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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26
WILL PROFIT BY TAX
EQUALIZATION LAW
COMMISSIONER HART BELIEVES
GEORGIA WILL BE GREATLY
BENEFITED BY 1T.
THE STATE is DEEPLY IN DEBT
Prospects Are That i'm Year or Two
Debt May Be Wiped Out and Tax
Rate Greatly Reduced. Great In
crease in Land Returns.

Rate Greatly Reduced. Great In
crease i'm Land Returns.
ATLANTA.-D that Geor-
gia is now a million dollars in debt
and asserting that as soon as this
debt is paid the tax rates ought to be
reduced, Judge John C. Hart, state
tax commissioner, has given out an
interesting statement in which he
shows that the state will profit Won
derfully this year by the new tax
equalization act. He points out that
the people of the state will in the
long run be benefited by the equali-
cation of taxes and that the majority
of the increases has been in discover
ing property which for one reason or
another has never figured, or has
been dropped from the tax digests of
each county He shows that in one
county 10000 acres of land which
had disappeared has been put back
on the digest. He says he has re-
ceived from another county informa-
ton that probably 100000 worth
of property, not before on the digest,
has been discovered Although re-
ports from the county boards are not
due until July /, he has already re-
ceived four, and is delighted with
the results. Of these four Judge
Hart says:
These are small counties and |
have compared the present digest of
1914 with the digests of the same
counties for the years 1912 and 1913
so as to see just what effect the new
law had. These digests show that
these counties in 1913 returned
property valuations of $14,224 less
than they were in 1912; that is to
say these counties in 1913 were $14,
225 poorer than they were in 1912.
This years returns, under the oper-
ations of the tax equalization act,
show them richer by 81 ,160,350 than
they were the previous year. In other
words, loss of property valuations
of $14,225 is now returned into a
gain of over a million dollars"
Judge Hart states also that so far
as his information goes, the people
in these counties we're satisfied and
that not single arbitration was de-
manded. Commissioner Hart also
points out that more than a majority
of the counties in the state last year
were confronted with losses in prop
erty valuations, and with many the
practice was common of decreasing
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26
Sen. SMITHS SON-IN-LAW JAILED
Boys Knocked Down BY Naval Off
GERS Automobile Were Released
Upon Making Bond.

ANNAPOLIS, Md.-Lieut. Fred H.
Poteet and Ensign A. r. Simpson, the
latter the son-in-law of Senator Hoke
Smith of Georgia, both Of whom are
assigned to the presidents yacht, the
Mayfiower, were arrested and lodged
in the county Jail here charged with
fast driving of an automobile and
with running down three boys on the
county road just outside of the city
limits. They were later released for
hearing Monday, after spending
three hours in jail.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26
SAYS CONDUCTOR LIFTED
HER SKIRTS TO FIND DOG.
Savannah Woman and Husband Sue
Street Railway for $4,000.

Street Railway for $4,000.
A little lap dogs presence on a
Tybee street car Sunday a week ago
caused the owners, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
]. Smith of Savannah to be arrested
that night and they retaliated by
suing the street car company for
$4,000 damages. OF this sum $1O,-
600 is asked because the conductor
lifted Mrs. Smiths skirts to see if the
pup was concealed. under them.
Mr.. Smith asks for $40, 900 for ma
licious arrest and $4,000 because
he was elected from the car and in
suited. It's the first suit of this char
acter that has ever been brought in
Savannah.
The argument between Mr.. Smith
and the crew tied up traffic on the
line for As minutes at the busiest
hour of holiday evening.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26
THEY FLED FROM HOMES
TO ESCAPE BLAZING OIL.
Workmen Diverted Fluid Into the
bitches and Town Was Saved.

W OFkmen Diverted EIuld INTO tne
bitches and Town Was Saved.
After a night of terror. the people
of Meadowlands, little mining town
near Washington, Pa, returned to
the homes they had forsaken when it
seemed the village would be engulfed
by a torrent of burning oil. Twenty
four families, reneder homeless by
the fire or the dynamite used to check
its progress, were camped on the hills
until officers of the United Coal COM
pany could find them more comfort
able shelter. Doctors and constables
mingled with the crowds in search
of those who had been hurt in the
panic, but no seriously injured were
found. The oil in the tank, struck
by lightning Sunday night, had
burned itself out. although great
masses of smoke still arose from the
spot where it had stood.
The tank. containing $4,000 bar
rels, resisted all efforts of fremen
for day and night, when an explo-
sion scattered the oil and other tanks
in the vicinity were threatened.
Scores of workmen diverted the fam
ing oil in bitches and the town was
saved It was said the loss would
reach SIS, 900.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26
BUSINESS MEN GO TO THE
WHEAT FIELDS IN KANSAS.
Loss of the Harvest Would ParaIyze
Business in That State.

Hoxie, Kan, today is almost de-
serted village, while the male popu-
lation is sweating in neighboring
wheat fields. A delegation of farm
ers came into town lamentiag the
harvest hands imported from the east
had quit because of the heat.
eve need help quick and you fer-
lows must help u.s. declared the
leader of a delegation to a meeting Of
business men.
A half hour later the town BARRIERS
posted signs on their doors reading:
Slaves and hair cuts on Saturday
only"
The doors of the court house were
locked and every county official
donned his old clothes.
Loss of the harvest would para
lyze the towns business.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26
FARMERS
USING ELECTRICITY
HOUSEWIVES DRIVING WASHING
MACHINES, CHURNS AND BABY
CRADLES WITH CURRENT.
NO LONGER ENVY CITY SISTERS

Inc r. dFIHcf OOGHeS hOAfS HEOAI UHN
Fields These Hot Summer Days
and CoOIs His Brow Before an
Electric Fan.
ATLANTA Wives and daughters
of Georgia farmers along the power
line between Tallulah Falls and At
lanta are becoming emancipated from
the old-fashioned kitchen range, and
no longer need they envy their city
sisters and their gas stoves. Elec-
tricity, harnessed to the mighty Tai
lulah Falls, is freeing the women
from the slavery of the kitchen oven
as it freed the street car mule.
There are hundreds of homes along
the power line in the small towns
which would make old Aladdin rub
his eyes instead of his lamp if he
could take a look. There are electric
stoves where the touch of a button
will broil a steak; electric lights
where the old-fashioned kerosene
lamp once held sway; electric motors
coupled to washing machines, sewing
machines, even to the baby's cradle.
On days like these the perspiring
farmer comes home, not to seek the
breeze which does not come, but to
cool his brow before a whirling cleo
trio fan. The country folk are learn
ing that all the luxuries do not belong
to the city dweller, and in the use
of electricity in the household many
of them are ahead. of Atlantans.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26
ION VERGE OF PERIOD
OF GREAT PROSPERITY
ACTIVITY DELAYED FOR THE
TINE BEING BY THE COM
MERGE COMMISSION.
CONDITIONS EXACTLY RIGHT
For the Boom to Begin, and With
Enormous Crops, as Now Indicat-
ed, Economists Believe Nothing
Can Hold Back Booming Times.

Enormous Crops, as Now Indicat-
ed, Economists Believe Nothing
Can Hold Back Booming Times.
WASHINGTON.-From all indica-
tions this country is now on the verge
of one of the greatest periods of in
dustrial prosperity ever experienced.
Conditions now are exactly right for
the boom to begin and with enor-
nous crops this year, as are now in
dictated, economists believe that moth
ing can hold back the booming times.
The fact that the activity has not
already commenced is being attrib-
uted to one thing-the delay of the
interstate commerce commission in
passing upon the request of the east
ern railroads for a horizontal in
crease of 5 per cent. in freight rates.
All other conditions are such that
great industrial expansion and activ-
ity ought to be in progress now. This
activity is already being seen in GER
tain lines, but there is a stagnation
in other lines, some of it due to the
usual seasonal let-down, that brings
about a general average of dullness.
The power of railroads to check
prosperity was never so plainly seen
as at present. Few people realize
the widespread ramifications of rail-
IN A ipd
Let the railroads curtail their own
development and the stagnation
speedily reaches a hundred other in
dustries, one pushing down the other
like a row of falling dominoes.
This curtailment is exactly what
the railroads have done. either to
create coercive public opinion in their
favor or else to be ready to adjust
themselves to the coming decision.
The decision is expected daily. 1t
probably will not be nearly what the
railroads have asked, but it will end
the period of indecision
Money is plentiful and easy. The
tariff is not having any evil effect,
as republicans predicted. The new
banking system will be in operation
within few weeks, bringing money
and credit for expansion in districts
which formerly had to seek financial
favors in Wall street Banks are in
sound shape. Credits are not over
extended (the reverse Of the condi-
ton in 1000. Best of all, of late
years there has not been over pro-
duction, which is the primal cause OF
most spells of hard times. Factory
stocks are low everywhere. II a
heavy demand should come from the
start, mills would not be able TO
keep up with it.
All these facts were recited in an
address last week by Frank A. Van
derlip, president of the National City
bank of New York. Vanderlip pre-
dicted great prosperity ahead. He
said in part:
THE industrial machine of the ma
ton might be likened to great
steam engine, running with load
much lighter than its capacity. and
ready upon the turn of valve that
would let in more steam to respond
efficiently to vastly greater require
ments. There is a large unemploy-
ment of labor, but that means that if
renewed business activity were to
come it would not be impeded at the
start by lack of workmen."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26

collections should begin in about
ten days after the first bloom is seen
in the field Second, the work must
be thoroughly done if it is to be
profitable. and this means that
squares must be picked not only from
the ground, but also all that have
dried on the plants and all these that
show by their unnatural pale or yell
low color or by flaring or spreading
of the shuck' around those squares
which may hang longest on the
plants, but will fall soon after one
collection has been made, may not
have time to give emerg6nce to wee
wills before the next collection is
made. This means that collections
where practiced should bemade every
fifth day. Fourth, the collection OF
squares should be continued for at
least six weeks. After this time the
crop will have been made to such an
extent that it is doubtful If further
square picking would appreciably af-
feet it. Fifth, square collection is
advisable during the first few weeks
of the squaring period, especially
where weevils have lived through the
winter in large numbers, particularly
wherever the surface soil is cOntinu-
ally moist land therefore continually
cooD, also when the maximum tenn
perature as ordinarily measured by
Thermometers in the shade does not
frequently exceed IS degrees F. Pos
sibly the fundamental reasons for
these latter statements should be
given. Where the surface soil is
moist its temperature even in the
sun is kept low by evaporation. The
burial of squares in such soil will not
destroy weevils or prevent their
emergence from squares. In order to
gain the benefit of weevil control by
heat. We must have a temperature
that will reach about Is degrees F.
This temperature may occur with
very fine dry surface soil exposed to
the sunshine when the air tempera-
ture in the shade reaches 80 degrees
F. of higher. Under the latter con-
dition every effort should be given
toward securing very frequent and
shallow cultivation disregarding the
collection of squares as so large a
part of the weevil stages in the
squares would be destroyed by heat
if exposed to the sunshine. AS an
aid in drawing these squares TO the
middle. fasten a short section OF reg
ular log chain to the pillow or Guilt
yator so that the ends will pass close
to the rows and the sag inIthe chain
close behind the implement will drag
many of the squares from the shade
of the plants into the sunshine.
Sixth. never forget that under Doll
weevil conditions much depends upon
cultivation. The more frequently
this can be made, the better. The
prime object is to facilitate the
growth and fruiting of the plants
which must be pushed forward as
rapidly as possible. Cultivation
should be continued until cotton be-
gins to open or as long as the Guilt
vator can be gotten through the field.
with good courage, ordinary COM
mon sense and hard work it is pos
sible to raise cotton profitably in
spite of the boil weevil under prac-
tically all conditions.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26
KILL 20 SNAKES WITH
THREE BLOWS OF STICK,
Mother and Seventy-One Little Ones
Dispatched BY Two Boys.

Killing Y snakes with three blows
of stick, William Bryan and Neal
Kellar, two youngsters of Guyton,
while meandering in the woods Sat
urday, established a record for rapid
destruction of reptiles peculiar to
this swampy sections of the south.
The snakes were the coachwhip va
riety. The boys came upon the
mother snake and II little ones bask-
ing in the sunlight in a field. Pro-
curing a large stick they killed the
old snake and the Titles ones, thus
reducing the batting average Of
snakedom for years to come.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26
A Girls HerOisn.

For heroic conduct in saving the
life of a man who had been over
come by gas while digging a we'll
Miss Doris Lippman, a girl of Savan-
nah, Ca, has been awarded prize
of $50 by the National Red Cross So
ciety. 1t was the first award made
to the girl scouts by the society
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26
BABY CAPS ARE MADE IN
THE MIDST OF DISEASE.
Fearful Conditions Are Found BY
New York Social Workers.

ny
New York Social Workers.
In rs per cent. of the homes in
New York where baby caps are made,
venereal diseases were found, Miss
Elizabeth Watson, social worker, tes-
titled before the state factory COM
mission of the state labor law. Adj
vertisements offering home work
were often in direct violation of fac
tory and labor laws, the witness said.
1t has been found impossible to
enforce the present factory and labor
laws, Miss Lillian Valid of the Henry
street settlement and Miss Watson
told the commission. The only solu-
ton was to be the prohibition of gar
ment making in homes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26
POLICE CHIEFS PRAISE
FAIR FEMALE COPS
TELL OF THEIR GOOD WORK
DONE IN CALIFORNIA. Los
ANGELES WANTS MORE.
HAVE SAVED SCORES OF GIRLS

PatrOEIing Streets, Women Rescue
the Maynard, Break Up Danger
Gus Joy Rides and Send Many a
Maiden Back Home.
LOS ANGELES.-Is the police
woman success?
Chief of Police Peterson of Oak
land after investigating the work of
local policewomen, finds that this city
can give a very decisive answer to
this in the affirmative.
What Police Chiefs Say.
Chief of Police Sebastion, under
whose administration the policewom-
en- have become an important factor
in police work, has found their in
fluence to be of such marked benefit
that he will ask for more feminine
arms of. the law"
Here, say the two chiefs of police
are some of the things 4 policewoman
does:
She goes into dance halls where
she has seen a girl who should not
be there and over whom the law has
authority, and takes her home.
Break Up Joy Rides.
Training and instinct have given
her the power to pick out from the
crowd the girl whose steps are on
the downward path, and, through her
training and instinct, she has ac-
CURED the tact and eloquence to lead
that girl into right ways.
She rescues the girl from evil as
sociations, breaks up Joy rides where
they include immature and unsophis-
ticated girls, stands between the
reckless girl and a life Of shame,
brings back to her parents a wan
derer, teaches the deceived and fool
ish girl wholesome truths.
She goes through the city looking
for the discouraged, the deluded, the
incorrigible, and to each, according
to her kind, is administered the
proper treatment by these wise wom-
en- of the police force who are the
friends of the vicious and the aban-
doned.
Saved Many Young Girls.
There are nine women on the Los
Angeles police force. Chief Sebastian
wants more of them because they
have proved so satisfactory.
The policewomen agree upon the
following composite statement of
their work:
Prevented girls and young women
from entering lives of shame and
rescued others who were not hard
ened. Brought parents into closer
touch with their daughters. Shown
girls the folly of flirting with stran-
gers and the danger of occasional
joy rides Emphasized the JOY OF
right living and right thinking. and
explained away the folly of the So
called good time that girls seek in
cafes and dance halls"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26
THIEF CUTS OFF HER HAIR.
Woman Learns of Burglars VISIT
When She Finds Locks Gone.


When She Finds Locks Gone.
A burglar who entered the nome
of Miss Margaret V. Graham, OF
Franklin, Pa, cut off her hair and
carried it away.
That the cutting of the hair was
a sudden inspiration of the burglar
is indicated by the fact that a pair OF
shears owned by the young woman
was used. Her hair was SO inches
long. and the burglar took all except
inches. The girl didn't awaken
then. but discovered the loss OF her
hair when she awoke at o'clock in
the morning.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26

"alph Cochran, candidate for Unit
states senate against Senator
1 smith, is seriously i'll at his
.lie IN Atlanta. from typhoid fever.
'eOrong to his physicians Mr.. Coch-
VIII be confined to his bed for
fe next three weeks.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26
pio0NTED SQUAD WILL
POLICE MUSCOGEE ROADS.

HTV appointed Upon RecOIh-
mendatiOn of Grand Jury.
"useogee county commissioners
lave sworn in a squad of mounted
pluVers with James Palmer, former
uelectye, as captain, whose duty
VIII be to police the county roads
Jung into the city and the subur-
I'll districts. This was done in pur-
usace Of recommendations of the
uSCogee county grand jury.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-06-26

There are in the United States
about 125, 900 telephone girls.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-03-28
CHINESE BR|GANDS
COMMIT OUTRAGES
RAvAclNG SECTIONS OF THE
COUNTRY, NUMBERING, ROB-
elNG AND BURNING.
White Wolf ard His Mob Of Chinese
Outlaws Massacre Three Hundred
Townsfoik Who Resist Their en-
trance Into Market Town.

Picking, China.-Outragcs by hr..
gands in central China are assuming
alarming proportions. Several bandi
associated with the noted outlaw
White Wolf are ravaging sections o ,
the country, numbering and robb i
the people and burning their property
The latest exploit Of the bandit >
was the massacre of 800 townsfolk
who were resisting their entrance in
TO an important market town cl Sc
to Slang Yang F'u, province of Hupeh.
Seven-tenths of the town was burned
and the population ruined financially
On the occasion of the recent sack
Ing Of Kingtzokwan, province OF He
nan, the local troops were command
ed by a general, formerly a noted bri
gand chief, who was given his army
appointment during the recent revo
luton.
The measures of the government I.
deal with the situation are inadequat;
and there is every prospect Of thu
development CT brigandage to dimen
sions beyond its control.
The revolutionary element is sti
| strong throughout the country. AT
| rests and executions are frequent
The entire northern army will short
ly be employed in the suppression o
! the brigandage.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-03-28
BRITISH CABINET cOWED.
Restore Disobedient Generals <
Their Commands.

I'll
London-The detection of the army
officers who refused to serve in III.
ster is now q closed incident, but its
consequences are likely to prove far
reaching. Premier Asquith and CO..
1nel Seely. secretary CT state for war,
made explanations before an excited
and turbulent house on Monday that
the affair was the result of misun'
defstanding.
The misunderstanding it was infer
red, although they did not directly say
so, was due to misconstruction Of the
governments plans by the command
ing general, Sir Arthur Paget, where
~ he informed the officials in Ire
land that they We're to move on III
s.eI. for repressive campaign. !.
General Paget and three senior OF
Gcers from the Curragh camp--Gen-
era Cough. Colonel McEwan and Col
onel Parker-were summoned to Lon.
don for a conference. According TO
3l licial statements the misunderstood
ng has been cleared away, and theso
officers returned to Ireland MSnday
light.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-03-28
Believe Farmer was Murdered.

Layton, Utah.-lIanry Roberts, "a
years of age, pioneer OF Davis county
and one of the wealthiest farmers oi
Layton, who was discovered dying in
the doorway of his home On March la
with an ugly bullet wound piercing HIS
head from the rear was murdered by
an unidentified person 1t is believed
as the result CT investigations made
here Tuesday, when theories Of sui
eide or possible accidental shooting
were absolutely disproved.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1914-03-28
KEEP WEEDS FROM STARTING
II This Recipe Is Followed From First
Breaking of Sod There Need
Never Be Any Trouble.

When on the dry farm, much OF the
summer work consists in destroying
weeds, for weeds will grow, wet or
dry.
The best preventive Is never to al
low them to get start, and II this
recipe is used from The first break
ing OF the sod, there need never be
any trouble unless the tumbling
weeds. such as Russian thistles, etc
blow over from the neighbours and .
Tow wire on the fence will prevent
this. When weedy piece Of land Is
disked early in the season to cover
the weed seed, the whole weed crop
may be turned under in June to the
great advantage of the land, which
may be put into winter wheat later u
so desired. The main trouble Is tl4at
in a weedy piece of land the seed is
not all on the surface and every time
a blowing is done some seed is brought
to the surface to start new growth
to clean up a weedy piece of land, but
winter wheat, fall rye and the clean
| summer fallow can be trusted to dc
| the job. if persisted in, the main point
beiig to start working the land again
as soon as the crop is harvested
| Weeds in the corn rows are easily
killed in the seed leaf, and second
or third crop may be destroyed by cul
| tivating a week or so after the storm
which starts them, for seeds are yer,
easily destroyed by loosening up ant
aerating the surface just when the,
are sprouting.
Perennial weeds which sprout from
the roots sometimes make trouble, TO
the more they are cut the more the.
sprout