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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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DAWSON, GA. JULY 26, 1921
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What to tax is not the all absorbng ques
tion at Atlanta, but how to tax it.
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We read in a Georgia exchange that a still
was recently captured under a church. What
an age this is for advertising!
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The legislature is so slow that there is talk
of an extra session. Everybody now is more
anxious than ever for it to speed up.
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There is talk of dividing Echols county
between Clinch and Lowndes counties in the
belief that it will reduce taxes. Vain thought.
There is no such thing.
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Four thousand government clerks in Wash
ington who lost their jobs on July Ist are
doubtless out of sympathy with the policy of
retrenchment and conomy.
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The report that the railroads are about to
#&t on their feet again is very welcome; the
sight of the crutches has become very tire
some in the eyes of the public.
“If it were not for the demagogues and
politicians conditions would be better,” says
the Dalton Citizen. In the opinion of The
News our contemporary is eminently correct.
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The packers say that meats are now the
lowest they have been in ten years. This is
real news to a large number of people. The
men who run the markets never told a thing
about it.
Editor Kelley, over at Ft. Gaines, observes
that “if the showery weather keeps up a week
longer the number of boll weevils will be
come larger than the number of methods pro
posed for exterminating the insects.” :
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Wanted, an Ideal Tax.
The governor and the legislature are trying
to devise a system of taxation that will do
two things—produce the revenue needed by
the state and annoy the taxpayers as, little
as possible. Such a system would be perfect,
ideal. The legislature would seize it without
a moment’s hesitation, and it would become
a law. People could be expected to acclaim
it in happiness. All this, of course, if it could
be shown conclusively that absolutely no
other method could come as near perfection,
which would create a proposition the most
brilliant minds could not demonstrate. There
fore, a taxation system which the majority
of legislators believe holds the least objec
tions and the strongest money raising power
eventually will be adopted.
Women Jurors Opposed.
The growing conviction that employment
by the criminal courts of women jurors would
become a crime deterent seems to have been
based on solid reasoning. It will be observedi
that the counsel for a/ woman on trial charged
with the murder of her husband peremp
torily challenged six women tentatively seat
ed in the panel. The defense did not want
the fate of the alleged murderess to rest in
the hands of jurors of the same sex. It is
apparent that the defense feared women ju
rors would be less likely to show leniency
and sympathy for the accused. No woman
can count on another woman for sympathy
if the case against her is a strong one. Men
are easily moved to compassion by a woman
defendant. It is not even necessary for miti
gating circumstances to be shown a male
juror. Georgia offers numerous examples of
trials before male jurors in which women
slayers were acquitted.
~ Men may defend their emotionalism on the
ground that the defendant is a woman. Few
male jurors can bring themselves to a point
where they can convict a member of the op
posite sex. It is very rare for men to vote
for the death penalty, or even a term in the
penitentiary, if a woman is on trial. Women,
it is said, are more honest than men. It is’
also declared that they believe more strongly
in absoiute justice. Certainly they can be de
pended upon to be indifferent to impressions
attempted on the flimsy basis of sex appeal
A woman guilty would not get far with a‘
female jury if she attempted blandishment.
A smile from a woman on trial means noth
ifg to a woman juror. Male jurors may even
be captivated. The difference is very striking
and most interesting, providing speculation
on criminal court procedure of the future.
The question of permitting women to slay
and to escape punishment by enslaving men
jurors, or visiting swift punishment upop
them through the mediuymn of honest, fearless
and unimpressionable women . jurors is one
that holds the attention. .
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The Monster Gun.
A new piece of ordnance, invented by an
Englishman and developed in the United
States, is confidently expected to be able to
shoot a heavy projectile from 200 to 300
miles. A projectile weighing five tons, it is
claimed, eventually may be projected that dis
tance. The 300-mile® American product, when
completed, might never be practical as a
weapon of war. If changing conditions af
fected the accuracy of “Big Bertha” over a
range of seventy-five miles ordnance experts
would face a bigger question in figuring con
ditions over a range four thqes as great, It
might not be possible even to fire the gun
from Buffalo and be sure of hitting New York
city or Brooklyn. So the value of such a
monster gun, apart from demonstrating what
human ingenuity can do, does not mean any
thing particular in the devolpment of ord
nance.
An Important Matter.
The News cannot too strongly urge the
importance of keeping the streets and prem
!ises in a sanitary condition. The fact that the
‘health of Dawson is far above the average
!city of its size should not for a moment deter
our people from the utmost care and vigilance
'in making conditions such that there will be
no local cause for sickness following the con
tinued spell of wet weather, The fact has been
too well established to need any argument that
flies and mosquitoes are carriers of disease
germs, and it is vital to the health of the peo
ple that every citizen engage in a crusade
against breeding places of these pests. It is
trite but true that “an ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure.” Passing laws for
the best interests of the city is ‘not worth a
row of pins unless the officials insist on the
most rigid enforcement. This season of the
year people are more susceptible to fever
germs, and sickness is not only inconvenient
but very expensive. It behooves each indi
vidual to begin at once to help clean up Daw
son by seeing that no tin cans or other vessels
are left lying around where they will be filled
with stagnant water and become a menace to
the health of the city. /
Financing a King. |
An American woman is credited with the%
distinction of having financed a European gov-i
ernment and with continuing to enjoy—if it‘
be enjoyment—the process of handing out
more dollars to keep the state going. Princess
Anatasia, of Greece, formerly Mrs. William
B. Leeds, widow of the American “tin plate
king,” is known to have given $200,000 to
the royalists who were financing Constan
tine’s return to the throne and to have been
asked for a half million dollars additional to
keep things going at Athens. Not a little of!
the Leeds money, it is said, has been u'sedl
to keep Greek soldiers in the field against the‘
Turks, and more is required. }
Paris is more excited about it than Athens;
or Washington for the reason that, because
American bankers are compelled to pay only
the interest on the Leeds millions to Princess
Anastasia and her son, the princess threatens
to auction her famous collection of jewels to
finance King Constantine’s state ambitions.
Paris jewelers declare it would ruin the jewel
market there. The Leeds collection is reputed
to be one of the most valuable in the world,
even rivaling some of the crown pdssessions
of Europe. One necklace alone, which re
quired twelve years to assemble, is valued at
30,000,000 francs.
The former Mrs. Leeds is a real princess
of Greece, even if she did buy the title out
right. The only remarkable feature of the
purchase, according to Paris, is that the royal
family at Athens does not consider that she
has finished paying for it. Princess Anastasia
is not unpopular with the Hellenic rulers. To
her the queen, a sister of William Hohen
zollern, is. “Sophie,” while she is addressed by
Constantine’s consort as “Nancy.” Then
again her young son, William Leeds, jr., is
to wed Princess Xenia, and that will cost a
lot in the initial expense with nothing definite
ly settled as to when the last installments "of
the purchase price will be made.
The two Americans, mother and son, at
length may be able to paraphrase a familiar
saying in and out of courts and agree that
uneasy lies the head that buys a crown.
. The Champion Spendthrift. |
Paris has been greatly excited and some
what bewildered, it is said, by the visit to
that city of an English woman who has earn
ed the title, by her prodigality, of the champion
spendthrift of the world. She has bought and
bought with reckless abandon everything she
wanted and far more than she could have
needed, Diamond studded teeth are no long
er a novelty, although the spendthrift has
them, but she must gratify her desire to daz
zle by putting on a jeweled fireworks dis
play which quite flabbergasted the French.
Now this new champion of the world is re
ported to be headed for the United States to
spend a part of her income, reputed to be
some $60,000,000 a year; and it is whispered
very loudly in her path and in her wake that
she is bent upon buying a large number of
‘solid gold bath tubs. What for thg reports
so far have failed to explain, and -the imagi
nation, groping blindly, hits upon the idea
that, perhaps, it is considered a very splen
did way in which to get rid of more wealth,
}and maintain her right and title to the cham
pionship which Paris bestowed upon her. A
gold bath tub would be no more useful than
an ordinary omne of white enamel. A bath
Itub‘s utility is a fixed thing. The only limit
to it, in fact, is the frequenty of its employ
ment for the betterment of the outer man,
woman or child. Gold bath tubs might be
attractive to a person having an income of
$60,000,000 and a desire to spend a lot of it,
but would be no lure to one who merely be
lieves in sanitation.
Money is such a sordid thing, even if it
has a power like magic. Many things are
worth more in life than money, as witness
every day the things that are not for pur
chase at any price. Even spendthrifts might
find themselves balked of a market.
The News has received from Hon. P. T.
McCutcheon, superintendent of public print
ing, his annual report, which shows that the
state has been saved many thousands of dol
lars since this office was created. The report
indicates that the affairs of the office have
been conducted in a business-like manner,
and Mr. McCutcheon’s hosts of friends would
be glad for him to be reappointed. He is
one of Georgia’s best known and most popu
lar editors.
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Endorsing the Macon Telegraph’s position
in opposition to a state income tax the Sa
vannah Press says, “Let bad enough alone.”
Without more assurance than has been given
that there would be relief from other taxes
The News is not prepared to give its en
-Idorsement to a state income tax. However, the
governor and the legislature canmmnot afford to
“let bad enough alone.” Something must be
done to help both the state and the taxpayer.
We saw a gentleman the other day look
ing for buyers of stock in some company.
Selling stock in oil or any other companies is
slow business in Georgia this year. And it
will be even slower next year. A new crop of
fools will have to come on to ever again make
the picking like it was in the rosy days of 1919.
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Another class of people who make us tired
is the politician who in every interview and
in every speech parades his love for the farm
and his interest in agriculture generally. If he
worships the knocks and disappointments of
farm life why doesn’t he get on a farm and
stay there? It’s a/simple move. o
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Everybody wants tax reform, but mobody
wants to be taxed. Soft drink manufacturers
and individuals and corporations with large
incomes are strenuously objecting to comtrib
uting any of their earnings toward putting
Tthe state on a sounder financial basis. The
!idca always is to let George pay it.
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It is stated in the papers that a woman
will be a candidate in Laurens county for the
legislature. A few women “may fiot improve
the legislature, but they wouldn’t hurt it
Legislatures are’ mostly talk, and all traditions
hold out: the promise that the women can
keep up their end of talk.
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Hon. W. G. Sutlive, the genial and popular
managing editor of the Savannah Press, is
receiving the congratulation of the brethren
upon his unanimous election to the presidency
of the Georgia Press Association. He is one
of nature’s noblemen, and we heartily join in
the felicitations.
If all the energy and enthusiasm are
wasted on visionary and useless schemes for
making the world good and pure could be
directed toward practicable measures for the
recognition and enforcement of real justice
the world ‘would progress considerably faster
than it does. f
One of our esteemed Georgia editors wants
to know “Just how much is a kiss worth?”
If he wants to patronize the Atlanta market
we hardly think he can spare the price of
one. A youpg woman of that city is trying to
collect $lO,OOO for one of hers.
Senator Norris is one official who refuses
to be Hooverized, and will press the passage
of his measure creating a $100,000,000 corpo
iration to aid in the exportation of farm prod
ucts.
’ An old Indian woman of 110 years was re
cently arrested for intoxication in a western
city. Poor woman! She probably doesn’t
know that tippling is shortening her days.
Another thing the matter with this coun
try is there are too many people using mani
cure sets and not enough operating tools.
THEY SAY.
From the Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
That Miss Emiline was seen on ‘the front
porch the other night sitting in the swing
with Percival, who had his arms around her.
That the little girl next door sits up every
night until a late hour entertaining her com
pany.
That the chickens from the neighbor’s yard
are eternally scratching the flowers in their
yard and eating up the produce in the garden.
That the tin cans in the other fellow’s yard
are breeding mosquitoes, which will cause
them to have malaria.
That Mr. 3nd Mrs. —— are riding in an
automobile which is not paid for, and never
will be.
That the town in which they live is not
up-to-date, but is going to the bow-wows.
That the town just down the road a few
miles is progressive, and its citizenship the
best in the country.
| That most of the folks who go to church
rdo so.to show their fine clothes and hats, and
that the rest of them are hypocrites.
That the farmers are broke.
That the city man is the only one who is
making anything.
If you believe one-tenth of it you believe
more than we do.
Shapely Legs Spoil Morale of
" Men Clerks.
From the Chicago Journal.
Three hundred young women work in the
offices of the Burlington railroad at Clinton
street and Jackson boulevard. Several hun
dred young men try to work there. With their
low waists, bare arms and dresses reaching
only a trifle below the knees the young wo
men keep cool and work hard. s
It has been discovered, however, that a
yvoung man who keeps his eyes on a pair of
shapely legs incased in shimmering silk can
not keep his mind on his work and loses in
terest in a row of figures when some beauty
in ‘a peek-a-boo waist sits just across the
aisle.
The gravity of the situation forced itself
upon’ the officials of the company. They de
cided vigorous action was necessary. An or
der was posted. It reads: “Hereafter voung
women in the offices of this railroad will not
be permitted during working hours to wear:
Peek-a-boo waists, knee-length skirts. rolled
down or chiffon stockings, rouge on the
cheeks, silk or georgette dresses.”
Midsummer Cheer.
From the Industrial Index.
The farmer has had a rather strenuous year
of it. There was, first, the great financial dis
appointment—when his crop’for the past sea
son only yielded a iraction of the monetary
return he had expected. Next, there came the
problem-—and it was a real problem—of
financing this year’s crop. After that he strug
gled with drouth and boll weevils for a while.
But in the midst of all this he kept working,
having the consolation of knowing that he
was doing his part, come what may.
The southern farmer is about to have a lit
tle breathing spell just now—the first he has
had in a long time. The mid-summer, calling
for its little season of relaxation, is at hand.
There are peaches and watermelons to be
disposed of, barbecues to receive attention,
fish fries .to be properly encouraged, big
church meetings to be attended, neighbor
hood social duties to be discharged—all in
that lay-by season when the farmer, having
done his bit, watches the sunshine, the rain
and the, soil working in harmony, carrying
his work on to completion.
THE DAWSON NEWS
Domestic Animals in Georgia.’
The News has received from the depart
ment at Washington the census report on
domestic animals in Georgia. o
Of the 310,678 farms in Georgia in 1920
207,678 reported domestic animals. Horses
were reported by 76,783, mules by 22,207, cat
tle by 230,864, sheep by 2,874 and hogs by
252,896.
The number of horses on these farms in
1920 was 100,503, which included 95,878 hors
es 2 years old and over, 2,514 colts from 1
to 2 years old, and 2,311 colts under 1 %rear
old. The value reported for horses was $13,-
434,117, an average of $133.67 per head. The
number of horses on April 15, 1910 (exclud
ing spring colts, in order to make a fair
comparison with the figures for January 1,
1920) was 118,583.
The number of mules in 1920 was 406,351,
including 2,141 colts under 1 year old, 4,409
colts from 1 toi 2 years old, and 399,801 mules
2 vears old and over. The total value was
$77,986,306, an average of $191.92. The num
ber of mules in 1920 (excluding spring colts)
was 294 985,
The total number of cattle in 1920 was 1,-
156,738, including 481,875 beef cattle and
674,863 dairy cattle. Beef 'cows numbered
216,518 and dairy cows J 388,449. The value
reported for cattle was $35,235,147. The num
ber of cattle in 1910 (excluding spring calves)
was 926,430.
The 72,173 sheep reported in 1920 included
13,889 Jambs under 1 year old, 45,897 ewes,
and 12,387 rams and wethers., The sheep were
valued at $323,615, an average of $4.48. The
number of sheep in 1910 (excluding spring
lambs) was 153,250.
Of the 2,071,051 swine on farms in 1920
1,034,173 were pigs under 6 months old, 363,-
729 sows for breeding, 30,170 boars for breed
ing and 642,979 other hogs. The value report
ed for swine was $20,559,953.
The total production of milk in 1919 was
101,615,883 gallons, as compared with 100,
210,370 in 1909. The production of wool in
1919 was 166,720 pounds; of honey, 1,403,-
869 pounds; of eggs, 23,131,939; and the num
ber of chickens raised was 14,588,012. The
value of all dairy products, excluding home
use of milk and cream, was $16,757,195; of
eggs, $9,736,414; and of chickens raised in
1919, $9,482,208.
Domestic animals kept in village barns, city
stables and elsewhere not on farms were re
ported as follows: Horses, 15,653 in 1920, as
compared with 31,528 in 1910; mules, 27,203 in
1920 and 15,556 in 1910; cattle, 70,853 in 1920
and 63,172 in 1910; hogs, 107,863 in 1920 and
52,562 in 1910.
Halt the Reserve Board.
From the Macon Telegraph.
The Federal Reserve Board should be halt
ed in its high-handed and tyrannical proced
ure of carrying out a policy that is almost the
reverse of what was intended.
John Skelton Williams, former comptroller
of the currency and ex-member of the Fed
eral Reserve Board, has pointed this out in
a recent address in such an effective way that
we are producing the gist of his remarks in
this editorial.
Never before has such a splendid agency
been afforded any nation for the protection
and building up of legitimate business; and
never, it seems, has so fine an agency fled
so far from its high mission and mandate,
and arbitrarily substituted a nitich lower pur
pose of its own conception and selfish, in
genious creation.
l The policy of administration that charges
or has charged small banks as high a rate of
interest as eighty-seven per cent for loans
that were used to move or carry crops, but
lat the same time charged big New York
banks less than one-seventh as muych ‘for
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money employed in speculation, should be
buried so deep that even the bugle of Gabriel
on the last, great day will not resurrect it.
Small banks are being cruelly cramped and
hampered in functioning, and the result is
|that small merchants and fdrmers, especially
in the south and west where cotton, corn and
wheat are the money crops, are pushed to
the verge of bankruptcy.
SUGAR CANE BLOSSOMS. ;
From the Cuthbert Liberal-Enterprise.
Did you ever see a sure-enough honest-to
goodness sugar, cane blossom? Neither did we
until this week, when Mrs. Annie Rice, who
lives on Court street, brought to this office
a bloom from a stalk of sugar cane plucked
.from a cane patch near Jacksonville, Fla,,
and brought it home with her. In color the
bloom is of a creamy hue; to the touch it
is almost as soft as down, and is about two
feet in length. Mrs. Rice informs us that
when the cane blooms the growth of the stalk
is checked, and usually is about three and a
half to four feet high, and is unfit for mak
ing syrup.
PATRIOTIC EAR OF CORN.
Chicago Ttem in the Indianapolis News.
After three years of experiment Prof, Wil
liam .. Woodburn, of Northwestern Univer
sity, has produced an ear of corn containing
red, white and blue kernels. Professor Wood
burn asserted he soon would be able to per
fect his corn so that the rows of kernels would
show solid bars or red, white and blue. The
colored corn was produced by crossing red
and white ears to make blue ears, according
to Professor Woodburn, and then grafting
the three varieties. ‘
THE REAL MARVEL.
From the New York World.
For a long time to come the experts in
pugilism will find points for difference and
discussion in the battle of July 2. For the
lay commentator the enduring marvel of the
mdtter lies in the fact that 90,000 persons,
many of them coming from far places, could
find in less than a quarter hour’s battling
with gloved fists compensation for expendi
ture of much money and more time,.
BAN ON FLANDERS POPPY.
From the Macon News.
The commissioner of agriculture of Massa
chusetts has issued a “request”’ that no more
seeds or plants of the so-called Flanders pop
py be brought to that state, and intimates
that it is likely to become a serious menace
to the growing of agricultural crops. Thus
material considerations once more come in
conflict with a cherished sentiment.
CAN WOMEN DEFEAT FASHION?
From the Minneapolis Journal.
The man dressmakers of Paris have failed
so far to put over the hoopskirt, which they
have been hoping to reintroduce. Having en
joyed the freedom and coolness of the short
skirt it is hard to get the girls into clamps
again,
WOMEN CATCHING UP.
From the Washington Post. :
The census shows more men than women
in this country, but this will be changed if
American juries keep on freeing wives who
have murdered their husbands.
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Our warehouse offers ample storage room for your
cotton, and we will guarantee protection from the
weather. We will be in direct touch with the market
and assure our customers top prices. :
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manager, and will give personal attention to each cus
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