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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06
To Make Synthetic Ammonia

The worldwide interest in the produc- tion of nitrates, necessary for fertilizers and explosives, finds expression in Great Britain in the plan to construct imme- diately, at West Cumberland an enor- moLs plant for the manufacture of sym thetic ammonia from nitrogen and hydro gen, reports Popular Mechanics Maga- zine A new French process will be used, peculiar for it's operation at some 15,OoO-lo. pressure, whereas the American and German processes use only 2,500 pounds or IaSQ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06

The adventures of real girl who boarding school and wanted to be thought wicked"
 She tried hard be tough she boarding school chaperons the slip she posed "RUNED" woman and shocked her home folks.
 But she couldn't get away with the VAMP stuff. Her "ame she kid and she learns that straw- berry soda" is better than champagne.
 "The Flapper delightful comedy drama Just the hce for Olive Thomas It is cleverly written with many amusing situations.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26

From the Publishers Auxiliary.

Print paper is selling at high price, and
it is going to continue to sell at high price.
Labor is selling at a high price, and it
is going to continue to sell at high price.
All men engaged in the mechanical depart
ments of a newspaper are today receiving
from 80 to 100 per cent more in wages than
they did three or four years ago, and while
conditions of the future may bring that
price down to a small extent it will not
come down to anything like it was three or
four years ago.
Everything that enters into the making
Of a newspaper, or any other product of
printing office, has increased in price III the
same proportion that is true Of print paper
and labor, and these prices are going to
stay up.
1t is time that every man engaged in the
newspaper business or any other form OF
the printing or publishing business realized
these facts. Those who do not do so are go
ing to the wall, and sheriff's notice will
be posted on the door.
The day of the 10 cents week daily, or
the 81 or $3.50 year weekly, is over; and
if the publishers of such papers do not know
that they cannot continue such prices they
had better get out of the business, and so
save what they can of their investments.
The day of 10 and Is cents an inch ad-
vertising is over, and will never return. The
cost of setting the type from which the
advertising is printed, IHe COSG VI IuS lin
the cost of the power supply, and the cost
of every other item that enters into the
service to the advertiser has doubled or
more than doubled. If the publisher does
not realize these things he is going. to- find
himself out of business by the bankruptcy
route
The time worn wall that "the public will
not pay more is out of date and of no con-
sequence. The public simply must pay more
if the newspaper is to continue at all, and
no apologies for an increase are needed.
Thousands of red-blooded, clear-eyed
publishers have not hestitated to meet eX-
listing cost conditions, and have made their
prices in proportion to present day costs.
These publishers are still in business They
are in no danger of visit from the sheriff.
But there are hundreds of publishers who
are afraid to meet the conditions as they
exist. Hundreds of them are watching their
plants depreciate, their savings of precious
years dwindle, their credit going by the
board They are anxiously waiting for that
change in conditions that is to bring prices
back to what they were few years ago,
instead Of accepting conditions as they are
and meeting them on a business basis.
1t is time such publishers awakened to
their own conditions. 1t is time they took
an inventory of their business 1t is time
they believed in their business. If they do
not do these things and do them quickly,
they will find themselves on the rocks of
financial disaster.
The time to act is now, and the act does
not call for any apology.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
ANOTHER LANDMARK GONE.

Another landmark has been sacrificed in
the name of progress and to meet the de-
mands of modern times. The magnificent
old oak which stood directly in front of the
Dawson Inn has been cut down, root and
branch, made necessary by the paving of
Main street. 1t was one of the few trees
left from the original forest that years ago
covered this section before there was
Terrell county or a Dawson, and it is easy
to imagine that the Red Man often found
shelter beneath its friendly branches
There was a feeling of real sorrow over
the loss of this beautiful and majestic old
oak tree. Everytime fine shade tree is
taken down in Dawson the question arises:
Is it necessary? We know that in some
cities it would be considered nothing less
than a crime.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM

Tax collections by the federal govern
ment for the last fiscal year reached the as
founding sum of S5,4O8, O75,468, according
to the internal revenue department. This
is billion and half more than was paid
into the national treasury in any previous
year. Yet, it has been only few short years
isince we looked askance at our first billion
;dollar congress
The one outstanding feature of this years
tax report is that incomes and excess profits
yielded about rs per cent of the entire
amount. Not so very long ago liquor taxes
Welded about one-half the national reve-
nue.; last year they yielded but three and
six tenths per cent of the total, falling from
.S485, 100000 to $140,000,000 as the result
of prohibition. With liquor receipts OWN
ding in this manner and incomes and eX-
cess profits now the main reliance of the
national treasury it is evident that few peo-
pie are financing the national government.
Where liquor taxes came from millions in
come and profit taxes come from thousands.
Taxes on tobacco, transportation and thea
tire admissions still are paid by the millions,
it is true but these sources yield but thir-
teen per cent of the total.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY.

The official announcement of the national
census, showing a population of 1O5,683,-
1O8, had been so frequently foreshadowed
in preliminary calculations that it occasion
ed no surprise. The numerical increase
shown is 13,71O,OOO as compared with 49,
$4,000 ten years ago, and the rate of gain
is but Is per cent as against 81 per cent
in 1910. While the loss suffered in the
world war played its part in these iessened
figures the main reason is the five-year halt
in immigration caused by the great struggle
in Europe What we have lost in quantity,
however, we have gained in quality. We
had 100000 fewer Europeans to assimi-
late. and, therefore, the standard of real
Americanism should be that much higher,
for the number of American born among
the 13,710,00O increase is that much great
er The United States faces the task of as
Stimulating between million and million
and half of foreign born each year, by
no means an easy accomplishment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
A GOOD MAN PASSES.

When Editor Joseph N. (Joe) Stanford,
of the Cuthbert Liberal Enterprise, crossed
the great divide many hearts were filled with
sadness. He was publishing newspaper
when the editor of The News came to South
west Georgia, and for many years we es-
teemed him as a friend and admired him
for his splendid traits of character He did
not amass much of this worlds goods, but
his heart was of gold. Being of kindly,
friendly disposition he always, no matter
how heavy the load or dark the clouds, had
a smile and cheer for his friends and fell
low workers. He was in the newspaper bus
mess more than half century, and did not
leave an enemy behind him when he passed
on Peace to his ashes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN!
From Alabama Farm Facts.

The public must not forget that the pro-
duction costs of cotton, wheat, corn hogs
and cattle which the farmer has on hand at
this time were fixed by the conditions of
the past and that he cannot accept losses
running into the hundreds of millions with
out a shock to agriculture from which it
will not soon recover. If in the face of such
conditions and as a matter of self-preserva-
ton the farmer permits his fields to lie idle
and his feed lots to become still more empty
the people will be compelled to pay dearly
for the blind folly of those who are trying
to cure in the space of few short months
conditions which began forming with the
beginning of the great war. The farmers
costs of production are going up rather than
down at this moment. Within recent weeks
the railway employees received an increase
ir wages amounting to $500, 100000, the
express handlers an increase of 100000, 900,
the coal miners increases estimated in some
quarters at 100000, 900 while the carriers
have been promised increased rates equal
to 81 100000 900 In very large part these
added hundreds of millions must come out
of the farmers pockets. If, therefore, in the
face of these conditions which are perhaps
the gravest that have ever confronted Amer
lean agriculture the farmers asks for the
same kind of Square deaP' which is so
freely vouchsafed to organized industry and
labor he is not only pleading his own cause
but the cause of 105,000,000 people who
must look to him for food and rament.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
Keep the Money at Home.
From the .Moultrie Observer.

Keep the money at home. 1t was always
sound policy, but there is greater neces-
sity for it now than in ordinary times Mon
ey is scarce and is needed in every city and
county in the United States We will need
every dollar we can muster to keep business
going and to support agricultural interests
Keep the money in channels that will carry
it through the local banks each week. When
you send check away for something that
could be bought at home you are diverting
capital that you will soon need again. If
every man and woman should adopt the
practice of sending money away it will
amount to a large sum in the end, and it
will greatly curtail the operating capital of
the community on which we are all subsist-
ing. Think twice before you send the money
off to stores in other cities and to mail or
der houses. Trade with your neighbor, and
your neighbor will in turn trade with you.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
BY ROCKET TO THE MOON.

When Professor Goddard began some time
ago to make his moon rocket" he was rid-
culed, and his idea of reaching Luna with
that sort of highflier was both sneered and
laughed at as the chimera of another Darius
Green But the professor sat tight, said
nothing and kept on at work at his filler.
His rocket is to go up within month, un-
less it should prove to be deficient in some
part of its construction. 1t will not be a Sc
rious attempt to jump over or even up to
the moon. The intention of the inventor is to
only go part of the journey this time. La
ter on we shall see what we shall see.
If Professor Goddard comes within two
jumps of reaching the moon in his first trial
and can find a resting place to make furth-
er preparations he may make the whole dis
lance in another two jumps!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
Federal Reserve Board Pound
ing the Life Out OF Cotton.
From the Waco (Texas) Herald.

The federal reserve system is wrong in
principle, and therefore is bound to be con-
tinuously irritating to all lines of business.
1t was at the very point of collapse in Ger
many at the tune we took 1T up and IS sought
violation of Gresham's law and that's one
possible explanation of why it has inaugu-
rated its policy of defation. We will have
no peace until we adopt a proper banking
and currency system. But even though we
go on with this present system, wrong in
principle, we ought at east democratize it.
Each zone should choose its own board of
directors, and all the zones should choose
the central board, if central board is
deemed necessary. Banks" said the dem
ocratic PLATFORM of 1912, "exist for the
the control of business" The federal re-
serve board has turned that motto to the
wall and is pounding the life out of the cot
ton industry.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
Cussed into Office.
From the Bainbridge Post-Searchlisht

Hardwick is governor-Watson is sena-
tor, and everybody that was against them
did all in their power they could to beat
them and could not do it. The clear major
ity of the white voters of the state are for
them and it is the duty of every good white
man who went into that primary to support
them at the general election and then sup
port them in the administration of the Jobs
until they prove bad workmen. If the ele-
ment though that has fought them is too
little or narrow-minded to be willing to give
them a show to make good they will have
trouble in making good. A good sport takes
licking and will aid the winner and help
him make good for the good of the state,
but rotter will howl and criticise regard
less of whatever effort they make They
have both been cussed literally into the
governors chair and the senate, and if that
cussing continues they will be cussed into
permanent power. Mark this prediction. If
you want to get rid of them, let everybody
get behind them and help them to make
good and if they do you don't want to get
rid of them, but if everybody helps and
they fall down you can get rid of them
easily. A poor officer will show up quicker
with a chance than he will without one
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
Canning Plant Troubles.
From the Triton Gazette.

The canning plant at Dawson, established
four years ago and for a time apparently
doing thriving business, has been sold I'M
der a mortgage fl ia. Large canning plants
in this section have an unfavorable history.
Triton was the first town to embark in the
business extensively in this territory near
ly thirty years ago. The venture was almost
a total loss. The trouble appears to be that
people who grow truck here have not been
educated up to growing it at canning fac
tory prices. They prefer to ship it away,
with great expectations, and eventually give
it to the transportation companies and COM
mission men
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
WOMEN TORCH BEARERS.

From the Boston Post.
The presidential campaign will introduce
men to bear torches in political parade.
What an evolution from the knitting needle
and the pantry to night flares and martial
music; from the home fireside and the play
room of the children to marching between
banks of cheering crowds. Boston is to see
some of its beauty on parade" when the
republicans take over the city's thorough
fares on the. evening of October 20.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26

The farmers of the country will yet hit
upon some plan. by which they can have
some say in regard to the selling price of
their products. Every other industry fixes
the price of its wares, and the farmer is
coming to realize that he must, do likewise
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
MAY BURN CORN AGAIN.
rom the st. Paul Press.

From the st. Paul Press.
1t is a startling fact that at present time
coal costs more per pound than corn does,
and the latter making a good fuel, it is pre-
dicted that farmers will burn corn instead of
coal, if conditions do not change. Coal
go up, if we wish anything like normal
tins
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
AS SHE is SPOKE.

From the American Legion Weekly.
The Pennsylvania Dutch have thier own
way of saying things, and generally they
though sometimes in unconventional Ian
guage.
Over the bell on the front door of a
house in little town near Gettysburg was
affixed a card reading:
"Button doesn't bell. Bumn"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26

The talk of defeating Senator-elect Wat
son with an independent is the veriest non
sense. He was opposed in the primary when
he won the nomination by two of the states
best-known and strongest public men who
hold high and influential positions, and in
the election next month he will have the
support of thousands of loyal democrats
who were against him then. Georgia demo-
Gratis have high sense of honor, and never
bolt the nominees of their party.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26

A California carnival offered prize to
the person who could best initiate the Char
lie Chaplin walk Charlie entered the con-
test without the shoes and mustache, and
the judges gave him twelfth place.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
PECULIAR INJURIES.

Fom the Savannah Press
The king of Greece is suffering from the
bite of a monkey and a Wilmington. N. G..
man is desperately ill from the bite of
injured in this world besides being rnn
over by an automobile.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26

It's good time to cultivate a Dawson
spirit that will really mean something for
the upbuilding of local enterprises. Too
many people are getting their living here
and spending their money elsewhere.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26

Those men who buy 5000 an acre farms
will have to move on them and work them
in order to make them earn the interest 1t
can be done, but not by telephone.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26

Notwithstanding there are several other
issues in the campaign one of the great tasks
of the coming congress will be to make an
ex of extravaganza.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26

Perhaps the luckiest fellows after all are
those who failed to get the nomination.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26

Millions for junkets and joy-rides here
and abroad, but not one cent to help the
producers of the worlds food and clothing
to get a fair return for their labor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26
SPEAKING OF FIG LEAVES

From the Washington Post.
Eve would be amazed if she could see
the Garden of Eden costumes affected by
her daughters.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26

The decrease in the price of wheat and
corn and pork and beef has not reached
the restaurants. They are still living in the
graft age.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26

Governor Cox has put considerable gin
ger in the campaign the past few weeks,
and democrats are looking for great vic
tory next Tuesday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-10-26

Whenever one man makes good deal an
other one gets fieeced.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-12-13
BANKS URGED To
u|QUIDATE LOANS
NOTICE SENT OUT BY SEVENTH
FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICT
BORDERS ON A DEMAND.

Chicago, Dec. ia plea. but al
the same time a veiled demand. that
farmers and country banks in the
middle west agricultural section IL
quidate their loans were sent out to-
day by the Chicago federal reserve
bank to the banks i'm the Seventh
federal reserve district. The latter
stated that complete liquidation is
not sought, but only an immediate
beginning
The appeal is clearly directed. par
ticularly at Iowa, where the refusal
of farmers to sell their crops and
pay off loans at their banks has been
marked. This has resulted i'm the
Iowa banks borrowing more heavily
from the reserve institution than
they should. The reserve bank con-
cisely states that the farmer must
bear his share of declining prices
and that other industries are feeling
the effects of readjustment just as
keenly.
The statement of the Chicago fed
eral reserve bank is important in
that it was an authoritative utter
ance concerning the necessity of IL
uuidating loans of the country
banks. 1t can hardly impart any new
view. however. to the people. who
are aware. as most people must be
by this time. of the condition in
which the loan accounts of many
such institutions have been placed
In the northwest the Dakota ex-
pertinent with pet banks fostered by
the farmers league, and in the
south the midsummer madness over
40 cent cotton, despite big crop, pre-
pared the stage for what happened
when the great decilen in prices fol-
lowed. The resultant situation is not
pleasant. but embooies one of those
lessons which must be learned be-
fore an utterly abnormal condition
of trade and industry can revert to
normal.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-12-13

quart, when unknown persons raided
his automobile i'll MiIbank. while he
was partaking IL a meal at local
restaurant.
He had just returned from a trip
to North Dakota, and while in that
state loaded his car with a consider
able quantity OF the liquor
The owner of the auto and whis-
ky was very angry when he discoy-
cred that his ear had been robbed
of a part of its valuable cargo, but
under the circumstances he did not
inform the authorities of his loss, or
he would have been arrested and his
auto and the contraband liquor con
fiscated.
1t is said he had enough of sup
ply of liquor left after the raid to
tide himself and friends over for
several months to come.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-12-13
State Will Cut Out
Piece Of Red Tape

Pierre, Dec. 13.-The attorney
general, state auditor and executive
accountant, in conference. have de-
cided that the requirement for re-
ceipting for "a warrant on the back
of a voucher before payment is made
lis not a necessity, and a policy which
has been in effect since the begin
ming of statehood is eliminated by
their action. The attorney general,
in an opinion on this says:
I'VE have taken this matter up
with the state auditor and executive
accountant. and we have all arrived
at the conclusion that the receipt for
warrant upon vouchers presented TO
the state auditor is a useless piece OF
red tape. and that the practice OF re-
quiring sub receipt should be abolr
ishesd. The reeeipt was never OF ans
valne to prove that the warrant was
actually received by the claimant,
becanse of the prevailing custom Of
requiring this receipt to be signed
before the warrant issued
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-12-13
WILL EXHIBIT
NEW LOCOMOTIVE
MILWAUKEE RAILROAD WILL
HAVE BIG ELECTRIC HERE
DECEMBER II FOR PUBLIC
INSPECTION.

Sioux Falls. Dec. I3.--One of the
huge electric locomotives which
handle the Milwaukee roads trains
through the higher ranges of the
Rock mountains will be on exhibition
in the Milwaukee yards near the
Sixth street crossing all day Friday,
December IL. according TO an an
nouncement made by w ID. Griffith,
general Milkaukee agent here this
morning.
The locomotive is being exhibited
at the principal towns in South Da-
kota. Ii will leave Sioux City on the
night of December Is. and be seen
al yermillion. December IA. Yankton
December Is, Mitchell December I6,
and will arrive at Sioux Falls on the
morning of December Ii. where it
will be on exhibition all day, leaving
on time freight No. 76, at night for
Canton The train dispatcher's Of
fice at Sioux City will give the local
agent teIegraphic notice as TO the ex-
act time of day that the motor will
arrive here
The Milwaukee road has received
a great deal of publicity in regard to
their electrified lines west of Har-
lowtown, Mont. noted railroad men
from all over the world coming TO
this country to see the motors in OPP
Grafton.
Al recent test of one of the giant
locomotives was made at the AL
toona shops. when one of the newly
constructed locomotives of the eiec-
trio type. pushed two huge Mallet
steam locomotives each 100 feet
long, up a steep grade, with both To-
eomotives ushing with all the force
they possessed. against il. The steam
engines of that type have 16 driving
wheels, and their power is enormous,
but they stood no chance against the
powerful electric. TIE one to be ex-
hibited here is of the latest type pur-
chased by the Milwaukee.