This became
apparent with the pig crop of last fall,
which was about 7 per cent under that
of the preceding year. The report of
the rural mail-carrier survey showed
the spring pig crop fell off about 20
per cent.
Smaller Receipts Probable.
Since marketings for any year are
limited chiefly by the size of the pig
crops of the preceding spring and fall,
the outlook for the next 12 months
points to much smaller receipts at
markets than have been shipped in the
last 12 months. Some experts fix this
decrease as high as 20 per cent,
With the corn crop showing a de
crease and the pig crop lower, the
proportion of corn to hogs in the next
annual period seemingly would be
about the same as last year were it "
not for the amount of soft corn likely
to result from late planting and un
favorable weather during the growing
season,
Soft corn does not put fat on hogs
like hard corn and, therefore, a very
considerable reduction in the average
weight of hogs marketed would not be
surprising. Higher prices are forecast
for pork by meat experts, but they
are not so certain, they say, that this
will result in a higher gross income
from the sale of hogs.
Value Estimated at $875,000,000.
One expert estimates gross receipts
for hogs from July, 1924, to July, 1925,
at $875,000,000, The receipts for the
year ending July, 1924, were $860,000,-
000, or an increase of 2 per cent to
the farmer.
When it comes to cattle and sheep
and the prices which must be paid for
the sirloin steak and the succulent
lamb chop, many of the price factors
are conflicting., There have been per
lsistent rumors that many herds from
the range country will be forced on
the market, but this is not supported
by government figures on live stock
population on the ranches or by as
sessors’ reports and dipping records.
Severe drought has affected some
western ranges and the certainty of
high feed prices next winter may
cause liquidation from these areas.
Cattle Increase Doubtful..
In other sections pasture conditions
are very favorable, and Texas is well
stocked with young stuff. Meat men,
however, express the belief about the
same number of cattle will arrive at
stock yards in the next year as in the
last. The amount of soft corn may en
courage feeding this fall, but the ad
vance in grain prices and barrenness
of some ranges will probably reduce
the demand for stockers and feeders
which in turn will make smaller the
number of well-fattened cattle.
The natural reflection from this
would be higher prices for choice cuts
and the higher prices and smaller sup
plies of pork would tend to increase
the demand for the commoner grades.
There is no threat of overproduction
in the sheep industry, although high
lamb prices have prevailed since 1922.
But fully as many lambs may be ex
lpected on the market in t.he next 12
| months as were received in the past
lycar. )
In general, it is the conclusion that
the meat situation for the coming
year will be moderately encouraging
for the producers, but the reduced
poundage marketed and the higher
fevel of prices may be expected to
have an equally strong effect on the
consumers’ pocketbook, but in the op
’posite direction. »
FARMERS EXCEL CITY FOLK
IN DAIRY FOOD CONSUMPTION
Government Figures Based on Re
ports From 30,000 Places.
The average person on the farm
consumes more dairy foods than the
average city dweller, according to a
bulletin just issyed by the ‘Uhnited
States Department of Agriculture.
“The average per capita consump
tion of milk and cream on farms with
cows last year was 81 gallons, where
as the average for the entire country
‘was_only 53 gallons,” says the bulle
tin, “and the per capita consumption
of butter on farms is placed at 38
pounds, as compared with the average
of 17 peunds for the country as a
' whole.”
The figures are based on the reports
from 30,000 township-crop reporters
over the entire couniry, including
Georgia.