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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
SCORES PROPAGANDA
AIMED AT CONGRESS
SENATOR KING DEG ARE S
CONCERTED EFFORTS FOR
LEGISLATION A MENACE.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Concerted
propaganda for and against legislation
has become a national menace and
should be checked, Senator King,
democrat. Utah, declared today in the
course OF his testimony before the
senate committee investigating >actlvi,,
ties of alleged dye monopolies and
Hobbies.
Senator King questioned the right
of individuals or associations to en-
force" their views on members OF con-
gress, but admitted that he could not
say where the line should be drawn.
Views Challenged by Shortridge.
Mr.. Kings views were challenged
by Chairman Shortridge, who declar-
ed that there could be no limitation
on public expression as to merits or
dement's of legislation, using that as
a matter OF intrest to the whole ma :
ton. He then declared that members
of congress were receiving great
quantities of expressions" on the sub
iect Of a soldiers bonus and recount
ed numerous others, among them that
of the Irish question, on which con-
gress was well informed" as to the
Sentiment of various sections OF the
country. and he believed that such
expressions constituted no crime,
The Utah senator maintained, how
ever. that if propaganda of an organ.
lied sort in behalf OF legislation should
continue untrammeled it would mean
merely that wealth is to control this
country. congress and all else.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
RAIL INCOME IN 1921 -.
IN U. S. S615,625.619
RAILWAY EXECUTIVES FIG
URES SHOW RETURN OF 3.31
ON I. c. c. VALUATION.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Net oper-
ating income of railroads in the Unit
ed States, sum available for interest,
dividends. rentals and surplus OF the
corporations owning the properties
amounted for 1921 to $6l5,625, ,6l9, &C
cording to compilations issued by. the
Association OF Railway Executives
This was computed by the ASSOCIATION
to represent return of 3.3l per cent.
on the tentative valuation fixed upon
all railroad property by the interstate
commerce commission, and covered re
ports from all of the 201 class | rail-
roads, which operate the greatest pro-
portion of American railway mileage.
For December, 1921, the net operat-
ing income of the roads, not consld-
ering returns of the Detroit, Toledo
and Ironton, was $51 ,510,478, estimat.
ed to represent an average rate OF
3.44 per cent on the aggregate CAPITA,
The total operating revenue tor l9El
was given as $3.50, 88S,000, or d0;o
per cent less than the total Tor l9Zo'
and total operating expenses were 81
602. 425 900, a decrease of I'll per cent
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
FATHER BROWNS HIS
BABY IN BATH TUB
PUTS CHILD IN, BOLTS DOOR
AND BUSHES AWAY TO TELL
MOTHER BILL IS DEAD"

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Walter Lid
die, 10 years old, clerk, confessed
today, the police said that he drowned
his 7-months-old son in the bath tub
of his Bronx home this afternoon be-
cause his young wife refused to return
to him. Pressed for an explanation, he
is said to have declared that he de-
cided to "end it all by killing the baby
and having the state electrocute me"
He was arrested on a homicide charge.
Mrs. Liddle left her husband a
month ago after quarrels due to his
inability to obtain permanent work
She took the baby to the home OF her
parents, where Liddle called on her
this afternoon and, after unsuccessful
ly importuning her to have dinner with
him. asked permission to take the
child out. He told the police he has
tened to his home with the infant.
Fondles Baby Ten Minutes.
Il put the baby on the bed" Lid
die told the district attorney, the lat
ter said last night, "and after | got
nv coat and hat off | fondled and
kissed Bill for 20 minutes. Then | de
cided to drown the baby. | fixed him
comfortably on a pillow in the bed
and went into the bathroom and turn
ed on the water.
when the tub was filled l decided
to sink "a pillow to the bottom of the
bath tub and put the baby on that,
but | couldn't make the pillow stay
below the water. Then l put an iron
in the pillow and it sank. But the
water discolored. So l took it out.
Liddle then said, according to the
district attorney, that he picked up
the baby, kissed it several times, and
dropped the infant into the tub OF
water. AS the baby sank, he said, he
closed the door of the bath room, rush
ed down the stairs and went back to
his wifes home.
When Liddle arrived at his wife's
home he asked for his brother-in-law,
Edward Corrigan, and told him what
he had done.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07

publican leaders that if they hope to
get their program of major legislation,
such as the tariff, the treaties and the
like, through this session they had
better not risk the loss of time GER
tain to be incurred if the Dyer anti
lynching bill is brought out.
The bill has revived feelings that
have been dormant in congress Tor
thirty years or more. The democrats
regard it as of the same nature as the
old force" bills, fathered by Senator
Lodge and others a generation ago,
which provided for the presence OF
federal soldiers at elections in the
southern states to compel those states
to permit the negro to vote 1t was
thought the spirit behind these meas
ures had been universally recognized
as a mistake That spirit was sur
vival of the bitterness of the civil war:
For a. generation the more enlightened
theory has been that the race prob
lem, which is a sad and difficult one
under any circumstances, is best han
died by the gradual growth OF restraint
and wisdom in the local communities
where it exists. That it IS not helped,
but on the contrary is made more acute
and painful by efforts to interfere
from the outside, especially when the
interference is accompanied by force,
is accepted as the lesson OF said ex-
perience.
All Deplore Lynching.
Every person who opposes the Dyer
bill deplores lynching, OF course.
Lynching has already been under pro
cess of cure in the south by the natulr-
al growth of public opinion about It.
1t IS in the north, in Chicago, Wash
ington and East ST. Louis that the
worst riots of recent years have oc-
Cured Those who are most familiar
with southern conditions say the Dyer
bill would result not in fewer lynch
ings. but in more. If the state OF local
feeling is such that the local county
and state officials cannot prevent or
punish lynching the injection OF the
federal courts would merely make that
feeling more acute. The fine OF $l0,00O
on the county in which lynching oc-
ours. or on a county through which
mob passes on its way, would not be
practicable to collect All the federal
marshal could do would be to seize
the county court house, or the local
Confederate monument, anu Put - W
at auction; and nobody would risk the
unpopularity involved in becoming the
purchaser.
All @these arguments against the
Over bill seem strongly convincing.
They do not come from democrats
alone. Among the speeches made
against the bill in the house three OF
the best were made by republicans
who come from Maine, Pennsylvania
and Nebraska respectively.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
FOUR MEN ARE HELD
FOR SCHOOL FIGHT
PROMINENT CITIZENS UNDER
BOND FOR ASSAULTING
SMITHVILLE TEACHER.

SMITHVILLE, Ga.-Four promi-
nent Lee county citizens have been
held to await the action Of the. grand
Jury as a result of the recent fight IN
Smithville high school. These men are
Jesse Faust. c. c. Ansley, Marion
Long and Chance were bound over
Faust. who waived examination, was
fixed at $500, and bail for the Others
was placed at $3.50 each.
The hearing at which Faust, Ansley
Long and Chance were bound over,
was held before Justice B. E. Powell,
OF Leesburg, sitting for Justice J. H.
Randall. of Smithville, who was dis
qualified. The four men, it is alleged,
attacked T. A. Stanton, principal OF
the high school, in his office. because
Of a disagreement over furnishing a
pupil with a substitute report card.
The warrant on which the men were
arrested was issued at the instance OF
the trustees OF the school.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
RICH WIDOWS LOSE
100000 TO j. RUFUS
SLICK BROKER SAID TO HAVE
FOUND THEM EASY PREY
TO BUBBLE" PLAN.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Ien women,
several prominent socially, who claim
to have put more than 100000 into a
mythical pool promoted by Alfred
E. Lindsey, broker, with palatial
home at South Nyack, Friday were
summoned to appear before supreme
court grand jury Monday and help
piece together the details OF remark
able story OF high finance" on which
Assistant District Attorney Murphy
will seek Lindsey's indictment
The list OF alleged victims OF the
missing broker is headed by Mrs. Lii
Ian N. Duke, divorced wife OF James
B. Duke, tobacco king" who claims
She entrusted $325,000 to the engaging
Lindsey. Others on the list with their
contributions to the pool include:
Some Other Victims.
Mrs. Dorothy Atwood $225,000; Miss
Catherine Adams, $4,000; Miss Char
lotte Nillson. actress, $4,000; Mrs. w.
H. Arnold, $4,000; Miss Margaret
Roeart. $4,000; Mrs. Helen Burnett,
$4,000; Mrs. Adelaide V. Rice, SIS
600: Mrs Josephine A Cornell, S20,-
900. Miss Florence James, $4,000
Siren songs of quick and fabulous
profits induced the women to dispose
of securities they held and put their
cash equivalent in Lindsey's nands,
Mr., Murphy said. Lindsey's favoiite
story. he declared, was that he was
q fellow member with George F. Ba-
ker. Thomas w. Lamont, Charles (.
Sabin, Percy A. Rockefeller, James A.
Stillnan and other giants OF the tlnan-
cial district in a millionaire domino
club. where the time not spent in play
ing dominoes was given over to plan
ming big killings" in Wall street.
Got Her Dogs, Too.
Mrs. Atwood. who ran Mrs. Duke a
close race for honors OF chief goat"
in the brokers operations, declares he
carried off two of her pedigreed Mex
lean dogs after he got the last Of her
ready cash, reporting that he had
found good sales for them. He tried
to borrow a third, she said, but her
suspicions had been aroused and she
kept the dog.
Mrs. Atwood has earned her living
since by raising pedigreed dogs
something that was hobby before
the suave Lindsey came into her life.
Mrs. Atwood said she had first met
Lindsey through Mrs. Duke, who
thought so well of him that she en-
trusted more than $350,000 to him.
Displays Secret Key.
This club was supposed to maintain
secret rooms at the Ritz Carlton no
tel, to which Lindsey displayed pass
key.
1t was to get her money into a pool
Generated bv these men that Miss Mill
son parted with her $4,000, Mr.. Muir
phv said she had told him Similar
stories, he said, were told by the 9TH
er women.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
CENTRAL is LOSING;
ASKS TRAIN CUTS
ON ONE LINE ROAD IS RE-
OUIRED TO SPEND SILL
TO EARN S1.00.

The practice of every economy, so
that it may live within its income, IS
to be the future policy of the Central
of Georgia railroad said w. A. Win
burn. president, in statement before
the Georgia railroad commission set
ting forth the reasons on which the
railroad is basing its appeal TOR the
discontinuance of certain Improbable
trains. According to Mr.. Winburn the
income OF railroads in 1922 is far less
than If was in 1916 and yet expenses
of operation have greatly increased.
The primary duty of a railway is
to supply safe and dependable trans
portation, responsibility that can
best be met by dispensing with non
essentials. so that the essentials Tor
providing such service may be assur-
ed" said Mr. Winburn.
Before seeking the curtailment OF
train service the railway has exhaust
ed every other means of effecting econ
omies. The number of employees has
been cut: amounts paid out for loss
and damage to freight and for person
al injuries have been greatly lessened;
efficient operation has permitted saw
ing of S350,999 in the annual coal bill,
and vet the road failed last year by
nearly million dollars to earn is oper-
ating expenses, fixed charges and tax
es, leaving no provision for interest on
capital invested.
In the statement Mr.. Winburn
pointed out that in one instance the
road is required to spend Sill to
earn ST and that in others IT costs
$3.50 to earn 81.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
WEAKENS
STATE RAIL CONTROL
JUDGE HINES, FORMER COUN-
Sell FOR COMMISSION, SAYS
POWER is STRIPPED.
U. S. SUPREME COURT ACTS
State Lines Must Not Be Regarded in
Fixing Rates. Court Was Unit,
No Justice Dissenting. Commits
sioner Perry Gives Views.

ATLANTA, Ga.-That the United
States supreme court, in its decision
just rendered in the Wisconsin rate
case, has practically taken away from
state commissions their control of rail
road rates within state lines is the
opinion expressed by Atlantians famil-
lar with the issues OF the case.
Judge lanes K. Hines, now a men,
Der of the supreme court of Georgia,
formerly special counsel to the Geor-
gia railroad commission, took part in
preparing the brief for the state COM
missions in the Wisconsin rate case.
The issues arose in the state OF Wis
consin. The Wisconsin state commits
sion prescribed a certain passenger
rate on a certain railroad. Claiming
that the rate was a discrimination
against interstate commerce, the rail-
road obtained authority from the in
terstate commerce commission to
charge a higher rate. The Wisconsin
commission enjoined the railroad from
putting into effect the higher rate.
Forty-two state commissions joined
the Wisconsin commission in carrying
the case to the United States supreme
court The argument was prepared by
committee selected from the legal
advisers of the several state commits
sions. Judge Hines was a member OF
that committee.
Discussing the supreme courts de-
cision Judge Hines said it looked as
if the court had virtually stripped the
state commissions of their control over
railroad rates.
In the Wisconsin case the supreme
court held that a state rate which dis
eliminates against interstate commerce
may be set aside by the interstate
commerce commission.
Put into practice, this means that
state rates must not be lower than
interstate rates 1t means that the
measure OF freight and passenger rates
shall be fixed by the interstate COM
merce commission Tor interstate trat-
fc and travel, and that all state rates
must be governed thereby.
Commissioner Perry's View.
Mr.. J. A. Perry, member of the
Georgia railroad commission, gives his
view as follows:
THE transportation act Of 1920, in
so far as it relates to rates, simply
gives legislative sanction to establish
ed law of many years standing. Some
twelve years ago the supreme court
of the United States rendered de
cision in the Shreveport case in which
it held that no state has the right to
prescribe interstate rates which work
a discrimination against interstate
rates. All state commissions have been
functioning under this inhibition for
many years. | don't think the decision
alters the jurisdiction heretofore exer-
cised by state commissions one iota.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
MERITS OF GEORGIA
PEANUT FED HOGS
COMPLAINTS AS TO CHICAGO
PRICE FOR GEORGIA PROD
UCTS. WILL INVESTIGATE.

Secretary Wallace, of the depart
mertt OF agriculture has informed Sen
ator William ]. Harris that the pack
ers and stock-yard administration OF
the department had started an investl-
CATION of the complaints about the dill
ferences in prices paid for hogs in
Chicago, as compared with the prices
paid by the meat packers at Moultrie
and other sections of Georgia.
In connection with the alleged price
discrimination the secretary of agri-
culture also directed an investigation
into the statement of the packers that
peanut fed hogs in Georgia did not
bring as large prices as corn-fed hogs
because the former were soft and oily.
Senator Harris contends that peanut
fed hogs have been Disseminated
against. as they are sold as finished
products at the same prices as other
hogs, but if there is difference be.
cause of the softness he wants the in
formation placed before the hog rails
ers.
The need for the investigation is
emphasized by statements that Geor-
gia peanut-fed hogs in large numbers,
some from Terrell county, have beer
shipped to the middles west, and after
beng fed for about ninety days on
corn have. sold on the market at sew
en- cents more per pound. This pro-
cedure. II is claimed, has afforded deal
ers in the west a fancy profit by
handling peanut-fed hogs for short
time
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Harvard BIZ
oloeists have succeeded for the first
time with scientific precision the pro-
cesses Of life and death as they appear
in plants. the university announced on
Friday. 1t was said that experiments
already made may throw light on GER
tain phenomena OF injury and recovery
IN human beings which up to this time
has not been entirely clear.
These experiments, made by Prof;
w. I. V. Osterhout, OF the department
Of botany, show that it is possible to
study the behavior OF living organ
isms with the same mathematical ex-
actness with which chemists and ply
sicists study that of inanimate matter,
thus taking two of the vaguest bloiog-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
Biological Discovery May Throw Light on
Phenomena of Life and Death in Human Beings

icaf conceptions, life and death, and
giving them quantitative significance
which can be expressed in figures.
The experiments have been made
mon laminaria, one of the common
brown KEEPS of the Atlantic coast. 1t
has been found that the resistance OF
this plant to a current of electricity
is an excellent index to its normal
condition of vitality.
When the plant is alive it resists
the current When dead it does not.
If the plant is injured the electrical
resistance at once decreases.
A significant discovery is that if the
injury is only slight the plant fully
RECEIVERS, its electrical resistance re-
turning to normal afterwards.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
Stork Generous to
One Kentucky Home

BROWNSVILLE, KY. - That
the stork has favored them with
six years OF generosity unequalled
perhaps anywhere else in this coun-
try is the claim OF Mr.. and Mrs,
William Poteet, who became the
parents here today Of four more
children, making total of twelve
in FIVE years.
During the first five years of their
welded life four pairs OF twins were
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Poteet. The
eight twins and the four born to-
day are all living and apparently
in good health.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
0rI Of FiUe Crosses
Atlantic Ocean Alone
english Child Makes Voyage on Liner
10 join Father in America.

NEW YORK. N. Y.-ChiIdren have
81 ..'5 10 the United States without
- parents in several instances since
Al P war but immigration authorities
latest c,. sand were startled by the
siders.;Sasse Ease. which came up for con-
rom 91'' :. Gladys Sangster, s. landed
ont , ue giant steamer Homeric with
Of her srS'olan or parent to take care
take a C.- however, was well able to
thorities l. OF herself. She told the au-
had i'Ssse9d England that tf be was S,o 5t6
living '5 "a. there and that She had been
Her i. .Ih her aunt in Southampton.
Newbnrr,nnner IS George Sangster. of
BY teiegyrppooIt' Mass. He was notified
the EIlis Jpn IeIan and Gladys was sent to
Tor earacb Island hospital for treatment
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
INCLINED TO DOUBT GHOST.

New York.-There may be a sure
q enough ghost up in Antagonist, n. D,
& but one OF those inclined to doubt ii
is DR.. Walter Franklin Prince, who
4 in his time has stalked many a ghost
to its lair and found it to be only a
a playful human, he or she:
4 DR.. Prince, director OF the American
4 Institute for Scientific Research, mott
fed the Halifax Herald today that he
B wes ready to 90 to Canada and live IN
the haunted house that has attracted
the attention OF thousands who have
heard strange tales OF how ghostly oc-
i currences drove its inmates to flee in
fear. DR.. Prince said, however. that
somebody would have to pay his ex-
4 penses and tonight word came from
Halifax that this little detail would be
arranged
Today DR.. Prince recalled other
ghost hunts he has undertaken in re-
cent years. He left the impression that
strange fires and tappings on walls,
4 dark midnight bedrooms, the laying
on OF cold and clammy hands in the
scary hours before dawn, and other
i dreadful occurrences had been traced
almost invariably to some little boy
Or girls who played as if every night
were Halloween.
Oh course, DR.. Prince didn't put it
quite that way. What he said was
4 that he had never known of haunt
ed house investigation which disClos-
ed other than natural causes for the
phenomena. This natural cause he de-
Scribed as some embodied person, and
more frequently a young one,
sometimes the Investigators could
md no sure evidence that a human
4 beng was responsible for rocks COM
ing through windows or for the clat-
Ter OF furniture webbing on its legs
4 IN rooms believed deserted or for the
awful sensation of getting slapped by
nand one could not see or touch.
but IN such cases the Investigators
were able Dir. Prince added, to center
Suspicion upon a real live person.
i oUings not infrequently have been at
,,ssched to rocks and chairs and such
4 1 objects with frightful effect, DR..
Prince said.
Scientifically the complex that mo-
i Na'eS such conduct is called potter
s5'>I' a word OF German ancestry that
.1 a mischievous spirit. Occasion
s.Iy persons with dual or multiple per-
i6Sl.aIitieS 90 such ghostly Stunts, DR..
;LnCe sad, purely by way OF drama
ul"-s experiences from which they
are having reactions.
:, Mind you, DR.. Prince did not say
a'gIe wasn't real live in ghost in An
'asuhlSh, as has been avoWed bv MANY
;.S.scllous and trustworthy people who
::ohd the haunted house too much
5 ~, tner nerves. But he did say it
#oald be a new experience for him
~ "t could not locate a normal cause
10Y the carryings-on.
p, Il l go up there and the phenome-
GO 90 10 not continue, of course, | can
j. nowhere he said. But if they
bo.. Continue and | fail to get at the
''''o'n OF It 1t will be the first time. y
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
IN BED 2s YEARS DOUG
LAS MAN PASSES AWAY

DOUGLAS. Ga.-Calvin Lott, a
white man thirty-six years Of age,
died here after being paralyzed and
living in bed for twenty-eight years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07

W. OHS lay
WASHINGTON, D. C.-There are
signs that the republicans wish they
might be allowed to forget the Dyer
bill, which makes lynching a crime
against the federal government, calls
on the federal courts to search it out
and punish it, and provides that the
county where lynching takes place
shall pay fine of $4,000 to the fam
lily of the victim. The bill passed the
house by a vote of, roughly, 2 to l.,
which is approximately the same as
the republican majority. 1t is now in
the judiciary committee of the senate.
1t may be doubted whether it will ever
appear on the floor of the senate. II
it does appear it may even more safe
lv be doubted whether it will pass, or
even come to a vote.
Arouses Old Feeling.
There are democratic senators who
feel so strongly about the bill that
they will not hesitate to filibuster
against it; and there are republicans
who are so dubious about the merits
of the bill that they will not feel re-
sentful over a hlibuster in what they
would regard as a good cause. Ger
tainly it will be made clear to the re-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-03-07
Live Snake Is Hurled;
Solons Run From Hall
Reptile Is Used to Break UP De-
bate on Jap Suffrage Bill.

TOKIO.-An attempt to FIX the
blame for the throwing OF live
snake on the floor of the diet on
Thursday resulted in an uproar III
the lower house Friday, causing
temporary suspension OF the ses-
sion shortly after the resumption
of debate on the universal suffrage
bill.
A member of the kensei-kal par,
tv. the opposition, stoutly denied
the charge that be was guilty OF
melting a boy to drop the reptile
from the gallery.