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COST OF PUBLISHING NEWSPAPER INCREASED 400 PER CENT IN 5 YEARS! Atlanta, Ga, May 14?Atlanta dai-j ly papers, as well as other dailies i throughout the South, are still forc-i I ivl to meet mounting costs, according! to local publishers. Few people realize, as publishers litre point out, that the cost of pro <\icing a modern daily newspaper is as great as the cost of opertaing a manufacturing plant employing many more people than a newspaper may employ. This is due, it is stated, to ? several circumstances, one being that the newspaper requires more skilled and high priced men than the aver age manufacturing plant. Another reason is that newspaper expenses cover a wider field than any manu facturing concern. ^ Aside from the wages paid to the men and women employed on a newspaper, ink and the hundred and one other things entering into the production of a newspaper, theie ape heavy expenses with which only pub lishers who have to meet the bills are familiar. For instance, the leased telegraph j wires that bring t^e news of the j world directly into the office of a newspaper are a burden of expense j as well as the cost of the press ser-j vice they carry. Postage and the expense of delivering the papers to subscribers at home and abroad cost thousands of dollars annually. Tele-j graph and telephone tolls on newsj sent by correspondents are big items' In fact a modern daily newspaper has a thousand expenses to meet and only two sources of revenue?circu lation and advertls'ng. The statement is made by an At-1 lanta daily that it costs approximate- j ly $5,000 a day to produce its paper.; This, the paper says, is an increase of more than 400 per cent in five years. The figures in a general way, ac cording to local publishers, are true of every big newspaper in the coun-| try, and the smaller dailies have ex penses proportionately as large. CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S PANTS RUINED Los Angeles, May 12.?Charlie Chaplin, motion picture comedian, * who was burned about the leg yester day when he stumbled over a blow torch in the study where he was working, is suffering no serious ef fects but will be unable to work for several days. Chaplin was said to re gard the destruction of a pair of i patched pants, familiar to millions { of ftlm patrons as the worst feature! of the accident. ?Watch the label on your paper and renew your subscription promptly. The Victrola What Gold is The one final stands in selecting an ini home, you choose th VICTOR Records, I your judgment. Our stock of R ments is complete? THE 1 The Really Music Ali maKes 01 mum Factory trair "HAVE YOU HEARD ABOU1 raizjEniizjzjEfiLniriLraniJiui KILN-DRIED SWEET POTATOES SHIPPED FROM GEORGIA TO ENGLAND The results of an interesting test shipment of kijn-dried sweet pota toes from Montezuma, Ga., to Lon don, England, were made public Fri day morning by the headquarters of the Georgia Farm Bureau federation in which it was shown that the po tatoes not only arrived in good con dition in London, but brought an average of 10 cents per pound. The test was made by tne market division of the State College of Ag riefolure jjj collaboration with the United States bureau of markets. The shipment was made on March 7, and jvere on sale in London on April 1. R. A. Kelly, president of the Farm Bureau Federation, in discuss ing the test, said that it showed conclusively that sweet potato grow ers in Georgia could cure their pota toes by the kiln-drying method,, ship them abroad and secure a good price. He said that the export busi ness of sweet potatoes would be one of the movements that the farm bu reau expected to push this year. The sweet potatoes shipped were cured in drying house of the type approved by the United States bu reau of markets. It is announced that further tests will be made from time to time during the immediate future. \ MUCH COTTON KILLED Washington, May 12.?Decidedly unfavorable weather prevailed dur ing the last week for cotton through out the Southern states, the national | weather and crop bulletin announc ed today. , '"It was unseasonab''' cool," the bulletin said, "especial., during the first half of the week, and heavy rains occurred in most localities from the Mississippi valley west ward at its close. It ha? been neces sary to replant much cotton and the cool weather has prevented satisfac tory germination of the replanted seed; consequently the stands are mostly poor. "Much cotton has been killed in Georgia, while the crop is reported as making poor progress in the Carolinas; warm rains are needed in the southeastern portions'' of the belt. Planting is now about two weeks late in the northwestern por tions as a result of the continued unfavorable weather for this work. "Cotton shows some improvement i in southern Texas, but the crop made poor progress in other portions of the state. Local improvement was reported also from a few places in Arkansas, but the crop deteriorated in many places." rzrarajapjrjiL^^ is to Music to Commerce j :i ird of value. When ! itrument for your e VICTROLA and | the world confirms I ecords and Instru arme UKpral. i r Ui iVi ECHO Spot in Abbeville. ^graphs repaired by led expert. r THE MICROBE OF LOVE?" i I MMBBfiBBHfifigglii HONOR SHOULD BE AMERICA'S Washington Man Really Was the Frit to Demonstrate Possibilities of Wireless Telegraphy. A dentist living in Washington. D. d, Invented, patented and denaon trated wireless telegraphy before Marconi was born. Had it not been for the attitude of big newspapers and the stubbornness and lack of vision of congress, this country today would be enjoying the honor, distinction and credit of presenting wireless telegra phy to the world. The name of this comparatively unknown inventive gen ius is Mahlon Loom is. Back in the sixties and seventies he eked out a modest living by plugging molars and making "store" teeth for the politi cians and social leaders of Washing ton. Doctor l/oomis called his discov ery "aerial telegraphy." His first pub lic demonstration was made in 1806 from the two peaks of the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia, some 18 miles anart. From each peak an ordinary kite was elevated, connected with an Insulated copper wire attached at the lower end to a telegraphing appa ratus. The operators of each party were provided with telescopes, with which they could sight from one sta tion to the other and read the signals. When all was in readiness a message was SPnt by the doctor along the wire of his kite, and was received at the tation on the other mountain top just as though the two kites had been con nected with a wire in the ordinary way. in this manner communications were kept up until Jhe fact was thor oughly demonstrated that telegraphing could he done as readily without as with connecting wires. DOG RELAYS CALL OF 'PHOklE Well-Trained Animal Said Never to Make a Mistake in Notifying Hi* Mistros*. Not far from Boston lives a dog by the name of TImbuctoo, a dog which has never been trained but which of Its own accord acquired a "trick" which besides being cfever is decidedly helpfnl. Mis home Is on a farm, which is served hy a seven-party telephone line. The call at Timbuctoo's house Is five bells, or as the toll operator would say, "Ring five." Wherever his mistress Is when the telephone rings Ave times Timbuctoo ' will go to her and give five short, sharp barks. He has never been known to roake,a mis take either by barking more or less than five barks, or by calling his mis tress when the hell rings some other call. In order to "show off TImbuctoo," his mistress asks a neighbor to call her in n lew rainures, uien sue bu? somewhere out of range of the tele phone", and Tfmbuctoo never fails to give proof of his trustworthy sum moning. Cadets' Great Ride. Two hundred and fifty senior cadets of Victoria, B. C., have recently com pleted a J,400-mile ride on bicycles, bearing dispatches from the state com mandant to the minister for defense. The small riders averaged more than 14 miles an hour, and they completed their task?6 hours and 23 minutes ahead of schedule. This fine perform tnce roused public Interest in the new system of cadet training, which has taken the place of the monotonous drill-yaVd evolutions. Australia Is training its youngest soldiers in camaraderie, self-sacrifice, alertness and a love of athletics. The story of the 1,400-mile ride against .unex pected obstacles has s|t a standard which will not be easily forgotten by the Australian boy. While the dis patch ride has done much to dlrecl attention to a happier system of train ing, it has also served to awaken the Interest of fathers and elder brotbers. Eggs From the Orient A train of 25 cars, loaded entirely with Japanese and Chinese eggs, left Vancouver, B. C., the other day, bound for New Tork. The train was made up of nine carloads sent over from Seattle to be attached to sixteen car loads of eggs from the steamer Em press of Russia. The eggs from Seattle were delivered by Japanese liners. The eggs, with the exception of 1,500 (jases for LondoDj England, and 1,000 cases for Montreal, were all consigned to New York. The shipment to the latter point consisted of approximate ly 17,500 cases of 30 and 36 dozen each, or about 6,500,000, more than an egg for breakfast for every man, wom an and child In New York city. T ? I^ j Economy Carried to Exceaa. A short time ago, on seeing a man who was sitting beside me In a cafe teria "get away" with a large fcam burger sandwich in three bites, all "mind your own business" policies were cast aside and I remarked, "You must Intend to catch an out-of-town train; you are in sue.i a hurry." He cume back wi;\ "Oh, no. You see every one's stun \ch requires a certain amount of men and it is known that by gulping it it cakes longer tc digest. As meat is hUn I eat this waj and by'so doing I have to eat meal but everj? third day."?Exchange. Past the Academic 8tage. "Should women smoke?" asked tbi nrnn who likes to theorize. "That isn't the question any longer,' suld Mr. Gadspur. "No?" "What we've got to decide now ii whether or not the additional fire rish caused by women smokers will Justify the insurance companies in raisin; their rates."?Birmingham Age-Herald IH walk The pleasure is wortH it. stitute for Camel quality i fragrant Camel blend. The fellow who smokes Camels. That's because C smoothness, a fragrance and can't get in another cigarett< Don't: let anyone tell you \ cigarette at any price is so { Let your own taste be tl Camels for yourself. Afewsmc puffs and you'd walk a mile fi KTEWSPAPE rising is the of local trade, touches all c 1 W r/NVT! dUUltUd 111 cvu^ ity. It gives th advertiser the portunity for consumer appe locality. THE PRESS II! a Camel There's no sub and that mild, Camels, wants Camels have a a mildness you that any other rood as Camels. le iudfere. Trv R adlver i lifeblood because it onsumer xommun e national , same op complete ;al in any More than $700,000,000 was spent last year for newspaper advertising \ by merchants and manufacturers. AND BANNER