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Dishonest in Criticism.

Much of this criticism is not honest:
such as is honest is usually based upon
ignorance of the law and conditions.
Thus those who say the farm labor sup
ply is being interfered with seem to as
sumo that immigrants from southern and
eastern Europe go on the farms. where
as practically none Of them do, although
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even in many spots. Tennis is considered
an especially desirable exercise for young
people and public high school tennis clups
are receiving the encouragement ofsmost
athletic directors.

athletic directors.
The West End Tennis Club. at which
held. will be the
Worlds Largest largest and best
Tennis Plant. ing plant in the
world when all OF it's arrangements are
complete. 1t is building new house anu
LAYING out grounds at Forest Hills, LONE
Island. which Will cover over ten acres
~ ground. The clubhouse will be large
and up-to-date In Its equipments aneaSI co courts
.wimminR pools and other features.
There will be sixty courts constructed out
Of doors, which will include dirt, turf.
cinder and cement. Turf from the courts
Of the old club grounds at 23sth street
and broadway, New York, will be trans
ferred to some OF these new courts. one
Of the original ideas. which Is to be put
into effect is the orientation Of the courts
that ia. laying them out In such manner
that they viii be disposed to catch the
sun's rays In q manner favorable to play
at different seasons of the year. instead
Of running from north to south as near
ly all tennis courts are expected 10 oo
The equipment for tennis playing Is
manufactured with scientific exactness
The balls are made by hand of rubber
covered with white felt of the highest
Grade. The rackets are made of caret/lly
Seasoned wood strung with the best quail
ity Of catgut and need to be carefully
protected from dampness when not in
use to prevent the wood from warping
and the gut from becoming too loose.
Rubber-soled shoes are used upon most
courts. although opinions are divided re-
garding the use Of spikes upon grass
courts Formerly tennis has been day
t%a,k hA lot ~ l0un n
night tennis have been made possible by
improved systems OF lighting. which do
away with shadows and give uniform
illumination over the entire court. The
first night tennis tournament held in the
world took place last July at the Lake
wood Tennis Club in Cleveland, and an
other Is in contemplation for this sum
mer.
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AIMED At IMMIGRATION
Bill Restricts Inflow From
Southern and Eastern Eu-
rope and Western Asia.

Senator Dillingham; of Vermont, for
mer chairman Of the Senate committee
on immigration. today introduced a bill
which, 1t is said, will materially reduce
immigration from southern and east
ern Europe and western Asia.
The bill Is similar in many respects
to the Dillingham; Burnett bill, which
was vetoed by President Taft at the
last session Of Congress on the ground
that 1t provided for the exclusion OF
illiterate immigrants The literacy test
for immigrants Is omitted from the
present bill, however. and as a sub
stitute means of restricting immigra-
ton Of the class referred to it Is pro-
vided that the number of aliens OF any
nationality. exclusive OF temporary
visitors, who may be admitted to the
United States in any fiscal year shall
not exceed 10 per cent of the number
of persons OF such nationality resident
In the United states at the time of the
United States census next preceding,
but the minimum number OF any ma
tionality admissible in any fiscal year
shall not be less than 5000.
Western Hemisphere Exempted.
Countries Of the western hemisphere
are exempted from the operation OF the
provision. According to the bill, ma
tionality is to be determined by coun-
try of birth rather than of residence.
but the term country does not include
colonies or dependencies. which are
considered as separate countries.
The bill provides that when the maxi.
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they may have been farm laborers in
their native countries. AS matter OF
fact over so per cent of the immigrants
Of today come from southern and eastern
Europe or western Asia. and very few OF
these have any intention of performing
or could be induced to perform farm work
in the United States; and in the main de-
pendence must be had upon the 10 or 70
per cent from northern or western Eu-
rope for the farmers supply so far as II
can be expected to come from over seas.
1t is obvious. Mr.. keefe continues. that
existing law Is not SUFFICIENT to meet the
serious situation. and it would seem to be
incumbent upon Congress to adopt an i'm
migration measure that will be sufficient.
Would Strengthen Law.
Mr.. Keefe says that after four and
half years connection with the immgra-
ton service he is of opinion that while
somewhat more could be accomplished to-
ward keeping out the undesirables IL
more money and more inspectors and
doctors were available. mo very consider
able increase in reflections can be eX-
pected unless and until thelaw Is mate
rally improved and strengthened
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The new Methodist Episcopal Churcn
at Shqckeysville. Va. was dedicated
Sunday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
STAMP OUT THE BOIL WEEVIL
WOULD INDUCE FARMERS TO
CUT OUT COTTON FOR SEASON.
Conference Between Smith of South
Carolin%and Department Officials
Would Pay Farmers For Loss.

observation-disclosures to-
day between Senator Smith of South
Carolina and officials of the depart
ments of justice, agriculture and la
Dor, in regard to the senator's pro-
posal to stop the raising of cotton in
q belt across Alabama as barrier
against the progress of the boil Wee
vii in the states to the east, brought
from government officials indorse-
lnent Of the plan.
The department of justice will
proceed to study all the legal meth
DDS by which the federal government
may cooperate with the state of AL
ALBANIA and cotton growers of Geor-
gia, Florida and the Carolinas to
stop the advance of the pest.
Department of agriculture ento-
mologists informed the senators that
the proposal was practical, but that
it might be necessary to establish a
non-cotton growing zone of more
than fifty miles in width, as first sug-
gested by Senator Smith. They also
informed him that the cost of estab-
fishing the zone of continued COM
pensation to it's farmers for growing
crops other than cotton would be
small compared to the amount saved
from the ravages of the pest
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
BACON STANDS PAT;
BARROW TO GET JOB
Protests Against His Appointments as
Collector at the Port of Savannah
Have No Effect.

WASHINGTON Notwithstandi
the objections of the city administra-
tion and the Cracker Club of Savan-
nah against David C. Barrow as col
lector of the port Senator Bacon has
determined to stand pat on his origi-
nal recommendation. He will insist
on Barrow's nomination by the pres
ident.
Following the visit to Washington
last week of City Attorney John
Rourke and delegation of Savan-
nahians opposed to Barrow's appoint
ment it was rumored that in the in
terest Of peace and harmony Barrow
might be made district attorney in
stead of collector, but Senator Bacon
let it be known definitely and finally
today that he has no idea of shifting
Barrow.
The senator said that he knew
nothing of any scheme of shifting
Barrow from the one place to the
other, and added with characteristic
firmness that Barrow will be APP
pointed"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
COTTON CROP is
BADLY DAMAGED
Five Hundred Thousand Bales Said
to Be the Toll of the Boil Wee
vii in Mississippi

WASHINGTON.-The boil weevil
will damage the present cotton crop
in Mississippi 100000 bales, accord
ing to the estimate made to Senator
Smith of South Carolina by H. E.
Blakeslee, commissioner of agricult-
ure of that state.
The commissioner made this pre-
diction in letter written to the SEN
ator commencing the latter's pro-
posal that the growing of cotton be
prohibited in a belt across Alabama
as a barrier to the progress of the
boil weevil into the South Atlantic
states.
Commissioner Blakeslee estimates
that in addition to the damage to the
cotton crop itself land values in Mis-
sissippi have deprecated $2O,O0O,-
600 as a result of its appearance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
TO PASS CURRENCY BILL
ADMINISTRATION PLANS ENACT
NLENT AT PRESENT SESSION.
South Carolina Congressman Bolts
Meeting and Leaves Committee
Room in a Huff.

WASHINGTON.-There are to be
no changes in the administration
plans in the enactment of currency
reform measure at the present con-
gress. This was plainly indicated
today by President Wilson and Sen
ator Owen, chairman of the senate
committee on banking and currency,
after they had held long confer
ence at the white house.
The president said he was salts
fed with the speed with which the
currency bill was being landed at
the capitol and declared his conf
dence in the ultimate passage of the
Glass bill with the changes proposed
by the house committee. With these
changes he said he was in perfect ac-
cord.
The most important change recon-
mended would permit national
banks to continue to use the two per
cent government bonds for circula-
ton. Other amendments are of
minor Importance, Senator Owen
said. The senator positively declar-
ed objections to the government con-
troll of the federal reserve board
would have no weight with the ad-
ministration and that in this respect
the bill would be passed by both
houses in its present form.
South CarOlinan Bolts Meeting.
Continuing their rather turbulent
consideration of the administration
currency bill democrats of the house
banking and currency committee to-
day agreed on several tentative
changes of Importance This was
done at an afternoon session of the
committee, which Representative
Ragsdale of South Carolina left sum-
marily, announcing his dissatisfac-
ton with the procedure of the demo-
Gratis after he had found it impracti-
cable to secure copies of all the vari-
Gus amendments offered to the bill,
Ragsdale had asked Friday that
Chairman Glass furnish him with
copies. Today the chairman said
many of the amendments were I'M
important and that a complete list
of copies was not available. After
rather heated controversy Represent
ative Ragsdale left the committee
room. He said tonight he had work
ed on various features of the bill out
side of the committee and that he
would attend tomorrow's session pre-
pared to take part in the considera-
tiOn of the measure.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
WOULD COST MANY MILLIONS
Starvation of Weevil Would Mean
a Tremendous Loss in the Nom
Producing Belt.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. experts
estimate that a loss of almost $685.
100000 a year to cotton growers in
Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and
Florida would result from the adop-
ton of the plan proposed recently by
Senator Smith of South Carolina,
which contemplated the establish
ment of a belt in which the growth
Of cotton should be prohibited By
law in an effort to keep the cotton
boil weeyil from spreading eastward
into the Atlantic coast states.
This conclusion has been reached
by the department Of agriculture,
based on provision for the elimina-
ton of a strip about 100 miles wide
down through Tennessee Alabama,
Georgia and Florida. Nc figures
were prepared to show how this loss
of s1O8,OOO,OOO annually might be
offset either in part or in full by the
raising of other crops.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
GEORGIA COLLEGE STATISTICS
Attendance Upon Higher Education
al Institutions of State as Shown
by Government Figures.


Official figures from the report Of
the United States commissioner of
education dealing with educational
conditions in Georgia have been
made public, and show the enroll
ment for the year ending in 1912 of
all the colleges and higher educa-
tional institutions attended by young
men and women in this state.
The report shows that this spring
there were enrolled in the twelve
principal institutions of this chara-
ter in Georgia 1850 students, divid-
ed as follows:
University of Georgia, 654; Geor-
gia School of Technology, $50; Bre-
nau College, 454; Andrew Female
College, 143; Agnes Scott College,
1874; Bessie Tiff College, 35S; La
Grange College, 1874; Southern Fe-
male College, 112; Mercer Universe
ty 35S; Wesleyan College, AS; En-
Dry College, 259; Shorter College,
300.
AS a university the University Of
Georgia had the largest attendance,
and among girls colleges Brenau
stood easily first. Further figures
giving similar statistics for Virginia,
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Ken
lucky, North Carolina and South Car
DINA and other Southern states show
that Brenau gives Georgia the lead
in the entire South for attendance
on wOmen's colleges.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
Sight Restored to Woman Who Never
BeheId Her Husband Nor Grown Children

The woman, now bent and feeble,
is Mrs. Mary Welsh. She left Chi
cago for her Hillsdale home, her
sight restored. Mrs. Welsh in the
last month hal been in the Wesley
Hospital hers. The operation that
gave back her sight, surgeons said,
was one of the most remarkable on
record. 1t consisted of the removal
of a cataract of so years standing.
A month ago the Methodist con-
gregation at Hillsdale took up col
lection to pay the expenses of the
trip to Chicago. Mrs. Welsh came
to the hospital from her home alone.
On the breast she bore the inscrip-
ton, Il am blind I am going to
the Wesley Hospital Please direct
me-" on a large plscard.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
FOUGHT IN A RAIN STORM
Former Dawson Man and an Albany
Constable Have Fisticuff.

The Albany Herald prints the fol-
lowing account of an encounter be-
tween a former Dawson man and
Dougherty county constable:
"a personal difficulty between j.
w. Harrell, bailiff, and G. E. Han
ma, OF 631 Pine street, which Occn!r-
ed in front of the court house this
morning, caused considerable excite
ment. The fight did not amount to
much, however, as Assistant Chief
of Police B. NJ Coganhan interfered.
1t is stated by the officer that the
trouble between Harrell and Hanna
arose over some household goods of
the latter which were levied upon.
The two got into an argument over
the matter, and Harrell struck Han
ma with his fist. The blow staggered
Hanna and as he was about to fall
over some bed springs that were
piled in front of the court house
to be sold the bailiff's son, c w.
HarreT, jumped on him. At this
point the officer interfered. The
whole party got soaking wet in the
heavy rainstorm that came up just
about the time the difficulty COM
menced."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
LIFE A MODEL FOR SUBJECTS
GEAR OF RUSSIA SPENDS MUCH
OF TINE WITH HIS FAMILY.
Leads a Very Simple Life, Walks a
Great Deal, and Has a Merry
Time With Children.

Intimate details of the family life
of Nicholas II, Gear of all the Rus
sias, are given in a book by a well
known Russian professor just pub
lished.
His majesty rises at 8 O'Clock ev-
cry morning. His breakfast is de-
scribed as very simple and of the
English kind" it consists of ham,
cold roast meat, eggs and tea or COT
fee. After breakfast he reads the
principal European newspapers, max
ing notes in the margins in regard
to items that particularly interest
him.
State affairs occupy him for an
hour before he takes a stroll In the
park. His companions on these oc-
casions are usually his son, two
Scotch collie dogs, which are his ia
vorite pets, and an officer of the
court Sometimes he takes a spin on
bicycle or goes for row on one
Of the lakes. After luncheon and
more state business he goes for an
other walk, returning in time to have
afternoon tea with the empress and
the children.
The dinner table is described as
gay The children always sit down
With b;c N, n iaS+y uubo Loopc tho oOD-
versation going merrily. He very
much enjoys asking the children rid
dies and giving them difficult SEN
fences to pronounce quickly When
staying in the Crimea his majesty
frequently walks fifteen miles a day.
Nicholas II does not like cards, but
plays dominoes.
The book gives interesting details
of the imperial children's education.
The Czarevitch is being carefully in
structed in military discipline and ct
iquette. In order that he may be
taught the art of command a model
regiment consisting of children of
court officials has been formed, of
which he is head.
The four grand duchesses speak
Russian, English, German and French
fiuentIy. Music, drawing, photogra-
ply, dancing, riding, rowing and ten
mis- are their favorite hobbies An
other spare time occupation of theirs
is to rehearse little sketches to which
their parents are subsequently in
vited.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25

WASHINGTON-One policeman
is in the hospital, two others are
nursing bruises and waiting new uni
forms, and part of the Union League
baseball park is wreck today as
result of the riot at Saturday base
ball game when 1000 enthusiasts
discovered that a team of "bloomer"
girls were really men in disguise.
The team was taken to an eastbound
train under police protection.
A half hour before the storm
broke the manager of the girls .
aggregation had acquired the gate
receipts and had disappeared.
The trouble started when the
"girl" centerfelder, as a husky
young blonde, threw ball from deer
center to the home plate, catching
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
BACON GOT $3.50 VOTES.

Formally Declared Reelected to Unit
ed States Senate From Georgia.
In joint session the senate and
house of the Georgia general assem-
bly, has canvassed the returns of the
special election held July s and for
mally declared Senator A. o. Bacon
reelected to the United States senate
for his fourth term He received
.25,5 vots.
This election was the first held in
Georgia under the recently ratified
constitutional amendment providing
for the election of United States SEN
ators by popular vote.
Senator Bacon has made oath be-
fore the secretary of the United
States senate that his expenses in the
recent election we're s7S. Under the
law he would have been limited to
$4,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
1000 MERCHANTS EXPECTED
ATLANTA MAKING GREAT PREP
ARATIONS FOR CONVENTION.
Many Merchants From All Parts of
the South Will Gather There
Next Month.


ATLANTA Secretar Harry T.
Moore of the Atlanta Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, when
asked if prospects pointed to the at
tendance on the Southe"l Merchants
Convention next August reaching the
total of 1900, which figure the asso-
citation has set, replied that accord
ing to all indications they were 60
ing beyond this figure.
He has been in receipt of letters
from statesmen who travel out OF At
lanta and who cover all the South
ern territory. They all tell of large
numbers of their customers who will
attend, and it is hard to say which
particular part of the country Is go
ing to send most. A dry goods sales
man wrote this week from Florida
saying that conditions were excep-
tionally good in that state, and that
practically all of his trade were in
tending to come to the convention.
Another salesman writes from South
Carolina and tells of the enthusiasm
there, while from Alabama, Missis-
sippi, North Carolina and from ev-
cry county in Georgia comes advices
of the parties which are being formed
and the request for information in
raDard tn accommodations
Atlanta is expecting big crowd,
and indications are all that it will
be one of the best business conven-
lions in her history.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
RAIN BADLY NEEDED
IN COTTON BELT
Practically No Rain Has Fallen in
the States West of Mississippi
River, Says Weather Bureau.

WASHINGTON-The weather bu-
reau's review of crop growing wealth
er in the cotton belt for the week
ending yesterday was announced as
follows:
'In the cotton growing states to
the eastward of the Mississippi bene-
fetal showers occurred in portions Of
all the states from Alabama east
ward, but in Mississippi and Tennes-
see there was practically no rain.
Rain is now badly needed in Tennes-
see and more is needed in Mississippi
and portions of the other states.
''In the states to the westward of
the Mississippi rather high tempera-
lures continued. Light showers oc-
Cured in Arkansas and Louisiana
and parts of Texas and Oklahoma.
Rain is badly needed in nearly all
portions of these last two states, and
in much of Arkansas and Louisiana"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
FASTENING TO WASHINGTON
Hundreds of Women in Autos Pre-
pairing to Storm Legislators With
Demand for the Ballot

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of suffra-
gist-laden automobiles are Fastening
toward Washington bearing petitions
to congress for constitutional
amendment granting universal suf-
frage, and by the end of this week.
leaders of the National Woman's Suf-
frage Association said today, the au-
tomobiles would be numbered by the
hundreds. The senate and house are
to be stormed by the motoring wo-
men July 81.
Already a number of state parties
Of women are on their way here
awheel An official Ar0ouncmen-
,ays tina: delegations are now N The
rGad from Montana, Tennessee. V;r-
ginia, New York, Mass ,scttts,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and sew
eral other ntates. These early start
ers are speaking for the cause" all
along the way and swelling their lists
of signatures ~ the petition 10 con-
gress.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
COME TO ATLANTA, FLOSSIE!
Mayor Woodward Says 1t Is Not a
Function of Municipalities to
Tell Women How to Dress.

ATLANTA.-Miss Flossie Blossom,
or whatever her name was, who
startled the natives of Richmond
with skirt slit not wisely but too
we'll, can come to Atlanta if she
wants to.
Mayor Woodward has declared
that he doesn't believe it one of the
functions of municipal government
to tell women how to dress, and that
so long as there is no absolute indie
cency he proposes to leave it to the
women themselves as to how their
skirts shall be slashed and how thin
the material shall be.
eff a woman wants to wear a
.slashed gown it may be foolish on
her part, but if she can stand it
guess I can" the mayor is quoted as
saying, "and I don't think it is any
business of the police to interfere. ="
Since the slit skirt style came in
many rather daring costumes have
been seen on Peachtree and White
hall, but they have caused neither
riots nor insults to the wearers. At
lantians are more or less accustomed
to spectacular dressing, and if the
Venus de Milo herself were to come
to life in a modern skirt and slash
it to her knees it is doubtful if At
lanta would make as much fusc as
Richmond did over Miss Cutie Rose
bud, or whatever her name was
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25

NEW York; Chicago dispatch
tells how fifty years ago a girl was
stricken blind She was 16 years
old and never had seen the man to
"hom she was afterwards married.
IN her home in Hillsdale, Mich, she
became the mother of eight children.
me husband became an invalid and
dled, leaving the blind woman to sup
port her children, which she did by
working as a Iaundress. Years went
W and the children, now men and
women, went into the world Their
mother never had seen their faces.
But every night 1 taught them to
pray, God, give mother back her
sight before she dies. she said to-
aay' "and their prayers have been
answered"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-25
Trouble Follows When Crowd Learns
''BlOOmer Girl" Ball Team Men In Disguise

the runner. The spectators grew sus-
picious. A moment later small boy
slipped up behind the supposed di-
vinity that presided at third base and
gave her golden locks a vigorous
pull. They came away in the form of
a wig, revealing chunky young
man with an elaborate makeup end
ing just above the eyebrows.
The team ran through storm of
bottles and bricks to the shelter of
the club house, where the police
massed
The crowd then stormed the tick
ct windows, demanding their money
back, and venting their ire on the
park property.
Several persons we're hurt in the
melee and a number of arrests made.