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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-21
! MAN AND WIFE
BURNED TO DEATH
Lnnrcu IN THEATRE FIRE AT
Ph lE[rIIsTA. FIREBUG BELIEV-
AoT IN TO BE AT WORK.

-rr-cTA Ga.-James A. Tant,
"a ~ "a years, and his wite' Mrs. luz IL
gea ~ ogyed As years, were burned to
am, a. ; o'clock Saturday morning III
|ea Grl O. that Quilted the Grand tneatrf
tlre l'" At the northeast corner OF
luHun's and Eighth streets.
6reen al hLarred bodies of the couple
Inc om@i IN the hallway adjacent to
In room, which was OH 'ne i0"' :"
aP2r. were close together and were
lneE With diving embers and rag
spyered +t;,rbers which had fallen
Rent' % ar5rad The door leading, to
ION o ,,, was open, showing that they
D. room was Wa affort to escape, but were
Elarc n}f with smoke. shot Of the
EronE G. Reynolds, c i e 81 .o 1ne
r&49 FIRE department. declared soon .It
A's y. t%a fire that he IS Posltive: tnat
fter tl' is being made the victim OF
AuguSSta - ard that this mornings ia
t1r Ii nav be attributed to him.
n biazg . . mold, said he'is now hrm-
MEL ;l llrs that the disastrous CON
81 conVil'-ii4 lra last November, which
grauo~ hall block OF business
a"a' in the heart OF the 6oo CITY WIN
u l.t.;;.r,,C5ted loss OF 81, 100000 and the
es Stun i february u that Quilted the
, tJ(l building at loss Oh
on G S0''' we're the heinous work OF an
|2OOo ,,,.;;5 3( person who had a mania
fe'Po ,;t,,,1snt and is suffering from
I'm Of dementia CHARACTERISTIC eeo6 o. the
!" u oerson known as a hreDug'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-21
Goelet Back in New
York; Wife in Paris
Millionaire Says That She Preferred
To Remain in French Capital.


NEW YORK, N. Y.-Robert w.
Goelet, New York millionaire, real es-
tate operator, banker and sportsman,
who at the time of his marriage in
January, 1921, to Mile Marie Cues
tier. daughter of a famous wine mer-
chant. was considered one OF the
wealthiest bachelors in the United
States, returned to this country today
on the liner France He came all alone,
and when he was asked why Mrs.
Goe1et was not with him replied, she
preferred to remain in Paris.
After a few moments chat Mr..
Goelt borrowed a penknife from some
one in the stateroom and proceeded
to cut out from his lapel the ribbons
of the Legion of Honor and the croix
deguerre, decorations he won while
serving in France as a captain IN the
United States army during the world
war.
When he was asked why he did this
he answered. ooh, they're all right
over there" waving his hand in the
general direction of France, but what
IS the use of advertising this kind of
thing over here? No. I'd rather take
them off" Then he cut the last threads
and removing the ribbons thrust them
into his pocket.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-21
COUNCILWOMEN QUIT;
PREFER DISH WASHING

THREE OAKS, Misunderstanding
they would rather wash dishes than
argue over a paving contract and
that politics takes too much of wo-
mans time from her duties as house
wife" Mrs. Maude Arnold and Mrs.
Helen Ludke, two women members OF
the city council, have resigned after
one wear in the council.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-21
AIR CHATTER HAS
BECOME POPULAR
WIRELESS TELEPHONE RE-
CEIVING STATIONS GROW
ING IN NUMBER RAPIDLY.

Before the end of the year there will
be installed throughout the United
States minimum of 100000 receiv-
ing apparatus to pick up the chatter
that is being broadcasted daily through
the air by radio, so government Off
Gals in Washington, d. c., estimate.
No license and no record is required
lof receiving stations and there is no
way of knowing just how many there
are, but where there were only about
LIS 900 a year ago it is believed there
are at least 100000 now, and of that
number fully half have broken into
the radio game in the past 80 days.
Developing Radio Operators.
Washington has never witnessed
ANYTHING like the way the wireless
telephone has caught the imagination
of the American people. All such mat
tiers come under D. B. Carson, COM
missioner of navigation in the depart
ment of commerce, Washington, who
is literally deluged with applications
| for licenses for sending stations, es-
pecially the big broadcasting plants.
The big growth has come within the
past month since the few successful
demonstrations on a large scale of the
wireless telephone. Prior to this the
department conducted propaganda to
Interest amateurs to break into the
game, so the nation would have re-
serve of radio operators who knew the
game. Now it can hardly answer the
thousands of queries that come in.
Manufacturers of receiving appara-
tus for the wireless telephone report
that they cannot begin to fill the or
ders and are doubling their output ev-
cry few weeks, while the turning out
| of home made apparatus is being I'M
dertaken by the inventive American
boy.
Farmer Will Benefit Most.
AS government officials in Washing
ton see it, perhaps the biggest benefit
from this new and marvellous develop
ment will accrue to the farmer in re-
ducing his isolation. Some months
back the department OF agriculture
began broadcas&ing market reports
through postal stations at six points.
Since then three state universities and
half dozen newspapers have taken
up the proposition.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-21
MRS. z. T. RABUN DIES
OF INFLUENZA AT MORGAN
Passing of Much Beloved Woman Is
Mourned by Many.

MORGAN, Ga.-Mrs. Z. T. Rabun,
wife of former State Senator Rabun,
died Wednesday afternoon after an i'll
ness of several days of influenza. The
deceased was noble christian woman,
and had always taken a prominent
part in church work. She was mem
Der of the Morgan Baptist church
and was identified with the social life
of the town, and her death is mourn
ed by many.
Funeral services, attended by large
crowd were held Thursday afternoon
and the remains laid to rest in the
local cemetery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-21
WELL! WELL!

Willie-Mother, my Sunday school
teacher. never takes bath.
Mother-Why, Willie, who told you
that?
Willie-She did She said she never
did anything in private she wouldn't
do in Michigan Gargoyle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-21
$4,000 WORTH" OF SENATORS
GOING TO MUSSEL SHOALS

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The SEN
Ite agricultural committee decided to-
law to start its trip OF inspection OF
he Mussel Shoals water and power
litrate project March 18th. The tour,
chairman Norris said, would occupy
probably five or six days. Two thous-
Ind dollars has been set aside to pay
EXPENSES of the trip.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-21
UNCLE JOE BUYS FIFTY
SIX TON MONUMENT

Uncle Joe Cannon, retired after 81
years in the United States congress,
has erected a 56-ton granite shaft at
Spring Hill cemetery, near Danvllle,
Ill. where he expects to be buried.
It bears nothing but the name Can
non.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

corporation which has employed
more than 500 persons swithin the
last six months to sell securities in
a nationwide sales campaign, voted
unreservedly and enthusiastically for
brains minus beauty.
THE pretty woman, no matter how
interested she is in her work, is al
ways being reminded that she is a
pretty woman" explained this Of
fetal, who has interviewed something
like 10000 individuals within the
last year, In selecting the 750 per-
sons who now constitute the organ
ization.
"A pretty woman is not necessarily
q vain one, but after all, she Is hu-
man, and subtly expressed admira-
tion-or admiration boldly declared
is bound to get in the way of serious
attention to the business in hand. A
pleasant manner. tasteful dress, and
the ability to present a business
proposition Nlucidly and quickly are
the qualities / look for in the women
! employ.
I don't say never would hire a
pretty woman" he went On, when
pressed on that point. "But much
prefer plain, sensible women, who are
totally unalluring. When they go
into mans office to present their
business proposition there are no
compliments, implied or otherwise,
to get in the way of the business
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

ton dress. very bouffant, with lips
too widely carmined, draws back into
the hall and hides beneath the dark
stairway. A policeman is making his
rounds. Her ear recognizes the tread
of her foe. When he has turned the
corner and it is certain that unless
there's a cutting he will not return
for at least a half hour, she comes
out laughing and boldly sits upon a
doorstep.
If you loiter long enough you may
hear staccato screams, followed by
TN cut your heart outl" The threat
is a common one in Ethiopian quar-
ters. Often it means no more than a
slight perturbation, a mere ripple in
the calm Of conventional mood. Or
it may portend a police whistle, cries
curses and sullen march to The DO
lice station.
The black belt rooted here and
sending out seedlings that flourish
for four or five blocks to the north
and westward, with Interruptions to
the Hudson. is threat as well as
contrast. How easily pallid gardenia
and vivid, orchid might be crushed
In a ruthless black palmi
:
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

to have your character "analyzed"
by the vocational expert who
studies your face, features, eye
brows, hair, weight and general
physical appearance and deduces
therefrom a diagnosis of character,
upon which he is willing to give
practical vocational advice.
Mr.. Fosborke's book is quite seri-
ously meant as study of methods
for the examination of character
from indications built into the face
as a result Of mental and bodily
reactions" He discusses heredity.
environment. and the principles of
facial expression the last item In
much detail; separate chapters
dealing with the head, the forehead
and brows, eyes. nose, color as a
guide to character, the action of
mind and body on the mouth. &c.
Finally he tells "how to anajyze a
character"
The latter haTf>of the book in
cludes a number of sample analyses.
Of concrete cases.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

woman was behind the scenes in
some niche where she did not come
into direct contact with the buying
public.
But aren't merely nice looking
girls usually much more businesslike
than really pretty ones?" he was
asked.
by no MEANS" he returned en-
phaticaIly. MANY of the most con-
spicuously efficient young women in
cur organization are most con-
spicuously attractive. People like to
deal with pretty girls. provided, Of
course, that the girls are attentive
and courteous to their customers.
and we make sure that they are at
tentive and courteous or we dismiss
them. There is something subtly
flattering about receiving the un-
divided attention of an extremely
pretty girl which promotes sales and
makes friends for the store"
"Do you give any intelligence tests
at all when employing girls and
women?"
NO" replied this personnel direc-
tor. 81 just sort of size them up
according to my own home stand-
ards. I came from a small, old
fashioned town in Virginia, Nand !
try to select women and girls whose
looks, bearing and manners are most
like my mothers and sisters"
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

not affect the colonial farmers or
villagers. Indeed there was nobody
to strike against because there was
no dividing line between the en-
ployer and the employed.
While there was little money in
CIRCULATION there was also little need
of money to circulate. Food, clothing
and shelter were all available as the
result of ones individual efforts.
Farmers Wives Had Many Trades.
To be a farmer or a farmers wife
required the most practical kind of
a manual education. That does not
mean that everybody was farmer.
There were weavers, tailors, shoe
makers. carpenters, masons, black
smiths, millers and iron workers. The
iron mines from which the iron
horseshoes, chains and wagons came
were in the western part Of tho
county in the Ramapo Mountains.
There were no specialized trades.
Shoemakers could make a whole pair
Of shoes or boots. Nowadays a
machine made shoe has more than
100 men and women doing some little
thing with a machine before the
complete shoe is put on the market.
1t is doubtful if any one of the 100
could make a whole shoe.
The tailor would make all of a
suit Of clothes. cutting. sewing, but
ton holes and everything. The car
penter could build a whole house.
Obviously tailor gould not be dis
charged, because the whole commun-
ity were individually his employers,
or rather purchasers. When he was
not tailoring he might be weaving
and take the cloth to New York city
to sell. Or he might have some land
and a flock Of sheep of his own.
The same man might be a farmer
and blacksmith or run the local
grist mill when there was enough
water in the stream.
Since Judge Tompkins's book was
history and not an essay on politi-
cal economy or discussion OF un-
employemtn it does not explain why
there was no involuntary idleness or
lack of work in Colonial times. But
it is made clear by Implication that
there were no such problems then as
there are nowadays.
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
By WILLIAM MMURTRIE sPEER.

make their own horseshoes and
wagons to sell. There was no "sea-
sonal employment" but work fer as
many days and as many hours as a
man was willing to work.
There was no rent problem because
any man could have house if he
was able bodied. He could cut logs
and have the saw mill saw the logs
for percentage of the lumber. If
he did not want to go to the expense
of nails and was fairly clever with
simple tools he could put the house
together with mortises and wooden
pegs. If he was too busy he could
buy ordinary timber for $3.50 a
thousand feet which now costs fif-
teen or twenty times as much and
hire carpenters for 81 a day to
build the house. Or he could have
a complete house built by contract
for 5000, according to the results Of
Judge Tompkins's research.
Children Could Spin and Gard.
This was before the days of cotton
goods. Clothing was almost all pure
wool and some linen, with an oc-
casional silk dress. The wool came
from sheep which were raised on the
farm. Everybody had spinning
wheels. Children learned to spin and
card. The farmers wife would make
stockings, mittens and underclothes
from the yarn. There were household
looms where the yarn could be woven
into cloth.
Ordinary clothes could be made in
the house during the winter when the
days were short and the evenings
long. This was many years before
electric light, gas and kerosene. Peo-
pie made their own candles using the
fat Of the animals which were
slaughtered for food. Wicks were
made from the yarn woven from the
wool. The candles were run into
molds which every family had. Some
Of these molds are on exhibition
I among the colonial collection in the
Jumel house on Washington Heights
Wood was the universal fuc,. There
We're plenty Of trees which the farm
er's own labor could convert into
fire wood. The rates charged for
gas or the price of coal or whether
there was coal strike or MT did
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
No Colonial Idlers

IN EFORE his election to the Su-
b prsns Court for the Ninth
Judicial District, which in
cludes Westchester and other Hud-
son River, counties, Justice Arthur S.
Tompkins was the author Of hist
tory of Roekland county. Rockland
is the first county in New York on
the west side of the Hudson north
Of the New Jersey State line. 1t in
cludes Piermont, where the original
Erie Railroad ended and the pas
sengers went to New York in sloops;
Nyack, where there is ferry to
Tarrytown, and Haverstraw, where
they make bricks.
Major Andre met Gen. Arnold in
Rockland county in the Revolution
ary War, and later Major Andre was
tried and hanged in Rockland county
for his part in Gen. Arno1d's treason.
The details of this and of the fights
with the Indians and the fact that
Hendrick Hudson's men killed the
first Indian in Rockland county near
Haverstraw are parts of Judge
Tompkins's history.
Employment for Every One.
But the most interesting part of
this history is it's contrast to present
day conditions in telling how in the
Colonial days nobody was involun-
tarily idle. There was employment
for every one. Nobody was hungry
or thirsty or unclad because there
was no work for him to do.
InSthe early Colonial days when
Eockland county and the Hudson
Valley were being settled there was
a constant demand for labor. While
wages were low, measured in a
money sense, food was cheap, cloth
ing was inexpensive and rents were
nominal. Anybody could get work
at something at any time in the year.
In those days flour was not
brought from the West, but was
ground in the local mill from wheat
raised by the local farmer, and pay
ment was made by toll and not in
money. The farmer would raise
grain and take it to the mill, where
the millfr would charge percentage
for grinding the wheat and sitting
out the middlings and bran. The
farmer would take home the -four
for his family and the bran and mid
dlings for his cows. There was no
Minneapolis or Rochester from
which the flour came. Neither was
there any freight to pay.
As Judge Tompkins writes: "The
best economy advised home manu-
featuring to every possible extent.
The farmer himself made everything
he needed as far as he could and
called on his neighbors to help him
in emergencies. Where he left off
the blacksmith and wagon maker,
the mill and the saw mill took hold"
Primitive Ways of Toll.
In those days the blacksmith made
shoes for horses. Now the black
smith buys shoes by the keg. He
made wagon tires. Now he buys
them. The wagons were made at
home. Now they come from Indiana
or Michigan. The blacksmith made
forks and rakes for the farmers.
Now forks and rakes are made by
Pennsylvania, Massao husetts and
Illinois mills.
Blacksmiths were never Idle be-
cause when there were no horses to
shoe or wagons to repair they could
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

transaction. Such women inevitably
put through a deal with more deft.
ness and celerity than q pretty
woman would be able to, no matter
how earnestly she tried. Indeed
when a man is dealing with a plain
woman he helps her get through in
q hurry so she can CO."
In Department Stores
Beauty Il in Demand
Beauty is not deemed utterly in
compatible with business by all big
executives, however, so. pretty girls
may take heart and not envy their
homely sisters all the good business
opportunities. II the corporation gen.
tleman fears the ruinous effects of
their fatal beauty upon the minds Of
impressionable males, let them HE
themselves to one OF New York's
greatest department stores, one noted
for its elegance, atmosphere and well
bred sales persons.
At that store the employment
director casts his ballot promptly for
beauty, in so far as the sales force
is concerned. He admitted that he
sometimes was forced to employ un-
attractive women, when the avail
able supply of attractive ones gave
out, but FASTENED to add that only
necessity, never inclination, caused
him to do so, and that in his opinion
the only place for a really homely
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
- ERSONS who remember Emmy
Lou, that >demure little hero

~ ERSONS who remember Emmy
Lou. that >demure little hero
ine of many of George Mad
den Martins stories Of twenty years
ago or thereabouts will no doubt
also recall Emmy LOUIS chum Hattie,
who was as plain faced and waspish
as Emmy Lou was pretty and low
able.
Even at IL Hattie looked facts
sternly in the face. IF you're not
pretty" she seriously explained to
Emmy Lou. you've got to be smart"
Smart" in those queer old days,
it should be explained to the new
generation, referred exclusively to
mental prowess and not sartorial
distinction as to-day.
Not Every Woman Born
Beautiful and Brainy
To-day it Is pertinent question,
which best serves a woman, beauty
or brains, for never before in history
have there been SO many careers
awaiting both the 5rainy woman and
the beautiful woman, to say nothing
Of the doubly blest woman who Ia
both beautiful and brainy.
porhanc he
permitted to choose for herself, would
prefer beauty to brains for beauty
has always been wor1an's trump
card In her most interesting game,
love. and practically all women
crave love.
OF course. itcannot be denied that
some homely women have been
madly, lavishly and even perma-
nently loved George Eliot, Mrs.
Browning and George Sand inme-
diately come to mind as shining ex-
amples Of unbeautiful women who
have inspired and retained great
love, and nearly everybody can think
Of less illustrious contemporary ex-
amples.
In the main. however, the beauti-
ful or near beautiful woman has
always triumphed over her palmer
sisters in the ease with which she
has attracted eligible members of the
opposite sex. Having larger num-
Der and wider variety Of suitors
from which to choose than any save
a very wealthy plain girl could hope
to interest. the beauty has always
been successful in contracting one or
more really interesting marriages.
The plain girl, if she got married
at all, has usually had to content
herself with any poor stick who
asked for her, whether she found
him interesting or not, unless like
Emmy LOUIS friend Hattie, she gave
1t up and went to the State Normal
to become school teacher.
In Some Professions
Beauty Counts for All
To-day, while one may assume
that beautiful girls and women still
dabble more or less in love, hosts of
them are. thanks to several de-
velopments of our modern life, fol-
lowing careers Quite other than
marriage, careers which make them
financially independent Of ipdulgent
fathers, lovers and husbands
Careers in which brains count for
practically nil, while beauty is es-
sential.
There are. for instance. motion
pictures.
Without assailing the proposition
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
Character Reading

REVELATIONS OF
MIND AND BODY. BY Gerald Ell
ton Fosborke. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
A LITTLE more than a genera
A ton ago It was the proper
thing to have your bumps"
felt by the phrenologist, who told
you all about yourself in accordance
with his chart" Many grand
fathers of to-day will recall the ex-
traordinary figure of Fowler the
Phrenologist, with his long hair and
uncannily piercing eyes and his
guesses which sometimes seemed
to hold the quality of inspiration.
A few may even have read his won-
derful book, "Genetics," which was
reprinted last year. To those of
long memory there will be little new
III the increasingly popular modern
manifestation of this same sort of
thing, which differs from its prede-
cessor chiefly in being more sedate,
and usually expressed in somewhat
better English. The thing now is
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
A Dusky
: Corridor in
{ Manhattan

Continued from Preceding Page.
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EFoRE his election to the su-
lpreme Court for the Ninth
Judicial District, which in
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-03-12
ATHLETIC PROWESS
VALUABLE TO ACTOR
- IN RIALTO FILM

Seldom does athletic ability stand
motion picture actor in better
stead than in the lease Of Maurice
Flynn, the former football star of
Yale, who plays the male lead in
the William, Fox super-production,
THE Last Trail which opens a
weeks engagement at Moore's Ri
alto Theater. beginning today.
Young Flynn Is tall slender and
as well-knit as the Indian of old
bone and muscle paired with a most
engaging personality, In one scene
of THE Last Trair'-a dance hall
scene where he is pursued by armed
foes-he reaches landing stage
on a stairway, sefzes a jealous Mex
lean, lifts him bodily above his
head. and filings the man into a
crowd on the heor below. x.
1t is not a matter OF physical
strength alone. 1t ,exemplifes In h
convincing way the trained ath-
lete's skill in method OF graSping
and lifting.
1t was Maurice Flynn.sy fne per
Torrance In The Last Trail" that
made him a Fox star Immediately
after the completion OF. this great
Zane Grey story.