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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1920.
Speaking of elections, has it ever occurred
to you that some way ought to be devised to
make it possible for a poor man to run for
United States senator or governor?
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If all the political theorists and dreamers
ould be @driven into a third or fourth party
nd kewt there for the rest of their lives
sere might be a little more peace for the
est of us.
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The railroad unions of the country are liv
ing exemplifications of the idea, “Ask and ye
shall receive.,” They have been asking con
tinuously in the past, and have always got a
slice when they asked. So, they continue to
ask. .
Governor Cox’s speech accepting the demo
cratic nomination for president made a fine
impression throughout the country. The
opinion is growing that the San Francisco
convention did the wise thing in placing the
standard of the party in his hands.
THE SPEED LAW,
How many mofor car drivers know the law
governing the speed of cars in the city streets
and the rural high'ways'.’ From observation,
we would” judge that not one in a thousand
knows, and that the others do not care. It
is seldom, very seldom, that any driver ob
serves the law. : :
Nor is it certain that those who do occa
sionally observe it are intentionally guilty.
They may be but momentarily cautious, and
the rest should not blame them too much for
this. ‘
It is not at all uncommon to see cars%
speeding at 20 and 25 miles an Mour in the
business district. They go to 30 and 35 miles
and better in the residence sections. i
It would seem that fast driving was quite;
as bad as parking in forbidden spots. Surely,
it is more dangerous. ‘
THE PUBLIC THE GOAT.
The demand of the railroads for increased
freight and passenger tariffs has, as was
expected, resulted in the public again being
made the geat. To meet a $600,000 increasei
in wages awarded by the arbitration board
the railroads have been granted revenues
amounting, in all to approximately three bil
lions of dollars. It may be true that they
have been operating at a loss and that un
der the guarantee of the government they are
entitled to six per cent on their invested
capital, but to meet the demands of the rail
roads and the huge sums the government
has authorized for them the public must do
some tall figuring. In this endless circle of
wages and prices the public suffers most,‘
and will some time reach the point where it
will be bled dry. So far as wages are con
cerned they can keep on demanding more
money. But with the men and women of
“fixed” incomes, the salaried people, and
those whose incomes-are constantly dwind
ling the case is different. They are helped
neither by greater production nor by more
rigid economies. Their prospect is less and
less on which to live. Their substance is be
ing confiscated as effectually as though it
were seized by the bolsheviki. These are
the people who are most likely to employ
radical measures to secure relief when they
are deprived of other alternatives. They are,
too, the backbone of the public. ¢
Little or nothing is gained, so far as the
public is concerned, by continuing this mis
chievous circle, and much may ultimately be
lost so far as all are concerned. The mis
chief of this circle consists in the possibili
ties'of national financial disaster overwhelm
ing all, including the wage earner. This the
brotherhood chiefs have repeatedly pointed
gut in demanding lower cost of living in pref
yrence to increased wages.
WALL STREET TAXES. |
The rest of the country will get some con
solation out of the fact that in the payment
of national taxes for the fiscal year ending
June 30 the Walt street district, the heart of
the money and financial interests of the na
tion and the bugaboo of the political reform
ers, paid $1,135,097,403 out of a total of $5,-
410,283,784 for thg entire nation. The Wall
street district, which is no larger than the
business section of Macon, Ga., pays approxXi
mately one-fifth of the taxes levied and col
lected by the nation. The centralization of
the wealth within these narrow limits shows
the power of those concerned in financial op
erations.
Aside from the fact Wall street pays one
fifth of the taxes of the nation there is an
other interesting feature of the government’s
report. The total taxes collected is so large
as to be nearly incomprehensible to the per
son who does not think in sums of millions.
But staggering as the amount is, it does not
meet the costs of the government. It is esti
mated that there will bea deficit from the fis
cal year ending June 30, last, of approxi
mately $3,000,000,000,000. The cost of the
government for the present fiscal year wild be
slightly over $6,000,000,000. It will take al
most twice as much money as was collected
last year to pay the current government ex
penses this year and meet the deficits from
last year. i
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'~ WOMEN AND STATE RIGHTS.
| The protest of southern women to Gov
ernor Cox against forcing the franchise on
women by ratification of the federal suffrage
amendment by Tennessee is not hysterical
nor political. It is the expression of the cen
tury-old conviction of the south, not so much
on the right of women to vote as on the
method by which that right is granted. The
south is inherently opposed to enfranchise
ment of women in the states by federal
amendment.
Of the thirty-five states which have rati
fied the amendment only four can in any way
‘be termed southern and democratic. These
\ are Texas, Missouri, Arkansas and Kentucky.
lOf this number Texas and Arkansas are the
only dyed-in-the-wool southern states. Ken
tucky and Missouri are as much northern as
southern in their sentiments. Of the seven
states which have rejected the amendment
five are southern. They are Alabama, Geor
gia, Mississippi, Seuth Carolina and Virginia.
The other two states which have rejected the
amendment are Maryland and Delaware.
Maryland is democratic, Delaware is republi
can. Maryland is semi-southern in senti
ment. Delaware is dominantly’ northern.
The question involved is the old state
rights controversy. The south does not be
lieve the federal government originally had
authority under the constitution to regulate
ithe franchise. It believes that was one of
| the rights reserved by the states. The en
franchisement of the colored race was done
“hy federal action, but the south never has
acquiesced in the moral right of that policy.
[lt accepts the results as the law, but denies
the moral constitutionality of the law. It
1 points to the fact that the framers of the con
‘stitution accepted the franchise as it was
limited by several states when they entered
the union. In some of them property owner
ship was necessary to the exercise of the
electoral right. The constitution did not at
tempt to equalize or standardize the fran
chise in the states. It provided that repre
sentatives in congress should be elected by
the people who held the franchise under state
laws. It fixed the qualifications for those
who could vote for representatives as the
standard required for those who might vote
for members of the most numérous branch of}
the state legislature. These qualifications
differed in the different states. But the con-l
stitution did not attempt to determine who
should vote, thus leaving the clear impres
sion that the power to do so remained with
the states. Therefore, they argue, woman
suffrage should be granted only by actions
of the several states by changing their own‘
laws on the franchise, not in ratifying a fed
ral amendment to accomplish that end. |
The women of the south are not whole-}
heartedly in sympathy with the franchise
movement. Many of them do not want the
ballot. They have been educated in other
directions for many generations. They re
ceived a re-education when the negro was|
enfranchised. They do not want to be forced
to vote to prevent the dominance in elections
which the enfranchisement of the negro wom
« would give. That is why they are urging
Governor Cox, as the head and leader of the
democratic party, to use his influence to pre
vent forcing the ballot upon them as a mat
ter of self-preservation in the social organi
zation.
NEIGHBORLY INTEREST.
Dayton turned out en masse to welcome
Governor Cox in the home-coming celebration.
The same was true of Marion when Senator
Harding returned home. There was neitherl
political creed nor partisan adherence in the
greetings. The people of the home city of
each of these men who had been signally hon
ored shouted themselves hoarse because he
was their neighbor, not because he was a par
tisan candidate. Nothing in American life is
so expressive of the safety and security of
republican imstitutions as the loyalty of the
community to the men who are honored by
their parties. The welcoming address to
Senator Harding, when he returned to Marion
from Washington, was made by a democrat.
The welcome to the committee which notified
Governor Coolidge of his nomination and the
crowds who attended that ceremony was al
‘democrat. In the crowds which applauded
both were scores who will vote for Governorl
i'Cox. In the throngs which paraded and
} greeted Governor Cox at Dayton were scoresi
| who will vote for Senator Harding. For the
time party fealty was forgotten and all paid
tribute to their neighbors who have become
national figures. :
| The spirit of neighborhood interest is not
, artificial. There is not a man in Dayton who
is not proud that his fellow townsman is the
inominee. There is not one in Marion who
is not equally as proud that a man who has
spent his entire life as one of its citizens has
been called to a position of trust and honor.
There is not a man in either city who would
not shoulder his gun and fight to the death
any r&volutionary group that attempted to
take personal vengeance on the candidates.
They would be just as grim in defending their
candidate neighbors as they were enthusias
tic in greeting them. Therein lies the safety
and security of American institutions. Men
differ on politics but not on government.
When a citizen needs help no qne asks his
polities.
The legislature has been scolded as “a do
nothing” legislature. If that is true The
News is inclined to believe it has sérved the
people well in not making a multitude of
new laws. Most of the legislation the past
several years has been to create new and
useless offices and devise methods to increase
taxes and wring more money from the pockets
of an already heavily burdened people. Let
us hope the succeeding legislature will do
nothing and make as equally creditable a
l record.
, An increase of $6,000,000 in the salaries of|
railroad employees has been allowed and an in
crease in freight and passenger rates of sl,—‘
500,000,000 has been authorized to raise the;
money with which to pay it. The railroads,
indirectly, have some very good friends at}
the nation’s capital who_think there is nol
limit to the ability of the public to pay. It
it time for the poor devil who foots- the‘
bill to rise up and demand to be heard. |
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The legislature very properly- killed the
measure to add to the already oppressive tax
burden a state income. tax. The proper
way to relieve Georgia of its financial em
barrassment is to quit creating new commis
sions and offices (all of which require more
money) and increasing appropriations a mil
lion or more dollars every year. Jones foots
the bills, .and is entitled to consideration as
well as the spenders of the tax money.
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Why should the United States nag Jdpan
about the Saghalin? The island’s very exist
ence is unknown to nine-tenths of the Ameri
can people, and its exact location is unknown
to the other tenth. It is a part of the Japan
ese-Russian question, and why should KAmeri
cans worry themselves over it?
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We are going to pay more freight in order
that the railroad men may receive larger
wages to pay more for goods, the price of
which will be enhanced by higher freight
rates. Passenger fares will also advance, but
you can beat the raise by staying at home.
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The days of interference at Washington
in state politics are numbered. Governor
Cox has made the refreshing statement that
he will not meddle in the politics of the states
and attempt to dictate party nominations.
it does credit to his good judgment and sense
f propriety. s
If any one says they cver saw South Geor
gia looking prettier or ever saw or heard of
a more beautiful sight thap the fields of to
day—well, there is something wrong to the
point of their needing attention of any such
possible person.
Another public nuisance is the couple who
stand in the middle of the sidewalk on 2
busy corner and chatter about their personal
affairs.
Automobiles and trucks are fast cutting into
the business of the railroads, but it is still
dangerous to try to bump a train from its own
rails.
NATURE A LAVISH SOWER.
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She Provides Innumerable Seeds and
Distributes Them Admirably.
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From the Detroit Free Press.
It was merely a bit of thistle down, blown
along a city canyon through an open window,
resting a moment upgn a desk, then as idly
drifting away on a passing gust. But. it
brought to the beholder a vision of, graying
stubble fields shimmering with heat waves
under an August sun, and of “painted ladies”
hovering over arid waysides where the thistles
grow from whose guarded sheaths float the
delicate periphery of fairy balloons, ballasted
by plump brown seeds. -
This little voyage is but one of the mythi
cal ways in which nature provides for the
perpetuation of species. She has no end of
devices for sow.ng the seed she provides so
lavishly; a single plant of purplane will pro
“duce over a million seeds. The dandelion’s
hoary head is a sphere of seeds, each of which
has a feathry pappu as a sail; the pod of
the milkweed contains a perfect cone of over
lapping brown seeds until it opens and each
| seed floats off under its own parachute. The
willaw herb’s silken hairs float away in clus
ters, several helping to buoy the perfect seeds.
At one time the theory of spontaneous gener
ation was held to account for the deciduous
growth which follawed forest fires.
A better knowledge of nature’s many and
ingenious methods of seed distribution soon
disproved it. The very character of the new
growth showed its source; mostly willows,
poplars and birches, the seeds of which are
specially constructed for aerial journeyings.
The nut-like seeds of the basswood are at
tached to bracts which are, like seeds, swept
by the wind over the snow.” Engineers who
insure the safety of ships by constructing
hulls of watertight compartments may have
studied the fruit of the bladder-nut, which is
in three sections; if one is broken the seeds
in the other remain unharmed.
~All the family of burrs, “sticktights,”
| “pitehforks,” attach themselves by hooks to
~animals or to clothing and thus are carried
long distances.- Nature even provides for
planting seeds; some species have bearded
| points, with screwlike arms, which bore into
l the earth, anchoring the seed. One most in
teresting method of disposal is that which re
| sembles artillery fire. The spo<s of some
Imushrooms are thrown eight or ten feet;
| seeds of the garden balsam are discharged,
' when the pod bursts, like a miniature ma
| chine gun, while the witch-hazel’'s nvt ~goes
l off like a cannon ball; often thrown a d stance
| of thirty feet.
' Nature makes lavish provision in seeds, but
i concerns herself in no way about their fur
ther fate. Her work is done when she has
’ngen them a chance for life. In that re
! spect she parallels some human parents, who
{ dismiss heir children to the arms of chance.
“Somewhere All The Time.”
Nine o'clock, July sixth, Terrell folks and
others did mix to board the train at Dawson
town to visit the cities of great renown. We
had heard of New York and Washington,
too, but never before had we thought it true.
Skyscrapers and museums galore take dol
lars and cents and then some more. Of all
fine places in the nation New York is the
climax of creation. We think U. S. A. a
grand old place, but Canada keeps up the
pace. With furs and diamonds and all that's
fine we decked ourselves to look very fine.
There were fat ones, tall and lean, such
curious shapes are rarely seen. Over the
dirt powder and paint made us look like
what we ain’t. We went up, we went down,
over the river and under ground. Something
new for us folks; when we tell it it seems
a joke. Nevertheless we are in Georgia
again and greet you with the same old grin.
Although our heads are full of high ideals,
still to us the old:South appeals. d
! LUCKY 19, ELIOT PARTY.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
A Billion Dollar State.
Georgia produced in 1919 crops worth ap
proximately $625,000,000 and sold animal
products valued at $125,000,000. Thus the
total soil and animal production of the state
reached the great sum of $750,000,000. The
cotton boll weevil cost us $40,000,000, the
corn weevil $15,000,000 and our crop and
animal waste amounted to $100,000,000. Add
to this our annual soil loss of approximately
$37,584,000 and the $157,000,000 which we
spent out of the state for weat, flour, butter,
stock feeds, and other commodities which we
could have easily produced at home and we
begin to realize the magnitude of our agri
cultural losses, actual and potential.
Georgia is rapidly growing into a billion
dollar state. In comparison with the other
states we stand sixth in crop production and
seventeenth in animal production. Some of
these times Georgia will reach the top. Our
goal of a billion dollar state may be reached
within a year if we will only take the neces
sary steps to reduce our crop and live stock
losses, produce more of our food crops, and
increase the production per acre by better
preparation of the land, proper fertilization,
careful cultivation, ‘rotation of crops, and
better seed.
Only one-third of Georgia’s land is now
producing crops. Of the 37,584,000 acres in
the state approximately 12,298,017 acres are
regarded as productive and 14,600,396 acres
as unimproved. This leaves 10,630,587 acres
of wooded, cut-over, or - unimproved wild
land. Thus we see that Georgia may easily
become a two billion dollar state if the un
improved land is brought under the plow,
the wild lands made to yield a return in
forests, and the production of all our culti
vated lands increased by the application of
scientific practices and principles of farming.
The need of the day and the hour is more
food and more raw materials for industry.
The standards of living of the American peo
ple have already undergone a revolutionary
change in this era of high prices, and the
people of the open country are rushing to the
cities, lured on by the phantom of high wages
and better living conditions. Our basic in
dustry is trembling in the balance.
The League Issue.
From the Review of Reviews.
It is_going to be very difficult in th.s cam
paign for the cool headed and well informed
citizen to arouse himself to any fury of bit
ter feeling over either side of tr.e contreversy
about the league of nations. All leading dem
ocrats and all leading repukbl.cans alike in pri
vate conversation, so far as we are aware, ad
mit that if the president hal remained in the
white house and sent a wisely selected group
of peace commissioners to join in the confer
ence at Versailles he could have dominated
the framing of a treaty probably more satis
factory to him than the one he brought home,
and, further, could have secured its immediate
ratification. It would have been based upon
his fourteen points, and he would have re
ceived plaudits much more satisfying than the
momer tary adulation with which he was
greeted when he visited Europe. Mr. Cum
mings does not suce®ed in convincing thought
ful people that the Lodge reservations were
of serious detriment to the treaty, or likely
fo impede the beneficial working of a league
of nations, any more than Mr. Lodge succeed
ed in convincing that same class of readers
and thinkers that the determined position of
republican senators under his leadership had
saved the United States from the imminent
peril of being drawn into a maelstrom of in
ternational adventures against the country’s
will and to its inevitable destruction. In the
main the reservations were not harmful to
the treaty, and they may have been useful
as explaining the position of the United
States. The thing that has been harmful to
this country and to the world has been the
deadlock between the president and the sen
ate. Party spirit in such a matter as the
discussion of the treaty was not justifiable
and a compromise ought to have been reached
promptly.
i’Automobiles and Immortality.
From the Thomasville TimesEnterrpise.
The following editorial in a recent issue of
the Spartanburg Herald bearing on a tragedy
at Abbeville, S. C., deserves to be passed
along because it serves several different kinds
of warning to the public:
“It is a horrible story that has been told
in the court room at Abbeville during the
past week, but it is one that should have
been told, perhaps. It is a story that should
make many mothers and fathers of boys and
girls stop and think of the danger and temp
tations that come in these days of joy riding
automobiles and a loose standard of conduct.
The automobile has long since been recog
nized as an agency of immorality among
those immorally inclined, and the Abbeville
case is but a revolting exposure of how these
joy rides end. Here we have a story of sor
row, shame, ruined homes, because two
young girls—neither of them bad—got into
a car with two boys they did not know for
an automobile ride ‘Sunday afternoon. We
know that type of girls—all of us see them
these days—on the streets. They may not
be bad but they dress ‘bad’ and they act
‘bad.”’ The boys said they thought they
were ‘crooked’ because they got in a car
with them without knowing them and were
willing to take a ride. That’s the way boys
think. And there you are, yvoung ladies.
Girls allowed to paint their faces, wear ex
treme clothes and make friends on the street
may be ever so pure, but they haven’t a
chance to remain so. And the trouble is
right in the home.” -
IT'S GOING TO BE COLD:
From the Iroguois Chief.
Another strike in the bituminous coal
mines of Illirois is the latest threat. With
the miners insisting upon higher wages, the
mine owners profiteering to the limit, and
the railroads failing to furnish cars for the
transportation of fuel the public’s chances
of freezing to death are becoming brighter
more popular han ever and the use of trucks
every day.
ITS EFFECT IS MILDER.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The taste of “near beer” isn’t so radically
different from that of the real thing, but the
imbiber does not call for the seventh glass,
cock his foot on the rail, and, gazing at
his reflection in the bar mirror, think how
handsome he is. :
WORK IS SO UNPOPULAR.
From the Chicago News. :
There would be more farm hands except
for the alarming tendency to let the other
fellow do the hard work.
'Hon. Clifford Walker
‘ Candidate for Governor
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Will Address the Voters of Terrell County
at the Court House in Dawscn on
Wednesday, August 18th, at 11
o’clock. ‘
Everybody is invited to come out
and hear the issues of this cam
paign discussed in an able and
fearless manner.
WAREHOUSE SERVICE
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. | i
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
mers top prices. .
Weights Guaranteed
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Farmer's Warenhouse
GAY RAINES, Manager
DAWSON, : . : GEOSGIA
TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929