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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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DAWSON, GA., JANUARY 4, 1921.
After immigration has been stopped a little
deportation would not come amiss.
With the sexes equah’zcd by law leap year
privilege did not expire with the close of 1920.
The Lyons Progress notes that the politi
cians are very anxious to help the farmers just
now, after he’s been ruined. "Twas ever thus.
- The old time holiday quartette was not in
evidence this Christmas, the stuff sold lacking
the qualities to produce either bass or tenor
voices.
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An eminent doctor treated a patient for loss
of memory. After he was pronounced cured
by the doctor he went away and forgot to
pay his bill. '
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Hides are selling at about 2 cents a pound.
Leather costs almost that many dollars a
pound. Who gets the difference, or what
makes the increase necessary?
A New York maniac stabbed a woman be
cause she was well dressed. A Dawson wo
man read the item to her husband and re
marked that she felt perfectly safe.
“The paper contains one of your mistakes,”
safd the doctor critic to the editor. “It also
contains ong of yours,” the editor replied. “It
has the obituary of one of your patients.”
One Dr. H. Addington Bruce, an alleged
medical authority, says the ills of life are
caused by salt. ‘Tt is just another instance of
a blunder in the Creator in giving both man
and animals a taste ‘for salt.
Science has developed a lemon pie, an ap
ple butter and a pancake batter. Now, if
some one will develop a drink that can be
completed in the same way the men folks
would be as happy as the women.
Everybody seemed to have been on their
good behavior during the Christmas season,
Although - the town was crowded each day
the police officers report that not a drunken
man was seen on the streets of Dawson dur
ing the week.
Any democrat who thinks he is going to
hang onto an office because of civil service
rules is destined to be woefully disappointed.
The republicans are going to take everything
in sight and many things not yet in sight. Then
we will hear some civil service talk again.
UNCLE SAM’S PAYROLL.
In its annual report the civil service com
‘mission discloses the fact that only July 3lst
last one person in every 159 people in this
country was on the government payroll—in
all almost 700,000 employes. Taking the cen
sus figures the commission’s report shows
that of every 68 persons engaged in gainful
occupations one is a government employe.
These figures explain quite satisfactorily why
government in this country costs more than in
almost all other countries.
And the cost of government is measured not
only by service paid for but by the pay that
produces no service. Under the civil service
government employes have vacations that on
ly millionaires could formerly afford—vaca
tions of a month’s duration and other time
allowances, besides all holidays. It is about
as easy to tell when government employes
don’t work as when they do. Let congress
act.
DEATH AT THE CROSSINGS.
Automobile killings at grade crossings are
always pitiful. The latest tragedy of this kind
occurred at Unadifla a few days ago, when
two men were killed and another one was in
jured by a passenger train.
There was no occasion for hurry. The track
in both directions was in full view. The man
at the wheel was probably filled with an am
bition to cross the track ahead of the train.
Two more families have been bereaved on ac
count of the thoughtlessness of the driver.
Just what could be done to cause drivers to
be more careful in regard to crossing steam
railroad tracks no one can now say. But
something ought to be done. Such Kkillings
are not accidental, nor are they intentional.
They represent someone’s desire to be smart
or to get ahead of some one. It is useless to
talk about abolishing grade crossings in a
state that is honey-combed by railroads. We
do not know.that an estimate has been made
with regard to the cost, but it certainly would
be prohibitive.
What we need to do, pending the adoption
of devices and laws, is to use common sense
when the matter of life ordeath depends upon
our own intelligence.
THE SUGAR STEAL.
Raw sugar has gone down to 6 cents, and
it is still part of the old crop. How they used
to tell us there would be a shortage before
the new crop could be brought into the mark
et—the liars and robbers. The sugar simply
could nct be had, they said. And now there
is so' much left that one can buy it for what
the Cuban crop was offered to the Wash
ington government, 6% cents a pound. Of all
the hold-up games that has been one of the
very worst. Even the cement and the coal
men have not been able to equal it. But the
coal and the cement men are at least holding
up their end of the game longer than the su
hEar men.
A WIDE DIFFERENCE.
Opposition to the proposed relief to the
farmers is developing among members of the
congress. It is asserted that the manufactur
ers of the east have been pinched harder than
the farmers, and that they have received no
relief. In order to be fair and eliminate the
idea of sectional prejudice an analysis of the
difference between the manufacturers and the
farmers is essential. The people in the days
of inflated prices did not” object to paying
what it cost to produce .a commodity, whether
it was produced on the farm or in the factory
or in the mine. The consumer realized that
the manufacturer was forced to pay high
wages, and that raw material was scarce and
expensive to procure. He did not complain
of a price which covered both these elements,
plus a generous profit. He went so far as
to acquiesce in the payment of a price which
included the graft of labor in the form of in
competency and the determination to do the
least amount of work possible. He realized
that that was the only sort of labor available,
and that its policy of doing the least possible
increased the cost of the commodity to the
manufacturer. The consumer rendered jus
tice by paying the price.
But the manufacturer was not content with
these conditions. The output of the factories
was low because so many industries had been
changed from peace productions to war pro
ductions. The people had money and demand
ed commodities. The manufacturer seized up
on the hysteria of the public to profiteer. He
forced the public—wholesalers and distribu
tors—to bid against each other for the sup
plies he had. The highest bidder took the
goods. In many instances profits reached 500
per cent, and sales were recorded in which
profits were double that amount. The con
sumer paid the prices in which these profits
were included and which were passed from
manufacturer to wholesaler and from him to
jobber and from jobber to retailer. But when
he realized that the high price was not the
cost of manufacture, made expensive by in
competent and inefficient and loafing help as
well as high wages, but of profiteering by
price-bidding, he stopped buying. The manu
facturers have taken out of prices inflation,
the profiteering, the excessive profits, but in
few, if any, instances have they been forced
to sell their commodities at less than cost of
production.
The_situation with the farmer is different.
He would be satisfied if he could get the cost
of production out of his commoditiecs. He
does not clamor for a profit. He was never
in the position of the manufacturer, who
could compel purchasers to bid for his prod
ucts until the profits reachied such propor
tions that they became robbery. If he had
‘done so he would be without a case in court
at this time. If he had done so he could
charge his losses from declining prices against
his excessive profits in the past and, until the
losses became greater than his profits, the
public would have no ear for his complaints
about being ruined. g
It is charged in some quarters that the
farmers did make large profits during the
war. This charge is based on the superficial
fact that they prospered. But their prosper
ity was the result of other causes than large
profits. They reduced the overhead expenses
of ‘farming by doing double the amount of
work any man should be expected to do, by
using the labor of the family in a way that
in other times would have brought criticism
on their heads. In many instances women took
the places of men in the fields. Boys did the
work of adults. In general Providence was
propitious and ‘most of the crops wére bene
ficiaries of favorable weather conditions. High
prices were realized, but the money in which
the prices were paid was an inflated dollar
whose purchasing power was only half its
face value. Many farmers were in debt. The
50-cent dollars were worth 100 cents in the
payment of debts contracted before the in
flation. Instead of spending their money in
riotous living the farmers, as a general rule,
paid their debts. Tiwy could pay twice as
much with the same quantity of products
measured in dollars, even eliminating the
higher prices per commodity unit, than they
could under the conditions which prevailed
when the debts were made. Now their critics
balance this business opportunity which they
did not make, but of which they availed them
selves, against their desire to avoid l;;;nkrupt
cy. Their cases and those of the manufac
iturcrs are entirely different. The farmers did
not profit ‘from competitive bidding prices.
They enjoyed no excessive profits. It does
not require an investigation to prove these
facts. They are self-evident. The charges of
excessive profits against manufacturers have
been proven by investigations.
TOO MANY JOB HOLDERS.
In noting that many people are having a
hard time meeting the demands of the tax
gatherer the Jackson Progress-Argus very
truthfully says this is the time when the most
rigid economy should be used in the conduct
of public business. Expenditures should be
held down to the minimum and useless boards
and commissions should be dispensed with. It
is time for some one to speak for the man
who ‘foots the bills instead of the officials and
institutions that spend the money. ;
The state legislatures that will meet during
the next few months will be beset by all sorts
of cranks. They have formidable associations
for the propaganda of all sorts of ideas. Some
Sabbatarian association which has expensive
offices in New York is going to send out lob
byists to stop Sunday automobiles. How
happy the world would be, at least part of the
time, were there not so many men and women
in it who take delight in nothing so much as
in trying to tell other men and women how
ito live.
The amolnt spent by Mr. Wilson and his
|associates at the peace conference seems very
large to the man who helps to foot the bill,.
‘but, anyway, they kept clean. The expense
account shows that considerably more than
$60,000 was paid for laundry.
The News recently noted that Monroe coun
ty had done the unheard of thing of reducing
its tax rate, and now comes the Tifton Ga
zette with the information that Tift county
did the same thing, the reduction being $4
on the $l,OOO. That’s remarkable in these times
of governmental extravagance and tax op
pression, and our Tift county neighbors have
almost wrought a miraclee. We felicitate
them, and beseech them to pass the word
around how they did it.
Emergency tariff legislation for the relief
of the farmers has struck a snag in congress.
Though the measure is only a temporary one
the industrial sections are playing the dog in
the manger because the entire tariff law is not
opened and all the schedules revised. The un
fairness of the opposition is seen when it is
stated that of the fifteen items included in the
emergency legislation nine are now on the
free list. .
. Those who do the sowing do not always do
‘the reaping. Mrs. Catt, the leader of the suf
‘fragists. having misjudged the sentiment of
§the people when she advised the women how
to vote in the national election, is digpleased
‘with the result. It is also perturbing to the
jwomen politicians that the only woman elect
ed to congress was the vice president of an
anti-suffrage association.
The News deeply sympathizes with Editor
J. B. Stanford, of the Cuthbert Liberal-En
terprise, in the distressing accident which be
reft his home of one of his bright and manly
boys. May the great Comforter pour balm
upon the hearts of the sorrowing parents. -
One cannot help recalling that Mary and
Joseph did not have roast fowl and other mod
ern Christmas dinner trimmings when they
celebrated the first Christmas in the stable of
‘the inn.
’ The best definition of “nobody” is the man
‘who is a prominent woman’s husband.
The Average Man.
l From the Minneapolis Journal.
. From life insurance sources in New York
comes an interesting summary of what hap
pens to a hundred average Americans. The
conclusions are based on exhaustive studies of
statistics gathered from the leading life in
surance companies and covering a period of
many years. Thousands of individual etases
‘were reviewed to arrive at average results.
A hundred average American boys begin
their lives on the same day. What happens
to them financially?
At the age of 35, 5 have died, 10 are rich,
10 are well to do, 40 live on their earnings
and' 35 show little development. When they
have reached 45, 16 are dead, only 2 rich, 3
are 'well to do, 65 live on their earnings and
15 are no longer self-supporting.
Coming to the 55-year mark, 20 are dead, 1
is rich, 3 are well to do, 46 live on their earn
ings and 35 are no longer self-supporting. The
report shows that it is at this period, after
fifty-five years, that the tragic part of life be
gins.
When the 65-year period has been reached
36 of the original 100 have died, there still re
mains 1 rich man, 4 are well to do, 5 live on
their earnings and 54 are no longer self-sup
porting. At the age of 75, 63 have died, 1 is
rich, 2 are well to do and 34 are dependent.
Finally when death claims them all it is,
found that only 1 has left wealth, 2 have left
comfort, 15 have left from $2,000 to $lO,OOO,
and 82 have left nothing. |
It would have been interesting if the report
could have told what the hundred left besides
dollars. No doubt some of the eighty-two
penniless ones were so busy helping their fel
low men in various ways that they hadn’t time
to accumulate money for themselves or their
heirs and assigns. Mostly, however, the eigh
ty-two lackest the knack of money-making, or
the gift of thriit.
Most of those who have made the world bet
ter for their living have qualified in the “leave
nothing” class, but of course the mere fact
that a man leaves his family without any®
means does not necessarily entitle him to be
classed with the world's successful ones. It all
depends.
ettt et ettt .
| Hour For Paying Has Arrived. I
e S e e s s
From the Winder News.
When the people of the United States took
advantage of the war situation to go into the
profiteering game they neglected to take one
all-important precaution.
They {failed to look beyond the golden hue
of their own noses.
As a result of this profiteering craze the
cost of everything we produce is sky high, be
cause all labor and materials used have been
‘boosted to the limit of boostibility.
Here is the aftermath.
~ American manufacturers want to ship goods
%abroad, but they find the foreign markets in
many cases practically closed to them be
cause foreign made goods are sold for less
‘than we can make them.
~ Thus we are deprived of much of foreign
‘trade, and factories are discharging thous
‘ands of their employes. Some are shutting
‘down entirely.
- Then again, American manufacturers are
up against the dumping of foreign made
goods into this country for less than we can
produce them here. If this condition prevails
in future to any considerable extent more
millions will be walking the streets in search
of employment.
So much for our era of assinine profiteering
and price boosting.
But when we listen to the piper we must
expect to pay fer his music. ;
Qut of The Profiteer’s Class.
From the Indianapolis News.
After all expenses were paid the “widow’s
mite” for a calf sold at the Indianapolis stock
yards a few days ago was 80 cents and this
‘eliminated the widow from the class of proi
iteers.
~ The first bid ‘for the calf, hide and all, was
$1.50, not enough to pay the expense of mark
eting, which was $1 to the truckman for haul
ing the calf to market, 50 cents to the com
mission merchant for selling the calf, 17 cents
to the stock yvards company for yardage and
3 cents to Uncle Sam for war tix, in all $1.70.
If the cali had been taken back to the own
er, a widow living on a farm near Indianapo
lis, the round trip truckage would have been
$2, and if the calf had beéen sold at the first
bid of $1.50 the widow would have to make
up the difference of 20 cents in the charges
for marketing, besides being “out” one calf.
The calf *was finally sold for $2.50 and the
widow realized 80 cents for her share.
THE DAWSON NEWS
| From the Madisonian.
Bernard M. Baruch was born in South Car
olina about 50 years ago, according to Henry
Ford’s most excellent paper—The Dearborn
ilndependent. He was the son of Dr. Simon
| Baruch, who was a medical man of some con
'sequence. “I went to college with the idea of
jb-:coming a doctor, but I did not become a
'doctor,” he told the congressional committee.
'He was graduated at the College of the City
of New -York when he was just under 19
years of age. This college is one of the fa
lvorite educational institutions with the Jews,
'its president being Dr. E. S. Mezes, a broth
{er-in-law of Colonel E. M. House, the colonel
' whose influence and disfavor at. the white
[housc has for a long time been a favorite sub
ject of wondering speculation on the part of
lthe American people, though it scarcely need
|be so any longer.
When the war industries board was created
Mr. Baruch became a member thereof, later
becoming the whole cheese. He enjoyed more
| power than any one man in America during
'the conduct of the war, President Wilson
| alone probably - excepted. We don’t blame
| Barney—we do blame President Wilson. Bar
iney is the man who talked so glibly and so
'frequently about “fixing the price of cotton”
| some months ago. The president was as silent
|as the sphinx, while Barifey threated, and
cotton prices tumbled daily.
‘ The Madisonian welcomes a return to san
lity in America. There are Augean stables in
IWashington, D. C., that need to-be cle_aned
lout. It is high time that men who enjoyed
such tremendous power should be dethroned
'and the- government returned to the people.
| Listen to what Barney said before the con
gressional investigating committee:
Mr. Jeffries—"“ln other words, you deter
mined what anybody could have?”
Mr. Baruch—“Exactly; there is no ques
tion about that. I assumed that responsi
bility, sir, and that final determination rest
l ed within me.”
‘ Mr. Jeffries— “What?”
|+ Mr. Baruch—"“That final determination,
| as the president said, rested within me; the
i determination of whether the army and
navy should have it rested with me; the de
’ termination of whether the railroad admin- -
| istration could have it, or the allies, or
| whether General Allenby should have lo
| comotives, or whether they should be used
| in Russia, or used in France.”
! Mr. Jeffries—*“You had considerable pow-
Mr. Baruch—“lndeed, I did, sir.”
Mr. Jeffries—“And all those- different
lines really, ultimately, centered in you, so
[ far as power was concerned?”
I Mr. Baruch—*Yes, sir, it did. I probably
| had more power than perhaps any other
" man did in the war; doubtless that is true.”
| In a current issue of Leslie’s Rev. C. F.
LAked. D Das E.E: D says:
“I am an American citizen by deliberate
choice, not by accident or birth. I believe in
America. I believe in the great and beauti
| ful things which are incarnate in our flag.
No man living is more convinced than I am
‘ of the rightness of American principles, the
' necessity of American institutions, and the
| mission of the American nation. There is
| nothing wrong with our institutions; there
is something desperately wrong with our
i way of working our institutions.
“We need a re-birth of the American
spirit. We need to determine that wher
ever our flag is flying there justice shall
be done. And it is not done. The recent
hysteria of intolerance is a disgrace to us |
- alk We need a fresh baptism of liberty. We
- must cease to manufacture “Reds, Radicals |
and Revolutionaries.” And we are manufac- ‘
turing them wholesale by our horror of
free thought, our fear of free speech, our |
narrow caste-spirit, and our insensiate de- |
nial of human rights. |
“We are not realizing our mission. We are
nct within sight ¢f comprehending what
our mission is. We have submitted to a
swollen tyranny which neither Great Bri
tain under King George nor Germany un
der the kaiser would have tolerated. There
will be “unrest”—and worse—until Ameri
ica is herself again. The first thing is to
recognize our own weaknesses and sheort
comings and then Americanize ourselves.”
To all of which The Madisonian adds a
hearty ‘“‘amen!” |
NEWSPAPER REPORTERS NEVER
GET THINGS RIGHT.
From the Emporia Gazette.
Voice of a woman, excited, over telephone:
“Hello, reporter? Yes? Well, Mrs. Richard
Roe of Emporia has gone up to Omaha, yes,
Omaha, up there in lowa, yes. She went a
while back and up there she is visiting friends
and this week they will entertain her with a
Thanksgiving dinner, postponed from Ilast
week because Mrs. Roe didn’t get to go until
this week. Yes, something like that. You
fix it up nice.”—And then the woman probably
was peeved when she saw her item, condensed
to two lines, as follows: “Mrs. Richard Roe
is visiting friends in Omaha, Neb.”
ESCORT FOR ]J. BARLEYCORN.
From the Los Angetes Times.
The federal prohibition director in New
York has a plan that may interfere with the
operations of the bootleggers. He proposes
to furnish an official escort for every drop of
liquor from the time of its withdrawal from
the. warehouse until it reaches the ultimate
consunier. This method would be rather ex
pensive and the escort would have to be large
enough to watch one another as well as the
whisky, but it should eliminate the middle
men. However, there is always the question
whether the ultimate consumer is really the
person he is presumed to be.
THE WHITE PARTRIDGE.
From the Tifton Gazette.
“‘The first white partridge ever killed in
Georgia’ has met its death again. This time it
was killed in Sumter county a few days ago,”
notes The Dawson News. In 1883 James
Paulk; in that part of Irwin which is now Tift,
ran down and caught a white partridge, or,
as it is better known, an albino quafl. It was
a rainy day, and Mr. Paulk made the capture
with little difficulty. Since then white par
tridges have been reported in this county
nearly every season.
THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG.
From the Tifton Gazette. |
A Lowndes county man tried to exchange
six cow hides for a pair of shoes and failed.
So long as folks cannot carry enough hides
to pay for a pair of shoes and two bushels
of corn will not pay for a bushel of meal it
will be very difficult to convince people that
there is not something radically wrong with
our system of distribution. -
NOT IMPOSSIBLE.
From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
It looks a long way off, but the time may
come when the landlords will ask the gov
ernment to guarantee vthe rent from vacant
houses.
HOPEFUL.
From the Chicago News.
Not only is the dollar slowly coming into its
own, but the nickel and dime have hopes.
Barney Baruch, Dictator.
Many Thousands in Europe Want to
Emigrate to United States. Pre
paring For Grand Rush.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Testimony to
the effect that “everybody from ev
erywhere in Europe” is trying to em
igrate to the United States .to.escape
conditions of congestion and discom
fort on the other side of the ocean
will be presented by Ole Hanson, for
mer mayof-of Seattle, to the house im
migration committee, it was said today
by Representative Albert Johnson.
- "Mr. Johnson, who heads the immi
gration committee, explained he had
looked up Mr. Hanson at his hotel
here and asked him to lay before con
gress details of conditions abroad.
Mr. Hanson returned last Saturday
from a visit to seaports of Holland,
France, Belgium, Sweden and other
countries. He has been quoted as ad
vocating suspension of European im
'migration for a minimum period of
two years.
lWhtte House to Have ;
Pipe After 20 Years
Soothing Briar Root of New Occupant
Will Fill It With Aromatic Fumes.
l WASHINGTON, D. C.—For the
| first time in twenty years, after March
|4th, the. president’s private study in
the white house will be filled with the
aromatic fumes of Milady Nicotine.
They will come from the soothing pipe
of Warren G. Harding.
Lady Nicotine, banished from the
private suite of presidents in 1901, is
returning to favor with the new ad
ministration.
| President Roosevelt inaugurated a
new era of “smokeless days” at the
white house when he assumed office
in 1901, upon the death of President
McKinley, who courted Lady Nico
tine assiduously. Under the adminis
tration of William Howard Taft, Lady
.Nicotine was again conspicuous by her
absence in the quiet of the president’s
study.
Mr. Wilson brought a typewriter
into his private office, but he didn’t
‘nced the persuasive influence of either
;;)ipe or cigar to help settle the mo
mentous questions weighing on his
’ mind.
'COLORED SPIRAL PUTTEES
i NEWEST FEMININE CRAZE
}Easy to Put On, Keep Limbs Warm
And Fit Snugly, Say Girls.
WHEELING, W. Va.—Whetling
society girls are setting a mark for
Dame Fashion. Gauzy nothings and
other freak legwear, imported from
Paris, Deauville and other French cen
ters of fashion, have been taken up
by American society women in days
gone, but it remained for the ultra
exclusive Wheeling buds to institute
a new fad. And that is the spiral put
tee hose, closely wrapped around the
limb, in place of sock or stocking.
They come in all colors. Several
girls have appeared on ,the streets
wearing the ngw spiral hose, made of
cloth to match their gowns.
~And
A Happy
and Prosperous
Nineteen Twenty One
We are 'deeply appreciative of the |
patronage given us the year nine- *
teen-twenty and will do our best .
to merit it thruout the coming year.
. A ’
Happy, Prosperous
Nineteen Twenty One
Is Theirs. Who Give
Their-Energy and
Honest Effort.
Roberts & Lark
Dawson, Georgia :
TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1921.
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WHEN TO REGISTER.
Sec. 4.” That every owner of a motor
vehicle or motorcycle shall, on or be
fore the first day of March in each
year, before he shall operate such mo
tor vehicle or motorcycle, register
such vehicle in the office of the Secre
tary of State, and obtain a license to
operate the same for the ensuing year;
and every chauffeur employed to oper
ate motor vehicles shall likewise regis
ter and obtain a license, as hereinaf
ter provided. :
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