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Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-16
DEMAND FULL PROBE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Rep-
re~en'ative Thomas, Kentucltv
to-day presented a minority report
ot the Judiciary committee de.
Mana ng fun and thorough in
t+gation of the impeachment
charges brought agair5t Attorney
General Daugherty.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-16
10 HELP pAro VErDE

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 16,--State
Senator Eden today introduced ar
emergency bill validating bonds
of the joint levee districts organ-
ICED to avert flood danger in Palo
Verde Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-16
SIDEJJGHTS ON
LEGISLATURE
OF STATE
Dy United Press

SACRAMENTO. Jan. 16.-The
opening of the legislature and the
Inauguration Of Governor Rich
ardson were witnessed by former
Asscmblyman Ed. Lewis, now
postmaster at Marvsville. Lewis
declared that he was "iust look
ing things over.'' Assemblvman
Fred B. Moves, of Yuba City, is
his successor.
Louis f. Erb, San Francisco as
scmblyman, is serving his first
term in the office but is thorough
lv acquainted with legislative pro-
ccdnre. He was file clerk during
the 1921 assembly.
Senator Edgar s. Hurley, of Al
amcda County intensd to introduce
bill providing for separate
harbor district for Oakland, to be
under the control of the municipa
department of public works there.
Newspaper writer's and special
correspondents who have been COW
ering the legislature for years de
clare that this session finds more
representatives of the press on
the lob than ever before. A con
servative estimate of the number
.herc during the first week is ao
lep0rters agree.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-16
Lettuce Market Remains Firm;
Demand is Good for Fancy Stock
Ry Bureau o. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
W. IL Hall, local represen.ative

With continued light siens and only moderate supplies the
lase markets the market coAtie hold in with considerable demand
Advice Washington the effect that
noticeable Florida, although of "a
reported for Eatow on the night OF January H..
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-16

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Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-16

aflOuS are maze up ny on" car eUcH
Davenport, Denver, Beaumont, Oakland.
CAELOT SHIPMENTS reported for:
Imperial Valley press., 1923-01-16

United Press
News Service
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
The Legislative Deluge.
From the Atlanta Journal.

The introduction of as many as seven hun
dred and forty-hve distinct bills at the last
session of the Georgia legislature has hardly
ceased to astound the million and make the
iudicious grievc," when the Hon. Ehhu Root
rises to observe that within a five-year period
sixty-two thousand new laws have been en-
acted in the United States and have been
followed by sixty-four thousand decisions
pertaining to them At this rate the lawyers,
who already are specializing to escape the
bewildering burdens OF memory and research
which general practice has come to entail,
will find themselves ere long in as hopeless
confusion as the 1aymen. This indeed may
bring the solution; for when lawyers are
drowned in laws will not the deluge then
begin to abate?
It is not alone the multiplicity of statutes
that troubles, but also and even more the
laxness with which many are drawn so that
keen judicial minds are ofttimes puzzled to
know precisely what the trainers intended.
A further difficulty, according to Mr.. Root
and others we'll qualified to speak, comes
from the tendency of legislatures to leave al.
most entirely to the courts the question of
whether an act is constitutional. If pressure
for bill is brought to bear, or If it affords
an easy way out of a responsibility, the law
making body is willing too frequently and
too lightly to shift to other shoulders the
duty Of preserving those basic principles OF
government which are called the constitution
"A result of this practice, long-contlnued and
now almost accepted on the basis of custom"
writes one observer, SIS that a lawyer who
wishes to know what the law is on a certain
point refers to the statutes merely to enable
him to look up the court decisions-for they
and not the statutes will contain the law "a
most remarkable state of affairs! Nor IS it
to be doubted that much legislation is enact
ed nowadays with the certainty that all or
! part Of it will be rendered void by court de
cisions" Such is the waste of time and such
the burden of cost, borne at last by the peo-
nle, when the Legislative mind takes the path
Of least resistance instead of the high road of
! hard thinking and tested principle.
Who will provide the remedy for these long
manifested ills? Who will stop the flood of
more than ten thousand new laws a year?
Who will encourage and enforce methods of
workmanly craftsmanship instead of oppor-
tunist politics in legislative halls? There is
abut one source whence adequate reform can
come, and that is from the people themselves.
So long as they are content that their preju-
dices, their whms and their selfish interests
rather than their rights and the common veal
shall be represented conditions cannot great
ly improve But when the people earnestly
and consistently desire the best in legislation
and in government generally they will de-
serve it-and they win get it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
The Cure-aH FallacY.

1t is we'll that such great emphasis has
been put on opposition to legislative cure-alls
i'll the interest of the farmer Various organ
izatons have gone on record as against con-
gress undertaking to iron out all the difficult
ties encountered in the agricultural sections.
Some of these organizations are composed OF
farmers, men who actually own land and
cultivate crops and have been thinking things
over for themselves as radical legislators de-
cared the only way out for the farmer was
through the doors of the capitol at Wash
ington Farming opinion has been somewhat
slow to crystaize Farmers have other things
to do in the growing season. but representa-
tive groups of them have devoted time and
attention to a study of their own business
with the result that they are not convinced
that their need is lot of new laws and the
changing of many of the older ones
What seems to be the best opinion views
the farming situation as one IN need OF Ger
tain adjustments, but one that will react
more surely and more rapidly to natural
steps than to legislation. Experts in business
in other lines say the same thing. Every day
opinion finds itself moving forward to bet
ter understanding of the question. A part OF
this change is due to the conviction that di-
versihed farming ought to be practiced. That
would prevent overproduction of certain
crops and also would insure adequate pro-
duction of others that have been short This
has been importing farm products
that could be raised here. Why not raise
them? Still another idea is that the farmers
ought to develop control of their own bust
ness, with reference to production and mark
citing. The thought that close attention must
be paid to the law of supply and demand be-
comes more persistent.
The Grain Dealers National Association IS
the latest organization to strike at the idea
Of legislative cure-als. The association is
closely connected with the farming interests.
L deals in farm products, consequently its
has an extensive familiarity with
market conditions. 1t insists that the law OF
supply and demand must operate, and that
armers must recognize it. The same natural
avs that apply to other industries apply to
arming Let it be hoped that, against the
ime congress convenes, the national legisla-
ors may be able to interpret correctly this
growing opinion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
Tax Exempt Bonds.

The amount of money invested in tax ex-
empt bonds is variously estimated at from
$11 900, 000,00 to $15,000,000,000 and more,
two and one-half times the investment in such
securities ten years ago.
There are two angles to this perplexing
problem. On the one hand, if tax exempt
bonds should be outlawed municipalities,
counties and states would be required to pay
a higher rate of interest on money borrowed
for public purposes, and that would mean
higher taxes. On the other hand, if invest
ment in tax exempt bonds is not checked
revenue from the income taxes will steadily
diminish and federal and state governments
will continue to be deprived of this revenue
to which they are really entitled, Further
more, the ease with which the bonds sold
deliberately encourages extravaganza expendi-
lures by those who have the spending of pub
lie money.
The exemption is permitting huge sums of
money to escape taxation. 1t is favoritism to
the rich, who thereby are relieved of contrib
utng anything to the support of government
Taxation should be as nearly equal as pos
sible, and none should escape his just share.
In the opinion of The News the most sub
stantial argument is on the side of repeating
the exemption.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
Georgia Being COurted to Death.
From the Wilkes County Forum.

This state has now "a superior courts, "a
city courts, one supreme court, one appellate
court some $500 justice courts unknown
municipal courts and recorders courts, whose
number no man can number, which are
grinding or pretending to grind three hun
bred and fifteen days in the year, costing the
taxpayers of the state a million dollars or
more.
With all this machinery in action, sup
posed to be, crime multiples by leaps and
bounds in the state-it looks as if the more
courts exist fawtessness much more abounds
and Judge Lynch's court holds almost daily
sessions.
The records of the courts show that there
are fully fifty thousand cases Of all sizes and
descriptions hanging fire in them, and have
been so for years, in this state. Evidently
something is radically wrong in the operation
of these places of justice Our opinion is,
they need probing; the taxpayer is receiving
no grist or if any then very inferior quail
ty of grist for the worth of his money-evi-
IDENTIFY the courts fail to deter crime
Lost motion, rather no motion, appears
to be the main trouble in the courts-a per-
SON pays SIS for a days labor, he expects and
demands service for the money he expends,
and failing to get it he gets mad and fires the
laborer-why should not a judge who re-
ceives $4,000 per year give value received
therefor else be unfrocked?
Poor old Georgia-she is courted and gov
crned ad nausaum, and in conclusion we can
see but one antidote4-let congress learn and
practice the Golden Rule
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
II Could Be Worse.
From the Moultie Observer.

1t is claimed that it is costing American
taxpayers $3,500000,000 a year to pay the
salaries Of 100000 persons found to be on
the pay rolls, OF the federal state and munich
pal governments of the. United States that
the official incomes of all these are tax free,
and that the 100000 public servants who
are on state and municipal pay. rolls also es-
cape federal, war and other income taxes;
the people must carry the whole tax burden
as well as pay the salaries of this privileged
class.
But the people at least have the satisfac-
ton OF knowing that they would be far. worse
off if the socialistic reformers had their way
and all public utilities and industries were
placed in the governments hands, necessitat-
ing the taking of about one-halt the people
into the governments employ. In that case
instead of 100000 we should have some So
100000 similarly privileged public servants
who could, moreover, keep in power the party
favoring them until the end OF time
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
Heat and Cold

Weather in the United States is the result
OF battle between heat waves and cold
waves near the north, says the United States
Weather Bureau. The theory is that heat
waves flowing northward come in contact
with cold waves travelling southwark. The
two waves meet at what is called the polar
frontier and the weather bureau is estab-
fishing radio stations on this frontier to
broadcast weather information to this coun-
try.
This struggle of the elements is interesting
if true In spring the heat waves coming
from the south are gradually pushing back
the cold waves that originated at the pole
By summer the heat has gained the victory,
and the cold in confined in the icy regions
up north.
This cold air, however, is compressed IN
a narrow region and resisting the heat with
all its might By autumn it is gradually
breaking through and during the winter 1t
has chased the heat waves back to the
equator
This constant battle and retreat and ad-
vance of the two waves of air explains the
different seasons in the United States and
Canada
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
Decorating the Male.

Having bewaed the fact that men are in
different to the vogue tailors, haberdashers
and hatterS have taken the initiative in an
effort to force upon the male of the species
a realization of the value of establishment
Wherefore, they will seek to decorate him
in fashions that he may not want, but which
they hope he may be compelled to accept.
Ii is said that hats so co1orful that they will
make the head ache and hosiery so fanciful
as to attract the attention of all will be thrust
upon the heads and the feet of men whether
they like it or not
Some years ago the daring of hatters and
shoe manufacturers threatened to break all
bonds. Feathers were put in the hat bands
and buckles were fastened to the shoes. Those
were the days of the padded shoulders and
peg-top trousers The vogue did not last
long. The men preferred to be tuned in less
festive key" Since then they have gone about
their daily work without gay decorations and
have felt better as a result. Occasionally a
stage costume leaves the theater and dares a
thoroughfare, but it never gets very far. The
men are content to let their sisters, mothers,
wives and sweethearts carry out the color
schemes in dress.
Times have changed. Some generations ago
the man was the peacock, who, as Irving
Cobb related of a southern character, could
strut sitting down. Velvet breeches, silk
stockings buckled shoes, plumed hats, lace
rufaes at the throat and wrists and cloaks OF
beauteous color and design announced the
male Men cut quite figure in those days
but they were not building railroads and
bridges and skyscrapers and great factories
as they are now. Mere man gradually learn
ed that personal adornment of the kind de-
signed to make him beautiful was unneces-
sary that what really was expected of him
was achievement, not show The tailors the
haberdashers and the hatters are going tc
have hard time of it if they set out to glori
fv man with more colorful sartorial dis
play. Man does not wish to be glorifed If
that manner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
RUDE RURAL RH Y MES
Breeding Better BOSSES.

praise the pure bred dairy bull; of use
fitness his days are full. He is the pride OF
all our kline, the father of noble line. He
walks with grace upon the earth, and all his
daughters prove his worth The other day
read with joy OF such bull in Illinois | sing
that good old Holsten sport, whom men call
Homestead, lust for short, thus whiting
down an honored name because they can't
pronounce the same. Behind his back they
set some spoilers to check up on his first ten
daughters They weighed the milk, and after
that they tested it for butter fat. When told
the record of her bag each daughter had a
right to brag: with all respect to Ma am
a darned sight better than my dam. Yet
mother was the best they had, the difference
is due to dad" If he had bred scrub cows
and such his record would be nothing much,
but Homestead was a real go-getter because
he made a good herd better. His progeny
at pail and stud will be a credit to his blood.
I think that we should also raise monu-
ment to speak his praise. His life was lowly,
but O boy, think what he did for Illinois.
bob ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
South Georgia Has the Advantage.

North Georgia newspapers have been
boasting that their section has the advantage
of this section, since the arrival of the boil
weevil, in making cotton.
They contend that the climate is colder and
the weevils find it more difficult to live
through the winter, notes the Moultrle OBJ
server. Continuing, our contemporary says
1t may be true that the winters in
north Georgia make it more difficult Tor
the weevil to live, but there is an ad-,
vantage that south Georgia has that more
than offsets this. 1t is the advantage of
early stalk destruction apd starvation OF
the weevi in the fall
The facts do not bear out the contention
OF our north Georgia friends. Since the adj
vent of the boil weevil several years ago the
cotton crop has never been a total failure in
south Georgia, which cannot be said of any
other section of the state. Even this year,
when less cotton has been produced in south
Georgia than was ever before known, the 20
counties designated as southwest Georgia have
grown more cotton than an equal number
o. counties in either middle or north Georgia,
which are said to have the best cotton crop
in number of years. In this connection 1t
is interesting to note that the government re-
port shows that Burke county, with an area
of 1888 square miles, is the only county in
the state that has ginned as much cotton as
Terrell which has an area of $40 square
miles The next largest ginnngs are report
ed in Sumter and Randolph counties, both OF
which are southwest Georgia counties and adj
Join Terrell.
Our Moultrie contemporary could have
mentioned another advantage that south
Georgia has over north Georgia in the pro
duction of cotton. Due to earlier season
cotton in this section makes a fairly good
crop before the boil weevils become suffi-
GENTLY numerous to be disastrous, whereas
in north Georgia the infestaton is heavies
when the cotton begins to take on fruit.
The short crop in south Georgia this yeal
is not so much due to the boil weevil as tc
the incessant rains which began early in th'
year and continued through the spring anc
summer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
"REPULSIVE" is RIGHT.

From the Triton Gazette.
Now announcement is made that when the
body OF General Oglethorpe is disinterred
from the place where it has rested for nearly
two centuries in the Church of All Saints in
the little town of Crandal England for the
purpose of removal to the United States the
body of Lady Oglethorpe will be brought
along with that of her husband A man who
is somewhat of a celebrity has no certainty
that his ashes will be allowed to rest after
burial To those who reverence the memory
of the founder of the Colony of Georgia the
idea of using what remains of his ashes for
advertising purposes is repulsive
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
In a Word.

San Francisco Chronicle: A bloc is just
an appetite with the courage of its selfishness
Omaha Bee: Foreigners say we have no
art in this country. How about the art OF
keeping our money at par!
Louisville Courier Journal: Some pohti-
clans use dirt" before the title, farmer, to
throw dust in the eyes of the public
Detroit News: President Coolidge is try
ing to harmonic the different factions IN the
G.. o. P, thus assuring himself OF steady
work this winter
Lincoln Journal: If your neighbor agrees
with you in his opinions you delight to speak
of him as right minded"
Harrisburg Patriot: The average husband
has more sense than his wife thinks and not
as much as he thinks.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16

Once more the irreconcilables, who have
been watchfully waiting for President Cool
idge to align himself with foreign interests
in order that they might quarrel with him
and oppose his aspirations for the republican
nomination for the presidency next year, are
checkmated Mr. Coolidge has let it be
known that he is not an ardent supporter OF
the world court plan. His attitude toward
this question of foreign policy to which the
late President Harding attached so much inn
portance does not give his potential oppo-
nents much cause for opposition
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16

potato curing plant with a capacity of
nearly $4,000 bushels is nearing completion
at Douglas. Without storage plants and
markets for their produce the farmers cannot
diversity All the talk and all advice to raise a
variety of crops for sale is folly as long as
a few bushels Of almost anything will glut
the local market. The farmer is compelled to
raise something to sell that will bring him
ready cash.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16

Anent some suggestions that have been
made to Governor Walkers special tax COM
mission, why should a man with money to
invest buy paper upon which he would have
to pay taxes when so much of it is floating
around which cannot be taxed? Would you,
if you had the money? Of course you would
buy tax free paper Human nature has not
made any change in a thousand years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
THE COURSE OF CHEAP MONEY.

From the Lincoln Journal.
Former Congressman Sloan returns from
Europe convinced that European experience
has ended the case for cheap money. The
mark goes at about 100000 to the dollar
and its course is still downward. When gov
ernments go to manufacturing money out of
blue sky they invariably keep it up till the
money and the sky reach a parity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16

Henry Ford confessed to the Canadians
that he did not know there was any difference
between the two major parties, and declared
they are both tarred with the same brush"
Well, maybe it is true that Mr.. Ford does not
wish to run for the presidency and IS talking
like that so neither major party will want
him Some observers might insist that, II that
was his idea about it, he might have saved
himself the trouble.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16
SEPTEMBER MORN" WAS MODEST.

From the Louisville Courier Journal
Several years ago America was shocked by
September Morn But the lady of the pict-
ure tried to hide, which is more than can be
said for her sisters on the streets today
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16

One lack of this age is reverence. We seem
to lack reverence for authority, age, religion
and practically all else. And we all seem to
be tarred with the same stick. Perhaps we
are too busy working and playing to be rev.
erent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16

Bankers continue to urge that the United
States cancel the war debts but they wish to
collect all that is coming to them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16

Steady nerves, good eyes and level head
are needed in the driving of an automobile
safely, but liquor weakens or destroys all
of these requisites. The result easily can be
imagined
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16

What the country needs just now is some
one to take stuffed club and kill off the
Knockers We have never had better chance
to walk right into prosperity The tongue
wagging, head shaking can do lot to kill
prosperity and joy in life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16

The farm programs in many counties are
helping to solve the financial problem When
every farm has few acres devoted to each
money crop. and this includes some truck
for shipment also we are going to have a
prosperous country" truthfully says the
Adel News. Terrell county IS waking up to
that fact
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16

Cuthbert will entertain the National Nut
Growers Association next year We congrat-
ulate our neighbor and those who will be so
fortunate as to be her guests.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-16

The 1924 political pot is not boiling, but
il has begun to simmer