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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
TO RETAIN POWER
WILSON VETOES BILL
PRESIDENT RETURNS LEGISLA-
TIVE AND EXECUTIVE BILL
WITHOUT HIS APPROVAL.

Observation-Disclosures Will
son today vetoed the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial appropriation
bill. The president said he return
ed the bill because of the section put
ting under congressional control all
government publications.
In his veto message to the house
the president declared the effect OF
the provision would establish a CEN
sorship and be an encroachment up
on the executive power.
The subject of public printing has
been a sore spot. Senator Smoot
recently charged enormous duplica-
ton and waste, particularly in con-
nection with the committee on pub
lie information, an institution of the
presidents own creation. Smoot as
serted, as well, that league of ma
lions propaganda was being circulat-
ed through government periodicals.
The president for similar reasons
objects also to resolution prohibit
ing donation Of more than fifty cop
les of any publication to an individ-
ual without consent of a ocngression-
al committee.
This measure carries the annual
appropriations for the legislative, ex~
ecutive and judicial branches of the
and its repassage by
congress will be necessary. The to-
tai carried by the bill is $104,000,-
000
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
LEAGUES EXPENSES
TO July Sl,2@,OOO
ABOUT $4s5,o OF THE BUDGET
GOES FOR SALARIES. UNITED
STATES ASSESSED $4,000.

WASHINGTON.-The budget of
expenses of the league of nations
from its organization up to July will
otal approximately $1,25O,OOO; The
igures will be presented to the league
council at its meeting in Rome.
Among the items are: Salaries
s485,O00; international labor office
S29O,OOO, and the commission of IN
luiry to Russia, $105,00o.
The council will also have before
it a computation of the ALLEGATION, OF
this expenditure to the member
states, in conformity with rules OF
the universal postal union, as lald
down in the covenant.
On the strict application of the
postal union plan eleven countries,
including the United States, would
be rated as first class, and liable TO
an assessment of twenty-five units
In dealing with budget of 1,0OO,-
900 this would approximate 81,00o
for each state of this class, while
for the states of the lowest, or sew
enth class liable for one units, the
expense would be something like
81, 900.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
GRAVE REGISTRATION
SERVICE CLEARS LIST
ALL BUT 2 PER CENT OF SOL
DIERS KILLED OVERSEAS
ARE IDENTIFIED.

WASHINGTON. - Among more
than $4,000 burials of American SOL
der dead in Europe, the graves reg
istration service has reduced to 2
per cent the number of cases in
which Identification is incomplete,
and this number will be still further
reduced by the checking up of all
procurable evidence at the European
headquarters, Ralph Hayes, private
secretary of Secretary Baker, today
reported to Chairman Porter of the
house foreign affairs committee.
Hayes has just returned from
France, where he was acting as per-
sonal representative of Secretary
Baker in connection with matters
looming before the graves registra-
ton service.
"The removal of the bodies re-
quested by the next of kin has been
in the French zone of the interior, y
Hayes reported Excavations are
being made at present through The
port of Brest. st. Naxaire and sever
al additional points will be opened
within the next two months. The
return of remains has begun from
England, also, with Southampton as
the shipping point. Liverpool will
later be utilized. The return from
Germany probably will begin before
the end of this month. BY an agree
ment, removals from the former bat
tie area, the Franch zone of opera
tons may begin in mid-September OF
this year"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
Chicago Plans Hotel to Cost
Fifteen Million; A, 900 Rooms
Worlds Greatest VIII Have Peacock Alley Three Blocks
Long, Bath Houses de Luxe, Theaters Bachelors
Quarters. and Flats Without Cooking

north will have nothing but house
keeping apartments of from five
to twelve rooms.
Each unit will have its own res
taurants and grills. Even the sec
ton with regulation housekeeping
apartments will have small cafe.
The theater will be furnished with
Japanese sliding roof sections for
summer. Musical comedy will be
given during the warm months, with
possibility of it developing into an
house.
Bath House De Luxe.
Between the theater and the lake
will be ''the bath of Rome" which
it is claimed will be the finest equip
ped bath establishment in America.
To the south of these buildings
win be the tennis courts, a largo
outdoor swimming pool and small,
ultra high-class restaurant And
then, for the person whose bank bal
ance and inclination calls loudly for
absolutely the highest price in every
thing, there'll be "Villa Marguerite"
The rock-bottom charge will be
SIS, and from that it will soar to I'M
believable attitudes.
Elaborate plans for the beautifi-
cation and improvement of the en-
tire water front are being made, with
provision for both swimming and
boating.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
Men In United States Hold Voting
Supremacy Over Women by 100000

ton, that of 1916, the actual num-
Der of votes cast for all presidential
candidates was 18,528,734, emitting
ballots thrown out for cause.
Eagerness of women to exercise
their newly acquired privilege may
more than Offset disparity in numbers
between sex when allowance is made
for the 100000 votes that re-
NAMED unregistered in the last cleo
ton, due mostly to indifference.
Women of voting age outnumber
the men in five states. Massachu-
sets has the greatest preponderance
of women voters, with 58,264 more
women than men. North Carolina
is next with women's majority of
1928, and South Carolina with 49,
307, is third. In Rhode Island wo-
men of voting age outnumber the
men by 3,196, and in Maryland by
1922.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
LEE and JACKSON
;p.,, NOT U. S. HEROES?
EXCLUSION OF y. MES FROM
MEMORIAL AT ARLINGTON
PROTESTED BY SOUTH.

WASHINGTON.-Strong protests
have been made by officers of Wash
ington Confederate organizations to
members of congress and to Secre-
tary Daniels and Baker against the
exclusion of Lee and Jackson from
the list of American heroes carved
on the marble columns of the memo
rial amphitheater in Arlington ma
tional cemetery. 1t was authorized
bv congress to commemorate Amerl-
can heroes.
The Confederate organizations
claim that at meeting of the COM
mittee appointed to handle the pro-
ject at which the only Confederate
member, Captain Frederick Beall,
was absent on account of illness, a
resolution was put and carried to
exclude the names of all Confeder-
ate officers from the list. According
to these reports, Secretary Baker
presided over this meeting and Sec
rotary Daniels was also present. At
tempts, it is said, were made to re-
open the matter in committee, but
without success.
Men and women belonging to Con-
federate organizations here say that
the sons and grandsons of the men
who followed Lee and Jackson and
Grant and Sheridan gave their lives
side by side in the great world war,
and that the permanent exclusion OF
the names of Lee and Jackson from
the amphitheater will make it i'm
possible for Confederate veterans to
hold memorial exercises there in the
future or for them or their sympa-
thizers to attend the dedicatory exer-
cises.
Unfortunate, Indeed.
This situation is considered most
unfortunate, especially just at a
time when all sectional lines are be-
ing wiped out and a friendly spirit
of broad patriotism manifested over
the country generally.
This incident recalls the fact that
like ten years ago an Ida
no senator objected to the placing
of the bronze figure of General Lee
in Statuary Hall at the capitol by
the state of Virginia. Whenever the
name of Lee was mentioned this SEN
ator became angry and harangued
against the south and the Confed-
eracy. Finally the state of Virgin
ia said that unless Lee could go IN
the hall, George Washington should
go out and that ended the matter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
NATIONAL REFERENDUM
TAKEN BY FARMER
FIRST OF ITS KIND RELATES
TO BILL THAT is NOW BE-
FORE CONGRESS.

CHICAGO.-The first national
referendum of farmers to be taken
in this country, and possibly in the
world has just been completed, }: A
Howard, president of the American
farm bureau federation, announced
on Saturday.
The referendum related to federal
taxation and had to do with bill
introduced in congress in which the
farmers felt they were especially
concerned, said Mr.. Howard. Until
the results of the referendum can
to nut into shape to make public
he had no further information to
give out.
A second referendum is soon to
be taken among farmers, Mr.. How
ard said. This will deal with feder-
al highway legislation.
I'm undertaking. these inquiries,
the American farm bureau fedora
ton is carrying out one of the OBJ
iects for which it was established,
he said "These were to get the
farmers together on business basis,
and to serve as the formers mouth
piece on public questions"
Mr.. Howard said that the Amerl-
can farm bureau federation had a
of more than 100000,
that thirty states were organized,
and that its first years budget was
100000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
Cupid Careful
Ignores White Collar Brigade
For Factory and Mill Men
and Chauffeurs.
INDIANAPOLIS.

INDIANAPOLIS. - Cupid's
dart fell wide of the mark when
aimed at the fellow who wears
white collars to work.
The white collar man is not
walking to the matrimonial al
tar, according to Miss Margaret
Mahoney, marriage license clerk.
1t is the man who works at
the factory, the mill and the
farm, the automobile mechanic,
the railroader, the ship man and
the chauffeur who works up
enough courage to take unto
himself a wife during these days
of high costs, Miss Mahoney
said.
License applications show that
a greater number of bridegrooms
between the ages of 10 and 25
and their occupations generally
listed as mechanics, farmers and
from other branches of labor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
$1,000 INDIANS HAVE
BEEN MADE CITIZENS

Making Rapid STRIDES Toward HIgn-
err Standards. There Are Now
100000 In United States.
WASHINGTON. = Twenty-seven
thousand Indians have been admit
ted to full citizenship since 1918.
Cato Sells, United States commits
sioner of Indian affairs, said today.
The Indians are making rapid
strides as a race toward high STAN
dards of civilization, according to
Sells.
Their population now totals about
100000 including citizens. Most
live on reservations as wards of the
which, through the bu-
reau of Indian affairs, guides them
in the management of their proven
ty and their general business affairs.
Citizen Indians, however, have full
control of their own business.
About 225,000 allotments of land
have been made to Indians in three
years. During the same period COM
plete title has been granted to 956
cases.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
PARTY ATTACKED
BY WHITE CANNIBALS
DISCHARGE OF FIRE ARMS FAIL
TO BRIGHTEN SAGES, WHO
WERE LARGE AND FIERCE.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The exploring
party headed by DR.. Alexander Ham
ilton Rice, which clashed last Feb
ruary near the banks of the Orinoco
with giant cannibals. returned here
today from PARA on the steamer
Alban.
While exploring an unnamed trib-
utary of the Orinoco, DR.. Rice's par
ty was attacked by wild Indians. The
discharge of firearms failed to scare
off these -savages, who were descrlb-
ed as being large and very fierce.
The explorers only escaped, it was
said, by firing into the savages, kill
ing either two or three. The party
on the advice of guides then turned
back.
Mrs. Rice was not with her hus-
band on this particular occasion.
"The cannibals who attacked the
party were almost white in color, !"
Prof. Rice said. SIN all my years in
the tropical jungles / have never
seen such ferocious looking savages.
Nearly all were armed with bows
and arrows and carried spears and
blow guns. These men were more
than six feet tall and | recognized
them as cannibals of the Guaribos
tribe, a mountain legion considered
the most ferocious of all the savages
in either Venezuela, Columbia or
Brazil.
The professor declared he believed
it was the first time that the can
nibals were met by white men since
1853, when a Spanish exploring ex-
petition discovered them. Twenty
minutes after the Rice party met the
savages, he added, everything was
packed up and the return trip to
Esmeralda begun.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
WAR IS BEGUN ON
THE PECAN WEEVIL
IN PROGRESS IN
GEORGIA AND MISSISSIPPI.
OTHER INSECTS STUDIED.

WASHINGTON United States
department of agriculture reports
plans completed and work already
under Wav in southern localities for
extensive experimental work in the
control of insects affecting orchards,
vineyards, nuts and the like. Inves-
LEGATIONS of pecan insects will be
concentrated at the Texas labora-
tory. now located at Brentwood
Particular attention will be given to
perfecting remedies for the pecan
weevil, the pecan nut case borer,
and related pests.
Work with pecan insects is under
way in Mississippi and Georgia,
wherd further experiments are IN
progress in determining the compar-
ative merits of spraying and busting.
Life-history studies of the codling
moth are being continued in Della
ware. the Yakima valley in Wash
ington, the Rogue river valley IN
Oregon, and at a new laboratory IN
north Georgia.
The laboratory at Fresno, Cal, is
devoting attention to the grape meal
bug, which in recent years has be-
come troublesome pest of grapes.
AT the laboratory at Sandusky, Ohio,
experiments and demonstrations are
being made in control of the grape,
berry moth and other grape pests Of
the region.
| At the laboratories in Washington
additional studies of insecticide!
have been begun, including the study
of the insecticidal constituents OF
plants. Group studies are under way
OF the arsenicals and mineral oils
sulphur compounds, and Other
groups.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
In Only Four States, Massa-
chusetts, The Carolinas and
r. /. Women Rule.

Ballots cast by women in the COM
ing presidential election will fall
short of the potential mems vote by
more than 100000, provided the
suffrage amendment is ratified in
time to permit women to register in
all states, according to statistics
compiled by a group of suffragists
in Washington.
Taking the census of 1910 as a
basis, there are approximately 30
100000 possible women voters in the
United States. This leaves a differ
enca of 2,50O,0OO in favor Of r1en
voters. In the last presidential eec-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18

CHICAGO.-ChicagO is to have
the worlds greatest hotel, to cost
100000 and comprise 1000
rooms. This will mean a hostclry
larger than the combined Pennsyl-
vania and Commodore hotels of New
York, at present the worlds biggest.
1t will front three blocks on Sher-
idan road and the same distance on
the lake. The present 500-room
Edgewater Beach hotel will be one
unit in the new hotel, which will be
called the Greater Edgewater Beach.
A feature of the big project will
be theater with $500 seats, which
it is understood will be leased by the
'syr dictate" and managed by Harry
j. Powers.
Plan Peacock Alley"
Five units will make up the Great
er Edgewater Beach, all similar in
to the present hotel and
all about the same size with the ex-
cepticn of the middle building,
which will climb to sixteen stories.
1t will be practically one enormous
building, for the units will be con-
nected with elaborate corridors,
forming a magnificent peacock al
ley" three blocks long.
Practically every type of hotel life
will be available.
The sixteen-story central unit will
be Bachelors hall. It will be devot-
ed entirely to men and it is claimed
will be the most luxurious mems no
tel in the world There will be a.
pool for winter, gym
nasium, library, reading rooms and
all the comforts of an athletic club.
But Nc Kitchens.
Just north of Bachelors hall will
be a section devoted to four six-room
where no kitchens will
be allowed. The last unit to the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
HOOVER PUTS SUGAR
FAMINE ON WILSON
COULD HAVE BOUGHT CUBAN
CROP At So CENTS PER
POUND LAST YEAR.

WASHINGTON Declaring that
the American people were subject to
unparalleled speculation and profit
eering" in sugar, Herbert C. Hoover,
former food administrator, in a tele-
gram to Senator Arthur Capper, Kan
sas, blamed the national administra-
tion for the high price of sugar.
Mr.. Hoover said that if the admin
istration had bought the Cuban SUI
gar crop when it was offered last
year at 6 Y cents pound the Amer
lean consumer would now be getting
plenty of sugar at II cents. AS
conditions are, he said, every family
is paying an additional $50 a year
as a tax on it's sugar supply. He
said if the Cuban crop had been
bought last autumn the country would
have had all the sugar it needed and
have saved $1,000,000,000 in the cost
of it.
Hoover's Telegram.
Mr.. Hoover's telegram was in re-
Spouse to a request from Senator
Capper for suggestions concerning
the sugar situation 1t reads in part:
"The present sugar position is due
simply to bad business adn1inistra-
ton. Last September the admins
tration could have bought the Cuban
sugar crop at 6 IL cents per pound fol
raw sugar. This would have giver
II cent sugar to our consumers. A:
the result of failure to act in thi!
matter we are participating in the
world shortage of sugar, due to de-
creased European production, and
are subject to unparalleled specula
ton and profiteering. The increase
in price is imposing an additional tax
on our people of about, $50 per fam
i lily per annum.'
Mr.. Hoover gave his compliments
to the administration with a free
hand. He pointed out that the sugar
equalization board and he personally
recommended the Cuban purchase.
Then he turned to Attorney
General Palmer and observed
that "this situation cannot be rene
died by the attorney generals con-
ception that forces Of this character
can be handled by putting a few peo-
pie in jail"
1t was observed that Mr. Hoover
| is seemingly getting ready to tell a
lot of interesting and important
things that heretofore he has held
back. Senator Capper's letter caus-
ed a sensation at the capitol.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
BIG POLITICIANS ARE
PLAYING FOR POSITION
IN BOTH PARTIES ARE
NOW BUSY LAYING PRE-CON-
VENTION WIRES.

NEW Political covenants
politically arrived at will occupy most
of the attention of leaders in both
parties between now and their re-
spective national conventions.
In the republican field approx
mately 500 of the 984 delegates to
the convention have been elected or
selected, with the unquestioned fig
ures giving 115 instructed for Wood,
90 for Johnson, 70 for Lowden, IA
for Poindexter, 80 for Harding, SO
contested and 1884 uninstructed
The democratic situation is SINH
larly divided, with Governor Cox of
Ohio leading the instructed field but
with McAdoo the strongest poten-
TALLY.
Boom for Marshall
In both parties the convention ma
neuvering is under way, that in the
republican party being addressed to
selecting a nominee sufficiently pro-
gressive to satisfy the Johnson wing,
and that in the democratic party hav-
ing as its objective the selection of
nominee that will appeal to the
conservative vote of the country, as
well as the so-called liberal vote it
has commanded recently
The big aim of the old regulars in
the republican party is to prevent the
nomination either of Wood or john
son. They have advanced as their
leading dark horse for this group
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania. A
corresponding element in the demo-
cratic party aims to prevent the nom
ination either of President Wilson or
w. G. McAdoo. And this element
has suddenly developed a boom for
Vice President Marshall.
Trend Is Conservative.
Marshall has openly espoused the
purpose of his democratic followers
to get the party back on more con-
sentative basis. He will head the In
diana delegation to San Francisco and
that delegation will be composed for
the most part of conservative busi-
ness men of established means.
The Marshall boom has also re-
lceived considerable initiation through
the efforts of New York democrats
And he may prove the rallying CEN
ter for those state democratic dele
cations which already have announc-
ed their purpose to oppose any reso-
luton for a league of nations, such
as President Wilson has indicated
must be accepted without other
than merely interpretative reserva-
tions.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
GOVERNMENT SEEKS
KITTY OF S4O,OOO,OOO
TAX ON BILLION WON AT POKER
IN 1919 is DUE u. S. COZ
FERS. CAN'T COLLECT.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
S1,0OO,OOO,000 changed hands in
1919 as a result of the nationwide
orgy of poker and other gambling
games INDUCED in by the male of
the species (and female, too), it was
indicated here today by government
reports.
Winners of this sum should have
paid Approximately S40,000,000 to
the government as income taxes. But
so far as the 1919 income tax re-
ports show, taxes paid on poker win
nings were practically nil.
How to obtain this prize at a time
when the federal treasury needs
every dollar it can collect now, is
!puzzling internal revenue bureau
agents. The agents eften work at
the problem in their spare time. The
problem presents an opportunity for
large public service on the part of
any citizen who can devise practl-
cal means of collecting the money,
it is recognized.
Of the authority of the govern
ment to collect the tax there is no
question. Daniel C. Roer, former
commissioner of the internal reve-
nue. bureau, months ago ruled that
gambling winnings are taxable like
any other income.
Under this ruling the government
has a drag" equal to per cent of
the "kitty'' of every little friendly
game anywhere in the United States.
Internal revenue bureau officials
say they are morally certain thou
sands of "kitties" must be calling to
them every night throughout the
country. But somehow their voices
turns are made.
It has been proposed that the
United States be circularized in the
hope that whenever a group of men
Cor women) sit down to friendly
little game they agree beforehand
to set aside four per cent from each
pot to be turned over to the govern
ment. This sum then could be for
warded to the government anony-
mously, it is pointed out. The sug-
gestion, so far, however, has not met
with the approval of the bureau.
Officials are still flogging their
brains to devise a practical means of
collecting the tax. And evidence is
piling up daily that card games and
gambling games are being INDUCED
in more and more throughout the
country.
Sales of cards have nearly doubl-
ed, according to revenue bureau re-
ports. In February taxes alone on
sales of packs of playing cards to-
tailed S252,068.20, or an increase of
S75,146.67 over the same month of
1919. These and other returns on
card pack sales indicate players an
nually buy about 35,000,000 packs.
This means an expense of nearly
S5O.OO0,O00 year just for the in
struments with which the card games
can be conducted.
The governments revenue from
the sale of playing cards now
amounts to nearly 100000 year. |
But this is a mere bagatelle i'll the
dreams of ambitious agents anxious
to win the great prize of four per
cent of the national ''kitty." |
"Kitty, kitty, kitty, y call the |
dreamers, "kitty, kitty; nice kitty"
But the ''kitty" doesn't hear.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
TO BREAK GRIP OF
HIGH COST. OF LIVING
Nfeater New York Store Announces
Sweeping Cut. All Goods 20
Per Cent Of.

NEW YORK.-One of New York's
'4lgest department stores inserted
advertisements in today's newspaper
announcing that it would "attempt to
OTeak the back bone of the high
Prices by offering its stock, valu-
90 90 at S20,000,000, at a reduction of
~ per cent. The only goods exclud-
"a will be about $4,000 worth of
%,efchandise purchased under price
StJrIctions which cannot be "hon-
Usoly changed"
o.. The only motive in making this
SSyperal reduction" said the adver-
d~nSaAent, sis conscientious sense of
m ra,I' and by the reports of govern
s+i IIt Investigators that prices are
VIII on the upward trend.