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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
Combining Country For 48 "Bad
Bows" to Make Into Useful Citizens

him for course in the Raymond
Riordan school in New York. Wool
son will pay all expenses. He be-
lieves that bad boys are mostly boys
who haven't had chance to be good
and believes it so strongly that he
wants to prove it not only with bad
boys, but with AZ of the positively
worst and "most depraved" boys IN
America.
"There are three factors in the
making of bad boy" says Chief
Vollmer. 'first, an unstable nervous
organization; second, mental enfee-
Element, and third, lack of proper
training"
The police and probation officers
of the San Francisco bay cities have
been searching for more than a
month for a boy to meet Vollmer,s
qualifications of lad to fill Wool
sons order, but so far with no sue
cess. Every boy suggested has some
redeeming trait.
'.SWe haven't had nlbble, SAID
Vollmer. cts very hard to find 100
per cent bad boy. There are plenty
of mischievous boys of the Huck Finn
type, but an outright bad boy is
scarce-as scarce as an outright good
boy"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
AN ORGY OF DRINKING
is REPORTED OVERSEAS
Use of Liquor Is Appalling" Say
Dry Workers.

CHICAGO.-The people of Euro
pean nations, especially of France
and Great Britain, are today drink
ing more than ever before, accord
ing to Miss Margaret Wintringer,
temperance worker here, just re-
turned from a six months survey of
conditions abroad.
1t will take twenty years for pro-
hibition to become effective in all
Europe, Miss Wintringer said.
'In the relaxation period follow
ing the war all classes in Great Brit
ain, France and Belgium are drink
ing to an appalling degree Miss
Wintringer said. "British women
drink more than any other women
of the world. Whisky in the British
er's tea is favorite drink and young
girls in England drink in public
houses.
''England's liquor bill last year
was $820,000,O00. This year, ac-
cording to estimates, it will approx
mate 81, 100000,
Conditions in France and Belgium
are similar, Miss Wintringer stated.
Germany is the exception, she
said. The prohibition program is
progressing there despite the unrest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
MONEY DRIVES"
LATEST U. S. PEST
WHOLESALE BEGGING HAS GRE
ATED NEW PROFESSION EN-
PLOYING MANY THOUSANDS.

| If the average American ever haC
any doubt about the generosity OF
the American people as whole, he
should take a week off and study
/ the drives" If he should set aside
an entire week for nothing else he
would find himself in such tangle
of figures, romance, campaigners
oratory, the business end of an en-
tirely new industry-or is it profess
sion?-that would greatly surprise
him.
Billion Dollars Now Being Asked.
! A casual summing up on the basis
of plain addition would give $1,000
100000 as the total of ''drives" now
in progress, and then he would be
far from the actual amount.
The general division of this "driv-
ing" business could be gathered I'M
der the following two heads:
First-European relief.
Second-Domestic needs, apart
from government work.
The subdivision would take in
First, under European relief, feeding
and clothing the millions made home
less by the war; the restoration of
towns and industries; re-establish-
ment of churches and universities.
Second, and under domestic needs,
the appeals of every known religious
! denomination for funds, to be used
in some instances to save the world,
and in others for general needs in
this country. Besides this general
church appeal about every other large
parish or congregation in America
adopted the drive idea to clear
! debts or raise funds for new works.
Then came the great universities and
F.! the big and little colleges. Everybody
! in every king of "uplift" work is
having a "drive." Il.
! Has Become an Industry"
/ This modern method of getting
money in this way has created new
industry or professionalism of the
'drive-master" or campaigner. Hun
dreds of firms have been incorpo-
rated for this purpose, and more than
10000 men and women are now act
ually engaged in the business, either
as directors or publicity agents.
One man and stenographer rails
| ed S31 900 for a small parish in ten
days.
New York city is now the chief
center of the world for drives" AT
the present time there are more thar
100 different drive centers in New
York for European and. domestic
needs. The total amount called fol-
by all of these drives" runs into
the hundreds of millions.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
700 ROBBERIES Are
TRACED TO One MAN
WAREHOUSE OF HARRY JAMES,
SILK BURGLAR, CONTAINED
100000 WORTH OF LOOT.

CHICAGO.-Seven hundred rob
berries, whose loot is believed to total
more than 100000, were cleared up
today when police examined the eff
fects of Harry L. James, the "silk
mask burglar" who was killed last
night after shooting up the town
hall police station, wounding two
patrolmen.
In James private warehouse,
where, truck loads of rare art works,
oriental rugs, jewels, typewriters,
adding machines and dozens of other
articles were found, police uncover
ed a card index in which 700 rob-
berries were listed, with the loot OBJ
tanned.
Another section of the card file
listed prospects" and the wealth of
data about each indicated that James
had used an electric light inspectors
card, found in his pocket, to gain
entry to the houses.
A third file listed "GoId Coast"
automobiles, with description, license
number, owners name and "fair, >
good" or "swelP' to indicate the
valuation.
Police also found letters listing
loot sold, with the price obtained and
a list of pawnbrokers. with the type
of goods each preferred to buy.
In a secret chamber in the base
ment were $50 oriental rugs APP
praised by an expert at $4,000.
When James was killed he was
found to be wearing suit belong
ing to former United States Senator
Lorrimer.
The suit was one Of forty stolen
from a tailor shop.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
GAMBLERS STRIKE
FOR HIGHER WAGE
AMERICAN CAMEKEEPERS AT
Aqua PRIETA, SONORA, DE-
MAND SIS PER DAY.

AUGA PRIETA.-Auga Prieta
gambling houses were closed last
night as the result of strike of
American game-keepers in an effort
to gain fifty per cent increase in
wages. The game-keepers demanded
SIS a day. They were getting $40.
Earlier in the day it had been re-
ported that Chinese would be en-
ployed to take the places of the
Americans, but last night crowds of
would-be gamblers found the adobe
halls of chance closed. There was no
explanation and the striking gamblers
lolled about the streets, smoking Gig
arettes and watching results of their
walkout.
Gambling in Auga Prieta is unique
as gambling houses go. There is
none of the glitter of the gilded
gambling palace, none of the lure of
hard liquor and women with which
the movie fans are accustomed to as
sociate the gamblers of the west. Sa-
looms have been outlawed in Sonora
for some time, and gambling is regu-
lated by the state, which enjoys g.
handsome revenue from this business.
Mexicans in sombreros, smelter
workers from Douglas, Ariz., almost
across the street, and tourists were
accustomed. to rub shoulders at the
roulette and dice tables, or sit in at
the many card games provided for
the enjoyment of the patrons and
enrichment of the house. Presence
of large numbers of soldiers mobiliz-
ed to meet the expected invasion of
Carranza troops helped to make the
present season profitable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
COMPUTES SENTENCES OF
RAVISHERS OF A WHITE GIRL
Wilson Saves Eight Negro Soldiers
From Gallows. Brought to
Atlanta Penitentiary.

ATLANTA.-Eight negro soldiers
from Camp Grant, ILL.,, convicted of
criminal assault upon a young white
woman at the camp in May, 1918, ar
rived at the federal penitentiary
here early today under heavy mill
tary guard. The men are all under
life sentences.
1t is understood that the majority
were given the death penalty by the
general court-martial that tried them,
but the sentences were committed by
President Wilson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
WILD SCENES in
TEXAS OIL SECTION
LAWLESSNESS AT ITS ZENITH
AMONG MUSHROOM TOWNS.
NO LIMIT TO WAGES PAID.

| FORT WORTH.-In the wild days
before Texas Joined the union those
who transgressed the law of the
states found a rendezvous across the
border. then the mecca of the out
laws from every state in the United
States. Texas has lived down that
reputation. but again it is barking
back to the old order of lawlessness
ins the towns grown out of the oil
successes in the territory surround
ing Burkburnett, Newton, Spring
town or any of the other dozen or
have sprung up where a / ,000-barrel
we'll has come in"
In this country, it is estimated, are
$4,000 workmen. They are being
paid wages that make the city sala-
ried men green with envy. The av-
erage unskilled laborer is receiving
ST a day, and the skilled laborer
from SIS to $40. 1t 81 said that the
average workmen can live on 81 a
day in the Texas oil country. 1t is
because of the liberal balance that
Texas now is experiencing some I'M
usual scenes for this day of sub
ways, elevated railways and 22-cent
ice cream sodas.
Gamble, Shoot and Burn.
The "roughnecks," as the oil labor
ers are called in Texas, quit work at
6 o'clock and are said to begin Shoot
ing at 7. They shoot if they approve
of a moving picture, shoot for an
encore, shoot in disapproval, in fact
shoot whenever they feel like it.
Every man carries a revolver, none
taking the trouble to cover it in the
hip pocket.
Roulette and faro were tried in
the field, but the oil workers know
poker and craps and, where money
is cheap, it is contended these are
the real games. Once a player is
strapped" he will shoot, fight or
burn to obtain money to see him to
another pay.
Some of the workmen, however,
are saving their money and deposit
ing it in the banks at Wichita Falls,
Texas, expecting to leave the field as
soon as business becomes little dull.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
ADMITS use OF FUNDS
TO INFLUENCE LEGISLATION
Attorney Testifies to Coea-Cola Co.'s
Activity. Annual Amount Some
Times as High as $4,000.

ATLANTA.-Fur surprising,
not to say sensational, evidence was
brought out recently before Special
Master Philips in the Coca-Cola case
an injunction by the Coca-Cola
Bottling Company to hold its per-
petual contract.
Attorney Hirsch, of the firm of
Gambler, Thompson & Hirsch, testifi-
ed that the manufacturing company
under the ownership of the Gamblers,
spent from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year "to work against harmful legis-
lation" and to protect trade marks.
His firm, he said, had received fees
running from $4,000 to $4,000 a
wear.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
A new HIGH COST
INQUIRY PROBABLE
HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE MAY
BE ASKED TO PROBE RESERVE
LOANS. TO FORCE UNLOADING.

WASHINGTON-The house rules
committee is being urged to under
take an investigation of the high cost
of living along entirely new lines.
Backers of the proposal insist they
believe that the federal reserve sys-
tenn makes it imperative for mer-
chants and spectators to withhold
from the market and maintain high
prices of raw materials, such as
leather, wool, cotton, binder Irvine,
metals, ETC., for which the consum-
ers must pay enormous prices.
No effort is being made, it is as
serted, to attack the fundamental
wisdom of the federal reserve sys-
tenn, but the idea is to secure an
amendment to the reserve act re-
quiring gradual liquidation of the
loans to spectators and hoarders,
whose main credit is raw materials
and thus compel an unloading" and
attendant reduction in the cost of
living.
Representative King, of Illinois,
OHe Oh ClS UdShSIS VI CAS ,PAVPooCN
inquiry, insists probe will show
that rs per cent of the increased
cost of living is due to the federal
reserve system.
Some Matters That May Be Probed.
Here are some other matters that
would be subject to inquiry:
| The relative salaries and bonuses,
b. Ia1 lys
to their officers and employees, as
compared with private institutions.
Alleged oppressive policies toward
member banks under the guise of
corrective measures, to a degree that
many members are afraid to take any
position which might be construed
by federal reserve officials as being
in opposition to their policies and SO
bring reprisals.
Alleged attempted destruction of
the independence of the great state
bank system as such.
Alleged efforts to force the bust
ness of the country, which varies
largely in character and custom from
section to section, to conform to rigid
rules and standards set by the fed
eral reserve board, often contrary,
as charged, to local methods.
The extent to which initiation of
currency, if any, by the federal re-
serve board is responsible for the
high cost of living.
The alleged refusal, if any, of fed
eral reserve banks to re-discount for
member banks paper which complies
with the law in the most minute par
ticulars, but may not comply with
rulings of the federal reserve board.
The alleged refusal of federal re-
serve banks to make loans to mem
Der banks secured by Liberty bonds
when requested to do so.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
GOING UP
Price of Wives for Africa
Jumps From Four Cows to
Eight, Dewar Says.

LONDON.-Lord Dewar, who
has Just returned from central
Africa, in giving an account of
his travels there, said that the
increased cost of living in the
district he had visited was re-
Elected in the higher price for
wives paid by the natives.
Whereas fine, sixteen hands
high wife cost four spearheads
in pre-war days she now costs
eight spearheads, Lord Dewar
said, and in the cattle districts,
the price of a wife at present is
eight cows instead of four.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
"DRYS" PLAN FOR
PARTY RECOGNITION
LEADERS To INSIST ON PROHI-
BITION PLANKS IN BOTH
PARTY PLATFORMS. i.

acknowledgements organ
izations, representing a constituency
estimated at 21,OO0,O00 people, stir
red by the growing "wet" sentiment
in the urban states, are making plans
for a determined and united assault
upon the democratic and republican
conventions in San Francisco and
Chicago. They do not anticipate any
attack upon the eighteenth amend
ment and in this their judgment is
conceded by the "wet" forces to be
sound. They will concentrate al
their efforts to prevent a weakening
of law enforcement under the Vol
stead act. In support of~their plan
the "drys' have mailed a question
naire to all candidates for congress
asking their attitude on the subject
of enforcement and have intimated
that all available resources will be
used against '%wet'' candidates for of
flee in the approaching election.
The "wets" are meeting the chal'
lenge vigorously. They intend to in
woke the statutes covering publicity
of expenditures against temperance
organizations which enter politics
this year. Judging by available evi.
dence their interest in politics will
be even greater than it was before
prohibition was written into the con-
stitution.
Both Big Parties Embarrassed.
The democratic party, it is held
is more likely to be inclined to be
'wet" than the republican. The
democrats, it is held, cannot hope to
elect a president without taking ad-
vantage of the "wet" sentiment in
New York, New Jersey, Illinois
Connecticut, Ohio, Maryland and
Missouri. The present tendency Of
the party, it is held. is toward liber-
alism in the national platform on the
question of personal rights. Will.
liam Jennings Bryan and his follow.
ers will back a dry plank.
For various reasons the republican
party is held to lean toward the
"drys" In the first place, the re-
publican party cannot afford to
ALLEVIATE the prohibition states in the
middle west.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
MARTIANS SILENT
WHEN SIGNALLED
MADE NO EFFORT TO COMMUNI-
CATE WHEN PLANET WAS
NEAR FAITH.

Martians, if there are such things,
did not try to signal the earth with
wireless waves during the three days
that the planet was nearest the earth,
according to the findings of DIR. Fred
rerick M. Millener, expert wireless en-
gineer, who set up a giant wireless
station near Omaha, Neb., capable of
receiving messages originating mil
lions and millions of miles beyond the
orbit of the earth. DR.. Millener ad-
mits the Martians may have been
trying to signal the earth by some
other methods and means, but he is
sure they did not attempt it by wire
less waves.
The failure to establish interplanet
communication, DR.. Millener notes,
was not a disappointment, though he
would like to have accomplished the
feat and to have announced the first
receipt of signals from another plan
ct. He believes such a communication
possible and says that it will be ac-
lcomplished. provided there are intel
ligent beings on other planets.
The basis of the installation at
Gamers ranch is the apparatus used
by the army during the war to de-
tect forbidden wireless stations all
over the United States. They
hitched it to 80 miles of wire and
gave it wave length so tremen-
dous that no instrument has been
found that will measure it. 1t is
known to be over 100000 meters.
1t is so sensitive that to reach out
hand toward one of the coils al
most extinguishes the signals.
On the night of April 81, wher
Mars was only 100000 miles from
the earth, they extended the appa
ratus to it's fullest reach, strapped
the receivers to their ears, and sal
all night, waiting.
They heard nothing.
! Wierd Sensation.
1t is a weird sensation to ''listen
( in'' on space. One of those who were
present says:
| DR.. Millener put the receivers on
my ears. In the silence of the little
farmhouse room | heard music-a
low, clear music, like the note of a
poccolo.
"We're hitched up for the big
commercial Stations he said
"That's California" He pulled a
green coil little further out of its
box. There was a rafting like q
hailstorm on a tin roof.
"Static," he explained ga thun-
der storm somewhere. That scratch
ing noise is Mexico talking to Berlin.
He pulled the coil out further.
"That high whistle is Annapolis
the last thing we hear on earth 1t
has a wave length of 5000 meters,
"Now we'll go outside of every
thing"
He pulled the coil far out.
Silence. Silence so complete that
it was deafening. Silence vast, in
scrutable, overwhelming. The silence
of infinity.
That was all.
DR.. Millener will not express an
opinion as to the mysterious signals
said to have been noticed by Marcon'
and others. He points out, however
that the strongest sending apparatus
thus far developed on earth can send
only half way around the world; that
Mars was 36,OO0,0O0 miles away o.
the night of April 81 and is now re-
ceding; and that we do not even
know positively that it is inhabited.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
NATION IS FACING
A HUGE DEFICIT
UNITED STATES FOURTEEN Bill
LION DOLLARS "IN THE HOLE"
1925 INCOME GONE.

WASHINGTON.-The finances of
the United States government are in
an indescribable state of confusion.
There is discrepancy of approx
mately S14,O0O,O0O,000 on the debit
side between the known income of the
United States from all sources, bonds
and taxes and the total appropria-
tions by congress for the three years
ending June 35, 1920.
Just what that $4,000, 700
represents, whether unpaid bills or
other obligations of the government
which do not appear in the treasury
statements, neither the secretary OF
the treasury nor any other person IN
the administration is able to tell.
Next Years Income Spent.
That is not all. The United States
government has spent all, or nearly
all. of next years income in advance.
1t is a staggering situation that con-
fronts the next administration. 1t
will fall near to deficit that is es-
timated at from $18,000,0OO,O0O to
$50, 000,000,0
The total net appropriations Tor the
three fiscal years of 1918, 1919 and
1920, after deducting $4,000, OOO,-
900 of Cancelled appropriations, was
$52, 100000, sum equal to ap-
proximately one-fifth of the estimat-
ed wealth of the country and equlva-
lent to a charge of approximately
$4,000 for every family in the United
States.
Heavy Taxes Ahead.
The total income of the federal
government, including receipts from
the sale of bonds and all other
forms of revenue during the same
period, was S38,2O4,000, 1000. Mani
testify, the government could not
have spent $14,000,000O00 more
than it received, so 1t must repre-
sent outstanding bills.
The very least that the American
public can expect, in the way OF
taxes for an indefinite period, tax
ING the treasury figures as bass
and the known requirements, bond
interest and so forth, is that it must
nav S55 for every man, woman and
child. In terms of production, ac-
cording to census figures, it means
that at least one-tenth of the whole
product of industry in the United
States will be turned into the vora-
cious hopper of federal expenses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
LUXURY EMBARGO
ISSUED BY FRANCE
Silk Stocking Imports from the Unit
ed States Among the Things
Which Are Barred.

PARASITIC bill placing restrlc-
tions on the importation into France
of Injuries will become law today
when it is signed by President Des-
chanel Among articles under the
han are flowers from England, fruit
from Belgium, feathers purchases
in Antwerp, and jewelry. Silk stock <
ings from the United States: wnlcn
have formed a considerable item OF
imports, also are forbidden.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
S45;OOO,O0O WORTH
OF MEAT TO GERMANY
American Packers Shipped an Inn
mense Quantity to That Country
After Armistice.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS packers hav

CHICAGO.-Chicago packers have
completed sale of S45, 100000 of
provisions to the German govern
ment, it was announced today by j.
Ogden Armour of Armour & Co.
Delivery of the meat, mostly pork
products, will start at once. The
supplies have been stored in ware
houses at Hamburg, Rotterdam, Am
sterdam and in Scandinavia for sew
eral months.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-04
SHEEP SHEARERS ARE
MAKING BIG MONEY, TOO

ELKO. Nev-Sheep shearing in
eastern Nevada is under way and
growers declare shearers are making
big earnings this year. Seventeen
cents head is the price paid and
some expert shearers can clip one
hundred animals a day, thus earning
SIT in addition to board and lodging,
which is included with the Job.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-06-25

ming up the reasons for his support
of Harding, Coolidge and the Repub-
lican program, in his public state
ment said: For all these reasons |
believe that those OF us who look up
on party organization not from the
point OF view OF partisanship, but
solely from the point of view of its
usefulness as an agency of maximum
service to the country, should sup
port the REPUBLICAN party at the
polls" That statement was what
hurt those who formerly idolized Mr.
Hoover, especially those who wanted
so much to use him in the interest
of the Democratic ticket for Presi-
dent. Herbert Hoover is, in reality
Republican, as between the two
greater parties, he sees the greater
opportunity for doing the most good
through the agencies and nominees
of the Republican party and true to
the dictates of his conscience he an
nounces that his unqualified support
will go to Harding and Coolidge.
And as he topples from the lottery
pedestal on which he was formerly
placed by Democratic partisans, he,
by the same distance, and more, as
cends upon another.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-06-25

Our neighbor, the Herald, in an ed
itorial in the current issue rides the
late congress for many things it fail
ed to do, amongst some Of the indict-
ments it is pleased to bring is that
of failure to reduce taxes, repeal war
time legislation, reduce prices, r1-
lieve the farmers and 1t might have
added: it failed to enact measure
taking us out of the technical war
still on with Germany, because not
enough Democrats with sufficient
backbone could be found in congress
to pass the measure over Wilson's We
to. Notwithstanding the fact all but
2 Republicans supported the measure
with II Democrats added, yet II fell
bit under the required two thirds
majority, and as a consequence lost
Of adoption. It was not what VIII