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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-01
VISITS IN RTRGFSS.
Especial COrrespOndence.)

EoptCIaI NUIIta flUHueIlCS.I
Burgess, Nov. Virgil Balmer,
who left here last spring and who
has made his home in Colorado
since then, visited several days re-
Gently with his parents. Mr. and
Mrs. John Balmer of Burgess. Vir-
gil left here on account of his
health, and he states that he likes
the western country fine and that
he has fully regained his former
good health. Mr.. Balmer left Mon
day from Galesburg for his western
home.
All the news all the time-The
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-01
New York Sugar.

New York. Nov. Raw sugar,
<.06 to All for centrifugal. Refined
fine granulated, $40 to $50.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-01
Silver.

New York. Nov. Foreign bar
silver, 695s; Mexican dollars,
.53%
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-01
-LfTTLE ENTENTE WARNED.

London. Nov 1.-The larger pow
ers notified the members of the
little entente" that they would
not countenance any action toward
Intervention against Hungary at
present
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-01

All the news all the time-The
Argus
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05

WASHINGTON, D. C.-"In no
other land are so many homes wreck
ed by divorce" declares the lnterna-
tional Reform Bureau in a report on
divorces in the United States made
public today. The report declares that
sin and the divorce evil are running
rampant in the nation and calls upon
American women to use their vote IN
checking them.
The report contains tables OF stats
tics on the divorce records, the frst
table, which gives net divorce rates
for AZ states and the District OF Co
lumbia in 1916, showing that "a Amer
lean states. ranging from Vermont, at
253 divorces per 100000 population, to
Nevada, at 652, had a divorce rate
higher than was ever known in Japan,
whose record was supposed to be the
worst in the world. o
.Japan's rate was 229 in 1886, but
a federal law-take note-brought it
down in one year, 1899, to Isl, and by
1916 it had fallen to 109," says the re-
port.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
Is THLMBLEFULS OF RADIU,M
1920 YIELD, WORTH .$2l6OWO
Hamilton Foley Head of Standard Chemical Co., Says Demand for
Precious Element Continues Unabated With Orders Untitled

buy radium at the same rate it did last
wear and we are still two or three
weeks behind on our orders.
The concern has 500 employees III
the Vanadium building here and in the
carnotite mining fields OF southeast
ern Colorado. Five hundred tons of
the carnotite are taken out of the
ground, IFS tons of each 500 shipped
to Pittsburg, one-half ton results from
preliminary. refining processes and ap-
proxinately one gram OF radium IS
the final result of the extraction. 1t
sells for 100000 a gram.
The needles containing the radium
are sent to the bank named by the
purchaser and are accompanied by
sight drafts The banker holds the
radium for collection OF the purchase
price. This. Mr.. Foley said, is believ
ed to be the only instance in which
the banker actually handles the prod
uct in a commercial transaction and
is possible because the product is SO
much smaller and lighter than the
sight draft or the money which passes
in the sale.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
BIG CUT IN U. S.
EXPENSES is MADE
PAST 8 MONTHS SHOW A Bill
LION AND QUARTER DROP
FROM SAME 1920 PERIOD.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Govern-
ment expenses for the eight months
ending March 1 were approximately
more than $1,25O,OOOOOO below expen.
ditures for the corresponding period
in the fiscal year 1920. Treasury hg-
ures on Saturday show that for the
last eight months it cost So, "a, 900 0OO
to run the government while during
the eight months ending March !,
1920, the expenses were $4,000, OO0O 600.
Officials said the decrease reflected the
discontinuance of federal activities in
cident to the war and that if the pres
ent rate of reduction was maintain
ed the total outgo for the current tls-
cal year, exclusive of payments on
the great war debt, would hardly eX-
coed $4,000000,000. Total expenditures
for the fiscal year ending last July
were $6,403,000,000
Monthly expenditures have shown
steady decline since last September,
when the outgo for the thirty days
was nearly $500,000,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05

PITTSBURG, Pa.-The Standard
Chemical Co.. produced eighteen
thimblefuls of its product last year, but
is going to exceed that output this
year, officials of the company SAID to-
day. The eighteen thimbletuls were
sold for $2,160,000. The stuff was ra-
dunn, or rather radium sulphate. ne
greater part of it went into medical
work, but watch manufacturers used
a quantity in the manufacture OF illu-
minated dials. go.
The product is put up in milligra,ms
and sealed by the United States i BY
reau of standards. One thousand MILL
grams, or one gram, would Just about
fill a thimb1e, if that much were got
ten together in any one place. Accord
ing to an estimate by Hamilton Foley,
OF the Standard Chemical Co, there
are now about 120 grams OF radium
in the world, of which the Standard
has produced seventy.
I'VE anticipated a slacken1ng OF the
demand for radium, but it has not yet
been noticed" Mr.. Foley said today
"The medical profession continues to
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
WOMEN LEAD IN
GEORGIA POPULATION
WHITES HAVE INCREASED IN
NUMBERS MORE THAN
HAVE THE 70 .AcKs.

Geor~; 20 population in 1920
,y,565, an increase OF rs per
cent over 1910. The white population
was 1,6S9,114, an increase of IS per
cent, and the Indian, Chinese and Jap
anese and other colored races number
ed 354
In the total population OF 2,895,S32,
which the census bureau found for
Georgia in 1920, 1,444,823 were males
and 1,451,009 were females. During
the decade following 1910, while the
total population increased II per cent,
the rate of increase for female popula-
ton was 11.3 per cent and for male
1917 per cent, making ratio of males
to females in 1920 of 900 to 100 as
against 1901 to 100 in 1910.
In 1920 the total of foreign-born
white population in Georgia was 10,
1856, against 1902 in 1910. The per-
centage of foreign-born remained con-
slant between 1920 and 1910, and
amounted to three-ffths of one per
cent of the total population in both
years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
LAME DUCKS" GROW
RICH AT CAPITAL
FORMER OFFICE HOLDERS
PRACTICE LAW AND AMASS
GREAT FORTUNES.

Washington, the national capital,
has become the lawyers mecca. 1t
used to be that making laws was the
big business of the capital city. Now,
practicing law in Washington, princi-
.pally before government departments,
has become rival institution, and GER
tainly is proving more lucrative than
the small stipend of $1,000 year that
Uncle Sam pays his lawmakers.
Settle in Washington.
Much is heard, whenever an admin
istration changes of the exodus from
Washington of the lame ducks" and
the arrival of the hungry hordes of
new job hunters. The latter come, but
now there is no exodus OF lame
ducks"
The number of new shingles that
have been hung out in Washington
since March 4th is astonishing, new
firms blossoming forth daily: Former
President Wilson surprised the nation
by forming law partnership with
cambridge Colby, his retiring secre-
tary of state Mr.. Wilson, of course,
is not in physical condition to engage
actively III the profession now, Dut tne
new firm probably is as well advertis-
ed before the world as any similar
firm in existence.
Joseph P. Tumulty, Mr.. Wilson's
former secretary, has the big suite OF
rooms formerly occupied by former
Senator Joseph Bailey, of Texas, and
has his shingle hung out already.
Former Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer has formed partnership with
some of his former associates in the
of justice and have opened
elaborate law Offices.
Congress Swells Ranks.
The list of new lawyers who will
in Washington from the con-
gressional ranks is nearly the list of
retiring lawyers from Capitol Hill.
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and former
Senator Thomas P Gore, OF Oklaho-
ma. are two of the more prominent
who have hung out shingles.
From the house nearly every state
which had members defeated is con-
tributing to the corps of new Wash
ington lawyers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
WILLIAMS WILL BE
PUT ON TRIAL TODAY
SWEEPING DENIAL BY JASPER
FARMER OF THE MURDER
CHARGES AGAINST HIM.

CONVICTION, Ga-John S. Will
liams will be put on trial here today
(Tuesday), charged with the murder
of one of the eleven of his negro farm
hands he is alleged to have had killed
to hide peonage conditions
He will enter a plea OF not guilty
and will make a sweeping denial of
the charges made by Clyde Manning,
negro farm boss, it was announced
here by Green F. Johnson, counsel
for Williams.
Manning, according to officials, de-
clared he and Charley Chisholm killed
the negro and that he later killed
Chisholm. on orders of Williams.
The plan OF Solicitor General Brand
is to place Williams on trial for the
murder of each of the three negroes he
is alleged to have taken into this COM
ty and drowned to hide alleged peon-
age conditions on his plantation.
Possibility that counsel for Will
liams will challenge the jurisdiction
of Newton county on the ground that
the negroes found i'll the river sepa-
rating the two counties might have
been killed in Jasper county is indi-
Gated.
Statements that two more negroes
bodies would be found have been cur
rent, but Sheriff w. f. Persons, of
Jasp ser county, where the Williams
farm is situated, declares he has no
evidence to justify belief that any more
bodies would be found.
The grand jury in Jasper county is
to meet April 18th with a view to re-
turning indictments in the case OF
eight more negroes whose bodies were
recovered in Jasper county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
LOTTERY WITH SELF
AS PRIZE is A GIRLS
PLAN TO RAISE 81 900

TRENTON, n. J.-Dorothy
Miller, 10 years old, who offered to
marry any man who would pay
$1,000 for an operation for her
mother, had brand new idea Sat.
urday night, "a marriage lottery
The girl said she had wired
former sailor, living in Rhode Is
land who accepted her proposal to
come and see her, adding;
81 think he'll do, but I've got to
see him to make sure"
But if the latest proponent tails
to come up to specifications, she
said, she would then spring her
new stunt.
Il will ask 200 good red blooded
Americans to contribute SIS each
for my mothers operation" she
said. ''I'll give each Of them my
Photograph with my name on it.
/ will agree that in two years,
when | become IS, to select my
husband from among the 200"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
WILL NOT RECEIVE MELON
SHIPMENTS NOT TREATED
Central Railroad Will Require 1t to
Avoid Stem Rot.

MACON, Ga.-F. D. McCorrell,
general freight agent of the Central
of Georgia railway, announced today
that all shipments of watermelons
from Georgia and Alabama points to
all destinations must be prepaid unless
the shippers have had their melons
treated for stem-end rot.
Mr.. McCorrell states that the treat
ment is inexpensive, and does not re-
quire much time When the melons
are placed in the cars with the stem
end outward, he said, a part of each
stem is cut off and disinfectant paste
applied. The paste is made from COM
mon starch, with per cent of blue
stone, or ounces of bluestone to each
quart of paste. The treatment will in
sure melons reaching the market in
good shape, and will enable the ship
per to get higher price, Mr.. Nc
Correll says.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
Cruelty TWO MEN IN
RELIGIOUS CEREMONY
ORDER IN NEW MEXICO GEL
EBRATES GOOD FRIDAY. MEN
FASTENED TO CROSS.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.-Two
men were crucihed at the Penitente
village in Abiquiu in northern New
Mexico, on Good Friday in observance
of Holy Week in rites performed by
members of the Hermanos de Luz,
Brothers of Light, a religious order,
according to B. ]. Norfeldt and Gus
tave Baumann, artists OF Santa Fe,
N. NJ, who arrived here yesterday.
Witness Crucihxion.
Norfeldt and Baumann say they
were members of party of two doz-
en- tourists who witnessed the crucifi-
cation and the fagellation ceremonies
contained with it.
For more than half hour the
artists say, the two human sacrifices
were tied to huge wooden crosses, at
the end of which time they were taken
down bleeding and exhausted, The
condition of the men is said to be Sc
rious and their recovery in doubt
The order has many followers, it is
understood, in remote villages of this
state.
The principles and practices OF the
order are said to have come from
Italy through Spain and Mexico.
Self Punishment
Last Friday was one of the rare
occasions, according to the two artists,
when Americans were permitted to
witness the most solemn ceremonies
performed by the penitentes.
THE penitentes formed i'll a long
procession" said Mr.. Norfeldt 'and
marching to slow weird music beat
themselves with thorn whips soaked
in brine water to wound themselves
and make their wounds smart. One
man carried large wooden cross I'M
der the weight of which he fell ex-
hausted frequently. The procession
ended with the erection of two cross
es with members of the order tied to
them"
1t is considered an honor among
the penitentes to be selected for cru
cihxion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
TARIFF WORK HAS
TAKEN new ASPECT
UNCLE SAM SUCCEEDS BRIT
AIN AS WORLDS BANKER.
NOW CREDITOR NATION.

WASHINGTON, D. Give now
have with us again tariff revision
upward this time-for the protection
of American production and for the
production of revenue.
With the United States creditor
nation for the first time in its history,
however, the century old political
question takes on a new aspect. In
stead of the United States owing Eu
rope billions of dollars Europe now
owes us $14,000,000,000 for govern
ment loans and credits by American
business interests. We have succeeded
Britain as the worlds banker.
So now, mingled with the old time
pleas for protection for Infant indus
tries" and protection to equalize the
cost of production at home and abroad
we hear arguments from orthodox
high protectionist quarters in favor of
moderate duties which will encourage
trade and enable the debtor nations
to paw their debts to the United States
in commodities, as did the United
States when it owed Europe.
South Undergoes Change.
Likewise democratic devotion to
free trade or a tariff for revenue only
appears to be weakening. The solid
south, with its expanding manutac-
lures and its keen competition with
the foreign growers OF some agrlcul-
tural products, is shot through with
protectionist doctrine. 1t is a south far
different from that which dubbed the
protection of 1928 the tariff OF abom-
nation" The tariff heretofore was
chiefly a domestic question, being
framed for the specific purpose OF
keeping out imports which compete
with American manufactures. Now it
is urged that the tariff be used also
as weapon for getting more liberal
treatment in foreign countries tor the
export products of the United States,
the movement along this line having
crystalized into a demand for bar
gaining tariff.
The tariff law which will be placed
on the statute books, probably not
much earlier than October |, will be
the result of numerous compromises.
The house ways and means commit
tee, which conducted hearings for SIX
weeks in January and February and
for the last week has been engaged
in the actual drafting OF bill, is like
ly to show tendency toward extreme
protectionist views.
President Harding and his cabinet
display remarkable interest in the cot
ton situation. and daily receive rep
resentatives OF southern producers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
TRY TO MELT
MATRICIDE'S HEART
AGED MOTHER OF DR.. CHAP
MAN THINKS BIGHAM CAN
CLEAR SONS NAME.

AMERICUS, Cato plead for her
sons liberty, which she believes it to
be within the power of convicted
matricide to confer, the aged mother
of DR.. Charles X. Chapman, the
Americas dentist now serving a life
term following conviction, may short
ly visit Edmund S. Brigham. Bigham,
convicted of the murder of his mother,
sister, brother and the two adopted
children of his sister, is in cell IN
a Carolina prison. He is doomed to die
in the electric chair in Columbia, S.
C., on April Sth.
Bigham, a former resident of Les
lie, in Sumter county, came here with
Walter Wade a few hours before
Wade disappeared. on the night OF
August II, 1917, With two bullet holes
in his back, and his pockets turned
inside out, the body of Wade was two
weeks later dragged from the Flint
river. Bigham, it was alleged, was the
last person seen with Wade.
Though closely questioned, and for
long kept under Surveillance, Bigham
was never indicted in connection with
the case, although it became known
that Wade and Bigham had had per-
sonal disagreement, when Bigham llv-
ed in the Wade household, before the
pair came to Americas. The eyes OF
suspicion later fastened upon DR..
Chapman and Warren !. Johnson.
Both are now serving life sentences.
Mysterious Movements.
Investigation of the movements OF
Bigham on the night upon which
Wade disappeared has brought to light
among actions shrouded in mystery,
the circumstance that taxicab driver,
w. B. Compton, was on the night OF
the disappearance employed by Big
ham to drive him into the country,
and that the man Travelled for some
distance in the direction OF Flint river.
A sisters plea for the aid of the
matricide in securing the freedom OF
her brother is declared to have been
ignored when Miss Emma Chapman,
a sister of the convicted Americas
dentist, wrote the man following his
arrest at Florence about month ago.
She urged him to relate matters of
which Bigham was assumed to have
She received no response.
A similar letter is said to have been
written the Taller at Florence, and to
have likewise remained unanswered.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
CHANGE URGED IN
STATE HIGHWAY LAW
LAURENS COUNTY COMMITS
SIONERS WOULD DIVIDE
TAG MONEY.

DUBLIN. Ga.-At a meeting of
the county commissioners Of the
Twelfth district here today resolu-
tons were adopted urging repeal OF
the state highway laws whereby 20
Der cent of the proceeds OF the sale of
automobile licenses are used for the
building and maintenance OF highways
and 80 per cent OF the funds so deriv-
ed for the maintenance OF the. state
highway commission. 1t was desired
that the county commissioners be LETT
free to utilize these percentages tor
whatever purposes might in their op1n-
ion be best.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
SWAT THE SkEETER,
SAY HEALTH MEN
COMMON MOSQUITO IS NOT
DANGEROUS, BUT LOOK
OUT FOR ANOPHELES.

Swat the Anopheles mosquito be-
fore she swats you, is the timely
warning being spread broadcast over
Georgia by health authorities, who in
a statement to the public generally
earnestly advise them that the mild
ness of the past two winters will show
more malaria than if the state had
experienced more cold weather, and
that the only way to combat this evil
is to hunt out the malarial mosquito
on or near your private premises and
put this wanton destroyer of health
hors de combat by either spreading
oil on the breeding place, draining off
stagnant water that has accumulated;
stocking ponds with minnows. and
last but not least, fatten and bury
all tin cans or other receptacles that
may hold water"
Watch Them.
OF course, the average citizen is
not expected to know the genus Ano-
pheles of the mosquito breed from any
other kind, but once you have calmly
watched the marauder alight and wit
messed the acrobatic stunt OF standing
on her head while filling your blood
with malaria you can never mistake
her method of attack again, but after
viewing said stunt it is too late to
avoid contagion, so don't wait until
chills and fever force you to remember
the above warning.
The common mosquito does not
perform for the benefit of its victim,
but its bite is not very pleasing, even
though the after effects are not seri-
Gus, so in order to be sure that the
visitor is not one of the Anopheles
breed the suggestion OF making it i'm
possible for any kind of mosquito to
live in your neighborhood by follow
ing the above rules is imperative.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
tx ON TOBACCOs
MAY Be GIVEN BOOST
,Ic1nERED AS ONE MEANS
N0 ph1STNG REVENUE. FED
'Or HI EXCISE FOR AUTOS.

|r.sHINGTON, D. Gunner
,,aestions have been made rel'
% oossible increases in pre-
.M,osors taxes and new taxes.
'D.aresentative Good, chairman OF
bonse appropriations committee
aronosed an increase OF the pres
|, . 70 Of $40 per gallon on spirits
/ s.o,,, from bonded warehouses to
t NJ t., Gallon This would add from
4 W 0o P1 0o6 TO S100,OO0,000 in revenue,
Additional Tobacco Tax.
-, also been suggested that adj
.n ,.G' taxes be imposed on cigars
\ lol tobacco An increased tax OF 70
Il 'o nsr 900 cigars in addition to
4 sll's ora ps tax would yield $4,000, 600
i B4tE; L,yj An increased tax OF - per
e Gi1'C on cigarets would yield $7O,OoO,-
n ~ ,Jditional. An increased tax OF Q
,+s a ner pound on tobacco and snuff
Kidd Weld 100000.
eT T,H national industrial conference
drd has recommended sales tax OF
a ~, oer pound on sugar. This
bnld Weld 100000, 900.
'Tbis organization has also proposed
t.y Of 3 cents per pound on coffee,
s;rb W would Weld $28,000,000, and a
n Of 10 cents per pound on tea,
H., h would Weld $10,000,000. These
eo ,1C taxes are not likely to meet
HI favor because they are levied up
4 necessities and would mean an IN
Eease in the cost of living. .
In federal automobile license tax will
Lreire consideration. 1t has been es-
n,ted that tax of so cents per
brspoower on the use of automobiles
'buId Weld $1OO,O00,000. Imposition
n this tax would make it necessary
automobile owners to take out a
Feral license in addition to their
Resent license.
Tax Proposed on Gasoline.
another tax suggested is 2 cents
II gallon on gasoline. This would
Beld S9OOO0,000. 1t is also proposed
Nat the present taxes on automobiles
ID trucks which are levied against
ID manufacturer be increased.
There is little likelihood OF the re-
kal of the present tax on admissions.
An increase OF stamp taxes of vari-
ls kinds would be one means OF rails
IN additional revenue. Otto H. Kahn,
New York banker, has advocated a
lamp tax on checks.
Representative Treadway, of Massa-
kusetts, has introduced a bill provid-
kg a tax Of a OF l per cent on money
kposited in banks.
A tax Of 5 per cent additional on
huSical Instruments would yield $751;
100000 A tax Of 7 per cent additional
b chewing gum would yield $20,000,-
20, A tax OF S per cent additional on
andy would yield $20,000,000. A tax
4 8 per cent additional on jewelry
nd articles of precious metal would
field $25,OOO,OOO. A tax of S per cent
|ddltional on motion picture films
fould yield 100000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-05
I'LL SAIL FOR ASIA TO
SEARCH FOR FIRST MAN.
american Scientists Will Endeavor to
Enter forbidden Lands" of Tibet.

S1 'Not OSlCLllolS Will EIlucdVOI 10
Enter Forbidden Lands" of Tibet.
Backed by the millions of the J. P.
l!o3lrgan banking house, an expedition
IiIl soon leave San Francisco to
iarch the forbidden lands" of Tibet,
rrkeystan and Mongolia in an effort
|. ma conclusive evidence of the
flgm and evolution of man in that
fglon' Headed by Roy Chapman An
Jews, the party will include ten of
/ most prominent scientific men of
L United States.
A fund OF $250,000 has been raised
prominent New York men who are
r. !eFeSted in anthropology. Andrews
n make a study of Chinese politics
EloTe the party attempts to enter
! VIII attempt to create a friendly
Fmg towards America on my trip"
SAD We will try to enter the for
Iegen country of Tibet. If we sue
ia l,. IN doing this we have accomplish
What no white man has ever done