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The Dawson News
BY E. L. RAINEY.
CLEM E. RAINEY, Businsss Manager.
ERLE COCKE, Local Editor.
DAWSON, GA., JUNE 26, 1917.
When conservatism is losing ground rad
icalism rarely fails te come to the rescue.
The women may still keep us guessing on
the age question. They did not have to reg
ister. .
The McAdoo boom is probably one of
those amusing diversions for keeping the
people out of the dumps.
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There seems to be small interest in base
ball this year. The rifle ball and the can
non ball are more in the thoughts of the
people.
Four more days and it will be Governor
Hugh Dorsey. In the prime of manhood,
well-poised and able he will give the state
a splendid administration.
Governor Harris will retire from ofi‘icei
next Saturday. The old soldier and chris
tian statesman will carry with him into pri-l
vate life the affection and good will of all
the people.
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Our old friend, the Georgia legislature,
will be with us now for fifty days. With
Kaiser Bill demanding some notice just at
this time they should understand that no
affront is intended if their show fails to at-]
tract the attention heretofore given it. ‘
J. B. CORN ON BEST BEHAVIOR.
An unusual example of enlightened self
ishness on the part of the liquor interests
was witressed in Massachusetts when practi
cally every saloon in the state closed on army
registration day. The act came in response
to a request from the governor, who did not
pretend to find warrant in law for proposing
closure, but who pointed out that the day
resembled in character election days, for
which saloon closing was prescribed by law.
Prohibition has done more than abolish
the saloons in the states which have gone
dry. Repudiation in the dry states has sug
gested to the thinking end of the liquor
trade the advisability of being as good as
may be in the states where it is still toler
ated. .
If it was sound public policy to suspend
the liquor traffic while an important public
function was in progress how can it be
sound policy to continue it on other days
when the maintendnce of cool heads and
steady hands is of importance to the nor
mal welfare of the community?
SENSIBLE VS. SENSELESS ECONOMY
Sensible economy should be practiced by
the American people. ‘But there is a wide
road between sensible and senseless econo
my. For instance:
The industries and the business of the
country must be kept running full blast.
Every person needing employment must be
given work, and to be able to do that the
out put of all industries must be consumed.
There must be no decrease in production of
things we really need. ~
; Waste and extravagance should be stopp
ed, of course, but thrift can be protected
without penuriousness.
The nation must conserve its resources
now, not particularly for the sake of saving
more at this time than any other, but mere
ly that what we have hitherto wasted may
be used elsewhere, may go where it is need
ed.
Business should not feel any deleterious
effect, whatsoever. It should continue to
prosper. If we ever permit business to lag
we're in for disaster.
Don’t fool yourself into believing that if
you abstain from satisfying your needs
you're helping the country. You're not.
You're throwing somebody out of a job,
and if there are many folk like you many
people will be out of jobs.
Be economical, but practice economy the
right way.
GENERAL PRINCIPLES. |
The war is two years and eleven months
nearer to the close than it was at its begin
ning August, 1914. Yesterday's proceedings
brought the war one full day nearer its fin
ish. To-day’s developments will bring the
end another day nearer. Peace cannot be
postponed indefinitely. It will be difficult to
agree upon terms of peace. It will not be
5o difficult as to find the ways and means
of continuing the war indefinitely.
War experts say it is impossible to make I
peace now. Maybe so. There is another
thing that is impossible. It is impossible for
the world to wage war perpetually on the
present scale. Therefore, peace will have
to be made sooner or later. If all the bel
ligerents do not want it now upon available
terms the time must come when all will be
able to get together upon what constitutes‘
a practical peace. If a little more weaken-.
ing of the war resolution is needed it will
come with the passing of the days. It must
not be overlooked that the coalition that
may be winning as well as the one that may
be losing must welcome the day when peace
can be attained,
Nothing can be gained by trying to put
on the peace spectacle before the stage
'8 set for it. On the other hand, once the
setting is srranged no postponement need
.be feared on acecount of trivialties.
FREE SPEECH.
As to free speech this is what Wendell
Phillips said: “The community which dares
not protect its humblest and most hated
member in the free utterance’ of his opin
ions, no matter how false and hateful, is
only a gang of slaves.” The Boston Herald
editorially in this latter day reasserts the
same American principle: “The thing to re
member is that this is a free country, and
that one of the things which we prize most
highly is our freedom of opinion and its
expression.”
Among the things for which America
stands is the principle of civil and religious
liberty. Nothing can be more un-American
than to deny a man the right to do his own
thinking and to utter his own conviction
when that conviction is born out of the
deepest reverence he has for truth and duty.
} CONVICTS, CRIME AND ROADS.
The grand jury, in its recommenda
tion that permanent repair gangs be
| maintained in different sections of the
| county, was along the right channel
but with heavy road construction opera
tions under way and a shortage of con
victs the county commissioners are find
ing it no easy task to handle the repair
work in the manner they would wish.
—Americus Times-Recorder.
If the Georgia counties are to main
tain the excellent roads many of them
have it will be found necessary to en
gage paid labor to keep them in condi
tion. The convict supply is very limit
ed in Georgia, and it is becoming more
so in the future.—Savannah Press.
Official figures show that the decrease in
the number of convicts in Georgia is not
near as much as newspaper publications
have lead many to believe.
The annual report of the state prison com
mission, which has just been prepared for
the printer, shows that there are in the pen
itentiary 3,406 felony convicts against 3,582
a year ago, and 2,569 misdemeanor convicts
against 3,439 a year ago, a total decrease
of 1,046. Practically one-third of this de
crease is in the counties of Fulton, Chatham,
Bibb and Richmond, where a great many
persons convicted of misdemeanor offenses
are not being sent to the chaingang, but al
lowed to serve their sentences on prohation,
and are not accounted for in the prison
statistics. There has unquestionably been
some decrease in petty crime the last year,
but when distributed among the 150-odd
counties of the state it is not enough by
any means to appreciably effect road work
ing. However, it would be well were it so,
for it would be far better to have less erime
even if the highways had to be cared for
under another system.
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It is an interesting pen picture of the lady
member of congress that is printed on this
page of The News to-day, drawn by a wo
man who has recently seen and met Miss
Jeanette Rankin, woman lawmaker. In her
picture of the lady from Montana she does
‘not put the question that occurs to many:
If a woman is competent to sit and vote
as a member of congress are not women
competent to vote for members of con
gress? Or, for that matier, to vote for gov
ernor, United States senator and president,
and to hold those offices themselves? If not,
why not?
There is hardly a business in the country
that is not protesting the war tax. And this
is only the beginning; the worst is yet to
come. The present revenue bill is calcu
lated to raise only a billion and a half of
the several billions the government will have
to spend in this war. It is very probable
that before the thing is over the taxes
against which so many business men are
protesting so vigorously now will appear ex
ceedingly mild by comparison.
The Savannah Press very truthfully says
“corn bread is good enough for all three
meals, and it isn’t such a big bit even if
we cut out wheat bread altogether.” The
hue and cry on the part of newspapers and
public officials for the people to eat corn
bread and thus promote economy in wheat
would be amusing were it not so ridiculous
ly silly. The people, especially in the South,
have been eating corn bread all their lives.
Many of them eat it in preference to wheat
bread.
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One abominatle and somewhat dangerous
extravagance to wnich iAmerican business is
addicted has so far escaped notice and cen
sure. We refer to the inexcusable waste of
pins in new shirts. A new shirt may truth
fully be said to be sewn as with dragon’s
teeth. To extract them all is a laborious
task, which must be performed with exceed
ling care else anguish shall be your portion.
It iz fertunate that Georgia is representedl
in the United States senate at this time by
tvo men who are truc to the principles ofl
democracy, and cannct be swept from their
feet by the prevailing hysteria, which would
go to any length—even autocratic govern
ment, if not held in check.
The men with more income than theyl
need are to escape the surtax which they
could easily stand, and it is to be transferred
instead to newspapers. For the first time
in their lives publishers as a class are re
garded as swollen with wealth, although it
does not show up on their bank books. 1
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The Griffin News and Sun is patting Spald-‘
‘ing county on the back for buying $30,000
of liberty bonds. Terrell, with no town near
‘as large as Griffin, took $60,000 of the
‘bonds. But that's not surprising. It’s a way
Terrell has of always kedping in front, and
mot thinking much about it. ¢
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When you are tempted to feel that there
is no use in trying it is time to call out the
reserves. Give your courage a shaking up,
summons your grit to the front, and ot
yo‘ur cheerfulness in working order.
I Now, they’re urging that sparrows be eat
{en to help out the food situation. Sparrow
‘ pie would be as good as any other, but the
birds are so tiny'that what they would con
ltribute to the food supply would not be
worth mentioning. The country is prolific
'with silly suggestions.
m
| Cotton selling at 25 cents a pound, or
lone hundred and twenty-five dollars a Lale!
Ilsn’t that cheerful reading for the Georgia
farmer and all of us, full of econfidence
,for the future? It surely is.
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| Dispatches say the Germans have been
Ibrought to the extremity of eating crows.
IA much larger dish of that kind than any
, they have yet had is now being prepared
for them. ‘
The Telfair Enterprise wants the legis
lature to suppress the pistol toter. The gun
and the bottle are the deadliest combina
tion in America.
When a law is so unreasonable ‘that nine-‘
ty per cent. of the people break it, it is not
a law but a nuisance. l
There is no reasoh why honest, necessary
business should falter now. Pessimism!
never won anything.
The Red Cross! It's worthy of your best
efforts, your most cordial friendship. Help
!the good work.
~ The Savannah Press notes another joy of
" a Georgia summer; watermelons are moving. l
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| CAN ANYBODY TELL?
‘From the LaGrange Graphic.
; After a little experience with the
new war taxes you will have no furth
er difficulty in taking vour castor oil
straight.——Dawson News.
After having paid the tax where will we
get the money with which to buy the castor
0il?
‘“NONE ARE SO BLIND,” ETC.
From the Dalton Citizen.
And, of course, if it will not do to
use our grain to make liquor for our
selves it would hardly do to send it to
England to make liquor for our allies.
—Dawson News.
The trouble, is the narrow visioned prohi
bitionist who makes his living abusing his
fellowmen who disagrees with him won’t see
the point, but it is there just the same.
SOME RAT TALE, THIS.
From the Walton County News.
The Dawson News carries a half col
umn editorial entitled “Consider the
Skunk.” The Alpharetta Free Press ad
vocates sending a million of them
against the Germans. The skunk seems
to be in the limelight just now.—The
Walton Tribune.
What pesters most in our neck o' the
woods is the wharf rats. They say they are
of German descent. At any rate one of our
neighbors lost a choice ham, and if they can
chew Germans like they do ham "the’d put
the submarine out of business hefore break
fast.
LOOK WHAT'S HERE—SHE OVERALLS.
Mrs. Gilbert in Salem Register. ,
We glimpsed a display of feminine over
ails in a window display in a neighboring
town not long since and have gotten a pain
ful hunch that the she-overall fad will have
its run—under the guise of utility. Ye gods!
Just think of spectacular foolishness being
committed in the name of labor! Rats! Of
course the overallettes have rubber in the
bottom of the legs (they will have to be
called that, for overall “limbs” wouldn’t do)
so they can be hitched up to show the usual
expanse of silk stockings. (Ye gods, again!
Fashion talk flaunts women’s socks as an
additional threat.) “Khaki cool,” which is
only $4 or $5 a yard, would make real swell
georgette crepe blouse over a girdle corset
she-trousers which could be worn with a
georgette crepe blouse over a girdle corset
and no underwear.
The Confederates at Washington
From the New York Times. (
For the first time in their history the‘
United Confederate veterans have held theirl
annual encampment on soil that was the
enemy’s country in 1861. After the battlel
of Bull Run General Beauregard wished to{
march on to Washington and take it, which
he could have done easily enough, but Jef
ferson Davis overruled him. The golden
chance never came again. That was fifty
six years ago, and now the confederates have
marched up the famous avenue with an es-'
cort of union veterans, reviewed by a presi
dent born in Virginia. With them marched|
officers and men of the army of to-day, ofl‘i-l
cers and men who are fast making ready
to renew on French and Belgian soil the’
great traditions that these men of 1861 |
have made for them. '
For when these soldiers of ours go on the‘
firing line they, like the British and French
soldiers who fight by their side, will go as
the upholders of great traditions, the latest
of an honorable line. But the traditions they
uphold will have one unique and precious
quality which those of the allies do not.
They will go as the heirs of Generals Grant,
Johnston and Sherman, and Thomas, Jack
son and Meade. They are the inheritors
of the tradition made by the south and north
alike, by men who tried to disrupt the union
as well as the men who saved it. They will
sustain themselves by the thought that they
must be worthy of Gran®h and Lee. There
is no other fighting force in Europe of which
such a thing is true.
~_ Some of the old confederates jocosely
shouted as they passed President Wilson’s
}reviewinxz stand, “Call on us if the boys
can’t do it!” There is a real sense in which
l they are doing it. The great armies of 1861
are zoing to the front invisibly. A nation
is not merely a large number of individuals
living on a given piece of earth; it has a pos
itive if intangible life that grows out of its
history and is shaped by it. The thing we
call America was shaped by the men who
saved the union and by men who, failing in
their endeavor, honestly accepted the result
and set cheerfully to woßk to do their part
in making the union great. Both these ad
versaries of fifty years ago have welded the
great nation that arose out of their strug
rle into the ereation for which their grand
lchildrerv. are springing to arms to-day, in
\spired by the memory of men who were
brave and s fight that was unstained,
THE DAWSON NEWS
There have been shipped out of the
county the past year more food and
feedstuffs than have been shipped into
it. A wholesale grocer informs The
l News that not a carload of oats, hay,
corn or meal has been brought to Daw
' son in more than a year, whereas only
a few years ago these commodities
could not be got fast enough, it requir
ing several carloads of each a week to
' supply the demand. No meal at all is
~ how shipped here, as jobbers buy from
~ local mills that grind Terrell county
. corn.—Dawson News.
- If Terrell county can do that four-fifths
of the counties in Georgia can do the same
thing. Terrell county, though, is an excep
tion in other respects. The fact is recalled
that when cotton was the master of nearly
all agricultural thought Terrell* went int®
cotton-growing as earnestly as her people
have now gone into the production of other
crops. And the county held a record. Ex
cept in Marlborough county, South Caroli
na, Terrell grew more cotton per square
mile than any county in the cotton belt.
Along came the boll weevil scare and Ter
rell turned to other things. The result
shows that justification and the end hasn’t
been long coming. Terrell is doing more
than “living at home.”
A year ago the word came from Laurens
county, over in the direction of the other
side of South Georgia, that the people there
were not buying outside corn; they had
PEN PICTURE OF THE
LADY CONGRESSMAN
Dallas Suffragist Declares Miss Rankin Is
Credit to Sex and Country.
From the Dallas (Texas) News.
Looking from the gallery of the house of
representatives a visitor is much interested
in watching the first woman elected to the
congress of the United States, said Mrs. I.
Jalonick, president of the Dallas Equal Suf
frage association.
“However strange she may have felt dur
in gthe first days of her experience Jean
ette Rankin has now found herself in her
new environment, and seems to be quite at
home among the 480 men who adorn the
legislative hall. There is no self-conscious
ness in her manner. She goes in and out,
calls pages and generally conducts herself
with the nonchalence of an old-timer.
“One difference the visitor notices is that
she pays attention to the speaker, while
most of the 480 men either sit in the mid
dle of their spinal column, wearing an ex
pression of extreme ennui or talk and joke
with fellow members.
“We are told that the real business of
congress goes on in committee rooms, but
from the emphasis and eloquence indulg
ed in by the speakers one cannot help feel
ing that they take themselves and what
they say seriously, whatever other people
may think about it.
“l cannot help wondering whether the
kindly attitude of the men of congress to
ward the ‘lady from Montana’ is not due in
part at least to appreciation of her interest
in their efforts. There is no doubt that
Miss Rankin has been generously received
by her fellow members, and it is a tribute
to the chivalry and sense of fair play in
all good men that this has been the case.
“In personal appearance Miss Rankin
refutes all notions of only masculine women
desiring participation in governmental af
fairs, and that the holding of office would de
prive a woman of her womanliness. She is
one of the most essentially feminine women
I have ever met. Though she is slim and
petite of stature, she is far from being the
“earnest soul who has worn herself into a
bone, striving for her rights, a picture we
are familiar with from the brush of funny
page artists. Interest in problems of vital
importance and comprehension of world
horizon activities have not caused her to be
unmindful of the small things in life. Her
appearance is that of a well-groomed wo
man, the little niceties of dress not being
overlooked.
“Miss Rankin has a charming apartment
in Washington, where she lives with her
mother and sister, entertains her friends
and has all the home life possible to a wo
man who has undertaken the responsibili
ties of a broad career.
“The eyes of the world are upon her,
but no one who has met Miss Rankin can
have any doubt but that she will justify the
faith of the good men and women of Mon
tana who are responsible for her election
to the high place of trust and honor.”
By Dr. Frank Crane.
What ministries are in silence! What
soft feathered angel wings fly about us in
the utter darkness! What stealthy fairies
bring us secret gifts. What treasures are
unfolded to us in the deep pit of solitude!
As we sit alone, and all sights and sounds
are away, and the river of rest flows over
us in a voluptuous flood, our follies leave
us, our vanities vanish, our callow judg
ments ripen into sense, our sins flee (our
righteousness with them), and the great,
latent resources of our buried self rise up
within us; we touch the infinite, we even
penetrate into that mysterious fane where
dwells the brooding spirit of the One, and
small wonder if, when we emerge, our face
shines as if we had been on the Mount of
Transfiguration.
WHEN DOES THE BOLL WEEVIL
SULL? THE PATENTED CATCHERS
From the Pelham Journal.
The effectiveness of the patented boll
weevil catchers seems to depend on whether
the weevil “sulls” and, if so, when? If he
sulks at the psychological moment and turns
loose when he sulks the catcher catches
him. If he fails to sulk, or sulks at the
wrong moment or hangs on to the cotton
stalk when he is in this ugly mood, the
catcher rambles right along and leaves him
to recover his good humor and continue his
plan of puncturing. Some say he “sulls”
best at night and some say it is in the day
time he shuts up his mentality and drops
when jostled. The catchers are contraptions
made to jostle the weevil and catch him if
he falls. If he hangs on, or if he falls too
soon or too late, the catcher doesn’t catch.
Does the boll weevil “sull” and, if so, when,
and does he turn loose or grab when he takes
on his ugly mood? .
~ The great canal of China is 2,100 miles
long. It's the world’s longest.
AN EXAMPLE TO GEORGIA.
The Ministry of Silence.
From the Macon Telegraph.
enough home-grown corn to more than take
care of the county’s needs. With them, too,
it was a matter of pride, well justified.
"In ordinary times less fortunate or less
progressive people anywhere else in the
state might look with envious eyes on these
two counties, but especially so in times like
these. In both these counties, though, the
things that have been done were acecom
plished because of one fact mainly—the
farming people were progressive, ambitious,
and they did what they had to do to be
successful.
The Dawson News item doesn’t say so,
but its editor is authority for the state
ment that in Terrell county the people are
in first-class financial shape; the county is
thriving as it never did even under that
period of banner cotton record, and there
is less fear of pinch and privation among
them if a real food stringency comes out
of the war conditions than among any peo
ple in Georgia.
Terrell is truly an example for the whole
state, one well worth while studying. There
may be others. If there are then the state
and the whole nation ought to have the
benefit of the knowledge, for if half the
counties in Georgia ever reach that degree
of prosprity born of good judgment which
has come to Terrell, wherein they can ship
out more stuff for the market than is ship
pod in, then in all truth will Georgia have
reached that state in life where she can
look the whole world in the face and cry
from her hilltops: “Independent!”
Editor Dawson News: The protracted
meeting season is on, or, as Dr. John B.
McGehee phrased it, “the religious picnie
season.” It is well. It serves several pur
poses—it gets the folks together, makes
the gentleman to whom hell is a hangman’s
!whip to hold the wretch in order—think on
‘his ways and quit some of his meannes for
‘awhile. He never reforms, belonging to the
class of whom Christ said “abides alone,”
‘not having the spiritual germ that can die
and resurrect itself in another form, but
only the animal fear that flinches from
physical torture pictured as a “burning
hell.” Tt helps the surrounding vegetation
to dig nut-grass, though you can’t kill the
stuff; so scaring this predestination to dam
nation gang makes the people with souls
take heed and grow and help themselves
by helping mankind. And the tithe system
will have an airing.
A good lawyer, mindful of his elient’s
weak case, only lets the jury have what will
help his case and hides the balance from,
them if he can. So with the tithe brother.
When tithing was instituted, save the San
hedrin, which like the parliament of Eng
land served without pay, and until after the
Assyrian captivity was composed of the
hereditary heads of the twelve - Jewish
tribes, presided over by the high priest, all
law, medicine and gospel resided within
and was performed by the priests. After the
Assyrian captivity the majority of this
high court was composed of the priests, and
it is well to note that the “lawyers” whom
Christ denounced were the ecclesiastical
lawyers (D. D. we call them now), and not
the civil lawyers, and that the Sanhedrin
condemning the christians, three civil law
yers—Joseph of Arimathea, Nichodemus
and Paul’s tutor, Gamaliel—voted against
their priestly colleagues, the other nine, and
did not consent unto the death of the Christ.
And the next time you hear lawyers de
nounced by some ignoramus remember the
tribe has always been for law, lawfully
administered, from the beginning of ecivil
government to date. But this is a diversion,
The tithe of the Mosaic law meant that
that was given to the support of all por
tions of society—law, medicine and preach
ing—so that it is lawful to tithe your in
come and with this tithe pay all needed
medical, legal, social and church obliga
tions, not just the church. This is what the
apostle meant when he objected to putting
on the neck of the Gentiles “what we nor
our fathers were able to bear” (this tithing) l
at that time being even above the taxes
exacted, and this caused a new rule——“letl
each one of you lay aside as God has pros
pered you.” Let’s get at “the meat of the
word which is able to save.”
ANDREW P. RIVES.
A Connecticut negro gave as his reason
for exemption one wife and thirty-three
children.
The Religious Picnic Season.
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