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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-18
KING COTTON"
Southern States Are Essentially Important Factor in tn
Manufacturing Industries and Commerce of the World

Last year, upon one-eighth of the
land devoted to the ~ leading crops
of the country, the South produced
one crop, cotton, having value more
than one-fifth of the aggregate value
of the whole II crops and empha-
sized it's unique position in the
markets of the world.
The value of merchandise exported
from the United States in the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1912, was 49,
O4,322,4O9. OF the total raw cot
ton represented 1866, S49,271, manu-
features of cotton $50,769, 511, and
cotton seed and their products $42,-
142.181, an aggregate of s56S,760.-
963, representing products of the
cotton plant and 29.9 per cent of the
total value of all merchandise exports
of the country. In the SO years be-
tween 1880 and 1912 there was ex-
ported from the United States mer-
chandise to the value of $39,151,-
S2S,195, and of that total $685.
2S2,13S, or 24,7 per cent. was the
value Of Southern cotton exported.
In the 80 years the cotton crops of
the South, including seed, had an
aggregate value of s16,452, 900. 900,
the output of all the gold mines of
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-18
New Spring Shirts

parliamentary talent, but his violent
temper His likes and dislikes are
equally strong. He is said to have
more enemies in the state of Arkan-
sas than any other one man, and
likewise more friends. He is dead
open and shut about it; either he
likes man unqualifedly, generously
and openly or he hates him cordially
bitterly and eterpally.
The evidence of his dislike breaks
over all rules of conventionality.
When Senator Jeff Davis, who until
his death short time ago was junior
senator from Arkansas, appeared in
the upper house to be sworn in Mr..
Clarke refused to have anything to
do with the proceedings. 1t is GUS
tomary on occasions of this sort for
the senior senator to escort his new
colleague to the vice presidents desk,
introduce him and stand while he is
sworn. Political and personal diff
ferences are dropped for the time
being while this little formal courtesy
is extended. Clarke had no use for
JEFF Davis back home in Arkansaw
and could see no reason why he
should be polite in Washington
therefore he absolutely refused to
take any part in the doings, which
he opined were hypocritical. When
Davis died and another of Clarke's
bitterest political enemies, was elect.
ed, John N Haskell Clarke took q
similar attitude. In each case a
democratic leader had to relieve the
embarrassment of the newcomer
by escorting him through the Undue
ton ceremony.
While he never has assumed a po-
sition of leadership in the senate he
is a valued man and his striking per
sonality adds piquancy, to say the
least, to what might otherwise be a
somewhat colorless body, since in
these latter days sectional differences
mean little and senators from the
most distant states are very similar
in dress. manners, habits and speech
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-18
New Spring Oxfords

started in Illinois may develop into a
widespread crusade against white
slavery.
The committee is convinced that
the low wages earned by women and
girls are in large part responsible
for the recruiting of the underworld.
And this conclusion as was reached
in Philadelphia. DR.. Howard A. Kel-
ley of Johns Hopkins University, the
leading gynecologist of the United
States, asserts that hundreds of wo-
men are forced into lives of shame
in that city because they do not re-
ceive a living wage. The same au-
thority asserts that 100000 women
die annually in the United States as
a direct result of the social evil
about II every hour.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, presi-
dent of the International Woman
Suffrage Alliance, who has studied
social conditions deeply and who is
not given to exaggeration, says that
thousands of American women are
carried from this country every year
to undergo a worse fate than death
in Asia and Africa There are at
least she says, Il, 100000 women in
this country leading lives of CONNER
cial shame and the horror will exist
until women are given living
wage"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-18

the world was worth 1854, los, 500,
and the output of all the silver mines
was worth s3,459, 909,642. The SO
cotton crops had G value of $S,817.-
S94,4O0 greater than the 33 years
gold production in the world and
$5,357, 9S4,758 greater than the com
bined gold and silver production.
In no year since 1880 has the COM
bined output of all the gold mines
and silver mines in the world equaled
in value the value of the South's
cotton crop, with its seed, and in only
five of the 33 years was the output
of all the gold mines in the world
sufficient to pay for the cotton ex-
ported from the United States.
Southern cotton mills alone are
now consuming annually more cotton
than the South produced in 1868,
more than all the mills of the whole
country consumed as late as 1896,
and more than half the amount now
consumed annually by all the mills
of the country.
A criterion of the South's textile
activities today is contained in the
fact that there are produced in the
16 states over 100 different lines of
goods, spun, woven and knit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-18
PUBLIC CONSCIENCE AROUSED TO GREAT EVIL

designed to correct this tendency.
Its investigating committee has had
before it the great employers of fe-
male labor in Chicago and has very
clearly brought out the fact that
while some of the girls are paid liv-
ing wages others are not, the miser-
able pittance given them being en-
tirely inadequate to support them
without outside assistance.
Employer after employer has ex-
pressed the view that So or 50 per
week was necessary for girl to sup
port herself in decency and comfort,
and most of these employers, to their
credit be it said, declared their will
ingness to better conditions, particu-
larly in the cases of girls of from 13
to 16 who are paid only SO or 81 a
week. Some even expressed the opin-
ion that they could pay the minimum
wage scale which the legislature con-
temple ties enacting into law-$12 a
without raising the price OF
any article to the consumer. But
they pointed out that if this sum was
fixed as minimum others of their
employees now getting $12 or over
would be dissatisfied and would
ask for more. In such case the prices
of commodities would have to be ad-
vanced to the public and another re-
suit also might follow. AS $12 as
minimum men in many cases might
be substituted for girls and women
and the latter would be forced to find
other means of livelihood. 1t is prob
able that the committee, whose work
will extend over a considerable peri
cd, will recommend a minimum wage
scale for girls of $12 a week. In its
investigations the committee had be-
fore it various members of the under
world of Chicago and these invariably
testified that they wehe forced into
lives of degradation because of their
inability to live upon the wages they
earned.
The committee is now in New
York studying the relation of wages
and vice in the metropolis and later
will visit Washington, where a meet
ing is to be arranged with President
Wilson in the interest of federal
wage law, and it is not improbable
that out of the Chicago investigation
may grow a public demand for such
a provision. The governors of Wis
consin. Iowa, Indiana, Michigan and
Ohio will recommend to the legisla-
lures of their states the appointment
of commissioners based on the Illi-
nois model, so that the movement
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-18
DREADFUL MENACE OF SOCIAL
ULCER AS SHOWN BY CONDI-
TIONS IN LARGE CITIES.
STARTLING FIGURES ARE GIVEN

LOW wages SenuInS 1HOuSahuS "
Victims to Underworld. Horrible
Revelations by Investigating Com
mittee of Illinois Legislature.
There is no more hopeful sign OF
the times than the awakening OF the
American conscience to the frightful
menace to the nation of the social
evil. In the past the subject was
generally avoided. 1t was Stunned
as one might shun leper, and many
high-minded citizens contented them
selves with the reflection that the
social evil had always existed and
always would. Regarded in this light
cOmmercialized vice was subjected to
attemptes to regulate and supervise
it. The system of regulation and
supervision was tried in many cities
and failed in all. In all the evil
grew worse and the menace to the
nation greater.
But there were men and women
who did not fear to grapple with the
vice and gradually they aroused the
public conscience. Gradually the
necessity of plain speaking concern
ing plain evil was brought home to
many, and today the various phases
Of the system are being discussed
openly.
problem.
The investigation in New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago are edueat-
ing the public to the enormity OF the
system, whose chief beneiciaries are
the promoters of the traffic and the
corrupt police officials who find in
tolerated vice the most fruitful
source of dishonest cain. In the
Investigation Of the evil ir Chicago
the senate committee of the state
legislature is probing deeply into the
underlying cause of much of the hui
man wretchedness and moral dere-
Letion which exists in that city
Recognizing that much of the evil
Is due to the fact that its chief vic
tms-young girls-are led into dives
OF shame by inability to support
themselves upon the wages they earn
The legislature is contemplating the
passage of a minimum wage scale
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-18
HE TAPPED THE SEWER.

Negro Could Not Stand to See Good
Whiskey Wasted by Government.
A Muscogee negro just couldn't
stand to see good Ticker wasted" so
while the federal enforcement officer
was emptying several barrels of per-
fectly good whiskey into a sewer the
negro tapped the drain pipe and saw
ed fifteen gallons of the fluid. But
there his luck failed him. for some
body informed the officers. and the
darkey hit the breeze" as the COW
bows say.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-18
is A FIRE EATING SENATOR
CLAPK, OF ARKANSAS, THE NEW
PRESIDENT PRO TEN.
Has a Violent Temper, and Is Partic-
ularIy Intense in Likes and Dis
likes. Both Hated and Loved.

A picturesque Southerner of the
fre-eating type familiar in the befo'
de war stories-such is Senator Jas.
P. Clarke of Arkansas, who has just
been elected president pro tenn OF
the United States senate.
Tall, straight as an arrow, with
gray hair and a distinguished look,
Senator Clarke is easily the most
conspicuous figure on the democratic
side of the upper house. He is con-
sidered an able lawyer, too, and be-
longs to what are known as the con-
servatives in politics.
The picturesque thing about Sena-
tor Clarke is not his legal nor his
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-18
WILSON TO LOWER THE BARS
PRESIDENT WILL PROBABLY RE-
Woke CIVIL SERVICE ORDER.
Least Fighting Chance to Get
Near the Pie Trough.

WASHINGTON, D. president
Wilson's advisers have hit upon So
lutions of two of the political prob
lens confronting the administration
which promised to be most trouble
somewhat kind of democrats shall
get plums from the political tree and
how thousands of democrats through
out the country can be given a fight
ing chance at least to get near the
tree.
Within the next few days Postmas-
ter General Burleson is expected to
present for the presidents considera-
ton plan which opens to democrats
the $4,000 third and fourth class
postmasterships placed in the civil
service list recently by Mr.. Taft. Mr..
Burleson said to night that he had
not yet decided to ask the president
for a revocation of this order If he
decides against asking for revoca-
ton he will then suggest that post
masters who benefited by the Taft or
der be required to pass a merit test,
which would be open also to others.
If the president took the first course
thousands of postmasterships would
be available at once, and if he chose
the other democrats would have as
good a chance as republican incum-
bents.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-18

Country eggs and butter always
at Melton Bros.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-18
As to POstmasters.

Ever since Mr.. Taft issued his ia
nous order, which with a similar one
by Mr.. Roosevelt put every third and
fourth class postmaster in the coun-
try in the classified service, it has
been subjected to a vigorous criti-
cism by democrats, who charged that
its purpose was to keep in office
through Mr.. Wilson's term thousands
of republicans who were not in sym
pathy with the administration and
who were given such protection
merely to KEEP the republican machine
in working order. Mr.. Burleson has
given the order serious consideration
and any recommendation he makes
to the president is likely to have
much weight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11
TRAVELLING MEN WANT
TOVOTE BY MAIL
Protective Association In.
dorses Bill to Go Before
Virginia Legislature.

LYNCHRI-RG, Va. May 10.-At its final
session here today me Virginia division
of the Travellers Protective Association
indorsed the draft of hill tn nc pre-
scented to the next Virginia legislature
by which it is hoped to secure for travel
ing men the privilege of voting away
from home by means of registered mail
The next annual convention goes to
Norfolk
The officers for the coming year:
President. w H. Jones of Danville;
first vice president Alvin NJ. Smith of
Richmond: second vice President. Horace
l.. Smith of Petersburg: secretary-treas-
urer. II. l.. HARDWOOD of Richmond
Chaplains-Rev. J, !. Gravatt of Rich
vile and Rev J. p NcCabe OF Martins
Vile
Committee chairmen: Railroads, A. D.
Brockett of Alexandria press. c. w
Rogers of Richmond: hotel J. II. Grams
Of Richmond: legislative. Fl. G. Feath-
Stribbins Of Norfolk: membership r. u.
Davis of Norfolk, and good roads and
public utilities. T. II. Self of Martins
vile.
GREENSBORO. \. G., MAY 1o.-The
North Carolina division OF the Travellers
fTotettiNe ASSOCIATION. IN annual session
here this afternoon. selected Rock Mount
n. c.. as next years meeting place
elected officers for the ensuing year and
adjourned. Officers elected were E. {.
Clinard. Winston-Salem. president: A l..
Byrd. Asheville. first vice president; G
S. Edwards. Rocky Mount. second vice
president. X. j. Corbitt. Henderson,
third vice president. and {. c. Mclean
Greensboro. secretary and treasurer. \
resolution was adopted by tne assoc y
ton To every Legitimate means and
To cooperate with all other traveins
mems organizations TO bring about a
legislative act against tipping.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11
TO RAE A HOUSE A DAY
Contractor Removing Houses
in Willow Tree Alley for
interior Park.

house day is the rate at which
Sidney r. Heckinger. contractor for the
removal of the buildings in Willow Tree
alley. expects TO demoiish the habitations
IN that section of Washington. which Is
to be converted into an interior park
Mr.. Heckinger put a large force of men
TO work on the project last week. Under
the terms OF his contract. he has ninety
days in which to complete l.. There are
sixty EIGHT dwellings and fifty sheds to
be removed Mr.. Hcckinger expects to
have them all down within less than the
contract time, so that the grading of tho
property for park purposes may be com
menced at once.
Located between Sd. Az. and c
streets southwest Willow Tree alley long
has been AN eyesOre. and was character
lied by the District health department as
a menace to the health of the city. Con
gress appropriated $500 for the con-
demnation Of the property. The Commits
sioners have ordered that il be converted
into an interior park as soon as the
houses have been removed. 1t Is be-
lieved that the Improvement will be com
pleted before the end Of the summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11
SEEK TO ENTER ARMY CAMP.
George Washington Students Desire
to Go to Gettysburg.

In response to the announcement by the
War Department that undergraduates in
the George Washington University are
eligible to take the special course Of
training army officers in the War De-
partment's camp at Gettysburg this sum
mer. a number OF young men of the in
stitution have made application for en-
rollment The inquiries have reached
Capt. X. .. Van Horn. at the War De-
partment. or have been sent 10 the secre
tary of the school. Richard Coob. "a uni
versity headquarters, on 6 street.
The undergraduates want to take ad-
vantage of the training offered at the
experimental camps, which is Offered
them without formal enlistment i'm the
army. The scheme to be instituted this
summer Al the instance of Secretary OF
War Garrison provides for the training
of the college men in the duties OF a
young officer In the army. particularly
with regard 10 his duties in the time OF
war
Regular officers OF the United States
Army Will serve as instructors at the
Gettysburg camp. Undergr aduates from
practically all the schools Of George
Washington University have made the
inquiries. especial interest being shown
by the ones taking the medical course.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11
FOR CANAL RADIO STATION.
San Francisco Company Submit.
Lowest Bid fer Construction.

The Federal Telegraph Company of
San Francisco submitted the lowest es-
innate for the construction of a high
power radio station az the United States
naval reservation at San Pablo Site,
Caimito Canal Zone.
When the bids were opened at tie
Navy Department yesterday this COM
pany-s estimate the construction Of
the three 6g0-foot steel towers was
s73.1IS.s1. and On the wireless equipment
So 69i So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11
SUBMARINES LEAVE NEWPORT
On Way 20 Norfolk and Chesapeake
Bay fer Exercises.

TIE Little feet OF submarines have
started from Newport, r. L.. for Nor
folk TO execute in Chesapeake bay and
of the Virginia capes some OF the drill :
and exercises they omitted when las:
n those waters.
The hurry up orders given to the
officers last night at Newport were in
tended merely to test the readiness of
the officers and men to respond 10 an
emergency call and probably would not
have been issued had it been known
at headquarters that the submarine ball
had been set for hat particular night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11

the bill before tie committee for govern
ment aid in the construction of Alaskan
railways. but opposed a system of gov
eminent lease of coal lands.
George II. Patrick. counsel for the
Alaska Northern railway, con:cnded his
company should have an opportunity to
penetrate the interior OF Alaska without
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11

Alaska James +. Callbreath. secretary
of the American mining congress. told
day He added that former President
Roosevelts executive order Of 1896 with
drawing Alaska coal land from entry
warranted . revolution and favored
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11

Rudolph. so and so. Clements. AZ and
IS: Dent. 40 and As and Bradley, 3. and
IL.
Refreshments were served on the
train en- route to the beach. and there
was shad dinner at ) o'clock al the
beach John E. Laskey was toast
master.
George. II. OConnor told the members
of the association that My Cousin
Caruse" had been ordered from court
by the judges. and refused to sing
about him, but he did entertain with
several selections. Matt Horn. accom-
panying him on the piano.
When does crab become soft" was
the question Justice Wright was called
on to answer by several members of
the bar during a confab following the
dinner. The justice explained to his
audience" that crab sheds its shell
and later leaves its place OF abode as
a soft" with another tide. His eX-
PLANTATION. however was not satisfac-
tory to several of the lawyers. and
they decided 10 appeal the decision,
Commissioner Cuno III. Rudolph and
Mai. Richard Sylvester superintendent
of police. were among the invited guests
who were conspicuous by participation in
the fun of the occasion. contributing
literally TO make the day one of rea.
pleasure.
Members of the bench on the trip were
Chief Justice Shepard and Justices RobD
and Van Orsdel OF tine Court of Appeals:
Justices Barnard. Gould and Wright of
the District OF Columbia Supreme Court;
Justices Howry, Booth and Barney of the
Court of Claims. Justices Aukam and
Callan of the Municipal Court; Judge
'Mullowny OF the Police Court and Judge
De Lacy of the Juvenile Court. Auditor
Dent of the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia and Judge Advocate General
Russell of the navy also We're on the trip.
Committees in Charge.
The committee in charge of the outing
consisted OF John f. LasiSey. Walter C.
Balderston. Alexander III. Bell. Joseph \.
Burkart Charles D. Davis. Carl j. F.
Graft. Edward B. kimbail. Julius !. Pey-
ser. Conrad II. Syme. Charles H. Bates.
Edmund Brady, Michael J. Colbert. Ed
win C. Dutton. Leo Harlow, George ii.
O'Connor. Francis NJ. Phelps James A.
Toomey and a. Coulter Wells.
The committee assigned to look after
the reception. comfort and pleasure of the
party was composed of A. s. Worthing-
Morgan H. Beach. Alexander H. Bell.
Horace George. Edwin c. BrandenbGrg.
Henry p Blair. Arthur A. Birney. Adds
Is. Browne. John Bealle. Chaplin Brown,
Melville Church. Holmes Conrad, Charles
II. Cragin. Henry E. Davis. w. w.
J. Holdsworth Gordon. George E. Ham
ilton. Adolph A. Hoehling. .jr-. William G..
Johnson. George A. King. William b.
King. Blair Lee. Benjamin F. Leighton.
William NJ. Levin. Samuel Maddox, Ed
ward s. McCalmont, Frederic d. Nc
Perry, Arthur Peter. Jackson II. Ralston,
Leigh Robinson. John Seiden. Hugh I.
Taggart, Edward H. Thomas Leon To-
briner and Clarence r. Wilson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11

Charles Cox. aged fifteen years. OF
Martinsburg, W. Va. was arrested at
Hagers:ewn. Md. Tuesday, charged with
robbing the store of the Enmert Hard
ware Company one night recently. He
awakinc at midnight found the store
locked After taking some revolvers and
other articles he left by the rear door,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11
scantiing Does Some Tanning.

Lefty ScantlinS got away To a GOOD
start and famed the first three batters in
the third inning. lie die such good work
that the three spectators thought he
would establish a Strike-out record When
the next inning rounded. however he did
not have three let hand batters to face.
AZ in tho first inning and Brady, the
Never sweat twirler. opened with a
Triple 10 deep center. They continued
I" drive the bal to all corners OF the
aeid Tor the rest Of the game
I'd wilson. who cndea vored to dupli-
ate 'hlck Gandif' first base work. led
me winners az the bat. with home
run. triple and double The home run
'@me IN the second inning with two on
bases After I'D had turned the third
base nc was ready to drop but half OF
has teammates went to his assistance
and carried him To the nome plate
Pitcher Brady of the Never Sweats"
pulled OF the "Merkle play of the
game. lie threw easy grounder Chit
I" him by Maddox at the coacher on
the first base line instead of TO his
teammate. and the runner completed
the circuit for Il run
chamberlain. who played second base
Tor the Never Sweats." led the base
Stealers His steal home i'm the firth
inning. when he started to slide about
tati way down the base line and then
completed several sCmersauIts and
landed on the plate earned rousing az
riause from the three spectators
The lineup OF the teams was:
Never SweatS--B ehrsnS catcher. BRADY
pitcher, Wilson. first base: Chamber
lain. second base: smith. third base
Sherrier. shortStop: Doyle left field
i.owery. center field. and English. right
field.
Little Potatoes-Newmeyer. pitcher and
catcher, Sca0tlinC, catcher and pitcher
label. first base: Hillyer. second base;
i.erch and Mack. third base: Toomey
shcrtstop. Sieman, Jeff field: Maddox
center field and Goddess. right field.
a number IF the excursionists tried
their arms at bowling. The totals fol
the day developed that Commissioner
Rudolph was the champion. He had
a score of eighty for five frames. Gus
Schuldt ran him q close second for the
honorS with q score OF seventy mine
And There Were Other Stunts.
In a special match game the scores
were: Cobb. Is and 50; Commissioned