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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29

part of the community and its &C.
tivities.
He superintends the arrange
ment of the store, installation and
arrangement of fixtures, building
and lighting of show windows, re-
Iceiving, unpacking, checking, pricing
marking and arranging his opening
stock in the shelves, on the display
tables and in the show windows. He
places his opening advertisements in
the local newspapers. He assemblies
and instructs his sales force in the
J. C. Penney Company idea of service
to customers.
Finally everything is ready, the
doors swing open and another com
munity has been added to the al
ready long list of chose served by
the J. c. Penney Company.
Cnow IN Utah and Wvonino. hot
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29

were in many cases forced to raise
money to make up a deficit in main
tenance of auto parks and to supply
new equipment.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29

New Yorker confesses to having set
more than 100 fires.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-08-29

Snow in Utah and Wyoming; hot
wave in Kansas.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
NO DAZZLE FOR
MRS. GOV. FERGUSON
WOMAN GOVERNOR RIOT
METHODIST, BUT SAYS OLD
MAN GLOOM IS OUT OF 1T.

TEMPLE, Tex-There will be no
Fifth avenue creations to dazzle the
eve and rock the family exchequer
when Ma" Ferguson takes the oath
as governor of Texas in January. In
fact certain OF the family whisper
that Ma" was seriously considering
cutting out her own frock."
Mrs. Ferguson has announced that
she will have two special dresses for
the occasion. One will be suit, for
the Inauguration, and the other will
be an evening gown for the inaugural
ball
Ma" is good Methodist, but she
has made it known that her religious
training will not be transplanted to
the gubernatorial ball room for the
guests nor to the capitol for the em-
ployes.
PERSONAL, my training would new
err permit me to learn the waltz, toX
trot and the latest dances" she de-
clared. But that does not mean that
Old Man Gloom will chaperon the
nartv. Anv one wwho wishes to dance
certainly will not find any opposition
from me. They can dance as long as
thew wish, so long as it doesn't inter
fere with the legislature. The same
ooes for the report that will not per-
NIT any feminine state employees TO
smoke or bob their hair.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
SOUTH HAS LEARNED
TO DIVERSITY CROPS
ONLY ONE-FOURTH OF FARM
ING AREA is NOW DEVOTED
TO RAISING COTTON.

The south no longer crowns hing
Cotton. The estimated area OF all
farm crops in the south, according to
late figures received al the Georgia
De- of Agriculture, is in the
neiphborhood of 130,250,O00 acres,
Which is over IS per cent OF the total
CROP area of the United States. Out
~ This acreage only one-tourth OF the
farming area in the south IS devoted
70 cotton. Listen to this:
The south produces about one-tfllrd
~ the corn crop of the United States
and the acreage in corn IN i9zZ was
II 100000 more than was planted IN m
r l1t The total area in the south
Of three principal grain cropsIeorn'
,,iheat and ats-is approximately o.
9s0 600 acres. compared with 53,ooV'-
w n addition to the staple farm crops
the south annually produces Tor snip
,,e,t TO the north and west, IN add
.iieh 10 what it retains for local con-
s,,,nntion. about 100000 carloads OF
s.;nter and spring vegetables, berries
fr,,;fs and cotton seed products.
Southern watermelons ana cahta-
1o,,oes are also an important crop IN
In, IN sections of the south.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
WOMEN LOBBYISTS
Buster THAN EVER
SCORES OF THEM IN WASH
INGTON URGING LEGISLA-
TON ON CONGRESS.

Women lobbyists will be more ac-
tive in politics during the present and
coming sessions Of congress than they
ever have before, poll of the various
women's organizations engaged in po-
ltical activities shows.
According to officials and several OF
the organizations, which have head
quarters in the national capital-and
there are more than a score OF them
there are a dozen bills they believe
will benefit the women OF the nation
in particular, and they are determined
TO have them enacted. Among them
are:
Child labor amendment to the con-
stitution.
Establishment of federal depart
ment OF education.
Entry into the world court.
Uniform marriage and divorce law.
Appropriation of funds for the re-
establishment OF the inter-deparment-
al social hygiene board.
Fess home economic bill.
Fess-Capper bill for compulsory
physical education in public schools.
Granting OF suffrage to residents OF
the District of Columbia.
Laws permitting women to serve on
iuries in states where no such laws
now exist.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
PIPE SMOKERS FR0WN
ON WOMEN SMOKERS
LEADERS OF NATIONAL OR
DER TURN DEAF EAR TO Pc
Triton FOR ADMITTANCE.

ATLANTA, Calf the women
want to smoke no one will say they
nav. But they will find small comfort
in what happened at meeting OF the
grand lodge of the National Order OF
Pipe Smokers, DIR. Horace Grant,
president, Wednesday night.
Women in five large cities had APP
Piled for permission to organize fem
mime lodges. One and all were turned
down by unanimous vote.
1t was all the fault OF the Benedicts.
Will V. thinner, prominent hotel man,
and George Gillon, lawyer, led the
opposition. Tom c. Miller, bachelor,
made a vigorous fight to give the wo-
men smoking suffrage.
First a resolution was passed deny
ing the petitioners fellowship, oppos-
ing smoking by women (pipe cigar
cite and cigar included) and favoring
ban on use of tobacco by boys until
they are IS years OF age. Several
members decided the resolution was
too drastic and they kept using the
AK until all the resolution said was
that the Pipe Smokers club would
continue strictly male organization
Requests for women's charters had
been received from New York, Buffa-
10, Miami, San Francisco, Denver and
Salt Lake City, it was reported.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
BEN DAVIS CONTROLS
GEORGIA PIE COUNTER
REPORTS SAY FORMER DAW-
SON NEGRO, NOT LINK JOHN
SON, DISPENSES PLUMS.

The report is current that Ben Da-
Wis, we'll known negro leader who was
reared in Dawson and now edits the
Atlanta Independent, is the real pow
er in Georgia in the dispensation of
republican patronage, and that he has
the final word in such matters. The
story is told as follows by John W.
Hammond, correspondent of the Ma
con Telegraph, under an Atlanta date
line
THE question being discussed from
Washington in some OF the Georgia
newspapers of objections raised to a
continuation in domination of repub-
lican political patronage in Georgia by
Henry Lincoln Johnson and a protest
made to President Coolidge by Sena-
tor Walter F. George has an interest
ing sidelight which had not heretofore
come to public notice.
Declares Davis Dominates.
Henry Lincoln johnson has not
for some time been in control of the
patronage distribution in his state, In
fact, for some months, if not in reali-
ty for the last year. much of the par
tvs patronage has been under the
domination of the Ben Davis faction
OF negro republicans; a fact which
was evidenced recently when two Of
the would-be leaders of the white al
fliates were put on trial for a row
among themselves and Ben Davis, the
Atlanta negro capitalist, presiding at
the trial railroaded things through
so fast that a fist fight occurred and
broke up the trial.
Recently, though, there were some
evidences of petty broad dissatisfac-
ton over negro control among other
political factors and rumor has it that
the leaders here and in Washington
were waited upon For eight or ten
weeks. maybe longer, the matter OF
federal patronage has not been passed
upon by either Johnson or Davis, or
their faction. While it is not known
lust where the sayso lies right now,
If rumors are correct, the negro align
ments of the past are not in 1t, and
the directions and approyals are more
largely coming from some point down
below Augusta where reside Jew
white republicans o conspicuous
prominence in party affairs the past
half year or So.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
SENATOR GEORGE Is
AFTER LINK JOHNSON
URGES PATRONAGE BE TAKEN
OUT OF THE NEGRO'S HAND
AND HIS ASSOCIATES.

Senator Walter F. George, junior
democratic senator from Georgia, has
begun an effort to prevent Henry
Lincoln Johnson, negro republican ma
tional committeeman from Georgia,
and his associates from dispensing
federal patronage in Georgia. The
Junior senator has made his position
perfectly clear upon the following
points in a statement he issued: first, 1t
is no concern Of the Georgia delega-
ton in congress who is the republican
national committeeman from Georgia;
second. the Georgia delegation does
not expect to be permitted to control
the distribution OF patronage IN Geor-
ola under the republican admlnistra-
ton: third. but that he shall insist
that patronage be controlled by re
sponsible persons in the state.
Numerous complaints have been
made to Senator George from appl1-
csnts for various Offices, particularly
applicants for appointments in the
postal service, charging grave irregu-
larities. and, as a member OF the COM
mttce on postoffices and post roads
OF the senate, the senator will INSIST
that the patronage in Georgia be taken
out of the hands of those representing
themselves as geing associated with
Henry Lincoln Johnson. The senator
is glad to receive the reports OF clt1-
zens of the state where irregularities
are apparent in the nomination OF post
masters particularly, and he states that
he will conduct a vigorous night on
everything recommended by Johnson
and his gang.
1t will be remembered that Johnson
was named for the position OF record
er of deeds for the District of Column
bia by President Harding at the be-
ginning of his administration, but the
late Senator Tom Watson blocked his
appointment on the floor OF the SEN
ate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
DESERTED
BY HIS SENATE AIDS
THREE WILL ACT WITH RE-
PUBLICANS, AND THE 9TH
Err WITH DEMOCRATS.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-If the
proposed third party desired by Sena-
tor LaFollette is born, it will be with
out the aid of the Other three senator's,
who with him, were recently eXclud-
ed from the republican caucus in the
senate. Senators Brookhart, Laid and
Frazier in face OF their rough treat
ment bv the regular republican organ
ization. are all opposed to third par
tv. and insist that they are and will
continue to be republicans.
This was learned in a canvass OF the
situation made today, following intorr-
nation that it is Senator LaFollette 5
hope that third party will be started
in time to put complete congressional
and state tickets in the field in l9zo.
None Will Attend.
None of these three senators Will
attend the conference OF LaFollette
leaders to be held here.
Il am opposed third political par
tv and even if | was not | would not
regard the time as propitious tor
forming one" said Senator Laid, OF
North Dakota. Il have always been
a republican in spite OF what some OF
INV colleagues in the senate seem to
think and | intend to be one until
something better comes along.
This view is also held by Frazier,
Of North Dakota, and Brookhart, OF
Iowa.
Norris, of Nebraska, also one OF
IaFollette's most loyal supporters,
still retains his place on the republic
can roll and is not expected to con-
slider Joining the party. Senator Wheel
er will retain his democratic animation.
He ran for vice president on the La
Toilette ticket.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
NORMAN PARK NAMES
ITS TWENTY SMARTEST
FLORIDA STUDENTS GRADE
HIGHER THAN GEORGIA. TO
ENLARGE SCHOOL.

After the first term examinations
some very interesting facts were dis
covered as to the scholarship and rank
of students and organizations in Nor
man Institute. Some members of the
faculty very carefully went through
the marks of every student in school
and thus ascertained the twenty stu
dents having the highest averages. 1t
was found that Horace Sirmons, of
Donalsonville, Ga, a graduate of the
Cairo high school and now student
in the first college year here, had the
highest record in school. The next i'll
order are: Ullman Harden, Wing
ham, Ga; Pauline Hardy, Omega,
Ga; Elizabeth, Martin, Plant City,
Fla; Mildred Lodge, Whigham, Ga.
Ira Wamble, Norman Park, Ga; Jim
mic Fuller, Nashville, Ga; Earl New
ton, Norman Park, Ga; Vera Lee
Bats, Norman Park Ga; Mary Jor-
dan, Barney, Ga; Louise Trulock,
Whigham, Ga; Edwin Sampson,
Americas, Ga. Julius Spears, Gala
han, Fla Ada Houghton, Plant City,
Fla; Bernice Sellars, Donalsonville,
Ga; Soline Messick, Bowling Green,
Fla; D. Maurice Smith, Cairo, Ga;
Bessie Lee Culbreth, cambridge, Ga;
Agnes Scruggs, Barney, Ga; Archie
Murray, Ludowici, Ga.
Interesting Averages.
Other interesting averages learned
were: Football team, 773; student
body, TIT; grammar department, ISL;
freshman class, III; sophomore class,
.74.6; junior class, 762; senior class,
1873; college department, 74.5; COM
mercial department, IT'S; Bessie Tiff
society, 795; Excelsior Literary so7
ciety, 70; Georgia students, 1876; Flor
ida students, 1871.
At the Georgia Baptist convention
in Columbus a committee reported
the decision that Norman Institute is
to be one of the three Baptist prepara-
tory schools in Georgia to take the
place OF the seven such schools now
existing in the state and to be speedi-
ly made a standard junior college. A
committee was appointed to perma-
nently locate the school by March /,
1925.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
Georgia Guernsey Cow
Has Made New Record
Fern Crest Herd at Sandersville Is
Still Making History.

According to figures just released
by W. H. Howell, manager of Fern
Crest Guernsey Farm. at Sandersville,
Pauline Ranter, a registered Guernsey
COW, has completed very remarkable
record which makes her the highest
Guernsey COW OF her age in
all the southern states.
Wonderful Cow.
Dir. William Rawlings, owner of
this great Guernsey breeding estab-
lishment. bred and developed Pauline
and thinks she is a wonderful COW.
Pauline was only year months and
Is days old when this record started
and she gave III twelve months 9,4l9z
pounds OF milk, containing 1905
pounds of butter lat, which is equiva-
lent to 584 pounds Of butter.
Early Producer.
The age at which this record was
made shows the early maturity of the
Guernsey breed The persistency of
the breed is evidenced by the fact that
during the last month of her test Pau
line produced 10 pounds more butter
fat than she produced in the first
month OF her test.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
KING OF RUM RUNNERS
ADvERTlSES HIS TRADE
ENGLISHMAN MAKES A BUSI-
NESS OF SENDING BOOZE
TO u. S. BUYS INSURANCE.

About two years ago an English
man offered the people of his country
an opportunity to go into the rum run
ming business with him on a profit
sharing plan. Ten thousand English
men and women accepted his offer,
and since that time the company has
done between $3,000,000 and $5,000,-
900 worth of business. incidentally,
Sir Broderck Hartwell, the English
man, has become the king of English
rum runners.
No Sneaking Business.
The success of his organization, &C
cording to Sir Broderick, is that he
has not tried "sneaking" methods. He
always has been open and above
board in his affairs, going so far even
as to advertise in the newspapers in
London. He insures each of his car
goes OF liquor and assures his custom
ers taht they will buy really good
Scotch whisky in patented containers
so that it cannot be diluted
Sir Broderick has sent half dozen
cargoes of liquor across the Atlantic
ocean to his customers, and each car
go, he believes, has found its way into
the United States. He is paid for a
full cargo before single case of liq
uor is unloaded from one OF his ships,
and thus he insures his hackers against
all losses.
The Englishman is careful concern
ing another matter He does not per-
nit his ships to go within the dead
line established off the coast of Amer
lea by treaty between the United
States and England.
The treaty provides that the Ameri-
can authorities may seize liquor car
riers within 20 miles of the United
States shore. Sir Broderick's crews
are under strict orders not to sail
within rs miles of the coast, so he
keeps Just five miles from the authori-
ties, possible loss of valuable cargo,
and prosecution by his government
and the authorities of the United
States.
Sir Broderick says the laxity of pro-
hibition law enforcement in the United
States aids his business by keeping
the market for liquor in good condi-
ton. If the law were enforced the
business might suffer a serious re-
lapse, he admits.
Only One of Many.
Despite the fact that he is known
as the king OF English rum runners
Sir Broderick asserts he is only one
of many engaged in the same business
and by no means is he the largest or
richest. At the rate the business IS
prospecting now, however, he expects
to make a fortune not only for him
self but also for each one Of his part
ners. In fact, the fortune already is
piling up, for the demand for his liq-
uor continues heavy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
CONSCIENCE FUND
GROWS TO HUGE SUM
HAS BROUGHT HALF MILLION
TO GOVERNMENT SINCE 1911.
CASH FROM ALL POINTS.

Hall a million dollars has been put
in the Conscience fund" maintained
by the United States treasury depart
ment since 1911 A hve-dollar note
was the first contribution to the fund;
letter from Santa Cruz, Cal, con-
tanning $170 was the last. Thousands
OF unknown persons have contributed
to the fund,
All Kinds of Reasons.
The contributors give all kinds OF
reasons for their payments to the gov
eminent, but a stricken conscience is
the most common. The money comes
from people in all walks of life in all
parts of the United States.
The income tax law has had the ef-
feet of increasing the size OF many
contributions, according to treasury
department officials, and a number OF
persons made gifts to the government
for some cause or other which might
be traced back to conditions during
the days of the world war.
Money Becomes Revenue.
The money sent to the conscience
fund is turned over to the internal bu-
reau as revenue 1t then goes to the
treasury department general fund to
be used for all governmental purpos-
cs. The conscience fund" itself is
mythical, merely being the tabulation
OF the money received. These Con
science" payments seldom are accom-
panied by the donors real name.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
MAKING BIG REFUND
OF INCOME TAXES
OVER S137 100000 IS NOW BEING
TURNED BACK TO NEAR
LY 100000 PERSONS.

The government is returning or is
about to return portion of the taxes
paid by 192,252 persons during the
last year, Secretary of Treasury Mel
lon has reported to congress. The
total involved was $137.0O6,225.
The names Of the 192,252 lucky
ones, together with the amounts paid
each, accompanied Melons report.
They filled nearly 5000 pages.
The average refund amounted to
Approximately $718. Much OF it was
due to the Is per cent reduction on
1928 incomes decreed by congress last
spring. The rest generally consisted OF
corporation taxes wrongully collected
and successfully appealed
The report, compiled by the bureau
OF internal revenue, includes tax col
lections down to June 30, 1924, and
provides for refunds of illegal collec-
tons made prior to July /, 1920.
The refunds by years authorized
and turned over to the treasury for
payment are:
Prior to July l, 1920, $29,244233;
July l, 1921, $11,854,300; July l, 1922,
July l, 1923, $4,475,790;
July /, 1924, $32,658654
The heaviest refund ordered is for
the current year 1t represents besides
taxes illegally collected the return OF
rs per cent of income tax collections
for 1928 authorized by the last tax
The tax refunds approved for the
years prior to July l, 1920, total $29,-
244,233. This represents in part the
war time tax collection period when
many errors were made in tax collec-
tons.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
HOW TO KEEP THE
BOIL WEEvlL DOWN
REDUCE NEXT YEARS LOSS
FROM PEST BY CONTROL
METHODS THIS FALL.

This is the season when the farmer
has in his power one of the greatest
factors in controlling the boil weeviI
a subject ever in the limelight, but
about which much is to be learned and
more put in common practice on the
farm. Control of the boil weevil is not
accomplished by any one preventive
measure, but rather by doing num-
Der of things very thoroughly, in the
opinion of James L. Carberry, extern
sion agronomist.
Chief among these may be mention
ed good farming, term far reaching
in its scope, yet embracing III gen
eral way important unit factors Tor
controlling the pest. One OF the first
factors is the use OF only the best
seed, that will mature early Pant the
seed literally so as to insure good
stand and avoid replanting.
Thorough Preparation Important.
The use of high grade fertilizer
to around 900 pounds per acre has
also proved profitable, particularly
where no building crop has been
planted or stable manure has been re
Gently applied.
According to Mr. Carberry thor
ough preparation OF the seed bed, fire.
ouent and rapid cultivation, judicious
use of poison where conditions war
rant and destruction OF all alternating
places as far as possible all tend to-
ward control.
These steps provide an opportunity
for early stalk destruction which cuts
off all food supply and drives the pest
into early Information and fasting.
Stalks left standing in the field after
the cotton is picked often make sec
ond growth, upon which weevils can
live. Every day the stalks are lett
standing means an added opportunity
for the weevils to get through the win
ter by increasing the period of food
supply. Where care has not been OBJ
served weevils find very nice winter
homes in cotton stalks left unpicked.
Every Farmer Can Help.
Every farmer can help himself con-
siderably and add to his profits from
cotton production by observing the
above suggestions, especially the early
stalk destruction, this being one OF the
most important factors in controlling
the boil weevil.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16
.ev. Wright's Farewell
Was a Touching Scene
prge Congregation Heard Him on
Eve of His Departure to Dawson.

arge Congregation Heard Him on
Eve of His Departure to Dawson.
|Ihe Columbus Enquirer-Sun OF re-
Pit date said of the last service con-
ictcd in that city by Rev. w. L.
Fright before his departure for DaW-
|n:
Rev w. L. Wright made his tare7
Ell talk to the St. Paul Methodist
|ngregation as a whole last evening"
ID the scene was touching. He re
twed his experiences during the
pee Years he had been at St Paul
ID said he would never forget the
any courtesies and kindnesses eX-
nded 0 himself and family during
dt period, and would always remeln-
I with pleasure and appreciation MS
ay i'm Columbus. DIR. Wright took
tcaslon, while saying farewell, to dis
is and explain the itinerary system
the Methodist church and its ad-
'htage He said that he personally
as thoroughly committed to this
stem and thoroughly convinced OF
wisdom, and while it entailed many
lIuhgs that were sad, indeed-part-
= that almost tore out the heart
ingS, at times-yet it was best Tor
! work and the cause, as this sys-
a. ~ his opinion, gave best results.
large congregation heard Or.
.i1ght and at the conclusion OF his
iA many went to the front and
.ook hands with the retiring pastor,
lsrlHg him happiness and success IN
lie" work at Dawson"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-12-16

$4,000 Sea Sick Canaries
Dock in N. Y. for Christmas

Approximately $4,000 seasick
canaries, destined to gladden. the
hearts at Christmas, arrived on
the North German Lloyd steam
err Stuttgart Saturday, after the
toughest passage in the memory
OF the skipper, says New York
dispatch.
More than 1000 of the song
sters died on the trip, the aver
age number of fatalities being
from 100 to 200 day. The turbu
lent seas smashed heavy window
panes on the starboard side OF the
liner.