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TRAVEL TOTALS REACHING;
NEW RECOFo “REPARING
FOR A BM, :
ymiT IS SET AT TWO YEARSi
Believed Trading, Which Is as Brisk
As Ever, Must Eventually Slump.
Overselling Emphasizes That What
Goes Up Must Come Down.
low long will theé Florida boom‘
ust? ls it about to crash, and if it
does will the whole overblown busi
gess flatten out like a punctured tire?
These are questions which all thought-f
il Floridans are asking each other,l
ad they are questions the answer to
which a vast number of people outside
of the state would like to know, writes
I F. kssary, representative of the Bal
ymore Sun who is now in Florida.
Unfortunately no one knows the an
swer. Guesses may be ventured; opin
ions may be held. convictions may be
fixed: but as for absolute and incon
westible knowledge on the subject no
pody has it and nobody with whom
this writer has gone over the matter
pretends to have it.
No Positive Symptoms Yet.
This much, however, is true: The
«-called boom has not yet collapsed
sor shown any positive symptoms of
collapsing, There are more people
moving into Florida at this time than
in any other September, just as more
have moved in during the past sum
mer than in any other summer since
time began. Moreover, all of them are
wking money with them, little or
much.
Also it is true that the Florida real
estate business is just as brisk now as
it has ever been, leaving out that pe
riod of hectic speculation in the Miami
district during June, July and August.
\iore lots and more plots probably are
being sold today than during any day
of the last year, even though there
are fgwer resales.
Preparing for Drive.
Finally, every sales organization ing
the state—the palatial outfit as well
s the shanty operator—is preparing
ior the gigantic drive upon the multi
wde of winter’ tourists which will be
gin overruning the state .in November
ad not subside until March, The talk
i€ of 2,000,000 transients this season—
the pullman passegger and-she private
yacht owner on the one hand, and the
rh}wr wayfarer on the other.
The land companies—that is to say,
fhose with more than blueprints to
how—cxpect to sell more building
lots before the winter ends than have
been sold since the frenzied business
began. They expect to sell to the men
who habitually go to Florida each
yvear: to the thousands of others who
will be attracted to the state through
curiosity, and then to the even larger
number of -purely speculative buyers
scattered far and wide.
Bubble Not Ready to Burst.
If these land traffickers have not
miscalculated on the sales during the
season ahead and if the transportation
companies’ do not force a deflation
through the application of drastic -em
bargoes all hands here agree that the
bubble, if it is a bubble, will not burst
mtil some time in 1926 or 1927.
The transportation embargo. is the
most dangerous thing with which
Florida has to deal at the moment. It
threatens to paralyze the state for an
indefinite time. Vast construction proj
ects i almost every section are af
fected. Work has been or soon will
be suspended on scores of great hotels
which contractors were rushing to
completion for the winter season.
Housing enterprises, large and small,
are involved.
Congested Out of Reason.
Not that the Florida railrpads and
steamship lines get any satisfaction
out of their embargoes. They are
gricved to the point of tears over the
situation. They want all the business
they can do. They want Florida to
boom forever, But the terminals are
congested past the stretching pont.
Railway yards as far north as Wash
ington are filled with Florida-bound
cars which cannot be moved with ex
pedition. The tie-up is so tight that
bankers, professional men, real estate
opcrators and other soft-handed gentry
are working at a hundred points, in
Florida unloading cars and storing the
ll‘r}:-;m that the embargoes may be
ited
The sincerely patriotic Floridan of
the luncheon' ¢lub booster type seeks
to convince you that there is no ab
normal boom in his state. He admits
that in isolated spots there is some
land gambling going on; that promo
ters and speculators have unduly in
flatcd some prices and the sub-division
development business is a little over
done on the two coasts.
Solid Ground Underneath.
But underneath all of this, he ar
gues, there is solid ground. He re
minds you that Florida has merely
f"‘” rediscovered; that after —more
than 400 years the piomeer again has
mvaded the state; that it is coming
at last into its own.
FATHER OF TWENTY-THREE
CHILDREN DIES IN ATLANTA
After rearing a family of 23 chil
drei, 11 of whom survive him, Pleas
ance Carroll, 76, died in Atlanta, Ga,
That surpasses the record of the father
of 4 prominent professional man who
;‘g{ . lrefi::ln:tn of Dawson son;e y;ars
. He children, all of whom
Teached manhoodigdmuxahood. and
were useful'm nbers of society in
their reg et
THE DAWSON NEWS
Possum Hunting Season
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Has Opened in Georgia
Cat Squirrels, Migrating Ducks, Rab
bits and Woodcock May He Hunted.
With the closed season on ’possums
ending Wednesday at midnight, and
the open season for sweet ’taters al
ready on, the state game and fish de
partment arranged for a state-wide
. “mtion of hunting licenses. Ev
€so ter must have a license if he
gets off his own land, Commissioner
Peter S. Twitty points out.
In addition to opossums, cat squir
rels can be hunted after October Ist,
and the season already has opened on
summer or wood ducks, migratory
iducks, woodcock and rabbits.
Commissioner Twitty has instructed
the various county wardens to place
hunting licenses on sale at the most
accessible places possible for the con
veniece of the sportsmen who desire
to procure them. The game wardens
also have been instructed to require
hunters to show their licenses when
they are caught in the fields.
RAZE NEW YORK ‘
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AS A MORAL BLOT
CHURCH MAY BEG IT OF CON
GRESS. IS CONDUCTING AN
INVESTIGATION.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Congress
may be alked to abolish New York.
The board of temperance, prohibition
and public morals of the Methodist
Episcopal church is conducting an in
vestigation,
“The west wants to know if New
York is a menace,” the Methodist
board asks. “Throughout a great part
of the territory of the United States
the people are asking whether or not
they have created a Frankenstein in
building the gigantic city of which
they are so proud. i
“The whole country hds assailed the
indecency of a certain large group of
magazines and of the product of cer
tain popular novel writers. Most of
this nastiness is coming out of New
York city.”
“From New York gmanates most
of the propaganda inciting to violation
of the prohibition law and attacking
the standards of Americanism ‘which
Greenwich Village calls ‘Puritanism,’”
it declares.
“If New York has the safety of its
own future in mind it will apply press
ure upon theatrical producers, pub
lishers of erdtic literature, and the
propagandists of crime.”
RESULTS SO FAR OBTAINED
ARE PUBLISHED IN REPORT
BY CONTROL BODY.
Government scientists have largely
succeeded in controlling the boll wee
vil, according to a statement issued by
Clarence OQusley, president of the Na
tional 801 l Weevil Control Associa
tion,
~ Results so far obtained through ex
perimentation are described in a de
tailed statement issued by him through
the department of agriculture.
~ There is no indication that the gov
ernment experts wrestling with prob
lems of boll weevil control will slackr
en their efforts at “this stage, it is
said. With present knowledge on hand
their methods are being pursued with
a view to securing more complete con
trol of the pest.
~ Cheaper Insecticides Promised.
L o(This i vear several new insecticides
are being tested, looking to a cheaper
source of poison, and research is con
tinuing in the analysis of the cotton
plant in the hope of discovering means
of separating the substance in it which
attracts the weevil. :
~ Mr. Ousley declared that one of the
hindrances to fuller weevil control is
the lack of knowledge by many farm
ers of weevil habits and methods of
destroying them. Through the dissem
ination of information, he added, the
association is attempting to remedy
this widespread defect.
Practically all of the boll weevil
catching machines, which so long de
ceived their inventors and many of
the farmers, are out of business. Most
of the commercial nostrums and mix
tures, which likewise deceived their
inventors and a large number of farm
ers, are in disrepute.
5 Billion Cash Whirls Round U. S.;
Did You Catch Your $45 Share of It?
Four of Nine éillion Dollars Whizzes Aroung Country at Great Rate
Of Speed. Goes 14 Times a Year Through Pockets of Employed.
If all the cash in circulation in the
United States were divided equa]ly‘
among all the people every one would
have $45 in his pocket. The average
family of four and one-half persons
would be able to get together $202.50,
which might be enough to buy a sec
ond hand automobile, but would not
leave enough to run it ver far. These
facts were brought out fl‘;, President
Jesse Grant Chapline, of La Salle Ex
‘tension University, in an address at
Chicago before a conference of public
accountants.
~ “Total stock of money in the Unit
ed States is about $9,000,000,000,” he
said. “About $4,000,000,000 is kept in
reserve and the remainder flows, or
)rather whizzes, around the country at
a_rate of speed not equaled by the
Niagara rapids. At the rate of earned
income last year the entire flood of
STATE WILL BE REPRESENT
ED AT DAIRY SHOW TO BE |
HELD THIS MONTH. |
SOLID CARLOAD OF MATERIAL
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Chart Will Show Million Acres Land‘
Suitable for Alfalfa, and Data Will
Be Given on Marketing Facilities.
Atlanta Wants Next Meeting. i
Georgia’s possibilities for dairy de
velopment will be exploited at the I\'a-'
tional Dairy Show, to be held in In
dianapolis, Ind., October 10-17.
Under the auspices of the State Col
lege of Agriculture and the State De
partment of Agriculture, in cc-opera
tion with the Georgia Association,s the
‘various chambers of commerce
‘throughout the state and the agricul
tural extension bureaus of the rai]»‘
‘roads, plans have been laid for send
ing an exhibit to the Hoosier state,
including complete data on feed and
forage crops and marketing facilities.
Carload of Material.
The exhibit will include a selid car
load of material and will be represen
tative of every branch of the dairying
industry in the state. It will cost the
lstatc approximately $2,500 to finance
the undertaking and plans for raising
this amount were laid at conferences
held in Atlanta which was attended by
‘F. H. Abbott, secretary of the Gcorgia}
| Association, who presided; Fred New
ell, secretary of the industrial develop
ment department of the*Atlanta Cham
ber of Commerce; M, J. Jernigan, of
| the State College of Agriculture; F.
|T. Bridges, assistant commissioner of
lagricultnre; W. R. Tucker, agricultur
-131 development agent of the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic railway, and
| Euggne Baker, agricultural develop-
Iment agent for the West Point route.
| Included in the exhibit will be a
{large colored chart, prepared at the
ist:fle college, in Athens, bearing the
| statement that Georgia has 1,000,000
| acres of alfalfa land, which can be
|bought for $50,000,000, and which is
| capable of producing in one year a
crop worth $100,000,000. ,
Can Prove the Claim.
} “We can prove that claim,” Mr,
| Bridges asserted at the meeting. “The
I('slimate is conservative, if anything,
for during the last five years a number
lof acres at the state college have been
| devoted to the production of alfalfa
land by actual.record, the, tract was
’mowed 25 times during that period,
Iyiclding an average of 26 tons per
|acre, or better than five tons per acre
per year, .
“And during that period the aver
age price per ton was $3O or better
than $l5O per acre for each year. In
making this estimate we have based
it on the average yield of four tons
per acre, less than we actually raised,
and on an average price of $25 per
ton, less than the average market
price during a five-year period.”
An effort will be made to bring the
convention to Atlanta in 1926, Mr. Ab
’hott announced.
AN UNUSUAL COMBINATION
IN WHISKY CAR CAPTURED
BY GWINNETTE SHERIFF.
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga—Sheriff
W. T. McGee captured-a large tour
ing car containing 140 gallons of whis
ky after a chase of about 13 miles.
The officers encountered a smoke
screen althost the entire chase and
came very near being seriously in
jured by their car hitting the railing
on a bridge, which the smoke obscur
ed. The right fender was torn off of
the sheriff’'s car, but the officers kept
in the race continually until the liquor
car’s smoke screen apparatus failed to
work, at which time the drivers of it
left the main highway, about four
miles from Stone Mountain, and went
down into the woods, where ‘the offi
cers found it. The men had fled.
In one of the pockets of the liquor
car a small testament, a wedding pres
ent to the contracting parties from a
iriend, was found, the names of whom
were plainly written in the back.
Sheriff- McGee says that the owners
of the testament may get sdme by
calling oni him.
money must wash fourteen times a
lyear through the pockets of all the
gainfully employed persons in the
| United States.
“The golden flood must hurl itself
from place to place fast enough to
furnish working ctapital for industry
and agriculture capitalized at $125,-
000,000,000. Every dollar in the Unit
ed States has to do the work of $4O
at high speed. :
“This is why such a thing as 'a
‘buyers’ strike’ would paralyze indus
try and business. It is why the science
of business management, accountancy
and sales_promotion has such tre
mendous importance. Keeping the
money fload moving and directing its
course is the most vital function in
modern business life. The United
States is so rich and successful be
cause money moves faster here than
it does anywhere else on earth.”
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 6, 1925
September Best Month
In History of the Central
108,930 Carloads Moved in Thirty
Days, Says President Downs.
September proved to be ‘the best
month in the history of the Central
of Georgia railway, according to a
statement made by L. A. Downs, the
president. Busineds was 25 per cent
better than the greatest previous
month, which was March of this year,
when exceeding® largec fertilizer
movements were made.
A total of 108,930 car loads were
moved during the month, being 6,927
more car loads than thosc moved in
March. .
“Business conditions' in Georgia and
the southeast are reflected in the busi
ness of the Central of Georgia rail
way,” stated Mr. Downs, “and I pre
dict the greatest business this fall and
winter that Georgia and Savannah
port have ever had.”
SLAYER BLAMES WIFE’S
BOBBED HAIR, PAINT
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MUSCOGEE COUNTY MAN CUT
HIS MATE'S JUGULAR VEIN
IN A DEATH STRUGGLE.
COLUMBUS, Ga—'She drove me
to it with her repeated threats to bob
her hair and paint her checks,” said
R. L. Shepherd, 56, alleged slayer of
his wife, as he sat in the Muscogee
county jail this morning. “It's been
going on for two years,” the accused
man declared.
Shepherd was jailed soon after the
tragedy which occurred at the family
home in Columbus, Mrs. Lula Shep
herd, the wife, lived only a few min
utes after her jugular vein was slash
ed with a pocket knife in a struggle
with her husband. Neighbors said
they were eye-witnesses to the trage
dy and a coroner’s inquest was not
held.
The fatal wound was inflicted while
Shepherd held his wife against a wood
pile in the backyard of the home.
Neighbors rushed to the scene and
with blood gushing from her veins the
woman was helped into the house
where she fell dead.
Officers were immediately called and
Shepherd calmly submitted to arrest.
At the jail this morning his chi¢f con
certt” seemed to be his’ two small chil
dren, one ten months old and the oth
er three vears. He refused the request
of relatives that they be allowd to take
the babes, and became very emotional
when speaking of them.
lu. S. WEATHER MAN 1
BREAKS THE NEWS
IMPARTS THE INFORMATION'
I THAT 1925 HAS BEEN AB
NORMALLY WARM YEAR.
The weather bureau has found that
1925 has “been a warm year.” |
“For the last eight months of the
year in most of the country the tem
perature has tended to be above nor
mal,” it is pointed out. “During Feb
ruary, March and April it was warmer
than usual over the entire ccuntry,
from coast to coast and from Mexico
to Canada. In practically every sec
tion temperatures ranged several de
grees higher than the averag for thdt
section during the month.”
The bureau offers no explanation
for the abnormal conditions, but as
serts it “does not believe that the
world is getting warmer.” It explains
that in Georgia and other southeast
ern states thére has been a general
drouth all summer resulting in wide
spread crop loss.
Big Rain Deficiency.
From 4 to 19 inches deficiency in
rainfall is shown during the first eight
months of the year over a large por
tion of the south and southeast. In
lthc vicinity of Washington the defi
{ciency has been 11 inches.
l “The very high temperatures which
have prevailed throughout the central
and southern states during the last
few weeks have greatly augmented
the ill effects of the rainfall shortage,”
[the weather bureau said.
| “The effects of the doruth in Nash
| ville, Tenn., are unprecedented. This
jcity had next to the lowest known
iprccipitation in August. Use of water
{in the city has been restricted for sev
lcral months. Wells have gone dry,
[some for the first time in their history,
{and the river has been the lowest on
'rccord.
* Driest in 53 Years.
“Montgomery, Ala., has just experi
enced the driest August in fifty-three
years, with the river at its lowest
point. Norfolk, Va., has also had the
least rainfall for August in fifty-three
,years, and Elkins, W. Va., the least
for twenty-five years. On August 14th
‘the temperature at Charleston, S. C,
ireached 101 degrees, the highest ever
[known in August in that city.” |
| In Virginia, where the drouth still
Iprevails, streams have dried up and
|birds are destroying the fish exposed
by shallow water. |
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Catfish Fifty Years of 11
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- Age Still Going Strong
The question as 40 how old fish live
to be is an interesting one. According
to an English naturalist, an electric
cel in the London Zoo lived to be 12]
years old. A European catfish, ‘in a
private aquarivm in England, is..,;so;
years old and is still “going mofiq;‘
Carp are said to live to be as old
4 years; salmon, 8 yeags; bull frog, 15
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FLAMES TAKE TERRIBLE
BLAZES EACH YEAR KILL 15-
000, CRIP?LE 17,000 AND DE
STROY MUCH PROPERTY.
THE COUNTRY’S WORST FOE
Fires Do Half a Billion Dollars Dam
age Every Twelve Months, Is the
Warning Given at Beginning of
Fire Prevention Week.
Crush the fire demon! Stamp out
the fiery fiend that takes a toll of 15,-
000 lives and half a billion dollars
worth of property in the United States
each year!
Save America from its worst eco
nomic foe, the menace that is its
greatest bar to ecomomic happiness
and prosperity, that puts crepe upon
the doors of thousands of American
homes that otherwise would be castles
of happiness! }
Fire Prevention Week Here. |
That is the cry that is now going‘
the length and breadth of the land,
National fire prevention week, a time}
of a war of propaganda against the)
fire fiend is at hand. Beginning Sun
day, October 4th, and continuing un
til October 10th, the whole United
States is turning its attention to its
most cruel enemy. |
From proclamations by President!
Coolidge, and by Governor Walker in
Georgia, all the way down to plain,
but to the point, little speeches of
school teachers to their pupils and in
the form of tons of Iliterature will
range the campaign against fire in
America. |
Fire, 'statistics show, is the worst
peace time foe of America.
Fires occur in American homes at
the rate of 618 every 24 hours—a fresh
outbreak every three minutes. At least
three out of four are needless, for they |
ate due to carelessness and ignorance
—both correctible. |
Homes destroyved by fire each year,
even if they cost $lO,OOO each, would‘
be sufficient to house the citizens of
a city the size of Bridgeport, Conn.;‘
Dayton, 0., or Dallas, Tex.
Last year not less than 15,000 Amer-‘
icans—one every half minute—lost
their lives in fires, and 17,000 others
were crippled. Hundreds of these crip
ples now are unable to earn a living
and must become public charges.
1 Yearly Toll Increasing.
l The yearly toll, financially, of fires
is steadily increasing. In 1921 it stood
at $485,000,000, while the toll last year
is estimated by experts to have been
$548,800,000, the greatest in the his
\tory of the nation.
This enormous sum—more than
half a billion dollars—is an average
daily- toll of $1,503,362. It would have
paid more ‘than two-thinds of the per
sonal income tax in 1924. It would
have been sufficient to eliminate 7317
perilous railroad grade crossings.
There are other indirect results of
fires, too. If an industrial plant is de
| stroyed hundreds, perhaps thousands,
lof men and women are thrown out of
- work., ?
Lo 1o maintain a paid fire department
costs any city millions "of dollars. To
protect themselves from the ravages
of flames New Yorkers alone spend
’$().(l0(i,()()0 a year, it is estimated. Less
er, but still considerable, sums are ap
propriated by other cities each year.
Six Main Danger Points.
Experts have found six main danger
points ®around which most of the
thousands of fires in the United States
begin. They are: Defective chimneys
‘and flues, with an annual loss of $36,-
1991,288; sparks on roofs, $31,379,884;
| stoves, furnaces, boilers and their
]pip('s, $24,348,965; matches and smok
;ing, $19,129,382; petroleum and its
products, $16,423,245.
| The annual loss fron} fires is great
!cr in the United States, reliable fig
'ures show; than in any other country
lin the world. Carelessness and igno
‘l':mcc, experts declare, are to blame.
'lf the people were educated in means
lto prevent fires, it is declared, the an
'nual toll could be cut in haif.
| Why is this campaign?
l Because every time a minute is tick
ed off in the United States property
valued at $l,OOO or more is belched in
!to the sky in the form of flames and
tsmoke. At the end of every 24 hours
|this country i§ poorer by $1.50f),0fl0.
Each year 15000 persons in the
|L'nitcd States are burned to death, and
117,000 more are crippled by fire.
Costs Road $20.45 for Guarding
Liquor on Which Fright Is $4.56
Louisville and Nashville's Protest Against Hauling Small Ram Ship
ments Fail. Commission Leaves Higher Tariff Question Open.
Costs of guarding small liquor ship
ments far exceed the revenue collected
for their transportation, the Louisville
and Nashville railroad has ‘found, but
the Interstate Commerce Commission
at Washington ruled Thursday that
the road must continue to handle such
business.
The commission did not question the
right to raise the freight rate to cover
the cost of guarding the liquor.
The issue was raised by a state
schedule the Lou‘sville and Nashville
filed in June, cancelling arrangements
for taking liquor in less-than-carload
shipments. The road still was prepared
to take carload shipments. The com
mission, after protests from shippers,
instituted an investigation, which ter
minated in the order. :
In pleading for the right to refuse
small shipments the road introduced
evidence to show that it had collected
The United States Will
War on All Communists
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‘Government Will Deport Every Alien
} Agitator It Can Find.
All alien members of the communist
lparty, now in America, will be de
3ported as fast as the government can
lay hands on them, Secretary of La
bor Davis has announced.
Many such are expected to be re
vealed as a result of the agitation over
the exclusion of Sharpurji Saklatvala,
communist member of the British par
liament and delegate to the interna
tional union soon to meet in Washing
ton. .
“The law is unequivocal that aliens
who believe in or advocate the over
throw by force or violencé not alone
of the government of the United
States, but all organized government,}
must be excluded, and that mere mem
bership or affiliation with any organ
ization having such object is cause
for exclusion or deportation,” Mr.
Davis says.
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RUTH TABOR’S LIFE l
“SILVER DOLLAR” GIRL, RICH
SENATOR’S DAUGHTER, WAS i
FAVORITE OF BRYAN. ‘
CHlCAGO.—Tragedy, poverty and
confirmed alcoholism cast a blight
over the life of Ruth “Silver Dollar”
Tabor, youngest daughter of the late
Senator H. W. A. Tabor, of Colorado.
Sitting on a low stool beside a kitchen
range, a pot of boiling water was ac
cidentally overturned and she received
scalds from which she died.
This woman, who was about thirty
vears old, had been a favorite as a
child of W. J. Bryan. It is stated that
Mr. Bryan gave her the middle name
of “Silver Dollar.” Her father at that
time was one of the wealthiest men
in Colorado, He had made millions in
Leadville thines. He built the finest
theatre in the west, the Tabor grand
opera house, in Denver, and gave to
the government the present site of
the postoffice. |
Died in Poverty. |
He was one of Mr. Bryan’s staunch
est supporters. He finished by dying in
poverty. His daughters and his wife
were in want. There was a congres-%
sional move to recompense them in
some way for the postoffice site Tabor
had given. Nothing ever came of it.
The daughter, Ruth, came here sev
eral years ago and found the battle
going against her. She gave away to
temptation, fell into the toils of the
police and then into the hands of dif
ferent men, finally becoming a victim
of drink. She had been arrested sever
al times on the street because she was
unable to care for herself.
Message Accuses Man.
On a picture in the apartment was
found this message:
“Jack Reid—Who nearly killed me
and who still threatens to kill me. If
I am hurt or killed have him arrested,
for he will be directly or indirectly re
sponsible.”
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PROSPERITY WAVE
INCREASED BANK DEPOSITS,
MORE CONSTRUCTION, AND
REAL ESTATE ACTIVE.
. ATLANTA, Ga—Evidences of in
creased prosperity in Georgia were
seen today in reports of added
strength of financial institutions, a
larger volume of construction and
greater activity in real @state circles
of the various cities of the state.
' Reflecting in a measure the condi
ltinn of the banks of the state, five of
ithc leading financial institutions of At
lanta announced that there is approx
imately 25 per cent more money on
l(k-pmit in their vaults than at any
'time in their history.
E During the month just ended the
"banks had average daily deposits ap
proximating $150,000,000, while the
average daily deposits for the same
momgl of last year was about $llB,-
000,000, ‘
Building operations over the state
were relatively larger than increases
in bank deposits, many cities - repre
senting that a' larger number of build
ing permits were issued than during
any previous month of the year.
$2.90 freight for ten cases of liquor
from Frankfort, Ky., to Norfolk, Va.,
and had to spend $2.46 in policing the
consignment,
Another shipment to Sioux City, la.,
brought revenue of $4.56 and cost of
$20.45 for guarding. -
Jewels Worth 20 Million
Buried in U. S. Every Year
Jewelry worth $20,000,000 is buried
‘with the dead in this country every
year’ Frederick W. Patterson, of At
lanta, told the convention of the Na
tional Selected Morticians in Chicago.
Patterson estimated that since the be
ginning of American history $2,000,-
000,000 in gold and jewels had been
placed beneath the sod in the ceme
teries of the .United States,
Buy Tgrrell
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VOL. 43.—N0. 6
YOUTHS OF TWENTY-ONE
HEAD OF NEW YORK POLICE
‘ BLAMES BREAKDOWN OF
; MORALE IN HOMES.
YOUNG MEN NOW FILL PRISONS
Longing for Ease and Luxuries of
Life Contributes Largely to Condi
tions. Automobiles and Moving Pic
tures Do Their Part Also.
NEW YORK.—“Back to God!”
Commissioner Enright, the head of
New Vork's 13,000 policemen, offered
that idea to The World as one of his
first suggestions for checking crime.
In the midst of a discussion of tech
nical problems connected with crime
he said:
“It's the breakdown in the home
that is causing crime, It's the forget
ting of religion, the lack of morale at
the fireside and the wayward parent
rather than the wayward child that is
the real cause! The wayward parent
causes waywardness in the child, and
the fault as well as the responsibility
oi remedying the evil he or she has
brought about lies with the parents.”
Crime-Cure Slogan.
It was while discussing guns that
the commissioner interrupted himself
to propound his crime-cure slogan of
“Back to God!”
“All of the things that can be ad
vocated to reduce crime are, after all,
only remedies,” he said. “They are
‘medicines which we would give after
the disease has taken effect. The thing
to do is to wipe out the disease itself,
and in the crime disease the home is
the place to start.
“When I first came here some thirty
years ago 70 per cent of c¢rime in New
York city was committed by persons
‘more than thirty years old. Today 70
per cent is by persons under thirty
and a big part of that 70 per cent by
persons around twenty-one—frequent
ly well under twenty-one. Why? Be
cause the morale of the home has been
destroyed.
“In days past the boy or girl was
raised in a home atmosphere. They
knew and loved their parents. They
went to school on week® days, to
church and Sunday school on Sdndays
and they stayed home at nights. Now
there is no longer religious training,
no longer any home training, and the
child, instead of being raised with
proper ideas and ideals, sees an exam
ple of laxity in life and habits of the
parents that soon leads him to a life
of crime,
Blames the Automobile.
“One of the things that has broken
‘down home life is the automobile. On
Sunday, instead of going to church,
the parents go for a tour of the coun
try, to a roadhouse for dinner, and
there’s a day of moral laxity instead,
of a day of thought of religion and
‘God. At night they are out again. The
boy, when too young to go on these
trips, sees them, nevertheless, He may
be left at home with orders to go to
church, but soon he figures, ‘Oh,
what’s the use? .Dad and mother are
out; guess I'll go out myself” And
he does.
“The automobile enters again when |
the boy begins to grow up. He slips
off in it in the evenings, gets into bad
habits and soon becomes® a criminal.
Perhaps at ‘first he merely drives down
to buy a magazine. There on the news
stand he finds a group of lascivious
magazines—vulgar stories, vulgar pict
ures, erotic books. :
“Perhaps he goes to a picture show.
The same thing is found there. Pict
ures either erotic in nature or else
just as harmful to the boy, even if
morally pure. He sees a fake notion of
[lifc in the pictures. He sees the boy
and girl struggling in the slums sud
[dcnly transferred, through no effort
of their own, to grandeur and splen
dor, The girl doffs her rags and dons
her costly jewels and beautiful clothes
and assumes wealth. The boy of the
slums, again through no personal mer
it, but rather through the exigencies
of fate, becomes a millionaire. club
man with limousines and mansions.
Envy Brings Evil Train,
“At his own home the viewer of
this picture has no luxuries, no fine
lclothes, no jewels, no Rolls-Royce—
not even a Ford. A longing for such
a life is created. Over in some cheap
ler moving picture house the adven
tures of a hold-up man are pictured.
Perhaps the picture is shown in one
of the finest theatres instead of a
cheap one. The criminal of middle
ages’ becomes a hero as he is pictured
holding up the stage coach, robbing
the mail train and such.
“Put the two types of pictures to
gether in ‘the mind of the youth, the
'boy with undeveloped or untrained in
itcllcct, and he soon follows the idea
‘of one picture by robbing to obtain
‘what was placed before him in the
other. When the boy who has become
a criminal through these influences
steps out to commit his crime he is
at . once a dangerous criminal if only
through the inexperience which caus
es him to shoot in desperation.
Money Madness Grows.
“He has gone out for money—mon
ey for ease, luxury, plumage for his
girl, comfort himself and to carry out
the false notion of life that has been
created in his mind through lack of
home training and laxity in outside
environment. When [ was a boy if I
got my hand on a dime I was happy.
A dollar was a fond dream and hope.
Today give a kid a' dollar and- he'll
figuratively throw it ‘n the sewer and
laugh at you. He sees money-mad
parents chasing after false splender
and he wants money—big money for
the same chase. bl
“He finds that his public school
teacher and his Sunday school teach
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