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Spend Dawson
Dollars in Dawson
By E. L. RAINEY
NOT HERE TO “SELL” TAM
MANY, NEW YORK MAYOR
ELECT TELLS ATLANTA.
SUAVE MANNER AND URBANE
One Hundred Georgians Guests. at
Dinner in Visitor’'s Honor Given by
Major Jack Cohen, Editor and Na
tional Committeeman.
\TLANTA.—Former Senatcr Jas.
1. Walker, mayor-elect of New York,
small of stature with a big voice, au
thor of songs and boxing bills, who
chares the massive red blanket of the
crcat Chief Tammany with Alfred E.
Smith, governor of the imperial state
oi New York, in Atlanta two days on
4 declared pleasure jaunt, spent a good
36 hours here and politely and charm
inely denied his visit had any political
significance.
While he made these denials the
press of his great city, through a
corps of corresponderts in his entour
age, was no less avidly declared that
he was here as envoy extraordinary
and ambassador plenipotenitary to
vse]ll Tammany to the solid south.”
“] am going to Florida to fish,”
said Mayor-elect Walker, who is
«ave of manner and extremely urb
ane, as the mayor of New York
ought to be. “I am stopping off in At
lanta only to see my old friend, Ma
jor John S. Cohen, and have a look
at your great and growing city.”
Likewise Cohen.
Likewise Major Cohen. Major Co
hen, who is democratic national com
mitteemen from Georgia, a post ot
<ome political significance, publisher
of the Atlanta Journal, and generally
supposed to be close to the inner
machinations of the democratic party,
also was firm in his asservation that
the trip is without tinge of politics.
From their account it would seem
that Mayor-elect Walker and Major
Cohen formed a lasting and binding
iriendship last year in New York,
while Mayor-elect Walker was striv
ing his mightiest to acquire the dem
ocratic presidential nomination for
Governor Smith and Major Cohen
was no less seriously endeavoring to
pick the same plum for William G.
McAdoo.
Some commentators may remark
that this was a passing strange time
for cementing enduring friendships.
As political history is written the lead
ers of the Smith forces at that time
considered the leaders of the McAdoo
forces more or less empty as to head,
considerably lacking in political mor
als and generally pretty hardened
cusses,
That same history will record that
the leaders of the McAdoo forces en
tertained similar opinions as to the
Smith chieftains.
However, Jimmie Walker and Jack
Cohen met and when Jimmie and
Tammany trounced Mayor Hylan
Jack journeyed to New York for the
Tech-Penn state football game. There
he told Jimmie that if he never did
anything else he must come to Atlan
ta to dine of some of those quaint
southern dishes such as fried chicken
and corn pone and possum and taters
with a side dish of collard greens, and
mavhe a refreshing cup of pot licker.
And Jimmie wrote Jack that he
was a-hunger for such comestibles
and if he didn't get some of that food
and catch a Florida tarpon life would
be blighted and the hard-won mayor
alty wouldn't amount to much.
So, the mayor-elect was feasted by
Major Cohen at the Atlanta Biltmore,
whose quaint southern chef de cusine
was decorated by the King of Italy.
Politicians to Attend.
There 100 of the choicest flowers
of Georgia’s political garden were
bunched, representing every thought
in statecraft in the confines of the
state.
Of course, politics may be discussed
merely as an accompanying issue to
the more pressing question as to
whether live mullet or a No. 3 spoon
is the better lure for the Florida tar
pon,
But as far as any attempt being
made on this occasion to cement the
friendship between the embattled
democracy of the empire state and the
unterrified democrats of the red clay
hills—that is out like a batter who has
liited to pop a foul fly to third base.
Everyone who knows anything at
all about politics knows that the de
mocracy of Georgia and the democ
racy of New York have been moving
forward in serried mass assembled,
shoulder to shoulder and heart to
heart, and passing the Tammany peace
Pipe on this occasion would be just
like passing a load of coal on to New
castle,
Discussion of politics, too, might be
considered rude to an honored guest.
For the first declaration of the mayor
tlect on arriving in Atlanta was that
he was here for rest and recreation
and politics is work.
Caet el e
GERMAN WOMEN EATING
PINEAPPLE TO REDUCE
Fruit Is Eaten as Americans Eat
_Grapefruit, Before Breakfast.
German wqmen, in an effort to re
duce, are said to be creating a big
Mmarket for pineapples, which are be
lieved to be especially efficacious in.
Teducing weight.
German women pay extremely fan
¢y prices for this fruit. They eat pine
apples as Americans eat ~grapefruti,
before breakfast and also after any
fatty dish at dinner or luncheon.
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The height of the average girl's
ambition is just about six feet.
THE DAWSON NEWS
JUDGE HIXON WAS
WINNER IN BIG SUIT
Americus Man Recovers Ten Thous
and Dollars in Liberty Bonds
From Dr. Hinkle.
After a four years’ fight in the courts
of Georgia, t\}OQ Luiere the Georgia
court of appéanp%fi%;#)w the
case of Judge J, A, HiXowmaa
cus, against Dr, A. B. Hinkle, of ma"
con, was taken in Bibb superior court
the past week when the jury nulified
the sale of $lO,OOO worth of stock in
the Mobile Tractor Company, and or
dered Hinkle to turn over that amount
in liberty bonds to Hixon.
The defendant in the case was al
leged to have obtained $15,000 in lib
erty bonds from Judge Hixon through
fraudlent sale of stock in the tractor
company. The principal was $lO,OOO
and the accumulated interest since
1920 is approximately $5,000, it is said.
The bonds, according to the evi
dence submitted during the trial, are
registered under the name of Dr. Hin
kle in the Treasury Department at
Washington. Attorneys E. W. May
nard and E. F. Taylor represented
the plaintiff and counsel for the de
fense were Jones, Park & Johnson.
; W.C.WRIGHT SOUNDED
SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS
VERDICT OF PUTNAM COURT.
TWO GO TO CHAIR.
Ted Coggeshall, 20, of Clayton, 111.,
and. Frank W. McClelland, 19, of
Brockton, N. Y., must die in the elec
tric chair for the slaying of Professor
W. C. Wright, aged Putnam county
school superintendent, who had rela
tives here in Dawson and at Parrott.
Their hope for life in a new trial
was bmsted Friday morning when the
Georgia supreme court handed down
a decision affirming the verdict of the
Putnam superior court in finding them
guilty of murder and sentencing them
to die in the electric chair at Milledge
ville.
The boys, together with S. J. Scar
‘borough, of Tampa, Fla., were arrest
ed for the slaying of Professor Wright
on March 4, of this year, by Athens,
Ga., officers following the finding of
the aged school superintendent bleed
ing and dying on the roadside near
Eatonton. He died soon after aid
reached him, and gave a description
of his assailants, who he said he “lift
ed” in his automobile.
Scarborough, the Tampa youth, con
fessed to the slaying and laid the
blame to Coggeshall and McClelland.
It was mainly on his testimony that
the two boys were found guilty. Scar
‘borough was given life. .
' The trial of the three was held in
Eatonton early last May. ngges}lall
and McClelland were tried jointly.
U.S.CORN CROP PUT
AT 3,013,390,000 BUS.
IS ONE-FIFTH LARGER THAN
LAST YEAR, AND APPROACH
ES NATION’S RECORD.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A corn
crop of 3,013,390,000 bushels, one-fifth
larger than that of last year and the
cixth in the nation’s history to exceed
the three billion bushel mark, was an
nounced by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture in its November prelimi
nary cstimates. lowa, premier corn
producing state, has surpassed all its
previous records with an indicated
production of 477,386,000 bushels.
“\With the harvesting of the late
crop yields have been found to be
substantially better than was expect
ed earlier in the season,” the crop re
porting board found, “The final har
vest of several late crops, such as po
tatoes, cotton and corn, is still par
tially dependent on weather condi
tions, but from present yield peracre
from all crops combined would be on
ly 0.4 per cent below the average of
the last ten years. A mont hago yields
the last ten years. A month ago yields
low the ten-year average.”
Drought Does Damage.
The board’s reports disclosed that
the bulk of the corn crop throughout
‘the country matured without frost
damage. The drought in the south
proved to be less damaging than was
feared, but in the plains states its ef
fect was severe. The corn belt east of
the “plains states had -a large crop. The
quality of this year’s corn was some
what above the average.
Production of potatoes, placed at
346,503,000 bushels, as compared with
454,784,000 last year, is still some
what uncertain, the board announced,
because part of the crop was still in
the ground November Ist and losses
from freezing could not be accurately
estimated. In New York heavy loss
resulted from rotting, and in most of
the late-potato states considerable loss
from freezing was reported. Pennsyl-l
vania, Ohio and Idaho, however, show- |
ed surprisingly heavy yields per acre.
Tobacco Yield Increases. |
Flax seed production was described
as the third largest on record, with
22,332,000 bushels, but this figure, thei
board said, is considerably below the‘
national consumption. oA
Unusually good yield and quality :
were noted in practically all cigar leati
tobacco producing areas, while in most
other areas the reverse was true. The
total crop was placed at 1.264.226,000{
pounds as compared with 1,240,513,000
pounds last year.
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GOOD LEMON PRICES.
California lemons are “hitting it up
in high.” Not long ago lemons shipp--
ed from California groves brought
\512.40 a box at St. Louis. i
Completes the Work on New Revenue Rates;
Tax Cuts Estimated at 308 Million Dollars
Final tax cuts aggregating well over
$300,000,000 a year have been approv
ed by the house ways and means com-
J?},,i,tut;e"e, which eliminated a long list of
~<: and special taxes and reduced
others,
The committee estimates the total
reduction at $308,372,709 a year, ex
clusive of further reductions that will
bgcnme effective later in the alcohol
withdrawal tax, the estate tax and a
possible cut in somie theater admission
taxes. Some members of the commit
tee regard the $308,000,000 estimatg as
too low and figured the cut to be up
ward of $320,000,000, while the. treas
ury computations probably will show
them to be even higher.
Nearly $1,000,000 Saved Daily.
In any event the American taxpay
ers’ bill, if congress agrees tothe main
provisions of the measure, will be
nearly $1,000,000 a day less than it is
now. More than half that saving will
be in the form of reduced income and
surtaxes.
Democrats and republicans have
worked together in deciding on reduc
tions, and they have been agreed on
in executive sessions. The committee
now will turn its attention to the less
spectacular and more tedious work of
drafting the administrative features of
the bill.
\Unless steps should be taken to de
crease the amount allowed for ‘‘dis
covery depletion” and changes that
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iDARK BLOOD TAINT
SCION OF AN OLD NEW YORK
FAMILY MARRIED DAUGH
TER OF TAXICAB DRIVER.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.—Counsel
for Mrs. Alice Jones Rhinelander, now
Ibcing sued for annulment of her mar
lriage ‘to Leonard Kip Rhinelander, on
lthe ground of fraudulent representa
'tion of her race, today admitted in
open court that their client had “some
colored blood.”
The admission was made by Lee
Parson Davis, chief defense counsel,
jat the opening of his outline of what
the defense expects to prove. He said:
“The defense counsel hereby with
draws the previous denial as to the
'blood of this defendant, and for the
purpose of this trial and to shorten
the trial admits that the defendant
has some colored blood.” ;
A Love Siave.
Love slave, he was so infatuated
that he did not know black from
white, is the description given by
counsel of Rhinelander, scion of a
Knickerbocker family who is seeking
annulment of his marriage to a girl
he avers she is a negress.
“A boy on whom no woman had
ever smiled before,” was another char
acterization by Isaac N. Mills, in out
lining his case before the jury.
Summing up the plaintiff’s case
former Supreme Court Justice Mills,
of counsel for Rhinelander, said that
Rhinelander is suffering and has suf
fered from a physical infirmity which
affects his speech and mind.
“He is practically tongue-tied,” he
said, “and there are times when he
can hardly get the words out. His
mental devices have been affected with
his speech.”
Because of these speech difficulties,
Mr. Mills continued, women of Mr.
Rhinelander’s “own kind” never smil
ed upon him.
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!GOV. WALKER SAYS HE WILL
; ANNOUNCE HIS DECISION
| IN A WEEK OR TWO.
' ATLANTA, Ga—Practically half
of the 258 members of the Georgia
cenate and house of representatives
have replied to Governor Walker’s in
quiry concerning the calling of an ex
tra session, but few of the answers
have been considered by the chief
executive due to his absence from the
city recently. It was said at the gov
ernor’s office, however,, that the let
ters which have been opened show
about a 50-50 division on the extra
session proposal.
Governor Walker hopes to announce
his decsiion on the question within
the next two weeks, he stated. Re
turning to his office after several days’
absence the governor found a number
of legislators and other visitors wait
ing to confer with him and conse
quently did not have time to go into
the replies on hand.
Organized Labor Wants War Debts Cancelled
- WASHINGTON, D. C.—The plea
of the American Federation of Labor
that the war debts of the allies be
cancelled has behind it not mereiy the
fraternal consideration for the work
ing men of Europe, but a growing
fear that if America insists upon full
payment the protective tariff may
some day be lowered and wages de
flated.
The federation spoke this time
through Matthew Woll, vice president,
but the declaration was no sudden or
casual affair. It represents a matured
consideration of what labor thinks i 3
involved in the debt settlements now
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, NOV. 17, 1925
Excise, Occupational, Gift,
| ,
Estate, Tobacco and Al
‘ .
cohol Duties Reduced.
$193,579,546 Is Lopped
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From Income Levies.
may be written in the administrative
features will not affect the cuts as es
timated. Allowances aggregating $37,-
500,000 a year in taxes ar¢ now made
under this clause of the law.
New Surtax Schedule Drawn.
The committee also agreed on a
new schedule of surtax rates. Nb®
change in the present surtax rates is
proposed on incomes of less than $42,-
000 a year and the maximum surtax
will be twenty per cent on incomes
of $lOO,OOO and above instead of the
present maximum of forty per cent
beginning at $500,000.
Of the total reduction $193,574,546
is proposed in income taxes and earn
ed income allowance. The loss from
reduced normal taxes is estimated at
845,546,186, from surtaxes at $98,691,-
720, from increased personal ' exemp
tions at $42,330,640, and from earned
income at $7,000,000.
$1,000,000 Off Gifts.
A cut of $1,000,000 is estimated in
the gift tax. The stamp tax ¢n deeds
and conveyances, cut from 50 cents to
25 cents for each $5OO or {fraction
Game Laws of Georgia
To Be Rigidly Enforced
Says State Commissioner
!
The game season in Georgia will
open Friday, and stringent orders
to county game wardens to enforce
the laws strictly have been sent out
by Peter S. Twitty, state game
and fish commissioner. Mr. Twitty
says that he has perfected an or
| ganization which would make it
rsky business hunting wthout a li
cense. .
A survey,of the condition in the
state showéd that there was an
abundance of all kinds of game,
Mr. Twitty says. There is an un
usual abundance of quail, due to
the dry spring and summer, and he
said that wild turkeys were seen
in mountain and - coast counties.
There is a heavier migration of
wild ducks than in many years, he
said, and wild geese have been
seen in Georgia waters.
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POTATOES 200 PER CENT HIGH
ER THAN YEAR AGO AND
CROP BELOW NORMAL
. The humble potato, which for years
has stood as a bulwark against the
advancing price of food commodities,
has now joined the procession of un
‘heard of high price levels at this sea
‘son, and is going strong at an advance
}of more than 200 per cent higher than
.a year ago.
! According to W. H. Stanton, of the
New York office of the bureau of
lagricu]ture economics, there is little
relief in sight and the present unprec
'edcntcd high price in the result in the
falling off in the production, which
'is given at 110,557,000 bushels less than
a year ago. The government’s esti
mate of the winter crop of patatoes for
‘1925 is 344,277,000 bushels. While a
year ago the reserve of white potatoes
‘totaled 454,784,000 bushels.
‘ Wintry conditions in the potato
growing districts of Maine and New
York state, together with some of the
‘western states, were three weeks earli
er than a year ago. Many of the po
tatoes in those sections are still undug,
and it is problematical what percentage
of those potatoes will be harvested.
Long Island potatoes sold last
week at $8 per the 150 pound bag in
the wholesale market, compared with
$2.25 to $2.40 for the same quantity a
yvear ago, while the Maine potatoes
were firm in the wholesale market at
$7.50 a bag weighing 150 pounds
against 2$ to $2.10 a year ago.
That little relief is in sight for the
escaping high price of potatoes is the
opinion of government officials, :as the
exporting potato countries. in Eu
rope, including the British Isles, are
shut out from sending potatoes to the
United States because of an edict of
the {federal horticultural board on
account of a disease known as wart
or scab.
being negotiated. Economists are in
sistent that Europe can never pay the
debt except with goods and some of
them have gone as iar as to argue
that the United States must lower the
tariff wall to permit imports to flow
in large quantities from the debt bur
dened countries. Any such change
would meet with strong disapproval
from labor heaflquarters because com
petition with cheaply made goods is
virtually impossible because of the
lower costs of production across the
Atlantic. Even though the tariff law
may not be amended the labor leaders
are apprehensive that a debt settle
ment which imposes heavy obligations
;thercof, is estimated to produce $2,-
000,000 less. It is estimated that $84,-
367,163 has been chopped from excise
taxes, $11,431,000 from occupational
taxes and $12,000,000 from cigars and
‘tobacco, 3
~ On alcohol the present withdrawal
tax of $2.20 a gallon would be reduc
ed 55 cents beginning January 1, 1927,
and another 55 cents beginning Jan
uary 1, 1928. Since the cut is made ef
fective in the middle of the fiscal year
1927 the reduction for the last half of
that fiscal vear will be only $2,225,000,
but it is estimated that the reduction
ultimately will approximate $9,000,000
a year. |
_Estate Taxes Reduced.
Cuts in the estate taxes, through a
reduction in the maximum from forty
to twenty per cent and an increase
from twenty-five to eighty per cent in
the credit of similar taxes paid to the
state, also will not become effective
at once since returns are not required
to be filed until a year after death of
the decedent. It is estimated that the
reduced estate rates ultimately will
mean a $25,000,000 revenue loss. {
A large part of the session was de
voted to putting the finishing touches‘
on the reductions in automobile and
other excise taxes, which were agreed
on in outline previously. The entire
tax on automobile trucks and wagons
and on automobile atcessories is to be
wiped out and the present manufact
urers’ tax of five per cent on passen
ger cars is reduced to three per cent.
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PRESIDENT PREPARING
COOLIDGE WILL DISCUSS TAX
REDUCTION, ECONOMY AND
NATIONAL DEFENSE.
Taxation, economy and national de
fense are the three major points to be
mentioned in President Coolidge’s ad
dress to congress when it convenes
Decembery 7. No distinctively mnew
program is to be presented to con
gress by the president. In Washing
ton it is known that Mr. Coolidge has
settled in his mind the topics he will
cover in his address.
Reduction of Taxes |
President Coolidge will advocate the
reduction of all taxes, enactment of
the Smoot federal reorganization bill
to eliminate duplications in the govern
mental organization as a means of sav
ing $200,000,000, and a reduction of
army and navy budgets with adequate
provisions for peace-time national de
fense. At the same he is expected to
make certain recommendations con
cerning aviation. |
Other recommendations the presi
dent is expected to make include the
following: |
Reduction of federal appropriations
Ito aid state improvements, such as
'roads, agricultural experiments, and
'the like. |
| Congressional action to place the
'merchant marine under the control of
‘one man instead of the shipping board.
Public Buildings.
A federal public building pr()graml
of $150,000,000 to cover a period of
several years.
Enactment by congress of farm re
lief legislation.
I Provisions for examination of im
‘migrants abroad instead of at Amer
ican gateways.
~ Provision for elastic tariff schedules.
~ An admonition that railroads should
expedite voluntary consolidations to
bring about a maximum of services at
a minimum cost.
ACCORDING TO REPORTS TO
COMPTROLLER OF TREAS
URY NEARLY' $25,000,000,000.
Combined resources of the national
banks of the United States are ap
proaching the $25,000,000,000 mark.
A statement of the banks’ condition
September 28th, just issued by Comp
troller Mclntosh of the Currency,
showed aggregate resources of thel
8,085 national banks at $24,569,527,000.
The total is nearly $1,250,000,000
greater than a year ago and $218,664,-
000 greater than in June,
The deposits of the banks reported
September 28 were $19,930,062,000, ex
ceeding by $20,393,000 the amount in
June and by $821,264,000 the total a
year ago.
I.oans and discounts amounted to
$13,134,461,000, an increase since June
of $460,394,000 and of almost $1,000,-
000,000 since September last year.
in the immediate future on European
countries will mean in the end the
abolition of eight hour days and other
labor standards in order that goods
may be produced and sold in the
American market at prices under the
present scale even when the tariff is
paid. 2 {
The Coolidge administration has
embarked on a policy of making the
European debtors agree to pay. This
has been due to a desire to relieve the
American taxpayer of some of his
burdens, and to some extent to the
belief that payment all around will
strengthen the credit structure of the
world.
SLATON CHAIRMAN
STATE EXAMINERS
Supreme Court of Georgia Bestows a
High Honor on the Former
Governor of the State. .
‘ ATLANTA.—The supreme court of
‘Gcorgxa, according to announcement
‘made here today, has appointed for
mer Governor John M. Slaton chair
man of the State Board of Examiners
for admission to the bar. This is con
sidered one of the highest compli
ments bestowed by the high court.
The position to which the former
governor has been appointed was one
which Judge J. R. Lamar occupied
until he became supreme cougf justice
and which Judge Alexander C. King
occupied until he became solicitor gen
eral of the United States.
Former Governor Slaton is the seu
jor member of the Atlanta law firm
of Slaton and Hopkins, and he is rec
ognized as one of the best informed
lawyers in the state. Prior to becom
ing governor of Georgia Mr. Slaton
served for many years in both branch
es of the Georgia legislature and is
the author of many laws of unusual
merit now on the statute books of the
state. i |
ITO FOLLOW HOT SUMMER,
‘ ACCORDING TO PHILOS
OPHERS OF WEATHER.
ATLANTA, Ga—The fact that in
human fortunes extreme so often fol
lows extreme may account for the
numerous prophesies of a hard winter
ahead. If nature moves after the man
ner of man, then assuredly such a sum
mer as 1925 will be matched with all
the vigor that Boreas is capable.
Autumn, according to the calender,
is still due us many a golden lay; yet
omens from thé four corners of Amer
ica are that winter is nigh.
Up in Maine there lately fell a snow
that, according to newspaper, cover
ed the ground to a depth of two feet,
blocking highways and impeding travel
through the woods; automobiles were
stalled, telephone lines were wrecked,
and late crops were buried almost be
yond recovery, it is feared.
‘ Of such severities the South knows
nothing, not even of the “dead waste
and middle” of winter’s night, But
her November is on its way with an
unusual snap and tang, and Georgia is
not without sages who foretell bluster
ing times.
Howbeit &ere are philosophers who
hold that nabure and history send their
events in pairs, so that a hot summer
means a mild winter, and these are not
wanting in_auguries to support their
contention. :
} From Portland, Oregon, which
should make as good a witness in such
a case as Portland, Maine, comes tid
‘ings of friendly weather and genial
prospects. To these oracles of cheer,
moreover, the flight of the birds, the
fur of the foxes, the creaking of the
barn door, and all other trustwotthy
aids to prognostication spell assurance
of a winter uncommonly bland,
So in weather as in politics, and in
deed in all human affairs, one may
take the choice of prophesies, resting
certain that one or the cther will
come to pass.
ITALY GRANTED MOST GEN
EROUS TERMS OF ANY OF
DEBTOR NATIONS.
The United States has granted Italy
the most generous debt settlement
terms accorded any of the debtor na
tions. ’
The amount agreed upon by the
two commissions for settlement was
$2,042,000,000. This represents the
original indebtedness of $1,648,000,000,
plus accrued interest at four and one
fourth per cent to December 15, 1922,
the date of the British settlement, and
at three per cent, the same rate as was
accorded Belgium in the settlement of
her post-armistice obligations, to June
15, 1925,
For the first five years of the 62-
year period Italy will be required to
pay only $5,000,000 a year. Payments
Iwill reach $80,000,000 in the last year.
After the first five vears the inter
est rate is fixed at one-eighth of one
per cent for ten years, and then will
increase for successive ten-year pe-‘
riods to one-fourth of one per cent,
one-half of one per cent, three-iourths}
of one per cent, one per cent, and, dur-l
ing the last seven years to two per
cent. . |
’ Under this arrangement, for the|
original debt of $1,648,000,000, thci
}United States will receive during the |
period of the agreement a total of $2,- |
407,000,000. |
} Through granting a five-year mora
torium on interest payments, andi
through the establishment of an inter-f
est rate which will begin at one-eighth |
of 1 per cent and increase to 2 per |
cent, the United States has recognized |
Italy’s poor capacity to pay, it was!
explained by members of the Ameri- |
can commission, ,
Alabamians Are Looking |
Over Land in Calhoun
e 1
The Calhoun Courier says a party of,
Alabamians were there Saturday look
ing over farm lands with a view to
buying and moving there. While no
trade was effected they expressed
themselves as being well pleased with,
the prospects and indicated that they
would. make purchases later.
Buy Terrell
County Products
VOL. 43.—N0. 12
jTHOUSANDS OF NEW TYPE OF
“WEARY WILLIE” ABFLICT
THE ENTIRE NATION.
Families Drawn by Lure of the Open
Road Have Many Excuses to Get
Gasoline, Oil, Food and Money for
1 Repair Bills While Traveling.
| A battered, dusty automobile clat=
ters to the curb in front of the social
service bureau’s office in some town
along one of America’s main high
ways. After a whispered conference
with the brood literally jammed into
the machine a man climbs from the
driver's seat and enters the office.
| “We are out of gasoline,” he whines
to the officer in charge, Or he may
explain that his wife and_ children are
ill, or hungry. Or he may ask to be
lgivcxg a place where his family may
spend the mnight.
| Then the social service worker
probably will moan inwardly, for he
has a job on his hands. He is face to
face again with the problem of the
lmodcrn gasoline hobo.
“Weary Willies” Passing.
The “Weary Willie,” a unique fig
ure in American life for many years,
is passing from the scene, In his place
'is appearing the product of the age of
the automobile—the “flivver hobo.”
Always without money, these new
knights of the road enter a city from
unknown places and apply for com
munity funds and to social agencies
for aid, sickness being the most com
mon plea.
| Other requests are for money to
Ibuy gasoline, oil, and to pay for re
pairs to their automobiles. They us
ually plead that they have left home
because of labor or health conditions
and are going to some distant place
to seek employment, or to find a more
favorable climate. They invariably ask
aid to get to their destinations.
Social workers assert, however, that
there has arisen in the United States
a clan which lives in automobiles on
the open roads, begging their way
from city to city, neglecting their per
sonal welfare, and refusing to work,
From one year's end until the next
they never leave their cars—except to
beg food and clothing, gasoline, oil,
and money.
Most of these “flivwer hoboes” have
obtained cars of their own by some
means or other. Others, however, pos
sess no machines, but travel about the
country begging lifts from other mo
itorists. These so-cailed “hop-hikers”
‘add to the worries of the charity agen-:
ceis. i e
l Constitute Serious Problem.
| The “flivver hobo” is a serious proh
lem that is becoming nation-wide in
its scope. These nomads, who are
modern tramps, wander aimlessly
about the country applving for chari
ty. They never have a destination or
a purpose. They are, pgrpetrating
frauds on social agenciés and charity
funds in many communities. The no
mads are thickest in the middle west
and the-south.
The -greatest tragedy in connection
with the modern hobo, though, is the
neglected and undernourished children
whom he carts around the country.
They have no opportunity for school
ing. Their health in many instances is
impaired by unnecessary exposure and
lack of wholesome food.
Thousands: of these families—
enough to populate a medium large
city if they could be gathered togeth
er—are roaming the highways of the
| country today. A floating body of ir
iresponsible men and women, they live
from the earnings of others. Their on
ly desire is to keep moving—and they
follow only one principle that the
world owes them a living.
Won'’t Give Up Cars.
Proposals to sell their cars to aid
the hoboes always are turned down, it
is asserted. Tickets to their homes or
to stated destinations also are not de
sired. The hobo apparently has only
one intention—to keep moving as long
as others will pay his way.
Neither will the “flivver hoboes” ac
cept offers to work, although they
may be starving. In that respect they
are like the old-time “Weary Willie,”
whose hatred of work helped to make
them famous. g
The only possible way to combat
the growing problem of the “flivver
hobo” is to shut down on gifts, it is
believed in the middle west. Charity
lorganizations throughout that section
lof the country, and in other sections,
itoo, have resolved to make the way
lof the “flivver hobo” hard in the hope
jof turning him to more industrious
iways.‘
. Most of the flivver hoboes who ap
ply for aid are frauds, and Little Rock,
Ark., has established an absolute rule
not to give them money so they can
continue on their way a begging.
~ That is the rule that has been es
tablished in Little Rock, Ark.’
| Move With Seasons.
~ With the coming of winter in the
north the “flivver hoboes” are moving
southward. The nomads move with
the seasons, so all parts of the country
feel their drain on charity funds. Some
sections of the country, notably the
south, are sending ‘“flivver hoboes” to
the chaingangs and work houses as
a penalty for their begging. But still
the tide of the automobile beggars
continues to wash backward and for
ward over the country.
LAND OF SMALL WANTS.
In Tibet a man who earned fifteen
dollars a year would be looked upon
as a millionaire. ; o :