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The Dawson News
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B Al £ AINEY, Budaes Menaget
_——;)_;WSON, GA., JUNE 12, 1917.
A man rarely means all he says, whether
talking for or against the government.
June, the month of weddings, is here.
<«Here comes the bride! Tioesn’t she look
Tovely?"”
In the meantime not a day passes that
does not record thousands of violations of
the automcrile laws. }
If the newspaper is a necessity, as now!
practically all authorities agree, why should‘
it be included in the list of luxuries for tax
ation? l
SECRETS OF THE WASTE BASKET. '
1f the local newspaper should some day|
print the contents of the waste basket there
would certainly be a riot in the homes of
smost of its readers. There would be ar-|
vests in many directions, shotguns in others,'
and trouble all around. But the patron|
never sees the waste basket; he on]yl
olances at the printed pages, and growls|
if there is one letter upside down, or one|
name happens to be wrong; frowns because
the editor did not take his advice about'
things, and he is generally disgruntled. He}
knows his share of the waste basket, but'
if he could see the contributions to that re-|
ceptacle he would be thankful for the ex-?
istence of a man who does not print all hei
knows, and to temper that which he does|
print. l
A VICTORY WORTH WHILE.
Although at the last the issue was senti
wmental the defeat of the censorship clause
of the espionage bill will pass as a worth
while victory for freedom of the press. As
the question was finglly presented the con
gress had to decide whether it would give
to the administration censorship regulation
that might be overworked, or whether no
legal censorship should be established. Con
gress decided to take no action, believing
that the newspapers could be better trusted
to apply a voluntary censorship than the ad
ministration could be trusted to enforce ar
bitrary control over publicity channels. In a
way the vote against censorship was a vote
«of confidence in the newspapers.
Evidently, in the first place, the espion
age bill was conceived with a mistaken idea
of a proper exercise of executive power in
war times. In effect it was proposed that con
gress should delegate to the president and
his associates the power to suppress ‘any ac-i
tivities which they might decide to be inimi-|
cal to the military interests of the country.
Included in this sweeping grant was a pow-’
er to punish newspapers for any sort of pub-:
lication that might not meet with the ap
proval of the censorship authorities. In‘
many respects the bill was so drastic as to!
amount to a virtual suspension of the free;
press and free speech guaranties of tht|
constitution. As finally passed it specifiesg
the offenses which are to be penalized, andi
omits the censorship clause altogether. |
The newspapers of the United States ares
now voluntarily observing regulations pre-|
pared by a press committee on public in- |
formation. These regulations suppress vari- |
ous classes of news that would probably be(
of military value to the enemy. It may be'
that in the future some newspapers will re- |
fuse to co-operate with the government inl
its effort to prevent publicity for facts that
might prove of service to the enemy. Any
flagrant offense of that kind might be pun-‘
ished under the general laws against giving
aid and comfort to the enemy.
‘CAN RELY ON THE FARMERS. |
The News i not going to run the risk
of perhaps wearying the farmers and house
wives who read the paper by over-much ad
vice, even as to suggestions as to what theyi
should do in the matter of crop planting—
the nature of crops, how much to plant,
how to cultivate, etc., etec. The News knows
the farmers of Southwest Georgia fairly
well, and has confidence in their sound com
mon sense. Every farmer in this section
who controls the acreage he handles, and
many tenant farmers, understands the sit
uation and how it affects his own and the
country’s interests, and we are willing to
trust him to do what is sensible and needed.
The News tries to print matter which it !
believes will be of interest and value tol
farmers in general, and this with an eye toa
the situation, but, as said above, we do not;
propose to go on the theory that the aver- |
age farmer stands in need of extra advice |
from the rest of us. We believe our farmer',
friends and neighbors are competent to |
keep in the middle of the road, to speak fig- |
uratively, and that they will plan and|
‘achieve with level heads and good results. |
It is not meant to intimate that much of;
the expert information put at the disposal |
of farmers is not valuable, for it is. We can |
cheerfully say to the farmers that the co- |
operation of the state college of agricul- |
ture and the state department of agricul- |
ture in the pursuit of farming merits ap
preciation. The intelligent farmer will not
ignore these agencies of information. But
We say again that those of us who are
not farmers need not fear to rely on the
common sense and patriotism of those who
I are tillers of the soil. -
i NOT IN TERRELL.
“ “Will hunger come?” queries a contem
porary, which says “if the people of this
}country persist in living on the same ex
. travagant scale of former years we, as a
i nation, will strike the rocks.” .
| Well, hunger won’t come, to any appre
| ciable extent, to the people of Terrell coun-
I}ty. Never in the history of the county has
| there been so much to eat in it. There are
| more hogs and cows, and corn and hams
and bacon than ever before, and there
has just been harvested the largest and
best wheat crop the county has ever grown.
| There have been shipped out of the coun
l’ty the past year more food and feedstuffs
|than have been shipped into it. A wholesale
grocer informs The News that not a carload
‘of oats, hay, corn or meal has been broughti
to Dawson in more than a year, whereas, |
only a few years ago these commodities’
could not be got fast enough, it requiring |
several carloads of each a week to supply|
the demand. No meal at all is now shipped]
here, as jobbers buy from local mills that
grind Terrell county corn.
And this already very desirable condition
will be improved another year. Never be- |
fore were there as many acres planted tol
corn and other food crops, to say nothing of]
thousands of acres in peanuts and velvet|
beans, with several local mills to converti
them into merchantable products and thus!
enlarge the supply of feedstuffs and in-!
crease the farmer’s bank account and addl
to the independence and prosperity of thei
people generally. |
Great is Terrell county. I
' DRIVING THE NEGRO OUT.
The News prints on this page a very .il
lluminating‘ and interesting editorial from
}-that long-distance friend of the negro and
lapostle of race equality, the Chicago Trib
une, (a newspaper which more than any
!other has heaped abuse upon and maligned
i the South), in which it advises the black man
to stay in the South where he is understood
'and has friends. The editorial was sug
|ges;ed by the recent riots in- Cincinnati,
New York and St. Louis, where angry mobs
'surged through the streets with all the fury
iof unbridled race hatred and vindictiveness,
‘wounding, slaying, intimidating and using
‘other arts neither soft nor persuasive to
convince the negro that he is not wanted
in the North. As the Macon News says:
“It is a pitiful and revolting specta
cle, but it is a striking illustration of
the kind of welcome the negro may ex
pect in those centers to which the mis
chievous labor agent would send him
and has sent him by thousands.
“The lesson will not be lost on the ne
groes of the South. Most of them know
full well, down in their hearts, that
they have no friends such as the South
ern people.”
The negro, so long misled by agitators
and meddlers far away from them, are now
learning that their real friends are the
Southern people. Another thing they must
and will learn is that the future wel
fare and progress of the black race depends
not upon man’s laws and the false promise
of social equality but upon the fitness of the
race to undertake responsibilities and per
form them. : J\
B ———————— |
It may be interesting to figure the value
of Georgia’s cotton crop at the present mar-}
ket price of twenty-txo cents a pound. But,
the farmers will not get that price for their
cotton. Under the system of tradine in f'u-l
tures the price of cotton is always down|
when the farmers have cotton, and up when‘
they haven’t any cotten. This is one thing
the war may help to remedy. The farmers?
are entitled to a reasonable profit on their!
proucts, something they seldom have Q:ottnn‘,
before. ]
Personal appearance is something which
no one but a genius can afford to overlook.!
Some people may be so brilliant that they
can afford to ignore this important factor
of success, but the average individual is
obliged to take it into account. Personal ap
pearance goes a long way; too long, per
haps, but it has to be reckoned with. Other
things being equal the man or woman of
attractive appearance will generally leave a
shabby competitor far behind.
% The happiness of this world cannot be
;measured by mere fleeting pleasures—the
vanishing intoxication of a moment. To be
jlieve so is a grievous error. Human jay re
' poses in obedience to natural and spiritual
llaws in always feeling glad for things that
| contribute to the common gladness; in feel
l ing grief and resentment for the things that
{ nurture the misery and blindness of man
'i;ki'nd. It is just as important to hate a lie
| as it is to love a ‘flower.
The legislature will convene two weeksl
from to-day, and on the Saturday following,
Governor-elect Dorsey will be inaugurated. |
It will be a plain, unostentatious innugz‘ura—‘
tion without fuss or feathers, and The News]
predicts for the state one of the best admin- |
istrations in its history. Mr. Dorsey is justl
plain Georgia folk, with recognized ability,
unquestioned backbone, and plenty of horse-}
sense. ;
PO e R U |
If every man, woman or child took his
or her per capita share of the loan each‘
would have a $2O bond at the conelusion
of the distribution. As only those who have
managed to keep somewhat ahead of the
high cost of living are going to subseribe,
however, you should not worry about being
asked to take less than the whole $5O for
%which you have subseribed.
l Up to date congress has gone no further
| toward real food control than to provide
‘for some investigations and “surveys,” at
a cost of a good many million dollars. This
lis one of the favorite congressior.al cures,
but a remedy that cannot cure.
| For that matter the anti-draft' talk of
1917, such as it is and what there is of it,
iseems pretty tame by comparison with the
' anti-draft riots of 1862. If the anti-draft
| spouters of to-day have any doubt about the
' sticking qualities of the draft it might pay
| them to look up what happened to the riot
!ers of the early 60’s.
| —_—
i Some of the boys who protested against
| conserving the corn by shutting off the
| manufacture of bourbon would be willing to
’compromise on an arrangement that would
lenable man and beast to eat the corn now
i devoted to the manufacture of collar stiff
fening material.
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The person who is disposed to be against
something should be careful to select some-j
thing that he can be against without bump
ing into the laws of the United States of
’America. Although congress has been pret
ty busy lately quite a number of things are |
still left in the category. !
ST ey
The blessom cf the rose is one of the
greatest gicries of a prodigal nature. It
has a coloring and a perfume persuasive|
and distinctive. Wherever you see a rosel
bloom you are sure to hear the humming!
of bees and the chatter of song birds. '
s
If you are able to buy a liberty hondl
do so; buy several bpnds, if you can spare|
the money. It is the earnest of your’
support of your government, of your \ym,
pathy in the cause of world freedom. i
And, of course, if it will not do to use ouri
grain to make liquor for ourselves it would!
hardly do to send it to England to make
liquor for our allies. f
,
So far the weather man has accomplished |
more than your Uncle Nat and the Ge()rg‘iai
legislature toward making this particular |
section bone dry. [
The crops are now coming around alll
right, and grand old Southwest Georgia is!
going to have her usual big harvest. i
If you cannot improve the situation hyl
producing more maybe you can help a lit
tle by wasting [ess. !
The Leading Soprano.
From the Omaha Times.
There is a certain kind of unearthly
screeching called *“fashionable singing.”
Ever hear any of it? If not, you've missed
a treat. Just go into almost any city church
on Sunday morning and they’ll give you a
sample of it.
Here’s how you wiii know when it’s com
ing:
You'll see somebody go to the piano or
pipe organ and begin to claw over the keys
like a puppy digging at a gopher hole. Then
you'll see a young lady march out on the
stage with her arms full of sheet music and
her face set like the time-clock on a bank
vault. She stops and gazes over the audi
ence as solemnly as a convict going to the
electric chair. Then she unfolds her music
and begins to pucker her mouth till it Tooks
like the blossom end of a shriveled cucum
ber. Everybody holds their breath. Some
thing awful is about to happen.
Suddenly the young lady’s mouth opens
like the nose-end of a tobacco pouch, and
vou hear a noise that sounds like pulling a
vard of bologna sausage through a tin horn.
Her eyes seem to bore through the ceiling
like two left-handed gimlets, and her throat
works like a frog swallowing a Junebug.
Her voice seems to have been made of joints
and put together with brass rings, and it
rattles against her Adam’s apple like drag
ging a log-cabin over a bridge.
The audience leans forward and drinks it
in like a young catbird eating a worm. Of
ecourse, nobody understands a word of the
song; if they did the song would be a fail
ure. It would not be “fashionable singing.”
The only thing required of you is to sit
there like a chicken with the gapes and
drink it in. Let it run in at both ears and
ooze out through the pores of your soul.
The singer stops to get her breath, and
to wait for the audience to catch up. The
organist hits the instrument in the face a
few times like a nigger beatine out neas,
and then they sail in again. Lickity-split
they go, up and down the scale, like two
hound dogs after a rabbit, and all the while
the expression on the singer's face looks
like a mixture of"cramp colic, toothache and
sneeze.
~ Once in awhile the jointed melody comes
in such volume that it almost jars the shin
gles loose, and then it fades away till it
sounds like the little end of a cat-fight tap
ering off to nothing.
~ And when it is all over you go home feel
ing like somebody had run a woodrasp over
your sore tooth. But, it fs the Fashion, you
know, and Fashion is a great old gal.
Peace, Purity and Love,
When mrother earth is wrapped in silence,
And everything is still;
When the sun has hid behind the sunset,
At the echo of His will:
Whenr each little bird has wandered
To its respeetive nest,
'Tis then we lay aside, our toiling,
And seek the pleasure “rest.”
All day we have been toiling,
For what reason some of us don’t know,
But we hope that from each little tagk
Some great good may grow—
Something that will make someone,
Who is weary and sad,
Just forget all their troubles,
And be so very, very glad.
When we look back upon to-day,
Oh! that we might say,
“I have tried with all my might
Some of the wrongs to right.”
Of wrongs we can say, 4
“There are an awful many,”
But let’s begin now to chase them away,
And soon we won’t have any.
Then what a glorious world we
| Will all live in,
When peace and love forever
. Shall blend,
| Where purity and grace go
Hand in hand,
’And goodness forever shall
_ Cover the land.
Dawson, Ga. ~—L. N. D.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
| The following very interesting article is
| an editorial from a recent issue of the Chi
| cago Tribune, a rank republican sheet which
ihas, more than any other newspaper, berat
|ed the South because of the negro:
| “BLACK MAN STAY SOUTH!
| “They say down south that ‘niggers are
'all right in their place,” but where is that
'place? South? At Memphis, Tenn., a nagro
' was recently burned alive. North? At East
St. Louis, 111.,, negroes are mobbed, beaten
and run out of town.
“We taunt the south with race prejudice
when it burns a ‘bad nigger,” but just see
‘how the northerners detest even ‘good nig
‘gers!” The real race prejudice is ours. Our
very philanthropists betray it. They say to
a black man, ‘God bless you, good-bye,’
whereas the south says ‘—— —you, come
here!” ur put it this way: The northerner is
a great friend of THE negro but not of A
negro; the southerner is a friend of A ne
gro and not of THE negro.
“Prof. Munsterberg once described the
race as ‘passive at every turn of fortune,’
vet within the last year negroes by the thou
sands have actively undertaken to’ find
a place for themselves. They have come.
north. It was a huge mistake. They escape
barbarous punishment for their occasional
crimes while winning no appreciation for
their habitual virtues. They are disliked.
When - their presence becomes a burden, as
at East St. Louis, they are abused. 1
“It is on these terms only that they enjoy
the longed for liberties of the north—its
social equality, for instance. But do they |
really enjoy that? Our observation goes to
show that the negro is happiest when the
white race asserts its superiority, provided
that sympathy and understanding accom
pany the assertion. Not long ago a Virgin«'
ian noticed a very gloomy black porter in,
a northern hotel, and learning that the ne
gro had come from Virginia, said, ‘You —_—
-+ black fool, go back to Virginial’ The |
reply revealed much: ‘O, Cunnel, dem’s de
fust kind wuds dat’s been spoken to me since |
ah come up noff! |
Southerners insist that ‘the nigger must |
be kept down.” They enforce the color line., |
Yet they will work side by side with nexi
groes, befriend them in adversity, and over
look their minor failings. They do not hate |
negroes. In their hearts they like them.‘
Said Dooley: ‘l'm naught throubled whin the |
naygur is amongst his oppressors, Hinnessy, |
what throubles me is whin he falls into th’ |
hands iv his liberators.” |
From the Valdosta Times.
The newspaper man is blamed for a whole
lot of things he can’t help, such as using
partiality in mentioning visitors, giving news
about some folks and leaving others out.
He simply prints all the news he can find.
Some people inform him about such things
and others do not. An editor should not be
expected to know the names and residences
of all your uncles, aunts and cousins, even
if he should see them get off the train. Tell
us about it. It’s news that makes the news
paper, and every man, woman and child ean
be associate editor if they only will. Never
apologize when you give this bit of informa
tion, for if there lives one so dead that he
has Jost appreciation for such favors he is
dead indeed to every virtue that imparts
value to a newspaper.
It is unfortunately true that some of the
most worthy and most deserving people fail
to receive proper attention by the press be
cause of their unwillingness to make known
the facts about themselves, even while cer
tain of the undeserving succeed in keeping
themselves in print all the time. These re
sults cannot be prevented in all cases by the
publisher. There is only one way to prevent
this injustice, and that way is to tell the
editor. Do not be squeamish because some
body else is otherwise.
From the Savannah Press.
Official announcement of the safe ar
rival at a Russian port of Mr. Root and
his associates is the first intimation that
the American people have had, through
their newspapers, that the members of
the mission to Russia had left the Unit
ed States. The strictest enforcement
of a censorship law could accomplish
no more in the way of suppressing un
wise publication of a faé¢t than the press
of this country has done in this matter
of its own free will.—New York Times.
The newspapers of the United States,
worthy of being called newspapers, respect
thoroughly the wishes of the government in
connection with the present war situation.
The press may be depended upon to keep the
secrets of the nation safely.
A RAW DEAL TO'NEWSPAPERS.
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From the Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
When the government places a tax on
newspaper advertising will it pay the news
papers for the column after column of ad
vertising they give the government daily?
Of course, the newspapers are willing to
help the government in every way they can,
but why should they be made to pay a tax on
their advertising unless ather lines of busi
ness are going to be taxed on the amount
of business they do? The advertising is the
chief source of income of the newspaper.
Why should the newspapers be called upon
to bear this burden if others are not includ
ed? Probably no other institution does more
for the government than the newspapers,
and yet they seem to be getting a pretty
raw deal at the hands of congress.
A BILLION.
From the Savannah Press.
A dollar is harder to get than to
spend or lend. The same is true of a
hillior, and even more so of two bil
lions.—Dawson News.
But we trust our Terrell county friend
will succeed in his ambition to corral a mil
lion. If he does it running a Georgia weekly
he will be a genius who out-Rockefellers
Rockefeller.
HOPES HE GETS HIM.
From the Dalton Citizen. .
Editor Kelly Simmons, of the Telfair
Enterprise, is “gunning” for the pistol
toter. He is firing some center shots,
too.—Dawson News.
We hope he gets him. No brave, law-abid
ing citizen meeds an arsenal in his pocket,
The Negro In The North.
Tell the Editor.
Censorship.
Snake Farms.
It would seem odd to buy & piece of
Eground and start a snake farm, but there is
‘money in snake culture. The snake season
%has just opened in Agizona and Texas and
Northern Mexico. Some persons may not
‘know that there are ranches in the great
southwestern part of the United States
whose business is fattening ratilesnakes and
other reptiles for market. The market for
these creatures is an active one, including
museum proprietors, circus men, side-show
actors, zoological devotees, and also chem
ists, ‘who are after the various snake poi
sons.
The best known of the snake ranches, the
Armstrong ranch, near Brownsville, Texas,
consists of ten acres of land surrounded by
high, smooth, board fence, the fence being
constructed in a manner to prevent the es
cape of any wriggling wanderer. In this
enclousure are pens for different classes of
reptiles, each of the pens holding at least
1,000 snakes. A fat rattler will bring more
money than a lean one, for snakes are sold
by the pound. Consequently, the snake
rancher’s work is to make his charges com
fortable, and fatten them to the extent of
his ability. Then, when the buyer comes
along, or writes for his shipment, the snake
poison is scientifically extracted from the
boarders who are about to leave the farm,
their poison being kept in bottles for chem
ists and physicians, and the rattlers go
forth to their new home and new experi
ences as harmless as pet canaries,
It" is surprising how intelligent and af
fectionate these snakes become when their
poison has been discharged and their fangs
and poison bag extracted. They are as do
cile as kittens then, and it is a fact that
many of the so-called snake charmers of
the museum or circus become as devotedly
attached to these bright-eyed gentle crea
tures as men and women in the ordinary
walks of life are fond of their dogs or other
household pets.
WORK FOR THE REFORMER.
From the Lyons Progress.
Let no one suffer under the delusion that
with the. passage of the “bone-dry” law
there will be nothing else for the profes
sional reformer to do. Let no one forget
that the people ‘of Georgia are spending
twice as much money to-day for coca-ccla
and other soft drinks as they ever spent for
whisky. If this is not a job for the reform
er we don’t know why. And there’s cigar
ette smoking, tobacco chewing, snuff dip
ping, corset wearing, joy riding on Sunday,
and divers other evils that are growing, all
of which demand the early attention of the
legislature and congress. Congress and the
legislature have a perfect right to regulate
or prohibit these evils and will’ probably do
so within the next few years. There is al
ready on foot a campaign against cigarettes
and coca-cola, which will likely occupy the
attention of the next legislature. A bill is
now before the Indiana legislature which
prohibits. the wearing of corsets in the Hoo
sier state. Bills are pending in several states
which prohibit tobacco chewing and snuff
dipping. Those who believe the passage of
the ‘“bone-dry” law legislated the reformer
out of a job are going to find out that they
are badly mistaken.
THE WHITE HOUSE PICKETS.
From the New York World.
When Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, as head
of the National Woman Suffrage association,
urged the leaders of the national woman’s
party to withdraw their pickets from the
White House gates she appealed to their
common sense. Their flat refusal the more
proves their wrong headedness.
Having started wrong, by sticking it out
they seem to think their conduct is sub
limely heroic. “Go to Washington and pick
et if you have to sacrifice the shoes on your
feet” is their silly advice to women Who
are sacrificing woman suffrage.
Nothing more ridiculous or futile has been
attempted in the name of: suffrage than this
campaign to harass the president. Day after
day the banner bearers stand at their posts.
The federal amendment that congress was
to be dragooned into passing i§ no further
advanced than it was six months ago when
the woman’s party conceived the magnificent
project of wasting its followers’ time and
money in a farcial performance.
OLD-TIME POLITENESS.
From the Darien Gazette.
The Dawson News says the old forms of
politeness seem to be passing away. And
it costs so little and means so much. Can’t
the schools do something to save the youth?
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