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The Washington times., 1923-08-31
DEATHS.

Harriet q. Matchett. 4s years. stan
Mary 3. Morgan. rs years. 27ko 14th
st. n. W.
Lawrence L. Ethridse. 1s years. Cas-
ualty Hospital.
Wiltshire Cardweil. - years, s2s Sth
st. g. q.
Clara B. Potts. IS years. 1ss c st.
Henry B. Byrd. IS years. s1s 18th
william C. .Peake. 50 years. s1os G
st. n. w.
James r. Church. So years. GIT 18th
st. N. W.
Lena Levy. IS years. 7s4 Morton Ct.
Frank A. Happier. 10 years. 1925 M
st. N. W.
John seIden. 80 years. 2o2s I st. NV.
Lucy Jones. 81 years. +s2 Washing
Es:sx Began. SO years. $3.50 nth
:, John NJ Hill. SO years. 17st eth St.
n. w.
Beatrice Thomas. Il years, st. Elisa
Chas. A. Jones. Is years, Home for
the. Aged, Blue Plains.
Henry Beverly. ST.. IS years, ass 1st
MarcelIa Holland, "a years, Home for
the Aged. Blue Plains.
The Washington times., 1923-08-31
RENNE A. JULIAN.

Obsequies for Renne A. Julian,
old G. p. o. COM
positor, who died yesterday. will be
conducted from his home. sos r
street northeast, tomorrow at Q p.
m. The body will be taken to Fort
Lincoln Cemetery for burial.
Mr.. Julian had worked in the
printing office about twenty years
and had won for himself the name
of ''Pard." He was stricken after
returning from his cellar. where he
had directed the storage Of coal.
His wife. Ethel B. Julian. sur
wives.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
$500, 1000 JEWS; NEW
YORK HAS 1,643,O12
LESS THAN 20 PER CENT OF
WORLDS HEBREWS IN u. S.
YEAR BOOK SHOWS.

OF more than fifteen and a half
million Jews in the world, according
to the recently issued American Jew
ish Year Book for 1o23-24, 1902, $50,
or less than 20 per cent, live in the
United States.
OF that number statistics compiled
by Harry Schneiderman, editor of the
book show that 1,643,012 Jews, rep
resenting 2o per cent of the total pop
ulation, are residents of New York
city. The borough of Manhattan leads
with 657, 101, followed by Brooklyn
with 604,380. Thirty eight per cent of
the residents of the Bronx, ,or 278,-
100, are Jewish. There are 85,104
Jews in Queens and 17,168 in Rich
mond.
The majority of Jews in the Unit
ed States are conferred in the large
cities, including Philadelphia, Chicago,
Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, ST.
Louis, Pittsburg and Detroit.
Majority in Europe.
More than o. per cent of the worlds
Jews live in Europe, where they num-
Der 10,536755, according to yearbook
figures. Countries containing the larg-
est number are: Poland, 3,500,000;
Russia Union of Socialistic Soviet
Republics), 3,113,066; British Empire,
795,466, including 295,000 in Great
Britain and northern Ireland; Ger
many, $4,000; Hungary, 4o8, 1913;
France and its possessions, 441 500,
including 10000 in France proper;
Czecho- Slovakia, 381, 900, and Aus
tria $4,000.
There are 1894 Jews in Palestine
and SOL in the Irish Free State.
Since 1908, o08,878 have been admit
ted to the United States. During the
same period 51,62l Jews, or SO per
cent of the total admitted, departed
from the country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
More or Less Means
Much in Sale of Land

ATLANTA, Ga.-The words
more or less" in description of
land have great deal to do with
determining whether the proper
erty was sold by the tract or by
the acre, according to the Georgia
supreme court in reversing the
case of w. w. Roberts, jr.,
against Denmark Grower and B.
r. Strickland, appealed from
Brooks county.
According to the record Rob
erts bought two tracts of land
from the defendants, paying them
$1,000 and executing notes for
$13,220. He asked for a refund of
his money and cancellation of the
notes on the grounds that there
were only APO acres of land on
one tract, sold as asa acres, and
that there were other misrepre-
sensations. The Brooks superior
court dismissed the case on the
grounds that the land was sold
by the tract.
The supreme court ruled that
the land was sold by the acre, the
deed calling for 454.25 acres,
which the defendants were unable
to deliver, and that the deed did
not say more or less"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
LOVE FOR LUXURIES
REASSERTING ITSELF
PEOPLE GETTING BACK TO
FORMER EXTRAVAGANCES.
ARE BUYING BAUBLES.

People are getting back TO their
former habits of extravaganza and to
the old love for luxuries which war
time prosperity encouraged, it is in
Dictated by statistics gathered and an
nounced by statistical experts.
1t appears that the increased pros
perity of the past two years has IN
creased Americas appetite for dia-
monds, ostrich feathers, pearls and a
lot of other things that they had al
most learned to get along without.
Jewellers, particularly diamond ex-
perts. have received figures which
show that diamonds now are coming
into the United States in increased
quantity and of greater value than
last year and in much greater quanti--
ty than in any year since the world
war started
Business men, who have been study
ing the statistics, say that this 1ncreas--
ed tendency to buy the luxuries and
non-essential things is unmlstakable
evidence of a general prosperity. Peo-
pie are making more money now,
wage earners are more regularly en-
ployed and at better wages and mon
ev is more plentiful and more in cir
culation than in the past year or two,
and the effect is seen, It is pointed
ont in revival of the buying
of things that never do have good
sale in lean periods.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
EXPEDITION WILL
STUDY BIRD LIFE
PREPARES FOR TRIP TO RE-
GION OF SOUTH POLE. TO
TRAVEL $4,000 MILES.

To study bird life and other phases
of nature in the vicinity of the South
Pole what is said to be the largest
and most expensive natural history
expedition ever organized will leave
New London, Conn, late in Septem-
Der .
The party will be in charge of Geo.
F. Simmons, Texas naturalist, and
sponsored by the Cleveland (Oo
Museum of Natural History. 1t will
cover approximately $4,000 miles and
will be in progress two years.
The expedition will sail on a spe-
cially equipped schooner under COM
mand of George Comber, who COM
the Mcmillan relief party in
1917. 1t will visit many volcanic is
lands and wild regions in the Antarc-
tic and Indian oceans.
First Stop OFF Brazil.
The first landing of the expedition
will be at the ST. Paul Islands, off
the coast of Brazil. Other stops in
clude the South Georgia Island, Sand
witch and Latter Islands. The last
group is covered with ice and snow
throughout the year and frequently is
visited by volcanic eruptions.
The party then will move to Cape
Town, Africa, where the winter will
be spent. Expeditions will go into the
mainland along the West Africa coast
and to St. Helena and Ascension Is
lands, in the middle Atlantic.
Sail in Summer.
On the approach of the Arctic sum-
mer the naturalists will go into the
southern part of the Indian ocean.
Life on the Crozet, Desolation and
Kerguelen Islands will be studied. An
effort will be made to get a specimen
of the giant sea elephants of the Ant
arctic region.
The expedition will include more
than IS recognized naturalists. Mr..
Simmons recently was named curator
of birds and animals in the Cleveland
museum.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
"A WEEVIL CATCHER
THAT CATCHES 'EM
CRISP FARMER HAS A HOME
MADE CONTINUANCE THAT
HAS PROVEN A SUCCESS.

The Cordele News reports that H..
K. Dowdy, who is quiet but prac-
teal farmer of the Sandy Mount COM
munity OF Crisp county, manufactured
an apparatus all his own to fight the
boil weevil, and in his own mind, al
though he is not blowing it to 9TH
ers, met with splendid success.
Mr.. Dowdy simply and casually
refers to it as his boil weevil catch
err" and says he caught them by the
thousands. He says he did not get it
made until late, but when he did get
it made and where he used it, he said,
he is making half bale of cotton to
the acre, and he believes his "weevil
catcher" helped out in the result.
By the Handful
The "weevil catcher" is simple
contrivance and cost practically moth
ing but a little labor and effort to
make it. He took just small dry
goods box, something more than a
foot wide and possibly nearly two
feet long, and put some small roller
wheels underneath to help glide it on
the ground, took all of one side off
the box except one strip, portion of
two ends off, put a pan of kerosene
in to hold the weevils when he caught
them, attached it to his pillow, SO ar
ranged that the cotton stalks would
be forced in the box and just naturally
shake the weevils off and into the
catcher"
By this simple method he caught
weevi1s by the thousands, dumped
them out on sheet and could pick
them up by the double hands-full."
He said he was little late in putting
it into operation, but even where he
used it some he would make half
bale to the acre. A neighbor used it
on five acres and will make more cot
ton on the FIVE acres than on the bal
ance of his two-horse farm
Mr.. Dowdy's doll weevil catcher"
is at least unique and different from
anything yet on the market. 1t is not
really on the market, it is simply his
homemade device He thinks he may
be able to further perfect it by an
other season, when he will be largely
independent of the weevi1 and its mis-
chievous work. But he never does and
will not yet depend upon all cotton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
CENTRAL EXHIBITING
GEORGIA PRODUCTS
RAILROAD OCCUPIES FOUR
BOOTHS AT BIG EXPOSITION
IN NEW YORK CITY.

The exhibit of the Central of Geor-
gia Railway Company, industrial de-
partment, at the national exposition
of chemical industrials, New York
city, September l7-22, 1923, occupies
four booths.
The exhibit attempts to show by
sample and descriptive literature. in
Guiding maps, particularly the unde-
veloped, but to large extent the de-
veloped, mineral resources of Georgia
and Alabama tributary to the railway
company.
The exhibit also contains samples
the naval stores industries,
using the distillation of turpentine and
the manufacture of rosin from pine
tree gum. 1t also carries an exhibit
of pine oils, creosote, charcoal, ct
cetera, obtained from the distillation
of pitch pine stumps, tops and other
refuse by the retort method.
Forty-One Samples.
The manufacture of paper and pulp
from pine wood is demonstrated, be-
ginning with the wood itself and con-
tinuing through to the finished prod
uct. In the mineral exhibit special en-
phasis is given to bauxite and the sew
eral varieties of clay, including COM
mon brick and building tile clay, fire
clay of the coal measures, kaolin clay,
both primary and sedimentary, and
the high duty refractory clays Of the
coastal plain.
The exhibit carries Al mineral sam
pies as follows:
Aplite, asbestos, bauxite, barytes,
calcedony, ebert, brick and tile clay,
fire clay, pipe clay, refractory clay,
coal, corundum, feldspar, flint, Full
ers earth, gold, granite, graphite, iron
ore, kaolin (primary and sediment
ary), limestone, marble, magnetic,
mica, ocher, onyx, orna-
mental building stone, pyrite, quartz,
quartzite, ruti1e, sand, sap brown, sill
ca, slate, soapstone, tale, shale.
Several of these minerals, such as
coal, clay, marble, iron ore, limestone,
ct cetera, will carry specimens repre-
senting the several varieties of these
minerals. The exhibit contains in
many instances, but more particularly
the kaolin and refractory clays, arti-
c1es manufactured in the process Of
research work conducted by the Cen
trail of Georgia in cooperation with
the United States bureau of mines.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
Luxuries for Railroad
Trauelers in New York

The daily departure of some of
the trains from New York is most
ceremonious. On passing the gates
where tickets are inspected the
traveller finds that a wide breadth
of red carpet has been laid along
the station platform, reaching far
out to the train itself The carpet is
heavy, silencing every football. To.
add to the effect of richness rows
/ g,znotted plants line the carpeted
rs The traveller is, of
course, of all hand lug
gage on pd4 he barrier, and
strolls luxuriousiy trainward as if
he were a royal parsonage. Any
one can enjoy this surprising lux
ury by the simple expedient of pay
ing the excess fare demanded on
the train.
Carpet and palms are placed in
position every day before the gates
are opened and remain until the
last passenger has gone aboard.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
COLLECTIONS OF
INTERNAL REVENUE
DECREASE IN INCOME TAXES.
VOLSTEAD ACT COST THE
GOVERNMENT $8,2OO,OOO.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Enforce-
ment of the Volstead act cost the gov
eminent $8,200,00O during the fiscal
year 1929, Internal Revenue Com
missioner Blair announced Monday in
submitting his annual report to the
treasury department.
The money spent in making Amer
lea dry" and loss of $575,705,000 in
revenues were cited by the commits
sioner in explaining heavily increas-
ed cost in operating his bureau dur
ing past year. Total revenues, which
in 1922 exceeded $4,000, 100000, fell to
$2,621,745,Z27 for the year ending
June 80 last, Blair announced.
Payments of income taxes were
higher during the first six months of
1928 than in the same period of 1922,
the report showed. Despite lower
rates the report Indicated either more
persons paid incomes or else those
filing returns paid taxes on higher
incomes. The total income tax pay
ments in March, 1923, were $464, 684,-
211, an increase of about $68000,000
over payments in March, 1922.
Items That Show Losses.
The losses in total revenues came
chiefly from a decline of $400,000,000
in war profits taxes, $170,000,000 loss
in transportation taxes and $39,000,-
600 decline in taxes on liquors.
Taxes on automobiles, trucks and
accessories last year made the largest
jump over the previous year of the
products of any taxed industry APP
proximately $146,000,000 was derived
from that source as against $l05, 000,-
600 the year previous.
Taxes ON tobacco and tobacco prod
ucts increased from $270,75e000 to
$309,015,000
New York, leading all states last
year in total taxes paid, contributed
revenue amounting to 1904, 796,115 or
almost one-fourth of the total for all
states.
Four States Show Increase.
Only four states and the Philippine
Islands showed an increase in total
payments last year as compared with
the preceding twelve months. New
Hampshire'S total was 81 per cent
greater, North Cardinals Is per cent,
New Jerseys IS per cent. and Idaho's
per cent, while the Philippines taxes
more than doubled, although the total
amount paid last year was less than
100000.
Following are the comparative re-
ceipts by Southern states for the ifs
cal wears 1922 and 1928:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
Federal Prohibition Law
Fines Over $4,000, 900
Report Tells of Convictions of Judges
And MiIlionaires.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Convic-
tons of judges, attorneys, federal and
state officials and millionaires among
the host found guilty of violating the
prohibition laws was detailed in re-
port submitted to President Coolidge
by Attorney General Daugherty.
A synopsis of the report, made
public with the assent of the presi-
dent, reviewed the federal judiciary's
work in administering the prohibition
law in the first forty-one months of
its operation. 1t showed that since the
statute went into effect January 10,
1920, more than 10000 cases had been
terminated in United States courts
with 72,489 convictions and fines ag-
gregating $12,467, 900. There has been
constant yearly increase in prohibi-
ton prosecutions, the report showed,
while jail sentences for the past rs
months have totaled more than 5000
years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
New Styles Of Currency With Novel
Designs to Be Circulated by Uncle Sam

back so that those persons into whose
possession the money comes may rec
ognize instantly if alteration has been
attempted
The faces of the new bills will carry
portraits of well-known figures in
American history, mostly presidents,
and the best known faces have been
chosen for the bills most used. The
one-dollar bill, for instance, will have
Washington's portrait; the FIVE Lin
coins, and the ten Jackson's. Cleve-
lands likeness will appear on the
twenty-dollar bills, while for the ff-
ties and one hundreds the portraits of
General Grant and Benjamin Frank
lin respectively have been selected.
The whole design, with the excep-
ton of the portrait and the over print
ing, therefore, will be uniform, and
the difficulty of raising" bills to
higher denominations Chief Moran, OF
the secret service. believes, will be
greatly increased.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18

PITTSBURG, Pa.-Lack OF funds
no longer need prove hindrance to
mismated couples who would obtain
a divorce if they have enough money
to pay attorney fees and court of ro oGsts,
town who is connected with the Com
munity Savings and Loan Company
OF that city.
In an address here before the Retail
Credit Mems Association Mr., Custer
said that the newest thing in banking
IS the extension of credit to couples
W who seek legal freedom; He described
the system inaugarate d.d by tbs+ Johns 6dt s
dollar had been lost through loans
made made to those who were seeking to
sever their marital ties:
Persons of responsibility and good
standing in the community find little
d;aicuity, according. to Mr.. Custer, in
S securing the loan Of funds with which
to to0 prosecute their divorce suits. Cred
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
MYSTERIOUS BLACK
is A GEORGIA NEGRO
TONGUE-TIED AND DEAF, HE
PUZZLED LINGUISTS AND
POLICE EXPERTS.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The savants
of the police department had decided
that the mysterious black man found
wandering recently in Brooklyn was
a member of some strange tribe be-
cause he could not understand any
language they tried on him and they
could not understand his language,
which seemed to be gibberish. But
Yesterday the mysterious black mans
father came to town and said that the
strange one is none other than Bill
recently of Jersey City.
"Bill amt no foreigner" said Hill
man senior; "Bill's tongue tied. That's
the reason you folks couldn't know
what he said"
1t then developed that not only is
Bill tongue tied, but he had been i'll
when child, and this illness had
made him deaf. He knew English and
tried earnestly to speak it all the time
he talked to the police, but they had
their ears set for foreig nlanguage
and couldn't interpret tongue tied En-
glish as spoken by Georgia negro.
Pue 6 aunf Su!TIpM lno lusM ma
got lost, and eventually wound up in
Brooklyn, where the police picked
him up. He was sent to the Kings
county hospital, where doctors said
he was sane, but talked some strange
language. He was sent all over New
York, and all the amateur and profess
sional interpreters flung their Ian
guages at him-and Bill continued to
talk tongue tied English He was sent
to Jersey City with his father.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
COOLIDGE ABANDONS
SESSIONS OF CABINET
SEES NO REASON FOR SEMI
WEEKLY MEETINGS. PLANS
INDIVIDUAL TALKS.

There will be no more meetings OF
the presidents cabinet, unless matters
of unusual importance are to be con-
sidered, according to orders issued
last week by President Coolidge The
new president, he said, will consult
with the various secretaries individ-
ually.
Desires No Audience.
1t has been the custom in Wash
ington for the cabinet to meet twice
each week. Newspapermen were given
information concerning the business
transacted then, and the nation was
kept in. constant discussion of what
was going on in the capital
There is no harm in that part of
the custom, Mr.. Coolidge decided, but
there was one result which he did not
like-the cabinet did a lot of talking
and argument and really made no far
reaching decisions. The secretary of
agriculture gave his opinions on naval
matters, and so on, in each meeting,
making the sessions wearisome.
Now for Efficiency.
Under President Coolidge's orders
stopping the cabinet meetings high
err degree of efficiency will be posi-
bic. Each secretary. will be consulted
privately concerning matters in his
department or on subjects in which
he is interested.
Incidentally, when the president in
formed his advisors of the new order
of things, he told them that he con-
siders the present cabinet the best the
country ever had.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
Preacher After Trip
abroad Lauds u. S. Girls

DR.. Frederick H. Knubel, pres
ident of the United Lutheran
church Of the United States and
Canada, went to Europe some
time ago, and his last words on
departing were criticism of the
American girl. But he changed
his mind while abroad, and his
first words on arriving home on
Thursdayon the steamship Mon
golia were;
Beside the European girls our
sweet, clean American girls are
wonderful"
DR.. Knubel said that the NOR
ais of the younger generation
abroad are Simply deplorable,"
and that everywhere he went he
heard of the moral decadence that
had set in since the war.
From all reports morals in Europ,
have sunk to low standard since tn,
war, and many shocking things arr
lone.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18
GLASS HAIR AND RED
EARS ARE PROMISED
FORMER TO MATCH GOWN,
WHILE LATTER MUST BE
ROUGED FOR EFFECT.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Glass hair
and tangerine ears will be in vogue
this year, it was announced today at
the annual convention of hair dress
ers. "Tangerine" refers to the color,
not the shape.
This season the Japanese influence
is potent, and the pagoda headdress
should be much in demand. The
Dutch will play a part, and blondes
are expected to effect Netherlands
fashion slightly Americanized.
Individualism will be the object
striven for this year Promise is made
of styles innumerable, so that every
woman can choose the couture suit
able to her contour and complexion !;
and wigs and transformations will
make OF the plain, everyday woman
an individual and a citizen of. import
ance.
Glass hair is announced as the
vogue for evening wear-a shower of
colored glass that cannot be distin-
guished from hair, and glass tresses
to match gowns or hamonize with
them. Those who have Chinese pro-
pensities may wear a pagoda effect or
an Americanized version Of the sleek,
plastered Japanese pompadour.
All this is vouched for by Nine.
Louise of Chicago chairman of the
style show.
Wives No Longer Afraid.
THE sixteenth century will be re-
4 I
be evident There will be Roman in
fiuence; but mono, there will never
be anything copied from the eigh-
teenth century. That century was
dead, you know. If wife wore a
switch in secret she did it in the closet
from her husband"
Alexander Grimault, hair dresser,
just returned from Paris, has a new
creation, he announced, that will start
all America talking. Turbans will be
worn in all colors to suit madame's
complexion and madame's taste
blue turbans, green turbans, rose tur-
bans, yellow turbans, etc.
Transformations will be decidedly
in vogue. Bodied hair may stay; but
in the evening some extra tresses will
be added, so that one may be digni-
fed and in fashion. For sports bobbed
hair is correct, but for evening wear
Mon Dieu" as madame expresses
it.
Miss Martha Gonzales demonstrat-
ed yesterday the evolution of the per-
manent wave.
Spanish combs, made of hair, will
be worn, according to madame; jap
anese daggres, and revealed ears tinct-
ured with tangerine rouge.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-18

Secretary of the Treasury Andrew
w. Melons approval of the new de
signs for paper money, under consid-
Grafton for more than year, has been
announced lat the treasury department
and many new bills of distinctive type
and marking soon will be in circula-
ton.
The rev designs at first will affect
only United States notes, silver GER
tifcates and federal reserve notes in
denominations up to 500, with the
exception of the unpopular" two-dol-
lar note, but it is hoped later to ex-
tend the new designs-amounting al
most to a program OF Standardization
TO national bank notes and ultimate
Nv to the rare gold certificates.
Working to make the job of the
counterfeiter less remunerative, treas
ury experts chose the method of
standardizing designs, giving one de-
nomination OF all kinds of currency
one distinctive design for face and