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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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DAWSON, GA., JANUARY 20, 1920.
A young man sent a ham to his sweet
heart for a Christmas present, and the card
which accompanied the present read: “When
this you see remember me.”
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President Wilson has appointed Howard
Pigg to direct the prosecution of feed prof
jteers. It would appear to be a fitting selec
tion for this particular job.
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A woman who scorned rabbits for table
use when they could be bought for a nickel
apiece asserts that they are a delicacy now
that they are selling at four bits each.
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When a thief was robbing a hen house a’
$lO bill slipped out of his pocket. The own
er of the hen house advertises that the own
er of the bill may have the same by proving
his property.
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Two major generals are candidates for
president. If a buck private would toss his
derby into the ring he’d get more of the
5,000,000 soldier votes than both of the gen
erals put together, |
THE LESS HORSE AGE.
The horseless age will not come in the
next few generations, if it ever does. But
the less horse age is already here. Automo
bile and truck and tractor have displaced
horsepower in travel, transportation and on
the farm. The development of motor machin
ery is one of the biggest industrial results
of the times. Figures covering the last year
show that 1,586,787 automobiles were man
ufactured in the United States. The whole
sale value of the product was $1,399,282,-
995. Twenty years ago the annual produc
tion of automobiles was 3,700 and the whole
sale value of the machines was $4,750,000.
The average wholesale price per car for
last year was $BB2. If the car built in 1899
had been priced at the same figure the total
value of the year’s supply would have been
only $3,263,400, a reduction of approxi
mately one-fourth. When the quality of the
cars manufactured twenty years ago is com
pared with the quality of those manufactur
ed last year the high prices paid for early
styles is apparent.
The increase in the sales of cars is larg
est in the agricultural regions. Last year
the largest gains in sales were in the mid
dle south, but this is due to the fact that in
the states where the increase is shown, Ten
nessee, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana, the
sale of cars before war prosperity and high
prices for cotton was low. These states have
merely caught up with the procession by
heavy buying during last year. Alabama,
with all the buying last year, has only one
car for every forty-three persons. Mississippi
has fewer cars per capita than any state in
the union, the number being only one for ev
ery fifty people. Towa and Nebraska are at
the top of the list with one car for every
six and one-half persons.
The future development of the automobile
and truck industry depends almost entirely
on the development of good roads in the
country and provisions in the cities for un
derground or some other method of park
ing so that cars may be left while not in ser
vice without utilizing the streets. It is es
gimated that the United States could atilize
12,000,000 cars without overstocking the
country. The normal replacement of cars is
about 16 per cent. of the current produc
tion, so that five-sixths of the number man
ufactured must find new buyers.
GARAGES AND POISON.
The garage may become a place of death
to those who are determined to have the in
toxicating effects of alcohol in some form
despite the inhibition on its manufacture and
sale. In several instances growing out of
the recent Christmas carnival of wood alco
hol the sale of the poison was traced to gar
ages in the larger cities. There is
nothing wunusual in this fact. Aleohol
is used in automobile radiators. Gen
erally it is what is known commercially as
denatured alcohol. Ethyl alcohol is the kind
manufactured from grain and is that which
forms the intoxicating element in liquors.
Wood alcohol is distilled from wood and
separated from the resultant tar and creo
sote by chemical processes combined with
distillation. It is a rank poison, its effects
being blindness, paralysis and ultimately
death in the majority of cases. Denatured
alcohol is ethyl or intoxicating alcohol with
which wood alcohol has been mixed.
The alcohol stored in garages is as dan
gerous to life as pure wood alcohol. It may
require a little longer to accomplish its dead
1y work, but it gets the same results. Death
from drinking unadulterated wood alcohol is
nearly as instantaneous as death from tak
ing poison acid. Death from denatured alco
hol is not so sudden, but it is as certain.
The thirsty individual who accepts the in
vitation of the garage attendant to have a
drink of the aleohol used in the radiator is
gambling with death. The attendant may
not know the elements which enter into the
fluid he is offering. Or he may know them,
but ignore their poisonous effects. In either
case he may become a murderer. It contains
the deadly poison in sufficient quantities to
cause the death of those who use it for bev
erage purposes. :
DOING FOR DAWSON.
It is very gratifying that the business in
terests of Dawson have rallied with such en
couraging support of the Chamber of Com
merce as has been shown within the pagt
few days. Face to face with the possibility
of the trade body reaching the end of its
row for the lack of public support, a num
ber of the town’s leading business men put
their hands to the plow with the determina
tion that the work must go forward. It was
too important a thing, too vital a thing to
end in failure. Once awakened to the im
perative need of maintaining this organiza
tion the people of the city have answered
generously and enthsiastically the call for
help. The system of financial contributions
has been put on a stable and business-like
basis, and it seems that the future of the
chamber is assured.
As this paper has often taken occasion to
to say, a live trade organization is essential
to the growth and prosperity of «ny town.
Many things have been accomplished for
the betterment of Dawson since the Cham
ber of Commerce was established nearly two
years ago. It promises to do a great deal
more for the town during the present year,
provided the business interests will unite
solidly in its undertakings. It is not only a
civic duty to support this much needed in
stitution, but it is a matter of good business.
Every dollar contributed to it and every
minute of time given by the individual to its
work means an investment which will re
dound many fold to the person so contribut
ing. Eliminate all consideration of civic pa
triotism, if you will, and put it on the basis
of mere individual gain and profit, and the
Chamber of Commerce would still offer its
resistless appeal for support in time and dol
lars by every man engaged in business or
profession in the town.
It is gratifying, we say. And, more than
that, it is an evidence of the inherent busi
ness sagacity of Dawson’s people, well-known
for their sound methods and thrifty habits.
WANTS MINIMUM OF POLITICS.
Editor Allen, of the Moultrie Observer,
wants a short campaign and a minimum of
politics, and gives good reasons why. He
says:
This ought to be a big year in Geor
gia. There is work for all men and wo
men. There is a market for all they
produce. There is profit in their labor
and the fruits of their labor.
We need a big crop.
We need a lot of building.
We need road construction.
Factories are behind with deliveries.
Merchants will have all they can do.
Will lawyers please have a heart, and
be light with us in the matter of poli
tics? ’
We have so little time to spare, and
so many other important things to en
gage our attention. Such a pity we
have a political year coming at such a
busy time.
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Mr. Bryan has been buried a good many
times by a good many sets of politicians
who have no use for him, but he won’t stay
buried. No man who will be an aspirant has
anything to compare with Bryan’s personal
following. If you will keep your eye on W.
J. B. the coming season you will not miss
a great deal of the show.
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Of course Europe is hard up, and needs
money. But that is no good financial reason
why this country should finance a continent
which spends its time raising hell instead
of food and setting about earning its own liv
ing. There is a point where responsibility
ends, and another farther on where even
‘sympathy stops.
| The optimist is nice about it, and remarks
lthat he is confident we shall have an early
l|spring, running on beautifully and smoothly.
There is consolation in this assurance. The
!pessimist, however, says the grain of com
fort is about the size of the proverbial mus
ltard seed.
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| The Jackson Progress-Argus has entered
‘upon its forty-eighth year. Editor Doyle
Jones is giving the people of his town and
lcounty a splendid newspaper in every re
spect, and one that deserves loyal and liberal
lsupport. It is always a welcome visitor to
our sanctum.
l According to the bureau of railway eco
{nomics the net loss of the government has
{reached $5483,000,000 in the .twenty-three
%months of railroad operation. The bureau
i placed the lozs of the eleven months of 1919
]at more than $331,000,000.
] Some young men would rather have a $l4
silk shirt than to have a $2 shirt and $l2 in
!the bank. They are the kind of fellows who
=will find it hard sledding when hard times
|come and jobs are scarce. And these things
iare coming,
R o SO e
i One way to conserve paper is for the gov
;ernment to cut out writing notes of protest
Ito Mexico. That is the most pronounced
‘waste of paper in the country.
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l Farm boys of this generation know noth
;ing of one real sport of years ago. That
| was breaking calves to work under the yoke.
A Suspicion of Profit.
| From the Metter Advertiser.
! J. E. Webb. of Hahira, is credited with
making seven hundred and seventy-five gal
llons of syrup from one acre of cane this
{vear. This was an excellent crop. Five hun
{dred gallons of syrup from an acre of cane
|is a pretty good yield. If Mr. Webb put his
Isyrup up in new barrels he probably found
{a market for it at one dollar a gallon. Quite
|a lot of it has been sold in South Georgia
{this year at this price, and some at better
[prices. If he canned it or bottled it he re
iceived a good deal more. It looks like there
| ought to be a bit of profit in syrup making
{like this. The syrup makers as a whole have
imade profits this year.
Georgia’s Furiously Funny
Anti-Tipping Law.
Georgia has a perfectly good anti-tipping
law. It was conceived in patriotism and or
dinary common sense and enacted into law
by the state legislature in perfect good faith.
" Nobody pays the slightest attention to it.
‘ So far as its effect upon the tipping nui
sance in Georgia is concerned it might as
‘well have been written into the laws of Hed
’jaz—wherever and whatever and why that
is. :
The truth of the matter is the reason no
‘hotel, restaurant, club or public place pays
any attention to the law is because there is
little or no public sentiment behind it; that
is, there is no aggressive, assembled and de
termined public sentiment behind it.
The general public doubtless would be on
ly too glad to get rid of the tipping evil, if
it could. But so far it has not been able to
see its way clear.
So universal has the tipping custom be
come that the business has been reduced to
orderly statistical array by authorities, and
one may consider the problem from a broad
and comprehensive point of view.
The United States Monthly Labor Review
presents some interesting and significant fig
ures in this matter which are well worth
thinking upon. In the large cities waiters
get an average of $2.28 a day in tips. Wash
ington gives them $3.67 a day; New York
$3.10 and Indianapolis $1.16. The average
for hotel porters is $1.60 a day. Pittsburg
heads the list with $3.60 a day, but the aver
age in Indianapolis is only 13 cents. Bell
boys are given an average of $2.16 a day
and the luckless chambermaids receive an
average of only 42 cents, 88 cents in New
Orleans and 11 cents in Omaha.
These are illuminating figures; they tell
a rather startling story of the widespread
ramifications of the tipping evil.
And what is the general public going to do
about it?
Apparently, nothing.
That is, nothing by way of stopping it.
Georgia has a fine anti-tipping law, that
other states might copy—if said states wish
to have something more or less new to tickle
them and make them laugh.
Wiping Out Grievances.
From the Moultrie Observer.
Editor Pat Griffin, of the Bainbridge Post-
Searchlight, says he enters the New Year
without any grievances. Editor Griffin is a
hard hitter and doubtless has his share of the
seraps, but if he knows -how to forgive and
forget and pass on to the next thing he is
highly accomplished in one respect.
There is nothing that does so much to keep
a man fresh and fit and happy as to be able
to shake off grievances. They come to all
men, women and children. They will come
this year just as they came last year. You
cannot keep them away, and we do not ad
vise that you keep them away. It is well that
vou should have manhood to resist, that you
stand by your convictions, and have moral
courage to speak out. You are bound to rub
some one the wrong way, and they will pass
your dead line often, but the best you can
do for your own self is to let each day set
tle its own troubles. Do not carry them over
until tomorrow. It is just as bad that you
have grievance germs in you as it is to have
malaria. They will multiply, and they may
eventually run irto something worse. Get
them right out.
It may be that there are many that you
have cause for carrying grievances against.
They are deserving of the worst, probably,
and entirely unworthy of your forgiveness
and good will. It is not so much on their
account that you must forgive and forget. It
is on your own account. It is on account of
your loved ones and best friends. You can
not be your best self when you are loaded
up to the muzzle with grievances against
some unworthy and mischief-making scamp.
It is good to have a thorough cleaning,
cetting all this stuff out once a day.
History of an Editor.
From an Exchange.
An editor died and slowly wended his way
down to where he supposed a warm recep
tion awaited him. The Devil met him and
said: “For many years thou hast borne the
blame for the errors that the printers made
in the papers. The paper has gone, alas! for
$l, and the $l, alas! has often failed to come
in. The printers have bedeviled thee for
wages Saturday night when thou hadst not a
cent to thy name., Men have taken the paper
without paying for it, and cursed thee for not
getting up a better paper. Thou hast been
called a deadbeat by the passenger conduc
tor when thou hast shown the annual pass to
their envious gaze. All these things thou
hast borne in silence. Thou canst not come
in here,” and he fired him. As he did so he
murmured: “Heaven is his home, and, be
sides, if we had let him come in here he
would have been continually dunning his de
linquent subsecribers, and thus created disor
der in myv kingdom.”
Just a Ma~
He wasn’t no great shakes of a man—
Jest an ord’nary kind of cuss;
He never made no noise in the world
And never kicked up no fuss.
But he alwuz wore a pleasant face,
And spoke a kind word to every one.
And it seemed, when you met him anywhere,
Like he earried a gleam o’ the mornin’
sun.
He never give much to nobody else—
He never had nothin’ to give,
For he had to hustle from mornin’ till night
That his little ones might live.
But when a feller was down an’ out—
Throw’d down by cruel, cold defeat,
He give him a smile an’ a grip o’ the hand
That took him an’ stood him back on his
feet.
They never built no monument to him—
They never give him no meed o’ praise;
They only laid him away in the ground
Where sooner or later all men lays,
But them that had alwavs know’d him best,
That know’d how hard for the right he’d
strive,
Couldn’t say nothin’ better about him dead
Than they’d always said when he was
alive.
He was never called a Christian man.
He never know’d the meanin’ o’ fame,
For there wasn’t no great heroic deed
That ever got coupled with his name.
But manv a soul that was burdened with
grief
Was lightened and healed of its smart, ~
And I rather think that the power in his life
Was the spirit of Christ in his heart.
—Boston Globe.
THE DAWSON NEWS
From the Cordele Dispatch.
A number of Crisp county farmers are
making plans for home curing their meat
this year that are indeed creditable. Some
of them have found out that it can be sav
ed, every pound of it, and a waste which
follows careless effort to save is no longer
necessary.
For years potato saving has been a bug
aboo large enough for the best of us. Now
we can save potatoes, and the method is so
simple, the potato house is so reasonable in
cost, that we know the potato has a great
future in this section. So it is with meat.
If every farmer in Crisp county had the
full value of all the meat he has lost trying
to cure it he could declare dividends on his
enterprise. The waste is not necessary.
Thé placing of curing plants according to
government specifications is an encouraging
movement. These have long been in opera
tion in Brooks county, and that section of
Georgia has a name which reaches all over
the country for its excellent country cured
meats. Brooks county has cheated the pack
ers out of millions of dollars in sales
through Georgia by curing and selling Geor
gia raised meat.
Stock raisers can do that and thus save
themselves from having to rush their hogs
off to market in a time when the price is too
low because there is too much offered for
sale at one time. What we need most is a
marketable product we can offer when there
is little to be had. We want to be able to
offer the right kind of country cured meats
the vear around. When we reach that stage
the millions that go into the pockets of the
great packers will develope an industry
which will drop into ours and we will have
made thousands of stock raisers independent.
Cut Out the High Living.
From the Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
Our standard of living, however, is far
from what it ought to be. We enjoy bene
fits that we fail to appreciate, and we take
too much for granted and attempt to fol
low too closely to the standards of the rich
or the dissolute or the reckless. Our chief
fault is our determination to be in style.
Too many people take no thought for the
morrow. They are improvident and extrava
gant. If shoes are fifteen dollars for the
best grade, they buy that kind when they
could get a good pair for ten. If it is fash
ionable to own an auto they get one of those
and ride around like they owned the earth
while the grocer puts their account in the
hands of a lawyer or their mortgaged home
is sold by the sheriff. If it is stylish to wear
hundred dollar coat suits the fifty dollar
kind isn’t good enough for the fellow with
the twenty-five deollar pocketbook. He must
be in style and so must she.
Sensible living conditions are all that is
necessary now. A certain amount of plain,
simple food, plenty of exercise and by all
means plenty of work will solve many a
problem that today is pressing because of
high living costs and high living ideas with
short pocketbooks. Keeping neck and neck
with the payroll is dangerous bus
iness. Saving a little every week is compar
atively easy, and it is so much more hene
ficial in the long run.
From the Macon News.
The Negro Year Book for 1918-1919, the
fifth annual edition, edited by Monroe N.
Work, director of the department of rec
ords at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In
stitute, which has just been received, is full
of interesting information on the past prog
ress and present status of the negro.
Among the interesting facts disclosed we
find that there are more crimes among ne
groes in the north than in the south, in pro
portion to negro population.
Figures are quoted from the last census,
showing that the negro is going into agri
culture in a ratio that is higher than the in
crease of negro population. It is hoped 1920
will show a further increase.
The record of lynching presents a situa
tion which is to be regretted, and which will
materially improve when the leaders of the
negro race themselves do their full part.
But it is not apparent just what useful
purpose can be served by quoting the mis
cegenation laws of the various states, to
gether with the recommendation of a cer
tain Charles B. Davenport, a director of eu
genics, that in legislating on this subject
“we must forget skin color” and that where
there is only ‘‘one-eighth part negro blood”
the intermarriage of the races should be
regulated merely by a certificate from “‘the
state’s eugenics board.”
From the Griffin News and Sun.
An ideal citizen is one who sees something
good in his town and spreads the good news
abroad that others may benefit therefrom.
Of course there are other sidelights to
the ideal citizen, but the quality of loyalty
is one which produces tangible results.
There are three distinet attitudes which
a person may assume toward the community
which houses and feeds him—to boost, to re
main quiescent, or knock.
The booster pushes his town along, the
quiescent citizen lulls it to sleep, and the
knocker helps to put it out of business.
Which are you?
~ Perhaps you have never given it a thought.
You may not realize yourself which you are,
‘but your neighbors all know. They have ac
curately catalogued you according to your
deserts.
- If you are a booster they admire you; if
you are quiescent they wonder when you
will emerge from your slumber; and if you
are a knocker they yearn for the day when
you will fold up your tent and silently fade
away.
Boost the home town, and its citizens will
boost you. :
Knock it, and you knock yourself infinitely
more.
INDICATES OPTIMISM.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Ten million silver dollars are being melted
up at the mint to be converted into small
change. It looks as if the government were
optimistic enough to think that there is go-'
ing to be use for small change again, one of
these days. ‘
THE DRIVERS GET THEIRS.
From the Wesleyan Christian Advocate.
Drives pay the drivers, that is if a state
ment in the Eastern Methodist is true. That
paper states that one of the head men of'
one of the drives is being paid a salary of
£25,000 per year. That is some salary—tol
use a phrase of the street.
Saving the Meat.
The Negro Year Book.
Boost Your Town.
BUILD NOW, HELP
OUR CITY TO GROW
One of the greatest needs in this
city at present time is more
Houses of Moderate Size,
and the demand for places
in which to live will
increase rapidly.
We have call upon call for
houses, either rent or buy.
If you have one, list
it with US.
FARM LANDS, CITY PROP
ERY, or any REAL ESTATE
Is a safe place for your money.
Stock may decrease in value,
but real estate is always a
good investment.
We can handle any size tract
from 10 to 10,000 acres and
make a satisfactory
sale- for you.
No Sale, No Cost to You
DON’T DELAY
List your property with us to
day, or if you want to buy,
call at once and see
our desirable list
of offerings.
BUYER and SELLER
c«s MEET-AT . .
SMITH & LEE
REAL ESTATE and LOANS
122 S. Main St. DAWSON, GA. 'Pnone 19
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1920,