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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
WHERE THE MONEY
FROM COTTON GOES
EIGHTY PER CENT OF EACH
DOLLAR SENT OUT OF STATE
TO BUY FOOD AND FEED.

The Cotton News, published by the
American Cotton Association and de-
voted exclusively to the raw cotton
industry, makes the following signifi-
cant statement:
The south produced last year 49,
100000 bales of cotton, which has sold
for Approximately one billion five hun
bred million dollars 1t is estimated
that fully one billion dollars of the to-
tai amount received in all Of the cot
ton States was paid out to the western
grain and dairy states for imports OF
foods, feed and dairy products which
were largely consumed on southern
farms This means two-thirds of the
market value of the entire cotton crop.
Farmers generally complain that
the prices received for their cotton
this season have not paid the actual
cost of production Under such a sys-
tenn of loading every expense of the
farm, including food and feed, on cot
ton, no matter how high the price, it
will never be profitable. 1t is utterly
impossible, and so long as such a sys-
tenn of uneconomic farming is adher
ed TO land values will continue low.
Labor will continue to leave the farms
and the farmers generally will live in
a continued state of unrest and fnan-
cial depression.
while the western dairy states are
endeavoring by discriminatory laws, to
prohibit the sale of cotton seed meal
and other by-products from cotton
seed in those states, the time has come
for southern farmers to wake up and
determine to make their farms self
sustaining and save the cotton crop
for their own prosperity"
Truer words were never spoken
than these. With advantages in Geor-
gia superior to those of most states
for the small dairy herd, and for pas
lures and hay culture, it is an as
founding fact that so cents of the cot
ton dollar has been sent out of the
state for food aud feed The question
OF living at home-being Independent
of the supply mans the most vital
question confronting Georgia farmers.
Until farmers learn to have good
home gardens, turn their hills of red
clay into green hills of alfalfa-or
good hay crops-raise their meat and
other supplies and make the so-called
money crops. including cotton, as sur
plus crops they will not be on the
right side of the ledger. nor will their
operations be economically sound.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
SCORES MAY CHILDREN
OF DECEMBER COUPLE
JUDGE RES STIRRING
UP OF DISCORD IN HOUSE
HOLD. PATHETIC STORY.

ATLANTA, Ga-May children who
interfere with the happiness of their
parents and step-parents in December
marriages were scored by the Georgia
supreme court yesterday in the case
Iof Mrs. Berry Partian and Berry Par
tan against w. B. Partian and FIVE
other children of Mr.. Partian by a
previous marriage, appealed from the
Walton superior court.
Aged Couple.
According to the record in the case
Mr.. Partian, who was past so years of
age, sued Mrs. Partian, who was past
10, asking for divorce, and pending
the decision transferred his property
to his son, w. B. Partian, who execut-
ed notes for $11,250, payable to the
'other children 80 days after the death
of their father Later the aged couple
became reconciled, and Mr.. Partian
joined his wife in an effort to recover
the property, but the supreme court
held that it was too late to aid him.
The facts in this case constitute
the pitiful and pathetic story OF the
woes of an aged couple" wrote Jus
tice Price Gilbert, in the opinion OF
the supreme court. The husband is
now 81 and the wife is over 20. The
husband had a number Of children by
a former marriage. On December 9,
JOY, he married again Shortly alter
ward discord arose.
Rv Children
"The petition OF the wife alleges
and the husband swears that this dis
cord was brought about by his own
children, actuated by the, alas, too
frequently encountered desire to &C
quire property, some part of which
might go to the stepmother. 1t seems
to us that a serious injustice has been
done, which this court and the trial
court are powerless to remedy"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
COURT BESTOWS NEW
NAMES ON FOREIGNERS
OLD ONES PRONOUNCED ON
LY WITH AN ATTACK OF
ST. VITUS DANCE.

CHICAGO.-Two hundred foreign
ers, many of whom had names which
could only be pronounced with an at
tack of St. Vitus dance and bad case
of sneezing, were admitted to citizen
ship today, but their old names went
into the discard. One young man from
Czecho- Slovakia was honored by hav-
ing the name OF the president of the
United States bestowed upon him. The
applicant demurred, saying he was a
democrat, but Judge David assured
him that the name Coolidge was no
dishonor, even to democrat.
In the readjustment the StaniSlaus
became Stanley, the Franciszeks were
shortened to Frank or Francis, the
Woiciechs were renamed Alberts, the
Tuans were made John and the Josefs
and Joseflecz were renamed Josephs.
American names for American citi-
zens." was the policy of the judge,
who bestowed some highly honorable
names upon immigrants who may not
live I'D to their new titles. The bar
of language is the greatest force sep
arating different nationahties, said
the Judge when our foreign born
citizens speak in English, think in
English and use it habitually complete
assimilation is only short step"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
AUTOMOBILES COST
LESS THAN IN 1918
AVERAGE RETAIL PRICE OF
MOTOR CARS $S25. COST OF
LIVING IS HIGHER.

Automobiles on the average cost %
per cent less today than in 1913, while
the average cost of living was increas-
ed 81 per cent during the same period,
figures compiled by the National Au-
tomobile Chamber of Commerce re-
veal. The average retail price of mo-
tor car is now set at $825.
The analysis of car prices is part
Of the annual study of the automobile
industry made by the chamber, cover
ing the year 1924.
The automobile industry now ranks
first among the manufacturers of the
United States, the rating being on the
basis of wholesale values. The steel
industry is second and meat packing
third, according to the report.
Exports of motor vehicles in 1924
we're higher than ever before in the
history of the industry. The $50, $50
automobiles sold abroad established a
record of 17A per cent larger than the
figures for 1923.
The federal taxes paid on motor
vehicles from 1917 to 1925 was 500,
385,399. Motor vehicles paid $46l, 400,
900 in special taxes during 1924.
The total freight receipts of rail
roads on motor transportation prod
ucts was $400,9S2,000.
About 65 per cent OF automobiles
in the United States are owned in
communities having less than 25,00C
population, while 48 per cent of the
cars are owned in communities having
less than 5000 population.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
ATLANTA GALL0WS
WILL BE JUNkED
HAS SNUFFED OUT THE LIVES
OF MANY NOTABLE VIOLA
TORS OF THE LAW.

ATLANTA, Ga.-With the grant
ing of mercy to Mrs. Ida Hughes, the
last convicted murderer sentenced to
hang in Fulton county, the gallows
in the jail here will be junked and the
death chamber, where approximately
so men have paid the extreme penalty,
will be converted into a store room
for supplies.
Joins Mrs. Vinson.
The death structure has never been
used to exact the death sentence from
a woman, although two of that sex
have been condemned to hang within
the last three years. Mrs. Cora Lou
Vinson, convicted of the murder of
her husband, DR.. w. d. Vinson, is
now serving a life sentence at the
state farm, and Mrs. Hughes, who
killed her mother-in-law, Mrs. M. I.
Hughes, has joined her there.
Mrs. Vinson was granted a new
trial, pleaded guilty and was given
the life term, while Mrs. Hughes was
saved from the gallows by clemency.
History of Gallows.
Erected in 1896 the gallows has
been employed in several notable
hangings, notably the Satterheld and
DuPre executions. ]. B. Satterfleld,
grim slayer of his brother-in-law, R.
H. Hart, stood clear-eyed and I'M
afraid in the death chamber, main
tanning an iron nerve to the end.
Frank DuPre, debonair youth who
stole and murdered to obtain pretty
things for his girl, startled the grave
death chamber attaches with the re-
quest that his hair not be rumpled
when the black cap was adjusted.
There is a story, unconfrmed, that
the man who constructed the gallows
was the first to be hanged thereon.
Still another is that negro man
pleaded to be hanged at IL O'Clock SO G,
as ito get to hell in time for dinner.
The electric chair has replaced the
gallows in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
CATCH PRISONER
WITH MUCH DOPE
"TRUSTY" HAD $4,000 WORTH
OF NARCOTICS SENT FROM
NEW YORK FOR SELLING.

The Atlanta federal prison is the
center of a revived investigation OF
narcotic law violators, with federal
narcotic officers collaborating with
Warden John w. Shook in an effort
to discover the source of the drugs.
Morphine and opium valued in ex-
cess of $5,00000 was found on the
person of a "trusty" who was en-
deavoring to smuggle the narcotics to
prisoner within, Warden Shook an
nounced.
1t was said that the investigation
might possibly lead to the solution of
the mysterious smuggling OF narcotics
into the penitentiary which has been
going on for years.
The opium came from New York,
Warden Shook said and was given
by someone outside the prison to a
"trusty" to be delivered TO one OF the
prisoners.
The seizure is the largest ever made
at the prison, and officials expressed
the belief that had it not been seized
it would have been peddled among
the inmates.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
NEW VARIETIES OF CORN
MATURE IN SEVENTY DAYS
Discovered by U. S. Department of
Agriculture in Soath America.

Revolutionary experiments in corn
are in progress at the u. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture following the re-
turn to Washington of Fred D. Ritch-
ey, of the bureau of cereal investiga-
tons, with a number of new varie-
ties discovered in the Andean high
lands of South America, says the
Washington Star
In Bolivia and Peru Mr.. Ritchey
found corn maturing in spite OF an
average temperature for the year of
50 degrees Fahrenheit, while the aver
age minimum temperature during the
growing season was as low as SO de-
grees. Few varieties of corn raised.
commercially in this country mature
in less than 120 days. In our corn belt
an average minimum of SIS degrees
night temperature is considered the
limit The average temperature during
the growing season is u degrees.
In the south $50 to 1870 days is the
rule for the corn crop Ability to grow
a profitable variety of corn through
crossing of the South American varie-
ties with those from the far north
may enable great areas of the United
States to be thrown open to corn
growing and extend the celebrated
corn belt virtually to the Canadian
line. The product probably will be
dwarf variety.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
FIRE LOSSES SHOW
AN INCREASE IN 1924
THREE TIMES GREATER THAN
TOTAL FOR 1906. COMPANIES
PAID LOSSES OF $47O,OOo,oOo.

Fire insurance companies III the
United States paid premium holders
more on losses during 1924 than in
any previous year, it is shown in a
abulation published by the Spectator,
an insurance journal, covering 252
fire insurance stock companies licens-
ed in New York state, which trans
act 81 per cent OF the business done
by such companies in the country.
These companies paid losses totallng
$470,000000 last year, or nearly $l7,-
100000 more than in 1923.
Net premiums written by these
companies last year totaled $S30000,-
900, nearly $17,000,000 less than in
1928. Total income was $912,0O0,0O0;
total expenditures were $346,000,0OO.
Total assets of the companies, large
ly owing to a favorable securities
market which advanced the value OF
their holdings, increased $122, 100000
over 1928, reaching $l,597 100000.
Dividends paid in 1924 totaled $751;
523,000,000
The Spectator says the growth OF
the fire insurance business is shown
by the total OF premiums written,
which is more than three times the
figure for 1906, the year of the San
Francisco fire and earthquake. The
expansion is due partly to the wider
scope undertaken by the companies,
including marine, tornado, hail, motor
vehicle and kindred lines OF insurance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
SCIENTISTS DISCUSS
BATTING OF WEEvILS
WOULD USE DOOR SIMILAR
TO COTTON PLANT TO
ENTICE PEST.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The re-
suits of experiments which support
the Einstein theory of relatively and
promise of success in batting the boil
weevil with an odor similar to that
believed to entice it to the cotton
plant were laid before the annual
meeting OF the National Academy OF
Sciences.
Preliminary experiments by Fred
erck b. Power and Victor K. Chest
nut, bureau OF chemistry, department
OF agriculture, in the cotton belt in
Analysing the odorous constituents OF
the cotton plant, the scientists were
told, have disclosed that ammonia and
trimethylamine we're present in appre-
cable amounts in the distillate, but
the ammonia largely predominated.
Both substances were also found to
be emanations from the living plant,
and although further tests remain to
be conducted it is considered possible
that the odor attracting the boil wee
vii might be produced artihcially for
use as a bait for the insect.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
An Honest-t Goodness
Taxpayer Is Discovered

One dyed-in-the-wool honest tax
payer has been found in Georgia.
John M. Vandiver, state commits
sioner of revenue, reports.
Mr.. Vandiver has just received
the returns from a firm in Mitchell
county which reports itself doing
business in the following lines, each
of which is subject to special oc-
cupational tax in this state: Pistols
and cartridges, automobile accesso-
ries, buggies, coal, musical instru-
ments, playing cards and weighing
machines, a soda fountain, ware
house and an undertaking parlor.
Besides paying a special tax for
each of these branches OF business
Mr.. Vandiver pointed out that the
firm paid a tax as a corporation,
and that it was subject to ad valo-
rem taxes and school taxes and
that individual members of the
company paid into the state treas
ury poll taxes and state automobile
licenses.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
ANNUAL BURIAL
SERVICE is HELD
ATLANTA IS ONE OF ONLY
TWO PLACES OF INTERMENT
IN UNITED STATES.

Approximately $50 members OF the
Irish Horse Traders from all parts OF
America were in Atlanta the past
week to attend the annual funeral
ceremony and interment of members
of the group who have died during
the wear. Funeral services were held
for three of their members, one OF
whom died almost twelve months ago.
The horse traders have only two
burial places i'll America, one at At
lanta and the other at Nashville. They
went from Atlanta to the Tennessee
city on Wednesday to bury four other
members.
Policemen were detailed to clear
traffic and make way for the traders
who gathered at the parlors OF an I'M
dertaking establishment and accom-
panied the remains to the Church OF
the Immaculate Conception Tor tun-
eral services.
Funerals for Three.
Funeral services were held for the
members-Pete Carroll, jr., ll-months
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Carroll
OF Ritz. Ga, who died on June %,
1924; Jimmie Sherlock, l5-me e11S.oIl
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Sherlock,
of Madison, Ga, who died on jun:
"a, 1924, and Mr.. J. B. Smith, OF
Cleveland, Ga, who died on May H.
1924, at his home.
Among those in attendance were
Mr.. and Mrs. James Sherlock, from
4
Montreal Canada; Mr.. and MRS;
O'Hara, from San Francisco al ana
ed States. e.. :.
tents, usually near large cities, and
make their living from the proceeds
Of their trades. A large number OF
them reside at Cedartown, Ga, most
of these having removed from near
Atlanta because they said taxes were
too high for them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
IS TRYING TO RELIEVE
U. S. PEN|TENT|ARY JAM
FEDERAL SUPERINTENDENT
COMES TO ATLANTA TO CON
FER WITH THE WARDEN
PROHIBITION AS MAIN FACTOR

Sentencing of Batches of 40 and so
Proves Big Problem for Those in
Charge. No Satisfactory Plan Has
Yet Been Evolved.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-The over
taxing Of the capacity OF the Atlanta
federal penitentiary will be the subject
of a conference between L. c. White,
superintendent OF the division of pris-
ons and paroles, department of justice,
and Warden Shook on the formers
visit to Atlanta this week.
Definite plans for relieving the sit
uation have not yet been evolved.
The Leavenworth and the Atlanta
prisons are so overcrowded that they
are caring for several hundred con-
victs above the institutions facilities.
There are about 5000 now in Leav-
e-worth and 1923 in Atlanta.
Temporary dormitories for the two
prisons probably will have to be pro-
vided in the industrial shops.
Mr.. White left Washington Friday
on an inspection trip and for the
meetings of the parole boards. He
will inspect the Atlanta prison and in
the near future go to Leavenworth
Still Crowding In.
Although officials of the department
of justice would not discuss the sub
ject, it is known that the overcrowd-
ing in the federal prisons is regarded
as a serious problem. No appropria-
tons are available for structural addi-
tons.
There seems little prospect of a
of the ranks of the convicts
Convictions for violations of the Vol
stead act are partly responsible for
the congestion.
For instance, the supreme court re-
Gently refused to review the cases OF
more than forty persons at Gary, Ind,
the list including former mayor and
several lawyers, all Of whom must
serve time About fifty policemen and
others at Cincinnati were ordered to
for violating the Volstead act.
Hence the prison stats find their
resources inadequate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
Big Stores Hire Employees Whose
Work Is to Be Discharged Frequently

employees is called into the office. The
customer is led to believe that this
person is to blame for the trouble.
The manager roars his wrath and
finally discharges the employe, giving
him orders to go to the cashier and
get the pay due him.
The employe leaves the Office of the
manager with detected appearance,
but in reality he returns to his desk
and awaits the next summons to be
discharged. Being fired is his job. and
he gets well paid for it. Beside, angry
customers are easily satisfied in this
manner.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
BILLION DOLLARS WILL
GO IN NEW HIGHWAYS
PRACTICALLY EVERY STATE
IN UNION HAS ENTERED IN
TO GOOD ROADS PROGRAM.
TO CONSTRUCT $4,000 MILES
Besides Millions of Federal Aid States
Have Issued Bonds Approximating
$5o0,o00,00o. Country Has Nearly
Three Million Miles of Roads.

ATLANTA, Ga.-There is no ques-
ton about this country being definite
ly committed to program of high
way improvement, according to Geor-
gia road builders. Practically every
state in the union, it was stated has
entered into the road building pro-
gram with the federal government
lending financial aid to the various
state projects. The result ultimately it
was asserted, will be a nation famed
for its splendid highways
Some idea of the amount of money
Americans are spending on road work
may be CLEANED from the figures
just made public The figures show
that approximately $4,000 miles of
highways are scheduled for construc-
ton during 1925 by the various states
through their highway departments
Converted into a single road this
would be enough mileage to almost
circle the earth with the American
type of highway.
To construct $4,000 miles of high
ways approximately $405, 100000 now
is available and for maintenance the
sum of $135, 100000 is available, both
of these huge sums being provided
through state highway departments,
secured by bond issues.
In addition to the large sums made
available by state highway depart
ments for road building this year it
is estimated that the counties in the
various states will expend in excess
of $463 100000 for road work In 9th
er words, nearly one billion dollars
will be spent during 1925 for high
way construction and maintenance in
this country by the various states and
counties. This sum does not include
the, governments road building ap-
preparation, which is used to match
state expenditures on state and federal
road projects.
On January /, 1922 this country
had 2,941 ,2o4 miles of rural roads.
This total mileage is sufficient to cir
Gle the earth at the equator 118 times,
while the surfaced mileage was suffi-
cient to gridiron the United States
with rs east and west routes extend
ing from ocean to ocean and an equal
number of north and south routes from
border to border Since 1921 surfaced
mileage has been built at rate of
between thirty and forty thousand
miles a year, of which an undetermin-
ed amount has been in the nature of
re7surfacing.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
Dollar Bill Demand Keeps Treasury
Department on Jump All the Time

months-in circulation this year it will
be necessary to manufacture 42S,0OO,-
600 of them. Every day more than
four tons of finished one-dollar bills
come from the governments money
factory and start on their way to the
pockets of the people, to be used until
they are frayed and no longer fit for
use.
A dozen years ago the government
built a model manufacturing plant for
the production OF its paper money, but
the demand for dollar bills has grown
SO amazingly that the plant is hard put
to keep up with the necessary output
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
CROCKETT'S BOND
is FIXED AT $1,000
FORMER PROMINENT AMERI-
Gus MAN ACCUSED OF EN-
TICING LABOR TO FLA.

Justice of the Peace ]. M. Shy as
sessed bond OF $1,000 in the case OF
A. c. Crockett, former Americas bus
mess man, accused Of having illegally
solicited labor in Sumter county for
employment in Florida Justice Shy
set the bond originally at $1,000, the
amount being reduced subsequently
at the suggestion OF the solicitor OF
he county court Of Americas, who is
in charge OF the prosecution.
Crockett's attorney demanded a
committal hearing upon the charge
against him and the solicitor moved
a continuance, whereupon Crockett
waived a hearing and bond was fur
nished.
Crockett was prominent in Ameri-
Gus before his removal to Florida.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
Men and Women Paid Well for Being
Punished" for Mistakes About
Which Customers Complain.

Several big department. stores in
Chicago have employees whose job it
is to be fred. Sometimes these men
or women lose their jobs as often as
IS or 20 times day. Their discharge.
however. is merely to calm the feel
ings Of some customer of the store
who complains of some kind Of trou-
bic or other.
The custmer goes to the manager
with his story, and one Of the special
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
Burns Big Tobacco Crop
As Religious Sacrifice

A seven-acre crop of tobacco was
burned as a sacrifice by Paul Ap-
pleby, a young farmer living near
Greenville, O. Appleby had been
convinced by two women, he said,
that the filthy weed" was an enc
my of true religion. Crowds wit
lessing the sacrifice begged in vain
to be allowed to buy the tobacco.
1t was an unusual occurrence and
has caused a great deal of COM
ment throughout that section.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
AIRPLANE BEING USED
TO PLANT TREE SEEDS

Planting forest tree seeds with an
airplane is the latest innovation in the
northwest. A large corporation own
ing huge tract of forest land, most
of which had been cut over. sought a
method of seeding the tract quickly
and thoroughly An airplane carrying
two men and cargo OF seeds has
solved the problem. More than 20
pounds of seed was scattered in sim
gle day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-05-05
Poor Old Cow Is
4 Victim of Booze

MONTEZUMA, Ga.-A search
for missing COW on a farm near
Montezuma few days ago led to
a small branch in which the COW
was found drowned A further
search revealed a still a few feet
away and several barrels of beer
The supposition is that the COW
VI b made the same discovery and
haS Z he'd too freely and in her
joyful ion the stream had
proved her isis,