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The Washington times., 1925-05-14
D. c. Fountains To Be
Turned On; First
Time Since War

Paris, renowned for its many
beautiful fountains, will be ri
vailed by Washington this sum-
mer, when all of the display
fountains in the National Capt.
tai will be turned on for the
first time since the outbreak
of the world war.
Lieutenant Colonel C. o.
Sheriff., director of public build
ings and public parks today or
dered that throughout the sum-
mer, probably beginning about
the middle of June, the foun-
tains be played from to 7
p. m. daily. The plan has been
approved by the office of the
Engineer Commissioner, which
is in charge of the District
water supply.
Twenty-Five fountains will be
operated under this order. All
Of the fountains are of the
electrical pump variety, using
the same supply of water over
and over again.
The Washington times., 1925-05-14

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United States. He will soon make
a formal report to Secretary Of the
Treasury Mellon.
The Washington times., 1925-05-14
q BODIES RECOVERED IN
MISSISSIPPI DISASTER

MEMPHIS, Tenn, May IA
Search of the Mississippi river
banks between here and the Gulf
Of Mexico for the bodies Of victims
who persisted when the steamer
Norman went to it's doom last Fri
day continued today.
The searchers, in charge Of Gov
eminent engineers, who have been
working necessarily since the boat
sank were much heartened when
the bodies of two of the victims, c..
H. Miller, Of Little Rock, and Earl
Simonson, of Memphis, were found
yesterday.
Although twenty-three persisted in
the disaster, only four bodies have
been recovered
The Washington times., 1925-05-14
RATING SURVEY.
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ploye above SIS per cent. it Is stated.
Efforts will be made this summer
to abandon the semi-annual ratings,
Mr.. Bailey said, and to take an an
nual rating on May rs, with special
individual ratings during the year
in cases where employees are trans.
ferred or admitted to the service.
Too Many Ratings
There is a widespread opinion
that two ratings a year are not
necessary" Mr.. Bailey said. TT
is felt that one rating year will
be sufficient for all practical pur-
poses and that the extra Noyember
rating now taken is merely a waste
of money and effort, in addition to
its effect in disturbing the routine
work of departments and individual
employees.
It is proposed to allow Federal
employees l per cent credit for each
year of service, to be added to the
efficiency ratings. Thus an EN-.
ploye with twenty-five years Of
service to his credit, who had an
efficiency rating of rs per cent,
would be given a separation" rat.
ing Of 100 per cent
In cases where the separation
ratings of employees doing the same
type of work We're equal and 1t
became necessary to discharge one
of them because Of reduction Of
the force, an allowance would be
made for dependents and the man
with a family to support would be
retained rather than the single
man, under the plan now being
considered by department heads.
The Washington times., 1925-05-14

in his possession at the time Of his
arrest about $4,000 worth OF prop
erty, which he turned over to the
postal authorities. He also turned
over to them number of pawn
tickets and $491 in cash.
Coffman stated that he had not
disposed Of any of the $4,000 worth
OF property he had taken. he lived
IN Alexandria at the time ana mas
q wife and four young children.
The Washington times., 1925-05-14
OPERATION
PLANNED BY
FORD
Ten to Thirty to Be Operated
if Shipping Board Deal
Goes Through
Bx international News Service.

DETROIT, Mich, May ID.
Operation of a merchant fleet
under the direction of Henry Ford
was in prospect today, with the
announcement that the automo-
bile manufacturer was considering
the purchase the four hundred
steel vessels from the United
States Shipping Board.
First inkling of the automobile
manufacturers plan came when
T. v. O'Connor, of Buffalo, chair
man of the Shipping Board, an
nounced after a two-day con-
ference that Ford might make
such a purchase.
Il Wants Only Big Ships.
Most of the shipping board ves-
sells are pretty small for our pur-
poses," said Ford, in discussing the
report. I'VE might buy them If
the price were right, but it is only
those of around 10000 tons that
would be suitable for our use. The
others would have to he scrapped.
What we need is ships about
the tonnage Of the East Indian,
which we bought from the Ship
ping Board to be reconditioned for
export trade to Denmark. The
East Indian runs around r. 900
tons.
1.-THE onondaga and the Oneida,
which were put into the South
American and coast.wise service
last summer, were also Shipping
Board ships. They are much too
small for the sort of trade we
PLAN"
Ford said. too, that he would be
careful to see that any boats he
bought were built right.
Many Thrown Together.
1--WE know the onondaga and the
Oneida were right; they were built
near home,'' he said. But a lot
of the shipping boards vessels were
thrown together. at a time when
everyone was crazy. Some are not
strong, and others have engines
that are really pretty bad. They
were built to meet an emergency
need, of course, and ours is not
an emergency need"
The question of price still re-
mains to be settled, of course.
There was indication in the tone
of O'Connor's remarks that the
Government would not split hairs
on that point The Fords said they
will pay little more for the vessels
than they would pay for scrap,
since much Of the fleet would have
to be scrapped anyhow, and the
remainder reconditioned at great
expense. They would not hope to
use as carriers all the boats they
bought, it was limited.
Use Only a Few.
1--WE could not use more than a
few, maybe ten to thirty, il we used
any" said Ford.
The purchase would take about
one.third the vessels remaining in
the Shipping Board fleet The wood
bottoms are already disposed Of,
O'Connor said.
The Washington times., 1925-05-14
CAT ADOPTS SQUIRRELS
TO REPLACE KITTENS

EDGEwATER PARK, n. J., May
IA cat on the farm Of James
Walton, near here. has adopted
two baby squirrels to take the
place of her kittens, which were
drowned, and is rearing them as
her own.
When a large tree blew down a
few days ago the two tiny squirrels
were found on the ground, their
mother having been either killed
or frightened away. The cat, still
mourning the loss of her kittens,
at once appropriated the squirrels
and has been nursing them regu-
larIy They appear to be flourish.
ing.
The Washington times., 1925-05-14
TTNIJED DRY,SEAING OF THE u S. WILL COST $2O00O00OO
Widow Is Model For
Figure On Tomb
OF Husband

NEW YORK, May 14.--Mrs.
Alfred H. Smith, whose hus-
band, then president Of the New
York Central lines, was killed
by a fall from his horse in Gen.
trail Park a year ago, has posed
for parts of one of two figures
for a granite rnausoleum which
will mark his grave in Kensico
cemetery, it was announced by
Charles Keck, sculptor.
Mrs. Smith, he said, had been
his model for the arms, hands
and face of the female nude fig
ure of the group. A profession
al model had posed for the body.
The Washington times., 1925-05-14
NJ { n CONFESS
To ROBBINS
MAILS
FORMER Employees OF Railway
Mail Service Held in
So, 500 Bail

Pleas OF guilty of robbing the
rails were made today by Arnold
b. Coffman. twenty EIGHT. and Kirby
e. DeIlinger, twenty-six. former en-
TIoyes of the Railway Mail Service,
Washington Terminal Postoffice.
They were arraigned before United
States Commissioner Needham c..
Turnage, who held them in $1,000
hail. Dillinger was arrested in Bal
timore after a fracas with the
police.
In their confession the men
stated that they had taken watches,
revolvers, shirts. neckties and other
articles from the mails.
Dellinger admitted that he had
The Washington times., 1925-05-14
$4,000 ARE HOMELESS
IN JAPANESE TOWN

LONDON May 14.-Twenty-five
thousand persons are homeless to-
day as a result of fires which de-
stroyed practically all Of Kumagaya,
near Tokyo, yesterday, according
to a dispatch to the Times today.
The Tokyo fire department was
unable to extend help due to three
fires in Tokyo which made 1904
homeless
The Washington times., 1925-05-14
DENTIST SENTENCED
TO LIFE FOR STAYING

LAFAYETTE, Ga, May 14.-Doc.
tor T. F.. Madden, Rossville dentist.
was sentenced to life Imprisonment
by Judge Wright here today afte.
he had been found guilty of murder.
ing Dan Quinn several months ago.
Quinn was shot to death in q
street brawl following a gambling
game. Beulah Kilgore and Fl. X.
Martin are charged with completely
in the killing, and may be brought
to trial later
The Washington times., 1925-05-14
Angry Wife Betrays Mate

DETROIT, May 14.-Angry be-
cause her husband came home
drunk, Mrs. Lewis Basom told po-
lice he escaped from Ohio State
prison at Columbus nine years ago,
and he will be returned to serve
the remainder of his sentence Of
from one to fifteen years.
He escaped after serving one
year and came here, where he has
lived honestly, marrying and rear
'ro five children
The Washington times., 1925-05-14

in mind in framing the estimates
are to push the five-year program
nearer completion, and to- provide
for future expansion of the schools
by purchase of sites in sections
where land may be bought before
building projects could be reached.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-31
TerrelTs First Methodist Church

Editor Dawson News: There is an err
ror in the History of Terrell County" as to
the first Methodist church in what is now
Terrell, but at that time Lee county.
In f843 a preaching place was opened at
the residence of William Hunter, near what
was afterwards Chickasawhatchee village, and
the church was constituted in 1874 with these
names-Wiam Hunter, his wife, Nancy
Rives Hunter; Joel Z. Hunter and Caroline
Hunter, and later, before the church house
was built, others. The house was builded in
about 1880 The first Methodist church
(turned over to the negroes later was Whey
Branch, about four miles south Of New Hope,
in what was then Baker but now Calhoun
county. This was a hourishing church in
1916, Just as Gillonville on the east side of
Chickasawhatchee creek, was a fourishing
town of 1000 inhabitants. Now scarcely a
house remains Chickasawhatchee was founded
about 1850 by William H. Crawford, and the
sale of liquor forbidden in its bounds. My
father Robert Rives; Judge Parker once
Judge of the Inferior Court of Lee county, and
one other, name forgotten, moved the county
site of Lee three times as commissioners des-
ignated by the legislature, finally taking it
back to Starksville, where it remained until
1906 At one time it was located for two
years and court was held there ten miles
east of Dawson The Alsey Davis mentioned
was the second wife of my mothers uncle,
James Jackson Davis, widow McLendon at
the time of their marriage. The Davises
originally spelled Dawes were Pennsylvania
Welsh, coming from North Carolina to Geor
gia about $780, and settling in Walton coun-
ty The B. F. Cooke is the uncle of Frank
Cooke and myself. l think it is an error about
Uncle Frank being a member at Dawson He
was probably member OF the Presbytery
constituting the Dawson church, but his mem
bership remained in Palmyra after his com
ing from near Old Philadelphia in Early
county, until the Baptist church at Chicka-
sawhatchee was constituted. Yours,
ANDREW P. RIVES.
March Is. 1925
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-31
Vivisection Outdone.

Foreign language newspapers in Japan are
vigorously denouncing the plan of Chief Sur
geon Wakatsuki, of the Japanese naval aerial
corps, to hurl live monkey from airplane
at height of 200 meters in an effort to de-
termine what injuries the animal would suf-
fer. The monkey would be dropped in a
miniature arplane, and, of course would be
killed just as would an aviator hurled from a
great height to the ground. The Japanese
doctor expects the animals internal organs to
be crushed by the impact and this he will
base his alleged experiment in the interest
of science"
DR. Wakatsuk has theory that certain
things would happen to a human being
dropped from a height of 200 meters. He is
eager to prove it, and therefore will, if per-
mitted sacrifice the helpless animal Later
he will erect a propeller shaped monument in
memory of the animal he expects to sacrifice
in the pursuit of his experiments. Obviously,
he contemplates extensive experiments" Of
this nature which surpass vivi-section in
cruelty 1t is not strange that foreign Ian
guage newspapers in Japan are protesting,
and it is an Indictment of the Japanese press
that remains silent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-31
Chains of Slavery.

Men and women in Chicago were hidden
to "arise and break the chains Of slavery" as
the international" was sung during riot
between anti-sovets and a motley group of
half-crazed radicals in sympathy with the
Russian bolsheviki. Instead of "chains of
slavery" being broken Chicago police broke
heads with their night sticks, but since a small
number was thus treated, it may be doubted
that the bluecoats were as efficient in this
particular work as patriotic Americans might
wish them to be.
"On with the great American revolution"
was another appeal heard in the Chicago riot.
What a pity there were not enough night
sticks to go around! A revolution was once
fought in this country in the name of free
dom, and it succeeded. AS long as true
Americans survive another revolution to over
turn the government thus founded will not,
cannot succeed.
1t seems that Chicago's latest riot points
the way for more deportations. 1t also ex-
plains the growth of secret order that has
been much in the public eye in recent years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-31
Those Bargains" in Investments.

There are no bargains in investment Sc
curities, as the public understands bargains
through its experience with merchandise. The
fair and honest price for any security is not
made by any man, company or group OF men.
1t is made, first, by the safety of the Sc
curity; second, by the amount OF interest or
dividends it will pay; third, by its market
ability; fourth by the interest rates banks
are charging for loans.
AT hand is a circular advertising bargains"
in oil stocks Ii some one is spending money
for postage and printing bills to sell those
stocks cheap" it is absolutely certain that
they are worth less than the bargain prices
named in the circular If his stocks were
safe. if they paid dividends in money and not
in glttering promises if they were desired
bv experienced investors and if they paid
higher returns than the present bank rates
those factors would make fair and honest
price for his stocks and he wouldn't have to
sell them at a bargain. All this get-rich-
auick-tak about bargains simply indicates
that some one is trying to peddle something
for more than it is worth.
Occasionally good stock or bond may be
bought for slightly less than it is worth. This
is because shrewd judges OF securities, who
are constantly seeking sound securities Tor
| or 2 per cent or even a fraction OF per
cent less than they are worth, have Temporal
rily overlooked these particular securities
When that happens some experienced investor
soon discovers it and the securities are quick
ly bought up. Cheap securities are rarely
bargains" They are the most unsafe and
the most expensive to buy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-31
Why We Are Not Prosperous.
From the Winder News.

Georgias total cotton crop last year was
$l00,000000 Her total automobile account
was valued at $101 100000, including trucks,
and this does not take into account the up
keep of the automobiles nor the gasoline burn
ed Georgia adds about 36701 new cars to
her supply every five years.
The truth of the matter is that Georgia is
spending too much money for pleasure. We
can't pay our bills for groceries and clothing
and spend the money we are now spending
for pleasure
Much of the optimism that is presented in
after-dinner speeches in the larger cities does
not obtain in the rural and smaller city COM
munities. There is an increasing concentra-
ton of trade and finances in the larger cities
and like falling off in the smaller towns.
Automobiles are running lot of people
financially in the smaller towns and rural
sections. All of our money goes north for au-
tomobiles The banks can't finance the farm
ers because the money goes north for auto
mobiles instead of being placed in the banks
on deposit.
We can't finance a crop in Georgia because
we are sending all our money as fast as we
can make it north for automobiles.
We are not yet on the road to prosperity
in Georgia and won't be until we quit sending
our money north for pleasure rides, and keep
it at home to finance ourselves in making our
annual crops of cotton, and other things
that are essential to life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-31
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
OMAR AND BROWNING

love old Omar's verses fine they glide
in music line on line they thrill me like his
Persian wine. He joyed to sit beneath the
shade allured by book and jug and maid, yet
knew that youth and beauty fade. He saw
lifes bitterness and wrong the meeting brief,
the parting long, and pessimism fills his song.
We still take cash, let credit go; some still
like him no future know, no Sea of God to-
ward which we flow. But pessimism gets my
goat and so | turn for antidote to that great
poem Browning wrote. Rabbi Ben Ezra calls
for pluck to bust the kernel from the shuck,
for Browning's style is something fearful
yet when he speaks he says an earful. Since
we are busy folks these days | give his stuff
in paraphrase. Grow old, says he, along Of
me- the best Of life is yet to be. Youth swal-
lows many a bitter pill, but age can weigh
the good and ill., We should enjoy as heaven
nears the garnered wisdom of our years.
feel that Browning's right in this yet folks at
forty plus wis, like me some earlier bless
ings miss. Though very pleasant wisdom is,
old age has also rheumatic. It's very good to
grow serene, but | want hair upon my bean.
And so | keep heaven in view where I'll
have youth and wisdom, too.
BOB ADAMS
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-31
Outstanding Needs.
From the Pearson Tribune.

Every community needs few outstanding
qualities among its people if it is to prosper
and ours is rather hard and fixed recipe for
community development,
We need stabi1ity-the will power to de-
termine that which is right and for the best
interests of the community as whole, and
a determination to see that only right pre-
walls.
We need an unanimity of purpose-the
ability and desire to agree upon what is want
ed and then go after it and get it.
We need aggressiveness-for without it the
finest ambitions come to naught and stagna-
ton and Incidence lead to dry rot.
We need loya1ty-for without it we will
enrich commercial interests at distant points
and improverish our people at home.
Some places grow and thrive because of
their natural advantages and others improve
their conditions only through the energy and
perseverance of their citizenship.
Our future as a community depends on
whether we as people are willing to forget
selhshness and greed and put ourselves into
the movement for bigger and better town
and county.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-31
GeOrgia's Abandoned Farms.
From the Sparks Eagle.

Mr.. Tom Loyless, writing for the Macon
Telegraph, wants the immigration laws
amended so as to admit more foreigners, in
the hope that said foreigners will settle on
and work the abandoned farms" of Georgia.
In 1920 every available foot of every farm in
Georgia was worked to the limit by native
labor, and would be again if it were possible
to sell the products OF such farms for any
thing like living price. 1t is a provable
fact that more peaches, melons, vegetables
and other products rotted in the fields last
year than were sold. Suppose we admit the
foreigner, and suppose that instead OF open
ing a pawn shop or peanut stand he goes to
farming, how is he going to dispose OF his
crops to any better advantage than the ma
tive Georgia farmer can when the crops Will
not sell for enough to pay the freight?
The Georgia farmer did not abandon his
farm for lazines to work it, as is sometimes
more than limited by some of our soft-handed
farmers who do their farming on paper while
seated at a mahogany desk in steam-heated
office.
The Georgia farmer leaves his farm because
he has to eat, wear clothes, desires to educate
his children and enjoy few OF the many COM
forts that our civilization has provided, and
when the world decides to pay him enough for
his products that his income will at least ap-
proximate that a railroad section hand he
will go back to the farm and make it bloom
as no foreigner ever could or would.
We are not ndulging in pessimism; we are
just stating cold, brutal facts.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-31
The Small Town Is Passing

The News has contended for some time
that the automobile and the parcel post were
destroying the business of the smaller towns
and converting once busy and prosperous
trade centers into slow and sleepy commu-
mites. The Wnder News said in recent
issue:
OF course we are all in favor OF good
roads but its our private opinion, pub
liclv expressed that automobiles and good
roads are going to play havoc with the
smaller towns and cities throughout the
country. Cities like Atlanta and Athens
are going to get the trade while the
smaller cities and towns will suffer
thereby. The day of the small town is
passing.
Commenting on the above from the Win
der paper, Jim Nevin in his Current Events"
in the Atlanta Georgian declares with evil
dent satisfaction that "the day of the small
town as heretofore known is passing" and
adds:
Motors and good roads-they are oblit
Grating corporate limits in Georgia, IN
large and small towns alike. By and by
airshps will tend to make us still more
a great community in Georgia, rather than
a lot OF widely separated cities ana towns,
hard to get to. And that will be fine!
The smallest village in Georgia and the
most remote is more part of Atlanta,
Macon and Savannah today than ever 1t
dreamed it might be rs years ago.
The day of the small town is passing.
We are getting together" and when
we shall have adjusted ourselves to that
we shall be all the better because of it.
There is no doubt that many Of the better
class of stores in towns like Dawson, Triton,
Cuthbert, Montezuma and Others that we
might mention have already been put out
of business, and others are merely hanging
on hoping for better things. No one agency
has contributed as much to the material edu-
cational and moral upbuilding of their sections
than towns like these, and it will be an
evil day for all concerned especially the rural
sections which have depnded upon them for
family necessities and markets for their pro-
duce when they cease to be centers OF bus
mess activity because home people find it con-
venient to trade elsewhere and prefer to build
up the larger places with their patronage.
The condition in this respect is already
much worse than it should be, and it is to be
hoped it will never be as bad as Mr. Nevin
predicts.