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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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DAWSON, GA., SEPTEMBER 28, 1920. ‘
President Wilson can extract this grain
of comfort from the result of the election
in Georgia: The people of the state adopted
his idea of ‘‘self-determination.”
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Editor W. G. Sutlive, ¢f the Savannah
Press, was defeated for coroner in Chat
ham county. He is too live a newspaper
man to bother with dead subjects.
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Since we have seen the Maine election
figures we have concluded that Maine is too
far away to really know what is going on.
Perhaps they will have caught on by about
March 4, 1921.
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Up by the neck until dead is the proper
treatment for a bomb thrower, Killing de
fenseless men and women is not going to
correct the faults of society here any more
than it did in Europe.
The cotton fields of Terrell county are
indeed ‘“white unto harvest, and the labor
ers are few,” but the open weather enables
the farmers to get in some beautiful staple.
May this weather continue.
It’s high time you were clearing that new
growfid you have been calling your garden.
Get your axe and cut down weeds and
plant some turnip seed. It will help your’
financial and physical health. |
THE TAX ARBITRATION. i
The arbitration of Terrell county’s taxi
returns resulted, as stated elsewhere in The |
News, in an increase of not quite half the
amount demanded by the state tax officials.
The people of the county will accept the
verdict of the arbitrators, and make no!
further protest. They have no desire nor in-|
tention to shirk the paymemt of their par‘c|
of the taxes necessary to support the stat'e{
government, but they could not concede the |
justice of requiring them to pay taxes on‘
land at an average valuation of $4O an|
acre while an average of only $2O per acre
was required of neighboring counties.
State Tax Commissioner Fullbright is to
be commended for his zeal in endeavoring
to require all property to bear its share of
the tax burden. In him the state has a ca
pable and aggressive official who would not
knowingly do an injustice to anyone, and
in the Terrell county matter he must have
been misinformed and badly advised by
some one.
MOVIES IN REALISM. l
The Pickfords have enchanted their mil
lions. Young girls and older women have
watched their actions on the screen and en
vied them the perfection of their. happi
ness. But the world is awakened with a
shock to learn that what it has seen and
sobbed and laughed over is a sham and a
pretense. Mary Pickford had scarcely been
divorced from her first husband and mar
ried to the one she selected while the wife
of the first before Olive Thomas, the wife
of Jack Pickford, the brother of Mary, died
at Paris under circumstances which disclose
a sordid life that would hardly appeal to
the romantic side of the people who were
thrilled by the screen perfections of the
dead woman’s husband and herself.
The movies are not responsible for the
‘shams in the lives of those who make them.
The movies are not inherently unmoral. So
iong as the Pickfords were struggling up
ward to fame and fortune there was noth
ing in their lives to which the Puritan could
protest. But they lived a life of make be
lieve and sham. In time it became a part
of themselves, -Success intoxjcated them.
Life was too drab to satisfy the mental at
titude developed in them. They wanted ex
citement. The things which had been satis
fying no longer were SO
But the biggest shock comes to the peo
ple who, having considered them ideal, find
they were sordid, unreal and.artififial. It
is a severe jolt to the imaginations of many,
but in the end it will teach a valuable les
“ son. The stage is recognized as unreal, but
the movie, because it places the actors so
far out of the vision, has gradually come
to be considered a picturization of the
ideal, the noble and the perfect in life. The
Pickfords have disillusioned those who be
lieved so. ‘
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’ CAMPAIGN TEMPERS. 1
People are weary unto disgust in Geor
gia of newspaper lying, misrepresenta
tion and partisan and factional spleen. |
They have reached the end of their pa
tience in that regard.—Atlanta Georgian.
Many candidates, national and state, and
newspapers and politicians generally seem
to be in an exceptionally irascible state this
year. Tempers usually good are shattercde
Men who are civil of speech in private life
have developed a wonderful turn for bil
lingsgate in public life. : :
Take our own state campaign. Never, we
think, have there been such explosions of
bad temper and worse language on the part
of gentlemen and newspapers-—suvally fa
vorable kriown to their neighbors for suavi
ty of speech and charity of thought. What
ails poilitics, anyhow? It must be one of
those “reactions of the war” some writers
and public speakers tell us about. |
SOME LEAGUE SALARIES.
The league of nations is not a self-fi
nancing institution. It has-mo sources of
révenue except appropriations made by the
nations which are members. The Cri de
Paris has published a list of some of the
leading salaries paid the various functiona
ries.
i The secretary-general receives $50,000
!amxually, while his secretary receives $25,-
1 000. Two under secretaries receive $lO,OOO
| each. The director of each of the twelve
| sections receives from $lO,OOO to $12,000.
| The members of the sections—and the num
ber runs from four to nineteen—draw from
$3,000 to $6,000 annually, The chief libra
rian gets $5.000,” and the director of the
international bureau of labor is paid $30,-
000. The chief of the diplomatic division
receives $9,000. The chief of the service of
inquiry into sovietism is paid $6,000, though
what has come of his service is not appar
‘ent. The sub-chief of the scientific division
‘draws a salary of $5,000.
If the directors of the twelve sections
average $ll,OOO each their total salaries
amount to $132,000. If the members of the
sections average ten and receive an average
salary of $4,000 the cost of the member
ship of the twelve sections is $480,000. The
total salary list of the officials enumeratedi‘
by the Cri de Paris would then be $757,-‘
000. There are 357 persons in the organi-l
zation. Whenever a meeting of the league
is called all these officials must be mdved;
from the place of the last meeting to that
of the new one. This expense may be elim
inated after the permanent capital of the
league is established. But at present thet:
cost of moving the league is heavy. Again,i
it should be remembered that the expenses
enumerated are those of the administrative
officials only. The expenses of the members,i
their suites and their retinues must be add-|
ed. These, of course, are borne by the na-i
tions which they represent, but they are a
part of the cost of the league. |
Only the council of the league is func-!
tioning so far. The assembly has not yet,
met. When it does it will also require an
immense organization to administer its
work. l
ONE TERM PRESIDENCY.
When the constitution was framed to limit
the tenure of the presidency tovone term there
was much diversity of opinion on the length
of term. It ran from three years to seven
vears. Finally four years was agreed upon.
Then the question reverted to the eligibility
of the president for re-election. The discus
sion on this point in the convention was
pointed and earnest. Gouverneur Morris said
ineligibility “tended to destroy the great mo
tive for good behavior—the hope of being re
warded by a reappointment.” The resolution
to make the president ineligibile was defeated
by a vote of six states against four, three
not then being represented.
But the idea of a single term president had
found lodgment. Delaware, Virginia, North
Carolina and South Carolina voted against
the resolution making him eligible for more
than one term. When the Confederate States
of America were formed by the secession com
monwealths the sentiment of the old constitu
tional convention found expression, ahd the
confederate constitution fixed the tenure of
the presidency at one term of six years. The
sentiment was an inheritance from the consti
tutional convention when three or four south
ern states favored making him ineligible for
re-election.
This is the season of the year to sow
garden seeds one day and have them come
up the next, if your neighbors have chick
ens. If the scratching by the chickens was
all it wouldn’t be so bad, but often it caus
es neighbors to scratch each other’s faces—
and one cannot blame people to get mad now
when it is so hard to get seeds planted.
Keep your chickens on your own premises
or kill them, unless you want to sell them.
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Most of the newspapers in and out of
Georgia concede Mr. Watson’s ability; and
many of them predict a useful career for
him in the senate. They recall that it was
Mr. Watson who introduced and urged to
passage, when he was a member of con
gress, the resolution giving to the rural
people of Georgia daily mail delivery. It
was one of the greatest pieces of legisla
tion ever enacted.
The News congratulates Hon. Charles R.‘
Crisp upon his nomination for congress
from the Third district. Mr. Crisp is always
ready to serve his constituents in every!
way that he can, and The News feels sure%
the district will be well repyesented by
him for the next two years as it has been
for the past eight’
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Eugene Debs, the socialist candidate for
president, being anxious to get out of the
federal penitentiary near Atlanta, should
test the virtues of a hunger strike. It re
mains to be seen how it would work in the
“home of the brave and land of the free.”
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The compliment of the tax commissioner
to Terrell county farm lands is duly appre
ciated, but it comes high. The owners
can’'t see the fairness in taxing Terrell
land at valuation of $4O per acre while
the valuation for tax purposes of land in
adjoining counties is only $2O an acre.
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~ Cotton pickers can now make enough
money in one week to buy a few pounds
of coal. They are getting a dollar (in some
instances more) per hundred for gathering
‘the fleecy staple, and it is simply hanging
tin the fields.
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| There is one motor car to every sixteen
people in this country. Sqme of the drivers
|evidently want to eliminate the other fif
teen.
THE COTTON SITUATION.
Great Southern Trade Paper Declares
Bears and Federal Reserve Board Ham
mer Down Prices With Crop Sh'ort.
. The Manufacturers’ Record makes the
following strong statement, heartily sup
porting the activities of the American Cot
ton Association:
English cotton experts -at the - World’s
Cotton Conference in New Orleans last
year insisted that the world needed a 15,-
000,000-bale crop from the South this year.
They repeated the statement over and over
again when they got back to England. They
warned manufacturers of a world cotton
famine already in sight. The South has not
raised the 15,000,000 bales for which they
begged. Its crop will be several million
bales short of what they said was-absolute
ly needed; but under the drastic deflation
work of the Federal Reserve Board, which
has brought stagnation where abounding
activity prevailed, cotton buyers in Europe
and in this country and the bear gamblers
are using the opportunity thus created to
drive cotton prices’ down below the cost of
production.
Betrayed in the house of its supposed
friends, its credits curtailed by the action
of the board, the South must face a tre
menddus fight to protect its cotton against
all enemies, open and secret. The planters
should, after paying their debts, hold their
cotton and store it, knowing full well that
if they assert their power they can con
trol the marketing of their staple.
The age old custom of rushing cotton to!
the market in the fall only played into the
hands of the buyers, who, having forced
prices to the lowest point, stocked up heav
ily, and then prices advanced, to their
profit but to the loss of the growers.
Let the south hold its cotton and market
it slowly, during twelve months instead of
in four, and the producer will then soon
hold the whip handle and no longer be
driven by the lash of the buyers. At the
same time the south should give its at-{
tention more largely to diversified agricul
ture, raising a full supply of foodstufi's,l
for its own use and to add to the nation’s
food stores, making cotton a surplus crop. |
For a quarter of a century the Manufactur- |
ers Record has sought to drive home the |
idea that every southern farmer should |
raise his own foodstuffs and then plant in |
cotton his surplus land only. In that way|
lie prosperity and safety, and in that way|
only. X 3
Europeans That Hate Us Be
ficause We Are “Meddlesome,
3 Patronizing and Tightwads”
From the Literary Digest.
Many and varied have been the hatreds
entertained in Europe during the last sev
eral centuries, but it appears that now a
good part of it is united in hating America.
In the words of Frederick Palmer, the war
correspondent, who seems to have had ex
ceptional opportunities to observe the pres
ent situation: “If every American who went
abroad had set out to be a quarrelsome
boor we could not have better succeeded
in making ourselves disliked.” This state of
‘affairs puzzled Mr. Palmer, and he set out
to discover the reason for the widespread ill
feeling toward a nation which only a couple
of years ago apparently was held in high
esteem by Europeans. To that end he be
gan asking wherever he went the question,
in effect, “Why don’t you like us?” The
answers varied in the different countries,
but all agreed in the matter of finding fault
with America. What he considered Ameri
can’s patronizing attitude during the war
and her aloofness now was assigned by a
Briton as the chief cause of British irrita
tion., The Poles didn’t deny.that America’s
relief work in Poland had been fine, but
they complained that in fighting typhus in
their country the Americans had followed
an unpopular method. The French said they |
would have had the left bank of the Rhine
and the Italians thought they would have
had Fiume if the Americans hadn’t stood!
in the way. The Germans were sure they !
would have licked everybody in Europe and
had things their own way if America had
not butted in. “Look what we suffered,”
exclaimed the Belgians; and now, said they,
America, who didn’t suffer at all, won’t
even sign the treaty to defend Belgium if
the Germans once more attack her. And
nearly every place the correspondent went,
it seems, the cry was for money and credit
from America, who is so rich. The senti
ment of all Europe seems to be that Amer
ica should come across and help set them
up in business again. One source of irrita
tion, also, we are told, is the fool American
tourist’s way of flaunting his country’s
money in the faces of the Europeans with
the query, “Do you want to see some real
money?” Taking it all together, the land of’
the ‘“square deal” and “good will” toward
all the world is rapidly becoming the
scapegoat of the world, in the opinion of
Mr. Palmer.
801 l Worm Enemy Found.
From Alabama Farm Facts. |
That big fleas have little fleas to prey
upon and bite ’em, and little fleas have less
er fleas, and so ad infinitum (the pseudo
scientific explanation of insect life), was
not thought to apply to the boll weevil as
far as the agricultural experts discover af
ter studying the insect pest for several
vears. Some comforting intelligence comes
from Mississippi, however, that an ingect
preying upon the boll weevil has been dis
covered on the extensive cotton farm of
Walter Clark, at Clarksdale. The Mississip
pi and federal entomologists are said to be
studying the habits of the new insect care
fully with a view to making a detailed re
port on how far it may be expected to re
lieve the boll weevil situation. As the ap
parent enemy of the weevil has only re
cently made its appearance in Mississippi,
and in a very limited area, it may.be some
time before the entomologists are ready to
give authentic information on the subject.
Mr. Clark was one of the Mississippi dele
gates at the meetings of the American Cot
ton Association’s speecial committees in
Montgomery recently and Farm Facts took
occasion to obtain some information from
him on the newly discovered insect. It is
a species of worm which follows the weevil
into the boll in the egg-laying period and
wonsumes the eggs as fast as they are laid.
The boll penetrated by the egg-laving wee
vil is unproductive and drops off the stalk,
but through the destruction of the eggs haid
in the boll there is no second crop of wee
vils and no serious infestation of cotton
fields such as planters have experienced in
that part.of Mississippi in the past. Accord
ing to Mr. Clark the new worm does a
THE DAWSON NEWS.
Jno. T. Boifeuillet in Macon Evening News.
‘ During the recent campaign, in the pres
ence of the largest audience ever assembled
in Macon on a political occasion, so far as
the memory of living man recalls, Thos. E.
| Watson declared that he was a pioneer pro
ihibitionist in Georgia; that away back yon
' der in 1882 he led a temperance fight in
the general assembly in behalf of the cause.
That was the year of his first service in
the legislature as a representafive from
the county of McDuffie. i
On this Holy Sabbath morning, when the
minds of men should dwell only upon the
true, the beautiful and the good—when
theiy thoughts should be of things spiritual
and not so much of the earthly—l regard
it as opportune and fitting to publish the
following eloquent words by Mr. Watson
on the subject of “Strong Drink”:
“It is a warrior whom no victory can sat
isfy, no ruin satiate. It pauses at no Rubi
con to consider, pitches no tents at night,
goes into no quarters for winter, It con
quers amid the burning plains of the
south where the phalanxes of Alexander
.halted in mutiny. It conquers amid the
snowdrifts of the north where the grand
| army of Napoleon found its winding sheet.
Its monuments are in every burial ground.
Its badges of triumph are the weeds which
mourners wear. Its song of victory is the
wail that was heard in Ramah—‘Rachel
crying for her children and weeping be-‘
' cause they are not.
“The sword is mighty, and its bloody
traces reach across time, from Ninevah to
| Gravelotte, from Marathon to Gettysburg.
' Yet mightier is its brother, the wine-cup.
' 1 say ‘brother,” and history says ‘brother.’ |
[Castor and Pollux never fought to;rether]
|in more fraternal harmony. David and Jona- |
'than never joined in more generous rivalry.
'Hand in hand they have come down the
centuries, and upon every scene of carnage,
‘like vultures and shadows, they have met
and feasted. z :
. “Yea, a pair of giants, but the greater is
the wine-cup. The sword has a scabbard, and |
is sheathed; has a conscience, and becomes |
glutted with havoe; has pity, and gives |
quarter to the vanquished. The wine-cup!
has no scabbard, and no conscience; its ap-|
petite is a cancer which grows as you feedl
it; to pity, it is deaf; to suffering, it is |
blind. i
| “The sword is the lieutenant of death, |
but the wine-cup his captain; and if ever|
they come home to him from the wars |
bringing their trophies, boasting of .their
' achievements I can imagine that Death,
their master, will meet them with garlands
sand song, as the maidens of Judea met Saul
' and David. But as he numbers the victoriesi
' of each his pean will be, ‘The sword is my
' Saul, who has slain his thousands; but the’
' wine-cup is my David, who has slain his tens
rof thousands.” ’
From the Progressive Farmer.
It is time to decide how many acres to
plant to eats and rye this fall. It is time
to select the land and begin putting it in
shape for planting. It is time to order the
seed. We can’t boast of a self-sustaining
system of farming as long as the South
fails to raise as much corn, oats or hay as
| it uses and sends its money to other sec
| tion to buy these things in great quanti
ties. A good crop of oats and rye on your
farm this fall will help cut down purchases
of all these produets,
[ Qats can be sowed from September Ito
November 15. In the latitude .of South
' Georgia early October seedings have given
the best yields, Fulghum oats or red -rust
proof, with kindred varieties as Appler,
have proved very satisfactory. Plow or
‘disk the land four to six inches deep, pul
verize it with a harrew, if necessary use
drag or roller. Treat seed oats with forma
lin to prevent smut, and plant from two to
three bushels to the acre. Plant the seed in
open furrows or trenches to prevent winter
killing.
Plant oats on good land. They do well
after an early crop of corn and cowpeas,
or following peanuts. From 200 to 300
pounds of acid phosphate to the acre will
increase the yields and pay a profit. When
vetch is combined with oats at the rate of
two bushels of oats and a half bushel of
vetch they furnish winter grazing, can be
cut for hay in the spring and improve the
land.
Rye alone or rye with crimson clover
goes a long way toward making a winter
pasture. Sow early, in September if possi
ble, to get a good growth before cold
weather, Broadcast rye or drill it in the
cotton fields after the first picking, or
plant on fields prepared as for oats. From
one and a half to two bushels per acre
should be sowed when it is grown for graz
ing. Abruzzi has proved one of the best va
rieties for this purpose. :
} Because rye will grow on poor land do
not impose on it. It responds well to fer
tilizer and the better the land the bigger
the crop.
After helping feed the stock during the
,winter rye can be turned under in the
spring to feed the soil.
complete job, consuming every egg deposit
ed in a boll. -
If the new insect is as effective as re
ported—and Mr. Clark is one of the most
reliable and best informed cotton men in
Mississippi—there should be some interest
ing developments in the boli weevil situa
tion before next season, or possibly before
the present season has passed.
Tom Watson and Prohibition.
How Many Acres to Oats
And Rye This Year?
THE MAN AND HIS PUP.
The average man buys a pointer dog
And pays as much as he would for a hog,
As soon as he says good-bye to his change,
He turns him roving to take the mange.
He rvolls his sleeves, removes his coat
And dips his dog in creosote,
Buys high-priced beef, that he may be fed
)With the best of food till his dog is dead.
Dawson, Ga. —H.
. THE VOTER'S PUZZLE.
From the Houston Chronicle.
Isn’t it passing strange that whenever two
humans aspire to one office the public mind
becomes impressed with the fact that one of
them is a bang-up patriot and the other is
a doleful dolt and a voracious throgdolyte, the
only difference of opinion being as to which is
which?
The Kiffir wife must employ a different
language from that of her husband and
must never refer to him by name. .
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* SOON BE TIME
TO BEGIN :
Your Fall P lowing
The FORDSON TRACTOR
E is the best machine on the market
for this work—the cheapest to buy
and the cheapest to operate. We
also have the necessary plows, har
- rows and grain dnlls, etc. to go
with them. Give us your order
now so as to get your land prepared
when the time comes. ;
Dawson Motor Car
Company
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 TO
B. N. Barrow
Griffin, Georgia 3
For Price and Terms.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1920,