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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-04-14
NOTICE TO INCOME TAXPAYERS

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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
LEVINE. LIVES IN LUXURY WHILE
MAINTAINED BY RULE OF FAMINE
The Swiss Ambassador Says People Starved and Oppressed
Would Welcome Force Fighting Bolshevisrn

PARIS.-Americans are rcheerfully
paying the eShorbitant prices Dharg-
ed them for necessities in France,
While the natives pay and grosEn, de-
clares an Associated Press eurre-
spondent who has been making an in
vestigation Of French high cost of
living. Three American newspaper
men recently paid 81 for taxicab
ride that the taXimeter showed should
have cost about seventy cents. A
meal without wine for the three hun
gry scribes cost $40.
The following figures show the diff
ference between the prices now pre-
vailing in France and those in the
ante-waF days:
Butter 50 a pound, against 80
cents before the war; eggs, so a doz-
en- versus % cents, and vegetables
ranging from Ia to so cents a pound
could be obtained for 4, and 6
cents before the war Cheese has adj
vanced from 40 cents to 90 cents;
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25

BERNE,-M. Oder, late Swiss am
bassador in Petrograd, whose exer-
tions in behalf of the nationals of
other countries in Russia called forth
widespread gratitude, gives an ac-
count of conditions in Russia to the
Journal de Geneva, from which the
following is taken:
The situation in Russia is even
worse than has been described. Some
800 bolshevist leaders dominate the
country, with famine as their chief
weapon. The little food that is
brought into the town by peasants is
seized by bolshevist gangs waiting at
the stations for that purpose, who de-
stroy what they do not want. For in
stance, they deliberately smashed
hundreds of eggs on the pavement
The lack of fuel also is terrible. Mon
ey is falling into disuse because the
peasants prefer to barter goods. The
so-called Kerensky notes are sold in
bagfuls by weight.
The people. half starved and sunk
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
BIRDMEN TO AID
The VICTORY DRIVE
THREE FLYING CIRCUSES TO
TOUR THE UNITED STATES
WILL VISIT GEORGIA.

WASHINGTON, D. C,-Three fly
ing circuses of American, French
and British aviators in American and
captured German Fokkor planes will
tour the United States in connection
with the Victory Liberty Loan cam
paign, giving aerial sham battles and
acrobatics over fifty leading Ameri-
can cities.
Flights Under Military AerOnSutic.
The demonstrations will be under
the management of the Victory Loan
publicity bureau and the actual flights
will be under the supervision of the
military aeronautics branch of the
war department.
The tours will start April 10, al
though the loan selling campaign does
not open until April 81. Each squad
ron will be carried in a special train
of eleven cars, travelling at might.
Nine baggage cars will be required
to carry the seventeen airplanes IN
each squadron.
The schedule of the eastern squad
ron includes Savannah and Atlanta.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
COTTON RATSERS
ARE HOLDING FAST
COST 80 CENTS TO RAISE STA
PIE. NEW CROP PREPARA-
TIONS MONTH BEHIND.

ATLANTA, Ga,-Advices from all
sections affirm that cotton holders
continue finn, that offerings are light
and that the actual is commanding
big premiums above quoted prices.
The potent forces back of the ris-
ing cotton market are, first, the de-
termined holding movement: second.
continued heavy rains over the belt
third, crop preparations four to six
weeks behind; fourth, high price of
seed, fertilizer, farm implements,
stock, feed and the general cost of
living; fifth, demand of returning
farm labor for wages TRIPPING and
even quadrupling what farmers have
been paying, and fifth, widespread
and almost universal pledge to cut
the cotton acreage.
The effect of a late start in grow
ing cotton means more than it does
in any other southern crop. For cot
ton to do its best and be able to
stand and withstand variable summer
weather the ground has to be very
carefully prepared. A late start
means frequently a mere scraping of
the ground, hurried planting, made
quate cultivation ana a sort 'of trust
ing to luck,
We'll Brothers, Montgomery, Ala,
in their latest crop letter report the
entire cotton belt as being from a
month to six weeks behind in pre-
pairing the land fer cotton, corn and
other products.
Acreage Cutting NoE Bluff.
1t should be understood that the
acreage-cutting proposition is not a
bluff. 1t Is fact that years ago talk
was only talk. That was before the
southern farmer learned that, with
Germ, peas, peanuts, beans, hay, hogs
and cattle he could be independent
of cotton if he Sc desired.
One who is nBt familiar with the
situation can scarcely realize the eff
feet upon farmers nerves of grow
ing, marketing or holding a crop
which frequently brings him less than
it costs INN to produce. Many intelli-
gent and syell-to-do farmers are com
ing to regard cotton growing as a
sort of gamble and art firing of it.
W. W. Morrison. of New Orleans,
has carefully compiled figures to show
that the actual cost Of production Of
The 1918 crop of cotton was thirty
two cents pound. This is figured on
a basis Of $50 per month wages for
the cotton farmer, and it is a fact
that the big majority of farmers have
families to support
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25

coffee from 40 cents to $3.50. Meal
has advanced $50 per cent; chickens
which were so cents, are now 50,
and very slim birds at that.
The cheapest business SUIT cannot
be obtained under $50, to which must
be added SO as a luxury tax. Silk
stockings sell for SO a pair, and one
must be careful to use the subway
as much as possible in order not to
walk through them on the first dav:
especially when the $24 pair of shoes
which one is wearing absorbs damp
ness like a 81 sponge. Washing comes
high with soap at 30 cents a cake.
and bath is luxury
Frying a 81 steak for two in a 81
saucepan is a privilege enjoyed only
by the rich, and a glass of beer at
twenty cents, plus a five-cent tip to
the waiter, tastes very bitter to a
thirsty wayfarer.
The laboring class at one time was
eating much rice, but lately that
commodity reached figures out of
proportion to the salaries of the
working men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
BULLETIN TELLS
OF COTTON TESTS
OF ENTOMOLOGY
HAS INTERESTING DOCUMENT
FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION.

The Georgia State Board of Ento-
mology now has ready for distribu-
ton several bulletins of Importance
to Georgia farmers and fruit grow
ers, in the beginning of the growing
season.
The board is now sending out a
bulletin on cotton variety tests.
The bulletin gives results from va
riety tests conducted last year in
Sumter, Dooly, Stewart, Glynn, Han
cock, Floyd, Burke and Fulton coun-
ties. These tests show that in South
Georgia under the boil weevil and
wilt conditions the wilt resistant va
rieties, such as Lewis 60, Council
Toole and DeSoto give much better
results than the ordinary varieties
that are not wilt resistant. Thus, at
Americas Of the variety of which go
per cent. died from the wilt disease
the total value of the lint and seed
per acre was $51.13, while the total
value of the lint and seed per acre
from the Lewis SO, of which only
. per cent. died of wilt disease, was
$196.66.
The variety tests in north Georgia
show some interesting results and
bring out the fact very strikingly that
varieties of cotton that do best in
South Georgia do not give the same
results in north Georgia, and vice
versa
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
HOG RAISING IN
GEORGIA GIVEN BOOST
STATE ONCE BOUGHT FORTY
MILLION POUNDS MORE THAN
1T PRODUCED ON FARMS,

An important result of hog chol-
era control work, begun by the Unit
ed States department of agriculture
in 1913, and which has resulted in a
steady decline 'Of the diesase, has
been the stimulus given the develop
ment OK swine raising in the South.
With other activities of the depart-
nent m this line, the assurance given
to southern Farmers that hogs can
Ike produced without fear of losses
from cholera has encouraged grow
ing not only larger numbers of ami
1nals but also better types. This has
been noticeable particularly in Geor-
gia. a few years ago fhis state pur-
chastd about 40,000,900 pounds of
pork more 'rSan it produced annually.
But efforts for the control of hog
cholera have gradually extended over
the entire state, with resulting CON
fidence in hog raising. BY 1918 Geor-
gla was producing pork enough to
make shipments to outside points be-
sides supplying a large number of
hogs to local Strengthening establish
merits. Similar progress has been
made in Mississippi, Alabama and
Florida.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
WILL BE- Wild NIGHT
WITH NATIONS THIRSTY
WILL TAKE FINAL FLING MON.
DAY, JUNE BOTH. BIG TIME
IN NEW YORK CITY.

The widest night that the United
States has ever experienced will take
place, it is predicted, Monday, June
30, the day before wartime prohibi-
ton becomes effective. The thirsty in
every city, town and village where
liquor is sold have been looking for
ward to night of revelry before the
nation goes dry" and the liquor
people will take a last opportunity
to dispose Of intoxicants before their
establishments are permanently clos
ed.
Hotels ard cabarets and all places
in New York city where liquor is sold
are making arrangements for the
last big night. Numerous applications
already have been received for reser-
vations. Probably every theater seat
in the metropolis will be sold at a
premium price weeks before. Dinner
tables will bring even higher prices
than theater seats.
ProhibitIve Prices Indicated.
Highballs, which have reached the
dollar rate at certain of the exclu-
sive drinking places in New York,
city will probably cost SO. Cham.
payne, which now is sold at from SIS
to $50 a quart, will be virtually pro.
hibitive at something like $50, with
the native brands that sold in the
old days at 50 being held cheap al
$40 or $50.
New York already is beginning t.
solve the problem of what will be.
come of MS roof gardens, cabarets
restaurants and saloons after the
fateful July 1st. The saloons and bars
will never be able to come back,
| 1t is believed in many circles, no mat
ter if modifying legislation is Later
forced through congress and the vari.
Gus state legislatures. The cabarets
win not emily be abandoned imnedi
ately, it Us reported, as some sort OF
entertainment in New York city is
expected with the meals, even though
huuor cannot be purchased when the
| nationwide dry" law becomes efFec-
| tive.
ThesJters Will Enjoy Boom
Theatrical interests are anticipat-
ing more business in the dry" days
than in the wet" The moving pict-
ure companies are so confident then
business will boom that virtually al
the big distributing concerns are urg-
ing their clients to take over add
tional roo1as, including the larger
bar rooms IN the cities of medium
size, and turn them into movie y
theaTeTs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
PATRONAGE BROOM
WILL SWEEP HOUSE
DEMOCRATIC JOB-HOLDERS ARE
ALL HEADED FOR THE DUST
BIN. REPUBLICAN FEAST.

WASHINGTON, D. CA thor
ough housekeeping will be made by
the republicans in distributing pat
ronage in the next house of repre-
sentatives, the republican steering
committee decided today.
Every democratic job-holder who
has enjoyed a place on the house pay
roll under the democratic majority
patronage of the last four congresses
will be ousted to make room for re-
publicans, and they will have to seek
place on the minority patronage
list in order to retain job.
The republican steering committee
today decided not to name the Gus
tomary committee on patronage, but
to permit each state delegation to
distribute it's share of the patronage
on the basis of the number of repub-
lican members of the new congress
from that state.
Pennsylvania Big Share.
Pennsylvania having the largest re-
publican delegation will have the
most patronage under the plan agreed
upon. A meeting of the twenty-eight
republican member of the house from
Pennsylvania will be held in the near
future, at which time the delegation
share of the patronage will be dis
| tributed.
The majority party of the house is
entitled to distribute jobs for total
payroll of $665,000, in addition tc
the $4,000 annual allowance to each
rlI resentative for clerk hire
On his amount $4,000 is under
the control of the speaker and the
tifty-seven chairmen of the commit
tees, The republican steering com
mittee today adopted a resolution ex
GLIDING the speaker and the commit
tee chairmen from controlling any
additional patronage.
The remaining $325,000 in patron
age was given to the other IT'S repub
lican members of the next house, Civ
ing each representative about 1,80a
patronage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
WILSON HAS AGREED TO
AMEND LEAGUE COVENANT
Instrument Will Be Attached to the
Treaty as an Appendix. President
Annoyed by Criticism.

PARIS.-The American delega-
ton, it is said, plans to accept a lin.
tied number of amendments to the
league of nations covenant.
Although no final decision has vet
been reached, it is said that the pres
ent plan of a majority Of the five big
nations contemplates attaching the
league OF nations compact to the
peace treaty as an appendix
The president is becoming annov-
ed at suggestions from certain
sources that he is trying to interfere
with the developments of the neace
conference. The attacks against the
president in some quarters are SINH
lar to the French anti-WiIson pron-
uganda, which disappeared When the
president let it be known that he
knew the real reasons for It.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
BREWERS OF BEER
DECIDE TO FIGHT
ACT ON ADVICE OF ROOT TO
BATTLE IN COURTS. PLAN TO
KEEP ON BREWING.

NEW, YORK, N. View York
brewers have decided to continue the
manufacture and sale of beer con-
tanning 2,75 per cent of alcohol,
They reached this conclusion, which
means a stand up fight with the COM
missioner of internal revenue, after
a conference of leading brewers at
the Lager Brewers Board of Trade
at 100 East Fifteenth street.
Their defiance of the commission
er Is based upon an opinion rendered
to their board of trade by Elihu Root
and William D. Guthrie, which holds
in substance that nothing in the pres
ident's proclamation of March 4 or
IN the law of November 81, 1918,
limits Notwithstanding beverages to
Sne-haf of l per cent. of alcohol,
and that since beer containing PTS
per cent. of alcohol can be proved 10
be misunderstanding brewers may law
fully disregard the interpretations
placed by the commissioner upon
proclamation and law.
Decision Means Legal Fight.
This means a fight, as Mr. Root
and Mr. Guthrie plainly state to their
clients, but they advise the brewers
10 seek an injunction against any at
tempt by the commissioner to confIHe
them to one half per cent. beer. In
any event the organization, headed
by Adoph G. Hupfel jr., VIII con-
test straight through the courts what
it regards as Che right of its members
To save their business from ruin.
1t mary DE that the very name
beer" VIII be discarded, and that
bottles or other containers of the
amber fluid win hereafter be labelled
malt beverage, Misunderstanding"
though the 2.T5 per cent. will be
there just the same. Many of the
members favored dropping the de-
scriptive term "beer and substitute
ing for it what they consider a more
accurate term.
The decision is another step in the
program Of the brewers to fight to
the last ditch for the preservation Of
their business. 1t viii produce compli-
cations and court actions supplement-
ing the suit which has been begun by
the Everard interests. The brewers
said yesterday that they have receiv-
ed so many communications from
civic associations and from returning
soldiers as TO indicate a definite pub
lie opinion in favor of liberal inter
probation Of the presidents procla-
nation and Of the act Of 1918.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
G. O.P. CAUCUS IS
HELD in AUGUSTA
MEN OF PROMINENCE IN REPUB-
LICAN PARTY MEET IN
GEORGIA CITY.

AUGUSTA, Ga.-The presence in
Augusta at this time of a number of
well known and more or less distin-
guished republican politicians has
given rise 30 much comment concern
ing the significance of their visit, and
according to gossip about the Bon
Air Hotel, where the eminent visitors
are CHARTERED, they are gathered here
for conference at which they Will
agree upon the logical man to be put
forth when the republican convention
meets as the standard bearer for the
party.
Authentic information on the sub
ject is lacking, but according to re-
ports about the winter colony-and
it is the main topic of conversation
with prominent northern and eastern
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Warren 6.
Harding, Of Ohio, will be agreed up
on. Senator Harding is here, and be-
sides him the other prominent re-
publicans now at the Bon Air include
ex-President VIM. H. Taft, Senator
w. E. Hale, of Maine; Speaker of
the House Frederick Gillett, of Mas
sachusetts; Senator Freylinghuysen
of New Jersey, and Nicholas Murray
Butler, of Columbia University, New
! York.
Judge Taft is the only one of thu
| party who has been induced to tall
publicly of the matter, and he de
clares that it is merely coincidence
that all of them should be here at the
same time
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
AMERICANS CHEERFULLY PAYING
HUGE PRICES OF STAPLES In PARIS
Modest Meal for Three Cost $1,000 Vegetables Bring 80
Cents Pound, and Meat Has Advanced 800 Per Cent.

into apathy, earnestly desire outside
intervention.
Petrograd is one vast metropolis,
with the streets deserted and bodies
lying about unburied, while Lenine
himself lives in luxury and fares
sumptuously. NJ. Oder saw him and
Zinovieff only once, on the occasion
of an official protest against the mas
sacres. Zinovieff made the frequent
bolshevist answer, "The bourgoise
will never be as numerous as the SOL
diers dead on the field of battle"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
LOCK CASHIER In VAULT
AND ROB BANK OF $4,000
Three Auto Bandits Strip Tennessee
Institution of Cash.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-The bank at
Goodlettsville, this county, was robb-
ed today of between $4,000 and
$4,000.
While one robber waited in near
by automobile two others entered the
bank and locked the cashier, S. H.
Wilhoite, into the vault. They then
helped themselves to the cash and
fled in the automobile toward Nash
vile.
A telephone extension in the vault
enabled the cashier to give the alarm
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
THREE MICHIGAN HUSBANDS
DEFEATED WIVES AT POLLS
Strength of Much Haunted Wo-
mans Machine Was Imaginary.

One of the most interesting con-
tests in the United States was de-
cided at Orion, Mich, when three
loving husbands vanquished three
loving wives who aspired to polit-
zeal honors.
Mrs. Belle Anderson was candi-
date for president against her hus-
band, Byron. Mrs. lone Allen ran
for clerk against her husband,
Fred, while Sarah Murphy was
candidate for assessor against HUI
bert, her husband.
The strength of the much
Haunted women's machine proved
to be purely imaginable and the
husbands all romped home win
ners by a healthy margin.
"Well," declared the defeated
females, e" the jobs stay in the
family, anyway"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
STAT, =, COMMISSION
DIVIDE IN r,. "'TY
SOME WANT OPEN SESSIONS,
AND OTHERS WANT MEET
INGS "IN CAMERA"

ATLANTA, Ga.-A difference of
opinion has developed among the
members of the state tax commission
concerning the question of publicity.
Some of the members of the commits
sion contend that all of the sessions
from the very outset of their de-
alterations ought to have been held
in public, while the other members
favor the session Gin camera" as the
Paris writers say in regard to the
sessions of the peace conference.
Those who favor a policy of full
and free publicity are Zach Arnold,
Clay county, State Senator Denny,
Seaborn Wright and l.. R. Aiken, of
Brunswick. They have insisted on
publicity more or less regularly from
the start of the commissions work,
but have always been out-voted. UT
to the present time they are still In
minority,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
WILL REPRESENT COMMISSION
AT NATIONAL ROAD CONGRESS
Big Gathering Will Be Held in Tex
as in April.

ATLANTA, Ga.-The state high
way commission has selected Com
missioner e. L. Rainey to represent
that body at the National Good Roads
Congress, which will hold it's annual
session at Mineral Wells, Texas, be-
ginning April 18th.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-03-25
General Revision.

The state tax commission was Gre
ated by the legislature for the pur-
pose of working out a general revis-
ion of the tax laws of Georgia. The
resolution creating the commission
specifically stated, by the way of dl-
rection, that the program mapped out
bv the commission should be given
full publicity. After the program has
been agreed on by the commission
it is submitted to the public and a
series of public hearings are to be
held at different points over the
state for the purpose of inviting sug-
gestions and constructive criticisms:
Then the revision is to be submitted
to the legislature in the form of a
recommendation, embodying such
modification or amendments as the
commission sees fit to make after
hearing from the public.
Up to this point the members OF
the commission are practically
agreed, but the publicity four
named above are very insistent that
the entire program should at once be
given to the public, through the news
papers, instead of holding it back un-
til the series of public hearings start
in the middle of April.