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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS
AMONG WORST PROFTTEERS
Big Increases in Charges When There
Was No Increase in Articles
That Were Served.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Reports that are
current in every city of the country
to the effect that the hotels and the
restaurants are using the war as a
lever to prize money out of people,
already heavily taxed, and that they
are guilty of profteering, were de-
MED in statement just given out
here by Manager Roger, of the Pied
mont, who has just returned from
Washington, where he held a confer
ence with the food administration
and where he represented the Geor-
gia hotels.
One of the causes of complaints
against the hotels in Georgia, it might
be added, however, is that they are
not under the supervision of the food
administration as to prices, and that
they are able to make any kind of in
creases they choose without any
checking as to whether it is justified
or not.
In Atlanta increases have been
made in restaurants at times when
investigation established the fact that
there had been no increase in the
price of the article served. The food
administration is able to reach the
retailer through the wholesaler, but
there his authority stops or at least
the food administration claims it
stops, although he can put any kind
of 'less" meal in effect.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
MAKING IT HARD TO
MARRY In GEORGIA
MEASURE TO REGULATE THE IS
SUANCE OF LICENSES PASSED.
MUST GIVE S DAYS NOTICE.

A bill to regulate the issuance of
marriage licenses in this state, intro
duced by Senator Andrews, of Allan
ia, was passed in the senate by a
vote of "a to 6. This measure is one
intended to put a check on hasty mar
riages, which its friends are conf
dent will mean that there will be
fewer divorces in Georgia.
According to its provisions no Ii
cense can be issued by the ordinary
unless he has five days advance no.
tice. No girl under fourteen and no
boy under seventeen shall be granted
license under any condition, and in
case of a girl between ID and 18 and
boy between II and 81 the consent
of the parents must be given Both
parties must be identified and no IL
cense granted unless at least one of
the parties live in the county.
Senator Andrews and several 9th
ers argued for the bill, declaring that
if the legislature did nothing but pass
this bill it could go home content in
AAoNAAAS POA1OIiASu d great SSENlG6.
Soldier Wrecked Girl.
Senator Carswell stated that the
bill would protect the childhood and
womanhood of the state. He cited
an instance of where a very young
girl in Macon met soldier in a NOV
ing picture show and married him
and lived with him for about week,
after which he left her and her whole
life was wrecked by it.
"Any senator should be proud to
abolish the Infamous common law
marriages." said Senator Andrews.
Marriage is the most sacred rela-
ton in the world. By making it hard
er to get divorced the seriousness
and sacredness of the relation will
be brought home to the people"
Senator Merry, of Mitchell county,
opposed the bill. He said the policy
of Georgia had always been to throw
no restraints around getting married,
He thought the bill would do this
and he voted against it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
lis CONGRESSMAN ARE in
The new DRAFT LIMIT AGES
They Will Be Required to Register.
Quorum Dodgers May Have to
Work or Fight.

WASHINGTON, D. Cone hun
bred and fifteen members of con-
gress will be subject to General
Crowders "work or fight" order if
the new draft ages, eighteen to for
W-lve, are approved.
Members of the house and senate
OF draft age will be required to regis
ter Just as every one of their con-
sutuents Of the new service ages is,
ana will have to fill out question
mares. They will be automatically
exempted from service.
~, Among members who were in
Washington today there was discus
SION Of the possibilities for good un-
aier the work or fight" order, and
nose men who become impatient at
me frequent lack of quorum insisted
yney would have fine weapon to
keen recalcitrants "on the job"
=, Eleven of the 115 members are
United States senator's. Then of the
10 10 mebers are thirty-five or under,
torVy-Seven are forty or under and
tne other siXty-eight are between for
T'y and forty-fve.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
WOULD PROTECT
The COTTON GROWER
SENATE PASSES A BILL TO PRE-
VENT ILLEGAL EXCHANGES
AND FICTITIOUS PRICES.

Protection of the cotton farmers
and the legalized cotton spectators
and exchanges against illegal ex-
changes and fictitious prices on cot
ton and other farm products is the
design of a bill by Senator Elders,
which has been passed by the state
senate.
The bill, which is for the specific
purpose of legalizing cotton and
grain exchanges, is intended to meet
the demands of the federal govern
ment in the cotton futures act pass
ed August, 1916. 1t was passed in
practically the same shape by Ala
bama and other southern states, and
is recommended by the National and
Georgia Farmers Unions and the
federal reserve banks.
This act makes it felony for any
person or company to sign a contract
for the delivery of cotton or grain
if there is no intention of making
such delivery, but merely of gambling
upon the market prices.
Provisions of Measure.
The effect will be to Danish abso-
lutely all illegal exchanges and the
practice of fixing fictitious prices on
cotton and farm products, and
strengthens the actual cotton ex-
changes which are legalized by law.
Senator Elders explained to mem
bers of the senate that it would be
the means of stabilizing the grain
and cotton markets, and substitute
for gambling an honest and fair
method of conducting business be-
tween buyer and seller.
Under the law any person, wheth-
er a member of the stock exchange
or not, can obtain access to the same
information granted members.
Any person making a contract to
deliver cotton at a certain time is
rigidly bound to carry out his agree
ment to the letter, and no cases in
court will be upheld when it is prov
en- that the Spectator had no inten-
ton of making delivery when the con-
tract was entered into.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
WATSON IS HANDS
OFF In ALL POLITICS
SAGE OF MDUFFIE SEEKING TO
REGAIN HEALTH. PROMINENT
MEN AT LUNCHEON.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Thomas E. Wat
son spent a few hours in Atlanta,
stopping over en- route from Jack
sonville, Fla, to his home in Thorn
son, Ga. He has been confined to his
bed in a Jacksonville hotel for sew
eral weeks with a severe attack of ILL
ness.
Mr.. Watson told newspaper men
that his visit to Atlanta had abso-
lutely no political significance. in
slstlng that he was Glands off" as
far as politics is concerned in the
senatorial race. Declaring that his
chief object at this time is to regain
his shattered health, Mr.. Watson
stated that he was taking no part in
state politics.
Entertained at Luncheon.
Numbers of his friends and ac-
quaintances greeted him in the lob
bies of the Kimball House and at
noon he entertained few of his per-
sonal friends at luncheon.
The party included Governor Dor
sey, Samuel L. Olive, president of
the state senate, Speaker John N.
Holder, Charles S. Barrett, president
of the National Farmers Union; ].
Glen Stovall, representative from Nc
Duffie county, Benjamin M. Black
zurn and A. L. Seals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
PLANS FOR HELPING
FARMERS ANNOUNCED
GOVERNMENT SUBMITS REGU-
LATIONS FOR LOANS IN THE
DRoUTH-STRIcKEN AREAS.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Regula-
lions under which drouth stricken
farmers of the northwest and south
west may obtain loans for seed from
the $5,000,0O0 fund set aside for that
purpose by President Wilson were an
nounced today by the treasury and
agricultural departments, which will
administer the funds Jointly. The
farmers whose credit and resources
already are exhausted and who con-
sequently cannot get advances pri-
Vately from banks may participate.
Loans will be limited to SO per
acre with a maximum of $500 and
will be payable at per cent. Octo-
Der l, 1919, in the southern districts.
and November l, 1919, in northern
districts. Federal land banks will
make and collect the loans after de-
partment of agriculture agents have
investigated and approved the appli-
cations. Applicants must agree to
use seed and methods approved by
the department of agriculture. The
money will not be advanced until the
seeding is completed, but certificate
will be given as the basis for tempo
rary credit. Each borrower will be
required to agree that if his wheat
crop is seven bushels or more per
acre he will pay per cent. of his
loan into guaranty fund to cover
possible losses to the government. APP
plicants for loans or banks wishing
to assist are to apply to the federal
land bank of their district.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
PERSONAL INCOME TAX
HARD ON INVESTORS
SPECTATORS FURNISH ONE
THIRD RECEIPTS FOR FISCAL
YEAR 1916. BIG INCOMES.

Of the S173,0OO,OOO personal in
come tax collected for the fiscal year
1916 investors and spectators in all
fields shouldered just one-third of the
burden, labor .O86 per cent. of it.,
and the remainder came from the
multitudinous ranks of those whose
incomes were classed as derived from
business" and services"
Embraced within the latter classes
is every calling from that of banker
to the farmer with a scant acre, and
in the professions from the practi-
toner of international law to the
modest chiropodist.
Ninety per cent. of the total tax
was derived from those fulsome in
comes of more than $4,000, and
1.66 per cent. from those of the S.
600 class and less, although the latter
constituted more than a third of the
total $4,000 returns. The highest
average rate of tax actually paid up
on net income subject to tax was
1919 per cent, which fell upon the
highest income class of $5,000,000
and over. Only 10 individuals, how
ever, bore the burden of that rate.
They contributed $13,OOO,0O0 to the
total tax. The average rate of tax
paid declined through the income
classes to a minimum of .28 per cent.
for the $4,000 to $4,000 class.
Although incomes of 100000 and
more constituted only 1.5 per cent.
of the total number of returns they
paid nearly three-quarter of the to-
tai tax.
After income, excess profits, liquor
and tobacco taxes the biggest yield
from any other source came from
leVies on transportation and utilities
which went into effect November l,
amounting to S70,734,000, divided as
follows: freight three per cent. $780,
002,000; passenger tickets eight per
cent. $24,306,000; express five per
cent. $6,458,O00; berths and state
rooms ten per cent. $2,236, 900; tele-
phone, telegraph and radio messages
five cents each, 5000, 900; oil pipe
lines five per cent. $1,433,0O0.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
LAST PRAYER OF CAR FOR
WIFE, CHILDREN AND RUSSIA
Pathetic Were the Final Words of the
Murdered Ruler.
AMSTERDAM.=What

AMSTERDAM.-What seems to
have been the last words of Nicholas
Romanoff, the former Russian en-
peror, were:
"Spare my wife and my innocent,
unhappy children. May my blood
preserve Russia from ruin"
These words were called out by
the former emperor just before he
was shot by the firing squad.
Nicholas was given only two hours
in which to prepare for the end. He
was awakened at 5 o'clock on the
morning of his execution. He was
then taken to a room where the de-
cision of the soviet council was com
municated to him. He was informed
the execution would be carried out
in two hours.
The former emperor received the
announcement of the sentence of
death with great calmness. He re-
turned to his bedroom and collapsed
in a chair. After a few minutes he
asked for a priest with whom he was
allowed to remain unattended. Sub
sequently he wrote several letters.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
NO NEWSPAPERS MAY BE
STARTED DURING The WAR
War Industries Board Declares There
Is Absolute Necessity for Con-
sumption to Be Curtailed.

WASHINGTON.-Paper mills have
been listed as an essential industry,
the priorities division of the war in
dustries board announced today on
the understanding that the greatest
possible economy will be exercised in
the use of paper and that newspapers
will reduce their consumption of news
print Is per cent. on daily editions
and 20 per cent. on Sunday editions.
Because of the absolute necessity
of curtailing the use of paper, says
the statement, the pulp and paper
section of the war industries board
has ruled that during the war no
new newspapers shall be established.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
GERMANY is SLOWLY
CRUMBLING TO PIECES"
WITH BRITISH ARMX

WITH BRITISH ARMY IN
ANCE.-Documents of the
cant character, indi-
catlne { events have
brought abouv extremely mark
ed state of depression in the Ger
man army have fallen into the
hands of the British. Most sig
nifcant of all, perhaps, is an ex.
tract from a German officers
diary in which he relates he had
been asked by the divisional head
quarters whether the troops in
the lines favored peace or a con-
tinuation of the war, his answer
being:
Immediate peace or an imme-
date decisive battle"
This entry was dated before
the German drive for the Marine
began.
Hardly less important is a let
ter taken from a German prison
err. 1t was written to by another
German stationed along the
Marine. 1t reads:
GU Will be In the thick of it
now. Shirk as much as you can.
Do not be stupid. We are risking
our lives only for big victories.
Now we are taking the offensive
on the Marine and we will never
get out of this mess at all. Our
regiment has been nearly wiped
out and we have not pushed far.
The war is becoming a greater
massacre than ever. What is go
ing to happen I do not know. Ger
many is slowly crumbling to
pieces"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
HEAT WAVE CRIPPLED WEST;
BIG DAMAGE TO CORN CROP
Record of 113 Degrees Above Report
ed From Iowa.

DES MONIES, Iowa.-Great dam
age to corn, especially in the south
ern part of the state, is resulting
from Iowa's most intense heat wave
In 40 years, according to the federal
crop bureau.
Clarinda, with temperature of
113 degrees, was the hottest point in
the state
Virtually the entire middel west
sweltered in the highest temperatures
of the year. Scores of heat prostra-
lions were reported The hot wave
covers Illinois. Wisconsin, South Da-
kota, Iowa, Missouri and Indiana.
Maximum temperatures of 100 to
103 were reported in southern Hi
nois.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
s34O,OOO,OOO TAX
ON TOBACCO USERS
0rd;n
THEATRES AND OTHER AMUSE.
MENTS TO PAY HIGHER LEVY.
OTHER BIG INCREASES.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Doublng
Of the present special taxes on to-
bacco. cigars, cigarettes and increas-
Cd taxation of brokers, theaters and
other amusements, billiard and pool
narlors. bowling alleys and capitaliza-
tion and corporations were agreed on
bv the house ways and means com
mittee today in framing the $8,000,-
oOO.O0O revenue bill. A new tax of
nor cent. on retail sales of mail or
der houses with a 100000 annual
business was adopted. Pullman seats
and berths and passenger rates will
he subject to uniform tax of 8 per
cent. Stamp taxes were undisturbed.
The tobacco tax imposes three
times the existing rates on some
items of the schedule and is expect
cd to raise approximately $340,00O,-
400 in comparison with the present
s168. 100000 revenue from tobacco.
Summary of Increases.
Chairman Kitchin after the COM
mittee adjourned summarized the Sit
uation as follows:
eve have put tax of / per cent.
on retail sales of mail order houses
doing a 100000 annual business.
We have increased the present taxes
Brokers now under a special tax OF
$40 will pay an annual tax of 500,
and if thew are members of stock ex-
changes or a board of trade engaged
in buving and selling will pay an an
nual tax of $50. We have increased
the tax on pawn brokers from $5O
to 500; ship brokers from S2O TO
$50: custom house brokers from STU
to $50. Theatres, including moving
Dicture shows, museums and concert
halls having a seating capacity OF
not over $50 people will pay an an
nual tax increased from % to SO per
cent. Seating capacity $50 and 800
increased from so to 100; 500 to l.
400 capacity increased from IS to
1926, and all over 500 capacity in
creased from 800 to $500 annual
tax. We have doubled the present
special taxes on theaters, circuses,
bowling alleys, billiard and pool
places and on manufacturers OF to-
bacco, cigars and cigarettes.
Rail Rates 8 Per Cent.
Pullman seats and berths are I'M
der the present law taxed 10 per
cent. and passenger rates 8 per cent
of the amounts paid for tickets or
coupons. We today agreed to make
the tax on both of these per cent
1--WE have put new special tax
on sales of seats on stock and pro-
duce exchanges of 10 per cent. on
the sale price of the seats and on an
nual dues of these exchanges at ~
per cent. on the amount Of the dues
This is to put them on the same basis
as the clubs and other organizations
already put under tax.
Cotton and Dogs Exempt.
A proposal to tax cotton was re-
iected almost unanimously. Repre-
sentative Moore, of Pennsylvania,
proposed tax of So a bale, when
he commended would produce $685.
100000 year revenue, but Its OPP
ponents suggested tax on grain ana
anthracite coal and similar articles
produced in the north. Mr. Moore al
so proposed tax on dogs, which the
committee voted down.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
THOSE GIRLS.

"That f1ippy hat is becoming to
you"
"But it hides most of my face"
Il said it was becoming"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
OVER A BILLION DOLLARS
IS LOANED TO RAILROADS
Called on United States for Money
During July. Government Oper-
alton Is Proving Costly.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Thirty-
seven railroads in July found it nee
essary to call on the railroad admin
istration for advances at outright
loans as partial payments of govern
ment compensation or to help them
pay back wages due employees.
The aggregate of these advances
was $43,205,000, the railroad admin
istration announced.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
A HUNDRED SHEEP ARE
USED AS LAWN MOWERS
AXE Places of 100 Men at the Big
DUPONT Powder Plant.

one hundred finely graded ewes
p 1a,e been purchased by the DUPONT
E,, oMuer Company to assist in the war
Ell ELY The animals cost exactly SO
Nth and Superintendent of Farms
III IIiTIane feels that the investment
bml be a good one. A score of men
bo oeen employed to keep down
io v growth of weeds and rank vegeta-
bIan+ on the large acreage of the
T "I''' put the task has been too great,
kitb 4, was decided to experiment
Ios5,. me sheep. What they have al
law. zone is enough to show what
ger nerd could accomplish.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-08-13
NOW WOMEN ARE TO HAVE
JAILS FOR EXCLUSIVE USE
Female Offenders in Chicago to Be
Handled by Own Sex.

CHICAGO.-Chicago women are
to have three jails for their exclusive
use which will be run entirely by wo-
men. Even the patrol wagons will be
operated by women. Acting Chief
of Police Alcock said that it was be-
lieved that women were more compe-
tent to deal with women lawbreakers
than were men.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-07
Science and the Corset.

Dr. H. w. Lovctt of the Harvard medical
school, in recent lecture on 'Posture and
Carriage" asserted that women were better
off with corscts than without them. lie fur
thcr stated that physicians would be better oc-
cupicd telling women what kind of corsots to
wear than in condcmning all corscts and then
for good measure he volunteered the opinion
that some so-called hygienic waists and health
corscs were far more injurious than any good
corset ON the market.
Fashion does not confne itself to any par
ticular type Of corset 1t does advise its follow
ers that there are corscts for all occasions and
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-07
Making Clothes
from Pineapples

DEOPLE usually connect the Philippine ISL
ands with perfumes and tropical fruits, and
very little is heard of the great native in
dustry-the weaving Of fabrics from pinepples
and bananas.
The lining of the skins is used, and looms
not unlike those familiar to us are employed
The finest material is made from pineapples
and called Pima cloth. 1t is very soft and close
in texture, somewhat resembling mull-muslin
and is the color of champagne. 1t is not as a
rule dyed, and is beautifully embroidered
Pima cloth is eTpcnsiye--a blouse length cost
ing about $12-but it washes and wears we'll.
and is exceedingly graceful and artistic Yasi
cloth is cheaper and coarser, and is produced
from bananas. This is the native dress material
and is worn by all the native women.
The best kind, however, is made in the nat
ural shade-eXactly the color of the inner side
Of banana skin-embroidered in a finer woven
mesh Of the skin, and trimmed with a lace also
manufactured from bananas. Perhaps, after the
war some enerprising leader Of the world Of
fashion will introduce these cloths
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-07

urges their use For the evening there are SOFT
lightly boncd low corsets Of brocade, satin or
silk tricot, and one who can afford evening
gowns should have a corset to wear with them.
In direct contrast, the corset worn for out
door use should be low, short and extremely
supple, with elastic inserts so as to give abso-
lutte freedom
Next to wearing the proper corset at all
times there is nothing so important as the
proper lacing of it, for after all, corset i'm
properly worn is not concealed; whereas a
corset properly laced is, at all times, at least
unobseryed,
Evening journal., 1918-10-17

a WOUNDED doughboy was brought
n into a field dressing station. The
surgeon saw that one leg was badly shot
up and said:
'Well, it's pretty tough one, but we'll
have you o. X. IN a few weeks"
You're wrong there, Major" replied the
wounded man. you haven't seen this hole
through my chest yet. I'll be gone before
night, but the only kick I've got is that
won't be able to get back and help finish
up the job"
Evening journal., 1918-10-17

IN the midst of the battle one young lieu
tenant, running into a pal of his,
showed him under the flap of his pocket
little gold brooch.
IF anything should happen to me-" he
said, ''try to get hold of this pin, will you,
and when you get time ship it back home
to my mother"
The other promised, and the lieutenant
went his way. He had not gone 20 feet
when he was struck by shell and killed
instantly. The pin is on its way to America.
Evening journal., 1918-10-17
laredyin&
f0rNOuc

LIE was smiling but pale, when they
Il l. wheeled him ina black haired youth
Of 20-and he was still smiling when they
tenderly transferred him to a cot after the
doctors had counted seven machine gun
bullet wounds, one in his ankle, three in
his side and three in his chest. When a
Y. NJ c. A. man brought writing paper
through the ward he took piece and
asked for pencil. An attendant found
him dead half an hour later with this be-
ginning of a letter in his hand:
Dear Mother:
1--WE made an attack on the Germans
today and drove them five miles. / am in
a hospital tonight. was slightly wounded
in the Leg"
Evening journal., 1918-10-17

THE colonel had led them into the fight,
and it was the colonePs all-seeing eye
which noticed that the little 18-year-old
private had been gassed.
Get backp he shouted. you've done
your bit-get backw
So the little private dutifully got back.
On the way he passed farm. In a shed
were six Boches whom the fight had swept
past without noticing.
Their hands went up in jiffy. When
the little private reported at the dressing
station for treatment, the six were still
with him.