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Evening star., 1924-01-29
DEFENSE MOTIONS DENIED
"Not-Guilty' Verdict Asked for
Dry Agent Andersen,

NEW YORK. January 29.-Motiou
verdict of not guilty in the case of
William H. Anderson. state superin-
tendent Of the Anti Saloon League. on
trial for forgery, was denied by Jus
tice Tompkins in supreme court to-
day. Justice Tompkins also denied
another motion to quash the indict-
ment. Arguments then began.
Evening star., 1924-01-29

schedules by evening. The agree
ment, 1t was reported, was largely.
due to the efforts of the fnediatiofH
committee -
At no time has the tie-up been 'coIns
plete, and during the last two o.
three days service steadily improyeC
on most of the lines
Evening star., 1924-01-29
TWO HELD IN SLAYING,
Brothers Arrested After Death of
Town Marshal.

DUDOWICI. Ca, January &c. A.
Sallette and D. P. Sallette. brothers,
have been placed under arrest in
connection with the killing of ]. NJ.
Mcdaniel. town marshal, Saturday
night The marshal was choked to
death by members of gang whom
no tried to quiet.
The coroner's jury held UP the ver-
dict until after preliminary hearing
today - - \ q
Evening star., 1924-01-29
UNION BACKS PAY BILL. F..

The Central Labor Union at it,
weekly meeting, at 1905 r stree
northwest, last night adopted a ressz,
luton favoring the pending pole <
and firemen's pay bill and at The
same time instructed It's Ieglslativs
committee to give all possible as
sistance 10 the passage Of the b,ll.
Evening star., 1924-01-29
BOY BITTEN BY CAT
DIES OF HYDROPHOBIA
No Serious Developments Had Been
Expected From Injuries Three
Weegs Ago.
BY the Associated Press.

NORFOLK, Va, January 20
Twelve-year old George Melvin Old
of Oakgrove, Norfolk county, died
yesterday at a Norfolk hospital of
hydrophobia.
The boy was bitten by cat three
weeks ago. No serious developments
ensued until few days ago. when
the child was seized with commissions.
Evening star., 1924-01-29
Describes Visit OF Inspection.

+. y. Wholley. former head of the
Washington better business bureau.
testified yesterday concerning a visit
OF inspection at the invitation of
Howe to the local office on 18th
Evening star., 1924-01-29
SPECIAL NOTICES.

RED BAIL TRANSIT co Main a1s2.
LIjAS. T. HERMANN, MANUFACTURING
'eweIer and diamond setter; established ~
Gears: 9th and Pa ave. now at Sll Y
St Nv. NARROW Building. 2nd noor We
'1oderniZe old icwelry and wedding rings
Exclusive designs used. fe3s
WHY NOT MAKE YOUR PRESENT GAS
eater heater automatic: Easy terms IL de.
sired See demonstration. 1905 N. r ave.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
The Tiger Girl" Convicted.

Katherine Malm, better known as the
tiger girl" has been convicted OF murder in
Chicago and sentenced to prison for lie. She
is the mother of child two or three years
OF age. She, herself, is under 20.
The Malm womans guilt was definitely es-
tabHshed The jury was out short time,
some OF the jurors holding strongly for the
death penalty But the tiger girl will not
90 10 the gallows. Jurors, as rule, do not
send mothers to their death, although 1t has
been done. So the young mother, who found
evil ways more attractive than the care OF
her baby must pay penalty often consid-
cred worse than death.
In Indianapolis a young woman OF % has
been captured after escaping from the wo-
mems prison and charged with the murder
OF q matron and teacher The victim was
70 years OF age. She had been killed brutally
her skull crushed and, according to the evil
derce. because she sought to interfere with
the prisoners escape.
What to do in such cases is a question on
which organized society does not agree. The
law considers women criminals on the same
plane it puts men Obviously desperate
woman may be as dangerous as a man. Ii
she kills wantonly she is Just as guilty as
would be slayer of the other sex. Capital
punishment however, IS an extreme to which
the average jury will not go when a woman
is concerned, and that attitude is not with
out a valid reason Notwithstanding that it is
one grounded purely in sentiment
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
Overgrown Government.
r-onn the New York Herald.

Bv his speech to the republican editors OF
Indiana last Friday Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler uttered one sentence which ought 10
be nailed to the desk Of every legislator IN
the United States:
I'VE Americans have created so much
electoral and governmental machinery
that we cannot get any effective govern
mental product"
The national government and the state gov
crnments make thousands OF new laws each
year and do nothing to better the enforce
mcnt of old laws that are neglected or 1g-
norcd. -,
We see a great and popular issue like the
Mellon tax reduction plan given to congress
the first week in December, and made ting
victim of parliamentary delay and political
scheming.
We have more governmental machinery,
more governmental talk and more govern
mental expenses than we should have. But
they do not produce satisfactory results
The American people would welcome lew
cr laws, lower taxes and less bureaucracy.
They would like to have the Legislators re-
member that the state is the creature OF the
people. The people do not exist for the pleas
ire and purpose Of the state and its machin-
CrY
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
Booming the Church.
From the London Mail.

"Blest are the uses of advertisement" is a
proverb which appears to have found ready
Welcome in the minds of the officials OF
Christ Church. Westminster. For there hes
before me a chatty little circular headed, "A
Pleasant Church for Weddings" which alter
somewhat sombre opening to the effect that
THE familiar church yard is believed to
have been one of the pits in which were
buried victims of the BLACK DEATH launches
forth in paeans of praise OF Christ Church;
This church, it appears, has been all cleaned
up and so forth, and is now liable to become
serious rival to its neighbor, St Margaret 5,
in the social wedding line or, to quote the
more dignifed wording of the circular, the
suspicious scene of many happy and notable
weddings"
The advertising instinct having caught on
with the church militant, this idea could safe
" be carried little further. Sandwichmen
promenading Victoria street with placards,
such as you want to marry! Don't delay;
do it today at Christ Church" would surely
attract business. Or, to carry the notion still
further, what about full page ad in the
Daily Mail: BE Buried in Breezy Brook
wood Brtans Brightest Cemetery. Fine po-
sition Good air. Gravel subsoil." Anyway II
any OF my readers thinking OF getting
married, we'll they know where to go now
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
WALT MASON.

| hail with love and admiration the line
less verse Of Walter Mason. He was the tlrst
such rhymes to shoot; the rest OF us have
followed suit He's gentled down that Eighty
cl!ss, by o1den Greeks called Pegasus, who
still has hfty-seven gaits but uses PLAIN Unit
ed States and trots along for working gents
On Kansas pixies of common sense From all
the flights he used to take i'll search OF Art
for Arts own sake he's settled down to wear
4 halter and do the work OF Walt or Walter.
No Helcon the poet uses to lodge his home
bred, cornfed muses. They furnish him with
song and story from level lands about En-
porv. But though the scenery be fiat, his
poetry is far from that. He shakes his mighty
sides with laughter, yet fays our faults be
lore and after The meanness that we hide
away he drags into the light OF day, and
makes some comments pert and pat Tor all
mankind to Singer at, till every sin for mer-
cv begs and pokes its tail between its legs,
Where'er he finds rhyme he takes It, and
if there be no rhyme he makes it. let me
rise like Walter Mason and versify the whole
creation. BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
A City Auditorium.

Richland one Of Dawsons near neighbors
which, upon occasions, crops out with COM
mendable examples of community progress
iveness is planning for auditorium that
will seat approximately 1000 persons In so
doing Richland has taken steps to supply one
OF the community's urgent needs-a need that
is not Richards alone, but that Dawson suf-
fers equally as keen.
A town that doesn't need something is a
city of tiny dwellings"-a cemetery. The
more alive the town is the greater the num-
Der Of things it needs.
People must be instructed, amused and al
lowed to instruct and amuse if they are to
he happy and progressive. An auditorium is
all admirable means OF accomplishing all of
these ends.
An auditorium is also an advertisement OF
a towns spirit, for many visitors who come
to such a place do not make an inspection
OF other places in the town. Dawson needs
an auditorium more than bad enough to have
one, but it hasn't felt the need enough to
set one. There are few things that would be
worth more to the community than an audi
torium and there should be enough public
spirit to supply it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
Time the Leveller.

A mausoeum has been designed by an
eastern architect to cost $1,000000. 1t is now
nearing completion, and it will soon be ready
as a magnificent home of the dead. 1t is to be
the largest and the finest thing of the kind
in all the world Bodies are to be concealed
in snow white compartments. Here, it is
represented the beloved dead" will find "a
beautiful resting place and a permanent me
mortal" for be it known, this mausoleum
is to be constructed ''of granite marble and
bronze, making it as secure and time resist
ing as the pyramids OF Egypt"
But, no, that cannot be. Time is the level
er OF all edihces Even the pyramids of
Egypt will at last fail and fall. High noun
tans will crumble. The rocks seen by men
are not. everlasting The strongest structure
will become a plaything of the breezes when
time shall have worked its way with it. The
ages that will come will turn again into dust
that which came from dust.
One may wonder whether it pays. in the
least in peace OF mind to defeat for t1eeting
moment times memorable plan. Great vaults
may be built, stately mausoleums may be
erected and sarcophagus may be hermetcal-
" sealed, but the toll will be paid just the
same. Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt
return
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
Those Eternal Taxes.
From the Cochran Journal.

Your taxes start with the sound of your
alarm clock in the morning. Your shaving
and bathing materials are taxed, so are your
linen and suit OF clothes. Go to the break
fast table and you swallow a tax with every
bite you cat. The gas that cooked your eggs,
the electricity which Drowned your toast the
cream and sugar in your coffee, and even
the glass of water you drink has its tax
the last named i'll the hundreds OF materials
in the water plant. The rug beneath your
fcet is taxed and so is your morning news
paper, your auto at the door. or the trolley
car. whichever you prefer is taxed OF course
your home is taxed Your fuel has carried a
goods tax right back into the mine and 50
on through the day you bump into tax at
every turn. Your pay envelope is taxed and
the railroad which carries to you scores OF
daily wants has been taxed and, being no
philanthropist, generally passes the taxes
along to you Mr.. Consumer death and taxes
are said to be the two things but death
comes only once, whereas a tax comes with
cl cry tick OF the watch.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
Don't Play Politics With Taxes.
From the Midwife (Ga.) Progress.


The two most urgent public questions at
the present time are tax reduction measures,
and dealing with corruption which has been
unearthed in official circles in Washington.
President Coolidge feels with all his fellow
countrymen a depressing sense of humiliation
at the gross betrayal of public interest that has
beql disclosed.
The taxation question as we'll lax or
criminal action of officials performing public
duty is problem for both republicans and
democrats. The people of the whole United
States have an interest from the standpoint
OF lessening tax bills and securing honest ad-
ministration OF public affairs regardless OF
what party is in power
The pity is that self-seeking politicians will
attempt to use the present situation to further
political ends rather than to advance the best
interest OF our government.
We must register our approval of honest
public officials and demand tax reduction il
we expect to eliminate dishonesty in public
Office or increasing tax bills.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
NOT ALL JAZZ AND GIN"
From the Savannah News.

A Boston college professor is hopcful-and
different from some others OF his class. He
sees in the college student OF today the real
spirit OF the present time-and sees in the
expression and manifestation OF that spirit
nothing, doleful, pessimistic. fearsome. He
says: The average undergraduate is far in
advance OF his age in his intelligence and his
habits his ideals and his ambitions, and will.
in most instances, prove to be a better man
than his father Its good to note that one
high educator doesn't see the student a
creature given over entirely and hopelessly
TO Jazz and gin
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
Mussel Shoals Again.

Henry Ford has succeeded in getting his
offer for Mussel Shoals through the house
He may meet a greater difficulty III the SEN
ate. In fact there is a possibility that the up
per house will turn the Ford offer down and
thus throw the whole question open again
of what to do with the enormous plant con-
structed in war time at cost OF scores OF
millions of dollars.
That something ought to be done with
| Mussel Shoals is certainty. Some indlvld-
nal or some corporation or syndicate-grant-
ing that there is an objection to the govern
n7ent GENERATING it as a federal prOject-ought
tc be given the opportunity to make the most
Of the property Its value in the country S
economic plan is enormous. 1t can be counted
as a resource possessing a worth too great
TO be neglected Musse Shoals should be
exploited. The plant is there ready for oper-
alton. 1t can produce economic results ad-
vantageous to millions OF people. The pro
drction OF power and the making OF nitrates
needed in agriculture await merely the settle
ment of the problem of what to do with the
plant.
Mr.. Ford's offer seems to have been ac-
cepted by the lower house OF congress on
easy terms favorable to himself In the first
place, he would obtain 100-year lease on
the property with the federal water power
act provisions held imperative The plea that
the lease should be limited to so years was
overriden One hundred years is a long time.
Who knows but that before 2024 the plan OF
government in this country will be greatly
changed Henry Ford's great great great
grandchildren or the descendants OF his as
signs would be protected however. The lease
would run for century.
Another thing the house did that suggests
a too deliberate catering to Mr.. FOrd's wish
es was the announcement providing for the
replacement of the Gorgas steam plant, sold
some months ago to the Alabama Power
Company. The money realized by the gov
eminent on that sale, which, as was shown,
had to be made or a loss suffered under the
terms of an agreement to which the govern
ment was a party, would have to go back
into an investment made in Mr.. FOrd's be-
hall. He had offered to take over the whole
Musse1 Shoals property, of which the Gorgas
plant merely was a unit and he demanded
the replacement to which the house has
agreed.
1t may appear to many observers that the
house has made Mr. Ford present OF gov
ernment property. Several offers were made
for Mussel Shoals. The News is not prepar-
ed to say whether or not Mr.. Ford's was the
best offer made, but it would suggest that,
before the thing is disposed OF, whoever gets
Mussel Shoals should pay fair price for 1t
and \also should be held to terms that are
reasonable.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
ASTONISHING POWERS OF SIGHT

From the Baltimore Sun.
A German scientist by the use of devices
whose nature is not disclosed has discover
ed that the humble flea has astonishing pow
ers of sight. To its sharp eyes human body
il the dark seems to glow as brightly as a
rod-hot stove. Nature has apparently again
gone out OF its way to increase the effective
ness of mankind's pests. But the flea need
rot take pride in its acute perceptions Even
i'll a dark room the average man perceives a
flea as Clearly as II it also were red hot
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
Dairy Cows on Your Farm.
From the Greensboro Herald Journal

During December the Cordele creamery
paid to one farmer over 5000 for cream shipp-
ed during that month to the creamery.
Cows pay on the farm when you grow
your own feed and let the dairy COW turn
this feed into ready cash to operate your
farm on. 1t is very unwise to buy all of the
fced-only the necessary concentrates should
be bought.
Sow literally to permanent pastures this
spring, plant velvet beans and hay crop this
sumner for the mixer next fall and winter.
Carpet grass and Lespedeza furnish an
ideal mixture for your permanent pasture.
An acre OF land sown in these seed will Craze
one COW eight months each year, and your
velvet beans and hay crops with rye will fur
nish seed for the remaining four months.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
Tell the World.
reasonable

Are Won booster for Douglas coun
~? One booster is worth dozen non
boosters and field full OF knockers. In
fact, the man who is always trying to do
something to better conditions generally
is the only man worth Wh1le.-DouglaS
County Sentinel
Rome wasn't built in day, but there is no
DENYING that while the process was going on
they were building for permanence. That
Rome lasted for many centuries as the mis-
tress of the world" is proof of the thorough
ness of the ancient city builders Rome was
eventually outgrown, but there is much OF
the Roman idea that endures today.
Rome as a civic infant, proclaimed in its
first crv that it was the best town in the
world 1t then baed up its chubby fists and
set out to prove to the somewhat skeptical
world the truth of its claim. Rome's meth
DDS which the partly civilized world required
then, were rather rough, certainly too abrupt
for the present day.
Rome's motive, however is good today
The mistress of the world did what she
thought she ought to do; she did 1t IN the
way she thought she ought to, and last but
not least, she did it.
1t would hardly be becoming for Terrell
county to lay claim to being the best county
in the world, but she can claim to be one Of
the best and then follow Rome's example
and let the world know about it. We have
things here that people want-things that
are wanted by people whom we in turn want
Ii we can bring these two together we viii
bring development to Dawson and Terrell
county.
We cannot drive wealth. be it in the form
Ct human beings, money or industrial plants
but we can entice it here The way we treat
what we have here already is the means by
which outsiders are to judge the way we viii
treat whatever they bring here.
Boost what we have in Terrell county, anc
we will get more to boost.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25

The hysterica1 assumption that all and ev-
ervbodv are smeared with oil and oil men
money needs to be put aside and the situation
viewed with more calmness, less partisanshiF
and more common sense. The desire is to
have the mess at Washington stirred to its
depth and punishment iall on all who shared
in the crooked work or who were accomplices
before or after the fact. But there is no need
oil making OF it vicious opportunity to de
strov repute and stigmatize character.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
This Weeks Message.

Divide your dollars with your merchants
and others who have the interest OF Dawson
and Terrell county at heart. By SO doing you
will get part of your dollar back-thus making
your purchase cost you less in the long run
tlan il bought at another place at smaller
S'rice This is the message OF the page ad-
n ertisement in today's Dawson News. Read it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25

The results of a straw vote being taken
by a special committee of the Kiwanis club
in an effort to ascertain the attitude of the
people Of Terrell county towards the en-
ploymcnt of farm demonstrator, appear to
be Overwhelmingly in favor of the plan.
good farm agent is the connecting link be
tween the one-crop system and the diversl-
fed farming system, the last named of which
it is generally conceded, is OF prime necessity
now in successful agriculture.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
YEH, THAT'S US.

From the Triton Gazette
Three car loads OF selected shin bones were
exported from Galveston to Japan last week.
and from Japan they will be sent to China to
be made into mah-jongg sets. They will come
back to this country labeled ivory And we
Americans will buy them and pay a high
price for them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
WOULD HELP NIGHTLY.

Frem the Ashburn Farmer
Ii the candidates friends would put some
OF the fine public spiritedness and unselfsh
effort that they eXpend in behalf OF their can
didate friends back OF the different move
ments for the upbuilding OF the material, edu-
cational and spiritual interest OF their several
counties what counties and what a state we
would have!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25

Some girls sing outwardly in the parlor
and scold inwardiy in the kitchen.
Never tell man that he has made 1901
ri himself. If he knows it he will get angry.
and he will get angry also II he doesn
know it.
Alter man has tried in vain to borrow
La few paltry dollars you can't convince nm
that the world isn't growing wiser.
He who pays coal bills in winter and ice
hills in summer is a firm believer IN the
theory that riches have wings.
The majority OF us would have to work
"a hours day if we were to love our neigh-
bors as they do themselves.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25

Editor Shackelford, OF the Lexington Echo
has found out why gas is so high He says;
"NVhcn we see that oil companies and mag
mates pay million dollar lawyers fees without
wincing we are surprised that gasoline and
oils are not many times the present unreas-
enable prices 1t is another case OF the con-
sumers being robbed"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25
AND MUCH THANKS.

From the Fitzgerald Herald
The taxpayers are inclined to think that
if congress just goes ahead and reduces the
taxes without any more argument therell
be credit enough Tor everybody
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25

Randolph county will have float in the
parade at the peach blossom festival in Fort
Valley The News congratulates our neigh
bors on their enterprise, and hope they Will
bring home the best prize. They are capable
OF doing it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25

Easter comes this year later than usual
which, according to the old sign means
late spring.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25

Well, no matter whose fault it was that
the retroactive income tax reduction plan did
not 90 through before the last day for filing
returns the people are still the losers. Con
gress had rather play politics than help the
COuntrV
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25

The Commerce News says eggs are selling
there at IS cents a dozen, and adds. Its
hard on the producer, but it's good for the
consumer Down here old Speckle is not 50
generous. Her product is in demand at 20
cents dozen and is none too plentiful at
that. The explanation may be that we are
too busy trying to grow cotton and not Civ
ing enough attention to other things that
will bring ready money.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-25

Senator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, who, ex-
hausted after many weeks of the Teapot
Dome oil investigation, is resting and recup-
Grating at a North Carolina resort, may be
regarded as taking an unfair advantage OF
the American public. 1t, too, is exhausted
but its relief is not even on the way