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PRUDENT. BUYERS READ ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE NEWS
THOSE WITH LARGE INCOMES,
HOWEVER, INCREASED DUR
ING THE PAST YEAR.
pureau, for First Time, Gives Total
of Tax-Exempt Securities as $5,-
218,000,000, Incomes Over $1,000,-
000 Is Placed at 74.
The first official figures of the re
turns of individual incomes taxes un-‘
der the reduced rates of the revenue
it of 1924 have been made public byi
te internal revenue bureau, showing
. increase of $25,482,260, or 3.70 per
cnt, in the total tax for the calendar
cear 1024, as compared with 1923, The
datistics were compiled from returns
fled irom March 15,1925, up to Sep
ember 30, 1925.
The figures. generally show decreas
¢ in the number of large taxpayers
ad in the amount of revenue paid by
dem under the present law, which
hecame effective on January 1, 1925.
Reduction in the number of small tax
payers and the revenue from them
was disclosed. It was also shown that
the net incomes reported by the larg
or taxpayers in 1924 increased, while
the net incomes of the smaller tax
payers fell ()ff.
Total Tax-Exempt Securities.
For the first time the revenue bu
rean issued detailed statistics of the
mmount of tax-exempt securities held
by federal taxpayers. A total of $5,-
218.000,000 of tax-exempt securities
was reported for 1924 by persons hav
ine net incomes of $5,000 or over, up
on which the total interest received
was $232,977.000. Of this -total-§3,654,-
000.000 consisted of wholly tax-exempt
securities, on which the interest re
cived was $152,438,000, and $1,563,-
000,000 represgnted the tax-exempt se
crities, on which the interest was
$70.538.000.
[he number of personal returns fil
¢d up to September 30 was 7,298,481,
the agreate net income $25,023,000,000
and the net tax $689,134,000. As com
pared with 1923, these figures show a
lecrease of 399,840, or 5.48 per cent
in the number of returns, but an in
crease of $183,073,000 in the total net
mcome and an increase of $25,000,000
in the total tax.
Tax reduction as a result of the
carned income credit cost the govern
ment $27.538,000 and the total credit
for capital losses amounted to $7,138,-
000, X
There were 74 incomes of $1,000,000
and over filed in 1924, the same as in
1923. There were 3 incomes of $5,000,-
000 and over. 3 of $4,000,000 to $5,-
000,000, 4 of $3,000,000 to $4,000.000,
15 of $2.000,000 to $3,000,000, 13 of
§1500,000 to $2,000,000, 36 of $1,000,-
000 to $1,500,000, 240 of $500,000 to
$1.000,000, 137 of $400,000 to $500,-
000, 322 of $300,000 to $400,000, 249
of $250,000 to $300,000 and 540 of
$OO,OOO to $250,000.
Number of Returns Decrease.
The number of pérsonal returns fil
ed decreased in 1924 as compared with
1923 in all classes of income below
$.OOO, but increased steadily in -all
other classes until the $1,000,000 class
was reached, where the number was
the same as in the previous year. The
amount of net income reported for in
comes up to $3,000 fell off as compar
ed with 1923, but all other classes of
income, including the $1,000,000 class,
showed increases. The tax yield by
classes of income showed a declind in
1924 for all incomes under $lO,OOO, but
from that point the tax yield was
greater than in 1923.
The distribution of the $25,000,000,-
(00 net income reported in 1924 show
ed that $13,766,000,000 came from sal
arics, wages and commissions; $7,974,-
000,000 from business trade and com
merce, and $7,474,000,000 from prop
erty, including rents, interests on
bonds and dividends, making a total
o $29,214,000,000 from which general
reductions of $3,663,000,000 and char
itable contributions of $528,441,000
were deducted. ;
Analysis of. the tax-extmpt securi
ties reported showed that the largest
amount of wholly tax-free securities
were held in 1924 by taxpayers with
net incomes between $lOO,OOO an(!
$130.000; there being $380,000,000 of
wholly tax-exempt securities reported
by that class aof taxpayers. Taxpayers
with incomes between $l5OOO and
$2OOOO reported the largest holdings
of partially tax-exempt -securities,
amounting to $164,000,000. Partlally
tax cxempt securities consist of liberty
bonds and other government securi
ties, other than the liberty 3)z per
cent honds,
The revenue bureau’s figures cover
only personal incomes. A report em
bracing the returns of _individuals,
Partnerships and corporations 1s 111
Preparation.,
SAVINGS SHOW INCREASE~
AS THRIFT HABIT SPREADS
Survey of 1,000 Banks Reveals $500;-
000,000 More in U. S.
That the thrift habit is thoroughly
taking hold of Americans is revealed
i a recent survey of about 1,000 sav
'igs banks, The survey showed that
Savings in these banks alone had in
(reased more than $500,000,000 in the
Year ended July 1, 1925.
4 Ihis represents but a small part of
e total savings of the 114,000,000
Persons of the country.
THE DAWSON NEWS
SUWig "FORGIA FARMER
-SHIPS> > LRS. TURKEY
CAMILLA, Ga—% W. Bul
lard, of Liveoak commurmity, shipp
ed 1,100 pounds of turkeys to Mi
ami, Fla., this week and he left by
automobile to go to Miami and
look after the sale of the big
lot of birds. Mr. Bullard- stated
that this was an experimental ship
ment and if the returns are satis
factory he has about 2,000 pounds
more which will be shipped later.
Prices are reported good in Miami,
but the cost of transportation by
express and other charges mount
up considerably on a shipment of
this kind. Mr. Bullard has several
hundred which he will put on the
market from now until the Christ
mas holidays.
1
BIBLE CRUSADERS”
ADVANCE GUARD ANTI-EVO
LUTION HOSTS REACH TAM
PA FOR SWEEP NORTH.
TAMPA, Fla.-—The advance guard
of the “Bible Crusaders,” who hope
tc sweep the country with their fun
damentalist campaign by carrying the
battle against teaching of evolution
into every home, have arrived here.
Backed by George H. Washburn, a
millionaire of Boston and Clearwater,
Fla., former close friend of William
Jennings Bryan, who has contributed
$lOO,OOO to start the ball rolling, the
Bible Crusaders began their ten days’
campaign in Florida tonight.
After that they will sweep north
ward, hoping to gather hosts as they
go, until they reach Washington,
where a national headquarters wysbebe
organized. The new organization is
reminiscent of the old crusades against
liquor and will operate somewhat sim
ilar to that of the Anti-Saloon League.
Mr. Washburn declared®today that
his fortune was dedicated henceforth
to the promulgation of Bryan’s fun
damentalist ideals. He said he would
give another $lOO,OOO later if needed.
_The organization will publish a
magazine to be known as the Crusa
der’'s Champion.
“The purfose of the crusaders will
be to seek legislation curbing teach
ing of the evolution theory on the
ground it undermines -faith in the
Bible,” Washburn rsaid.
TWENTY-ONE ARE RELICS OF
THE LONG AGO STRUGGLE.
SOME PENSION FACTS.
Soldiers’ widows appear to have re
markably long .lives, judging from a
table published in the National Trib
une, a newspaper printed in Washing
ton, for veterans of the country’s
Wars.
This table discloses that there are
still on the country’s pension roll 21
widows of soldiers who fought in the
war of 1812, which was 113 years ago.
This is explained by an old soldier,
who says:
“Some of the boys who fought in
the war of 1812 waited until they were
about as old as I am before marrying
the girl who is still drawing a pen
sion on the strength of being a sol
dier’s wife when the husband died.”
This can be figured out in this way:
A soldier was 18 vears of age when
he fought in the war of 1812. He lived
until he was 75 years old, or 57 years
after The war. Just before he died he
married a girl of 18, which would
mean that he married an eighteen
vear-old girl in 1869. As that was 56
vears ago the widow today would be
56 years plus 18 years, or 74 years of
age. ;
The number of widows of world
war veterans on the pension roll is 21,
exactly the same as the number of
1812 widows. The oldesgirls seem to
have a bitsthe edge on their younger
sisters, however, when it comes to
pensions, for the table shows that for
the month of September the older
widows received $630 and the younger
ones $509. i
Widows of soldiers who fought in
the Indian wars and who are drawing
pensions number 3,061 and the number
of widows of soldiers who fought in
the Mexican war is given as 1,229. The
war with Spain furnishes the list with
18,758 widows, and._there are 176 Span
ish war nurses drawing pensions. '
It is when the civil war lists are
scanned that the number of widows
greatly increases, for there are 239,-
515 drawing pensions, although the
number of nurses on the roll 1s 59.
:Smoliingls a “Shipping’’ Offense
In Georgia State (,M
Young Women Cannot Smoke and
Remain at Institutions. Listed as
One of Major Offenses.
MACON.—No “smoking rooms”
will be established at Georgia colleges
for girls nor will there be any coun
terpart of the sensation created in
northern collegiate circles when this
privilege was granted recently to stu
dents at Bryn Mawr college. :
On the contrary, smoking is a “ship
ping” offense in practically every
‘Georgia college for girls, and the col
MOUNTAIN A BIG PUZZLE
A HUGE CHUNK OF GRANITE
RISES OUT OF SOFT FERTILE
COUNTRY IN GEORGIA.
AN UPHEAVAL BLAMED FOR IT
Scientists Say Eruption Must Have
Caused Phenomena Many Millions
~ Of Years Ago. Was Once Hundred
‘ Times Its Present Size.
.~ How come Stone Mountain?
This question, as simple and as ele
gant as it may seem, has puzzled ge
ologists ever since there have been
any geologists to puzzle about Stone
Mountain. o
Many elaborate dxplanations have
been offered for the existence of the
now famous granite monadnock,
which rises suddenly out of a seem
ingly fertile country around it. The
}o'ne most favored is that sometime
along 50 or 75 million years ago there
‘was an upheaval in this land, at which
time ‘Stone Mountain and the Appa
lachian mountains and other eastern
‘'wonder-rocks were thrust up.
~ But Stone Mountain, on which is
being carved the Confederate memo
rial, is not all just out there in wide
open DeKalb county. That’'s only
where it shows itself. It extends un
der most of the remainder of Georgia
and some parts of South Carolina,
Tennessee, Alabama and Florida.
At the place where Stone Mountain
seems to meet ordinary earth it begins
a sloping descent into the underneath
of Georgia. At Macon, about 100
miles southwest of Stone Mountain,
the granite bedrock is reached at
about 400 feet. Dr. S. W. McCallie,
Georgia state geologist, says that
when the granite is struck a person
'might as well stop, because a drill
‘woukl go ‘“on to China.”
| Stone Mountain will not last for
'ever, declare geologists. There is a
idcvastating force which is diminishing,
Irapidly as such things go, the size of
the mountain. This force is called ex
follation. P ) ;
@Vhen the mountain came into be
ing it covered probably a hundred
times its present size, as evidenced by
the numerous outcrops of the same
rock extending over a belt several
milés in width. At this rate of shrink
age geologists compute that in an
other 50,000,000 years there will not
be any Stone Mountain.
At present Stone Mountain rises 686
feet above the ground and includes
563 acres of exposed granite mass. In
this mass there are 7,543,750,950 cubic
feet. There are about 12 cubic feet of
granite to the ton, making the boss
weigh in the neighborhood of 628,645,-
911 tons. .
Since about 1865 Stone Mountain
granite has been used extensively in
building as well as paving.
HIGHWAY TO BE HARD SUR
FACED FROM FLORIDA LINE
TO WEBSTER COUNTY.
MOULTRIE, Ga.—ln the event
that the state highway commission
gives its approval to the project the
Florida Short Route will be paved
from the Webster county [line, via
Dawson, Albany, Sylvester, Moultrie
and Quitman to the Florida line.
~ This would give a hard surfaced
‘highway to one of the main paved
roads of north Florida. The road from
Sylvester to Albany is already partly
paved and the contract has been let
for the paving of the remainder of the
distance.
Terrell county will soon vote on a
$300,000 bond issue for hard surfaced
roads. The commissioners of Brooks,
Worth and Colquitt counties have al
ready agreed to the paving in the
event state and federal aid can be ob
tained. Before such co-operation will
be vouchsafed, however, it will be
necessary for the highway commission
to designate the Moultrie-Quitman
road as a part of the state aid system.
A petition saking that this action be
taken has already been filed and the
hearing was held several days age in
Atlanta. At present there is a state aid
road connecting Moultrie with Quit
man and Moultrie with Thomasville
by way of Pavo, but neither of these
roads is used by the traveling public
in reaching Quitman or Thomasville.
Pavo is protesting against the propos
ed change and the commission for the
convenience df the citizens of that
town came to Moultrie on Tuesday to
give them a hearing. A large delega
tion came up.
lege heads are very emphatic in de
nunciation thereof.
Heads of Shorter, Wesleyan, Ogle
thorpe, Agnes Scott, Brenau and Bes
sie Tift, responded to an inquiry by
an Atlanta newspaper, condenfning
smoking and pointing out how it is
barred 4t their institutions.
Smoking is listed as one of the ma
jor offenses, along with dishonesty in
academic work, theft and the like.
Waste paper has been converted in
to new paper for t}uee centuries.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 1, 1925
LONGEST TELEPHONE CABLE
IN WORLD NOW COMPLETED
After seven years’ work and ex
penditure of $25,000,000 the longest
telephone cable in the world has
just been complet%:i. It links Chica
go and New York city and is 861
miles long.
Five hundred telegraph messages
and 250 telephone conversations can
be handled on the cable at one
time. About 717 miles of the line
are above ground on poles, and the
rest in underground. The total
weight of the 447,000 miles of wire
in the cable is 34,750,000 pounds.
Do
OFFICIALS AT YALE BOWL
. PERFORM GIANT TASK
EACH YEAR.
To get 80,000 men and women all
into one huge crowd and then to sep
arate them and get them started back
to their homes, all within the period
of nine hours. That is the job that is
accomplished each year on the occa
sion of the annual Yaie-Harvard foot
ball battle in the Yale bowl, at New
Haven, Conn. There are other sport
ing events that draw huge crowds in
many parts of the country, but none
can equal the mob that each year at
tends the ‘football classic of the east
ern season,
To handle the huge crowd costs
$1,000,000, part of which is paid by
the 80,000, and part of which comes
out of the pockets of officials in charge
of the gathering. Spectators attend
the classic from all parts of the Unit
ed States and from not a few fgreign
countries.
The Yale-Harvard game is played
in November, but the work of prepar
ing for the contest and the crowd
which will attend it begins in June.
KILLED NEGRO SOLDIER WHO
OBSTRUCTED SIDEWALK
AS LADIES PASSED.
The grand jury of Sifffiter supevior
court has returned an indictment
charging E. J. Fullbright, white, with
the murder of Phillip Smith, a negro
soldier, and Fullbright is held in jail
}at Americus awaiting trial. Smith was
iki]led the night of September 1, on
west Church street, in front of a res
taurant conducted by Lucius and Liz
zie Minyard, negroes. |
A number of negro women and nc—}
igro soldiers, the latter engaged in re
moving certain equipment from South
er Field, near Americus, had congre
gated at the Minyard resort. Full
bright, who is employed as a watch
man by John W. Shiver at his man
ufacturing plant, passed Minyard’s
place accompanied by his wife and
young daughter. It is- declared that
Smith deliberately refdsed members
of* the Fullbright party passage along
the sidewalk, and that when Full
bright remonstrated against such
treatment Smith uttered a foul oath,
placed his hand within his bosom, and
declared he would kill Fullbright. The
white man thereupon fired once, a
bullet from his revolver killing Smith
instantly. Following the killing Full
bright surrendered and was exonerat
ed at a preliminary hearing before
Justice of the Peace J. M. Shy. Later
a party of army officers stationed at
Fort Benning visited Americus and
made a thorough investigation, but no
announcerment of their findings has
ever been authorized.
It is expected that Fullbright will
be placed on trial this week when the
[murder charge against him will be
finally disposed ‘of, probably a verdict
|of acquittal.
FOREIGN DECORATIONS 'FOR
THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS
BEING INVESTIGATED.
To what extent has foreign propa
ganda in this country taken the form
of foreign decorations for American
citizens? This is the question that is
being investigated in Washington.
The French government alone, it 'is
declared, has conferred the decoration
of the /legion of honor upon 2,323
American citizens.
United States Senator George W.
Norris, of Nebraska, has written to
Secrétary of State Kellogg for a list
of Americans thus decorated, it is
sajd. Actors, clergymen, army - and
navy officers, lawyers, clergymen,
journalists, members of the diplomatic
service, and university students are in
cluded in the list, as well as race
horse owners, philanthropists and at
least one dentist.
On the list are such names as Gen.
John J. Pershing, Florenz Ziegfeld,
Admiral Benson, Mary Garden, David
Belasco, Gen. Tasker Bliss, Richard
E. Enright and many other persons.
The name of Woodrow Wilson does
not appear.
e i
At one time in England beaver hats'
were compulsory, and makers were
prohibited from using any other ma-
GEORGIA'S MORTALITY
S
FEDERAL CENSUS BUREAU RE
PORTS A SLIGHT INCREASE
IN THE DEATH RATE.
CAUSES OF DEATHS ARE GIVEN
Twenty-two moré persons per 100,-
And 193 Suicides. Automobile Fa
talities Large, and Infant Mortality
Is Reported as Being Heavy.
Twenty-two more persons per 100,-
‘OOO estimated = population died in
‘Georgia in 1924 'than in 1923, accord
ing to the report of the U. S. Depart
ment of Commerce.
~ The increase in 1924 is accounted
for largely by increases in the death
rate from diseases of the heart, pneu
monia, whcoping cough, measles and
nephritis.
The increase of deaths resulting
from those diseases was given as fol
lows: Heart, from 101 to 109 per 100,-
000; pneumonia, all forms, from 92 to
99 per 100,000; whooping cough, from
9 to 15; measles, from 13 to 19; ne
phritis, from 99 to 103.
A notable decrease in 1924 is shown
in the death rate from in influenza,
from 59 in 1923 to 31 per 100,000 pop
ulation,
Classification of individual contrib
uting causes revealed that 24 persons
died from smallpox in 1924 and in
1923 there were only 3 smallpox
deaths.
More Suicides.
There were 23 mor® suicides in the
state in 1924 than in 1923. There were
193 in 1924,
Homicides claimed 553 deaths in
1924 compared with 512 in 1923.
In railroad accidents there were 40
fewer deaths than the 175 in 1923.
Twenty-two perscns were killed in
street car accidents in 1924 and only
13 in 1923.
There were 48 more deaths due to
automobile accident in 1924 than in
1923. The figures: 1924, 307; 1923, 259.
Accidental falls in 1924 claimed 236
lives and 138 died as the result of ac
cidental shooting. Falls claimed 238
lives in 1923 ‘and accidental shooting
159.
In 1924 1,013 infants under 2 years
died as a result of diarrhea and en
teritis, 14 more than in 1923, and 2,297
lives .were claimed by congenital ma};;
‘formations and diseases of early i~
fancy. In 1923 there were 2,095 deaths
resulting from the latter diseases.
| Pneumonia Claimed Many.
l Pneumonia caused 3,001 déaths in
1924, and 2,760 in 1923.
Among other causes and the total
number of deaths given were:
Diseases of the heart: 1924, 3,286;
1923, 3,022. ‘
Cancer and other malignant tumors:‘
1924, 1,394; 1923, 1,337. ‘
Tuberculosis, all forms: 1924, 2,_676;‘
1923, 2,737. |
Appendicitis and typhlitis: 1924,
319; 1923, 337.
Accidental drowning: 1924, 115;
1923, 101.
Meningitis: 1924, 102; 1923, 105.
EVERY VIOLATOR OF LAW
SHOULD BE MADE TO SERVE
SENTENCE, SAYS BOYKIN.
ATLANTA.—The wave of crime
that has been surging across the
country for the last few yvears has
aroused in the minds of the people
necessity for drastic action te restore
the normal condition, it was pointed
out here today by court authorities
It is not expected, prosecuting offi
cers say, that crime can ever be en
tirely suppressed. It is bred in the
bone of some people and comes to
others as acts performed npon the im
pulses of the moment. Be that as it
may, the resuit is the same, law en
forcement officers assert, and if the
crime be murder, whether premeditat
ed or not, a human life has been ta
kept and the law violated.
To stop crime the law must be en
forced. The criminal must be made
to pay the penalty of his misdeeds.
This is the opinion of John A. Boy
kin, solicitor general of the Atlanta
judicial circuit, whose ‘work as a pros
ecutor has attracted wide attention.
“I hope o see the day when in Geor
gia a sentence of the jury will be re
spected and the convicted criminal
made to serve the sentence fixed by
the jury,” declared Mr. Boykin in a
notable speech opposing clemency in
the Stegall case. “Until that day
comes we can not expect law enforce
ment 'and will not have it.”
Giant Lions That Ate 135 Human
Beings Now in Museum in Chicago
;Two Animals Held Sway in Reign of
. Terror for Nine Months Over
Camp in British East Africa.
\ Two giant lions, the most famous
in the world because thzy are credited
with devouring 135 human beings, are
on exhibition in a glass cage in a
Chicago museum. /
The animals instilled horror into
the hearts of workmen on the Uganda
railway, in British = East Africa, in
1898, For nine monthé they attacked
MECHANICAL BLOODHOUND
FINDS $BOO,OOO OF RADIUM
ST. PAUL, Minn—Six weeks’
patient. search with a mechanical
blood hound has’ resulted in the
finding in a sewer pipe of a tiny
tube containing $BOO,OOO worth of
radium which disappeared from a
hospital here.
Prof. Harry A. Erikson, head of
the physics department, University
of Minnesota, constructed ioniza
tion chamber detectors which were
attached to electroscopes and be
gan to hunt along sewers leading
from the hospital.
Today the detectors led him to
a nine-inch pipe in a sewer tunnel.
The radium tube was found within
two inches of a mark he made on
the pipe.
'UNITED STATES IS
WON'T BE HELD UP BY FOR
EIGN NATIONS. REFUSES
BIG LOAN TO BRAZIL.
The United States appears to have
taken the suggestion of President
Coolidge in regard to the treatment
of foreign natons that try to profit
too greatly on monopolies of certain
products.
The first move of this kind is in
tended to prevent. coffee growers of
Brazil from holding up the American
people. Retaliation takes the form of
the refusal of a large loan to aid the
South Americans,
Coffee Too High.
Brazil wanted a loan to tide the
coffee growers over until the price
went up. At the advice of the United
States government New York city
bankers turned the South Americans
down. London secured the loan.
The Brazilian coffee supply has for
'many years been controlled artificial-|
‘ly. either by the withdrawal from con
sumption of large amounts through |
governmental purchases in the open
market and subsequent resale at times
‘when marketing conditions warrant,
or British control of the planters’ out
put, releasing quantities below con
sumption requirements.
; Controls Coffee Market.
This is what is known as “coffee
valorization,” and since 1924 has been
in the hands of the government of the
state of Sao Paulo. In 1924 coffee sud
denly jumped to 32 cents a pound.
THREE WOMEN HAVE SEATS
IN NEW CONGRESS. KNOW
THE POLITICAL GAME.
When the Hon. Nicholas Long
worth, speaker of the house of repre
sentatives, administers- the oath next
Monday in the new congress to his 434
associates there were three women
among those present who swore to
defend the constitution against all ene
mies, foreign or domestic.
Two of them are republicans, each
eucceeding her deceased husband, and
the third is a democrat,
Women Have Been Handicapped.
There have been only four women
in the house of representatives here
tofore. One woman was in the senate
for a day. None of them succeeded in
writing her name high in the hall of
fame. .
" In each instance, however, the plo
neer “lady members” were handicapp
ed because they were the only mem
ber of their sex present. They were a
novelty, an object of special attention
from capitol guides.
Women representatives, heretofore,
in the opinion of most students of the
house, have failed to make a place for
themselves, but it is believed they will
during the sixty-ninth congress, for
not only is there strength in numbers,
but also there is a spirit of rivalry.
Incidentally, Mrs. = Florence Prag
Kahn, Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers and
Mrs. Mary T. Norton long ago learn
ed the a, b, ¢'s of politics. Each has
lived in a political atmosphere for
years. t
| Succeed Their Husbands.
Mrs. Kahn’s husband, the late Rep
resentative Julius Kahn, served San
Francisco more than 20 years, while
Mrs. Rogers is the widow df the late
Representative John Jacob Rogers,
who was a distinguished member of
congress from the Lowell (Mass.) dis
trict.>
Mrs. Mary T. Norton brings with
her the distinction of being the first
democratic womdn elected to congress
in American history,
the camps of the workmen, each time
carrying away a victim. After 135 men
had been slain the natives quit work
ing and prepared to flee from the
camp.
Col. J. H. Patterson, British engi
neer in charge of the work. then be
gan stalking the animals. From am
bush he killed them both, but it re
quired half a dozen bullets to do each
job. The bodies of the lions were ob
tained by American naturalists = and
were mounted and placed on exhibi
tion in Chicago.
Read the
Store News
VOL. 43.—N0. 14
GHILD HOBOES WILD,
§
ORPHANS OF WAR AND FAM
INE LIVE AMONG SUFFER
| ING AND SQUALOR.
IFACING A SERIOUS PROBLEM
Moscow Does Not Know What to Do
With Hundred Thousand Boys and
Girls Who Roam Its Streets and
Imperil Its Peace.
An army of orphans of war and fam
ine, , dirty, ~homeless, starving and
depraved, is roaming the streets of
Moscow, Russia. A hundred thousand
boys and girls, miost of them less than
16 years old and thousands of them
less than 12 years old, comprise this
troop of crime and privation Ys,:hich
has become the most serious social
and cconomic problem in the city.
And still, no solution of the problem
has been found. -
Enter City in Droves.
The authorities have made feeble at
tempt to wipe out the army by arrest
ing its ragged little members, but this
plan failed. Recruits for the ranks of
the hopeless poured into Moscow in
droves, faster than the authorities
could take care of them.
To house the children, feed, clothe
and teach them properly would ex
haust the resources of the city gov
ernment and would prove a drain on
the nation’s wealth, it is declared. Be
side there is no room for them in the
’city's institutions for the destitute. So
‘some other means of disposing of
them must be found.
Law Means Nothing.
Most of the children in the orphan
army know of no such a thing as law.
The ragged little hoboes steal, fight,
beg, and even murder. They attack
policemen as quickly as'civilians, over
coming all opposition by the very
force of their numbers.
By day the children roam the streets
of the city, begging food or stealing
it whichever is easiest. Most of them
are confirmed liquor or drug addicts,
and little fellows scarcely able to
walk may be seen puffing dway at
cigarettes or chewing tobacco. All
these narcotics they steal, for the law
against the ‘sale or drugs, liquor and
tobacco to minors is strictly enforced.
Spend Nights in Dark Places.
The army of the homeless children
vanishes into the blackness as night
approaches, In cellars, in doorways, in
barns and chicken coops, in wagons
and automobiles and sometimes even
in the gutters the boys and girls lie
down ‘for troubled sleep. Some of
them, though, go forth in the night to
do ‘their robbing or killing. §
Th¢ children who comprise this
army of horror are homelegss and pa
rentless because of the periods of fa
mine, war and revolution in Russia.
Thousands of them go into Moscow
from the countryside and the smaller
cities and towns. Once in Moascow
they soon become lost among the
ranks of their companions.
Other Russian cities have ' their
numbers of child hoboes, but in Mos
cow the army is the largest and the
problem is the most serious.
A few of these child criminals have
been taken prisoners and punished for
their crimes. The punishment usually,
howev‘r, is confinement in a school
where they are weaned away from the
crime and suffering which may have
been their lot for days, weeks, months
or even years. :
Others of the child hoboes have
been adopted by wealthy families or
sent to other institutions. Usually
they are able within a few months to
develop into ordinary, fun-loving boys
and girls, It is their misfortune which
makes them what they are.
Dark Picture Always.
But always the dark picture of its
army of homeless children is before
the city of Moscow. Just one illustra
‘tion shows the desperate ends to which
‘the child hoboes go to obtain food or
‘money to buy food.
A dozen boys and girls, ragged and
‘almost blue from exposure and lack
%ot’ food, recently burst in the doors of
a grocery store in the very “heart of
'Moscow, With shrill curses and
threats the children put to rout the
customers in the store and with clubs
felled its proprietor. -
Bags appeared as if from nowhere,
and food was jammed into them.
At this point a policeman, noticing
the excitement, entered the store.
Three or four of the boys in the gang
beat him into unconsciousness. Then
the children fled before other officers
discovered what was happening.
GIRL EATING ECLAIR DRIVES
A FASTING MAN INSANE
Abstainer, in' Glass Chamber, Raves
At Sight of Food.
PARIS.—The sight of a young wo
man eating a chocolate eclair with
great relish outside his glass chamber
caused Albert Wolly, a professional
faster, ‘o go violently insane. After
gazing fixedly at the fast-disappearing
dainty in the girl's fingers Wolly sud
denly arose, seized his chair and
smashed the glass in an effort to reach
the food. ;8
He was taken to a hospital, raving.
The faster was on the twelith of his
scheduled thirty foodless and sleepless
days and had been an attraction in a
)busy Paris thoroughfare, where his
Icage was installed in a large hall.
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