The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-17
MILLION DOLLARS YEAR
IS RECEIVED BY SOME
ALL KINDS OF PROFESSIONS
PAY BIG SALARIES IN THE
UNITED STATES.
EDUCATION is NOT ESSENTIAL
Some Few Manufacturers Lead, But
Movie" Stars, Pugilists, Opera
Singers, Lawyers and Authors Are
Not Far Behind.

Movie" Stars, Pugilists, Opera
Singers, Lawyers and Authors Are
Not Far Behind.
Much learning leads to little money!
Sounds like a paradox, but it appears
to be the rule which regulates remun-
erations not only in this country. but
the world at large. OF examples
there are plenty.
Jack Dempsey heavyweight boxing
champion of the world, makes about
100000 a year; DIR. Henry Norris
Russell, who traced the life history
of the stars, receives something like
$4,000 annually.
Invent Something.
The best way to become rich at the
rate of few million dollars year is
to be professional entertainer Next
best is invent somthing or to supply
the world with some universally de-
| sired commodity
| OF course business has its chosen
few genuises of organization. Witness
| John D. Rockefeller, oil king, and
Henry Ford, automobile manufactur-
err Each of them makes something
between pOO,Voo,VOV anu PTV,VVV,OOo d
| year.
The motion picture business ranks
| high among big paying professions.
and Mary Pickford are paid million
dollars yearly. Will Rogers, the
movie" cowboy-humorist, earns a big
salary each year.
Grand opera does not pay so well,
but not so poorly, either. John Nc
Cormack is reported to have passed
the 100000 a year mark. M. Chalia
pin, the Russian baritone, recently
signed a contract for $4,000 a per-
formance Geraldine Farrar left grand
opera because of a chance to make
$250000 a season if she would go on
the concert stage.
A Thousand a Day.
Max D. Steur, the greatest trial
lawyer in America, is said to have
been paid something like $1,000 day
while he was in court. He, along with
Samuel Untermyer, is said to make
million dollars year.
Belmonte, the world famous bull
fighter, made 100000 a year while at
the height of his popularity. One fight
in South America totaled him $4,000.
Literature also pays well. Harold
| Bell Wright admits that he makes
more than 100000 a year and has
| piled up a fortune of several million
dollars. Booth Harrington, Gene
Stratton Porter, and Robert w.
Chambers are in the 100000 year
class
Babe Ruth, Americas swat king, :
draws down about $4,000 for IL
! - ,.r0,1x chic
ceeded by the earnings OF some paint
ers. Childe Hassam, in 1921, made
sales amounting to 100000 George
de Forest Brush, in the same year.
sold pictures for $500 to $4,000
each.
Thousands for Two Words.
Irving Berlin, popular song writer,
| had years during which he made
$250,000 every II months. 1t is often
told how he sold America two words
for 100000. He took the song, I'M
popular and almost unknown, My
I "Hooray! Hoorayp and made for
tune out of it.
BUD Fisher, cartoonist often
makes $250,000 a year; Irwin S. Cobb
and Ring Lardner, humorists,, earn
about $4,000 annually. Gen. PERISH
ing, leader of Yankee troops during
the World War, is paid $4,000 a
year.
Judge Lands, baseball's king; Will
HAYS, car of the movies" and Au-
gustus Thomas, guardian Of the stage,
each get 100000 a year for looking
after the welfare of their professions.
The highest mark for the bench is
$17,0 the salary received by judges
of the New York Supreme Court.
Judge Gary, chairman of the board of
directors of the United States Steel
Corporation, has the privilege of FIX
| ing his own salary, but he takes only
$4,000 a year.
{ Standard Oil Pays High
The Standard Oil Company, head
ed by John d. Rockefeller, in its New
York, New Jersey, and Delaware
branches pays seven men more than
more than $4,000 a year.
Applied science pays large sums to
men like Edison, Marconi, or the late
Alexander Graham Bell Chemists and
! electricians, like Steinmetz, also make
great sums.
AT the foot OF the class are Robert
A. Millikin, who isolated the electron;
George E. Hale, who has discovered
more about the sun than any man
since Newton, and DR.. Howard Shap-
ley, who measured the universe.
This is the field that is open to a.
man who wishes to make fortune
every annual pay day. He can become
pugilist, manufacturer, inventor,
movie" star grand opera singer, law
yer, bull fighter, author, baseball
player, artist, song writer. cartoonist,
humorist, ruler of a profession, Judge,
business man, or a scientist. Amer
ica's budding youth has wide field