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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
COTTON BLOOMS
And live WEEVILS
PEST MUCH ALIVE IN SOUTH
GEORGIA IN MIDWINTER.
BAD FOR NEXT YEAR.

The Early County News sincerely
hopes that Mr.. Boil Weevil is not a
good weather prophet, and says:
"Ihe county superintendent of
Schools, Prof. Edgar A. Evans, paid
a visits his farm in the Jakin dis
trict few days ago and while there
found a lot of cotton blooms and
squares on some cotton left in the
field by the tenants. He plucked
several of the blooms to bring home
with him as a demonstration of the
.mildness of the autumn weather so
far. Then it occurred to him to ex-
anime the squares on the cotton and
in a number of them he found full
grown boil weevils, live and kicking
like it was midsummer. He wrap
ped up a half dozen of them in paper
and put them in his vest pocket and
when seen yesterday they were still
alive.
The weevils evidently do not fear
the brand of winter so far handed
out 10 us and if nothing more severe
occurs befAre planting time it will
look like fOol-hardiness tn plant cot
ton IN Early county in 1919"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
SWALLOWED HIS GLASS EYE,
THINKING IT A COUGH DROP
Advised Not 40 Be Alarmed But
Nevertheless Is Not Pleased to
Have One of Eyes in Stomach.

HELENA, Conn. - Marcus Flash,
of this Village, purchased a package
of cough drops and began eating
them to break up a hard cold. When
he retired at night he placed few
of the cough drops upon the dresser
in the room.
He also deposited his glass eye up
on the dresser, as it his habit.
During the night he was awakened
by fit of coughing and remembered
the cough drops. Going to the dresser
he picked up what he believed to be a
couple of the large red drops and put
them into his mouth. He dropped off
to sleep before they were dissolved
and next morning discovered that he
had swallowed his glass eye.
Mr.. Flash went to DIR. Woodruff
and told him what he had done. The
physician informed him that the eve
might disturb the digestive organs
for few days, but not to be alarmed.
Nevertheless, Flash says he is not
pleased to 60 about with one of his
eyes in his stomach.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
STATE SENATORIAL
RIDDLE IS SOL we'd
UNUSUAL SITUATION WHICH
FACED NEXT LEGISLATURE
SATISFACTORILY SETTLED.

ATLANTA. Ga.-Apparently the
opinion of -Atterney General Clifford
Walker in regard to the election of
senators from the seven new state
senatorial districts has entirely clear
ed up the confusion. As the matter
now stands the points involved in
doubt have BEEN cleared up as fol-
lows:
I. Every senator already tetscted
to represent aD existing district will
represent the district that enacted
him, regardless of any rearrRnge-
ment of the counties within thu dis
trict.
2. If a certain county was taken
out of its old district and placed in
one of the newly created districts,
and if the senator elected in the old
district is a resident of that county,
he will go ahead and represent the
old district without regard to the
fact that he now resides in a new dis
trict.
The election of senators IN the sew
en- new districts VIII be held on IAN
uary 7, by proclamation of the gov
ernor. The senators elected in the
"A old districts win go right ahead
and serve. The senators elected in
the new districts will go right ahead
and serve. There win be no confu-
sion and no conflict, thanks to the
attorney generals expert knowledge
of the law, which enabled him to un-
ravel very perplexing riddle.
This unusual situation was caused
by the senatorial redistricting amend
ment to the constitution which was
favorably passed upon by the voters
his year at the same election at
which they named their senators,
representatives and other officers.
The amendment added seven new
districts and therefore seven more
senators were necessary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
THOUSANDS HUNGRY
in new YORK CITY
MANY CHILDREN ARE STARVING
AND ALMOST -NAKED-HUN-
DREDS ARE DYING.

NEW YORK.-Children are starv.
ing to death in New York.
Parents are unable to pay the high
prices for food.
Flu" is attacking dozens of the
Starving children on the East Side
Few get we'll.
Joseph S. Markus heads relief
committee, and promises to "feed
first and investigate afterwards"
Hundreds Sick and Dying.
East Side school teachers report
dozens of hungry, ragged children
fainting every day in crowded schoo!
rooms.
In one small district investigators
found $50 babies i'll or dying of hun
ger, "flu" or pneumonia. No doctors.
medicines or nurses.
In one school room 23 children
were found without five cents worth
of clothing among them. Only worth
less, filthy rags.
So Banker Markus and his COM
AAittGS ISpOIJ.
These are not the only underfed
children in the schools of New York.
Startling Revelations.
Startling revelations made by Dr.
Henry Dwight Chaplin show that
216,000 New York school children
are semi-starved because of the high
cost of foods.
1T is a question whether there
have ever been, in the history of oul
country, as many children under
nourished. Accompanying this there
lis a diminished birth rate and an in.
creased infant mortalityw says Hen.
Try Dwight Chaplin, a physician inter.
ested in relief work here.
"The effects of the disastrous wal
VIII last many years. The most un.
fortunate result is that many chill
dren, not only in the countries dis
located by the war, but all over thu
world, are hungry, They are no
starving, but they are under-nour
ished from lack of a proper amour
Of the right kind of food.
Due to the high cost cf living Their,
is more suffering in New York city
than was ever before known.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
SENATORS STRONGLY
DEFEND THE SOUTH
THIS SECTION, INSTEAD OF BE.
ING UNDULY FAVORED HAS
NOT HAD ITS SHARE.

Observation-Disclosures Fletch,
er, of Florida, speaking in the sen,
ate today, declared "unwarranted'
the claims that the south has. been
unduly favored in the awarding of
war contracts. Considering all that
have been granted, ne said, that sec
ton Of the country has received only
small portion.
For the quartermaster department
alone, Senator Fletcher said. only z
per cent Of the contracts went to
southern concerns, while considering
contracts granted for all purposes
ore concern in Pennsylvania has re-
ceived mere than all the awards given
southern firms.
One State More Than TyVis.e as Much
as Entire So1s&k
Senator Fletcher head from a re.
cent report of the Emergency Fleet
/ Corporation relative to commitments
for housing purposes made by that or.
ganizStion, declaring that for Penn
sylvania alone they tOtaled S23.00O,-
600, which, he said, was more than
twice the amount made in the south
He said he cited these figures to
show that this 1usines. is not going
to the south" Of the amount spent
for housing not a dollar. the senator
declared, was spent for that purpaose
on the gulf coast.
Senator Smith, of Georgia, told the
! senate that instead of The south hav-
| ing been favored by the present adj
moistration il ahd Jared better IN
der the administration of former
President Taft. Fwo-tiards of the adj
equate shipbuildIng facilities are from
the mouth of the Potomac to the Rio
Grande, he said.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
TWO JAP BOYS WERE ADRIFT
THREE MONTHS ON OCEAN
Canoe Lands On Island 1900 Miles
From Home-Had Neither Food
Nor Water in Boat.

NEW YORK.-The captain of a
British steamer which arrived re-
Gently from Japan brought an ac-
count of a remarkable voyage made
by two native boys in canoe from
Tarawa, in the Gilbert group, to the
northern islands Of the Caroline
group, in the Pacific ocean, a distance
of nearly 1900 miles.
They We're three months at sea,
and when they were blown away from
TaraWa they had neither food nor
water in their canoe. Their suffering
was so great that at one time one OF
The boys tried to kill his comrade
with knife, and the latter bore
sears on his body when they were
picked up.
According to their story the boys
kauti and Bebe, were adrift fourteen
days before they had their first food
and that was 81 seagull they caught
by the leg i'm the darkness at is settlac
on the water. Then it rained, they
said, ana they managed to save q
bucket of water to drink, which re.
newed their strength. They caught
four birds during the so days. They
knitted and caught a small shark but
couldn't eat it; It's flesh made them
sick.
The captain said the boys story
was vouched for by British and Japa
nese officials at Tarawa and Jaluit II
the Marshall Islands.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
PRICE OF WHEAT
WILL HAVE TO DROP
GOVERNMENTS VENTURE INTO
THE pit" WILL COST MIL
LIONS OF DOLLARS.

The United States has cornered
the wheat market Out of the coun-
try's visible supply of 10000, 900
bushels the government has "salted
away a boarding estimated at 100,-
100000 bushels. The wheat con-
trolled by the government was ac-
quired as war measure. Now all
is changed. The war has ended.
Production and trade are about to be
resumed in hitherto war gripped
countries. Operators predict that
Canada, Argentina and Australia
soon will be selling wheat at less than
$3.50 a bushel in Europe, while the
American farmer must be paid 1920
until June, 1920, indicating that the
governments adventure into the
"pit" may prove a costly one
Speculation is rife in the grain
market concerning the future, now
that the war is ended and the 1918
crop report just issued shows an eX-
pected yield of '917,000,000 bushels
in the United States. Operators unite
in saying that the government will
come to grief if IT tries to contrUvert
the ancient law Of supply and de-
mand.
Guarantee War Measure.
Grain operators point to the guar
antee given by President Wilson to
pay American farmers 1920 a bushel
for wheat. Now that the war has end
ed the supply of wheat on hand is suf-
ficient to feed the world and there
must be a drop in price. Grain oper-
ators state that the happiest solution
now apparent will be for the govern
ment to purchase the wheat at the
guaranteed figure, sell it at market
value and charge the loss to the war.
1t is freely predicted in the Chicago
wheat market that the government
stands to lose millions of dollars on
its wheat holdings.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
DECLARES PRESENT
DOLLAR IS FAKE"
MUST HAVE MORE POWER TO
BUY OR BoLSHEvIsM WILL
RULE, SAYS BABSON.

RICHMOND.-The present dollar
is a fake" dollar and the nations
monetary standard should be based
on 200 commodities, instead of upon
gold, which capitalists are continual
~ "depreciating," Roger w. Babson,
of the United States department of
labor, declared in an address here to-
day before the American Economic
Association. The worlds productiv-
ity has increased 20 per cent since
the European war started, Mr.. Bah
son said, but the purchasing power of
the dollar has decreased.
A Badly Mistaken Belief.
"For thousands of years." said Mr..
Babson, people thought that the sun
went around the world At last this
is no longer believed. But people
still think that high prices are due
to scarcity of goods instead of to the
depreciation of the dollar.
"The real crime of plutocracy is
not that few men today control the
coal, iron, timber and other raw ma
terials, but that they control the pur-
chasing power of the dollar with
WHICH yOu anu L nave 70 DuN every
thing of them. Moreover, they are
continually cutting down this pur-
chasing power by depreciating gold
VIII Not Be Bled Forever.
"The people have trod the tread
mill about as long as they will, The
masses will not be bled forever by the
present fake dollar. Either we
must voluntarily change the fake
dollar of today for real dollar based
upon what we eat, wear and sleep,
or else we will encourage the Bolshev-
lists to carry on their damnable work
until we have no dollars at all
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, also
spoke on the dollar at the session at
which Irving Fisher, of Yale, presided.
DR.. Royal Meeker, of Washinot On,
advocated automatic government in
surance, so that everybody would be.
protected. He said that 00,000,000
persons in America can be insured
for what the present policy holders
in this country are paying under the
ccr10ctitive system.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
VETERANS OF GEORGIA WOULD
HOLD THEIR NEXT STATE REUNION IN DAWSON
EX-KAISER HEARS SERMON
ON ROARING LION"
AND FUTURE EXALTATION
XXTILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN,
Wv the former German emner-

NIILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN,
wv the former German emper-
or, and his wife attended religious
services in the castle hall Sunday
morning.
The Bible reading was from the
first epistle of Peter, chapter V,
sixth to eleventh verses.
The most striking passages in
the Scripture text mentioned are
Humble yourself yes, therefore,
under the mighty ihand of God,
that He may exalt you in due
time.
"Be sober; be vitilant, because
your adversary, the devil, as a
roaring lion walketh about, seek
ing whom he may Hevour."
These passages torresopnd so
closely to the eA-kaiser's own
hopes and his views of his enc
mics that it may be suspected he
selected the text himself.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
Turks Face Greatest Crime of History Greeks
Charge Ottoman With the Murder of 100000

Greeks in the region of the Black
Sea, the Marmora and the Aegean
Sea and elsewhere.
The organization under the Dretext
of mobilization of battalions of work
men and the determination of $780,
600 Greek soldiers by hunger and
hardship.
Severe treatment of the Arabs,
which caused suffering in the Hedjaz,
Syria and Mesopotamia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
lRFEN SELECTED
MEETING PLANor
NOW UP TO PEOPLE OF CITY TO
SAY WHETHER THEY WANT
soUTHS OLD HEROES.
THREE HUNDRED
USUALLY ATTEND

Major Horsley Makes Visit Here and
Desires an Expression From the
People--Reunion Great Event in
History of Amy City.
The next annual reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans of
Georgia will be held IN South Geor-
ola. and Dawson will be the place if
the people of the city and surround
ing community want the honor of en-
-ertaining the old heroes Of the six
ties for two days.
Dawson has already been selected
for the reunion provided the people
want it, and it is now squarely up to
them to let their wishes be known.
Terrell county, which has for three
years stood squarely behind the
Young American soldiers at war, new
ar faltering in any patriotic duty,
now that peace has been declared is
given an opportunity to honor that
thin gray line of Confederate veter-
ans the dauntless heroes whose valor
and chivalry more than so years ago
made a story that has thrilled the
world.
Major w. J. Horsley, of Arlington,
who is in command of the South
Georgia division, which embraces AZ
counties, has been requested by Gen
eral Thomas, commander of the en-
tire Georgia division, to select a
place for holding the next reunion.
Major Horsley, while visiting in the
city the past week, informed The
News that he had selected Dawson,
and is anxious that this city shall
have the honor as well as the pleas
ure of entertaining this body of APP
proXimately 800 veterans, and asks
for an expression of the people rela-
Tive to the matter at the earliest pos
sible moment, as there is necessarily
/ much detail work in the planning for
so large and important an assem-
blage. Aside from the sentiment
which attaches to these annual re
NIloiS IICI ( cIG llidLlN BCHClilo dC-
cruing to the community wide
enough awake to extend its unstinted
hospitality TO these representative
cizens from so large a territory. We
have only to recall how easily and
royalty we cared for the South Geor-
gia Conference of $50, and how
splendidly we entertained the State
Baptist Convention composed of
quite as many delegates, to make US
realize that it would tax 20 one to
have the veterans come. Dawson
has a we'll established reputation for
successfully handling large bodies,
and for the citizens to come together
in extending an invitation is sufi-
Gent guarantee that all who come
will be given warm welcome and
the best the city and county af-
ford.
The reunions only last two days,
and we believe the people of Terrell
county will be delighted to give them
selves up to making the next gather
ing notable occasion in Dawson, the
happy memory of which will bright
en- each remaining day in the lives of
Our honored guests.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31

SALONIKI-Dis Dispatches from Con-
S'antlnople to the semi-official press
bureau here reports that prior to the
a'rlVal of the allied feet at Constan-
grHople, Greek deputies in the par
lament demanded to know what the
'eSeht Turkish government would do
s'lhst the authors of the cruel treat
DenV OF non-Turks during the last
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
FIT. GAINES STORES ARE -.
BURNED WITH LOSS OF $40, 900
Postoffice and Bank Are Also De-
stroyed by an Early Blaze.

FORT GAINES, Ca, Dec. 26.-
Fire starting at 8 80 this morning de-
stroyed the City Hardware Company.
j. M. Culpepper's branch store, the
postoffice, Union Savings Bank, Red
Cross work rooms and offices of Zach
Arnold and DR.. A. H. Stone, caus-
ing an estimated loss of $40, 900, par
TALLY covered by insurance. i.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
A BILL, IS SIS ON ONE SIDE
AND $40 ON THE OTHER
Mistake in Printing Causes Doubt as
to Worth of 1t.

,WAUKEGAN, Ill.-Mayor Pearce,
Lon Waukegan, who runs a drug store,
IS IN doubt as to the worth of bill.
he received in trade what he thought
was SIS bill, only to discover later
mat on one side it is SIS bill and on
The other reads $40. The banks pro-
nounce the bin genuine and explain
It's freakishness by saying that it
was evidently a mistake in printing,
and it is believed that there are three
others at least like it, for the bills are
-prlnted in blocks of fonrs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
$4,000 PEARL NECKLACE ,~i
STOLEN; SOLDIER ARRESTED

ATLANTA.-A $4,000 pearl
necklace has been stolen in Chicago,
alleged to have been sold by the
thieves in New York, and John s.
Armstrong left Atlanta this morning
for Augusta to get Louis Gotschel. a
soldier at Camp Hancock, on an ex-
tradition warrant granted by Govern
or Dorsey on requisition by Governor
Whitman, of New York.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31

FIVE years. They declared these acts
had been committed:
The determination of 100000
Armenians, innocent women and chill
dren, and confscation of their prop
erty
The expulsion bevond the limits of
the state of 100000 Greeks and the
confscaticn of their property.
The determination after the de-
claration of war Of 100000 other
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
SIDETRACK MORE LOANS
FOR EUROPEAN NATIONS
House Committees Action on Re-
quest of Ex-Secretary McAdoo.

WASHINGTON. = BY unanimous
vote the house ways and means COM
mittee today postponed indefinitely
action on the request of former Sec
rotary McAdoo for authority to make
peace time loans of $1,000, 100000
to foreign countries.
The view was that congress should
not grant such authority at this time
and some members suggested it would
be bad policy at any time. Others,
however, held that ultimately the
loans would have to be made, but
they agreed to await the conclusion
Of peace and further fiscal informa-
ton before taking action.
fcpk ifaac2wrentic-an
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
WOMEN TRY TO LYNCH
ACCUSED MAN AT INQUE ST
With Angry Shouts Rushed 10 on
CoroneT's Proceedings.

PITCAIRN, Pa.-Women raided
the coroner's inquest into the death
on October 20 of James Bird and at
tempted to lynch G. c. Williams, a
railway detective, charged with shoot
ing Bird.
With shouts of lynch himp' the
women clawed and scratched their
way. through Gordon of deputy cor
oners and constables that tried to
stop the rush.
They reached Williams and were
roughly dragging him outside when
the men rallied and went TO bis res
cue.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
SENATOR SMITH OPPOSES
WILSON'S LEAGUE OF NATIONS

|, acknowledgement to a
league of nations was expressed in
me senate today by Senator Smith,
Oemocrat of Georgia. Referring to a
recent Paris dispatch outlining Pres
ldent Wilson's attitude Senator Smith
$aidd he could not "for one moment
.Oeleye that the president has advo-
gated such an impracticable and i'm
Possible scheme"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
An EVELESS TOWN

DERRICK, Cal.-This old mining
town, high UP in the Trinity county
mountains, is today as Eveless as the
north pole. The only woman here
has departed for Sacramento to sne.,d
the toughest part Of the winter asd
does not expect to return till the
robins re-t again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
MAY BREW BEER AGAIN
If MIR. HOOVER HAS HIS WAY
Urges the President to Lift Ban De
nying Brewers the Grain.

WASHTNGTON.-A persistent re-
port about the capital is that H. c.
Hoover has urged the president to lift
the ban denying grain to breweries.
There is no confirmation.
According to the report, Mr.. Hoov-
er has told the president necessity for
the order no longer exists. Brewing
ceased December 1, when plants the
country over were closed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED
ILLEGAL WAR CONTRACTS

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Informal
war contracts, the status of which
was rendered doubtful by recent
decision of the treasury comptroller,
number 6679, aggregating $1,000
100000, Major General Goethals TO-
day informed the house military
committee, which is considering leg
lslation to legalize the contracts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
GREAT BABY BARRAGE is
ON IN BRITISH EMPIRE
In Kingdom There Are 22O, 600 Births
as Against $4,000 Deaths.

LONDON.-Among English chill
dren there is a belief that every time
they see a shooting star another baby
has been born.
If this is the case the stars must
have joined the belligerents during
the three months ended June 80, to
fight on the side of the allies. In the
United Kinkdom 220,140 births have
been registered as against 153,496
deaths, so that the population in
creased 66,644.
These figures would make it APP
pear that the stars had put up
heavy barrage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31
INCOME TAX FEATURES
:. OF THE NE w REVENUE BILL
In Meas by Senate Excess-Pro6ts Provision Applies
Only to Corp atoms. Departures From Present Law

The income law will contain features
primary Importance xcessprofts will apply
solely to There were many reasons why this change
impossible approach equity
profits individuals and partnerships The committee,
creng materially the of surtax which apply individual
incomes.
for individuals
than calendar provided permission to do granted them by the
March provided the inventories are taken on basis which has
approved nearly
the
DEDUCTIONS AUTHORIZED LOSSES.
If loss in 1917 the
income subject tax Another sort of net loss
that which results from the bona de sale by the taxpayer plant build
n machinery equipment or other facilities constructed installed
CURED by the taxpayer on or after April 1911 for the production
1qG7 for eUano bnf E recnnId %1 Tho df4a + ig 6
credited
Individuals subject and present
bill provides for normal of y cent 1918 There
is the of
Except liberty ID per cent bonds and personal exemption Of
for married living with husband and wife the head of
addition exemption granted case any
years any dependent
mentally physically incapable esupport 1t further
provided that the first $4,000 above the normal credit shall be
per
be taxed at the rate of per cent.
As was the begin $4,000 The
Above groups
teriay
taxed 63 cent between $50oOoO and 1o0o0oO 81
SALARIES OF oFFIcEEoLDERs UNTAxED.
The bill provided salaries Of municipal
from certain and municipal bonds The
eliminated these proposals the ground of their probable
plus any
army and navy nurses and members Of the marine corns are NOT ab
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-31

Twelve men were shot by court
martial orders after an armed up-
rising by the Bolsheviki at Omsk on
he night of December %.