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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
ORGY OF WASTE AT
MUSCLE SHOALS Barred
EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT OF
FICERS LIVED IN EXPENSIVE
HOMES AND CLUBS.

Court proceedings against
army officers responsible for waste OF
public funds in the erection of nitrate
plants at Sheffield and Muscle Shoals,
Ala, have been demanded in the SEN
ate. Revelation made during the de-
bate for an appropriation to complete
the project gave every indication that
Muscle Shoals would stand as the
worst of all the examples of admins
trative disregard of spending public
funds, a veritable orgy OF waste and
loose methods unrivaled by any dis
closures brought to public attention by
congressional Investigations.
Resentment against the army OFF,
GERS in charge of the work has become
So great in the senate that it was viz
tually assured that an amendment will
be offered by Senator Wadsworth, OF
New York, chairman of the military
affairs committee, to bar army ottl-
GERS from the directorate to manage
the nitrate plants for production OF
munitions in time of war and fertilizer
during periods of peace.
Mansions Built For Officers.
Although the plants were 10 De
largely experimental, the officers OF
the ordnance department refused to
reside in comfortable barracks and
constructed an elaborate residential
section with homes of permanent con-
struction and expensive driveways.
Some of these houses cost approxi-
mately $4,000 A club house, with so
suites of rooms, was built at Sheffield
at a cost of $4,000. AT Muscle Shoals
a club house for officers was built at
cost of $341 1866.
Senator Borah charged that large
number of employees were on two pay
rolls. Skilled mechanics were used to
shovel slack out of railroad cars, he
said. The senator also charged that
men punched their own time cards and
then returned to their hunks.
Automobiles were purchased IN
large numbers for. officials personal
use, the chauffeurs being paid high
wages and expensive garages main
tanned. Hundreds of supervisory en-
ployes, at salaries running as high as
$4,000 year and more, were on the
payroll, the monthly salary roll for the
administrative officers alone being
S468, 305, Senator Borah charged.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
A Wealthy Indian
And His Bride Stand
The Matrimony Test
By Living Amicably For a Month
They Defeat Suit to Annul
Their Marriage.

TOPEKA, Kan.-Jackson Barnett,
aged u, reputed oil millionaire and
said to be the wealthiest Indian in
America, and his white wife, formerly
Anna Laura Lowe, aged 80, have de-
feated a suit to have their marriage
cancelled By living amicably through
out a months honeymoon III he In
dams humble domicile near Henryet-
ia, Okla, they swept aside all evil
dence presented in three months OF
procedure in the Kansas supreme
court and suit to annul the union has
been crossed off the calendar,
The suit was brought by Carl ].
O'Hornett, of Henryetta, Okla, the
Indians guardian, and Cato Sells,
United States commissioner of Indian
affairs. 1t set forth that Barnett was
illiterate and that last May he and his
bride eloped in an automobile furnish
ed by the woman, crossed the Kansas
line and were married in Arkansas
City. In the original proceedings in
stituted in the Kansas supreme court
Guardian O'Hornett petitioned that his
aged ward be restored to him. 1t was
charged that the bride had kidnapped
her husband and that she was an adj
venturess.
Barnett, characteristic of his race, is
man of few words. He made it plain
to the court, however, that he was
we'll content.
THE Indian and his bride appear
to have stood the test of matrimony,
commented Judge A. M. Jackson,
commissioner appointed by the SUI
preme court to hear the evidence IN
the case. at was agreed that Barnett
and his wife be permitted to go on a
HONEYMOON of month. The honey
moon is over and they still maintain
thew are satisfied, so after conference
with all parties concerned it was
agreed to recommend to the supreme
court that the case be dropped.
| The supreme court acted in accord
with Judge Jackson's recommends
| tons.
The Indian for many years lived on
his land allotment near Henryetta. MS
horses and dogs his only companions
He made little use of his land, his. cash
allotment from the government Delng
ample to purchase his few worldly
needs.
But a few years ago Barnett's farm
began to yield OIL Under his state and
| federal guardians the Indians wealth
increased from the royalties until, &C
cording to O'Hornett, it now exceeds
million dollars.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
TOILET WATERS WILL
BE "DOCTORED" UP
STARTLING EFFECTS LIKELY
TO THOSE WHO TAKE NIP
FOR ALCOHOLIC EFFECT.

For the purpose of rendering various
ordinary toilet preparations unfit for
beverage purposes druggists of the
country are diluting those preparations
with quinine, resorcin. salicylic acid,
salicilate of soda, cinchonidine and tar
tar emetic. 1t is frankly admitted that
one or more of these chemicals are
added to the preparations, which in
clude bay rum and practically all other
standard toilet waters and hair tonics,
for the purpose of rendering i'll any
person who may so far forget himself
as to take nip of any of the concoc-
tons.
Druggists and other dealers in toilet
preparations have the choice of "fvc
evils" in additions to tartar emetic.
Tartar emetic must be used in all the
preparations. Any one of the five 9th
er acids or chemicals can be used as
the other ingredient For quinine and
cinchonidine the proportion is two
grains per fluid ounce, while the pro-
portion when sodium salicylate, resor-
Gin, or salicylic acid is used, is five
grains per fluid ounce.
With the possible exception OF qui-
nine any of the ingredients when used
in the proportion fixed by the prohibi-
ton officials is expected to make any
person who takes a drink of the prep
arations very i'll, salicylate of sodium
being particularly violent so far as the
human stomach is concerned.
When resorcin is used the effect that
follows nip of the concoction is
startling, according to persons familiar
with the after effects of resorcin.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
FINDS FOR SOUTH
IN FARM MEASURE
ouMEND TOTAL OF $685.
REco ?Io N IN APPROPRIATIONS
'l"' COR COMING YEAR.

,cIrNGTON, D. C.-The agri-
WASH lnrronriation bill for the next
tultuirai 10, APP as reported to the house
fscal yeai o,roonriations committee, car
Py the total IEil OF $33,5l7,559, an increase Increase
r. 81 q S04675 over the amount appi ~,
Pt Sl, pa Tor the fiscal year ending on
PriateG, 10 1921. The increase consists
gune 81 81 100000 appropriation Tor the
pt the n 9'' Of lands in the Appalachian
PurcildSTG, h;te mountains under the
Rnd " h;II for the conservation OF
Weeks .,, pa' resources and the head,
$he La % Of navigable streams, ana
100000 in the o 9ro nnTicult ans'
ne An ~ appropriation OF Sioo'ooo iol
An soT Their field crops. is provldeSnl
khe mainly for Graduating the ,oo Dol oon
or, =; iiG ~ the cotton belt and $lo0ouoo
FeeyIn, ID for discriminating the bean
4 plo''H NV Alabama, Both appropria-
beelle ~ made Immediately available:
llo ms d developing the experiment OF
Fcl Wv svrnp from sweet potatoes
Pa Hlak dn6 ;s provided. Southern mem
49, aid this industry has been de-
.aloned to the pOht
Gelo oesory to get factories to agree to
p5oco i on the market. The syrup
! E,aIe said is as palatable as the maple
Pr CA CAM incrcase of $4,000, which brings
H. AH total to $l75,0O0, was made in the
s Ill.,, '0'T n,ermitting the department to,
art&v to shippers the condition OF
Er,;ts and vegetables when they ar
t;v n at their destination.
e For the United States warehouse
ro an appropriation of $65,O00 was
brov;ded for the coming year, Inc
bo 69l 0aanpropriation was $4,000 and
be- was available in addition $25,O00
Er 1lr1 the original appropriation. Mem
hers Tr said this act was being extended
nd more than a hundred cotton ware
houses in Georgia alone had come in
Ender it in the last year:
For fighting the pink boil worm IN
onisiana S550,O00 was provided. At
he hearings before the committee IT
bas stated that already Louisiana had
crowded $250,OO0 and Texas 100000
for this purpose through approprla-
Hons bv their legislatures.
An appropriation OF $ooO,0OO was
rade for determination of the cattle
tick and $4,000 for the war on hog
cholera in the south.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
Cost of Living Drops
So Per Cent in Nation
AT Least That Is What the National
Industrial Conference Board Says.

sAt Least 1Ildl ID NNA1ot IAA( ANaSASAAe~A
Industrial Conference Board Says.
In the Jour months from July to
November, 1920, the cost of living i'll
This country decreased Sc per cent, &C
eording to a report made on Saturday
bv the National Industrial conference
board.
Declines in the average prices OF a
humber Of important food and cloth
ing articles were SO great as to offset
concurrent increases in many other
Stems, the report stated.
The average price of food dropped
hearty Y per cent" the report stated,
| but during the four months from
DULY to November the average price
pi potatoes dropped 63 per cent and
hat of sugar 81 per cent"
The average price of clothing
dropped more than IA per cent, the
report said, but the prices of many
items declined more than this. The
price OF cotton yard goods dropped
from So to AZ per cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
Laughs Self to Death
OUer Prices of 1914
Australian Found Comparison So Ri
diculous He Couldn't Stand 1t.

SYDNEY, N. S. W-Excessive
laughter, prompted by his comparing
prices which prevailed in June, 1914,
with those ruling at present caused
the death of man here, according
to the solemn verdict handed down
by the attending physician.
The victim was reading the market
prices in an old paper when those
around him heard him make remark
regarding present day prices which he
followed by roar of laughter. His
spasm of laughing continued until he
collapsed and rolled to the floor. He
was dead when a physician arrived,
the immediate cause being heart fail
ure. In the victims pocket was found
a handbook showing deposit of sew
eral hundred pounds-just sufficient
to pay his funeral expenses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
Scramble For Toys on
Part of Congressman
Quickly Pick Up a Box of Playthings
Exhibited by Toy Maker.

Exhibited by Toy Maker.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The staid
business of tariff making halted today
in the house ways and means COM
mittee room while members scram-
bled for toys rivaling Christmas
festivity. Committeeman went home
with dolls and animals bulging from
their pockets.
]. o. Foote, a toy manufactures,
PLAYED Santa Claus. He came to ap-
peal for tariff protection on toys, par
ticularly celluloid toys. Every time
Americans turned out new toy, he
said, Japan irnitators duplicated it and
shipped over tons for sale at lower
wholesale rate than American facto-
ries could make.
To support his argument Foote
came armed with a huge box of toys.
He exhibited them, seated solemnly
behind the great horseshoe desk on
its high platform.
His argument finished Foote said
he had no further use for his exhibits
and the scramble began. The solons
were boys again in a second and when
the rush was stopped the toy box
was empty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
DRINK HOT TEA
FOR A BAD COLD

Get small package of Hamburg
Breast Tea at any pharmacy. Take a
tablespoonful of the tea, put a cup of
boiling water upon it, pour through a
sieve and drink a teacup full at any
time during the day or before retiring.
1t is the most effective way to break a
cold and cure grip, as it opens the
pores of the skin, relieving congestion.
Also loosens the bowels, thus driving a
cold from the system.
Try it the next time you suffer from
a cold or the grip. 1t is inexpensive
and entirely vegetable, therefore safe
and harmless.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
Bottom Reached in
Products of the Field
Marketing Committee Declares Farm
ers Have Swallowed Bitter Pill,
But Are Bracing Up.


CHICAGO, Ill.-"There are better
times ahead The slump in conditions
has cost the farmers of America So
900 100000, according to accepted sta
tistics, but they have swallowed the
pill and are Strengthening up and look
ing ahead"
This is the concensus OF opinion ex-
pressed today at the convention OF the
Farmers Marketing committee OF
seventeen, representing food produc-
ers of many states and hundreds o.
thousands of farmers.
Chairman c. R. Gustafson, of Lin
coin. Neb., said that the loss sustain
ed by the farmers by the recent great
declines in prices meant that the pur-
chasing power of 6,500,000 food pro
ducers had been cut to the minimum
However, they believe the pendulum
has swung to the extreme as tar as
they are concerned and when other
articles reach the same basis upon
which food products now rest the
country will be ready to go ahead or
firm basis.
One member, arguing for a more
stable market, said:
THE farmer as a seller is morgan
lied. He hauls his produce to the near
est market and turns it over to the
speculator or commission merchant
and there he closes the deal. He has
no assurance of market price.
ION the other hand he buys in &
highly organized market Even gov
ernments like France and England
have organized the market against
him."
Some of the delegates were astonish.
ed when they had to pay 90 cents fol
an order of corned beef and cabbage
the same beef and cabbage they hac
nroduced and sold for II ce1its
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
RUB BACKACHE AND
LUMBAGO RIGHT OUT
Rub Pain and Stiffness away with
a small bottle Of old honest
ST. Jacobs Oil

When your back is sore and lame or
lumbago sciatica or rheumatism has
you stifened up, don't suffer! Get
IS cent bottle Of old, honest est Jacobs
OiI' at any drug store, pour a little
in your hand and rub it right into
the pain or ache, and by the time you
count fifty, the soreness and lameness
10 gone.
Don't stay crippled! This soothing.
penetrating oil needs to be used only
once, Il takes the ache and pain right
aat of your back and ends the misery.
Il is magical, yet absolutely harmless
and doesn't burn the skin.
Nothing else stops lumbago, sciatlca
AID lame back misery so promptly!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
Gold Pieces in Heels
Of $l00-a-Pair Shoes

Two pairs of shoes designed to
sell at retail for $500 a pair, and
said to be the most expensive ever
manufactured in Massachusetts,.
have been placed on exhibition in
a shoe factory in North Adams.
One pair has pure gold leaf lin
ing, with gold hooks and eyes, and
has a $50 gold piece inserted in the
heel of each shoe.
The other pair has lining of
bright red satin and a gold watch
of the wrist type insered in the
left shoe just above the ankle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
RODY OF CARS DAUGHTER
BELIEVED BOUND TO EGYPT
That of Her Maid Also Thought to Be
Aboard Steamer For Holy Land.

LONDON.-Bodies supposed to be
those of Grand Duchess Olga, daughc.
ter of former Emperor Nicholas OF
Russia. and her maid are aboard the
British steamer Devanha, which is
due to reach Egypt at the end OF the
oresent week. Disinterred at Yekater-
inburg, the bodies are saldd to nave
been smuggled through Persia ana
thence to Shanghai.
Upon the arrival of the steamer
they will be disembarked and taken
to the Holy Land for final nterment'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
CONGRESS LOPS OFF 1868
JOBS IN WASHINGTON CITY
will Be Saving to the Government Of
Approximately $30,0OO,0o0.

The legislative, executive and judi
clal appropriation bill reported out to
congress reduces federal employees i'll
Fhc District OF Columbia by 1908,
affecting proposed yearly saving OF
more than $30000,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
at Looked Like a Battlefield In Eu
roupe," Said Mr.. c. Dunster.

WAS staying at hoted IN sInaII
PENNSYLVANIA town. Early one morn
inp I went to the stable to hire rig
and was shown pile of dead rats kill
ed with RAT-SNAP the night oe1ore J;
Looked like battlefield IN Europe
Three sizes, 25c, SOC, $l0O. Sold ana
guaranteed by Dawson Hardware Co.
and Crouch Bros.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
SEEKS DEATH WITH
DYNAMITE; FINDS 1T
Pennsylvania Man Uses Five Sticks
And Is Blown Into Bits.

GREENS BURG, Pa.-John ].
Smith, of HaydeRville, committed sui
eide yesterday by blowing himself into
fragments with dynamite. He was AZ
years old and had been i'll.
He placed FIVE sticks of dynamite
in a pit hole" Then he attached an
electric battery to the explosive and
lay across the hole Completing a cir
cult by manipulating one of the bat
terry wires at his side he set off the
dynamite.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
WORTH MORE THAN
1T COSTS

lated battery, this finer product has
the following;
/. A Threaded Rubber Insulation
battery is brand new when you
buy it, because it is shipped and
carried in stock bone dry" 1t is
filled with electrolyte and charg-
ed for. the first time after you
buy it.
Wood insulated batteries must be
filled and charged at the factory
after which the chemical action
of the solution causes some wear
on the places, which continues
even though the solution may
have been emptied out.
The amount of wear that such a
battery had had. depends on how
long it has been in stock.
2. II the Threaded Rubber In
sulation battery is not abused,
the insulation will outlast the
plates.
Wood insulation must be renew
ed at least once to get full bat
terry life.
The cost OF renewing wood in
sulatoin is as much or more than
the extra cost of the Threaded
Rubber Insulation battery. Be-
sides this there is also the ex-
pense of rent battery while re-
pairs are being made.
8. After middle age, the Thread
ed Rubber Insulation Battery
still maintains its capacity. Wood
insulation batteries gradually
lose capacity due to partial short
circuits through the wood-call-
ed electrical leakage" This
makes frequent recharging nee
essary and the owner has ex--
pense for both recharging and
use of rent battery.
4. By keeping the plates perfectly
insulated from each other, rapid
plate wear from partial short CIR
cults is avoided, and under the
same conditions of care and use
the Threaded Rubber Insulation
battery gives more months OF
service.
5. The Threaded Rubber lnsula-
ton battery gives much greater
assurance of uninterrupted ser
vice, reducing to a minimum the
possibility of battery failure on
the road.
A large number of car manufac-
turers are using Willard Batteries
with Threaded Rubber Insulation
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-01-25
What does this mean to you as Farmer?

IT MEANS, first of all, that you can
L buy any machine or implement you
may need from one concern-us-with-
out taking chances on experiments or
implements that might be orphaned one
or two years after you buy them, be-
cause of the manufacturer going out OF
business. You can always get repairs
for any machine or implement in the
International line, because the Harvester
Company will never go out of business.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-07
Fancy Prison Fare
Refused by Man on
Eve of Death

OSSINING, n. Y.-James Louis
Odell, of Rochester, was put to death
at Sing Sing prison for the murder
of Edward U. Kneip in that city jan
uary Z, 1920. He entered the death
chamber at 11:O5 and was pro-
nounced at 1114.
Odell's wife, Pearl Beaver Odell, is
serving a life sentence at Auburn
prison for completely in the murder
and has attempted to take the whole
responsibility for it. With her is her
fve-months-o old daughter, who never
saw her father.
Kneip. according to the testimony
Of Odell and his wife, had Wronged
Mrs. Odell before her marriage to
Odell, and after her marriage sought
to blackmaiI her. She told her hus-
band, and, posing as a detective, he
ARRESTED" kneip, handcuffed him to
a tree on the outskirts of Rochester,
and then, with the help of Mrs.
Odell, beat him to death.
Odell hoped for a rreprieve until
the last, the news having been kept
from him that Governor Miller ear
ly in the day had refused to grant a
final appeal for his life. Contrary
to the custom of condemned men,
Odell told Ward0 Lewis E. Lawes
that the regular prison fare would
be good enough for his last meal.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-07
BY JoSEPHUS DANIELS
Former Secretary of the Navy

Copyright, 1927, Dy John F. Ollie. Copy
right by National Newspaper Service. Copy
right in Great Britain, Canada and through
out France. All rights reserved, including
translation into foreign languages, including
the Scandinavian. Unauthorized reprinting
for any purpose forbidden.
The naval force of the United
States has not been divided into two
fleets; it has been organized as two
fleets, capable of combination so
quickly and efficiently as to be ready
at any time to employ their united
strength in either ocean.
When the announcement was made
of the organization of the Pacific fleet
and Admiral Rodman was making
ready to take it through the Panama
canal, a newspaper man-friend Of
mine-came into the navy department
to tell me that a retired admiral, who
thinks he received the mantle Of
Mahan, was going to make a violent
attack upon the policy.
Let him go ahead" [ replied. THE
fleet is moving and nobody will live
long enough ever again to see Ameri-
can interests, American policies and
the American people unprotected in
the Pacific
But" said my newspaper friend,
she says you will ruin the navy if
you create two fleets"
THAT does not give me any con-
cern," [ answered. According to
such onion-eyed admiral knockers
ruined the navy so many times, until
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-07
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS
Editor Tri-Weekly Journal,
A@1o~to 90

Editor III SehIy JouIudl'
Atlanta, Ga,
Dear Sir:
AS the Tri-Weekly Journal goes
into the best families of the south,
l wish to call the attention of its
readers to way by which those
with the necessary grounds for poul-
try raising can increase their in
comes without effort or expense on
their part.
There are many refined, educated
and intelligent women, who have mad
experience and every success at poul-
try raising, and they are anxious
to engage in that line OF work again ga
All they need are the grounds. They
made it a success in the past and
will do so now, for eggs and fryers
are always in demand and bring good
prices, too. Georgia has to import
at least a third of her poultry at
present.
The business can be run on shares
or other ways best suited to those
interested, and while it is being built
up there are ways that capable
woman can make herself useful
in the home, aside from coklng and
drudgery in general.
BY giving those a chance who
wish to engage in this line of work
it will open a new field for women
ar girls and give healthy employ
ment, which will put a stop to the
rush to the cities. And those who
furnish the grounds for this work
will reap a generous harvest. The
state, the family, the individual, will
be benefited when women make poul-
try raising a vocation.
Respectfully yours,
(MRS.)) CLARA WILLIAMS.
Atlanta, Ga.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-07
Is Gallons Of Liquor
Are Reported Taken
After Exciting Race

An exciting race out Peachtree
road Wednesday night between two
automobiles, one occupied by Call
Officers Kirk and McWilliams and
the other by I. B. Perdue, who gave
his address as 70 Lee street, ended
in the capture of Perdue and eight
cen gallons of corn liquor reported
found in his car by the officers.
Perdue was arraigned before Re-
corder George Johnson Thursday
morning and bound over to the state
courts under a $500 bond on a
charge of violating the state prohi-
bition law.
According to the officers, they
were in their automobile near the
Brookwood station on Peachtree road
shortly after midnight, when they
noticed Perdue driving along slowly,
and acting suspiciously. They said
they started to investigate, and as
they did, Perdue speeded UP his
car and fled in the direction of
Buckhead.
The officers said they chased
him several miles, and were about
to overtake him when Perdue
stopped his car and jumped out, at
tempting to escape in the woods. The
officers said they gave chase and
caught him after a short run.