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TERRELL COUNTY.
Stands in the forefront of agriculture.
Settle here, and help in the production of
fine C€rops and share in the prosperity.
AT R e
By E. L. RAINEY
SIVISION FORMED IN CAMP OF
EACH ORGANIZATION. DIF
FER ON MEN AND ISSUES.
WASHINGTON.—Recent events
have convinced the leaders of the
democratic and republican parties
that the harmony they hoped would
prevail in their respective organiza
tions is not going to materialize.
The division in the democratic par
ty over the peace treaty and league
of nations occasioned by the revolti
of Bryan and his followers has been
matched by the blunder committed
by the New York state assembly in
denying to the regularly nominated
and elected candidates of the socialist
party the right to sit in that body.
The impression is growing every
day that the president will announce
his renunciation of further presiden
tial ambition as soon as the peace
treaty and league of nations cove
nant has been disposed of by the
senate. With the president out of the
race the democratic leaders, who are
by no means discouraged over the
prospects of perpetuating the demo
cratic control of the government,
will inaugurate their quest for a
cuitable candidate.
The greater majority of state
leaders who generally do not accept
the Washington viewpoint of politi
cal matters seem to be entirely in
lifferent to the league of nations,
holding it to be of little importance
one way or the other.
Prohibition Issue Looked For.
Outside leaders are apparently
much more concerned over the con
ditions prevailing in their respective
<tates than they are over national
affairs. In almost every state in the
country there are two factions dis
puting for the control of the party
machine.
As usual inquiry among the leaders
of states like New York, all those in
the New England section, New Jer
cey, Pennsylvania, Deleware, Wis
consin and California shows unmis
takably that the leaders of both par
ties in those states are not in sym
pathy with the view of the national
leaders that the prohibition issue
should be ignored.
It is therefore quite probable that
at the New York state convention
next month as well as in other states
later on resolutions will be proposed
instructing the delegates to the nomi
nating convention to demand a plank
in the party platform urging the re
peal or modification of the eighteenth
amendment, and instructing delega
tions to oppose any man committed
to it.
The national leaders of both par
ties do not favor such a movement.
: AT es Rt
$lOO,OOO REWARD FOR A
BOLL WEEVIL REMEDY
South Carolina Legislature Adopts
Resolution Providing Money.
COLUMBIA, S. C.—A reward of
$lOO,OOO is offered by the state of
South Carolina to the person who
discovers and provides a successful
remedy for the cotton boll weevil,
in a joint resolution offered in the
house of representatives of the gen
eral assembly today by Representa
tive Morrison, of Charleston. The
resolution provides that persons find
ine boll weevil remedies will deliver
them to the commissioner of agri
culture, that official to appoint a
commission of ten or more reliable
persons to test them.
WHAT OTHERS SAY OF
Harris’ 1-2-1 Blood Remedy
UNSOLICITED ENDORSEMENTS:
Fayetteville, N. C., March,
1919.—Weaver Drug Co., Daw
son, Ga., Gentlemen: Enclosed
find postal money order for
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me at once one bottle of Har
ris" 121 Blood Medicine. I must
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Tifton, Ga., with rheumatism.
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on; had to-be helped like 2
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637 Lumberton St.
CITY DRUG STORE, Parrott.
BRONWOOD DRUG CO.
L. E. DAVIS DRUG STORE.
I. H. KIMBLE, Graves.
A FORMER CITIZEN SAYS
DAWSON MUST LOOK
TO HER LAURELS.
Mr. F. A. Ruggles, a former
citizen of Dawson who is mow a
resident of Atlanta, writes as fol
lows to The News:
Enclosed please find U. S. script
for two years’ subscription to The
Dawson News, the best weekly
paper I have seen published in
Georgia. I have been a constant
reader of The news for thirty
eight years. Its’ hard to get wean
ed from a good, up-to-date paper.
Dawson seems like home to me,
and if you do not keep your
weather eye open I'm afraid that
we will have the greater part of
Dawson people in Atlanta. There
are over one hundred former Ter
rell county people in Atlanta.
“Doesn’t Atlanta grow.”
Yours very truly,
F. A. RUGGLES.
POLITICAL RAILTO
|
HEAR BIG CHORUS
}CANDIDATES THINK PEOPLE
~ CALL THEM TO OFFICE.
| SURE OF POPULARITY.
This is the season of “calls.”
_“I hear you calling me,” is the big
hit along the political rialto.
Men can’t sleep nights, there is so
much noise, so many voices calling
and calling. ‘
No candidate, from coroner to gov
ernor, never announces that he is
a candidate because he wants to be
coroner or governor. That would not
be good taste. He must be “called”
to office by the people, sort of push
ed, dragged or shoved into office.
‘A “call” is a demand, a request or
an invitation, and it is considered im
portant, highly important, in fact,
because it is taken as an expression
of popular sentiment—the voice of
the people “calling.”
“Calls” Big Surprise.
Of course candidates never have
anything to do with arranging these
“eall” on its merry little way.
great surprise. They never tell close
friends that they want to run for
office. Close friends never go out
among other friends and start the
“eall” on its merry litlle way.
The “call” starts off in some cor
ner of the state of county, swells
into a mighty chorus, sweeping all
before it, and when it is presented to
a candidate there is nothing for him
to do but drop his private affairs,
and respond. The will of the people
is the law of the land. No man can
remain at home when the people ask
)him to become their public servant.
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”RUIN OF MIDDLE CLASSES
British Novelist Says Profiteers Are
Given Free Hand to Rob Them.
l Conditions Are Lamentable.
LONDON.—Sir H. Rider Haggard,
the author, believes the middle classes
of England are on the “road to ruin.”
This opinion he expressed in a letter
to the general secretary of the Middle
Classes union.
“] sympathize fully with your
movement,” he wrote. “The middle
classes are without doubt on the
road to ruin.”
He declared that against these
classes are without doubt on the
profiteer is given a free hand. .
LSt e s
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 28, 1915.
Weaver Drug Co., Dawson, Ga.
—_Dear Sirs: While in Albany
1 bought three bottles of Har
ris' Blood Remedy, 121, and
have been greatly improved by
same. It is a great remedy and
will do everything you claim it
will do. I am enclosing money
order for two dollars and fifty
cents, for which express to me
at once, three bottles of your
121 Blood Remedy. Very truly
yours, JAS. LOVE BELIN.
1314 Fifth Avenue.
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Weaver Drug Co., Dawson,
Ga., Dear Sirs: Please send me
one bottle of Harris’ 121 Blood
Remedy. Have used one bottle
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Doerun, Ga., R. 2, Box 116.
SOLD BY
D. M. DISMUKE, Graves.
BRIM & COMPANY, Herod.
J. C. COKER, Herod.
LEE & THORNTON, Herod.
THE. DAWSON NEWS
FULL DAY’S WORK
NOTHING LESS WILL FEED AND
CLOTHE THE WORLD AND
REDUCE PRICES.
Bankers of the south are deeply
concerned about the extravagance
and idleness which are sapping the
foundations of prosperity, and in
their replies to a letter recently
sent out by Governor M. B. Well
born, of the Federal Reserve bank,
they make it clear that serious con
sequences may follow this condition
unless it is soon changed by an early
return to industry and economy.
In a word, they diagnose the condi
tion as Premier Lloyd George did in
a recent speech to the British Parlia
ment:
“We have under-production and
over-consumption; it cannot last.” |
They say it is a fatal mistake to
reduce the output of labor when the
world needs production worse than
ever before, and when extarvagance
is added to this evil disaster will cer
tainly follow a continuance of this
folly.
The inflation of currency and cred
it is recognized as a dangerous con
dition, and there is a general de
mand for deflation. In this connec
tion many insist that bankers should
refuse loans for speculative purposes
and lend freely to productive enter
prises. |
Some way we are passing through
a period of extravagance, specula
tion and demoralization that follows
all great wars and as this is the great
est and most destructive war that
the world ever saw this period will
be more pronounced than ever be
fore. Those who take this view sug
gest that time is the only solvent and
a period of four years is suggested
as about the time it will take to bring
conditions back to normal.
Several bankers hold that high
prices and wages will increase pro
duction, but more insist that these
factors do not operate under pres
ent conditions because labor is not
putting in full time.
WOULD USE $100,000,000 IN
- TREASURY CERTIFICATES
| FOR REIMBURSEMENT.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A compre
hensive program for reimbursing
owners of intoxicating liquors for
losses suffered under constitutional
prohibition will have the serious con
sideration of leading prohibition
ists in congres and by the internal
revenue bureau, it was learned to
day.
A proposal has been submitted to
the treasury department by some of
‘the leading prohibitionists in con
gress which provides that the gov
‘ernment shall purchase all liquors
now held under bond, amounting to
about 60,000,000 gallons. Treasury
certificates would be issued for the
liquor and these liquidated only as
the government finds legitimate
spirits. The financial outlay would
be about $100,000,000.
From ten to twenty years, prohi
bition leaders estimate, will be re
quired to use up this stock legiti
mately, such as for medical, scientific
or industrial purposes. If the plan
is carried out government experts
.will be instructed to conduct experi
ments in an effort to find new con
verted uses of the liquor, such as for
motive power.
The fact that many banks, holders
of warehouse certificates for govern
ment bonded liquor, will be large!
losers unless some relief is f:rantedl
in finding favor for the programme.
Prohibitionists, whose support of|
such a proposal is a distinct sur-|
prise, believe the plan will provide
for a stricter and more economical
enforcement of prohibition and causeé
much of the antagonism throughout
the country to the dry era to wane.|
IS SUED FOR $100,000.00
Young Woman Asks Heavy Damages
For Alleged Forcible Ejection
From the Capitol.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Alleging
that she had been forcibly ejected
from the office building of the house
of representatives in Washington and
held in a Washington asylum, Miss
Amanda Byrd, Eutaw, Ala,, has filed
a suit asking $lOO,OOO against Con
gressman W, Boliver of Alabama,
Dr. Percy Pickling, district alienist;
E. L. Phillips, sanitary officer, and
Louis F. Sinkhan, former superin
tendent of the Washington asylum
and jail.
Miss Byrd who is a former employe
of the National City company, states
that during January last year she
was endeavoring to obtain an investi
gation on charges she had made that
the New York company was defraud
ing the government of income tax.
She declares that while she was try
ing to gain an audience with the
members of the house she was eject
ed from the building and placed in
an asylum in Washington.
Officials mentioned in the suit dis
claim all knowledge of the affair.
R e
LAST OF MONITOR’S CREW DEAD
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Henry Chris
topher Von Tennenbreak, who claim
ed he was the last survivor of the
crew of the Monitor, which fought
the Merrimsc in the eivil war, died
today at the age of 85.
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1920
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LEADERS DETERMINED TO CUT
INTO APPROPRIATIONS HEAV- }
ILY. SCRAP WAR MACHINE. |
| S i
j WASHINGTON, D. C.—The gov-|
ernment has made the discovery that |
its finances are in need of immediate |
attention. Problems of the utmost,
gravity along this line confront both
President Wilson and congress, prob- |
lems so pressing that they require|
solution at the earliest possible mo-|
ment. Huge deficits loom ahead, in|
addition to the staggering amount al- |
"ready piled up, and the era of waste |
and extravagance which had its origin |
in the hysteria of war shows no signs |
‘of abatement. .
b Deficit of Six Billions. i
~ Congress is convinced that some at- |
tempt must be made to make the na-|
tion’s expenses meet its revenues.
Just how much' of a task this will be
iis shown by the fact that the gap to |
be bridged will be about $6,000,000,- |
000 wide by June 80, 1921. The de
ficit at the close of the fiscal year on |
June 30, 1920, will be close to $4,-|
1000,000,000. %
’ Already the democratic executive |
end of the government and the re-|
publican legislative end are far apart|
on the whole financial program. And!
lthis breach promises to widen, for|
congress shows every indication of!
ltaking the bit in its teeth and insist- |
ing on economies which the executive{
‘department does not favor. |
! To Scrap,War Machine. I
The first thing congress plans to !
do is to dismantle the costly war ma-.
chine erected during the war with
Germany. To this end both house|
and senate leaders have decreed that
at least $1,500,000 must be cut from
the estimates of the executive depart
ment for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1921. Thege estimates, as submitt-i
ed by Secretary of the Treasury
Glass from figures presented him by?
the varioys executive departments, to
tal $5,250,000,000. It is the inten
tion of congress to cut them to $3,-
500,000,000. The army and navy are
}to be the two principal sufferers in
this reduction.
| If the expenditures called for by
|departmental estimates were author
iized by congress the deficit for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1920,
!would be $3,950,000,000. For the
year ending June 30, 1921, the de
ficit would be $2,100,000,000 addi
!tional.
| Bills Not All in Yet.
' Even with this tremendous debt
piled up not all the bills will have
{been paid. The figures above make
no provision for the $600,000,000
which must be paid to cover the de
ficit acquired by government opera
tion of railroads, nor of .$80,000,000
|necessary to pay the additional
lawards to disabled soldiers under the
‘provisions of the Sweet bill, nor of
1£30,000,000 to take care of pay in
' ereases to employes of the postoffice
fidcpartment‘ nor of at least $lOO,-
000,000 which will be necssary for
| deficiency appropriations. .
s As an example of how far apart
fcong‘ross and the executive branch of
the government really are the secre-
Itary of the treasury has estimated
that the custom and internal receipts
of the government will yield $5,515,-
000,000 during the next fiscal year.
‘Senator Smoot, acting leader of bothi
the finance and appropriation com
mittees of the senate, declares that
these receipts will total but $4,725,-
000,000, a difference of about three-!
quarters of a billion dollars. |
Thir:y Billions the Total Debt. |
‘ These figures are staggering, but
{they are merely “small change” when
|considerd in connection with the to
ftal indebtedness of the government.
| This will amount, by June 30 next,
{to $23,000,000,000 of short-term in
'terest-bearing notes and $3,000,000,-
!000 of federal reserve bank notes.
iTo this must be added by June 30
|of this year a deficit of $4,000,000,-
1000, making a total indebtedness of
;330,000,000.000. To offset this huge
figures there are foreign loans of
j$10,00(),000,000, but it is doubtful if
‘this nation will receive payment on
the principal of these for a long time
[to come.
I The~otal indebtedness of the Unit
ed States when it entered the war
'was less than $1,000,000,000. Now it
{is 30 times that amount.
13,800 RED CROSS NURSES
| FOR DUTY IN MIDLLE WEST
!Needed to Help Authorities in Fight
’\ Against Flu Epidemic.
CHICAGO.—HeaIth officials today
found a ray of hope in the influenza
situation despite predictions at the
same time that deaths from that dis
ease and pneumonia reported today
probably would surpass the high rec
ord, 166, established yesterday.
‘l Deaths yesterday, they said, were
last week’s harvest, new cases of in
fluenza on three days going above
2,000. The doctors pointed to a drop
yesterday to 1,616 new cases of in
fluenza and 367 of pneumonia, as in
dicating that the attack of the dis
ease was waning. |
A shortage of ftrained nurses,
‘which has handicapped health author
ities in their efforts to control the
epidemic, was relieved today by the
announcement that 13,800 Red Cross
nurses trained during the war had
been requested to report for duty.
S T |
MR. BUSSEY’S MOTHER DIES.
Tuesday Hon. J. B. Bussey was
called to Waverly Hall, near Colum
bus, by a telegram announcing the
death of his mother. She was 87
;yeauoldnddiedsthomltof
old age.—Cuthbert Leader.
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