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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-23
$1,392,273 PAID IN
REVENUE BY GEORGIA
SAL, 900 TAX ON MAKING AND
DEALING IN LIQUORS, AND
CIGARS NET $56,779.

A. o. Blalock, collector internal
revenue for the district of Georgia,
has reported to the commissioner of
internal revenue that his collection
from all sources during the last fs-
cal year amounted to $1,392,273.28.
An interesting feature of his re-
port is that about $4,000 was paid
by persons manufacturing or deal
ing in wines and spirituous liquors.
It is against the state law to sell
liquors. The payment of this federal
tax 'confers no license to prosecute
any business which is forbidden by
state statutes. If the local police Off
Gals wish the information to aid
them in running down violators of
the law the collector is required by
law to furnish it. Moreover the per-
sons paying this tax are required to
keep conspicuously posted in their
places of business the receipt testify
ing that they have paid the govern
ment tax.
On wines, champagnes, liquors and
COTUIalS ndHuldCIuACo VI SUI "A"A
in the state the sum of S1,218 was
collected, and on fermented liquors
S4O,193. Special taxes affecting the
manufacture and sale of cigars yield
ed the government an additional
S56,779 in Georgia. From bankers,
brokers, theatres and bowling alleys
an additional $99,153 was collected
on perfumery and cosmetics, under
schedule B of the revenue laws, the
sum of 1871.
Corporations in the state paid in
come taxes amounting to 1857, 291
and individuals an additional $780,
SAC. making total of over $500
600 from income taxes. The ordl-
nary receipts of the office were $1?3,-
855 and the emergency receipts
1851, $40.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-23

900 has been raised and is at present
being used. All Northwest Persia is
literally swamped with fugitives.
Rather than starve to death Arme-
mans are said to be eating human
flesh. Fugitives who have been driv-
en- out upon the deserts have fire.
quently bounced upon the bodies Of
exhausted comrades and have feast
ed upon them, according to cable
dispatches received by the American
committee for Armenian and Syrian
relief. Lack of food has driven the
people practically to animal life
Men and women have been seen
crawling upon the ground in a des-
perate hunt for grasses and herbs.
In Poland there is a desolated area
as large as the states of New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania; more
than 200 towns and IL, 500 villages
have been completely ruined. Losses
to date in property destroyed and
agricultural, industrial and CONNER
cial production paralyzed amount to
$9,000,000, according to the chair
man of the Polish Victims Relief
fund, the founder of which is Ignace
J. Paderewski, the celebrated pianist
The horrors of the gigantic struggle
have overwhelmed more than 49,
100000 inhabitants, including near
ly 100000 Jews. Fully 11,O0O,-
900 helpless women, children, peas
ants and workmen, the very essence
and strength of the nation, have been
driven into the open.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-23
5000 NEGROES WAIT
FOR PHANTOM TRAIN
RUMOR OF WORK IN PENNSYL-
WANNA SENDS HORDES OF
BLACKS TO SAVANNAH.

SAVANNAH, Ga.-F'ive thousand
negroes, all bent on going to Penn
sylvania, journeyed out to Four-Mile
Hill, on the Louisville road, yesterday
to board special train for the north.
And five thousand negroes, those who
have not given up their homes, re-
turned to Savannah-disappointed.
There was no train to transport them
not even an employment agent of
the railroad which has been soliciting
labor in Georgia to explain away the
cause.
Why they were there not single
negro could explain, other than to
state that "Gwine to Pennsylvania.
Not one negro could say who in
structed him to meet the train at this
place. Each said another negro
told him. Finally sifted down to the
bottom a negro claimed that he had
heard another say that he heard an
agent of railroad, who was talking
to a number of negroes, tell them
to meet the train at Four-Mile Hill.
This railroad agents alleged instruc-
ton is said to have been made Thurs
day.
All Ages Present.
Old, middle-aged and young negro
men; negro children galore, and old,
middle-aged and young negro women
and negro women with babies in
their arms and leading children hard
ly able to walk, literally covered the
railroad tracks and the Louisville
road about Four-Mile Hill. Negroes
with baskets, grips, trunks and sheets
packed with clothing, with here and
there a wagon packed with household
belongings, helped to swell the crowd.
Negro men were there confident
that they would Immediately be en-
ployed by railroads in Pennsylvania
just as soon as they landed. Negro
women were there with the idea that
they would Immediately be en-
ployed. None knew, other than this,
why they were there; what they we're
going to do, and who was going to
let them do it after they arrived. In
dividually what authority they had
for assembling none knew. Jim told
me-" Then Jim was approached.
"Yaller niger told me-"
In other words, Jim heard it and
told it to the first negro he met. This
first negro passed it to the next. And
so on. The news" spread like wild
fire
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-23
BILL WAS PASSED
FOR WOMEN LAWYERS
SENATOR PICKETT PARTICIPAT-
ED IN SPIRITED DEBATE ON
THE MEASURE.

Glorious Womanhood and the beau
ties Thereof furnished fiowery and flat
tering orations in the state senate,
and when it finally had come to an
end that body voted by a ballot OF
26 to IL to allow women to practice
law in Georgia.
At the same time the senate re-
fused to adopt an amendment by
Senator Pickett, of the Forty-first,
which would have submitted the
much discussed question to the
people.
Although principal advocates of
the measure guarded themselves
against anything that might be con,
strued to mean that they favored
woman suffrage the bill had splendid
support in the senate as we'll as most
ardent opposition.
Senators Pickett, of the Eleventh,
Pickett, of the Fortv-first, Boykln, OF
the Seventeenth, were leaders in the
fight against women attorneys. The
Hill was supported actively by Sen
ators Bonner, of the Thirty-frst.
Moon. of the Thirty-seventh, and
Turner of the Twenty-frst.
Scores New Woman"
ct is just a question of some wo'
men trying to follow those OF the
East and West" said Senator D. .
Pickett in his opposition. eff you
listen to every new-fangled idea some
old maid tries to run down your
throat YOU will cause all respect fol
womanhood to be lost.
"The women of Chicago and the
women of Georgia are different. Inc
old fashioned families of this state
do not want this bill"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-23
MR.. SHORT DETAINED
BY LOSS OF CLOTHES
Wardrobe of Randolph Legislator
Extensive and of Varied Hues.
List of Wearing Apparel.

Representative w. S. Short, of
Randolph county, was "unavoidably
detained" in Atlanta a day or two
when the legislature adjourned fol-
lowing the theft of his grip at 81
Washington street, where he was
staying during the session of the leg
islature.
Mr.. Short had carefully packed his
belongings in order to catch train
home He remembered that he must
attend to some business at the CAPT
toll, and leaving his grip went to the
state house. When he returned the
grip was gone and the solOn found it
necessary to sojourn in Atlanta while
the police force investigated the
theft.
The list of goods missing, which
was furnished the police, is compris-
ed of the following:
One blue serge suit; 1 dozen shirts,
rs collars, dozen ties of various
hues, 1 hat, 1 dozen pairs of hose,
four suits of underwear and one
shaving outfit.
Later the police placed Will Lewis,
under arrest. Lewis is held on sus-
picion, while the department contin-
ued it's search for the missing ap-
parel.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-23
WAR VICTIMS FORCED
TO EAT HUMAN BODIES
Terrible Are Reported Sufferings of
Armenians in Arabia.


BOSTON, Mass.-Details of des-
perate condition of deported Arme-
mans in the deserts of northern Ara
bia and the lower Euphrates valley
are contained in a cable dispatch
made public here by the American
committee for Armenian and Syrian
relief.
The committee says the dispatch
was received through "high diplo-
matte authority in Turkey, not Amer
lean, reporting the testimony OF
trustworthy witnesses over wide
areas" in the regions mentioned.
According to the dispatches wit
nesses have seen famished Armenians
"eating grass, herbs and locusts, and,
in desperate cases, animals found
dead and human bodies are reported
to have been eaten"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-23
WARM AND FAIR THIS
WEEK is WEATHER FORECAST

WASHINGTON.-Warm and gem
orally fair weather is forecast. for the
Southeastern states during this week;
Local thundershowers are Indicated
for the coast districts Of the South
Atlantic and Gulf states.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-23
FREE BROTHERS
p HANG IN FLORIDA
feme Court Will Not Interfere
IN the Sentence of Illiterate
Whites For Murder.

whites For Murder.
Re three Roberts brothers, con-
IA of the murder of an aged
sPle named Wyman, on Santa Rosa
IT, IN Florida, year ago, and
IL case has just been passed upon
que supreme court with the result
'hey are to hang, are evincing
Egar of death and when informed
Ihelr cases had been decided adj
Fey made no comment except to
mat they had not yet given uD
Eov' Park Trammell is expected
Elin short time to name the day
n rT execution. The triple hang
VIII ne the first of the kind in the
'Eory Of the state and also the first
l N the history of Santa Rosa
Ivy that white men have suffered
Ieath penalty. The men are all
= tue uneducated type, and spent
q A. oI their lives in the woods and
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-23
AGED WOMAN BARS SLANG,
FACE POWDER AND GUM

Mrs. Joanna Wyeth, 80 years DID,
of Garrett, ILL.,, a childhood playmate
of 'Uncle Joe" Cannon, former
speaker of the house of representa-
tives, said on her ninetieth birthday
recently that she had three things to
boast of. 81 never chewed gum,
she declared, 'I never used slang;
and 1 never put powder on my face.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-23
)NSHINERS ADEPT
HIDE and SEEK
ON LOOKOUT FOR Grew
ooRs." AND MAKE THEIR
IASK DANGEROUS ONE.

mountains of Georgia, Ten
North Carolina and Ken
are full of illicit distillers, who
aeated in ravines and almost in
6ble save to those who are ac-
III ed with the surrounding noun
heir primitive roads and rough
So there is a strenuous game
and seek between the distiller
he revenue officers.
4 6ficers locate or suspect the To-
6b of an illicit still their approach
|nOwn generally when they are
\ distant. Nearly every man,
81 and child in the district is a
kCut." Suspicious strangers
an innocent-looking mountain
bho seemingly is chopping wood
&uirrel hunting, and he passes
4 the word. A woman may be
H. water from a spring or a
b girl coming from school, and
background wire flashes "Reve-
efcersI" Quickly a number of
Twill be fired, or seemingly a
bark in a peculiar manner. The
Ness" is on it's way and the
4 will be carried for miles.
Men night comes on a rocket
Re fred from a prominent ridge
ovation, a lantern waved, the
Moot of an owl or the note of a
SOorwill sounded or the twink
II a light shown from a distant
window, and in few minutes
body in any way interested is
to the fact that officers are in
bcinity.
Aoonshiners Take Short Cuts.
"moonshiners" by a short cut
miles of rough travelling over
II the revenue officers have to
IA. When they reach the susS
d location the still has vanished.
such a system the officers are
against it." Their work is even
difficult in winter, because the
i mountaineers are perfectly at
in the deepest SHOWS and the
kt weather.
keral days before the liquor is
distilled location is prepared,
prn meal and barrels are carried
on the ''moonshiners' " Shout
and the mash is mixed for fer
alton. The still is not taken in
bis time, nor does any one APP
lh the spot until the time needed
|he meal to ferment has passed.
!, at night, the still is carried in,
before day light several "runs"
made. If there is the slightest
zion that revenue officers are in
gicinity the still is carried out,
most likely will be put in opera
in some neighboring ravine next
cheap Stills Left For Officers.
felt distilling is sometimes car
On for weeks in a very secluded
Cheap portable stills are in
ral use, for when the revenue Of
capture one it is destroyed, re-
less of size or cost, and every
Of the liquor and "beer"-fer-
Ted meal for distillation-is
ID.
ten a number of stills are in OPP
on in the same district. The
pest one is left for the revenue
to find easily, so that, thinking
work done, they may leave the
IS to run. The officers have dis
red this trick, but as often as
learn one ruse the resourceful
nShiner invents another.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-08-23
BIG SNAKE WITH NINE
RATTLES SENT BY MAIL
Reptile Escapes From Box and Ii
Confiscated By Government.

A live rattlesnake with nine big
rattles sprang out of cigar box re-
ceived in the mail at San Francisco.
1t had been sent from Los Gatos to
DR.. D. Van Denburgh, who is making
study of snakes in connection with
the California Academy of Sciences.
When the post Office employees col
lected sufficient courage to recap
ture the reptile it was confiscated by
the government.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-04-22
SPEER TWO-TO-ONE FAVORITE IN THE
MUNICIPAL CAMP PAICN FOR MAYOR
Orators Behalf of Various Candidates and Factions Open
Battle of Words Next Monday and Will Continue Two
Weeks Registration Indicates Record Vote

Beginning next Monday and continu-
ing for two weeks, until the election,
Tuesday. May Q, Denver will witness one
of the liyeliest municipal campaigns IN
its history. Speakers and personal work
ers will assail the dear voters from every
angle and point of vantage. The lineup
shows u great majority of the working
people, manufacturers, business men, the
elements that seek to build for pro.
gressive and better city in which TO live.
supporting Robert w. Speer for mayor
and the Speer bipartisan amendment
to the city charter.
Reactionaries and so-called reform
crs" are championing the Booth -Repub
lican amendment and the ticket picked
by Governor Carlson, Judge Greeley
Whitford and George Stidgcr. What In
fluencc the Denver Post can exert is di-
rcctcd toward "Vote No" campaign
against all amendments and all candi-
dates in order that control of the police
department may be retained by the
Champa street abiding place of jus.
tice.'
The Macy or Denver Charter League
amendment, petitions for which We're
first in the field, and was the one first
filed, is apparently out of the race and
is not being given the courtesy of public
discussion. 1t is being openly stated
that Alexander Nisbet and l.. c. Green
lee, who appear on the Booth Republican
amendment as candidates, are knitting
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-04-22

their own ticket and have Joined the
Post in the cry of Vote 'em down. In
event this program prevails, Nisbet and
Grccnlee would hold on TO their present
Jobs under the commission government a.
commissioners of safety and property,
respectively. If Speer is successful, the
present commissioners retire ten days
after the election.
Not one of Dcnvers four daily papers
is supporting the Booth Republican or
Macy amendments. The Times, News
and Express are favoring the Speer
amendment, while the Post, rs stated
above. is fighting all amendments to re-
tain control of the police department
Registration closed Thursday, and
while the exact figures are not avail
able as The Bulletin goes to press, it
is estimated 10000 voters have qualified
and record vote is expected. All fac
tions have worked hard to get the names
OF their respective supporters on the reg
istration lists.
In the downtown billiard halls, where
bets are being posted, Speer is practically
two-to-one favorite. with odds in his
favor growing day by day. Speer book.
ers are offering $500 to $3.50 that he viii
be elected mayor. 500 to sos that Booth
will not be cletced. even money that
Specr will beat Booth by 10000 votes,
and even money that the Speer amend
ment will receive more votes than the
Booth and Macy amendments combined,
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-04-22
DAVIS IRON WORKS IN NEW HANDS

Judge George w. Allen of the district
court has signed the final order which
winds NJ the business OF the old +. VI.
Davis Iron Works company. aud estsb-
fishes its successor. the Plains Iron
Works company. The receiver showed hy
his report that all OF the debts of the
old company were paid, the old stock
cancelled and the nav company in oper
alton. The stock Of the old company
all was turned in md Cancelled ly the
clerk OF the court. and it was suggested
that to eliminate the bulk n records y
bonfire might now be ordered by the
court without affecting the rights of any
one.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-04-22
DENVER COLORADO. SATURDAY, APRIL p, 1916
LOW WAGES KILL and MAIN MORE
yTHAN WAR, ,SH0WNBYU. S.REPoRT

the result of low wages and insufficient
annual income.
The report makes it clear that eco
nomic disadvantage" as a cause of dis
ease overshadows all the rest For
example, inadequate diet is set down as
the first of unhealthful conditions of
living" and the report says:
Income statistics published by fed
eral and state governments in the last
few years Indicate that considerable
proportion of the families of wage work
ers have not been able to maintain a
diet that will provIde for proper nourish-
ment.
"A larger proportion can maintain an
adequate diet only at the sacrifice OF
healthful environment and OF other items
which go to constitute a reasonable
standard of living. There can be no
doubt that nourishing food is sacrificed
in a large number of instances in order
to obtain some of the comforts and
amusements and to crafty some of the
wants which are entirely natural and
to be expected of the average American.
Less Than Half Earn Enough.
An examination OF number of studies
Of the budgets of American working
mems families indicates that the point
of adequate subsistence is not reached
until the family income is about $500 a
year. Less than half of the wage earn
ers' families in the United States have
Continued on page o.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-04-22
SENATE COMMITTEE ACTS
FAVORABLY ON LABOR BILL
NO CHANGES MADE IN BURNETT
IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS.
Chairman Smith Declares There Was No
Intent to Hold Back the Report, as
Stated in Daily Papers.

The immigration bill has been reported
favorably by the senate committee on
immigration. The literacy test and every
other major portion Of the bill. as passed
by the house. has been accepted by the
committee. which made record time in
considering this legislation.
Last week Senator Smith tSouth Car
olinal, chairman of the committee on i'm.
migration. told the senate 1t was not
true that his committee intcaded to hold
back the measure. Newspapers have
made this statement. Senator Smith
said II was the purpose of the commit
tee, 80 far as the chairman may speak
for IL, to proceed as vigorously as pos
siblc with this measure, take what nc.
ton the committee sees fit ms to report
ing IL out, and putting it thru the SEN
ate at the earliest possible time"
Trade unionists and other persons
endly to this legislation are urged TO
yyfitc their two United States senators
! and ask them to favor tho early con.
alteration of the Burnett immigration
bill
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-04-22

long suecumbed to the strain and toll i'm
posed upon them
Chunks of Watered Stock.
Let US for n moment make brief com.
parison with the manipulation of rail-
roads and their management, and the
wage paid the employees. We find that
fourteen Western companies alone had
since their incorporation issued fictitious
stock to the colossal total of S4S4,-
100000
The dividends actually paid upon this
watered stock, during the fiscal year
1914, were S43,l67 900. This amount
might have been available for legitimate
capital requirements. for the added re-
Enumeration OF labor, or for the benefit
of the public, in better service or lower
rates, but in fact it was absorbed by
dividend payments on securities, which
did not represent the actual investment
of dollar, but this was not all they
hypothecated of the future efforts OF
railway labor.
To illustrate; seven other Western
railroads have outstanding fictitious cap
ital stock to the enormous total of 500
OO0,ooo upon which the respective plants
are expected to pay dividends.
Paying Big Dividends.
If the public does not pay for these
fictitious values, by rates and other
wise. then who doesy In addition 10 the
above vast sums have been wasted in
payments Of excessive commissions and
fees g. bankers and underwriting syndi-
Gates; Tor example, during the period OF
1900 10 1910. six leading Eastern rail
roads alone distributed in stock bonuses
to their stockholders Sl0l .733.3Ts.
The same roads, within this decade
also paid for the handling OF bonds Is
sued by them. $40, O,l3l .229.
During the same period seven leading
Western railroads gave away more than
S250.oo0. 600 in stock bonuses. and almos-
$1,000 600 in commissions. In a late
wage arbitration it was shown during
1890 to 1910. one company alone. gave
away the astounding sum of S3l7 600 600
to its stockholders.
Another company within the space of
two -oars gave to its stockholders s9s.-
l3o 600.
Yet these are the same corporations
who now cry out against the men who
have earned these sums because forsooth,
they ask that their hours of labor be
reduced TO a reasonable time
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-04-22
UNION HAS RIGHT :
TO ENFORCE RULES
Intimidation Charge Against
Business Agent Dismissed
John J. Connor Of Plumbers Union
Arrested Because He Advised
Member to Obey Law

That a labor union has a perfect right
to enforce its own laws and rules among
members was again sustained in Den
yer court Friday morning Of last week.
John j. Connor, business agent of Plumb
ers and Gasfittcrs Union No. 3, was ar
rested upon charge of intimidating an
a small plumbing shop at 36i0 Downing
street. Hebert charged that Connor, in
his capacity as representative of the
union, induced a plumber TO quit work
in his fHcber,'sl shop.
The case was tried before Justice of
the Peace W. A Rice, and resulted in
dismissal of the charges against Connor
in less than fifteen minutes after the
opening. Attorney Recs ID. Rees repre-
sented the union.
Connor told the judge he had gone to
Hebert's place to inform an employc,
who is a member of the union, that he
was violating the unions rules by work
ing for an unfair concern. and that the
union plumber had thereupon quit work.
Edward V. Dunklee, representing the
district Attorneys office, Immediately
informed Hebert that he had no case
that notifying n member that he was
violating the union rules was not ''intim-
idation," and the charges against Connor
were dismissed by Judge Rice.
Hebert is not a member of the Master
Plumbers Association, and is not a party
TO the agreement recently entered into
between Plumbers Union No. and the
association as to wages and working
conditions
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-04-22
LEADVlLLE METAL MINERS HOLD
ROUSING MEETING TO ORGANIZE
cosTIGAN ACCEPTS INVITATION
Will Address Public Meeting in Assem-
bly, Hall Sunday, April 80.

Hon. E. P Costigan has accepted the
invitation OF the Denver Trades and La
Dor Assembly to deliver an address at
an open special meeting, at 2:30 p. m.
Sunday, April 80. This will be one of
the big features of the year in the local
labor movement. The meeting will be
open to all members of organized labor
and the public is cordially invited
Mr.. Costigan will have for his sub
ject, THE United States Industrial Com
mission and Its Work. a topic upon
which he is well qualified to speak.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-04-22
WAGES FOR FIREMEN

The Boston Brewers Association has
raised wages OF its stationary firemen
S2 week. This makes the rate s22 for
a week of six days, eight hours day,
or As hours week These employees
are members OF the Stationary Firemen's
Union, and they are agreed that union
ism is the best kind OF dividend pro-
ducer. Before they were organized they
received SIPS for a seven-day week. II
hours a day The new wage scale shows
an increase of s9.75 and a reduction of
thirty-siN hours per week.