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New-York tribune., 1920-02-03
1t Doesn't Work Out

Question: would appreciate any infor-
nation you can give on the following
exchange matter ! wanted TO send 500
to relative IN Ireland, and was advised by
the postofice that they charged the normal
exchange rate of s4S7ls pound which
for the 6 100 would be s4s7.5o. Now, I
can get bank draft for loo for about
1870, the current rate of exchange being
about s3.20. Now, here is the question
Does The British postal system handle their
exchange in the manner as the United
State? In other words. can a person go
to Il British postofrcc with E100 and send
me money orders for $3.50 II such is
the case, then | take it at S4S7 so and
get n bank draft for about Gl31 at The
current rate Of $50 thereby making 931
profit, due to the difference in the rates
Am I correct u. J. W.
Answer Exchange between New
York and London is maintained by
the postal authorities of the United
States and Great Britain at s4.S7i4
per pound sterling. The London post
Office viii sell YOU limit Of l100
payable in New York. al $4.s7lq. bat
they now charge 8 poundage, the latest
reported being 5 shillings and pence
per pound. This probably varies with
the movements Of sterling exchange.
While there might be profit In doing
what has occurred to you, ueverthe-
less il is not likely that the profit
would be large enough 20 warrant ii.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-03

years associated with Cyrus J. Lawrence
d Sons. has been adnntttedt to<sxeuersi
partnership in that eoncerr.
E. Il. Patterson and John W Conner
have been elected vace~presidents Of n. r.
Hents Co
New-York tribune., 1920-02-03
Boston and Montana Mining

Question-Wil you kindly give me what
informn ton you can on Boston and Montana
Mining Company on the curb. The par
value Of this stock Is So 1t is now selling
at 70 cents. Do you think it is good buy
at this price "A. 8.
Answe-Boston and Montana is re-
ported to be shipping 175 tons Of ore
weekly. This ore is said to be aver
aging about $50 a ton in copper and
silver. The company recently an
nounced that its net snelter returns
are averaging about $1,000 a day on
OF ore being made over its
new road. Hopes are entertained that
this amount will soon be doubled. The
stock, however, is a sure speculation,
as are most stocks of this cha racter.
We do not advise regarding specula-
f{on
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
IF Papers Told the Truth.

Only short time ago the editor of a
naner in Indiana grew tired of being called
a liar. and announced that he would tell the
truth in the future. The next issue of
his paper contained the following items:
John BONN, our groceryman, is doing a
poor business. His store is dirty and dusty.
How can he do much?
Tom Conway. the LATEST merchant in
town, made a business trip to Logansport
on Monday.
Rev. Sly preached last Sunday night on
Charity" The sermon was punk and fully
an hour long.
Dave Cankey died at his home here on
Tuesday. The doctor gave it out as heart
failure Whisky killed him.
Married-Miss Sylvan Rhodes and James
Gordon, last Saturday at the Baptist par
sonage by Rev. j. Gordon. The bride is a
very ordinary town girl who doesn't know
any more about cooking than a pack rabbit
and never helped her mother three days in
her life She is not beauty by any means,
and has gait like duck The groom is an
up-to-date loafer. He has been living off
the old folks at home and is not worth
shucks. 1t will be a hard life.
Died, after six years, six months and thir-
teen days. Deceased was a mild-mannered
pirate, with a mouth for whisky. He came
here in the night with another mans wife
and joined the church at first chance. He
owes seven dollars for the paper, large
meat BILL and you could hear him pray six
blocks. He died singing Jesus Paid 1t ALL"
and we think he's right-he never paid any
thing himself He was buried in an asbestos
coffin and his friends threw in several palm
leaf fans
Now, isn't it fine that newspapers do not
always tell the truth?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
Georgia Fruits and Melons.
From the TeIfair Enterprise.

Chief among Georgia's claim to fame as
an agricultural state @ is her melons and
fruits Georgia and peaches are so insepa-
rabIy linked that they should be classified
together in the dictionary If Georgia's
fame rested on nothing but her peaches
her place in international esteem would be
secure And while her peach orchards are
enough to make her famous her apples,
melons. berries and other fruits are equally
as we'll known. 1t is estimated there are
anywhere from 100000 to 100000
peach trees in the state and this years crop
will amount to between 5000 and 10000
cars. At 1000 car this years peach
crop alone will amount to around 100000
600. The Georgia peach is known the
world over
Although the peach is principally south
Georgia product, ut is successfully grown
in the northern part of the state, and
some of the finest peaches grown are found
north of Atlanta.
The Georgia apple is another fruit that
is attracting attention to the state as
fruit growing state Georgia apples have
taken prizes in competition with the pro-
duct of New York, Oregon, Missouri and
other famed apple-growing sections. Geor-
gia apples have taken five international
prizes.
There are now around 100000 apple
trees in Georgia producing nearly 100000
bushels a year. Although the apple is
north Georgia product chiefly, it may be
grown in any part of the state. In the last.
census only four contradictions, Clay,
Echol3 and Miller-failed to report an APP
pie crop.
Watermelons and cantaloupes of a num-
Der of varieties are proftably grown in
nearly every county in the state Middle
and south Georgia afford soil specially
adapted to the growing of these melons for
the market and they are being used as a
substitute for cotton in a great many sec
tons.
Pears, persimmons oranges, plums,
prunes, cherries and ounces are success
fully grown, although at resent on a
smaller scale than the fruits already men
toned.
The strawberry is generally adaptable
throughout the state. Fifty bushels per
acre is about an average yield. At present
prices this means more than $500 an acre
What is true of the strawberry is also in a
measure true of the raspberry, the cultivat-
ed blackberry - the kind that grows wild
in the fields-should not be forgotten. 1t
is one of the most delicious of fruits. 1t
makes the very best pies, jellies, jams, etc.
The fig is another fruit that is both easily
grown and profitable. There is no more
delicious fruit when eaten raw with milk
and sugar and as preserving fruit it cannot
be beaten. This fruit will grow in almost
any section of the state. couple of trees
are all that any family needs for home use.
A great many city jewellers have them
growing in their back yards.
Georgia is unexcelled as a fruit and mel
On-growing state. These crops are worth
millions of dollars annually
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
The Modern Hold-Up.
From the Jackson Progress-Argus.

That newsprint paper is well on its way
to rs cents pound seems evident. In no
other commodity, including cotton and
sugar, has the advance been so remarka-
BILE. Advances of from 500 to 500 per
cent over pre-war prices are already here,
with paper still climbing. There is no tell
ing what the peak of the prices will be, de-
pending upon the greed of the manufact-
urers.
No hold-up of modern times is more das-
tardly than that of the paper barons. They
are out to get all the traffic will bear and
propose to increase their profits even if it
grinds the life out of the small papers.
More than two thousand small papers have
already been forced to quit the unequal
struggle. Others are holding on, hoping
for better times. Right now it is only a
hope.
The greater part of this burden of in
creased prices is falling on the weekly and
small town daily papers. Many of the large
papers have contracts at fairly reasonable
prices. The big papers, generally speak
ing have not yet felt the grind of the pa
per manufacturers Ultimately they will get
a dose of the same medicine that is now
being forced down the threats of the small
publishers Then look for a yell. If there
is anything that has big mouth and can
make big noise it is the daily paper.
Figures on paper consumption are most
interesting. There are more than twelve
thousand weekly newspapers in the United
States and they consume annually about
80 900 tons of newsprint. The Hearst
string of publications, consisting of twelve
papers located in various cities of the coun-
try, consume more than 100000 tons of
newsprint paper. Many of the large city
dailies consume from 100000 to 10000 tons
of newsprint each year.
tall Of tho week lu neWSDaDerS saving
paper is foolishness, that is, comparatively
speaking. The papers that can really effect
a saving in newsprint are the big papers.
To date these are the very papers that have
not shown an inclination to save newsprint
to any marked extent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
EATING LESS SUGAR.

II is interesting to note that Secretary
Houston, of the treasury department, mas
discovered that the shortage of sugar Is
caused bv the increased consumption per
capita. 1t is true that the people eat more
sweets than they did forty years ago. linen
sugar was luxury on the average taole'
and in most homes luxury to be INDUCED
in only when special company came or
some special event was celebrated. But the
secretary fails to note the increased pro-
duction of sugar during the period the IN
creased consumption has been going on. he
forgets that the beet sugar industry is de-
velopment of that period and that the pro-
duction of cane sugar both in the United
States and Cuba has doubled and in some
years trebled since 1879.
The people know that the war depart
ment sold %, 100000 pounds of sugar which
had been sent to France for 2 cents a
pound. The sugar was intended for the use
of the army The armistice and the re-
turn of the soldiers made the retention OF
it by the government unnecessary. 1t was
not returned to this country and sold on
the market, because the war department
did not want to disturb industrial condl-
tions. In sum, it was sold at cents
pound in France to prevent its sale from
bearing down the price of sugar in this
country. This is the point where the price
of sugar in this country began to advance.
1t was the place where the profteer real
lied that the last danger to his initiation of
sugar prices was removed.
While the war department was selling
Il 900 tons of sugar in France American
housewives were making repeated trips to
the stores and begging food administrators
for permits that would enable them to can
fruit for the family supply. Had the gov
eminent purchased the Cuban crop, as it
had authority to do and as the president
was urged to do, instead of letting it fall
into the hands of foreign governments
and spectators, there would be no disas-
trous sugar shortage now. There is no dis
position to be captious about the mistakes
of the government, but those who are in
part responsible for the blunders for which
the people are paying should have the mod
esty not to try to charge the sugar short
aage evil to an extravagnt taste on the part
of the victims.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
FACTS OR FLlMFLAM?

A number of eastern manufacturers of
fabrics and shoes have either closed down
their factories or are operating on reduced
time. They assign as the reasons the can
collation. and reduction in the amount of
future orders. The country has been told
for months that the basic commercial rea-
son for high prices is under production;
that manufacturers were unable to meet
the demands and that their outputs did
not reach the consumer through the chan
nel-of normal supply and demand but that
the calls were so great dealers were willing
to pay inflated prices by bidding up prices
for available supplies, But if cancellation
or reduction of orders closes down the
plants the manufacturers cannot be so far
behind actual consumption demands If
they were they could continue to operate
to fill the void in trade demands which it
is claimed now exists and has been respon-
sible for high prices in the past.
Closing the factories proves that there
is no shortage in available supplies which
are needed at present There is no reason
to believe there would be shortage in flu
ture supplies, else the manufacturers would
keep their mills in operation to meet it.
If the present supplies are sufficient to
make unnecessary the operation of the mills
to meet an actual. shortage and the cancel
lation of future orders is sufficient to stop
production to fill these future orders it is
evident that all the talk about high prices
being based on under production and grab
bling sales is fimfam, not facts The prof
iteer will have to find some other falsehooc
behind which to hide from the people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
STATE PENAL STATISTICS.

The annual report of the state prison
commission, which has just been issued,
contains interesting information concerning
the penal population of Georgia, much OF
which. no doubt, will be received by the
public with a considerable degree of sur
prise. For instance, of the $3.50 inmates
who are serving sentences for felony of
fenses 2,611 were convicted of crimes of
violence including 1,647 homicides, More
than one-third of the prisoners, 1,005 to be
exact, are serving life terms.
Another interesting fact shown by
the report is that crime as general thing,
is committed by persons young in years. Of
the 5000 inmates of the penitentiary 1000
are between the ages of 18 and 80 years.
The most surprising fact, however, is that
illiteracy among the inmates of the peni-
Tertiary is no greater than it is on the out
side. Only 10 per cent of the white and 33
per cent of the negro prisoners cannot read
or write, or are wholly illiterate. This is
contrary to a belief which has long been
prevalent that crime is mostly committed
by persons without education.
There are in the penitentary of the
state 1851 negro men, 480 white men, SO
negro women and 10 white women. This
does not include 2,025 prisoners convicted
of misdemeanor offenses and serving SEN
fences in the various county changangs. Of
these 2,025 are negro men, PAP white men,
81 negro women and % white women. The
women are all on the state farm near Mil
ledgeville.
Comparatively, the penal population of
Georgia is small but it is greater than it
was two years ago
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
"TATERs" TO BECOME FAMOUS.

Sweet potatoes have always been known
to Georgia people as one of the most sucu-
lent of all vegetables, and now it is plann-
ed to make them as famous over the coun-
try as they are at home
The state college of agriculture, the
state department of agriculture, the Vari-
GUS railroads and number of concerns
owning potato drying houses have come to-
gether in Atlanta and given a dinner where
the sweet potato occupied the spotlight
from soup to nuts Sweet potatoes were
served in all known forms, both plain and
fancy. They were boiled, baked, candied,
souffled, fried, custarded and so forth. A
number of more or less notables were seat
ed around the board, and made speeches
extolling the virtues of the Georgia yam
After the dinner, which was merely the
starting point of the potato propaganda,
there was launched campaign to take the
fame of the sweet potato into the dining
rooms of the leading hotels Of the north
and east.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
OFFENDED THE SOUTH,

Whatever chance, if any, the republicans
had to make inroads upon the solid south
in the Forthcoming presidential election
went glimmering when the recent national
convention of that party accepted negro
politician of Atlanta, as Georgas repre-
sentative on the republican national com
mittee.
Many claimed, and it seemed, not en-
thely without reason, that the republican
outlook in the south was brighter than at
any time since the civil war. Of course this
pastime of threatening to vote the republi-
can ticket is more or less common in the
south in presidential years, but this time
there was back of it much dissatisfaction
with certain phases of democratic leader
ship at Washington which in all probability
would have resulted in a larger republican
vote than usual.
Of course, no democrat is going to shed
tears because the republican party has
thrown away any chance it may have had
to make inroads on the south and complete
ly destroyed an opportunity that had been
slowly developing for fifty years by the
pronouncement at Chicago that southern
white men who come into that party will
have to acknowledge the political equality
of the colored brother. And they capped
it off by making an Atlanta negro politician
of the noisy and assertve kind the national
committeeman for Georgia.
The News predicts that Georgia will poll
a larger democratic vote in the presidential
election next fall that it has in many years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
Now w mt to Regulate" Syrup.
From the cambridge Post-searchIight.

The government will now try to regulate
shipments of syrup because of the fact that
liquor is made out of it. If they continue
to try and NEEDLE with every business on
earth because there are a few moonshiners
they will make the law so unpopular that
the people will have to get rid Of it entirely
to transact business. Every business in the
country can not be hacked and torn up just
because a few men will violate the liquor
law. Might as well bar commerce because
there are few thieves who will steal mer-
chandise The prohibition law as passed by
congress does not say anything about the
manufacture and selling of syrup, and SIM
ply because it can be made into liquor no
department has the right to outlaw its COM
mercia marketing. If every branch of our
commercial life is to be subject to espionage
and regulations by departmental rule be
cause of the liquor violators that law will
get to be such a burden on the people that
they will have to get rid of it. The next
step will be the meddling with the market
ing of fruit because brandy can be made
out of that Get the moonshiner and quit
dogging the law-abiding man because of his
existence is the only policy that will get re-
suits.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
LITTLE GOVERNMENT CLERKS ARE
HARRASSING THE BUSINESS MAN

From the cambridge Post-Searchlight.
The papers are full of the admonition
"don't sell your liberty bonds" which is
good advice and all right, but how are you
going to keep from it when the same gov
eminent will let the profteers wiring them
out of you. If the government will get rid
of about 10000 useless clerks in Washing
ton that have nothing to do but worry busy
men all over the union with their nasty lit
tie old red tape we could keep from selling
our liberty bonds, maybe. There is moth
ing more disgusting than to fill out gov
eminent blank and then have some silly lit
tie government clerk who gets about $25
week throw his eye on it and work two
hours trying to find some fault with cit so
he can send it back and appear smart. The
officials ought to know that such rot as that
is what tends toward bolshevikism.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
Millions for Good Roads.
From the McDonough Weekly

Thirty-seven states in this country have
authorized the expenditure of $685., 641 1923
for good roads in the next five years.
Legislation to authorige good roads bond
issues amounting to $685. ,253,8O0 is pending
with excellent chances of being passed.
Statistics compiled by C. H. Wood, in
charge of the newly created good roads
bureau of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Com
pany, show that the total amount proposed
and authorized for road improvement in the
United States is $1,O26, S95,529.
The widespread interest manifested in
better roads is shown by comparison of the
above totals with those of 1918, when 6O0,-
100000 was spent for road construction
throughout the country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
A JOB NEARER HOME.
kansas CitV Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
If the United States is looking for
ountry that needs help to settle down to
orderly progress there is one much closer
than Armenia. Suppose this government
should do the same thing for Mexico that
it did for Cuba. 1t wouldn't be so spectac-
ular, to be sure, as going thousands of
miles from home to Armenia. 1t wouldn't
involve so much risk of becoming embroiled
in old world controversies. Bnt it could
certainly be as useful a lob.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
ABSENCE VERY NOTICEABLE THERE

From the Atlanta Journal.
The bunch at Washington frequent
ly tells US that thrift and hard work
by the people will settle all difficulties
in this country. Yes, and we also need
some thrift and hard work and brains
at Washington.-Daw News
Evidently Editor Rainey is of the opin-
ion that any rule applicable in Georgia is
not entirely out of order in Washington.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22

One of the associated powers came out
of the conflict with 100000 additional
square miles of territory. The United
States got protectorate over the island of
zap and is offered a mandatory for Ar
menia. But that's all right This govern
ment furnished the altruism and the others
got the spoils.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22

When plumbers strike because they are
refused an increase from twelve to four
teen dollars a day the public is convinced
that all the profteers are not selling goods.
A strike on this ground occurred in Texas
last week Millions of good men are not
making half that much.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22

United States Senator Robert L. Owens,
of Cherokee Indian descent, aspires to the
presidency. Should the fates decree in his
behalf the ancient people of America will
be indicated in their ruling traditions on
this soil All races possess the germ Of
leadership. Crossed and blended with white
ancestry the Oklahoma lawmaker may typi-
fly the ultimate Towering of the Indian
spirit to lead.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22

1t is time to call halt on the activities
of radicals, whether in high government
places, the parlors of high society people
or the common everyday socialist. If the
people do not conquer this evil it will soon
conquer them Make no mistake about it,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22

The regular steamer has left Chicago on
its quadrennial trip up Salt river, and will
stop at San Francisco next week to take
on more passengers 1t is carrying an ex-
cessively large list this year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
YEA, VERIFY.

From the Richland News.
Sixteen cent newsprint paper, thirty cent
sugar, thirty-four cent gasoline and forty
cent meat make "thirty cent editor"
scratch his head and wonder where we are
drifting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22

The cut price sales to reduce the high
cost of living have gone to way of the
overall craze.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22

A woman's idea of having thing well
done is to get some man other than hsr
husband to do it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22

In 1916 carload of paper such as The
News is printed on cost about $1,400. In
1920 a car load of the same paper costs
$780, That is one of the reasons why
so few newspapers will pay income tax.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22

Several thousand government clerks are
to be let out of the service July list be-
cause congress failed to appropriate money
to pay them There will be lots of jobs
on the farms, though.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22
HANDICAPPED.

From the Minneapolis Journal.
The poor farmer cannot do much in the
fields this year. with his limousine reposing
in a freight car lost in jam in some con-
gested city terminal
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-22

1t is we'll enough to speak of America as
the savior of the world, but America should
beware that it is not made the goat OF
the world instead.