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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30
BEAUTY DOCTORS
DOING BIG BUSINESS
WOMEN SEEK TO CHECK THE
GROWTH OF SMALL Boards.
COCKTAILS ARE BLAMED.

PARIS.-Beards and mustaches are
increasing alarmingly among women
and doctors are blaming cigaret smok-
ing and alcohol drinking principally for
this phenomenon.
Statistics at the hospitals show IL
per cent of the women inmates have
an abnormal growth of hair on the
upper lips and chins, and Il per cent
of the women inmates in the insane
asylums are bearded or have mustach-
es.
Paris society, which has taken up
active cigaret smoking since the arm1s-
tice, when Turkish scented tobacco
has been available once more, and have
contracted the American cocktail habit
from the A. E. F., are aghast at the
statements of leading Paris savants
that tobacco and alcohol are conducive
to unsightly hair.
Leading beauty doctors assert big
percentage of their clients continually
are under treatment for hair roots, be-
ing electrically burned out or other
wise eradicated.
Recently it was announced a new
treatment, applying ointment to the
skin which ate away the hair, had prov
en- extremely dangerous to the skin,
running the compilations of hundreds
of women who used it awhile. These
now are having their outer epidermis
removed, hoping to regain a fresh,
clear skin
Zone of the principal reasons which
the new fad of yellow ochre face pow
der was adopted so quickly is because
so many women are afflicted with lit
tie mustaches," said Felix, leading
Rue de la Paix beauty specialist.
Beauty doctors assert they have few
err American customers since prohibit
ton. This also is credited to the facI
there is less who smoke in America
than in Europe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30
TO PROMOTE STOCK
RAISING IN THE SOUTH
BANKS OF DIXIE AND GOVERN
MENT BACKING MOVEMENT
TO PRODUCE CATTLE.

CHICAGO, Ill.-Eugene Arnett, OF
Oklahoma City, arrived in Chicago to-
day in the interest of a campaign to
raise the standards of cattle raising in
the southern states. According to Mr..
Arnett the banks of the south and the
government are back OF plan to take
Illinois steers south, and to educate
the farmers in stock raising, instead OF
purely crop growing activities.
The movement started in Oklahoma,
where the banks became tired of car
rying small farmer loans, when the
agriculturists appeared to be using the
wrong tactics.
Eighty-nine per cent of the banks
of Oklahoma got together and dec1d-
ed to make no more one-crop basis
loans to farmers, unless the borrow
ers would try methods advocated by
government farm experts.
A survey showed that 40 per cent OF
the southern farms were without a
single head of stock, and that farmers
were seeking to get a living only from
one crop. After the farmers have been
prepared to care for cattle, agents OF
an appraisal committee are to go
through the dairy districts OF Illinois
and buy thousands of steers for ship
ment south. These steers, according to
Mr.. Arnett, will serve the needs OF
the southern farmers as we'll as high
priced bulls raised only for breeding
PURPOSES
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30
ri AIMS OF ROADS
ARE $631,5OO,OOO
rpoADs HAVE COLLECT
RA Al heo6oOOo,ooo TO DATE. PUZ-
~ ~ ABOUT AMOUNT DUE.


DISTINCTION, D. C.-The gov
"' ant returned all railway lines to
eina former private owners almost
,.,teen months ago.
a gnt the United States railroad adj
, Dat a relic of wartime gov
l.D,, .ent railway CONTROL continues to
f%'' .moIovs 1900 people. 1t is costing
- taxpayers $4,000,0OO year.
Ar Tbs railroad administration justifles
a av;stence by maintaining that It
~ settle hangover claims OF the
ll ,rn,.ys against the government.
" rhot Is true. There are at least halt
t;lion dollars of unadjusted claims
10 settled. But it is difficult to con-
;oce hard-pressed taxpayer that it IS
'" .,.sorv to maintain anything like so
nt Iss force to make this adjustment:
The officials of the present railroad
illustration are, with a Jew ex--
al l4;mns the same men who served
o " the administration during the war:
I'll Tbo IT, means that practically all OF
. inr, we're or are officials OF private
railway lines.
.Ad abroad administration today are
5 a,.wng public salaries for adjusting
Inns Of line in which they are pri-
III. ;r+arected
'H Tbs government gave up federal
.,iway control in March, 1920, the
Fsch-Cummins railway legislation be-
np passed at the same time.
finder the Esch-Cummins bill the
r,dways were guaranteed federal COM
opnsation for any losses they suffered
h operation between March and Sep
tember 1920.
IN In that period the railways lost
nughly $631, 100000, according to an
.,timate They already have collected
,ound S260,O0O,000 of this loss. Now
tbey're trying to get the remainder
S1O,000000
The railways have not presented
temized statements showing exactly
how they lost the enormous sum.
And they have not promised that
when the total sum is paid they will
regard it as payment in full OF the gov
ernment's Obligations under the Esch-
Cummins legislation.
There is nothing to prevent the rail
ways presenting fresh claims from
wear to year and collecting from the
treasury annually of the money you
pay as taxes and the money your chill
dren and children's children will pay:
That offers almost boundless oppor-
tunity for the railways to enrich them
selves while they impoverish the tax
payers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30
GETTING BACK ~
A COTTON BASIS
SILK IS NO LONGER THE FA-
VORITE FABRIC OF THE
BUYING PUBLIC.

ATLANTA, Ga-One pretty good
sign that the country is getting back
to a normal basis, in buying at least,
is that the buying public is getting
back to a cotton basis, whereas in the
flush days of war initiation, merchants
say, silk was the cheapest fabric lots
of people cared to purchase, and this
despite the fact that cotton goods were
somewhat high with other things.
Getting back to a cotton basis is a
good thing in more ways than one.
Besides being a measure of economy
it will help cotton get back on its feet,
hguratively speaking. That will help a
great number of people, for the more
cotton there is used the buster will be
the cotton factories, the better will be
the demand for raw cotton, and the
more money there will be for those
who produce the cotton.
Atlanta merchants have no hesitation
in saying that the demand for silk
shirts, fancy socks and expensive era
watts has declined and customers are
buying a cheaper line of goods. Here,
they say, is one case of a return to
normally. Not having the money to
buy the more expensive articles the
public is buying the less expensive,
as it did before the period of war wage
initiation.
'"If there is any economic law in
volved in the process it is the very
old and fundamental law that people
buy what they can afford" said one of
the leading haberdashers in the Peach,
tree arcade, where many fancy and
exclusive shops display their expen
sive wares. "But no doubt the condi
lions in mems furnishing goods trade
are entitled to respectful recognition
for their bearing on general industry.
Haberdashery is an index of prosperi-
ty no less than more pretentious lines
OF business and defation there has its
If the public is giving up
silk for cotton it is returning to the
first principles of economical buying"
There should be a great deal OF sat
isfaction in the south over the change,
it is pointed out here by agricultural
leaders. While the south is putting
cotton to one side as a sole crop, it IS
declared, there still is a great deal OF
cotton in the south and more is COM
ing on, and it will help lot, business
men agree, if people will buy it and
use it to a greater extent than they
have been doing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30
Preaching Duel Slated
To End Church Dispute
Pastors Seek to Settle Controversy
Over Organs and Missionaries.

Pastors Seek to Settle Controversy
Over Organs and Missionaries.
COLUMBUS, Ind.-Rev. William
H. Book, Columbus, and the Rev. R.
Roberts, Beck's Grove, have arranged
preaching dueP at Beck's Grove,
Bartholomew county, Sept. p and %.
The "duel, as it has been termed by
Mr.. Book, will be on the question: rs
it righteous to have instrumental mus
ic and missionary societies in church
esq" Mr.. Book, who is pastor of the
Tabernacle Christian church at Co.
lumbus, will take the affirmative, and
Mr.. Roberts, pastor of the Christian
church at Beck's Grove, will take the
negative. The congregation of two
churches in Beck's Grove will be the
judges.
The question to be debated was rais-
ed several years ago in Beck's Grove
when there was only one church in
the neighborhood Some members de-
sired to place an organ in the edihce
and form missionary society, but 9TH
ers opposed. The membership divided,
the dissenters building house of wor-.
ship, in which they placed an organ
and organized missionary society.
Several months later a cyclone de-
stroyed both churches. Two new build
ings went up, the feud continuing. Re-
Gently it was decided to settle the ques-
ton through debate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30
Bans Public Building;
Nothing for Dawson
No Possibility of Improvement of Post
Office Facilities Anywhere.

All prospects of raid on the treas
ury for the construction of public
buildings, which for a time seemed a
possibility despite the general re
trenchment program, vanished when
Representative Langley, of Kentucky
chairman of the house committee on
public buildings and grounds, declared
there would be no such measure at
the present session.
incidentally, he put a stop to the
possibility of a building measure for
which there might be some excuse to
improve postoffice and other condi-
tions in cities where they actually
might be needed. Such course had
been considered in view of the exam
nation into postal facilities being con-
Quoted by Postmaster General Hayes
Some officials of the postoffice de
partment and the treasury department
which has custody of public buildings.
recommended immediate Improvements
in about 90 cases. These were regard
ed as being OF merit, since the cities
in which they are located had entire
ly outgrown present facilities.
That condition is applicable to Daw-
son. The erection of a government
building here was authorized by con-
gress ten years ago and site pur-
chased, but for one reason and another
work has been delayed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30
SENSE OF HUM0R
VITAL AT CAPITAL
STRANGERS AND INMATES"
ALWAYS SEEM TO THINK.
ITS A HI OF A PLACE"

WASHINGTON, d. C.-To enjoy
Washington you have to be on the in
side looking out, and at the same time
on the outside looking in. Which ap-
parent paradox is easily explained by
the further statement that you must
be neither stranger nor an inmate. y
An inmate" is one who is suffering
from the bite of the venemous insect
known as stingerus politicians, and
who. as a result of the infection, gets
himself elected to something in Wash
ington and ever afterward takes him
self seriously
Good Old Siesta."
There comes a senator into the gal
lery, plotting little group OF constit-
uents. Pomposity, condescenson, I'M
portance ooze from him. He is mix
ture of democratic affability and states
manlike concern. Quickly he leaves
his dear friends, explaining in gestures
you have seen often before, that he
must hasten to important affairs.
He goes down the stairway, and you
see him take a certain turning in the
hallway. His constituents doubtless
think he is wearing himself out over
affairs of state, but you know he has
really sneaked into theacloak room and
gone to sleep on a couch.
There's Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
See her tripping gaily down the long
east front steps. Looks like girl. She's
in the senate gallery practically every
day.
On the plaza, group Of cowboys,
Indians, a black bear, very miserable
in the heat, and some perspiring chaps
grinding movie cameras.
In the senate chamber Jim Reed,
stretched full length on red leather
sofa, very uncomfortable, Nobody else
ever lies down in the senate chamber.
John Sharp Williams laughing. Sounds
like cuckoo clock striking |. Bert
Fernald, of Maine, telling Jim Watson
of Indiana "a good one"
And Some Even Flirt.
Joe Frelinghuysen shooting his cuffs
and watching the galleries The gay
Young wife of a naval officer-now on
distant service-trying to attract GER
tain party's attention.
Cal Coolidge's family in the gallery.
His boys have recently put on long
pants and they think everybody no
tees the fact.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30
RUIN AND SUFFERING
IN WAKE OF FLOOD
NEARLY ENTIRE TOWN IN
NEW MEXICO is WRECKED.
200 FAMILIES HOMELESS.

Ell PASO, Texas.-Flood waters
which wiped out virtually every build
ing in the town of Hatch, N. M, yes
terday causing more than 200 families
to be made homeless and destroying
thousands of dollars worth of property
were still several feet deep in the town
TODAY, according to messages received
by the FL Paso Herald.
Heavy cloudbursts throughout this
section early yesterday and Wednes-
day night caused rivers and creeks to
rise high and rushing torrents were
sent over rich farm lands and through
Hatch.
Women and children of the town
are suffering from exposure, according
to H. F. Fie1dness, of Hatch, who tel
ephoned the conditions to the FL Paso
Herald today. He asked that physi-
clans be sent to take care OF them I'M
mediately.
Fieldness said he Was standing in a
foot of water in a telephone booth in
one of the FIVE buildings yet stand
ing in the town.
7Over 200 people have been render
ed homeless by the flood and they are
suffering" he said.
HUNDREDS of persons in the upper Fl
Paso valley, who were forewarned
drove their stock from the lowlands
into the foothills.
There was continuous all night
procession of men, women and chill
dren moving from the valley into the
hills, carrying load after load Of pro-
visions and household furniture.
Many slept on the hillside and along
the high roadways without any bed
ding.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30
cPFFD-RFCORD LOCOMOTIVE DRAWS
81 OW PASSENGER TRAIN IN GEORGIA
TeWheeer of the Atlantic Coast Line Ran at Rate OF IZO Miles
An Hour and Won Mail Contract In l9Ol

Plant System was awarded the mail
contract
Ordinary Type of Engine.
Some time later the Atlantic Coast
Inc absorbed the Plant System and
No. III became A. c. L. No. 2lO.
There is nothing out of the ordinary
in the design of the engine, which Is
of the typical "10-wheeler" type, three
pairs of drivers and four pony truck
wheels. She has 19-inch cylinders with
stroke of % inches, 72-inch driving
wheels, and carries boiler pressure
of 1870 pounds The engine weighs loO,-
500 pounds. Her rated tractive power
is Fl ,480 pounds.
The old Plant System track between
Savannah and Jacksonville is known
among railroad men in the southeast
as "the Speedway" because OF the fast
time that has been made on it. No.
Ill made her notable run IN l9O!, and
after the Atlantic Coast Line took over
the Plant System a special train was
handled at a rate of 1850 miles an
hour, This instance was on March y,
1908 when train chartered by the
family of George Gould was run the
liz miles from Jacksonville to Savan-.
nah in 152 minutes, or at speed OF
t7O7 miles an hour. Engine III, with
Engineer Thomas Leake in charge,
which pulled the train, ran the seven
! miles between Walthourville and NC
Intosh, Ga, in four minutes, exceeding
i105T miles an hour.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30
STATE BANK DEPOSITS
GAIN $4,000 90
TOTAL RESOURCES HAVE IN
CREASED S34,O00,OOo IN TWO
YEAR PERIOD.

Despite unfavorable financial condi
tons and in the face of low prices re-
ceived for farm products, principally
cotton. deposits in state banks OF
Georgia increased $4319,5 500 for the
year ending June 80, 1921, over the
year ending June 80, 1919, according
to an announcement made by T. R.
Bennett, superintendent of the state
banking department.
The figures were compiled from the
statements of the state banks sent III
under the call issued by the depart
ment for June 80, 1921, and show that
Georgia banks are. in much soundelr
condition than many people supposed,
and also that the depression is not
nearly as bad as it looks on the face
of things.
One significant thing shown by the
figures is that the total resources OF
the state banks are greater by approx
imately $34,000,000 than they were on
June 80, 1919 The resources in 1919
were $252, $4,000 as compared to re-
sources OF $3.50, $4,000 for June 80,
1921.
Another indication of sound business
methods being used in the banks is the
report of overdrafts. On December 2,
1919, the overdrafts of the banks ag-
gregated $7,48S000. Overdrafts have
been cut to $4,000, as shown by the
latest statement There are more than
900 state banks and these figures show
the overdrafts average less than $500 to
a bank
An encouraging feature of the re-
ports according to the banking depart
ment officials, is that the capital stock
of state banks has increased from 500
100000 in 1919 to $34,059,000 in 1921,
an increase of $5,150,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30
Women Add Inch and a
Half to Average Stature
Dressmakers Are Forced to Use More
Cloth Because of Increased Height.


Cloth Because of Increased Height.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. = They're
building 'em bigger. Dressmakers say
50, corsetieres agree there's something
in it, and now along comes cold, cal
culatng science to explain why wo-
men weigh, more than they ever did
before.
Women are no fatter, say the physi-
cal culture experts. They're simply
larger, and here's the reason: The wo-
men of today are one and half inches
taller as a class than forty years ago.
Their chests are larger, their waist
lines have widened. Their muscles have
hardened. All this makes them weigh
more
The changes, according to those
who have made a study OF the subject,
are simple enough to explain. Women,
specially during the last twenty years
or so, gradually have been converted
from the clinging vine to robust per-
sons who are proud rather than asham-
ed Of the physical feats they can
accomplish. Participation in sports has
turned the trick.
Time was" explained William Her
mann, a physical training expert
when a woman thought vigorous use
Of the body and its muscles was un..
ladylike All that has changed, OF
course and the gradual participation OF
women in sports and various forms OF
exercises actually has brought about
a change in her height and her figure.
The change in height is not simply a
case of athletics having taught a wo..
man to stand straighter. 1t is an actual
change that can be measured"
In commenting on the change in the
feminine physique several Philadelphia
aTesSmakers said the change was pr1n--
G(lpaIly noticeable in a higher chest and
larger waistline
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30

JACKSONVILLE. Fla.-Pulling a
slow local passenger train in Georgia
is the "ten-wheeler," which one day
20 wears ago travelled at a speed great
err than that of any steam locomotive
ever built, 12O mile an hour. This en-
oine now Atlantic Coast Line No. ZlO,
was Plant System No. III when 1t set
the worlds record for sprinting. AT the
same time it won United States mail
contract between Washington, D. T.,
and Jacksonville.
The Seaboard Air Line and the At
1antic Coast Line-Plant System III
March. 1901, were conducting tests
under observation of postal AUTHORITIES
Each road, it was agreed, should run
three trains to determine which could
handle the Florida and Cuban mails the
quicker. 1t was while pulling the thIu
fest train between Savannah and JACK
sonville that No. Ill, of the. Savannah
Florida and Western, just delivered I, 10
the railroad by builders, unexpectedly
set its record that still STANDS
Hot Box Developed.
Soon after leaving Savannah No. ~
= new locomotive assigned to the tes'
developed hot driving-boX and - tne
Seaboard test train passed it at Bur
roughs. II miles out, the two rallroauS
paralleling to that point,
At Fleming, % miles from Savannah Savanna
No. 1O7 was still experiencing troup 5s
and and when passenger train No; =
southbound, with engine, No. III y
charge of Engineer Lodge, oVeT over 20,
the test train officials substituted the
iii for the 107, ordered dlspatchers e
clear the road between Fleming ane
Jacksonville and instructed Lodge L
1nsh his engine to the limit.
A fire some years ago destroyed tn'
records Of the run between FLEMING
and Waycross, but reports Snow una
No iii made the 70 miles 6etwe wee:
Wavcross and Jacksonville IN - MN Il.
utes, an average speed OF |S miles al
hour. -. ,aai
Screyen Ga, Il miles south OF Jesup
where No. Ill and her tram coVeI5S
Ave miles in 2 minutes and 50 SECONDS ]:
fNo. iii arrived at the union statlon Il
Jacksonville ahead of the SeagoaI'
test train and the Atlantic coast Line
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30

A man can't be arrested for what
he is thinking. AT least not in the pres
ent stages of mental science, That is
solely between him and God and the
bed post, and will probably remain 50
unless the knights of the blue laws
decide to invade psychic realms.
If there is anything to the mental
telepathy idea, o boy, what an earfull
the ants are going to get on Labor
day-next Monday. The streets may
not be thronged with marching crowds
but the array of cuss words scheduled
to file past the national capital dur
ing the afternoon would ma Ike any sail
or blush at his amateurish inefficiency.
At 3 p. m. on Labor day every men,
Der of the Order of Camels is to pause
for one moment, stand at attention
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-30
A. B. & A. FREIGHT is
WRECKED BY DYNAMITE
SEVENTY HEAD OF CATTLE
DIE IN CRASH OF CARS. ONE
FLAGMAN IS INJURED.

CORDELE, Ga.-Fast freight train
No. 90, of the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic railroad, travelling at a
rate of 80 miles an hour, was blown
from the rails at Musselwhite, five
miles from this city Friday morning,
and nine freight cars were completely
demolished and seventy head OF cattle
killed.
Ephriam Peckfnan, negro brake
man, sustained painful injuries when
he jumped from the tender Of the To-
connective when the explosion occurred.
No other members of the train crew
sustained injuries.
The wreck occurred when the heavy
locomotive, pulling a long string OF
perishable laden freight cars, hit what
is believed to have been large amount
of dynamite placed on the track on a
high embankment and directly over a
short trestle and on rather sharp
curve. The engine was thrown Oft the
track but remained upright.
Seventy Head of Cattle Killed.
The disaster is considered the worst
of the series of wrecks which have
occurred on the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic railroad since the railroad
became involved in general strike
of EMPLOYEES on March 9th. Crashing
down the steep embankment were tour
cars of live stock and six cars OF gem
eral freight. Three Of the cars were
reduced to splinters and six others
were piled upon each other and demol-
ished beyond repairs.
The four cattle cars were next to
the tender OF the locomotive. 1t is said
the wav thew left the track and slid
down the embankment it appeared that
they had received the full force OF the
explosion, which was heard tor. several
miles. Fifty head Of the cattle were
killed outright. When the debris was
cleared sufficiently enough to allow the
remaining 1872 head to ODE released 1t
was found necessary to shoot ~ as
the result of shattered limbs and bat
tered bodies. Those surviving were re-
leased in a field, but later rounded up
and reloaded in the cars.
Having fully determined not to per
NIT further operations OF train wreck
ers in Crisp county without great risk
of being caught the county comm1s-
sioners have offered a reward OF SoOO
for the apprehension with evidence, to
convict those who take part in further
attempts to destroy A. B. and A. prop
erty in this county.
$1,000 Reward Offered.
The reward applies to the wreck
which occurred Friday. 1t was also
announced that $500 reward is offered
by the railroad, making the total OF
$1,000. 1t is believed that other coun-
ties on the main line of the railroad
will Join in on this movement.
Two other loaded freight cars and
two tank cars loaded with molasses
were derailed, but remained upright;
The locomotive was badly damaged
and the tracks for several yards were
ripped tN the force of the explosion.