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spend Dawson p-llars in Dawson gy & L. RAINEY SPENZ) TWO BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FOR EDUCATION (0L CATION SYSTEM b v 5, WORLD'S LARGEST "| Dl ' GIANT INSTITUTION IN WHICH TW ZNTY-FIVE MILLION BOYS I AND GIRLS NOW STUDY. ‘ ENPLOYS 900,000 TEACHERS \ / bt | value of School Property Is Five Billion Dollars, and Yearly Operat ing Cost of Half That Much for Its Hundred Thousand Buildings. | 11 clang of 100,000 school bells is severl crating through the land. Their echoes reach city and town, hamlet ad countryside. Heeding the sum mons 23,000,000 boys and girls, young men and young women—nearly one fourth the entire population of the na iion-—are dropping vacation play and coine back to their studies. “The United States has the largest, noet comprehensive educational sys wm in the world. But it is doubtful if one person in ten thousand has any real idea of the immense scope of the American school system, of the vast smount of money invested in it, of the extent of the personnel required to operate it, of the dollars and cents it kes to maintain it. Ficures at best tend to dry reading, but here are some, given in round aumbers, that may startle the reader hy their very hugeness, and give tax pavers a rough idea of the immense size of the institution they have creat ¢d and are maintaining by their con tributions: Figures Not Guess Work. Five billion dollars is the physical wlue of the school properties in the United States. More than two billion dollars is the cost of this educational system each year, and 94 per cent of this amount is raised by taxation. Approximately 900,000 teachers are required to conduct the education of the 25,000,000 pupils who attend school and college. Nearly 3,000,000 boys and girls are graduated each year from the schools, with an educational equipment valued in dollars and cents at from $5OO to §25.000, depending on the line of study and the extent it has been pursued. These astounding figures are not gess work, They are based on data @refully gathered by the bureau of gucation of the Department of the Iwerior at Washington, which an sually spends a hali million dollars ® collect statistics on the educational systems of the nation. : Here is a $5,000,000,000 institution, with perhaps 50,000,000 stockholders— for there are at least that many tax payers in the country—paying $2,000,- 000,000 a year to keep it going, and hiring nearly 1,000,000 employes to turn out educated boys and girls grentually to become American citi zens. The growing popularity of education in this country is best attested perhaps by college statistics. In 1900, 25 years ago, there were about 175,000 students in colleges and universities, Last year there were, roughly, 725,000. An in crease of more than a half million stu dents in 25 years speaks volumes for the growing demand of higher edu gation, 3,000 Public School Systems. There are 3,000 public school sys tems in the various states, Pennsylva nia leading with 326, and the number of school houses runs close to 70,000. Oi the 25,000,000 children going to school nearly 22,000,000 may be found in these school houses an average of 132 days a year. The other 3,000,000 attend private and parochial schools. The greatest private school system maintained in the United States is that operated by the catholic church, which has about 1,200 schools and 75 preparatory institutions and colleges. In these it educates 2,500,000 children a year at a cost of $60,000,000. In addition to the parochial. schools of the catholic church there are in round numbers about 1,100 other pri vate schools, running from kindergar tens to preparatory schools, which have about 500,000 pupils. Of the institutions for higher educa tion. that is beyond the high school stage, there are about 800 in the Unit ed States, These have a physical prop erty valuation of $750,000,000. For instance, there are 110 law schools, with an enrollment of 18,000 pupils; 125 medical schools, with 23,- 000 pupils; 190 theological —schools, wit'y 15,000 pupils; 80 schools of phar macy. with 8,000 pupils; 60 dental schools, with 12,000 pupils. Ilien there are 250 schools and col lece. for the training of school teach er-. with 125,000 young men and wo men studying in them. And there are 1750 nurses’ schools, with an enroll miet of 46,000, Then there are 500 :.“”0“1‘. or institutions, for the educa 10N, 25 Per Cent for Education. _Both the amount invested in the na ton’s educational system, $5,000,000,- 000, and the amount necessary to oper ate it each year, $2,000,000,000 comes from the taxpayers of the land. In fact, very nearly 25 per cent of all laxes paid by the average man or wo man, including city, county and state taxes, are used for purposes of educa tion. New York city alone each year “'!C“f“”ll* $78,000,000 on its public SChools, o Juch is the size and scope of Uncle Sam’s educational institution. It has ¢t him billions of dollars. It costs !} e billions each year to maintain. B it is worth the money, judging fum its constant growth. THE DAWSON NEWS Four Freeze to Death in - aris; Sweltering in U. S. SR, et 1 RIS.— Four persons—three men and a woman—died from the effects of cold weather in the streets of Paris Thursday, falling dead through congestion of the lungs. A sudden drop in temperature, unprecedented for this time of the vear, is generally believed to be the forerunner of the exceptional winter prophesied recently by Abbe Gabriel, the astronomer and priest, who believes he has discov ered a system of predicting weath ~er years ahead, based on observa tions of records available for sev eral centuries past. Meanwhile official weather ex ~ perts point out that summer is not ~ yet over and hot days are prob ~ably still ahead for Europe, the present conditions being ‘tempo ' rary and “freakish” and “attribut \ able to an ‘“isobaric” situation. NEARING END OF LONG BAT TLE TO COLLECT WAR LOANS. NEARLY HALF BEING PAID. Uncle Sam’s foreign debt problem is speedily approaching a satisfactory conclusion. That is the belief of the government officials as a result of cer tain events of the past few weeks. Funding more than 40 per cent of the total debt already has been arrang ed, a debt agreement with Belgium is awaiting ratification, and in Septem ber France will officially discuss pay meent of it’s debt to the United States. Five Nations Paying. Five nations are paying their war debts to the United States. They in clude Great Britain, Finland, Poland, Lithuania, and Hungary. Great Brit ain, the largest debtor, has been mak ing regular payments to the United- States for several years. The latest step forward in funding of war debts was made with Belgium. with an agreement of the payment of the debt during a long period of years with a low interest rate. This agree ment now awaits approval by the American congress and the Belgium | parliament. Secretary of the Treasury, Mellon )has been officially notified that a debt commission from France will come to the United States in September to dis cuss payment of France’s $4,210,556,- 948 debt to Uncle Sam. Finance min ister Caillaux, of France, may be a member of the commission. Ameri can officials expect that a definite agreement will ‘be reached. NEW YORK STATE'S PAYS NEARLY A THIRD OF ; TOTAL AMOUNT COLLECT ED BY UNCLE SAM. NEW YORK, N. Y.—Further re turns of income tates paid for 1924 serve among other things to indicate more strikingly «than ever the posi tion of economic prominence occupied by New York city and state. About $300,000,000 of the total tax paid in the country, nearly a third, was paid in this state. The city had more than 1,000,000 tax returns filed, about 875,000 in the one Brooklyn and two Manhattan districts, and the bal ance in the Bronx. Wall Street List Large. : There were 345,000 names on the list of the Second district, which has offices in the custom house and in cludes Wall street. There the most In terest in the returns was shown, but those who sought information did so largely that they might publish it. New York’s share of the lists of the 8.800,000 taxpayers who paid Uncle Sam $1,761,660,599, show many strange contrasts and in some cases are not without their thumor. The amounts paid here ran from 2 cents, paid by Samuel Weinstock, address not given, all the way up to $6,277,699, the high est individual amount in the country, paid by John D. Rockefeller, jr. The American Telegraph and Tele phone company paid $‘13,435,546,67, and Hearst’s Star Publishing company $261,513.05. The Shell Union Oil cor poration and subsidiaries made returns of $1,117,362.22. 3 Abie’s Irish Rose, Inc, of New York, paid a tax of $45,635, while the Metropolitan Opera company paid $6,- 465. Man Walking Four Hundred Miles In Bare Feet to Pay an Electioq f}_t Attorney Begins “Hike” From West Virginia to New York Because He Boosted John W. Davis. A “hike” from Fairmont, W. Va, to New York city in his bare feet, be ing compelled to walk at least 400 miles during the trip. That is the task that has been tackled by W. O. Loar, an attorney, all because his political views proved wrong at the last presi dential election. e Loar must walk from Fairmont to New York city to pay an election bet he lost.to Gene Arnett. Loar bet that MANY ORGANIZATIONS AT WORK TO PROTECT “SUCK ERS” FROM GOLD BRICKS. Devise Many New Ways of Cheating Mr. American and His Wife Out of Their Hard-Earned Dollars Despite ‘ Innumerable Warnings. The still flourishing cult of the gold brick artists in the United States will swindle the people out of $1,000,000,- 000 during 1925. The cost of credulity during 1924 was considerably more than that figure, but business is not so good for the swindlers this year. That is the, report of the Better Business Bureau, in New York City. The 1925 toll of the “sucker’” will be smaller, the bureau asserts, because of the nation-wide drive against fa kers of all kinds. To Protect “Suckers.” The whole United States is co-oper ating to protect ‘“‘suckers,” the bureau reports. Many states have enacted laws to guard them against the swind lers. Through chambers of commerce, service clubs and business bureaus the activities of the swindler are being re duced. ; Particularly is the business bureau busy. Branches have been established in 40 cities to keep ahead of the dis honest promoter to whom fresh fields constantly are opening. These bureaus are intended to sweep away new webs spun for trustful folks who succumb to attacks of get-rich-quick fever. Real Estate New Bait. This summer real estate is a new bait. Alsb there are ventures in liquor smuggling, despite the disastrous fail ure of Sir Broderick Hartwell, the English booze baron. The oil fakers never quit. Dr. Frederick Cook, of near polar fame, is in prison, with the story of his deals painful knowledge to millions, but the game still goes on. Three promoters were arrested in California this summer and charged with cleaning up $500,000 along the Pacific coast with a worthless oil stock scheme. Another “blue sky” promoter, 'sandwiched between reputable busi ness houses in New York city, was arrested and sent to prison for a long | term, | Former Convict Busy. There is a beautifully furnished Riv erside drive apartment in New York city used as a lure by a former Sing Sing convict to swindle victims to whom he sells stock on promise of a salaried job. On prominent streets Jn all large cities, it is asserted, are found fly-by night store “sets” and promoters’ of fices awaiting the uninformed investor. The habitat of the gullible is not confined to the rural sections, but is as wide as the country, the New York bureau asserts. The sigh ‘of the dwell er in Madison Square joins the doubt ing inquiry of the squire in Madison Corners in the daily grist of mailed complaints to the authorities and to the business organizations. ————— I b DAWSON JURIST WILL SPEAK ON THE JUDGE, THE PEO PLE AND THE LAW. ~ WEST POINT, Ga.—West Point is looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to the annual session of the Georgia Press Association to be held here on September 21-26. Highlights in the convention will be addresses by Senator Thomas J. Hef lin, of Alabama; R. P. Andrews, of Washington, D. C. chairman of the government legislative committee on envelope printing; Judge M. j. Yeo mans, of Dawson, on “The Judge, the People and the Law,” and L. A. Downs, president of the Central of Georgia railroad. ° f The convention will be in*session here from Monday until Thursday morning, when the delegates will leave, by motor for LaGrange, where the LLaGrange Chamber of Commerce will put on a program. From LaGrange the party will proceed to Atlanta to attend a banquet given by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce on Thursday night. Friday morning members of the press association will go to Tallulah Falls and visit the Georgia press camp, which will be dedicated on Fri-! day. | John W. Davis would be elected pres ident, but Arnett bet on Calvin Cool idge—and won. When Loar began his “hike” he was penniless, as a term of the bet provid ed. A crowd that gathered to bid him goodbye, however, gave him $2O when he passed his hat. Loar expects to finish the “hike” within several weeks, taking his time en route. He must re port at Tammany Hall, the democrat ic headquarters.in New York city, to prove that his debt is paid. S. Africa climate is like Carolina. - DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 15, 1925 . * Boost in Taxes Levied by . g States, Counties and Cities WASHINGTON, D. C.—Re duction of federal taxes last year was accompanied by a continued increase in state, county and local taxes a survey conductcd by the Washington headquarters of the National Grange indicates. The survey shows the total paid un der the latter assessments was ap proximately 50 per cent greater than the federal tax bill Results of the survey show that state taxes alone increased irom a total of $858.155,000 in 1922, as re ported by the census bureau, to $879,784,000 in 1924, on the basis of incomplete returns. 1t was figured that complete re turns are almost certain to place the figure above $900,000,0600. Add ed to this total the amount paid under county, school, muncipal and special taxes gives an aggre gate, with many items yet to be ~ included when the survev is com pleted, of more than $3.700,000,000. This compared with the federal ~ income and miscellancous taxes totaling $2,688,000,000. HORSES MAY TRAVEL 1 | PULLMAN CONTAINS EVERYI ACCOMMODATION FASTIDI- | OUS THOROBRED NEEDS. | T | Horses may travel in comfort and style now, for the horse pullman has} appeared. Instead of being loaded loose, huddled with others, frightened‘ and tired, in a freight car, the race! horse being a potential money maker, takes a pullman in order to arrive fresh and fit for a race that may mean a fortune. And he is not freight by ex \ press. | In the racing season between April and November the railroads are beset§ with calls for specially designed horse | cars. The New York Central esti-. mates, that between 100 and 140 car loads of race horses are handled by express during each meet at the vari ous tralks. To keep up with the de mand the New York Central has under construction twenty-eight new steel horse cars that represent the last word in this class of equipment. The first of them was finishet several ‘'weeks ago. It contains every accommodation that the most fastidious thoroughbred could require. When he steps from his private automobile truck through the wide side door of the rail car he may well believe he is entering an up-to-date, luxurious stable. (lean and shiny is the floor beneath his feet; white and gleaming are the walls all around; and overhead burn electric lights. He is led to a compart ment where he may easily forget that he is traveling at all, says the New York Times. The car is seventy feet long and two dozen is the maximum number of pas sengers it carries. From the windows in the sides of the car and the deck ventilators above the racer gets plenty of fresh air. The racer arrives scarce ly feeling his hours on the road. Like other pullman equipment, the horse car is adaptable to condition. As seats in a pullman are pulled out to make beds, so partitions in the horse car are pulled back to eliminate stalls. In this way it is made into a day coach for the accommodation of ordi nary, or “commercial” horses. These ride many more than twenty-four to the coach. They come to New York from Omaha and Chicago between November and Apl:ll, when the north ern racing season is off. i FOUND NEAR,CORDELE ON FLINT RIVER BANK AND SUPPOSED TO BE DINOSAU ER SIXTY FEET LONG. CORDELE, Ga.—Large sections of the vertabra of a prehistoric animal supposed to be the dinosaur have been !rccovcrcd from the limestone depos ‘its under a thirty-foot rock wall on the east bank of the Flint river eight | miles west of Cordele. Sections ten inches and more in diameter are on ’cxhibit here and more are firmly lodg led in the limestone plainly visible to those- who have recovered all that can be had. Sections of the vertebra, portions of |the ribs and of other bones are on exhibit here. Two weeks ago Reginald Barry located one large section of the vertebra low under the rocks due to the fact that the water in the river is lower than it has been in a lifetime. Diggers MWave recovered many other portions, but it is thought the com }pletc remains may be had if the rocks iare drilled for them. | The bones are in an excellent state of preservation, some in perfect petri fied state, while others are fossilized in less firm a condition, but there is no difficulty in placing each. bone as though it had been stripped only a year ago. The bones already recovered apparently are from the backbone of an animal that must have been some sixty feet in length. Those who made an all-Sunday search are now planning to ask the ‘Smithsonian Instityte to send scient ists here to explore the'limestone rock deposit for the full skeleton of the pre historic animal, = T ? ‘EXTREME HEAT AND DRY i WEATHER HAVE CUT CORN ~ YIELD MILLIONS BUSHELS. ‘Sold by the Jug at 5 Cents a Gallon, ~ Families Forced to Forego Cus tomary Saturday Night Bath, and Other Inconveniences Prevail ~ CHlCAGO.—Advices from south ern and central Illinois, lowa, parts of Missouri, lower Michigan and Indiana say the continued drouth in those states are working havoc among crops as well as in some southern states— Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Vir ginia. . The damage is chiefly in corn and pasturage. Corn, which had a jump of nearly three weeks over last ¢ year, promised a record crop, but heat and dtouth have cut the estimate by mil lions of bushels. Much of the corn in the great belt is now dry enough for feed and practically out of danger from frost, but it has shriveled and lost weight, failing to fill out properly. Some of the more pessithistic observ ers predict that the crop will not be much in excess of last year’s produc tion. Rains at this late date would not be of benefit to corn, but would revive withered pastures and put the baked soil in condition for fall plowing. Water Famine in Illinois. Drouth conditions are serious in south central Illinois, where water is being hauled many miles and sold by the gallon. Herrin, particularly, in “Bloody Williamson,” which, prior to remarkable evangelistic work by a Mississippi preacher, had little use for water, is now hauling its meager sup ply 10 miles from Marion. The cus tomary Saturday night bath is being dispensed with and orders are issued against miners and others washing their automobiles. Operators of coal mines are forced to haul water from the Ohio river by the carload. Plutocrats are able to buy a tank of water, hauled from Marion, for $4 plus the cartage charges, but the ordinary run of citizens buy it by the jug, at 5 cents the gallon. The long drouth has badly damaged timothy and rye grass, in addition to shriveling the corn. Fruit also is suf- I‘fering. In some of the northwestern states ‘heavy thunder storms have afforded ' temporary relief. Temperatures are ranging 20 degrees higher than for the ‘corrcsponding period one year ago. ORDERS THE RELEASE OF AN ATLANTA PRISONER WHO POSED AS COUPLE’S SON. The doors of the federal prison in Atlanta, Ga., have opened for Robert E. St. Clair. the man who posed as Urban Johnson Bergeron, of Menasha, Wis., a soldier slain in France, and fooled Bergeron’s parents for several months. A victim of tuberculosis; St. Clair was given his freedom that he might spend his few remaining days outside the gray walls of the peniten tiary. Wanted to Die in Luxury. The prisoner, who is said to have perpetrated one of the biggest frauds ever attempted in an effort to spend his last days in luxury, is said to have been suffering from tuberculosis at the time that he fooled Bergeron's par ents. Bergeron was killed in France, but St. Clair posed’ as Bergeron and was welcomed “batk home” by Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bergeron. He maintained his position in the face of repeated charges that he was not the Bergerons’ son and did not recede from his contention until he was confronted by Mrs. Stella Em merich, Bergeron's sister, who pre sented documentary evidence to prove that St. Clair was in state institutions during the war. Sister Exposes Fraud. He then admitted that he was not Bergeron and that he had posed as the man because he did not wish to spend his remaining days in a prison in Cal ifornia, where he was wanted for rob bery. California authorities agreed to allow him his freedom, and the attor ney general of the United States is sued the order setting him free—to die outside. His mother was waiting at the prison door when he was re leased. Woman Bosses Million-Dollar Store After lllness Strikes Down Husband Chicago Wife First Vice President of Firm, So She Feels That What She Is Doing Is Her Duty. Because her husband, the president, has temporarily retired from business because of serious illness, Mrs. Ed 'ward Hillman is running a Chicago department store that does a business of several million dollars a year. Mrs. Hillman is being assisted by her son, Edward Hillman, jr. N : Together mother ‘and son reach the store early and work late, taking only a few minutés for Tancheon. Fréquent Band of Kidnapers Butcher And Fry Little Children LONDON.—An organized band of fiendish kipnapers, who butch er children, ther iry them and eat them, is terruiizing the Punjab district of India. This was reveal ed in London today with the news of the capture of Mohammed, leader of the gang, by Punjab po lice. Mahomed confessed that his fierce band of Pathan tribesmen from beyond the border was re sponsible for the kidnaping of more than 40 children recently. Between July 8 and July 31 fran tic parents reported to the police the kidnaping of 21 babies. A vigorous campaign against the baby eaters resulted in the capture of Mahomed. He confess ed the most horrbile details of the cannibal gang's activities, declar ing the gang usually ‘Yried the children and then ate them. MAN AND TWO CHILDREN ARE SWALLOWED UP NEAR MA CON. BODIES RECOVERED. MACON, Ga.—Treacherous quick sands of the Ocmulgee river claimed three lives Tuesday, and one of this number was sucked down in a valiant but unavailing effort to save his young grandson. In trying to rescue his seven-year old grandson, who had gotten into quicksand in the river Max Keefer, lo comotive engineer, jumped into the sand and sank from sight. Both Keef er and the grandchild, Charles Couch, were drowned. Keefer took his grandchild and two thirteen-year-old girls, his daughter, Clara, and Marie Lizzie Hunnicutt, a friend 'of the family, on the fishing trip. The girls gave the alarm that “Char lie is drowning,” and the grandfather plunged in. The water was shallow, but so completely were the two swal lowed up in the sand that the bodies had not been recovered an hour after the drowning. Wanders Off. : Later in the day,.only a short dis tange down the river from the scene of the first tragedy, little Clifford Herndon left the picnic party she was attending with other children, and wandered down to the river bank to wade in the warm, shallow water. No fears assailed her childish mind as she paddled happily about, and when she felt the sands closing about ‘her body far from land her cries for help were unheard by the other pic nickers on their merry-making. | | ~ Expert divers and swimmers, in ‘boats and with grappling hooks, searched the placid waters of the Oc 'mulgee for hours before the bodies "were recovered. ' Keefer was 52 years old and had }l)een running a locomotive for 20 years. i tSUPERSTITION SAYS THEY GO DRY EVERY SEVEN YEARS. I ' SPORTSMEN ON WATCH. THOMASVILLE, Ga—Sportsmen and many others here are anxious to know whether or not the big lakes lamonia and Miccouski, just over the line in Florida, are really going dry this year. | It has long been a superstition with lthe old residents around the lakes that ‘thcy go dry every seven years, and as this is the seventh year since the ’last time their waters went out it is claimed they will go again before the 'year is over. ; ' These lakes do not really dry up, their waters just get lower and then [all at once they go out with a rush, through some underground opening. After a while they suddenly return without any warning, gushing up from the mysterious underground channel ' which feeds them. It has been remark led of late that the waters are getting lower and it is feared that they may ’carry out the old superstition and leave. ~ Not only sportsmen here, but those from many sections of the state and many of the northern winter residents, look forward to the duck shooting on these lakes and should they go dry it would be in the nature of a great dis appointment to them. 'ly Mrs. Hillman telephones the nurse who is taking care of !er husband, in the Hillman apartment. “Why shouldn’t 1 take up my hus band’s duties when he is ill?” Mrs, Hillman asks. “He is the president of this firm, and I am the first vice presi 'dent. When the president is away the first vice president naturally assumes his place. My husband, too, has told me so much about his business that 1 have no trouble in taking up things where he left off, and I'm going to show him some nice outfits when he ot bacc™ J Buy Terrell County Products VOL. 43.—N0. 3 ENORMOUS 15 GOST OF THE NATIONAL VAGATION \ ! s , IS ESTIMATED THAT 30 MIL LION PERSONS SPENT THREE ~ BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. | L FARMER IS SOLE EXCEPTION Rescrts Have Had Most Prosperous ~ Season Ever Known. Flood °of ~ Money Poured Out by the Holiday ' Throngs During the Summer. ~ America’s vacation during 1925, drawing now. to a close, has cost about three billion dollars. That, in round figures, is the best available measure of the flood of money that has been poured out by holiday throngs during the summer at seaside, mountain and other vacation resorts. It stands, per haps, as a record spending for the an nual vacation. ~ Approximately 30,000,000 persons, it is believed, have taken an average of a fortnight off to play, says Harden ‘(,n.l‘fax. the well-known Washington writer, in an article to the Savannah ‘l\cws. The number is larger this year than usual because the country has been singularly free of strikes and in dustrial strife, and almost everybody who wants to work has had a job. To this general rule the farmer alone stands as an exception; anyhow, from the nature of his work summer is not his vacation time. i Vacationists Swell Traffic. The estimate of 30,000,000 vacation ists allows for two persons out of ev ery three gainfully employed, as shown by census bureau estimates. It does not consider the perennial vacationists of the moneyed class who flit from Maine to Florida with the seasons. No line is possible for measuring their outlay for holidays. Railroads show on their monthly reports to the Interstate Commerce Commission a passenger traffic this summer considerably above the aver age. The transcontinental movement has been particularly heavy and pull man reservations hard to get except far in advance. California and the great national parks welcomed this year, it is believed from this showing, far greater holiday crowds than ever before, ! Summer resorts generally have nev er had a more prosperous season. Res ervations have been impossible during August at several of the more popular Atlantic coast resorts except at the great hotels which cater more to the tourist than the two weeks’ vacation spender. Mountain resorts have shared with the seaside in the spending of the holiday crowds. Cost Uncle Sam $15,000,000. At Washington it is estimated that the annual vacation of Uncle Sam’s home and field forces have cost the nation about $15,000,000. That sum represents salaries paid employes on annual leave. Nearly all federal em ployes have had a vacation, a refresh ing contrast to recent years when the stress of post-war adjustment has held thousands of their desks without the customary summer relief. Free tourist camps throughout the eAst have been overflowing, in almost every instarice, this summer to an ex tent never before attained. A few years ago there was room to spare at nearly all of them. Now the rule ap pears to favor line formation of appli cants. More persons have lazed along the open road in 1925 than ever before. An average estimate of the spend ing of each vacationist during his time off this summer has been placed, for this correspondent, at approximately $lOO by welfare workers. Such an es timate is hard to make, they admit, but the figuré arrived at is considered ultra-conservative. Assuming that it applies to the 30,000,000 vacationists 3(1)8 total spendings run to $3,000,000,- Huge Figures Tell Tale. This figure is checked loosely by es timated totals of sums paid wage earn ers and salaried workers annually throughout the United States. Various economists have placed this annual sum at from $60,000,000 t0'575,000,000, figuring the average annual income at ‘about $1,500. The weekly payments, under these estimates, run from about |51.100.000.n00 to $1,500,000,000 for wages and salaries. . l The two weeks wages and salaries, therefore, would amount to from $2,- 300,000,000 to $3.000,000,000. If the average vacationist spent only his two weeks pay the vacation spendings would run to more than $2,000,000,000. When to the vacation spendings are ! added the fortunes spent weekly by |the American people for sports and 'in other forms of play, including thea |tre.s and motion pictures, the cost of play this summer has run to sums lwhich cannot even be estimated. The development of the ideca that everyone needs a vacation once a year lhas given employment to hundreds of thousands of persons who cater to va cation needs and has founded great manufacturing and other plants for supplying paraphernalia for pleasure tparks and resorts—a phase of indus trial life that was almost wholly lack ing some twenty-frve or thirty years ago when few persons tooks vacations. SOME ANIMALS AND BIRDS LIVE OVER HUNDRED YEARS Do you know that elephants often live to be 150 or 200 years old? Croc odiles live to be 100 and tortoises over a hundred years of age. The eagle, crow, raven and swan are birds that sometimes live to be a century old.