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The Dawson News
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BY E. L. RAINEY,
ERLE COCKE, Local Editor.
DAWSON, GA., JUNE 5, 1917.
Experience seems in a fair way to make
the colonel & good loser.
It is as important to mobilize food grow
ors as it is to mobolize soldiers.
A dollar is harder to get than to spend
or lend. The same is true of a billion, and
even more so of two billions.
It is not to be overlooked that while we
are working on plans to beat the submarine
plans are being worked on by the subma
vine for beating the submarine.
General Brussiloff complains that his
soldiers are bestowing kisses upon German
soldiers who come out and embrace them.
Obviously there has been no dimunition of
+he German will to win.
The spring poetry gentleman seems to be
almost crowded off the boards by the pa-§
triotic citizen who wants to put his fight
into rhyme. The condition gets serious!
when we have these two on hand at onel
time. |
The purchase of a liberty bond is con
sidered an act of patriotism. To date,
however; very little has been said about the
patriotism of the unborn generation which'
will have the bonds to pay, says a contem
porary. Well, they are patriots, too. ]
AND THE FARMER SMILES.
It must make the farmer smile to himself
as he reads the appeals to him “to raise all
the foodstuffs he can this year.” The farm
er who knows anything at all always raises
all he can. He would be a very foolishl
farmer if he did otherwise. It is a good
deal like telling the merchant to buy and
sell all the goods he can this year.
The farmer might learn something to his
advantage in the government reports by find
ing out what kinds of food are short in'
supply, and make more money and serve
the country by devoting more time and at
tention to those particular crops, but to sim
ply tell him to raise all he can is wasted
energy. He will do it, anyway.
AERIAL PROGRESS.
Twenty years ago the country was amused
over utterly preposterous reports of seeing
absolutely impossible airships here, there
and everywhere. Nobody remembers now,
if indeed anybody then understood, how the |
airship fake got started, but any newspaper
file will show what a wide swath it cut in the
news reports of the day. Scarcely any
community in the whole country failed to,
contribute some sort of yarn to push along
the excitement over the hoax. In some
communities some people paid real quarters
for admission to an enclosure in which they
might inspect a weird looking contraption
of laths and canvas, supposed to be an air
ship that had landed in the darkness of the
previous night. The American people en
joyed the sell, be it understood, because
it was thoroughly well understood that a
practical airship was as far beyond the
realm of common sense as was perpetuall
motion. i
What about it? Oh, nothing except that
just twenty years after the public laugh
ed over the fact that anybody could accept
aerial navigation as a practical proposition'
airships are performing a vital function in
winning the greatest war in the history of
the world. The zeppelin as a long-distance
offensive agent has proved a failure as yet,
but the airplane has taken its place as al
factor of primal importance in land opera
tions. Prior to every important artillery!
and infantry engagement in the presenti
war a battle is fought for control of the
air. And the side that wins control of the
air, or even a preponderating advantage
in the air, has won a distinct and possibly
a determining advantage over the enemy.
Control of the air means opportunity for
ascertaining and blocking all the defensive
or counter offensive moves of the enemy. It
was in the air the allies won the first round
of the present epoch-making battle on the
western front. '
So far has the airship traveled in two
decades.
SUPPRESSING TEDDY. |
Congress did not suppress Teddy Roose-;
velt. It unloaded the job on the president, |
who became the mouthpiece of the army|
board after the action taken by congress '
Immediately the president announced his |
decision the ex-president declined the bri-t
'gadier-generalship offered him by Governorx
Whitman, of New York, and issued a proc- |
lamation to his followers advising them to |
enlist wherever they could. If Teddy could |
not be a general he could be a martyr. So‘l
far as the administration is concerned, if it
would succeed in suppressing Teddy it must
cease discussing him. The more said at
Washington the more will emanate from
Oyster Bay. |
Mr. Roosevelt wanted to go to France, we
Are sure, but he has opportunity now to set
2 wholesome example of acquisence in au
thority for the sake of the commonwealth.
If he is the big man that many think he is
be will loom up all the bigger to the check
to his ambition,
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HYSTERIA IN THE SADDLE.
It is well enough to pay ds we gc while
at war, but the average man sees no reason
why the burden could not be extended over
two decades.
It so happens that the present is a time
of extortionately high prices on account of
the war, and while some talk of a proba
bility of a war that will last two or three
vears the true judgment seems to be that
it will be over in a year, if not before
Christmas. The United States will have no
trouble to meet the financial burdens which
the war will impose, but the people of the
country can see no reason wWhy congréss
or others in authority should lose their
heads in a matter so vital to the public as
taxation. If half a billion a year were rais
ed out of taxation to meet war costs the
total cost could be retired very comfortably
by the present generation without hardship
or strain.
Hysteria seems now much more in evi
dence in Washington than it is anywhere
else in the country.
MR. SUNDAY'S METHODS.
Atlanta, which loves sensation and no
toriety of any kind that attracts people, is
beside herself at the prospect of having Mr.
William Sunday hold revival services in that
city. An extract from a graphic article tell
ing of the revival services Mr. Sunday is
now holding in New York city says:
“When I get to heaven, as in due
time I shall, praise God, the first thing
I'm going to do is to walk up to Jesus
and say, ‘‘Jesus, where does Moses’
mother live?”” And Jesus will call one
of the angels and say, ‘Go page Moses’
mother and, when you find her, tell her
Billy Sunday is here and wants to see
her.” And then I'm going to ask her
how much old Pharoah paid her that
time for taking care of her own son.
I've got an awful curiostiy to know all
about that.”
An utterance in spirit and words like this
from the pulpit is calculated to—well, let
us say impress many people. As to how it will
impress is a matter of individuality. Many
of us have been reared to listen to pulpit
utterances in reverent and receptive spirit.
Mr. Sunday seems to be able to talk after
this fashion and gather fame and popularity,
and to thrive as well. But there are men
and women who will read this who will won
der, as we do, how they would feel at hear
ing such words in the pulpit (or out of the
pulpit) from, let us say, Bishop Candler or
T. M. Callaway, or Dr. John E. White or
T. B. Stanford. Imagine them indulging in
such spirit and words as a means to glori
fying God and saving souls. :
It is to be hoped Mr. Sunday will be con
tent to let Georgia people seek salvation
through other agencies than his peculiar
methods.
The Sermon on the Mount survives and
will abide with us always, as will the last
loving words in Gethsemane and on Calvary,
but one trembles to think of Mr. Sunday in
terpreting these.
WISE PRECAUTION.
The announcement made from Washing
ton that army camps are to spring up all
over the country, the greatest number to
be in the Southeast uround Georgia and
her neighbor states, shows the remarkable
preparation that has been made for training
the greater army. These camps are to be
established at once, says the war depart
ment’s statement, and they are to consist of
2,000 houses each and will be permanent.
Such active steps to put the country on a de
fensive basis at the time we are preparing to
enter the war zone with offensive methods
shows that good judgment and wise heads
are looking after the details.
This is a time for prudence and economy
in the daily lives of the people. Men and
women of common sense will know how to
adjust their methods to the new order of
things. Those nervous souls who are sug
gesting impractical and unreasonable eco
nomics are doing more of harm than good.
They should be more confident, and trust
to the sound common sense of their fellow
men and women. The rule should be to
save when possible, and avoid waste. There
is no reason why any one, if able to enjoy
the comforts of life, should stint and starve
iand be alarmed by unreasonable apprehen
sion.
Now that we are at war with Germany'l
every American citizen—man, woman and
child—should do everything possible to win!
the war. Our nation, our idols and our free- .
dom are at stake. This thing called Prus
sian kultur, which has overrun Belgium and
a part of France, which has murdered old
men and children, raped women and ;zirls,!‘
devastated the country, and destroyed the
towns, must be wiped out forever. It is
‘hard for us to realize that we are at war.
‘But we are at war now just as much as if
‘the German fleet had shelled our seacoast
towns.
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i It makes little difference what title is
employed to designate the nation’s food
lconservator. The title may be “dictator” or
|“administrator." It does make a great deal
| of difference, however, what powers are con
-1 ferred upon him. In this country food regu
‘lation is a proposition which must compre
hend voluntary action in many things that
!cannot be compelled. The American citizen
lis,a “freeman,” not a subject.
. The next we shall hear of the advoeates
of dry legislation will be when the food con
‘trol bill is up, in all probability. If unsuc
| cessful then they will still have opportunity
lto tack their plan to some other measure.
{And, finally, it can be offered independent
’ly as a bill all by itself. Win or lose, the
issue never downs.
; It is said that an esteemed editorial broth
er from the country, after attending a so
cial session while on a visit to one of the
cities began to talk in his sleep about four
‘ o’clock next morning, saying “We must have
some ice water; some ice water, lady, is a
lnecessity." A hot towel might have helped
him.
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’ Many a man who lets his wife work eigh
| teen hours a day doing-housework and car
|ing for a house full of children, and who
gives her a few dollars a week to run the
|house on, will go to a movie show and hiss
!the villian in a white slave picture,
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- The Germans size us up as a lot of fat
people out of the money, says ex-Ambassa
dor Gerard. Well, what is wrong with the
description? Some of us are fat, and all of
us are out for the money.
T T T ey
They are selling bread by the slice now
in some cities. Will the twentieth century
Lazarus who gets the crumbs ‘from the
rich man’s table be featured as a lucky
guy?
For those who would prefer to decide for
themselves where they will serve there is
still time to transact business with the re
cruiting office.
It doesn’t take an exceptional astute per
son to discern that much of the pafriotism
is of the vicarious kind which permits the
other fellow to do the fighting. |
If there is any farmer in Georgia who |
does not know just how to run his farm
it is not because he has not been given
enough advice, A
Possibly the volunteer system would pro
duce better results if everybody could en-j
list as a colonel or major-general. |
Of course, we can’t tell what’s going to
happen in Russia, but neither can the kaiser. |
AND HE |NHABITS EVERY TOWN.
From the Dalton Citizen.
The fellow who seems to know just
how the army and navy should be man
aged is the same kind of a man who sits
around on the street corners and finds
fault with the men who are trying to
build up the town Dawson News.
You said it then, Brother. Suppose all the
people belonged to this class, what would
happen? They would likely become extinct,
as a result of hydrophobia, contracted from
biting one another.
STILL BADLY MIXED.
From the Savannah Press. ;
After several unsuccessful stabs at the
matter the legislature met in speeial ses
sion to pass a prohibition law which would
cover every phase of the problem and leave
room for no question. And yet since the
present law became effective there have
been more questions than ever before. Some
time, somewhere there is going to be a legis
lature capable of acting on an issue in such
manner that even the lawyers and police
will know what to do.
SENATOR SMITH AND CONSCRIPTION.
From the Way.
Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, has
made the right move. He has proposed, be
fore conscription goes into effect, that con
gress enact laws to insure that conscription
will stop immediately after the close of the
war. No loop hole should be left for fasten
ing militarism on the United States. And
the world should know that our country does
not propose to adopt a system which has led
to the misery now devastating Europe. We
hope that the senator will be successful.
AS A CONTEMPORARY SEES US.
From the Fort Gaines Georgian.
The editor of The Dawson News is a man
we envy. He manages to appear calm and
serene week in and week out, meanwhile
strengthening his merited reputation for be
ing a bit of a philosopher, a humorist of the
arid variety, and a ‘“slinger” of the subtlest
sort of satire. Hear him, all ye goods-box
statesmen and all ye wise and otherwise pur
veyors of printed opinion: “Thousands of
persons know just what President Wilson
ought to do, and have been frank enough to
come right out and say so, too, on divers and
sundry occasions. Personally we have felt
that, for the most part, the president was
handling the job about as well as we could
do it ourself, and have, therefore, withheld
any very great amount of advice.”
HER OWN FAULT IF UNLOVED.
From Newnan Herald and Advertiser.
It is her own fault if a woman is unlov
ed and neglected. That is a harsh state
ment to make, but it is a fact. Mortal man
is a weakling who can no more resist kind
ness than a rose can recist the sun. It is a
weak, helpless woman’s duty to make her
self attractive and pretty in the very face
of discouragement. Call it hypocrisy, tact.
firesse, or by anv other term, but she mnst
turn in the edges and make allier instead
of antagonists of the people about her. Spot
less neatness, becoming feminine attire,
truth, kindness, cheerfulness, love, and the
loyalty that restrains her from speaking ill
of her neighbors will make a woman lovely,
even though she lacks beauty.
The Dawson News.
There are a lot of papers all over the state,
And some people think they are very great,
But they are not elassy and up-to-date;
If you’re looking for a paper, just take
which you choose—
The best paper going is The Dawson News.
This is the paper that prints the best,
This is the paper that stands the test,
And this is the paper that excels the rest;
Just think of these things, and take the
paper you choose—
If you get the right one it’ll be The Dawson
News.
This is the paper of wide repute,
No other paper can be a substitute;
Take this paper, ’tis one that will suit;
Look over the others and take which vou
choose—
But the best one yet is The Dawson News.
] LOUIS PETTY,
Dawson, Georgia.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
From the Oklahoman.
\ The economy bug has got us.
Let’s admit it. Let us also admit that it
were a futile task to denounce the economy
bug as a vile, venomous viper. For far too
long the world has been hymning the prais
es of the economy bug and advising every
one to get one of those bugs and cherish
it tenderly. And now that everyone has
taken this advice and has got himself an
economy bug and is teaching the bug all
kinds of tricks it ill becoems anyone to
change front suddenly and declare that the
economy bug is a deadly scorpion which
‘must be chased out of the house.
~ The truth is the economy bug is a noble
‘type of insect provided we keep him within
reasonable bounds. But when we deify him,
when we let the economy bug occupy all
our waking hours, when the first thing in
the morning, on opening our eyes, we look
for the economy bug to see how he has
spent the night, when the last thing before
going to sleep we wrap the economy bug
up in silken draperies, give him a fond, ca
ressing pat and* wish him pleasant dreams—
well, when we get ‘“dippy” about the econ
omy bug and lay all kinds of sacrifices at
his altar and burn incense to him twenty
four hours per diem, when we do this,
friends, Romans, countrymen, we're in
wrong, that’s all.
And that’s what we're doing. And if we
keep it up, why, very shortly, there will be
nothing doing.
Probably we are all more or less respon
sible for this penurious state of mind we've
gotten into. Certainly, the responsibility
can be charged to a lot of people who ought
to have known better. Men of big affairs
have sounded the alarm and told us the wolf
was just around the corner, and headed
straight for the door. Women of wealth
and fashion have declared with a fine glow
of virtue that they were going to cut out
the flowering kimona, wear cotton socks in
stead of silk hose and eat victuals instead of
viands.
They started something, Hermione, which
they did not wot of, if that’s the word.
Let us try to look at things as they are,
neither painting them in falsely bright col
ors, nor glooming them over with the black
of foolish fears.
First, so long as the present prices pre
vail a great many people will have to cur
tail their buying. If a man hasn’t the meney
to buy things with he simply can’t buy them.
That is the situation of every man in this
country whose earnings have not increased
in proportion as the cost of living has ad
vanced. You can’t get away from that, and
all the eloquence, all the memorials, all the
resolutions and all the printer’s ink between
the well known rockbound coast of Maine
and the equally well known golden sands
of the Pacific cannot alter that fact,
It is vitally essential that people buy
goods, vitally essential that merchants sell
goods, but minimum profits, not maximum
profits, must be the watchword.
Now for the rich and the well to do, the
people to whom the*necessaries of life, such
as food and clothing, do not consume the
greater part of their incomes. What is their
duty? They ought to hit the economy bug
on the head, bury it a hundred fathoms
deep and go forth and spend as they never
spent before. If ever extravagance were
a virtue, it is a virtue now for the rich and
comfortably circumstanced.
Chas. Johnson in North American Review.
Nicholas was not the first, nor will he be
the last, to yield up judgment and will into
the hands of a queenly and beautiful wo
man. The motive of Samson and Delilah
of the vale of Sorek is a scarlet thread that
runs through all history. And the Empress
Alexandra herself, a broken-hearted wo
man from the beginning, was led to the
brink of the precipice by forces of tremen
dous and universal strength; her passionate
and morbid love for her invalid son, born
after long waiting, whose pains were alle
viated, it would seem, by Rasputin’s mag
netic force, just as the fatal malady of the
Czar’s father, Alexander the Third, was
lightened by the similar but -more benign
power of Father John of Cronstadt; her
obstinate and unconverted devotion for the
land of her birth; her passion for auto
cratic power. These are not vulgar or triv
ial motives; they have swayed great souls
through all history.
The element of mysticism, even though
it be a morbid and dangerous mysticism,
runs through the whole drama. We shall,
I think, be quite misled if we think of it
as merely vulgar charlantanism, like Car
lyle’s probable misreading of Cagliostro.
Nicholas the Second, like all Russians who
are true to their blood, was impressed and
oppressed by the presence of the invisible
world. All these men are full of the sense
of the supernatural, ardently revering their
miracle-working saints, in no way thinking
that the age of immediate divine interven
tions has passed. Nor can we venture to
say, in these days of revived belief in the
invisible, that the Russian millions are
wrong. It is this universal mood which
gives a Rasputin his power and opportunity
to the benign influence of Father John of
Cronstadt. And Nicholas the Second was as
fully possessed by this mystical sensibility
as any of his peasants. Stumbling in the
midst of mighty difficulties, he longed for
oracles from heaven to make his intricate
pathway clearer through the darkness. And
if, blinded by devotion to the beautiful wo
man who dominated him, he followed lying
oracles it is no marvel; for Satan himself
is transformed into an angel of light. That
fatally dangerous masquerade is the ex
perience of saints and visionaries through
all history.
THE WINE PRESS OF SORROW.
From the Hartington (Neb.) Herald.
Everybody must sooner or later tread the
wine press of sorrow. So it is written, and
so it comes to pass in tH@ experience of
men. Some people may seem to be immune
for the time, but eventually misfortune
overtakes them. Then they become initiated
into the mysteries of the great fraternity,
and join the unnumbered multitude of nien
and women who are treading the wine press
of sorrow. It is one of the universal, im
mutable laws of life, and has no excep
tions. The apparent exceptions are appar
ent only and serve merely to illustrate the
rule. Sooner or later all men must taste
the bitter cup, and many of them must drain
it to the dregs. Sooner or later all men
must experience misfortune and calamity,
and many of them must be overwhelmed by
them. Sooner or later all men must tread
the wine press 3f sorrow, and many of them
must be crushed in the mill. It is the com
mon lot of the human race, and none may
hope to escape.
The Economy Bug.
The Czar and His Delilah.
How to Keep Vegetables.
Editor of The Dawson News: The old
South Carolina plan for drying vegetables
might be helpful to our Terrell county house
keepers right now when garden truck is
plentiful and in danger of going to waste
unless promptly handled.
Pick any kind of string beans while they
are young and tender, string and snap for
cooking. Place them in a clean vessel and
cover with boiling water; let stand for ten
minutes, drain water off carefully and
spread beans out on clean boards or cloths
and place in the sun to dry. After they have
dried perfectly put in small sacks and hang
them up, sunning occasionally until they
are used. Soak overnight before using. Okra
may be cured in the same way, cutting the
pods in quarter-inch pieces, stringing as
you would red pepper, and hanging them
in the sun. This method of saving vegeta
bles is cheaper and less trouble than can
ning in these war times when ecans are
scarce and high, and nothing is better for
making your winter soups. M. C. H.
How the Bank “Makés” Money.
- From the American Banker. :
It would seem that after the bank takes
your money, protects it, pays it gack on de
mand or as your order, lends you money,
discounts your neighbor’s note for you, it
would have nothing else to offer in your
behalf. But it has—it “makes” money for
yolt;, and incidentally makes mongy for it
self.
When you see the president or the
cashier of a bank signing his name to a
row of four crip new bills (they always
come in sheets of four) you may wonder
what he is doing, and what is behind it all.
We will show you by a simple illustration,
Let us suppose you want to borrow a thou
sand dollars and offer your note to your
banker. He knows you, knows that you
will pay, and wants to accommodate you.
He looks at his books and says: “I can’t
spare the money. The law saim I must have
fifteen cents out of every dollar I owe my
depositors in cash, or where I can get it on
demand; and I have just what the law re
quires. If I give you credit for the note
and let you check against it I increase my
debts and make my condition worse, for if
I do not pay you in cash I must stand ready
to do so.”
But being a resourceful banker, and
knowing how, he asks you to wait a minute
while he goes to his strong box. He finds
a government bond which he bought a year
ago when he had plenty of spare money, for
cash, and comes back smiling and says:
“Very well, in three days you can have your
money. I will turn this bond into bank
notes for you.” So he sends the bond to
Washington, and in return the government
sends him 200 crisp new five-dollar bills,
to be signed by two officers of the bank,
cut and handed out to you.
The government keeps the bond as seeur
iity that he will redeem the notes in “law
ful money” on demand—that is, pay green
backs or gold for them if demanded (but
this is seldom done), pays him interest on
the bond and you pay him interest on
your note for the use of his notes, and
both are satisfied.
You see, by this proposition, he has
turned your note into bank notes, with him
self behind it and the government behind
him. Your promise wouldn’t go very far
from home, these promises will. Every
body knows them. They are “money’” and
circulate as such.
Now what has the banker done by this
process? He has furnished the community
as well as you with circulating medium,
handy to carry, cheap to create, and sat
isfactory to all. He has taken your credit
He makes money and you take the money
he has made ‘and make some money for
yourself. It is a very simple proposition,
understood by few, but practiced by many.
If you don’t fully understand it, ask your
banker to tell you more about it. This
feature of banking, however, is performed
in this country only by banks under con
trol of the federal government, namely, the
national banks and federal reserve banks,
but is a common banking practice the
world over, differing in form but not in
substance, it being a universal function of
the bank to turn credit which is unkmown
into that which is known and will there
fore be freely taken, and bank note credit
is the most common and useful form.
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