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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
SWINDLERS MAKING
HAY AT MUSSEL SHOAL
GLIB-TONGUED SALES MEN
SELL LAND BY EXPLOIT
ING FORD'S OFFER.

The exploitation of Mussel Shoals,
in Alabama, through connection with
it of the name of Henry Ford has
caused thousands of American citi-
zens to invest in property there. Most
of the investors could not afford the
railroad fare to go there and see what
they were buying.
All have been persuaded by glib
tongued land statesmen that as soon
as Henry Ford, the richest man in
the world gets the greatest gift to
man since salvation was made free
for the human race" too, will get
rich on the property they have bought.
This declaration has been made by
Senator George W. Morris, chairman
of the senate committee on agricul
ture, which has been conducting hear
ings on the subject of the disposition
of Mussel Shoals.
Swarm of Realtors.
The insistent demand that Fords
offer for the shoals be accepted are
traceable to the enormous publicity
given the project by the activities of
real estate operators in every state.
1t is said that more than 200 real
estate development firms were active
in the vicinity of the shoals and have
made much OF the alleged Ford state
ment that there would be built city
Is miles long and employing a mil
lion men"
In Alabama this vague metropolis
lis known as "The Dream City" The
city is all there, waiting for Mr. Ford
to get Mussel Shoals and come rush
ing south with his million men, but as
yet the automobile king has not APP
peared.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
SHOWS MANY YOUTHS
ENGAGE IN CRIME
GEORGIA RISON RECORDS
DISCLOSE 5000 ARE IN
THEIR TWENTIES.

An alarming number OF youths OF
tender age are serving terms in Geor-
gia prisons and road gangs, according
to the annual report of the prison COM
mission.
Stealing of automobiles has become
the most frequent juvenile crime, 1t is
disclosed. Officers tried to stop the
thefts by placing their youthful pris-
oners on probation, but in many cases
the young thieves soon stole other
cars
Prison reports show that prisoners
now on the state prison farm and on
the country road gangs include several
boys II to IS years old. OF the grand
total of prisoners more than 5000 are
in their twenties.
OF the total number of all prison
ers 1919 were married and $50
we're single. There were nearly l,IOO
farm laborers, 5 preachers, % cooks,
10 BARRIERS, 10 bankers and / lawyer.
Murder leads the list of crimes, with
o1S. Burglaries numbered DOL, and
cases of mans1aughter 1868. Sixty-seven
prisoners are serving time for violat-
ing the dry" laws.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
NEED CORPSES In
MEDICAL SCHOOLS
DRY WAVE is HELD TO BE RE-
SPONSIBLE FOR THE SCARE
ITY OF CADAVERS.

CHICAGO.-Hospitals and medical
schools are in a serious predicament
for the want of cadavers with which
to teach their anatomy, and this proves
that the prohibition law is successful
at least in that there had been a de
cided decrease since the great drouth
in the dying of hobos, buns, foaters,
the ilk who are carved and finally
come to rest in the potter's field
This was the statement of DIR. Wal
ter Dill Scott, president of Northwest
ern university, as both he and Presi-
dent Ernest Dewitt Burton, of the
University of Chicago, entered the
college heads conttst on the dry law
inaugurated by Nicholas Murray But
Ter, of Columbia university, when he
came out against it.
Both Dr. Scott and DIR. Burton
came out decidedly against the stand
of DR.. Butler. Dr. Burton in a way
even voiced bit of criticism against
those who say it can't be enforced,
while Dr. Scott, taking less definite
stand. nevertheless, in co-mingling
cadavers with talk of 100 per cent
enforcement" and the lack of it in the
case of all laws, still stood also against
his eastern colleague.
But DR.. Scott would not criticize
DR.. Butler for his statements. "Ot
course" the Northwestern head said
"Dr. Butler has the right to his op1n-
ion and the right as well to express
it. But l can't quite agree with him.
Then he went into the subject Of
the cadavers:
THAT situation he continued has
become so serious that when the
Evanston hospital recently wanted tc
inaugurate a course of anatomy anc
applied for cadavers to the med1ca
school at Northwestern they discov-
cred that there were no cadavers.
"The hospital had to abandon the
proposition because we could not give
them any bodies; in fact, we have not
enough at the school ourselves. Ev-
erv medical school in the country is
in the same fix and since there GER
tainlv has been no unusual increase
in the demand for cadavers 1t stands
to reason that the prohibition law IS
the cause
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
OFFERS SUBSTITUTE
FOR BIG BOND ISSUE
COMMISSIONERS OF BULLOCK
PROPOSE PLAN. OPPOSE so
MILLION DOLLAR ISSUE.

STATESBOR, Calf a resolution
adopted by the Bulloch county com
missioners at their meetings this week
gains impetus and spreads to other
counties there will probably be no
bond issue in Georgia for permanent
roads.
1t is thought a more feasible plan
is offered in the resolution instructing
the senator and representatives from
this county than the bond issue Of
fers, and on the other hand it is not
believed in this section that the pro-
posed bond issue will carry.
1t has been figured that it will take
twenty nine years to pay off the
bonds, but within this time, the resolu-
ton suggests, the state will have had
her permanent roads built and paid
for. The author of the resolution is
R. 7. Kennedy. He believes that by
the state turning the Scent gas tax
over to the highway department and
matching the federal fund 800 miles
of permanent roads could be built in
Georgia. The gasoline tax, he says,
with federal aid amounts to 100000.
Most of the roads have been graded
and the work could be carried on very
rapidly 1t has long since been seen
that the sand-c1ay roads built in the
state will not stand the traffic and that
it will be better plan to build what
is built permanently.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
POSTAL PAY BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
SALARIES OF 100000 FEDERAL
EMPLOYEES WILL BE RAISED
ON AVERAGE $500 YEAR.

Carrying the Borah amendment for
full publicity of political contributions
during the progress of campaigns, the
postal salary increase bill has passed
the senate.
The vote was 70 to 3, those oppos-
ing being Senators Borah, of Idaho,
and Fess and Willis, of Ohio, all re-
publicans.
Salaries OF 100000 postal employees
would be increased by an average OF
5000 each annually under the measure,
which now goes to the house, where
bill of somewhat different terms is
pending.
Schedule of Salaries.
An estimated increase OF sou, OOO,OOU
in postal expenses which would De
entailed by the senate bill would be
met bv the normal increase in bust
ness" the senate was told by Senator
Edge, republican, New Jersey, VINO
had charge of it.
The following schedule OF salaries IN
the postal service would be adopted
under provisions of the measure;
Clerks and carriers: $1,000 to 81, 100;
special clerks at first and second class
Offices. $1,000 to $500; substitute and
temporary clerks, 65 cents per hour;
watchmen. 1aborers and messengers
81. $50 to $3.50. ~
Railway mail service: Clerks (seven
grades, $1,000 to $500; supervisory
Officials. $1,000 to $4,000; sub-clerks'
$3.50.
Allowance for Rural Carriers,
Rural delivery: No change in sala-
ries, but allowance OF four cents
mile dav for maintenance of equip
ment, amounting to 500 for average
Postmasters: No change in first
class salaries between $500 and $ ,oc
600; second class increased from $Z'oOC
to S2,4OO. Inspectors: Six grades al
$500 to $4,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
LEGISLATURE MAY
TAKE EARLY RECESS
LIKELY WILL ADJOURN FOR
JULY 4TH AND NATIONAL
CONVENTION.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Judging from the
expressions of members of the general
recently there is very strong prob
ability that the legislature will meet
on Wednesday, June Is, and adjourn
after a one-day session until the 9TH
OF July. 1t is possible the session may
last from Wednesday to Friday, June
y, before adjourning over until the
9TH, so the members can be at home
for the Fourth of July.
The national democratic convention
is to be in session in New York during
the greater portion OF this period and
it is pointed out that the lawmakers
wouldn't give much attention to legis-
lation anyway during these strenuous
times for the democratic party.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
plans to Take Fun and Happiness In
to Fifty Towns Between Canada
And the West Indies.

Once a poor boy, but now rich from
the income OF sugar plantation in
Cuba, J. D, O'Connell, whose home
town is Sussex, New Brunswick, Can
ada. is the picnic king of the world.
This year he will stage community
picnics for thousands of children in
more than 50 towns between northern
Canada and the West Indies. He sees
nothing unusual in the plant is on
ly his years program
When O'Donnell was only boy he
entertained some pals at picnic one
day. He never forgot it, and when he
became rich he decided to keep on
giving picnics for poor children.
His picnics consist OF a days out
ing. with sports, games, contests for
nickels and pennies, and all kinds OF
cake. candy and ice cream. Each child
the picnic is given 80 cents,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
Is One of Them Strikes-But Scent
lists Doubt 1t Will-Only
Ashes Will Remain.

Twice in 1924 and six times IN l9@'
. comet will flash past the earth
going only about 1900 miles an hour
and, If one OF them strikes NOTHING nothing 9
viii he left but the charred remains
WI WIN the p earth. This is the theory OF
Sc scientists Of the United States naval a
observatory, at Washington, - 4ts ~
The comets are sure to come, they
d ! ~ but the possibility OF one OF
them them hitting the earth is remote ?bi. n
many parts of the United States, It is
beIieye d. They are due in November 81!
and December of this year n.+o lna IN IN
March, July, August and OCTOBER Oh
1925. o4s hmm
.ao;nst the earth. astronomers declare:
dash tns against the mountains, polar ices
would Won melt, and fires and deadly gas
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
NORTHERN METHODIST
LIFT THE DANCE BAN
ACTION REVERSES POLICY OF
THE CHURCH SINCE ESTAB-
LIsHED BY JNO. WESLEY.

SPRINGFIELD, Massey five
10 one vote the Methodist general
conference Tuesday lifted the ban on
dancing and other amusements that
have been enforced since the church
was founded. The vote was taken
without debate.
"Ne propose to let the pastor stand
in his pulpit not like policeman with
a club but like a spirit with shep-
herds crook in his hand" said DIR.
George Elliott, speaking for repeal OF
the amusement ban.
"The adoption of the majority re-
mort will give notice to the whole
world that the Methodist church is
beating a retreat against the social
evils of the day." DIR. William W.
Short, of Forth Worth, leader OF the
opposition, declared.
The report as adopted denounces
questionable amusements and provides
that nastors bring charges against
members partaking in amusements
that "can not be used in the name OF
the Lord Jesus.
Removal of the ban permits actors
and actresses to become members OF
the Methodist church.
The ban affected dancing, games
al chance and theater attendance. Re-
neal OF the restriction permits indulg-
ence in these amusements except those
(which can not be used in the name
OF the Lord Jesus.
A minority report unfolding the
ban was voted down 42o to 294-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
GEORGIA CUCUMBER
AND BEANS GOING TO
MARKET BY CARLOAD
VARIOUS KIND OF PRODUCES
BEING SHIPPED FROM STATE
IN LARGE QUANTITIES.
BEANS BRING FANCY PRICES

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Tomato Plants Find Ready Sale in
And Out of State. Canadian Market
To Take 20 Cars Cukes a Day
Georgia is now shipping thousands
of dollars worth OF produce to mark
cts throughout the country. Recently
two carloads of turnip greens we're
shipped from Pavo, in Thomas coun-
ty, and now the Georgia cucumber
market, pioneered in Coffee county,
has opened in full blast by the ship
ment from Douglas in one day ten
car loads of this vegetable. There
from Huffer, two from Arson and one
from Willachoochee with also ten
cars moving the same day from the
Valdosta warehouses.
Shipped to Canada.
All the Georgia crop of cucumbers
this year are being shipped direct TO
the Canadian market under special ar
engagements with the marketing sys-
tenn of cucumbers and vegetables.
The Georgia market has arrange
mtnts with the Canadian market to
take twenty cars each day, and cucum-
bers will go forward from warehouses
at Douglas and Valdosta the next
two and half weeks at the rate OF
two cars a day, all to the same mark
et
It takes a car six days to reach the
Canadian market and be sold.
There will be all told about 1000
cars to be shipped from Georgia. Last
years prices ran as high as 81, 500 a
car. There are 4S0 hampers in each
standard car The Douglas market
shipped the first cucumbers in Geor-
gia in car load lots There will be a
fall crop this year perhaps as large
as the spring crop.
Beans From Irwin County.
The Irwin County Truck Growers
Association have shipped from Ocllla
two solid car loads of beans, and two
more cars may be shipped this week.
On the present market a little better
than ST hamper was paid growers
#. o. b. the shipping point, and from
800 to 1000 hampers are loaded in
each car going to an eastern market
There are Is acres planted i'll beans
in Irwin county, and the present pros
poets are for at least 100 hampers to
the acre.
Potato and Tomato Plants.
Tomato and potato plant shipments
from Tiff county have gotten well
under way and are moving rapidly
The shipments by express from Tit
ton one night totaled 1,163 crates con-
tanning from 1880 to 1900 plants each
the total plants shipped being over l.
100000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
BIGGER ACREAGE is
NEEDED BY NATION
TO PRODUCE CROPS SUFFI-
GENT TO SUPPORT ESTI-
MATED 1850 POPULATION.

The problem of feeding the coun-
try's growing population has been oc-
cupying the attention of department
of agriculture economists, who an
nounce that 38000,000 acres would
have to be added to the nations pres
ent actual crop land to support a pop
ulation of l50,000,000 persons.
Statisticians have estimated the
population of the United States, by
its natural increase alone and with
out any additions from immigration,
will amount to that number shortly
after 1850.
AT least half the acreage, including
that required for work stock, now en-
ployed in the production OF export
to be devoted to that purpose. Allow
ing for that probability, the experts
goods. it is estimated, will continue
figure that the total area Of land
needed to sustain population of $780,
100000 people, with no greater de-
pendence on imports than now exists,
will be 4222. 100000 acresl
An addition of little more than a
million acres year until 1855 would
bring the nations crop acreage up to
that point, they estimate. There are
available little more than 6OO,OOO,OOO
acres of potential crop land, but
much of it is of poor quality.
1t should be possible, the agricul-
tural experts say, by careful selection
to get much OF the required new crop
acreage either from the heavy land
OF the cut-over region, from the best
OF the 100000 acres of available
medium texture soils, or from land
suitable for dry farming.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
CAMILLA EDITOR SEES
A HORSE IN THE TREES

CAMILLA, Ga.-The Camilla
Enterprise says if the reader will
stop his or her car about six tele
ph re- poles this side OF the Metcalf
farI.lpD,, look east and little to
the north4 Is nusual sight will be
seen against & line. There ma
ture reveals a frea.- Re way of
wonderful looking hory lares
the editor. The writer, he says, re-
members a tree upon high bluff
in Wisconsin which, from a certain
position, was exactly in the shape
of huge cross. Of all the freaks
seen, however, this horse among
the trees takes the cup,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
World Picnic King to Hold Outings
For Thousands of Children This Year

and through arrangement with the
mayor of the town where the picnic
is held is given 80 cents more the fol-
lowing Christmas. This money IS to
be spent exactly as the child pleases.
In appearance DIR. O'Connell COM
pletely fills the part of the jovial dis
penser of happiness that he is. Thick
set and jolly, with iron-gray hair and
mustache, he fairly beams with hap
piness as he describes the children's
fun. His one longing is to give pic
mic for the poor children OF New York
city.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
Great Pomp at Rites of
Italian Who Was Hanged
Display of Flowers Rarely Equaled,
And Women Shrieked Lamentations.

OISp1dy VI EtOWCAS NdACAy @AuoAS0s
And Women Shrieked Lamentations.
CHICAGO-Joseph RIM, one of
the six Italians recently hanged in
Amite, La, for the murder of Dallas
Gaines, was buried today at Mount
Carmel with the pomp and panoply
usually accorded a distinguished
statesman or great public benefactor.
The ceremonies began at Cearboro's
undertaking establishment when many
women OF the cabaret type wept and
shrieked lamentations as they viewed
the body OF the murderer who had
died at the end of a rope
The display of flowers for beauty
and numbers has only been equaled
recently. That was a few weeks ago
when the underworld paid its final
tribute to Frank Capone, gunman and
gangster, brother of the notorious
"Scarface" Al Capone
In the street below the undertaking
rooms a band played Chopin compo-
sitions. AS the body was carried down
the stairs the band played Nearer,
My God to Thee" Aged women fell
on their knees and prayed as the cor
tege moved to the church. More than
hundred men, women and children,
each carrying a floral piece, fell in be-
hind the casket. The father of RIM
is said to have spent $4,000 in vain
effort to save him from the gallows.
In the underworld it is whispered
that RIM went south against the adj
vice of friends to pull safe job.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
GEORGIA YAM CURING co.
BUYS AN 800-ACRE FARM

FITZGERALD, Ga-The Geor-
gia Yam Curing Company, Of At
lanta. has bought an 800-acre farm
west of this city, where they will
raise Porto Rico potatoes for the
northern markets Modern curing
houses are to be erected by the
company, which already owns and
operates curing houses in Dublin,
Meter, Eastman, GAINESVILLE and
other south Georgia towns
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
THE SKIES WILL WEEP IN
JUNE, SAYS PROF. SNYDER

GRIFFIN, Ga.-Griffin's cele-
brated forecaster, Professor Albert
L. Snider, has issued his predictions
for June, saying this month will be
wet and hot. June will be wet,
hot month";" said the Griffin prog
nosticator. There will be many
showers with thunder storms turn
ing into heavy rains in many sec
ton, although there will be some
fair periods, but the outlook most
in general is much rain for June"
Professor Snider makes predictions
for both long and short periods, and
is nationally famous, being one of
the few local people who has write
ups in papers all over the country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
Eight Times in Two Years Comets
VIII Go Dashing Past This Earth

es would wipe out the population OF
the earth. Climatic conditions would
be changed, and even the shape OF
the globe might be altered.
In the untold ages of the past, it is
believed, comets have struck the earth.
Such an explanation has been advanc-
ed TO account for that curious cash
that forms the valley of the Dead Sea
and the Jordan river and whose con-
t;nuation has been traced across the
Red sea and into Africa.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
Copy of Church Minutes
Printed So Years Ago

Mr.. Charlie Overstreet has a copy
of the minutes of the Little River
Baptist Association, held with the
church of Antioch, in Paulding coun-
ty. on August 10 to Fl, 1871. The min
utes are ffty-three years old and in a
good state of preservation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
Many Crops Are Being
Grown in Worth County

There are about 1000 acres Of sweet
potatoes. 1000 acres in watermelons,
$50 acres in cantaloupes, 500 acres in
tomatoes and 500 acres in tobacco
planted for market near Sylvester this
season. This is something new 1or
Worth county, and indicates that the
farmers are entering into diversified
farming.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03

When you start out to get rich
quick you're liable to get poor quicker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11
OLD SPIRIT SHOWN
 AS AUBURN OPENS

AUBURN, Ala, Sept. 10.-(Spe- cial.)- combination of conditions makes the fifty-third annual session of the Alabama Polytechnic: institutet, which was formally. opened here today, more promising than any other year. During the registration period, which began Monday mosning and closed Tuesday afternoon, the largest number of students to register for year were enrolled. The attendance of the 1023-24 session, which exceeded all previous sessions, was 1,469, and there is no doubt that this number will be ex- ceeded this year.,
 The old RaAhbtjsp Spirit's for which the Alabama sPelyaeDhnic institute has long been famous was never more in evidence at the opening of college than it is this year. When only small nu- cleus of students had arrived "War Eagle" Touch Down Auburn" and other Auburn yells could be heard, on every hand, indicating that former stu dents were delighted to be back in col lege again, and that their mind is turn ing to football, which always forms a major portion of athletics at Auburn. Freshmen who are identified by the orange and blue cap with the word Rat" on the front, are more in evidence than ever before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11
NAUVOO CITIZENS WANT NEW ROAD
Delegation Requests Good High
 way To Jasper

JASPER, Ala, Sept. 10.-(Special.) ) A large delegation of people from Nau- VOC appeared before the county com missioners here this week and asked for a new Nauvoo road, which would serve a large number of taxpayers and open the way for a more extensive trade be- tween this city and a section in need of better road.
 The committee that appeared before the commissioners were: Dr. Sanky, Joe Montgomery, John Green, w. II. Hyde, wv. O. Harbin, J. w. DOdd, 0. A. Ingle, G. w. Dodd, Jack Dempsey aud A. M. Hyde.
 Institute Held - Walker county great teaching force of approximately 325 white teachers gathered here at the Jasper grammar school building Monday and Tuesday for the annual teachers institute. More interest was manifest ed in the proceedings than any pre- vious year. Members of the county board of education attended the inti- ute and made short addresses.
 In the institute it was brought out that about thirty or more of the Walker teachers have taken four years college course. Forty-seven are normal school graduates. The rest of them have com pleted the normal school course of one year. 3.9a
 To Assess Property-Tax Assessor c. w. Stubblefield and Tax Collector Virgil Sartin announced in Jasper .to- day that they will start their tax rounds over the county on October 1.