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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19

peacefully folded arms the hands
clasped a crooked golden sceptre and
a fail about the size Of. a walking
stick. Both were detachable.
Goddesses on Guard.
A band OF inscriptions displaying
the kings cartouches encircled the
body beneath the arms. Around either
side OF the body beneath the waist
the outstretched wings OF
protective goddesses.
The case is perfectly preserved ex-
cept for the feet OF the figure, which
are slightly discolored with bitumen.
Around the head projecting at in
tcrvals from the top OF the crown ap-
peared the only natural feature OF the
display wreath OF nat
ural flowers, still preserving the beau
ty of that day 5000 years ago when
placed them in the sarcopha-
gus.
The entire mummy case is nearly
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
COST OF AUTO TRAVEL IS
BASED AT 7 CENTS MILE

Government experts have pre-
pared figures showing that the
cost per mile OF automobiles is
7 cents and of motor cycles 3
cents. The estimates were made
in preparation for the budget for
1925.
In making this slate of costs
the experts took into considera-
ton original costs depreciation,
gasoline, tires, etc. In certain cases,
however, allowance is made for
mountainous regions, swampy
land and districts where poor
roads prevail. While in these
places the figure may be higher,
officials believe 7 cents is equit
able and fair and it has been &C
cepted by the United States budg-
ct committee in figuring estimates.
The figures, it is said, are bas-
ed on what is considered a mod
erately priced car, without taking
into consideration the most ex-
pensive or the cheapest,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
TERRELL CONSIDERS
RACE FOR GOVERNOR
GREENVILLE LAWYER URGED
TO STAND FOR OFFICE. is
LEAVING FOR NEW YORK.

GREENVILLE, Ca u d g e J.
Render Terrell, who has been promi-
nentlv mentioned as candidate for
governor, announced today that he is
leaving tor New York to be gone
for ten days on legal business. When
he returns he will hold conference
with his friends and afterward VIII
make a definite announcement OF MS
intentions in regard to the race
7 efters and kilograms from all sec
tions of the state today requested that
Judge Terrell run. He has the matter
Under serious consideration, he said,
Judge Terrell was for twelve years
solicitor general OF the Coweta cir
cult superior court, and four years
its judge. He retired voluntarily to
pactice law. He is brother OF the
late Governor Terrell.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
MILLION AND HALF HAVE
QUIT FARM SINCE 1920
EXODUS TO TOWNS
AND CITIES IN THE LAST
FEW YEARS REPORTED.
WALLACE GIVES FARM FIGURES
Are 644,343 Farms in United States.
Wealth Owned by Farmers Is "a
Billion Dollars. Owe Debts of H.
235 Dollars. rs Per Cent Mortgages.

More than a million and a half per-
sons have quit the farm since 1920,
according to a late survey by Secre-
tary OF Agriculture Wallace, and the
figures cannot help but impress one
with the fact that farm life of the ma
ton is in danger One thing about it
is that the farm is rapidly becoming
as much of a business risk as any
other given vocation so far as success
or failure are concerned.
In letter to Representative Thorn
as, OF Oklahoma, Secretary Wallace
said there had been a great drain on
the man-pOwer of the farm i'll the last
three years. Mr.. Thomas had asked
the Agriculture Department for in
formation regarding the agricultural
population of the United States, and
the present value of American farms
Mr. Wallace says that government
officials who may be depended upon
estimate the farm population today as
about 100000 persons. The last
national census showed 4he rural pop
ulation to be 31,614,269. Farm lead
ers attribute the exodus OF the past
two or three years to the depressed
conditions OF agriculture, which have
prevailed in the west and middle west
in the last decade.
According to the last census the
number of farms in the United States
was 644343. Secretary Wallace's let
ter saws the last three years served to
diminish this number.
An unofficial estimate OF the wealth
owned by actual farmers as OF. Janu-
arv, 1920, is "a billion dollars. This
leaves out OF account q billion dollars
of farm assets belonging to farm land
lords not engaged in farming. VI the
"a billion dollars owned by actual
farmers about IS per cent, or nearly
1G billion dollars, consists OF wealth
other than farm assets. This leaves
O. billion dollars of farm assets owned
by actual farmers.
Adding the farm assets owned by
actual farmers and the assets belonging
TO farm landlords not engaged III
farming the total value OF property
used in farming at the date indicated
was IS billion dollars. The estimate
for cash and deposits belonging to
actual farmers is about 5000 million
dollars as of 1920. -
An estimate of the amount Owned 1deo
nv actual farmers, as of January, l9zo'
is 1925 million dollars. This leaves leaves
ont of account the debts OF Landlords
NOT engaged in farming, whose 1ar1l,
mortgage Indebtedness is estlllidteu
to have been 1885 million dollars or
2i.4 per cent OF the total mortgage
debt. OF the 1925 million dollars
owned ovnt by actual farmers IS per cent mt
= nstimated to have been secured by
farm mortgages. Of the balance OF
the debt Of actual farmers 3,455 mil
lion dollars is estimated to have been 1
credit and the remainder is estimated
70 have been owed to merchants ana
other individuals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
FARMERS OF u OWN ASSETS OF SKTYFOUR BILLION DOLLARS
TAX BURDEN IS HEAVY
ON THE AVERAGE MAN

ATLANTA, Gait cost each
man, woman and child in the
United States nearly sos for taxes
to support the government last
year, and of this about $35 went to
pay salaries of government en-
ployes, according to local statisti-
clans.
The public payroll included, it is
shown, nearly 100000 persons.
Every IL workers, 10 years of age
and over, supported one public en-
ploye.
Total taxes paid in the United
States in 1922 aggregated ST.,
DOL 100000
This amounts to 12.1 per cent or
nearly one-eighth of the national
income.
The people of every section of
the country are aroused over high
taxes of every kind
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
END OF MARRIAGE FEARED
IF WOMEN CONTINUE WORK

ATLANTIC CITY. = Saying
that the employment OF women in
industry is destroying the eco
nomic unit of the family E. c.
Beck, of Boston, in an address be-
fore the international Association
of Master House Painters and
Decorators in convention here to-
- that possibly mar
- existed will come
to an end.
The employment of women" he
said, has three effects. 1t makes
them economically independent of
men, so that they cease to be sub
ject to their husbands. 1t makes
it difficult for them to bring up
their children themselves, and it
reduces the number of children.
This is destroying the economic
unit of the family and probably
will be fatal eventually"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
STATE USED 100000
TONS OF FERTILIZERS
OF 4.553 SAMPLES ANALYZED
as PER CENT MET THEIR
GUARANTEE.

There were 679,565 tons of fertilizer
sold in Georgia during the season of
1928, according to the report of the
state chemist submitted to the state
commissioner of agriculture. Inspec-
ton records show that ASA samples
were analysed by the fertilizer labora-
tory, making one sample for every $50
tons of fertilizer sold in Georgia dur
ing the past season of 1923. Other
states with a total tonnage OF one
third of that sold in Georgia make in
spections which will average one sam
pie to every 40 tons sold, S. H. Viii
son, state chemist stated adding that
this shows that though we have total
tonnage which is far in excess of that
OF other states I'VE are really making
a closer inspection"
OF the total number OF samples
worked 40 per cent met their guaran-
tee in every particular, SO per cent OF
the total number failed to meet their
guarantee, but contained the plant food
guaranteed by the manufacturer. Six
teen per cent of the total number OF
samples worked failed to meet their
guarantee, being either per cent be-
low the total guarantee in commercial
value. or were more than 10 per cent
off in one or more ingredients. These
samples are subject to the penalties
prescribed by the law
From market quotations obtained
on January 1st, 1928, on all fertilizer
and fertilizer materials the relative
commercial value OF the fertilizer per
ton is found to be $20.47.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
1000 DIE FROM COLD
ON RUSSIAN ISLAND
SOVIETS REFUSED TO HOUSE
BANISHED MOSCOW MER-
CHANTS. HORRIBLE.

RIGA.-About 1000 Moscow mer-
chants accused of being spectators
by the bolsheviks have frozen to
death on Solovetsk island, in the
White sea. The news OF the tragedy
leaked out in Moscow, and now is
confirmed by the cheka, whom the
Moscow soviets instructed immediate
ly to investigate and arrest those re-
sponsible.
When the merchants were arrested
in January the Moscow prisons were
full, so the cheka decided to send
them to Solvetsk monastery, which is
located on Solvetsk island. The mon
astery, which was used by former
Russian czars to hold state prisoners,
was converted into most terrible
bolshevik prison in 1913.
Corpses Litter Island.
Today the monastery is just as
crowded as the more notorious prls-
chs, and when the merchants de-
barked from the boat the prison au-
thorities refused to house them. As a
result more than 1000 corpses litter
the island today Many who attempt
ed to cross the ice to the main land
froze also.
According to travellers from Mos
COW this news has created panic
in Moscow and Petrograd (Lenine-
grad trading circles. Thousands OF
merchants and spectators and also
unemployed are fleeing from both
cities to provincial towns in order to
escape being deported to northern ST.
IBERIA
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19

1J7XOR-In the sitting heat OF
tbe underground tomb Of King Tut
ankhamen men Of the twentieth cen c,
+nrv lifted the great marble lid that
n T@S , by hands of the rulers sub
i yl more than 5000 years ago.
Scientists and officials, men OF
modern civilization, looked in aweq
Wonder at the golden magnihcence OF
other DAYS within, a mummy case OF
sheet gold, more like statue than
The sheet gold is nodded in re he
with an exquisite likeness OF the
,moa WIN king, wearing a crown en-
Crusted with lapis lazuli.
Lid of Coffin Lifted.
This was the picture in recent
ceremonies when the lid of the ruler S
cof6n was lifted in the tomb IN the
Valley of the Kings.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
Scientists and Officials Say Tus Of Golden Mgnfcnce

nine feet in length and rests on a
golden bier. 1t is expected that
wooden shell will be found under the
golden surface.
After inspecting the coffin the par
t ceased work and returned to the
surface leaving the lid Of he:sarcopha-
gus suspended in mid air pending
thorough examination. 1t is said that
after this examination the sarcophagus
will be closed until next winter, when
the coffin itself will be opened.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19

At sos p. m. party OF sixteen
scientists and Egyptian officials, led
bv Howard Carter, descended into the
tomb. Blocks and tackles had been
rugged to lift the great cover. The
small group swayed forward eagerly
as native workmen began the task OF
lifting the marble top OF the sarcopha--
gus. 1t was a 25-minute job, and
Carter and others impatiently joined
in the work.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
MAN FOUND BURIED TO
CHIN IN FROZEN MUD
Standing Upright in Mire When
Found by Searching Party.

.n.lrled to his chin in frozen mud,
.'1h held him upright, John Leonard,
- OF Brooklyn, ILL.,, was rescued by
searching party and taken to a hos
,l'a suffering from exposure. His
condition was said to be serious, with
rqeumonla almost certain to develop,
re wandered into the marsh late at
..sht while trying to locate the home
u a trend, he told his rescuers. Mired
-o"h' ne struggled and shouted in
an until overcome by cold and ex-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19

AS the lid was raised the watchers
saw a huge mass OF dark brown cloth.
Carter. trembling. turned back this
covering. gradually revealing the ra-
diant beauty of the kings inner grave.
Beneath the cloth was disclosed a
solid sheet of gold, coffin that was
almost a glorihed statue of the dead
king. The crown on the head of the
efigv bore the royal emblems of the
hawk and serpent At the ends of the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19

A fleet of wagons something like
the prairie schooner is on its way into
all parts of the United States. Farm
ers along the routes furnish drivers
and teams every ten miles. The wag-
ons are collecting signatures to
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
Mans Severed Ear
Is Back In Its Place

With his right ear in his hand Will
Becker walked into doctors office at
South Bend, Ind, and had the mem
Der sewed back in place. The ear
was cut off in an automobile accident,
he explained.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
Farmers Demand Lower Taxation

flower taxes and less Legislation" pc
tition to congress. After the tour ends
the wagons will be shipped to Wash
ington, where they will parade to the
capitol. 1t is believed that hundreds
of thousands OF names will be signed
to the petition.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19

Manhattan bridge over East river
in New York cost S30,000,00O.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
Labor Efficiency Low.

Owing to the fact that only ap-
proximately 40 to so per cent Of male
inmates are fitted for farm labor, I'M
der the present system of sending
here only those not fitted for work on
the county roads, labor efficiency on
the farm will always remain low.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
A NEWSPAPER

DEVOTED TO
PUBLIC SERVICE
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19

Commerce Commission Advocates an
Electrical Apparatus to Grip the
Wheels of Engines Running Past
Danger Signals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-02-19
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
MADE At STATE FARM
SUPERINTENDENT MAKES RE-
PORT TO PRISON COMMITS
SION OF OPERATIONS.
THE INMATES AVERCE sos

Cost Figures Show That Women Are
More Expensive to Keep Than Men.
Planting Many Nut and Fruit Trees.
Religious Advantages.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-07
MY FAVORlTE STORIES


There is a saying-and one more or less
justified by the trend of affairs in our ma
tOn-to the effect that these days the ambi-
ton of the average man who was raised on
a farm is to leave the country and go to
live in the city in order to save up enough
money to be able to go to live in the coun-
try. Here is a story about youth who did
not wait until he was grown.
AS a youth, he quit the ancestral acres
and liked for the metropolis. After various
ups and downs he prospered. Before so
very long he held a responsible position
and had home of his own. After consid-
cradle persuasion he induced his aged father
to pay hm visit. The older gentleman had
a distrust for cities and fdr city ways. He
was welded to the soil and all his life had
been faithful to the union.
Eventually, though, he steamed into New
York, was met and greeted by his boy and
escorted 10 the lGtter's bachelor apartment.
The son thought the occasion called for a
special celebration. He burroWed in his treas
ured pre-War stock and produced quart Of
one of the most precious vintages of France.
'Whut's that?' inquired the old man as
the son began the operation leading TO the
removal of the stopper.
That's champagne, dad" said the son.
well, / don't mind a nip Of hard cider
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den where the beans were grown and OF
some withered stalks and pods still in the
garden left no doubt that botulism from
the canned beans was the Of death.
Some authorities on botulinus poisoning,
in fact insist that, whatever the method
of canning, there should always be a thor
ough relocating of canned vegetables just
before they are served. Others believe that
the danger Of poisoning will be sufficiently
minimized if the goods canned are subjected
to a strong heat at the time Of the canning.
The specific recommendation Of the De-
partment of Agriculture is that all canned
material be given pre-cooking and then
placed in the cans or jars while it still is
very hot. The pre-cooking will cause some
shrinkage, but by including in the canning
the hot liquid that has been cooked, there
will be no loss in food value.
Also it is recommended that the pressure
Gamer be used for all vegetables except to-
matoes. Fruits and tomatoes are more re-
sistant to botulinus infection than beans
spinach and other vegetables. Hence, in
the Departments opinion, they may safely
be canned in the ordinary way, if the cans
are filled with hot juice or syrup.
AS final "safety first" precaution, It
may well be also urged that, no matter how
fruits vegetables are canned, any sign
of spelling perceptible when a jar is opened
should be regarded as a warning for de-
struction of the contents Of that jar.
And the destruction should be actual not
a mere throwing away of the contents where
chickens or small animals may eat them.
The botulinus germ is known to be deadly
to animal life we'll as to human life in
creasing the great desirability of actual de-
struction of any food contaminated.
Copyright, 1920
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-07

TIMEIY indeed is the warning issued to
the housewives by the United States
Il Department of Agriculture to the i'm
portance of canning their summer surplus
Of fruits and vegetables by the ''hot pack"
rather than the cold pack method.
Experience has taught with increasing
frequency the past few years that in home
canned foodstuffs put up by the latter
method there may Turk the dire peril OF
botulinus poisoning. This applies particu-
larly to such foods as string beans, spinach
and other ordinary garden vegetables.
If the soil of the garden in which these
are grown is tainted with the botullnus
germ, the vegetables themselves are only
unless there is a pre-cooking for canning
PURPOSES the germs will develop in the
canned goods, to bring death to those who
eat them, perhaps to those who merely
taste them.
How potent the botuinus germ may be
as a destroyer of human life is evinced by
the long record of fatal poisonings now
known to be due to it. Whole families have
been plotted out by eating at a single meal
a comparatively small amount of botulinus-
carrying food.
In one instance, occurring last spring at
Albany Ore, twelve members of three fam
food served was a salad Of home-canned
string beans.
To all appearances these had not spoiled
in the least. Odor and taste and color were
normal At least three of the, persons at
the table took only minute quantity Of
the beans, and only seven ate them at all
freely Yet of the twelve who sat down to
the meal, twelve died.
Later, examination of the soil OF the gar
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-07
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS w Il EEITOMs
TINE power of wealth and money is be-
ing exemplfied in Chicago criminal

THE power of wealth and money is be-
ing exemplified in Chicago criminal
~ court, with "friendly judge!" 1t is
too early to foretell the result, for the
Judge has not yet uttered the verdict, but it
is evident the criminals are being given
every possible chance to save themselves
from the electric chair. If these young
men deliver themselves from the cleo
trio chair by the power of money and
''friendly Judge" Chicago will deserve what
will be said of the city in the years to come.
[ was in Chicago a part of November,
1890, lady manager from Georgia of
the Chicago Worlds Fair. The census of
1890 was eagerly awaited, and it devel-
oped that Chicago had million in popula-
ton and only 100000 were American born
and bred. The rest were of foreign descent.
When l bought morning paper on the
front of the Palmer House, where | had
lodgings, [ saw this fact elaborated in the
headlines. l asked the neWSbOy where he
was born. He answered, Gin Russia" He
was the son of Russian Jew, and he was
a good newsboy. That occurred thirty-fOur
years ago. If the increase has come from
the immense foreign born population in
Chicago during thrty-fOur years, we are
not surprised at the wealth of this popula-
ton and the influence of their nationalities.
None of us could forget il we preferred to
forget the excitement Of Georgia pOpula-
ton when Frank Dupree not pardOned
or imprisoned for life after he killed one
Hon. Graham West in Kimball House en-
trance, and what that did in a governors
election soon after.
[ saw braw]er on election day denounc-
ing Governor Hardwck, in the courthouse
in Gainesville because he "did not give that
poor boy a chance" That desperate was
surcharged with blOOdthirst. He cOnSOrted
with yamps, and robbed u jewelry store OF
a $4,000 diamond ring--besides the muir
der, and attempted murder. The Prison
Commission advised the Governor to allow
the law to take its course, and the trial
Judge said the verdict was a righteous one,
because the desperate ready for more
crimes of the same sort Yet some preach
ers-and some hysterical WOmen-backed
by ward heelers were employed to
denounce the Governor election day be-
cause he took the advice Of the commission
and because the Governor did not COM
mute Duprees sentence, after he had been
given every opportunity to appeal to the
courts for vndication or change in YER
dict.
There is Just such another case, In Chi
cago only more so, because these wealthy
young bucks were more like beasts on the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-07

inside than human beings, and were not
obliged to steal diamond l4nSa Ike Dupree
to satisfy vamp affinity, and they took
one of their schoolmates, and near
neighbours son, IA years old. to put the boy
to death, simply to watch his death agonies.
They blackmailed the anguished Mr.. Franks
and expected to get $4,000 for trip to
Europe. They enjoyed their experience and
confessed it. If the judges verdict, when
it is announced saves the lives of these
youths who have confessed their guilt, the
Ku Klux Khan might do a needed service
by taking the judge to the nearest tele-
graph pole and shooting the life out Of him
before another daylight.
But [ guess there are cloakers who can
be hired, they were hired in Georgia, to
hound down chief executive because he
did not "giye the poor boy Dupree a
chance" without any consideration Tor the
children of the murdered man who was
there only to help to get maintenance,
food and clothing until they were large
enough to work it out. i'll the cotton patch,
or in the depths Of an iron mine.
THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE APPAR-
EMILY AFRAID no DO ANYTHING
no HELP THE PEOPLE
1t might be imagined that the General
Assembly had been made sufficiently ac-
quainted with the wishes of Georgia tax
payers to quit and go home if they do as
they are seen to be doing, with only a few
days left of the present session-until the
limit of fifty days expires. Each of the
three sessions will entail an expense of
$125,0 900, when the gavel drops. That
means the taxes must be forthcoming to
pay them per diem and mileage for these
sessions of $4,000 for the years of 1928
"a.
This session has witnessed appropriations
Of more than three millions with less than
five hundred thousand dollars Of revenue
in sight to meet the bill, which does not
include the aforesaid $4,000. One old
body is brave enough to say this Legislature
has been of little service to anybody but
their own estates, and they are simply
brazen in their defiance Of the directions OF
the voters in two general elections.
AS General Toombs once denounced a
body: 'They rise, like carrion-as they
rot"
1t is perfect folly to try to change the
current of thoughts. They are so afraid
Of their political bosses they tremble lest
they may not be reelected | suppose their
political bosses are now holding nightly ses-
sions in the Capitol, to pick out the fellows
who obey orders and those who must be
weeded out because of their failure to obey.