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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
NEW POISON SPREADER
FOR BOIL WEEVIL PEST
u. S. Constructs a Small Machine for
Cotton Growers. Will Be on the
Market Next Year.

The limiting factor in cotton boil
weevil control by poisoning is the
lack of machinery for busting pow
dered calcium arsenate, the only poi
son that has been found sufficiently
effective. There is shortage of cal
cium arsenate, but the machinery OBJ
tainable is not sufficient to handle
the quantity of poison available.
There are only two types of dus-
tiers, small hand affair that can not
be used successfully on more than
about forty acres of cotton, and a
large power machine that is too ex-
pensive for use on less than 200
acres of cotton in body. The main
need is for an intermediate type OF
buster, suitable for use by cotton
growers whose paintings run from
fifty to two hundred acres.
Such a machine is in course of
construction by the United States de-
partment of agriculture at the Delta
Laboratory, Tallulah, La, and will be
on the market for the cotton-grow-
ing season of 1920. 1t will be operat-
ed by wheel traction, will cost about
SIS and will cover in the neighbor-
/ hood of twenty acres a day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
GEORGIA PAYS HONOR
TO LATE JOHN P. FORT
Memorial to Georgian Who Bored the
First Artesian Well. Was
Remarkable Man.

A memorial tablet, done in Geor-
gia marble, has been presented to
the state in recognition Of the re-
markable services rendered by the
late Col. John P. Fort, who did much
during his lifetime for the better
ment of Georgians.
The tablet bears the following in
scription:
John P, Fort-Soldier, Scholar,
Benefactor.
Among other eminent public ser
vices he bored the first artesian well
in Georgian epoch of the south
eastern coastal plain. He was the
founder of the apple industry of
North Georgia.
Colonel Fort bored in Dougherty
county the first successful artesian
we'll ever dug in Georgia, and soon
after his discovery of the strata from
which this pure, clear water gushed
such wells spouted forth all over the
region. This valuable discovery of his
was made about thirty years after
an artesian well was bored at Char
lesion, S. C.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
POETRY FIRED AT
DRASTIC DRY LAW
SENATOR GLENN CALLED MUSE
TO HIS AID IN MAKING
WINNING FIGHT.
Come one and all,

Come one and all,
From Chatham to Hall,
You Irish, you Scotch, or you Jew,
As you homeward roll,
Just take a bowl
Of the real old Mountain Dew"
Gard you can't stop the making
of this moonshine until you level the
grand old mountains of north Geor-
gia as fiat as the plains Of Chatham.
So spoke Senator George c. Glenn,
of Dalton, in opposition to the bill
in the Georgia senate to make more
drastic the bone dry laws of the state.
Senator Ragsdale was the author of
the bill seeking to make the violation
of the prohibition laws felony.
Senator Glenn at once arose and
proceeded to jump on the attempt
to intimidate the mountaineers IN
this time honored practice. In one
of the most humorous and satirical
speeches yet delivered to the senate
he proceeded to ridicule the measure.
When a vote was taken the bill went
to the happy hunting ground of all
deceased measures of the upper
house and proceeded to occupy a
grave side by side with the tombs of
the resolution to ratify the Susan b.
Anthony amendment.
Again mourning the sad plight of
affairs in the country the senator
declared:
81 would like to run across stream
Of twenty-year-old rye
That gurgles from an ice-bound cave
In bounteous supply.
'"That runs across field of straw
That has an amber tint,
And empties in a little lake
Embarked in beds of mint.
"a reef of sugar here and there,
The little stream should break,
And juicy cherry trees drop then
fruit
Into the limpid lake.
"Awav from all this world,
It's busy care and din,
o wouldn't that be glorious spot
To spend few hours in?"
And Immediately the previous
question was called and with water
inc lips the senators showed under
the bill.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05

cradle trouble and, during the past
year, many clashes.
The district occupied by the ne
groes now comprises approximately
25 square miles and includes only a
comparatively few small white settle
ments.
One of the most serious problems
arising out of the riots is that of
employment of negroes. 1t is report
ed that several packing establish
ments that formerly employed close
to $4,000 colored men have drawn
the color line and will hire white la
Dor only hereafter. The situation
with regard to intermingling of the
whites and blacks in industrial con-
Germs is receiving grave considera-
ton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05

Western Electric
PORTABLE LAMP

at your side. Adjust it to throw the light
direct on your book or magazine, and
read in perfect comfort.
No matter in what room you're sitting,
you'll find this light convenient. Adjust
it to whatever height you wish, and turn
the hood to throw the light exactly where
YOU wish tit doesn't make any differ
ence, you can adjust it to any angle.
1t comes in different finishes-verde,
antique and brass and in two sizes;
table and floor
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
SUGAR BOARDING
is NOW UNPARD0NABLE
Abundance Is Available for All Do
mestic Needs, Equalization Head
States. Retail Price Too High.

mestic Needs, Equalization Head
States. Retail Price Too High.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The war
department has sold to the United
States sugar equalization board 3D.
100000 pounds of refined sugar, 1T
was announced here on Friday by
George A. Zabriskie, president Of
the board, who declared that there
is abundance" of raw sugar IN the
country. that retail prices should not
exceed II cents a pound, and that
there is no need of boarding.
100000 Pounds a Day.
Mr.. Zabriskie further declared that
refneries now are working night and
dav and that their combined output
of Ats, 900 pounds a day is beng
nut into domestic channels of trade.
Refners, he said, have not sent a
pound of sugar abroad for two weeks
Exportation will not be resumed I'M
til American needs are entirely met
The head of the sugar equallza-
ton board stated that profteering
dealers, if reported, might suffer
revocation of their licenses, for they
still are under control of the federal
food administration, which will not
cease to function until the senate
signs the peace treaty
He charged the apparent shortage
70 speculative exporters" and be-
lated orders for Gamers and candy
makers. Housewives we're boarding
sI,mar nnnecessarily," he said.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
SURPLUS FOOD STOCK
OF ARMY TOTALS sos, 900, 900
Sales of Extra Subsistence Reach
$2S, $4,000, Says War Department.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The war
department issued today statement
showing it had declared a surplus
army subsistence valued at approx
imately ,8S9,947 and insisted
that $26,000,000 worth of these
stocks have been disposed of.
These surplus stocks, exclusive of
sugar, consisted on July 10 of the
following:
Dried fruits and Vegeta-
bles ------ --------S Z,4Io,zZo
Smoked and canine
meats ---.-- ------- 90,3S4, $50
Fresh meat and poultry 1881 ,67l
Canned vegetables - 12,342,44
Cereals - ----- 1,085,889
Hard bread, crackers and
and macaroni ------ 81O,719
Total -------$11O,4 83, 275
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
EcE RIOTS IN THE NORTH
pprc1uT OF CRED" AGITATION
NO EMPLOYMENT IN GEOR-
GIA FOR CHICAGO NEGROES

ATLANTA, Cain response
to a telegram received Friday
from the Chicago Herald-Exam-
iner stating that many negroes of
the more industrious class who
went to Chicago for war work are
now DESTROYS of returning to the
South, if the South needs them,
and asking how many of these
Georgia could absorb, Governor
Dorsey replied by wire, as fol-
lows:
"The commissioner of COM
merce and labor advises me that
he will be unable to find employ
ment for Chicago negroes"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
outbreaks Resulted in
; %are Than a Score of Fatal
NV !a0'0 Industrial Plants Draw
Ip'I, Line and VIII Refuse
;, Employ Negroes.

,.;.ions and apparently well IL
nIor directed against the
n'Su ,,aonle. which seeks through
F s5a TO stir up discomfort
+bp negroes, has been reveal
'ns ,nb evidence gathered by of
. If the government. Documents
p, " nossession of the authorities
u. 1,o+ among the radical organi-
bT ,s sH acti I'VE in the propaganda are
f@n' W a W.. bolsheviki and certain
J. W, Of the radical socialist ele-
..oI The propaganda urges the ne
llt' -" form an alliance with these
s e. and to build a new So
ganI 10 EQUALS without class, race,
~ 0 Or religious distinctions.
n BE OuIr.oasional investigation of the
vl' 81 mob violence and lynching
" r H. the United States has
F = sdIemanded in an address to
r. ra+ion," signed by former Pres
T. llS Taft officials of several South
s+ates and other nationally prom
j citizens. The appeal was made
~ rssl1it of the series of race riots
Washington and Chicago, as well
.bS numerous lynchings that have
.rrred in recent years.
~ Killed and Hundreds Wounded.
AIMED troops are now patrolllng
n l,l section of Chicago as a re-
/ If a series of race clashes. While
situation in Washington IS I'M
Irinc another serious race war de-
Ionpi in Chicago, and in the num-
1ns street battles more than a
w. Yr have been killed, while hum
sds have been wounded. Mayor
I'M ompson has appealed for national
srdsmen, and several regiments
rp been modified.
hiring the latest clash between
whites and the negroes more
m 100000 persons participated in
fighting. White shots were fired
united policemen galloped along
5ouIevards, patrol wagons dash
through the streets with prison
and wounded women and chill
m screamed as men fought with
lgels. knives and fists. In some
rs negroes in automobiles dashed
ouch the streets firing at any
ties they encountered. Whites at
ked the building occupied by the
.roes shooting through windows
doors, while the NANTES fired
X from barricades.
Prejudice Against Negroes.
9hicago's negro district has been
ably increasing in recent years
h the influx of Southern negroes,
/, arrived to work in the big indus
1 plants. Their encroachment on
lie neighborhoods caused consid-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
Western Electric
Dishwasher and Kitchen Table

will change this-for it does your dishes
for you. Just stack them, Scrape them,
then place them in the trays with hot
sudS-and electricity does the rest.
When you are not operating this dish
washer it is still useful, for it makes
splendid kitchen table--to make it more
useful the top is covered with Wear
Ever Aluminium.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
Western Electric
NUMBER l IRON

always a constant heat, saves time and
steps. No more plodding back and forth
from stove to board, no more smudge
from the iron on your best blouse if you
iron it the Western Electric way. mex
penSive to buy, inexpensive to run, this
iron makes ironing a pleasure. Carefully
built, it will, give the maximum of SER
vice and satisfaction.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
MOTHER BINDS SEVEN
CHILDREN AND BURNS THEM
She Persisted in Fire That Snuffed
Out Lives of Little Ones.

JACKSONVILLE, Ohio.-Several
hours before authorities were to re-
move them to the Athens county
home, seven children, ranging in age
from 6 weeks to 10 years, were found
with their mother, Mrs. Toney Stra-
visar, burned to death or asphyxiated
in their home at Kimberly, a small
mining'town near here. The children
were tied to their beds and coal oil
had been sprinkled over the room.
1t is supposed that worry over the
separation caused the mother to de-
stroy herself and children.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
Western Electric
PORTABLE SEWING MACHINE

is a full size machine, and does beautiful
work. With it you'll find you'll actually
get more sewing done, and with so
much less exertion.
The Western Electric 6 inch fan is
another comfort for you. Even if you
can't stay at the beach or mountains all
summer, you don't need to suffer with
the heat. You can easily carry this fan
from room to room, have cool breezes
wherever you wish.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
Sewing Machine

When you enlist electricity to tighten the
labor of your home, one of the firSthelps
you will have will be with your sewing.
The electric way will make sewing so
much easier for you, and pleaSanter. For
this new machine is not only run by cleo
tricity so that you have no pedaling, but
it is portable--carry it to your neighbors
or to the Red Cross.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
Number One Iron

Anyone who has ever ironed with an
electric iron will know it's the easy way,
the cool way to iron.
1t not only helps you do your clothes
more nicely, but it helps you do them
so much more easily.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
HE sNEEZED TOO HARD
AND BROKE ONE OF HIS RIBS
Instead of That Glorious Feeling Ex-
perienced a Twang of Pain.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Carpen-
ter. deputy reporter of the supreme
ord anpellate courts, sneezed on Sat
urdav and broke rib.
Carpenter felt the joy whoop com
inc on. He twisted little and let 'er
e'i instead of that grand and glorious
foai;~r that comes with a sneeze
came a twang of pain, and the yowl
If rIee turned into howl of pam
His ninth rib let go back near the
spinal column.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
WITH THE
Western Electric
WASHER and WRINGER

the average family's wash is done in
| ~ or 2 hours, and with no labor. All
you do is put your clothes in the washer,
turn on the electric current and electricity
will do all the hard work even to wiring
ing the clothes.
While it is doing the washing, you are
free to attend to your other duties. See
how this saves you, and saves your time.
1t is economical--Soon pays for itself and
saves the wear on your clothes the old
fashioned ways subjected them to. And
only 3 cents worth of electricity will do
the average wash.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
DiShlUQSher and
Kitchen Table

Dishes! always dirty dishes to take the
10y out of that good breakfast dinner or
supper. They always shackle you at
times of anticipated pleasure.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
Hand in Hand

One of the main reasons why there
has been such a marked improvement in the
whoesomeness and healthfulness in food prod
uctS the last ten years has been on account of
the cooperation between pure food officials
and domestic science teachers. These two ele-
ments have been working toward a common
end-Our protection against INSCRIPTIONS manu-
faCturers who have not based their claims to
business on the quality, but rather on cheapneSS
and who, in their endeavor to market their
products on price or quantity, have often resorted
to substitution and to the use of unWholeSome
mate al Though progress has been made, yet
muCl. remains to be done.
Mr. Harry L. Eskew, Food Commits
Sioner of Tennessee, has been very active III his
efforts to safeguard the health of the people OF
his State In the New York Journal of Com
merce he has the following to say about So
called Self Rising Flour, which is used In GER
tain sections:
q would not tolerate -four products like
some of the 'self-riSing -four sold in large part
OF the South, the conCCmitantS OF which are
alike unknown and not to be aSCertalned by the
consumer and whose purity in the matter OF
phosphate is open to serious question as de-
cephve agency"
When the need of improvement OF
certain food products is pointed out SO definitely
and at the same time is backed up by thousands
OF domestic science teachers throughout the
country, it is quite natural that American house
wives will gradually become sChooled IN the
proper selection of food products, and at the
same time demand proper labelling OF all 1000
products.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
Portable Lamp

Light right where you wantit! See how
this lamp helps your eyes? lfyou want
to read in bed, all right now, because
you can have the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
Washer and Wrinqer

The new, the modern way to wash is
voorhees,.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
THE
Western Electric
VACUUM CLEANER

has a motor driven brush properly
speeded, combined with an especially
powerful vacuum--thiS makes this clean
er different. The use of the worm gear,
a mechanical construction found only in
this cleaner, makes this combination
possible.
Women who have used vacuum clean
ers prefer this--for it cleans better, more
quickly and more easily. Come into the
store today.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05

VOTE Miss Costello already OeH k0tOn to most OF the tades o.
~ c She is of The Domestic Science Branch OF me Ooy
2 graduate of Lewis Institute Supervisor z? Doesfc Science
g. n1c Schools Special Lecturer Domestic Ans ana e0"0o'
'pe0'A Lecturer to the Woneu'S Clubs.
"eG'e Publishing of her most important articles
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
Vacuum Cleaner

Women are realizing that old fashioned
methods in the home are as WaSteful as
those in business.
A vacuum cleaner is modern tool that
is essential for really clean cleaning in
in YOUR home.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-15
u. s. 1918 Crop Valuation l.
$l2,272,4l2,O0O
Wheat Yield Was Second Larsese; Oats Cop Third;
Shortest Yield Of Corn Since 1919

The second largest wheat with bushels for the United
10 bushels
largest bushels the leading features Of the
1918
Total wheat barley 4835O 600 bushels
this $2272412O
paid producers December
There for home requirements and for all the allies will need
countries OF
figured that bushels consumption which
below bushels
to
which bushels 94OOOOO
last month and 26s bushels last and fveyear average
a 54OOOOO bushels
44816OOO bushels last revised
Bukwhat than 100000 bushels while faxsd
bushels
although 100000 bushels short
o
bales in Of last below the fveear
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-15
NJ org an City Shipyard
Has One Of Best
Records In the
Country
Community Claim for Contin-
uance Of Building N OF
Yet Decided by Ship
ping Board

Mr.. Piez of the United States Ship
ping Board Emergency Fleet Corpo-
ration said to the committeeman and
national representatives VINO appear
ed before that body this week that
the yard at Morgan City has one of
the best records of any yard in tho
country. This statement also includ-
ed favorable mention Of the Madi-
sonvil1e yard and also criticism of
one other yard in Louisiana.
The above statement followed the
claims of delegations from Morgan
City and other Louisiana yards for
a continuation Of the shipbui1ding
now going on The claims were
forefully presented by Senator'S
Ransdall and Gay and Representa-
tives Martin and Lazaro. Messrs. F.
F. Ditch, H. M. Cotton and M. P.
Palmer represented the Morgan City
and Berwick Chamber of Commerce
before the Shipping Board. A decis-
ion is expected before February 1st.
and while the claims were given a
complete hearing it is impossible to
even forecast the outcome.
Messrs. Ditch and Cotton are ex-
pected to return to Morgan City
Thursday.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-15
where AMERICA WAS NAMED
House 10 Still Standing n Which
Learned Men Awarded voyager
IN Undeserved Honor.

Many readers who keep scrap-books
will be glad Of this morsel OF Curious
lore.
On April 25. 1907. the learned heads
Of the University Of St. Die. in Lor-
raine, decided, incorrectly, that Amer
igo Vespucci was entitled to the honor
Of discovery. Christopher Columbus
having only reached the islands Of the
West Indies, and that the western
hemisphere should bear his name. The
name America" was, as matter Of
fact, first used In the book ''Cosmog-
raphiae Inroductio." by Martin Wald-
seemuller, professor Of cosmography at
the university.
Il has since been shown that Amer
igo vespucci was preceded BY both
Christopher Columbus and John Cabot,
but Il was too late-the nsw world
had been dubbed America and the
fact advertised In print. The house
where the meeting was held at which
ths classical error vas made et1ll
stands at st. Die (vosses). and = an
nually Visited BY many touris@. e.
peeially thoss from both Noeth end
South Amerjca. LIZ
Hence the error q learned men u
responsible for America being named
after Amezigo vespucd. who vas
given an honor be clearly did not DE-
segvA
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-15
Fifth Liberty War Loan
Will Be Launched This
Coming Spring. viii
Be Last Drive
Obligations On Enormous Out
lay For War Supplies Must
Be Met No Matter If
Armistice Signed

Atlanta, Jan. 15.-The necessity for
another Liberty Loan is being en-
phasized by Mr.. L. B. Franklin, Of
Washington, Director of War Loan
Organization, in conferences with
Liberty Loan officials in Federal Re-
serve Districts througout the coun-
try. Mr.. Franklin is now in the
South, having visited Atlanta and
New Orleans. He expects to hold
conferences in every district within
the next few weeks.
1t is explained by Mr.. Franklin
that the Government must meet the
enormous outstanding obligations
tor war contracts. Production of
ships, munitions of war. and mater
lal of all kinds had reached the de-
sired stage when the armistice was
signed. The expenses incurred must
De met although fighting has ceased.
Revenues from taxes and other sourc-
es will not be sufficient to cover the
indebtedness, therefore the Treasury
Department will ask for another
loan, said Mr.. Franklin.
The banks of the country cannot
be expected to underwrite this bond
issue. With the restoration of peace
and return of normal trade condi-
tions, banks will need all available
money for commercial purposes. To
burden them with the obligation of
absorbing an issue Of several billion
dollars would stifle business and in-
terfere with trade. The Fifth Loan
must be floated out of the earnings
and savings of the people.
The amount of the issue and inter-
est the bonds bear will be determined
by the Treasury Department early in
the Spring. The date OF the loan has
not been decided upon, but it is be-
lieved that the Treasury Department
will select some date in April for the
beginning. In the meantime. plans
are being made to float an issue as
large as the Fourth Liberty Loan
Six Billion Dollars.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-15
'SLess Than Kin
At The Opera House

The author of Less Than Kin" is
Alice Duer Miller. we'll known nov
elist, whose books have gained wide
circulation. This is a charming story
of New York and Latin America and
the hero provides an ideal character
ization for Mr.. Reid. Alice Duel
Miller is famous as playwright and
is author of Come Out of the Kitch-
en-" which proved quite successful on
the stage.
MARION FAIRFAX. who wrote
the scenario of LESS Than Kin" is
one of the most talented scenarioists
in the country and she has written
many notable pictures. She is, like
wise. a successful playwright, many
OF her dramatic works having scored
big hits. Her skill as an adapter has
been evinced in its highest form in
her latest picture.
RECOGNIZED as an exceptional
ly capable director, Donald Crisp is
the man who directed LESS Than
Kin" 1t is needless to remind any,
one who recalls Mr.. Crisp's superior
work in "The House of Silence" and
The FREELY of France" in both of
which photoplays Mr.. Reid starred.
that his direction of Less Than Kin"
is in every respect fully up to the
high standard of direction set and
consistently maintained by him in all
OF his productions. which will be
shown at the popular Opera House
tonight