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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
SPLIT IN THE STATE
ENTOMOLOGY BOARD?
RESIGNATION OF L. WORSHAM
RENDERED. MEMBERS NOT
AGREED ON SUCCESSOR.

ATLANTA, Ga.-The state board
of entomology adjourned without
electing a successor to E, Lee Wor-
sham, state entomologist, who re-
signed his position for the purpose
of taking up the growing Of Sea Is
land cotton on Sapelo island. His
resignation will become effective on
February LIST.
Something of a fight has develop
ed in the matter of filling the va
cancy, with more or less interesting
developments. One statement is that
the effort has been made in handling
an resignation to pave the way for
naming the successor before the res
ignation should be turned loose. That,
it is stated, is not at all satisfactory
to the board as whole, and a split
is threatened.
One effort is to name Assistant
Entomologist Lewis the successor to
Mr.. Worsham as against putting in
r. w. Smith, who, as the story goes,
is virtually being put upon the board.
Smith IS former state entomologist,
and was succeeded by Worsham
There is said to be strong proba-
bility that the place will not be per-
manently filled at this time, but that
Assistant Entomologist Lewis will at
least temporarily be advanced to the
head of the department.
The entomologist board is compos-
ed of the commissioner of agricul-
ture, chairman; R. C. Berkmans, of
Augusta, John A. Cobb, of Americas.
MIR. Worsham has been the head of
the state department of entomology
for the last ten years. Some of the
most important work in entomology
has been done under his direction.
He has supervised the state expert
mental farm at Valdosta, which is the
only institution of its kind in the
world devoted exclusively to the
problem of saving sea island cotton
from the boil weevil He was sue
cessful in solving the problem of
evolving the early maturing varieties
of this class of cotton. In the year
just passed, it is said, as much as a
| bale to the acre of seed cotton was
grown by him under severe boil
vii conditions.
Mr.. Worsham will have entire
charge of the agricultural develop
ment of Sapelo island, off the Geor-
gia coast, which will be devoted
ly to the production of sea island cot
ton for both experimental and com
mercial purposes.
The retired state entomologist is
known throughout the country hav-
ing been at one time president of
the National Conservation congress.
He will move his family to the island,
and make his home there.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
CONGRESS TO BUCK
PRESIDENT WILSON
DEMAND FOR CREATION OF A
MUNITIONS MINISTRY GAINS.
DISAPPROVED BY WILSON.

WASHINGTON, D. president
Wilson and congress are about to
grapple in what promises to be one
of the hottest encounters between
these. ancient rivals.
A large element in congress be-
lieves the war cannot be won without
a munitions ministry. The president
and Secretary Baker believe it can.
Back of the demand for creation
of a munitions ministry is a determi-
nation by many Legislators to assert
congress right to have a bigger voice
in the conduct of the war, They say
congress has been too acquiescent
and not initiating enough; too much
like a rubber stamp and not enough
like an active necessary part of the
government.
Congress yielded when the presi-
dent asked that a committee on ex-
penditures and the conduct of the
war be sidetracked. 1t will not yield
so easily to administration disapprov-
al of a secretary of munitions with
a seat in the cabinet.
A potent reason is that irrespective
of party many members seem con-
WINGED as result of congressional in
quiries that things may have not gone
as well as they might have in some
government departments.
AS one member phEased it today,
congress let the other fellow make
all the plans, while it accepted them
and gave its approval. Some of these
plans have not proved the best, so
now congress would like to try its
hand at making a few"
Direct notice that the fight is on
was served on congress today by
Secretary of War Baker.
He told the senate military affairs
committee he is opposed to creation
of a munitions ministry, as proposed
in Senator Charnber1ain's BILL
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
DR.. BAHNSEN EXPERIENCED
@oME REAL COLD WEATHER
ack and Required
p VAT

Train ack and Required
Another Engine 20 Bump 1t Loose.
There's a man in Georgia who has,
in the last few days, seen a railroad
train frozen so hard to the rails it
took two locomotive engines to
bump it loose.
DIR. Peter F. Bahnsen, state vet
erinarian, has returned from East
st. Louis, where he went to attend
a conference of officials on the cattle
tick situation. The temperature, saws
DR.. Bahnsen, ranged around from IL
to 20 below zero and icicles were
hanging from the muz1les of horses
ike the people of this section have
seen hanging from the caves of
houses. The train was stopped at
one station for a time and the steam
from the cars melted the snow on
the trucks sufficiently for it to freeze
solidly between the wheels, truck
frames and the rails, and it was i'm
possible for the one engine to move
the train. A second locomotive was
required to bump into the rear OF the
train and jar it loose.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
HORSE MEAT SOUP SAID TO :
BE A BOHEMIAN DAINTY
Animals Killed at Front Used in Max
ing Soup For Starving People.

LONDON, Eng.-The food situa-
ton in parts of Austria, notably Be-
hemia, is at present more critical than
at any previous period of the war,
according to letters which have been
received by Czechs here, after evad-
ing the Austrian censorship. Bohe-
mia, both owing to her geographical
situation and the concentration of
her population in the industrial dis
trIcts, has always been dependent on
outside assistance as far as her food
supply is concerned.
You can't conceive what desper-
ate plight we are in" says one letter.
land it will be even worse as winter
comes on, for there has been no har-
vest to speak of. Owing to the
drought, everything has been burned
up; there is no wheat. and soon there
VIII be no potatoes. Nobody sees how
we can endure another winter. Even
the Peasant farmers have not enough
for themselves. There is practically
no meat-you can perhaps buy a
scrap once a week after standing in
line four hours. Soup made of horse
meat killed on the battlefield is a
common article of diet.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
BOY OF II TELLS OF
THEFTS OF $4,000
NEARLY A MILLION AUTOS AND
ACCESSORIES STOLEN BY A
RING OF YOUNG BANDITS.

DETROIT, Mich.-Confessio as
made to the Detroit police by Joseph
McDermott, alias "Joe Mack" will
have big bearing in clearing up the
theft of over 100000 worth of au-
tomobiles and S250,OO0 in accesso-
ries in Detroit since Jan. l, 1917.
In the arrest of McDermott the po-
lice believe they have discovered an
important link in chain of the most
up-to-date underground railway"
for passing stolen cars from the state
yet found by Detroit officials.
McDermott, STRIPPING of seven
teen years, has for days defed the
combined efforts of both the police
and certain officials of the Detroit
Automobile club to wrest from him
any information regarding his con-
nection with the ring of auto bandits
whose depredations recently have
struck terror into the ranks of auto
mobile owners of the city and state.
Adamant against every effort of
the police, who have grilled him for
days, the youthful alleged bandit re-
fused to make any statement until
the sobbing appeal of his aged moth
er broke down his stubborn defense.
The nature of McDermott's confess
sion was revelation to even the DO
lice. Since January, 1917, automo-
blles aggregating in cost more than
100000 have been stolen, in addi-
ton to about $250,000 worth of ac-
cessories. The stealing of automo-
biles has caused insurance companies
to advance their rates so per cent.
According to McDermott's confess
sion, as advance agent for the "ring, :"
he made regular tours through neigh
boring states and took orders from
prospects who desired to make a
good bargain on slightly used cars. "
In the meantime other members of
the band were nightly stealing cars
and sending them to outlying smaller
towns where they would be held I'M
til McDermott advised their DISPOSE
ton. 1t is alleged that city officials
in cities in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois
are even now riding in cars stolen
from citizens of Detroit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
UPSHAW WANTS HARRIS TO
HURRY UP HIS RESIGNATION
Senatorial Candidate Doesn't Think
1t Fair For Opponent TO Hold to
One Fat Job While Seeking One

ATLANTA, Ga.-Will D. Upshaw,
evangelist and prohibition lecturer.
issued a card recently calling on Will
liam j. Harris to resign from his
S10,0O0-a-year place with the federal
trade commission or retire from the
Georgia senatorial race. Mr.. Upshaw
also is a candidate for the seat, to
succeed Thomas W. Hardwick.
Mr.. Upshaw says that when he un-
dertook the patriotic and inspiring
task of seeking to retire Senator
Hardwick he didn't know any other
candidate would appear. He express
es the opinion that the country would
be just as well off, however, without.
Chairman Harris and his colleagues
In the federal trade commission. and
refers pointedly to the present scare
lty and price of coal and the up
ward trend of gasoline prices. both
OF which were investigated by the
federal board.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
LOOKING FOR WORST BOY;
CHICAGOANS SEEKING HIM
Will Take Hundred Per Cent. Bad
Youngster and Make Him Perfect
Boy Within Six Months.

The meanest, most wicked boy in
the United States is wanted in Chica-
go. AS soon as he is located he will
be placed in the Chicago Boys Broth
erhood republic and transformed into
perfect boy within six months. ac-
cording to members of the organiza-
ton.
Committee Will Tour Cities.
A committee from the organiza-
ton will start out Feb. on tour of
II American cities in search of the
worst representative of American
boyhood. He must be 100 per cent.
bad, without a single redeeming viz
tue. The institution will use him to
prove that bad boys are merely the
product of environment, and that, in
proper surroundings, they can be
Strengthened up in short time.
The boy, when accepted, must live
up to the following specifications !:
He must be the meanest, the tough
est, the most no-account, the most
dishonest, the most evil, vicious,
wicked, in fact, the worst boy moral
ly that a human being can be-"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
DRASTIC ORDER CLOSES
BUSINESS ENTERPRISES
TO CONSERVE FUEL MUST NOT
OPEN ON MONDAYS FOR THE
NEXT TEN WEEKS.

All manufacturing enterprises in
states east of the Mississippi river
and in the states of Minnesota and
Louisiana, except those producing
food, were ordered by the govern
ment to suspend operations for five
days, beginning Friday morning, as
drastic measure for relieving the
fuel famine.
At the same time, as an additional
means of relief, it was directed that
industry and business generally, in
Guiding all normal activities that re-
quire heated buildings, observe as a
holiday every Monday for the next
ten weeks. This will close down on
Mondays not only factories, but
stores except for the sale of
drugs and food, places of amusement
and all office buildings.
Office buildings may be heated dur
ing the fve-day period to prevent
freezing, but on Monday holidays
they must be closed down.
Newspapers viii be permitted to use
coal, but for one edition a day. This
applies to morning and evening pa
pers alike.
Banks Not Included.
Banks and trust companies are not
included in the order unless the gov
ernors of the states specifically de-
clare that they shall be included.
The order makes allowance for
any industry which might be put out
OF business by permitting it to keep
its plant heated, but the plant will
not be permitted to run.
Under the order during the ten
week period Mondays will be holi-
days Just as is Sundays, and stores
and shops will be closed.
Theatres will be requested to
close on the ten Mondays.
Move Made Without Warning.
The governments move came en-
tIrely without warning in an order
issued by Fuel Administrator Gar
held, with the approval Of President
Wilson, prescribing stringent restric.
tons governing the distribution and
use of coal. 1t was decided upon
hurriedly by the president and gov
eminent heads as a desperate RENE.
dy.
Warming is given that provisions OF
the Lever food bill, under which the
order is issued and which carries a
penalty of $4,000 for violation, will
| be vigorously enforced. The bill
gives power to forbid the use or de-
livery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
CHURCHES MADE A
RECORD DURING 1917
MORE THAN $75,OOO,O 900 RAISED
FOR WAR WORK. ALL DEMON
NATIONS WERE ACTIVE.

Churches in America have achiev-
ed the greatest thing in their history,
if not in the history of Christian eff
fort in any nation, during 1917, ac-
cording to records compiled in New
York city. Expressed in that which
talks, money, the amount ranges
from $200,000,OO0 to $25O,0OO,O
for the year, with even greater plans
for 1918. But money is the smaller
part of the 1917 record. The su-
preme achievement is the meeting of
the demands, in so far as churches
ought, of a nation at war. The Young
Mems Christian Association, the Fed
eral Council of Churches, the Knights
of Columbus, the Jewish War Time
council, the Young Women's Chris
ton Association, the Brotherhood of
st. Andrew and the National War
council of practically every religious
body has modified its forces with
promptness and efficiency.
A Record Amount Raised.
The amount raised by the churches
in 1917 for actual war purposes in
America during 1917 was $76,50O,-
900. The Red Cross support, the
Belgian and Armenian relief all re-
ceived support from the churches.
But much is given that is not report
ed. Of all the names of religious
workers that Of John R. Mott, leader
of Christian Association work, stands
prominent. He is an American, a
Methodist and shares his honors with
thousands of Protestant, Catholic and
Jewish leaders in the United States.
Some Features of the Year.
During the year Bibles sold to
100000 in excess of any former
year in American history. Roughly
speaking, the Christian people of the
United States numbered 100000
in 1917, with a growth that is slight
ly faster than that of the population.
A marked feature of 1917 was the
expression social service, in part only
because of war The old evangelism
of the Spanish war gave place in
1917 to a social service for enlisted
men, expressed with cooperation
by all religious bodies, Protestant,
Catholic and Jew, which America
never witnessed before. Large in
crease in the number of -chaplains
was made
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
FAMOUS OLD CROOK
STILL IJNREPENTANT
NOTED COUNTERFEITER, FREED
FROM THE ATLANTA PRISON,
SAYS HE DID NO WRONG.

Sam Tate, for many years one of
the cleverest counterfeiters and bur-
glars in the eastern section of the
United States, has been released
from the federal prison at Atlanta,
to which he was committed in 1874,
when he was caught passing his ia
vorite brand of 50-cent pieces in
Philadelphia. Sam is pitifully weak
ened and paralyzed on one side. He
cannot walk without aid. But his
mind is keen in spite of the fact that
he has spent more than 40 of his
80 years in prison, and he is unre-
pentant when he talks of the many
illegal acts he has committed. He has
been admitted to the Home of Indus
try in Philadelphia, where he expects
to end his days in peace.
Tate has declared to old friends
that he is not sorry that he made and
passed thousands of dollars in coun-
terfeit money during his long career.
Neither does he believe he did wrong
when he entered and robbed the
homes of men and women who might
be considered wealthy. He is proud
of the fact that he never hurt a man
in his life. Today Sam is without a
dollar or a friend in the world
Still Carries a Grudge.
Tate's long career of crime began
while has was still a young man and
is interviewer with crimes committed
in all sections of the country. In spite
OF his many arrests and commitments
he holds only two grudges. The one
is against the 'stool pigeon" who in
formed on him during 1914, when he
and George Reilly planned to scatter
thousands of dollars worth of 5O-cent
pieces throughout Philadelphia. The
other is against Judge Thompson, of
Philadelphia, who added a fine of
500 to Tate's last sentence and fore
ed him to remain in prison an addi-
tional month, thus making it neces-
sary for him to travel to Philadelphia
from Atlanta during extreme cold
weather. Otherwise Sam is complete
ly at peace with the world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
CHINATOWN MAYOR,
TOM Lee, IS BURIED
POMP AND SPLENDOR OF oCELES-
TIAL RITES MARKED SER
VICES. FOOD IN COFFIN.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Tnm Lee,
mayor of Chinatown in the trouble
some feud days days before the fad
ing of that picturesque quarter of
New York's East Side, was buried
today with all the pomp and sulendor
of Celestial rites
Business Suspended.
Business in Chinatown was sus-
pended, thousands, including mem
bers of rival tong organizations,
filed into the purple draped death
chamber in the rooms of the On
Leong Tong to view the body.
Other thousands with barred heads
lined the sidewalks of the East Side
as the cortege started on its way to
the cemetery. A band of Chinese
trumpeters headed the procession,
followed by two American bands, $50
carriages and five sightseeing buses.
Placed in Coffin.
In the coffin were placed bottle
of rice wine, several coins and pack
of playing cards. Following the
Oriental custom roast pig, chickens,
cakes and other foods were placed on
the grave. In other days these foods
were left at the grave, but today lest
they be consumed by irreverent Oc-
they were carried back to
Chinatown.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
Churchill Makes Appeal For
American Troops Be Sent Quickly
Premier Georges and Wilson's Speeches Reveal Gulf No
Bridge Can Span. America and ENGLAND Must Work.

LONDON, Eng.-Winston Spen-
Ger Churchill, British minister of
munitions, addressing the American
Luncheon club today, made pow
erful appeal for the sending of
American soldiers to Europe as
quickly as possible and in as large
numbers as possible.
Gulf Revealed.
The reception of Premier Lloyd
George and President Wilson's war
aims by the central powers, the min
lister declared, showed a gulf that no
bridge could span. He added that
Great Britain and the United States
having issued their war aims, they
must now bend every effort to the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
Senator Brady's Body
ECremated in Washington

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Adjourn-
ment of the senate and half masting
OF capitol flags were honors paid to-
day to Senator Brady, of Idaho. who
died of heart trouble. Senator
Brady,!s body was cremated here, and
the ashes taken to his former home
at Pocatello, Idaho.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22

practical work of enforcing them on
the enemy.
"We have found complete agree
ment on our war aims" Mr.. Church
i'll said, $50 let's concentrate our
whole souls on practical measures
whereby those aims may be achiev-
ed"
Melt All Resources.
England must melt all her re-
sources" he continued, "into war
work. Women must draw nearer to
the firing lines and do more manuel
labor to relieve working men for the
ranks of the army" Rations, he said,
must he cut down.
"The only way to shorten the suf-
fering and torment, the minister as.
serted, sis to increase the pace"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
IGN A "DRY" PETITION?
YES, HE WOULD MOTT

ne Lady Fairly Flew When She
Realized What She Had Done.
CHICAGO, Ill.-She was a win
|me little thing; he was large, dom
Rcng, forceful. But he looked i'm
|ftant and 50 she approached him.
Are you a voter?" she began. He
! S.
/ Have you signed the dry petition;
not, you will, won't your"
Fnd then she fed terror-stricken
IN the city hall. She had asked
clubhouse John" Coughlin, the
Y ward alderman, to sign up for a
Il Chicago.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
ATLANTA WILL TAKE CAREaOF
BIG METHODIST CONFERENCE
Five Hundred Delegates Will Come
For Three Weeks Session. Union
of Two Branches a Question.

of Two Branches a Question.
ATLANTA, Ga.-Judge John S.
Gambler, chairman of the local or
ganization preparing for the session
of the general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South,
to be held in Atlanta for three weeks
beginning May End, has announced
that arrangements with local hotels
have been made to take care of every
one of the 500 delegates who win
come here from the states of the
South and the far West.
One of the most important ques-
tions to be considered by the confer
ence is the union of the Southern and
Northern branches of the church. The
Southern members of the joint con-
ference on union will make a report
upon progress made during the four
years between the sessions of the
general conference.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
FISH DRAGGED WOMAN
TO DEATH IN THE SEA

Mrs. Anna Corners, of San Fran
cisco, was drowned when large fish,
presumably a shark, got on her line
and dragged her from a rocky ledge
INTO the Pacific. A companion saw
the woman tugging at her line. and
then saw her jerked suddenly over
the cliff.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-01-22
MAUDE is BURIED IN A
CEMETERY NEAR BAGDAD
Wooden Gross Marks Grave of British
Conqueror of That City.

Conqueror of That City.
LONDON.-Gen. Maude, the con-
queror of Bagdad, who died recently
of cholera in an army hospital in
Mesopotamia, lies buried in the CEN
ter of the British cemetery north of
Bagdad, adjoining the old Turkish
cavalry barracks. A wooden cross
marks his grave, and q heap of
wreaths, chrysanthemums and mari
Colds were strewn over the CRASHES
mold of the desert Among these trib-
utes were ribbons and artificial How
ers, the tribute of the people of Bag
dad, of the naquib and of the Jewish
school, whose annual dramatic enter
tainment he attended few days be-
fore his death. The nearest graves
to his own are those of privates of
the division which he used to COM
mand.