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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
NATION IS TO FEEL
STILL HIGHER PRICES
APPROn y S9,6OO,OOO WILL
BE ADDED 20 COST OF LIV-
ING THIS YEAR.

WASHINGTON. - Approximately
SO SOC, 900 will be added to the nations
living costs for the year beginning
with September, ]. E. Weatherly, eco
nomic expert of the justice depart
ment, predicted today. Weatherly
said he based this prediction on the
belief the Interstate Commerce Com
mission would be forced to increase
freight rates approximately $4,000
100000.
An appeal for increases totaling ST.
OOO,OO0,000 now is being considered by
the commission at the request OF the
railroad managers. Another billion
must be added when the Railroad
Board grants proposed wage increases
to 1000, 900 workers, Weatherly as
sumed.
Increased freight rates are reflect
ed in living costs, not In straight pro
portion, but magnified by 49," said
Weatherly.
"This is because the public pays a
freight rate increase several times IN
stead of just once.
"One increased rate is paid when
the cattle go from the plains where
they grazed to the slaughter-house.
The second increase is paid when the
raw hides are shipped from slaughter
houses to tanneries; third from
tannery to shoe manufacturing house,
and a fourth when the finished shoe
goes from the manufacturer to dealer.
"Shoes thus show magniticatlon
of the rate increase four times. In
some commodities, however, the IN
crease is magnifed only three times.
"There is another factor. The IN
creased freight rate paid by each deal
err or manufacturer is added to his cost
of operation, on which he figures his
profits on a percentage basis.
"There seems no getting around the
fact that a freight rate increase
means tremendous boost IN prices
of every commodity produced in the
United States. Every person IN the
United States is bound to feel the IN
crease. 1t means a tax Of about S9o
year for each of the 100, 1000 per-
tsons in the United States" :,
A decision on the plea of the rail,
roads for an increase lis expected
from the Interstate Commerce Com
mission soon.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
FISH LIARS, ATTENTION!
CLEAR LAKE. s. Oh,

CLEAR LAKE, S. D.-June
Is. This city has been practi-
cally isolated, except from the
west, as result of the torrents.
of rain which have fallen during
the past few days. In all direc-
tons from the city roads and
bridges have been washed out
and small streams have been
turned into raging rivers. Hun
dreds of acres of farm land are
under water and in many in
stances the crops have been en-
tirely washed OUT
The lake here has gone over
it's banks and surrounding farms
were flooded with fish of all de-
scriptions. The fish have de-
voured corn and other grains in
the fields and some claim that
the water rose so rapidly that
many fish were actually drown
ed as a result of the great down
pour of rain. The Rock Island
railroad lost long stretches of
track and road bed in the vicin-
ity of Clear Lake and at Brandt,
south of here.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
GRACIOUS, 30! WHEN DOES
TRAIN LEAVE FOR RHEIMS!
Eight Million Bottles of Baron De
Mumm's Best Champagne Will BE
Sold at Auction.

PARIS.-Eight million bottles of
champagne will be among the items
on the list. of commodities to be plac-
ed on sale January %, when the Sc
questered property of Baron Walter
De Mumm will be auctioned off. This
property was seized in 1915 subse-
quent to the baron's resumption of
German citizenship when the war be-
gan.
The number of bottles in the baron's
cellars in the vicinity of Rheims,
where the sales will take place, was
greatly diminished during the war.
When General Ludendorff was making
her furious drives toward Rheims and
Epernay the wine cellers were used
as shelters for the troops and the men
were given almost priceless wine with
their meals.
In addition. to the bottled wines
there are 100000 litres of wine in
casks, these being stored in ware
houses, mansions and cottages, as well
as secret hiding places beneath vine
yards in the champagne country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
COUNTRY SLOWING
UP NOW ON SPENDING
LUXURY TAXES PAST MONTH
SHOW BIG DROP IN AMOUNT ~-
SPENT ON FRIvOLITIES.

WASHINGTON that
the American public is gradually ia
perng off it's luxury buying appeared
in reports gathered from various gov
eminent departments today.
At the internal revenue bureau 1T
was shown that many classes Of lux
ury taxes have shown a sharp falling
off in the last few months.
At the treasury it was said that lib
! erty bond sales are on the increase,
MANY banks reporting difficulty in
getting enough bonds of the smaller
denominations to supply the demand
of customers.
The commerce department reports
show that importations of cut and un-
cut diamonds which totalled 85,164
karats in May, 1919, dropped to H.
986 karats in May, 1920. At the same
department it was said that 5,OOO
diamond cutters are idle in Antwerp
because of the dropping oH>of' pur-
chases by this country.
Luxury taxes for May this year
compared with collections in May 1919
show a drop. Taxes on sales on per-
fumes and cosmetics dropped about
20 per cent, collections on autos for
hire showed drop of about 80 pei
cent; those on candy sales dropped
about 100 per cent; soft drink sales
taxes dropped a like amount, and
taxes on yachts and motor boats fell
off rs per cent.
Sales of these articles are indlca-
tive of the surplus in the American
nocketbook after necessities are pur-
| chased. They are bought only after
necessities are obtained in ample pro-
portion.
Many luxury expenditures, however,
still are running at the same rate as
usual since the armistice when the
wave of national extravaganza began.
Theater admissions have not yet be-
gun to show a decline, according to
tax receipts.
Speculation is beginning to slack
off. according to tax receipts on brok-
erage businesses. In May this tax
netted the government only $52, lib,
as compared with $114,7OO for the
corresponding month one year ago.
Economic experts studying the re-
turns to the various departments to-
day ssid they may indicate that
Americans are beginning to save
money or they may mean that the
present prices of food, shelter and
clothing are taking so large a share
of the earnings of the American faml-
ly that there is nothing left for
Injuries.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
POTATOES TAKE TOP
PLACE FROM WHEAT
STATISTICS SHOW MORE POUNDS
OF TUBERS THAN ANY 9TH
Err FOOD ARE CONSUMED.

More pounds of potatoes than of
any other food are consumed by the
European and English-speaking peo-
Piles as a whole. All our forty-eight
states can grow potatoes, and yields
of 100 to 200 bushels an acre, with
as much as 800 bushels in fancy farm
ing, put to- shame the fourteen to
twenty bushels of wheat grown on an
acre.
And yet commission merchants adj
nit that potatoes are the highest
thing in the market. In the seven
year period from 1918 they have in
creased in retail price 1853 per cent.
In 1916 consumers were alarmed at
$3.50 a bushel, but this season SIS a
bushel and 35 to 40 cents quart pack
prevail.
/ People talk of coal famine, sugar
famine, and they are bad enough. But
the real thing is a potato famine. For
example, Ireland's in. 1848. The Ger
mans during the war feared no eco
nomic disaster like failure of the
potato crop. Realizing the vital po-
sition of potatoes, Germany raises
about twice as many bushels to the
acre as we do, and three or four time:
our total. And the German consump
ito, in some places, where they live
on potatoes as some Orientals do or
rice, is twenty-five bushels year pen
person, while our consumption is only
three or four bushels per capita.
Poor Crop in 1916.
| Potatoes won respect in 1916 wher
| a poor American crop of 206,953,O0C
bushels was flirting around 81 bush
] ell. The next crop of 442, 108, 0OC
bushels eased the situation. In 1918
the country produced 400,800,000 bush
els. and last year 385, 100000. Com
pared with the increased demand, it is
easv to see why three-bushel barrels
new from the South should bring $25
/ wholesale, and old potatoes bring So
hundred pounds. The coming OF the
new crop is moderating the prices, but
they are still high beyond all compass
| son with other years.
| The worlds potato crop averages
about 5,471 100000 bushels. In 1915
| it was 3,O44,914,OO0 bushels, but in
1916 it was only 1,720,356,000, which
accounts for the high prices at that
time. The United States crop for
1915 was 359. 721 900 bushels, but with
the rest of the world dropped down
in 1916 to 286,955,O0 bushels.
In 1917 the United States produced
444 los. 900 bushels (that same year
Germany raised 1,580,000,0O0), in
1918, 400, 100000; in 1919, $4,000, 900:
The United States Department of
Agriculture has received reports in
dicating that the acreage planted for
potatoes this year will be S per cent
less than last year, Michigan reports
80 per cent, but California ITO per
cent, and the average less.
Aroostock County, Me-, without
any comparison in this country as to
potato fame, yields on an average
more than 200 bushels to the acre,
while New York, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey get only half as much
per acre.
True, a potato is rs per cent water,
but it has also 1873 per cent starch
and 80 per cent sugar A pound has
a food value of eight eggs, one-fifth
pint of milk or seven ounces of bread.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
GEORGIA BACHELOR.
SEEKING AN HEIRESS
SOutherner Wants Good Looking
Bride, Widow or Spinster, No Chill
dren, and a DOwry of 100000

Bride, Widow or Spinster, No Chill
dren, and a Dowry of 100000
One hundred thousand dollars is all
that C. J. Rooney, bachelor, So years
old, of Augusta, Ga, asks to marry
a widow or spinster, between 40 and
as years old, who has no children and
possesses an average supply of good
looks. The southerner wants it under
stood that, unless the lady appeals to
him temperamentally he will have
nothing to do with her, not even If she
should have dowry of billion dol
lars.
Mr.. Rooney has written to the1At-
lantic City IN. j. publicity bureau
for aid in finding a model wife. he
saws he is a college graduate, with the
highest endorsements, but poor:
Therefore, he demands the dowry OF
500. 900 at the moment of the mar
riage ceremony.
'This is a business matter and the
lady can have divorce and half her
money back any day she chooses to
ask for it." he wrote.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
hand as steady

CHICAGO.-With hand as steady
as though he were performing the
simplest of operations DR.. Orlando P.
Scott, a well known surgeon of CHI
cago. Friday calmly rested on a hos,
nital table at his wife's bedside and
cut strip after strip Of flesh from his
own thighs and grated them onto his
wife's foot and ankle. -.
The entire operation, outdoing the
greatest story of heroism from the
Spartan legends, was performed with
out the single administration OF an an
anaesthetic. Not once did DR.. Scott
vince in pain as he drove the sur
geon's knife into his flesh.
AS speedily as he sliced a strip OF
flesh from his body he coolly per
formed the difficult work of grating
# upon his wife's limb, while fellow
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
THE RAILROAD RATE
INCREASE IS CERTAIN
THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE
COMMISSION WILL BOOST THE
EARNINGS OF CARRIERS.
.FAvORS 24-31 PER CENT
May Also Act on Railroads Plan to
Increase Passenger Fares to Extent
Necessary to Bring in $500, 900, 600
Additional Income.


Additional Income.
In order to increase railroad earn
ings in the United States to the ex-
tent necessary to provide a six per
cent. return on property invested, as
authorized in the transportation act,
advances in railroad rates of "a to
81 per cent. will be made by the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
The commission, which has con-
cluded its hearings, has made no of
fetal statement, but unofficially it
has been learned that the commits
sion is prepared or is preparing to
grant the following increases:
Increases Vary in Territories
Official classification territory
east of the Mississippi and north of
the Ohio, 80 per cent.
Southern classification territory,
including Kentucky, 81 per cent.
Western classification territory, "a
per cent.
The freight rate increase will ]
crease gross receipts OF Ine rail-
roads approximately $1,170,000,0OO,
it is estimated.
D. Increased wages to railroad en-
ployees, which will increase the oper-
ating expenses approximately $780,
100000, are expected to be granted
by the Railroad Labor Board and the
commission is planning to take cog
ni2ance of this award
Proposed Passenger Rate Increase
40 small increase in passenger
rates will increase the revenues by
between $250,000,000 and $300,000,-
600, or about half of the increase
in wages, is understood to be provid-
ed in plan presented by railroad
owners.
The increased efficiency of opera
ton expected to result from a return
to work of employees by reason of the
higher scale of wages will insure g
return in revenue to the extent nee
essary to absorb the difference il
the cost of operation, according to the
hopes of members of the Interstate
Comerce Commission and represen
tatives of the railroads.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
CAN'T MAKE COUNTY
PAY INTEREST FEES
SUPREME COURT HOLDS THAT
UNDER CONSTITUTION, DEBT
CANNOT BE CONTRACTED.

The case of Tiff & Peed Grocery
Comnanv VS.. Worth county, passed
upon by the Georgia Supreme Court
last week and the decision OF the
lower court affirmed, possesses unus-
nal interest wherein it set forth that,
under the constitution of the state OF
Georgia, a county cannot be heid
liable for interest on unpaid county,
warrants in the absence of some valid
legal contract or provision OF law au-
thorizing the payment of interest:
OF especial interest is the decision
lust now, when suits are pending
against the counties of Tiff, Laurens
and Cobb brought by the National
park Rank of New York City, to re-
cover on notes negotiated by FRANK
Scarboro of Triton. The amount IN
volved in these three suits is about
$4,000. 1t would appear IN tne ao-
sence of information to the contrary
that the same constitutional prohiDl-
ton would prevail.
The Tiff & Peed suit was brought
in Worth superior court and appealeo
to the supreme court, which holds Snat
county in this state is not haDle LOT
interest upon county warrants IN the
absence of some valid legal contract,
or provision of law, authorizing the
navment of interest. The court says:
1.-THE term new debt as embraced IN
mar. 1 sec. z, art. of the constitution
If this state (Civil Code Sec. 1868 ,
embraces interest as well as principal.
Under the allegations of the petltlon
the interest sued for created a debt
against the county which is inhibited
by the above provision of the consti-
tuition, and is, therefore, enforceable
bv suit brought against the county to
recover such interest"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
Surgeon Cuts Flesh From His
OwnThigh to Save Wife's Limb
Calmly Discusses With Doctors Technic OF Operation
as He Performs Sacrifice of Love-

physician stood by him ands dressed
his wounds.
DR.. Scott's act of love and self-sac-
rifice was performed to save his wife
from Disagreement and possible loss
of her right leg.
The injury to Mrs. Scott was the
result of an automobile accident six
weeks ago, when, accompanying her
husband on an emergency call, the
Scott machine crashed into another
machine. Her right leg was crushed
and the flesh was stripped from it IN
long gashes. Later gangrene set IN,
and it was decided that skin graft
ing operation would be necessary to
avoid amputation.
A number of physicians and nurses
gathered in the hospital room where
the operation was performed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
CLEMENTS TALKS PLAIN.

RUTLAND, VERMONT.-Gove
Clement today issued proclamation
refusing to call the legislature in spe
cial session to make possible ratifica-
ton of the federal amendment for
woman suffrage.
The governors proclamation follows
a conference which he held at Wash
ington recently with Senator Harding,
at which it is understood the republi-
can nominee for president discussed
with hi mthe possibilities of having
ratification completed by the republl-
can legislature Of Vermont.
In giving his reasons for refusing
again to call special session Govern
or Clement said the proposed amend
ment clearly invades the constitution
of Vermont; that the present legisla-
ture was elected before the question
of ratifying the federal amendment
had arisen and that the people Of
the state have had no opportunity to
express themselves upon the issue.
The governor proposed that the mat
ter be taken up by the next legisla-
ture and urged that candidates for
election be required to declare them
selves on II.
Free Government Threatened.
Governor Clements proclamation
asserted that "as it stands and is IN
terpreted by the supreme court to-
day the federal constitution threatens
the foundation of free popular govern
ment."
The seventeenth amendment to the
constitution, he said, had been lobbled
through congress and state leglsla-
lures by federal agents, and the elgh.
teenth amendment had been forced
through by powerful and irresponsl,
! bic organizations, operating through
paid agents"
at is now proposed to force through
the nineteenth amendment for woman
suffrage in the same manner and also
without the sanction of the freemen
81 have been asked to overlook
these considerations as matter Of
party expediency, but this is a mat
ter of principle, not expediency, anc
the party that iAvades well estab-
lished principle of popular govern
ment will suffer to the end"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
CAROLINIANS PAY $4,000
FOR A FARM NEAR ALBANY
Farkas Place of Nearly Six Thousand
Acres Is Sold.

=, ALBANY, GA.-The Live Oak
Farms Corporation, of Eastover, 5. c.,
mas purchased from H. H. Harding.
q O. Herbert and Joseph Norwood, OF
Columbia, S. c., trustees, the Farkas
pace eight miles south of Albany, and
containing 1884 acres. The consider
duon was more than $4,000, it was
stated The purchasers plan to Gull
NV oiyate and use for pasturage purposes
az OF the land in the tract, conduct
N ing one of the largest farming opera
,I IN this section of the state. They
pan to plant 1000 acres in oats dur
1 -1g the coming fall and to put out
'UO acres in pecan trees.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
UNITED STATES DISCHARGES
MORE THAN 10000 CLERKS
Congress Refused to Make an Appro-
priation to Pay Them

Ten thousand clerks will leave
Washington within the next two
weeks, as a result of the reduction IN
government activities enforced by ap-
preparations for the new fiscal year.
More than 5000 employees were DIS
charged from the war department
during June and the number to be re
leased in July is estimated at 5000.
In other departments there will also
be reductions.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
Roth NOMINEES ARE
FRIENDLY, BRITISH THINK
London Newspapers Comment on the
Nominations for President

LONDON.-The British newspa-
pers, commenting on the nomination
of Governor Cox, point out both the
Democratic and Republican presiden-
tial nominees "are friendly toward
Great Britain, and neither seems
ready to follow President Wilson's
lead in European affairs"
The Washington correspondent OF
the Times calls the selection of Gov
ernor Cox "a blow to the White
House"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
SUFFRAGE IS GIVEN
A DOUBLE SETBACK
FLORIDA AND VERMONT Gov
ERNoRS REFUSE TO CALL
SPECIAL SESSIONS.
is USELESS, SAYS CATS

Against State Constitution, Declares
Clements in Statement in Which He
Refers in Vigorous Terms to ''POlit-
zeal OppOrtunists."
PENSACOLA.-Gov. Cats has re-
fused to call special session of the
Florida legislature to take action on
the federal woman suffrage amend
ment, local suffrage leaders anounc-
ed Monday night. They said the gov
ernor contended such action would be
useless.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
PERFUMES WILL COST
ONE DOLLAR A DROP
Cost of Flower Production Causes Big
Rise in Partisan Prices

Rise in Partisan Prices
Partisan reports indicate that the
more penetrating perfumes are short
ly to cost 81 drop.
The cost of producing flowers is
said to be the reason for the rise in
price. A pound of jasmin perfume
requires $4,000 jasmin bushes; 5000
rose bushes produce but a pound Of
rose extract, and it is necessary to
CLEAN the plants in a plot thirty miles
square in order to procure pound OF
violet essence.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
Edueated Women Don,t Marry.

1t has been calculated that only
about So per cent of the women honor
students of the universities marry.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-15
Richmond Home Makers
Read and Heed

You who buy for your families, who are
trying with might and main to help in the
partnership OF home making, you have a
right to insist upon an accurate statement of
facts because you are bearing the burden OF
advertising expense. You are actually pay
ing for it. i, is charged to you in the mer-
chandise YOU buy the as rent, lights,
wages, etc. Advertising lessons the cost of
distribution by greatly increasing IL; it is.
therefore, wise and necessary expense
There is. however, ut the present time
great waste in retail advertising, which is
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-15
How About the Dealer
Who Doesn't Care?

There are. unfortunately, few dealers
who arc after the dollar today and who can
not see any advantage in looking for the
good Will of their trade in the future They
believe, as was said by p. T. Barnum, that
The American public likes to be hum
plugged They use comparative values SO
absurdly unreliable that only the ignorant
and nnthinkng are attracted. while the in
teligencc of thinking shoppers is excited to
contempt by such eXaggcration.
Women of Richmond, in spite OF your
selves, this contempt which you feel for dis
honest advertising permeates your whole
faith in the advertised word, and so the fair
dealing merchant must suffer for the unfair
practice OF the reckless and uncaring
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-15
Look sharply for a ''jDker"

preston SIa IA
mats Tor $5e"'; hose worth So. for $l.75 etc
Some advertisers consider to saw: - an
l'ut
one OF the largest and Fuller
The Grand leader
I'VE but
us
announced in October 1916
" 80
This example outside Richmond
policy within
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-15
A Message to the Richmond Advertising Club Members

1t would be good thing if
yertising Club thought
definitely
ambition OF the club for 1921
What splendid thing be membership
would
clubs affairs specifically
those who guide a
derstanding OF
What for example the most successful have
participated club meetings.? What
awaken the entire membership feeling responsibility
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-15

Judging
by DR. Douglas Freeman 1919
Using While this
mounted doubling and doubling
Some time later number OF lectures by
Geiger OF William and Mary Dr.
VOWED in the turnover
Richmond were moved to introduce OF
methods in their organizations
present year series Of talks delivered by Dr.
mond College, the Economics
series extended through the midsummer months and
well attended they might have been
attendance
Team work is vital need
1V: "RichmOnd Made"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-15
Warning Women Shoppers
The apv


'oa women "ho are obser'an
you depend upon are particular comparative prices
ne says This 800 article he
from former
saie from slOo 10 Sue? Such
shopper to decide the worth that
most instances
but merely
llihks ms 9oods The best OF
be
almost every instance
prssion and misleading.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-15

DItEC1ORSi
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w :. Campbell
t;crrnS Taylor
l.. y. Ezekiel
II. Il. Harrison
w. W. Workman
Address NIL con,-
municntionS reiat-
ing TO member
ship and club nf-
fairs to- Gcrvnx
'Ryior. Secretary.
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