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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
WILSON SUPPORTER
REGRETS DECISION
GREAT MISTAKE MADE, SAYS
NEW YORK WORLD, PREsI.
DENTS CHIEF NEWSPAPER.

NEW YORK.-The New York
World, regarded as chef newspaper
supporter of the Wilson administra-
ton, makes the following editorial
comment on the presidents decision
to go to France:
"The announced determination of
the president to go abroad for the
peace conference will be generally
regretted throughout the country.
That he should go as an equal partici-
pant in the conference with the dele
gates from other countries has clear
ly been given up, and for obvious
reasons. The evident purpose is to
place himself in a position where his
views can more readily be impressed
upon the conference, whether in the
shaping of its peace treaties or in
forwarding his own cherished ideal
of league of nations.
But wherein Europe can there be
found rostrum for such expression
equal to that of the hall of the house
at Washington, in the immediate
presence of the representatives of
0O,000,000 people?
1--WE cannot but feel that the presi-
dent is making a grave mistake from
any point of view in deciding finally
to remove himself so far from the
seat of government he is charged
with administering, in a still critical
time, for purposes which can better
be served where he is"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
The METHODISTS WILL
HAVE WORLDS FAIR
PLANS BEING MADE FOR MON
STER EVENT AT COLUMBUS.
OHIO, IN 1919.

NEW YORK. - Commemorative
the coming of peace and the centen-
NAL of its missionary activity, the
Methodist Episcopal Church and the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
will hold "a worlds fair of Method
ism" at Columbus, Ohio, from June
20 to July II, 1919, it was announc-
ed here tonight by the Joint centen-
airy committee.
The program of missionary work
throughout the world, which will in
volve an expenditure of .S115,0OO,-
600, will be visualized by transport
ing almost bodily native villages from
the various foreign fields to the
buildings of the Ohio State Exposi-
ton grounds.
Chinese Villages to Be Exported.
A Chinese town with walls. pago-
das, temples, schools, hospital, the
alter, restaurants and homes. togeth-
er with villages representing Japan,
Korea, Africa, India and the Philip
pines, all peopled by their native in
habitants, in native dress, will illus
trate the customs and conditions with
which missionaries must deal.
A special building will be devoted
to newer fields of the board of home
missions, including American In
dians, Eskimos, negroes and south
ern mountaineers. Work among lum-
Der jacks, cowboys and mining men
also will be shown. .--
Another feature will be a pageant
illustrating the development of Meth
odism from the days of John Wesley
to the present.
The problems of housing the ex-
pected $4,000 daily visitors will be
solved by bulldog a "tent city" to
care for those unable to find accom-
modations in hotels and private
homes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
STOLE FORTY THOUSAND
TO BUY DOGS FOR KENNEL
Bank Teller Pleads Guilty and Gets
Ten-Year Term-Spent $500 to
$500 a Month.

DALLAS, TEXAS.-E. E. Pol
lard, teller of one of the strongest
financial institutions here, loved
dogs. In fact, his admiration for
thoroughbreds was such that he es-
tablished one of the finest kennels
in the state. 1t took money to keep
this kennel going and bring new dogs
to his fold. This may explain why
some of the banks funds began to
disappear,
This went right along for sew
eral months at the rate Of from $500
to $1,000 month. Finally the de-
mand for more funds for the dog
kennel became greater and Pollard
is said to have copied $4,000 at one
lick. The directors would not stand
for this, so Pollard was arrested.
He entered a plea Of guilty to
charges of embezzlement and was
given ten years in the pen. His sal
airy as bank teller is said to have been
about $4,000 year. His total EN-
bezzlements were estimated at S40,-
900.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
GIRL POSING AS A MAN
AND HER bride" ARRESTED
When Taken in Charge Husband"
Showed Draft Card.

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Mrs. Bertah
Schmidt, 20, who for more than a
year posed as a man and who mar
ried her cousin, Annie Schmidt, last
month, is in jail today, charged with
impersonating a man. Her wife"
also is held. When arrested she
showed her draft card and even rolled
and smoked a couple of cigarettes to
convince the police she was a man,
but broke down when confronted by
the matron at police headquarters.
Mrs. Schmidt, who was divorced a
year ago, said she disguised herself
in order to earn a better living. For
the same reason she and her cousin
were married, as both had determin-
ed never to marry any man. They
bought cottage and furnished it on
the installment plan.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
BIG BUSINESS BOOM IS
PREDICTED FOR UNITED STATES
Era of Great Prosperity Is Said to Be
at Hand-Plenty of Work
for Everybody.
WASHINGTON. D. {

WASHINGTON, D. ca few
weeks of furry in which industry will
be readjusting itself to meet new con-
ditions, and then-an era of the
greatest prosperity the United States
has ever known. That is the opinion
of some of the country's leading bust
ness men.
They say that Americas pay-as-you
go policy in this war has placed her
in splendid position. She is cred
itor, not a debtor, and for some time
to come the demand for American
products will be greater than the sup
ply can be.
These business experts say there is
work ahead for everybody-men,
women and children, as we'll as for the
millions Of soldiers who will be re-
turned to the paths of peace.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
WILL AGAIN BURY TWO
HUNDRED CHIPPEWA BRAVES
New Ground Is Cleared FOR Indians
Long Dead.

SUPERIOR, Wis.-Giving place to
industrial developments Chippewa
Indian burying ground is being clear
ed off Wisconsin Point from ground
at the Superior entry to the harbor,
which it has occupied for more than
rs years. The bones of nearly 200
Indians, some Of them buried as
early as 1854, are being brought to
a Superior cemetery and reintered at
the expense of the steel corporation
which has acquired the land for the
site of great docks. Elaborate cere-
monies will be conducted at the new
cemetery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
GREAT BONFIRE OF OPIUM
VALUED AT ID MILLIONS
Will Be Destroyed Under Mandate to
Be Issued by President of China.

WASHINGTON. - Fourteen mil
lions dollars worth of opium pur-
chased by the Chinese government
from foreign opium merchants at
Shanghai is to be destroyed, accord
ing to cablegram received today
from Pekin by the Chinese legation.
The opium, which is packed in
1900 chests, will be burned at
Shanghai under mandate soon to
be issued by the president of China,
the dispatch said. Foreign and Chi
nese residents of Shanghai will be in
vited to witness the event.
Because of the strict prohibition
by China against shipping any opium
into the interior provinces" said the
legations statement, "the merchants
had not been able to dispose of it."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
SIX THOUSAND POUNDS OF
NUTS ON 375 PECAN TREES
lift County Farmer Will Realize
$4,000 From Their Sale.

The Gazette says W. W. Timmons
has gathered, dried and weighed
44'545 pounds of papershell pecans
from his grove of 375 trees north of
Triton this year. He has about / 500
pounds yet to gather, making the
yield from these trees this wear
5000 pounds. Mr.. Timmons is sell
ing the pecans at fifty cents a pound,
which gives the crop a value of So
The trees are twelve years old, and
nave ben bearing since the second
year after they were put out. Be-
sides the pecans Mr.. Timmons made
IS bushels of corn, a bale and half
OF cotton, and quantity of velvet
beans, hay and other feed this year
from the land on which the trees are
growing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
TO IMPROVE BREEDS OF
CATTLE is CENTRAL'S PLAN
Will Loan Bull to Each County as
Means of Encouragement

SAVANNAH, Ga.-As a means of
encouraging the breeding of better
cattle and as a reward for those
counties that have eradicated the cat
tie tick the agricultural department
of the Central of Georgia Railway
will inaugurate a plan for lending a
bull to each county traversed by it's
line, provided certain conditions are
met.
In the first place it is provided
that the loan of these animals, which
are to be Of the best breeds of beef
cattle, will be limited to those coun-
ties that are tick free. The Central
runs through eighty counties in Geor-
gia and Alabama, and of this num-
Der some ffty-fve have been declared
free of the tick pest; forty of these
are in Georgia and fifteen in Ala
bama.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
Railroads Hold Properties.

Seventy-five per cent Of the am
thracite properties are owned by
railroad companies, Mr.. Neale told
the committee. In answer to ques-
tions from Senator Reed as to wheth-
err the railroad owned mines engaged
in the price fixing which other mines
were compelled to meet Mr.. Neale
said there was no such understanding.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
Talk Of Secretary Baker,

Secretary Baker may emerge a
candidate before 1920 comes around,
ana many even believe he, too, ought
70 resign in order to be free to say
#:hat he pleases about public ques-
IONS ions OF all sorts. AS soon as his job
n the war department is done, per-
laps laps, he, too, win feel inclined to
~ pack to private life. He wanted
" ~ resign Immediately after the 1916
s ettec'lon, but was prevailed upon to
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-03
CALHOUN SUPERIOR COURT
DID NOT CONVENE MONDA'

The regular term of Calhoun su-
periOr court, which was to have con-
vened at Morgan yesterday, as post
poned on account of the prevalence
of influenza.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11
BIRDS HELP SAVE THE CROPS
Winged Destroyers Of Tree and Grain
Insects Should Be Protected Declare
the Audubon Societies.

The National Association of Audu-
bon Societies issued q warning against
the indiscriminate slaughter of birds
and wild life, declaring perils threaten
the agriculture of the United States,
unless action is taken Immediately to
save the lives of certain animals and
birds.
"The crops will save the nation" the
bulletin says, "but the birds will help
to save the crops. Therefore, it Is nee
essary that the birds be saved.
"The thoughtless and irresponsible
would kill the robins, and thus destroy
the natural enemies of grasshOppers,
beetles and caterplllars; they would
eXterminate the woOdpeckers and thus
execute those traditional watchmen of
our fruit and forest trees which de-
stroy the larvae of the gypsy moth; ;
they would do away with the chlcka-
dees, which annually eat myrlads of
bugs, canker worms, moth and plant
lice. They would slay the orchard
oriole the bulk of the food Of which
consists of cabbage worms, grasshOp-
pers and the larvae of all kinds of nOx-
ious invaders of garden and farm"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11
Talent Tidings

C. Carey of Phoenix made bust
ness call in Talent on Wednesday.
Mr.. Jones made business trip to
Ashland Wednesday.
Mn. Hobbs of Mcdford was a busi-
ness caller in Talent Wednesday,.
Mrs. Paul Quackenbush and Miss
Mae Quackenbush spent Wednesday
in Ashland.
o. Nelson of Medford was a bust.
ness visitor in Talent Wednesday af-
ternoon.
A box social was held at the Wag.
ner Creek school house Saturday
March 8, for the benefit of the Junior
Red Cross. A program Of readings
music and drills was given by the
children.
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Stagg we're il
Ashland Tuesday afternoon attend
ing to business matters.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Pellet and chill
dren of Ashland were Talent visitors
Thursday.
G. C. Wolters was a business calle
in Ashland Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Mason of Cen
tral Point were in Talent Tuesda,
and Wednesday visiting friends.
Mrs. Oliver Penlund was shoppini
in Medford on Thursday.
j. Il. Baker expects to leave in tn
near future for Canada, where h
will locate.
Mrs. l.. Works and Mrs. Cliff Gar
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11
Dentist Useful In Army.

At the beginning of the war, the
dental surgeon, so far as the allies
were concerned, was not officially rec
ognized in army circles, says Popular
Science Monthly. Indeed, it was not
until the Germans marched into Brus-
sells, with dental post every ten kilo-
meters, that the allies appreciated the
Importance of oral hygiene.
Today there are II American dental
field ambulances in France alone.
Men who were formerly sent home ON
sick leave, whose only trouble was
their molars, are now kept at the
front. Soldiers to the number Of d.
vision and a half have thus been
spared to the army. Furthermore, the
surgeons insist that wounded man
with bad teeth makes slow recovery.
And then, too, army rations are hard
to masticate, so that the man with
poor teeth "bolts" his food and loses
strength and endurance. In our new
National army there will be dentist
for every 500 men.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11
WHEN LINCOLN WORE BEARD
EmancIpator Disllked Monotony, Hence
His Frequent Change Of Wearing
and Not Wearing Whiskers.

The storm which is raging around
the Barnard statue Of Lincoln, says the
Toledo Blade, has brought out some In
teresting facts about the great emancl-
pator, known probably only to his bio
graphers. We recite, for example, that:
In 1858 Lincoln wore q beard.
In 1857 and 1858 he was beardless.
During the debate with Douglas he
was growing beard.
The day after his first nomination
the beard was gone.
Portraits of 1861, 1868 and 1864 show
the full beard, but before 1864 was
ended the Lincoln face was smooth
again. The last portrait, made on
April 8, 1865, shows the fair beginning
of a beard.
This history indicates change In
the views about whiskers as between
Lincoln's day and ours. The man
with a beard now holds his possession
to be inviolate. He would not merely
sue anyone who would lay the scis-
sOrs to his decorations, but he would
consider it mortal sin to do any
such thing himself. In the matter OF
boards, as in everything else, Lincoln
retained an open mind. He was not
above liking change for its own sake
mOnotony wearying him. That, II
you will study them, will be found to
be one of the traits of all great men.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11
Squirrel Aided Bridge Builders.

"There is an old Hindu story about
Rama's bridge. Rama, the chief Of
the gods, was building bridge, and
the monkeys came to help In the work.
They carried earth and stones and
trees, and piled them up. They moved
cliffs and mountains. While the work
was at its height the squirrel came to
help. The squirrel could not carry
much, but he rolled himself up in the
sand and scampered to the bridge and
shook the sand from his coat and
scampered back again. The monkeys
stopped and laughed at the squirrel.
They said, Ho! what does he
think he is doing? But Rama had
watched the squirrel, and he reproved
the monkeys, saying that according to
his powers the squirrel was doing as
much as any of them. And this legend
adds that Rama reached down and
stroked the squirrel kindly, and from
that day to this the squirrel has al
ways borne upon his coat the stripes
that are the marks of Rama's fingers" !"
st. Nicholas.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11
YANKEE YOUTHS SOON
GET PHILOSOPHICAL

Getting used to the army" state
OF mind which many young civilians
are seeking to achieve, has devel-
oped many overnight PHILOSOPHERS.
A youth accustomed to get up and
90 to bed when he pleased and to
spend the day on the same sort of
schedule confided to friend recent
ly that it all depended upon the point
of view.
when I hear that bugler blowing
reveille at 5:45 a. m. it doesn't get
on my nerves Bit" he said. 81
think to myself, isn't it great to
have man hired to tell you when
to get up in the morning. and that
makes it good sport.
when l see my captain going up
the street, / reflect that I'm in the
care of more experts and specialists
than | could employ if l were mil
lionaire, all looking after me, to see
that l have plenty of clothing and
food and am kept in good health.
THE sergeant who puts US
through our PAGES at setting up ex-
ercises probably is just as good as
any man I could employ, if l were
wealthy, to keep my body in good
shape.
"On top of it all, ! get paid, and
not a day goes by without new ex-
perience and a good laugh.
Its better luck than l ever ex-
pected to have, and if can do any
good for my country on top of it all,
I'm ready to do it,"
A young sailor wearing the red
stripe of the engine room in his
shoulder seam has his own ideas Of
service.
why did you enlist as fire
MANI" he was asked. The question
embarrassed him manifestly and he
squirmed.
LAS far as l could learn" he eX-
planned, "the firemen have about the
toughest job aboard ship, and l
thought probably a lot of fellows
would not want it, so I signed up to
work below"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11
PETITION IN BEHALF
OF ARMY PHYSICIANS

Petitions addressed to the Oregon
delegation in congress asking that
they give their support to the pass
age of a bill providing that physi-
clans and surgeons who offer their
services to the government, and who
have been commissioned in the Medi-
cal Reserve Corps of the army, have
the same rank and percentage given
to similar officers in the navy, are
being distributed for signatures. The
petitions state that there is no class
of men serving the country today
who have made such sacrifices as the
great majority of physicians who are
in the national army.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11

vim left Thursday morning for Glen.
dale, Ore, whore they will spend
few weeks visiting relatives.
j. H. Wright of Medford was in
Talent Friday looking after business
matters.
Mrs. Keith was shopping in Med
ford Friday afternoon.
Mrs. j. T. Baker and little daugh
ter visited friends in Medford Friday
Mn. and Mrs. Frank Centers of An
derson Creek were shopping in Tai
ent Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Yeo and children
returned this week from southern
California, where they were visiting
relatives the past month.
Mrs. c. e. Keith and daughter
Ethel visited relatives in Ashland
last weekend.
Misses Constance and Eleanor
Ames of Medford spent Saturday as
the guests of Miss Carmalita Rose.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Mason and
daughter Velma spent few days last
week with Mr.. Mason's parents east
of Central Point.
Mrs. O. d. Burgan spent Saturday
afternoon in Medford attending to
business matters. -,
Mrs. C. w. Wclters has purchased
a new Overland roadster from the
Millner agency at Ashland.
Mrs. Murphy and sister, Mrs. Hlce,
spent Monday afternoon in Ashland
visiting friends.
Mrs Charles Lacy and family have
moved their household goods to Cold
Hill, where they expect to make their
future home.
Mrs. Victor Mason left last week
for Portland to join her husband
who is employed in the shipyards
there.
Mrs. John Norman and children,
who have been living in Weed, Cal,
the past five months, arrived in TAI
ent Tuesday afternoon and will re-
main here until Mr.. Norman has
found a location. He is at present IN
Oakland, Cal, visiting relatives.
w. r. Nyswaner made a business
trip to Jacksonville Tuesday.
John Robinson of the Talent con
fectionery has accepted a new posi-
tion as deputy county assessor
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11

month on the French battle front.
The 19-year-old aviator recently
wrote to his father, Frederick H. Put
nam, describing his third victory.
Putnam was flying within sight of
German territory when he saw two
Boche flyers rise. He passed over
the first and swooped down on the
second, pouring a stream of lead at
the German From a height of 49,
600 feet down to 5000 feet the pair
battled before the German crumpled
and dropped to earth.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11

"kultur" the kaiser has been and
still is a greater enemy to civilization
than Abdul Hamid ever was. In
desperate effort to preserve autoc-
racy from ever-encroaching democ-
racy the kaiser has sacrificed mil
lions of human lives; while the sui
tan, to preserve his own life, drowned
several thousand more or less un-
faithful subjects in the Bosporus.
German "kultur" can thrive only in
autocracy; it must die in democracy,
and, to the kaiser is worth more
than human rights, liberties or lives.
Such Is the man those German SOL
diers died for.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11
"DIED FOR KAISER"
IS NOT A TRIBUTE

Marking a long mound beneath
which are buried 913 German SOL
diers is large wooden cross bearing
the inscription, "Died for the kaiser" "
Undoubtedly the writer of that in
scription sincerely believed it to be
the highest tribute that could be paid
those dead soldiers. Yet from the
viewpoint of enlightened men and
women that inscription is not a trib-
ute. Before many years, perhaps
sooner, the kaiser will be execrated
by the German people themselves,
and to have died for him will elicit
pity rather than praise.
As the chief exponent of German
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11
MEN OF TUSCANIA
CALM AMID PERIL

Dale H. Mummey of Eugene, one
cf the survivors of the Tuscania dis
aster, was assigned with other men
to a lifeboat which they found on
going to their post had been splin-
tered to pieces by the explosion of
the torpedo which resulted in the
sinking of the vessel, according to
letter received by his wife last week.
IN the face of this situation, with the
vessel listing toward the starboard
side, the men assigned to this boat
stood calmly at their post until they
received another cal, Mr.. Mummey
said.
Mr.. Mummey wrote that it was truly
remarkable how the big body Of men
aboard the vessel marched to their
respective lifeboat stations following
the explosion of the torpedo, which
struck squarely in the engine room.
"The sea was rough and | imagine
many boats were capsized," he wrote,
II saw many poor men in the water
and helped pull some back to safety
Two hours after the explosion | slid
down life rope to a destroyer"
Mummey concluded his letter
with an impression of the spirit OF
the men who survived the Tuscania
1--WE agree that the enemy has
gotten in the first stroke, but W.
shall have the last one" he said.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11

A nationwide campaign for econ
omy in the use of coal in steam
plants has been undertaken by the
Fuel Administration. The Bureau Of
Mines is conducting the campaign,
with the help of the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11
FOR SALE OR TRADE

FOR TRADE, FOR JACKSON COUN-
TY RANCH OR ASHLAND CITY
PROPERTY-A four-story brick
building eleven apartments, nine
of two rooms and two of three
rooms. Lot 26x69. The building
is in first-class condition. Well To-
Gated in San Francisco. Income
per month, 1915. Monthly ex-
pense: Taxes $22, insurance
$9.14, steam heat SIS, water $12,
janitor SAT, lights s., garbage
$3.50; total monthly expense
$1OS.64. Pays net per month
$239.96, less 6 per cent interest
on mortgage $1OO. Price $4,000,
mortgage $40, equity $40. The
property earns s2,OS2.32 per an
mum net. What have you to trade
for the equity? B. R. Greer, at the
Tidings office. 69-tt
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11
Why Not Make
Yourself Secure

Why not guard yourself and your
dear ones? Why not protect your
business? The cost is small-the
chances you are taking are BIG.
Steer clear of trouble.
This is the reason for insurance:
Fire, auto theft, auto fire, plate glass,
surety bonds, live stock, accident,
health, life, Are YOU fully protect
ed?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-03-11

Try not to use any more sugar
than you can help. One sweet dish is
enough at a meal, and if you can
use honey or molasses for the sweet
ening, so much the better