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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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DAWSON, GA., JANUARY 11, 1921.
Exerything is coming down except taxes.
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Florida has finally gotten rid of its (wild)
Catt.
If femininity’s covered ears can survive
“cootie garage” they can survive anything.
Santa Claus was not equal to the job of
bringing the farmers high prices and con
sumers low prices this Christmas.
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There is less talk among the city councils
about white ways and other municipal ex
travagances than there was before prices
went up.
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No newspaper has noticed any dearth in its
information since the government publications
formerly sent to the press were cut out by
congress last summer,
S o s e
An Omaha man’s wife*shot a bullet into his
heart, the missile passing through the stom
ach. Doctors are confused over how it was
done. But the way of a woman to a man’s
heart is through his stomach.
“The farmer gets more advice and less aid
and real assistance and protection than any
business man on the face of the eagth,” re
marks the Thomasville Press. Ain’t it the
truth? Even the benighted and much advised
newspaper editor is not an exception.
A TEMPORARY RELIEF.
The proposition to enact a temporary tariff
as a protection to the farmers at this time is
meritorious, and should receive the support of
congress. There should be -no hesitancy be
cause of the possibility of a veto. The law
should be enacted. The veto bridge, if it is
built, can be crossed when it is reached. The
purpose of the legislation is to keep out com
peting farm products so as to save the Amer
ican market for the American farmer.
What legislation is enacted on this live sub
ject must be understood as temporary only.
‘No schedule of the general tariff law should
be changed without changing the counter
balancing ones. However, items on the free
list may be placed on the taxable list without
interfering with the schedules. The entire
tariff law should be re-enacted and revised so
as to produce revenue instead of encouraging
the importation of cheap foreign-made prod
ucts. Just now the need is to protect the
farmer against that class of imports. If the
foreign farm products were shut out for a
few months the market” now supplied with
Argentina corn, Canadian wheat and foreign
cotton and peanuts would seek American
supplies, and prices would go up instead of
down, so ‘that the farmer would be able to
realize the cost of production at least for his
commodities.
A BIG JOB AHEAD. !
One of the first measures passed by the
house at the present session of congress and‘
one of the first to receive favorable action of
the senate was a resolution wiping from the
statute- books all war-time laws save one or
two. As a similar measure, passed at the pre
vious session of congress, was vetoed by
President Wilson the popular assumption has
been that the resolution is another bit of con-|
gressional politics. In a way it is, but in a}
broader and more constructive sense than is
suspected. That “resolution when approved
by the executive will end bureaucratic. gov
ernment in this country.
Since the armistice was signed, as well as
before, much of the confusion and more of
the extravagance of our government has becn!
due to bureaus created by war l(‘gislation.‘
Needed when the country was straining V
ery nerve to place adequate naval and mili
tary forces in fighting condition they becamel
“supernfinreraries,” not to use a more oppro
bious term, after hostilities ceased and de
mobilization was accomplished. Yet, strange
as it may seem, only one or two bureaus were
discontinued. '
All remaining bureaus will have to be dis
continued and the departments returned to
their customary executive duties before our
government will again become stabilized.
Notwithstanding all the talk about foreign |
policies, Mr. Harding’s greatest undertaking
is to secure that department functioning need
ed to end confusion and extravagance. In this
task he has the biggest job of the first year
of his term as president.
WOMEN AND POLITICS.
Not mueh has been said since the election
relative to the part enacted by the fair sex.
No one, so far as we have observed, has at
tempted to explain or analyze that element in
the drama. There were hundreds of women
who ran for office. If they happened to be on
the landslide position they were duly chosen,
and are doubtless becomingly elated. If they
were not, it is presumed they know the taste
of defeat. 5
It would be of interest to know a little more
than has been revealed just what “the female
of the species” think by this time of the polit
ical pond—its miry borders, the mosquitoes
and gnats of perplexity that infest the atmos
phere about it, the blood-suckers and snags
that are concealed by its seemingly pleasant
surface. Perhaps out of the experience will
come i due time a new sympathy for “the
male of the species,” who has for so long
borne the burdens of active political life, for
self experience is the touchstone of real sym
pathy. :
YOUTH AND CRIME.
The two eighteen-year-old boys from Min
neapolis who recently entered an Atlanta bus
iness house and at the point of pistols robbed
the store of all available cash have been tried
for their crime in Fulton superior court and
sentenced to one year in the penitentiary.
They are not the only instances of youthful
desperadoes in Georgia. A number of young
bahdits, convicted of crimes perpetrated in
the cities—mostly in Atlanta—are serving
sentences in the state penitentiary. If one
studies the history of current crime he will
discover that the majority of criminals are
boys and young men.
It is useless to speculate on what has
driven these youths to criminal careers. In
most instances it is the desire to live without
work. Boys want clothes that can be bought
only with the results of constant labor or
with the results of crime. Crime being the
quicker and easier method it is the road ta
ken. No one ever reads of a boy bandit or
robber or purse snatcher clothed in fine appa
rel or demanding money with which to pur
chase food. They are criminals because a ca
‘rcer of crime offers larger rewards, they be
lieve, than a career of industry.
Sometimes there is a girl, foolish, frivolous
and silly, involved indirectly in ®the crime
career of the boy. Craving the things that
industry alone can secure she leads her boy
admirer on to purchase jewelry and furs and
to incur extravagances which he cannot af
ford, and which she knows he cannot afford,
until in desperation he is driven to crime as
the only means of appeasing her selfishness.
The deluded moth does not know that the
woman—girl or adult—who gives her favors
for such things would sell them to a more
successful rival if she could.’ Instead, he
plunges into a career of crime, lands in pris
on, hears from the girl while waiting for
trial, and shortly after his incarceration for
a long term gets a letter from his mother or
sister telling him the girl for whom he took
the chance and lost had married a reprobate
and left for another city. Such is a woman'’s
fickleness towards the man whe commits
crime for her benefit.
Wherein lies the remedy? Or is there any
remedy? Probably education of the boys not
yet entered upon criminal careers is the rem
edy. The swiftness and certainty as well as
the severity of the punishment imposed on
those found guilty might serve as texts to
warn others. But where the young bandits
escape, as they sometimes dos their sucéessh
encourages others to imitate them. It em
boldens the criminals themselves to repeat the
crime, and in time they develop into high
waymen with their characters set from crim
inal careers. When boys can defeat the whole
forces of the law and escape after a bold crime
they are well started on the road to bank
burglary, murder and their kindred crimes.
RAILROAD RATES.
While in Georgia spending the holidays with
the homefolk Senator W. J. Harris wrote a
letter to the chairman of the Inter-state Com
merce Commission requesting the attention of
that body to the very high freight and pas
semger rates the railroads are charging the
public by reason of the good graces of the
federal government. The senator states the
matter clearly and suscinctly when he says:
The present high passenger and freight
rates ate doing more to decrease the amount
of income received by the railroads than if
a lower rate was in effect, which would
cause more freight to*move and more peo--
ple to travel. In other words, the railroads
are not carrying an average maximum of
freight and passengers since the increase in
rates. The thing which I am greatly inter
ested in is the matter of freight and passen
ger rates being placed within reach of the
average person, and at the same time give
the railroads a reasonable income for their
investment. Both the public and the roads
deserve an honest living, but I fear that both
are suffering.
The freight and passenger rates the public
is now forced to pay are outrageously un
reasonable and unjust, and if Senator Harris
succeeds in having them reduced he will have
rendered the people a great service, and placed
them under lasting obligations to him. More
power to him!
Hon. Thomas E. Watson has announced
in an interview in'the Atlanta Constitution
that one of his first acts as United States sen
ator from Georgia will be to introduce legisla
tion to make liberty bonds and other govern
ment securities legal tender. As a matter of
justice government securities should be worth
par. The fact that liberty bonds bought by
the people who came to the rescue of the
government in its time of distress are now
worth in the market millions of dollars less
than was paid for them is little less than a
public scandal. As a matter of common hon
esty and justice this should not be so.
PR R R R
That fong unknown individual, the tramp, is
reappearing. The time is here when the lazy
and indifferent worker is being thrown out of
the soft job he has held since the war made
ievery man essential to industry, no matter
‘how feeble his output, and the incompetents
are drifting back to their way of “sponging”
a living as real tramps instead of being dis
guised as workmen. The really competent
workman, however, still has nothing to worsy
about.
Two gentlemen elected to officially con
strue the laws of Georgia and give legal ad
vice to state departments disagree as to what
is the law. Hon. George M. Napier contends
that under the law his term of office as attor
ney began Jan. lst, and the incumbent, Hon.
Robert A. Denny, insists that under the law
his term. will not expire until next June, and
has refused to vacate. As a result the courts
will settle the matter. Funny, isn't it? :
Representative Crisp has the approval of
the people of this district in his vote to
check the falling prices of farm products by
placing a tariff on cheap foreign products that
come in competition with shem. It is a bus
iness and not a partisan question, and Mr.
Crisp is statesman enough to recognize it.and
vote in the interest of his constituents. :
We believe in spending money, but in the
right way. We believe in good roads, in good
schools and the development of our resources.
These are properly vital concerns of the gov
ernment, but it is time to quit spending mon
ey, in both nation and state, on clerks hold
ing useless political jobs, commissions, boards
and other unnecessary things which are not
worth the money and which can be dispensed
with without detriment to the public service.
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In New York all the jewelry stores have
armed their clerks, and they have done it in
spite of the laws of the state and city, The
right of seli-protection seems to be still a
‘paramount one. But think of such a state of
}things in New York, on Fifth avenue! Those
}who now want to see the real wild west will
have to go east for it.
AP rian st el
The bill to stop immigration for a year,
while the nation gets its breath and congress
hammers out a permanent policy, is welcom
ed by the majority of Americans. The Unit
ed States has an unquestionable right to enact
'such a law and to continue its operation as
long as it sees fit.
The cost of living is decreasing a little, in
spots, but for the most part not so the average
man feels it to any appreciable extent. Why
'the production cost of the vital staples of life
is much lower and the final price to the con
|sumer is not is still an unsolved mystery for
the most part.
We all want to get rich without working
very hard, and that is why the promoters and
liars get through the approaches to common
sense. The human mind simply cannot re
sist the allurements of easy wealth when pre
sented by a slick-tongued man.
The farmers are busy speeding the plow
down here in Southwest Georgia. They have
bravely set out to make another crop and re
coup their fortunes. No matter what misfor
tune overtakes them they cannot be kept
down. :
The Atlanta correspondents are again re
porting the “snake that bellows like a bull and
eats cattle and dogs.” Those newspaper boys
up there certainly must be using a very poor
article of ’shine. How about it, Jack Patter
son? -
The government ‘‘experts” propose to ex
terminate rats by feeding them sunflower
seeds. The ‘farmers have been trying to ex
terminate them by feeding them corn and
wheat.
l The Lady From Oklahoma. I
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From the Woman's Patriot.
Out of the 227,000,000 women” eligible to
vote, and eighteen women candidates for con
gress, only one woman was elected to the
house of representatives—and she was first
vice president of the Oklahoma Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage!
Miss Alice M. Robertson, of Muskogee, bet
ter known throughout the state as “Miss
Alice,” made the run to see if the men meant |
what they voted for when Oklahoma adopted
woman suffrage. Her candidacy, always re- |
garded lightly by herself, became a serious‘
matter to her opponent, for “Miss Alice,” on
z}t@count of her war work as the head of the
ed Cross, was the most popular woman in
the state. With characteristic humor Miss
Alice said the day after election: “They bet
against me and voted for me.” Her election
was a personal tribute to an individual, uot‘
an affair of woman suffrage—for it can be set
down as certain the suffragettes of her dis-‘
trict did not vote for Miss Alice—and also
that many “antis” voted for her despite their
general belief that women should stay out of
politics. Miss Alice now says that she “ac
cepts the duty” of woman suffrage; again add- |
ing humorously, when asked if she would em
ploy a woman as secretary, that “it is a man’s
job.” Being a congressman is also “a man’s
job,” but-so long as so many members of that
body prove themselves practically neutral in
any question involving real manhood it may
be better to have a real woman or two in the
place of the sort of males who are “afraid of
women.” In fact, the best argument ever ad
vanced in favor of votes and offices for women
is incompetency and cowardice of many male
politicians. The Indians, among whom Miss
Alice has done great work, have a vivid term
to apply to such men, which means *“man
afraid-of-a-squaw,” and while anti-suffragists
will not by any means modify their conviction
that “government is a man’s job,” they will
certainly admit that if a choice must be made,
that if we cannot have real men, we ought at
least to have real women in congress. There
fore, let us heartily welcome her.
| When The Year Is Done. ,
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et us forget the things that vexed and tried
us, o
The worrying things that caused our souls
to fret;
The hopes that, cherished long, were still
denied-us—
ILet us forget.
Let us forget the little slights that pained us,
The greater wrongs that rankle sometimes
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The pride with which some lofty one disdain
ed us,
Let us forget.
Let us forget our brother’s fault and failing—
The yielding to temptations that beset,
That he perchance, whose grief is unavailing,
Cannot forget.
But blessings manifold, past all deserving,
Kind words and helpful deeds, a countless
throng, ;
The fault o’ercome, the rectitude unswerving,
Let us remember long.
The sacrifice of love, the generous giving
When friendss were true, the handclasp
~warm and strong,
The fragrancé of each life of holy living
Let us remember long.
Whatever things were good and true and
gracious,
Whate'er of right has triumphed over
wrong,
What love of God or man has rendered
precious,
I.et us remember long.
So, pondering well the lesson it has taught us,
Unfalteringly we bid the year “Good-bye,”
Holding in memory the good it brought us,
Letting the evil die. —Selected.
.THE DAWSON NEWS
| ~ The Old Fashioned Girl. l
From the Milwaukee Journal.
No, she doesn’t dress all out of style, but
her mother tells us it never worries her when
the style changes and she has clothes too good
to throw away. It's in other ways she’s old
}'fashioned—terribly 0.
‘ She really says “Please” and Thank you”
instead of the snappier equivalents that show
one is up to date. Her tongue runs on mer
rily enough, but she stops oddly when father
or mother speaks, as though they might say
something she cared to hear.
When she is asked to go somewhere she
doesn’t answer with a “line” of teasing, but
says “Yes” as though she were glad. Some
times she even says “No,” instead of making
up her mind to tell all the other girls after
ward how she took pity on the man who ask
ed her.
The young swain arriving early is likely to
find her washing dishes and be invited to help.
And when she is starting she doesn’t wig wag
to mother, “Don’t wait up for me. Tal tat®
Her mother already knows all about the en
gagement, but this old fashioned girl comes
and kisses her goodby and tells her just when
she’ll surely be home—and she is.
An when she’s had a good time she isn’t
afraid to-say “Thank you,” even if it means
a little trouble. The hostess she will not see
very soon again receives a delightful little
note. And the escort who has tried to make
her evening pleasant gets the same usury.
These are a few of the things that make
her old fashioned, but you can see she is. One
would think she wouldn’t get much attention
from up to date youths, but did you ever see
anyone refuse genuine honey because it was
old fashioned?
SUCH IS LIFE.
In northern Mongolia the doweries of mar
riageable girls are paid in dogs.
“Step inside!” urges an advertisement post
ed in front of a large Japanese store in Tokio.
“You will be welcomed as fondly as a ray of
sunshine after a rainy day. Each one of our
assistants is as amiable as a father secking a
husband for a dowerless daughter.”
Another Jap store has this sign: “Goods are
dispatched to customers’ houses with the
rapidity of a shot from a cannon’s mouth.”
A Tokyo grocer delights the Jap eye with
this card: “Our superfine vinegar is more
acid than the tongue of the most fiendish
mother-in-law.”
An authority on the subject finds that in
America only one rich man’s son in 17 dies
rich. But, on the other hand, it is probable
that if the one poor man’s son in 1700 dies
rich he’s doing quite well.
A Persian bride invariably appears at the
wedding with reddened features and swollen
eves, for she is expected to cry for a week be
for the ceremony. Elsewhere the crying does
not commence until after the ceremony, when
she first comes to learn what a poor fish it
was that she landed. :
A burglar who broke into Connellsville, Pa.,
shoe shop and stole 11 shoes found later that
they were all for the same foot.
While digging deep into a book of forgot
ten lore Squire Abner Harpington discovered
that vou could guard yourseli against the
“evil “eye” by sweeping your face with a
bough of a pine tree. <
I Where the Income Tax Hits. |
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From the New York Globe.
One of the incidental advantages of the
personal income tax is the light it throws upon
the distribution of wealth, The most spec
tacular instances of this are in the upper reg
isters of the surtax, but the most signifi
cant statistics are those of the $l,OOO, $2,000
and $3,000 incomes. Out of the total number
of returns for 1918, as shown in the report of
the commissioner of internal revenue, 3,013,-
816 were for incomes of $3,000 or less and 1,-
411,298 for incomes of more than $3,000. Ac
cording to the customary estimates the latter
figure represents about 6,000,000 people; the
former about 13,000,000, who were dependent
upon the recipients of these incomes. More
than 94 per cent of our population seems to
be living on an annual family income of $3,000
or less. The money incomes of the agricul
tural population,~which is about a third of the
whole, do not represent actual standards of
living, so that about 60 per cent are left whose
actual standards can be measured by the pur
chasing power of $3,000 or less.
BUSINESS ITEM FROM THE WEST
FLORIDA COAST.
From the Florida Fisherman. :
Cap’n Bill Hamlin of the schooner Phan
tom, who travels up and down the West Coast,
visited Lemon Bay one day last week. Asked
how things were going up Sarasota way he
replied: “Oh, ’bout the same as down here—
all the fishermen say they are going to stop
fishing and go trucking and all the truckers
declare they're going to quit truck growing
and go a-fishing.”
WHY THIS FARMER HAS A NEW CAR.
From the Arkansas Gazette.
The only farmer in Baxter county to buy
a new automobile this year is A. J. Lants,
whe owns a place between Mountain Home
and Cotter. Mr. Lants raised 5,500 bushels
of apples on a little twenty acre orchard and
will clear about $lO,OOO on his crop. Conse
quently he is riding in a brand new sedan, and
people all over the White river country are
eating his fruit.
BLUE SKY IN WALL STREET.
From the Lincoln Journal.
Not all the suckers live west of the Missis
sippi. Stutz motor stock, which sold up to
$720 a share during the corner of last spring,
is in the neighborhood of $lOO now. When all
the facts are in it will probably be ‘found that
no class or section failed much more than any
other to go up in the balloon.
- AWAITING AN ANSWER.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
What American consumers want to know
is why a difference of 25 cents can give Eu
rope bread from American grain cheaper than
Americans get it; why a big drop in wheat
prices over here makes no difference?
ADD TO LIFE’'S BLESSINGS.
From the Toledo Blade.
There’s a ‘fool born every minute, but one
should be thankful that a superman doesn’t
come into the world that often.
STILL WAITING.
From the Omaha Bee.
Some of those reduced prices have not
reached much further than the statisticians.
His Gifts to Charities and Public Wel-‘
fare $474,000,000. Awards Reach <
Unprecedented Figures. |
Péiblic benefactions in America dur
ing the year 1920 reached an unprece
dented mark. John D. Rockefeller’s
gifts, through his boards. topped the
lists with ‘announced contributions to
charities and works of public welfare
of $474,000,000. Some of the year’s
most notable benefactions follow:
To the London University College
Hospital and Medical school from the
Rockefeller foundation, $6,000,000. To
the Laura Spelman memorial from
John D. Rockefeller, $1,000,000. To the
University of Rochester from George
Eastman and the general education’
board to found a school of medicine,
surgery and dentistry, $9,000,000. From
the general education board and the
Rockefeller ‘foundation for medical
3616001 and general education, $20,261,-
Carnegie benefactions include $5,-
000,000 to the National Academy of
Sciences and the National Research
Council, $lOO,OOO to the New York
Bar Association for its library, $235,-
000 to colleges for teachers’ pensions.
Among the many miscellaneous gifts
for public welfare, education, etc., were
$15,000,000 to Princeton University * nd
$11,000,000 to the Massachusetts In
stitute of Techhology.
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Borah's $lO Inaugural
Outdone By Harding
President-Elect Wouild Like to Be
Sworn in and Get Right to Work.
MARION, Ohio.—Senator William
E. Borah’s idea for a $lO inauguration
appropriation is extravagant when
compared with President-elect Hard
ing’s own idea of how this ceremony
should be conducted. Probably neith
er of them will realize their hopes in
this decision, but Senator Harding
thought of it first.
. “¥You.know how -I'd like to have
this inauguration?” asked the presi
dent-elect one day as the steamship
Pastores steamed toward the United
States from the tropics. “I'd like to go
down to the capitol, be sworn in and
then open up the books and get down
to business. I wonder if the people
would stand for it?
“My idea would be to wait until it
was time to go out of office, and then,
if the enterprise had been successful,
have a whale of a jamboree.”
Senator Harding submitted his pro
posal for a simple inauguration to a
group of senate colleagues, and they
laughed him out of the notion.
SNOWSTORM KILLS OFF
MEXICAN HILL DWELLERS
MEXICO ClTY.—Mexico City was
surrounded by snow clad hills on
Thursday, following the unusually
cold wave of the last few days.
Several charcoal burners in the foot
hills of the mountains near by are re
ported to have died of exposure, the
cold wave having taken them by sur
prise.
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Peanut Roll, .
Peanut Brittle,
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These candies are as good, pure and high
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Main Street Dawson, Ga.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 192]
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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