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BY E. L. RAINEY
CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1920.
Letting “the dead past bury its dead” oc
curs when a widow makes a man believe
he is the first one she ever loved.
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It requires considerable acumen to dis
tinguish between a poser and a thinker or
between a worker and a busybody.
It may be hot in the fields these days for
the man who works, but it is no hotter than
it is in the kitchen where his meals are pre
pared. [
A Detroit woman says short skirts and
transparent waists are not signs of im
modesty. Sometimes they are signs of
self-consciousness, though.
" When some government official talks
about reducing the cost of living the public
laughs a laugh like that of ,the individual
serving a long term behind prison bars. 1'
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Germany has to deliver so many million%
tons of coal manthly, but the American coal
operator doesn’t have to deliver anythingll
until his unconscionable demands are com- |
plied with. |
THE RAILROAD SITUATION.
While the Esch-Cummings law under
which the commission acted guarantees the
railroads six per cent. on their investment
it is significant that the commission’s
award to the brotherhoods was considerably
less than their demands. The award is open
to double construction; first, that it is the
limit to which the railroad wage can be
safely carried, and, second, that it is ade
quate compensation for the service ren
dered. The award may mean one or both of
these conditions in view of the reaction of
the stock market and the reduction of
operating forces.
It seems to be the concensus of opinion
of the economists of the country that if
creasing wages now are multiplying the
evils to be remedied, At one stage high
wages may have-been the remedy, but now
they are obstructive of the cure of the real
disease, which is inefficiency and under
production.. These industrial diseases re
quire entirely different treatment, which
the railroads have decided lies in reduction
of operating forces. There is wealth of
meaning in the statement of a Pennsyl
vania railroad official: “It’s time men got
down to work.”
- MIDSUMMER DEPRESSION. i
The closing days of July and all those of |
August are filled with midsummer depres-|
sion which drives the fortunate of mankind
to the mountains and the sea. It is the|
season -of lassitude and laziness. Work,i
whether of hand or brain, requires extra|
effort. Vitality is sapped and recuperationé
negligible. In the olden times the peoplei
called the season ‘“dog days” largely be
cause Sirius, the dog star, rose and set!
with the sun durlng a certain number of‘
days. These ancient scholars believed
that during that period the venomous
snakes were more poisonous than at any
other time, and that they were blind and,
therefore, more ready to strike at an ap
proaching victim than to .get away, as is
their habit at other times. They believed
that rabies were more prevalent among
dogs during that season than at others. The
less learned believed that this was the
reason the season was called ‘“dog days.”
But nature is not wasteful. The summer,
with its heat and sunlight, is medicine for
the human body. The perspiration whijch
streams from its pores from exercise is na
ture freeing the body of its accumulated
poisons. The tan which the skin accumu
lates is the rebuilding of the body covering
with better material. If, instead of seek
ing some cool place and making comfort
for the moment more important than fu
ture health, people would urge the body
by material means to expel its poisons
‘through the sweat glands and would take a
sun bath occasionally instead of an ocean
bath daily there would be fewer human ills
and less demand for the services of those
who restore the body to health.
EASING UP.
Information comes from Washington to
the effect that prohibition officials have
decided to lift the ban on home mhde drinks
possessing active qualities and have an
nounced that the 1% of 1 per cent defini
tion may be disregarded if the stuff manu
factured is used in the home.
If the report is correct it would appear
that home-made ‘hard” cider, which pos
sesses an unquestioned kick, blackberry cor
dials of high power and grape wines of any
potentiality have become available again to
the thirsty who possess facilities for home
manufacture, so far as Uncle ‘Sam is con
cerned. Here in Georgia, however, little
consolation is to be derived from that state
of affairs, for be it remembered that Uncle
Nat’s bone dry law is in full force and ef
fect, and it is a violation of a state statute
to engage in apy of the things aforemen
tioned. :
As a matter of law it is difficult to-per
ceive just where the prohibition officials ob
tain their authority to permit such manu
facture. The Volstead law prohibits them
without any reservations.
NEWSPAPERS HIT AGAIN.
Newspaper publishers have been notified
to prepare themselves for the sharpest ad
vance in the price of print paper since pa
per starfed its meteoric climb from $5O
and less a ton about five years ago. The
price has advanced to a minimum of $l5O a
ton, changeable, horizontally, every six
months for five years.
The burden imposed by this tremendous
increase in paper cost foreshadows revolu
tionary changes in advertising and sub
scription rates throughout the country, the
publishers believe. |
The newspaper publishers have mno re-@
course. Five paper mills control 75 per
cent of the supply of the United States and
Canada. The publishers are literally at |
their mercy, although it is not to be implied;
that the mills are exacting extortionate |
profits or practicing unlawful methods. The |
manufacturers justify their action by |
reason of an increase is the cost of|
labor, coal and other factors entering into |
the cost of manufacturing paper. They |
have tremendous investments to protect in
mills and timber lands. i i
Only last week sixty-eight middle west
publishers who are supplied by a large
paper company were called to Chicago
and notified of the latest development in
the paper market. The company announced
that it had been offered $2OO a ton for its
output, and that its present patrons either
would have to submit to another sharp ad
vance and sign a five years’ “blind” con
tract or look elsewhere for their supply of
print paper. As the only other source is
the “auction market,”” controlled likewise
by the mills, the publishers will be forced
to sign. 2
Meanwhile, the publishers must prepare
to distribute the added burden. When it is
considered that print paper is one of the
principal items entering into the cost of
publishing a newspaper, and that the cost
of this item alone has increased in five
vears from $4O to s£lso a ton, the public
may gain some idea of what the newspapers
are up against. "Moreover, the $l5O price
is just the beginning of a new series of
quotations that are to continue for five
vears with price adjustments every six
months.
Other troubles are constantly occurring
for the newspaper makers. Every item in
dispensable in the publishing business has
advanced in price, The added burdens in
clude the proposed advance in freight rates
and the new postal rates which became ef
fective July 1. :
Manifestly, the newspaper publisher is
the “feller who needs a friend.” 7
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WAR TAXES.
During the closing hours of the last con
gress there was considerable discussion of
taxation. At that time there was lacking
information that would afford a comparison
of government taxation in the principal
countries involved in the war. This infor
mation is now ayailable,-and the compari
son is interesting. It follows:
COUNTRIES. Tax 1914 Tax 1920
Per Capita Per Capita
United States .5 .. - 9 .72 $26.92
United Kingdom ---_-_ 7.64 75.75
France - . = ac- - .. 8.24 11.68
O Gt NLR K 10.78
With state, county and city taxes added
the total per capita tax in this country ap
proximates the tax in the United Kingdom,
where local taxes are much lower. It is
evident that these were considered by con
\gress when it estimated prospective taxes
lincreased by the war bonus, for the state
‘ment was made that taxes would then ex
ceed $5O per capita. ¢
‘ American taxes are relatively higher than
English taxes because of the difference in
the cost of living. English food and cloth
ing prices have been regulated by govern
iment action. Between England’s effort to
pay her war debt through taxation and its
| government’s regulation of the cost of liv
ing the pound sterling has held its value in
exchange better than has the American dol
lax.
THE PROHIBS AND BRYAN.
There is nothing to indicate that Mr.
Bryan will not support the demecratic
ticket, At present he is resting up a
bit, and when the time comes for him
to become active the probabilities are
that he will do all he can for the suc
cess of the ticket.—Augusta Chronicle.
.William J. Bryan has done the manly
and honorable thing in declining to be the
candidate of the prohibition party for presi
dent. To repudiate the democratic party
now because he could not have his way
in its management would have been an
exhibition of personal selfishness and
ingratitude that finds no response in
the sentiments of American citizens.
Moreover, Mr. Bryan participated in
the convention which rejected his prohibi
tion policies. Any man who goes into a
gathering of his fellow-citizens and refuses
to accept its decision because it is against
him is at heart a bolshevist. Mr. Bryan is
a reformer, but not a bolshevist or a party
wrecker or an ingrate. Whether one agrees
with his political views or not no one can
deny the sterling honesty of his professions
and the uprightness of his character.
If one wants to see the difference be
tween property and personal rights dem
onstrated let him stand on a corner and
watch how suddenly a driver can bring his
car to a stop to prevent mussing it with an
other car, and how impossible it is to do the
same thing when a pedestrian is in the road.
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The politicians seem to be about equally
divided on the question of whether or not
the women will vote next November.
About half of them fear that the suffrage
amendment will be ratified, and the other
half fear that it will not be ratified. |
| FORGOTTEN STATESMEN., -
Many of Georgia’s sons who rendered the
state and nation distinguished service in
!the early days of the commonwealth have
'been forgotten, and in some instances their
jg'raves are not only unmarked and neg
lected but no one knows just where they
are resting in the everlasting sleep. The
brilliant statesman for whom Terrell county
was named is among the number. The cur
rent issue of the Carnesville Herald says:
Clark Terrell was the brilliant con
gressman from this district of 75 years
ago. His grave is-in ruins; no one can
tell where he sleeps, except that he was
buried in the cemetery at the Method
ist church in Carnesville.
It takes a pretty shrewd chap nowadays
to tell just what sort of a girl he is Betting.
The artistic temperament of the fair sex
has increased by leaps and bounds. The up
to-the-minute make-up keéeps the young fe!l
low guessing as to the real girl underneath
the paint and the powder and the padding.
It doesn’t take a long look to cateh the
penciling and the daubing, but it takes a
heap of speculation to determine what they
cover. ;
We are going to repeat the advice that
if you are hooked up with a fairly good
job hang on to it. There may be a time
when it will not be so easy to et hooked
up to such a job. There are some things
that do not look just right. The crazy sea
son which followed the war, when every
one wanted to roll in clover, is somewhat
subsiding.
They can explain and explain, but they
are all prevaricators when it comes to su
gar. The prices are not based on anything
that has happened in the world. They are
simply and solely made by graft and greed.
The men who have the sugar, especially in
Cuba, are doling it out to the tune of high
prices.
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A gentleman who has recently been in all
sections of the state says Southwest Geor
gia roads are the best. Sounds nice, and
the gentleman may consider himself prop
erly thanked. But Southwest Georgians re
serve the right to keep making improve
ments. ; t
Does any one remember when it was said
former United States Senator Joseph W.
Bailey was politically dead? In the Texas
primary last week, in which more than half
a million votes were polled, he led all of his
opponents for the nomination for governor.
The governor of Vermont had a number
of reasons why he would not call the Ver
mont legislature to ratify the suffrage
amendment, but the chief among them
seemed to be that he didn’t believe in
woman suffrage anyway.
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Mr. Palmer is now “after the coal profit
eers.” He has been “after” quite a number
of things, including the high cost of living,
but always gets out of breath before he
gets anywhere.
Is It Blasphemy to a
Destroy 801 l Weevils?
From the Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
The fight against the boll weevil in this
state has grown to splendid proportions be
cause in the best cotton growing sections
its ravages have just become apparent and
the cotton growers have begun to realize
that it is absolutely essential to fight or be
downed.
Coincident with the fight that is being
waged the Savannah Press calls attention
to a statement that it hears has been
made by preachers in effeet that “God put
the weevil in the cotton patech and it is
blasphemy to destroy one of God’s crea
tures.” The Press takes occasion to shoot
the statement full of holes, and does so
without any fuss or feathers.
If there are men so narrow and ignorant
as to really believe that we oncoht to take
the weevil as it comes and make no effort
to prevent its depredations on a plant that
has become one of the world’s most im
portant productions we hope they won’t
acknowledge that they live in Georgia. God
put the mosquito, the fly, the rattlesnake
and the man-eating tiger in the world also.
That does not mean that the men of earth
should go about and be destroyed by dis
ease or animal voracity just because they
were put here. .
We know that they are destructive and
that things destructive have been on earth
since it was created. We know likewise
that God put it into the mind of man to de
feat those destructive agencies and that the
science of today has been given money for
the purpose of defeating the many enemies,
among which are the fly, the mosquito and
the boll weevil. The two first prey upon
man and his health, while the other dstroys
the plant that was given to man with which
to be clothed.
Such ignorance and superstition can not
hold sway in any community for long, but
while it does the weevil will convince the
farmer that if he doesn’t fight the weevil he
may as well stop trying to raise cotton.
No Wonder They’re High
I From the Toledo Blade.
According to Americans returning from
France millions of dollars’ worth of Ameri
can goods are strewn in the open on the
wharves at Havre, Bordeaux and other ports.
At Havre there are said to be mountains
of sugar with the sacks split and the con
tents spilling over the ground. Broken boxes
of American cured hams stand in huge piles.
| There are acres of bales of soggy, wet
American cotton, while ruined typewriters,
'broken sewing machines, rusty farm imple
' ments are-scattered all about. The break
!down of the French railways is responsible
for the port congestion and the speculators
to whom the goods were consigned have been
unable to move them. No one wastes tears
*over the speculators’ losses, but it seems a
shame that foodstuffs and supplies for which
there is great need both in France and in
America cannot be saved from such wanton
waste. America =t least should see that this
country is drained of no more commodities
that are likely to be added to the piles of
rotting merchandise in French ports.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
The Chinaman Will Get Your
Scalp If You Don’t Get His.
From the Carroll County Free Press.
Different elements of country people look
at their rural surroundings with different
eyes. To some people the only question is
one of money. If they look out at a fertile
field it is merely to estimate the cash value
of the crop growing thereon. Their minds
are incessantly figuring. If the figures go
wrong for a year their life seems utterly
blasted. Very likely they will soon pull up
and hike themselves to some sordid -city
street, where a fat pay envelope may be
gathered in—as long as good times last.
To other people country life means a lot
more. The beauty of the changing landscape
fascinates them, and softens all toil and dis
appointments. The annual miracle of growth
of vegetation fills their hearts with satisfac
tion at the bounty of the earth and the good
ness of the giver of all.
Every sight and sound of country life has
its sweetness to them. They enjoy the sim
ple social life of the country town, and take
abundant pride in its public institutions, and
believe it is the best country town on earth.
People of that kind are not going to get
cold feet every time their business affairs
drag. They are so rewarded by the satisfae
tion of country life that so long as they
have their homes and enough to eat they are
not going to quit for the mythical adyantages
of other surroundings.
In the long run these people are not merely
happy, but do well in a business way. They
put so much heart into their daily work that
it can hardly help prospering.
SHORTAGE DESIRED.
From the Albany (N. Y.) Journal. !
There are some shortages that we would
welcomhe—shortage of radicalism, shortage
of hot air, shortage of strikes, shortage of
excuses for high prices, shortage of unrest
and discontent,
NOT A READY WORKER.
From the Birmingham Age-Herald.
The estate of a California bellhop is es
timated to be worth only about $30,000.
He must have been sick a great deal of
the time, or otherwise incapacitated for
work.
NON-COMMITAL.
From the Chicago News, :
Asked how she intends to vote, lovely
woman asks that first she be assured of
a chance to vote. Then she smiles an in
scrutable smile.
The proposition that is up to the South
for immediate action is, “Do we want to do
away with one of the greatest American
farm products,” one that has helped to lift
the southern farmer out of the clutches of
poverty and want, caused by the advent of
the boYl—weevil, which has rendered the
raising of cotton a hazardous undertaking?
If you do want to preserve this great in
dustry in its swadling clothes, so to speak,
as it is today, then you should exert every
endeavor to protect this industry against
the destroying competition of the Chinese.
This can only be done by placing a tariff on
imported peanuts that will equa%ize the cost
of produection.
The South has sufficient suitable peanut
land to raise every pound of peanuts that
the United States will require. It gives the
southern farmer one more profitable crop.
It employs thousands of people in the local
result of his labor, to our American markets
it can be madeone of our biggest indus
tries.
American labor is protected by the exclu
sion act which prohibits Chinamen from en
tering the United States. Now why permit
the Chinaman to ship his farm products, the
result of his labor, to out American markets
in competition with American farmers?
If it is right to protect the American la
borer against the competition of the cheap
labor of the orient it is by the same analy
sis right and proper to protect our Ameri
can farmers from the competition of his
crops raised at home and shipped to our
markets. And the American farmer is re
sponsible for the fact that he is not pro
tected.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for
the gander, The American organized la
borer may be the goose and is getting all
the sauce, but the farmer, who may be the
gander, is not getting a look-in on the
sauce, |
It is going to require organization of the
American farmer to protect the peanut in
dustry and other industries threatened by
the unequal competition of the Chinese
farmer. The peanut growers in Terrell‘
county are going to be asked to participate!
in the local organization of a peanut asso
ciatign, which will have as its main object
the securing of a tariff on imported peanuts,
and each one interested is requested to see
Mr. Ed Stevens or Mr. H. R. Simmons, |
managers of the two oil mills in Dawson,
who will have charge of the orgnization]
work in this section.
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Farmer's Warehouse
MAIN STREET - DAWSON, GA.
Our warehouse building has been completely
repaired and put in the finest condition for
the 1920-21 season.
OUR SERVICE WILL BE
THE VERY BEST.
Mr. Gay Raines will again be in charge as
general manager and will give personal at
tention to each customer’s needs.
Exclusive Cotton Warehouse
Our warehouse offers ample storage room for
your cotton and we will guarantee protection
from the weather. We will be in direct
touch with the market and assure our custo
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