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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-28
FRANK DIXON.

For years Frank Dixon has beer
speaking to the American people from
the lecture platform. He has an aver
age Of one hundred and fifty audiences
q year, in towns varying in population
from country villages to the largest
cities, In every state of the union and
in almost every section of every state
His themes have always been of imme
date, vital interest, lying close to the
heart of the economic and social wei
fare of the nation.
Mr.. Dixon is lecturer who can
intelligently interpret the events OF
the present period of REIMBURSEMENT
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-28

He has a judicial mind, penetrating,
analytical, constructive, matured by
years of study and reflection. He Is
eloquent electric, compelling.
Mr.. Dixon has adopted the plan OF
presentng !. Pew lecture each season
and CURING iJ--22-2;S, he will give "Out
of Nationalism into Internatlonalisn."
This lecture is Of vital interest and
should be heard by every progressive
community.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-28

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas conroy Of Le-
wistan left Tuesday after a week end
visit with their son and wife, Mr.
and Mrs Julian j. Conroy of 6S Mid
die street.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-28

Ernest Fl. Joy of Bar Harbor is Wis
iting this week with .Langdpn A.
lewett at his home on Middle street.
Thomas Dionne, Who is employed
in the State Agricultural Department,
returned to his duties Wednesday af-
ter spending Christmas with his fam
ilAt
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12
Births Are Declining
And Deaths Increasing,
AS Compared With 1921
North Carolina Shows Highest Death
Rate and Vermont the Lowest,
Says the Census Bureau.

A declining birth rate and an i'll
creasVg death rate for 1922 as COM
pared with 1921 are forecast by the
census bureau, which bases its calcu
lation on records for the first six
months of the year for the registration
area OF the country, comprising about
81 per cent OF the total population OF
the United States.
The birth rate for the first six
months of this year was 227 per l.
900 population, while for the same
period of 1921 the rate was 24.8 and
for the whole OF last year 24.5. North
Carolina had the highest rate for the
half year, it being 30, while Virginia
was second with 27.5. Vermont had
the lowest rate, 1871.
The death rate for the six months
ending June 3Oth this year was l2.6
per 1000 population, while for the
same period Of 1921 the rate was y
and for the whole OF last year ITO
Maine had the highest mortality rate
fcr the half year, its rate being 15.7,
with New Hampshire second, with a
rate Of l5.5 Idaho had the lowest rate
with 81
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12
Beauty Made to Order by Science

the eyes. The device recommended
for removing these consists OF rigid
piece Of hard rubber to fit over and
around the mouth, with wing extern
sions adapted to the contour OF the
face beneath the eyes. 1t congresses
the fat in the upper checks and irons
out the lines from the nose to the
mouth corners.
The lips protrude through the open
ing in the middle. which is so shaped
as to produce a Cupid's bow effect;
and at the same time the unsightly
lines around the mouth and nose are
pressed out by the remover.
The third invention is designed to
harmonic the features by more even
" balancing the muscles of express
sion" 1t is a rectangular piece Of silk
with Sits, the back of it covered with
an adhesive substance whereby 1t may
be stuck fast upon the face. In apply
ing it, on going to bed, the lips should
be closed and the silk piece thereupOn
attached. The end strips OF the silk are
of such length as to cover the muscles
controlling expression.
Many a maiden is constantly Wor-
ried lest perchance her expression may
not be on straight To make sure she
is obliged at frequent intervals to look
at herself in the mirror she always
carries with her This invention, how
ever, may well give her a feeling Of
confidence on the subject, a confidence
contributing more to her peace OF
mind than is derivable from all the
consultations of religion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12

In these days, when the average
damsei has come to realize that the
only thing OF real importance in the
world is beauty, the housewifely arts
and the training OF her mind being
matters OF trihing relative conse-
quence, she cannot afford to overlook
anything that may contribute to the
enhancement of her charms.
1t behooves her, therefore, to take
note of the inventions, one OF which
is a nose-shaper II the young woman
be in any way dissatisfied with the
contour OF her nasal organ she can al
ter it-within limits, OF course by
wearing the device at night. 1t is
meant particularly for re-shaping tip
tilted, one-sided or fiat noses.
Much may be done for such noses
by gentle and continuous pressure,
which the continuance in question eX-
erts. 1t is a piece OF flexible aluminium
lined with chamois skin. A projecting
tongue, bent inward, rests on the bot
tom of the nose and holds the thing
in place with a steady though silent
tension. II the nose has a tendency to
be one-sided the piece Of metal is bent
correspondingly to press it the oppo-
site way.
Bands brought down behind the
over the forehead hold the apparatus
in place.
Even more serious than a nose that
does not exactly suit are wrinkles
about the mouth and bagginess under
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12

Success with poultry depends more
on health than on breed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12
PRISONERS INCREASING IN
ATLANTA PENITENTIARY
Daily Average Increased $40 the Past
Year. Total Is 2,17O

The federal penitentiary at Atlanta,
Ga, housed during the year ending
last June 30th an average Of 2,170 pris-
oners daily, an increase Of $40 over
the daily average for the previous ifs
cal year, according to a report by SUI
perintendent of Prisons Votaw to At
torney General Daugherty.
Notaw, in his report, estimated that
the daily cost for each man in the pen
itentiary last year was II cents, as
compared to 927 cents the year pre-
vious. The total cost of maintenance
during the year ending last June 30th
was $657,618, the report said.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12
BANK STOCKHOLDERS
LIABLE, SAYS COURT
MUST PAY DEPOSITORS IN IN
SOLVENT INSTITUTIONS.
INTEREST IN DECISION.

Approximately $4,000 Georgians, in
Guiding many at Brentwood because OF
their connection with the Farmers
Bank. which closed its doors there
year or more ago are affected and
several million dollars involved by
decision of the supreme court, handed
down Thursday, unfolding the constr
tutionality of the act creating the
state banking department and giving
the superintendent Of banks the right
to levy 100 per cent assessments
against stockholders in defunct banks
for the benefit OF depositors.
Wheatley Test Case.
The decision is expected to settle AZ
cases now pending against the bank
ing department, in Is of which the
courts have granted injunctionS.
The test case decided Thursday was
that of T. r. Bennett, superintendent
of banks, against Mrs. Helen H.
Wheatley, of Americas, administrators
of the estate of the late w. Craw-
ford Wheatley, heavy stockholder in
the defunct Commercial City Bank, OF
Americas. The directors of this bank
turned InelT dSSGlS ONCl " ouPNIl II
tendent Bennett on January 8, 1921,
and he assessed the stockholders 20
per cent and later so per cent OF the
amount of their stock for the benefit
OF the depositors.
Refuses to Pay.
Mrs. Wheatley refused to pay the
assessments, and when Fl fas were is
sued against the property Of the estate
she brought suit in Sumter county and
secured an injunction against Superin-
tendent Bennett and also against Sher-
if Lucius Harvey, to prevent foreclos-
ure.
The contention Of Mrs. Wheatley
was that the act creating the banking
department was unconstitutional, in
that it deprived the stockholder OF the
right of contest BY providing that an
assessment levied by the banking de-
partment superintendent shall be final
and conclusive upon the stockholders.
This contention was upheld by Judge
Littlejohn of the Sumter superior
court.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12
Came to America With Early
Colouists.

Experts state that bed bugs have
been traced back through centuries.
They came to America with the early
colonists! They carry deadly unmen-
tionable disease and are a menace to
your health. Wipe them out NOW.
Next week it will be harder. Use Roy
al Guaranteed Bed Bug Liquid. 25c
can. Sold and guaranteed by w. A.
Haire and Collier Drug Co.-adv.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12
AFTER IS YEARS SLEEP
IN SENATE TREATY BILL
GETS FAVORABLE REPORT

After an IS years sleep in a senate
committee room pigeon hole the Isle
OF Pines treaty with Cuba, submitted
to the senate by former President
Roosevelt, emerged from retirement
last Wednesday and was reported ia
vorably by the senate foreign rela-
tions committee. Action at this time
was requested by Secretary Hughes
OF the state department, who said he
desired to clear up the old question.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12

"a useful gift-one that serves
one that can be used at Christmas
time and every day afterwards. For
Him or Her" we offer you a va
riety of choice. Make your selec-
ton early while our stock is com
plete. Priced from $10O up.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12
CHRISTMAS FLOWERS

They make thoughtful gift-one OF
sweet fragrant significance. We can
supply an unusual selection OF tresh-
ly cut flowers and the harder plants
from our florists. Let us have your OF
der early.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12
II present there are about

NJ VI dUUWI J'VWV,VVU
il1iterates in the United States. Ac-
cording to the 1920 census New York
has 425,022 illiterates; Georgia has
328,S38; Pennsylvania has $4,000, and
Louisiana has 299,092.
Illiteracy is not solely a problem of
the south, says DR.. Parks. Most Of
the illiteracy in the north is found
among the foreign-bon, and in the
south among the NEGROES.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12
BILLIONS IN STAMPS.

In 1920 13,21279O,O38 posta G
stamps were sold by the postofice de-
partment In 1910 1920, 470,1 were
sold and in 1850, the first year of which
we have a record, the number was l.
540,545.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12
A Large Decrease Is
Shown in IlIiteracy Of
Population of This State
Only S Per Cent of Whites and %
Per Cent of Negroes Are So Class
ed by DR.. Parks.

DR.. NJ. M. Parks, superintendent of
education for Georgia, says the per
cent OF illiteracy in Georgia for the
past so years is as follows:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-12-12
LIKE ROLLING OFF A LOG.

Bert Winslow writes, ';We lost sew
eral hogs and discovered they were
cholera infected Rats spread the germ.
A neighbor told me about Royal Guar
anteed Rat Paste We used it. In a
short time there wasn't a rat to be
found. The job was so easy, it was
like rolling off a log" Get Royal Guar
anteed Rat Paste today. 25c and SOC
tubes Sold and guaranteed by w. A.
Haire and Collier Drug CO.-adv.
Evening star., 1922-04-21
INSTITUTE TO STUDY
ECONOMIC FACTS
Carnegie Corporation Will
I Finance New Undertaking
for Ten Years.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 21.-Plans for
the establishment of an institute of
economies to collect facts relating to
economic questions and distribute
them to the public in an understand
able form were announced today by
the Carnegie Corporation of New
York.
The institute will be governed by
a board of fifteen trustees, and will
be administered without regard to
the special interests of any group i'll
the body polite, whether political,
social or economic" according to the
announcement.
The Carnegie Corporation has
agreed to finance the undertaking for
period of ten years at total cost
of $3.50. 600, payable to the Institutes
trustees at the rate of 100000 an
nually for the first five years, $150,000
a year for the next three years and
100000 each for the last two years.
The corporation will have no control
over these funds after they are paid
to the institute.
board to Meet Here.
The first board of trustees has been
selected and will meet in Washington
today for the purpose of emecting
preliminary organization.
Those constituting the board include:
Arthur 7. Hadley, president emeritus
of Yale University: A. Lawrence Lowell
president of Harvard; DR.. Charles ID.
Walcott of Smithsonian Institution !;
Edwin A. Alderman, president of the
: University of Virginia: David Kinley,
president of the University of Illinois !:
Paul WarburG of New York; John Bar
ton Payne, chairman of the central
committee, American Red Cross: Robert
s. Brookings. ST. Louis. Charles l..
Hutchinson. Chicago: David F. Houston,
New York James J. Storrow, Boston; !;
Bolton Smith, Memphis. Tenn; White
foord r. Cole, Nashville, Tenn. Samuel
NIather, Cleveland, and George 'Suther
land, Salt Lake City.
Tho trustees are to appoint a staff
and to proceed with the development
of the institute.
Great Benefit Seen.
The announcement said that the
trustees of the Carnegie Corporation
have come to the conclusion that the
tar to make available to the people of
the United States those fundamental
economic facts which so closely con-
Germ the industrial life of individuals
and nations" 1t added that the trus-
tees realize that the institution so
established must have for its sole
purpose the ascertainment of the facts
and it must be conducted in the inter-
ests of no party or group or faction. If
the truth is ascertained and clearly and
simply stated, We must believe that it
will make its own way. If it cannot,
the worlds situation is hopeless
With the completion of the last pay
ment at the end of ten years the cor
poration specifies that it assumes no
further obligation to support or main
tain the institute.
Evening star., 1922-04-21
HONOR DEAD YANK ACE.
Order Conferred in Paris on Sergt.
Rockwell, Killed in 1916,

PARIS. April 20.-The order of the
Legion of Honor has been conferred
posthumously on Sergt. Kitten Yates
Rockwell. a member of the American
Flying Corps. who was killed in ac-
tion in September, 1916. The ac-
companying citation says:
THE American pilot, whose cool
ness. courage and daring never
ceased to arouse the admiration of
his chiefs and comrades. had pre-
yiouSly received the military medal
and citations for his distinguished
services"
Sergt. Rockwell was the second
American flyer to be killed in action
in the world war
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-19
Whv Mr. Pujo Was Not Americanized

present has little to offer her re-
patriated children. but looked to
these returned ones to give much
to her.
To pick out truth from the mass
of contradictory reports of Just what
has happened to those former work.
ers in the clothing factories Of New
York. Chicago, Rochester and Cleve-
land who went back to Moscow is a
treacherous business. Probably the
only wholly fair statement would be
what those textile workers whose
ideals were strong enough to offset
the American bred fondness for the
softer creature comforts, have stuck
1t out.
1t is impossible to state accurately
how many of these idealists have
done so.
But certain it Is that there have
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-19

When, in the late eighties, Rud-
yard Kipling landed in San Francisco
on that journey round the world
which was to produce American
Notes" California was to him not a
State or civilization, but the back
ground of the stories of Bret Harte.
Harte's influence, more than any
other, had gone into the making Of
PLAIN Tales from the Hills" and the
young Anglo-Indian. arriving in the
land Of the Argonauts, was less in
terested in problems of industry or
railway development than in the
whereabouts of Red Dog, Sandy Bar
and Roaring Camp. But in 1899, as
to-day, those places lived only in
imagination. The rugged mountain
tops, the gulches, the silvery streams
and the sunshine were there; but the
flavor of existence as John Oakhurst
and Colonel Starbottle had known 1t
was irrevocably gone, Gone is the
camp and wasted all its fire."
Bret Harte was one Of the first of
American literary venturers, and like
many of those who have been most
Wtally Californian in later days,
he was a Californian only by adop-
ton. The mention Of his name stirs
In the mind a picture OF the old Cali
fornia mining camp with its COM
blned dance hall and gambling den,
gold dust running in the unkempt,
III paved street, and every man car
rying a pistol. Yet Harte was born
IN Albany, New York, and died in
England But at Is years Of age he
went to California, when the gold
fever was at its height, to seek his
fortune. That was in the spring Of
1853. He was in turn a school
teacher, a miner, an express messen-
ger a printer and newspaper edi-
tor, and was a comparative failure
in everything until he tried his hand
at literature. He began by writing
about what he had seen out in the
Sierras, and he submitted his first
sketches to the editor Of the Golden
Era, for which he was then setting
type.
Then Harte established a connec-
lion with the Caltortdn, in which
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-19

been many whose Communist prin-
ciples failed when the Soviet pay
envelope became light. The efforts
Of the Society for Technical Aid to
Russia have been cold blooded de-
sire to help the industries of Russia
to resume again an erect position.
There was very little bunk about the
proposition. You were asked to go
II you thought you had the CUTS to
see it through and to stay in America
rather than howl for mercy If you
had to accept poor pay and limited
luxuries during the process of reviv-
ing Russia.
How different with the I. w. w.
boosters for Big Bill Haywood's
Kuzbas organization.
"These workers." says r. M. Stein
hardt, secretary Of the Kuzbas, "are
industrial crusaders. Strictly speak,
ing they are not members of any
political organization. We shall cre-
ate a great machine that will return
to the workers the full product OF
their labor. In the Kuznetz basin
there are 25O,0OO, 100000 tons Of coal.
or more than all the coal reserves Of
Great Britain. Six thousand skilled
American workers are going to risk
all their savings to prove to the
world that the worker is able to
manipulate the machinery that will
deposit into his own pocket all the
wealth from his production"
The timorous worker is assured
that he will not be digging coal for
the fun of it. All the coal and iron
he wrenches from the ground is to be
bought by the Soviet Government.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-19

ground Of revolutionary economies.
They will erupt their creed with a
remarkable glibness and hold forth
with a conviction that tells you how
idle it would be to match argument
with them. They are talking Of one
thing; the ordinary American talks
Of something entirely different. Any
contentious dialogue would be
shameful waste of time.
Thus far the Kuzbas organization
has shipped 200 such men to Russia.
From Moscow have come reports
that some of these 200 have thrown
down their axes and shovels in dis
gust and voiced loud demands for
car fare home. P. P. Cosgrove,
treasurer of the local branch of the
organization, says that such reports
are nothing but capitalistic lies. He
produces a letter from friend of
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-19

nor a lumberjack Goldkorn says
that he is tired working for the
bosses and, inasmuch as he has not
made a spectacular success Of work.
ing for himself here in America, he
desires to Join the Forthcoming
Kuzbas pilgrimage in order that his
individualistic tendencies may not be
hampered by business competition.
ME" replied Pu1o, the miner, me
n wabbly for six years. Me in good
standing up to two years ago, and L
amt been working steady. Me I
glad to go to wherever it is you are
going to. I get three meals day;
l work six hours a day and five days
a week, maybe. Me I get my share
of the money and bonus in a year,
If I don't want to work l get sick,
and when they raise hell go back
to work again. No cops, no stiffs
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-19

remain until he is forced out by un-
foreseen circumstance. But there is
glibness about Probuzna that augurs
i'll for his contribution to the com
mon produce of the autonomous in
dustrial colony he Joins.
Smith is a lumberman of impress
sive proportions. The lower half OF
his left ear is missing and from the
spot from which this portion of his
anatomy was sheared down to the
tip of his chin there runs the Jagged
result Of knife slash. You gather
the impression that as long as Smith
remained upon his feet he would be
able to give three or four ordinary
men a powerful physical argument.
I'm blowing to Russia because l
got the habit young of doing any
thing once" says Smith i've
worked on the docks in New York
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-19
Strange Electric Storm.

IN a February night, in south
I latitude 50 degrees west lonsI-
- tude SS degrees, the sailing
ship Vile du Havre encountered a
most remarkable storm. The rain fell
in torrents and the ship appeared to
be electrified the mastheads flaming
like giant candles. Strange lights trav-
eled over the rigging and after every
flash Of lightning part Of the vessel.
which had been newly painted, re-
mained Cor several seconds glowing
with phosphorescence.
The lightning, which was very fire.
quent. instead Of displaying itself in
zigzag lines took the form of flying
bombs, which exploded with outbursts
of light that illuminated the whole
sky. Before and after the more vio-
lent explosions of thunder fierce gusts
of wind swept the ship. This terrify-
ing experience lasted for five hours
with no respite.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-19

We're the vanguard" says Pro-
huzna, clawing his undisciplined hair
and glaring menacingly at the whole
United States. 1--WE are the pilgrim
fathers in this great industrial move
ment. Slowly at first, brother, but
later in a torrent that will sweep
everything before it the workers of
America will swarm to the great
Soviet Republic and there produce
wealth for themselves-woalth that
will not go into the pockets of Wall
street jackals and political black
guards"
There was much more to it, gen.
orally a repetition Of this much.
Probuzna is an orator, There is
something grand and imposing about
his manner. But somehow one gets
the impression that Probuzna will be
back with us in a few months pro-
vided he can procure the transporta-
ton money. Probuzna lacks some
thing of the doggedness of Pujo.
Puio as long as he is fed, will
Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-08-19

Messrs. Puio, Probuzna, Goldkorn
and Smith. They purpose leaving
America on the ed Of this month on
the steamship Rotterdam. They will
be disembarked at Rotterdam along
with upward of a hundred men.
women and children who will be
bound for the same destination and
on the same mission.
They will proceed to Petrograd,
where they will be received by the
Russian Council of Labor and De-
tense and some of them duly for
warded to the Ural Mountains to
mine emeralds platinum, gold, iron,
silver, copper and zinc, The rest will
travel 1900 miles further to the coal
fields of Kuznetz, Siberia.
Each will take with him or her
800 in American food. Subsistence.
once the Urals are reached or the