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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-08-01
ROMANCE OF RUSS
"ROYALTY" Barred
CZARINA, CROWN PRINCE AND
GRAND DUCHESS IMPERSON-
ATORS SENTENCED.

MOSCOW-An extraordinary ro-
nance involving the alleged survival
OF the members OF the Russian imperial
family comes from the province OF
Pensa, where three persons represent
ed to be the former empress, her son
and her youngest daughter had been
hidden in various nunnerles Tor the
last three years.
The story begins with the arrival at
the big Uspienski convent early IN
1919 Of woman pilgrim who gave
the name of Claudia Polycarpov1ch,
Her dignihed appearance, her noble
manner and, above all, her eXtraordl-
nary resemblance to the empress, soon
caused it to be bruited about the
neighborhood that it was she indeed
and that she had escaped miraculous
" from death. Soon the convent be-
gan to receive an abundance OF gifts
from the rich and poor peasants.
Grown Prince" Heralded.
Claudia acquired complete ascend
ancv over the nuns, to whom she is
said to have impaired that not only
was she the czar's wife, but that the
crown prince, Alex, and his young SIS
ter also had escaped and soon would
join her. Sure enough, month later
there turned up a boy whom the EN-
press" welcomed with a transport OF
maternal affection To escape the sur
VIGILANCE of the authorities the boy
dressed in girls clothing and was en-
tered in the convent books as a novice.
The generosity of the faithful in
creased accordingly as news OF the
new arrival was whispered about, and
when the GEARS youngest daughter"
also appeared gifts poured upon the
convent which became the objective
of a secret pilgrimage.
The affair finally reached the ears
OF the authorities who promptly ar
rested the three distinguished refugees
and took them to Pensa for trial. So
widely was the story believed by them
that, with the connivance OF their jail
err, they managed to escape.
For no less than three years direct
trace OF them was lost, although it
was known that they were moving
secretly from place to place, giving
rise to continued agitation.
prince" and Others Seized.
Finally in May OF this year the
prince" was discovered in the village
Of Starry Standarava, where he was
hidden in womans clothes at the
house OF a lay sister. His arrest led
to the capture OF his alleged mother
and sister All three were brought to
trial a few weeks ago, together with
a dozen nuns and some rich peasants,
in the very convent Usplensk that
had first harbored them.
Investigation showed that the EN-
press" was the daughter OF state
school master in the Wilma region. The
crown prince" was Sasha PrudientOf,
son OF a village priest, who had been
expelled from school and had become
a travelling actor and finally had got
a position in a church choir. From
that he had been summoned to play
the part in the real life drama at the
convent. The girl, named Pelagia Kill
nova, was the daughter OF a peasant.
The three principals were sentenced
to death, which later was committed
to seven years imprisonment. About
half the nuns and peasants received
sentences from two months to three
years. The rest were acquitted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-08-01
TOY BALLOON OF OHIO
BOY TRAVELS 300 MILES
Cincinnati Youth Sent Out 20, But On
ly One Has Been Reported.

CINCINNATI, GA toy balloon
of the common or street corner varie-
ty filled with illuminating gas and re-
leased the afternoon of July 4th by
Clifford Usinger, journeyed $40 miles
10 Cookeville, Tenn, in Is hours and
was picked up by Gilbert Hatfield, a
l9-year-old farmer.
The balloon was one of a score sent
up by the Cincinnati man with his
name and address attached to them,
and the letter which he has received
from Hatfield states that it was first
sighted by him while he was blowing
corn near his home So far the other
10 balloons have not been reported
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-08-01

third, and the veterans bureau, with
$500, 100000, athere being no charges
against this item in 1921, was the
fourth largest on the list
Retirement Of certificates of indebt
edness to the amount Of SAYS, 100000
made up the majority OF public debt
disbursements, although there was a
decrease of S3,777 100000 in this item
as compared with the previous year
Victory notes retired during the year
aggregated 100000 against 1882,
100000 for 1921.
Retirement OF liberty bonds was as
First loan, $413,OOO,OOO, against
S202, 100000 in 1921; second loan, So,
100000 against 100000; third loan,
$685. 100000 against 100000, and
fourth loan, 100000 against $780,,
100000.
National bank and federal reserve
notes retired aggregated $l07, 100000
against $37, 100000 the previous year.
Farm loans at per cent interest.
TTNNT u +f
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-08-01

Farm loans at per cent interest
L. c. HOYL. Gift
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-08-01
HUNGER, THE BEST SAUCE.

Sauce is used to create an appetite
or relish for the food. The right way
is to look to your digestion. When
you have good digestion you are GER
tain to relish your food. Chamberlain
Tablets improve the digestion, create
a healthy appetite and cause a gentle
movement OF the bowels-adv.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23
IN N IN - u
MORE MILLIONS
Required For Unc0vering
War Contractors Who
Robbed Government
of Millions

Washington.-The present session
of congress has appropriated $2,217,-
900 to uncover and prosecute certain
American citizens known as "war con-
tractors" who evidently plundered
the public treasury of unnumbered
millions of dollars in excess charges
for war supplies.
There are 10000 war contracts.
The war departments policy seems
to have been to pay war contractors
bills to the full amount submitted by
the contractors themselves with hard
ly the shadow of an audit.
Since the armistice the finance di-
vision of the war department has been
examining the war contract payments
to determine the extent to which pro
fteering contractors overcharged the
people The house of representa-
tives appropriated $1,000,000 for the
finance division The senate added
| S617000 in order that the investi-
cation may be completed during the
present generation and before the
war contractors die.
"At the present rate of progress,
declared Senator Wadsworth, chair
man of the senate committee on mil
itary affairs, ''it will take Is years
or more to go over these war time
contracts with this expert audit. The
committee believes that with an ap
preparation running annually they
can clean up this work in four or five
years. If it is allowed to go beyond
four or five years, it is the genera
: consensus that the whole thing vii
get out of the hands of the govern
ment. Witnesses will disappear
Papers will disappear and be destroy
ed. 1t will be impossible to make al
effective audit after three or fou
years have gone by"
To date the finance division ha
audited 15, 900 of the 100000 contract
and has reported that the contractor!
concerned lifted from public treasur,
more than $100,000,0OO in excess o
the amounts the government agreed
to pay. These findings are in tn,
: hands of Attorney General Daugherty
, and constitute the data upon which
the government relies in the prosecu
tions for which congress has appro
priated 100000.
There remain some $4,000 con
tracts to be investigated. If tn,
amount of fraud uncovered in thes,
unaudited contracts maintains tn,
proportion developed in the 1906
already audited, the war contractor
will face the charge of having robbed
the people of a billion dollars whil
the soldiers were going over the tol
for a dollar a day and the civilian
at home were taxed to the limit t.
pay the war bills.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23
BLAME FOR THE JoBLEss

If employers were required to pay
to frrloughed men a dollar day,
over a period of thirteen weeks, the
unemployment problem would be all
but solved, Prof. John R. Commons,
of the University of Wis, declared
in statement made to the American
Association of Labor Legislation
Unemployment insurance funds
have proved successful where tried,
and unemployment compensation laws
are needed as an aid to industry in
permanently preventing the worst
consequences of seasonal and cycli-
cal depressions, Professor Commons
asserted. The state, Le thought, can
not profitably ignore this question
which strikes at the roots of fixed
society.
Neither the wage earners nor the
state can prevent unemployment
continued DR.. Commons. "All they
can do is partly relieve it.
"The business-like way of doing il
is to place the responsibility on the
business men who alone are in po
c;+;o, n r1ravent If -
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23
GRAIN GAMBLERS
Freed From Tax By q. S.
High Court

Washington.-Th attempt by con-
gress to tax grain gambling out of
existence has been declared unconsti-
tutional by the United States supreme
court, in an opinion handed down by
Chief Justice Taft Justice Brandeis
dissented.
The law imposed tax of 20 cents
a bushel upon future trades in grain,
or when not made by actual owners
of the grain. Trading in grain was
declared by the court not to be in
terstate commerce, and once again
the states rights theory was evoked.
Section 2 of the act provided that
if any section be declared void that
should not affect the validity of the
remaining sections. Chief Justice
Taft said: Section did not intend
the court to dissect an unconstitution-
al measure and reframe valid one out
of it by inserting limitations it did
not contain This is legislative work
beyond the power and function of the
court"
This decision will be hailed with joy
by every brokerage firm in the coun-
try that deals in grain futures. The
law was strongly supported in con-
gress by western and southern agri-
cultural interests.
It has been stated that in one year
the Chicago grain exchange has sold"
wheat in an amount that will equal
three times the entire wheat supply
of the world
The grain gamblers resent this
term, and insist that they be referred
to as spectators" They claim that
the difference between gambler and
speculator is that the latter uses
judgment and the former does not
In reply to this claim the federal
trade commission has stated that the
man who is most successful in poker
playing is one who uses judgment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23

so BE 1T IN HAMILTON

A couple of gentlemen, who claim
to be a committee from the Cham
Der of Commerce of Cincinnati, seem
to be a bit peeved at the reception
they met with, or let US be exact and
say the reception they didn't meet
with here in Portsmouth this week,
Judging from their plants to the
home paper.
The gentlemen did not arrive unan-
nounced. Of a fact they heralded
their coming by writing to the local
Chamber of Commerce that they
would be here on certain date, to
have luncheon spread for them and
to bid thereto certain designated citi-
zens. No attention was paid to their
dire .tion, hence their huff.
Waving aside the position that it is
hardly in accord for one to bid him.
self the hospitalities of another, pre-
scribe the form of his entertainment
ana Who shall be his hosts, the Gin
einnatians were not in good form tc
Portsmouth in the real object of THEN
visit. They are seeking to amend
the workmen's compensation law
and in this instance amendment
means elimination. Generally and
specifically Portsmouth feels deep
interest in this law. 1t regards it as
the wisest and best specimen of legis-
lation written in the state in a gen
Grafton, it has a peculiar pride in il
because it was in this town that stood
steadfast for the act when the mighty
forces We're using every effort, fair
and foul, to defeat its passage.
Really, it has something more than
an impression that had it not been
for the whole-hearted support given
it here, the measure would not now be
on the statute books.
Then why should it be expected to
welcome, through body that rep
resents it, agents whose undoubted
aim is to cripple and negative its own
excellent work?
Whenever representatives from the
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce OF
any other like body present them
selves in proper form and come on a
mission that it feels it can rightly
consider, the Portsmouth Chamber of
Commerce will be more than pleased
to welcome and also entertain them
Portsmouth Daily Times.
What investment pays the biggest
dividends? $500 Auto Club dues.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23
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WOMEN AND CHILDREN
MUST PAY THE PRICE

Of the cut in pay of the railroad
maintenance Of way employees as
made in the award by the United
States labor board, Congressman
]. NJ. Baer says:
"In the face of facts that demand
an increase in their wages, the low
est paid workers received slash IN
their pay at the hands of the United
States labor board. The award was
supported by all the public and rail
road members of the board and OPP
posed by the representatives of labor
"The decision is called an award.
1t should be called reward 1t has
the earmarks of a reward to the
campaign contributors who own the
railroads. For every dollar they in
vest in campaigns they receive a hun
dred in dividends. When their divl-
dends are not sufficiently guaranteed
by congress and through inefficient
management some roads lose money,
they then use the labor board to beat
down the income of the already un-
derpaid employees.
'"rhe wages were below the actual
cost of subsistence before they were
cut. With the rising costs it is i'm
possible for a family of five to exist
on one workers wages. For exam
pie, take the minimum pay of the
workers on the section. 1t is only
twenty three cents an hour. This
amounts to 1858 per year. Just try
to figure out how five can live on an
annual income of five-sixty-three. If
you stick to the facts you can't figure
it out.
MANY women and children of the
section hands appeared before the
board Their pitiful pleas for mere
existence were ignored, What are
human documents in distress when
profits must be made?
Picture a little girl telling an
open shopper that her father cannot
make enough to support the family.
What would be his reply? Something
like this, | imagine: "Why, Mr..
Taft, of the supreme court, says that
the child labor law is unconstitutional
and you can go to work in my factory
now The shop is openn"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23
Issued Weekly at 326 Market Street
Hamilton, Ohio.
Telephone 1886

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, o.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23
JUST "SMALL" DEAL
Financial Imperialists Take
Over Bolivia Through
Loan

New York.-Financial imperialists
of the United States have secured a
strangle hold upon the people of the
| Republic of Bolivia in the $24 100000
25-year loan engineered by a syndi-
cate of New York banking concerns.
The interest rate is per cent, and
the security shows that when United
States fnanciers conclude to take over
a South American republic they take
everything in sight.
In addition to the bonds being tire
direct obligation of the Bolivian gov
ernment, they are, moreover, secured
by first mortgage on certain gov
ernment trunk line railroads now un-
der construction, and are first lien
and charge upon all import and ex-
port duties, upon the governments
controlling stock interest in the ma
tional bank of Bolivia and the divi-
dends thereon, upon so per cent of
the proceeds of the tobacco monop-
oily, and upon the taxes derived from
mining claims, corporations, net in
come of banks, and net profits of min
ing companies, and upon other sources
of revenue.
SO long as any of the bonds are
outstanding the collection of the
taxes, revenue and income of Bolivia
will be supervised by permanent
financial commission of three appoint
ed by the Bolivian president, two of
whom are to be named by the bank
ers' syndicate which engineered the
loan Enough of the revenues collect
ed to meet the interest and sinking
fund requirements are to be trans
mitted monthly to the New York
Equitable Trust Company, syndicate
trustee.
To make the terms still harder, the
bankers syndicate demanded that the
bonds shall be redeemed at $105 for
every 500 after 1887 and prior to
maturity date, 1947. Under this re-
demption scheme the Bolivian people
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton
Ohio, as Second Glass Mail Matter
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23
JUDGE-GovERNED PEOPLE

When admitted to the bar the
young attorney takes an oath to up
hold the law, and then seeks connec-
tion with firm which represents a
big corporation AS a corporation
attorney his duties are to seek new
ways of evading or violating the law
in manner which will insure the
maximum of monetary porfit with
the minimum Of danger. Later, when
he has become thoroughly versed in
legal trickery, he is elevated to the
federal bench, where he can throw
a semblance Of legality over former
illegal acts, and at the same time de-
wise new ways in which he can be OF
service to his masters. Can you ex-
pect anything else from an attorney
trained as a corporation attorney is
trained? He has received immense
fees for finding new ways to evade
the law, until it has become second
nature with him Yet today we are
a judge-governed people All this
talk about representative government
is getting to be a joke. Congress
can pass law and the president can
sign it. Then it is reviewed by few
corporation attorneys who have been
elevated to the bench, and they de-
clare the law unconstitutional if it in
any way interferes with the rights"
of capital. Yet the fault is with the
people, who supinely elect the tools
of special interests because they hap
pc. 20 be nominated by my party"
The idea Of voting for the best man,
irrespective Of party affiliations,
seemingly never enters their heads.
Wonder how long they will continue
to be hypnotized by the bull" Of the
professional politicians
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23
CO-OPS. ARE PROSPEROUS

Pennington, Ill.-The cooperative
society at this place is an additional
proof that cooperation along Roch-
dale lines is correct. The last quar-
terly report shows a net saving cf
$4,74921 A net saving of $920.82
was made in the dry goods depart
ment alone. The total resources of the
society are $49,O6221.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23
WIN YEAR-OLD LOCKOUT

Lockport, Ill.-Carpenters' Union
No. 1853 signed an agreement with
the contractors association, which
locked out these workers over a year
ago. Rates are ST an hour and the
union shop is recognized.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23

The open shop may be the road to
paradise, as the exploiting masters
contend, but our objection is that it
is their paradise and not ours.
"a - "a "a -
Don't follow the crowd if you want
to be leader, but lead the crowd
to boost for the union label, shop
card and working button.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23
YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO RENT
A HOME

A resident of a Chicago suburb re-
Gently checked up his payments for
rent of the house he occupies. He
found he had paid his landlord $780,
900 in rent for residence that was
offered for sale at $4,000. He had
paid the owner double the value of the
property and yet he did not own it.
If any renter will figure up what he
has paid to his landlord in q term of
years, he will be surprised at the
total. even if he does not live in an
$4,000 house.
No man can afford to live perma-
nently in rented house. He can
much better afford to buy home. He
will save money by buying, no matter
how cheaply he thinks he is renting
a house. If he continues to rent, he
will pay for the property he lives IN
and his landlord will still own it. Ii
he buys it on a payment plan, when
he pays out his debt the property is
his.
Taxes? Yes, he must pay the taxes
But every intelligent renter knows he
paws the taxes and cost of improve
ments in the rent he pays his land
lord. AS taxes go up, rents are ad-
vanced-usually much more than the
tax increase. If he owns the property
himself. he must of course continue
to paw the taxes and improvement
costs, but the sums SO paid then be
, come an investment instead deaC
expense.
There is also another result of hom
: ownership that is of great importanc
i in its social effects. The man VIII
| buys a home assumes a new relation
y ship to the community He become
0 a stockholder in the municipal corpc
d ration. He becomes a better citizel
: He will take a responsible interest !
7 civic affairs, in local government. ID
will become an active advocate
5 good city government-andg good cit
: government is the practical founds
: tion of all good government. The ide'
t municipal government, we imagin
+ would be possible where every res
0 dent of a city was the owner of h
7 own home, thoroughly awake to til
d res possibilities of public administrs
:, tion and to the possibilities of ct
t operative civic progress which com
d with such condition of mutual fnar
p cial and social interests.
5 If it is in any way possible, soly
: the rent problem by buying yor
: home in Hamilton. Thousands wh
t once thought they could not do
d are now thankful that they have
Y pay only taxes-high as they are-il
I stead of rent and taxes, too.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23
FIGHT REACTIONARY JUDGES

Seattle. The Washington State
Federation OF Labor is preparing to
fight four reactionary members of the
state supreme court, who are candi-
dates for reelection
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-06-23

will pay from SO to IA per cent, de-
pending on the redemption dates. In
addition it is understood that the
bankers syndicate takes a good sized
rakeoff for floating the loan.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-02-15
CHAPTER VI

Vacation, in spite of increased leis.
ure, may bring Inconvenience to people
in Ramsey's strange but not uncom-
mon condition. AT home his constant
air was that of "a badgered captive
plaintively silent under injustice; and
he found ii difficult to reply calmly
when asked where he was going-an
inquiry addressed to him, he asserted,
every time he touched his cap, even
to hang it up!
The amount of evening walking he
did must also have been trial to his
nerves, on account of fatigue, though
the ground covered was not vast. Mil
las mother and father were friendly
people, hut saw no reason to "move
out of house and home" as Mr.. Rust
said. when Milla had callers; ana
on account Of the intimate plan of
their small dwelling a visitors only
alternative to spending the evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Rust as well as
with Mllla, was to invite her to Ego
out walking"
d Evening after evening they walked
and walked and walked, usually in