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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
Charges That States
Stole Road Equipment
Government Would Look Into Matter
Of Machinery Loaned Out.

Reports of a great national steap
are current as a result of federal in
vestigation in connection with millions
of dollars worth of surplus war mate
rails turned over free by the national
government to various states for a spe-
cited purpose, road building. 1t is said
that state officials have been selling
that material.
Automobiles, trucks, tractors, road
scrapers, cement mixers, and gasoline
engines, necessary for road building,
have been handed over to the states by
the war department under the author
ity of congress. Congress now is said
to be preparing complete investiga-
ton of alleged bad faith on the part OF
the states.
Large demands of states for this ma
chinery aroused suspicion. Inquiry de-
ve1oped the fact that in certain cases
the equipment, instead of being used
On the roads, was being sold at>ridic-
ulously low prices. Under the survey
contemplated, disposition of every
piece Of machinery may be determined.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
One Hundred Thousand
Women Are Working on
The Nation Railroads
Manv Do Common Labor for Carriers,
Clean Engines, Watch Crossings
And Fill Clerical Jobs.

Women workers now are tlocklng to
the employ of the nations railroads.
Nearly 100000 women are helping to
build lines and maintain and operate
existing systems forthcoming report
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is expected to show. Women con-
stituted in 1920 nearly FIVE per cent
Of the nations 100000 railway en-
ployes, according to a census taken by
the commission, and the number is IN
creasing daily.
The 1920 census shows that women
are going in for all kinds OF rail Work,
heavy as we'll as light. They are clean
ing engines and headlights IN round,
houses. keeping watch night as well
as day at dangerous grade crossings,
operating telegraph keys, carrying
messages of train dispacthers, and even
doing carpentry and other heavy work
in the railroad shops.
In some positions women, the ran
roads are learning, are more efhcieni
than male workers. Some jobs in which
numbers of women are at work are
Attendants, more than 1000; cleaning
4 600: shop workers, more than l,000;
station agents and assistants, LOO;
telegraph and telephone signal serves
nearly 1000; car department. l,9oOi
watch women, 400; common laborers
300.
The census shows that more than
$4,000 are annually employed in .cleri-
cal Jobs. But the proportions OF wo,
men workers in other lines OF railroad
work are increasing at much faster
| rate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
LOAN OF 100000
TO AUGUSTA FIRM
COTTON CONCERN GETS HUGE
GOVERNMENT CREDIT TO
EXPORT $4,000. BALES.

The recent loan by the War Finance
Corporation of 100000 to Barrett &
Company, cotton factors of Augusta
has occasioned mach intcres in Sa-
vannah, both in banking circles and in
the cotton trade.
The purpose of the loan is to finance
the expectation of approximately IL
900 bales of cotton from Georgia
North and South Carolina. To nego-
late it Barrett and company we're re-
CURED to give as collateral warehouse
eceipts, insurance attached, and in re-
turn were advanced half 2 million dol
lars, which is 80 per cent Of the mark
ct value of the cotton on which the
money was borrowed.
This is evidence of the sincerity oil
President Harding and the War Fl
nance Corporation in the recent avowal
to aid the farmers of the south in the
orderly marketing of cotton. Their
good intentions are further demonstra-
ted by the advance in the Mississippi
Delta district, which will afford the
machinery for financing the marketing
of 100000 bales of long staple cotton
The loan to Barrett & Company
was the outgrowth of letter recently
sent to the Federal international Bank
ing Company of New Orleans, in which
Eugene Meyer, jr., managing director
of the War Finance Corporation, urg-
ed the formation of an organization
whereby southern farmers and export
ers would be in a position to avai
themselves of the aid rendered by hi:
company.
The committee appointed by Pres
ident Harding, consisting OF Secreta
ries Hoover and Mellon and Eugene
Meyer, jr., has received replies to Z
QUESTIONABLE from number OF rep
resentative southern banks stating that
it would be desirable, owing to the un
usual conditions, to provide some f.
nancing in addition to that which is
available through ordinary banking
channels in the cotton belt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
SAYS THIS IS NO
TIME FOR GLOOM
AFTER TOUR OF INVESTIGA-
TON DECLARES THAT STA
PIE WILL BRING is CENTS.

| ATLANTA, Ga.-Declaring that
this is no time for gloom-cotton will
surely sell for IS cents" Jack Oliver,
former Atlanta newspaper man, now
the head OF a prominent cotton firm
on Pearl street in New York city, tells
of a tour of careful investigation
Throughout the important portion of
the cotton belt.
Mr.. Oliver was not content with Wis
its to the larger towns and cities, so
rode many miles out into the rural
sections and discussed matters with
Ibig and small farmers alike--he sat
on rail fences, he says, and listened at
tentively to all that "Silas Homespun"
had to say, whitfield sticks out in front
Of crossroads stores while being regal
ed with the opinions Of "The village
oracle" quizzed small country rner-
chants as we'll as the larger ones in the
cities, and discussed fundamentals at
length with prominent bankers and
manufacturers.
Frankly, says Mr. Oliver, he heard
not one hopeful or cheerful note. To
use Mr. divers own words: There
was not a single rift in the clouds OF
gloom. Despair stalked broadcast. The
wartime symphony of prosperity and
content lad been turned into JaZZy
jangle by yelping yawkers--a Jaundic-
ed yellow of pessimism had superced-
ed the recent roseate aurora OF abund-
ance. The poor house was getting
nearer each day, each hour in fact; the
country sheriff was bent under the
weight of attachments, while court
house doors were invitingly open to
bankruptcy proceedings. 1t was indeed
an indiscriminate, awe-inspiring, illu-
minating indulgence in an injurious
indigo-hued industrial and commercial
attack of acute indigestion. Fortunate
ly, however, these things were pure
ly imaginary
All in the world this country needs
now, declares Mr.. Oliver, lis the loos-
ening of the bankers purse strings.
He shows, along with many leading
newspapers and business men, that the
farmers need not charity but credit.
The cotton they are holding is excel
lent security. 1t is a needed crop; arti-
fetal financial conditions cannot hold
it off the market as a wQfthless prod
uct forever.
Truly, it looks at the moment as if
the amount ofcotton on hand through
out the world around December LIST
will be the largest in all history. Fac
ing such situation, if we were to EN-
ploy only logical deductions as though
normal conditions existed, it would be
easy to figure out how and why cot
ton should sell at or cents per
pound. But wait The backs of all ma
tons, as we'll as the shelves OF all the
stores in the world, were never before
so bare of cotton fabrics as they are
this minute Beyond all question of
doubt we will soon be enjoying the
greatest demand in all history as we'll
For these reasons we predict with abb
solute confidence that cotton will sell
above IS cents per pound before Nov
ember 18th"
Mr.. Oliver was recently elected to
the board of directors of the American
Cotton and Grain Exchange.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
5000 GATHER AT
RICHLAND'S BIG CUE
VISITORS FROM A WIDE TER
RITORY ARE ENTERTAINED
AT BOOSTER MEETING.

HIGHLAND, Ga.-Thursday was a
gala day in Richland With 5000 pres
ent from every nearby county and town
this thriving center opened its heart
and larder. The multitude was enter
tanned and fed in abundance and there
was plenty for another 1000.
The occasion was a great tree bar
becue put on by the chamber OF COM
merce as an advertisement for the sec
ton. A large number of home seekers
from north Georgia andgother sections
were here on special invitation, and
the occasion conferred about impressing
these visitors and others of this sec
TONS advantages for farm develop
ment.
The days program began about 10
O'Clock with concert down town by
the splendid Richland band. The band
led the parade to the shady park Just
west of the business section, where
stands splendid pavilion, from which
the band played again, and from which
the speaking later took place.
Mayor T. F. Carter, called by the
Richland people 'the man with more
pep than any other in America" well
coined the visitors, and he made them
feel welcome. indeed. H. V. Davis,
secretary of the chamber of commerce
and a prominent business man, told
OF the many advantages OF the terri
tory, advantages of which all south
west Georgians are familiar. II. b.
Nicholson. superintendent of t h e
schools. and recently head of the Cor
dele schools, who is a Richland prod
uct of whom the community is proud,
introduced with fine oratory Judge w.
7. Milligan, of Carrollton, who deliv-
cred a pleasing Grafton in which ne
extolled the greatness of Georgia and
particularly this section as the world
famous garden spot At the CONCLUSION
of his speech a recess was declared tor
dinner.
The serving of barbecue nearby
began at II O'Clock. A novel plan was
put into effect to prevent crowding and
snatching, all being obliged to pass
through ten narrow passageways,
where each one was handed a tray full
of delicious barbecue. The throng was
handled in an unusually efficient man
ner. and all were we'll taken care of.
At 2 o'clock J. J. Brown, state COM
missioner OF agriculture, spoke anu ~
was followed by A. A. Elmore, state
organizer for the Georgia Cotton
Growers Cooperative Association,
who was sent here by Chas. S. Barrett.
president of the National Farmers
Union. who was unable to be present.
This was the last scheduled speech,
and was followed by baseball game
at the ball park between Richland and
Shellman.
Many Dawson, Americas, Plains,
Lumpkin and Buena Vista visitors
were present.
North Georgia and South Carolina
were both largely represented.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
Like Sardines Workers
Jam Lower Manhattan
In New York City
Million and a Half Employed in {
Strip Less Than One Square Mile.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Investigating
committees recently found that the
number of workers who daily flock
into the financial district of lower
Manhattan exceed 100000. If they
were assembled in an open field OF
equal area there would hardly be room
for any of the sleepy clerks to stretch
their arms and yawn.
There is less than one square mile
in the tip of the island below Cham
bers street, or only little more than
three square feet of ground space for
each person working IN the district.
But skyscrapers have so multiplied the
accommodations nature furnished the
first settlers that instead of having less
elbow room than an imprisoned Grim
inal everybody can chew gum without
distracting the sensitive ears OF the oc-
cupant of the adjacent desk.
Although 100000 persons work
each day in this small space, the num-
Der who live in the area total less than
$4,000. Subways, elevated trains, fer
ries. automobiles and street cars rush
the others in and out every morning
and evening. Some of the commuters
lives 100 miles away.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
MRS. ROBERTS KILLS
OUITMAN COUNTY MAN
BOWEN, SEPARATED FROM
HIS WIFE, WAS ATTEMPTING
TO TAKE CHILD AWAY.

A deplorable tragedy that took place
in Ouitman county, near Hatcher
Station, last Monday morning is re-
ported by the Cuthbert Libersl-Enter-
prisee
From the information received it
seems that a Mr.. Bowen and his wife
| had had some domestic trouble and
she had gone to live with her brother
in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Nick
Roberts Monday morning Bowen
went to the Roberts home and asked
his wife to come out to the road and
talk to him, and to this request she re-
sponded. Upon reaching her husband
he attempted to remove rings from his
wife's finger, when she snatched her
self loose from him and ran back into
the house. Bowen followed his wife
to the house, and asked PERMISSION to
see their baby, an infant. This request
was also granted, and when the father
took the child in his arms he turned
and left the house, carrying the baby
with him. The wife and her sister pur-
sued him, and on nearing the road
Mrs. Roberts emptied the contents of
shotgun into Bowen's body, the load
entering the back and ranging up
ward.
According to our information Bow
en- uttered only one sentence after be-
ing shot, wife, am dead, and died
Instantly. The coroner empaneled a
jury and made an investigation, and
found that Bowen came to his death
from gunshot wounds in the hands Of
Mrs. Roberts, and pronounced it justi-
fable homicide So far as reported no
arrest has been made.
Bowen had only lived in that section
about year, coming here from Texas,
and had been engaged in the saw mill
business
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
TRIUMPH OF THRIFT
DESPITE WAGE CUTS
SALARY REDUCTIONS NOT AS
GREAT AS CUTS IN THE
PRICES OF COMMODITIES.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Reports received
in Atlanta today by business agencies
show that, as a general thing, wages
have already been reduced appreciably
in every section and almost every in
dustry.
The reports also show, rather un-
expectedly, that at the same time saw
ings accounts have increased in the
industrial sections.
According to the head of one bust
ness agency this means that wage
and salary reductions have not been
as great as the reductions in the prices
of commodities, and, therefore, the
decrease in wages has not necessitated
lowering of the standard of living.
Economy.
This may be true" said an Atlanta
manufacturer 1T ought to be true, at
any rate, and will be if the wage de-
creases are worked out fairly and it
prices as they affect consumers are al
lowed to sink to their natural level.
But there is another influence which
has probably had more effect SO far
on working people than reduced prices.
1t is increased economy"
If industrial populations are able, III
the face of reduced wages and wide
spread unemployment, to add 70 their
savings it is because they are no long
er spending money for luxuries in the
opinion of John K. Ottley, president
of the Fourth National Bank of At
lanta, who is close to the business
pulse of Georgia and the south.
Silk Shirt Era.
"The silk shirt era has passed" de-
clared one of the leading merchants
here. "The workman's family now IS
spending little except for necessaries,
and is not buying any more of them
than he has to"
Atlanta bankers, taken as a whole,
declare that the situation is heroic
triumph for thrift of which the heroes
would hardly have been thought capa-
Bile in the riotous days of 1919 and
| 1OIn
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
Build $50, 900 House to
Raise Eugenic Rats

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The SUI
per-rat like the super-man is not, as
Nietzsche would have it, of the war
rior type, but is gentleman or a
gentlewoman, an aristocrat at heart,
although democratic in his ways. He
is gentle and sociable, a good fell
low, as it were, healthy and active,
and has an aesthetic side, being fond
of good music.
These - some Of the conclu-
periments 0lnsr. dinary rodent
by DR.. Milto.. " ian, d.
rector of the Vista
To make observations
tensive scale, particularly in
research, the institute is building a
$4,000 home for rats. The results,
it is believed, will be of far-reaching
benefit to mankind. There will be
a we'll equipped gymnasium for the
rats. Ladders for climbing, modified
trapeze, running space, treadmill
cages and gnawing apparatus will be
provided to give the eugenical rails
ed rodent the proper exercise.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
ga LEPERS GIVEN
FREEDOM AS CURED
MOLOKAI, ONCE KNOWN AS
LONELY ISLAND" is NOW
CALLED HAPPY LAND"

HONOLULU.-Use of the new
chaulmoogra oil specific as a cure for
leprosy has been so successful at the
Molokai Island settlement for lepers
here that sixty-four inmates of Kalihi
hospital have been discharged as COM
pletely cured.
Authorities say that probably with
in ten years the territory will have no
further need of Molokai as a leper
settlement; that settlements for lep-
rosy will be a thing of the past, and
that leprosy itself may perhaps be I'M
known.
Perfected Cure.
To Arthur L. Dean, president of the
University of Hawaii, goes the credit
for projecting the leprosy cure. Chaul-
moogra oil long has been recognized
as the standard specific :or leprosy.
It's one fault was that it had to be ad-
ministered as a whole, with the result
that the cure was slow and often in
efficient
DIR. Dean has separated from the
bulk of the oil that element that COM
bats the disease. 1t is this element, in
the pure state, that has been used
with such astounding results at Molo-
kai. The process is by an intermuscular
injection once "a week and capsules in
ternally three times daily.
DR.. w. ]. Goodhue, for eighteen
years resident physician at the. Molo-
kai settlement, says that under the
present method of treatment 65 per
cent of the chronic cases OF leprosy
at the settlement will be turned out
cured within the next two years.
Many of the patients at Molokai,
! however, never can recover, as their
disease was too far advanced before
the cure was discovered.
512 Patients.
There are 512 patients at Molokai
and of these Us have been under treat
ment with the Dean cure for flve
months. The chaulmoogra supply is
entirely inadequate and each day four
to FIVE patients, who beg with tears
! in their eyes for treatment, are COM
PEELED to turn away.
Manufacture of the cure is being
carried on now in only small way,
one of the main handicaps being the
inability to obtain sufficient chaulmoo-
gra seeds. Hundreds of plants are be-
ing reared at government experimental
stations. here and soon Hawaii will
have a number of chaulmoogra oil-pro-
ducing plantations.
Lonely Island
Molokai used to be called Lonely
Island" because the lepers consigned
to it rarely ever returned. Today 1t S
called Happy Island" because since
the discovery that the Dean SPECIFIC
meant a permanent cure Tor the dread
disease, the sunshine of hope has re-
turned to the faces of the leper in
mates. And the whole institution is
full of eagerness and smiles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
Child Was a Prisoner
In a Crockery Crate
Illinois Mother Arraigned on Charge
OF Cruelty to Little Girl.

ELMHURST, Ill.-When state S
attorney, c. w: Reed, and Deputy
Sheriff E. Wolf went to the farm
o one by Mrs. Ann Stepnoves to
investigate alleged cruelty to her
dsaShs5 yssfs 10 old f@Gycks 2gnd cr t4s
in the front yard, with rain pouring
child. The child is shriveled and eina-
GATED and has signs Of much nj b,t5 5ousf;
1t only weighs nine pounds altnoug.'
) wears of age. The mother was ar ar,
rested and arraigned today before
Indge Samuel Rathje, of Dupage coun-
~ and her case was continued.
Juvenile court authorities cha1gee
Mrs. Stepnoves hoped to collect %; 92O
insurance she holds on the baby's Ire.
She has two other children. and the
court may take all OF them H 4Fqm 9 thc
babv. nothing but one crust OF Dredu
each eai day, and it was literally starving
to death.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
Congressman May Have
To Punch Time Clock
Proposed Bill Would Penalize Them
For Absence From Session.

For Absence From Session.
Members of the national senate and
house virtually would be required to
punch the clock, under bill intro
duced in the house by Representative
Kissel, republican, of New York. AS
result of the difficulty of obtaining
house quorum, with so many members
Eager to get away for the hot summer
days, Mr.. Kissel proposed that salaries
be doubled, with heavy daily fines for
senators and representatives failing to
show up for double daily roll call
at the start and close of every session.
The man absent without leave for
one day of legislative week would
lose his weeks pay. For a 50-day ses-
sion the penalty for a days leave
would be $500, with fine of $3.50 a
day for a session lasting 100 days.
Within the past week the house has
had a job trying to get III of the 435
members present at one time to enable
it to perform business During re-
cent session a point of no quorum
twice necessitated long delay after
a roll call while clerks were sent ont
to round up members. After the sec
ond attempt the house got tired and
quit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
Georgia Senate Praises
Senator Tom Watson
Commends His Stand Against Confr-
nation of Link Johnson.

Before adjourning Wednesday night
the Georgia senate by unanimous vote
adopted a resolution commencing
United States Senator Thomas Z. Wat
son for his fight waged in the United
States senate against the confirmation
Of Henry Lincoln Johnson Atlanta
negro, as recorder OF deeds OF the Dis
trict OF Columbia. The resolution tol-
lows:
Whereas. we notice in the afternoon
naners of the manly fight being waged
BY our junior senator, Hon. Thomas
E. Watson, to prevent the conhrma-
ton of Henry Lincoln Johnson as re-
corder of deeds OF the District of Co
iumbia; therefore, be it
Resolved. That we indorse and ap-
prove the cause of Senator Watson;
be it
Resolved. further, That copy OF
this resolution be mailed to Senator
Watson"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
lncrease Is Shown in
Number of Adult Suicides
BUSINESS Depression and Abnormal
Conditions Given as Reasons.

NJ" YORK, N. Y.-Business de-
''SSon and abnormal conditions fol-
sILSng the war were held response
'Ur an increase of 3,739 in the num-
T. OIL adult suicides in this country
ang the first six months of this
III as compared with the same pc
o Ny N I9ZO, in report made public
way by the Save Life League. The
pul stated that suicide among chill
Bsm m more than doubled during the
y II me case OF children, parental neg
-. and tear OF school examinations
|, i B mentioned as the principal caus-
bvr 10y OF an average of 10 took their
hi, u'eS to the number of PA, and
Epn S averaging IS years old to the
suS a4iOsr OF z93. In most cases the boys
A. ,IeVolyers and the girls poison.
|ea, ;ong the adults the preponderanct
ES7 u. favor of the men, of whom
sps look their own lives. Their aver
|non,Gse was 43 years. In the first Siz
|suc T,nS OF 1921 $500 adults committed
|and G az as compared to 2,771 last yeal
|co r wv children ended their lives a.
T TBPared to Us in 1920.
Ma, "s report stated the suicide increase
'% worldwide. "
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
NEW ORLEANS.-The south

NEW ORLEANS.-The south
produced cotton crop during the
year ending with July which, seed
and all, was worth more than bill
lion of dollars, according to the an
nual statement issued to the cotton
trade by H. G. Hester, secretary of
the New Orleans cotton exchange.
1t was a year of tremendous de-
probation in values, says Mr.. Hes
ter, the average value per bale fall
ing from $l74.1S during August of
1920, the first month of the cotton
year, to $5691 during June, the
eleventh month. During July, the
twelfth month, there was a recovery
to $500. The total value of the
commercial crop of 11,17,3l6 bales
was $1,076,380,7l0.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-08-16
Cotton Produced BY South During Year Ending
With July Is Worth OOer Billion Dollars

During the preceding year the
commercial crop, totaling 12,443 1870
bales, was valued at $3.50, 544,5 $50.
In commenting on the fall in val
ne Secretary Hester states that in
the face of such tremendous depre-
citation in such a brief period "a
most remarkable fact looms out,
that financial institutions Of the
south held up as they have This
is partly accounted for by the fu-
lures contract hedge system"
The average price of middling
spot cotton in the south during the
season was placed at 1908 cents a
pound against 1921 during the pre-
ceding year. For the entire year the
average value of cotton per bale was
$500, against $l74,S8 during the
preceding year.