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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
EVERY FARMER CAN
GROW INCH STAPLE
u. S. DEPARTMENT MAKES Sc
RIES OF TESTS THROUGH
OUT COTTON BELT.

Every cotton planter in the south
can raise cotton OF at least one inch
staple, officials of the bureau of plant
industry of the Department of Agri-
culture declare, following a series OF
experiments throughout the belt.
If this is done, they contend, there
need be no fear of foreign competition
because American cotton would be
far superior to cotton that can be
produced by any other country.
Tremendous quantities of short sta
pie cotton are now produced in the
United States, the officials assert, due
to the mixing of seed at ginning, and
is brought directly in competition with
short staples produced abroad. The
seed mixture at gins can be eliminat-
ed only by community cooperation
with local gins so that only uniform
quality of seed cotton will pass
through the gins.
c. E. Doyle, botanist of the bureau,
declared that recent experiments show
ed that farmer receives only "a per
cent of his own cotton seed from the
gin and 70 per cent of the seed from
cotton ginned by preceding customers.
Unless all of the seed is of high grade
he said the ginning would return to
the farmer a seed mixture for plant
ing that probably would result in an
inferior crop.
The present practice of cotton grow
ers, he said, results in bale OF mixed
staples and the buyer sets his price on
the basis of the shortest length
Therefore, the farmer loses the value
of his better cotton, whereas he would
receive a higher price if the bale con-
tanned uniformly longer staples.
A southwide campaign is being
launched by the department cooper
ating with the extension forces OF the
state agricultural colleges to discour-
age the production of short staple cot,
ton and to grow cotton of standard
limits of one inch or more.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
SEA ISLAND COTTON
DRIVEN OUT BY WEEvIL
ONCE FAMOUS CROP IS DISAP-
FEARING FROM COMMERCE.
KILLED BY PEST.

The famous sea island cotton, whose
Carolina crop lots" were once the
most famous cotton grown, and was
also produced in large quantities in a
number Of south Georgia counties, is
about to disappear from commerce
The 1924 crop is officially tabulated
by the Department of Commerce with
the brief announcement five bales
ginned." This means that the marvel
Gus growth Of this high grade cotton,
which had brought its production as
late as 1916 to 117,559 bales, is now a
thing OF the past.
The boil weevil appeared in the sea
island district, along the coast OF
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
in 1916. The heavy foliage OF the sea
island plant. its late season OF matur-
ing and the lowland climate combined
to provide the protection, the time and
the humidity which the boil weevil
found ideal. The ''woeful weevir' has
now completed his work. The plant
ers got 5000 bales in 1922 and 800 in
1928 but this year they acknowledge
defeat and will plant no sea island
seed.
Still Grown in West Indies.
Sea island cotton still grows in the
West Indies, whence it found its way
originally into the United States, but
here also the pest has reduced the to-
tai Weld of all the islands to o20C
bales, the figures of last year, less
than one-tenth of good yield before
the war.
1t has been rediscovered in Halt
among the wild cotton of that unde-
veloped country and the Haitians are
trying to isolate and grow it in pro-
tected districts. Its long, silky staple
made it one of the necessities of fine
weaving until Egyptian cotton appear
ed on the market, but it is now nc
longer indispensable. Its disappear
ance has ruined many cotton growers
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
Bones of World War
Soldiers Sold for $40 to
SIS Each in New York
Firm Admits Suspicion That Skulls
And Skeletons Shipped by Germans
Came From Battlehelds.

Skulls and skeletons of dead allied
and American soldiers in the world
war are being sold in New York city
for $40 to SIS each Many of the bones
now used for scientific demonstrations
in all parts of the country have been
taken from the battlehelds and ceme-
teries of France, Flanders and the east
ern fronts. Such are the admissions OF
a firm in New Yok city.
This company, which buys skulls
and skeletons from Europe and sells
them in America, obtains its wares
directly from agents of the German
government.
Paul F. Werbe1ow, New York
agent of the firm, declares that his
company has no means OF knowing
for sure where its wares are obtain
ed. The large number OF bones show
ing bullet and shell marks, however,
have convinced him that the remains
are those Of soldiers. He also asserted
that none of the purchasers of the
skulls and bones knew OF their origin
for sure.
lust what action will be taken eth
er by the American authorities or by
the importing firm has not yet been
decided upon. Efforts will be made,
however. to see if the suspicious OF
members of the firm are true. If such
is the case the business may be halted
so far as Germany is concerned.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
Coolidge Declares War
Against Booze in u. S.

War has been declared against
booze in all parts of the United
States by President Coolidge.
While sea forces are attacking rum
row the president has ordered au
thorities on land to combat boot
leggers and moonshiners. Every
available dry" agent in Washing
ton will be sent into the field to
take part in the campaign.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes
has found a new ideal in the gov
ernment's war on liquor. The story
of the curse of booze is to be told
from the roadside and in all public
places by the use of bulletins and
billboards. President Coolidge be-
lieves that a campaign of three
months will make a big difference
in the prohibition situation in this
country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
DECLARES WAR ON ROAMING
HERDS OF WILD HORSES
State Passes Law Enabling Farmers
To Slaughter Worthless Animals.

Montana has declared war upon
more than 100000 wild horses which
are roaming the grazing lands OF the
state. Under a new state law ranchers
have the power to round up the AMI
mails and slaughter or sell them 1t IS
asserted that the amount Of food eat
en- by these wild horses in single
year would sustain 100000 head OF
sheep and 100000 head OF cattle
Farmers complain that bands OF
these horses when range feed becomes
poor swoop down on the ranches, de-
Stroying fences and running crops. II
was to protect the farmers that the
legislature passed the new law
The law provides that county com
missioners, upon sufficient petition
may order round up. The wild hors-
es then may be gathered, and the
marks on any that may be Drandeu
are to be advertised. Owners may
claim the animals upon payment OF d
small fee, and the unclaimed ana un-
marked horses are to be killed. $40
There is a market for about o,OOO OF
these horses yearly. They are slaugh-
tered, and choice pieces OF their meat
exported. Fertilizer and dog iced are
by-products.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
FARMING SLUMPED BADLY IN
LOWNDES LAST FIVE YEARS
Department of Commerce Is Taking
Farm Census in South Georgia.

A decided slump in agriculture has
occurred in the last five years in
Lowndes county, in south Georgia, of
which Valdosta is the county seat, it
is shown in preliminary figures just
made public by the Department of
Commerce in its farm census.
The number of farms had dropped
from ZOOS on January l, 1920, to 1916
on January l, 1925, with decrease
in farm acreage from 273,027 acres in
1920 to 21S,243 in 1925. Farm values
were nearly $2,5O0,0O0 less in 1925
than in 1920, being $5,552,S95 on jan
uary l, 1925, as compared with S.
923,S63 in 1920
The Department of Commerce as
signs no reason for the slump in agri-
culture in Lowndes county. From
time to time ii will make public SINH
lar census reports for other counties,
when it will be possible to determine
whether this condition is general in
the state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
DIST PO(G%RY car This SEASON AT DAWSON TOMORROW
Half of Peanut Crop
Goes to Circus Trade

With one of Americas big three
ring shows is young man by the
name of James Swiggins. Before
his circus days he worked for
bank in Missouri, and was some
thing OF statistician. The number
of peanuts consumed at circus, no
matter where it played, interested
him. So he "joined-up" and became
vendor of peanuts, popcorn and
ice cream cones under the big top.
In one month, according to
Swiggins, circus folks, the patrons
and the elephants will normally
consume 6,759352 peanuts, 1854
packages of popcorn and 97,420 ice
cream cones. If the peanut shells
were saved for a single month there
would be enough to dam up the
Mississippi river. Layed out in a
string they would reach to Mars
and back again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09

DETROIT.-As a clergyman IN an
other plane shouted the wedding cere-
money through megaphone Howard a
N. Potter. a student aviator, and Mss i
Ciadvs Mae Baxter were married D.
GOO feet up in the air today.
|, Potter and his bride arose IN plane
piloted by. Frank OvercasheT. IN, nc
Pey II II Ford, pastor of the Me
mortal Baptist church OF Highland
PARK was a passenger in the other
plane. -a s+onn-
ed. the planes brought close toge'nei
and the ceremony was performed
v. Nicholas and Ruth Baxter, pes
man and maid of honor, respectively,
remained on the ground. They were &c
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
COMPULSORY SCHOOL
LAW IS HELD INVALID
u. S. SUPREME COURT HOLDS
PARENTS HAVE RIGHT IN
DIRECTING CHILDREN.
NOT PREROGATIvE OF STATE
Decision Believed Also to Point Blow
To Anti Evolution Law, as Theory
Involved Is Practically the Same.
The Liberty of Parents.

ne LlDcrIy OF FdICntS'
WASHINGTON, D. C.-In declar-
ing the Oregon school law unconsti-
tutional the supreme court probably
has knocked the foundation from the
Tennessee statute banning the teach
ing of evolution in public schools,
which is expected to come before it
later in the case of John t. Scopes,
young high school professor who was
indicted for expounding the Darwin
ian theory.
In the Oregon case, just decided,
the court held by a unanimous
vote, that the states power over edu-
cation does not go as far as forcing
all children to go to public schools.
The states power in fixing the cur
riculum OF public schools is the stake
in the Tennessee case. In both, there
fore, it is a question OF the extent OF
the states authority in education.
Law Unconstitutional.
The law declared unconstitutional
Monday provided that all children in
Oregon between the ages of eight and
10 must go to public schools. The
law was to go into effect in Septem-
Der next year
An Injunction was secured by the
Society of the Holy Names OF Jesus
and Mary, and Hill Military institute,
on the grounds of unconstitutionality
and that business and property rights
were destroyed by the law. The state
appealed to the supreme court.
Significantly, the state based its
fight before the supreme court on the
ground that the constitution and the
laws of the United States gives the
states control of the education OF chill
dren. This is exactly the same theory
involved in the Tennessee case.
The supreme court, in the decision
Monday, hit very directly at this prin-
ciple.
Liberty of Parents.
"The child" it said, SIS not the mere
creature of the state; those who muir
ture him and direct his destiny have
the right, coupled with the high duty,
to recognize and prepare him for ad-
ditional obligations"
1--WE think it entirely plain that this
law unreasonably interferes with the
liberty of parents and guardians to di-
rect the upbringing and education OF
children under their control. AS often
heretofore pointed out rights guaran-
teed by the constitution may not be
abridged by legislation which has no
reasonable relation to some purpose
within the competency OF the state. -"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
MAN VS.. MONKEY IS THE.
BIG ISSUE IN TENNESSEE
crORM AROUND A TEACHER
WHO IS SOON TO GO ON
TRIAL IN THAT STATE.
READY FOR EVOLUTION FIGHT
BRYAN to Face Clarence Darrow and
Dudley Field Malone in Battle to
Test Legality of Recent School
Regulation by Legislature.

ReguldtlOn ny Legislature
The little town of Dayton, Tenn,
is busting off it's best bib and tucker,
tor if is to be the arena of battle be-
tween man and monkey in June. 1t
will be a battle to decide, primarily
whether man may accept, if he wishes
70 the theory that he is only distant
relative of some tree-climbing denlzen
in some far away jungle, or whether
he is compelled by law to believe he
came to live on this earth through the
nrocesses of creation as described in
the Bible. ,
The Tennessee legislature, prodded
by William Jennings Bryan, objected
TO the teaching of boys and girls that
their ancestors had more strength in
their hands and feet than brains in
their heads. The result was law re-
Gently passed which forbade the teach
ing of the theory of evolution in the
schools of the state.
Bryan Accepts Guage of Battle.
The teachers and scientists have re-
NAMED rather quiet on the subject,
but thew did persuade Professor ]. C..
Scopes, of the Dayton schools, to
break the law deliberately, to submit
10 arrest, and to demand trial. The
object was to test the legality OF the
law. His trial will begin early in July.
William Jennings Bryan, arch foe
of the monkey theory, jumped into the
promised court fight at once. Declar-
ing that science is destroying the re-
ligious principles of the nation, Mi.
BRYAN offered to help prosecute Pro
lessor Scopes. His offer was accepted,
and the orator now is preparing tor
the battle.
With Bryan on the side of the pros
ecuton, which will be handled by the
state attorney generals office, are
many organizations that object to the
theory of evolution.
Clarence S. barrow, the famous Chi
cago criminal lawyer, and Dudley
Field Malone, a brilliant New York
city attorney, offered their services TO
the defense and were accepted.
Teachers and scientists can not
hope to make the money that chautau-
qua lecturers and Florida real estate
agents make explained Mr.. barrow
when he offered to help defend Pro-
lessor Scopes.
And so the two sides now are pre-
pairing for the battle. One side will
contend that a state has the right to
regulate the teaching done in its
schools; the other will deny this right
when it infringes on freedom of scien-
thc and religious beliefs.
Town Now on Map.
The conflict has another effect 1t
has served to put the town OF Dayton
on the map-as Shelby Mont, also
was put on the map, and then imam
cially wrecked, by big prize hight
several years ago.
Dayton expects several thousand Wis
tors, among them famous educators
and scientists, to attend the monkey
law trial. Private homes, churches and
even schools will open their doors to
the visitors, while overflow crowds
from the little court room will be seat
ed in the yard outside.
1t will be a great day Tor Dayton
when the man and the monkey come
TO prjDS
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09

VIII babies become cave men or
aDe-like creatures if they develop with
out contact with human beings!
That is the question DR.. Rudolph
Reouadt. German soldier of fortune
and scientist, will seek to answer in a
novel experiment he will make in East
Africa this summer.
In lonely spot along the coast II
made-in Africa pickaninnies will be
taken from their mothers and COM
pletely isolated Corralled in little
settlement, technically equipped for
the experiment and guarded against
disease and accident, they will be de
yolution analysed" as ii is called.
The German scientist wishes TO find
out whether these isolated babies will
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
Woman's Skin Made Into
Tokens for Her Friends

Having ones surplus skin made
into tokens for ones friends-that
is the latest fad in Paris, France,
and an American woman started it.
The woman underwent an opera
ton for the removal of various and
sundry rolls of fat from her person.
She took the skin, when the oper-
alton was ended, and had it tanned
and made into pocketbooks, purses
and other little mementos These
she has distributed among her close
friends.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
Planning to Isolate IL Babies to SeeT
They viii Become Apes or CaUenen
European Scientists Will Conduct Novel Experiment tugencs
East Africa Adventure Is Attracting Wide Attention

develop a spoken or sign language;
whether they will invent tools ana
spontaneously discover the products
OF modern civilization; or whether
they will retrogress to the stage OF
apes or the level of the cave men, as
some scientists predict. Civilization,
saw these doubters, is merely habit
that will wear away in generation.
The unusual experiment is attract
ing wide attention. The German ad-
venturer may ask several American
scientists to join him in the expert
ment. Before Dr. Requadt goes to
Africa to begin the test he will visit
America and explain more completely
the objects and plans for his expert
ment to scientists of this world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
IS THOUSAND DOLLARS
FOR FARMERS FOWLS
DEVE PMENT AGENT OF
SEABOARD RAILROAD GIVES
FIGURES OF SALES.
FARMERS POULTRY PROFITS
Many Chickens and Other Fowls Are
Expected to Be Sold at Car on We'd
nesday. Gibson Gives Advice as to
How to Bring Them in.

neSday. Gibson G1VeS AoVlce as 10
How to Bring Them in.
The last poultry car to be operated
this season will be at Dawson
from 10 a. m. until 8 p. m. tomorrow
wednesday,. The car will be oper-
ated over the Seaboard Air Line rail-
road as heretofore, and the weighing
and grading will be done in the Gus
tomary manner.
Mr.. F. NJ. Conner, development
agent for the Seaboard Air Line
railroad, in recent letter to The Daw-
son News, says the operation OF the
chicken cars over a portion OF
southwest Georgia has been most sue
cessful. On the last trip the cars, col
lectively, picked up 25,763 pounds OF
poultry, netting the chicken fanclers
of this section a total OF $6,Z54./4'
Other cars have averaged about the
same. and the total proceeds from the
several sales will make a figure OF
about $4,000 in round numbers.
County Agent Gibson again eau
tons those who will sell chickens not
to bring them to the sale tied. or in
sacks, and they should not be crowded.
The visits of the poultry car to
Dawson and Parrot have meant much
to the county in the way of bringing
in cash money at time when it is
always scarce. No doubt poultry rails
ers will look forward to the time when
the trips will be resumed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
Nation Oldest Penny Is
Dug Up in Massachusetts

William NJ. Davis, of Marblehead,
Mass, recently dug up a copper coin
bearing on one side in circle Com
monwealth of Massachusetts" with
the date 1887. On the other side is an
Indian holding a bow and bundle
of arrows and an eagle soaring over
head. The value Of the coin is one cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
PUSH CART MEN DO
AN IMMENSE BUSINESS
New York City's 1850 Pedlers Have
Annual Income of S35.OOO,O OO.

New York city's 1850 pushcart ped
iers do an annual business OF approx
mately $35,000,00O and supply about
l'99OO,000 persons with all or part OF
What they buy in fruits, vegetables
aried fruits, nuts and cheese, accord
ing to an investigator report.
1t is also stated that 90 per cent OF
Inc pedlers are foreign born.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
Wed in Airplane 5000 Feet Up in
Air by Clergyman in Another Craft
Two Machines Plotted So Closely Together That Pastor Metaphor
ii Voice Conducts Service Maid of Honor on Ground

have been in the air in third plane,
but their pilot, Jack Burns, was fatally
injured yesterday, his plane having
fallen when final arrangements were
being made for the marriage.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
TRUCK $175,OOO,OOO
THROUGH STREETS
MOVING FEDERAL RESERVE
BANK AT ST. LOUIS BIG JOB.
100000 IN GOLD.

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-In an ordinary
looking, black armcred truck, marked
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, .
the largest sum of money and securi-
ties - $175,000,000 DO ever transported
through the streets of St. Louis was
quietly moved between Friday and
Sunday night.
1t was moving day for the federal
reserve bank Monday morning the
bank took up business in the huge
new structure at Broadway and Lo-
Gust street, virtually completed after
two years OF work.
Transportation of the money and
securities began Friday night and con-
tinued during daylight Saturday and
Sunday
Late Sunday afternoon the last sack
OF gold coin, each sack flied with S.
900 in gold and weighing 1917 pounds,
had been tugged into the immense I'M
foreground steel vault and was safely
reposing in the new quarters, probably
the most impregnable quarters outside
Iof New York city.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
100000 Gold Coin.

Seven million of the $175,0O0,0O0
was in gold coin. The rest were lib
erty bonds, federal bonds of various
kinds and other securities held by
the bank. 1t was transported in sums
varying from 100000 to several mil
lions.
Fuss and commotion were absent
as the funds trundled through the
downtown streets on way to the new
bank building. The money and bonds
were taken from the vault in the base
ment of the Federal Commerce Trust
building, placed on trucks and wheel
ed into the armored truck by half a
dozen husky negroes, sweating as they
showed the valuable freight about.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
IMPROVED ROADS ARE
by NO MEANS LUXUR|ES
FOR MOVEMENT OF EVERY
VEHICLE OVER HIGHWAY
is A CERTAIN COST.
MAINTENANCE is IMPORTANT

All Should Be Improved to Maximum
Degree Traffic on Them Warrants.
There Is No Such Thing as Real
Permanent Road.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
NEWSPAPER

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-06-26
A VEST POCKET ESSAY
ON EVOLUTION

Evolution is again proving TO be
not only bone, but a whole
skeleton of contention among the
great; the near great. and many OF
the smaller fry no better posted on
the subject. II Darwin was correct.
the monkey might really be juslfied
in claiming that the change has been
one of devolution rather than
evolution. 1t must be admitted that
one never hears of Mr.. Monkey
driving an automobile while drunk:
absorbing bootleg whiskey, or trying
to beat train to a crossing. Even
their method of welfare is much
more civilized, for instead OF using
murderous firearms, or Iethal gases.
few bumps from well directed
cocoanuts usually gratifies their de-
sire for bloodshed Explorers Will
tell you that, in Jungleland, one
never finds pile of tin cans be-
hind monkeys residence. There
fore. it is evident that Mrs. Monkey
does not grab the evening meal at
the corner grocery and serve it
au naturel after spending an ener-
waiting afternoon at bridge or the
movies. Neither has she been ac-
cused of neglecting her children, GO
ing through her husbands pockets
or buying his neckties.
One OF the recent developments in
the evolutionary processes which
have been at work in hog cholera
control activities is the more general
appreciation of the Importance OF
Keeping the hog cholera bug" from
finding home on hog farm.
Keep him off" is better slogan
than Kick him Off" At the begin
ming of the present century, when
hog cholera would strike a neigh
borhood, it always became epidemic
Tor no one knew what to do to pro-
tect hogs from the disease. A few
years later the anti-hog cholera
serum was discovered and thus the
farmers were able to protect their
hogs by immunization when the
malady made it's appearance in a
leighborhood, but this did not solve
The problem of the introduction.
harboring and spread OF the in
lection. Now that the sources of
infection in new outbreaks, as well
is its spread from farm to farm
have been worked out, it is possible
~ the employment OF sanitary
measures, which is nothing but
reasonable care, to not only protect
swine from this dread disease, but
accomplish it's eradication.
l. K. ATHERTON,
Inspector in Charge OF
Hog Cholera Work.
No Monkey Business
on Sanitation Boulevard