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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager. "
DAWSON, GA. FEB. 8, 1921. |
Every big nation is in favor of disarma
ment, but every one of them wants the others
to take the lead.
The campaign for Sunday “blue laws” has
received an unexpected boost. Governor Ed
wards of New Jersey, has come out against it.
Dorothy Gish and Constance Talmadge
were married Christmas week. The interest
ing question is whether they have stayed
married .until this time.
Now we have the laziest man in the world.
Divorcing him in New York, his wife said
he had two regrets—that he must stop eat
ing to sleep and stop sleeping to eat.
That ®Long Island editor who closed his
shop in order that he and his staff might
view his hanging in effigy has what many
editors and other men lack, namely: a sense
of humor.
There’s just one way to reduce taxation—
quit governmental extravagance. Nations,
states, counties, cities or individuals can’t eat
their cake or have their cake. Financiering is
just plain common sense when it is analyzed.
THE WEARONROADS.
That the present interest in the construc
tion of new highways should not divert at
tention from properly maintaining highways
already improved is a point which the Bureau
of Public Roads emphasizes, particularly in
wview of the enormous increase in motor ve
hicle traffic which is taking place. The bureau
recently completed a compilation of statistics
from all the states of the union showing that
there were a total of 7,565,446 cycles and
also trucks in the United States in 1919. This
is an increase of 23 per cent, or 14183829
motor cars over 1918. Such figures indicate
that the country highways are being used
far more than in the past, and in consequence
added attention must be given to the repair
problem. The increase in the number of cars
for 1919 over 1918 represents about 10 per
cent more cars than the total number reg
istered in the whole United States for 1912
SENATOR IS SEVERE. |
Senator Charles S. Thomas, of Colorado, a
democratic member who is completing a
long term of service in the senate, has de
livered himself of a few opinions concerning
the national legislature which are interesting,
to say the least. ‘
The Colorado solon, who has been in pub
lic life more than a generation, and who has‘
ranked as one of the ablest men in the sen
ate, in his remarks called attention to the fact
that 79,000 laws have been placed on state
and federal statute books in the last twenty
years. ( |
He declared that 90 per cent of all legisla-‘}
tion in congress is designed to pry money
out of the treasury, and that “the lice of Egypt
were scarcely thicker than the federal em
ployes of the United States.”
He also sets forth his conviction that “this
government is a bureaucracy, pure and sim
ple,” and that “in the place of the lobby Pres
ident Wilson was supposed to have destroyed
we now have more than a hundred lobbies,
influencing the legislature by threats, by per
suasion, by entreaty and by other processes.”
Touching lightly on the subject of “pork”
Mr. Thomas remarked: “I will guarantee that
I can take any measure that has promise of
an appropriation for local expenditures and
I can get the support for it of practically all
of the men and all of the women of the state
where the money is to be expended.”
“We are no longer senators; we are dele
gates, we are rubber stamps,” he said. “Lead
ership, statesmanship, originality of legisla
tion, the standards of our congress and of
legislatures have been transformed and when
the whip cracks outside we get into line.”
This is a pretty severe arraignment. There
is a comforting thought, however, that per
haps congress is not quite as bad as Mr.
Thomas thinks it is, and that perhaps he is
viewing it from the standpoint of an elderly
and disillusioned gentleman.
However, there is sufficient accuracy in his
charges to indicate that a great many im
provements in the character and work of con
gress might be made. But no such improve
ments will be made until they result from
an awakened public conscience.
PUZZLES HIS CRITICS.
When Senator Harding was nominated for
the presidency he was declared to be the
candidate of a senatorial oligarchy. When he
was elected he was held by his opponents
certain to bow to senatorial dictation. Since
his election his course in public matters has
puzzled his critics more and more. Recently
speculation regarding his cabinet has become
so marked as to force the conclusion that he
is working out his own problems in his own
way regardless of senators or anybody else.
Indeed, President-elect Harding has devel
oped an independence that Senator Harding
was not suspected of having. He seeks ad
vice, but does not indicate whet'her or not he
accepts it. He talks things over, but he lets
the other fellow do most of the talking. He
steers clear of party divisions, indicating his
desires only that differences be amicably ad
justed. Meanwhile he keeps busy on subjects
which he regards of prime importance, no
matter how they may be regarded by others.
Mr. Harding has them all guessing, espe
h the politicians.
MIRACLES OF CHEMISTRY.
We often speak of the age of miracles as
being past, but in fact the present is the mir
acle age in a truer sense than in any other
period in history. Among the modern mir
acle workers is the chemist. Daily in his
Ilaboratory he is finding the key to and un
'locking the mysteries of nature. An illustra
tion of the achievement of' chemistry was
given in Washington the other day, when
| George W. Carver, a negro teacher from the
Tuskegee (Ala.) Institute, explaining to the
ways and means committee of the house of
Irepresentatives more than 100 products that
lhad been derived from the peanut, a field
'crop of the south which yields “prolificly
|in Georgia. It does not seem a great while
since the peanut occupied the most lowly
Iplace, was sold only in shell at little con
fection stands, and was eaten only by chil
’drcn or by adults when they went to the
circus. How little it was esteemed was re
vealed by the phrase, “peanut politics,” in
dicating something exceedingly small or triv
ial. But when the chemist heg!n to analyze
the peanut and dissolve it into its original
elements it was shown to have an important
food value and to be rich in essential oils.
Further analysis has segved to multiply the
food products to be dei/ed from it, and has
added other products not edible.
Professor Carver’s exhibit as displayed to
the ways and means committee included ten
kinds of milk, five kinds of punches; cherry,
lemon, orange, blackberry and plum; salted
peanuts; two grades of flour; five breakfast
foods; new flavorings for ice cream, cakes,
gingerbread, cookies and various confections;
chocolate coated peanuts; peanut candy bars;
crystalized peanuts; three relishes; nine wood
stains, ranging from malachite green to fum
ed golden oak; black ink; face powder and
face cream; Worcester sauce; four different
kinds of stock foods, including a hay compo
sition made from the ‘vine; ground hay with
peanut cake; a sweet food with chinaberry
added as a tonic, and various kinds of
oils. Prof. Carver stated that the flavoring
extract obtained from the peanut could be
used as a base for any number of flavors,
including some not shown to the committee.
Carver is-a son of former slaves, is 52
years of age, and received his collegiate edu
cation at the lowa state agricultural college.
He is now head of the research and experi
ment station at the Tuskegee institute.
CLEANER PICTURES.
Whatever may come of the effort to insure
cleaner pictures in the theatres there is no
question of the need of effort in this direction.
The question of motion picture censorship is
as old as the motion picture itself, and yet
no satisfactory plan of censorship has been
devised to date. One does not need to be a
purist or an extremist to recognize that much
is shown on the screen that has no proper
place there. Over emphasis of sex and the
presentation of crime are the great evils of
motion pictures. Many of the pictures shown
are fine in every way, appealing both to the
intellect and to the heart, but far too large a
proportion feature sex problems and crime.
Some of the sex plays are daring and nau
seating to a degree that is startling. Others
make the worst of crimes familiar to all who
behold.
A motion picture with evil in it, whether
evil be presented nakedly or arrayed in at
tractive disguise, is a dangerous instrumental
ity. It is education that debases. It is laden
with possibilities of evil that tells its story so
clearly that the least intelligent is able to
comprehend it. In the protection and further
ance of morality among the people nothing
is more vital than that the motion picture
shall educate properly.
The News does not believe the managers
of motion picture theatres, as a rule, have a
desire or preference for plays that are harm
ful to public morals. But the choice of plays
is a matter that is quite largely out of their
hands. The News is not convinced that it
would be jus{ to impose the duty of censor
ship solely on them.
‘ The motion picture is a tremendous force.
‘We can make it a force for good or a force
for evil, as we will. Certainly we should see
to it, by some means, that it is not made a
force for evil
The only person who can’t read the over
praise lettered on his tombstone is the fel
low underground. He never sees it. The
flowers at the funeral looked fine to every
body but the one who should have had them
while his eyes were open. If ycu love him
or trust him, or know anything about him
to admire or commend, don’t say it in flow
ers after he is dead. Tell him about it now.
\ S e e
It often happens that the most intelligent
person is the least forth-putting. In his broad
view of pros and cons he sees objections even
to his own ideas, and these shake his confi
dence in any proposition he may be advo
cating. Meanwhile, the empty headed man
who can see only one side of any idea speaks
with such bold confidence that he commands
his following.
There has been an unseemly fuss made
about the cost of an inauguration in Wash
ington. A country with 110,000,000 people
in it and an expense account of four or five
billions a year ought to be willing to spend
something for inducting a new president into
office. To prate about what Jefferson did with
his horse is a lot of nonsense now.
Farming is the fundamental of everything
else. On it we all depend. All wealth comes
from land and labor. We must make it prof
itable, and then if the farmer is prosperous
the rest of us will be prosperous also. Mer
chants will enjoy a better business. Business
will pick up. People will have more money
to spend.
A member of the British parliament was
howled down while addressing an assemblage
of unemployed with cries of: “We want revo
lution. We want soviets!” Why wouldn’t it
be a good plan for any one wishing the soviet
form of government to go to Russia, where
it is in operation?
! After all there is not much to this great
struggle for riches. Even if you succeed in
getting more than your share of the world’s
‘wealth it amounts to naught if you have lost
‘the confidence of your fellow man. That
above all else of the worth-while offerings of
this earth should be sought.
Congressman Crisp wants the government
to find out if a palatable syrup can be profit
ably made of sweet potatoes. If it is proven
that it can be done Mr. Crisp will have ren
dered his own constituents and the farmers
of the south an invaluable service.
“Colquitt county is well stocked with chil
dren,” says the Moultrie Observer, and the
LaGrange Reporter adds that “Colquitt
seems to be ‘well stocked’” with hogs, too.”
What of it? Both are mighty fine to have
around.
There is no denying that the public is be
coming increasingly restive concerning the
present leve! of railroad rates, both freight
and passenger. They are so high that in
many instances they are proving prohibitive.
The department of agriculture reports hops
worth $486,10 an acre, while cotton, king of
crops, brings only $25.14. Must be making
more home-made hootch than we suspected.
Those honeymooners who won $122,000
from three Monte Carlo gamblers on the
number twenty indicate that there are other
lucky figures besides sevens and elevens.
| SUCH IS LIFE. |
The bluest blue law of the bluest blue law
backer today is a pale robin’s egg blue be
sides the frolicksome little rules for Sunday
observance laid down by “A Person of Great
Learning and Piety” for the direction of his
children in England in 1662.
Squire Abner Harpington possesses.a copy
of the “Contemplations” of this pious un
known “Printed by William Godbid for Wil
liam Shrewsbury at the Bible in Duke-lane at
Blew Bell in Fleet street near Chancery-line”
in 1676.
Condensed, here are a few of the rules:
“It is not only unfit but unlawful and in
descent to indulge in exercise and recreations,
as bowling, shooting, hunting and divers oth
er recreations including the study of humain
learning on Sunday.
“You must not walk for pleasure, no more
than is enough to digest your meat and over
come drousiness. About a half hour of sober
walk, I should deem best. ,
“You must not engage in cheerful or ani
mated conversations nor talk of business,
pleasure or learning except the learning of
scripture.
“You may give physik to the sick and set
broken bones, but you may not dress meat
which should have been prepared for table
on Saturday.”
The worthy gentleman instructed the chil
dren to listen to the same sermon morning
and evening.
He said he always observed Sunday so,
only more so, and enjoyed it.
He’s dead now.
| New Negro Tendencies. l
From the Minneapolis Journal.
The old south is breaking up in more sens
es than one. Dr. Albert E.'fi:nks, the an
thropological expert of the university, has re
cently pointed out four significant move
ments taking place among the colored people
of this country.
The first is that the negro since the civil
war has become more and more a migrant.
A million and more have left the south and
taken up residence in northern cities. In the
wake of this movement come such race
troubles as those that broke out in East St.
Louis, Chicago and Duluth.
A second movement is the increasing ten
dency of the negro to intermarry with cer
tain white stocks. This almalgamation has
been taking place for some time, but only
of late has it become pronounced. In eastern
cities the negro is intermarrying with those
of south European origin. The effects of such
racial mixtures are not yet known.
A third tendency is the increasing political
influence of the colored element. A move
ment is already on foot for negroes to elect
their own representatives to congress wher
ever possible.
A fourth movement is toward segregation.
‘This is taking place in at least three separate
areas of the south. Negroes flourish better
in some regions than whites, and not so well
in others. In some parts of the south the
‘whites are decreasing, and the negroes in
creasing at such a rate that the results must
soon be reckoned with. '
The first conclusion to which these ten
dencies point is that further negro immigra
tion from the West Indies and Africa should
be stopped. The admission of 6,000 colored
aliens every year from these regions only
complicate the problem of racial relations.
I How Banks Help. I
From the Atlanta Constitution.
In an editorial on how the banks have
helped, and ase continuaily helping, through
co-operation in times of financial stress, the
Jackson Progress-Argus says the country
owes a debt of gratitude to them—
“ But for the banks business could not
have weathered the storm. The farmers have
been helped. The business world has been
helped. The banks are a mighty bulwark
of safety and this fact is never appreciated
more than during panic conditions. Don't
sneer at the banks and accuse them of
‘holding up the people.” Co-operate with
them, and they will co-operate with you.”
It is the bank that is one of the biggest
factors in putting the smallest town “on the
map;” it is the town’s best business recom
mendation at home and abroad, and business
grows as the people co-operate with their
financial institutions.
The bridge that carries you over is the one
to count on.
I Was It Worth the Price? |
From the Atlanta Journal
E. L. Rainey, for many years editor of the
Dawson News, one of Georgia’s brightest
and best weekly newspapers, was evidently
dissatisfied with the result of the 1920 fed
eral census. Hear him:
“The census bureau reports that it cost
$24,000,000 to count the people last year.
At that the cities and towns are unani
mous in the opinion that it was a very
poor job of counting.”
That it was a very poor job of counting
is generally conceded. Since it appears that
a large majority of those counted were re
publicans we incline towards the opinion that
Uncle Sam paid out too much for the work.
THE DAWSON NEWS
lOutfit Brings $lOO, But—He Rode!l
From the Bulloch County Times.
There was sold before the court house door
by the sheriff yesterday morning an outfit
which formerly belonged to a farmer living
in this county, the selling of which pointed
a moral with a forceful lesson.
In the outfit was one two-horse wagon, a
one-horse wagon, plow and wagon harness,
a buggy, an organ—and an automobile.
Did you notice the last-named article? Well,
that should have been first on the list, for it
was the automobile which brought about the
sale. The man who owned the outfit was a
fairly industrious farmer, and had accumu
lated more or less of this world’s goods dur
ing the recent period of prosperity. He was
satisfied to be a tenant, and found no trouble
in finding a landlord who would take care of
him from the time of planting to harvesting
time. When cotton reached 40 cents:.the farm
er sold his share, invested it in a $1,500 auto
mobile, and began to ride. The speedometer
ran till it wore out, so there is no way of
telling how far the man rode before he reach
ed the end of his road. But he reached it in
front of the court house yesterday morning.
The end came when the sheriff sold the whole
outfit for approximately $lOO. The wagon
sold fairly well, while the organ and auto
mobile sold for a song. It was fitting that
they should go to the same man, for the
fellow who will buy a second hand automo
bile at sheriff’s sale needs an organ to play
his own funeral dirge. That is sure to come
sooner or later, and the chances are the sher
iff will officiate at his obsequies, too, if he
doesn’t watch out.
The tenant farmer who was foolhardy
enough to invest his cash in an automobile
during the recent wave of prosperity, prefer
ably to investing in a home for himself and
his family, is now ready to admit that he
needed a guardian. Farming and automobile
riding do not go hand in hand any more than
any other sort of business goes with fast
riding. The higher priced car one bought
the quicker he has sped along the road to
ward the end. The fzrmer whose outfit was
sold yesterday is but one of many who, like
the prodigal son in Holy Writ, played the
fool. Today he is seeking another landlord
to run him for the year, and he started life
without even the simplest farm tools, which
are indispensable to the farmer. There is only
one thing that may be considered from which
to find satisfaction—he rode while he was
riding. The car was a good one till the spee
dometer wore out.
T
| Spider Kills Birds. ]
e
From Leslie’s
One of the latest additions to the New
York zoo is a huge spider, coming from east
ern Bolivia, South America, which kills birds!
Its name is ‘“Avicularia.” When stationary,
with its right legs covered like its body with
bristles that irritate the human skin like a
nettle, it occupies a circumferential area equal
to that of the closed fist. Living in burrows
or hollow trees during the day, it sallies
forth by night to prey upon insects or young
birds, taking the latter from their nests. It
possesses hollow teeth, which distill a poi
son into a wound in a manner analagous to
that of.snake poison. This lethal fluid is so
active that it kills in an instant creatures of
far greater size than itself. Spiders, as a rule,
are beneficial rather than the reverse, since
they eat insects which would otherwise be
destructive to crops and life. Several of the
larger spiders are poisonous in their bite.
SOME GEORGIA TURNIPS.
From the Tifton Gazette.
The Ocilla Star comes to bat with two tur
nips, one weighing 1214 and the other 13
pounds, the latter measuring 30% inches in
circumference. Those are fine turnips for Ir
win. But to sce the real article of turnip a
fellow has to come over to Tift county. Just
incidentally, a man brought one to this office
today that weighed 15 pounds, and last week
two were brought in, one measuring 324
inches and the other 3414 inches in circum
ference. Still, a 13-pound turnip is a big
turnip in some places.
TYPES OF NIGHT LIGHT MOTHS!
New York Letter in Indianapolis Star.
Queer characters are drawn to night life
like the moth to the flame. At the midnight
hour of relaxation they will come—Dusty the
Coke, who will dash off a poem for the ask
ing; Mrs. Deavers, who looks every morning
for some news of her boy who went to sea
12 years ago; Stubby, the legless, who sells
papers and writes jingle books for children;
Ghost Kilpatrick, who will point out shades
of the historical great in City Hall park, and
Tiny Tim, who leaves the Greenwich Village
coffee houses to sell Park Row his soul candy.
THE DEADLIEST WEAPON.
From the LLos Angeles Times.
War is quite a dangerous game and its fatal
ities have been {frightful; but, barring the
scrap with Germany, there have been few
wars in the world’s history that present so
great a toll of death and disability as comes
through the development and use of the mo
tor. Saul has slain his thousands and David
his ten thousands, but wait until you get the
full score on Henry!
A DOUBLE BURDEN.
From the Springfield Republican.
A loyal member of the Choate family rises
to remind the world that it was not Edward
Everette Hale, who had honors enough, but
the late Joseph H. Choate, who praised the
Pilgrim mothers because “they had to endure
ajl the sufferings that the Pilgrim fathers suf
fered and had to endure the Pilgrim fathers,
too.”
THE PLACE TO BEGIN.
From the Alexandria Herald.
Newspapers have been requested by a con
gressional committee to cut down paper con
sumption 10 per cent. How would it do if
the various bureaus at Washington, D. C,
which furnish “free” dope to the newspapers
would start the conservation ball rolling by
cutting down their consumption ‘of paper
about 100 per cent? :
ONE RECIPE FOR SUCCESS.
From the Ohio State Journal.
All a man has to do to make a real suc
cess in life is spend twenty-five or thirty years
learning to do some simple thing better than
anybody else can do it and then twenty-five
or thirty more deing it every day, so as to
give people a chance to find out about it.
HOW COME?
From the Bainbridge Post-Searchlight.
The Dawson News printed a story of find
ing a 45-story Indian house with 1,000 rooms.
Better cut that stuff, Bud; it will kill you sure
or make you sundry other things. We know.
Let us hope that J. Ogden Armour feels
properly grateful to those who paid 50 cents
a pound for steak last year and just saved
him from bankruptcy.—St. Louis Pioneer
Press.
I Uncle Sam Wearies Editors. I
ik eel e T i)
From the Cuthbert Leader.
The Leader receives letters frequently from
the treasury department, but not one of them
has ever contained an order on the treasury
for any of the money stored therein. On the
contrary, this department sends us matter
for publication with never so much as a hint
of pay for the use of our columns. It is
propaganda, too, not news. Of course we
don’t have to publish this matter, but it takes
time to open letters and look over such lit
erature even when it is consigned to the waste
basket, and we wish Uncle Sam would drop
us from his free-horse list. By so doing he
could conserve paper and save expense to the
postoffice department, while we could em
ploy our time more profitably than in looking
over his propaganda.
\ .
| The Peanut Bill. I
From the Savannah Press.
The fellow who hopes to get his income
tax reduced by the enactment of a tariff
law will have to continue his hopeful atti
tude for some years. Revenue from a tariff
will help some, but the tax burdens are
altogether too heavy to be borne wholly
by a tariff tax.—Dawson News.
; The emergency tariff bill will not help any
body very materially. It will raise the cost of
living by adding to the price of flour and meat.
In the end, it will not benefit the farmer, be
cause it closes to him the markets of the
‘world. He needs the world markets just as
badly as the world markets need him. The
tariff bill would shut off foreign buyers from
the cotton-grower, while it increases his food
bill. The emergency tariff bill is not in any
way a revenue raiser, because it is a prohibi
tive tariff. For the life of us we can’t see
any sense in it or any hope from it.
| THREE OUNCES PER CAPITA.
‘ ———a
From the Baltimore Sun.
Senator Smoot is appalled at the informa
tion that 20,000,000 pounds of wool are on the
way to the United States. Yet divided among
the people who need winter clothing of wool
it would not go ‘far. Per capita it would
amount not to pounds but to ounces.
ENOUGH TO MAKE TEXAS GURGLE.
From the Houston Post. :
~ Gutz Borglum, the renowned architect, and
Prince Louis de Bourbon, of Paris, were
dined in Atlanta the other day. The prince
spoke, but in a very dry vein, we suppose,
in spite of the frumental humidity of his
grand old name.
THE JOY BROTHERS AT WORK.
From the Detroit News.
A fine, ripe barrel of cider was stolen from
a man named Lovejoy, at Port Huron, and
carried away in a sleigh and emptied upon
the ground—presumably by a man named
Killjoy.
PICKING ON THE CRIMINALS.
From the Omaha World.
Some people are so old-fashioned in their
notions about paroles and such things. They
actually believe that the public is entitled to
as much consideration as a criminal.
Men’s styles for spring call for broad
shoulders and narrow hips. The supposition
is that by spring there will be nothing call
g}g for expansive hip room.—Chicago Daily
ews.
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