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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-03-03
MEASURES PASSED IN SENATE

s. B. "a, committee on irrigation
and water Providing water
masters shall hold office two years
from election.
S. B. SO, Rehberg- Removing limit
of 500 on expenses of district Judges
within district but outside of resi-
dence county.
s. B. 100, Cowles- Making only free
holders and heads of families qualified
for school trustees.
H. B. 2, Fenn-Appropriating for
the administration Of the insurance
bureau.
s. B. 1874, judiciary committee-Re-
quiring those who practive law to take
out a license.
S. B. 70, Cowles-Providin that
when rural high school or independ-
ent school districts do not elect a
treasurer, the county treasurer shall
perform such duties.
S. B. 101, Disney-Including phv-
sically disabled among those who NAV
do absent voting.
s. B. 125, Jones Of Idsho-Creatius
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-03-03

Marry in haste and lose half the
wedding presents.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-03-03
Shootin' at the Moon

Soc ct tuum damum.-Pliny.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
SHORTAGE PRESENTS
A HUGE PROBLE EN-
PAST DUE PENSIONS AND RE-
GENTLY VOTED INCREASES
WILL BE 100000 IN 1924.

That the state of Georgia will be
faced with the problem of raising ST.
100000 additional revenue for each of
the years 1924 and 1925, in order to
make good its pledged payment of
Confederate pensions for those years
was the startling indication of figures
compiled for Governor Hardwick and
made public Saturday.
There is, it is shown, an accumu-
lation of past due" pensions which
the incoming administration and leg
islature are pledged to make good, as
we'll as an increase in the pension
amounts provided under the constitu-
tional amendment of 1919. This
amendment provided for an automatic
increase in all pensions each year for
four years, beginning in 1920 with
$500, and increasing SIS per year I'M
til the maximum of $500 is reached in
1924. Certain other changes were also
made which increase the pension to-
tails, by the elimination of the proper
ty clause and the admittance of wild
ows who were married to Conteder-
ate veterans between 1870 and $780,
Sold w. and A. Rentals.
All pensioners on the list in 1921,
Including those entitled to the pay
meEt of SIPS, were paid up by dis
counting the rentals of the w. & A.
railroad. In 1922 the legislature made
all appropriation sufficient to pay the
pensioners 500 each, all except one
class. OF those who were paid there
are, in round numbers, 10000 on the
rolls who, by literal adherence to the
law, are entitled to $50 more than the
state paid and between six and seven
thousand who had no provision made
for them at all.
Therefore, on the 10000 old class
pensioners now on the lists there
stands due and unpaid total of $780,
600 this year, and for the 1000 pen
sioners under the $125,000 allotment,
for whom no provision was made at
all, there is past due $1,250,000 and
for 1928 the total amount which will
become and stand unprovided for will
be $1,500000 or a total of $1,000,
which will go over as pledged but I'M
paid the first of next year.
S5760,000 Deficit Looms.
For the years 1924 and 1925 of ev-
cry dollar pledged to the pensioners
of all classes, including the 10000 now
being partly paid and the 1000 who
are legally entitled to pay, is provid-
ed for, that will require a pension APP
preparation annually of $3,500,000.
Coupling these items together the
grand total of the states pension debt
| in 1924 will run to 100000, where
as the legislative body making the
last appropriations declared the top
most figure the states revenue will
stand for pensions is $1,240,000 year,
which will leave deficit on that basis
of approximately $5,76OOOO in pen
sions alone in 1924 or a demand for
more than so per cent OF the states
entire revenue.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
GEORGIA HAS MANY
; WELL TO DO CITIZENS
IN DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
THE STATE MAKES A VERY
SATISFACTORY SHOWING.

Georgia as compared with states
around about her has more "monied
men than was generally supposed.
The Asheville Citizen has been study
ing the figures and claims that Geor-
gia and Virginia have more wealthy
residents" than North Carolina, but
that North Carolina has more rich
people
In the class of residents worth S.
900 and more in cities Georgia is first,
Virginia second and North Carolina
last Georgia also leads in people
whose worth is between $4,000 and
$4,000. In residents whose wealth is
placed at between $4,000 and $780,
900 Georgia still leads. Always these
figures apply only to residents OF cities
of 10000 people and upwards. When
| we come to big investors worth over
100000 and $250,0O0 Georgia also
leads.
But when we read OF wealthy resi-
dents worth not less than $250,00O and
not more than $500,000 North Carroll
a.! ma takes the lead. Georgia is credited
with POI of such residents, Virginia
with 396 and North Carolina with $50.
In the class of those whose wealth
amounts to more than 100000 Geor-
gia has Isl, Virginia ~ and North
Carolina 231. The listing stops there,
In the small towns residents worth
between $4,000 and $4,000 Georgia
and North Carolina are about the
same. The Asheville Citizen concludes
that North Carolina wealth is not con-
fined to the cities.
1t would seem that Georgia and
North Carolina are making the most
progress of any South Atlantic states.
Both have gone ahead OF Virginia.
North Carolina has some big investors
around Asheville, the Vanderbilts and
others, but in the well-to-do people,
indicating a homogeneous distribution
of wealth, our own state makes
more satisfactory showing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
WAR ON HOT DOGS;
MAY BE MUZZLED
AN EAST POINT SCHOOL BOY
GETS WIRE IN HIS TONSIL
MUNCHING DOG"

EAST POINT, Ga.-A war or
weiners looms in East Point, and
threatens not to end until every "hot
dog" in the city is muzzled.
The casus belli on which DR.. T. F
Dufin, chairman of the local board Of
health, may act in the interest of high
er pedigreed sausage is the harrow
ing experience OF Carl Wynn, 13-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. c. S. Wynn
from whose throat physicians took a
piece of steel wire, one inch long, that
had come out of weiner on which
the boy had made his noon lunch.
The child was munching "hot
dog" with great satisfaction at one Of
the local Sausage emporiums" when
suddenly, he stopped, complaining o.
a severe pain in his throat. He went
to his fathers office and there con-
tinued to complain of the severe pains
He then was sent to the office OF DR.
Dufin.
DIR. Dufin, assisted by DR.. w. F
Croft, located the trouble in the
Youngsters tonsils, where the piece O
wire had lodged. With considerable
difficulty it finally was extracted. The
boy was quite i'll as the result of hi:
experience.
Luckily, the smooth end of the wirt
entered the boys tonsil, leaving thu
rough end exposed near the root o
the tongue.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
ARLINGTON'S NEW
DEPOT is HALTED
COURT ENJOINS STATE RAIL
ROAD COMMISSION FROM
ENFORCING ITS ORDER.

Judge W. D. Ellis, of the Fulton
county superior court, has finally rem
dered his decision in the matter of the
injunction proceedings brought by
the Central of Georgia Railway Com
pany to restrain the Georgia Public
Service Commission from enforcing
an order promulgated by the commits
sion last fall requiring the Central
to build new depot facilities for the
railroads station in Arlington. Judge
Ellis granted temporary restraining
order against the commission enforc-
ing its order, the Arlington Courier
says, and the matter is now in the
status quo awaiting the determination
by the commission as to whether ii
will appeal Judge Ellis decision to
the state supreme court.
The railroad has resisted the build
ing of new depot since the commits
sion first ordered it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
PRESIDENT INVITED
TO BLOSSOM FESTIVAL
PREPARATIONS TO ENTER
TAIN $4,000 AT FIT. VALLEYS
ANNUAL CARNIVAL.

FORT VALLEY, Ga.-Prepara-
tons to entertain $4,000 visitors for
the second annual Peach Blossom Fes-
tival to be held here about the middle
of March are already under way.
President Warren Harding, the gov
ernors of the neighboring states and
other national celebrities will be in
vited to be present. Invitations have
been extended these government Off
Gals.
The date cannot be arranged def
nitelv on account of weather conditions
which will regulate the arrival OF the
peach blossoms. The fields will be
brilliant with the pink blossoms as d
background to sumptuous barbecue
which will be one of the features OF
the festival
Attractive inducements in the way
OF large prizes will be offered to the
various manufacturers to enter COM
petitive floats. The manufacturers OF
any commodity that sells to peach
growers are urged to enter float
A trained director has begun work
toward having every detail executed
with precision. Bands over the state
are signing contracts and the author
tiles promise ample music at the fes-
tival.
Another feature will be a gorgeous
pageant with over 500 persons partici-
pating. Decorated automobiles will be
entered also.
The peach blossoms must be in full
bloom before the date can be an
nounced, as many OF the visitors who
come from great distances have never
seen acres upon acres of peach trees
burdened with pink blossoms, and the
planters claim this is an unusual view
OF nature in itself and is sufficient at
traction for thousands of visitors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
HARDWICK INSISTS
WRIGHT IS WRONG
GOVERNOR TAKES ISSUE WITH
REVENUE FIGURES GIVEN
BY THE COMPTROLLER.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Governor Hard
wick takes issue with a statement Civ
en- out at the office of Comptroller
General Wright that the revenues OF
Georgia in 1922 exceeded the an
ticipations by more than 100000,
and that the public schools of the
state will get hall that sum, or any
other additional amount.
1T is true that the legislature in
its original budget anticipated only
S8,500,000, but Notwithstanding that
fact it went ahead and appropriated
$9,452,000 at the session and the re-
cent legislature added 100000 in de
fciency appropriations" Governor
Hardwick said The result is that the
state will just about break even, with
out complying with the pension laws. T"
To bear out this statement Govern
or Hardwick pointed to his message
to the legislature, delivered on June
%, 1922, in which he declared that the
total net revenue OF the state in 1922
would be about $9,600,000, of which
sum $4,800000 would be for schools.
The figures given out by the comp
troller generals office gave the net
income of the state as $9,844, 1868, but
listed the anticipated revenues as on
ly $8,500,000, indicating surplus of
81 ,344, 1903, which the governor declares
does not exist by reason of the appro
priations already paid and to be paid.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
SOMETHING new IN
JURY PRESENTME
VOTERS AND INCOMPETENT
COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR
ARE CONDEMNED.

CONYERS, Cain the present
ments Of the recent grand jury in
Rockda1e county was the following
Investigation has been made of the
shortage in the accounts of former
Tax Collector R. B. ]. Bennett, dis
covered by an audit examination in
May last year. After full discussion OF
this matter it was decided that no in
dictment should be returned against
the said R. B. ]. Bennett, for the rea-
son that in our opinion the voters are
equally at fault in having elected to
so important an office man known
to be incompetent and without ability
properly to operate the office. | being
impractical to indict the entire sui
frage of the county for having made
such an election, and, as above stat
ed deeming the voters to be at least
equal in guilt to Mr.. Bennett, we be-
lieve it to be an injustice to indict the
latter alone.
We wish firmly to condemn the
sometimes practice of electing to Of
fee candidates who do not possess the
necessary qualifications properly to
handle the affairs of the office. Compe-
tency, efficiency and honesty should
supp1ant the oft heard appeals based
on sympathy, needing the job" and
other so-called reasons extraneous to
the situation; and the suggestion here
in made is submitted for serious con-
sideration to the people OF this county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
PLANT PESTS ARE
COSTLY TO COUNTRY
DESPOILERS OF CROPS COST
AMERICA $4,000 $1,000 YEAR
LY. MANY FROM EUROPE.

The American public is paying trib-
ute to plant pests at the rate of about
$2,000,000,000 a year, according to the
American Nature Association.
Just as the metropolitan police de-
partments tabulate all the facts on a
aw-breaker, 50 there is "rogue's
gallery" OF the plant world. The At
lantic states know what the chestnut
blight and the white pine blister rust
have done The country knows the
south's experience with the boil wee
vii. One of the original enemies to be
brought to this land from Europe was
the Hessian fly, which came in straw
the Hessian soldiers used to bed their
horses. That fly still costs the country
the price OF the Revolutionary war ev-
cry year because of what it does to
wheat.
Corn Borer Is Costly.
introduced from Mexico, the boil
wcevil has cost the cotton growers of
the south enough to pay off the ma
tional debt. The corn crop from 100,-
100000 acres is annually exposed to
dozen destructive diseases, most OF
which wormed their way into Amer
lea from foreign lands. The last to
appear is the European corn borer.
A professor at Harvard University
some years ago was experimenting
with all kinds of silk worms and cult
ures of gypsy moths, trying to de-
velop a variety of silk worms which
would resist this disease. A gust OF
wind blew several cultures through
his laboratory window. Soon the gyp-
sy moth became a destructive pest in
Massachusetts,, and now it extends its
depredations over 10000 square miles
of American area.
Keeping Close Watch.
Along the Mexican border Uncle
Sam maintains great fumigators large
enough for several freight cars to run
inside at a time. In this way all the
cotton and cotton seed that comes in
from Mexico is made harmless so far
as the distribution of Objectionable
disease is concerned.
The ''rogue's gallery" list of pests
now includes more than Is important
crop despoilers. Thirty-seven of these
pests have been imported from Eu-
rope. At such ports Of entry as New
York city, Boston, Mass, Seattle,
Wash, and San Francisco, Cal, plant
pest policemen now examine all seed
and plant material, as well as other
agricultural products which might be
infested with foreign disease germs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
DEFICIT OF SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS IN STATE PENSIONS
$4,000 Wild Animals
Live in Volcano Crater

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Seventy-
five thousand wild animals includ-
ing elephants, lions, tigers, Loop
ards, rhinos and ostriches are liv
ing in the crater of an African vol
cano, according to T. Alexander
Barnes, an English scientist, who
arrived here Wednesday.
81 was travelling through the
former German possessions in Afri-
ca" said Mr.. Barnes, when l
heard of this volcano, Mount Kill
manjaro, extinct for many centu-
ries. l could not let the opportuni-
ty pass to see it. | think | am the
first white man to explore it.
"The crater is 1000 feet deep. At
the bottom you come to a veritable
garden of Eden, thickly carpeted
with clover. And it is so long that
a three-mile lake makes only
small part of it. From the animals
| saw there l estimated there must
be $4,000 creatures living in the
silence of the crater"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
DOCTOR is SUED FOR
LIBEL OF CHARACTER
A THOMAS COUNTY CITIZEN
ASKS S50,O00 ALLEGES PLY
SICIAN DAFAMED HIM.

TOWNSVILLE, Ga-A sensa-
tional libel suit was filed yesterday
for the March term OF the City Court
by Homer Williams, of this city,
chairman of the board OF county com
missioners, against DR.. T. NJ McIn-
tosh, one OF Thomasville's oldest and
most prominent physicians, for $780,
600 for alleged defamation of charac-
ter. This suit is the outgrowth OF sew
eral articles written and circulated by
Dr. Mcintosh in which he charged
that Mr.. Williams had used his OF
flee to further his own interests, charg-
ing that he had tried to sell to the
county property owned by him for a
stockade, had hired his own mules to
the county for a large price when
others had been offered free for their
feed and various other things, all of
which Mr.. Williams emphatically de
mics.
The suit will be stubbornly contest
ed by both sides, and able lawyers
have been employed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
Meaning OF
Is Unknown TO u

CLEVELAND, O.-Seemingly
the conveniences of city life have
banished from modern vocabularies
the utensils of a generation ago.
"This constellation is called the
dipper,' explained Lester Black,
teacher of astronomy, to his class
in the second grade last night
Nobody registered understand
ing.
"How many know what a Dip
per isl" he asked.
Five hands went up.
The remainder continued blank
faced. The dipper which lifted the
water from the "old oaken buck
et," the hot-water reservoir in the
back of the stove, or to the wash
basin in front of the stable had
vanished from the homes of all Of
the rest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
Man With Wife 90
Years Old Convicted

ATLANTA, Ga.-A man AZ
years old, who has wife SO years
of age, turned up in United States
court here Wednesday to answer
charges of violating the prohibition
law.
"Who is the defendant designat-
ed as Mrs. Harrison, aged 93?'"
the clerk asked Ben Harrison, AZ
years old, of DeKalb county.
That is Mrs. Harrison" replied
the prisoner.
"Yes, l understand. Is she your
mother?"
my wife" calmly answered the
prisoner. "She is 90 years old. We
have two children, both adopted"
The case proceeded while the
clerk slowly underscored the fig
ures, which contrasted so very
strangely.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
.ENRICHES MANY,
is POOR HIMSELF
INTERNATIONALLY FAM D
CHINESE HORTICULTURIST
NOW FACING POVERTY.

DELAND, F1a.-Because genius
rarely is accompanied by good bust
ness sense Leu Gin Gong, interna-
tionally famed Chinese horticultural
ist, today faces poverty and want and
is forced to subsist from the bounty
of his friends after having given his
whole lifetime to the service of hui
mainly.
It's almost impossible for you to
eat meal without having on your
table something that is the result OF
Leu Gin Gongs genius.
He is a Chinese Burbank. His most
notable achievement is the Leu Gin
Gong orange, perfected after long ex-
periments in 1887 which gained him
a government medal, but his extensive
researches have improved dozen 9TH
er kinds of fruit
Came Here at IL.
Leu, now o. came to America pen
niless when he was H. He had spent
his earlier life on his fathers farm
near Canton, China.
He went to New England and en-
tered the employ of a farmer, Solo
mon Burlingame. An unmarried
daughter of Burlingame adopted the
Chinese lad.
At a meeting OF Chinese sympa-
thizers near North Adams, Mass Leu
was chosen to head move to make
republic of China, then an empire.
Leu was named first president" of
this republic"
The republican movement at that
time failed, but when a Chinese re-
public was founded many of Leu's
principles are said to have been incor-
porated into the constitution.
Goes to Florida.
Leu came to Florida where he had
inherited an estate from his foster
mother and started his horticultural
work.
To his credit are
A grapefruit that yields a perfume.
The cherry currant-a cross of
grape and currant.
An apple that ripens in July.
A late peach, which, grown under
glass, ripens in November.
A tomato plant IS feet high.
But, despite all this, which has made
millions for others, friends here have
had to take over the management of
Leus business affairs in the hope of
clearing off his debts. They are sup
plying his sustenance.
Leu lives like hermit on his farm
near here. His only companion is his
mare, Fanny, which he has owned
20 years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-Round-
ing out nine-tenths of century, most
.of which is educational activity, Viii
liam Watts Folwell, venerable first
president of the University OF Mime
sofa, today celebrated his Goth birth
anniversary. .,
In the days when most men OF like
age are rendered inactive, the unlver-
sitv president emeritus almost any day
can be found at work on his History
OF Minnesota, a comprehensive work
by the aged educator.
The pioneer university head, who
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
Sarcophagus of Pharoah in the Same
Position as 1t Was 5000 Years Ago

LUXOR, Egypt.-Opening of the
mortuary chamber in the tomb of
King Tutankhamen today showed the
sarcophagus of the Pharoah to be still
in the same position in which it was
placed by his mourners more than
5000 years ago.
When the exploring scientists, after
removing delicate seals, broke their
way through the masonry of the in
ner chamber floor they were confront
ed with splendors which, upon the
first cursory examination, appear to
surpass those of the ante-chamber
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
Ninety Year old Professor Works
DaiIv on His Four Volume History

probably did more to develop free
public schools than any other person
in the state, was born in Romulus,
Senec county, N. Y, on February a.
1888.
Untiring in his devotion to the insti-
tuition of which he was the first pres
ident, DR.. Folwell is still inseparable
from it even though his active connec-
ton was severed in 1907. In his office,
which has been set aside in one OF
the university's buildings, he is en-
veloped in his fourth volume of his
tory.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27

which have held the interest of the
entire world.
The exploring party, headed by
Howard Carter, exclaimed wi t h
amazement at finding the center cham
Der, which is about fourteen feet
square, occupied by an immense gid
ed canopy, richly inscribed.
The canopy was closed but there
was a door, and the opening of this
revealed inside what is undoubtedly
Tutankhamen's coffin. For the pres
ent, however, this was left undisturb
ed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
CARRYING IN GEORGIA
SHOWS A RECORD GAIN
'ate's Production Has Increased 500
Per Cent in Year

What is believed to be record OF
tlhevement for so short period was
made by the dairy industry of Geor-
IA last year, according to Field
Y orker Frank w. Fitch, specialist in
Iairy husbandry with the State Col
lege OF Agriculture.
In 1921, a bulletin recently issued
Mr.. Fitch relates. the actual cash
a.Ae OF creamery butter made in
,o5 ga was considerably less than
g,OOO. In 1922 its cash value was
EeI over 100000, an increase OF
orc than 500 per cent in a period
Il y months, with indications that
ratio will be maintained during the
Fomlng year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-27
Woman Is Fined One
Cent By Federal Judge

In the federal court at Savannah
Judge w. H. Barrett fined a negro
woman-who had violated the prohi-
bition law-one cent. She then would
have gone to Jail but for the fact that
the clerk of court paid the fine.