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BY E. L. RAINEY
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CLEM E. RAINEY, Business Manéger.
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’ DAWSON, GA., AUGUST 16, 1921.
It is a very difficult thing to get household
ers to worry about the winter’s coal supply in
the summer time.
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It may be that what irritates Japan is a
splinter from the chip she has been carrying
on her shoulder so long.
An obsolescent feature of American civiliza
tion is just now reaching China. They are
quitting the use of opium there and importing
great quantities of liquor.
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Reports of car shortage at crop moving
time and wails of the railroads that they can
not keep their rolling stock busy are not in
harmony.
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The great Caruso, in his own life story,
said he often went hungry but was never un
happy. He found his bluebird in music, which
always keeps the heart light and free.
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Short skirts have ruined a bank. Some
times it is called “The First National,” and
again it is know as the “Lisle,” but anyway,
it is not used any more, say observers, and
they ought to know.
Representative Mann, of Illinois, former re
publican house leader, is now leading a re
volt for a recess through the dog days. May
be he knows where there is a deep, cool swim
ming hole that never gets stagnant.
. Idle Gold.
An unusual situation has developed in the
money market, the four eastern federal re
serve banks having in their coffers some $BOO,-
000,000 in unused gold reserves, money that
is lying idle, doing nothing. Meanwhile the
four reserve banks in the agricultural districts,
those at Richmond, Va., Atlanta, Ga., Dallas,
Tex., and Minneapolis, Minn., are loaned up
to capacity, and it one case beyond it. In the
territory covered by these four banks the
farmers are finding the money market tight
with credit on reasonable terms difficult to
obtain.
Idle gold represents a loss far beyond its
intrinsic value. Its power becomes as nothing
unless it is used. Gold might as well be iron
or brass when it lies dormant, and when the
country needs the encouragement that exten
sion of credits would surely bring the federal
reserve officials ought to find a way to em
ploy the vast idle reserves in the east. The
federal reserve system was designed to
strengthen and stabilize the money market.
That strength and stabilization would be ma
terially extended if credit expansions were
possible at this time. America has found that
a country can have too much gold, as some
farmers have realized that it is possible to
be land poor.’
Ears Are Coming Back.
It is said that some members of the young
er generation have wondered how their sis
ters, mothers, aunties and grandmothers ever
heard anything, since they had no ears. It
was a conclusion that only could come from
the child mind, which, not having arrived at
maturity, could not understand that hearing
in such cases is the sense most developed. It
was based, of course, on the visual evidence—
or lack of it—the aforesaid ears having been
covered from the sight of mankind, but not
impaired by the process.
Now in this age of ever changing condi
tions, styles, fashions and fancies ears are
to come back. Not that they ever went any
where so far as their ability to function was
concerned, but they are to be brought from
their hiding places and be revealed for what
they are. The edict has gone forth from the
National Hair Dressers Association, and no
doubt it is final. The puffs must cease to be a
screen between the ears and the outside world.
All camouflage|is to be at an end. The female
of the species is to be more like the male than
for some time.
As the ears come back something else that
recalls the days of fifteen or twenty years ago“
accompanies them—the high coiffure of the
Gibson girl, the Stanlaws peach and the
Christie pippin. Maybe the pompadour that
made the short girl look taller and her high
er sister appear even more lofty than ever will
be seen on parade.
The edict, while sensible enough, seems
to be a little out of season, for the poor ears
are to be bared when winter comes. Jack
Frost, so long denied a chance at the many
varieties, proably will feast as he has not
feasted for some time.
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Poor Business.
It is all wrong to discount the earnings
of the state railroad for any number of
years ahead. We owe state debts and must
find a way to pay them, but to dispose of
an income that far ahead is poor business
policy—just as poor for the state as it would
be for a farmer to, mortgage his prospective
earnings on his farm ?or any number of
years ahead. Some of them do that, but it
is poor business.—Cordele Dispatch.
We are inclined to the view that our Cor
dele contemporary is right. It would seem
that the sensible thing to do would be to re
duce expenditures. It is the poorest kind of
judgment to continue appropriating vear af
ter year to pensions, schools, colleges, uni
versities and other things more money than
can be raised by the lawful rate of taxation.
No individual or firm can spend more money
than it has income and not become bankrupt,
and the same is just as true of the state. A
little retrenchment and less “tax reform”
would help wonderfully.
.IDoB DaYs.'l
That season of the year known as ‘“‘dog
days,” which is usually characterized by wet,
hot days, is in full swing. A certain atmos
pheric influence seems to have the effect of a
let-up of all activities not absolutely essential.
The crops are “laid by,” much rain falls, the
sun steams the earth, and a certain indefin
able laziness seems to prevail.
The season which apparently has been dedi
cated to the canine isione of fear for the boys
who frequent the swimmin' hole. The water,
said to be contaminated through the work
ings of some evil influence, is likely to be an
agent for the spread of disease, according to
the tradition. Dogs at this time of the year
are supposed to become vicious, and even
mad. Another characteristic of “dog days” is
indicated by four lines of verse:
Dog days bright and clear !
Indicate a good year;
But when accompanied by rain
We may hope for better times in vain.
The Gorgeous Princess.
Washington is not unaccustomed to viewing
‘unusual personages, for the national capital is
‘the meeting place of all who come from the
far lands to see and to be seen. Anything most
can be observed at Washington, from the Eu
ropean in conventional dress or the plain
American from a remote district in his own
Sunday best to the gorgeously bedecked ori
entals of high cast and easy penchant for rain
bow effects of raiment. Costumes count for
little, for the world has been put through a
cosmopolitan process, and habits are much
the same the globe around. These have been
learned in Tokio, Paris, London, Petrograd,
Berlin, New York, Washington—anywhere.
Dress alone seems to survive in native splen
dor, although once in awhile a Paris costume
may adorn a visitor who has come from the
other direction.
The most gorgeous sartorial display observ
ed at Washington for a long time was that
provided by Princess Fatima, of Afghanistan,
sultana of Kabul, who has swept, iridescent
and glowing, into and out of the fashionable
hotels and cafes of the national capital and
into and out of the white house, where she
was received by the president as an important
personage. Washington correspondents, quite
impressed with Fatima’s gorgeousness as es
tablished by her clothes, agree that she
“knocks ’em dead.” One observer got the fol
lowing impression in ten seconds flat. Th«
observer was a woman. A man could not have
done it with the time element entirely remov
ed:
sA brilliant waist and skirt of pink magen
ta and gold brocade. A glowing green veil,
trailing from her head to her feet, freely
dotted with gold lace and black edging.
Black patent leather pumps with oval gold
buckles. A green ostrich plume in her black
hair. A necklace of large gold medallions.
Three rings on her right hand set with
blue, green and red stones. Eyebrows pluck
ed in the latest style. A sapphire set on the
right side of her nose and the Kabul prize,
a forty-carat diamond, in a ring on her left
hand.
It is also reported that Princess Fatima
“wears "em high,” which does not make much
iof an impression in this day and time since
knees are taken quite as a matter of course
}except. perhaps, in Zion City.
The “‘Dangerous” Bath.
Less than eighty years ago the first bath
tub was installed in an American home, caus
ing a furor throughout the country that re
sulted in local legislation to save the people
from the dangerous innovation. Erudite Bos
ton passed an ordinance in 1845 that held
bathing unlawful unless on the advice of a
physician, but it never was enforced, for which,
no doubt, the cultured persons of that city are
thankful to this day. The blot on Boston’s
escutcheon is not so deep and dark as it might
have been with the ordinance enforced to the
letter. Staid Philadelphia two years earlier
considered an ordinance prohibiting bathing
between November 1 and March 15. It failed
of passage by two votes, and those of Phila
delphia who wished to do so had the legai
right to practice sanitation in their homes.
The most shocking thing connec‘ed with
the trials of the bath tub in America is the
opposition in early history of the medical pro
fession. Physicians attacked it as dangerous
to health. The controversy spread amazingly
and arguments were offered that bathing
would produce no end of colds and probably
pneumonia. The medical profession has learn
‘ed much, along with the rest of humanity, in
‘the past seventy-five years. It is not respect
{able not to bathe regularly and frequently.
‘Those who are lax in this particular duty of
‘their private lives never admit it, knowing
the danger of being criticised. As a health
producer the bath, perhaps, has no rival in ev
ery-day life. The first bath tub in the white
house was installed at the order of President
Fillmore, who, bathing in the first tub that
was introduced at Cincinnati, suffered no ill ef
fects from getting wet all over and became
an ardent advocate of the bath tub’s use.
Today America is a country of bath tubs.
It has more bath tubs per capita than any
country in the world. In Europe the hotel
room with a bath is the exception; in Amer
ica, in city or town, or village, the rooin with
out a bath is rare. Times have changed, and
the bath tub has done nobly. Nowadays the
only “dangerous”. bath is the one not taken.
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The legislature which has just adjourned
voted to submit to the voters at a general
election a number of proposed laws. Usually
the number of votes cast on any referendum
is less than half of the total votes cast for
candidates at the same election. The election
Ilaws already entail on the people more respon
sibility than they are willing to discharge.
‘This is a serious objection to referendum laws
‘under which submission to the people of any
{action may be required.
If the drop in the prices received by the
growers for his crops was passed on to the
ultimate consumer it would not be so regret
able as it is; but no such reductions have oc
curred in the prices of bread, cotton fabrics,
woolen goods and shoes as were noted last
year in wheat, cotton, wool, hides and tobacco.
The Governor and the Legislature.
“Governor Hardwick now knows how it
is when it comes to getting a state legisla
ture to do the things which a governor thinks
a state législature ought to do,” says the Al
bany Herald. Although it seemed that a ma
jority of the legislature were antagonistic to
Governor Hardwick and bucked considerably
during the session final results show that
he came nearer getting what he wanted from
that body than any other executive within
our recollection. He held the reins with a
firm hand, and the solons came around in
the closing hours of the session. We are not
so sure, however, that all that was done will
meet with the approval of the people of the
state. But time alone can tell.
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The man with a large amount of property
gets more protection than the poor man, and
if the tax is placed on consumption the man
with his little worldly goods and a big family
of children will pay a much heavier share of
tax than the wealthy man with only himseli
and wife and one or two children. Taxes
should be placed upon those who get protec
tion to property according to what they have.
A German plane, said to be able to fly from
‘Germany to America within a day, is to be
‘manufactured in Holland because the treaty
terms forbid aero development by the Teu
tons. The aircraft would have to make a speed
of 312 miles an hour. This is the most ambi
tious plan yet made for any heavier than air
machine, and developments of the past warn
against the declaration that it cannot be done.
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Rather shocking as well as pitiful are the
attempts of friends to bring back to life the
legally executed. These undertakings seem to
have had chief trial in Chicago. All hope of
this sort has now been dispelled by an order to
hold the bodies for an hour or more under of
ficial guard after surgeons have pronounced
life’s last heart flutter vanished.
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Why buy inferior goods from mail order
houses and upon their arrival discover them
to be of the cheapest and most inferior grade?
Be loyal to your home town, and buy where
you can see the goods and know exactly what
you are getting. Money sent to a mail order
house does not help a local community. Re
membgr this, Dawson people.
Governor Hardwick is being generally and
heartily commended for the appointment of
Hon. John N. Holder as chairman of the
state highway department. It was a fine ap
pointment, and no governor ever made a more
popular one. It is especially pleasing to The
News, and we join in the felicitations.
The legislature, after a hard fight,:t succeed
ed in placing a small tax on ‘“gran’ op’ry.”
The News has no regrets. We do not know
of anything that could better pay a tax and
be felt less by the general public. Senator
Jas. D. Weaver, of this district, proposed the
original amendment providing for this tax.
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| There is reason to believe that falling prices
in farm products are at an end. Grain prices
iarc holding firm, cotton prices have shown
an upward tendency the past several days, and
live stock prices have been steadily climbing
for several weeks.
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From the Savannah Press.
Governor Harding says, that when he sug
ge®ed the removal of the Federal Reserve
Bank from Atlanta because some of the Geor
gia banks protested against his ukase that they
should cash out-of-town checks without de
duction for exchange he was only joking.
To use his own words he says: “I remarked
at a board meeting in a jocular way that if
the Georgia banks felt that the federal reserve
bank was such a nuisance I doubted whether
we ought to inflict it upon them, and it might
be well for us to ask congress to let us move
the bank to Chattanooga.” He says that ‘“Mr.
Williams has either demonstrated that he has
an entire lack of humor or else he has made
a deliberate and willful misrepresentation with
a view to making me unpopular in Georgia.”
Of course, it is not possible that Mr. Wil
liams ever aspired to make Mr. Harding un
popular in Georgia. Mr. Williams is not so
vain that he would aspire to make the sun
bright or the sea wet. Mr. Harding’s unpopu
larity in Georgia was already as the brightness
of the sun or the dampness of the ocean. Mr.
Williams could never have accomplished such
a result. Only Mr. Harding himself is so
capable.
Mr. Harding became unpopular in Georgia
when' the board of which he is the head tight
ened the strings of credit in the south and
‘west while he was lending unlimited amounts
in New York for speculative purposes. He be
came unpopular when the inevitable conse
quences of his policy became apparent and
cotton dropped from forty cents to ten.
| ; When to Pull Up. I
From the Telfair Enterprise.
We once knew a colored man who spent
a good deal of his time fishing, but who -sel
dom brought home any fish. We wondered
about it, and one day we crept down to the
creek where he was fishing. After that we
didn’t wonder. He had baited his hook with
a big fat worm, dropped it in the water and
then hung his pele in a tree where the fish
could grab the bait. Then he laid down on
the bank and went to sleep. When he awoke
and pulled in his line the hook was bare. The
fish had nibbled the bait off and gone on their
way, tickled over the fisherman’s ignorance.
He hadn’t caught any fish because there
was nobody there to jerk on the pole when
the fish nibbled. !
And there are some men right here .in
Mcßae and Helena going through life the
same way that fellow fished. They go through
all the. preliminaries to doing a good busi
ness, then they drop into a snooze and leave
the fish to eat ‘up all the bait. They put one
ad in the paper—and then never back up that
ad when it gets the prospective customer into
the store. They hang up their sign; but are
not there to pull on the line when it is time
to draw in business.
A man can start on a thousand-mile trip
in five minutes, but he has got to keep trav
eling to get to the place he has headed for.
And he can work up a big business when
he puts a single ad in the paper—provided
he follows it up in a careful, systematic way.
Think this over, you men who, like the fish
erman, are not present to jerk on the pole
when the fish bites.
THE DAWSON NEWS
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I Nothing to Drink in Dawson. I
To the Authorities of Dawson and Terrell
County: You will, I trust, pardon me for.
again calling your attention to the fact that
people from the country cannot get a cool
drink of water in Dawson without buying it.
The county has a good deep well at the court
house, but simply irom neglect it is out of
commission. It was promised by the city au
thorities, and generally understood by all,
that the deep well at the crossing of Main
and Lee streets would be opened early last
spring, but it has not been done. There is
not a single public faucet on our streets, and
many people, especially negroes, hesitate to
ask for water at private places. During this
extremely hot weather there is not a week
passes but you can see people inquiring for
a drink of water, and I, for one, am ashamed
to tell them that we have simply neglected
to fix a place.
The cotton season is almost here, and our
streets will be full of people on Saturdays
especially, and without a place to get water
they will suffer. Pavements for our streets
are mighty good things, but they are not
good substitutes for drinking water. Please
give us water. W. P. HORNADY.
August 8, 1921.
| Nation Uses More Salt Than Sugar. l
Confronted with the question, “Do you use
more salt than sugar or more sugar than
salt?” one would unhesitatingly reply that he
uses more sugar. Consequently the average
person will be surprised to know there is more
salt than sugar consumed per capita in the
United States. Last year there was available
130 pounds of salt for every inhabitant, com
pared with 108 pounds of sugar. In the nation
al sugar bowl there was 5,207,776 tons, and
in the national salt cellar 6,217,473 tons.
When the industrial uses of sugar and salt
are compared the apparent mystery deepens,
says the American Sugar Bulletin. “Accord
ing to the federal trade information service
salt, in addition to its culinary uses, plays a
part in packing meat, curing fish, dairying,
refrigerating, preserving, glazing, enameling,
curing hides, making pickles, salting live stock
and in chemical processes, such as preparing
soda ash and caustic soda.
“The uses of sugar are more multifarious.
Sugar, aside from its obvious table uses, is
employed in preserving, canning, cooking, pas
try, sirup, ice cream, chocolate, fermentation
(in the form of molasses), soft drinks, con
densed milk, crackers, bread, tobacco, chewing
gum, proprietary medicines, soap and silver
ing mirrors.
“Yet, despite the diversity of uses of sugar
the tonnage of salt consumed is greater. If we
think of salt not as the white substance which
we shake over roast beef but as sodium
chloride we may find the answer. Salt is a
general chemical and it is used in tremendous
quantities in large scale chemical operations.
Sugar also is a chemical, but it is used in few
purely chemical processes.
“The savor of salt usually is absent from
the finished products in the operations which
involve salt, but the sweetness of sugar almost
always is retained. In most confectionery
there is about 47 per cent of pure sugar. The
actual sugar content may range up to 95 per
cent, because many of the ingredients contain
large percentages of sugar.”
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I Let the Government Pay. l
From the Washington Reporter.
The newspaper receives in nearly every
mail a request for the publication of “stuff”
advertising some feature of the mnational
government—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 pub
lic examination for postmasters or rural
~ carriers or other government jobs, or some
) thing else pertzining to Uncle Sam’s many
lines. But 1t is made plain that nothing can
be paid for the publication. The man who
1 sends out these requests, or rather who su
i perintends the matter, is one of the high
priced fellows, and of course when the sal
l aries of the job-holders and the other em
ployes, who work as little as possible and
draw all the money they can, are paid there
is nothing left for the newspaper.—Dawson
News. i
It’s a fact and a shame that a great, rich
government like that of the United States nev
er tires of trying to ride the men who run the
newspapers of the country. .
There is fot a week passes that we do not
receive from some governmental department
requests for free space for matter that is o 1
importance to all the people—that means
'money in the pockets of many. As the editor
is but one of many million and depends upon
his space to make a living the people as a
whole should pay for such matter through the
government.,
There would be the same amount of justice
and reason in the government asking any
manufacturer to distribute its product iree to
lthc people as there is in expecting the news
papers to do so.
.~ The newspapers of the country should get
‘together and bring such pressure to bear upon
‘congress that this body would pass a law
providing a fund for government publicity.
~ Unless such a thing is done there will be a
‘great waste of time, paper and stamps in send
ing such matter to this paper.
l Cut Out the “Colonels.” I
From the Moultrie Observer.
A movement is interesting the entire Geor
gia bar to stop the promiscuous use of titles
in the state. They want to “cut out the colo
nels.”
They suggest that such titles as “colonel,”
“captain” and “judge” be applied to only such
persons as have actually earned them on the
battlefield or in military service, or on the
bench. ’
For many years past it has been the cus
tom in Georgia, as in other southern states,
to call every lawyer “colonel” after he has
reached middle age and a reasonable amount
of distinction—except in the event he wears
whiskers—when he is called “judge” instead.
Many of the-gentlemen on whom these titles
have been thrust by usage are far from desir
ing them, and are really embarrasesd by their
use. The class of people who want such titles
without meriting them is so small as to be
negligible. The type has passed who used to
sing or think—
“l want to be a colonel, 2
And with the colonels stand;
A cockade on my hat,
And a cocktail in my hand.”
Most of the spurious colonels of today have
not usurped their titles. They have had them
simply thrust upon them by a usage whick
they deplore. In fact, the leaders in the move
ment to do away with the genera] use of the
titles are well known attorneys whose friends
have been for many years calling them colonei
against their wishes.
The site for the new 11-story concrete
Electric building in New York was purchas
ed from Trinity church, which received it
from Queen Anne in 1705.
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A word often misused, but a thing quite essentia] ;,
giving Warehouse Satisfaction.
We think we have the nght conception of Ser-.
vice, and our efforts to please you and warray;
your patronage will proveat. : @ : . .
Our warehouse offers ample storage room for yoy
cotton, and we will guarantee protection from the
weather. - We will be in direct touch with the market
and assure our customers top prices.
Mr. Gay Raines will again be in charge as general
manager, and will give personal attention to each cus
tomer’s needs.
Make our Warehouse Y our
Headquarters when You
Come to Town.
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