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I Spend Dawson
Dollars in Dawson
By E. L. RAINEY
SEVEN COUNTIES IN ENTHUSIASTIC HIGHWAY MEETING
L 0 IN INTEREST OF
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HOLDER, PHILLIPS AND NEEL;
oF STATE DEPARTMENT ALL
. LEDGE CO-OPERATION.
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O COUNTIES NOW PAVING
gvery County But One Was Repre- |
sented, and All Gave Assurance of
[ Their Help in Putting Highway in
Firs: Class Condition,
cting that gave impetus to a
oy at to improve the highways
of this section, especially the Florida
ghort Route, was held in Pawson on
It was a gathering of officials and
dtizens representing the Florida Short
Route Association, and it was amply
manifcsted thag- this highway, extend
ing , Montreal, Canada, to Tampa,
Fla Il be put in first class condi
fion through Georgia, from the Ala
hay ¢ on the north to the Florida
jne on the south. John N. Holder
and ] R. Phillips, members of the
cite hichway commission, and W, R.
X sate engineer, were present and
i t in the meeting.
\ir E. H. Stapleton, chairman of
i rd of commissioners of Terrell
county, called the, meeting to order
and introduced Judge M. C. Edwards,
who welcomed the visitors in an in
wresting talk in which he gave a his
forl road building, and the import
mce of good roads from ancient days
o the present time,
H Rhodes Browne, of Muscogee
county, was made chairman of the
meeting by acclamation and Judge L.
C. Hoyl, of Terrell, was elected sec
etary. Members of the delegations
f'om the various counties were called
on for short talks, and all earnestly
aid cnthusiastically pledged support
to t ovement. Among those who
woke were Messrs. Lippitt of Dough
ertv. Carlyle and Kyle of Muscogee,
Minter of Chattahoochee, Kimble of
Worth. Harrell of Colquitt, Walker of
Webster, Fort of Stewart and Shields
6 Terrell. Mr.” "Lippitt. said that
Doungerty mty now has in its treas
ary $lOO,OOO to be used for paving the
Forida Short Route from Albany
fiWard the Terrell county line:
Worth has already paved from the
Dougherty line to Sylvester, Colquitt
. ready to pave, and Brooks
wunty is already at work on that link
¢ the highway from Quitman to the
Florida line.. The Muscogee repre
entative said that county could be
gn paving at any time.
Resolutions Are Adopted.
The chair appointed the chairmen
bi the board of commissioners of the
harious counties to draft suitable res
olutions, The committee reported the
ol e, which was unanimously
etopiea:
| be i resolved by the Florida
d Route Association, this day as
embled at Dawson, that it is the view
of this association that the develop
ment and completion of the Florida
;" rt Route, extending from Colum
bus 10 the Florida line, is of vital im
portance to the state of Georgia as
well as to the immediate section
thirougch which it passes, and that this
isociation urges the state highway
department to immediately appropri
ite funds for its development, and to
procure and assign the prorata part of
federal funds to the respective coun
ties through which it passes, and to
kil this highway in every feasible
manner allowed under the law. We
ccommend that the highway depart
ment make a survey of the road and
stahlish the route as may appear most
easihle, and that the funds of Chatta
. Webster and Stewart bé sup
lemented by a portion of the monies
ppr ited to the other counties on
his route by the highway department,
0 thit the road may be completed
Wil the cornmittee was out talks
Fere made by Messrs, J. D. Weaver,
it Lerrell, J. W, Montgomery and J.
- Horn of Webster, C, C. Minter of
Nattahoochee, and Messrs. Reuben
vie and Cargyle of Muscogee.
N!fmbers of Highway Board Speak.
Hou LN, Holder, chairman of the
fate Dighway commission, addressed
e ting and pledged the support
“f ¢ department in improving the
®hway through each county. He ex
‘ained that under the law it 1§ nec-
Sarv 1o deal with each county sep
f“'«' He declared that the day has
when permanent roads must
- structed, and said that a road
, 200 or less vehicles travel
. 1 be built of sand and clay,
g lass of roads will stand the
tar oi trom 200 to 500 vehicles a day,
; wer which 500 or more pass
k- Ibe paved. Mr. Holder com-
E | Georgia upon the interest
1 good roads and stated that
& three or four exceptions this
#¢ 'S built more paved roads with
d than any other. He further
t taking the system as a whole
‘Ores has more good roads than
¥ other state in the uniom. In con
“10n he compliniented this section,
¢ ~aid he doubted if it had an equal
A
7 Uhillips followed Mr. Holder,
- Svoke in a happy and pleasing
= He told of the work that 1s
ot dOme Byl the highway depart
oL 2nd stated that every member
m‘}.t» oard and every employe was
o g the state faithful and con
‘Lous service. He said that be
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THE DAWSON NEWS
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Millions of Pennies Are
Lost; Nobody Knows
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W hat’s Become of ’Em
What becomes of all the pennies?
Uncle Sam';rO ants, it is estimated,
have turnel S R8p8000,000,000 of
them. I\'incty‘-?:.ufi&fi%figj every
100 are still in cirCosais s, far
as officials in Washington® =
formed. But as a matter of fact'si
lions of them must be gone—lost,
nobody knows where.
Years ago this government made
bronze two-cent pieces. So far as
the mint officials can learn 20,000,-
000 of them are still in circulation
—but where? They were last mint
ed in 1873, more than 50 years ago,
so that today they are regarded as
pocket pieces, worth more to most
people who have them than their
face value.
In 131 years of money manu
facturing it is estimated that Un
cle Sam has made over $5,000,000,-
000 in coins and has issued in vari
ous forms of paper currency an ad
ditional $4,000,000,000. Our estimat
ed total resources, or our national
wealth, has been placed at $330,-
000,000,000, That means that every
one of us ought to have $3,000. Yet
if our actual money was divided
among the population egually we
would each have about $4O, as our
national wealth includes more than
just cash values,
BROKEN BLOOD VESSEL IN
BRAIN ENDS CAREER OF
STRONG MAN.
Eugene Sandow, ‘strong man,”
who was famous throughout the world
as the originator of the “daily dozen,”
died unexpectedly in London last
week at the age of fifty-eight. His
death followed the breaking of a blood
vessel in the brain, which in turn was
due to overstrain a year ago when,
after an accident, he liited his auto
mobile single-handed from a ditch.
Born in Koenigsherg, East Prussia,
Sandow was naturalized as a British
subject in 1906, ntarly a quarter of a
century aiter his first appearance there
in vaudeville in feats of strength which
were a novelty to the British public.
At the height of his fame his figure
was so symmetrically developed that
a cast of him was made for the South
Kensington Museum. Then he meas
ured twenty-nine inches around the
waist, nearly twenty around the neck,
nineteen for the biceps and his chest
normally sixty-two.
Frail in Boyhood.
In boyhood Sandow was of a frail
physique, so that his father, doubting
his ability for manual labor, planned
to have him study for the priesthood.
But the boy became obsessed with
the ambition for physical prowess. He
studied classical statuary in museums
and compared their nn.lscular develop
‘ment with his own. It was'often s;pd
that it was through his earnest desire
that he was transformed from a weak
iling into a model of robustness.
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CARLOAD OF PECANS
~ SENT T 0 THE EAST
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FIRST SHIPMENT TO MARKET
.~ MADE BY THE SOUTHLAND
| PECAN COMPANY.
' The first carload of new crop pecans
shipped from Georgia was sent to the
eastern markets Thursday by the
Southland Pecan Company. The ship
ment included pecans sent in by
growers from Georgia, Alabama and
Florida.
Last year this company handled
more than a million pounds of pecans,
sending the money for them to farm
ers in Georgia, Alabama and I‘_]Ofld}_{,
where the budded varieties attain their
greatest perfection of form and flavor.
It is expected that this amount will
be greatly increased this year.
Reports to the company from the
southeastern territory indicate that
there has. been a heavy setting out.of
pecan trees during the last three years,
and that thousands more will be put
out this fall. ;
The Southland Pecan Company 18
the largest concern of Its kind in the,
world. Pecans are sold to'candy man
ufacturers in every state 1m the union
and nine foreign countries.
iargestS};'l«‘;'ficial Lake in World
Now Being Constructec!_ f'{zfié_lgl_)g_n_z_c_z—
Huge Pond Will Have Impounding
Capacity of 530,000,000,000 Gallons
Of Water to Make Power. :
The largest aritficial lake in the
world, with an impounding capacity
of 530.000,000,000 gallons, is being
built on the Tallapoosa river in one
of the remote sections of Alabama: It
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, accord
ing to the builders.
The development is being underta
ken by a power company and is to
TEXAS FARMER CLAIMS FIVE
TO SEVEN HUNDRED BOLLS
TO STALK ON BIG TRACT.
- {OWN AS MULBERRY COTTON
Planted in Sandy Loam Soil, and Not
withstanding Poor Stand and Long
Drouth Remarkable Yield Was Ob-l
tained. Variety a Texas Product. ‘
Cotton farmers will tell you———and‘
cotton farmers know more about cot
ton than anybody except the “experts”
—that if there are 16 bolis to the stalk
on an acre of cotton it will make a
bale to the acre.
They will further tell you that if
you can get a bale to the acre you
are a good cotton farmer and will not
be a poor farmer long.
Well, now suppose you saw a stalk
of cotton with 700 bolls on it! You
may see such a stalk on the farm of
John Christensen, a mile north of Al
ta Loma on the road to Alvin, says
the Houston (Texas) Chronicle,
“There are even more -bolls on it
than that,” says Tobe Curlee, the
manager of the farm. “But myself and
Mr. Christensen counted 700 and then
missed a good many. But . that is
enough and is hard to believe, so don’t
say there are any more,
But that is not the only stalk on
the farm that has hundreds of bolls
on it. There are seven acres of this
cotton ‘that will average from 50 to
several hundred bolls to the stalk. It,
is what is known as Mulberry cotton
and Mr. Christensen paid $75 for one
Loll of the seed to get a start of the
cotton. ‘
Has Half Stand.. |
Owing to the extremely dry weath
er Christensen got only about a half
stand of cotton on the seven acres, but
this half a stand will make®at least
two bales to the acre. ‘
“Had we had a good season so we.
could have gotten a good stand we
would have made five or six bales to
the acre,” says Curlee, who says he
“was raised in a cotton patch.” |
. The cotton seed were secured from
P. Dan George, of La Marone, Tex.,
who has produced a large number of
'plants that have been out of the or
dinary, ;
' “The cotton seed are grafted with
the mulberry tree,” says Christensen.
1"1 believe it is the most wonderful
cotton patch in all Texas, or any
where else. The weather in the. vicini
ty of Alta Loma has not been favor
able for any kind of crops this sum
mer. The first patch of cotton was
planted about May Ist and had no
rain until June, so it did not start to
grow until after the first rain. An
other small patch was planted in June.
The cotton, as it is, will produce
about two bales to the acre.
On Sandy Soil.
The land on which the cotton is
grown is a sandy loam, and was never
in cultivation before this: It was plow
ed in the early spring, then disked
and harrowed and the cotton was
pianted after the same fashion all
cotton is planted. Some fertilizer was
placed on the land.
Both Christensen and Curlee attrib
ate the remarkable growth of the cot
ton to the seed.
“With the general use of this seed
I believe the cotton industry in the
south will be revolutionized,” he said.
“Why should farmers ‘waste their
money and energy in trying to get
4 bale an acre when with this mul
berry cotton in good years they can
get four to six bales to the 1 acre?
When 1 tell people about this cot
ton patch they will not believe it. But
the patch is here for anybody to see
and there have been hundreds of per
sons here to see it. Every cotton
jarmer who has seen it has told me
that it was the most wonderful cotton
he had ever seen.”
801 l Is Larger.
The bolls of the cotton are also
larger than the ordinary cotton boll.
The average stalk is from 4 to 6 feet
tall. The cotton is a fine grade of sta
le. |
" There is about 4,000 acres in the
farm, and Christensen intends to put
it all in cultivation with: various Crops. |
In addition to the cotton he has 30
acres set out in grafted soft shell pe
cans. He has ali kinds of fruit trees,
such as apples, pears, peaches, apri
cots, Japanese walnuts, all kinds of‘
grapes and grapefruit, and. some fine
old fig orchards. He aiso has 72 acres.
of sweet potatoes, and believes he will}
make enough money on this one patch
to pay the expenses of the farm next‘
year. . i
be completed late in 1926. The lake
will be used to operate generators in
an electric power plant which is plann
ed as the. biggest in the country.
To house the workmen building the
fake the power company has founded
a town of 3,000 population in the wil
derness. A million dollars is being
spent in cleaning up the country in
which the lake is located. Trees grow
ing on the site are being made into
lumber for use in the project.
This is the sectoin in which hun
dreds of farmers, many of whom have
been prospecting in Terrell county,
lost their homes and/land. -~
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 27, 1925
TIRE MAKER LEASES MILLION
ACRES IN LIBERIA, AND AC
QUIRES MEXICAN LAND.
TO EMPLOY 330,000 WORKMEN
American Capital to Be Used to In
sure Supply for U. S. Independent
Of Foreign Price Fixing. Firestone
Heads Tremendous Undertaking.
Arrangements have been completed
for the production of rubber on a vast
scale in Liberia and in Mexico by
American capital, under American
management, to give the United
States a source of supply independent
of foreign domination and price ma
nipulation, Harvey S. Firestone, tire
manufacturer of Akron, Ohio, has an
nounced.
The Firestone Plantations Company
has signed an agreement with the Li
berian government by which it obtains
a lease of 1,000,000 acres of land suit
able for rubber growing, for ninety
nine years, as well as a plantation of
2,900 acres, fully matured and in bear
ing.
Will Develop Country.
In addition the company has ar
ranged to undertake a wholesale de
velopment of the country, including
the construction of a port, roads, hos
pitals, warchouses and stores, the in
auguration of sanitary measures and
the redeeming of great areas from the
jungle. The employment of 330,000
men is contemplated when the project
shall have reached its full stride. Mr.
Firestone believes $100,000,000 will be
the minimum capital required for full
development of the Liberian project.
At the same time that he announced
his Liberian plans the tire manufactur
er disclosed that he has taken a lease
on 35,000 acres of land 'in Mexico, of
which 350 acres is now planted with
the Hevea rubber trees, the most pro
ductive known, and several thousand
acres more with the Castilloa tree. A
force for this operation is now being
organized in Mexico City, and, ac
cording to Mr. Firestone, if political
and labor conditions permit, the ques
tion_of whether Mexico is. suitable for
rubber production will be put to a con
clusive test.
REPORT SHOWS DECLINE OF
NEARLY 20 PER CENT. IN
CREASE IN TEXAS.
The number of farms in the United
States had decreased 75,563 since 1920,
the U. S. Department of Commerce
discloses in a preliminary announce
ment of the 1925 farm census which
placed the total at 6,637,607.
The decrease was not general, some
reporting declines while increases
were shown in others. ’
Texas, with 466,420 farms, led the
field in the 1925 census, and also had
the greatest increase, 30,387 over the
1920 figure. ‘
Its rate of increase, 7 per cent, was
not the highest, however, Nevada with
23.7: per cent, leading in this respect
with 3,912 farms in 1925 as compared
with the 3,163 in 1920.
| Attributed to 801 l Weevil.
The greatest decrease in the num
ber of farms was reported in Georgia
where the total dropped from 310,732
in 1920 to 249,098 this year, a decline
of 19.8 per cent. The District of Co
lumbia, which contained the smallest
number of farms, had a higher per
centage of decrease, however, having
only 139 farms in 1925 as compared
with 204 in 1920.
A decline in. the number of farms
in the cotton states was attributed to
the boll weevil, and the migration of
negro farm workers. A succession of
dry seasons had a similar effect in
parts of the northwest, while the con
solidation of farms and a genergl re
cession from the war time expansion
in agriculture were held accountable
for decreases generally.
The increases which were reported
not only in Texas and Nevada, but
in New England and parts of the
south and west, were attributed to the
opening up of new lands in the west,
the sub-division of ranches and large
farms for more intensive operation,
and the development of orchards, truck
and poultry farms.
In the southern states, aside from
Texas, North Carolina had ghe largest
rate of increase in the number of
farms, 5.1 per cent. In figuies this
amounted to 283,495 farms in the 1925
census as compared with 269,763 in
1920, 'or an increase of 13,732 farms.
The 'Hand of Dead Man
. ‘
Holds Engine’s Throttle
With a dead man’s hand gripping
the throttle the Western express, New
York Central sleeper train, bound for
Chicago, sped westward for a distance
of 15 miles. Charles ]. Foreman, fire
man, discovered his engineer, Wil
liam Van Bc:gen,‘_dead with iu; head
crushed, as the flier passed through
Minoa, just east of Syracuse. Van Ber
ou is Salitee 10 hadl e e
by a girder of a bridge.
Says We’re on Way to Become
a Nation of the Worst Morons
DOES NOT LOOK WITH FAVOR
ON PRESENT PLAN MATCH
ING STATE ROAD FUNDS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Federal
expenditures for highway improve
ments, in President Coolidge’s opin
ion, should be kept within reasgnable
bounds and applied only to work on
main market roads.
The president does not look with
favor on the policy which' provides
that the federal government under
certain conditions contribute as much
money as states for better roads, but
he recognizes that it is committed te
such a program and he is willing to
continue it,
During the past year, however,
£170,000,000 has been expended by the
Washington government on highways,
and the president thinks that some of
the work thus paid for should have
been done by the states.
While it was not disclosed how
much Mr. Coolidge believes should be
appropriated annually to share the
road construction burden with the
states, it was plainly indicated that he
believed as much of a retrenchment
as possible should be effected with all
of the federal funds going for work on
the leading arteries of travel.
POTATOES $95,091,000
OF 97,177,000 BUSHELS GROWN
IN U. S. GEORGIA PRODUC
ED 11,508,000 BUSHELS.
One of the most interesting and val
uable bulletins ever issued by the
State College of Agriculture is that
on sweet potatoes written by Mr.
George H. Firor, field agent in horti
culture, who tells us that the sweet
potato is the second most important
vegetable crop produced in this coun
try, ranking next to the Irish potato.
In 1923 97,177,000 bushels were raised
in the United States, Georgia produc
ing 11,508,000 bushels. During the
same year the United States shipped
19,107 cars, of which Georgia export
ed 827. The farm value of sweet po
tatoes for that year for the United
States was $95,091,000 produced dn
093,000 acres, while the farm value of
the Georgia crop for the same year
was $8,746,000, produced on 137,000
acres. The average yield per acre for
‘Georgia was 84 bushels with an aver
lage farm value price per bushel on
l],)t(‘(‘l]fl)tf 1, oi $0.75, with a farm val
ue of $63.84 per acre, while the aver
‘age jobbing prices in the most im
iportam cities on December 1 for 1923
were as follows: New York, $2.51;
Chicago, $2.73; Philadelphia, $1.98;
Pittsburg, $2.47; St. Louis, $1.97; Cin
cinnati, $2.06; St. Paul, $2.82; Minne
apolis, $2.96; Kansas City, $1.54; and
l\\'ashington, $1.87. The average price
I}:aid at the storage house during the
same year was $1.25, and went as high
as $2.65 per bushel at some places in
February, 1924,
The bulk of the southern sweet po
tato crop is grown mostly for local
;cmlsumption rather than shipment to
distant cities.
‘ The eleven southern states produce
over 93 per cent of the total swet po
tato crop, but market less than 30 per
cent of the total carlot shipment; these
states ship less than 4 per cent of
ithcir total production while four of
'the northeast section produce less than
!l(l per cent of the total sweet potato
'crop but ship more than 65 per cent
'of the total carlot movement.
| Aside from table use it will be re
!mcmhercd that according to a distin
'guished chemist there are ninety odd
by-products of this tuber and other
iuscs art being found every day.
SAYS OBESSITY CURES
!WOMEN OF AN EMBONPOINT
' IN SAME CLASS WITH
’ BALDHEADED MEN.
Obessity cures are almost all shrewd
isshemcs for fooling fat people, and the
"‘trick lies in getting those who pur
chase them to eat less and to exercise
%more," so Dr. Arthur J. Cramp, of
the bureau of investigation of the
' American Medical Society, told the
annual meeting of the American Die
tetic Association in session at Chica
gO.
~ Women of an embonpoint, said Dr.
Cramp, are in the class with bald
‘headed males—they believe there must
be a panacea, which, without effort,
will transform a “stylish stout” into
'a “boyish” lissomeness.
Not all but most obese women eat
too much and exercise too little.
_ “Cures for obesity are of two gen
eral classes: Those containing. dried
prepared thyroid gland, which, though
‘dangerous, will reduce, and those hav
ing no thyroid, which will not reduce,”
he said. . )
. Dr. Cramp Selievcd' anyone could
“get rich selling pink dishwater as @
fat reducer. because women wanted
svelte, boyish forms and men want to
“Ep’rctcnd't_hey ‘have waistlines.” |
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} Railways in India are being extend
ed into new territory. - £ o |
Propagation of Unfit Going on at
~ Alarming Rate. United States
i Paying a Big Price for Being
The World’s Melting Pot.
’ BERKELEY, C(Cal~—Race hygiene
is the .only salvation of America.
| Professor Karl F. Meyef‘, director
of the Hooper Foundation of Medical
Research at the University of Califor
nia, makes this assertion, and goes on
to say that we are headed in the “right
direction to become a nation of mo
}rons.”
“There is nothing new about this
‘assumption,” says Meyer. “Medical
‘men have known it for years, but we
‘have been unable to put it to the pub
lic in such a way that they will under
istand it. However, it will not be
'many months before some means is
‘(lcviscd whereby this fact can be
‘driven home to every man and wo
‘man in the United States.
“America is paying a big price for
being the world’s melting pot.
~ “Our uneducated classes intermarry;
and are content to live on an inferior
scale. They do not cultivate their
minds, and as a result their children
are growing up weak-minded.
“With birth control practices deci
mating the ranks of the better classes
and the propagation of the unfit going
on at an alarming rate, we are fast
deteriorating. A recent survey of Vas
sar graduates showed the average size
of their families to be one-half a child.
And the majority of them are not
even marrying.
“How then,” asks Professor Meyer,
“are we to keep up the superiority of
America? What kind of a nation will
we eventually become, with the fit
bearing no children and the unfit rais
ing large families?” {
HALF OF 85,000 FATAL
MANY CAUSES CONTRIBUTE
TO THE STAGGERING AN
NUAL DEATH TOLL.
ATLANTA, Ga-~—Not all accident
al deaths are experienced beneath the
wheels of demon automobile drivers,
hysterical pedestrians to the contrary,
according to officials of the Georgia
Casualty Company of Atlanta, in sta
tistics made public here.
Half of the 85,000 accidentally kill
ed last year throughout the country
were killed on the streets and half in
their homes, a statement of the cas
ualty company shows.
The dark hall, the steep cellar steps,
the discarded ‘match, the open fire, the
stove without a flue, the inflammable
cleaning solution—all contribute to a
staggering death toll, the Atlanta
company states, Certainly there is
food for thought for us in these sta
tistics. As a nation and individually
‘we should mend our ways, they say.
The Georgia Casualty Company,
'which does business in forty states,
‘has surplus and reserves at the pres
‘ent time of more than three millions of
‘dollars.
VETERINARY SURGEONS PER
FORM ALL KINDS OF OPER
ATIONS. NO LONGER DIE.
The trail ,of tragedy lurking for do
mestic animals in the wake of the au
tomobile is. being relieved by science
because of an awakened human sym
pathy for suffering pets.
Dallas, Tex., has six cat and dog
haspitals doing work representative of
what is transpiring in other cities
throughout the country.
The hazards of the road are taking
their toll among the dogs and cats no
less than among their masters. While
surgeons may be working to save hu
man life others are working no less
earnestly to save humbler lives.
The heaviest damage is done on
Sundays, according to Dr. W. G.
Brock, who maintains two animal hos
pitals in Dallas. He treats from eight
to a dozen dogs nearly every Sunday.
No longer must a dog forfeit his life
just because he has the misfortune to
suffer a broken leg. A bullet in the
head formerly was his fate. Now the
leg is set or even amputated.
Animal operations are almost as va
ried as human. They include mastoid
operations, operations for relief of
hernia, removal of gall stones, tumors
and eves, the Caesarean operation, and
removal of an organ similar to man’s
appendix. ;
U. S. Mail Burns in France;
$1,000,000 in Bills Saved
One hundred sacks of mail bound
for the United States were complete
ly destroyed in a fire that burned the
mail car in which they were being
conveyed from Havre to Cherbourg.
Fiity other sacks were taken irom
the debris by postal authorities rushed
to the scene from Paris, From these
$1,000,000 in five-dollar bills were:
saved. A quantity of other bills and
checks more or less damaged by fire
and water also were found in the
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VOL. 43.—N0. 9
GUT SURTAX IN HALF,
SECRETARY MELLON SUBMITS
PROPOSAL FOR FEDERAL
TAX REDUCTION.
iGIFT TAX REPEAL IS FAVORED
Repeal of Estate Tax, Truck, Tire
And Accessory Tax and Many Mis
cellaneous Taxes Proposed. Warns
Against Cut of Over $300,000,000.
A tax revision program, contems
plating a reduction of the maximum
surtax income rate of one-half and of
normal income levies by approximate
ly one-fourth, has been proposed to
congress by Secretary Mellon. "
~ These, with other changes which
‘were suggested at the opening of
‘hearings on new revenue legislation
by the house ways and means com
‘mittee, would bring about a perma
nent reduction of about $290,000,000
‘in the nation’s tax bill. The treasury
secretary warned that it would not be
‘advisable to go beyond $300,000,000
in making reductions, on the present
outlook for the next two years. Other
proposals ~were:
Repeal of the estate tax, reducing
the revenue by $100,000,000 annually.
Repeal "of the tax on automobile
trucks, tires and accessories, cutting
off $35,000,00 annually.
Would Repeal Gift Tax.
Repeal of the gift and a number of
miscellaneous taxes, such as those on
works of art brought from abroad.
Repeal of the publicity section of
the income tax law. :
‘ The new minimum surtax rate pro
posed was 20 per cent, which would
apply on incomes in excess of $150,-
000,
" This compares with the present rate
of 40 per cent, effective at $200,000.
The new normal rate would be 174
per cent on incomes up to $4,000, in
stead of 2 per cent; 3 in place of 4
per cent on incomes between $4,000
and $8,000; and 5 in place of 6 per
cent on incomes above $B,OOO.
No Suggestion on Earned Income.
While voicing dissatisfaction with
the operation of the present law al
lowing 25 per cent reduction on earn
ed income up to $lO,OOO he made no
specific suggestion for its repeal.
) Replying to questions on that point
Under Secretary Winston, speaking
for Mr. Mellon, declared that since
this reduction had been given to the
taxpayers it would be difficult to take
it away from them. Amplifying this
statement later he said that if con
gress should decide to repeal the pro
vision the lowest normal income rate
could be reduced from 2 to 1 per cent
instead of ’m 1Y per cent.
- Mr. Mellon went squarely on rec
ord as opposing repeal of some of the
so-called nuisance taxes, as had been
suggested both in and out of congress.
Among these were the amusement and
passenger automobile taxes.
Pointing out that the amusement
tax applies only to admissionis costing
in excess of 50 cents, the treasury sec
retary said this tax did not seem to
be particularly burdensome and that
it ought to be retained in the interest
of the $33,000,000 revenue which it
’ produces. .
Let Automobile Tax Stand.
The sales tax on passenger auto
mobiles is estimated to ‘produce $90,-
000,000 annually, and Mr. Mellon told
the committee that so long as the fed
eral government contributed more
than $90,000,000 a year to good roads
“on which these automobiles run they
certainly ~ought to be made to pay
their way.”
The dominant feature in the long
prepared statement which the treas
ury secretary read was the argument
for reduction of the surtaxes. He held
}the necessity for such a reduction
paramount, and declared it would
serve to remove the existing inequal
ities in the administration of the reve
nue law.
“It has been the experinece of the
treasury,” he said, “that every time
there has been a material reduction
in surtaxes it has stimulated husiness
and brought about an increase in tax
able income, which has made up a
great part, if not all of the loss of rev
enue from the higher incomes.
“A reduction of the lower brackets
in itself means no increase in taxable
lincomc. A man with a $5,0Q0 salary
' does not carry funds in non-produc
tive investments, and a reduction of
his taxes does not therefore g¢reate
additional taxable income. ~
| Cut Stimulates Business.
. “A reduction in the surtax, how
ever, increases the amount of capital
which is put into productive enter
prises, stimulates business and makes
more certain that there will be more
$5,000 jobs to go around. It seems to
me quite clear that a man with a
$£3,000 job who, if -married and with
out dependents, pays a tax of but
$7.50 under the present law, or a man
with a $5,000 job, who, under the
same conditions, pays a tax of $37,50,
is more interested in having a job
than in having his taxes further re
duced. What we mean by tax reform
is to make more of these jobs.”
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SHE'S 6 FT. 6; HER NEWEST
HUSBAND’S 9-IN. BRIEFER
Mrs. Katie Mehnert, said to be the
tallest woman in Hoboken, New York,
standing six feet six inches in height,
is the bride of William Kundell, whao
stands five feet nine. Mrs. M%
gave her age as 47 and said she had
twice been divorced. S erh