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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
Huge Bonfres Built by Eskimos Will
Herald Start of Anundsen's Trip
Across Polar Region.
When Road Amundsen "hops off

When Road Amundsen chops off"
soon from Wainwright, little ham
let at the northern tip of Alaska, on
his airplane fight across the north
polar region, the news of his start
will be heralded by chain of bon
fires built on the headlands along the
coast. The fires will be about Is miles
apart and will be lighted by Eskimos,
waiting for the smoke signal to tell
the world that the daring aviator has
begun his fight.
Amundsen hopes to fly in straight
line from Wainwright to the island of
Spitzbergen. That will carry him d.
rectly over the pole and will give him
an extraordinary opportunity to OBJ
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
Arises in the Legislature
With Other Bootleggcrs

CONCORD, N. H.-A man
whose name was withheld today
stood up in the New Hampshire
Legislature to vote on tax meas
IRE. After he was reprimanded he
walked down to the clerk and
showed an order to appear before
the United States court on liquor
charge. He told the clerk he
thought he was in the court room
and that he was standing with the
other "bootleggers."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
OMAN ACCOME DIE HANGMAWS MOOSE FOR MURDER OF AN OFFICER

scafold. Prison authorities denied a
request that he be permitted to die
without the black cap over his face.
"You are hanging an innocent man
God help me-" Piccarillo exclaimed.
A moment later the trap was sprung.
Mrs. Lassandra followed him to the
scaffold.
why do you hang me when. l
didn't do anything?" she walled. rs
there anyone here who has any pity?"
Guards, ignoring her appeal, quick
ly prepared her for death, and just
before the trap was sprung she said
she forgave everybody.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15

Mrs. Lassandra denied, before she
was led to the scaffold an alleged
confession that she fired the four shots
that ended Constable Lawson's life.
Piccarillo, she declared, did the shoot
ing. This he denied.
Playing on the gallantry Of the po-
lice, Piccarillo had raised himself from
fhe humble station of peanut vender
at Crows Nest pass to one of her
wealthiest bootlegging citizens before
the law overlook him.
Known as Bootleg King.
Long known as the bootleg king of
the pass, Piccari1lo had worked in de-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
BBAGE GROW IN TREES;
'TALKS USED FOR RAFTERS

yloes cabbage grow on trees? Ger
iiy;; Not all cabbage, but on the
'Da OF Jersey, in the English chan
me natives grow cabbage on
=. These are wild cabbage found
northern Europe and as far east as
ila. They grow to about Il feet
'slgilt. The stalks have been used
lelters by native builders. Walk
sucks are made of the stems which
"hititied down. Cultivation has
s;- the tame cabbage, smaller
'1s and with frmer head.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
FORT SASKATCHEWAN, Alta

FORT SASKATCHEWAN, Alta.
Mrs. Florence Lassandra, youthful
UNI runner accomp1ice, died on the
scaffold in the Fort Saskatchewan jail
ward at dawn today, with Emilio Pic
GARLIC, king of the Crows Nest pass
bootleggers," whose life she had many
times saved by her sex.
They were executed for the murder
of Constable Steve O. Lawson, of the
Alberta provincial police at Coleman,
September 21, 1922, after Lawson had
made the last of series Of fruitless
attempts to capture their fitting whis-
Ky car.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
4 Million Americans
Sick With tuberculosis

WASHINGTON, D. Cone
million people in the United States
continuously are sick with tubercu-
losis, it is announced by the Unit
ed States Public Health Service.
Children, particularly under the
age of five years, are said to be
most susceptible to infection. At
tion is called to the fact that
0fA scilli are capable of re-
maintff IN the human
body for many
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
The Champion Hen of
The World Is Dead

IOWA CITY, Ia.-John Suep-
pers world champion hen is dead,
at the age of II years. She was
dark Brahma and won highest
awards in the Asiatic class at the
international exposition in Califor-
MA. Mr.. Sueppel valued the bird
at $1,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15

Most Londoners die from bronchi-
It's and pneumonia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15

Ancient Egyptians made collins Of
cork.
Evening star., 1923-01-10
Truck Hit, Train Derailed.

A grade-crossing accident occurred
yesterday afternoon just outside Of
Baltimore that shows in clear manner
the extreme danger attending the
maintenance of these death traps on
the trunk lines Of the railroads of this
country. A truck stalled in crossing
the tracks of the Pennsylvania main
line between Baltimore and Washing
ton. When it became evident that the
motor could not be started in time to
avoid a wreck from a fast express,
then known 10 be approaching, the
driver and residents of the suburb
ran down the track and lighted flares
to warn the engineer. For some rea-
son the locomotive driver did not see
the signals and crashed into the truck,
iemolishing it and carrying the wreck
age some distance down the track,
while the brakes were working, until
the debris caught in a switch and
caused the derailment of the locomo-
tive. Fortunately no one was hurt.
But it is little less than miraculous
that the train, which was running, it
is estimated, at fully sixty miles an
hour, was not Immediately ditched
when the truck was hit. Had this oc-
Cured a frightful loss of life would
have resulted.
Almost daily in some part of the
country grade.crossing accidents oc-
cur. taking now one. now two. and
again more lives in each case. Seldom
is a motor hit by a train without
fatalities. The motors are so much
lighter than the locomotives that they
are usually brushed aside with little
shock to the trains, but this accident
near Baltimore shows what may hap
pen when a heavy truck is hit.
If every time a motor is hit at a
grade crossing, with or without loss
of life, that crossing were cured, by
the establishment of: overpass or un-
derpass, some progress would be made
toward emancipation from this evil.
But this is not done. 4 fatality occurs
at a crossing. sometimes an entire
family is wiped out of existence, and
the crossing continues in use. with
seldom any improvement in the way
of barriers.
This condition cannot be tolerated
Indefinitely. Whoever is to blame, the
road users for failure to observe eau
ton. or the railroads for continuing
to maintain their tracks at grade, or
the state or municipal authorities for
failure to compel changes, the sacri-
fees continue. with an annual toll in
lives that mounts into the many hun
dreds. State legislation requiring the
cure of the grade crossings. upon
whatever terms may be deemed most
equitable. is necessary to reach the
root of the evil.
Evening star., 1923-01-10
EDITORIAL DIGEST

and. rs a rule rade TO saviors." sharp
protest is voiced, however: by the
New York Globe to the demand of
the American Defense Society that
the party be suppressed and also
against any interference with the
coming of the Russian soviet players.
In the latter case the Globe feels that
such suppression gave the political
ancestors of Lenin a hold on the Rus
sian popular imagination. There
should be no toleration of II here
where our laws supposedly protect us
from extremists who believe in bloody
revolutions and extremists who be-
lieve in the certain forms of tyranny
which have caused them" This view
finds no favor with the Providence
Journal, which in turn insists "it is
unbelievable that any large proper
caught by the chaff of the nisnamed
workers party, but if its dangerous
propaganda is permitted to continue
unchallenged we will merely invite
trouble for ourselves in the end"
The central idea of the commun-
istic scheme as the Springfield
Union sees it. ''is to tumble success
into heap so that failure can pick
a living out of the ruins. The party
announcements. however. are inter-
preted by the Hartford Courant as a
confession of failure and it sarcas-
tically suggests that ION the whole a
good time was had by all at the con-
vention. The capitalists will tremble
from henceforth unless they are lost
to all sense of shame" Because there
was no interference with the conven-
tion. and every one had a right to say
what he pleased is better" says the
New York World, than raiding COM
munist sessions in the Michigan
woods and falling men for members
hip in the /. w. w. The guarantees
- - Il .
party as well as to other PARTIES. and
it is a sign of the dying out of anti.
bolsheyik hysteria when we begin to
apply them" While this is true. it
does not lessen the responsibility of
the government ito be on guard the
Wilkes-Bar Record feels. because
while the organization may not be
great numerically. il is in the power
of a small minority to do much mis-
chief by constant activity.
Evening star., 1923-01-10
Our Dark Streets.

Not only are there not enough street
lights in Washington 10 make the
streets safe after dark. but the funds
provided for the maintenance of those
that are installed do not suffice to
keep them burning through the year
The Commissioners have been com.
PEELED to ask for supplementary ap.
preparation of $4,000 to maintain the
lighting system of the District for the
remainder of the fiscal year.
Recently The Star has been printing
a series of articles showing the condi.
tions in the streets after dark-condi.
tions that are surely NO less than dis.
graceful considering the importance
of the city. Many of the streets are so
dark that it is highly dangerous to
operate a motor car after o'clock at
this season Of the year, and it is equal.
-ly dangerous for persons to walk be.
yond the curbs. The trees are, even in
January, so thick as to shade the
streets deeply. The rays of the aver.
age lamp do not penetrate more than
q few yards beyond the post Between
lamps is dense blackness, save on the
nights of the moon in its major as.
poets.
Some years ago Washington depend.
ed upon the moon for street illumina,
tien, save in its dark" phases. The
street-lighting schedule conformed to
the lunar calendar. Consequently
when the naeen was in the full or
thersabouts, no lamps were lighted
Evening star., 1923-01-10

and If clouds came the streets Were
absolutely dark. An atrocious murder
was committed one night in these cir
cumstances. and so shocked was
Washington tnat Congress was shocked
as we'll and the present system of
year-round lighting was adopted.
But year-round lighting with insult
flcient and inadequate lamps is little
better than the lamp;plusmoon sys-
TEN of former times. Thereare spaces
in this city without lamps that are so
long that the highwayman has ample
opportunity to rob and even to slay
without a chance of hindrance. And
these are not remote places, either.
Some of them may be found in the
very heart of the city, in the thickly
populated residential section and even
in the business district.
More and brighter lamps are an i'm
perative necessity. The city's toll of
accidents and CRIMES will grow heavier
as the time is permitted to pass with
out the correction of this condition.
Evening star., 1923-01-10

Thirty-two years ago, when Thomas
Francis Bayard, second of his name
and fifth of his line to be a United
States senator from Delaware. was
student at the Yale law school, he
prepared a brief which excited the
lively admiration of his fellow class
men. One of them. venting his en-
thusiasm when Bayard, then in his
twenty-third year. read the brief, ex-
claimed: "I'll bet any man in this
class $40 that Tom Bayard will end
| up in the United States Senate" The
challenge was accepted by a: fellow
student with less faith in the young
lawyers future. All three Elen have
lived to see the realization of the
prophecy on which the wager was
based. Facetious correspondence
about il was exchanged in November
following Senator Bayard's election
to both the uneXpired and full sena-
torial terms in Delaware two months
ago. Last week the bet was paid.
x X y X
Ambassador Harvey brings to Wash
ington a story about Stanley Bald
win. member of parliament. British
chancellor of the exchequer, now in
! negotiation with the American fund
ing commission. that is destined to
immortaliZe Baldwin's name in British
history. In 1917. when allied. war
fortunes were at their lowest ebb and
British credit. in particular. on the
verge of exhaustion. Baldwin was
financial secretary of the treasury.
He is a man of considerable means
worth perhaps $4,000, 900 or $1,000. 900.
Where John Bull was next to turn
for ready .sinews of war was sorely
perplexing the. British government.
Baldwin decided upon an uncon-
ventional recourse. He offered TO
place one-half OF his entire private
fortune at the disposal of the treasury
at market prices of the securities he
was ready to turn over and take for
them the equivalent in British con-
soils. Having done that. Baldwin felt
justified in going officially to the
British nation. as eventually was
done. and requiring them also to trade
their foreign security holdings for
British war obligations. The result
vas the prompt accretion to the i'm
perial treasury of a vast fund of cash
means and the effective salvage of
the credit situation.
| !: X X
They're hoping over at the De-
partment of the Interior that the
statesman who succeeds Secretary
| Fall on March will have a short
| name. 1t appears there is ceaseIess
| stream OF official documents requir-
| ing the Secretary of the Interiors
autographed signature and If a name
as long as Frelinghuysen or Poindex-
! ter has to be affixed to every one
! visions of much time consumed are
conjured up. Four-letter signatures
! like Lane and Fall the statistics
show. can be attached with lightning
! like dispatch. The name of New
would have even greater advantages
! Late gossip anent cabinet shifts in
March sends DIR. Hubert Work to the
! Department of the Interior and Sen
ator Harry :. New of Indiana to the
postmaster generalship. New. con-
templating denomination and re-
election to the Senate. is understood
10 have declined the opportunity TO
supplant viii Fl. Hays a year ago
x :: x X
Since Monday of this week Henry
]. Allen of Kansas has been what a
once distinguished son of the sun
Evening star., 1923-01-10
America and Europe.

There are three things patent to
every reading and rejecting Ameri-
can, and important for every such
American to consider.
~ Europe does not understand
Americas not properly advised
either as to the full meaning or the
practical workings of our Institutions
She has been too busy with her own
affairs and their conduct to make the
proper study of governmental develop
ments on this continent There is a
going concern over here Of greater size
and far greater consequence than she
has been dreaming Of.
(o) She ought to understand Amer
lea. We are world power. on the eve
OF a large extension of our foreign
trade, and on that account, if on no
other. worthy of her close attention
She will meet us more and more as a
competitor for business: and the better
and more thorough her appraisement
of US the better it will be for her, for
US. and for the world.
81 She stands in the way at last of
acquiring the necessary information.
AS a nation we are manifesting our
selves frankly as to the problems the
war has produced, and giving all nee
essary assurances as to our purposes
and exhibitions of our capacity to
carry them out. American institutions
are functioning in the normal way
Isolation is an absurd charge to
bring against us. We never have tried
to live to ourselves. and never shall
try. We could not if we would pur.
sue any such policy. But there is a
vast difference between cooperating
with the world according to our lights
and limitations for progress sake, and
mixing intimately and indiscriminate-
ly in the age-old hatreds and reveHges
Of other countries.
Evening star., 1923-01-10
Night Sessions.

In the strenuous work of the re-
lnainder of the winter night sessions
are suggested.
If ordered, they are not likely to ac-
complish much. They never do.
Oftener than not, they are a mere ges-
ture, and. as a rule. the gesture fails.
After a few tiresome and ineffective
attempts at keeping a quorum and do
ing business, they are discontinued.
Take the Senate. The majority of
the members are elderly men, robust
enough for hard work at regular hours
and under system, and Fhey perform a
good deal of it, But break into their
system and impose irregular hours.
and particularly too long hours. and
you put them at disadvantage. They
grow impatient, short Of temper, and
cease to be either good companions or
good legislators.
Such work as Congress, has now In
hand and will from time to time take
up calls for calm thinking, with every
body in keller and physically and men
tally at his best. And nobody is at his
best, or even fit at all. while doing in
his chair, or watching the clock for
bedtime.
There will be plenty Of daylight be-
tween now and March for all prac-
teal purposes if it is practically dis
tributed and employed. The situation
has it's difficulties and ticklish fea-
lures. but as veterans are in charge at
both ends of the Capitol it ought not
to get out of hand and become un-
manageable.
Evening star., 1923-01-10
Liberality to Debtors.

Well established public opinion
against cancellation OF the debts owed
this government by the governments
of Europe never has had in it any
thing of the spirit of the ruthless
creditor. Americans want these debts
recognized. and in time want them
paid, but it would be difficult to find
anywhere a man or woman who would
wish these obligations to bear unduIy
upon the peoples who were our friends
and allies in the great war. If there
has been anywhere in this country
any spirit of resentment or impatience
1t has not been because Europe has
casional manifestations Of unwilling.
ness TO pay.
1t is TO be expected. therefore. that
If President Harding goes TO Congress
with a request for amendment of the
law creating the debt-funding commits
sion, making it possible for the COM
mission to accord easier terms to the
debtor nations, his request will re-
ceive sympathetic consideration. AS
the law now stands. the commission
can accept funding bonds only if they
mature within twenty-five years and
bear an interest rate not lower than
Az per cent. So far as it is possible
to gauge the desires of the American
people, they would be perfectly willing
to have repayments strung out over
a longer period of years and would be
satisfied with an interest rate lower
than that specified in the act of Con-
gress.
And if this is a correct interpreta-
tion of the wishes of the American
people there ought to be no hesitancy
in Congress about granting such
amelioration as the President may re-
quest. Dhe money this government
loaned the governments of Europe,
under authority of an act of Congress,
was money for which the American
people had worked and saved, and If
the difference between the interest
rate paid by debtor governments and
the rate this government pays on it's
borrowings creates a deficit, that
deficit will have to be made up by
further taxing Of the fpeopIe's earn
ings. So it becomes primarily the
concern of the whole American people,
and there has been no manifestation
of public opinion which would justify
Congress in believing that the people
would rather forego settlement than to
settle on some terms other than those
laid down by Congress in the act
creating the funding commission.
Next to settlement of the problem of
German reparations. settlement OF the
interallied debt problem is of primary
importance to the world. Great Brit
ain now has a commission here seek
ing an adjustment. If its mission is
successful ether adjustments are
bound to follow. and soon the world
will be able to settle down to work
and trade without the uncertainty of
these debts hanging like a dark and
depressing cloud over the intercourse
of nations.
Evening star., 1923-01-10
Gen. Crowder and Cuba.

Gen. Crowder would make an ideal
minister to Cuba. He has been in the
island long enough to familiarize him
self with every phase of the public
business, and by his course has won
the confidence of the Cubans and the
approval of the authorities AT home
here. He possesses tact. resources. and
firmness, and would we may all be
sure. repeat in the regular diplomatic
field the success he has achieved as
the. special representative of two
Presidents.
While the billet does not bulk large
in our diplomatic service, il is yet in
the circumstances that exist one of
difficulty, and should be filled with
that fact in view. Our relations with
Cuba are intimate and unusual, and
our obligations to her as well as to the
outside world respecting her demand
the most careful treatment.
Cuba is sharing in the distresses
that affiict all the nations, big and
little. No nation has escaped. All are
finding the going hard, and are de-
pressed by the present outlook.
Our sympathies are sincerely with
Cuba. and have often been expressed.
We are standing sponsor for her, and
want her TO remain an individual in
heR own right, with her own flag fly
ing. There are schemers and busy
bodies there and here desirous of fore
ing annexation. but there is no repre-
sentative sentiment in America which
favors raising the Stars and Stripes
over the Queen of the Antilles.
Evening star., 1923-01-10

All uictures that are painted are
not bright, all presents we receive are
not gold, all songs we hear are not
harmony, all stories that come to our
attention have not pleasant endlnss'
The mail, the other morning, brought
me word picture that is vouched
for by the sender as being true, and
lost 7 mar the story l am reproducing
II Just as it came.
The luxurious room was Uttered
with expensive gifts, jewelry. fans
gauzy laces. gloves. perfume. fimy
stockings. cobwebby handkerchiefs,
together with tissue paper, gold cord
and other appurtenances attending
the tying up and dispatching OF these
costly trifies.
+he mistress of the house at the
telephone. saying in that peculiarly
Cooling voice which indicated a con-
yersation with a very dear friend.
Yves. my husband and ! are going
to New York at noon. We VIII be
OF the hotel for a little while.-Oh! he
went to his cousins for the holidays.
I inst had to send him away.-You
know the school is closed for over
two weeks and l could never have
stood having him around all that
time. What is it? oh! / am sure OF
il. Goodbye dear"
Catching sight of the secretary, she
Said "I wish you would send back
those tickets to the Orphans Relief
RalI. I don't want them. and here
this" snatching up an open letter she
continued, telephone to that woman
and tell her ! never want her to give
me another massage as long as
liyp-and never to come near the
house again-she's no good Tele-
nhone. then write confirming it,
Looking over the carefully worded
note with it's respectful request for
a check for past treatments and clos
ing with .sbest wishes for a happy
christmas" the secretary felt a pane
of sympathy for the kindly faced
mainly dressed woman with the sad
ewes. whom she had occasionally met
on her visits to the house. IT don't
want to tell her that" she thought
"she looks as il she needed her salary
as much--as much as / do-and at
Christmas, too"
"Please phone at once Miss --,
came the impatie voice.
Closing the door and calling the
number given, the secretary, wording
II as tactfully as she could, gave the
unpleasant message.
"But l was engaged-she promised,
came back a distressed voice. and
need il, and at Christmas time!'
81 am sorry, but / am obliged tc
give the message"
Yes, yes, it's--it's all right
guess We understand, The voice