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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
THE HEROISM OF
RED CROSS WORKERS
IN MISREPRESENTATION AND RAW
AGED SERBIA IS GRAPHIC
ALLY DESCRIBED.
MANY WITH WOUNDS INFECTED
Deaths From Typhus in the Past Few
Months Reach 10000. Germs of
All Kinds Thrive and Multiply in
BattIefelds and Trenches.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Heroism
of American Red Cross doctors and
nurses in the plague stricken dis
tricts of Serbia are graphically de-
scribed in reports to headquarters of
the American Red Cross.
One tells of the inspiring and
blood-tingling heroism of corps OF
American women and men who have
been facing the ugly cOuntenance of
death every day" Another tells of
American Red Cross surgeons and
nurses who, forewarned and fully
advised about the state of affairs,
volunteered to go to the rescue OF
their fellow Americans. They are
now on their way, after having ar
ranged their personal affairs as
though preparing for certain death. ="
At the time the reports were writ
ten, early in March, one American
surgeon. DR.. James F. Donnelly, of
BROOKLYN, had died from typhus and
CaDl6Q IGpOIl0 Sctlu llllC VI CiO '"NA' y
American Red Cross trained nurses
and three of the remaining five sur
geons sent to Gevgelia last Novem-
Der were down with the frightful
malady.
An official communication received
here places the deaths from typhus IN
Serbia so far at $4,000 and says sixty
physicians have died of it in the last
two months. Not only typhus by ty-
phoid is spreading rapidly. HOW
gravely the situation is regarded was
expressed today in this statement
made at Red Cross headquarters:
with much of continental Europe
in a highly unsettled state; with
fields and trenches drenched with
blood; with shallow graves of thous-
ands of dead scattered throughout
the war area; with vermin and filth
on 4 erv hand; with hundreds OF
thousands of wounded being cared
for in pitifully inadequate way, a
vast number of them having infected
wounds, and with the approach OF
warm weather and attending hles
and mosquitoes, Europe may we'll be
gravely apprehensive-fearful that
an unprecedented plague will sweep
the old world
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
HIT ELECTION OF JUDGES
CHIEF JUDGE RUSSELL ADDRESS
Els STUDENTS OF LAW SCHOOL.
Says the Elective System Sometimes
Results in the Judges Playing
to the Grandstand.

In a lecture delivered before the
students of the Atlanta law school
Judge Richard B. Russell, chief judge
Of the Georgia court of appeals, Sc
verely criticised the system of elect
ing judges which is now in vogue in
Georgia, declaring that the system
sometimes results in judges playing
to the grandstand in order to make
sure of their election.
Judge Russells lecture was very
strong plea for conservatism in the
law. He declared that the law is
changing too fast, that too many So
called "technicalities are being disre-
garded, and that there is great need
of a conservative force to hold the
law to it's fundamental principles.
THE law is changing all the time, -
said Judge Russell. In fact, it has
been a continuous evolution since the
earliest times. The danger today,
however, is that there is a tendency
for it to change too fast. Some OF
the fundamental principles Of the law
are being forgotten by the reform
ers' who are proposing so many radi-
cal changes.
"You hear a great deal of talk
these days about abolishing 'techni-
calities.' Why, there is not a techni-
cality but what is based upon sound
reason and human experience.
THE law must be fixed immutable
in order to have its greatest inf1u-
ence. 1t must be based on reason
and experience. not on human i'm
pulse -
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
GOVERNOR and SHERIFF
EXCHANGE INTERESTING LET
TIERS ON OLIVER MURDER.
Slaton Urges That Effort Be Made to
Find Slayers, and Moreland Makes
a Spirited Reply.

Owing to failure of Lee county au-
thorities to apprehend and bring to
justice the parties who shot to death
A. D. Oliver on the streets of Lees
burg about a month ago Governor
Slaton wrote letter to Sheriff d. R.
Moreland urging that nothing be left
undone to catch the guilty parties,
and inquiring if there is any reason
why he should not offer a reward for
their arrest.
The governor had received a num-
Der of letters from citizens of that
section stating that nothing whatever
has been done toward the apprehen-
sion of divers slayers.
MoreIand Makes Reply.
Sheriff Moreland Immediately
wrote letter in reply to the govern
or, and while its tone was respectful
it was rather generously sprinkled
with salt and vigorously defended
his course.
He told the governor that he re-
CARDS it as most unfortunate that he
(the sheriff. should have been allow
ed to first read the governors letter
in state newspapers, and intimated
that if results, rather than newspa-
per notoriety, had been desired the
governor would have chosen differ
ent course.
Sheriff Moreland vigorously de-
Tended his own course, and told what
had been done in the effort to learn
the identity of divers slayers, and
insisted that to this day it has been
impossible to get any real light on
the case, as the identity of the per
petrators is unknown.
The Lee county officer also declar-
ed that it has been the governor
fault alone that no reward for the
apprehension of divers siayers has
been offered by the state. He REFER
ed to a petition sent to the governor
by prominent Lee countians asking
for a reward, and stated that he
(Moreland) did not sign it because
he was away from home working day
and night on the Oliver case.
He concluded his rather tart letter
by stating that it is not yet too late
for a reward to be offered, and ex-
pressed the hope that the matter
would be given prompt attention in
the governors office.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
THREE COUNTIES MAY LOSE
THEIR SHARE OF AUTO FUND
Chatham, Bibb and Sumter Not En-
forcing Registration Law.


According to Secretary of State
Philip Cook the attitude of the coun-
ty commissioners of Chatham, Bibb
and Sumter counties in not enforcing
the automobile registration law will
probably result in these counties be-
ing cut out of participation in the
automobile fund.
The automobile fund is divided on
the basis of the rural route mileage
in each county. In the event the
three counties named are cut off the
approximate amounts they will lose
are as follows: Chatham, 5000;
Bibb, $500; Sumter, $1,000.
Secretary Cooks records show
that while these counties are making
no efforts to enforce the law many
of the citizens owning automobiles
have registered them The figures
compiled by Secretary Cook are as
follows:
Chatham-Registered cars, 400;
unregistered cars, COL.
Bibb-Registered cars, 104; un-
registered cars, 4S5.
Sumter-Registere cars, 104; I'M
registered cars, more than 400.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
WOMEN DUPLICATE
THE LIBERTY BELL
Having Cast Made in Philadelphia to
Be Rung in Celebration of Equal
Suffrage i'm Various States.

TROY. N. Y-Women's suffrage
leaders from New York, Pennsylva-
mia and Massachusetts gathered here
today to superintend and celebrate
the casting of a woman's liberty
beIl' in a local foundry. The bell
was designed to be duplicate of the
famous Liberty Bell, which announc-
ed the declaration of independence.
When completed it will be taken to
Philadelphia and mounted in indie
.pendence Square. Eventually, the
suffragists said, they hoped to take
the bell to Washington and hang 1t IN
a "campanille so beautiful that all
the world will come to see it.
The bell is a gift to the suffrag1sts
from Mrs. Charles w. Ruschenberger
of STAFFORD, Pa. Mrs. Frank M.
Roessing, president of the Pennsyl-
vania Women Suffrage Association,
headed the party of Pennsylvania
women who watched the casting OF
the bell. Mrs. Mary Hutchinson Page
of Boston and Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait and other women notable in the
suffrage movement were present.
The bell will be taken by automo-
bile to Philadelphia where the wo-
men said they hoped to ring it on
the night of Nov. 10th next to cele-
brate suffrage victories in New YORK,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
THREE MUST WRITE
THEIR NAMES $500 TIMES
Governor, Treasurer and Secretary of
State Have Task Signing Bonds.

GOVERNOR treasurer ana CcCFcUhfy Oh
State Have Task Signing Bonds.
Sign your name once or twice
and-confess it-you have a pride
full little thrill, particularly if you
sign it to a check that is a good
check. A half dozen times or so and
the entertainment clogs, even if you
are Mr.. Gambler and a millionaire
And $500 times in rapid success
sion-but that appalling prospect
faces only Governor Slaton, Secretary
of State Phil Cook and State Treas
urer w. j. Speer.
Georgias new bond issue of 3d.,
525, 900, recently bought by Asa G.
Gambler, must be signed by the three
state officers. Each of the $1,000
bonds must bear the signatures ac-
cording to the act of the Legislature
authorizing the issue.
The task of signing the bonds
probably will occupy an entire week,
a monotonous week of signing and
blotting and signing over and over
again. Secretary Phil Cook thinks it
will take even longer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
TO AID FARMERS
ON MORTGAGES
viii Be the Next Fight in Congress.
Strong Opposition to Other
Plans Of Rural Credit.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Govern-
ment aid to farmers on farm mort
cages will be interposed by a group
of representative in opposition to
any other plan of rural credits at the
next session of congress Representa-
tive Henry of Texas said today.
Fight Other Plan.
1--WE will fight any proposition
from the congressional Joint commit
tee on rural Credits he said, that
does not provide for the two funda-
mental propositions of government
aid and a banking system for the
farmers separate and distinct from
the federal reserve system.
1--WE have polled all the members
of the house and count on enough
with the new members to carry these
nropOsitons overwhelmingly. We
carried them four to one in the last
house. There is no doubt about the
result.
Study Scheme.
Members of the ruarl credits Joint
committee are studying the whole
scheme of rural credits, preliminary
to sessions in the fall with view 10
reporting to congress in December.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
FRENCH PRISONERS
THE MOST DOCILE
THE RUSSIANS ARE THE MOST
INDUSTRIOUS AND THE ENG
LISH THE LATEST.
PRISON CAMP AT DOfBERITZ
GeTmany's Prisoners of War Fifteen
Miles From Berlin Make Interest
ing Study. Include Men From All
Nations Engaged in Conflict.

BERLIN Wars fortunes have
thrown together some 10000 soldiers
and sailors of the countries which
Germany is fighting at the hoge pris-
on camp at Doeberitz, fifteen miles
from Berlin.
English sailor boys. still in their
teens, bearded Scotch Highlanders,
peasants from Southern France and
moujiks from Russia are there-each
with his customs and habits, likes
and dislikes.
Camp Well Organized.
How to control the prisoners so
discipline may be tempered with hui
manitarian measures and the thous-
ands may rub shoulders without fric-
ton is a problem which the German
system has been graphing with. Neu-
trail newspaper men who visited Doe
beritz recently found the camp well
organized and its inhabitants as con-
tented as might be expected under
the circumstances.
The authorities have Drawn certain
broad conclusions, summed up as fol-
lows by a reserve officer at the camp:
1.-The Russians are the most in
dustrious the English are by far the
LATEST and hardest to handle; the
French are the most docile, the last
to make trouble of any kind.
Only four men, Russians, have
tried to get away thus far, and they
came back.
Divided by Nationality.
At night and in leisure hours the
men are divided according to nation
ality and so far as possible in racial
subdivisions. In the workshops, how
ever, English and Russians are plac-
ed together. The English objected
to that at first. Men of both races
are proving adebt at shoemaking, but
the Frenchmen are more valuable in
the cookhouses.
Prisoners artistically inclined and
in poor physical condition have
house in which they paint and make
crayon drawings. Camp visitors not
infrequently purchase the output, the
money finding its way to the canteen
for fodo and tobacco.
Food Nourishing.
Stew, soup or goulash forms the
principal item on the bill of fare.
That this food is nourishing and APP
petizing hassbeen attested by scores
of visitors to Doeberitz. Every effort
is made by the Germans to facilitate
the receipt of money from home to
the prisoners.
The prisoners are allowed to write
on an average two letters a week.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
COMPANY TO OPERATE
MINERAL MINES IN GEORGIA
British and New York Capital Take
Entire Stock of $3.50, 900.

BRUSH anu new AOIh C~P'A
Entire Stock of $25O,OOO.
First public announcement OF the
organization of the Southern Mineral
Products Company, with $25O,O0O
capital, to operate mines in Georgia,
has been made by D. l.. Pitner, OF
White county, representing the in
corporators. He says the entire cap
ital stock has been subscribed, large
lv by British and New York capital
lists, and contracts have been made
for the installation of a grinding
plant in Atlanta.
The company will deal first with
mica deposits, which will be manu-
featured into lubricants, wall paper,
fre-proofing and roofing material
Lachlan Taylor of London, who made
the preliminary contracts resulting
in the organization of the company
has returned to England temporarily,
where he expects to interest other
British capitalists in mining projects
in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
HUERTA WORRIES
WILSON AGAIN

Mexican Dictator Said 10 BE on way
Back to Mexico. Something Expect
ed to Be Doing When He Arrives.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-New wor-
ries today were added to the bur
dens of the administration arising
out of the Mexican situation because
of the reports that Victoriano Huer-
ia. who forced the United States to
seize Vera Cruz before he would re
linquish the presidency, had sailed
from Lopez, Spain, for Mexico.
The reports indicated that Huerta
was planning to start a new revolu-
ton in the war-ridden republic. Such
a possibility was admitted by state
department officials, although they
asserted they had no advices tend
ing to show that any preparedness
ing to show that any preparations
have been made in Mexico for the
former dictator's arrival. For this
reason they were inclined to believe
that Huerta did not intend to come
to his native country for the present,
at least, although they agreed that
further complications in the situation
may result from his trip.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
ON OUTCOME OF
COURTS DECISION
DEFENDS RIGHT OF DAUGHTERS
OF GENERAL HOOD TO SHARE
IN THE MGEHEE ESTATE.
SOLE HEIRS UNDER ADOPTION

Outcome of Contest Over Inheritance
Will Have Bearing on the Status of
Adopted Children in Many States.
Case One of Wide Interest.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The rights
of adopted children in many states
are declared to rest on the outcome
of the supreme courts decision in
the case of the twin daughters of the
late Gen. John B. Hood, who seek to
share in the estate of the late George
T. McGehee of Mississippi, their
fathers friend and their father by
adoption. Briefs for the daughters
and for the heirs" at law were flied
today in the court outlining the con-
ficting claims Both daughters, Ida
Richardson Hood and Odile Mus5on
Hood Holland, now reside in New
York.
Adoption Contract.
The contest is over the inheritance
of real estate in Alabama owned by
MCGehee. The twins rest their claim
on several grounds, one being that
under the contract of adoption in
Louisiana they became the sole heirs,
as if they were natural children, of
McGehee's property, no matter where
situated. The Alabama federal court,
however, held Alabama law deter
mined the heirs of real estate in that
state Attorneys for the twins argue
in their brief that the federal courts
have made a mere scrap Of paper
of the Louisiana adoption law.
Another ground on which the two
daughters claim the land is the turn
ing ever to McGehee in 1894 of 49,
000, their share of a fund created
by voluntary contributions made
throughout the Southern states for
the benefit of the children of the
general. Attorneys for the blood re-
lations of McGehee assert that if
the transfer of the $500 were a
gift it merely evidenced the genercs-
it, Of the twins and if a loan merely
created a debt against the estate, but
in no way determined the legal heirs
to the land.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
HE rs PROUD OF THE
HOME OF HIS BOYHOOD
Former Terrell Countian Has Some
thing to Say of Native Soil.

Former Terrell COuntian Has Some
thing to Say of Native Soil.
Mr.. John r. Thornton, a former
Terrell county boy, who now lives
in Campbell county, and writes an in
teresting column weekly in the
Campbell News under the non de
plume of Jack Raymonde,' has the
following item in the last issue Of
that paper:
1--WE are proud of our boyhood
home county, Terrell. We note that
where it has been buying twenty-five
cars of mules annually in the past
this year it has sold off and shipped
nine cars, which means reduced cot
ton acreage and more foodstuffs and
stock raising. The fact that Terrell
produces more cotton per acre than
any county in Georgia did not woo
her farmers back to the all-cOtton
plan. When we were boy we ran
rabbits (you see, we have liked the
sport a long time) on old WORKOUT
and turned out brier lands that
could have been bought for from S.
per acre up which are now selling
from $40 up and making a bale of
cotton per acre. Looks to a Terrell
or South Georgia farmer like starva-
ton when he sees the bare red hills
of North Georgia, still We are welded
to the old red hills"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
CCTHBERT EXPECTS TO HAVE
CHEAPER FREIGHT RATES
Under REIMBURSEMENT Will Be One
Per Cent Higher Than DawSOn's.

FER Cent Higher Than DaWsOn's.
A study of the REIMBURSEMENT of
freight rates in the South which the
railroads are required to make in
compliance with the order of the
interstate commerce commission, is
SUED IN pursuance of a federal law,
eHIorclng more strict observance OF
Tue long and short haul provision OF
Ie interstate commerce act, shows
I%t Cuthbert and neighboring towns
Will 1are relatively better under the
nc" arrangement than under exist
Ing conditions.
Al present the rates to Cuthbert
a.o Georgia ports are about per
oelI higher than the rates to Eufaula
r ruu ABOUT 8 per cent higher than the
,a'eS 10 Dawson. Under the adjust
t contemplated by the carriers
at Ie rates to Cuthbert will be only
rat l per cent higher than the
oa'eS 10 Dawson and will be the same
I T. me rates to Eufaula.-Cuthbert
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
Officer Carries Prisoner Strapped
To The Tail of His Aeroplane

Austrian lines. While the mechanic
was repairing the motor SIX AUS
TRANS approached. PaschaIon turn,
ed one-pounder on them and n n5ed
one shrapnel she'll, which eXplo I,Ss i
accurately and felled five men. Inc
sixth surrendered. ho+
Then came the problem@wTInlall
would he do with his prisoner! IaS-
.chaloff decided to abandon MS stoCA
of bombs and tie his prisoner 10 o., tne ne
tail frame of his machine. mus
burdened the aeroplane rose ana new
over the Austrian lines amid a stoIl1
of bullets regaining the RUSSIAN
lines without damage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06

ALBANY, N. living on Sc a
week in New York city is a simple
problem, Miss Dorothy Miller, 49,
year-old shop girl, told a legislative
committee investigating the mini
mum wage proposition today. If one
wants more clothes, she explained,
it is only necessary to eat less, and
if more food is wanted skimp on the
clothes allowance.
Miss Miller came here at the be-
hest of the Consumers League of
New York to relate her personal ex-
perience as a working girl.
my story is not based on theory,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
Living On $500 a Week Is
Very Simple, Says Miss Miller

but it is an actual experience" she
said, land l don't want you to think
that l am a pathetic little picture,
for represent four thousand girls
who earn no more than l do. At one
time I received only S. a week. l
lived at home and was fortunate in
having to pay into the house but
$3.50. That left me 40 cents a week
to spare after l had paid my car fare
and purchased luncheons."
Judge Alfred E. Ommen, repre-
senting the New York Typothetae,
and w. A. Dyer, for the State Retail
Dry Goods Association, opposed the
minimum wage bill.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06

PETROGRAD.-The story of an
:, ''@lor who came back to the Rus
:. 0u INES with an Austrian strapped
: Tue tail frame of his aeroplane is
P fSll IN a dispatch from the front in
asoone alrman, Treentic Paschaloff,
ter TsI ~ from the aviation headQuar-
arm. ~ the rear of General Ivanhoff
aoco . IN his 150-horse power machine
mac C5i panied by his mechanic. The
NM carried a small gun and a
0l Netr of bombs.
had ing to motor trouble Paschaloff
" descend two miles behind the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-04-06
nc SWALLOW
A SlO,OOO.OO SINE
,,orxa MAN WHO BROKE JEW
rp,e WINDOW TELLS OF
OPPOSITION OF STONE.
r.yOpfRATt TO RECOVER GIN

onca Company That Paid For
lD'p' loss Of the Stone Offers a Re-
u" I'D Of One Thousand Dollars for
Its Recovery
nu1AS Tex.-Following a con-
.ion nv James Williams, white
i' 4h "a wears of age, who has been
storcad to two years at the state
.;tortiarv for breaking the show
,ndov of Linz Bros jewelry store
Ian. 4th, when a $4,000 diamond
va. lost, that he swallowed the stone
~. feasibility Of an operation on the
,,r +o recover the gem has been dis
.ns.od However, the idea has now
,.or abandoned, because the opera
Hon is considered too dangerous and
tborn is also a possibility that the
stone has already passed from the
boys body.
Attorney Objects.
Noah Roark, attorney for the boy,
made known details of the matter,
saving that the boy will not be oper-
atpd on. As the operation would be
ca very dangerous he declared that
he would rather see the boy carry
the stone to the grave than have the
operation performed.
Recently a representative of the
Insurance company which stood the
loss of the value of the stone has
been in Dallas investigating the case,
and he offered $1,000 reward for its
recovery. Then the boy said that he
had swallowed the stone and that he
had every reason to believe it was
still in his body.
X-Ray Futile.
The possibility of locating the gem
by X-ray examination was then dis
cussed and Dr. H. Martin, who was
consulted, said that such an exami-
nation would be futile, because the
stone had no mountings and there
fore would not show. Then the mat
tel was taken up with DR.. Marvin P.
Stone.
Dr.. Stone said he believed the boy
had probably passed the stone al
ready, and if he had not the opera
ton would require practical eviscera-
ton, with an incision twelve or four
teen inches long, and an examination
that would probably last an hour,
covering every inch of the intestinal
system, There would be grave dan
ger that the shock of an operation
Of that character would prove fatal
and he would not advise it.
DR., Stone said he would only per-
form the operation as a court of last
resort, if it should be ordered by
the grand jury and consented to by
the boy and by his parents, as he is
minor But even then he would
not favor it and he said the boy
would have to be fully aware of the
danger.
Even when Mr.. Roark explained
those facts TO him the boy said he
would still be willing to go ahead,
Il Mr.. ROark would advise an opera
uon Of the kind. That Mr.. Roark
refused to do.