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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29
SMITH AND BACON PROTEST
PRESIDENT MAY WITHDRAW APP
POINTMENT OF A NEGRO.
Name of Oklahoma Darkey Sent to
Senate for Confirmation as Reg
istrar of the Treasury.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-In connec-
ton with the nomination of Adam E.
Patterson, an Oklahoma negro, to the
office of registrar of the treasury, and
whose name was sent to the senate
Friday for confirmation, it was learn
ed today that Senator Smith of Geor-
gia is opposed to his confirmation,
and will have a conference with Pres
ident Wilson about the matter.
He will voice a protest against the
selection of negroes for federal Of
fees and will urge Mr.. Wilson to
withdraw Patterson's name.
The president, it is understood,
was moved to the consideration of a
negro for registrar of the treasury
because of representations to him
that political expediency demanded
that the negroes be given some recog-
milton by the administration and as
reward 70 the black race for its
friendlineSs to the democratic party
in close porthern states.
The cnicc-registrar of the treasu-
ry-is claimed by the negroes as
their exclusive patronage. For many
years 1t has been held by a negro.
The retiring register, James G. Ma
pier of Tennessee, is a negro, as was
his predecessor. The office was once
held by Judson Lyons of Augusta.
The opposition to negroes for fed
eral offices is general among South
ern democrats in the senate, and it is
safe to say that all such nominations
will have rough road to travel to-
ward confirmation.
Senator Bacon, like his colleague,
is opposed to nominations of negroes,
and their objections are shared by
Senators Simmons of North Carolina,
Tillman and Smith of South Carolina,
Fletcher of Florida, Williams and
Vardaman of Mississippi, and many
others.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29
TILLMAN LIVING
ON FRIED CHICKEN
Remark Made by the Senator Causes
His Committee Room to Look
Like Picnic Ground.

WASHINGTON.-When Senator
Tillman of South Carolina, who is on
a diet by order of his physician, de-
clared somewhat peevishly that 1.-The
art of frying chicken was unknown
in Washington, he had not reckon
ed with the housewives of the Dis
trict of Columbia, many of them
Southerners and jealous of their abil-
ity to cook chicken in any fashion.
AS a result of the aspersion indig-
nant housewives and a few score adj
mirers of the South Carolina states
man have been inundating him with
chicken. They come by parcel post
and by messengers until each day
the senator's committee room takes
on the appearance of picnic ground.
At first Senator Tillman sought to
return the gifts, but virtually none
had the name of the donor on it,
although many contained notes defy
ing the senator to decry the fowls or
the cooking AS a result the COM
mittee room waste basket is contin-
ually filled with chicken bones, and
committee clerks and senate attend
ants impressed to aid in keeping up
with the incoming supply are near
ing a state of rebellion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29
HARD FIGHT ON WEEVIL
RESOURCES OF GOVERNMENT
TO BE BROUGHT INTO ACTION.
Large Territory Involved in the
Work Outlined by Conference of
Officials in Washington.

WASHINGTON.-A more agrees
sive fight against the spread of the
boil weevil, which is devastating the
Southern cotton field, was today de-
termined upon at a conference be-
tween senators and Representatives of
Southern states and agricultural de-
partment officials.
The conference, called at the sug-
gestion of Senator Ransdell Of Lou
isiana, agreed that all the govern
ment resources should be brought in
to the light against the insect.
In the course of the discussion
Senator Vardaman of Mississippi de-
clared that congress should make
available $1O,0O0,0OO Immediately
to aid the department of agriculture
in its fight against the pest. Several
of the other members of congress
agreed with Mr.. Vardaman.
The Need Is Urgent.
Senator Ransdell, in opening the
discussion, declared there was urgent
need for an Immediately more
aggressive fight against the boil wee
vii instead of the indirect methods
now employed by the department.
In reply it was pointed out that these
methods thus far have proven effect
i've and that they could be made
more so through the extension Of the
work
E. F. Evans, an expert of the de-
partment, declared that there was
only a small section in Mississippi
and Louisiana where the boil weevil
could not be checked through proper
agricultural methods. He said there
were not enough men in the work
to reach the vast territory involved,
and urged that the demonstration
work be extended
The proposal for a neutral zone to
head off entertainments of the pest
was briefly referred to. At the sug-
gestion of Assistant Secretary Gallo
way a committee will probably be ap-
pointed at an early date to consider
all the phases of this proposition with
the view of putting it into opera
ton if found feasible.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29
is MONUMENTAL IGNORANCE
Atlanta Newspaper Reporters Have
Caused Much Pain to Honest
Georgia Crackers.

No redbug bites ever caused as
much pain to honest Georgia crack
ers as did the sight of the plain word
digger" spelled "chigoe" by high
brow Atlanta newspaper reporters
during the past few days, and passed
up by city editor and linotype man.
OF course, there is such a word as
"chigoe" in the dictionary. But II
isn't English. 1t is West Indian
name for a West Indian flea, which is
the same thing as a Georgia Jig
ger" or "chigger, as it is sometimes
spelled.
But there is no excuse for calling
a "jigger' a "chigoe' in Georgia, for
even old Noah Webster, who was
stickler for such points, admits that
digger" is Just as good spelling and
better English.
You can also find digger" in the
Standard dictionary, and plenty OF
them in any pine woods where there
is thick underbrush Nearly all
Georgians have been covered with
"jiggers" at one unhappy moment OF
another in their lives, but has any
really-truly Georgia cracker, outside
of a book or newspaper article, ever
complained of being bitten by a
:'chigoe?"
If he has he must be the kind who
eats "whortleberry pie
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29
OHIO'S WANDERING CHURCH
Washed From Foundation by Floods
and Floated to Another Town.
Bell Weighs Half a Ton.


During the foods in Ohio and the
neighboring states of the Middle
West a wooden church which had
been washed from it's foundations
was deposited on an island in the
Ohio river. There was nothing to
show where the church had come
from or the denomination of the
people who had worshiped in it. 1t
had a belfry with a bell weighing
about a half ton, and during its curl
Gus unpiloted voyage the structure
had suffered little damage.
The inhabitants of the township
in which it landed suffered the loss
of their church by water.
They gladly accepted the gift of
the river, fastened to dig a founda-
ton on a desirable site, and moved
the church to it. If the original con-
gregation learns of it's whereabouts
and attempts to claim the church
some curious legal entanglements
may arise.
In the meantime the church is do
ing proper duty in housing a congre-
CATION every Sunday, although, per-
haps, the congregation might be con-
sidered somewhat heretical by the
former worshipers.
Just such another change of own
ership of a building was never
known.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29
WOMEN'S ORGY OF UNDRESS
ALMOST NOTHING is WORN, SAYS
WRITER OF CAUTIC ARTICLE.
Petticoats Have Been Replaced by
Tights, and Stockings Are Such as
to Embarrass the Beholder.

LONDON.-A storm of comment
has been aroused by an article dis
pIsyed prominently in the Times I'M
der the caption, Dress or Undress.
The writer declares:
1--WE are at the hight of reVolu-
ton in feminine clothes which has
not been seen since the French revo-
luton gave sanction to the excesses
of women in the directoire and en-
pire gowns.
Give years ago women still wore
skirts and bodices which covered
them, stockings thick enough not to
show the color of their skin and suffi-
cient stays and petticoats to conceal
the details of their persons. The
wasp waists and humps on the skirts
or shoulders disappeared.
at was the return of nature to
true art, but today it is patent at
least to the observant person that wo-
men wear almost nothing under their
gowns even in the daytime. Petit
coats have been replaced by tights
Cor have they been replacedO, and
the stockings are of such diaphanous
silk as to embarrass the beholder.
$50 much for the foundation. Over
this is a film sheath of half transpar-
ent material, cut almost as low for
day wear as for evening, with such
slashings that the lifting of the skirt
will fully display every movement OF
the limb and almost of the muscles,
Certainly there is an orgy of I'M
dressing going on, and it shows no
signs of abating What will be the
end? 1t is difficult to see."
The writer concludes with this
highly conservative note:
TT is curious to note that this
bacchanalian rage has fallen on wo-
men at a time when there is much in
the melting pot, at a time of world
restIessness, of war abroad and a
constitutional crisis at home, and So
cial misery everywhere.
at is difficult to see the connec-
tion of fashion with such things, OF
to say which is the cause and what
the effect or to determine how much
the woman's almost bare feet anC
quite bare arms and neck are due tt
Premier Asquith's indifference to sta
BILE government, or to anarchy in the
political and artistic world.
'But it says a great deal for the
length Of the road which we have
travelled that the old-fashioned PEG
pie have not lifted up their voice
in rebuke to a generation whicl
would have made their fathers gas
and stare and resort to prayer Il
avert thunderbolt."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29
CAT GETS HIS
DINNER BY MAIL
Madison Girl, Who Is Away From
Home, Sends Her Pet His Meals
With Uncle Sam as Waiter.

Miss Bessie Butler of Madison, Ca,
who is visiting friends on Feachtree
street in Atlanta, has managed to
make Uncle Sam act as waiter when
her pet cat dimes.
The cat in question, a magnificent
striped specimen of the Thomas vari-
ETY., is remaining in Madison while
Miss Butler visits in Atlanta.
Every night Miss Butler prepares
its breakfast for the following morn
ing, consisting of pork chops done to
a rare nicely, and sends them by par
eel post to the Thomas cat.
The cat is on hand every morning
at the front door to welcome the post
man, according to friends who write
Miss Butler that her pet is doing
finely.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29
CARRIES SIX MILLICHH9,
rgE APPROPRIATION BILL HAS
PASSED THE GEORGIA HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
IlF PASSED ON THE FLOOR

Measure CdfTleS PAOO,OV" AS7'
Last Year, and With New Sources
If Revenue the Gap Between In
oome and Outgo Is Shortened.
ATLANTA.-Chairman Wheatley
and his appropriation committee de-
sorva all credit for their splendid
work in getting the general appropri-
alton bill passed in the house and
transmitted to the senate twenty days
before adjournment of the legislature
II passed LA to 2. Mr.. Wright
If Floyd remained insurgent and
-+nck 10 his guns to the last on trim
ming the appropriations yet more.
IN this he was backed by McGehee of
Meriwether.
As adopted in the house the bill
carries s5,795,567, which, according
70 Chairman Wheatley, is $108,9OO
less than the general appropriation
act of 1928. Therefore, if the
avenues for new revenue opened up
in the ways and means committee
nv taxing registered lobbyists 500
and putting a fiat tax or registration
fee of IS annually on automobiles,
together with other matters, are
adoDted the hiatus between the
states income and outgo promises
10 be closed up considerably.
The bill, as amended, showed
difference in but three of the appro-
priations recommended by the COM
mittee. This included $3.50, 200
for the public school fund for each
of the years 1913 and 1914, which
was an increase of $4,000 over the
committee recommendation; $50,
instead of $4,000 for the mainte-
nance of the Soldiers Home, and a
slight increase in the appropriation
for clerical help in one of the state
house departments.
Much debate was INDUCED in on
several items, Representative Wright
Directing to many on the grounds
that it was following in the footsteps
of the 1911 legislature, which was
the most extravaganza in the history
of Georgia."
The confederate pensions section,
which covered many items, totaling
$1,074,S00, was an object Of special
attack, but no change was made.
While the bill was under debate
the lie was passed in the house, Rep
resentative Wright of Floyd using the
word in resenting lobbying charges
intimated by Representative Ennis of
Baldwin. Mr.. Ennis started toward
Wright, but several of the other
members of the house interviewed,
and the matterd waststraightened out
Mr.. Ennis interrupted Mr.. Wright
in a speech and inquired If he was
not inspired by members Of the third
house" in asking for reconsidera-
ton of a certain appropriation. The
reply of Mr.. Wright was that "any
such statement was a lie, an absolute
falsehood." He demanded that II
Mr.. Ennis had such PROOF or evidence
that he submit it to the house.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29
SOME SNAKE STORY THIS
A Georgia Editor Shoots Reptile on
Friends Leg, and Is Hero of
Thrilling Rescue.

BOSTON, GA queer snake sto-
ry was told here this afternoon by
Editor o. L. Blanton.
The editor and a companion, Hew-
lette Walton, were walking through
a swamp late in the afternoon when
coach whip" snake, about five feet
long, began winding itself about Mr.
Walton's leg. Walton, mindful of
the saying that a coach whip will
really whip" became frightened and
started on run through the woods
before he realized what he was do
ing.
When the reptile still chung to his
leg he stopped just as a bullet from
Editor Blanton's % rifle shattered
the reptiles head, which was swing
ing at distance of about twelve
inches from Walton's leg.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29
TRAVELLING ROCKY ROAD
GETTING DEMOCRATIC
BANK COMMITTEE TO AGREE
ON CURRENCY BILL.
MISUNDERSTANDING
Henry and Ragsdale Are Insurgent
Leaders at Turbulent Confer
ence. Interminable Vista of OPP
position Looms Up.

Leaders at a Turbulent Confer
ence. InterminabIe Vista of OPP
position Looms Up.
WASHINGTON.-The administra-
ton currency bill today became the
center of chaos in the conference of
democratic members of the house
banking and currency committee.
After a stormy day session the con-
ference broke up tonight with an in
terminable vista of opposition and
discussion opened up, and the pros
poets of an agreement on the bill
apparently reduced to a vague and
shadowy hope.
Even Chairman Glass, champion
of the bill on the house side, was
about ready to abandon the idea of
getting his colleagues together. Pres
ident Wilson regarded the situation
as so serious that he arranged for
conference at the white house to-
night with Representative Henry of
Texas, chairman of the house rules
committee, who has been advising
with the insurgent committeeman.
The interview lasted we'll into the
night.
The conference today was turbu-
lent from the outset.
Yesterdays Conference Turbulent.
After reopening discussion of the
fundamental feature of the bill the
government control through the
board powers of the proposed federal
reserve board, Representative Bulke-
ley of Ohio held the floor for an hour
in a discussion of President Wilson's
attitude toward the bill
1t became apparent that the pro-
posal to keep this board a strict gov
eminent institution, urged by Presi-
dent Wilson as one of the essentials,
was a point of wide disagreement.
Then Representative Ragsdale pre-
sented a set of amendments practi-.
cally rewriting the essentials of the
bill. These amendments, framed by
Representative Henry and Repre-
sentative Ragsdale, represent the sem
timent of the so-called ''insurgent"
democrats on the currency question
and provide for currency issued on
warehouse receipts for cotton and
wheat.
| Representatives Henry and Rags
dale announced their intention of
fighting for the amendments, not only
in the conference of the committee,
but also in the full committee, the
democratic caucus and possibly on
the floor of the house.
Glass Thinks Agreement Impossible.
Chairman Glass said tonight that
at the close of the days session he
suggested the impossibility of the
democrats agreeing and proposed
that they take the uncompleted bill
to the full committee and try to reach
an agreement with the minority
members, or that they take it to the
democratic caucus. The majority,
however, believed they should make
a further attempt to thresh out their
differences in conference.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29
NEVER AGAIN Be CHEAP
WORLD READY TO CONSUME ALL
COTTON MADE, DECLARES
VISITING ENGLISHMAN.
BIG LIVERPOOL COTTON BUYER
Says Money Situation in England
Is More Stringent Than in Many
Years, Due to Political Agitation
and Wall Street Speculation.


and Wall Street Speculation.
SAVANNAH, Ga.-That any re-
duction in the tariff will be agreea-
BILE to the English and that the busit
ness men of the British empire are
already laying their plans to do a
considerable volume of business with
America under a reduced tariff is the
opinion of Mr.. j. A. Bryning of Ltv-
erpool.
The English visitor has been on
an extensive business trip through
America prior to coming to Savan-
nah.
The money situation in England at
this time is more stringent than in
many years, says Mr.. Bryning, the
tightness of finances being due large
ly to political agitations through
England and transportation on the
part of the English in New York's
Wall street.
Conditions Good.
Throughout the English empire
the visitor says that the situation in
the cotton world is more favorable
than usual Conditions have proven
propitious to the spinning interests,
and all have made money and all are
as well booked ahead with orders.
Most of the cotton stocks at Liver
pool, if not in fact all, are now really
owned by the spinners instead of
spectators.
Mr.. Bryning, who is large cot
ton buyer for the firm of Shand-
Higson & Co., of Liverpool, varies
from the average buyer who is as a
rule bearish in that he believes that
the time of low-priced cotton has for
ever passed. The consumption of
American cotton has grown to such
great proportions in recent years that
no more of the staple is carried over
by producers now on fifteen million
bale crop than was formerly the case
on a nine million bale crop.
Takes 1t All.
The population Of the world is
constantly increasing, Mr.. Bryning
says, and the demand for cotton
goods is showing a corresponding in
crease as a consequence. There has
been a determined effort to increase
the production of cotton in Africa
and also in Egypt, but the staple
cannot compare with that made in
the Southern part of the United
States.
The visitor travelled through South
Carolina, Texas and other states, and
finds that the new crop is promising,
though it needs rain badly in some
sections.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29
TIFF COUNTY WOOL CLIP.

Tiff county wool growers sold their
seasons clip in Triton Saturday to ].
N. Griffin of Valdosta for q cents a
pound. There were eleven growers
with over thirty bales,
representing 5000 pounds, of wool.
The sheep men report wool light this
year, owing to the dry winter and
spring.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29
REV. CRAWFORD JACKSON HELD.
Well Known Minister Made Improper
Advances to Young Girl.

Advances to Young Girl.
Rev. Crawford Jackson, an ordain-
ed Methodist minister and the secre-
tary of the Georgia Juvenile Protect
i've Association, was bound over to
the criminal court of Fulton county
under $1,000 bond Saturday after
noon on the charge of making i'm
proper advances to a fourteen-year-
old girl employed in the Office of the
association. He admits kissing and
giving her a drink.
Rev. Jackson is well known in
Dawson, having several times preach
ed here and solicited contributions
to the institution he represents.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29

What is known as the polar re-
gions cover 1926 square miles
and have 100000 inhabitants.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29

A suspension bridge with a main
span 1900 feet long is proposed for
the Mersey river at Liverpool.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-29

Japanese constitute Al per cent
of the population of Hawaii.
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June, 1910, he left Norway, as peo-
pie supposed, to double Cape Horn
Tor Boring Strait and begin his Arc
uc eXpedi ton; but when they were
i'll the neighborhood of the Madeiras
he told his men of the situation anu
that instead of continuing on their
trip for Boring Strait they would
first make dash for the South
Pole. If they succeeded in this he
felt sure that money would be easily
forthcoming for the northern trip.
Fixing his camp, "Framheim" on the
Great Barrier OF the Antarctic, he
established depots of food and fuel
at various points on the way toward
the pole. On the coming of the
southern spring he started on his
memorable dash in November, 1911,
reaching the pole, which was about
700 miles from his main base of sup
plies, on the 14th of December. He
and his men remained at the pole
Tor three days, taking observations,
setting up flags at various points in
the neighborhood, and erecting a
tent on the spot where they supposed
tie pole to be located. A Norwegian
flag was fixed to the top of the tent,
and, as we have lately learned,
Amundsen also wrote a letter to the
King of Norway, which he left in the
tent and which was found by the
late lamented Captain Scott when,
few months later, he also reached
the pole. me letter was found on
his person when he was discovered
by the rescue party which found him
and his companions dead
Captain Amundsen's success was
due in large measure to his very
careful preparations, having with
him over hundred Eskimo dogs for
transportation purposes, and being
equipped with skis, in the use of
which he and his men were experts.
| The result was that his achievement
OF the South Pole is the sWiftest
most economic, and most successful
expedition of the kind on record,
without mishap or loss, everything
falling out exactly as planned. After
completing this trip Captain Amund-
sen has been busy wri ting a book on
the subject and lecturing in South
America. Europe, and the United
States, as required in French, Nor
Negian, German. or English. On
January IL, 1913, before a distin-
guished gathering of members of the
society and invited guests, he was
presented by Captain Peary with the
special gold medal of the National
Geographic Society prepared for the
occasion. five years after the same
society presented him a gold medal
for his achievement of the Northwest
Passage. Captain Amundsen is now
preparing for his long-planned ex-
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