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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

The American Indian once sWatt1-
ed himself in blankets and some men
of TODAY are known to emulate the
red man by wearing trousers made
from stolen pullman bed covering, &C
cordinq to the report of the stores de-
partment of the Pullman Company,
made in an issue of the Pullman News
just published. ,. ho
What can a Pullman blanket be
used for except as a bed covering! j.
R. Mulroy, general storekeeper tor
the company, says such a question IN
suits the fertile and imaginative BRAN
Of the American mind. They are used
for lap robes, women's coats, bath
robes and mems trousers, according
to Mr.. Mulroy.
Other articles that have proved
popular with the gentry that do not
mind appropriating other people
goods are the pillow slips. Snip on
two corners of the slip and you nave
superhne undersllirt," says MT. Null
roy. Lo boa,
found made up into a beautiful coal
for woman, and other curtains, with
cretonne trimmings added, have been
known to make excellent draperies
and table covers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
CLOTHES FOR YOUNG MEN
ASPLASH WITH VIVID COLOR
The Kbbo Successor the Cake Eater the Halls of Jazz
Is Airing Himself in Wondrous Hues Spring Advances.

Trade journals devoted to the great
garment industry, particularly trous-
ers, coats, vests and other trappings
for men, are proclaiming that vivid
colors are coming to be the dominant
feature OF the sartorial makeup OF the
younger generation.
A survey through some of the larg-
er New York factories bears out the
assertion of such a tendency. Dyers
and dive makers are pleased, for the
greater splashing of color means more
business for them. The multi-colored
silk mufaers, sometimes known as
Dcauvilles, are but one indication OF
the growing tendency toward the WV
id in male dress.
OF course, the substantial business
man will continue to wear the same
sort of clothes; changes among them
are so gradual as to be impereeptible
except over long periods. But among
the younger men. especially those
who crowd the dance halls and the
streets in the hours when nearly ev-
erybody else is working, changes
come with the passing OF few weeks.
A year ago cake eater" was a gen.
eral term to describe the type OF
young men with slanting pockets, ex-
ira low cut waistcoat and corset fit
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
EMPLOYMENT is ON
INCREASE IN u. S.
INCREASED PAYROLL SHOWN
BY FORTY-TWO OF FORTY
THREE INDUSTRIES.

Figures in the employment situa-
ton during March in 5,453 representa-
tive establishments of forty-three
manufacturing industries show an in
crease over the preceding month of
81 per cent in the number of EN-
ployes, 5 per cent increase in total
wages paid and 2.8 per cent in
crease in the average weekly wage,
according to a report made public by
the bureau OF labor statistics of the
department of labor.
The March 1st figures show 2,135,-
564 employees with weekly payroll
of $54,53S,778, compared with 1902
285 and weekly payroll of $51,965,-
545 in February.
Increases in employment were
shown in thirty-nine of the forty
three industries, the greatest increases
being in the fertilizer, brick, steel,
building and paper and pulp indus
tries Glass, leather, slaughtering and
meat packing and chewing and smok-
ing tobacco were the industries show
ing a decrease.
Forty-two of the forty-three indus
tries showed increased payroll totals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
Way 1t Is Done
In Crisp County

ATLANTA, Cav. R. Tuck
er, agricultural development agent
of the A. B. & A. railroad, has
furnished some interesting and
unusual figures on a farm dairy
located near Cordele.
The owners of this farm dairy
is H. R. Finn. Mr.. Finn has four
teen cows and he ships the cream
from these to the Corde1e cream
cry. Here are the receipts for
three months as taken from the
books of the Cordele creamery:
For November, $26015; for De-
cember $268.85; for January 1924.
Mr.. Finn paid out nothing for
feed, raising all the feed on his
own farm; he paid out nothing
for labor, milking the cows him
self. In addition he had the
skinned milk from these four
teen cows to feed his hogs and
chickens and the fertilizer to en-
rich his farm.
The farm of Mr.. Finn is 20
horse farm. On it in 1922 he rails
ed 1903 bales of cotton and he did
not have to go into debt one
penny for the raising. The cream
cry checks enabled him to pay
cash for what he bought.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
100000 FARMERS
MOVE TO THE CITIES
LARGEST SHIFT IN AGRICUL-
TURAL POPULATION IS IN
MOUNTAIN STATES.

A decrease during 1922 of approx
imately 100000 persons in the agricul-
tural population of the United States
was reported on Friday by the depart
ment of agriculture. which said its
figures were based on survey of 10,-
900 representative farms and groups
of farms. The estimate showed de-
crease of about Is per cent from the
1920 census which placed the agricul-
tural population in rural districts at
31,259000 persons.
The population movement away
from the farm, the department stated,
was strongest in the Pacific states.
The movement from farms to towns
and cities last year was estimated at
about 100000 persons, offset in part
by the drift of approximately $4,000
persons from towns and cities to
farms. This left, it was pointed out, a
net shift from farms to urban centers
of about 10000 persons, or about SO
per cent of the rural agricultural pop
ulation.
Births on farms in 1922 was given
as 925,000 and deaths 265,000s the ex-
cess of births over deaths reducing
the net loss in agricultural population
to the 100000 figures.
In the shift of agricultural popula-
ton to cities and towns relatively the
largest movement was in the noun
tain states, followed in order by New
England, the Pacific, the middle At
lantic, the east, north, central and
south Atlantic states.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
PLAINS GIRL TAKES
POISON BY MISTAKE
THOUGHT STRYCHNINE WAS
OUININE, AND DIED BEFORE
PHYSICIAN ARRIVED.

Miss Willie, Kate Kennedy. II
years of age, died at her home in
Plains from an overdose of strychnine
taken through mistake for quinine.
Miss Kennedy had been suffering with
severe cold, and returning to her
home from school she went into the
family medicine chest and took a
drug which she thought was Quinine.
Commissions developed quickly and
died before medical attention could
be given her.
Surviving are her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Kennedy, who moved to
Plains several years ago from Taylors-
VILE in Barlow county, and several
brothers and sisters.
Miss Kennedy was an active church
worker in the Plains community, be-
ing member of the Plains Baptist
church and closely identified with B.
Y. p. u. and other religious activities.
She was a member of the graduating
class of the Plains high school and
popular socially.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
NEGROES HOLD GIRL SIX
WEEKS AS 'WH|TESLAVE"
BALTIMORE WOMAN RELATES
PITIFUL, SHOCKING STORY
TO CHICAGO POLICE.
LURED BY A STRANGE WOMAN
Robbed of Money and Clothes, and
Beat When She Refused to Earn
Money for Them. White Man Caus-
ed Her Rescue. Arrests Made.

CHICAGO, I11-Lured to a caba-
ret by woman stranger whom she
met on the train, doped with bad liq-
uor, held a prisoner for six weeks as
a white slave" by negro cadet and
his six burly companions, who robb-
ed her of her money and clothing and
beat her when she rebelled against
their orders to earn money for them
from the negro patrons who came
to the resort, and finally rescued by
the first white man she had seen since
her imprisonment.
That is the pitiful story told today
to police by Miss Ruth Miller, %, OF
Baltimore, Md, who came here six
weeks ago to seek a job. 1t is the
story that sent the police posthaste to
the resort at 2728 South Wabash ave
Inue, where they arrested Lenwood
Longstreet and his six negro confed-
crates, Matte Heard, also color
ed, and Miss Mabel Moss, the only
white occupant of the premises.
Exhibits Bruises.
Miss Miller barred her body and ex-
hibited bruises inflicted by Longstreet
recently with a hairbrush when she
refused to do his bidding and threat
ened to tell the police.
81 stopped off in Toledo for a few
days to visit friends, and then came
on to Chicago to seek a position, y
Miss Miller said. Con the train l met
another girl, Miss Jane Allen, who
suggested that we go cabareting and
see the sights. She called a taxi and
we went to some cafe on the south
side, where white persons and color
ed persons dine and dance together.
Longstreet and another negro man
whom this Miss Allen seemed to
know came to our table and insisted
on buying liquor. | don't know what
they made me drink. 1t was bad. |
lost consciousness.
Loses Her Money and Clothes.
Il don't remember any more unit!
the next morning, when l awoke to
find my clothes had been taken away,
and also the $40 which | had brought
with me. Longstreet and these other
men and Mrs. Heard kept watch over
me. | was allowed to wear only the
most fimsy bits of lingerie. If it hadn't
been so cold | would have run away
even in these. | was forced to work
day and night and l was never per
mitted to leave the house. None but
negro men came to the place, some
times as many as 20 i'll one night
Longstreet and Mrs. Heard took the
money they gave me.
Tonight a white man came, the
first / had seen. Longstreet and the
others were away. He asked Mrs
Heard to let him take me to a dance.
She refused l gave her SIS which
had hidden away. l believe she was
afraid the man would become suspi-
cious if she refused longer, so she got
my clothes and let me go. When |
told the man the real story he direct
ed me TO q notice station"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

ting coat. Now cake eater" is as
nearly extinct as "happer." Among
the dance halls of Broadway last
years cake eater" has become this
years "kibbo"-a term of uncertain
origin used to describe the dance hall
habitue and boulevardier who is rare
ly seen to work and who affects the
new and the startling in dress. The
income to the manufacturers from this
type is a very important item. Asked
to explain the new tendency in mems
dress large clothing manufacturer
said:
1T can't be explained. Unlike many
fashions among women, the manu-
facturers don't start styles among the
younger men. They just spring up.
For example, who can explain why
the high school boys of Boise, Idaho.
are reported to be wearing earrings?
Who knows why some young men in
New York wear little coored feathers
in their hats? These things are mys-
teries."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
A NEW CURE ENDS
THE DIABETES CURSE
INOCULATIVE SERUM WILL
BE IN HANDS OF DOCTORS
SOON, SAYS AUTHORITY.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-People will
never again be subject to diabetes as
they have been for countless centu-
ries, DR.. SIMON Flexner said in an adj
dress at the Montefiore Hospital on
Gun Hill road. Dr. Flexner, who is of
the Rockefeller Institute of Medical
Research, is an authority on diabetic
subjects and has developed new treat
ments for the disease. He talked on
discovery in Medicine"
In speaking OF the cures he is evolv-
ing he declared the time was not far
distant when curatives would be in
the hands of every physician in the
world, and one more great evil will
have gone the way of typhoid and
other diseases for which inoculative
.serums have been discovered.
Science Aids Cures.
1--WE have a more practical knowl-
edge of disease" said DIR. Flexner, be
cause we have greater knowledge OF
science, though we haven't any better
minds as minds than the Greeks had
or the people of the seventeenth CEN
fury.
Medicine was once a system that
religiously followed certain treatments
for certain diseases with no change.
The use of peruvian bark and quinine
for the treatment of chills and fever
created a commotion with the result
that today we have rational attitude
toward medicine"
DR.. Flexner referred to the CEN
tenary OF Louis Pasteur, the great
French scientist, this year, and spoke
of the death Of Jenner. He said speak
ing of recent discoveries, that the dis
covery of insulin by Banting was an
accident, but its cure of diabetes was
certain.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
First Paint Is Applied to Stone
Mountain Confederate Memorial

Initial preparations for carving
on the face of Stone Mountain
memorial which will last for all
time, concentrating achieve
ments in battle of the leaders and
soldiers of the Confederacy, we're
1scQmpleted Thursday, under the
"A q ap of Gutzon Borglum, ia
fffs tar, when the super
visor Or Gaptain w. E.
Tucker, applreG first strokes
of paint to outline the figure of
General Robert E. Lee on Thurs
day morning and finished his
work arranging cable hoists for
workmen to begin their task with
electric chisels.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
Winters No Colder NotO
Than in Olden Times
u. S. Weather Experts Declare Earth
Is Not Undergoing Climatic Change.

is MOI Undergoing NHilIdIS (AAdhSS'
The earth is undergoing no general
change in climate Despite repeated
assertions around the stove in the gen
eral store that winters are gradually
growing milder, or harder, as the case
may be, the United States weather
bureau declares there IS no evidence of
a progressive change Of climate in one
direction or the other
The fact that the last two years
have been unusually mild i'm most
parts of the country has provoked
many assertions that winters. are be-
coming warmer, bureau officials say,
but records can be furnished to the
contrary. Periods have occurred and
will occur again when for few
years the weather has seemed or will
seem to be noticeably warmer or cold
er than the average. While there are
well-recognized alterations in climatic
conditions, as of wet and dry, hot and
cold, little is known with regard to
definite laws of sequence of weather
conditions over extended periods.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24

Suspended on the mountain side
by heavy cable supporting a
leather harness Captain Tucker,
with paint brush, began to out
line the first group of Confeder-
ate generals, following lines flash
ed on the mountain side by the
huge projection machine, station
ed 800 feet away.
Mr.. Borglum stated he had in
cluded in the general plan the
building of an immense assembly
hall under the base of the noun
tain, which is to be carved out
of the solid rock, and which is
to serve as a memorial to the
women of the thirteen Confeder-
ate states.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
Nothing Like Having
Accommodating Hens

MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.-Mrs.
Harrison Wood owns two hens which
she says. are the most accommodating
in poultrydom.
Each morning they enter the home
by a bedroom window, one leaving
an egg on a dresser and the other
clucking its deposit from the foot OF
the bed.
Thus they save their mistress trips
out OF doors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
BIBLES IN GREAT DEMAND.

There are $500, 48O words in the BIZ
bic. Great plants in many cities are
busy every week day OF the year
catch up with the demand
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-24
MANY CITIES ARE IN THE
GRIP OF NEW EPIDEMIC
MARATHON DANCING CRAZE
IS MORE VIRULENT THAN
THE INFLUENZA.
WOMAN ENDURES IS HOURS

Contests Are on in Dozens of Places
And Nonstop Records Fall Almost
Daily. New Workers, Forced to
Move, Dance in Van.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-22

Washington. Sept. 21-President
Coolidge has virtually decided to hold
the proposed conference of governors
on enforcement OF prohibition and
other laws in Washington, about the
middle of October.
The governors are to be invited
here after their regular annual meet
ing at West Baden, Indiana, on Oc-
tobcr Is. The president has been in
communication with a number of the
state executives and some of them
advised him that the time suggested
would suit their convenience.
No additional light was thrown on
the scope of the conference. which
originally was designed mainly to
discuss cooperation between federal
and state authorities in enforcing
prohibition. The program was ex-
tended recently to include immigra-
ton and possibly other questions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-22
General Upset of
Business in New
York Due to Strike

New York, Sept. 21-Continued
lack Of advertising space In New
York's strike hampercd newspapers
will be reflected in all branches of
finance commerce, and industry. in
the opinion Of business executives
who have observed the effect Of the
walkout. In competent financial
quarters today. the fear was express
sed that unemployment might result
from longer Gripping of the daily
liason between merchant and buyer.
Department store heads, even those
ca tering to permanent customers,
said the inability to promote sales
through the newspaper columns was
proving a serious handicap at the
opening of the fall season. And Wall
Street, always dubious as to the real
value OF the small amount Of space
ii uses in the dailies. was convinced
its clients had learned to depend on
newspaper advertising for their in
formation on financial offerings.
Several big offerings which we're 70
be put out this week were postponed
because OF lack OF advertising space.
Stores depending on special SIDES
were most seriously affected. Near
ly all the leading department stores
began printing circular. for distrt-
button among persons entering their
establishments and for their mailing
lists. Their executives. however.
found the handbills lacked anything
like the pulling power Of space In
the newspapers.
Bernard r. Gimbel, vice president
OF Gimbel Brothers. nc. was quoted
in pubii.hed statements as saying he
thought the strike would be injurious
to both large and small stores.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-22
Worcester Firm
Guilty Forging
Liquor Permits

Boston. Sept. 21-A federal jury
tonight returned a verdict of guilty
against the +. S. Pierce Company of
Worcester and against Daniel J.
Donahue. president and treasurer of
the company after a two day trial
on indictments charging forgery OF
liquor permits and the sale OF a
large quantity of liquor in the spring
of 1922. The jury was out more
than four hours
The government alleged that after
about 800 gallons of high grade liq-
uors that had been seized by prohi-
bition agents had been returned to
the company on court order. the
goods were sold Illegally and. in or
der to conceal the sale, a permit and
other papers were forged. The de-
Tense commended that the liquors had
been sold in proper form to the Ka-
deem Drug Company OF Brooklyn,
y. Y.
At the trial. Frederic A Friend
one of the former owners OF the IA
deem Drug Company. testified that
for S12 it was possible to get all the
necessary papers for the withdrawal
and sale of liquor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-22
Harvard Professor
Back from Europe
Sees Need of League

New York. Sept 2l-Manley @.
Hudson. professor of law at the
Harvard Law school. who returned
from Geneva today on the Beren-
Caria after spending the summer as
a member OF the legal section of the
sectretariat OF the league of nations.
said he was convinced both Of the
necessity of the league in the inter
national life Of the United States
and of it's growing power in the fu-
ture. =,
II cannot see how any person"
he said. could spend even few
weeks in Geneva studying the mani
fold activities of the league OF ma
tions without being convinced Of its
necessity and it's growing power.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-22
WOMAN WELFARE
WORKER VICTIM
BLACkMA|L PLOT
Series Attempts by Gang to
Force Sums Ranging
Up to 100000
Mrs. Nathaniel Franklin EmmOns,
Boston Society Leader. Presses
Charge Against Arthur LIE barron
OF New York-Wanted $4,000 for
surrender OF Letter Claimed
Written by Mrs. Emmons to a
Vetcran-Hcld i'm $4,000

Boston. Sept. 21-Disclosures of
an alleged series of attempted extor-
lions of sums ranging up to 100000
by gang of which Mrs. Nathaniel
Franklin Emmons, i;oston society
leader and cousin OF Bishop William
Lawrence, claims to have been the
victim. were made here today Mrs.
Emmons appeared in municipal
court to press charge; of an alleged
$4,000 blackmail attempt against
Arthur lie Barron of New York.
whom she said she had bcfrended in
the course of war welfare work.
According TO the charges brought.
LIE Barron falsely represented him.
self as the holder of a letter. sup
posed to have been written by her to
q veteran. and demanded $4,000 for
its surrender. Today, for the first
time. II BECAME knowh that on Sep
TENDER 10 warrant was obtained
and was served on LIE Barron by
special officer. The specific charge
is attempted larceny.
Mrs. EmmonH told of meeting by
appointment with lie Barron at a
Boston hotel at which he passed
over to her package supposed to
contain letters. Special Officer Frank
McNabb. who was present. then
placed lie Barron under arrest. The
package, about the size of a half
dozen envelopes, was done up in
wrapping paper which. when opened.
was found to contain blank paper cut
to the size of ordinary envelopes.
The attempt, Mrs. Emmons told the
Boston police, was one of a series of
attempted eXtortions of amounts as
high as 100000 by gang of which
she accused lie Barron of being
member. The court continued the
case until tomorrow and ordered lie
Barron held in $4,000 bonds.
Mrs. Emmons said she first met
lie Barron when she was engaged
in war welfare work. For the past
three years she has been known as
the angel of the Twenty Sixth"
Two years ago she established a
camp at her estate in bingham where
she brought totally disabled soldiers
from hospitals for a change Of en-
vironment and recreation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-22
General Forecast

The weather chart OF Friday night
showed a belt OF relatively low but
rising pressure along the Atlantic
coast, high pressure over the upper
Mississippi valley and the region Of
the Great Lakes. low pressure over
the northern plain states and the
Rocky Mountain and plateau regions
and high and rising pressure over the
western Canadian provinces This
pressure distribution has been at
tended by unsettled weather and
showers in the Alta tic coast states.
II has also been attended by some
what warmer weather in New Eng
land.
The outlook is for generally fair
Saturday and Sunday in the Wash
ington forecast district. except that
it will be unsettled with probable
showers on the immediate Atlantic
coast Saturday. The temrerature
will be somewhat lower Saturday in
the Atlantic states
Winds north OF Sandy Hook
Moderate south becoming north,
weather overcast and showery sat-
LEday. --
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-22
New Plan Soon
for Operation y. S.
Merchant Fleet

Washington, Sept. 2i.-Early pre-
sentation to President Coolidge and his
legal advisers of now plan of oper-
alton for the government merchant
feet was forecast today at the shipping
board. Ii was emphasized that the
necessity was apparent for decision
which would give national shipping in
terests a permanent policy.
Chairman Farley Of the board tele-
graphed a statement from New York
tonight asserting that inasmuch as the
plan TO create special corporations for
ship operation had been declared lille
gal by Attorney General Daugherty.
other methods would he pursued. 1t
was stated as the offices of the board
that the attorney generals action had
not been entirely unexpected and that
considerable work had been done on
a substitute plan.
AS described by an official vino as
sisted in its preparation. the altcrna-
tive proposition would permit the
board to transfer ships on each of its
routes to corporation. or other form
OF commercial organization, under
lease or special charter pact