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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-07-22
a Miss IS as Good as a Mile.

Gallipolis, O.-Three minutes after
a fast passenger train had passed over
a bridge crossing creek near this
city, the bridge was washed away by
flood waters
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-07-22
Ear.seeina.

"They have some gazers into the
future in the telephone exchange"
"What do you mean?"
II struck one the other day. She
told me the line was busy before !
had a chance to ask for it."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-07-22
The Proverbs Applied.

IT am tired Of giving wedding pres
ents,' said Johnson.
"Vell, returned his cynical compan-
ion, 'It is better to give than to re-
ceive."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-07-22

Once--and only
a-few years ago-a large
part of the savage and
semi-civilized world wore
tapa. But styles have
changed. Now you
might hunt a long time
before you found any
except in q museum. You
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-07-22
Not interested.

"The golfer must keep the eye
strictly on the ball."
"That must be why pretty girls
don't go In much for golf"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-07-22
Ho, HUM

"It says here that the world is rot
revolving as fast as it did 10000
years ago." said the Old Fogy, as he
looked up from the magazine he was
reading.
maybe not commented the
Crouch. "But it goes around fast
enough to satisfy a man who has a
note to meet and no money to pay
it."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-07-22
Illustrations.

.sTrouble never comes single
you bet it don't. Last year we
had double pneumonia in the family,
and this year we had twins"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-07-22
Mean lssinuation.

'My husbands portrait. I would
have you know, is a nationwide pos
session"
why, is it in the rogues' galleryr
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-07-22
Quite True
I is q neacemaker?o

"Pa, what is a peacemaker?"
Gle is man, my child, whose
chief success is in precipitating a
fight"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-07-22

What Makes the World Go Round.
The world moves on, though you may
frown,
Or smile in fortunes cup;
For one half's busy turning down
The cranks that will turn up.
Cartoons Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-07-22
His Attitude.

"You wouldn't sell your vote to both
sides, would your
"No, but don't mind letting both
candidates promise me job"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-07-22
"Vamped."

"If you will permit me to say so,
you have just had a beautiful caller"
"Yes, a book agent" replied the
business man, with faraway look in
his eyes.
''What was she selling?"
81 couldn't tell you to save my life.
All / know is that she smiled and /
bought"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-07-22

If a man does wrong he thinks he is
doing right to keep it secret.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
BUTTS HIS LIFE OUT
AGAINST TREE ROOTS
SETH HALL OF LOWNDES THE
VICTIM. YOUNG MAN LOS
ES HIS MIND.

VALDOSTA, Ga.-Battering his
head against stump, while in a fit
of mental arrangement, Seth Hall
chose an unusual method of ending
his life, death resulting from his in
juries last night
Hall is a young white man residing
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
G. Hall, about nine miles from Val
dosta Since his service i'll the United
States army which ended some time
ago young Hall had been regarded as
somewhat unbalanced, but never show
ed any signs of violence and he re-
manned employed at farm work.
Friday morning while at home alone
with his mother Hall went out near
the house and began battering his
head against stump. Mrs. Hall saw
his peculiar actions and ran to at
tempt to stop him. AS she came near
he ran away from her and went from
stump to stump plunging his head
against the jagged tops until he finally
fell unconscious.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
AN EXTRA SESSION
NOW SEEMS ASSURED
BELIEVED GOV. DORSEY WILL
ASSEMBLE NEW LEGISLA-
TURE IN JANUARY.

That Governor Dorsey will call an
extra session of the Legislature about
the twentieth of January for the pur-
pose of revising the tax equalization
law seems evident.
Although the governor has made no
positive announcement of his plans, it
is understood on reliable authority
that he will call the legislature togeth-
er the latter part of January. :.
In addition to including in the call
the subject of amendments to the tax
equalization law the governor will also
include, it is believed, the subject of
deficiency appropriations to a number
of state institutions, educational and
otherwise, which are imploring him
for additional funds.
Among these institutions are the
Georgia School of Technology, the
State Normal college, the sanitarlum
for the insane at Milledgeville, the
University of Georgia and several OF
the district agricultural schools.
Appropriations for these institutions
were made by the last legislature, but
the money has been spent, and they
want more.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
SOLONS
HAVE MANY BILLS
Almost Every Member of the States
Delegation in Congress Has Some
New Measure to Introduce.

WASHINGTON. D. C.-Headed
by the two Georgia senator's, Smith
and Harris. the big Georgia delegation
in congress is ready for their congress
sional duties.
Thousands OF new bills will crowd
the hoppers in both houses, There. IS
not a single member of the delegation
from Gordon Lee, up near the Ten
nessee line, down to Landlord and
Overstreet, close by Tybee light, but
who has returned to Washington tull
of new ideas to put into effect for
the benefit of his particular section
and the country generally.
A round of the Georgians today dis
closed that they are now more inter
ested in doing something to relieve
the cotton situation than anything
else and a number OF important bills
will be offered to amend the federal
reserve bank law. This, they say,
should claim first and immediate at
tention. Local bills also will be OF
fered and the indications are Tor
busy time for the Georgia members,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
HEROES OF THE DESERT
MASTER AND DOG
DEFIED DEATH VALLEY THIR-
TEEN YEARS, AND SAVED
MANY FROM PERISHING.

Lou Westcott Beck, of Pasadena,
Cal, and his dog, Rufas, are dead, al
ter being partners III a work of mercy
for IS years. Beck laid down his life
martyr to his work, dying as re-
suit of drinking from a poisoned
spring at the edge of the desert. Rufas
fingered for three years, watching Tor
his partner, who, for the first time,
had gone on the long, long trail with
out him. Then he started out to find
him.
D. During the IS years OF their part
nership the man and the dog rescued
304 persons from death by thirst and
exhaustion in the great American des-
erts-the Colorado, the MoJave and,
worst OF all, Death Valley. Friends
of the desert guide and his four-foot-
ed partner will erect monument to
them in Brookside park, Pasadena.
Lost Fourteen Years Ago.
1t was Ia years ago that Beck. a
Chicago man, prospecting in Death
Valley, was lost in that inferno OF
shifting sand, maddening heat and de-
ceptive mirages. With him was his
dog, Rufas, strong, intelligent ami
NAL, cross between Siberian blood
hound and a St. Bernard. There were
no sign posts in the deserts in those
days, nothing to guide the traveller
to the water holes, nothing to warn
against poisoned springs, The man
and the dog were almost dead when
they finally crawled to water hole,
drank the brackish water and stagger-
ed on and finally out OF the desert.
Since that terrible experience the
man made rescue work i'll the desert
his life task, and, with his faithful
dog, saved hundreds. But fate finally
overlook them when, again lost in the
desert. Beck found poison well. The
man drank but the dog refused.
1t was a terrible trip home and when
it was ended Lou Beck went to bed,
never to rise again. The dog, heart
broken over the loss of his partner,
dropped and dropped, until now he
too is dead, but with long record OF
service behind him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
RIGID SUNDAY BILL
CUTS OFF NEWSPAPERS
PROPOSED ACT CLOSES POST
OFFICES. TRAINS FORBID
DEN TO RUN.

WASHINGTON. = Fines ranging
from $500 to $4,000 and six months
in prison are provided in the most
drastic Sunday observance act ever
drafted in America which the Asso-
ciated Reform organizations will seek
to have congress pass.
Concerns guilty of making their en-
p1oyes work on Sunday or of violating
the law in other ways would be sub
iect to a fine of not less than 81 900
nor more than 100000; if found gull
ty a second time their charters would
be forfeited and they would be pro-
hibited forever after from operating.
The main features OF the bill as
drafted are as follows:
First, hereafter it shall be. unlaw-
full for any person in the. employment
of the United States to work or car
nv on his ordinary vocation on Sun
day.
Second, it shall be unlawful for
any person or corporation to operate
on Sunday any freight or passenger
train or mail train or any other train
or part of train in the carrying on
OF interstate commerce, trade or traf-
hc of any kind.
Closes Postoffice.
Third, it shall be unlawful for any
post office to be open on Sunday, OF
to deliver mail on Sunday; it shall
be unlawful for any mail to be car
ried or delivered on Sunday by any
employee of the United States, whether
in city or country.
Fourth, it shall be unlawful for
any newspaper or other paper or pub
LEGATION published or purportSng to
be published on Sunday to be receiv-
ed, carried or delivered as mail to any
agency of the United States, i'll any
post office or over any route under the
jurisdiction of the United States"
This provision would not apply to
Monday mornings paper, all the la
Dor in the preparation OF which is
necessarily performed on Sunday.
The fifth section of the bill provides
the fines and other penalties for VIC
lation of the act.
Up to the present no member OF
congress has been found willing to
sponsor such a measure or under
take to pilot it through the two hous-
eS of congress.
Randall Against 1t.
Representative9Randall, of Califor-
mia, the prohibition member of the
house who achieved responsibility
for the wartime prohibition law, de-
clared he would have nothing to do
with the proposed blue" Sunday act.
He said the advocates of such a
law should give their attention to Sc
curing the benefits of strict enforce
ment of the prohibition act before
undertaking anything else SO drastic
as the Sunday enforcement measure.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
REPUBLICAN LEADERS
ARE DEWSING PLANS
MAP OUT PROGRAM FOR NEXT
ADMINISTRATION. TO CON-
FER WITH HARDING.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The repub-
lican leaders in congress will map out
within the next few weeks the entire
Legislative program which they hope
TO enact with President-elect Hard
ing's Inauguration March 4th, it was
announced today.
Following a conference today be-
tween Senator Lodge, republican lead
er of the senate, and Senator Penfose,
finance committee chairman OF the
senate, there will be a series OF meet
ings of republican leaders here when
are expected to result in formulation
of this program
The general plan, as Tentatively
worked out is:
First-Limit the short session be-
Ginning Dec. E to appropriation meas
ures. -.
Second-Put all the major commit
tees to work during the short session
on the big problems the republicans
expect to solve when they take con-
troll IT,,
Third-Present bills covering these
nroblems in rapid-hre order alter the
special session gets underway =,
Harding would be conferred with
and congressional leaders said every
effort will be made to have the. eX-
ecutive and legislative branches OF y, the
government cooperate to the fullest
extent in working out such changes
as are deemed needtul. 80,
Among the problems on w hich com
mittees will be put to work during the
short session are these:
Tariff and tax revisions, immigra,
ton, high cost of living, regulation ono. o.
government departments, agricultural
Questions, labor and railroads. $,
impossible to make absolutely definite
i plans until they know more = about about
Harding's plans with respect TO Pe ae,
and the proposed association OF ma
tons. Many lawmakers favor imme-
date action on domestic questions
letting the association wait until home
problems have been solved.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
War Cost u. S. Twenty
Four Billion and Ten
Million D collars

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The
net cost of the war to the Ameri-
can government was fixed by Sec
retary Houston today at $24,OlO,,
100000. This, he said, represented
the adjusted" expenditure OF the
treasury, excluding all other out
Law which had no relation to the
actual prosecution OF the war dur
ing the period from April 9, 1917,
to June so last, which, he said, COW
cred the extremes OF the govern
ment's wartime fiscal operations.
Total expenditures by the gov
eminent during the period covered
excepting only postal disburse-
ments from postal revenues, were
S38,83O.812,895, treasury figures
showed. OF this amount S16,O78.,
844.O97 was obtained in taxes and
revenue from sources other than
borrowed money.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
DEPRESSION OVER
INDUSTRY IN COUNTRY
SERIOUS CONDITION REPORT
ED IN As STATES BY INDUS
TRIAL CONFERENCE.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Oficial re-
ports from As states, representing -
per cent of the nations population,
reveal widespread industrial depres-
sion. in. spite of which no serious or
General unemployment has as yet de-
veloped, the National Industrial Con-
ference Board declared in statement
made public here tonight.
This situation, apparently paradox
ia1, has developed when seasonal ag-
ricultural employment is at its lowest
ebb in most sections OF the country,
with indications that unemployment
SLOWLY is increasing, it was stated.
The present industrial depression
has cut out most of the overtime that
has been the familiar feature OF indus
trial work in the war and post war
wears. Short time is in evidence IN
MANY industries. Complete shut downs
have occurred and are occurring but
not in great numbers, nor tor any
great length Of time.
In the eastern states employment IS
decreasing, but is still above pre-war
levels :,
Conditions in the south vary consid.-
erably, but unemployment is reported
growing generally.
The middle west reported severe
depression in automobile centers with
other conditions nearly normal.
On the Pacific coast less unempiioy-
ment is reported. There is unemploy-
ment in the logging industry, but eth
err a normal situation or labor shortage
for the rest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
TESTIMONY Is GIVEN THAT TEN
PER CENT OF THE SHIPPING BOARDS
REPAIR BILLS IN SOUTH WAS GRAFT

costs" were none of their business
and that there be a spirit of make
rather than cut down repair work.
Two of the former German ships
were brought into the inquiry for the
first time by Banzahf He asserted he
had been instructed to check up bills
for the re-conditioning of the former
German liner Hamburg, now the New
Rochelle. This ship was sold on a
purchase contract to the Baltic
Steamship corporation.
The sale price, he understood, was
approximately $985,000 and the ship
ping board had advanced for the re-
conditioning of the ship about $780,
900. The bill of repairs for this ship,
he added, was about $l,500,000, which
an audit of accounts reduced approx
imately $4,000.
He also testified the steamer Mer-
curry, formerly the Barbarosa, was
taken to the same yard for recondi-
tioning, but after $175,000 had been
work was stopped because
of lack of funds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
CRACKSMEN VISIT
THE BANK OF MORGAN
BELIEVED TO BE
PROFESSIONALS. SECURE
SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS.

MORGAN. Ga.-The Bank of Nor
gan was entered by robbers some time
Wednesday night, and approximately
S6. 600 in liberty bonds, war savings
stamps and cash was secured. The
amounts stolen were taken from pri-
yate lock boxes placed in the oanK
vault, and no cash or valuables belong
ing to the bank were stolen, the rob-
hers being unable to enter the bank
safe. The entrance to the vault was
made by the use OF some heavy IN
strument. and no explosives were used.
The robbery was not discovered I'M
til the opening hour next morning.
and no clue as to the perpetrators
could be found.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
WILL ASH ."ERS TO
FORCE ACREAGE CUT
THE MEETING AT MEMPHIS
WOULD HOLD NEXT CROP
DOWN TO 100000 BALES.

MEMPHIS, Tenn.-The task of en-
forcing a reduction in the 1921 acre
age of cotton will be put in the hands
of the state banking associations of
the various cotton states. This was
decided at the session here OF the
south-wide cotton acreage reduction
conference.
The 1000 merchants, bankers, plan
tiers and cotton men attending unani-
mously elected Governor ]. M. Parker,
of Louisiana, as chairman of the con-
ference.
Each cotton growing state will be
organized for the purpose OF assisting
bankers in reducing cotton acreage. A
banker. merchant and farmer will be
selected from each state to direct the
work. Colonel W.. B. Thompson, OF
New Orleans, was named chairman
of the committee to pick these COM
mittees.
Want Protective Tariff.
Governor Parker surprised the con-
ference by barely mentioning acreage
reduction in the opening address. Col
onel Thompson, howeverS declared
that 50 per cent reduction i'll 1871
acreage alone can save the south. He
advocated holding the next crop to
100000 bales.
Some opposition is developing to a
radical reduction in acreage. Governor
Parker indicates that he favors expan--
sion of credits rather than reduced
crop.
Governor Parker again sprang a
surprise by his emphatic demand Tor
a protective tariff Sufficient to guard
the southern producer against Other
nations"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
Congressional Investigating Commit
tee Hears More Startling Revela-
tons. Make Instead of Cut Down
Work Was the Rule.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Testimony
that ten per cent of the 100000
shipping board repair bills in the south
Atlantic district was graft" was given
here today to the congressional
committee examining into shipping
board affairs.
The allegation was made by Charles
Banzahf, travelling auditor of the
board out of New York. 1t was con-
tanned in a letter written by the wit
ness to the general comptroller of the
board last July, heard here today by
Chairman Walsh, and identified by the
witness.
He cited an instance of a repair en-
gineer who, he said, had sat in a pilot
house and approved repair bills
amounting to thousands of dollars"
without ever looking at the work. He
declared inspectors had been told that
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
$4,000, 900 PAID BRITAIN TO
SETTLE U. S. ARMY DEBTS
Bulk of Money Applied to Contract
For Artillery Ordered.

IONDON.-The American army
has in one way or another, cleared
IN M all outstanding war contracts with
q Great at Britain by payment Of a lump
sum of approximately $l0,OOo,OOC. The
hulk T Of this goes to pay for heavy
a Udin ordered shortly before the
a. arn rrlis delivery of which has not
been (, en- completed, but is hoped to be by
the end of the year.
The next largest item was lhdt III
CURED for the north Russian cam
paign, for which the United StS az
paid Great Britain approximately 81
100000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
X-RAY KING" is
MARTYR TO WORK
DIR. Infroit Succumbs After Long Sui
fering. Underwent "a Operations,
~ Being in the Past Two Years.

PARIS,-Dr. Charles Infroit, ia
nous X-ray specialist, is dead, accord
ing to announcement.
One of DIR. Infroit's hands became
infected in 1898 as a result OF his con-
slant use of the X-ray and an opera
ton was performed. Since that time
he has undergone twenty-four opera
tons, twenty-five OF which were per
formed in the last two years. The last
was on August p, when his right arm
His announcement in 1915 in the
Acadenly OF Medicine OF Paris that ne
had extracted a shrapnel bullet from
a soldiers heart was read with inter-
est throughout the world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
CHRISTMAS WARNING: DON'T PUT
ANY ALCOHOL IN THE FRUIT CAKE
OR THE OFFICERS MAY SEIZE It'll


manufacturers OF food products who
obtain permit from the government
and that such products must contain
less than one-half OF l per cent OF
alcohol They also state that the reg
ulations require that such products
shall not be used or sold on the prem
ises, and that this effectively barred
the housewife from making any Christ
mas foods with liquor in them. The
regulations specifically state that per-
mits shall not be issued to hotels and
restaurants.
Don't Need Permits.
Retailers do not have to have per-
mits to sell culinary products con-
tanning less than one-half of l per
cent of alcohol obtained from author
lied manufacturers, officials said.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
Brides Strike and
Motherless Children
Urged to Stop Wars

MILWAUKEE,, Wis.-Advocat-
mo brides strike" and the re-
fusal of married women to give
birth to children until future wars
are made impossible through DIS
armament of nations, Mrs. Jesse :I
H, Mackay, president OF the NH
waukee Peace Society, and cnalI-
man Of a mass meeting here tonight
declared that in this way pressure
co,,Id be brought which would pro
duce immediate results. The Mil
u ua,,kee society is affiliated with the
National Peace Society.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
DERs PoLLED HEAVIEST So
CIALIST VOTE EVER KNOWN
Candidate Confined in Atlanta Peni-
Tertiary Makes Record Run.

Eugene V. Debs, socialist candidate
for president in the last election re-
ceived nearly 100000 notes.-the great
est number polled by a socialist pres
idential nominee i'll the country S his
tory and approximately twice the So
cialist vote in 1910.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
REAL BEER EXHIBITED IN
MUSEUM AS AN ANTIQUE

Two bottles of six per cent beer and
a dish of pretzels have been added to
the list of antiques in the public mu-
scum in Milwaukee, Wis. Hundreds
flocked to the museum, only to find
the latest exhibits fast under lock and
key.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
HIGH ANTI-SALOON
OFFICIAL VISITS DAWSON

Mr-T. Bassett Willard, field secre-,
tary of the Anti-Saloon League Oh
America, with headquarters at ives
terville. Ohio, was in Dawson wed
nesdav on official business.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
BACHELORS ADMIT WOMEN.

The American Association OF Bach
gtors is about to organize woman
uiyslon. Miss Mary E. MCGOWAN, a
notary public of Akron, Ohio, is STAT
ed Tor the Office of national president.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
Manufacturers of Food Products May
Use 1t, However, Provided Finish
ed Product Doesn't Contain More
Than One-Half of One Per Cent.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The fla
voring of homemade Christmas plum
pudding, mince meat and branded
cherries and peaches with alcoholic
spirits is in violation of the prohibit
ton enforcement law and such foods
are liable to seizure, it was stated to-
day at the bureau of internal revenue.
Manufacturers May Do 1t.
!, Officials explain that under their in
Vi tation of the enforcement act
{. q}b products in which alcohol is
an y. e can be made only by
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-14
DEMOCRATS STARTING
PLANS TO GONE BACK
APPEAR TO BE PURSUING A
"WATCHFUL WAITING" POL
ICY AT PRESENT TIME.
WHO CAN BE THE MOSES

Bryan and Cox Are Considered. Lead
ers Believe Recent Disaster to Par
ty Has It's Benefits. Desertion in Mo-
vember Election Temporary.