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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-04
MORTGAGE TOTALS
ON GEORGIA HOMES
SUM OF S75,671, 900 OWED ON
FARMS AND HOMES IN THIS
STATE, SAYS CENSUS.

According to preliminary report
that has just been issued by the bu-
reau of census the total mortgage debt
upon owned homes and farms IN the
state of Georgia in 1920 was S75,o/l,-
574 and the total value OF these mort
gagged homes and farms was S2lo,/o/,-
692, the mortgage debt thus represent
ing $40 per cent OF the total value.
Rented homes, tenant farms and
farms partly owned and partly rented
are not included in the report
The total number of homes in the
state other than farm houses was
293.7O8. of which 68,S22, or 3O2 per
cent were owned by the occupants;
and of these owned homes Z0,Zl4, or
22.8 per cent were mortgaged.
Average Values.
Information regarding the value OF
the home and the amount was secured
from 11.617. or SIS per cent, OF these
mortgaged homes. The average mort
gage debt of the homes for which
mortgage reports were secured was
$3.50, and the average value was S4,-
sol, and on the basis of these aver
ages the total mortgage debt on the
mortgaged homes not on farms IS es-
timated as S38,000,189, and the total
value of such homes as say, l08,9oI!.
The ratio of mortgage debt to value is
ALP per cent
On the item OF owned farms, alone,
as reported in the census OF agr1cul-
ture. the total mortgage debt was $751;
671.385, while the total mortgage val
ne of these mortgaged farms was
4.579,125, the ratio OF debt to value
being 302 per cent.
While these figures may be looked
uDon as considerable, department OF
agriculture officials have pointed out
that the most progressive states in the
union have the largest percentage OF
ratios Of debt to total values.
Loaners Conditions.
They claim representative compa-
MES dealing in farm loans require GER
tain specifications as to the amount
of loans received to be employed IN
land improvements. This requirement,
# is said, insures higher profits by
enabling farmers to make necessary
improvements tending to afford great
er production, as well as increased
valuations.
1t is further pointed out that those
states having the greatest percentage
of mortgages to the total mortgage
value have the highest land valuations
in the United States, Iowa and certain
other middle western states beng
named as specific examples.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-04
Ow! Ze 'Orrors of
Peace Are Worse
Fan Zose of War!

PARIS.-Paris is going to be
more silent if not a sadder place.
No longer will tourists be able to
SAVIOR the piquant stews and sauces
of French chefs to the accompani-
ment of the strains of gypsy" vio-
Inns and cellos.
"Manon" will no longer delight
the ear while sole marguery de-
lights the palate. Pilaff oriental
must be partaken of unaided by
Indian love-" and the digestion Of
Rizotti Milanais will not be assist
ed by Puccini's ia Boheme."
The syndicate of Partisan restau-
rant proprietors has decided on
April 10th to suppress all orches-
tras in their establishments. The
reason given is that the tax impos-
ed by the government is so heavy
that they find it impossible to main
tain orchestras in the boulevard
restaurants, in which they are a
time honored institution.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-04
WOMEN OR WINE?
GUESS WHO WINS
A WOMAN IS ONLY A WOMAN,
BUT A BOTTLE OF WINE
IS A DRINK.

CHARLOTTE, Iowa.-Women or
wine?
Charlotte voters considered this mo-
mentous question Monday and chose
wine. by AZ majority.
A ticket of women, headed by Mrs.
lanes McDermott. candidate for may
or, had as its slogan; Down WIN
Rootleggers." The women conducted
a lively campaign against illicit liquor,
which is alleged to be flowing freely
here. particularly homemade WINE;
Mothers issued an ultimatunn to all
bachelors warning them that unless
thew supported the women's ticket
could not court their daughters The
daughters supported their mothers.
All day Monday women escorted
their husbands to the polls. Young
women called at business places and
took their beaus to the polls. Stood
ON street corners and cheered for the
women's ticket. SWANS promised their
best girls that they had voted Tor Mrs.
McDermott and her ticket.
At shutdown when the polls closed
if appeared to be a clean sweep Tor
the women.
But. to the establishment of the en-
tire town, seemingly, Mrs. McDer-
mott was defeated, as were all the
other women candidates
Some of the men, it seems, must
have double-crossed their wives and
s sWeethearts. There is a feeling thai;
some so of the ''double-faced brutes,
as they were called in many indign:a9-
ton meetings Monday night, had smil-
ingly gone to the polls under charm
inc escort, promising promises, bun
thinking Of the beakers OF homemade
grape that may be purchased here Tor
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-04
DRUG USERS IN U.
S. ARE INCREASING
DOPE FIENDS IN THIS COUN-
TRY NUMBER ABOUT L00O,-
600. SECRET INDULGENCE.

Drug addiction in the United States
is alarmingly on the increase, accord
ing to reports from many sources,
some of them official, others unofficial
but unassailable Confidently, the use
and misuse of narcotics has figured
prominently in news articles, notably
in the Taylor murder case in Los An
ge1es, Cal, and raids made in New
York city and elsewhere have served
to call the whole question OF drug adj
diction again to the attention OF the
public.
Virtually all authorities agree that
there has been a marked growth in the
use of drugs in the United States.
Thew do not agree either as to the ex-
tent or the causes, but they do say
there are more drug addicts in the
country today than there were Jew
years back Wherever statistics are
available they show an increase III the
number OF known addicts.
Drug Habit a Personal One.
The term known addicts" is used
because one of the most important
aspects of the whole drug question is
the fact that the use of drugs is truly
secret, personal habit, wee or al
fiction. For this reason there can be
no true parallel drawn between the
use of narcotic drugs and alcoholic
dissipation prior to the days OF prohi-
bition.
1t is declared that neither age, race
social position, nationality nor sex has
the slightest bearing on the question
of drug addiction, and that it is moi
the case that addicts are unreliable
uncouth, and impossible people, az
some motion picture and theatrica
productions might be taken to indicate
All Glasses Are Victims.
There are estimable, refined, cultur
ed, respected, even prominent persons
who are drug addicts, as practicine
physicians we'll know. Habit-formins
drugs are chiefly derivatives OF opium
Cocaine, which has many victims, l.
not. There are and have been for years
manv cocaine "fends.'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-04
Boss Beggar Employs
Mendicants and Collects
From Them Each Day
Lithuanian Paid So a Day to His EN-
ploye-, and Cleared approximate
ly $500 Profit Each Week.

That organized begging in New
York city. conducted on business prin-
ciples. is highly profitable was shown
bv the arrest recently of three men.
One of them, the director of mendi-
cant concern, had bank books show
ing $500 weekly profits. The second,
one of his employees, received only a
daily wage of s.. The third, wise to
the profits, operated independently
and had bank credits of $500.
Tohn Staphan, Lithuanian, told po-
lice when arrested that he hired beg
CARS for So a day, then collected from
them each night He said he preferred
to employ cripples and told them
where to beg and discharged them
when their earnings were not suffi-
Gent. He said that in addition to John
Slachter, the man arrested, he had two
women and a boy working for him.
Staphan had several hundred dol
lars credited to him on bank books,
which indicated, police say, that he had
made approximately $500 week from
the begging operations OF the persons
employed by him.
When Nichol Donate, % years old,
was arrested for begging police found
that bank books in his name showed
deposits Of $500.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-04
TOM SAYS MINISTER
CHANGED HIS PRAYER
ASSERTS CHRIST WAS LEFT
OUT IN DIFFERENCE TO ONE
OF THE NATIONS.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-The fol
lowing colloquy took place in the SEN
ate last evening:
Senator Tom Watson: May L tres
pass further upon the time of the sen
ator from Wisconsin,"
Mr.. La Toilette: Il yield to the
senator"
Mr.. Watson: 1T has come to me
from a source which l cannot reveal,
but upon which l rely, that the chap
lain who opened the limitation OF ar
mament conference with prayer, just
as our chaplain opens our sessions
here with prayer had in his prepared
invocation alluded to the merits OF the
blood of our Savior Jesus Christ, but
was asked to strike that allusion out,
and he struck it out"
Again Crucifying Him.
Mr.. LaFollette: "In other words he
denied his Christi"
Mr.. Watson: He did"
Mr.. La Toilette: Why
Mr.. Watson: And he did It in de-
ference to the nation which is now,
in the persons of the Christian con-
verts in Korea, again crucifying Him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-04
Eat Raw Meat
And Gnaw Bones
To Attain Strength
Buffalo University Professor Says
One Must Be 100 Per Cent Can
nibal to Be Perfect.

BUFFALO, N. Y.-"Be 100 per
cent cannibal; eat raw meat; drink
the blood Of the slaughtered animal
and gnaw the bones to the marrow
to attain the highest degree of phys
ical perfection"
Such was the advice given dele
gates of the Erie county women's
clubs by DR.. Albert Sy, OF the
University of Buffalo, who spoke
on food values at meeting today.
Civilization has caused the aver
age human being to become too
pampered," declared DR.. sly. I'VE
should not be so tastidious in our
tastes. We discard the most nutri-
tive parts of a creature.
"The same practice is true OF our
preparation of vegetables. Raw po-
tatoes, raw carrots and sugar in its
natural state are included in the
cannibal diet.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-04
STATE BUREAUS
Roll THE GOVERNOR
HAS HIRED A MAN TO AID
IN CUTTING DOWN USELESS
LOBBY" BOARDS.

ATLANTA, Gait is generally
understood here that Governor Hard
wick, in employing an expert to in
vestigate all state bureaus and COM
missions with a view OF recommend
ing the abolition of certain ones, is
working towards the abolition of the
separate boards of trustees for each
state educational institution.
1t is also understood that Governor
Hardwick would favor the establish
ment Of a single board of trustees to
administer the affairs OF all state edu-
cational nstitutions-this board to
make detailed surveys OF the needs OF
the various schools and recommend
to the legislature just what funds will
be needed to carry on the work.
Such plan, it is explained, would
keep faculty members of the state in
stitutions away from the legislative
halls in the summer and would abol-
ish lobbying. Certain excerpts from
his speech here "Wednesday before
the Georgia Country Bankers Asso-
citation on Proposed Tax l. a W
Changes in Georgia" lead to such a
conclusion.
Il have always though we have
had too many bureaus and commits
sions in Georgia" he declared, "and l
have advocated and shall continue to
advocate to the legislature the aboli-
ton OF some of them"
He said he had employed an ex-
pert who has just completed sim
liar investigation in South Carolina, to
make an investigation of the various
bureaus. This expert will complete his
work within the next two or three
weeks, he declared.
There are too many trustees OF
various institutions in Georgia draw
ing money out of the state treasury
every time they attend a meeting or
come to Atlanta, and these must be
curtailed," he asserted.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-04
Georgia Bankers Send
A Telegram to Senate
In Favor of Tariff

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Sena-
tor Harris presented and had read
into the record the following tele-
gram from the Country Bankers
Association of Georgia: "Whie the
country bankers of Georgia are not
very strong on tariffs, yet since we
are going to have protective tar
if we ask that this tariff bill ex-
tend its protection to the products
of the farmer, especially peanuts,
peanut oil and cotton seed oil that
+ - affected by the importation OF
e bean oil, peanuts and
peanue 81 present tariff is
removed the get APP
proximate1y So per US or his
cotton seed and approXir1a ely SIS
per ton less on peanuts. The farm
ers need this protection against
Oriental labor and must have it"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-04
Two Men Held for
Big Theft of Bonds
Uncle Sam Clears Up Mystery Sur
rounding Missing Libertys.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Charles
c. Clevenger. employe of the bond
Department of the treasury, and u. o.
Wamsley, OF Charlottesville. Va; were
held tonight under $1,000 bond each
for action of the grand jury on charg-
es of conspiring to defraud the gov
eminent in connection with the theft
Of S175 900 in negotiable bonds.
A third man, whose name was not
divuleed. is being sought in the south,
according 10 secret service agents, who
sa;d Cievenger had confessed to taking
mart in the theft. The bonds, officials
said were recovered in the attic OF
Clevenger's residence.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-04
WOMAN WHO STOLE A
BIBLE IS PUT IN JAIL
Four Others of Same Sex Go to Pris-
on for Moonshining.

A young woman who stole Bible
and four Others of the same sex
Tor moonshining were the most prom
inent cases among the 1,070 indict--
ments returned by the grand jury OF
Laurel county, Kentucky.
The woman who stole the Bible was
sentenced to six months in the Tetor-
matory. The women moonshiners were
sentenced to six months in jail and as
sessed fines of $500.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-04
Fish Sold at One
Hundred Dollars Pair

Two fish from the Amazon recently
arr;ved in London. England, having
wing-like fms colored red and ygIi low.
and black stripes on tsle oody' AHe'
are valued at 500 the pair.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-04
A CASE IN POINT.

"Some things are better left unsald:.
"Surel Every breach-oi-promise sun
demonstrates that.
Evening star., 1922-10-06

Ten years ago the seventeen-year-
old bride Of a seventy-seven-year-
old millionaire, happy and contented;
| today a patient in a New York hos
pital suffering from poison and with
an uncertain future before her.
Time has brought that change in the
! romantic life of Effie Pope Hill, for
| merly Mrs. Edward b. Aslor of New
York and Washington.
1t was only ten years ago that the'
young girl, who had been Il hotel tele
phone operator at a summer resort
eloped with the Pittsburgh millionaire.
They settled in Washington. at 1902 Goth
street northwest. All was peace and
happiness for the first six weeks.
Then there were whisperings of
break. The girl-bride left Washing
ton for a sanatorium in Litchtield,
Conn.,, where she spent several weeks.
She finally returned to Washington.
to stay only short time. Then u
notion seized her to- go abroad, and
on June 20, 1912. she sailed for Eu-
rope. Mr.. Alsop followed and pleaded
the stories said. for forgiveness
and a return of her affections, She
returned, but this time the two went
to the Berkshires, in June. 1913. No
vember 10 of the same year she left
him for good.
Goes TO Divorce Court.
=. January, 1915, found her in the di-
torce court in New York, pleading
for liberal alimony, on the grounds
that her husbands income was $5O,-
600 a year. She publicly declared at
that time that he had given her rail-
road bonds amounting to 100000. but
which she declared were valueless.
She told how she tried to support
herself on the stage. but had failed,
and was forced to return to the tele-
phone operating position. The divorce,
finally granted Alsop on his charge of
desertion, separated for all time the
couple. The young bride, who for
months had occupied the spotlight of
publicity, faded from public view, and
thought.
And yesterday. after a passage of
ten years, they picked her up, drug
ged from poison and half hysterical,
took her from her front ROOM
boarding home, and put her in a hos
pitaL. Doctors say she may recover.
On the heels of the news from New
York, word comes from Atlanta, that
Effie Pope Hill was former belle of
Washington, Wilkes county, Ga, and
Is the daughter of the late DR.. James
Hill, Of a prominent Georgia family.
Her mother is a member of the Pope
family and Is said to reside in Macon,
Ga.
Evening star., 1922-10-06
EVENING WASHINGTON,

in all parts of Virginia. The petition
asked that all four be given their
liberty on the ground that they had
Satisfied the law" land that they
were convicted at time when the
whole state was "biased." The two
other members of the cian-Fioyd ~"
len and his son Claude-2afd with
their lives for their part in the shoot
ing.
"The shooting up Of the courthouse
at Hillsville," as the case Is recorded
in some histories Of the state, took
place on March "A. 1912. when the
jury brought In a verdict of guilty
against Floyd Allen and he was SEN
fenced to one year year. in the the PEI, penitein- en-
structed the sheriff to take charge
Of the prisoner" when Allen Ale leapsd ca ssa,3 to
ever take me to the penitentiary."
The shooting followed and when the
smoke had cleared the judge, the
commemorative attorney, the sheriff
and young woman spectator lay
mortally wounded. The clerk and
several jurymen also were wounded,
as was the prisoner.
Evening star., 1922-10-06

These SUITS beautifully made OF trcotne, indeed
superior value!
In AUTUMN
and
Evening star., 1922-10-06

conditional pardons
today by Gov. q.
Lee Trinhle.
At the same time
the governor re-
fused pardoas to
Sidna Allen and
Wesley Edwards,
sentenced to thirty
five and twenty
seven years inn
prisonment. respec-
lively, for their
part in the affair
in which the pre-
siding j u d & e
Thornton j.. Mas
sic: Com m on
wealth's Attorney
R T, r Wehh and
Evening star., 1922-10-06

a young woman were killed. and Dexter
Goad, the clerk, and several Arymen
were wounded. Sidna Edwards was
under sentence of fifteen years, and
Friel Allen was serving eighteen years,
both being convicted Of murder in the
second degree
Gov Trinkle, in announcing the par
dons to Sidna Edwards and Friel Allen,
declared that their prison records t,have
Evening star., 1922-10-06

DecH WITHOUT d
mark during the
entire period" of
their confinement,
that both are re-
formed young men
and will in the fu-
ture lead law-abid-
ing lives, and in
addition, he was
led to believe
Sidna Edwards to
be of "a rather
weak mentality"
He said he believes
the purpose of the
law to have been
accomplished by
the length of time
they had serveds
and for these and
other reasons was 4
f,-in1 L. l;T.
Evening star., 1922-10-06
PROMOTED TO CoLoNELCY.

Lieut.. Col. Albert L. Bulbertson, in
fantry, Officers Reserve Corps, at,
tached to the Office of chief of staff.
War Department. has been promoted
to the grade of colonel in the Reserve
COrDS
Evening star., 1922-10-06
NJ Petition.

$4,000 sixn5 Petition.
The governors action was on a Pc
tition presented to him last week by
Edgar B. English. attorney for the
Aliens in their trials. and signed, 1t
was stated, by fifty thousand persons
Evening star., 1922-10-06
VIRGINIA S[AYERS
GRANTED PARDONS

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, October 6.-Sidna
Edwards and Friel Allen. two Of six
men convicted of shooting up the court
house at Hillsville in 1912, were given
Evening star., 1922-10-06

wv f HAVE assembled a splen-
" did collection of gifts appro-
pirate to wedding occasions
and their pleasant demands. You are
cordially invited to come in and in
spect this showing, without obliga-
ton, with every inducement in the
way of variety and value, should you
care to do so.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-20

"Since the impaired capital equipment of the world can be rehabilitated only from the flow of liquid capital and since the largest source of such capital must for some time be found chiefly in the United States, it is clear that the reconstruction of the buying capacity of the rest of the world must depend upon sharing our future capital accumulations with Europe.
 ''It is of utmost importance, therefore, that we should not permit further diversion of liquid capital accumulations such as occurred during the war and in the immediate post-ar mistice period. The diversion of liquid capi- tal to consumption purposes during those periods unquestionably prevented a fuller re mobilization of the fixed capital of the world Nevertheless, in many parts of Europe and ln this country we face insistent demands for the diversion of capital funds to consumption purposes in the forms of eXtravagant govern mental expenditures, special contributions of governments to particular classes, etc. Un- less we are to repeat the unfortunate mistakes of the post-armistic period with consequences equally disastrous, a sane control must prevent uneconomic diversion of future liquid capital accumlations.
 "FnaIly we must bear in mind that the cap ital problem is a world problem just as the problems of trade, prices and currency are world problems The restoration of the rest of the world must inevitably demand large supplies of capital from the United States. The capital supply, therefore, must be considered not simply with reference to the probable needs in the light of a restricted demand in this country but in the light of the worlds needs with a view to restoring the prostrate buylng capacity
 'EThe capital situation of the world, there fore, focuses upon America with extraordinary interest While no combination of countries can immediately supply all of the needed capl- tai, the large bulk of the new capital if it IS to come from any source must come from America Our immediate problem, therefore is to conserve our liquid capital supply as fast as it can accumulate and to direct 1t to- ward the most productive channels in Europe and the rest of the world as well as In the United States.'
The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-20
Things We Think

No man is so busy he cant you, but lot Of them are so busy that they won't.
 The man who has made his million has to work mar der to keep it than he did to make it.
 
 The spirit of childhood remains the same but child hood has been so shortened that adult must act quickly if he would catch specimen If vou do the best you can and it isn't very good others will find as fault with you as Ii you hau tredbut you won't have to find fault with yourself American women and savage African tribes pluck out their eyebrows.
 Poverty is not only inconvenient but some of the time it seems downright foolish.
 As soon as the modern child becomes old enough to go uptown alone, he's old enough to understand now to spend twice as much money as is good TOT hlm
  Then there is the man who goes through life taklhs SD much of his time fighting other peoples battles that he hasn't any strength left to fight his own' So long as the gasoline holds out who's worrying about coal?
 If everybody rich he thinks he ought to De- it would destroy lot fun the rich now have in bestowing charity
 The COW that makes the golden butter is more use- full than the goose that laid the golden eggs A goat doesn't know much, which may be the reason he butts into other peoples business and limits ms conversation to "Ba-a-a"
 Knock and the world knocks with you, boost and it wonders what you are getting out of it.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-20
PIECE MEAL FILIBUSTER

It is the desire of the Republicans in the Senate to pass the tariff bill and send 1t to conference by the end of June. The Demo- crats according to a recent press report "haVe given assurances that they desire to expedite the passage of the measure, or at least do not desire to hinder its passing through the Sen ate, vet nothing has occurred but the klng filibuster." Senator King is a Democrat, and has no doubt been advised by his party col leagues as to just what his share of time k1- ling should be- If his action is an example of how the piece meal filibuster has been prorat- ed among the Democrats the dominant party may have to take summary action to put the bill through by June.