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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04

Why stop at fixing a government price
on wheat? Why not on cotton and corn and
hogs and cabbages and pickles? Will the
wheat growers of the west say that they
ought to be protected by class legislation
any more than the cotton farmers of Geor
gia? And if this guaranteed price" idea
starts where will it end2
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04

What assurance is there that the extraor
binary session Of the legislature will not per-
form as did the regular session?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04

That's all right for the coal dealers to pre-
dict an early winter, for it's good business
policy but weather forecasters who pin all
their faith to the premature migration OF
ducks and geese are making a sad error by
not listening carefully to the hee-haw of that
Justly famous mule as we'll.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04

Did you ever hear it said that the common
people of the United States have nothing to
do with their government? 1t isn't true The
president of the United States started life
as New England farm boy and his son is
now at work in southern tobacco fields for
$3.50 a day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
Very Likely.

Greensboro Herald Journal: The Dalton
Citizen calls attention to the act of the legis-
lature putting a ten per cent tax on cigars
and cigarettes, but doesn't touch snuff and
chewing tobacco. The Citizen thinks the leg
islature must spit red and cusses."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04

s Governor Walker is being criticized for his
earnest effort to carry out his campaign
pledges There are evidently some who do
not believe prediction promises mean any
thing, but it IS to the governors credit that
he would keep faith with the people. Many
politicians can't understand it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04

The Greensboro Herald Journal says there
are too many laws and wants to know if we
can't get some of them repealed. Well, the
legislature recently in session did the next
best thing; it passed very few new ones
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04

This is the mentioning season, and if all
the gentlemen who have been mentioned
become candidates next year there will be live
times in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04

What is so rare as week without rain?
The answer is another dry one.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04

Scientists who said it would be a cool
summer and who found out they were mis-
taken are now trying to get even by pre-
dieting an early and severe winter.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04
MUCH THE SAME.

From the Cedar Rapids Republican.
1t takes a practiced eye to tell the differ
ence between frugal man and a tightwad.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-04

Now is the time to get busy with the fall
gardens. There are always some fine ones
in Dawson.
Evening star., 1923-02-05
The Congress Job.

Sol Bloom, who was elected to the
next Congress the other day in New
York at bye-election' to fill vacancy
caused by death, has started right. He
takes his Congress job seriously. In
his district are many people of his own
race, and they have claims to prose
cute and pleas to present, especially In
the matter of immigration. So Repre-.
sentative-elect Bloom announces that
he is going to open an office and will
establish force Of clerks and engage
lawyer and will give his constituents
service at first hand. The Office. will
be open night and day, and Mr.. Bloom
will not limit it's service to the people
of the nineteenth New York district,
Why not? A member of Congress
represents the people, all the people,
and particularly those who choose
him. The closer be keeps in touch
with them the better he, represents
them. Bloom probably knows that he
will not, certainly for some time, cut
much of a figure in what are called
national questions. They do not par
ticularly interest him, nor do they
greatly concern the average person in
the nineteenth New York district. Blu:
there are other matters that do con
Germ them, and Bloom proposes to be
on the job on them. Hence the Office
near the corner Of Broadway and 96th
street. in the midst Of the constitu-
ency, which will probably be one OF
the busiest places in that part of New
York-for a time. Maybe when the
horizon widens after few months in
Washington Representative Bloom
will not be SO greatly interested in his
New York office. Meanwhile. it is q
good idea. and the claimants and peti.
TONERS of the nineteenth district will
doubtless appreciate it.
Evening star., 1923-02-05
Library Headquarters.

Washington is steadily becoming
the general headquarters Of all Ameri-
can societies and associations. Now
We. have the proposal that Washington
shall be made the headquarters OF the
American Library Association, and
that a headquarters building to cost
between $500, 900 and S1,000.000 shall
be constructed here. The American
Library Association has taken the
matter under consideration at differ
ent times, and at recent meeting OF
the District of Columbia Library .Asso-
citation a resolution favoring the con-
struction of such building was
passed. 1t Is a just and proper pro-
posal. In the first place, Washington
Is Washington, and there Is only one
Washington in the United States,
though numerous towns, counties and
library. center. Of America. In book
collections it stands with London.
Paris and Rome. There is the national
library, which is called the Library of
Congress. There are the Washington
Public Library, the scientific or techni.
cal libraries of various branches of
the government, the university IL
braries and the various department
libraries There are many private II
braries of great value in Washing gton
which in time will find their way into
the libraries that are open to the pub
lie. Washington would welcome the
American Library Association.
Evening star., 1923-02-05

whom expected Inheritance, The will,
which has just besn sled .'fos probate,
stipulates thate the house is ito be
divided between thcni,5 Now everybody
knows that house cannot be split up
into separate entities like a bunch Of
money or a lot Of furniture. but Mich.
olas Caruso--whe claimed kinsnip to
the late tenor, OF that name-saw a
way to do almost that thing. To his
son James he. left the, first floor Of
the house and a small storeroom under
the. porch. To Joseph he left the sec
ond floor, the cellar, and the rear
porch. and to Angelo was beaueatbed
the third fioor. with two. rooms in the
basement. So much fov the will But
how will 1t work out in practice? If
these are, three loving brothers, of an
amenable disposition, they will live in
contentment and harmony in the divid-
ed house. II one. OF. them, however, is
independently inclined there may be
trouble. This, 1t is true, Is the day of
dwelling subdivision. Apartments are
thC "a oOl "a lkiC lAIiSS. 'A0diIy d IlOu66
has been cut up into layers and Sec
tions, so to speak, but the ownership
has almost invariably rested with one
person. Joseph may want to sell his
part OF the house. or Angelo his Sec
tion, Or James his moiety. AS each
will be owner in fee simple he can in
law do. 30. But what of the lot?. Pre-.
sumably each Of the. three has third
share in the land, without which the
house Is valueless. Joseph cannot sell
his part Of the house and take away
his third of the site. Whoever buys
from him acquires a third right in the
ground. 1t is easy, to see that I'm a few
years the case may be seriously COM
plicated by all sorts of ownerships uu-
less these brothers do the plainly wise
thing and two Of them sell to the
third. and thus consolidate ownership
in one person. Perhaps Nicholas
Caruso was putting his sons to a test.
Evening star., 1923-02-05

Of year is a mear"n "n,ean"between the
invigUratiEg dry cold of the more
northerly places and the balmy soft
airs OF the south. When snow comes
1t is apt to become slush soon. Or II
first melts and then freezes into dirty
piles of glacier-like masses that offend
the senses and add to the sickness
records. -. ~
With February well begun not much
time Is left for winter. According to
all experience the worst is, usually
over by March 4, though that day has
occa asionally in the past beenya terror.
Five or six weeks more win pass the
danger point, and every day that now
goes without snow is a clear gain. 1t
begins to look as though this will be
winter Of remarkable mildness and,
therefore. considering the coal situa-
ton; there is reason for general con-
graduation. But, then, one can never
tell. Boreas may just be lying low
to swing blast this way that will
make US forget all about the blessings
thus far enjoyed this season and make
us wall for spr:ng.
Evening star., 1923-02-05
EDITORIAL DIGEST

spirit Of Jackson" the Journal hold
ing that "in his day the great jack
son was not accused Of being in
sanely prejudiced in favor of old
world interests in preference to those
OF America. Some of his political
enemies even accused him of en-
dangering the public peace with 9TH
er countries by his brusque way Of
promoting the welfare of his own.
Andrew Jackson has been a long
time dead. but Woodrow Wilson lives.
Yet, in the print OF a r-column
speech by Ohio's former governor the
name or Wilson is not once mention
/! ed Perhaps this is no worse than
omitttng the name of Lincoln from a
review of the civil war There
should be more harmony of method
among the willing workers who
would monopolize the service Of ex-
plotting tranquility TO Europe" The
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune (re-
publican) likewise is another which
thinks Gov. Cox is mistaken in try
ing to keep The league as a present
issue. while the Charleston Mail
the Harding administration as sane,
because 'if we should feel that con-
ditions impelled us to assume the
role of mentor of everything that
happens on the globe we should soon
find that there were other nations
who wanted to have a say, and the
most to say. The European nations
are now engaged in an attempt to
settle Asia Minor affairs without the
necessity of going to war. Both
our sentiments as we'll as we do
and they know just as well as we do
that we will not go to war to en-
force them-and force only is what
the Turk respects"
Inasmuch as Mr.. Cox went to Eu-
tn 1--WE
Vile Sentinel independent demo-
cratic) is convinced that his words
! must be seriously considered, because
he has not only paid his respects to
Fthe, administration of the party in
power but he has given notice to
lukewarm or anti-league of nations
leaders or retreaters in his own
party that if they undertake to bar
out or ditch the league issue they
will have fight on their hands with
warning. we imagine. that they will
mot treat cavalierly or lightly ignore
| With public sentiment turning day
by day. more and more, away from
the disgraceful exhibitions of i'm
potency the administration is max
! ing in the foreign field. and realizing
how much of the disastrous situations
| in Europe and the near east could
and would have been averted by
Americas steadying counsel and CO.
operation, many or the recalc1trantS
will find ii to their interest to join
| the. swelling throngs that now cry
for a change in our foreign policy
| 1t is also the opinion of the Balti-
! more Sun tdemocratic) that Gov. Cox
gave expression to a feeling which
| is daily becoming more general and
, more insistent The immense ma
jorfty given him probably led the
E@President to imagine that an asso-
citation of nations had become neg
! ligibie issue and that he could for
; get his campaign utterances without
| danger. And so he might have done
i1,ad. things run Smoothly in Europe
But instead Of doing that they have
grown worse and worse and now our
( foreign policy has become the para
| mount issue of the hour. When Mr.
/ Cox makes this the principal theme
( of his speech he Is only giving voice
/ to the criticism that is in every ones
: mi nd :"
Evening star., 1923-02-05
Consider the Hobo.
ro the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Most people do not understand the
true status of the hobo under the
yoke of present day society. II they
will read Jack London's book, war
of the Classes, they will readily learn
to appreciate that he Is the victim of
economic injustice, and not a creature
apart from the general run of man
kind. unwilling to create through
labor. -
According to London's book, If
100000 hoboes suddenly obtained en-
pleyment approximately 100000 en-
pfoyed workers woald Immediately be
thrown out OF IL.
The hobo IL merely an unemployed
work er, he is' a migratory person who,
when he can secure work, often per-
forms the most useful, dangerous,
gruelling and poorly, paid labor for
our present inhumane society,".
\, 1 was a:delegate to the hoboes' con-
ventfon at CoIum buss Ohio. and: there
beheld some of the best brains of
this country. Gus Schaeffer, in par
ticular, impressed me, greatly, and
Harry o. Wilson astonished me with
his dramatic talent.
Such revolutionary enthusiasm; such
roratory from these "have-notsi" - &
I, for one, love them (they are my
blood brothsFs). and Danton loved
them also. EDWARD J. IRVINE.
Evening star., 1923-02-05
Shrine Committees
Calculations Disputed
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
feel constrained to take issue with
the committee of the Mystic Shriners
in their calculations in regard to the
s00-foot man mentioned in The Star
Of yesterday.
1t is well established geometrical
principle that the volumes of similar
of like dimensions. II does not mat
ter at all what the shape Of the
solids Is. provided the shapes of the
objects which it is desired to COM
presumed that the so0-foot "Shriner
which the committee had in mind was
proportioned exactly the same as a
six-foot Shriner. The cubical con-
tents (which would be identical with
the weight, provided he were con-
90o-foot Shriner, as compared with
a six-foot Shriner. would be as the
cube of s is to the cube of 800 The
cube of 6 is 216. and the cube of 900
is 72s, 900, 900: a2s,ooo,ooo divided by
shriner 800 feet tall would be equiv
alent Gf exactly similarly proper
toned to over three million ordinary
Shriners.
To find the height of a Shriner
ers, you simply extract the cube root
of 100000. The cube root is found to
be little less than 81, for 81 cubed
equals 300.763. The Hypothetical
Shriner would therefore be 81 times
the height Of the ordinary Shriner, or
Con the basis of a six-foot mani 402
feet tall, which is, of course, less
thar the height OF the Washington
Monument.
We all wish well for the Shriners,
and we consequently hope that the
committee will not take it's figures
too seriously in making plans for the
coming convention.
CHARLES H. PROBERT
Evening star., 1923-02-05
The Washington Audience

In an advance notice Of grand opera
in Washington it was said: THE out
standing feature is not in the company
itself, but in the audience, No other
city in the United States can produce
one similar to that which will attend
on the opening night. High officials
of the government. the Army, Navy.
and Marine Corps, members OF the
diplomatic corps, city authorities and
prominent members in Washington
life all will make up one of the most
brilliant groups that ever attended an
opera" 49,: = -.
This is a fact that Washingtonians
generally overlook. "Notables" are so
numerous in Washington that we Of
the capital take an assembly thickly
sprinkled with famous men as q mat
ter of course. A Washington audience
drawn by some noteworthy event will
contain more men whose names are
familiar the country over than an
audience in any other city. Men dis
tinguished in the, art of war and in
other arts. in the sciences, in diplo.
macy and in statecraft are there. The
President is present. Politics is al.
ways represented by men who are dis.
tinguished. or notorious. One cannot
say with assurance that these person
ages are any more apprecfative Of
music or the dramatic art than men
who have not won. distinction as ad.
mirals, generals, judges. senators,
representatives. cabinet Officers and
the like, but they help to- make upany
big audience which gets together : In
Washington. T..
Evening star., 1923-02-05
A Fortunate Fliyyer.

When a cold-wave forecast was is
sued from the weather bureau Satur-
day. morning many a heart in Wash.
ington fell heavily. The prospect of. a
sharp drop in the temperature was q.
gloomy one. with the coal bins nearly
empty and dealers saying only that
they would do the best they could
to replenish the stock. There were
visions of heavy snow, like that of a
little more than a. year ago, fears of
I protracted spell of near-zero
weather. The thermometer did drop,
but not SO far as had been indicated
as probable. There was some snow,
but only a. light busting that caused
no trouble. In short, the cold wave
"fitvvered."
Nobody Is disappointed. Washington
is not q pleasant city in the event, of
winter storms. It 10 q poor snow town.
It's average 4smperature ct this time
Evening star., 1923-02-05
!. Legation LIQUOR" I"

A resolution has been introduced in
Congress calling upon the State and
Treasury departments for reports as
to the amount of liquor imported by
the legations and embassies in Wash
ington. Representative Cramton, who
introduced the resolution, is quoted as
saying: THE importation and use of
liquors for foreign embassies and Iega-
tions has been the subject of country
wide discussion. This has been par
ticuiarly true in Washington, where
the problem Of enforcement of the
eighteenth amendent is said to be
acutely affected by the presence of
these liquors." 1t is true that there
is great deal of talk about the mat
ter. Very likely when the real state
Of facts Is brought out it will be found
that there has been much misrepre-
sentation and exaggeration. 1t is a
most convenient explanation as to the
source Of contra band liquor. Men who
use false labels on bottles of false
whisky do not hesitate to say that it
is Legation stuff. If they did not get
it out of legation they will general
iy say that it came from government
warehouse. Getting a case of liquor
from legation helps to make danger
GUS liquor seem respectable to a pur-
chaser and aids the seller in holding
up the price as high as the traffic will
bear. Undoubtedly there are leaks
from legations and embassies. and
these leaks should be stopped. but
it viii probably be found that the
flood Of legation liquor about which
so many men are talking is really do
ing very little flooding.
Evening star., 1923-02-05
4 THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON
BY. WILLIAM PICKETT HELM.

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surplus in another branch of -the
service. Articles in stock must. be
used first. II there aren't any OF the
desired articles in stock, then and
only then may the government go
Not long ago a government en-
ploye in Seattle sent through a
req q1tsition for lumber. Another en-
ployee, eager tos4save. found that
lumber of the kind desired was
Every thing was in, readiness to
ship the Hog Island lumber across
the continent. at freight rate sew
eral times as much as the value of
the lumber itself, when the plan was
disssS discovered re by the, man higher up and
In. another case an eff1pIoye in San
( Francisco ordered muriatic acid. The
reqtisitfon came Through the clear
ing house here and an exchange clerk
stock as surplus IN a Carolina town.
| A bottle, as ordered. was sent to
San Francisco. The freight was So
the value of'4the acid in san Fran
cisco $3.50. = '*S:Se
Such mistakes are rare They
weigh nothing whatever in the bal
ance against tile tremendous savings
| that have been effected by the plan.
But these savings, in order to be ef-
lcEliNc, uO Tc4uhc lcdfH WIZ n.
"In. one of the northern provinces
of Luzon." says Gen. Lord, "a tribes
| man tried to move a big log with a
! team of four carabaos, or water buf-
| falos. fitched tandem.
after several unsuccessful efforts
| he detached the leading carabao and
tied II to a tree. He then tried to
move the log with three carabaos.
But they didn't move 1t. He de-
tached another carabao and tied 1T to
| the same tree. Then he got en-
I thusiastic with the two remaining
carabaos.
They tugged and pulled-and
moved the log. That was team
work.
A bureau official came to Gen.
Lords office with plan for saving
| money. 1t would have meant great
ly increased work-and personnel
for his bureau. and would have
greatly diminished the activities Of
other government agencies engaged
in somewhat related work.
And that reminded Gen. Lord of a
story.
"A Scot lay dying in a hospital.
Apparently he was beyond all help.
So the nurse came to him, and. lean
| ing over. asked him If there were
any last request he wanted fulfilled.
| =. Yes he said. before / die want
| once more to hear the music OF my
| native land. Iwant to hear the bag
pipes If 1 can only hear them once
more shall die happy
And so they sent for the bag
| pipes. The pipers came to the hos
pital and played for their stricken
countryman.
He got we'll; the rest of the pa
tients died"
Evening star., 1923-02-05

!, Secretary Wallace sent out a re-
quest the other day to all employees
of the Department OF, Agriculture.
He told them he and Ills immediate
staff were trying in every. way to
save money for the government. He
asked them to do likewise - - -
He told them that the Treasury
faced a big deficit at the end of this
fiscal year. the 30th of next June. 1t
amounted to several hundred MILLIONS
though it has been shrunk quite. a
bit since then-and he wanted every
one to help with all his might to save.
Some of the employees wrote back
to the Secretary. All of them said
they would help. A few OF the replies
were quite unusual
II, - filling position of fire.
man and drawing laborer pay. / save
the difference between maximent pay
| of fireman and manuel laborer,'''
icai with rnaterrel and also assisted
in planning the change Of CRATES in
boilers which saves quite a bit of
coal which means money" o.
The spelling wasn't the best; but
the saving in coal amounted to about
400 tons year. ..,,.- %.
Another worker wrote:
"By using brooms longer than others
would have used them / have save 4
brooms. dn a similar manner / have
save 4 mops dust pans 8 brushes
so cakes soap 40 washing powder.
Now saving 80 H.. ice per day."
A third employe. addressing the
Secretary as "sir." asserted:
81 save all the light possible and IL !
see any gas gets lit or other lights
burning ! put them out in order to
But a fourth worker carried off the
palm with this: .t-
T, - -. do make this state
ment that 7 have keep the foarf
truck in good condition and keep 1T
bissy' at work and keep the men all
bIssy and seen that there is nothing
wasted during the time to the best OF
my knowledge"
Gen. Lord. the director of the bu-
reau' of the budget. citing instances
of saving and dealing in figures that
mounted into round billions, descend
ed from the higher mathematics of
money during his address the other
day before the business organization
of government to mention these four
cases OF individual effort. -.
-. dollar misspelled and saved" he
said. "outweighs in the scale of eff
! cient and faithful service many dol
lars correctly spelled and misspent."
The exercise of intelligence. how
| ever. is occasionally absent when
Semployes on saving bent attempt to
follow orders too literally. Gen.
Lord gave an illustration or SO of
such instances.
The government has established
the practice of buying nothing when
the material wanted is available as