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By E. L. RAINEY
THE THIRD sl ARGEST COTTON CROP EVER KNOWN IS FORECAST
WOULD REQUIRE ALL CITI
7ENS BETWEEN 21 AND 60 TO
REGISTER AS VOTERS.
THE IDEA IS MORE TAX MONEY
Another Bill Would Eliminate Several
Branches of University. Highway
Legislation to Front. Weaver In
troduces a Bill.
ATLANTA, Ga.—A bill, the pur
pose of which, according to its author,
Representative Julian E. Ross, of
Richmond county, is to “make those
who don't register do so, and to make
those registered pay their poll tax”
nas been introduced in the house by
she member from Richmond.
Incidentally, says Representative
Ross, putting “teeth” in the compul
sory registration law will tend to get
considerable property on the tax
hooks that is not there now.
“A man who has not registered in
the past, under such a law as this,”
«aid Representative Ross, “will regis
wer. and the official registrar, nine
times out of ten, will learn that he
has personal property which he has
not been listing for taxation.”
The measure would requires all male
citizens between the ages of 21 and
60 to register, provided they have liv
ed in the state for 12 months and in
the county for six months, and are
otherwise qualified to register. The
tax collectors’ books and records
would be considered proof of wheth
er or not a man had registered.
Jail Term Is Imposed.
On January lst of every year the
tax collectors would be required, un
der the proposed bill, to furnish the
cheriff a list of those who have not
paid poll tax for the preceding year.
The sheriff or his deputies would then
be required to summons before the
proper court, county commissioners,
county ordinary, or other city or
county court, such person, who, if con
victed, would be required to pay all
poll tax due and a fee of s§l to go to
the officer serving the summons, or
otherwise to serve ten days in jail.
The same penalty would apply to
persons failing to register, and any
cherifi, deputy or bailiff would have
a right to summons persons not reg
istered before the proper authorities,
in which case, of course, the officer,
“ the persons were found guilty,
would again collect his $1 fee, unless
the jail sentence were taken in prefer
ence to payment of poll tax and fee.
Would Reorganize Highway Board.
A highway bill introduced by Rep
resentative Beck would completely
zbolish the present highway board and
the entire organization of the depart
ment, In place of the present depart
ment it provides for one highway
commissioner at a salary of $4,000 per
vear, and provides that money for
highway purposes shall be divided
among th= counties according to their
<tate aid mileage. This division is to
be regardless of the amount of mile
age completed, both completed high
wavs and those not constructed being
counted for the division of the money.
The building of the roads and their
maintenance is left to the counties.
Bills proposing a complete reorgan
ization of the state highway depart
ment along lines which, it is under
stood, have already gained the support
of considerable blocs in both houses,
call for a program of road building on
a “pay-as-you-go” plan, instead of
through the issuance of bonds, and
supporters claim that they will allow
for as quick construction of a com
plete hard surfaced state highway sys
tem as would be possible with the
proceeds of a bond issue or by any
other method.
Education Matters Prominent.
Indications are that educational mat
ters will play a prominent part in the
proceedings of the assembly.
Representatives J. P. Wilhout, of
Warren, and Roy V. Harris, of Jeffer
son, in the house, will be joint au
thors of a bill which would elimi
nate several branches of the Univer
sity of Georgia, and providing for the
employment of such buildings thus
closed for the purpose of state hos
pitals under the jurisdiction of the
state hoard of health.
The proposal as contained in the
measure of the members from War
ren and Jefferson counties would do
away with twelve agricultural branch
¢s o the University of Georgia.
[hat this proposal will be strenu
cusly fought is indicated by the com
ment of many legislators, who declare
that they will not consent to a project
which will injure their localities.
Ihe report of the budget and sur
vey committee, which, it is pointed
out, did not recommend the funds re
quested for these institutions, will add
further fuel to the discussion when the
matiers finally come up for debate.
The budget committee recommend
ed that an appropriation of $4,500,000
be set aside for the support of the
'qm rgia school system instead of the
$1.250,000 now provided. |
Weaver Introduces Bill. T
Representative Weaver, of Terrell
tounty, has introduced a bill to amend
e Georgia securities law, providing
at in event any member of the se-
Curities commission is disqualified to
St in any case the governor shall
lame some other state house official
'0 act in his place. This bill also pro-
Vides that the salary of the chief ex
;’(“A;lm*r shall be set by the commis
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THE DAWSON NEWS
19 BIG EARTHQU fi,
LAST TWENTY-FIVE YEA.
Nineteen great earthquakes and
eruptions have caused loss of life
and property in various' parts of
the world in the last quarter of a
century. Only one of these was in
the United States.
San Francisco, Cal, April 18th,
1906: 452 lives lost; $350,000,000 in
property lost; 265,000 persons made
homeless.
Japan, near Tokio and Yokoha
ma, September 1, 1923: 192,000
people dead and missing; 102,000
injured; 580,000 houses destroyed.
Kingston, Jamaica, January 14,
1907: 1,100 lives lost; $25,000,000 in
property damage.
Sicily and Calabria, December
18, 1908: 76,483 lives lost; 100,000
persons made homeless.
Central Italy, January 13, 1915:
29,978 lives lost; Avezano destroy
ed.
China, December 16, 1920: 200,-
000 lives lost; ten cities destroyed.
’
I QUAKE KILLS TWELVE;
}PLENTY. OF BOTH IN GREAT
METROPOLIS, BUT SOUSE IS
NOT NOW AS NUMEROUS.
| Earthquake shocks, felt throughout
southern California, centered in Santa
}l’»arbara, beautiful little city perched
‘high above the ocean, Wednesday took
a toll of twelve dead and caused dam
}agc estimated at $10,000,000.
. All brick buildings in that city were
‘demolished and the main street buck
led and upheaved.
~ Survivors of the San Francisco
earthquake, residing in the resort
town, said the shocks were more se
vere than the disastrous 'quake of 1906.
Tremors Felt Many Miles.
The twisting of the earth broke
water and gas mains. Several fires
broke out, but no great damage was
done from that source.
Tremors were felt as far north as
Bakersfield, at the head of the San
Joaquin valley. Buildings were swayed
in Los Angeles and the tumbler was
felt in Hollywood and surrounding
towns.
The main- scene of destruction is
State street, the principal thorough
fare. It extends from the beach for a
distance of several miles. Business
blocks ranging in height from two
stories to ten line each side of the
street, These buildings were mainly of
brick and concrete construction. The
Arlington hotel, one of the famous re
sorts, is on upper State street, about
a mile from the beach. All brick build
ings were demolished.
Residences Tilted Topsy Turvy.
Throughout the residential section
of the east side houses were tilted in
topsy turvy angles.
The tremor started with a steady
slow east-west motion which cracked
brick walls and then the next moment
the movement turned to a northeast
southwest movement of greater sever
ity, which created great havoc.
SCIENTIST SAYS IN CENTURY
FROM NOW MAN MAY LIVE
TO AGE OF 150 YEARS.
Twenty years have been added to
the span of human life during the last
eighty years, and the end is not yet.
One hundred years from now man
may confidently expect to live to the
ripe age of 150 years and a few cen
turies later he may even hope, with
some chance of his hope materializing,
to be immortal.
This is the rosy picture of the fu
ture painted by Sir Ronald Ross, fa
mous British scientist, says the Cleve
land Plain Dealer, who claims that the
length of human life has been increas
ed by fifty per cent during the last
century, largely by medical science in
the treatment and prevention of dis
ease.
“Eighty years ago,’ according to
Sir Ronald, “the average LLondon man
lived thirty-four years and seven
months and the average London wo
man thirty-eight years and four
months.
“Today the average length of life
of the London man is fifty-three years
and. nine months and of the London
woman fifty-nine years. These are the
figures I have gleaned from the official
statistics.” |
Motor Cars Are Profitable Sources
Of Revenue for States anfl_ ie Nation
Owners of Vehicles Have Paid Billion'
~ Dollars Since 1901, But Most of
| It Goes for Highways.
- The automobile has proved itself a
profitable source of revenue for the
state treasuries and even for the fed—l
eral government. Fees collected for‘
motor vehicle licenses and permits
and in gasoline taxes by the states;
amounted to $305,£00.000 last year.i
During the last fiscal year the federal,
government collected $160,000,000 as
internal revenue from the sale of au-!
tomobiles and accessories. i
From 1901, the first year in which'
PLENTY OF BOTH IN AMERI
CAN METROPOLIS, BUT THE
) SOUSE NOT SO NUMEROUS.
Four Dollars for Bottle of Ginger Pop
Is Example of How the Sucker Is
Trimmed. Song and Dance Shops
Greet One Everywhere.
NEW YORK.—The men who are
in touch with night life here say that
over-drinking is not so prevalent as it
was. We went through a period of al
coholic insanity a year or so ago. It
was not uncommon to see drunken
boys and girls of 20 years or so in
any hotel lobby at night. One still
sees them, but not so many. It is not
“smart.”
“At that,” say the doctors with
‘pmctical unanimity, “the younger
generation is pretty loose.”
Boys With Big Rolls.
Not to be wondered at. It is prob
able that in no city in the world has
there been as much loose and easy
money as in New York. Count the
$lO,OOO runabouts driven by mere kids
on the avenue. Read the police reports
about the strings of pearls and dia
monds lost by women who were mere
ly taking their dogs for a walk. Not
long ago a $30,000 apartment was
good for oodles of Sunday stories,
Now there are hundreds that range
irom $20,000 up. A boy of 18 was seen
the other day with a roll of bills that
he could hardly jam into his pocket.
At least 4wo on the outside were of
$l,OOO each. Dad’s money, of course.
Not ‘'much of this money has been
seasoned by time. It is still new to
the owners. The only way they can
prove to the world that they have it
is by spending it. One bought a yacht
not long ago. It is lying at anchor
somewhere, with a full crew aboard.
Now and then he sends a party of
friends out for a good time. He never
goes himself, because he gets sick.
Another bought some old masters at
a reputed cost of hundreds of thous
ands of dollars. He cannot remember
the names of the painters.
!
! Many Cabarets Fail. . :
, Rambling about town one is forever
observing gaps in the cabaret ranks.
A song and dance shop opens with a
flourish, spends a lot of money on wall
painting and eccentric lights and then
iunobtrusively fades away. If the own
ers were making money. they would
!cominue. The obvious conclusion is
that they lost. Because here and there
'arc highly successful cabarets, promo
ters are always able to find some new
backer to take a chance.
l The successful places may be sharp
ly divided into two classes \and both
‘give valuetreceived for the money. The
one exacts an exorbitant cover charge,
but it gives a worth-while entertain
‘ment. The other offers a fairly good
|meal, a good dancing floor and excel
lent music. The places that fail have
ibcen operated on the theory that any
one who goes out after dark is neces
’sarily a sap. One such lost $70,000 in
three weeks. Another dropped more
Ebecause it held on longer.
| Want Their Money’s Worth.
In a city of 7,000,000 people plus a
daily floating population of half a mil
lion there is a considerable number
who are willing to spend from $l5 to
$2O each for a good time at night. But
‘the time must be good. Sometimes
the time is not worth the money. Next
'time the visitor confines his order to
ginger ale and a salad. He may find
on his bill: :
' “Ginger ale, $4 a bottle. Cover
charge, $4. Salad, $4.”
. He spreads the news among his
friends. Pretty soon the cabaret clos
es and more money has been lost.
Thé Wisitor to New York supports
the) places where the aim is to trim
the sucker. He is touted by bellboys,
hotel waiters and cabmen on a per
centage basis. Somewhere in his bill
is included the money that goes to
Giueseppe, who breathed over his
shoulder at lunch and told him where
to go that night. He is out for a big
time in the big town anyhow, and if
he spends a bit more than he expect
ed he charges it to the morning head
ache. 1
The man from Squeedunk or Pos
sumtrot furnishes the cabarets good
picking. He is constantly dropping in
on the city. While here he feels it his
bounden duty to sow a few wild oats,
and when the harvest has been gath=
ered he has that dark brown taste and
discovers that the kale he brought
from the ‘rural district has disappeared.
!any state imposed a license tax on au
tomobiles, to the end of 1924 owners
of motor vehicles paid $1,023,806,571
into state treasuries. Fees collected
during that time ranged from $4.30 in
ithe District of Columbia to $24.90 *in
Oregon.
’ Most of the revenue received from
‘the motor vehicle, however, has been
of a direct benefit to the owners of
‘motor cars, for a large part of it has
been spent for highway construction
and maintenance. During 1924, it is
!estimated, $990,000,000 was spent on
Ihighways in all parts of the country,
and the work still continues.
DAWSON., GA.., TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1925
STORMS NUMBER 1,800
EACH MINUTE EVERY DAY
There are, on an average, 1,800
thunderstorms in progress «in the
world at any one moment, giving
360,000 lightning flashes an hour, or
100 a second. These surprising fig
ures are contained in a report is
sued by the air service meteorolog
ical office. The earth experiences
16,000,000 thunderstorms annually,
44,000 daily, it has been computed.
Arctic and Anarctic regions are pe
culiarly free from thunderstorms,
while Java is probably the most
thundery region in the world.
|
1 SELVES TO PEACE
|
WORLD POWERS, BOTH BIG
AND LITTLE, SIGN PACT TO
CURB WARFARE.
Twenty-seven nations of the old and
new worlds have banded together for
peace and good will. Eighteen ceun
tries have approved the arms traffic
convention and 27 nations the proto
col outlawing the use of bacteria and
poison -gas'in warfare, both agree
ments being the result of the interna
tional conference on control of the
traffic in arms and munitions, in Ge
neva, Switzerland. The American rep
resentatives signed both documents.
Agree to Curb Arms Traffic.
The 18 nations which signed the
agreement calling for strict control of
the traffie in tools of war between dif
ferent nations included the United
States, England, Italy, Japan, Spain,
and France. The signers of the ‘gas
protocol included the United States,
England, Germany, Canada, Spain,
Italy, Japan and Turkey. France is
expected to sign later. R
Germany, incidentally, has madc
good its sole conference promise—
that to agree to outlaw gas in war
fare. The arms convention becomes eif
fective as soon as it is fornfally rati
fied by any 14 states, and the gas pro
tocol immediately. ol
* See Era of Good Will,
Representatives who attended the
conference see the signing of the two
‘pacts as an evidemce of world-wide
|good will and _tgg_;csire on the part
of all nations for peace and the end
of warfare. Smaller states, by the
agreements, have been placed on an
equality with larger® states.
GEORGIA AVERAGED
| ;
i $3,136 PER CAPITA
[ INCOME FIGURES SHOWS THE
| STATE LEADS ALL OTHERS
} SOUTHEAST IN WEALTH.
; Georgia’s per capita income tax re
turn average for 1924 was $3,136, and
(the total paid the government by
Georgians was $3,769,990, according to
figures released by Josiah T. Rose,
collector of internal revenue, showing
that this state leads all others in the
southeast in the individual ownership
‘and distribution of wealth.
| Seventy-one thousand three hundred
and forty-one Georgians made income
tax returns in 1924, according to the
report, which gave the following to
tals for other states: North Carolina,
68,191; Florida, 49,591; Alabama, 51,-
049, and South Carolina 28 225.
. North Carolina’s recent industrial
progress enabled her to forge slightly
ahead of Georgia in the matter of to
tal tax returns, the standing being as
follows: |
North Carolina ....ccceo.-.....5232,861,410
Géargia . . s 2230 29.604
Klabamia .. .0 sl 199,438,525
Blokida .. . 2o 168 12R.823
South Carolina ....ccccceeeeeee. 95,204,234
}
|288,745 WOMEN \
WORK IN GEORGIA
GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWS
THAT NUMBER EMPLOYED
| IN VARIOUS AVOCATIONS. ‘
l Georgia ranks eighth among states
of the union in the percentage of its
women employed in industry, and.
fourth im the average salary paid wo
men workers, it is shown in a survcyl
made public by the labor department.
- Of the 1,080,976 women in Georgia
over 10 years of age, as shown by|
the census of 1920, 288,745 are em- |
ployed. This means that 26.7 per cent
of the women living in the state are
‘working, in business or industry or in|
other capacities. South Carolina leads |
among the states with 33.4 per cent|
of its women employed, followed by
Rhode Island with 32.7 per cent; Mas
sachusetts, 31.6 per cent; Mississippi|
29.1; New Hampshire, 27.3; Cmmccti—{
cut, 27.1; New York, 269, and then,
Georgia.
The average salary paid women in'
Georgia is $1295 a week. States pay
ing higher average salaries are Rhode
Isiand $16.85; New Jersey $14.95 and
Ohio $13.80. '
GERMAN SMOKERS SPEND !
$885,000,000 FOR TOBACCOI
py !
Statistics compiled by the Tobacco |
Dealers’ Association show that last
year Germans smoked 6,500,000,000 ci
gars and 25000,000,000 cigarettes.!
These cost the smokers $885,000,000. |
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SETS
FORTH ECONOMY POLICY OF
7 .
HIS ADMINISTRATION.,
In Talk to Several Hundred Depart
ment and Bureau Heads He Tells
Them How to Conduct the Nation’s
Business in Interest of People.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President
Coolidge has officially announced
the possibility of an immediate reduc
ltion in income taxes of $300,000,000
'or more on the basis of economies al
ready effected and called for a further
!reduction in the cost of governmcntl
‘which will make possible still further
tax lowering. |
This welcome news to all who pay
taxes, directly or indirectly, was con
tained in a 25-minute talk which Mr.
Coolidge, as head of the business—the |
business of governing this country of |
ours—made to several hundred depart- |
ment and bureau chiefs before he left
Washington on his summer vacation,
telling them how to manage the af
fairs of the national corporation so as
to yield the highest dividends of pros-!
perity and welfare to the 115,000,000
stockholders. |
While the government administra-.
tors must do all that is possible to!
cut down the cost of government, the |
biggest economics that could be ef-|
fected lie with the people, Mr. Cool- |
idge said, referring to the encroach-|
ment of the federal government upon |
local self government resulting in a
“double burden of taxation”—federal|
taxes for donations to the states and |
state taxes to meet the extravagance |
of state expenditures which are tempt
ed by the federal donations.” l
Urges Use of Pruning Knife.
The streak of thrift in the Coolidge
personality loomed large throughout:
this meeting between the president
and Budget Director LLord on the one
side and the subordinates who must
be relied upon for efficient and eco-)
nomical administration of the govern
‘ment on the other side. |
i Mr. Coolidge, reading from a care
fully prepared address, larded with the
‘ciphcrings of government bookkeep
ers, counted up how much had been
saved in the cost of administration
since the war ended, how much is be
ing saved now, how much he is de-!
termined there shall be saved next
year and how much more he contem-!
3plates reducing expenses the year af-)
ter that.
l Glancing over his reading glasses
from time to time and pausing after
)significant utterances Mr. Coolidge
put it squarely up to the bureau chiefs
‘to cut out waste wherever it appears.
IThcn he resigned the rostrum to Gen.
Lord, who can use the pruning knife
'whcrcver he finds the bureau chiefs
neglectful of the possibilities of saving.
Seeks Greater Efficiency. :
It is not economy for economy’s
'sake that he is demanding, he said.
rVVhat he is after is a greater efficiency
in government “by the application of
‘the principles of constructive econo
‘my” in order that the tax burden of
the people may be reduced. Cutting
‘down government expenditures is only
‘the means to the end which is tax re
duction.
The people, he pointed out, are put
ting up $10,000,000 a day to run the
‘national government. “This money
’has to be earned,” Mr. Coolidge ob
served incisively with a significant
?glance over his glasses Those who
earn it, instead of using it for their
'own benefit, must turn it over to the
government. Their freedom is restrict
!ed. But if the amount they must pay
to the government be reduced they{
‘will have more comforts and advan-l
itages and a greater measure of pros
perity, for lower taxes mean better
business.
Total public expenditures in the fis-'
cal year, ending June J3oth, were,
$3,035.000,000 compared with $5,116,-
000.000 in 1921, while the public debt
has been reduced from $23‘977.000,000l
to $20,551,000,000. That retrenchment
the president pronounced unparalleled |
in history. It has made it possible to
lighten the tax burden materially al
ready and yet it cannot be said that
taxes have ceased to be a burden, the |
president said. i
The aim of the government, Mr.|
Cdolidge declared, must be to reach
the point where taxes cease to be al
burden. He estimated the surplus for}
this fiscal vear at $200,000,000 and for
the next fiscal year at $290,000,000. |
Witch Doctors Steal Boy and Butcher
Him to Get Medicine to Enrich Crops
Blood and Flesh Boiled in Huge Pot
And Distributed to Credulous
Natives of South Africa.
Because they cut a five-year-old boy
to pieces after stealing him from his
parents five natives, one of them a
woman, are on trial for their lives in
court at Capetown, South Africa. The
object of the cutting, it is said, was
to obtain medicine by which doctors
believed they could enrich the crops.
The boy was stolen from his home |
and taken to a cave, where he was
kept for five days. He was then taken
to a rock on a moonlight night and
PERFUME SNIFFER HAS
NOSE INSURED FOR $50,000
NEW YORK, N. YA $50,000
nose from Oklahoma City is sniff
ing the air of Manhattan prelimi
nary to the enjoyment of the tang
of sea breezes.
Mrs. Blanche Cavitt, before leav
ing home for a three-months’ tour
of Europe, had her sense of smell
insured for $50,000 at a cost of $4OO.
She is a specialist, able to detect
the base of complicated perfumes
by the odor.
With her husband, R. C. Cavitt,
she left on July 4th for a three
months’ tour of Europe. Among
other things she expects to have a
sniff in Egypt at perfume 3,000
years old and to act as judge at an
exposition in Paris attended by per
fumers from all over the world,
The Oklahoma woman is widely
known {for her aesthetic probiscis,
and her services are in wide de
mand as a smeller par excellent.
EIGHT KINDS OF NEW
EXPERIMENT 'IN PROGRESS 10
YEARS WITH TREES FROM
EVERY PART OF WORLD.
Eight new varieties of peaches have
been produced by the New Jersey ag
ricultural experiment station at New
Brunswick, which will supply vear-old
seedlings at cost to New Jersey resi
dents as long as the supply holds out,
says the New York Times. The new
species, obtained by cross breeding
thousands of peach seedlings, are de
scribed as all yellow-fleshed and of
high quality for their season. All, with
one exception, are free-stone.
The development of the new peach
es is the result of work that has been
going on for ten years with peach
trees from every part of the world
where peaches are grown. The work
has attained such proportions that the
experiment station’s ‘peach-breeding
orchard is now the largest in the
world. Thousands of peach trees were
cross-bred and rejected before the‘
pomologists obtained the eight satis
factory varieties. |
As soon as a tree having desirable
fruit was developed it was carefully
observed as to its soil and climate re
quirements and the date of ripening of
its fruit. Only varieties superior to ex
isting peaches were considered worthy
of naming and distribution. |
The eight kinds selected ripen on
successive dates, from early in Augu.st‘
to the first week in September, and
have been given the names of Mari
gold, Oriole, Sunbeam,” Massasoit,
Goldfinch, Eclispe, Primrose and Me
teor. The horticultural division of the
experiment station says they are all‘
well adapted to home orchards. |
| WAR OF HER OWN!
' = |
;“DRY” NAVY IS DRIVING RUM
- ROW FROM THE MISSISSIPPI '
i COAST. DIFFICULT TASK. |
' The south is having a booze war alli
of its own just now. The “dry” navy, |
which has been engaged sometime in
an effort to rout rum row from the
north Atlantic coast, is also giving at
tention to the rum row{ofi the Missis
sippi coast, which for 'more than two
years has supplied a large section of
the south with foreign liquors. The
‘seat of the war is Biloxi, Miss.
| Make Dent in Rum Trade.
’ The campaign there is only a month
old, and there are only five boats in
'the prohibition navy, but a kilg dent |
‘has been pounded into the ru trade.l
‘Most of the rum running now is done
under cover of darkness, but formerly |
it was done bodly in broad daylight.|
Many boats and their cargoes have
been confiscated, and a number of ar-]
rests have been made, however.
The character of the shore line, on
the other hand, makes the battle slow.
There are many small bays in swampy’
regions that make ideal landing places
for bootleg cargoes and which stran
gers hesitate to navigate. There also
are scores of boats engaged in the)
fishing business, so catching the rum
runners is not so easy. ,
.. Co-Operate on Land. ;
I.and authorities, however, are co-j
operating closely with the federal]
men. Several bootleg rings have been |
exposed, and scores of arrests have]
been made. Frequently bootleggers
escaping from the “dry” navy have
been arrested ashore by county au
thorities, it is reported. ‘
mutilated. One man cut the lad’s
throat crosswise. Another made a cir
cular cut around the Adam’s apple.
Meanwhile the child “cried like an
animal.”
When the child was cut down the
center of the body and the hands and
feet were sawed off. The gall of the
child was sprinkled over the heads of
the flve “to prevent discovery.” The
marrow was extracted from the child’s
bones.
Then the blood and flesh of the boy
were boiled in a huge pot, and the
medicine manufactured and later dis
posed of to credulous natives.
BUY AT HOME
AND HELP
DAWSON PROSPER
VOL. 42.—N0. 45
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{FIRST ESTIMATE FOR 1925 IS
| SUED BY U. S. GOVERNMENT
, INDICATE 14,339 BALES.
GEORGIA HAS 3,564,000 ACRES
'Crop in State Is Six Per Cent Above
Average, and Condition Reported as
Excellent in Southern Section. Low
Condition in Texas Is Reported.
An unusual acreage of growing cot-
Iton and better condition of the crop
on June 25 than the average for the
last 10 years have resulted in a fore
cast of the third largest production in
(the history of the industry. The crop
reporting board of the department of
agriculture in its first quantity report
lof the season announces a forecast of
14,339,000 equivalent 500-pound bales.
That has been exceeded only twice be
'fore, in 1914 when the record crop of
16,135,000 bales was produced and in
|l‘)ll when 15,693,000 bales were
picked.
The large acreage is due to the sub
stitution of cotton for various other
crops in many of the ‘states and also
‘to utilization of considerable new land
| that was idle last year.
The crop reporting board in com
menting on the report said:
“The 1925 planted acreage of cot
ton, estimated for the date of June
25 at 46,448,000 acres, is 8.9 per cent
above the revised estimate of planted
acreage for the same date last year.
I'Fhis increase of acreage is derived
}from acreage devoted in various states
;last year to peanuts, cowpeas, corn,
'wheat, rice, sugar cane, oats, broom
corn and pastures. Considerable new
.land and land that was idle last year
has been planted to cotton. Expansion
of acreage in Texas is partly on new
land and much of the abandoned grain
acreage of this year also has been
planted to cotton. The large incre?.ses
in the northern and western portions
of that state have been largely ofis.ct
by decreases due to severe drought in
the important south-central section.
Big Crop Predicted.
“A crop for the United States of
14,339,000 bales of cotton of 500 Ibs.
gross wefght is indicated by the esti
mated planted acreage and the condi
tion of 75.9 per cent on June 25. Fore
casts on this date during the past 10
yeéars have ranged from 27 per cent
above the final ‘ginnings to 15 per
cent below. The final out-turn of the
new crop will depend upon the charac
ter of the ensuing season.
“The condition of 75.9 per cent of
a normal for the date of June 25 is
0.7 of a point below the estimate for
May 25. The 10-year average im
provement during the same time has
been 2 per cent.
“Compared with the 10-year aver
age of 74 per cent on June 25 the con
dition of the crop this year is 1.9
points higher and, compared with last
year’s it is still higher, by 4.7 points.
“In North Carolina the condition of
77 per cent is the same as the aver
age on June 25, and in South Caro
lina the condition of 70 per cent is 1
point below the average, and in Texas
the condition of 64 per cent, 11 points
below average. The other states of the
cotton belt have a condition that is
above the 10-year average on June 25.
“From May 25 to June 25 the crop.
usually improves in Texas by 3 points,
but this year it has declined by 6
points. The condition of 85 per cent
is low in that state. On June 25 there
were localities in all parts of the state
where the crop was at a standstill be
cause of lack of rain, and millions of
acres had stands which did not exceed
3 to 6 inches in heighth, although or
dinarily at this date they are knee
high. The most serious adverse feat
ure of this year in Texas is the lack
of deep moisture in the ground, the
ishortage of rain during the winter and
spring and the irregular rainfall in
‘May and June having supplied only
surface moisture except in a few fa
vored sections. In many of the south
central counties the soil contains no
available moisture.
The Crop in Georgia.
| “The condition of the Georgia crop,
76 per cent, has declined 2 points dur
ing the month, although usually there
has been no change, but it is 6 points
above the 10-year average condition
on June 25. The decline during this
month is in the dry areas of the north
ern half of the state and applies largeé
ly to the very small late cotton that
came to a late poor stand under
droughty conditions. In most of south
ern Georgzia the crop has made excel
lent progress.”
WESTERN STATES PAY MANY
MILLIONS FOR COW FEED
iWis!.consin’s Bl Is $28,000,000, and
‘ That of Minnesota $25,000,000.
~ Minnesota’s dairy ‘feed bill runs up
close to $25,000,000 a year—if, indeed,
it does not go higher, Wisconsin’s
bill for the same feeds runs to $28.-
000,000 or more.
This is not for what the cows eat,
but what the dairymen have to go out
side to get, what they do not grow
themselves, according to a bulletin
from the agricultural college of ‘Wis
consin. :
This feed bill, it is pointed out in
the same bulletin, is caused by the
failure of farmers to grow their own
protein feeds.
The professor who says that the kiss
ic losing its kick is only exposing his
advanced age.