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By L. L. RAINEY
sUMMER PILGRIMAGE TO OLD
\UC'RLD BY AMERICANS IS
BREAKING ALL RECORDS.
Merchants and Others in Countries
Across the Atlantic Know Travelers
- From United States Are Excellent
spenders of Money.
\ore than 300,000 Americans will
visit Jourope this summer, leaving be
pind them when they return home
$500,000,000.
Never before have so many Ameri
cans gone to the Old World to play
jor the summer. Tourist agencies say
they never have, seen anything like
the 1925 rush. Every ship is crowded,
and thousands of _tourists have made
reccrvations for trips not to be made
mtil September or October.
Europe Extending Welcome.
Furope is gfeeting the Americans
with extended arms and hands. Amer
ican dollars within the next few
months will strew every known coun
try and every highway and byway.
Catering to the American tourist has
become an immense busintss in Eu
rope¢
Americans on tour are not purse
bound. Rather, they are @ excellent
gpenders, Each tourist, striking an
averace, leaves between $1,500 and
§1750 in Europe. Of this about $3OO
goes to the steamship companies, and
the rest is spent upon hotels, railroads
and for the many incidentals.
ondon, Rome and Paris—Paris es
peciallyv—are the great attractions for
American tourists in Europe. Every
wour arranged by agents includes these
cities. Paris is most popular, though.
hecause living there is less expensive,
and its boulevards possess an unrival
ed color and romance.
The tourist traffic brings up the in
teresting subject of foreign exchange
and its relation to the tourist pocket
book. Foreign moneys, forced down in
value by the tremendous financial up
hdaval of the world war, have not yet
readinsted themselves to their old val-
Money Below Par. |
The French franc, the Belgium
franc and the Italian lire, normally
worth a little more than 19 cents; are |
guoted at four and a half in the first
two cases and at four cents in the last.
This means that an American gets
dout ®4 worth of money for $l.
A demoralizing state of affairs for
the American, but not for the Euro-%
pean. %
The American imagines he has an
advantage. It may have been true in
the past, but not now. The Europeans
have fixed things so that the advant
ages of exchange are equalized. Thus,
while a tourist may obtain a hotel
room for $3 a day, 1t takes nearly $l2
worth of francs to pay the bill.
Just how does the average tourist
spend his money? :
After steamship bills are paid about
8900 remains of the average tourist’s
budeet. Of this half or slightly more
than half is used to pay hotel bills.
The rest of the money iikely will go
for railroad travel, shopping tours,
tips, and by the thousand and one
other ways that one can spend money.
Paris gets 'the biggest slice of the
whole sum. Fully two-thirds of all the
tourists will spend at least several
days in Paris. They will leave millions
of dollars in the tills of the hotel own
ers and shopkeepers, and particularly
the dressmakers.
Travel Not So Expensive.
European travel'in 1925 is not near
ly <0 expensive as it has been in past
summers, The third-class cabin is ea
abling vast throngs of tourists te go
across the sea despite the fact that
they do not have the average sum to
spend. They get along well, too—in
fact, they see as much, if not more
than the more wealthy travelers.
For $5 a day these tourists are able
to live and travel—indeed, several of
the steamship companies map out a
tour showing exactly how this can be
done. In one case the tourist pays $250
—and all expenses for a tour of three
weeks are paid.
There is another innovation this
summer, Steamship companies are car
rving college students instead of im
migrants in third-class cabins. Ships
Offcring this kind of tour are jammed.
|, st week the Majestic sailed with
2300 passengers, only to be eclipsed
fl‘w iollowing day by the Leviathan,
with 2 700.
[hus far only the tourist of moder
ate means and the student tourist have
been nientioned. There is still another
class that of the rich travelers and
their families, 3
Rich Folks Touring Too.
7‘_ noney they spend runs well in
o the millions. Some of them go on
;C:“ "i;d cost anywhere from $3O to
$5O 2 day.
~ Wien it comes to spending none
f“”, ‘lipse these rich Americans off
:F,_y" ope to play. Seeing is having.
fat is the way they travel.
§ o Furopean shopkeepers and ho
el cwiers are not the only ones who
groit by the toursit rush, however.
};r‘"’,‘-‘”lv companies are getting rich.
tak[d cach European‘ ‘traveler they
iyt OIL wheler s o gueat .OF
. Jn‘ ?_wur_ist rush across the Atlantic
for ¥ At its peak. It will continue SO
“+4B veral weeks. Then the tounist
. cEm returning—and in Europe
sea. Vll be made ready for the next
N with its millions of dollars
. EUD ia such giant proportions
Bt vcral wartime 'debtors of the
. -Itéjtgs could pay their obliga
lar;';.‘,( still leave some Yankee dol
* Elttering on the, pile,
THE DAWSON NEWS
Acreage Agent of Ohio
Capitalists Is in Georgia
A. B. Duren, representing a
gfoup of Cleveland, Ohio, capital
ists, is in south Georgia for a few
04‘ t 0 get first hand information
ci.,ofi-. 2. lands in this territory.
The YR fovith which he s
connected a o ¢ wago bought a
tract of 5,000 acteSi S iae coun
ty. Mr. Duren is Beidl @ thown
around by W. E. Fench, ot the in
dustrial department of the Georgia
and Florida railroad. Mr. French
spent a couple of weeks in Cleve
land and following his return as
serted that investors in that city
are greatly interested in the many
advantages and possibilities of
south Georgia.
SLATON IS OPPOSED
:
i
SAYS BUSINESS SHOULD BE
UNHAMPERED AND TAXPAY
ERS UNHARRASSED. %
ATLANTA, Ga.—Former Governor
John M. Slaton, who spoke recently
before the Co-Operative Club of At
lanta, declared that he was opposed
to the issuance of bonds for any pur
pose.
“Our educational friends are mak
ing a great mistake in advocating
them,” declared the former governor.
“The present situation is a lesson as
to the trade they make. Seventy-five
millions of bonds are to be issued for
highways, disregarding the history of
Arkansas in its confiscation on this
account, and ten million for education
—seven to one. People will be bur#
dened with taxes to pay enormous
profits to road builders and sellers of
road materials, and multiplied office
holders with high-priced autos and
large salaries, and” to carry the plan
through and sugar-coat the pill the
people will be taught to sign the bonds
by first offering them for education
in the sum of ten million dollars. This
is not much of a trade to make as be
tween ‘under-privileged children and
over-privileged contractors.””
As to education, Governor Slaton
said: “I believe that a strong consti
tution, teaching people to be self-reli
ant and to pay their debts as they go;
to leave business unhampered and tax
payers unharrassed with unbearable
loads is just as essential to the educa
tion of a people as school rooms. Ex
cepting one state, Georgia gives more
from her treasury now to education
ithan any staté.dn the wniont’ .
i The former governor stated em
‘phatica]l_v that income taxation “is not
to be considered.” He said it, as well
!as a classification tax, means “eternal
agitation.”
’ “No business can be secure,” he as
serted, if such legislation were passed.
"‘Thcy invite heavy levies and large
exemptions. They teach that the man
|who has accumulated by labor must
‘be mulcted for his sacrifice.”
WHITES OF EXCLUSIVE RESI
DENTIAL SECTION RESENT
ADVENT OF NEGROES.
Negroes who left Georgia and other
southern, states for the east, north or
west with the hope of bettering their
condition have not found the welcome
and treatment they expected.
While wages in some instances are
higher in the north than they are in
the south the blacks, it is stated, have
found employment irreg?ar and liv
ing conditions quite different from
what they were at home. Even mem
bers of their own race in the north
and east show little, if any, inclina
tion to associate with the southern
darkey, it is shown.
“The so-called educated blacks of
other sections of the country—into
whose circles some of the southern
blacks hope to move—are not given
social equality with the whites, as
some of the Georgia negroes are led
to believe: in fact recent developments
in Detroit, Mich., as shown by in
formation received here, are quite the
reverse.
reverse. Here's what happened in De
troit:
Five thousand men, women and
children living in the exclusive Grand
River avenue residential district par
ticipated 'in a hooting, stone and brick
throwing demonstration in front of the
expensive brick dwelling at 1755 Spo
kane avenue, which ultimately drove
irom the house its owner of but a few
hours, Dr. Alex Turner, a negro.
Two platoons of patrolmen and a
squad of mounted police were help
less before the crowd, which choked
the street for a block and held up
traffic for two hours.
As the negro left the house_ with
his family under a strong police es
cort a volley of bricks and small
stones smashed the windows of his
costly chauffer-driven sedan., He was
wounded over the right eye.
Steps have been taken by a group
of Detroit citizens to re-purchase the
property which the negro doctor had
quietly purchased from a real estate
man.
iR L o
Women of U. S. Smoke
Five Billion. Cigarettes
American women will smoke 5,000,-
000,000 cigarettes this year, according
to Ery Kahaya, president of the Stand
ard Commercial Tobacco Company,
of New York city. He estimates that
75,000,000 cigarettes will be consumed
’in this country during the current year.
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CONTRIBUTED ABOUT TRHEE
MILLION D_OLLARS TO THE |
' STATE TREASURY IN 1924. |
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Only $73,367,510 Was Paid the Gov
~ ernment, While: $265,945,732 Went
~ Into the Coffers of Various States,
An Increase of 7 Per Cent. i
That the railroads are a great sus
taining force of the state government
of Georgia, whatever may be said of
them by way of criticism, is evidenced
by a report just made by the bureau
of railway economics, - which shows'
that in 1924 the class 1 railroads paid
$2,874,220 in taxes to the state of
Georgia. This was an increase of $70,-
907 as compared with 1923, when the
class 1 carriers paid to the state $2,-'
803,313 in taxes. ]
An interesting fact in connection
with the amount of money paid for
taxes by the carriers in 1924 is that
while expenditures made by them for
federal taxes showed a slight decrease
under 1923 the amount to the various
states showed an increase. Of the to
tal amount paid nearly 80 per cent, or
$265,945,732, went to the various state
governments. Railroad taxes in thirty
five of the states, principally states
where the ‘greatest railroad mileage is |
to be found, showed an increase of‘
‘more than 7 per cent, compared with |
‘the preceding year. In only thirtccnl
of the forty-eight states was there any
decrease in railroad taxes reported. ‘
~ On the other hand, about 20 per
.cent of the total tax bill of the rail-l
roads, or $73,367,510, was paid by the
carriers to the federal government.
This was a decrease of $3,700,000, or |
nearly 5 per cent, compared with the
taxes paid by the railroads to the same
source in 1923. .
IN SOUTH GEORGIA
MANY SALES OF BOTH FARM
AND CITY PROPERTY BE
ING REPORTED. y
More sales of city and country prop
erty are being reported in south Geor
gia than have beem at any .time -singe
"the slump four years ago, according
to A. D. Daniel, passenger trafic man
ager of the A, B. and A. railway, fol
lowing a trip through the teritory.
Property values are being enhanced
by the demandsthat is beginning to
manifest itself, he said.
“Unusual development may be ex
pected in the near future as the result
of a large and growing demand for
south Georgia land,” said Mr. Daniel.
“Opening of the tobacco markets this
week further centered attention in
south Georgia. Scores of inquiries are
being received daily at the offices of
the chambers of commerce and by lo
cal real estate men in various towns
and communities.”
. Mr. Daniel expressed the hope,
which is shared by many business
men of this section, that the present
demand will not develep into a spec
ulative land boom.
“Such .2 boom would be most un
fortunate and would prove a hindrance
to the development that is just ahead
of that section at the present time,”
he declared. :
South Georgia would realize a
greater .and more lasting benefit by
having its lands sold to farmers who
would develop them than could possi
bly be gained by disposing of them to
‘town-site developers.
SALARY OF STATE OIL
7
‘ m——
FUND FOR BUREAU OF MARK
~ ETS IS CUT IN HALF IN AP
PROPRIATION BILL.
While the lower house of the gen
eral assembly was considering the ap
propriation bill a bitter fight was
made by a number of legislators on
the state department of agriculture.
* Amovement to cut the maintenajce
fund of the state hu({cau of markets
from $lOO,OOO to $50,000 was success
ful. and the salary of the bureau’s di
rector was elimihated.
In another fight on the department
the salaries of the chief oil inspector
and his head clerk were stricken trom
the bill.
THE WORLD’S LARGEST ARTIFICIAL LAKE'IS LOCATED IN ALABAMA
The world’s greatest artificial lake,
with an impounding capacity of 530,-
000,000,000 gailons of water, three
times the combined capacity of the
Ashokan and Kensico reservoirs, which
supply this city with all its water, is
being built on the Tallapoosa river, in
one of the remote sections of Alabama.
1t will be known as the Cherokee
Bluffs Lake, will have a shore line of
more than 700 miles and will cover
40,000 acres of farm and forest land.
The new lake will serve a two-fold
purpose—the generation of electricity
to care for the industrial progress of
the state, and to make a vast section
of the country south of the body of
water ‘“frost proof,” and as advantage
ous to fruit growing as the lake re-j
gion in New York state, it is said.
The development is being underta-l
DAWSON. GA., TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1925
GAIN IN FARMERS’ |
GROSS RETURNS FOR YEAR'
ENDED JUNE TABULATED. |
GREATEST SINCE 1921.
Farmers of the United States rccciv-l
ed a larger gross income from agri-'
cultural production during the _\}car‘
ended June 30, 1925, than in any other
year since 1921, the Department of
Agriculture has announced in a bulle
tin just made public. '
Increase Is Shown. |
Estimates place the gross income at
$12,136,000,000, compared with™ $ll,- |
288,000,000 during the year ended June
30, 1924, This gross income is the!
value of production less feed, seed and
waste. The incréased value is almost
wholly due to higher rcturns from
grain and meat animals, particularly |
wheat and hogs. |
The gross cash income from sales,
exclusive of live stock and feed sold
to other farmers, was $9,777,000,000,
compared with '58,928,000,000 the pre- |
ceding year. Food and feed produced
and consumed on farms was valued
at $2,350,000,000. The expenses of pro
duction last year were put at $6,486,- |
000,000, or nearly two. per cent great
er_than the $6,363,000,000 estimated
for $1923-24.
Total Gain 14.7%' Per Cent.
The net cash inico om sales was
$3,291,000,000, compared with $2,565,-
000,000 the year previous, while the
net income from production, inclading
with the net cash sales the value of
food and fuel produced and consumed
on the farms, was $5,650,000,000, com
pared with $4,925000,000, or an in
|crease of 14.75 per cent.
\
FLOATING COLLEGE IS
N. Y. UNIVERSITY PLANS CUR
RICULUM FOR 450 STUDENTS
ON 240-DAY CRUISE.
With the deck of an 18,000-ton ship
for a campus, cabins for dormitories
]anrd lounges for class rooms, 450 Amer
lican college boys will sail from New
iYork for a year’s course in New "York
University’s ‘‘around the world col
lege.” Prof. James E. Lough, dean of
the extra-mural division, is in charge
of the venture, which will start on
‘Septcmbe_r 24th, savs the New York
Times. .
‘ Although educational tours have be
come well-known features of Ameri
can travel, no attempt has been made
before this to arganize a college on
board ship. It will visit five continents,
thirty-five countries and fifty foreign
poris. .
\ The ship will put into Santiago first
land the student’ will spend a few days
lin Cuba. From there they wili go
through the Panama canal on the way
to Hawaiii In the Orient they will
visit the Philippines, Japan, Korea,
Borneo and Java, the Malay Peninsu
!la, Sumatra, Burma, Indian, Ceylon,
'Arabia and Egypt. In the Near East
'some ‘time will be spent in Palestine
iand Turkey. The itinerary includes
jone week in Greece and a week in
iAfrica_ Two weeks will be spent in
lltaly, England, France and Germany.
| Courses of college grade, in subjects
suitable for study while on a cruise,
'will be giyen by the faculty chosen
from leading American colleges and
,universitits which are co-operating
'with New York University in the new
!plan. v |
ken by the Alabama Power Company
and is ‘gxpected to be completed late
in 1926. Three huge electric genera
tors, each driven by a 45000 horse
power water-wheel turbine, will be
furnished by the General Electric Co.
These will be the largest generators
in operation in the south.
~ To gain a proper conceptfoin of the
‘immensity of this development com
parisons are interesting. Against the
530,000,000,000 gallons of Cherokee
Bluffs there will be but 170,000,000,-
000,000 gallons at Mussel Shoals. The
Roosevelt dam reservoir, hitherto con
ceded the largest artificial body of
water in the world, impounds but 420,-
000,000,000 gallons, and the Hetch-
Hetchy reservoir in San Francisco
now contains but 67,000,000,600 gal
lons and has facilities to increase thi:al
INSECTS RELISHED BY
MANY RACES OF PEOPLE
In times past many insects were
eaten and relished by races of peo
ple. Even. today in some parts of
Asia and elsewhere tribes make
them part of their diet. In the Bible
there are several instances of in
sects being used as food. Moses
tells of the Jews eating four kinds
of crickets, and John the Baptist
lived on locusts and wild honey.
The ancient Greeks ate locusts, and
today many of the people of Africa
and Arabia regard them as a deli
cacy. In northern Africa the na
tives collect huge numbers of grass
hoppers and eat them raw, boiled,
or fried. Those collected and not
consumed at once are dried in the
sun and stored for future use. It is
said that the ancient Romans used
to eat the larvae of beetles. Moths
are eaten by the aborigines of Aus
tralia, and certain tribes in Mexico
make bread from the eggs of water
bugs. In Central America honey
bugs are a popular}wcctmcat.
DOZEN MENROFFER 10+
|'DIE IN ELECTRIC GHAIR
WOULD SACRIFICE THEM-’
SELVES AS PROTEST AGAINST
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
WANT A PUBLIC EXHIBITION
Prominent Doctor, Who Says Victims
Suffer Torture, Is Among Number.
All Over 80 Years of Age, and Are
Anxious to Die for the Cause.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Twelve
old men of this city are seeking death
'by electrocution. ®
They have asked permission to die
in the electric chair as a protest against
capital punishment.
} 1f the plans of the Prisoners’ Relief
Society here go through, their wishes
will be fulfilled,
The society is planning to stage a
“capital punishment exhibition? at
which the twelve will be victims.
. Most prominent of the: volunteers
is Dr. Walter C. Murphy, practicing
physician in Washington for 55 years.
“The state has the right to take a
man’s life,” he said, “but it has no
right to torture him before he dies.
“As a doctor I know that the elec
tric chair is the most horrible torture
conceivablie, '
Like a Dentist’s Drill.
“Imagine a dentist’s drill run into
all the nerves of your teeth at once,
then imagine that pain all through
your body instead of only in vour
mouth, and you will have some ‘idea
of how its victims suffer.
“I feel that if the people could only
see the terrible agonies of a man be
ing electrocuted they would soor abol
ish the practice.
“That is why I am willing—even
anxious—to sacrifice myself as an ex
ample.”
The movement was started by G.
P. McGraws, aged philanthropist who
made known his desires to Dr. E. E.
Dudding, Prisoners’ Relief president.
In explaining the reason for his
strange request he told how he had|
been convicted of murder and sentenc
ed to death in Ohio, more than thirty
years ago.
- “I appealed the case, won.a new
‘trial and was finally acquitted,” he
said. “But the shadow of my trial still
‘hung over me in the town where I
ived. I was completely ostracized.
. “Now I am old. I have nothing left
to live for. But I would like to do
|some act that would help mankind.”
' The other ten would-be victims, all
over 80, have requested that their
names be withheld until plans for their
execution have been completed.
All . Willing to Die. *
‘ “These men all mean what they
isay,” Dudding said. “They are willing
land anxious to die for the cause.
! “As to our capital punishment ex
| hibition, which we plan to hold the
lsccond week in December, I am now
negotiating with the Washington Au
| ditorium Corporation, Calvary Baptist
[church and First C(mgrcgational‘
'church for a place to stage it.
| “We plan to have twelve eléctric
{chairs on thé platform, with a volun- |
teer victim in each. They will be elec
lmmutvd one by one.
“1 have written to the attorney gen
‘cr;:l asking for a ruling on whether
such an exhibition may be held.
} “But if he rules against it we -will
lgo right ahead with our plans. I be
lieve that these men, all fully ma
ltured and in their right minds, have
|the right to take this action if they
iwish." :
SAY CLOTHING AND DANCING
HERE ARE MUCH WORSE
THAN IN AFRICA.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—For 12 years
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Piper, Metho
dist missionaries, spent their time in
the barbaric Matsumba district of ‘the
Belgian Congo teaching matives how
to dress and live morally. Today they
returned to civilized New York on
the Cunard liner Samaria and were
“shocked and mortified” at the immod
esty of the girls and women here.
“Why, there isn't any difference be
tween America and Matsumba,” =x
claimed Mrs. Piper. “In Matsuinba
land we tried to teach the women they
should wear something more than
beads, palm oil and sunshine. But here
we wee shocked and mortified to dis-|
cover that the girls and women wear
only paint, powder and a suggestion.
Clothing and dancing in this civiliza-|
tion are worse than in - Africa, for|
there the natives are unmoral, while
here they are immoral.” 1
to 114,000,000,000 as requirements of
the city increase. *
In the construction of this project
’it was necessary for the Alabama
fowcr Company to construct a city
for 3,000 persons in a wilderness and
to build a railroad connecting with a
distant trunk line. To make the reser
voir safely navigable, healthful as well
as beautiful, the company is expend
ing approximately $1,000,000 in clean
ing the land of timber and underbrush.
Several saw mills kave been set up
and the trees are being sawed into
lumbér to be used in the construction
of the dam and for other purposes.
This vast storage of water will as
sure four and one-half feet navigation
in the Alabama river, into which the
Tallapoosa flows, practically all the
year around, to the Guli of Mexico.
AT 1,000 MILES AN HOUR
WHAT CAN BE EXPECTED?
Can human beings travel at the
rate of 1,000 miles an hour and live?
Such a speed is mechanicaliy pos
sible, but the physiological element
may make it impossible. Experi
ments on animals show that such
speeds produce anaemia of the
brain and hence insensibility and
sometimes death, A well known
aviator who won a speed record in
describing his sensations said: *I
went out cold as I turned the py
lons,” that is, he became insensible
for the fraction of a moment. Of
course he recovered almost imme
diately, but with a higher speed he
might not recover. What that speed
is has not yet been -ascertained.
MAN CHEATED OUT OF 345,000'
CAN HANG UP GUN AND
HANDCUFFS NOW.
Frank Norfleet, Texas rancher, may
take off his pistol, hang up his hand—l
cuffs and return to the peaceful job
of roping steers. Norfleet's debt of |
vengeance, which cost him six years |
of his life, $17,000 and a broken jaw |
has been paid.
Norfleet’s last man, W, B. Spencer,
member of a gang of swindlers who
defrauded him of his life savings, is in
prison serving a four-year sentence.
Spencer was the seventieth *“con”
‘man to be captured by Norfleet, the
Texas rancher, who does his own de
tective work. He also was the fifth
and last member of the original gang
which swindled Norfleet in Dailas in
1919, ’
~ Aiter Norfleet had been swindled
out of $45,000 he vowed to have re
venge, He started out aiter the swin
dlers, He carried a pistol and hand
‘cuffs. and his trail led through the
United States, Canada and Mexico.
| _ His Last Quarry.
| He caught singlehanded and landed
'hehind the bars four of the original
'gaugstcrs and, incidentally, captured
65 other confidence men.
Spencer was his last and most dif
ficult quarry. In November, 1923,
Spencer escaped from Norfleet follow
ing a fight in Montreal, Canada, be
cause Norfleet refused to shoot in fear
of hitting a friend. Norfleet trailed
Spencer, however, and found him in
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Rather than go to Texas and face
the music Spencer pleaded guilty of
violating the drug laws and was sent
to the federal prison at Fort Leaven
worth, Kan. A month ago he was re
leased—but Norfleet met him at the
gates and captured him. Spencer was
taken to Texas, tried and sent to pris
on. 3
During Norfleet’s search for the
swindlers his wife and children have
conducted the ranch, near Hale Cen
ter, Texas. }
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$13,489,321 CENTRAL 311
NEARLY HALF OF ROAD’'S IN
COME IS PAID TO EMPLOYES.
AVERGE WAGE IS $1,409.|
‘ Payrolls have aptly been termed the
i“]ife-b]ood of commerce.” The payroll
of the Central Railway Company last
year was $13,489,321. That is one and
a quarter million doilars every month
—more than $37,000 per day. Of all
the money received by ‘the Central of
Georgia last year 4914 per cent went to
payrolls. The average annual wage of
the employes was $1,40.
Practically all employes of the
company live .in Georgia and Ala
hama. Certainly it means much to the
prosperity of these two states to have
more than 9,500 wage earners with an
average compensation of $ll7 per
month. (Census estimates show 4.3
persons as constituting the averdge
family. On this basis, therefore, more
Ithan 40,000 people in Alabama and
IGeorgia look to the Central of Georgia
for a living.
~ The railroad payroll is disbursed
twice a month and it goes immediate
ly into circulation. Hundreds of com
munities benefit by the Central of
Georgia payroll. The grocer, the
buicher, the clothier, the milliner, the
furniture store, the doctor, the den
tist, indeed every business and profes
sion gets a share of the railroad pay
roll as it is paid out for living ex
penses.
The Central of Georgia employes
are good citizens. They are | liome
owners and investors. A part of their
money goes into savings banks, some
of it goes for the support of the gov
ernment as taxes, and some for the
support of their churches as contribu
tions, Every form of community ac
tivity feels a good effect from the
Central of Georgia payroll.
The same thing is true of other
railroads. One person out of every 285
gamfully. employed in the country is!
carried on a railroad payroll. La.-ti
year nearly 3 billion dollars was paid
out by the railroads of the country
on wage accounts. This money was|
immediately and widely distibuted by |
railroad employes and their depend-'
ants who number more than 74 mil- |
lions. 3
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Hordes of Dead Flies |
Wrecked Automobiles
Carpeted by thousands of dead flies
and insects the pavements in Evan
ston, 111, under street corner lamps
became so slippery that many automo
bile crashes occurred when cars skidd
ed on the dead bugs.
Buy Terrell
County Products
VOL. 42.—N0. 49
ICONGRESSIONAL BODY HEARS
CRITICISM OF HIGH RATES
RECENTLY INAUGURATED.
Postmaster General Admits That First
.Month of New Schedule Fell Short
Of Old Figures. General Dissatis
faction by Public at Large.
The controversy over postal rates
has been reopened by a joint con
gressional committee which first heard
)a postoffice department estimate that
the new rates inaugurated April 15th
had fallen far short of producing the
additional revenue expected.
Postmaster General New, the first
witness at the opening session of the
hearings, which will take the commis
sion to a score of cities in the next few
weeks, frankly told the senators and
representatives that a decrease in rev
enue in actual mail matter was shown,
but there was a slight increase from
special services such as insurancé and
special delivery.
He forecast a substantial increase in
revenue from the 2 cts. special charge
on parcel post packages, but said
strong protests had been received
against the increase in the postage
rates on newspape® mailed by indi
viduals and that indications pointed
to a falling off of revenue from that
source,
Postal Card Rise Appears Costly.
The one-half cent increase in the
rate on private mailing cards also
promises to prove costly to the gov
ernment, the commission was told,
because many private concerns are
turning to the use of the'government
cards, which go through the mails at
one-cent each. :
A small decrease was shown in the
total revenue for second-class mail
(newspapers and periodicals) carried
at the pound rate. The computed rev
enue from that source for May last
was $2,409,205, compared with an es
timated income -of $2,500,674 under the
old rate.
Decrease” in First Class Mail.
Revenue from first class mail de
creased 44243 per cent; that {from
second class transient mail decreased
22,4236 per cent; fourth class decreas
ed 4,6223 per cent, and foreign ‘mail
decreased 13,6015 per cent. Second
class mail at 1 and 2 cents per copy
showed -an estimated - increase of
36,5618 per cent, and third class mail
an estimated increase of 36,2175 per
cent. /
In the special services, revenues
from registered mail decreased .3238
per cent, while increases were shown
as follows: Insurance, .6996 per cent;
C. O. D., 46,3609 per cent; special de
livery, 2,1479 per cent. i
Efficiency Urged. el
Greater efficiency in the mail ser
vice, with rates adjusted to meet its
cost, was urged by Lucius Peter,
chairman of the postal service com
mittee of the chamber of commerce
of the United States. He presented the
results of a referendum on the subject,
Mr. Peter attacked particularly the
'mu--half cent increase in the postage
on circulars and on privatée mailing
[car(ls. The circular rate, he said, had
clogged the first class mails at times
with matter formerly handled in the
third class while in other cases it had
resulted in the prohibtion of ‘the mail
‘circulation of advertising matter.
The service charge on parcel post
was attacked as unscientific, Mr. Peter
contending that gthe two cents increas
ed rate was not great enough ‘for the
shorter zones and was too high for
the longer zones.
THE DEFENSE FORCES IN »
SCOPES TRIAL SPENT $25,000!
Gseatest Expenditures for Misdemea-~
nor Trial Ever Known, .
A misdemeanor case, carrying as d
penalty to the guilty offender a fine
of $lO6 and costs of the trial, at Day
ton, Tenn., brought an expenditure to
the defenders of John T. Scopes of
approximately $25,000.
The actual court costs are estimat
led at well over $3OO, or more than
ltreble the fine assessed by the court.
By far the greatest expense of the
[trial. however, was the cost of
Ibringing expert witnesses, who were
not allowed to testify, from different
'parts of the country, defraying their
| railroad fare, their hotel bills and
{maintaining a home for them in Day
{ton after their arrival there., Members
lof the defense counsel estimate that
Ithe cost will approximate between
1520,000 and $25,000.
| Attorneys on both sides of the case,
fit has been announced, bore their own
lexpenses and served without fees.
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A SHORTAGE OF COTTON
& GOODS FELT IN RUSSIA
‘'Women Shoppers Stand All Day Long
; To Be Waited On. :
' The shortage of " cotton goods in
Russia never has been felt so acutely
as this year. With the coming of the
summer, says the Washington Post,
Moscow textile shops are literally be-\
sieged by all classes of town popula
tion and numerous peasants, who
come great distances to buy a few
yvards of gingham or cotton dress
goods. =
Foreigners are much surprised by
the sight of long queues of women
shoppers who stand patiently all day
long outside every state textile shop,
‘obstructing traffic and nccessitah’x%
‘the regulation of the crowd by militia
men.