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DAWSON, GA., SEPTEMBER 21, 1920.
No wonder so many Dawson people go
wrong. They won’t keep to the right.
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Paved streets is another forward step
that will keep Dawson in the front rank of
the best towns in Georgia.
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A heading in a newspaper reads: “Dem
ocrats Need Money.” That’s the truth. At
least, we know of one who does.
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If senatorships have fallen into disrepute‘
it may be worth while to note that only!
lately have senators been elected by the
people.
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A scientist now claims the white spots on
Mars are not snow caps about the poles, but!
hills on which the sun glares. Well, his|
guess is about as good as the other. ,
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In spite of the boll weevil and unfavor
able elements during most of the year the
farmers of Terrell county are gathering a
fair cotton crop. Failure is unknown to
them. .
Americans are not going to wear paper
clothes. They do not have to. The fact is
that there is not the slightest difficulty in
getting decent clothes today, even at the
high prices, if the citizen prefers clothes to
gasoline and other luxuries.
ALI :
It is all well enough to instruct women
in their new responsibilities as voters. But
it does seem inconsistent to overlook the
ignorant and vicious male voters who have
been a deciding factor in elections in many
places for lo these many years.
PAYING.FOR THE FPRIMARY.
In order to hold a second primary in
Georgia for the office of governor, which
will cost $20,000, the two candidates will
have to foot the bill unless their friends in
the various counties come to their rescue
and provide for the polls to be opened.
The question of who shall pay for a pri
mary election in such circumstances as the
present has never before been confronted,
but it is likely to hereafter occur in any
election for United States senator or gov
ernor. The primary ought to be conducted
and paid for by the state, as the general
election is. There should be no entrance fees
for candidates. The primary is now resu
lated by law, but the whole system ought
to be taken over by the state for every
party, and the expenses of it should be
borne out of the public funds. Nevertheless,
until that reform is instituted it is hardly
conceivable that the democrats of any coun
ty will refuse to provide for holding an
election when the situation is such as it is
now. .
DECREASED CONSUMPTION |
Financial and trade papers note a decided
decrease of all manufactured products. So
decided is this decrease in some products as
to leave manufacturers with large surplus
stocks on hand. To illustrate, the American
Woolen Company has ten million dollars
worth of woolens for which it has no market.
There is even a greater surplus of certain
kinds of cotton fabrics. All of this is just
so much capital and borrowed money tied up,
and the problem of the manufacturers is how
to pay their debts and impair their capital the
least.
Decreased consumption may be due to sev
eral causes, but the principal cause, according
to the trade papers, “appears to result from
decision of the people not to pay the prices
asked for goods, prices which too frequently
disclose an abnormal retail profit.” A cur
rent government publication presents a widel
range of retail profit—from 40 to 100 per
cent, which greatly exceeds the profits re
quired before the war. Probably it ' now
costs more to do business, but not so much
more as to warrant these prices.
From all the information trade papers are
able to gain on the subject “it seems to be
a question of price which may also be influ
enced by actual under-production notwith
standing surplus stocks.” This would mean
that surplus stocks are due to under consump
tion rather than to over-production, which
would support the explanation of surplus
stocks made by trade papers. 2
A WOMAN APPOINTED.
It is reported from Washington that Miss
Mabel T. Boardman will accept the ap
pointment tendered her by President Wil
son as a member of the board of commis
sioners of the District of Columbia. It is
the first instance in which a woman has
been called to serve in a position of such
marked importance nationally.
Miss Boardman is republican by associa
tion and family connection, but within the
federal district in which she resides neith
er men nor women have a vote. In other
relations she has proved her capaecity, as
national secretary of the Red Cross and
head of the District of Columbia chapter, as
organizer of the Woman’s Volunteer Aid in
this country, and in positions of executive
responsibility she has made her mark.
Just at this time, when our women are
entering upon their newly acquired privi
lege, this is a pleasing recognition of the
capacity of the sex.
SALES TAX IS UNFAIR.
‘ A determined move is under way to have
| the next congress materially reduce the
| present excess profits tax, and enact in lien
' of it a sales tax. The plan is gaining head
way because few consider the far-reaching
consequences of a sales tax, and most peo
| ple have come to believe the excess profits
'tax is either dodged by the profiteer or
| passed to the consumer by the corporation
!which does not thus dodge it, thereby add
;ing to the prevailing high prices. But it
| should not be overlooked that in seeking a
[remedy for one evil a greater one may be
substituted. Sometimes ¢ 'Tis better to en
dure the ills we have than fly to those we
know not of.” Relief from excessive tax
’burdens is demanded by the people. It isl
i one of the important issues. But so far
there have been few detailed plans advanc
ed. The declarations have been in Beneral
terms. The sales tax is among the few spe
cific proposals, and it is full of danger.
The principle of the proposed sales tax
is that there shall be a tax on every sale of
commodities within certain limitations. It
| is an attempt to tax the turnover as well as
the forwarding sales, But because of the
principle behind such taxation it becomes
an injustice in its operations. Wool cloth
ing goes through a number of sales from
the man who produces the wool fo the one'
| who wears the clothes. If all intermediate
agencies, such as brokers, commission men,
factors and the like be eliminated for the
sake of clearness there still remain at least
’six legitimate sales of the raw and finished
product, as follows: Wool grower to woo!
’merchant; wool merchant to mill owner;
(mill owner to clothes manufacturer; clothes
l manufacturer to wholesale merchant; whole
'sale merchant to retailer; retailer to con
'sumer. Each of these six sales would be
taxed and the taxes added to the cost of the
product and passed on to the next one
through whose hands the commodity passed
until it reached the consumer, who, having
no one to whom he could pass the commod
ity except the second-hand dealer or the
ragman and seldom making either sale,
would be forced to pay the whole amount
of the six accumulated sales taxes.
The merit of any system of taxation is
to have the tax stay where it is placed and
be paid by the individual or corporation
against whom or which it is levied. In
practice the result is to pass the tax from
one point to another until it reaches the
consumer. A sales tax would afford the
best opportunity possible for passing the tax
on to the same burden bearer. If the buy
er is the one taxed the tax which "the man
ufacturer of woolen clothes paid to the
cloth manufacturer will be included in the
price which the manufacturer puts on the
commodity when he passes it on to the
wholesaler. If the seller is taxed he must
have a sufficient amount above what he
otherwise would charge to enable him to
pay the sales tax and still leave him his con
templated profit. In that instance the sales
tax is directly included in the price of the
commodity. *
Naturally, farmers are opposed to the
sales tax scheme. They are at the bottom of
the raw products and would have to sell at
the lowest point in the scale, while every
thing they buy, coming through the various
processes of development from raw mate
rial to finished product, including the dis
tribution through wholesaler and retailer,
‘would carry a sales tax in each transfer,
and which they would have to pay. Many
[of them, speaking through their organiza
]tions, are making vigorous ptotests. More
' of them should; for it is one of the tax
lplans by which they would be the victims
without receiving any advantages. They
would pay all the sales taxes on what they
buy, out would have nothing to Increase
correspondingly the prices of what they sell,
GAME AND SPORT.
William T. Hornaday, of New York, has
issued an appeal to the real sportsmen of
the United States to join in the preserva
tion of the present game by protecting it
enough to allow recuperation from the an
nual slaughter which is now carried on in
the name of sport. He strikes directly at
the game hog and the illegal hunter who
kills, not for sport, but for the lust of
killing. He urges sportsmen in every state
to unite in urging the secretary of agricul
ture to reduce the federal bag limit to one
half its present size and to reduce the open
season on migratory birds to half what it is
now. He urges an effort by real sportsmen
to secure like action by state legislatures.
He also urges pressure from the same source
to increase the hunting license fee in the
states to three times what it is now, so as to
make it a real fee instead of a mere formal
ity. He proposes that the income from the
license, after administration costs are de
ducted, be used for feeding, sheltering and
increasing the wild life in sanctuaries.
Most of the suggestions will appeal to
all hunters who hunt for the pleasure to be
derived from it, and not for the slaughter
they may inflict. But above all is the fact
that if the present laws are not amended so
as to reduce killing there soon will be no
came to hunt. Many of the game species
already are extinct in some places. Others
rapidly are becoming so. The minimum bag
limit is now so high that if the hunter cared
to spend all the open season in hunting and
could take his full bag each day several
species would be exterminated in one sea
son; To illustrate the point, the minimum
bag limit for the whole season on birds in
New York state is 9,693. There were £30.079
licenses issued in the state in 1918. That
gives the whole number of hunters authori
ty to kill 2,230,165,747 birds during one
year. The hunting licenses issued for quail
on Long Island permitted the killing of 5,-
'889,600 birds, though there are only 2,500
alive on the island. Other states show the
'same reckless authority to exterminate the
birds and other game which provide the hun
‘ters with sport, .
| In states like Georgia the bird life has
| been reduced by game hogs and violators of
| the game laws killing out of season, as well
| as by the elimination of the habitat of many
|of the species through the draining of
' swamps and the clearing of land of wooods
| and undergrowth and weeds in which the
| birds found shelter and security, and from
?which they procured part of their winter
' feed. Against this extinction of game bird
life no legislation can be enacted. It is the
elimination of wild life by the advance de
’velopment of civilization. The buffalo could
not survive when the national pasturage of
‘the immense herds was converted into corn
'and wheat farms and cattle ranches. But
‘that fact does not justify the extermination
of such as can survive the contest with civ
ilization by hunting which goes so far be
yond real sport that it is nothing except a
wanton destruction of life. The hunter
who can display the largest string of fish,
the largest bag of quail or other birds is
accounted the greatest sportsman. That sen
timent must be changed to oneé in which the
greatest sportsman is the one who takes on
ly such as the true sporting spirit permits‘
and boasts of the number he left untouched.“
With but few exceptions the newspapers
of the state have accepted the result of the
primary with good grace, and as the demo
cratic nominee Mr. Watson will receive a
practically unanimous vote in the Novem
ber election. Those who voted in the pri
‘mary are in honor bound to stand by him.
SR AP
The people of Terrell county and the
Eleventh senatorial district have every rea
son to congratulate themselves on their
choice of representatives in the next gen
eral assembly. Mr. Parks and Mr. Weaver
will undoubtedly make able spokesmen for
the best interests of this county and dis
trict.
It is said Mr. Bryan intends to offer his
campaign services to candidates for . con
gress who favor the Volstead law irrespect
ive of the candidate’s party affiliations.
That locates Mr. Bryan. But where is Sena
tor Hitchcock? |
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The comptroller of the currency blames
the New York hanks for the high rate of in
terest. Yet the public is told the New Yorki
bankers are unable to control the moncy
market because of the federal reserve law.l
The difference between the skirts of the
grandmother and the granddaughter is that
the former put the draw-string around the
top and the latter puts it around the bot
tom. :
There may be blessings in disguise, but
they have a hard time establishing their |
identity. |
DOG DAYS.
Queer Things Happen as Sirius Ap
proaches the Sun.
“One for the money, .
“Two for the show— y
“Three to get ready— Y
“And four to go!”
" An then poor helpless Tige, who is the
pet of the boys in the vicinity of Minneha
ha ecreek, took a brodie into the limpid—
that is fairly limpid—depths of the eold
swimmin’ hole.
“Dog days—well I should say, it is dog
days!” Tige confided to a Journal reporter
as he made for the shore and eame puffing
back up on the bank,
“Matter o’ fact,” continued Tige, “it’s
‘been dog days and dog haze—any way yonl
want to spell it—ever since school let out.
+ “P've missed a forced bath only one day
since the kids stowed away their books last
June. I was hopin’ all-the time that when
dog days came around about August 1 the
youngsters would lay off, as they say in
Nicollet avenue slang, but nothing deing.
Guess the kids ain't wise to dog days, any
way.” 1
Tige paused and sneezed a sneeze and
then shook himself, causing a sudden show
er to fall upon the helpless reporter. |
Yes, perhaps the youngsters ought to be‘
‘told about dog days, although it is Sur pri
‘vate opinion that they would only treat it
‘as a joke.
Anyway, according to the professor and
others August is a terrible dangerous
month., Here’s what’s likely to happen to
you if you don’t watch out in August!
All weeds become irritating and are like
ly to poison you.
Mosquitoes bite you harder.
You're likely to get the rash from going
into the old swimmin’ hole.
Tige and Towser and Ponto and the oth
ers are likely to get wild ideas and bite you.
Bee stings hurt a little worse and last
a little longer.
Warts will thrive if you handle toads, too.
Ice cream tastes a little better and lemon
ade has a habit of disappearing when small
boys are around. High collars are in disfa
vor and porterhouse steaks somehow don’t
seem to taste as good as in winter.
Incidentally actors are on their vacatipns,
so are school teachers, ministers—every
body, almost but bank clerks and newspa
per reporters.
. Dog days!
According to the astronomers August
days arve called dog days because during
that time the sun is near the dog star.
i The dog star’s name is Sirius and it may
be seen low in the south on winter nights.
In the summer time the earth has swung
around to the other side of the sun so that
Sirius is in the sky in the dayg time and nat
vrally cannot be seen.
Nevertheless it exerts its baleful influ
ence on poor Tige and Ponto—aithough
yvour own particular Tige and Ponto don’t
seem to worry about it very much. And as
Tice of Minnehaha creek remarked:
“It’s all foolishness. hut I wish the kids
wonld believe it. I wish they could ‘get
ccairt’ of me once in a while and quit mak
inec me take baths when T don’t want to.
Van ean sav for me that T am iust as well
“ehaved in August as [ am in .April, and
{ that is mightv good. Tn fact T am always
a good dog. I never bite anybody but my
master’s enemies and he hasn’t any enemies,
so I don’t do any biting.”—Minneapolis
Journal. .
THE DAWSON NEWS.
In® 1906 the leaders of two political
factions in Georgia challenged each other
for a duel; from that time on no opportuni
ty was lost by either side to stab the other.
During the last campaign the struggle grew
fiercer and fiercer, both sides seemingly
forgetful of the public good. Finally, on
Sept. Bth, the death blows were struck;
they both fell together and were buried
in the same grave. Peace to their ashes.
Thousands of mourners from both sides
are now going about the state chanting that
familiar chorus, “What Fools We Mortals
Be: W. P. HORNADY.
Dawson, Ga,
The Magic ot Paint :
and Flowers and Shrubs.
. From the Progressive Farmer.
A young farmer we knew got married
last year. He took his bride to a newly built
little cottage which had been erected in an
open space of white, bleak, glaring sand
and gravel. :
We chanced to pass this house one day
with a friend. “What in the world caused
the fellow to build his house in a place like
that!” was his exclamation. “That farmer
‘will never be able to make his home look
‘like anything in such a location.”
A few days ago we traveled the same
road, but with a different companion. On
coming again to the home of this young
farmer the exclamation this time was,
“What a pretty home!”
What had changed this unattractive place
into one of beauty which caused travelers
to exclaim in admiration? The answer wasi
plain—paint, flowers, shrubs and grass.
When the surrounding yard had been|
plowed, graded, manured and grass started
it showed that the location selected by the
young man, except for the absence of trees,
was not so bad after all. The simple use
of flowers, shrubs, paint, grass and a little
time was all that was necessary to turn an
ugly picture into a beautiful one—and
young trees with proper attention and fer
tilizers will soon become large ones.
The reason we do not have a wonderfully
beautiful South is because too many of our
farmers and farm women do not under
stand the magic of these simple beautifiers,
as this young farmer seems to have under
stood it.
From the New York Tribune.
In a recent interview Dr. Frank M. Chap
man, ‘curator of the department of birds of
the American Museum of Natural History
in New York city, and organizer and leader
of a number of South American expeditions,
gave some interesting information concern
ing South American bird life.
Costa Rica, he said, is about the same
size as West Virginia, but over 650 species
of land birds have been found in that little
Central American republie, whereas in all
America north of Mexico only some 500
species are known.
The figures give us some conception of
the wealth of South American bird life and,
when we enter the Andean region, where
mountains with their feet in the tropies
rear their heads far above the limits of per
petual snow, the resulting abrupt climatic
changes due to altitude bring to an even
smaller area a larger number of birds than
has been recorded from Costa Rica. In An
dean Colombia, for example, are specimens
of over 1,150 species of land birds, or more
than twice as many as exist in the United
States, Canada and Greenland.
This teeming bird population is due not
only to highly diversified and favorable cli
matic conditions, but also to the fact that
in tropical South America birds are practi
cally non-migratory. They are, tlgerefore,
continuously subjected to the influ&nces of
their surroundings and do not mix with
birds from other locglities, two factors of
the utmost importance in the evolution of
species.
But the richness of South American bird
life is due to the presence of the Andes
more than to any other one thing, and it is
the absence of great mountain chains in
Africa which accounts for the comparative
ly small numbers of species of birds in that
continent. From base to summit four dis
tinet zones of life—tropical, sub-tropiecal,
temperate and alpine—are found in the
higher Andes, and each zone has species
which are confined to it. So sharply are
these zones defined that, where the slope
is steep, one may pass from one zone to an
other on foot in less than ten minutes and
at the same time find an althost entirely
different set of birds.
Such changes are impossible at sea level.
One may go from the tropical upper Ama
zon 3,000 miles to its mouth and find less
difference in the general bird population
than one will encounter in an altitude of
3,000 feet in the Andes.
Boifeuillet in Macon News.
The last I heard of Senator William J.
Harris he was in China. I wonder if any
one has telegraphed him the result of the
gsenatorial primary. Watson carried Harris’
home county of Polk., I should like to see
Senator Harris escorting the Sage of Me-
Duffie down the aisle of the senate chamber
up to the desk, or dais, of the vice presi
dent to take the oath of office. Under the
rules of the senate, when Senator Smith
retires from that body, Senator Harris will
become the “‘senior” senator, and Senator
Watson will be called the ‘“junior” senator.
The term ‘‘senior” is bestowed upon the
senator of longer service in the senate. The
“seniority rule” in that body is a custom
to give the most important committee chair-,
manships, or other principal posts, to the
senators of longer service in the senate,
who are members of the majority side in
the senate. Mr. Watson’s former service in
the house of representatives of congress and
his active participation for so many years in
public affairs will cause him to be instantly
regarded in the senate as a man of large
experience, and this will no doubt give him
certain priority recognition not usually aec
corded at once to a new senator.
“WHEN HE GO.”
From the Outlook.
“What time next train go to Washing
ton?” a traveling Chinese asked the railroad
information clerk.
“Two-two,” replied the official.
“You no understandee,” insisted the Ce
lestial. “I know thé train go too-too. I no
ask how he go; I ask when he go!”
Willie—Paw, why isn’t a prophet honored
by his own country?
Paw—Maybe it is because he is a weath
er prophet, my son.
Peace to Their Ashes.
A Land of Strange Birds.
When Bill Escorts Tom.
SOON BE TIME
. TO BEGIN
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- Farm For Sale
312 acres, Terrell County,
1 mile west of Herod, 6 miles
south of Dawson, about 225
acres in cultivation, moderate
buildings. This is a good
farm in a good community,
good churches and a fine
school within 1-mile. Public
road running through the
farm. ,
Will sell at a bargain, as
I have bought a larger
farm and do not need
this one.
APPLY Td .
B. N. Barrow
Griffin, Georgia
For Price and Terms. . T
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1920,