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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
GREAT METHODIST
HOUSE FOR CHICAGO
SKYSCRAPER WITH REVOLV-
ING CROSS ON TOP TO BE
BUILT IN HEART OF CITY.

CHICAGO, Ill.-The largest build
ing housing the Methodist denomina-
ton, if not the largest Protestant
building in the world, will be in pro-
cess of construction here within a
year.
1t will be the new First Methodist
Episcopal church to be situated i'll the
very center of this city's business dis
trict, at Clark and Washington streets.
While it will at first house all of the
Methodist organizations in this vicini-
ty similar organizations of other de-
nominations are negotiating for office
space. so that in the course of few
years it is probable that this great
building may become the greatest
Protestant headquarters in America, II
not in the world.
The building is to cost So, 1000,
and will be situated on ground valued
at S2,500,000. 1t will have width OF
so feet, a depth OF 1872 feet and its tow
err will rise 40 feet from street level.
One of its striking Identification
marks will be a huge revolving cross
at the top OF the tower and its archl-
tects are the authority for the state
neII lIldA lIG CIOSS Will NC lily la s.
revolving illuminated cross in the
world
The architect plans have been &C
cepted and the negotiations looking
toward the erection of this building
have been proceeding for months. As
now planned the building is to be
twenty-one stories in height, l82 feet
in depth on Clark street and so feet
front on Washington street. The build
ing is to be of Gothic architecture
with a tower of Gothic design Though
great city skyscraper it will be
churchly in appearance and present
the aspect of great cathedral.
This church, popularity known as
CLARK Street" was organized in 1884
being the first Methodist church and
probably the first Protestant church
of any denomination in Chicago.
There will be great church audi
forum, which will be gathering place
for all great religious gatherings OF
the city. Rooms for all sorts OF social
and religious purposes will be provid-
ed. An outstanding feature will be the
forum in which the great public and
social questions OF the day will be
freely discussed in a Christian sympa-
thetic atmosphere.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
Psychologist Analyses
The Coming Ring Battle
DIR. Fitzgerald, of Chicago, Studies
Fighters Heads; Makes Prediction.

CHICAGO.-"If the scrap goes six
rounds Carpenter will either land a
knockout or fight Dempsey to draw"
This is the information given by DR.:
7. H. Fitzgerald character analyst and
psychologist, who made his prediction
from a study of the heads OF the hight
ers.
Mote that the Dempsey head has
low frontal development, indicating a
lack of benevolence and of high NOR
al instinct. The bulge over the eyes,
the square jaw, the thick lips show
power of penetrating, instructive ami
NAL tendencies,
The Carpenter head, on the other
hand, in symmetrical. 1t is one that
would grace the professions. | gather
that he is a man of finer social adapt
ability and that. he is of domestic tenn
permanent. He possesses all the gracess
and arts attributed to the French, and
with them the fighting instinct. He is
an anomaly. If the fight is test OF
raw fighting ability the champion will
retain his belt; if it lasts long enough
to give play to generalshlp then hur-
rah for Georges" -.
DR.. Fitzgerald has won recognition
as a more or less reliable authority on
the ability of fighters.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
Places the Blame for
The High Price of Meat
President of National Live Stock Ex-
change Accuses Middlemen.

CLEVELAND, O.-Respons1bIl1ty
for the high price of meat was placed
on middlemen and retailers by E. c.
Brown, president of the National Live
Stock Exchange, at the thirty-third
annual convention. He declared that al
though basic prices had dropped 90
per cent since October, the price to the
housewife has been reduced but little.
"The great difference existing be-
tween the basic and retail prices, he
said, "can be remedied only by CO
operation of the middlemen and retail
ers with the producers in eliminating
causes that stand in the way of our
return to normal business"
The speaker intimated that produc-
.ers have been making every effort to
lower the price of meat, but their re
ductions have been taken up by mid
dlemen and retailers in profits before
they reach the consumer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
EX-SENATOR SMITH
DEFENDS GEORGIA
UPHOLDS THE STATES GOOD
NAME AGAINST EXAGGERAT-
ED PEONAGE CHARGES.

WASHINGTON, D. CA defense
of Georgia against exaggerated charg-
es of peonage conditions in that state
was uttered here by former Senator
Hoke Smith, speaking before the
Georgia Society OF Washington
Referring to the famous Jasper
county murder farm" case, former
Senator Smith said there already had
been two convictions. He added:
But the crimes on the Jasper coun-
ty farm should not be used as a
charge against the people OF the state
Unfortunately in nearly every state
there occur crimes now and then
which shock the public sense. 1t is un-
fair to Georgia and Georgians to ex-
aggerate charges of peonage generally
in the state on account OF one crime
and | would have members of this
society know the truth about such
charges.
"Peonage cases, so far as l can
learn were limited to negroes who
had been convicted of crimes and SEN
fenced either to pay fines or serve
terms in the county chaingangs In
these county chaingangs all would
have worn stripes; would have been
confined in stockades at night, and
would have been under the guard OF
men with guns to prevent their escape.
War the Cause.
Il did not hear of case OF peon-
age while ! was governor, and do
not think there was one. During the
war labor became very scarce and IN
a number of instances farmers paid
the fines of convicted criminals. They
took them to their farms to work out
the service to which they had been
sentenced.
"The undue exercise OF control over
negro laborers was limited to negroes
who were paid out by farmers and
given an opportunity to work out their
sentences on the farms of the men who
paid the fines. That these. farmers, in
number of instances, exercised con-
troll over the negroes to prevent them
leaving probably is true. 1t probably is
true that this control was greater than
the law allowed, but neither the con-
troll nor the service was as severe as
that which would have been put upon
the negroes had they gone on to the
chaingangs instead of having their
fines paid.
You Georgians know, and should
let it be known, that with .are ex.
ceptions the white people OF Georgia
treat the negroes kindly, and the
wholesale TRADE upon this subject
which recently has found its way into
parts of the press of the country is
unwarranted and unjustihable"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The district
attorneys office in New York county
has begun proceedings to acquire title
in the name OF New York TO liquor
worth S5O,OOO,OOO at bootleggers prices
which has been seized by the police
since the dry laws went into effect.
After condemnation the liquor prob
ably will be lowed in garbage scows
to point off Sandy Hook, where the
worlds greatest cocktail will be com
Whether the whole $5O,0OO,OoO will
be mixed in one colossal drink or
whether it will be doied out to the
ocean at the rate OF few thousand
barrels a day is to be settled later.
Chief Assistant District Attorney
Tohn H. Barton said on Saturday that
the law prescribed the destruction OF
ali The liGror except some Of the very
highest class, which might be sold to
hospitals or other legitimate users.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
Billions Spent on Navies
AS Result of Competition

Naval expansion and revision ex-
penditures among the seven leading
world powers since the first dread
naught appeared IA years ago \are
as follows:
From 1906 up to the beginning
of the world war the principal pow
ers expended $6,210,710,034 on new
naval construction.
From the beginning OF the world
war to its close Germany and Rus
STA excepted, and costs to France
and Japan missing for two years,
the total cost was $8,852,735,432.
From the close of the war to
Jan. I, 1921, with Germany and
Russia excepted, and Japan and
Italy out of the list for one year,
the total was 1927, $4,000.
The total expenditures of the
principal seven powers during that
period was $1,000, 1854
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
EVERYTHING READY
FOR THE BIG FIGHT
PROMOTERS EXPECT $4,000 AT
JERSEY CITY BOUT SATUR-
DAY. RECEIPTS A MILLION.

Jack Dempsey, heavyweight pugilis-
tic champion OF the United States. and
Georges Carpenter, heavyweight
champion of Europe, will meet next
Saturday afternoon in bout which
will decide the championship of the
world. More than $4,000. persons will
pay something like $1,250,000 to wit
ness the bout, it is estimated, the big
gest event OF its kind ever staged in
this country A special open-air arena
IS been built at Jersey City, n. j.,
cost of nearly 100000 and after
tn rounds of the battle-if the
cont, oes its scheduled length
work or tearing down the stands will
begin Immediately.
The match between Dempsey and
Carpenter is for purse Of 100000,
the largest amount ever offered for
any sporting event in history. OF this
amount, Dempsey being the recogniz-
ed champion, will get 100000, win or
lose Carpenter receives the remaining
100000. In addition to these purses
so per cent OF the amount received for
the moving pictures of the contest will
be divided equally between the prin-
cipals. Tex Richard, tho promoter of
the event, must take in 100000 at the
gate before he makes cent.
Uncle Sam Gets Most.
Ordinarily, neither Dempsey nor
Carpenter would need worry about
the wolf at the door after receiving
such purses for not more than II
rounds OF fighting. But in these post
war times the income tax is to be reck
oned with, and an analysis OF the sit
uation reveals the fact that the Unit
ed States government is going to get
the real plum of the day
Uncle Sam never drew on boxing
glove in his life, but he'll make more
money out of the Jersey City fight on
July End than any one: Dempsey's
income tax for his 100000 share of
the purse will be SOL, 20. Carpenters
toll to Washington will be S93,334,
This means that the government will
get $254,604 of the 100000 purse, the
boxers drawing the remaining $245,-
800. The United States will also col
lect from Tex Richard ten per cent on
all admissions, thus getting Sl25,000
more on the estimated gate receipts
of $l,250,000
Even New Jersey Gets Slice.
Then, if Richard makes any money
on the bout, say 100000 or 100000,
Uncle Sam will collect on this on the
income tax returns, thus making the
government share OF the spoils close
to half million dollars. The state OF
New Jersey will also collect ten per
cent OF the gross receipts for tax re-
turns, and when Carpenter gets back
home the French government will cut
into what he has left for its share OF
war taxes.
Seats for the bout, costing from S.
general admission to the $50 ringside
and box seats. have been on sale for
nearly month. The popularity OF the
match is attested by the fact that for
two weeks it has been impossible to
get $50 seat, unless the buyer is will
ing to pay SIS or 500 to speculator
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
$82 For Each Person
Seen as u. S. Taxes

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Every
man, woman and child in the Unit
ed States will be taxed $82 in the
coming year to defray the costs of
government-national, state, coun-
ty and notwithstanding to
some startling figures made public
here by Representative Charles L.
Knight, of Ohio.
Immediate and drastic cuts must
be made at once if we are to save
the country from utteo collapse in
the near future" sal U 7resenta-
tive Knight. III
Appropriations already Eskn md
those which must be made ~
federal budget for the incom.,
year can not be less than about sou
for every man, woman and child
in the United States, or burden
of from $3.50 to $500 on every fam
lily.
"If we add to this state, munich
pal and county taxes we arrive at
situation which is startling"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
GREAT SHORTAGE
IN CATTLE REPORTED
MEAT SUPPLY ONLY HALF AS
GREAT AS 1T WAS A FEW
YEARS AGO.

CHICAGO, Ill.-The number of
cattle for each one hundred persons
in the United States is today onc-third
less than in 1900, the sheep supply is
reduced nearly two-thirds, while the
number of hogs is fully Al per cent
less now than then, according to t1g-
ures compiled from the federal cen
sus reports by Herbert Myrick, a
farm expert for a farm publication.
Declaring that this alarming short
age" in live stock is such as to furnish
a meat supply only about half as great
for each person in the country as for
merly, Mr.. Myrick said 'the decline
during recent months in prices to pro-
ducers is so utterly unJustitlable as to
constitute the gravest economic crime
ever perpetrated upon the farmers OF
America"
Other figures were given to show
that twenty per cent fewer pounds OF
meat were exported during the present
fiscal year than during the previous
wear while imports totaled one hun
bred and seventy-hve million pounds
of fresh meats or nearly four times as
much as two or three years ago. More
than half of these imports, he said
were mutton and lambs from Austria
liza, or imports twenty-five times great
er than the exports of the United
States.
Mr.. Myrick charged that the Unit
ed States department of agriculture
for years has over-estimated the mum.
Der of sheep and swine, and declared
that the departments estimate for
January, 1920, was in error no less
than 28 per cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
Only the Fishes VIII Enjoy
Fifty Million Dollar Cocktail
Ocean to Get Colossal Drink New York. But 1t Won't Even
Flavor Beaches; 1t May Perfume the Breezes.

The law does not prescribe whether it
is to be destroyed by fire, sword or
other means, but municipal regula-
tions call for dumping waste matter
into the ocean.
The reason. eyesight and lives OF
hundreds have been saved by confs,-
cation of wood alcohol, raw alcohol,
and a variety OF potent poisons, &C
cording to Police Commissioner En-
right. The danger Of wholesale de-
struction OF fish may result in a segre-
CATION OF the evidence and DISPOSE
ton OF the quick and deadly poisons
by some other means. The remaining
liquor will not kill fish, and it may
make bromo settler valuable for bait.
The thousands of barrels of liquor,
if dumped. all at once beyond the
three mile limit, will not be sufficient
to favor the surf at the beaches, ac-
cording to oceanographers. 1t may,
however. perfume the breezes for a
few miles.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
Will Make Delinquent
Tax Drive in July
Millions of Dollars Lost Through Fail
ure of Retailers to Pay.

uIS III NCldLSlo " az
Millions Of dollars in delinquent
taxes and penalties will be collected,
the internal revenue bureau estimates,
as a result of nationwide tax drive
ordered to begin in July by Commits
sioner Blair. Flying squadrons' are
to visit every large city in the country
Special attention, Mr.. Blair said
will be directed to the collection OF
the excise tax on sales by manufact-
urers, the transportation tax, and So
called luxury tax and taxes on Jewelry,
toilet articles, proprietary medicines,
soft drinks and amusements.
Several million dollars are being
lost by the government annually, Mr..
Blair declared, through failure OF re-
tailers to collect the full tax on toilet
articles and medicines. Soft drinks ven
doris are to be investigated, he said,
and required to keep proper records,
and the recent arrests OF ticket scalpers
in New York will be followed by sim
liar prosecutions where theatre ticket
brokers fail to mail monthly tax re-
turns.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
Hello, Central, Giue
Me Cuba, Please
Any One Can Talk Over Long Dis
lance Across the Ocean.


Did you know that any time, day or
night, in any part of the United States,
you can take down the telephone re-
ceiver and say, Hello, central, give
me Cuba, please" and in few minutes
be talking with your friend or bust
ness agent across thousands of miles
of water?
This latest development in scientific
progress was heralded when Presi-
dent Harding took down the telephone
receiver at Washington, D. c., and
conversed with President Menocal, of
Cuba, over the long distance wire.
Now farmers i'll any part of the
country can discuss business condi-
tions, cotton, sugar cane, citrus fruits
and the market with their rivals across
the water This will tend toward great
progress in the future in the comraer-
cia1 relations of the United States and
Cuba
The cables over which conversation
is carried from this country to the lit
tie republic are laid in the bottom of
the ocean, some places at a depth OF
a mile or more. Three of these cables
cover lis miles OF sea. They are laid
several miles apart so that if one
should break the others may continue
IN service.
The total weight of the three cables
is about three million five hundred
thousand pounds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
Will Organize States
Sweet Potato Growers
Ihrty-hve Counties Interested. Move
ment to Become Statewide.

In s. counties in the state in which
a -frm bureaus are organized definite
%anS are under way for the organiza-
IoH OF Sweet Potato Growers AS
%,ClatlonS. These will be united into
aale organization which will be fos-
~ T!t q by the district and special agents
h. h.. me state college OF agriculture and
~ - me market division of this institu-
. son' The larm bureaus in these coun-
rvs rvs are responsible for the organiza
so,. and are calling for aid from every
s ~ The Farm Bureaus commodi-
" y specialist, w. F. Whatley, of Hele-
I'D. m mas been aiding in this work also.
ri; Inc counties directly interested in
n r'S movement are Washington, Nc
L,r ,,i,s' Jefferson, Hart, Baldwin, Co
6o ,,la' burke, Ben Hill, Crisp, Tiff,
Iy y Worth, Telfair, Dooly, Blake
H. lamar, Irwin, Newton. Barlow,
w watson Whitfield, Clayton, Meri-
T rro.gT' Muscogee, Colquitt, Decatur,
Br o.p Thomas, Talbot, Calhoun,
TBS -ooks' Wayne, Johnson. Gambler,
JeFf D Clinch, Coffee, Pierce and
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
Boil Weevil Expert
Located in Americus
Services Are Free to Farmers Any
where in This District.

Americas has been designated as
the headquarters for one of two boil
weevil experts who will work in Geor-
gia during the cotton growing season
George B. Hay recently spent several
months at the Delta laboratory, Tai
lulah, La, where he learned the cal
ciun arsenate method OF boil weevil
control from r. B. Coad, who invent
ed the process.
Mr.. Ray asserts that calcium ar
senate presents a certain method OF
controlling the boil weevil and that all
who have failed to attain satisfactory
results through the application OF this
poison have failed to follow the Coad
method.
Mr.. Rays services are free to farm
ers anywhere in this district, which
includes the entire western half Of
Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
Mountain Section of
State Is Full of Stills
Federal Agents Are Making Some
Rich Hauls Up There.

ATLANTA, Ga.--A series of raids
by federal agents in the mountains OF
Dawson county Saturday and Sunday
resulted in the biggest hauls of the
year, Prohibition Agent D. J. CAN'T
announced today. Six mammoth stills,
200 gallons of liquor, 10000 gallons OF
beer, 1900 pounds OF sugar, an au-
tomobile, two mules wagon and t1ve
defendants were captured, according to
the agents.
On their return to Atlanta early to-
day the raiding party reported that
the mountain sections are literally COW
cred with stills. This caused Director
CAN'T to begin plans to continue activi-
ty in that territory.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
The Egyptian Cotton
Will Be, Short This Year
Reduction of Is Per Cent in Acreage
Has Been Reported.

WASHINGTON, D. CA reduc,,
ton of Is per cent in acreage planted
will cut the Egyptian cotton crop oPo this his
wear to approximately 5OOO0O,OOO
pounds, provided normal condit1ops
prevail throughout the crop season, &C
cording to consular advices today to
the department. of agriculture. The
area under cultivation was placed al
100000 acres. The 1921 carry-over
was estimated in the reports at ABOUT
30O,OOO,OO0 pounds, making total OF
approximately 800000,0OO pounds TO
be disposed of at the opening OF the
lo21-22 season. General instability OF
the cotton market and government re,
strictions affecting planting were clteo
as the chief influences in reducing
acreage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
GEORGIA MINNOWS TO
RID SPAIN OF MALARIA

Minnows imported into Spain. from
Augusta. Ga, may eradicate mosqui-
toes which carry malaria in many dis
tricts in Spain Experiments have been
conducted for the purpose OF acclimat-
ing the fish.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28
BILLIONS ARE SPENT FOR
IIXURIES IN UNITED STATES
Great Sums Spent for Candy, Tobac-
CO Soft Drinks and "Movies."

Candy, moving pictures, tobacco
soft drinks, jewelry and minor luxu-
RES now are being purchased at the
rate OF $500, OOO 900 a year in the big
cities OF the United States.
This is shown iii reports OF tax col
tections made to the treasury dePdi =
ment. Indicative Of a SWING toward
nation wide prosperity and teTflllhd-
ton of the general economic aePi e.
sion a rush to crafty the. craving io 10,
small indulgencies now IS sweeping
the country, the report seems TO snow
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-06-28

into IS a guess that has ripened
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1921-04-23

could utter u protest he had vanished,
the door closing behind him with II
iinality that seemed to say: in this
way closes the love of Richard Thorne
and Aine Allen
Dear acart - iuttcrcd Elspeth, not
meaning the valentine at all. as she
gathered ~ The torn fragments and
took them 10 her desk behind the
screen in the corner What has that
reckless boy been doing now She
pulled out 4 paste pot and roll of
gummcd tissue for mending torn pa
per, and she spread the torn EN-
velope and the Jagged pink heart pieces
before her. Then she Ircrcd in the
paste pot rs If for inspiration, and
not finding il therein. took counsel OF
her own heart. which beat high in
sympathy for all lovers. be they young
or old.
1T may be dishonorablc 10 put this
envelope together. but it's human she
muttcretl. as She moiStened and stroked
the eummcd tissue Al last the en-
NelOpc. when looked IKE q recon-
structed picture puzzle, lay before her
with the address standing out boldly
enough In Lieutenant Thorne'S hand.
writing. and She Shamelessly read il:
Miss Alinc Allen, Il Ivy Street, City"
Il felt il was for that poor child"
soliloqulzed ElSpeth. Il knew they
had quarrcled weeks and weeks ago
and he wants Ia make up, only he's
TOO proud Well. don't look anything
like n cupid. heing too old and Sedate
hut it's never too late Ia mend" she
chuckled. "Allne's going 10 have that
valentine Its hers-he bought II for
her and expect he's sorry now that
he destroyed II. Elspeth. you're lost
to all sense OF honor. hut you're going
10 patch up that poor heart and send
IL along SO she gets II in the morn
ing"
Elspcth patched up the torn heart
with the delicate bits of tissue.
smooihed out the rnmplef bow.
gulltIly read the plea /, In