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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manager.
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DAWSON, GA. AUGUST 2, 1921.
What the public wants from the legislature
is something that will lower taxes.
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It is all right for the hand that rocks the
eradle to rule the world, but it should never
fill the pipe.
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Of course the heat records have been bro
ken in Georgia this summer, but the unusual
part of the thing is that they have been
broken a number of times.
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Hurrah! Hotel menus are to be printed in
plain English. In the future when a guest
orders something he will know what he ought
to get whether he gets it or not.
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“Governor Hardwick will attempt to adopt
a pay as you go policy,” says the Oglethorpe
Echo. If he does there’ll be very little more
going and paying unless the legislature speeds
up during its remaining days.
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Monuments are being erected all over the
country to commemorate the war, but the
citizens of Georgia feel that their tax bills
proyide a commemoration that will keep the
war iresh in their memory for some time.
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Let the Government Pay.
The newspaper receives in nearly every
mail a request for the publication of “stuff”
advertising some feature of the national gov
ernment—advising the people to rush to the
postoffice or bank and buy goods or savings
stamps, or urging young men to join the
army or navy, or telling of the public exami
nation for postmasters or rural carriers or
other government jobs, or something else
pertaining to Uncle Sam’s many lines. But it
is made plain that nothing can be paid for
the publication. The man who sends out
these requests, or rather who superintends
the matter, is one of the high-priced fellows,
and of course when the salaries of the job
holders and the other employes, who work as
little as possible and draw all the money they
can, are paid there is nothing left for the
newspaper. :
Burglary as Capital Offense.
The effort to make burglary in the night
time a hanging offense in Georgia has been
favorably reported by committee of the sen
ate of the general assembly. The Savannah
Press says:
It is the law in North Carolina. The law
against burglary in Georgia is quite strict
as it is. Any man who lifts a latch or opens
a door or who forces'a window shutter is
guilty of burglary. This kind of thing is
usually done in the night time, and the leg
islature up to this date has never been able
to take the view that the man who forcibly
enters a house is a possible murderer.
This is an old fight which has been before
the Georgia legislature for many years, but
has never met with the favor of a majority
of that body. It was first sponsored by former
Attorney General Thos. S. Felder, of Bibb,
in 1902, when he was a .nember of the leg
islature, and received considerable support.
Most of the members, however, thought the
proposed punishment too drastic.
Debt Cancellation.
It becomes more apparent each day that
money is standing between the nations of the
world as a bar to closer relationships, which
are needed to restore anything approaching
a normal economic condition. European coun
tries allied together in the war owe billions
of dollars to each other and to the United
States. France, Italy and Belgium owe Great
Britain amounts that may never be paid. The
British government borrowed heavily from
the United States, and, according to Premier
Lioyd George, loaned the American money
to its allies in the war. The amount of in
debtedness owing all around is so enormous
that if settlements eventually are made it
might require the passing of centuries to ac
complish the full payments.
Just before the end of President Wilson’s
administration, it is now disclosed, Lloyd
George communicated with the white house
on the general war indebtedness, showing at
that time a desire for some sort of cancella
tion of obligations, if the process could be
extended, as he put it, all around.
The United States government and the
American people, officials and private persons,
are not inclined to consider with favor can
cellation of the European debt to this coun
try. In the first place it is not good business,
and in the second place America has some
very perplexing financial problems which
would be made even more perplexing if it
were understood that the ten billion dollars
owing to it had talen- wings and flown away
forever.
Woman's Purity.
A New York clergyman declares that in
spite of present styles woman is today purer
than ever. This statement may be true; at
any rate, it will not be disputed by gentle
men. But while woman may be purer there are
many men who are not as pure as they were
because of the influence on their minds of
present styles in woman's dress—principally
undress. There is no question whatever that
many young men have suffered complete men
tal revolution in their attitude toward wo
men, holding them in less respect than ever
before, and for the simple reason, in the large
cities especially, dress no longer distinguishes
the innocent maiden from the courtesan. Wo
men may be purer, but they must realize that
they must keep men pure for their own sal
o tion.
’ Tar and Feathers.
It has become a vogue over a wide area
for mobs to tar and feather their victims,
who sometimes may be flagrant violators of
a community’s morals, and in other cases, no
doubt, being innocent persons suspected of
|wrong but not proven guilty, Recently this
form of punishment has increased to such an
lextent that almost daily there are rcports of
such demonstrations by mobs. The south, it
may be stated, is not alone in the practice.
Sometimes whippings accompany the humiliat
ing tarring and feathering, and it is seen that
sex is no protection from the mobs. Women
are tarred and feathered, apparently with as
little compunction on the part of the mobs
as if men were the victims.
The increasing practice suggests that the
men of various communities who take the
law into their own hands are extending their
punishment to fit all manner of crimes and
misdemeanors instead of becoming lenient
with it. Lynching has not been given up,
it is observed, and is only practiced for par
ticularly revolting crimes, either known to
have been committed by certain persons or
so strongly suspected as to leave no doubt in
the minds of the mob members as far as their
sense of justice is concerned. When a mob is
convinced of guilt that is all that is necessary
for it to commit the even greater crime of
lynching. Mistakes have been made by mobs,
beyond a doubt, and innocent persons have
been put to death or atrociously beaten or
'humiliated by the less severe punishment of
being tarred and feathered. Any person un
}iortunate enough to come in contact with a
‘mob would rather be tarred and feathered
than hanged or beaten into insensibility, but
it is entirely possible that a mob with the
best intentions—if such a mob could be—
-Iwould make the punishment too severe for the
offense. '
~ Mob violence, increasing as it has of late,
may be due to a nervousness in communities
due to the times. Following all wars, it is
claimed, there are outbreaks due to the chang
ed temperament of the people. That may be
true without the fact excusing the mob. Those
who argue that public morals have declined
might point to that as being responsible for
so much tarring and feathering, since vio
lations of decency have been the crimes for
which most of the perpetrators were punish
ed in this fashion,
Women Pipe Smokers.
An American actress, generally regarded
as one of the country’s most beautiful wo
men, is pictured with a pipe between her
teeth, which shows she has adopted a vogue
she learned while recently abroad. The fact
that it is a “dainty pipe” adds nothing what
ever in support of an endorsement of this
young woman’s inclination to smoke in such
masculine fashion. If it had been studded
with precious jewels it still would have been
a pipe, and not a fit object to be seen in the
mouth of a pretty, attractive woman. Such
a pipe will not be heralded with acclaim by
male America.
‘ A cigarette in a woman’s mouth or hand
is bad enough, agreeing with Representative
Johnson, of Mississippi, but it is better, far
better, than a pipe. The pipe is a man’s com
fort and indulgence. It's usurpation by wo
men will not be a pretty thing, any more than
it would be pleasant to hear an angered wo
man ‘'swear or to see one digging ditches or
carrying bricks. Some things ought to be
sacred to man, but there is a threat that
nothing shall be so held. One by one his
idols have become woman’s idols, his privi
leges have been extended to them. They may
vote beside him, and maybe beat him in an
election for office. Likewise, they may work
at the bench or desk next to him, or take from
him his job. They wear his trousers, literally
‘and figuratively, and he does not object in
loud voice; but the man may be depended
}upon to tell the woman to let his pipe alone.
He will not stand for that.
Reading the Bible.
The Moultrie Observer is doubtful of the
value of the proposed law passed by the Geor
gia senate requiring that sthe scriptures be
read in the public schools of the state. Says
the Observer:
“We probably have too much ‘formal’
scripture reading now, with far too little
serious study of the Bible. Children in
school will give little heed to the scripture
reading when they learn that it is a matter
of form and routine. Besides, there will be
serious objections from a few who do not
accept the version of the scriptures general
ly in use in Protestant churches in this
state. It would be better to leave the study
of the scriptures to the religious schools,
the Sunday schools and the mothers and
fathers, leaving the Christian teachers at
liberty to read the Bible when they elect
to do so, and give such training in a re
ligious way as meets with no opposition
among the patrons of the school.”
We agree with our Moultrie contemporary
that as badly as we need religious training in
this country it is unwise to try to force it by
legisjation.
Money keeps on.piling up in this country
when it really ought to be at work. New York
banks now have $13,000,000 in excess of the
requirements, and gold in the New York as
say office recently counted was worth more
than $2,000,000,000 No wonder Europeans
cannot buy American goods; most of the
money is already here.
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A year and a half ago the people were
happy in a fool’s paradise. We were spending
money—borrowed money-—with lavish hands
and imagining we were getting rich. No one
seemed to realize we were having a time on
borrowed capital, and that sooner or later
pay day would come. Well, it is here and
‘we are paying for our folly.
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It is consoling to a newspaper publisher
to stop and, ponder over the fact that he is
[not the only one who makes mistakes. Prob
ably if he were to call attention to one-third
of the mistakes that other people make that
eome to his attention he would be the most
unpopular fellow in seven states.
The shoe has been put on the other foot;
a woman lawyer said she had her case won
until a 2 handsome young man lawyer vamped
the nine women jurors and got the verdict for
his client. This is nearly as bad as female
prisoners winning their way to freedom via
the hearts of men jurors, :
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FOA bank account gives considerable prestige
to the depositor, and taking it all in all there
is absolutely no reason why anyone should
take any chances of losing money by having
}it in his pocket. The banks afford a safe place
for all cash, and that is one of their purposes.
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Wisconsin’s new law putting women on an
equal basis with men is very sweeping in its
provisions, giving the fair voters the right to
“wear trousers and stand on the street cor
ners chewing tobacco.” To use the language
of the street, that is “some law.”
~ Those Texas homing pigeons released at
'Edmonton, Can., may be lost, but it is a good
bet that they were not killed looping the
loop, nose diving or doing other stunts, and
that their motors did not. die while they were
in the air. .
L The government at Washington has re
turned to that time when it guarantees to
citizens their lives and peaceful pursuits abroad
without inviting them to leave for fear of
aggravating those who would oppress, mur
der or rob them.
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The South Georgia women who set out a
la Carrie Nation to destroy liquor right and
left are not the first wild ones to try it, but
most of the others had a different way of de
stroying it.
S S R T
The reports now have it that the French
idol will seek a return match for the heavy
weight championship. He was a very popular
visitor while here, but the thought persists
that ghe lure is another possible $200,000.
. It.is a fortunate thing that the cotton
stocking fad passed; the crop this year will
be the smallest in twenty-five years. What
a splendid excuse that will be for pretty silk
ones.
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The fact that several million of armed men
are in service in European armies indicates
that the old world is going to have peace if
it has to fight for it.
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New York. gets ahead again; this - time
with a postman that carries a powder puff.
This postman is a girl.
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MUSCULAR MUSIC NOW.
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London Shows a Pianb Twelve Feet Long
2 Played on With Hammers.
From the Pittsburg Leader.
The orchestra of freak instruments which
plays on the Italian roof garden of the Cri
terion restaurant in London has been rein
forced by a wildly eccentric piano, which is
12 feet long and has to be played with ham
mers. This is the closest description which*
one can give of the marimba, says the Lon
don Daily News, the modern successor of the
barbaric -gourd piano of the native races of
Peru and Chile.
Its keyboard is constructed of a series of
rosewood bars, under which are fixed rose
wood resonators. The player smites these
with his hammer as vigorously as though he
were breaking stones, and they yield notes
deep and sonorous as those of a cathedral or
gan.
The specimen on the criterion roof garden
is the only one in England, and it was im
ported from the United States.
Keithe Pitman, a champion marimba player
from America, pounds away at it in the af
ternoon and evening. He beats some exciting
music out of the weird and deep-toned instru
ment. The diners on the roof garden say that
it is a help to digestion, and it is better than
any jazz instrument for a the dansant.
Messrs. Hawkes & Son, of Denman street,
who are the agents in England for the ma
rimba, state that the market price of the
large specimen is £250. A small one can be
obtained for about £45.
UNDER THE GREAT GREY DOME.
[ I TN AR T SRS RN OTRRN R
| WASHINGTON.—This story isn't under
‘the dome, but it’s in the “shadow of the
dome,” and that makes it near enough.
They've stopped rice throwing in Wash
ington’s beautiful Union Station. Time was
[whcn you stepped into its big concourse you'd
slip and slide on rice and more rice, which a
squad of busy porters couldn’t sweep fast
enough to keep cleared away. It has been
estimated that enough rice was thrown away
on Union Station floors in a month to feed
a family of starving Chinese for that 10‘}5-
The rice was thrown, of course, at depart
ing honeymooners. Washington is a great
place for speeding the bridal pair with old
shoes, ribbons on the gasoline chariot, and
all the rest of the pleasant foolishness that
goes with such occasions. But it got so a
bachelor or a long-married man couldn’t go
into a Union Station to buy a ticket or board
a train without getting his neck and his hat
brim all full of rice. So the order has gone
out that rice throwing must take place, if at
lall, outside the station precincts.
Qut on the spacious capitol grounds, on
the broad green lawns and under the cool
shade of great trees lives Ignatz, the tramp.
Ignatz is a fox terrier, age indefinite, with no
visible means of support. He has defied all
capitol pelice to chase him away. If he sees
a traffic cop he very carefully observes traf
fic rules. The traffic men always try him out
on this, and he invariably fellows their sig
nals. Efforts to capture Ignatz have driven
the Washington dog catcher half crazy. Ig
natz can’t be caught. He seems to sleep with
one eye open. Nobody knows where he gets
his food or why he insists on haunting the
capitol.
IHlustrating how keenly some legislators
a}:e interested in bills they introduce witness
this.
Charlie Curtiss, republican whip, was stand
ing gassing to a couple of reporters on the
senate floor. A well known republican sena
tor, well known chiefly as one of Harding’s
“goli cabinet,” came up. _
“Fan them at 4 o’clock will you, Charley?”
urged this senator. “Fan them” in senate
slang means “adjourn the senate.”
“Sure, I'll fan them any time you say,”
said Curtiss. “But what about this bill of
vours that’s pending. I thought you wanted
to get a vote on it taday?” '
“Got to play golf,” said the other senator.
THE DAWSON NEWS
Jazz From Sky to Advertise.
NEW YORK.—“What’s all the paradin’
for?” querried the stranger in town when an
invisible collection of saxophones, trombones
and other modern improvements on a boiler
factory swung a set of mean reverberations
against his tympan as he left the subway at
Union Square.
The idea of a parade was further promul
gated by the crowd of several hundred bus
iness men, hoboes, stenographers, factory and
shop girls, telegraph messengers, office boys
and other unclassified units of population lin
ed up against the curb.
Determined that nothing should escape him
during his visit to the big burg the stranger
in town battled his way to the curb, forcing
aside innocent truck drivers and burly cloth
ing cutters alike in his eagnerness to get a
glimpse of the marchers.
When he had ploughed his way to the edge
of the sidewalk, however, the stranger in
town was disconcerted, to say the least, to
find that although the jazz was just as ‘loud
and as garbled as ever there was no sign of
anything approaching a parade, unless it
might be the white wing busily marching
back and forth pushing his broom before him
as he manicured the roadbed.
The stranger in town was non-plussed, but
he was far from beaten. He determined to
wait it out and discover the source of this
mysterious melody.
At last his vigilance was rewarded as his
sense of direction gradually righted itself and
he discovered in a window about five stories
above his head a group ef colored jazz artists
leaning far out over the cornice, pushing out
the latest popular hits.
“What’s goin’ on up “there? Party or
sumpin?” he asked the taxi driver .who stood
next to him in rapt attention.
“Naw, that guy up in that joint makes
them instruments, an’ he hires them guys
to come up an’ play a couple hours every
day so’s to have people know!' the kinda goods
he puts out,” was the reply.
“Yerh!” remarked the stranger in town,
and them he, too, became just another of the
crowd that had settled down, apparently, to
enjoy the free concert as long as it lasted.
Vestals at the Ringside.
Frgm the Philadelphia Record.
The great event in Jersey City was not
strictly a fight. Precautions were ‘taken that
neither champion should kill the other. The
decisive blow on Carpentier’s jaw is said to
have brought tears to many eyes, but they
were not the eyes of women only. The emo
tions of a good many of the men are said to
have produced liquefaction, and nobody was
permanently injured. With the assimilation
of men’s and women’s occipations and pur
suits and recreations all differences in morals
and tastes and inclinations must disappear.
There is no indication that we are growing
more virtuous and refined, and the adjust
ments to common standards must, therefore,
be made by the other sex, and according to
a good many observers, both men and wo
n(;en, this adjustment is proceeding pretty rap
idly. >
What used to be regarded as womanly
qualities may have a certain basis in nature,
but if not entirely they are certainly very
largely produced by the segregation of wo
men, by their different environment. The
segregation has been abolished; the environ
ment is the same for both women and men,
and it is absurd to suppose that any mental
moral, emotional or conventional differences
between them will survive. Emancipation is,
of course, effected at the prize ring as well
as everywhere else, and if the next great bat
tle is betweep the champion pugilist of Amer
ica and the champion woman pugilist of
France or England or Kamchatka only aged
persons will be surprised. The new generation
recognizes that men and women are “pals.”
“Genialized Him.”
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
| When the preacher used to come to the
house on Sunday after the church services
he was asked if he would have a toddy from
the decanter on the sideboard, and I have
never known him to refuse. It seemed to
do him good. It genialized him.—Senator
Watson. .
Possibly it even impelled him to a more
charitable view of the liabilities of the ortho
‘dox hell than he had been delineating in his
pre-toddy sermon.
The Georgia parsons, as we judge from
Senator Watson’s fond l?ttle reminiscence,
were great subscribers to the precept, “There’s
naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
as rum and true religion.”
THIS BILL ANOTHER JOKER.
From the Savannah Press.
There is an unique bill before one of the
legislative committees which has a joker in it.
Under this bill one-third of the voters of any
county can call for an election for the recall
of county commissioners. Since one-third of
the voters in every county may be gotten
together among the ranks of soreheads and
disgruntled people. the county commissioners,
if this bill were to become a law, might ev
erywhere be under perpetual menace. This
bill provides that any county commission in
the state can be reduced from five to threg
or from three to one if the election so de
cides. The bill even provides for the county
manager plan, where the commission can be
reduced to one man and the one man would
become the Pooh-Bah and the factotum of all
he surveys.
IT’S ALL VERY TRUE.
From,the Worth County Local.
“How many farmers have thought of the
fact that a man in town is just as much his
customer as the man in town must remember
that the farmer is his?” asks The Dawson
News. “Neither can afford to overlook the
fact that both are necessary to human happi
ness and success,” the News goes on to say.
That is very grue. If everybody farmed the
farmer would haye no market for the sur
plus products which he produced. So it ought
to be plain to every one that the farmer needs
the man in town as well as the town man
needs the farmer.
FITZGERALD’'S CURB MARKET.
From the Fitzgerald Enterprise.
The Ben Hill County Farm Bureau is very
proud of its curb market. Since the sth of
March there has been sold $lO,OOO worth of
vegetables and farm products. The market
was open for only two days in the week at
the beginning, but it is found necessary now
to conduct it at least three days. The farmers
are quite enthusiastic over the curb market,
and it means a great deal to the county in
that the receipts are from such products as
would have gone to waste if the curb market
had not been established.
THIS IS VERY TRUE.
From the Greensboro Herald-Journal.
Self-pity is about the worst thing that can
happen to a man. When he begins to think
that everybody is taking advantage of him he
is pulling himself into a hole that will be
hard for him to get out of.
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